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BY 0. W. EtOTAIEB.
In poisonous dens where traitors hide
Like bats that fear the. day, . -
WNIle alt the land, our charters claim
In sweating blood and breathing flame,
Dead to their country's woe and shame
The recreant whispers EvrtY
In peaceful homes where patriot fires
On loves own altar's glow,
The mother bides !lei trembling fear,
The wife, the sister checks a tear,
To breathe the parting wtsrd of cheer,
soldier of Freedom, GO !
In halls where luxury lies at ease,
And mammon keeps his state
Where flatterers fawn and menials crouch,
The dreamer startled from bis couch,
Wrings a few counters from his pouch
And murmurs faintly Warr!
In weary camps, on trampled plains
That ling with fife end drum,
The battling host whose armor gleams
Along the crimson flowing streams,
Calls, like a warning voice in dreams,
We want you brother! Come!
Choine ye whose bi lding ye will do—
To g0,.t0 wait, to btay !
Sops a the freedom •loving town,
Heirs of the fathers old renown,
The servile yoke, the civic crown,
Await your choice To- ll.av
The stake is laid ! 0 gallant youth
With yet unsilvered urow,
If Heaven should lose and Hell should win,
On whom should lie the mortal sin,
Whose record is, IT MIGHT HAVE BGEH !
Clod calls me—answer NOW !
VHS IS NY SEIGEBOR.
neighbor?—lt is he whom thou
Bat power to al - an ese—
W aching heart or ourning brow,
Thy soothing hand may press.
Thy neighbor?—'Tie the fainting poor;
Whose eye with want is dim,"
Whom hunger sends from door to door;
6o thou and succor hint
Thy-neighbor?—'Tis that weary man
Whose years nre at their brim,
Bent low with sickness, care and "pain;
Go thou and comfort hint !
Thy neighbor ?'Ti—q the heart bereft
. very earthly gem—
NV Wows and orphans, helpless left;
Go thou and shelter them.
Thy neighbor?—Yonder toiling slave,
Fettered in thought and limb.
Whose hopes are filed beyond the grave
Go thou and ransom him.
Whene'er thou meet'st a human form,
Less favored than thine own,
Remember 'tis thy neighbor worm,
Thy brother or thy son.
Oh, pass not; pass not heedless by,
Perhaps thou can'st red•'em
The aching heart from misery;
6o share thy lot with hen.
IVIISSICIM3iaIa.ELTIE".
A Thought of Death.
In the lung watches of the winter night,
when one has awoke from some evil dream,
and lies sleepless and terrified with the sol
emn pall of darkness around one—on one of
those deadly, still, dark nights, when the
window only' shows a murky patch of pos
itive gloom in contrast with the nothingness
of the walls, when the howling of the tem
pest round chimney and roof would be wel
comed as a boisterous companion—in such
still dead times , only, lying as in the silence
of the tomb, one realizes that some day we
shall lie in that bed and not think at all;
that the time will come soou'when we must
die.
Our preachers remind us of this often en
ough, but we cannot realize it in a pew in
broad daylight. You must wake iuthe mid.
die of the night to do that, and' face the
thought like a man that it will eonie, and
come to ninety-nine in a hundred of us, not
in a maddening clatter , of musketry as the
day is wen; or carrying a line to a stranded
ship, or in such like glorious - time—when
the soul is in mastery over the body, but
in bed, by slew degrees. 'lt is in darkness
only that we realize this: and then let ,us
hope. that we may humbly remember that
death has been conquered for us, and that,
in spite of our unworthiness, we may defy
him.
in these troublous times, all who value
serenity of soul should adopt as a, motto- the
brave
_words, "Never Despair!" Though
appalling shadows lower neon our pathway,
we should 13088098 our soul in patience, that
we may take advantage of every ray of light
to pursue our journey Aafely. Never despair,
though storms boat and tempeSts rage; 'out
trust confidently that He who ' controls the
fury of the wind and waves will say, "Peace!
'be still!" Despair not; though our liberties
ear•endangered; but patiently await the re
sistless shock of 'our • gathering hosts that
overthrow the armies of 'the conspirators.
why should any despair? Does • not the
earth yield bountifully? Though friends
face danger daily, are they •not - mercifully
preserved?", True, many fall, but their pa
tient endurance of hardships; faithful vigils,
brave deeds, and glorious death, ware
. s not'
in-vain. •Othets, animated by their'heroism•
strlicCidgorous.bloire in difentif the
right.!: In _every condition in: life • let .us
resolve vteAiisolltrge our duty tothe beat of
our ability, and De9eir,will 'never cause. its
to•our equanimity ef tangier though..eurP4
. wick set with th4rits. '::"'
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Not long since, we saw the. above words
in large letters on a handbill,, 'informing thil
public of the opening of a new' liquor-saloon.
As we read it we could not help , reflecting
how appiopriate was this blotto.
We are now experiencing the horrors of
war; but these worde, in this connection,
called, to our mind a still more terrible war
fare in which,We have long been engaged.—
We mein the WAR _OF INTEMPERAN6E—a
war more awful than ,has ever been decided
by the sword; for,
Ist. Its victims ottinuntber those., who
have been slain. upon the field of battle. It
is not simply two combatants that are enga
ged in this conflict, but the whole world.
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2nd. Its watTare seems to be perpetual.
Although-it orignated almost with the birth
of our race, the battle is as fierce to-day as
it ever was, and the end seems no nearer.
3rd.. Its conquests are so secret, that be
fore the victim is aware he is bound hand
and foot. Its work of destruction is often
prosecuted under the disguise of friendship
and hospitality.
4th. It is more awful, because its victims
are not even delivered by death. The battle
field is the end of other warfares, but not so
with intemperance : "Its proudest trophies
lie beyond the grave." It has thepower:to
destroy both soul and body-in hell.'
"GMAT &AUGHT:ER !" Alas, how true !
Here is the bill of mortally one
year in our own most fitved land.
3,000 lives destroyed for time and. eter
nity !
25,000 persons sent to prison
10,000 innocent children sent to the poor
house I.
1,500 murders I
500 suicides !
10,000 orphans
1,000 widows !
What novelist would dare to risk his rep
utation by pretending to describe a war at
tended with such devastation ? But, add to
all this the izaiireci effects of intemperance
in the production of innumerable diseases
ti it won never ave eeu -uoivu tu o
this insatiate destroyer; and add, again,, the
thousands who, for no crime of theirs, are
brought into this world with physical and
mental derangements, rendering them an ea
sy prey to courimption and idoey; and if
your heart is not sickened at this •appalling
result, for only one year in our own country,
go on and multiply it by all the ages past
and by all the countries of the globe, and
tell us if this grand total of misery, depreda
tion and death, does not justify us in ex
claiming, "Great Slaughter."
"It is the decimation of the genius of the
land." It holds more souls in bondage than
all other oppressors, and its slavery is more
abject and servile. It has filled oar jails
and asylums with prisoners of war. It taxes
the honest and virtuous of our land $12,000,-
UN annually, to prosecute its victims at the
bar of public justice and maintain them in
their places of confinement. Its track: is
marked with moral ruin and desolation. Its
trophies are blasted hopes for time and eter
nity, widowhood and orphanage, and disease
cursing even the third and fourth generation.
Its victims, !Vie the fabled Prometheus, are
cursed with life, while suffering all the agon
ies of a thousand deaths.
Great, great indeed is the slaughter. But
where is the opposing force that shall go
forth to meet aud' overcome this giant de
stroyei ? Alas, the enemy has already en
listed upon its side au influence that seems
almost too potent to defeat. Its advocates
are found iu the legislative and judicial tri
bunals of the land. It is nu revolutionary
right which it pleads, trut it boldly points to
legal aud constitutional enactments for its
authority. It has even demanded that the
ministi-srs of God should remain neutral, while
its victorious Cohorts are numbering among
its victims the professed disciples of the'
Cross. Its boast is like that of the defiant
Goliah before the armies of Israel, end like
them we have been afraid even to lift up our
voice against this great enemy.
How long shall it be before we shall go"
forth to give him battle in the name of the
'Lord of hosts ?' At the voice of our civil
rulers, 'thousands gird on the armor of war
fare to protect us against a foreign and do
mestic toe; and shall we sit still while a more
treacherous and terrible, because a more ad=
lent and =relenting fbe is desecrating al
most every hearth-stone in the land.
Major General Curtis in a letter to his
friends in Keokuk, lowa, says :
Break down the Rebel armies, _ confiscate'
the property of their supporters deprive, the
Rebels of their slaves and their substance,
prostrate the foes and elevate the friends ;
and the Union men in thousands, who now
tremble in the of the apprehension
of its return, will proclaim their devotion to
our Government, and unite with us heartily
in restoring peace and prosperity to our once
happy country.
I have campaigned through three of
so-called Confederate States and express to
ys.a.r my observations and convictions,. , The
Republic canuot be severed. There is no
geographical, moral or political line on which.
to divide.. No foreign power, could prescribe
one that: would satislyosither party. '
We have, embarked in. a death "struggle,
and have :no other'alternative, but to, stead
fastly press forward the: engiima . of war,' and
ail honorable disturbing elements," till rebel
lion, weary and worn out and- overpowered,
abaodons its -wicked desigos, and.' yields to
the o:institution, and the-laws.
Rands of robbers, such as We, see. in Ms-
Bowl andnisewhere, trill survive the war, and'
society Will fOr *long time be ,pastered .
vritli
thievea and .vagrants who only carry on thdr
raids fury plunder;: but local r organisatiees
will ultimately stifle such elernerits,and'penae
'and security will grad4ally retails.
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WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FAIDAY MORNING,: OCTOB E R 24,1862:
"Greattlikughter!"
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Gen. Curtis on the War
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An Inside View of Seoeseicoi.
Letter of a North Carolina Fcgtiaer - ib a
Conscript Son
The Washington Republican has 'received
fromr Captain Hanover, of the Sepond Dia
triet Regiment, a letter ,taken frem the body
of a Itiebel, soldier in one of the, late battles
in Maryland, which has been forwarded us
for publication. We make the following es,
tracts from this epistle, Which, illustrate one
Phrase of .this picked rebellion. -We omit
the names and 'particular localities ? so as dot
to involve the writer in difficulty: ..'
4.-----NCIRTEI CAROLINA, July 4, 1862.
Illy Dear San: * , * 1 hope these lines
will find you doing as well as a. poor soldier
can. 1 have good news to write you : We
have examined your age, and find you was
born on the 18th of J uly, 1844; consequent
ly the conscript law wau't catch you. Show
the enclosed certificate of your age to your,
Colonel, and come home, as you have a right.
They say they pressed all overand under the
conscript age fur ninety days longer: When
that is out, come home, fur you have as good
a right to come as auy of the rest. Though,
I suppose, they will make some other law
to hold you if they can, for they have broken
three pledges already To Jet you all
come home when your twelve months was
out. 2. If you would enlist, they would
give all furloughs to come home. 3. On
the 16th they would let off all under, and o
ver age. They have not and will not fulfil
one of these solemn pledges. They are not
going to do anything they say they will, if
they cat elp it, for they know they are bad
ly lipped. Now they are conscripting. The
coo cripts here are the maddest men you ev
er sa They say they don't Intend to fight.
They can make them go but they can't make
them fight. The most of them say they in
tend to go to the North the first chance;
and 1 don't blame them, for there is no jus
tice in such a war. There never will be
peace till they kill off all the men, or they
all rebel and come home ; for it is given up
by all the smartest men in this country ; that
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better I don't want you to fire another gun
at the North, if you can help it. Do like
some of the rest—shirk out of it. They say
it is no disgrace.
I heard this evening that started
this morning for the army. He has gone
after his son D—. He says he is under
age, and he will fetch hini home to stay. I
would have sent you something by him, if I
had known of his going. * * There are
about 900 men at Warm Springs now, in
camp. They are drilling every - day. •
I can't tell you anything about my_ feel
ings.. Nobody knows my troubles but my
self. Your poor father has aegrcat - deal on
him, as your sisters' families are now on'uly
hands, since their husbands have gone to the
war. There is a great deal of sickness here.
J— L— has not ; one yet. Ile has been
trying to get somebody to go in his place,
and failing in that he made an effort, to get
appointed deputy postmaster, and , various
other ways to get himself exaupt. He says
the Yankees will never get a pop at him.—
He and old are the very men that
ought to go, but they are the last who will.
* * Since I began this letter, I have as
certained that your Colonel has a perfect
right to let you off, on ascertaining your age,
so, my dear son ' have great hopes of seeing
you in a very short time. • You will, have to
pay back your bounty money before you. can
get off. •
Your brother and sisters send their best
love to you. -. Write soon and let us know
what your Colonel says.
We still, remain, as ever, yonr affectionate
father and mother until death.
In vain will the true-hearted father, moth
er, and dear friends look for the coming of
the "dear boy." "groken pledges" sent the
son to the bloody field of death. Waiting
hearts, which beat high with the hope of
the speedy return of the loved one; will wait
iu vain. Hope, fear detibt and despair will
follow each other, as the intelligence of
"missing" is brought home. The bitter word's
of the father, "There is no justice in such a
war," will burn into the hearts of many be
reaved ones, who reflect for a moment on
the cause of all• this:
How the Union Women do in
Newport, Kentucky.
A gentleman in this city received a letter
from Newport, Ky., a' day or two ago, which
related the following incident. •We are per
mitted to give it in the language of the wri
ter, except that the names aro omitted for
the sake of impersonality. "A young girl,
Miss J W (strong Union, as
the sequel ,will show)
,was supplying the
soldiers.as they passed; with water, cold- bus
cuits, &e.-Mrs- S ~ Secessionist, was
standing near. by and-made sport, of the
Union lady's efforts., Sbesaid no lady would
be in the street so en,gaged. Then. pointing
to our flag sbe said, "I ,would like
,to see
that Lincoln rag trampled into the dust."
Whereupon •Miss J—slapped her mouth,
tore her nubia. from, her shoniders, and
completely ruined an elegant silk dress which
Mrs. S—rwore. Mrs. S lead her AT
rested., ,J--told the court- what she
.did, Why she didit, and, 2added, ‘1. ) ,1.1.,d0i it
again, t 00.7 • They dismissed, :herr.Vi.thouti
reprimand ~-toll h er: she_ had,done just
and advised blys.; , S-r- 7 -. to. go" ikoine l mfi
mind her own affairiSand not insult •Ataion ,
ladies when they,were relieving the ,wants of
Union 'soldiers: This-did not..occur •aMoug
Tabble; for -both the-ladies aro 4tinitig
of Newport. •
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unionists far( worse iliMt
white traitors at the.iientis ofthe
we inay ex pect . to:mak - 9 ~ u plail 'work
in puttiog . <1•?n '?;et`iis learn'
tO;bii 'tide . to ear'fripiit)s : and- litoteet t our
sutural allies: - ' ' •
ilooilLlGliT MENU.,
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The-moon has lust risen far over the deep, ,
lieoeam on ha bosom all tranquilly sleep,
Ber.lustre is shed 'over nature's Nviirm=breast
Anil forest andMelsdinv in silver are drest.
How, tranquil the scene t how delightfuithe t hour!
My slumbering-fancy awakes in its
,power;
And beneath the Bolt rays of heriiiild;getitie
A thousand bright feelings come o'er us tohiight.' . ,
The sce:ws of my childhood, unfaded andltrtis
By her magical power are presented to view;
Fond memory opens her glittering store '
, .•,,
And the friends of my youth are arounil" 'Me once
How - dear the loved home of iny infancy seerna; . '
W here I have sported, at eve, 'neath . her, favoring
beams;
Its memory still shell be dear to my heart,
And W life a latest , hour it shall never depart.
The Fashionable Preacher. _
The fashionable preacher is ' a mortal al
ways adored by his congregation, the female
portion particularly. lie is a mortal, but is
sometimes deemed an unwinged immortal
and eclipses the divinity whom he preaches.
Lie prays resoundingly, (to the congregation;)
and his amen sounds like the tap of a bask
drum lie is meek, excleilingly so—in the
pulpit; he loves his hearers collectively and
sometimes indiVidually; he hates sin and
the devil—professionally. Discourses elo
quently on charity from a mahogany pulpit,
but forgets his charity for those who differ
with him. Gives liberally (his advice) in
his resonant sermons, but always has his
purse in his other pantaloons pocket when
he meets a mendicant.
Sends the gospel to Bariboola-G-ha, and
sends the heathen at home—to the gutter.
Perfumes his sermon with sacred poetry, and
perfumes his white handkerchief with eau
de cologne.
Speaks yearningly of that other world",
but would doubtless prefer staying where he
is better acquainted. Calls his congregation
the sheep of his flock, and pulls wool over
their eyes while he shears them.
Studies attitudes as he studies his sermons,
seech the divine grace of heaven ! Delivers
from a three story pulpit—where he is ele
vated far above his, hearers—persuasiie har
angues upon moral propriety. Acts as
though sin could be drawn from man, as
that beautiful rich Eve was taken from Ad
am, by throwing him into a gentle slumber;
or, as the dentist extracts a tooth, by admin
istering chloroformal discourses and most
ethereal sermons. Of mortality he talks in
the aggregate, but never descends to particu
lars.
If one of hie, congregation, by mortgaging
his property, swindles a friend out of a few
thou Sand dollars, he never rebukes the man
as the prophet did David ; never mentions
it at all—that is a secular affair and belongs
to the world.
Prays to God not for wealth, which he
wants not neither poverty, which he cannot
bear, but only for a competence, by which
he means a three-story' competence, finished
with a brown stone and all the modern con
veniences and a spacious basement.
Believes there is no gate to heaven bu
through his church, and calls other denoid
nations "sects."
Sends his brethern upward upon "flowery
beds of case," but wether or not Peter lets
them pass the pearly portals, we, being poor
miserable sinners, cannot tell.
If he preaches at night, always arrives af
ter the audience is seated and waiting'; he
has to rise tuysteribusly through a trap door
in the pulpit, as tnany have seen Parson
Beecher do; this allityEi produces a fine eff
ect—so theatrical and striking. , Before his
entrance the gas is turned down • to nmoon
lightmellowness, and a dim obscurity broods
over the congregation; the organ is Silent:
But the moment arrives .p the' , sp:opnlar
preacher enters; the gas blootnsiuto Magnifi
cent brilliance; the ladies pond 'eagerly 'for
ward and a murmur of expectancy permeates
the air; silks rustle and . 'feathers and tans
wave, the organ peals is grand voluntary, and
the minister, slowly mounting the
,richly
carpeted stairs, sinks into the silken cushions
and opens a hymn book. ,
Is it the worship-of God or 'Man ? Ido
not know, - hut think 14 . . the. poor Publican
who stood afar off.and smote upon his breast
and cried, "Goa be moriful to me, a sinner."
A Spunky Soldier.
One of the correspondents writing of the
battle of Cedar MontiUtin, relates this inci
dent:
"Just after the firing Of musketry became
interesting, I noticed a private - soldier cum
log 'off the field, and thinking he was run
ning
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away to avoid danger, I - rode up to him
when I found that he had two fingers of his
left hand shot away 'and the third dreadfully
lacerated; l'sa* at once
„that he had at - least
a hand in the fight. lassisted. him to dress
his wound as well my limited knoviledge
of surgery wouldiperunt, he in 'the meantime
propping up my pluck. by his quaint remarks.
Said-he, don't•keer a chum tor' that third-fin
ger; for it warn't of no .couot.• no how; ,but
the ptiinter and t'othor one were right good.
ones. and I bate to lose 'cm.,.. couldn't have
come to the rear if•thad , .to load
my gun; but I wasn't."
After. I had dressed_shis-lind he looked
over in the dircetiomkif-,the firing anti stood.
a moment:: Turning-to3niel he said, ;
, i6Stranger; I wisla'you'woold• just lead. tip
my shooting-teen for me; ['want .to ?have -a
satisfactiori.oht of theniiisiiei , s.lr
:ing-rny forepaw." u: •
I loaded his goo for , him,:and he started
, bank at ullonbleCquick in. quit -. l .satietac-t.
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Irronythetkoublv)lle, Aptlrkriktiept, 27.
Geo. D; PreOtioo'in AtefliorSi;Othlif
• .. Rebel gon.- , .
William •Clourtland.Prentiefa died,oniMon
day last, nt • Aitgusta,,Ky., of wotioda receiti
ed in the conflict it :that place on.;tho_.,pio
cedeling. Saturdity. • Re perished Ilia. the
cause of. the. rebelion.
It is not in the columns of a moilispaper,
it is , only in the - family circle or 'in the hug!)
of solitude, that the emotions of &parent e
ver such an event should have iktterlinee.-4-
The tears .of weeping eyes and,•fast=trickling
drops of bleeding hearts are, not for the pub
lic gaze. The deepest agonies should be
content to fold their sombre wings in. the
soul. Consolation could not come!from..the
world's sympathy; it can be looked ,for; ody
from God audhis "angel • Time. Nay, they
are griefs thakiike'running streams ure deep
ening their ehannels, forever. - •
diem Courtland:Prentice was no com
mon young man. He was remarkable in .his
powers and in his temperament. A model
of manly beauty,. he had extraordinary intel
lectual enery, a strong thirst for:strange and
curious _knowledge; and a deep! :passion Cm
all that is sublime and beautiful „in ',poetry
and nature. He was generous, nianly,high.
hearted, and of a,. cduaage that no mortal
peril, come in what ,forin it - Might, ifeould
daunt. lie exulted in looking. destruction
face to face in all its ways. Ile loved wild
and dangerous adtentures for the Very dan
ger's sake.. His eagle spirit . lived among the
mountain crags, and shouted back to the
shouts of the storm. Although kind, unsel
fish, and humane, he 'Watiiitif etuous,,passion
ate, and 'of unconquerable prejudices. lie
was frequently unjust in his judgetu&its;
and he permitted nothing to 'stand 'between
him and theexeOution of his purpOkes.: - '
This young mat. if he 'had always directed
his energies judiciously, could have wide
himself a distingtished ornament any pro
fession of life. He Might have beed an able
and honored statesman in the seiviee'of th 6
Republic.' But at intense Southern sympa
thy, in spite of the arguementi, 'the Tema.=
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dearly loved him, made him an active retie'
against his country.
~And, after a brief five=
weeks service in the rebel ranks, he fell so r dit
to breatraNns his fiery life, receiving, 'mean=
while, far away frain his family, the kindly
ministrations of those,itgainSt . whoseetiuse his
strung right arm had , been raised. 0, if 'he
had fallen in his country's service, fallen
With his burning eye fixed in love'andr-devo
tion upon the flag tluit for more than 'Alfred
fourths of a century has been a star 'of
ship to his ancesturs,,his early death, thotigli
still terrible, might have been borne ' by' a
father's heart; but, alas ! the reflection that
he fell in armed rebellion againit that, glori.
ous old banner, now the emblem of thegreat
est and holiest cause Ale world ever knew, is
full of desolation atid'almost of despair.
And 'yet we shall love to think of Court,
land Prentice, that brave and noble though
misguided youth, during the ietnnant
. of our
lives. Our love for him undimmed by tears
and grief, is and will remain an amarnnthiut
flower upon, the grave of our.btiried 'years.
- •
Beautifully Defined.
An old soldier, id appealing , lately 'to his
son to go and fight for the Governmeut and
the Union, Said : '‘Perhaps . you have never
'thought What your country means. It is all
that surrounds you—all tluit has bought you
up and fed you—all that you have •lored.-' 7 '
This country that you see--4hestr houses,
these trees, those girls who go along
: there
laughing—this.is your country. The IaWS
which protect you, the broad Which pays for
your work, the words you'intorchinge with
others, the jdy and grief which come to' you
from. the Men and things among which you
live—this is your country! The little room
where you used to see-your molter; the '
memberances she .left you, the earth where
she rest—this is your cuuutri 1 You'isee it,
you breathe it everywhere.. Think for your
self of your rights and duties, your affections
and your wants, your past and present bles
sings; write them all, under a single name—,
and that name : will be your country. ,We
OWC it all that we are, and he
. who enjoys
the advantages of li.'aving a free country,, and
does not accept the burdens of it, forfeits
his honor, and is a bad citizen. Do for your
country what you, would di) for your father
and mother. , Your country is in danger.
TOIL.—The sentence of toil' and
the promise of glory. have issued from one
throne. Even our troubles here way make
the material of,:enjuyineuts above the air:
eumscription, of the c are, agents
in the restorative mercy of the great Lis
poser; all turn into The obstacles
to knowledge,
the struggles of ,the
the ~thousand -roughliesses' of the .omuinou
patit'of man,.are c'utiverted into the muscular
force of the wind. We are. but sowing in the
winter of our nature the seed which .shall
flourish in immortality. •
• . •
. •
HORE.- There it a fire residioi, , ~ is the
breast efevery'inertul, that burus 'brightly
anti clieertutly--and'it is *410.2' As
. fouiii.t.
it uur feeling ' gather tl4mselyea,'Aeiit they,
beceme cuhr,aud fra4M And receive ifirinth
and strength.'An'a bere too bur
,courage
and ambition comes; and „kindles.into„ tictirt
' . 'l4ope toe life: . 'll.)eprivi k ii
of its presence, likotha Ship lipoti the., briny ,
deep without a fietaitiinn, autldii`v,en, s hither
and "thither by,storsa.aud
become stranded upu the:lA . 4l.es
Hope is sweet aim, , . . , the
diw light by : ich , attin ,
pt . .to
glimpses. of the. t' Futuri:' • '
Even, licar ,testiitiony to tile
uegroes to the Union
cteiu -The Express
tho cap three . tiCsouie
oKiVegefiiin's mien••_iii,llo hadi.kizadlikTelaeg
I ; rl i i 4c4P4."-*Ti4l4
the pert di of a ne;gro.
43- :a,
", .
"tte'gtit •
•"Nel
.."
hi the Nth& Au tintithWka '
"What for?" t. -
"His health." . - -
"Alt ) ' he's' siek, :.;
"Yps."_•
"What. is. the , niateOr,
He, took cold:"'
to6k
"Yea." - • •••• •
' "From. , what cause?" ' , , • ••:
"Ou account of the heavy draft.
',Ytoz dotetsay so?". .
"Yes:" , .
"That's bad." , ,
"YeS" - ' ; '
"Theii. he wou't go to the war?"
"No.".
"Why?"
"Du you ask why?" ' -
"Yes." : ..
.•.
"Do, you require an answerer
46 1/es. '
itlslo'w?"
,
"Yes." . ,
"Immediately?" ' , .
. ,
; .
. . _
il.i.rht, away'?"
"Yesi tell iiie at once." ' - • : •-' : '
"Tell you
•
"Yes, .qUick."
"What?" . 4,
"'fell tue why yourtristerlvou'i,„g,o to war?
"Oh:—is that it?"
"Yes."
"IV dll,--beeil use he ' treno'lr!
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INTERESTINCI LINES..,hile sitting at
the desk in the Natiotial lidwie of It6ftesen
tatiies, theolate John' Quiney • Adtims:'wrote
.dawn the Following. liues rf a(o. hande4,..thetn.
to itlr. Binkerholfpf Ohio: •
, "!W,lBter and mind ,inysteriottn one,
to man till rfirr'eeecire yeeYri end 'fell; 1 ;'
Where ! em the threati :of life .cyfki,lp
Where! then reduced t4i.du.it tier!.
"A liniglity Cod; 'the eletiftt stifilieettA=4.
The doubt.'lltot only caost relieve t ;
..;
Let me, to enlace oIY thsties:4; ' '
Fly the Gosisel,ditattelitivti !!
1 1'11E .WAY OF ;TILE RANSOICESSOR, IS
Hint.).---4 rank riiii!ekii?tils'i r: was treated 'to
e.ride on the-ahait edge - of a nil the btlitir
dapin.sWilltsbarre, , -Pa.: He was taken,; to
his: mother's hotme,- hat ,h,e .old lady rafnsell
to receive hitu„as.lie Was a traitor and pot
worthy to enter flio hOns4. She told tfil.
boysle take'himdeWn Sfiatlrand give' hthi
to 'Jeff-. •lias two Sons in thp.tiort•
vice of the ,Unired Statesondjustly.yegards
this fellow,a_disoTace . tho
•
CATCHING TILE•
pea dog tire , first litmot so. .of , chapter Fin
the Bible, the clerk, . by ,some• mistake
other s read it after him., The cleigyMau
read it as folli411: 7 -Mosiii 'Was"an guitere
Man, and' rside'atoridirient for the: Rifis
the people. The clerk, Who could net;,ex
actly catch the sentence, repeated , thus:—
Moses was an. oysterman, and made ointment
for the shine of
_llia pee,ple;
it
'f •
TEIE salt r
may wit Ste and wear like the drifipiiiig - Alict
but the inner life can never waste [roe wear?
Time writes no wrinkles -14 on brow.
It is no fleeting shadow, no wasting dream.
It must remain unimpaiiod till it teaelfei
that beautiful faint where angels - dwell, aria
rejoices forever in the presence of God.-
Father Taylor, the veteran sailorpreaoherl
recently offered the followiag prayer :—"O .
Lord, guide our dectrPre , iideat, OUT Abfaham;
the friend of God; like old Abrahata. Save
him from those wriggiing r intriguilig, politic;
piercing, slimly borinc , keel worms; don't-let
them go though the Eleathin , .. of his integ
rity.". -
. The shadows of the mind ,aTe . like those
of the body. In the morning , of :life they,
all lay behind us; at noon we trample them
under foot; and is the littiening they stretch
along and - deepen 'beftiiii us. - . •
The most tender-hearted man we ever
heard of was a shoemaker, who always shut
his eyes.and. whistled when he ran his, awl
into a sole. • ,
The joyous • peals of marriage bells • have
sometimes, it is said, n duleful echo: in the
memoTies of the. parties concerned.
:Death is .the condition of our creation;
it is a part of us, and, whilst we endeavor to
evade
.it; we avoid ourselves.
Youth and. the lark have their song fog
the . motioin ,, ,, - while age , utul aightkogatti
have Wile:for thU,eyening. •
'A bachelor ineraliant'a'adrice is selecting
wife--"get hold of a pima of calico- that
will wash."
He. that.:swima the sea .of life with - blad
ders „cannot stand the ~first prick ,)f adverse
fortune:.
The trout losses his life for a worm, many
wee lose theirs-for lea: •
A bad old age hi 'death,, without deatrea
quiet..
• . Th , * pure'st - liehil 'tilt* . to
call itself
Over warm friendship, like hot coal*, are
quickly dropped.
bettir to - ka - OR prosperity
thatibacikosk glpry, - •,, .
DQemoti welchenfaili when its-Amis. to
; .. 6heeh l ue the, Rob of out. bin4 . 4,b9polk .
1 At b 0 .1
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