731a1r, izey VOLUME XVIII I=CP3O I X'kO.ALX.s. fiIIANIMIYINO , BY CHARLES SPRACCE. lye nre all hemp father, Mother, Sister, ilrother, All who hold each other dtnr• Each elmir is filled; we're all at homer To-night let no cold stranger come. It is not often thus around Our old familiar hearth we're found. for once be every care forget', . Let gentle peace assert her power, And kind affection rule the hour. NV ere not nll lure, Sr me are away—the dead once clear, Who thronged with us tle,ancient hearths , And gave the hour to guiltless mirth, Fate, w ith-wstern,-reientless-ham Looked in, and thinned our little band; borne like a might flash passed away, And sem: sank lingering day by day; The quiet grave yard—seine lie there— The cruel ocean has its share. Were nat all here We arc all here. Even they—the tkild—though deadso dear -- Fond Memory, to her but true, Brings back their faded forms to view. How life•hke through the mist of years, Each well remembered face appears! We spe them, as in times long Past; From each to each kind looks are cast; We hear their word ! .; their smiles behold; There're round us as they were of ohl. We are - all hero. We are all here Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, tou that I love, with love so dear. This may riot long of us 'be said; boon muse we join the gathered dead; And by the hearth we now sit round, Some, other circle Will be found. OM then, that iA•isdoln may we know s Which yields a (i(Q of peace below; t-to, in the world to follow this, Bray each repent in words of bliss, We're. all—all here! oua COIINTRY.. BY 'WM. CULLEN BI) XT C Country, marvel of the Earth! 0 rtalm, to sudden greatness grown! The age that gloried in thy birth, Shall it behold thee''overthrown! f•hall Traitors lay that greatness low? No, land of hope and blessings, No! • rul We who:wear thy glorious name, When those whom thou hast trusted aim The death blow at thy generous hearti "Forth goes the batt:e cry and 10l Hosts rise in harness, shouting, Nol Anil they who tlnintlotl, in our land, Tho power that rules from sea to sea, flied they in vain, or vainly planned To leave their country great anti free? Their sleeping ashes, from below, Send up the thrilling murmcr,:No; Our humming math:, our iron ways, Ou,r wind toss'd woods on mountain crest The,hoarse Atlantic. with his bays,. The calm, broad Ocean of the West, And Mississippi's torrent flow, And loud Niagaia. sinswer, 101 Eight to Sixteett . Lord Shaftshury recently stated, in a pub lic meeting in Loudon, that he had ascertain ed Iro' personal observation that of adult pale criminals in that city, nearly all had fallen into a course of crime between the a --ges of eight and sixteen-years - r-and-that if a buy. lived an honest lite up to twenty years -of age, there were forty-nine chances' in his favor and only one againstlritu, as to au hon orable life thereafter. This is a fact of startling importance • to. fathers and mothers and shows a fearful .re- spunsibility. Certainly a parent should se• cure and exercise absolute control over his child uritii sixteen—it Cannot bee Very diit. cult matter to do this, except in very rare cases; and if that control is not wisely and efficiently exercised, it must be the parent's fault—it is owing to parental neglect or re missness. Hence the real source of ninety eight per cent of the crime in a country such as England or the United States lies, at the door of the parents. It is'a tearful reflection; we throw it be fore the minds of the fathers and mothers of our land, and there leave it to be thought of in wisdom, remarking only,•as to the early seeds of disease, that in nearly every ca'e they ale sown between sundown anti bedtime in absence from the family circle, in the sup ply of spending money never earned by the spenders, openins the doors of confectionaries and soda fuantams, or beer and tobacco -and wine shops, of the circus, the negro Minstrel, the restaurant, and dance; then follows the unday =Melon., the Snaday' . driVis; -the, easy transition to the coinpany or those ways which lead-down to the gates of phy: sical, moral ruin , . • . • From "oght to sixteen :" in •These few NNitiare.4.l.: . V'm Asi v,61303r's Nautzzal.ll3.'r•CllltidrO3e azzd Xie•ligicm. WAYNESBRO', FRANKLIN COUNTY,' PgNNSILVANIA, FRIDAY . MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1864. years are the"destifiles of 'children .fraed ferty-nine eases out of 'fifty---Ozed by pa rents! Let every, father and mothdr solemn ly vow : "By God's holP , nrfii mr darling's destiny for good,:by Making . home more at tractive than the streets/' The Slave Mother. Dinah was a slave mother. 'Alien her first baby was horn, she did not rejoice over her darling. its other mothers de. - • "Ben," she said, "dis child a'n't ourn : -it may be took from us and sold any day." "'Well," said poor Ben, "it may be der Lord's chile, if it a'n't omit." Twelve • chi Wren wbro — burn- --- -to—Din ah , bright, handsome, healthy frolicksotate ba bies—dear to Dinah's tender and loving heart, and they grew up children that a mother might well be proud of; but she had no part or lot in them. Horne with its treasured 'affections was not for tier. As they grew up, one boy and one girl after another were rent from her. - tier mistress was often pressed for money; and when she had two or three handle - t o ars ra pay for the education and accomplishment of her children; the slave-trade would call, and lay- Mg,dotrn six or eight hundred _dollars in gold bills for Dinah's Lucy, or George or Turn_ the were sold. ",sclling ivy ehiren to pay for her ehil 'en," cried poor Dinah in , an agony of spir- "What is your gal worth l"' asked the tra iler, eyeing one of Dinah's beautiful girls of fourteen years. "Sir," said Dinah bitterly. "she's worth to me what. your daughter is worth to you." . But the trader took no account of that. A slave mother's heart, a slave mother's tears, a slave mother's grief had no entry in his calculations. Then her husband's mas ter sold out and moved away. lle had liv- ed on a nei - galcdrorp - hrutation- r am— Ben with him, and Dinah hetird of him no more. "Dere don't no letters go 'wenn us," sobbed r,00,r grief stricken. Dinah. "We can't sprite, and it is as good as being dead.; do, no, niinki go - od;"—The-pooritaman hum ged her last little one to her bosom, and lookinc , up to the sky,• her whole.face woie the look of that agonizing prayer of the Sav ior. "My God, my God, why host thou for-. sakes me ?" Ali, thou pocr slave mother, God has nei ther forgotten nor forsaken thee or thy, suf fering people. Thy wrongs have nape up before him. The blood of the poor erietb . unto Him. "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the " f ord pitieth them that °fear him. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness unto children's children." Feminine Devotedness At Lyons, when that city became the th'e ' atre - ot daily executions, a woman learned by chance that her husband's name was on the • list, of the proscribed, and instantly ran to avert tha impending destruction, by securing his immediate flight. She compelled him to assume her dress, gave him "her money and jewels, and had the inexpressible happiness of seeing him pass unsuspected. ' A few hours afterwards the officers of justice mine to seize him. She had prepared herself to receive them, by putting on a suit of her vas an ha -- se. nes, and auswcringTilso to his name. She was led before the revolutionary committee. In the course of the examina tion her disguise was discovered, and they demanded her hu,baud: , "MY husband," she answered, in a tone of exultation, "is out of the beach of your power, I planned his escape, and I glory in riskily , . ° my own live for the'preservation of his." They dis played before her the instrument of punish ment, and charged her- to reveal the route her husband had taken. "Strike:" she re plied; "1 tun prepared." 'l3ut it the in terest Of yew country that commands you to speak," said one of the committee. "Barba liar's!" she answered, "my country cannot command rue to outrage the sacred laws of nature." Ler dignity and firmness awed even the members of the revolutionary committee. and a ooble action for once overcame their spirit of desolating cruelty MORAL COURAGI;.—Young man, would you become morally strong ? Would you grow up perfectly competent to resist every foe to your happiness, every enemy which may dispute your progress in the way of noble—manhood-'? Would- -- you — fit yourself for usefulness in this world, and for hap piness in the next ? Then listen to the feeblest voice of conssience, calling yoil. to duty and to right. ' There is no more eerttin method of cultivating and promoting moral strength than by heeding continually that light which "lighteth every man into the world." When some specious temptation is presented before you, when there is thrown over it the witching gauze of fashiori and show, do you not hear that gentle and pre cious voice bidding you look away and shun the specious temptation ? That voice is soft, as tLe whispers" of angels. and as kind as the welting tenderness of a mourner's pure love. You cannot disregard it but as your listen with attention, your ear becomes keener to hear, and your strength more com petent to resist temptation. It will soon be come easy to do right. The charm of temp= tation would 1...5e its power over you--11foin inf./ PRESERVE 60 ME TORY PATERS.---M On tb ago, we'gave this advice—and now we repeat it. The Tory papers of the Revolution, and the Federal papers 0f.1812, decency compared with some , of the Copper. head sheets of 1864. Gather up, lase 4 and lay 'cart:Fully away a few of these,' for future. generations to read with' wonder. It 'will appear- a- marvel that , such things • were_toler ated: But the -President , hact ,. .ionfidenee - in. the people, and scent 'on with Ms own work trusting in God fez. support. • 'Bridesmaids. Next to being d bride herself, every, good looking young woman likes to , be a bride's maid. liredloak is thought by a: largo'prci , portion of thinefi,orain,,,,m_.: . 41 . 4 1 t•• •; and' mueh to thetredtt of their courage, fair siiiiastere.are 'not all afraid' of catching Perhaps• the theory that the" affection is cOln , implicated by contact is correct. Certainly we have, known one marria z 7a to lead to an other, and sometimes sue a series Of 'hap py e;?eats' as to -favor the belief that matri mony, as John Van Buren-might say, 'runs like. the cholera.' Is there any book entitled "Rules for 13siciestnaids," in , secret circulation among young ladies? It seems as if there must be, - for all the pretty bench womenact precisely alike. So far as official conduct is concern ed, when you have seen one bridesmaid you have seen the whole fascinating tribe. Their leading duty seems to be to treat the bride as •'a victim led with garlands to the sacri fice." They consider it necessary to exhort her to "cheer up and stand by.' It isassu --med by a-poetie — fidtion, that she goes in a state of fearful trepidation to the altar, and upon the whole would rather not. .ller fay aids provide themselves with pungent essen- f ces, lest she should faint at the "trying me ctw e etryorrand - usTrea - der, she has no more idea of doing than she has of flying. It is true she sometimes tells them that she "fools as if she shoUld sink in to the earth," and this they respond "poor dear soul," and apply the smelling bottle; but she goes through her nuptial martyrdom with great fortitude, nevertheless. In nine cases out of ten the bridegroom is more "flus tered" than the frag ile and ,lovely creature at his side; but nobody thinks of pitying him, 'poor fellow! All sympathy, compassion, interest, is concentrated upon the bride, and if one of the groomsmen does recommend -him-to-take a ghrss-of-winebefore-the_cere , _, 'Deny, to steady his nerves, the advice is giv en superciliously---as who should say "what a spoouy you are, old fellow." Bridesmaids may be considered as brides' -in-what-the-lawyers_calLthe "haelloate" or incipient state. They are looking 'forward to that day of triumphant weakness when it shall be their turn to be "poor, dear, crea -true." and Preston salted--aud-o4terwise-eus-- tained and supported as the law of nuptial pretences directs. Let us hope - they may not be disappointed. The Married State It is considered a noteworthy oreunistatice for a man or woman to have been married three-times; but of old this number would have been thought. but little of. St. Jerome mentions a widow that married her twenty second husband, who in his turn had been married to twenty wives—surely an expe rienced couple. A i l roman named Elizabeth Masi, who died at Florence in 1768, 'had been married to seven husbands, all of whom she outlived. She married the last of the seven at the age of 70. When on her death bed she recalled the good and bad points in each of her hus bands, arid having impartially weighed them in the balance, she singled out her fifth spouse as the favorite, and desired that her remains might be interred near his. The death of a soldier is recorded, in 17S-1, tri-w-wideovirge-d- vem, 30, wept over the grave of her fourth hus band. The writer who mentioned these facts gravely added: "The said soldier was much attached to the marriage state." There is an account of a gentleman who had been married to four wives, and who liv ed to be 115 years old, When he died he left twenty-three children alive and well, some of the said children being from three to four score. A gentleman died at' Bordeaux in 1772 who had been married sixteen times. In July, 1703, a couple were living in Es sex, who had been married eiOity-one yeais, the husband being 107 and the wife 103 years of age. At the church of St., Clement, Danes, in 177:, a woman of 85 was married to her fifth husband. No Good. from Passion Will putting thee's self in a passion mend the matter? said 'an old man to a boy, who had picked up a stone to throw at a dog.— The dog only looked at him is play. Yes, it will meud the matter, said the pas sionate boy, and quickly dashed the stone at the dtcg. The animal, thus enraged , sprangat the boy and bit his leg, while the stone bounded against a shop window and broke a pane of glass. Out ran the shop-keeper, and seized the boy, and made him pay tbr the broken pane. He had mended the matter finely, indeed! Take my word for it, it never did ; and it never will mend the matter to get into a pas sion about it. It the thing be hard to bear when you are calm, it will be harder to bear , when you ai.e in anger. . If you have met with a loss, you will only increase it by losing your temper. - - , There is something which is -very little minded and silly -in giving way to sudden passion: Do set' yourself away against:it with all your hearts. • Try, then, to be calm, espeeiallyin trifling. troubles; and When gtcater ones come try to bear them bravely. A. young lady remarked to a fop that his pen-knife, in one respect resembled him.— The ladies in•the room commenced guessing what it could be. At inst. mnart-looking little boy, who, until now, sat, in one eciriaer, silent, was asked to guess After examining th'e knife very-closely, he turned around, and in a cunning manner said: ; "Well, / don't know, unless because it's awful . In 'what color is a secret best Ii•ep!? In vi olate. ti NOVEMBRII FAN6I6S. 'Sunshine Oust:acre on the LA, Lighting up its; rugged brow, ' .._ugh_the.birt's of song are stilt; And the leaves have left the bough. Brightness on the brook is shed, - Like soft gleams of golden ore, Though the Nvater-flogs"nre dead, And the marge is green .no more. • Thus the Good of Earth when age Warps the form; and thins the heir, And the, brow becomes trpage, W tinkled with the lines of care— smile, amid decay and blight, Gently, like the dying year, Though a long and gloomy night, Anti a wintry tomb, are near. On the perished grass and flowers, . Patters now the binning hail, And, through cold and naked bowers, Howls the loud November gale, Fleet as swallows on the wing, Fly abroad the shriveled leaves, ' And von oak, croivnless thing, Rocks and moons like one who grieves Habits. Habit is the effect of custom; thipower of doing anything acquired by the frequent repetition of the same action. habits are generally formed. in childhood and youth, and may he either good or bad. When I see children unmannerly and rude, I am quite sure that they will lack- manners when they become older. Their bad habits will not leave them when they become men and women. "0 the dreadful power of hab it :" exclaimed a professing Christian, burst ing into tears, and confessma b his sin. Irian unguarded moment he bad uttered an oath. lihr,"-tr--- Jegau - to - swear - when - a - ci ~ le contin7 ued,."and I kept on swearing until the grace of God arrested me; and, now, even now this wicked habit steals upon me when I am not thinking." Swearers in childhood and youth --and-1--ani-sorr,rto-say-Ttbere_are_matiy— make the violent swearers in manhood. Some very small boys begin to make a whiff' at the pipe, or a chew, or tobacco, just be- cause they see their or some other per son smoke .or chew. They soon form a hab it, and by and by they become inveterate to bacco users . Others, when quite young, arc treated to a sip of liquor by their parents or friends.— Soon they get a relish for strong drink, which lays the foundation. of a habit to become con firmed drunkards; and finally they a drut kard's grave ! Some children relate an anecdote or a sto ry that they have heard with a little varia tion; they stretch the truth a little; until at . : ter a while they earmot tell truth from false hood, and wore often utter the latter than the fowler. Some commence the habit of stealing by taking little things from their parents or play mates, end they go •on step by step taking still greater things, until at last they end their days in prison I Those who commence in early life to spend the precious Sabbath in idleness or play, in stead of attending the Sabbath school or go in,,to the house of God are _enerall vi- eious and unhappy, and good people shun them. Before commencing any practice or habit, however trifling it may appear,' consider care fully what it may lead to ;,for important con sequences flow from trifling beginnings. Strive to fbrm good habits, to store your mind with useful knowledge; to be honest, industrious, temperate, truthful, studious, and persevering. Pray for the direction and assistapee of your heavenly Father, that you may be enabled to shun all bad habits in ear ly life, for that is the only true way to escape them when you become old BILOTITEALY LOVE—Were all Christians to 'dwell on the virtues of their fellowe— were they to talk' of each other's excellencies and amiable traits, and throw the veil of Christian charity over each other's little faults,' how much more love there would be among the followervf Christ! , How much more enjoyment among Christians! And how much more success would attend the preach ing of the truth!. The example at Christ ians would Olen convince the world of the reality of religion, and the unanimous excla mation of the world would be: "See how these Christians love." Christians then would be one, and the world would know how to be followers of Christ. Then let us love one another, and be more anxious to see in . each other something of the likeness of Christ, than to notice and talk of each other's faults. A MAN WITIIOUT MONEY.--A man with- Out money is, a body without a soul, a wait ing death—a spectre that frightens everybo• dy. His countenance is sorrowful, and 'bid conversation languishing and tedious. If he calls upon an acquaintance he never finds him at home, and jibe opens hie mouth he is interrupted every moment, so that he may. not finish his discourse, which it is fearful will end with asking for money.. He is a voided like a person affected with disease, and is regarded as an incumberance to the earth. Want wakes ihim in the morning, and misery accompanies him to his bed, at night. The ladies discover that he loan awk ward booby—landlords believe that he lives upon air, and if he wants anything from a tradesman, he is asked for cash before de livery. There is a Iridy dotin east, Of such a sweet temper that she turns salt into sugar by touching it: Her h usband is making a for.: _tune by selling molasses ma& hem vinegar. -11ebuys4,barrel of the liquid,oo lady.looks in at the' - bn, bole, and tu two days after he ,;sells' it I& "su , •tir house" 'at" fifty cents a Nil. lon. . The. End , of our .Great Men. The four great personages oceupyin e ,er the most eonspioious.plaees iq•.the' wnricrs histo ry w i ere Aleiander, Hannibal, Omar, and &esparto.- ; • Alexwider,--itftei having elirded the clink heights otitis ambition, add with h:a temples bound with chaplets flipped in the blood - or countless millions, looked down , upon a , con quered world and wept that there was net an other world for hid, to conquer—Set a city on fire and Alai in a seem of, debauch: .- - - having, to the astonish ment and consternation of Home, passed the Alps, and having*Put to tight the armies of the mistress of the world, and stripped three bushels of golden rings from the fingers of her slaughtered knights, and made her foun dations quake, fled from his country, being hated by those who once exultingly united his name to that of their god, and called hits Hani Baal and died at last, by poison admin istered by his own hand, unlamented and un wept, in a foreign land. th-wsar,—atter having conquered eight hunt dreci cities, and dyeing 'his garments in the blood of one million of his foes—after hay iug pursued to death th only rival he had on earth, was miserably assassinated by those whom_ he considered his nearest friends; and in that very place, the attainment of which had been his greatest ambition. —BonOpaitei—whese mandates kings and popes obeyed, after having filled the earth with terror 'of his name—ater having delug ed Europe with tears of blood, and Clio ;vorl with - skellitli, closed his days in lonely ban isimAnt, almost literally exiled from the world, yet where he could sometimes see his country's banner waving over the deep, but which could not tiring him aid. A Warlike World. The Opinion Nationale of a recent date gives-this dismal picture of the present bel, ligerent condition of the world: "if there be a dead calm in polities as well as business amongst us, it is not the same in.' all parts of the little planet Ve Th ree•quarters- of_humanity.ria_fuetliv— ing in the barbarous state of var. "There is war in Poland. "War in Tunis. "War in Mexico. "War in the United States. "War in Per% "N‘Tx. in New Zealand. "War in China and Keechgar. " War in Japan. "War in Afghanistan. "War in twenty countries in Africa. "This is, unfortunately, enough to,,ciiscour age the friends of universal peace; and who can say they will not meet with greater . dis appointment next year? 'ltaly, Hungary, Po. laud, Denmark, and the Slavonian pop Ula. tion of Turkey, aro not, it must be confessed, in the most pacific humor; and to 'those who study the general situation of our continent, it is quite evident that the general situation, instead of going hotter, goes on from day to day getting more complicated. The Marriage Fee. Thelate Dr. Bounton was once disputing with a farmer about the ease with which a minister earned his money. "Now," said the farmer \lied unnr. called upon to marry a coaple,'yoa never ex pect a sum less than three dollars—this for a few minutes' service." "Pooh!" replied the doctor, "I would a- gree to _give-you - half - of - my — rae . at marriage fee for a bushel of potatees.! "Very well," said the 'farmer, "I'll take your offer, and send you the potatoes " A few days aherwards the'doctor was call ed op to splice a couple at Ddgtown, a place about four tulles from where he lived. When the Ceremony was over the bridegroom said to the worthy minister, "Well, parson, I s'pose I must fork some. thing over for your trouble. What say you to taking one of my terrier pops?` The best, breed, I tell you, in the country. Shockin'• nice to have in the barn. Worth full five dollars--and I suppose a figure ,2 would do for the splice?' • The doctor took the pup with joy. The joke was too good; he hastened to the farm er, saying: "Now, friend, here is wy fee--how shall we divide it?"' rho fanner relished the joke so well that he increased the potatoes to half a dozen bushels.' E3fPTY NIGEITGOWNS.—Since the advent of General Logan's splendid 'corps at nuts stifle, the rooms in the principal hotels have been in demand. A beautiful iiidarcom plished actress bad been staying at the Hunts ville Hotel, and in about a "minute and a half or two minutes" after she had vacated her room, the gallant General 0. was assign to it by the landlord. The General on 'ex mining his bed previous to retiring; found a most robe de nuit neatly folded under his pillow, marked in delicate characters,with the name of the fair owner. The Wiz:tuber-maid was called and asked by the General, holding the garment in his haild : • 'Do yea know Miss Lottie FlougitP 'Yes,' answered the 'chambermaid. • ' 'Then carry this to her with my compli ments, and say General 0. is not is the halts it of sleeping with ewpty nightgowns.' %Vithout knowledge, without science, with' out education, a nation cannot long- bei free. A humble village schoolhouse, with the .un pretending school. master and ragged urchins, are more terrible to the despot than legions of armed soldiers Rear y , mr-ohi-hiren in ig norance and they are ready to be made slaveti., educate,them, tench them how ,to ilia free, and no power on earth ciao enslave them. A vacant 'Mind inyites,dangerous inmates, asaa t e e enter sers and a mans ion tempts, , t . iyandering-out, oasts desolate apartments: drel. Ile was well armed. On his person was found fa:UT. revolvers, — 'three hundred dollars in greenbac k s, ono hundred, and twenty-five dollars in Tennessee ,money,. and about thirty dollars in Confederate scrip, Strange to say, Air. Skiles was not WOULI• -ded-infthe-alTray=l--.l:olmresov_a_s--mueb "when diziovf little is known of what is in the be soMof those around us! We might explain many a coldness could we look into the heart concealed from us; we should often pity when we hate, love when we think we never can forgive, admire when we curl the lip with scorn and indignation. To judge without, reserve of any human action is a culpable te merity, of all our funs the most unfeeling and frequent_ 1 • A'olotid upoa the'sotil shrouds and dark.; ens the earth more than a eland in the firm ament. The spectacle is in the spectator., . 2.00 Pox' lePoisix Desperateiktoundrell-Pearful: En- counter. The Mitorkitii bush Wacker and guerilla lea- der, Bela Jitilitnes, - Vilioscibaine is assoliiWi with many outrageous proceedings and nets ot horror, met With his - death at' the Minis of James Skile4, a United States scout, on Tuesday night of last week,. at the-house .of--- Wm. Denumbra,,. near: Ashland, Cheatham Co., Tennessee.. This bold outlaw apoundrel sailed under a number