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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 <names, and ho was
noted for his bitter hate towards all mankind.,
his utter•deprav,ity. of heart, and his blood
thirsty revenge. Holmes, Hodges .
Thompson, Zolonia, Or 1)611 . 0 Flip, he was.
the same' murdering sdotiodiel and robber
fiend, and to the people , was the evil spirit Of
the border of theuniberland.
In the affray Oh ,Sk.iles, Holmes foughb
with - oesperit did not yield until eigh
teen pistol balls bud pierced his body. With
disordered costume, strained. eyes, his form.
stained with , the- warm blood flawing from:
his many wounds, and with a wild look of
despair, he sunk to the earth completely ex
hausted Ile was raised from his prostrate
condition, carried into the house, lingered a
brief hour in agirhy, wheailie breast ceised.
to heave, and the guilty spirit passed fro
ime—to etPro.4-
infe — to eternity. : , Befere he died he made a.
confession of his many crimes of highway
robbery, and acknowledged that he had mur
dered ,twenty-one Federal kuldiers,
white and thirteen colored) and four citizens.
Even in the hour of death his thirst for
blood and revenge. did not - desert him. His
only regret was that ho had not lived long
enough to take the life of another man,. 1).
D. Hoffman, of Springfield, for whom he had
formed a bitter hatred. The thoughts of the
past and future did not appal• him, and he
died as he had lived, a hardened criminal, a
revengeful monster and a bloodthirstikscoun—
ted, and is .‘IIIIY WAS Wild' and erring, 'The - -
robber, outlaw and murderer now sleeps io
de grave, with a studio , : record of tearful
crime and villainy to hind liis tonne own 0
posterity. Mt. Bkiles deserves the thanks
of the people for ridding the world of such
monster.—Louisville Jo utrtul.
A pious old deacon used to inspire .us.
with so much awe by the sanctity of hls
manner, that we would dare not say that our
soul was our own while in church. Deacon
F. came to California, and was tempted after
sinful gains. A friend and. member of the
same church found him one night "bucking
the monie." With holy horror i he nudged
the absorbed player into a knowledge of his
presence, "Deacon, do I find "you gain-
Wing ?" With ready wit to relieve him from
embarrasruent, he chuckled, "No, no, friend
8-,not gambling ! You see, this is.
a . corrupt institution, and Fut e/oing my best'
to break it up !"
, A countryman passing along one of the
streets of Baltimore a few days since when►
one of his wheels came of, and he discovered
for it some time, lie offered to the boys who
congregated a shilling to 'find it. They then
joined in the search, and in a few minutes
one of them brought hint what he supposed
to be the pin Having adjusted. the wheel,
he started off I:mt'had not 'gone more than
half n square before a wheel on the other side
came off; when he discovered that the young
rascals had stolen the pin from one of the otb,
er wheels to obtain the reward.
A young woman in Jackson, Mich., has
been carrying on the recruiting business in
an original and highly peculiar manner. She
marries,a man on elniitiou that he will en.
list and -give her his bounty. She beinc- ° stri
kingly handsome, the man consents. After
he is gone she marries another. Pour men
has she thus wedded and sent to the army.
On the fifth occasion she was detected.
AceOrding to Haller, women bear hunger
longer than men; according to Plutarch,•they
can 'resist the effects of wine' better, accord,
ing to Pliny, they are seldom attacked by li
ons; according to Ungar, they grow older and
are seldom bald;'and according to the most,
people they can talk a few.
It was a happy sentiment of some devoted
writer, that Uod carries his people when
they cannot walk; he pities our weakness, but
not our sloth.
_.rear not to have every aption of your life
open,to theinspection of mankind. Remem
ber that a nicer casuist than man sees into
your least =lens. Answer to, Him, and
fear VI) man.
All the perforrnooes of human art at which
we look With peals° 'or wonder,' are instances
of the resistless force of perseverence.
tioalfinnbling to , pride is the reflection
that niari'islthe only species of tihe aniuzal
creation' that wars upon its kind. ,
ty tow's fait bosom ?.9
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