Village record. (Waynesboro', Pa.) 1863-1871, December 25, 1868, Image 1

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VOLUME, XXII.
ALEX. LEEDS,
- --- • ,
Next door to the town Hall, has row on Land
ne-assortmen
CLOCKS
Seeded by himself with , great. care, a large and
well selected assortment of
uaT4aao
of Swiss, English, and Amerirait Manufacture ;
JEWELRY
cheaper t!,an evor beftre sold in Waynesbor.'-.--ail
;he latest ,tytes pt con-tartly I hand.
Every variety of Cuff .but tons. A fine assort
ment of
FINGER AND EAR RINGS
Solid Gold. engagement and
WEDDING RINGS,
ilver Thimbles and sheelds,' Castors, Forks, and
Spoons, Salt Cellars, and Butter knives of the eel
ebrsted Roger Manufacture, at reduced rates.
SPECTACLES
To stilt everybody's eyes. New glasses put in old
frames.
Clocks, Watches, and Jewelry promptly and
newly repaired and warranted.
ALEX. LEEDS,
:Next doo: to the Town Hall, under the Phoniurnph
allcry • July 31,
PURIFY YOUR BLOOD!
LONDON
BLOOD PANACEA.
The Great Alterative and Blood Purifier,
It is the most perfect vegetable compound of altera
tives, tonics, diuretics and diaplioreties, making it the
most effective, invigorating, renovating and blood
cleansing cordial known to the world.
For theetire of SrporrtA or Knva's
Eret, CUTANEOUS DISEASES, ERY
SIPELAS, Bort.s,Ptsreissand---
13 LGTCHES on the FACE, SORE
EYES, SCALD HEAD. TETTER AP
FECTIONS, OLD and ST L' lIDORN
ULCERS, RHEUMATIC DISORDERS,
YELLOW JAUNDICE, SALT RHEUM,
WHITE SWELLINGS. MERCURIAL
DISEASE S. GENERAL DEBILITY,
PALPITATION and rLUTTERING at
the BECRT, CON SP lIPT lON ,
ASTHMA, SYPHILIS and SYPHILITIC
AFFECTIONS. INFLAMMATION of the
BLADDER. And KIDNEYS, PAINS In
the BACK, DROPSY, FEMALE COM
PLAINTS, &c. To the broken down
female it gives life and energy by
restoring the lost powers of nature,
when health again succeeds the
feeble form and pallid cheek of the
sufferer.
Nothing can be more surprising than its invigorat
ing effects on the human system. Persons all weak
ness and lassitude, by using the PANACEA, at once
become robust anti full of energy under its influence.
Ladies who have pale complexions and are dark about
the eyes, blotches and pimples on the face, rough skin
or freckles, and are " out of spirits," should use a
bottle or two of LONDON BLOOD PANACEA. It
will cleanse your blood, remove the freckles and
blotches, and give you animation, sparkling eyes, fine
spirits and a beautiful complexion. Try it.
Price $l.OO Per Bottle.
The genuine have LONDON BLOOD PANACEA,
8. A. FootE, BALTIMORE, Mn., blown is the bottle,
Mad my signature on the wrapper.
LONDON
BLOOD
: PANACEA
S_ POT_TT'Z,
Manufacturer and Proprietor,
BALTIMORE, MD.
POT sale by dnrggists and storekeepers throughout
the United States.
For sale by J. F. KURTZ, Druggist, Way
nesboro'. [oov 20— ly
MILLINERY GOODS !
TO TUE LADIES!
Air RS. C. L. ROLLIN PERUER has just re-
Ii ceivcd a full supply of new Millinery goods.
Ladies are invited to call and examine her stock.
GOOD TEMPLAR BEGALIAS supplied
or the material to make them furnished.
ug,t 21" a
Ollb. UCGOLLIE Y,
ATTOR&EY AND COUNIMLLCIII bAW,
GREENCASTLE, PA . .
Will attend pretiiptly acid faithfully to all business
entiotistenV to Ihtii" care. -Counsel given in English
Grlfice in the Rhodes' Building, on
the corner of the Diamond.
- nom tf
edA.
• rrd-over - the - grave - of - nay — ord - rFjidf -
Springs'a dream of brighter haur.§.
A ROMANCE OF BANKRUPTCY
-ENOCH ARDL•'IV OUTDOWE. -
The St. Louis Republican of the 15th
ultimo vouches for the truth of the follow
ing :
Who is it that does not 'remember the
financial crash of ,1857 ? • It spread over the
country, even to St Louis Many of our
most enterprising and seemingly m6st pros
perous merchants had to sneeumb to the
pressure - of - rhe-time --- — AllSo - Erg — ttrera — wa - s — t
merchant whom we shall call 'Smith,' His
real name and some of the circumstances we
are about to relate will doubtless be recol
lected by many in St. Louis even to-day.
He kept an extensive mercantile eitablisb
ment on street, and by his enterprise
and promptitude won the confidence of the
best supply houses in the East and West.—
His business wascond, his credit was good,
and everybody thought he would survive the
troubles of that long- to be remembered win
ter of '57. But he, too, had many smaller
merchants largely indebted to him for goods
he furnished them.
lle had a young, beautiful, and highly
accomplished wife and three smiling, inno
cent babes—enough to inspire an affection
ate father's ambition and energies for their
maintenance and education. They lived in
a neat villa of their own in a fashionable por
tion of the city, and the neighbors said a
happier family did not exist in the State of
.51issouri.
The crash came: his debtors were unable
to meet his calls, and as a consequenee he
was unable to meet the demands of his cred
itors. He suddenly became moody and fret
ful, even in the bosom of his lovely family.
What wits he to do ? lie had not much
time left for ruminating on his position, and
something should be done quickly. His first
resolve was to make over the villa to his wife
and family, and secure an annuity of ‘9600 a
year on his wife for the support of herself'
and children, and leave the city secretly- he
knew, he eared, not whither, Little_time
elapsed_between the resold - 56n and thecarry
ing it into effect. So one night, after kissing
his wife and little ones, but wallow bidding
them. good-bye, be sallied forth, determined
to rebuild fu ti fallen fort lILICS or pori,), i n th e
attempt. His remaining stock was 80011 gob.
bled up by his creditors—but bow as to
him
self? What became of him? Did he make
away himself in a fit of temporary insanity
or was he made away with, as scores are
from year to year that fall into the hands of
'roughs,' who would murder a man and stow
his body away for ten dollars. These were
queries that agitated the minds of the deso
late and disconsolate family, the public, and
the press, of St. Louis at the time. No ac
count of the missing man could be ferreted
out. Proclamations and rewards were of no
avail, and the universal verdict was 'mysteri
ous disappearance.'
WV.
. Mrs. 'Smith' mourned her husband as dead
for the weeks and the months of two long
years, till her fair features began to grow
sallow and furrowed by the effusion of the
scalding tears. She wisely concluded it was
useless to mourn any more, so taking a prac
tical and interested view of matters, she de
cided to receive the long proffered attentions
of William Bradford, and old bachelor, com
panion merchant of her late husband He
pas doing a profitable business on—street,
having weathered the financial storm already
alluded to.
In a few weeks after this noolation, she
was Wailed as Mrs. Brudford—the bloom . a
gain adorned"-hei ehedic.:and a placid:smile
sat on her brow and lips— she was again hap
py. In her new alliance she was blessed
with . two wore beautiful children added to
her household and bearing the name of Brad
ford.
But her happiness was not destined to be
perpetual, for William Bradford was affected
with consumption, and gradually Bislang un
der it, died during the last spring, leaving
his wife for the second time a widow To
her and his children fell his business, which,
WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY NIORNINOr I DEGEIifigit2S, keg:
PO~TIC~.S~.
DECEMBER.
Out in the woods the lonely trees ' ---
' Toss and moan in the winter wind, -
For the birds have flown far o'er the seas,
And they are left behind.
Bare and col in the twilight dun,
They pine for the- light' of summer-e Vi- 4-:
When the golden rays of the setting sun_
Shone through their glowing leaves. ---
Far away o'er the purple hills
The moon is climbing to the skies,
And a faint gleam over the water thrills,
Where her trembling radiance lies,
The flowers are dead, and the birds - are flJtvn,
And the wind blows cold from the chilly sea.
And r think of the days that are dead an d gone
That will never come back to me.
But the flowers will bloom again in spring, -
And the birds fly home from over the seas,
And, nestled in sweet green leaves, will sing
All day to the happy trees.
And somewhere, deep in this heart of mine,
Under the sorrow, and care and pain,
liVaiting for April suns to shine,
- - F'or April clouds to rain. -
Lies a little Hope, like a violet, •
Ready to bloom vvith_theL_other_frowers ;
- ~-
Tlaclerreoncleitat 31ra,m1137 INTelotcr.orreb-jpeot*.
as she conhi- not conveniently attend, she
converted into cash, reallzio,g a sum that
placed herself and her chiliren in easy cir
cumstances, --•-
During all these long years what became
of 'Smith ?' He made his way to Montana,
and worked in the mines, where his intelli
gence and batural enterprise soon put him
on the road to wealth. Some years after he
went there; the smallbo - x,broke out among
the minerE, and ho - caught infection, from
which he recovered; bat so pitted that his
mother would not kdow him. Day and night
be labored and figured and prospected on
_the_realization_ot-the-object-of-his—ambition
-independence, which is synonymous to
Lait spring his' good star
_favored him—
belield in the bags
of gold dust around him enough to liquidate
all claims against him and place himself and
family, if they still were in existence, in lux
ury for the rest of their days lie sold out,
packed up, and reached. St. Louis.about the
first of June.
Preserving an incognito, he inquired for
'Mrs. Smith.' Nobody knew her or knew
of ber. heart sunk within him. Did
his fair rife and beautiful children sink into
sorrowful graves while he toiled tta_ make
them happy ? -The thought--was-depressing-
in the extreme.
At length he met a person Who was ac
quainted with the circumstances of Mrs.
Smith's second marriage, boil when Mrs.
Bradford was pointed out to him he recog
nized the form and features of his long-l)st
wife. After some difficulty he obtained en
introduction to her, and - concealing his name
and the kmawledge of his immense wealth,
he wooed and w q n her. She gave her con
-eetrricrhehis OtiTtiY7unQga,._ nrommum
'drinorthe two previous marriages should
be well treated by him
On last Thursday evening to the old villa
a clergyman was summoned to tie - the nup
tial Lunt, when the real name of the new
suitor and,his former relationship were dis
closed; andaltlinaliA, the bride fainted, it was
a happy re-union. Ire was happy to see his
children well grown irrbody and intelligence
in the intervening eleven years. Words can
not picture the happiness of the twice mar•
ried couple, and their family, and notwith
standing the traces of the small-pox she loves
her hlala - ted better than ever. May their
happiness continue !
The facts we halte_leataad_frorn-the—cler--.-
gYman_ who performed the ceremony are a
romance that beats Enoch Arden co pieces.
FLOWERS.—FIowers teach us the tender
ness of God's character. If he had made
nothitig - of this kind,_if_his works had been
for bare utility, and had consisted of coarse
and more substantial creations only, the ten
der side of the divine character wotild have
failed of the revelation it now has in nature.
You cannot come across a delicate, trembling
flower in the shade of a wood, so small'that
your heel could crush out its life with one
careless — step, but, that think how
gentle Gnd must.be, who made this flower in
its exquisite beauty to live there, and daily
cares for it in the regular course of his prey.
ideuce.
Following, the same idea, the Bleep of the
flowers touches our sympathies. Many of
them at night will fold their petals closely
together, and like the darlings of a kind
mother repose trustfully in the care of their
creator. And during the limg, dark night,
they gather the dews which distil in the qui
et air, and when day comeq, the first beams
of morning fall on millions of glittering
drop, and flash back from leaf and bud, and
petal, and grassy blade in such brilliance that
the whole waving and nodding field of bloom
iug beauty dressed in gems morn resplendent
than any dream of oriental ruagoifieence
So it may he with us in the night of this
somewhat sombre life, we draw to ourselves
the dew of heavenly grace. We may hope
that when eternity fully dawns. the morning
light of our Father's levee will glance upon
these jewels which we have . gatherea near
the cross, and so light them up as to cover
us with glory.
A WONDERFUL bEfir.—On the last day
of November, sonic bur or five meo were
weatherboarding the tillvei Creek bruise, on
the Junction railroad, in the vicinity of Lib•
erty, Indiana About three o'clock in the
afternoon Jacob Morris, a young man nine
teen years of age, with one or two others,
was working on the side of the bridge about
sixty feet from the ground, stauding on a
single plank, when the temporary scaffolding
gave way and young Morris became satisfied
Chit he was about to fall lie hallooed to a
workmen below him, cfake in your head or
cut it off' fie then, with hatchet in
hand, jumped directly out from the brrdge,
full , ixty -five feet Ile, said as be was: pa&s
ing down through the air he thought of say
ing (Good bye' to the oleo, hut did not. as
the hope 114fied upon his mind that he might
after all land safely. Pa.iiing through a
small bush, he eatue down loosely on his toes
upon a ruck covered with gravel and grass,
and fell forward upon his shoulders, He
laid there is several convulsive congestions,
when he became sensible, and upon exam
ination it was found that not a single bone
was broken, or,eten a bruise Upon his body,
He was conveyed on a stretcher into town,
and from thence firouulit home to Conners
ville thatNevening on- the train. He was
somewhat sere and numb the next day, but
is now - walkilig about almost •as if nothing
had happened to him
'What harm is there in a pipe ?' says
young Puffwelt. 'Nona 'that I know,' re
plied his companion, 'except smoking in.
duces drinking—drinking induces intoxics•
don—intoxication induces bile—bile induces
dyspepsia—dyspepsia in d aces pulmonary
consumption—pulmonary consumption i n•
.daces death—put that in your pipe and smoke
•`MEET-LIZZIE - AT tai
A TOUCIIING STORY OT EVERY-DAY LIFE
'Meet. Lizzie at six.' That was all the
s contained. Four little words ; yet
what an excitement they caused in the house
hold of Maple cottage, the quiet, sober house
hold, whose members at the moment of its
reception were on the point of going to _refit
:Tor the night.
- - -
'Meet Lizzie at six !' Was our darling
indeed so near us? Two years and three
months had sassed since our eyes bad been
Ig as dened liy her girlish beauty, since her
voice had mingled with- the-bird-music—that
floated all the hog Summer days among the
maples Two years and three *months she
had been buried among books, in a far dis
,
taut eity,"bowing her sunny curls over alge
bra and geometry; grammar and philosophy,_
astronomy and botany, French and Latin;
patiently at first, because her parents desir
ed it; afterwards cheerfully to please the
teachers she had learned to love ; and at
last those studies unlocked to her. But it
was over now, those toilsome. years, and she
was on her way to us once mote—eßit Liz
z;e, our pet and pride—we should meet her,
- at -- ‘sis. _ --:-
She left B—in ttpnaornin ,, ; had journ•
eyed without stopping all day ; this w e
guessed at once; and at eight in the eve•
ning, finding a hasty opportunity, she had
telegraphed to us the words above.•
At six the Eastern train arrived at our
station. Lizzie was to ride all night, for the
Lsake_of_re4ching-home-thus—early.
like her, impulsive, warm hearted child that
she was T.
ll_aw—li-ttlee—slept that o-r a bt i-1
si - Mtr - ttnile - a - r - b - tiTe us , it ear ywe were
all astir—even the baby and the white
haired grandfather. 'Meet Lizzie !'
'aye. indeed, we will !' and the old man's
voice caught a youthful tone, and his crutch.
es an elastic movement, as he hobbled about
the-house-giving-orders as-if-the-responsibili
ty rested upon him, to be sure
There was Hannah, tou, bewildering the
mother about the breakfast. 'Did ,Lizzie
like coffee best ? And would she make bis
cuits or waffles ?'
And the mother, smiling all the time
nodded her head to everything, and went
hurrying about, with the gridiron in one
..-and the egg-boiler in the other, coax
ing Fanny, with mysterious apro — n - fitle — dt
something, was flitting up-stairs and down,
leaving a book here, a flower there, a da
guerreotype on the table, a rosy cbeeked
Fall apple in the window—something for
Lizzie to see and smile at.
Only the lather seemed undisturbed.—
We noticed to be sure, that the dimples in
his cheeks, whidh Lizzie always said she
made with her fingers when she was a babe,
looked - tteaper-when he smiled and that his
voice was a trifle less steady when
_be told
Thomas to bring the horses; but he did not
like to be considered a demonstrative man,
so we only looked significantly at each other
and said nothing. Still 'waters are some
times very deep.
At.last the carriage came around and we
got in; two of us. besides the father, who
was to drive. There was room for more,
but it was quite out of her line, the mother
said, to go on a dashing drive before break
fast ; so we left her on the piazza, with the
pickle dish in her hand, and wiping her eyes
with her apron.
It was half a tulle to the depot and the
sun had not quite risen when we started.—
Hew balmy the pure air was that soft Sep
tember morning I W e thought egotistic
as we were in our happiness, that nature
sympathized with us. It seemed'as if there
never bad been as fair a sunrise before, and
half the glory of the morning would have
been wasted . had Lizzie not been coming
home.
The - ears had not arrived when we stopped
at the station. but we heard the whistle of
the locomotive not very far distant, and
those few sweet waiting moments—what a
world of blessed anticipations they hold !
The sun is rising—ah ! Lizzie, Lizzie !
At last the train came up—stopped. We
looked at the windows; only a row of sad
faces! Lizzie must have sat on the other
side. A few passengers came out,solemn
laced and silent. We pressed forwt , rd—so
did those who were going oat on the train.
The conductor appeared and waved' every
body back, then motioned to
,some one in
the car. Two men came out and slowly de
sceuded the steps, bearing the lifeless body
of a woman ; her features covered by a veil.
They bore it into a saloon and laid it rever
ently upon s.sofa. Still the conductor waved
the orowd back—except our party 1 He
anew us and turned away his face as we up-,
prouelted.
Then we knew how it was; alisexcept the
honer —he could not belies,La /Nosily, he
raised the veil from the deasialatte. Oh, God!
is it thus we meet t.hoe-itialzzie darling ? our
best beloved, idol-of our hearts 1
In a brief time we learned the Story—
learned how the Angel of the Lord had 'met
lazzie' before us, in the still, twilight, Au
tumn morning, and, after one pang —terrible
we know, hut brief—had wafted the gentle
spirit to those who waited for her in the
home of angelsl
At the very last stopping place, Lizzie had
lett the ear to procure some food for a liftle
child who had fretted all night in the urtns
of a wearied mother The train stopped but
a moment, it was dusk, and none of the of
ficials had seen her leave. She returned
Innstily to find it moving, made a misstep,
fell forward—and the rest—it is a common
tale, such as newspapers chronicle every
week The beautiful .head with its sunny
curls, was what we saw at the station house.
We shed no tears at first; though it seemed
as if a drop could save our hearts from burst.
leg; it would not come 1 not oven when one
who, we afterwards !parsed ) was on "bis way
to wedding 1,11-4. i -roil )urneyirig
few hours with L;zzie,
,had . yet learned to
knoir her good as beantifil, ca-me up and
laid, in tearful silence, a bouquet of pure
white rose buds upon that bosom We
buried them with her--the stranger's kind
ly-offering-of-sympathy and regret.
Bless God for tears! They came at last ;
eatne when they 'Saw the mother. -
That scene is too sacred tot' detail. Bat
the vold — giandfatb - er'S miiadriiindeyed when
he heard' the tidings, and all day Ling he sat
in his arm-chair on the porch listening for
the whistle of the train, and saying as his
reckon's Lizzie's aboard that. Has any.
bddy gone to meet the gal-?' -_ •
_IV hen told again, he_ would seem to com
prehend for a fevi moments; and once he
called the erecping baby to him, and patting
its white shoulders, said :
(Grandsire's old and lame, and blind; ho
can't go to the - station; but grandsire's going
to see Lizzie first alter all Yes, yes—gland -
sire's not so far from his little (.lal us the rest
of them, but we're all following fast V.
MEASURE FOR MEAstirtE —A friend of
ours recently translated the following story
from an old German book,--v7c--41-A--trot=r-mil
le-at-Orever having - seen it before.
A traveller once told, in
. a company, very
soberly, - liat he had travelled over every part
of the globe, and that he had met with ono
among different curiosities, which had never
as yet been mentioned by any author. 'this
prodigy was, according to his assertion, a
cabbage plant; and it was so large and 'tall
that - fifty armed - horsemen - might - h - ave - bean
able to station themselves in battle.array un
der a single leaf, and might have been kr
Jr-eval-uti9-ns:-6onic - obtr,
listened to him, did not deem this exaggera
tion -worthy of any confutation, but said to
him, with the greatest composure and cool,
tieSs, that be, too, had travelled and been as
far as Japan, where he had seen, to his aston
ishment, mare than three hundred copper.
smith -nil' - nn e ,le the
as working on ore large kettle; in tL
same store were five hundred human beings,
who were polishing it•
, What did they wish to do with - this mon
ster kettle ?' said the traveller.
(They intended to cook that cabbage plant,
-in it, concerning which you told us just
A Touon STORY —We overheard the fo!-
lowing , a day or two since, which was con•
sidered by the listeners to be tough, especial
ly when it is known that the hero could not
be tempted to One gentlersian was
telling of a hales nast that he constructed
with a trap door at the bottom, which the
weight of an egg would open. •This being
placts:na barrel, the 'Biddy,' after laying
one, looked for it, and finding nothing laid
another, and continued to do so for several
hours.
'Oh that's nothing,' says onr friend from
down east, 'toy father made a -nest of that
kind and placed it, with the hen upon it,
over a hogshead, and'she laid it full of.eggs.
The next day he set a dead hen upon the
nest, and hatched every egg in two weeks.'
'And every egg hatched two chickens,' said
a bystander, 'thin king to add a good sequel to
the story.
'No, they didn't,' said Jonathan. 'You
needn't try to wake me lie, for you can't.'
We\copy fur our young readers the follow
ing article, which we trust , evil! prove a
source of amusement. The exhortation is
no ex4ellent one, and might be read with
profit by older ones :
AN ke'NfIORTATION
2N E I.—Ould witt'tcr is at ser.; Veg
etation has D Kd, the beauties of the land
scape have faded, and the earth now appears
in sad .11 A. Old Boreas comes and sighs a
mournful 1. E U over the graves of the flow
ers, and the * * seem to gleam from a fros
ty firmament. The freezing blast pierces as
a S . the hall clad form of want, while the
tears of P T ale cougea led at their reipee
tive fountains. All you who are in E Z oir
cumstances, and not troubled with Al T
pockets, 0 now to.X am N the condition of
those around U, and proceed with N It U
mitigate the distress of the needy—without
waiting for any 'certain X PD N C—and
there by merit the honor which the X 1. N
(3 of such an act B stows The poor It 2 B
found in every § of . the country and every
of the globe. 2 AL----A-the earliest op
por2nity of paying that debt of charirwhich
U 0 2 your follow creatures in distress,
should 13 your D sire B 4 it is 2 late.
TUE GOLDEN MOTTO,-A good old man,
when ho heard of a neighbor's misfortunes
would say, (lie tell to day, I may fall to
mo.rrow.l This is the purely golden motto
fur every neighborhood, it reaches to the
.erfection of Christian charity and manly
kindness; it places us all along the mutual
mural dangers; it leaves us al! the possible
of immediate wrung; it gives us all a defence
in forgiveness and liability; it teaches us all
twainit hasty judgements and shows to all
that offense is a common inheritance which
cannot be pushed from out of our ready
reach. 'lie fell today, I may fall to mor•
row Let this solemn confession be always
echoing from the voice of conscience; let it
be impressed on the tables of honor; let it be
the first recollection, thcrponstatit influence,
the e anidint , e spirit of the 'day and the promp
ter of nightly, prayer.
At a religious meeting among tho blacks, a
colored preacher requested that some brother
should pray. A ualf•witted fellow com
menced a string of words without meaning.
At this the pastor raised his head and io•
quired : 'Who dat praying! Dat 'you
brudderNose? You let qucuobody pray ma's
better acquainted wid de Lord.'
Whet is the first thing ws sicillow and
ho last we give up ? Aus.—Bro
Of .2.404 p .1 .ear,, TZetfiar,
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SEA.A. — ND LAND.:
From .Ncto Fork to ;San Francisco.--,
NUAI•NEB ONE.
An agreeable ride of sisteen, hours from
Waynesboro' brought me IT the banks of the•
_Dodson, the terminus of the New Jersey
Central Railroad, thence across the ritrer,-oe: ,
- copying a few minutes and I had reached
the great city of New York, my first 4esti•
nation. Two days later I was ticketed and
berthed on the maguiftce_gt_Steauter-Gati
Star' bound for Aspinwall, two thousand
miles dßtant, and wit bin - firve - degrees of the
Howe, and all that makes that
home dear, exchanged atonce for tho'bustle
of- a steamer. At midday we swung from
our moorings leaving the great mart of in
dustry behind and were roceeding onean
ward at goOd speed. - We left our b.ir 11 with
the grace of tbs swan gliding from the place
of her cradled sleep. What a contrast be
tween what lay around us and what lay be.
fore ua ! We were exchanging a quiet bur•
bor for a tumbling ocean; zephyrs too soft
to rufll the cheek of beauty, for storbis
which the sturdy ship in hardly withstunrl
a chme of fruit and fl )Wers for tine of storms
and perpetual beat. , Amid cheers•, -shouts,
bands of music, flying handkerchiefs, tosio.,.
hats, miniature kisses from ship to shore, we
waved our adiews. Sentiments connected
with home and country passed freely a
round.
We numbered over seven hundred pas
setwers and-were sup_plied with wirer, fuel,
and provisions for a month. flow such a
mass of life and material can be brought
1-within—a—srteatuwv.7l
room enough for comfort, is a mystery winch
can be comprehended -by _those only, who
are versed in nautical economy. The hou •e
-wife who gruniblee aver the inlfdelon of an
additional piece of furniture, should look ha
t 3 one of these vessels and she will go home
with the convictions that she can sleep quite
comfortably in the cradle with her infant
The pilot now took his departure with a let
ter-bag filled with missives written while
coming out the harbor. flow many affec
tions, hopes and fears that little hasty mail
took back ! Oar friends might have to wait
two months before they get a line from ne.
You who cannot leave your wives and chil
dren for a week without intelligence from
them,—go to sea, with all its gales and storms,
and the prospect of not bearing from thew
for months. The truth is none but old bach
elors and hen-peeked husbands should go so
far by sea The latter flies from persecu
tion, th e runner from that wretchedness
which a sight of real domestic happiness in
flicts.' The bites of Eden made even Satan
.more wretched than be was before. But the
ocean is itself a rich domain. The treasures
of empires lie in its depths. The wrecks of
the richest argoriee are hers; and her waves,
roll over the unsurrendered terms of Match
less boanty. She hushes the gfeat dirge of
human sorrow. Iler winds wslte over the
graves of ages. She spreads: liar verdure
over the ruins of nations. In her august do
main empires rise and fall with, as little sen
sation as leaves put forth and perish. All
are hers, and all, from the stars that tremble
in the blue vault of Heaven to the groves of
coral which wave over the pavements of the
unsounded sea, feel the pulses which throb
in her mighty heart She gives back nought
that comes within her vast embrace. liar
great seal of proprietorship will be broken
only by the thunders of the last trump.
Leagues of water were soon placed he.
t ween us and the shore, and the landscafo
began to assume that color which distance
alone only can lend lily thoughts ran warm
ly baCk to those left behind. If you would
know how dear home is, start on a journey
o f five thousand miles. How the heart
clings to the liv;ng, recalls the dead and re
stores the forgotten I Il ow all animosities die
and give place to love ! I do not wonder the
Or'eek and Rieman dreaded exile more then
death. What is earth without a home ?
"Farewell, the steore is fading ftst,
The wind is piping free,
The pennant from ow gallant mast
Points to the durk blue sea."
'Are you a skillful tne&Lanic?"Yes, sir.'
'What can you make ?"014, sin:lost any.
thing in my line "Can you make a devil ?'
'.(lortainly ; just put up your foot, and I will
split it in tnree second:4. I never saw a chap
in my life that reg aired 103.4 alteration.'
As a corpulent lady was getting into a city
omnibus the other afternoon, a cruss.grained
passenger growled out, 'annibuses were net
intended fur elephants;' whereupon the lady,
looking at him significantly, said: 'An omni
bus, like Noah's ark, seems intended for all
kinds of beasts !'
When you pass a doer atter nine o'clock
at night, and ace a young man and woman,
and hear a suaaoic, you may bet your bottom
dallar that the young man don't live there.
Let a young woman take the degree of
A. L., that is A Bride, and she may notittia
due time to be entitled to that of A, 31.
Mrs. Partingtea, although denied a seat
in the leg islature , still has charge of the
s-nt of Ik's trowsers.
Temperance has promising children ; but
among the sons of Drunkenness are DIAL,
Dishonor, Disease, and Death.
Complaints that old maids would, like.to be
troubled w►th,—chips on their l►pe.
How to got the roil complexion "of some
Mice—Tame a little soap and water.
What State is hi g h in. the middle and
rouott at both ends
MIMI
NUM BEK
C. F. S.
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