lY 41tb.yencat Venitspltrztairt ( *urn! : ttra#cb to Volitits, Yiterattire, agrituiture, Reins of the afiddliptc, I`c. Editor and _Pzoprietor_ VOL. NINE. PUBLISHED WEEKLY \T ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. 'PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. jrAFFICh on Front Street, a few doors east lj of Mrs. Flury's Hotel, Marietta, Lancas ter County, Pennsylvania. Ttaxs, One Dollar a year, payable in ad vance, and if subscriptions be not paid within eix months $1.2.5 will be charged, but if de layed until the expiration of the year, 0.50 will he charged. No fubscription received for a less period than six months, and no paper will be discon tinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher. A failure to noti fy a dii•continuance at the expiration of the term subscribed for, will be considered a new engagement. Any person sending us FIVE new subscribers Isbell have a sixth copy for his trouble. ADVERTISING RATES One square (12 or less) 50 cents for the first insertion and •25 cents fcr each subsequent insertion. Pro fessionul and Business cards, of six lines or less at $3 per annum. Notices in the reading col umns. five cents a-line. Marriages and Deaths, the simple announcement, FREE; but for any tidditional lines, five cents a line. A liberal deduction made to yearly and half yearly advertisers. OUR COUNTRY'S CALL, HE WILLIAM CULLEN IMIANT Lay down tie axe ; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plow ; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For stuns like yours were fitter now. And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light desk, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger OR the battle-field. Om country calls'; away ! away! To where the blood-stream blots the green. Strike to defend the gentlest sway That time in all his course has seen_ Pee, from a thousand coverts—see gpring the tinned foes that haunt her track ; They rush to smite her down, and we Must beat the banded traitors back. 110 I sturdy at the oaks ye cleave, And moved as soon to fear and fight, :den of the glade and forest ! leave Your woodcraft for the field of fight. The atriniithat wield the axe Mild pour An iron tempest on the foe ; lfis serried ranks shall reel before The arm that lays the panti.er,low. And ye who breast the mountain store!, In greasy steep or Highland lake, Come for the land ye love to form A bulwark that no foe can break. Eland, like your own gray clad that mock 'rke whirlwind; stand in hel defence The blast as soon shall move the rock As rushing - squadrons bear ye thence-. And,tye whose homes are by her grand Swift rivers, rising for away, Cemc from the depth of her green land As inigkty in your,murch as they ; As terrible as when the ruins Have swelled them over bank and bourne, With sudden floods to drown the plains, And sweep along the woods uptorn. And ye who throng, beside the deep, 11cr ports and hamlets of the strand In number Ifke the waves that leap On his long murmuring mange of sand. Conic, like that deep, when o'er his brim ile rises, all his (lauds to pour, And tangs the proudest bark that swim A helpless wreck against his shore. l'i:w, few were they whose swords of old \Von 'he fair land in which we dwell ; Pert we ore many, we who bold Ti r gritn resolve to guard it well. Sti i!, c for that broad and goodly land, llio‘v after blow, till inen'shall see That 'Alight and . Right move hand in hand, And glorious must their triumph be. 1 - V DO W III:I.DS ITS SCEPTRE.—U 0 iversal Empire has been the darling object of scores of despots, dynasties, and states, from the time of the Pharaohs to that of Napoleon le Grand. Seas of blood have been shed to attain it, and the banes of the myriads who have been slaughtered in the pMiit of this chimera, would, if tliv. e d . be collected in one mass, ov : hs(iiighest peak of the Ilirea rtopA !PoTkilOknotaina., - Rome came nearest the ,e 4 a4nllnmation,' yet even 039 was devitt;iti-Irtith, the.,absolute "Mistress of t li kW, cirld ." _,..,. .O . ther:ficiia species of universal em pire e.)"iftlif has been attained. It is an empire not over the souls and bodies of mankind, but over their diseases. The conqueror who has achieved this grand result is Dector rior.towAv, of London ; at least we are taught to believe that he has tone so by vouchers from all parts of the Christian and heathen world, which seem to be irrefutable, and which, in fact, so far as we know, have never been challenged. His Pills and Oint ment are "universal remedies" in a double sense. They are dissetaminated throughout the habitable globe, and they . are (so " crowds of witnesses " assure us) universally successful. In this country it is quite certain that the Pills are used with the most benefi t cial effect in disorder* of the stomach, liver and bowels, and that scrofula, and all the family of eruptive diseases and discharging sores, give way to the heal ing operation of the Ointment, Surely the noblest of all human em pires is that-which , atretehes'its healing sceptre over - the maladies of all nations. afr Al rte "" t I ct Large Armies The following facts, culled from the fields of ancient .story, may be of some interest at the present time : The city of Thebes had a hundred gates, and could send out at each gate 10,000 fighting men and 200 chariots.— in all, 1,000,000 men and2,ooo chariots. The army of Terrab, King of Ethio pia, consisted„of 1,000,000:men and 300 chariots of war. Sesostria King - of Egypt, led against his enemies 600,000 men, 34,000 cavalry, and 27 scythe-armed chariots. 1491 B. 0. Ilamilear :went from Carthage and landed agar Palermo. He had a fleet of 2,000 ships and 3,000 small vessels and a land force of 300,000 men. At the battle in which he was defeated, 150, 000 were slain. A Roman fleet, led by Regulus against Carthage, consisted -of 330 .vessels, with 140,000 men. The Carthageniau fleet, numbered 350 vessels, with 150,000 men• At the battle of Canute, there were of the Romans, including allies, 80,000 foot and- 6,000 horse of the Carthageni ens 40,000 foot andi;10,000 horse. Of these, 70,000 were slain in all, and 10,- 000 taken prisoners ; more than half Hannibal, during his campaign in Italy and Spain, plandersd,4oo towns and de stroyed 300,.000 men. Minus, the Assyrian King, about 2, 200 B. C., led against the Bacirians his army, consisting of 1,700,000 foot. 2000,- 000 horse, and 16,000 chariots armed with scythes. Italy, a little before Ilannibars time, was able to send into the field nearly 1,000,000 men. Semiramis employed 2,000,000 men in building the mighty Babylon. She took 100,000 Indian:prisoners at the Indus, and auukl.,ooo boats. Sennncherib lost in a single rirght 135,000 men by the destroying aiagel-2, [flogs, 19: 35-37. A short time after the taking of Baby lon, the forces of Cyrus consisted of GOO,OOO foot, 120,000 horse, and 2,000 charriots armed with schythes: An army of Cambyses, 50,000: strong. was buried pp in the desert sands f Af rica by a south wind. W hen Xerxes arrived at Thermon}lcc, his land and sea forces amounted to 2,641,G10, exclusive of servants, eunuchs, women, sutlers, &c.. in all numbering 5,283,320. So say lierodotus, Plutarch, and Isocrates. The army of Artaxerxes, before the battle of Cunaxa,. amounted 'to about 1,200,000. Tea thousand horses and 100,000 foot fell on the fatal Geld of Issue. Whoa Jerusalem was taken by Titus, LlOO,OOO perished in various ways. 'rho forco of Darious at Arberla num bered more than 1,000,000.. The Persi- ans lost 90,000 men in this battle ; Al exander about 500 men. So says Dio dorous. Arian says the Persians, in this Ottle, lost 300,000 ; the Greeks 1,200. The army of Tamerlane is said to.have amounted to 1,600,000, and that of his antagonist, Bajezet, 1,400,000. QUESTION BY Mas. PARTINGTON.—"Do you think people are troubled as much with fleabottomary now, doctor, as they used to be before they discovered the anti-bug bedstead ?" asked Mrs. Par tington of a doctor of the old school, who attended the family where she was staying.- 7 "Phlebotomy, madam," said the doctor, gravely, "is a remedy, not a disease." "Well, well," replied she,"no wonder one gets'em mixed up, there is is so many of 'em. We never heard in old times of trousers in the throat, or embargoes in the head, or neurology all over us, or consternation in the bowls, AB we do now-a-days. But it's au ill wind that don't blow nobody good, and the doctors flourish on it like a green baizo tree. But of course they don't ha - ve any thing to do with it—they can't make 'em come or go." AN ATTACK OF WHITE LIVER.—"What are you doing at home 2" asked the landlady of the officer ; "why aren't you down in Virginia, fighting ?" "I, mad am," replied the robust inva)fd, "I'm on sick-leave. I have an illness to fight, now." "An illness ?" asked X. "Oh ! yes ; that's an indisposition. Yes, you have an indisposition to fight I" THE W.A.Y TO END THE WAR.—Daniel S. Dickinson, in a strong letter to a war meeting at Erie, says, "Bend a million of men, and make the end of the rebel lion sure quick and terrible," This is a sound advice. MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1862. Wash them, but do not pare or et them, unless they are very -large. 11 a sauce-pan half full of potatoes of equal size, or the, small ones will be done to pieces before the large ones are boiled enough, (or make them so by dividing the larger ones,) put to them as much cold water as will cover them about an inch ; they are sooner boiled, and more savory, than when drowned in water.— Most boiled things are spoiled by hay it g too little water, bat potatoes are of ten spoiled by too muck; they must merely be covered, and a little allowed for waste in boiling, so that they may be just covered at the fioish. Set them on a moderate fire tillthey boil; then take them off, and put them by the side of the fire to simmer slowly till they are soft enongh to admit a fork, (place no dependance on the usual test of their skins cracking, which, if they are boiled fast, will happen to some pota toes when they are .not half done, and the inside quite hard.) Then pour the water off, (if you Jet the potatoes remain in the water a moment after they are done enough, they will become wary and watery,) uncover the sauce-pan, aril set it at such a distance from the fire as will secure it from burning; their superflu_ ous_moisture will evaporate, and the po tatoes will be perfectly dry and mealy. You may afterward place a napkin, folded up to the size of the sance-pan's . diameter, over the potatoes, to keep 'Ahem hot and mealy till wanted. This method of managing potatoes is in every respect equal to steaming them ; and they are dressed in half the time. There is such an infinite variety of sorts and sizes of potatoes, that it is im possible to say how long they will take doing; the best way is to try them with a fork. Moderate-sized potatoes will generally be done enough in fifteen or twenty minutes. Cold Potatoes Fried.—Put a bit of cream dripping into a frying pan ; when it is melted, slice in your potatoes with a little pepper and salt; put them on the fire ; keep stirring them ; when they are quite hot they are ready. Potatoes Mashed.—When your pota toes are thoroughly boiled, drain them quite dry, pick out every speck. etc., and while hot, rub them through a colander into a stew-pan. To a pound of pota toes put about half an ounce of butter and a table-spodnful of milk ; do not make them too moist ; mix them well to gether. Potatoes Masked with. Onions.—Pre.. pare some boiled onions by putting them through a sieve, and mix them with po tatoes. In proportioning the onions to the potatoes you will be guided by your wish for more or less of their flavor. A Swiss Soup.—Boil three pounds of potatoes, mash them well, and add slow_ ly some good broth, sufficient for the tu reen. Let these boil together, then add some spinach, a little parsley, lemon, thyme and sage, all chopped very fine. Boil altogether five minutes ; pepper and salt to taste. Just before taking it off the fire to serve add two well-beaten eggs. THE CARE OF THE EYEB.—First, never use a desk or table with your face to ward a window. In such case the rays of light coming directly upon the pupil of the eyes, and causing an unnatural and forced contraction thereof, soon per manently injures the eight. Neit, when your table or desk is near a window, sit so that your face turns from, not towards it while you are writing. If your face is toward the window, the . oblique rays strike and injure it nearly as much as the diiect rays when you sit in front of the window. It is always best to sit or stand, while reading or writing, with the wiadow behind you, and next to that with the light coming over the left side —then the light illumines the paper or book, and does not shine abruptly on the eye ball. The same remarks are ap plicable to artificial light. We are of ten asked which is the best light—gas, candles, oil or camphene. Our answer is, it is immaterial which, prOvided the light of either be ' strong enough, and does not flicker.—Scientific American. sigir A Passenger on a steamer had a roll of canvas with him. In a lurch of the coat it rolled overboard. He pitch ed in after it. On seeing which, a by stander remarked, "As that fellow is in for a deck he is bound to have the can vas back.'" 40- A. Physician has; discovered that the nightmare in nine cases out of ten is produced by owing a . bill fora news; paper, and that the best cure is to pay up. About Boiling Potatoes, After All! He had been a bachelor for forty years, this same Mr. Ellis Harvey, about whom I am writing a story, and he was known among his friends as a "very particular" man, and "hard to please," which last phrase generally means one thing—hard to please in a matrimonial way. He was sitting before a blazing coal fire, thinking how digit:rally cold it must be outside ; and he was eating very leis urely his late dinner, and thinking hew excessively comfortable it was in his sanctum, when the door opened, and a tall, stylish lady, whose likeness to him_ self spoke her relationship, came sweep ping in. " Ellis !" she exclaimed, "at dinner? Wby,.it is nine &clock, and I am ready for the ball at Mrs. Jameson's." "_So I pereieve," he said, lazily, look ing at her stately figure la its rich even ing dress. "I cannot go for an hour, Hattie, so sit down and be comfortable. Ten o'clock is early enough, just right for a sensation." "But what makes you dine at this hour ?" " I was detained, and gave Mrs. Smith directions to wait for me., Let me offer you something." "You savage I You want a wife, El lis, to keep you in order. If Mrs. Har vey ruled the house, you would have to come to your dinner at a civilized hour? , " Let us be thankful then that she does not rule the house I Where is Lawrence ?" "In Washington l Went this morn ing, which accounts for my calling for you. Mit, Ellis, seriously, do you never intend to give me a sister? I gave you Lawrence for a brothor years ago, and as there are only you and I left in the family, it is but fair you should return the favor. You are getting old, too, sir l" "Am I? How.? Hair turning ?" "No, you conceited fellow, you are as handsome as ever; but you grow more fussy and bachelory every day. Smith spoils you!" " Smith gives me all the comforts of a married man, and none of the bother. 1 will wager that Lawrence himself is not better cared for than I am." " But, Ellis, surely you intend to mar ry some time ?" " Oh, yes ! if I ever find anybody to suit me 1" " There is Fanny Hays, you were very attentive to her at one time." " Hattie," said Ellis, solemnly, " she palate l I Flaw it come off, one warm eve ning, on her handkerchief. Don't tell but it is a fact I was so glad I had not actually proposed." " Well, Ellis, I am sure Jane Hunter didn't paint I." " But, Hattie, she was so'fearfully ug ly. I tried in vain to be sensible and prefer mind, intellect and talent, to mere beauty ; but she was so frightfully strong-minded, and made such terrific speeches about equal rights and male ty ranny, that she fairly frightened me away." • " Well, Louise Holden was not strong minded !" 14 Milk and water I" said Ellis, con- temptuously. " Amy Hill 1" • "Dressed so shockingly. Venus her self could not look well in an enormous red and green plAid, with a blue bonnet. Ugh !" " Mary Willis had exquisite taste in dress." " But she had such a voice 1 She ad dressed you with tender eloquence, and told her most 'cherished secrets in the voice of a fish woman crying shad." " Well, Ellis, one more. Wilhelini na Lee l" " .A.h ! Hattie, there I was touched.— Beauty, talent, feminine graces, every attraction ; but she lived eat door to a grocery store." "Now, Ellis, what could that have to do with it?" "It was in the summer, and we were at the open parlor window. I was just on the point of offering myself, when . the wind blew a strong whiff of salt mackerel between us. You know my aversion to mackerel. The smell made me sick, and I forgot sentiment. I Teft, and the next day•Mobre proposed and was accepted." " You had better have a wife made to order, Ellis Particular, for I am sure the, paragon does not exist who will fill your ideas of Mrs. Harvey. I shouldn't wonder if you married Smith, after all." " Not a bit of danger. If I ever mar. ry, my wife must be refined in manner, lady-like in appearance, pretty enough to escape the charge Of •positive ness, - at least thirty yeare of age, and' of good birth and tiosition." /11 11, 183-1_ " And with sufficient good taste to ap. ,reciate your. condescension and say 'Nes, if you will be good enough to have me,' when you propose. Come, you have finished your dinner. Go dress yourself." Six hours later Ellis was a doompd man. How it came about he never knew. After all his resolutions never to marry in haste, to weigh well all her perfections and imperfections before ad dressing any lady ; in fact, to walk slow ly and deliberately into a cool, sensible state of affection, he suddenly found him self deeply in love. One look, one word, and he was gone. " Miss Lois Jones, (he hated the name of Jones,) let me introduce Mr. Harvey." He bowed to Miss Jones, and looked at her, A little, delicate figure, a pair of soft blue eyes, a maze of white lace, and a tiny, delicately gloved hand. These were the first impressions. A voice, low and sweet, modulated like music, well chosen pharses, and a modest yet self-possessed manner, and a graceful de portment, finished the fascination. In a sort of misty pleasure, Ellis waltzed with this wee fairy who bad somehow come right into his heart, whose door he fancied so strongly forti fied. He called, and found his fascina tor in a neat wrapper, teaching two lit tle sisters grammer. He learned that her father was a wholesale grocer, and found she had three strong-minded sis ters. He spent a week with her married brother on a country farm, and break fasted every day on salt mackerel, be cause she sat opposite to him and did the same. He helped her over a stile when her wrapper was peen and her sun-bon net blue, while a red shawl of her sis ter's hung . over her arm. He heard her scream with terror over her little neph ew who fell in the - horse pond, and dragged her out, with the boy in her arms, when she frantically sprang in af ter him. He never noticed that a shriek is not melodious, He saw her lovely face covered with tuusquito bites, and he knew that the whiteness over them was powder, and yet—and yet—he never knew how, he proposed, was accepted, and, as Hattie said, "Married a darling little chit of sixteen AFTER 4LLI, PAY OF OUR SOLDIERS.—No soldiers in the world were ever paid so liberally as those now in the service of the Uni ted States, leaving out of the question the bounties paid them as recruits and the land donation which the government is sure to bestow upon them at the close of the war. The soldiers of Rome, who conquered the world, got eight cents a day. The English soldiers only get a shilling a day, while the French soldier gets even lees. The bounty given, to the American volunteer is nearly as much as the earnings of an English sol dier for three years. This sum is earned by the American soldier the very day he enlists. The pay given to our troops should, and we think will, lead to large emigration from Europe. At no former time has the Model . Republic offered such magnificent inducements to the man of toil as at this very moment.— The bounty, pay and land given to our troops make their earnings for the first year nearly six hundred dollars, which is equal to two dollars per ! Any man can lay up money now who wishes to.— There-is no excuse for idleness. Till the war is over such a thing as want should be upknown to any man in health. OUTRAGE ON A DEPUTY MARSHALL,- Mr. John Johnson, an old and respect_ able citizen, Deputy Marshall for Bell township, Westmoreland county, was assaulted in the discharge of his duties, last week, by a man named Samuel Carnahan. It appears that Mr. John son bad nearly completed the enrollment of the militia of Bell township, and was at the house of Peter Bear, and began enrolling the names of those present.— He was 'assailed with abusive epithets, and his horse was loosed and driven off twice. While remonstrating against such treatment, CarnahanNattacked him with a dung fork, and struck him over the head; cutting through his hat, and inflicting so severe a wound that it is supposed he bled over a quart. His book was entirely destroyed, most of the names being obliterated by the blood.— An example will no . doubt be made of Carnahan. rtir Sir Cusack Roney, in his "Month in Ireland," tells us that the residence of Sir Walter Raleigh at Yougoal still exists—a structure of the fifteenth cen tury, surrounded by a luxuriant growth of myrtles, bays and arbutuses. Here Raleigh smoked the first pipe of tohacco and planted the first potato in Ireland. NO. 6. What Prentice Says, A lady, whose band we think we rec. ognize, writes to us that she would glad. ly deliver us to the guerillas. We are confident she would do nothing of the sort. We fondly believe, that, if Mor gan's miscreants were close open iv and we could not escape in any other way she would, in the gushing kindness of ber soul, invite us to seek concealment under her ample crinoline. One more effort for the honor of Ken. tucky and the preservation of the arch of Federal unity, that glorious arch which spans the world as a bow of promise to the oppressed of all nations. Let us send forth cur thousands of volunteers to fill up the enfeebled regiments now in service, and there will be no necessi ty for any resort to drafting. Stand to your rifles, bunters of Kentucky, and be prepared to resist the invaders at all points-. He who opposes the policy of the Government's drawing troops to recruit its armies doesn't deserve the privilege of drawing his breath to recruit his lungs. Raifaelle's cherubs are always paint ed without anything to sit down on.— llumphrey Marshall could never be a Cherub. . Defiance is the banner county of Ohio in furnishing volunteers. Many coun ties hurl defiance at the rebels, but De fiance hurls herself at them. The city government, corporations and people of Philadelphia have con. tributed one million dollars toward rais ing of volunteers, and the subscriptions are still going on. If this is the spirit of the Quaker City it must be populated with fighting Quakers ; they have added imperishable honors to the already proud name of the city of Penn. The Israelites of Chicago are among the most patriotic of•the citizens in en rolling themselves in the Federal ranks. We are glad to have the modern Jews going forth like their glorious old fath ers smite the uncircumcised Philistines., hip and thigh. The rebel Governmeat has imposed a tax of $2 upon every male resident of the Confederacy, for the support of the families of men who have gone to the war under the conscripit act. This is in addition to the heavy taxes already im posed for carrying on the war. Parson Brownlow says of the rebellion and its originators e "I know the origin of the rebellion, and nothing short of an old-fashioned orthodox hell, that burns with fire and brimstone, will reward them adequately for their service." We shall not venture to dispute this judgment. We are no parson as Brownlow It is stated that the rebel . who led den. Robert McCook into the ambush has been bung, and that one hundred and thirty-five other rebels in the neigh borhood have been killed. if the ghost of the foully-murdered hero isn't ap peased, let it say what more it would like to have. At Memphis and Nashville the sen ding of rebel sympathizers South is kept up. If citizens give evidence of disloy alty, General Sherman and Gov. John son say "Go to Dixie 1"---au improve ment upon an old and somewhat kindred expression. A Now Jersey millionare, who at tempted to evade the draft by getting on board a steamer for Europe, insulted the respectable fraternity of coal-heayels by disguising himself as ohke of them. A preacher of the M. E. Church says that he and his brethern will fight the rebels in this world, and, if Geld permit, chase their frightened ghosts in the next. IiE=IMI An Irishman took oft' his coat to show a terrible wound he had received at the battle of Bull Rnn. Not being able, however, to find the wound, he sudden ly remembered that it was his "brother Bill's arm." The editor of the Atlanta:Confeder acy says that he-could ''‘a tale unfold.'" it e suppose then he is a pig with kink in his tail. cr The man whom you saved from drowning, and• the man who never trays what he owes, you may consider asalike incitbted to you for life. eir Red Noses are lighttonse - 4, 1 t0 warn voyagers on the Sea of life , oir coasts of lAalaga, Jamaica, Santa Ortiz, and. Holland.- W:Scrutinise a lawyer when le: tells you how to avoid litigation, and a dbc tor when he drinks your health.