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EiiEli
THE SEED AND THE PRAYER.
Mamma, I've often heard you say,
1 bat God is listening'when we pray,
And, if I do indeed believe,
Then what I auk I shall receive,
Why will he not, then, take away
my naughty, sinful heart to-day,
AIM make me humble, meek and mild,
A quiet and cbedient child?
I ask him every day and night
Per a new heart - that's clean and white;
You know I have not got it yet—
tie
hears my prayer—can He forget?
No, darling, God does not forget,
Altlitipgh.lie has not answered yet;
And, if you listen, I will try,
And give you now a reason why :
I once pulled up a garden weed;
And in its place I dropped a seed ;
Because they told me God's great power
Could change that seed into a flower.
I was a little child, you know,
And thought the seed would quickly grow;
But days.and weeks went slowly round,
And still it laydeep in the ground.
At length there came some gentle rain,
And, when the sun shone forth again,
I hastened to the spot alone,
- Wherein my little seed,was sown..
And there I sus* the softened ground
Raised in 4. gently heaving mound,
And in the middle there was seen.
Two little leaves of brightest green.
And day by day, and hour by hour . ,
/ watched until there came a dower;
And thought how ibed -that God. Moat be
That give such pretty dowers to me.
And now, myAdear, your-little prayer
Is like the seed 'I dropped in there,
Cud gives it in your hand to sow,
And proinisqe the seed shall grow.
And if you wait, and watch and pray,
The seed will spring up day by day,
And God will bless it like my flower,
Iluth with the sunshine and the shower.
Until at length, one .morning bright,
You'll rind wheart trotb. clean and w bite,
And evermore your song , will - be,
flow very good God is to the.
WRECKS OF HUMANITY. 11 7 / 1 11 should
they sinkl--The excitement of the chase
has always been supposed to have a very
healthful tendency ; but there is a kind
of chase which breaks down the consti
tution,debilitates the frame, and shortens
life; We mean the headlong, uninterm.
itting bunt after "the almighty dollar,"
which is the great business characteris
tic of the present day. It begets other
evils (unnecessary to name) which pre
cipitate thG fate of thousands. There is,
however, a possibility of recovery from
the prostration produced by these cause
us, long after their victim 'has ceased to
hope for-it. If we are rightly informed,
the most astonishing cures of what is
called 'genera! weakness and debility,
which have over been known in this
country, have been effected through the
agency Doctor HOLLOWAY'S inestimable
remedies. Mere skeletons of men, out
of whom the very principle of vitality
seemed to have been drained, have been
restored to health and, vigor by the op
eration of the Pills ; and of the Ointment
in cases of paralysis, rheumatism, &c.,
we hear au equally favorable account.
If men will break down their energies
by over exertion—if in their anxiety to
"go ahead," they will override the most
precious of God's blessings, health—it is
well they should know how to repair the
mischief, when they conie at last to re
alize the fact of their premature decay.
The wrecks of humanity, who without
any particular disease, appear to be sin
king from mere exhaustion, would find
without doubt, immediate relief from
Doctor Holloway's remedies.--Phi/a'd.
Tribune.
r Gait. Jim Lane's recruiting oper
ations in , Kansas ,have, been most ea?.
seisful. He has raised five white regi
ments, and 6rganized 1,200 colored'
loyalists.
Nttpithtnt timsgitrauia alumni gletrotar to volitits, Yittraturt, Agrituiturt, Btitts of gat Atattliiput,
Anecdote of Daniel Webster.
John Taylor gave the following state
ment of the tracts which composed Mr.
Webster's farm in Franklin : The mag
nificent meadow before his home, al
most a perfect• level, bounded on the
east by the Merrimac, dotted in all di
rections by luxuriant elms, and all un
der the highest cultivation, contained
fifty acres. On the opiosite_side of the
river, in Northfield, a tract of fifty acres.
In the Punch Brook Pasture, three
hundred and fifty acres. Bordering on a
pond in Andover, which he named Lake
Como, where he -amused himself with
fishing and boating, forty acres. The
old homestead farm in Salisbury, three
hundred and sixty acres. His father's
farm, the farm on which he was born,
situated in a valley about three miles
distant from his seat in Franklin, he
loved for his honored father's sake, and
his natal spot an I the centre of his earl
iest memories. A small stream runs
through it, not far from the house, on
which his father had erected a saw and
grist mill when he, first levelled the
forest which covered the •land. The
farm has been sold after the decease of
Col. Webster, and was bought back
long after, by his son, for the sum of
sixteen-hundred dollars. The buildings
had gone out of repair , and new ones
were needed, the lumber for which had
been prccured, and was piled up in the
road for immediate use at the time Mr.
Webster was taken sick and died. The
Elm Farm, however, or fifty acre inter-.
val field, on which his country seat was
situated, had the strongest hold on Mr.
Webster's affection—every rod of which
was under the most perfect cultivation
the whole tract being almost as level
as a floor, and, when mantled with lux
uriant _grass, captivating the eye by its
rich verdure and singular beauty. Mr.
Taylor said he had cultivated fifteen
acres of corn in a single field, eleven of
oats in another, and twenty-five of pota
toes in unither ; while the yield of hay
was from eighty to one hundred and
twenty-five tons.
Mi. Webster had great power of bone
and muscle, reluctant as he was from
his boyhood to show it except upon par-'
titular occasions. John Taylor related
the following feat, which occurred the
last time but one of his visiting Elm
Farm
It was in the season of haying, when
the skies were cloudless, the weather
perfect. and a large force of stalwart
workmen were doing their best under
the eye of Mr. Webster, with scyth, rake
and fork. One day, when they had
shorn many acres of its glory, and the
winrows were rolled up thick and high
for transportation to the barn in the
afternoon, Mr. Webster having invited
the mowers to dine with him, afterwards
challenged any one to pitch on the hay
as fast as he could. One having accept
ed, Mr. Webster then threw off his
coat, and driving the team himself to
the field, entering the hay cart between
two winrows, selected the right side
row for his pitching, his HA taking the
left, John giving the strange haymaker
the best pitchfork on the premises.-:-
Then came the fight: Greek met
Greek ! 'Webster versus all of his hay
makers ! The orator' and statesman
pitching into both winrows and pitchers!
All eyes were 'turned upon the strife,
while shouts filled the air and animated
the contest as though a new Irishman
game had been inaugurated. Soon one
load was on, which Mr. Webster drove
to the barn ; and driving out' again re
peated the operation; and then piling
on a third load, conoluded the singular
contest, all admiring his strength and
ability, and admitting that if he was
not facile princeps of all haymakers
and pitchers, he was at least superior
to any they could produce. At night,
however, he was taken sick from this
exhausting effort, and obliged to send
for the doctor.
John , Taylor kept the pitchfork, whose
handle he polished aad exhibiting it on
rare occasions, like a weapon picked up
from some great battle-field.
Last Monday, in an address delivered
by Father Hunt, of the Roman Catholic
Church at Scranton, he said : If the se
cessionists are successful we must con
cede them the right to take their ne
groes where they please. They would
inevitably open the African slave trade,
and bring in uegroes at $139 per head,
and in all probability introduce them
into our mines and, factoriekas cheaper
labor than that of whites. • • •
The difference between *pan withtwo
. • •
blacked' eyes and a rafreshing diink ie
that one is rico:hod eyes and the other
is iced pock,
(Ot ,1.111-•ztTi*l.t+,..4+
MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1862:
A Cat Story.
There is a popular superstition that a
cat, if allowed the opportunity, will suck
the breath of a child, though how this
is accomplished is not , apparent. Cats
are subject to much suspicion, and, in
deed, no animal petted by. man is at
once so much admired and detested. A
circumstance came to our 'knowledge,
recently, says the American Union,
which see= to indicate that the numer
ous charges made against the feline race
are not altogether unfounded. The
other evening, at a residence only a few
miles from Boston, a cat was discovered
sitting upon the chest of a little boy
four years of age, her mouth placed close
to the child's lips, and the cat evidently
very much absorbed in the operation.—
An effort was made to drive the cat
away by speaking sharply to her. She
paid no attention to this, and was equal
ly unmindful of a series of blows with a
stick. She was finally pushed off the
body of the child, and off the bed, but
could not be driven in the usual way.—
She had a bewildered and wild look all
the time, and exhibited a signs of ferocity
by springing on the servant who was
forcing her down stairs. The cat was
soon killed, as a warning to all other
cats not to be too intimate with sleep
ing childreb. The little boy woke up
during the noise made, and was natural
ly somewhat frightened. He did not
seem to be injured. Though no harm
was done, evil might have ensued had
not the cat been discovered and re
moved. Her weight on the child's chest
would necessarily reduee the quantity
Of air inspired, and tend to cause suffo
cation, while the child would inspire on
ly carbonic acid gas as taken from the
mouth of the cat. These two causes
might produce death even. They _may
have organized the superstition that a
cat sucks the breath of a child. The
The case is interesting and novel, and
should put some parents on their guard
against the, treacherous and stealthy
pets which their children play.
A SHORT ANSWER.—One of the en
rolling marshals the other day, received
a strong hint from a down town female.
Stopping at the lady's house he found
her before /her door endeavoring to ef
fect with a vegetable huckster a twenty
per cent, abatement in the price of a
peck of tomatoes.
"Have yon any men here, ma'am."
The reply was gruff and curt—•‘No."
"Have you no husband."
.4N 0. ”
"Nor brothers ?"
"No."
"Perhaps •you have-a son, .ma'am
"Well, what of it?" •
"I should like to.kno* where he is."
"Well he isn't here."
"So I see, ma'am. Pray where is he."
"In•the `Union army where he ought
to be.
The Marshal hastened found the
earner. He didn't further interrogate
the lady.
WEST POINT GENERALS.=A correspon
dent of the New York Tribune offers
tbe following sensible thoughts
"We have much too• many GrOnerals
out of very common men. The cant
that they are politician . a a moantslo noth
ing. I believe the best Generals we
have in our army were the most success
ful politicians in times of peace. West
Point certainly has not effected much
thus far, unless it is to spawn traitors.
Washington and Hamilton were sol
diers, politicians, and statesmen. They
were successful. I believe it is not in
the order of Providence that West Point
shall have the glorey of saving the na
tion. She has had her hand in dbstroy
ing it. Saving it developes upon a no
bler and a better class of men."
WILL THE NEGROES COME NORTH ?
In General Hunter's letter to Dr, TYrig,
he says, "none of the delusions by which
slavery has sustained itself aLthe North,
is more absurd than 'the' bugbear of a
general miiiition' of negroeS to the
North, as a necessary acquesce of eman
cipation. So tat is tins from being the
fact, that, although it is Well lalown .
that'l give passes North to all :,negrpas
asking them, not more than a dozen
have applied 'to 'ice for such passes since
myarrival . here, their local attachinents
bottle apPit!ently much stronger than
with the white rite's. My experience
leads me believe that the exact reverse
of the received opinion on this . subject
would form the rule, and . that nearly if
not 'quite' all the Negroes of the' North
would migrate South ,whene+er they
shall be iitlineity to do so with Ont filar
of the auction block." ' -
Ejnpress Eug enia is-exifeetizid to
..
predent another little olive brtitioti to - the
Emoaror
LOVE FOR TEElssn.-4 4 'The love which
survives the tomb," says, Irving, '!is-nne
of the noblest attrihutes of the soul:
If it has its woes, it has likewise its do
lights ; and when the overwhelming
burst of pilaf is calmed into the gentle
tear of recollection ; when the _sudden
anguish and the convulsed agony, over
the present ruins of all that we most
love'd is softened away into pensive me
diation on all that it was in the days of
its loveliness, who would root out such
a sorrow from the beart ? - Though it
may sometimes throw a passing cloud
over the bright hour of gaiety, or spread
a deep 'sadneas over the hour of gloom
yet who would exchange it even for the
song of pleasure or the burst of reieliy?
No ; there is a voice from the tomb
sweeter than song ; these is a remem
brance of the dead to which we turn
even from the charms of the living.
TEE " Saws ' : -There, is, according to
the census, 732,258 of an excess of isles
over females is the United States.. The
World says the fact is noteworthy and
ought to bequiet the apprehensions of
those who feared the war would cause
an undue preponderence of women after
peace was declared. - NO matter how
bloody the -war may be or hoir long it
may last, it cannot make away with
three-quarters of a million of lives. The
waste =4 make the sexes nearly
even, but even then we shall be better
off thanin 'England, where the Andes
are in .Excess by nearly a million ; and
the social problem of the day is' hbw to
provide them with husbands or occupa
tion.
IMPORTANT TO SidA.L.L. DEALERS.—The
impression very generally' prevails that
under Ole new Tax Law all confection
ers, grocers, &c., will be required to
take out a license. This. is erroneous.
Section' 65th provides that "'when the
annual gross, receipts or sales of any
apothecaries, confectioners, anti n'g
houses, tobacconists or; retail dealers
shall not.exceed,the sum- of one thou
sand dollars, such apothecaries,, confec
tippers, eating houses, and retail deal
.
not 'be required to take onfand
pay for licenses, anything in this act to
the•contrary notwithstanding."
TROUBLE AMONG THE QUAKERS:—Their
is 'rebellion illicit:lole English Quakers.
The youthful fair of the sect have band
ed together in Opposition' to the poke
bonnet , and slant skikt. 'Crinoline .of
moderate periphery now surrounds their
frames, -and•flowers and:ribbons are in
vading the precincts of the drab. The
elders, though their organ-, the British
,Friend, urge remonstrances. The young
men among
_them are also exciting cqp
sternation by joining rifle corps.
DIRECTIONS FOIVBANDAGES.—Bandages
-shOuld be made - from cotton which has
been washed any Old cotton which will
bear , a -hard , ' pull-Will answer the pur
,Oose. Thershould be from three to six
inches in width, and 'froth four to ten
yards in length. They should' be pieced
by lapping one end overthe other' and
sewing the piecing. securely, ; ,the edges
! need not be turned in: No scivages or
hard seems should be, allowed on them.
Upon the back of a ten - dollar
Treasury note, returned to the depart
mentor destruction, the following lines
appeared, neatly written
"She hath done what she 'could."
" This bill was presented by Miss
Laura M oCee, of Foster's Point, Illinois,
for the benefit of volunteers at the same
offering ten more to any young man who
would volunteer. Miss Leinra's father
and brother are in the United States
army, while,she teaehep school for ten
dollars per month to support herself and
mother. ,
agg. The custom of the M. E. church
in this countii is for the conferences of
that body to assign to their ministers
the stations they are to occupy,. without
consulting'the wishes of either the pas
tor °rids assigned charge upon the sub
ject In England, the plan'of the Wes
leyan body is to send a schedule of the
•preachers,pxoposed for, the various sta
tions in advance of the ,meeting of the
conference, in order that all concerned
.may i t ave the opportunity ofinaking ob
jections,or suggesting alterations. The
New York Methodist, we obserye, is ad
vocating the adoption of the English
tan and characterizes the presen't •
psys
telitas one 'of "Spartan
tr HArdreda of convalescents' of the
various hOsnitals in Washington,vasa !
: ted . theirAntrters on Saturday, aokwili
be sent from., the city to make iooin,fcir
patients from_ the recent; battle.
who are arriving,
I7staiblis3aed
sir' Parson Brownlow has addresed a
letter to the Governor's of the loyal
States, making• several _specific recom
mendations, among which are the, fol
lowing c Enter your 'twat-solemn:pro
test against half of the members of the
Cabinet looking to. the Presidency, and
shaping their cbriduCt of the war abcord
ingly. Call' upon the President, whose
honesty and patriotist I ; do not question
to reorganize his Cabinet and the army,
and to place men at'the heads of both
who will study how to kill off thd lead
ingrebels without hurting them ; advise
the civil and, military authorities of the
country, and the ,politicians, to cease
this war upon, everlasting "niggers" until
we conquer their white masters and ar
rest the onward march of their desperate
and arrogant owners. Meanwhile, let
negroes be seized upon and urged in
every possible way to crush out this in
fernal rebellion !"
dir General Loan ordered a Lieutenant
in Price's army to be shot at Laclede.
He was charged with several crimes,
among them the killing of the pilot of
the White Cloud. He was once before
condemned to be shot by a military
commission in Missouri, but escaped.—
He confessed almbst everythingchargeci.
After . a full examination, he was "sen
tenced by Gen. Loan to be shot to
death. After informing him of the ver
dict and sentence, and asking him if he
had any word to leave his friends, or any
thing to say, he said he had not, and told
them to shoot and be He was led
beside his coffin, and ordered to kneel,
but he swore he never did kneel before
the face of clay, and never would, and
standing up, he received his volley and
fell dead on his coffin.
Gar- Adjudnnt-Gen. Cooper, of the
rebel army, who issued the order declar
ing that event of the -capture of Gener
als Butler and Hunter they should: be
treated as felons, is 'a native- of the
State. of. New. York,, having, married a
Southern wife, a sister of one of
rebel leaders. This double-dyedttraitor
was during ..Buchanari's administration,
Adjadant-General of the United . S tato,
the same position he now occupies
among the rebels.
Cr The Portland Press declares that
there are Knights of the Golden Circle
in Maine, sin 4 adds: " The. members of
that infernal organization in thia'State
are net idle. They are as busy here as
in Illinois, although not so
,nrimerons.--
But the eye of the GOVerrnment is upon
them, and in due time 'their ini:quitous
proceedings wiltbe expesed to an indig
nant and outraged peOple."
tair It is stated that in quarters whose
'information is.entitled . to kte:considered
entirely in/at:worthy, •that 'the -go:earn
/tient has at length fully determined to
arm drill, and.diacii/line the-blacks of the
Departritent of the South. So says an
exchange. Let us melt. The people.
are ready. - '• • •
',Hon. John G'.X.nox, of l'hiladel
.
Ala, has been appointed, by
. the Pre,si
dent, drudge Advocate General of the
army corps commanded by
oral Wool. Gen Wool's military ju
risdiction inclades Philadelphia and
the eastern part of Pennsylvania.
gir From New-Orleans we have the
order of - Gen. Butler ordering the en
rollment of the free negroes of Louisiana
for military service- in defence •of that
city. They are to be known as the
"Native Guards." Gen. Butler -has de
cidod at last to use all means to crush. •
The Michigan gentleman who adver
tised, that, for one dollar sent by mail,
he would,inform any man how-to escape
the draft, and then answered air remit
tances by, advising his correspondents
to "enlist," was no swindler. His advice
if followed, was. worth ten times what he
charged for it.
Even if the Government tolerates Wen
dell Phillips's_ treasonable speeches
_in
Boston, why do the. people 2 Are there
no hens in Bo,ston that lay rotten eggs
for emergencies ?,-Prentice,
The rebels pretend that theynset fire
to and blew: up the ArkansaWthemselves,
ACcording to their own • account, :they
have now sacrificed three rams as bdrnt
offerings to their god of war.
The *tile ofrehel cities imint-preid
' to the long, rank
- grass irithnir streets
as proof of the astonishing fertility of the
-Sonthern soil in comparieolt' the
`sterile North.
Moses' 2 1.0 'divided the sea ; and Jeff
Davis foolishly thinks that•his can divi
dti:the land' • ,' ' -
NO. 8.
Pugnacity of Birds.
A writer on humming birds, thus de
scribes:their fighting:propensities : "It
is a most pugnacious:bird'. Many a time
have I thoughtito secure, , a _fine male
which lad, perhaps, Aeon following
from tree to tree,-and- had. at last seen
quietly perched on a leafless twig, when
my deadly attention has' been anticipa
ted by one less so in fact, but; to all ap
pearance, equally so in will. Another
hummingbird rashes in', knocks the cine
I wish of his perch, and the two go
fighting and screaming away at a Rana
hardly to be followed by the eye. An
other time this flying fight is sustained'
in mid air, the beligerenbs .:mounting
higher, till the one
, worsted in battle
darts away, seeking shelter', folfowed
the victor, who never relinquishes the'
pursuit till the vanquished, by doubling
and hiding, succeeds in making his es
cape. These fierce raids are not waged
alone -between members of the same
spedies. The exquisite frill-necked Co
quettes and Royal Bine Myrtis suckers
are greatly addicted to' fighting. The
pugnacity of this species is very remark
able. It is very seldom that two males
meet without an aerial battle. The con
test commences with a sharp choleric
shriek ; after which, with dilated throats'
the feathei• of the whole fif 'their bodies'
erected on end, arid their tials outspread
they begin to fight with their bills and'
wings;and the least pi:mogul' soon` falls
te' the ground ortiel away. I hive nev
er knoivi one of thesiobattles last long
er than ten seconds ; and in the spool-
Mena I have had undei my notice in
cages; their fighting has mostly ended'
in'the splitting of the tongue of one of
the two, which then surely ditisfrottle
ing unable to feed." .
MORE BIG GUNS.—The Pert Pitt
Works are turning out the immense fif
teen inch guns now at the rate of:three'
a week. We doubt if there be in the
world an establishment capable of scy
thing like this. These guns weigh each'
in the rough about 1'6,000 pounds, and'
.apSit froM the difficulty in casting, the
labor of handling, turning and finishing
such amass of metal must be immense.'
There are four of these guns now in the
lathe's, and by the time these are - int'
others; will be _ready to take.their
It is the intention to Wu -oat three a
week, we believe, for the balance of the
year. These guns: are intended for the
-new " Monitors," and are the most for
midable of their characterin the world.
Arrangements aranow in progress for
.casting a twenty inch gun. This latter
.gun will throw a ball of one thousand
pounds, and is expected tolave a range
of four miles. •
gar The American Standard, printed'
at Uniontown, Fayette county, says that
the wife John 'Sickles; a` resident of
Wharton township, in order to prevent
her huS,band frOtri enlisting, cut off the
two front fingers ofjiis- right hand with
an axe ! It is said he, had told her ha
was determined . in enlist, which so ex
cited her that she resolved at, once to
render him incompetent to bear arms,
and , daring the night, while he was in
a deep . sleep, sho drew his hand ;to the
bed, rail and dropped the ax carefully
on his fingers, taking them clean off at
the first joint. Such depravity is almost
without a parallel and its truth might
be reasonably doubted had we not seen
the identical . fingers. which were exhibi
ted in this Once on 'Saturday evening
bya . gentleman who procured them at
the residence 'of the unfortunate victim.
evir A correspondent of the London
American, writing from Frankfort-on
the-Main, gives the following extract of
a letter from Charlotte Cushman, in ref
erence to our war : " I only wish to
Heaven I•could go and be of some ser
vice at such a time as this in the United
.States. I hate the incompetency of wp-
Manhood. As a man, I amid give my
brains, my speech, my life, if necessary ;
as a woman, I can only wait the course
of human events.. How and to be
obliged to wait,.and that, too, at a time
.when there appears to be eo much heart
sickening in the land 1"
ifir An abundance of arms in the po
session of the government is claimed by
the National Intelligencer of: the 3rd.
It says that the War Department, with,
the providence and , energy which marks.
its present management, has arras, in
readiness for all the troops, which haio
so far been mustered into service an;lita
arrangements for the Wore ensure a full,
supply as wore tioop,p2take the ,field.—
There is no foundation for the reports
that there is a scarcity of arms, and that
• ihe ;Department therefore be forced,
to pliy higb.priees. . •
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