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[From the New York Mercury.]
LOVE,
A threaJttie, superannuated theme!
4 . ynieS may cry ; but well worn garments oft
Are valued mote than those of latest make ;
And dollars, ainoothly worn, are dollars still
An aged wino suits palates drilled to tastes
Fastidious. Then may not love, true love—
The fairest dress Intelligence e're, donned—
A lieit.fcw days younger than the world,
Yet be portrayed in fashion-plates of minds':
The eurancy without alloy, yet ring
1;pon the counter of the Present and
7'l:n Futarr, till gathered in the coffers
Of Eternity, to be ttgaindlsbursed
long 'habitants of "gardens of the blest ;"
'F re wine of hue and flavor lovlier than
chalice ever held—though old as life
Itst If—the beverage, nepenthe-like, -
lie drunk by all, with ff w exceptions?
'There are tnisanthropes and woman-haters,
Who teem to regard the Scriptural line .
"T,.ush not, taste net, handle not,' allusive
To the using of this "drink" of sweetness
11.) btaian-honeyed. Such mortals may exist,
1;1t can not live ; they, with a-frantic zeal,
Ana churlish spirit, unenvied, and unvvished—
Like unto Southerns—swear to be, and die
i'emamah the "colnrs" - lane, unrecognwed—
'l lie oar bar-uus "rug"—Celibacy
Eden-nurtured and Platonic love! first
L,,rn in our imprimis parents' hearts—if
In their Paradisal horne they loved: ann
I.`,Aibt it never can we ; for reasons ; trite,
Eight, ;And natural, crowd on the brtiin with
Wund'rous swiftness; two of .which we'll
give: First,
Affection's truly styled the soul of being ;"
Now, what is bring sans the love—its soul?
Inanity ! as true as truth relined !
A lid, secondly, in their fair, flowery world,
There were no guardians, Argus-eyed, nor
t{trill puFal; no match-making mammas, nor
troubled with the "green-orbed mon
ster's
Spirelt'i" no tormenting brothers; and last, and
1 . 6)1ht, uo efiSS of character-destroying
tnne, that some bold poet writer justly
the foulest whelp: of sin I
Parent of
.I.•y, and doe*-like Peace: of wishes blest,
All6l earnest thoughts decked with the golden
web
finest-woven language: So very choice
T.' words that form the warp and woof of love's
V( macular, this-high-pressure day,
future generations will demand
A Onssary, that defines, explicitly,
E'en compound-adjectives'unmingled with
he idiom of their progenitors.
1. , ye is •Lo powerful to generate
dundancy of speech, and soften hearts,
Wc., consequently - , must expect "soft talk"
From such who feel its potent spell ; and then
They verify the olden phrase : "Out of
The abundance of the heart spealceth the
outh"
U Love! thou Pharos on the world's vast sea,
Light wandering life-barks unto Hymen's
ports,
And " Vcs"—the heaven-welded anchor-chain
Tull hold the soul-ship in security.
Li re's.Koh-i-noor ! from which all gems of mind
Yorrow their beauty, as pale Luna doth
From glorious Sol. The Titan-passion
Of the soul thou art, but unlike those who
Warred , gainst Heaven, thy rule is gentle as
Thy name. 0 sweet enchantress ! Circe, of
Mythologic fame, ne er possessed thy
Captivating tact.. Her magic influence,
Compared with drawing power like thine. is
Naught but basalt versus lodestone.
Thou princely potentate ! for aye
LUI•on life's battle-plain commander be;
And wills thy staff of spirits, "true and tried,"
11 ork out thy noble plans, for conquering
By blood!ess stratagems, the treason-dyed,
Who seek to invade the "sacred soil" of
; and let thy hosts—as numberless as
Leaves in Vallambrosa—on their features
Bear the impress of this brilliant truth :
'•The strong, the brave, the virtuous and the
wise,
Sink in Love's soft captivity together."
The small river or creek, so fre
quently alluded to in the despatches as
the scene of the recent conflict, in Mary
land, is called Antietam (pronounced
• An-trte-tam.) It rises on the line of
Franklin and Adams counties, Pennsyl
vania, and 'falls into"the Potomac be
tween Martinsburg and Harper's Ferry.
Milton says that many thistles
grow upon Parnassus. That must be
reason why so many, donkeys browse at
its base
( Jubtiltitbritt renusgbauia 40urnal gellote to l'ittraturt, agriculture, Bettis Af the gag, 'focal :4ntilligenct, IVc.
From the New-York Mercury
TEE OLD STORY.
The two doors opened at the same
time—the door of the squire's house, and
that of the cottage by its side. Esther
Varne• Beck swept out from the first ;
Sophie Lee came quietly from the sec
ond.
Esther was what is called a stylish
girl. She had large black eyes, decided
features, and a fine figure. 'She swept
her silken flounces through the gate
with an air; gave the slightest possible
nod in acknowledgement of Sophie's ex
istence, and then went on, talking with
her handseme brother, Frank, as if she
had brushed away a fly. Frank raised
his hat and bowed low; and Sophie
why should a girl with her well-regula
ted mind care for the politeness of the
one or the insolence of the other? per
haps she didn't, but it is certain that she
blushed deeply.
They entered the church almost to
gether.' Frank stood back that Sophia
might pass. Old Mrs. Potter, who came
in just then, would have it that he held
her hand for a moment, and said some
thing low in her ear. Be that as it may
Sophie's color deepened, and she enter
ed her pew with an air almost equal to
that of Esther's. Something was surely
wrong with Sophia. She could not join
in the singing ; her mind wandered dm
iug the prayers ; and it was 'a flushed and
troubled face that she took back to the
little cottage.
The crowing of a child and a soft ma
ternal cackling sounded
_outside., even
before she came in, Ned, her little two
yeared-old nephew, toddeled up and
seized her dress. Sophie wrenched it
angrily away.
"Do• let my skirts alone, Ned ; you
will have it all in wrinkles ;"then catch
ing her young sister-in-law's look of
astonishing, "Indeed, I could not help
it!"- hursts out this incomprehensible
Sophie, and catching up the child, cov
ers-Jahn with kisses, and went away to
her own room to hide the fact that she
is crying. Hardly was she there when a
vigorous knock sounded on the door be
low. Sophie's eyes were wet ; her hair
was rumpled ; she smoothed the one
but, alas ! who but time can help the
other? Frank said that she had been
weeping, and taxed- her with it the mo
ment that she came in.
"Well, what if she had ?" with a toss
of the head.
Frank tried to draw the saucy little
head down to his shoulder. Be thought
he had a right to know why she was un
happy.
"It is nothing at all ; that is—and, all
at_once Sophie's face flamed, aud-she sat
up very strait : —l think that it will be
better for us both if we annul our en
gagement.
"Annul our engagement!" Frank sat
stupified.
' . .For it is plain to be seen,".weut on
Sophie, speaking very fast, "that no
one could well be more unwelcome than
I ; not that they need trouble themsel
ves, for if it wasn't for you I would nev
er look at them ; and every one knows
that the Lee's were a great, family when
the Verne Becks had never been heard
of; and they needn't be so troubled,. for
I haven't the smallest intention of ever
coining where I am not wanted.
"Is all this because Esther wasn't. civ
il ?" asks poor Frank.
"Wasn't that enough If"
"Yes, if you are in love with Esther ;
hardly if you love me."
"What.do you mean ! You think that
it is my duty to let your sister take airs
over me!'
think, if Esther forgets her polite
ness, you should remember what you have
so often told me—that you would sacri
fice anything for me. Sacrifice now
your pride.'
'You are asking too•much. lam hu
man. I have a little spirit, and I can't
help showing it.'
'Why won't you de then as I- have so
long asked you! Marry me at once !
Let me see then who will affront you!'
'Yon know I will never do that, and
have people say, that I married against
your family's will?
"People ! my family I anybody but
me,' groans ,Frank.
This was not the first or the last scene
of the kind. They took place continually
Frank's family were intolerable ; Sophie
devoid of sickness; and each made him
the safety-valve for their wrath against
each other. Sophie obstinately refused
to marry him, and yet insisted upon it
that she loved him. They quarreled
once a week, and gave back their en
gagement-rings at least twice tt month.
Frank was in despair.
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lETTA, PA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1862.
'I will put a stop to this, by George?
owed to himself going, home.
'S , felt no special call to be civil to
ophie Lee, simply because she liyed
n,..xt door, and he fancied her green
ewes and dull Complexion. She was
an effected little thing, with nothing to
back her pretensions— the most disa
greeable girl in the whole village.'
Frank winced a little, for be was be
ginning almost to coincide with Esther.
The fair, smiling Sophie he had 'courted
was so widely different from the present
peevish, irritable Sophie; she also was
actually losing her beauty with her ami
ability. 'Meanwhile, however consoling
these reflections might be, they were
not helping him out of.his dilemma.
While he was thinking, in came Ad
die, his youngest sister, and her govern
ess, Miss Carroll, and Frank forgot his
uneasy tho'ts for a moment in watching
her movements. She.had a soft, gliding
way of walking; there was no angularity
in ber gestures ; peace and serenity
seemed to fill the atmosphere about her;
and the only looking at her seemed
to soothe and quiet him. Presently:he
began to think what a cheerful, sensible
face she had ; he was not sure if it was
not handsome—previonsly near it, at any
rate.
These women are curious creatures,
he thought; they ought to, understand
one another, for certainly they are all
beyond the comprehension of man.—
Then, loud.
"Hem I Miss Carroll."
The soft gray eyes were raised at once
and fixed on his face, and . he almost for
got what he had to say in wondering at
their depth and lustre.
'Well,' she said, at length
`Oh, yes; beg your pardon. -I was
only going to ask you about a friend of
mine. He is- engaged to the nicest girl
in the world, but she has a temper—and
he has a family, and they have tempers,
and so—l mean the young lady and they
don't agree at all ; in fact, they barely
speak.'
, Well.'
'Both are continually scolding my un
fortunate friend, who is well nigh driven
out of his wits ; and when he proposes
marriage as the only settlement of the
difficulty to the young lady, she flatly
refuses, and offers to release him alto
gether.'
'Well, why don't your Mend accept ?'
'Accept,' echoed Frank in the very
largest capitals.
'Certainly. Can't but see that the
young lady don't love him.
Frank was dumb. He had never look
ed at the matter in this light. The next
day he had another question for Miss
Carroll.
'Pray, Miss Carrcll' will you tell me,
if your sex ever really do love, how they
manifest it ?'
The governess blushed. Frank had
hitherto considered her an institution ;
by the light of blush he recognized the
fact that she was a young and very pret
ty girl.
hardly know, Mr. Varne Beck.—
I fancy it is a thing rather to. he felt
than expressed ; but lam sure of one
thing ; where it exists, it is unmistak
able.'
At this juncture, Frank saw Sam
bringing around his horse and light wag
on. It would be only civil to ask the
governess to go ; so he was civil. She
blushed again, and hesitated.
want to take Addie out,' went on
that artful Frank, 'and the horse is so fi
ery that I can't attend to her. So you see
you must go to hold her in the wagon.'
The moment that it became a matter
of duty, the governess yielded and went.
Guess how the village stared and talk
ed.
The next day, Fraiik went down to
town. He brought home some superb
books. Soon, Esther's lynx eyes missed
one of them, to discover it not long af
ter, on Miss Carroll's table. After
this, Frank got away of walking in the
garden during play-hours, going to
church with Addie. Necessarily, he
talked to Miss Carroll, who accompanied
her; but that was only from politeness.
Esther, however, dindn't relish such
politeness ; and one fine afternoon
she put on her bonnet and went to call
on Sophie. Even the most disagreeable
girl in the village was preferable to a
governess, as a sister-in-law. When
Frank saw her next, Sophie "lad a new
grieveance. 'No wonder he was so in
different to her; he was in love with
Miss Carroll's doll-face.'
Frank found at first, no words of re
ply, he was much surprised. Ile bad
sought Miss Carroll, first for peace, then
because she was agreeable to him, with
out ever asking himself why. His blood
was boiling, his hands tight clenched.
That was not the way in which he had
listened to abuse of Sophie. In love
wish Emma Carroll 1 His heart warned
to the notion. Spite of himself, he be
gan to picture kow lovely, and sensible
and throughly feminine, and . winning,
she was, and then his conscience smote
him.
'Sophie,' he said, abruptly, "let us eed
this. Marry me, as I have so often urg
ed you."
Her apswer was take off her engage
ment ring and lay it in his hand. Sud
den determination blazed up in Frank's
eyes. Quick as thought, he had imita
ted her example ; and, with a cool good
morning, Mr. Lee left the cottage. In
front of his own home, he met Addie
and Miss Carroll.
`Addle, go into the house. I want to
speak to Miss Carroll,' he said. Then,
seeing that she hesitated :
'Why not? If it were auy other man,
you would not refuse him a few momenta
conversation.'
'Miss Carroll turned at once.
'Emma,' he said, desperately, "will
you be my wife ?'
'Sophie, Mr. Lee ?'
'Has dismissed me.'
'Your family ?'
'What have they to do with it?'
'But do — you love me
`Yes, or I shoUldn't ask you to marry
me' '
'Miss Carroll !' called Esther, sharply
from• the gate. 'I want you moment.'"
'Presently,' answered Prank, hurrying
heron. 'Emma, tell me-do you love
me ?'
There was a very faint 'yes,' in an
swer.:
'And you will marry me, at once, and
make the storm that was preparing for
us useless—will you ?' pleaded Frank.
know it is hard, but because you love
me, you will have"courage—will you
not 1 You have neither father nor
mother to hinder You. lam of age, and
can take you in spite of them. Say 'yes'
if as you said of some one else, you do
not love yourself better than me.
Emma Carroll had courage and faith
in her love. She put-her tremors bra
very on one side, and only her quiver
ing lip and blanched cheek told wha t
the struggle cost.
'Miss Carroll,' called Esther, the mo
ment they once more came in sight,
twill you be kind enough to come here
at once ? Yon have really kept me wai
ting an unconscible time.'
'You mistake,' said Frank, coolly.—
This is not Miss Carroll, but my. wife ,
Mrs. Verne Beck. We were married
ten minutes ago."
The scene can be .butter imagined
than described. Frank took his wife
away, at once, andleft them to quarrel it
out among themselves.
Sophie still lives an old miad, and is
fond of telling how she jilted Mr. Frank
Varne Beck; and he was • so cut up
about it, that he went, at once, and mar
ried the first woman who would accept
him—some.low person—a governess she
believed.
TRAIN STOPPED BY FIRE.-A day or
two ago a train of cars on the Cleveland
Railroad was stopped for almost one
hour and a half, betweon Ravenna and
Atwater, by a fire consuming all the im
mense piles of railroad fire wood piled
up by the side of the - track. About six
hundred cords were burned, and when
the cars arrived the whole track was
covered with fire. The train waited un
til the flames had lessened somewhat,
when the windows were all closed and
the train dashed through at high speed.
air The question, "What becomes of
all thepins ?" is partly answered by one
of the papers in 13iirainghara, England.
An old sewer in that- city, just opened
for repairs for the first time in many
years, Was found to be paved with a
deposit of countless millions of pins,
compacted into a mass. as hard as the
slag from a blast-furnace. Every sew
ered- town would probably .furnish
similar spectacle.
POINDEXTER DOOMED.—Poindexter's
leg having been amputated on account
of a severe wound, it is supposed he will
die. He is disabled for life for guerrilla
operations. The inference that the am
putation was done purposely, will be an
swered, by the fact that it was done at
Poindexter's own request, and the dan
ger is occasioned because it was delayed
too long. .
tEr A,' Yong lady tumbled down at
Camp Lincoln, Portland, the other day
exhibiting her ankles extensivly to the
soldier boys. _Quickly recovering her
self, she.exclaimed, "Well; I have done
soinuch tor my country 7"
April 11, 1854..
Marrying a Soldier.
A TALE IN THREE CHAPTERS
Chapter L
ONE THING ANOTHER.
" I have sworn it, Fred !"
And I shouldn't wonder if she had—
none,
But whether the oath was taken on
the volume, of "Les Miserables" she
held in one of her snow-white hands, or
on a volume of 36 by 24 copy of-the Ho
ly Writ which reposed on a marble-top
table in a distant part of the room, I am
unable to say.
The speaker was a superb specimen
of "God's last best gift to man"—hair
was as brick as a Southern traitor's
heart ; diamond-like eyes, with heavy
drooping lashes ; a Grecian nose ; teeth
that rivaled pearls ; a beautiful, dimpled
chin, swan-like neck, and—
"And sick !"
"Her name was Pearl Bravely, only
eightheen years old,
With a very large - fortune in 'green
backs' and postage-stamps."
That don't rhyme ; but it is fact
The person called Fred—surnamed
Frade—was youth of twenty-two falls—
a delicate-looking chap, being subject to
the white liver complaint, and not un
frequently affected by colds, caused by
the draft. It was the ardent wish of
Fred's soul to "transmogrify" Pearl
Bravely into Mrs. Fred Frade, and—he
succeeded.
When Pearl uttered the sentence with
which this "o'er-true tale" commences,
Fred sari :
"Will nothing alter your decision,
Pearl ?"
"Bu%
,one thing upon this mundane
sphere."
"Name it."
"It's just what I have sworn—that I
will never be , your wife, unless you en
list, take up arms, and battle for your
country—help, to
'Sustain the Star-flag of the Free!'
win a name, and—and be sure and ob
tain an office as soon as you enlist. A
captaincy will answer,"
"For the privilege of calling this fair
hand mine 17 said the youth as he clasp
ed the maiden's digits in his own, "
would brave all the dangers of the earth,
if I wasn't afraid I Yes, I'd—l'd join a
company."
After this outburst, Fred sat in si
lence in an armchair a few minutes,
with his "pate" resting in his hands, and
then suddenly started up, as if an idea
—or something else—had struck him a
"few," and exclaimed
"Pearl-apple of my optical organ ! on
ly promise that, you will, be mine, and
I'll join a company immediately."
"I promise !" was the soft reply.
The infatuated lover clasped the brave
girl to his manly (?) bosom, and glued
his lips to hers, the suction of which was
so immense as to loosen the maid's flesh
colored toe-nails 1 Pliant
Chapter 11.
SOMETHING ELSE
One day has elapsed. Fred did join
a company, and lost no time in acquaint
ing Pearl with the fact.
"Did you receive a position, Fred ?"
she asked. .
"Not yet, love ; but I am to be ap.
pointed captain as soon as the company
leaves for the war."
"A captain ! that will be grand
—Mrs. Captain Frade !"
And Pearl was pleased "hugely."
"And now, my love," : asked Fred,
"when shall I call you mine ?"
"As soon as you please, dearest,—l'm
so happy I"
And so she was ; for she had always
loved the youth, but detested his cow
ardice ; and now that he had joined a
company, only had a tendency to mak.e
that love stronger.
So it was decided that a wedding
should take place immediately, if not
sooner, and "no postponement on ac
count of the weather."
Chapter'lll.
OTHER THINGS
Night had thrown her black cloak
over the town of S —, as well as other
places. Silence and Abe Lincoln
would have reigned supreme, had it not
been for the oecational meow-irigs kept
up by a couple of Thoinas cats; on a
wood-shed,in Squire Bravely's bach-yard.
In the parlor of Squire Bravely's man
sion, Fred and Pearl were getting
"spliced." The "I wills, had been sain,
a XX.forked over to the clergymen who
"did it,k and the bride and bridegroom
had retired to the nuptial chamber,
where I will leave them to—sleep, and
dream till morning.
"My dear husband," said Pearl, at.the
breakfast-table, the next morning, "when
NO. ii.
do you expect your company to leave
for he war ?"
"It's not going to leave, my love !
Ain't you glad ?"
"Not leave Why, what company
have you joined, Fred ?"
"The 'Union Hose Company.'"
If a person had entered the room
then, Pearl would not have been found
dumb—only dumb-founded I
She "wounded" on the " escapation"
of the last words from Fred's lips, and
lay in the State of unconsciousness and
Penns for two days—more or less. Oa
recovering her senses, she was informed
that Fred had been drafted, and was sat
isfied ; and I hope the reader is satis
fied, also—for I am. Fact !
Moral—Before a young woman weds a
young man, let her be sure that she
knows just what his "company'? is.
A NOBLE PURPOSE AND THE GLORIOUS
RESULT :—There are many roads to fanae
and fortune as there were gateways to
ancient Thebes. Your ambitious war
rior is for carving his way with the sabre
—your aspiring politician for manmuv
ring his way by subtlety and consum
mate art; but there is one broad grand
path to the goal, along which nothing
base can travel. It is the path set apart
for the march of talent, energy, and no
ble purpose, and though full of obstacles
it contains none which a great man can
net surmount. This fact has been az
emplified in innumerable instances, but
in few mere forcibly thaw in the career
of Dr. Holloway, of London. For twen
ty.five years ke may be said to have
been climbing.
—"The steep where Fames proud temple
shines afar,"
scattering blessings at every step. Ho
appears to have reached the summit at
last. The staff upon which he has
leaned in his ascent has- been advertis
ing, and by its aid he has not only real
ized a world-wide celebrity and a splen
did fortune, but has been enabled to
familiarize millions of the sick with the
healing properties of his pills and oint
ment, who would never otherwise have
been benefitted thereby. mho victims
of dyspepsia in this country, and unfort
unately their name is legion, have good
cause to rejoice that so wide a publicity
has been given to the virtues of his pills
through the columns of the American
press ; for, if we are rightly informed,
they have cured and are now curing
more cases of this distressing complaint
than all other medicine combined. We
hear, too, of cures of scrofula and other
external disorders by the ointment, which
if they were not vouched for by the best
authority, we should pronounce incredi
ble. These medicines seem to do what
no other advertised medicines have ever
done before—fulfil the promises of the
advertisement.—N. Y. Police "Gazette."
MEAGLIER.—GeneraI Thomas
Francis Meagher, who lost his life in the
great battle of the 17th, near Sharpsburg
Md., was too well known to require an
extended biographical sketch. Briefly
his career may thus.be recounted He
was a native of Ireland, born about 18-
18. As a lawyer he was distinguished
for his eloquence. Taking part of
in the Irish rebellion of 1848 he was ban
ished by the British Government to
Australia in 1849, but made his escape
to California in 1853, and attained dis
tinction there as an advocate and orator.
When the rebellion broke out, being in
New York, he joined the Sixty-ninth
regiment (Corcoran's) as a captain, and
was promoted to be Major. lie was in
the battle of Bull Run. He aided in tor_
ganizicg the Irish Brigade, and took
command of a regiment; subsequently
was made a brigadier general. Lie was
in all the battles on the Peninsula, and
was distinguished at all times for cool
ness and bravery. The manner in which
his command disputed the passage of
the bridge on the upper Chickahominy,
in June last, won universal praise. His
services to our country were not alone
performed upon the field, for his ring
ing eloquence on the forum brought to
the Union ranks thousand of his fellow
countrymen. He was one upon whose
brow nature had written "hero," and he
goes to his grave lamented by millions
who had watched his career with glowing
admiration. His fame will live for gen
, orations.
Ten guerilla prisoners wareit4
on Friday, by order of General ftler,riik .
at Macon, Mo. They had been fotii4
guilty of breaking their paroles, and of
again taking up arms against the Feder
al forces. The execution was in pursu
ance of orders which will be strictly en
forced in like cases.