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Pro fessional and Business cards, , of Six lines or less at $3 per aanuni. Notices in the reading col umn s, five cents a-line. Marriages and Deaths, the simple announcement, FREE but for any additional lines, five cents a line. A liberal deduction made to yearly and half yearly advertisers, Jon Para:rum of every description neatly and expeditiously executed, and at prices to taut the times. "DIDN'T MEAN IT." Yes! I know I said I loved you; But then, Tom, I didn't mean I wasjoking all the time., And you surely must have seen it Itlit if you will not sit so close. And behave yourself right well, Uefore you go away to-night I've a secret, Tom, to tell. Toni, I went walking yisterday With Mr. Philip Ashes . . I lOs a splendid, dashing. fellow, With a love of a moustache; ad he walks with such an air-- Tom, I wish you with:l./lave seen it; 111 said that I loved him Why, perhaps, Tom, f might mean it. Last Sunday night, rwent to church With a delightful creature ; His face is fair as any girl's So perfect every feature ; And he can sing, and dance, and play, This charming Charlie preenitt ; And a 01 who said that she loved him, Why, surely, Tom, must meanit. Tom, don't you know that it is wrong To flydn such w.pasruun, And fume, and fret, and ilqunce about In that - unchristian fashioa Come here, Tom, mild ehave yo.urselfl See ! here's' a seta by me, sir ; 1 haven't told that secret yet Come, guess what it can be air. • till pouting, Tom 7 Ali ! you ate.vexed With All my idle chatter, Or what can make you look so sad! Tom, tell me what's the matter! then, forget my silly talk— You know I didn't mean it ; 1 was but joking, Tom, indeed; You surely must have seen it: Now, Tom, don't squcc.se me quite so tight, But lefive a little.bretith,_. So I can tell that seerct; - Tom, Before I'm hugged to death. Dulling, I love you as. toy life ! Ali ! Torn. you must have seen it ; See, I am conquered 'no*, at last ! Afid, Tom, indeed I mean it ! SHOULDER ARMS. There's a cry sweeps o'er the land— Shoulder arms! Who will noit , ,a coward stand, While the country needs his aid? CowardiCelcirfools was made, .Shoulder arms! - \Vho's arrni4 to peel tho , foe'! Shoulder arms! %Vito would, see that flag laid low In the dust by traitor's base I Let hint ever hide his face— Shoulder anus! Who W9,41;1011 the 140 .1diel *MO - Shoulder - arms! hear a hero's name Letiitin raise his strong arm : high NoW to strike or now to die--•. - `Shoulder iirms! Vet: the rebel ranks tolveuee .t 4 laoulder Aram ! Wake, man, from your guilty-trance This is 164 time for action deep, Not time beta for sloth or sleep. tqtuultlcir arms ! uiee'3 chli yogi from the gpiNe— Shoulder arms! , Voices of the,marfyrs brave, \Vito, amid the shock of ware, tattled for the Stripes and-Stars Shoulder arms ! By the names of heroes dead—. Shoulder arms ! Precious heartias'yours have bled To maintain thelinion's might Now it is your time to smite-- Slioulder arms lttsara! onward to :the.yan— shoulder arms! Ouu and like a fell - rim man ! Stand not . like one deaf and dumb While you hear the appealing drum Shoulder arras ! Goa will blosdth? work you do— .Shoulder arms ! Ile will lead you•safely through,. • Every peril, while'yoiffigtit." 'Ciainst the wrong to uphold the right Siwulder arcs ! cgo4coNnt VtnnsOtinia 4ournal getrcro to volitits, Niftrafure, agritulturt, Itios of 4t Map., Nag afuttiligtott, tVc. Fourn RENEWED: -,— Therelives'in the town of Parsonfleld; Stdte of Maine, an aged Freewill Baptist Ministdr,- by - the name of John Buzzell. Sixty years' agO he was one of the moat popular and suc cessful preachers . of that part of. the country. When - it was in that he would held forth in any,place, the whole population, from, all the cross roads, the hill-tops and the yalleys, , would flock to hear him. He belongs to what may be "called the Old gchool of that denoreination ;..and in his early days was accustomed: to wears his hair long and parted, with 'a black homearnin coat as plain as the tailor conldmake He preached . in - the peculiar - tones which were nsed•by his brethren of those times, and always exerted a wonderful influence npon the minds Of his audience, We last heard him thirty years- ago, when his locks were white and flowing, and - his eyes dim by reason of - age. Be hds alwaY worked upon his farm, kept the charge of his people in Parsons field, and attended every quarterly meeting held in, his district. In politics he has ever been an inswerving member of the Democratic party ; in religion one o; the most consistent of Christians. He is now ninety-five years - of age, en joys good health, and preaches occasion ally. But the most remarkable of all is, that within, a few years he has had- new hair—the hair of. his youth—new teeth and new eyes ! Wondesful illustration: of the Scripture statement, "Thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." COFFIiiS.-All improved kind of metallic coffin has come itith'use —made of sheet iide, with a - bead round the edge to impart strengthio the struc ture. Each one, whelE(made, is tasted both as to its strength and the fact of its being air-tight, and when the corpse is put in an attendant, of the manufactu rers solders on the lid. The coffin, so fastened, is hermetically sealed against the ingress of air;. and _it is asserted that the quantity of air remaining in the coffin when the lid is - fastened on is not sufficient to allow decomposition to prd gress.. These coffins are so •constructed as to combine great strength and dura bility with comparatively little weight; and as a metallic exact - of the most solid and secure make, costs no more than a very ordinary one made of wood, which cannot be made to' exclude the air, the advantages of the former are manife;st. STRANGE , CONDUCT.—The. - New or e ans papers relate an instance' of a thoughtful husband who ordered a splen didly-mounted coffin to be made for his wife, who had been taken suddenly ill: To his great surprise, howeier, she got well. But a few daYs .afterwards some officious friend related to her the' stOrY of her husband's conduct, and the 'poor lady took the matter to heart so much that she immediately sickened, and a day or two afterwards needed the coffin in reality. CURIOSITY IN A. DYING was EL bright thought of Smithson, the-founder of the Smithsonian Institution, when he was dying of -an unknown complaint.— Smithson - bad had five (lectors, and they had been nimble ,to discover what the disease was: At length_tbey told the patient that he must die. Calling.them all around him, he said : "My 'friends, after I die,•make a post mortew exami nation, and find out what - ails me ; for really, I have .iheard such long and learned discussions on the subject that I am dying to know what the disease is myself." , Cr "What dix 444,0eati by a cat and dog life ?" said alhsliaild to his angry i'Look atiCarlo and Kitty asleep' on the ra,gi together . I wish men lived half 4iteaeeably with their wives—" "Sto,W r said the lady, "tie them to ,v,ther, .and then see how they. will OM Same one was telling au Irishman that a fellow bad eaten ten saucers of ice cream; whereupon Pat shook his lead. "So you don't' believe it?" With a nod Pat answered, "I belieVe in the crame but not in the saucers." American, slang is sometimes very expressive. What pharase, for ponder onsness and emphasis, equals the em phatic "dry up ?" And what can better depict the utter depletion of a man's pocket than "nary red ?" ' gar "Can you spell the word saloon ?". was asked of a cockney, by. e,--"Philade.l -pliian. "Certainly," said the Londoner, ‘fith a look of therewa.hess and a hay, and a hell, and two hoes, and a hen." 111, toit)t,ti-,,n-, MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, ]562 THE CROWNED SKELETON. Aix-la- Chapelle in Germany, derives its nature from the tomb of Charlemagne. He gave instructions that when he died' he should be buried in a royal position ; not prostrate' as slumbering dust, but seated in the attitude of a ruling mOn arch. He had the mausoleum" i'lr'ected over the sepulchre of our Saviour at Jo rnsalein. In is tomb within 'ads' Chapel he was placed aPon a' throne. The gos pels, which I suppose he had often read whilst he was living, he would appear determined' to study thnroughly 'after he was dead. He directed they should be laid upon his knees . before him: , By his side was his sword ; upon his head was an imperial crown, and a royal mantle covered his 'lifeless shoulders. Thus was his bod'Y placed, • and did his ,body remain for about 190 years. One of his successors resolved he would eee bow Charlemagne looked, and what had be come of the'rieliesthatadoxed his tomb. Nearly a thousand years' after Christ, the tomb was opened by Emperor 0,06. The skeleton form of the body was found there, - dissolved and dismembered; the various ornaments I speak of were all, there too ; but the frame had sunk into fragments, the bones had fallen disjoint ed and asunder ; and.theie remained no thing but tike ghastly skull wearing the crown still I The various relics were taken' np, and are now preserved at Vi enna ; and they haye oftenaince been employed in the Coronation of the Em perors of Germany,—Dr. lassie's, Siam, mer Rambles. Er There is a story . afloat .in the southern papers, from which it hq drift ed into some of the nothern journals, relatinhow, Roger A. Pryor had wan dered, into our lints, how this rebel Briopdier General had , been discovered by two Yankee soldiers, and how the valiant Pryor worsted both with a bay onet which he .snatched from one of them, thud managing to, make his es ; cape. This must be . one of * Piyor's own romances, because we, know that he, re-,. gards weapons of a long blade As :too barbprous for a gentleman to use in hop., orable combet. He, it was, who, it will be remembered, refused ,to fight .a duel with John A. Potter, . of Wisconsin, be cause-Potter preferred two potind•boWiti knives. The idea, -therefore, of .Pryor fighting with •a bayonet, 'is foolish. The story in reference to it must be a roman Ce to 'delight the chivalry. Is if not a shame thus to. delude the gentle men of the south ? • - gir.Gen. Van Dorn was once a great favorite in our army, and the Nashville Union has been told .by one of his form-. er companions in arms that he was re garded as one of the most accomplished and bravo of the rebel officers. He be came a miserably debased•creatnre, hav ing degraded himself. socially years be fore he becaMe a traitor. While in the• United States service he deserted his young wife, a loVely and accomplished Mississippi girl, and took up with 'a vul gar ignorant woman from the" lowest walks of' life. He had formerly been a popular man, but when this ece - urred his' brother officers and former associates forsook him entirely, and refused to rec ognize him any .further. Hesank lower• and l lower, until he reached the bottom of, moral_degradation by joining•the rebel lion, and he died by the hands of a fellow- . traitor in a brawl•which he originated. —Louisville Journal. . Cir A new inferoal• machine,' claimed to be adeqUate for thedestruction of iron-clad vessels,'is Undergoing Goiern meat tests in the Royal dockyard of Co_ penhagen. The apparatus, which is ex tremely simple, and costs but little, gon sists of-a glass reservoir ; filled with pow-. der, floating at a certain depth, where, by very simple chemical means, it ,pro duces an explosion. In the first expOr:i meat, when loaded with a -very small charge, the' effect was amazing. The framework- 4)f the gunboat used was shattered, and some of the• planks thrown to 4t; height of eighty or one hundred feet. On a second trial. the ex: plosion threw up a column of water 4)ne hundred feet high, .and kill me, and time's to to kill beau- =ta, - Icolle.ecl April 11, 1854. Lonisvrtam JOirairmaSms.:— . --When our armies win victories, the: reputation of our - country 4411 be at a premium; and gold will note , • • • ' , . SeceisiOniets and aholitionists, _like old maids" and old liacholori, ahotqd be tied together." , , The rebels need not suppose that their goverianut, l simPfy`'behiiie it is "in a Ex," is h. fixed fact. =EI The mud is pretty much, all gone now. Lot.mvarmles move while !they havo "good gotindi to stand onZ .„ • =1 -Our generals suceed remarkably in withholding- liforthatien 'froth • their friends,-and-letting it get to their ene mies, " ' Itis'an old siying that "brag is a good dog," - but oar people rathOr conclude that Bragg is a great dog. 'hy sh6nl:cl the Veliels tnalfe such an ado about` the want of salt when they claim -he themselves the salt of the eaith'r` ' Pat Gen. Pillow's mind in one scale and an, inflated bladder_ in the other, and the General willhave , a weillbalanCed mind: Our late- invaders must have •had , a high opinion of Kentucky. They took a good deal of stock in it. If the pending-draft ,were for, , a feast instead of, ri ; stqa4 a Aghk how many would claim to . be considered eteglptsl , , - Either the blacka orthewhiteu in the South muit - live in a condition -- of Beryl . tuda.•= Whiclrehall ? We occasionally —make_ the rebels give bends, but nwbonds.can birkd4orne of them unless fitted= i,o.tlieir-viriSt , and ankles: • ' The people Of Arkansas have bigger ,Tooth-pickets just now and less -oc,ca-. sion to pick their teeth than any other felloWS alfire. The officers of Btagg's army have re ported to the-Souther& pap kir tbat'thei had a - three days' battle with - Buell.-- They 'igvideritly mistook a five days' foot= race for three days'fight. Any man, urho casts a, vote in any election . with a view to encourage the *rebellion either. directly of indirectly, is however short his stature, a head taller than he deserves to.be, • ... A coupleof Bowling Green friends ask us to "give John Morgan fits." We will _try to' . . , hith a nice fit before long. What is the size of your neck, 'John ! The poor fellows, who in the draft lot tery, are drawn and sent to military quarteri;needn't think of f:heinselves'as drawn and quartered. ' If any of our, people deprecate the in crease of.the war debt, let them help to crush. the rebellion., at once ami. thus render the increase unnecessary. Many of our offieers are UndonbtedlY political aspirants: But, to= prove them selves fit,for,civil stations, they needn't prove'themselves unfit for military ones. Gov. Wise is still talking about "Old John Brown." He hasn't got half' of Brown's sense, butof we catch him, he may 'haveall of old Brown's last sensations. • ' ' Some, ,of ,the rebel. girls of our city. Keep to have great deal of effrontery. We have heaid much of virgin gold, but we fear that virgin -brass is getting a great more common:' - • Theleitop rebels, a tew Aays ago baptized - what they call .."the Ladies' Gunboat!' 'They baptized ikby spripk-. ling, but the Federal fleet,when . they encounter it, will ballize it by immer sion.. It is both foolish and unjust that men should, be arrestedtn the. Southern Oon deracy, for counterfeiting ; the.-Qonfed era te notes. There's no real difference between aeounterfeit rebel note and a genuine one. "The 'one promises to pay end the other promises to pay, and ono lies and other lies. Couldn't some of, the,thousands who 'claim exemption from military service on account of_hodily do some thinefot the - cause'hy Trucking theft gelves with sewing machines' and ma king soldiers-clothes ? They say that Ge . n. Ilindthan is tin der arrest: in the rebel Confederacy_ for stealing publi"noney. Hindman Is a thief and a coward. fie .will steal all the - moneyhi3,cau, and then . try keep out, of harm's way that he may live to i enjoy t.. NO. 16. or From time iminemorial, it h been known that without salt, roan would miserably perigb ; and atnenf. , horrible. punishment's,' °nailing certain death, that of feeding culprits on saltless food is said to 'have prevailed informs. times, Maggots - and 'corruption are spoken of by ancient writers as the diz gusting'symptams whfch-'saltless food engenders.—Scientific American We are told that this is Strikingly es amplified. in the rebel Confederacy where, as we all •know, there has been a salt-famine for it year and a half.' The rebels down there are getting shocking ly meggotty. Their bodies are said to be all alive . with maggOts like an old cheese; Even the cellular tissues - cf themace_lovelyladies, we grieve ta learn are as full of grubs as- ever the cells of a honeycomb Were of young bees. The whole population need worming oftener than.a tobacco patch. This is an awful condition of • things, to be sure.—Lectis ville Journal. • . . , INFIDEL ITV' TIM' CAUSE OE rim. WAIL-- The New York Observer says it is a mistake that; the'S'outh is responsible for ,this war. It is merely, an instru ment in the hand of God, who Is chast enini us for . our One of our exchanges comments _on this in :the fol lowing spicy fashion "This - reminds us of the. exclamation of a Jew, who traveling. in the Great , Des.art, and' being entirely destitute of provisions, was at, lasi over-persuaded by a Gentile'Companionto taste. of some perk.. No sooner had he pa it in hie mouth than a elQud .Or. sand beitakeued the dreadful siatoom. The hot blast swept everything before it men, and camels--upon which the Jew snatched the pork froth his mouth and exclaimed , "Jerusalem! what a sass about rc litti piece of pork 41V-The - Wilirningtbh -- (N. C.) Journal says that seven regiments of ne -groes which have been „ camps of ,in struction 'under, white oticers.fer throe mouths, and - which pave bpcoule remark ably-proficient in drill ,have., arrived to garrison the towns and fortificationz dating the, sickly season., The yellow fever is raging -terribly in,the town, and the citizens are' fleeinofrOm the place. . We trust the 4mpathisers in thenorth will not beconie horrified at this intelli gence; these are not tinion negro regi.- ments—only rebels ; and the rebels,7ou know, can do just what they please.' tarAn Indian Philosopher being ask ed what wore according to his opinion, the two most, beautiful things in the universe, tinswered---"Tlie starry heav ens.above our heads, and .the fettling of duty in our hearts." lartanghter, sreep, and hope are the three bounties with which, kiwi Mother Natare compensates us for the troubles• of a life, which few, perhaps, would' ac cept if they were asked beforehand. to. Men have cot altered materially . . , since Shakspeare said : "To.be honest as thiS world goes, is to be picked' oat of ten thousand." ~. The hymn we heard •in meeting the last time ; "Oh take a pill ! oh . . take a , pili!,6h- take a pilgrim. home I" The hymn we heard—treeble and• soprano by the fairer partion of.creation—'!Oh for a man ! oh for a man-! oh for a man sion in the skies r The = one Plarikins heard the bass sinter at vOirdend - Sal ! oh send down Si1:1 oh send down Salva tion ! • • ! The cartoon in the oust number of Punch representS the,gope in the guise of an old old woman sitting , in- wrailroad station, while Miro perters--Napoleon, and Victor Emanuel—quarrel:-over a - trunk whieltis labeled with the words,. "Temporal Power" Victor, says, - to.. Louis, "No ! you look, after the old wo man ; I'll take care of her luggage." The rebel women of Lexington wan ted to give John. Morgan a hall when. be was there. When he comes to Lou- isville, he will probably be coniplinaen ted with a hall—and chain. Humphrey Marsbatt; after Ettarvihif some time among the mountains, g6t his belly full in his late visit , fro Blue Gra, - ,7s region. Of conrse'there has'been a fa,a ino since i in the Blue Grass. it is stated that the rebel doueromclft abodrto close' he whole of the news. - 4 paper offices in' the Confederacy. V. 141 needs all the.paper that...can be had make Confederate scrip: - An army is a f ighting machine, but very few` engineersengineers have the skill to make the machine work well.