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A 110DIEWS WAITING,
When he comes back all glorious,
With the love light in hip eye,
From the battle field victorious,
Who'll he happier than 1 I
See, the big arm chair is waitin e,
Vaeal:t still, in its old place—
Time ! preps quickly on the hours
Till i sea his pleasant face !
lle was too young, they told me,
To marct against the foe ;
Yet, when his country needed aid,
Ws mother bade him go
rwerc meet slaves should tremble
Whom tyrants hohi in thrall;
But my boy was a freeman born—
Ac went at Freedom's call.
1‘7. 1 7 small weak hand :vould waver
The shortest sword to bear ;
Cut ha stands ready in the ranks,
Anil holds his maesliet there.
11ly faint heart would falter
The battle ground to see ;
But his is strong in Freedom's might—
lie fights for her and me.
am watching and waiting,
As mothers watch and wait,
Whose sops ore in the army now,
Ard it is growing late;
ly lire's past its tnorning,
It's near sunset in the sky'—
Oh 1 I long once more to clasp him
In my arms before I die.
Yet farther off the army goes—
Ile will Imam no mote,
Till our glorious ['lag is free again
To flout o'er sea and shore ;
Wherc'er it waved in days gone by,
Its colas again shall rest,
From the depths of the lowest valley
To the highest mountain crest.
And he, - my boy, my darling,
The pride of my old heart !
Siidiem'er his place may be, I know
lie will fulfil his part.
Not until the war is over
Shall we meet in fond embrace—
Time ! press swiftly on the hours
Till I see his pleasant face!
THE FINE LADY,
Iler heart is set un folly ~
An amber gathering straws;
She courts eaeli poor occurrence—
Heeds:not the hca.tenly laws.
Pity her!
She has a little beauty,
And she flaunts it in the day,
While the selfish wrinkles, spreading,
Steal all its charms away.
her!Pit
She has a little money,
And she flings it everywhere ;
'Tis a gewgaw on her bosom—
'Tis a tinsel in her hair.
Pity her!
She has a little feeling—
She spreads a foolish net
That snares her own weak footsteps,
For his for uhom 'tis set.
Pity heel
Ye harmless household drudges,
Your dragy,lcd:dally wear
And horny palms cf labor
A softer hcart may bear.
Pity her!
Ye steadfast ones, whose burdens
Weigh valorous shoulders down,
With hands that cannot idle ;
And brows that will not flown.
Pity her!
Ye saints, whose thoughts are folded
As graciously to rest
As a dove's stainless pinion
Upon her guileless breast.
Pity her
Put moat, ye hopeful angels
That send distress and work,
ilottask and sweating forehead,
Ye heal man's idle irk.
Pity her !
so There is often but a slight sepera
tion between a woman's love and her
hate; her keen teeth are very near to
her sweet lips.
Why do physicians have a greater
horror of the sea than any body else ?
Because they are more likely to seo
sickness.
JI Iltkigllbtllt ;itruntat Pcbote4 to Volitits, Yittratart,. Agrituiturt, 3tthz of fly aR., goticjottilißuitt; t.
Tito Bast Way to Put Homy out at Want,
The following information we insert in
our columns for the benefit of our read.
[From the Phil!a, Ledger, March 27.]
One of the most surprising things in
the recent conversion of greenback
notes into the popular Five-Twenty six
par cent. Government loan at par, is the
universality of the call. We happened
in, yesterday, at the office of Jay Cooke . ,
who is the agent for the sale of these
loans, aid the conversion of the green
backs, and found his table literally cov
ered with orders end accompanying
drafts for almost all amounts, from five
thousand to a hundred thousand dollars
each, and from all parts of the Union.—
The little States of Delaware and New
Jersey are free - takers, as are also Penn
sylvania, New York and the New Eng
land States. But the West is most es
pecially an active taker, as well as thro
her banks as by individuals. The
amount of orders lying before us, all re.
ceived during the day, amounted to over
fifteen hundred thousand dollars. With
this spontaneous proffer of money, See
etary Chase must feel himself entirely
at ease, and will take care to put him
self beyond those money sharpers, whose
chief study is how to profit themselves
most from the troubles of the country
and , the necessities of the treasury.—
There aro millions of dollars lying idle
all over the country, and while the un
certainty existed as to what Congress
would do, and the bullion brokers wore
successful in running up gold to the dis
credit of the Government issues, this
capital was clutched close. But as the
policy and measures of the Secretary of
Treasury are gradually developed, con
fidence in the Government and in the
future is strengthened, and holders are
now anxious to Make their long ueern.
ployed means productive—hence the
ready and liberal investment in the
Five-Twenty loans at par. Almost
every town and village throughout the
country has individual holders of money,
to larger amounts probably than ever
before at one time, for which satisfacto
ry takers cannot be fouud. Many of
those are now inverters in these loans,
and the number of such is likely to in
crease, until the demand shall put all
the Government loans on a par with, at
least, the loans of the various incorpo
rated companies. The country banks
are also free takers for themselves and
their customers. On the Ist of July
this Five-Twenty Year loan will, under
the law, be withdrawn.
--, Bas CO., PS., March 20, 2 63.
J. COOKE, Esq.,
United States Loan Agent,
114 SOUTH MUM ST., PnIL'A.
Dear Sir :—I see by our papers that
you are selling for the Government a
new Loan called "Five-Twenties." I
expect to have shortly a few thousand
dollars to spare, and as I have made up
my mind that the Government Loans
are safe and good, and that it is my du
ty and interest, at this time, to put my
money into them in preference over any
other loans or stocks, I write to get in
formation of you as follows :
Ist. Why are they called "Five-Twen
ties ?"
2nd. Do you take country money, - or
only Legal Tender Notes, or will a
check on Philadelphia, or New York,
answer for Subscriptions ?
3d, Do you sell the Bonds at Par?
4th. As I cannot come to Philadel
delpbia, how am I to get the Bonds ?
sth. What Interest do they pay, and
how and when and where is it paid, and
is it paid in Gold or Legal Tender ?
6th. How does Secretary Chase get
enough Gold to pay the Interest?
ith. Will the face of the Bonds be
paid in Gold when due ?
Bth. Can I have the Bonds pfiyable
to Bearer with Coupons, or registered
and payable to my order?
9Lh. What sizes aro the bonds?
lOth. Will I have to pay the same
tax on them as I now pay on my Rail
road, or other Bonds ?
11th. What is the present debt of
the - Government, and what amount is it
likely to reach if the Rebellion should
last a year or two longer?
12th. Will Secretary Chase get
email' from Custom House duties and
Internal Revenue, Income Taxes, &c.,
&c., to make it certain that he can pay
the Interest punctually ?
I have no doubt that a good many of
my neighbors would like to take these
Bonds, and if you will answer my ques
tions I will show the letters to them.
Very Respectfully,
S.— Al,
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MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, APRIL 11 - , NO.
Office of J AY CooKE,•Surbscription
Agent, at Office of JAY COOKE &
CO., Bankers, 114 S. Third St.'
PHILADELPLIIA, March 23, 1862
Dear Sir
Your letter of the 10th inst. is reteii
ed, and I will cheeifully give you the
information desired by answering your
questions in due order.
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Ist. These Bonds are called "Five-
Twenties" because, while they ire
//vent/A - Tar Bonds, they May be redeem
ed by the Government in GOLD at any
time after five years. Many people sup
pose
that the Interest is only 5,20 per
cent. This is a mistake ; they pay SIX
per cent Interest.
2nd. Legal Tender notes or checks
upon Philadelphia or New York that
will bring Legal Tenders, are what the
Secretary allows me to .reeeive. No
doubt your nearest Bank will give you
a check or Legal Tenders for your
country funds.
3d. The Bonds are sold at PAR., the
Interest to commence the day you pay
the money.
4th. I have made arrangements with
your nearest Bank or Bankers, who will
generally have the Bonds on hand. If
not, you can send the money to me by
Express, and I will send back the
Bonds free of cost.
sth. The Bonds pay Six per cent.
Interest iu GOLD, three per cent. every
six months, on the first day of May and
Novemberat the Mint in Philadelphia,
or at Sub-Treasury in New York or
elsewhere. If you have Coupon Bonds
all you d) is to cut the proper Cou
pon off each six mouths, and collect it
yourself or give it to Bank for callec•
tiou. If you have Registered Beads,
you can give your Bank a power of at
torney to the interest for you.
6th. The duties on imports of all ar
ticles from abroad must be paid ,Goim
and this is the way SeereUary . :4haSe
gets his gold. It is now beiiig paid in
to the Treasury at the rite of Two Hun
dred Thousand Dollars each day, which
is twice as much as he needs to pay the
Interest in Gold.
7th. Congress has provided that the
Bonds shall be PAID IN GOLD when due.
Bth. You can have either Coupon
Bonds payable to the Bearer or Regis
tered Bonds payable to your order.
9th. The are former are, in 50's, 100's
500's and 1000's,—the latter in the
same amounts, also ssooo's and $lO,-
000.
- 10th. No You will not have to pay
any taxes on these Bonds if your income
from them does not exceed $6OO ; and
on all above $6OO you will only have to
pay one-half as much Income Tax as if
your money was invested in Mortages
or other Securities. I consider the Gov
ernment Bonds as.first of all—all other
Bonds are taxed one-quarter per cent, to
pay the Interest on the Government
Bonds, and the Supreme Court of the
United States has just decided no State
or City, or County can tax Government
Bonds.
11th. The present bonded debt of the
United States is less than THREE Her
MILLION, including the seven and
three-tenths Treasury Notes; but the
Government owes enough more in the
shape of Legal Tenders, Deposits in the
Sub• Treasuries, Certificates of Indebt
edness, &c., to increase the debt to
about eight or nine hundred millions.
Secretary Chase has calculated that the
debt may reach one thousand, seven
hundred millions, if the Rebellion lasts
eighteen months longer. It i; howev
er, believed now that it will not last six
months longer; but even if it does, our
National Debt will be small compared
with that of Great Britain or France
whilst our resources are vastly greater.
12th. I have no doubt that the rev
enue will not only be ample to pay the
ordinary expense of the Govetnment
and all Interest on, the debt, but leave
at least one hundred millions annually
toward paying off debts again as it has
twice before—in a few years after the
authorized notice.
I hope that all who have idle money
will at once purchase these Five-Twenty
Year Bonds. The right to demand them
or Legal Tenders will end on the first
day of July, 1863, as per the following
authorized notice:
_SPECIAL NOTICE
On and after July Ist, 1863, the priv
ilege of converting the present issue of
Legal Tender Notes into the National Six
per cent. Loan (commonly called "Five-
TwEities" )will cease.
All who wish to invest in the Five-
Twenty Loan, must, therefore, apply
before the first of July next.
JAY COOKE, Subscription Agent,
No. 114 S. Third Street, Phil's.
Those w . ho neglect these Sit per cent.
Bonds, the Interest and principal of
which they get 9oLD, may have oc
casion to regret it. I am, very truly,
your Friend JAY Q 0
. SIipSCIOTION AG ',T,
t OMce of efiY COOK.. Ai CO.,
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.IVo. 111 S. 4 2Vird Street, Philadelphia.
The' Bents and Bankers of your and
adjoining Uounties will keep a.supply
of itiEse Bonds on liand; if you prefer to
go t=he'r'e and get:them. •
low To Pro&ire' Alltsbauth
The following true story might, per
haps, furnish matter for a little comedy,
if comedies were still written in England..
It is generally' the case that the more
beautiful and richer a young female is,
the more difficult are her parents and
herself in the choice of a husband, and
the more offers they refuse. The one
is too tall, the other too short, this not
wealthy; that not respectable enough.—
Meanwhile - one spring passes after an
,other, and year after year carries .away
leaf after leaf of the blocm.of,youth, and
opportunity after Opportunity. Miss
Harriet Selwood was the richest heiress
in, her native town ; but had already
completed her twenty-seventh year,
arid beheld almost all her young friends
united to men whom eke had at one
time or other discarded. Harriet began
AO be set down for an old maid. Her
Parents became really uneasy, and she
erself lamented, in private a paition
.hick is not a natural one, and-to which
those to whom nature and fortune have
been niggardly of their gifts are obliged
to submit ; bat 'Harriet, as we. have
said, was both handsome and very rich.
Snoti was the of things when her
uncle,- a wealthy merchant in the north
pf England, came on a visit to her pa-
Was A jovial, lively, straight
map, ace - interned to attack all
difficulties boldly and coolly.
"You see," said her father to him one
day, "Harriet, continues single. The
girl is handsome ; what she is to have
for her fortune you know ; even in this
scandal-loving town, not a creature can
breathe the slightest imputation against
her; and yet she is getting to be an old
maid."
"True," replied the uncle; "but look
you, brother, the grand point in every
affair in this World is to seize the right
moment; this you have not done—it is
a misfortune ; but lot the girl go along
with me, and before the end of three
months I will return her to you as the
wife of a man as young and as wealthy
as herself."
Away went the niece with the uncle.
On the way home ho thus addressed her :
"Mind what lam going to say. You
are no longer Miss Selwood, but Mrs.
Lumley, my niece, a young, wealthy,
childless widow. You had the misfor
tune to lose your husband, Col. Lumley,
after a happy union of a quarter of a
year, by a fall from his horse while
hunting."
"But, uncle--"
"Let me manage, if you please, Mrs.
Lumley. Your father has invested me
with full powers. Here, look you, is
the wedding-ring given you by your late
husband. Jewels, and whatever else
you need, your aunt will supply you
with; and accustom yourself to cast
down your eyes."
The keen-witted uncle introduced his
niece everywhere, and the young widow
excited a great sensation. The gentle
men thronged about her, and she soon
had her choice out of twenty suitors.—
Her uncle advised her to take the one
who was deepest in love with her, and
a rare chance decreed that this should
be precisely the most amiable and opu
lent. The match was soon concluded,
and one day the uncle desired to say a
few words to his future nephew in pri
vate.
"My dear sir," he began, "we have
told you an untruth."
"flow so ? Are Mrs. Lumley's affec
tions—"
"Nothing of tho kind. My niece is
sincerely attached to you." -
"Then her fortune, I suppose, is not
equal to what you told me ?"-
"On the contrary, it is larger."
"Well, what Is the matter, then ?"
"A. joke, an innocent joke, which
came into my head one day when I was
in a good humor—we could not well re
call it afterward. My niece is not a
widow."
"What ! is Col. Lumley living ?"
"No, no j_she is a spinster."
The lover protested that he was a
happier fellow than ho had conceived
himself; and the old maid was forthwith
metamorphosed into a young wife.
April ll 18154
A—Lawyer Dude/ 'Difficulties.
. The folloWing,.precious fragment of a
diady was pinteduil several day's ago
fr6m amen." the sweepings of the ;
court. The 'original is gomewliat
faced, but there is
,enough left to ex
plain itself, and to excite sympathy for
the unfortunate author.' The first entry
was made at the time of the suspension
of specie payments in 1857. The name
of the bank in which the "bares were
held is illegible from defacement :
"1857; October 20.—Bought one hun
dred shares of bank stock at 67,
$6,700.
"1858. July 10.—Received a dividend
of four per cent, on above, viz., $4OO.
(Here follows the notation of regular
semi-annual dividends of four per cent.
up to July, 1863, the interest on the in
vestment being about fifteen per cent.
clear.)
"1863, March I.—Sold the above
stock at par, say $lO,OOO, and ordered
my broker to'buy that amount in gold
for market money next winter, for which
I paid in currency.sl7,2oo.
"March 2.—Slept well last night with
my two bags of gold under the pillow.
"March s.—Got a at of dyspepsia.—
Sick all night and no better to-day.
"March B.—Damn the brokers.. Gold
down ten or twelve per cent. - Went to
bed with an infernal headache.
"March 9.—Doctor prescribes a dose
of calomel and ,jalap to break up a
threatened attack of jaundice. Liver
torpid. :Gold down. Damn the aboli
tionists. Can't eat.
"March I.o.—Weat to the country, leav
ing discretionary power with broker to
sell my two bags of gold. Country go
ing to pot. : - .
"March IL—Returned from country.
Liver, in awful c4nditiou 14reagul
constipation. Gold a little bqttey.
Damn.the coulitry,. : P. M.—lnfernal
broker sold out my two, bags of gold at
the lowest, and now it's up again. Just
the way with these fellows. He sends
me net proceeds in greenbacks, $15,600 .
"Marchls.—Here I am on my back,
the devilish doctors at me. I'm a
dared fool."
Here ends the diary. The sum of the
speculation, as I calculated it, amounts
to this : With an outlay of $6,700 the
lawyer bought bank stock, and for five
years received an interest of fifteen per
cent. on his outlay. He then sold his
stock for $40,000, making a profit of
$3,300. By his gold speculation he lost
$2,200, got-his liver into an "awful con
dition," became "dreadfully coostipa
tad," and has a doctoes. bill in pros
pect. For•his ten thousand dollars of
bank stock, yielding an interest'of eight
per cent. a year, ho now has•seven,thou
sand eight hundred dollars in "curren
cy," yielding no interest at all, and "de
preciating" °Very day. ' The emphatic
conclusion Of the diary is worthy of
practical note. —N. Y. Post.
How COAL IS SOLD IN LONDON:-1n
the city of London coal is sent to the
consumers in sacks containing one hun
dred pounds each. These aro loaded on
large carts drawn by enormous horses,
with scales and weights to each cart,
and, if desired by the purchaser, the
sack is weighed by the driver. When
the honesty of the coal merchant and
the integrity of the driver are well es
tablished, the weighing of the sack is
seldom required. In the purchase of a
cart-load of sacks, some three or four of
them, taken promiscuously, are tested
by the scales, and if found correct, the
weighing of the remainder of the load is
dispensed with. This mode Of buying
and selling coal is the result of many
years' experience in the city of London.
eir A Witness in court who had been
cautioned to give a precise answer to
every question, and not talk about what
he might think the question meant, was
interrogated as follows : "You drive
the Rockingham coach ?" "No, sir; I
do not." "Why, man, did you not tell
my learned friend so this moment ?"
'No, sir, I did not." "Now, sir, I put
it to you on your oath--do you not
drive the Rockingham coach ?" No, sir,
—I drive the horses?"
tir This now common expression is a
corruption of the word "Domburgh,"
and originated in the following manner:
During a period when war prevailed on
the Continent, so many false reports and
lying bulletines were fabricated at Ham.
burgh, that at length, when any one
would signify his disbelief of a state
ment, he would say : "You had that
from ,lEfambvg ;" and thus "That is
Himbiiii," Or:humbug, became a com
mon express erinCredulity.
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A S9=LWEA's.bnT.P.l — .77l O
letter, picked .up in camp , by au Ufrder
Of one of the thitachunentssla.tiOnc
Harper's `erry, has'been
for' publication as a cu:lcsltv tu:l,ta
,
ry literaturb. AVe giva ye.,
lileratim, and though 'the
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may cause, a smile,. Nve cap asst;re t'.::;reader that the evil complained.. n 9
joke.
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To his Xlcncy Afister President
and Commander in phieftof the‘4l-My,.
Honable a r ms our
payshinfl.e is both worn out. ,w . ith. the
grannit biskit sarved out to n . s y V:LL:
tious. Its easier for a %viper to bite a
file than it is for the rank and filo to
chars hard. tack. S( , nletintes our friends
sends us a few boxes of Dayton's Boston
Crackers and Milk Bis . kits - from Wash
ington, which is reseved with more grat
itoml.than the manor is the wil6rness
was the Holy . Moses.. Xient Sir,
couldut you have those holesomo and
deliteful articles substitooted for the
slivers of flint as is ruining our t . ,:.;.11
and skinnin the insides of our stunt
micas ? Hopping your Xl,;:ney will par
don the liberty I .have, and en
closing a peco of, hard tecif fin d a pec.i
of the Dayton biskit for. comparison, .1
remain your Xl.ency's humble sorer.
LIE LAND ,0,1 ; CONTItA. lITES,--In Aus
tralia 'the north is the hot wifid, an I t 1.6
south the cool ;.the : westerly- wind the
most unhealthy,,aad the east the most
salubrious. It is summer with the cL.le
ny when it is winner hero, and the ba
rometer is conside.red to rise before bad
weather and to fail before good. .Tb.o
swans are black,
..,and the enles are
• white ; the mole. liqs.cgge, 41id has p.
duck's bill; the kangaroo (an animal
hgtween, the deer aut) the ,squirrel,) has
_fire claws on his fore paws, threetalon:s
on his hind legs".,like.. a bird, an-1 yet
hops °laths tail. ,There, is' a bird (me
,illphaga), -which has ,a' :broom in its
anciuth-instead..of.a.toogu.e... The cod is
found in the rivem-ttellthe perch in the
sea ; the , valleys are cold; and the moun
tain-tops warm. • nettle is a lofty
tree, and the poplar a dwarfish shrub
the pears are of wood, with the stalks at
the broad ends ; the cherry grows with
the stone outside. The fields are fenced
with mahogany, the humblest house is
fitted up with cedar, and mrytle plants
are burnt for fuel. The trees are-with
out fruit, - their loWers witlyut scent,
and the birds without song.. .Such is
the land of Australia!
MIGRATION or Egt.s..—.4 ; qlc•se „obselr
vex states thatlhefollowing interestiqg
evolution occur when eels come IA from
the sea. The aggregate shoal, about ,c , .1
ascend the inland streams ; moves ,tjp
the shore of the river, in the feral of .a
long, dark, rope-like body, in shape not
unlike an enormous specimen of the an
imal which" composes it. On reaching
the first tributary, a portion, consisting
of the number of eels adequate for pro
piing this stream, detach thernEelve:
from the main body, and - pass •up f•ano.
in the subsequent onward rra9.3(c of th•.!
shoal, this marvelous system of tie-tar:fl
ing, on reaching the mouths of th. - •
brooks, a propertionate.qUantity of ti:e
great advancing swarm, is repeated, on.
til the entire number has been. aeitablY
provided with rivulets to revel id--ski?.ll
being the wonderfol instinct by which
nature ordains that - caeh stream shall
be provided with a competent ntimbe . :
of these migratory creatures.
""Class in the miacile occcgr.i
phy, stand up : What's a pyramfd ?''
"A pile of men in a circus, one on ton
of top of the other."
"Where's Egypt ?" •
"Where it always was."
• "Where's Wale's ?"
"All over the sea."
"Very well—stay there till I
you a species of birch that grows all
over the country."
fpr .& few days ago, two large trunk:i
filled with fine-tooth combs, were s - iize,l
in Washington on their way to
That was too bind. it was cruel. It
was remorseless.. Do the - United Stan—,
authorities mean that the, poor
shall be eaten alive t.
The afflicted rebels have precious lit
tle use for their own teeth, but a grert,
deal for comb-teeth,
w Why is a c'rtisty old maid. of fifty
like the most beautiful, most accom
plished, most elegant and most admira
ble young lady in the. town ? Pocau:i,
she is "matchless."
tar Whatprevents the running ri v
running away ? Why, it's tide up,
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