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The fire of Freedom burns,
March to her alter. now ;
Bear on her sacred urns
Where all her sons must bow.
Woman of nerve and thought,
Bring in the urn your power!
By you is manhood taught
To meet this supreme hour.
Come with your sunlit life,
Maiden of gentle eye !
Bring to the gloom of strife
Light by which heroes die.
Give, rich men, proud and free,
Your children's costliest gem 1
For liberty shall be
Your heritage to them.
Oh friend, with heavy urn,
What offering bear you on I
The figure did net turn;
I heard a voice : "My son."
The fire - of Freedom burns, .
Her flame shall reach tlfe -hetv'emt ,
Heap up our sacred urns!
Though life 'for life be given.
One Good Tarn Deserves Another.
Mr. Pilkinson, a small farmer in
Pennsylvania. was some time since
drafted for the service of his country.—
The wife, though she possessed but a
small stock of general information, is
one of the best conjugal partners, as she
was much troubled at the thought of
parting with her husband. As she was
engaged in scrubbing off her doorsteps,
a rough•looking man came up and thus
addressed her:
"I hear, ma'am that your husband has
been drafted."
"Yes, sir, he has," answered Mrs. Pil
kinson, "though, dear knows, there's
few men that couldn't better be spared
from their families."
"Well, ma'am, I've come to offer my
self SE a substitute for him."
"A what?" asked Mrs. ?Mineola with
some excitement.
"I am willing to take his place," said
the stranger.
"You take the place of my husband,
you wretch I I'll teach you to insult a
distressed woman that way, you vaga
bond," said she, as she discharged the dir
ty soap suds in the face of the discomfit
ed and astonished substitute, who took
to his heels just in time to escape having
his head broken by the bucket.
*lir An old lady, resident of Provi
dence, who had never ridden in the care,
was persuaded, by the combined efforts
of her children, James and Mary, to ac
company them on an excursion, she all
the time saying that she knew something
would happen. She took her seat with
fear and trembling, taking hold of the
arm of the seat next the passageway.—
The train was late, as excursion trains
are usually, and in coming round a curve,
the Boston express train was on the
track, both nearing each other rather
faster than was pleasant. The momen
tum of each train was nearly lost, and
they came together with a chuck, which
pitched the lady on her face in the pas
sageway, between the seats. She rose
to her hands and knees, and looking
back, asked, "Ames, do they alias stop
like that ?"
t o- Farmer B.— was sitting in the
country church. Be had been working
hard in the harvest field ; hands were
scirce, and farmer B— was dozing.—
The loud tones of the minister failed to
arouse the farmer, until at length, the
time waning, the good man cloned the
lids of the Bible and concluded as fol
lows :
"Indeed, my hearers, the harvest is
plenteous, but the laborers are few."
"Yes," exclaimed farmer "I've
offered two dollars a day, for credlers,
end can't get 'em sF t 1,114,"
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MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1863.
MUSIC HiTli CHARMS.
A DOMESTIC SKETCH WITH A MORAL.
Four months had flown swiftly away
since Edward Somerton bad married
Rose Bland. Qne evening toward sun.
set, as they sat together at a window
opening on to a garden, enjoying the
welcome coolness, and talking over -vs
rim matters with that interest in each
other which people generally evince
four months after marriage, Rose, for
the first time began to pout. Edward
had, she said. flirted desperately with
Mrs. Harding on the preceding evening.
He had spoken to her in a low tone
several times, and had been heard pub
licly to declare that Harding was a for
tunate felloir. If this were the way he
meant to go on, she would be wretched,
and no longer place any confidence in
his affection.
"My pretty dear," said Edward, pla
cing his arm around the waist of his
wife, and accompanying this action by
another trifling performance, "don't be
jealous. Believe me there is no cause.
Oa one of the occasions when I ad
dressed Mrs. [larding in so low a tone,
I remarked the room was very warm ;
and on another, if I remember rightly,
I observed that the , last novel was very
doll ; so you will perceive our conver
sation was really of a most innocent de
scription. And, Rose, because I said
Harding was a fortunate fellow, itds'not
to be inferred that I must endeaior to
render him an unfortunate fellow."
The mild answer failed to turn away;
the wrath . of Rose. She coquettishly
refused to be convinced, became more
violent and unreasonable. and finally
retired' precipitately from the room,
with her handkerchief applied to her
eyes.
Edward quietly pyt• up his'feet on the
chair she had left vacant, and leaned
back in meditation.
Here was the decisive moment which'
would most likely determine wheth k
they were to dwell together for the ftr
tore happily or miserably. Rose was a
dear girl—a sweet girl ; but she had
large black eyes, and they are very den
gerous. She had been an onlidaughter,
ton, and perhaps a little spoiled ; but
with fewer faults might she not have
been less. charming ? It is worth study
ing how to live lovingly with such a
creature, especially when you know she
mars, by her capriciousness, her own
happiness as much as yours.
Edward felt that the charge of his
wife was totally unfounded, and he half
suspected that she believed so herself,
but had resolved to be, or seem, out of
humor without any very particular
cause. One thing was evident—that
she could not hear reason. Something
else must therefore be tried, in order to
allay any future storm—for this was
probably the very first of a series. Ed
ward resolved to try music.
He was an ameteur of some preten
sions, and he set himself immediately to
call over in his memory the melodies
most likely to calm the passions and
exert a soothing effect on the temper.
Ile made choice of three, which he ar
ranged in a graduated scale, to be used
according to the urgency of the occa
sion ; gentle, more gentle, and most
gentle, as the outbreak was or became
violent, more violent, or most violent.
The scale contained only three degrees.
As the heat rose, this conjugal thermom
eter fell ; but below the third and low
est all was zero and undefined mystery.
Patience therefore acted the part of
mercury reversed.
The melodies were the following, and
were arranged in the following order:—
"In my cottage near a wood," "Sul mar
gin° d'tin rio," and 'Home, sweet home'
They were all of a pleasing, touching
character ; the last purely domestic, and
under the circumstances, conveying a
delicate satire likely to do good. Re
had hitherto played these popular airs
en the German flute ; but he proposed
now to execute them in a graceful, ap
parently unpremeditated whistle. His
plan thus settled, Edward felt his mind
quite easy, and he awaited the appear
ance of Mrs. Somerton with a gratifying
consciousness of being ready for what
ever might occur.
In due time came toffee. The injured
lady came too, and with a placid coun
tenance, betraying no lingering evidence
of its late unamiable expression. Neith
er husband or wife made any allusion to
their misunderstanding, and they passed
a pleasant evening, made up of convex.-
sation, the piano forte, and chess.
But the next morning—the very next
morning, Rose favored her dear Edward
with a number of the series. She want
ed him to walk out with her, end he de-
clared that unfortunately he should be
too busy to go with her all day. This
was quite sufficient raw material for a
girl of spirit to work upon.
"I'm sure you don't want to go, Ed
ward," said she, pouting in exact ineita
tion of fit nninber one. "At least you
don't want to go with me."
Edward plunged both hands into the
pockets of his dressing-gown—threw
himself indolently on a sofa—gazed ab
stractedly at a bronze bust of Shakes
peare on the mantel-piece—and began
whistling in a low tone a plaintive
melody, it was "In my cottage near a
wood."
"If I were any one bat your wife,"
continued Mrs. Somerton, with pointed
emphasis, you would be ready enough
to come ; but wives, you know, are ail
ways neglected." Mr. Somerton con
tinned whistling.
I beg, Mr. Somerton," exclaimed
Mrs. Somerton, with a withering look,
"that you will not whistle in that very
disagreeable manner while I am speak
ing to yon. If lam not worthy of your
love, I trust I am worthy of common
attention."
Edward plunged his hands deeper
into his pockets, removed his eyes from
the bust of Shakespeare, and fixed them
in intense regard on a bust of Milton.—
He paused suddenly in the air which be
was whistling, and commenced another;
it was "Siil - mnigine (run riot'
Mrs. Spmerton retired hastily with
her pretty' , " „face buried in a white cam
-brie pocket handkerchief.
`"- For five whole days' lifter this scene
alt was halcyon weather. belies might
have beheld and envied. Honey was
still to be found in the moon, and no
impolitic reference to either of the two
foolish quarrels gave any pleasure the
slightest daiih of bitter.
But on the sixth day there appeared
clouds. Edward had been in town, and
bad promised to bring a pair of new
braaelets for Rose. He arrived home
phnctually at dinner-time, but without
the bracelets—he had forgotten them.—
I put it to you whether this was not
enough to try the temper of a saint ?
They were going the nest evening to a
large party, and Rose had intended to
inspect the important ornaments this
evening, and take Edward's opinion, so
that there might be time to change
them if not approved of. Now she
could not do so—and all from his horrid
forgetfulness. She must either go in a
stupid old-fashioned thing, or put on
new ones in a hurry, good or bad, just
as they happened to be. It was most
annoying—that indeed it was
Edward made many apologies, He
was sincerely sorry to have disappointed
her, and even offered to return to town
after dinner and rephir hia neglect. 0.
no ; she would not hear of his taking so
much trouble for her. What did he care
whether she was disappointed or not ?
His forgetfulness showed how much he
thought of her.
Edward again essayed the soothing
system, for he loved her, and was con
scious that he had given her cause for
some slight chagrin. However, she be
came so persevering that but one course
was left him to pursue--be left off talk
ing and took to whistling.
I tremble for the future peace of Rose
while I relate that he considered himself
justified in descending to the second
degree, of the scale. He commenced,
Andante ma non troppo, "Sul margins
d'un rio."
"To leave me in such a situation 1"
exclaimed the ill•used wife, in a voice
interrupted by sobs, "when I had set
my heart upon those bracelets. It is
very, very unkind, Edward."
Edward appeared wrapt in meditation
and music. He whistled with great
taste and feeling, accented the first note
of each bar as it should be accented.—
But upon another more cutting obser
vation from Mrs. Somerton, he stopped
short, looked sternly at her, and began
"Home, sweet horns."
What was to follow ? He had reached
the last degree, and all else was at ran
dom, Should this fail, the case was
indeed hopeless. Shadows of demons
hovered around, holding forth tempting
ly deeds of separation. The bright gold
wedding ring on• the lady's finger grew
dull sod brassy.
Edward Somerton stood in the centre
of the room, with hie arms folded, gazing
with a steady gaze ibto the very soul of
his wife, who, under the Strange fasciae,
tion, could not turn away her head.—
With a dear and tremulous whistle he
recited the whole of that beautiful Sicil
ian melody from the first note to, the
lase < Then m lyplving slowly.on lie heel,
withoutits,Tists•word, left the room
established April 11, 185-1:-
shutting the door punctiliously after
him. Mrs. Somerton sunk overpowered
on the sofa.
Rose, though pretty, was not silly ;
she saw clearly that she had made a
mistake, and, like a sensible girl; she
resolved not to go on with it merely
because she begun it. Bad temper, it
seemed, would only serve to make her
-ridiculous instead of interesting—and
that was not altogether the effect de
sired.
In half an hour the husband and wire
met at the dinner table, Mrs. Somer
ton sat smiling at the head, and was
very attentive in helping Mr. Somerton
to the choicest morsels. Be was in
unusually high spirits, and a more happy
small party could scarcely be met with
From that day (which was ten years
ago) to the present time, Mrs. Somerton
has never found fault without cause.—
Once or twice, indeed, she has gone so
far as to look serious about nothing;
but the frown left her countenance at
once when Edward began to whistle in
a low tone, as if unconsciously, the.first
few bars of "In my cottage near a wood."
The Slaves of Prejudice,
Death Robbed of his Prey.--There are
queer people in the world ; people with
the most absurd, unreasonable, and in
defensible prejudices. For example,
we have met with individuals who have
a morbid antipathy to anything that
was extensively advertised, no matter
what might be its actual claims to the
confidence of the public. These eccen
trics looked with especial disfavor on
advertised medicines, They could not
see, for example, in Dr. Holloway's
magnificent system of advertising, cover
ing, as it does, all the mediums of pub
licity which the world affordlt, anything
but a gigantic scheme of mere specula
tion. True, they could not gainsay the
testimony pouring in spontaneously
from the highest sources, in favor of his
incomparable Pills and Ointment, but
still they shook their heads and mat
tered "humbug." Of course, - there is
no possibility of arguing with men who
won't reason. The best way is to let
them alone, Fortunately, such speci
mens of stupidity, are "few and far be
tween" in this enlightened era. The
general feeling is, that if a thing is in
itself excellent, its virtues should be
proclaimed to the four winds of heaven,
for the general benefit of mankind.—
Hence, the proclamations made by Dr.
Holloway, through the entire newspa
per press of the world, of the properties
and operation of his remedies, meets
with the cordial approval of thinking
men. The value of the preparations as
specifies for the various internal and ex
ternal complaints peculiar to different
climates, or common to the world at
large, is conceded, not only by the mass
es, but by governments: men of science,
and candid observers -in • every walk of
life. Can such remedies be too widely
known? Impossible I
WELL PUT. The Louisville Journal
says if anybody is dissatisfied with Fed
eral money, let him go South and get
Confederate money. If anybody is dis
satisfied with United States taxes, let
him go South and pay Southern taxes.
If anybody is dissatisfied with the Uni
ted States enrollment, let him go South
and enjoy the benefits of the Southern
conscription.
eir A poor boy, applying for refuge
at a police station house, reported his
case thus : "First my father died, then
my mother married again, and then my
mother died, and my father married
again, and somehow or other, I don't
seem to have no parents at all, nor no
home, nor no nothing."
sir "Pap," observed a young urchin
of ten years to his "fond parent," "does
the Lord know everything ?" "Yes, my
son," replied the hopeful sire. "But
why do you ask that question ?" Be
cause our preacher when he prays, is so
long telling him everything, I thought
he wasn't posted." The parent reflected.
gfrg. We won't indulge in such horrid
anticipations, as the henpecked husband
said when the parson told him he would
be joined to his wife in another world,
never more to be seperated from her.—
"Parson, I hope you will not mention
that unpleasant circumstance again,"
Said he.
It is said that General Bragg
and General Breckinridge are trying,
like a couple of owls, to hoot each oth
er down.
ear What church do you attend, Mrs.
Partington r—"Oh, any paradox church
vbere.:the Gospel ill dispensed iitb l"
NO. 49.
ALEX% H. STEPHENS A PROPHET.
Secession Judged by its Fruits.—lt le
well known that the present Vice Presi
dent of the Confederacy thade a speech
strongly opposed to secession in the
Georgia Convention of January, 1861.
The following extracts will show how
clearly he perceived the iniquity, and
foresaw the results of the measure : •
"That this step once taken could
never be recalled, and all the baleful.
and withering consequences that mast
follow (as they would see) will rest on
the convention for all coming time.—
When we and our posterity shall see
our lovely South desolated by the demon
of war which this act of yours will inevi
tably invite and call forth ; when our
green fields of waving harvests shall be
trodden down by the murderous soldiery
and fiery car of war sweeping over our
land ; our temples of justice laid in ash
es ; all the horrors and desolations of
war upon us ; who but this convention
will be held responsible for it ? sad who
but him who shall have given his vote
for this unwise ;and ill-timed measure
(as I honestly think and believe) shall
be held to strict account far this spiel
dal act, by the present generation, and
probably cursed and execrated by pos
terity for all coming time, for the wide
and desoltitingzilin that will inevitably
follow this act you now propose to per
petrate.
"Pause, I entreat you, and consider
for a moment what reasons you can give
that will even satisfy yourselves in calm
er moments—what reasons you can give
to your fellow sufferers in the calamity
that it will bring upon us What rea
sons can you give to the great nations
of the earth to justify it? They will
be the calm and deliberate judges in the
case, and to what cause or one overt act
can you name or point, on which to rest
the plea of justification ? What right
has the North assailed ? What interest
of the South has been invaded ? What
justice has been denied ? and what
claim founded in justice and right has
been withheld? Can either of you to
day: name one governmental act of
wrong, deliberately and purposely done
by the government of Washington, of
which the South has a right to com
plain ? I challenge the answer !
"I must declare here, as I have often
done before, that which has been repeat
ed by the greatest and wisest of states
men and patriots in this and other lands,
that it is the best and freest government
—the moat equal in its rights—the most
just in its decisions—the most lenient
in its measures, and the most inspiring
in its principles to elevate the race of
men, that the sun of heaven ever shone
upon.
"Now, for you to attempt to over
throw such a government as.`this, under
which we bane lived for more than three
quarters of a century—in which we have
gained our wealth, our standing as a
nation, our domestic safety while the
elements of peril are around us, Rith
peace and tranquility, accompanied
with unbounded prosperity and rights
unassailed—in the highth of madness,
folly and wickedness, to which I call
neither lend my sanction nor my vote."
The correspondent of the Lon , lop
Times, writing from Richmond under
date of March 23d, uses language strong.
ly corroborative of Mr. Stevens' pro.
dictions. He says:
"If the civilized powers of Europe
could only witness the misery which is.
from every acre of this once favored
continent, crying aloud to Heaven, it
could scarcely be but that they would
risk some chance of failure rather than
permit humanity to be outraged by con
tinuance of such excess of anguish. as
has visited no nation since the sword
first leaped from its scabbard, and the
human heart was first sown with the
seed of vindictiveness and hate.
sir Alarming stories have been told
about people being poisoned with rye•
coffee; but Mrs. Partiegton 'suggests
that some of them who use the extract
of old rye in other fluid forms, may be
subject to quite as much damage as the
rye coffee drinkers.
ige- Profane language is abominable.
Loud laughing is impolite. Inquisitive
ness is offensive. Tattling is mean.—
Telling lies is contemptible. Slander
ing is devilish. Ignorance is disgrace
ful, and laziness is ehatneful.
igirA conundrum -maker :Mks : "What
is the difference between an acquednct
and a drunken . man ? One is water-tight
and the other rum tight," Throilt-up
thelponge - .! ' .