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Such as Constipation, inward Piles, ful ness or blood to the head, acidity of the Stom ach, Nausea, Heartburn, disgust for food, ful ness or weight in the stomach, sour Eructations, sinking or fluttering at the pit of the Stomach, swimming of the Head, hurried and difficult Breathing, Buttering at the Heart, choking or suffocating sensations when is a lying posture, dimness of Vision, dots or webs before the Sight, fever and dull pain in the Head, defi ciency of Perspiration, yellowness of the Skin and Eyes pain in the Side, Back, Chest, Limbs, ac., sudden flushes of Heat, burning in the Flesh, constant imaginings of Evil, and grief, depression of Spirits. And will positively prevent Yellow Fever, Billions Fever &c.— They contain no Alchohol or bad Whisky.— They WILL CURE the above diseases in ninety nine cases out of a hundred. The proprietors have thousands of letters from the most eminent Clergymen, Lawyers, Physicians, and Citizens, testifying of their own personal knowledge, to the beneficial ef fects and medical virtues of these Bitters. I Do you want something to strengthen you ,9 Do you want a good appetite? Do you wank. to build up your constitution ? Do you want to feel well? Do you want to get rid of Ner vousness? Do you want energy? Do you want to sleep well ? Do you want a brisk and vigorous feeling? If you do, use HoopLa OD's German Bitters. PARTICULAR NOTICE.—There are many preparations sold under the name of I:litters, put up in quart bottles, compounded of the cheapest Whisky or common ruin, costing from 20 to 40 cents per gallon, the taste disguised by Anise or Coriander Seed. This class of Bitters has caused and will con tinue to cause, as long as they can be sold, hundreds to die the death of the drunkard.— By their use the system is kept continually under the influence of alchoholic stimulants of the worst kind, the desire for liquor is created and kept up, and the result is ail the horrors attendant upon a drunkard's life and death. . . . For those who desire and will have a Liquor Bitters, we publish the following receipt. Get one bottle of lloolland's Bitters and mix with three quarts of good brandy or whisky, and the result will be a preparation that will fur excel in medicinal virtues and true excellence any of the numerous Liquor Bitters in the market, and will cost mach less. You will have all the virtues of lioolland's Bitters in connection with a good article of liquor, at a much less price than these inferior prepara tions will cost you. ATTENTION SOLDIERS ! We call the atten tion of all having relations or friends in the army to the fact that "lioofland's German Bitters" will cure nine-tenths of the diseases induced by exposures and privations incident to camp life. In the lists, published almost daily in the newspapers, on the arrival , of the sick, it will be noticed that a very large pro portion are suffering from debility. Every case of that kind can be readily cured by Boodand's Gelman Bitters. Diseases result ing from disorders of the digestive organs are speedily removed. We have no hesitation in stating that, if these Bitters were freely used among our soldiers, hundreds of lives might be saved that otherwise will be lost. We call the particular attention to the fol lowing remarkable and well authenticate, cure of one of the nation's heroes, whose life to use his language, "has been saved by the Bitters :" PHILADELPIIIA, August 23d, 1562. Messrs. Junes ik Eueuns.- Well, gentleman, your Hoofland's German Bitters have saved my life. There is no mistake in this. His vouch ed for by numbers of my comrades, some of whose names are appended, and who are fully cognizant of all the circumstances of my case. I am, and have been fur the last four years, a member of Sherman's celebrated battery, and under the immediate command of Cap tain R. B. Ayres. Through the exposure at terdant upon my arduous duties, I was attack ed in November last with innamation of the lungs, and was for seventy-two days in the hospital. This was followed by great debility, heightened by an attack of dysentery. I was then removed from the White House, and sent to this city on board the Steamer "State of Maine," from which I landel on the 28th, ofiune. , Since that time I have been about as low as any one could and still retain a spark of vitality. For a week or more 1 was scarcely able to swallow anything, and if I did force a morsal down, it was immediately thrown up again. I could not even keep a glass of water on my stomach. Life could not last under these circumstances: and, accordingly, the physi. cians who had been working faithfully, though unsuccessfully to rescue me from the grasp of the dread Archer, frankly told me they could do no more for me, and advised me to see a clergyman, and to make such disposi tion of my limite 1 funds as best suited rue.— An acquaintance who visited me at the hospi tal, Mr. Frederick Steinbron, of Sixth below Arch street, advised me, as a forlorn hope, to try your Bitters, and kindly procured a bottle. From the time I commenced taking tnem the gloomy shadow of death receded, and I am now, thank God for it, getting better. Tim' 1 have taken but two bottles, I have gained ten pounds, and I feel sanguine of being pei .tnitted to rejoin my wife and daughter, from whom I have heard nothing for eighteen months: for, gentlemen, I am a loyal Virgin ian, from the vicinity of Front Royal. To your invaluable Bitters I owe the certainty of life which has taken the placo of vague fears —to your Bitters will I owe the glourious pri vilege of again clasping to my bosom those who are dearest to me in life. Very truly yours, ISAAC MA LONE. We fully concur in the truth of the above Statement, as we had despaired of seeing our comrade, Mr. Malone, restored to health. J‘hti Cuddleback, Ist New York Battery. George A. Ackley, Co. C., 11th Maine. Lewis Chevalier, 92d New York. I. E. Spencer, lit Artillery, Battery F. J. B. Fasewell, Co. 11, 3d Vermont.. Henry B. Serome, Co. B. do. Henry T.'Macdonald, Co. C. 6th Maine. John F. Ward, Co. E. sth Maine. Nathaniel B. Thomas, Co. F., 95th Penn. Jahn Jenkins, Co. 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JOB Pnix•rugn of every desenption neatly and expeditiously executA, and at prises to suit t • eNtimes. /Pray what do they do at the Springs. Pray what do they do at the springs, The question is easy to ask, But to answer it fully my dear Were rather a serious task. And yet in a bantering way, As the magpie or mocking bird sings ; I'll venture 'a bit of a song, To tell you what they do at the springs Imprimis, my darling they drink, The waters so sparkling and clear, Though the flavor is none of the best, The odor exceedingly qUeer, But tLe fluid is mingled you know With wholesome medicinal thing's, So they drink, and they drink, and they drink, And that's what they do at the springs. Then with appetites keen as a knife, They hasten to breakfast or dine, The latter precisely at three— The former from seven till nine. Ye gods what a rustle and rush, When the eloquent dinner bell rings, So they eat, and they eat, and they eat, And that's what they do at the springs, Then they stroll in the beautiful walks Or 101 l in the shade of the trees, When many a whisper is heard That never is henrd by the breeze ; And hands commingled with hands Regardless of conjugal rings, So they flirt, and they flirt, and they flirt, And that's what they do at the springs. The drawing-rooms now are ablaze And music is shrieking away, Terpsichore governs the hour, And fashion was never so gay. An arm round a tapering waist, How closely and fondly it clings, • So they waltz, and they waltz, and they waltz, And that's what they do at the springs. • In short as it gOes in the world, They eat, they drink, and they - sleep, They talk, they walk, and they woo, They sigh, they laugh, and they weep, They read, they ride, and they dance, 'With other unspeakable things, And they pray, and they Play, and. they pay, And that's what they do at the springi. A SUB-CLERICAL SCAPEGRACE.—Many good stories are told of Dr. Lawson, a Presbyterian minister in Scotland, who was so absent-minded that he was some times quite insensible to the world around him. One of his sons, who af terwards became a highly esteemed Christian minister, was a very tricky boy, perhaps mischievous in 11 - :s tricks. Near the Mansion lived an old woman, of crabbed temper and rather ungodly in her mode of living. She and the boy had quarreled, and the result was that he took a quiet opportunity to kill one of her hens. She went immediately to Dr. Lawson, and charged his son with the deed. She was believed, and as it was not denied, punishment was inflict ed. He was ordered to abide in the Crouse ; and to make the sentence more severe his father took him into his study, and commanded him to sit there with him. The son was restless, and fre quently eyed the door. At last he saw his father drowned in thought, and qui etly slipped out, He went directly to the old woman's and killed another hen, returning immediately and taking his place in the library, his rather having never missed him. The woman speedi ly made her appearance, and charged the slaughter again upon him. Dr. Lawson, however, waxed angry—de clared her to be a false accuser, as the boy had been closeted with him all the time—adding: "Besides, this convinces me that you had just as little ground for your first accusation ; I therefore acquit him of both, and he may go out now." The woman went off in high dudgeon, and the prisoner in high glee. sir A thickheaded' squire being worsted by Rev. Sidney Smith in an ar gument, took his revenge by exclaiming : "ff I had a son who was an idiot I would make him a parson." "Very probable," replied Sidney, "but I see your father was of a different opinion." MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1863. HE SECOND 'WIFE, V CHAPTER 1. THE FIRST WIFE. "I am the most unforlunate man in the world I " exclaimed Frederick Rod man, as he threw himself in a chair in the sanctum of his friend and confident, Thomas Sumner. " What is the matter now, Fred ?" said Thomas, with a smile upon his face, for he was not wholly unaccustomed to the repinings of the other. " I am miserable?" • "Pooh, nonsense !" " You can't understand my case." "I can't he miserable—l don't want to be ; I could'nt if I tried," laughed out Thomas. "You have everything to make you contented, and nothing to make you un happy," groaned Frederick. Just as much as you have, Fred." "I m sure I have." "No you haven't." "You aye a salary of eighteen hun dred doll rs a year, which is one third more tha I get. Yon own a godd house ; you ave three healthy children, and a pretty, accomplished wife—" " That's, alr , you know about it. My salary- is all I want, and everything else is satisfactory," interposed Frederick.— "I complain of none of these:things." " What do you complain of then ?" " I'm miserable in spite of all these things." " What, with money enough, a wife—" "There's where the - shoe pinches." "Your wife ?" asked Thomas, with a glance of astonishment. Frederick nodded, though very mach like one who is ashamed of himself. Let it be understood before our story pro ceeds any further that the two gentle men are friends of twenty years stand ing, having been "boys together," and having kept side by side thus far thro' life. Each was the confident of the oth er: so much so that Tom's wife was half jealous of the intimacy that existed be tween them. "You are not going to complain of your wife," continued Tom. " I can't keep it any longer. I shall feel easier after I have unburdened my mind of this dreadful secret," replied Fred, with a woeful glance at the other. "Out with 'it, my dear fellow." "I was deceived in my wife." "The deuce you'were ; and have you just found it out after living with her seven years 2 '' " I could not speak of it, even to you, Tom." " What has happened, Fred`? " " Nothing new, it is the old story, only agravated by long continuance." " What ails her?" "I am not happy with her." "I am sorry for that; bu) is it your fault, or hers, or. both ? " - "I don't think it, is my fault. I am sure I try to be a, good husband. I have always done everything I could to please her, and to make her contented and hap py.l.l ";That long face of yours is almost enough to disgust her with humanity," continued Tom laughing. " Do you think I have done anything to make her unhappy ?" "I don't; but lam astonished. Why Fred, when you married Julia, you im rnagined her the handsomest woman in the world. She is very pretty now, and half the men in town envy you." "Beauty is nothing compared with— " With what ? " "With neatness." • "what 1 Fred, you are an old Betty! You are a fool !" exclaimed Tom, jump ing out of•his chair. • "If you had suffered one half what I bave, you would'think differently." "Do you mean to say that Julia f.s not a neat woman ?" " I do Tom." "I don't believe it. Just explain a little." " Well, for instance, she is not neat about her person." . "If that were true, Fred, I would give you my sympathy; but it is not." " I sometimes come home and find her with a dirty calico gown on her." ".Would you have her to wear silk to take care of the baby? "Perhaps not silk, Tom, but= "You have 'no business to have ba bies, Fred. Do you expect your wife to take care of a child all day, and look as nice as waxwork? You are wrong. I have heard my wife,speak- of Julia as 'a very neat woman ;, net 'nasty nice' bat much neater 04nNcaien generally are." " She is mistaken ; I could speak of other things." "Don't speak any more of that sort Is she ill-humored or fretful ?" "No." "Then go home and thank your stars you are so well situated." "You don't understand my case, Tom." "Yes, I do, precisely. You are more nice than wise. It isn't possible for your wife to keep your house perfectly nice while she has three children about her. She does very well. I •think Ju lia is one of the best women in the world. Does she neglect your wants 2" " Does she not take good care of you when you are sick ?" " The best in the world." And Tom questioned him on a dozen other, points, and everything was satis factory. "You are an old Betty, Fred. You ought to have been an old woman. I see through it. You are tired of her. You have lived with her seven years, and she has become an old story. The novelty of existence has worn away, and yen have selected one thing, considering that you have made out a good case against her. You have not.. No doubt she has her faults and foibles. Perhaps, in some particular instance, you have had reason to complain of a want of neatness; but she is not generally . unti dy. 1 knoW to bille - contrary. Now, Fred, you must look on both sides of the question. You'must give her credit for all her love, patience, and fidelity; for the weary days and nights she has watched by the bedside, when you and your children lave been sick ; for her gentleness, her soft words that turn away wrath ;.for herself, an angel on the whole, who has deScended froin heaven to brighten your: path; and against this long list of blessings you are to debit the accidental leaving of a slop pail in the entry, and the unpar donable-sin of wearing a calla° dress which the baby had soiled. Get out, Fred ! you area heathen." "You.don't understand my case," moaned the poor husband. "Haven't I summed it up for you 7" ".You don't know what I have en dured." " I don't want to know. By the way, Fred, have you got fifty dollars in your pocket to lend me fora fortnight ?" "I have," replied Fred, promptly pulling out his wallet and handing ever the money. " Sorry to trouble you again." " Glad to do it, Tom," he added with a smile, which evinced his sincerity. " Think no more of your wife's short comings. We must bear a good deal, and you have less than your share." " I can't help thinking how different it would have been if I had married Emily Berard." "'Married the—town pump 1" ex claimed Tom, indignantly, "She is' an old Betty 1" "You wrong her: When I was mar ried she ,was very beautiful." " Beautiful enough now ; but f wouid sooner have married my grandmother. Why didn't you marry her P' "Because I was a fool. It would have been different with me now if I had." "That's a fact! She is no more the equal of jab. than Biddy lloreen, the washer-woman." Frederick Rodman went home not at all comforted or assured by the eloquent rebuke of his friend. Emily Berard, the old flame, was uppermost in his thoughts. It had been said that she was a volun tary old maid on his account. She was a very nice body, and no doubt would have made him a very good wife; so did Julia, but it takes two to make a happy couple. . . CHAPTER-11. THE SECOND WIFE. The lapse of '6. single year produced a great change in the household of Fred erick Rodman. The scarlet fever bad raged in the town, and his two youngest children had fallen victims to its vio lence.' :fuliri,i'ivorn out by the loss of of sleep and:the poignant grief of their sickness and death, was prostrated with' typo old. fever, from the effects of which she did not'recove'r. Frederick wept bitterly and sincerely over the grave of his wife. He was now alone with his oldest child, and he could not but, see that the good Father had afflicted him for the repining thought'he had cherished..; He had seen his vnfe patiently watch ing,forfour weeks at the bedside of his dying, little .ones ; , lie had seen her re fuse to sleep or to rest; he had Been her wear herself out in her devotion to her darlings. He wps alone now, and the grounds on which he had complained of her seemed too trivial to be regarded. He saw her as she was, now that he could no longer see, her with, his bodily eye. She was, as Tom bad said, an angel. He could see only her good qualities, and mourned her departure as much more, than though he had never complained. Tom was his friend now more than ever, if lie could be more than he bad been. He did not rebuke now. He had spoken plainly at the right time, and now he had only words of hope and consolation. "I shall never forgive myself," said Frederick. "Take a cheerful view; it is hard, very hard, but it is all for the best," re plied Tom. It is very hard for me when I think how unreasonable I have been. You were right, Tom. She was an angel, and I was a demon." "Never mind that, now." " I have got a real woe now. I miss her every moment I am in the house, even more than I miss my two children. Everything reminds me of her. No one places my slippers on the rug now ; no one, with anxious'care, watches to sup ply my every-want, adjust everything to suit my humor ; no one welcomes me with a -cheerful smile. Oh ! Tom, I feel as though I should go mad 1" "Be calm, Fred." " And what a brute I was ! I did not appreciate her. Tom, 1 wronged her. She was a neat woman. I see it now.— I was a fool ! I shall be miserable for the rest of my life." He was not, for another year found another change in the household of the disconsolate husband -- found Emily Berard the mistress there. For a time there was a novelty about his new ex istence which pleaSed his fickle mind ; but this soon wore away, and Fred dis covered to his surprise that Emily had her faults. It is true, she was "as neat as wax." She never permitted her slop pail to be left in the entry for a moment ; always looked as tidy before breakfast as after tea; and in every respect suited the fastidious taste of her husband.— But it is not time yet to visit him. Some two years after his second mar. riage Tom dropped in upon him, to spend an hour. Fred looked moody and sad. In vain he rallied and tried to be cheerful. "Take an apple, Tom," said he, pass ing the dish. " Thank vou." " Fred !" exclaimed Mrs. Rodman, "is that the way you address your friends,? You talk like a bear." " That is our way," said Tom, pleas- an tly "It is . a very vulgar way. Don't put your feet on• that chair, Frederick. It is a dirty trick," Fred quietly removed the offending foot, and looked sadder than before. " Think we shall have some .rain asked Tom, disturbed by the silence, "Don't drop your apple core upon the floor, Frederick," said Mrs Rodman, with a frown. 4'l, declare it is no use trying to keep things neat where you are And if you haven't got your mud dy boots, on I" “So hive interposed Tom. "I didn't think to bring my slippers with me.” The lady frowned. "Well, I believe I. must be going," continued Tom. • - "I feel kind of stupid to-night ; be lieve I will walk over with you,",added Fred, rising. • " F rederick," said • Emily, smartly, "you know I don't like to be left alone in the evening." "Poor Fred !" ejaculated Tom, as the door closed behind him. "lie is in for it now.." " What do you mean by offering to leave me alone in the evening 2" snarled 14Irs. Rodman, when the door closed be hind the visitor. "You have driven my friend away; and I thought you might as well drive me out too." “It is time he was gone. He is the coarsest, most brutal fellow I ever saw ; and you must discOntinue this intima cy.” "Never I He, is my , best friend I" " I don't care if he is. He had the ipapudeace to answer every time I spoke to• you." ' "I am not accustomed to be. snapped • up in that , manner before my, friends." "In—:.deed I' "I. will not submit to it," replied Fred, beginning to have a little grit. "You will not ?" VOL. 10.-NO. 1. " No ;" and Fred proceeded to button his overcoat " Where are you going ?" asked the astonished lady. " Over to Torn Sumner's." " Are you going to leave me here alone 7" u 1 am," "No, you are not !" Fred moved towards the door. "You shall not go; I will go.wilh you, if you do." " Come along," answered Fred, des perately, as he bolted out. Mrs. Rodman had gone too far. 'She had raised the tiger in the nature of one who was disposed to be very yielding and quiet. Be had gone and she threw herself into the rocking chair and wept from sheer vexation. Was this the beautiful Emiiy .Berard ? . Fred had caught a Tarter; but he was rapidly changing into a Hottentot to meet the emergency. " What, Fred ! yon here ?" exclaimed Tom as he entered the sanctum of the latter. " I am here ;" and he briefly related what had passed since Tom's departure. " Give me your hand, Fred I That looki more like you. Keep it up. If either is to rule, you are the one." "'Tom, I am miserable." " I don't wonder." " "Neither Julia nor I used to rule.— We were equals. There is not a day, scarcely an hour, in which I do not think of Julia. She was so different 1" " So she was." "Now I am snapped up every two minutes, for the most trivial things." "Sorry for you, Fred ; but you must fight your way through." " I shall . ; I have begun now." "By the way, Fred, I see she had a colico gown on." "Yes; and since the baby was born, she is not as neat as she was. It has taken the starch all out of her. I would not care for that, if it hadn't also raised a devil I know not of before." Thus Fred complained, not without reason, now, of his other half. He knew what an angel Julia had been, and sighed fur the joys that had passed for ever away. But he fought his way to a peace, for the viragil, having fully aroused him, found that he carried too many guns for her; and though life was a misery, it was a continued conquest. Reader, God made your wife or your husband on purpose for you. Repine not at your lot. FAST LIFE AND SWIFT DECAL—The only counter'clack.---The times in which we live teem with wonders. Nothing seems impossible'; for the impossibili ties of one year become the common place events of the next. Lightning presses, instantaneous communication between the most distant points, and innumerable inventions for compressing vast amounts of business into small spaces of time, and for curtailing the processes of production and manufac ture, are among the marvels of this marvelous era. Under such circumstan ces, we may truly be said to live a "fast life." But whether the whirl and rusk by which we are borne along is really conductive to our happiness is another question. . Certain it is, that the average dura tion of human life is decreasing in the midst of this excitement. The modern phases of disease seem to puzzle and baffle the faculty, and with two remar kable exceptions, viz., Holloway's Pills and Jiolloway's Ointment, no medicines appear to make the desired impression upon internal or external disorders.-- These two celebrated remedies are said, however, to.be accomplishing the most wonderful cases throughout the length and breadth of the land. Liver com plaint and diseases of the stomach and bowels, which in a majority of cases are produced by over-exertion and over-ex citement in business, yield to the Pills when all the resources of the druggist and apothecary have failed, and erup tive and scrofulous complaints seem to bo equally under the control of Hie Oint meat. We congratulate Dr. Holloway on the signal success of his great medi eines in this country. From what we know of the man, we have no doubt that . the profits derived, from that success will afford him far less satisfaction than the knowledge of the good his remedies hays effected.—X Y. American. ar An English writer says in his ad vice to youti married women, that their mother Eve maaried a gardener. It might be'added that in consequenca of his match he lost his situation.