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A highly Concentrated Vegetable Extract.
A I'LJRE TONIC.
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Fleidti constant imaginings of Evil,. and grief,
depretasion, of Spirits. And will . positively
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Physicians, and Citizens, testifying of their
own pers.mal knowledge, to beneficial el
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preparations Sold under the name ol' Bitters,
put up in quart buttes, compOuuded . W 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 bus caused and will con
tinue. to cause, as long as they can be sold,
hundreds to the the death of ,the drunkard.—
by their use the sysieni is kept eoutinually
tinder the influence of an:11°1101M stimulants of
the worst kind, the oesue fur liquor is cheated
.pod Sept. up, and the Issalt is all the horrors
Attendant upon a driaikurit's hie and death.
For those who desire unit will have a Liquor
nittOrti, we PUblish the foiloviing receipt Get
sue bottle et Hoollunii's haters and mix with
three quarts uf good Mandy or whisky, and
the result will he a 'preparation that will far,
excel in medicinal virtues and true excellence
any of Site numerous Liquor Bitters in 'the
market, and will cost much less. You will
have ell the virtues of lioulland's Bitters in
etinnection With a good article of liquor, at a
mime less price than these inferior proputu-
Colas will cost you.
rlxer.siTiori sou:antis ! We cull the atten
tion Of alt having mations or filends in the
Arnty, to 'the tail Out ,'.Moorland's German
hitters" Will cum nine-tenths of life diseases
induced by exposuies uud
tifiVlLliDl.9 incident
dattip 'ln the lists, published almost
ditty id tlienewspapere, uu the'arrival of the
sicit, it %la be noticed thuta very large pro
portion, sugerieg, arum tienatty.l Every
case of lhal Lind can ou readily cured, by,
nualland's (niters. Diseases result
ng„ from disurddis of the digestiVe 'organs are
speedily removed:. We have no .hesnation 'in
stating that, if these linters were freely used.
Mining our soldmis, liumireds, of lives might
lee saved - that otherwise 'will be lost.
We call the particular at LCD lion to the fol
lowing remarkable and well, authenticate,
cure of one of the nation's heroes, wiiose Tile
to use hislatigliage; 'has been saved by the
Bitters :"
pit.pr4.ett.ta,: A ugust .23d, , I SO:,
Messrs. Jpizes .evrtfas.--itiell, gentleman,
Your fladfland's'tleriatin Itittera have saved my
life. There is no mistake in this. is4otich!- '
ed for by numbers °fitly comrades, 'home of
Whose names are appended, and.who are fully,
cognizant it all the cir cumstances uf my, case.
am, and have been for the Mit four years,
a member of ,Shermaes celebrated battery,
and under the immediate command of Cap,
fain 8.. B. Ayres. Through the exposure la
tecdant upon my arduous duties, I wasattack
in NhVelnber last tvo) Inliamation of /fie
I ega, and was fur seventy- two days, in the;
hoshital: This was followed by great
heightened by an attack of dysentery,. 1 was.
then rettioved final the White !louse, and:
sent tri,thia city on board the st eame r "s late
of Maiti'c," Irian which I. landed on the 25M,
.ofjund.' Slate, tbat time I have been About ;
ass low as any, one could and still retaah a
spark of vitality.
,For a week or more. I Ives
bearcel r able to sivailow anything, and if_ did
force • a inersk/ down, .it was immediately
thrown up again.
I could not even keep a glass of water op .
'Life tumid notlost under these
.eircurnstaneeav and, , accordirigly, the physi , -
.c hum who hadboen working thithfully,lhough,
unshecesafully. to rescue 'me from the grasp.
of the dread Archer,. frankly told me they,
could do no more. for me, and advised me to
ace a clergyman,' and to make such disposi-:r
lion of my litnitel funds as -best suited
An acquaintance who .visited me at the hospi
tal, Mr. :Frederick Steinbron, of Sixth below.
Arch street, advised nle,its a forlorn hope; to
try your. Hitters, and kindly procured a bottle.
From the .time 1 commenced taking tnem the
gloomy shado sl of death reeeded,.arid
how, thank God for at, - getting better. Tho'
have taken but two bottles, I have gained
ten pounds, and 1 feel 'sangttine'of being per=
mitted.te rejoin my wife and daughter, fronf
whom I have heard nothing for 'eighteen
months: fer, gentlemen,l am a toyer Virgin=
ran,-from the vicinity“of Proht Royal. To
your invaluable 13itteral °We' 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 ttre,.dearest to me in life.
Vert liely:Youret ISAAC MA LorrE:
We fully concur in the truth of the above
statement, as we had despaired of seeing, our
comrade, Mr.'Mblone, restored to health.
Jahn Caddleback, Ist New York flattery.
George A. p.cklikr, co,. C., flth Maine.
Lewis Cheiralier; New York.
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article, do not be put oil by ,an of the intoxi
cating preparations that maY be ,offered in its
place, but send to us, and 'We will forward,
securely packed, by exoress.
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BRAVE BOYS ARE TIM
Heavily falls the rain,
Wild are the breezes to-night;
But 'ueath the roof, the hoursas ' theyfly,
Are happy and calm, and bright.
Gathering round our fireside,
Tho' it be summer time,
We sit and talk or brother's abrciad,
Forgetting tie midnight chime.
Brave boys are they
Crone at their country's call ;
Ahd yet, and yet, we cannot forget,
That many brave boys must fall.
Under the homestead roof,
Nestled so oozy and warm,
While soldierssleup, with little or naught.
To shelter them from the storm.
Resting on grassy couches,
Fillow'd on hillocks damp;
01 martial fare, how little we know,
•
Till brothers are in the camp:
Brave boys, &c.
Thinking no less of them,
Loving our country the more,
We sent them forth to light for the flag
Their fathers before them bore.
Though the great tear drops started,
This was onr parting trust:
"God bless you. boYs ! we'll weleothe
you home,
When rebels are in the dust."
Brave boys, &o.
May the brieht wings. of love, •
Guard them where ever they roam ; •
The time has cdme'when lolrothera must
fight, •
And sisters must pray at home.
Oh ! the dread 'field of battle
Soon to be strewn with grave's I
11 brothers fall, then bury them where
Our,banner in triumph•waves.-
Brave boys, &c. .
TUE UNION.
... • .. - •
The Union ! Tbe Union! •
The hope - of the free! '
rlnwe'er we may differ,
In this we agree:
Our glorious banner
NO traiter,shall mar,
By effacing a utripe, •
• Or destroying a star.
Division ? No never!
The Union forever !
And cursed be the 'hund
That our country wonld,.sever
Tha Union ! 'The Union !
'Twas purchased wish blood ! •
Side bY side, to secure it,
Our forefathers stood :
Frtint the North to the Soak,
Thro' the length of the land,
Ran the war dry which 'suro'rnon'd
That patriot band.'
Division, &c:
The Union! The Union!
Its heavenly light,
Cheers the henrts of the nations
Who grope in the night ;
And athwart the wild ocean
Falls, gilding the tides,
A path to the country
Wh ere 'fre:edom' abides, ,
•Division, &c.
The Union ! The Union ! '
TEC God we rpOse i .
• We confide in the. , poFer , :. . :
- That vanquished our. foes. .
The God of our fathers,-
(...... 0, still may Fie be
The strength of the Unicin, _
The hope of the feee.
'Division, &e.
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40' A young man advertises in • a
New Jersey paper, for a situation as son
in-law in a respectable family. Would
have no objection, he says, to going a
short distance into the country.
cr The London Court Journal 're
awe that a young English lady ofsev„-
enty summers and a good deal of money
has just given her virgin hand to her
butler, a lad of thirty-eight.
Gr. It is announced that sleeping
pews have been invented for churches
after the manner of sleeping.cars for
) railroads. In some churches they might
not be much oat of place.
MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1863.
CHORUS'
, For The Mariettian. .
BEFORE AND AFTER; or, Fivo Phases of
Married Life.
By Grantellus
CHAP'TE'R VIII
[AN UNPONGENIAL PLIASE-4fter.l
"And canst thou not accord thy heart
In unison with
WhoSe langnagelthouatone hast heard,
Thou only carist ,
Bad 'Mr. and Mrs. Thomew, imme
diately after the solemnization of their
nuptials, with more of that wisdom
which is from abOVe, and less of that
impulsiveness which is from below--
with more mutual concession, and, less
ObStinate- identity of
individualidm—
endeavored to harmonize and unite into
one purpose their Partially discordant
natures, it would have been better for
their own present, and perhaps future
happiness, as well as fur the welfare of
their posterity. But most unfortunate
ly, this was not the case; and in every
subsequent year of their lives, from
habits of thought, taste and' pursuit,
they became more unlike each other,
and consequently more uncongenial as
; and although neither of them
would for a moment have thought 'of
doing external violence to' their mar
riage obligations, yet it seemed obvious
that they did not truly lov - e each other
—that is, not spiritually or mentally—
or were greatly mistaken in the nature
of such a sentiment, and the duties it
enjoins. Two or three little things con
nected with the mental status of
Thoniew became manifest to her bus
baud, which were not calculated to en.
hence her, in his esteem, although they
I may not have been regarded. in that eyes.
of the world as detrimental to her char
acter as a wife 'and a woman: .Mr.
Thornew discovered - that his wife had:no
taste for literature, it she .had not a,
positive aversion for books,of any kind
and for the sentiments which they ,con
taiued. He also discovered that,she,
could scarcely write, her own name, and
that in her, ,eorrespondence with him
during his absence,- she CI a d employed
.an arnenuensis.' This individual, wiihOut
the knowledge or consent of Mr. Thom
ew, course' had read all of his 'confi
dential epistles'to Dliss Doliman, a con;
tiugency.iii Allele intercourse' of which - ,
he was altogether unconscious; Tor he
had.supposed she had been actively en-'
gaged in the cultivation'' of her mind;
notwithstanding the peculiar quality of
her' supposed `literary productions,. and
the singular effect they had upob him,
whilst in correspondence 'with her. Now
Thocnew, from his boyhood up, had
he'en•rather diffident, and aboVe all
things in the world, he would not have
had his love-lettera — exposed to any
other perusal than that of the one, he
loved ; and therefore when he made this
discovery, he Melt. that the, sanctity, of.
his social domain had been madely in
vaded. Although this
.circumstance
produced an irritating, effect on ,his.
mind, yet he, endeavored as speedily, as .
possible to regard it as a disagreeable„
bygone. Still, Mrs. Thomew was not
so much to blame, for she really did not.
know any
,betandnot, ter, could perhaps,
,
do any better ; for, like. many, others in
the world she had reached womanhood
without having become sensible of her
intellectual' deficiencies,' ab'd. when she
at last did see•them, she' Was too proud
or.too timid to acknowledge her igno
rance, by making an effort to improve'
her mental cond.tion. But there is no
knowing what improvement she 'might
have been capable: of; or' even have
taken a' delight in, had Mi. Thotneat
hiniself.gentltykiodly, and lovingly, vol
unteeredlo become her instructor ; but
no,,iacting 4 altogether Under a disap
pointed youthful impetubsity, hiS con
duct was only cidculated to impress,up
on
lier'mitia "the idea 'that she was even
pore deficient than she really,
4111; 'h'er inSudiai'ous course, by way
of retaliation, she made many serious
lThinders.'
Mrs.' ThhitieW had 'Made 'the
c r idus canfessina, after her marriage,
that had not Mr. Thomew returned just
when be did, she wOuld have considered
her engagement with him broken, and
would have acted accordingly_; and what
was duito,asi inexcusable, she foolishly
persisted denying her age, or at leait
in;co.ncealia:g it. •Although these things,
mauifested,nq criminality on the,part of
Mrs. Thomew, but were rather to be''
regarded as the evidences of the false
training which sbe had received from
her bosom friends, if not from her pa.
rents; and also of a want of energy to
pursue a pioper course, and avail her
self of the educational opportunities of
her girlhood ; yet, to a mind constitu.
ted as, Mr. Thomew's was,- which, :at a
late-period had , become sensible of the
existence of a higher world than the
mere world of sensuous feeling—a mind
just then .in' the effOrt to elevate itself
above the boilings of the moral and dn.
tellectual chaos in which it feund itself;
and without those- fixed and judicious
principles of actiom.which, under other
circumstances, might have eharaterized
the,inan of maturer years ;. to hint:them
at this, critical period; these things :un
duly magnified themselves, and• unhaP
pily produced a'line of conduct that was
only calculated to .widen: a breach be
tween ;them ; the existence of which,
was not visible, to, the .material- world
by'which. they .were surrounded. Mrs;
Thomew was incorrigable, and immova:
bly , fixed, in her ways—perhaps because
she could not • be otherwise—and Mr.
Thomew had neither the penetration
nor'the patience- to even make an effort
to discover the necessary means, to cor
rect what.ought to haverbeen corrected,
and to concede, or conform to, what his
wife might herself feel disposed to cor
rect, after. she had .once come into the
proper state of knowledge and convic
tion. Mr. Thomew,: .partly. to gratify
that hunger for knowledge which had
not been sufficiently fed in his youth,
and partly to fill up a'romantie vacuum
in his heart, which, from .the illiteracy
of his wife, she could. not, or would not
make the least intelligent effort to fill
—now devoted himself entirely to books,
and kindred pursuits, whenever he could
command*the time not necessarily em
ployed in earning the means to provide
for his family ; and, perhaps in a. reck
less--state of literary intoxication he
may have deiroted`many hoiars in profit
less pursuits, that would have been of
more Practical utility, if they had been
devoted to his lamilY, in furdishing them
with that early training Which ought to
come from a mother, but which is never
thelesa obligatory also upen a father; this
is the interne/ of the status of Mr. and
Mrs. Thoinew;' externally—with the ex
ception of an occasional misunderstand
ing, and, consequent 'ill-advised expres
sion of sentiments,—there, was nothing,
for the world, or the civil law, to take
cognizance of. They were both iedus
trious, chaste, and frugal; both, bad en
deared themselves to others fortheexcel
lence' of their characters, and their order
ly bearing ; but still there was.not a sin
gle thing under the sue
,in, which they
seemed to have a mutual, iiteresi and
sympathy, and as Mr. Thomew on every
subsequent opportunity increased his
stock of books and devoted his time to
them, 'Ws/ Thames , seemed to cencerve
the'greater borrar and aversian'to'them,
perhaps in some ineaSure justly
too—for they deprived , her of many
hours of social intercourse with her hus
band, that must have: made him as un
congenial to her as she could possibly"
be to him.-' They may have- been aptly
compared to a pigeon and a thick united
in a marriage union, both good and use
ful animals in their, way, but delighting
in elemeuts,diverse and uncongenial to
each , other. Mr, Thomew's greatest
delight-in life,woald have been to have
a'Wife to whom he,. could have poured
out hissoul in a mutual correspondence,
when he was necessarily absent from
her; ; and to have read and-sympathixed •
with him - in his humble literary pro
ductions; but alas ! he never had the
least evidence that she had even read
a dingle line that he bad' even written,
or that she had bad the least apprecia
tion of• its-Merits or its demerits, if she
had read 'it. •
KuOwing, intelligent, and disinterest
ed christian Writers and philosophers,
have damonstrated it as their Opinion, a
hundred times over; that more .than
two-thirds of the married world are
living together in an uncongenial bond
age ; and that through, this cause it is,
that many men and women run into acts
and lives of connubial infidelity, forpi
cations and adulteries, and into the
shameless and profane systems of polyg
amy and open concubinage. The dan
ger .of falling into such habits 'of life
from this cause seems tol be enhanced
by the. habitual indifference, in;_conduct
and, bearing, between such married peo:
ple ;. and du , their saying, doing, and
acting-thing's, that before marriage they
would not let each 'other know or see
for a world of wealth - ; because such
linowledge," they:feared would work'an
alientitiOn, era ferfeiture of s'elf-respect,
and the respect of each other. The
little' personal attentions, the dignified
intercourse, and the orderly manifesta
tions, of affection, that were necessary
to win a wife or a . ..husband' before mar
riage, 'ought to be continued afterwards,
and rather increasedAthan diminished,
to the end of life. If these things were
- necessary to,utrin the affections
of each other, they are surely•of infin
itely •a higher value in:retaining ,them ;
for what, in married' life, can be more
melancholly and more disastrous to the
happiness of the married parties, than
the consciousness that they have for
feited the love and esteem of each oth
er? So cold, barren and bleak, does
such a, life of wedlock become, and so
exceedingly grievous to be hourne, and
withal .so aggravating sometimes, that
itis .not to. be wondered. at, that men
and women plunge into :deeper evils in
the false hope of findingfrelief. But, it
is to be bourne in mind, that no degree
. ,
of uncongeniality, and no act of itittda:
ity or wilful neglect on the pari of one
of the married pair; can at 'all work a
justification; 'et even a pretence, for a
similar act bytthe other. Party, although
it may constitute a great provocation
for such a retaliatory course of condUct,
In this behalf, the unalterable injlinc-
Lion of ScriPture, that, 'The soul that
sinneth', it shall die;" is in its most 'ur..-
qualified sense applicable, and the fear
fulconsequences to human destiny which
1 it conveys, had better be heeded before
the' overt act 'is committed. Notwith
standing the youthful:moral destitution
of both Mr. and Mrs. ThomeW,—hut.
especially the former—thdre-' iieetned ,
still:to be some of the grains of early
insemination remaining in their minds,
and these few grains became sufficiently,
developed afterwards, to protect' them
against the external assaults of sin and
evil. Not that they may not have been,
guilty of many acts of indiscretion, or
of sins of omission; but as to acts or
sins of commission from these, they
bad, through the providences of God,
contrived to keeP theinselves intact..L-
In many respects they were .. a praise
worthy,
pair, and it waShe'dOulit. a mat
ter much regrettedby both of them., 'in
their.hours of sober reflection, that they
could not become more, of a, one, ' as to•
Mental and spiritual association and
conjunction. But, there cannot be a
perfect, assimilation in married life with
out mutual concession, and mutual con
cession is impossible-where , there is not ,
the unlikeness,; yet.the perfect: equality
of the sexes acknowledged. In their
earlier wedded life and experience, Mr.
and Mrs. Thotnew utterly failed to ap
preciate this philOsophy, and' therefore
instead of becoining blended•in internal
sympathies and aflinitiei, they became
disintegrated,. and yet when They at
tempted to analyze their feelings, and`
to imagine a state of final seperation
bet Ween them, tikeY becanie overwhelm:,
ed with melancholli; and deplored the
very idea of seperation. ,
The congenial and intimate friends of
Mrs. Thomew, were not
,the congenial
and intimate friends of, Mr. Thomew,
and vice versa ; but the friends of both .
were among the honest. and tlie decent,
although they were not, all among, the
rich and intelligent. Indeed neither of
this worthy pair placed any particular
value on , rich associates, for their cir
cumstances were always 'too' much
straightened , to make such associations
at all agreeable. BUt Mr. Thomew had'
a morbid horrorlor ignorance and illit
eracy; and perhaps Mrs. Thoffiew had
too strong - a.n 'affinity 'for them; and
these peculiar, temperaments suggested
different walks of life, and different ob
jects of taste, of beauty, and of instruc
tion to both of them. Although,they
never conversed much together, .yet
there was a sort .of mutual congest, if
they, but saw each other pursuing their,
diverse and irreconcilable occupations,
and they were really , discOntentedAf
one or the "other was•absent.for any
time,.withoht some sort•of- as explana
tory intercommunication ` . .BUt with all
this,. they DO more-understood each oth
er, and - had no more mental •delight 'iri
in the same social' and intellectual ele
merit, titer' a hen and a duck can have
in the same natural or material element,;
and as before remarked, something like
a duck , and a hen, they pursued the bent
of their own
.persopal inclinations, and
finallylearued'to endure that which it
became evident they could never cure.
The addition, periodically, of children
to the domestic circle of the 'rhomew's,
although it may have served as a cement '
to the compact between them,—and, al-
though these, little responsibilities may ;
have been the unconscious mediums of
natural affection betiveen them; ''int
they gid 'not much lessen the uncim 0- 1
nial qualities of their respective . ' minds,
for, unfortunately, they differed. eritirisly
in regard to what were their, dnties, -116
parents, towards their children.
With all, his mental attainments,.Mr.
Thoinew did not appear to have ,a prop-.
er, living conception of his duty to
`love, support and protect" his wife, ac
VOL. 10.-NO. 13.
cording to the spirit of his marriage ob
ligations—perhaps, because he did not
conceive that his Wile's opposite or
perverse character was a thing which
he could reasonably be expected to
love, or'perhaps he was cherishing an
ideal of feMale excellence, that never
could be realized in ticis world. If this
I was 'he case with Hr. Thomew, it e'er"-
Utility was not leas the case:with lire.
Thomew; for she did not appear to
I have the least 'Conception of her obliga
tion •to "lode; horrer"ridd 'Obey" her hus
band in anything pertaining to 'his
tastes„abilities, or - jUdgmerit, enless it
first received the endOrsem'ent of some
of "her friends,' who'ere generally as
Illiterate •as herself. This characteristie
of the mother, was u'nh transmit,
ted to the children, together With tha
imperioesbess end strong seltwill or the
father ; and thus they beenini3 by inher=
itance, so obstinate and Seff-Willed, that
J.
the acquired inculcations of a "divided'
house," could aftervvards,onlyexercise a
partial influence : over, them., These,
things,viere not strikingly visible to the
outer world,- by which Mr. land Mrs.
Thomew were, surrounded„ if. they were
seen, by that world ; at all ; but.never-,
theless they had
,n,,real existence, al
though both these people, otherwise,
performed externally- their duties to
their farnifY and'society; in'sich a Milt
rieil as 'tn.elicit t lit approbation of their
friends'and' neighbors. Thrbugh many'
long years "this State of thingi continued
in the tinnily of Mr.Thorlielo;sometimes
greatlk to the an n °yeti 66 '`f the hither
and husband, but' infinitely' more bur
densome to the' Mother and ;wife, be
cause not haying Cultivated her mind in
early life, at a. later period, lier vvhthe .
time became absorbed in a continuous
round ofdomestic labor As is`ustiallY :
the ease, under such circumstances, the
labors of the family were bat illy divid;
ad ; for somehow, Mrs. Thomei's de- .
, .
fective system, left the brunt of its
practical operation upon her own head
and hands. Nobody could do anything
good enough for,her, and therefore, en-, )
tirely overrating her own skill and_abily,
ties, and undevestinating, that of her;
children, they never were taught , how
thing should be done, and of ,course,'
they in turn did not.care much when it.
was done, if done at-all. And yet with
all these disadvantages the Thomeive
had many worthy traits of characteir,l
and notvrithstaneing the'fixed 'hnc'onge
[delay of mind, taste and temper, in the
parents, they had lived so long together
as man and wife, and had'been so faith
ful and single in their connubial rela
tions, that they finally by a sort of tacit
understanding "agreed to disagree," and.
lived on in the spheres of a seperate in
dividuality, although they, never far a,
moment dreamed of confining themselves
to a seperate "bed and board." When
the children at length, through " line
upon line and precept upon precept,"
not only at home,—but more especially ,
through the teachers to whom they had .
been consigned—had come to ender ;
stand their true relations.to society, and
the 'duties and responsibilities devolving ,
upon them, they begarne useful and or
derly citizens ; but, it was not the less
perceptible to themselves as well as to,
the ruore'philosophically penetrating•of •
their friends, that the strong hereditary
biases transmitted to thew . by their pa.
rents,—iu consequence of the, unconge:
niality of heir temperameirts--inipo.sed
upon them many disadvantages and
temptation struggles, that they might,
under racire favorable auspices, liaie
been, in a measure,' free frorri: MY: and '
Mrs. TEtomew lived many years to ether
as exainidary "man and wife," final*
noPing,' klaht if it was best that they
shbuld i 'be one in thb endogen
woullibring it to pass ;" but believing.
after all, that "the fellowship of Congo
nial Christian minds" alone, • "is like NI
that above," and with this view, the
were at last "gathered to their. fathera.l-
ar "My wife," said a wag, ,the other
last
night,"
"came near calling me honey last
night." " Indeed,, how • was ;that ?",
"Why, she called me old beeswax."
'The female soldiers, 'discovered
in the disguise of regular iunforms, are
said to be, good lighters.," The women
who.,wear the, breeches, always, were.
lir' The Charlestonians have long
been add to fiEo z eating, and Gen,
4 44 4 1°11 1 94 ,conoluded to give
them; a • • '
Vir 1 e are not fighting the Sonthern
States or any States. . We are fighting
the rebels. - all.'
er Nothing, in oar opinion, reaches,
The "inner man," like mellow peache_.