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VIT ,:L effectually cure Liver Complaint,
yy Jaundice, chronic or nervous
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ness or blued to the head, acidity of the. Slow
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Sudden flushes of Heat, burning in the
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ureparatibus sold under the name or Bitters,
put.tip ui.quart bottles, compounded of the
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This class of }littera has caused and will con
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three quarts of guud inanity or wilisicy, and
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ally. of the nuinecousi Liquor Bitters in the
market,' and will cost much kts. You . will
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coilliectionWith a good article of liquor, at a
tituch less price than these inferior prepara
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Arrkarion Z.OLDtt:ItS ! We call the atten
tion 01 4 411 /laving reiations or Mends in the
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bitters" will cure nine-tenths of the diseases .
induced by exporores and privations incident
to camp life. in die lists, published almost
daily in the newspapers, on the arrival of the
hick, it will be noticed theta very large pro
portion are sullering , front debility. Every
case of that, lints can De readily cured by
llouthind's tiermati Bitters. Diseases resen
t% from disorders of the digestive organs are
apeemly removed. We have nu hesitation in
stating that, if these Mire's were freely used
a mong opt schuers, hundreds of lives might
ye bayed that uilMr..v me will be lust.
We Lail the particular to the fol
/owing* ietnisil.shic 'nod well - anthentieste,
cure or one of the nation's heroes, whose life
i n , u s e "1d.5 been Rived by the
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illess , ii..i , mec 41 /awns.-- tV al, gentleman,
your iliadi.in.l . 2l German nitteia Italie Sit Vet/ Lay
111 e. TOC.fe ralla miclase in Lids.. Itis vouch
,i iiir by . nito
lobs' of my Comrade's, Seine' of
...11klefe flames are appended, and who are fully,
,:ogniztillt Ed uti the cileummances filmy case.
i siti,.and hate been Inc the last fear ,years,
a ittembur Of She:Ana's celebrated buttery,
akii under the immediate command of Cap=
to IL B. Ayres.'Throm.4ll the expOsute at
ferll, ant upon nuy arduous 'ditties, I wasoattack
ed iii 'Novimber last with indentation of the
lungs, and was for seventy-two days in the
hoiniital. This Wa2 followed by, great debility,
heightened by en attack of dysmitary. 1 was
thea .removeil from the White House, and i
sent to this city In board the -Steamer "State
of blame," tram tel.!C/i / lallail on the 26th,
ofJune. Siact , that tion , I have been about
as low .itti, khy ..iic could and still retain a
spark ut vitality. For a istek or more I was
scarcely able to swallow anything, and it I did
Rime a Matsui down, it was immediately
thrown up again.
1 could But even keep a glass of water on
my.Vmpach. Lift could not lust under these
circui&ifuces: and, accordingly, the physi.
Caalla WHO had been working faithfully, though
unsuccessfully to rescue me from the grasp
of the iireai! P..reher, trankly told tile they
cupid do no tame for me, and advised me to
see u clergyman, and to make such disposi
tion of toy linine 1 funds as best suited me.—
An acquaintance who visited ale at the hospi
tal, Mr. Viedatick - Steinuron, of Sixth below
Arch,.street, advised mc, us a forlorn hope, to
tiy
.3 01. H hitters, and kindly procured a bottle,
Front the time I commenced taking them the
gioomPshado it of death receded, and I am.
HOW, tlialla God for it, getting better. 'rho'
I have taken but two bottles, I have gained
tell pounds, and I feel sanguine of being per
mitted to rejoin my wife and daughter, from
whom 1 have heard nothing for eighteen
mouths: fur, gentlemen, I BM a loyal Virgin
ian, from the vicinity of Front Royal. to
your invaluable Bitters I owe the certainty of
life which has taken the place of vague fears
—to.your Bitters will I owe the glourious pri
vilege 'bf again clasping to tny bosom those
who at dearest to me in life.
ye truly yours, ISAAC MA LONE.
We ft/ y concur in the truth of the above
statement, as we had despaired of seeing our
comrade, Ir. Malone, restored to health.
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lieViiire of counterfeits ! See that the sig . -
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THE FALSE ONE.
What •is the feeling of a heart ,
That loved, and loved in vain I
To walk and find it all dream,.
A sharp and stinging pain : .
To see the one I loved so well
A traitor in my view :
To know the one I. thought so fond
Is anything but true.
To know the lipS I oft have pressed,
Which claimed me for their own,
Were'all the while but perjured lips,
And false their every tone ;
To know those eyes of deepest blue,
Whose depths I've sought in joy,
Haye all.thc while loved,other eyes,
And I wus but a toy. ,
To know those dark and glossy curls,
Which I have oft Caressed,
By other hands have been the same,
By other lips been pressed:
To know that proud and graceful head,
That stooped to me alone,
No longer owns my claim to it,
No claim! my soul, oh none !
To knowT,that it is all in vain,
I've loved his very breath
What is this feeling? Can ye tell?
My God ! 'tis worse than death !
Yes, worse than death—its very gloom
Would be a welcome guest,
For who could tear its darkest fr.wn
Upon a loving breast?
A bond of fire doth girt my brow,
My heart refuse to sigh ;
Aroun•i me all is dark despair ;
Oh ! Lord, could I but die!
To live I and he not smile for me;
Another have Ms heart!
Al ! no, it will not—cannot be,
That he and I must part.
To know the step, which sent the blood
Seething to heart and brain,
Is fled horn me forever now,
To ne'er come back again ;
To know the voice, whose every tone
Was music to mine ear,
Has now froM me forever flown,
Tnat voice 'so loved and dear.,
Oh ! strength, my breaking heart !
Take courage—cobrage—pride !
And though beneath my trials I sink, .
My woes with joy Pil hide.
Amtlet my laugh right joyous ring,
And hollow though it be;
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Bear up, proud heart, this cannot last,
hupport will come to thee.
, ......—,_
P TILE RILL A-BERRYING.
On an autumn morning early,
And ere the dew was dry,
Up the hill I went a-berrying,
All need I tell you why ?
Well, the farmer had a daughter,
And it happened that Iknew
That every autumn morning
She went ii-berrying too 7
Lonely work was picking berries,
So I joined her on the bill ;
Said I, Your basket, Jenny dear,
Is too large for one to fill." ,
, Then we rambled on together,
Jenny babbling like a rill,
Leading where the hill was steepest,
Picking berries up the hill.
"Up-hill work is this," quoth Jenny;
"So is life," said I ; "shall we
Climb it eachalone ? or, Jenny,
Will you climb the world with me?"
Even redder than the berries
Her fresh cheeks one moment grew,
Then with modesty she answer'd,
"I will climb the world with you.",
" I do not say that man will
steal," said a witness on trial, "but if I
were a chicken' would roost high when
he was around."
ifir Did you ever know a man too
poor to take a paper, that did not spend
one dollar a week upon rum and tobac
co ?
Young ladies should certainly he
subject to the conscription—because
they'are accustomed to "bare arms."
tor 4.lady sometimes gets as much
intoxicated at her glass as a toper does
at his
gar The men bear arms in war; the
ladies bare theirs in peace.
MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1863.
For The Maristtian•
BEFORE AND AFTER; or, Five Phases of
Married Life.
By G-rantellus
CHAPTER X.
IA RATIONAL PHASlC—After.]
"If we are two, we are two so
As stiff twill-compasses are two ;
Thou the fix'd foot which makes no show
To move, but doth if 'toher do.
So shalt thou• be , to me, who must
Like 'tother foot eccentric run,
Thy firmness makes my circle just
And makes me end where I bigur."
The idea of oneness, or' perfect unity
of thought, intent, and purpose, in' any
social relation in this world, is a most
beautiful one, but' most especially so
when it pervades and'gives character to
the marriage relation: Mutual hopes,
mutual confidence, and mutual forbear
ance, which are so essential in perpetu
ating a mutual state of harmony and af
fection between parties united together
by the ties of relationship, are nowhere
eo becoming and so beautiful, and no
where else tell with such redeeming and
regenerating effects unonaosterity, as
they do in the marriage relation., )Fie-i
tween those who are congenially and
conjugally united, there will be a visible
quality, and perhaps a• diversity of,pur
pose that seems to •lead in different di-
rections. But this is only an appear
ance, fur, mutually understanding each,
other, and acting from the affections as
well as the intellect, they will combine
the male and female principles of the
mind, in all they do, in such harmonious
action, as to give every duty and obliga
tion of life, its highest degree of efficien
cy. They will mutually fed, that with
out each other they are mere nothings;
and that in order to the accomplishment
of any good word or work, they must
rely upon each other. Not that they
-themselves do the work, but that, as
willing and reciprocal instrumentalities
in the hands of God, they have endeav
ered to promote each other's happiness,
and this will not only ramify through
their posterity to the thousandth gen•
eration, but will influence for good, all
who may come in social contact with
them, or who may be cognizant of their
example. No matter how much, or how
far, they may he seperated from each
other, they will still be spiritually pres
ent, and will lean towards each other,
acknowledging their insufficiency when
seperated, and their concentrative pow
er when acting in matrimonial union
and harmony,in carrying out their plans,
uses, and duties of life. There cannot
possibly be it more beautiful phase of
married life, than that state of confi
dence and content which may 'exist be
tween married .partners, when their per
sonal good or the public good, demands
a temporary generation ; and no event
in life may be better calculated to ex
hibit how dear 'they are to each other,
and to Illustrate the real depth of their
affections. Under such 'circumstances,
if their hearts and hopes are rightly at
uned, and in harmony with the will of
God; such occasions will not be the
source of peevish and unnecessary frets
and fears.' Of course there will not 'be,
either an assumed or a real state of in
difference ; but' on the other band, con
tented for the time being with a thought
presence, they will be resigned to that
state of things which seems to be or
dained, or which they are conscious is
quite beyond their control.
There is a grave doubt as to the
christian propriety of a well-ordered
married pair, in secluding themselves
entirely from the outer world, and build
ing up an unsocial wall between them
selves and those with whom they had
been formerly on terms of interconrse.•
Whatever may be their intellectual and
moral attainments, and whatever may
be the degree of affection between them,
there is strong ground to suspect that
they are selfish, and disposed to pat
their light under a bushel, where none
may feel the benefits of its rays but
themselves. The domestic relation of
marriage was intended for the moral and
spiritual advancement of all those who
unite in assuming its obligations and its
duties; and that end can be better ef
fected by imparting to others the bene
fits of a "twain made one" in acts of
kindness; and also a rational concern
for the welfare of others as well as those
immediately concerned. If marriage
enhances the disposition to do good, and
multiplies the opportunities for doing
so, surely a rationally and intellectually
wedded pair, will not discard any of the
duties and obligations devolving, upon.
hem as christian citizens ; for, although
a promiscuous intercouroe is not by any
means desirable, yet a limited social
sphere—a sphere within which the wel
fare of our fellow maa may be advanced,
is commendable ; and these ends may
be attained in a higher degree through
the instrumentality of a happy wedded
pair, than they can be by those who, are
acting unsupported and singly iu the
world ;—at least so thought Mark Lane
and Lilly Twickley, , and so they lived,
Between Mark Lane and Lilly Twick
ley there had existed from the first be
ginning of their social intercourse, a
congeniality of mind and sentiment, that
could not well, do otherwise thin seek
a closer and a more familiar union,
without the senseless practice . of those .
arts, calculated to leave an impression
that an oppositeatate of feeling between
them existed; and therefore', when their
partialities for each otherbecarne mani
fest to others, all the usual gossip in
reference to them ceased, and they were
looked upon as already tria'n and wife.
People seemed to wonder why it was
that they had not met before, or had not
been married years ago ; for, even the
commonest perceptions among, their ac
quaintanceship, seemed to regard. them
as eminently calculated to make each•
other happy, and to disseminate their
own felicities among their friends.—
When their wedding was announced it
occasioned only a slight ejaculation of
surprise for a single moment, and then
all the feeling and sentimei t of both
Kentdale and Twickenham valley,
seemed to acquiesce in so desirable a
consummation, and even the little chil
dren joined in , an ardent and audible
God bless them. Few persons seemed to
have a clearer view of the nature of the
new relations they assumed in becoming
united in the holy bonds of matrimony
—how many iu the world regard those
bonds as holy, at all ?--and therefore
their mutual aim had been, to glider
stand and truly carry outin the ultimates
of life, all the fuuctions, duties, and be
atitudes, that constitute the intimates of
a true and legitimate marriage union.--
Their wedding day was hailed with in
finite delight by their friends ; and al.
though an entirely new epoch in the
history of their lives, yet they seemed
to realize all the responsibilities of it ;
and to understand all the proprieties of
the occasion, as well as if they had gone
through the ceremony a hdridred times.
Without presumption or self-ascription,
they still believed that all true "match
es" are made in heaven ; and they sin
cerely hoped that their's may have re
ceived a consecration among the angels.
In addition to the institution• of mar-
riage being instrumental in.the regener
ation-of mankind, they also believed it
to be a means of colonising the heaven
ly kingdom through the human race, as
its highest end ; and therefore,, all sel
fish. connubial joys and del ghts.were
sanctified by, a, desire for offspring as,
the proper objects o f affection, instead
of living in this world only fur them
selves. In' bec,oming thus united in
heart, in mind, and in intent and pur
pose, they did not feel that they were
relinquishing any moral, social, or
litical "rights;" nor assuming any new
ones, not before enjoyed.
After a sojourn of about six months,
in the town of Keritdale, from the date
of their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Lane
took up their residence on a plain but
well and neatly cultivated little farm,
near the loiver end of Twickenham val
ley, and about midway between their
previous places of residence. This
homestead was the reset of many long
years of labor by Mark Lane, in the va
rious capacities of day-laborer, School
teacher, scrivener, and surveyor, in
which he had acted during a period of
fifteen years. Mark had acquired habits
of industry, if he was not born with them;
and although he was never fearful of
doing too much for the wages received,
yet so trustworthy was he, and so punc
tual and efficient in all his engagements
that he was always profitably employed,
—indeed be believed that if he "cast his
bread upon the waters," it would return,
to him again "after many days." With
a judicious distribution of public and
domestic duties, and withont the least
invasion or interference with each oth
er's rights and immunities, their affairs,
in all their departments, moved with
apparently as much order as the plane
, tery spheres of the solar system. It
cannot be said that they were entirely
without their afflictions, or enjoyed an
immunity from the trials and tempta
tious that are incidental to a fallen hu
manity ; but they were entirely free from
ail willful criminatioes and recrimina
tions, and believed that the unavoidable
ills of life were permitted, for some good
to them or some one else, and would be
so overruled as to manifest that good in
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the Lord's own time; and therefore, in
' all their trials and temptations, they
practiced mutual forbearance, patience,
and calm resignation. And when their
wedd6d life was finally crowned with
children, if they imposed new duties
and trials upon them, they also opened
up new fountains of affection, that ex
ceeded in their realization all their most
sanguine ideals. Mrs. Lane never man
ifested, any of the masculine and morbid
anxiety about "woman's rights" that has
so much; ,occupied;- many .ether female
iniuds,.fer well she knew, from her, hus-.
band's high appreciation of the relations
:between them, that no legitimate right,
of hers would be invaded. Knowing
fully what is proper to the different po
sition& of this sexes,: she never •felt a
desire to unsex herself, in order'to shift
'her sphere of action tot more conspicu
ous and•more recognizable plane. ' Ten:'
derly and ratiodally 'devoted. td her hus
band and her children, her highest anr
bition was to become'a worthy and true
wife and mother,leaving to the good
judgment of her husband, the mannge , .
merit of all those affairs that did not
devolve necessarily upon' her, , or collie
within the sphere of her duties, in their'
present circumstances of 'life.- With a
mind imbued with a real christian chari
ty, hers was not,a blind devotion to, and
a blind affection 'for, those only, who
sustained the relation of husband and
children to her; but on the contrary she
had tender sympathies.and'affections for ,
all; and because' she could not render
material aidlo all, or could not extend
her social intercourse and courtesies to
all, she did dot therefore feel warranted
in supinely folding her arms, and shut
ting herself up from the approaches of
those by whom she was surrounded.
If any man in Twickenham valley and
its vicinity, had reason to be proud of
his wife, and to feel that entire satisfac
tion which is the lot of so few on earth,
that man was Mark Lane ; and yet,
neither of them felt that this was an
arbitrary result, that was without a
cause, although they were loth to claim
any merit for it on their own accounts.
That significant season in married life
which the world calls the "honey moon,"
they certainly never experienced at all,
or always experienced it without inter
mission ; for they daily fell more deep
ly in love with each other, as they daily
became more sensible of the necessity of
each other's presence in completing
their happiness. They were not blind
to each other's fault's and• infirmaties,
but on the contrary they saw them and
acknowledged them—at least as many
of them as mortals usually see—and
through this acknowledgment of evil,
and a desire to shun it as a sin against
God, they hoped to' finally effect their
regeneration. In , their outward worldly
affairs, they were nOtcharacterintized by
any higher degree of prosperity than
that which usually attends industry,
economy, and judicious and intelligent
managetnentteverywhere ; but internally
they possessed "a peace thaVplisseth
understanding," because they cultivated'
a disposition to bear with each other's
imperfections,—to do 'their whole
: duty
to God and man, and to yield a cheerful
resignation to 'the Divine will, so far as
they were able to comprehend it
Twenty years after the marriage of
Mark Lane and Lilly Twickley, they
seemed as vivacious and as juvenile as
they did upon, their wedding day, al
though he had reached the years of fifty
five and she forty.five ; • and were sur
rounded by "half a dozen blooming chil
dren, the eldest of which was just de
veloping into pristine womanhood. Ad
orderly, temperate, , and Ged-fearing life
in all things, had left them id the= very
prime of. their days, at ages when so
many of the thoughtless and dissipated
ones of this world, are already on a
rapid physical decline. Their . fear of
God was not a slaVish and terror-strick
-en fear, but on the contrary, it was that
state of reverential trust and confidence,
which is "the beginning of wisdom."
Burning out the candle, of life in the
service of sin, and then blowing the
snuffings in the face of the Almighty in
the hour of death, was no part of the
religious ethics of Mr. and Mrs. Lane ;
for they sincerely believed that the only
true way to enter into life, r..ts in keep
init the commandments, a.:...mrding to
the testimony of Jesus. They also be
lieved that if they truly entered into
life through this door—which involved
- a practical daily taking up'of the cross,
and following the Captain of their sal
vation in all' th'eir words and works on
earth—they need indulge in no 'fears of
death; or in apprehensions of the future.
They felt that, 'acting in•meral freedom,
as well might you expect the Ethibpian"
to change his skin or the Leopard his
spots, as for those to do good who have
VOL. 10.--NO. 15.
accustomed themselves to a life of evil.,
and therefore upon God's help, through
the good of life, they leaned their hopes
of final disenthralment from evil. How
many' persons in this world commit
themselves to God with a mental reser
vation, ovunder a sort of protest, when
they make -a profession of religion—ac
cepting externally the declaration, "MT
words they are spirit and they are life,"
and ,yet internally and practically, in
dulging in nothing ; and believing in
tnothiog„but the rankent materialism.—
The Protestant charges.iipon the Papist
that lais,church sells indulgences in ad
vance for the commission , of sins,-and
yet. the 'Protestant hugs a mure fatal
indulgence to his heart, in that he fos
ters the dogma, as an article of his faith,
that...in. the twinkling of an eye, even
against'his own will, he' may be changed
from a , satan. to asaint. Whether these
dogmatising be tree or false, they formed
no part of the religions creed of Mark
and Lilly Lane ; for, their chief concern
was to.keep clean their "book of life"
in;the•flower of. health and the vigor of
age, so that When. the messenger of death
appeared, they could be , judged out of
it, with a "well done good and faithful
servant ; thou bast been faithful over a
few things, Twill make thee ruler over
many.'" Withciut ostentation, theY
made religion their chief and leading
.prineiple of 'actin, and this was the
:grand secret of their' doinestic success,
and the fountain from whence flowed
the waters of truth, Which washed from
them the defilements that are insepera
ble from a daily contact with a sinful
world:
It would perhaps be manifesting a
morbid nefaithfulness to human history,-
to say , that the demon of selfhood and
discontent, had never obtruded his
presence in the usually happy domicile
of Mr. and Mrs. Lane ;'but, in whatever
form, or under whatever specious pre
tentious he interposed his poisonous
suggestions,—buckling on the armor of
faith, good works, and charity, they
fought him on the threshold, and beat
him oat towards the circumference of
their sphere of life, if they could not en
tirely extinguish him. In this work they
mutually engaged, working as though all
depended upon their own individual ef
forts ; yet with the full and sincere ac
knowledgment, that all power to war
against evil successfully, comes from the
Lord, to whom also the glory is due.—
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Lane
grew up to manhood and womanhood,
somewhat freer from the`taint of worldly
evil, than the larger portion of the
children of their neighbors, although
they were not peo'ple 'of sanctimonious
pretensions; but, having
‘ conimericl,d,
the,education of their own affections
before they begat children, they trans
mitted to, them leis of the mutual pro
clivities and tendencies towards evil,
than would have been the case, hid they.
never practiced a rigid christian self
denial-in themselves.
These worthy people attained a green
014 age, surrounded by their children
and grand-children, retaining all the
hallowed affections of their earlier days
for each other.. The longer they lived ;
the more united they became in thought,
in,feeling, and affection b and the more
their minds and intents, formed aone,
1. .1n their, long married life, there had.
been necessary intervals of bodily sepa
ration, in the discharge of the various,
duties that devolved upon them, but
this,did not involve a spiritual absence
from each other, nor , any fretfulness or
unnecessary anxiety' about each other's
welfare, for they alwayshoped that their
destinies were in the hands of God, and
that his angels had "charge over them
to keep them in all their ways." And.-
when they returned again to each other's
bosonis, they only felt the more sensibly
their li:efficiency when
. seperated, and
their power for good 'when they were
personally and mentally present to each
other. They did not regret when they
became old, for their days had been well
spent in laying up "riehes, where neither
moth nor rust corrupts." Like two
travelers upon the green banks of a
sunny stream waiting to be ferried over
to the paradise beyond, even so they
:waited until the ferry-man came and
gently passed them over to the promised
land. But "She in her girls again was
courted, and he went wooing in his
boys," for their memory on earth was
enshrined in the hearts of their children
and their friends.
or We must not undervalue physi-
Clans. Perhaps the fabric.of society
would fall without them—they are its
pill-ars. ,
ur Gen. Buel is to be Grant's chief
of staff.