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(A Consolidation of the American and
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* ” B. N. PAYNE,
REAL ESTATE A GENT &
CONVEYANCER.
OFFICE— Smedley Row, opposite the Court
House, Towsontown. April 2D. ly
John T. Ensor,
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN
CHANCERY,
Towsontown, Md.
Will attend promptly and per.severingly to all
business entrusted to his care.
Jan. 1, 1865.—tf.
R. W. DOUGHERTY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
TO WSONTO W N, M D.
April I.—6m.
' 7 DR. J. PIPER, ;
Office—Residence of the late Dr. E. R. Tidings.
Office hours from 7 A? M., to 9 o’clock A. M.
Front l-e’cloek P. M., to 8 o'cl’k P. M.,
and C o'clock P. M.
Feb. 2A.—tf.
T DR. SAMUEL KEPLER.
Office and Residence— NEAß EPSOM CHURCH.
Towsontown, Dec. 81, 1864.—1 y
R. M. PRICE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Offiee—No. 1 Smedley Row, Towsontown.
WILL give prompt attention to all law and
chancery business entrusted to his care.
Sep. IT, 1864.—1 y
C. BOHN §IiIIU,UFF 7
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
No. 37 IF. LEXINGTON STREET,
(Basement,) Baltimore, Md.
April 15, 1865.—1 y.
Amos F. Mussel man,
ATTORNEY.
Offiee No. 21 Lexington st., Baltimore city.
PRACTICES in 7 the Courts of Baltimore
county.
July 9, 1864.—1 y
WILLIAM M. BUSEY,
ATT.© KM KYAT L ASW,
Vi:. 'No.'7l Fayette Street, Near Charles,
.Baltimore, Md.
“ Apfil 1,1665.—1 y. •
Theodore Glocker,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AKB
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
He. 44 St. Paul street, Baltimore, Md.
PARTICULAR attention given to Chancery
and Orphans’ Court business, in the Court*
of Baltimore city and county.
All communications or business left with Mr.
JOHN R. D. BEDFORD, Conveyancer,Towson-
U>Wd, will be promptly attended to.
March 12, 1864 —tf.
. O. C. Warfield,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
• ~ ‘ Tj WSONTOWN.
JJREPARES applications for
BOUNTY,
BACK PAY and
PENSIONS.
Fab. 26.—tf
Jos. P. Merryman.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
71 West Fayette street, Balt.
Jan. 9, 1864.—1 y
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" MERRYMAN & KEECH,
DENTISTS,
No. 56 North Calvert street, Baltimore.
. March 26, 1864.—1 y ‘ •
R. R. Boarman,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AXD
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY.
Smedley Row, opposite Court House,
' * ___ ;
wwylLL promptly attend to all business en-
W trusted to his care.
Jan. 18.—tf __
iwt# ■. waaaLER. william s. krbch
Wheeler & Kcech,
• ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AXD
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
Offiee No. I and 2 Smedley Row, Towsontown.
HAVING formed a PARTNERSHIP for the
practice of Law, will give* p.onipt atten
tion. to the collection of claims and business in
jreuexaf in the CircuitCourt
*■ jo w‘Tumpleman. Ch as. J. Pennington
Wa. H. Shiplkt.
Agents for sale of Maryland lands,
Office (up stairs) No. 48 Lexington st., Baltimore.
R. W. Templeman, & Co.,
OFFER their services to the public for the
Sale ef Farms, and Real Estate generally.
They have, as Surveyors, a general knowledge
ef the lands ef parts of the State, and unusual
facilities otherwise for the transaction of such
business. Plats and descriptions ef all prop
erties they may have for sale, will be kept in
book form. Parties wishing to seller purchase
will please eeramuuicate by letter as above.
Oat. 81.—ly
JACOB HOJFTI AW,
stk !
SADDLE, HARNESS AND COLLAR MAN
• ’ UFACTURER.
No. 178 North Gay St rot t, Baltimore.
I/TANUFACTEREB and keeps constantly on
JML hand all kinds of light and .heavy Har
nJt, Collars, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, Ac. Old
Harness taken in exchange. Country work ot
all kinds punctnally attended to. Repairing
promptly executed.
Ffb. 4.—3 m.
County Advertisements.
WARREN STOKE,
In the Thriving Little Village of
WARREN.
GREAT REDUCTION OF PRICES IN ALL
KINDS OF GOODS.
THE proprietors ef the “Warren Store” are
offering great inducements to the citizens
of this neighborhood, that is worthy of their
attention. We offer to the publie the best sc-,
lection of goods that cun be found in any store
in the country, and will guarantee to sell them
at less than city retail prices. All goods sold
here warranted as represented or the money
refunded. Our steck consist* in part of
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
HARDWARE,
CHINA WARE,
CROCKERY WARE,
EARTHENWARE,
STONEWARE,
GLASSWARE,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HATS, CAPS,
DRUGS, DYE STUFFS, OIL AND PAINTS,
MEDICINES, GLASS, PUTTY, WHITE
LEAD, LINSEED A NEATS FOOT
OIL, PAR.vPIIINE OIL, KER
OSENE OIL, MACHINE
OIL, MACKEREL,
HERRINGS, BA
CON, HAMS,
BREAST PIECES, SHOULDERS, G. A. SALT,
Fine Salt, Flour, Corn Meal, Mill Feed, Hom
onv Buck Wheat,
TIN AND WOODEN WARES,
Broom*, Ropes, Plow Lines, Shoe Findings,
Wrot Nail*, Cut Nails, Spikes, Rivets, and eve
ry article that may be found in a well regulat
ed country store.
COUNTRY PRODUCE
of all kind* taken in exchange for goods at
eitv prices.
H. P. THOMAS.
For Warren Manufacturing Company.
Feb. 18.—ly.
- Auctioneer.
THE undersigned having taken out a Gov
ernment License for sh as well as the 2d
Congressional District, is prepared to attend
sales in any part of Baltimore or Harford coun
ties, or any other portion of said Districts, ex
cept Baltimore city.
Having removed from Sweet Air to
Towsontown, persons having business with me
will please address me at Towsontown. or ap
ply te Mr. Church, Advocate Offiee, Mr. Loug
necker A Sons, American Office, or Mr. Nelson
Cooper, at his store.
SAMUEL G. WILSON.
Dec. a. —tAl6 Towsontown, Md.
NOTICE.
upilE firm of Longnecker A Sons having been
X dissolved, all persons having claims
against the above firm, of any kind, will please
present them to the undersigned, and all per
sons being in any way indebted either for sub
scription te the Baltimore County American,or
for advertising, are requested to make immedi
ate payment to the abovo. All persons indebt
ed to John H. Longnecker for subscription to,
or advertising in the above paper, previous to
November 15th. 1863, are earnestly requested
to make payment as above. Bills will be sent
to all so indebted. •
11. C. LONGNECKER,
J. B. LONGNECKER,
J. H. LONGNECKER,
Jan. 7.—tf.
TOWSONTOWN
FEMALE SEMINARY.
BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL for young
Ladies. ?
Mrs. MARGARET R. SCHENCK,
Principal.
(Late Principal of the Columbus Female Sem
inary, Ohio.)
The next term will eosunenct on Wednesday,
February, 8 th. Fob. 11. —4t*
il. S. CLAIM,
BACK PAY, BOUNTY,
Pension & Prize Collecting Agency.
THE undersigned, for more than three years
past Colonels in the U. S. Army, attend te
all Claims against the U. S. Government, make
up Quartermasters’ and Ordnance Accounts for
1 Discharged Officers, procure Ration Money for
Released Prisoners of War. Compensation to
Loyal Owners ef Slaves enlisted in the U. S.
Army er Navy .secured. Monthly Pay for
Wives and Mothers of Prisoners of War pro
cured. Soldiers’ Check Books Cashed, and
Cash Advances made on Claims.
igfc.Address, post paid, or apply in person
to SCHLEY A EMERY,
Attorneys at Law,
122 Baltimore st., (up stairs) B&lto. Md.
March 25.—3 m.
CHINA STORE.
WM. S. WONDERLY & CO.,
TT AVE on hand a complete stock of
jff curs a, glass;*
QUEENSWARE, IllftjPifl,
Fine and common, at the Warehouse,
75 Baltimore street, 8 doors west of Gay.street.
■ COAL OIL, of the very best quality, by the
barrel or gallon, aneTa complete assortment of
LAMPS and WICK for burning it.
The manufacture of STONE and EARTHEN
WARE still continued.
All goods for the country packed in a scien
tific manner, and will be sold wholesale and
retail, at very low prices, to suit the times.
Nov. 5,1864.—tf
LEATHER,
LEATHER,
HIDES, &C.
F. H. GRUPY & CO.,
42 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md.,
TT AVE always a full assortment of LEATII
|~I ER of allVinds, atlowest rates. Call and
see before purchasing.
HIDES A PRIME TAN BARK
Wanted, for which the outaide Cash Priee will
be paid. F. H. GRUPY A CO.,
42 South Calvert Street, Baltimore.
April B.—3m.
JOHN D. HAMMOND,
SADDLE, HARNESS, TRUNK,
AND COLLAR MANUFACTURER,
WHOLESALE <k RETAIL, ■
jfiLa No. S4B Baltimore st., AtMWb
fltplffliy vjlJ door* below Eutaw
iff House, Baltimore, £*S®S|ss|£|
MANUFACTURES and keeps coristantlyon
hand every description of SADDLES.
HARNESS, TRUNKS. VALISES, CARPET
BAGB, COLLARS, and every other article in
hi* line. Alt order* executed with neatness
and dispatch. July 9,1804. —1 y
PLOUGH CASTINGS !
PLOUGH CASTINGS !!
THE attention of Farmer* and Merchants is
invited to my full and complete stock, em
bracing all the various sizes ef the Wiley,
Woodcock, Smith, Atwood, Minor A Ilorton,
Wisconsin, and other kinds, all of which will
be sold low by the single piece or ton.
Also, a good assortment of Ploughs, at less
than regular prices, at No. 142 N. Gay street,
Baltimore. HENRY WILCOX.
Feb. 6.—tf
TAKE NOTICE.
FALL STYLES OF HATS, 1864.
WE are now prepared to
nish our friends and thesCKgMR
publie with the FALL STYLES BBlHSpih..
OF HATS, for Gentlemen's wear, HBS9
whieh will compare Krerably with any sold
in the eitf of Haltimort.
ALSO, SOFT FILT HATS,
Latest patterns, for Gentlemen, Youths and
Children, some very beautiful.
S. HINDIS A NON,
Oct. If.— tf Ne. 180 Bay street.
TOWSONTOWN. MD., SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1865.
IIAUGH’S
RAW-80NE PHOSPHATE,
UXSUHI'ASSHU FOR PRODUCING A
Heavy Growth of Corn, Oats, Potatoes,
ANl> ALL SPRING CROPS,
And Permanently Enriching the Soil.
It contains the Fcrtelizing Properties of
Guano, Done, Stable Manure and
Lime.
PRODUCING in many cases larger crops by
fifty per cent, than either of the above ar
ticles, when used seperately.
It is a highly concentrated manure, being
made from Bones containing all their original
animal matter. No Burnt Bonoß are used.
It has boen used by thousands of farmers in
this State, with the highestsatisfaetion. It has
proved a perfectly reliable substitute for “Pe
ruvian Guano,” being sufficiently quick in its
action on the crops, and in all cases enriching
the soil, and it is permanent in its effects.
It would be well for farmers to send in their
orders early, either to the subscriber or to any
of his agents, from whom circulars can be ob
tained, giving a list of many parsons who have
used it, and certificates.
GEORftE mJttIIALE,
Sole Agent,
No, 105 Smith’s Wharf,
Feb. IS.—3m. BALTIMORE.
Geo. H. Carman. Joshua M. Bosley.
MARYLAND LAND AGENCY.
WE SELL AND PURCHASE on commis
sion, REAL ESTATE of every descrip
tion, in the city of Baltimore, the Counties of
Maryland and other States, —BORROW AND
LOAN MONEY ON MORTGAGE,—and attend
to Ctllectious of all kinds promptly.
OUR OFFICE is centrally and conveniently
located, with all the appliances for a thorough
and energetie dispatch of business ; and wc
propose to use all proper and available means
to present to the purchasing public and capi
talists, sueii properly as may be in our hands
for sale.
IF you want to Sell a Farm, House or Ground
Rent, inform us of the fact, and put it on our
Books.
IF you want to Purchase REAL ESTATE of
any kind, or Invest in GROUND RENTS OR
MORTGAGES examine our Books before you
do so.
Persons having business in our line, are res
ctfully solicited to give us a call, or eonimu
cate with us by letter or otherwise.
CARMAN & BOSLEY,
Office No. 5 Carroll Hall (up stairs.) S. E.
Corner of Baltimore and Calvert Sts.,
Feb. 18.—tf. Baltimore, Md.
BALTIMORE & TOWSONTOWN
ON an after Monday, October 10th, 1864, cars
will
LEAVE BALTIMORE EVERY HOUR,
In the Charles Street Cars, corner of Baltimore
and North streets,
FROM 7 A. M. TO 6 P. M., except 12 M.
And will leave
CORNER EAST AND ENSOR STS., Old Town,
EVERY HOUR,
FROM 7.15 A. M. TO 6.15 P. M.,
Except at 12.15 noon.
The cars connect at North Boundarv Avenue.
LEAVE TOWSONTOWN EVERY HOUR.
FROM 7 A. M. TO 7 I’. M., except at 12 M.
A car will leave the corner of EAST AND
ENSOR STREETS at 11 P. M. •
Oct. 15.—tf A. D. BANKS. Agent.
The Old Established and Reliable
Substitute Agency,
GEO. COLTON&CO., .
23 Second Street, Nearly Opposite the Post Office,
HAVING been for a long time in the busi
incss of furnishing Districts and individ
uals with Substitutes, and enlisting Volunteers
for the Army and Navy, and being thoroughly
familiar with every department of our occupa
tion, we can offergreat facilities to those who
mayAnied our services. Those who wanttoen
ter,the service, sither as Substitutes or Volun
teers, as well as those who want Substitutes for
themselves or friends, would do well to give us
a call.
jzr-£rContracts taken for filling quotas, as
heretofore.
iSSg,Exemption papers of all kinds carefully
prepared ana advice furnished. Claims of all
Kinds collected with dispatch.
REMEMBER THE PL ACE !
28 Second Street, Baltimore, !Md<
Feb. 25.—3 m.
GILMOUR’S HOTEL.
0 -V THE EU K 0 P J! A N PL A N,
No. 124 Yf. BALTIMORE STREET,
' HAL'fIMOIiK,
J. D. GILMOUR, Proprietor.
A LARGE variety of Meats and Vegetables,
including all the delicacies of the season,
served up in the best style.
Particular pains taken to keep WINES AND
LIQUORS of the choicest quality.
ROOMS FURNISHED BY THE DAY OR
WEEK.
Dining Rooms for Private Parties.
Nov. 18.—ly.
WILLIAM L. MILLER, ”
WIIOLKSALE AXD RKTAIL DEALER IX
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TOBACCO A YD SEGAKS,
NO. 6 GREENMOUNT AVENUE.
SUPPLIED by M. If. MILLER'S extensive
Segar Factory, in the State Prison,
j Office for business—
No. 6 Greenmount Avenue.
Goods at prices that cannot fail, nleasc.
I Call and see. June 18.—k
MARYLAND BAG FACTORY,
GAMBRILL, HOOPER & CO.,
S. W. COR. SOUTH A PRATT STREETS,
BALTIMORE,
SHIP Chandlers, and dealer* in Sail Cloth,
Netting, Seine and Sail Twine, heavy cot
| ton, Flax and Hemp goods generally. Also,
, manufacturers of Cotton ami Burlap BAGS,
'Tarpaulins, Wagon Covers, Ac.
j Jan. 14, 1865.—tf.
; ~~ SCHUCHMANN & HEIM,
MANUFACTURERS OF
! Traveling Trunks,
Valises and Ladies Bonnet Boxes,
No. 6 W. Street,
, BALTIMORE.
TRUNKS MADE TO ORDER
, Jan. 14, 1865. —ly.
j James Beatty. George R. Skillmax.
* JAMES BEATTY & CO.,
> SHIP BISCUIT, CRACKER,
±
AND CAKE BAKERS,
Nos. 92, 94 and 96 Dugan's Wharf,
Near Pratt street, Balt.
March 18, 1865.—1 y.
GEORGE C. McCOULL,
UNDERTAKER,
No. 131 Saratoga street, 1 door west of Howard
IS prepared to furnish COFFINS at 25 per
cent, less than the usual price, and of line
finish, for cash. Jan. 28, 1865.—1 y.
I Jtlcct f oitru.
PRESIDNT LINCOLN’S FAVOR
ITE POEM.
Mr. Canton ter, the well-known portrait painter, re’atcs
that he was once at the White House with the late l’res*
ident alone. The ('resident laid aside I,U work and thoj
wore talking of Shakespeare, from whose plays lie read
several passages. Relapsing into a sadder strain, he
laid the hook aside, and leaning hack in his chair, said :
“ There is a poem which has )>eeu a great favorite with
me for years, which was first shown to me when a young
man hy a friend, and which I afterwards saw and cut
from a newspaper and learned by heart. I would give a
great deal to know who wrote it, but I have never been
able to ascertain.”
lie afterwards repeated the lines to Mr. Carpenter, who
wrote them down as they fell from the lips of the Presi
dent. They are as follows :
OH! WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF
MORTAL BE PROUD t
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ?
l.ikea swift, fleeting meteor,a fast-dying cloud.
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
11c passetli from life to his rest in the grave.
The leaves of the oak and the willows shall fade,
Be scattered around and together bo laid ;
And the young and the old, and the low and the high.
Shall moulder to dust and together shall lie.
The infant and mother attended and loved ;
The mother that infant’s affection who proved;
The husband that mother and infant who blessed.
Each, all, arc away to their dwellings of Best.
The hand of the king that tIM sept re hath home;
The brow of the priest that the mitre hath won ;
The eye of the sage and the heart of the brave,
Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave.
The peasant, whose lot was to sow and to reap ;
The herdsman, who climbs with his goats up the steep;
The beggar, who wanders in search of his bread,
Have faded away like the grass that we tread.
So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed
Tiiat withers away to let others succeed ;
So the multitude comes, even those we behold.
So repeat every tale that has often been told.
For wc are the same our fathers have been;
We see the same sights our fathers have seen ;
We drink the same stream and view sun,
And run the same coarse our fathers have run.
The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think;
From the death we are shrinking our fathers would
shrink ;
To the life we are clinging they also would cling ;
But it speeds for us all, like a bird on the wing.
They loved, hut the story we cannot unfold ;
They scorned, hpt the heart of the haughty is cold ;
They grieved, but no wail from their slumber will come;
They joyed, hut the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
They died, aye! they died ; We things that are now,
That walk on the surf that lies over their brow,
And make in their dwellings a transient abode,
Meet the things that they mot on their pilgrimage road
Yea! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain,
We mingle together in sunshine and rain :
And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge,
Still follow each other, like surge upon surge.
’Tis the wink of an rye,'tis the draught of a breath,
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death ;
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud.
Oh why should the spirit of mortal he proud ?
fgimUancDu#.
ROBESPIERRE.
BY JOHN P. C. ABBOTT.
Among the remarkable men developed
by the French Revolution, there ate few
who stand more prominent than Robespierre
His first appearance was in the Assem
bly of the States General. The nobles and
the bishops refused to meet with the com
mons. They resolved to meet in seperate
halls, that each of the three orders, having
a separate vote, the lords and the bishops
haviug two votes, and the commons but
one, the commons might be thus outvoted,
though in the immense majority. Were
they to meet in oue assembly, the commons
could, of course, carry their measures. The
poor were in a state of terrible distress.—
Tho nobles sent the Archbishop of Aix
with a very pathetic appeal, urging the com
mons in behalf of the people to proceed to
business, by consenting to the separation of
the three chambers.
Robespierre, ono of the deputies of the
commons, then an unknown young man, pale
and slender, rose and said, “Go tell your
colleagues that we are waiting for them here
to aid us in assuaging the sorrows of the
people Tell them 1.0 longer to ret; r 1 our
work. Tell them that our resolution is not
to bo shaken by such a stratagem as this.—
If they have sympathy for the poor, let
them, in imitation of their master,renounce
that luxury which consumes the funds of in
digence, dismiss those insolent lackeys who
attend them, sell their gorgeous equipages
and with these superfluities relieve tho per
ishing. AVe wait for them here.”
We next hear of him earnestly adroca
-1 inir the abontToTl —uf pcvnrrcy.—
I)r. Guillotin had introduced a new machine
, called from the inventor, the guillotine, for
, the infliction of capital punishment, with
out inflicting pain. A general burst of
* laughter was excited in the assembly us the
Doctor said : “ With my machine, 1 cau
clip off your head in the twinkling of an
eye, without you feeling it.” It may bo re
marked, in passing, that many who then
smiled were soon beheaded by the keen axe.
A party arose in France called the Gi
rondists—so called, because their leaders,
were from the department of the Gironde.
They at first were in favor of a constitution
al monarchy, like that of England. But
finding, from the perfidy of the king and tho
court, this to be impossible, they tlieu ad
vocated a republic. There was another
party advocating the extreme of democratic
s license called the Jacobins. Robespierre
was one of the leaders of the latter party.
He brought an exceedingly envenomed bill
of accusation against the Girondists, over
whelming them in their trial, and they were
all sont to the guillotine.
Robespierre, Danton and Marat, the
heads of the Jacobin party, were now the
idols of France. Cbarlotto Corday soon
plunged her dagger into the bosom of Ma
rat. Herbert, at the head of the Atheists
of Paris, organized a formidable party. —
* Robespierre, at the peril of his life, threw
himself into the breach to oppose them.—
“There are men,” said he, “ who, under the
’ pretext of destroying superstition, would
mako a religion of Atheism. The legislator
, who would adopt the system of Atheism, is
insane. The national convention abhors
such a system. Atheism is aristocratic. The
idea of a great being who watches over op
pressed innocence, and who punishes tri
umphant guilt, is quite popular. The peo
ple, tho unfortunate, applaud me. If God
did not exist, it would behoove man to in
vent him.”
7 The conflict was short and desperate.—
Each party knew that the guillotine was
the doom of the vanquished. Herbert and
his coadjutors, nineteen in number, were on
the 19th of March, 1794, in five carts con
ducted to the scaffold.
’ Danton and Robespierre now quarrelled.
Robespierre again conquered in the death
struggle, and Danton was doomed to die.—
Before tho dawn of the morning, gens d'-
armes entered his chamber and tore him
from the arms of his wife. As he entered
his prison, in the vaults of Luxembourg,
he said, sadly:
“ At length I perceive that iu revolutions
the Supreme power ultimately rests with the
most abandoned. We are sacrificed to the
ambition of a few dastardly brigands. But
they will not long enjoy the fruit of their
villainy. I drag Rabespierre after me.—
Y Robespierre follows me to the grave.”
As Danton, with Camille Desmoulins and
r others who were to be executed with him,
9 alighted from the cart at the scaffold, Her
ault do Sechelles, who was to suffer first,
endeavorod to take leave of Dantoo in a !
parting embrace. The brutal executioner ■
interposed.
“Wretch,” snid Danton, “you will not, '
at least, prevent our heads from kissing pre
sently in tho ’ As ho was bound to
the fatal plank ho said, “0, my wife, my
dear wife, shall I never see you again ?”
Then, as if ashuinod of his emotion, he add
ed, “But, Danton, no weakness.’’ Then, as
tho plank fell to its place beneath the slide
ho proudly remarked to the executioner,
You will show my head to the people. It
will be well worth tho display.”
Robespierre was now undisputed victor.
Day after day he punished bis foes. Ho
was not maliciously cruel, but a thorough
fanatic, believing that all political oppo
nents should bo executed. The mother of
Lucille, tho young wife of Desmoulins,
wrote in the following terms to Robespierre,
who had doomed her daughter to death.—
She and Lucille and Desmoulins had for
merly been Robespierre’s most intimate
friends.
“ Robespierre,” she wrote, “is it not
enough to havo assassiuatedyour best friend.
Do you desire the blood of his wife, of my
daughter? Two hours more and 6he will
uot be in existence. Robespierre, if you
are not a tiger in human shape, if the blood
of Camille has not inebriated you to the
point of losing your reason entirely,—if you
recall still our evenings of intimacy, if you
recall the caresses you lavished on our lit
tle Horace, and how you delighted to hold
hitn upon your knees, spare an innocent
victim. But if thy fury is that of the lion,
come and take me also, and my daughter
Adele and little Horace. Come, with hands
reeking in the blood of Camille, and let one
single tomb reunite us.”
But Robespierre was inexorable, and the
young and beautiful Lucille perished be
neath the fatal axe. Robespierre is one of
the most inexplicable of men. His inoral
character was irreproachable. No bribes
could corrupt him. He sincerely endeav
ored to establish a republic upon the basis
of popular liberty and virtue. Self-aggrand
izement was no part of his plan. But he
was as merciless as the slide of the guillo
tine. At times, indeed, he seemed weary
of blood. On one occasion he remarked,
“Death, always death ; and the scoundrels
throw all the responsibility on me. What
a memory shall 1 leave behiud me if this
lasts ! Life is a burden to ine.”
A young girl, Cecille Regnanlt, but sev
enteen years of age, was accused of plot
ting the assassination of Robespierre. She
and all her friends perished on the scaffold
and eight carts were filled with victims to
avenge this crime. But tho fickle populace
at last began to suspect their idol of being
unfriendly to the Revolution, and of wish
ing to arrest its torrents of blood. In six
months two thousand three hundred and
seventy-five had perished upon the scaffold
in Paris alone. Rebespierre, weary of blood
attempted to check these senseless atroci
ties. A conspiracy of very euergetic men
was formed against him. As he entered the
convention on the 29th of July, 1794, cries
of “ Down with tho tyrant ?” filled the house.
Overwhelmned by the clamor, Robespierre
in vain endeavored to speak in self-defence.
“ President of assassins,” he shouted, “ will
yon hear mo ?” He was arrested and led to
the Hotel de Brinne in the Place du Car
rousal. His friends recued him and carried
him to the Mayor’s room at the Hotel de
ViUe.
It was now night, and all Paris was in a
blaze of commotion, mobs surging through
the streets. A detachment of soldiers was
sent by the convention to arrest Bobespierre
again. He was sitting calmly at the table
awaiting his fate. One of the soldiers dis
charged a pistol at him. Tho ball entered
his jaw and produced a terrible wound. His
head dropped upon the table deluging it
with blood. Thus mangled, he was borne
on a litter, just as the day was beginning to
dawn, to the hall of the convention. He
was laid on a table in an ante-room, while
a vast crowd gathered around to gaze upon
tho fallen dictator, lie was overwhelmed
with insults. Tho blood flowed freely from
his wound, coagulating in his mouth, and
choking him as it trickled down his throat.
After passing an hour of almost unendura
ble agony, he with his brother and several
others of his friends, were brought before
the Revolutionary Tribunal. The trial oc
cupied but a few moments, aud they were
all doomed to die.
At 5 o’clock of the same evening, the
cart conveyed them through the Rue St. No
nore to the Place do la Revolution. Robes
pierre ascended the scaffold with a firm step.
As the executioner brutally toro the band
age from his inflamed wound, he uttered a
shriek of torture wlucti pierced every ear.
lu another moment the axe of the guillo
tine glided swiftly down its groove and the
head of Robespierre fell into the basket.
There was a moment’s silence and theu there
came, from the lips of those who but a short
time before, were shouting hosannas to his
name, a burst of tho wildest applause.—
Thus died Robespierre in the thirty-fifth
year of his age—A r . Y. Ledger.
Wiiat Masks a Lady. —When Beau Bruin
mel, was asked what makes the gentleman,
his quick reply was, “ Starch, starch, my
lord !” This may be true ; but it takes a
great deal more to make a lady : and though
it may to some seem singular. I am ready
to maiutain that no conceivable quantity of
muslin, silk or satin, edging, frilling, hoop
ing, flouncing, or furbelowing, can per sa.or
per dressmaker, constitute areal lady. Was
not Mrs. Abbott Lawrence just as much a
lady whon attired in twelve-cent calico, in
Boston, as when arrayed in full court-dress
at St. James, Londou ? “As Mrs. Wash
ington was said to be so graud a lady,” Says
a celebrated English visitor (Mrs. Thorpe,)
“ we thought we must put on our best bibs
and bands : so we dressed ourselves in our
most elegant ruffles and silks, and were in
troduced to her ladyship; and don’t you
think we found her knitting, and with her
check apron on 1 She received us very gra
ciously and easily; but, after tho compli
ments were over, she resumed her knittiug.
There we were, without a stitch of work,
and sitting iu state ; but Gen. Wasbinton’s
lady, with her own hands was knitting stock
ings for her husband !” Does uot thnt sweet
republican simplicity command your admi
ration ?
Sambo on Women.
Dey may rail against wiminin as much
as dey like, dey can’t set me up against
dem. I hab always in my life found dem
fust in lub—fust in a quarrel—fust in de
dance—de fust in de icecreem saloon—and
de fust, best, and last in de sick room.—
What would we poor dubbles do without
dem ? Let us be born as little, as
ugly, and as helpless as you please, and a
woman’s arms am open to receib us. She
it am who gibs us our fast dose 3 ob castor
ile, and puts close upon our helpless naked
limbs, and cubbers up oar foots and toses
in long flannel peticoats, and it am she who,
as we grow up, fills oar dinner baskets with
apples as we starts to skool, and licks as
when we tears our trousers.
O’Mr. Lincoln has told his “ little sto
ry ”in Richmond. While in the parlor of
the fugitive Confederate President, some
one related to him the circumstances of
Davis’s flight. He said it reminded him of
the negro, who, when his preacher told the
congregation there were only two roads,
one leading to hell and the other to damna
tion, exclaimed : “ Den dis nigger will take
to de woods.”
wwnn—w
Ex-General Lee.
The sooner Robert E. Leo is assigned to
the position which he has so justly tarued, f
the better. If this rubellion which has i
cursed our land for the past four years is ,
an infamous and wanton and disgraceful
piece of wickedness, then the chief actors t
in it are infamous and wicked aud disgrace- i
ful too. If it is not, then Northern writers v
and orators have spent four years in idle
words, and Northern blood has flowed in
torrents in an unrighteous cause.
The liberal terms dictated to the rebel
chief by his conqueror, will, we fear, be lit- i
tie appreciated by the arrogant leaders of s
the South, and are as little relished by ave- t
ry largo portion of the people of the North, f
The leniency of our Government towards C
the rebels ever since the war began, has t
been censtantly abused and turned to our f
disadvantage, and we already see, as one of c
the results of the liberality extended to Lee i
the geerillas who have infested the noigh- i
borbood of Alexandria aud other places t
coolly coining into our lines and claiming t
the same immunity that has beeu extended \
to their commander-in-chief. Horse-thieves i
and assassins as they are, the law has no (
halter for them, and the provost marshal \
no whipping post. i
Lee’s own position will be whatever the s
loyal people of the North choose to make i
it. There is scarcely a home in the whole l
free North that does not owe to him, in his
personal and his representative capacity, 1
the death of some brother er husband or j
father. He is responsible above all other i
men, for the horrible cruelties of the South- 1
cm prisons, and we hear the claim that is 1
set up for his great humanity and personal i
goodness wilh loathing and disgust when i
we call to mind the liviug skeletons that ■
havo crawled home to die, or the long rows <
of unknown graves that surround the stock- <
ades of Andersonville and Salisbury. i
The last address of Leo to his army, writ- !
ten after ha had surrendered to Lieut. Gen. i
Grant on such generous terms, should de
prive him of all claims to the mawkish sym
pathy that wc have heard expressed in some i
quarters. It is the address of a defiant trai
tor, who cannot appreciate the noble gen
erosity of his conqueror; and tho hypocrit
ical appenl to the Deity, who, in spite of j
former like appeal, has suffered him to bo
crushed, reads like blasphemy. But for
him, aud others like him, we would have no
great war, and we would not now be mourn
ing a martyred President. Let us remem
ber this whenever we are asked to be mer
ciful or even charitable to him.
We have no feeliug of sentimental admi
ration for this man, nor can we understand
why he is entitled to the slightest personal
consideration. We regard him as simply
the right-hand man of Jeff Davis ; a deser
ter to his own flag ; a traitor to his own.
coantry ; a breaker of oft-repeated oaths ;
owing the escape of bis neck from the hal
ter, if it does escape, to the clemency of the
Government he has so diligently striven to
destroy.
A bad record for a once proud name;
scanty material wherewith to construct a
hero ! a black page to fill in future history
—and yet this is all he can justly claim.—
Disgraced in reputation, ruined in fortune,
grown old and broken before his time, it
would be an act of justice to the laws he has
violated, to banish him to some foreign land
whero he might be at least partially forgot
ten and partially removed from the associ
ations which here must forever remind him
of the failure and the crime of which he
was tbg ruliDg spirit.— Phila. Bulletin.
Pretroleum—Some of its Uses.
We speak of petroleum as a “ lubricator,”
as an “illuminator,” as a “ fuel,” as a “gen
erator of steam,” and as a “ medicine.” We
find in the course of t>ut four weeks it has
doubled its sphere of value, Or rather has
been applied with perfect success to the
following new uses:
First. It is becoming to bo uuiveraally
employed by tanners, after the naptha has
been extracted from it, as a substitute for
fish oil, and tho leather thus prepared is
found to be even better than that tanned in
the old way. The naptha so procured can
then be used as a substitute for alcohol in
lineiments and other medical compounds.
It is said to be the best solvent for India
rubber known, and with ita rubber varnish
for leather, rendering the latter water-proof,
can be made.
The heavy oil strained in a cold room
yields the paraffine which is employed to
adulterate and ctieapeu spermaceti, beeswax,
etc., and for making candles. Our fair dames
and demoiselles will be no little astonished
■ also, to learn that eighty tons of it are used
in this country as mastic, which they buy
in our candy stores, and chew iu little yol
lo v and rose-colored sticks.
Again the most exquisite dyes are obtaia
ed from it, among them the new and beau
tiful girojla, surpassing all that Tyre and
Persia ever owned.
Our self-raising flour derives its most
distinctive qualities from this multiple and
wonderful substance, since the waste acid
that flows from the petrolenm refineries is
largely applied to the imitatiou of and adul
teration of cream of tartar, which is the
lighter of the bread ?
But the press owes a direct debt that must
be now acknowledged to this good genius
of the earth. Au American chemist has re
cently taken oat & patent for making prin
ting inks from tho various colors and ex
tracts of petroleum ; and the black ink he
thus manufactures is better than that made
with linseed oil, and can be made for half
the latter! Some of our great publishing
houses are even uow constantly using it,
and this article may be printed with the
pigment. The consumption of the com
pound already amounts to hnudrods of tons.
A large and celebrated firm in this city
is now making a delightful cosmetic soap
from the same oil.
Within cannon shot of that establishment
is another where gas is made and furnished
from petroleum at the rate of $1.50 per 1,-
000 foot; and it yields the brightest and
purest light, and most powerful heat yet
known for domestie purposes.
They are using petroleum in England to
generate steam. By extracting the volatile
spirits the oil is made perfectly safe, aud
twenty gallons, it is said, is equal to a ton
of coal for heating purposes. It is claimed
that the oil occupies less space, is cleaner,
requires fewer persons to handle it, and pre
serves the iron of ships bettor than coal.
-N. Y. News.
Take it Warm. — A dear old lady, who
had brought an action for damages against
a neighbor, was being examined, when the
judge suggested a compromise, and instruc
ted her counsel to ask what she would take
to settle matter.
“ What will you take V' asked the coun
sel of the old lady.
She shook her head at the counsel, in- ,
forming the jury, in confidence, that she '
was “ very hard o’ hearing.” ,
“ His honor wants to know what you will
take,” asked the learned counsel again, this
time bawling rb loud as he could in the old
lady’s ear.
“ I thank your honor kindly,” said the an
cient dame, “ and if it’s no inconwenience
to him, I’ll take a little warm ale.”
(9*A shrewed observer says, “I get
friends and manage to keep them by not
asking them for anything but advice. You
can’t ask anything of a man that he loves
to give more, and that costs him less than
advice.”
NO. 18.
For Ihr Union.
have received the following letter
from the Rev. Dr. Gere, Chaplain of the
U. fcs. A. (ieneral Hospital at York, Pa.
Mr. Gere is so well and favorably known in
this community, and the letter contains such
interesting statements of the Hospital
where he is laboring, that we publish it
entire.
The Hospital at York.
Sirs :—Some weeks since I read a note
in your excellent paper, correcting from per
sonal observation, the very imperfect descrip
tion of this Hospital given in the third lie
port of the committee of Maryland, U. S.
Christian Commission. You have the
thanks of many for presenting some simple
facts respecting an institution called into
existence for the relief of sufferers by the
most unprovoked and wicked war which
darkens the pages of history. It may tend
to draw toward them a larger dividend of
the unexampled liberality of a loyal people,
whose hearts and hands, whilst they can
not go to the field of battle themselves, are
open to sustain and comfort the brave men
who hace f/one and laid upon our country’s
altar, all tilings dear, and life itself, to pre
serve intact the rich inheritance secured
in the Providence of God, by the valorund
blood of our forefat hers.
Our Hospital is in a most pleasant and
healthy location, and occupies an enclosure,
just on the southern edge of the Borough,
a little upwards of eight hundred and nine
ty feet square. Its buildings varying some
what in width and heigth, in the aggregate
are 3700 feet in length—exclusive of a large
number of tents, and of the eigth ward,
which occupies two floors of the the capa
cious Odd Fellow’s Hall, and will accom
date a hundred patients. Your readers will
readily perceive how much like a Female
Seminary, to which the. Report refered to
assigus the Hospital, are its real surround
ing. I think there is no Seminary build
ings even in sight of it. Accuracy in such
cases may be of some importance, and this
cannot well be reached by mere conjecture.
The entrauce, which is tastefully arched,
is painted sea-green, and fronting with the
gate, the first in a long line ofbuildings, is -
the ‘‘officer of the day’s” room, surmounted
by a black, frowning, though powerless, fan
cy six pouuder. Passing then a range of
offices handsomely “labeled,” with a lofty
shaft in front, from which floats our Nation
al banner, and at the head of another long
line of barracks, we have the office of our
able Executive. Its gable end is decora
ted by the stars, and the stripes flare
down in bright colors upon the roof of the
portico, whilst a majestic gilded eagle
perched upon three divergent, representa
tive guns, resting in the upper point of the
angle, spreads its shining pinions above.—
The design is striking and the effect fine.
Our walks are being re-constructed and
bordered with green turf, and the wide
space between the rows of buildings lias
been graded, scientifically laid out, border
ed also with green turf, and planted with
flowers, shrubs, evergreens and forest trees,
which, stimulated by the bountiful April
showers, and the very fertile soil seem to
have suffered little by the change from their
origiual bed, and are rapidly developing
their native foliage.
In the centre of this ornamented circle a
fountain is constructed, supplied with ex
cellent water, which also is distributed by
hydrants at convenient distances through
the campus. The buildings, whether repa
pered, painted, or washed, have renewed
their coating outside and in, and in a bright,
sunny day are painfully white. The outside
of the Chapel and second ward is sea-green,
and so well ordered are our police and san
itary arrangements, that all are kept pro
verbially neat and clean. The new laundry,
a substantial and well proportioned build
ing now approaching completion, is up
wards of 100 feet in length, and a valuable
acquisition.
What you have said so well, and in few
words, I need not repeat, only, I judge that
with tents and all, accommodations might
be found for more than 2500 patients, al
though we have at present, but about 800
(eight hundred.) Such is the general ef
fect of the whole upon the men that ‘they
often exclaim “This ought to be kept as a
soldiers’ home." I doubt not they appre
ciate it the more, as all the substantial and
useful, all the fancy, art, science, and taste
exhibited, all the hand and head work ac
complished, are but the development ofthe
talent inside of their own temporary dwell
ing place. Led on and supported by the
economical and energetic commandant ot
the Post, a vast aggregate has been effect
ed within our own military family, for their
convenience and comfort.
J cannot tell you how deeply we are in
debted to that lleavon originated institu
tion, the Christian Commission, for rich
supplies of religious reading—books, tracts
and periodicals, besides numerous articles
to relieve the physical wants of our brave,
patient, suffering men. We have now an
extra meeting in progress, which we trust
by the blessing of God, will result in much
good. Some have returned to the Lord
during the Winter, and we are looking for
many more.
The legitimate ont-cropping, the crown
ing crime of treason, the assassination of
our excellent President, Abraham Lincoln,
the Nation’s favorite, has affected us deep
ly. Some, who have ranked under the same
rebel banner, and by implication are fellow
conspirators and " “purticeps criminis,”
shrink from their responsibility, and now,
“were always loyal—always iJnion."
May the Lord put a speedy end to the de
vastating war, and sweep from the land the
last vestige of the foul spirit which instiga
ted and so long sustained it.
♦ ►—
Gentlemen of Veracity. —A person
complained to Dr. Franklin of having been
insultpd by one who called him a scoun
drel. “Ah,” replied the doctor, “and what
did you call him ?" “Why," said he, “I call
ed him a scoundrel, too.” “Well,” resum
ed Franklin, “1 presume you are both gen
tlemen ofvaracity, and as the account seems
balanced between you, each should regard
it as a receipt in full.”
A bachelor friend of ours says that
he never attempted to make but one speech
to a woman, and then be did not succeed.
It was a beautiful moonlight night, and he
caught her hand and dropped upon his
knees, lie only saw a streak of calico as
she went over the bar. He did not see her
again for a fortnight, and then a # lellow
was feeding her with molasses candy at a
circus.
——
gg“A heartless old fellow, writing for a
mngazine, says :—“I have seen women so
delicate that they were afraid to ride for
fear of the horses running away, afraid to
sail for fear the boat would upset, and Afraid
to walk for fear the dew might fall upon
them ; but I never saw one that w&3 afraid
to get married.”
“Do you think I’ll get justice done
me ?" said a culprit to a counsel. “ I don’t
think you will,” replied the other, “ for I
see two men on the jury who are opposed
to hanging.”
+<■—
Confederacy, considering how
little liquor it can get, staggers awfully.
work of a day may have a centu
ry of influence.