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Professional Cards.
B. N. PAYNE,
REAL ESTATE AGENT &
CONVEYANCER.
OFFICE— Smedlcy Row, opposite the Court
House, Towsontown. April 2‘J.—ly
JohnT. Ensor, ;
attorney at law and solicitor IN
CHANCERY, • >
Towsontown, Md.
Will attend promptly and perseveringly to all
business entrusted to his care.
Jan. 1, 1865.—tf.
R. W. DOUGHERTY,
at law p
TOWSONTOWN, MD.
April I.—6m. „
DR. J. PIPER,
Residence opposite the late Dr. Tiding’s office.
Office hours from 7 A. M., to 9 o’clock A. M.
From 1 o’clock P. M., to .1 o cl k P. M„
and 6 o’clock B, M.
Jan. 1, 1865. 180 ft. . ■ ■’;>■ a
ISAAC McCURLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
38 ST. PA UL STREET, • *
BALTIMORE.
May 6.—ly < Al r If
R. M. PRICE, v
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office—No. 1 Bmedley Row, Towsontown.
WILL give prompt attention to all law and
chancery business entrusted to his care.
Sep. 17, 1861.—1 y __
c. ■OIN SUmtH',
attorney at law,
No. 3T W. LEXINGTON STREET,
(Basement,) Baltimore,' Md.
April 15, 1865.—1 y.
Amos F. Musselman,
ATTORNEY.
Office No. 21 Lexington st., Baltimore city.
PRACTICES in the Courts of Baltimore
county.
July 9, 180-I.—ly :
’ WILLIAM M. BUSEY,
LAWy
No. 71 Fayette Street, Near Charles,
Baltimore, Md, 1
April 1,1865. —1 y. _
Theodore Glocker, i.
attorney at law
AND
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
No. 44 St. Paul street, Baltimore, Md.
PARTICULAR attention given to Chancery
ami Orphans’ Court business, in the Courts
Baltimore city and county.
All communications or businessleft witn Mr.
JOHN R. D. BEDFORD, Conveyancer,Towson
lowu, will be promptly attended to.
M arch 12, 1864.—tf. -
O. C. Warfield,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Towsontown.
J) REPARES applications for
BOUNTY,
back pay
Feb. 20.—tf
Jos. P. Merryman.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
71 West Fayette street, Balt.
Jan. 9,1864.—1 y
DR. ISAAC McCURLEY,
DENTIST,
8. W. COR. LIBERTY and LEXINGTON, Sts.
BALTIMORE.
May 6.—tf
G. MKKItTIfAN. *• KEBCH, *>. D. 8
6iil
MERRYMAN & KEECH,
DENTISTS,
No. 60 North Calvert street, Baltimore.
March 26, 1864.—1 y ______
DR. J. H. JARRETT,
. (Forxkrlv Surgeon 7th Md., Vods.,)
HAVING purchased the late residence of
Dr. E. R. Tidings, respectfully offers his
Professional Services to the public. Having
had an experience of ten years in private prac
tice and two years aud a-lialf in the army, he
hopes to be able to give satisfaction to all those
who may favor him with a call.
• June 17, 1365.—1 y. ;
JOHN R. KENLY,
ATTORNEY AY LAW.
Ojfiice, 2 d Floor Bible Building, Fayette st.
Near Charles Btreet,
BALTIMOBE.
Will practice in the several Courts of the City
of Baltimore and State of Maryland ; also,
Claims against the Government of the United
States, and all business connected with the
* Public Offices at Washington, will be carefully
attended to.
Oct. 7th 1865.—6 m.
R. R. Boarman,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY.
Smedley Row, opposite Court House,
TOWSONTOWN.
WILL promptly attend to all business en
trusted to his care. >
Jan. 18.—tf
LEWIS H. WHEELER. WILLIAM 8. KEECH
Wheeler & Keech,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
„ AND
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
Office No. 1 and 2 Bmedley Row, Towsontown*
HAVING formed a PARTNERSHIP for the
practice of Law, will give piompt atten
ion to the collection of claims and business in
gener&l in the Orphans’Courtand Circuit Court
f or Baltimore county.
Aug. 27,1859—tf
R. W Tehplehan. ChAb.J. Pennington
Wh. H. Shipley. i I .1
Agents for sale of Maryland Lands,
OJice (up stairs) No. 48 Lexington st., Baltimore.
R. W. Templeman, & Co.,
OFFER their services to the public for the
Sale of Fauns, and Real Estate generally.
They have, as Surveyors, a general knowledge
-*f the lands of parts of the Btate, and unusual
facilities otherwise for the transaction of such
business. Plats and descriptions of all prop
erties they may have for sale, will be.kept in
book form. Parties wishing to sell or purchase
will please communicate by letter as above.
Oct. 31.—1 y
CHINA STORE.
WM. S. WONDERLY & CO.,
TJAVE on hand a complete stock of
CHINA, GLASS,
Fine and common, at the
75 Baltimore street, 8 doors west of Gay street.
COAL OIL, of the very best qublfty, by the
b arrel or gallon, and a 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 ft scien
tific manner, and will be sold wholesale and
retail, at very low priees, to suit the times.
War. , 1864.—tf
fob hitkiM
A J AGGER WAGON for one of two seats, in
perfect order. A^V**f*
Get, 7,—tf. Towsontown.
§alto. Cmuitg Union.
(A Consolidation of the American and
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No paper discontinued until all arrear
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By consolidating the two Baltimore county
pa pers, the UNION has the largest circulation of
ati£ county paper in the State, and thus offers
superior advantages to advertisers.
JOB WORK:
Our office, besides one of Hoe’s best Power
Presses, is furnished with a good Job Press and
all the necessary materials for executing plain
and fancy Job Printing with neatness and dis
patch. >
HANDBILLS
Of all sizes and styles printed at short notice
and on good terms. , .
Magistrate’s and Collector’s Blanks, Deeds,
and all kinds of Public Papers always on hand
at the office.
MARYLAND COMPANY’S
POIJD RE T T E.
TO FARMERS &. PLANTERS.
WE call your attention to the above highly
recommended aud superior article, man
ufactured under the personal supervision of the
proprietors. It has been used in different parts
of the State with the most beneficial results. —
All we ask is a trial. Use from 300 to 600 lbs.
to the Acre, according to thequality of the soil.
For sale hy
LESTER & GO.,
No. 140 N. Howard St., cor. Franklin, Balto.
Also the following Fertilizers for sale at man
ufacturers’ prices:
Peruvian Guano, A. A. Mexican Guano,
Reese’s Phosphate, Zell’s Raw Bone,
Moro Phillips’ do Ground Bone,
Wilson’s do Turner’s Excelsior,
Rhodes’ do Fish Guano,
Whitelock’s do Ground Plaster,
Zell’s do Ac., Ac.
ALSO.
LIME, CEMENT, CALCINED PLASTER,
BRICKS AND HAIR.
Sept. 2.—2 m.
LEATHER,
LEATHER,
HIDES, &C.
F. H. GRUPY & CO.,
42 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md.,
HAVE always a full assortment of LEATH
ER of all kinds, atlowestrates. Calland
see before purchasing.
HIDES A PKIME TAN BARK
Wanted, for which the outside Cash Price will
be paid. F. H. GRUPY A CO.,
42 South Calvert Street, Baltimore.
April a —6m.
County Advertisements.
REMOVAL.
GEORGE STEIBER,
BOOT & SHOE MAKER,
TOWSONTOWN, MD,, \
Jks
HEREBY informs the citizens of Towson
towu and vicinity, that he has removed
his Boot and Shoe establishment from his re
cent place of business, to the building adjoin
ing the post office and store of Mr. Nelson Coop
er, where he will in the future be pleased to see
all his friends and customers.
I keen constantly on hand a varied assort
ment of Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Ac., for either
Ladies, Gentlemen or Children,
ALL OF MY OWN MANUFACTURE,
which will be found as durable, and cheaper
than can be procured in the city of Baltimore.
I return my thanks for the very liberal pa
tronage I have heretofore receives!, and I will
endeavor, by attention to business, and moder
ate charges, to merit a continuance of the same.
GEORGE STEIBER.
April I.—6m. .
History of the Rebellion.
HEADLEY’S HISTORY OF THE WAR.
THE undersigned having procured an agen
cy for this valuable work for a portion oi
Baltimore and Harford counties will in a very
short time visit the people of the county solic
iting subscriptions therefor. Ic will be a true
and fai th i'u t h : story of events as they ha ve tran 8-
pired since April ISGt, no ill nearly to the pres
ent time.
It will he published in two vols. at $0.50 each
the first of which will soon be delivered, and
the second immediately after the close of the
war. Each volume will contain many pages of
illustrations of Battle sceneß, and over forty por
traits of officers prominent in the war, both
North and South.
Volume I, containing 506 pages, is already
prepared, and will be delivered by the Agents
after finishing the canvass in their several lo
calities. Volume II will be issued as soon as
practicable after the close of the war, and will
contain about 700 pages, or more, if necessary
to complete the History.
The undersigned aL-o has for sale the
NURSE AND SPY.”
EDWARD N. TYRRELL.
June 3,1865.—1 y. ,
- DRdii STORE
IN
TOWSONTOWN.
Subscriber respectfully informs
JL the residents of Baltimore county, vw
that he has opened a DRUG ANDAPOTH
ECARY STORE in Towsontown, where he in
tends keeping a co e.ully selected Stock of
Pare & Genuic e Drugs, Medicines,
and all articles usually kept in ft well-regulat
ed DRUG STORE, at city prices. Also,
Paints, Oils, Varnish, Brashes, Window
Glass, Stationery, Perfumery, and
Notions of every Description.
RICHARD WILLIS,
June Xf. —3m. Towsontown, Md.
House, Sign, and Fancy Fainting.
HENRY L. BOWEN
TOWBOXTOWH,
'T$ prepared to execute all work in hit line
Asuch as
GLAZING, GRAINING, GILDING,
IMITATION OF WOOD AND MARBLE, Ac.;
All of which will be done promptly) and on
the most reasonable terms.
April 7, 1866.—tf
AUCTIONEERS’ NOTICE. ‘
THE undersigned having obtained a license,
offers his services to the people of Balti
more county as Auctioneer. Will attend prompt
ly to all business entrusted to his care and guar
antees to giVe satisfaction.
JABEE ARMACOST,
j Black Rock, P. O.,'Baltimore county 1 , Md.
Aug. s.—3m*j
TOWSONTOWN, MD., SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1865..
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County Advertisements.
WAUREIf STOJHtE,
In the Thriving Little Village of
WARREN.
GREAT REDUCTION OF TRICES IN ALL
, KINDS OF GOODS.
II3HE proprietors of the “Warren Store” are
1 offering great inducements to the citizens
ot this neighborhood, that is worthy of their
attention. We offer to the public Jim best se
lection of goods that can be found in any store
- in the country, aud will guarantee to sell them
5 at less than city retail prices. All goods sold
here warranted as represented or the money
refunded. Qur stock consists in part of
DRY GOODS,
, GROCERIES.
, HARDWARE,
CHINA WARE,
CROCKERYWARE,
' EARTHENWARE,
STONEWARE,
GLASSWARE,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HATS, CAPS,
DRUGS, DYE STUFFS, OIL AND PAINTS,
MEDICINES, GLASS, PUTTY, WHITE
LEAD, LINSEED A NEATS FOOT
OIL, PAIiAPHINE OIL. KER
OSENE OIL, MACHINE
OIL, MACKEREL,
HERRINGS, BA
CON, HAMS.
BREAST PIECES. SHOULDERS, G. A. SALT,
Fine Salt, Flour, Corn Meal, Mill Feed, Horn*
onv Buck Wheat.
TIN AND WOODEN WARES,
Brooms, Ropes, Plow Lines, Shoe Findings,
Wrot Nails, Cut Nails, Spikes, Rivets, and eve
ry article that may be found in a well regulat
ed country store. ij.
COUNTRY PRODUCE
of all kinds taken in exchange for goods at
city prices.
H. P. THOMAS,
For Warren Manufacturing Company.
Feb. 18.—ly.
MERCHANT TAILORING
in
TOWSONTOWN.
1 1 'HE subscriber respectfully tenders his ac-
J- knowledgments to the citizens of Towson
town and vicinity, tor the very generous sup
port he has heretofore received in his business,
and would inform his friends and customers
that he has considerably enlarged his stock,
and will constantly keep on hand a well se
lected stock of
Cloths, Cassimeres aud Vestings,
which he is prepared to make into garments of
the latest styles, and at prices that will be sat
isfactory to all.
I ask an examination of my stock.
AUGUST LOOSE,
Towsontown, Opposite Ady’s Hotel.
March 4, 1865.—tf.
COACHMAKING
AND
UNDERTAKING,
THE subscriber respectfully informs his
friends, aud the public generally, that he
■Maw is prepared to execute at his shop
QgSrJugKin Towsontown, at the intersec
tion of the York Turnpike and Jop
pa Road, every description of
Wheelwrighting, Coaclimakiug, Ac.
He will manufacture to order, Carriages. Bug
gies, Rockawavs, Carryalls’, Ac. Old Carriages
repaired and painted at short notice.
Also, keeps constantly on hand, (and made
to order at the shortest notice,) every style and
description of
COFFINS, ffiss
and having provided himself with a HEARSE,
he is prepared to attend funerals at all times.
All work warranted to give satisfaction.
GEO. H. HUGHS.
April 15, 1864.—tf.
FRANK L. IftjfoRLING,
FLORIST, SEEDSMAN AND
NURSERYMAN,
Store No. 2 N. Eutaw Street, Baltimore,
Nurseries oil the Hookstown Road Adjoin
ing Druid Hill Park,
WOULD invite the attention of the citizens
of the countv, to his Stock of i An.
GARDEN S'EEDS,
J&gjg FLOWER SEEDSAB|n!g&£ft
TjRXpE VINES, and all SMALL FRUITS.
EVERGREEN
AM)
ORNAMENTAL SHADE TREES,
Green House, Hot House and Hardy Plants,
Roses and Flowering Shrubs.
I will be prepared at all times to furnish ev
anything in my line of trade.
June 3,1865. —1 y.
FR^NCII CLOTHS,
CASSIMERS OF ALL KINDS,
SILK MARSEILLES.
And all kinds of Vest Patterns,
Scarfs, Neckties and Collars,
Handkerchiefs, TravellingShirts, Linen Bosom
Shirts, Linen Bosoms, (all qualities and
prices.) White Muslins and Linens
For Shirting, Ac., for sale
Wholesale and Retail.
r ALL KINDS OF
TAILORS, TRIMMINGS,
Together with READY-MADE CLOTHING,
As cheap as can be procured in the city.
AUGUST LOOSE,
• Merchant Tailor,
Opposite Ady’s Hotel, Towsontown.
Feb. 25.—tf-
R E M O V .A- L !
JULIUS RUDIGER,
ROOT AND SHOE MAKER,
TOWSONTOWN,
HEREBY informs the public that he has
moved his establishment into his new
house, in the rear of the POBT OFFICE.
He will continue to manufacture NEW
W O R K, of the best material and workman
ship, as well as attend toall kinds of REPAIR
ING. Thankful for past favors, he respectful
ly asks a continuance of the same.
Oct. 28, '6s.—ly.
Catongville Railway.
Fall and Winter Arrangement.
ON and after Thursday, November 2d, 1865,
<mrs will run HOURLY
FROM 7 A. M. TO 12 M., and from 2 P. M.to 7
P. M.. daily, SUNDAYS included.
PASSENGERS TO AND FROM ELLICOTT’S
MILLS will leave daily, Sundays included, at
8 and 11 A. M., and 2, 4 and 6 P. JM.
Office west end of Baltimore street.
WM. W. ORNDORFF, Secretary.
Nov 4.—tf
WHEELWRIGHTING
IN .
TOWSONTOWN.
fp Hl3 under- cggggggjfV
I signed hav- .
jmiff”- ing taken
shop adjoining that of Mr. Alex. Parlett, would
most respectfully inform the public that ho is
prepared to execute all work in his line as
cheap as it can be done elsewhere.
feguSpecial attention given to repairing of
all kinds. PHILIP EDLER.
May 20.—tf. .. ~
AUCTIONEER’S CARD.
rpHE undersigned respectfully informs th
X citizens of Baltimore county, that ho con
tinues the business of an
AUCTIONEER,
and is prepared to sell real and personal prop
erty of every description, on good terms.
WILLIAM DUNCAN,
Shawan P. 0., Baltimore county. '
Sept. 2.—tf.
o t . ' j j ; > | i
f from the Village Record.
EOB FLETCHER.
BT THE LATE TOWNSEND HAINES.
J . '■ - e '
I once knew a plowman, Bob Fletcher his name,
, Who was old and was ugly, and ao was his duuie;
' Yet they lived quite contented, and free from ail strife,
i Bob Fletpher, the plowman, and Judy, life wife,
ri **
As thetinom strenked-the eßilt!,‘and the night fled nwav,
. They would rise up for labor, refreshed for the day, ‘
' An<( tlm song of the lark, as it rose on the gale,
| Found Bob ut the plow, and his wife at the pail.
■ A neat little coftage in front of a grove,
Where in youth they first gave their young hearts up
tß'Hwe, ""* 11 !*
Was the solace t)f age and tpdrhem douhly dear,
As it called up the past with a smile or a tear.
Hi;! ht mv ,>(;-•-•■ •
Each tree had its thought and the vow could impart.
That mingled in youth the warm wish of the heart;
The thorn was still there, and the blossom it bore) !
And the song from its top seemed the same as before.
I have passed by his door when the evening was grey ;
And the hill and the landscape were fading away,
And I have heard from the cottage, with grateful surprise
The voice of thanksgiving, like incense arise.
And I thought on the proud, who would look down with
scorn, • , .
On the neat little cottage, the grove and the thorn,
And felt that the riches and tinsels of life,
Were dross; to contentment, with Bub and his wife.
(WSiSWSIBBas ’■WTwaawaiiaigaaosaasrjwMaßffiawwi
Igtollmtw.
A Roman Hero.
In the war between Rome and Carthage
the consul Rt;gulus was taken captive.—
Ue was kept a close prisoner lor two years,
pining and sickening in his loneliness, while
in Ihe meantime the wur continued, and at
last it victory so decisive was gained by the
Romans, tbut the people of Carthage were
discouraged, and resolved to ask terms of
peace. They thought no one would be so
readily listened to at Rome as Regulus, and
they t herefore sent him there with their en
voys, having first made him swear that he
would come back tb his prison if there
should neither be peace nor an exchange
of prisoners. They little knew how much
more a true-hearted Roman cared lor his
city than for himself—for his word than for
his life.
Worn and dejected, the captive warrior
came to the outside of the gates of his own
city, and there paused, refusing. to enter. —
“ 1 am no longer a Roman citizen, he said :>
“lam but the barbarian’s slave, and the
9enate may not give audience to strangers
within the wnlls.”
His wife Marcio, ran ont to greet him.
with his two sons, but he did not look up,
and received their caresses as one beneath
their notice, at a mere slave, and he con
tinued, in spite of all entreaty, .to remain
outside the city, aud would not eveu go to
the little farm he bad lov.ed so well.
The Roman senate, as he would not come
in to them, came out to hold their meeting
in the Campaigns.
The ambassadors spoke first. Then Reg
nlus, standing up, said, as one repeating a
task, " Conscript fathers, being a slave to
the Carthaginians, I come on the part of
my masters to treat with you concerning
peace, land an exchange of prisoners.” He
then turned to go away with the ambassa
dors, as a stranger might not be present at
the deliberations of the senate. His old
friends pressed him to stay and give his
opinion as a senator who had twice been
consul ; but he refused to degrade that dig
nity by claiming it, slave as he was. But
at the command of his Carthaginian mas
ters, he remained, though not taking his
seat.
Theri he spoke. He told the senators to
persevere in war. He said that he had seen
the distress of Carthage, and that a peace
would be only to heradvantage, not to that
of Rome, and, therefore, he strongly advis
ed that the war should continue. Then, as
to the exchange of prisoners, the Cartha
ginian generals, who were in the hands of
the Romans, were iu full health and strength
whilst he himself was too much broken
down to be fit for service again, and indeed
he believed that his enemy had given him
a slow poison, and that he could not live
long. Thus he insisted that no exchange
of prisoners should be made.
It was wonderful even to Romans, to hear
a man thus pleading against himself, aud
their chief priests came forward and declar
ed that, as his oath had been wrested from
him by force, he w-as not bound by it to re
turn to his captivity. But Regains was too
noble to listen to this fora moment. “Have
you resolved to dishonor me ?’’ he suid, “ I
aui not ignorant that death and the extretn
est tortures are preparing for me ; but what
are these to the name of an infamous action
or the wounds'of a guilty mind? Slave as
I am to Carthage, 1 have still the spirit ot
a Roman. I have sworn to return. It is
my duty to go ; let the gods take care of
the rest.”
The Senate decided to follow the advice
of Regulus, though they bitterly regretted
his sacrifice. Ilia wife wept and entreated
in vain that they would detain him ; they
could merely repeat their permission to him
to remain; but uothing could prevail with
him to break his word, and he turned back
to the chains and death ho expected, as
calmly as if he had been returning to his
home. —Book of Golden Deeds.
Physiological Phenomena.
An army correspondent writes : “ In the
army and among returned soldiers, I have
noted one fact, in particular, somewhat at
variance with the nsual theories. It is that
light haired men. of the nervous, sanguine
type, stand campaigning better than the
dark haired men. of billious temperament.
Look through a raw regiment on its way to
the fiold, fully one-half its members seem
to be of the black*haired, dark-skinned,
large-boned, billious type. See that same
regiment bn its return for muster-out, and
you will find that the bluck-haired element
has melted away, leaving at least two-thirds,
perhaps, three-fourths, of the regiment to
be represented by red, brown and flaxen
hair. It is also noticed that men from the
cities, slighter in physique and apparently
at the outset unable to endure latigue and
privation, stand a severe campaign much
better than men from the agricultural dis
tricts. A thin, pale-looking dry-goods clerk
will do more marching and starving than
many a brawny plow-boy who looks muscu
lar enough to take a bull by the tail and
throw him over a staked-and-ridered fence.”
Modesty.
"When sincere and unaffected, modesty
conveys a graceful tribute of deference and
respect to the merits of others, which charms
the eye and wins the heart even of the bold
and the proud. True modesty j$ true hu
mility put jnlo practice. We find that mod
esty is not ihe virtue of persons who are
unreflecting and who are easily driven hith
er and thither by the’untutored instincts
and hasty imputses of their nature. On
the contrary, the man of solid nnerit< and
ripe thought u much more likely to be mod
est and retiring than the nmn of trifling
pursuits, of imperfefiJLeducation, and un
mistakable mediocrity- This does not hap
pen because the great man is ignorant of
bis great powers, or the good tnau of his
good qualities.
OTAn exchange paper advertises for
compositors “who won't get drunk,” and
adds that “the editor doea'ali the getting
drunk necessary to support*the dignity of
the establishment.”
A Rebel Judged By A Rebel.
{The following is the close of ati article, in
Harper's jfonth/y, on Jefferson Davis, written
: ly the rebel Gen. Jordan,, chief of Btaffto Bean
regard.] ' •••■* •;/ s ■' y j
Mr. Davis must be judged, at.f.fie bar of
history by the aggregate results of his ad
ministration. lie must be measured by
what was done or left undone—successes
r and reverses—either dircetly by himself or
through the instruments of his will, thei
r men oti whom he relied for the performance
of the highest services of the State.—
Drought to this rightful test, whut states
man of whom history tells us will be found
, more deficient than Jefferson Davis ?
Hud tie been equal 'to his position he
would have known bow to develop, com
bine, wield the splendid resources of his
laud in such a manner as to produce the
largest possible results. With his long
experience and acquaintance with the pub-,
lie men of the United States he should have
known the best men to call around him,
and should have known, too, the best course
for baffling the'statesmen opposed to him.
Foregoing his predilections as well as his
antipathies—like Napoleon in the case of
Moreau ami Talleyrand—he should have
been wise enough to attach to his govern
ment and secure the services of meu of tal
ent, even though perchance not well affect
ed personally toward thenv A genuine
leader of men would have done so—would
huve stifled personal passions, which ttldti**,
it would appear, have influenced Mr. Davis
since an early day Swayed by these, and
amorous to an incredible degree of the of
fice-giving powers of his place, and the ex
ercise of which absorbed by far the larger
part of his waking hours, he was blind
alike to those insuperable as to those favor
ing circumstances or favorable occasions
which the Statesman will be quick to re
cognize. ‘.V . . h
As a natural consequence of the predom
inant qualities of the man, there immedi
ately grew up in the South a party of‘‘Pres
ident’s Friends,” from whose ranks as far
as possible, were drawn the occupants of
all civil places. 11 Men for the most p&rt
malleable to his will, who‘looking up both
civil and,military affairs, upheld his .views
aud wishes.as the only safe rule and law
for t,he times. Thus ina ljtlle while almost,
every person of ability, nearly every one of
spirit, was driven from the councils oT the
South and the direction of affairs, leaving
the government tb a large degrefe" in the
hands of those from whom efficient admin
istration was not to be expected—selected
as.they were for instruments thought to be
best adapted to his purpose ; that of ab
sorbing in himself all the substantial func
tions of the State.
As obstinate as James 11. or George 111.,
whom he greatly resembled in many traits
of character, as in the management of pob
lic business—with the same tendency to
employ mediocrity aud the same dislike for
independent ability—-Jeff. Davis for, four
years illustrated, like his monarchical pro
totypes, that no two natures are so widely
opposite and unlike as the wilful and the
wise. Imperious, yet without genuine vig
or of character, pride and weakness Were
strangely blended in his actiohs. It was
said of George 111. that he even scorned
victory whose laurels bad been culled by
Chatham. Mr. Davis looked with a moo
dy brow and a skeptical lip when either
Johuson or Beauregard tendered the tro
phies of successful war. Napoleon, once
urged by an undistinguished general to con
fer upon him the marshal’s baton, exclaim
ed : “It is not I Who make marshals—it is
victories!” What Napoleon would not at
tempt, Mr. Davis did without hesitation,
making major and lieutenant-generals who
previously had not been in battle, and if
possibly capable, had uever had the oppor
tunities to show capacity for high command;
some of whom, too, we may add, whose pro
motion has cot been justified by subsequent
events.
The longer he held power the narrower
grew his conceptions, the more imperious
his will, until to differ from or cross the or
bit of h/s fancies, or even to run counter to
the plans and wishes of his favorites, be
came a personal affront. No man in as
high and critical position ever less under
stood the value of wise, independent min
isters, or was ever less able to give up a
minor personal object for the sake of a ma
jor advantage. He and his ministerial
clerks, always as sanguine as Napier de
scribes the British Cabinet to have been
in 1810, like that Cabinet were always “an
ticipatingsuccess in a preposterous man
ner”—always displaying little practical in
dustry, and quite as little judgement in
preparing for contingencies. In no in
stance did ho and his favorites comprehend
at their value the golden opportunities that
more than once were vouchsafed them, und
by seizing which with a resolute hand they
might have neutralized the superior re
sources of the United States. With a
leader like William of Orange ic his stead
this had surely been accomplished.
We hiivO heard much from Mr. Davis and
his friends in the last months of the strug
gle, Concerning the frightful extent of de
sertion from the Confederate armies. Un
questionably this evil was very great; indeed
so numerous had desertions become, that,
added to the natural tendency of all but
regular troops to quit their colors in times
of serious reverses, some of the Confeder
ate corps, like a circle in the water, were
almost “dispersed to naught." But here,
too, the haudiwork of Jett’. Davis may be
made apparent. The broadcast, inevitable
interposition of his perogative of pardon
by the second year of the war had made it
plain to the men of the army that there was
the*fullest immunity for desertion. A mer
ciless, inexorable personal adversary we
know Mr. Davis ever was, and never less so
than during the time of the giaut struggle
of bis section for independence. How then
may wo account for this almost invariable
mercy granted.to those whose acts made
success impossible ?
Gibbon, summing up the character of
Constantine, uses language which we find
singularly applicable ,to our subject—in
whom there has been manifestly the same
“timid policy of dividing whatever is uni
ted, of reducing whatever is eminent, of
dreading every active power, and..,of expect
ing that the tupst feeble will prove the most
obedient.” In fine, his course may be liken
ed to that of the captain of a ship of war
in action with a greatly superior adversary
who, while nailing his Hag to the masthead
und shouting stout words of defiance to his
foe and of supreme confidence to his crew,
nevertheless from the outset of the battle
has been secretly scuttling bis vessel and
all his boats besides.
-* 1-f —!l ' WW 1
liWA young lawyer lately concluded an
argument in a case of trespass with ifie fol
lowing sublime burst ;
“If, gentlemen of tlie jury, the defend
ant’s hogs are permitted to roam at large
oV'ef'the fair fields *of my client with impu
nity and without yokes—ther.—yes. then
indeed have our forefathers fought and bled
und died in vain.”
i i-H ■' WfSn :■''• ■■
<gfA Fellow out. West being asked
whether the liquor h was drinking was a
good article, replied: “Wal, I don’t Ik now,
I guess so. .There is only one queer thing
about it ; whenever I wipe my mouth, I
buru a hole in my shirt.’’
■ u 'ILJLI —
All men look td happiness in tho fu
ture. To every heaven aud earth went
to embrace in tho distance.
I OLD SERIES-VOL. 15. NO. 824.
“Young America.”
i If there is any one thing more ominous
i of evil to oar country than another, it is
. that of tobacco smoking on the part of the
young men. This habit has long been on
p the increase, und is now, probably, more
rapidly extending than ever before. Go
, where you will, on steamers, ferry-boats.
,! stages or railroad cars ; stop where you
. must, in hotels, depots, public halls, etc.,
in all such places and on all occasions where
\\ a crowd of people assemble, there the to
bacco smokers will be also. Nor does the
common notice. “No smoking allowed,”
prevent their intrusion into parlors, pri
vate rooms and other places where decency
is a commandment. And who are those
: persons, so bold in filthiness ; so lost to
shame : so unconscious of their own imper
tinence aud offensiveness; so reckless of
the feelings and opinions and rights of oth
ers, and so seemingly destitute of all sense
' of purity or propriety ? They are mostly
young men ; many of them are mere boytf.
Three-quarters, if not nine-tenths, ofall the
tobacco smokers who obtrude themselves
into crowds, and puff their foulness into ev
ery body’s face, with no respect to persons
aud no regard to notices to the contrary,
are young men. Their fathers and grand
fathers, if they smoke at all, usually have
some sense of propriety left. They smoke
in privatP, in their own places. They
seem to know that others have rights and
noses as well as themselves. But with
“Young America” this is very different.—
Our young men seem to prefer to do their
smoking in the most offensive manner pos
sible. and where they can render themselves
as disgusting as possible. They seek the
crowd. They smoke while walking with a
lady in the streets. They stride into pub
lie rooms, private houses, and parade them
selves, with a lighted cigar or a burning
pipe in their mouths, alternately ejecting
suffocating smoke and nauseous spittle, as
unconcernedly about the wishes or opinions
. of others, and with as much self-complacen
cy and moral obliviousness as might be ex
pected from a donkey or a goat. Can noth
ing be done to preveut these caricatures of
• humanity from becoming the fathers of a
race of degenerate pigmies, whose existence
,cki] only be a disgrace to human nature aDd
a curse to the world ?— Herald of Health.
Tho Lost Arts.
A great deal of nonsense has been utter
ed by sensation lecturers and magazine wri
ters about wonderful arts which perished
with the ancients. To trust in the lamen
tations of these wiseacres over the “lost
arts,” one would think we had fallen upon
very degenerate times indeed. But none of
the doleful stories are true. Cleopatra, no
doubt, was a very fine woman ; but she nev
er dissolved pearls in wine. Archimedes
was a great man in his day, but he never
set fire to the Roman ships with burning
glasses as the fable relates.
The ancients had no useful arts which we
do not understand better aud practice more
skillfully than they did. The hnmblest
American mechanic could teach the polish
ed Greek & the cunning Egyptian sciences,
and arts of which they never dreamed. The
ancients indeed, did many wonderful thiugs
which have not been since repeated ; but
they were only such things as are not worth
doing over again. If we had occasion to
build such foolish thiugs as a pyramid, we
would improve upon our model in every re
spect; and instead of keeping a hundred
thousand half-starved slaves at the work for
twenty years, we would turn it out finished
in a few months. George Law and a hun
dred others would be willing to take the
contruct at a day’s notice.
If any people, now-a-days, lived in a con
dition like the ancients, they would be ob
jects for sincere pity, and it would be our
duty speedily to send missionaries among
them. What a lamentable sight would be
a nation of great mental vigor, half clothed
and poorly fed, tilling the earth with wood
en plows; without soap, pins, friction match
es or India rubber ? How queenly would
one of our factory girls appear to them!—
How magical the art of a Yankee clockma
ker. Beggars, now-a-days, with regard to
the substantial comforts of life, fare better
than ancient kings.
Our modern civilization is surely just what
is suited for the welfare of humauily. The
steam engine, politics, electricity, morality
and every good thing move on harmonious
|y. We look back into the past, to note,
as warnings, the paths of error which our
predecessors trod, and we push on cheer
fully and confidently, feeling that the pres
ent and the future are of the utmost impor
tance to us.— Scientific American.
Time for Matrimony.
Amoug the ancient Germans, than whom
a finer race never existed, it was death for
any woman to marry before she was twenty
years old. In this country very few women
are fit, either physically or mentally, to be
come mothers before they reach the age of
twenty. The unsound condition and con
stitution of the parent is usually transmit
ten with increased intensity to the offspring.
By the laws of Lycurgus, the inostespecial
attention was paid to the physical educa
tion of woman; and no delicate or sickly
were, ou any account, allowed to marry.—
Dr. Johnson, in liis work on the Economy
of Health, says that matrimony should not
be contracted before the first year of the
fourth septennial on the purt of the lady,
nor before the last year of the same in case
of the gentleman ; in other words, the fe
male should at least be twenty-one years of
age and the male twenty eight years. The
doctor says there should be a difference of
several years between the sexes, at whatev
er period of life the connection is formed.
There is a difference of seven years, not in
the actual duration of life, in the two sexes,
but in the stamina of the constitution, the
Symmetry of the form and the lineaments
of the face. Iu respect to early marriages,
so far as it concerns the softer sex, for ev
ery year at wh.ch marriage is entered upon
before the age of twenty-one, there will be,
ou an average, three years of premature de
cay. more or less apparent, of the corporeal
fabric.
A Happy Woman.
What spectacle more pleasing does the
world afford than a happy woman conten
ted in her sphere, ready at all times to ben
efit her little world by her exertions, and
transforming the briers and thorns of life
into roses of Puradise by the magic of her
tpuch ? There are those who are thus hap
py because they cannot help it—no mis
fortunes dampen their sweet smiles, and
they diffuse a cheerful smile around them
as they pursue the even tenor of their way.
They have the philosopher’s stone; for with
out seeking the baser exchange of gold,
jwhich may buy some sort of pleasure, they
Convert everything they touch into joy.— |
jWhuttheirCondition is makes no difference.
They may be rich or poor, high or low, ad
mired or forsaken by the fickle world ; but
the sparkling fountain of happiness bubbles
up in their hearts and makes them radiant
ly beautiful. Though they live in a log
icabin, they make it shine with alustre which
kings and queens might covet, and . they
make wealth a fountain of blessings to the
children of poverty Happy women are the
brightest types ol humanity.
i (gy“As we two are one,” said a witty
brute to bis wife, “when 1 beat you, I beat
half of myself."
s “Well/’ said the wife, “then beat ynur
own half, not mine."
Too Proud to Work.
3 Some people are ashamed to work.'‘They
3 are too proud to be seen carrying a market
i basket, or helping to wash, or wheeling a
i barrow, or putting in coal, or digging in the
i garden. They ore afraid to let others see
i that they work. And whenever they must
do anything of this kiud they wait until
night, or they go where nobody can see
them, or they go round the back way. Jf
there are any boys or girls who take the S.
S. Messenger, I wish to tell them a story of
a great man who was not ashamed to work.
On one occasion, during the Revolution
ary war, Washington was going round in
disguise to visit some log forts that were
being built. In the course of his walk, he
met a company of inen who were hard at
work under the command of a corporal.—
This petty pffleer, proud of his elevation
above the common soldiers, was walking
about, full of the thought of his own im
portance aud crying out, every now and
then, ‘come, work away boys,’ but he never
offered to help them. But Washington,
when he saw that the men had more work
than they could well do, took off his coat at
once and began to help them saying:—
‘Spring to it, my brave fellows ! we are
working for our country ; let us do it with a
good will.’
In this way he worked with them till they
had finished ; and then when he was put
ting on his coat, he asked the officer why
he did not help the men when he saw they
had more work than they could well do.—
Standing up straight with a proud look on
his face, the officer replied, ‘I would have
you know sir, that lam a cor/toral — 1 don't
work.’ ‘Oh, are you sir ?’ said Washington,
‘you are a coporal and don’t work. Well, I
would have you know that I am General
Washington, Commander-in Chief, and Ido
work'
The Effect of Getting Married.
Doubtless you have remarked with satis
faction, how the little oddities of men who
marry rather late in life are pruned away
speedily after their marriage. You have
fouud a man with a huge shirt collar frayed
at the edges, and a glaring silk pocket hand
kerchief, broken of these things, and be
como a pattern of neatness. You have
seen a man whose hair and whiskers were
ridiculously cut. speedily become like other
human beings. You have seen a clergyman
who wore a long beard, in a little while ap
pear without one. You have seen a man
who took suuff copiously, and who general
ly had his breast covered with snuff, aban
don the vile habit.
A wife is the grand wielder of the moral
pruning knife. If Johnson’s wife had lived,
there would have been no hoarding up of
bits of orange peel; no touching all the
posts in walking along the street; no eat
ing and drinking with a disgusting voracity.
If Oliver Goldsmith had been married, he
would never have worn that memorable and
ridiculous coat. Whenever you find a man
whom you know little about, oddly dressed
or talking ridiculously, or exhibiting any
eccentricity of manner, you may be tolera
bly sure that he is uot a married man. The
little corners are rounded off, and the little
shoots are pruned away in married men.—
Wives generally have much more sense *
than their husbands, especially when the
husbands are clever men. The wife’s ad
vices are like ballast that keeps the ship
steady. They are like the wholesome though
painful shears, snipping off little growths
of self-conceit and folly.
The Silent Tongue.
The art of silence, if it be notone of the
fine, is certainly one of the useful arts. It
is an art attaiued by few. How seldom do
we meet with a man who speaks only when
he onght to speak, and says only what he
ought to say! That the Bible enjoins its
attainment is most manifest. It commands
os to make a door and a bar for the mouth.
Declares that if a man bridleth not his
tongue, bis religion is vain. The attain
ment of this art will enable us to avoid say
ing foolish things. We often speak without
reflection, aod of consequence, foolish
thoughts, or expressions destituteofthooght
are ottered. Possessed of the art of silence
we shall not speak that which ought not to
be spoken. Again, it will enable us to avoid
saying hurtful things. Since we are placed
in the world to do good, and since the en
dowment of speech is one of our greatest
means of influence, it is most unseemly for
ns to utter that which shall do injury. He
whose business it is to root out the tares
should not scatter their seed. It will en
able us to govern our feelings and direct
our train of thought. He who gives ex
pression to his feelings increases their
strength. He who gives expression to an
ger, for example, increases its power over
him. He who gives utterauce to improper
thoughts, will increase their number. It
will increase our influence with our fellow
men. “A fool uttereth all his mind, but a
wise man keepeth it until afterward." Grav
ity and reserve are associated with wisdom.
Even an affected gravity is sometimes ef
fective—the true art of sileuce, ever. We
can be useful only as we are influential.
Earth not Our Abiding Place.
Bulwer eloquently says : I cannot believe
that earth is man’s abiding*place. It can’t
be that our life is cast upon the ocean of
eternity to float a moment upon its waves
and then sink into nothingness ! Else why
is it that the glorious aspirations, which
leap like angels from the temple of our
heart, are forever wandering about unsat
isfied? Why is it that the rainbow and
clouds come ever with a beauty that is not
of earth, and then pass off and leave us to
muse upon their faded loveliness ? Why
is it that the stars, who hold tbeir festival
around the midnight throne, are set above
the grasp of our limited faculties, forever
mocking us with their unapproachable glo
ry? And, finally, why is it that bright forms
of human beauty are presented to our view,
and then taken from us, leaving the thous
and streams of our affection to flow back
in Alpine torrents upon our hearts? "We
are born for a higher destiny than that Of
earth ; there is a realm where the rainbow
never fades— where the stars will be spread
before us like islands that slumber on the
ocean and where the beings that pass be
fore us like shadows will stay in our pres
ence forever.
A Sailor’s Prayer.— A rough old cap
tain when the terrified passengers persua
ded him to petition heaven for a cessation
of the tempest, preferred the following brief
request: “0, Lord, 1 haven’t been in the
habit of calling upon thee often ; aud if
you’ll shift the wind from southwest to a
little more south, 1 won’t trouble you
again.”
Awful ! —The following sturtling Threat
Was made use of the other day by an exci
ted pugilist: “I’ll twist you round your
own neck, and ram you down your own
throat, until there is nothing left, of you but
the extreme ends ef your shirt collar stick
ing out of your eyes.” His opponent left.
jjjr-J say stranger yon are drunk. Drunk
enough, and I have been so these two years.
My brother and I are engaged in the tern-
C ranee cause—he goes about delivering
Bures, and 1 give samples of iutemper
ance." -
gy Women love to find in meii a diffi
cult combination—a gentleness which will
yield, with a force which will in
variably protect.