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OHARLESTOWfT: VIRGINIA. TUESDAY
MARCH 2, 18G9
Spirit uf Jefeuir.
BE IV F. BE ALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION IX ADVAXCK:
For One Tear, ? - $3.00
For Six Months, ... 1.73
For Three Months, - - 1.00
Orders fi>rthe Paper must he accompanied
bj the t ASH.
B A L T I AI O tt E C A U 1) S .
Pianos, Pianos.
GOLD MEDAL FOR 18G7
lias just been awarded to
CHARLES M. STIEFF,
Fur the Uc3t Pianoa no\c m tide over Baltimore,
Philadelphia and Now W>-': V n?>* by the
TiARYLAND IKbTl i'- TE.
<)L*r*tt*E AND \V AREnCOM No 7 ^ -r. . u LJHEllTY
Sr., near Baltimore street, BA l/l J VOIiK, MiJ.
STlBFF'S PIANOS have all th. .? -t imix
utenls, including- the AGRA? r'i. TRKBL^.
fv ?ry Fronts, and tlic Improves French Acti. i._
lullv warranted for Five Years, with the privih ye
of exchange within 1*2 months if not entirely satis
factory to purchaser.
Second hand Pianoa and Pui lor Organs always
o!' hand, from to $'3*0.
Jlrf'crec* who have our Pianos in use:?
<I?.-n li. E, I*ee, i^xington. Virginia. Gen.
RoLt. Ranson, W?Imiiifrtort N C John Horns,
l)r. L. C. Cordell, Wnin 11 Kby, John B. Packctt,
Cnartestown, Tlios M. lehell of Jefferson county,
1?. it. Burns, of Clarke county, Mrs. Schwartswcl
der. Mozart Musical Association of Winchester.
TERMS LIBERAL. A call is solicited.
April I I. l*63-o. d. Oct. 2.
GHEiXT QALF !
CHEAT SALE OF CLOTHING.
ft.OOO PAIR OF PANTS from S'2 to S?
5,000 PAIR OF PANTS from S'2 (<? $?<>?
5,000 PAIK OF PANTS from ?2 to *0.
5.000 V KSTS from S1 50 to S3.
5,000 VESTS from ^1.6'J to $3
1.000 BUSINESS SUITS, jf 2 to ?20.
I.OOO BUS. NESS SUI TS, $12 to ?:0.
1.000 BUSINESS SUITS, SI2 to S'JO.
1,0j0 BUSINESS SUITS. 812 to ?20
{?00 IIRE8S SUITS, ?15 to $25.
600 DRESS SUITS, S'lo 10 s-J5.
500 DRESS SUITS, SIS to ? >5.
OUR IMMENSE STOCK AT PANIC PRICES
Our hn men so Stock of Cloth inrj.
Our Immrime Stock of Clothing.
Our Immense Stock of Clothing.
AT REDUCED PRICES.
Remember the Goods nitt.nl he Sold.
Hem ember the Goods must he Sold.
THESE GOODS MIST BE SOLD.
AT MAUHLi; HALL.
MARBLE HALL CLOTHING HOUSE.
1 ,OiO REST \V IIITE SHIRTS from ?2 tn $2 50
I. ,000 BEST VV III I E SHIRTS from $2 to ?2 30
CLOTHING. CLOTHING.
CLOTHING, CLOTHING.
CLOTHING , CLOTH!NG .
CLO nilNG, CLOTHING.
CfJ- Bear in mind these Goods inust be sold with
out regard to Ciift at
M A It B L E II A L I,.
SMITH. BROS. * CO.
3^ find 40 VVcut Baltimore street.
January 5, 1569? ly.
r W*t7GM. JO. CU?RV Cf . S U T. \NGn'>N.
RO'JGH, PuIDEaOUE & LANGDON,
C?|$sss6!;5s'i8 ^Bea'vsSijasats.
*io 12 I Sr.illi fJut.MV street,
101'?'05J7D BMT. O. Tv. J . OEPoT.j
RA LTIMOKP.
0^-OROEHS fjr 'til hiri^s of M? rr!i:. . Shit,
, Plaster. Guann, tiic van".????* Fertilizers
and Farming'Implement*:, pi?-i.:ptly fiii?d.
n e f k n k x a r: s .
Mopxinf, Hajnokn & Kemp, Baltimore.
<*anbv, Gilpin & Cd , "
It HOOKS. Fahn*-?iock & Co., "
1'esm.man 4* ? 44
Davif.l Miuleb, Pre?. Nat. F.xc. Hank, Hal'morc
IT. \V. Button, Er?q.. Lvnchbtirc. Va.
Davis, I'opku & C??., Petersburg*, Va.
It. H. Miller. Alexandria, Va.
August 20. 1S6S?ly.
II K. Hoffman, XV J. Armstrong,
Geo. II. Stalkv, J. E. Chad wick.
HOFFMAN*, STALKY & CO.,
whoj.esai.e
GRQCEB3. IQUOE
A >'?
Commission &V .? uts.
45 south Ho-.v.irti Sim-t.
Between Lombai* I'
n A I.Ti VIOUG
Orders for Groccries, 'ami t mkcjiih ef
Produce, 6oL(*itffl.
January 26', ? Iy.
HOKTICULTI RAL WAi;EROOMS,
??*o. 2. North Eu(aw Min t,
IiAMI.MOUK. '
GARDEN SEED. FJ.OYV illl SEED,
FLOWEBING AND
Vogctalolo Plants.
THE advertiser would respectfully advertise the
public that he ha- received his stock of SEEDS,
IMPLEMENTS. HULBS an.l PLANTS.and would
name,in part, the following Seeds, &c.:
Asparagus, Beans, Beet, Cabbaue, Cauliflower,
Carrot. Celery, Corn, Cucumber, Egg Plant, Let
tuce, Melon, Onion, Salsify, Parsnip, Peas, Toma
to, Herbs, &c.. &c.
Plows, Cultivators. Pruning Shears, Castings,
Jcc., Garden Tool*, Pansey See I, Phlox, Asters,
Carnation*1, fitc.,Ro?eS, Verbenns. Heliotropes. Ge
raniums. Fuachias, Stocks, and Fru?t and Orna
mental Trees, and all kinds of Vegetable Plants in
season.
(fc^-Thi* is tjieonly store in town where the Far
mer, Gardiner and Amateur Florist c?n ?Tft all
they may want. FRANK L. M OH LING,
Florist, Seedman and Nurseryman.
April 7. 1S6S.
Blows*!*;! Blouse,
!Voa 6 A. 7 IVorlli Howard Street,
(Two Doors Irom Baltimoie Street,)
HALTIMORK.
THIS Hotel hap recently been enlarged. thorough
ly renovated and elegantly refurnished through
out ; ant! is now capable of accommodating* over
300 guests Under the management of ihe present
proprietors, it has attained a popularity excelled
by no Hotel in the country. Every thing which can
conduce to the comfort of guests, ia furnished with
an unsparinir hand 5 and the Howard House ofTers
accommodations to the travelling public equal to
any other nrst class Hotel in the United States.
BATHS, BILLIARD ROOM, BAB. Etc.,
nrc all unexceptionable. The Proprietors solicit
the patronage of ihe public.
$9-Stages will be at the Depots on arrival of
trains, also at the steamers on their arrival, to con
vey guests and their baggage to the House.
TERMS?$3.00 PER DAY.
N. P. SE WELL,
March 24,1S6S?iy. Manager.
~ WALTER CROOK, JR.,
220 West Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE,
Dealer in and Manufacturer of
Window Curtains,
I'phoi&tery Goods, Vcnitiun Blinds,
WINDOW SHADES.
MA T TR ESSES <t- It ED V ING
Ftirnifthcd at Sliurt Notice.
March 24, lb&~?ly.
'^Al^CIUM Oil and Burners, now for sale at
J L. DINKLE'fc; Jewelry Store.
13 A J, i 1 31 O li K CAKDS.
J. H. Windsor.] [Bernard McGinn.
J. II. WINDSOR & CO.,
WHOLESALE DEALEhE IN
Hats, Caps & Straw Goods*
Nos. 7 ?fc 9 N. HOWARD ST.
UP STAIRS.
BALTIMORE, MD.
May 12, 1968?ly.
M. TBEIBER, THOMAS B. BEALL, JAME8 I. WADDELL,
Maryland. West Va. North Carolina.
Treibsr, Beall & Co.
IlIPOKTEES
English and (icrman Hardware,
AND MANUFACTtKfcR!-1 AGENTS
A M E K IC A N IIA K l> W A R E,
xVo 19 Genuaii Sin-ft,
IIA i/l I MORE.
Speciality.? Wade & Butcher's C lchrated Edge
To*. Is.
S? pteinber 1* 1863?tf.
CIIAS. M. CIIRISTAIN,
WITH
Geo. W. Bnrdctt,
SUCCESSOR TO R. HJCKLEY & BRO.,
Dealer in
Foreign & Domestic Hardware.
NO. 8 NORTH HOWARD STREET,
Opposite the Howard House,
BALTIMORE, MD.
QCJ- Orders from the trade- solicits'. Goods sold
at low ihrun.-, and on accommodating- terms.
June 30, 1S6S? 1 y.
GEO. It. COFFltOTH & CO.,
C mmission aiii: Wholesale D? alers in
Tobacco. Snuifs & Ligars.
33J BALTIMORE STREET,
liecuud Door Westol Howard,
BALTIMORE, MD.
May 12,1S63.
BECKIIAM, GWlN & CO.
Cosiisnis'ea Merchants,
AO. 70 SOUTH STREET,
SECOND FLOOR,
BALTIMORE, MD.
January 5, 1S69 - ly^ .
lalthy BSossse,
A. B. MII/LEK. 3PEOPE1BTCK
BALTIMORE. MD.
July 30, 1667-ly*.
~XjXj, 1SQ3.
LAKGE AM) I'KISKMPTOUV SALE OF
MENS* AND HOI'S' CLOTHING.
WJK have stocked our retail department with a
V ? lull Sine ul Mens', Boys', and Children's
Suits, at prices to suit all classes ol buyers.
FALL OVERCOATS at Irom ?7, $0, $10 and
$; 1*2 lo g14.
CUSTOM DEPARTMENT :
CLOTHS,
C A SSI MERES
AND VESTINGS,
In large variety lo select from for measure.
Full line ol Men's and Boys* FURNISHING
GOODS.
NO \ f! w-\r KER & CO.,
Wailiiii ( Mi Building.
165 and lt?7 VV . BjI;imore. street,
January 5, 1*63* ly. Baitimo?e, Md.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
N C?. WlllTR | (Jo-KPH ThaPNBLL.
WHITE & TRAI'KELL,
Axtoi-iieys at lifiw
Chai-lcfetoivn YT V a
UMI.T- P ni'ti<"?' in the Court* of Jefferson and ad*
j iniufi Cnuniies'il Virginia and West Vir
ginia. Prompt attention given to all business en
trusted to th-m.
January 12, 1SC9?Gin.
Taos. C. Gbeen.] [Dan'l, B. Luc a 3.
GREEN & LUCAS,
Aitornoys at Law.
HAVING associated ourselves ns partners, we
will practice lu Jefferson and adj-jiuing Coun
tits
(XJ-Olficcs at Charlestown, Shepherdsiown and
Lrcdburg.
September 22, 186S?tf.
EDWAItD C. FREE L ~
Attox-noy at Law
PRACTICES in the Courts ..f JEFFERSON,
BERKELEY, ii?! 'MORGAN C imlir- iic
will iinv< advantage of consult ?lion with an-i
.?'ivioeof Al.'Snre. (?KKKN -Jc UCAS, in all buai*
? ? rt l rust '"d to liifu
(X?- Ofti- ' , ormoaite Entiet's Hotel Shepherds
towfi. U > ,? V.?".
N v nib (j. 1867 tl.
ISAAC FOUKE,
Att >rnoy at Law,
( hnrlestown. Jefferson I ountj1,
I^RAl'TlCES in the Cout ts of J? fTcrson. Berkeley
I and Morgan Counties, W Virginia, and in
tluiH'* ? ! Lou'l.uin. Frederick and Clark Counties,
Virgiuj.. ; also iu the United States District Court
incases iu Bankruptcy.
CO- Office in Hunter's Law Row, next door to the
Carter Il.tucc.
July 30. 1867?ly. _
wTl. n. TRATEKS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Oiaidetfou ii, Jpfrer?on County, Virginia,
U !-.i, |ir? iin m the District Couttfc of the Uni
VV ted States for t'?ie District nf Wf st V.rginia.
Particular attention paid to cases in Bankruptcy.
July 30, 1867.
VNDREW HUNTER.
boX.iUj.xOB IN MATT2X.S OF BANK
RUPTCY.
HAVING specially prepared for the business;
and not beitiff excluded from the United States
Courts; will prosecute, diligently. all applications
for the benefit ol the late Hankrupt law, committed
to liim.
{fj- He will reprularly Attend the Federal Court
at Clarksburg-, and elsewhere as the cases may re
quire.
Charlestown, July 16, 1867?tf.
New Era. Martinaburg-, aud Winchester Times,
copy each 3 times.
Hesident X>ontist.
T) 11. J. V. SIMMONS.
BEING permanent ly located in Charlestown, Va..
offers his servicis in every branch of his pro
fession. Frecaing or Narcotic Spray used in ex
tract incr Teeth.
fty-Charsre?s very moderate.
July *J3. 1807-ly.
PROFESSIONAL CARD.
DE. N. ANDEESOW WAEE,
OFFERS his Professional services to the citizens
of Leetown and vicinity.
(X?- Office at the residence of Mr. Geo. W. Nicely.
April 7. IS6S ?!y.- F P
OR. 0. T. RICHARDSON.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
CUAKLESTOWN.
$5- Messages loft at his residence, or at the Drug
Store of Aiequith & Bro., will receive prompt at
tention.
December 2-t, 1867?6m.
spirit fl)j Jfclltlgull.
BKNJAMIJf F. BE ALL, Editor.
C H Aftiid S# O WIT, V A.
Tuesday Horning, March 2, 18C9.
The Chesapeake Seizure?Statement of
Lieutenant Brain.
It is stated that Lieut. Brain, who was con
nected with fhfc late (Confederate army, and
ha? beeu for thirty months confined in the
Kings county (N 3T.) penitoniiaiy. is greatly
hr ken down. Inflamatory rheumatism has
swulieu his feet and driven liim to the use ot
a crntch. and silvered Ins hair at the early
age of twenty-nine Ihestory of his seizure
of the Cromwell steamer Chesapeake has
often been told, but never before from his
own lips. He sent the following statement
to the New York Tribxm :
My name is John 0. Braihe?not Brann?
and 1 was a first iieuteunm commanding in
the Confederate navy. My commission and
orders were written on fly-sheet note paper,
aud was either lost or worn out. The archives
of the Confederate naval department being
destroyed by the federal forces it is impossi
ble to obtain the original papers deposited
there, but I have placed affidavits in the
hands of the Attorney General of the United
Slates, se'ting out all the faeis in I lie east? ?
These aflida' 's are !> Stephen 11 Mai "ry,
Secretary of the Confederate jNavy - Dr.
Jones, auditor, and Mr. Tidball, chief c!crk
of the naval department j Admiral Setnmes,
Capt. Maffit, and others.
In June, 1863 T received orders from the
department at liiehmond to go North with
my command, consisting ot 1:7 officers and
men, and take passage in a steamer with the
purpose of capturing it upnn the high seas
The Chesapeake sailed from iS :jv Vork lor
Portlaud in fteeetubor, I took pa-sage up ??
her. in obedience to the oniots I hud pre
viously received. After-seizing the vessel 1
was to proceed to Seal Cove in the island ot
Grand Mann, off the coast of Maine, for eoal,
and there'hand the vessel over to Capt. John
I'arker, my superior officer.
In making the capture I detailed Lieut.
Cowins and two men to take change of the en
gine and fire-room. The cngiue-rooni com
municated with the cabin by a door on the
port side. After seeing the men go into the
engine-room I passed forward, Lieut. II. A.
Parr having charge of the deck in my absence.
While forward [ heard a shot tired in the
engine-room, and at once went aft through
the cabin into the engine-room, and thence
into the fire-room, where I f nnd the Giemttn
in irons Returning to the deck 1 Ion >
one in the engine room, but much to tnv >e
gret, I saw the body of the see uid i.oji:
of the Chesapeake !\io.r aer t.-s .! <> hre-h'>!d
of the door ti 'ing forward I found fin-lit
Cowins. who reported to me that when he
went into the engine room the engineer was
below oiling the machinery, but after secur
ing the fireman he found that officer at his
post lie orde> d the engine'r to surrender
?s a prisoner of war to the Confederate States
if America, and that, oflieer replied by ti:;11
a shot whic.h ma pit i one of the men for life
I had no arms except Colt's revolvers.?
On arriving at Seal Cove, after the capture, I
found that my superior officer was not there.
I remained about three hours, and then pro
ceeded up the Bay of Fundy, meeting Capt.
Parker at sea, in a pilot boat, about 6H miles
from St. John. N. B. The captain, officers,
and some of the crew of the Chesapeake
were transferred to the pilot boat and taken
to St. John. Captain Parker then took com
mand, and changing the course of the vessel,
put into Shelburne. Xova Seotia, for the pur
pose of coal - Winio the vessel was in
port I was ordered : to procure sup
plies, and 1 was never again on board the
('!? e> *peuke iu aa official cnpaeity.
Tliv ship was rec:ip:ure<i in San Bar ITar
\r r. near Halifax, by the United States gun.
b.iut ]'>ii ? and Annie, ('apt. Nieholis, and
taken to that city, where the origind capture
was abjured asan act of war. The vessel was
handed over to the owners. Messrs. Cromwell
& Co., ol New Y lk. upon a deposit ot S70,
000 being made to the British authorites, ai d
Mr. Seward afterword made an apology for
the recapture.
In every case I iss':<vl strict orders to my
officers and men not t- fire upon any one un
less resistance was t fi' .. .i. At the cio-i> of
the war 1 was in command ot tiie Confeder
ate States schooner St. Mary's in the West
Indies. Upon being informed of that event,
1 burned the vessel, and returned to this
country in October. 1865, trusting for i-eeu
rity to Presideut Lincoln's proclamation of
amnesty.
I engaged in business at Savannah, where
my family now tiro On th 13th "I Se
her. 18(Jt> 1 was arrc.ved at ii.u Willi liui-e.
in Wiliiani-burg. and after being ironed, I
v .s taken to the forty-fifth precinct station
house, where I was kept all night without
bedding of any kind, though I offered to pay
liberally for it i took a cold that night,
which has been the eause of much suffering.
After being taken before the United States
commissioner. I was sent to this prison, where
I have been ever since, my case being con
tinued from day to day and month to month
without trial 1 wish to repeat that I ant not
by any means the bloodthirsty individual I
have been represented.
Important if True, Funny if yoT.?
A singular, and, if report speaks true, very
valuable discovery has just been made at Cin
cinnati. It seems that a man upset his kero
sene lantern into his meal bin, and he noticed
afterwards that his bogs eat the damaged
food with avidity. This gave him an idea,
and, by experiment, he found that five weeks
feeding with the kerosene mixture made one
of his hogs so fat that it could scarcely stand.
The animal was then tried into lard with the
following result: When cool the laid did not
congeal, but the addition of a certain amount
of potash resolved the eoutenls of the kett>e
into three distinct substances; the first a %ht
transparent oil. better than kerosene or sperm
oil; the second a jelly like substance which
turned to soap ; and last a small residium of
insoluble muscle. "John Smith" is the name
ot the reported experimenter.
? Mr. Slummut believes in the broad
guage roads. He doesn't find any too broad
.for him when he goes home about midnight.
Major Uriel Wright.
From tlie Winchester Times we dopy tho
following sketch of the life of this eminent gen
tlemaD, whose death we noticed last week :?
Major Wright was born in Madison county.
Va., in the year 1804 or 1805; was educated
at West Point, where he was a class-mate and
room-mate of our townsman, Hon. R. Y.
Conrad. After leaving the Military Academy
he studied law, first at Fredericksburg and
afterwards with Judcre Tucker in Winchester,
contemporaneously with Hon. n. A. Wise,
Hon. C. J.Faulkner. Hon. W. Cost Johnson,
K. B. Conrad, and other distinguished gen
tlemen. lie married a sister of the lata Col.
TiiIkv. of Clarke; and while' yet young re
in ivel. first to Hannibal and subsequently to
St Louts. Mo., where ho rapidly ruse to dis
tinction in hi* profession, and attained a repu
tation us the first criminal lawyer in the
Mississippi Valley.
He was fond . f politics, and before the war
was a distinguished member of the old Whig
party, in whose conventions and meetings he
always occupied a prominent position, and
whose cause he supported upon the hustings
with cop-urn mate eloquence. Many of our
readers wtii recall his powerful efforts while
on a visit t ? Virginia during the Hell and
Everett, campaign. Tn 1861 Ite was elected
from St. Louis to the constitutional conven
tion of Missouri.' in whose deliberations he
took a leading part We have read a number
of his spec > - in that convention, many of
which are luil of genius and eloquence ; Rome
passages, indeed, will compare favorably with
the finest in "he English language
He clung to the {Jtiion and battled against
secession until arrested by'IT. S. troops for
declaring in the convention that "'liberty of
speech could no longer be enjoyed by the
members of that body, as a military despotism
existed." lie was confined io prison for some
time, and when released joined the Confeder
ate army, serving for a time with Gen. Price,
and afterwards as a staff-officer with General
Hardee. Since the close of the war ho has
f-sid d in Virginia?for a considerable time
io Winchester. then at "The Tuleyries."
Ho had passed his prime, was broken in
health, and for tho last few years ho practiced
his profession rather lor recreation, and from
habit, than for profit; preferring literary,
philosophical and political studies, as more
congenial to his tastes.
Major Wright possessed n versatility of
talents which lew public men in our time have
equalled, and he could have attained the first
rank in any of the literary professions. His
mind was highly cultivated and richly stored
with extensive and varied information, and at
the same time profound and logical. Few
men could work up a rich train of thought
with more ell'edt. In his public addresses?
we refer particularly to his lecture on "Hero
ism." ''The Character of Moses," and his
political addresses when old Virginia was the
heme?he mingled a!) the elements of oratory
- 'he races ..i metaphor, brilliant wit.sportive
? i1 ? 11y? --.in- safire and moving pathos, in
exquisite harmony and with powerful effect.
ilo enjoyed a iarge circle of friends, who
were devoted to him, and delighted in his
entertaining and brilliant conversations, whose
place they cannot fiil
Nurtured in the bid Virginia scho >1, ven
praflng her glorious history, her time honored
traditions and illustrious statesmen, it is fit
that his body should rest upon ber soil. Peace
to his ashes !
Changes in Thirteen Years.
In 1855, Mr. Buchanan was minister to
England. Captain George B. McCellan was
detailed on secret service in the harbor of
Cuba, under instructions from the Secretary
of War; _ Geueral Quitman, Lieutenant
B.eauregurd and others were photting lili bus
ts! big raids against tho island, for which
the Government soon after made an offer ot
8100,000,000. Parson Brown low had writ
ten a work in defence of slavery, and
Wis challenging northern clergymen to dis
pute iu divine authority. Geirit Smith, D.'.
!) iwe. Ilenry Ward Beecber, aud aleir hun
drcl tiers were doing a quiet and limned
OUfin*j.-> in the underground railway. John
Brown had not \et left Ins farm in the nor
thern wilds. An obscure individual, remem
bered by a few as having once represented
Sangamon district, Illinois, in the Uouse.and
opposed the Mexican war in an awkward,
disuigenious and extremely unpopular argu
ment. received a : w complimentary votes tor
"Vice President iuccmpetition with Mr. Day
tun.the nomine: v.ut'taiii U. S. Grant, hard
ly i-usjjectad .1 cing an ex-army officer by
those win) bought molasses or cord wood of
him. was ^rencraliy Uiken for a steamboat cop
lain, temp raril;, stranded by a stress of iii
luek, or who haiuiy hau the energy and pluck
to succeed :u : bti.-mr-s calling, and there
fore collapsed in.o a si.Kcotniur in sundries.
W. T. Sherman wi^ m in Luuisiana.?
Geuerals Sickles, Logan were
rough and tumble l)i un eta. . .wyersofsome
notoriety. Tw > of tiie nn?t prominent and
promising officers of our lit lie army were Col.
Albert. Sidney Johnsou aud Lieutenant Colo
nel Robert i!i. l.ee.
Tiie Oldest Man in America.?A Mr.
Shannon, a native of the Emerald Isle, born
in the year 1740. making him in the good
year of our Lord, 1868. one hundred and
nineteen years old passed through this city
recently, on foot, ou bis way to Texas. Col.
Mosely, w:i.h uhoui he stayed, says he has
the appearance iu the face, at a glancc, of
being sixiy-five or seventy years old, and re
markably hale and stout for his age. On
closer inspection, however, he appears to be
so tar beyond that Col. Mosely doubts not his
statement of his age* His hair and beard
are ns white as cotton, both of which he
wears long, which gives liiui a grave appear
ance. He is a man of fine appearance, quite
intelligent, aud a very courteous gentleman?
indeed, the fiue old Irish gentleuiaa. He is
a brick and stone mason b.y occupation, and
carries his trowel with him to do any little
job of work he may meet while on his way
to Texas. A friend at our elbow suggests
that he i* suing to Texas to spend a decade
or so of years, thinking, perhaps, that the
country affords better inducements to enter
prises; young men than the other St.. es
[Scarry. Arkansas, Rtai d.
? One of Robert Hall's congregation took
him to task for not preaching more frequently
on predestination. Hall replied: "I per
ceive you are predestined to be an ass, and
what is more, I see that you are determined
to make your calling aad election sure."
POETICAL.
NOBODY'S CHILD;
Alone in the dreary, pitilefts street.
With my torn old drees and bare cold feet,
All day I've wandered toaml fro,
Fluugrry and shiverlug, and nowhere to go;
The night ia coming on in darkness and dread ;
And the chill sleet beating' upon my bare head ;
Oh ! why does the wind blow upon me so wild ;
Is it because I'm nobody's child ?
Just over the way there's a flood of light.
And warmth and beauty and all things bright;
Beautiful children in robes so Tair;
Are carolingsongrs in rapture there.
I wonder if they, in their blissful glee.
Would pity a poor little beggar like me.
Wandering alone in the merciless street.
Naked and shivering, and nothing to cat ?
Oh ! what shall I do when the night comes down
In its terrible blackuees over the town ?
Shall I lay me down 'neath theangrvsky,
On the cold hard parcment stone to die ??
When the -beautiful children their orayer* have said,
And matna'shave tucked them up snugly in bed.
No dear mother ever upon ?ne smiled ;
Why is it, I wonder? I'm nobody's child !
No father, no mother, no sister?not one
In all the world loves me; e'en the little dogs run
When 1 wander too near them; 'tis Wondrous to sec
How everything shrink* from a beggar like me !
Perhaps 'tis'a rlream; but, sometimes when 1 lie
Gazing far up in the dark blue sky.
Watching for hours some large, bright star,
I fancy the beautiful gates art ajar.
And a host of white robed nameless things
Come fluttering o'er me in gilded wiugs;
A hand that ia strangely soft and lair,
Caresses gentlv my tangled hair.
A nd a voice like the carol of souic wild bird?
The sweetest voice that ever was heard ?
Calls me many a dt-ar pet name.
Till my heart and spirit are ail aflame,
And tel s meofs'ich unbounded 'ove.
A fid bids mc cofnc to iht ir home above ;
They look at mc with their soft, sweet blue eyes,
\?id it eeems to me,out of the dreary night.
I am goin^ up to that world of light,
And away from the hunger and storms bo wild ,
I am sure I shall then be somebody's child.
JIISCELLA N E 0 US.
The Confederate Dead.
BY WM. ARCHER COOKE.
Our exchanges inform us of a movement
co-exteusive with thearea of the late Confeder
ate States, to provide Cemeteries suitable to
the Confederate dead.
The very term Confederate dead, has no
eloquence which reaches the heart. It does
not embrace those who lived, while they lived,
on pelf, and died of rottenuess in comfortable
chambers, lar away from the roar of artillery,
and the rattle of musketry, where men laid
down and died with the life blood flowing from
them. jN'o, the C'on/eiieraCemeans those
brave, houest patriots who for country bared
their breast to the storms of war ; for liberty
died under the fhig of llieir native land, ur
with sickened body and mutilated limb perish
ed in the hospital. These are our Confeder
ate dead, who sealed their love of principle
with a death bed scene that will forever stamp
their names oh the roll of honor.
They are iu character
"Majestic, men, whose deeds have dazzled faith.'*
Of each may it be said,
"With hia hack to ihc and tiia fret to the foe."
Ami leaving iu battlr ik. blood on I? i- name ;
Look proudly lo Heaven li-oin the death- bet* of lame.
JJury our Confederate dead 10 beautiful
cemeteries. Let the chisel of the artist, the
ounuiug of the artisan decorate their graves;
let the lunocent warble of tbo forest soinrster
bo heuid iu tho willow that weeps above the
monumental stone. Let woman comc wifh
her piuatie hrud. and pure Christian heart,
aud plant iresii flowers around tiiolast resting
place of Liberty's martyrs, liere the sweet
young wile may gather at early morn and
dewy eve, and, as she mingles her tears of de
votion with the dripping of the flowers, she
can tel! her orphan child how a noble father
fell. Here the aged matron and icclie sire
may totter around the heavingearth hat holda
the remains of tha only stay and prop of their
declining years.
Does any one ask ?
?'Can storied urn or animated bust,
Hack to its mansion call the fleeting' breath ?
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or flattery soothe the dull, cold enjr oi death.
Alas ! no; but the gratitude of a people
1 for a soldier band of such worth and character
and honor as "our Confederate dead," should
tie perpetuated in history,on the canvass, upou
the breathing marble. The "cities of the
; dead" should receive the embellishment of urt.
| the cultivation ol taste, and, above all, let the i
rising generation see and teel that though un
I successful against mighty nrmies, yet their
j names are to memory ever dear, and those
wh.. are u?w younger brothers, or little orphan
hoys may see that brothers and lathers, though
I sleeping beneath the sod, are still remember
| ed by a grateful people.
j Nor is it an empiy honor, we do justice to
our own appreciation of all that is excellent; ;
we erect, u shrine where genius and worth may i
offer their devotions, we open a school where
the ardent young mind may cultivate an un
dying admiration not for the glare of military
tinsel, but for high tjned chivairic honor?
for unshrinking valor.
Embellish these hallowed spots ; engrave
upon marble and upou granite your gratitude
and your appreciation for moral worth ; you
are re-enacting the history of classic Greece
and Rome; you are adding another tune to
the melody of song?additional fire to the
blaze of eloquence, a fresh stream of devotion
to the genius of Liberty.
1
Home Without a Mother.?What is
home without a mother's presence ? 'Tis i
| like a book to read without the aid of light
? like the face of nature without the sun's
bright and soothing rays?like winter, with
out beautiful cheering summer?like a mari
ner cast upon the mighty deep without a rud
der or compass to gnide his frail bark safe into
port?like pierciug winter unclaimed by the
cheering rays of spring. O, there is an inex
haustible source of pleasure and profit in that
i home wherein a tender mother dwells, from
whom may be derived the wi*st maxims and
! rules of blissful life. In such a home may
be found the obedient child, the dutiful
daughter, and the tender and affectionate son.
There also may be seen every virtue that can
dignify human nature, and make this tran
sient life most truly happy. In a word/here
may ba acquired the beauties and knowledge
of the world, without the danger of beiu"
I infected by its bad example abroad. ' ?
An Antidote ton Tobacco.?Trask.
the anti-tobacco philanthropist says that gen
tian root, coarsly ground, chewed weii and
the saliva swallowed, will cure the appetite
for tobacco if its use is persisted in for a few
weeks. Take as much of it after each meal
or oftener. as amounts to common quid Of
I ' fine cut" or "cavendish."
The Seven-Shilling Piece.
It was duriug the panic of 1S20, tliat a
gentleman, whom we shall call Mr. Thomp
son, was seated, with something of a melan
choly lo?ib, in his dreary back room, vtatching
his clerks paying away thousands of pounds
hourly. ? Thompson was s banker of excellent
credit j there ei isted, perhep*, in the city ol
London, no safer concern than that of Messrs.
Thompson & Co.; but at a moment such as I
speak of, no rational rcflectiou was admitted,
no former stability was looked to; a general
distrust was felt, and every one rushed to his
banker's to withdraw his hoard, fearful that
the nest instant would be too late, forgetting
entirely ilia: ibis step was of all others the
most likilj in ensure the ruin he sought to
avoid.
But to retain. The wealthy citizen sat
sadly watching the outpouring ol his gold,
and with a "riui smile listening to the clamorous
demands on his cashier; for although he.felt
perfectly easy and secure as to the ultimate
strength of his resources, yet he could not
repress a feeling of bitterness as he saw con
stituent after constituent rush in, and thoso
whom he loudly imagined to be his dearest
friends eagerly assisting in the run upon his
strong b.ix.
Freseuily the door opened :md a stranger
was ushered in, who, after g:iz ng for u moment
at the bewildered banker, coolly drew a chair,
and abruptly addressed him. "You will
pardon luc. for asking a strange question ; but
I am a plain man, and iike to come straight
to the point."
?'Well, sir?" impatiently interrupted the
other.
'?L have heard that you have a run on your
bank, sir. Is it true V
"lieally, sir, I must decline replying to your
very extraordinary query. If, however, you
have any mouey iu the bank, you had better
at once draw it out, and so, satisfy yourself;
our cashier will instantly pay you;" and the
banker rose, as a hint l'ur the stranger to with
draw.
'?Far from it, sir ; I have not one sixpence
in your bauds."
"Then, may I ask, what is vour business
here ?"
"I wished to know if a small sum would
aid you at this moment'{"
"Why do you a.-k the question ?"
"Because, if it would, 1 should gladly pay
in a small deposit."
The money dealer started.
"You seem surprised ; you don't know my
person or my motive. I'll at once explain.?
Do you recollect some twenty years ago when
I you resided iu Essex
"Perfectly."
"Well, then, sir, perhaps you have not
j forgotten the turnpike gate which you passed
through daily 1 My father kept that gate,
! and was often honurcd with a few minutes'
' chat with you. One Christmas morning my
father was sick, aud I attended the toll far
| On that day, you passed through, and I opened
I the gate for you. Do you recollect it, sir?
"Not I, my friend."
"No, sir; few such men remember kind
deeds, but those who are benefitted by them,
seldom forget them. I am, perhaps, prolific ;
listen, however, only a few moments, and 1
have done."
'?The banker, who begau to feel interested,
at once assented.
?'Well, sir, ns I said before, I threw open
the gate for you. and as I considered myself
in duty hound, 1 wished you a happy Christ
mas."
"Thank you, my lad," replied you?'thank
you, and the same to you ; here is a trifle to
make it so; and you threw me a seven-shil
ling piece. It was the first money I ever
possessed; aud uever shall I forget my joy
on receiving it, or your kind smiles on bestow
ing it. 1 long treasured it, aud as I grew up,
added a little to it, till I was able to rent a
toll myself. You left that part of the coun
try, and I lost sight of you. Yearly, however,
I have been getting on; your presence brought
good fortune with it; I atn now comparatively
rich, atii to you 1 consider 1 owe all. So,
this morning. heanng accidentally that there
was a run on your bank. 1 collected ail my
capitol, and have brought it to lodge with you,
io case it can be of any use to you ; bore it
is. sir,?here it is," and he handed a bundle
of bank notes to the agitated Thompson.?
"In a few days I'll call again," and, snatch
ing up his hat. the stranger, throwing dowu
his card walked out of the room.
Thompson undid the roll. It con'ained
?30,000! The stcrnheartcd banker burst
into tear.- The firm did r. t require bis prop;
but the motive was so noble that even a
millionaire sooted-?he could not help it.?
The firm is still one of the first in London.
The ?30.000 of the turnpike boy is now
grown into some ?200,000. Fortune has well
disposed of her gifts.
Hold Him.
A sage-brash editor in Nevada, npon taking
charge of a newspaper recently, laid down the
law in the following style, that hi* editorial
brethren might govern themselves according
ly : "A single word by way of introduction
to the members of the editorial brotherhood,
with whom I shall hereafter claim fellowship,
and I have done My head measures just
twenty three and a half inches, and I wear
number twelve boots?two significant facts
that it would be well to note. 1 am just six
feet high, spare built, and weigh one hundred
and sixteen pounds?fighting weight. I have
no running weight?never run. Temperament,
nervo-satiguinus ; but little of the nervo, but
much of the sanguiuary. I recognize the
binding obligations of the code duello, and if
any of my brothers of the editorial persuasion
should call me a liar, scoundrel, roads agent,
Black Republican or thief. I will brg toriiSer
with him. and politely ask him to furnish his
proof, (which I will not he anxious he should
do) and failing he must expect to fight. U it li
rifles or pistols I am a dead shot, and am now
practising the sword exercises. I never shoot
a political adversary, but I scalp him?bc?n
so long on the border it comes natural. The
summit of ray ambition now is to have the
editorial sanctum of the Humboldt Rtgitler
gorgeously decorated with radical scalps?
immaterial as to color or textnro?black,
auburn, tan or kinky, any of thei ii! co.
A dandy, strutting about a tavern, took
up a pa'r of green spectacles which lay on tl.e
table, put them on his nose, and turning to the
looking glass, said:
"Landlord, how do these become me ??
Doo't you think they improve tuy looks
"I think they do," replied the landlord,
'they hide s part of your face."
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Each Coiittuu.iiice.
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Ten-Lines or less, constitute a Square. 9
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The Eesuit of a Trifle.
A year or more ago a young man of this
city visited Ne?v York, and iu the course of
his sight seeing Qwitb a friend) called at ono
of" the theatres. Kach left au overcoat fn tho
clouk-room, taking checks- therefor. The
Auburuiun intended to leave tbr home that
night, and could not therefore remain until
the conclusion of the performance, and so
left the theatre in considerable has to j but
on putting his hand in his packet for thfe
cheek for his coat could not find it. lfc re
quested the man in ehargo of the cloak
room to give him his coat, which he pointed
out to him, without tho check. This ho re
fused to do. Time was preoicusj tho time
for the departure of the train had nearly ar
rivod: st> stepping into the room, ko'took
hold of the coat, and, partly by force and
partly by persuasion, prevailed, upon ?ha man
to release tho coat. Throwing the garment
over his arm he hastened to the depot, ami
succeeded iu jumping en the train ss it was
moving out of tho station. He was a good
deal surprised to see, however, upon placing
his overcoat on the back of tbo seat, that it
was not his own, but a much belter and moro
expensive one, although similar in color.
There was now no way by which the nrstabfe
c uld be rectified until he arrived home, and
so dismissed the subject from his njind as a
, trifle of no moment, save for tho owner bf
the coat, ho went to sleep, and drcauwd of
the expected rise iu Merchants' Union Jir
press stoek, and a golden futnre of cjsc and
enjoyment as the rcsalt of his visit to tho
metropolis. Arrived homo, his first dj.ty wjis
to telegraph to the minager of the theatre,
and to enclose in a letter tiie missing check
which ho had subsequently found.
IJut neither telegraph nor letter was an
swered, and so tho matter was again dismissed
from his mind as one of no conSequcuee.and
only alluded to occasionally when complimen
ted upon his good tastn and judgment iu tfio
selection ol an ovcreonf. ]5ut now wo eotro
to the result of his trifle, which can be stated
in tho following words: 'J ho ownor of the
overcoat iutu>ed to he comforted by the cloak
room attendant, and appealed to the manager
of the theatre, who could do no less, ho
thought, thau discharge "the unfortunate em
ployee. Thus discharged in the winter, ho
sought long and faithfully for employment,
but could not find it. Hi.-, money gone, turu*.
cd from h?s boarding house, starvation star
ing him in the face, dissolute companions at
last prevailed upon him to liec-'ijr-r a member
ot their srang. and ho was soon anos'od auil
scute need to Sing Sing prison for a term <rl'
ynrs?to be afterwards, with a party of. fel
1 >w convicts, transferred to the prison iu this
place. Anil a 1 this m;.t.'s di-gmec. suffering
and moral death, was the le.-ult uj a triflo
that has not caused its author tho losabf*
moment's sleep or the variation of a singly
beat of his calm aud healthy pulse, llad ho
known what was to liavo been tho result of
that night's hasto and earlessocsa, he would
willingly have made a pilgrimngo from hero
to New Vork to have saved tho poor icliotv
fr--m the trouble his carelessness produced.
Now he can only regret his hasty uct, when
he shall learn, for the first time, that bis
trifle ffus another s ruin.?Auburn A'cira.
TIjo Printer aud tho Types.
I'erhaps there is no department of enter
prise wln-.-e details are less understood by in
telligent people iiiau the "art preservative"
? tfie aciurvt iucttts nf the type.
hwry d.ty ihcir lives lonjr, tlicy lire accus
torned to read the newspapers," to find fault
with its statements, its arguments, its looks,
to plumo themselves upon the discovery of
some roguish and acrobatic typo, that gets
into a frolic and stands upon ir.< head, or some.
word with a waste letter iu it; but of tho
process by which the newspaper is made, of
tho myriads of motions necessary to its com
position, they know little and think less.
'J hey imagine they discourse of a wander,
indeed, when they think of the fair, whito
carpet, woven for them to walk on. from tho
rags that fluttered off the back of tho begear
yesterday.
IJut there is something moro "wonderful
still, when we look at the hundred and fifty
two little boxes, something shaded with inky
fiugers, that compose a "printer's ca^e," noise
less, except the click of the type*, as one by
one they take their plicc iu the growing lino
?we think we have found the marvel of the
art.
Strewn in those little boxes ere thin para
lelograms of metal, every one ?iod (or eoluo
thing that goes to make up Written Ituigunge; .
the visible footprint of thought upon carpets
of rags.
We think how many fragments of fancy
there are in thoso boxes; h^^^jnny atom^j
ot poetry and elf^uenca0pj^H|iHBtaRpMW
here and there, ii he I lias only n Tittle chart
to work by; how many facts'in .'mall" randf
lul, how much truth in fjiaq; ! "
Now he picks up'the stattergtf elements
until lie hftds iy his hand a. stittza ol 13 re, a
elegy, or a mpnodosy upon'a\j rime*''all but
toned No* b<??fctMip a ??I'uppy
Mitsing," and now u '-yarudisc Loj,t." He
arrays a bride in "email* and a sonnet
in''Nonpareil." He nnnooneft tnai!'Il.o lan
guishing live in one aenfencc. transposes tho
word and deplores that lac days arc -evil" in
the next.
A poor jest ticks its way into the printer's
? hand, like a little clock just rurjuing down,
and a strain of eloquence marches into line.
We fancy we can tell the difference by tba
click of the types ; but perbnjn not.
The typo that told the wedding yesterday,
announced! a burial to-morrow, perhaps :nself
same letters.
They are the elements to make the words
of. ihoie t\y.ofi are a world with aonif'lhing
in it, a<j beautiful a? spring anu us ticli ?i
summer, and as grand as autumn; flowers
that frost cannot wilt, but irnit that vhail
ripen fur all tunc.
? James Weaver'and James MeQciil were
arrested a few days ano in New York city, by
Copt. Young arid Deteetire Irving, on tho
charge of robbing the First Notional Bark of
Winsor, Carroll county, Md., January -3.?
The prisoners had in their possession $09,
5'JO worth ol United States Union Pacific
railroad bonds. The property was identified by
an <.Scer of the bank, ana tLe prisoners were
iteiivered to Maryland officers.
? A lady aiked her little girl, on returning
from chtirch, ifche knew the text? -'Oh,
yea," said she, "it was this, 'The ladies sew
ing society will meet at Mrs. McCracken's
hoii-'e Monday evening next."