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Summer Past and (lone.
BY WILLIAM H. DAVIS.
Summer if< ended —its reign is o’er.
Its flowers all withered and dead ;
And the autumn da>s have come once more,
A carpet, of leaves to spread.
Already I see them droppimr down.
Blown hither, thither, and yon—
Leaves of amber, scarlet, and brown,
That tell of a summer gone.
Summer is ended —alas ! ’tia so.
For I see it everywhere.
In the whispering winds that sighing blow
Through the trees already bare.
And the leaden gray cast of the sky.
With its cold clouds driven on.
Warns us of a winter very nigh.
And a summer past and gone.
Summer is ended —this do we know,
By the birds that sing no more
When the faintest streak of morn doth show.
And the light of day is o'er.
Hushed their song in wood and dell
At eve and morning’s dawn :
By this I read the lesson well
Of a summer past and gone.
Summer is ended—its stay, how brief!
How quick hast sped away,
And brought again the falling leaf.
That tells us, each dull day.
A winter cold we must endure.
That fast is hastening on.
And teaches us this one thing sure.
Of a summer past and gone.
Waverly Magazine.
PAST SIEGES OF PARIS.
Terrible Sufferings and Great Endur
ance in Former Years—Powdered Bones
to Make Bread—Donkeys Eaten—The
Monks Eat all the Time, and How-
Otho, Emperor of Germany, at the
Gates.
A Liverpool journal publishes the fol
lowing interesting resume of former
sieges of Paris:
While the world waits in listening ex
pectation for the thunder of the guns
that are to rain down fire and hail upon
the fairest capital in Europe a recollec
tion of the horrors of past siege;} of Par
is may help to quicken the perception
of the terrible nature of that which may
be to come. We know the city in its
beauty and its pride; its silver thread of
river glistening between the broad quays
that line its banks; its tree-planted bou
levards, gay with the life and pleasure
that found its centre there; its wide
streets and stately architecture; its mon
uments of art; its cathedral, churches,
palaces and theatres; its fragments of
antiquity, hoary with eight hundred
years of time; its Champ Elysees and
Bois de Boulogne; its pleasant gardens
and promenades, where a light hearted
crowd, gathered from the four comers
of the earth, sauntered leisurely under
the clear sky of summer, as if peace
were eternal. But the picture has
changed.
At such a crisis of her fortunes, the
student of history may naturally turn to
the records of former seiges of Paris to
see how she has stood this ultimate tri
al of her fortitude in the past. A wri
ter in the current number of the cotem
porary Review has done so in a well
written narrative, showing both knowl
edge of his subjeet and good taste in its
treatment. It will be sufficient to pass
over with a mention the first great siege
of Paris by the Normans, when Eudes,
Count of Paris, his brother Robert and
Archbishop Gozelin saved, by their he
roic efforts, the city, which the imbecile
Charles the Fat abandoned to its fate.
The event was a great one. It decided
virtually the fate of the Carlovingian
dynasty in France, and it is immortal
ized, under a thin veil of fiction, in the
great poem of “Ariosto.”
A hundred years later Otho 11., Em
peror of Germany, marched to the gates
of Paris, but returned after a useless
bravado at Montmatre.
When Ed ward 111. invaded France in
1359. he blockaded Paris for a time; and
an incident of the siege, with its pleas
ant touch of human laziness, agreeably
relieves the testimony of the story.—
The Parisians were so fearful that the
noise of the bells ringing for matins
should cover the sound of the enemy’s
approach in the dark, that it was order
ed matins should be sung in all the
churches and convents at curfew instead
of at midnight; a change found so
agreeable in some convents, says a
chronicler, that they continued to sing
matins at curfew instead of at midnight
long after the English had departed.
Henry Y. ’b occupation of Paris after
the treaty of Troyes, and the perma
nence of an English garrison within its
walls for fourteen years after his death,
filled a most disastrous period for
France, and the horrors of the country
were intensified in the city. Famine
and pestilence reduced the population
to one-half. In the Journal cVun
Bourgeois de Paris the writer says he
saw boys and girls lying on dirt heaps,
thirty and forty together, moaning, “I
am dying of hunger. ” Dogs became sc
dangerous that dog killers were appoint
ed and from the environs wolves entered
at night, and attacked people in the
street. Death itself became happiness
in the dreadful frost of one winter, when
it is said to have snowed for forty days
and forty nights, and men lay down in
the open, air nerveless from hunger and
cold, to sleep the sleep which knows no
waking.
The last great siege of Paris was in
1590. At that date the city had been
for nearly two years under the dominion
of the League, composed of the Conscl
des Seize, led by the Guises, swayed by
the intrigues of Philip 11. of Spain.
Nine mouths before Henry- 111. had fal
len by the knife of Jacques Clement, as
as but a few months earlier he had caus
ed the Duke de Guise to perish by the
daggers of Monthery and Loignac.
Joined with his cousin, Henry of Navar
re, he had marched to subdue the city
from which he had been cast out, and
he is then said to have pronounced a
threat of extermination that finds a par
tial echo now. “It would be a great
pity to min so great a city, but T must
have my rights on the rebels within
it. It is the heart of the League
and it is the heart we must strike. Paris!
head of the kingdom, but head too
large and too capricious, you want
bleeding, to cure you and all the rest of
France, to which you impart your mad
ness. But a few days longer, and there
will be seen neither houses nor walls,
but only the place where thou hast been.”
The death of the author of this pious
aspiration compelled his cousin, now
Henry IV., to withdraw for a time, till,
on the 7th of May, 1590, the seige for
mally began, lasting three months *iud
seven days. The city—then a tenth of
its present size—numbered over two
hundred thousand souls; it contained
eighty and sixty convents.
The investing army, fresh from the
battle field of Ivry, numbered fifteen
thousand; and inside the walls there
were fifty thousand militia and about
four thousand regular soldiers, besides
sixty-dve pieces of cannon. Paris was
Catholic and its assailants Huguenot,
and the antagonism of creeds was used
by the defenders to stimulate the popu
lace to extraordinary endurance. The
investment was not complete, and
though provisions, not beixig able to ar
rive by the Heine, rapidly rose in price
till they could not be bought for money,
yet some quantity of them was smug
gled into the town. Henry never used
his artillery, so that the progress
of the siege depended solely upon
the power of the inhabitants to with
stand the gradual diminution of their
food supply. On the 20th of June—the
wheat being exhausted and the poor suf
fering severely, while the members of
the religious communities retained their
sleekness of condition —it was decided
that religious houses should maintain
the poor. On an inventory being taken
of the ecclesiastical stores, it was found
that the Jesuits had com for more than
a year, the Capuchins had biscuit in
abundance, and generally the religious
houses were furnished for six months
more—a fact that does not, of course,
escape Voltaire’s satirical mention in his
“ Henriade.”
Boon Paris contained only two classes
—the poor who hurl money and no food
and the poor who had neither food nor
money. As long as the latter was of
any use the silver ornaments of the
churches were sold to buy provisions;
but eventually the stores of the monas
teries were exhausted, no com was left,
sheep and oxen had disappeared; only
the Hefdi of horses, asses and dogs was
to be obtained. According to contem
porary evidence—that of the “Besieged
Resident” who corresponds with the
Daily News—donkey is very good eat
ing; and cat he affirms to be a delicacy,
against whose use the popular prejudice
is eminently absurd. But the poor peo
ple of Paris were then reduced to direr
straits than the “Besieged Resident” has
yet known. They tried to make bread
of bones ground to powder, even ran
sacking human grave-yards for material.
Dreadful maladies broke out in those
who partook of it; and next the skins of
animals and old leather began to be
boiled and eaten. A haggard, scare
crow' population tilled the streets, some
crying “Give us bread or peace!” and
200 of them dying daily it soon became
impossible to bury them.
On the 27th of July, Henry ordered a
general assault and drove the Parisians
within the walls, thus depriving them of
the slight provision of herbs and vege
tables they had been able to make whi’
the faubourgs were free The Duchess
of Montpensier carried a little dog in
her arms, which she said she had re
served for the last extremity ; and the
broth of the huge public soup cauldron
grew thinner, and was now flavored
with much tallow and foul grease. At
this date 30,000 people were reported
dead, and at the close of the siege one
account makes the total as high as 100,-
000. The sufferings of the besieged be
came of unspeakable horror. The cul
tivated citizen became again a savage,
tearing and rending like a wild beast.
Men disputed with dogs for carrion,
which they devoured raw; and we read
of a mother feeding on the dead bodies
of her two children and then dying of
insanity.
This frightful record of misery and
despair was closed on the 30th of Aug
ust by the raising of the siege. All hu
manity must pray that its horrors may
never be repeated.
A Woman’s Perils in the Yo Semite.
The Hon. Theresa Yelverton, Count
ess Avonmore, found the wintry winds
of the Yo Semite more unkind than
man’s ingratitude. Tempted by a de
lightful autumn day, she recently be
gun a mountain journey on horseback,
while friends accompanied her by stage.
Soon after starting, the weather changed
and threatened a severe snow stoxm.—
The lady undauntedly kept her seat,
and hoped by rapid riding to catch up
with her escorts—three Englishmen of
title, who had taken her cloaks and
trunks ahead in the stage. But late in
the day the terrified woman found her
self nowhere in sight of her valiant
protectors—and the snow pelting down.
In this situation even her horse failed
her, and the unhappy lady was compel
led to dismount and wander on alone.
When darkness set in she was overcome
with exhaustion and was forced to seek
shelter in a hollow cedar. Sitting in
this all night, she held her horse and
awaited the morning. With daylight
she was up, and finding her horse ab
solutely uselesss, abandoned him and
hurried forward afoot-. Almost dead
with hunger distress, she staggered on
in search of a house. On the verge of a
frightful declivity, where the path ran,
she almost fainted with joy at the
sound of a human voice as she supposed,
and, darting around a rock whence it
seemed to come, she came full upon a
grizzly bear. Happily the beast was as
much surprised as the lady, aud she, in
her agitation, starting back, lost her
footing, and rolled down the declivity.
Bruised, bleeding, and almost lifeless,
she recovered presently, and found her
self in a dark and gloomy gulch, seem
ingly impenetrable to the outside world.
After frantic efforts she at last found a
bear-trail leading to the valley beneath
by a way not less preeipitions than that
which she had just descended so uncer
emiously. The situation was desperate,
and she was forced to attempt the haz
ardous path. Unnerved by her peril
and contidned exertions she missed her
footing and again fell to the foot of the
rocks—over 40 feet—and lay, she does
not know how long, stunned and bleed
ing, where she fell. Recovering con
sciousness, she again started resolutely
forward, her clothes frozen stiffly to her
limbs, and weak from 24 hours’ fasting.
Wandering on, she again reached a steep
declivity, and, daringly mounting a fall
en tree which leaned over the steep
bank, she slid down more than fifty feet
and found herself in the valley. Here,
however, her strength utterly gave out,
and had it not been for the wonderful
chance of a hunter happening to cross
her tfack when she first fell, the adven
turous woman must ha ve perished. The
whole calamity is attributed to the cow
ardice of the three Englishmen, Lord
Harveys, the Hon. Somebody Strutts,
and an Hon. Flowers, M. P.
Oil in Pennsylvania
It may be interesting to many who
invested in oil stocks and oil territory to
know of a farm recently developed in
the heart of the oil region of Pennsylva
nia which has, during the past five
months, yielded such large quantities of
oil as to almost revive among producers
and operators an excitement like that of
1863-64. This farm is owned by a Mr.
James McCray, aud is situated on the
top of a hill, in the town of Petroleum
Center. During the great oil excite
ment Mr. McCray diligently cultivated
his farm, in blissful ignorance of the
streams of wealth lying beneath the
well-turned turf, from out of which
grew splendid crops of hay and oats.
.Liast April, however, a well was sunk on
the farm which yielded 400 barrels per
day. Other wells were sunk with equa
success, giving to the fortunate owner
an income which is now $7,000 a day—a
revenue for a Prince—which must, if t
continues a year longer or more, make
him one of the wealthiest capitalists in
Pennsylvania.
In describing the scenes that followed
: the surrender of Metz, the correspond
i ent of a London journal says: A touch
! ing incident occurred as I was walking
down a street. A veterinary surgeon of
■ the Ambulance Corps came up, and said:
| “Monsieur, my horse is dying for want
tof food: I have ridden him for four
I years; he has shared my rations, and
latterly my bed; for three days I have
had nothing to give him to eat* Give
him something; save the poor thing’s
life, and take him for your own; he is a
good and faithful beast; you will never
regret it. ” I immediately accompanied
the man, and on my way I bought two
loaves of bread, which we cut up as we
walked along. Arrived at the shed
where his horse stood, the poor beast
turned his head toward his master, and
neighed out a welcome, though so weak
that he could scarf ely move. The man,
rushing up to his horse, threw his arms
around his neck, and, while the tears
stood in his eyes, cried out, “Tu es |
sauve! tu es sauve!”
Thk Methodist Episcopal Churcb in
Leesburg, Va., was crowded one night
last week by listeners to a discourse de
livered there by Mrs. Caroliue Talbot, a
Friend of the Orthodox school. During
the lecture a piece of timber in the
densely packed gallery was heard to
crack, and a panic ensued, and a rush
made for the doors and windows; The
doors opened inwardly, hut such was the
pressure against them that they were
forced from their hinges. Many jumped
from the windows, among them Mrs.
Lupton, the preacher’s wife, who broke
her arm. Many ladies fainted, and sev
eral were trampled under foot and con
siderably injured. The scene is describ
ed as one of the wildest excitement.
A Prussian regiment numbers o er
3,000 men.
A Total Eclipse on December 22, 1870.
This will be one of the greatest of
modem total (eclipses of the sun that
has taken platse; for not only does it
occur when the moon is particularly
near the earth, but at a period when the
earth is nearest the sun, and also at the
time of the winter solstice, the moon
likewise occulting in the planet Saturn,
the planet Venus on the same day being
in configuration with the moon, 1 de
gree 6 minutes south, the moon at the
time approaching her conjunction with
the planet Mercury, which latter body
will be only 1 degree 19 minutes south
of the moon.
In the opposite part of the heavens,
both the planets Jupiter (1 degree 7
minutes north) and the planet Uranus
(only 56 minutes south of the moon), at
a period when the planet Jupiter is ap
proaching an apposition to the sun,
which will take place on the 22d of De
cember, exercising a most powerful re
ciprocal attractive influence on each
other, by the combined influence thus
exercised by the sun, the moon, Mer
cury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and the
earth, all being nearly in a right line, a
configuration that has not taken place
for centuries, and which seldom occurs;
consequently the effects on the earth will
be considerable, creating earthquakes,
tidal waves, storms, hurricanes and cy
clones. Similar configurations were
present at the time of the total eclipse
I on the 16th of August, 1868, when Quito
! and Callao were destroyed by earth
quakes and tidal waves; but even then
the influences were somewhat less than
they will be on the 22d of December
next.
The eclipse will begin in the North
Atlantic Ocean, the central line moving
in a southeasterly direction. Crossing
one part of Spain and the Mediterra
nean Sea, it enters Africa near Oran,
and soon afterward attains its southern
limits. The shadow of the moon now
moves in a northeasterly direction and
leaves Africa, and crossing the island of
Sicily, the south of Turkey, the Black
Sea and the Sea of Azof, disappears.
The penumbra of the moon decreas
ing rapidly, leaves the earth with the
setting sun in Arabia. The sun will be
centrally and totally eclipsed at noon in
latitude 36 degrees and 38 minutes
north, longitude 5 degrees 1 minute
west, a little to the northeast of Gibral
tar, and near the Lisbon coast, creating
tidal waves and earthquakes of great
severity, agitating the waters of the At
lantic Ocean, the Bay of Fundy, and the
Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Horrors of a Battle Field.
General Trochu, the present Gover
nor of Paris, published a book on the
French army in 1867. We quote a few
expressions of his. Towards the close
of his work he says :
“My conclusions—and I have already
expressed the opinion—is this : Of ail
the qualities of a warrior, that which
bears the strongest evidence of the so
lidity of his character, and the reality of
his courage,* is modesty. By a perilous
but inevitable reaction, excitement and
exultation are succeeded, especially
with men as fickle as the French, by the
opposite extreme. They become slack
and despondent when fortune turns
against them.' ’
Trochu describes the horrors of a
battlefield, which no man of a well con
stituted mind can play a part in or wit
ness without deep and solemn feelings.
When the ground is strewn with dead,
when the dying are expiring in indes
cribable convidsions, when the wounded
are painfully dragging themselves along
towards some hedge, or ditch, to escape
the tramping of cavalry or artillery
wheels; whim in every direction
are scattered arms, headgear, hav
ersacks—horses prostrate or struggling,
or careering riderless and wildly about;
when bodies of troops, which have
been badly cut up and broken, make
distractedly for the rear, declaring the
enemy is upon them, that their com
rades have been slaughtered, and all is
lost ; in such moment**, says Trochu
and he puts it to all who have witness
ed such scenes—“in such a crisis” (and
many there have already been during
this war), “do you believe that the
thirst of glory with some, or the hope
of reward with others, suffice to sustain
the heart exposed to such cruel test ?
No, they require a more noble source of
courage—the lofty sentiment of duty
and sacrifice. It is then, that masters
of themselves, they march firmly and
generously to death : and those among
them retain their calmness who have
faith in a life to come !”
Sleep and Habit.
Sleep is much modified by habit.
Thus an old artilleryman often enjoys
| tranquil repose while the cannon are
thundering around him; an engineer has
been known to fall asleep within a boi
ler, while his fellows were beating it on
j the outside with their ponderous ham
mers; and the repose of a miller is no
! wise incommoded by the noise of his
j mill. Sound ceases to be a stimulus to
! such men, and what would have proved
an inexpressible annoyance to others is
Iby them altogether unheeded. It is
1 common for carriers to sleep on horse
i back, and coachmen on their coaches.
During the battle of the Nile, some
j boys were so exhausted that they feel
I asleep on the deck amid the deafening
thunder of that engagement. Nay, si
lence itself may become a stimulus,
while sound ceases to be so. Thus, a
miller being very ill, his mill was stop
ped that he might not be disturbed by
its noise; but this, so far from inducing
sleep, prevented it altogether; and it
did not take place until the mill was set
going again. For the same reason the
manager of some vast iron-works, who
slept close to them, amid the incessant
din of hammers, forges and furnaces,
would wake if there was any cessation
of the noise during the night.
To carry the: illustration still further,
it has been noticed that a person who
falls asleep near a church, the bell of
which is ringing, may bear the sound
during the whole of his slumber, and
be nevertheless aroused by its sudden
cessation. Here the sleep must have
been imperfect, otherwise he would have
been insensible to the sound. The noise
of the bell was no stimulus; it was its
cessation, which by breaking the monot
ony became so, and caused the sleeper
to wake.
Hoofland’s German 1 Sitters. —There is
probably no disease to which “human flesh is
heir” that is more distresring in its effects than
that of Dyspepsia, and kindred diseases arising
i from disorders of the Liver and Digestive Or
gans, and it is this fact, probably, which has
i caused the preparation of the American reme
dies now before the public. Among these
remedies are Dr. Hoofland’s German Bitters,
which has been prominently before the public
for years, and which has received the highest
testimonials from thousands of our citizens
who have tested its efficiency in dieases of the
character referred to. It has also received the
liighest commendation from physicians who
have used it in their practice with complete
success. The Hoofland’s Bitters is a strictly
medicinal preparation, and contains no alcohol,
rum, or whisky.
Hoofland’s German Tonic is a combination of
the ingredients of the Bitters, with pure Santa
Cruz Rum, orange, anise, Ac. It is used for
the same diseases as the Bitters in cases where
an Alcoholic Stimulant is necessary. It is a
preparation of rare medicinal value, and most
agreeable to the palate. Chronicle, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
An exchange gives the information
that in the United States just now there
are twenty-seven young women studying
theology, with a view' to becoming
preachers; nineteen are studying law,
and sixty-seven are studying medicine.
These figures are hardly accurate. Over
half the number of women given are
studying medicine at the three medical
colleges open to them in New York, be
sides others at the colleges in Philadel
phia, Cleveland, Chicago and Cincinnati.
The crown of England contains seven
teen hundred diamonds, and is valued
at. $500,000.
A FRAGRANT TOPIC.
The subtle essence which resides in many plants ;
and fruits is so evanescent in its character as to have I
almost defied the efforts of chemists, until very re
cently, to imprison It in any foreign medium. The 1
great secret with scientific men is to extract the aro
matle principle from flowers and fruits, and with it 1
surcharge spirits or syrups so that a permanence of
quality, a facility of use, and a perfection of the j
unique odor of each may be given to articles which
can be used in the buodoir, the kitchen or the dispen
sary. In ancient times the actual plant or fruit i
dried, was a clumsy contrivance by which a faded 1
semblance to the fresh aroma could be obtained. In j
the culinary department, many plans were adopted j
to give a flavor to fine pastry and made dishes by |
bruising, mincing, grinding or grating the coarse I
materials containing the requisite zest, which might !
please the palate of an epicure. All these methods
have passed away, and in the celebrated articles pre
pared by Joseph Burnett, of Boston, wc have all the
delicate odors, aromatic flavors and spicy qualities of
the flowers, fruits and vegetables so concentrated and
preserved as to secure the evanescent and subtile par
ticles in a permanent and handy form, neither dete
riorated in strength or diminished in pungency, but
retaining the exact quailities of the original
in their pristine vigor. For nearly a quarter
of a century this gentleman has been engaged
in the scientific manufacture of Flavoring Ex
tracts, Cocoaine for the hair, Kalliston for the
complexion, Florimel end Cologne Waters aud
the rarest kinds of delicate perfumery for the
handkerchief; and his success in this difficult branch
of chemical research has been very remarkable. The |
daintiest flavor which passes over the sense of taste
has been caught by him aud imprisoned for use. '
There is a refinement about Burnett’s Flavoring Ex
tracts and Toilet Preparations which we have failed
to discover elsewhere, and that coarse alcoholic scent
and incongruous combinations, which are too fre
quently present in the common preparations, is lost
sight of entirely.
Mr. Burnett is one of the leading citizens of Bos
ton, a man given to intellectual associations, and in
that city holds a prominent position, which a long
course of honorable trading has obtained and de
serves.
We cannot conclude this slight sketch of a cele-
I brated leading house of the East, without devoting a
paragraph to Mr. Lyman D. Morse, who for many
years has been actively engaged in building up this
immense business, traveling in its interests a full
half score of years, and by his gentlemanly deport
ment securing hosts cf personal friends, and long
lists of permanent customers. In that honso which
he has so well represented he has now a vital interest,
and the business of Joseph Burnett has much to gain
from having associated with it so highly estimable a
gentleman. —Davenport {finea) Democrat.
December Magazines.
Our Young Folks for December, is one of
the handsomest and most entertaining that has
vet been issued of this excellent periodical.
The Freed Children in Virginia, A Boy’s Visit to
Pompeii, and How to Draw, all illustrated, are
nstructive and very entertaining. The story of
We Girls is continued, and there are beside
several other stories and two or three poems.
The departments of Young Contributors, The
Evening Lamp and Letter Box, will keep the
little eyes andneads busy for many an evening.
The magazine for 1871, will contain a serial
story by J. T. Trowbridge, and several new and
interesting features. Fields, Osgood & Cos.,
Boston, Publishers.
Every Saturday, for November 26th, con
tains portraits of Prince Frederick Charles of
Prussia, and of Gen. Bourbaki of France.
There is also a splendid two-page engraving of
the Palace of Versailles. Election Scenes in
New York are spirited in design and well execu
ted. Duck Shooting in the Chesapeake, Scenes
in Strasbourg after the Bombardment, and at
the Chateau Meudon, complete the illustra
tions. The reading matter is such as will in
terest all readers. Every Saturday should find
its way to every home. Fields, Osgood & Cos.,
Boston.
Godey’s Lady’s Book is the first of the De
cember magazines to reach mu’ table. It is
rich in embellishments. “First Time of Ask
ing,” is a fine steel plate ; then we have the
usual steel plate title-page ; two elegant Christ
mas pictures : “Rembmber the Poor,” and
“Christmas Morning,” a splendid Berlin wool
work pattern, printed in a variety of colors ;
a six-figure colored fashion plate ; a large ex
tension sheet, containing an innumerable va
riety of dresses and articles for ladies in de
mand at the present time ; children’s dresses,
aprons, etc., etc. There is also a great variety
of useful designs given in the work-depart
ment.
The Atlantic Monthly presents a very ex
cellent variety in its contents for * the
closing month of the year. Ralph Keller
gives us The Confessions of a
Patent Medicine Man. John G. Whittier con
tributes an exquisite poem, entitled the Prayer-
Seeker. Harriet Beecher Stowe continues her
Oldtown Fireside stories. L. Maria Child tra
ces the Resemblances between the Buddhist
and the Roman Catholic Religions. Bayard
Taylor’s fine story of Joseph and His Friend
is continued, with an increase in its interest, if
that were possible. A poem, by Lucy Larcom ;
a Christmas story ; another of Henry James’
papers on Traveling Companions. A Plea for
Silence, H. T. Tuckerman; Afoot in a Colorado
Desert by Stephen Powers ; Father Blum
hardt’s Prayerful Hotel ; A Monograph by
Bamet Phillips ; Indian Summer, by Frances
L. Pratt ; the Miracle Play of 1870 in Bethle
hem, New Hampshire ; Flitting, by W. D.
Howells ; A Virginian in New England Thirty
five Years Ago ; John Bull at Feed, by W. J.
Stillman, and a very full review Department
complete the number. Fields, Osgood & Cos.,
Publishers, Boston.
A brilliant programme for the Atlantic next
year is published.
Temperance Men Admit its Utility.— No
attempt has ever been made or over will be
made, to disguise the character of Plantation
Bitters. It contains alcohol; and no Bitters
that do not contain alcohol are worth a rush.
Water will neither preserve the virtues of ton
ic vegetables nor render them active in the
system. This is a chemical fact which no one
competent to deliver an opinion on the subject
will deny. Water tonics turn sour on the stom
ach, if they are not sour to begin with, (which
is frequently the case), and produce and pro
mote indigestion, instead of curing it. Let it
therefore bo distinctly understood that Planta
tion Bitters is an alcohol restorative. But
mark this: it is strictly a medicine, not a
beverage. It is to be taken in limited quanti
ties and at stated times, like other remedies
and antidotes, and therefore its use is hi accor
dance with temperance law, as well as that
“higher law” which renders it incumbent upon
every being gifted with reason to resort to the
best possible means of .accomplishing a saluta
ry end.
Sea Moss Farine from pure Irish Moss, for
Blacc Mange, Puddings, Custards, Creams, &c.,
Ac. The cheapest, healthiest, and most deli
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N0.”28.
Nervous debility, with its gloomy attendants,
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loss of semen, spermatorrhea, loss of power,
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impotence and imbecility, find a sovereign cure
in Humphrey’s Homeopathic Specific, No. twen
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at the root of the matter, tone up the system,
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have cured thousands of cases. Price $5 per
package of five boxes and a large vial of pow
der, worth $2.00, which is very important in oh
stinate or old cases, or $1 per single box. Sold
by all druggists, and sent by mail on receipt of
price. Address Humphrey’s Specific Homeo
pathic Medicine Cos., 562 Broadway, New York.
Wholesale Agents —Burnhams & Van Shaack,
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ham, St. Louis, Mo.; Farrand, Sheley & Cos.,
Detroit, Mich.
A Safeguard.— One or two doses of Dr.
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will often prevent a serious attack of sickness.
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Hogs—Live 7 00 @ 7 25
Sheep—Fair to Prime 3 75 @6 00
Cotton—Middling 16@ 16k
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Rye—Western 95 @ <tg
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lair Grades 5 50 @6 00
Medium 3 75 @ 526
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Sheep—Live s 50 @ 500
Flour—Family 525 @ 560
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Oats 35 @ 45
Rye 75 @ 80
Barley 1 10 (.? 1 12
Pork—Mess 19 00 @l9 50
Lard 11 k@ 12k
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Oats... 43 @ 46
Rxe fe 70
Barley 80 @ 90
Pork—Mess ; 19 50 @l9 75
Lard @ xj%
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JOB MOSES’
Sir James Clark’s Female Pills.
These invaluable Pills are unfailing in the cure of all
those painful and dangerous diseases to which the
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TO MARRIED LADIES
They are particularly suited. They will in a short time
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exertion, Palpitation of the Heart, Hysterics and
Whites, they will effect a cure when all other means
have failed. The pamphlet around each package has
full directions and advice, or will be sent free to all
writing for it, sealed from observation.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Job Moses 1 Sir James Clarke’s Female Pills are ex
tensively Counterfeited. The genuine has the name
of “JOB MOSES” on each package. All others are
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N. B.—ln all cases where the Genuine cannot bo ob
tained, One Dollar, with the fifteen cents for postage
enclosed to the sole proprietor, JOB MOSES, 18 Cort
landt street. New York, will insure a bottle of the gen
uine, containing Fifty Pills, by return mail, securely
sealed from any knowledge of its contents.
TO CONSUMPTIVES.
The advertiser, having been permanently cured of
that dreaded disease. Consumption, by a simple remedy,
is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the
means of cure. To all who desire it, he will send a copy
of the prescription used (free or charge), with the
directions for preparing and using the same, which
they will find a sure Cure for Consumption,
Asthma, Bronchitis, &c.
Parties wishing the prescription will please address
Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON,
165 South Second 4 street, Williamsburgh, N. Y.
An Old Friend.
For many years the Press of the country has
chronicled the beneficial effects of Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters. Editors, authors, physicians,
merchants, officers of the army and navy, chemists,
counsellors, ministers of the Gospel, in short, a great
cloud of witnesses of every profession, trade and
calling, have testified as to its efficacy as a tonic and
regulating medicine. The names and statements of
hese witnesses have been published in the public
prints. Many of them are well known to the whole
public. Their testimony hbs never been challenged
or Impugned. This
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has been tried and pronounced on the authority
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Attempts have been made to rival it. They have
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valuable specific. Its mild tone, its sure and vigor
ous action upon a disordered stomach, and the
cleansing of the entire human body, recommend
it to the whole community as a RELIABLE
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m WINCHESTER
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i II It is used by all intelligent Phy
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are, BUCHU Long Leaf, CUBEBS
JUNIPER BERRIES.
Mode of Pkepakation:— Buchu, in
vacuo. Juniper berries, by distillation,
to form a fine gin. Cubebs extracted by
displacement with spirits obtained from
Juniper Berries; very little sugar is used,
and a small proportion of spirit. It is
more palatable than any now in use.
Buchu, as prepared by Druggists, is
of a dark color. It is a plant that emit?
its fragrance; the action of a flame de
stroys this (its active principle,) leaving
a dark and glutinous decoction. Mine
is the color of ingredients. The Buchu
in my preparation predominates. The
smallest quantity of the other ingredi
ents are added to prevent fermentation;
upon inspection it will be found not to
be a Tincture, as made in Pharmacopcea,
nor is it a Syrup—and therefore can be
used in cases where fever and inflammn
tiou exist. In this, you have the know!
edge of the ingredients and the mode ol
preparation.
Hoping that you will favor it with t
trial, and that upon inspection it wib
meet with your approbation.
With a feeling of profound confidence,
I am very respectfullv,
H. T. HELMBOLD,
Chemist and Druggistjof 19 Years’ Ex
perience.
(From the largest Manufacturing Chem
ists in the World.)
November 4, 1854.
“I am acquainted with Mr. H. T
Helmbold; he occupied the Drug Stor*
opposite my residence, and was success
ful in conducting the business wher<
others had not been equally so befor
him. I have been favorably impresset
with his character and enterprise.”
WM. WEIGHTMAN,
Firm of Powers & Weightman, Mann
factoring Chemists, Ninth and Brow
Sts., Philapelphia.
HELMBOLD'S
FLUID EXTRACT
BUCHU
For weakness arising from indiscretio
The exhausted powers of Nature whit
are accompanied by so many alarmii
symptoms, among which will be foun
Indisposition to Exertion, Loss of Mei
ory, Wakefulness, Horror of Disease,
Forebodings of evil; in fact, Uni vert
Lassitude, Prostration, and inability!
enter into the enjoyments of society.
THE CONSTITUTION
once affected with Organic Weaknet
requires the aid of Medicine to strengt
en and invigorate the system, whi<
HELMBOLD’S EXTRACT BUCHU i:
variably does. If no treatment is sul
raitted to, Consumption or Insanity ei
saee.
HELMBOLD’S
Fluid Extract of Buchi
in affections peculiar to Females, is un
equalled by any other preparation, as in
Chlorosis, or Retention, Painfulness, oi
Suppression of Customary Evacuations,
Ulcerated or Schirms State of the Ute
rus, and all complaints incidental to the
sex, or the decline or change of life.
HELMBOLD’S
Fluid Extract Buchu
AND
IMPROVED ROSE WASH
will radically exterminate from the sys
tem diseases arising from habits of dis
sipation, at little expense, little or no
change in diet, no inconvenience or ex
posure; completely superseding those
unpleasant and dangerous remedies,
Copaiva and Mercury, in all these dis
eases.
USE HELMBOLD S
Fluid Extract Buchu.
All diseases of these organs, whether
existing in male or female, from what
ever cause originating, and no matter of
how long standing. It is pleasant in taste
and odor, “immediate” in action, and.
more strengthening than any of the
preparations of Bark or Iron.
Those suffering from broken down or
delicate constitutions,'procure the rem
edy at once.
The reader must be aware that, how
ever slight may be the attack of the
above diseases, it is certain to affect the
bodily health and mental powers.
All the above diseases require the aid
of a diuretic. HELMBOLD’B EX
TRACT BUCHU is the Great Diuretic.
Sold by Druggists everywhere.
Price $1.25 per Bottle, or 6 Bottles
for $6.50. Delivered to any address.
Describe Symptoms in all communi
cations.
ADDRESS;
H. T. HELMBOLD,
Drug & Chemical Warehouse,
594 Broadway, New York.
NONE ARE GENUINE unless done
up in steel engraved wrapper, with
fac-simile of my Chemical Ware
house, and signed
s H. T. HELMBOLD.