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VOLU 'IE XV.- NZLASE3 11 THE POTTER JOURNAtj PUBLISHED BY H. W. Mc.Harney, Proprietor. $1 54 Pil YEi.l, h variably is auvasck. * # * Devoted to thi cause of Republicanism, the interests of Agriculture, the advancement of Education, art ! the b'st good of Potter eouaty. ()wni> ui le except til it of Principle, it will no i.v r to ii'l in tlie work ef mere fully Kre -.i tti/.mg >ur Country. ADTKK' ISKMKN'TH iiiM*rted it the following rates, exc p' wrier. .- peciai b irga.ns are made. I Square I 10 lines! 1 iinertiou. - - - "o 1 a 3 " ... $1 50 Each subsequent insertion lei's than 13, 2;>, I Square three months. ------- 250 1 "six " 4 00 1 14 nine " ------- 550 1 44 ane year, ------- 600 I Calama sit months, - -- -- -- 20 00 . . 10 00 i< ' ? 00 1 44 per year. ----- -- - 40 00 j it a' a ........ 20 00 Administrator's or Executor's Notice. 200 Business Cards, 8 liues or less, per year 5 00 Special and Editorial Notices, pe. line. 10 * * All transient advertisements must be paid-in advance, and no notice will he taken •f advertisements from a distance, unless they accompanied by the money or satisfactorv reference. * # *Blanks, and Job Yf ork of all kinds, at tended to promptly and faithtullv SUfcTtSi ESs C AttUS. EULALIA LODGE. No 342, F A. M. STATED Meetings on the 2nd and 4th Wednes days of each mouth. Vlso M isonic gather ings on every Wednesday Eve'.ing. f- 4 r work and practice, at their Hall in Coudersport. TIMOTHY IVES, VV. M. Samuel Haves, Sec'y. JOHN S. MANN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Coudersport, Pa., will attend the several Cau'ts in Poller and M'Kean Counties. All business entrusted in his care will receive prompt attention. Ottice corner of West and Third streets. ____ ARTHUR G. OLMSTED, ATTORNEY k COUNSELLOR AT LAW Caudersport, Pa., will attend to all business sn'rusted to his care, with promptnes an i hd. itv; Office on Soth-west corner ol Mam aad Fourth streets. ISAAC rEN SON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business entrusted to him, with care and promptness. Office on Second st . near the Allegheny Bridge. ~ F. W. KNOX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport. Pa., will regularlv attend the Courts in Potter and the adjoining Counties. 0. T. ELLISON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Coudersport, Pa. respectfully informs the citizens of the vil lage and vicinity that he will prompl.v re spond to all calls for professional services. Otftce on Main st.. in building formerly oc eupied by C. W. Ellis, Esq. C. S A E. A. JONES, DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS Oils, Fancy Articles. Stationery, Dry Good. Groceries. Ac., Main st.. Coudersport. Pa. D. E. OLMST ED. DIALER IN DRV GOODS. READY-MADE Clathing, Crockery, Groeerie-. rc... Main -t Caudersport, Pa. COLLINS SMITH, DEALER in Dr> Goods Groceries. Provisions. Hardware, Queensware, Cutlery, and all Goods usually found in a country Store Coudersport, Nov. 27. 1861. COUDEIUI'OUT HOTEL, • F. GL\SS!IRE Proprietor. Corner o- Muiu and S • • i Stre . Coudersport. Pot tar Co., Pa A Liver\ i- is kept in conned lion with th;s Hotel MARK GILLON. TAlLOR— nearly opposite the Court House will make all i lotiies intrusted to him in the latest a:.d best styles— Prices to suit the times — Give hitn a call. 13.41 ANDREW SANBERG A BRO S. TANNERS AND CURRIERS — Hides tanned •n the shares, in the best manner Tan nary on the east side of Allegany river. Coudersport, Potter county, Pa— Jy 17,'61 i. i. olmsted. s. d. kelly OLMSTED & KELLY, DEALER in STOVES, TIN & SHEET IRON WARE, Main st., nearly opposite the Couri ; House, Coudersport, Pa. Tin and Shee* i Iron Ware made to order in good style, ou short notice. Ulysses Academy Still retains as Principal. Mr.E. R.CAMPBELL, Preceptress, Mrs Nettie Jones Gridley ; As lietant, Miss A. E Campbell The expenses par Term are : Tuition, from $5 to §6 ; Board, from $1 50 to $l-75, per week; Rooms for self boarding from $2 to $4. Each terra commences ■ pon Wednesday and continues Fourteen weeks. Fall term. Aug.27th.lB62;Winter term. •ee.tOth, 1862 ; and spring term, March 25th IMS, 0. R. BASSETT, President. W. W. GRIDLEY, Secty. Lewisvjlle, July 9, 1862 MANHATTAN HOTEL. NEW YORK. THIS Popular Hotel is situated near the corner of Murray Street and Broad way opposite the Park within one block of the Hudson River Rail Road and near the Erie Rail Road Depot. It is one of the most pleasant and convenient locations in the city. Board & Rooms SI.SO per day. N. IIUGGINS, Proprietor, 1 Feb. 18th, 1863. ;g the time to auhscribe for vonr feußy Paper— THE JOURNAL. [The following poetn, which we find in the Philadelphia Press, is among the best of the tuahy Bad lyrics which the war has inspired. The music of the refrain is remarkable : DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER. BY GLOROL H. BOKLR. Close his eyes ; his work is done ! What to him is friend or foeman, Rise ot moon, or set of sun, Hand ot man, or kiss of woman? Lay hi in low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow : What cares he? he cannot know : Lay bin* low I As man may, he fought his fight, Proved lit-' truili by his endeavor; Let him sleep iu solemu night, Sleep forever and forever. Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow : What cares be? he cannot know : , Lay lum low! Fold him in his country's stars ; Roll the drum and tire the volley I What to him are all our wars, What but death bcraocking folly? Lay him low, lay biin low, In ibe clover or the snow : What cares he ? he cannot know : Lay him low 1 Leave him to God's watching eye; Trust him to the hand that made him. Mortal love weeps idly by: God alone has power to aid him. Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the suow : What cares he ? he cannot know : Lay him low I POOR PHIL. It is a mystery to me—why Bob Ly ons should leel so shy of Nellie Water man, the prettiest girl in the place, I couldn't for my life imagine ! He had been badly hit at Fredrickaburg, and was home ou sick leave; and every day her carriage slopped at Mr. Lyons' door (by llie way, it was worth the waiting for, to see the loot aud ankle that she showed in gelling out) with a basket of hot house fruit, or tiowers that she had arranged herself [aud she did these things like a Flench woman,; or the last fuilleten for Lieutenant Lyons But though Bob could hear iicr well enough from the liti.'o room at the head of the stairs that he called nis den, lie never took the smallest notion, except to growl out something very like an oath lroui under his tuous tactie, or, if in the parlors, to hobble away as fast us put-Bible for fear of meeting her The tiowers he wouldn't let into his room, but left them to wither in the outer hall ; the fruit lie gu e to the ohildreu ; the books lie tossed over to his sisters with a contemptuous grunt. In 6hort, if Nellwe Waterman ha been the cholera, instead of a handsome, stylish girl, he could have hardly avoided her more persistently, ob stinately refusing to give any other reason for his unaccountable conduct than that it was his whim Nothing, however, is quite so hard to prison as secrets. Relax your vigilance ever so little, and the tilings wiil be on the house top in spite of you. And so one da\ out popped Bob's skeleton, like a Jack in the box, and he told me all that was in his heart It wa> in answer to some remark of mine ab'iut Nellie Waterman, who had just pa sed Bub turned his buck 6quarely to the window, and seut his cigar savage ly in to the tire. "I hud as lief see a toad," he said— ••rather, for it wouldn't be necessary to be civil to the spotted animal. Do you remember what Jule was reading the oth er night—something of Ruskiu's, I think, about girls with spots of blood on their ball dresses, and grave weeds twined in their w i eat lis. Well, i swear I uever Bee this one without thinking that her dainty hands are wei with blood, and that her beautiful bright hair it tbickly twisted with the willow that shades Phil. Seldon'e grave. Poor, dear old Phil! he wore her false face over his heart when he went down. Worthless as he had proved her to be, he could never quite give her up. I had known her from a child, and warned him of his danger, aud the only shadow that ever fell on ou. friendship came upon us then. There ntver was a tnau more thoroughly infat uated. He thought her pink aud white face the incarnation of purity; her down cast looks he took fur modesty; and it was useless to tell him that, besides her pretty face, she was simply tight laciug, flounces and French novels. "She was, in his idea, womanly per fection —physical, mental, and moral. And she threw him over, of oourse— flirted with him till she was tired, then dropped him. When be iusisted on some reason for this wrecking of his hopes, she closed her doors against him byway of answer. He came back looking like a ghot. Could you have seen him, you could scarcely have dreamed that this was our old sunshiny Phil. "I hate woman when I think of it. Leave out iny mother aod sisters, and all the crinoline and grimacing in the world are not worth his dear old face, though He never iooked cheerful after that, un less he was on some specially dangerous ' geboied to tye of Jrqo j)i)D % of ¥oh% qi)o ffetos. COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUKTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1863. service—some risky reconnoitering or picket duty, affording hiiu an excelleut chance of being killed. Then he used to light up with a sort of grim satisfaction, because, he told tue once, the excitement left hiui no time to think ; adding, mourn fully, that he should be dubbed the greatest coward iu the regiment could it be known with what diead he looked for ward to his long, sleepless uights, and tho*B listless days when only the ordinary routine was g-ing 00. We were before Fredericksburg—or rathjr, the river that separated it from Us, Phil li: d just come from , where he had been sent on a secret mission, having also improved Lis short furlough to come on here, and get himself slabbed to the heart afresh, lie had seen Nellie ; she had received him cold.'v at first — scatcclv spokeu to him iu fact j but re lenting by degiees. suffered him to plead his cause again, and raided his hopes only to dash tbetu more fatally to the ground "He came back uttoily desperate Wo were getting ready for the bombardment, aud lie threw himself into the prepara tions with the zeal and spirit of twenty men. Everything was as peaceful as it Nature was holding her breath to watel) us. The sky looked down on us so sol emnly that, though I dou't know what ever put it in my head at such a time, 1 could thiuk of nothing but that other winter's night when it was bright with angels praising God, a.ud proclaiming peace on earth. The water seemed to hush itself, as if afraid to ripple. In the stillness wo could hear the barking of dogs, and the melancholy chiming of the tomn-ciock sounding out the hour; while on our side the only noise was the rum bling ot artillery as we got the batteries into position, aud the heavy roll of the pontoon trains going down to the r iver bank. It sounded like thunder in our ears; but they kep* as dead silence as if I hey were all in enchanted sleep, till our men had pushed off and fairly gotten the bridge under way Then— "l don't know whether t.hev suspected what we were at or not, or whether it was part of their cuised strategy to get as many targets as possible urjder fire ; but when they did at last coinmeuce they made sharp work of it, as well they might, since, comfortably stowed away in cellars and houses on the bank, they had only to cut us down at their leisure Shot and shell fioo> our batteries proved una vailing; the city indeed was tired, but the foxes were not unearthed, and three times our brave fellows were beaten back, and brought their dead aud wounded up the bank to fill the floors of the Lacy- House. | "By this time it was morniog, and we had procured atraiu with solid shot from \quia: the rebels, who had stopped firing, [commenced again, and the light strug I trliog up showed us, as the sulpliurious cloud cleared away, Fredericksbuig was burning like a second Moscow The solid shot plunged through brick and stone, but a fresh effort to lay the bridge proved also unavailing, the rebel sharp-shooters droppiug our men like so many uipe pios. "Then it was that Burtiside called 101 volunteers, and the Seventh Michigan and our regiment, (the Niueieeth Massa chusetts) responded. As we marched out. Ptui came quickly up to Mark Gif ford, his bro:hei-iu-luw, who was at my side. "•You have a wife p,nd little child to leave,' fie said. 'I Irave uonc, and never shall Let me go in your plice. Wait (as Mark was going to refuse) and hear me. If you are obstinate I will still go; I swear it, if I swim after the boats; so there, wii'i be simply two to mourn for in tlie old homestead if you persist.' "He was in such desperate earnest, aud the time was so short, for the regi ment was already moving on, aud Mark, never so resolute a man as Phil, was so taken by surprise that he stepped back, i and Phil took- the place by my side and rushed on with us. As saiel Captain Ward at Bunker Hill, when we went down thut bank I no more dreamed of coming alive out of that rain of fire thau of going to heaven iD Elijah'a fiery char iot. As we crouched behind the boats and the piles of lumber, the balls catue in among us liko hailstones. Phil got a slight scratch, aud a ball carried ofl" my cap as if it bad come expressly for it. Not that we left all of the firing to the rebels. We did a little sharp-shooting on our own account, quite respectable iu its way, and keeping them about as busy as they kept us, till our guns began to speak again; then we pushed fer the boats, got into them pell-mell, and made off. Such a crossing ! It wasn't exactly s sail by moonlight, I can tell you. I • never imagined such a din possible, on- ; less at the day of judgment. Crack ! crack! from those deadly rifles, and our; poor fellows dropping at every shot, tbo' j lying as low as possible in the boats, our batteries thundering away, waking up the echoes, that rolled back on us as if; they were haviug a battle uf their OWD. I L don't believe I ever shall agaiu expe- Irieuce quite such honest astonishment as !l felt on landing with my head still on | my shoulders. "I panted out something of this sort to Phil, who answered with astern smile, 'and something about the ides of March, only half heard, as wo rushed up the bauk aud after the rebels scampering out ! of every rifle-pit, and from behind every stone wall, springing up as if they had been a sort of fungus growth of legs war ranted to make good time betore Yankee bayonets. "Most of th®™ escaped, but some j. ither couldn't or wouldn't run. One of these fellows Phil started, a surly brute, just showing his grizzly head out of a cel'ar door, and evideutly meaning to die game 1 called out as I saw the man taking deliberate aim at Phil, coming I straight to him ; but he, just turning his : his head in answer, and showing me the same strained, reckless look that he had worn all that day, went on one step far- I titer —got the ball in his heart; for he o _ / was dead when I reached him. •'I was on his murderer before he had time to load again, aud I think I should have beaten him down as I did then had | he been Sampson ; rage and grief made a 1 giant of me. But, after all, what was his wor'liless life? It can never comfort those who weep for Phil in the old home stead, where he lies buried, done to death --poor, loving, generous heart I —by that womau, whom I long, every time I meet her, to call Murderess !" TUE BACUELOHS AND CoNSCirTioN.--- The uew conscription bill uroposiß iu two drafts to take the able-bodied men between twenty and forty five years old. There Hrc to be two classes—first, those u.atried between twenty and thirty five, with tlie unmarried between twenty and toity five—second the married between thirty five and forty-five—but the second class is not to be called out till the first is exhausted. This sets the bachelors between thirty-five and forty-five all ago for getting married We agree with a contemporary that this isa wise provision of the law, if there is any wisdom iu it. We wish it had taken all the bachelors between twenty and ninety, before it touches married men. What are these old bachelors good for but to die for their ceuutrv ? If they vv ill not raise soldiers to fight battles,let them go auc tight them selves;and die,if so be, without wifeorchild to mourn them when they fall. Howev er, if any of those who would fall into the second class if married, will repent of this singularity, the war has already made widows enough who will not retuse to as sist thorn in shirking the cartridge box, if they will only buckle on the harness of matrimony. Let tbem walk up and show themselve." men at once. Fight or marry! Take your choice quick ! A SIMILE. — On a certain occasion I attended a ehurch in a seaport town , to , hear an evening lecture by a vi.-iting 1 preacher from the country. To persons at all acquainted with the southern coun try, it is quite unnecessary to describe the man or detail his liberal qualifications. Suffice it to say, lie was a fair specimen iof about three-fourths ot his cotempora ; rit'S uf the back woods. The house was full, and our preacher seemed bent on making an impression. His text was, "Faith without works is dead." Finding himself, probably, for the first time in his life, in a nautical atmosphere, he labored assiduously to sink the bushman, and to appear in the burrowed garb of one.intb mutely acquainted with sea faring phrases and pursuits At length after as awful pause, and scanning his audience with a look that seemed to say, "Feller mortals, 'faith without works ar dead/ Now 'epoee one of you wur in a boat, I reckon you'd look about for oars. But you can't find, i hut one. Aud with that you row, aod j row, and row, and your boat goes rouud, aud round; aud I reckon yen wouldn't reach tore uowhere nohow. Wal, feller I mortals, that oar am faith without works. 1 And I reckon you couldn't go nowere with one oar/' Pausing again and looking wound with a triumphant air to witness the impres- ! sion he had made, he seemed entirely! absorbed iu the contemplation of tlie mighty effort lie had put forth. But,; alas ' for pulpit dignity ! A sailor pres- j eDt, who had drank iuevery word, and longed for an opportunity to let his own; light shine on the audience, broke the; silence aud exclaimed— "Blasted fresh water lubber ' Can't go nowhere with one oar! Guess the fool dou'i kDow how to scull!" Auy one must have been present to realize the effect of this appeal to tbo au-! dieuce. There were not many dry eyes, in the house after that, though the tears : wet® not those of peniteuce. > - • Those who would make us feel mastj feel themselves. He who ever acts as conscience cries, shall live though dead. A FIRST RATE MORNING BATU. — A great deal is said about bathing, and houses are generally preferred for having baths fixed in them, 6upplted with hot water aud cold; but the simplest b:tih, and one in which all may indulge with out trouble or expense, is that of a sponge or towel bath; and if repeated every morning, summer and winter, is such a renovater of the system that you will have little occasion either for salt water bathiug or any other kind of bathing, tjnd may fairly promise your doctor a long holiday, so far as you are concerned. Just do as we tell you iu this article, and, if you do not feel better, throw the blame upon our advice. Before going to bed, fill your wash basin with water, say two thirds full; then put into it a large soft sponge or towel—just which is baudiest. Provide something to stand on —either a piece of old carpet or a shallow tin —to keep the floor from being wet; and also a couple of coarse, good-sized towels. Then all being ready, immediately upon rising in the morning, having thrown off your night-dress, first wet your head, aud then take the sponge or towel full of water and squeeze it upon your shoulders, the water running down to your feet. The body having thus got a good wetting, you need not, as some suggest, sponge the body any further, but tuke the towels and give yourself a good rubbing for about one or two minutes, till the skin begins to react; then dress as quickly as possible, and, if convenient and the weather suitable, take a short walk. Bathing and dressing should not take you more than ten min utes. Practice will render less rubbing sufficient, and the walk in time may be dispensed with This is a bath that everybody should take, and will be found an infallible source of vigor and good health, if properly done aud followed up. 1 MYSTERY OF TIIE HUMAN HAND.— I Issuing from the wrist is that wonderful - organ the hand. "In a French book," ; says Sir Charles Bell, "inteuded to teach ' young people philosophy, the pupil asks 1 ! why the fingers are not of equal length. The master makes the scholar grasp a ball of ivory, to show liirn that the points of s the fingers are then equal. It wculd ; have been better had he closed the fingers ! upon the palm, and then have asked whether or not tliey correspond. This • difference in tbeGength of the fingers serves a thousand purposes, as in holding a rod, a switch, a sword, a hammer, a pen, i pencil, or engraving tool, in all of which secure hold and freedom of action are admirably combined." On the length, strength, and perfectly free movements of the thumbs depends, moreover, the power of the human haujl. To the thumb, indeed, has beeu given the special name j Polfex, lrom a Latin verb, meaning to be 1 able, strong, mighty, because of its [strength—a strength that is necessary to ; the power of the hand, being equal to that of all the fingers. Without the fleshy ball of the thumb the power of the fingers would be of no avail, and accord ingly the large ball formed by the mus cles of the thumb is the special mark of the human hand, and particularly that of a clever workman. The loss of the thumb almost amounts to ihe loss of the hand, I A HUMAN RUDY AND THE HOUR OF HAY.— Seat yourself at & table. Attach i apieceofrsetal (say a shilling) to a thread. ; Having placed your elbow on a table, hold i the thread between the thumb and fore finger, aud allow the shilling to hang ia 1 the ceuter of a glass tumbler, the pulse will immediately cause the shilling to vi-1 brate like a pendulum, and the vibrations will increase until the shilling strkes the side of the glass ; aod suppose the time of the experiment be the hour of seven, or half-past seven, the pendulum will strike. i the glass seven times, and then lose its momentum and return to the ceuter; if •you hold the thread a sufficient length of I time tbo effect will be repeated ; but not until a sufficient length of time has elapsed to convince you the exeperimeutj ,is complete. We seed rot add that the, thread must be held with a steady hand; otherwise the vibrating motion wouid be counteracted. At whatever Lour of the ! day or night the experiment is made, the; coincidence will be the same. BtsßfA Brooklyn doetor vouches for the facts in the following: An anxious | father not long since discovered his "only j i son and heir," aged five, engaged in pitch ing pennies with a number of ragged! urchins, who had just initiated him iu the , mysteries of the ail-absorbing game. He! gave the little gamester a long lecture on the sin of gambling, ete., and finished by ' telling hmi that if he ever caught him in I the naughty work of pitching pennies i again, or gambling in anv way, he would j give hitn a severe- whipping. • The.l youngster stood with his hands in his; pockets, coolly jingling the half dozen j coppera he had won > aud at the conclu-! feiou of his father's remarks, little Bob! drew a cent from has pocket, and balanc ing it on the thumb and iudex finger of: his right hand, said', "Dad, I'll go you | bead or tail for two lickings Or none!' h TERMS.--$1.50 PER ANNUM. Art Interesting incident. A lady of Bridgeport, Connecticut, married a citizen of Georgia, some tweuty odd years ago, and accompanied him to ; his home in that State. He was a planter. I Not succeeding there to his mind, he re moved to Arkansas and bought land and 1 negroes and resumed business as a planter. He had but fairly started in business when j he sickened of fever and died, i His estate, consisting of thirty negroes and a plantation, the size of which my informant did not state, vraa involved in debt to the amount of ten thousand dol lars. The widow judged it best to sell a portion of the land and negroos to pay ; the debt, hut the foreman on the estate, himself a negro and a slave, advised her ito another course. "I do dat* j Missus/' said he, "de boys won't like it to go down Souf, and if Missus give us j the chance we'll raise a big crop and pay -off the debt, and have it all clear in tw ar tree year." He informed "Missus" that he bad "talked to cje boys 'bout it, and dey all say dey stick by and work off de debt, if Missus please not sell 'em." She fol lowed the counsel of this humane jfnd he roic negro, and "do boys" worked with • will. They raised a splendid crop of cot ton, the entire labor being done—even to the sale of the cotton and the delivery of the money into the haod of the inistras® —without the advice, help or interfer ence of any white man. The debt war reduced sis thousand dollars the firs! year. A brother of the lady, an invalid clergyman of Connecticut, spent the winter after the planter's decease on the plantation. Grateful, as any man be, these ignorant But faithful and kind" hearted fellows, fcr their generous devo* tion to his sister's interest, he improved ;the leisure time in teaching the eon of the foreman and a few others of the young j negroes, and before spring, some <f them could not only read tolerably well, bul j could write a legible hand. Spring came, and the lady with her (children accompanied her brother to Con necticut, and thore spent the summer, leaving her negroes to make a second crop under the leadership and nishuge inent of her negro foreman, without a white man on the premises. She held a regular correspondence with the foreman through the educated but dusky fingers 1 , of liis son, and was kept well informed of | the state of things on the plantation. | Late in the autumn she returned, accom panied now by a sister who spent th winter with l.or, and followed up th# work of her brother, iD the (line, without, however, any public proc lamation of the fact, for obvious reasons. The second erop swept off the remain* Jof the debt and left a surplus. Thus th® work has gone formard for nearly ten years. The working force of the planta ; tion having increased, by the natural in crease of the negro families, and addi tions having been made to the plantation from time to time by purchase, at th®* suggestion nnd by the advice of the negro i overseer, witli a succession of splendid? crops produced by willing hands trnder the stimulous of kindness and encourage ment, instead of the lash, the property was estimated, when the war commenced, to be worth over 3100,000. When w tercouse flopped between Arkansas and? the North, the lady with her eldest sou was on the plantation, and her othes children in Connecticut. There haff been, when my informont teft Bridge pert, no communication between the par-, ties for six months. The members of the family at the cast are exceedingly anxious to hear from the mother, an.f' fear lest their elder brother may ha\c have gone into or been forced into the artov. I\ hile many are asking, just now, if •|tiJ3 negroes in a state of freedom can any ■ I way 02 or take care of the i -seives, such facts as those afcovo stated 1 may alford the anxious some support. Printers sometimes make some ludi crous blunders. In a piece of manuscript handed to the "devil" to set in u weMcrnr office, there occurred the following ph? uer : "There stood the martyr with his s-hvet |of tire." The editor was astonished ir>< ! looking over his next i*sue,at the tuli-iw ing : "There stood the martyr with hir shirt on fire." Oh, what a tangled web wc wears,whery first we practice to deceive ! ' Some men are like certain beau tifu! on one aide, hideou* on the ether. I The reward of work well don*.,, i> thw 1 having done it. ! Nothing abridges life like false idie words and vain thoughts. No man was ever so mucE dc-r-'' *>d by ! another as $7 himself; Deep rivers flow with' silent u 0' shallow brooks are noisy. Believe not all you hear, and not all you believe. We live in deed - not in thot not breaths.