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Selected Poetry.
EVENING HYMN TO MARY.
EVENING HYMN TO MARY. BY LIVIE DARLING.
AIR—Hymn to St. Joseph.
Star of Heaven I Gem of beauty I
Set in Glery's crown of light,
Mother of the sad and weary,
Hear the prayer I bring U-night
Pais and evils, lone heart achingi,
Sorrows that I've borne, and bear ; .
Theae have made me weak but aid nic,
, . Chxilt will liiten to thy prayer. ..
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Star of Glory! pearl in pureueeal
H ert'akf bow and honor thee 1
Then, the aeareet to oar Sattsnr,
Baite one little plea for me. .
1 am waJ(B-pray He may strengthen 1
. Pray tht He his Grace may send ;
Molher! Sfothcr! wilt thou bring me . .
. To the sinner's dying Friond ?
Holy Virgin I Queen of Heaven I
- Brightest in the crown of God!
Prey that ( may 'bear' unmurmuring, .
Meekly bowing 'neath the rod,
I am weak, bat Hi if mighty,
I am low, bat He is high ;'
He can pardon, He can save me
Mother. Van a sinner's cry I
Mother Ma7 1 Ih'ight Is shrouding
All the earth in'darkness deep ;
Guard nd shield me from all dangers,
Guard me, Mother, while I sleep!
Let the night of Sin and Sorrow
, Now be pierced by Hop's bright raj;
( Mother, intercede with Jesus !
Mother, hear me while I pray !
WEBSTER, MASS., December, 1832.
A Charming Little Story.
' In the tribe of Neggdeh, there was a horse,
whose fame was spread far and near, and a
Bedouin of another tribe, by name Daher,
desired extremely to possess it. Having of
ferred in vain for it his camels and his whole
wealth, he bit at length upon the following
device, by which he hoped to gain the object
of his desire. ' He resolved to stain his face
with the juice of an, herb, tc elotha himself
in rags, U tit his legs and neok together, 10
as to appear like a lame beggar. Thus
equipped, he went (0 Naber, the owner of
the hone, who he knew was to pass that
way, When he saw Naber approaching on
his beautiful steed, he cried out in a weak
voice, "I an a poor stranger; for three
days I have been unable to more from this
spot to soek for food. I am dying, help me,
and Heaven will reward you." The Be
douin kindly offered to take him up on his
horse and curry him home; but the roeue
replied, "I cannot rise; I hate no strength
left." Naber, touched with pity, dismount
ed, led his horse to the spot, and, with great
difficulty, set, the seeming beggar on its
back. But no sooner did Daher feel himself
the saddle, than he set spurs to the horse,
and galloped off, calling out, as he did so,
it is, I, Daher. I have got the horse, and
am off with it," Naber called after him to
stop and. listen. Certain of not being pur
sued, he turned, and halted at a short dis
tance from Naber, who was armed with a
spear. . "Yw.. hare taken my horse," said
the latter. "Since Heaven has willed, it, I
wuk'yW Joy of it: but I do conjure vou
ctvi hp wu ny one bow vou obtoinea It
"And wbr not?" said Daher. "Because."
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said tha noble Arab, "another man might
"y it, na Men woom tear to nelp
him. : Jfoa would be tha eaasa of man to.
fusing to perform aa act of charity, for fear
bem duped aa I have been.'' Struck
with shame at these words, Daher was silent.
a ':iiiomcm, , then springing from the
horse, returned U to its owner, embraoinir
him. .. Naber made him accompany him to
icm. wnere tney spent a tew days togeth
erand boeame fast friends for lit.
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Battle of Fredericksburg.
Saturday's Fight.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.
.The correspondence of the Tribune, tha
describe the earn age of Satnrdrr :
S aot using too strong an expression,
say that in this battle wa were bnteaered.
Tha lose of tha enemv in comnarison ta
own must be insignimeant. . More, than
the division of Geo- Preach were placed
Aere i eemlmt before thev har Ired a shot
Haviag orders (4 withhold their Ire, charge
bayqnata, and, rash apoa the Intreachmente,
thej anticipaUd np ebstacle until they
hould neetyi a had to hand fight, for the
fMitt 'of '(tie lirtl t!nj;e ..phills; ; .Tut, how J
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IT I 111. (
Lying eloae npun the oft
low itone wntl and
id t half destroyed fe ic
taken into our calculation.
which we had hoi
ag obstacles, the enemy watched thl o-
proaeb f the division until every man in
battle-line came under the aim of the best
sharp-shooters in the Rebel army, Jn an
instant, almost before the fence itself was
discovered to be an obstacle, a long, thick
line of Aame aad smoke streamed above
the fence and wali, and the moment the first
volley, was ared, sixty pieoea of artillery,
charged with grape and camnister, sent their
contents ' straight through pnr advancing
Ones,; raking them lo front" and upon both
flanks.- ,. 1
Destruction so terrible, never before has
been aeen during this war. ' Gen. French
went into the battle with. 7,000 men two
days after the battle only 1,200 men have
reported to bim. The entire Corps of Cruh,
consisting of the divisions of Howard,
French and Hancock, and whieb, the morn
ing of the battle contained forty regiments,
old and new, amounting to ai least 20,000.
Is now 10,000. ' i ' '
- 1 think ihe official reports will not tary
from this estimate more than (00,, over or
nndeiy.: The losses ia Reynold's eorps of
Franklin's Grand Division', which were at
first supposed to be but 2.000. are to-nipla
coBsidered by some of Franklin's staff offi
cers nesrlv 4,000. '': ' ' t 7 ' ' '
The following, based noon offii ial rcnorta
aa far as made out and upon estimates of
those who have the best facilities for judg
ing is as as near correet'at can be obtained
up to this time: Kiaht Grand Division.
umncr's 2d corps. Couch's ami Howard's
divisions, S80; Jiancook's division, 3,30 ;
French s division, 1,900; Ninth corps, Wil
cox s and bturges divisions. 923; Getty's
division, 400. Total, 7,505.
tenter Grand Division, Hooker, Sth corps;
Butterfield. Humubrev's division. 1.500.
Orifflin's division, 1,300 ; Syke'. 1M. To
tal. 2,950.
LeaUraad Division. Franklin: lit nr
Revnolds, Gibbon' division. 900: lfaS'a
division, 1,100; Doubleday's di virion, 160.
Total, 2,860. i
ath Corps, gmltk's, 100; total Eight Grand
jsivisioD, i.uja: loiai tenter urand Um
sicn, 1,950; toUl Left Grand Division, 3,
050: total 13.065.
It ia believed that these figures will fall
unaev rawer man exceed the omeial report
little they knew fije. fheji
A Blind Black Musician.
The head fell further back, the claws be
gan' to work, and those of the composer' i
harmonies which yon would have chosen a
the purest exponents of passion began to
float through the room. Selections from
Weber, Beethoven, and other whom I have
forgotten, followed. At the close of each
piece, Tom, without waiting for the an
dience, would applaud himself violently,
kicking, pounding bis hands together, turn
ing always to his master for the approving
pat oa the head. Songs, recitations such at
I have described, filled up the first part of
the evening ; then a musician from the an
dience went up on the s'age to put the boy's
powers to the final test Songs and Intri
cate symphonies were given, which it was
most improbable the boy could ever have
heard. He remained standing, utterly mo
tionless, until they were finished, and for a
moment or two after; then, seating himself,
gave them without the break of a note-
Others followed, more difficult, in which he
played the bass accompaniment in a man'
nrr I have described, repeating instantly the
treble. The child looked dull and wearied
during this part of the trial, and his master
perceiving it, announced the exhibition
closed, when the musician (who was a citi-
sen of the town, by the way) drew out a thick
roll of score, which he explained to be a
fantasia of his own composition, never pub
lished. "This it . was impossible the boy
could have heard ; there could be no trick
memory in this, and on this trial," tri-
imphantly, "Tom would fail." The manu
script wa some fourteen cages long va
riations ea aa inanimate 'theme. Mr, Oli
ver refused to submit the boy's brain to so
eruel a test; some of the audience even in
terfered; but the musician insisted, and
took his place. Tom tat beside him, hit
head rolling nervously from side to side,
struck the opening cadence, and then, from
first note to toe last, gave the tecondo
triumphantly. Jumpingup, he fairly ahoved
man from his teat, and proceeded to
the treble with more brilliaacy and
power than its composer. When he struck
the last octave, be sprang up yelling with
aeugnt, jiu t tear uounn.
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George Brown, th editor of
the Toronto Ulobe, baa recently
led to thebjmenial altar the daugh
ter of Mr. Kelson, the famona din
borgh publisher. Thti young lad
aaia to brint; her nnaband a
dowry , of, f 12OjOO0 a nice little
plum.
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l A mich Jf ijcer. 1 he a ua of tlitf ail
gion is, estimated, .pn good.jeujLhorit at
W,O,0A'. yeVthe prpducirtjmiory! 1$
but tome eight miles longj-witp'aravcrage
width of leu than forty red,vThe number
of persons engaged in the oil business, as
mnnufocVurers,; dealers, &c., in the Onited
States, is estimated at 7,500... The amount
of capital invested in the various, branches
of the oil trade it estimated at about $10,
000,000. The present daily; yield of the
Venango oil. wellr is about 4,000 barrels,
and the value of this,. at present prices, is
Zj,000. This, of coarse, is . exclusive of
the daily product of the Oil Creek refineries,
some thirty in uumber, of capacities rang
ing from fifteen to three hundred barrels
per day. ,' , ,
The Turn of Life.
Between the years of forty aud
sixty, a man who has properly
regulated hhmelf may be cousidi
ered In the prime of life. Ilia ma
tured strength of constitution ron-
ders him almost impervious to the
attack: ot ui scaso, and experience
has given soundness to his judg
ment. His mind ta resolute, firm.
and equal; all his functions are in
the highest ojder. He assumes
mastery over bosiness, builds op a
competence on the foundation he
has formed in early manhood, and
passes through a period of lite at
tended by many , gratifications.
Having gone a year or two past
aixty, he arrives at a standstill.
But athwart this is a viaduct, called
the "Tnrn of. Life," which, if
crossed in safety, leads to the valley
tf,"pld Age,V around which the
river winds, and then bevond with.
out a boat or causeway to effect its
passage. The bridge is, however,
constructed of fragile materials,
and it depends upon how it is trod
den, whether it . bend or break.
Gout and apoplexy are also in the
vicinity, to waylay the traveler, and
tnrusi mm lroni: the pass: but let
him gird up his loins and provide
himself with a fitter staff, and he
may trudge in. safety with Der-
feet composure. To quit metaphor:
the "Turn of Life'! is a turn cither
Into a prolonged walk or into the
grave. The system and powers,
having reached their utmost ex-
pan8oin, now begin to either docc
in like flowers at sunset.' or break
down at nee. One injudicious
stimulent, a single excitement, may
force it beyond its strength; whilst
a careful supply of props, and the
withdrawal of all that tends to
force a plant, will sustain it in
beanty and vigor until night has
entirely set in. The Science of
JJIJC.
Lonobvitt. There is nothin? In
the system of nature which; In our
present state of knowledge, ap
pears so unintelligible a9 theseafn
of longevity. It must bo admitted,
indeed, that our knowledge upon
the subject is very imperfect; for
all that is known of domesticated
animals, and the accidental facts
that have been preserved concern-
in? others, tend to the s trance re.
salt that longevity bears no rela
tion either to strength, size, com
plexity of organization, or intel
lectual power. True it is that
birds, which seem to rank higher
than beasts iu the scale of beings
are also much longer lived. Thirty
a great age for a horse; dogs
usually live enly from fourteen to
twenty; but it is known' that .the
goose and hawk exceed a century.
But fish, evidently a lower rank in
creation than either, aro longer
red than birds ; it has been said
some species, and of certain
snakes also, that they grow as long
they live, and, as far as we know,
live till some accident puts an end
their Indefinite term of life.
and the toad ! It cannot indeed
said that the toad lives forever ;
but many of these animals which
were) cased up at the general del
uge, are likely to live till thev are
released by an accident ' in the
ourse of centuries. ' - '
by
Shorten the Back Legs of Your Chairs!
-. If r you, cot pf th e back legs of
your chaifa,?g that the back part
otj tho .seat shall , two .Inches
lower than' the front part, It wW
granny iciibvb uie iiuigue 01 sil
ting, and keep your spine in much
better shape. Ine principal fa
tiguo in eitting comes from your
sliding forward, and thus strain
ing the ligaments in the small of
the back. lbe expedient advised
will obviate this tendency and add
f;rcatly,to the comfort aud health i
ulucss of the sitting poBture.
The front edge of a chair ehonld
not bo moro than fifteen inches
high for the. average man. The
average chair is now seventeen
inches high for . all, which no
amount of slanting in the seat can
make comfortable. Lewises Cym-
nastum.
A MODEL MILL.
The Commissary ot Subsistence
at Washington, advertises for pro
posals to furnish a mill for grind
ing corn and wheat, which must
possess in their combination the
following remarkable) proprieties :
1st. Not to weigh over twenty-
five pounds.
2d. 1 he grinding surfaces to M
of burr stono, grooved chilled iron
or steel, and the general construe
tion of the mill to be analagoul to
that ot a cottee-mui.
3d. Each mill to be capable of
grinding oU pounds of nn flour or
meal per hour, and to be capable
of being worked by one man.
4th. Each mill to be constructed,'
if necessary, that it can be sepa
rated into two parts of equal
weight, so as to be carried by two
men, should tho length ox the
march, lack of transportation, fa
tigue ot tho men, or other cause,
render its carriage too laborious
ior ono man.
5th. Each mill to be capable of
boing attached to a wagon tongue,
branch of tree, or stack of mus
kets. Inventors will submit plans,
specifications, or models of their
mills, or sample of the mill itself,
in the presence of a board of offi
cers. : They will be required to
preseut indisputable evidence of
their mills combining the essential
conditions above enumerated by
causing the mill to bo worked in
the presence of the Baid Board.
It a mill be presented containing
all of the above conditions, and
its costs be sufficiently reasonable
in the opinion of the Department
10 warrant its purchase, a lari
number will very probably
bought for the use of the army.
Would'nt Prat for LiircoLir. -A
New York paper states that the
Rev. Drs. Leacock and Gobdrick,
and .Rev. Mr. Pulton, three Epis-
copal-clergymen.pt the city of .New
Orleans, arrived ' in New York a
few days since in tho Cahawa as
State prisoners, on the way to Fort
Lafayette, by order of Gou. Butler.
They rofused to pray for Mr. Lin
coln. ' Served thdm right. Every
body Bhoold pray1 for Mr. Lincon.
lie surely needs the prayers of all
the devout people of , the county
Jowa. Bugle, ..',,,. j . ...
An intelligent, "trapper" from
one of tho western counties of Min
nesota, states that a "secret soci
ety" has been organized, having its
ramifications all through tho west
ern half of the State, whosa a-
vowedobjoct is to hang or shoot ev
ery Indian suspected of having any
hand in the recent murders.
Should thosejlndians who hate been
convicted be suffered to go unhung
the government then this com
bination isto mete out punishment
whenever it can bo done.
A.'When the price of a thlia is
inquired now.a-days, the phrase U,
"What's the postage on thatf '
Subscribe for the Press.
A KMOTKto Puko- The Paris
correspondent of the "Joral du
Havresaye: Ait experiment of
act electric piano baa been tried jat
the palace of Compel gne. Them-''
ventor, who ia a native of Treves,
gives to the lustra men t great pow
er, and the air played waa repeated
on another llano placed at the
other extremity of the palace. He
pretends that while playing a tune
in Paris, he ean have it repeated
instantaneously at St. Petersburg-
Mr. Beniamin Jones, a farm
er of Nanneech, Wales, lost his
watch about two years ago, and,
to bis surpriae, he found it a few
days ago embedded In the cleft ei
the foot of one of his cows. The
farmer himself vouches for the
truth of the story.
AT tho present monicnt.if a lady
is invited to stay at -Oonipelgne ae.
the Empress Eugenie's gueutfoi-
week, sue must l;ilco with her no-
less than twenty-eight different
toilets, for the. fair guests are ex
pected to dress four times tt day,
and it isn't at all the thing to ap
pear twice in tho same cosJurnc.
TO READERS OF THE
"DEMOCRATIC PRESS."
Sirs, You may not have been at
the trouble to look carefully into-
the real condition in which we are
placed by the'present war, and its
conserunce. You can get a much
better price for whatever you may
have to sell this vear than you
mmld for many year past, and you .
are meretore in a much better con- -dition
to pay for your paper. But .
how is itwith us? Have you thought
on that question? We have fewer
subscribers now than we had last
year. We lost a considerable sum
of money by the Press last year.
We now pay nearly twice aa much
for our food and clothing as we
did last year, and much higher for
paper and ink. How then with a-
smaller circulation, and a much
dearer paper to print ou are we to
live and be honest? We cannot do
it. There will be a meeting held
soon in a central town, of the pro
prietors and conductors of country
weekly papera . to fix a price at
which the various county papers
can be sold in future. A few addi
tional cents paid yearly by each of
our. readers will not hurt them,,
but will be much to us. If the Dem
ocrats of Old Preble, with their po
tatoes, wheat, corn, hay, pork, but
ter and wood at an advanced price
will stand by and let their county
paper suffer for want of a liberal
effective and generous, support, let -them
do so- we cannot ielp it -Our
office booka will show that we
have done our best to serve ourTea
dent for eighteen months at a great
loss to ourselves. We did think:
that after the unexpected' triumph
of the Democratic party at the late
elections, many of them would
come forward nnasked to eubaoribV
to the .Trese. We shall be comnai:
led to raise the price of our paper
in the year 1861. Allfwho will: pay
ns before that time will be chargrjd!
ui um price, namely, fl:o(JJ
The Bollmeyer Fund.
We beg to : inform our readers-
that ailund is behis raised bv din
Domocrats nud Conservatives of the-
North-west, for the purpose of erec
ting a monument .to tho lameutcd
J. F. Bolimeyer, late Editor of ;tho
Dayton Empire, and for the support
of hie family. We hope our friends
win rcspona iroeraiiy to the appeal,, ,
and thu show- that they respet.
the momorv r th man ma k
tied ao nobly for the cause of De
mocracy, even unto death. Subw
scriptione will be received by the
Editor, at the Press Office, and br
Uesartt Grhaere and Campbell. Ex.
tqo, of whom subscription litta jo&y
be obtaint , . ,