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NORWALK, CONN., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1863.
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we‘smn, Bedding and Bedding Ridge, Tucs-
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, ros'r OFFICE nouns.
Item 7.00 A. M. to 8.00 P. M.
, CHARLES OLMSTEAD, P. It.
n. PRITCHARD, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
Residence next door to Ruggles’ Store,
MAIN STREET,
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.
New
cinema: 8. PAINT suns-i
M a i n S t r e e t,
Opposite I. H. Campell’s Confectionery,
MARVIN & PROWITT,
Wholesale and retail Dealers in Hardware,
Cutlery, Paints, Oils, Glass, Paper Hang-
ings, Window Shades, &c.
JAMES e. HARBOUR,
SURGICAL AND MECHANICAL
'D E N '.l'.' I S' '1',
Office at Residence, East Avenue, N orwalk,
Connecticut.
Architecture. .
SIDNEY M. STONE,
. ARCHITECT,
Will furnish i’laus, Specifications, Detail
Drawings, and superintend the erection of
public and rivate buildings. Office lnMar-
leBlock, ‘hupcl—st., New Haven, Ct. tf52
5. .’ E0. F. BELDEN, Norwalk, Conn.,Mau-'
‘ . ufacturer of Tin, Copper, and Sheet
thIVWarc; and dealer in Stoves, Ranges,
Formaces, Cutlery, Brittannia, Wooden and
Willow Ware, Crockery; and a full assort-
ment of House Keeping articles generally.
. c. s. nocnwoon,
Pishionablc Drapei & Tailor,
and
.. _ GENTLEMEN’S FURNISHING
EMPORIUM !
Main-st, N orwalk, Conn.
af.‘ 3; OI-MSTEAD'GLGO.,
’Wholcsale and Retail Dealers in
Q. 14 and 16 Main-st, Norwalk, Conn.-
EA‘NA INSURANcr comrm‘v,
Of Hartford.
Incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual.
Cash Capital $1,000,000
Insure against loss and damage by Fire
on Terms adapted to the hazard,aud
‘ consistent with the laws of
compensation.
COWLES, Sole Agent
For N orwalk and vicinity.
eEoReE R.
m
DENTAL cm.
. N impression having gone abroad that
~ the undersigned has relinquished his
profession, this is to inform his friends and .
the pubhc that he still continues the practice
of his profession at his all stand, foot of
Main-st, Norwalk, Where he will be happy
to tender them his best services. In case of
temporary absencc,a skillful assistant will be
1 )und in attendance at the Office, ready and
willing to serve all that mag call.
A. ILL, D. D. S.
. A. IAGESON a. 330.
N o. l Gazette Building.
‘A l OULD respectfully announce to the
public and their Old customers, that
they have recently made extensive additions
to their stock of goods. We are now prepar-
ed to offer an assortment not to be surpassed
t_u Fairficld Count , in quality or price. We
would call particu ar attention to our stock of
Watches, which is larger than ever before.—
> We have a fine lot of Ladies’ Swiss Watches,
hr gold cases, at prices varying from $20 to
$75, which we can recommend as bein cor-
tect time keepers. Also, Gentlcmcn’s atch-
es, in silver and gold cases, at any price from
5 to $-00. We buy of the best importers in
ew York: and altogether for cash, so that .
our facilities for selling cheap could not be
reatcr. Our stock of Jewelry, Silver and
Plated Wares was never better than at pres-
ent. and comprises all of the latest styles that
are manufactured. A. JACKSON & BRO.
INSUWGI.
VIBE subscriber havin taken the agency
.of‘ the New England 're and Marine In-
surance Co. of Hartford, is prepared to insure
all kinds of property against lossgr damage
by fire on as accommodating terms as any
other Company.
The New England Fire and Marine Insu-
rapplc Company hastblcei} recently established
but apai in capia o 2 a‘
surplus of $6,295.00. $ 00’000 and has
‘ HUBBELL,
JOSEPH W.
for N orwalk and vicinity.
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Agent
Norwalk, Feb. 1st, 1862.
am “ammo—Ti“;
Between Main and Broad Streets NEW
CANAAN, CONN. ’
J, W. EDMONDS, Proprietor.
OYSTERS served in any style, and for sale
lay the Quart or Gallon. Also, all kinds of
rum, UONI-‘ECTIONERY, and other REFREsn- -
molars. Private Supper Rooms for Small
Parties. Also, in connection with, but in
separate apartments, a first-class SuAviNe
AND ”Am DRESSING SALOON.
ReroSeue Oil,
completion of orders.
War Claims.
THE undersigned, through the agency of
reliable friendsln Washington, is pre-
pared to secure Bounty Money, Back Pay,
Pensions, and claims of all kinds against the
Government. Charge for collecting from
two to five per cent. No charge will be
made for advice given in relation to claims,
and no fee charged unless the claim is col-
lected. JOSEPH W. WILSON.
Aug. 22, 1802.
NORWAI-E HOTEL.
NORWALK, CONN.
E. S. Brewster, Proprietor.
THIS House, having been renovated and
improved, is now open for the reception
of permanent or transient boarders, and Will
be kept as a first class Hotel. This Hotel is
very pleasantly situated in one of the most
beautiful towns on Long Island Sound, and
is especially attractive for Summer Board-
ers. ~
The Proprietor would assure the public,
that it will be his constant endeavor to
keep his house in such a style, as will-ensure
satisfaction to all.
Improvements yhotographing. >
Special Notice to our Patrons
WHITNEY dc BECKWITH
Have added a
N E W R 0 0 M ,
To their extensive Gallery, especially for flu-
ishing Photographs.
By the return of MR. WHITNEY from
Washington; (with an assistant) hare doubled
their force of operatives :
By procuring a large and excellent
" CYLINDER PRESS,
can give their Pictures that beautiful
IVOR Y SURFA 0E,
so desirable' with these additions to their
business facilities and their long experience
in this beautiful and useful art in connection
with the‘
First Houses in New York,
they can safely defy competition, not only in
finish and truthfuln but in the speedy
Thankful for past fa-
vors, we hope to merit a continuance of your
.patronag ‘
e.
, Norwalk, J une 1st, 1863.
NEW ‘PURNISHING STORE,
NEAR UPPER END OF MAIN ST.
East Side of the Bridge. .
I HAVE at my Store in Norwalk the largest
assortmentot
Household Furniture
in this county, consisting of Bureaus of all
kinds, Lounges, Sofas, Tetc-a-Tetes, Card
Tables, Marble top pier Tables and Center.
Tables, Wash Stands,
EXTENSION TABLES,
CHAIRS and ROCKERS of all kinds,
Looking Glasses,
Picture Frames, and everything else in the
Furniture line cheap for Cash.
Repaifing,
done promptly and by experienced workmen.
Uiidertakz'ng,
I have on hand a large assortment of
COFFINS, of the best materials, and Will,
furnish shrouds, carriages, hearse, and every-
thing necessary tor the burial of the dead,
cheaper than can be obtained elsewhere. I
have as good a Hearse as there is in the
‘county; and will attend Funerals in neigh:
boring towns, without extra char e.
BERT RA MON D.
Norwalk, Sept. 1st, 1803. 44
’ NORWATET
Steam Sawing and Plaining
M» I I. In .
HE subscriber has fitted up and is now
prepared to execute all orders for Pla-
nin ; Scroll and other Sawing; manufacture
of cars, Sash, Blinds, &c., &c., In the beat
and most expeditious manner, and at satis-
factory prices. Orders by mail promptl at-
tended to. 1y17 TIMOTHY B. FITC .
Giocerics, Flour, Feed, do, ,
GREAT BARGAINS IN
G B O G E E 3 Y .
H. E. SMITH,
No. 4, Phoinix Block, Norwalk,
Having a large stock on hand, will give
Great Bargains in
CROCKERY
GLASS EARTHEN a STONE WARE,
KEROSENE LAMPS, .
WIC .
CHIMNIES,
WOODEN WARE, &c., &c.,&c
fig" Goods delivered to any part of the
town free of charge. '
I. auxin-run a sens,
CABINET MAKERS, do,
RE new prepared to offer to the public
A the largest and best assortment of
Good furniture,
comprising every article usually kept in 0
Furniture Store, ever oficred in Norwalk,
which will be sold
AT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES. '
Our customers and the public generally who
want anything we kee will find it to their
interest to ive us a ca 1. Spring Mattresses
Mattresses, made to order, and old ones made
' over as good as new.
UNDERTAKING, ‘
We keep on hand a very large assortment of
Oofins of every description, furnish shrouds,
sccrfs, ~ carriages, and everything necessary.
for the interment of the dead, and at very
low prices. We are‘j ust completing another
s lendid Hearse, which will give us two
earses equal to any in the State, which we
shall use whenever our services are required,
without extra chaage.
E. QUINTARD & SONS.
N orwalk, March 15th 1862.
Ton SALE.
HE Real Estate formerly owned by
T WILLIAM SEYMOUR, deceased, situated
in this town, _on White Oak Shade .Street,
about4 miles from Norwalk or Darlen, to
wit:—onc
large new Dwelling House,
with out-buildings and 12 or 14 acres of very
superior Land, well adapted to Gardening
purposes. Also a Small House With two
acres of land attached—and 4 acres of land
situated in or near “Hanford’s Swamp,” so
called.
The property will be sold all together or
and on accommodating terms; two thirds of
the purchase money can remain secured on
the premises for a tom) of years, if desired.
For further particulars app] to
, . . STJOHN.
New Canaan, Feb 10th,1863. . . ti?
Notice.
HE Subscriber has the pleasure of inform.
ing the ublic that he has purchased the
interest of benezer Crissey‘in the Boot and
Shoe Business lately carried on at the Store
corner of Wall and Water Street, where he
will continue the business. He trusts that
the liberal patronage given to this Store
while under his contrgl as 1partner and myth-
a or will be continue to an as to no or.
g i) J. N. LOCKIWODD.
Y AUTHORITY—II s. infantiyaild
Rifle Tactics.
L" SUPERIOR ARTICLE for sale 43* flB
MARVIN a PROWI
Received at. scanners.
"of 3 "or 4 ifi‘erent kinds, very cheap. Hair "
in separate parcels as may suit purchasers,
“ Good-bye.”
Good-bye l How lightly we utter the word !
Without a sigh isit spoken or heard ;
“ We shall meet again to-morrow,” we say,
And we pass along on our thoughtless way.
To-morrovv—it comes and it goes again,
And we look for the much-loved face in vain;
Alas! her sweet smile will ne’er greet us now
Death’s shadow has darkened the dear one’s
brow. ' ‘
Good-bye! Oh never again shall we hear
Thattword from the lips that were once so
dear,
Again and again we breathe with a sigh
That last word she uttered,“Good-bye, good-
bye.”
, .
Westport, Nov. 1863.
O»
Earthly and Heavenly Interest.
Ben Adam had a’golden coin one day,
Which he put out at interest with a Jew ;
Year after year awaiting him it lay,
Until the doubled coin two pieces grew,
And these two four—so on till people said,
“ How rich Ben Adam is ‘P” and bowed the
servile head.
H.
Ben Selim had a golden coin that day,
Which to a stranger asking aims he gave»
Who went rejoicing on his unknown way—
Ben Selim died, too poor to own a grave;
But when his soul reached heaven, angels
with pride,
Showed him the wealth to which the coin
multiplied.
a.» ‘
Mr. Beecher In England.
Every loyal American must feel grate
ful to the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher for
the eminent service he has rendered this
country, .by his recent deliverencies in
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Liv-
erpool and London. Each address was
signally a tremendous bombardment of
English prejudice, selfishness and igno‘:
rance. And all are great victories of
truth. These addresses, reported. in full,
as they were, will be read by millions of
the English people, who will learn from
them, for the first, time, perhaps, what is
the origin of our civil war, and what are
the great issues involved. in it. Neither
the malignant sarcasm of the Saturday
Review, nor the pompous dogmatism of
the London Times, can destroy the
wholesome effect of Mr. Beecher’s words
upon the public mind in England.
which he could speak to the intelligence,
the common-sense, the conscience, and the
religious feelings of 1the better portion of
the British population. And he has not
spoken in yaiu. Words such as flamed
from his lips in a truly heroic way, be—
fore doubticg or even partially hostile
audiencies, will penetrate far and wide,
and induce a most beneficent result. Mr.
Beecher among his own countrymen has
hadhitherto many friends and admirers
who did not accord with him in opinion.
But none, except sympathizers with the
rebellion, can now withheld from him the
praise of having deserved well of his
country, of the Church of God, and of
all who love truth and righteousness, be-
cause of his masterly expositions of
American rabbits in Great Britain.-—Ex.
e‘.’o
HE HAD Hui THERE—The following.
squib was perpetrated in a school down
cost. It is too good to be lost. It seems
that a few hours’ exemption from mis-
chief bud greatly enlarged the bump of
treachery in the upper stories of the
, young idea, and they took and smeared
the ballastrade fuom top to bottom with
mud, and when the matter came in he
very naturally laid his hand on it when be
mounted the stairs. He was soon aware
of the mishap, but said nothing about it
till the scholars h'i'id been called in and
taken their seats. When be acquainted
them with the fact, and said he would
give any one five dollars to tell who had
a hand in‘it. Up jumped a little red,
headed urchin, who said :
“ Thir, you theth you’ll give any one
five dollars who’ll tell you who had a
hand in it Y”
it Yes.”
” Now, thir, you’ll not whip» me, will
you thir 7"
u N0.”
” Well, thirwnow you wont whip mo
thir ?”
“ You young scamp, I’ll lick you if
you don’t tell pretty soon I”
“ Thir, you—ob, thir, I don’t like to.”
“ Go on, or I’ll skin you alive l”
“ Well, thir, you had a hand it, you
did, thir!” . .
The master gave in and forked over
five dollars.
WWW—~—
ONE or THE Bums—The Cincinnati
Commercial tells the following good sto-
ry: .. . ,
A young man in the town of W—,
in Portland County, Ohio, lately visited
Cleveland, accompanied by a fair dam-
sel. The young man having never been
from “hum” was somewhat unaccustomed
to the “usages of the world.” He put
up at the Weddell, and ordered dinner,
which, in due time being announced, the
young gallant boldly walked in too sump-
tuousrepastdeaviug the young lady alone
in the sitting room. After partaking of
a meal that astonished his stomach, he
returned to his companion—who was
rather astonished at this proceeding-—
and remarked: »
“The dinner was darned good, why
did’t you buy some!” .
The above is an actual fact which we
can vouch for. The lady was sixteen
l.
hours without cythlls to out;
i :2 1' “fay-um:fifiwifiwqumfi'cavfivrmirs:w my-s. .,
ascended easily-t0 the great height frfl
Ignorance at the South.
The indispensableuess of general edu-
cation to a Republic has been ever the
standing theme of American orators.
Hardly could it have been conceived
possible that the truth should have been
enforced in America itself, so soon, and
so sadly. Of “Southern ignorance” we
had, indeed, long and often board. This
was set forth, in ‘ startling figures, in the
vast numbered officially, and, of course,
authentically reported. as “unable to
read or write.” This was bad enough,
and uupromising enough. What could
be expected of a land, or a section,
whose whole society was permeated with
ignorance and the degrading vices which
always go in its train?
It has been reserved for us, however,
in this and war, to witness a yet more
stupendous and alarming revelation of
the “ignorance of the South,” even
among the classes cglled cultivated and
respectable—the planters and the profes-
sional men of the South. War has
i opened to us, as Peace could not do, the
inner sanctuaries and recesses of home-
life at the South. The private corres-
pondence of individuals and families—
tbc truest revelation of character—has
been exposed to iew. Our bravo armies
of the North have now an inside view of
the Southern chivalry and civilization,
and will come back wiser than they
went in. The result will fully enough
explain, what has been so unaccountable,
how a few designing, uupriucipledleaders.
could rush millions into a precipitate and,r
uupriucipled war of treason, violence and
impiety against the “best. Government
ever known;" when the great mass of its
people, from its base to its top-stone, Was
poisoned and cmasculated of all intelli-
gent conceptions of justice, right and
true houor, by total ignorance, or a mis-
erable pretence of education, but little
better—nay, worse, than ignorance, when
clothed with the iniquitous power of the
master over his slaves.
Since this war commenced, many hun-
dreds of “Southern letters” have come
into our possession. A tithe of them;
from persons in high places, have been
generally respectable in grammar and.
orthography; but the remaining nine:
tenths have been the miserable and lame
attempts at writing of a N ortheru school-
boy uot yet in the teens. We have, this
moment, before us the correspondence of
the friends and family of a Southern phy-
sician, containing letters from his own
wife, relations in college, and others of
evidently respectable position, whose bad
spelling, ungramiuatical expressions, and,
use of the most wretched vulgarisms of
language, are beyond all parallel that we
have ever known in Northern society.
The displays, too, of ignorance, pridc’s
pettiucss of nature, with the absence of
lofty or inspiring sentiments, are what
might be expected from a people born to
wield the lush of authority over their
born inferiors, and who feel no need of an
essential and thorough culture, when os-
tentation takes the place of genuiuencss,
and it is enough to shine Saddest of
all is the impression we have that the
Southern women -— the inspirers and-
shapcrs of humanity—show themselves
utterly uufittod to fill their place, in
rearing the men of Freedom, the staunch
men of Right, of everything worthy the
name of a Republic.
The truth is—aud we may as well see
and acknowledge it now, as ever—the
fore-doomed peril of a Republic, without
a popular and general enlightenment, is
now upon this country. The seeds of
corrupting ignorance, long and widely
spread at the South, do now bearing
their bitter and fatal fruits. The one
glaring and atrocious wrong—SLAVERY—
parent of all wrongs and calamities—
breediug every inhumanity, making re-
spectable everything contemptible and
really base—while it lives and while it
thrives, must ever carry with it the icon-
rable and deadly evils which must be
fatal, one day, to any nation. We have
but to lay the axe at the very root of all
our woe. America’s Union, and even
the very existence of Southern nation-
ality, can have no security, nor can the
blessing of God or man rest on either,
until the normal conditions of social pu-
rity, virtue and intelligence are restored
over the length and breadth of our land.
Let us obey His mandate, who said,
“Let there be light!” and the resplendent
glory of an enlightened humanity shall
shine on, when the freedom of all is so-
oured—Ex. '
N.
fi-Tbe Portland (1(a) Argus says
that Mr. Thomas S. Lang, of North
Vasselboro, the noted stock-breeder, has
disposed of his horse Cloudman to Mr.
Bonner, of the New York Ledger, for
the snug little sum of twenty thousand
dollars. It is stated that Cloudmau has
made the best half-time on record, viz:
At Watcrvillc Course, a few days ago,
in 1:10; and that, in a mile stretch, the
same animal can cross the final score,
. “Very far down among the twenties.”
. —.—40-‘.»~—~——
"‘Thc following hit at Southern
army contractors appears in the Chatta-
nooga Rebel. It will answer formore
northern latitudes:
To rob the country two contractors come,
One cheats in core, the other cheats in rum.
Which is the greatest, if you can. explain,
‘LA rogue in gird, orathiefinyrafu!”
Jr.
What the Style of Walking
Indicates.
Professor Fowler says that those whose
motions are awkward, yet easy, possess
much efficiency and positiveuess of char-
acter, yet lack polish; and just in pro-
portion as they become refined in mind,
will their mode of carriage be corres-
pondingly altered. A short and quick
step produces a brisk and active, but
also a contracted mind; whereas those
who take long step generally have long
heads; yet, if their steps be slow, they
will make comparativeiy little progress,
while those whose step is long and quick,
will accomplish proportionately much,
and pass most of their competitors on
the highway of life. Their heads and
plans, too, will partake of the same. far-
rcachiug character evinced in their car-
riage. Those who slufi' or draw their
heels, with a springing, bounding step,
abound in mental snap and spring. Those,
whose walk is miucing, afi'ectsd and artis
ficial, rarely, if ever, accomplish much;
whereas those who walk carelessly, that
is, naturally, are just what they appear
to be, and put on nothing for outside
show. Those who, in walking, roll from
side to side, luck directness of character,
and aids every way, according to circum-
stances; whercas those who take a bee-
line, that is, whose body moves neither
to the right nor left, but straight for-
ward, have, a corresponding directness
of purpose, and oneness of character.
Those also. who teeter up and down
.when" they, walk, rising an inch or two.
fievcry step, will have many correspond;
ing ups and downs in life because of their
irregularity of character and feeling.
Those, too, who make a great ado in
walking will make much needless parade
in everything else, and hence spend a
great amount of useless steam in all they
undertake, yet accomplish little; whereas
those who walk cas‘ily, or expand little
strength in walking, will accomplish
great results with a little strength, both
mentally and physically. In short, every
individual has his own peculiar mode of
moving, which accords with his mental
character; so that so. far as you can see
such mode, you can decipher such out-
lines of character.
0‘.-.
_ . WouAN A Cmmra—If God were to
take the sun and moon and stars out of
the heavens, the chances of husbandry
would be what, if God were to take
woman out of life, would be the chances
for refinement and civilization. Woman
carries civilization in her heart. It
springs from her. Her power and influ-
ence mark the civilization of any country-
A man that lives in a community where
he has the privilege of a woman’s society,
and is subject to woman’s influence, ll
almost of necessity refined more than he
is aware of; and when men are removed
from the genial influence of virtuous wo-
manhood, the very best degenerate, or
feel the deprivation, There is something
wanting in the air when you get west of
the Allegheny mountains on a sultry day
of summer. The air east of the mountain
is supplied with a sort of pabulum from
the salt water of the ocean, by which one
is sustained in the sultriest days of mid-
summer. Now, what this .salt is to the
air, that is woman’s influence to the vir-
toe of a community. You breathe it
without knowing it.‘ All you know is
that you are made stronger and better.
And a man is not half a .man unless a
woman helps him to bel One of the
mischiefs of camp life is that women are
removed from it. The men may not
know what it is that lets them down to
a lower state of feeling, or what that
subtle influence was that kept them up to
a higher state of refinement, but it is the
absence of woman in the one case, as it
was the presence of woman in the other.
Woman is a light which God has not be-
fore man to show him which way to go,
and blessed is he who has sense enough
to follow its—H. W Beecher.
W
A New WAY TO GET A Winn—The
Cleveland Herald says that a man from
Brocksvills stepped into the Infirmary of
that city last Sunday, and said he wanted
a wife. The superintendent said he was
staggered at so novel an application, but
fiu‘ally as the fellow appeared very
much in earnest, and begged him to
“trot out his marriageuble stock,” asked
the women in the institution what they
thought of it? All declined to consider
0 question “popped” in that unreasonable
manner, but one, who had rather an-
pleasant antecedents. She was “trotted”
out, and the fellow thus addressed her:
“I’ve got seven acres of land out here in
Erecksville, five cows, 0 fat hog, and a
daughter, who will be married on Mon-
day. I don’t want to lie to you, so I
tell you I shall give one cow to my
daughter, but I have a heifer about
ready to come in, and then you will have
five cows all the some. All I want is
three meals a day, cooked, but you can
out between meals if you are hungry, if
three meals a day ain’t enough. Now, if
you want to hitch up, say so.” The
“blushing fair ous”—tbat is, she would
have blushed if the could—“said so," and
Smith left them to settle the details of
this novel engagement. The happy twain
' promised to be back early next morning
with a license. And he kept his word.
The marriage no strangelymgot up,” was.
- i duly and legal. conical.
»‘mmxgsflngmmw:rawp z”,
I The Bachelor and Baby.
“What shall I do?” and the old bache-
perfoct'rage of doubt, looking first at the
napping babe in the little window cradle,
and then at the busy French clock on the
mantle shelf.
the little, two-listed, largo lunged . ne-
phew of mine is about waking, and it
wants one whole hour of the time which
its mother appointed for her return.
_Whewl I actually-west thinking about
it. What can I do with it—how can I
hold it, or trot it, or do anything else
with it?” -
At this juncture a faint wail fromEthc
baby receptable brought bachelorJoscph
tohis tabs. With an entry and alacrity
that would not illy become a husband
and baby tender, be commenced rocking
the; cradle, setting the indignant baby
into a perfect tremor of kicks and squalls.
Backwards and forwards, from one side
of the pillow to the other, therouud red
face rolled; the infant fists-were clenched
with a force that purpled them; while
_from the white plump throatcamc a _cry
that set the bachelor. wild with fear.
Again Joe lookcdia‘t the clock.
“What in the deuce can I do?” be ex-
claimed, vicwing, wofully, the little in-
flamed face before him.
He sat down in a big chair before baby
—apreld .2 a a double ;Mequntfovcr- his
knees, and with a: look: oft-terror upon his
face, proceeded to' take baby from its
resting place. He drew the young hope-
ful into his lap, just as a very-neatiold
lady would pickup a pocket handkerchief,
with his thumb and fingers. _A fresh yell
from the rosy mouth of the baby has the
only expression of thanks, as he, com-
menced the never cutof-fashion baby
trot.
“It must be that something is pricking
him. Shoo! shool” said Joe, commencing
a search. for the aggravating pin that
was driving the child into such a rage.
But no piu was to .be found, and he made
an attempt to turn baby over, but oh!
the little eel-like form fell out of his lap
to the floor, sending forth a cry that was
louder, clearer, deadlier than before.”
“Lord save me! I’ve broken its neck,”
was the exclamation ashe picked baby
up, and in the agony of despair tried to
quiet him. A thought struck Joe. He
saw a basque hanging against the wall of
the adjoining bedroom, and with a smile
of delight upon his countenance, he went
for it. Sure enough, there it was, stuf-
fing, boddice and all! areal monument of
feminine ingenuity. He was wild with
joy. He pinned 'it over his coat, and
fastened the sleeves behind ,him. He tuck.
baby and laid its head against the false
breast work.
“Shades of Southern plantations and
cotton factories l” exclaimed J 00, as baby
rooted its uose into it about a mile, then
cuddled for a snooze. Then the bachelor
commenced singing: ‘
Women are all a fleeting show,
For man’s delusion given,
When filled with bran and stuffed with tow,
They look quite well—”
. A tap upon the door stopped Joe in
the midst of his suggestive song, and be«
fore he had time to disarray himself, the
door was opened, and a roguish, laugh-
ing pair of eyes, peered in upon him.
“Your sister is not at home, is she?”
chirrupped the visitor.
“No, ma’am,” stammered Joe, grow-
ing very red in the face; “and I have
turned nurse.”
Miss Hayes laughed; offered to relieve
him of his charge, which he willingly
consented to, sitting near by the while,
intently watching her. She managed
baby to a charm, without the basque,
and Joe was captivated. . _
Joseph Phelps married Fanny Hayes
--upou my word, he did.
~.»o——-
A Pear INTo Four Swen—A daring
fact was performed by a party of Union
soldiers, who desired a peep at the inte~
rior of Fort Sumter, on the night of the
2d inst. Capt. Ferris, of the Independ-
eut Battalion, with a small boat’s crew,
rowed steadily up to the foot of the
slope which the debris makes upon the
leeward face of the fort, where they had
an opportunity to peep inside. Being
discovered, however, they were received
with a volley of mutketry, and made a
precipitate retreat to their boat, fortn-
uately without losing amau. The fort is
a more rain, but the small garrison inside
the broken walls, and dismantled guns,
the shattered easements, and debris of
what once formed that proud fortification
still hold their ground maufully, although
exposed to the constant fire of our batte-
ries and monitors.
A correspondent of the New York
Times, says: “A rebel who recently dc-
serted from Sumter, says it is occupied
during the day by 25 men. From 9 at
night to 4 in the morning the force is in-
creased to 500. On one Occasion last
week a single shot killed and wounded 11
of the 25."
M
'l‘us Beams Farm: on our Cour.—
The .St. Pctersburg‘ correspondent of the
New York Herald, in a letter dated 0c-
tobcr 13, states that the movement 0
the Russian war vessels to New York
was decided on after consultation he-
twceu Gortschakoff and Mr. 019’. the
limited- Siatcs Minister to Russia, and
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v.1... ’r'fi-T‘ ,.. .-.,. a ~r.~-. ..,.,.._-M~‘1\fi:!5 Mag '7. ’ ~ _
lor stamped about the sitting room in a‘
“As sure as my name is Joseph Phelps,i
treat it to sugar what 'd’ye call em, or 'Q
easily bear with the silk and gold upon
'her to a Fourth of July, he would have
1' down the similarity of the first syllable
regarded as a political event of inn-J
' lmn". > 1
T
What lsaSermont. *
There are two ways of regarding a
sermon; either as a human composition
or a divine message. If we look upon it
entirely as the first, and require our clero
gymeu to finish it with their utmost care
and learning, for our better delight,
whether of car or intellect, we shall nec-
essarily be led to expect much formality
and stuteliness in its delivery, and to
think that all is not well if the pulpit has
not a golden fringe round it, and if the
semen be‘ not fairly written in a black
book, to be smoothed upOu a cushion in a
jestic manner before beginning. All
this we shall duly come to expect; but.
we shall, at the same time, consider the
treatise thus prepared as something to
which it is our duty to listenwithout
restlessness for half auihour or three-
quarters, but which, when that duty has
been decorously performed, we, may:
deuce of having another whenever itshall
be necessary. ' ‘ '
But if once we begin to regard the.
preacher, whatever his faults, as a man
sent with a message to us which is a mat-
ter of~life and death, whether we hear or
refuse; if we look upon him‘ as set in
ruin, and having allowed him but an;
hour or two in the seven days to speak
to be to him, a small vantage on 'thej
side of God after his flock have been ex-
posed for‘six days together to the full
weight of the world’s temptations, and he
has been forced to watch the them and
the thistle springing in their hearts, and
to see what wheat had been scattered
there, snatched from the wayside by this
wild bird and the other, and at last,
when, breathless and weary with the
week’s labor, they give him this interval
cf imperfect and languid hearing, be has
but thirty minutes to get at the separate
hearts of a thousand men, to convince
them of their weaknesses, to shame them
from all their sins, to worn them of all .
their dangers, to try by this way and,
that to stir the hard fastening of those
doors where the Master himself has stood
and knocked, and yet none has opened,
and to call at the openings of those dark
streets where wisdom herself has stretched
forth her hands, and no man regarded;
thirty minutes to raise the dead iu—let.
us but once understand and feel all this,
and we shall look with changed eyes.
upon that frippery of gay furniture about
the place from which the message of
judgment must be delivered, which either
breathes upon the bones that theymay
live, or if ineffectual, remains recorded in
condemnation, perhaps, against the ut-
terer and listener alike, but assuredly
against one of them. We shall not so
the seat of judgment, nor with ornament
of oratory in the mouth of the messenger;
we shall wish that his words may be
simple, even when they are sweetest, and ‘
the place where he speak: like a marble
rock in the desert, about which the
people have gathered in their thirst.—
Jolm Ruskin.
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WHAT HE lllGE’l' HAVE BEER—J. G.
Holland, of the Springfield Republican,
has been rusticatiug in Vermont, looking
around among the farmers, and he writes
to that paper as follows:
"Imagine your currespoudeut imagin-
ing the life he might have led, and came
very near loading, for that matter, among
the bills as a farmer. He Would. have
grown stalwart and strong, worked on
the farm summers, and gone out haying
for fifteen days in ‘ July, and taking for
pay the iron work and running gear of a.
wagon. At two and twenty, or there-
abonts, he would have begun to pay at
teutiou to a girl with a father worth two'
thousand dollars, and a spit curl on her
forehead, a girl who always went to
singing school, and ‘sat in the seats,’ and
sung without Opening her mouth—a dur-
nation pretty girl any way.
“Well, after seeing her home from
singing school one or two years, taking
married her and settled down. Years
would pass away, and that girl with the
spit curl would have had eleven children
-—just as sure as you live-seven boys
and four girls. We would have had a
hard time bringing them up, but they
'would soon be able to do the milking,
and help their mother washing days, and
(I, getting independent at last, and feeling
a little stifi' in the joints, should be elect-
ed a member of the Legislature, having
been assessor and school committee for 5
years. In the evening of my days, with
my pipe in my- mouth, thirteen barrels of
cider in the cellar, and my newspaper in
my hands, I should sit and look over the
markets, through a pair of gold mounted
spectacles, and wonder why such a
strange, silly piece as this should be pub-
lished.” ‘
M...»
The following ban not is related of
Longfellow, the poet. Young Mr. Long-
wortb, of Cincinnati, being introduced to
'him in Boston, some one present remark-
‘of the two names. “Yes,” said the poet,
“but in this case I fear Pope’s line will
apply: ,
“ Worth makes the man, and want of it the
L
dismiss from our minds, in happy oonfi-' i
to them; if we make some endeavor to ;
conceive how precious these hours ought: gobstruct “'9 PM?“ of‘tlle Gospel, defile
ADVERTISEMENT or All Homer-Rul-
SELLER.—Fricnds:aud Neighbors: Hav—
iug .just opened a commodious shop for
the-sale of “liquid fire,” I embrace'tkh
early opportunity of informing you that
on Saturday nexth shall commence-the
business of making :druukards, pauper:
and beggars, for the sober and respecta-
ble part of the community to support; 35,,
I shall deal in "familiar spiritsl’lliw'liitil
will excite men to deeds. of riot, robbery,
and blood, and in so doingdininuh’m
comforts, augment the expense slider.
danger the welfare of the commuuity. I
will. - undertake . at short notice, for '16
_mll sum, aud'with great cxpeditiou';’tc
prepare victims for the asylum, the pool-
bouses, tho prisons‘au'd the gallows. '
I will furnish an articlef'which will
increase the number _of fatal accidents,
multiply the number. of distressing die-
oases, and render those that eradicated
incurable. ‘ '
_ I shall deal in drugs, which will
do-
prive some of life‘, many of reason, most
of property, and all of peace—whichwill
cause fathemto be fiends, wivesrwidowl,
children orphans, and all mendicuuts. 31"
will cause the rising generation to grow
lap in iguoranco,. and proves burden and
charge over many spirits in danger of. .
nuisance to the nation. _' I will cause mo-
fthers'to forget their. suckling infants, and
virgins their priceless innoceuc’é. {-1
I will corrupt the ministers of "religion,
31’" purity of thc‘Church,“audcauvo tu-
époral, spiritual and eteihalfiefitltgg M
if any should be so impartinonkae'itok'lk
why-I , have the; audacity assay-iii
accumulated misery upon. a «unpara-i
gtiv‘elyhappy people, my honest reply 6,
diam. , ' .
The spirit-trade is lucrative, and“
g‘professiug’: Christians give it-‘tlieir’chear-
ful countenance. I have a llcsuso,1abd.,
if I do not bring these evils uponzyOu,
somebody elsewill. I livoiu-a loud“:
liberty. I have purchased the right? to“
demolish the character, destroy the?
health, shorten the lives, and ruin the}
souls of those who choose" to honor me
with their custom} I pledge myself: to:
do all that I have herein prom“
Those who wish any of the above spe-
cified evils brought upon themselve'ufotf
their dearest friends are requested to
meet me at my BAR, where I will, for“
a few cents, furnish them with the certain.
means of doing so.
0"...
MARRIAGE—From a lecture delivered
by Bulwer, we extract a few passages: :
« The law that binds the one man to the:
one woman, eloquently exclaimed the
lecturer, is so indelibly written by “illfiki
that wherever it is violated; in the you;
ral system, the human raceis fouudc’to
deteriorate in mind and form. The eu- -
.uobling influences of woman oeate;t_ha
wife is a companion—a huhdredfim,
are but a hundred slaves. Nor isthln
all; unless man look. tO-womau as aztr'ua-
snrc to be wooed and won—her smile
the charm of his existence—her 8111.10
heart the range of his desires—that?”
which deserves the name of love cannot
exist, it is struck out of the healthful
system of society. Now, if there but:
’ passion in the human breast wraith-iii
most to lift us out of egotism and self-—
. which most teaches us to live in another
—which purifies and warms the whole
mortal being—it is love, as we Of a.“
North hold it and cherish it. For even--
i when the fair spring of youth has posed,
and when the active life is employed in
such grave pursuits, that the love of its
early life seem to him like a dream of
romance, still that love, having, one.€
lifted him out of egotism and sympathy,“
does but pass into new forms and devel-
opment—it has unlocked his heart to,
charity and benevolence—it gives a Ililllt'.
to his home: it rises up in the eyes ell-hilt?
t f»
children—from his hearth it circul _‘
insensibly on, to the laws which pro ”if ..
the hearth, to the native land um;
spreads around it. Thus, in theuuifonci
history of- the. world, we discover all:
wherever love is created, as it worm-pi"
sanctioned by that equality between lb...
sexes which the permanent and; holy
union of one heart with another, pm-
claims, there, too, patriotism, liberty— ‘9
the manly and the gentle vii-take“
find their place; and wherever, on“
contrary polygamy is practised, and Lia‘s,
disappears in the gran satiety of Alibi
senses, there we find neither reepoctfiw
humanity, nor reverence for. bouquets.
affection for the natal soil. Andmfi.
reason why Greece so contrasted infill _
that dignifiel our nature, the olemiuitfi“
and dissolute character of the East which
iit overthrew, is, that Greecew‘a‘sftli‘oq
Icarliest civilized country in which,‘ou' fig,
borders of {those great monarchies,lmg_:5
man and one woman-and m. . ‘3
thoughtful father of a home, not up”
wanton lord of a somglio. '
WA gentleman went with a f
to the opera in New York, and arri M;
shun;
waiting in the crowd, standing boldly 0}!
friend, be amused himself by picking: ’1
pockets of the latter, abstractifigfo a,
from a handkerchief. Hardly hadffir
shoulder, and on turninground he, Iawii
gentlem only-looking individualwk'o Mi. .
.cd‘ him his sand-box, with a; polite hm.
observing that he nevou_k.nowllls|!»~‘='sip *
felon);
l sorry be had made such a mistake."
m’l‘Q’W‘liffimV'W- ‘6. 1;“ er: .:._.....- .r-.. “r ’i “'9.
riage was the sacred tic betweenouom «
s .
before the doors were open. Wink-'3 .
done I0 when he was tapped ouflthil: '
rated on a brother pmfemioual, and '- ‘ If
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