sir-M ‘
IIOJ Ware; and dealer in Stoves, Ranges,
5. E. OEMSTEAD 6!. CO.,
as
good a isortmcnt of foreign and domes—-
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l’ UBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING BY
A. H. BYINGTON 8L CO.,
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NORWALK, CONN., TUESDAY, APRIL 18, lead.
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.- VOLUME XLVIII--NUMB.ER 16.
NORWAEE GAZETTE.
OFFICE IN GAZETTE BUILDING.
A.E.BYINGTON & co.
i. ll. BYING'I‘ON, J. B. ELLs, G. N. ELLs.
Advertising Rates.
the Square, one insertion, $1 00
H two insertions, 1 25
“ three insertions, 1 59
H one month, 1 To
” two months, 3 00
“ , three months, 4 00
” six months, 7 00
-‘ one year—with paper 15 00
’l‘vo S uares, one year—with paper, 25 00
latch a ditional Square, per year, 00
Die half column, one year, 3% 38
One Column, one year, .
Ft‘tcen lines, or 100 words,make a square. Fraction-
\l parts of a square charged for as a whole.
Yearly advertisements payable 1st of January eruly.
1 early advertisers restricted to the business contem-
dated at the time of contract.
B. These terms will be inflexrbly adhered mg
Juana mamas,
’-\, ‘_.x_.\ .
hr. 3. rownnn BIRCH,
‘2 Physician and Surgeon,
Residence Levi Clark’s opposite the Congre-
gational Church. Office at the Drug Store
of E. Blackman, No. 11 Main Street, Nor-
walk. 32
m. .r. s. moonx,
Has resumed the practice of Medicine
and offers his professional services to
the public.
Oificeut the residence of Mr. Cole,
Opposite the Methodist Church, South
Norwalk.
Office hours, 12 .‘d to 2 P. M., and 7 to
8 P. M. tf44
('4 E0. F. BELDEN, Norwalk, Conn.,Man-‘
T ufacturer of Tin, Copper, and Sheet
Furnaces, Cutlery, Brittannia, Wooden and
Willow Ware, Crockery; and a full assort-
ment of House Keeping articles generally.
a. s. LOCRWOOD,
Fashionable Draper & Tailor,
and g _
GENTLEMEN’S FURNISHING
EMPORIUM i
Main-st, Norwalk, Conn.
Wholesaleand Retail Dealers in
Groceries, Flour, Feed, do,
14 and 16 Main-st, Norwalki'Conn.
ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY,
Of Hartford.
Incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $8,128,820
Insure against loss and damage by Fire,
on Terms adapted to the hazard,and
consistent with the laws of
compensation.
GEORGE R. COWLES, Sole Agent
lv3 For Norwalk and vicinity
Business Change !
WATERBURY &. DUNCAN,
OULD announce to the public that
they have purchased the Carriage Ma-
king Business formerly condueted by Mr.
Edson Beers, and connected it with their
Blacksmith Shop, making one complete cs~
tablishment. They are now prepared to exe-
cute in the best manner, and with greater
dispatch than ever before, anything in the
line of
Carriage Making and Blacksmithing.
Carriages made to Order, and Painting,
Trimming, Repairing, &c., done by experi-
enced workmen, with dispatch.
WGOOd Carriage t1mber taken in ex-
change for work.
Norwalk, Nov. 23d, ’63. M47
A. JACKSON 0L BRO.
N o, 1 Gazette Building.
“7 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
in Faarfield County, in quality or price. We
would call particular attention to our stock of
Watches, which is lar er than eVer before.—
We have a fine lot of adies’ Swiss Watches,
in gold cases, at prices varying from $20 to
$75, which we can recommend as bein r cor-
rect time keepers. Also, Gentleman’s I atch-
eg, in silver and gold cases, at any price fi‘om
-" to -in. We buy of the best importers in
cw ork, and altOgether for cash, so that
our fuel. ties for selling cheap could not be
reater. Our stock of Jewelry, Silver and
latcd Wares was never better than at pres-
ent. and com prises all 01 the latest styles that
s "e manufactured. A. JACKSON & BRO.
Groceries Cheaper than ever
I'OR CASE!
THE subscriber would inform the public
generally, that he still continues to sell
the best of Groceries, Provisions, etc, at his
old stand, N0. 4 Skiddy’s Block, as "Cheap as -
the cheapest. He offers great inducements
to cash buyers, as he has as large an assort-
ment of groceries of the best qualities as can
he found at any store in the country. He
would invite the special attention of all to his
stock of ,
COFFEES, TEAS AND SUGARS,
which are of the very best quality, and will
be sold cheap. The public are invited to call
and examine and judge for themselves
A. MOREHOE‘SE.
IMPORTED CUTEERY,
And Silver-Plated Ware.
'l‘HE Subscri..cr, while in England, recent-
ly, made arrangements with the Shef-
ficd Manufacturers for the sale of Thomas
Harrison’s celebrated Cutlery, and has now
on exhibition and sale at his Store opposite
the Post Office, a large, and one of the most.
complete assortments of Sheffield Cutlery
ever offered in this Country, including Car-
ving Knives and Forks; Bread Knives;
Butter KniVes; Table Knives and Forks;
Pocket Knives of every description, inclu-
ding many curious styles ; Scissors, &c., &c.
Also. just received, an assortment of beau-
tilol Silver-Plated Ware, made by a
new patented process, by the same House
and is the first let imported into this coun:
try. Call and examine for yourselves.
tl‘46 JOSEPH SHEPHERD.
, Laughing Gas
11.“ RIDGEEIEED.
Drs- Kendall dz Paddock
Extract teeth entirely without pain or injury
to be patient, by the aid of
NITRO US OXIDE GAS.
Gr. 8: G. M. IZEIolmet-fg~
DEALERS IN
Groceries, ’
Flour, .
Provision, ac,
Main Street, ‘
14 Norwalk, Conn
JAMES SHERWOOD,
REAL ESTATE AGENT,
OFFICE IN
E. M. 65 J- T. Prowitt’s
Hardware Store, SHERWOOD‘S BLOCK,
Main street,
N ORWALK, CONN.
Real Estate bought and sold
on the most favorable terms. 1y1
MORE THAN FIFTY HOUSES, LOTS
AND FARMS FOR SALE.
. J. FERRIS,
REAL ESTATE AGENT,
Commercial Broker
AND
Conveyancer of Deeds.
45 ESTATES
OR SALE from 1-2 to 100 hundred acres
each, price, from $800 to $100,000, with
buildings thereon,Stores and buildings to let,
Rents collected. Office in Tolles‘ & Ely’s
Drug Store,South Norwalk. Notice for sur-
veying, may be left at the Gazette Office.
n. owns-nan a soars,
CABINET MAKERS, & c
RE new prepared to offer to the public
the largest and best assortment Of
Good Eurmture,
comprising every article usually kept in a
Furniture Store, ever offered in Norwalk,
which will be sold -
AT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES.
Our customers and the public generally who
want anything we keep, will find it to their
interest to give us a call. Spring Mattresses
of 3 or 4 different kinds, very cheap. Hair
Mattresses, made to order, and old ones made
over as good as new.
UNDERTAKING,
We keep on hand a very large assortment of
Oofiins of every description, furnish shrouds,
scarfs, carriages, and everything necessary
for the interment of the dead, and at very
low prices. We are just completing another
splendid Hearse, which will give us two
Hearses equal to any in the State, which we
sh‘alluse whenever our services are required,
without extra chaage.
E. QUINTARD do SONS.
N orwalk, March 15th 1862. .
NEW rusmsamc STORE,
NEAR UPPER END OF MAIN ST.
East Side of theéBrz'dge.
HAVE at my Store in Norwalk the largest
assortment ct
Household Furniture
in this county, consisting of Bureaus of all
kinds, Lounges, Sofas, Tete-a-Tetcs, 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.
Repairing,
done promptly and by experienced workmen.
Undertaking,
I have on hand a large assortment of
COFFINS, of the best materials, and will
furnish shrouds, carriages, hearse, and every-
thing necessary for the burial of the dead,
cheaper than can be obtained elsewhere. I
have as good a Hearse as there 18 m the
county; and will attend Funerals in neigh-
boring towns, without extra charge.
ELBERT RAYMOND.
Norwalk, Sept. 1st, 1863. . 44
STOVES, HEATERS, RAN GES,
' VER FORTY VARIETIES and sizes of
Cooking Stoves and Ranwes; over thir-
ty varieties and sizes of Par or and Oflice
Stoves, not excelled in heauty of design, per-
fection of operation, or varietyihy any Stove
in the State. Manufactures Tin, Sheet, Iron
and Copper Wares, deals in J a pan, Brittan-
ia, Crockery, Wooden, and 1Silver Plated
Wares, Stove Blocking, Coal Hods, Shovels
and Riddles, Brass Kettles, sausage Cutters,
Matts, Brooms, Bells Fire Place Grates, Sad
Irons, Sheet Lead, Lead Pipe, Fruit Jars,
Fluid and Coal Oil Lamps, Stove Castings,
in fact, all that constitutes a well filled Kitch-
_ en Furnishing Store. Books, describing prin
ciple and management of Steve, free. Lar
gest assortment of Pumps 1n the State. Call
at F. H. NASH’S,
1V4 South Norwalk,Ct.
Each Pay and Penstons.
- OSEPH W. WILSON is an agent for
collecting Back Pay, Bounty and Pen-
sions and is so connected with the Depart-
ment at Washington that he can collectiliese
more speedily than any other in this Vlcml-
ty. tl‘24
Bammer‘s Champagne Ale.
HE attention of the public is solicited to
the superior quality of
HAMMERS
Fresh Brewed Champagne Ale.
This Ale is brewed fresh at all seasons of the
year, and its keeping quality, especially of
that brewed during the most excessive hot
weather, is guaranteed for any length of time.
For sale in Barrels and half-Barrels, at
Selleck’s Packet Office, Norwalk.
J E HIEL . GRUMMAN,
Agent for the sale of Hammer’s Champagne
Ale, Wilton, Conn. .2
Notice.
HE Subscriber has the pleasure of inform-
ing the public that he has purchased the
interest of Ebenezer Crissey in the Boot and
Shoe Business lately carried chat 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 control as partner and man-
ager, will be continued to him as proprietor.
‘ 9 J. N. LOCKWOOD.
WILLIAM B. SWAN,
SADDLER &. HARNESS MAKER,
ADJOINING Danbury and Norwalk R.
. R. Depot, Norwalk, Conn., keeps con-
stantly on hand and will make to order eve-
ry description of _
Harnessfilcrse Furniture, Trappings
or Clothing. Also Saddlcr’s Hardware and
outfits, Trunks, Valiscs, Carpet Bags, &c.
All in want of anything in hisline,will do
well to give him a call. Orders for any kind
of work promptly executed. Repairing done
neatly and cheaply, and at short notice.
orwalk
asunu sulfur,
NORWAI-R CONN ,
Chartered Capital $500000
Paid up Capital $100,000
WM. C. STREET,President. ’
GEO. R. COWLEs, Secretary.
EBEN. HILL, Treasurer.
Norwalk, Jan 1st. - 1864 1y
Assets over $23,000,000.
GEO. R. COWLES,
S AGENT at Norwalk, and issues Policies
for the following INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Home, of N. Y., Assets J an.‘1, ’64 $3,286,270
Etna, of Hartford, “ ‘ 3,128,820
Phoenix, of N.Y., “ “ 722,219
Home, of N. H., “ “ 500,000
Norwich, “ “ 390,501
Lamar, N. Y., ' “ “ _ 389,375
North American, Ht’d“ “ 384,010
City of New Haven, " “ 330,419
Merchflts, Hartford, “ “ 301,443
Western Mass, Pittsfield, “ 236,424
Hampden, Springfield,“ “ 200,000
People’s, Worcester, “ “ 405,593
and other. Companies, Stock and Mutual, in
Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York,
with assets of $13,000,000. At So. Norwalk
application may be made to WM. T. Cnxw.
William C. White,
Graduate of the Leipzig Conservatory,
INSTRUCTOR IN
MMSUCG [AME (GERMAN,
LOCKWOOD‘S BUILDING,
NORWALK, CONN.
American and Foreign Music constantly
on hand; orders for Music will receive spe-
cial attention.
3. I'. RYDER,
Agent for the sale of
WHEELER-d: WILSON’S
Family Sewing Machines.
Ofices—Danbury, Conn., opposite Savings’
Bank. Norwalk, Sherwood’s Block.
N. B.———I will sell you a machine delivered
at your house for the same rice that you
would have to pay at the actory. Will
teach you thoroughly to use it, warrant it to
be perfect, and keep it in order for one year
free of charge. ‘ 35
EDW. A. B. N ORTHROP.
elm AND Loon sun-n,
And Bell Hanger,
SAACS’S BUILDING, (next to Norwalk
Hall,) Norwal k, Ct. Jobbing of every de-
scription. Particular attention paid to re-
pairing Guns, Pistols, &c., Mortice, Rim,
Cabinet and Trunk Locks. Saws filed and
set. Sewing Machines, Clocks, and Pumps
repaired. Platform and Counter Scales put
in order. Skates repaired and made to or-
der, &c., &c. tf44
Notice.
THE subscriber having taken the Old
Horse Shoeing Stand, at the foot
of Mill Hill, is prepared to do Horse Shoe-
ing and all kinds of job Blacksmithing, on
the most reasonable terms.
_He also carries on the Carriage Business
at the old Stand occupied by his father for
the last twenty-three gears.
J O N SHEPHERD.
Norwalk,/Aug. 29th, 1864.
Hardware, Cutlerly, 6tc.,
AT SOUTH NORWALK.
’[l—IE Subscriber would inform the public
that he has purchased of Mr. Chichestcr
the old established Hardware Business, at
South Norwalk, and will continue the busi-
ness at the old Stand. He intends keeping
always on l;and,'a large stock of Hardware,
Cutlery, AarEcultural Implements, Mechan-
ics’ Tools, Fire Arms, Builders‘ Hardware,
Paints, Oils, Varnish, and all other articles
usually kept in first-class Hardware Stores.
It will be his endeavor to meet the wants
of bin customkrs, and merit the patronage of
the public.
" WM. S. FITCH.
1e
Norwalk Machine Shop.
THE subscriber would respectfully inform
Manufacturers and others using machi.
uery,iu Norwalk and vicinity, that he is pre-
pared to do all things pertaining to a gen er-
al machine shop. All orders for the making
or reparing Ofcvcry description of machi-
nery, attended to with promptness by expe-
rienced workmen. Having added steam
Engine, (in addition to water-pow to his
works he flutters himself that he is well pre-
pared to do all kinds of work, at very short
notice. ISAAC CHURCH, Jr.
Machine shop, just back ofth Post Office
and Horse Railway Building.
11
1.135
Norwalk, March 1st, 1865.
NEW MARKET.
risk, Vegetables and Fruit.
THE subscribers respectfully announce
that having taken the old Lockwood
Building, next east of Gruman’s store, thor-
oughly purified and refitted it, have opened
a market there, for the sale of Fish, Oys.
ters. Clams, &c., fresh from their native ele-
ment. Also VEGETABLES and FRUIT
of every variety in their season. Every ef-
fort will be made to please our customers.
Try us. BROWN dz ROSS.
N orwalk, Feb. 4th 1865. 6mos
CARRIAGE MAKING,
Horse Shoeing and Black-
smithing.
LYON & AHERN,
"AIOULD announce to the who that
r they have taken the old stand of Capt
Henry Lamb, Main street, where they are
prepared to execute n the best manner and
greatest dispatch anything in the above line.
Carriages made to order. and Horse Shoe-
ing, Painting, Trimming, Repairing, &c. done
by experienced workmen with dispatch.
Mr. WM. E. BEFRS has been engaged as
Agent and Foreman of the Wood-shop.
AUGUSTUS LYON, WM. AHERN.
Norwalk, Jan., 23d,1865. 1y37
House, and Sign Painting.
PAPER HANGING, &c., done with
neatness and dispatch by
H. M. do J. T. PROWITT,
Sherwood’s Building, .
West side of Main Street.
AM, MY BOY, get. up the old horse and
. go over to the Drug Store and get some-
thing for my cold, my throat is sore and I
cough all night. Why, Father, I bought a
bottle of SILLIMAN’S COUGH BALSAM
day before yesterday, and it has cured me
already. Try some of it. 6m*46
LD OR YOUNG who like a pleasant
remedy for any of the effects produced
by a cold, W-lll find it inSILLlMAN’S BAL-
SAM. » 6m*46
Kerosene Oil,
CHEAP.
THE BEST KEROSENE OIL—only $1
1
per gallon,at the Hardware Store of
‘ THEODORE FITCH.
i
1
~ u'anig-‘ff‘rm. »
" Emmy a: BECKWITH
I I AVING increased their facilities for ma-
king life size copies of
Daguerreotyes, Ambrotypes
,oréCAfiD PICTURES take the opportuni-
't of referring to the foiloWing named gen-
tIemen for whom they. have executed (to
their entire satisfaction) this style of work.
Dr. Samuel Lynes, Reuben Hoyt, Es .
James M. Hoyt, Esq.,A. H. Bfiington, q.
A. J. Crofut, Esq. Rev. S. . . Bissell,
For one of these parties, a life size head
in oil was produced on canvass, from 31
small locket picture; for another a beauti-
ful head in oil and cabinet size, from a small
ambrotype ; others, enlarged copies of Card
Pictures have been made equal to any thing
produced by the first galleries in New York
city. None but the best artists are employ-
ed in the finishing up of these pictures which
is under the constant supervision of Mr.
Whitney in New York.
Particular attention given to making plain
Photographs and on the most reasonable
terms. All work warranted to ive satisfac-
tion. WHITNEY &. BE KWITH.‘
SWORDS’
filli'llllili llllll'lllllllllll
NEAR THE DEPOT,
South Norwalk, 'Conn.
«I‘HE subscriber has opened a Clothing
and Furnishing Goods Store in the store
formerly occupied by J. F. do 0. R. Bennett,
at the crossing, close by the depot, and in-
tends to keep on hand and for sale as good
and cheap a stock as can be found in the town.
All kinds of
Ready Made Clothing,
(or made to order); also Cloths, Cassimeres,
Vestings, &c., Hats, Caps, Gloves, Umbrellas,
Trunks, Leather Bags. &c., &c.,—in fact ev-
erything in the line. The patronage of the
public is most respectfully solicited.
W. H. SWORDS.
South Norwalk, December 1st, 1864. 49
Tristram Gt. Co,’s
Medicated Lozenges,
OR COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS,
mRSENESS, &c. They are the
most pleasant, effectual, and harmless reme-
dies known, affording almost instant relief
in all cases of Throat irritation, produced by
Colds, or over exercise of the Vocal Or ans,
in‘ singing or speaking, and are pecu ‘arly
strengthening to all troubled in any way
with weak ungs. For Sale by all Drug-
gists. 35
POWEEE’S
American Harness Soap.
ESSRS. GLENN ER & WEEKS hav-
ing formed a co-partnership and pur-
chased the patent recipe and good will of
the above celebrated Soap, for cleaning har-
ness without labor, and removing stains
from Horses, intend making and keeping
constantly on hand a full supp]? manufac-
tured in the very best manner. t will soft-
en the leather equal to Neat’s foot Oil.
GLENNER &. WEEKS,
5 Pruyn St, Albany N. Y.
THEODORE FITCH, Agent for Nor-
walk and vicinity. ti?
Building lots For Sale.
RARE CHANCES
ANUMBER of good and desirable Buil-
ding Lots on the old Gregory Place,
are now offered on reasonable terms to the
Public. The large tract, extendin from
Catherine St: on the North, and the . St N.
Railroad on the East, running back to the
River, has just been surveyed and mapped
out into Building lots; three ,new avenues
laid out through the same, and a bridge in
process of erection to connect with the
west side, thus making the lots very eligible
and easy of access from all parts of the vil-
lage. For terms apply to
TOUT,
Norwalk, April‘25th,1864. ' 6m17
‘ REMOVAL.
H. M. 8.: J. T. PROWITT.
AVE removed their Hardware Store
to the new double Store in Sherwood’s
ls‘lew Build’ng, on the West side of Main
treet.
A Card.
The subscriber would inform the public
that he has sold out his interest and good
will in the firm of Marvin & Prowitt, and
in returning thanks for the patronage here-
tofore extended to that firm would request
the public to continue their patronage to the
new firm of H. M. & J. T. Prowitt.
GEO. MARVIN.
Norwalk, Nov. 9th, 1864.
REACEMAN’S
Bronchial Lozenges.
THAT terrible disease Diptheria—a terror
to every family is making its desolating
marks all around us—to guard against that
terrible disease, the proprietor in connection
with a skillful Physician has compounded
an article called
Blackman’s Bronchial Lozenges,
which will act as a preventative to Dipthe-
ria, will cure Hoarseness, Soreness or Irrita-
tion of the throat. Try them, they will rec-
commend themselves. ‘
Sold Everywhere. .
E. BLACKMAN, Pro rietor.
No. 11 ain,St.
Pure Wines and Liquors.
ELECTED expressly for medicinal ur-
poses, and for sale by H. M. PRO T
at the Corner Drug Store, consisting of Old
Bourbon and Monongahela Whiskey, Ja-
maica and St. Croix Rum, French, Blackber-
ry, Catawba, and Cider Brandy, Holland
Gin, Charles’ Gin, Wolffes’ Schnapps, and
Bourbon Whiskey.
WINES.
Port, Sherry, Blackberry, Currant, Elder-
berry, and Catawba. Special attention is
called to the Catawba. Wine as being a supe-
rior article, and from the same vintage as the
celebrated Catawba Brandy, which is so
highly esteemed, and which is recommended
by all physicians.
THE Subscriber having purchased the
CLOTHING AND GENTS FUR-
NISHING EMPORIUM, of A. Koerpel, wrll
continue the Business in all its branches at
the old Stand No. 3 Main Street, Norwalk.
The Public are respectfully invited to call
and examine the large and varied asort-
ment of
Ready Made Clothing.
FRENCH CLOTHS. CASSIMERES AND
VESTINGS, which he will make up to 'or-
der at. short notice and in the latest Fash—
ionable Sylc. ’ E. GUSOWSKI.
‘ No. 3 Main Street,
N orwalk, February 15th, 1865. 1y10
Fitch’s Home for Soldiers.
THE Trustees are now prepared to receive
. applications from those entitled, and
wish to avail themselves of the benefits of
theinstitution. Applications may be made to
Hpn. Mongairl llIoaniANs,f Paesid’t, Stamford,
ossrn . OYT tam or , .
CHARLES BROWN, Darien, affix;
WM. A. CUMMINGS, do '
Business Cards, Tickets, &c,
Printed in Colored Inks, Bronzes, or plain
black ink, on white or colored cards, in the
l best manner, at the GAZETTE J on Omen.
‘ . From the ”fourth”.
Gloria Dec. '
. . I-
Sing to J ehovsh who gloriously triumphs,
The God of our fathers, the God of the free!
The Lord is our strength, our song, and sal-
vation!
The horse and his rider are drowned in the
sea ! '
Worm:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Halle-
lujah!
Amen! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Amen.
II.
The Lord is a warrior, His name is Jehovah!
Thy right hand, 0! Lord,is exalted in might!
Thou dashest in pieces the foes of thy people!
Thy wrath has consumed them and swept
them to-nightl ‘ '
07w.
III.
The chariots of Pharaoh, his captains and
princes,
The host of oppression,the legions of wrong,
One blast of thy nostrils with rain o’er--
whelms them!
And Israel shouts in her thunders of songs!
0,10. '
IV.
What god of the nations is like Jehovah?
Glorious in holiness, fearful in praise!
All people shall fear Him, all ages adore
Him, ’
He reigns in His glory
through infinite days.
07w. '
Gnomes: Lansme Tums.
.‘.>p
THE HEART OF THE WAR.
PEACE in the clover-scented air, '
And stars within the dome;
And underneath,in dim repose,
A plain, New England home.
Within, a murmur of low tone's
And sighs fi'om hearts oppressed,
Merging in prayer, at last, that brings
The balm of Silent rest.
I’ve closed a hard day’s work, Marty,—
The evening chores are done;
And you are weary with the house,
And with the little one.
But he is sleeping sweetly now,-
With all our pretty brood;
So come and sit upon my knee,
And it will do me good.
Oh, Marty! I must tell you all
The trouble in my heart,
And you must do the best you can
To take and bear your part.
You’ve seen the shadow on my face,
You’ve felt it day and night;
For it has filled our little home,
And banished all its light.
I did not mean it should be so,
And yet I might have known
That hearts that live as close as ours
Can never keep their own.
But we are fallen on evil times,
And, do whate’er I may,
My heart grows sad about the war,
And sadder every day.
I think about it when I work, .
And when I try to Test,
And never more than when your head
Is pillowed on my breast;
For then I see the camp-fires blaze,
And sleeping men around,
Who turn their faces toward their homes,
And dream upon the ground.
I think about the dear, brave boys,
My mates in other years,
Who pine for home and those they love,
Till I am choked with tears.
With shouts and cheers they marched away
On glory’s shining track,
But, ah! how long, howlong they stay 1
How few of them come back!
One sleeps beside the Tennessee,
And one beside the James,
And one fought on a gallant ship
And perished in its flames.
And some, struck down by fell disease,
Are breathing out their life;
And others, maimed by cruel wounds,
Have left the deadly strife.
Ah, Marty ! Marty ! only think
Of all the boys have done .
And suffered in this weary war!
Brave heroes, every one!
Ohl often, ofteh in the night,
I hear their voices call:
“ 001719 on and help us! Is it right
That we should bear it all .9”
And when I kneel and try to pray,
My thoughts are never free,
. But cling to those who toil and fight
And die for you and me.
And when I pray for victory,
It seems almost a sin
To fold my hands and ask for what
I will not help to win.
Oh i do not cling to me and cry,
For it will break my heart;
I’m sure you’d rather have me die
Than not to hear my part.
You think that some should stay at home
To care for those away;
But still I’m helpless to decide
If I should go or stay.
For, Marty, all the soldiers love,
And all are loved again;
And I am loved, and love, perhaps,
No more than other men.
. ,I cannot tell—I do notknow—
Which way my duty lies,
Or where the Lord would have me build
My fire of sacrifice.
I feel—I know—I am not mean;
. And though I seem to boast,
I’m sure that I would give my life
To those who need it most.
Perhaps the Spirit will reveal
That which is fair and right;
So, Marty, let us humbly kneel
And pray to heaven for light.
.—
Peace in the clover-scented air,
And stars within the dome,
And underneath, in dim repose,
A plain, New England home.
Within. a widow in her weeds,
From whom all joy is flown,
Who kneels among her sleeping babes,
And weeps and prays alone! '
Atlantic Monthly, August, 1864.
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, great sugar maples in the grassy yard, the
' any definite sum. Jedediah was an excel-
, him a deacon. They hoped thereby, in a
"nus NONI: on MY BUSINESS.
BY MRS. HARRIET B. STOWE.
This was one of the golden sayings of
Jedediah Pettisol. One might think so, at
least, by the frequency and emphasis. with
which it fell from his lips. Jedediah was
reckoned one of the richest men in the vil-
lage'of Needwal. He lived in that great
white house you see yonder, with the tufts of
lilacs before each of the front windows, the
light, neat picket fences, the large barn so
perfectly built, so trimly kept, and surround-
ed by the Well-tended acres of the richest
farm ofthe neighborhorhood. J edediah was
reputed a‘ snug, safe man—an excellent man-
ager of money—of which he had laid by an
untold store; how much it was difficult to
say, but there was a “slow, dry smile” which
curled his hard features when the inquiry
was made, that stimulated the imagination
of the'questioner more than the mention 0f
lent householder in all pertaining to his own.
His wife lacked for nothing—rustled to
church in the stiffest of silks and satins, wore
an India shawl, and got her bonnets quarter-
ly from New York, to the great edification
ofMiSs Pewit, the country milliner, and of
all her rural neighbors. All J edediah’s sons
and daughters walked in brightness and liv-
ed on the fat of the land ; they went to the
best schools, were the best clothes, ate the
best things, and were reported to do every-
thing m the best way. - He rubbed his hands
as he looked around on his rising race. He
took care of them; they were his, and Jede-
diah always took care of his own things.
Whatever was his, though but the breadth
and thickness of a hair, was his, and was
attended to with microscopic nicety.
But to all that was not his,’ to every one’s
cares, wants, outside the circle of his own,
Jedediah had one short, golden saying;
“rr‘s NONE on MY BUSINESS."
Jedediah was a proper, church going man
—nay a church member, and being a church
member, his townsmen thought the least
they could do for a man of such substance
and admirable management was to make
measure, to bring the affairs of the church in-
to the charmed circle which he called his
owu. They were much mistaken. He was
too shrewd for them. “If they think they're
going to get their burdens off on my shoul-
ders, they are mistaken. I pay my sub-
scription punctually; that’s all I agreed to
do; as to the rest, it’s not my business,”
If a subscription was up for any charitable
object, Jedediah was very acute in finding
out that it was none of his business.
“Subscribe toa town library? I am able
to buy all the books I want, and prefer to
read my own books.”
“But, Mr. Pettisol, think how many of
your neighbors are not, and what an ex-
cellent thing for them it would be P”
“Well, let them get it; it’s none of my bu-
siness, I’m sure; we’ve more books than we
can ever read, now.” '
“Mr. Pettisol, we called to see if you would
subscribe for a furnace for the church ‘2”
“No. What’s the use of a furnace? The
stove keeps us comfortable, but the galleries,
where the poorer people sit, and the pews
by the door—in short, half the pews 1n the
house are very uncomfortable.”
“Well, let them that find it so subscribe.
I don’t; so it’s none of my business.”
Now, Mr. Pettisol was a very orthodox
man, and believed devoutly every one of the
five points of Calvinism; and he could set
any young minister right in a twinkling that
blundered on them. He kept an austere
watch on his new pastor, Mr. Service, whom
he suspected somehow of not having pre-
cisely the good old ways. “I don’t hear
you preach the strong old points,” he would
say: "Divine sovereignty and election,” and
the minister smiled in a manner that Mr.
Pettisol wondered at.
“Did you ever hear of this doctrine, Mr.
Pettisol ‘2” “Look not every man on his own
things, but every man on the things of oth-
ers.”
“That isn’t a doctrine,” said Mr. Pettisol;
“it’s a declaration of the Bible.”
“Why isn’t it a doctrine ?” said Mr. Ser-
vice, and left him.
Mr. Pettisol felt for some time that dull,
confused sensation in his brain that is produ-
ced by a new idea fumbling at the rusty lack
of a very old door. He had been to the sac-
rament punctually every two months for
twenty years. He had supposed himself
primed in all the ms and outs of doctrine;
and in all this time nobody had ever said
such a singular thing to him as this. It con-
fused him, and he put it out of his head. The
minister was young and modest; he suppos-
ed be had dropped a seed which he hoped
would germinate—he did not make allow-
ance for that‘ flock of domestic fowls called
old prejudices, who make it their business
instantly to gobble up all such seeds. When
he thought the seed had germinated, he call-
ed on Jedediah toopen a case which lay
heavily on his mind, and which no one in
his parishwas better able to give him mate-
rial aid
There had recently been a factory estab-
lished in a distant part of his parish, which
had brought into the place a large popula-
tion of young lads and girls, who, as often
happens in such cases, seemed to be under
very indifferent moral influences. Sunday
was a perfect carnival of unseemly proceed-
ings. The boys maraude'l through the
fields, robbed orchards and melon patches,
and the girls, fiaunting in gay dresses and
laughing loudly, were often seen in dubious
coffee-houses, which had sprung up like
mushrooms in the neigborhood of the facto-
ry. Mr. Service, with two or three energetic
self-denying men and women of his parish,
had ventured into this region and set up a
Sabbath-school, and succeeded in producing
lame interest in better things.
That morning at table Mr. Service said to
his wife, “If I only were rich, now, I know
what I would do. I'd put up a neat little
hall for our Sunday-school, and have a li-
brary in it, and I could draw in ever so ina-
ny; it might become the nucleus of a church
as well as serve for the use of a. Sunday-
school.”
“Well, let’s get up a subscription for it,”
said his wife, “there’s Deacon Pettisol owns
the land, perhaps he’ll give us that.”
“I doubt it,” said Mr. Service.
“0, yes! only go and talk to him tell him
all about it—he can’t refuse."
Pettisol’s, and wagordially received ; some
fine pears and grapeswcrc offered to him in
the best'front parlor, and Mrs. Pettisol and
Mr. Pettisol were delighted to see him.
He told his story._."'? ,
.nI hai‘dly see what? you have to mod.
dlc with that factory. pulation,” said Mr.
Pettisol. “ll Inii'bt'izhe' Of, the factory
stands the 'other‘sithe‘of: t own line, and
it’s the business of S \’ mons to pro-
vide such things, if '
you go fibem ?” ‘
“I h . Abee . - . _
money-making merof gimme],
care for anything of the'sort.”
“Well, then,” said Jedediah, f:
factory, in point Of inches?
Brown’s parish.” ' " - '
“Perhaps, in mere point
line may run this side of the fact
point of fact the people are mu
Why don’t
and don’t
shove the
is for our interest to take care of tFfi'TQP‘J '-,
tion, or they will corrupt the state of hibi‘al'é
among us. These roving, idle young men
and boys, many of them bright and active,
will be leading away the boys of this pa ' -
even now the Sabbath is :lrcadfullyp
among us.”
“I’ll risk my children,” said Mr.
“I can’t cut down all the dockwced in my
neighborhood, or clear off all the caterpillars
from my neighbors’ trees, but I can keep the
weeds off my own farm.”
“I doubt it,” said Mr. Service; “ but if
you could, it would be less work to cut down
one stock of dockwood, green in your neigh-
bor’s field, than to bee up a thousand young
docks after the wind had seeded your farm
with them. If any one would have madeit
their business to clear the catcrpillarcs off
the wild cherry tree at the head of the street
you would have saved two days work in
your orchards about.”
“ I know that,” said Pettisol; “but I ain’t
going to do other people’s work. That tree
stands on Jim Stenton’s ground, and if he
don’t attend to it, I ain’t going to do for him
I’m sure.”
'.‘ Not if it fills every tree of your orchard
with caterpillars?” said Mr. Service.
“I can take care of my own trees,” said
Mr, Pettisol. “ I‘d rather do twice the work
on my own place than to do work that isn’t
my business.”
“ Mr. Pettisol,” said Mr Service, “ have
you thought any of that doctrine I spoke to
you about ?" ‘
“ What doctrine, sir ‘9"
“ Look not every man on his own things,
but every man on‘ the things of others.”
What do you think of that doctrine? It’s
in the Bible, as plain as the doctrine of elec-
tion.”
“At this point Mr. Pettisol began to have
secret doubts of the validity of Paul’s epistles
but he did not venture to assert them in so
many words; so he passed the grape dish
again to his minister, and said : “ I trust I
am always ready to do my duty in my own
field. But I believe in Order, sir, order; in
every one sticking to his business. N ow,
we have engaged you, sir, to attend to us—
keep up our preaching, and weekly lecture,
and prayer meeting, and really, sir, I don’t
see how you can burden yourself with this
work without taking the strength you need
for your main business.” .
“ Mr. Pettisol,” said Mr. Service, “ 1 do
not consider myself in the light ofa man
hired to take care of you, merely; I am the
shepherd and servant of Christ and my duty
is to all wandering souls whom I am able
to reach and care for ;‘ but if I thought of
nothing but your interest and that of your
children, I would gladly do twice as much
331 do now for this population; it is the
only way I can save the children and youth
of my parish from corruption.”
“ I don’t know how it is with other pco~
ple,” said Mr. Pettisol, but I don’t think my
children will wish to associate with factory
hands.”
“I don’t think you can answer for your
boys or Ifor mine, Mr. Pettisol; boys are
more attracted by boys than they are by
fathers and mothers, and if they are gay,
lively fellows, who keep some kind Of jolly
thing going, they care very little what sta-
tion they belong to.”
“ I shall forbid my sons all such associa-
tions,” said Mr. Pettisol; and I should like
to see any of them dare to disobey me.”
“ I should not,” said Mr. Service, “ never-
theless, I fear they will.”
" Well, perhaps I may feel it my duty to
give something,” said the deacon.
“ If you would only give us that lot of
land this side'the factory, to put ourhall on,”
said Mr, Service.
“ Why, Mr. Service, you ain’t up in busi-
ness matters,” said Mr Pettisol, with a patro-
nizing smile; “that lot of land is rising in
value ten per cent. a year.”
“ For all that, I think it would be your
best investment to give it for this cause. It
is in one sense far more our business to take
care ofthcsc factory people than it is the
owners of the factory. They do not live
here. They have no children here. They
will not, in their persons or their families,
suffer as we shall from leaving them to go to
ruin.”
“ Who wants to leave them to go to ruin?”
said Mr. Pettisol. “Can’t they come to our
church if they want to ? There are free seats
in the gallery, without ‘Our going down to
build a place for them.”
“ But they won’tcome to our church, and
experience has shown they will come to a
place appropriated to them alone. Our poor
little room is crowded every Sunday, and
some go away for want of room.”
“ Well, Mr. Service, I‘ll think ofit. and
send you something, thoughI must say I
don’t think as you do. If people won’t at-
tend fhe stated means of grace. I really don’t
see the need of going down on our knees to
them—it‘s their own affair after all."
"The Lord Jesus didn’t think it our own
affair whether we went to destruction or
not,” said Mr. Service. “He did much more
one would think, than I-Iis part. life were
enemies, and He left heaven for us, lived
poor all His life, died the worst of deaths;
and is He to do all this for us and we feel
that we are not to lift a finger for each oth-
er ?”
“Well, well, Mr. Service, I’ll think of if,
and let you know. I’ll subscribe something,”
said Mr. Pettisol, and so the min istcr rose
and left.
“ He is a. good man, my dear,” said J cde.
diah Pettisol. “I believe Mr. Service is a
very good man ; but I doubt about his or-
,_ So that evening! Mr. Service called at Mr. i
if:
thodoxy.”
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are mere I
“ Why, my dear,” said Mrs. Pettisol,“what
makes you doubt his orthodoxy ‘2” '
“ Oh! those modern young ministers, with
theirhumanitarian notions, “want to party
the world on their shoulders, but they are
’dumb on the doctrines. He says he believes
them, but he don’t preach them: Haven’t
head a sermon on divine sovereignty and
man’s dependence since he’s been here. If
he had more‘faith in that he would be quiet-
er.” '
“I think,” said Mrs. Pettisol, " what he
said about our childeren is ridiculous: I’d
risk our Johnny anywhere—poorlittle'fellow
he wengto bed with the headache early this
evening.”
The fact was,that“our Johnny” at the mo-
ment these words were spoken was far,
enough from his bed. He was,in fact, down
'at Smith’s factory, learning to play polker
with Mike Dornor a. sharp, shrewd, adroit-
ear
us than to him. The fact is, Mr. Petfi§o§,-' I: ‘T'droll fellow, who led all the boys of the vil-
age,and had taken entire possession of J obn-
ny Pettisol. '
The next morning Mr. Pettisol enclosed
,in' very cold and brief note seventy-five
to his minister.
. r'tly after secret dissatisfaction arose
in the parish: Mr. Service was accused of
11 here was a great meeting of Coun-
' 'selsj; m'h'c ltalk and discussion. Poor Mr.
Sevice was baclgered and baited, and obliged
to spend so many anxious hours, and so
much time and strength in explaining ex-
actly his views of the cOnsistency of ‘ God’s
decrees with’fiaan ability, and in defining
the exactfitatc p gthe heathen in the future
World, that the heat ens in Smithsville were
left to go on thb' - . In a short time Mr.
Service was - dfsnn, the church hired
ministers at te'n dolla‘rs a Sabbath to supply
the pulpit, and said .this was, economy.-
Grog-shops grew up i ‘ evillage, the poor.
house increased its inmates, boys grew up
godless, dissipated ung‘gmen broke their
fathers’and mothers artggnd Johnny Patti
sol first and foremost. K.
There were days long and bitter, when
Mr. Pettisol, old and trembling with paraly—
sis, and his wife, sad and broken hearted,
wept over their spendthrift, undutiful sons
and wondered why they should hav turned
{ out so bad in spite of such eizelleg nstrue-
tions. The dockweed and caterpillars could
‘ not be got out of J edediah’s field with all his
energy; and in his own secret sou},- while
trembling on the verge of eternity," cl re-
viewing the use he had made of his ' 'he
sometimes remembered Mn service and ‘
wished he had given more thought. to the
great doctrine, “ Look not every man on his
own things, but every may also on the things
of others."
«:0».
Details oft-he Pursuit 01101:.
New YORK, April 10.-—The World’s Ar-
my of the Potomac correspondent details
the pursuit of Lee’s army,previous_to his sur-
render, dating pea; Rice’s Station, the 17th.
He says after another day of excitement
and success we have a. few miles more of
the enemy’s soil. The enemy were driven
from strong fortifications guarding the ap-
preaches to the magnificent bridge crossing
the Appomattox, They had strong, well-
stockcd forts, but though we anticipateda
determined resistance, we captured. them
with little trouble, together with all. that
was in them, securing eighteen pieces of ar-
tillcry, of old fashionand calibers. The ene-
my then fell back and took a position near
Furmsvillc. Here they held us the entire
remainder of the day,notwithstanding strong
efforts on the part of the Second 'corps to
dislodge them. The enemy tried several
times to cut his way through our lines, but
always with such fatal effect to himself that
he finally abandoned the attempt. The Sec-
ond division was sent down the railroad to
seize the vilh «c of Farmsville, which they
did without trouble. Previously they had
aSkil'mish, in which General Smyth was it
is feared, mortally wounded. ' ‘
Gen. Ewell, after his capture, said that
Gen. Lee long since wanted to take all his
troops westward and disband them, but Da-
vis would not consent.
Another World correspondent dating
Burkesville, the 7 th, says Sheriden discov-
ered a. large wagon train pushing briskly
towards their main army.“ He immediately
pushed his troops and found the enemyina
strong positition, from which they were
driven after hard fightfng. They fell back
to another position, from which Sheriden
could not with his cavalry alone, budge him.
The Second and Sixth corps came up and
were put in position, which they held
through the night.
Next morning Custer was sent around to
barricade the road, the rebels would take in
retreating. The formation of the infantry
being Complete, the charge was sounded.—
Thc rebels held our troops at bay fora
'while, but our men finally rushed upon
them when they fled down the pike ; they
were met by Custer and held in check. The
enemy, finding they could not get past Gqu
for, turned again on the infantry. They
charged impetuously and then our troops
counter-clmrged, when the enemy hoisted
the whitcllag and surrendered. It was in
this fight that Ewell and the other officers
Were capturednot only out-fought but hand—
somely (mt-generallcd.
-_._._-o 44.».
Transfer of Military Business
to Richmond. .
WASEINGTON, April 5.—The war depart-
ment hasjust issued the following order :
The examining board, of which Major
Gen. Casey, U. S. Vols, is Presrdent, Will
immediately adjourn to Richmond, Va., at
which place it will resume its present
duties. 'Mujor General Casey will, in addiv
tion to his duties of President of the board,
take the general snperintendence of recruit-
ing and mastering coloréd soldiers in Rich-
mond, Va, and the adjacent country. The
order concludes by saying that Major F. W.
Taggurd, and ten other officers of inferior
grade, by name will report to Gen. .Casey
for duty in recruiting, mastering and or am-
zing colored troops. A large numbero per-
sons from the difl‘erentmilitary relief assoma-
tionshavc gone from this city to Richmond
with supplies for the Sick and wounded.
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pg“ Why is a hungry boy looking at a;
pudding like a wild horse .9 Because he
would be all the better if he had a bit in his
mouth.
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WWhy should the stars be the best as-
tronomcrs? Because, they have studded
(studied) the heavens ever since the creation.
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W Why is a carpenter more ugly than
other men ? Because he is a deal plainer. '
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k3“ Why is a. waiter like a race-horse?
Because he often runs for a plate or a cup.
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