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Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07
TERMS.

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Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07
THE VOICE OF Tue OLD BIBLE.
a Noble RcYcn"c.

" Miserably unfortunate and poor J
His wife and child in actual neod Of life's
comforts ! Oh, Lucius, Lucius am
revenged now - and q smile, sad even in
its triumph, curlcd over the beautiful
mouth Of the speaker.
She was young, so young that you
would have hGsitatcd whether TO write
her girl or woman, aud her only beauty
was in her mouth and eyes. The one
was large, but soft, sweet, flexible, the
responsive instrument on which her soul
always struck its in6ni:udes of emotion
and feeling. The eyes were large and
deep, a translation of her soul rather than
her heart. Us perhaps eyes oltenest are.
Up and down her chamber, with that
sad, bitter smilo on her lips, the lady
walked many times. The velvet carpet,
its dark groundwork piled with Soronto
roses, cushioned her feet. Soft land>
scapes OF the Rhine, intermingled with
wild pictures of Al pine scenery, leaned
down to her from their oval frames but,
LGedlcss Of the beauty from her, its mis-
trcss walked amid it, her soul wrapped in
q Joy which the angels mus: have written
sin.
And yet you should pity her. for great
had been her wrong. She had the ele-
meuts of very noble nature, too, but
her mother had died before Alice met her
tenth summer, and there was none that
understood her deep, emotional nature
her impulsve poetic temperament.
Her father was plain. practical far.
mer, whose being was absorbed in the
few acres which lay around his yellow.
brown homestead, and he regarded Alice
as remarkably sensible child, because
she always preferred books to dolls and
bonnets. She attended the village school
until she was eighteen, for her father was
indulgent to a fault and although he fu,
med and fretted over the semi.annual
school bills, he never had the heart to
withdraw Alice from the studies she low
ed. There she met Lucius Brante. How
the thoughts of the proud woman reach
of to that hour, and drag it up to the
present
He was poor, an artist, and school,
teacher, with an earnest aesthetic nature,
and much Of that social magnetism that
attracts the sympathies of others.
Alice was his pupil. 1 do not know
how it happened. but both teacher and
scholar learned lesson that was not in
| the text book that summer.
Alice" said the young man. brush,
ing away the curls that leaned over the
girls bowed forehead as they stood by
the farm gate on the last night OF his stay
in Meadow Brook, 81 give you my
heart: Take and keep it. Imust so out
into the world and win me name and a
place there then will come back to
you" l will take out and keep it till l
give both back to God," answered the
girl solemnly, and so they parted.
She had been true to him-through
the dark triumphs of her face comes a
softer light with the thought. Then. what
temptations thickened about her when her
father died. and she came to her fashion
able aunt's. aud entered upon that new
life of wealth and luxury. 4
Piquant and impulsive, graceful, and
sometimes beautiful, it was not strange
she created an unusual sensation. But
the dreaming fair-haired youth, whose
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07

~Some gentlemen called upon an
old woman, and enquired if she had BIZ
BILE. She was very angry at being asked
such question. and replied
Do you think, gentlemen, that l am
a ahcathen. that you ask such a question %
Then, calling little girl, she sad :
"run and fetch the bible out of the drawer,
that may show it to the gentlemen.
They desired that she would not take
the trouble, but she insisted they should
''see she was not heathen." Accord
ingly, the Bible was brought. nicely COW
cred: on opening it. the old woman ex-
claimed
"Well, how glad am you called and
asked about the Bible Here are my
spectAcles +! I have been looking for them
these three years. and did not know
where to find them.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07
A Score of Printers.

In this Office ale twenty printers enga.
ged. Only 10 k at them In ages, rang
ing from twenty to forty in size and com
plexion, from the ordinary stout we new
er knew fat printer to some that might
crawl through CREASED flute, as white
as Circassians and others brown or rosy
as your Georgia cracker or Pennsyl-
vania publican.
Some bearded like a Pard, others
smooth as the Greek Slave. One has
travelled all over the North American
Continent. hunted bear in Arkansas, and
the wild horse-in the Pampas Of South
America another has been out on the
broad ocean, and has seen life before the
mast; another graduated at West Point,
served in the army, another accompanied
Col. Doni phan in the Xenophonic grand
campaign all over New Mexico. What a
book he can write. Another has kept
tavern. sold goods at auction, travelled
over the United States several times, been
we'll off and broken-often. Two have
been 'On the stage profession printers
are much addicted to, for about half the
actors on the American board arc printers.
One we believe has preached sermons,
another has lectured to crowded houses.
Another has served in Mexico, with Gen.
Scott. A sixth has been a stump orator,
member Of the Legislature, out Vest
and fought a duel. we believe. Three
have practiced medicine, kept store and
dealt in horses, cotton and negroes. Two
have held municipal offices. Four or five
have been officers or privates in various
military companies. Ono served with
Gen. Houston in the Texan revolution,
and one in the Canadian rebellion. Six
or eight have edited and published news
papers in various parts of the United
States. One has been officer Of packet
on the raging canawl." One was wound
ed-leg off-at the storming of Monterey.
Another has clcrkcd on Mississippi steu-
mer was blown up and slightly wound.
ed. Some are or have been married !;
some are old bachelors. All have seen
more or less of life and its changcablc
scenes, They are all live men, good prac-
tical printers, speaking various languages.
and form a newspaper corps. hard TO sur
pass or equal Cincinnati Uaionist.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07

SPORTING WITH HUMAN LIFE.-It ap-
pears bv the Montreal Advertiser, that
the FIRE on board the steamer Montreal,
which caused such destruction of hu-
man life. broke out first shortly after lcav-
ing Queboc, where the passengers could
have been saved. The fire was partially
subdued without the passengers knowing
nything about it, the vessel still contin-
uing on her way. 1t broke out second
time, was again subdued, but finally it
got the mastery, and again broke out
without any power to stay it. BY this
time the steamer reached an unsettled
part of the shore where no assistance
could be rendered, The fire had run
from stem to stem, and in few moments,
the smoke broke out from end to end.
Then came an awful scene Of horror and
confusion. As the burning vessel neared
the shore she struck q rock within q
stone S throw and remained fast, surround
ed by deep water. A more wonton dis.
regard Of the safety Of passengers than
this, if the account be true, cannot well
be conceived.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07
Whiskers from tho cat
that was let out Of the bag. 1.a

CUR1os1rIEs.-Whiskers from tho cat
that was let out Of the bag. aa
The fringe TO cobweb curtain.
A coffin for the dead Of night.
A vaccination frem loaded matter.
Shavings from the planning Of form.
A bullet from shooting stick.
Odor from foul case.
The rope with which Jacob lifted up
his voice.
A few stitches taken by tailor in a
coat Of paint. atl
A little perfume from the flower of the
flock.
A minute quantity Of Jelly made from
the current of the Mississippi. -
A few soaked logs from the drift Of a
discourse. ~
A thimblofull of steel dust, supposed
to have been made when Macbeth fled
his mind. lag-iag
A respectable Irishman washed ashore
by the tide OF emigration. NON
A leaf from the tree OF knowledge.
A black eye caused by the Printers
Strike.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07

j. RoqERr ]. WALKRe'saoRfcHEs.- Tho
New. York Mirror, whoseIeditor has
known Governor Walker iintimaiely and
thoroughly FOR ten years" says ofhim;l
After handling hundreds tof, ,millionsiof
the public money. he left theaofiee aas
poor as o primaliye christian. Sipce then
he may have bought stock, and land, and
mines that may have made himFieb,a Bot
when wasit counted o crime rfor. fortune
TO reward even the sagaciLy. Of q specula>
tor? In l843, Mr.. WalkcrlinEeste 81.
760 in the purchase Of land on what is
now the city, Of FOND du s9e, for which
be has been offered. within !; feg months.
more than $2oO, 900; and he also. bonght.
years ago, coal and quicksilver mines.
which are making him a milli0naireI
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07

G1 Two oddly dressed genslemen
walked through Buffalo recently in an odd
fx-one had on four hats piled over each
other, around his neck threes collars and
three craga!s. ,snd- on The. outside of his
overooat three vests Vigorously buttoned
up. The other had no hat. no coat, no
vest, and in his pants and shin alone car
ried on q very animated conversation
with his heavier clOlhed companion. IL
turned ont that one was Q democrat and
the other know-nothing, and they had
been betting on election. - s4
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Joining a Fnshionb1e Church.

The Methodist Protestant says One
OF the least reasons assigned few days
ago for leaving the Methodist Episcopal
Church and joining more fashionable
congregation. may be found iuthe follow
ing conversation :-"Is it possible, Mrs.
s. sad one lady to another, that you are
going to leave our church and join Rev,
ST" yes" replied the lady,
~ have cOncIudedto go with my daugh.
ters. They say The seats in old Eutaw
are SO close together. that they must
either leave off hoops entirely or leavethe
church they have been in the hapit of at
tending. Now at Dr.----'s the pews
are large and wide and ladies can get in
and out without much trouble. think
l shall have to go with the girls"
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07
su+ ia1ar From the Lexington Gazette.
t'If You're Coming, why DON'T You
,gs EuH ST. Come Along !''aa

EuE p como Along !" r
" 'Twas in field-by an old field school,
Where the boys were romping wild,
= noted one, with shining face,
And he was but child
And as he rompcd upon tue green, i
With mind and muscle strong,
Anon he'd cry TO tho tagging boys:
10 "Why don't you como along ~ '',' "
III o. Il Eht t4E tEEat.-s tty lL - -.Fs RE-.
e So said the boy, bat whom he spoke,
Tho man was in that boys; =1-s.#.
o. And now; his voice round Christendom,
d9uRings like bell of joyl;eia1 'oa..~at
For the world had taken up his cry,
.5 And joined him in his songs, A.E
Now sung by nations, in their march
"Why don't you come along ?''
Come on pause not 'tis death to stop,
The tide is at its flood; .
For men and things are on their march,
Halt never, if you would.
That cry is in the hearts of mon,
Their watch word, right or wrong
And nations cry in every tongue
"Why DON'T you come along?"
The engine and the telegraph
Proclaim it to the man.
The man takes up the cheering cry,
Which with the boy began.
Der wood and pIuin-o'er Hea andIcarth,
1t rings in startling song; ...
'Tis Written on the armament, ..
"Why don't You come along ~
But yesterday, il took six men
To make pin : but now
That little boy will do the work
When done, hill scarce know how.
Thought follows action-thcn we pause
To think; no longer strong--
But still keep up the schoolboy's cry
"Why don't you come along %
But yesterday, tho roapcr's hook
Moved slowly through the grain,
Mccormick now, with storm of hooks
The harvest sweeps amain
And rs he cuts, and cleans, and bags,
lie joins the worldwide song a":.
Old fOgie reapors tarry not I'D.
"Why don't you come along % a"
Front! luarch halt not is now tho wor
To tho regiment Of nan-- a-.
Say whut you have to say ut once
Go! do it if you can--.-- ."
Birds sing it-thc engines shricks it; =.
It's sung the stars among ..aI'
All nature brcathes tho worlds grout cry
"Why don't you como along ~
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yYMOLIs no. 20s..
"a Hard case.

419 as84 oSstA Hard case m
s Poor people have had hard tiHse in
this little world OF ours Even IN mat
ter ofreligionis asyast difference between
lazarus and Dives, as the following an
ecdote sent rs by a friend. will illus
Ftrate-s hnn ;sshE sneilsei
s. Old Billy had attended great
revival, and in common n,withi many others,
he was sconpertedt and babtized No,
many weeks afterwards one of his neigh
sbors met him Keeling home from the court
ground With n ,cgnsid deiable brick in his
hAt.l sssfsofl ssBRs 81 ssslh
Hello, uncle BiIly,' said g friend, e u
thought youshad sioine d the church 20
81 Sol did answered uncle Billy, max
ing a desperate attempt Ito stand istill. 80
Isdid Jeemsi andk would a. bin a good
baptist il they Rad,n treated me so ever.
lasting mean at the water Did mt YOU
never hear 'about il Jeemsssi h 1851
Mover did, YtE7iup HRw .et4FR
Then Ill tell you bout il, Z You see,,
whehgfwe come TO the bapitzing place.
thar was me aud old Jonks. ethe rich Old
squire. warto be dipped pat the same
time. Well the % minister tuck the
squire in fust, but fldnet mind that
much, as I Thought it would be Jest, ,as
good when cum: so he led him In and
after dippin' himrunder he raised him up
mitey keerful, aud wiped his face and led
him out Then cum my turn, instead
oflifting me out like lie did the squire.
he give me ono slosh, and 4lsftlm me crawl
ing about on the bottom like a,d-dm
turtle l"--R0rper. to lastn
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NOBLE SKsTIWE1Ts, - Condemn NO man
for moi thinking as yon think. let every
one enjoy the full .and free liberty Of
thinking Tor himself /, Let every man use
his own judgement, since every man
must give an account Of himself % God.
Abho55 every approach, in ans, kind of de-
gree, to Che spirit Of persecution ii Jon
cannot reason or persuade man into. the
truth, never astempt % force him into Il.
Ifloye win not compel him 20 come, leave
him 10 God. fhs judge Of mJafg Rss-
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07

The. DEAD RADD1Ts.-For over six years
past there has been an organization inrthc
9th ward6of New York, kno ~n as the
Roach Guard" About five. yearsjago
there was difference in the Guard which.
led to a secession; and one night while
they were holding a meeting a deadTrab-i
bit was thrown in the room, and this dir
cumstancc gave the seceders tho title Of
f" Dead Rabbits" Becoming proud Of
the name, club was organized, called
/" The Dead Rabbit Club, which became
popular in that quarter. 1t is regularly
organized. has president, secretary and
other officers, and the printed notices
which are semitic the members are en-
bellished at one corner with the cut Of a.
dead rabbit hanging by the heels. The,
members or those who arc known as
"Dead Rabbits" range from 18rto 25;
years of age, and they number from 100
to eco members. 1a aaa aaa
For months past much ilI-fceling has
existed between the Dead Rabbit Club
and the Bowery boys. whose headquarters
are at No. 40 Bowery, drinking shop,
and from this ill.fceling the terrible riot
of the fourth sprang. r.d q. Teller
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07

IEsURREcr1oh IN KAHsAs.-H is stated
that Governor Walker has telegraphed
to the President that serious insurfee-
ton had broken out at Lawrence. and
chat he had called out the United States
troops to suppress It. The Governor had
started Immediately for Lawrence. The
trouble grew out of the tax law and the
refusal of the inhabitants 70 recognize
laws Of the Territory. 80 nn,n -1..rr
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ming. that tie heart Of each was trne. /

ming that the heart of each was trne 10
its first love. e an .sIdFs s
6 You viii forgive launt Zane. Ln6iusgi
Il was, her ambition instigated the false
hoods' The lady tones we're very earsi
nestf 5uifs bod {44sS sxtue.5 lie 3
Certaifilys Alice. God has reached
out to tme SO manysblessingsi that there
is only room for gratitude in my qsoul.--4
Look there. twas just as I sawsthem
when / broke into the chamber that night,
when the turning point in my career came,
and i have walked on to wealthland fame
ever since! 80 .Aqssa sdi G15h Il
q Lucius Brante drew aside The covering
and the sunset poured all over the paint,
ing. like sudden baptism from heaven.
1t would have brought tears into your
eyes with the first glance. IA mother and
her child sat together over a heap of
smouldering ashes. Bothwere very beau.
tiful, but there was a amingling of despon-
dency and tenderness in the mother's
face, a look of patient waiting in the boys
dark eyes, which oyer.reaches all descrip
tion. D. ys sstfl H b8a
q" God must have sent his angel TO that
mans heart, or he would never have
bought my pictures. 1 always believed
it, Alice" And the artists soul glowed
in his proud face as he turned to hisJcom-
panion. sHo i!sr5 as
Their eyes met a moment. Lucius
Brante had read them many times before.
It was hardly strange that he now trans
lated the thought which the lip beneath
them would not for worlds have uttered.
" Alice, you had something to dofWith
those pictures 90 aa5 ula f3a
Her tears answered him. An hour la,
ter he had drawn all from her-an hour
later he knew she was the earthly saviour
of himself. his wife and his child 1t was
one of life's consecrated hours. i cannot
look intoi oi agii54 yirl lleaii
But next week, Newell Brante, othe
brown haired child of the artist, bought
many flowers of the country children who
brought wild roses from the fields about
Florence. saying with his fathers smile,
i shall have new mother tonight"
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07

EH Great men loose some BIlet of tEeSG
greatness by being Hees ps, ordiaasys srasp
gam much. aI,ss.s.la sas2 .tsEll .lI-l Ia.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-08-07

EwO One Of Gov. Slade's school ma ans
has got into place out west where the
children never heard prayer OF preaching.
So one day, when she commenced her
school with prayer. one Of the youngsters
went home and reported: z ~
s.You meyer did see apeh school
mann ! She got dosn On Der knees and
ssoTe Hisl, ~ her might =
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RxC Citizens should moi onlv mind Il

w Citizens should not only mind that
they vote early, but sOhat they vote. AS
au illustration Of the Importance of observ-
ing this maxim, the following is told as
having recently happened at Pittsburg. A
voter ran up as the polls were near clos
ing, and, in his hurry, numbered and
droped his ticket, which defined his po-
litical proclivities as those congenial to a
third party only-a regular outsider.
Here it is:
"DEAR Miss. 81 cannot meet
you at-this evening wife sus-
pect-keep shady. - s.,.,t
Yours. aTectionatelY. #stNN
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fsz-A man BEN synPatiliEei viii 90
account of his vile rsnping away said
pon'tPi' me ppla sas opes pax agsia
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4 rho Wiii aaalthaIwaI..d n

] learned grammeE when ! was d, Slpprfi-
". yate soldier On Tie Pky of sikpense . day.
The edge Of my berth or that 81 my
guard bed, was my seat q study in, my
khap.saek my book. case, and q bit Of
board lying on my lap was my. writing
table. had no money 90 purchases
candle or OIL. Id winter i was rarely that
1 could get any light but the Gro, and on.
ly my turn even of tliat. To buy d pen Or
piece Of paPef'1 was conpeiled 70 fore
go come Of my food. though in q state OF
half starvation. had not q moment %
call my own, and / had to read and wriso
amid The talking. laughing. singing.
whistling. and ba8iing OF al ieass haif q
score Of The most reckless men, and That
too in their hours OF freedom from All
control. And l say If ], under tbe eses cir-
cumstanccs, could encounter and oger-
come the task. Is there, can there Be. In
tho whole world, youth who can end
On an excuse for the non performances =
- o. i ..ssf..
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Alice. Alice. come nearer to. me y
said the dying woman, and she drew
down her niece's head almost to her lips.
Alice Reade's face grew white as the
death-stricken one beneath it; while the
struggling disjointed sentences came over
Mrs. Henley's lips.
:" That letter !-you remember Lu.
cius Brante did not write it. He knew
nothing Of it. He was not false to you.
l wrote it that you might marry --." :"
A sudden convu!sion left her speechless,
but her dying eyes prayed " Forgive
me -
This last year had made Alice Reade a
better woman, and her white lips answer
ed the question of those dim eyes with
solemn earnestness. May God forgive
you, Aunt Jane, freely as do !" and, ia
king that forgiveness with it, the soul Of
Jane Henley went out from that gorgeous
death chamber to its God.
Five years had passed. The Florence
sunset looked serenely into the studio of
the artist, and the light Florence winds
moved up the valleys. "It is beautifui, =
said the lady. breaking the long silence
which had followed longer conversation,
as she turned her deep eyes frdmthe pur-
pie clouds TO her companions face.
/" Yes, Alice livery beautiful. Do you
remember how We used to watch them at
the kitchen window ofthe old homestead,
ten years ago,?" =, 4,ssasa
The beautiful eyes filed With tears =
There was anqther long pause.
q is very strange met 8 GU ataons
the mountains last Week, nellAeF kaosEipg5
that the other tBes idgEd neithss' aFea
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It was high chamber in dilapidated
brick row. and miserably destitute. A
few ashes were smouldering on the hearth,
and BY their side sat shiYering. starving
mother and her child.
e Mother, Mother. won't papa come
home pretty soon and bring me cake 90
asked the boy.
81 hope so. dear little boy. Oh. if he
only can sell one of the pictures ]" 1t was
pitiful, the sob in the ,woman's voice.. the
tone half hopeful. hall despaiFipg. in
whIch size spoke this, She was young
and very pretty sill, even IN her pale,
plnehed tace and Ihe SORROW that looked