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The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-26

for no more "pickings from him. But
we can say " in truth and soberness to
Judge Parrett, and rejecting the sentiments
of large part of this community, that, in
lending his official position to support the
cause of an dishonest politician and an
unsrrupulcus official ensnared in the net
which he has laid for himself he has pol
luted the spotlessness of his judicial ermine,
and has greatly weakened his official infu-
ence. His certificates can't erase the rec
ords or change the law
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-26

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Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07
SELECT STORY.
THREE SCENES IN A LIFE.
BY DAISY HOWARD.

My heart is thrilling high with hap.
pincss tonight, dear Arthur. Are you
very sure you will always love me as you
do nowl"
Darling, l shall learn, with each pas
sing year, to love you more fondly; it
shall be the one effort of my life to insure
your perfect happiness. May my heart
cease to beat when, by word or deed, l
bring sorrow upon your head" And the
moonlight falling upon the speakers up
turned brow, almost glorifed it. 1t fell,
too, upon shining hair and tear-gemmed
eyes of sweet Carrie Stanley, who gazed
with loving trust upon the handsome, car
nest face of her lover.
Twas the bridal night of Arthur Clare
and Carrie Stanley. They stood by the
window, gazing upon the sublime and beau
tiful scenery bounding Carries home. As
Arthur ceased speaking, Mrs, Stanley came
to bid them hasten below, as the guests
were assembled, and the man of God wait.
ing to utter the solemn words which would
weave together these two young lives for
all time. The sacred words were spoken,
and friends crowd aroud with congratula-
tions, but Carrie hears only the low sobs
of her widowed mother, and the fearful
blessing Of the old pastor, who loves her
as his own child. The picture We gaze
upon is very sweet, The fair, young bride,
with white roses wound among her glossy
hair, and looping up the folds of the rich,
white satin dress, and the clear blue eyes
ever seeking the face of her young hus.
band As she reads upon that glowing,
happy face the secret Of his love for her,
the hnttcring heart settles down into
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07
THE ORPHAN.

Happy children oft heard them
Shouting Fathers come -
As he from his toll, awcuricd,
Nrars his humble home,
Then he calls his pra,ling household,
Gently, to his Knee
look and listen but alas!
No father calls for me.
In her cheerful palace.parlor
Sits n mother dear,
Circlcd by her cherub treasures.
Happy, all the year.
A. the glecful children in ner
Fondling arms I see,
l cannot wrcstle down the sigh.
No mother fOndlcs me.
Homes are happy all around me,
Whcrcsocer | go;
FULL of little merry makers,
Who no sorrow know.
Yes; see them bright and happy
Happy as can be;
Oh, let me never envy them
But there's no home for me.
Towards the little homeless wanderer
Act fathers part;
To the signing of the lone one
Give a mothers heart.
Then the orphan, blithc and happy
Happy as can be,
No more shall wake the sad refrain
But there's no hope for me.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07
CHOICE POEl RY.
M Y r 20 S E.
By THE ISvAJI D

I had Rose, blushing Rose,
A tender little flower,
Which bloomed in wondcrous loveliness
Within my garden bower.
The evening zcphyrs kissed its brow,
And left bright jewels there,
The clear and pearly drops Of dew.
So glittering and fair.
The morning shed its fairest beams
Upon its little breast,
And 10 yously the hunming.bird
slipped honey from its crest;
The robbin sang its sweetest song
To cheer each lonely hour.
And all hearts loved the little Rose,
Which graced my garden bower.
Yet still it pincd for realms Of light,
To reach its native home
That genial cline, where chilling winds,
And storms may never come;
To bloom beside the crystal stream,
And in the pasture green;
Where only amaranthine flowers,
And vcrnal shrubs are seen.
Nor could our fondcst love dctain
The gentle little flowcr,-
Bat for a season brief, though sneet,
|, blest our earthly bower;
Then faded from our sight, to bloom
In its own native cline,
In lovelincss too fair for earth,
Untouched by blight or time.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07

1s- Let no one suppose that by acting
a good part through life he will escape
slandor. There will be those who hate
him for the possession of the very qualities
that ought to procure esteem. There are
some folks in the world who are not will
ing that others should do any better than
themselves.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07

HEAVEN singeth cvcrmore Before the
throne Of God, angels and redeemed saints
extol his name. And this world is sing
ing too; sometimes with the loud noise of
the rolling thunder, of the boiling sea,
of the dashing cataract, and of the lowing
cattle and often with that still, solemn
harmony, which floweth from the vast Gre
alton, when in its silence it praiseth God.
Such is the song which gushes in silence
from the mountain lifting its head to the
sky, covering its face sometimes with the
wings of mist, and at other times unveiling
its snowwhite brow before its Maker, and
rejecting back his sunshine, gratefully
thanking him for the light with which it
has been made to glisten, and for the glad
ness Of which it is the solitary spectator las
in its grandeur it looks down upon the
laughing valleys. The tune to which hoav-
en- and earth are set, is the same. In
heaven they sing, "Tho Lord be axalted !;
let his name be magnifed forever" And
the earth singeth the same "Great art
thou in thy works, O Lord and unto .ho,
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07

Suppose some one entering heaven we're
to say to the redeemed, "Suspcnd your
songs for moment Ye have been prais
ing Christ, 10, these six thousand years
many of you have without cessation prais,
ee him now these many centuries ! Stop
your song moment pause and give your
songs to some one else for an instant -
Oh, can you conceive the scorn with which
myriad eyes for the redeemed would smite
the temptcr? Stop from praising him ! No
never. Time may stop, for it shall be no
more the world may stop, for its revolu-
tions must cease the universe may stop its
cycles and the moyings of its world, but
for US to stop our songs-ncver, never -
and it shall be said, ''Iallelujah, hallelu.
jah, hallelujah, the Lord God Omnipotcnt
roigneth "
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07

sS- An old soaker, down east, ac.
counts for his everlasting thirstiness, by the
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07

IF you would find God, he dwellcth on
every hilltop, and in every valley; God is
everywhere in creation; but if you want
special display ofhim, if you would know
what is the secret place Of the tabernacle
OF the Most High, the inner chamber of
divinity, you must 60 where you find the
church of true believers, for it is here he
makes his continual residence known-in
the hearts of the humble and contrite, who
tremble at his word.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07

HAPPY the day when every war-horse
shall be houghed, when every spear shall
become uning-hook, and every sword
shall be made till the soil which once it
stained with blood. 1t is of that nv text
prophesies, and my text naturally brings
me to that as the great climax of the gos-
pei dispcnsation. This will be the last
triumph of Christ before death itself shall
be dead; deaths great Jackal, war, must
die also, and then shall there be peace on
earth, and the angel shall say, "I have
gone up and down through the earth, and
the earth sitteth still and is at rest; l heard
no tumult of war no noise of battle" This
is what we hope for Let us fight on with
diligence and earnosttess.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07

sweet content; and fancy, looking down
the long vista of coming years, sees only
rose-tinted clouds and bright hopes, all
meeting a rich fruition. All woman's
heart, so easily attaches itself, is so dcpcn-
don't and clinging in its nature ever reach
ing out for some loving heart whcreon
to lean-but digress. Look well upon
this picture-fx the sweet face of Carrie
Clair upon your heart; for never again
will your eyes rest upon the happy, radi-
ant face of the child bride.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07

CHRIS T must be his own architect
lie will bring out different points of truth
in different ways. Why, l believe that
different denominations are sent on pur.
pose to set out different truths. There are
some of our brethren little too high, they
bring out better than any other people the
grand old truths of sovereign grace
There are some, on the other hand, little
too low; they bring out with great clear
ness the great and truthful doctrines of
mans responsibility. So that two truths
that might have been neglected, either enc
or the other, if only one form of Christians
ity existed, are both brought out, both
made resplendeut, by the different deuOm-
nations of Gods people, who are alike
chosen of GOd, and precious to him,
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07

In gloomy frame house in the suburbs
of Ma woman lies upon a narrow
cot-bed, i'll and dying. The air is hot and
sitting; and the noise of crying children
and harsh voices enter the window from
the crowded court. An air of poverty
and misery preyades the room. The only
relief to its dreariness is the gentle suffer
er. Mark well the pure, white brow, and
sunken blue eyes! Surely, this cannot be
tue cherished, pettcd child of the widow
Stanley the gentle darling of Arthur Clare's
heart All sweet Carrie, her bonnie head
SO low poor, faded fower---'tis even So
Alas the graceful limbs lie languidly now
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07

That maniac nonsense about God do
ing his own work and our sitting still and
doing nothing, ought to have been buried
long ago. know not how to character.
ize it it has done us immense damage
We know that God has accomplished his
own work; but he always has worked and
always will work with means.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07
SABBATH READING.
SURGEONS GEMS.

a NEEDLESS spirit is curse to the soul;
rash, presumptuous conversation will eat
as doth a canker. "Too- bold" was never
Too-wise nor Too-loving. Careful walking
IS one of the best securities of safe and
happy standing. 1t is solemn cause for
doubling when we are Indifferent in our
behavior to our best Friend.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07

r@' A good key is necessary to enter
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-10-20


only for its present purpose, but as
being more available in its latter stages
for the decoration of the young sciors
OF our house, and a sly hint was thrown
out that a spare sbreadth' out of the
skirt might be very useful in refacing
any coat of mine that might stand in
need of that operation. The sometime
before alluded to has not yet arrived
and from present appearances it is as
far off as when the promise was made.
Still it fingers in my wife's memory,
and she occasionally brings it to mind
among, / fear, many other unfulfilled
promises.
In regard to the dress, you may de-
pend upon having it 'sometime,' but
the treasures of which l was speaking
are not exactly available for that pur-
pose at present. l replied; but / can
easily convince you, that we are pos
| sessed of them. Are there not seven
rosy checked cherubs (at least you
call them so when they are not in mis-
chief,) now sleeping in happy uncon-
| sciousness of money and it's attendent
evils, each one of them worth it's weight
in gold ? I've heard you say so many
time. Now at moderate estimate
they will weigh fifty pounds apiece.
Evon California gold is worth two hun
dred dollars pound. SO we have
three hundred ard fifty pounds of
cherubs at two hundred dollars pound
which according to simple multiplca-
ton, makes seventy thousand dollars
worth Of those little heavenly bodies
alone.
Nonsense, Percy
'Oh! but it isn't nonsense. There it
is figured at your own estimate, and a
pretty little sum it makes to begin the
world with. Now my dear, what is my
love?'
This was poser. Ny wife looked
up in haze Of blank astonishment as
her mind grasped the idea, and trem-
blod for fear she might say nothing
and thus overturn the whole ground
work of my theory. But as soon as she
had swallowed the Idea ard mentally
digested it she replied:
why don't you ask me what tho air
is worth ? For 1 could dispense with
one as well as the other
thanked my wife for the compliment,
and congratulated myself that she had
drawn no worse comparison between
my love and the air, and continued
well then what do you consider the
air worth 2
! shan't answer any such foolish
question, for, if you go on with your
calculations, you'll make us out million
aires
That's what intend to do; and ] |
think | am safe at putting down the
love ut q hundred thousand. Then /
there is my honor, which is worth at
least as much as much as the love
I've no doubt Of it, interrupted my
wife.
For you wouldn't value tho one with
out the other. Sc there you havo the
sum total Of three items aIone-chcrubs
seventy thousand-lovc II hundred
thousand, and honor as much more,
making snug sum Of more than a
quarter Of million Of dollars, and say
nothing Of other items that might be
mentioned, and which would perhaps
double the amount, besides cash on
hand amounting to one dollar and
seventeen cents
4 paused for my dear wife to appre-
ciate the full force of my reasoning,
(she is little slow at fgurcs,J and
when she had timQsto turn the whole
subject in her mind, l asked:
what have you to say to that!
-
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-10-20

THE Unicorn.-The fabulous unicorn
has been found by u traveller. He
says -
1T exists, IN tho interior OF the Ihibot
IN India, where it is well known to the
Inhabitants. 1t is the same as the
unicorn of Scriptures, and is mentioned
by ancient writers. 1t is said to be
fr"no, g iIJ }" - nI1dr smn o'S", ,, ",u -
,rbn,, ,n l,.,, ,;.;,,. f,
taiS cl,oLaaJ -, '''' Tt piUJoS't"S oaI iio,, I
arc 4a 10 rnat ,.;t, ~ - Ln,.5, "giL9 ,''''r ~
Tho Crcot Dnsort '''' ''' WV '''l' '.'' -
porsou A balanced 20 = tor,roro,,co
society. all thc nrmbcrs az Which wore
total nbstinrncc mcn. Ono nf Lia
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-10-20

ued, as she successfully presented for
| inspection the various articles which
constituted the juvenile wardrobe; and
l must confess that seen through that
medium, my imposing array of figures
seemed scarcely largo enough to fill
one of the smallest rent holes among
the multitude. Still hoped that my
calculations had q tendency to raise
my wife's spirit, and l was unwilling
that she should sink back into that
slough of darning needles and yfrn.
So | continued the subject:
Clothes my dear, especially in the
case OF children, are mere matter of
form. A blind adherence to the Gus
toms of society. If it cost moro to
wear shreds and patches than whole
garments-if rents and rips could be
rendered fashionable, all the world
would be out at elbows But though
society turns up its nose at last years
fashions-though love looks askance at
a steady lover, and even tho Church
puts its ban on the threadbare coat, you
and L jog on our way regardless of
frowns and favors, conscious of the
hidden treasure which gilds and bright
ems our early existence.
And then, again, compare our condi-
ton with that of our first parents,
when they had notice to quit from
tho Great Landlord, and first com
menced housekeeping on their own
account. Their wardrobe was extremely
limited, and I've no doubt Eve would
have been very thankful for nine-penny
calico, and Adam would not have so
scorned good satinet, even though tho
cut of the garments had been few
days old. For however rural fig
leaf may appear, it is not exactly
adapted for general use, especially with
the thermometer ut zero. And | don't
think u lady Of your weight in the
community would appear to advantage
in that primitive style of Dress
Perseverance y exclaimed my wife,
end she colorod with indignation ut
the idea and laid down tho last stocking
preparatory to seeking her nightly
rest.
She never calls me perseverance,
except when she is astonishcd or indig-
nant; and ! know by the tono Of tho
voice that it would be useless to pursue
the subject ut present. SO, winding
UP my argument, and the little wood
clock that graccs our mantle, address,
ed myself to slumber, while that mur-
INJURED aspiration on the midnight air
from my wifo's half opened lips
'Oh dear! / wish | was rchp
LE..a---..- e L
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-11-10
VOL. "a.
q Behold Your Conqueror.'

Such was the classic language of tho
Governor elect of the great State of Penn
sylvania toward those who, in the exercise
of their rights, had dared to vote against
him. We have always supposed that in
the hour of triumph tho magnanimity of
the heart poured forth its richest treasures
that victory humbled the spirit of the
Great But listen to the language of A.
G.. Curtin, uttered when his fellow citizen
had assembled to congratulate him on his
elevation to the highest Office in the gift of
Pennsylvanians. "To my opponents and
traducers, Isay, (rising step higher than
he had before stood and elongating his
elastic person to its greatest altitudo,)
"BEIIOLD YOUR CONQUERORl /
haze yo~ ~moIer my Jeet, I aciH fight yom
for three gears and the oclds toiN be on my
SIDE" Such language from man in such
position and on such an occasion, re-
quires no comment to inspire the manly
heart with the utmost abhorenco---and
humiliating indeed is the spectacle of q
man promoted by the sutfrages of a free
people, proving destitute of all the finer
sensibilities of our nature and insulting and
defying fallen foe. Let it be known for
the mutual benefit of all, that the Cover
nor elect is to be Governor of party to
fight its opponents Jor three gears,' and
not the Chief Magistrate of the entire peo-
pie of the keystone State.-BeRefonts
Watckman.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-11-10

PoTAToEs AT THE WEsr.-The Dew
airport (Iowa) Dcmocras says: "If any
body wants to soc patatoes by the cord
good mcasurc--let him step down to the
lcvee. There is not shipping enough at
this time on the Upper Mississippi to move
them away as fast as they accumulate
Farmers complain little that the price is
too low but they are the only party to blame
if they want higher prices they must not
raise so many. The market price is from
l2 to Is cts. per bushel.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-11-10

SPLENDID CnANcE,-Riding out the
other day, little fellow stepped up and
asked to ride. We consented of course,
and he was soon seated, and began busy
talk. We inquired as to the chestnut crop,
and if he was going to gather any. His
eyes frightened up a moment, replying
with great earnestnessi
~ know where there are six trees load
ed down, the trees are very low, and thC
man is deadW
Any one who has gathered chestnut
with the fear Of the "man coming" can al
once see the advantage of the location Q
the six second -growths above mentioned
A:ita5Va Sentinel,
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-11-10

STEPHEN GIRARD's RULE.-ssI have
always considered advertising, literally
and long to be the great medium of success
in business, and prelude to wealth. And
l have made it an invariable rule, too, to
advertise in the dullest times, long expert
ence having taught me that money thus
spent is well laid out; as by keeping my
business continually before the public, it
has secured me many sales that would
otherwise have lost.'--Stephen Garard.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-11-10

Soul EsGRAvINGs.-Everybody is an
artist. We have not the gifted hand and
genius hand which can make the cold mar
bic seem almost to breathe with life. We
are "Soul Engravers. And the chiscl of
the artist weares not more effectively upon
the marble block than the little chsel of
our influence upon the souls which sur
round us. How careful the artist is that
each touch shal! perfect and not deface his
work! Shall we not desire the impression
of our chisel to be for "good and not for
evil I" When the labor of the sculptor is
rewarded, his beautiful statue is placed in
the great "Templo of Arts" here an ad'
miring world gazcs upon it, until the de-
stroying hand Of time crumbles it to dust
But the souls which our chisels are help
ing to mould, have higher destiny to full
fl.-Their life is immortal, and is given
them to prepare to dwell in mansions 'eter
nal in the Heavens"
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-11-10

WHEN young Camancho wishes to
marry, he leads his best horse to the door
of his intended, and there bitches him. If
she rejects his love she turns the horse
loose; but if she accepts, she leads him to
her fathers stable. In this latter case the
lover kill another horse and delivers the
heart to the lady, who Immediately roasts
it, when the happy pair eat it together,
and the marriage is complete.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-11-10

GAMBLING.-Let every man avoid all
sorts of gambling as he would poison
A man or boy should not allow himself to
even toss up even for half.penny, for
this is often the beginning of habit of
gambling; and this ruinous crime comes
on in slow degrees. Whilst man is
minding his work he is playing the best
game, and he is sure to win. A gambler
never makes good use of his money, :,
even if he should win.