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LAMBERTVIIIE N. J.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 49, 1860

steps were slow and measured, his
head uncovered and tears flowing thick
and fast, as he looked frnm side to
side ct the veterans to whom he had
babe adieu forever. Shortly an event
occurred mo-. e touching than the rest.
A gigantic soldier, who had stood by
his side at Trenton, stepped forth
from the ranks and extended his
hand,
Farewell, my beloved General,
farewell |"
Washington grasped his hand, in
conyulsive emotion, in both of his
All dicipline was now at an end The
officers could not restrain the men as
they rushed forward to take Washing
ton by the hand, and the violent sobs
and tears of the soldiers told how
deeply engraved upon their affections
was the love of their commander.
At length Washington reached the
barge at Whitehall, and e..tered it.
At tho first stroke of the oars he rose,
and turning to the companions of his
glory, by waving his hat babe them
silent adieu Their answer was only
in tears; ard tie officers and men,
with slistening eyes, watched the re-
ceding beat till the form of their noble
commander was lost sight of in the
distance.
fro BE Continued
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California Twenty Years Ago,
and Now.

We clip the following paragraph
from the San Francisco Weekly Mir
ror, as giving some idea of the won
derful progress Of that wonderful coun-
try during tie last twenty years.
1t must be source Of great delight
to man like John A. Suffer to look
back upon useful and well spent life,
and reflect that the creation and ele-
walton to power of large and pros
porous state, is, in a large measure
due to his own disinterested exertions
in field where few except the most
hardy would have dared to follow him.
Less than twenty years ago, an old
captain of Napolcon's Swiss Guard,
disappointed with his prospects as a
soldier of fortune, conceived the idea
of establishing himself in the North
American wilderness, Of Which Their
less was known than Of the interior of
Africa at the present day Whether
any idea had as yet entered his brain
with regard to the prospective great
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Elephants in India.

When / was at Mussowrie, q COM
missariat male elephant, which had
been for some days fractions and
troublesome, without, however, any
proofs of its being dangerous, was Ia
ken by its mahout to drink at water
course passing through the town of
Dehrc, where numbers of the natives
fill their pitchers. An old native w.
man happened to come near the ele-
plant while drinking, and was filing
her earthen jar with water, when from
some unaceountable motive Of mischief
the elephant passed his trunk round
her waist, lifting her off her legs and
putting her under one of his own feet,
with which he instantly crushed her
to DEATH and went on waging his ears
and drinking, as if his little practical
joke had been q harmless freak of fan
cy. One of my native writers, who
prided himself on / is powers of repor-
ting in English announced the circum-
stance and its effect on the public
mind, in the following quaint phrase
ology which is, however, to some ex-
tent, characteristic of his class -
4 Honored sir--this morning the
elephant of Major r. by sudden
motion Of snout and foot kill one old
woman. Instant fear fall upon the
inhabitants. have the honor to be
sir, your most obedient servant, &c"
"A more horrible instance Of the
savage cruelty Of the elephant is re-
lated on the authority Of military
officer, who was also Superintendent
of Forests: Beejapore water course
was being made at about three miles
from Debra, large solitary elephant
WHICH udu COHCSdlcU itooil uOiiuu a
clump Of bamboo bushes, rushed out
on some native laborers going up the
canal, They attempted to escape by
flight, but the elephant soon caught
up the last of them, and threw him on
his face, by striking him on The back
with its trunk, it then placed one Of
its pon6erous feet on his legs, while it
twisted its trunk round his chest be-
meath the armpits, then wrenched the
upper from the lower portion Of his
body at the waist, dangling the former
in its trunk as it walked along, line
of entrails marking the course it took
from the crushed limbs at the spot it
caught him, to the head, arms and
chest, which it carelessly tossed away
about twenty PAGES from them.
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ANGELS IN +he vro4sa.

q correspondence the rg5sp Es
sends the following as a true Incl
dent.
/ know a man. He is not a chris
tian. His daily life is not 10 accor-
dance even with the principles Of NC
rality He has three beautiful, we'll
behaved children The other day ne
told me this incident Of one of them,
his little girl three years old.
Said he: Perhaps some people
would think it a sacrilege but l don't,
but for some time back | have been in
the habit of reading the Bible and
having prayers every night before the
children go to bed | have done it
because t has good influence on
the children, and because | hope it
may have a good influence on myself.
Last night | went to the Lodge, Che
is MaSon1 and did not get home till
after IL O'Clock. The children of
course, were all asleep. Before going
up to bed, l knelt down by my bed to
pray, and had been there but mo-
ment, when | heard Noble getting up
from her bed in the next room, and
erlittle feet came pa3tering across
the floor toward me- l kept perfect
ly still, and she came and knelt beside
me without saying a word. / did not
notice her, and in a moment, speak
ing just ADORE her breath. she said.
PA, pray loud prayed. / kissed
her, and she went back to bed; aad
| tell you c., have bad Moth
ing to affect me so for the last ten
years. I have thought of nothing else
all the day long but just that little
Pa, pray loud"
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perfcial observer, the glare of his
military reputation has thrown far in
to the shade many of his most noble
traits of character; and it cannot be
denied that he has done more to raise
the standard Of mortality in the army
than all the chieftains who have pre-
cede,l him his brightest lanrels have
IT been won by mastery efforts in
warfare the guardian angel of the
Union binds,upon his brow a more en-
during chaplet, and inscribes in gol-
den letters the word Pecifcator, for
it is in that character that he has rem
dered the Union the most important
services. The amicable adjustment
which he effected of the Maine bound
airy question; the settlement of diff
culties on the Niagara frontier; his
peaceful, quiet removal Of the
Cherokecs beyond the Mississippi and
later yet, his recent successful mission
to our Western borders, entitle him to
our deepest gratitude and lasting
homage. And though there may be
those who are now envions of his
fame, it is satisfactory to reflect that,
when he has gone, the American peo-
pie will recognize his great virtues, his
public services, and his pnswevering
patr. otism The nation will have lost
a hoIle and exemplary citizen, the
United Republic one of its strongest
pillars, and temperance one of its best
practical advocates and frmest sup
porters
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gabbath gea1ing.
Earth's Devils.

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in a
recent discourse, TINS draws a pic
ture of that large class of men who de-
light in tempting to ruin the innocent
and unsuspecting
1t is not the Indian alone who
loves to carry the scalps he has taken
10 battle. There are thousands of be-
ings male and female, who love to car
ny in sight the number Of victims they
have seduced or corrupted, to count
them over and boast of their crimes.
There are men who love to corrupt
the yonng, who love to teach them
falacious vices, and seduce them into
evil compliances. to Put the leaven Of
perdition into-th souls, and wait
till it begins to leaven the whole limp
T'dy seem to have horrible gloat Of
pleasure in doing his They resist
all efforts of their victim to break
away, and if he does get way they
pull him down again-and God lets
such men live Did yen ever see
spider spinning his web in the corner
With what delicacy of his loom doe
he spin all his web how does it shine
in the sun and who has spun it all
right aud after spinning it he makes
a little hole, in which be goes back
ard lies in wait for a singing fly that
has surveyed and philosophical on the
Universe. He looks npon the web.
and the moment he touches it, how the
spider rushes ont to seize him and if
he be small insect and a large spider
he viii bite him and roll him up in the
web, or if he be large fy, he com
menees rolling him up and preparing
by and BY to eat him and if for a
moment he turns 10 escape, how he
rushes ont ard instantly seizes him
again, and rolls him up and up, and
over and over. more closely than ever,
aid then drags him down into some
corner.
l have seen.nen treat men just so
They spin just such webs and then sit
in some dark corner till they wind their
coils around him TIL he is hopelessly
entangled in the web.
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Jake Wizards Fright.

For twenty three years, Old Jake
Willard has cultivated the soil of Bald
win County, Georgia, and drawn
therefrom support for himself and
wife. Tie i childless. Not long ago
Jake left the house in search of q
missing COW. His route led him thro'
an old worn out patch Of clay land of
about six acres in extent, in the cen
ter of which was well, twenty-five
or thirty feet deep, that at some time
had furnished the inmates Of a dilapi-
dated aouse near by with water. In
passing by this spot an ill wind lifted
Jake's tile from his head, and mali.
ciously waited it to the edge of the
well and in it tumbled.
Now Jake had always practised lhe
virtue of economy and he Immediately
set about recovering the lost hat
He ran to the well ana finding that
twas dry at the bottom, he uncoiled
the rope which he had brought for the
purpose Of capturing the truant cow,
and after several attempts to catch the
hat with moose, he concluded to
save time by loing down into the we'll
himself TO accomplish this he made
fast one end Of the rope to stump
hard by, and was quickly on his way
down the WELL
The devil himself, or some other
wicked spirit, put it into Ned's crani-
um to have little fun, SO be quietly
slipped up to the horse, and unbuck-
ling the strap, approached with a slow
measured ting -a-ling the edge of
the we'll
Dang that old horse p said Jake,
" he's comm this way sure, and amt
got no more sense than to fall in here.
Whoa, Ballr'
But the continued approach Of the
tipg-aling" said iast as plainly as
words that Ball " jald' whoa. Be-
sides, Jake was at The bottom resting,
before trying to shin it up the rope.
Great Jerusalem y said he, /" the
old cuss viii be on top Of me before
| can say Jack Robinson. IFhoa
dang you, whoa ~
Just then Ned drew up to the edge
Of the well, and with his fo-t kicked
little dirt into it.
Oh Lord |" exclaimed Jake fall
inc upon his knees At he bottom
'eI'm gone now, whoa Now I lay
me down to sleep-w-h-o-a, now, Oh,
Lord have mercy on me !"
Ned could hold in no longer, and
fearful Jake might suffer from his
fright, revealed himself.
Probably Ned didn't make tracks
with his his heels from that well.
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cred in truth that the grave clothes
were night clothes, and the corpse a
somnambuIist. And It became mani
fest that the excitement attending the
death and burial of its playmate, work
ing upon the child's mind i'll sleep, was
the cause to which we were indebted
for this untimely and startling visit. -
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VOLUME 3, NUMBER 10.
A Strange Story

In a village near Newark, England
in an old matched house, which has
been occupied by the same family for
nearly three hundred years, there lives
an old man who has completed his
eighty-sixth year A person who
had occasion to visit him the other
day, was not little surprised on hear
ing the old gentleman in the conrse of
the conversation, express his belief
that he was not only going to heaven,
but had been there once since his first
introduction into the this world. -
From the account he gives of the mat
ter, it appears that when he was about
eleven years of age he was in an APP
parently lifeless state-which he called
q trance--for the space of nine days
and it was during that time he thinks
he was permitted to behold the glories
of heaven. His parents fully believed
him to be dead the passing bell wa
rung ; his coffin was ordered and made;
and on the third dry his friends assem-
bled for the purpose Of following him
to The grave. The clergyman Of the
parish went in to look at the supposed
corpse before the coffin lid was screw
ed on, and finding it to be warm, he
at once expressed the opinion that
the child was not dead, and after or
dering the postponement of the fune-
raj, sent his servant on horseback for
a doctor, who, on arriving at the
house, confirmed the assertion Of the
minister, and ordered the boys mother
to moisten his lips with wine
and water. She did so, and on the
seventh day he showed signs of life by
moving on the eighth day he could
hear the conversation of persons in the
in the room, and on the ninth day he
was able to open his eyes and rise
from the supposed bed of death
Since that time his health has been
delicate, but he has continued to &C.
eupy the grazing land adjoining his
cottage. and Las kept cows after the
manner of his forefathers.
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There's land far away mid the stars we are
told.
Where we know not the sorrows of time
Where the pure waters wander through valleys
of gold,
And life is a treasure sublime.
'Tis the land Of our God-'Tis the home of the
soul,
Where ages Of splendor eternaIly roll
Where the way weary traveller reaches his goal,
On the evergreen mountains of life.
Our gaze cannot soar to that beautiful land,
But orr visions have told of its bliss.
And our souls by the gale from its gardens are
famed,
When we faint in the deserts of this.
And we sometimes have longed for its holy re-
pose,
When our spirits were torn with temptations and
And we've drank from the tide of the river that
flows
From the evergreen mountains of life
Oh, the star never treads the b!uo heavens at
night
Blu we think where the ransoned have trod,
And the day never smiles from its palace Of
light
But we feel the bright smiles of our god.
We are travelling homeward through changes
and gloom,
To kingdom where pleasures unchangingly
bloom,
And our guide is the glory that shines through
the tomb,
From the evergreen mountains of life.
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ORIENTAL MODE OF DETECTION. Il
heard of an ingenious way to detect a
pilferer. The party who had been
robbed drove wooden pin in the floor
of dark room, and anointed it thor
oughly with preparation of Hing or
Gssdfatida. He then assembled his ser
wants one of whom he knew must be
the thief, and after a preliminary cere-
mony to awaken their superstitious
fears, he said ''Now GO into that -oom
singly, and lay firmly hold Of the pin !;
the guilty party viii stick to it, the
others need have no fearsn The ser.
wants having gone in and returned,
one al time, their hands is examined
and all but one were found TO smell
strongly ofassafeti la. That one was
ofcourse the thief knowing himself to
be unobserved, had not touched the
pin for fear Of sticking to it, as he had
been told he would. His house heing
searched, the stolen goods was found
therein s.
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A three year-old nephew Of one of
NY friends had finished his usual pray
ers at his mothers knee when she
said.
+" Now, Willie, pray for your grand J
father and grandmother"
He did as directed.
Now your aunts and uncles. And
now for all your cousins.
His petition went went up singly
for each.
And now, Willie, pray for all the
world" said his mother.
Wearied out, perhaps, at the length
Of his exercises, he Immediately ex-
claimed,
Ma, it's just as much as can do
70 pray for my oa0n 'lations
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The Prompt Clerk.

| once knew young man, said an
eminent preacher, who was common
cling life as q clerk. One day his en-
ployer said to him, Now, tomorrow
that cargo Of cotton must be got out
and weighed, and we must ha re a reg
ular account of it. a
He was young man of energy
This was the first time he had been
entrusted to superintend the execu-
ton of this work He made his ar
rangements over night, spoke to the
men about their carts aud horses. and
instructed all the laborers to be there
at half past O'Clock So they set TO
work, and the thing was done; and
about ten or ele en- o'clock in the day
his employer came in, aud seeing him
seated in the contingencies, looked
very blank, supposing his commsnds.
bad not been executed.
ct thought" said he, you were
requested to get out that cargo Of
cotton this morning -
9 It is all done, replied the clerk,
and here is the account of it'll
He never looked behind him FROM
that moment-never His character
was fixed, confidence was established
He was found to be The man to do the
thing with pFompsness Hevery soon
came to be the one that could not be s.
spared--he was as necessary to tbs
firm as ore Of the partners. He was
religious man, and went through
life Of great bensvoience, and u bis
death was able TO leave his children
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How the Boys Fooled the Old
Gentleman

He W rs fat and on horseback. -
They made him believe that creek
he had just come to, Git was in Alaba-
ma, was so deep that his horse would
have to swim it. The Colonel slowly
Invested of coat, boots, pantalooas
and drawers. These he nicely tied u p
in bis handkerchief, and hung them on
the horn Of his saddle, then he re-
mounted, and as he was very short,
fat man., with face like a withered
apple, and a brown wig, there is no
doubt he made all interesting picture
as he bestrode his steed, with the ex-
tremity of his only garment.
Slowly and cautiously the old gen
tleman took the creek Half a length
and the water was not fetlock deep
Here the horse stopped to drink. A
length and hall, and the stream was
no deeper. Thirty feet, and decid-
ed shoaling.
Here Col D. reined in.
There must" said he, be an
awful deep channel between this and
the bunk-see how it runs. I'll dash
through here. /"
A sharp lash made the horse spring
the watery waste, and another carried
the horse and rider to the opposite
bank
The creek was nowhere more than
a foot deep A wild yell from the
young 'uns announced their approba-
tion Of the sport, as they galloped
away with the Colonel after them, i'm
precating ferociously, but they got off,
and left him grumbling and dressing
himself by the road side, AssF
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A CHARGE AS IS A CHARGE Judge
Jonah Joels recently delivered the fol:
lowing charge to the jury, in case of
Elm Church, for stealing:
jury, Won kin 90 ont, and don't
.s!l0 soar @ ge vau
ind Yeraios. ii soa cant fad one
Of your own, gil the one the last jury
used.
The jury retired, and after an alb
sence of 10 minutes, returned with a
verdict Of suicide in the ninth degree
and fourth verse
Their Judge Jorah Joels pronoune
ed upon Elm Church, this sentence ::
Linn Church stand up and face the
music You ara found guilty of sui
eide for stealing. Now this court
sentences you to pay fine of two
shillings, to shave yonr head with
bagganet in the barricks, and if you
try to cave in the heads Of any Of the
jury you'll catch thunder, that's all.
Your fate will be warning to others,
and in conclusion, sheriff, bring me a
pint of red eye-I'm awful thursty
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EDITED BIZ E. C. DE FRANCE, FOR THE PRESS. )
AFFECTING INCIDENTS OF BARON sTEU.
BEN AND GEN. WASHINGTON.
The revolution was over Eight
years. conflict had ceased, and the war
riors were now to separate for ever,
turning their weapons into plough
shares, and their camps into work
shops. The spectacle, though a sub
lime and glorious one, was attended
with sorrowful feelings for, alas ! in
the remnants of that eallent army
of patriotic soldiers now ahont to dis
band without pay, without support.
stalked poverty and disease The
country had not the means to be greet
full
The details of the condition Of many
Of the officers of that period, accor-
ding to history and oral tradition,
were melancholy in the extreme. Pos
sessing no means of patrimonial inheri-
tance to fall back upon-thrown ont
of even the perilous support Of the
soldier at the commencement of win
ter, and hardly fit for any other duty
than that of the camp their situa-
ton can better be imagined than des-
cribed.
A single instance, as sample Of the
situation of many of the officers, as
related Ct the conduct of Baron Stem
ben, may not be amiss When the
main body Of the army was disbaRdel
at Newburg, and the veteran soldiers
were bidding a parting farewell to
each other, Lieut Col Cochran, an
aged soldier of the New Hamp
shire line, remarked, with tears in his
eyes, as he shook hands with the ba-
ron
f" For myself | could sand it; but
my wife and daughters are in the gar
ret of that wretched tavern, and ]
have no means of removing them.
" Come, come" said the baron
don't give way thus. will pay my
respects to Mrs Cochran and her
daughters"
When the good old soldier left them
their countenances were warm Will
gratitude-for he left there all he had
In one of the Rhode Island regi
ments were several companies of blacl
troops, who had served through thu
whole war, and their bravery and di
cipline were unsurpassed. The baror
observed one of these poor negroes OF
the wharf at Newburg, apparently ii
great distress.
What is the matter brother sol
der ?"
I" Why, Master Baron, | want
dollar to get home With, now the Con
gress has no farther use for me.
The Baron was absent for p few mo
ments, and then returned with siIyel
dollar which he had borrowed.
There, it's all ] conld get. Tax,
it.n
The negro received it with joy, hail
ed sloop which was passing dowr
the river to New York, and as HI
reached the deck, took OF his hat ant
said
God bless you, Master Baron p
These are only single Illustrations
of the army at the close of the war
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!" Oh, Jacob = said a master to his
apprentice boy, its wonderful to see
what q quantity you eat.
T" Yes" said the boy, have been
practicing it since was child"
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TO, keep apples from rotting put
them into dry cellar with fifteen
children.
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Reflection is flowers of the mind
giving ont wholesome fragrance.
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lie who possesses q susceptible
heart has an inexhaustible mine Of.
sweet emotions.
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B. b. BLACK ELL, EDITOR.
@net's sQpok.

The following magnificent lines are
not to be excelled in the annals of fine
poetry. Their grandner is sublime.
They were written by the gifted Poet
and Vocalist by request of his invalid
mother, who shortly afterward journ-
neyed to the land mid the stars y"
Ed.
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BY JAMES @ CLARK.
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Evergreen Mountains of Life.