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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07
The Bachelors Excuse.

i'tbink that a general rule. the bache
lors-contirme dbachelors eyen-are admi-
rers of the fair sex, AMI picerersa. Ihaye
observed bacholars endure the fretfulness
of. children. when fathers would explode
in storm of passion. Perhaps hats be-
cause the bachelors don't have to stand
itall the time 1t is Just 50 with the
whims of our fair tyranrs. The bachlors
put up witk Inconvenience because their
thrahlom is but transitory. They see
women only on the bright side. after. all.
They, as it were, tast the champagne,
but do not become intoxicated. And, af-
ter all, believe it is the alteration OF the
sex that makes So many bachelors. No
one wants 10 sip nectar contantly. No
one. can occupy all the time in the con
temptation of beauty or in the enjoyment
ut delightful recreations. MOnOtony be-
gets safety The musician in the orehes-
ira tires of the nightly scenes which
delights the eyer-changing audience
The stage-driver, the conductor. the steam
boat captain, die of etaui amid the scenes
which inspire the casual traveller with
enthusiasm. Familiarity. in short. breeds
contempt The bachelor appreciates
these never-failing rules. lie prefers 10
see and appreciate woman in her best hu
NOR, her smiling face. He thinks that
marrying her would be like going 10 the
opera every day, taking breakfast, dinner.
and supper of the choicest game, hearing
music forever, or spending his life out in
a garden with nothing but roses.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07
A Plethora of Silver.

In the United States, Tor reasons we
need not explain, silver has not risen to
so high a premium as gold, and brokers
consequently find it profitable to exchange
silver for gold, by an indirect process, in
this country, where there is not the same
difference in the value of the two metals.
United States silver is sent here to pur-
chase the bills of our banks these are
turning into gold, which is sent back 10
theState; and brokers make the difference
between the current value Of the two
kinds of specie there.
For small shange, the American silver
has to n certain extent, displaced the bill
of our banks; and the quantity of it in
circulation is sufficiently great TO create
some inconvenience. 1t is not bankable
except at a considerable discount, and
the inconvenience arises solely from this
cause. A trader has payIaent 10 make
in the baak, and his silver is useless for
the purpose, except at the cost of the dis
count at which the banks receive it.
Should the inconvenience become suffi-
ciently great to render Unnecessary to take
some steps 10 prevent the influx of cur
rency which is not legal tender, some
movement for that purpose will probably
be made. No one refuses to receive a
moderate quantity of American silver in
payment, but ifany serious inconvenience
should result from the large quantity in
circulation. its current value will probably
be reduced to the bankers value by that
common consent which at present keeps
it in general circulation at higher value
than is accorded to British silver
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07
The Light.House Keeper.

A distinguished traveller narrates the
following incident:
Being at Calais, climbed up into the
lighthouse and conversed with the keep
er. ''Supposel. said ], that one of these
lights should go out?" Never! imposi-
BILE ~ he cried, with sort of consterna-
tion at the hypothesis. Sir" said he,
pointing to the ocean, ''yonder. where
nothing can be seen, therear ships going
by to every part of the world. If. tonight,
one of my burners were to go out, within
six months would come letter, perhaps
from India, perhaps from America, per-
haps from some place | never heard of,
saying, on such a night, the watchman
neglected his post, and vessels were in
danger. All sir, sometimes in the dark
nights, in the stony weather, | look to
sea. and feel as if the eye of the whole
world were looking at my light. Go out.
Burn dim! Oh neverw
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07
A Firm Belief in Providence.

In the Honorable Mr.. Murray's books
on Egypt, the following anecdote is re-
lated:
Iwas surprised to find that this Nah
moudieh Canal, although cut by the pres
ent Yieeroy, aT an enormous cost of mon
ey and of human life, through a country
perfectly fiat, is as winding in its course
as path through labyrinth. On ask
ing Demetri our dragoman, if he could
explain the cause Of this, he answered me
by-a story-for he has story ready for
almost every occasion. The very same
question, he says, was lately put to Mob
AIMED Ali by French engineer travelling
through Egypt. The Pasha, after a mo-
ment's reflection, said to the engineer
Have you ever seen rivers in Europe?"
''Yes, sir, many" was the reply.
Are they straight or crooked in their
course?"
They are generally crooked, sir"
"Who made the rivers ?" inquired the
Pasha.
They were made by Allah" said the
astonished engineer.
Then, sir" concluded the Pasha, tri-
umphantly, ''do you expect me to know
and to do better than Allah ?"
The poor engineer had no reply to make
to this strange argument, 50 he took his
leave and went his way.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07
LIVE BRAvELY.

The world is alfdarkened with crosses
Whose burdens are weighing them down; q.
They er0ak of their starts and i'll usage,
And grOpe in the ditch for a crown. -
Nhy talk to the wind of thy fortune,
Or clr at distinction and g0Ody
II tho .-Ist not reach high ON the ladder,
Thou i steady lis base by thy hold
For The dower. though hid In theeOrner.
VIII as hultiessly hnish its blotm-
VIII reach for sparkle of sunshine, .
That the clouds have not dared 10 consume.
md wOuld'st thou be less than a flower
With thought. and n brain, and a hand!
Why wait for the dribbles Of fortune. -isit
When there's something that these may com
There is food 10 be won from the furrow,
And forests that wait to be hewn. te11
There is marble untouched by the chlselj
Days that break on the forehead Of junes
Will ye let the plow rust IN the fnrroW-
Unbuilded heme OF ball!
Nor bid the stones wake from silence
Nor fret. a. if fretting vere ALL
Go learn Of the blossom and ant-hiIl.
There's something thy labor must give
Light the beacon that pierees the tempest.
Live-not trail with tbs face in the drOss heap,
!. In the track of the brainless and proud.
Like the ceTements away from thy manhood.
Thou n Fobbing the dead OF q shrOad. ~
There's words and there's pens 10 be welded,
There's thoughts that must dieif unsaidt
WOuld'st thou saunter and pine away roses,
Or sepulchres dream. that are dead? :
No, drag not thy hope to the pyre.
Dreams dead from the ashes will rise; ~
Look not down on the-earth for its shadow
There's sunlight for thee IN the skies
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07
The Rebels Would MT Stand Fire.

1t is well known that the rebels made
but slight resistance to the crossing OF the
Rappahannock by our forces, and the
general impression has been that no re-
sistance was intended. Accounts, how
ever, concur in stating that the rebels
broke and cowardly ran when pressed by
the bayonets of the brave Unionists. 1t
has been stated, too, that there were but
a few rebel sharpshooters stationed in the
city. How true this statement is, is as
certained from an official list of the
wounded published in the Richmond En-
qrirer, in which it is stated that there were
forty-two regiments stationed in Freder-
icksburg to resist the crossing of the
Union forces. But of them all the only
ones which stood with creditable show
of bravery were from Mississippi, and
known as Barksdale's brigade.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07
HOMELESS.
EI ADELAIDE a. PROCTOR.

1t is cold. dark midnight. yet listen
To that patisz Of tiny feet!
Is it one of your dogs, fair lady,
Who whines In the bleak, cold street,
l. Il one of yonr silken spaniels
Shut out in the snow and the slect!
Ny dogs sleep warm in their baskets,
Safe from the darkness and snow;
All the beasts in our Christian England
Find pity wherever they GO
Chose are only the homeless children
Who are wandering TO and frO.D
Look out in the gusty darkness
| have seen IL again and again,
That shadow, that fiits so slowly
Up and down the window pane:
Ii Is surely some criminal lurking
Lurking cut there in the frozen raini
Nay our criminals are all sheltered.
They are pitied and taught and fed:
That IS only a sister woman
Who has got neither food nor bed.
And the Night cries sin to be living
And the River cries sin to be dead
Look out st that farthest corner
Where the walls stand blank and bare
Can that be pack which peddlar
Has left and forgotten thcre2
His goods lying out unsheltered
Viii be spoilt by the damp night air.
Nsy:-gOods in our thrifty England
Are not left TO lie and grow rotten,
For each man knows the market value
of silk or wOollen or cotton
But in counting the riches of England
l think the Poor are forgotten.
Our Beasts and our Thieves and our Chattels
Have weight for good or for i'll:
But the Poor are only His image,
His presence, His word, His will
And SO Lazarus lies AT our door step.
And Dives negleets him still.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07
Death of the Chief Rabbi.

The Jewish Messenger contains a letter
written from Jerusalem, November 9TH
announcing the death of the Chief Rabbi
of Palestine. The following is an extract:
He Judged Israel J" thirty-five years.
During the whole of the period he devo-
ted himself to the study of the law and
the practice of good deeds. As the faith
ful pastor and benevolent ruler he saw
equal to any of his predecessors; and as
the chief treasurer for all the moneys re-
ceived from nearly every section of the
globe, for his community, the best evi-
dence of his administrative honesty exists
in the fact that, although in possession of
a good salary, and thousands of dollars
passing annually through his hands, yet
he departed from our midst with barely
a plaster in his purse leaving his family
actually destitute. You will recollect
how he lauded his American brethren for
their munifcent liberality. Little did we
think that his stewardship would cease
so speedily.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07
ns-Mountains never shake hands

B~Mountains never shake hands
Their roots may touch they may keep
together some way up, but at length they
part company, and rise into individuI
insulated peaks So it is with great men. :.
As mountains mostly run in chsins and
clusters, crossing the plain ss wider or
narrower intervals, in like manner are
these epochs in history when great men
appear in clusters aIso. At hrst, too, they
grow up together seeming to be animated
by the same spirit, to have the same de
sires and sntipathies, the same purposes
and epds. But after while the genius of
each begins to know itself, and TO follow
its own bent, they separate and diverge
more and more; and those who, when,
young, were working in consort, stand
alone in their old age.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

Lrekr. DAYs-Fhe Anglo saxons
deemed it highly. important that child
should be born on lucky day, on which
the whole tenor Of his life was supposed
to depend for, in their opinion, each day
had its peculiar influence on the destiny
of the newly born. Thus, the FIST day Of
the month was preferred above all Others
for the arrival of the little stranger. for,
they said, ga child horn on that day is
sure to live and prosper" The second
day was not so fortunate as the first, as
the child born on that day would. grow
faster but not live long" IF hewas born
on the fourth day of the month he was
destined to became great politician; if
on the tenth, a great traveller, and if on
the twenty bold marauder. But of
all the days of the week on which he be
.born, Sunday was by far the most lucky,
and if it fell on the new moon the child's
prosperity was destined to be unbounded.
Friday was an unlucky birthday not only
because it was the day of the crufxion of
our Lord and Saviour, but because. accord
ing to Anglo-SaXon calculations. Adam
ate the forbidden fruit on Friday. and
was also expelled into hell on that day
ifTppD'S Anglo-,SSr0R Home.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07
A Cute Trick bv the Rebels.

An army correspondent gives an ac-
count of how one of our trains, consisting
of twenty-six new army wagons, fully
loaded, and three suffers wagons. were
captured by squad of Stuart's Cavalry at
Occoquan Creek Stuart crossed the
Rappahannock at Ellis Ford, and took
almost a direct route, it is supposed, on q
croSs-road, toward Dumfries. At an out
Of-the-way place, twelve or fifteen miles
from the village, he halted and sent for
ward a small squad of blue-coated soldiers
to scout on the road between Dumfries
and the village of Occoquan. At the lat
ter place they espied the train, and re-
solved to capture it by diplomacy rather
than the exercise of force, for the most
excellent reason that their party was quite
small, while, on the other hand, there
were about fifteen hundred Union troops,
including Rush's Lancers, within sight.
So the leader of the rebel reconnoitering
party rode up to the officer in charge of
the train, and said he had been sent to
conduct it to camp, and directed the train
to follow him. The order was obeyed,
and, from directly under thS noses of our
troops, the train was led in a southwest
ernly direction, until the Brentsyille and
and Dumfries road was reached. Here
the commander of the train began TO sur
mise that something was wrong, when the
rebel Lieutenant directed him to cross
the main road, and take a cross-road to
the left, still pursuing a southwesternly
direction. An objection was made; he
doubted the propriety of continuing in
that direction, whereupOn the rebel Off
Ger put period to all cayiling, by saying:
''Sir, General Stuart desiresy you to go that
way ~ The hint was sufficient, and the
train, master and guard moved on in the
direction indicated. This is a story told
by another of the party, and who was
quite indignant at the deception praetic-
ed
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

OF WoMAN-I do not hesitate to say
that the women give TO every nation a
moral temperament which shows itself in
all its politics. A hundred times have |
seen weak men show real public virtue
because they had by their sides women
who supported them, not by advice as to
particulars, but by fortifying their feel
ings of duty, and directing their ambi-
ton. More frequently, l must confess,
have observed the domestic influence
gradually Transforming man, naturally
generous, noble and unselfish into a cow
ardly, commonplace, place-hunting, self
seeker, thinking of public business only
as means of making himself comforta-
BILE. and this simply by contact with a
well-conducted woman, faithful wife,
an excellent mother. but from whose
mind the grand notion of public duty
was entirely aDsent.-De' Toeqt eriRs.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

\ REAL GENTLENAN.-He never dresses
in the extreme of fashion, but avoids
singularity in his person or habits.
Is affable with his equals, and pleasant
and attentive to his interiors.
In conversation he avoids hasty, i'll
tempered or insulting remarks.
Never prizes into other peoples affairs.
Detests eaves-dropping as among the
most disgraceful of crimes
Never ISLANDERS an acquaintance.
Does never, under any circumstances
So eak i'll of woman.
Never cuts an acquaintance who has
met with a reverse of fortune.
He always pays the postage on his let
ters of business, and in advance for his
newspaper.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

BEETLE.-The Moscow beetle Is as fine,
lively and healthy beetle as any of his
race in Europe. From the moment you
set foot in Holy Moscow you find il.
him an indissoluble friend He is pulled
out with your watch, he drops from your
hat in bowling, he anticipates you in your
morning coffee, and take his bath in your
wash-hand basin. He moreover evinces
the liyliest interest in all your proceed
ings. You may be writing, reading.
thinking or talking. but a beetle is
sure to have his eye onyou, You can de-
tect him looking at you out of the key
hole, a ehink in the floor, hole in the
ceiling, or any other unaccountable re-
treat But you are forced to put up with
his company, and il is only in time, when
habit has given you a second nature, that
you become careless of his unweared es-
pionage.-THe Northern Circuit
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

A GALLANT Acr.-A few days ago, says
the GAINESVILLE Courier, Frank Sturges,
Esq, of Chicago, Illinois. was out buying
cotton in Tennessee, when he made mis-
take and went out of our lines, and soon
found himself in a rebel camp of guerillas.
erals were upon them and for them to run
for their lives. They did not need a sec
ond warning and were soon in full retreat.
leaving n wagon and six mules standing
near by. As soon as they were well out
of sight Frank mounted the wagon and
put whip to the mules, and soon arrived
safe in the Federal lines. He was re-
ceived with most hearty congratulations
from the boys in camp.-Ohio STATE jour.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

AN HOSORABLE ENPLoYER.-Sir Elhlan-
ah Armitage. of Manchester. England,
has fed and clothed the whole of his
work-peOple, some twelve hundred in
number, ever since the mills have been
closed, and intends to do so as long as
the necessity may last He has been
heard to say: 81 will share my property
with my distressed work-people as long
as l have shilling left; this is my spe-
cial mission; and as | do not ask the pub
lie to give one who has been in my en-
ploy, but take the whole burden on my
self, so it will account for no large sum
appearing against my name in the sub
scription list
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

baE Create taste in youth for good
books, and the pleasures of literature will
supply the place of those grosser pleas
ures that lead aStray the unthinking. 1t
is the VIII made strong by cultivation
that enables a man to resist the cravings
of those appetites whose indulgeneies
bring death. The ignorant man must of
necessity be a man of narrow views and
strong prejudieeS and even in questions
which involve great moral principles he
is quite as likely to be wrong as right
The safe man in society IS the man who
is competent to do his own thinking.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07
DESTROYS of operating, during

DESTROYS of operating, during
II the present and coming season. in what may
be called lively cash and short time trade" ST
very low rate of profit in accordance with the
eessities of war times. We shall offer to farmers
house builders. mechanics merchants. steam mill
men, house-keepers and all others every deScrip-
ton Of HARDWARE. HOUSE PAINTS. AxLEs. IRoN,
NAILS, GLASS, SASH, DooRS and ELINDs at right
EoIo dozen figures.
Instead of keeping the biggest stock west of the
mountains" We have aimed TO be supplied with
every variety of goods in our line. which will be
constantly replenshed by direct shipments from the
Eastern manufacturing districts and the large job
bing Houses of New York. Boston and Philadelphia
from whom. by recent arrangements, We are en-
sbled to buy at uery Io,c rates hsnce Gun. and in
fact sciH sell cheap.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

ASKING TOO MUcH.-A little boy well
in his boots" for the first time said to his
mother, after readingt the customary chap
ter in Scott's family Bible:
Mother, why did not Moses wear
boots?"
"Why, my son, what makes you ask
that? perhaps he did; we don't know"
"No, mother, he didn't because the
Bible says that the voice that came out
of the burning bush told him to take off
his shoes :"
There was no reply to this clincher.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

To Carriage and Buggy Builders. BARxUM & Co.
would say-"Ws are in the market-nO house can
underseH Us. Never fail to give Us call. Orders
filed promptly. Goods sent by hack, railroad.
canal. teamsters. or yeur 'neighbor. Bear it in
mind. BARNUN has long been dealer in this class
of goods; is well acquainted with Eastern manu-
taeturers. Rolling Mills and heavy Jobbers there
fore is fully poste. IS to the market and can just
sell at rates which defy competition.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

Army chaplain-"My young colored
friend, can you read?" Contraband "Yes,
sah." Army chaplain-"Glad TO hear it.
Shall give you a paper?" Contraband
-"Sartin, massa, if you please" Army
chaplain -"Very good. What paper
would you choose, now 2" Contraband-
'Well, massa, if you chews, Pll take a
paper OBJ terbacker. Yah! yah !"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07
Hard Hit From Brownlow.

Parson Brownlow has been spending 4
couple of weeks in Washington, taking
observations, and some of his impressions
are given in a letter of the odd give il
as my opinion. that we can't fight a sue
cessful battle in the vicinity of Washing
ton. Commanding Generals are here
forced to yield themselves up to the guild
ance of the weak and ultra, and to set of
men who know nothing about military
affairs The spectacle of so many Union
Generals quarreling among themselves,
at time like the present, is a disgrace
full one for the country to contemplate.
! am willing, and so are the people, to
make fair and reasonable allowances for
professional jealousy, but the constant
charging and recrimination OF military
leaders leads the people to suspect that
either the qualification of their vanity is
a matter of more Importance than beating
the rebels, or that they themselves desire
to keep out of fight, as a means of per-
sonal security. There are now no less
than six Major Generals whose conduct is
the subject of Court of Inquiry and others
are talked Of Mcclellan is, it is alleged,
the only General who has been deposed
from command without demanding a.
Court of Inquiry, and all parties are
applauding him for it. The people are
sick of all these quarreIs, and feel that
there is no time now for listening to the
disputes Of these .eaptious officers. | say
bring their ipfernal squbbles to close,
and send them into the field to fight reb-
els; and IL they have no stomachs for this,
let them resign, so that the Government
pay no longer have to pay their high sal
aries. denounce these Courts of inquiry,
because of their calling so many Major
Generals and Brigadiers from the field,
because of their heavy cost to the public
and because of their demorliz-
ing effecs upon the. country. And if
they are to continue, ask that the Gen
erals be Withdrawn from the service, that
our brave men be maSsed in front of the |
enemy, and the command given, Boys, |
there is the enemy pitch inH' For one,
| shall h ave no fears of the result.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

A clergyman being much pressed by 8
lady ofhis acquaintance to preach ser
mon the first Sunday after her marriage,
complied, and chose the following pass
age in the Psalms for his text: '-And
there shall be abundance of peace-while
the moon endureth."
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

Dandy Tire-aIl sizes
Two Horse Wagon Tire.
Springs-Eastern and Pittsburgh.
Axles-old and improved styes.
Two Horse Wagon Thimble Skeins-
English Wagon Boxes.
Carriage Bolts.
Tire
Wrenches, Nuts, Washers, &c.
Nail Rod-frst class goods. -
Sueeds Iron.
Axe Bar.
Cast Steel, fiat, square and round.
Blister Steel, also German and Spring.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-07

Enumeration of mixed varie-
;lessof goods on hand and for
!eat BARNuM's Hardware Sales
Rooms at Warren, Ohio. n. b.
JAMES G. BRooKs would be hap
DIV to see his old and new friends
he can sell them goods at rates
ruling far below former prices
BE sure and call on him at Bar
NUNS.