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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-12-08
FROM THE BATTLE.FIELD.
GoOD-NIGHT.


Are you watching for me, darling-arc you
looking out for me!
Do you think | may be coming by the path
along the sea?
My Lowell with golden tresscs and ever-vary-
ing check,
And the welcome in your glanccs which your
shy lips seldom speak.
l can close mine eyes and see you in the mel
low evening gleam,
Your earnest face uplited by some pure and
happy dream;
BY the Ginning ocean pillows in the radiance
of the west
Those busy fingers folded for little while
at rest.
All! 1 see you looking downward at that
slender golden ring,
With quick, faint blush-you prize IL, the
foolish worthless thing!
You are thinking of the kiss that dared press
your fingers, dear.
have never touched your lips yet, and l am
lying here
On the field of a los, battle, all, save dead and
dying, gone:
A cold slow rain is falling, and the night is
Our flag, deep-stained with crimson, is wrap
ped about my arm,
have saved it with my lie-blood through this
battle-day's alarm.
My passion has been silent we have only
been true friends.
Thank Heaven we were not lovers since this
Is how it ends
l know your heart is tender, and has given
both prayers and tears
To your well-beloved companion, your friend
of early years.
May they turn to you in blessing-may my
darling never know
\ single tear more bitter than those for me
which flow!
Who will tell her of my fate? am dying
here alone,
SO yearning for one tender look, one gentle
plying tone!
/ thought to bring back honor, and lay it at
your feet;
/ thought to win glorious name and whisper,
Share it, sweet ~
But dying eyes see clearly l never won your
heart
Well, better so, far better-it is easy now to
part!
There are many moaning round me, but my
woun Is have ceased to pain;
| hardly hear the night-wind or feel the chill
ling rain.
They will find me here tomorrow, and bury
me where lie
In nameless grave without prayer-and
am young to die!
But 1t must be SO, my darling; if you were by
my side
You would kiss me "goOd-night the last
before died.
Farewell! God shield you, dearest! and some
times think of me
As you sit in your sunny window beside the
sparkling sea!
London Society.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-12-08
THE DIAMOND RING.
A Story of London Life.

Few of the habitual dwellers in Lon
don have occasion to visit the city less
frequently than L have. 1 have never
set foot inside the mansion of the Old
Lady of Threadneedle Street in my life.
To me the Stock Exchange is complete
terra inc0gnitd. OF the thousand and
one different methods Of coming money,
as practised by merchants, bankers, bro
kers, and that countless army which
hocks cityward every weekday morning
from nine till eleven, l know absolutely
nothing. Neither, to the best of my De-
lief, has the money article" of the
Times ever been read by me from begin
ming to end. Yet, Notwithstanding all
this, it has so happened that on certain
rare occasions l have been compelled,
by "urgent private affairs" to join the
throng of city bees for few hours, and
wing my way eastward with the swarm
At such times I have generally chosen
to survey mankind from the box-seat of
an omnibus, as from "coigne of van
tage" not to be surpassed and hardly
equalled for any one who loves to watch
the wonderful, ever-shifting panorama
of London life.
Or one such occasion-now several
years ago-the morning was so intolera-
bly, rainy that | was obliged to give up
all thought of my favorite perch aloft
with the driver, and content myself
with the humber position of an inside
seat. At that time l was only three
and-twenty years old, and had been in
London about a couple of years, having
been sent up from my far-of home in
one of the northern counties, to attend
the classes of and to study under a GER
tain then famous analytical chemist
On the morning to which l have lust
referred, after waiting twenty minutes
in the rain, l was glad to find vacant
place inside one of the numerous city
buses that passed the end of the street
in which my room is situated. After
having squeezed into my plac :, and been
we'll scowled at for my pains, proceed
ed to take stock of my companions in
misery. We were eleven men and one
woman. All of us men were more or
less moist, and each of us had a very
damp umbrella. We had all put on our
severe business air, and we were all more
or less suspicious of the company in
which we found ourselves; and-in con-
sequence, perhaps, OF the bad state OF
the weather-we were all more than
usually inclined to bully the conductor,
and to poke him viciously in the ribs
with the ferules of our umbrellas.
But the twelfth inside? Well, she
WAS lady, young and nice-looking into
the bargain, and enveloped with the
prettiest air of Inconsistencies that she
was in the company of eleven blocks of
wood, rather than in that of as many
beings of flesh and blood, not quite un-
susceptible. let us hope, to the charms of
female lovelines'. l have no doubt, in
my own mind, that if she had travelled
any length of time in our company the
mere fact of her presence would have
softened our manners, and have weaned
us in some measure from the touch-me-
not boorishness with which, as a rule,
ali passengers by omnibus have to cloak
But fortunately. as the case
may be, journeys by omnibus are OF
short duration, and our young lady
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28

WHIT BECOMES or THE GRAIN This is
question that is just now puzZing the people of
Buffalo, who find that their grain trade in 1869
fell off largely from 1868, and who lament the
fact that while the grain receipts of western
ports increase, those Of Buffalo diminish The
Buffalo Courier, treating of these facts, says
'' II appears that of the enormous total Of west
ern grain receipts, of which formerly the great
bulk reached this city, there are scarcely now
three eighihs shipped to Buffalo, while less than
one-fourth of the same seeks its wey 10 the sea
board BY the Erie canal" Ii then gives figures
to show that large amount Of the grain that Is
unaccounted for has reached the seaooard at
points other than New York. L has come by
railway, and, as We have often said, vhen grain
takes the the cars it reaches tide-water At doz-
en- points when it travels ny water it comes
necessarily to New ork But there is one fact
about the movement Of grain which Is not gsner
ally understood. The Liverpool price controls
the price here, and yet the total export of grain
from this country is hardly worth mentioning
beside the total crop. While the estimated crop
of corn and wheat in the United States for 1868
was 9S0, 600, 900 bushels, the total export for
the yesr was but Is, 200, 900, less than two per
cent Of the crop. Of this, almost l6,500.O0
bushels we're exported from this city. Of So,
900 900 bushels received at the i've lake ports,
only little more than one-ffth went abroad
the rest was shipped eastward and dropped along
the route as food for the people. These two
consumed the whole thousand millions Of grain
in bread, IN whskey, or in other provisions.
The Eastern States produce breadstuf' to the
value Of only eight or ten dollars to each Of the
population. The West produces from sixty to
seventy dollars worth and il is Of rhis ahund
auce that our wants are supplied. 50 the ques-
ton is answered. Most of the grain goes into
the people's mouths, and little of it across the
sess.--N Y. Commercial .9drertiser.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28

SooTHIXG PoIsoNs FOR CHrLDRES.-Ihere is
quack medical preparation extensively ad
yertised under he title Of 90 Mrs. Windblow's
Cor some such name) Soothing Syrup It is
intended for administration to unquiet children,
with a view to soothing their inconyeinent
restlessness. Possibly it may have this effect,
but no mother who has the least regard for the
health Of her infant, should drop Of the
vile compound. 1t is composed in large part Of
morphine. and dose for an infant three months
old, as prescribed by the female quaek's printed
directions contains the equivalent Of ten drops Of
laudanum. A physician declares that hundreds
Of children must perish annually through this
preparation being administered TO them. Some
years ago a vile mixture similar to the above,
and intended for the same purpose. was sold in
London under the name Of - Godfrey's Cordial. -
1t had long run and extensive sale, but an
exposure such as Mrs. Windbow's stuff has just
received, settled it for ever. 4 restless, clam
rous child is not an agreeable, but none the
less a f,e9uent inmate Of the household, and
it is on the somewhat natural desire OF
parents for relief from the inantine irrits-
tion that these poisonous compounds are
placed on the market. itis right, however, that
mothers should know what they 10 for their
children by the administration of these e sooth-
ing - preparations.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28


MstiheW Hale smith gives cheerful view, N
one Of his recent letters 60 the Boston Jour1at,
OF the risks OF life IN New orA. lie says
The public conyeyauee. are infested with dss-
peradoes. and the most fashionable portions OF
the CITY are more unsafe AZ night than Five
Points ,r fb. Bowerv Tr l. a very common
practice for -aurs Of rov,iies to lean on 10 2 car
AZ night. or in the evening. rob the conductor
and Iasssngers and escaue Parties re3arl
tb.rsslves f,-tu,ere II fbet- are mt shot A. ar
assaulted Tho Third and F,gbtb ayarne cars are
.s-,a.i,lf,, 5s,gar.ps II, The 1ight The arrival
cf tbe F,sraru ami H.5,on River trains atf5ri a
fine falI for tho op.r.,tions Of ae.psr,loe.. Men
all ,rg-,s., s-e oss.,,1,a5 ana rIbha3 ~ t5ai-
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f-5o, the loo, IN ibe ear. The p.l;,e kr,w
,l,.so ,f,,-ieters h1t dtr. n,- s.rr.t fbsrl for
f.s- ~ ,;,Iancs If rsssa,,ers take q hack late
a. ,,i-h, ,b.y are not sac. fr.r, rohbsrv The
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28

HARD TINES n UFrER TENDoN.-Ihe war
made the shoddy aristocracy, and New York
became its headquarters, The style OF living
among our moneyed men kept pace with
the times The furniture in use before the
war was sent to auction, and whole blocks
were thus denuded in order to receive prince
" outfits The soft luxury Of the Orient was
cultivated at Murray Hill and Madison ayen-
ne and Sybaris itself might have envied the
gorgeous pomp, the efeminate manners. and
the general beauty Of decay which became
the standard. Manhood rotted out quickly.
Luxury wrought with dispatch Money,
made over the devils back, was spent 10 ac-
cordance with that ancient apotheEm, and the
result is that the Sybarites Of New York now
are short The pressure has reached a
tender spot . We Innst keep up our style,
exc,aims fashion, but necessity cuOlly suggests
how?'' Ave, there's the rub. Ihese
things are not to be kept secret The Fifth
avenue has dolelul look, and Brown seems
to think that a funeral is full as merry as
any other reception. The soirees have been
chilled by the everlasting pressure. 90 Hard
tines is out Of place up here. Hard times
belongs down among the poor, but this year
hard times has been making New Year :
calls among the big bugs. and some Of the
latter have got pinched. " Ma, saId little
girl to her mother, (the scene is reported
among last season E occurrences IN the neigh
borhood of Murray Hill. } - what does econ
ounv mean ?" =. Don't know, my dear, was
the innocent reply. .' Don t know? bat | do, -
said another Of this gifted family, an elder
daughter - Economy means to live on five
thousand dollars a year and keep only three
servants" Economy has meant that admit,
but now they are looking up the hateful word
in their dictionaries and find that II means
something else. How strange it seems to
learn thai Fifth avenue people are now trad
ing in obscure parts Of the city IN order TO
get goods under Broadway rates. Several
accomplished coniectioners have got cheap
rents in out OF the way spots, and have sent
their cards among needy fashion worshlpers.
From $50 to Sl00 can thus be saved in the
expense Of reception, and as every fashion
able family must give at least one party in a
winter, this savingis demanded by that new
conner. hard times" lt is a fearful fact
that Fifth avenue, Murray Hill, Madison
avenue and other abodes of fashion are hard
up. The Cardiff giant himself could not
give them tighter grip. They are now
anxiously waiting for Lent, when 1t will be
fashionable to put on serious face, and the
mockery of gaiety may be allowed to cease
One need not uuder these circumstances,
marvel at bank detalcatIons. | only wonder
that they do not occur more frequently. Men
will steal when pressed py necessities. ".
Y. Cor Troy Times
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28

Hos-J ,w - The Washington street boot
black, is being who deserves I better uoii
than have time to give him in this letter Al
says % iarkey, and always chocS-fIli OF good
nature, be differs from the City Hall PARK boot
black Ia New York rs a fr0licsome Newt uul-
ltni differs from = snsr!ing Scotch terrier. The
creature who most perfectly typihed the whole
race ot him has disappeared since my last So
jogru AZ the clWtql He was a hounieriua ne
gro boy ot some Is years, Wuh a mouth 80
enormous thai the pitcher of the Atlantic Club
could have easily poeketei his ball in 1t from a
distance Of thirty yards Among his brethren
he was called HoE-jaw-" Every moruing he
came louuging down Newspaper row. with his
box slung over his shoulder and his NAV dis
tended by caveruous grin. For five cents he
dropped TO his knees anywhere, and backed
anybody's boots. For couple of pennies nd
ditional he would dance breakdown with song
accompaniment real old Virginia Juba And
then he would separate his Jaws so far that a
horizontal line might have been drawn from his
upper lip 90 the centre of his forehead, and
that his lower hp concealed his very chin At
such a moment hi, head was all mouth, and re-
ceiyed = hailstorm Of kickels, which rattled
against his teeth and choked out of the abvss a
flood Of bubbhng laughter lie was never out
OF tehper-luNaElauiy IN the Oestot spirits. Ills
great splay feet were deformities upon which he
prided himself. He used to talk to them in the
drollest way. II one Of them happened to slip
on the side walk while he was backing a gen
tleman's boot, he would turn. rap it with his
brush in an affected pet, and chideit: Lie
still da', you foot Wha' 70 you behaves YOU
se'f so in de presence dis gem'l'm'n, stirrIn, up
de dust dat way. Shame 80
"Hog-jaW' loved and was beloved " Dat
gal ~ he would e1clsim ." you ought 70 see
her, sab, indeed you had. When dat gal gifts
on her close, an, gifts on dat air clean shirt O.
mine, aud We sollies fo' Sunday promenade,
tell you, sab, re takes lie abenue - TFash
Cor
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28

Atheists Iy CoUNcIL-Some time ago, it
will be remembered, council Of Free Thinkers
assembled in Naples as an atheistic Offset to the
Ecumenical Council, threatening to extinguish
in the light Of common sense principles the an
tiquated doctrines which that sssemblage was
expected to announce to scoffing world In
der the presidency of one Count Ricciardi. the
first and second sittings of the free thinking
council we're held in the San Fernando Theatre ;
the last Of these Was dispersed by the police On
the ground thst the council had expressed a
wish for the destruction of the actual systems of
government. The third and final gathering WAS
in the hall of hotel, where the French dele
gates bored their associates so prodigiously with
their prol.x aud impracticable hsranrues that
the meeting exploded in auarchic disorder with
out passing even set of resolutions or voting
upon declaration of principles. There were
present Representatives from the United States
Mexico, France, Its.y, Hungary, North Ger
many and, indeed, most Of the European coun-
tries. The majority, headed by the President,
Count Rccisrti, = Neapolitsn noble, wished to
put forth declaration Of principles, opposing
free reason to religious authority, the independ-
ence of man to the despotism of church and
state, demanding free secular instruction wholly
disconnected from state or ecclesiastical interfer-
ence, and the abolition of all official religion
They desired to affirm their recognition Of reason
alone as the basis of opinion. and their total re-
lection Of all dozmas founded upon revelation
one would think this declaration sufficiently
radical for the most advanced type Of free
thinker, bat it proved to be not ~. NJ Reg
nard, delegate, from Paris, commissioned by a
society of atheists, who prescribed his action by
furnishing min beforehand with mdnd at i'm
perdtf. found it altogether too conservative in
tone. He wanted declaration put forth the
cornerstone of which should be the solemn
denial Of the existence of God, and its key
stone war TO the knife against existing ecclesi-
asticsl despotisms In this desire he was for a
time sustained hy his colleague, NJ Andrieux, of
Lyons ; but, like all reformatory and revolu-
tionary Frenchmen, they fell out at length, and, A.,
after monopolizing the discussion for dreary
period, were abandoned by their colleagues. and
the mountain labored without bringing forth
even n mouse The Eccumenical Council has
not been extinguishel, but all Europe has been
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28

.a 1ue cold election day
H..-turuu-h -h the streets there took her way
w.lau. Ger her head did float
The words, upon red petucoat-
The Ballot.
She wore no hat. and down her lack
ucr llIg did uoat 10 masses black.
aervery teeth did seem 20 bite
aev.51s of with a hitter spite
The Ballot.
lteI raven eye was rolling Wild.
Her clothes were thin, her shoes de6led
With mad her neck laid open, bare.
Ana still she ihri, ked TO every stare
The Ballot.
The children laughed, the woman eazed,
A1t uy ;hcir stare she was not dazcd
s1a My t1cued t1 Them aud scow!oc,
As fig ing ,asi along, soc how!ed-
Tie Ballot.
CON avenue. or lame, Or street.
lnIs creature one was sure Go meet
sIil howhng AT the startled thrnug,
These words rs fast She tru1Ied along,
Ihe Ballot
An officer she mot one day,
" VINO vainly t-led o. block -le way
lis locust FROM his hand she -rAspgd
And shook it iu Dis ia '= sni gasped
The Ballot.
".Ul home ana wash y.gur dirry face
Your clothing sa sheer disgrace.
g.. mend it, Thus tie utsaers said,
She m1ttarei. s. she shook her mead,
The Ballot
When s. y.a -leep' Where DO you live
Wrag uI.l sou ever stop % give
YONG a..ig rest ur cool your brain ,'
" Wien Sewer. never ul gain
The Ballot.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28

NEw UsE FOR CONGRESSIONAL GLoBEs-Dur-
ing the late recess of Congress, the efficient
Sergesnt-at-Arms of the Senate made the fear
ful discovery that an aged Thomas-cst had
possessed itself Of an air passage under the floor
Of the Senate. Pere was something to agitate
The gigantic intellect Of the official What
have live cat under the aoor of the Senate
during executive session? Il was dreadful.
Eforis we're Immediately made 70 persuade
Thomas out. But the knowing old cuss would
not he persuaded. They tried intimida-
tion, but with ike effect. Thomas laughed
At their intimidation They triei strategy.
Tempting meats in the shape Of hash. from a
cheap boarding g-house, were placed at the OPEN
ing Thomas knew all about that, and declined
He Guew that if he ate, devil of bill would
he presented him immediately Then birthstone
was resorted to. They burned large quantities
NJ the opening but a cat that has bresihed the
air of Congress in the galleries laughs at brim-
stone. Some suggested that the Vice-President
should try and smile him out, others, that the
Hon. Garrett Davis should talk him out. At last,
Mr. French Constructed dead-fall Of Conqrss-
sionat Gio5es. Poor Thomas saw nothing in
the Congressional Globes Nobody ever did.
He entered, and was killed. The Globe did
some good. Letit be recorded. 1t killed cat
Don PioH
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28

The sun is set, the day is DER
And labor's voice is heard no more;
On high the silver moon is hung;
And birds their vssper hymns have sung,
save ore, who Oft breaks forth anew,
10 ehaunt another sweet adisu
To all the zl0ries OF the day,
And all It's pleasure. passed away.
Her twill ZhL IODr all LasCrs wears,
and evening sheds nsr fragrant tears.
Which every hi -ty plant receives.
While silence rremhlss on its leaves.
From every tree and every bush,
There seems ~ breathe a soothing hush.
While every transient sound but shows
How deep and stiii is the repOse.
Thus calm and fair may all things be
When life last sun has set with me,
And may the lamp or memory shine
As sweetly on my day decline,
As yun pale crescent, pure and fair,
That HANGS 50 safely in the air;
And pOurs her uiild, reflected light,
70 sopthe and bless the weary zht.
Ana may ny spirit often wake
Ike thiue sweet bird; agd, singing, take
Another farewell Of the SUM-
~ " pleasures past. Of labOTs done.
80 "here the glorious san has set
n, "a me Of iSht is lingering yet.
NJ NJ nus may love awhile illume
iAe ,'lent darkncss Of my tomb.
EIiAs FOAsa.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28
The Ear Of Faith.

- - have seen
A curious child, who dw,lt mn /, t,a.t
Dt ~ inland sround. applying TO his ear
The cuuSOiutiOns Of a siao-stb- -liT,,.si stal1
10 which Ia silence hushed, his vsrv s9uI
Listened lntens ily, and his eountepan.e .o.n
frightened with JOY for muImurin-s rom within
We're heard, sOnurous cadeucesl yvbe,ei,
To bis belief the monitor expressed
Nys.eti0us union with bis native ssa
Even such a she'll the universe itself
Is 10 the ear Of Faith Bordsirorts
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28

The printers at the Government Office in
Washington protest against the decision of the
Comptroller of tie Treasury, who rules that as
by law they are to work at the same rates ns
men in outside establishments, and as the COL
umbia typographical Union fixes ten hours as
a printers days work. they can only receive
four ifths of a days wages for working eight
hours. The printers claim ths, under the
eight hour law they are entitled to full days
pay.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28

Little Dame Dimple, So merry and We,
ohaE NJ your tangled locks over your -
What are you plotting this suus4.lg N''
Under the apple tees over theW way
All the birds know you you queer onrssif I'lie ~
Sometimes 1 think you're 5'I-'.f 5'It- 80, nsss
Chasing the honey bees hone. n tbl ,-r9ss
Watching the cricEets ihat cDlP --
y5,-e is ,.,- sun l.,,1st. daiaty and neat,
il9-e : ou5 ,lq o--5n YOUR bare little feet
Ittie TIE 6rorn r7S 'sl inse 10. .as them i 81 we'll
What viii you DO Z qua
,.--,-,, s-.rtoid- the frock at you knee,
gae ,Ie oilu e.t l.-...lrss most wondrous 10 see
he .. iGi' % -rsei Iei n me dust at your feet
Grsssh0pu 1r'
..t.....a batterdy cleaning like gold,
~ ''i' he lacs with ITS richest untold.
u Ni lmple, we older i0lkes, too,
), 'ef 't- treasures 10 reach for the new.