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Year: 1864

AN ARMY OF THIEvEs.-The following
outspoken extracts are from the Democratic
Watc7nsan, a paper published by 2. Gray
Meek, at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania:


We can scarcely go into house in the
North where some of the property Of South.
ern ladies is not seen in possession of women
who have sent forth their brethren and
friends to plunder and devastate the South.
Books, musical instruments and everything
portable, are stolen, wherever our armies
march, and conveyed North. This crusade
upon the women Of the South is urged on
by their sisters in the North, and we have
heard threats from females which the most
brutal soldier in the army would scorn to
execute. In every town, village, steamboat
and railroad car, all over the land, will be
found the fairest of the.sex advocating the
destruction of their sisters Of the South
We can only account for it by supposing
that the devil has sought to destroy the hu-
man family through the same medium ne
used five thousand years ago. 1t is horri-
BILE, and cannot fail to bring upon us the
WRATH of Heaven. S,
Year: 1864

\ pleasant home should never have an
unpleasant approach, In the hegeneral spring
clearing up, do not forget TO put the front
yard ito rights, We do not advocate
anything stiff, formal, orexpensive. Straigh-
ten up and repair the fence. Remove eve
rything from the yard that does not belong
there. Have good walk from the gate to
the front door, not one that is sunken below
the general level and always flooded in
rrins; but il be little raised so rs to be
passable in all weathers. Have some flow.
er-borders by all means, but if there is un
fortunately neither time nor taste for these
have grass and some trees and shrubs, not
set in stiff rows, but dotted here and there
Then Virginia creeper american Wood
bine), or Wax-worh vine from the wood,
and run it over the porch, if there is one
if not, run it over the door, A climbing
rose may be easily obtained and will be very
beautiful when in bloom. A small amount
of work, and little taste will make even
an humble house look attractive and home
like.
Year: 1864

Our old friend Bangs was invited by a
friend to his house. to partake Of iuiep,
Of which he was very fond. 1t was hand
ed to him in silver goblet lined with gold.
After slipping u portion, Bangs turned
to his host and remarked that it was aston
ishing what an addition a strawberry gave
to julep. His friend replied that he was
sorry he did not have strawberry TO put in
it. But. said Bangs, there is certain
ly one in this. Upon his host asserting
the contrary, he insisted that he saw one
distinctly, and drained the glass to get the
berry; when. 10 and behold he found it
was the reflection of his orr nose.
Year: 1864

Joe Harris was whole-souled merry fel-
low and very fond of his glass. After
llylng IN New Orleans several years he came
to the conclusion that he would visit an old
uncle who lived In Massachusetts, whom he
had not seen for many years. Now there j.
difference between New Orleans and Mas
sachusetts in regard to the use Of ardent
spirits and when Joe arrived there and
found ali the people temperate he felt bad.
thinking with the old song that 'kceping
the spirits up by pouring spirits down was
one Of the best ways to make the time pas,
aud began to feel that he was in pickle.
But on the morning after his arrival in
town, the Old man and his sons being out
az work, his aunt came out to him and .aid
doc YOU have lived in the South and no
doubt are in the habit Of taking something
about eleven Q clock. Now / keep some
here tor medicinal purposes. but Let no one
know i, as my husband wants to set a good
example for the boys.


Joe promised and thinking that he wo'd
get no more that day took. a. he expressed
it, "a buster. After that he walked out
to the stable and who should he meet but
his uncle.


well" says he, 81 expect you are in
the habit Of drinking something down in
New Orleans, but you will find Us all tenn
perate here, and for my sons, I don't let
them know | have any brandy about. but ]
Just keepa little out here for my rheuma-
tism. VIII you accept a little?''


Joe signihed his readiness and took an
other horn. Then continuing his walk, he
went to where the boys were building a
fence. After conyersing awhile, one of
his cousins said


Joe. | expect you would like to have
something to drink; and as the folks are
down on liquor, We keep some out here tc


help us along with our work.


Out came the bottle, and down they sat


and he says by the time he went home h,


was as tight as he well could be, and al
! from visiting q temperance family.
Year: 1864

\ GOOD farmer willneyer keep more than
ten dogs 70 every five sheep lie Will clean
ont his stables at leaat once every month.


He will keep five or six sticks of wood cut
up head, more than is necessary for i'm
mediate use. He viii not 60 TO town and
get on spree oftener than three times a
week, az least in harvest time. He will be
very careful not TO put rail on the line
fence unless his neighbor is there to help
him, He will not injure his health by
lying in bed after eight o'clock, \. NJ;
will have his cows MIXED and breakfast over
and his men at work as early as ten clock.
Year: 1864

NUIsANCEs.-The idle levy a tax
upon the industrious, when, by frivol-
Gus, they rob them of their time.
Such persons beg their daily bread;
and, like them, sometimes meet with
a rebuff. A mere gossip ought not
to wonder if we eYince signs that We
are tired of him, seeing that we are
indebted for the honor of his visit
solely to the circumstances Of his be-
inc tired of himself. He sits at home
till he has accumulated an intolerable
load of ennui, and then he sallies for
forth to distribute it among all his
acqUaintances.
Year: 1864

PovERrY's FALSE PRIDE.-A religious
cotemporary says very justly" The idea
Of respectable employment" is the rock
upon which thousands split, and shipwreck
themselves and all who depend on them.
All emplOyments are respectable that
bring honest gain. The laborer, WHO is
willing to turn his hand to anything, is as
respectable as the clerk or draper store
tender. Indeed, the man who is ready
to work whenever work offers, whatever it
might be, rather than lie idle and beg, is
a far more respectable man than one
who turns up his nose at hard labor, wear
les his friend with his complaints because
he cah get nothing to do, pockets bis ben
efactions without thankfulness, and goes
on from day to day useless, lazy grum-
Der.
Year: 1864

Here is what the rebels understand
bv a cessation of hostilities, and they
are right in their Interpretation;


can armistice in any Ineligible
sense whatever, could mean nothing
less than a cessation of every act Of
war for the time agreed upon, both
naval and military; nothing less than
a withdrawal of the invading troops,
from the Confederate States, and a
suspension Of the blockade on the
coast. Richmond Examiner.
Year: 1864


Being of grace how beautiful art thou !


Theme of the poets day-dream, and his Tyre;
Meekness and love throned upon thy brow,


And eyes but thee-only to admire
The mightiest among men, the great, the free
Who bow to none on earth, bend lowly unto thee.
And those who scorn thee, they are but the base
The low, the creeping reptiles of the earth
The greatest and the noblest of their race


Have sung thy beauty and adored thy worth |;
All WHO were great in arms, rich in song,
Have borne thy vision in their hearts along.
Man shuns the couch of sickness; tbs for thee,


With thy low murmuring voice and noiseless tread
To watch the dim eyes, close more TRANQUILITY


And keep the bright light from the sufferers bed
Thou shoudst be the now,
Thy COOL soft hand upon the burning brow.
Nurse of mankind even from our breathing hour


To the calm rest of the mysterious grave,
Thou hast a faithful and fervent power, y


In youth to guard US, and in manhood save
Save our young footsteps from the thousand ways
Of folly and of wrong, wherein our manhood strays
Be what thou hast been, still the slken tie


That binds mankind in brotherhood and love;
The sun of youth, the guide of infancy,


Whose steps we follow to the worlds above;
The embodied dream Of all we fancy there,
Meek, pure and lovely, like some thing of air.
Year: 1864

General Schuyler was one of the Amer
lean officers in the army which fought
for our freedom. He figured largely in
those stirring scenes which took place on
the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, when
the enemy hired the Indians to come and
fight on their side. General SCHUYLER
had great influence with the red man !;
they loved and feared him so the enemy
wished he was out Of the way /; and as he
did not get shot on the field of battle, a
plot was hatched to waylay and murder
him.


Two men were picked out to do this
bloody deed, an Englishman and an In
dian. The day and time were set; they
sbouldered their rifles and took their
stand behind clump of trees which he
had to pass by on his way home. After
waiting and watching some time. the Gen
eral hove in sight. He was on horse
back and alone. Now, or never !-They
took aim In minute more, the Gen
eral would have been dead man. At
that instant the Indian knocked down
the Englisbman's 5 gun, crying II can
not kill him have eaten his bread to
often y The General rode on unharm-
ed he had buckled on an invisible ar
NOR, stronger than brass, and he he was
safe. What was it? The armor of
friendly actions The General had often
relieved the distresses of the poor red
men ;he had fed them when hungry, and
clothed them when naked and now gold
cannot buy up the greatful memory Of
his kindness, as it melts the murderer S
heart.


II cannot kill him l have eaten bis
bread too often -


oh what power there is in friend
ly actions They not only make you
friends, but disarm your enemies.
Year: 1864

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, May be found at his Of
81 flee in his shoe store. opposite Lean, Thomas Cos
Store during all business hours, ready to attend to all
business in lis line. n2Syl
Year: 1864

ra-We publish in another column, to
the exclusion of our usual variety of read
ing matter, the speech of Gen. Rosecrans
delivered in St. Louis at the anniversary
of the battle of Pea Ridge.
Year: 1864

1NJURED.-Yesterday forenoon a cou-
pie Of soldiers were horse-racing on eley-
enth street, and in turning the corner of
Concert one of them was thrown violent
ly to the ground and somewhat injured.
Year: 1864

EFWe notice among our exchanges
some half a dozen printing Offices for sale.
There has not for the last twenty years,
been SO hard time to carry on country
printing office as at present. owing to the
high prices OF paper and printing material
and SO many printers having joined the
army.
Year: 1864

SwIsDIINs.-Y esterdsy we heard of An
occurrence which transpired at the wood
market, that convinced us .tbat some
men at least are rascsis. A farmer resid-
ing some six miles from the city, on the
Montrose road, brought in small load OF
stove. wood, which had become jolted
down SO that i. was scarcely visible above
the wagonbox. Before arriving at the
wood market he threw it out, and then
threw it back in as loose manner as pos
sible, and it WAS with some difficulty that
he could get it all to lay on. He then
drove up to the market, and it measured
68 feet, when it would not have measured
32 feet previous to the "pihng up pro.
cess. He remarked that that paid, after
selling the wood to widow woman
Several persons saw the transaction, but
no one reported him to the Measurer, and
he was allowed to depart with his i'll got
ten gains. Such men as him should be
taken to the calaboose.
Year: 1864

ADVANTAGES OF CRYING.--A French
physician is out in a long dissertation
IN the advantages of groaning and cry
ing in general, and especially during
surgical operations. He contends that
groaniDg and crying are two grand op-
erations by which nature allays anguish,
ana that those patients who give way to
their natural feelings, more speedily re-
cover from accidents and operations than
those who suppose it unworthy man to
betray such symptoms of cowardice as
either to groan or cry. He tells of a
man who reduced bis pulse from 120
and 126 to 60 in the course of 2 hours
by giving full vent to bis emotions. II
people are at all unhappy about any
thing, let them go into their rooms and
comfort themselves with a loud boohoo,
and they will feel one hundred per cent.
better afterwards.


In accordance with the above the cry
ing of children should not be too great
ly discouraged. If it is Systematically
repressed, the result may be ST. Vitus'
dance, epileptic fits, or some other di-
sease Of the nervous system. What is
natural is nearly always useful, and no.
thing can be more natural than the cry
ing of children when anything occurs to
give them either physical or mental
pain.


Probably most persons have felt the
effect of tears relieving great Sorrow
1t is even curious how the feelings are
allayed by their free indulgence in
groans and sighs. Then let parents and
friends show more indulgence to noisy
bursts of grief on the part of children
as well as older persons, and regard the
ewes and mouth as the safety-valves
through which nature discharges her sur
plus steam.
Year: 1864

ANECDoTE.-A scamp who used to
raise particular purgatory about Middle
bury College, had taken a shine to the
daughter of staid old deacon, who used
often TO invite him to dinner. The dea-
con called upon him one day to ask the
customary blessing, and not wishing to
have it understood that there was any
thing he could not do, he made the ef-
fort. Hastily recollecting what he could
of the usual form, he began and made a
good start of it, but finally got embar-
rassed and could not think how to close
it off. 1t was easier to 60 on than to
stop. Making a desperate dash for a
period, he thus wound up: an concld--
sioG, my dear sir, ! remain respectfully
your obedient servant" He Gia 2ct 2ct
dine with the deacon after that.
Year: 1864

A CONTINENT COVERED WITH Ice.
Prof. Agassiz continues his scien-
tific explorations. In the Atlantic
Monthly he comes to the conclusion
that the continent of North America
was once covered with ice mile in
thickness, thereby agreeing with
Prof Hitchcock and other eminent
geological writers concerning the
glacial period. The proof of this
conclusion, he says, that the slopes
of the Allegheny range of mountains
are glacier worn to the very top,
except few points which were
above the level of the icy mass
Mount Washington, for instance, is
over six thousand feet high, and the
rough, unpoiished surface of its sum-
NIT, covered with loose fragments,
just below the level Of which the
glacier marks come to an end, tells
that it lifted its head alone above
the desolate waste of ice and snow.


In this region, then, the thickness
of the ice cannot have been much less
than six thousand feet, and this is in
keeping with the same kind of evi-
dence in other parts of the country,
for when the mountains are much
under six thousand feet, the ice seems
to have passed directly over them,
while the few peaks rising to that
height are left untouched. The
glacier, he argues, was Gods great
plow, and when the ice vanished
from the face of the land, it left it
prepared for the hand of the hus-
bandman.


The hard surface of the rocks was
ground to powder, the elements of
the soil were mingled in fair proper
tions, granite was carried into the
lime regions, lime was mingled with
the more arid and unproductiye
granite districts and a soil was pre-
pared fit for the agricultural uses of
man. There are evidences all over
the polar regions to show that at one
period the heat of the tropics extend
all over the globe. The ice period
is supposed to be long subsequent to
this, and next to the last before the
advance of man.
Year: 1864

There is no miracle recorded in the
annals of any religion more mysterious


more incomprelen more inconceiv-
able than some of the well known prop.
critics of the simple metal iron. Consid.
er, for instance, lis change from its ordi,
nary condition ifbmmersed in nitric acid
it is powerfully aeed upon, entering into
combination with ahe acid, and losing its
metallic form. But a piece Of platinum
wire has one end Inserted in the acid,
and the iron is then immersed in contact
with the wire, it is so much changed
that the acid has no9swer upon it, and


this condition continues after the plati-
mum wire is withdrawn. The contact OF
single point with tie platinum sends a
transformation through all Of its particles
which renders them iuVulnenble to the
attacks of the most powerh! acids
Even more wonderful is itschange nm
der current of electricity. When a
bar of pure soft iron is wound with an


insulated wire, and a current of eectri-
city is sent through the wire the bar is
instantly converted into a magnet. 1t is

endowed with an unseen ftrce which
stretches out from its ends, and seizing
any other piece of iron within its reach,
draws them to itself, and holds them
within its invisible grasp. The object
of insulating the wire is TO prevent the
electricity from leaving it, and yet thro'
this insulating coat power is exerted
which changes so strangely the nature of
iron, enabling it to act on substances
with which it is not in contact. As soon
as the circling current ceases, the iron
becomes like Sampson shorn of bis
locks, its miraculous Eower has depart
ed.


No less mysterious than either of
these is the more familiar phenomenon
of the fall of a piece of iron to the
ground, and under the simple action of
gravtation. What is that invisible
force from, which reaches out in all di-
rections from the earth and clutches all
matter in its grasp? The fbres of this
power are imperceptible to any of our
senses. II we pass our hands under
suspended rock we can feel nothing
reaching from it to the earth and yet
there is something stretching from the
earth, taking hold of Il rock and drag
ging it down with thel strength of 100
cables. We walk enYloped in myste.
teries, and our daily Iie is a miracle
american.
Year: 1864

CooL.-They tell story Of a substi-
tute broker which is probably true. He
bad "put in" one of his men some dozen
or fifteen times, and had come to regard
him as one of the most profitable parts of
his stock 10 trade. On one occasion the
bounty jumper found no opportunity to
run away until the steamboat on which
he was shipped for the army had got a
mile from the land. He took his chance,
however, jumped overheard and succeed
ed in reaching the land. On relating
his adventures to his principal the broker
sharply reproved him for bis temerity,
adding - 81 think what loss it would
have been to me had you drowned"
Year: 1864

Human life has been often thrown
away from persons not taking the pre-
caution to accustom their minds to dwell
at times on the proper method of acting
10 emergencies. From the want of this
many rush into the very jaws of death,
when a single moments calm reflection
would have pointed out certain and
easy means of escape. 1t is the more
necessary to fix in the mind a general
course of action in case of being n a
house while it is on fire, since the most
dangerous confagrations occur in the
dead Of the night, and at the moment of
being aroused from sound sleep the
brain is apt to become too confused TO
direct the bodily movements with any
kind of appropriateness without some
previous preparation in the manner con-
tanned therein. The London Fire De-
partment suggests, in case premises are
on fire


/. Be careful to acquaint yourself
with the best means of exit from the
house, both at the top and bottom.


2 On the first alarm reflect before
you act. If in bed at the time, wrap
yourself in a blanket or bedside carpet.
Open no more doors than absolutely ne
cessary. and shut every door after you.


8. There is always from eight to
twelve inches of pure air close to the
ground if you cannot, therefore, walk
upright through the smoke, drop on your
hands and knees, and thus progress. A
wetted silk handkerchief, piece of fan
mel, or a worsted stocking drawn down
over the face, permits breathing and to
a great extent excludes the smoke.


4. If you can neither make your way
upward or downward, get into front
room. If there is family, see thai they
are all collected there, and keep the door
closed as much as possible, for remem-
ber that smoke always follows a draft,
and fire always rushes after smoke.


3. On no account throw yourself, or
allow others to throw themselves from
the window. Ifno assistance is at hand
and you are at extremity, tie the sheets
together, having fastened one side to
heavy piece of furniture, and let down
the children one by one by tying the end
of tho line OF sheets around the waist,
and lowering them through the window
that is over the door, rather than one
that is over the area. You can easily
let yourself down after the helpless are
saved.


6. If woman's clothes catch fire, let
her instantly roll herself over and over
on the ground. If man be present, let
him throw her down and do the like, and
hen wrap her up in rug, coat, or the
first wooden thing that is at hand.
Year: 1864

A WICKED DARKEY "A humane
lady in the west of Ohio, during the
rush Of contrabands thither, took
pity on a poor ragged boy of de-
cidedly dark complexion, and con-
clnded to give him a home in her
family. After being decentIy cloth
ed, Jack was as happy as rebel in
a Union prison, and soon was as fat
as a prize pig. The good woman
was pleased with her success, and all
went on swimmingly until one day
she heard him use the Lords name
in anything but reverent manner.
Calling Jack to her, she proceeded
to lecture him upon the enormity of
the deed, telling him that he would
certainly go to Tophet unless he
stopped swearing.


what kind oh place am dat?'


it is lake of fire and brimstone'


'Fiah and birthstone, missms ?


Yes and you will be put into it
and burned forever and ever


But poor Jack burn allup, missus.'


NO you wont ; you will keep
burning, butnever be consumed


But | could nebber stand it,


You will have to stand it, replied
the woman, somewhat at loss for
words to make him understand her



We'll replied the juvenile contra
band if | kin stand it, | don't care
straw r and Immediately began to
whistle down in Dixie
Year: 1864

The London Times says that the
@best service that England @can
render to the cause of peace is to
let events run their course, and not
to interfere in American politics by
word or deed.