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VOL. VIII. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO THURSDAY". SEPTEMBER 18 1862. SO 46 SELECT POETltY. TliUm IN POETRT. The following solection id worthy ol a place Id this duputmont of our paper. Rjader, you will o ciurai think it refers to your neighbor, and Dot yourself. Yju aro mistake n: A LITTLE MuIIR. (At Thirty.) Fire hundred dollars I have savod A rather modorato store No manor: I shall be content Whan I've a lUtle more. (At Forty ) Welti I can count ten thousand now That's bolter than before; Aod I may well be satisfied When I've a lttle more; (Ai Fifty ) "" ' Some fifty thousand pretty well-But I have earnod it sore, However, I Bhall not complain When I've a little more. (At Sixti.) O.ie hundred thousand sick aod oil Ah! Ida Id halt a bore, Yet 1 cad be content to live Woen I've a little more I (At Serentv ) lie dies and to his grejdy heirs lie leaves a countless store, ftis weal.h has purchased him a tomb And vary littla mora. TEI.L VS OF THE WAH. BY SAMUFL BARBER. S'.l lier, tell ua ol the war; W ill the stars triumphant wave Whon the battle's din is o'er, Floating o'er tho tree and b.ave? Dk th nibt and fierce tho strife, Free'y flows hfi's crinnon tide, Where the patriut yields his life Freedom's flig U floating wide. Oad be praised, bu quickly toll Has .he heartless rebel bled V.'htre oui gailaut Jjllswonh Ml, Where young Gieblu's tpitit il.d? Upward in our eagle's U'ght, O.iwara match tho light Zouaves, Rebels sleep in death's I ng night. Traitors fled their open graves, 8"ldier, lot mo preso thy band, Calmly look lbo in the oyo; V.'ilc tbou by thy ciun.ry stand I.i her punllod hour, or die? By tho scirs my t rawst doth bur! By tbd innurner's biuur sigh! By ibis arm an 1 snoru I swosr, Liberty shall never die. . THE BANK UUP T HUSBAND. BT .VIRGINIA f TOWNMSND. "It'll have to go, Mary; there's r. ktlp for it." She looked up, the lady to whom these words were addressed, in a way which showed that they had struck and hurt her, Sks was scalloping a child's skin, and he nejdle-woik followed her rapid lingers along the flannel like a snowy loam; bat now the work fell, unhetded, to the floor. "-Ah, John, has ii come to thai?" skd Mary, the wife ol John Malcolm; and soil bloom in her cbetks vanished svtv eotl tho woias were epj en wiio kind o geap as though just benea h t.em lay a mighty swell und rush ollsslir.gs lnat n,gU ifliie powered her voioe. "Yes, Mary, ii tattU coma. God knows I've a ruggled aariwid as man could to weather the storm, und 1 could have dene it too, if thM Western houtts hudu'i gone under. But they'll carry us with it." I ,M' realise it yet. Jhn," she snid, loittrug at htm in a lialt-bewilderrd. Lalf tri,tV4iened why tha'- was pitiful to see; 'he Wk for the moment hud half stunned her. "Oh, Mary, it was hardest for your rekel" and the oids came in that sba p groan which is terrible to hear Irom th lips of a strong man. The tones roused her at O' ce into a lull coLsciousness ol wbalhad belal en them, and of the part she muit bear in it, ' Don't, John don't tBke it ao hard," her voice struggling up through a sub into a note of brave cheer. ulnesa, and ber lijs fashioning a smile, which, though wen at first you leet certain would growstroog. er and brighter all the time, just as you feel tbf aweet promiaeoi the day wlen the first faint aunbeama a ruggle weakiy out 01 the morning's miat. "1 ouuld have borne np, Mary, if it had'nt been for you aid tne children, but that thought cut to the core it's more than I can bear." And or ti.e first lime the young ife and mo her heatd a long sob from ibe lip of ber husband, as he boed down on the arm of bis ohair. Tne pride of his man hood gave a -ay, at last, anu John Malcolm wept like a little child. Then the woman's heart, t is wc man's power to cheer.and com ort.and strength n, roused themselves; the waves went over ber but one moment, an J then Mary Malcolm forgot herself, and roue up to the height of her true womanhood to tliecx-u tation of selfnsacriGco. "John," said the tort. bravo vice. don't ever say that again. Let everything else fail.the heart of yo'-ir wife never will," And now abe had come clone to him and lie felt her small arras.atnut hii nock, and her head lav on his thoulJer, as tender, as confiding as in their days of brightest prosperity. And all through the d-v he hd been looking forward to this hour and ihrink'ng away from it;nnd once or tw:ce Go I for give himl he had glanced ont of his of-fico window to the river, which rolled its d-rk, sullen waters in he oistanco, and a fieroa temptat on had rushed over him, to d op eytry hing and- hurry out there and bury all his pain end srguiah under the dark, crumpled theel of water. But John, in his secret (lit-tress, knew that ibis tcmptRiun was the voice of the devil euteiing info his soul; but i o was a man who feared God and kept his com iiinndmenls he put the temptation aside. The young husband hnd not doubted liia wile's heart lor a moment; Let he expected to see her s;ncken almost to tLe eaith, with the fi.st livings of the uin of the bou:e in which he was the heaviest parinsi'. He knew that ber youth had been n'ir ured in all the gWce aid luxury . , . , . ! . , ,, x.l thought of troing cut mu the chil na " . ilnrkiiess of poverty He l ad or bitter , , , , . , , . ,-s ot looked for loud lamentations, .... , . I reproaches, but be dreaded be ' , , . ... ,V rs, the mule dtfpair of tho white fciliOt tears, the mule dtfpair of tho white face So John Malcolm raised his hot face, stained with the tears that were ehed for her sake, and looked into the eyes of h s wife; and the answered him with a amilfl that ret even her face in' a new aa-crednesa and beauty to her husband's '' a smile so sweet and tender for hi'ii, so hrave and defiant for tho worst tho V.'orld could do them, that it said to hitn at once all th.t her words would, and c;uld not. ' Ah, Mary.my wife," said ll r crrc'i.sv.! "I thought when I came into my bouse, an hour a 0, that I wan a ruined man, I feei nw as though I whs a very rich one." "Ruined, Pith me fctd lhe children, John," aud now there was som fain', re proach in hsr vcice; byt clung closer o him. "but, Mary ycor child, ycu don't inow what it is to be poor, to give up fO much of r.r..ve and luxury, to wi.ich you've been accuaiomed." "Yuu any that, Jl n, before ycu've ritd me, uud son what springs ot courage i nd powirs of sell sacrifice theie are ia my i aturo." Tbo noble word had a Siting tmpfcesif in ti e sweet smile in the steadiast, dawn' less tones. "But wo shall have to give up the house, Mery." "We',1, wo c tn feel just u h ppy in a Msallercne. Oui love has had ubioader lautdiitioo than e ale y rctms and cosily fui nitur'j. We.M thke a cosev iit J,: ojt.ai'e rf 0 .ou.ewhere in the country, aud for three servants get along wi;h one.". Heating tnese woids, John Malcolm locked at his v fe; but he did not say then what was in his heart-a thanksgiving to God for the angel He had sent to walk with him. He toi k her hand aud held it close in his, while he told her of a temptation which had beset him before the tail ure of I is house b came cenain a tempt ation by yielding o which he ciu'd hve suvid himnelf tiom failure. Bui it mus' have been by diehonest means, by ink ing adhntHge of others in his power-in abort, by a fraud, Which, though oiiin' laws never cou d reach, Gcd'a d d, with that e'einal, "Doun o others a ytWjuld 'hey should do unto you." "Oh, thank ' odl thank God you were delivered from this e i.l I had rather you should go down to your grave without a dollar than have committed this sin," said Mary Malcolm and the tears were biigtil in her blue eyes. And afterward there fell a little silence betwixt those two, hutbar.d and wife. It was broken by the latter. She looked up in the man's face, and he.- lit le finger, sifted themselves through the dark hair that bad no shocks of gray, and her look, bright, gratelul. loving, touched and covered a gieat deal. "What is it. Mary?" "I was th'nking John, how much better riff to day I am than thousands of wives throughout the land. How many there are who sit in their lone! homes, wearing the flow hour away with hopes and tears frr the hu bands ho have none to the war, and whose dreams at night are filled wi b visions of battle fields, where the one beloved face lies white and ghact ly on the sodden grass, with no hand to iff r the last otio of cold wa er, no ear to oatch the last, low word. Ab, John, my eyes have never searched, as so many es- ger eyes do,!or Your iiiiinc among the liatj of the dmid or wounileJ.anJ 'fi!id' -m a word to thank God for, when I ilm.k ol that." Sbe was crying now she, the broken merchant's wife crying for jiy. "Mary," said John Malcolm, ''I n-.ivcr thought of all this, never or.co thanl ed God ior it. through this day that has been the darkest and brigutes! of my lifo; for out of the thick cloud has its hlewed light ahined " And after ahilc their talk wen! ft; fl' the practical matters r,nd uses which uo neaily concerned them. t'uo retiencling their expenses, tho selling the ilirniture at once, nnd ettiling thcuuelvta in th cottage, as Mary called it.always fpeaking tho word with a tone which gave it n nweP flavour of htm?, I can get u cleikehip, an ' we eitn con 'rive to live cn a email salary nuiil the war ia over, which God granf be not long, and afterward I i-hill. doub ling fee rny wy e'ear into business ajjiim. But, Mary, dot 't you know how fo k ill pi y you behind .your bick, and ay you've come down drtadfully in the woihl arid thai it's a ehnmo you tver thr w yuurfieif away on such a poor dog as I am " 'They won't know what ibey're s-iyi g then, aid Icertainlihnn't caie lor it " II r smilewasveltar and bright now nr unxhine that hasstruggled wi h the iloui. and coirin out of it triumphant. ."Well, Mary, a vroog heart mfces a ; , i. ., , , , , cMnf om nnH I cil.all lf.il with hilli ff.1- ryou ana uie cuuurrn, as a mnn coes ur v.. v ........ . MJtpsc wno are ocarer wmu uio to turn, K.' T , , , , . -L'Dtw Jolin! ' her and fluttered doi f , , , . i or his thculder m a pre'ty, caressing ws tcred down ot bis fncuiuer m a pre'ty, caressing way, though her tone9needed nothing more "I carne home, Marv, amis raWe.dia1-couraged, broken spirited man; and cow I feel as brave, as strong, as cheeiful, too 3 1 ever did in my life aye, and richei; for it needed this diiy and thin trial, to show mo what the woman I hr.ve married was wor 1', iwd all she con d he to ine. Oh, M y if therft were only more wives in the world like you!" Dear reader have you ever .".tuodi like this woman f''''" 'Te ri nrivrr-itr' nd have ycu.too.ienrucd in what spirit to take it? Wa'chman and Rtfl.ctor. A Word foi' Tovorty's Children. BY MILT- The rain fell in torren's fid orzjd through the eld wornout roof, and fell in great drops with a strarge sad sound upon tho floor Tbo tref s torn by tho blaet lashsd their Wik' d arm against the house, tho wind whistled throucb the windjw.and a if frightened by the de9 oturenens o tho room. rui)hed up tho chlm' npy with a howl, leaving an additijn&l chill on poor, sick Willie, lying on a heap of ra?s in the ecner. But he heeded it not.TJn-com-einu-nes had stolon over him, and ha ap nar hia rest, for col 1, hungiir and w&n' hod done their work ; and h': wm 'eft to dio Poor Willie all alone ! No mother, n-i father! Thy had gone be'ore, beq within? to him all their pisfflsins; preat povrtv ! At first the poor ni-ighhora glanced at him aa he wandered round, seme to p!lv, bm more to tanph. 'or ropery cea'a th9 heart and seeks cnmpnnt . F.)' awhi'a ha braved the storing ;nd beesed his brend. hn'. h was too vnung too we ik to pn 'nro It's; a-d Ker; he lay, rnv'rg wit'i trver arrl cil.ins; ni.ilhetl mothei! in hi urcoesci' us' ess lie wilt soon reach hia mother 1 The rain has ceated the rai rirpa gtisttn in lh m wnlicht, the wind is at ie. ard ao is Willio He has gone n thut Und whers there is no more s rrew, no more oovertv. He has lound his mother Tho mmmligit and hU nanina siti'e rest calmly na bis 'al' 'ace . ard beauiiiy it. Sweet be your rest, por lone ore! Th-s hag been a PtM, co'd world, but Heaven will recompnnge vou and e efnity will he jnvful. Up! ye who bave a dollar in your purges Lave your blight parlors, there is wntk lor ycu to do. Diz-ns o Willie are dying of t uuner in this groat city round you. Seek them out ! give them bread 1 Your Gd bas commanded you, 'tis your duty, 'tis yur privilege I Do not scorn it. Do it and the poor will blesa you all their lives. God will reward you, for tie bas said, "Cant tby bread upon the waters and alter many days it shall return to you." Draw out your pur.3, give what you can if only a Utile, it may do gieat giod.. You may na d a helping hand Sj do good while you c". .m H whun it comes your turn to want. Ii- ;- i will be stretched to help you, or God's utiu will be all poworful to save. It is troie bless'd to give than to recoive. Remember it, ind go forth. lI say stranger.' said a cottage urchin tn a peJdler, 'don't whistle that dog away.' 'Why he ain't no use, no how, he'a too homely.' 'Oh, but ho save9 heaps of work,' 'How?' Why, ho cleana tho plates and dishes, so that they never want washing, and mother says she wouldn't part with him no how, for our new dog aint' got used to mustard yet.' I Wriiltn fur ti.e Ohio i'arrr.cr. nr ur.s l. v. uiLUci., i r am.m, u. Every person has to stay, hut how few havs iiosin in which to lit. T-y home I do not mean a house but a iii mk hern our household idr.as dwell, surrounded by cooi torW. nail a cold, chejrlefs pil-3 of brick or Imnhjr l onie, lu'curo we cotnpol our lo-;d cup.; to lire there, i i aa inar pieprlats as to call the fe!or.'i cell bin f eme, bocausabis o;;r?: a is prevented , Te dkke a bonss ho:ue it should not cnl' bo tho rjot h?ro we live, but I.y ita bcav.tlis ard nUrsct;ea? ttie ono o.' all othen where we i-b to livo. But to ray purposo. In travoling tr.rcv.gb our country, how often do wo ueo a hoiiax-wiih an exterior or 'n uo wbth pei l.as oh-jcctitinsblo but i; you f junjne very mil uto-ly you might bo ltd to think it a private Jiil. torn tha fact tbat voo find one of the windows strargoly hatred, as if it we a the rtnrgeon. Underneath this prated window i usually seen a spout protiudi ip through tho sido of ne house, and umler tho sput a p"ol of t oculinr ch&rnotjr. I.ca ioit bi strict-, ly clasHifi d aa minora), or ai.iiual, but partakes oi al', as in its tut bid bjsom potato bkins and tnuaiga ends, tea grounds and gnawed bon a, turnip tops and live hog, mingled in horrid, loaihi tne contusion. And oh ihe horrors ol a sutatur's dy I U ili'te he Pud of Siliam, .hesj w.turs are dis utbel, not by n angel, (or one in the in-f rnBl pit could nut e loond filthy .enough t" d'lblein them but by togs und when dbtiirb. d instead ol healing tbocn who first Atep into tbo rtench would kill a horse a 8abbath day's journey off. Dj you call such a place home? It o -gbt til be an additional cause for divorce for a wan to put his wife into S':ch a place, and a woman who would become pwticeptcr-.vii-nis; by ooaaer.ting to it, ought to l;ro an old maid, But cn inquiry, I am told that those bars an placed across the pantry window to keep cats out! Why not difiVure your houae by plfcdng bars across your front door to kcp them out? If such is the clj ct, lot tno suggest a rcn-.e.ly lor this intolerable disfiguration of your house. Mako a light framo of boards that wiil just !L into tho window caiinga, cover this trains wiia wiro aiiza with meshes ot about hlf an inch the whr.le toimingan nlrgant dorr cri-.dfw. Ilirg ibis (in ona sulo of your window casing, wiih a nice button to fasten it cn tho other aide and you have a boauti ul protection, which will a'low ytu to take cut your window dunng the hot weathet, ani i ha whole at an eJtpsnse of not eror oue d..l,ar. Au isapiih.vion will show that spout to be oetected with a sink (it ought to be ?unk) on tha inside. Hero di.sh water and soap sudn.'pat liqnor" and 'clobbered" milk, and mingled in their cour.is to the vast pool in which are buried all their haautie.i, to he cast forth in the pestilential raiasma that causes our most cutrid fovers. And why nhould they not be putrid when tho only air wo breatho, sleeping or waking, in Ailed with putridity. New this ia not only ab-.sing his family and hia neighbors and the public but robbing hiiti-elf. With a lamily ofcix persons and a very littld labor, a man may make fiom this tffen&ive compound enough manur oi the choicest kind to produce a hundreu bunQals ol wheat. Lit r.U the hnuae Gitb be added to the mixtu e, aud irstead o running through the side ul tbe pantry, forming a pool that will scatter s'ekness arid i sgust as 'ar aa ita villain, us sine 1 un reach, yju wilibivo adilcd to your woa.tb what I equal to a hundred bu'he:s of :vha it a letr To save all this tff. dually iv ry poison should have near his houto a tu ind ol stiaw, nulls, muck, or u m utber like a b-Btorce Tbe earth under it nhould b9 hollowed b 'Whahiped Wiie.ii the uound is cou.pleu-d ul a sizj to mil the tat ui tho o-tmr, it shnul-j te cuvend up tho sides lUe a roal pit, uh swamp muck, nr tut r eartb, lei vug a laige l.uvlth (.td i:e-uression oti the top, irto which topi ur a I o the off als oi tbe house Into 'his occa sionilly put hall a bui.iel if lime aod p'a-1 r the first tn aid djoin yoii i in; the plaster to destroy or n autrahsj the t ffUvia. If ibis mound is built aud finished with taste, fliwers may be raised on it, and thus what now form the sickening pool, will not only be deprived ol all its noxious q'l-ili.ics but add to tbe beauties; and vijoymenta and wealth, o! the lovely spot called borne Tha New Haven HyUttr says; "A few nigh'S S'nee owing to an acci 'ent, the Spring field train did not reach Ilart'ord until late, and, in cooscjuenee, thos) a vtitinr itsarr-val at the station bad a tedious time t.f it. Avnng them was a demure looking Yankee, inclined to have a nip Fi.rirg his feet on the upper round of his chair, be leaned bck Kffiinst the wa'l a"d 'wont at it.' lie was not far ty under wav, however, when he was .npped on the hat by ono of the(fll--rials and 'old that "sitting upahe, ing was notallwid in the depot.'" 'Eh! j dilated the ai'onishel sleeper, no sitiit g up and sleeping?' 'No' S r agin '.be r dos of the Company, said the official. 'Well I declare, replied the other, this Is mean placet Won't y in ask the Orapany U I mayn't gape?' fodowng up his query with a stretch that put tho offloioas cffioial to in stant (Vght. ' A fellow who got drunk on elec'ion tiny, said it was owing to his effort to pnt down "party spirit," TX1E snowMAjrs COUKTSmP BY ABTEMUS WARD. There wis many affect in ties which iiiade mo haner artor Betsey Jane, ller fithor'i (arm j.ned cum, tbcr cows and ourn a-iusncht un" um""- ,l "8," "P"rP. la" nl"I:tlv..i , .. .1 . :.-t broke cut in both families at nearly tho asm, poiiod, 9r jarlMs-Botsty's ai.d mine- sl'-pt regulny tveiy Sunjuy in the same ucoting hcuae.and the Daberutisjd to cbwrve, llow thick iho Waid and IWeys air I', it was a ueiuiimo sito, in ine Epru-g c I tno .fear, to see our several mothers Betsey 'p ! and mine with their gowD9 pin'd up so they rJtiMn't site cm; tflic-huiiitly Liliu wjo together and a)oozi tho nabers. AUho I bankeied iutenjeiy artcr the ob-jeck cl my ff. etienn 1 carrunt tell her o, the Una ohicu was ragm in my manly Boss sum I'd tiy to do it nut my tuog wonld kerttboliup up agin the roof of my mou b and stick (bar, Ike death tn a deceait A'ri cuii. or a Ci oMiy poi-i master to his oifia while my biit wnopod agin my ribs like an old at-hii ntd n beat title ngi i a bam Qjur. 'T-tars a cann s-iil n le in June. All na tur nai busnt, and nary z ffir in'urjoJ lie yoieen bilena. 1st with B't-ev Jinoo'i tbo f.-nse o bor lather's pas i nr. Wj'd bin rompin threw the wo d&, kullm fl mis & diivieg the woodchuelt fron bis Nanvo L.ir so to speak-ith long sticks Will, e ot thir ii tho fonse.a s-vingip our lejt wo and fio. b u bin aa red as the BildiDSvilla skor Lome when it was fist p.ined, and look in veiy s'mple, I miso no doubt. My lolt arm - as cccup ed in bullunsin myself on tbe fecse, whil my lit was woun4 luvinly around hur waste. I cleared my throat and trembllnly ted Betsey, your a giullo. . I thot that air waa putty fine.I waited to see wlint efTeck it won d hev on her. It evidently did'et fetch her, for she up and sed Yeu're a cheep I Scd I- Fe'rey, I think -rrr muchly of you. I don't t'liere a word you Biy ao there cow cum 1 With raueh obscrvarmn she hitched away from ma. I wkb theie iras winieis lorr.y solo, r.ed I r,o that you could se coino ol my feelins.-Thsre'a Cro enuff here, sed I, striking my br.r.ztira with my flit, to bile ail tbe corn b;oi and turnips in the nabe;hood. Versaov-ius ain't a circutustans t S!ie bowed ber head do?rn, and coranienc' chawing the sir ngs to her sun buast. Ar could 3 on know the sleepless rites I worry throw with on your accouas; how vi lies have ctas-:d to be attractive to me, & how my llrus hes shrunk up, you wouldn't dowt me. 0 ine on this wastin form, aad these ero sunken chtekii, I she lid have continued on in that strano lorsotno time, but unfcrtinitly I lost my balance and fell over into t e pastur Ur etni-h tearin ay elcso aod wveerly dvnnglng my self generally. Bi.t-.ej Jans sprung to mv clsur.ee and d nigged me 4th Then drawin herself up to her lull kilo, she rod I won't listen to your noncests no longer J!8 sey tito sttai: out what vour nrivin it. If you moan gettln hiuhid I m ih 1 I considered that sve enuff lor all practi c tl pu'piseo, and we pi ooe di d irnm jrly t . tha purii-o' and wa mndn 1 'hat very mto 'That's What s Tim .Matteu!" We have at lust hmn 1 out the rigin ul this popular phrase. A Iriend f ouiv who has been aba-nt all winter. retu ning a few ilavs siiu'e. c ill j1 up in an estimubld la ly irii n 1. lie was -tui'- pnsed to hii'i her coiiniieil ton eiek bed- Alter the; first salutations were over, our friend rcn aiked: t-Wliv. Mra. . I am very sorry to find y u ill what is fie mutter?" Quickly reaching over to the bock ot the bed, the invalid turne 1 down the coverlid, dii cloning ;t beautiful in'an wrappu I in tno emiiracH ot tin- rosy tj.i I, an I ail iriirnpiiiinily. 'thi,i lAnfo the waiter. ''La I 'rouse hemoc tt. Tho Candid Thief. Dodging the door or a C.iunsul Catch, A tbie observed 'twas on the latcb, Popp'd in? and quick again piss'd out, Willi wig, and gown, and riding coat; Then wrote to let the lowyer know That ha bid se ved him so and so; A-ldirg Pos'crtpt 4 1 might have taken C. ke upon Littleton and Bison; But law's to roe superflous s'.udy, For lam rcgue enough already " Somo one speaking of a celobrated bass- singer, said, '-He led a very abandoned l.fe." "Oh, yes," replied Sealey. "the whole tenor of h'B life bus been base." "Will you take something? ' said a teet oialler to his friend, while standing near a tavern. "I lon't c -re if I do," was the eply. "Well, said Frank, "let's take a walk " Punch says that the cha acteristic of a timo pieee is modesty ra her than rude ess, for "it always keeps its hands l:efor0 i s face " "Can you return my lov dearest Jnliiw"' 4,Certai: ly S.r. 1 don't warn it, I'm sure." Jim Snieks jn'ta everv thin.; lo use. lis wile lias a oa! I hea I. an 1 In straps his ra.mr on it the scampf The !'i!lo-ini; U ttor ? iiiindoi to i bj uii'i cf our subscriber's. JJOi.iVAK, TsSHl5ivi:, Aug 6t, J4th, V:&i. DfciAR 1'aBESFs: I j lmf mx& i K'm w wv ,llulu i'c" lu 0JV " 1 ttt-' I'make it scratch i-iUy, a tvw lim-s j Cor jon. JaH iiuainc v'ju 8-y . nic i tlIuj stretclll'il out iU tV.li Iciii'lb, llildcf the tliit... 6jialo of & fun ..at. seemingly in inrnot tlnmht. m-.il ytu have my position. It is in lcxi very warm, sml .-.iTMtfMien! v hav,: sought tho coulent und imt tvtirc I spot' from tho buailoof cntap. that- I pti-taibly couhi. How fUn fints fitrrv brin tn my mind varium" ecc'rics anil enjoymenr'a of the pasr an 1 :drlo tl.inkit.tr of them wtt!i intense intcreat. I become lost to nil aroa.fi mo. atid ior the time boin'f thov seem tta til : i: : o ' ..f tho pres nt. ' Just so t.lU-t. ,o J Wko a it w, r... lri,l thoic SWOet awako as it wtw, fru.n tho.c sweet ;,u-1"1"1"1 lu uua rfeTories an.l find nmelfuir. tinted.!" sa,c to w!cul&te aIAn ths "aciff It bus o,,iv W-natli-enm of mv waking hours, but 1 hope and inlst it will not be krig until I Bhall be permitted to enjoy as I u9'-'d to do, all the privil Iges ut a freMiiin'si life. IS early elev en months Lfo, I engaged in the can t of liberty ami justico, and I still fin 1 myself bound by my sacred honor, to continue in the strife, and I wonhi nor have it otherwise, so lo g as those hell hounds remain in arms. S. me-timcB I become almost discouraged and think the hardships we endure and dangers we have to pass through, are ull for nothing, or of but little ac count, in maintaiuing our good old Union. It does aeeui to me that all our officers care for, is the filling of their own pockets- I would to liocl that I had supreme power for a short time, and I world hurl some of them into a place a degree or two warmer than this, and 1 believe our cause would prosper. But nctwithstanding, we are musing Secession with one hand and fighting it with the other, I yet feel a deep iuterest in the causa. 1 love my native home, I love ths State of my nativity, in fact I love the whole Union, and I believe there is no other way to preeerve thorn all, bat by meeting our foes upon tho battle field- Consequently i am r:ii.:,1 fight to the bitter end, for I feel as though my life, so long a3 this reuiainb une.tt'ed.or we submit to our enemies, would be miserable imleed. t 'ona (jncntly, I am led to exclaim in the language ot Patrick Henry. "Lure me liberty or give me leaut." :ut 1 muHt eonclule by a iling that J" has ut length leached n, with fome 70 or 0 others ot our llegiiu-nt. They were all well, in (act our wh-.h- Uegimeiit ia in good health. J ilel.vindtht.so shirls in good time, also two or three letters which w.re ot the late 't date of anv that. 1 h .ve r.ceive 1 from your baud. 1 wo.i!-.i like to hear from y.u often. Yours with all due reverence, W. A. P. A lawyer once came into coun drunk when tho judge, sai 1 to him.1 Sir, I am sorry to see you in a situation which ii a dingracy to jourseli and tamily. the c itrt an I thepr-rei-6ion to which you belong. 'J hia reproof ehc.teltlvi following colloquy: Did your honor speak to red I did. 6ir. 1 said, sir that iu my opinioii yon disgrace yourself and family, the court and the profession, by your course of conduct, ilay i-i-it please yuur honor, I have been an attorney in-in this c-c-court tor fifteen years, ami permit tno lo say your honor, that ih.s is the first correct opinion l. ever knew yoa to jjivf!. An Irishman at New Haven, Conn., having hail nino children in eight years' wedlock, applied tor an exemption certificate, because ho could serve his country so much better at home. A woman has been arreBted in Albany for stealing old iron. She had forrteen jouudsof it secrete-1 in her bosom. Iler oflVnae weighed htavily upon bar ECr""! wish you wc "M 'not smoke cigars," said a plump little b ack eyei girl to her lover. "Why may I no' ituoke as well a-i.yourchi.uik-y? ' P.e-canso cliiiniieys do not atitoko lun they aro iu good order." 11a has quit 6raoking. - Advioa tj a Daughter. Thtra iij ono point, my uaufttcr1, v,i,:a;i ia for isipoxtaut t . hi omiUcI; I j'i'i'cr to thi tieportm'jiit which i!, be-co.i.ci von tj :r.iv;nta:!i tovrarl tha , other it ex. The iinpcr'aiice of this, - lu-.f !. S. -U ,V ..... , " ,v 'i" ;"-' cnti Hr:-c!y v!luiHtt ton bv.bly. -'''- i-tn i, it hr.. mach t do !n I 'UIlJl';lg OWIl clwrucfcr, UJl J ( I nwd not say that any lac. of jjm J1; t!1-s aspect ctcs f.-r a sicl-J hl'r,r,KiftT ' T'tJ!e to ev'.U wh-.I, ,! ' scnnfj;r-.'.at;tr-,n mja ..v.j.y w rt-jwur. Un il'e j 'r Iiisa i. tho cemdujt of every fe. j wh" - oi' tho 1-'"t cc.w.i.?ra!-ka '"l-v-li pe"t-'i an iftfiuenwi : 0:1 tha clararor ewry y -aa-. i wnum sho aa? .ciat aao. if.:'. i "sfi"enco vrAl bc !"r &0 M ene ex b: bits, or Hen to ts!t:wt, 3 c- ; Jortm.nt which bt-ctai-s Jw. So ! CJD;m l;l Uliil ld tlua that it ' mnaity, Iron knosinS th-i prevailing s:an-.;aru o: icmai-j caarar. tor, an l that can c tr.'!y ha rtgnihA iu ia exaggerated tbiastw, wbi:h iv c!ars "woxeu rub tbe world " Let r.;e couu-:el ycti, thea. uorcr to utter aa expressiou, cr do aa act$ whioh ever, luoks liko solieitius p.cv 9 i . . i i i i gentleman's attention. iJraembex that every 03cr-3ssion of civility, to of any value, must be perfectly voV untary, and any wish on your part, whether directly or icdirectl" express-el, to make yosrself a faTcri:?, will be certain to awsktn the disgdat cf all who know it 1 would not recommend to you anything like a rrc iish or affected reserve, but even this is not so unfortunate an- extreme, as an ex cessive forwardness. Wwileyou flic I-estly accept any attentions Which pro priety warrants, lit there bo no attempt at artful irainnaticrt a cr. hand, cr at taking a rcan's heart by stura oa the other. Be not ambitioua to i6 coasiicj&d a belle. Indeed, I bad rather yoa would be almost anything elso, which does not involve gross moral obliquity, than this. It is thi fate of moat belle that they becom? foolishly vain, think of nothing, and care tor nothing, be yoad personal d:?play, acd notunfre-pr.-:t!y sacrifice thetnaehea to a m.vi bargain, whicli involves their destinies for life. The more of solid ami en '.luring estoom you enjoy, the better. ind you ought to gain wliatover oi this yon can by honorable means, but to Le ;: hnired, caressed and Latte:et for mere accidental qnalitiea, which involve nothing Af Jatellacteal rr moral worth, ought to render any gi;i who is the subject of it aa object pity. You aro at liberty to desire tin; good opinion of every gentleman :C your acquaintance, bat it would1.-wor-:o than folly in you to beami.--tious of a blind a imiuikn. I will only a.l, tliat you cr.ght t ' bo on youi goard against the infiuca- ot iU:tery. Jlely oa it, th t v.:zt: w! , Hatters you, whatever h may pvofsff, k not your friend. It w?re a t:k kinler effice, and a real mark -.'" friendship; toaJmocish you tenderl. yet hontstiy of your finite. If y. o. yield a little to flattery, you have ph.. ee l yourself on dangerous ground, if yu continue to jield, you are not in i.-robably undone- -E-cv. Y-'illiaa V, 3p:-sgua. Testa of Character A great many admirable actions aro overlooked by ns, becatlJe theya--little anil common. Take, for ii-stance, tho mother, Mho has had br ken slumber, if any at all, with t;-- nursing babe, t hose waats must m-i bo disregarded; shtf Would fain sleep awhile when the breakfast hour com- -: but patiently and uiicoiuplaiuingly ah takes her timely Beat at tho table i'lioughcshLii&tjtlftnl weary.sboe rv & all wi'.h a refreshingcupot cofieo or l.-a before she-81,18 ittisrself; and oftet. the cup ia handed back before she bus. had timo to taste ber 6wn. Uo jou hear her complain this weary mother that her breaklast is cold before she has had timo to eat it? AnJ this not for ono, but for every morning, per Imps, through the year. Do .tot; Call this a small thing? Tiy it au.c'. sec. Oh! how does woman Bharuo us lv her forbearance and fortitude in whiil are called littlo thinerBl Ahl it ii theso little things which aro teifs oi cliiirnetei': it is by tho lit.io" vlf- leu'rlsi, horno wi'h snciistll'-tvi'.gi.ttci! gi nile-iit'ft. tne .'utnb'ti.s lit jjn r,. t,!o b uatinil, , 'lonyh wo fail 'o s e it, ';. - ; iii.til die ehitit vaet'.tit. tui.l,.: ! ,i. tlmt kej t a t,jiva all tlVs Ufin:g.tek ru;hi jory is powerle aud oold! 3
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Full Text | VOL. VIII. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO THURSDAY". SEPTEMBER 18 1862. SO 46 SELECT POETltY. TliUm IN POETRT. The following solection id worthy ol a place Id this duputmont of our paper. Rjader, you will o ciurai think it refers to your neighbor, and Dot yourself. Yju aro mistake n: A LITTLE MuIIR. (At Thirty.) Fire hundred dollars I have savod A rather modorato store No manor: I shall be content Whan I've a lUtle more. (At Forty ) Welti I can count ten thousand now That's bolter than before; Aod I may well be satisfied When I've a lttle more; (Ai Fifty ) "" ' Some fifty thousand pretty well-But I have earnod it sore, However, I Bhall not complain When I've a little more. (At Sixti.) O.ie hundred thousand sick aod oil Ah! Ida Id halt a bore, Yet 1 cad be content to live Woen I've a little more I (At Serentv ) lie dies and to his grejdy heirs lie leaves a countless store, ftis weal.h has purchased him a tomb And vary littla mora. TEI.L VS OF THE WAH. BY SAMUFL BARBER. S'.l lier, tell ua ol the war; W ill the stars triumphant wave Whon the battle's din is o'er, Floating o'er tho tree and b.ave? Dk th nibt and fierce tho strife, Free'y flows hfi's crinnon tide, Where the patriut yields his life Freedom's flig U floating wide. Oad be praised, bu quickly toll Has .he heartless rebel bled V.'htre oui gailaut Jjllswonh Ml, Where young Gieblu's tpitit il.d? Upward in our eagle's U'ght, O.iwara match tho light Zouaves, Rebels sleep in death's I ng night. Traitors fled their open graves, 8"ldier, lot mo preso thy band, Calmly look lbo in the oyo; V.'ilc tbou by thy ciun.ry stand I.i her punllod hour, or die? By tho scirs my t rawst doth bur! By tbd innurner's biuur sigh! By ibis arm an 1 snoru I swosr, Liberty shall never die. . THE BANK UUP T HUSBAND. BT .VIRGINIA f TOWNMSND. "It'll have to go, Mary; there's r. ktlp for it." She looked up, the lady to whom these words were addressed, in a way which showed that they had struck and hurt her, Sks was scalloping a child's skin, and he nejdle-woik followed her rapid lingers along the flannel like a snowy loam; bat now the work fell, unhetded, to the floor. "-Ah, John, has ii come to thai?" skd Mary, the wife ol John Malcolm; and soil bloom in her cbetks vanished svtv eotl tho woias were epj en wiio kind o geap as though just benea h t.em lay a mighty swell und rush ollsslir.gs lnat n,gU ifliie powered her voioe. "Yes, Mary, ii tattU coma. God knows I've a ruggled aariwid as man could to weather the storm, und 1 could have dene it too, if thM Western houtts hudu'i gone under. But they'll carry us with it." I ,M' realise it yet. Jhn," she snid, loittrug at htm in a lialt-bewilderrd. Lalf tri,tV4iened why tha'- was pitiful to see; 'he Wk for the moment hud half stunned her. "Oh, Mary, it was hardest for your rekel" and the oids came in that sba p groan which is terrible to hear Irom th lips of a strong man. The tones roused her at O' ce into a lull coLsciousness ol wbalhad belal en them, and of the part she muit bear in it, ' Don't, John don't tBke it ao hard," her voice struggling up through a sub into a note of brave cheer. ulnesa, and ber lijs fashioning a smile, which, though wen at first you leet certain would growstroog. er and brighter all the time, just as you feel tbf aweet promiaeoi the day wlen the first faint aunbeama a ruggle weakiy out 01 the morning's miat. "1 ouuld have borne np, Mary, if it had'nt been for you aid tne children, but that thought cut to the core it's more than I can bear." And or ti.e first lime the young ife and mo her heatd a long sob from ibe lip of ber husband, as he boed down on the arm of bis ohair. Tne pride of his man hood gave a -ay, at last, anu John Malcolm wept like a little child. Then the woman's heart, t is wc man's power to cheer.and com ort.and strength n, roused themselves; the waves went over ber but one moment, an J then Mary Malcolm forgot herself, and roue up to the height of her true womanhood to tliecx-u tation of selfnsacriGco. "John," said the tort. bravo vice. don't ever say that again. Let everything else fail.the heart of yo'-ir wife never will," And now abe had come clone to him and lie felt her small arras.atnut hii nock, and her head lav on his thoulJer, as tender, as confiding as in their days of brightest prosperity. And all through the d-v he hd been looking forward to this hour and ihrink'ng away from it;nnd once or tw:ce Go I for give himl he had glanced ont of his of-fico window to the river, which rolled its d-rk, sullen waters in he oistanco, and a fieroa temptat on had rushed over him, to d op eytry hing and- hurry out there and bury all his pain end srguiah under the dark, crumpled theel of water. But John, in his secret (lit-tress, knew that ibis tcmptRiun was the voice of the devil euteiing info his soul; but i o was a man who feared God and kept his com iiinndmenls he put the temptation aside. The young husband hnd not doubted liia wile's heart lor a moment; Let he expected to see her s;ncken almost to tLe eaith, with the fi.st livings of the uin of the bou:e in which he was the heaviest parinsi'. He knew that ber youth had been n'ir ured in all the gWce aid luxury . , . , . ! . , ,, x.l thought of troing cut mu the chil na " . ilnrkiiess of poverty He l ad or bitter , , , , . , , . ,-s ot looked for loud lamentations, .... , . I reproaches, but be dreaded be ' , , . ... ,V rs, the mule dtfpair of tho white fciliOt tears, the mule dtfpair of tho white face So John Malcolm raised his hot face, stained with the tears that were ehed for her sake, and looked into the eyes of h s wife; and the answered him with a amilfl that ret even her face in' a new aa-crednesa and beauty to her husband's '' a smile so sweet and tender for hi'ii, so hrave and defiant for tho worst tho V.'orld could do them, that it said to hitn at once all th.t her words would, and c;uld not. ' Ah, Mary.my wife," said ll r crrc'i.sv.! "I thought when I came into my bouse, an hour a 0, that I wan a ruined man, I feei nw as though I whs a very rich one." "Ruined, Pith me fctd lhe children, John," aud now there was som fain', re proach in hsr vcice; byt clung closer o him. "but, Mary ycor child, ycu don't inow what it is to be poor, to give up fO much of r.r..ve and luxury, to wi.ich you've been accuaiomed." "Yuu any that, Jl n, before ycu've ritd me, uud son what springs ot courage i nd powirs of sell sacrifice theie are ia my i aturo." Tbo noble word had a Siting tmpfcesif in ti e sweet smile in the steadiast, dawn' less tones. "But wo shall have to give up the house, Mery." "We',1, wo c tn feel just u h ppy in a Msallercne. Oui love has had ubioader lautdiitioo than e ale y rctms and cosily fui nitur'j. We.M thke a cosev iit J,: ojt.ai'e rf 0 .ou.ewhere in the country, aud for three servants get along wi;h one.". Heating tnese woids, John Malcolm locked at his v fe; but he did not say then what was in his heart-a thanksgiving to God for the angel He had sent to walk with him. He toi k her hand aud held it close in his, while he told her of a temptation which had beset him before the tail ure of I is house b came cenain a tempt ation by yielding o which he ciu'd hve suvid himnelf tiom failure. Bui it mus' have been by diehonest means, by ink ing adhntHge of others in his power-in abort, by a fraud, Which, though oiiin' laws never cou d reach, Gcd'a d d, with that e'einal, "Doun o others a ytWjuld 'hey should do unto you." "Oh, thank ' odl thank God you were delivered from this e i.l I had rather you should go down to your grave without a dollar than have committed this sin," said Mary Malcolm and the tears were biigtil in her blue eyes. And afterward there fell a little silence betwixt those two, hutbar.d and wife. It was broken by the latter. She looked up in the man's face, and he.- lit le finger, sifted themselves through the dark hair that bad no shocks of gray, and her look, bright, gratelul. loving, touched and covered a gieat deal. "What is it. Mary?" "I was th'nking John, how much better riff to day I am than thousands of wives throughout the land. How many there are who sit in their lone! homes, wearing the flow hour away with hopes and tears frr the hu bands ho have none to the war, and whose dreams at night are filled wi b visions of battle fields, where the one beloved face lies white and ghact ly on the sodden grass, with no hand to iff r the last otio of cold wa er, no ear to oatch the last, low word. Ab, John, my eyes have never searched, as so many es- ger eyes do,!or Your iiiiinc among the liatj of the dmid or wounileJ.anJ 'fi!id' -m a word to thank God for, when I ilm.k ol that." Sbe was crying now she, the broken merchant's wife crying for jiy. "Mary," said John Malcolm, ''I n-.ivcr thought of all this, never or.co thanl ed God ior it. through this day that has been the darkest and brigutes! of my lifo; for out of the thick cloud has its hlewed light ahined " And after ahilc their talk wen! ft; fl' the practical matters r,nd uses which uo neaily concerned them. t'uo retiencling their expenses, tho selling the ilirniture at once, nnd ettiling thcuuelvta in th cottage, as Mary called it.always fpeaking tho word with a tone which gave it n nweP flavour of htm?, I can get u cleikehip, an ' we eitn con 'rive to live cn a email salary nuiil the war ia over, which God granf be not long, and afterward I i-hill. doub ling fee rny wy e'ear into business ajjiim. But, Mary, dot 't you know how fo k ill pi y you behind .your bick, and ay you've come down drtadfully in the woihl arid thai it's a ehnmo you tver thr w yuurfieif away on such a poor dog as I am " 'They won't know what ibey're s-iyi g then, aid Icertainlihnn't caie lor it " II r smilewasveltar and bright now nr unxhine that hasstruggled wi h the iloui. and coirin out of it triumphant. ."Well, Mary, a vroog heart mfces a ; , i. ., , , , , cMnf om nnH I cil.all lf.il with hilli ff.1- ryou ana uie cuuurrn, as a mnn coes ur v.. v ........ . MJtpsc wno are ocarer wmu uio to turn, K.' T , , , , . -L'Dtw Jolin! ' her and fluttered doi f , , , . i or his thculder m a pre'ty, caressing ws tcred down ot bis fncuiuer m a pre'ty, caressing way, though her tone9needed nothing more "I carne home, Marv, amis raWe.dia1-couraged, broken spirited man; and cow I feel as brave, as strong, as cheeiful, too 3 1 ever did in my life aye, and richei; for it needed this diiy and thin trial, to show mo what the woman I hr.ve married was wor 1', iwd all she con d he to ine. Oh, M y if therft were only more wives in the world like you!" Dear reader have you ever .".tuodi like this woman f''''" 'Te ri nrivrr-itr' nd have ycu.too.ienrucd in what spirit to take it? Wa'chman and Rtfl.ctor. A Word foi' Tovorty's Children. BY MILT- The rain fell in torren's fid orzjd through the eld wornout roof, and fell in great drops with a strarge sad sound upon tho floor Tbo tref s torn by tho blaet lashsd their Wik' d arm against the house, tho wind whistled throucb the windjw.and a if frightened by the de9 oturenens o tho room. rui)hed up tho chlm' npy with a howl, leaving an additijn&l chill on poor, sick Willie, lying on a heap of ra?s in the ecner. But he heeded it not.TJn-com-einu-nes had stolon over him, and ha ap nar hia rest, for col 1, hungiir and w&n' hod done their work ; and h': wm 'eft to dio Poor Willie all alone ! No mother, n-i father! Thy had gone be'ore, beq within? to him all their pisfflsins; preat povrtv ! At first the poor ni-ighhora glanced at him aa he wandered round, seme to p!lv, bm more to tanph. 'or ropery cea'a th9 heart and seeks cnmpnnt . F.)' awhi'a ha braved the storing ;nd beesed his brend. hn'. h was too vnung too we ik to pn 'nro It's; a-d Ker; he lay, rnv'rg wit'i trver arrl cil.ins; ni.ilhetl mothei! in hi urcoesci' us' ess lie wilt soon reach hia mother 1 The rain has ceated the rai rirpa gtisttn in lh m wnlicht, the wind is at ie. ard ao is Willio He has gone n thut Und whers there is no more s rrew, no more oovertv. He has lound his mother Tho mmmligit and hU nanina siti'e rest calmly na bis 'al' 'ace . ard beauiiiy it. Sweet be your rest, por lone ore! Th-s hag been a PtM, co'd world, but Heaven will recompnnge vou and e efnity will he jnvful. Up! ye who bave a dollar in your purges Lave your blight parlors, there is wntk lor ycu to do. Diz-ns o Willie are dying of t uuner in this groat city round you. Seek them out ! give them bread 1 Your Gd bas commanded you, 'tis your duty, 'tis yur privilege I Do not scorn it. Do it and the poor will blesa you all their lives. God will reward you, for tie bas said, "Cant tby bread upon the waters and alter many days it shall return to you." Draw out your pur.3, give what you can if only a Utile, it may do gieat giod.. You may na d a helping hand Sj do good while you c". .m H whun it comes your turn to want. Ii- ;- i will be stretched to help you, or God's utiu will be all poworful to save. It is troie bless'd to give than to recoive. Remember it, ind go forth. lI say stranger.' said a cottage urchin tn a peJdler, 'don't whistle that dog away.' 'Why he ain't no use, no how, he'a too homely.' 'Oh, but ho save9 heaps of work,' 'How?' Why, ho cleana tho plates and dishes, so that they never want washing, and mother says she wouldn't part with him no how, for our new dog aint' got used to mustard yet.' I Wriiltn fur ti.e Ohio i'arrr.cr. nr ur.s l. v. uiLUci., i r am.m, u. Every person has to stay, hut how few havs iiosin in which to lit. T-y home I do not mean a house but a iii mk hern our household idr.as dwell, surrounded by cooi torW. nail a cold, chejrlefs pil-3 of brick or Imnhjr l onie, lu'curo we cotnpol our lo-;d cup.; to lire there, i i aa inar pieprlats as to call the fe!or.'i cell bin f eme, bocausabis o;;r?: a is prevented , Te dkke a bonss ho:ue it should not cnl' bo tho rjot h?ro we live, but I.y ita bcav.tlis ard nUrsct;ea? ttie ono o.' all othen where we i-b to livo. But to ray purposo. In travoling tr.rcv.gb our country, how often do wo ueo a hoiiax-wiih an exterior or 'n uo wbth pei l.as oh-jcctitinsblo but i; you f junjne very mil uto-ly you might bo ltd to think it a private Jiil. torn tha fact tbat voo find one of the windows strargoly hatred, as if it we a the rtnrgeon. Underneath this prated window i usually seen a spout protiudi ip through tho sido of ne house, and umler tho sput a p"ol of t oculinr ch&rnotjr. I.ca ioit bi strict-, ly clasHifi d aa minora), or ai.iiual, but partakes oi al', as in its tut bid bjsom potato bkins and tnuaiga ends, tea grounds and gnawed bon a, turnip tops and live hog, mingled in horrid, loaihi tne contusion. And oh ihe horrors ol a sutatur's dy I U ili'te he Pud of Siliam, .hesj w.turs are dis utbel, not by n angel, (or one in the in-f rnBl pit could nut e loond filthy .enough t" d'lblein them but by togs und when dbtiirb. d instead ol healing tbocn who first Atep into tbo rtench would kill a horse a 8abbath day's journey off. Dj you call such a place home? It o -gbt til be an additional cause for divorce for a wan to put his wife into S':ch a place, and a woman who would become pwticeptcr-.vii-nis; by ooaaer.ting to it, ought to l;ro an old maid, But cn inquiry, I am told that those bars an placed across the pantry window to keep cats out! Why not difiVure your houae by plfcdng bars across your front door to kcp them out? If such is the clj ct, lot tno suggest a rcn-.e.ly lor this intolerable disfiguration of your house. Mako a light framo of boards that wiil just !L into tho window caiinga, cover this trains wiia wiro aiiza with meshes ot about hlf an inch the whr.le toimingan nlrgant dorr cri-.dfw. Ilirg ibis (in ona sulo of your window casing, wiih a nice button to fasten it cn tho other aide and you have a boauti ul protection, which will a'low ytu to take cut your window dunng the hot weathet, ani i ha whole at an eJtpsnse of not eror oue d..l,ar. Au isapiih.vion will show that spout to be oetected with a sink (it ought to be ?unk) on tha inside. Hero di.sh water and soap sudn.'pat liqnor" and 'clobbered" milk, and mingled in their cour.is to the vast pool in which are buried all their haautie.i, to he cast forth in the pestilential raiasma that causes our most cutrid fovers. And why nhould they not be putrid when tho only air wo breatho, sleeping or waking, in Ailed with putridity. New this ia not only ab-.sing his family and hia neighbors and the public but robbing hiiti-elf. With a lamily ofcix persons and a very littld labor, a man may make fiom this tffen&ive compound enough manur oi the choicest kind to produce a hundreu bunQals ol wheat. Lit r.U the hnuae Gitb be added to the mixtu e, aud irstead o running through the side ul tbe pantry, forming a pool that will scatter s'ekness arid i sgust as 'ar aa ita villain, us sine 1 un reach, yju wilibivo adilcd to your woa.tb what I equal to a hundred bu'he:s of :vha it a letr To save all this tff. dually iv ry poison should have near his houto a tu ind ol stiaw, nulls, muck, or u m utber like a b-Btorce Tbe earth under it nhould b9 hollowed b 'Whahiped Wiie.ii the uound is cou.pleu-d ul a sizj to mil the tat ui tho o-tmr, it shnul-j te cuvend up tho sides lUe a roal pit, uh swamp muck, nr tut r eartb, lei vug a laige l.uvlth (.td i:e-uression oti the top, irto which topi ur a I o the off als oi tbe house Into 'his occa sionilly put hall a bui.iel if lime aod p'a-1 r the first tn aid djoin yoii i in; the plaster to destroy or n autrahsj the t ffUvia. If ibis mound is built aud finished with taste, fliwers may be raised on it, and thus what now form the sickening pool, will not only be deprived ol all its noxious q'l-ili.ics but add to tbe beauties; and vijoymenta and wealth, o! the lovely spot called borne Tha New Haven HyUttr says; "A few nigh'S S'nee owing to an acci 'ent, the Spring field train did not reach Ilart'ord until late, and, in cooscjuenee, thos) a vtitinr itsarr-val at the station bad a tedious time t.f it. Avnng them was a demure looking Yankee, inclined to have a nip Fi.rirg his feet on the upper round of his chair, be leaned bck Kffiinst the wa'l a"d 'wont at it.' lie was not far ty under wav, however, when he was .npped on the hat by ono of the(fll--rials and 'old that "sitting upahe, ing was notallwid in the depot.'" 'Eh! j dilated the ai'onishel sleeper, no sitiit g up and sleeping?' 'No' S r agin '.be r dos of the Company, said the official. 'Well I declare, replied the other, this Is mean placet Won't y in ask the Orapany U I mayn't gape?' fodowng up his query with a stretch that put tho offloioas cffioial to in stant (Vght. ' A fellow who got drunk on elec'ion tiny, said it was owing to his effort to pnt down "party spirit," TX1E snowMAjrs COUKTSmP BY ABTEMUS WARD. There wis many affect in ties which iiiade mo haner artor Betsey Jane, ller fithor'i (arm j.ned cum, tbcr cows and ourn a-iusncht un" um""- ,l "8," "P"rP. la" nl"I:tlv..i , .. .1 . :.-t broke cut in both families at nearly tho asm, poiiod, 9r jarlMs-Botsty's ai.d mine- sl'-pt regulny tveiy Sunjuy in the same ucoting hcuae.and the Daberutisjd to cbwrve, llow thick iho Waid and IWeys air I', it was a ueiuiimo sito, in ine Epru-g c I tno .fear, to see our several mothers Betsey 'p ! and mine with their gowD9 pin'd up so they rJtiMn't site cm; tflic-huiiitly Liliu wjo together and a)oozi tho nabers. AUho I bankeied iutenjeiy artcr the ob-jeck cl my ff. etienn 1 carrunt tell her o, the Una ohicu was ragm in my manly Boss sum I'd tiy to do it nut my tuog wonld kerttboliup up agin the roof of my mou b and stick (bar, Ike death tn a deceait A'ri cuii. or a Ci oMiy poi-i master to his oifia while my biit wnopod agin my ribs like an old at-hii ntd n beat title ngi i a bam Qjur. 'T-tars a cann s-iil n le in June. All na tur nai busnt, and nary z ffir in'urjoJ lie yoieen bilena. 1st with B't-ev Jinoo'i tbo f.-nse o bor lather's pas i nr. Wj'd bin rompin threw the wo d&, kullm fl mis & diivieg the woodchuelt fron bis Nanvo L.ir so to speak-ith long sticks Will, e ot thir ii tho fonse.a s-vingip our lejt wo and fio. b u bin aa red as the BildiDSvilla skor Lome when it was fist p.ined, and look in veiy s'mple, I miso no doubt. My lolt arm - as cccup ed in bullunsin myself on tbe fecse, whil my lit was woun4 luvinly around hur waste. I cleared my throat and trembllnly ted Betsey, your a giullo. . I thot that air waa putty fine.I waited to see wlint efTeck it won d hev on her. It evidently did'et fetch her, for she up and sed Yeu're a cheep I Scd I- Fe'rey, I think -rrr muchly of you. I don't t'liere a word you Biy ao there cow cum 1 With raueh obscrvarmn she hitched away from ma. I wkb theie iras winieis lorr.y solo, r.ed I r,o that you could se coino ol my feelins.-Thsre'a Cro enuff here, sed I, striking my br.r.ztira with my flit, to bile ail tbe corn b;oi and turnips in the nabe;hood. Versaov-ius ain't a circutustans t S!ie bowed ber head do?rn, and coranienc' chawing the sir ngs to her sun buast. Ar could 3 on know the sleepless rites I worry throw with on your accouas; how vi lies have ctas-:d to be attractive to me, & how my llrus hes shrunk up, you wouldn't dowt me. 0 ine on this wastin form, aad these ero sunken chtekii, I she lid have continued on in that strano lorsotno time, but unfcrtinitly I lost my balance and fell over into t e pastur Ur etni-h tearin ay elcso aod wveerly dvnnglng my self generally. Bi.t-.ej Jans sprung to mv clsur.ee and d nigged me 4th Then drawin herself up to her lull kilo, she rod I won't listen to your noncests no longer J!8 sey tito sttai: out what vour nrivin it. If you moan gettln hiuhid I m ih 1 I considered that sve enuff lor all practi c tl pu'piseo, and we pi ooe di d irnm jrly t . tha purii-o' and wa mndn 1 'hat very mto 'That's What s Tim .Matteu!" We have at lust hmn 1 out the rigin ul this popular phrase. A Iriend f ouiv who has been aba-nt all winter. retu ning a few ilavs siiu'e. c ill j1 up in an estimubld la ly irii n 1. lie was -tui'- pnsed to hii'i her coiiniieil ton eiek bed- Alter the; first salutations were over, our friend rcn aiked: t-Wliv. Mra. . I am very sorry to find y u ill what is fie mutter?" Quickly reaching over to the bock ot the bed, the invalid turne 1 down the coverlid, dii cloning ;t beautiful in'an wrappu I in tno emiiracH ot tin- rosy tj.i I, an I ail iriirnpiiiinily. 'thi,i lAnfo the waiter. ''La I 'rouse hemoc tt. Tho Candid Thief. Dodging the door or a C.iunsul Catch, A tbie observed 'twas on the latcb, Popp'd in? and quick again piss'd out, Willi wig, and gown, and riding coat; Then wrote to let the lowyer know That ha bid se ved him so and so; A-ldirg Pos'crtpt 4 1 might have taken C. ke upon Littleton and Bison; But law's to roe superflous s'.udy, For lam rcgue enough already " Somo one speaking of a celobrated bass- singer, said, '-He led a very abandoned l.fe." "Oh, yes," replied Sealey. "the whole tenor of h'B life bus been base." "Will you take something? ' said a teet oialler to his friend, while standing near a tavern. "I lon't c -re if I do," was the eply. "Well, said Frank, "let's take a walk " Punch says that the cha acteristic of a timo pieee is modesty ra her than rude ess, for "it always keeps its hands l:efor0 i s face " "Can you return my lov dearest Jnliiw"' 4,Certai: ly S.r. 1 don't warn it, I'm sure." Jim Snieks jn'ta everv thin.; lo use. lis wile lias a oa! I hea I. an 1 In straps his ra.mr on it the scampf The !'i!lo-ini; U ttor ? iiiindoi to i bj uii'i cf our subscriber's. JJOi.iVAK, TsSHl5ivi:, Aug 6t, J4th, V:&i. DfciAR 1'aBESFs: I j lmf mx& i K'm w wv ,llulu i'c" lu 0JV " 1 ttt-' I'make it scratch i-iUy, a tvw lim-s j Cor jon. JaH iiuainc v'ju 8-y . nic i tlIuj stretclll'il out iU tV.li Iciii'lb, llildcf the tliit... 6jialo of & fun ..at. seemingly in inrnot tlnmht. m-.il ytu have my position. It is in lcxi very warm, sml .-.iTMtfMien! v hav,: sought tho coulent und imt tvtirc I spot' from tho buailoof cntap. that- I pti-taibly couhi. How fUn fints fitrrv brin tn my mind varium" ecc'rics anil enjoymenr'a of the pasr an 1 :drlo tl.inkit.tr of them wtt!i intense intcreat. I become lost to nil aroa.fi mo. atid ior the time boin'f thov seem tta til : i: : o ' ..f tho pres nt. ' Just so t.lU-t. ,o J Wko a it w, r... lri,l thoic SWOet awako as it wtw, fru.n tho.c sweet ;,u-1"1"1"1 lu uua rfeTories an.l find nmelfuir. tinted.!" sa,c to w!cul&te aIAn ths "aciff It bus o,,iv W-natli-enm of mv waking hours, but 1 hope and inlst it will not be krig until I Bhall be permitted to enjoy as I u9'-'d to do, all the privil Iges ut a freMiiin'si life. IS early elev en months Lfo, I engaged in the can t of liberty ami justico, and I still fin 1 myself bound by my sacred honor, to continue in the strife, and I wonhi nor have it otherwise, so lo g as those hell hounds remain in arms. S. me-timcB I become almost discouraged and think the hardships we endure and dangers we have to pass through, are ull for nothing, or of but little ac count, in maintaiuing our good old Union. It does aeeui to me that all our officers care for, is the filling of their own pockets- I would to liocl that I had supreme power for a short time, and I world hurl some of them into a place a degree or two warmer than this, and 1 believe our cause would prosper. But nctwithstanding, we are musing Secession with one hand and fighting it with the other, I yet feel a deep iuterest in the causa. 1 love my native home, I love ths State of my nativity, in fact I love the whole Union, and I believe there is no other way to preeerve thorn all, bat by meeting our foes upon tho battle field- Consequently i am r:ii.:,1 fight to the bitter end, for I feel as though my life, so long a3 this reuiainb une.tt'ed.or we submit to our enemies, would be miserable imleed. t 'ona (jncntly, I am led to exclaim in the language ot Patrick Henry. "Lure me liberty or give me leaut." :ut 1 muHt eonclule by a iling that J" has ut length leached n, with fome 70 or 0 others ot our llegiiu-nt. They were all well, in (act our wh-.h- Uegimeiit ia in good health. J ilel.vindtht.so shirls in good time, also two or three letters which w.re ot the late 't date of anv that. 1 h .ve r.ceive 1 from your baud. 1 wo.i!-.i like to hear from y.u often. Yours with all due reverence, W. A. P. A lawyer once came into coun drunk when tho judge, sai 1 to him.1 Sir, I am sorry to see you in a situation which ii a dingracy to jourseli and tamily. the c itrt an I thepr-rei-6ion to which you belong. 'J hia reproof ehc.teltlvi following colloquy: Did your honor speak to red I did. 6ir. 1 said, sir that iu my opinioii yon disgrace yourself and family, the court and the profession, by your course of conduct, ilay i-i-it please yuur honor, I have been an attorney in-in this c-c-court tor fifteen years, ami permit tno lo say your honor, that ih.s is the first correct opinion l. ever knew yoa to jjivf!. An Irishman at New Haven, Conn., having hail nino children in eight years' wedlock, applied tor an exemption certificate, because ho could serve his country so much better at home. A woman has been arreBted in Albany for stealing old iron. She had forrteen jouudsof it secrete-1 in her bosom. Iler oflVnae weighed htavily upon bar ECr""! wish you wc "M 'not smoke cigars," said a plump little b ack eyei girl to her lover. "Why may I no' ituoke as well a-i.yourchi.uik-y? ' P.e-canso cliiiniieys do not atitoko lun they aro iu good order." 11a has quit 6raoking. - Advioa tj a Daughter. Thtra iij ono point, my uaufttcr1, v,i,:a;i ia for isipoxtaut t . hi omiUcI; I j'i'i'cr to thi tieportm'jiit which i!, be-co.i.ci von tj :r.iv;nta:!i tovrarl tha , other it ex. The iinpcr'aiice of this, - lu-.f !. S. -U ,V ..... , " ,v 'i" ;"-' cnti Hr:-c!y v!luiHtt ton bv.bly. -'''- i-tn i, it hr.. mach t do !n I 'UIlJl';lg OWIl clwrucfcr, UJl J ( I nwd not say that any lac. of jjm J1; t!1-s aspect ctcs f.-r a sicl-J hl'r,r,KiftT ' T'tJ!e to ev'.U wh-.I, ,! ' scnnfj;r-.'.at;tr-,n mja ..v.j.y w rt-jwur. Un il'e j 'r Iiisa i. tho cemdujt of every fe. j wh" - oi' tho 1-'"t cc.w.i.?ra!-ka '"l-v-li pe"t-'i an iftfiuenwi : 0:1 tha clararor ewry y -aa-. i wnum sho aa? .ciat aao. if.:'. i "sfi"enco vrAl bc !"r &0 M ene ex b: bits, or Hen to ts!t:wt, 3 c- ; Jortm.nt which bt-ctai-s Jw. So ! CJD;m l;l Uliil ld tlua that it ' mnaity, Iron knosinS th-i prevailing s:an-.;aru o: icmai-j caarar. tor, an l that can c tr.'!y ha rtgnihA iu ia exaggerated tbiastw, wbi:h iv c!ars "woxeu rub tbe world " Let r.;e couu-:el ycti, thea. uorcr to utter aa expressiou, cr do aa act$ whioh ever, luoks liko solieitius p.cv 9 i . . i i i i gentleman's attention. iJraembex that every 03cr-3ssion of civility, to of any value, must be perfectly voV untary, and any wish on your part, whether directly or icdirectl" express-el, to make yosrself a faTcri:?, will be certain to awsktn the disgdat cf all who know it 1 would not recommend to you anything like a rrc iish or affected reserve, but even this is not so unfortunate an- extreme, as an ex cessive forwardness. Wwileyou flic I-estly accept any attentions Which pro priety warrants, lit there bo no attempt at artful irainnaticrt a cr. hand, cr at taking a rcan's heart by stura oa the other. Be not ambitioua to i6 coasiicj&d a belle. Indeed, I bad rather yoa would be almost anything elso, which does not involve gross moral obliquity, than this. It is thi fate of moat belle that they becom? foolishly vain, think of nothing, and care tor nothing, be yoad personal d:?play, acd notunfre-pr.-:t!y sacrifice thetnaehea to a m.vi bargain, whicli involves their destinies for life. The more of solid ami en '.luring estoom you enjoy, the better. ind you ought to gain wliatover oi this yon can by honorable means, but to Le ;: hnired, caressed and Latte:et for mere accidental qnalitiea, which involve nothing Af Jatellacteal rr moral worth, ought to render any gi;i who is the subject of it aa object pity. You aro at liberty to desire tin; good opinion of every gentleman :C your acquaintance, bat it would1.-wor-:o than folly in you to beami.--tious of a blind a imiuikn. I will only a.l, tliat you cr.ght t ' bo on youi goard against the infiuca- ot iU:tery. Jlely oa it, th t v.:zt: w! , Hatters you, whatever h may pvofsff, k not your friend. It w?re a t:k kinler effice, and a real mark -.'" friendship; toaJmocish you tenderl. yet hontstiy of your finite. If y. o. yield a little to flattery, you have ph.. ee l yourself on dangerous ground, if yu continue to jield, you are not in i.-robably undone- -E-cv. Y-'illiaa V, 3p:-sgua. Testa of Character A great many admirable actions aro overlooked by ns, becatlJe theya--little anil common. Take, for ii-stance, tho mother, Mho has had br ken slumber, if any at all, with t;-- nursing babe, t hose waats must m-i bo disregarded; shtf Would fain sleep awhile when the breakfast hour com- -: but patiently and uiicoiuplaiuingly ah takes her timely Beat at tho table i'lioughcshLii&tjtlftnl weary.sboe rv & all wi'.h a refreshingcupot cofieo or l.-a before she-81,18 ittisrself; and oftet. the cup ia handed back before she bus. had timo to taste ber 6wn. Uo jou hear her complain this weary mother that her breaklast is cold before she has had timo to eat it? AnJ this not for ono, but for every morning, per Imps, through the year. Do .tot; Call this a small thing? Tiy it au.c'. sec. Oh! how does woman Bharuo us lv her forbearance and fortitude in whiil are called littlo thinerBl Ahl it ii theso little things which aro teifs oi cliiirnetei': it is by tho lit.io" vlf- leu'rlsi, horno wi'h snciistll'-tvi'.gi.ttci! gi nile-iit'ft. tne .'utnb'ti.s lit jjn r,. t,!o b uatinil, , 'lonyh wo fail 'o s e it, ';. - ; iii.til die ehitit vaet'.tit. tui.l,.: ! ,i. tlmt kej t a t,jiva all tlVs Ufin:g.tek ru;hi jory is powerle aud oold! 3 |