Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1863-02-12

              rtv; Wit! Wit i. 1 VOL. IX. MOUNT VEUNON, OHIO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 18C3. NO 15. 'J tvl If ) 1 i Till; M0VN.T VEKXttN REITBMl'AN. T M II M S : For one year invariably in advance)2.00 l'or six uoutha, 1 TEUMH OF ADVEUTISINO. 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Fu fifty times a day I swear How truly I do bate her, An' rack my brain to sec how low In ugliness I'll rate her; I ca' her a' the names I ken, Minx, coquette, base deeiver, But when she smiles on mo again, An angel I believe her. Rut yester-ove I swore again, I never wished to see her, And if I spied her e'er so tar, I'd turn away and flee her; I wished her in tho deep blue sea, Aye! anywhere whatever, An' vowed I would not speak to her, No! that would ua never! Just then a han' was on my arm. A voice said, 'Donald Mister!" I turned her arch and smiling face Invited nic 1 kissed her! 'Twas vain I tried to keep my vow, Lassies are so beguiling, Wha' can wha' can a poor man do When pretty woman's smiling'' WOllDX'T Wl'TiivKTO KX 0 A BY JOHN O. SAXE. I know a girl with teeth of pearl, And shoulders white as snow; She lives ah! wall 1 must not tell Wouldn't you 'ike to know? Her sunny hair is wondrous fair, And wavy in its flow; Who made it less One little tress, Wouldn't you like to know? Her eyes arc blue (celestial hue!) And dazzling in their glow; On whom they beam With nieltiug gleam, Wouldn't you like to know? Her lips are red and finely wed Like roses in their blow; What lover sips Those dewy lips, Wouldn't you like to know? Her fiuger arc like lilies fair, Where lilies fairest grow. Whose hand they press With fond caress, Wouldu't you like to know? Her foot is small and has a fall Like suowfhikes on the snow; And where it goes Beneath the rose, Wouldu't you like to know? She has a name, the sweetest name That language can bostow; "l'would break the spell If I should tell Wouldn't you like to know? A surgeon in ouo of the Alexandria military hospitals writes in a private note: 'Our wounded men bear their sufferings nobly; I have hardly heard a"ttord of complaint from one of them. A soldier from "the stern and rock-bound coast" of Maine a victim of the slaughter of Fredericksburg lay in his hospital, his life ebbing away from a fatal Sound. He had a father, brothers and sisters, a Avilb and one little bny of twoor three years old, on whom his hoart secme'd out. Half an hour before he ceased to breath, I stood by his side, holding his hand; he was in the full exercise of his intellectual faculties, and knew that he had but a brief time to live, lie was asked if he had any message to laave for his' dear ones whom he loved so well. " Tell than," said he, '-how I died they inoic how 1 lived!" THE LOST KEY. "My dear Fhilip, havo you seon my orte-movnie?'' Mr. Walter's brow contracted slightly at tho words, nod ho drew away the hand which had been caressing his wife's pretty hair. 'Is that pnrte-nwnnaie lost again?" "AW, l'hilip," said tho littlo woman, with a world of pretty penitenoe in the lengthened monosyllable, "don't scold! Upou my word, it's the first time I've mislaid it this whole morning." 'It is too provoking, Jane," said the husband, pushing back the books on the table before him with a movement denoting intense irritation. "Will you never break yourself of this careless habit, my love?" Jane was silent, looking down like a very naughty child who had been children."You don't know what an aunoyancc these heedless habits are to a methodical man like myself, dear," he added in a gentler tono, as tho coral lips began to tremble and the eye to suffuse. "Do try to be more thoughtful for tnysake! Here is your lost treasure," he added quietly drawing a tiny case of pearl and gold from his pocket. "I found it lying on the stairs and thought it a most excellent opportunity for giving my dear little wife a losson!" Jane chipped her hands at the sight of the restored treasure, and danced out of the room in girlish glee." "A perfect child," murmured the husband, looking after her with a smilo and a sigh blending unconsciously into one another. "Well, if I can't make haste, I shall be too late for that engagement in the city. Let me sec the notes are in my iron safe, I believe. Xothinglike locking up things and keeping the keys yourself. If Jane only followed niycxaniple " Mr. Walter paused abruptly, seeking in his various pockets with nervous haste, for something which seemed not to be forthcoming."Very strange," muttered ho biting his lip. "I always put it in that waistcoat pocket. l'ossibly I may have laid it on tho table among those papers." The aforesaid papers rustled hither and thither, like animated snow flakes, as Mr Walter hurriedly sought among their confused masses but all in vain. ' I can't have lost it," ho exclaimed, in dire perplexity. "And every one of thiwe notes is locked up in the safe with no earthly chance of over getting at it! But I am certain the key can't be lost I never lost anything! It wou't do to wait many more minutis I'll just put on a clean shirt and run down town. Hang that confounded key!" Mr. Walter hastened up to his dressing room to complete his toilet, ere he left the house; but his trials were not yet destined to terminate. lie was a methodical man, therefore his wardrobe was carefully locked; he always kept things in one place, therefore tho keys were snugly reposing in one Corner of the inaccessible iron safe. He rushed frantically back to the library, hoping faintly that the key might bo on tho mantle-piece, where he had no yet searched. No, it was not there; but a treacherous inkstand wan, the contents whereof, by one unlucky sweep of the elbow, descended in an ebon cataract over his shirt front the. shirt front upon which he alone had depended! "WjII, lnro in a cat so strophe!"he murmured j. lcona'ly, staunching the inky flow with his pocket handkerchief. "However, I can button my coat over for tho present. Let me say there is that money I promised to pay Smithson to-day, and ." He stopped short; a cold dew of dismay breaking out on his forehead the money drawer was a fixture of the iron safe! Penniless and shirtless, what more desperate state of afl'ain could his worst enemies desire for him? There was a lower depth yet,howevcr would lie not be characterless, likewise, if his wife should, by an importune chance, discover that he, the model of rule and order, had lost his key! So thought Mr. Walter, as he went off tea day of perplexities and mortifications in tho city. "If ever I tease Jane again about losing things," he muttered inwardly, as he entered the loom on returning home,"! hope to be drowned with a hundred-weight of keys about my neck! It's certainly ajudg-mcut upon me!" lie. uubuttoned his coat as he spoke, forgetful of the ink-stains of the morning. Jaue uttered a faint scream and ehrauk back, exclaiming: "My dear Philip, what is tho matter with yaur shirt?" "The matter! Oh!" said he, coloring and laughing, "I remember now I spilt a little ink over it this morning. It don't signify much." "Do let me get another, dear!" "No, no," said he eagerly detaining her; "it isn't at all worth while. Do sit down, and be easy my love!" But Jane 6tarted away to carry her baby up to tho nursery. Just as she reached tho door, something jingled softly in tho pocket ofher little silk apron she stopped in the passage. "Oh, by tho way; Philip, hero is the key to your iron safe. I found it lying on the dining room table this afternoon; aud," sho added, with anarch sparkle in her roguish eyes, "I thought it would be an excellent opportunity for giving my husband a lossou!" She put the key iu his hand, and ran out of tho room, its he re ioiled involuntarily from tho sound of his own pedantic words. As ho contemplated the gleaming wards of the little steel mischief-maker iu mingled dolight aud mortification, the echo of Jane's merry laughter on the stairs reached his car like a chime of silver bells. HeJaughed, too ho couldn't help it! 31 rs. Jaue Walter was discret littlo female. She never alluded to the subject of keys again, aud her husband was never after known to reproach her carelessness. Au cedotc of Jolm Hancock. During the siego of Boston, Genera 1 Washington consulted Congress upon tho propriety of bombarding the town of Boston. Mr. Hancock was the President of Congress. After General Washington's letter was read, a solemn silence ensued. This was broken by a member making a motion that the House should resolve itself into a committee of the whole, in order that Mr. Hancock might give hisopinion upon the important subject, as he was deeply interested from having all his property in Boston. After he left the chair, he addressed the chairman of the committee of the whole in tho following terms: "It is true, sir, nearly all the property I have in the world is in houses and other real estate iu the town of Boston; but if the expulsion of tho British from it, and the liberties of our country require their being burnt to ashes issue the order for that purpose imcdiately. Reconstruction. We trust that the people of the North i will learn.beforc long.that the efforts of the j peace Democrats aro not l'or an honorable! peace, hut for conceding to the rebels all' they ask. They profess to steak for the ' rebels in saying that a peace would he ac ceptable and welcome. But the rebels themselves deny this, and declare that they will accept of no peace unless it is based upon independence. As a sample of the way they meet suggestions of reconstruction, wo give an extract from the Richmond Dispatch: "We warn the Democrats and conservatives of the North to dismiss from their minds at once the miserable delusion that the South can ever consent to enter again upon any terms, the old I'uion. If the North will allow us to write the Constitution ourselves, and give us every gurran-tee wo would ask, we would sooner be uu-der the Government of France than under & Uuiou with men who have shown that they cannot keep good faith, and are the most barbarous, and inhuman, as well as treacherous of mankind. "If the Rccoustructionists want peace, they can easily have it upou the terms ou which they ould have always had it lotting us alone. We ask neither more nor less. We are making no war on them. We are not invading their territory, nor giving their homes to the flames, their populations to prison and tho sword, their woman to a lV.te worse than death. Let us alone! That is all we ask. Let us alone, and peace will return once more to bless a distracted land! But do not expect us to ('cgrado our selves and cast dishonor upon the graves of our kindred by ever returning to the embrace of those whose hands are dripping with the tears and blood of our people." Leader: Contrabands In the Western Fleet. Admiral Porter, of the Mississippi fleet, writes to the Secretary of the Navy that ho is filling up his fleet with stout, able-bodied contrabands who offer their services. Ho endeavored to fill up his number of hands with white men, but the Opposition Democrats had so industriously circulated their butternut doctrines that the men could tot bo found who were ready to volunteer. Accordingly the invitation was given out to the blacks, when they came flocking in abundant numbers. Tito copperheads thus defeated themselves. Taey thought to prevcut the roikiug of the fleet for want of men, but their efforts only deprived their dupes of the pay and the honor, and gave both to the negroes, who will, we warrant, give a good account of them selves, aud demonstrate the ability of the negro not only to govern himself but to fight the enemy against whom he is pitted Leader. Geucral Banks. We aro glad that Banks has put out the miserable address copied into our columns week before last. It shows him in his true colors, as a hollow-hearted politician, intent upou his own advancement only. When ho last visited this State, in the midst of the tremenduous effort of Treason to subjugate this State, we saw the way the wind blew with him. He had no word of sympathy to utter J'or Liberty, or for those who were fighting tho battle of Liberty; he had words only about himself and his military career, lie now appears as the protector of negro subordination in Louisiana. Ou the first of January, he had the United States soldiers stationed about to suppress any attempt of negroes to get their liberty. Veiily he has his reward: tho Boston Post, Courier, Xnv York Herald and Express, and Georgo Francis are vocal with his praises; but tho judicious grieve. Banks supposes that he has in the radicals all safe under his tlhiinb. He ex pects to rid with us upou the shoulders of that littlo girl he took upou the cannon. But that littlo girl's shoulders will not bear him forever at least, not him aud his order at New Orleans. Supposing he had hs safe, be wishes to get to his side the pro-slavery set. That is his game. How will it end? Meditation. Go to the grave of buried love andmc-di-tate. There settle the account with thy conscience for every past endearment unregarded, of that departed baing who can never never return to be soothed by the condition! If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul or a furrow to the silvered brow of the affectionate parent, if thou art a husband, and hast ev-causcd the fond bosom that centrated its whole happiness iu thy arms tj doubt one moment of thy kindness or truth; if thou art a friend, and hast ever wronged in thought, or word, or deed, the spirit that generously confined iu thee; if thou art a over, and hast ever given one unmerited pang to the true heart that now lies cold beneath thy fVet then be sure every unkind look, every ungracious word, every ungentle action, will come thronging back upon thy memory, aud knocking dolefully at thy soul then be sure that thou wilt lie down sorrowingly and repentant on tho grave, and uttvr the unheard groan, aud pour the unavailing tear more deep, more bitter, because unheard aud unvailing. Irving. Hanger in War. Tho liawrdsoff campaign where our army is obliged to operate at a longdistance from its h'sc of supplies, aro pain fully illustrated in the experiences of: l!osecians' troops. For a time, inimodi-J ntolv siiliM'.iiifint to the batilu of Murfrees-1 , 4 boro', the soldiers were actually threatened with starvation. Their rations for three days consisted only of three cars of raw corn per man a day. After the intercepting of their supplies by Wheeler's rebel cavalry, the troops had nothing left hut horse-flesh for forty-eight hours. This was the principal reaseu for their not pursuing Bragg's retreating army. AfUr Grant's trains had been cut off, hi.-, army I saved themselves from the same kind of hardship by retiring toward Nashville. A young fellow of our acquaintance whose better half has just presented hiiu with a pair of bouncing twins, attc.tdcd j llcv. Mr. church on last Sabl nth j evening. Poring the disi.o'.a: the clergy-1 man looked right ft our ii:uoi.ciii. iric-L-d, aou said in r. tone of thrilling eloquci-cc: 'Young nia.i )ou iii.vo ikpcrtmit .e-sponsibibtv thrust upou yor." VI .:. new- fledged dad, supping thai .he prtach-r! alluued to ' i-. peculh.r horuo event, considerably started tho audience by rplying: "Yes, I have two of them." t7t'co Tele grajh. Not long since I passed through tin Wyoming Valley on the accommodation of the L. aod E. Railroad. As usual on such trains wa stopped a long time at each station, end it seemed as if there ere stations every fie minutes. Cf couise there was much griiiahlingauiojgthe pasfceugers, and finally, as we stopped at a p'ueo called l'ittstot' i h.-lf hour or more, everybody's psiiajef. was .iii&uiiad. One impatient passenger fretfully r?keu nnoth;r, ' Whit do they stop to long here for?" 'Why," answered wy fiiend, "you see this is ih awminodation train. Didn't you see the Rev. Dr. Nelson get off the train? He has gone down town to preach, aadj they are waiting for him. lie preaches at Lackawanna, the station above, also. You understand, my friend, thii"is the accommodation train." Tke Cheering Word. Little Chalcv was Me dull boy of the school. All the rest either laughed at or pitied him. Even his master sometimes tauntod him with his deficiencies. lie be came sulleu aud indifferent, aud took bo pains to get on. One day a gentleman who was visiting the echool looked over sonic boys that were making their first, attempt to write. There was a general burst of amusement at poor Charley's efforts, lie colored but was silent. "Nevr mind, my kid,"said tuo gentle man checringly, dou't be discouraged; just go on and do your best, and you will bo a brave writer some day. I aecollect when I first begau to write being quite a:i awkward as yon are; but I persevered aodlook here." He took a pen and wroto his name on a piece of paper, iu fine legible characters. "See what I can do now," he added. Many years afterwards that gentleman met Charley again. He bad turned out one of the most celebrated men of his day, and he expressed his firm conviction that he owed his success iu life, under God's blessing, to the encouraging spec oh made by the suhool visitor. Blacks as Soldiers. The Springfield Repub'ioar, a journal of marked conservative leanings, has a long aud carefully written article under the title of tho "Negro in tho War." We extract the concluding paragraph: "Why not let the negroes fight if they will? Cau the hu.ikerest of Hunkers give a reason that will bear examination? Negroes fought well iu our first revolution; ueg-ocs did good service in the war ot 1812; certainly iu this war they have not only a common interest with white Aiucr icans in crushing the rebellion, but still stronger motives iu tho pronpeet of freedom for their race on this continent and under tho ferocious war policy of Jeff Davis, if tho negroes fight at all they will fight desperately, for it will be literally "victory or death" to them. "But they will not fight at all." Try them, and see. If they are not up to it, so much the worse for them; we lose nothing by it. If they fight well so much the boiler for us; we save so Many white men; aud the raco that is to gvt the largest bciuiit from the war will help win its victories, ?s they should. The m-gro is in the m for better or worse irrevocably iu and there is now no couise for the Government but to make tho most of him." For the Sunday Sohnol Titcfi. The Humii.irr'? l'.aI. A Humming- '..hd wu oiv.vi i' lor.ey from the ncarlot LIomouis oft!:' hoiiey- i sncklc. "What - beaolifii! c.-eatuie" j said t. lady who fitting in t!,e piai.'.a. j 'I ?:oine oi'ft would ei:h him fjr ma. I Ih.vaa larg collei iioj vf'atU'fvJ 1 inUi i aud I should like to idd Liu to u,y tollec-1 tu ,o, ...u, UU.utn. xu,.CT u.U 'Would rou Hk4 low Lira -ilhdr'l',1KctR'aLe on suth tonus ue would said Lau:':', with n litilo ir.o'c sharpness, of: . .1 U . - ... - .- - I one older ihua hersaif, and ausiior. "I can't say that 1 r.ard him Lilied, or that I v-o:ild really prefer having him in my collection to having him taking care of his little oifia. We say a great many things, my dear, -which We do nt Mi.au, or rather express fur visii: v.itl'at mentioning all the qu"!if,iiig .hcmi.stances. I woe'd Mot avc ro.:i' JarlLg harmed, not even to gittoo t.v co'Icction with his bea.n j ." I.:- .m ;Yt '.'.-i!. she had been too hasty h ''r..,.i he conclusion that Mrs. 31.. nas Mil uuiti-ling woman. A. 15. An incident is related of a boy belonging to the !oh Now York Regiment, whose u:.:f could u" ! I"; "ccrtnined, who stood in front of his ugh., jv.t v bilo it engaged the euemy at short rn i, i.t which posi tion he fired 1 his cuiitiu-i.s, t' .r too'i his comrade's cartridge hoi ar.d u.cd the entire contents in all nincty-rie rounds i not receiving s scratch during die vvLole time, notwithstanding the ground vra- cov-j ercd with dead and bounded ul! aiot.ud j him. The regimout was ordered i-3 charge a rifle-pu v.hcio the rebels wcie ccneeilod, and the youug heio vas the C.-i who entered it, tho enemy flying at tha approach of the bayonet. The Most Degraded. If w wifd to know who is the moit degraded r.nd the moft wtctched of human beiige, look for a mail who has practised avicc&o long that he curses it and yet clings to it, that he pursue it because be fecL a peat law of his nature driving him ou towards it, but reaching it know that it will gnaw his heart, and make him roll himself in the dust at his ft Speech by lion. Caleb B. Smith. At a grand Union demonstration at Indianopolia on Saturday night, Hon Culcb 15. Smith nniJo a patriotic speech in which ho said: Tlioro is a great howl mado about precipitating the war by sending rein-lorcements to Fort Sumter. Why it is palpably false. No reinforcement were sent nothing but provisions. Yet tho cowardly rebels surrounded tho fort with batteries and opened on it when they got ready, crushing its iralluttf lioml urifTi q utitrrn nf flrt) va for the first time in tho life of our na- brother has falh.-n into sin. The slau-tion bringing our iiag doarn with dia-1 t'or,.r xeavA wf it, aud away he goes, grace. This Kits dona by rebels. ja,id,like a trusty messenger, bears tin How can any sane man then charge j BCva through tho wholo circle of his the loyal North w th bringing on this ncqusiiitanco. Tt is true that the sin war? Yet wo are called on to humble ; ha9 boon committed; but there are per ourselves in the mul, to fall on our i,a.)9 circumstances connected with it, knees, to crawl on our bellies in the which so far extenuate thu guilt as to dust before theso Southern traitors, Indiaua contributed to build that fort, he paid ten dollars to ono of South Carolina. Mr. Lincoln sent food to that starving garrison, aud yetwa were charged with bringing ou the war. We must recognize this treason, or wo must conquer by force. When treason was rampant through- out the land, that miserable dotard, I James Buchanan, said he had n'l power to crush it; but his epitaph is written on every bush and tree and rock it flames forth with living lire and with a serpents hiss, "Traitor ! Traitor!" Little children will lisp it, and old men will tell the story of his treason over again, Traitors among us tell us we can't whip them. It made him blu:h to hear such talk at home, lint he could tell them it would bo crushed, and tho Stars and Stripes would wave in every Southern State. It is not now a qnest.on of patriotism, but one of self-preservation. Do vou think the rebellion can triumph and t-eace be restored to the country? Talk about an armistice! What guarantee have we that '.raitors will agree to anything? What evidence have we tiiat they will hold to anything they agree to? The hu'ul that would strike at our lib- wry c;.ri I'ever be trusted with an ar- imsucc. ije read Ironi the iv.chmonil Examiner tho feeling about natural master, and with it va3 the only ar-miotic? we could set, itiid wanted to k;iow if v. o eould llnd blares among us to VMM sueti terms. luere was but one way io obtain peace, t'.nd that v. us to light for it; to crush out Uio re bellion; for so nine as there is a God in heaven, it will be crushed. What! i r01"" 1 ' m "ekwari should e nation ot twentv millions j L W J'e polishing .till re-, .1 ., l.. i i I niMns to be done. On a very coarse ilotu humble itselt in tne dust belore a ! , . , - , , .. , , , ... I needles sre spxau to the numhsr of maed population tt otack and v. lute, P . .... , , . 4 -. .,, . . ' lortv or J.ny tho'.nsim. hmorv uuat is rrosecuLe ir.e war mi no. a man in;liard u aui with s,vcrttl olLcri of tU the North wits left to tell the tale. Let rebellion be crushed on our soil, aud such a spectacle would be presented to the Old World, that thrones and kingdoms would crumble to ashe:. That is why wo hear of intervention. It is because the despots in Europe read their own downfall in the success of our Republic, Scandal. How prevalent is the sin of scandal? Perhaps no sin is so common; perhaps none committed with so little thought, or remembered with less remorse. It is a 6in, not like some others, chiefly committed by the open slaves of the world and tho wicked or.c; but ilas! frequently by those who profess to follow the benevolent riavlor, from ivhcso lips not cue word of bcandal ever dropped. This sin is perpetrated in vanoui v.ays. It is committed not uierely by the slanderer whe fabricates falsehoods rejecting hi i neighbor, but by them, who circula'e theso falsehood;. A tde-bfarer comes, and brings coo plaus ible account to another's d;iacs. It may bo true, it may not; tho slanderer soldom takei much paiau to Inquire, bnt spreads the report fur and wide; and in doing so, gives publicity to the willful lie of an abandoned liar, and makes himself a partaker of that liar's crimes. If they to horn he relates this account respect him, this adds new weight to the scandal, They spread it farther still, and confirm the account by relating from whom they heard th odious, tela. Thmt a hnn- drod or a thousand make theinsolvca tiartnkora inhe emit of tho firat lie j , c, , . ... - f the fabrication. Dut !i io not morel when circulating falsehood, that tha guilt of scandal U inciirrod; it U incurred to a dreadful extent by parson who circnlat what may bo substantially correct. The backbiter plca ia j n excuse for hia mlschlovyud conduct; j.. Tho a?oou,it 1 giTe i,true." It may bo so, but it is not all the Tacifl, or ; it ia tkuth MisubPttciESTUD or it is truth t oh h: has no right to rutmt. T. ,n ...it ... fl.. l...,.!. I'. ...I..,.. a a i will for Mtv to the ofiender rathor ; t,an t(ie severity of ccnauro. j ti1C3e circumstances, however, j ti,e slanderer takes no cars to omit. j perl,apS the offender fell tho victim of a temptation so strong that, thus LII,jjtojj h;a slanderer would havo f.lll(.n into c,.jme3 ton time8 aj greut. hut oftllis th flittn(ierer Bavs nothing. i.ertftjia J10 has deeply and bitterly ;mej ,,,;., mo.outary error; but of this the backbiter too is silent. He tells not half tho truth. lUv. O.Pike. Making a Needle. Needles are made of Btecl wire. The wire is first cut by shears, from coils, into the length of the needles to be uiude. After a batch of such bits of wire have been cut off, they are placed in a hot furnace, and then takou out aud rolled backward and forward on a tubl till they are straight-They are now to be ground. Tho needle-pointer theu takvs up two dozen or so of tho wires, and rolls them betweun his inumu aua u"ers- wllu tnoir cnU8 oa 1119 i '.mnustoue. first one ttil ami then tho oth- er. Next is a machine which flatteusand gutters the heads of ten thousand needles iu an hour. Next comes the punching of the eyes, by a boy, so fast that the eye can hardly keep pace with him. The splitting follows, which is running a fine wiru through a down, perhaps, of these twin ueedh's. A vouian, with a little anvil before her, files between the hands aud so parties them. TLy -iiii now complete ncdies,but thy iae "'o'h end nut; and easily bcut. Tha In t'U tiing eou-i's next, lliey are heated in batches in u furnace, and when red hot-uro thror.n into a p.-.u of cold water. Next they uiust be tcmpirtd, and this is dou T ' 1 . . , - V . 1. 1 -.. !.-. 1 . ojl j, H,rlnUed i)d wftwap J:4uUJ ww tleM. tbe colh ;s roll4 same kiud, thrown into a sort of washpot, to roll to and fro twelve hours or more. They come out dirty enough, but after a rinsing iu clean hot water, and tossing ia sawdust, they become bright, and ready t be sorted and put up for rale. Angels in (be House. I know a man; he is not i Christian. nis daily life it not 'maceordar.ee with tvea principles f morality. I fa hu tare beautiful, well-behaved children. The other day, he told roe this incident of ons of I thorn, hia little girl thvca or four years old: 'Perhaps some pecpio would think it sacrilege, but I doa't; but, for Mm tiia baek, I have been in the habit of re&dinj the Riblo, and of baring prayers very night before the sbildten go to bed. I have done it because it his a 300a in fluents on the children, &m1 Oecauiss I hope it may have a good influence on myself. Last i.ijjbt I went to the 'J.od;.'e." (he ii a Mv sot.) and did not po home tiil aiW eleven o'clock. Tho children, of ooarse, wore tU in bed, ond, I supposed, usicsp. Iktore pv ins Ui Led, I knelt cow a by my bed to pray, a-.d had bsrt there hut a ihomsnt wben I Ua.l .'vj; let ri up fton her bi ia th 1 cesti ;ci , ..J her lit Ja foet earns patter- lo:. t j Coor oa.-d ips. I kpt pe. foci! ftiii!, aid the rams sod knelt dowa ueoiue too without eying a wovd. I did not not'eo her, sad, in a moment, (peaking just tbore hr breath, ehe said, 'IV pray load.' I prayfld; I kissed ber, and th went back to bed. And I kll yoa, G , I hive Lad nothing; a Cert me so for th last ten years- 1 have thought of nothing else all day long, except that little, 'Fa, pray loud.'" If yon want the best, neateat, and largwt pnpor in the county, inhsrih fv the Mt Venice Rpol'wii. 7i rr rr