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Professional Cards.
J. L.XO0MMM,
Z3orxtlst,
HAWKINS & BURKE.
Attornoys n.t Ziawi
America*, Georgia.
Jno. D. CARTER,
I’f TORH ST AT hkVf,
Americas, Georgia.
Ortlro in Americas Hotel building, corner of
L«ni*r an<l College street*. may 18 tf.
FORT & HOLLIS,
ATT4RSRIS AT LAW,
And Solicitors of Patents.
Americas, Georgia.
SAM. LUMPKIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Americas, Georgia.
Will practice in all tlio courts of S. W. Ga.
Ki-fi re, by permission, to Dr. Wm. A. Greene.
OITICE: with M. Callaway, Ksq., in the Conrt-
lloiirs. .Iun30, 1870. -ly
SUNDAY MORNING IN BED,
When the tiresome week is over,
Wearied limbs then ask for rest;
No grim task is then before you,
So one but yourself to please.
Bow delicious then the feeling
' N Tbst draws through tbs drowsy head.
On a rest unbroke, unsnmmoncd,
Sunday morning in the bed.
And such fancies throng around yon,
Half asleep and half awake,
Dim defined yet all so pleasant—
Fancies, like the dawn, opanue;
Waking, dreams of love and fortune,
Brighter far than can be said.
Give a foretaste of Elysium,
Sunday morning in the bed.
And (he early sounds contrasting,
Add atill more to the repose;
Praise who will the early riser*,
Sweeter still's the morning doze!
Labor, bustle, care, all banished.
And the only aonnd you dread
Is tbo breakfast bell's rough clamor,
ltouting-froui the Sunday’s bed.
Poets sing of early morning,
Healthful, activo. fresh and fair,
Wh^efU-Mto)(ry<!s3KfY&si—**
In tbo morning’s early air.
Well, in week day’s let's admit it;
Think how soon one’s life is sped;
last the poor mortals joy unhindered,
Sunday morning in the bed.
JACK BROWN,
A ttornoy at Liaw,
AMERICUS, GA.
*§. office in CoiJt House with Judge Stan-
f- Til. 1 __ fe ‘* 16 tf -
N. A. SMITH,
Attorney at Law,
W ILL practice in the Courts of Sumter and
^ adjoining Counties, and in Circuit Court of
*»' Office on College street, next to ltepuhli-
esn office. fob 25 tf.
J. A. ANSLEY,
Attomey-at'Law
ialo and pvreha
vesunuonof titles. A1
blanks always on hand.
A. R. BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
A meric us, Georgia.
W ILL give prompt atteutiou to all business
entrusted to hre care. nov2Gtf
George W. Wooten,
ATTOBNEV-AT-LAAV,
Amorious, ■ • ■ Ga.
Office-Cher R. T. Byrd's store. janlStf
Ei B. AMOS,
Attorney- at-Xiaw,
AMERICUS, GA.,
TT71LL give prompt attention to professional
J*, business in the different courtsof Sumter,
. iffitey, Webster, Lee and adjoiningeountics.
, Office with J. A. Analej, orer B. Emanuel A
* n ’- juo a-tr
GEORGE WJKIIIBROUGHr
. „ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
A ^bOvneral Agent for the sale and purchase
a* efland inHoutbweat Georgia. Invcstigat-
nig titles strictly adhered to. Will faithfully at-
entrusted “ ’ * —-
hurkville, Lee county, Ga.
T. L. CLARKE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
iin]3 PREST0N, GE0R0IA.
DR. WILLIflM fl7lBREENE7
AMEBICUS, GEORGIA.
0ONTIKUE8 to serve his friends of Amcricni
~ ami aurroundmg countrv in all the depart-
t2t " "fins profeMwoo. anrlfrly
Dr. J. B. HINKLE
WOULD again tender his services (in all the
#4 C _ of tbe Profession) to ths good
Jy-iple of Amerieus and Sumter count!, and eo-
*«b* liberal pit cottage
S? u beatowed upon him.
*** Special attention giten to Buruerv
..“‘^-'luarteraat the Drug M<„«„?VZ' y 7
w’joiSar It0 * ideac ® fronting that of Bey.' jl
• Toruan^ j.. juns 8tf
Dr. S. B. HAWKINS.
nr OFFICE at Dr. Eidridge's Drug Store.
OResidence near the Methodist Church.
J*y serrices I again tender the good people of
AJueneua ami country generally.
Hr- W. D. COOPER,
QETFJLS his profasaional services to the riti-
1. /*‘ r * "f Americce and surrounding country.
, on tr to . V r,0 ‘‘°'Cooper. Office—Comer
' OU Bot.1 ^ nu j
"""'I' i"«1 Mr. n» n.n-old ., Collfga HiH.
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D. McLEOD, Ameri-
Ca—Diaeaass of the Bye and Ear
iiiiiri Li - ,r ‘* t fd. Chronic dieeaaee of Women
t*£2^^* d **ap*cw*y- ProUpeus, An-
inc*^ n and R * tr ^verakm cured by mechanical
fKsSabssSjg
V o T i C E
lf Db. s. k. turner
,. t KiK'°,^ fil ’ I ", tI,e . ctmali « of Sumter
. , ’ V - mf oro his friends and old patrons
aheri‘L W locatcd , in Clinton villa, Alabama:
’* Prepared to treat aU dwearesttol
before him, and more
£553
••-mxlee. ^ Yos _
ST l^™ lci » ^ sail the care, or you can
r county. Chargea moderate.
HAWKINS & GUEERY,
Attorneys-at-Law,
I WOULD NOT.
I would not kias the sweetest Up
Unless it kissed mo too;
As well from tlie rosebud sip
The morning's clear cold dew;
Nor clasp a baud, tliough soft and warm,
Unless it pressed my own;
Td ratlier love the perfect form
Carved ont of Parian stone.
I will not worship eyes, tho’ bright
And bcantiful they be,
Unless they bend their living light
Ou me—and only me;
I would not love a form that Leaven
Itself had stamped divine.
If I but dreamed that lovo was given
To other hearts than mine.
Striking at the Root
We have been trying by various meth
ods to suppress what lma come to be call
ed “the social evil.” The police have
occasionally made active descents upon
houses of questionable reputation and
hav e made victims of tho ]>oor fallen fe
male portions of humanity who find their
wretched homes and degraded living
therein. This is not tbo way to correct
the mischief. Indeed, it is a" very cow-
ardly way, to say the best of it, tio deal
with the question—this hauling up of
unhappy, women before police courts,
thus adding to the private shame of their
lives the public shame of a useless expo
sure and a temporary punishment. It
does no possible good in the way of cor
rection, and yet this seems to be the ex
tent of the appliances nsed by our police
authorities. The grand jury of Cincinnati
havo adopted a wiser course. They
have struck at the root of the evil by in
dicting a number of rich landlords for
renting houses “for illicit purposes.”—
The grand jury, having no donbt ascer
tained the fact that these property owners
knew full well tho purposes for which
their houses were to be employed, and
having ascertained also that they receive
double the rent for this class of houses,
have indicted them as tho parties respon
sible foi the vice festering within. As to
how much of the responsibility rests up-
op the owners who rent houses for such
U3es in all our large cities, there can be
very little doubt They do not hesitate
to demoralize whole neighborhoods to
gratify their avarice. It is worse than
useless, therefore, to organize police
raids ujxm the wretched inmates of these
establishments while tho law permits
the owners to hire them out with a knowl
edge of what uses they are to be put to.
Ignorance cannot be urged as a plea in
defence, for the rent roll will show how
more profitable the wages of sin are to
the landlord than the income derived
from houses engaged in legitimate busi
ness. The Cincinnati grand jury have
taken the right view of the subject in
striking at the chief malefactors, and it
would be well if their example were fol
lowed in othercities, our own especially.
—y. Y. Herald.
Osa Once.—A shy little girl camo to
Sabbath school. She was properly dress
ed. A calico gown; a hat trimmed with
faded green ribbon, slippers, not boots,
thin slippers which looked as if some
body had given them to her; small shawl
on her shoulders. Mias Jones brought
her in, and she was m Miss Jones' class.
Miss Jones’ class were girls very nicely
dressed. They hail feathers, and fresh
ribbons’ and fashionable boots. Miss
Jones’ class, too, knew each other.—
Well, how did the receive the little
stranger? Very glad of course, to wel
come her to the Sabbath school, and
their class too; because they had often
heard how the Lord Jesus became poor
for their sokes, and he left the poor
among ns fo feed them and care for.
Did they not receive her kindly? Not
a bit When she sat down on the seat
beside them they moved away. They
glanced their eyes at her dress, then at
each other, and laughed contemptuously.
When she looked wistfully up to them
for a look of kind ness they turned their
faces another wav. All their conduct
seeraed to say, “We are above you and,
what business have 1you here I wonder?”
Oh, was it not cruel?
The litle girl never went again. Per
haps she was driven from Sunday school
forever. Let every person, great or small
remember this, that all who laugh at the
poor laugh at God; and he will not always
be* mocked I assure yon.
Written fbrtba Sunday Telegram.
THE PATRICK HENRY.
The Tint mnd Last Confederate Steamer
In Confederate Waters.
BY A HKXBXB OF THE CONFEDERATE NAVY.
The “Patrick Henry,” a very beauti
fully modeled aide-wheel steamer, of
about fourteen hundred tens burthen,
waacalled the “Yotktowa* be'
war, and waa one of the line of
running between Richmond a
York; she was considered a fart boat and
deserved the reputation. When the
Commonwealth of Virginia seceded from
the Union, thia re—el waa fortunately in
Jsmee River; she was seized by the f&ste,
and tbe Governor and Council determin
ed to fit her out as a man-of-war. She
was taken up to the wharf at %
a suburb of Richmond, and the command
conferred upon Commander John Ran
dolph Tucker, an officer of the United
States Navy, who had resigned his com
mission in that service in 1
tbe secession ofhiawatiTo
number of Mechanics from tbo Norfolk
Navy Yard, commenced the necessary al
terations, and in a few months the pas
senger steamer “Yorktowu” was convert
ed into tho very creditable man-of-war
steamer “Patrick Henry,” of ten guns
and one hundred and fifty officers and
The vessel being properly equipped,
proceeded down James river and took a
position off Mulberry Island, on which
point rested the right of the Army of the
Peninsula under Magruder.
It was a dull work laying at anchor,
the officers rarely went on shore, the ves
sel being kept always with banked fires
and prepared to repel an attack, which
might have been at any moment, the Fed
eral batteries at Newport News and the
guard vessels stationed there, the “ Con
gress,” “Cumberland,” and several gun
boats, being plainly in sight
After a tune the monotony became so
irksome that Commander Tucker took
the “Patrick Henry” down the river, to
within long range of the Federal squad
ron, and opened on them, with thehope
of inducing a gunboat to ascend the river;
the challenge was not accepted however,
and tho Federal* having moved a field
battery of ruled guns up the the bonks of
the river, and taken a secure position
from which they opened an annoying fire,
the “Patrick Henry” was steamed slowly
back to her station off Mulberry Island.
The Federal papers stated that in this
little affair, which took place on Septem
ber 13, 1861, the fire of the “ Patrick
Henry ’ did considerable damage to the
Frigate “Congress."
About this time intelligence was re
ceived that one or two of the Federal Gun
boats came up the river every night on
picket duty, and anchored about amil6
and a half above their squadron. Here
was a chance; so on tho night of 1st of
December, 1861, the “ Patrick Henry"
again went down tho river, keeping a
sharp look out for the expected picket
boats. Not a sign of a vessel was seen,
and when day broke there was the ene-
my’s squadron and batteries looming up
against the dawn, with all the gunboats
quietly at anchor around the large ves
sels.
As the “Patrick Henry” could not have
returned unseen, Commander Tucker i^d
the broadside of his vessel to the foe and
opened with all the battery. The Feder
al* were evidently taken by supprise, and
it was some minutes before they replied
to tho fire; they soon got to their guns,
however; and the sun, asit rose,was greet
ed with a roar of artillery that shook the
windows in Norfolk, and roused the peo
ple of that, then gay city, from their
slumbers at a most inconvenient hour.
TJ10 Federal fire was well directed,
and one officer and several men were
wounded on the “Pat” One gunboat
used her her rifled guns with great pre
cision, and so much did tho old Ruling
Master of the “ Patrick Henry" a seaman
of sixty winters, admire her skill, tl>nt he
exclaimed : “Look at that dirty ugly
looking craft yonder; well, when ever you
see a puff of smoke go up from her look
ont, for as sure as you are born there
will be a shot smashing somewhere. ”■—
The “Patrick Henry” continued the
skirmish for an hour or more and then
returned to her anchorage.
In February, 1862, the ladies of Charles
City, a county bordering on the James,
desired to present to the “ Patrick Hen
ry” a flag which they had made for her,
as an evidence of their confidence in the
vessel and their appreciation of the ser
vices she had rendered them, by keeping
marauding expeditions from ascending
the river to pillage and destroy the
famous old country seats that ore to be
found on its banks.
But the flag was destined never to be
presented, such stirring times were at
hand that the few hours necessary for the
ceremony could not be spared; the iron
clad “Virginia” was about to make an
attack upon the Federal fortifications
and squadron at Newport News, and the
“ Patrick Henry” was to participate
tho battle.
A Specimen of Hifkhttm.
A Western political stump-speaker de
moliahes his opponent to this wise:
Build a worm fence around winter's
supply of summer weather; the
clouds from the sky with a teaspoon;
break a hurricane to a harness; ground
sluice an earthquake; bake hell in an ice
house; lasso an avalanche; put a diapper
on the crater of an active volcano; have
all the starts in a nail keg; hang the
ooeaa on a grape vine to dry, pat tho sky
to eoak in a gourd; unbuckle the belt of
eternity;—and paste “To Let” on the
son ana moon; bat never for a moment
rir. delude yourself with thoidea that any
ticket of your party can beat ours.
Sun Btbokb.—It is surprising that
when so simple a thing as a cabbage leaf
stroke of the sun that so many become
victims to it evoiy year* The hot
mflkjjPUced ia '
The day before the attack was to be
made, tbe “Patrick Henry” was moved
down to Day’s Neck and an anchorage
taken from which any vessel coming out
from Norfolk could bo seen. The
next day, the 8th of March, 1862, was
clear, bright and placid. Ail eves were
watching for the appearance of the “Vir
ginia.” About one o’clock in the after
noon she came steaming out from behind
Grancy Island, attended by her satHlites,
thegun-boate “Beauford” and “Raleigh.”
Grand and strong, and confident, a Her
cules of the waters, she moved strait upon
the enemy.
It was not necessary to call •‘all hands
np anchor” on board tho “ Patrick Hen
ry the anchor was raised with a run,
under a full head of steam the vessel sped
on her way to aid her powerful friend.
The Con fed erato vessels in James river
formed in a line ahead as they approach-
at Newport News, the
Patrick Henry, 10, Commander Tuck
er, leading; next came the “Jamestown,”
2, Lentensnt Burney, and next the
“Teaser,” 2, Lieutenant Webb. “The
“Virginia" reached the scene of action
mat; amid the iron hail which fell harm
lessly on her, armor, she ran into and
sunk the Cumberland. A hearty cheer
from the Jamas river vessels greeted her
soooess. but there was no time to give up
to exultation, the longlineof the New
port News, batteries were cloee at hand,
and in order to reach the naval combat
it was necenary to pass them. The guns
of the “Fatriek Henry” we^.rtttrted
for a range of eight hundred yards that
being the distance at which the nOrts
expected to pass the batteries. And now
the hush which proceeds the shock of bat
tle settled alike on Federal and Confed
erate; glimpses could be caught of the
sound came from them, lathe “Patrick
ranged up abreast of the first bat-
j delivered her fire, and the flash
fber guns had hardly vanished when
nek Henry” went over her
gjms having been elevated for cf
eight hundred yards, consequi
was passing the batteries at leas
distance, and to this circumstance
be attributed her not haring-been sunk
or disabled by them; the Federal* sup
posed she would pass as far from them;
as the channel would allow, and had ele
vated their guns for that range; the ves-
•rf posing closer than they thought
■he would, their shot, for the moat part, 1
paroed over her. She was struck, how
ever, several times dnxing the passage;
one Ami parted the crewofnumber three
gTm, woaading two or three men, and
faffing one; poor fellow, he was an 7
ble hero; his words as he fell,
“never mind me bttys.”
Haring passed the batteries with
little damage, the “Patrick
seme engaged in the thick of
whilst the forward guns were
j one enemy, the after ones were
„ at another.
The situation of the Confederate
woodou vessels at this time seemed des
perate. The Newport News batteries
were on one side; on the other, '
were coming up from
Old Point Comfort, and in front, the
beach waa lined with field batteries
and sharp-shooters. Fortunately for the
Confederate wooden vessels the “Min
nesota” “St Lrwrence,” and “Roanoke”
grounded, and the smaller vessels which
acoompmied them, warned by the fate of
the “ Cumberland,” returned, nearly all
of them, to Old Point The “Minneso
ta,” however was near enough to take
port in the action, and opened a heavy
fire, after she ground, on tho Confederate
squadron.
About this time Flag Officer Buchanan
hailed the “PatrickHenry”and directed
Commander Tucker to bum the “ Con
gress," which vessel had run ashore near
the beach and struck her colors, The
gunbovts “Beaufort,” “Raleigh," and
“ Teaser” had attempted to bora her, but
had been drived off by the heavy fire of
the enemy. Tho pilots stated that there
was a slioalnear tho “Congress,” and be
tween that vessel and the “Patrick Hen
ry,” over which the latter could not pass,
Commander Tucker, therefone determin
ed to approach the “ Congress” as near
oal would permit, and then tu
send his boats to board and bum her.—
The lxuts were prepared for the service,
with combustible materials, the boats’
crews and officers to command them held
ready, whilst the vessel was steaming
to the “ Congress.”
This movement of the “Patrick Henry”
placed her in the most imminent peril,
she was brought under the continuous
fire of three points; on her port quarter
were the batteries of the Newport News,
on her port bow were the field batteries
and sharp shooters on the beach, and o:
her starboard bow was the “ Minnesota.
It soon became evident that no wooden
vessel could long float under such a fire;
several shots struck the hull, a pieco was
shot out of the walking beam; ns
sponge of the after gun was being
serted in the piece, the handle was
in two by a shot; half in prayer and half
in despair at being miablo to perform
his duty, the sponger exclaimed, “Oh
Lord how is the guu to be sponged ?'
Tho fate of the battle no doubt, in his
opinion, depended on the proper spong
ing of that particular gun; it must have
been a great relief to him when the quar
ter gunner of his division handed him a
sparesponge.
This state of things could not last long.
A rifle shot from tho field batteries dene-
trated the steam chest, the engine room
and fire room were filled with steam,
five or six of the fireman were scalded to
engineer* were driven up on
deck; and the engine stopped working.
Tho vessel became enveloped in a cloud
of escaped steam, and the enemy seeing
that some disaster to the boiler had oc
curred, increased his fire. At tho mo
ment no one know what had happened,
the general impression being that the
boiler had exploded, and it is unmistaka
ble evidence of the courage and discip
line of tho crew that the fire from the
vessel did not slacken, bat went as regu
larly as before the incident. As tho ves
sel was drifting to-wards the enemy, the
jib was hoisted to pay her head around,
and the steamer “Jamestown,” Lieuten
ant Barney, gallantly came to her assis
tance and towed her from her perilous
situation. The engineers soon got one
boiler to work, the other was so badly
damaged that they were unable to repair
it at the time, and with tho steam on one
boiler alone the “Patrick Henry” return
ed to the conflict.
Night, however, soon closed in, and as,
in the darkness, it was impossible to dis
tinguish friend from foe, hostilities ceas
ed. Daring the battle the shores of the
Confederate side of the Roads were lined
with spectators from Norfork and tho ad
jacent country, and never, not even in
si to days of t he gladiators, had an assem
blage anch a spectacle performed before
them.
The night after the battle the Confed
erate squadron anchored under SewaH’f
Point, at the point of Norfork harbor.
There was little time for sleep that
night, ns the conflict was to be renewed
the next morning, and it was necessary
to make many repairs and preparations.
About midnight a column of fire ascended
in the darkness, followed by a ter
rific explosion—the Federal frigate “Con
gress, ,,r which had been on fire all the
evening, had blown up, tbe fire having
reached the magazine.
At the first peep of dawn ou the 9th
of March the Confederate squadron was
underway, it having been determined to
destroy the “ Minnesota,” that vessel l»e-
ing still aground near Newport Nows.—
As the daylight increased the “Minne
sota” was discovered in her old position,
but the “ Minnesota” was not the only
thing to attract attention; close alongside
of herthere lay a craft, the like of which a
seaman’s eyes never rested on before,
an immense shingle floating on the water
with a gigantic cheese box rising from its
centre; no sails, no wheels, no smokestack,
no guns. What could it be? On board
the “Patrick Henry” many were tho sur
mises as to the strange craft; some
thought it a water tank aent to supply
the “Minnesota” with water; others were
of tho opinion tliat it waa a floating msga-
. enishing her exhausted stock of
ammunition; a few visionary characters
feebly intimated that- it might bo the
“Monitor,” which the Northern papers
lml * fin—titi a aVuvnf. fn* m I--/.
u about for a long
All doubts about tbo stranger wer<
Boon dispelled. As tbe “Virginia’
sKsmed down npoo the-•Minneeotai 1 the
cheese box and abingle steamed ont to
mart her. It wnsindeed the --Uonuor"
and then and then onmmenood the first
combat that had erer taken place between
iron-clnds. Tho “Patrick Henry” and
the other -wooden vessels took little part
in the events of tho day, except to ex
change shots with tho “Monitor” at long
aege, ar she paso^ during her msacon.- I
ering with the “Virgina. At one-time 1
the “ Virginia” did not seem to move;
g— Tehenmons were entertained that she
UPfrgot aground or that some part of her
machinery was damaged. Signal flags
were run up on board of her, but the flags
did not blow out clear; and it was some
minutes before the signal officer of the
1IDAY, JULY 8, 1870.
nek Henry” could make out the
>e», at length he reported the signal
* ** *rtUr as he could make it out,
■bled mv*propelier is.” No wooat-n
l could nave floated twenty minutes
r the fire that tho “ Virginia” was
rgoing, bet if her propeller was dis-
l it was neoessary to attempt to tow
Krit to the cover of the Confederate
ftiea; so the “Patrick Henry” and
»tpwn started to moke the attempt;
“P gone but a short distanoe when
was seen to move and her
r to turu. That evening the
between the “ Virginia” and the
. - jm- . Jr” having been a'drawn one, all
the ‘Confederate vessels went Into the
harbor of Norfolk.
The “Patrick Henry” continued to
render important service to the Confed
erate States, until, on the night that
Richmond was evacuated, she was blown
up to prevent her falling into the
of the Federate. She was the first and
the last vessel that flew tho Confederate
flag in the water* of Virginia.
Hurra about Sleeping.—Dr. Hall
thinks that good sleeping depends some-
wfert on tho condition of tho sleeper when
ho retires. . The stomach should be in
S ood condition, not overloaded with un-
igested food. In cold or damp weather
the feet should be warmed a few min
utes, and all anxious thought and cares
should be dismissed. The bed for you
and middle-aged people should be a hi
or hair mattress, but a dean feather-bed
is best for old persons. The feet and
lower limbs should be warmly covered,
so as to draw the blood from the head and
prevent dreaming. It is best to lie on
the right side, os that aids rather
impedes digestion, but in no caso sleep
on the back. Rut under no circumstan
ces should two persons save mother and
infant—sleep together in the same bed,
or even in the same room. Dr. Hall
brings together a number of reasons why
this very common practice should be
done away with. It is inaolicato. It de
stroys privacy. It weakens self respect
It is injurious to health in that two per
sons consume more air than an ordinary
chamber holds, or than good ventilation
will supply, while the difference in the
temperment and electrical conditions of
almost any two persons render it exceed
ingly improper for them to occupy tho
same bed. Many a child lias wilted and
waned and finally died from no other
cause than sleeping with midlo-agod or
old persons. Tho animals heard together,
but human lieings should have each his
own room and bed. The great thing,
however, is to be supplied with a plenty
of pure air through the night. A
grown person breathes about eighteen
hogsheads of air in eight hours’ sleep.
Every breath somewhat vitiates all the
in the room, as a drop of ink discol-
all the water in a glass, and unless
air is constantly renewed by proper
ventilation, it soon becomes impure unfit
to breathe, if not utterly poisoned. Death
consequence of breathing bad air is
t an unosunl occurrence, but hundreds
of persons have had their health impair
ed, their strength wasted and their lives
shortened, by sleeping in a closed appart-
ment. There should be free and abun
dant circulation of pare air through tho
chamber, in order to sleep and to get
rest and refreshment from the sleep;
and standing water, articles of clothing,
brashes, and even a carpet, should be
rigdly excluded from the* cl amber—the
latter article in particular, as it collects
and holds the fine particles of dust which
the air gathers np and deposits in the
sleeper's lungs. In order to sleep well
it is best to retire regularly at an early
hour, and sleep until we wake; but in no
caso a second nap after the morning wak
ing, and in no case sleep more than ten
minntes in the day time when well. The
system will very soon take all tho sleep
it wants in the night, and the sleep wiU
bo sweet and refreshing. It does not
ways plans the work of the day before
getting out of bed. Perhaps this is one
reason why he is able to do so much.
A Protestaxt “Schema.”—The basis
of agreement of the debates in the forth
coming Evangelical Alliance in New York,
will be the same as that of the original
society in London, adopted in 1846:
1. The divine inspiration, authority,
and efficiency of tho Holy Scriptures.
2. The right and duty of private judg
ment in the interpretation of the Holy
Scriptures.
3. The Unity of the Godhead and the
trinity of the persons therein.
4. The utter depravity of human nature
in consequence of the fall.
5. The incarnation of the Son of God,
His work of atonement for sins of man
kind, and His mediatorial intercession
and reign.
G. The justification of the sinner by
faith alone.
7. Tho work of the Holy Spirit in the
justification of tho sinner.
8. Tho immortality of the soul, the
resumption of the body, the judgment
of the world by onr Lord Jesus Christ,
with the eternal blessedness of the
righteous and the eternal punishment of
the wicked.
The divine institution of the Chris
tian ministry, tho obligation and per
petuity of the ordinances of baptism and
the Lord’s supper.
It being, however distinctly declared
that this brief summary is not to be re
garded in any formal or ecclesiastical
sene, as a creed or confession, nor the
adoption of it as involving an assumption
of the right authoritatively to define the
limits of Christian brotherhood, but
simply os an indication of tbe class of
persons whom it is de arable to embrace
within the Alliance.
The Southern Side cf “Lothair.”
Thoao who have not read Mr. Disraeli's
famous novel may perhaps bo surprised
to hear bis opinion on Southerns, and
that he has put some strong allusions to
them, or rather to the American charac
ter in Lothair (OoL Campain) who is a
souther man in the mouth of “tho Duke.”
The latter say* of Col. Campain: “Well,
he has tlie consolation of having suffered
in a good cause. I shall be happy to
make his acquaintance. I look upon an
American gentleman, with a luge estate
in the South ns a real aristocrat, and
whether he goto his rents, or whatever his
return* may be, or may not, I should al
ways treat him with respect.” In anoth
er place, he says of Col. Campain; “Yon
know he is a gentleman:- he is not- a
Yankee. People make the greatest mis
takes about these things, fie is a gen-
tleman of the South: They have no
property left but land, and I am told his
territory immense. * * v * It is not
unlikely lie may have dost his estate now,
butjhat makes no difference to me. I
treat him and all southern gentie-
as our fathers treated -the emigrant
nobility of France. ”— Courier-Journal.
—The crops in England are looking
badly. There is no “bloom uponT*’
rye," but only upon the rye drinl
Meanwhile the farmers are making wiy
faces.
Life and Death.
BEAUTIFUL SKETCH HY CHARLES DICKENS.
There ni once a ehild, and he strolled
about a good deal, thought of a number
of things. He had a sister, who was a
child too, and his constant companion.
These too used to wonder all day long.
They wondered at the beauty of flowers;
they wondered at the heigtn and depth
of the bright water; they wondered at the
goodness and power of God, who made
the lovely world.
They used to say to one another some
times, “supposing all the children of the
Mirth were to die, would the flowers and
tlie water and the sky be sorry ?” They
believed they would be sorry. For, say
they, the buds are the children of the
flower*, and the little playful streams that
n bol down the hillsides are the chil-
i of the waters; and the smallest
bright specks playing at hide and seek in
the sky all night, mnst surely be the
children of the stars, and they would be
all grieved to see their playmates, the
children of men, no more.
was larger and more beautiful they
thought, than all the others, and every
night they watched for it, standing
hand in hand at the window. Whosoev
er saw it first cried out, “I see the star 1”
And often they cried out both together,
knowing so well when it would rise, and
where. So they grew to be such friends
with it that before lying down in their
beds, they looked out once again to
bid it good night; and when they were
turning around to sleep they would sav.
“God bless the star /”
But while she was still very young, oh,
venr, very young, the sister dropped,
and came to be so weak that she could
no longer stand in the window at night;
and then the child looked sadly on by
himself, and when ho saw the star, turned
round to the patient, pale faceon the bed:
“ I see the star!” and then a smile wonld
come upon his face, and a little weak
voice used to say : “God bless my broth
er and the star!”
And so the time came all too soon,
when the child looked out all alone, and
when there was no face on the bed; and
when there was a little grave among the
graves, not there before ; and when the
star made long rays down toward him, as
'-i saw it through his tears.
Now, these rays were bright, and they
emed to make such a beautiful, shining
way from earth to heaven, that, when the
child went to his solitary bed, he dreamed
about the star; and dreamed that, lying
where he was, ho saw a train of people
taken up that shining road by angels.
And the star opening, showed him a great
world of light; where many more such
angels waited to receive them.
And these angel*, who were waiting,
turned their beaming eyes upon the peo
ple who were carried up into the star;
and some came out from the long rows
which they stood and fell upon the
people’s necks and kissed them tenderly,
and went away with them down avenues
of light, and were so happy in their com
pany that, lying in tho bed, he wept for
ut there were many angels who did
not go with them, and among them one
ho knew. The patient face that had
once lain upon tlie bed was glorified and
radiant, but his heart found ont his sister
among all tho host.
Hissister’s angel lingered near the en
trance of the star, and said to the leader
among those who had brought the people
thither—
“ Is my brother come ?”
And he said, “No.”
She was taming hopefully away when
the child stretched out his arms and
said—
“Oh, sister, I am here, Take mo 1”
And then she turned her beaming eyes
upon him, and it wns night; and the sto*
was shining into his room, making long
rays down toward him as he saw it
through his tear.
From that hour forth the child looked
out upon the star as on tho home he was
to go to, when his time should come,
and he thought ho did not belong to
earth alone, but to the star, too, because
of his sister’s angel gone before.
There was a baby bom to be a brother
to the child and while he was so little
that he had never yet spoke a word, he
stretched his tiny form out on the bed
and died.
Again the child dreamed of the opened
star, and of the company of angels, and
train of people; and all tho rows of angels,
with their beaming eyes all turned upon
those people's faces.
Said his sister’s angel to the leader:
“Is my brother come ?”
And he said, “Not that one, butanoth-
And the child beheld his brother’s
angel in her arms, he cried, “ Oh, sister,
I am here ! Take me!” And she turned
and smiled upon him, and the star was
shining.
He grew to be a young man, and was
busy at his book when an old servant
came to him and said :
“ Thy mother is nc more. I bring her
blessing on her darling son.”
Again at night he saw tl««* and all
that former company. S>*i«i Lis sister’s
angel to the leader.
“Is my brother come ?’ :
Anil he said. “ Thy mother.”
A mighty cry of joy wont forth through
all the stars because the mother was re
united to her two children. And ho
stretched out his arms and cried: “Oh,
mother, sister and brother, 1 am here!
Take me I" And they answered. “Not
yet,” and the star was shining.
He grew to be a man whoso hair was
turning gray* and ho was setting in his
chair by the fireside, heavy with grief,
and with his face bedewed with tears,
when the star opened once again.
Said his sister’s angel, to tho leader,
“Is my brother come ?”
And he said, “Nay, but his maiden
daughter.”
And the man who had been a child
saw his daughter, newly lost to hin, a
celestial creature among those three, and
he said, “My daughter’s head is on my
mother’s neck, and at her feet there is
the baby of old time, and can bear the
parting from her, God be praised !”
And the star was shining.
Thus the child camo to be an old
and his once smooth face was wrinkled,
and his steps were slow and feeble, and
his back waa bent. And one night as he
lay upon his bed, his children standing
around him, he cried as he had cried so
long ago:
“I seethe star I”
They whispered tfrone another, “Hein
dying.”
And he smd, “I am. My age is falling
from me like a garment, and I move
toward the star as a child. -And O, my
Father, now I thank Thee that it lias so
often opened to receive those to await
e r .
And the star was shining; and it shines
upon his grave.
The Boot in the Bed.
Miss Lydia White had two lovers. Tom
Green and Willie Jones.
Both: were good-looking, well-to-do
young mechanics, and both loved her
devotedly, if their own vehement asser
tions could be credited. Lydia was in'
something of a dilemma ' concerning
them.
She had no particular preferonoe for
either of them, but she wanted to be mar
ried some time, and Mr. White was open
ed to long courtships, and . Aunt Jane
kept assuring her that her bed and table
linen would get yellow with being packed
away in the bureau so long; and sho also
took frequent opportunities of remarking
that “none ofher girls ever was single
after they had reached the age of eighteen;
no, not a minit!”
And as Lydia counted her years four
more than eighteen, of course this latter
insinuation of Aunt JaneVcut deeply.
. Lydia turned the matter over seriously
in her own mind, and argued it with her
self pro and eon, which she should take,
Green or Jones.
some degree romantic,
Number 20.
POKPEII AHD VESUVIUS.
marrying a second Napoleon as to cour
age; in fart if there was any quality that
she especially admired in a man, it was
bravery.
When she said anything about this
the hearing of Tom or Willie, they beg
ged her to put them to the test—they
wonld joyfully die for her if she stood in
need of such a sacrifice, they assured her
over and over again.
On Sunday evening, as was indeed fre
quently the case, Jones and Green both
happened to call at Lydia's about the
same time.
Lydia went out of the room abont nine
•’clock on pretense of bringing a book of
engravings, but shortly returned in great
perturbation.
“Whatis it? What is the matter?”
cried tho two lovers in eager chorus.
“Oh, dear me!” sighed Lydia, “such a
dreadful, dreadful thing! Who could
have thought it in onr peaceful commu
nity ! Oh,. Mr. Jones, Mr. Green ! Yon
cannot think how glad—how relieved I
am that you are here. I should be fright
ened to death were it otherwise J” and she
clang first to one and then the other with
confidence perfectly infatuating.
“ Tell us what, is it. !’-* cried Green.
“Enlighten ns as to the cause of this
emotion,” said Jones who had been to
the Chicken Valley Academy two “quar
ters.”
‘Oh, you sro both so brave!” cried
Lydia admiringly—“I feci ns if I were
protected by an armv.”
Green drew himself up to his full height,
which was just five feet, and it mnst be
confessed that beside the Herculean
Jones, lie looked liko a Bantam rooster
beside a Shanghae.
“ Command me !” said Green, “only
let me do your bidding !”
“Ask my existence,” said Jones, “ »nd
it shall be given as free ns tho streams to
sounding ocean.”
" Hush T’cried Lydia, “ don’t speak so
loud! He might hear yon, and take the
alarm and kill ns before you had a chance
to capture him.”
“He ? who? wlmt ” demanded Jones
a tragic whisper.
“Hush! for pitty sake,” said Lydia,
e is up stairs in the spare room ! under
the bed ! Father had a hundred dollars
paid him yesterday for a cow, and this is
tho plan to rob the house. I saw his
boots stick from the counterpane.”
“Good heavenR !” cried Green, getting
behind Jones.
“And such big boots, too,’’said Lydia
—“ twelves, I am sure J”
“Tom ! Oh, Willie ! protect me!” cried
Lydia, pathetically, and they both pro
tested that they would shield her with the
last drop of their blood.
“Then go up stairs and seize the vil
lain,” said Lydia.
“ You had better go first,” said Jones,
‘I don’t know the way.”
“Nor I” said Green, “and you’re the
liggest; it belongs to you to lead on.”
“I will show you the way,” ^oid Ly
dia.
And the two gallant young men reluc
tantly followed her up stairs. She opened
the door of the spore chamber, softly,
and they saw the boots very distinctly; a
most extremely dirty pair of cowhides,
which looked as though their owner had
traveled through twenty miles of swamp,
and mode no acquaintance with rugs or
scrapers afterward.
“ A—mighty big man he must be, with
such a pair of feet,” said Jones. “Hadn’t
we better coil your father end Mr. Berry
the hired man ?”
“I think we had,” said Green timidly.
‘ ‘I don’t,” said Lydia decidedly. ‘.‘See!
I believe the boot* are moving. Oh,
goodness me.”
And as she screamed, Jones and Green
simultaneously made a rush for the cham
ber door. Jones stumbled over a wash-
stand and went headlong to the foot of
the stairs, wash-stand and all. And Ly
dia, by clinging to the skirts of Jjfr.
Green’s coat, kept him from following bis
“ What the duce is to pay here ?” asked
Jack Bexrj, appearing on the scene in
his shirt and trowsers, and his curly light
hair standing out all over his head like
tlie bristle* on a lamp chimney brush.
Lydia pointed to the boots. •
“Don't touch him,” whined Green,
“he may have a pistol or something about
him, and hurt somebody.”
“Yon chicken-livered whelp,” cried
Berry. “You’re afraid toseo what’s be
hind the boots, are ye ? “Wall, I’ll show
you !”
And Berry seized the frightful objects
and gave a pull so strong that he went
over backward on the floor with a boot
in either hand.
“Jupiter !” ho cried, “I never saw any
boots ccme off so easy as that are. Let's
see the feet.” Add curing under the bed
he lifted the counterpane and displayed—
nothing.
“ Bat where is the owner of the boots ?”
cried he, scratching tho bruise on his
"'■“’e, and lookin'”
Here!** said —
,‘ T “ th f. and here I
have been hearing this drattlod noise for
the last ten minutes, and thinking there
was a fire over to the corner. But not A
sign of my boots could I find. Who put
’em there, Leddy?”
But Lydia was bathing Berry’s nose.
Jones had sense enough to
see that they were de trop. And they
took their departure without any very
elaborate farewells. -
‘By jinks,” said Green to Jones, on
- home. _ 'T’ye got an idea; its
thurj
o f a girl put them
purpose to try
“ Of conrse she did, " said Jones, c
ly;wpmenai$as deceitfolgstheA
A VISIT To THE OLD FOMTEHiAN household
THE rONTDiUED EXCAVATIONS.
Pompeii, at tlie base of Vesuvius,
struggles again for life! Sweep back two
thousand years, reader, and stand with
me on the vast remains of ah ancient city,
whoso streets, theatres and temples lie-
gin to revise- in - graoeful ruins. From
tire tangled mass beneath the lava, volu
minous art, strewn amid the courts and
thenrne of that once proud city, breath
ing existence in the haughtiest age of the
Roman empire, rise* reanimated.—
Exquisite moral paintings, in the roofless
chambers, aa fresh and plain as if they*
had been executed yesterday, disinterred
from their long banal, mirror the lux-
ariousneeeanddebeeenen’of Pompeiian
life A perfect facinaiion creeps over
the wondering visitor, when standing at
the bottom of the market place, he looks
up the silent afreets, through the rained
temple* of Jnpiter and Isis, over broken
places with exposed sane tones, to Mount
Vesuvius in tfio peaceful distance. It is
like a dream, You have but little heed
of time, and no. understanding of its
flight. The strange scene grown melan
choly in it* sensation, when we ramble on
passing relic* of human inhabitation and
life—the stone rim of the exhausted well
worn by tho backet rope; the carriage
wheel in tho narrow streets, the places
for drinking-vessels on the marble counter
of tho wino shop; the Amphono, in pri
vate cellars, hundreds of years ago put
away; the miller’s and his oven, where
for two thousand years lay his last bak
ing; the liouso of Diomedes, where skel
etons were found huddled together near
the door, as if attempting to escape,
shrunken inside to scanty bones, and
hardened with ashes—are scenes of this
ghostly city, awfully impressive and
solemn.
Moving on, baths, amphitheatres and
temples, where the gods were wont to be
worshipped by the priest, dimly show
the revelry of pleasure, the pursuit of
games, and the superstitious adoration of
that elysian ago. Perhaps the dim vista
of imagination becomes paramount to
that reality, when looking upon tho neigh
boring grounds, wo reflect that house up-
house, palace upon palac<v templo np-
templc, monument upon'monument,
are still. lying underneath tho quiet
growth,and that their untold wealth of art,
classic stories, mythological fable*, con
ceits of cupids theatrical rehearsal*, po
etic recitations, artistically told in colors,
and tlie mysteries of antiquity, are - wait
ing to lie turned up to the light of day.
Sitting upon a fragment of stone, cover
ed with ancient mooes, where the sleepy
lizard crept, and the nimble grasshopper
8kipt, I watched tho slow excavation of
a room, and saw burst into light for tho
first time since tlie fearful eruption tho
teriel grace of the Prompeiian dancing
girls, with dazzling brilliancy of color, as
beautiful as though the arteat had that
moment put his finishing touch upon
hem. Imperial Rome proudly points to
the dignity of her Forum; the colossal
grandeur of her Coliseum; the magni
ficence of the remains of eminence and
power of her Christian civilization; to
the wide Campania with utiles of aque
ducts stretching to Tivoli itself, with
Hadrian’s massive villa, here the emperor
gathered his spoils of travel and feasted
poets, philosophers and statesmen.
But this vast scene, linked by memories
of study and sacred in the recollections
of scholastic pedantries, is not more im
pressive than the awful sublimity of
“this city of the dead.” Vesuvius, in
its fury, burst the earth and buried the
city in its bowels, and not left a single
trace, the solitudo would not have been
less solemn. It is a curiosity to trace
hero the melted lava, penetrated into
every nook and corner, entered tombs
and forced the ashes of the dead from
the funeral urns; crawled into the eyes
and mouths of tbe living like hot lead
pouring into a mould. Layer upon layer
os perfect on though the hand of genius
systematically placed them there, mark
the different deposits of eruptions—in
some places as solid ns marble. Tho.
work of excavation goes on daily; the
’ :1s, boys, men and women carry away
> debris, and hunting for precious
articles often find rings, jewelry end coins
or delicate mosaic works. Every erect
or fallen column, every mark of that aw
ful calastrophe, suggests to our mind the
horror of that honr when “day was turn
ed into night and light into darkness.”
The delicious breeze of tho south, trtftw
over the gulf of centuries, lifts the cloud
olsmokehimging oyer.the fatal destroyer -
' at anytime to send
Morrissey’s Gambling Palace at Sara
toga^
A correspondent thus VnteB;
John Morrissey’s new house at Haraio-
gate said to be by far the most gorgeous
house for play on tho continent. The
main floor is divided into three rooms,
two of which are devoted to play and one
for dining. The fitting* np for the rooms
are simply magnificent The- floors are
covered with scarlet and white velvet
tapestry. The fafrtiture, sideboards; oor •
nines, mantle and mirror frames are
French chevol, inlaid with .gold. The
cartoins are silk and damask, Tho mon
ogram “ J. M.” flames out on all sides.—
Oyer the massive mirrors’ are Carved
tigers* heads, wide open to devour, an
emblem of the tiger persona will fight
within the walls. The chandelier* ore
gold guilt, and the brackets are burnish
ed in the aame style. - On tho saloon
floor there are one; hundred and twenty-
five lights, and two hundred and seventy
in all the house. Private staircases lead
to rooms aloft, and these; rooms; on the *
two stories nhovo the pork** ‘ are gor-
sly fitted, up for gopetp. The lower
fa for fa kifahec, win* ceDar, v larn-
dry and for dofae*’
house cost, ninety _tji , _
lotnearisQwnsdby achnroh. '
would not-sell, bqt the grounu » rontea
to Morrissey .for-fan years, at one ihbus-
and dollar* a yen?, to give room and light
for the ofab house,
S&" Twenty-seven miliums, of francs
won on one. be(! Tho Duke of Hamilton
is : the luclty mortal. Mo win* twenty
francs on each vote above.six millions
given far the Emperor, in theplebiscitum
from the members of Ufa Jocky Club.—
The bet was as follows: Tho Duke topay
to the members of the dub two look to
every yoto under six millions, and to re
ceive one louis, for every vote above that
number. (An^hawon. -
—A lady wants to know why Hymen is
represented with a torch? Perhaps it is
to throw a light upon those little imper-
fertUdl ||22 to.
^I-A Portland darkey called at a drag
store for a “sottler powder.” The
seiditzwas duly prepared, and its use
explained, -but he drank the two solutions
separately. When tho boiling fluid form
ed trem Uia noao and month, ho yelled:
“My stomach’s bast, I can’t lito a
~ " ,’’ and bolted from the store.
»«. The World says-. The hid gloTO is
about to cease from jts mission as tho
emblem of aristocracy, on account-of'
defect in pj&eo. Very excellent kids
are now sold in Paris] at thirty cents a
pair, and on Broadway they ore marked
as low as fifty cents. The market is abso-
*:ed, and even the present
ha iL .