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-/ / ^ 7 ' 4 , f / ' 1 f } ' m { ’ * ) }' I ( L 'c t v.^ THE FORT EDW ARD LEDGE TOL. 8. FORT EDWARD, FRIDAY EYEOTTv^G, JANUARY 2, 1863. NO. 38. FORT EDWMID LED6EB IS PUBLISHED EVEKY FKIDAY EVE., AT FORT EDWARD, WASH. CO., N. T., G r e a t I n i p r o v i n e n t s in. S ew i n g M ach i n e s . C. 23. O o n a n t. $ l 50 PER TERMS: TEAR. IM ADVANCE. Office over Mathew's Hardware Store, Main Street. R ates o F A dvertising : One square, (12 lines.) 3 ]veeks, .......... Sl OO Each subsequent insertion, .................. 0.25 One-fourth cblumn, one year,................15 00 One half column, one year, ................... 25.00 One column, one year ......... .. ................. 40 00 Regal notices published at the rates pre- iacribed by statute. All advertisements must therequired number of insertions noted, or they \viU be inserted till ordered out and nliarg^ accordingly. Special Notices l.o per cent, additional. Business Cards §1 per line. Marriages Deaths and Obituary Notices inserted free. * All kinds of job work executed with neat ness, promptness, and at prices which defy competition. EMPIRE SRUHEE MICHIIIE. PATENTED FEBRUARY 14xii 18G0. SAIESEOOM, 510 BROADWAY, N. Y. rp H I S Machine is constructed on an en- A tirely newprinciple ot mechanism, posses sing many lare and valuable iinprovements, having been examined by the most profound experts, and pronounced to be sim^didt)/ and pet'feciion cmnhined. The following are the principal objections urged against sewing-machines: 4. Incapacity to sew every disci iption of material. 5. Disagreeable noise while in opera tion. Biasinets.^ 'Dii*eetoi*M. E. A. CRAY, DEALER in Foreign.and Domestic Wines, Liquors. &c.. near the Feeder Bridge. J. A. OBER, HARNESS MAKER, Sherwood's Row, hear the Grist Mill. _____________ ' W. GUILFORD, BOOT AND SHOE Manufacturer, opposite , Conant & Co.’s Blacksmith shop CENTRAL BALOON, W ING S Exchange. C. R. B ackus , prietor. _____ Pro- HODGMAN & Co., DEALERS in Gentlemens’ Clothing and Furnishing Goods, No. 1, Wing’s Exchange C. E. & S. S. BENNETT, GROCERY AND PROVISION STORE, Three doors north of Baptist Gbnrch. N. B. MILLIMAN, ATTORNEY and Counsellor at Law, and Western Land Office. W. J. W Hl’J'EHOUSB & CO, DEALERS in Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Artists’ Materials, Kingsley’s Block. EDW A R D S, HUBBEL & Co., A GENERAL assortment of Merchandise, for sale cheap. B. S. BURNUA.\I, HENTIST, comer of Mechanic and Semi nary street. GEO. P. c o n a n t k- CO., BLACKSMITH a n d g e n e r a l rep a ir sh o p . Mill s t r e e t . Good s a t i s f a c t i o n g u a r a n t e e d in all C a s e s . 1. Excessive fatigue to the operator. 2. Liabiliiy togetont of order. 3. Expense trouble and loss of time in repairing. The Empire Setciug ALachine is exempt frcm all these ohjeclions. It has a straight needle perpendicular ac tion, makes the Lone or S huttle S tituii , which will neither Eii* nor R avel , and is alike on both sides ; performs perfect sewing on every description of material, from Leath er to the finest Nansook Muslin, with cotton linen or silk thread, from the coarsest to the finest number. Having neither C am nor C og W heel , and the least possible friction, it runs as smooth as glass, and is emphatically A jNToisele.’^s N laeliine. It requires Fifty Per Cent less power to drive it than any machine in market. A girl A G ood R ecommendation .— A young man seeking employment went to one of our large cities, and on enquiring at a certain count ing-room if they wished a clerk, was told they, did not. On mentioning the recommendar tions he had, one of which was from a highly respectable citizen, the merchant desired to see them. In turning over his carpet-bag to find his letters, a book rolled out on the floor. “ What book is that ?” said the merchant. “ I t is the Bible, sir.” “ And what are you going to do with that book in New York ?\ The lad looked seriously into the merchant’s face and replied — “ I promised my mother I would read it every day, and I shall do i t !” The merchant immediately engaged his services. A C aution .— This is a dangerous period of the year for colds. People should be careful. Mrs. Partington says she has got a romantic affection in her shoiildera, the neu rology in her head, and the embargo in the region of the jocular vein; and all from opening the window to throw a bottle at a Couple of belligerent cats on the shed. P iety and E duc . vtion .— After I found peace with God to my conscience, and was assurred of my interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, I believe I may safely assert that I learned more in one day, on the average, than formerly I could do with equal application in a whole month .—Adam Clarice. F amily -P r . vyer .— If the parents will not perform family-prayer, if there be a converted child in the family, it devolves on Jii)n, and should he refuse he will soon lose, the com forts of religion. This is the age of discoveries, and one of T lie M a n w i t l i t h e U m b r e l l a . Amongst the many grave thoughts and sad reflections that must haunt every mind in this trying crisis of our couutry’s history, there are the broadest .gleams of mirth, the bright est streaks of humor lighting up the darkest pictures. It is well to grasp these, to keep up the healthy balance of the mind by weigh ing them against the depressing influences now surrounding us. Strolling through the ward of one of our military hospitals, a man attracted my attention by the genial glow- in his eye, and the peaceful expression of his- lip, among the pale contracted faces around him. I stopped involuntarily. “ You are wounded?” I said, seeing the large box that enclosed his leg. “ Yea, air, pretty well cut up. Lost one arm, you see,” and he pointed to the ban daged stump, “ but the doctors think they can save my leg.” “ What do you do lying here all day ?” I aeked. “ Have you plenty to read ?” “ Well, yes, sir, there’s a plenty of books ; but you see I was hurt in the head, and the doctors don't like me to look steadily at any think long.” “ But,” I cried, astonished, “ how did you contrive to get hit in so many places at once ?” “ Well, it was not exactly all at once. You see we were ordered to kneel and fire, and a shot took me in the knee that was up. It hurt some, but I eased it down till I was on pch a startling nature has just been made | both marrow bones as neat as a parson, and of te lv e years of age cau work it steadily, j pL“ n thf?egim” foot T d T b f ' ^ “ “ f, witnout fatigue or injury to the health. * j long to the sphere of three-volume novels.— , ®*^y*og one s prayers. I won t say, sir. Its strength and Wondinfid Simpliciiii ai Here are the circumstances, the names for i *^od his face grew earnest, “ that 1 didn’t I ie FQKEST a IRVING, MANUFACTURERS and Dealers in Fur niture <and£/offiDS of eveiy des-cription.— Two ’doors north ot Baptist Church. THAYER & HOL'l’ON, MANDIFAOTURERS and Dealers in Sash \Doors «nd Blinds. Job Planing and Matchkig done to order. Near the Blast Furnace. iK n o x Sc L o c k w o o d , PEALER 5 IN m m TIN AND HAEDWAEE. Lead, Copper and Brass taben in ex change for goods. GEORGE W. UTTLE, J P l i y s i c i a n . a n d . S a r g e o n . .Office, opposite of the Post Office. Jl®“ Residence, Mts. Dr, J . D. Norton's construction render it almost impossible to get out of order, and is Ouaranteed by the company to give entire satisfaction. We respectfully invite all those who may desire to supply themselves with a superior article, to caU, and examine this U nrivalled M.vrniNE. But in a more especial manner do we so licit the patronage of .MERCHANT TAILORS, CORSET MAKERS, rOAGII-JlAKERS, SHIRT MAKERS, H O O P -SK IK T .M AKERS, G .VITEB .MAKER.S, DRESS MAKERS, SHOE BINDERS, v e s t A N D PANT.VLOONS M AK E R S . L®\® Religious and Charitable Institutions will be liberally dealt with. P R IC E OF MA CHIXES, COMPLETE: No. 1, or Family Alaehine, ^45 ( ) 0 ; No. 2, Small sized Mann factoring, §60 00; No. 3. laigo. sized ^Manufacturing, S75 00. Cabinets in Every Variety. We want agents for all towns in the Uni ted States where agencies are not already es tablished, to whom a Idieral discount will be given, but we make no consignments. T . J . M c A r tlan r & Co., 4:ly 510 B uoadway , N ew Y ork . EOiRT EDWARD MO'ET & SON THE WOMAN S FRIEND. JO H N S O N ’S F E M A L E P I L L S ! ! Thousands of testioiontals have been given, showing that these p;lls are infallible in correcting, regulating and removing , obstructions ot every nature. j WARRANTED AS A SAFE AND CERTAIN PREVENTATIVE I WITHOUT THE LEAST INJURY TO THE CONSTITUTION, j rriHEBE Pills have been ussd by the Doc- I X turs for many years, both m France and ' America, with unparalleled success in every I case; and he is urged by many thousand la j dies who have used them, to make tae pills ! public for the alleviation of those suffering from any irregularities whatever, as well as to prevent an increase of family where health or circumstances will not permit. Females peculiarly situated, or those supposing them- seb es so. are cautioned against using these pills as they will certainly produce miscar riage, although their m.ldness would prevent injury to health. Full and explicit directions accornpiny each box. Price One Dollar.— Wholesale and retail by W. J, ’Whitehouse & Co., Kingsley's Block, Fort Edward, N. Y. Ladies sending him 81 will receive a box by return mail, postage paid. 'iheut- AND against WORLD 1 FORT EDWARD ! t * T H 0 keep constantly on band a Mi and ''\\V S i r W ' c » p l e t e aasortmeit of Canada Ptee ! out Framing c o m p l e t e liamber, dressed and undressed, tim b ^ of any length and size' required. Doors, Sash, Blinds, pjng Pickets, Liipe, Cement, &c. f LOBE! ~ FLOBE! • J . Ma‘ M ott & S on a l s o k e e p a la r g e a n d ’w e l l s e l e c t e d . s t o c k o f F l o v k , w h i c h th e y • offer a t wholesale and retail, at prices defy in g competi-tion. Merchan.ts, and all Flour Dealers^ in this and surroanding towns, are tpartjcuhrly invited to call and examine our -assortment of F l o u r , before sending orders tto Troy or Albany, as we pledge ourselves to -supply all parties nn as favorable terms (at Heast) a s can be obtained at either of those ■'Cities, or elsc'where. March 28r, 1B62. mr28.:tf P E A O E . DECLARED I THE UN IO N X presery.^ 1 Having become convinced tha,t CASH sYsrri!!* of “ Quick Bales and SmaU Profits',” is better than the old way, of “ Large Profits and ^ n g Credits,” have * come to the conclusion to sell for G ash ob B e a d y P a y O s l y , a n d t a k e t h i s ifaeth o d t o I'inform my old patrons, and the public gen- l erally, that I am thankful for past favors, and solicit a cOntinhance of their patronage on the Ready Pay System. I hav4 just r e c e i v e d a la r g e and w e l l ao- lecteda^ k o f LuMs^h,D oors , S ash ,B i J nds , H A r ii, OkMENT, P a i n t s , Oif,, G l a s s , VABSiBHjPlilcft and O a KC m . I have added tO my former supply, g ! large a6tk«ltment ■ of PiiNTEBs’ and A ktists ’ K atebials , ^ Qf which will be. sold at piuic .. prices. * ! All kinds o f Farm produce taken, a t Oaoh Prices-ipe^qliangB (for/roods. ^ , i Call aixd see before purchasing elsewhere- place, neat the Feq.- dei^ri% K-Fbrt ildward, N. T . for counterfeits, jg®’\ The ingredients com posing these pills are made known to every agent, and they will tell you the pills are per fectly safe, and do all claimed for them. Be sme you get the genuine article, J. T. BMITH, Manufacturer, 8:34 Albany, N . Y. G E O liG E B R O I L A \ ^ and Harness Make!. r p H ANK F U L for past favors, the sub- X scriber still solicits the patronage of the public, and offers all articles in liis line of business, such as H a r n e s s o f e v e r y d e s c r i p t i o n , r i d i n g s a d d l e s , . 3 3 r id .le.s a n d . M a r t i n g a l e s ^ , HOESE BLANKETS, GURRY COMBS, Tmnk$, Yalises, Carpet Bags, etc, and a large assortment of O A R E i A G E W B n n P S , lof the best manufacture, which will be kept constantly on hand. N . B —For good material; • style, work manship. cheapness and durability, I D E F Y COMPETITION. EEPAIEING OF ALL K iPS punctually attended to. By close attention to business, and a desire to ^ve general satisfaction to all, I hope to merit a continuation of the patronage which has been so liberally bestowed upon me- * My place of budiness is located TWO DOORS SOUTH OP BAPTIST .CHURCH. Fort Edward Aug. 2 0 , 1862. Do20:ly the moment I am not at liberty to indicate, j whisper a ‘ God care for me,’ as I knelt in S s i r l s S 5 S \ lish aristocracy regard with an affection at work, when a crashing ball took amounting to veneration. The lady, how- my arm off here above the elboW ; I thought ever, being more continental in her tastes, ! j -^yas out of work for that day, bat one of alter a short residence in the apartment -* 1 . U i ce j propriated to her use, expressed a wish to j beside me with his leg off, and to have a boudoir in the vicinity of her bed room. The noble earl would gladly have complied with her request, but upon examin ation it was found that the rooms, as Borae- thnes in antique buildings, were so awkardly distributed, that by no conceivable plan of re-arrangement could the desired boudoir be fitted in. Thereupon it became necessary to invoke professional assistance, and an emi nent arclii'ect was summoned from London. He examined the house narrowly, and said there seemed to be nothing for it but to build, though at the same time he could not resist the impression that there must be another undiscovered room somewhere in that wing of the, mansion. The noble earl laughed at the idt'a ; the oldest servants and retainers of the family were questioned, and declared that they had never heard a rumor even of its existence. The ordinary mode of tapping etc., was resorted to, but with lut efiect.— Still the architect retained his conviction, and declared himself ready to stake his pro fessional reputation on the result. The earl at last consented to let the wall be bored, and when an opening had been made, not only was the room found but a sight presented itself which almost defeats attempts at description. The apartment was fitted up in the richest and most luxurious style of one hundred and fifty years since.— A quantity of ladies’ apparel lay about the room, jewels were scattered on the dressing- table, and but for the faded aspect which everything wore, the lone chamber might been tenanted half an hour previously. On approaching the bed, the most curious sight of all was seen, and it is that which affords the only clue to the mystery. 'I he couch held the skeleton of a female, and on the floor, underneath the bed, half in and half out, lay another skeleton, tliat of a man, presenting evident traces of violence, and proving that before he expired in that position, he must have received some dread ful injury. The secret connected with this tale of blood has been well kept, for not merely had all tradition of the scene faded away, but even the existence of the room itself was forgotten. The survivors probably walled up the apart ment at the time, and its contents remained hermetically sealed up to the present day, when according to the best calculations, after the lapse of a century and a half, daylight has acc dentally penetrated into this chamber of horrors, which, to the surprise of all con cerned, has been discovered in one of the noblest mansions in the county of — - ------ G ot H is E yr S hut U p . —One Sabbath af ternoon a Sunday School teacher observed two boys playing marbles Uy the roadside.— He stopped, told them, how wicked it was, and succeeded in persuading the worst one to accompany him to school. The lad was decidedly a fast youth of about eight years. In the class, among other things, the teacher told him “ God made this beautiful world, and all that is in i t ; we must thank him for the good things we enjoy; He gives us our food and our clothes.” “ Does He give me myelothes, too ?” broke in the lad. “ Y e s ; He gives ua everything.” “ Now, that’s where you got your i ye shut up; for mam made these trousers out of dad's old ones.” ----------- 11 Ipi»i ----- D ruxkeness C ubed px I tself .— A physi cian at one of the Paris hospitals has ju-t cured a case of delirium tremenS brought on by excessive drinking, by the singular remedy of subjecting the patient to the constant in fluence of the vapor of spirits. The plan is not new, having been long used in Sweden to radically cure drunkenness. The persons addicted to drink are shut up in a cell, and all the food supplied them is impregnated with brandy. At the end of four or five days they become completely disgusted with the taste and smell, and they come out radically cured. The slightest'smell of spirits at last makes them shudder. he offered to load and hold the musket up if I’d aim and pull the trigger.* So I pegged away at the rebels till a rascally fellow cut me in the head, then I went down ; but I held out as long as I could, like the man with the umbrella.” His eyes danced at the last sentence in a very tempting way to a lover o fa good story, “ What man with an umbrella ?” I asked. “ Well, it was when we fir-'t went out, sir, down on the Baltimore picnic, as they call it now. though there was little thought of picnics or any other pleasure when we started from home. It ain’t exactly fair to m ^ e fan of a fellow and then call his name, so I ’ll say his was Smith—it’s a good sort ofa name and has served men before when they wished to hide their right one. Smith had a dainty way with him that was all his own. He handled his musket as if it was made of spun glass, and he was afraid of breaking it, and he ground arms as if the cobble stones were tender feet with violently inflamed corns.— However, we got along with him pretty well till starting time. Then Smith was discover ed to have a long slim bundle done up in a newspaper. In vain the corporal took notice of it and ordered it thrown away every time he passed. Smith concealed it, and we were off. Some of the men noticed that Smith walked rather peculiarly, but many of the men were too full of bad liquor, and this stiffness in Smith's gait passed unnoticed.— It was not till we reached the cars that it was discovered that Smith could not sit down. A favorable moment occurring (it was quite dusk,) I saw him draw forth from the leg of his trowsers the long slim bundle, and tie it fast to his musket. “ Soon after our arrival in Baltimore, we were ordered out for dress parade, and knew ^ 0 were to march through the streets to awe Re natives by a sight of our military gran deur. Smith was radiant. He had a white sliirt with a bosom and a dickey, his hair smelt of pomade, and his face of scented foap. His white gloves were of fine kid, and tjis boots of patent leather. The day was cloudy, and just as we drew up in line, a fine drizzling rain began to fall. Suddenly in the centre of the line, q tine, silk umbrella went up, over Smith's head- “ P ut down that umbrella?” growled th,e corporal. “ No answer from Smith. “ Down with that umbrella,” cried the or derly sergeant. “ N o answer still. “ Who the deuce is that,” cried the cap tain, “ down with that umbrella,” “ Excuse me, captain,” said Smith, “ b u tit will ruin my clothes to get them wet.” “ P u t down that umbrella,” thundered the major. “ But, captain,” 'said Smith, “ these ain't Government clothes, they are a suit I bought myself, nf the finest cloth. I , can’t ivet them.” “ By this time we were all in a perfect roar of laughter, Peal after peal were heard all along the line, and the colonel rode up.— In a mill ate he saw hhe fun. Put down that umbrella 1” he shouted. “ I won’t,” said Smiih, getting desperate. *The* whole sketch is truh in incident, bat this is a fact provQid by. witnesses. “ W h a t! open insubordination,” cried the colonel, biting his lip to keep from a roar.— “ Corporal, put that man in the guard-house. “ Sir, they walked him off, umbrella and all, and the next day he was callei^ up be fore his company. Captain G. threatened him pretty hard, but he vowed he would not walk out in the rain in good clothes without an umbrella, and finally he was broken and sent home, because he defied all rules and regulations for the sake of the cherished um brella. I guess it was as well. I’m afraid some of the lif e we’ve led since would have gone hard with him.” “ You have seen hard service ?” I asked. “ Pretty fair, sir. We were in Richmond since Fair Qaks, and they treated us \rough there.” Rough 1 My blood chilled at the stories ho told me with his well opened blue eyes looking frankly into mine, and his handsome mouth smiling in all his pain. “ Are you sorry you ’listed ?” I asked after the pause that follows an interesting recital. “ Sorry!” The blue eyes fairly blazed. “I went for this,” and he struck his stump. “ and if my country wants the wreck that is left. I ’ll go again. While God spares my reason, all that is left is for the good cause.” ---------------a * llan ------------ A jiputation of a L ady ’ s L eg .—S ingular S tory . — The editor of the London Lancet, vouches for the truth of the* following state ment :— Late one evening a person came into our office and ask-id to see the editor of the Lan cet. On being introduced to our sanctum, he placed a bundle upon the table, from which he proceeded to extract a very fair and symmetrical lower extremity, which had evidently belonged to a woman. “ There !” said he, “ is there anything the matter with that leg? Did you ever see handsomer ?”— On having the meaning of these interroga tories put before us, we found it was the leg of the wife of our evening visitor. He had been accustomed to admire the lady’s leg and foot, of the perfection of which she was, it appears, fully conscious. A few days before he had excited her anger, and they had quar reled violently, upon which she left the house, declaring she would be revenged on him, and that he should never see the objects of his admiration again. The next thing he heard of her was that she was a patient in— Hospital, and had had her leg amputated.— She had declared to the surgeons that she suffered intolerable pain in the knee, and begged to have the limb removed—a petition the surgeons complied with, and thus be came the instrument of her absurd and self- torturing revenge upon her husband. ----------- m\' ---------- S ingular C ustom . —A t Munich there pre vails a singular custom. Every child found begging in the streets is arrested and carried to a charitable establishment. The moment he enters the hospital, and before he is cleaned and gets the new clothes intended for him, his portrait is painted in his ragged dress, and precisely as he was found begging. When his education is finished in the hospi tal, the portrait is given to him, and he promises by an oath to keep it all his life, in order that he may be reminded o f the abject condition from which he had been rescued, and of the obligations he owes to the institu tion which saved him from misery and gave him the means by which he was enabled to avoid it in future. ---------- ■■ I * I ----------- W here the F ashions C ome F rom .— The Horae Journal says :— The latest fashion among the lorettes of Paris is the long train dress worn without hoops! A loi'retie is unlicensed Mcentious woman in the French capital—a woman whose originality of style of costume has all the audacity of genius, and hence is univer sally copied throughout the fashionable world. It was a lo7'eUe who brought crino line into use this time, and it would not be at all singular if a lorretLe should be the means of expelling from fashion’s reahn the expansive skirt her darling spirit s a suecesB- lully introduced. Time will show. ------------ I— I ■ — -------------- S eeing it out .— Two unsophisticated country lasses on visiting one of our city theatres, great on the ballet, legs and things and so forth, had quite a time over it. When the short-skirted, gossamer clan nymphs made their appearance on the stage, they became restless and fidgetty. “ 6h, Annie P exclaim ed ohe,sotio voce. “ Well, Mary?” ' “ It ain’t nice—I don’t like it.” “ Hush ?” “ I don’t care, it ain’t nice, and I wonder aunt brought us to such a place.” “ Hush, Mary, the folks will laugh a t you. After one or two more flings and a pirouette, the blushing Miss smd, “ Oh, Annie, let’s go—it ain’t nice and I don’t feel comfortable.” “ Do htish, Mary,” replied the sister, whose OWQ face was scajieL though it wore an air of determi nation ; ‘‘ it’s the font time I was ever at a theatre, and 1 suppose it will be the last, so I am just going to stay it out, if they dance every off their backs !’’■ ---- - ------ ,«? % ^ FBSCociDua Yours,- t -A hoyas^ed his mother what “ Blood relations” meant-— She esplained-io hita that it Signified near relatiyos, etc. After thinking a he said, '• Then mother, you must bq the blood iest .relation I ’ve got.\ T lie Essxpress. ‘ A flippant writer in St. JameB' Magazine, not having the fear of Napoleon H i. before him, thus describes the Empress Eugenie, as she appears after her morning ‘bath :__ A magnificent clock has just strack'twelve. Suddenly the folding doors are thrown open, and we are able -to take an -indiscreet glance at the other room, and the olose Miite car- tains draped arqnnd the Empress's Bed. A lady in waiting appears in the doorway, and then steps on one side with deep reverence. Directly after the fairy-iike form of the Em press Eugenie is visible, as she Walks, with a light, elastic step into her boudoir. She pro ceeds to the sofa, and sinks into the soft cushions. She then dismisses her waiting- woman by a genBe nod; the doors close again noiselessly, and her Majesty is alone. She leans back on the enshions as if fatigued by the bath which she has just taken, so that her light muslin dreaS, with Us countless lace- edged flounces, is gently raised, and exposes her dainty feet, in the white silk stockings and shoes, as high as the ankle. She seems to have been longing for the quiet and soli tude of this room, for she has thrown back her beautiful head, surrounded with the pale golden hair, and appears to be in a reverie. The soft, azure eye is only half visible be neath the inimitable eyelid, and her entire appearance indicates exhaustion and fatigue. The lines of the face are so fine, so noble, and run into each other so harmoniously, that it seems as if a sculptor had incarnated his ideal. But the color of the cheeks is nn longer that of youth. The forehead, broad and slightly arched, displays those fine ripple- marks which the woman of thirty fears, and the woman of thirty-six—for so old is the Empress—endures with a sigh. -The whole expression of this wax-like countenance, with its enchanting blending of the Moorish and Germanic types, displays somewhat of south ern langor; but if she ware to smile, if words were to pass those exquisitely carved lips, the coldness of this face would melt away j the eyes would open to their full size, and sparkle like stars in a tropical h ^ v e n ; and beauty would reappear, as if by enchantment on these pale cheeks. ------------------------------ Hill— I > I — F idelity op a . D og on the B attle -F ield . —On the Monday after the contest, as Hon. John Oovode, in company with a number of officers, was passing over the battle-field beyond Fredericksburgh, their attention was called to a small dog lying by a corpse. Mr. Oovode halted a few minutes to see if life was .extinct. Raising the coat from the man’s face, he found him dead. The dog looking wistfully up, ran to the dead man's face and kissed his silent lips. Such devotion in a small dog was so singular that Mr. Go- vode examined some papers upon the body, and found it to be that of W. H. Brown, Co... 0. 71st Pennsylvania. The dog was shivering with cold, but re- - fused to leave his master’s body, and as the coat was thrown over his face again he seem ed very uneasy, and tried to get under it to the man’s face. He had, it seems, followed the regiment into battle, and stuck to his master, and when he fell remained with him, refusing to leave him or to eat anything. As the party returned an ambulance Was carry ing the corpse to a little grove of trees for interment, and the little dog following, the- only mourner at the funeral, as the hero’s- eomrades had been called, to some other- point. ■ \ I— ■ » ' Miss Fantaddling says the first time she locked arms with a young man, she felt like Hop© leaning on her anchor. Poetic young; woman that. P rentice A gain . —^Prentice, after quoting- John L.cke, that a blind man took the idea, of scarlet from the sound of a trumpet, says, that a hoop skirt hanging out of a shop door,, always reminds him of the peal of a belle I I t is no misfortune for a Miss to lose her- GooD name, when a bachelor can give her a. better one. A MANUFACTURER of thread, having ftcci- dentally cut his nose, took one of his gummed spool labels to close the cut. Qa going home he wandered, why every on® laughed at him. Looking in the ghiss h e read or th/s. label that his npse wae “ warranted long 1” I t is uisderstocid that a society ig about being formed, the main feator® of which is to adopt measnreg to proenre a aobsiitut® for Qotton shirts. The ymmg gehUamaQ eaga- ged in this have imder oonsideratioa the adoption of mngle-breaated vasts, to be but toned up to the neck. M embers of the Gabinet are ifooni to marry, Bay the \WaaMagton gOMipe, ind widows of former distinguished Senators are to be the biushing brides, “ H usbanp , if aft hooest fo %>d’i ftObleat work, whft is m w o u p il”—, “ dear.” . . D r . Prescott and his wife ealebraled golden wedding r ^ n t l y in*Farmihgfoh, Ijfou Among the preMQtii WM A box hfiMled “ Homoepothic piUij\ which WM fofthd to full o f gold dcdlaif. • I I A m
