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POETRY.
[From Chamber's Journal.]
Watting.
I have waited while primroses faded ;
I have waitod till violets are dead, *
Till the thickening buds on the chesnut bough*
Grew leafy nnd full overhead.
. Time's gray baa passed over my tresses,
And lines on my temples aro sown;
I have waited till harrest in gathered,
And the whito summer clover is mown.
I have waited long under the elm tree,
Till the green of the beeches grow brown;
I have waited while leaves of the lindens
In autumn catntf fluttering down.
I have waited through light and through darkness,
I have waited through sunshine and rain;
I am waiting for one who may never
Come back from the rough sea again.
SELECTED STORY.
[From the Haiti? oro Episcopal Methodist.]
BROTHER HENRY S
Christmas Story.
It was Christmas Kvc. You would have
known it by tho fresh odor of the evergreens
and the air of pleusartt mystery and expecta
tion which surrounded you as soon as you en
tered the house. The ruddy glow of the bright
fire in the parlor gleamed on the happy group
which encircled it, and glanced off to light up
fitfully the wreathes and festoons of Christ mas
greens, bright with scarlet berries, which adorn
ed the walla.
The young people had just completed thoir
work of decoration, nnd had gathered around
the fire for a pleasant Christmas talk in the
chocrful glow. Katie, the youngest aud pet,
nestled, of course, in brother Henry's anus,
and the four boys Lad chosen what they con
sidered splendid places ; two on the arms of his
chair, and tho others on the rug at sister Lil
Ue's feet, where thoir faces glowed in the heat
as well as the light of the fire. A merry talk
thoy were having", frith many wondcrings what
Kriss Kinglc would bring to-night, nnd many
speculations from tho younger ones how he
would be able to accomplish tho difficult feat of
climbing the roof with his reindeer steeds in
; such slippery weather. "It will be a trlnriA??
1 QbriBtma* rz~ {]t.a Henry wis come j
I home," said Fred, "I tell you what boys," con
tinued he, with a very wise shake of his head,
"you don't remember the lots of fun he used to
make, as I do." Brother Henry Biuiled nnd
sister Lillie slipped her hand lovingly iuto his
as she enforced Fred's words, but the fire-light
was not bright enough to show two happy little
tears, which she smiled away where they stood,
for it would never have done to let them fall
on ChriBttuas Evo; while the children, includ
ing little Katie, all indignantly exclaimed at
Fred' s supposing they did not remember before
brother Henry went away, though there had
only been three Christmnsscs between. An
-???? talk commenced then about those various
ChrTstmas days, trotti* fading them
on by interesting questions, or funny speeches,
till Herbert said : "Don't you remember, Fred,
those birds wo found almost frozen to death in
the snow on Christmas day two years ago ?"
"Yes, indeed, Henry, you don't know how mis
erable they looked, they couldn't even hop
about j and mother said we might bring them
into the stable and feed thorn till spring."
"And I had a birdie, too, brother Harry,"
cried Kutio. "Yes," said Fred, with a patron
izing look towards little Kate, "there wus ono
so badly frozen that it was always ]ume, and
wo let Katie keep that in a basket for a pet,
but it died long before spring came."
"Two yoars ago," said bruthur Henry, with
a graver look then ho had yet had, "why, I
found a poor little birdio almost frozen in the
snow that very Christmas Eve." "You did,"
Oh! brother, how funny, "tell us about it,
whore was it?" cried tho children, for they
saw from their brother's fooo that ii wa? not
just some poor little robin he hud picked up in
tho snow. Sister Lillie looked up with a quick
smile. She had heard the talc boforo, but she
joined tho children in bogging for it now. "It
is such a nice Christmas story, Harry ; do tell j
thorn." "Very well, then, youngsters," said,
ho, "on condition you don't interrupt mo more
than five times in a sentence, and then not
moro than five shall spoak at onco." The
childron all laughingly, agreed, and settled
themselves as cosily as possible in their warm
nestling places, \ brothor Honry bogan ;
"it was Chris?r Evo, as I havo told you,
in Germany
"Oh, I'm glad it was in Germany," oricd
Charloy, "Christmas is so nice thero !"
"Hush! Charloy, oau't you keep quiot?"
said Herbert and Fred, both at once, with an
admonitory push ; whilo Katie.fenm her porch
on brothor Henry's knee set up ?Mittle, watn
ing hush, and laid a little finger on her red
lips.
Br?then Henry Inughcd, nnd said ho didn't
mean to condemn them to total silence, but
only to secure himself n hearing, and then con
tinued his story:
"It was Christmas Eve, In Wittcraborg, and
a stormy night it was; but from the window of
my dreary room in tho inn, tho snow aa it
whirled silently along the streets shaping out
tho forms of the queer old gable roofs, and
covering tho rough streets with its beautiful
white folds looked so much more like Christ
mas and even comfort, than ray great barren
room, with its tall, odd stove, its stone floor,
and the one dim lamp, that I turned from the
window, wrapped myself up as well as I could,
and started out for a walk. . I felt lonely
enough for awhile, I can tell you; a stranger
always must on such a night, when every one
else has n homo and a fireside to go to, and he
can only iancy what his looks like far' across
the ocean. I tell you I didn't think it a fine
thing,.just then, to be in Germany on Christ
mas Eve, as Charley imagines. Some of the
streets looked bright enough with their store
windows all a glow with Christmas lights and
brilliant with toys, and in many of them
Christmas trees all lighted up, and figures of
Santa-Claus, with his pack on his back, filled
with all manner of playthings, peeping out
from amidst the branches of pine and holly.
Inside the shops, too, the groups of men, with
their pipes in their mouths, looked jolly and
comfortable enough in tho warmth nnd the
blaze.
There woro plenty of pcoplo in the streets
but they all seemed to me to have n busy im
portant hiok, and most of them held such
tempting queer-shaped parcels in their bauds
that they only set me thiukiifg of the times
you were all having nt home, trying to guess
from the odd packages that were handed iu
what you wcro to seo next day. There were
woman in tho streets, too, notwithstanding the
snow, comfortable looking faces, hurrying along
to their humble homes, where nevertheless,
thero was something of Christmas ; most of
them curried baskets on thoir arms from which
peeped forth some-remembrance of Christmas
fare, while their clumsy wooden shoes left
broad tracks in the new fallen snow. From
some of the windows as I passed I could al
ready see the lights of t'ie Christmas trees; I
knew them by a silvery radiance thoy shed
out upon the snow; often, too, I heard the
sound of music and the hymns which the G?r
u.::n people arc so fond of singing on Cbritmas
Eve. I can toll you^ yOung people, it was
dreary enough to be waudcriug about outside,
going nowhere, and having nothing at all to do
with all the merriment and expectation. No
thing pleasant to think about cither; but just
to picture to myself what each and ovcry one
was duing around the Christmas fire at home,
the good house mother, as tho Germans say, in
the midst, nnd sister Lillie and all the little
ones, and wonder it every tiling was just the
same as it was the last'Christmas I was home,
until after awhile 1 nearly forgot these strange
people in their selfish Christinas happiucss, and
came back with a start to find myself almost
stumbling over a dark bundle, which the snow
drift had half covered."
"Oh! 1 know, I know," cried Katie, "it was
the Httie pirdio; did you take it right up and
warm it?"
"I believe I called it a birdie, but it was
really a little girl, not older than Charlie,
crouched down besido the stops of a house,
quite benumbed with cold and misery. 1 tried
torouse her, and find out where her home was.
but the poor little thing was too cold and stiff
to speak, and only gazed at me with her pitiful,
frightened eyes, while she grasped in her little
stiftend hands some branches of evergreens
and a few red berries, which she must have
boon tryiug to seil. I tell you what, children,
it was a sad sight as you cuuld well sec : this
poor, homeless, friendless little one out in the
storm and cold, and the light of the Christmas
candles fulling on her whore she lay in the
puro snow from the bright windows abovo. I
was just enough of a wandoror myself that
night to tool moro thaw usually for this little
forsakon ono."
"What did yom do brother?" aald Willie,
whose earnest, quiet oyos had boon fixed upon
Ilonry with breathless attention : "not loavo
. her thero in tho snow ?"
?'Of oourse not, Willie," said Fred ; "you
children ask auch silly questions." And Mas
I ter Fred, with his fourteen years of expo
rienco, looked quite superior.
"Well, but you know,, mother wnpn't thoro
to take hor homo to; It wasu't like finding the
little girl right at our door, whoro wo could
bring her in and warm hor."
"Toll us what you did, brothor," said Char
loy.
"Did you tako oaro of it liko I did my poor
little lame birdie, brother Harry ?" said Katie,
with ono arm tight round brother Howry's
neck, and her face up closo to his.
"No, Willie is right . It wasn't as if I could
bring her right in here to be <akcn oarc of, but
I did the next heat thing I could. I trusted
to the Christmas fires having wanned all hearts
that night, and I lost no timo in knocking at
the door of the comfortable house near which I
stood, and from which I could heat' tho sound
of children's voices.
It was not long before the tidy, brisk, aar
vast girl, io her nice cap and white apron, had
opened the door, and, ai my request, announced
her master. Ho came out, immediately follow
ed by a kind, motherly-looking lady, in whose
face I saw, at once, the expression of compas
sion and anxiety, which recalled the dear mo
ther in my far-off home, so I knew that the
little ono had found kind friends. Very soon
we had raised tho poor child and carried her
into the house, still clasping the clusters of
berries, and a little green branch, which con
trasted Badly with her cold, pinched face, her
littlo red hands, and the snow whitened hair.
Tho mother's kind hands were soon busy
caring for tho poor perished child; and she
and a gentle, sweet-looking girl who was so
lik'c our sister Lillie, in bcr.quiet ways, that I
knew her at once for the eldest sister of the
house, tried everything, their loving care could
suggest to restore tho little frozen limbs to
warmth and motion.
Vi bile the kind ladies were busy with the
child, the father led me down again insisting
that I should bo their guest for the rest of the
evening; a request I was not unwilling to
yeild to, for after the warmth aud comforts of
this home, a felt still more the dreariness of my
inn. I forgot to tell you that I hnd recog
nized the gentloman at once as a merchant
with whom I had formed a business acquain
tance a few days before, and to whom, there
fore, I was not quite a stranger.
1 felt such a thrill of comfort and homo-like
enjoyment when the half-opened door showed
the glowing cheerfulness of the parlor, and the
expectant circle within, that I made very little
objection to his kind hospitality. Indeed the
thought of being turned adriit again on the
chill, dreary night made me shiver. I felt by
the contrast almost as homeless as the poor
child we had rescued from its coverlet of
snow.
^So you had Christmas after all, brother
Henry?" said Charley.
'?Yes. that I had ; and one not soon to be
forgotten, cither; for it was the cause of my
finding the best friends 1 ever had out of my
own home.
A little smile that had rather a mischievous
twiuklc in it, lingered about sister Lillic's
mouth ! tuoi'"!l, like a wise sister gjjj JiJ lwl
say anything teasing; nevertheless if it had
not been for tho glow of tho tiro which
made everything so very red, tho children
might have noticed a rather heightened color
in the face brother Henry almost hid behind
Katie's golden curia.
(7t> be Continued.')
VARIOUS.
How Gal inn t Men Meet.
The correspondent in this city who furnish
es the New York Tribune with such a purely
fictitious picturo of the social interchanges of
General Hancock with our citizens, and espo
tially with prominent ex-Kebels, will doubtless
and a new subject for his pen in an incident
which occurred during the holidays. We ask
no thanks for supplying this very veracious
writer with the facts of this incident. They
are as follows:
A few days ago Goncrnl James Longstreet
called at the residence of General Hancock and
sent iu his card. General Hancock was then
engaged with some friends, ladies and gentle
men. He immediately left tbcm to receive his
tdd army friend, moro recently his foe, but now
again his friend, and after a warm greeting,
iusistod upon conducting General Longstreet
into the parlor and introducing him to tho
company there assembled. The stylo of tho
introduction was eo peculiar that wo reproduce
it for the special benefit of tho malignant Itadi
cnln, 38 a full justification for thoir suspicions
of tienerai Hancock's loyalty.
"Ladies aud gentlemen," said General Han
cock, "allow mo to introduce to you a gallant
oentlcman, to whom I am indebted for an un
graceful limp, and whom I had tho misfortune
to wing in the same combat."
Wo must add that, although tho eompany
was composed exclusively of ladies and gentlo
man whoso sympathies wore on tho Union side
in tho luto war, tho incident oxcited a profound
and most ploasurablo sonsotion, and tho two
distinguished soldiers wero regarded with in
creased admiration and rospoot.?N. O. Times.
Tho records of tho Coroner's offioe in Now
York for tho year juBt past show that thore
were forty-two homicides and oighty-two sui
cides. Of the persons included iu tho list of
homicides thirty-two wcro mnlos and ten wero
females; and of thoso included in tho list of
suicides sixty-two were males and twenty fo
malcs.
Notice to Delegates elect (f)
Poor as our people nrc they still hare a re
gard for tho "eternal fitness of things." Prom
a fund subscribed by gentlemen of the District,
we are prepared to furnish to each delegate
elect to the Monagerie, one bar turpentine soap,
one coarse towel and one bottle Phalon's Night
Blooming Cereua. The members elect from
this District are requested to avail themselves
of this donation. Any member smelling
stronger than Lumberger cheeso, will be enti
tled to two rations, but two witnesses who can
take tho "iron clad" oath, will be required to
substantiate the faot.
P. 8.?The waters of Catfish, although not
as classic as those of Jordan, are recommended
to be used in connection with the turpentine
soap and towel mentioned above, for nine suc
cessive days before .their departure. On thq
tenth day a liberal use of sand paper and brok
en glass is recommended before the application
of Phalon's perfume.
P.S. extra. Heat of debate and perspira
tion should bo Btudiously avoided, as all the
Phalon's in h?1 couldn't counteract the re
sult of either.?Marion Star.
Luther's Solaces.?Luther, when study
ing, always had his dog lying at his feet; a
dog he had brought from Wartburg, and of
which he was very fond. An. ivory crucifix
stood at the table before him. He worked at
his desk for days together, without going out;
but when fatigued, and the ideas began to
stagnate, he took his guitar with him to the
porch, and thero executed some musical fantasy
?for he was a skillful musician?when the ideas
would fly upon him as fresh flowers after Bum
mer's rain. Mimic was his invariable solace at
such times. Indeed, Luther did not hesitate to
say that, after theology, music was the first of
arts. Music, said he, is the art of the prophets;
it is the only other "art which, like theology, can
calm the agitation of the soul, and put the
devil to flight. Next to music, if not before
it, Luther loved children and flowers. The
great, gnarled man had a heart as tender as a
woman's.
Ten little obscure weekly Radical papers in
Alabama were paid $125 each per week, for
four successive weeks, by the Alabama Black
and Tan Convention, for publishing the so
cnllcd Constitution. The Georgia Convention,
on the other hand, couldn't p;iy its board bills.
The latest account from Atlanta states that
uilCCO ?f the negro delegates to Popy'g Con
vention, unable to got away, have gone to work
at tho new barracks at 81.00 per day, while
throe or four others have hired themselves to
various boarding-houses as waiters and boot
blacks. They will likely he on hand to take
another chance at the $9 per day.
A Southern Soldier in Distress.?We
arc requested to make public the fact that Wm.
Thouianon, a Confederate soldier from Green
ville District in our State, is still at Klmira,
New York, where the closo or the war found
him a prisoner. This unfortunate young man
has lost an arm and a leg. For want of funds,
we suppose, he b unable to return to the South.
He is, bo wtf aro informed, of tho Rev.
Wm. Thomason, now or formerly ot Green
villo District. IIo is very anxious to hear
from or of his father. All papers copying this
notice will be doing a favor to a Southern sol
dier in distress.
It is related that General Sheridan, since
his dethronement and while on his popularity
seeking tour West, visited a female seminary
in which tberc were some hundred white young
ladies, all of whom he graciously kissed. On
the following day he visited a negro school in
tho same place, but?Oh s If a me ! Oh shin
bouc8l?he never kissed a thing! thus making
a most disgraceful discrimination on account
of "nice, color nnd previous condition."
HUMOROUS.
Domestic cannibals?Backbiters.
Dying prayer of a dog?guide my bark.
Of what trade is tho sun ??a tanner.
A new way to pay old debts?Settlo them.
Hope?The wag of Pluto's tail when waiting
for his bone.
The worst organ grinder?a hollow tooth
that plays the deuce.
Why is lovo like a canal boat ??Because it
is an internal transport.
What class of women are most apt to give
tono to society ??The belles.
Why to tho letter D liko a squalliug ohtld?
?Bocauso it makes nm mad.
Tho young lady who took tho gentleman's
fanoy has rutnrned? i* with, thanks*
"Matchless misery" has boon defined to be
to have a oigar and nothing to light it with.
It is said that the "census embraces seven
teen million women." Who wouldn't be con
sus ?
A Sable 5Htolo5piF*3r
i The correspondent of on?;of Um <Jf0&hera
uewapapers, in a letter published du ring tho
war, thus humorously describes hisV interview
with a straggler from a negro regiment of the
Federal army, with, whom he waarerooea&ating
for having ahown the white fefctUf OB fettle :
"Were you in the fight Tuiirrf/nja li rr>
"Had n little taste of itpaaVlow: .,.Mef8
"Stood your ground, did-yenFV'- Uada
'.'No, aa, I runs Fol. . *rib?ii oifi %<A
"Run at the first fire, did you ?'' bylui'J
"Yea, aa, and wquld have run soona had I
knoad it war coming." ..'..- ii liiiaooO w?i?
"Why, that wasn't very creditable io your
courage." ? ?? -.Jv-.; i. r) ?n-..jhk?
MjDat isn't in my lino, ?a?cookin'? mypro
feshunl" . v biam ruis
"Well, but have you no regard for.your>rep
utation ?" f bus
"Reputation's nofio by the side of,MTq.'I
"Do yon consider your life worth more than
other people's!" vj'jujq iiorfl rri tnodlo
"It's worth more to me, ?a:" . .'nmPotm
Then you must value it very highly."' -
"Yes, sa, I doss, more '.dan. all dia .world?
more dan'a: million ob d?Ha3, ea; for what
would be wutb to a man wid the brcf out of
him? Self prcserbaslmn^am the fir?t law wid
me." ry: '.<, t i'.\-f(rv\ s?\&$
"Bat why abound you act upon a different
rulo from other men ?" i. v.uit-iiiY 1B4
"Because different, men set different values
upon dar lives? mino is not in the market."
"But if you lost it, von would have the sat
isfaction of knowing tlint you died: for your
country." .. \, >\vA d Ilc^Ca
"What satisfaction would dat lie (Oi flafMg&en -
de power of feelin' was gene?" lud ?dT
"Then patriotism eddy honor are nothing to
you?":. ' ? !>:>< i / *?? ? ? tlT
"Nuffin whatever, ?o.; I iegari? them: aa
among de vanities-1"* \ ) .<>{<? o4 f>?
If our soldiers were like you, tapftpffsimight
have broken up the government without .re
aiataaee." n itJ%
"Yes, aa, dar would have been no Selp for it.
I wouldn't put my head in de scale 'gainst aw
gobernmcnt dat eber existed ; for no 3 gpb.cm- -
rocnt could replace de Loss to mo,',' .> ,
?v ? . i ? tum . -!;?-n vilt-nt
'?Do you think any of your company would
have missed you if you had, jjcop ^ifled^1^,
"May be net, sa; a dead .whito man .ain't
much to deso sogera, let lonp a dead nigga.
Bnt I'd a miss myself, and dat was de pint wid
T -I r. T-Mnr.uotq
me- .-J.f.-.fefcp
It is safo to say that the duskycorpse of that
African will never darkenthe ^$elotajf^ra
age.?7Vte Gray Jacket*. . A -vUh
'l?rSfflftT"^ ''f l-.fi? ; hor,
Sensible to the Last? . j.*im
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It has long been observed by medical'witters
that death is frequently preceded by inanity,
a fact which has occasioned the remark that it
was not astonishing, for everybody knew that
when folks get madder they wereantrat to 3ic.
This reminds us of a ense which occurred
many years ago in tho Philadelphia court
where a pretty young widow wns in dahgeT^of
losing two-thirds of her husband's estate?his
relatives grounding their claim un the alleged
insanity of the defnnct. It may bu as well to
prcrr.be that the presiding judge w-xs not only
convivial bat also very gallant.
"What were your husband's last words fc" in
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quired the attorney. ..
The pretty young widow blushed and look
ing down replied, "I'd rather not tell."
"But indeed, you must, ma'am. Your claim
may be.decided by it." .
Still blushing, the widow declined toy tell.
At last a direct appeal from tho bench elicited
the information. 'i
"He said, 'Kiss me Polly, and open that oth
er bottle of champagne.' "
We know not whether it was admiration for
the deceased husband or the living wife that in
spired the judge at this instant, bnt ho at onco
cried with all the entusinsm of conviction,
"Sensible to the last?Blackstono 1"
Mill
A Few Hard Tin no 3.?Experience and
observation have taught men that it is-?
Hard to quit chewing tobaoco. .. ,. j,.,,
Hard to keep from eating too much.
Hard to drink liquor and not be intemper
ate.
Hard to pay our debts. 7 odJ itioil n -j
Hard to resist temptation. ( , ,, . ,[, nfy saril
Hard to bclicvo a man you know to bo a
l'ar* ' ; ?- vi n. i?u!-??.n
Hard to turn the othor cheek when wo any
?truck- . ,< ... ...
Hard to borrow money from friend* when1
wo need it. j i I v.- I.
Hard to love o*r onemiea. fd iiaaaJ
Economy was exemplified in tho ease of
Indiana tman who had occasion to place, mar
bin, slabs for counters in his store, and bad
them made in tho form of gravestones wiUi t,ho
names and epitahs of his family inscribed on
the under side