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DERBY TO LEE. I [The following lines wee written bv the late Karl of Derby )n n (Iy-lenfof a copy of lii^ translation of the " llia<l," presented by him to Den. R. E. Lee. They are it touching evidence of sympathy and appreciation on the part of the scholarly nobleman, who was aptly styled "the Rupert of debate." The Ruperts of the nineteenth century were, in spirit at least, ranged on the side of the .South:] The grave old Hard, who never dies, Receive hint in our native tongue ; I send thee, but with weepiug eyes, The story that he sung. Thy Troy has fallen?thy dear land Is marred beneath the spoiler's heel; I cannot trust my trembling hand To write the grief I feel. Oli, home of tears! But let her bear This blazon to the end of tiuie; No nation rose so white and fair, None leli so pure of crime. The widow's moan, the orphan's wail. Are round thee: but in truth be strong; Eternnl right, tlisugh nil things fail, Can never be made wrong. An angel's heart, an angel's mouth, (A'ut How<r'$) could alone lor me. Hymn forth the great Confederate South, viroiiiifi first?then Lee. * * e MISS MELTON'S CODICIL Miss Rebecca Melton, a valetudinarian of sixty, lay dying at her house in town. She had heid so tenacious a grip upon life that it was difficult for the two \oung people to realize the end was so i ear. Tln se two young people were ! Geiald Melton, her nephew, ai.d Miss ' Amy Williams, her companion and I nurse. Geiald had seen the young woman every day for the three \cara she had lived with his aunt, but i ever until that moment had bestowed n serious thought upon her. He did not even know the color if her eyes, till his auut gasped out a sentence that caused him to 1< ok at her attentively. Then lie fouud tin in < shining luminously in the sombre gh otn ' of the sick-chamber. "If you expect to pay for tbat horse 1 for Emily Thoipe to ride wi:h the mo- | ncy you ?. t tnv dtalh. 'said the dying woman, "you're mistaken." "You don't uuderstui.d " begao 1 Gerald. It was an iafamous transaction," j sn:d the old Icily. "1 found tut euough ' about it to put a codicil to my will, j 1 ' 1-1* ? ?? * r\ 4 mi* \\ II. ^ I vc Hit IUI) | Villi? IV iiii'Jis " It was tlic-n that Gerald locked at Ao.j; hut his aunt suddenly wretched out her hands to him pleadingly; and j finding; a ^ray pallor spreading uvtT l.or f'uca. he knelt down by I or bedside, and J took her cold withered hand in hi.* > own. "If the horse had been for any one but that Kmiiy Thorpefaltered the! old lady Oh, aunt," said (jerald, "If you'd let UK* explain " 4 1 would if 1 had time", the said, "but 1 must die now." In ten ininut-'S it was all ov? r. and GicruN went out < f the house with a ^rcat ache in his heart. lie was very i sorry for his aunt; she had been .kind to bin)?too kmd, for she had reared him for the useh bs life of a drone, win n now it appeared thai he must work for his living like all the rest of the bees 1 It had hi-hcrto been something of a b<>rc to hiui merely to spend money, and th- fact bfoan to daw ti unpleasantly upon his mind to earn it must ho infinitely more wearisome. Walking aimlessly on, his feet took mechanically a familiar direction, and he found himself pausing befoic a fine house in a fashionable part of the city, ' from whence shambled a somewhat beut and awkward figure, that presently disappeared iu a brougham before the door. ! (it-raid recognized the man as Mr lludger, the millionaire, and invduntarily contrasted his own condition wi ll that of the fortunate ghop-dcalcr. lie was howeur, s-? ahsoibcd with the direful news lie had io tell i.n.ily, that bcforc she cauic into the parlor lie l ad forgotten Madder's existence. It was singular that her remarkable beauty and brilliant toil* t did not appall (it-laid at (hiit moment?that (tie fact of his no lunger being able to "nice thai lovely haul with icfittiug gems did not prevent him Irum seizin" it in both his own and ki-sin^ it rapturously. For that enclmuiiiig in iment he was allowed to luiget the gloomy ehamher where his aunt lay di-ad. and the wo? man that waited there for the money that he had been taught to consider i.is own. "It so- iu- to rue that you are ier> beautiful tli.s morning," was all that he coul-l say. Ktnily drew h r I and gently away Inn.i lii< - i.iij ' herald," she said,ui lave something t<? It'll )OU-" I h i accent was cold. There \v:i.? something in her manner that caused hiin to st< p lun-lc ?ml look at lo r with a dim premonition of wliat wm to com". -You know," flic continued, uh<-w bitterly opposed your tr.uit i* t? yutr , all-ciioii I. r inc. She ha? t Id iu?* lu r? tii II'that .slie wiil ncvi r consent to our happiness. (it laid. I i'ill too loi d ol you to wit" k your wli l?.? life. 'J here was hut on*' way to cud it all " Site pauH'il. lli* leaned forward, and still ki j,l liia ey s, now wan ,tt.tl haeganJ, up"ii her lace. 'Jinn' sle sink, pale ami trcu bluiir into a chair, and Covered her eyes w th her hand. She was moved with pitv, perhaps, or a vacuo regret. At last she spoke: I have just accepted an off. r of uinr| riwflt." CAM] "From J ladder !" cried Gerald, and I wa k<il to the d'?or. "Your prud- nee." ! lie ndded, standing upon tli?? t! rosin?!d, I "hits served you well. You just got rid 11if* me in time. My aunt dn?i this morning and has lelt everything she had to her nurse and coin pan ion." Then I c g"t out iuto the street and | walked a!ou?_' w.th a fuiterir.tr, stngirei- 1 intr step. His eyes were wild?his luce | ! lividly p ile. He went lion e and stood by the body ; ' of his aunt. 'I here wa? a singular fas- ' [ ciua'ioii about this death?something very wonderful and templing in tl at J mysterious absolute rest. Suddenly he hi came master of himself, of the bitterness and despair of the moment. He walked Srmly to the door; but a step followed him, and, turning, lie saw the pale peturbed face of Mi.-s Williams. Then he remembered her presence in the room, but. his madness and grief had prevented hiui from realizing it. "Just one word, Mr. Melton," sain - - * T ? Ml she. '-orcurse You know inai i win j not touch one cent of this money !" I " It doesn't matter now," hen pled. "It might as well be yours as anybody's !" ".But it is yours," she said. "Ob, as f? r me." said Gerald. "1 shall not want it.'' He walked on through the hall. Miss Williams followid him stealthily. He entered his room, hut when the door shut him in, Amy remained hazard and trembling. A grim silence reigned ubout lier. She could j hear the cl ick ti?k in the dead woman's room bch'W. Suddenly slie put both her hands about the knob end opened the door. Getald turned quickly; there was an ominous click , the pistol fella i a little as it went off The b'ood sorted , through his coat and trickled down j i upon the floor. Just as Amy was about sinking at bis feet, G. raid put out his i hand to her. < "Au accident. Miss Williams," he 1 said. "Please send Adams for ihe doc- ' i tor, and then help mo off with my coat " j i This brought Atr.y to herself. She ' hastened to do his bidding, dispatched < Adams, and returning again to Gerald. I s'anched lhe blood with strips of pillow ' tu-i,. irnm ilio Iti-fl \\ hen tin; doctor 1 tame she held (he light fr hi 11 while I lie probed the wound and extracted (he . ! bullet. * ! < ' An inch or s?> higher," siid the dot tor, ' and you would have been hu- ' ried on (lie same day wilh your nont." ; | "It was a lucky tiling, thin that: I Miss Wiiliams had an errand to my | room when she did,'' said Getald. "As I she opened the iloor my hand Ceil and j the pistol weut off. * "Hie has unconsciously saved your lilc," said the doctor 'J hen as Amy left the room, he added, She's the fino-t young woman I know, and would make a capital nurse in my hospital. l?o you 1 know what she thinks of doing, t:ow that your aunt is gom-f" "No," said Gerald, with a grim smile; "hut I fancy she'll think of something livelier than that." "She has such an excell- nt physique ' and splendid nerve," said the doctor, i "But 1 must go, keep quiet as jou can, i and have Adams within call." That light Gerald awoke with an in- ' tolerable thirst , his temples throbb d. his cys burned. Looking over at Adams, lie found that he w -s Sound asleep. 1 This, of itself, was offensive to Gerald. What business had the mm asleep w hen lie was sufT ri"g ? I low horribly oppressive the stillness wu?, tins seiui darkness and loneliness ! At that uio. ; IlH'lll a pOliUt'lUUS snoie ri-.-uuilnm IK in the throat of the sturdy Adam*. mid, Gerald almost b aped froui his bed; it ' was unendurable. He ptr< tclud ovy | bis sound arm, and reaching a pl'lor,' | tlirew it with all bis might at the uu j conscious uian. but. in spite of the ; agony the movement Cost bun, it wn a | lutile one, 1 lie pillow fell far short of the object, and (leiaid soul bad with a j groan. Hut suddenly the soft touch of a wo- J man's hand f< I! tenderly ujioti his fur? brad, and ihcsweet tones of a woman's ' ' voice fell smlhinidv ufon 1 is u.r. ' It is time for your medicine," said i Amy, and put the cup to bis lips tier. ; aid drank as if it were nectar. Then she arranged hi- pillows for him. and was about retreating from the ro m ; l.when lie faintly called for a mink.? Then he thought his head was too high. I or perhaps a uifle low* every movement ranted him iiroWable agony, but 1 be bated lo be almr with Adams ng'aiti. 1 lo sides, lie was eutious about ibis volutin. H>e must i?ally have divined i I is mothos. and come to bim to suv j his lite. Site was i?;ain about to Irave i him, hut lie put his hand upon her hi detain her, and found that it ticinbled . a little bineath I is touch. * V ui liaiid didu t treiidde when y >u : held I in: lamp for the d< Ctor." s id (icruld. -He wiin's von for a i ins - in 1 Ids hospital, but I told hiui you'd put- ! i Icr floiiictbin^ more chei lful." "Why, I think I'd iike i\" said Amy. .' You know 1 must do s ?nethinji." ' I don't S' C the ueccsMiy," said (lornld : you have my aunt's money, and it 1 \ will occupy a I your lime io enjoy it " j ' Your Hunt's money is jour own," srd A my. ' and y? u i..M?|t uir liitiki ?ir I would Ik - advu't ij:c of the p. or oM lady's weak in *s; I in vcr will touch a ; penny of in. And, Mi Melo-a. you inn t n-<t talk." "One word only?on'y one." pkinh d ! ?fieni'd. "Hut for you I uiiuht h:iv?* ] heen I ke?like our po >r old friend helow." (braid shudd-ied and turind pile. "I am cowardiy < iiouuh,' he went on, ' t<* h;?t?* even the thought ol it now. (low mo 1 thank jou, Alia* | VYilJitiua?" DEN, S. C., DECEMBEI ' By taking what is vonr own, and J using it well and nobly," said Amy. 1 and vanished from his sight. But as she left him he felt a sudden throb in the hand beneath his own. and ' saw a quick flame leap into her cheek? I a glow to her ryes. 'Three long years," murmured Gerald. 'and I never knew her till now !" Ge aM was young and strong, and the fourth day, the one appointed for the funeral, lie was able to he up and dress H. and welcomed Amy warmly as she en''red his room. She looked paler thnn ever in h- r black dr< S", but Gerald thought he had never seen so sweet and noble a face. ''How I would like to go down, Miss , Williams," be said, ''and enjoy the surprise of the good p< nple below ! I'd like to sec theui bow and scrape to the heir-! ess of my aunt's fortune. I'm as b;d as the rest of them, I suppose, fur I; feci like making you all sorts of pretty speeches." Gerald paused, and his I ice i grew suddenly irrave ami t*nder "(Jo now," he added, "and ki?? my nunt good bye for me ; tell her I am quite ! satisBed with everything." Amy went from the room and down ! the Mairs. For the last three days she I hud brcn like one in n dream It [ scented awful to he wurut and happy 1 evrn alter she hud entered the dark, 1 gloomy drawing room, and ovi tt afier she had bent and kissed the eold stern !1 face for Gerald and for her-elf. M will not take it," she whispered, ' 1 hot tears raining on the dead woman'* 1 face?"I will not take a penny of it; 11 hut it has given me such a glcajn of j< happiness. God for ever bless you for it!" 11 Then the people began to pour in, : 1 sod the ceremony commenced. Ann's j were the only tears that were shed ; 11 most of the euestscame from civility or < curiosity. Miss Melton had taken hut j | little active part in the world lor many : ! a year, nnd the poor lady was soon put j i iwiy and f .rgottcn. , i The most important p*irt of the pro j ] erodings was when they returned from j < l'?o burial to hear the reading of the ; I will. ; I Amy trembled when the pompous j 1 lawyer unr.dled the parchment, and he- , I iran in a sonorous voice?"In the in me j < af God. amen !" i What vrou'd they think of her? 1 what would they say of her? Oh, how ( ' glad she was that the only one site cared ( ' for in the world knew all about it ! , < How innocent she was, and how igno- J i rant! Hut even while she thought thus she j heard the lawyer read : "To n.y beloved , i n-phew. Gerald Melton. I brrjuetth all : i my property, peisonal nod t therwNe.^ j Amy could scarcely b-lieve h-r ears. 11 She listen* d 'o the end, and In aid at j1 last. "To Amy Williams, my faithful 1 nurse. I give a tm ttrning ring and the ! sum of fifty pounds." Thou she went upstairs to Gerald. ' 'Ihc king shall have his owu!" she | said, Only on ot e condition," said Gerald, j 1 I'll take your u.oncy only ou one condition." ; "You'll take my money !" echoed Amy; "my poor little fifty pounds!" | Amy's face shone with a profound joy.; 'Youraunt left h?r money where it belonged. Mr Mellon. I have justj heard you deflated her sole surviving , heir." n> ! 1 :?J I j _iera:u rcuiaiiicu nuuuvu tuu nuderod. "Where i? the codicil ?" lio cried to the l awyer, who stood at the door. My aunt h-It her mom y to Mira Williams. She t dd me so when she was dying " "Oh. that was when y< u bought that , horse. I was atraid there would be trouble tlitn. but Uc.-s your soul; she got over all that." "And the money is miue 7" cried Gerald. "Of course it's yours;" and the lawyer went down the stairs chuckling at his incredulity. Then Gerald held out his liauds to Amy. "1 was going to he magnanimous enough to marry you despite your morn y." said he; "now there is no obstacle to our happiness. V >me, my sweet, and Lh .-s the I tie you have given inc." Amy became his wile. Mrs. Grundy said that lie married her to spite Kmily Tl.opo lint we know that it was lor love, and lor love alone. Lifo. \V!<at a varying thing is tlie stuaiu of life. Hew it sparkles and glittets! How it bounds along its jicbl.ly bed, sometimes in r*ha?le. sometimes sporting round all things, as if i's essence w< re tic rrimeiit and brightness; 9> tnetiui-H I flow itiir f Itmuly on, as if it wue do-' rived from l.othe itself. Now it runs !>ke a Iitjui'l diamond ulong tlie meadow; m w it plunges in fume and I'urv over , tbe roi l: : now it i? ele.tr and limpid in ynutli and innocence can in ike it ; now it is heavy and turbid as the varying 1 streams of thought and memory that , are flowiim into it, each bringing its) store of dullness an I pollnti n as it tends toward iSic end Its Voire, too, varies . as it pus ; now it sings lightly as it Janet s on; m>w ii roars amidst the ohsta- ! cles that tippo.se its way; and now it has no tone but the dull, low murmur of j exhausted energy. Sin b i.? the surnui of 'ile. Vet per-I Imps lew of us would wish to change our j p nioii of i' for the calm rcuulnrity of; | h canal?even if one could be c -n| >ti not? () without loi ks and flood-pates upon it to hold in the pent-up waters oftho brail till they arc ready to buret through the banks. A ' maw*" l*t?-KlUtt'i portrait. I 18, 1877. Tho Two. It is imbed a funny nu l ridiculous sight to sec a lovely woman stop at a j str<< t dossing, give her body a fearful twist, stoop low ami reach backward ! and downward nearly to her heels, and j grab from five to forty pounds of dress tail, full of dirt and dust, shake it five or six times, like a buzzard fixing his wings to fly, then hobble across the; stree t like a lame turkey to the other j side, there to 'Met go,*' turn around j four or five times, and start off like a' stern-wheel boat in a storm. Such fantastic, fashionable freaks of folly as we sec sometimes upon our streets are very unhccniuit K in all that is modest, beautiful, and lovely in woman. Think of it. The idea of a fashionably-dressed blonde or brunette stopping dead still upon the street, kick out and up like a cow at an army of loose hornets, grab her clothes in her hand, and with a body bent, locking out from under a: little bat per'died upon one side of the head, and making a public exhibition of her heels and hose an she sWips across the street like an ostrich on a run, an exact copy in style and drcs? of the woman who rides a spotted lior.se in a circus and jumps through a paper balloun f r fifteen dollars a week and and app1fc?e. Look at the modestly dressed, sweet faced, humble girl, walking homeward, having been on a mission for her mother, perhaps. No loolishncss about her. She lives, dresses, acts and looks plain. She and fashion arc strangers. J.oaicrs and blackguards don't stare at lor, and make >all kinds of remarks about her. No! She com marids respect by her dress and conduct upon the public streets. Sec her in j spotless white, looking liko an'angel.! Kneclingntihebids.de with her faceinJ eyes lilted heavenward, and in ac-j cents l.iw and sweet, br?a liing from her; pure lips the language of her soul in j r\ n .1 l I humble prayer: "uur miner who an ia lieavcn." Angels put their cars to [he twinkling stars and lis'en to her prayers. The one, a meek, humble, Christian young woman, whose affoc[iiins are fixed on things above the foibles and follies of a fashionable world? whose very mul pints for the light and iove of a "home over there" The other, a thin-viiaged. ' made-up" woman of a fashionable world, whose whole heart ami soul is engulfed in the great whirlpool nf mock happiness and folly; who never looks in the Uiblc 010 Ipiii- j lin-dth part as much as she doc a look- j itig-g!us?, whose whole idea of life is to ' have lun with the boys" uutil she's forty, and tlo-u take the chance of fooling some old u?an into "buying bar," if she ran. The one breathes her prayer i and lies down upon Iter downy bed tnj dream of heaven and the angels. The ^ other c-'tiu's out of the parlor at a very ' late hi ur, like a tired and hungry I coach horse, rushes to the pantry, grabs i a pickle in one hand, and a cold hutn b-nc in the other; then to her moui She swings her ' harness" over the buck of ball'a dozen choirs, scatters the other "make-up" about the floor, and forgets the duty-lie owes to (>od and herself, and dives into bed like a wliarl-rat into thi- canal, rolls and tumbles all night us ii the bed was lull of hornets, and rises at eight, nine or ten o'ch-ck next morning us stiff and lifeless as a billy-goat; ! 1- A. I that has he n run over vy a ir? tgnt train. Now, which of the two, think you, God and the angels smile upon the most, the beautifu) wot: an or the lashiuualde young lady '{?Qour 'tr?Journ:tf. Waiting. loader, have you ever sat watching, waiting, for some one far away, hut oft. time# near?too near to he absent from the loved oiks who gather around the honiec irele? llow sad it is to have one vacant eh.iir. when evening comes, '.nd i we gather around the cheerful tire, the ! lamps all aglow, studding a subdued light over all, tlie toils and cares of the day passed ! How contented we feel if our home circle is complete ! Hut, ult ! if one is absent, how changed the (eel* inp ! A I roll er or pet heps a father is missed : how one hen it is clouded with gi iol! The younger ones can enjoy i - - . themselves, tor youm ones !l??l ll*U Ui^i; j in giim forebodings; but the mother, wife?who ean betray her anguish ns she si's, right after night, watching in vain? Ileitis have passed since the f younger ones said "good night," and have forgot ten the petty cares of the day in tjuii't slumlcr; but still the wife is waning Cor 1 iui who j ruuiiscd to el crish ami protect her. Where is the protection? Instead, she is left ulott''. w hen she n"eds sytu pa thy most. In the evening, after keep ing the domestic inachini rv in motion al! lay, never flagging, hut keging on to i he last, satisfied if she can spend l-u* an Li ur with the one she loves, her h"pes are da-lied to the ground by an unthinking hand. So little will satisfy an aelring heart that it is hard to have tint refused. After waiting until daylight streaks the eastern horizon her lord returns and she is met with rebuffs,1 perhaps cur-en, because she is still up. Do yon know what it is to have a vacant chair, a loved one absent ? S"nie are across the sea. but we know their hearts are loyal and true, and, if possible. they would stay in ihe home nest; thus we have cnnsolati n. lint ( o*l pity tlte wife or mother who spends th? best years of her life in wailing for and watching ?>1110 of the 'oved ones ! And. Voir lagging ones, listen ! IDamcle-s lho igh you may be otherwise, lio'i will f?ir?ly make t>?u wait for your heaveuly crown as you have m ule your loved one wail for her crown of happiness below. MADOK 'J RUTUFIT,. A kC[uarc mile wouttiaj 64Q ?or??. !?li ^ | NUMBER, 23 Eound to Sing. Brit her Glover was a pretty big uian . in a certain old Connecticut villuge. He , would swear a little sometimes. Iwf | wlien he snbscrib'd fiv* liundred dol-l hirs towards rebuilding and refitting ti c i old chinch, that special act of charity covered a multitude of sins. Brother Glover had a big voice.? There wa9 no time or tone in it, but be bellowed as he pleased in church singing. When the church was finished! it bad to be dedicated, and a choir was | carefully trained to do the singing.1 Brother Glover was not one of the chair,' and the intention was to rule him out of the singing exercises. The choir had carefully rehearsed a { new dedicatory hymn, and everything j waa ready lor the interesting ccremo- i ? ?" TLa a.U lit waa /iVAtv/lnil nttsl MILD, i IJU VIIU1V.II TTU.i Vl'/nUQM, UHVI Brother Clover was in l)U place in aj front pew, as hirge as life. The uew J piece wan struck up, and Brother Glover's voice rose above the organ. There was a pause. The organ and choir were I mule, and the latter n>rd. The minis-' fcr looking at a fiy on the ceiling ox-, plained that it was a new piece which! the choir alone had practiced, and re-' quested the congregation not to join in the singing. The piece was recommended, and again Brother Glover's big voice broke it up. The preacher then fixed his eyes on Brother Glover aud requested him to keep silence during the performnuec of the new piece, which he did not | understand, and brother Glover, looking j at his beloved pastor, with his big, round eyes, replied in a big voice,? j Look-a here, Mr. Barnhart, I paid j five hundred dollars toward repairing this darned oM gospel box, and by lliun- j dor I will sing." The preacher gave up, and so did li e: choir. No Colored Troops In OhioThe Adjutant General of Ohio, a Republican of course, has got into trouble with the colored militia, and i liwl days ago disbanded two Cleland cotnvc- | ? n?l 11 ./i L- n tp .* t? fb/iiF n *1*1 a Tlintl* pliiicji t>uu u'vt unaj ?iav?? hiuio. a ? emphatic protest against this unexpected 1 outrage" hus led to a curious and ?ug-, gestive discovery. It seems that tho. last Legislature, Republican, of course, passed a "bill to reorganize the militia. An examination of the new law shows that by its previsions only ''white male citizens" are authorized to form military 1 companies in Ohio?which leaves the nlack brother entirely out of "doors, so ! far as tho soldiering business is con. ccrncd. The colored people argue? very tcr.si'dy. we think?that this un. ' generous discrimination could Dot have been the re*u't of accident, but that the , law was constructed for the express purpose of enforcing tho ''color line" i in the militia. Their denunciations of Republican inconsistency arc loud and ! do-p. and will take practical shape iu the next election. Suppose, sugges's the St. Louis Rt ' publican. this littlo affair, had trans. ; piiod iu Mississippi instead of Ohio, and been the result of Democratic in. i stead of Republican legislation, what a howl would have gone up from every Republican paper in the laud ! What multitudinous changes would have been rung ou the "white liners," tho "Ku. Klux," "the prejudice of caste," "the rebel ruffians," and other familiar bloody shirt war cries. Now, we suppose, the ?111 ..n ncpuuucm ur^aua mu vuu it u ui^. rake" and hasten to express their worth-; less regrets.? Savannah JS'act. The Battle Fields. The battle fields around Richmond are quiet meadows now, reclaimed by j Nature, wiih few signs of the days of ''blood and iron." At Cold Harbor, Fair' Oaks, Seven Pines, and Malvern Hill, i one set s but little to remind him of th* 1 terrible scenes enacted there twelve and 1 fifteen years ago. 1 ti the woods and on hi'lsides and river bluffs in the Penh -! suln, where no attempt has been nude I to cultivate the land, sloping earthworks ; :ue still to be seen, but elsewhere tho entrenchments have been levelled. I5c low Petersburg there ar? but few traces eve u of such formidable for;ideation- as; Steuduiun, Hell and Damnation. The Crater and the fields around it arc owned j by Mr. Griffiths, who was born close tv. and was in Petersburg when the mine' ?* us fired. He has built a bouse near ! there, nul now has his father's farm under cxcillent cultivation. 'J'hc Crater; itself has been left almost untouched, and a thick underbrush of peach trees i and spr uts bus sprung up from the pits! thrown *way by the soldiers during the' sieee. The ravine where the dead lay ' in great heaps on that terrible morning, j has been brought under the plow y-ar' alter year, until now only a slight depression in the field ean be pointed out.: The vi.-itor has to pay twenty-five cents for a glimpse of the Crater, and the in" j terior of ashed stocked with battle-j relics.?Xeic York Tribune. raLieuce. What iron is in the material articles with which we are surrounded, patience j is anions iho graces of the soul. Other gifts are more showy, but none more' useful. We lend a listening ear to him I ' who has the gift of utterance ; but We rive our life-long friendship to him who ; bears in patience our imperfections and j our mistakes Faith may bring to our' i aid a marvelous power, and seem to, open the future to our enraptured vis ion; hut puieuce enables us to plod ill rough the lessons which Jesus give.us. from day to day, until we become strong iu the knowledge of the wsys oi God. ^^RTlbIV0 KATIi8 Time. 1 in. J col. I col. 1 col. 1 week, $1 00 $5 00 SO 00 > 15 **0 2 ? 1 70 7 50 12 00 18 00 3 " 2 50 yoo 15 00 22 00 4 ? 3 25 10 50 18 00 20 00 5 " 4 00 12 00 20 00 WOO 6 " 4 75 18 00 22 00 33 00 7 " 5 50 14 00 25 00 36 00 8 " 6 25 15 00 30 00 40 00 3 jaos 7 00 16 00 35 00 50 00 4 " 7 75 21 00 4 000 00 00 C ' 8 00 28 00 45 00 80 00 9 " 8 75 35 00 COCK) 100 00 12" 9 50 40 00 75 00 120 00 W Transient advertisements raustbc accompanied with the cash to insuie Insertion. A Beautiful Extract. ' The glories of summer have gone by ; the beautiful grtcuncss has become withered ur.d uead. Were these all? were there no associations of moral desolation?of faded hopes?of*hcarts withering in the bosoms of lite living?connected with the decaying scenery around us, we would not itiot.lge in a moment's melancholy ?the scasou of flowers will come again?the sireams will flow gracefully as Leh?rc?the trees will again toss their cumbrous heads of greenness to the sunlight?and by mossy stone and winding rivulet the coming blossoms will start up at the bidding of their guardian. But the Imman heart has no change like that of nature. It has no returning tyring time{ Once blighted in its hour of freshness, it bears forever the mark of the spoiler. The dews of affectum may fall and the gentle rain of sympathy be lavished upon it," lut the stone root of blighted feeling will rover again waken into life, nor the crushed flowers of hope blossoui with.their wonted beauty. Poor Girls. The poorest girls in the world aie those who have never been taught to work. There are thousands of them. Rich parents have petted them ; they have been taught to despise labor und j&* depend upon others for a living and are perfectly helpless. If misfortune comes upon their friends, us it often does, their ease is helpless. The most forlorn and miserable women upon earth is of this class. It belongs to parents to protect their daughters from this deplorable condition. 'J hey do them great wrong when they neglect it. Every daughter should be taught to earn her own living. 'J he rich as well as the poor require this training. The wheel of fortune rolls swiftly round ; the rich are very lik?Iy to become poor ond tho rich poor. Still to labor is no disadvantage to the rich and is indispensable to the poor. Well-to-do parents ^ must educate their children to work. No reform is more imperative than this. An Affab e Mannor. Mueh of the happiness of life depends upon our outward demeanor. We have all experienced the charm of gentle and courteous conduct; we have all been drawn irresistibly to those who are obliging, affable, and sympathetic iu their LmunA. TO o frionillt' ivr>ii:n t^A Uriuvuuui, A law 11 ?v MW warm welcome, the- cheery tone, the encouraging word, the respectful meaner, bear no small share in creating ?h? j<?y of life ; while the austere tone, the sturn rebuke, the sharp and acrid reinnk, the cold and indifferent manner, the ^ curt and disrespectful air, the supercilious and scornful bearing, are responsible for more human distress, despair and woe, than their transient nature might seem to warrant. What it Costs. Those who commit crime seldom look at more than cue ei-Je of the balance shoot. Satan always shows the gilded aide of sin, and that side only, whon ho tempts men ; and when they arc drawn awuy by their own lusts, they tak? into account only the profit they hope to derive from an evil course. How otherwise could so many intelligent men cover themselves with disgrace and plunge themselves end their families into aseaof wretchedness for the doubtful enjoyment of ill gotten gains. We wish every young man, and every old uinn as well, could examine the balance sheet. Scope of a Nowepaper. A newspaper is a winnow through which men look out on what is going on in the world. \\ itnout a newspaper a man is shut up iu u small room, an ! knows little or nothing of what is happening outside of hiuiself. In our day, the newspaper ke-'ps paee witii history and records it. A newspaper will keep a sensible man in sympathy with the world's current history. It is an enfolding encyclopedia and unbound book, forever issuing and never finished. Always bear this in mind, and never fail to dike, and more particularly, pay for your home paper.?FogdtviUe (Pa.) iritcftc/ci/c Sho Was Willing. They were sitting side by side, at J nlic signed and then he sighed ; lie said, "M v darling idol," and he idled and then she idled; '"You are creation's belle," and sho bellowed, and then he bellowed; "On uiy soul there is such a weight," and she wailed, and then he Waited; 'Your hand I a>k. so hold I've grown," and he groaned, and the? sho groaned ; You shall have a private pig," and si rgiggled ami then he giggled; said she, "My dear- st Luke," and he looked r.r.d she looked ; "Shan't we ?" and tl ey shanted: "I'll have thee if thou wilt," and he wilted and he wilted. Help tlio Poor. No one who lives in plenty or it: comfort should sit down to a Thanksgiving dinner without having provided a generous meal for soiuo of tnose who are called to struggle with poverty. Each one should look out for some families whom he knows to he needy and deserving, or put the money into the hands of some one who will see that it goes to the right place. Indiscriminate, blind I charity, does no one any good, but it will give z?st to a feast to know that B others in their homes aie sharing with us in the bounties entrusted to us. 1 Our circamatanet< tre never eo bad I that th?| wald M be ?rar>e.