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} oie Yojau yg Jama d) UMie 9 Xd £3 ish sol 4 Che Ontario Reformer EVERY ER TaAY ORNING. WML IL CH MT, SIMCOE STREET, OSHAWA, .{ LATEST FOR. w 5, Local i ---- ] ------------------ , Stampede of 800 Cavalry Horses. [From the Liverpool Courler.] Describing the recent military man- ouvres in the neighborhood of St. Peters- | burg, the Times correspordenit writes: -- | "On the second night of the campaign an | nlucky accident occurred, It partly oe curred, too, in consequence of tired troops taking their rest before their proper time. VOL. 1. : OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FR m-- 'F. & J MERCER, geri, (ORIGINALLY) IDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1 when aroused, was something fearful. -- Must people were afraid of otiending him, : through fear of sammary vengence. But Anastasia never feared him. She did not 871. ! hood i shaw, sie lighted a lantern and | seen ; they would not see it. | went out. J .NO.38, She shrick the guard, 900 strong, (think of that' Ter oggeavalry regiment, ) had arrived at their | cantonments, had dismounted and takes ff <heir saddles, and sat down holding -{ 'heir horses by the head, [ir letting them | ed aloud, as if her voice might convey a1 | stand alone, till the carts with the pickets Her walk was along the railroad, and intimation of danger. She ran forwardou ing ropes for each squadron came up.-- A regiment of the Empress' cuirassiers of - «gs TAILORS AND. CLOT" "RS! 07 02 [UN LEY 0 she scrutinized: the ground carefully as she | the track, heedless that if the train still | Many of these soldiers fell asleep. A pine for his society, certainly, yet she en: | went. For the first half mile all was as it | advanced she must be swept to destruction | neighboring regiment, which had arrived dured his daily visits; not from apprehen- | should be. She began to think that she | With it. Then came a sudden abatement | ong before and had dined, indulged in sion of evil consequences if they were {or- | had her scare for nothing. A forest of | of its speed ; the brakes had heen put on. | some boisterous mirth, whereupon the bidden, but "she would not show due! considerable extent now lay before her. The motion. was reversed, ond | soon it | squadron of horses nearest to them be- courtesy even to this. forlorn creature. One n.oment she allowed herself to think | ceased altogether, some 'men came walk- | came alarmed, broke away, was followed On a sullen mid December day Dicky | of its blackness, and that she was a lone | ing along the road toward the fire. The | by the next squadron, and, a panic seizing came at a later hour than usual. There | woman who had done all that need be | 4ang¢F was passed and scores of lives were | them 'all, in one instant, the wholg 900 i was a glitter in his sneaky eyes akin to | done to satisfy herself in coming thus far. | $aved. { fled in wild disorder and the utmost ter- fire, and the muscles of his face twitched | | . Anastasia BEATRICE. By Frcrirce Havzaro. To an ancient grand cathedral, In that city by the sea, By the blue Mediterranean 1 had wandered restlessly. 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I have nsed Stock's Oil and I find it to excel | al! obs | have ever used in 40 years manufacturing | experience, and have used Cag aud Olive Oi, ch revious to using Stocks uz }onastputty x JACOB STALTER, Greenwood. | -- We profes Stock's Oil to either , Olive, or other olls ever used, for expe: shows it. a SPAIGAT & SON, Markham, Ont. 1 use Stock's Ofl ch my machinery, which re- ! voives About 4.00 times yet ie, an i that gives satisfac . Bie ony oy CurrcnELL, Bangor, Ont. "an. 7, 1871. | GEO. B.. STOCK | Shi Your « xi: a rfection for lu= ia i {hing used, so far as' ku. | guiu nor corode, and wares |» Very truly yours, | SOLE PROPRIETOR : GEO. B.. STOCK, Brovemax, Or. i AGENT FOR THE DOMINION : TINS, Chevy, Gm (3 WINANS, BUTLER & Co. No. 77, Front St, Toronto. 1 shall never see again. Thad wandered restless, weary, Over many a foreign land -- Rested 'neath the Eastern palm trees, Roamed o'er Egypt's burning sands ; Came at last to bowers Italian, 'Néath a sky so clear and mild, Striving still to find oblivion From my sorrow flerce and wild. Entered in the grand cathedral, Filled with pain and bitter wee, Heard the mighty organ playing 1 Some strange anthem weird aad low. | | Like one in a dream I sat there Listening to the magie strains, While my throbbing heart beat wildly A strange interlude of pain. Swalle1 thy won ira strains still highor, Moaned anon as if a heart Lav beneath those keys of ivory, Writhing with affliction's smart. Ln! it changed, and breathed full softly Tones of hope unto my soul, And I felt the weary burden From my tired spirit roll. Breathed of joy, of love unchanging, Far beyond the reach ef time; Whispered I should meet my angel In a fairer, brighter clime. Oh ! Beatrice, my lost darling, Thrills my heart with joyous hope, Soon for me your angel fingers Shall the pearly portals ope. As the last notes of the organ Died npon my listening ear, Forth I wandered in the s'arlight - Heaven to me seemed very near. On the shores of love immertal, | Just across the rolling tide. | In her saintly bliss and glory | | | Waits for me my angel bride. I ped his fingers and started upon his feet. as those of that skinless frog on Professor | | Galvani's table may have done, when the | time for discovering a new science had' fully come. Anastasiasaidgently, *" How | do you do, Dicky I" and placed him achair by the fire. He swung the chair upon his shoulder | a8 8 hand-organist does his instrument, | and darted to the other side of the room, | where, sitting down with a crash, he drep- | ped himself into it. |. "Is it raining," Anastasia inquired. { © "Hoot! Don't know--don't care either," | was the uncivil answer. { | A little pool of muddy water was melt- | | ing from his huge boots upon the & | Anastasia sighed softly, thinking of" the | | stain it would leave, and again asked him | | to sit upon the hearth by the fire. {| 'Pooh! fire! Don't want no fire ; got | | enough inside of me. Dash it! I'll send | him where they say fuel's cheap. Dash him! he's a fool. Who was it' that was | | telling dbout a smash up somewhere! I'd | | give something for a smash-up that would { smash him. Hoot! smash! kill!" { All this was uttered in a thick, rapid tone, and with great violence of manner. {With the concluding exclamation he snap- | "What is the matter, Dicky I" Anas- tusia inquired with her usual gentleness. | A to her question she | could not get, but, bf piecing out Dicky's oted Selections, "THAT OLD MAID." "" Only that old maid!" It had been said of Anastasia Brande hundred tivaes ; and when that was said, in the opinion of the speakers. She was a maid whom there were none to praise, and very few to love ; and she dwelt amid the untrodden ways, thongh not exactly i beside the streams of Leve. For Skye- berg is a New England town, and Anas- tasia lived in Skyeberg. ' She had come , there within a few years, a box of a cot. ! tage and two or three acres attached hav- ing boen left her by a relative. Conse- { quently, if she had been younger, (and the probability is that she had) there were She was a thin, straight figure of a wo- | man, with hair silvery gray, but soft and abundant ; a pair of shy eyes ; a thin face 'Dress Goods of the Very Latest Tattorns, me ts win tru wd wmeting timid, almost scared, in its expression, to | keep in countenance the shyness of the { eyes. In all her forty years she had not | overcome an absurd trick of blushing when spoken to, nor was she always quite sure of givihg a collected answer. ~ It was like | * working your passage" to talk to Miss | Brande, people made haste to discover.-- | There were easier ways than this of get- | ting on in the social curriculum, and they | soun learned to pass hor by on the other side. She, wondering secretly what it | was in herself that repelled them, and | dreading slights with the sensitiveness pe- culiar to a tiwid nature, withdrew more and more ine herself, that she might not be in the way of receiving them. Despite | all this, she was a gentlewoman to the very core. No one ever heard her say a | spiteful or uncharitable word of others, nor did she ever, by speech or stare, or any avert act, wound the feelings of those with whom she was thrown into contact, A smart young couple had rented a por | tion of her house, aud all the land but half An acre. This she tilled herself as a | garden, eking, out from its products.snd | her rent, a few hundred dollars which she had in government bouds, a spare income, but quite sufficient for her simple wants. It was not long before the march of im- provement laid an iron track across her land, and a shrieking engine whisked daily past her kitchen door. This innovation was di e to our shy gentlewoman alike from the noise and 'dust consequent upon it and from the intrusion wpon her- retirement. But the march of .improve- ment cared little for that. As s compen- sation, her property was increased in val. ue. She gots higher rent and 3 better market for her vegetables. Her income had been sufficient before, and now there was a surplus, with which she would have liked tv benefit others. But here her diffi- dence proved a hindranee. She tried go- ing among the poor to learn their wants, but felt so much like an in.pertinent med- dler in other people's affairs, that she was unable to create a pleasant im; « children shrieked 'old maid" when alte had got a safe distance from the door, but not beyoud earshot. She went home | capacity taat destroyed her sleep that once. in Skyeberg, it had been said a | ve mutterings with her own pre- vious knowledge, she understood at length what had happened. There was a railroad excursion that afternoon to @ neighboring village. An amateur concert band from Skyeberg, and half the town's people be- | side, made up the party. A concert was | to be given, and a special train would | bring them back at widnight. All this ! Anastasia knew. The smart young couple living in her house liad gene, and she had | felt as it she would herself like -to be one | of the company, for even to solitary old | maids, the impulse to mix with others for ! social enjoyment sometimes come. But jue one had asked her, and: on second | | thoughts she believed it Was much better | | to stay at home, it is so desolate being in | a crowd of one's own towns-people, with | no one to speak to. What she learned | from Dicky, was, he, too, had covert. ed a ride and festive revelry with the rest, but he had not proved an agreeable ad- | dition to the company, and the conductor, | tinding he had no ticket, put him off the train. It was :gainst this gentlemen, then, that Dicky's mutterings breathed out wrath. Ax ia tried her best to molify his passion, sefting before him in the simplest language|the divine precepts of forgiveness of inj bat she had the mortitication of failing utterly in impres- sing their spirit upon Rim ; for at the very door, when he went y, she heard hiu wutter with vindictive intensity, " Hoot! dash him! Poof! smash! kill!" Anastasia felt some uneasiness, and de- | bated within herself whether 'it would be | possible, and if possible, quite proper, to ! send the conductor some warning of the fellow's vindictive spirit. But, perhaps Dicky would soon forget his anger, and she had a dread of seewingbold and push- ing--a thing about as likely to happen as the hatching of scorpions from doves' eggs. She deterwiued, finally, to try to soften Dicky by some ext linary kindnes, and to win him to forgetfulness of his pas- | sion. Thinking out this plan occupied her { mind until her usual bed-tine. She was | just going to lock up the house for the night when Dicky darted in, veneemed with ice, for it' was raining now, and so cold that the drops were instantly conveft- ed into sleet. He went to the stove,jin which the fire burned low, and spread ut his claw-like hands for warmth. . "Poof! Cold work, ugh! muttered Dicky, thrusting his fingers inte his hair as the warmth made them tingle, and twisting and writhing with pain. '*' What have you been doing out in the storm 1" asked Anastasia. 'Think I tell! Fools tell. He's fool, bat he'll tell _what hurt him. Ki! sma-a-sh!" He set his hands whirling, the one over the other, in rapidly revolving circles, un- til Anastasia's head grew dizzy with watch- ing him ; then he suddenly struck out from the shoulder|and leaped halfway to the ceiling. down on all fours,he rolled over two or thrée times on the floor, Next he sprang upon his feet, yelled "Sma-a-sh!" again at the top of his voice | by darting oat of the house as unceremoni- { ously as he had come in. | Anastasia, as soon as she had recover. | ment, began to gather up his disjointed | night and 'made her nervously disp d for | a week. The attempt was not repeated. | She began to feel like Ishmael, she was | one thrust out from among her kind. Yet she had still a yearning to do some good-- | to bind hearts to her by being helpful, | since shé had not the social grace requisite | to attract them. | One constant visitor she had. This was | a witless fellow named Dicky Bolton, the nearer to | pest and aversion of the whole neighber- than and | it wil neither | hood. 121 dactory. A. FAREWELL Anastasia, in her - gentleness, had | shown kindness to this human. brute, the i i soul | memory of which clung to his callous soul, | or whatever substitute for a soul an idiot | may be supplied with, as moses does tu a rock. He was at this time s stout youth of twenty, with a pale, vacant face, red demeanor, and trying to make out what | it all meant. She could not doubt that | whatever his work, it had'b en for pur- poses of revenge. That prolonged "Sma- | a-sh," soemed to ring in -her ears again, | coupled with the assertion, * He'll never | of horror had grown into her meditations. | this way. The night was not an inviting one for indulging in a *' constitutional." Besides, she was hardly ever out of doors after dark now, and felt a dread of going forth alone. But all that she put aside, With that terrible uncertainty in her mind The next moment she was pushing ou into the forest. To abandon the in i and instead of tha h d thipk of herself now | ror over the open country. Two things now would, she felt, be to yield herself a prey to worse terrors than any the dark woods held for her. A 'little farther on the diabolical nature of Dicky's revenge was revealed in a huge log lying directly across the track. It was not in vaiff; then, that she had come ; at least the alarm was not a false one, though the obstruction looked for. midable enough to her woman's strength. She pushed against it with her hands, but could not move it in the least. She wish- ed now that the Lad gone for help before coming here. It was two miles to village, and in all the houses between, Anastasia knew that only small children and weak old women were at home. Everybody else had gone on the excursion. Plainly, the undoing of Dicky's work belonged to her; she must not flinch for want of strength. She groped about with her lantern uatil a lever was found, with which she was able to lift the log a littl. . Inch by inch, with the exertion of her ut most strength, the obstruyt ion gave way, and was finally rolled quite off the track. She sat down upon it exhausted but thank. ful. Her power seemed to her to have been God-given, andshe praised him silent- ly Weary as she was it would not do to sit long in her wet clothes. getting up worker b once more a timid, were very remarkable in this stampede, rinking 'woman. If | In the place, exactly as all wild horses do she stayed here she would have to face | in the Steppes, and from weich Steppes half the people of the viilage. Asting up: many of these had come, | and exactly as weight. could convey warmth to her chilled limbs. from crying aloud. She began to think that home was too far off to think pf reach- ing it that night, and that heaven might | be.a great deal nearer. : Presently she stumbled against a tree, and in her weakness fell to the ground.-- | As well to lie there as anywhere, since to | ly, after one or two feeble efforts to rise, she gave up the struggle, thankful even in this extremity that all Skyeberg would | not be in mourning on the morrow. No | } one would mourn for her. It would not | even' be known, perhaps; that her life had | been sacrificed to save life. No matter ; God knew it, and she, for her comfort in | this hour. | Not so very far off she could see her fire | still burning so brightly, and men walking on a sudden impulse she extinguished the light in her lantern, and keeping in the shadow of the trees, crept off homeward y exhausted as she was, with-her joy gar- ments dragging her down like a leaden Her feet were like clogs of ice, her hands so painful that she could scarcely refrain Is do before they start in the desert, they unanimously selectedione large pow- erful horse as their leader, and with a look at him, ard a snort 'at him, which | confusion. When I tell you thet some of these horses were not recovered till they had gone 120 miles into Finland, you may in agine what the panic was. - The second remarkable thing is the way that some of them ere stopped. In one solid mass | they dashed on for miles, and then came | directly at. right angles un a river. In | front of them was a "bridge, but on the | other side of ihe bridge was a sort of tete go on farther was impossible. Adcording- du point, and a small pidket of cavalry. | The horse which led would not face the | bridge, seeing the cavalry at the other end, but turned on one side, dashed into the stream, and the whole 300 horses swam ! the river together. As they emerged and flew widly on, the commander of the | picket bethought him of £ ruse, and order- | ed the buglcr to blow the | Appel.' This | is always blown 'when the Horses are going to be fed. Out of it came, the bugle note {loud and clear, and all the old horses she walked a little forther down the {to and fro in its light, investigating the | pricked their ears. wavered] stopped, paus- and her heart Seemed to die within her.-- | state of affairs. She could hear likewise ed, turned round, and trotted Here were more logs, some of them larger than the first, and two great stones which it seemed to her none but a Titan's strength could stir. The revulsion of feeling was too great, the disappointment too bitter. She threw her hands, which ached al- ready with cold, over her face, and cried weakly. what lamentations, *what anguish, what voices of Rachels weeping for their chil- | the sound of their startled voices, but only a confused murmur. Then all sights and sounds seemed to be floating away in to space. She felt that she was losing conaciovsness, and thought, with a lifting | of her heart in prayer, that when she came | to herself again it would be in eternity. Jut the thought of what desola- | tion there would be in peaceful Skyeberg | 30d a crunching of the ice now twp yards | on the morrow unlesssomething was done ; | {rom the hollow in which she was lying. | Nebraska, to But now there came a hurry of footsteps Some men had seen her as she was slowly | retreating-- had noted the glimmer of her dren and refusing - comfort because they | lantern and its sydden dying out. Re- were not, roused her to renewed effort. -- She did not know the time, and fancied it later than it was. ©onsequently, she dare nct leave her post-to go to thevillage | her: 'or help. She wonld have expected every moment to hear the"gnort of the engine if once she had turnod her back upon the point of danger. So she picked up her lever and set to work onbe more, compel- ling will to serve in a great' degree for strongth. A second simple mechanical power she remembered now, the fulcrum, and brought that to her aid. This and the lever served her so well that after an hour's hard work, and'much bruising and battering of her half-frozen hands, and many iuteryals of thinking that she ¢ uld not lift another pound's, weight and the task must be abandoned, and some ' ad- monitary twitchings from' an old enemy, the rheuinatism, she had, the satisfaction of seeing the last obstrugtion rolled off. Yet, remembering her former disappoin - ment, she walked cn sone distance farther, throwing the light of the laatern before her as she went. Within the space of a quartir of a wile, a Scylla to the Charyl- dis already surmounted was found. Here the rails had been torn up for the space of some yards. It was a fool's work, truly, . this multiplying of devices for destruction, when one would have 'seemed, to an fin- telligent mind, quite s ficient. Hope and heart gave way once niore when Anastasia discovered this new impediment. In vain had been all. her hard work, since this irreparable evil lay behind. She had been listening for the train duringthe last hour, and it could not be long in coming now. -- She wondered weakly whether she could hope to give warning if she stayed. Though it seemed a lost cause, she was not willing to abandon it. a signal fire, aud so give aii alarm. With the thought came the impulse to set tu work once more. She must be doing something, even though it were to no pur- pose. Of dead leaves and branches there were plenty at hand, but all were icy and sod- den wet. Nevertheless, she began heap- ing up a quantity of these, working me- chanically and without hope, until she discovered a pile of bark corded for the village tanner. The top of the bark pile, like everything else, was wet and icy, but within the rain had not penetrated. Sha did not scrupple to appropriate what she wanted, removing layer after layer and ) | conveying it beyond the torn-up rails. A pression. -- | And ended the extraordinary performances | Jotter which she had in .her pocket sup- plied the light combustible . needed. her lantern. Carefully shielding it from | with a crushed feeling, and a sense of in- | ed in some measure from her astonish. | the wind with her shawl, adding with the greatest caution bits of the dry bark, con- more light material seemed to berequired, and fanning the reluctant flame with her breath when nothing else was left to stim- ulate its action, she had finally the satis- fa. tion of achieving her third success of the night. A feeble, sputtering flame shot tell what hurt him." | up, which, by judicious nourish nent and She shivered and grew pale. A thought | utter recklessness in the use of the tan- ner's bark, soon grew into magniticient | It would be impossible to go to bed in quiet proportions. with her blood curdling in her veins in | exhausted her resources, and her time likewise. For now the distant rattling of the train was heard. It came on and on. Anastasia could see the glowing cinders streaming in scintillating lines through the | Baie, and small, sneaky eyes. Histemper, | she must not think of hersel!. Putting on | night. But her warning had not. been If everything | were not so wet, she might perhaps light | She had done what she could. Her ex- | ient might or might not avail, Lut she membering this when the first confusion consequent upon discovering their danger escaped, was over, they were in search of fhe had just sense enough left to attempt a cry, which ended in a feeble gasping moan. It was sufficient, however, to call attention to the spot wherg she had fallen. She was carried tenderly home, and being able to answer their eager ques: tions on the night's occurrences.| Then they could almost have worshipped her. A rheumatic fever fo lowed her night's exposure, lasting for many we~ks, but the shy|stranger had now no lack of friends, The devotion of that young couple, who had hitherto thought rather contemptu- ously of their quiet neighbor, was pleasant tosce. Then almost every family in tow, had had one or two membcrs on the train. who owed perhaps their lives to her. Al had a personal interest in her' recovery. and showed it by sach tender attention. as they could devise. She did recover though the fingers of one hand were be: t like croquet hoops, and she would neve: walk again without a limp. If ever any irreverent youth now speal e of Anastasia Brandé as " that old maid,' there is always some one to tell the story of her night's work, and what Skyebery owed to it and 'her.--Lippincott's Mag: zine, EU THE mosquito, as a public singer, drars well but never gives satisfaction. A Cnicaco paper states that a large uumber of women have been made insane by the great fire. Way is a husband like a Mississ'poi steamboat ? because he never knows when he may get a blowing up. Varve the friendship of him who stands by you in the storm ; swarms of insects will surround you in the sunshine, Ax old proverb says: " God has given to some men wisdom and understanding, and to others the art of playing the fid- dle." A scHOOLBOY, being asked who | was the most wicked man, promptly replied, ¢' Mewes, for hebrokeall the commandments atonce." Tue Chambers and Winship four oared crews have signed articles for a four mile race on the Tyne for £200 8 side on No- vember 22nd. = A BRUTE, who was brought up the other day for knocking all the skin off his wife's | nose, alleged that as all flesh is grass, he TwexTy-rive hundred wooden buildings | are now in course of construction in burnt | district of the north division of the city of | ae : | Chicago ; six hundred in the south divi- cting them with his strange | tributing her pocket handkerchief when | sion ; and one hundred and fifty in the | west division. Ax 1 Ai lia Aact, + pocket after a fishing frolic weeks before. with them 1" listle chap of six or thereabouts. | AT a Sabbath school concert, in/a crowd- [ : ed and popular church, the pastor, who | prided himself on the quickness and clever | Every thing that helps ness of his little ones, said, "bdys, when [these objects ia of great va u:, and every | I heard your beautiful song to-night, I | thing that hinders us is co.nparatively had to work hard to keep my feet still ; | ovtalet now what do you think was the trouble | Chilblainth?" shouted 8 | reign around, and sin hack. This | severed the mass. The rest wére broken | ups 300 ran into a large (enclosure in a farm, but some of the more young and adventurous madcaps did not stop or were | caughttill they had run about 100 miles. Some were staked, and some lamed, and some weré obliged to bel shot, but the } | casualties in all were very few, Lapigs scem to, be in {lemand out in judge from an amusing letter | in a recent Americas--paper. The writer being benighted while on ajsporting excur- sion in that State, sought lpdging in a far. mer's house where there were three sons and but one daughter. Shortly after his arrival, a vehicle drove up containing two young men, who were instantly ushered into th parlor. Supper was then served up, but scarcely Had the party taken their scats when the 'howling of the dogs an- nounced a third young man. The mother rose to admit him, but the/daughter rush. ed forward 'with' an uncermonious " Don't git up, mother!" It's one of my- fellows ! Come in, Jim; how do you do?' The writer was now invited intg the kitchen te smoke, and Jim was left insole possessson of the sitting.room: Scarcely, however, had the smokers installed themselves com- fortably in the kitchen, when a fourth y-ung man. made his appearance. The house consisted altogether of but three rooms. Two sweet-hearts were already in the kitchen, and one in the sitting-room. There was nothing for it,| therefore, for the new-comer but to mpke himself as 2appy as he could in the kitchen, while he young lady divided het attentions be- tween the four. But ten winutes had Yardly pass:d when there {were two more urivals, who were announced as the 'wid- wwers. *' It was nine o'clock. We wished © go to bed, and the only bed we had dis- covered was in the parlor. [Tne old gentle- még divined our wishes, and said, 'I'm s ary, geutlemen ; but this isuneof tle regular courtin' nights. Them two fellers in the parlor never leave till after mid- night, and Dan'll be br ten o'clock.' In reply to further questioning, the old gentlemen said, 'Friday nights it's purty bad ; Sundays it's wurse. Last Sunday night there was ten on'em,| and the girl is gettin' more and more partic'lar.' Seeing no other resource, the writer betook him: self to a hay-stack, the old man remarking, ' Yes, gentlemen, courtin's hot in Ne- brasky.'"--Pall Mall Gax tte. Tux English; it is reported, propose to claim before the Alabama Cominission pay for all the captured blockade runners.-- They found their claim upon Mr. Lincoln's proclamation of blockade, *which, in the following paragraph, directed that all vos- sels attempting to enter Southern ports should first be warned off} and only cap- tured upon making a second attempt :-- "If, therefore, with a view to violate any blockade, a vessel shall approach, or shall attempt tc leave either of said ports, she shall be duly warned by the commanders of one of the blockading vessels, who will endorse on her register the fact and date of such warning ; and if the same vessel shall again attempt to eriter or leave a\ A | had a right to graze on what was his own! | Piockaded port, she will be captured and': | corner of this was lighted inthe blaze of | sent to the nearest convenient port for such proceedings against her and her cargo, as priz-s, as may b> deom>d advirable." They say those instrneiions were never re- voked and never observed, Epvcare tae Heap, Toe Heart, axp { tue Haxp.--Every boy should 'have his ! ted & boy | head, his heart, and his hand educated. -- for catasrh, and consequent "bad breath," By the proper education pf the head, he a week before he discovered that the | will be taught to love what is good, wise, ' disease" was nothing but-some | crawfish | aud right, and to hate what is evil, fool the patient had unthoughtfully left in his | ish, and wrong. And by prover education shout two , of the hand, he will be enabled to supply | his wants, to add to his comforts, and to | ass's: those around him. [The highe.t ob- jects of good education are to réverence | God, and to love and serve mankind.-- bs in attaining When wisdom r.igns in the , and love in the heart, the man is ever ready to do good'; opder and' peace. Bim are ale most unknown. » they meant and he understood" as 'apres Not even the warming up-of her | vous,' they actually waited till he dashed heart at the thought of wnat she had done | to the front, and then followed in wild NA lam, EE Sa