Be Gentle to thy Wife. ? Be gentle, for you little know - How many trials rise ; : . ' , : : ; ' . . Although to thee they may be email, To her of giant size. - ? , - -i ..'li.'i'''" f , Be gentle, though perchance that lip , t May speak in murmurifls tone:" , The heart may beat with kindness yet, J" Ana joy to oe intneoii. Be gentle": weary hours of pain 'a--., f - 'Ti woman's lot to bear: v: - ; ; T, en yield her what thou canst, ' I And all her sorrows share. : ' Be gentle, for the noblest heart At tunes may have so. ne grief, " And even in a pettish word .: May seek to find relief. ; v : Be gentle, for unkindness now. I May rouse an angry storm, That ali tbe after years of life . ..'V.'i'ii In rain may strive to calm. . Be gentle ; perfect there are none; ' 4 f Thou'it dearer far than life ; . ii ; v Th n, husband, bear and still forbear ; Be gentle to thy wife. - A Sunday a Century Ago. An s olti brown leather-corered book; the leaTs yellow, the rWVitiiifr scarcely legible,' from time and de cay : evidently and old; riHlfCted MS.' ! the fire or to my. private shell? These were my refl ctions as 1 jooKeu orer the papers of my te I Jiked the look of the ho kv and dtcided tor the shelly and I had my reward, for I fi-nnd in the crabbed characters a simple story, evidently written towards the close of the writi-r's life. This story I now tran scribe into a modern sty le: "He'll be fii tor nothing," sa:d my f ;thr; " an awkward booby who holds his awl and Cuts his food with his left ha. d." - . - :". S" said my father, and so, alas! I iVlr. I was auk wat d I was 15; thfck-set, .-trohjr, but terrible clumsy . 1 could not make a cellar, ht sew a pair of" blinkers, nor stuff a saddle, nor do anv thinjr that I ought to be able to-do. My fingers seemed to have no mechanical feeling in them I whs awkward, and 1 knew it, attd all knew it. 4 I 'wjis good-tempered; con Id write fairly, and read anything; but I was awkward with my limbs; they seemed to have wills of tb ir own; and yet I could dance as easily and lightly as any of my ne:irhbors' sons. ' 1 don't know what he's fit for," said my father to the rtctor ot the parish. , ' I've set him to carpenter ing, and he cut his finger nearly ofl withan axe; then he went to the smih, and burnt his hands till he was up for a month. It's all of no fose; he spoils me more good leather ' in a week than his earnings pay for in -a' month. . Why cannot he, Ike other Christ ans, use hi- hands as the good Gd meant him to? There! Look at him now, cutting that back strap for the squire with his left hand." I heard htm; the knife slipped, and the long s rip of" leather was divided in a moment and utterly spoiled. "There now! look at that. A piece out of the very middle of the kkin, and his finger gashed into the bargain." The rector endeavored to sooth my father's anger, while I bandaged my finger Yon'd better let him come up for that va-e, Mr Wa-ters; I should Jik a case to fit it, for it's very frngile, as ali that old Italian glass is; and line it with, the softest leather, please." And so J went with the rector to bring' back the Tase, taking two chamois leathers to bring it in. We leached the house, and 1 waited in the passage while he went to fetch it. fie c me back with a large vase, tenderly wrapped in the leathers. Ala'! At that moment there came from the room, against the door of which I was standing, the sound of a voice sieging. A voice that thrilled me through a voice I hear now as I write these lines so elettr, so sweet, so pure, it was as if an angel had revealed itself to me. 1 trembled, and forgot the precious burden in my hands; it dropped to the ground and was shattered to pi os. II ow shall 1 describe the rector's rage? I fear he said something for which he wnld have blushed in his calmer moments, and she came out. Site who had the angel -voice his niece came out, and I saw her. I forgot the disaster, and stood speech- itss u7. eor hi n r i;ic.ft. "You awkward scoundrel! look at entjwtft' wi k. "'"Thirty pounds! Fifty P' pound! An invaluable treasure gone irreparably in h moment. Why don't you speak? Why did you drop ill" ' Drop it." 1 said wakiner up. Drop what?'' And then it flished upon me Hrain, and I stammered out, 44 She sang!" 4tAud if she did ving, was there any occasion to drop imy beautiful VHe, ou doubly stupid blockhead? Ther tr out of the hone, do, before you do any further mischief, and teP your father to horeswhip yon for a stupid dolt." l KH-IU ll'lllllll", UIU MOlUlllif, UUl only looked at her face, and we t shamblin .' away, a changed and al tered eirg. There was a world where Tiorse-collars and horse shoes, tenons and mortices, r ight hands or left; entered not.,':' That; world I had Rfeu;, I, had breathed its air and beard its voices. My father heard of my misfortune, and laid the strip across my should ers without hesitation, for in my young days boys were boys till e ighteen oo nineteen years old. I bore it patiently, uncomplainingly. " What is he fit for?'? mrj ooa , would ask, and no one could - answer, not even myself. I wandered about the rectory in the summer.evenings and heard her singf l tried hard to get tbe old gar dener to let me, help, him carry the wat"ering"pot8, and when I succeeded, felt, as I entered the rector's garden, that I was entering a paradise. Oh happy months, - when,- after the horri Me labors of the. weary day, I used to follow the old gardener, and hear her sing. My old 'withered heart beats fuller and freer when the mem1 ory comes back to me now. , ; Alas! alasl my awkwardness again banished me. She met me one eve ning in the garden as I was coming along the path with my cang full of water, and spoke.to me, and said. "You're the boy that broke the vase aren't y;u?" u : 1 did not, could not reply; my strength forsook me. I drooped ny cans on the ground, where tbey up set and floinled away in a moment some seedsotr which the rector set most especial store. ' ' Hmv awkward, to be sure!" she excla trued. " Andr how angry" uncle willte. ?, n y f, I turned ; and fled, " and from that time the rectory gate was closed against me. ; IJed a miserably onhappy life for the next three years; 1 had only one consolation during the. whole of that weary time. I saw her at church and heard her sing there. I could hear nothing else when she sang, clear and distinct, above the confus ed, nasal sounds that came irom the voices of others hers alone pure, sweet,, and -good.: It was a blessed time. I. would not miss a Sunday's service in church for all that might offt-r. Three good miles tvery Suns day there and buck did 1 heavily plod to hear her, and feel well re, warded. I shared her joys and heav iness. 1 kn w when she was happy, when oppressed; as a mother knows the tones of her child's voice, to the minutest shade of difference, so I could tell when her heart was light and when sad One Sunday she sang as I had never yet heard her, not loudly, but o tenderly, so lovingly; I knew the change had come she loved; it thrill ed in her voice and; at the evening service he was there. 1 saw him. A soldier, I knew, by his bearing, with cruel, hard, grey eyes; and she sang, I knew it 1 detected a tremble and gratitude in the. note. I felt she was to suffer, as 1 had suffered; not that I sang. I had no voice. A harsh guttural sound was all I could give utterance to. I, could whistle like a bird, and often and often have I lain for hours in tne shade of a tree and joined in the concerts io the woods. 0 e day I was whistling,; as was my wont, as I went through the street, when I was tapped on the shoulder by an old man, the cobbler of the next parish. I knew him from his coning to my father for leather occasionally. "Sam, where did you learn that1?"' Learn what?'' "That tune." "At church." " "You've a good ear, Sam." I've nothing else good, but I can whistle anything.". " Can ym whistle me the Morn ing Hymn?" 1 did so. " Good; very good. Know any thing of music, Sam." ' Nothing." " L ke to?'' ; I'd give all I have in the world to be able to ply anything. My soul's full of music. ; I can't sing a note, but 1 could play anythiug if I were taught." u So you shall, Sam, my boy. Come home with me. Carry these skins, and you shall begin at once." I went home with him, and found that he was one of the players in the choir of his parish, his instrument being the volonceljo. I took ray first lesson, and from that time com menced a new life. Evening after evening, and sometimes during the day, I wandered over to his little shop, and while he sat, stitch, stitch, at the boots and shoes, I played over and over acain all the music I could tret from the church. "You've a beautiful fingering, Sam. my boy, beautiful, and though it does look a little awkward to see you bowing away with your left, it makes no difference to yon. You ought to be a fine player, Sam." I was enthusiactic, but I was poor. I wanted an instrument of my own, tut I had no money, and I earned none I could earn none. My pas rents thought, and perhaps rightly, that if they found me food and cloth ing, 1 was well provided for, and so for some 12 m-mths I used the old cobbler's instrument, improving dai ly. It was strange that the limbs and fingers, so rigid and stiff for every other impulse should, under the influence of sound,, move with uch preciion, ease and exactness. "S.mi, my boy,'' said the cobbler, one day, . yoa shall have an instru meat, and your father shall , buy it for you, or the whole parish shall cry ; hame upon him." " But bedon't know a word of this," I said- 4 Never mind, Sam, my bov, he shall be glad to know of it;'' and be told me his plans. At certain times it was customary for the choirs of neighboring churches to help each' other, and it was ars ranged that the choir of our parish should play and sing on the next Sunday rooming at his parish church, and that be and his choir should come over to our church for the evening service. ; . . r. t f And you , Sam," said Jie11 shall take my place in your owe church; and. Dlease God. von do as well there as you nave done here, it willTJe the prouaest aay i snail know, aara, my boy and your fatner and mother will act V 0 b'V. f How I Drarticed. mornioff. noon and nigbb, for the great day; how the oia man aarwiy nintea at a proaigy that was . to be forthcoming at the festival; and then the great and &u spiciousdav itself, with its events all is as vivid before me as if it were but vesterdav. 90 ' The evening came;? and there, in the dimly. lit gallery, I sat. waiting, w ith my master beside. 3 " Sam, my boy,'' said my master, " it s a great risk: n'o getting very m ana ' mil. Ihere s the squire and my lady just ' come in. Keep your eyes on your book, and feel what you're play ing and think y on re in the little shop: I've brouebt a bit of leather to if w help you, and he put a piece of that black leather that has a peculiar acid scent in i front of me.A The scentiof it revived me; the memory of the many, hours I had spent there came back to me at once, and I felt as calm as if I were indeed there. She came, at last, and service be gan. Oh! that night! Shall I ever forget its pleasures? the wondering looks of the friends and neighbors who came and found in me. the de spised, awkward, left-handed sad niers apprentice, tne proaigy ot which they had heard rumors. Oh, it was elrious! The first few strokes of my bow gave me confi dence, and I did well, and knew it, through the hymn, through the chants, and on to the anthem before the sermon. That was to be the gem of the evening; it. was Handel's then new anthem. know that my Re deemer livelh. It began harsh, inharmonius and out of tune I know not why or how; but as it progressed, a spell seemed on all but her and myself; one by ne the instruments ceased .and were si. lent; one by one the voices died away and were lost, and she and I alone, bound together and driven by an irresistible impulse, went through the anthem; one soul, one spirit 6eemed to animate both. The whole congregation listened breathless as to an angel; and she, self-absorbed and like one in a trance, sang, filling me with a delicious sense of peace and exultation, the like of which I have never known since. It came to an end at last, and with the Ust triumphant' note 1 fell forward on the desk in a stupor. ; When I recovered I found myself at home in my own room, with the rector, the doctor and my parents there, and heard the doctor say " I to'd you he would, my dear madam; I knew he would." "Thank God!" murmured my mother. " My dear boy, how we have feared for you." What i difference! I was courted and made much of. " Genius!' and " very clever!" and " delightful tal ent!" such were the expressions 1 now heard, instead of "stupid!" awkward!" and " uufit for any thing!" . ,. My father bought a fine instru. ment; and I was the hero of the vil luge for months. Ii was some days after that Sun day that I ventured to ask about the rector's niece. " My dear boy," said my mother; " the like was never heard. We saw you there and wondered what you were doing: but as soon as we saw you with the bow, we knew you must be the person there'd been so much talk about; and then, when the an them came, and we all left off sing ing and they all left off playing, and only you and Miss Cecilia kept on, we were all in tears. I saw even the rector crying; and, poor girl, she seemed as if in a dream and so did you; it was dreadful for me to see you with your eyes fixed on her, watching her so eagerly. And then to look at her; staring up at the stained glass window as if she could see throusrh it,' miles and miles awav into ihe sky. Oh, I'm sure the lik' never was; and then when you fell down, I screamed; aud your father ran np and carried you down and brought you home in Farmer Slade's four-wheeler.'"' After this I had an invitation to go up to '.he rectory, and there in the long winter evenings we used to sit; and while 1 played, she sang. Oh, those happy times! when she loved me, buc only as a de.ir friend; and I loved aer as I never loved before or could love again. I do not know the kind of love I had for her. I was but a little older than she was, but 1 felt as a father might feel to i is daughter; a sweet tenderness and love that made me pitful to her. I knew she loved a man unworthv of her, and I think, al times, she felc this herself, and knew I felt it. I was perfectly free at the rector's house at last, aud we used to find in our music a means of converse that our tongue could never have known. Alv me those days! . Gone! Alas! they are gone. J. 3 :?:,:", j,i t: She left us at last, and in a few years her motherless child came back in her place; and as 1 again sit in the old rectory .parlor years and years after my first visitwith her daughter beside me singing but, alas, not with her mother's voice all the old memories flood back upon me, and I feel a grateful, calm joy in the open ly -shown respect and affection of the daughter of her whom I loved so si ientlv, so tenderly; and so long. I sit in the old se,at in the church now and play: and, ence in the year, the old anthem; but the voice is gone that filled the old church as with a glory that day. I feel, as the sounds swell out, and the strings vibrate un der my withered fingers. I - am but waiting to be near her unaer the old yew tree outside, and it may be nearer to her still in the longed-for future. ti -v- ": - Trades of Animals. It has been well remarked by a clever author, that bees are geometricians.' The cells are so constructed as, with the least quantity of material, to have the largest-sized spaces and the least possible interstices. The mole " i a meteorologist. , The bird called the uine-killer is an arithmetition, also the crow, the wild turkey, and some other birds: 1 The torpedo, the ray, and the electric eel are electricians. The nautilus is a navigator. II raises and lowers his sails, casts and weighs anchor, and performs many nautical feats. Whole tribes of birds are musicians. The beaver is an architect, builder and woodcutter, He cuts down trees, and erects houses and dams. The marmot is a civil en gineer. He does not only build houses, but constructs aqueduct and urams to Keep tnem dry. The ant maintains a regular standiug army. wasps are paper manufacturers. uotciuuiais oio sua. suimiers. i ne squirrel is a ferryman. With "a chip or a piece of bark for a boat, and his tail for a sail, he crosses a stream. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and many others, are hunters. The black bear and heron are fishermen. The ants are day-laborers. ThA monkey is a rope dancer. . - A Great Wrong. When a dis sipated youth goes astray, friends gather around htm in order to re. store him to the path of virtue. Gentleness and kindness are lavished upon him to win him back again to innocence and peace. No one would suspect that he had ever sinned But when a poor girl is betrayed, she receives the brand jf society, and is nencetortn driven from the ways of virtue. The betrayer is honored re spected, and esteemed; but this ruin- ed, heart-broken victim knows there is no rest for her this side of the grave. Society has no helping hand for her no smile of peace, no voice of forgivness. These are eart.hlv moralities they are unknown in heaven. There is deep wrong in them, and fearful, are the conse quences. 1 he injustice of society is vividly brought to the mind in the case delineated. Once a Week. Comparative. In point of the numbers engaged and the rapidity of the movements, the late battle of Sa- dowa was one of the drearest if nor - D the greatest ever fought in Europe. Five hundred thousand men' were brought into direct collision with each other, and fought ten hours. wnue tne casualties were at. Jeast 25,000. This was quick work, but in the proportion of losses bears but slight comparison to many of the battles fought during our late rebeU lion. At iadowa the losses were in the proportion of one to tweniv whilst in several of our battles they were as one to five, and nearly al ways reached as high as one to ten Common Scolos. Tne Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, at its recent session, decided in the case of Elnor Mohn, of Lehigh country that a wo man can be indicated as a common scold. ; Judge Woodward, in deliv ering the opinion of the Court, said, " As to the unreasonableness of hold ing woman liable to punishment for too tree use of their tongues it is enough to say that the common law, which is the expressed wisdom " ot ages, adjudges that it is not unreason able. And the Legislature had not changed the common law in this re gard, but on the contrary, declared, so recently as 1860, that this offence shall be punished as heretofore." Dropped Something. A lady was out walking in PonohkensiA NT0; York, the other day, accompanied by her servant, who was drawing an infant in one of the little carriages made forthe purpose,when, unnoticed by mother or servant, the child fell out upon the walk. The couple pass ed along, and had gone some distance from the baby, when they were ac costed by a gentleman who had wits nessed the entire transaction: "Mad am, you have dropped something," at tbe same time pointing to the In fant on the walk in the distance. The sequel can be imagined. , Sickness on the Plains. The Kearney Herald of the 28th, ult., says the Mormon train said to be af fected with cholera, halted at Kear ney on Saturday, and started on yes terday for Salt Lake. The Post Sur geon thinks it is not cholera, but pronounces it dysentery in the most malignant form. Twentysix had died since leaving the river ; those now prostrated twenty five or thirty in number are on the mend. The disease is abating. , The St." Louis (Mo.) Democrat says that the wharfs , of the I city are ,te j96 "tended north and south along the whole river. front, and that prob ably at no distant day St. Louis wiil have a continuous -wharf seven miles in extents Various harboriimprove. ments also are about to bo made there.- ;?": ' ' : y 1 igers in Cochin China. Many of the natives obtain their livelihood by tiger catching, the skin of this an- : . t k : ... .. i it mi imai uciug vaiuauie. iney use a novel mode of ensnaring these savage beasts. ' Two Malays generally goln company, and travel over many parts ot tne country, lhose who follow this business regularly, have permits allowing tnem t build a hut tor their use in any place they think fit. The hilt is limit rtn 1 1 Q ' 1 nr. rl K V 7 ."r iium uueeu 10 iweuiy reer. nign; and, as tae tiger cannot climb these the men can remain in it and watch their snares in safety. The snare consists of large leaves, or sometimes pieces of paper about six inches square, covered on one side with a substauce of the same nature as bird lime, jand containing a poison, the smallest particle of which setting into thA Anim," o..o ' ;.b 0 vjv vouoco maiau- taneous and total blindness. They are laid about thick v. with the bird l.'mo BiA j - ; u,,u lime side upward, .in a track of a tiger; and as sure as the animal puts I make strong assertions respecting its mer his Daw on on th trohom, uo0 ?ts' which we are prepared to substantiate he becomes a victim ; for finding iu suck to his foot, he shakes it, by which means other leaves adhere to it. He then probably rubs his head in the attempt to rid himself of these leaiy encumbrances; but thev stick to nis head and face: he then, per- . - . ' . h9nj rrtM0 uiip ' u j haps rolls himself on the ground, when he becomes fairly covered; and, while scratching and rubbing himself m ftDT fran -i I I, rt . ..... . . w ncc, owmc ui tuo uutsuiiuus bird lime cet's into his eves and blinds Ti , j . iiC giowis anu roars in agony. ana tll.S IS the Signal for his captors to dispatch him. The Makvs thpn ba.ni me animal, ana taKe awav parts l, : . i , , or nis oody that may be available n:.c, i ti " ,, iMrc hjc carcass wen sirpwn with more leaves, as a bait for other tigers. Other animals, and birds.aUo, they ensnare m the same manner. a ' ' An Excellent Experiment. The ondon Spectator says that a firm in Manchester bound themselves by a a j j: -j .i J I trust deed to divide their profits over fifteen per cent, on the capital invest ed among their workmen. The firs" result was a decrease in waste, the men not seeing why they should waste their own property any more than any other master's, and waste t, perhaps, as bad debts, the great est source of manufacturing loss The next was an immense advance in the pace of the work done, the men putting their hearts into it as hired men will not do, and scolding each other fcr neglect as if each man was overseer. lhe last was a great in crease of orders, every man being as anxious to obtain work. or. : s he himself explained it, to "carry some un to bonus, as if he had been the sole master. The result was a first dividend of fifteen per cent, per an num, and four or five per cent, over or division among the men. Silent Influences. The Rev. Al- bert Barnes says It is the bubbling spring which flows gently, the little rivulet which runs alon.o- d.-i v nun night, by the farmhouse, that is use I, rather than the swollen flood or roaring cataract. Niagara excites our wonder, and we stand amazed at the power and greatness of God, there, ne pours it from the hollow of us hand.'7 iiut one Niagara is enough for the continent or the world. while the same world requires thou sands and tens of thousands of silver buntains and gently flawing rivulets. that water every farm, and meadow. and every garden, and that shall flow on every day and night with their gentle, quiet beauty. So with the acts of our lives. It is not by great deeds like those of the martyrs, that good is to be done, but by the daily anu quiet virtues ot life, tb (Jn-is tian temper, the good qualities of elatives and friends. All the Same. Diminutive ap plications are appropriate tor child ren, but are out of place for adults. "Bennie'' sounds pretty for a little urchin, but when he becomes a man we give him the full cognomen of Benjamin." So in the early stages of the Great Rebellion we called the rebels "Johnnies" now we call thorn Johnson men." Dubuque Times. Dr. Durbin, the great Methodist orator, once attempted to preach from the text, " Kemember Lot's wife," and made a failure. Afterward, re marking to Dr. Bond that he did not know the reason of his failure, the venerable doctor replied that " he had better let other people's wives alone." A Modern Duel. A couple of captains became desperate in a sa loon, io New Orleans, a few davs ago, and their friends provided them with the following-pieces for a bloody duel. They stood but a few paces apart, and both combatants fell, one covered with mush and the otner with molasses, the seconds haviug loaded the pieces with that kind of " vittles." The tinting power of the salts of Magenta seem iucredible. One grain in a million time its weight of water gives a pure red ; in ten millions a rose pink ; in twenty millions a del uded blush, and even in fifty millious an evident glow is seen. The mortality returns of England for 1864 show "that in that year 28 of the men who died and 70 of the women had reached one hundred years of age or upwards, one woman dying at 108 and one man-at 109. Of these 98 very aged people London had 12. FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE CO.j FLORENCE, MASS. Manufacturers of the Celebrated Re versible feed Sewing Machines ! Making four distinct stitches ! TTTHILE a large number ofMachines have YY been offered to the Public, some of which possess points of excellence and ac knowledsed merit, we have lone felt what others bave experienced, the necessity of a Macuine more pertect in its mechanical structure, combining in the highest degree . J . 'J-. ...'Jl J 1 'T'j. 3 1 1 1 , . e'tsMt-uy wun auraouuy, ana wniiecapaDie of doing a greater range of work, one that coma De easily understood ana comprehend ed by all. To supply a Sewing Machine free from the objections attaching to others, has been no easy task ; tor we had not only to surpass I other3 as thev appeared years ago, but also as improved from time to timely more re- cent experience. I This we claim has been accomplished by . expenditure ot capital, and the patient, untiring labor of years; and in pre- senting our Machine to the public, we shall in every particular. Discarding the Cham and Loon, or Knit suicnes, we aaopt the lock Stitch, (alike on both sides of the fabric.) which is regarded . 1 i ... - . ' by the masses as best suited to all kinds of work. Jiut to meet objections sometimes urged against this lavoiite stitch we have Knot, either of which is ttronaer and rntrt. aaaed tne Knot, Double Lock and Double i ....... i . , . . . . . man tne l.ock; thus enabling the op erator to select a stitch perfectly suited to every grade of fabric, and where neces.arv sew seams much s ronger than it is possibfe r&pp -.. I .-, 7 l . . . i sLucnes witn as mucn ease as ordinary Ma chines make one, and with a little ma cninery. Th rni. of ron. ,aa n I we could desire, and from its first introduc- ion ,the ORKNCE has gained hosts of I icuua, &iiu uceii resaiueu a umsen-tJUi ne- cessity; proving that the public fully appre I c,.ate me vtaay, be.-iv.ty, and durability com I omed in the 1? LiUKh-A Machine. i zf i .u ci rt d .rr' a. follorin(i advantages over any and all Sew ing Machines: JSF" It ?nakes four different stitchea, L., Knot, Double Lock, and Double Knot, on one and the same Machine. Each stitch beine aiiKe on ootn sides ot the taoric. WL3 f ir rrr XI -Vt--v lino MA wnn Z 11 feed motion, which enables the operator, by simPlv turning a thumb screw, to have the work run either to the right or left, to stay any part ot the seam, or fasten the ends of seams, without turning the fabric. Z& Lhansnnsr the length ot stitch, and from one kind ot stitch to another, can read ily be done while the Machine is in motion. Ei7 the needle is easily adjusted. ZrSF' it is almost noiseless, and can be used where quiet is necessary. Its motions are all positice ; there are no springs to get out of order, and its sim plicity enables the most inexperienced to operate it. It does not require liner thread on the under than for the upper side, and will sew across the heaviest seams, or from one to more thicknesses of cloth, without chanse of needle, tension, or breaking thread. T-sF Ae hemmer is e:isiiv adjusted and will turn any width of hem desired. J2f Jo other Machine will do so great a range ot work as the rLUlibXJb. It will hem, gather, fell, bind, braid. quilt, and gather and sow on a ruffle at the same time. The taking up of the slack thread is not performed by the irregular contraction of a wire coil or uncertain operation ot wire levers. The precision and accuracy with which the FLORENCE draws the thread in to the cloth, is uuapproached in any Sewing macuine nuneno onerea in me mai Ket. We furnish each Machine with "JJarnum's Self Seiver," which quides the work itself, ana is of incalculable value, especially to inex perienced operators. KS? It is tuliy protested and licensed by Ehas Howe, jr., and his associates, and our own Letters Patvnt. While possessing the above and many other advantages, the Florence is sold at corresponding prices with other first class Machines, and a careful examination will fully substantiate all that we have claimed for it, and justify the assertion we now make, that it is the best Sewing Machine in the world. We warrant every machine to be all that we claim for it and will give a written war ranty. b urther reference may be had by address ing O.L.. I'AIUllSH V Co., Agent. 6ml) Portland, Oregon. Florence JSewino; Machines ! ! 7 Copy of the report of committe of Awards at the Jb air of the American Institute, NEW YORK, 1865. HIGHEST PREMIUM! GOLD MEDAL ! ! To the Florence Sewing Machine Co , Jbor the Best family Sewing Machine ! REASONS 1st, Its simplicity, and great range oi worK. za, Tne reversible Feed motion. 3d, The perfect finish and sub stantial manner in which the Machine is made. 4th, ihe rapidity of its working and the quality of the work done. 5th,The Self adjusting Tension. Ihe Florence was awarded the First and Highest Premium at the State x air of California, the onlv Fair on the Pacific Coast at which any two double thread Sewing Ma chines were exhibited in competition m lboo. The Florence received the only premium awarded by the Mechanics1 Institute of San Francisco in 1864 and 1865, to any Sewing Machine Co., or Agent. Tne claim of a com. petuor to a medal is without any foundation whatever. Wherever the Florence has been brought into competition with other Sewing Machines, it has always been declared the best. It is the most s'mP, the most substantial, the most efficient, and in its use is easily learned. -Every Machine soli is guaranteed in the full sense ot the word. Srnd for Circulars at.rj Samples of work. RAMUPf Mil I m W W MM Ml MM Ml n30) General Agent. No. Ill Montgomery street San Francisco. EQUALIZATION BOUNTY BILL THE undersigned, having recently re turned from Washington City, where he has made the proper arranarements far the collections of the Extra Bounty allowed to all soldiers enlisted for three years in the service oi tne united States, is pre pared with the proper Blanks, &c, required by the Department at Washington, to have said bounties promptly paid. Persons entitled to the benefits of said Bounty will find it their interest to attend to its collection at once. Having an Agent at Washington, and personal knowledge of the mode of making collections through the De partments, I can get returns promptly ' I3T Call with your Discharge, at the Pub lication Office of the Daily Oregonian. No. 5 Washington St., Portland. 3m A, BUSUWILER, Claim Agnt. Electropatliic Institute, 645 Washington Street, San Francesco. . ........ California. J. H. JOSSELYN, M. D.f r Resident Physician,. ,tj . .; -,t THE DIRECTORS OF THIS CELEBRAT ed Medical Institute wish to; thank the public for the generous manner in which they have sustained the Resident 1 Physician with their patronage. ' It is now six years since the Institute was established; during that time there has been over thirty thousand consultations, and in all cases, where the disease was curable. ' s" pi A perfect and permanent cure has been" performed. Malicious charlatans have open ed traps in close proximity to the Institute, adopting similar names, hoping to attract the unweary; but their: failure; to do so is perfectly apparent for the business has not been effected in the least, but has gone on increasing its usefulness and profits in regu lar ratio. The Resident Physician has by careful study and experience within tbe last few years been successful in discovering new electric remedies which are far superior to' any before used in the healing art, and hef can warrant them to cure all cases for which they are used, or make no charges for ser vices. They will be forwarded to any place in the Pacific States upon a receipt of a . let' ter stating the disease with symptoms, the age and sex of the patient. , . The Female medicines, discovered and used by the Resident Physician, are the only remedies which are safe and have ther effect. The large number of cases in which they have been used, is a guarantee of their, success. ' ' ' Great care should be talren in visiting the Institute, to remember the name. Electropatliic Institute, 645 Washington Street between Montgomery and Kearnv streets. J. II. JOSSELYN, M. D., ' Resident Physician. Below are a few of the opinions of the press of California, which are submitted to the Public: - Electeopatht. The readers of this article are paiticularly requested to read the ad-L vertisement of the "Electrophatic InstiJfc tute," 645 Washington street, San Fran cisco, to be found in another column of this paper. Ihe remarkable cures that have been effected by Dr. J. H. Josselyn, the Resident Physician of the Institute during the past six years, has gained for this es tablishment a reputation that - has never hn equalled by any medical establishment on this coast. In cases of female irregularities especially. Dr. Jossel Vn has crninpA an or.Tr; able reputation, and the spacious parlors of tbe Institute are continually adies asking relief fiom their ti cable?. Dr. Josselvn pays particular attention tn the treatment of cases in the interior nf th State and upon receipt of a full dprlntinn of the disease of which the annlicant To Bn unfortunate as to be afflicted, acenmnam' with the real or a fictitious address son per Wells, Fargo & Co., medicines that he warrants to cure the disease, without, th. slightest injury to the system. He uses no mercury or mineral poisons. The rempHioa used are known as " Electic," and most of them are of his own discovery. Persons placing themselves under the treatment of Dr. J. H. Josselvn may rely upon not onlv receiving correct 'and successful treatment , .... but upon his discretion and secreef. Red Blvff Independent January 24th, 1866. Glad to Hear It. For several months- past Dr. J. 11. Josselyn, for the last six years so well known as the Resident Physician of the Electropatliic Institute, 645 Washington street, San Francisco, has contemplated re tiring from his position for the purpose of accepting the position as Visiting Physician in one ot the large hospitals in his native State, Massachusetts. The matter becoming known to a nuniber of scientific gentlemen of San Francisco, who, feeling what a great loss would occur to the community by the withdrawal of a physician of such scientific attainments as Dr. Josselyn, a meetinsr was canea ai wmcu resolutions highly laudatory of the Doctor's abilities were passed, and a committee of gentlemen appointed to wait upon him, present the resolutions, and urge him to give up his intention of leaving the State, and continue in his presei.t position. " " The arguments of the committee facilitated by certain pecuniary propositions, made by the Directors of the Institute, having induc ed the Doctor to return his position at Resi dent Physician. We announce the success of the negotiations w'lh satisfaction, as it would have been difficult for the numerous patients that heretofore relied on the Doctor tor scientific and successful treatment to have found another physician capable of fi'l inghis place. Democratic iStamlard, Jan. 31. Read It. We heartily recommend those of our readers who may be suffering from ' disease of long standing, or from complaints brought on by the use of mercury, at some former period of their lives, to read the ad vertisement ot the Juectropathie Institute, to be found in our advei tisiug columns. Dr. J. H, Josselyn, the Resident Physician, has oc cupied that position for six years, and tak ing into consideration the fuct that all the Directors of the Institute are all medical men of high standing in the community, it may be considered as proof of Dr. Josselyn's ability that he has been retained in theposi tion so long. Dr. Josselyn is a regular grad uate, and is also considered by competent judges to be the most scientfic and success ful electrican in the United State s; he will cure more than half the diseases that flesh is heir to without the use of anv medicine in nil cases where it is deemed necessary, but never uses anything but vegetable prepara tions. The doctor has been verv snoopsfnl in his treatment of diseases incident to fa- males, and eniovs a much !flrrrr in that particular line than anv other physician on the Pacific coast The Electrooathic Tn- stitute is located on one of the most nonular streets in San Francisco, the rooms for th reception of patients are fitted un in a t vl . of magnificence never before attempted "by any medical establishment on this coast, and s the Institute is rated in San Francisco as the : best in the city. Mountain Democrat. The Best is the Cheapest. This ada will apply as well to the practice of medi cines as to the purchase of merchandise. Thousands on this coast, during the past fifteen years, have had their constitutions ruined by refusing treatment at the hands of 1 first-class physicians, simply because a gang of humbugs, styling themselves doctors. anA who are almost destitute of common sense much more of medical knowledge, offer t ? treat those who are sick for a less sum than ' a regular practitioner. A man that would allow a quack to administer medicine ta him, is worse than an idiot, for, in nine cases "f out of ten, the medicine so given, instead of curing the disease, makes the patient worse and does permanent injury to the system, and oftentimes to such an extent as to pre vent the possibility of curing the original disease. The fact is, that no person should place himself in charge of a physician unless he has strong proofs that the doctor is a regular graduate from some well reputed Medical College. The number of medical humbugs in San Francisco, is perfectly . enormous ; not more than two of the adver tised physicians have a diploma. Dr. J. H Josselyn, Resident Physician of the Electro patliic Institute, 645 Washington street, is one cf these, and is prepared at all times to. exhibit las diplomas. Yreka Union Febru ary 10, 1S66. . CAUTION. Persons seeking the Electropathic Insti tute, should be careful to remembertbe nameA and number. Electropathic Institute? 6A(i " ashmgton Street, Houth side, between Kedtmyia and Montgomery. J. II Josselyn, M.D. on, the sign. With, these remarks weuteaYe Jbe interests of the Institute with the, public, ..." asking only the same generous cdhndce and patronage thus far awarded to it. he record shows over thirty thousand consulta- : tions, and a very large, amount of suffering ; relieved. ' . Persons wishing to consult the Resident '. Physician by Letter, can do so with the .ut- most confidence, and can, if they wish, have Electric Remedies for any disease ; sent to alt parts of the State; all Remedies sent from tbe Institute warranted to be effectual. tAU t letters must be addresssed plainly J. H--JOSSELYN, M. D., Box 1945, San Francisco j : Cal. All letters will b destroyed or re turned, as directed by the writer. (8m