Cape Jtlug ©ceaw;to»e,1

VOLUMES,

CAPE ISLAND. NEW JERSEY. THURSDAY. DECEMBER. 11. 1S62.

NUMBER -28

gttar «f Hit fRnsts . I • ^»s for !h« - Oersn W»v«." ' ( Tore rant mpowdtug •• tit* ooantryW «•». j I Cedents UIIMI, reihtnc to lb* t«hl, OrthN o t self, whstwsT mar befall, < Kaowtag bo Iter while battling (or the rtcht. , M»J mew. thy nob)-; loo*, Cape Maatfs pride, " ' I - (Mil wiaalhed with gleer, trill looor memory Uttae, c Muklac thy f*m« a beacon tUt to guide . Vooof saltan* Patriot* on to d«eda Uke tklse. p, m brave heart* great actloo* emuUte.n ' Ons iorr of oouo'rjr servee each hpro'snjr* . r allot »od ltw*h*ll •tor.d our little — , , Ever era! In peace *nd Brat 'aldst wdrt alAfe. ' i. r. a. i c. a. r. •atk S. J. Heft. **" i . Stltrt DJisttllann. TAXES AT HIB WORD. A TBt'K STOBX. **OM-of mj- sigh*! You are a culsm- i Ity and distress to all CTonr family. ! Away with yon and Julr. The nrroy if ! yoa can do nothing cite. Yon will j then Hand soma chance of getting shot, J which will be a good thing for nil concerned, and the 'quicker it takes place the belter." ^ Reader, who do yoa think said that ? ' And to whom do you think it was said ? ■ Why, a father said it — be anid it to ; kit oth to*. "What a monstor !" do yon cry ? "Nay, be waa a church member. lie 1 prayed, morning and nicht, with his , family. There is no doubt that he intended Vnd sometimes tried to be a . good man. But he warenraged at his j hoy, and this caused bia unchristian Ian- ; irnagrYou may judge, by the language he oerd, ho a he had brought up that upfor j tunnte boy. You judge correctly, andlbe boy was what imagine Jiiui to be. The father waa getting bia re*ard no a for bating so neglected bis duty in the ; training of his ton. But he could not j bear with any sort of patience, the way- j ward conduct of the youth, and so raged j

and nrtfed at him, that everything in j " Kdgfir which was bad became a thou- J ^ tend fold worse. The mother— as moth- j ers will — clung in love and patient pity ! ( to bar bop, ^nd her sool was in agony ! | to witness the violent scenes between him and bia father. gha talked falihfuliy to both ; but ^ neither wool J hear. The father declared • I he boy to be reprobate and worthless, and the aon said, desperately, that his 1 father bated him, and that 'hi* conviction imbitlered and poisoned his bsart co that it waa impossible for him to be j . ~ good, "Even for your sake mother." he sobbed, "for which I do often try to do better." The night sfter the words with wbieb_ out sketch is commenced were uttered, ' Kdgar wns late Tiome. When he came 1 it waa to announce that be had enlisted, and was too march at uqoo the next dayTba mother -worked and wept nil tbnl sight. At the rigtit time nut day, her boy's knapsack wne ready He went without seeing bis father. The troops passed the door of- his home. Edgar's pale and despairing face waa lifted to tba pale, drenched face that looked down, searching for him in the ranks, from his mother's window. "God protect my poor boy," her while lips mnnuured. Edpsr knew what tbose words ware, tboogb be conid' not hs*r them. Hs kissed his hand to bis mother, tried to smile on her, but the woe in his great, dark eye* would not be tbes vailed, even fM owe moment. - He bowed his head and passed on. The iron Wer the bone M contention, tba. "calamity*' was gone oat of the hew* of poor Kdgar. The father look- - ed cI'--omv. bat anid not a ward of tonor that It it • crime fm aoy msm to

; evoke a life that he doe* not try his best j a , to render good ahd happy. He shoeld ! ' , have blamed himfeif far mora than he ; j did"Edgar for all the faults of the lalU-r. : I I that he never did He thought , i ' children ought to come dp all right, no, I < matter hoawfKey are treated, and he was j ' ' reedy to destroy those that did not lorn j , out well I1 \ 'Reasonable, sensible ; but many nun « faro so. It is one of God's unfaihoma- { ' j ble mysteries, why be permits such to , 1 become fathers. O, poor, ill fated j < that are born into the families of j I such fathera. But .Oqd will surely raske j i allowances, when the judgroiul sets, for I ' the children who were uever trained up, | m the way wherein they ought to go. i We wilt anchor our soqls on ibis hope, i Bot EdgakX^^ ti ; "Wall, his cdnipany wa| one of the j first that was called into action. He wns a brave boy. * Hungry and thirsty, j ; end with face and fegt glistered from the wind, and the dreadful forced march, he ( walked, or rather run on to the battle j ground, and with* hia ^comrades raised the wild ahunt that is said to have start1 led all who heard Ja. They cast off . their coats, and piled upon the earth \hat could interfere with the • freedom of their motions, and then fur- ' | ward they rushed into the bloody fight. 1 j Edgar's mother net at home thinking I of ber buy. Mothers can imagine how | : she felt, The telegraph reported that a battle nus lost ; that our fiitn had t ' lied ; that everything was ^goitif; wrong ..!ik ■!... Vi.rtlinrii a Pi up

( the Northarq •v/~ ! "O, If Edgar would but run all the' | way home!" thought the mother's heart. /[ "I would not #ay that if he wcrAut fi. ! \lo die," ahe added. "For my country 1 j could yield ray son's life; but, O, I . cannot bear- to venture bis immortal soul.-' &6urn the papers came' with the list' of $ JcilltA and wounded Edgar's name was ^ j third upon the list of IriUed. His body j was brought home, and when it lay . straightened for the grav«, with the red ' j mark just under the edge of Id* lirown, i'! . . . . - ..

i waving locks, with tbe-botta^ hole ! ( ! left breast, with tlie dark laslies lying : ( | bravily on the white cheeks, with the i ( j beamiful features set in eternal rest, and ( the strong, young limbs that bad done goou service for their cooniry, helpitss | ^ and cold, his father stood beside his | coffin aud looked upon liira, end tears (was there not reason for them ?) drop ped slowly from the stern man's eyes. What his thoughts were none knew, but | h) was tsken at his word. His wish was grafted. WiU any father be warned by 1 1 ib»s. IFafbfimon aud RejUclor. J 1* XJAV3KETM.AXD. j : I occasionally bar* a ricb time in peril -ming th^- marriage service here. " The contrabands who come in Urge I numbers to the" island, soon begin : the: ways and customs of civilisation. — Some tL them, on inquiring atxint the institution of marriage, ascertained that they were not properly married ; they were very simply j dned together at the I W|U and pleasure of their masters, with - j I out regard to their, will or wish in the i matter. While they agree very well. , aad live very happy, thev somehow or ( I other think themselves to have began wfWlg and accordingly make up their minds to begin over again ( ROW J0HW UAKKIED JCDT. \ | One evening, jnst glftr prayer- m^et i ing in the contraband chapel was cou- | eluded, -<t woman came to my qnarte>s, , in company with a man The name of Ihp roan wma John Bykes, and that of i tlmwoman Judy Buntou- "«uH. what cgn I do for you ?" .1 asked John turned to Judy, and Jwdy turned a shy took loward John, and then they both e ' opened their mouths from ear to eeb. . showing their fine leetb. I repeated the - question, and John replied something i m C»l bias , •• Jlsssa, we her# tinhio' 'bout get tin' o mwrv »H; so weVs <*9r die ubuuio^ to.

J see whether you woohl marry us ; we ,s 1 ' willin' |o pay a right gpod price for de 1 jjob ; for It will plesse m mighty well to 1 : joined to gadder frotp dc W<k ; for ^ I de way we are braagM tugedder wha' * I we come from is not 'cordin' to de right . ( j way." i j I saw John was evidently expounding , a doctrine over which be had been slu- ; • ; dying for some time. X turned to Judy, i who sat by dressed iu tough garments, « with her sleeves rolled wp to Iter should- 1 ers, slid a pi ce oT blanket round her * j Judy was laughing away aa hard | ( i the could.— Said I— "Judy, what., ' have you to say on this Subject P" Jo'ly , put on a sober fuce, straijHileued up, i and spoke in Solemn earnest— ' Bless heart if I duu'l link 'aacjly as Sykfs j 1 ! link on dis 'erg important suhjic' and i : ; we'a both been thinkifc* on de nutter ! j right smart ; an' now Ijciii' dst we got ' litre, we eome to ficc jott dis. blessed cbeniug." j Sure enough they must be married.— • J went to procure my band-book con- ^ 1 mining the formula.— While doing ibis, ' John and Judy went through some sirwnge evol tioipi; Jwly stripped her ! head, pressed her Imnd down over h»r hair, spit upon her land, aud . then 1 smoothed htr hair again. She told Joli.n • to get ready. John looked at himself, I fixed his liuir, lutimurd his coat, tied ' ! his shoes, and then straightened up as i if all ware reudy, 1 cam* forward nud ' ' told lliem to take their, plagea. ' They ' did not understand mo, and I told tlieiu ' . to stand up. Judy was the first to jump it

to Iter feet, nud John was not much be- j I hind. A'ter they had stood op. Jody threw i j ; her load dowuknd begun to grin. John ! became indignant at Jadv, nud wliisner- ! ed to her In be respectful, but Judy , laughed. I asked John if he would lake . : Judf DuuMUl. whom. hp-iheu held by the 1 right hand, to be his lawful and wedded , wife; etc.; to which he replied " Widde I help of de Lord, I will." Judy was not ' | as solemn as John w*a. — When I asked her if " she would take John Sykes . whom she held liy th^riglrt hand, to be

only lawful and weddid busband — , 1 whether she would love, honor and obey ! Mat," she had not uooelmled her laugli^ in ado out to any, " Yes, Mass a, 1*|| , try." That answer did not suit John, and he objected ; so she concluded to J g»y, " I will-" i John forgot the fee; so Judy stepped i np and asked what " was de charge ?" : John then came up and said he " reckoned it was his bnviness to 'tend lo | I dat" John asked how much I would j ' charge. I told him I »ould charge him • - a shilling. He luugh'jj. and ble»srd bis* ' heart ; for he 'U peeled U would t.e j i more." He reckoned he gof lirr'niiglur | j cheap. He had no money, fur he had ] ! not oeen paid lor his work on " de Ion;" hut Judy waa better off; Ae ha>i the . cash She put her hand inside the dress I ar.d pulled out a porri-tuunuai?, I 'old ' • her not to mind the pay irow, as I lit : tended to give tka money hack lo her as a present. They wvnt off as happy as < any two individuals I ev*r married. — ' Cknplaiu T. WmConwff M AHD WATER. I The best medicines in the world are oft.. . ! en the cbaa|iest : bat because they are j cheap they are not considered so estimable. Tld* is a marked and peculiar fact. Fresh ! ,Ir end pure wafer are maderii.es infinitely ! more rWeatioo* in common disorders than ' i nil |g« compounds set down io the pliarmu- . ; copia ; ami yet. if wefu n-i eompellnl f by circnrnsuacea-to-matcw So much oaa of f boih, how little should we take of either f i Those -who are confined to the house, ami I are but rarely permitted to enjoy tfie fresh air, as* deeply to be pitied Ho are those ' ^hote.ui.fortaoete haolu or artinee heale 1 rob. these of the chaaee »f rr-qu n! ablu • tion. They need not be surprised at their 8 lack of health and unprepossessing app-ar X unee - How could it be otherwise with I beta 7 On thu enulraiy. thouu who iadalae I* 'in fresh etruwn fcvqu'M.l -Wsahteg in pure a . water, caooot mtj ww» p«mesH anything 1 N

bot an appea rente of .beatlj enjoyment : ' rarely can they need a physicist, except t mtafTbr an n|ioth*rury except the cook ! ' Aug yet we have always had so idea that i •rcn W«b air. ami water, like all other good ► things, may lU inditltfvd in* too ranch for i , perfecl health. \Thia may scuitd like here. , but it is atfllsS fact ihai city fniks who - ; do liheraHy indulge themselves with fresh s 1 air ami water, hut cannot be at all times I invoking that indulgence, preserve their r good looks la well as fbeir good health, more remarkably ihan country f Iks. who ulways in the open air, and who have an ■ abundance of water. Those who live aho- ' gotbur io the open air grow hardy. It i« J j true, bat they, also grow C"ar*r Ml feature ^ ; ami com$ih-ai..n Coanlry liie is not an auxiliary to braolv. 'I hat i« eviJent. — ^ ; Neither is city life But the luiier, when ^ I mixed wilh ja»l -D««'igli of the former I" j give tho " Iresb uir " oeraaiided for health , i produces the utmost point of perlSrtkfb.— j ; do. too. wilh water. Bulbing every day i»% not as useful as bathing twice a week; and ! ' the man or woniua Who bailies two or three | ! times a day soon assumes a pale, bloodless, ^ ■ j cadaverous look, which it would Uu lion- • sense to call uUrscltve, while thus* flrho , 1 bath* oidr often en»ugb to k< ep ihe pure* \ , of the ekin cleanse.l and in active or-ie7. r I have that Iresh. glowing, solid l<H.k which j no one will a fmit i* unpr p«ts«e*-iug ! I'he " \ ono is water soaked : tiro otlwr i< wa-*ued 1 ' clean only ! In short, *s »» said Irafore- » , fre.h air and water afe uali'ic s own medi. . cine*, anil, the best itl the.' world; but lie i ! who is pmrpetaelly physicking himself— x , even with air sml wat r—U ii«» Utter off ] ( than ho who is fver doing the -amc with i ! calomel, salts, senna, oil. or .arsaparilla — Moderation is- the rule in all things. ' SHADE THE BjAD-SIDE. *. A. .. ud.l. I.;.l.w.,v it. .. a, turn f.tiniliur

I Oo certain familiar^ 1 to as. many of the native forest trees were salading by the first settlers, at inter ' rwls t>i fifty In a liuiidred furl, ami ti - road . . Winds among them in curve- as i>areful a* j coald lie drawn by the bv.l l.-ndsCSi-r' gaillafltf. The trees are nio.lly of til" elllK^ I maple, ami white a-h, and are now quite ' veuerahlc with age. The road i* the favor . j ile resort of pleasure ridem itv summer.-— i And why? Plainly, as the whole comma | uity declares, l ecau-e ul the gr ind old trees i and winding road, ami nothing beside* It ; •night not bo Iwrat to b«v« treat scattered I about in every highway as they are here , i t-ot .irees'shoulo l>e there somewhere, and.

I most properly. l»> the r«-ud>i<le. ! What attruct- city r. -id-nts into the i | conn fry during summer T Nothing more i powerful thull the shaded rush and wnlhs : of oor villages. It is the row* of tlnifiy ' inaples aud elm* before them that nuke the homes of our villages lo. k — com'oriuble. anil that makes au eveuing or morning enU I in the neighborhood *o plea A it. l>o m.' , tliose embvllishmanls. also enlmnce the v.l- ' ne of ones property.? I»0 tlray n® pa) ro'-ra than legal interest on their co*t ? | That's all Very well savt an objector, hut j I have set tree* t.y the road-iile. ye-«c after • year and got nothing for my pains: they, have all died Horses bav,. gnawed them,, ! cattle' have rubhed ugai'ist litem and tifek j en them down, beys have hacked ami gir- ' died tliem, and dne after another th'-y have !sil died. 1 have got tired of woraing for the public. lodced. sir, there is truth and force in { your coniqfainls, but kvep patieul ahd think again. Ho* did you plant yiWir-Tveo* ?' I.; I I -a* U neighbor «<r yours set out1 trees lieftir^ ( | i. is home precisely thus: He went to tyle I We. fis with hisnxe. (not his spade.) rut a j ( circle around tile 1le» chl»en atmut the j vise of a half bushel measihwt plied rlfq Ira-e ' nut of tho ground, and then hailing tha first i lumber wagon U at jia-se.l by ill the roud j g..t them carted b«n.e. • lie thtn du hole* j alinqt the site of Ihe tool of the dree, in, ' soil quite hard, set in t e tree*, threw in a i ' little dir'.i smonthed off the surface o' t-.e | ' ground quite c ni luceutly, and his work J was doov. , thTcui or T»* ETXS. f ' Fir«t. never d-e a desk or tafife with ! your face toward a » indi w In such case I ho ray* of light coming directly upon thr > pupil of 'he eyes, and cait*iag la uauoiotal f and ruicad coutrictiim then-ol. soon |wr » maiH-ntly injures the sight Next, when | - joar table or desk i* near a Window, sit so r that yoar 'ace nuns bom. not toward* it. while yt-a *ro writing. If your lace is to li wards the window, the ooliqa- isj* %>rikt -he *qre wild tnjuiw P neuHjr a* much a* the o pirrct r*y» when you sit in front oMhe win- 1 | daw It rt'siwaye test to .it fir stand.

while reading Ot writing, wilh the window yoa. and nett to that, with lb <Might coming aver the left/ side— ih-ti the light the paper i.r Look, and doe< »..t shiuc abruptly uponlthe eye.hall. The same remark* am applicable to artificiai light; We are often asked which is the boot light — gas, crndles, oil or catnpheuc. tier »l; *wsr is. it is immaterial which, [roorided tho / J of cither be strong onongb, and does ' j not flicker. — ikitntifir American AH AKDSIRG DODGE. A few day* since at Klmira. N. \".. whilo some laborers were engaged in digging a fi Cfi'lsr. the owner of the premises picked up ffc.m tin- dirt a £2f» gold.pirct, which lie ttt»k particular puiua to show nhoat town. Tee excitement became intense, and the f • cellar nas quickly filled with volantier fa-\ who threw out the earth with t r> piuily that must have been .exceeding. r gratifying to the persioi interested in having thu work finished. Occasionally an old cop|wr would turn op. and soon sieves were io requisition. At h-ngkb tho excitoment became so intense that one fevered byslander actually paid the owner S-t for lira privilege of digging three hours. He wa* rewoided 1-y the discovery of fonr copper* J The . liar was full of volunteer digger* drawn 10 A. M. until nighlfall. at which tiiue a sufficient excavation having bncu mads, the owner proclaimed that no mora digging would" he allowed. If the blood comes from it wound by jets ••r spirts be spry, or thu man will be dead in a fe« annate*, because an artery it *av-e-e.J ; tie a handkerchief imoly around n- *r the* part between lira wound and tba heart, put a slick heiaerti the hsuiikervbiaj and tba tkbi. twist it around until tba blood eea-e* to flow, and keep it there eolil the doctor comes; if in a po*iti»n where the " •handkerchief cannot be used, press thu thumb on a spot near the wfiuiid, between I tb» wound and tha heart ; increase tha , prvj'ttr* until the blending ceases, but do not lessen that pres»uro for an latent until Ihe physician arrives, so a* to glue up |\Hie wound by the coagulation or bardsulug -^<»f\Ihe cooling blood. In uttem|itiug to carve a fowl one day n gem It- men found considerable difficul- " iy iu separating its joints, and exclaim- , ed against the man'wlio bad sold bim an old lien for a young chicken. "My dear." said the etffagrd man's

•a ile, • duii't talk so mncb about the aged % and respect aide Mr. B. ; be -planted the first bill of corn flint nas planted in our town." "I know that," said her husband, "and 1 believe this is the bcu that scratched it ont." Warfare in the days of Cacsnr was -no I mere child's play. In tiiiie year* lie hud conquervd three hundred tribes, eight liuudred^ilies.* slain a million of men, and token prisoners enotltbr mil- ; lion After he hud become master of . the world, be entertained the whole Roman populace, at 23 .tfOUYatileiL furnishcd with e.ery luxury. .HTnitfe an artificial lake for the purposs of , showing the assemblage n sample of nni?Hi war- '*"• ^ DEEIMTIOK OF GOOD MARKER*. Tha world has alwayc bean charmed with" - tine manner* ; aud why should it uot? For i whut sro fine ^wooers but this — - to carry i I your soul on youryip, and yol to stand not . ■ naked, liul clotbed>v your iudiridusl qoal. . iij— visible, yet inscrMshle— given to the , hearts or othrrs. yet contained in your own ' bo.nm — nobly end humanely open, yet duly . \ reticent anil sacured from invasion. Pol- , | i-hrd mannars often disappoint m ; goad , maateer* never. The foim.-r may U taken . j oB by indigent souls ; the iallsr implies a ; ' noble attl opulent nature. Never sit or lie down in a curieni of air, or remove any or tho clothing after ceasing , irotn sctiv4 exercise. In* Wad of lifburo- . mg the L'ress, it should tie increased nader 'train citcumstanca.'-, hy throwing oo c I cloak, cape or aha*!, even iu summer. Attention to this simple rule would aura many , litre annually, for the moil daugrroos and •ate. form* of disease err isu-cd by Coolrofr » -fftoo rapidly. E Krrick.cn, who made i M nMmr, f»*h?. , gren, who made the c«D .--n, Jwbnv l.jral. who mode music, l'rederika ''iwairr, bo p made do mo* tic BcUou that is rand ro thuv- - j s>nd»' ot Ann.cii homes art aa i«ea .of I, ' Hrasdaa. j