A CURIOUS PIECE OP AN T1QUITT 
ON THE 
CRUCIFIXION OF OUR SAVIOR 
AND THE 
TWO THIEVES. 
HARVEST HOME AT EAIRLIGHT 
REGULATIONS FOR THE PAYMENT OF 
BOUNTIES. 
"Written tor Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
NOTHING BUT LEAVES!" 
The following rules and regulations for the 
payment of bounties under the act to equalize 
bounties, approved July 28, 1866, have been 
issued by the War Department: 
First — All applications shall be filed within 
the period of six months from the first day of 
October, 1866, and beford any payments are 
made shall be classified by regiments, battalions, 
or other separate organizations, and no applica¬ 
tion filed after that period shall be settled until 
the former 6hall have been paid. 
Second — No application shall be entertained 
unless accompanied by the original discharge of 
the soldier, and the affidavit required by the 
fourteenth section of the Act, and the further 
affidavit that he has not received, nor is he enti¬ 
tled to receive, from the United States, under 
any laws or regulations prior to the Act of July 
28,1866, more than one hundred dollars bounty 
for any and all military service rendered by him 
during the late rebellion, over and above the 
amount therein claimed. 
Third — All applications for the additional 
bounty authorized by this act from surviving 
soldiers, shall be in form hereinafter provided, 
and the evidence of identity shall be the same 
as is now required, and applications from the 
heirs of deceased soldiers shall be in the form 
now required by the Treasury Department. 
Fourth — As soon as the examination of the 
claims of aDy regiment or other independent 
organization shall have been properly acted up¬ 
on, the Paymaster General shall take the neces¬ 
sary steps for their prompt payment, 
Fifth — A register shall be kept in the Pay¬ 
master General’s office, and also in the office of 
the Second Auditor, of all claims presented 
under the law, in which the claimants will be 
classified by regiments, &c. If the claims be 
allowed, the amount of bounty paid to each will 
be noted, and if rejected the cause of rejection 
will be distinctly stated. 
Sixth — In the application for bounty, as re¬ 
quired by the third of these rules, the affidavit 
shall state each and every period of service 
rendered by the claimant, ivnd also that he never 
served otherwise thau as therein stated. 
Seventh — Organizations irregularly lu the ser¬ 
vice of the United States, or called out for 
special purposes as State Militia, home guards, 
&c., and not included in the general bounty 
laws, are not included within the meaning of 
the Act 
Eighth — f 
during the war who were discharged by reason 
of the termination of the war shall be consid¬ 
ered as having served ont the period of their 
enlistment, and are entitled to bounty under 
tbi3 act 
X inth 
the scene. She came in when an tne tnsnionaoie 
company were seated at tea in madam's hand¬ 
some drawing-room, which was set ont in great 
style ’ all the Holland covers of the yellow satin 
chair" and sofas, and the Chinese feather screens 
taken our nf theirxnusllu bags, and the carious 
cabinets of shells and china all set open to dis¬ 
play their contents. Maids in mob-eaps and 
footmen in knee-breeches were handing ahout 
tea, and cake, and Bweet-meats, and yellow but¬ 
tered Robin's rolls, when Miss Travers thought 
fit to make her entre into the drawing-room. 
She came in with the swing she was accustomed 
to practice in London assemblies. Her dress 
wae of rich India mnaiin over a pink silk slip; 
she had a gold chain round her neck, and brace¬ 
lets of gold upon her wriets; her hair was dressed 
in so many rows of curls that it was no wonder 
her toilette had occupied her to so late an hour. 
The nink roses she had disposed amongst these 
ringlets suited her completion so well, the fau 
she wielded with so mueb grace War of such 
rare, workmanship, and her whole appearance 
was so perfectly charming and fashionable, that 
the moment she appeared every gentleman in 
the room admired her, and every lady, excepting 
the Misses Fairlight and their mother, positively 
hated her. 
Maurice Rusbton was standing in the recess 
of the d- ep window, sipping tea, and talking to 
Miss Fairlight. Tlis slight, elegant figure, 
dressed in faslonftbly-made clothes, and his del¬ 
icate town complexion, showed very well 
amongst the heavy young Bquircs by whom he 
was surrounded. Miss Travers thought so, and, 
moreover, she com rived to signify as much to 
the young man himself by one Of those sweeping 
glances which brought him at once to her side. 
There he stood, the envy of his sex, dropping 
sugar into Miss Travers’ unsweetened cup of 
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Let not, 0 God! 
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bow down thy blessed ears, 
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behold a sinner weep, 
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Explanation.—T he middle Cross represents our Savior’s; those on oither side, the two thieves. 
On the top, and down the cross, are out Savior’s expressions—“ My God! My God I Why hast thoi 
forsaken me?” And on the top of the cross is the following Latin inscription:—“ Inri Jeaui 
Natarenus Hex Judeorum the interpretation is, “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.” Upon the 
cross, on the left hand, is the prayer of one of the thieves—"LordI reroomber mo when thou 
ooraest into thy kingdom. ’ On tho right hand c.ross is the saying or reproach of tho other:—“If 
thou be’est tho Christ save thyself and ns.” The whole comprised togothcr, makes an excellent 
piece of poetry, which ia to be real ncrosB all the oolumna, and makes as many lines ns there arc 
letters in the alphabet. It is perhaps one of tho most curious pieces of composition to be four 
on record. *■* 
to advance upon her, gave a little shriek behind 
her fan. 
"Oh, Mr. Rushton,” she wispered to Maurice, 
"1 beseech you rescue me from the fate I see 
impending! That dreadfully rosy young man 
is about to ask me to dance with him. Allow 
me to escape by pleading that I am engaged 
to you?” 
“ Then Maurice, with his heart beating very 
fast, and bis cheek on fire with pride and de¬ 
light, offered his arm to the distressed 
HOW AND WHAT TO HEAD 
From the American Monthly we learn several 
important things. Among them are the fol¬ 
lowing : 
“ A Special System —And hero I may with 
Soldiers enlisted for three years or j advantage quote the example of a distinguished 
scholar of our own country. 
"1. Before I commenced as an author, I 
made myself thoroughly master of the whole 
scheme of his work, if a table of contents ena¬ 
bled me to d« so.” 
"Written for Mooro’s Rural New-Yorker. 
NO EXCELLENCE WITHOUT LABOR.” 
young 
inerent 
sentence which meant that he was her slave then 
ami forever, and that he was the happiest man 
in the world to be so honored as to save her 
from a moment’s discomfort. And so, Intoxi¬ 
cated with the insinuating llattery of her choice, 
ho led his fair partner to the dancing-tent, and 
took his place opposite her for the first country 
dance, that dance which was to have been 
Angela’s! She, (poor rueful little maiden,) 
watched the two, never believing, until the last 
moment, that Maurice, her Iriend and hero, 
could so have forgotten her; but when the music 
struck up, and the first couple — Miss Travers 
and Maurice—actually danced off to the. tune of 
‘ 1 Merrily danced the Quaker’s wife,” then Angela 
realized her desertion, and stealing away to a 
favorite walk of hers, under the filbert trees, she 
cried the first bitter tears which Maurice had 
ever made her shed. 
Not that she blamed him — oh no! 8he felt 
sure it was not his fault. It was all that nasty, 
unkiud, affected Miss Travers. How could 
Maurice help it If she wanted to dance with 
him, and let him see it? A gentleman must not 
refuse a lady’s wishes in such a case. Poor 
Maurice had found himself in a strait, and he 
bad counted on her indulgence and her old ac¬ 
quaintance, and presently he would be coming 
to tell her bo, and to ask her to danco with him 
the next time; and with that thought she dried 
her tears; and stealing indoors by the back way. 
she bathed her red eyes in Hungary water, and 
settled her disarranged dress, and walked up 
and down, impatiently, waiting for the traces of 
her recent discomposure to disappear. 
1 * Maurice will be looking for me everywhere,” 
she thought; but Maurice, fickle swain, was 
doing nothing of the kind. 
“ bit down by mo,” Miss Travers' eyes had 
said, when the dance was over, and Maurice, 
nothing loth, consented, and to tell the truth, so 
gay and graceful was his companion that he for¬ 
got everything and everybody else in this world, 
save her and her bewitching company. 
‘■Now tell me the names of all the«epeople,” 
she said to him; "first of all that tall, lanky 
youth in the plum-colored Bait.” 
" That is Sir Tobias Thoroughgood,’* he re¬ 
plied. 
“ Mercy on us! ” she exclaimed, with affected 
horror, “the creature’s name is worse than him¬ 
self, and that ia more than 1 thought possible. 
And who the lieavy-looklng man on hia right ? ” 
‘‘That ia Squire Eltkara of Eltkarn Park,” he 
replied, “ a magistrate, and a very worthy man.” 
"I thought bo," said Mls6 Travers; "your 
worthy people are always the most stupid in the 
world. Ana who is the young man with the 
scarlet cheeks, who Btands mopping his face as certain classes, brothers and sisters of heirs that 
^mT re f e - ft haymaker ft work In the field?” were entitled to receive the original bounty, 
44 That is our county member.” he replied, , , . - ..... , , . .. I 
" Mr. Haslemere of Hwlemere ” from ai W claim for additional bounty provided 
44 Is it possible?” Bhe exclaimed, 41 1 had no f° r b y this act. 
idea I was in such good company,” The above having been referred by the Secre- 
And bo the yonng lady rattled On, finding tary of War to the Attorney General for his 
fault with every gentleman present, and contrlv- opinion on the point whether the rules and reg- 
ing to insinuate, with consummate tact, that f , ^ 
Maurice Rushton himself, with his city air and Nations, as within amended, are in conformity 
polish, was ihe only one fit to please her refined with the law, the latter has given an affirmative 
and fastidious taste. No wonder she fairly response. 
t Vi a rmnniv mnn^o lion rl • n V» * . . 
Turn is a maxim which, though doubtless 
familiar to nearly every one, ia appreciated as a 
universal and positive principle by compara¬ 
tively few. It is, nevertheless, a truth whleh 
we all must accept, and a formula by which we 
may solve the most difficult problems of human 
greatness —thus acquiring that knowledge, with 
a proper use of which we may overcome tho 
greatest obstacles, and win the brightest laurels. 
Wisely has it been said, that tho education of 
every individual, both moral and intellectual, Is 
chiefly his own work. The best Institutions of 
learning can give only the opportunity of men¬ 
tal discipline, while it rests entirely with our¬ 
selves, whether we will receive the instruction 
or not. Every one is, to a certaiu extent, the 
" architect of his own fortune,” and though 
adversity may rest heavily upon him, he can by 
vigorous effort, and rigid application, nobly 
overcome every barrier; and, having once 
gained the mastery, can see how the burden he 
has borne, the efforts he has put forth, have knit 
his muscles and strengthened his whole being. 
This truth is verified, and faithfully illustrated, 
in the life of every scholar, and In all the char¬ 
acters who appear as brilliant and shining lights 
npon the pages of both aucieut and modern 
history. 
The sublime strains of Milton arc the pro¬ 
ducts of much thought and the most severe 
mental labor, while the power and ability of 
DEMON9T1ISNH9 were acquired by great exer¬ 
tion and faithful study. Thus it is, and ever 
has been, that to the earnest, faithful worker is 
revealed a splendid triumph, and by virtue of 
the toll and exertion that have so thoroughly 
developed his powers, is he enabled tbe more 
readily to appreciate and heartily enjoy the 
reward. A. L. 
The minority of heirs claimants for 
bounty under this act must be proven to have 
existed at the date of its passage. Parents shall 
receive jointly the bounty to which they may be 
entitled as heirs unless the father has abandoned 
the support of his family, in which case it shall 
be paid to the mother. Non residence In the 
United States Bhall not be a bar to the claims of 
heirs who would otherwise legally inherit. The 
provisions of the act excluded from its benefits 
the following classes: 1. Those who, after 
serving the full period of their enlistment, were 
dishonorably discharged at its expiration. 2. 
Those discharged during enlistment by way 
of favor or pnnlskment. 8. Those discharged 
on account of disability contracted in the ser¬ 
vice, but not occasioned by wounds received in 
the line of duty, who shall not have previously 
served two or three years respectively at the 
time of discharge. 4. Those discharged on ac¬ 
count of disability existing at the time of enlist¬ 
ment. 5. The heirs of those who have died 
since their discharge of wounds or disease not 
contracted in the service and in the line of duty. 
6. The surviving soldiers and the heirs of de¬ 
ceased soldiers, who, under previous laws, have 
received or are entitled to receive a bounty of 
more than <100 from the United States. 7. 
The surviving soldiers, as well as heirs of 
deceased soldiers, when such soldiers have bar¬ 
tered, sold, assigned, loaned, transferred, ex¬ 
changed, or given away their final discharge 
papers, or any Interest in the bounty provided 
by this or any other Act of Congress. 8. The 
Act of the 28th of July, 1866, creates no right 
of inheritance beyond those vested by the law 
under which these heirs received or were en¬ 
titled to receive the original bounty, and debars 
44 *2. I then studied the author in the following 
manner. After reading the first sentence, I 
meditated on it, developing tho author’s tho’ts 
as well as I was able, and roducin^Uio whole as 
nearly as possible, to a single din tinct concise ex¬ 
pression. I then read the second sentence, and 
did the same. I next compared the two senten¬ 
ces together, meditating on them, and gathering 
out of them their substance. Thus I went 
through the paragraph, and reflected on the 
whole until I had reduced it to a single sentence, 
containing Its essence. I then studied the next 
paragraph in like manner; and having com¬ 
pared the two, I gathered out of them their 
substance. The same plan was followed in the 
comparison of sections with sections, and chap¬ 
ters with chapters, books with books, until the 
author was finished.” 
"3. A third rule was to pass nothing unexam - 
lned, nothing without reflection, whether in 
poetry or fiction, history or travels, politics, 
philosophy, or religion. Nor onght I to omit 
the three rules of Professor Whittaker, of Cam¬ 
bridge, given to John Boyce, one of the eminent 
translators of the Bible in the time of James tho 
First. 1. To study chiefly standing or walk¬ 
ing. 2. Never to study at a window. 3. Not to 
go to bed, on any account, with cold feet. 
"What to Read.— Are you deficient in 
taste? Read the best English poets, such sb 
G ray and Goldsmith, Pope and Thomson, Cow- 
per and Coleridge, Scott and Wardsworth. 
" Are you deficient in imagination ? Read 
Milton and Akensidc, and Burke. 
44 Are yon deficient In power of reason? Read 
Chillingworth, and Bacon, and Locke. 
‘‘Are you deficient in judgment and good sense 
in the common affairs of life ? Read Franklin. 
“ Are you deficient in sensibility ? Read Gcethe 
and Mackenzie. 
"Are you deficient in vigor of style? Read 
Junius and Fox. 
"Are you dcficieut in political knowledge? 
Read Montesquieu, the "Federalist,” Webster 
and Calhoun. 
"Are you deficient in patriotism ? Read De¬ 
mosthenes, and the “Life of Washington..’ 
" Are you deficient in conscience ? Read some 
of President Edward’s works. 
“ Are you deficient In piety ? Read the Bible.” 
ABOUT BEAVERS. 
An English writer demolishes the old idea 
that the tail of the beaver is his trowel. He 
observed the beavers building their dams and 
houses in the Zoological Gardens in London. 
The Superintendent of the Gardens placed in 
the paddock an old box, mouth downward, with 
the end knocked out. The beavers at once took 
to this Bhelter, and commenced piling upon it 
and around it the puddled clay with which they 
had been supplied in one corner of the inclosure. 
Of. course the reader expects to bo told about ' 
the wondrous dexterity with which they plas¬ 
tered the work with their tails; in truth they 
did nothing of the kind, and all stories about the 
animal using hiu tail as a trowel arc pure myths, 
caused, doubtless, by the apparent applicability 
of that appendage to auek a purpose. It ia a 
rudder and nothing more, to assist the animal 
in directing lt« course In the water, and is per¬ 
fectly useless at plasterer’s work. Tho clay, 
moistened with the little running stream close 
at hand, was carried by his fore paws and daubed 
on tbe roof he was making over the box. This 
process of daubing and puddling was alternated 
by carefully placing branches across and athwart 
tho mudwork, interlacing the former, and then 
filling up the Interstices with puddled day. 
A Fable for Youth.—A young man once 
picked up a sovereign lying on the road. Ever 
afterwards, as he walked along, he kept his eyes 
steadfastly fixed on the ground, in hopes of find¬ 
ing auotker. And, In the course of a long life, 
he did pick up, at different times, a good amount 
of gold and silver. But all these days, as he was 
looking for them, he saw not that heaven wa 
bright above him, and nature beautiful around 
He never once allowed his eyes to look up froi 
the mud and filth in which he sought Jor tl 
treasure, and when be died, a rich old man, > 
only knew this fair earth of ours as a dirty roi 
to pick up money as you walk along. 
CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS 
Anecdote of tub Czar Nicholas. — What 
little chance of help from Russia, Austria has to 
expect in any contingency, may be judged from 
an anecdote told of the late Czar Nicholas. He 
was crossing the Summer Garden with an aid- 
de-camp when he suddenly stopped before one 
of the statues, which was that of Sobieskl, who 
saved Vienna from a Moslem invasion. " Do you 
know,” he asked, " who was the greatest idiot 
in the world next to Sobie6ki ? ” Receiving no 
answer, ‘‘I am the man,” he said; "because I 
was fool enough to save Austria the second 
time.” He did not think that Austria’s partial 
co-operatioa in the Crimean war was the return 
1 he deserved for preserving Hungary to her. — 
London Revtem. 
Likenesses. —We all like to have the likens 
of dear father and mother, of brothers andls- 
tera, and our friends; and we love to loi. at 
them and show them, and we prize them dJty- 
There is one more likeness we ought toave. 
It is very lovely. The likeness of your keenly 
Friend, Jesus Christ. And do yon knowvkere 
to keep it? In your heart. And if it inhere, 
everybody will see it without your sowing. 
It will show itself iu all your disposi.on and 
character. 
est, weariest Harvest-Home evening she had 
ever spent. 
Miss Travcre prided herself upon adding a 
fresh conquest to her list at every house she 
visited. Mrurice Rushton was the handsomest 
and most polished young man Bhe had seen at 
Fairlight, and she marked him out accordingly 
as her prize. She treated him with such dis¬ 
tinguished favor, that madam chafed and fretted 
still more over Captain John’s absence, and 
heartily wished, in her vexation, that she had 
either relented in favor of Lizzie and Anne 
Rushton, or that she had included Maurice also 
in her sentence of exclusion. [To be continued 
cation. This lasts about five days; at the end 
of that time he asks with entreaty for other 
nourishment, without his request being com¬ 
plied with, and not until his organs should ab¬ 
solutely abhor alcohol. Tbe euro is complete, 
and from that period the very smell of spirits 
produces on him the effect of an emetic. 
Infidels have objected to the size of the ark 
—have asserted that it is quite absurd to sup¬ 
pose that ever there could be a vessel constructed 
large enough to hold all the creatures that must 
have been placed in it, with sufficient food, St 
may be, for six to twelve months — water for 
the fish, corn for the four-footed animals, seed 
for the birds, and so on. Now we will take the 
dimensions of the ark from the record of Moses, 
and calculate them on the lowest possible scale. 
There are two definitions given to a cubit— one 
that is eighteen inches. We will take It only at 
the lowest. Mosea states that the ark was 800 
Christianity is the element in mo<sni civili¬ 
zation that secures it against the vie>situd es 
ancient civilization. 
Geology is Time’s own biograpiy, printed, 
paged, collated and bound by th> fingers of 
Omnipotence. 
How to write for a newspaperSay the most 
possible In the least space. Fitch right into 
your subject. Make the title and first sentence 
so that it must be read; and so of the second 
no matter whatbas preceded, or is to follow ”— 
Rev. Dr. Hallock. 
Satire should not be like a saw, but a sword 
it should cut, but not mangle. 
