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[[first column]] in these furtive meetings gave a wonderful charm to them. Smothered shrieks of laughter were wont to subside in preternatural silence when the teacher's foot crossed the hall, and I have often witnessed the direful twitchings of his convulsed face, as he opened the door upon our circle of solemn faces, that as surely told of the high fun just before rampant as the sounds of it that called him forth. I remember certain feasts of sweet potatoes which we could hardly eat because our pocket-handkerchiefs were in constant requisition to smother our laughter, and once when were all partaking of the contents of a huge pan of crackers and milk - a luxury we might not have appreciated highly if offered us at home - the teacher's knock, unprefaced by the usual warning of his creaking boots, was suddenly heard. Lib. Tuttle seized the pan and dived beneath the bed. She was a visitor, and so not missed. The occupants of the room caught their books. The door opened and disclosed us seated, silently and innocently, at our lessons. The teacher had heard a noise which betrayed even the oft-practiced sham. He commenced the usual lecture, and we listened with that ludicrous solemnity which we had adopted for similar occasions, when an accident occurred, that upset our unnatural gravity, and even drew the teacher into the vortex our fresh merriment. Uneasy, restless Lib. Tuttle had contrived to overturn the unlucky pan, and just as the reverend speaker waxed warm in his harangue, a pearly stream strayed across the room and laved his feet. Lib's unruly tongue could not be quite subdued. A rumbling issued from beneath the bed, and followed the milky eruption. A smothered titter agitated the "young ladies." Our teacher lost his dignity, and his voice, the tones of which were suddenly explosive, hesitated, and stammered, then shut the door with a slam, and retreated to the hall, whence the murmur of some strange internal storm reached us. Presently shut into his apartment, the sounds that soon issued thence told that he regaled his wife with the details of his adventure and failure. This lady immediately made a tour of inspection through the house and detected the absence of poor Lib. Tuttle from her room, and presently, with ominous knock and voice, summoned the offender forth to lecture and penalty. It was a rule at Bruna that all lights should be extinguished at ten o'clock, and everybody in the darkness and silence appropriate to a sojourn in Dreamland. An assistant teacher, a mild gentle-faced lady, was assigned to the duty of visiting all the rooms, at that hour, to ensure compliance with the rule. The darkness and silence she often found profound, while we were all snugly ensconced in bed, wrapped in cloaks and shawls, ready to rise and fasten the door as soon as she was gone, and rekindle fire and light. Cold and cheerless as we were, amidst the breath less silence of these midnight sojourns, their mystery, and successful violation of rules, had a charm for us we would not have readily missed. [[second column]] na: and more than one woman, whom study and life-discipline had prepared for the task, has waded through the gore of dreadful battle fields, or the reeking courts of hospitals, to carry aid to the wounded who then was a light-hearted, gay, coquetish girl at Bruna. Many a one beside myself has read those names, during the past six years, with eyes that overflowed with tears of joy and pride as we recalled the image of those who bore them in the old care-free days. But there were tragedies amidst those days when life and youth themselves were joy. Sometimes bright eyes were dimmed and young forms bowed beneath the hand of sickness. Death came, too, unrelentingly,—as the dark angel ever does—and those young lives silently passed from our midst. And once as we strayed, a few careless girls, beside the dark river that laved the rocky outskirts o Bruna, Jennie L, the merriest little fairy that ever made her presence a living joy in the dear old school house, stumbled on a jutting bank, and was precipitated into the boiling flood above the cataract. We heard her shriek and, powerless, we followed and gazed and rent the air with our cries as the waters bore her unrelentingly on and into the seething abyss at the cataract's food. We saw the pale, agonized face, and the anguished, imploring eyes, as the water swept her past us, and we looked next upon her bruised and distorted from as it was lifted from the water, and tears, so sad and genuine in their sorrow as in age weep, fell upon her coffin and the sod that covered her from our sight. Yes, sad and happy were the days at Bruna. Not fleeting were its impressions either. Not children were we, though our feet but trod the threshold of life. We were ardent and joyous. We hoped much from the coming years. We saw not the cloud which wove its dark wool amid the sunshine of many a life. We dreamed not of the disenchanted future our feet have too often trod. We had no vision of the gay girls transformed by lives of care, laboring for, and criticised by, country parishes, to whom their good, dull husbands break the bread of life; or, with spectacles on their maiden noses and white threads in their hair, haranguing on the rights of women; or writing grave and stately books, or arranging with dignity and precision the details of the domestic life they enjoy. We saw not beneath those curly brows the brains of successful bankers, or in sophomoric displays the future statesmen in the leather-brain and scrape-grace of the school the distinguished general wreathed by laurels. Truly, the future, which is the now, was undreamed of. Life was not then in a stirring vivid dash[[?]] an undeveloped future. Bruna then was alone vived to us. It is vivid now, in memory, but it is still the most real of all our memories of the lives we have lived. We hoped then to meet in the coming years; we know now we shall not and the common bond of our remembrance of [[third column]] vanished; my relations entreated, be sought, threatened; all was in vain. The Prussian and the Falckenstein awoke within me, and in opposition to my weeping mother arose the remembrance of my dead father; he, while only Major, had gained the order pour le merite, and his memory bade me do my duty to my fatherland. Then came a hard struggle. My mother, backed by the family, positively forbade me to carry out my wish; and I, on that very day, gave in my name as a volunteer. I was just sixteen. It seemed, however, as if my family were right. I was rejected on the ground of bodily weakness. I tried another regiment with the same result; a third; and at last the Foot-guards themselves. The Colonel, after listening quietly to my petition, asked whether I has "brought the others." "What others?" said I, in surprise. "Why, the men to carry your gun and knapsack, for you certainly can't do that yourself." I turned as red as fire, ran off like a madman, and, child as I was, told the whole story to my mother. The truth was, that no regiment could have been expected to admit me. I was unusually weak for my age, my chest was narrow, and people thought I must be consumptive; indeed, one physician told me so, point-blank. This brought me to despair; I had no rest, day or night, and the triumphant feeling of my relations made the matter harder to bear. Then, one sleepless night, I remembered that, at my father's funeral, one of his friends, a Col. Von Klux, had told my mother to rely on his help if she should ever wish to place her son in the Cadet College, a promise which, of course, had never been claimed, since I was destined for a seminarist. In a moment my mind was made up, and the next morning I started, found the Colonel, told him my decided resolution to go into the army, and at the same time all the hindrances which lay in my path, and begged him, in my father's name, to help me. Now, at last, I had succeeded in finding some one who quite understood my feelings in the matter, and he promised me all the assistance in his power. I went home in triumph, and, as usual, told my mother everything. She put on her walking-dress at once and left the house, returned in an hour's time and reported that she had seen the Colonel herself, and that he had said it was utterly impossibly to make a soldier of me, for I had not as much strength as a girl of twelve, but that he had not liked to tell me this because I seemed to excited about it. Here was a petrifying piece of news! Of course I wanted to rush off at once and ask what he had meant by thus deceiving me; but this my mother would on no account allow. She went out again, and to make my obedience sure, locked the outer door of our apartments. There was I shut up and chafing like a wild beast in its den, raging against myself and my miserable fate, but especially against the Colonel for having cheated me so shamefully [to be continued] [[fourth column]] Geo. Bosley. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Isaiah Hankerson, 1418 Gulielma St; Wm. R. Decordoway, 419 South 7th St; Mrs. Anna M. Cropper, 814 Lombard St. CARLISLE, PA. Rev. J. Davis. SHIPPENSBURG, PA. George Barnes. ALLEGHENY CITY, PA. Rev. Jehu Holliday, Benj. Pulpress. LITTLE WASHINGTON, PA. Rev. Nelson Williams. HOLLYDAYSBURG, PA. Rev. Mr. Mathews. CUMBERLAND VALLEY CIRCUIT. Rev. J.H. Andersen. ST. LOUIS, MO. Isaac G Whiting. BALTIMORE, MD. J.T. Butler. SHREVEPORT, LA. James H. Ingraham. PETERSBURGH, VA. Rev. J.B. Trusty. FRANKLIN, VA., Rev. J.J. Sawyer. BEAUFORT, N.C. Rev. Ellis Lavender. NEWBERN, N.C. Henry H. Simmons. FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Rev. J.M. Hood. HENDERSON, N.C. Wyatt Walker. ASHVILLE, N.C. Rev. T. Hopkins. CHESTER, S.C. Rev. Dublin Walker. LANCASTER COURT HOUSE, S.C. Rev. Isom. C. Clinton. SPARTANBURG, S.C. Rev. L.W.A. Oglesbee. ROCKHILL, S.C. Rev. B. Burton. CURRITOR'S STORE, S.C. Rev. T. Hagins. AUGUSTA, GEO. Rev. R. Brown. TALLADEGA, ALA. Rev. Lewis Jacobs. MOBILE, ALA. General Agent:—James Thomas. District Agents, Zion Church Station and Circuit:—Charles Lee, Samuel Wilson. MONTGOMERY, ALA. Solomon Derry. John Butler. SELMA, ALA. Rev. L. Fanning. SANDY BOTTOM, ALA. Virgil Burke. NEW ORLEANS. Rev. J. Allen. LOUISVILLE, KY. Peter Lewis. RUSSELLVILLE, KY. Warden P. Church. HENDERSON, KY. Rev. A Bunch. CLEVELAND, OHIO. Sylvester L. Freeman. SALEM, OHIO. Rev. Mr. Cox. LEAVENWORTH CITY, KANSAS. Lieut. W.D. Matthews. SAN FRANCISCO. Rev. J.J. Moore, Edward Hall. WASHINGTON, D.C. Philip A. Lee, Rev. J.A. Jones, Rev J. Tappan GEORGETOWN, D.C. Collins Cruso. Chas. Lemon. ROSSVILLE, R.I. Esther V. Surlia. SAG HARBOR. Mrs. Ann M Thompson. NEW BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA Rev. Merritt R Freeman. Traveling Agents. Rev. A.H. Beman, Rev. E.D. Taylor, Southern Agents. Special Southern Agents, J.J. Clinton. Tunis G. Campbell. Special Traveling Agents. Mrs. Frances K.W. Harper, Rev. Geo. A. Spywood. Special Traveling Agent, Rev. John Taylor Ministers of all denominations are requested to act as Agents, and a liberal percentage will be allowed. Address W.B. Coss, [[?]] Manager [[365?]] Bleaker St, N.Y. [[fifth column]] Broad Street, Bridgeport, Conn, Hours of Worship: 10 1/2 a.m., 2 1/2 and 7 1/2 p.m. Preaching every Wednesday evening. Class meeting every Thursday evening. A.M.E. ZION'S CHURHC, Hudson City, Rev. JOSIAH BIDDLE, PASTOR, Hours of Worship: 10 1/2 a.m., 3 and 7 1/2 p.m. Sabbath School, 1 p.m. Pastor's Residence 113 Dimon Street. PHILADELPHIA WESLEY CHURCH Lombard street, below Sixth. street. Preaching every Sunday, at 10 1/2 a.m., 2 and 8 p.m. Preaching on Wednesday evenings. Prayer Meeting on Thursday evening. Rev. J.A. WILLIAMS, PASTOR Residence, 437 Gaskill st. Philadelphia, Pa. BOSTOM, MASS A.M.E. ZION CHURCH North Russell street, GEORGE H. WASHINGTON, PASTOR, Services 10 1/2 a.m. 3 p.m. and 7 1/2 p.m. Sabbath school, at 1 1/2 p.m. Class Meetings, Sabbath, at 4 1/2 p.m. Monday evening, at 7 1/2, Tuesday evening, at 7 1/2, Thursday evening, 7 1/2. Friday evening, Prayer-Meeting, 7 1/2 o'clock. Pastor's Residence, No. 28 Vine street. ZION CHURCH, Baltimore, Md. Cor. of Montgomery and Howard Sts. Rev. R.H. DYSON, Pastor. Hours of Worship: —11 a.m. 3 and 7 1/2 p.m. Sabbath School at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Pastor's Residence 376 Cross St. Advertisements. R.D. KENNEY, PUBLIC CATERER, Store Room, 82 Sullivan st., near Spring, residence, No. 4 McDougal St., N.Y. Wedding, Dinner, and Evening Parties, supplied with china, glass, silver forks, silver trays, brackets, lamps, and silver Epergne for tables, centres, etc. Ice Cream and Confectionary of all kinds; superior Boned Turkeys and Game. Cooks and Waiters furnished. Invitations delivered with dispatch. Music furnished from one instrument to a full band. Thompson st. cars will carry you within one block of the place. [[image]] A note addressed at above, will receive prompt attention. Furniture on storage. 1-15. CARPENTER—EDWARD LATHAM, Carpenter and Builder, No. 134 Chrystie street, New York. Jobbing of every description promptly executed. 1-y. JAMES ALLEN, WHITEWASHING AND Kalsomining, No. 15 Cornelia st. N.Y. All Orders attended to at the shortest notice, and on the most reasonable terms. 1-y. FREMONT HOUSE & BILLIARD SALOON, George W. Francis, Proprietor, 68 Grand St. 8-1y. MRS. JOHNSON CAN ACCOMMODATE A few gentlemen with Lodgings, at her residence, No. 72 Sullivan street. 32-6m. M. HOFFMAN, & CO. Monday, June 3, and the following days. 5 cases of 4-4 width good white muslin, 1s. The best Amoskeag Muslin, 15c. The heaviest 11-4 width Muslin for sheets, 56c Calicoes—the nicest patterns, guaranteed fast color, 1s. The best double-width Ginghams, 1s. 6d. The cheapest German Beddings in the city. Very fine Woolen Summer Flannels, 31c. Very elegant patterns in Cashmeres, for Pants, very cheap 2-yard with Table Linens, 3s. 50 dos. good Linen Towels, 1s. A great choice in finest Dress Goods, from 3s. per yard. The best Hamilton Delaines, 1s. 6d. The very finest Embroidered Grenadine for Dresses, 62 1/2 c. New Ready-made Cloaks, $375. The nicest Summer Shawls, $250. Splended Black Gro grain Silks, $175. From Auction we received just now large lots in English Blankets, Bed Comfortables, Marseilles Quilts, New Ready-made Sheets and Bolsters. Also, the finest Nottingham Laces and Draperies for Curtains, at exceeding, almost not heard of as yet, low prices, so that it would be advisable for Ladies, being in want of such articles, to take notice of our Firm and inspect our Stock, before paying large profits elsewhere. M. HOFFMAN. No. 17 Carmine st. cor. of Becker-st., and Nos 228 and 230 Bleecker st. [[sixth column]] [[image]] OH! WHO HAS NOT HEARD OF THE New Picture Gallery? It is now on exhibition at 122 West 18th st. The cheapest place in the whole city for you to buy pictures of all sorts and sizes. The first Colored Picture Gallery ever started in New York, for our own color. All picture framed to order, cleaned, and also hung if required. Please not forget to give us a call. We are now ready to serve our customers. W.H. JACKSON. 122 West 18th st., 4 doors west of 7th ave. NOTICE.—THE MEMBERS OF AN ASSOCIATION, formed by the City of New York, in the year 1842, and known as the Sons of Rush, are hereby notified to send their addresses to Melvin F. Jackson, 18 Greene st. before or by the 1st of January, 1686, as they may hear something advantageous to themselves. THOMAS S. JACKSON, SEN., Sec. JAMES HAMMOND, Trea. New York, July 5th, 1867. 5-6m. E.R. CAMPBELL'S PHILADELPHIA BAKERY, In all tis branches, on the Domestic Plan. ICE CREAM AND REFRESHMENT SALLON, No. 183 Bleecker street, New York. EMPIRE SEWING MACHINES [[image]] For Families and Manufacturers. Have all the latest improvements and attachments. Are simple, durable, noiseless, and easy to work. Agents wanted. Liberal discounts given. No consignments made. Illustrated circulars sent free. Address, Empire S.M. Co. 616 Broadway, N.Y. GENERAL AGENCIES—An important Agency. Samuel J. Howard. No. 148 Jay street, Brooklyn, offers his services to buy and sell, for persons at a distance or at home, Real Estate and Merchandise of every description, at a very reasonable percentage. To parties in the Southern States, the West Indies and Africa, this Agency presents special advantages. In addition to the saving of heavy traveling expenses, the purchaser is enabled from the fine facilities of the Agent, to obtain his goods at a much lower mark than he would if he made the purchase himself. References of the best character can be given if required. [[image]] Order unaccompanied by cash will not receive the slightest attention. [[image]] Letters on business may be directed as above, or to the office of Zion's Standard Weekly Review, No. 335 Bleecker st. N.Y. COAL—All orders for coal will be promptly filled at market prices. 1-1y. WHISKERS AND MUSTACHES! FORCED to grow upon the smoothest face in from three to five weeks by using Dr. S. VIGNE'S RESTAURATEUR CAPILLIARE, the most wonderful discovery in modern science, acting upon the Beard and Hair in an almost miraculous manner. It has been used by the elite of Paris and London with the most flattering success. Names of all purchasers will be registered, and if entire satisfaction is not given in every instance, the money will be cheerfully refunded. Price by mail, sealed and postpaid, $1. Descriptive circulars and testimonials mailed free. Address BERGER, SHUTTS & Co., Chemists, No. 285 River street, Troy, N.Y. Sole agents for the United States. BEAUTY! AUBURN, GOLDEN, FLAXEN & SILKEN CURLS Produced by the use of Prof. DE BREUX FAISER LA CHEVEUX. One application warranted to curl the most straight and stubborn hair of either sex into wavy ringlets, or heavy massive curls. Has been used by the fashionables of Paris and London, with the most gratifying results. Does no injury to the hair. Price by mail, sealed and postpaid, $1. Descriptive Circulars mailed free. Address BERGERS, SHUTTS & Co., Chemists, No. 285 River st. Troy, N.Y., Sole Agents for the United States CRISPER COMA Oh ! she was beautiful and fair, With starry eyes , and radiant hair, Whose curling tendrils soft, entwined, Enchanted the very heart and mind. [[seventh column]] S.T. Jones, - - - - President J.A. Williams, - - - - Secretary J.A. Jones, - - - - Cor. Sec. No 612 L Street, Washington, D.C. Collecting Agent for the Mission Board, Rev. John P. Washington, No. 41 Laurens st. New York, where all donations for the missionary cause may may be sent. 10-1y. REPORTING—WE HAVE FACILITIES for reporting Conventions, Public Meetings, Festivals, Concerts, Sermons, etc, in the city or country, and persons wishing to make arrangements can do so by calling or addressing a note to his office, 335 Bleecker st., New York SEBA LODGE, JUVENILE G.S. AND D. OF S. Meets the 2d Thursday in every month, at Masonic Hall, South Eleventh st. Philadelphia, Pa. [[image]] THE CELESTIAL LODGE, No 2, F.A.M., working under the jurisdiction of the M. W. United Grand Lodge, of the State of New York, meet every first and third Tuesday in each month, at 8 o'clock at their Hall, No. 2, 4th avenue. JOHN M. THOMAS, W.M. THOMAS K. JACKONS, Sec. 1y. PROSPECTUS OF THE ZION'S STANDARD & WEEKLY REVIEW TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN The Corporation of Zion Church, New York City, in the interest of the General Conference of the "A.M.E. ZION CHURCH IN AMERICA," respectfully announce to the members and friends of the Church and to the Public generally, they are now publishing a Weekly Religious and Secular Paper, under the title of the "Zion's Standard and Weekly Review." The great need of an organ which shall authoritatively set forth the principles and views, and advocate the important measure of the above named Church, has long been deeply felt by all parties interested in its prosperity; and the urgent necessity for the commencement of such an enterprise has been freely discussed by the people and strongly set forth in our Annual and General Conference resolutions. The unprecedented spread of the Church South ward, and the fact that many thousands have consequently been brought under its care who, for the most part, are but partially informed in regard to its true position and character, renders this necessity still more urgent. The discontinuance of the late [[?]] [[?]] practically excludes our people generally from all information in regard to the Colored People in the great City and State of New York, and, at the same time deprives those in the City and State of very important and interesting intelligence in regard to our race in all portions o the country. To remedy this evil, and to inform the reading public generally of such political movements as will be of interest to it, and also to secure to persons in business in all parts of the country, a cheap and profitable advertising medium—are objects which we seek to accomplish, and toward which our efforts will be directed. Hence, while we seek to make the paper desirable to the Church, as its organ and authorized exponent, it will be our care to make it equally interesting to those in and out of the Church, as the vehicle of general information. Every movement relating to the world's uplifting shall have a fair consideration at our hands. The Religious Department will be under the supervision of a Minister of the A.M.E. ZION CHURCH; while the Secular Department will be controlled by a gentleman of ability and influence. What we now desire and what is essential to the success of every such enterprise, is the hearty support the the entire Connection, and the liberal aid of the public generally, in the way of Subscriptions for one year, and for six months. Let those who are interested in the movement give this Prospectus as wide a circulation as possible; let them send their names and money and encourage all to do likewise. Let the Clergymen and the intelligent men and women of the Church every where, give this matter their personal influence and efforts. Let persons outside of the Church assist in the establishment of this Press as one the organs of the People. TERMS;—One copy for one year, $2,25: for six months, $1,25. Any one sending ten dollars in United States currency shall receive five copies of the paper for one year; and any one sending the names of ten subscribers and $22,50, shall receive an extra copy for one year, free of charge. Money may be sent by Post Office order to M.B. COSS, Business Manager, P.O. BOX 6164 New York City.
