The Lancaster Gazette, 1863-06-18

' The Soldler'a Burial. Comrades, find for him a grave Where the hoots of war-steed clattered ; Where but childish feet may natter ; Any where ; it will not matter : Only find a grave. . Comrades, lay him softly down. Was he not our land's dofender ? Though so womanly, so tender, , With a soul so true and tender? . Softly lsy him down. Comrades, roughly jar him not ; Never stir that brown tress lying As It lay wh.n he was dying. With the bullets 'round him flying : Roughly jar him not. Comrades, move him tenderly, As the touch of fondest mother mother-As - As mother-As a sister would a brother As one woman would another : Move him tenderly. Comrades, lower him gently down ; Ah I for him how soon Death's flat I But his face is still more quiet Than our own, where life-cares riot : Iower him gently down. Comrades, drop a tear for him. Though our camp-Ares blase as brightly, And the low song rises as lightly, We shall miss our mesa-mate nightly : Drop a tear for him. Comrades, now our work is done Soldiers have no time to sorrow ; Rather let us courage borrow For the struggles of the morrow : Now our work is done.

For those of the liveliest green. Wild flowers are shooting up through tho moss. To receive a kiss from the breeae. The vinos are winding their tendrils across. The low branches of the green trees. Lot us go to the woods, comojot us go, 'Twill be pleasant to sit in the shade, And list to the rill that murmurs below ; Tho hill at tho edgo of the glade. And twine into wreaths the sweet wild (lowers. And talk about things that we love. The birds will enliven the warm noonday hours, With music from the dense boughs above. Let ns go the woods, haste let us go, While nature is lovely and fair ; See the tall trees, as they wave to and fro, Seem to be inviting us there. Oh I beautiful woods, how dearly I love Thy arbors and moss covered seats, Thy (lowers below, thy sweet birds above ; Thy nook, and shady retreats. Let us go to the woods, come let us go, . 'Twill be pleasant to sit in the shade. And list to the ril, that murmurs below, The hill at the edge of the glade. Basil, Ohio, June, 1803.

May, and first days of June, and dis- wasted away, and nothing remained three days earlier according to the tern- but tho head, wings, and thorax, perture of t'.io seas' ri.. From the time the eggs were deposited The month of May, this season1, was to the period of hatching, was, as nearly very warm, and the ckada made thoir as cduM be ascertained, six days, and appearance rather earlier than' hereto- almost daily atterition was given to the foro. By tho 15th of this month, they subject. When first placed in the had risen so near to the surface of the twiggs.tlio eggs are about the sixteenth earth, that the depth of a common fur- 0; u ;nc.u ia length and the thickness row in plowing; turned them out in 0f a coarse hair, appearing through a thoir chrvc-aloid state. By the 21th 5ma; magnifying glass of the shape they had begun to raise from the earth. and sizs of a grain ofrye.- At the burst their tran.-p.trent covering, and j period of hatching. tLey'had increased

liquid, at if In self defence. From their beinf unprovided with organs for eating, it wnuld seem that their whole business during thdir short visit to the surface of the earth, was to propagate their specia and to die. :r: Whae here, they served for food for all carniverjus and insect eating ani animals. - mals. animals. Hoes eat them in preference to any other food; squiiTels.'birds, domes; tic fowls, ic, tattened- on them So much were they attracted by the cicada, that very few birds were seen around our rardens during their con con-timtar.ee - timtar.ee con-timtar.ee and our cherries 4c, remained unmolested. By tho forth or fifth day after their leaving the earth, the female

near each othes, the ground unncrncain them was covered with their skins' or cast off robes to tho dopth of two or three inches. Theso shells retain the exact figure of the insect when it IcaveB tho earth, with a rent on tho back through which the cicada creeps as from a coat of mail, and are firmly fastened by the foot to tho bark and twigs of trees and bushes, until they are thrown down by tho winds or rain. Instinct leading them to seek the neerest tree, or bush, or post, as soon as they leave the earth; here they remain until they have left their shells for somo Un.s ni.nTtil tVinir wiring aro drv and

ged, if not mutilated, with any Assist Assistant - ant Assistant Treasurer or Designated Deposi Depository - tory Depository of tho United States ; in sums not less than five dollars. Defaced notes, if whole, aro not considered as mutila mutilated - ted mutilated ; nor is an evidently accidental in injury, - jury, injury, not reducing the note by moro than one-tenth its original size, re regarded - garded regarded as mutilation. Mutilated frac fractional - tional fractional notes will bo redeemed at tho Treasury of tho United States, at the city of Washington, under the follow-

Property used in business, and fur furnishing - nishing furnishing profits, when destroyed by fire, may be restorod at tho expense of thoso profits, to tho condition when destroyed; if insured, the difference between , insurance received and amount expended n restoration will bo allowed. ' The increased value given a new building by permanont improvements will be charged to capital-not income. Tho contingent fund of manufactu ring corporations, made during the year 1862, and not distributed, should not bo rcturnod as part of the income of stockholders'.

tired soldiers havo long been waiting 1 for tho wolcome notes of tho "Asscm "Asscm-' - ' "Asscm-' bly" which shall marshal us for an on on-.. - .. on-.. ward move, when we lope to meet . . . again in victorious combat tho armed hordes who so vauntingly boast of their ' power to subduo us. The struggle when it comes will bo bloody, terrific The cosi, who can estimate that ? Who y! 'will comfort the torn and bleeding ' nearts of the wives, mothers and sis sis-: - : sis-: tors of those who will have immolated