The Waynesburg Republican. (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, February 12, 1868, Image 1

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THE WEAsUSG Or THE BLl'E.
-Hunkt forla Appomattox! Hurrah for
. General Grant I
With him we whipped the rebels, and a long
. (or him we chant,
We'll rally around hit battle flag, the flag of
Union true,
-And drlva the Rebel Gray again before the
, loyal Blue.
O I he knows, the Bova in Blue I Tee he knows
the Bova in Bin.
ip 4 With ballots ai with' bullet, he will fir.
vl them eyertrue;
sv
"Tnioeaten crew,
But no rebel Gray shall ever May the loyal
n Boys In Blue.
Vl we trust the Boys tn Bluet Oht we know
the Boys in Blue,
Xad they'll never Hlnch, or give an inch, whilu
v worktheyhaVetoilo i
Bo, bring on r6o,r Reftel Gray again, ami gire
tela view,
And we'H show you that we don't forget Ihe
wearing of the Blue 1
W I. For the Rei l di.icam.
PMSOX LIFE
by a mfcoseft.
Ve were kept two days in tlio pen
.t Lynchburg. The first day was a
fast-day with n On tho second we
drew rations.and in the evening march
ed to the cars on the South Side rail
Jroad. Freight cara were provided,
linto each of which Sixty persons were
put. The weather was hot and the
rofcd rdugh from want of repair. Ad
ded Id these discomforts were the
gnawirigs of hunger, that was already
eating up cMr flesh1. In our army we
liad abundance to eat, and being plac
ed on short rations so suddenly made
Ha feel it the more. D.trbness soon
carte vin, dud piled upon cacli 6'tlicf
we passed the night in trving to sleep,
mingled with cursing and (jii-vrrelling.
We were fast losing our finer feelings
and attributes, and approaching the
natfcro ef the brute. It is impossible
for men in such a condition to retail!
perfectly their hurrVMiity.
At oWltght the train stopped at
IWkeaviile, fifty miles frorrl Rich
mond. Here we lay uritil the after
boon, when we sfclrled for D.tnvillej
add passing through a very poor
toountry, reached our destination in the
morning. Here, for tire first time
inee I had been it prisoner, I saw a
rebel dag. tho people certainly did
hot have muoh love lor their banner.
One travelling through the North
Vould have seen the Stars and Stripes
in e'Ctry Village) and (It almost every
fafra house. Tho town was full of
wounded men from the Wilderness.
VT wore quartered in a warehouse,
from the win'ddws of which we were
forbidden to look out. 97 of us were
put in the attic. I now began1 to feel
eorae of the real horrors of Prison
Lire Rotten moat, black bean water
tad unsifted cord bread were dur ra
tions. One man forgot the instruc
tions, and went to a window to look
out ifpbU tVfo" blue sky and catch a
breath of ptire Sir; when fctny we
heard the Sentinel's gun, and crash
went the window pane, and wc look
ed to see our comrade fall. But the
bullet had missed its mark, not
though, from any desigut of the would-
be) murderer.
The next day, Monday, we were
started for Georgia, gladly escaping
from the nttt old building. Greensboro,
iVb t l .1
a. u- wnicn we passeu in the morn
ing, was the most beautiful town I
fiver taw. It seemed to be in a forest of
trees
Here are some notes from a Diary,
, written wnne on we cars.
"Ind this is Dixie, the Sunny
Booth, the paradise of Slavery. A
fbttteY) sicklier looking country can
not be anywhere. The few women
iaS children lot thVvery picture of
ignorance and want The slaves look
ad, lifeless, ignorant and dirty. They
seam to have a vague notion we aro to
fret) them JJOm bondage.' .
, " At WinnsboTO, S. C. an accident oc-
' - ft. . ai A''
thi ratine od to a side trtrt-V -nVid iui
; tairi&tlrt ttUtf was lei on, and ihe
tjnftitia knocking every coupling
1mm, rfastreyiflg the engine and two
ears, and wotmding (She prisoner. A
row4 thai had gathered' about the
dtp wttrqukily cattered. V
i : Tla train being' Impaired, we Went
6ft (ttd t over" sandy plains itfi
ftrbilkh'plrre rbrestsypast' villages" awl'
iie iPipiiticg gif m
jM. !B .M YLRS, FIKMXESS IX THE RIGHT AS GOD 0l
VOL AI.
plantetloh mansions nnd slave huts,
throfcgh "Columbia and Branchvf!e
to Augusta. Here we walked a mile
to another depot. From want of food
and water, and lack ot sleep, we were
so exhausted as scarcely to be able to
walk the short distance But we
drew rations and started on, and
reached ftlacon nt daylight next morn
ing. We now knew our destination
was Anderson's Station, tixt'y niles
ay. A little distmide from here the
ad ran aloride au immense svamp
liich, filled with black water and
knk W5ds, and tall gray cypress trees
which the buzzards, drenched with
un, were sitting all combined to
krnif most awfully disgusting sight.
looked to see some slimy reptile or
aly crocodile creep form to get a
look at the YanJceet.
At last we reached tmr resting
pilfer, on Sunday, tffe vi9th of May,
two frecta tt'd'm th'c day I was caj)Wr
ed. It had been reported to be a
comparatively good prison, but as wc
got eff the ears And s.W it lyihg before
a) ha horrid picture almost drove
awav all hopo from our breasts. It
cccmed to be a pen of about 18 acres,
in which the little blanket tens looked
so tliickly placed we wondered if there
would be room for ns. Wc were
diattii up in line before tho prison,
and a littlo weazen-faeed Dutchman
came up and asked, "is there a ser
geant here who cau read and write?"
A derisive lnngh was his answer, and
every sergeant in our rinks stepped
forward. Hi found we were not
southern soldiers. Then an order was
given that if any one would leave Ihe
ifaiiks to get water from a s'ream close
by, he should be put in irons.
We were formed into detachment
of 270 each, subdivided into squads of
00, and ajrain into messes df 30 each.
Then we marched towards Ihe entrance.
The Dutchman was still in command,
ami as we approached the gate, called
out, "Shoot the flrst n'.an whd comes
vtthiii fifty yards of tho gate!" For
tunately tho order was not obeyed,
and we (wW. iii ojiiotiy. The huge
chains blanked, the bolts rattled, and
the Hos were closed.
Mlmvil 4'oittiniijr.
The St. Loui.i Democrat, savs, Scr-
geant Gore
nlade a descent itpnn the
MJlaek
(. rook, a colored saloon o:i
Fourth street, near Spruce. In the
first story he found a bar and billiard
tables : in the second storv was a re'
ugious mec'.ingin l'Tii uiastj and in
the third story was the den of the
"tiger." Givinir the bar a wide berth,
and passing the billiard balls in toil
tempt, he led his forces through the
congregation without disturbing the
pitaeher, and. ascending to the upper
apartment, seize!! A hiro box ontl a lot
of chips, and carried tliciri off in" tH
umph) to tho tune of "Gideon's bAnd,'
sung by tile choir;
fc
Tliirrat tit in I'hlcaaro.
The Chicago JourM,o( January 29,
says; the great I.ke street fire last
night, in four short hours, converted
one entire five story marble front busi
ness )lacc, and the best portion of the
finest iron lront block in Chicago,
With thtir valuable eoiuCnts, into
mass of smouldering ruins aild worth
less asiies; it was the most destruc
tive fire that ever visilcd our citv.
The loss is at least $2,000,000. The
origin of last night's fire is wrapped
in mystery.
! In- reply to Mr. Dtfclittlc'.s aMiik
on Gen. Grant, Senator Nye told the
story of the attack on a celebrated
New England clergyman, who met
his accusers by asking them if they
had ever seen a Iog barking tj. the
moon. "Oh, yes" they nrtswefd with
a sneer. "Woll. now. m'v friends.
pleads tcfi m if you ever heard tfX
aoe getting near errougli to the ruoon
Id biU it t"
TrtE Supreme Court lias recently
decided that tho citv of rittsbitr? is
not liable to pity tho $3Q0 bounty to
veteran voluntoers, under the State
law of I860, on the ground that the
ciiv was not a sub-military district,
and therefore was not liable under the
law,- An adverse decision 1 would have
taken from tho city treasury $150,000.
The Dertfocratic papers demand the
abolition of the Frecdraen's Bureau as
an unnecessary expense, concealing the
fact that the most of the mbney is exn
pended for the benefit of the poor
whites. What will they say to the
petftltfh df the Georgia convention,
that Congress should lend $30)000,000
to the needy Southern planters!
A celebrated lawyer once said
that the three most troublesome clients
beevef had were a young lady who
wanted to be married, a married wo
man who wanted a dieoroe, and an old
maid whd didn t know what she want
ed. ...
Congress ia eoinz to annihilate the!
army or Special Agents, established
without aoihoritTf Or Qffl Tnaanrv
and Internal Revenue Deparlments at
rt B?uingicT.
A Valley On Mile Ur..
. W. W. Thomas, late United States
Consul at Gothenbtirgh, Sweden, iu a
letter on Norway, gives the following
'iwci iption of that remote country afnd
oue of its phenomena t
Imagine a huge table land, rising
3,000 to 6,000 feet sheer above the
sea one vast rock, in fact, bleak and
Ijarrcn, covered with snow, swept with
rain, frozen 1n winter, sodden in sum
mer, the home of a few reindeer and
Lapps, and .you have Norway proper,
nine-tenths of the Norway that is
shown on tho map. Bui the rock !s
lot whole ; it is cracked apart here and
there, the ri'stircs show like slender
vVins over the dfltmtry. The sides ef
these ravines are as etee'p a"s tae 'cleft
of an axe, and their depths are always
filled by a foaming brook or river
tumbling from the drenched table
land above the sea. I have looked
from the bottom of one these valleys
anil seen the perpendicular rock rise
5,000 feet on either side, and the heav
ens show like a strip of blue ribbon.
Wherever in these dales there' lies a
bit of earth 'twixt rock and river.
there the Norwegian lrcasant has
built his cot; arid it is on such bits of
earth that inhabited Nonvav is situat
ed, and here live her lJCfo.OOO Peo
ple. The land just around his door
gives the Norwegian potatoc?, rye,
barley and oats; his cattle climb the
steep above for every stray blade, for
the rest he depends on the se'A Vnd
river. Wife it not for the excellent
fisheries along this northern shore,
Norway woilM be uninhabitable.
One night in July, 1805, Hon. J. II.
Campbell, lute Minister at Stock
holm, the two Messrs. Buckley, of
Birmingham, iw myself, landed on
tho shore of a northern ford in latitude
CO degrees north. We ascended a
clilf which rose 1,000 feet above the
sea. It was late, but still sunlight.
The Arctic Ocean stretched away in
silent vastness at dur feet. The sound
of its waves, scarce! v reached our niry
lookout. Away in Ihe north 'the huge
old gun svug l'dw along the horizon,
like tho sldw beat of the pendulum in
tho tall clock in ourgrnH llalher's Tar
lor corner. We all stood silent, look
ing at our watehrs. When both hands
'came together At 12 midnight, ti e full
round orb hung triumphantly above
the wave a bridge of gold running
due north spanned tho waters between
lis and him. There he shone in silent
majesty, which knew no setting. Wc
involuntarily took off our hats; no
word was said. Combine, if you can,
the most brilliant sunrise nnd sunset
yon pveraw,aid its beauties V'iH pale
Wore tlio most gorgcoU3 coloring
which now lit up ocean, heaven and
mountain. In half an hour the sun
had swnn:r up pcrceptiblv on its beat,
the colors changed to those of the
morning, a fresh breeze rippled over
the ford, ot!i Sbngster after . another
piped up in the grove behind us ivfe
had slid into anollicr day.
OHIO.
Tho rr'eat Vlrrtlnn A Letter Trifn
.'. iieriil Piatt.
To the Editor of the Tribune Sir :
There is so much speculation afloat
ow'cerning the recent election iu the
Eighth Congressional District of Ohio,
and such interest felt IH il3 rcJull,
that I cannot refrain offering a few
facts that may throw smo light upon
th nia'tKf;
I live in a country adjoining the
District, and claim, therefore, to know
something of the chaiactcr Snd tem
per of the pcfplb there-.
Our party claims this result as a fair
indication of popular feeling in Ohio,
nnd I think this is correct. On the
fther hand, Valtandighf.m assorts that
the discontent that followed his defeat
led to this Deftrbcratiq disaster. And
this is not correct.' If you will com
paro th? vote in the liito clection with
that of the one in which Mr. HaniiU
ton was returned to Congress, you wih
firtiVthe falling off heavier on the Rc
publiwin than oil the Democratic side.
The Democrats polled nearer their
enure sireng'.u man uid tnc liepubli
cans,
It was a special cfJion, nndltirae'; but when it comes to paying
every one knows how dillicu It it is to
get 9t such times
a lull vote. 1 he
Democratic party is brought out wMi
nfSrt ea'e than the Republican organ
ization. And this election, with its
majority Bf over C00v is proof rf a
mnjority in that District of over 2,000
at a regular election.
Mr. Vallrrdiglianf counted confi
dently on his popularity wi'h the
rriisfes of the Democratic party, nnd
found himself iriTtilkerT whoil he
made file trial. At the 8th of Janu
ary Convention he was voted out,
suffering a disastrous defeat, where
the voice of the Democratic people
had full sway and force. A no., in his
blind egetMimj'he haflost sight of the
true nature of his own party organi
zation. The Democratic party does
not breathe through the ntwtrils of any
One man, or set of rten. There is no
other political body that exists" s'o Well,
without leaders, as this. The late
war) for example, swept their so-called
leaders nearly awav. It chantreJ the
current t)f its organs even, ana we'all
said the Democratic party waa dead.
We awakened tv.iki fatt, before the
war ended, that it lived, and could. A
of old, make itself felt, unpleasantly;
at tho polls. It Is the organized
igbrance and blind prejudice of the
land, and is therefore immortal. At
tfcS eroat day, when' the Almi?hv
calls the rlecplcto inrlitmc.'M. the Dcm-
US TO SEE HI
H tatic party will come up shouting
for a "white man's Government," and
avowing its 'solemn determination to
"vote the ticket, the whole ticket, and
nothing but the ticket.
1. Jus is not, however, what I sat
down to write you. I want to say.
that this result, in the Eighth Dis
trict, is a lair indication of the political
feeling in Ohio, if a campaign can be
fought out in the same maimer, and on
the same issue. While's, ''white man's
government" was demand h! at inter
vals, and the Reconstruction acts c6m-
niented ou, to some extent, the electiou
turned on the financial policy 'of the
Government. And if yoii will refer
to our ca'nuidnto's speech, reported
cnrctullv, and published at length in
The Cincinnati Cbmmereinf, you will
hnd that he placed himself fairlvf pou
'the financial platform of Gen. Butler.
Our people rallied to this rfy with
1 1 to ana enthusiasm tuf t rcmiudeu us
of tho war tinier.
I do not propose to offer any aitn
m'snt on this subject, and- only wish
to give you the facts, be they melan
choly or ot ncrwise. 1 ho men makine
up the Republican party T6 not pro
pose or wish lor repudiation. J hey
mean, if possible, to pay every mill of
our publ:C indebtedness. But they
will ri'ol consent to see the Indebtedness
they hold, ib tho iftafe of greenbacks,
depreciated, while that of tly? bond
holder is kept nt par. The Govern
ment bound itself in honor to make
the greenback equal to specie, and fliil
iVig hi that, the people, who suffer,
will not corfetit to having the bonds
paid in cold. If von can resume spe
cie payment, well and good. . If not,
we will nil go clown together. This
is what they r.icnn when they cry out
against one currency for Ufa people,
and another for. th? bondholders.
I believe I have not studied th na
ture and wishes of our people in vain.
Last summer, when our Slate Central
Committee wrote to me, at the Beaside,
asking my assistance in stnnipintt Ohio,
I answered; saying that it was useless
that the- eround we had taken on
our financial policy l?d to certain dis
aster, 1 he Committee laughed at and
called Wc Copperhead. And again,
when 1 rend Gen. Bvatty a speech on
tne nnaneini questions, i ; wrote our
f riends in the district to take heart
we would have n handsome triumph
Tho fact is, the people have been
losing monoy fiT the Inst two years,
and, Sintering gncvouEly uvm Heavy
taxation, aro disheartened. Like the
ass in the old fable, when urgpd tp fly
from the cnomvt they respond. You
remember liift speech, whtn, in reply
to the query as to what the enemv
would do if they were captured : "If
tlie bii'chi)- (the Democrat) will not
load me heavier or work mo harder
than you (the bondholder), fly, Oh I
my master, lor l will not fly.
This was very selfish in the ass; but
the world, for ninny generations lias
decided that it was quaint mid wise.
I nnij iny old friend, yours sincerely,
JJONJT 1 IATT.
New YonR Ftb. 3, 18G8.
i.f.f.:hk.
In every community there ere high
ly respectable people, of the genus
Pecksniff, who might very aptlv be
termed newspaper leeches. These
people are great ticwspiiptr readers.
They can't rctlst a canvasser, they in
variably tac all tho newspapers
they cn get, they keep on taking a
paper just as long a the publisher will
send it. Ihey are highly apprecia
tive readers, they never get mad at
the editor, they .never send .word to
"stop iriv paper" until thev aro ask
to pav their subscription. Then how
their fetlings are shocked, hiw severe
ly critical and virtuously indignant
they become. How they despite the
mercenary editor who wants Ins pav
I tow they roll theircyes in horror at the
bac ingratitude which cannot apprc:
ciato their unfailing support. How
they fe"!blvc to discard forever the vile
sheet for which they arc cxf:ffc'3 til
pay like &Mr people; Oh, . those
Pecksniffs are indeed newspaper pat
rons, ihev tnkc the paper every
tor it they can t take it upon such
tcrms, and as for indebtedness ac
crued whv, you sec, fact is. of course.
why certainly, they never, oh. no", how
could you sui'pTse, or do you, no sir'ec
you can i, noi Dy a good deal.
And off coes Pecksniff in a huff
and sends his valubaie name to some
other trusting journal, which has not
belore been honored with his lecher
ous anliscription.
There are more newnnnncr leeches
than whisky leeches, and very strictly
mornl, and exemplary, important peo
plc,thev are.too. Most of them are weal
thy.. Ihey dart siphon-topgues upon
a newspaper, and suck, and suck, uTl
til w hole reams of paper and gallons
of inkJiave been drawn into their in
satiable maw. He won't stand such
treatment. Oh, dear ,.wh5t squir
ming. The iHch is disgusted. He
Won t stand Lh treatment. He lets
go. He never took it. . He never
got it. He never subscrilied on pS'r
posc. He ordered it stoppcel long ago
when tho bill was Cist sent to him.
His' neighbor has read it mor'n he.has.
He takes lots of other papers. He
anil afford it. . His eyesight is bad.
It hasn't come regular; He thought
it wis Only a dollar a year.: He don't
like Jt. : His wife wonld rather have
the Ledger. He supposed some nrT-
minng friend fent it o..him.' He
thinks papers cost tbh much.' 1T? on
E It IG I if ! 7i nco7n.
ly took it to help it along. He don.'t
sen why so much fuss ought to be
made over au old newspaper nccount
S'Yyhow.
And so the leech slinks about,
swindling tlic printer, exposing his
owu indescribable meanness and getting
his newspaper for nothing.
uim m m
The Lira cf Urunt-ll l.-won.
The lesson of Grant's life is that,
wherever we aro placed, we are doing
our highest and best political work
when we aro doing the work nearest
at hand and to which we have been
specially assigned ; that, there is nft
such servant of the country as ho who
keeps his mind steadily fixed on what
ho knows to bo his business, When
Grant took 'command of a regiment r.
the outbreak of the war, he did . noth
ing but "command it to th'epst of his
ability. When begot command of au
army, he did nothing and thought of
nothing but com mantling an army.
When he v.ts made commander in
chief, he gave fiis mind, to the duties
of that ollice, and to nothing else. He
kept his gaze fixed on his books, pa
pers and reports, instead of taking
surveys of the country and tho world.
Or getting up "views" on reconstruc
tion or universal nfTragfe', Being a
soldier ho tried to be the best kind of
a soldier Limply, and not a mongrel
politician, with newspapers, doctt.nieKts
and drafts of speeches iu his pock
ets of a uniform coat. What temptation
an American soldies has to resist who
pursues this course, we may infer from
the example 'of General McClellan.
When that unlucky pcrSohago found
himself driven back po Harrison's
Landing after those awful day of Ju
ly, 1802, with an army perilhing by
inches in his hands, the nation look
ing on inagony, and tho world in sus
pense, wi'in every inducement that was
ever applied to a human being urging
hira to concentrate all hi'3 faculties on
tho dreadful game before hitrlj he re
tired t'o his tent nnd wrote out, for Mr.
Lincoln's Vlificatiori. hi!"views"'6rt the
Mate of the country old "views" tool
with which he had probably been
yammrd n month nreviotislv bv
New York poiticians. It was
one of tl!e iiibJt ludicrd'.'.a in
incidents military history-, but there
was nevertheless something very pa
thetic about it. It meant not that he
wilfully neglected . his own work to
meddle with other people but that,
being weak-brained nnd overmatched,
he turned remlily for relief to rtle of
the commonest ihuit.'gciiccs of the day.
It was so pleasant and easy to show
.Mr. Lincoln on paper how to govern
tho coiliS'.ry at large ; so hard to with
stand tha terrible L'c-; ai?d his rebels
on the other sido of tho hill., . And he
mndo his account by it. A largo por
tion of the public hailed it as a lucky
stroke, and the Harrison's Landing
letter becnirie A "Stno paper;" Aa
lion: A fttiinmer Might In Rnaald
The sun shines in St Pet'ersbnrgh,
in June and July, ffjr twenty hours a
day, and even scarcely disappears be
neath tho horizon. ' I never experi
enced such sweltering weather in nny
other part of the world, except in As
pinwall. Ono is fairly boiled with
'.ho boat, and mightbc wrnngout like a
wet wrag. Properly spenTting, the
day commences for respectable pebple
and rtcn of enterprise, tourists, pleas
ure seekers, gambler:', vagabonds and
like about nino or ten at night, and
continues till about ' fiir or five
o'clock the next morning. . It is then
St. Petersburg is fairly out then the
beauty and fashions of tho city unfold
their wings and flit through the streets
or float in Russian gondolas upon the
glistening waters of the Neva; then it
is that the little steamers skim from
island to island, freighted with a pop
ulation just waked up to a realizing
Scnsa of Ihrj pleasure of existence; then
it is the atmosphere ia balmy ; and the
light wonderfully soft nnd richly tin
ted; then cornea the ewtt witching
hour, when ' .
' 'Slmdorl nonkf, '
Patiently aire up their quiet being.? ,
None tilt tlife wary, . labor worn
serf, who has toiled through the long
day in the fierce rays' of the . sun; can
.sleep such nights as these. I call them
nightf, yet what a strange mistake.
The sunshine still lingers in tho heav
ens with a golden glow; the evening
vdnMleS dreami!)r in the arms of 'the
morning; there is nothing to mark
the changes all is soil, gradual i'.'nd
illusory. .A peculiar and almost su
pernatural light glistens upon the
gblden 6Sme of the churches, the glar
ing wnt5r3 of the Neva aro alive with
gondolas ; miniatlire steame"? are" fly-
T .1 I .1 .-i. . ' i.
ing mrougn mo winding cnanneis oi
the islands ; strains, of music float np
fi'ri tlte air; gay and festive throngs
move along the promprade of Neves
koi, gilded and glittering, equipages
pass over the bridges and disappear in
the shadowy recedes of the island.
halever niav be unseemly in lite is
covered byjthe rich andjmystic drapery
ot twilight. ' . '
The New Orleans Picavune savs
itSSt, "sTJ long as whiskey : maintains
its present price, and can be found at
every cross-road, there should be no
fear expressed as to starvation." In
that sunnvland. whUker is board.
clothes and lodging for the people:
Horace Greeley was'nfty-scveii
Ithrs bld'orlthe3nl Kf F?hrriar:
EDU'OR AND 2'UBLISHER.
m. 33.
Nhe Woultl'nt Slurry a Mechanic.
A young tman., began visiting a
young .woman, : fend appeared to be
well pleased. One evening be called
when It was quite late, which led the
young girl to inquire where he had
been.
"I had .to work, to-nighC":
'What I do you work for a living?"
alio inquired in astonishment.
"Certainly," replied the young
man, "I am a mechanic." , ?. ,
"I dislike the,ftrme cf a mechanic,"
and she turned up her pretty nose.
That was tho last tiiuo tho young
mafi visited the younc woman. He
fa how, ft Wealthy man, and has ono of
iiib uv3voiuen i:i mecoumry ior ins
Tho lady Who disliked tho name cf
i .i i .
inccuaniu is now tne wuu oi a Misera
ble fool, a regular vagrant, about grog
shops, and the soft, Verdant silly, mis
erable girl is obliged to take iu wash
ing iu order to support herself and
children.
. yon dislike tliennimjofamcchanio,
en? You, whose brotlVcrs 'Are but
well dressed loafers.
Wc pity any girl who lias so little
brains, who is so verdant, so soft, as to
think less of a young tfanfor being a
mechanic one of God's nobTyseu
the most dignified and honorable per
sonage of heaven'j creature. Beware,
young lady, bow you treat young men
who work for a living, for you may
ono day be lietf.l to one of them
yourself. .". . ,
Far bettor discharge tho well fed
pauper, with all his rings, jewelry,
brazen ness, snd pomposity, and take
tp your affections tht callous hand, in
telligent and industrious mechanic.
Thousands have bitterly regretted
their folly, who have turned their
backs to honesly. After years have
taught them a severe lesson. That's
so. Ex. ( i
m m
, Who Roll's.
Fashion rules tne world ; and a
most tyrannical mistress she is com
pelling pcoplo to submit to the most
inconvenient things imaginable f-Jr her
sake, . ,
She pinches our feet with tight
shoes, or choEcs us with tight Hecker
chiels.orBqucc&s the breath out of our
body with tight lacing..
She makes people sit up by night,
when they ought to be in bed ; and
k-cps them in bed in tho morning,
when Ihey ought to bo up srtd doing.
She makes Tt vulgar to wait on oiie s
self, and genteel to bo idlo and use
less. Sl:e makes people visit when they
had rather stay at r"ome, 'eat when they
arc not hungry, and drink when they
are not thirsty.
hc invades our pleasures and inter
rupt our business.
Hbc compels people to dress gaily,
whether upon their oyrI property or
that of others, whether agreeable to
the Word of God or the dictates of
pride.
She ruins health, and produces sick
ness, destroys life, and occasions pre
mature dcatV
She makes fools of parents, invalids
of children, and servants df all-.
She ia a tornictltor of conscience, a
dospoiler of morality, And an enemy of
religion, and no one can bo her com
panion nnd enjoy cither. '
. Che is a despot of the highest grade,
full of iutrigue and cunning, and yet
husband wivos, fathers, mothrs,sons,
daughters arid servants, .black and
white, have voluntarily become her1
obedient servants and slaves, and Vie
with one another to sec who shall be
the most obsequious.
B'd ifE time Ago an affectionate wife
departed this life and for the benefit
of her husband, who remained in this
"vale of tears," she ordered placed
upon. ;hcr rombftbuo the following
vefsc : "
4 . ....
"Weep not for me my dearest dear
I anl not dead but ilecplng here,
' '. Repent rnj lore Iwfbreyon d&,
For you musl coma and i!cep with I."
In iu a year or so afterwards the af
fectionate husband, believing it not
good fcr man to live' alone, took unto
Wlnself another spouse; whereupon a
mischievous wag placed beneath the
epitaph tho following explanatory
lilies: , , , :
"I wyt not wep my dearcsl fife; ,
for i bavegot another wife, .
I cannot come and sleep wUh the,
For I must go and jleep with the."
Ifatlenal Dabta. .
. Misery loves company; arid so our
tax payers may find consolation in
reading the following : " ',
We owe now $2,508,1
England, with smaller population
and a poorer country, owes ?4,003,
791,255. France owes 82,340,029,890; her
debt ha increased one. hundred , and
thirty per cent, in thirteen years, and
increases yearly, while the populrlion
remains almost stationary. ....
Austria owes $1,316,103,201, and
has. increased her debt one hundred
and eight per cent in eighteen years.
Jtaly owes $1,071,818,940, and her
debt has increased lid six years one
hundred" and fifty-eight pef ocfjf , .
Prussia owes , f2lS,76C,Sd3; iHd
Has lately spent much iM. tHn hti
idcbrab: . . . ,, ". '
. Rrfatn: wltU cs3 ffllfl K31f Bur E83u
laUorl; M Ml liwliHUethJart bf odr
eilUi brWadfttf .fSwBribSti
Xonim of Adverttlnf
job weas,
ADVriTiricMFNM liuu.rtwl at Al Ra fwir aniiara
furtbriw luseniun. nd ot vtmtm iwr iqimra
counti it u equure'. All Irunaicnt advertlaetueota
m ih t;m ior utaovunrn. ...
Ili'si.vrm Nuticlh net nmlnr the Acad of local
news will bi'hfiii-"J liiTurhibfv IO cent a Uo
Kr ich inncrtlor. .i , J t. ...... ,i
A iiix'rnl ilttlurtion made lo persons advrrtla
InK Dy the ijiurlur, lutir-yrar or ywi, Spcolal
notices eharuod uuo.liaii mora than rnrulAr ad-
vertltnenu.
Jon riiisrfoof ererrklnd In Plain anil Fnn
Wooloni; lland.bllli.Jilanlts, Carta Pamphlet
.tc. or cverr varlrtv Hnd nt-1... nrlnt.wl Ht tha
Shortft notlw. Tm UnmiiVlrilt ilrnn tiaa '
Jiut b,ou m atted, and every thing In the Print- .
Iiir linn enn Its axorutrd. in the moat artlaU
When the Cunard steamship Bootia,
from New York for Liverpool, 'enter
ed the port of Queenstown, on th
evening pf January 18, on tho usual,
trainer ,oi-tne ixmdon and Irish nasw
seugers aud mail?, a strong police force
quietly went abeam, and arrested
f n.. r,. :t : n: ii
and (iW. thr of th nnaAnn.ra whn '
sailed from New York. It is under- T
stood that these gentlemen wero taken
mto custody on a charge of being act.
tive members of the American wing
of the Fenian organization. A . strict
search tf the prison and bnggate of Mf.
Train discfiiCd $o.pfdof of This conv
plioity with the Fenian movement, or
justifying his arrest by the British po
nce on the. charge of his bemgi'tdiri- t
nprVtprl in tl)A liftman nlAtt.trtf . 'tVaftk
a.ssits that he came over to Europe as
special correspondent in Ireland of the
ewlork Merit. He has formally
protested, through tho United.tftfei
consul against his dotVtf6,('nd def
clares ho was .arrested upon no .other
ground or suspicion than the finding ,
of an Irish jwper in his trunk.
Mr. Tiain .was discharged from 1
rest H Cork, on January 21.. lie has
sent the following dispatch to his
friends in America : ,
I have just beert roleased on the n-
tervention,rf Mr.. Adams, and havv
brought suit against tho British Gov
crnmcnt for one hundred thousand 1
pounds damages.- ' -. ' ''
O Eongi Francis Tbais. ; i
' - . (. '
There is decp if not dangerous sig
nificance in the rapidly spreading cries .
of "bondholders, "moneyed arista
crats;"bank barons," Ao. Many of
the leading Democrtio organs, espe-' '
cially in (lie West', 'are opening tkeij 1
columns to rfifih denunciations of men i
who have money or totfter .property) j
stigmatizing them as privileged classes; .
exempt from taxation, bond lords, ancj.(
by so doing inciting-r-pcrhaps uncon-'
sciously a spirit at Variance with'
right and jiitice, and dangerous to our -Government
Jtisnot probsbjothttt .
rcftding and thinking people will b
materially influenced by such appeals,
but there are many' thousands ,,who
read little and reflect . less, who are
moved mainly by impulse and passion, -and
upon whom tho incendiary up-.
f teals or cries to VAich we allude may ,
lave terrible effect. It Is not the part
of wisdom to flourish a lighted torch'
in a powder magazine. Tribune'. : 1
In Tronbl.
The Ohio Democracy are greatly
disturbed by the result in tho Eighth.
Congressional District. The Pendle
toninns swear that the Vallandigham
mers defeated Burns in revenge for th
defeat of the great martyr in the Sen-,
atorial contest, while Vallantlighara's
organ has an article-. believed to be
from bis own pen, showing that the
"Pendlelon policy did tlio business.
Val. foresees a crushing defeat for the
Democracy in Ohio next fallr The,
Pendletonians have been working like.
beavers 11 tiver tKe Wet in getting
up publib opinion, but this affair of
the Eighth District, small though it
may appear; is likely to give their lao-r
tion a great deal of trouble. Mow-
ever, it is none df our funeral) t
fer Heifaltlveaeaa.
A freat deal of tdiacomfort arises
from over-sensitiveness about what
people may say of you or, your actions.
This requires to be blunted. , Consider
wnetner anytning you ean ao will nav
rrtvAK connection with what they will
say. And besides, it may be doubted
whether they will say anything at ail
about ywi. Many- unhappy, pcrsops
seem to imagine that they are alweys.
in an amphitheatre, with' the assc.-ribied
world as spectators; whereas, all the
while they are playing to mptv
benches; - They fancy, too, they form
the particular theme of every, paos-cr-by.
..." - ." . , ,
: Dma aai Addrctfe? t"l-t
A person' of .'rough exterior ,was
somewhat coldly introduced into tKe
office , .of 4 .lawyer rfdjatinctionj. in
reference to a subject of grct difficul ty
and importance, which the 'stranger
exjilained and discussed with' great
ability and clearness. The interview
being ended, the -lawyer1, with marked
politeness) attended, his visitor to tho
doer," remarking to hjm at the time :
"You'obscn'e, sir," you ha'vS teen re
ceived" according to your drat, bni I
take leave of- you according to your
addresr.'". : fj'f--1''1'"'-- "
It was expected that' the trial of
Gen. George W. Cole for the minder
of! ITon. L. II. Iliscock,' . at Stanwix
Hall, Albnnt:' last winter," would b
commenced in tho Circuit Court of
that city last Monday. - .Nothing was
done, however, beyond the filing of a
writ otcertitrdri by the codnsel for the
defence, to remove the. case to the Su
preme Court. The case exiting un
usually attention, from the cans of tie
prominent parties interested, oc C r i
Mrs. Clesim, the mother-in-law of
Edgar A. Poe, w so very poor that she
Is supported in a charitable institution
in Baltimore. ' She recently wrote lo
Dickens for pecuniary aid and received
1000;. . . '
; Nifltrt Says' there H a" giid deal f
riAtWy ,W Him," but b don't do as
hll M m (Hat- t of nepect ia IV-