The Waynesburg Republican. (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, March 11, 1868, Image 1

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kuromiiitnled by the nume of thu nuthnr. not for
iruhllcaitoii, but u u a runty acuinfU Imposition,
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For the Rei-iDlicA.
ASf
Tho man Ilia, loves buA beauty,
Ii rin ilie iivin Tor me 1
I've uone to offer, If 1 hail,
He'd get It, no ir-e
Ha who rulmiri but rliiglds,
. It not the one I'd chimso j
Time stralghtcDii euoh thlnja and, uo doubt,
Would straighten, too, bis views.
I ask riot adoration,
(lod Uvea, him slmu'.d mau praiae,
lint o'lly true aflectlon,
Hint, lends iwl1! through Hfo's unia.
1
Only a stronger nrin,
Xerved by a nobler part,
TVa. cda a woman while on earth,
Or Rlvea for Iter bis heart.
Uoad lokt an J g ill you m iy wltliHold,
Tlie heiirl and head ' supreme,
l'arade will And If never told,
The best 's not nlffiiya Eceri.
Select fitrtin
' t UAMnMHtlMEC.
In 1819, 1 was n pnsaongcr on tlio
Rtciimor "Star Spunlcil I1:iiiilt,"
from New Orleans to Ijotiisville. Fhn
was crowded with poole; and, an
liHtir f fter leaving New Orleans, found
TM-rJinps twenty card tables tlrawn out,
llild three or four seoro of the piL'-sen-pcre
deeply ahsorLc.l in tho mystery of
the "old sledge," euehre, find poker.
All that night rtnd tho next day the
game went on. As fortune; however,
noon singled out Hiid niado vietim? of
the poorer find less skilled players, so
tlio miml.oiu grailunlly 1 jon i j.".l Until
the fourth dav out, when onlv one
table was running. Old llob Urasher,
a nero trader, rtnd two planters
from I;it Toyehe, still held on. Al
though they flayed almost incessantly
for four days and nights, yet luck had
favored neither party, and they vore
within a few dolhti'3 cf even. The
"bueking" had been p'ini'ipally lie
tween llrasher and San lord: but lienee
forth they hud kept tliemselvcs with
in the "gentleman' limit" live hun
dred dollars. Alter leaving Memphis
the game was renewed, and the by
standers observed, "that big play was
on tho tapis," as young San lord was
considerably under . tha inlliieinfc of
liquor, ami when iii that condition
wna known to bo it heavy player. Lite
nt night the twotrr.ili-M .unio ton-ther;
tiotii Han inn-Mi'g nan Is," a:id Jjoii-
isiana and Kentucky bank notes' soon
covered almost tho whole table. The
margin of five hundred dollrifs Intd
ltecn forgotten, nm't one, two, (lice,
live hundred better passed between
them. At last Urasher leaned back
upon the table, unbuttoned his vest,
nd took from around his body a belt
filled with gold pieces. Laying it
Hown upon the bank notes he ex
claimed, "Thrco thousand better t"
Sanibrd became speechless; hi face'
turned deadly pale; he called for a
"lass of liquor, which ho drank, never
onee tnkintr his eves from the belt of
gold. He hud exhausted his nie ui9
in the former bets ; all his money lay
upon tho table. At last a thought
struck him.
"Ben! here, sir!" he Cnlnimed.
''Yes, inassa," and SHnfordV body
servant, a line athletic pure Hood,
cam 3 to his table.
"Get up on the table, mi-P
Not daring to disobey as he knew
We'll in that moment of frenzy his
young master would Fend a bullet
through his brain did ho refuse the
slave trembling stopped on the able,
crushing the bnnlt fJotcs and gold be
ncat'i his feet.
"For tho good Lord's sake,- massa
Hen, don't bet this nigger oiF! What
will the old missus say w hen you go
home! Oh, massa Ben, please don't!"
groaned the poor boy, btft ?n Vain:
''Call you, sir !" 'shrieked Snnford,
at the same time laying down four
queens and an ace.
''An invincible, sir," said Brasher,
with a enccr j "four hiu-c and an nee !"
And as Brasher reached for his belt of
gold, young Sanford fell to the floor,
tho blood gushing from his mouth,
nose and ears. With one spring the
slave started from the table, dashing
through the thin fidding doors of the
. "Social Hall" 'out on the boiler deck,
a'ndj'with a half-uttered prayer for the
"old missus," he threw himself head
long into the dark waters of the Mis
sissippi, and was seen' no more. Death
prevented Brasher from claiming his
spoils. , Sauford for weeks lingered on
' a sick bed, but at last recovered, and
forever rcuounced the gambling table,
lie "made good," however, the money
worth of the negro to his winner. .
..TirE latest political nomenclature in
the Sdtith is curious. "Moss back" is
& man who'aVdided the rebel conscrip
tioa by hiding in the woods, until in
. popular parlance the mos3gTe'w' cli Lis
buck. A "scalawag" is a Union man
of Southern birth, who has been dis
appointed in some ambition, and has
gone over to the Union side. The
"carpet bagger" it generally from the
- Nofui, who turn up here and every
'rbbre, ready to ran for office or to do
aty other job that wiHpay expenses.
Thomas C M'Creary was on' the
18th Inst.; chosen Senator from Ken
i tuoky. in place ef Hon. James Guth
rie, resigned ; or to speak hi ore ex
plicitly, forced' out by disloyal im
portunity and influence.-.
JAS. t SAYEIiS,
VOL XI.
rnoKPECTft.
We invito particular attention to
tho following, from that able and in
fluential Journal, Harper's Weekly :
Tho Democratic lenders have lately
been in council at Washington io de
termine when and where the next
Convention of the party shall nii;Ct to
nominate a candidate for the l'resi
doney. The President scicd the oc
crtsiuii to show his peculiar claims
unon the nomination by a defiance of
Congress; and to shelve one of his ri
vrtls liy nominating General MoClollan
as Minister to England. The chiefs
of the party, Mr. August Belmont at
their head, doubtless compared notes
upon the situation, and wo will now
take sweet counsel with them.
The last Convention of the Demo
cratic party, us we all remember, and
do not mean to forget, met at Chicago
at tho end of August, 136 1. Tho
campaign of Grant in Virginia had
been lonsr: tho suspense was painful,
and the general disappointment at tlio
failure ot the l'ttersburg mine imu
cast a gloom over the county, Sher
man had not reached Atlanta, ni'd
when hi) was there, what was to fol
low ? It was ono of tho dark epochs
of tlio war : and tho Democratic Con
vention resolved to make tho most of
it. Horatio Seymour, , as President,
made an anti-war speech. The reso
lutions wero inspired by Vallandigj
ham, a frank secessionist. They de
rided the war as a failure, denounced
the acts of the Government, and de
manded surrender to the . rebellion
under the name of compromise, Upon
this ulatforiu General MeClellah and
H. Pendleton, tho latter of
whom had declared that tho rebel
States should be allowed to have their
way, wei-o nominated for President
and Vice-President. The proceedings
of the Convention wero telegraphed
with triumph through the country,
mid the organs and orators of the
partv in Chicago aud elsewhere fierce
ly vituperated tho Government and
the war. The political campaign was
short; sharp, and decisive. Every
State that took part in the election,
excent Kentucky. Now Jersey, and
Delaware, declared against the Democratic-
policy of Surrender to the re
bellion and consequent national ruin;
and of the 233 electoral vo-es tho
n.moiT-atiu candidates received but
91.
Upon the Inauguration of Mr. Lin
coln for his second term the organs of
tho Detnncratio party devoted thein-..k-:o
.liMinnioiitimi of tho melan
choly specfJcle of Vice-President
Johnson's drunkenness. The New
York II'orM described his speech' as
"the spewings of a t'r.inken bior,"
anl 'he Vi c-l're ido it Iruse'.f us
"tiiis incident drunken brute, in com
parison with whom even Caligula's
horse was" resj-Mahlc." Ho was also
this "clownish drunkard," "betrayed
by his own beastly instincts and his
boorish mind." Mr. Lincoln1 was
murdered, and Mr. Johnson became
President. Prom that time to this he
has endeavored in every way to defeat
tho will of the loyal people as express
ed by Congress, to surrender the late
rebel States to the exclusive political
supremacy of the rebels, and to aban
don the frcedmch wholly (o the mer
cies of tho late masterclass. In pur
suinj this policy, which undoes as far
as possible tho work of war, which, if
suecesslul, would engage tue country
m interminable struggles, and wlucli
is repugnant to nonor, reason, nnu
patriotism, tho President has ceased to
bo, in the eyes of the Democratic
party a clown, an insolent brute, a
man of beastly instincts, and a drun
ken boor, and has become a great con
stitutional statesman, whose words are
no longer "spewings but precious
d'ops of conservative wisdom.
Under the necessary leadership ot a
man "witn whom even caiiguias
horse was respectable," the party is
becinnini: its campaign. He is not
vet-nominated, and he may not be the
candidate; but es his policy is thatot
the party, and as ho commands the
patronage, he is in tho position ot
leader, whether the other chiefs ap
prove or not. But just here beirin
the dltT'cuH'ies.' It is easy to name a
place for the Convention to meet but
who shall be the candidate? The
West pronounces loudly mid in ad
vance lor 1 eniilcwn whose liencn-
man is Vallandigham and repudia
tion.- The Eastern States, ifr which
Democratic- leaders are heavy bond
holders, prefer Seymour, and as they
have succeeded in calling the Conven
tion in the city of New York, the
chances of Sevnicur's nomination are
increased. But the West will come
full of hope and resolution for Pendle
ton and repudiation!
The great Generals of the war
furnish no candidate, for they natur
ally have no sympathy with' the party
which in tho hour ot their peril and
heroism declared the war a failure and
its soldiers' "Lincoln's hirelings."
There is no man upon whom the party
fr. 111 .1
unites. t nen me enniiuiate is nomi
nated the party machinery will of
course be put nnder high-pressure to
produce a lactitiotis enthusiasm, Dm
the bondholdiuz Do'rrtocrats will not
all agree to the repudiating philoso
phy cf 1'endlcton as.amiaDty as xur.
Curtius Belmont,-and while they shout
ajrainst the inicioity of not taxing
bondswill do all they" 'can to save
their bonds from taxation'.' Indeed
there is but one point upon which the
great Demoeratio party is a unit, and
that is, hostility "to the equal suffrage
TiRMNEsTn THERIOlfT
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of colored citizens. Upon this. Bub
lime principle it takes its stand, and
who, ttpoii the whole, so proper a rep
resentative 'of it as the Nashville
Mnses? . ,
Btlt while the chiefs consult the
battle begins'. In New Hampshire,
where the election takes plate early in
March, the spirit which is to inspire
the Democratic campaign in - the
country is already manifested. One
of the orators denounces- tho "miser
able battle-flues" in tho Stato House
at Concord, and especially hates the
memory ot soldiers. "I do not know,
he considerately suggests, "as I would
hang one-legged and one-armed sol
diers, but I would pray tn God to get
them out ot our way as soon as poss
ible." Mr. Henry Clay Dean, a rep-
icsontative Democratic patriot, seizes
a cano In the midst of one of his
speeches, and rushes at a dissenting
auditor, threatening to beat out his
brains. Mr. C. Chauncey JJurr, an
other of the same kind, contemptu
ously asks of tho men who served in
the New Hampshire regiments, or sus
tained them; "Who are conquered
you or tho South? I say you are con
quered. You can never conquer tho
Soiith,and I pray God you never may."
cnninaiL'n of 1868 precisely where his
party began it at Chicago irt 1864, by
declarim? the war a failure, and advia-
ing us to suo tor terms; J.ur. n ranKiiu
Pierco alsd takes an active interest in
171 I I
the election, and his activity naturally
recalls his cheerful letter to Jefferson
Davis in January, 1860, in which ho
wrote: "Tho fighting will not be
along Mason and Dixon's line merely ;
it will bo within our own borders, our
own streets."
All this does not seem to bo very
promisinK for the Demoeratio party,
To be sure Mr. Vallandigham is going
to speak iu Connecticut, and perhaps
Mr. Eernaudo Wood and Mr. Brick
Pomerov can bo persuaded to como
over and help. But we remark with
concern that the mass meeting of the
"Prisoners of Stato" that is, of men
who wero cauidit endeavoring to be
tray the country to the rebellion after
tho hiirh Vallandiirham manner, was
indefinitely postponed. And araidrit
all this distraction and perplexity of
tho great pnrty of reaction, of negro
hate and ot Hpecial privciego, now ex
asneratinir to see the rrreat party of
equal rights tho party that did not
believe the war a failure, not' invite
national rttin the party of national
justice and patriotism, warmly uniting
upon tho wise anil magnanimous cmei
of the army of loyal citizens as their
candidate for tho Presidency, and
calmly insisting upon maintaining the
national honor and upon tho consent
not of a disaffected class bltt of the
whole people, as their policy cf "recon
struction.' 4UF.RI EM.
Tho Philadelphia MorniM Post
puts the following relevant queries
concerning Impeachment:
If a President is never to bo im
peached, pray why is there a constitu
tional provision for that extreme pro
cess?
If aPicsident Is to execute merely
those laws which may happen to suit
his convenience or to square with his
convictions, pray what is the use of
having a Congress at all ?
If a President ir'y with impunity
make the Secretary of War his mere
crer.'tiire, pray what. is the use of hav
ing a ar Department at all, and
,wby not do its business in some back
oflice of the White House?
If a President may create a War
Secretary or destroy the same officer
at his pleasure, what is to prevent his
dealing as ho pleases with the whole
army?
And if with the army why riot with
tho Navy?
Ami if with the Navy, why not
with the Treasury ?
And if with tile Treasury, why not
with the State Department?
And if with' the State Department,
why not with the Post Office?
And if with the Post Office, why
not with tho Department of the Inter
ior? -
And' if with the Department of the
Interior: why not with the Attorney
General?
And if with the Attorney General,
why no! with fli'a .Supreme Court?
And if with the pupreme Court,
why not with the Senate?
And if with the Senate, why not
with the House? -: .
And if with the House, why not
with the voters in all the congressional
districts?
Thus the President is impeached
because ho has substantially claimed
supreme and irresponsible control over
the lives, and the, liberties, and all the
posessions of all the citizens of this
Republic. The right to break our
law implies the right to void the Presi
dential rheum upon the whole statute
book to imprison, hang, behead,
banish, confiscate to be the autocrat
of this, whole landYvTith nobody to
question his authority or to dispute
his personal wiltT . -
So' we end as we began r , '
r 1.' President ever to' be im
peached? ' ' ,, , ' ' ' ,
2T And, if a President is eve t4 be
impeached,' w"hy not" Andrew John
son? .'; fc . ; ;'
PcifDLiao will run Independent for the
Presidency If th Datnoerats fall to ruminate
bun.- . ' ' ' '"'. ' -
AS GOD GIVES US TO SEE THE
WAYAESniKG, PA., Vt STMSD A Y, 31 A It
MfcW YORK.
Barnobi'a nenm A a" I" Itiilna Vaan
Amhura-fc'a tfenam-rlfl letr; rd.-feiyr-
lal Keenea auinna liaain BmaU.-I
fcailinal4 a 0,, .
New York, March. 2. A fire
broke out about twelvo o'clock last
night in Barnum's Museum, in the
portion OecupitH by Vart Ambufgh's
Menagerie. So rapidly did the flames,
Snrcad that it was found impossible to
save any of the larger finimals. The
veils of tho animals as tho flames
'cached lliera were appalling ; siiu
. .. .1 ... M lllJj. 1 1
f hcv bounded Jrotn sid to sldo, or
darted madly against the bars in their
vain ellorts to Iree thomsei ves. A low
animals; amnjiir thctn a kangaroo, a
small leopard, a few monkeys, togothor
with the ncllicans, and other small
birds. Mere cot out. J. ho electrical
machine, was also saved. On the
jMcrcet slroot oidb of thor-museum the
police and others were more successful
1'he EriralTe. two camels, a pair of Ja
panese lings, a Bunneso cow, a llama,
and a variety of small animals. Many
of them had narrow escapes, however,
and a few wero singed. Iho firemen
were at work at another fire on Sprintf
street, and when they arrived at tho
buildingit was wrapped in flames, and
in a short time theintcrior wtsborned
out. and adjoining buildings seriously
dama"od. The side of the Prescott
Hc'iise was on flro at one time, but
was saved by extraordinary exertions.
The thieves in the conlusion, man
aged to appropnato a considerable
amount of property. Several specta
tors wero relieved ol watches aw;
wallets. . .
Tho loss on the tnu'Reitrri ttttd coi
tents, including Van Amburgh's Mo-
nagcrio, will amount to nve uunurcu
thousand dollars ; insured, Due to
what amount could not bo learned
The bpsement of occupied, as
restaurant loss of stock about two
thousand five hundred dollars ; in
sined. ncverni oilier p.tiuua juao
i i . i i '. i
heavily. All tho people in the niuso
urn wero saved.
Another dispatch savs tho loss will
. .... i.i i i i
be nail amiliion,wnicn is onry partial
Iv covered by insurance. Mr,
Barium's loss is very heavy in animals
anil curiosities, and it is said that he
will not bo able to start out his travel
ling menageries this summer. Some
of tho more fare and valuable animals
were saved by the police and keepers,
... . -.1 e , . 1
but tho gorilla ws bayiy irigniencu
and is not expected to live. ' In
flames illuniinat-d the .whole city
throughout the n'siht, and the firemen
suffered terribly from the effects of the
cold. Quite a number hud their limbs
frozen and were removed to tho sta
tioti house for treatment. It is believ
ed that the museum took fire from
tras burner which was left liglrt'ed I
accident probably not turned off fill
ly. The watchman' can give no other
explanation of tho origin ot this catas
trophc.
Felter'a toy store on Spring street
was burned last night. Loss thirty
thousand dollars.'
Hamilton's cotton and wadding
factory, Brooklyn, was partially burn
cd last night. Lioss five thousand dol
lars.
New York. March 3. It is sup
posed. the losses by the destruction of
tho Museum last night will reach nan
a million. The insuranco is not over
half that. Barnum has announced
the lots for sale, and will build on
another site,.
Tba Name of Cad In Forty-f ight Lmn
fuag-c.
As Louis Burs-cr. the well known
author and philologist, was walking in
tho Avenue des Champs Elyseca the
other day he heard a familiar voice
exclaiming,
"Buy some nuts of a poor man, sir
twenty tor A penny I ;
He looked up aud recognized
old barber.
"What ! are you selling nuts ?" said
he,
"Ah, sir, I have been unfortunate
"But this is no business tor a man
like von."
"Oh, sir, if you could only tell me
of something better to do,"retumed the
barber, with asigh
Burger was touched. He reflected
a moment ; then tearing a leaf from
his memorandum-book, be wrote for
a few moments, and banded it to the
man, saying,
"Take this to a printing effice, and
have a hundred copies struckofl': jbere
is the money to pay for it. - bet
license from tho Prefecture of the
Police, and sell them at two cents
copy, ac'd jfou" will have bread on tho
spot. Tho strangers who visit Paris
cannot refuse this tribute to the name
of God, printed hi so many different
wavs." '
The barber did as he was bid. and
was always seen in the entrance to the
imposition, selling the following band
bill: - '
Hebrew, Elohim or Eloani Chaldic,
Elah". Assyrian. EUah; Syriac nnd
Turkish, Ataht Malay, Alia: Arabi
Allah; Languages of the Magi, Orei
Arnionan, Tuti Jlodera 1-gyptian
rmn: Old EzyDtian. Teut; Greek, Th'eos
Cretan, Thiot : iolian and Doric, 2os
LatitfiDfta; LowLatin,Dij Celtic
and Old Gallic, Diw ; t rench, Died.
bpanmh, Xhot ; . forfagueae, Veot
Old German, Did Provencal,' Diou
Low. BwritonY ifoiw, Italian, l6
Peruvian Jhtcuipamae f Irish. fUt
Ofala toncne.Xtoi: German and Swiss
GoU i Flemish. Coed: Dutch. Godl
English and out Saxon, - - Gorf
Teutonic, Goth ; Danish and Swedish,
R1GH1 .Liricoi.
11 II, ! IS68.
Cr'uf; Norwegian, Gad ; Slavic, Jiuch J
Polish, Iiof) ; I'olaen, Jiung ; lApp,
JMnal ; Finnish, Jamald ; Runic,
; Paiiifonian,-ifft ; omblianj
lizo; Hiiidostanee,T(im; t-oramanaei,
ififimr ; Tartar, jiagam ; i crsiau
$ire ; Chincso, Frwsa : .Japanese.
Goattr j Madagascar, Zannar. .;
A few days atlcr lftirger met- tuo
Bather. .' '
"Well." said he, "has the holv name
of God brought you good luck V"
"Yes, indeed, sir. 1 sell on an aver
age a hunctreu copies n any, bi two
cents each, or two dollars ; but tho
strangers- are generous; some give mo
ten cents, and others twenty, l nave
even received half a dollar for a copy ;
that sll told, I nm making five
dollars r. day." 't
"Five dollars a day 7"
"Yes sir and thanks to your kirid-
ntwi. ' . 1 '
"The deuce I" tbotight Burger, as ho
walkedBway. "If I werenotahterary
man I would turn peddler or publisher;
there is nothing as profitable as selling
tho learning or wit ot others.
tlie ABnl.t ART INT.
Ciesar Ducornet was born in Lille,
France, January 10, 1806. ; Born as
he was. without arms, what was there
for him to do. even in this busy world?
Each foot had but four toes, but he
early learned to use thtel to advan-
tatre. Y nen very yoime fie couiu
witli ease throw a ball, cut with
knife, and draw lines on the floor
with chalk, and could even cut figures
on paper with Ins mothers scissors,
He early .became a srood ' penman,
From this he passed to drawing and
naturally enough to painting, tho wido
space between his great too and the
next enabling him to grasp nis orusncs
firmly. At the age of thirteen his
progress astonished Watteau, professor
at tho school of design, in Lillie, who
received him as a pupil. Only three
years later, ho took the first prize for
a drawing ot tne nnnran ngure irom
nature. Atlor " this ho pursued h
studies in Paris. Ho was of a lively
temperament, and when in conversa
tion ho became animated, ho was in
the habit of gesticulating with his
legs, as other persons do with their
arms. Somo ono has described a visit
to his painting room, which is inter
eating:
"Across tho whele extent of the can
vass ran, with increuiuie agnity, nice
A By upon tho wall, tho stunted trunk
ol a man, surniounteu uy a nooie neau
with expansive brow and eye of fire
and wherever tho apparition passed
along the canvass, he left the traces of
color behind him. On approaching a
few paces nearer, wo were aware ol a
lofty but slender scaffolding in front
of the canvass, up and down and across
tho steps and stages of which climbed,
and crouched, and twitted it is im
possible to describe how tho shape
le?3 bsiog wo had come to see. We
saw then that he was deprived cf arms;
that he had no thighs : that his short
legs were closely united to his body ;
and that each of hi3 feet wanted a toe.
By one of his feet he held a palette
by the other a pencil ; in his mouth j
also he carried a largo brush and n
second pencil. And in all this harness
he moved, and rolled, and writhed,
and painted, in a manner more than
marvelous! a voice musical ; grave
and sonoroii", saluting us by name, in
vited its" to bo scatpcl. Then the ap
par'tion glided down the whole Jength
of the scaffold to the ground, advanc
ed, or rather rolled toward .us, and
with a bound established1 himself on
the eofa at our side. We watched
hircf with interest and had a long con
versation with him. Ho told us he
had beeu born without arms, and had
been a painter ton years, and was now
making money by h'm.art.. He used
his feet With almost as much ease as
people do their hands, holding his
pallette in his left one, and his brush
in the right, as though all -his toes
wero fingers, changing thctn with the
most perfect facility, and even trust
ing his foot into his pocket, as another
man would his hand. He wrote his
name for. Us with great rapidity, and
well, and fold us he shaved himself."
The Secret" I noticed," said
Franklin, "a mechanic among a
number of others, at work on a house,
erecting but a little way from my office,
who always appeared to be in a merry
humor, who had a kind and cheerful
smile for every one he met. Let the
day be ever so cold, gloomy or sun
less, a' happy smile danced like a sun
beam on his cheerful countenance.
Meeting him, one niorning, I asked
hiin to tell me the secret of his con
stant happy flow of spirits. 'No se
cret, Doctor,' he replied. 'I have got
one of tha best of wives, and when I
go (o work she always has a kind
word of encouragement for mcy and
when I go home she meets me with. a
smilo and a kiss,' and then tea is sure
to be ready, and slie has done so many
little things to please me4 that I cannot
find it ip my heart to speak an unkind
word to any body.' . What, influence,
then, has woman over the heart of man
to soften it and make it the fountain
of cheerful and pure emotion ? Speak
gently, then ; greeting after the toils
of the day are over eos,t4 nd&lig, and
goes fai' toward" making home Happy
and peaceful." f
i a t ' -
The excitement in London, occas
ioned by Fenian movements, still con
tinues. The authorities are exceed
ingly wakeful, and arrests are made
everyday1.-
EDITOR AKD PUBLISHER.
i0. 37.
wutr iirema of ikhik.atic
iltlrlPLEM.
To those who" look m,rc!v at tho nu
mercial majorities in elosefy-eonteated
States like New Hampshire and Indi
anna, it may seem that the war for right
principles is a battle never won. liut
those who watch the constant, change
nd advaneo in tho principles on
which sueh small and uniform maior-
ties decide, will see that the battle for
tho truth i3 always winning. The
stream rcrnaiiis at. the samo hight, but
ta waters are never again tho same.
Tho vote does not greatly vary, but
tho principles and questions on which
it is cast constantly change, ami tins
. . .. . . , .i
chance, durin? the past ten years, will
i . i- i . j . :.. e..n. l.n. .1...
DO IOUllll 10 CUIlalBt III mo iul Wi.ll, win
Republican party has done everything"
it set out to do, constantly advancing
to new achievements, and constantly
-winning fur its course tho approval of
the country, while the Democratic par
ty vainly opposed .every euceesstul
measure, and abandoned its opposition
only when overwhelmed with defeat.
The odds and losses in the last battles
of tho war wero not greatly different
from those In the first. But the
g'-aiid peculiarity of the five years'
struggle was that after nearly every
battle tho Rebels retired and the
Union armies advanced.
It is so in our political contests.
The Democracy could not bo expected
to gravely meet in convention, and
open their resolutions by admitting
that they abandon their previous posi
tions. But year byypar they do aban
don their own positions of tho previ
ous year, add very frequently tldopt in
their stead a plattorm which would
have been as Radical a year or two
earlier. It is by this constant pro
cess of "accepting tho situation" forced
upon them by the Republican parly,
and toning their piatiorms to auapi
them to the victorious march of Re
publican principles, that Dcmocrata
are able to keep just abotit so close in
tho rear of the Republican innruli, and
to maiutain their formidable minori
ties or local majorities. They deride
our music, but are compelled to fall in
to line, and march to it. ; Thus, prior
to I860, tho gist of Democracy was an
iudorsemcnt'bf the rightf Secession,
aa expressed in the Virginia and Ken
lucky resolutions of 1798, and of the
constitutional equality of the right to
own slaves with the right to own any
other property. - 1 hore is not a nhred
of either of these principles now loft in
any Democratic platform, North or
South, in tho country. On tho con
trary) the Republican doctrine that
slavery was wrong and ought, not to
bo extended into tho Territorial, and
the subsequent expnnsion of this truth
into tlio doctrine that having rebelled,
it must be abolished by military force
are silently ncccptcd by the Demoerat
io party. No Republican measure was
assailed by'thc Democrats more vehe
mently than tho Lezal Tender act. but
now they want tho whole uovernmeiit
ucui. wimuu.ju iiji.u h.-jj.xi
1010 .1 A. r - 1 .l.n. A GUI.
loo, nicy utriiiuu mat a .--mil! s"-
eminent could be destroyed by lU re -
bcllion, But now they accept tlc
State, governments cr?ftteu uy uat o
Andrew Johnson, and only deny that
Congresa could cupersedi them. In
180a,thev proclaimed that if theblacks
should vote, it would lead to universal
miscegenation. All the blacks in the
South have voted, yet there fa proba
bly lass miscegenation there thnn ever
before, and now leading apostles of
the Demoeratio party, like Senator
Doolittlc. and leading proves, like
Tlie N. Y. Yrorkl and Chicago Times
have advocated negro suffrage, either
universal or partial. , In 1861, 18G2,
and 18G3. the Democratic party pre
dicted that the Morrill Tariff would
destroy the country.; but in 1865 and
18G6, they tacitly assented to the pro
priety of increasing it. .When the
State Bank circula. ion was taxed out
of existence, they - raved at this a? an
"audacious invasion of the rights of
the States and individuals," but now
the most querulous Democrat raises no
voice in favor of returning to the State
Bauk system. . I he Democrats oppos
ed the the drp.ft for men to carry on
the war so persistently and fiercely that
it required titty thousand troop3 to be
withdrawn from our armies to enforce
the measure in New York and Indiana.
They opposed volunteering, and their
leading orators and presses dc-nounced
the troops as "hireling mercenaries,"
and demanded that "no more men
should' be sacrificed in Lincoln's
slaughter pens." Grant was denounc
ed as a butcher, and Sherman as' a lu
natic. Yet'they now vaunt the ser
vices of the Democratic party in sup
pressing the Rebellion, trtoreby reced
ing from their position tlrat the war
was wrong. Their last National plat
form declare-! that the war for the
Union was a failure. It is a singular
ecmraert oh Democratic principles
that as no National Derotcratic Con
vention has met since, tln'j declaration
is still ther-leading plank in the Na
tional Democratic platform. "They
will soon meet and adopt as a substi
tute that the laws of Congress for re
construction are a failure ! They
boast themselves preeminently the de
fenders of the Constitution, .yet their
leading policy is the taxation of the
National debt,' which the Supreme
Court of the United States has three
times decided to be unconstitutional.
This gradual change in the principles
of the Demoeratio party is manifest
in the first clause of the New Hamp
shire platform! T.n,,' .'-
' MuohitJ, That It has ever been a cardinal
doctrine of the Democracy of New Hamp.
TorfuM r .A.UvertllU ll
WORK.
ano
A nvmnsFst k nts lnrtd at l S P
lhilin.a inatirtlona. and 80 eenta par !
for aaoh additional Insertion I (ten unea "
counted a sriiiarc. AU IransK-ntauvwusomeu..
to ne pa 'I lor maavaura.
Hwq.iM No-rina net onikr the hpad o loou
mws Wllll-a chinned Invariably M anle Una
for each lueprllon. . . ......t..
A liberal (fnlnrtlen made to paraotia aflTartia-Ina-
by tho qurter, half-year or year. I"
nolle.-. olmrgKd ooe-bair more toku regular ad-..
vertiaemcnt. , .
Job I'KivriNOOf vSnrklnd In naloand Fan
cy oolors; Hund-lillln, H!nkn,Crd ParnpUlt-t
Ac, of nvcrv variety and itvlo. arlntail at taa
abortcat notice. The ItapunMOAM ufirB lit
lual been re-filtod, aud overy tli 1114 in i rrio-
Inff line ran re exet-men in
tho moat artist, e
mannurami at tlia lowoat ratca.
hire that fidelity to tba Union and lo the ooo-
tllullon by winch tnat union waa matea u
the pariunoitntand InrUspPDanbladnty of every
citizen t that we have been true to this con.
vuitlon always, anil wa will never abate our
teal lo llic-ir nenai; unui ine uumn anau d
restored and the Constitution respected and
obeyed as the supreme law of the iand.
Such a clause in a political platform
in 1862-6 would havestamped its au
thors as Republicans. Rutin 18,, Af
ter tho restoration of tho Unioji ,1s as
sured, and the Ctirtetltutian has undla-
Suted supremacy, the Democrats- of
ew-IIainpshire stand in terras just
where the Republicans stood for tin,
preceding four years, except that it is
necessary for them to assert that they
"hive been truo to tha Union always'
We hope no Republican willcverfind it
necessary to subscribe to a test-oatn io
assure the world that he litis not been
a traitor. It would look as if ho had.
Thus the principles for which .(hu Re
publican party fights in one cwpaigu
are tacitly conceded to be trne by the
languago of tho platform on which tha
Democrats rally for tho next. 1 It did '
not. impair tno ynluo of Grant's
victory at Donelson that he defeated
some of ' tho same Rebels', again at
Vicksburg, Chattanooga, or Spotsyl
vania. n Their now position was always
a retreat from -their old his always
an advance. It was an interesting
query among the rebels during tho
war. "What becomes of all our im
pregnablo positions?" An equally in
teresting inctniry would be, "What
becomes of fill tho Immortal principles
of the Demoeratio party?" We re
spectfully refer it, for further investi
gation, to those gentlemen who'Bhall
s'icceed in finding Out "What bcoomea
ofall tho pins?" Tribune, : v.
Tbe Impeaebmenl Trial.
The Pittsburgh QaviU of tha AA',
says Tho Senato having yesterday,
notified the House of its readiness;, to
proceed with tho trial of the Presidont
it is expected that tho managers will
take in the Articles today, in which
oaso the Senate will to-morrow resolve
itself into a IJigh Court of Impeaehi
went and issue its summons to ; tho
President to appear at its baron a day
to be fixed, either in person or by
counsel, ana answer to the articles. eM
hibited. When he shall have appear
ed in obedience to the snmmons, en
tering a pica of "guilty or "not guil
ty," a day will then be designated- for
tho commencement ol tho trial, which
wren so oegun, win procecu iroin u.tj
to day until its termination.' ' The
summonswill probably be issued forth
with, nnd the npficaranco-day may be
fixed for to-morrow, but alter a plea
is entered, a reasonable perio'd will bo
allowed to tlio President for the prep
aration Of his d-fen3e. The oon
mencemer't of the trial should not
thcrcforo be looked for before 'the next
week. -. . '. ' . i
W! Moved Dnt Well f
gonie ycara g;nre fl ,)rora,t business,
n?n m jsortlmmpton. Mass., who be-
. . ' -. . .
ran"to sow his wildoats '. when a
1 bQV nn m t ot through yeV at-
tenticd a colored ball at a house on
j Market Street, in that town. :Aftcr
i ....u iiiren(,l0wn" ho noticed that a
j ej j..,ar t19 h0Ui(. which, bv th
way, was not a deep ono was resorted
to by the men to quench thtrif thirst.
Unobserved, while the dance was gO
inr on, ho slipped out of the house and
moved tho curb a few feet beyond the
well, and tiien awaited the result.
Presently out came cr-.c of the dancers,
and plump tc the; bottom of the well
he went. Blowing and puffing he
ho came to. the top, and exclaimed-,
"By gorry I whose moved dis well
since I's out h';re last?"
titneral Slgrti. - --
To take down the gridiron from th
nail where it i.i hanging with the left
hand is a sign that there will be a
broil in the kitchen. - '
If a mirror is broken it u a sign
that a good-looking glass will be miss
ed in that house. .,
If you hear a rooster crow when you
are in bed and tl;c clock strike a few
times, at the same instant it fa a sign
of mo(u)rning. - -
Tostrike.it green-eyed-cat with a
white spot on her nose i3 lucky, and
heavy purs will be the consequence.
If you ate in a lioiiso and hear at
baby cry it is a sign of marriage, or if
it' isn't it ought to be.
To lose a pocket-book containing
greenbacks is unlucky,
American manners were discussed
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Ralph Vi aldo Emerson.. He address
ed himself especially to conversation.
In convers.ii,ion no jiikes should be at
tempted. True wit never; makes us
laujjh."" Ixjnd la'ughtcr was a sign of
vulgarity, and often several' genera
tions of cultivation were not snfiicfent
to expunge this ugly enemy 'of man
ners. Of the social vicC5, Utlking sen
timent was, bad enough. The leclur-f
er was suspicious of the people who
speak much of the moon, ' and thor
flowers, and music, and of charity, and 1
of virtue, dear virtue They almost
niakebeanty hateful with their praises
The warmer they get' the more we
shiver, till we are nearly frozen with
the cold, r"' . .
As Ou ScBacBiBEa. The Cham-'
bersburg Reptmtory rttorda the death'
of Mr. Jacob Immei; at Greenvillaea,'
who attained the age of 92 year. He'
was subscriber of that paper (W ,
year.' ' -''.--'