Ternti of" I'ubltoatton.
Till Wa ynesdurq Km-rni.icAK, Office in
Bayers' building, east of tho Court Huusc, Is pul.
lliheil averjr Wednesday trWiilng, p.t fa per
annum, in advakck, or da SO If nut paid with
In the year. Allaubscrlptlon account Scsj
h settled aonumlly. No paper sill be tent
out of the State aniens paid for rN advance, and
all such subscriptions will Invariably be discon
tinued at the expiration of the time fur which
thnjr are paid.
i Uorainunk-utlonson subjects of local or general
lnterost ,ae respuctfiUly jiollrltud. To entmre
attention favrir of this kind must Itivurtiilily be
accompanied the nmne of the nutlior, not for
ptihtleatlon, but n giiumnty iiualnst ImpoHttlon.
All letters pertaining to hunlnessnf the office
rfUHt neatmreHHeu to iite r.'iiujr
A HISS.
There's something In a kins,
Though I cannot revonl It ;
Whi'-li never comes iiiiiIhh
Not even t ti'en we stcul It !
We cannot taste a kiss,
, And sure we cannot view It j
liut is there not n bliss
I'on'uiunlditiil through It t
I'm well convinced there Is,
. s eerlnln something In It
Vor thoiiKh a simple lilsi,
AVe wisely strive to win It.
Vet, there's something In a kls;
If no1 Hlng else would prove It,
It niiHht be proved alone by tills -
All honest people love It 1
No. 11,
For the Rei'I'ulicax.
PRISON Mil:,
itv a rwoxER.
Now commenced a system of treat
ment that was worse than we received
at Andersonvillo. Our food had to
lie furnished by the surrounding coun
try, and considering that it was al
ready drained to support the rebel
army, it looked like starvation. Ami
it did approach very near it. Our ra
tions were divided by tho spoonful.
I find in my diary the following note
of our rations: "Haifa pint of coarse
meal and four spoonfuls of lt'iK"
"One and a half hard tack, four spoon
iuls of meal and a little molasses."
"A pint of meal." "One pint of rice."
Remember these were rations for
twenty-four horn's. Did ever prison
ers sull'er more than we? It was with
lis one continued hungering. We lay
down to sleep and dreamed of deli
cious food brought almost to our. lips,
but some rude hand would snatch it
away, am! we awakened to stern real
ities. Every ono felt he was slowly
starving. Nothing but tho most de
termined courage kept us alive. So
soon as ono lost hope, in tliat moment
lie commenced to die.
On Sunday the 21 of October, we all
were put iio a new prison that hail
lieen made by the slaves. This was a
little better, as there was plenty of
wood and water, though the inevitable
swamp and blade ditch were there to
breed fevers and all pestilences. I
never so near gave up nil hope as
when tho gates wore closed upon us.
It seemed to shut out every ray of
light from the north-land "(bid's
Country," wo called it. I do not re
member tho name of tho ollivr in
charge of us. One officer I remember
15arritt,the red-headed fiend of Flo
rence. May God have mercy on his
soul, f!r lie was killed eve the war
closed. Such a systematic wretch I
never saw. He never eamo into the!
prison without a revolver, with which
he drove the miserable eaptivesaround. I
Satan's language was outdone in his j
epithets. "Hooting sick men was a
pleasant exercise with mm. 1 1 is acts j
were reported to the commander, but
no notice was taken of them. (Jen
Winder came in once, but he would do
nothing.
Anothcrcvil wasthcbrntalityofsomc
(of our own men. The strong robbed
the weak and there was no redress.
Even the police could not wholly re
strain the crime. The Irish were the
most cruel iii their tyranny. Ono es
pecially, Stanton, was worse than Dar
ritt. lie killed two prisoners, I think,
while in prison. After his release he
was sent to the llip-llaps. It was
unusual for him to pass a day without
whipping some weak or sick prisoner.
But one day he met his match. He
was about to whip a man, when I5ar
ritt pulled out his revolver and put
ting it to the Irishman's head, told
him to "go ahead!" but he did'nt.
Tliose prisoners who obtained pa
roles to work about the prison, some
times took the opportunity to escape.
When caught the usual punishment
was hanging by the thumbs. Is there
a more fiendish torture? Several
times did the prison ring with their
screams for mercy.
It was now getting cold and no
clothes were given to Us to keep death
in this new form" awav. A lot of
clothes did come from tho Sanitary
Commission North; but half of it was
kept by the rcberS. Tho rest was
distributed to the most needy. I tore
my shirt to get a new one, but failed
and had to mend my old one. I never
washed my clothes in three- months.
To have done so would have torn
them in pieces, . .
Every morning at sunrise we were
called ap by a drum and made td
stand shivering for fifteen minutes till
roll-call wa over. About once a week
the whole camp would bo moved to
ne tide of thedifeh. aad. after staying
1U. SAI hJv, FII1MNEOS Ijf THE IUCillT AS COD CilVKS VH TO SEE- THE ItlOHT. Lincoln.
VOL. XI.
two or three hours, would march back
again anJ be counted.
On Sunday the 20th of November,
we drew the usual rations in the even
'g a l)mt ond ' half of meal. The
next day some prisoners escaped :i
privilege they had and the rebels re
fused to issue an v rations. It also
commenced to rain and be cold. We
thought we would get something the
next day; but no, nothing, not even
the u-ual scanty meal was given us.
It f-ecmed as if tlicy would starve us
all at one llll sweep. The next day,
Wednesday, we waited, almost insinc,
till night, and then a small amount of
men! wa--given i. Think of that, ye
who lived in luxury while the war
raged ! Can you imagine how we seized
that morsel of mod, fought over it
like beasts, and ate it almost raw?
In those three days many died solely
from the want of food. Did therebels
have any humanity ? All this time,
too,thestore-hou-eoutside wasenimtncd
with provisions. Talk of the civili
zation of tho nineteenth century !
Many of the nu n became insane
from the want of food and from the
force of tlieir surroundings. That
prison cannot be pictured. As I write
the whole scene rises in my mind, but
words fail to describe it. It almost
madu 1112 a Universalist. S'irely if
there Ins ever been n hull on earth, it
was there. There will Ira a fearful
reckoning at the, judgment day fir the
deeds done in that prison ncn.
j At last the 8t!i of November eamo,
.aid wo knew the fate of our nation
I was to ha decided bv the ballot in the
North. ( )ur hearts wers an xioin. We
knew if .McClelland was elected, we
would be released. We knew if Lin
coln was re-elected, wo might never .ers
home. The rcbdt war- all in favor of
.VrClMtntl. They said if ho would
carry the North, the South would at
once gain her independence. They
urged the prisoners to take a vote o:i
the two "audi dates. IMack beans were
the ballots for Lincoln, white ones fir
McClelland. It'sult live black to
one white, and chagrin to the rebels.
ntkhkoi'i -11x11 sew.s:mi!::W.
Few persons are aware of the fact
tint our principal illuming joiirni'.l's
(tec not iirinhd dinvtlii from the. tinte.
hut from stcreotv'(
taken from the
regular firms. The whole time con
sumed in making the plates of tho
tour pages is about twcnly minutes.
It is accomplished i litis: each page is
maiie up in a separate lorin on a tame
in size and bight expressly adapted lor V. Ferguson, all the time proirt
the purpose; the legs of this table are , ;llt, ,1,.,,, m.., ,.f t. .,1. on,i
lurnislieil with castors mul us soon as
the form is locked the table is rolled j
into tnc stereotype room, i no lorm i
: . .i r. . .i 1 1:.. . i i ...
i.i uieu it.'uioui to toe inoiihiiiiLr uioic:
the latter h is a hollow iron be 1 the1
cavity of which is tilled with steam, as j
heat is One of the requirements in fa-
cilitating the operation. Alter the:
right temperature is attained, the lorm
j lvm,jvi,t a,:an lo t1(, j,,,,,,,;,,,, fi,,,.
and two or three sheets of a kind of
paper is laid over the liice of the type,
an.1 tlicy are then (.eaten .town will, a hy of th(1 rj,,,, Illlrtl,red
brush in the same manner that pnn- !,.;, ,. hu iUo ol)i;,ds ()f th(,
tci-s proceed in Cuing a brush proof 0 r,,allj;lti011 A. C, Ferguson in par
1 he form is then again carelully sh, ; ti(1, ,.;,. n,)st blo,i ,i,irstv
up on the moulding taole, anotl.erand !t.;lir(
heavier sheet of paper is placed over j At l"1e (,xt 110(,t; ,,, Tmrs,i.,v
the irst; tins is covered wiU a wot ., fi)!lowi f) a)rillt twenty-five members
blanket, the whole slqmc, under toe wrc I)rwcntf aiMj ,,,,,, A u F
press attached to the moulding table, so.i, the poiof the vIoom, loomed
and the power applied. 1 his is ('one nm1 mm.-(, t,e api.oiiitmcnt of the
almost instantly, when the lorm w w)..)rated "Aasassinution Committee,"
again run out, and the pap,:r .pwlcd ( niro stppen.lagc for a Ikisc IkiII or a
oil is a complete matrix of the whole , , " .
torm.
A preparation of ! rcm h c.ia k j
is now applied to the surface of
paper, when it is placed in in
the
the
mould, and the hot metal poured r(.li"ious
against it,and the plate ahuovt instantly (.y,-!,,,,.
formed. It is now removed to the ii.... ,,...?.',
planer, isctit.routed and justi lied, and
in a few minutes is on its way to the
press-room. Thee plates aw cut in
the exact form required for a cylinder
press, and are aUut half an inch in
thickness. Xorthaukr.
Henry Wakd I?EEciiEn, having
been asked for bis opinion about novel
readingj has given it. He asserts that
"Protestant Christendom is not united
on any other practical question more
entirely than on the propriety of read
ing fiction." In proof of this startling
.position he instances the approval giv
en to the parables of the Gospels, Mil
ton's pocius, the "Pilgrim's Progress,"
and Pollock's "Course of Time." lie
next say it is impossible to lay down
any general rule as to how much time
should be given to novel reading.
But he thinks it certain that Hovels
should not bo made "the staple of
reading." On the contrary, he vrguld
have them bear the same proportion to
the whole amount of one's reading that
pepper does to one's food, or sugar to
one s drink. Ho is ready to admit,
however,iat novels are useful in im
planting it taste for reading, and that
"Miss Austen's works, Miss Edge
worth's tales, Miss Sedgwick's novels,
Walter Scott's matchless romances,
contain as good matter as is to be found
in sermons, essays, histories or poems."
He mys nothing about Dicken's works. '
AVAYNESBUUG,
THE It I -H MX.
The Mystery I'nvelleil Fxpnsp by the
Nnpreintt Ui-iiikI j -l How Jndue
Lewis wits to be llmix- IHiilioltrul Ar
rangement or the AhkftNviunllmi t orn
nil l ttiKMM, NecretM, Muibols mill
Nr-imlturK.
It will bo recollected that a den of
the Ku-Klux Klan was recently bro
ken up in .Memphis by the politic, and
that the rebel papers of that city tried
hard to make it appear that "the or
ganization was not connected with the
Ku-Kliix, but was an innocent assem
blage. Jack Campbell, formerly city
editor of the Aeuhtwhc, and "Grand
Cyclops" of the den, however, came
out in a card in which he denied the
truth of tho apologists' version of the
case, and declared plainly that the
object of the association was assassina
tion. Since the appearance of the card
the Memphis Jpjieol Albert Pike's
organ published a manifesto signed
by sixteen of the men arrested, in
i hit h they professed entire innocence
of the designs attributed to them by
Campbell ; said that thev were "re
ligiously educated," etc. ' To establish
his veracity, Campbell furnished the
following detailed account of .the or
ganiz iti'Mi ami projects of (lie fiendish
conspiracy to tiie .Memphis Jiuiktin, of
Friday last. We bespeak for it a care
ful reading :
The Ajipctil , from time, to time,
since the uniiii ;n iate publication of
the card of the lvligioiisly trained, but
lying 'iSixteon," taken occasion to deny
the truth of my statement, and to cast
personal reflections upon me. For the
latter 1 have unconcern, knowing that
if every asserted fact was trile, that
even then my character would bear
favorable contrast with that f more
than ono attache of that unscrupulous
sheet. So much for the personal, now
for the facts. 1 never charged that
the oiganizi'tion with which I was ar
rested was a Ku-Klux one, but I did
charge that it was a band of men, all
the way from niii'een years to beyond
middle ago, handed together for the
purpose of assassinating men who had
rendered themselves objectionable to
them. True, the fiiet is undeniable
that most of the men arrested were
young, and nil tho ilidiscreet signers
of the "card" were such, but behind
these are a number of other men who
have not as yet joined in the assault
upon me, and whose names I do not
consider would lie lionoraiile to lu'inir
into the; matter. It is unnecessary for
me to go Over the ground already cov
ered in inv li rst co' n inn ii ication, excel it
so rcitcraic iha: cv-'iy assertion made
then is strictly true. The nsssociation
I'.t the ti.lie of the arrest co .sisted of
about thirty-five inembirs, neurly nil
of whom bad numbers.
The officers were nil duly sworn in
upon thoskull, and I immediately ns
siiined command of the organization as
Supreme Cyclops, and gave the ineni-
hers present a lecture in regard to cau-
(;,.,. ,,,.,1 bn,.e,.,.-
. badges should be procilred, and that
a.v
clothed. The meeting then dis-
pcrscil, the ineinoers disappearing two
at a timr, at intervals of five minutes.
During this meeting much hard lan
guage, and theats for the future in re
gard to "getting away" with several
obnoxious Individuals was indulged
in, in which I took my share, being as
bitter, if not more so, than any of them
fitwl tmf o wiiril fil' iivnt!i:t u-nu m.nln
seC0M10( .ul .ninst my protest and
tho protest of most of tho older-headed
inemh.'Ts it was cirnccl, some of the
-nurtured youllm actually
Fei'g-i -. ii' motion was the
that committee should consist of seveil:
This was la-t, but the motion was
again renewed, an I after I had sifli
m it ted it to the members, I called Mr.
T. L. llisk to the chair, spoko to the
question, and told them that if such d
thing was carried through at all, that
the committee was too large; the men
selected would not feel like placing
their lives in the hands of more per
sons than was necessary, and that when
the selection was made, it should be
done by placing the numbers of all
members in a hat, and that the first
three drawn out should bo tho men
insisting', however, thjt if such a thing
wasdoncthatl should be placed at
the head of it, for the purpose of con
trolling it and saving tho hot headed
fools.who were bent upon their own de
struction. This was done, find N. T.
Reeves, E. M. Haley and J. W.
Dashiel selected as said committee,
the "religious -n ilrtu red" Mr. A. C.
Ferguson insisting that when any
"work" was to be done that he should
have a chance, and volunteering to
take the plaea of any man. He could
get no chance, not a man on the com
mittee being willi.ig to trust him.
The first iiiyn nominated was Judge
Williaili Hunter, and this was also
done by tho "religiously nurtured"
Ferguson..- The Judge's name I. pro
tested against being'entered in tho race
stating that my position and feeling
towards him harl been- misconstrtred
PENNA., WEDNESDAY,
1 1 wool
I thev liai
consider "personal, and that they bad
no business to molest the Judge. This
saved the "old lady," and her name
was allowed to be dropped. I could
not allow any such attempt upon the
venerable dame. In quick succession
the names of Harbour Lewis, Col.
Hcaiimont, P. D. licecher, M. T. l!y
der, A. P. lliirditt, Keml Hough,
Wiekerham, F. W. Louis, Judge
Waldron, Hob Church and Kd. Shaw
were put in Humiliation. Had I not
shut down on the nominations there
is no telling how many more would
have been made. Harbour Lewis,
however beat them all.
The result of the election was well
received, and all werepleacd,al!lioue!i
they had to concede the defeat of some
favorite candidates. Who tho indi
vidual votes were cast for I do not
know, except my own. It was then
moved that each member should be
assessed a certain amount to deiraj- the
incidental expenses of carrying out the
object Of the committee, and the meet
ing adjourned, tho members leaving
the ha!! in the usual manner, in pairs
and at five minute intervals.
ISelbre adjourning, however, a meet
ing of tho "Assassination Committee"
was called for noon next day, and
they met In a building not a hundred
miles from Jeffersoiv street, and pro
ceeded to discuss how it was beat to
manipulate "old Unctions," as I used
to tall him in reportorial days. The
committee was divided into sub-committees,
and from 2 o'clock thi't after
noon until the next morning Barbour
Lewis was shadowed but his shadow
had strict instructions from ino to com
mit no overt net until authorized.
Had it not been for that, Lewis' hands
would now be out of the County Treas
ury. Various plans were suggested,
the rope, the dagger and the pistol,
and one of the committees appointed
was for the selection of a suitable tree
on which to liunj the object of the
Cnmitv of this "Base ball or Glee
Club' It was selected, and I will
also tell you, Messrs. Editors, where it
is situated. In rear of the Catholic
grave yard, mid between Dunlap aven
ue and the Jewish Grave yard, on the
left hand side going out of town to
wards the Jewish, Cemetry, is a vacant
lot of large dimentions, on wbioh is
now growing three, trees, which form
an irregular triangle, the trees being
from twenty to thirty feet apart. It
was the middle one of this trio, form
ing, as it were, tho apex of the trian
gle, which these"religiouslv nurtured"
young nien, selected for my friend
Barbour Lewis' benefit. On this tree,
jutting toward the street comes out a
limb square from the trunk: over this
limb these religiously nurtured "six
teen" intended to have thrown il rope,
and most religiously hung tho gentle
man. So you see, Mr. Editor, they
had selected, through a member of
your committee, tho gallows tree, be
tween two veritable places of skulls.
I forgot to say in the proper place that
the ollico of Mr. Lewis, on second
street, was most critically examined
by dillcrent members of the committee
and atone time it was thought priiba
ble it would be a good place for a little
quiet recreative strangulatioii. At the
next meeting I told the "religiously
nurtured" individuals that it was not
safe to do anything of thetkind bc
(ause some of the members of the or
caniziition had been "talkinirtoo much
wiih their mouths," and the fact of
the existence of the society was known,
and that I myself had been ibllowed;
as I thought for some time, by Mo
dine and Hastings, two of Beaumont's
detectives, mid that I was satisfied
llmt unless th! utmoft caution was
preserved, we tfonld be arrested, and
some eight or ten of us came to the
conclusion to withdraw from such in
discrete associates. I for one wish I
had, for then I would never have had
this most unpleasant duty to myself to
perform. True to our instincts the
unfortunate event happened, rendered
doubly so by tho foolishness of the
"Sixteen" in following foolish coun
sels, in foolishly trying to fasten upon
me the charge of ' treason," when the
burden of all my advice to them was
secrecy, caution, arid to trust no man
in the organization that each and every
one of us could not give our lives to.
No man can be more sorry for the in
jury which may res lit from this com
munication. I am not responsible for
it. On the Memphis Daily Appeal it
should, must and shall rest. I lad it
pursued tho sensible course of the
.dMiu)icie,and allowed, what I consid
er$ the great misfortune of life (my as
sociation with such thiny) to remain
in "the tomb of the Capulets," in which
I had Imped it buried, no word would
Beaumont have heard from me on the
subject. I have done. I airt respon
sible for my owl! acts, but acts of boy
or sage shall never be saddled upon
my shoulders without an indignant
and energetic protest.
Yours,
Jack Cami-bell.
"Joil-sof is now being weighed in
tho balance. If found wanting, the
new President will also bo Wade."
Query, by a correspondent in Chicago
Journal i "What is the object in re
welghing a good man thats bin
weighed (Ben Wade)?"
In Itoxbury, Mass., a cradle and a
coffin factory are located side by side.
Thd name of the town may perhaps
account for- this coincidence, Box
standing for oradles ami fcury for the
coffins.-
MAY 13, UC8
UKSEUAL UKAVfH II A 111 TS.
Intercfttln? Remhilirriirp.
A ladyj who w:H f(,r three years of
the war, connected with the Western
Sanitary Commission, mid who had
abundant opportunity of judging for
herself in regard to tho character and
ability of many of our Generals, writes
to the Philadelphia Pwut. We ijuote
the following from her letter:
During tho entire campaign of the
opening of the Mississippi it was my
privelege to aid in caring for our no
ble patriots, both in hospitals and in
camps, audi have been for weeks to
gether where I saw General Grant
daily, heard his imiuc constantly, and
never did 1 hear intemperance men
tioned in connection with it. Facts
are stubborn things. I will relate a
few of the many that came directly to
my own knowledge s
lu tho winter of 1802-1, when tho
army arrived tit Memphis, after long
weary marching, and trials that sick
en the heart to think of, t-thirds of
of the ofli -era and soldiers were in ho
pilals. General Grant was lying sick
at the Gayoso Hotel. One morning
Mrs. Grant came into the ladies' par
lor, very much depressed, and said the
medical director had just been to see
Mr. Grunt, and thought he would not
be able to go any further if lie did not
stimulate. Said she: "And I cat! not
persuade him to do so, be says he will
not die, and he will not touch a drop
upon any consideration." In Jess than
a week he was on board the advance
boat on tho way to Vieksburg.
Again a few months after I was on
board the headquarters boat at Mill
kcn's'Bcnd, where qttite a lively gath
ering of ollieers and ladies had assem
bled. Cards and music wore the or
der of the evening. General Grant
sat in the ladies' cabin, leaning upon
a fable covered with innumerable
maps anil routes to Vieksburg, wholly
absorbed in contemplation of tho great
matter ' before him. He paid no at
tention whatever to what was going
ou around, neither did any one dare
to interrupt him ; for hours ho sat
thus, until tho loved and lamented
Mel'lierson stepped up to him with a
glass of liquor in his bund, and said :
"General, this won't do, you are in
juring yourself; join with us in a few
toasts, and throw this burden oil" your
mind." Looking up with n smile he
replied, "Mao, you know your whisky
won't help me to think ; give me a
dozen of the best cigars yriu can find,
and, if the ladies will excuse mo for
smoking, I think by the time I have
finished them I will have this job
pretty nearly planned." Thus ho sat;
and, when the company retired wo left
him there, still smoking and thinking
not having touched ono drop of li
quor. When tho army lay around Vieks
burg during that long siege, the tfrne
that tried men's souls, I watched every
movement it were possible for me to
do, feeling almost certain that ho would
eventually succumb to the custom
alas ! too universal among the ollieers.
I was in with a gentleman from Chi
cago, who while calling. upon the Gen
eral, remarked : "I have sonic very
fine brandy upon the boat, and if you
will send an orderly with me to the
river, I will send you a case or two."
"I am greatly obliged," replied the
Wenoral, "lint 1 do not use the article,
I have a big job on hand, and though j
1 shall win, i know 1 must do it
with a cool head. Send all the liquor
you intend forme to my ho'piti'.l in
the rear; I don't think a little will
hurt the poor fellows down there."
At a celebration on the 22d of Feb
ruary, before the surrender of Vieks
burg, while all around were drinking
tfilsts iii sparkling champagne,-1 saw
ficncral Grant push aside a glass of
wine, and taking up a glass of Miss
issippi water, with tho remark, "This
suits the matter in hand," drank to
the toast, "God gave ns Lincoln and
Liberty; Ictus fight for both."
itxwi.kto.t n :n..nr:-vnivr is it?
What the Pcndletonian Greenback
scheme really is can be described by
none so Well as its supporters. We
have said it was a scheme for flooding
the country with paper issues which
would speedily degenerate to worth
less rags, destroy till values, prostrate
credit and business and lead directly
to repudiation. That this is its true
meaning and intent, we cull the Chi
cago Time one 'of Pendleton's most
energetic supporters to prove:
"The first group contains tho Cin
cinnati plan (i.e. tho Pendleton scheme.)
I lie grand feature of this scheme is
what is called 'payment of the national
debt in greenbacks.' It contemplates
a new issue of greenbacks eual in
amount to the bonds which it is pro
posed to redeem. Over twelve hun
dred millions of five-twenty bonds will
become redeemable before 1872. Five
hundred nfiTliotis aro redeemable now.
The way to pay thciiij according to this
plan, is to set the printing presses in
motion. So long as the rags and
lampblack hold out we will have no
trouble in paying tits bonds at matu
rity. When all have been thus paid,1
we shall have added to our paper mo
ney the trifling., inflation or about
$1,600,000,000, making, all told, a
circulating mcdium.of 82,300,000,000;
Thcrf . we . shall have what are called
"goe'd times," "splendid times."
What and greenbacks will be ex
changed bushel for bushel. A barrel
of whisky will be sold for two barrels
oflt'gal tenders.' Collectors of Gov-
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
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eminent revenue will go about with
wagons having lofty and capacious
receptacles on them, like those used in
handling charcoal, and will gather in
the public taxes with pitihfcrks. To
levy f;) hi gold will require one horse
wagon load of greenbacks. But the
government bonds will bo "paid.",
Tho only question will be how to pay
the government greenbacks. This is
something tho plan does not contem
plate. Specie payment tinder it will
ba reached mvit .'"
Since tho J7;t..d drew the above
picture, it Ins swung around tho circle
and joined the ranks of tho Pcndlo
tonians. But ils (Infinitum of the
universal Greenback sch -Wo remains
as correct as ever.
1'AT y'oi k SUA I.I. Dtlim
' Pay your small debls. Yoii do not
know how much good is frequently
accomplished by adopting this, prin
ciple. It was honest old I5en Frank
lin, wo believe, who, as a matter of
experiment, lollowcd up a small
amount which he paid to a tradesman.
I nn very little while he ascertained
that the money paid the tradesman
had passed from hand to hand until
the number of bills of nearly Mtnihir
amount settled with it reached some
fifteen or twenty. It may not bo pos
sible to do as Franklin did, and trace
...., as ,'ra.iMin . m, ana irncc
B history of a small amount of
ill) the li
money
it may be set down ns n fixed fact that
' " "' '"ft " ',u
the prompt payment Of small debts is
the initiative step toward paying cash
for everything. Generally speaking
theso small debts are duo to persons
who need all tho little capitnl they can
command. To such, they are of im
mense importance; and it may be said
of the person who allows these trifling
obligations to remain unpaid, while
having the means to discharge them,
that he is not, in the true sense of the
word, an honest man, unles, by ex
press contract, a time for payment I. as
been fixed, and that time not arrived.
Pay your small debts, and your big
ones too. If you would be happy anil
comfortable, sleep soundly, eat hear
tily, and enjoy that peace of mind
which only nien with good consciences
are supposed to enjoy, pay your small
debts.
TIME FOIl CUTTIXO TIMHER.
Wo have often urged tipon our read
ers the importance of cutting rail nnd
other timber in the summer. Experi
ments' of our own, and frequent ob
servation, have satisfied us that soft
wood, cut when the bark peels from it
freely, and when it will rapidly season
will last tit least twice as long as winter
or spring-wit timber. Thelatterseasons
slowly and becomes partially Sap rot
ten ; the former dries thoroughly and
Hardens like horn; There may not bo
so much difference in tho durability of
hard timber when cut in the summer
as in winter. VV ill mm Cone of Michi
gan, says :
"In June, twenty-nine years ago,
having need of a pair of bar posts, I
had to cut a tree for that purpose. I
cut a white oak, about two feet through
at the butt, nnd split out a pair. The
bark peeled off easily. I set them with
the butt end in tho ground. Now, that
pair of posts have outlasted about three
sets in other parts of my farm, and
the rails split at that time are much
! better than many years alter,
basswood rails si.l'it in the summer!
when they will split easily, will out
last ordinary oak cut ill the winter."
L'xcltany..
People who indulge in the use of
chocolate probably have no idea of
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wfiat a disgusting mess they are Hiding!
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Oil UUIILIUII3, ,1 c ftlllJIV 1IIUII1' 1UU1U3 I
who would be shocked at the idea ofl
We know young ladies 1, ., , , J: ' . , , ;.;.(
. J . . . .1 l:ir nor nml hnairr. nnv rirrhf. tn I i.L
i i.i . i.i me, nn- i ;c eno in i 01 ig at noine.
using chewing gum, which is really i ', .. B . ,
B .? i i . t ii am the quarter wasn t a good one
no worse than chocolate. In the ... T', , ,., TT , 7 , X
,- i ,. ,i. r . I either. 1 don t ike Uncle John, and
preparation of this condiment, cocoa r 1 1 r 1 t
!.:i I r.t a,..- 1 .4 t j X guess ho know3 it, for he says I m
11 1 1 in, miui , j.ii, iiuiii , atiuu iiiuiii, ruiitm, I
arrow root, honey and rildhtsses are
used; of course this conglomeration
does not retain the desired chocolate
color, to obtain which Venetian red,
Uriiber and tho deadly poisonous me
talic Salts, cinnabar and fed lead are
employed ; after this the fatty unc
tions taste of the original chocolate is
lost, and must be obtained by mixing
in tallow and hogs' lard. After ail
tbU is boiled and poured into moulds,
arid when cold it is "a dainty dish to
set before a queen" or any of the young
ladies who so "love chocolate." Some
body that dont like it.
A torrent of criticism" has been
poured upon Henry Ward licecher in
consequence of his recent advocacy ofl
the clainisot Washington (Virginia,'
College over which Gen. R. E. Lee
presides. A lady who was ten years a
member of Mr. Beecher's church, and
has been a teacher of freedrnen in the
vicinity of Washington College, has
published a very caustic letter upon
her former paotor's recent proceeding.
She relates her experience of General
Lee's ynifnggentlsjtni n brickbats and
stones thrown into the windows of her
school room, horrible serenades finder'
her window at night, occasional ad
monitions on the street to take up her'
abode in the infernal regions, polite
salutations as "damned Yankee bitch
6f a nigger teacher," and threats to
burn the school house and home of
those engaged in instructing the freed
men. . These facts this lady avers,
were perfectly known to Mr. Beech
cr, when he came forward to ask sympa
thy with the Work of Robert E. Leo
and help" for tho college under . hii
charge. j ' ... .
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ing hv the- nnnr'.er, hslf-vear or year. 8peli
n.itlees churned one-hail more than regular ad
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Jon PRis rtsnof every hind In rialnand Fan
oyolors; Hnrtd-bllis, lllanka, Cards Pamphlet
Ac, of every variety and stvle, printed at the
shortest notice. The KrppBftCAH Orrtcii ho
Just been re-iltrd, and every In Inn In Ibe Print
Iur lino can be executed in the must urttltio
manner and at the Ion-cat rites.
WHAT A
1,1 FT LB B3T THOUGHT
iHOer TMIItKial. .
lain a little boy about so niaiiy
years old ; I don't know whether I'm
a good little boy, but I'm afraid not;
for I sometimes do wicked things, and
oiiee I Cut my sister's kitten's tail off
with the chopping knife, and told her
a big dog canie along and bit ( off
nnd swallowed it down Beftiro kitty
could s.iy Jack Robinson; and sister
said she was sorry, and it must have
been a very naughty dog, Imt mother
did not believe me, and sid she .wna
nlt-ai l I had told a lie, and I'm afraid
I had. Then mother said there was a
dreadful stage of sin, and then Bob
hollered and said that he "guessed I
was on it;" and then slvi whipped ui
and sent us to b?l without any sup
per, hut I didn't care for any supper,
for they hadn't iififhing but bVead arid
butter and tea, and Bub and I got up,
and he lilted me in at the pantry win
dow, and wo got a niinea pio and a
whole hat full of doughnuts, nnd they
tliiiit-rl, i t. l.rt aI- alA ..n4.
luwiiiiu it .1 no iuu u'UA liiftb mviu ..in.
! and sent her away the next day, ilrid
Boh said he was glad of it, for 'sho"
(lidn t make good pies, and tho dough
nuts wasn't fried enough, and some
times I do swear, for 1 said by golly
the other day; and sister heard me and
she told mother, and mother said I
a b)1, b a ,d BriHghcr,
Mn to fte ftnd 8,10 ni ,
i ped mo ; but I don't think it did her
grny hairs any good, and it hurt mo,
and when I got up stairs 1 said gash
darn it, but I said it so she didn't
hear ni, and when alio asked me if I
did yot think 1 was wicked, 1 said 1
was afraid I was, and was 9orry for it;
and wouldn't do so any more, and
then she said I was iv good boy; and
then told me about George Washing
ton, who cut down the apple tree, arid
was caught at it, and said he did it
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wiiii ins iiuiu uaiciict, just, as inougit ,
hadn't heard all about it before, and
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uiuii i uiw.iys uiiuiv unit a uig siupiu
for cutting wood when they had a hir
ed man about the house, and dullin'
bis little-hatchet, and besides, it would
have been a great deal jollier td lei
the apple trees bo, so as ho could have
stole the apples off in the fall. I don'6
euro if ho was the father of his coun
try, ho wasn't smart, arid I bet you
the boys in our sehodl would cheat
him out of his eyc-teetn swappin
jack-knives, arid I could lick him am
hardly try, and I don't think ho was
very healthy cither, for I never sea a
gooil boy that wasn't always sick and
had the rriiimps and measles, and the
scarlet fever, and wasn't a cdughirig all
tho while, and hadn't lo take castor
oil and could not cat cherries, and
didn't have his head patted till his
nair was ruiiiieu on iy everybody that
came to his mother's, and be asked '
how old ho was, and who died to sdve ,
sinners, and what he'd been studying ;
at school, and how far ho'd got, and
lotsof conundrums, and have to say"
his cateclil.ir1 : nd, I shouldn't like' td '
be 11 good little boy, I j list as lief bo
an angel and be done with it ; I don't 1
think I ever shall bo n good little boy,
and other pcoplo don't think so too,
for I wasn't never called a good littlo .
boy, but once, and that was when my '
Uncle John asked mo where I stood! 1
in my class, and I told him it Vras
next to the head, and ho said that wa.
right and ho gave mo a rjuarter, and .
when ho asked me how many boys
were in tho class, and I said there
were only two, myself and a littlo girl; '
and then he wanted me to give him
back his quarter, and I wouldn't arid
hn C'l o nfliii mn t ml afiiml.lml iiifa. a
chair, and he broke his cane, and hurt
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uniiii, Hiui nun uixn lamu ever si ice,
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Mini I'm nrhtil ti tfc for ho idrt'f. rrtv
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fat"7' ?d 'at Jight to lick
not liku any of the fairiily, and he
say3 he expects I'll go to sea and bo a
pirate instead of a respectable member
of society, and I should not wonder;
for I'd rather be a pirate thdri a so'af?
boiler like hint. I don't riara if ho is
rich it's a nasty business ; and I shan't
have td be a pirate either, for one cad
make lots of money without that; and
they are always raking to me about
being rich and respectable, and going
to Congress and being President, and
all tlrn't sort of thing; but I don't want
to be President; there is Lincoln; ho
was President, and I guess he's sorry
for it now; ami there is Andv John
son, I guess he dpn't like it much
cither; and a fsllow doesn't have to be
respectable to be a Congressman, fbr
there's John Morrissy, and he has got
nice curly hair and nice clothes, and
hedou't do any work either;, oh, I
know how things are done; but there'ff
Bob calliiv me, and we're goin' bird's
neslin', for I know where there's
yaller bird's nest chuck full of eggs;
nfothcr says it is cruel, and the birds
don't like it; that I wouldn't like to'
have my egg3 stole if I was f bird,
and I don't think I should; but I ain't
abird,yoii know, an'd that ' makes a
ditierence, and if yon'-want to print
this you can, fbr next to being a stage
driver and a pirate, I'd. like to be-an
editor, fot you fellows don't have to
tell the truth, and you can go to the
circuses without payin'. ' " i " f
; 1 ; o' i t
- A SouTHeR" paper thinks it won't
do to fn-ov General Grant a. fool aad .
t drunkard, aa if he ia so proved it
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a r 111 1 mi n iri i ii'nrt ihn.i
him; 1