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POLITICAL
TII E TA R J F F Y I A \ k
Vroin present indications, the opposition,
called by themselves the "People's party"—
or the "Republicans"— intend to add the Tariff
Plank to their Fusion Platform tins fall, — ho
ping thereby to humbug a few voters into the
support ol their candidates, who otherwise
would vote the Democratic ticket, as hereto
fore. This ticket ol that tricky party, we pre
sume, will not prove very profitable in this
part of the Commonwealth. The leaders ol
that ever-changing party have exhausted their
fund ol deception, and any renewed attempts
at the.r old tricks w ill be exposed, and the im
position made to lecoil upon their guilty heads.
All their old notions—called by them princi
ples—they have abandoned, and now* loi want
ol something better, revive the Tariff question
—an unlucky hit lor them, when the proceed
ings ol the Congress that reduced the rates are
jtiore fully known.
At tin* organization of the 3ft!i Congress the
Black Republicans outnumbered the Democrats
nearly (wo to one—and after an unprecedent
ed struggle of months, succeeded in electing
BANKS, of Massachusetts, Speaker, over the \
Democrats. In tunning the of the [
House, the tariff question was kept in view
Speaker Banks, tin* tool and choice of the Man
ufacturing Piinces of the East, placed CAMP
RLLL, ol Ohio, the leader ol the Republicans in
Cong:ess, at the head ol the Committee ol !
Ways and Means, because of its control of the j
Revenue questions, and because Mi. Campbell
was a low Tariff" man.
Thai we may nut be contradicted nor be dis
believed, even by those w Lose party prejudi
ces would iiir'jiiii itwm ia n • - •>> |"°
lish in this connection a lew extracts from the
speeches made by Mi. Campbell dining the dis
cussion and passage of the Tariff bill now com
plained of:
"1 wished to ascertain whether this general
debate is to go on pending so important a ques
tion as that of reducing the Revenue ol the
Country.'*—C. G. page -196.
"In the higher si hedules }ou w ill find a re
duction, taking the importations ol the last year
as a l>ais of calculation, ot about
and if the importation ot articles in the inter
mediate schedules are no more in the lntur<*
than they were last year, you will have an ag
gregate induction ol about St I 4,000,000.'
* • "The r duct ion of the
Revenue is one great object to accomplish.'
C. G. PANE 990.
Mr. Campbell, as the h ader and mouth-| iece
ot the Republican Ibices, and as the employ r of
lie Eastern Manufacturers, attempted to coax
into the sup|x>itof his low Tariff bill the Demo
crats ol Kentucky and Pennsylvania, by telling
thrni that there should be no "party politics
in the measure, and that they could ujjord a
reduction of duty on Iron in order to have
xtubihty in the system, and he assured of a rich
harvest in a Jew years. R- ad his no-party and
fiec-trade sentiments :
"I am very glad tfiat the gentleman from
Kentucky is willing !j take this feature of the
hill, because Kentucky has a ginning iron in
terest, as Ohio has; and I believe that gr-at in
terest niav well afford a leduction of duty in or
der to have that grt at question withdiaw n from
ttie party politics of the time, and placed on a
firm and stable basis.
' Again—l believe that if this question were
set!leu, taken, as J said, from the arena of par
ty politics, and placed upon the basis reported
by the Committee of Conference as a finality,
Pennsylvania w ill, before many years toll a
rouud, reap a rich harvest from the hill; hut if
Pennsylvania w ill cling to her old |oiicy which !
sees no other interest than her iron and coal, j
and prevents th" passage ol this hill, upon the
shoulders of Pennsylvania must rest the respon
sibility, not upon mine." —Cong. Globe, page
990.
According to the leadership of M. Campbell,
the bill passed, by the votes of the great uody of
the Republicans.
Now we submit the question lo every candid
reader, as'to the party who caused the reduc- j
tion of the Tariff'of '46; and who is lo blame
for the "hard times," if they are attributable to
the modification of the Tariff laws in '57? —
Prom the facts of the case it is vei v clear that
(lie Republicans managed and voted through J
Congress the modification now complained of
in their party plattoim. How shamefully it
becomes them, then, to attempt lo repudiate
their own acts and cast tlie blame upon the
Democrats. Not eighteen months from the
date of their efjorls in favor of reduced rates
and a free list, they turn around, and claim to
be the friends of high rates and a protected list.
The Democratic Tariff of'4-fi had given general
satisfaction and wide spread prosperity to lire
country for twelve years, and its "stability '
would not have been broken, nor the £ ederal
Treasury been bank: upted, and the loan ol mil
lions resorted to, to keep the wheels of Govern
ment in motion, had the Plack Republicans been
in the minority in the 34th Congress. 1 hey
then had the power to do mischief, and most
effectually did they execute it.
The Nabob Manufacturers of the East threw
their gold and their influence in favor of a re
iuced TarifF. They succeeded bv electing
their man Hanks tor Speaker, who according to
arrangpfiient, appointed Campbell to the head
ol the Tariff Committee; who also by arrange
ment reported a bill of reduced rates and a tree
list: and the Republicans, as -a party, carried
the biil thnugh Congress in spite of opposition,
rhe $78,000 corrupting fund contiiimted bv
Lawrence, Stone Co., a rich manuf.ictui ing
firm in Boston, throws a little light upon the
means and motives at the root ol the offensive
changes in the Rev, nue laws. The Congress
ional Committee of investigation developer! the
tact that tlie Republicans paid liberally to se
cure the passage ol the law: and even went so
far as to offer Greeley of the Tribune SI,OOO
for his assistance. Honesdu/e HemM.
•EF™"fn the face of these direct facts, Mr.
MCI'HKI: SON, the Know-Nothing Black Repub
lican candidate fir Congress, and his mouth
pieces, with the wire-pullers of the party gen
erally, are endeavoring to cheat the people into
the beliel that JAMES BUCHANAN'S administra
| tion is responsible for the present Tariff policv,
j and that whatever deptessiou manufacturing 1
! interests may have felt, or now feel, is solely
• attributable to Democratic profligacy and want
|ol patriotism. A more consummate and ban -
■ faced deception was never invented. And the
' authors KNOW it to be so; but, to carry an elec
tion, they will stoop to anything—to any sacri
fice of honor and honesty—to any trick, no |
matter how vile arid despicable.
It it indisputable that the country never pros
pered as it did under the Democratic Tariff ol
'•Hi. Mouey was plenty, labor every where in
in demand, and wages good, eveivthing com
manding good prices and finding a ready mar
ket. But in ':>7 this Tariff was mateiially al
tered and reduced. The bill originated in and
was passed by a Republican Ifmse of Repre
sentatives, of which Republican Banks was
Speaker—it was brought forward by a Repub
lican, advocated almost exclusively by Repub
licans, and was voted lor by them. Vet, in or
der to catch unsuspecting voters, these same;
men now come forward and knavish!}* attempt
to saddle their own sin on the shoulders of the
Democrats! They commit the wrong them
selves and then char r e it upon their opponents,
i'his is an old trick, with wiiivi. >i.v , ..one is
too familiar to be deceived now. The only
consistency the Opposition has shown is in
nominating and supporting tree trade men.—
Gettysburg Compiler.
SOCIAL XUGKO EQUALITY.
Tin* statement, published in the Enquirer a
lew days since, taken Irom a Boston paper,
that tlie* marriage license record shows that
within the past year sixty negro men have been
married to white women in that city, indicates
the progress which the doctrine ol negro equali
ty is making in .New England, which has long
been the Republican head-quarters. As sure
as day is succeeded by night do I fie principles
of Black Republicanism lead to social amalgama
tion and intermarriages between the white and
black races. The Abolitionists feels that he is
not consistent until the political eufianchise
inent ul the negro is lollowed by his social
elevation. The negro has been so eulogized
ciiiddiilnd in Ri stun and its vicinity that it is
no wonder that many women, considering iiiin
superior to the white, pieler liiin for a husband.
They adopt practically the teachings of PARKLR,
C AU iii SON, PHILLIPS, BANKS, WILSON and
other abolitionists!
J LOVER STILL.
'•No longer 3 lover," exclaimed an aged
patnaich : "ah, you mistake rite il you think
age has blotted out in* heart. Though biker
huiis tail over a biotv all wrinkled, and a cheek
all luriowed, lam a lover still. J love tile
heauty ol the maiden's blush, the sott lint ot
llnWeis, the singing ol the buds, and above ail
tlie silt. rv laugh ola child. 1 love the star
|ike meadows, where the butler cup, with al
most the same enthusiasm as when, with my
ringlets loose in the wind, and my tap in my
! hand vrars ago, 1 chased the painted butterfly,
j 1 lote \ou aerd dame. Look at her. 11> r
lace is careworn, but it has ever had a smile
lor nie.
Olten have I shared the bitter cup of sorrow
with her—and so shared, it seemed almost
sweet. Years of sickness hate stub ii the fresh
ness of her Ille, but like the laded rose, the per
fume ol her lute is richer than when in the
lull bioom of youth and matuiity.
Together we have placed buds lit the pale
i folded hands ol the dead—together wept over
| raves. Through storm and sunshine tie
I have "lung together, and note she sits with her
knitting, her cap quaintly frilled, the old sly le
j handkerchief crossed white and prim above the
! h* art that has beat so long M. tun-ly lor me, the
I dim blue eye that shrinkingly Ironls the glad
' day ; the sunlight throwing her paiting lare
' Well, kisses her brotv, and leaves upon its faint
! tracery ol wrinkles angelic radiance. 1 see,
' though none else can, the blight glad young
lace that tvon ine fiist, shine through those
: withered features and the glowing love ot forty
1 years through my healt till the tears come.
: Say not again 1 can no longer be a lover.—
' Though this form be bowed, God has planted
eternal within. Let the eat be deal, the eye
1 blind, the hands .palsied, the limbs w illiered,
j the brain cfbuded, yet the heart, the true heart,
i may hold suth w.althof love, that all the
l power of death and the victorious grave shall
11 not be |>ul out its quenchless flame.
dyAAithony Burns, the colored fugitive, is
- lecturing in Maine.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1858.
£a 11 5 an b Sketches.
PAPA."
Everybody with large and active Philo
progenliveness and inhabitiveness will recog
nize the beauty and truthfulness of the follow
ing: and we commend its spirit to all families,
it should be cultivated where it does not exist.
I here is a good deal of heaven on earth if we
only knew it.—Eos. PIIUEN.
] These are the words whose music has not left
our ears since the glooming, and it is midnight.
'Good-night, darling ! God bless you ; you
w ill have pleasant dreams, though 1 toss in fe
ver* haunted by the demons of care that harass
me through the day. Good night I" The
clock on the mantel struck twelve, and no
sound was heard m the house save the regular
breathing ol those Utile lungs in the next room,
heard through the door ajar. We dropped our
pen, folded our arms, anJ sat gazing on the
lazy fire, while the v. hole panorama of a life
passed befoie us, with its many 'goodnights.'—
it is a great thing to be rich, but it is a rich
thing to have a good memory provided that
rnetiioiy hear no unpleasant ft uit. bitter to taste;
and our memory carries us back to many a
pleasant scene—to the little arm chair by the
fireside , to tbe trundle-bed at the foot of the
bed ; to the lawn in front of the house, and the
orchard behind it : t > liie butter cups and the
new clover, and the chickens, and the swallows
a: d tile bird.-' m-s's, and the strawberries, and,
the many things that attract the wondering eves
of childhood, to say nothing ol the starry skies,
and the weird gloom of the moaning forest.—
But then, there were the 'good-rnghts,' and the
little prayer, and the downy bed, on which
slumbei fell as lightly as a snow Hake, only
warmer, and such dreams as only visit perfect
innocence ! Ihe household 'Good-night !'—
Somebody, in whose brain ils nch music still
lingers, has written this:
'•Good-night!" A loud, clear voice from
the stairs said it was Tommy. 'Dood-night !"
murmurs a little something from the trundle-bed
—a little something that we call Jenny, that
tilled a large place in the centre of uneor two
pretty large hearts. 'Dood-night !' lisps a little
lellow in a plaid rille dress, who was named
\\ 11 lie about six years ago.
'Now 1 lay medown to sleep,
i pray the Lord my soul to keep,
11 I should die before I w-a-k-e'
SIY, 1 , ,\kl -. Pp&bii 1 ui' T. ulitf
go up sooner than many long petitions that set
out a great while befoie it.
"And silt \\ as 'good-night' all around the
homestead, and very sweet music it made, too,
in the twilight, and very pleasant melody il
makes now, as we think of it ; for it was not
yesterdy or the day before, hut a longtime ago
—so long, that Tonimy is Thomas Somebody,
Esq., and has lorgotten that he ever was a !>oy,
and wore what the bravest and richest ol us can
never wear hut once,if we ti y,—the first pair
ol boots.
'•And so it was 'Good-night' all around the
house : and the children had gone through the
ivorv gate —always let a little ajar lor them—
through into the lands of dreams."
And then the lover's'Good-nightand the
parting kiss ? They are as prodigal ol the
hours as a sptiuilhiilt ol his coin, and the
minutes depart in golden showers, and fall in
dying spaiks at their feet. 'Good-night.'—.V.
Y. Jitlnn.
LE.IRA .ILL YOU C.LY.
Sombodv hasgiven the fill wi:jg excellent
advice, which is wot thy ol being treasured up
by everybody :
"Never omit any opportunity to learn all you
can. Sir Waller Scott said even in a stage j
coach he always found somebody to tell him j
something tie did not know before. Conversa
tion is generally more useful than books lor i
the purpose ol know ledge. It is therefore, a
mistake to he morose or silent, when you are a- j
mong persons whom you think ignorant : lor a
sociability on tour pait w ill draw them out and
they w ill be able to teach you something, no j
matter how ordinary their employment, in
deed some of the most sagacious remarks are
made by persons of this description, respecting
their particular pursuit.
"Hugh Miller, tlie famous Scotch geologist,
owes not a little to the fame of observation,
made w hen he was a journeyman stone-mason,
and worked in a quairy. Socrates well said
that there is but one good, which is knowledge,
and but or.e evil, which is ignorance. Every
grain ol sand helps to make the heap. A gold
digger takes the smallest nuggets, and is not
tool enough to throw them away because he
hopes to find a large lump sometime. So, in
acquiring knowledge, we should never despise
an opportunity, however unpromising. If there
is a moment's leisure, spend it over a good or
instructive thing with the fust person you meet."
//OT V TO MAKE TOMATO FIGS.
Pour boiling water over tomatoes in order lo
remove the skins ; then weigh them and place
them in a stone jar, with as tnnclrsugar as you
have tomatoes, and let them stand two daya;
then pour off the syrup, and boil and skim it
until no scum rises. Then pour it over the
tomatoes, anil bt them stand two days, as before,
then boil and skim again. After the third time,
they are fit to dry, il the weather is good ; if
not, let them stand in the syrup until drying
weather. Then place on large earthen plates
or dishes and put them in the sun to dry, which
will lake about a week, after which pack them
down in small wooden boxes, with fine white
sugar between every layer. Tomatoes prepa
red in this manner will keep for years. —
Germuntown Telegraph.
i shelter from a shower in an um
brella is the height of imprudence.
Freedom of Thouglit and Opinion.
WILD SPORTS OF THE WEST.
A correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat
writing from "beyond Fort Kearney July 3d,"
gives an exciting incident in the march over
the plains. Wolves were seen frequently du
ring the day, and just as we came on the camp
ing ground a large one was started. General
Harney's greyhound caught sight of him pur-j
sued him, oveitook him—and never touched a ;
hair. Whether he was afraid of the wolf or J
merely friendly to the wolf, 1 am unable to say.
I his chase was hardly over, when a herd—
ssli"n or eight—of buffalo were discerned about
two miles ofl. Capt. Pleasonton, General Har
ney's aid, set out in pursuit by himself, armed
only with a Colt's pistol, and had a dangerous
adventure. His purpose was to run the game
towards the camp. He succeeded in driving
them in the direction intended, when a body
of teamsters, desirous of witnessing the sport,
came in sight. The huffalos took fright and
made tor the hills. The hunter pursued them,
but he iode a horse which had never sepn a
biiflulo, arid which was hard to manage besides.
Ihe hunlei singled out a bull, and shot him
twice, wounding him each time. By this tine
he was quite close to him, on the verge of one of ,
those clayey precipices, with which the place;
abounds. The hunted animal suddenly stopped, |
arid stretching out his forelegs, and wheeling)
them as on a pivot, bringing himself face to face j
with his pursuers.
The hoise was unmanageable and rushed on i
the hull, who set his horns to meet the onset.— j
I he collision was fearful. Pleasonton. conscious
of his situation, hail disengaged his feet from his I
stirrups, and just as 'he shock took place, or per- i
haps a moment sooner, sprang upon the back of j
the bull, from which lie ruffed down tfit* preci- 1
pice. The horse, having been gored in the
breast and belly, died instantly. The bull next
charged on the dismounted rider, but two bullets
from the revolver persuaded him to alter his
course. Capt. Pleasonton, lam rejoiced to say,
suffered no pusonal injury.- He took thp
afliiii coolly, tinhuckeled the girths ol the
slaughtered steed, slung the saddle and accoutre-
ments across his shoulders, arid carried ti:eni into
cainp. No torreador or matador in the Spanish
circus could have a more formidable antagonist
or a narrower escape. The sport olbullalo hun
ting is now i'airlv initiated. Capt. Hitchcock,
with the guide, chased another herd lor miles.—
I'h' (.'apt. succeeded in lodging a bullet Iromthe
, T'. """*' r 'lle in one of them, and the
turn from the pfifsditWi(WPX'iiuJnl*g*&r*J***k-.tA
The buffalo has such vitality tlial he runs for
miles after being mortally wounded. No shot,
unless it penetrates the heart, brings him to the
ground at once.
TIIE USEFUL A XI) BEAUTIFUL.
Tl le tomb of Moses h unknown; but the trav
ler slakes his thirst at the well of Jacob. The
gorgeous pal ice of the wealthiest and w isect ol
monarch*, with the cedar and gold, and ivorys
and even the great Temple ot Jerusalem hal
lowed bv the visible glory of deily, himsell,
are gone, but Solomon's reservoirs are as perfect
as ever. Ol the ancient architectuary ol the
Holy City not one stone is lelt upon another:
but the pool of Bethsaidd commands the pil
grim's reverence at the present day. I lie
columns of Parsepolis are mouldring into du>t;
but its cisterns and aqueducts remain to chal
lenge oui admiration. The golden house, ol
Nero is a mass of ruins; but Aquia Claudia still
pours into Rome its limpid stream. Ihe tem
ple of the sun at Tadtnor in the wilderness has
fallen; but its fountains spatkle as freshly in his
lays, as when thousands of vvorshippersNhronged
its lofty coVmadt-s. Jt may be that London will
share the late ol Babylon, and lelt to
mark its site, save m tunds ol crumbling brick
work. The Thames will continue to How as it
does now. And il any work ol art should still
rise over the deep ocean ot time we niay well
oelieve that it w ill be neither a palace or a
temple, but some vast aqueduct or reservoir ,
' and .1 any name should flash through the nnst
j of antiquity it will probably be that ol the man
who in his day sought tlie happiness ot his lel
! low-men rather than his own glory, linked its
name to some great work ot national utility
and benevolence. This is tbetrue glory which
out lives all other, and shines with undying
lu.-tre from generation to generation . imparting
to woiks some ot its immoitality, and in some
I degree rescuing them Iroin the turn which over
lakes the ordinary monuments of historical
| tradition, or more magnificence. Llinburg
Review.
E.IRTirS FJSHIOJVS.
Earth's fashions never have changed. Glori
ous too, the sky above her, in its vesture ol
fadeless blue and studding of blazing brilliants.
The race run mad alter new fashions, and brains
are racked for new styles. Hut earth wears
, the one she wore six thousand years ago. It
annually fades, and leaf ami bloom drop lrom its
field, but the mysterious alchemy of the season
retouches the garment with the same varied and
beaut iluli coloring. Not a leaf, or blade, or
j flower has changed. The skv has the same
blue, and the stars are as bright as when they
sarn* together in the morning of creation. Ihe
lilies ol the valley—they toil not neither do
they spin—yet the creation ol art cannot vie
with their beauty. How calmly and how ,
grandly nature inarches on to the music ol the
winds, the streams, the songs ol birds, and the
falling of the rain, her night journeys lit by the
"lamps on high'," an(l ,he sunbeams of the days,
glistening her peaceful armor of flowers and
foliage and simmering waters. Her banners
rustle in the winds of summer, and in autumn,
rent bv still gorgeous and flaunting, sweeping
by to the beat of the flail and the reaper's song;
and the dreamy piping of the crickets in the
fields. We are glad that earth s fashions never
change. — Wisconsin Chief.
COAXING UP AN EXPRESSION.
A brace of "lovyers," anxious to secure each
other's shadow ere the substance faded, stepped
into a daguerreotype establishment recently to
sit for their "picters."
The lady gave the precedence to her swain
who "had got to be tuk first rate and real nat
eral." He brushed up his tow head of hair,
gave a twist or two to his handkerchief, asked
his gal if his shirt collar was about X, ar.d plan
ted himself in the operator's chair, where fie
assumed the physiognomical characteristic of a
poor fellow in the hands of a dentist, about to
part with an eye tooth.
".Now dew look purty ."'begged the affection
ate lady, casting one of her most languishing
glances.
The picture was taken, and when produced,
it reminded the girl, as she expressed it, "jisl
how Josh looked when he got over the measles,
and as this was not an era in her suitor particu
larly worthy of their commemoration, she insist
ed "that he should stand it again." He obeyed,
and she attended him to the chair.
"Josh," said she, "just look kinder smilin'
and then don't."
The poor fellow fried to follow the indefinite
injunction. "La !" said she "why you look all
puckered up." One direction followed anoth
er, and with as little success. At last, grow
ing impatient, and becoming desperate, she re
solved to try an experiment which she considered
in fa! liable, and exclamed, "I don't tare if there
is folks around." She enjoined the operator to
stand ready at the camera; she then sat down in
her fellow's lap, and placing her arms around
la is neck, managed to cast a shower of fiaxen
ringlets as a screen, between the operator and
her proceedings, which moreover were betray- i
ed by asuccession of amorous sounds which re i
vealed her expedient. When this "biling and'
cooing" had lasted a few minutes, the cunning i
girl jumped from Josh's Jap, and clapping her
liands lo the astonished artist, exclaimed :
"Now you've got him ! put him through ! put
hiin through !"
STOPPING A LEAK.
"John," said a master to his servant who, af
ter a stay of protracted and suspicious duration
in the wine cellar, came into the room stag
gering as if the task of keeping his equilibrium
was altogether beyond his power, "John," said
lie angrily, "how often have I told you not to
meddle with the wine? If you tiansgress a
my service."
"Why—hie—sir," stammered John, "that's
—hie—a pretty way—hie —to repay a favor.
I did it sir—hie—for the sake of doing you a
service."
"Doing me a service, you blockhead !" said
his master, irritated, "what do you mean by
such an extraordinary statement as that ? I de
mand an explanation."
"Why, you see, sir—hie—l wpnt down in
to the cellar and somehow the bung of the wine
cask came out, and—hie —while I was search
ing for it —hie—so that the wine might not run
oui, I put my mouth to it instead ol the stop
per."
John was advised to be careful how the stop
per came out the next time.
COLIC IX HORSES
Colic in horses is a very comrnon disease,
and if taken in time may be easily cured in
most cases. It is not un'frequently confounded
with inflammation of the bowels, but is easily
distinguished, as follows: Colic has no in
crease of the pulse, which is not over fifty a
minute; the animal often rolls ; the disease in
termits, and there is but little fever. With in
flammation of the bowels there is much lever,
the pulse is sometimes a hundred a minute, the
attack is gradual, and the disease does not in
termit.
When colic arises ftotn bad food, a pint or so
of a solution of saleialus will often aflord entire
relief. As it assumes more of a spasmodic
character, peppermint and ginger may he ad
ded. We have used with entire and immedi
ate success, a small spoonful of saleratus, the
same quantity of ginger, and a teaspoonlul of
pepper mint, added to a pint of nearly hot wa
ter, and givpn from a junk bottle. Powdered
charcoal is one of the best and safest mediums
for anv disease resulting fiom derangement of
the digestion, and two or three ounces or more,
mixed with water, may be given at any time
with great advantage.
Inflammation of the bowels is generally in
creased and rendered fatal by irritating medi
cines. A drink of slippery elm,, hourly, to al
lay irritation —giving the animal but little food,
and that weak gruel, and keeping him quiet,
is good and safe treatment. — [Country (>entlt
man.
DOING THE PRIEST. —An Irishman male a
sudden rush into a druggist's shop, took from
his pockets a soda water bottl •, filled to tie
briu with some pure liquor, and handing it
acro.'S the counter exclaimed: —'There, doctor,
snuff that will you." The doctor did as he
was directed, and pronounced the liquid to be
genuine whiskey. 'Thank you doctor, sa.d the
Irishman; hand" it to me again, if you plaze.'
The doctor did as he was directed, and ask-d
what it meant. Och, then,' said Pat, 'if you
will have it, the priest told me not to drink
anv ofthis unless I got rt from the doctor. So
here's your health and the priest's health.'
A Two FACED BOY— The Texas Item says
that there is a remarkable negro boy m Po
[[7 „7V" , rZ and Splays a-
children, with as much spr.ghtlmess
as could be expected from one of his age.
WHOLE MOIRER 2H16.
THE AEGRO COMPANY.
A number of (he officers of Doniphans's regi
ment had selected their favorite servants, and
they accompanied their masters to tire tented
field. On the inarch from Ei Paso to Chihua
hua the darkies, fired with military ardor, de
termined to form a company of their own. Joe,
a servant of Lieut. D I—, ofMaj. Clark's
artillery was elected captain, and about one
hall the remaining volunteers were appointed
to fill some office, and were thus er.titl-d to a
title. Joe made his appearance on parade in a
cocked hat, feathers. -paulel*, &c.. all right.
He was impatient for the foe. When i*t was
reported that the enemy was awaling us at
Sacramento, Joe was exultant. He would show
the white forks u fiat he ami his men would do.
"He would be whar the fight was, and if Massa
D expected Joe to hold his Uoss, Massa
■H was mistaken, dare den."
Tat- I a'tie at Sacramento was f ught, aid the
enemy routed completely, but Joe and his men
had been wholly invisible. The day alter the
battle, Lieut. L.- said to Capt. Joe—
"Where's your company, Joe? I didn't
ee anything of you yesterday, and I hear you
hid behind the wagons."
"fti assa Lieutenant," replied the crest-iallen
Capt. Joe, "j's sorry to say my men did take
to the wagin?! 1 hegged'em and deplored 'em
to come out like men, but dey wouldn't ! No,
sah dey stuck to de wagins, and I couldn't get
'em out."
"Well," said Lieut. L —. why didn't
you leave them ? you might have been in the
tight,* anyhow."
" Why, massa, to tell dp trut, I did come out in
de Irnes at fust, and I stood dare for awhile,
but w hen the balls begin to come so thicker and
faster, and more of'em I tout de best ting dis nig
ger could do was to get behind the wagins him
self."
Joe's company was disbanded the next day.
W ATER AS FOOD.— Tell the first man you
meet that water is, on the whole, more nutri
tious than roast beef", and that common salt, or
bone ash, is as much an edible as the white of
an egg, and it is probable that he will throw
anxious glances across'the street to insure him
self your keeper is at hand. Make the same
statements to the first man of science you meet,
and the chances are, that be will think you
very ignorant of organic chemistry, or that you
are placing with a paradox. Nevertheless, it
is demonstrably true, and never would have
ounv-crtcu luc iiiniteul an fe'iiuicmat j tuunudiv.
That is an aliment which nourishes, whatever
we find in the organism, as a constant and integ
ral element, either forming part of its structure,
or one of the conditions ol vital processes—
that, and that only, deserves the name of ali
ment. If "to nourish the body" rr.eau to sus
tain its force and repair its waste—if food en
ters into the living structure—and if all the
integral constituents of that structure are de
rived from food—there can be nothing improp
er in designating as nutritious substances which
have an enormous preponderance among the
integral constituents. People who think it
paradoxical to call water food, will cease their
surprise on learning that water forms two thirds
of the living body.
HIGHER. —A noble motto tor the young—
higher. Never look down. Aim high—push
high —leap high. If you cannot reach the
stars, you can have the satisfaction of drawing
near them. He who stands on n elevated posi
tion is rure to catch the first rays of the glori
ous un. So he who is always stepping up,
and reaching tip. will first catch the favors and
blessings ol heaven as they descend. There is
no object on which we gaze that gives us so
much pleasure, as the upward and continued
progress in moral culture and robust virtue of the
young. When the chains of sloth are broken,
the vision is clear, the heart buoyant, and the
affections and purposes s'rong, higher and still
higher objects will be gained, nobler purposes
achieved, and a sublime elevation attained that
will thrill with joy future generations as they
march on in the same glorious path.— Scrap
Book,
How TO STOP BLOOD. —Take the fine dust of
tea or the scraping of the inside of tanned leath
er and bin.) it close upon the wound, and blood
will soon cease to flow. These articles are at
all times accessible and easy to be obtained. Af
ter the blood has ceased to flow, laudanum may
be advantagecsly applied to the wound. Due
regard to these instructions will save agitation
ol mind, running f>rthe surgeon, who would
probably not make up a better prescription if
present.
ft]r""ls it stame?" said an Irishman. "By
the saintly St. Pathrick, but it's a mighty great
thing intirel}*, for cirivin' things! It put me
through nine states in a day ! divil a word
o'lie in it."
"Nine states !" exclaimed a dozen, in astonish
ment.
"Yes, nine of thim, be jabers ! as easy as a
cat 'nd lick her ear. D'ye see now—l got mar
ried in New York in the mornin', wint with
my wife Biddy to Baltimore the same day—
lulu Id yer wist, now and count the states.—
There was a state, of matrimony, which I "" 1
ed from a single state, in ® Vw
S |. a,e ° p- eVV .t • .'„ n ,> into Maryland,
ar(>ev ' ins a most beautiful state of jol
nticaPon all ' l>h * rP is n,ne by th ® ho, . v P° ker !
co," em if yez like! Och! but stame's a
scourger!" ,
jj-fVe occasionly come across something
extra laughable in an exchange. A St. Louis
paper says, that the grasshoppers have eaten up
the entire crop of tobacco in Franklin county,
and the last we heard from them they were seat
ed on the corners of the fence begging every
man for a chew."
YOL 2, NO. 8.