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Publishers, Hartford, Conn.; No. 1 Spruce St., New York ; Cincinnati, 0.; and Chicago, 111. CAUTION. An old law-book. published many years ago has |ust been hastily re-issued as "a new book," without even a suitable revision of its obsolete statements. Do not confound that wurk with CHIMBRRUS'S L AW-BOOK KOR TilE pROPLE. july3om6. | A TES T S T Y L E~S J WINTER GOODS MRS. E. V. MOWItY Has just returned from Philadelphia and New York, and now opened a stock of the latest styles of MILLINERY, DRY GOODS, FANCY NOTIONS, \C., SRC. All of which will be sold at very short Profits. Bedford oct2SmJ Ibf Havfllf A I, AY or TUB OLDEN TIME. One morning of the first Bad tall, Poor Adam and bis bride Sat in the shade of Eden's wall- ■ But on the outer side. She, blushing in her fig-leaf suit For the chaste garb of old ; He, sighing o'er its bitter ftuit For Eden's grapes of gold. Behind them, smiling in the morn, Their forfeit garden lay ; Before them, wild with rock and thorn, The desert stretched away. They heard the air above them fanned, A light step on the sward, And lo ! they saw belore thee; stand The angel of the Lord 1 "Arise," he said, "why look behind, When hope is all before, And patient hand and willing mind, Your loss may yet restore ' "I leave with you a spell whose power Can make the desert glad. And call around you fruit and flower As fair as Edne had. "I clothe your hands with power to lift The eurse from off your soil ; Your very doom shall seem a gift— Your loss a gain through toil. "Go! cheerful as yon humming-bees, To labor as to play'' While glimmering over Eden's trees, The angel passed away. The pilgrims of the world went forth Obedient to the word, And found where'er they tilled the earth. A garden of the Lord ! The thorn tree cast its evil fruit And blushed with plum and pear, And seeded grass and tr->dden root Grew sweet beneath their care We share our primal parents' fate, And in our turn and day Look back on Eden's sworded gate As sad and lost as they. But still ft r us hi 3 native skies The pitying angel leaves, And leads through toil to Paradise New Adams and new Eves. Whittier. TIIK SOUTH AS IT IS. HY PARKER PILLBBURY. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 1869. To the Editor of the Independent: All who travel in the southern states since the war, can learn lessons, if they will, unknown to them before. Many have reported their impressions to you al ready; but all is not yet told. lam afraid the worst is yet unknown. In deed, I think the north knows less of the actual south to-day than of almost any other portion of the globe. Repub licanism bears rule there, and reports itself to please itself. Counter authori ties, especially from democratic sources, are cast aside as un worthy of confidence, as no doubt they often are. But it is time one thing was told, and believed, too, everywhere; and that is that recon struction, so far, is a failure. It is a bad failure. From the sole of its foot to its head, if it have any head, there is no soundness in it, none whatever. It began where it should have left off, with political organizations, with suf frage and sovereignty, when the first lessons in civilization had not been learned, had not been, and have not yet been taught. But party suprema cy required the measure, and it was a dopted, against all the dictates of gen uine statesmanship, as well us the de mands of justice and humanity. And hence its failure, as could not but have been expected. Neither political party understood the situation during the war of rebell ion. Neither party understands it to day. Slavery was not abolished by the abolitionists. Still less was it abolish ed by the republican party. In spirit and power it survives even the war, with all its woes. Likeeverythingelse at the south, it is a ruin ; but it is there. Both master and slave are there; and more at war than ever before. And so far the northern element infused be tween them, instead of reconciling, has only made matters worse. The north ern republican bates the master, but does not love the slave. The north nev er loved the negro race better than did the south. It did not abolish the slave system in form for the sake of the vic tims, nor at all untildriven to the mea sure by the stern exigency of military necessity for self-preservation. So far as any of justice and humanity were ever it was manifest e nough that th? repuM'can party would have continued s'avery until this day, and unto judgment day, no * , e preservation of the nationality lr'Z\ nen " ously ordered and compelled otherwise! Year after year the south fought for sla very, without Union ; the north fought for the Union, regardless of slavery— for a "Union with slaveholders." And now the republican party needs the black man's ballot at the south, and is using it for its own preservation, as his bayonet and bullet were used for the national salvation. And he is fast finding it out. Even in his low estate he is learning who are not his friends. And his estate is lower than even the most extreme abolitionist ever descri bed it. There is no tongue, no pen, no language to describe what slavery must have been, judged even by the gloomy shadows of it which survive. I would that Mr. Garrison and Wendell Phil lips could spend one month in the cot ton fields and rice swamps of the Car olinas and Georgia. I have seen only the Atlantic states; but these are the best, not the worst. They would soon see that suffrage is not the one thing needful for the emancipated slaves, inen nor women, however it, might have been for the interests of a party ; and, above all things, unless that suf frage were directed by a far other than the present order of politicians there. For it must be said that far the larger part of the northern men at the south have partaken in the general moral and political corruption that ruled there so long. That ruled until the present ruin BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING DECEMBER 9, 1869. followed. Many have undertaken to cultivate the kinds by hiring the former slaves and paying them wages. Hut in nine instances out of every ten they have failed altogether, though paying wages on which it is hardly possible the laborers can live without begging or stealing, both of which are practiced there to a frightful extent. Almost ev ery man who employs any considera ble number of hands keeps a little store of cheap groceries and provisions, and pays them out of it. And usually the week's work is all taken up, so that scarcely one in a hundred can improve his condition under t his order of things. I saw gang after gang paid otr at night, sometimes fifty or sixty at a time, and not five dollars in money was paid to the whole of themf For corn they allowed fifty cents a peck;; for ba con which you and I would not eat at any price, they gave twenty five cents a pound, and the prices of labor varied from half a dollar to a dollar a day. I have seen sturdy, healthy young fellows, of twenty and upward, working for two dollars a week and boarding themselves. I saw women doing days' works that not a white man in New England or New York could do at any price, for seventy five cents a day, all paid in goods (or Oath,) groceries and provisions. Some of these stores keep very decent arti cles, but not all. Most of tbem that I have seen kept whisky In a barrel on tap—called whisky by courtesy, but generally, 1 am assured, a compound of abominations fit only to transform the dupes who swallow it into demons. And, strange as it may seem, not one colored person in a thousand will re fuse It, old or young, male or female; though in slavery, I am told—indeed, was always told—that drunkenness was ■ not a prevailing vice. Probably the restraints of masterhood had much to do with it. The whisky is usually drank raw and reeking from the bar. : rel, without sugar and with very little if any water, which some of the drink ers said, only drowned it. I have seen mothers 'pour it thus down the throats of six months babes, men, wo men,children, and thestorekeeper look- ! ingot) without remark. The principal diet of the plantation people is coarse hominy and bacon, the latter, fortun ately, though detuned a luxury, in but I small quantities. And out of the eil- | ies, I have often been told, the same j diet serves nearly all the white peo- ! pie also. I have heard of "hog and ■ hominy" as a southern bill of fare com- j plete a long time ago, but had no idea ] how literal or how general was its ap plication. The old slave-quarters, unrepaired, ; are still the colored people's homes. — j Among all their houses in the ru- . ral distiicts, I have not seen one , pane of glass; not one set of crockery, earthen or ironware, beyond a rude ; and often broken pot, with iron or tin spoons that certainly were never made j lighter by scouring; scarcely any j chairs or tables but of home inanufac- j ture; and not one decent bed in any cabin —not one! Some of the women were rather tidily dressed, as I have ! seen then ; and on Sundays, I am told, ; they appear quite well. Hut mar.y of | the men might defy all the scarecrows of a thousand cornfields. Some of *:he j infants I have seen were entirely na- j ked, and boys of at least a dozen years J wore but a single garment; anil that i only a scanty apolc gy in length, breadth or thickness. And at least four i kinds of vermin, smaller than rats and j mice, infest many a human bed, its I coarse covering or its occupants, or all i together. Ask the union soldiers who survived the campaigns of the south ern states whether this be exaggeration, The most prosperous and promis ing freed man I have seen lives on one of the sea glands. He bad ten acres of cot ton, nine of corn, three of beans, with plenty of potatoes, had harvested fifty bushels of excellent rice, kept a horse, a mule, two cows, with pigs and poultry on all sides of his house (iuside not excepted, as far as poultry was concerned); and yet with the exception of one plain but cabinet made rocking cliair, and one glass goblet, carefully kept wrapped in a clean sheet of straw paper, and brought out to give me and my friends a drink of water, the fur nishing of the house did not differ materially from those I have described. We were treated to roasted sweet pota toes, which an old grandmother pawed out of the hot ashes with her hands, and replaced with others which she covered in the same independent way, no shovel nor tongs ever being used, seen or known. drunkenness is not confined to class or color in any of t' ie states I have seen. Many say that •"'♦•be nigger and the Indian have natural.tastes and ten dencies for stimulants." Hut with the former it would be safe to attribute it to his imitative nature or disposition, coming as he necessarily does, into too close contact with the whites. I cer tainly uever saw such need of temper ance reform before, anywhere under heaven. I well remember the drink ing habits of New England long beforo the thundering eloquence of the old Dr. Heecher (sire of many sons) was denouncing every grog-shop and bar room as "a breathing hole of hell !" Hut never have I seen such wasting ravages, by drunkenness, of a moral and a spiritual wealth, as here, now at full four o'clock of the nineteenth century. The calm appeal of a Father Mathew, and the glowing, fiery zeal of a John B. Gough are needed in every election district throughout the southern states. Downright drunkenness cannot be said to be an omnipresence, but habitual and destructive drinking is. Those who do not drink themselves (of whom alas! there are but few,) furnish it for their friends, patrons, customers, and especially on election occasions to their supporlere—too often it delugesand tor rents. No class of politicians from the north orsouthjCan plead exemption from this fearful charge. Young men and old men, who perhaps never tasted ar dent spirits in their lives before going to the south, now drink the horrible beverages here concocted, habitually, and many of them to fearful excess. And, worse still, will provide them for the poor besotted colored people when ever votes, better bargains, or better work or more of it can be had there by. Private virtue among public men is net looked for, nor expected, not even desired And this is as true, here in Washington as farther south or farther north. I have seen aldermen when sitting at the city council board so drunk as that they had to be removed by the police before business could pro ceed. I have seen aldermen and coun •ilmen who could notonly neither write nor read but who exhibited little capaci ty for public business, even when sober. And only yesterday I read in a news paper an account, by an eye witness, of a judge in Abbeville, down in South Carolina, on the bench so drunk as that he had to bo taken home by his friends and the court adjourned. The clerk, it was added, was about as drunk as the judge. Whoever travels through the south with eyes and ears open will have no difficulty in believing all this and more, were it needful to be told. And it is absolutely needful that it should be told and published througli the country, if we would save our na tion from the doom of Sodom and Go morrah. A majority of the legislature of South Carolina are colored men, and many of them can neither write nor read. But several of tlieir very best friends assured me, they should never support such again for the sake of the colored raeo itself—not even to save the state from the democratic party. Such burlesque on the very name of government, they declared, was never before seen. I have witnessed enough myself to easily understand that it must be so. At the opening of the session, colored votes were easily bought at five dollars, though later they rose on their price. One shrewd Yankee from Massachusetts, not a member, but who had some schemes to lobby through the legislature, car ried to the capital some rases of new bats ; and with them as a legal tender drove quite a spirited and had opposed each other with the contumacity of wild pigs, were now the very incarna tions of meekness, for when the hun gry swarm of mosquitoes settled down and bit them ou the one cheek, they slowly turned the Gth r to be bitten also. But hush! hark ! A deep sound strikes the ear like a rising knell. "Me-ow-ow 1" Judges Clark and Thomas were wide awake, and sitting bolt upright iu an instant. Again the startling cry: "Ye-ow, ye-ow!" "There's a d d cat" whispered Clark. "Scat, you!" hissed Thomas. Cat paid no attention to these de monstrations, but gave vent to anoth er howl. "Qh, Lord 5" cried Clark, "J can't stand this ! Where is she, Thomas ?" "On your side of the room some where," replied Thomas. "No, ;he is on your side," said Clark, "Ye-ow-ow-ow !" "There, I told you she was on your j side,'' they exclaimed in one breath. And still the "yowl" went on. The idea now entered the head of both the lawyers, that by the exercise of certain strategy they might be en abled to execute a certain flank move ment on the cat, and totally demoral ize him. Practically each determined to file "a motion to quash" the cat's attachment for that room. Each kept the plan to himself, and in the dark, unable to see each other, prepared for action. Strange as It may appear, It is nev ertheless true, that the same plan sug gested itself to both. In words, the plan was about as follows : The yowler is evidently looking and calling for another cat with whom he has made an appointment. I will im itate a rat, and this cat will think t'other cat's around. This cat will come toward me, and when he shall be in reach, I'll blaze away with any thing I can get hold of, and knock the mew-sic out of him. So each of the portly judges, noise lessly as cream conies to the surface of the milk, hoisted himself onto his hands and knees, hippopotamus fash ion, and advanced to the neutral ground occupying the central part of the room. Arrriving there, Judge Clark selec ted a boot-jack, and Judge Thomas a heavy cow-hide boot, from the head, and settled themselves down to the work. Clark tightened his grip on the boot jack, throwing up his head, gave vent to a prolonged and unearthly "Ye-ow ow!" that would have reflected credit upon ten of the largest kind of rats. "Aha," thought Thomas, who was not six feet away, "he's immediately close around. Now I'll inveigle him 1" and he gave the regular dark night call of a feminine eat. Each of the judges now advanced a little closer, and Clark produced a ques tioning, "Ow-ow J" Thomas answered by a re-assuring "Pur-ow ! pur-ow!"and they advan ced a little more. They were now within easy reach, and each imagining the cat had but a moment more to live, whaled away, the one with his boot, the other with his boot-jack. The boot took Clark square in the month, demolishing his teeth, ssnd the I boot-jack came down on Thomas' bald head just as he was in the midst of a triumphant "Ye-ow !" When lights were brought the cat had disapeared, but the catastrophe was in opposite corners of the room, with heels in the air, swearing blue streaks. THE CHRISTIAN OEHTLBMAS. A distinguished writer, in one of his books, thus describes the Christian gentleman: He is above a mean thing. He cannot stoop to do a mean fraud. He evades no secret in the keeping of another; he betrays no secret con- ; fided to his own keeping. : He never struts in borrowed plum age. He never takes selfish advantage of our mistakes. He uses no ignoble weapons in con troversy. He never stabs in the dark. He is ashamed of innuendoes. He treats all persons alike, and al ways as equals. He is not one thing to a man's face and another behind his back. If by accident he comes into posses sion of his neighbor's counsels, he pas ses upon them an act of instant obliv ion. lie bears sealed packages without tampering with the wax. Papers not meant for his eye, wheth er they flutter at the wififlow or lie o pen before him in unguarded exposure, are sacred to him. He invades no privacy of others, however the sentry sleeps. Bolts and bars, locks and keys, pick ets and hedges, bonds and securities are not for him. He may be trusted out of sight, near the thinnest partition, anywhere. He buys no offices, he sells none, in trigues for none, He would rather fail of heights than win thepn by dishonor. He will eat honest bread. He insults no man. He loves his home, and delights to make all around him happy. He will not treat any living thing with cruelty. If he have rebuke for another, he is straight forward, open, manly. In short, whetever he judges honor able he practices toward every man. - XOTHINO l.\ TIE PAPER." An exchange has the tollowing spi cy chapter on the subject of newspa pers elicited by toe stereotyped re mark of inditferept readers, after scanning the "miniature world" of a daily issue of news, that there is noth ing in the paper. It says • Some are always grumbling about their papers, and insinuating how much better they could do it. They talk as flippantly about "tine articles" on every imaginable subject as if they could effect such a change. Let some of those overflowing philosophers try it for one hundred and fifty days in succession. And then they think it is nothing to "select" for a newspaper—you have merely to run the scissors through a half a dozen exchanges and you have got matter enough. Now this is the most important and difficult depart ment to fill on a newspaper. Very few men have the slightest idea how the work is done. It requires a thor ough newspaper man—who knows the public appetite well—who knows what is going on in the world—and who knows how to rewrite and pack a col umn into a dozen lines Men who ran skim a newspaper and toss it aside, little reflect how much brains and toil are expended in ser ving up that meal. Busy heads and busy hands have been toiling all day fo gather and prepare those viands, and some vast building has been lit from garot to eeller all night to get the paper ready by the crack of dawn. "Nothing in the paper !" Nothing in your head ! that's what's the mat ter. Judge Howling, of New York, ioves a practical joke. The other day a man was before him charged with whipping his wife. "How came he to beat you?" asked Judge Dowling. '• Underneath where we live, at No, 470 Great street, there is a dancing house," explained his wife. "I was told my husband was there, and I J took a woman with me and we went and looked in." "Was your husband there?" pursu ed the Judge. "Yes, sir." "Dancing?" "Yes, sir." *'Did you go inside?" "No, sir, but my husband saw me, and soon came up to our room, when he beat me and smashed the furni ture." "It was not a proper place for her to go," spoke up the husband. "It was a proper place for you I suppose?" "Any place is proper for men." "Do you really think so?" "Yes, sir." "Well, then, I'll send you to the penitentiary for three months." Brick Pomeroy says: "The editor of the Tribune takes his defeat as a blind pig takes Its milk, without a grunt or a squeal. We like Horace. God didn't make that noble head of his for nothing. The Democratic ma jority that rained down upon him in this city didn't startle him a wiuk—no more than trickling molasses ever a stove griddle or a warm rain would set in a tremor the statue of Washington at Union Square." FOR CHAPPED HANDS.— Wash the hands well, and, without using a tow el, apply a small quantity of honey and rub in well, Use once a day, and it will make the hands very soft, and cure aa well as prevent chapped hands. VOL. 65.—WHOLE No. 3,346. HIXOROLH. Why are blushes like little girls? because they become women. Should your old acquaintances be for got ?—Not if they have money. Why is your nose in the middle of your face ? Because it is the seen tor. An ill-natured editor says ladies all use paint, and he sets his face against it. A poor fellow who pawned his watch said that he raised money with a lever. Mr. Quilp encourages lotteries on grounds of fine arts—they learn people to draw. A "gentleman about town' 1 is one who pays cash for everything except his debts. An Irishman, writing from the \yeat to a friend, remarked: t'liork is so plenty here that, every third man you meet is a hog." Love in the Indian language, is, 'Schiiolendamowitchewagin.' It must be quite an undertaking to tellasquaw that you love her. "Won't you take half of tfyls poor apple?" asked a pj-etty damsel. "No, I thank you, I would prefer a better half." Eliza blushed and referred him to papa. AT a parish examination a clergy man asks a charity boy if he had ever been baptized. "No, sir," is the rp ply, "not as I knows of; but I've been waxinated." Everything was lately in readiness for the marriage of a Cairo lady, but the groom came not. After hours of waiting, a dispatch was received read: '''Have to wait tiil next week, my wife has overhauled me." It is a singular fact, and one not geu : erally known, that Washington drew his last breath in the last hour of the last day of the last week in the last month of the year, and in the last year of the century. He died on Saturday night, 12 o'clock, December 31st, 1799. —J. ! At a recent funeral in New York the band which attended the corpse to the grave, played the lively tune of "Up in a balloon," and on returning from the cemetery played "When Johnny comes Marching Home gain," A farmer going to get his grist ground at a mill, borrowed a bag ot one of his neighbors. The poor man was knocked into the water-wheel, and the bag went with him. He was drowned; and when the melancholy news was brought to his wife, she ex claimed, "My gracious! what a fuss there'll be about that bag!" At a railway station an old lady said to a very pompous looking gentleman, who was talking about steam cotmuM* nieation, 'Dray, sir, what is steam 'Ste:im, ma'am, is—ah!—steam Is steam. 'I know that chap couldn't tell you,' said a rough looking fellow, standing by; but steam is a bucket of water in a tremendous perspiration,' •My dear, what shall we nan eßub?' "Why, husband, I have settled on the name of Peter." "Oh, don't," he replied, "I never liked Peter, for he denied his master." "Well, then," replied the wife, "what name do you like?" "i should like the name of Joseph." "Oh, not that," replied she, "I can't bear Joseph, for he denied his mis tress," A little girl got to school in Dan bury, Connecticut, the other morning just as it commenced, and her teacher said, "You are just In time, Susse." Then, turning to the other scholars, she asked, "In time for what chil dren ?" A hand signified he bad soly ed the problem. Thopaas, just in time for what?" "Lanigan's ball!" shouted the promising youtli. A Good old Massachusetts doctor met a sexton in the street one Jay. After the usual salutations, the doctor began to cough. "Why, doctor," said the sexton, „ "you have got a cold. How long have you had that ?" "Look here, Mr. Sexton," said the doctor, with a show of indignation, "what is your charge of interment ?" "One dollar," was the reply. "Well, continued the doctor, "just come into my office, and I will pay it. I don't want to havp you around, sq anxious about my health. 1 The sexton was even with him, however, turning round to the doc tor, he replied: "Ah, doctor, I cannot afford to bury you yet. Business has never been so good as it has been since you begau to practice." "Bridget, what did the mistress say she would have for dinner?" "Broil the lobster." "Broil the lobster! Are you sure, Bridget ?" "Entirely ; get the gridiron." Mary got the gridiron and placed it on the fire. She then placed the live lobster on the gridiron. Intermission of five miuutes, after which the dia logue was resumed as follows: "Did you broil that lobster, Mary ?" "Dlvil the broil! The more I pok ed the fire the more he walked off. The baste's haunted; I'll try no more. No good will come from cooking a straddlebug like that." "And where is the lobster?" "Divil a bit 1 know! The last I saw of hiin he was going out the back door with his tail at half mast, like a wild maniac that he was," Bridget started in pursuit of the wild maniac and was still after him when our informant left.