#® wen hurried from different directions to
ward the shore.
Select Poetry.
Kindness.
BY GERALD MASSEY.
There’s no dearth of kindness
Inthié world of ours,
Only inonr blindness
We gather thorns for flowers !
Outward, we are spurning—
Trampling one another ;
While we're truly yearning
At the name of “Brother.”
There's no dearth of kindness
Or love among mankind.
But ip darkling loneliness
Hooded hearts grow blind !
- Bull of kindness tingling,
Soul is shut from soul,
When they might be mingling
In one kindred whole !
There's no dearth of kindness
Though it be unspoken,
From the heart it buildoth
Rainbow smiles in token—
That there be none so lowly,
But have some angel touch ! |
Yet, nursing loves unholy, |
We live for self too mnch ! !
Aa the wild rose bloweth, !
As runs the happy river, |
Kindness freely floweth
In the heart forever.
But if man will hanker
Ever for golden dust,
Kindliest hearts will canker,
Brightest epirits rust.
There's no dearth of kindness
in this world of ours ;
Only in our blindness
We gather thorns for flowers,
Oh, cherish God’s best giving,
Falling from a%ove !
Life were not worth living,
Were it not for love,
~ Miseellangous,
Fmt ese eer
Weary of Life.
Mdnight was past, and the lights of the |
vessels lying at anchor in the stream were
beginning to be cxanguishel, when two
Tha elder of the two had
already reached the strand, and was pres
| subsistence.
“now my poor child wearies to gain my sip-
¢ Shall I murder my daughter ? The life
which she is now leading is her certain
death,’ answered the o!d man in a despair-
Ing tone.
¢ Good sir, come, go with me to the near-
est inn that is still open, and let us drink a
bottie of wine together. You will relate to
me your history, and if you like, I will let
you hear mine. So much, however, will 1
Fay to you beforehand. Chase all thonghts
of self destruction away, [ am rich, and, if
things be as you say, from henceforth you
and your daughter shall lead a pleasant
life.
The old man followed the younger without
opposition. A few minutes after, over full
glasses, the elder said :
‘My History is soon told. Iwasa mer
chant’s clerk, but always unlucky. As I
had nothing by inheritance, and the young
girl I married was poor, 1 was never able
to commence business or my own account,
and remained in a subordinate position. Fi-
nally, 1 was discharged on account of my
years, and then began the struggle for a
My wife died of trouble, and
port. I cannot bear to see ker working
herself to death for me—therefore it is better
I go—you know all I’
¢ Friend." exclaimed the young man, ‘you
are the most fortunate man { have ever en-
countered in my life. 1tis insane to call
that misfor-une. Nobody is casier to help
than you. To morrow I will make my will,
and you shall be —no resistance— my heir.
‘This coming night is my last Before this.
however, [ must see your deughter, out of
pure curiosity. I would for once see how
one looks who really deserves the name of
woman.’
* But young man, what can it be that has
so early made you so unhappy 2’ questionod
the elder, much moved. -
«I believe 1t was the wealth which my fa-
ther left me. 1 was the only son of the rich-
cst banker in the city. My father died five
years since, leaving me more than was good
for me. Since that time, [ have been de-
ceived and be'rayed by every ome without
exception, with whom I have had any con.
| rection. Some have pretended friendship
for me on account of my money. Others
have pretended to love me—again for my
money ; and so went on. [often mingled.
in the garb of a simple workman, with the
paring to make a leap, the design of which | asses. and thus one day became acquaint
was not to be mistaken ; but at that instant | €d with a charming being, a young girl to
the younger seized hum by the arm, exclaim. | Whom my whole heart soon went out in
ing : love. 1 disclosed to her neither m= name
+ 8ir, I believe you want
self I
to drown your- | Por position. [longed to be loved for my-
anery and called for whiskey skins. The
* You have guessed it
you ¢
This was the answer, spoken in the most
angry tone.
Nothing, I know.
Journey together.
What is that to
I would sirply re
quest you to wait a couple of minutes—
when, if you like, we will make the great
Arm in arm—the best
way of dying.’
With these words the younger ex‘ended |®d disappeared in the crowd.
lessness decided my destiny. Vainly did 1
his hand to the elder, whose was not with
self alone, and for a time appeared as if 1
were going to be happy —at last, at last '—
The young girl and I, whom she stil re-
garded as a simple workman, met every af
ternoon in the Marcusplatz, where we pass
ed many happy hours. One day my dear
girl appeared with red eyes—she had been
weeping—and told me that we must par: ;
confessing that her life belonged to another.
With these words she tore herself from me
Her faith-
held. The former continued in a tone of [Tush into the pleasures which so called
seeming enthusiasm —
‘Sobeit! Arm in arm!
‘good society’ has to ofter, but found my
Traly I did lost peace of soul pever, never !
I then de
not dream that a human heart would beat | {Fined to bring my joyless existence toa
with mine in this last hour. I will not seek
tq know who you are —an honest man or a
villain—come, let us begin the journey to-
gether IF :
The elder held the young man back, and
close.’
‘ Unhappy young man,’ said the elder.
wipirg his eyes, ‘from my whole heart I-
pity you.
more fortunate than you ; far 1, least, was,
fixiog his dimmed, balf extinguished eyes |by two women—my wife and daughter—
Lu ust acknowledge that I was
searchingly upon the coustenance of his | sincerely loved.’
companion exclaimed :
* Wall you give me your address, good sir, |:
“Hold. You seem to me too young to end | that [ may convince myself of the truth of
your life by suicide. A man of your years your story ? Itis not exactly mistrust, but
bas still a brilliant, alluring fature in his | I must see to believe.
grasp—,’
To morrow 1 will
arrange affairs as [ have told you. You
* Brilliant !” answered the young man, | will remain in th:s inn to-night and in the
scornfully. ‘What have I to hope in the morning early I will return. Give me your
widst of a world full of wickedness false- | word of honor, that you will not, in the
hood. treachery, and unhappiness. Come, me-ntime, speak to any one of what has ta-
u are still young. You must have
'y sorrow ful experience to make life
» thus insupportable to you !’
x despise man !’
« Without exception ?*
+ Without exception.’
* Well, then, you have cow found 8 man
perhaps whom you will not, necessarily, de-
spise. I have, believe me, during my whole
life, lived an honorable man.
‘Really ? That is highly interesting !—
its a pity I had not earlier nade your ac
quaintance.’ . *
* Leave me to die alone, young man !'—
Live on! Believe me, time heals all
wounds, and there are men of honor yet to
be found.”
‘Now if you take this view, why are you
said the young man.
it will reach till my return,’
tor called, commended the old man
care in suitable torms, and then left the
house.
ken place between us.’
* You have wy word. Go to my dwelling,
to my daughter, and you will find that I
have told you the simple truth. My name
is Wilhelm S——.
Here is my address.’
With these words he handed the young
man a paper, giving the locality of his
dwelling. Itlayin a suburb inhabited by
the poorer classes, at some distance from the
city proper.
+ And my name is Carl T— hereupon
‘Take this bank note,
Carl rang for the waiter, had the proprie
to his
Hardly bad the morning broke, when
“wrrymg so fast to say ¢ Vale' to this Carl found himself on the way to the sub-
vorll ¥
‘Oh, I am an old sickly man, unable to
make a livelihood ; a man who cannot, will
not see his only child, his daughter, blight-
ing her youth, and laboring day and night
No, 1 would be an unfeel-
ing father, Eevould be barbarous, if I lived
to snnzort him,
on thus.’
* How, sir, you have a daughter who
does this for you # asked the young man,
surprised. .
¢ And with wh ve, does she sacrifice
herself for mie, ana has only the tenderest
words of love—a sweet smile for me als
ways :
* And you want to commit snicide ? Are
you mad ¥’ .
urbs where lived the daughter of the old
man With whom he had become acquainted
under such peculiar circumstances. 1t was
pot without ‘rouble that he found the house.
It was a poor place. The young man
knocked, opened the door and involuntarily
s.epped back. What did he see? The
young girl whose inconsistancy had made
his life a burden unbearable, stood before
him. She had grown pale—very pale ; but
he knew henat the first glance ; it was
Bertha wnom he had once hoped to call bis
own. Athis appearance the young girl
sprang towards him, overcame with joy,
holding out ber little hand. The young
man waived her back, exclaiming :
‘ You did not expect to see me ?'
‘The poor girl sank into a seat and cover
ed her pale, beautiful countenance with her
hands.
¢ Are you Wilhelm S——'s daughter ?’ he
asked coldly, after a pause.
+1 am’ answered the maiden timidly.
« And who and where is that other to
whom, as you told me at parting, your life
belonged #'
¢ The ocker is my father,” said the young
girl, looking up to the young man with a
glance that spoke the tenderest love.
With lightning quickness the truth dawn
ed upon him, the scales fell from his eyes—
suddenly all was clear. Speechlessly he
rushed to Bertha. took her in his arms and
pressed her to his breast.
+ Oome to your father 2° he faltered to the
young girl.
‘My father # O, God ! I forgot ; where
is he? He has been out all night. I have
watched for him in tears the long night
through.’
¢ Your father is saved. He is with me,’
was Carl's answer, as he hurried the young
gitl out through the 8 reets to the arms of
her—his father.
A fortnight later, in the midst of th-
greatest splendor, the marriage of the rich
banker Carl 1——, to Bertha S——, took
place, — Home Journal.
ONE WAY TO GET A ‘SMILE’
If half the cleverness exibited in petty
swindling were only diverted to purposes
of honesty, our list of business men would
be largely ficrcased. But the poverty tha
sharpens the wit blunts the moral sense,
and rogues glory in their skillful subter
fuges.
Three ragsed, wretched topers stood
shivering upon a street corner. They had
not a penny between them, and neither had
drank a drop—within half an hour. They
debated the deeply interesting question—hosw
to obtain the next glass: afier many imprac
ticable suggestions, one of them said;
“I have anidea ; we'll all go into the next
shop and drink.”
‘Drink ;” replied his companions, * that
15 easly said ; but who's to pay?”
“Nobody. Doas I tell you. I'll taked
the responcibility.”
Following the speaker’s directions, his
two companions entered an adjoining rum-
place was kept by a Dutchman. Afer
he had waited on his customers, and
while they were enjoying their orthodox
beverage at the counter, in walked toper
No: 1.
“How are ye!” to the Dutchman.
. ** How de do ?’ said the Dutchman.
Toper No. 1 glanced suspiciously at to
pers Nos. 2 and 3, and beckoned the pro-
prie or aside.
““ Do you know these men ?'’ he asked
mysteriously.
The dutchman started.
*1 know no more as dat dey call for de
whiskey skins.”
¢ Don’t tak any money of them,” whis
pered No. 1
“Sir! I take no money for the whiskey,”
said the astonished landlord.
«No ! they are informers,’
‘ley ! informers 2”
“Yes ; they buy liquor of you so as to
inform against you.”
“Dey not catch me.
You take somethin’?
‘I don’t object,” and toper No. 1 took a
swig with his companions.
«What's to pay 2” quoth No. 2s putting
his hand into his empty pocket.
Nothing,” said the Dutchman. ‘Me no
sell liquor, me keeps it for my frends,”
And having smiled the supposed infor
mers out ot the door, he manifested his
gratitude by generously inviting the sup-
posed anti informer to take a second glass.
Of course No. 1 did not at all decline the
invitation.
Thaok you. sir.
—————eete
A Goop SELL :"—A Broadbrim owned a
most beautiful horse, A gentleman saw
him in pasture, wished to purchase him,
and asked the Friend if he could go weil,
**Go !” said Broadbrim.”’
“It would delight thee to see him go.”
The gentleman, therefore purchases him
harnesses him before his wagon: but, to hig
surprise, he is as immovable as the Alps;
He applies to the whip, but nevertheless the
horse is as still as death.
He then cries out to the Quaker:
*“Did T uot teli thee 1t would delight thee
to see him go ?and I hope thee may have
that pleasure.”
And with this he left sporting gent to get
over his sel// as best he could.
a ——
0Z~A young man, lately married, fears
being drafted, and advocates the passage of
a law, similar to that in force among the
Israelites, as is recorded in Deuteronomy,
24h ckap.. 5th verse—
** When a man hath taken a new wife, he
shall not go out to war, neither shall he be
charged with any business ; but he shall be
free at home one year, and shall cheer up
the wife which he has taken.”
Foolish Benedick! Were such a law pas:
sed it would cause a greater rush to arms
than ever. *
HeAveN never intended that we should
remain permently contented with what ic is
In our own power to improve.
SOME OF THE CURIOSITIES OF NEW
YORK —PROVOST MARSHAL KEN-
NEDY'S OFFICE.
The New York World is introducing its
readers to some of the institutions of New
York, which are under the pitronaze and
guardianship of the National Administra~
ton. In reading its descriptions of living
Scenes in the government dungeons, th,
mind Is carried back to the horrors of th,
Inquisition and the French Revolution,—-
One can hardly appreciate the damning fact,
that our Constitutional Government should
have become an engine of tyranny and des
potism toward the people; or that the peo”
ple would tamely submit to the outrages
which have been inflicted upon them for th
past year. But we forbear comment and
proceed to give extracts from an account of
the surroundings of Provost Marshal Kenne-
dy’s office, and his manner of doing busi.
vess :— Phil. Evening Journal.
++ Of the large number of arrests made by
the special Provost Marshal, a small propor
portion only have been mentioned, in the
public prints, Such as he has seen proper
to give has been published, and thesc only:
It is impossible therefore to describe many
of the scénes that transpired in the office
—oue or two will suffice as a sample.
CASE OF THE ABOLITIONIST.
«« Upon the morning of the arrest ot Mr.
D. Plumb, of the firm of Plumb & Co,,
Mercantile Agency in Broadway, the repor-
ters were notified that two important arrests
were to be made by the Provost Marshal’s
guard —% promiment aholitionist, and a rank
secessionist were to be brought up together.
After some two hours patient waiting the
accused parties appeared in charge of the
officers. The provost marshal arose as they
entered. 1p answer to Mr: Plumb’s inquiry
which he made as became an Americar cit«
izen, “ Why am 1 under arrest 2” the official
assumed a grave countenance, adjusted his
eye glassess, surveyed the accused from head
to foot, and proceeded to read the affidavit
against him.
Mr. Plumb (smiling).—-“Why sir, I
thought this was all settled ; you bave had
me here once on this same charge, and I
thought you was satisfied about it. I think
1 can set this matter right.”
Provost Marshals.— Very well we shall
see sir.’ »
Mr. Plumb—*Can I have an cpportunity
to do this 2”
Provost Marshal. — “Well sir, you can
make your written affidavitin the matters
and I will forward it to Washington togeth”
er with the affilavits against you, but you
must remain here, lintil directions are recei-
ved concerning your case,”
“The provost marshal sprung the bell
communicating with the detective office.
Sergeant Young appeared, Mr. Plumb was
about to speak, but before he could do so,
the marshal said :
“This officer will take you in eharge and
afford you facilities for making an affidavit
You must remain in custody for the present
that's all ir.”
A waive of the hand and he was dellvered
over te the officer, who conducted him down
‘staits to the basement story, tkrough the
detective office, the sitting room, into the
bedroom occupied by thejofficers, and}direct
ly by the ominous ceil doors that stared
lank for a victim as they passed. He was
afterwards brought out to the detective of~
fice 4nd furnished with writing materials.
THB ALLEGED SECESSIONISEE.
As the folding doors closed after Mr.
Plumb. the provost marshal took ap another
affidavit, aud and turning to the reporter
said :
“Here we have another case upon exactly
the other extreme, A secessionit, who says
ne would fight for the South.”
The same ceremony of was gone through
with, but this party was more demonstrative
than Mr. Plump. .
I can prove every word of that affidavit
false if 1 have an opportunity. I can go and
get witnesses that w ill shew me to be a loy
al man,”
Provost Marshal—*“No matter sir. 1
have no doubt you could do very well if you
had that boy to manipulate, butI do not
mean that you shall see him. 1 believe
what he has said.”
Before any reply could be made, the im-
perative ‘that’s all sir I" was uttered, the
bell was sprung, and the officer ap
peared and took the prisoner down be
low.
REFUSING TO GIVE A NAME.
Upon another occasion an individual wao
brought in for refusing to give his name 18
an enrolling officer.
Provost Marshal.--« What is your name
sir ¥?
Unknown.—:Well, I declined to give my
name there, and I think I shall not give it
here.”
Provost Marshal..—*‘Oh you think go0.—
Now I will tell you what I think. [ think
you'll give 1t before you,ve been here a
great while.” :
He sprung the bell again. J
““llere is a wan that won't give his name.
Take him dowr."and give him number four.
He will propably give his name before many
hours. ’ .
The young man who wag not above twen~
ty years of age seemed like a person hardly
compas. He waspale faced and gaunt look -
ing was seedily dressed, and had the ap-
pearence of having just come out of s night's
bauch. He was taken down to to the de-
tective office, again interrogated, and again
declined to give a name.
*¢ (Give him number four,’ said the officer
in charge, and he was once seized and hur
ried oft to the fatal locality.
NUMBER FOUR.
Horrors of horrors! Passibly no plaze
since the black hole of Calcutta of the pri-
son hulks of ihe revolution could compete
with cell number four, at police headquar-
ters.
Under tho reign of the provost marsha
it became part and parcel of the machinery
of the office, and was used as occasion rel
buired to hold fast the worst c'ass of nris.
oners, for such as were considered the fla-
grant cases.
Passing down the outer room of the detec-
tive office in the basement, you come into
the sitting room —a close badly ventilated
¢hamber—the larger hall of which is under-
ground. Midway in the room at the rizht
is a small half glass door cut in a partition,
threugh wheh you enter upon a narrow cor-
rider facing four small cells. These are
numbered, beginning at the south end, one
two, three, four, the latter being at the ex-
treme right as you enter the corridor, wlich
18 scarcely wide enough to admit the passage
Of a man.
The sides of cell number four are ceiled up
with boards on the top. [tis about three
feet wide by six in depth. A stationary
board fifteen inches wide is put upon the
right hand for a sleeping pallet, and a three
cornered pine block, fastened at one end of
the board serves as pillow, their being nei-
ther bedclothes, matress or straw. A water
waste, and dipper, in one corner completes
the furniture of the cell. The sides ot the
place are thickly coated with white wash
in vain efforts to purify it. The door is com-~
posed of iron bars about one inchin width
and a quarter of an inch in thickness, arran
ged crosswise, so as to intersect each other
at every two and a halfinches, At the top
is a small aperture eight inches square. —
The entire place swarms with vermin. In
dogdays when the cell door was shat, and
the door and window leading to the other
apartment were closed, the atmosphere was
stifling in its character. while the vermin
ran riot over the unfortunate victims who
could neither lie down, nor sit down from
very agony, sometimes imploring in heav,
ens name (0 be let out, 1f only for a few mo
ments, In the hottest weather of the seas
on; three persons have been confined in
this cell at once, two of them sitting on the
board and the third lying at full length on
his face, upon the floor, and all evincing un
told horror and misery.
HOW THE UNKNOWN PARED.
The individual above alluded to, who
would not give his name, was put in number
4, The door of the cell was shut and *bol-
ted and the suter door was closed also al-
hough it was one of thehottes days of the
season. In fifteen minutes his cries were
heard, the door was epencd and; he was
foundina profuse perspiration, with the
vremin crawling over himand tormenting
him.
“For God,s sake let me out of this,’ he
said, ‘and 1 will do anything you want,”
The man or beast that number four can’t
tame is beyond the reach of the most inge
nious torture, Every delinquent who is al.
luded to as an atroicious villitn is wished no
worso fate than incarceration within the
walls. Number 4., 1s a bywotd among the
officers and frequenters of headquarters,
and ? is promised as a sort of bugbear to
such inmates of the detective office as be-
have themselves unruly, *
One of the individuals who had been ar-
rested for some criminal offence upon read
ing an account in a paper of a rebel vitory,
Iaid the paper down as if in disgust, and re-
marked, “That's the way with our boys,
just prick ’em and they run.”” The word$
were reported up stairs, and :he order came
down.
¢ Place him in number 4,
pricked where he can’t run.
The history of this awful receptable for
prisoners ean never probably be fully told
and we have only briefly sketched it, to
show some portion of the machinery used n
conducting the business of the provost wars
shall’s office.
In commenting editorially upor these hor"
rors, the World, with commendable indig-
nation, protests against this treatment of
American citizens,
We may talk as we please of the thumb-
screws. jack boots, wheels, racks, pincher®
and all the other peraphernalia of medieval
rersecution—they were all an infinitely
more respectable means of propogating the
true faith than this unutterable abomi-
nation which is used against political here-
tics, or those suspected to be such ; in this
so called land of freedom. Torquer made
tortured, but he diditin acleang n-
tlemanly way, He was content with ins,
genious applications of wood, and iron and
fire, and water. Frantic as he was, he
never degraded his cause by making loath-
some vermin the ministers of his vengeance.
1t has been reserved for provost Marshaj
Kennedy to bring into requisition this new
sort of perne forte et dure—the old anguish
wade all the more intolerable by an over.
powing diguest.
In the name of Affirican civilation wo pro-
test against it. It calls for the execra ion
He will be
we wll not say of every loyal but of every
decent man. Ttis bad enough that we
sk.oul'l be subjected to the arbitrary will of
an officer unknown to the laws. however
discreetly that will might be exercised ; bad
enough at best that we, hourly exposed ©
summary arrests and commitments withoc:
trial and eveu without trial, and even with-
out offence : bit when it comes to this, that
American manhood is made a prey to the
vilest of creeping things, deliberately and
expressly for inquisitorial purposes it is
adding to the lowest ducp o. ignominy a yet
lower deep which we are worse than slaves
it we endure. Consent to such ‘r.atment
furfeits not only cur claims as freemen, but
our titles as men.
[From the Bo ton Herald, Sep. 30.)
A BOSTON NEGRO 'S OPINION OF THE
(PROCLAMATION.
This morning while a conservat ve Re-
publican lawyer was wending his way to
ward the Police Court room, he was con
fronted in a passage way by a genuine Con-
gv, with a very high shirt collar, who hand-
ed him a foolscap sheet, all wr tten over.
and numerously signed. *What is that 2°
asked the lawyer. ‘Dat,’ answered the
darkey, ‘dat am a ’.cription paper, fur to
purchase my belubbed wife from slabery.'—
‘Where is your wife 2 wag asked. ‘De
lass accounts T hab ob her, she was on de
plantation of Collounel Lubson, forty one
miles from New Orleans, an de colonel was
willin fur to sell her for seven hundred dol-
lars.” ‘Do you work any 2’ was asked, —
*Yeth, yeth, T works when I can find nuffin
todo.’ said he ; ‘Ise now bout goin ott on
a lecturin tower ; Ise goin to stump it in
support ob de President's proclamation.’ —
What, do you support the President's proce
laiation ?” was asked. ‘Yeth. veth, bress
de Lord, 1 does. 1ts goin to make free mil-
lions ob slaves, as free as you are, bress de
Lord’ Do you rally believe it will make
all the slaves free 2° Yeth, yeth, bress de
Lord, dey is free : anyhow, dey will be free
tust January. God bress Aberyham Lin
kum!” “Then, you swindling, rascally nig.
ger,’ said the conservative lawyer, handing
back the paper, ‘what are you round rais..
ing money to buy your wife for, when you
say all the slaves are going to be free any
how ¥ ‘Well, well, de tack am,’ said the
darkey, scratching his head, ‘do fick am,
ye ree dis nigger want make sure fing, yo
sve ; dis nigger spose proclamation sure
thing, but dew, ye sce. de fack am sposin
Linkum shot 1d slip up, or sumfin, where,
oh where, would my belubbed wife be, lot
me ax ¥’ Conservative Republican had left
before this unanswerable argument was fin-
ished, and the darkey screamed out in a
tragic wannet, to some by gtanders, *Yeth !
yeth | before he runs down Aberyhaw Lin.
Kum, let him answer dat! Where, oh.
where would my belubbed wife be if Lin~
kum should happen to slip up I"
A SHORT ANSWER.—One of the enrolling
marshals, the other day received a strong
hint from a down town female. Stopping
at the lady’s house he found herjbefore her
door, endeavoring to affict with a vogetable
hu kster a twenty per cent abatement in the
price of a peck of tomatoes.
‘Have you any men here ma’am 7"
The reply was gruff and curt—
¢ No.’
“Have you ary husband madam 2
*No.”
*‘Perhaps you have a son ma'am 2°
¢ Well what of it 2’
¢ I should Like to know where he is.’
‘Well, he isn’t here.’
‘So I see ma'am. Pray where is he 2
‘In the Union army;where jou ought to
bel’
~The matshal hastened roiind the cotner.
He didn’t farther interrogate the lady.
IZ>The negro idea of emancipation is
cHatacteristicallly expressed in the follow-
ing stanzas from the latest ‘‘negro melo
dy.” Though the dirkie expectation of
“nuffin to do” may mest with d‘sappoint-
ment, the confidential expectation express-
ed, will ultimately be found to have more
or less weight :
01d Uncle Ned, frow down 1:t ha!
Bud Dinah drop that kitchen dough!
We're all free wid noffin to do
But to dance all night, and all day too,
De white trash have nuffin to say,
But io work ! work ! and de taxes pay :
While de b essed darkeys dance der fill,
“set de white trash foot the fiddlers billl
Sl ese
WairriNe A Razor.—A young fop who
had just begun to shave for a beard stepped
into a barber shop, and after a grand swagger
desired to be shaved.
The barber went through the usnal move-
ment and the sprig jumped up with a flourish
exclaming ; ’
,-My foin fellow, what is yor charge ?”
«0, no charge,” replied the barber.
“No charge, ¢* How's that 2
“Why, I'm always thankful that I can get
a soft piece of calfskin to sharpen my raxzor
on.” .
terete
0Z7A Geography seems to Fe badly
wanted dowtt Svuth, as well as several oth:
er things. A letter from a Sergeant in the
Twenty Ninth Massachusetts Rogiment da~
ted Near Norfolk Va., Camp Misery fifteen
mules form the knowledge of God, May 14.
1862, says that Captain Tripps company
was as well as could be expected, consider.
ing their situation.
CARLYLE ON AMERIC
A.
Tuomas CARLYLE, in his quaint, charac.
teristic style, says of the American war that
itis “the dirtiest chimney which has been
on fire this century, and should be permit.
ted to burn itself out.”
We can tolerate the acerbity of the sar
casm for its candor and plainness, Men
who speak tlieir minds are 80 rare in this
world "the human face has Become go com
monly a mask, and the tongue an instru~
ment of gaila and hyprocrisy, that we thank
Heaven when we see’ an honest man even
if hie looks as if he would bite our head oft
when we say Goo | Morning.” A capdid
and ont spoken bull dog, who has no affect
ation of fecling the slightes interest in any
man execpt to put him down and thrott'e
him, and even a snarling wolf or hyena, are
agrecable ojects compared with the whi d
sepulchres of dissimulation and hypuerisy of
which wmedern society is in great pari Eoh-
posed.
Weare, therefore, disposed to regard with
composure the hyena like grin with which
CARLYLE regards the horrible sufferings of
humanity upon this continent. But whilst
apulauding the honicéty of the brute, which
follows its frocious instincts amidst the
carnage af the battle -tield, we cannot refrain
from asking who buiit the chimney, who
supplied the fuel, and who, made the flue
thewdirties of this century, which everybody
should permit to burn self cut 2 As pari.
of the Amencan chimney, we come in fur
half of the hyena’s ghastly grin, end have a
natural desire to reciprocate the omplinient.
Hawdn mtire on this continen: is, we sup-
po ¢, neither more nor less than human na-
ture in general, and British human natare in
particular,
The North was settled mainly by Mer.
CARLYLE'S countiymen, the Puritans, of
whose vallor and virtues he has beon an
ardent eulogist, and the South mainly by
Cavaliers, whom, il we mistake not, he
never admired 80 much, prohdle ke
cause they were gentletien. Such as they
lishmen ; the “America chimney,” as orig-
inally built, wag an English chimney, built
by English hands, made of English bricks
and, until some thirty yeats ago, was as
cleanly a chimney dnd burnt as well as any
in Great Britain. 1n fact it had so fine a
drafi that it began to draw the whole world
to it; but, from that moment, when 1t sees
med iu the best conditivn, it began to bea
come foul, for reasons which Mr Canryinz
ought to understand as well as any
man.
No one ktiows better than he that the
Abclition cursade, which he has so of en
denounced, was begun by the British
Government about the time we have indi
cated, for the purpose of crippling the com
mercial, manufacturing and political power
of America, and for fomenting and bringing
about divisions and civil war in the Umted
States. The eternal agitation of slavery
was the instrumentality by which Mr. Car.
LYLE's county made our chimney ‘the dir
tiest chimney of the century,” so dirty that,
now it is on fire, every one should permit
it to burn itseifout.
We have no.disposition to retort upon our
worthy friend, the hyena. The British
chimney has been on fire several times,
and judging from the inc easing distress in
tke manufacturing districts it may; ure long
be on fire again. Bat as we said 1 of fe, we
forgive the man the entire absence of all hus
wan feeling which his sarcasm involves, on
account of the honesty of its confession.
That the American chimney is the dirtiest
chimney of the century, which everybody in
Earcpe rejoices ison fire, and is willing to
see it burn itself out, is in few, ferocious,
truthful words, the real, universal feeling
of England, beyoud all cavil or disputes. [n
spite of all the honeyed phraseology of friend-
ship, sympathy and condolence the genuine
sentiment of that Europe which has instiga-
ted the civil ce vulsions in which she delights
and whose oll courings are now ergaged in
this work of devastation and death, ig
that + The dirtiest chimney of the century
is on fire, and should be permitted 10
Sept 24,
el
A CiLp KiLLep BY WHisker,—A shock-
ing occurrence resulting in the death of a
a lictle girl aged some seven years, tran-
spired at Miltinberger's alley lst night. Te
appears that the parents of the deceased had
whiskey in the house, and that she got it in
sowe way, drinking fully a half pint before
she was discovered. She way immediately
seized with spasms, and though a physician
wasealled in, and did everythidg in his
power to save her life, the li tle thing dted
during the night, The Coroner was notified
but we believe he did not regard the case as
one where it was necessary to hold an in.
quest.— Pittsburg Chronicle of 10th inst;
tree ee
A Gas Stony: —At 4 hotel in New York,
recently, an old gentleman came down stairs
and inquired of tae clerk wether he had any
tallow candles? Being informed that he
could be thus supplied, the old gentleman
said: “Then I wish you d givé me some--
[ want something I can blow out for I’ve
been blasting away at this cussed jiggr
in my room till I've no wind left.” Th,
clerk by spasmodic effort, kept his counten-
ance, #nd ordered up ‘‘a pound of dips to
room No..—7.¢
eee A Aan.
07 A person wad relating to a son of the
Emerald Isle how one of our generals had
gained a victory with only a few hundred
men on hig side, when Pat said ; ‘Au’ he
had siveral hundred men on his side ?'—
Yes," ‘Begonia, wasn’t his ribs strong.’
were, North and South, they wer all Eng« -
burn itsel! out.”’—Richmond Dispétchy