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T0 A FRIEND.
BY MAC.
’
Thy proffer’d hand, dear friend, I take,
And bid a kind adieu;
Thy absent smiles will always make
"Me feel and care for you.
Thy merry laugh—oh, how it thrills
My heart thie very hour ;
My many sorrows, too, it stills,
With more than magic pcwer.
Thy sparkling eyes, how oft they spoke
In language firm, but mild;
And oft my waywardness they broke,
Controlling actions wild.
“But since fell fate will have us part,
And rend the ties so strong,
* {t cannot reach the hidden heart
‘Where love has been go long.
It cannot blot from mem 'ry’s book
The many happy hours
We've spent by rill and shady nook,
Or aramanthine bowers.
Then fare thee well—may’st thou enjoy
Much happiness and rest ;
True happiness without alloy,
Known only to the blest.
And when thy pilgrimage is o'er,
Life and its trials past,
May angels guide thee to that shore’
Where Heaven's bright glories lass.
Cray Hiry, Oct. 17th, 1863.
~ Jliscellangous.
(From the Sopa Gazette.)
A DREAM THAT WAS NOT ADREAM
—THE WAR AND PEACE.
A WONDERFUL VISION,
What I here relate is true. That which I
have seen, I have seen, and th:t which I
know, I know. Let all the people read
what is here written, and ponder the won
derful things which I bave witnessed in a
vision. Formuch of that which I have
seen in a vision, will be seen in the reality
by all, in the fulness of the evil time which
ja coming, and which now is. Fora
voice hath said; “that which thou seest
write I’
My son—our first born—the object of our
dearest love and most afectionate care—
whom we had reared in the ways of virtue
and educated with the view to an honored
life, was among the dead at Gettysburg.—
We brought him home to that dear hearth
by which he had grown from infancy to
‘yoting manhood ; to the home which he had
left but a few months ago in the glow ef
‘health and the enthusiasm of hope. We
had brought him back, a mangled corpse,
‘with the ghastly wound on his fair brow
—~hardly te be recognized, not even by the
loving mother who had borre him, and
who bewailed him with unceasing lamenta-
tion.
Dead And my hoase was filled with
the sad faces of neighbors and friends, who
‘had known ‘and loved our boy and who came
now to condole with us in the hour of over-
whelming sorrow.
Ie was buried. And I returned “to a
home which was saddened forever, to that
familiar room, where, in the years that were
passed, my boy had so often, from infancy
to manhood, sat on my knee, of by
my side. How dark it seemed! Ilow do-
iorous,
But sleep had fled from me My eyes.
which had refused to weep, seemed as if
they were sered, and blessed slumber came
not.
All through the dreary hours—hours
which seemed ages—ot that awful might I
waited, and watched, and knew not repose.
That long night wore away at last, and a
day of fasting succeeded. and the dolorous
right came again.
As I looked out of the window to the
north, a great light, neither of the sun, nor
moon, nor stars, but brighter and clearer
than mid-day; illuminated what seemed a
vast plain, upon which the minutest ohject
might ve discerced with a clearness which
was wonderful.
And as I looked I beheld the coming of a
great host, marching to the sorrowful sound
of a muffled drum. As they came nearer,
and glided past, I remarked that there was
no sound of footsteps where they trod.—
Then I knew they were speeters, the shad-
ows of the countless dead, fallen in battle.
their garments were soiled and torn. And
I observed, with a shudder which thrilled
horribly through me, that the death wound
was upon every form, and that each ghast-
ly face was the face of a corpse, Great
God! Here was an arm shot away. and
there is a gash upon the forehead, again an
eyeball burst with the slot, and yet again
% a temple crushed as by a blow of a gun-
“barrel,
And as the specter host glided by,I heard
® voice, saying: ‘Weary, indeed, wilt
thou be gazing; for days and days must
elapse, maiching at this forced march which
thou beholdest, ere this vast army of the
dead can pass.” I turned away in horror,
and prayed that I might be spared a spec-
tacle which seemed to freeze the very blood
in my veins. But now [ knew, as I had
not known before, what a multitude had
fallen in battle. -
When I looked again, the vision bad
shadows, I beheld a great pool of blood. It
was 50 large that ships might. ride on its
crimson billows. And congregated, by the
hundred thousand all around the wide cir-
cumference of its margin, were women,
pallid and tearful, cach cl2d in robes of
somber blackness, and having little children
by the hands, who wept incesantly, and
gazing into their mothers faces, calling upon
those whe would make no response,for their
blocd was in the pool at their feet, And
far beyond this horrible pool, my gaze ex-
tended to houses made desolate and fami-
lies impoverished.
I beheld these wilows in their struggle
for bread. I could ses them, chilled and
shivering, and crouching in secant clothing,
over wretched embers, which imparted no
warmth, but which were all that they could
procure. Aud I beheld those orphan chil
dren, eqalhd and wretched, uncared tor.
and uneducated, going down into the haunt
of vice, swept into the vortex of crime, for
the want of the father’s guiding and res-
training band. And I cried out in the bit
terness of my heart, “How long, oh ! Lord,
how long? And what shall we oltsin
which will repay us for all these horrible
sacrifices,”
And the voice answered, ¢ Look to the left
of the pool which is before thee. and sce
what thou beholdest.”
And I looked and beheld a vast grove of
trees, which were leafless and dead, and on
branches of the trees were huddled myi-
ads of unclean birds, lazily flapping their
wings and wiping what seemed to be bl<od
frow their beaks. And underneath was a
multitude of men crying ‘Blood, blood! more
olood.’
And the voice said: “These are the shoddy
contractors, aid place holders,and money-
getters, and the ungodly among the priest-
hood. Listen attentively, that thou maeyst
hear.’ :
And | heard in loudand demoniac shricks
““Prosecute the war! Down with the Peace
scoundrels. No compromise! No adjust
went ! No settlement! The war must go
on! Down with the Constitution itis a
league with hell! Cursed be the old Union
—it i8 a covenant with death ! Down with
Liberty — except for negroes! Arm the
black man ! fire the torch ! whet the bladc!9
Burn cities—depopulate villiages— waste
plantations—rake the bread from famish-
ing children—drive weeping widows from
the roofs that shelter them. Steal books —
steal pictures—steal precious plate --God
is asleep, there is no kell, neither is there a
a judgment.
And as I gazed, T cried out: «Merciful
heaven, are these men, or are they devils ?
Am I on earth, or rather has not the vail
been removed ‘which hides the unseen from
this visible world ? am I not looking upon
fiends already damned 2”
And the voice said : “Listen yet again,
while the ungodly priests are speaking.”
And I listened and heard a new command-
ment give I unto you, that ye hate one an-
other, Turn your plowghares into swords,
and your pruning-hooks into spears. Thou
snalt hate thy neighbors, Do not unto
others as you would have them to do unto
you. Accursed be the peace-makers.-—
Christ was the prince of war. Thou shalt
lie ; thou shalt steal ; thou shalt Lear
fals: witness against thv neighbor thou
shalt kill ! Glory te John Brown. Giory to
the new Savior- Hosannahs to the New Re-
deemer.’”’
But I could endure the impious Llasphe-
ny no mere, Turning away I beheld flit-
taring about beneath the uoclean birds, yet
over the heads of the demoniac crowd, a
phantom figure with a long grizzly beard
and a rope about his neck.
And the voicesaid : “The phantom which
thou seest is the spirit which begetd the
idolatry, the blasphemy, the fraud, the ra-
pine aud the crime which thou bas witness-
ed,”
And as I looked, I beheld many familiar
faces, though they seemed disturbed with
evil passions, such as avarice, hatred,
venge, &c. One whom | saw was diminu-
tive in statute and appearance, but he held
a big book under bis arm, and over the cov-
er of the book was inscribed, $3 000 per an-
num*
Avarice was his passion and he had bat-
ered his soul for gold. And I beheld an
elderly man, with marked features and lin-
eawents, and iren-gray. hair, and a look
which betokened intellectual power who
with bis strong speech was goading the
frantic multitude to yet greater excess. ——
He had bartered his sou! at the shrine of
Ambition. And yet another, younger in
appearance, with a beard permaturely
white, who had sold himself for naaght and
who pursued the grizzely phantom, grasp-
ng and clutching at what was at last «ha
dowy and unreal. And many I beheld who
looked sad, and gave signs of remorse,
and, who seemed anxious for to escape
from the damned beings who surrouuded
them. :
And then the voice said: “Look now
to the right, and sce that which is to be
seen,”
And J looked, and lo, a great asser blage
of men, many of whom had scrolls in their
hand, and many wear bearing banners. Of
the scrolls some were inscribed in golden
letters : ‘The Constitution, ’others, ‘Christ's
Sermon on the Mount,”’ others **The Gol-
denRule.” On the banners I read, *‘Con-
re-
changed, and lo !in place of those grizzly
stitutional Liberty,” «The Union as our
fathers made it,”” “Blessed are the Peace-
makers,” «‘Compromise—-agree with thine
adversary while thou art in the way with
him.” 7 observed that the eyes of the
assemblage were turned toward heaven, and
I20king up Isaw against the sky a bright
cross, bearing the inscription which greet.
ed the eyes of the first Christian Emperor of
Rome: ‘By ths sign shalt thou conquer.”
And 1 thought T beheld the heavens opening
and the spirit d scending like a dove. The
shades of departed statesmon and patriots,
and of murdered martyrs were hovering in
the air. There were Washington, and Web.
ster and lay, and Jack on, and Douglas,
and as they gazed upon the left, their coun-
tenances evinced sorrow and indign: tion,-
There, too, were the twelve innocent men
slain by the wonsier McNiel, and Mumford
who was hanged by Butler the beast, and
Bollmyer. with that sad smile ujon his
face which be wore when dying. And TI
looked again to the left, and I saw that as
often as any one sought to get out of the
infernal circle, its denizens yelled after him
with biter imprecations ot ‘“I'raitor, Dis-
foyal,” and similar epithets, or rusted after
with swords or drove him back with bayo-
nets. Yet many escaped with great joy at
their deliverance, and mct with glad wel-
come from the rapidly increasing hosts on the
right. .
And from the lft they incessantly calied
and begged for deserters from the might
But few responded, and they «nly
when promised an enormous price. And
these crawled ou their bellies through mire
and filth, fiom (ne assemblage to the other
And I noticed that their faces instantly be-
came black. their feet cloven, and their
tongues forked fiery.
And the voice said: ¢ What thou behol-
dest at the North is but a counterpart of
what I might show thee at the South: There
marches a specter host, and there curdleth,
a pool of blood, and demons are their cry-
ing for carnage and for vengenee, und
there too, is a great host, like unt> that
which thon sceth on the right, begging
for Union, for Peace. for Compromise . for
Constitut.on, Bat look yet again, and thou
will see the terrible judgements which are
1 store for a people who violate the com
commands of the Almighty.”
I looked again and beheld another carse,
for the green fields were smi-ten with
frost in the summer time, and yielded not
the harvest ; and the cattle were dying by
the wayside ; and faces of mothers were
wan and bony; and the children
cryingfor bread ; and there was famine in
the land.
And beheld yet another carse, For it
grew dark, and IT heard the rushiug of hea-
vy wings and lo! the Angel of the Pestilence
passed crying “wo! wo! wo! to the peop.e ac-
cursed.” Aud strong men fell down and
died on the wayside, and plagae spots came
upon every cheek and breast, and there
were none to minister to the dying, none
to bury the dead,and this vultures grew fat
and usurped the land,
And I heard a loud voice saying © Ven-
gence is mine : aith the Lord.”
And that which I here relate is truth in
its very essence. And [ have written it be-
caus it is truth, And let all the people
receive it as (rath. And I beg and implore
all who shall read it to be mstructed in the
things which it te: ches, and to consider
well that which they do. Study the di-
vine book. And let thoss who have been
lured by false leaders and ungodly priests
in‘o that infernal convocation over which
the demon spirit of Joh: Brown bears rule
flee in the name of God, as they would
avoid the just curse of heaven, resting nei.
ther night nor day, until they have set their
feet ou the hallowed ground. w hereon they
stood when tie blessings of Christ rested
upon us all.
Amen,
davaleiil
OxE of our priveipal recruiting offices was
recently the scene of quite an amusing inci-
dent :
“So, sir, I see you have clapped your
dirty sojer trappings on my husband, jhave
you ¢’
“Who is your husband 2” asked the of.
ficer,
*‘Billy McCartee, and a bold boy he is so
please ye. But its a dirty thing of you, my
pretty man, to take him from his wife and
children,”
Can’ be helped, said the officer, its tco
late now.
‘Then take the baby tco. cried she as she
forced the hittle'one into the arms of Lieut-
emant Adams. Take em all, I'l send you
four more to-day.
Off sheran at a rapid pace,leaving the un-
fortanate officer with the new recruit squal-
ling in his arms. Doubtful of its value to
the service of uncle Sam, he sect it home
by its father,
a 4 A Eine
77 An Irishman once said to another : —
“And ve have taken the tectotal pledge,
haye ye ¢”
“Indade I have, and am not ashamed of
it, aither.”
“And did not Paul ‘ell Nmothy to take
a litle wine for his stomach’s sake 2?
“So he did. but wy name is not Timothy,
and there is nothing the matter with my
stomach,’
07 A woman in Washington whos hus-
band is worth $40,000, was recently detect.
ed for the second time, in purloining eggs
from the market,
were |,
WOMEN OR WINE.
An epistle to the person who recommend-
ed the introduction of women instead of
wine at entertainments. .
I have tried botl#-so those who would a part take,
May choose between the headache and the heart-
ache. Byron.
Oh! weak and foolhardy reformer,
To substitute women for wine,
The glow of whose presence is warmer
Than the sunniest juice of the vine.
Believe me, less fatal are juleps
Than women in witchéry skilled ;
For there oozes wore vena from two lips
Than ever from gram was distilled.
Who barters for beauty lus whisky,
‘The change will be certain to rue ;
For her eyes shed a spirit more frisky
Than lurks in the best “mountain dew,”
Ah! those eyes at each mecting so merry,
You'll find to oulsparkis champagne ;
And ringlets wore goiden than sherry,
Will fuddle as well the poor brain.
More taperimg necks than bottles’,
With mouths more bewitehingly crowned,
Wilt pour from their ravishing throttles
A stream that a sage would confound.
If wine makes us brutes, love is able
To turn us to fools with like ease—
If one lays us under the table,
"Tother brings us at least to our, knees.
After dinner,when warmed with good eating,
"lis women, not wine we should flee ;
“Perfect Loves” a chasse-cafe more heating
Than even abused ‘eau de vie.”
Still at table some mischief she’s brewing —
Oft feet scrape acquaintance below —
Ah. no heel taps so pregnant with rain
As those hidden taps of the toe.
And hands, between courses, at leisure,
Make fricr ds when there's no one to mark.
Ab! Jess poison yield grapes under pressure
Than fingers thus pressed io the dark.
As home reels the toper of beanty,
How crimson his image, poor elf !
How fevered he sleeps | how his daty
Is left to take care of itself,
Wher thwarted. how palsicd his powers,
Till he sinks in despair at death’s door;
Oh! if women her victim thus lowers,
Say, what can the bottle do more 2
No spirit so ardent as women's-~
So sure to intoxicate man—
Her touch is deleriutn tremens,
That meddens him more than the can.
The glance of her eye is “blue rain,”
Ler blush 1s the blood of the vine,
Uer pout 1s a punch. in whose brewing
Tart, spirit und sugar combine,
So sparkling, so heating, to heady,
No hope for her victim appears;
Should her smiles only render him giddy,
He'd be surely made drunk with her tears.
Not the grape-juice of Eden made Adam
So stupidly forfeit his ali ;
But the lure of his volatile Madam
Led him tipsily on to his fall.
Cleopatra made Anthony reel,
When ihe hero chose her for a toy —
And for Helen large hosts took the field,
Till down fell the stout Walls of Troy.
Not the winds of fair Cypress, the rover,
So sure as its women begnile :
Better ress where be is. “half scas over.”
Than steer for so fatal an isle,
Oh then shun such a tempter as this is,
Nor commence 80 hazardous court,
Who embarks on the waves of her tresses,
Wiil grieve that he ventured from port.
Gr GP rena
How A MAN FekLs Aap Acts During AN
EanraQuake. ihe Boston Traveler pub-
lishes the 10llowing extract of a private let-
ter from Manila, giving the writer's per. on-
al experience and sensations during the late
ter ific earihquake which visited that city.
It would be impossible to give you an
idea of the late earthquake. for, though I
bave read the accounts of many seycre ones
I never could reahze the position enti I
had felt one, and | never knew what dread-
ful destraction it could make until the 3d ot
this month. 1 have beard nothing talked
‘about but earthquakes for the past ten days
everybody telling their experience and giv-
ing their idea 01 the causes and effects of
earthquakes in general. My experience was
that 1 had finished wy soup and was help-
ing myself to fish, w en three or tour tre-
menduous up and down bumps came, I
ran for the Azotea (piazza covered with iron
roofing.) Then came the fearful swinging
motion from North to south. I clung to
the post (wooden, which supports the iron
roof) to keep myself from falling, expecting
every mement that the stone walls which
support the Azotea would give way and that
1 should be thrown in o the river wth the
house on top ot me, Tne whole shock did
not last over half a minute, but it was an
eternity to me, The falling of stone hous-
es and tile roofs was terrific; part of our
roof (weighiug seyenty tons) fell in. About
three hundred feet from where { was the
tower of Binondi Church {eli through ihe
ro f of the church. This tower was from
one hundred acd fifty to two hundred feet
high, bili of solid stone, for'r to six fect
thick. Yetthe din from falling churches
and houses was so great that | did not dis-
tinguish when 1t fell. When the shock was
over, the »ir was so filled with dust of lime
that I could scarcely breathe, and thete was
scarcely a breath of air. Everybody was mn
the streets, prayivg or fleeing with what
they ha i saved 10 the country. For days
after. the people walked the streets without
speaging ; and there was no noise of car-
tages, and no bells in the city where there
were thousands moving before at all cours.’
177 The patriots of the Revolution are all
passing away, and soon the last will be surna-
m ned fo his final resting place. The
youngest of them is about ninety-four years
of age. On July 1, 1862, there were but
sixty-two of them hving, since which over
one-third of the number have died.
| FARMERS AFFECTED BY THE WAR.
Every thing which farmers have occasion
lo huy for use, costs them from fifty to one
! hundred percent above the prices which
[they paid before the war. {lave the pri.
| ces of their products been increased in a
corresponding ratio? Is grain cr bay high
ler ¢ Is not butter lower, take the season
through ?
Whatever they may have suffered from: this
cause during the war, they must expert to
sufier in a still greater degree as it progress-
es.
will also be steadily increased with every
regiment raised by volunteering or conserip-
tion.
THR WOKENIN THE FIELDS.
In Conscription countries, where the men
are thinned ff, or being exhausted, the
women are drivin into the fields, to raise
bread to supyly the army, and to éarn mon-
ey to pay taxes to feed soldiers. Hence, in
France, Germany, &c., women are seen at
the plow. at the spade, hoe and shovel, dig-
ging and doing the work of men. Here, in
New York, we see, with the German dog
carts, specimens of that early traning which
exchanges off men for women to do men’s
Work.
And now’ this country, if the civil war
goes on, year after yesr, purposcless as it
now is. and :esultless as it is, with a Con-
scription Act acting upon 4 000,000 of men
as 8 ldiers, to be drafted off, as tattle or
Conscription countries, take the place of
We shall then
see women here, a8 on the Continent of Eu.
rope. plowing, hoeing, digging. fishing, wood
Women will, of ne-
men in their out-door work.
chopping, mining, &e,
cessity, be dragged from her lofty level of
noble housewile, into digger, spader, plower
&e.
The great question for Republican math-
ers wives, sisiers, daughters, not deluded
by abolition favaticism, 1s: “Will this
pay only to free negroes South © Is it
worth the while, as a mere matter of mer-
cantile and social reckoning, to say ni thing
of uther considerations, thus to send off fa-
thers, brothers and sens, as conscripts, in
order to t-ke their places in the out door
work of the fields. If so, well, very well.
To carry on snh a system, women here will
soon drop to the level of European peasant
women, and be not so well off as negroes
themselves,
ens
0 the carver if you can
Always set next
at dinner.
Ask no woman her age.
Be civil to all your rich uncles and
aunts, :
Never joke with a policemen.
Take no notes or gold with you to a fan-
cy bazaar—nothing bat silver.
Your uldest hat, of course, fcr an evening
party.
Don’t play at chesse with a widow.
Never contradict a man who stutters.
Pull down the blind before you put on
your wig. .
Make friends with the steward on board
the steamer, thers 1s no knowing how soon
you may be placed in lis power.
—————— AP ee
See here, Gumbo, why am you like a
biack guard 2”
“Neber guess dat in the worl, coz I an’t
you black fool.
You iz honey. coz you watches Master
Jim's store—and you’s not a berry white
guard, dat’s sartin. Yah, ha.
Now Pete dat am very surprisin’, and
comblustitiacating to calculate, but. nigger,
why isyoulikeagentle’m ¢ Dah, dat stump
him,
Bress my soul, Gumbo, I neber tink of
dat, gives her up
Yah, yah so does I, sensible as I 15—
been tinkin’ of it free days, and am fuder
oft dan I was at the start.
A certain’green customer, who was astran-
ger to mirriors.and who stepped into the ca-
{ bin of one of cur ocean steamers stopping in
| front of a large pier glass, which he took for
a door he said:
“1 say mister
start 2’
Getting no reply from the dumb reflection
before hiro he again repeated —
Incensed at the silent figure he broke
out.
‘I say mister, when does this here boat
start #" :
Go to thunder, you darn sassafrac-col-
ered. shood head d. bull calf you don't look
as if you knew mucn any how.
nae
when does this boat
JZ7 A stranger in a printing office asked
the youngest spyrentice what his rute of
puncination was? ‘‘I set up as long as I
can hola my breath. then I put in a com-
ma ; whan I gape linsert a semi-colon; and
when I want a chaw of tobacco, I make a
paragraph 7’
IZ A student, in the course of examina-
tion was arked, ‘Pray, Mr. C.. how would
you discover a fool?” «By the quesiions,
he would ask,” said Mir, C.
17 One day last week aver half a tun of
gold went “‘up” from New York to roy. —
The Trojans speculate.
pay During the last six weeks nineteen
tans of butchers’ meat have been condemn-
ed in London as food unfit to be eaten.
The cost and difficulty of hiring labor |
disease thins out the ranks in the field. wo- |
men of course, must here, 2s here in other |
I
| HOW THE SUSPENSION OF HATEAS
CORPUS WURKS- ANOTHER QUT-
RAGEOUS CASE OF KIDNAPPING.
| Weare made acquainted with the partic-
ulars of ancther outrageous case of kidnap-
| ping, which serves to illustrate the utterly
| defenceless condition to which the citizen is
| left by the su pension of the habeas corpus |
i privilege. Charles Wippert, the victim of |
| the outrage, is a young German who, for
the greater part of a year pact, has been em-
ployed, as a clerk, we believe, in the store
of M. L. Comstock & Co. [lis family have
resided here for many years anc are well
| known. One brother, Charles William Wip
pert, is also in Comstock & Co.'s employ.
A week ago last Satarday, young Wip-
pert was arrested by order of Provost Mar-
shal Scroggs, on the charge that he was a
deserter from the 3d Onio Cavalry. He was
taken to the county juil and there kept in
one of the poorest cells in that institution
till Thu sday morning, when he was sent to
Elmira. The a rest, which was accomplish-
ed, we under-tand, by Lieut. Col. Austin,
an attache of the Marshal's office, was said
to be made on the sirength of an order
from Toledo.
Immediately after the sudden and myste-
rious takivg oft of his brother, Mr. C. W.
Wippert made every effort first to find ont
the reasons for his arrest, and second to ob-
tain his release, The information
at the Marshal's office was not at all satis-
factory. and application to the legal author-
ities speedily elicited the fact that for this
{outrage there was nctually noremedy in the
law of the land. A prowinent republican
lawyer who was consulted advised personal
application to the President as presenting a
a possible chance for justice
It dues nut appear that there is the slight-
est proof that Wippert is the alleged deser-
ter whose description was forwarded from
Toledo. That descripton, Col. Austin is
suid to have admitted, represented the deser-
ter as an Englishwan and amecha ic. Wip-
p-1t is nether. Moreover, Mr. Wippert
stoutly maintains that he has never been
received
the army at all, nor have his brothers ever
had reason to think that he had eulisted.—
On the stiength simply ef some shadowy
resemblance between Wippert and the real
deserter, the former has been hurried by
force into military confinement, his friends
being powerless to help him, We are told
that after the prisoner hel been sent to Ei-
mira, Col. Austin h'mself expressed grave
doubts as to his being the proper man.
These tacts need no comment. They are
almost incredible. They mean, reader, that
you, or we, or &ny man, is liable at any
moment to be arrested, dungeoned and spir-
ited away, and that too, in spite of all law
and justice, aud entreaties or influence of
friends, A premiom of thirty dollars is pad
to the Federal official whe may make such
an arrest, and if he has the desire to make
mouey in tkis way, he has unhnited power
to gratify that desire by invading the sanc-
tity of our homes and trampliag upon the
dearest rights which freemen can possess.
Of course, it is not likely that weil known
or influential citizens will be thus pounced
upon; bat is the atrocity less atrocious be-
cause perpetrated, perhaps. upon some poor
citizen who is friendless, moneyless and un.
known ? Such cases are actually transpi-
ring in our midst almost every day, Every
elfo't is being wade to keep them secret,
but the facts are leaking out, and we shall be
able to male still other exposures.
thing more required to make the people
pause and chink whither we, American cit-
izens, are drifting ?
re ete rt
Tne CeLesTiaL State, — Old Bicke's was
a man of labor 2nd had little or no time to
devote to specu'ation as to the fiture. Ile
was, witha!, rather uncouth in the use of
language, 2
One day, while engaged in stopping up
hog-holes about his place, he was approach-
ed by a colporteur and presented with a
tract.
What's all this about?’ demanded Rick-
ets.
“That, sir, is a book describing the celes-
tial state,” was the reply.
+Cele~lial State,” said Rickets, “where
the deuce is that 2”
“My worthy friend, I fear that you have
not’ —
“Weil, never mind,” interrupted Rickets,
“I don’t want to hear about any better State
than old Pennsylvania. I intend to live and
die right here if [ can only keep them
darned hogs out.”
cig By oa
17 Mrs. Greenhow, who has arrived in
England, is about publishing an account of
Is any- ¢
HOW MRS. BONAPARTE DRESSES.
A Paris correspondent gossips as follows
about the dicsses of Eugene, ile says:
It is universally conceded that she is the
best dressed lady in Europe, She sets the
female fa-hion for the world, and empldys
not enly wodisis but artists to invent thew,
Her deparment of ready-made clothing ‘is
something immense. To say that she has a
new dress fur every day in the year would
not begin to convey an idea of the. cytent
and vs
In the front centre «f the o iling of her
of her wardrohe,
Majesty's private dressing-room there is a
trap-door opening into a spacivus hall above,
filled with © presses’ each containing a dress
exhibited on a frame—looking like an effigy
of the Empress herscif. In a part of these
‘presses’ there is a little railway leading
W the aforesaid trap-door, through which
the dress is “*descended’’ into the Presence
of the Empress. If it pleases her Majesty,
the dress is lifted from thie frame and placed
upon the imperial percon; if nt it ig
whipped up anl ancther comes down in ita
place, and not unirequently another and an-
other—so fastidious is the Sart which gives
the law to the world of fashion,
In public the Empress never looks over-
dressed. A severe simplicity always chare
acterizes her toilette, while every thing, fu
material, fit and color, is as comyicte in
harmony as a sonata of Beethoven. This
is the great secret of the “art of dress." —
A woman who wears discordant ribbons,
breaks that sense of vii ual melody, com.
monly called “good taste,” without which
vot even the duc css of Golconda can dress
well. Cerinin ~olors are as incongruous and
inharmonious as certain notes in musie, and
the a: tists who comjose diess fur Bugeni:
study thes
n tural laws of huiinony ns
careful'y as the paitor the hues of the pals
ette.
Just now .t his beon diccovered thats the
varasol, the dress, the gloves and the guiters
must all be of the same color to produce
the most unique and pleasing effect. And
thus a completely dressed lay no longer o.
fends the eye with a confused contradiction
of colors of ali shades and without the cr-
der of the rainbow, tut presents a perfect
picture, as melodiously charming to the ey»
as the air of * Home, swect Home?’ is to the
ear,
i
[= It some people wiil cut ont the fi}
lowing and stick it in their hats, it way ef-
fect a considerable ref rm,
We give below a few iinpolite things in
which young people often render themselves
disagreeable Ha
Reading when others are talking,
Reading aloud iu compary without being
asked.
Talking when thers are reading.
Cutting finger-nails in com, any.
Leaving Church before public w orship is
closed.
Whispericg or laughing in ilic Louse of
God.
Gazing rudely at strangers.
Leaving a stranger without a seat.
A want of reverence and respect for sens
iors.
Correcting older persons than yourself--
especially parents. :
Commencing to tilk before others have
finished speaking.
Answering questions that have Leen put
to others.
Commencing fo eat 8s soon ay you get to
the table; and
In not listemne to what one is saying in
company, unless you desire to show open
contempt for the speaker. A well-bred per-
son will not make an observation while an-
other of the company is aldressing himsel{
to at.
Am
ge Democracy has been besten in two
great States this fall, Lut the day will come
ere long, when phenix like, it will rise from
its ashes, and be walted over all the land.
peed
I= Never were so Wwany diamonds mror-
ted as during the present war. A single
stone worth $15.000 has just paid duty in
New York.
rs
> It was ascertained by a traveler in
the Grisons, Switzerland. that an eagle flew
=" ns sight, five mils in fiye minutes.
B&S™ A young ludy on being asked what
calling she wished Ler sweetheart to follow,
blushingly replied, “a husbandman’s.”
[Z= A young gentleman says he thinks
that young ladies who refuse good off rs of
marriage are t00 *Vo-ing by half."
her imprisonment in Washington, in bok
form, in London, Bently is to be her puh-
lisher.
HS reine!
77 At a hotel table one boarder remark
ed to another : “This must be a healthy
place for chickens.” «Why 2” asked the
other. {Because I never sce any dead ones
hereabouts.
el Ciera
ge M. Theirs’s coachman has commit-
ted suicide by hanging himself. This is the
second that has chosen this method for quit-
ting is service.
Punch says women first resorted to tight
lacing to prove to men how well they could
bear squeezing.
8&5 Secretary Stan'on says the story of
a new draft is a mslicivus invention, That’s
a rub on the New York Post, «
re SH
7> Most of the Bishoy s in France, ful.
lowing ‘he example of Howe, have ordered
public prayers fur Poland.
{It may sannd like a paradox, yet the
breaking of both wings of an army is a
pretty sure way to make it fly.
07 There are fifteen thousand lawyers
in fogland. Forty-five hundred of the num-
ber are barristers.
[T= George Sumner, brother of the Segn-
tor, died in Boston a few days ago, after g
long and painful illness.
re im Pata
g&@y Democrats, do not be discouraged—
the darkest hour is just before the break of
day.
[2 Why is a sympathy like a blind
buff? tis a fellow feeling for a
creature,
mans
follow
—
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