II * THE SONG OF THE SWORD. • "11a0bY OX Via "SONG or Tat rem." Wwryi and yroundedi and worn, • Wounded, and ready to die, • soldier they left, antelope' and folorn, , .0n tba Sol d of battle to lie. • 'Me dead and the dying alone Could their presence and pity afford silthn sad and terrible tone,- Ile sang tha song of the sword.• Diglit.-Ilight--fight I ?host a thousand fathers die t--4ght—fight I Though thousands of children cry Whilst mothers and wives lament; , m 4 Aght—tight.--Agbt I Whilst asillions of money are spent. kle—flithe—fightl the muse be feel or fair, thimla all, that la gsisusl is an empty amps, ii tag too groat to bear 41.• mepty name and a pbltry fame, , , , And thotteande lying dead ; Whilst every glorious victory Iciest raise the pries of bread.. war.`wys , — , das I Fire, and lamina, and rword ; Emaciate fields, and desolate towns, : ~ • And thonssnds - soattered abroad, With &Immo, and never a shed ; indlst kingdoms perish and fail, And handrods of thousands are tying dead, 4nd all—for nothing at AL lPar.-...mpr—war I • Mueket, and ponder, and ball; An I what do we light so for t, A.h I why have wo bsittles at alit b. "rta Justice must be done, they say, TM natiou'll honor to keep; Alas I Clot justice is so drat', And human Ilfe so ellen. War—war—war I Misery, murder, and crime, Are all the bl.. Wings Pre icon In thee From my youth to the present time; Maori, murder. and criinu-- Crime, triieery;- murder and ten; AEI would I bad known in my younger da3e A tenth of whit now I know I hot known in cay,gapplee rd . ”s, In-my hours of boyish glee, .4 touch of the horrors and crime of Tar— A lithe of its :Milroy! I sow had boon joining a happy band Of wife and children deer, And I had died in my native land, inslead of dying hero.. , Arid milnyaa long. Icing del of wo, And alceplera nig( k ts untufii, And drenching rain, etid drifting snow, And wearinese. famine, and cold; And worn nut liinba, and aching heart, And grief too greet to tell. And Mending w,.und and purring Had I escaped Nil wall. Woary, and wounded, and worn, Wounded, and ready to the, it soldier they left, all mono Anti feilorts, On the !lola of tine bottle to he. The dead, and, the dying alone. Could their prosnnee sad pity afford, Whilst thus, with alma And terrible tone, (0, would that these truths were snore per featly known!) " U. sang the song of the sword. COLD' AS MARBIS "Beautiful indeed, but cold as mat bk." My companion spoke In reply to lay ex clamation of adnairatfoli, as my eyes full for the first time on Leonoro Bache. I sec ber now, as she stood under the large chan delier of Ills. Wlllet's parlor, the full light showing only beauties, revealing no defects. sbe was very tall; the•hlack velvet dress which fitted her superb form to pe,fection, fell in heavy folds to her'feet, unrelieved by one inch of trimming. It was closed, to the thimat with diatcioud buttons, and a small diamond star fastened the soft lace collar. Her round, white arms were bare, without any bracelet tic break their puts outline. Her hair, black as midnight, was simply parted from the forehead, gathered into a heavy knot behind, and fastened by a silver arrow studded with diamonds. But the face, how can I describe her face ? Palo' as marble, the regular features were perfect as atone of a statue; the eyes were large and black, and full of intelligence. When I looked at her, she was leaning against a tall marble pedestal, upon which stood a basket of crimspn flowers, and their vivid vetoing heightened the effect of her pale beauty. °Who is she ?" I asked, "Our new belle, Miss Leonore Bache. She is the.vage, just now ; don't you see the ugly girls a o the simplicity of her dress? 1 . Sometimes i is whip satin, black or white /see, i but a ways high in OIL neck, and iu that style of rich simplicity." "But who is she ?" "The moat stately; told, unfeeling, piece of statuesque beauty in the world. With all her stately airs, she is (14 arrant flirt ; drivel the men crazy with her music, her wit, her intellectual powers, and above all, - her beauty." . "Introdiao me !" ..Willingly ! 0 uard your heart." Vain warning ; it was already gone, and an hour's ~onversation, revealing the mine of rich thought under the impulsive este tier, only fascinated me still more. Weeks passed, and found . me still the ardent lover of Leonora Bache, yet without one ray of hope that I could ever touch tier heart. Always• gentle and courteous, alto seemed cold, hard, and impenetrable as marble. Nothing touohed her. I had seen her neaps death in a frightful form by jus t missing a, heavy. stone which fell from an unfinished building, and her eyes never moistened ; her step was firm and steady ; . and her hind did not tremble on my arm. WhillPlay 113111 sickened at the thought of the fearful peril, she continued her quiet •dow of conversation, as if nothing had „secured to interupt It. I had seen her firm hawi raise from the ground a little child, whose -Dries of pain, from a severe fall, Clint the Mr; and while her musical voice soothed it, no touch of pity, no softening glance ewe Into those dark, melancholy eyes. If merriment vas all around her, she smiled a cold, forced smile with her lips; but it was evident, her heart wig not in it. Cold as marble she was called, and my heart echoed thoiniversal sentiment. Her small Angers drew music from the piano ; the made every eye All ; yet her color rose not, and. the softening influence of the sweet sounds never seemed to touch the musician,. ' - Te me, thid torturing coldness became at lenses almost maddening. I dared not speak my ?see k for her *it was often aarcas- So, and I drismied a stinging refusal. • One evening—shall I ever forget it ? I found her at hems, alone; It, was a Mrs prittAle4 " and I was tempted to give voice to the lore tilling turbid. The phine stood eTen, end I took the vacant 'tool. '' . Jht O y.Ol. 10. "Do you play, Mr. Lee?" she asked 'Only by oar. Shall Z idnz for you?" She left her seat and came slowly to the instrument. Leaning upon it and facing tne, she sad quietly, "Yes. sing!" odr remembered an old-fashioned love song that I had found amongst toy snot-liar's mu sic, and Meru simple symphony,J begun to sing, . My hole bona went forth with the. tender •rot7lCand I sang fervently, passion ately. My eyes•were fixed on her face, and for the- first time I read deep feitling there. Paler she could not be; but the fall lips became,ashy white; tbe'•large eyes dilated With some, debt, toritr or horror; and the whole frame shook with •iotetitemotion. finished the first verge before she spoke—'- then in a'coarse whisper a he said, 4 '•$lop! 416, not sing any More. Slop, for pity'vAake !" Clasping her hands together, she stood erect, and then fell forward upon her face. I sprang to rniso . lxer. but she slowly raked herself, motioning me back. Staggering to a chair, she beckoned mo to Come near her. I took a low seat at tier aide. rt7tiliCii a the," "I bare known it, for a long time, and I bare earnestly tried to chill your unhappy pas sion. I can never be your wife ; 1 can never, never love y.ou.. You are wrong to let that look of grief come on your face• Rather thank God that I am frank with you." "In time—" I began. !..Never ! Yet I will trust you tos a friend, for I know you are good tinil noble. I will tell you the story of my life. Two short glare ago, I was the merriest, blithest girl of my circle of friends; then I loved —" Ilcr voice became firm again ; but oh! the wailing hgony that kilione in her eyes. cannbt. trust Myself to speak of the man I lo . ved," she continued, "but I gave him all the passionate devotion of a youirg, warm heart. Mere, more'! Oh. 'how I loved that man. Lawrence, Lawrence!" Her figure racked back and forth, emitter hands clenched with her terrible passion. "We were tuarried—privately, for be was, hg said, rely poor, and I knew my father would not consent to our marriage; 5..% we were to wait till I was of age beford we owned our love to him . . ' One night, one terrible night, we were together, -and he vies singing to me, singing the song, you sang just now, when through the low win dow came a crowd of men, ollibera of the law, socking my busband—a—notorious forger, who •bad esctiped from the law in bts native city, after Inurdering his own brother, who•o name he had forged to the amount of hie whole fortune. Ile restated the men, fought de•peately, and was shot dead before my face—falling at my feet— his death glance fastened upon me—" After awhile she "Go, leave mo now. But when .you hc,ir of Leonoro Bache, the cold, unfeeling girl, shut up her secret in your heart and pity bor." I trie , l to speulc, but übo only repeated, And I left her "ao, go! The next day I called. She was.gone. One year later, I saw in the paper an obi• Wary netice of my beautiful idol, and I knew that the disease, which carried her to the grave Was brought on by the concealed flue, the broken heart hidden by the face "cold Le marble." GROSS INEQUALITY OFIAXATION We are rapidly to ding to a monied aris tocracy. Even in inglatsil, where the no bility and other turn of wealth control illation, the holders of securities of the Novena - Ant have to bear their just propor tion of the taxes. But by the legislation of Congress, our wealthy men and our banks and other monied corporations, who invest' their eyrie' or nionCys in United States stocks, payable in gold, *icing them an income equal to from.twelve to fifteen per cent. premium, are exempt from 'all local taxation upon skit investments. Oar farmers, mechanics, and other indus trial classes, therefore, have 4* sustain nearly the whole burthen of State, county, town, city and villages taxation, including high . way taxes, and taxes Tor the support of our common schools. And the United States Govervent, by ordering drafts from the citizens, to increase the army, instead of offering such bounties as will insure volun teers, compels the States, counties and oth er localities, to offer such bounties and to provide for their paymetit by local taxation. The result of. this is to throw nearly the whole expense of recruiting for the army,as, well as the expense of the State, 'county and other localities upon the industrial classes, for the special benefit or the moniotl pris tocraoy.who have invested their property in United States stocks, payable in gold. The contractors, those special favorites of the United States government, who have made millions by speculations upon the misfor tunes of their country, and have invested their enormous profits in United States stocks, are also exempted from all local ter tian. No one should hereafter be elected to Congress, or to the-Ella teE4i filature; who' will not pledge himself le oppose and prevent such unequal taxation, wheneverhe hue an opportunity to do so. And members of Congress, who have already been elected, should be instructed by their constituents, and Sentitors should be instructed by the State Legistaturer, to repeal all laws which have a tendency to exempt the property of tha_man of wealth from local taxation, so as to relieve tStrindustrini classes and the cit izens of small means front the enormous weight of local taxation which is now so unjustly thrown upon them.. l ' , • BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY,, FEBOITARY 24, 1865. SOME THINGS ABOUT 'TURKISH WOMEN: • Professor Felton, in his "Nisiliar Let ters from Europe,:' gives the following in• toiesting picture o( Turkialt life and man ners:- "It is a common notion that-the' women lead a very retired life, in the Seclusion pt the harem. Noilting.can be mere e'rro neotts. In passing up and, down the Bos pl,orus, nearly half the passengerii were Turkish women. Threetimes a haretn, con: Meting of i rteen or-twenty wtlmen.-pat•tly wives, partly slaves-.-CllllO otr boartl i from Om palace of some rich old Turk, under the care of a black guard; with a terrific sword by his side, to go down to Constantinople on a frolic; or, perhaps, to go shopping in the bazaars "111 icy were resse in vane ■co ors— ' green, blue, mouse-colored, and pink. The veil, or yashmah, was drawn over their fore heal; and the lower part of the face, up to the middle of the none, leaving only a space for a pair of black eyes to flask out. I never could help laughing at' the figure grerena argtrund,Abis dsgtrib.. took some pains to watch this people, and twice I happened to be in the same par 2 of the boat where they sat. They laughed and chatted with one another, and some tintes-withAeOtegatantling around them, as merrily as so many Christians. Now and then, if the face was pretty—and there are tinny pretty faces—the yashmah would be gradually withdrawn, and I had the opportunity of observing quite at my leisure. "In each harem there were two or three Circassian ladies of the most equisite beau ty. These were probably the thirty thous and piastre wives. But there was no va riety in their expression. -Some of the women are immensely fat, and they roll along„ bundled up in their robes, in the most ludicrous matmer. One of the. most laughable sights I ever saw was on old Turkish lady wiai a pair of spectacled on her nose, nod exactly filling the aperture of the yashmah, while she was engerly cheap ening n piec - e or silk. The common women run about, looking like bundles of dirty linen, griing to the wash of their own 'ac cord; others, a little higher up in - the social scale, look like bundles of linen coming, home Kota the wash. It is very amusing to ace the little girls of ten or LI% elve years. Havetiny of ahem keep their clothes on I I I cannot imagine. "fl hen the Sultan went to themosone, the windows of the houses along the sheets, though protected by jalousies, were filled by black eyes peeping curiously out and to very fat Tut lsi.h Indy, with about athons and yards of Brousa Salk wound around her, Moored her carriage just where we were standing, and waited t o se e Ill s ni g h_ noes pass. Nearly opposite the palace is n low, broad wall, the top of which was cov ered with green, pink, yellow arid mouse col iced bundles cobtaining women, with ne gres4es in attendance. "In the afternoon of the saute day, (Fri day, tlie Turkish Sabbath) we took a coigne and rowed to the "Sweet Waters" on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus. This is a I aierit e resort, being a little valley, with a stream, sued trees overshadowing it. Here we foptid a large number of Turkish ladies, with IllteSdallt.4, reclining on carpets, bolstered up by lu - xuriouit cushions, and gipping their coffee or sherbet, while their lords were amusing themselves in another part of the ground. Some of these again wet e beautiful, but of the same order with those I have already mentionetl, and scarce ly to be distinguished front one another. We Jmet there a company of Gipsies,—very Merry stud very-saucy.- .•110 you know what an'araba is? I will explain An araba is the height of faizbion and luxury, nod employed in the vet y best of society. It is a clumsy carriage., like a very old fashioned family coach, drawn lry a yoke of the white oxen of Asia. The inside Is covered with a hick bed, and the aides lined with cuslikina. Here lies buried die Turkish beauty. on her way to sip her coffee at the "Sweet Water." 'Certainly nothing is more redolent of lacy enjoyment than a Circassian dame rolling about in the araba, as her oxen, driven by a cpuple of turbaned Turks, %r an Ethiopian slave, slowly drag the ancient machine along the rand. "Wives and their cost.—rolYgnmy proved by the Koran, and is universal among the rich classes. Title beat men in Turkey—the men who have European repu tation, like ltesehid Pnc h a, the Minister of Foreign Affairs—have barmaid' wives and slaves, no one can tell liclw , many. The Sultan has innumerable wives, and increases their number every year. .It is a mullion practice of the great Pachas4u send , h on every occasion of the great fistivals, apron out of n handsome young woman, whom they have bought of their parents for this par pOse ; nod there is nothing disreputable to them, or to the girl, in this; oil the con trail it is a high and enviable honor to her. "And the Sultan can pay no greater com pliment to the proudest dignitary of hisem pire than to make him a present of one of Ids - wtves, I was assured by a Greek phy sician. who had a large practice among all the t nationalities of Constantinople, that infanticide is fearfully prevalent. Fannie children tare articles of commerce. They are purchased by dealers when quite young. and carefully brought up, for sale. These, however, are not shaves but wives. They are taught to dance and to play on some musical instrument, bnt nothing more, and their health Is catefulfy,:attentled to. The price of a wife—say from eighteenNto twen ty-two years of nft—varios front fifteen to twenty thousand piastres ; that is, from a thousand to tweniy:fire hundred dollars, ac cording toiler personal attractions sal the surtax of the market." • "MATE ILIGHTS ANil rarnmAL UNION." I HAVN'T A MOTHER LIKE THE REST The 'Reuther had been unusually mild for two or three days before Christmas, so Oat the face of the big pond wawrath'er rotten;, but daring Harry thotight IM could brave it, it would be a pity to spoil the fun now, and i) many admiring eyes fixed upon hiin, too. He made a bold dash—his little figure; upright and graceful, was bulunced upon the ice. Then there was a crash ! the dan gerous cake gave Ray; and with a loud cry, Harry tell amid the rush of the ice and water., The group at the windwir seemed for • moment paralyzed with horror. Then there was a scattering for the pond, and 'h scream ing and drying from one and ail'. "Ile's under the water!, father ! father ! Harry's going under the ice !" t:very particle of color had gone from farmer May's face; he trembled in every limb, and, threw up his bonds widly., Flit atreitth seemed to have ebbed - away in the tide of grief. " Oh, help me !" be cried. "My boy, my boy ! and I can't swim !" "Ilut. I can," shouted a voice, brave and c env ne nn anger's nToiosL - Teen ew~m; and save him!" and, dwelling peat weep ing mother May, itiseph Craig plunged headlong into the freezing water, swimming for dear life. How they shuddered' when they elm him grasp once, twite.at a dark object übder the water, and tier' rise, with. his face gashed and bleeding from contact with the ugly ice corners. Ile was some way out now, and made a third dive ; then there was a faint hurrah, and, breasting the ice, he had just mituagoi to swim to the bank, with one arm holding up poor ..My child ! my boy !—thank God !" cried the happy parent, folding him. iu hi; turns. They bore him to the roaring fire in the sitting roots, and rubbed Lim tit,t,i he opened his eyes and smiled. Very soon ho was able to set up and laugh and talk naturally. Aud where was Joseph all the time? Stt- ling on the kitchen floor squeezing Lis wet dollies, awl rubbing the great painful gash• es in his arms and face, from• which the blood was still streaming. ' ••Joseph lie listened; it wns farmer May's voice, .unusually soft and tender. The poor apprentice lad shook like a leaf; before be was aware a strong arm mime round behind hint, lifting him from the floor. Ile found himself, at if by magic, sitting beside Harry, andk.llarry's bright head resting on his bosom, with great tears rolling down the grateful boy's cheeks. "If there's any thitig . you wish for now, Joseph." said the farmel huskily, "anything you d like to ha'No, just name it, my boy.— You have saved us many a year of sorrow, and given us cause to rember this Christmas before all others. Come, speak out, nvhoy." How could he speak when he lelt so happy '• Twice he tried to gulp down the sobs rising in 519 throat—sobs of joy they were. "On ly he kind to mo sir ;" he gasped out at length, "only drop a kind word now and then, for I havn't a mother like the rest." How *as it now with father May f He felt all at once that great lack there had been in his otherwise kindly heart,. It quite broke bum down, that appeal to his better nature; so be leaned on Mother May's . shoulder . and sobbed aloud. Joseph set as if in 11 dream r his beautiful t.flirriittuns had came at laat ; no noir hanger and thirsting of spirit now. How the joyous red sparks of firelight ran up the white wall, the whole room shining! Harry squeezing bi l ai tight ly with one arm, and Tiny, her cheeks flushed, with crying, thrusting her pretty doll into his lap, whispering, "There, thhre• keep it Joseph. I 1300 ivfint it, indeeil,and doutdeileed, I (lop ;" then running away with her face to 7 the wall, lest by looking back she might repent the immense sacrifice. - • last, id Well, well, teni:s •annot always last, am. very snou the May family were bright and smiling again, Joseph the happiest of all. And when the Ofiristintts dinner was sot on, and all the friends were gathered about it, they made a place foe Joe among the chil dren; and motL*May could not heap plate enough with gaud things; and the poor lad felt as if he was more ready to (try than 'to laugh at all the kindly d overds which every one had for Lim. , Oh, what a biasing Lime is oftenin a few kind words. ---The nerves of our Republican pa triots used to be terribii shocked by the accounts given by Abolition lecturers of the selling of negro men and women in the Southern States, /awl they had a grept deal to say. about the "horrors. of slavery. ' Some of these gentlemen have bravely re covered from their old prejudices., They can be seen at any time an'the day sin'oding in the vicinity of the Provost Marshal's office, selling not only negroes but white then, and pocketing the lien's share of the pi - oceeds of their sales. Such questions as who wapiti a nigger for one year ?" "do you know who wants a three year's man" 'what will you give for a foreigner for three .years?" and similar questions con stantly salute your ears. —General eloCiellati, though defeated for the presidency, has not ootao off second best with any of the military or naval he roes in the reception of solid testimonials of friendship. It will be remembered that a splendidly furnished house in 81st street, near sth avenue, was presented to hie wife. Now it appears that Just before leaving New Y rrk for Europe, some of the New York friends of Getter'l DloClellsn presented Ida with 1580,(1401n gold. =I THE GOOD TIME COMING There is a good time coming for the white people of the cl i nked States, which they may hasten by behaving themselves well and rendering an uahonditional support to the Republican leaders: If the same set of men - irlio dew frame both our national - and State'laws are maintained in power by the people three or four years longer, the ques tion will not be whether the negro shall be permitted to ride in the same oar with,the white man, but whether white men shall be permity to ride at all, except as coachmen or testi:l/en for wealthy ,"colored gentle men." Under the lead of Stutter at Wash ington, and Lowry, at learriabffrg, a revolu tion is in progress which promises to end in making masters of the negroes and servants of the white men. If the rank and file of the Republican party are ambitious of driving coach, sawing won& or blacking boots for Lincoln's "free Americana of African descent," (vulga - rly called niggers), they cad' have their ambition gratified by continuing to support, Sumner, Stevens, Lowry, and others of the same kidney, all • , ,se effoile e,a v,..t...1-tat-Sixe-tdelkal tation of the black race. Last week Mr. Sumner led a negro into the Seipresto Coupt of the United States. and do his motion: Mr. Chase, the new Chief Justice, orders+ Mr. Blackstone Snowball to be sworn in as an attorney of that Court. If Iserson or Clifford should (lie or tesign, the chances are at least ten to - vme that-Lincoln would 'elevate Mr. Snow ball to the vacancy on the bench. A State Convention of negroes was held at Harribburg the. other day. The mem bers of din Legislature were very properly invited to attend. The negroes certainly had aright to expect a very full attendance of the Republican members. How many stand that Senator Lowry did hims.ilf the honor to be present. This Convention met for the pm pose of taking steps to secure "Ziptal rights" to the colored population oy Pennsylvania. "Education," "the right of suffrage," and kiddred topics were the t hemes discussed. The present Legislature will perhaps not undertake to amend our Constitution so as to allow negroes to vote. They regard their adoption of the ir Abolition amendment to the Conetitution of the United States as glory enough for one ses sion. But giye the Abolitionists the same majority in the nexr two sessions that it has in the present session of the Legisla ture, and an amendment to the Constitution will be adopted, which will ein be the negro with the right to vole and held office. This will make him a power in the State, and he will be courted yy leatliug Republicruis,_ who will ride into high official position on his hack. But in proportion as he is courted lie will he insolent, ambitious, and exacting, and his demands, however extravagarit they may he, will be acceeded to by the Repub licans. Thus the neero will find his way into the School Board, the Town and City Councils. the Legislature, Congress, and possibly the Presidental Chair itself !—Lan caster hatelligencer. ---Ttetert not your friend. in danger and distress. Too many there are in the world whose attachment to those they tall friends iq confined to the day of prosperity. As long as that con 4 inueg, 'they are, or appear to be, affectionate and cordial. But as soon as their friend is under a eland, they begin to withdraw and generate their interests from his. In friendship of thitt sort, the heart has assurdly, never hlid much concern. For the great test of true friendship is cen t fancy in the hour of danger—adherence in the season of distress. When your friend is culminattal t ilien is the time openly and lioldlylo defend his cause. )Vhen his Mien ie changed, or misfortunes aro fast gathering around him, then is the titrutof affording prompt, zealous aid. When sick ness or infirmity occasions hint lobe neglec ted by others, thil is the opportunity which every real friend will seize of redouNing all the affectionate attention which love sug gests. These are the important duties, the sacred claims of friendship, religion and virtue enforce on every Worthy mind. To show yourself Warm in this manner in the canes of your friend. dommands esteem even In those who have personal interests in op posing him. This htmorable zeal pf frieitd 'ship has, in every ago attracted the vener ation of mankjnd. It. has consecrated to the latest posterity, the names pf those who have given up their fortunes - and have ex posed their lives in behalf of their friends whom they loved; while ignominy and dis grace hive ever been the portion of those who would desert their friends in the hour of distress. Tux. Dams roti PGAC6.—When thedie. patch announcing that the. President-and NW, Seward had returned , from F l ortress MAroe, and [hitt the fornrer tad said that peace wad merely a question of days, was read on 'Change, yesterday, in this city, the outburst of applause that followed shows what a fast hold the desire for peace is tak ing on the popular heart. Wearied of blood, appaled at the moun tain of debt and load of (aloe Upon us, dis tressed and harassed by conscriptions,' an noyed by the fluctuations pf trade and the, uncertainties of the fit ture,everybody nearly is 'baking for relief to an early termination of the war. The, general desire is for peace. The heart yeatmeth for it ; and every Mote wont looking Itl that direction =deb! those in authority, is Watched with the 'most, •anniqus sollotsude. and encouraged, by einem prayers - for anceese.,—(Coeciriso Sapiaro,. IF Wt KNEW. If we knew the cares pad trollies Crowding round our neighbor's way; If we knew the little losses. Sorely grievous, dey by day, Would we then so often chide Urn For hie lack «f thrift end gale— 'Lepring an Ills he It a shadow, . Leaving ou his life a stein? If we knew the clouds stove es Hold but gentle blessings there, . +Would we turn away ell trembling In our blind and weak despair? Would we shrink from little shadow* Lying on the dewy grass, While 'tis only birds of Eden Just in mercy flying past . If we knew the silent story, Quivering throagh the heart of ratn e • Would our, manhoi,3 dare to down them Back to haunts of guilt again ? Life has wany a tangled crossing; Joy bath many a break of,woo, And the cheeks tear-washed are whitest; This the bleated angels know. , Let us reach into our bosoms For the keys to other hires, And with tope towards erring nature Cherish good flint ettll surriN es; So that when our disrobed 'pinta Soar to rc4iltas of light agahni We may my, "Dear Father. judge o. PHIS, THAT, AND THE .OTHErt. —No one is a tool always every one sometimes. —What did Adam plaut first 1 Ilia foot. —Chicago is suffering from tightness in its chest—money chest. —Chattauooga,•like a jolly old phoenix, is rising from its ashes. —The nurselings of the Administration in New Vetit sit teat-a•teat. —A world's convention of spiritualists will be held HI New York next month. —The number of physicians i in the States is 22.453 ; of lawyers, 32,168 ; of clergymen, 32,539. —The widow of De Tolqueville died on I of December last, at Valognes, I Lauce, aged sixty-mr. years ' —The King of Prussia forgot to pay a hotel bill of 200 thslere some months ago, and la dunhed in vain for it. Boston newspaper carrier recently recovered 43490 of a :Iran whose dog bit hiw while he we leaving his paper. , —ppurgeon has dropped the ministerial title of letverend, Ile wishes to be addres sed by no other title than his name. .. —Within the mistaight months upwards of 400 papers Lase `•died" in consequence of the eturintant price of printing paper. —The face of soldiers corning out of an engsgethent,-and those of yo.ing women going into one, are generally powdered. —What is the difference between the Prins of Wales and a bombshell Y One is heir to the throne, the other thrown to the atr. . —Venison Is the - Cheap/et meat in the New Yolk market—ten to twenty cents per pound at. retall. Beef Is twenty_to thirty cents per pound. —On your conduct in the past depends your happiness in the new year. That is to say, it you hove done well, you will not be well dunned. —Butler says he is t‘retrponsible to God and his country." ilitt country has passed judgment, and it cares very little how soon tie appeals to the higher tribunal. ' —Denmark has declared that the great 'financial sacrifices she has incurred during the war will not permit her to have ambas sadors .elsewhere than in London, Paris, and St. Petersburg. —What a world of gossip Would be prevented if it was only remembered that. a ISerson who to is you of the - faults of others intends to tel °theca or your faults. --Great as you tatty, be, the cradle was your world once, and over it, the only Lori ; Zen you beheld beta the heaven of a mo ther's eyes, as you rocked to that little bark of love. • —Tim "blessed baby" is likely to cost the English dear, an extra allowance of an hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year being about to be voted to the Prince of Wales [lir its support. —A letter from tngland Says five largo steamers had been launched irrtre - Clyde to rim the blockade of Wilmington. Several tubers wet 9 being constructed. 'The invoet meets will prove bad ones. —The Richmond Dupatch bitterly says of Mayor Arnold, of Savannah: An Arnold was toe solitary traitor of the old Reiolu don. An Arnold is the first person in this wild has basely gono over to the enemy. . . —The Washington correspondent otthe Boston Journal writes that Mr. Blair was warmly greeted at Richmond, and the wife of President Davis actually threw her arms around the old gentleman, and kissed him --A fireman on a locomotive drawing a train of oars out of Peoria, 'slide oiling, slipped and foil in such a position that his goad wan instantly severed from his body and thrown some distance from the track. —Confederate General H. H. Jackson, of Savannah, formerly. .Charge d'Affairs at Vienna, a poet of much merit and a gen tleman of Culture—is now in FO'rt Warren. Hit Was captured at the battle of Nashville. —Tho Rev. Matt Tattoo, of - New Bed ford, advertises/ "If the person who 'stole .7.4 overcoat from my hall on Sabbath even ing, will read the "Methodist Discipline," which was in one of the yokels, be will learn something to his advantage." Brigadier General Fitshenry Warren. of lowa, is a meJnbeF of the general court martial, organized in" New York by Major General Dix, to try the hotel burners, and also the "rebel" eptes that have been picked up in various parts of the country from time to time. —The Bennie has 'lidded six or seven millions to the Douse Deficiency Bill, run ning that bill up to over 5100.100,000 defi ciency. It passed the Somata th isbout five minutes. It will pass the House isilivo or three. Money ..11 nothing. A dollar is fl% what a hundred used' to be.. —The seal of the COnfederate Steals ,described in the English newspapers. It is designed by Foley, the celebrated Irish sculptor, and contains in the centre a repre sentation of Crawfordts Mani* bf Washing ton. This is surrounded by *wreath, com posed of the most valuable products of the Southern soil—tobacco, rice, Indian seen, oouoo, wheat and sugar cane. The thus Wm the legend, "Thu Confederate Staten Or-henries. IS of !Owner*, 186 fit, dinditto:" The nest Is of eflont,, and Itsitta taster Is fengisobee: PEACE. . 5 We wolailleati the followtwig "irt6 gt _an editorial La the Novick*. . ',fewratdo to the earerni' perated• readers : in point tot llsef, Ay; •• mesa when ire remit et gastes.-pmas.sts_iit termination to the civil war now regime g. Do we bean a renewal of the relatteaahlg‘ intercourse, and malty between sovendrit States, north aid seuth"'sabih as sisialted . before Abraham Lincoln came late power ? 2. Do ;we mean a emeation of hostbitlea„A, disbanding of Armtek a reduction of and a restoration of the law ,to Its supra ottscy, coupled with reeognitlon Of the revo lutionary right. claimed *by the Soilthera people, End for which they have contended so resolutely T 8. Do we mean that mad& tion of incapacity for Dirther organised se- • sistenoe which 'would dime upon the de rtrootion of Leo's, Johnston* Lisstietes and fi'rby Smith's armies? 4. cie r ,tin we rwalllP r.6t total prostration of a whole people at the conqueror's feet, which is implied hy ' the word "'subjugation t" it la itipttriSuit for each one of us_ let decide in his °wit nand which of these conditions of (hinge derstands by the word Peace. For of those various conditions, only the second or the . third are by any limns* possible, No man , in hie sane mini i pan_ believel6 possible ot rerly ttst anktigate eigiti-millions of rasa—.e people, berWuse no one can believe It posek , ble eompletetly . to exterminate a populaUcce . so extensive. Nor, While the present state _ of feeling exists North and South, can the • bright and cherished dream of Demooracy be realized, of a restoration of the glorious old "Union as it was." There is too ittroh blood between the sections ; there is too - heavy a weight cf debt and taxes Store too much bitterness of haired; there are too many greet; wounds; too many deep and.. our hopes to pass; but this generation will • not live to rejoice in tbeconsummitiqp. Foir prhsent peace, then, for a practicable and immediate cessation of thirbrutal and bloody strife, we have the eheice of two alteine tires ;" either the recognition of Southern independence or the annihilation of the Southern armies. Na 8. "Is there any prospect of an immediate , peace in either of these ways? In Other words, is our Governtnent ready to let the South go ? Dr, has it the means now t• hand to defeat and destroy the Bquthers armies' We do not care who the. person may be who propounds these questions to his secret heart, nor how sanguine ha is. , lie must answer that it will require at least another bloody campaign. The ?forth Is net ready to let the &milt go; the South Is not yet weak enough to abandon the contest. "How wo will stand, or what will be the condition of things one year hence, Is • question we do not propose to discuss or to speculate upon, even ,if we had the heart to do it. Su(licit it to say that we do not see how, in the present temper of parties, peace can be attained, without the cost and horrors and terrible bloodshed of anothj ruthless campaign like the last. Are we ready for tit t Dare we_ecntemplate the thought of it, even though .we were sure that at the end of it would come such • peace as is capable of hereafter subsisting ninon this continent "For, we tniust always recollect that, as matter how bright the auspices under whn ,„ *"" it may come, peace will not bring us-beak to , Athe good old times' when went , brothers still.' We may reunite, but it will not be a merry marriage feast. HOW can it be, when such hosts of ghastly spec tres will come 'theepthir, unbidden, to aa sisi at the cereinony, and . sit down, Banque like, in thavacant places ? And the debt— will it not keep vivid the censeiousttese iai our minds that the festival is unpaid far T If wo repttdiate will we not call ruin 'sad beggary down upon tens of thousands et households now comparatively happy in their faith in the national honor? We may reunite, or we may stand apart, separate republics, but in either event, we can never attain to a closer friendship than subsists between brothers who have quarelled and exchanged blows. Whatever issues we may come to, the Shenandoah will not be for gotten, Chainberaburg will nor be forgotten —nor Camp Chase or Saulsbury : nor Petal Lookout or. Andersouville ; nor Obarleases nor Fort Pillow. "Peace I The thought thrills every nerve _ in us, and God knows we would not, by word or deed, mar the dear prospect. But there is no use for the American people to dreeini themselves at this late day, nor to drawn et impossibilities. The prospect:is very dark, ery gloomy. We have conjured up infinite evil and they are falling upon us end de— vouring us. We have sowed the steno With reckless hand, in blindpase and mad fury. • and with infidite disregri of history sad of reason ; now, the whirlwind btu tZt up at our feet, and we must reap It in and sorrow how wet can. At least let u perform our self-imposed task with humility. ca ni ng no email', but gleaning ;what vied we may seen out of the midst of —Don't be a loafer, don't coil youngl a loafer, don't keep up loafer's company, don't bang about leafir oi f places. Detterwork for nothing and b yourself , than to nit around day after ay, pr stand around cor ners with your hands in yourpoOkets. Bet ter for .your own mind, better for your awn iespect, Bustle about, ((You mean to hero anything to bowie about for. Many a poor •physioian has obtained a real. patient by riding hard to attend an imaginary one. A qnire of paper tied with red tape, carried under a lawyers's arm, mely procure him kb' first osse,' and make his fortune. Such fo the world ; to him that' hath.shall be siz Quit droaning and complaining, keep and mind your chances. Tors CMARX, or i'llAbll...-the %sa bo t ton special of the 30th ult., to thsCle Gazette says ...t letter fram the arta7 of tin Totouute dated' the lat., uys that tas gips ' hears after the tettoe was dephehal aloof. thi iinekin front of Ai Meth Corp.. Ulm- . • sands of our boys rew dunf their.arsA,,,,. and isligaged In ball playing milk trze . 11 1ffl o Boutbernituddier•-• th 1 ig.tda• i' log prevailed; 'Ste id _ thai 4 , probabilities of 'Seas ' - . by the Dineen and sun , leaUgg t., x The 'rebel' soldielskeld ace ;bay ~ .. . 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