LIFE'S MISSION
by J. w. ruaiy
heepectfully Dedicated to afire Susan penin
Lang since my harp, with loosened string,
Up,n the willow tree I hung,
Nor thought again a note Urging
Like these I long before had sung:
But now my tnese,yro6bl one° more fly
To Join her deters' festive throng,
Would 'burst her tate, oft, end Iry
tier wing mould the re.4m, of swag.
"An hgnest Inan,".the pcs.t void.
Is but the "nobleSt work of
And 1.110.01 hid inortnt 1, snot he dead,
Ills virtues consecrate tko sod:'
lhough dond,cho c-<-1,,1k0 jewel, rnro
flit goof!, works from his gra.% e shall spring,
And, like good seed linplentetrrlwwe s
A.thouaand fold yijll ouroly blll/4.
But evil-doers, when they die,
By good and had aro soon forgot;
None weep a tear, none heave a sigh,
But leave thew in their graves to rot.
And though, sometimes, their evil deeds
May seem to rive heyo'nd their right,
'Tis but because their hue esieeode
The ebon of the blaekust night.
A Christisn'ssillfe is, then, the hest
Which-we of mortal mould may lire;
It leads us to thot I,al ?oat
Which Clod himself alone ren sue,
It strews sweet flowers,in one , way,
It hides the thprny briers from sight,
And, like the puhmoon'a ww„low ray,
It fills outveouls with love aryl light.
And thou: to wlpon my trilling pen
Loth trace thesn Intel of deep regard,
Wilt rind, in acts or tau, to teen,
Thr highest . . hcliest. hest •retrand;
wherr - r - hs-tirrlihrti7-thalt-rrirrrsr-- -J.
To separate the *heat and tare•,
Thou'lt limit, within till' heavenly hurtle,
The traits that spring Irani loving prayors
• . * • * *
The world is harsh, and often lb ,PC
Whose hearts with tender lot e are filled,
Are croheit beneath its frost mg snows,
Or hysits bitter scrims hilltd .
Al., such thorn are, and in my ears
I seem to hear their 1110.1raul cry
Ou.by upon the tide of :tears,
As they ury die.
Poor hearte! poor iiearts! what ad unrest
Mit elTierY - itliti timid tuiai.irtimo's road
I cannot laugh, though 1 be
While they rick down beneath ttln load.
Euro Idol udl Illetlf there idra) tog vide,
And bring them to bit fold 111010,
- Will dry the bitter tetr that rolir
From every warping
If life; v, rfn• power Ina , h, the a ,ild,
Awl ro, a the fiery of hi their petit,
'tVI n. train 111.1 two of thon.!er, hot lad
Ihe bolt Hat 11111601 y nth— _
If Ile, on l'alrac,'e rug,4e.l 4hle,
Sank doss Ledeath 11 to braisi lona,
Simil these poor Hook n how Inez derole,
Have strength to walk the n nary road
TL noble then, Le iiet
To cheer these Inn elms by the liay—
These inititing souls, uhoon 1141WerP,
\Yieldd oil thetei.re tho ' 4 ,1. or ;
To hind their tender young; nd6 cote,
Ti, moist their gni, 'ring Lp. sip nine ;
Te rouse them from theik
This were, indeed, a di, we,
• * *
The world's a stage." and since the day
When Adam first began the art,
Our liod.linth. marked. the nowise US "Way,"
And noted every actor's "malt."
For us the "curtain" soon will tall,
The " closing scene" is (kilning uigh;(
We hear the "plusilliter's" final call,
And house the lubrealliring sigh.
Anil how the "Critic" groat will read
His comment on,the passing piny,
ill git,e to all their I 'gland Weed,
Nur once Ills fearful judgment. tray.
'ihen happy they whose luhs arc found
Cumplcto and free Nom blots mats,
They'll with brimertal joy lee'rowned,
And take their place waking the " sthrs
11.114 1,0, at hod, tiv limply lot,
And as thou still life', ditties meet,
May Joys abounii in esory spot,
And ilowetk spring up to kiss thy tent
May anfor,totten gileho no more
Beilnn thine eye, 11 LLtl sorro's triers,
But 'balm 1.0 f ,111.1 for et cry soro
In the long hi-, of cutuuig years.
llablonte, PL,
THE TWO COWARDS
' , l was a coward I Vie were I otL cow
anis !"
So fqinke our law,. tutor, Muses Drake,
bud thus he eoutinited:
" We had graduated from Harvard, La
ban and mrelf—arid had commenced iho
practice of law. We were wither of us
married, though we were anticipating that
event. We had a case in Court—a case of I
trespass. Adams was for the plaintitrand
I for the defendant. It was a weak and
foolish complaint, had Adams , should not
Lave taken it up. It ices 'nerdy a case of
extortion. The plaintiff held a rod over the
back of the defendant in the shape of a bit
or knowledge eoneerning a private misstep
of a former time, and the present complaint
was only a seemingly legal way in which
that other power was to be used fur the
purpose of opening a poor man's purse. At
the trial I exposed the trick, and "obtained
the ruling out by the court of a..-scandal , .
which Adams had planned to introduce as
testimony. Ofsourse I was severe, and as I
my opponent had entered upon a very bud
case, my strictures kit home. 1 gained th 6
verdict for my client, and people laughed at
'the foiled plaintiff, and spoke lightly of his
lawyer.
"Thus it commenced. Adams could not
forgive me for the chagrin I had caused
him. He had laid it up against me, and
talked openly about being revenged. This
was on the first of Atigust. &month after
wards we met at a party, where the gentle.
men drank wine. Late -in the evening Ad
ams and I met, and a 4irtt person made
some remark upon the old trial, whereupon
a fourth person laughed and said I had'
done a great thing. At this Adams flushed
and made an impudent reply. The reply
was addressed to me and I answered. The
two outsiders laughed at, the hit I had made,
and Adams said something more severe
thhn before. I replied to-hint. lie delib
erately, told me that I was a liar !
I had been drinking wine and my blood )
Was heated. As that harsh, hard, cowardly
word fell upon my oar my passion overcame
me. I struck Laban Adams in the face,
and knocked pin) bark against the wall. it
was a cowardly thing for me to strike ON
there in that company ; but I was too much'
excited to reflect. 1 caroled Adams,wpuld
strike back.but hetrnel: Tires stronger
than be, though this consideration may not
have influenced him. Hia friends drew
away and 'I went out into the open air. As
D erma sts the cool breeze, farmed my brow
and eased tie heated blood away from my
sorryfkiir M hadZone, - but -
It was too lets to help the Matter. I might
have gone Co Adams and asked him to sver
leek the wrong I had done, but I bad nut
the courage for that.
Prinotratit
Vol. 10.
Od Uro followioginoiming a frieMl, named
IVatkins, called upon me and presented a
note from ,Labefi Adams. I opened IC and
found it tb be a challenge. I pm; rCquested
to give satisfaction for the blow I had
struck. If I wag a gentleman I would do
so., If I was willing, I Might dpsignato the
titre and place, and select the weapons.
15',Itat slibuld I do?
What I ought to do was very plain. The
lessons of life which my fond mother had
taught me did not leave m 6 in doubt. I
ought to have ,gone to Adams and !nide
Such 'an offer of colonially as one gentle
man any honorably make to anolhet 4 ; 'and
ifilte rejected that, I could have similly
turned frotir aid refused to do a further
.147r.ng d'ilaUg-d1304 1 4-
t 1 had not the courage to do that—l
wag a cowhrd. I feared that. my friends
woulthlaugh at me and that the especial
friends of Adams Would point at me the
finger of ;earn.
So in the cowardice of my heart, I
thought I would be brave before the world,
and I accepted the challenge.
The sooner it is over the bolter," re
" .1,441 WnflEing.... "
---------
it Certoinly," I responded . " Let it .ik
on this very day, at sunset, upon , the iv
er 0 batik, directly beneath the White I art
Ledge. I will send a friend to you to make
t further arraugements."
" And the weapons: '
And HO it was tired. An limn' after
wards I found Join Price, it young phy
sician, who agreed to nee P.O my second.-
110 did not urge the to abandon the idea,
nor'did he enter the work as though he
loved it ; but he dal it because he fancied
that 1 was determined, and in case of acci
dent hi? profe%sional services might be of
1 I icw that Adams was a good E,ltut, and
he klmw that I was the Mlle, for we had
practised much together, so that there was
no advantage to eitdoer party in the neap
atm
I=3
After dinner I t rioe came to me, and told
me all was arranged. 'Everything had been
fixed an I laid planned, and Adams and his
second would be on the ground at the ap
pointed HMO.
After Price had gone sat down and
wrote twOletters. What JI award I was to
write them! One was to my mother and
the other to the gentle being who had prom
ised to be my wild. As I sit now and think
of that hour I shudder with horror—the
hour I wrote to my mother and my be
trothed what wan I about to do? To rob
them of all earthly joy forever I And for
what ? Aye—for or hat? Becalm I had
not the courage to be a bold, frank 111011 ;
to I . lhey my (Ind. :Hid the laws of my coun
try ! I wan to how before a wicked f'ru'it
—to otfet'u.y blood to folly, and m y hand
I=l3l
White Heart Ledge was a light; perpen
dicular wall of granite rising above the
river, the top crowned with dark spruce
trees. L received its name from a peculiar
mark, wit era a ma,: of white quartz appear
ed, nail* way up the ledge, iu the feria of a
heart.
Late In the afternoon J was ' - uptm' the
sandy shore beneath the ledge; and almost
at the same time Laban Adams made his
appearance.. Vie were both linztious to be
thought brave nice. Ile did not speak to
me. Our seconds conferred awhile togeth
er, and then Price came to my side. •
.' Must things go on V
I told him I did not know how it could
bg stopped. I lied ; for I did know.
lie informed me that if I would make the
least .overture of peace he felt sure that
Adapis would accept it.
"Think," he said, "that Adorns is sor
ry for what has happened. you struck
hitp,-autl he cantiot retract."
!, And he called me a liar!"
I know he dill, and I—.know he did
wrong. In fact, there was wrung upon
both sides. Offer him your hand,and I think
he will take it without explanation."
No ; I would not do it I And why not 2
wanted to do it ! My heart. urged Inc to
do it. The spirit of my dear mother,
speaking in those old" lessons of love and
blessing, urged me to do it. God speaking
through His son, urged mo to do it. The
law of the land urged me to do it.
Aud yet I would not. I was afraid that
men would say I was a onward. 0, what
a precious coward I was!
t ,
You aro both good shots," added Price;
tt and If you fire together you may both
But I dared not offer the hand of concil
iation. I told him I was ready.'
Ho went back to Watkins, and pretty
soon they measured off the ground—twelve
paces. We were to stand back to buck,
those twelve paces apart. We were to turn
at'the woul•one, we were to raise our pis
tols at the word two, and at. the word three
we were to fire. I caught the eye of Labau
Adams as I tools my position, and 1 was
sure no angry passion dwelt therein. For
an instant the impulse was in me to drop my
pistol and offer him my hand. I was sure
be would not refuse ine. But I had not the
courage to do it. I would rather do the
deep, damning wrong, then do that simple
Christian act of love.
Our seoonds hesitate* as though they
saw what was passing in our thoughts;
but we offered no word, and they proceeded.
The word one was given. I cannot tell the
feelings . that came crowding upon me fit
that moment. I stood face to face with my
brothers; ip a moment more we were to
offer bur heads to the infernal Elaine ! I
thought of the holy love that pad been
t i
beamed upon me since I had grown to aina's
.estate ; and 1 thought that. in one short' mo
ment more the blast pan' might cover it all
Watkimawas a long time in pronouncing
the word two. II( evidently hoped that ono
of use wauld_relestr•-but ho hoped in vain.
Only u breath held buck the last fatol word;
but that word was never spoken.
As we.raised our pistols, a sharp, agonj
zed crys as frcm a breaking heart, burst
upon the air, - and in another moment two
light shadows flitted upon the scone. I was
a prmoner—Laban Adams was a prisoner.
Our pistols lay, undischirged, upon the
ground„ -
'Two gentle maidens, who loved us better
than we loved ourschies, nod *hose love
; ks.4.l.clikeiultuise,p-nsorioty in.aux Lebnif.„
had guessed our 'secret. Love has sharp
I eyes. Onto Wolcott knew Labatt's hot tem
' per when under strong excitemeni, and she
feaxed something of this kind front the first.
She bad only to whisper her suspicion to
3lary, and two sleepless een'iuels were upon
us.
These two warm spirits, rith ILcir cries
and their tears, melted the joy crust, and
"trarlitarts fonnit Cnri fillfro6o
'-0, in Ond'a name, be enemies no more!"
implored Clara.
“By the love you bear me—by the memo
ry of all you hold dear on earth, mud all you
hope Loomed in heaven mt forth the de
mon from youv,, heart !" prayed Mary.
lu an Instant I resolved to be n man.
With the arms ormy beloved still circling
me, I shetched forth my hand; but I was
satin advance of Laban. As though ore
spirit had moved us, our hands tout mid
way.
"I have been a fool," said Laban.
"And I have been a fool and a coward,
becauFe I d.kred 1101 do right."
"A)0," I added, "had it not been for
these ble ,, ed angels, we might have been
•
something worse "
We returned from the dark ground just
as Itio day was hoftening into twilight, and
front that hour Lisbon Adams and myself
wire fast friends ; and they who had saved,
us front great crime entered upon the life
path with us,_ and have blessed us ever
Mace.
In the ((den time,befure Maine laws were
invented, Wing kept the hotel at Middle
Granville, and from hie well stocked bar fur
nielted "acCommodal ions to man and beast."
lle was a good landlord, but terribly deaf.
Fish, the linage imittter, wan afflicted in
the mime way.
One day they were sitting by themselves
in the bar-ten/M. 11 ing wns behind the
counter, notimg for the next customer;
u c Fish woo loturging ore the fire,
%vol: a th.r,ty look, &wring sheop's eyes
oecn,ionally nt t 11,11 1 5s decantero, mid wish-
Mg most devoutly that borne one n oull
conic 111 and tient.
A traveler trom the South, on his way to
Brandon stopped in to inquire the distance.
Going up to the counter, he said "Can you
tell me Sir, how far it is to Brandon?"
"Brandy ?" sitys the ready landlord,
jumping up ; .yen, Sir, I hare some," at
the same time handing down a decanter of
the precious liquid.
"You misunderstand tae," Bar the stran
ger. "1 asked how far it was to Brandent."
"They call it pretty gaud brandy," buys
Wing. "Will 3on take sugar with it ?"
reaching as he spoke, for the bowl and tod
dy-st ick.
The despairing traveller turned to Fish.
"The landlord," said le: •'scene to bo
deaf; will you tell me how far it is to Broa
den
"Thank yeti," said Fish, "I don't care if
I do take a drink with you!"
The stranger treated and fled.
Peon Sr 1 , 1T0N.-A very significant little
incident occurred ( at the grand review),
which, having !attracted general attention
among the thenttnhds immediately' opposite
the stand, and having been greeied with an
endless variety of comments, 1 cannot re
frain from mentioning. The animosity ex
isting between General Sherman and &:ro
tary Stanton, on account of the latter's
early and unqualified denunciation of Gen
eral Sherman's terms of agreement, condi
tionally made with Johnston, is doubtless
well known. Occupying the stand, ore
General Sherman's arrival, were Generals
Grant, Meade, Meigs, Hance*, and Presi
dent Johnson, secretary of the Treasury
Mccullough, Postmaster General Dennison,
Attorney General Speed, Secrettiry Stanton,
Mrs. Sherman, Mrs.' Grant, Mrs. Meade,
and a large number of
. other print:anent la
dies. Most of Ale the gentlemen met Gen
eral Sherman as he entered the party, and
grasped his 'hand. Secretary Stanton was
seated between General Grath and tho Pres
ident. General Slierman approached the
President extending his hand. When Sec
retary Stanton rose and extended his, Gen
eral Shernrisn turned op Lis heel anti seated
himself at the furthertend of the platform,
without even ViCiring a recognition. The
light was no sooner given than noticed by
the multitude, who, in tike.orttilfisinsm of the
moment, loudly applauded the act, and
even laughed immoderately at the Secreta
ry's discomfiture.—Ctscitmati
AN OLD ISACRELOD'S REMARKS UPON WO
MEN.—If you don't unary them they despise
you. If you do they abate yot . If you
dont't Met them have their own way, they
Adtit yon. If you do, they ruin you.; If
they see • better looking fellow than your
self, and take a fancy to him; why, ten to'
one, they run away from ou. Get nsst
ried! Not If I know it.
- 313: oN "
114.LEFOINTE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1865.
A LITTLE DEAF.
---The Clarinda Observer f3lle a great
number of Missourians have settlell 10 Page
county, whci name with the mark upon
them—and that they will nuC be allowed to
remain unless they beep very gitiet on nol
itical affairs. flight. Tbct e la no deceiv
ing the keen eyed patriots of the Southern
nem—Nonpareil.
The above is a fair specimen of "Loyal
League" liberty. The settlers from
sonri are welcome lo stay, provided they
don't vote the Democratic tieliet. The keen
eyed Abolitionists are truly a "loyal" (1) set
of fellows. They love liberty and caqual
rights, provided men will exercise their
rights as thhy shall dictate.' This is the
sum and substance of "loyal leagitu%Union•
ism. If these Missourians .:have a mark
uppn —if thsiarkgitilly„ Aptily•crime,.
arrest and try them. Clive them a ~,p ublic
trial by nil impartial jury" and if found
guilty punish thenilaccording to law. if
found to be innocent, or until they arc or
rested tried & convi;,tcd, they liaVe Just as
much right to take part in "political alliiirs"
as any loy7', 'leaguer of Page, or any otliq
county. liurke's patriotism and love of
freedom is all on ono side. If'n man believ
11....as__lisulsiss._ hcLia._ - xlatrintmutirlia
votes the same ticket that Burke votes, he
ie entilletiTo retina - In the country and ex
ercise the rights of a freeman. is this the
kind of liberty that our fodefathellfought
for?—Couticel Bluff Buffle.
Men. Sunn.tvr.--The correspondent of
the New 'York Trmes draws the - following
graphic sketch of Mrs. Surratt, now on
trial before the military commission at Wash.
ington: ••Mrs. Surratt is dresiied in full
mourning; she wears her bonnet and veil
during the sessions of the Commissioh.
Her age is probably fifty. Olio is a large
Anntzonar , kind of woman, &ware built
masculine shape hands, rather full lace,
dark gray lifeless eyes, hair not decidedly
stalk, cou•plexiou swarthy. Per face de
notes more than ordinary - intelligence.
She seems too strong to be weighed down
by the crushing testimony against her, and
whilst conclusive evidence wits being ren
dered, which, if true, makes her - part in
the horrible tragedy of the most cold-blood
ed, heartleas character, she but once seem
ed disturbed. her eyes are rather soft iu
espression and strangely at variance wait
the general harshness of her other features.
She simple a woman of undaunted mettle,
and fitted for Maobeth:s injunction to ' , bring
'forth men children only;" and yet she does
not appear as Lady Macbeth prayed to be,
••from crown to tic-lop full of direst cru
elty." This unfortunate woman, like the
other prisoners, is in irons. A bar of
about ten inches in length passes from one
tinkle to the other, and is there attached to
an iron band that endirolcs each leg. tier
hands are free.
—The sudden manner in which the
rebellion collapsed alter the fall of !tra
m.] was a singular proof of tlie cotrectness
of 3lcClellan's judgment. He wrote from
Harrison's - Lauding to (len. Ilalleck, in re
spun.° to the order commanding bins to
withdraw his army, as follows:
"Horn thready in front of this army it the
heart of the rebellion; it is bore that all our
resources should be collected to strike the
blow whiolt shall determine the fate of the
nation. All prints of secondary ip.pertanco
elsewhere: should be abandoned, and every
available man brought hero—a decided
victory here, and the strength of the rebel
lion is crushed—it wallet's not what partial
reverses we, may Hied with elsewhere.
Here is the defense of Washington. It is
hero on the banks of the hones, that eso
fate of the-union should be decided."—PAtla.
Aye.
A New ISEKCIIKIIImM.-1t a recent tem
per/ince meeting held in Elmira, N. 1%, flay.
T. K. Beecher,a brother of rury Ward, took
position in favor of the use of ale awl wines
as a prophylactic for intemperance. lie said
that ho had ad taught from his pulpit, and
that ho should do-it again—that he had ad
vised Messrs. Briggs & levier to rebuild
their brewery in the interest df the temper
ance cause, flint he had tr barrel of . good ale
in his cellar, but that there was scarcely a
saloon in Elmira whore a glass of good ale
could be procured, as he had tried . at almost
every one, 11 and that if we formed a temper
ance organization on the basis of total ab
stinence wo shoult act contrary to God and
should consequently fail.
—A farmer told a friend of his, who hail
come from town for a few days shooting,
that he once bad an excelent gun that went
off upon a thief coming into the house al
though not charged. 'Wonderful gun, in
deed," said the sportsman; "but how did it
happen? Must have been an Irish gun."
'•Not at all," said the former; "the thief
and it went car together', and before I had
time to charge him with it."
—The Mammoth Elephant "Ii• annibal,
attached to Thayer and Noyes' Circus,
which exhibited in this place last summer
died at Centreville, Pa., on Sunday morn
ing a week, aged, it is suppoted, about 66
years. Ho was buried on the spot where
ho died. Ile was the largest elephant ever
brought to this country. His owners held,
au insurance upon him forslo,ooo.
=—On a certain English railway, the
following intelligible notiere appears :
"Hereafter, Whew trains moving in an
opposite direction are approaching eaoh
other, on separate lie s, conductors and
engineers will he re red , to bring thiei
respective trains a dead hilt before tilt
point of meeting, and be very careful not to
pfoi.eed till each train has passed the irtlt-
EPWARD EVERETT AS AN EDITOR
Few men, not suet:billy trained- to the
duties of editorial life, are villa' to the
steady. drain upon them illicit a ilailyme•=s
paper requires. %Yell as accomplished ,a
scholar as Mr. Everett; with extensive read
ing and largd experience In political life,
found it it task when he came to perform it
for the New York I,Algr- , In one of the
extractsdn that paper from" his letters be
says : "Although the responsibility of fur
nishing the weekly 'article was a pretty
heaiiy one, I had become so aecustolised to
itlhat I almost miss the oecupatien."
Everett wrote but a eingle article a week.
nniie elaborate than the editorials of most
daitylaperm,but stjtl writlonnt his leisnre
and when liki . inind was in the med. ,Yet
we find by his letters that his articieS were
somet inlet! twice over and three times el it
tee heron) they were cuirunitteil to the ectin-
Puntor• s.l.44iyerett's litetary lepatittion
made him Hills careful hi Its comp4silions,
but this anxiety about his style r while it
added to the charms of his writings, would
have unfitted him entirely for the duties of
of milliards dajj_ynumaper pneabahlts iu
Write upon half a dozen subjects possibly,
- on the_ Satne - day, •doTlect hie - nutiiuri(iee,
and array his facts' and arguments, must
sacrifice style and embellishment. to the
objects of More consequence, force of rea
soning sold accuracy of statement, The off
hand ready writing applied to daily inei
&lnns is as different front the studied com
position of the man of letters as two things
can well he, anti requires, therefore, differ
ent faculties for their performance. The
daily editor has the compensation, that if
less importance is attached to his efforts
lie e..,...qus Il.e cc
volity of CritiCiSal ehich usually attends
the more pretentious effutt
THE IVONA.I, CAN (10 ON % triton. Ca
A branch, broken from the tree by theotent
pc.t, rode on the rural curreta ui• the
swollen si resin.
"See how 1 ICaa the walers," ho cried to
the banke. ..See how 1 counnend ati.l car
ry the atreara with Inc,' he cried again.
A jilting rocky ridge, over which the
torrent dashed, caved the branch, and
kept. it., shattered and imp isonod, while eke
waters flowed on and on.
"Alas!" cried Ib6 branch, "how can
you bold mo thus ? Who Will govern tho
etreatn± how will it prayer without my
.• Ask the banks," enid the rocky ledge
And the banks answered
..31lany, like. you, have been carkied by
the strew, fancying that they crrriud it.
And as to the loss you will be to the waters,
don tbe uneasy. You ate already forgot•
ten, as are those who came before you, cud
as those will soottibe w he may follow."
A Boy's LAwsuir.—Coder R great tree,
close to ate N'tllage, tiro buys fuubd a Mal
nut.
'•lt belongs to me" said Ignatius, "for I
was the first to see it."
4.N0, it belongs to me," cried Bernard,
"fur I was the first to pick it up." end so
they began to quarrel in earnest.
"I will settle the dispute," said an older
boy., who had just then come up. lle placed
himself betucen the boys, broke the nut in
two, and said:
"Thu ono piece of shell belongs to him
who first eaw the . nut ; the other piece of
shell belongs to him who first picked it up ;
but the kernel 1 keep for juilgang the case.
Acid this,"The said, as he sat down and
laughed, "is,thti common end of Inn suits."
MR. 'SNIPES' Li,r6 N r—From doctor's pills,
and ague ohills,and other Ills, deliver on
From want of gold, and wives thal., scold,
and maidens old, and sharpers sold, deliver
From slinging flies, and greenish eyes,
and lmker's pies, and babies' cries, anj love
that dies, fickle ties, and gaudy dies, deliver
us.
From bearded females, and strong-minded
women4this don't jingle.) female lecturers,
and all Other masculine ladies, deliver us,
From creaking tilers, a wife that snores,
confounded hores, deliver Us;
From modest girls, with waving curls,
and teeth of pearls—Oh f never mind.,
"LINCOLN KILLED ABOUT THE RZOUT
TIME."—Tho Allen county (Ohio) Demo
crat makes tho following quotation from a
speech of thol.tov. Mr. Motley, at Lima, the
day after the assasinatiou t •
“I had noticed *Ole lol rod Week
or ton days prior to too assassination, that
Mr Lincoln waa adopfing and dnrsuing pol
icy that would - eventually bring these
scoundrels down mouth back, and.give thorn .
again - the right of suffrage, and when -T
heard of the assassination„ljust thought tfl
myself that God. In his inscrutable Provi
dence, had taken him (Lincoln) just
about the right time."
Farm Goon Suer.—A Mr. Garnett
Ranson, of Little Corby, England, shot an
extrairdinary matdh, for a wagcf, lately.
Tho wager was that ho was to fire at and
hit nine ctit of ten oranges throw 9 up in
tho air. Tho conditions were that the t un
and the oranges hbould Int laid npon the
ground; and the shooter had, at each Shot;
to pick up an orange, throe it up, Stoop for
%l gun, acid tTro at the orange in RS de
scent. Itts. 'Vinson not only succeeded in
Winning the *agar; ha hit eleven oranges
in eneoeiielyn. • .
—nal quadruped does a naked negro
repentble? A btaek bere t Olen). •
No. 22.
CONSOLATION,
The torrent of the world is rJugh end strong.,
No ey.e 1 with loving wilderness gli.e.eu,
I oannut sing a truth-inviiing song,
If ',llene hill listen.
The •ingel answered: WhereforeAust thou sigh ?
rour>cr (4,111 u.d ero 43 race he TIM
The meanest lelos."m maYnot, rennet die
"Were kis work be dune. ,
The prayer bells In thy heat altonld snmmon
still
The world all day, at noon, at eve. at dawning,
And not like ychnler church upon the hill,
' Only on Buuday morning. •
Tim belfry-rope, here hang along,
tut only midnight tuft:eel make them quiveL
Let thy heart ruig, like etatie cathedral Leeee,
and furerert
Irthsrelsfisern tw - 11 - Firf tirv - onif,r;-
74,, ear to heed -di., loving,k*es tc,glodett—
tded's hale wood -horde smg the who!, d ue 1"n,
dud elite not 11 lit, null ['Ants.
Then let the rw.ea of thy faftey peep
Within the lole-ht eotto;:e 11, thy heart;
Awl, like eon•o•or.ttyl treakore.
Ttth 1,11,w le.lgu 01 thine art.
nd lift thy tru , sting eyes unto the sky,
Fur Ileayets, Dot earth, shall gnu. thy words
w heartngi
• • atdatasiwAstravol-Usas-onti
tilts lot erg, dcntii unteartog.
Scorn not thy life —it is the girl of Cod ;
From not thy kind —411(.3' are II is di ildren,too.
The dark blue violet rime from the sod
MI the twig winter through.
It !h - ot-q rt rutlil^ ti WI tnoll t`intry day—
A Irogranoe o'er tho troftly ttt 1111 l sphere;
It
'Thou aitt And man} - rite', ; I ulll •+tay
With thee alit le t t ear.
THIS, THAT,' AND THE OTHER
-11a—The weather
Ilanilsouie— The girl
--Ifivildromer4-Our dev ii
•
—Lean —Our pocket-book.
--Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a
Wan health), wealthy, and is lee.
—Whin' is the. moot difficult puuctualioa
lilting a stop to a woman's tmogito. •
You ;wish to live peacclully in this lit•
nd hotpy in the next, pay the printer.
-11rhj , is ouk the worst wood to make a
wildon leg? Ducat's° It produces a-cm a.
—The rqebel" taut Stonewall has boon un
conditionally surrendered to Ate Spanish ger
IMRE
"Joining bands in suntrituony"—a custoin
originated by pugilists shaking hands before
they light.
—A man up In tbo country itaJf been So
frightened by a mad' dog that he is now afraid
of the bark of a tree.
---Qtrgait.—Weinen are true to one onothar
in all' things but babies, di:l.:titian it must be con
fessed they do flatter each other a little bit.
no road/ are so rough as those the
have just been mended, so ne sinners are so in
tolerant as those that have just turned saints.
—Break a woman's heart, and she will
smile and forgive you. Break n joke upon her
fern, end she deelarei war--ncir to the scissors.
—When dunces Doll us fools, without prov
ing us to ho so, our best retort is to prays them
to be tools, without condescending to call them
--The Supremo Court of Pennsylvaniallas
decided that legal tender notes aro oonstitution
el, and that a ground rent can be paid off with
then,
—lt is said that iu the review last week.
Coneral.Shortnan was rcalived the wont enthu
siastically, by the soldiers and the people, of any
General present.
—A main boasting of the smartness of hid
children said that the youngest was so smart
that it would Lake its band elf a hot stove
with
out oven beilidtold.
—A lady, speaking of a gathering of lite
yersto dedicate a new court-houso said rho sup
posed they had gone "to view the ground chore
they must shortly lie."
5ett,..501.1 has issued a order tr.
regesd to the negroes of North Carolina. He
tells thorn that in order to Mauro their froottOM
they must work to support themselves.
—RaitaatrAst.a.—A man who for two
years was rurser of the Confederate privateer
Alabama, has been appointed to a first-chum
clerkship in the Land-Office, Washington.
—General Shern?an's official report will
soon be published. It was written after the Is
suing of Stanton's manifesto, and 'is consequent
ly quite racy. lie explains fully his iiirraßge
mc.nt with Johnston.
Buffalos are becoming scarce in the west
ern hunting grounds. The/ have been so much
disturbed of Into by bands of roving Indians
Slit they arc peeking more retired homesteads
far away, near the nocky Moudtdihs.
—Not long sinfit:tm eastern man on his way
to Boston, whs stopped oh' the highway by a
robbor, and requested to hand trier his Motley
or have his brains blown out. ." Oh," said the
traveler, quietly, "blow away, itsiChetter to go
to Boston without brains than without mono9'."
The Massachusetts Senate has passed a
law imposing S5O fine for Making discrimination
on aceount'of color in any inn, plate of amuse.
rrent, public:, conveyance, or public meeting."
if a gentleVfir, lodging at an inn, declines
receiving a "colored person" in him bed, will he
.0 fined on account of " discriminatieqlfi °doll" '
—poyfestown Darocrat.
—An Irish hatrfstor, when he first domiciled
in flifdOnnil WllB troubled with "nicer brass
tiwthing," and he "onet upon a time" describes
poverty as follows : "When I first came to Liv
erpool, I was in perfect raga. The small/me
hole In my shirt wan the one I steak my head
through, and I had to have that, my only shirt,
washed bj the dozen, tot It was in twelve pieces.
—I-President J01.......t-has respectfully de
clined the coach and, than of horses Modeled
film hi , the Metekiiiih of. New York, for
,the
reason auk he has odeil held dud those oeetipi-
Ing official positions 4hould dot &cocoa kiell
piesents. sake, hOwever, that Ito the" lie
permitted to retain tiirepinehneni cotireitrig,
the sentionat,. of the dopers, regardintii, 041,1 cf
doss, rlt i Sark of high &ries+
CHIEF nisttoeillWiiikkitiil irdtf
Wrijadiv.s•-•_
It is said to be tell tihderArrWrash
ingion circles that Chief itisfittele
already out as a candidatb (de '
Cy In 1868. Ile Is taking time by the bpi
!wilt, and is resolved to make a surw thibi
of the nomination of the radicals this - nine. ,
lie has issued another circular, similar, in,
form to tha one gotten up by his friends last.
spring ; and it is now being circulated az.- it"
tensively, though secretly, in Obio, and ,
throughout the Western Steles. 11)e . trip to
the South Is looked upon as an eleitianeor- •
Aug tour, and he Las been making 'readies •
for buncombe to such audiepee as he cos
gather. The New York Iferutd has - the •
lowing notice of a speech.tentie by him ai
Charleston,afew'dayssince: - -
• The Chief Justice of the United Status is .
now on a stumping tow. along the Southern
coast, er.leitaining the negroes with bit
ideas of reconstruction. We gave yesterday '
hie first speech,-delivered in Charleston -to
a promiactions audience,- Composed mostly. •
of degrees. The trisect! of this speech is
advice to the negroes in regard' to their du
(los and relative io their course 'of action iu •
they Row relations with the rest of mankind.
A figkurging upon the colored Teeple to - be
,industrious and economical, he delivered en
may on the iroportande of the right of
'tegrocs to vole. In his remarks upon that •
subjeet 1;e t owL considered?. doubt urn
the preqettt Admirittvation favoring the
policy of clothing the colurei race with tho ,
pi trileges Of the elective franchise, adding, •
.•I am tie longer in its councils."' ife, how-
Sver, ioo's t•lo•cial pains to chow that he had
long proved that the idea originated With
hint in-Awing to a speech delivered twenty
years ago in Clitein:.ati. He appeared de •
sirens of impressing upon his audience that
110 was the -fart-her of -the k
i tes -of- elevating--
the_negro, but at the sante limo informing
them that there obstacles iu their way, but
by perseverance they would finally accom
plish it- -that is, when be became President.
Can any American imagine a- more dis
graceful proceeding than that! Here is
the Chief Justice of the United Slates, beg
ging vales of a proiniscuous crowd of igno- _
rant negroes, lb one of the principal cities
cf ft!, 9ottth; before they had any„...riglA to
Pxerchte the right Of suffrage ; and when it
Id clear (*t uo such rights can be conferred
mpon them except through a clear and pal
pable violation of the Constitution of the
Cnited' States; bf ithich Mr. Chase, as
Chief Justice the Supreme Court, is sworn
guardian and di fender. This 'tingle disgus
ting e - 7 hilaition is enough to damn the doc
trine of negro suffrage to eternal infamy.
Let any matt imagirto what would be the
condition of this country, or of an/ State
in ft where there is a largo negro popula
tion, were the right .. ..to vote
_given_ to them.
What white loan, with a decent sense of
self•rospcet, would appear on the hustings.
where he had to solicit the voles of every
ignorant and degraded negroin the district!
What, decent whits man is there who Weald
not feel himself to be degraded when eflity
filthy and ignorant negro could jostle bills
us he approached the polls to deposit Illa
ballot I' 'How long would the right of suf
frage be regarded as of any worth after it
had been so Sanely prostituted.
We should speedily see State Legislatures
and the halls of Cougress filled with_ such
low wretches as would not. scruple Pi Itsgb •
slate en iiitimate terms with the negro. Ito
who woftlll put hittisElf nearest on a level
with them would be most bettain to receive
their support, and iu almost any dlstriet in
the South they would be the tnintrolling
political, element. Only a negro, or some
white wretch utterly lost to all sense of de
bency, tetild lie stated tO, office. It is bard
to preserve proper composui s when speak•
ing of such things.. Every instinct of the
nobler race revolts at the outrageous dos :
trine boldly yd shamelessly advocated by
Stub well kaolin leaders of the Republican
party as Salmon P. Cbase.—Lancaeter . /OW
bye/goer.
THE CABINKT WizahinglOn
filay"22, is now difinitely known
that the difficulty at the Ctinet meeting ou
Friday between Secretary tibntan and Pi es-
Went Johnson bad its origin in the attempt
to engiaft need suffrage on the Southern
States. President Johnson, new to the
Presidential office, expressed a dissent-to
the doctrine in a manner that led Sir. Stan.
ton to belloto ho could coerce or frighten
him into it. In thin he waimiatakon.
Igtid Voice and threatening altildde brought
out the sleeping lion of Johdien's nattrti;
and the scene Which ensued, nett! the Site •
retary found that he had uthitakon Me man,
was terrible. At that meeting, and in that
scene, President Johnson gave evidence
that abolitionism had but litilh.of Idalyirt
pathy and that, as Preffdrut of the United'
Staten:, he hihi a ddty to riefiferirt id sof4iiig
the Union. not in erecting ode to skit the
utopian views of men whtrWould set aside
all the principles of • the fatheis'of the re. ,
pftblit irt i order to nniuld ode to edit Welt ,
own eolfidh add sinister iietis.—ictio Fork
New..
lid* NATURE [;ovens ur IlarrLE-FuLoil:
—"Did I ever tell Yak'," says a correspoud
ent of an Eastern paper," anunigthe affect
ing little thitigs one is always seeing oa
these battle-fields how, on the ground OW
which the battle of Bill lffid *as fough 11`
saivoretty, pure, delicate flowers graff!i
out of the empty aminnuitteff-toxes ; sod 1 .
wild rose thrustifte up its
,graceful heat
through the top of 9, broken Arum, which;
doubtless, sounded its last ahairge in 4 that. 4 .
battle; and a cunning Ostia irrbl Oil
peeping out of ti fragment of a builto
shell, in Whi'olt Watt a ge pet it was ilintAf?! J 1
Was not thal Ventre gro4tig 4aft of iair?'
Even do shall the beilittfeihnqiftettniM aver' '
litre* oat of the hottid astd tfirriftlir Mee' 1 i
that transpire In tittrOludiftft ern't - eitifittr' "4
vancing world. listitft edeetiVislei XIV l • •
battle-grouids i‘rdirrg 40te_STOeilkani
Peace and plenty airing-up thitafiloilt of
the devontint ettnirialgiVianlVlNlNhit Id
nature and society shall Work oat Old pro: 1
tress of P. 4 AI- ;
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