Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, June 23, 1865, Image 1

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The ola .an liked to Oh' the are,
So dear him the tongs were kept,
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dernothldes Imo rat and Wept.
sairtre In the embers there
Jeki ploturep of other years I
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Bat °AO ttattetteete•
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higli-baok !ag•aeat aria l
I reirliosill lib trill of 'bar mWlth CON
The Alm of bar silver hair.
There's* bappy, look on hei aged face:
As she busily kulta for brm,
A n do / dile takes up thlcatitchea dropped,
For OnOthuother's eyes aro dim. •
Their children oome Cud mid the news,
Ta plies the this each day;
got It stirs the blood in an old man's heart,
To belie of the world away. •
'Tic s homely scensa told yott ao
But plesealit It ialo viewo
At least I thought it so myself;
And sketched it down for yon.
Be hind unto the old, my 'Vend,
They're worn with this world's strife, -
- Though bravely once perchance OW, Might,
The stern, Awe battle ante..
Upw .'llfe's rugged steep ;
lige let as gently lead themdowb,
o where•the weary sleep.
LETTER FROM MR. VALLANDIGHAM.
tutu Vallandigham having been invited by
an organisation of the Democratic yang
then of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to address
them. declines on the ground that the prop
and-aro-inifi the pa'
ut fire - Asmoarnts - has - not yet come. -- lie -
Writes to them a long and elaborate letter,
embodying in the main intelligent and pa
triotic views. We make from it the follow
- log extracts:
"The fatal miptake of the South—her
"blunder," which a false ttiorality pro
nounoes worse than a crime, was in ignor
ing the greet American idea of onecountry
—not an impulse, not a precept, not a 'more
aspiration of national Vanity, but a com
mandment written by the finger of God upon
the rivers and mountains, and the whole
face of ,the land, and grliven thence upon
the hearts of the people. It was this, not
anthslavery, which held the border slay
States In the Union, and stirred, for good
or evil, the whole North and West to such
exertions of military, naval and -finaneial
force la never before were put forth by
any nation. And it was this grand and
pervading national sentiment, hedged by
the sanction of destiny, which,locording to
the measure of my ability, I undertook to
expound and justify Ili the Bones of Rep
reitentatives in 1808, and by this line of at ,
gumentation to establish the fact that - the
'Union through Peace was inevitable. Noth
ing but the violence of an intense outliner
passion, and the terrible pressure of civil
war, could have suppressed, even for a time,
the power of this sentiment among the peo
ple of the South also. llad their lenders
forborne to Niemand separation and a dis
tinct government, adhering to the old gag,
and. within the Union, under the Constitu
lion, firmly, but. justly, required new guar
antied for old rights believed to be in peril,
they might not, indeed, Save had barren
and deluding sympathy front subjeots, and
false hopes of assistance from kings and
emperors in Europe, eager for the decline
and fall.of the American Republic, but they
Would / have been cheered by the oordial
greetlegb and the active support of, finally,
an overwhelming majority of the States and
people of the West and North. But when
they established a permanent, distinct goy
ernment,and took up arms for independenee,
they marked out between them' tind us a
high wall and deep ditch, which no man,
!forth or West, could pass without. the guilt
and the penalties of treason. They went
beyond the teachings of their own great
statesman of the past; for Mr. Calhoun
himself had deolars, in 1881, "the abuse
of power on the part of the agent (the Fed
eral Government) to 'the injury of one or
more of the: members (the Mete.) would
not justify secession on their part ; there
Would be neither the right nor the pretenk
to seeede. b No matter who was responsible
originally for that condition of things which
led finally to the war, nor what the motives
and character of the war after its inception,
rand ipon both the questions I entertain
and have expressed opinions as fixed as the
solid rockiso far as the South fought frera
separate government s h e stood *holly with
out sympathy or support in the Skates
which adhered to the Union, Whatever
else may happen, her Vision of independ
ence has now melted into fir. On tie ap
peal to arms—maintained upon both sides
for four years with a courage and endurance
grandly heroic—she bee failed; and though
it had blpipetied otherwise, stlll, - in my de
liberate• antielptioni her reperiment of die
ting' government Would have failed also.
hit the cote
- question really di - Added by the
Warr as by, peace years before-it had been
settled, Was that two separate governments
eoul4 not exist among the Elates of the
Americas Union. And hers the whole`con
trordref owed to end; 'With or with** ate
very I care not so head here. If Speen this
Point, the "Critteiden Ittisolution" „of A bly
18 61—proposed, too, at the same timein
the Senate, brAndriAr Johnson—shenid be
modided, la it in all else, both iiteldrit and
later;lnietattlilearided out.. 'But what
ere* policy maypole be deereed--and I trust
it will be a Wileis Er It healing polio/
-.it is tbeijAal, at,, am for the people of
the Bed% to selnieseel ;returning, li n polls
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Vine agsbi. e,.l7l6ioW i sf septient..• mdonred
hearts aihd • bsegin ftsttidre itruffiteir
fathers itioi Itlefret• ,TAttn, Wig IbCSIOWI
Mons of till *eland tarriwk strife e p ee,/
be bashed: AhrWesillions lft the *tete
and Went. reigenlUiio inillor . gthir ant
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Vol. 10.
nativity, totally distinct frOm those which
arise upon a' cessation. of hostilities. Men
who haveltitherto agreed on other• Woe's,
will differ widely new, and new party mum
cilations must follow. The' hereditary sup
porters of the litesidenl jest• inaugurated,
must not assume that, as a matter of course,
the 'Democratic party will be foitpd in op
position upon these questions. On the rec.'
ord up to the day whenibe Exestitire office,
by reason of a horrible crime, was forcee
Upon him, be himself differed from thit
party only or chid as to the fact and the
manner of pros the war. Not re
sponsibtel for any ing done or omitted la
the late administration, whereof the'Demoo
racy complained, now that the war is elided,
he begins his chief Magistracy without past
difference in principle - or present separation
as opo tOT — Tiiiny oi - eat:tills entitled,
at the halide of the Demooratin patty, to a
'fair, Candid, and charitable consideration of
the several measures Irbil* be shall pro
pose, though most issaredly ) st the same
time, it Will be the duly of that party to
render a strict, firm, and fearless judgment
upon them,,and to act accordingly as they
shall be found to merit support or to de
- already to be isynente4 thatl
although General Sherman may not have
had the authority—and he claimed none for
himself, referring all 'to the Executive—bis
plan of patificatittri and reunion was not
promptly confirmed b 1 the President. It
was concise, comprehensive, complete—pro
ving him not less
,wise and great its the sci
ence of statesmanship than grand and tri
umphant in the arts of war. And it Could
have made peace, immediate and sincere=
”peace from the Poldinao to the Rio
Grande." l'his was his proud congratula
tory boast to his army. at the enll of the
gfeatatruggle, and not of any victoly in
the field. Defeating the armed military
hosts of the Confederacy,- his aim at the
close, was to conquer the hearts of its peo
ple also, and to be exalted. thus AS the hero
of prate—Ale only true heroism in civil
war.
Upon the great question of reconstruc
tion, as the Detuocratie party Is without
power so it is_ without responsibility." It
can but accept or reject whatever measures
may be proposed. If the policy which the
President may recommend Abell
,appear,
upon a calm and deliberate scrutiny, beet
adapted in general to secure a speedy, com
plete, cordial and lasting pacification upon
the basid of the Federkl Union of the States,
it will, in my judgment, be fit and just that
the Democracy, waiving all minor points of
detail, lend to him a liberal, earnest and pa
triotic support, in Carrying it into execution.
If, upon the other band,
- it be such as can
but mike that solitude which conquer
ors calf ... y - 410e, or, worse, if possible, that
peace which hangs like • a black and
heavy pall over Ilungary, Irelatid, Poland,
then It will be the duty of the Ventocratic
party, with determined firmness and fear
'suttees, to interpOse suoh constitodiemil
and legal opposition, through the press and
in public assembly, as may be just and effi
cient. ,
As to the time Ond manrer, as well do to
the results of aboliChing slavery, and, ea
vest of all, what shall be done with the ne
gro, the potter and the responsibility are
alike with the Administration ; and again,
it will be for the Democratic parry, guided
by the light of its' ancient principles, and
looking only to -Um public good, simply
only to accept or reject.
The question of the politieal and social
status of the negro is essentially apd totally
distinct from the tititton of African servi
tude, and any ma mayhave been or May
be yet radically anti-slarery without being
a friend to negro suffrage and equality.
Party spirit and pressure, indeed, has driv
en many into support. ofilbe dootrine con
trary to both impulse and conviction; but
now the issue haenhaliged., Outside of ala-
cry, the de g ro, where admitted to reside. in
a State, ought to be the equal of every oth
er man in all legal rights and remedies,
just as is the female or the utinor, but polit
ical rights And social usage are questions
which each State and community, or indi
viduals, must be permitted alone to decide.
And four millions of ,Airleans, ate not to
become thq wards and pupas bf the whole
American people; wor the Federal Govern
ment a Tact eleetnoaynary institntion, made
rip of gnardians,'and trustees; end profs's
errs, and soltoobsissters for the need port
lation. Whatever party now, with.the Free
sure of anti-slavery and war removed, un
dertakes the task; will fall before the popu
lar reaction. NOt the people only Mit a i l
large majority of the ;Intl end eft its brae. ,
est and ablest grocers, and forefront among
them the gentlermsn whom I have already
named with honor, are determined in thelt
hostility to Iths whole doctrine of nogric
aalrrags end equality, and to its unclean
corollary, miscegenation. And it is not a
question of religion "or philanthropy, as
slavery was %unwed to , be/ but of rm.:: pol
ities. Women, Mitt" atid-atieths Are alike
tit:eluded fren political 'rights npdlt grounds
of public policy i anll yet all are of the hu
man family—nay, of our own race, and
more yet, are many of them our oven moth
ers and, sisters end wives ind r brothare: A
far higher and more impelling pdtiliottolkoy,
enforced 6 1 . the example of MIMIOO
other repo:Mks end countries of milted fet
"ill* 44 Ole' 001X102onstoal;and
avoyeimestatiof now if four Minimize of AM
!NI clacker Iwo tem set free at owla
. 931.
im p tsriddlifift equality to the negro:
viieof own hotteeholde. 5040
Mr. Jefferson Aforit: than. forty-kw year
ago, and after the Missouri question:
BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1865.
,;
"Nothing is More Certainly written In the
book of fate, than that these peoph3 (negro
slaves) are to be free; nor is it lase certain
'that the two rates, equalty froo, oannot.live
in the Bawls government,. Natnre, habit,
opinion, hate draten jndellibig Linea of ale
tinetion between them."
And be advised gradual emancipation and
deportation. Herein lies both the difficulty
and the danger of dealing wow with elarerr
in the South.
Upon the question of the political rights
pf the uegro, we are beyohdthe taunt and
reproach. of the monarchirta of -Europe.
When they shall have introduced Imitersal
white sttffrage, removed the disabilities im
posed upon millions of their own subjects,
anti abolished all titles ofanobility and oth
er dialinotions 'of rank, 3tbe_.tima
enough for them to again interpose in the
dmestio affairs of the American Republic.
On this qtlestion, too,' the Democratic
party has tt record which it cannot reject.
It has proclaimed that though all men of
whatever race may be equal before the mu
nicipal law, yet that the governments here
were made by white men to be controlled by
the White race.
-Concerning-the Demurrage- -pselly-Its an
organization, with net, policies arising out
of the issues of the holm, many of them to
endure for a life-time, itr irtattelitial, in my
judgment, that a new vitality, be infused
into it. fir numbers, it itt_nnitti_pewerful
than at any former period. That it was
unsuccessffil, has been at times but the fate
of all parties. In the character, ability ? el
oquence, integrity, and love of country of
its public men, and the general intelligence,
honesty, and patriotism of its rnasees, it
May Challenge comparison with any party.
But for several years and more it has lacked
unity of purpose, and therefore energy of
?teflon. During the war especially, with
the Control of but ,two States out of the
twenty-three which adhered to the Union;
without power, patronage, or Winched in
the kederal Administratirm, and therefore
without epticial organisation or agency au
thorised or permitted to prescribe a com
mon line of policy and prompt united action
upon the new questions daily arising, and
with the most vigorous and vehement cen
tral authority against ever known, wielding
alike the clamor of patriotism and the ory
of religion, soling in politrs upon military
principles and through military idattitmen
talities, and to the whole power of the
purse, and that purse the entire wealth of
the country, rind the ,whole power of the
sword, and that sword the entire fighting'
population of the country, adding a sliver
vision and constraint over Mails, Speech,
person, railroad, lightning, highway, steh
mer, and telegraph, all the modes of action
and of locomotion, and every vehicle of
thought, such almie as the fabled Brisreos
might be supposed able to exert ; with sto
ry appliance of both °Mitch and State,
and of social and business organization com
bined against it, it is rather amazing that
the Dimoeratio party did not perish, than
wonderful that it should exhibirkigus of
partial paralysis. To-day, indeed, it lies a
powerful but inert mass, yet needing only a
new life-blood, a fresh vitality, the " Pro
utethean fire," to be infused into it.
There are those yet among the living who
were actors especially in Jackson's day, and
many, younger than I ant, who remember
when the party was a power in the pountry,
crating all the energy without any part of
the terrorism of the late Administration.
"Oh for an hour of Old'Dundee I" Without
more of courage, more vigor, more audacity
if you please, in grappling with great ques
tions as In former years, the Democratic
party cannot, ought not to survive and
must give way to scree other younger and
more vital organisation. If it is to remain
hi its present comatose sate, at now the
beginning of a new epoch in public affairs;
it were far better that it shottld lie buried
oat of sight at entre. Certainly I do not
adiise'lltat, it shall move without occasion,
and waste its rpertluous vigor upon the
air. "Rightly to be great is, not to stir
withotet great argument ?" and it may be
months before polities and issues are suffi—
ciently cleaned to require to act at all. But
the rbpose of. conscious power and the
lethargy of , threatentli dissolution alai very
different things.
Another rat:jail:a upon Which the Den -
eratic party eau yield not, cue jot or title :
By every principle of its being, by its very
name, by its *hole record, It isinexprality
committed to hostility to all violation of
freedom of speech and of the press ; " to arr
bitraq arrests and to military oommissions
or the trial upon any charge, oktfitisens in
States and ?Isms ,sfhefe thejtautbd
nate With Wad b 4 jury are unobstructed ;
`td Stated or eauttpt Interference with elec
tions; and fdtha'Whole host of other wrouge
done to public liberty and private. rights.
There oatinever be peace, quiet, or-4011*-,
est, most needful to the 'human heart, hot
yond even physical health to the sjatem—
the mum of 'enourity, till all these shall
have treed removed Mg us. ' - But ufion this
chided question of constitutional liblmey
the Democratic party no longer Fronds
Mona. A large majority of 11(e roaseerr'ef
the Republican party, sown adding their
most intutintial pretend, and many of the
abler t mad braiest public men of that party,
as the votes and the powreful and many
speleihes in the Senate and House at the
late *mien attest, are wholly with in. If
he tresitient , Would by one Wad secure the
Itirgestpablio coultdence, let him .foribilth
restore the ;lA* cot pus, and proclaim au
edit lea &MO instillment! of Warty and
oppreseioti."
GEM
"SWAT= IlkifilETll AND rEanius i zi =ION."
THE MARTYRED EDITOR. •
The public willre'membar that in our bat
issue we called attentio e tt to the trial
progressing id the Circuit Court of Carroll
county, ,for Which the enormity dile crime,
its andadous pablicity; and-brutal perpe
tration entitles it to rank first among the
bhickest deeds. that diegrade Our criminal
reeortle. We deferred comment then for
the oli,victua andrappro'priate reason that the
evidence had been but partially elicited,
and-we expressed the hope *lila all who
respect the Majestyof our laws, and safety
?f society,- and the credit of our roiviltatiop,
most readily concurred in, that from the
sueeleding testijnorly some palliative would
be orisoerated, whidli would relieve it of HS
horrible aspect. The trial hat been con
eddia and the partied to ii, acquitted. It
would hardly be necessary for us to repub
lish tho revolting details of the positive
testimony ° in the ease, for it has passed
through the &ethane of the public press and
dolibtleas feed with all its terrible revel*•
tion of shocking depravity by every intelli
gent citizen in the land. It will net be out
of place for us now, however, to give
rea_uut.
as 6 htand point tor Of tetaarks:
The history of the terrible tragedy is tut
follows :—On the 17th day of April an
unknown, invisible and self-authorized body
designating themselves as "The Vigilance
Committee," sent. the following note to
Joseph Shaw, lato editor of the Carroll
County Democrat, the original of which
paper was found on the body of tild Unfor
tunate victim, and is now in the hands of
his aged Sather: •
WHIMMNSTXR, April 17, 1805.
Mr. Joseph Mate :
Btal—You ate hereby notified to leave
Carroll cntinty immediately—that is, before
sun-donn to day—under penalty of being
rode upon a rail out of town. 13y order of
Tug Vrettalmn Costarrrns.
On the same (jay a body of men represen
ting the aforesaid committee, attacked the
Asti of the deceased, completely gutting it
and destroying. beyond redemption the
material with which ho earned his bread.
The cases containing the type 'Were harneth
a valuable library destroyed, flip presses
battered and broken ; the Itylni,ture eon
signed to the flatfide, dad the destruction in
every respect rendered tion4loto. On the
receipt of the above note, the persecuted
innn reft his home and came to this city.
Believing all excitement had quieted down,
he negotiated for the purchase of tie* nig
terial and presses, and on the 24th of April
returned home for the purpose of again
tesdttlifig his legitimate tk,oootion. Whilst
in his room et night, this “itomtuittee," or
a similar body, piloted by the perhaps too
timid or credulous hotel-keeper, attempted
an entranee into his retreat, and upon hie
bristling the door, ?dr. Shaw was immediate
ly fired tlpan. Upon his returning the fire
of his assailants the light was extinguished
and the knife substituted for the pie'.
; the • awful tragedy concluding with
the dragging of the dying man down
the stairs to the barttlont, in his 'trait—
sitisti struck brutally over the head with
a olub, and thrown face downwards on
the floor, expiring amid the brutal jests and
obscene opidlots of his heartless assassins.
Barbarian tradition preserves no atrocity
more startling and -creel than this. the
anode of crime tarnish no pretedent thore
shameless, and no-condition of society more
demoralized than this. The °Bum of un
blushing guilt. has been reached, and a
Maryland jury sanctions and spree-tea the
( dreadful Ounsurtmtatidn. The heart sickens
at the gleknny recital, and• a crimson blush
tingles every - honest Cheek that a stigma so
foul should rest upon our State, and outra
ged justice brand with guilt the deoisietti of
such a jury. Good citizens may well be
alarmed when crime is encettraged and-thus
rewarded. The great. safeguards of the
leas of lied and man, are thue, licensed to
do their bloody work, and, unwhipped of
justice, turned loose to infect society pith
their malign venom-, -
It has never been our custom, and surely
not our desire to impugn the judgmedt of
our)uries atiff efitIOIC6 the notion of our
(matte. But. the murder of Joseph Shaw is
a ituioeot of no mean importatmei and where
(lentil:diens exist, we obeli he the last to so
tar depart from the solemn obligations of a
joins/di* as to pus them heedlessly by.
The blow aimed al the heart of an ..fittnible
editor, strikes the great unirersal guardian
of liberty and nroralityois dell as the mans
of community whom he represents. Had
the unfortunate man been buts rain °W
ren, he would have been living is --dal, add
we are therefore oordpolledt to recognise in
hie asseisetindrert a blow levelled at the press
of the whole country, and himself a martyr
to the responsible vooation which forme the
solid groundwork of civilisation, arereflity
and popular freedom. Recognizing It as
such, it not only ; stands before us AS the
ruthless, shocking butchery of a liftman
being, but invests it with the dignity due
to the position of a' public censor, ~We are
surprised, then, at the inditibretioe of t h e
treat of Maryland, tilted Whom the guilt of
acquiescence will rest if a partisan bias or
criminal fleetest AMI peitatt this htfritie
cringe to gd nustamped with the just con
demnation ot'Christlan hottainity, and the
jury that participated and rewarded thb
criminals, escape nnrebulted by an indig
tient protest.. We triad that with unfettered'
pane Bray trill resunne the independence
whiok bblongs to their milling, end which
thelte.bligstlons to themselves, Id ikw and
to jpAtitt )those diet they may not km.par
theiptura ill thb rirrolting Antormity for
'Wolk. Mete. *Retie° wiltretibr ReenirellottL
dble to ti just God - and sr people whore they
protein:l4o repteseng and tiiioll tfitom they
leave the todl Implitition of assentors to a
most wicked and diab,olioal crime. A con
temptiblb timidity is as cpbsurable in. the
present Instance as s culpable comilvance,
slid aft tii=titted silence. We trust then
that for the sake of their own reputations,
if got froin the loftier: motive of religion,
humanity and duty, they will supply the
punishment a derelict jury failed to Mete,
by branding the aoqui4cd wretches and
their aocomplices with the nark of Cain,
that s'a indignant'and outraged public may
rebit the' blighing fidget df *littious pro
scription at the authors, perpetrators. and
abettors of the disgraceful deed. In what
we hove said, we feel that we are but p;i•-
Sorming,-a-sad,..caletan.and.-ealentleart.44l. •
As journalists, in part entente tlith the
reputation as well as morality of coMmuni•
lies, we shall never shrink fiom the assas
sin's blade or the felon's vengeance in per
forming Litt' weighty responsibilities. But
crime is stalking with brazen cheek
throughout the land, and beneath the con
venient name of "Committees" black-heart
ed assassins lurk and excuse their damning
, trthe speoloti an libliurd
allega
tion of "opinion:lo salts,'-the-froileat r lasat.
excusable of all pretexts. A man murdered
for "opinion's sake," is a free republican
government! Let this go to the hearts of
every Anteridart ditiaen, that tor "opinion's
sake," a dissenting lento wields the mur
derous blade, and a jury of their peers—
peers in blood-guiltirtess, superiors in crime
—for one strikes down a representative than
the other outs with thlutintil intent at the
very existence of law, jnstice and society—
caresses the culprit's shoulder and exethims,
"well done, good and faithful servant." It
was for "opinion's sake" that one of this
Battle class of ,"Committees" struck down
the nation's head' and steeped a whole
people in tears and on the very day while
a national dirge was being chanted to
Heaven for the soul of the great departed—
even while the Militia of atonement were
wafted through the court-Bettie from en
ddjadeht id:tura—a detrdll dotiritjtjtiry had,
detthttlided td sandrion brtheir verdict the
liddleroutine of' fiendish wickedness.
There may •be some who,' from partition
bias or an even more unworthy motive may
seek to palliate this avtftil spectadle, by
alleging that the Murdered man' had given
offence by his past doaddth. We know but.
little of Mr. Shaves antecedents/ l and care
less. If he was ghilty of any viclatkirt tlf
law, there were tribuUe7 before which he
could hate &mil arraigned, and power
etiotigh in the authorities to punish him.
Thelma ife of the assassin ilia podr auxiliary to
justice, and hid jury that so far forget their
solemn duty, the reverence due to the law,
the stern demands of even-handed justice,
the duty due to sooiety, and the awful
responsibility imposed by a rightdthis Clod,
while they cannot relieve the souls of the
criminals, ought not to share with them the
major portion of theirguilt. It is the duty
then? of every good citizen in defence of
thdt Morality which elevates society and
sustains government, to brand as they de
serve both the heinous murder that darkens
our history and the iniquitous perversion
that disgraces our jurisitrudeacte.—Bath
more Sunday Telegram.
AN EMILY EtSSON
• "I well remember," said a gentleman," my
first lesson in hturtan sympathy and kind
ness to a strUnger. I tas then silt or eight
years did. My mother said to me one morn
ing:;--f"[ bear there is a sick sailor boy
down at the ferry whak in one ot•tho ves
sels. Do you want to go Sind merry him
something gddd td eat and . drink?" I
bought how it Would seem for me to go
down on such an errand• among rough sail
ors. I was afraid of being laughed et,
and I said I did not want to go.
"My child," said my mother, "suppose
you were far away from home? siOk, in psin,
weak and sorrowful, wodki you not be
glad to hem, some owe come and see you,
and bring you something yon Would like?
Ile is sick and. sad, With no 'nuttier or sister
to comfort him."
41 should like to go, dear mother,"
I went, and found the poor feline si
his berth,- and not ntiotheir nedi oSY bt
remember he Wras toutilflouched by
6bnilog and. waiting on him. This
need of iniroy, 'sown id my young
has been growing ever sines."
This gentleman is fldh, With eveekyti
the wo?1 ate give him to enjoy, am'
be duk.the highest enjoyment in yi(
the poor, sympathising with them in
misfortunes, and helping them. He
.
Sabbath School for children who
hardly althea to come, In, and a cot
teachers who sew and mike the pant
dred iartitients to Make the& °MAYON
He makes it big business, like kin DI
Blaster, to go shout doing
. good,—.o
Paper.
afire casaus.—Under the Condi,
lion a State census meet I.le !skew woe
ten years; and this le the yaler int efht , '
be td bb Made id I l euelaylmadm . The
Will probably bommenee la , June.
egwagneWatottas.—lb remarl
gist womeh are' a good 'dell hie Fro
watebee-- - letYpiety ''tor`tholifetibul, l
Ist }o militate when Chet Win
to actin weft.. • ••:
-A4 eiltleimart4 likavAlkOW/
Its **Psi Otftraiiilartie WON f
POP.
And there they met a pepping earn.
John SOW and Susan Cutter;
John Rites as tat ea' any or,
And SeMli fat Si butter.
A nd' there they eat ind 'Aiello.] 'the corn,
And stirred the sparkling Ate,
'And talked of ditierenaklnds of ears,
• And hitched their chairs the nigher.
'Thad Satan she the popper shook,
ThsiaJohn he shook tiie popper,
Till both their Awes grew ad
,rwl
Aeaaweepans made of tap pet.
bed thee they shelled end p4iipBd AV IL'
All kinds of fun eltkiking— ",
While he haw-how'd at her remsrks„•
Alms she Laughed sChls Ming.
.
And AM they popped and it'll they ate—
John'e mouth wasMe OrLEr.:--
•• 14 r"
Aurs ;fie find shook ic;-p;)7er.
The clock strask nine, the eloak struck ten,
-. 4 1 1hd still the corn kept popping;
It 'struck eleven and then struck twelve,
And still no signs of stopping.
And John he dtq, aid Sue she thought,
The corh did pop and matter,
Till John cried out, "The corn's talirel
Why, Swum, what's the matter?"
=!=
You'll did of
th indigostion I
l'utridOk "drill is pi - 016114f T . ;
Why don't you pop the question ?".
- -
THIS; THAI", AND THE OTHER
—More have been ruinett by their servants,
than by their masters.
—The Areb *omen who came to see Napo
P. 0311 wore nosegays in their ears.
—The fumes of burriing charcoal are said
to be death to worms upop trees.
—An Indian boy received a di• loma at a
recant school examination in Baena:onto.
Honitt has been plumsd upon the
English pension list for $7OO per annum,
—Not less than 5,000 photographs ol Booth
the assassin, hive been sold bg one firm in ton-
—A man behind the times le apt to epenk
ill of them. Probably they dett look well fioth
hehind.
—A foolish fellow in London who was try
ing to Imprao 4:111 The Davenport rope Lila—
hung himself.
—ln Paris an AralisiNgitt 'Ann appear
whose role; is So Unmans' tbat she sings all
pals for all voices.
—Oat of 70,000 soldiers who have gone to
the front from lowa, only one has been dilated
ed from the sorties:
—A nook of tutterillea Over four ;miles lons
reseed over one of the inland towns ut Califor
nia recently, for the North.
—By the . military telegraph in ooe year
there were i,800,(106 messages transmitted, at an
airerage cost of shoat flirty cents.
—The banisters of the grand staircase of
the Baron Rothschild's new mansion In Picca
dilly are said to be made of gold and plating.
—A letter-writer side itashington earl films!
of a marvellous proportion of besutiftfi *omen,
but many of them look totter than they behave:
—Since the war closed an immense tide of
emigrathei has opened to the West. Men un
settled by the fortunes of war, soldiers with
bounty money, are all guirg.
things well oonsidettid, *Mild hi&
vent many quarrels ; first, to hare it well aster,
tabled whether we are not dieputing about
terms rather ttin things ; and seemidly ) to 'm
antis° whether that on which we differ, is
worth contending about.
—Presehttattons are getting common. The
captain of a cariM boat ont 'West had JIM g .
presented with a Refiictof—fire year& "It's the
penitentidrt, In conaiderathm of the distinguish
ed ability with which he plunered a passenger,
cud then kicked him overboard.
—"No one should indulge in snob learrid
anticipationa,Waa the henpecked husband s
when the parson Auld him that he would be join
ed to-his wife In another world, novae to cepa
te from her. "Versed," said he, "I beg you
won't mention that circumstance again."
—A gay and featly° Engnehmen paid .14
v isit t o Washington Market, and espied some
*stern:ketone. "Aw I" said be, "mural yon grow
larger apples than ,those in this country?"
"Apple., r exclaimed rim render, "they ain't
apples. Therte mine green prgaa rye bee*
864E4."
fofloWitile *whited et western ato
p:eve° is the eloeierparagraph of the irutagn-
ME
11/... . .
-1
tOWO later
Jae df iair
of Mr. Davie act - thollpiir'ofkr=
has played its paurissit pais,,-sahowni fin*
be eeedillemi" tat Mdit , olleAlultie *Wien
which eyitipathy provides for eo many of.
the wesknecesia Amid Wittheditetemie
The illustrated papilla have stliaashol
ruoureea of edtempsogyitvitige is varyieliptlia
positions of the oarti:ve;, ttierprpkinj,po o, ..,
tographista have" Goofed tits eoutitry witlf
highly colored std, ertfirotelylitsighsatire
representations of the erottfetriltd, ;
Chadbattda have beeined over With .
blandest smiles while ravishing orthodei
andleaserwwith-eatiehigitatimudorerssiktiew.
Maimed and maudlin •genitte who dole litee
machine wit for the LowisyWe Jerami,
ve
ibis its lisninrant emunote oar ► Marl ag t
admliai,ly in unlidu Wilh.hie 41684 Ric
'disoriminating. taste; - - - •
Unfortunately for thf Pat ot
dilations of pea and permit, (he olfmr rir
port of tba,baptit4of Mr. Dells has
,bee
made, sad. the commandant of the par4l
- eithcitsd the capture, Ass:
given hit Itacotrnt of the detelfslo' the *off'
thy fbfititicildry *hose name was smoked
Isasi her the original falahood, and sire the
tMittlitig creditand Imre:soy, sad, not, a W
word is edid about , pettiCott tat • •
No. 24.
Ca Pritchard presents a
,nate-prost
cloak and a shawl to Mr. Beerensrp Bft4 64i
soldiers that 31r. Davis had these things op.
For his one part, he did not sesliva is pay
disguise:
The hoop skirtm the voluminous peacoats.
thti litinttet, the hithlicerohief tied aaound
the head to lintoeal the features, all ntrn
out to he etinply lies, invested for egeet t
and coolly discarded *ben tidy had seried
their dirty turn •
. . hint has teen matte - ofirors -----
.11011,,CalgiUmva-luson,444damplalstd44
who originated them, and everybody has
profited boy them *he hail a pifrPdte td Wig
frotti the seller of bawdy ptcture — s' uPenertfl. - .
eel beg in the Issibe of decency, that die
miserable forgery ha, now nailed to the'
counter, and a new eenlibicin itiudriestsd.— -
Petersburg Mew. •
—The oplitt id the. Berttill6o thirty
promises to be complete. The questfoo of
negro suffrage is tile wedge. It ji idle to'
point out the fact that as far as Congress Jo ,
Condertied It Itsi ho fight eilhesgrant. or
reftrse, the question of the right of suffrage
being • matter belonging entirely tothe
Mateo. Congress Will take the
legislate on the stibject, oteLleast_will-tfy
to take it. The fact of the want of power,
will not out thudh figure in the ;
The policy of granting tir refusing the right
to vote to life fuddle will be the point of dill:
COSsion. ,
From the dispatches, it will be see!! that`
PrePident Johnson lncline6 to the .11gThent
of his party which denies tills test-tight to
the blacks. On the Other hand, Chief jug.'
lice Chadd has declared hintseiftendranei
in tavor of granting it to timid. Jinderawn
such leaders, we must look to made hoar .
tile witige df the Republican party rellyr
The struggle will he desperate, aqd the di- -
'Mott broad and distinct. late 'gawped
that It Nillbe bitter and eternal , ; Vie Will*
wing of tilt! 004 Mist .owing tivas to e,..
Democracy, and eventuallr join with Opel, ,
in defending the law ef theletul.
soon be found that they nt's! be with I t riente,
not only in one bat all things. lt,is to „b% ,,
hayed thdt this result Will swig. II is roe
the good of the country it should, and it can
not come too stion.—Lociiville Denfocrai:
WHAT TEI BLAtit TROOPS WILe. •
exchange says tlitit; at the late Bastes! Ab
olition Leagtte trititing, Judge gal&r, bon
essential, df Philadelphia, "gale boats, the
black frOnp's fad* ebillent io no other felons
than that they, [Matte *bras and children;
should be on,an equality with the whiten;
and wonlk - not lay down their arms and
let . the oeuntry violate every doctrine of
the Peclarattott tlf tddepentience,,and tiring
ptinti le that finderiies Americas intattn
tions. Ile declared that there shall be no
pol Ikea' peace until IL can be made on anoli
terms as will place the negro on an equality
ibith the white man." go *e are to under
dad that arms bari lionti placed in tile
halide of negroes in 66AV that they ntgla
ae•nre by force that egtiality riitlt tLe
*RUCS 4hidi they [ had no hittie di gaining '
by laying 'Cain to as a Halo. *s:r'
upon this leans la shifted; 3Migis telly ',tit
ftnd eeery man of the - white nidisit'OrkYid•
against de tiekto'es and las dered4Y ite
m:mats-a empty shoddy trehntslanic: •
Sagas. Barroar--Mtui•lesa-VQpmiwolat
ttpplied indisaximinstely to ills tako pp*
cVetie party throp64out,S6vP4l44ohtit
soitioteti 4efirsOlg.iali 1 : 11 e:14*
if • If di( `oll '•ltlqfpr•
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