II
Witttoo for the Democrat'. Watchman.]
WHAT IS LIFE?
ST On. W. CRAM
What is 114 its hoperand pleasures,
We should pr i isittlie boon so high?
What its transports, what its U*l6ll/0 4 4
Clinging to, we fear to die?
Ask the wretch, whose doom is sorrow,
Cloth'd in rags and rsek'd with pain,
Coilid be hine hie, oholte to-morrow,
Would he live life o'er sisin
Vlslotto of the grareisettne him,
What bayohd he knoweth.not,
Doubt* and darkness coming o'er him,
Would he choose his present lot ?
4ak the rich man, bury tolling, ,
O'er•and o'er, 4iaatorea of wealth,
Pear forever in his dwiliing,
Ttoubletiheart and waning health,
Fleoing, when no man pursueth,
Starting, when no one is nigh-
Tiretis hoof what he doeth,---- -
'Would he lire, or would he die?
narrass'a though - hole, and weary,
. Straight the starer he would give
Questioner, Lb:grave is dreary.
Bright the sunshine—tit ma Aye:"
from the palace, richly furnished,
Full of tinselly and show,
Plates of gold and silver. bilrnisheil,
.Lirrors that tefloct thorglon,
To the mean, neglected hovels
Where the stirring peasant dwells.
Where his wife'end cblldren'grovel,
Loud the note of sorrow swells.
Etill, with beads that beat in angniah,
Still with leeriah, aching brow,
We had rather lie* and languish,
Than to death and darkness bow.
llserk the myst'ry—who fen read It?
Who can tell us why 'tis so?
Man of .Kitowledge, much we nee(Tt;
Let the words of wisdom flow.
'What is life, Its hopes and ploasurea,
We should prise the boon so high ?
What its s transports, what its treasures,
Clinging to, We fear to tile
Borrisburg,
HAVE THE STATES A RIGHT TO
THEIR OWN .REVENUE?
We propose to remark upon some of the
leading points of argument hearing upon
the issue of the taxation of capital invested
iu United Sates sectir:ties;
The question which first and most strong
ly presents Itself is, has the Federal Gov
ernment any power.to prohibit a State from
taxing the property of its own citizens
its own support! Or,tin other words,,Ntia
a State any right to its dim revenues ? For
reasons which seem to us perfectly conclu
sive, we take the poslton that a State has
the right to its own revenues, and, conse
quently., that the Federal Government can—
not deprive it of those revenues.
TheStateitmxlsted prier re - the 'ftirmal ioti
of he Federal- Gonettitt4ion, •and se inch
they were governatents, to all intents and
purposes. It is a pniversally admitted
principle, which we need not stop to etre ,
that government has the power and the
right to levy and collet' taxes upon all the
property of all its Mlken, for its own sup
port; and this power, together with every
other attribute of sovereiguty, was posses , -
od and esereised by the Slates within their
respective limits, in common with all other
legitimate nations,previous to the formation
of our present Constitution.
4The tenth nrtielc of the amendment.' to
the Constitnlion, prorated nt the flrgt see
elan of the firo ., t Vedetal Congress rea.ls as
follows :
"The power+ not delegated to the Coiled
Stittee by the, Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the Suttee, are resettred to the Uttes
rerpeet ively, or to the people."
in no pluce does die Conntittition confer
upon Congres%the power to exempt from
Slate and Municipal taxation the property
of the citizens of the diffel•ent Stales ; in no
place do the States surrender thejight
which they originally bad to their esti% rue
ileum,. Hence it mitio,,ftilleer, tinder the
eectiou shove tpioted, that the power of
taxation was "reserved to the States respec
tirely," and mill remains in the States.
What, then, is the true bearing of the act
of Congress exempting the capital inves
ted in United States bonds from taxation,
and what does it amount to ? Simply this
The States being possessed of the power to
raise their own revenues by the levy and
collection of taxes upon the property of
their awn citizens, and revenue being as
essential to the existence of a government
as the vital air to the existence of an indi
vidital, it is perfectly evident that a blow
etruok at thin great right of the States is rt
blow - at the very existence of the States.
if •the Federal Government may deprive
the States of one portion of their revenues,
it May deprive Meta of another portion. If
It may exempt from State and municipal
tatatiOh the property of one class of citi
zens of the State, It may exempt the prop
erty of all classes, and thee the States lttq
utterly overthrown. , .4
We diLnot deny the right of the Federal
Uovernmentlo its own revenues, but we go
deny its power to out off the revenues of a
Ititri.ta. It may enforce payment of its'own
demands, but it cannot lawfully cut the
throats of the States.
There is more in this thing than the mere
consideration of dollars and cents; or even
third its gross inequality and hijdetibe to in
dividuals. It involves the very existence
of the States, and of all our republican In
attliitiond. This infamous aet'iff Congress
by which the States are forbidden to raise
their revenues finn robe class of their ed
ges., ig elm inauguration of a system Which,
if lefiwpaidily oorketed, will result in
Fadical change of - opr form of government,
thi utter ovorthroy pt , the State", and the
centralization of all antheribein one abso
lute and Irresponsible head.. But the peo
ple are moving in the matter everywhere,
and,orring 'in the ,right direction. Thank
God, the warnings' of Washington in his
famwell /Admits, WO of Jefferson in his in
augural address and lest, message, are not
entirely forgollen.—Posefec iacksonian.
==To prevent the kitchen. door from
creaking, keep aawned ..girk-whoee been
some to we her in the evening.
U he Prinstrk tit -{kil;:tir
Vol. 11.
yoli , WON't, BUT YOU MUST.
'Mr. Republican, this way, if you please,
sir. We do not mean the caudid, indepen
dent man, but he who is under the party
lash.
Ten years ago you cried . out for retrenah
=int and - reform. You declared you would
not support men, so extravagant u the Dent
°orate. •
Time passed. Your party obtained pow
er. Hs corruption and extraVakanee cur
peened all precedent.
Your political masters oraokea their lash
over you, and you justified extravagance
and apologized for corruption.
Yon declared the Soutb was a bill of ex
pense, and we vilittld be better without her,
and paraded your faith by carrying sixteen
atm' Sage, in honor of the siXteen northern
43tates.
Your masters cried Union, and you shutt
led; "It must bo preserved." •
Your masters now say the Union shall
not be restored until the South embraces
the sentiments ot New England.
You embraoe the doctrine, and declare
there is no hurry abOilt restoring the Union.
Your master's called the Democrats "Un-
lon-savers."
You naught up the sound, and 'hissed it
from your throats.
Your master', called the Donn:Wats "trai
tors."
Yop halloed it Prom 1441 -top and valley.
Your masters declared that slavery ahould
not be interfered bith.
ltuu became ae strong pro-slavery men as
the Democrats.
Your masters said Slavery shoulereinain
unmolested where it existed, but should not
be curried into the territories.
You applauded the doctrine, and declared
it just and right.
Your masters said slavery must be abol
ished. -
You cried loud against "the actureed in
01i1 at ion."
Your masters said the nett-des were an
inferior race, and should not be plaoed on
an equality with the whites.
•Yob addueod strong - arguments to prove
that the negroes should tiever hale the
right - GI - sate or hold office.
Your masters declare the bloats equal to
the-whites—
You curse all who dare to insinuate that
God sweated bee race inferier.to another.
Your masters protested friendship fur the
poor man.
You gore eloquent egehlat the oppres
alone of the rich.
Your masters exempted the bonds held
by rich men from taxation.
You swallowed their opinion, and pro
nounced it good.
Your masters told you thin you belonged
to the decency party.
You strutted iu style, and sneered at the
hard fisted sons of toil.
Your masters now any you are no better
thou negroea.
Ton how In humble anbmission to their
decree, wallow in the African mire, and de
clare it good.
Yon arc the slave of corrupt men. An
invlrtintent used by knaves to promote sel
fish ends. You have no principle—no sta
bility—no minds of your own. Like the
weathercock, you torn as the winds of your
masters blow upon you.
We respect a political opponent who acts
independently and seeks to do right.
The man who, like an old fiddle, can be
made to pia, any tune, we despise.
If you . arc in favor of the burdens of
governynent being as equally dlstriAtted as
its blessings, say so, and set aosibrffigly.
If fou consider yourself better than:a
nigger, speak out, and act, for the interest
of wbite men.
Don't wait for the whip to crack offer
your backs to drive you into the party tra-
COP.
Act the wen, Act independently: It
will beget respect..—llohnes County l'aentetc
Rdwerd B. Ketchum, the forger, was
sentenced, on Saturday, in New York, by
Recorder Hoffman, to four years and six
months imprisonment in the State .prison.
A strong party of influential friends have
already gone on to Albany to solicit a par
don, and it is whispered that the new year
will not be very old befow Rdwerd is him
self again. The Albany Argus says that
Romeo 0 reely, George Opdyke,Devid Dud
ley FlekLand William E. Dodge wore in the
1 city a few days since, to urge upon Govern
or Fenton the pardon of young Ketchum
They were, fortified by letters from Chief
Justice - Chase end others prominent in na
tional politics. After this it will be no
wonder if great crimes should rapidly in
crease and small ones degrease. Rogues
will not now so much endeaver -to escape
'detection and trial as to &told stealing in
small quantities.• If they can Meal big it
will be all right—sympathy—good family
`respectability—high thoughts—genius—
Pardon! Bpt, woe to the little thieves!
Stealing little things is vulgar, but "appro
priating" half k million or a million is
grand t iilliodly has dignified that with a
place , at the right hind of "the goddess
Loyalty." With what mathematical preoi
sion the Recorder has ciphered out 'the de
greeil of,puniehleent I PriciseW y four years
and six months C---Patriet Union,
Discrres OF ADINIkITISIXO.—The editor
of ittilenton has baba adverti
sing for a boy some timapast as an apprest.
Um itt hie ,offlee. His persistence has '7t
last, been rewarded. Ile has one that
weighs nine pounds. The boy will-not do
any of the cheats this winter, .we presume.
except the milking.—Caseopelis Venfocral.
BELLEFONTIp,I'A., FRIDAY, JAITARY 12,18664
THE SOUTHERN SPIRIT.
. We like the manliness of the - following
article, from the Nail Era, of. Atlanta,
Georgia: We made sacrifices In the Soulli
air the sake of the revolution, 'which we
honestly believed Would result in establish
ing a wiser and more adValiced principle of
political civilisation than that inaugurated
and xnaintaiped by the American
Perhops, we thought too well of the pro
gress our oeuntryaien had made in the art
of self-government. Perhaps, we erred' in
thinking that the glorious era had arrived
when two nations, great -- , • 4 Frosperous and
happy, could exist 'aide by side, bound to
gether hi conimon incestral n traditions 'and
emulating eacii other in the sublime offices
of extending the sway of American Broth- ,
'oilseed over the emitinenC If so, we erred
In illustrious Company. Our plans have
toilet?. With the plans, our purposes have
perished. We return to 'the Union. We
acknoWledge theyplea, If we made sacri
fices for a providential war, we are ready
to make sacrifices for a providential peace.
If we were men then, we are men now, the
same men, though different as to aim awl
end ; performing at that time what seemed
a duty in separating from the Union and
performing at this time that which equally
heats a duty' in coming back, into the
Union. Would any sane man desire us to
go farther? Would any magnanimous man
wish us to criminate ourselves in this course
pursued? If we misconceived the resul
tant effeettrof eighteen oenturles of 'Chris
tian civilisation ; if we over-estimated the
axiomatic, truths of the Declaration of Inde
pendence no less than the reserved rights
of the States, as those States stood related
to the Constitution and co-related to one
another; then, certainly„ hafe paid
deafly enough for our Met Ifftiniiretationa
of the spirit of the age, and- dearly enough
tdo, for our ideal devotion to the. preroga-'
lives of American Freemen.
Suob is the attitude of the South towards
the past. Such, too, is.her position towards
the present. In each, she is truthful and
honest. In each,she is truly and thorobghly
herself and net another's. If she "is °net,
down" she is not. "destroyed." If she is
',hastened, she is not, and eminot he hutuil-
Under this bead the New York Daybook
says, ff any person desires to know just
W much he is paying for the negro, let
biat,iteep an account of his zu2chases for
,hrh — f - kis a an stri e balende between
fitted. If she has lost her property,
her altars. If the ranks tif her living sons
are sadly thinned, she will cherish the meM
ory of her illustrious -dead. With ouch a
past, with such a present, we are ready to
meet Ole future Providesre may ordain.
The future does not frighten ul. It slit
sery has gone, 1111t1 gone forever, we should
think it disgraceful to admit that our ener
gy, and enterprise, and skill had likewise
departed. We can be mendohanks to Prey
idenoe, without being slaveholders. Insti
tutions never make men. Men make insti
tutions. The larger-part of human institu
tions might perish to-day, and on to-morrow
mankind would rise.from their ruins to es
tablish the structural forms of opinion and
policy in other and grander shapes. If the
cavaliers of the South have deseendod to
the grave, full of years and full of honors,
they have fulfilled their destiny and yielded
to thednexorable dedree of "duet to dust."
One day our "Ivanhoe" will be written.
One day our ltichtrds and Itebeccas will be
better understood and appreoiated. One
day il indiee will be demo to their motives
and aspirations, if, forsooth, their brave
impulses and lofty aims hurried thew too
fast and too far. But, meanwhile, the aged
Puritan is permitted to Slii4eive the dead
Cavalier. We have no fault 'to find wi
the edict. We prefer his having time for
repentance and tears. If Cain auruived Abel,
acid if the wandering Jew outlived St. Pe
ter, ware content to see the moral of this
lesson brought home to the men of this
generation.
CARRY O'LANUS ON RECENT POII7TI ,
• CAL EVENTS.
[From the Brooklyn (N, Y. Iga:eel
: colored citizen has
come to gri9f in Connecticut. lie may ride
in railroad oars or crowd white trash in the
jury -box, but Connecticut save he cant vote.
Sympathise with Sambo, at the same timb
t congrayate Connecticut.
Which: shows my impartiality,
rl have no prejudice against citizens of
African desoent.
American citizens can have any deseent
they iike,
As to color, it itt a matter of taste.
Some may prefer " Wearing of the
Green."
Rome uNty prefer blank.
•For my part give me the Red, White and
Bide.
Boma phogle base their objections to the
African on the "scent" rather than the
.desoent,"
Samba' may tot be as fragrant as the Egyp
tian Lotus, which Clebpatra is understood
to have perfumed -hdr handkerolyaf with
whet she went down to the Nile to meet Mr.
o .'
Anthony.
[N. B.—•I hare this from the Artist who
executed llooley's drop certain.]
But this is 4ftie county and'everybody
has a right to select their own perfume.
I object to being led by the •politically or
otherwise. .•
I insist on giving the African fair play.
Being..a.man, and somebody's brother, he
has a right to self-Goverment.
Let him go off, somewhere and govern
himself.
Be needn't be particular where he goes
to, so long se he goes. -There are some
. • .nntriesr where hist Complexion if faahlOn
able ; where he oau lay off in perpetol
•aiairrs min iIIIDERAZ trznow.,,
sunshine, and tiro inhabitants are not troub
led with tailor'S bills.
If he has est his mind, on the ballot-box
be can. go to Massultasette, where his su
periority to the white man is recognized.
Particularly in War, time, when the privi
lege of doini all the fighting will be db 1301.-
fully accorded td blot •
But einuid the Africsn depart,, what ;
would become of the Republican party
No. 9 Court street would soon be miter:
tised to let to w small family without chil
dren. ' ,
Boss 'Gale *Quid have to turn hli atten—
tion to dome honest pursuit for a living.
Brother Tilton would have `to hire
handopit and peddlitl the procieds of his tin
gredding.
Plymouth Church woild pcbbably be turn
into a religious edifice.
Comthissioner Spooner would dry up, and
make an intorething fossil for a' glass case
in the Historical Society's collection.
Just think, my boy, what Would have
been the consequences if Noah hail signed
the ple4o before he came out of the Ark ;
or hie son Ilam known better than to laugh
at the rtight old navigator, tensile° he for
got to draw on the bedclothes when he went
to sleep off his drunk.
Then there would have been no colored
person—and no Republican party. No re
bellion. No drafts.
No National debt.
.No income Tax.
This shows the necessity for onoouraging
the Temperance movement.
I wonder Gough never used the African
as a frightful example of the ultimate re
sults of intemperance.
Ile can use this illustration in his next
MEE
It ought to bo a very effective argument
with tile Ame'icon 'tropic.
Think of Noah and imagine an African at
the bottom of every tumbler.
THE COST OF THE NEGRO.
• .. qaustsLiduhkAaummo.
articles could have been bought for previ
one to the War. That balance will repre
sent the exact oost of the negro to him.
For illustration that paper gives a bill for
muslin for family use purchased recently,
and contrasts it with one made for the arti
cles previous to the war as follow;
Mr. D. to
To 34 yds Canton flannel, 4.7 , c • . $l4 60
To 43 yards muslin, 450 . • .19 35
Before the war these godds would have
eoetit fUIIOWS:
MI yds Canton flannel, lie
43 yds maim, lOic,
Cost before the war
Cost since the war.
Cost. of the negro $26 00
While this is„ the amount of money oh- .
streaked from the pockets of the consuming
Classes through the agency of the war, in
one way or another, yet it must be remem
bered that it finds its way into the hands
of the manufacturing and capital classes.
For Instance, it.ia said that the New Eng
land mills make a profit on all light goods
of one dogor upon every pound of cotton used.
The stocks of all these nignufacturing Com
panies are double and tiorle their par rates.
The Newburyport herald states that the
James Steam Mill of ihat oily, with a cepi-'
tak of $250,000, has during the past foci'
years paid $412,600 to its stockholders!
The same journal states that should cotton
mds fall fifty per cent. lower thau they
new are, they will make
,profits never
dreamed of until since the wersomenced.
should ever be borne in mind that the
ehrewd Yankee Congressmen had no sooner
driven'the southern states out of Congress
in 1861,.than they proceeded at. once to pees
the blackest tariff ever put on the statute'
book,-and they seethed datintelned to 'keep
them out for fear it will be repealed.
They Aught the South to "free" the 007
gro With one hand, and filled their po ets
by monopolies with the other . do amain
up the cost, it is imipssible to say how
much has gone bare the pockets of the mo
nopolists, but It makes but little difference
to thq man that has it to pay. The cost of
negro is now a constituent element in every
purchase. lie exists in every yard of mus
lin, in every pound of flour, in every beef
steak, in every potato and every pound of
butter the poor man buys—in his coat, hall
pantaloons and shirt I There is no article
which is not advanced in ptiee to allow the
negro to 101 l in idleness and cotton lords to
revel in their one hundred per l cent. profits.
The poor mats ekes out a scanty substance
in thertimement house and the shanty—kbe
farmer deprives his 'tinily of books and
newspapers, And brine up his children In
ignorance, because their sweat is distilled
tom their broww . to Pifj , the taxes which
Make Sambo a vagrant and the Isaias
monopolist and millionaire. •
Spool:nen' of Niagara oratory are
rather stale, but here ht a bit,.iriated by a
trustworthy authority as mahout*, 'which
has not been in print before : ••Where, is
glurope masplired with 4,Merica t !towbar 1
Where o p England? . !towbar? They ea
England the taistiess of the sae but, whet
makes the sea „ The Mississippi liJer
makes it. And %niers got to do Istotstm
the bitssissippi Into the Alaminoth loyeamd
the Batilbk nary will bl ilotliderftig-in the
mud
A FEW QUESTIONS 'FOR. FANATICS
, Is slavery abolished as an Institution in
!the United States? If so, how wee it done
,unless the amendment to the Constitution
of the United States to that effebt was rati
fied by Statewin the Union t
Was the proAlaihation of Piesideat Lin
coln, abolishing siaVery; at, any binding
foice nnieserbinding on Mites subject to
the powers of the General Government of
the Union! If so, bow could the:) , be subject
to the General, Government uniesh they
*ere in the Union
If the Confederate Stake were out of the
Union, and not subject to its Constitution
and laws, but to their government establish-,
cdt.ially had they itot, power to create a
debt which mortgaged the land and proper
ty of its inhabitante, and which, being held
by foreign nation', at least so far, beOt,le
a debt not to be repudiated either by its
own subjects or by the cation conquering it
iq force of arms
lied the Confederacy succeeded in aece•
ding from the Union, and acooMplishing
the object of their rebellion, and subse
quently bad we, through purchase or an
nexation, United, sliould we not have been
obliged to assume its debts as well as Its
territory T If so, under a peaceful annexa
tion, are ire not equally liable through con
quest, if those States were out of the Union
and a distinct people with an esjahlished
government
Can any legislation by Congress, any ex
pressions in any of the proclamations or
measures of President Lincoln, any state
ment in'any of .our diplomatic correspon-
dence, any orders from our Generals in the
field, he produced. which for a moment can
be - construed into an admission on our part
that that! States were not subject to - the
requirements of the Constitution?
Then why delay to consummate the pur
pose of the war, to reestablish the Union
under the Constitution, and again unitedly
Rress forward toward the accomplishment
of the proud destiny contemplated by the
founders of the Republics—Boston Pool.
CORBY O'LAN US
Many people laugh at the idea or being
antra t — Z a doi's feelings, ae if It were the
height of absurdity ; and yet it is a foot
to pain, shame, and mortification, as any
bran being. See, when a dog is spoken
harshly to, what a universal droop seems to
come over him. Ins head and ears sink,
his tail. drops and slinks between hie legs,
and his whole air seethe to say„"l wish I
could sink into the earth to hide myself."
Prinee's.yoting master, without knowing
it, was the means of inflicting a mosPrilerri
hie mortification on him at one time. It
was very hot weather, and Prince, being a
shaggy dog, lay panting, and lolling his
tongue out, apparently suffering from the
heat. '
133 95
$3 38
4 61
declare," said young Master George,
"1 do believe Prince"Vroiild be more ors
fortable for being etared. And so forth
with he took him and began dirdding him
of his coat. Prinoe.took it all very obedi—
ently ; but when he; appeared with hit] us
usual attire, every one saluted him with
roars of laughter, and Pripoe was dreadfully
mortified. lie broke away from his rat4lter,
and scampered off home at a desperate inure,
ran down thb cellar and disappeared from
view. Ills young Master 'was quite •".
tressed that Prince took the matter so to
heart; he followed him in vain, calling,
"Prince Prince!" No Prince appeared.
Ile lighted a candle, and searched the cel
lar, and found the poovereiture cowering
away in the darkest nook under the stairs.
Prince was not to be orforled r. he slunk
deeper and deeper nod deeper into the dark
ness, and orduched on the ground When he
saw his muster, end far d 10iii time refused
even to take food. Tho futußy all vieiteit
and condoled - with him, and finally his
sorrows were somewhat abated ; but be
would not bo persuaded to leave the cellar
for nearly a week. Perhaps by that time
he. indulged the hope that his hair was be
ginning to grow 'again, and all were care
ful nst, to destroy the illusion by any jests
or, comments on his appearande.—Mrs.
97 89
•
i i• I 33 05
" RATEITL INOPPOZTONE.—The massacre in
Jamaica by the Negroes happened rather
inopportunaly for' llitcliause of Negro Suff
rage in the South . . ft is a crushing argu
ment against it: If there are snob things
as spacial, pz2videnees, that iheurrecition
must . have ban a special prcildenott, de
signed' to admonish our people not to_be,in
too great:haste in elevathig the Negroes of
the BonllC.to a political Oquapq 'with the
Whites. •
—There was &heavy leo freshet on the
West Branch of the Susquehanna last week.
It is estimatod.that over "event* Ave mil
lion feet of saw legs passed Williamsport in
one day—the heaviest 'loss ever 'austained
by Lumber-men in that seoLion:-
"My brethren," said Swift. in a sermon,
"Menage throe kinds of prole, namely, of
birth,• of Idaho * of intalleot. I shall not
speak of the latter, none of you being liar
Me to Wait abominable
see him On hie 01dies, CO," said
Mrs. Jenkins, as she sac Mr. Jenkins cork
sereving his way home, just its the shades
of twilightleefe creeping over the btadsespe
It to the °Aston of the doetar that the
law ergetehia Wang by-Amadei, orbits the
bawyor_Wikalio the doable. sets its by
aga . gr
A DOG'S FEELINGS.
-=- - The Fenian State Convention of Ohio
has declared for Roberts and Sweeney.
$ll n ohmic") Wenshive
1 —Secretary Stanton's friend; in Weskit's
torry that he is going out of ,the Osbinet.
No. 2.
Ega
Written for ehe Domoorstio Watoiunan.l
LINES •3'O BELLA.
A pair 0r mild bias eyes are thine,
Their magi o power I may ant tell,
Yet, 'round my heart they still eiltwilia,
With golden chains, sweet friendattip's spell
Within their beauteous depths i see
Lore and purity,,benven,born,
That lends s sweetness unto thee,
Like Sunshine to a summer morn.
In glooiny hour* I MIME of thou ; •
While musing o'er the faded put,
That angel form I still oan see,
Though far apart our lots be out.
The memory of those eyes to-night, ,
Of those blue eyes, so fond, so dear,
Is graven on my !matt as bright
ds when thy form wort ever near.
Within those love-lit orbs I tract ,
Unchanging love and raitti sublime;
Andbeauty of soul shines in thy taco,
Untarnished by the hand of time.
Like sunbeams is my memory lire
The happy hours I've spent with thee;
"Those days, now past, some sadness give;
Tot live, in memory, dear to me.
gasetl hitotrosa oyes ot thine,
And thought I Jaw some sadness there;
But thought thy heart too pure a shrine
To - cloud with sombre hues of care.
Thy soul, with wealth of feeling, seems
To shine through those dear eyes of blue;
May thy whole life be one sweet Vesta
Of inuoconco pure and virtue true.
O. W. I.
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER.
----There le no ianik thing as an cony chair
nit a disoontented man.
—Why 4i a miser like swotted timber'?
Because ho never gives.
—Put no faith in • now promise baud on
the breach of an old ono.
—Those who hoed not God's writ we often
forbad to heed the sheriff's.
a burden is leisure to a mind un
prepared for Its enjoyment.
--Why are some fortune's like ships? Be
cause they are built on stocks.
Why are people who stutter pot to be relied
on? Beestue they are always breaking their
I=
--It a lady Is asked how many rings she
has, mho fan say with truth there's sk4) and to
thom• ,
_Artomas Ward eV that his hair raison
bles lovers on the eve of separation. It Lollard
to part.
—Secretary Stanton and Judge lion hove
both declined to deliver the eulogy on President
LIZIOOIII.
--Any is the tooth-ache like an unanswera
ble argument? Because it makes people hold
Sheitjkw.
—Business is declining in New Orleane and
stoat hare been sold. for lees than the bricks
Walt worth.
—Steam communication is about to be re
opened between New Orleans and Aspinwall
via Havanna.
—William C. McCarthy, Republican, has
been elected Mayor of Pittsburg by a majority
of forty votes.
hue tient a modal to the Em•
• ass Eugenie, in recognition of tier visits to
the cholera hospitals.
—The Fenian Congrossihas not, as yet, re
stored harmony in Ponies. Roberto ham refused
to recognize its legality.
--a-It is elated that Senator Doolittle has
boon offered the • portfolio of the Interior De
pertinent, but has declined. ,
—During the war 0,000 persons were con
fined in the military prisons at Washington. Of
those 4,500 were State prisoners.
...—Four companies of regular eatalry, sere•
lug in Cumberland, Md., have been ordered to
report for duty in North Carolina.
—Arkansas is reported to be in a deplore•
blo condition:' Life and property aro insecure,
and portions of the State are threatened with
famine.
—The order mustering out general officer's
is expected to be issued before the 15th instant.
It is thOught Unit silty generals will be dis
charged.
—Darin the year 1665 the Pension De
partment admitted 40,262 pension claim, Mid
rejected 12,262. These are still 84,200 claims
to be considered.
binidredi honot Moo, whose
term had expired, were to 'ail from Vera Crus
on the 20th'ult. Their places were expected to
be filled by arrivals.
—Captain Semmes is Mill cronaned hi the
navy yard at Washington. He is strongly ,
guarded, and Is not allowed latermoutse with.
any one but his counsel. .
—.—Governor Corry;of Nubia, has been inau
gurated. Ins inatuputil professes to approve of
the President's policy, mid at the min time az
goes in &mg. of "ogre buffrage.
—The iecand aanivescary aqua tochlor lat.
Archbishop Unglue was eidehritted re Wednes
day at St. Pet:rider Cathedral, he Ram Toth,
Archbishop MoOloshy
---Brent hielar General R. G. Tyler hap
lo
sued an order ntergius the nattier 6f Dolower*
and the theaern Shore of ltferylind intit,ate
mllltatj , blateiot of Pennsylvania.
—The Milian !Waist/or at Washington)*
submittal' to our govertose4 a protest bone ea
Chalon Prooldeut agslaoa tMs witrieswit of
Span troth% hhe Clam pelvateoso anPlistak
Governor Andrew, ot . .Yeesteinuete,
limed hhaeolt r ot velodletory to the iterieti
ohnsotia lesidetere. Hie urpd awe new
and various other SONNOSIS IMS:aptAyllif to thr
loath. •
MO* Ta ovicat THE ABHI.II
"throw eentr3tenee t•the devil matt slats!
by your party," Will the advice Vaal. Me
te= gaVe his friends in the Pennsylvania
Legialatuhe, ,ken, in 18$8, he tried to form
upon that J3tete a ,einority taverner. It Is
writhing that Stereos is notlig iipon the
mime pribeiple now. Ifs says, in' his un
blushing speech againit admitting ttM
southern members of ffonspetra that IF ll l —
to kerfi &obi out in order to se
' tiiiitrife — aiteentrantijof -
Stevens knows fall well tbat_tf the liorrik
and the South can once more get together.
they will govern the eountry ark Wes gbh.
tamed %afore 'the war atottrrred, end hence
he strains every nerve to keep the Unica
broken up. 'Ma St makes Bale or as
pretence that he act! from any motives otia ,
er Matt strictly politioal or party ones..-%
bases may do so, but be prefers to go di
reotlyte the point, the preservation of the
Abolition party in power; mad this Markle
lone by the vassalage ittetilavery of eight
milllocaeli whit, melt ! Ile demands the
recognition of negro suffrage, although the •
`North almost unanimiarsly rejects It. He
deolsrlis that that is not a reznablican [ors
of government alters nogroes are denied
any of the rights of white men, thus 'arm
ing that Washington; Jefferson. Mattoon,
and all the world called "a republican got. •
ernment" for the past eighty years, was all
a lambing r Jfirabils ditto/ That we should'
have been compelled to Bee to dear Thad.
Stevens and Charles, dumper tell us what a
"republican government" is It is really
dreadful to think of. But so it Is-Sooner
and Wilson, Thad. Sieves. and Colfax are
now the statesman! America
But the most astounding spectacle ii,
perhaps, the fact that there is probably an
man on the Poor of Congress so'l °. eau suet
cesefully reply' to the argument as presdn.
ted by Stevens and Sumner. Hone, at least
have as yet tried. If "slavery" is wrong,
why are not Stevens and Sumner eight?
Who is there able to tell ? Speak eat, yp
marvellously wise men wits think that iii
gro subordination is inootopatible with trine
freedom and liberty. Speak out, ye model
Democrats, who think and my that the
'Abolitionists have done a - good thing to
bringing.upon tie °study Ikb equality of
the mem c
Ibt simple truth is, that there leno . pos-
Bible way under heaven to answer Btltveue
and iiitmuer except to take the ground of
the inequality and diferunee of the' rails.
Upon the ground of the unity Of the rases /
they have - alt.the argument and all the . phila
osophy with them, and there is no more
chance of evading the oonehesions they ar
rive at, than there is of dads's* a 'husk
of lightning. All the arguments published
in a thousand'aewspapers, if. they did nit
touch ibis point, and all the speeches deliv
ered by ten ihoUtiand.urator,. with the do,
quenee of Cicero, Demosthenes, Cif ind" *.-
Webster osaittinedi, would have no more
eifeirt than a pain? Whistle la a hurricane,
' 6 " 00 * 6 o 4.lalati.=3=liteilii
ling and titling, blowing their trumpets and
Oldness gongs, talkie% ranting, Deffing,
blowing, and doing everything and any
thing but to coote - to Usenet's:. They ought
to understand that this Abolition part'
rests open a broad and mighty foundation
—a fain one, it true-.but,„ at the tame
time, one that has been accepted by the
great intellectual, meal end religious forme
of modern society. It wet only the other
day that en editor from Michigan, who was
trying to be a •uoneerrative Democrat,"
informed ne with greet gravity that he be,:
tiered all the distinetiousbetween the mese
were art(ficiat—the result of climate, and
othlT cause. l We told him that he might
'to be an Abelitionist at ones I far if the
ztegro's color, hair, and mental inferiority
were the result of climate, or wrongs that
had been infiioted'upon them then the Abe;
litionists were right in trying to nude the*
and bring the persecuted and defortstaate
rade beak ...to its normal condition. Now,
when such profound ignorance as this man "
exhibited is found among men calling them
soiree Democrats, what can be expeoted of
the members of the , Abolition ptartyl
those whp are daily and hourly taught by
their organs of publie opinion,. the! all men
'of all races are entitled to equal rights I
There is bet one way to meet this gump
tion. and that is to deny the equality or
upity of the rms.. It Is not necessary to
bother ottrbMffirse to how they same to,
or 'where noFroes spralg freak- , whether
from Cain" Or Abel, or Nam or Cbus—ill
this argument is childish, puerileand irrel
evant.. It is enough for us to commence
with tho unanswerable feet that the negro
is a negro, just as much so as a be... is a
horse, or an or an ox. or as o*l an'owl.
If he io a different being front • white mas t
It follows he tenet oesupy - srelifireetposition
in society ; and that is all there Is of the
argument. After having got your untie.
niet to that paint; yell inue veil well afford,
to let him extricate himself if he. can. Let
him define what t his alerted position should
be—how he woultriiiittpt the dell laws to
meet those differences. Once let the argu
teent be narrowed down to' this point, and
the great fonadatigcs falsehood upon which -
the entire Abolition superstructure resit
trill tumble down in one grand heap, at once
Until we come to this, all attempts toyrer,-,,
throw the Abolition party willend in dials
inns Boot. . , .
—Major General Howard biota -gob the
Superintendent of the Free Negro Burson
at Richmond to haslet epos =sickle the fot:-
mer owners responsible for the ear* of des
titute freedmen. Genera Howard Judos that "
the name of any penal. refttsing to obey
this .Order shall be pronely 'epode' .to hit
at faelostoa s so that he may iq the ease
p;;eoa the P%Mitlatit , for kis &SIM
Wks is to 'sit book WI; Ito.. to so* to
work or be outdo tp lijd to bbißollrist
Leics. ilis Witte i sod If sliO *ea
refuses to wor4 grid WATS Oh evilest of
dub, Aso, we possoote, bb : meat Of
*poetise; blsosolf are to be Wks* si*ity .
hosrlds. Ws to tha - Arisfes of dice
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