/11 ... 1W1E5.
A. Lik/sinisidts g edlhmi pours,
Two mirehilled hoots or. seen,—
Two moles on the trampled shores
That Death dew. blmh between.
One marches to the' rum-beat'. roll,
The rr Ide-mouthed ohmic:deg bray,
And bun upon a crimson scroll,
"Oar glory I. to slay."
One jmores ha silence by the stflam,
With sad yet watchful eyes,
Cell as the patient phuiet's gleam
That walks the clouded sk les.
Aroljggifront no sabres sbir.,
No blood-red pennons wave;
Ile banners bear the single tine,
"Onr duty Is to save."
For those no death•bed'a lingering shade ;
At honor's trumpet•call,
With knitted brew and lifted blade
In Glory's arms they tall.
For these no elaahialr Nob lone bright,
No stirring , battle ery ;
The M00die...466er oalls by nigh:
Nebo answer.. , 'Nere am I!"
For there the soulptor'• laurelled bust,
Tha builder's marble piles,
The anthems pealing o'er their dust
Through long sathedral
•
For those Ile I blo.som•sprtnkled turf,
That goods the lonely graves,
Wilms Spnng rolls In her sea-green surf
IllorrorY-fearnlng waves.
Two paths lead upward from below,
And angels watt above,
Who count eaoh burning Ilfe•drop's flow
E==Mtl.l
Though from the gereo bleeding breast
Her poleax freedom drew,
Though the white lilies in her erest
Sprung_ from that rearlet dew—
While •alofs haughty champions watt
TtII all their mane are shown,
Love walks ustehallenged through the gate
To 'lt beside thd throne!
---Errhange
JOHN - QUIN ADVERTISETH FOR HIS
DOG
The dog is a very useful animal
That se, when he is active in the pursuit
of rodent vermin, flard . o . n't bite.
As the high school compositions always
say, "be Is the friend 'of man," and of wo
nita too, for that matter, and boys and
girls and ohildren fa arms, and every Ca
rieiy of the human race. lam partial to
dtge Always like to have them about the
house. They have such an intelligent way
of running right into the entry, and letting
you know when anybody is lurking around,
and then they "bay a deep mouthed wel
come, home," when you've bean out. which
is very refreshing - To be sure, they some.
times howl a little to mach at night, when
you (Main 'em up In the back yard, but
this is easily remedied by a proper applica
tion of boot jacks and paper weights. I
own a dog, black and to it terrier Has He
ears slipped to a sharp point and his tail
amputated. Tail points straight upwards
now, when it was first cut it was Inclined
is curl. Tendency was so strong that
threw the dog into a frightfulaeries of Mali
vomersaults, that mutt have ended, his ex
istence if I had nt tied hint down. After
that I put the fragmentary oadual In splint.,
and be gets along now with only a slight
hitch in his hind legs, that giver him the
appearance of traveling in a esontlnuous
canter.
He was a nuns dog, used tp look vir; fe
rocious and dy around the room when any
body IMlU•rate," although I never knew
him to catch any. But he was great at raw
beep • In that respect I never saw his equal.
He answers to the name of "Jack " I
supple* there must be several aging', dogs
who rejoice in the same corrupted cogno
men. Jack strayed away 'a week or two
ago, left the manna of my hong, for the
dealt pole of some beguiling stranger, I
'appose Missed him when I came home.
!liaise seemed empty wil,beig him, Inc
"bark" waiin't ..on the . iiechl'Ol• in the par
lor, or in the second story front, or any
where elite. Children cried for him, while
our Thomas opt no longer mounted hurried
ly cog the chairs and tables ai he approach
ed. r digressed. I consulted my wife,
I advertised for him, offered five dollars
reward. Advertisement appeared iu the
morning papers,
Rind t . thy dour hell abiut 6 A. M.—
Whole fiailti 4n bed. Rom and put my
bead out of the ?window. Man with two
spotted dogs, that looked as if they
ust recovered from a severe attack oilEs
measles Fellow looked up and wanted to
know "if either one of them was him."
Don't use profane language, so simply said
'no," and shut the window.
Door bell rang eighteen Gibes within the
neat hour Got up at last and dreseed.
Began to eat my breakfast Aunt her ring
at the bell. Short man with shiny hat.
Wore whatiny oldest giVicalledi.spivaiwilice
Ilad • bull dog, with a head like a oast.
iron water spout, and crooked legs. Said
he'd found my dog. Told him that walint
him. Said he knew it was, rather savage
Dog began to growl and look Paid at me.
Mourned a mild, persuasive tone, and de
scribed my lost amine. Fellow said, any
how ha eras a better dog than mine, and he
guessed that he would leave him. I said I
wouldn't have him uhder any ciroumstancea
Fellow pushed the dog, and said "8-a—
ketch 'em " Dog made a dash at me.
Dprang inside and shut the door in his
foes. , Went into the parlor, and watc= r
him leave through the front gate.
another man coming In. lied • tidiculo / us
poodle with a brass collar around hie neck.
„Threw up the window, and told him thil
v,
wasn't my dog, so he nI n't.,. bring him
lie eyed me with • Bali et ifinile,, a, . '
said I ceuldn't afford to o a dog like that.
Told him I didn's wont to, either. Said
that 4eg had killed his nineteen rata in four
minutes, he bad. Said I wouldn't believe
him If be crossed his brimfull° It. Fellow
then dared me to come out. Said he would
poke ma In the nose, or something of that
sort.
I didn't go out.
Another ring at the bell. This time a
fellow In a fur cap, and a yellow miaignal
that had but onollys. Asked me in had
lost a dog. Bald yes. Fur cap said he
bad found him, and wanted the reward.
'told him that wasn,t my dog. Fur cap wan
ted to know if my dog wasn't named Jack.
Said he au. He then ealitothis billions
looking canine by that name." Dog flapped
his attenuated , tail agalltat the pavement
three sr four times, and flung his endue
eged-optio around in a wild sort of. style.
Wasn't convinced, however, lired the fur
cap let, after breaking the third command
'eat In a most horrid to .
Hadn't got fairly in the house bedsore
there woe another call. This time chap
In tattered raiment, nothing port& About
him but his nose, and no Aue linen on him,
or course either, as far as I could see. Had
big Meek and tan farrier with ifim. flog
looked a good deal soared. Ma away of
r olling his tan between kit legs. My im
pression is that the fellow went out and
hunted up a dog to et the rewaril Didn't
seem to take kiodicto his education. Syn
tax was defective. Bald he had 'latched
back tlifit dog of yourn." Told him that
he ran not the one 1 bad lost. Fallow M
ead that it was. Seemed rather down
hearted because I 'wouldn't lake him. Ask:
ed ma it I didn't ob Meer glad the
dumb boast was to see me. Said I hadn't
observed it, Fellow said I'd regret it if I
'u . 'hi Plio-ralit . - 11VAfthii4Itit',,
' VOL. XII
lot such a ehasee slip to get • valuate,'
beast. Bald I guessed I'd have to lel tier
slip. Then he the% awhile, and asked me
if I wouldn't lend him Bre...dollars anyhow,
and take the dog is secgity Told him I
Awes unable to perlielve It precisely from
that standpoint. Soho went away, looking
as if be felt hurt.
Then another man came with a fierce look
ing hound, with hairless tail Hound
rushed right at me, and commenced exer
cising hie olfactories up and down my Crow
sere. Looked as if he might bite with very
little provocation Man said he'd brought
u' dog Told him rather sharp that my
do l l was a terrier Said so was this one.
Caught rale before hi; eyes were open. and
had been engaged iii- , ,that blood thirsty on
eppstieth regularly ever since. • Told him I
couldn't take him Man said he wouldn't
leave without the five dollars Said I would
see him In the tomb of the Capulets first
FeHolt thought I was swearing at "I, end
siren &tyke Deg toot it upright off, 'flew
at metofi'd tore my lrowsep, besides tast
ing my flesh. I escaped into the entry,
shut the door nod locked it Determined
not to answer all, more ring" !tell was
pulled two hundred and seventy fire times
more. Didn't answer it UnderMond af
terwards that several of goy friends had
been to see me, and gone away offended
About dinner time went up and looked out
of the window Found seventy five or eighty
men there, all of whom bad dogs Bull
terriers, spaniels, setter pups, bloodhounds
doubled nosed pointers, Newfoundland',
lap dogs, whiffits, greylionnile, mastiffs,
mongrels. Dogs with etraiglit tails. curly
tails, bob t f uls,and tails at all. Yellow,
biack.whfie,brown, spotted and flea bitten,
4 Suppose that every variety of dog that
ever went on four legs- or three either, were
gathered in my front. yard. l'ut the sash
up and 'attempted to disperse the crowd.
Crowd all commenced to talk at once. Dogs
all howlit yelped, barked and snarled
Couldn't hear my 'own voice, and shut the
window in 4lsgusl.
Haven't seen wry - dog yet. Don'l ever
expect to ego m him. Don't wat2t,,crer to
■ee him, or any other dog Rare aeon
enough of dogs to last me time balance of my
natural life it
Horrible stories are to circa! at 1011„eon-
Dealing dogs with restaurant sausages.—
Dope my dog is tucked away in sonic sau
sage skin Wish ail the dogs xere made
into one large sausage, awl the fellow who
owns the dog with the hairless tail, thpt hit
me, had to eat it at one sitting.—Es.
THE OBJECT IS CONSOLIDATION
It is useless to argue the, reasonableness
or unreasonableness of any of the plans of
restoration proposed by Ito Rump Congress.
It is not a question of the propragy,.to the
constitutional amendmente, of the justice o
negro Suffrage, or the wisdom of the quack
prescriptions given by the Radical doctors.
The objection to them mural and unanswer
able. Congress has no power to impose
conditions embracing the government of
States to their represanattion in the Union.
However unobjectionable in ttool(any prop
osition might be, it should not be admitted
in the form of lh condition COai r re at
tempts to dictate terms of representation to
Virginic It is not seen that the right to
the case once adm itred 4.l.pliet,,the right to
shut the floors of Congress agaihst the rep
reseutativim of Missouri, Illinois or lowa 1
Negro suffrage to Site but a single instance
is not insisted upoo . osy a penalty to the
~„....The law for the punishment of
(realms, or rebellion or whatever you may
choose to call tt, does not prescribe such a
penally, nor do the leading radicals e s
Stevens and Sumner, announce this a. the
object of the enforcement of negro suffrage
They have obtained tee consent of their
parly . to f demand the enfranchisement of the
i rl
South When Nebraska asks ad Haien
they et epee make negro suffrage a condi
tion. If it is right in the cede o South
Carolina, why not in the line of consolubt•
lion, and we shall have Congress shutting
out the representatives of every State at
the North who cahoot Show that negroes
ever voted for them.
The leaders of the radical party are at
work for something more than the tempora•
ry advantages of, success upon any one of
their articles of party faith. The ballot is
to be given to the negroes because, as Sum
ner says, Radicalism ''needs the . votes of
the blacks." But bank of that is the one
idea at the foundation of radicalism—the
idea of consolidation of government, cen
tralisation of power, repognitton of }he right
of Congress to enter States, and prescribe
the manner of administration of local laws,
dictate their provision, and in all things
t r.p absoltite power,. (rota ( the exercise of
the functions of s constable, Is the admin..
istnition of offiee- of the President; from
regulating municipal and county affairs 40
legislating for States and for the nation.—
✓uckson Pptrioi.
How TO Ore KID or 1110 NATIONAL Dior.
—"Tharp are, comity millions of people
in the North. It eaoh one of these would
destroy. • five cent currency note daily, it
would amount to • million of dollars In a
day toward the removal of the-National debt.
If Ala were done every day for year it
would diminish the debt by tree hundred
and sizty-Eve millions of dollars yearly,
which Is morsAtp the whole internal rev
enue produces."—Y Ronan, Post.(Rad.)
Thereupon the Roctiestel
.(N Y ) Union
(Dent ; ,) discourses
"There are twentimillions of hairs on
one or more yellow doge. If each of these
hairs could be made to yield a dollar a day
every day fir a year,atgrc_would he enough
realised by this time twelio island to pay off
the entire debt and leave several thousand
millions in i the treasury. We presume it
will requirthd very elaborate argument to
prove that this plan of "getting rid of the
National debt beats that of the Post all to
pieces. Any one can see at 'a glance that
it yield. and pays off more rapid ly,and,what
is beet of all, leaves a handsome surplus for
somebody to steal
• —A Story is.told of a Soldier who,
about one !Kindred sod fifty years ago, was
frozen in Siberia. The last expression h e
made was, "It is lie then froze as
!stiff as marble, In the summer of 1860
some French physicians found him, after
haring laid 'frozen fmanii hundred and
fifty years. They pada* thawed hire,
u
ap pun WI Imation being realoSeti, he con.
eluded hie sentence with "ceedingly cold."
BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ‘Sq ; 1867
THE RADICAL REVOLUTION-ANOTH
BI STEP FIW(ARD.
The Jacobins, It will be seen from our
Washington telegrams to-day, hare hit on a
simple mode of dealing with the South than
any tha‘has yet been hatched in the Ash
ley, or Philips, or Butler's brain. A bill
Ilea been prepared which merely provides
that military governments shall be estab
lished in the several Sintea, under General
Gran l / 4 without reference to suffrage, Con
gressional representation, or anything of
the kind.
We are ant informed whether this,lnflitti:
ry dictatorship is to be perpetual, orluten
ded slaty 4L'Oetirail until the Radical plan
for attaining possession of the government
by carrying the next Presidentlit election
ie cru . fail acrumph In either nose it will
answer the Radii:elle' purpose--the keeping
Of the South out, and the keeping of theta
/mires in
To remand these ten Southern States to
martial law, of course necessitates II great
army to enforce the law,—mid as a great
army means the appropriation of millions
and radians of money to support 11, tic, the
people, may as well get teady tor the extra
'berth.) there are in lily good ,iii Is who
think the country is laced already as much
as It Call :tear—hut the Radical.; conically
dunk a gontrmany mole frallier4efill he
placed On or lather the nn
Moose's) back—without breal.,•iig it tt
any ruin they are going to liy it. ,""
So far as the Sow li itself is columned,
we do not know that it noel complain of
this new 9011M1111, of “destruction " Better
be under ti unreal Grant and tho military
Olen under such creatures as Parson Brawn
law, Jack Hamilton, and J Madison Wells
'Shoulder Straps" would be a sort oflwhito
mane govertmnent, after all—and that
would he an improvement on the 4ybricl
mongrel Freedmen's lture . ou 1,0111-League
systems, them are now obliged to endure
But--no nuttier about the South, or the
"rebels - -nor the "ex-rebels." Title new
scheme is one that, no we have shown, will
affect every tax payer, North, East and
Vest It will , be one more step towards
enslaving the laboring population, and re
ducing the manses of the people to the same
level with the tax-burthened serfs of ‘r,u
rope—all for the benefit of a fanatical Pu•
rilan high-tariff, big-bounty Oligarchy—
nothing more—nothing less —N 1" Ex
pos+
THE-SLOWING-UFr OP THE MONAS
E=MECI
The late tragedy mulcted by the Greeks
in the Island of Crete, in blowing to atoms
a convention in which some hundreds bf
them—men, women and children—had ta
ken refuge, carrying with it instantaneous
destruction to themselves, in order to pre
•ent being taken Turkish prisoners, and to
involve theitrnemies, who Were crowding
in, in a still greater catastrophe, is ono 'of
Giese' sublime and heroic nets of desperate
valor that will shine /esplendent in history
in all tinie to come. Not in the annals of
Greece in its palmy days of glory, when it
was superior to the rest of the world iin
arms, as well as in literature and science,
can there be found any thing that surpasses
this remarkable act There 1.1 is It the
Maine spirit that conquered nt Marathon
sad Thermopylie three thousand years ago.
It na the spirit which enabled Alexander to
make the circhit of the knoiirn earth in his
extraordinary series of conquests Conte
nes of servitude the moat degrading, of
oppression the most unexampled, have not
stamped out of del race those qualities
which in other4nota made it so renowned.
This late traged,4ltielittly have perform
ed is worthy to be celebrated in verse like
that of their ancient poet, Minor, whom
immortal pen could not giin birth, eyed an
idea, to greater human resolution and cour
age. There is life indeed in the old land
yet, vitality strong in its purpose ! How
intense must be the hatred toward, and
bow groat the despotism of the
which led to snob nn awful immolation--
How monstrous that communities which
are thus antagonistic, and which chin ink
such feelings, -should be coerced and bound
together to one political systeiV What a
union is Gilt between these populations,
the attempted maintenance of which is the
cause of suoh atroeiVes.—Coscoviott Enqui
rer
No OFFENCE TO CALL A; MAX A Taairon.
--A most extraordinary decision was made
on Saturday in the House of Representa
byes. While it was formally pronounced
that to charge a man witliasserting t'a base
lie,"was an offence deserving of the censure
of the liouse--a deomion of itself to which
no one desirous •f preserving the order of
a deliberate body objects—it was virtually
declared also that It to no offence to call a
man € traitor. The imilhpriety of which
Mr. Hunter, of New York, was guilty, was
expressly based on the previous allegation
of Mr. Ashlfy, an quoted by Mr. Winfield
If Mr Hunter deservesfonsure for permit
ting an honest Indignation to get the better
of his sense of pariianientory decorummire
ly the man who cOull charge his petti.op the
floor of the House of Representatives with
guilty of treason is no leas' censura
.ble,„llis charge, indeed, 'was as offensive
as it could well be made It Implies cow
ardice, perjury and treason. In declaring
that there were "men there who, during
the entire war, were in secret alliance with
the rebels," he made the charge of (reason
that violated an Oath of fidelity to the Con
stitution, and that was too cowardly to per
mit its dark workings le come to ltgh v l. The
dominant party, however, that was so gross
ly offended at the amputation of falsehood
on one of its members was unaffected by
the grosser imputation of treason, perjury
and coward tee made upon several others
• MORI .. GRAND MORAL lur e" Psortr.—
Mrs. Annie Ashley, the wife of Ashley, the
member of Congress who preferred the
t'lreasge charges" against President John
son, and asked for his impeachment, has
heon arrested in Wnshington, charged with
thyilwaing to shoot a woman who gave Th e
teof Martha Cunnitirgham The corn
*Mint alleges that Mrs. Ashley threaten
to shoot her If she saw her walking yith
Ashley, M. C . anti t i fterwards said that
she would shoot her se cremes she met her.
It is alleged that the cause •f the ditlisaultg
was a not altogether unfounded jealousy oil
the part of M. wife Mrs. Ashley
gave bail to appear to Pollot. Court and
answer to the charge—Es
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION."
WHAT OF THE NIGHT!
The war of OWOI4B has ceased, 111 , itt the
country has net yet found repose The
winds of conflict no longer bellow menthe
deep, but the wa•es are still running moon
lain high.
Antagonistic principle. tee i t work in
the American cotnieunity,—pr.neiplee as
old as the world itself All societies that
ever eiisted have fallen under the dominion
of ,pne or the other of these pri;Cities, or
beep divided their forces between them
(Me is the principle of Conseriatism, the
. other thee of „ fenovation The one is only
imlicitioun to retain prevent possessionsaind
cares not to risk them in the chance of get
ting more ; the other values what it holds,
only as capital ray future acquisitions Tho
one his prudence for its motth ; the other,
enterprise The one steers by the past;
the other look' to the future The one is
cautious, and Jostles rest and security ; the
ohm is *bold and sanguine delights iu
achievement, nuiPprefein the turbulence oh
agitation to the enjoyment id Me chum cum
di:pintail .
e
menu starring principles have ouch 1(4
Mincer to fulfil In 11. e economy of society ,
and when dilly noting upon and a esteeming
each other, the combined effect is logl.ly ,
advantageous to Mona/ . progress They
are the centripetal and contafugal forms
which tenure., society front the dark and
listaal chaos tit revunit ion, 11114 guide ii in
swift and glom°ue saireer around tie 41111 of
civilization without the pause that perished
lake away either, end the result tonsumety
a drailg ,—I II Ilie one can:death by 11141111.
ton n un neeny, the death of the drivelling
dotard ,—in We other case, death by vio
lence and tumult, the death of the strong
nom writ kiwi in agony and expiring iu
convulsions. Tile perfect example of anal_
toyedconservatism is 19111111, One ported
example of unchecked and rennorselesaeln
novatioli, is to ho seen in the French nation
during Omit parttime of' , liborly whose
frightful excretes mimed 'Europe to blush
its inhume in blood.
The innovatii.g principle is essentially
aggressive, and is the stronger of the two;
and but fur the ex•ernal aid which conser
vatism receives from lire structure
Of society, it must always be vanquished in
the end. Just as iu n battle, it requires
more courage to stand a charge than to
make one ; so In the moral world it is lim
ier to meintam a conservatism position
than to rush foiwerd with eho its of antici
pated victorylwou the already wavering
loin of antiquated Nieto!. and encient in
stitutions. When, i herefore, innovntion
peals its trumpet for the charge, the stout
eat Bobber of conservatism may well look
to his weapons! Happy if he be not tram*
pled beneath the radical rush, pouring
ruthlessly over his mangled corpse,—.
Torqurnia of old drove her chariot over the
prostruM hotly of her father
Our Constitution, which is our organic
structure, does not present any adequate
fortress iii,whinth conservatism may intrench
itaelf. There was a cheek to the fury of
aggression in the dock Mc of Slaln; rights,
which (the South endeavored to maintain.
But it has proved lob feeble. The right of
secession was not plaint; itiscrtbed in let
ters of brass on the pillars of the Constitu
lieu, as it should have been. It was only a
matter of inference ;—inevitable infttrenee
as we believe ; bit intermit,. lave not yet
been ellequale ear s to the aggressive pas
sion Logic haso hit for the mouthof
(lint fiery steed.
The constitutional check, such as it
was, has been ,wept oway ; and conservat
ism is left to its uteri 'resources! Those re
sources, unaided, hove never yet been, able
to bridle the storm of revolution Ii re
mains to be seen whether executive power
and judicial decisions will be obleto re
strain the ambitious Titans who are piling
Ostia upon t'oliou iu their frantic eagerness
to scale the Olympus of the conetiintion
Will .the President and the courts rulathe
istornor be its serf, and its trophies'
Whet Neptune is there to lift his placid
head, with qumposed rind godlike • mien,
above the surface of the billowy deep, and
rebuking the presumption of the whole,
remand them to the eaves whe:lee they hail
escaped' When the revolutionn7 forces
of society ore tarot° into wild and rest'stk,r
flood, the conservative man has often non ''-
inshleft hint but to fold hie arms and drift
wait the current, though it bear him to n
Niagara --
The revolution in 111111 government has,
perhaps, noetysettsan its! full (aurae. 411
revolutions havea central idea, a control.
ling, vital prinmple,—not always under
stood, but altrays present. The central
idea of the present revolution is national
consolidation. In defence of iteopposite,
the souerewn , y of the State., the South look
her stand, foil resisted even to the sword
lint she woo overwhelmed. tier banner,
a loe, bathed with the blood and the tears
of a gallant people, is now lead Wray to
moulder in dark corners, and the spider is
weaving its shroud Tho sword, in vain
vittortous on many hard fought fields, has
been returned to the rust of the scabbard.
The last argument, the Whine ratio, hat
been exhausted; what further logic remains.
None Tho yirwi principle which gave
birth to seoession perishes with the failure
of secession, and the rights of the Sates
He prostrate before o consolidated deepot
-190, built on the ruins of the Conetitution,
and wielded by the passions of an absolute,
unchecked revolutionary majority Where
will they 'stop? Revolutions run their
course, as the eters run theirs.
B*r.will their be no reaction ? All his
tory proves that there *fin tui ebb as wettless.
flow, In the questidan.a society, The her
esy of one generatieti beoomes tile truth of
the next. The martyr of ono 'age is the
saint of the succeeding ; and NI traitor of
the sineteentli century cony be the hero of
the Mentietli. We believe there writ be a
reaction, even though the process through
which we are now passing should first
orush the States as grains of wheat are
ground between the uper and he nether
millstone The Northern people, bred,
from the infancy of the republic, in the
Hamiltonian philosophy, and viewing this
country as a ration instead of a confederacY
of nattons, are null busy in crushing every
trace of the dootrineief State Flights beneath
the heel of power They eau .n. .
°lin liberties in thus flostroylog ours ; wo
hare'thal drop of eousolatiou. And there
is a drop of hope at the bottorn of the cup.
Ideas are, by their verg nature, imperish
able 'Tho ,armies arrayed ir'Yfilefenee,
may be scattered and disappear like the
pageantry of a dream; but the idea remains
long slier the iS make le . the conflict has
Psee'ed.away There ix no wcapod tharean
spill the life blood of an idea. Rev°lutioas
have their sonic es well as indi•idualip and
thoa art to dust returnost, 1[4 , 3 not
spottn of the soul." The echoe's of wit
may aink . tomMpers, and fiaally be
no more among the bills and hollows of a
distracted hind ; the waielt of revelation
may 1)033 away in ripple. along thedritn , l..
less Wadi itc time . the all beholding Gnu
may “see no store in all ho. course" the
heroes who tom figured so largely to the
wolld's eye, mere events may be coot far
back into the night of auts ; but the souls
of grirt principles. are Immortal' ; and, by
metempsychosis, they descend to other gen
era4ons, dw ell in oilier bosom., direct the
movement of otber.soctettos
The Idea of Stattisovereiguily may sleep
for a bundled years, such is fi equent ly the
case with those great ideas which are the
parents of revolution. The idea, fur exam
ple, which'expelled James '11;1 from the .
1111011 P of England, was born. !tag before
Javnes,„„ill. .borin ; and that idea, after
linvitig•ltTelticed . fh. —great ri.b 'llion ' of
Croine4lTs time, step; during all the reign
of Cheriet II So, too, it wll , l be, we troll,
With the idea ofSinte sovereignty It may
slumber for a dentin) , but it will MA ho
the slumber of decry • It will resemble
rather the c din repose of the sleeping
Beauty in the fairy tale, who retajjfil all
her fredmoss and all her youth fur a bun.
tired years, held a passing Prince betarno
enamored of her beauty, and the spell was
broken So, too, shall it he with State
sovereignty—, S mine future gadcration will
became enamored with its lovelilllje`l, and
wilt m trry it again to that constitution
from whittle, in our 'Toy it has been so un
hafipilt !middy divorced —Richmond
THE BRAVE BOYS IN BLUE
C=ll
It seems hot yesterday, that nil over the
land lierenway newspapers were praising
the Bras e Boys in Blue, while children.
minstrels, deacons, divines, rich nod poor.
were loud in their pro festoons of love to the
defoßders of their homes.
lam iron-shod •nd cannon-belching war
held the country as in a vice, the Brave
Bp in Blue were all the rage. They werb
Cowed, teaste4,ipraised, kissed, caressed,
cone.), ellted, and decked lambs for the
sncrifice Mid the cobs of women, wives,
mothers, sisters, and sweethearts, they
were sent to the front, escorted to the cars
and boai.s by bands of music, and promised
all sorts of honors on their return
Every Brave Boy in Blue was a shield to
the loyal stay-at-home agitators. Every
one sent by money, entreaties, appeals to
patriotism: or„ other lingual device, was a
safeguard to those who remained behind.
canters, pulpit-routers, stay-at
home bawler. of loyally, inobbers of Dem
ocrats and Dernoorilre printing offices, nisi
gro loving old maids, and others of both
sexes, had much to say for the Bravo lioys
in Blue, mid some the shoddy-gum-shoddy
over the victims they had dressed for mu
tilated honors to a wonderful extent. 4
Ile who.w,ould notptin the blue mass wee
called a traitor, coward, and hater of his
country lie who would forsake friends,
property, and the comforts of the family
heart to Joint' the abolition crusade for pow
er, cotton, negtoe,Onlee, silver-ware, sad
other disguised obji;cts of the late wet, was
hailed as • brava, inatle.,
110 was to bo lafed 4114 honored.
ilia family was tebb oared fur
Ills children were to be educated
Ills vde was to be waited upon to the re
plenishing of,lardere, and a fuel pile
llla grave, if he fell, was to be decked
with flowers at all seasons of the year.
Iljo el owl. were to be supplied with
wooden limbs
Ilse bo4pital bed was to be supplied with
deboaezes
Ile was to be welcomed home by girls
with garlands and wreaths of roses
Ile won to be notninated for office, and
voted for •
lle wasdo be the returned hero—sa•ter
of his country, and the &mil" among ltn
thosand abolitionist. And we remember
that tho 4 who questioned the honesty of
the a .rho made all then) professions of
good ., sui t and whp ached respectfully that
ilt . wertbe hurried to a close, were denoun
ced an cower, trattors t and enemies to the
soldiers Wino we &Mad those who pro
uoged the wen and turned it from its orig
inal °course , when we °h i ss" is barin g
thousands of brave men
test ofhcers, in raids for pro,"sri,i'-and who
slid the object or tha war
wa to divide
rather thnn ,restore the Union, •nrsTe
Boys i`a,Blue were filled with lies an. evil
epirite,,and urged to destroy at once lb "a
who we're their best friends,
The past came and wont.
The professed patriots swept the lend of
volunteers TA brave Boyein Blue ha
returned ; but they come not as the conque
ror comes. They were not welcomed back
—no arms of girls, garlands of roses, fauay
balls, end avalanches of kluges greeted
them One by one, two by two, well end
sick, whole and libaltered„ lama and dying,
they came to their hometi as- Stragglers to
blood go to the rear after the agony' of
battle
The loyal ehoulero have forgotten tLo
brave Bays in Blue. They have no ..offices
for them. They have no votes to give
them. Officers rich from their ateahage,
able to buy and control delegations, rosteive
nominations. They are the faiorites of
the ranters and the minters and the rump
lies ; while the true ilve Boys 'in Blue,
who fought the battles, aro forgotten al
ready. They are not wanted now. The
negro and the bondholder are now worship
ped, and the soldiers of the land can work
one leg, or two, with one hand or both to
redeem their farms from taxes heaped
thereon by the stay-at-homes, while they
were lighting, and to support the(stegro, the
bondholder and the thieving officer, who
enricties himself and relatives at the expenap
of the blood and bravery of the country.
Brave Boys ix Itlue, as you gather your
half-clad little ones shout you—aa you Is
bey to pay taxes—as you go steadily to
your gravel with heavy hearts and callous
ed of these things, and tell
us if those who made you such specious
promises have kept faith with_ you or the
people !
Brave Buy. in Bitio—soldiee—working
man—tax-payer—think or ilsse things
nd think of them well .—eineintedii Rn
quire,
ORIGIN OF ALMANACS
As tie time of year hoe come for select Thlais the name of the following beant , foi
Pine. Welk we selected from a number of clip.
ing anialmanac for 1867, a brief history of
the oegin 'of this indispensable fireeide
c"oinplinion will probably be acceptable the 7.1%.11.,:t0r",.Y.,.hr.e:hnting
The word alniauao, which is olmonack in Plashing the fleecy clouds, and tinting
French, ij ..r vaipound according lit ;one au- vi . l 74h b. g n 'i d d i r i l . :l" t r y n l e rt: o 7:„'„, ,
thority,and of German Youth of twenty and child of ten—
Others say it is derived from the saute con, Across the sea-beach, oter tho heather,
pound, but is Saxon Until a very late pe• , ' l :P n g hll r k r d r h ; l/1 :1'
A ti ecou.tir‘ , eh , r ,,,4
rind it was always spelled •lumnack Pal - On the sunny Head of the little/Or],
leyn attributes the word to the Germans, Atol her eyes, from the .hiding hat's broad
brim,
and accountai i r the on as folows: They With innocent hive 1,04 opt., hint
formerly used to engrave, or cut upon square
sticks about a foot in breadth, the courses
of the moon for the wholi; year From this
they could tell when the oth4r lunar cliong.
es would,occur, as also their festal days
Ifence,they call this arrangement"al•sght,"
all mll3l herd
The Egyptians are said to hail, computed
their time by intrumente , • -
In the mbdillo egis the monks were the
almanac makers 1
The first printed almanac which haecome
down to us appeared at Augeburgli in 1491
It is entirely in rhyme, no wee the . early
style It is computed for several years in
stead of one, s's now,and goes ou to tell how
it was formed to deem the the months as
they aro made by notate 1111111 the influence I
oftur elara ; to give lo.uructions us to meat
and drink , on physicing, bathing, and the
management, of health , to teach how a child
ought to he educated; also how the plague
is to lie escaped, etc It is a curious vet
ileum!, of the hole depth that popular educe
tion has reached iu England, that Ike great
and IfelLithy corporation of the Stationers'
Company should continue to publish and
sell every year sonic hundred thousand cop
ies of "Moore's Almanac," the chief aurae
lion of which consists astrological predic
lions and hieroglyphics, savoring inure of
the spirit of the fifteenth century th,pAtlie
nineteenth
It in a singular fact that among the first
computed in this country, wanone
by a colored man in Maryland, named Ben
jamin Banneker Thin descendant of Afri
ca, although sel,f-laught, gave this at one of
the numerous proofs of rare scientific no-
Ottiremmtla, which caused even ThomacJef
ferson to think it no dishonor to coolant.'
cherish him as a correspondent
LIAIIN ALL Von Ctv —Never omit any
opportunity to learn all you can. Sir Wal
ter Scott said even in a stage-coach, he al
ways found somebody who could 1511 him
something that he did not know before.
Conversation is frequently more useful than
books for purposes of knowledge It is
therefore, a mistake to be morose And silent
among person. whom you think to be ignor
ant; for a little notability on your part
will draw them out, and they will be able
to teach you something, no molter hoiror
diunry their ethploymenti.
Indeed. some of the most sagacious re
mark. are made by persons of this descrip
tioitteppeett their particular pursuits
e Scotch geologist owes not
a little of Its fame to observations made
'Shen he wilIC Journeymen stone mason
and working Ifi — qllarry. Socrates well
saul, that there was but one good, which is
and ono evil, which is ignor
ance Every grain of send goes to make
the heap. A gold digger takes the smallest
nuggets, and is not fool enough to throw
them away beam.° he hopes to tied a huge
lump sometime.
So iq acquiring knowledge, we should
never despise at opportunity, however un
promising, If there is AI moment's foisure
spend itover good instructive talking with
sthe first you meet.
Wilki RIM JAPANE. JOUGLIMI Uo —One
of the feats of the Japanese jugglers now
in San Francisco on their way to the Paris
Exhibition, is thus described .
“An obi man lies upon his heel with his
feet in the air, a little' boy mounts sod
stands upon them, An oral tub is passed
to the boy, which ho places under his WO
and upon the man's another in gilfen to him
which is added to the first, and so en until
the little fellow's head touches the proscen.
tam from the' top of the tottering pile,
which is nil the lime supported by the
strong anti muscular chap below
..The little fellow makes his salaam to
tlyarmitlienCO from his diary height, coolly
fans himself as he surveys the situation,
and appears ds unconcerned as if reposing
on terra firma. Suddenly one of the per
formers utters aiexalatriation In Japanese
which is responded to by another The old
man, the foundation of the pile, takie up
the chorus, the Unto fellow at the top jerks
it out like the snapper of a whip, the
'loon/slim' gives his feet, a kick—things
looks squally for little Tommy—the audi
ence fears that he will fall and break hie
nook or be terribly bruised among the box
es ; the old man bepeath appear in
immt
pent danger also from the felling tube, but
no, be giiSs his feet a kink, throws the tube
oo i, lily from him, and Tommy, drops like
a oat, a lightlag with his feet upon the old
man'. an.. In an upright position."—Er.
Greeley been the. bohleet and
A RETURN TO Momeasur —Mr Horace
most advanced Of his party, annum gener
ally defined more clearly ila objects and
purposes, than any other of Ite-tiaders.
Recently, lie loses no occanion to:hint thin
he has no objection ttp return to monarchy or
the rule of chimes, In other words, to the
very Toryism which lie'segrandly declaims
against in England. In • recent issue, he
viva: "If•it should be deemed fit that' a
portion of the more ignorant, vagrant, Irre
sponsible southerners,white or black,fihould
be denied the right of suffrage, me have no
protest to omke." The Tory villainy of
this plilmpaph is plain as a pike staff. Its
essence fb as essentially monarchial as the
inveterate stickler for "divine right" could
wish. "Take the ballot from the poor
whites," says Greeley, and we have no pro
test to Take " Mark, this deprives of
"ignorant southerners" of the ballot, 'kas
no reference to what is called "loyalty" or
"disloyally," but solely to their Ignorance.
This is the ground upon which they are to
be disfranchised. And if men in the South
min be refused the ballot upon these
grounds, how long before the rale will be
applied to the North?
- o —The negrou of ymsot• •re on •
"strike," refuolog to work wtthoutyq to
.frenee of p•y.
NO. 8
AN OLD STORY,
Ten long years—and the mellow gloaming
Cates Its glamor o'er glen and les,
And gilds the sands 'where *maid is roaming
With eyes that wander beyond the a r c
Ten long years—and that daily glyry,
Haft dowsed anddarkened on wood and grove,
Lighting the page o f • lasting story—
The old, old story of maiden's love.
Botoitity severed tbdie clasping bands—
As the pitiless oessan severs the Nude—
And the heart grew sad and the eyes grew dim,
OCoarily o mit lig and watching for him
Tew years more— while the rastless billows
Fret and (oat on the patient shore,_
And red beams slant through the draping wil
lows,
And write strange write on the greensward
floor:
but far from togle, and glen and babble,
From the purple hills of their natty. land,
Wangler thorn two, as of yore, together
Heart answering heart, hand °lulling hand,
No more watching through Beaty
No more waiting through wintry 'eats,
But eyes that in rndlant lute-light swim,
And life long devotion, look up to him!
- Drl,lllrl.ll
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
--PluyeJ out—Our De, it
—A Nash.illo paper' speaka of radical
blood pudding.
Why in a Intiy's dress Itko a roasted goo."
Because it has been lasted.
-A colored poet is gis ing readings in
X% ashme n
—One of the State Senator]. of ‘'srprinla
owns 100,000 acres of lend
—A western paler dubs Thad Stereos the
Great Vulgarien.
yonng man in lowa, after has rebel's
eath married hts step mother.
" —Joel Lindsley, the child murderer gets
13 four years and three months in prison.
—boring the poet month iheie were 7,907
rations issued to the Missies Ip p i negroes, sn in
crease of 139 or er the previous month.
—Cameron was indelicate enough to occupy
Senator Corte's seat in the Senate, the other
day, during the temporary aheenee of the latter.
—P. T. Barnum a candulate for Con
gmee at the approaching tiprlQUiloation In Con
CT=
—The Republican. to Waahington say the
impeachment furore will amount, in the end, to
nothing.
--Mr Om ier, french saran, ray. the
greatea meteoric .hover will come off next No
vember.
—A woman has been brought into court in
Nortbamrefon, Penn , on the charge of being
COOOO4 tcOhi.
—A woman m Chicago, on 'chitin bey
hogbantra dike, discovering long hairc in hi.
hair brcuth, has cued for divorce.
—A wag says he pretented a mane of by
drophobia by getting on a fourteen rail fence
and staying till the dog left.
is estimated that since the close of the
war the colored population of Virginia hiss been
reduced ono hundred and ninety thousand.
/doDuff, of Marietta, committed
suicide, last Saturday, by taking poison, Whis
ky caused hull to commit the raoh act.
—lion John Moulage . ) , is Ira id to bare lost
SIOO,COO by the Cumberland corner smash, m
Wall street, last week.
-31iss flustinis Bartlett tligtl at Bartlett's
Island, Uo ,on the{Bth•ult. She was but 15
Seers old and weighed 400 pounds.
—A bill lerying . a specific tax on old , belch
ohms, to support is bureau of emigration, hini
been Introduced In the West Virginian Legisla
ture. , .
—An unwashed street boy being eked
what made him en dirty, his reply was, "I wan
made, they tell roe, of the ground, end I reckon
it is just working out."
—At recent fashionably receptions in New
York several young mon appeared in maroon
o tolvet coats and breeches,, with silk stockings
—a sort of court c stuinc.
—A bill Liss been introduced in the New
York Senate, prof - Kling for convention to
amend the Stale Constitution, so as to secure
tho franchise to colored persons.
—Speaking of Impeachment, Mr. Greeley
says no patriot will waatonly or Ilsrbt/y shake
the twin fabrics of Public Order and Public
Credit.
—The !Indicate bare no objection to their
membership of Csugress 14;4, but only to
their being told of it
—Carpenter'. Death Bed of Lincoln repre
sents Schuyler Colfax, who wasn't there, as one
of the chief mourners over the couch of our
martyr President.
—Never demobs., counsels from whatever
quarter they !mai you. Remember that t.
pearl is keenly sought for in spite oldie co
shell that envelops it.
—A Colorado woman eloped from her her
band and three children. Adding Insult to in
jury. elle loft a note behind Imformlng her hoe
hand that not one of the ob ltdren wen hie.
—The Tennessee Legislature—so called—
whloh represents about one eighth of the peo
ple of the State, has paned •nagro endrage bill
with whloh to prop up the Radical ueurpetioe•
I —Tln Hach of the Nevada Legislator* have
mimed a resolution asking their bretbers of the
Hump to give them State Jurisdiction over the
territory of Stall. Quite a modest (!) request,
truly.
—The Harrisburg TolegroyA complain,
that certain parties steal its rattier lbws' papena
Any fellow who eon bring himself ainra to
stealing that sheet must be • "mean mass" In •
t
deed.
—The Maine House hen refused to Join hi
the eetion of the Senate in amending the law se
as to penult white persons to interaarry with
the eegro,•twdiu, or me letto. The rote stood
45 ye., 75 nays.
—A number of boot blacks were arrested in
New York yesterday for violating the Excise
law. They polished boots for twenty eve cents
and gave drink. of whisky to their onslomera
from small bottles which they bed about them.
-rGloorge W. Slimy, the last of eeranteen
children of Win. Ellery, signer alba Declare
hod of Independence, died at Newport last
Monday Demised had4;:olleetor of the
Part of Westport for fo . .
—Bobilehenk wants to have the military
academy removal from Annipolle,Pifaryburl
beemmthe "!small met" ate to world
upon thaJmpressible"feelinks" youug boo o
Man. Guess Maaisehmette waste Ika sehool.
A ORAPHII; PICTURE
RE CF A RAFI
. ,
•
UAEI-
A writer for • Albany (N. V.) Argus:in
course of an a iota/ depleting the present
queettled it. of the Dowel, -She degree
alba i Ira Abe stagnallo.. business,and
the gri "ng taxation res..ng upon every
branch of itTaustry, mays
"We are Odd that wile" a certain pereob
age was buried alive whllt his sad wife in
• large cave, he had a pitcher water and
a loaf of bread lee down with h on the
coffin of Ins wife, upon which b see, tha t
he might Dow and )b r an take • sub, and
sip a drop to prolong his life a 'while.
When the mouth of the cave wes shut upon
him he was wrapped it: v ifer darkness, and
Lad to feel his way fro is mouth to his
brevl and water Thus was be left .to hie
fate One,day be beard a noise among the
bones of the cave, pod in an effort to see
from when.. it came, he discovered through
the damp darters., far in the distance, a
faintly twinkling light Inorred thus with
hope, he started for 'bat tight, stumbled
over coffin , after ooffin, pile after pile of
bones, until be rejoiced terftedilie light to
be from a h in the bank of a river,through
which a mane serpent entered io feed
peon the dead T ehe found relief apt
made his escape.
'The people are now literally burled be
neath a crushing booboo of debt and taut.
lion, as within a oave of which the Mellon
are the keeperd. It ie true that in their fu
neral rites they allow the buried, or moiler
them,a loaf of bread'and • pitcher of water,
but sad to sky, many before going down
hire to sell their Mat of bread to pay their
taxes, and deseeudtwith only • pitcher of
water, But it meet ,not be understood that
all the people are ae those in the career
bearing burthens of Mullion.
"These keepers of the cave visit no such
burial upon their favored few Their epee
ial friends have di•pensed to them $3,000,-
000,000 of bonder exempted from all t•xa.
Hon, prmincing an Income affording luxury
and ease But, alas! let us lifrthe iron
door of the cave and look dtt'arn, and whom
go we lee sitting upon the stone coffins of
their own destinies? It is the millions of
our laboring and industrisfftrel ; the
very life and hope hf our people. for whom
the political rulers of the day have no more
feeling and sympathy than they bare for
beasts of burthen. There they set with but
• loaf of bread land a pitcher of water tome.'
tam their lingering lives, while bearing up
on their shoulders the crushing weight of a
nation's liabilites. If they turn an eye
toward the Motion that control" and hope
for relief, they behold only the Metalling
guilt of voting $2,000 • year more into their
own pockets to be added to the burthens of
the tax payers of ode, eountx,y,__Theoe
dwellers in the cave may,in their Ilieround
ing d•ritnese, hear the rattle of the serpent
among the bones, end feeding upon their
muscles ; but as yet it ie vain that the least
ray of light is seen to awaken a hope of re
lief If they listen to what is said above.
they only hear it declared that 'Democracy
is that,' and sink back to their bread and
water a their only fare of lift."
Where, tax-payers may well be asked, is
their least possible hope, under the pr2ent
reign, from the pressure of $ 3 , 000 , 0 K000
exempted espital; a debt of that aliment to
pay, or its I interest; • high tariff
cure to be imposed ; • tax upon every skeet
of paper upon which a oontraet b drawn,or
• satrap upon which a note or receipt is giv
en; State, county, and municipal debts;
len States lob* governed by military au
thority et an enormous exposes; ',criminal
Congress; conflicts of authority between
the Departments of the Government,leading,
I. may be, to armed conflict! Thequestion
is a very grave one, and should set every
friend of the country and humanity reflect
ing, for the end is not yet.
THAD. STEVENS IN ONE' OF HIS
ROLES
A Virginia correspondent of the Culhohe
Mirror, who seems to know Tiled. Stevens
well, is after him with a very "sharp stiok
in the form of the following reminiscence:
Thaddy ought to read history. He is an
apt scholar, and might derive some profit
from the study Yes, be is (tulle apt, - and,
wherever he hes found if, banal! the one
ness of a Yankee Let me give you an ii•
lustration. It is now more then a quarter
of a century ago, when the school question
war the great hobby In Pennsylvania, and
as Thaddy has ever bad a penchant for hob
birs,he,of couree,got astride of this one. He
was then a member of the Legislature, and
the two parties were preparing for a ghnd
test of strength on the school question hob
by. Thaddy was, by the fortuitiont eon—
ourrenee of political elements, on the rigid.
side of the eontroverey ; but a 'defense of
public schools neeeesarily involved a de.,
fence of education, and there Thaddy was at
fault. Ilia share of that
,commodity was
limited—exceedingly limiteck—Lbough na
ture endowed him with a good'rnempry end
s 'herd face. Ile bethought' himself of an
idea. He should have taken out a patent
for it—it was so good, so cute, so entirely
worthy of Thaddy's fertile brain He paid
a visit to a Catholic clones.. He went all
the way from Harrisburglust to why,
only to pay his respects to the learned pre,
idepl, and give to the groves of the made
:l4 the feiJ hp are be could steal from the
cares of thialete Thaddy was delighted.
and charmed with everything he beard cod
loan. The worthy president of the college
put forth all his powera,great ate they were.
and great as they now ire, to gratify his
distinguished guest. All at once, as if an
idea had just struek him, he raid to his
host; "Here is aftlere OMNI neat realize the
beadle of education. I wish we could brig
it home to ertery man's door, but the maki?-
jive( has been dragged into polities, and it
has many enemies to fight—what 'ls'yeat
opinion au the general - subject of pennyr
education, Doctor, and what think toi. of
the arguments and motives of its oppo
nents 1" The good Doctor was somewhat
eurprieed at the ghee dermas
pi the question ; still e 6 had caterec• rine
distinguished reputetien4—and gee
represented one of the first Csttiolik,oallejces
is the Union. He inlet, therefore, main
tain the prestige of both. He accordinily
tared upon a thorough exposition of the sub
ject, discussing, explaining and elucidating
every point ax be progressed; until he env
tired the whole ground from the Catholic
standpoint. Thaddy listened attentively
during the whole hour,and, when the learn
ed Dotter thdahen t oecUy observed, "r4s,
Gaoler, these cry thn viers. I have *Ways
bold." What think yea Wes tbe rarPrillt: -
Is there no stronger word to express the
idea I—lhe assaaentent of the learned preii.
dent when he read is a Harrisburg paper
of the week following the expositionof pot
ular education ha had Oren to his enrapc4i
luredguest--point by pp I*, aid almost
word by word, under the' leistibig The
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