BATCHELOR BILL Atone. quite alone. under ClohlJn-Rod hie Mile brown Boum,. dwelt Batchelor Bill. Right merry 010 village.girle laughed u they said, lle knit bin own stockings nod cut his oto boon 4 Abd hung dripping clothe., rbining . .nowily whim, To dry io tho glow of the moms, mooplight. Z i t w h n e en d a o n or e w n . m y e , 21 , 1. to n k g s .guns: • tner Virough ; Fall many en urchin by flower-lore prates CAme begging and bore them away un his breast, For the hermit was gentle and ultimo, sat In the low wooden por , eh,'with his great, pulring rat; not nere- • mile fora maiden he wore, A. peering they whispered and glanced at the do;r. in phabby attire, with titne.whitened ernwn, On Sunda! cone Ihiebeior Bill slowly down Tn the lotainl little ehureh.. Ills reverent elb Pe...1 IL. Ige ille VOUS farce end fair, softly Ip $ A. beset with his head beading ewer trio 'lilt the sermon rat ended, the kn. eang one. blest, Then gt inn brieranswer to greeting or elutes. IVAI4e4I slowly away, In, one in a trance. ' 1 d ire you, , Kate Roby, to tie it bouquet I,or thu ilobleh 11111 bachrdor, Valentino, day, I,trig at hie inansion, artill glnneing within, r ee If old 11 1 113 enn hake, brew and !pin. 1101 you try it A I 6) a., I enn ref, in your eye. • u will Aram lb° redoubt "—'•Yer, Kose, - 1 will try." "Tora bonny bouquet. with it. rose, so red, Thn t , Maga-0000,re, Kate Roby dread, T ilia httle ht... 91 home on ilia slope of the WI CC rh purpose of 0111.111er towartl Bachelor To win • eon word, a untie or a bow, lists Ruby hail taken this Valentine-so, The door wnte tight abut, the cat by the atone niatfully up in het Noe, nith 'a moan. It hen ehe linciekeil. No •nerter. '•Al' Kate, you hale loot; lilt the !anti, open portly, clip lightly neooso They waded for Kele, they shadowed the finer Arivrre lire sun 111114/ a.golden met of er the n4wr , m tire meet of the soft woren lire liana punting baulrarri, her cheek blench ing Ks:ell..liy came whispering —Bachelor 11.11 He rpe well on Int beel..aieeps soundly and ellll The moments ore enensieedn more bethe breath, When lag euntse_nn the dm! of !tenth: he wheel at the fountain line rusittel and stolid, Toe: link Iron the soy! o. the body %11.1.1 dropped. ine, nee how rl peritefully, pallidly lies. ~Thiateaell.ai whose owner line gone to the skies l'heriel a worn, little Ihhle —beside et a tress 11l shining heir held en the last. cold caress, And here on tire larenaton the hand seiltend cold, A woman a face pictured en stump of gold, A•t I a laarriago terfille.kla. blotted with tear!, erampled and tattered, and 'allow wills Se. Po; gt a eet.lllbleil n fib trtMlllo. pen Annie, •F'alie Annie,' again and ?gain All' Clod gots too pardon for blundering Jost, Oer the sorrowful soul whteh has just gone Cu Make us kinder And better, end leach us to care F• 4 Earth's lonely, destitute one. et ery where, 'F, speak gentle words, let er a•ktog return. IVrongra spirits grow ever so moody end stern. At the I.llllllled bough thugs out the hard, * knotted wood, Yet is' 'Amager for Nwhat it has met nod oi oloo; t l . Viten the hero eomm bark from the red fire o 1111,, 11'e• see the shrank limb, we gee the broad peer It it hereet there nre ne‘er chewing the tnark 01 the thrust in the heart, the blow in the dark ' They had ibe torn:JO flowers by Ilnibc'or Bill An I enlerwnly. 111.1wIT .le•rrnded the bill Then the vtllagers reverent laid him awhile In the quaint lithe church, at the head of the aisle, I% bile the prayer end the hymn went soaring on high. And the curious, pursing to bill +7lll good bye, Still saw in 1111 band, (face down on hie breast,) 'I he picture. and round it the dark. curling tress, And jested eo more Yet Kate Roby, still pink• on the grave, roll. him Rio Actor POLITICAL HISTORY.----PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HON. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS. The National Publishing Company bas is-tied it work •ntitle , l l, ,Alextiodcr II Stc ph,•ns in public and prienle, with Letters kind Speeches. before, during, and since the W k-," by Ileikry tleveland. In It we find 'h,• following exceeding'' , interesting cur .rezponkleikce, which hos never afore been published. Me. Clevlnnd snys "We are Irwin d by Mr Stephens that no person h I ever seen the letters of Mr. Lincoln to 1.1 o until mince his o rciurn from Fort War r•n , n 1805, except hie private secretaries ••for your own eye" or Mr. Lincoln like It,n, saC'redly lesser/a I, no for as possible, in long as it was et all necessary or proper. Tor letters nee is follows FROM MR. LINCOLN TO bin lITZPIIENN SPRINGFIELD, Nov. 00,1800 Inn. A. 11. Stephens Mr DKAR SIR : I Lore rend in the news n.i.ers your speech recently delivered (I thotOtiefore ihe Georgia Leg,'lettere, or ilv 'sive...bled members. If 3011 hove re vi.e.l it. se is propnble, I shall be much oh iged to you if you w Monona me a copy Yours very truly, A Lincoln =I Cfl IP rOlll.. 111.1.1 R, Dee 14, 1800 MT DEAR Vine short and polite ',two of the 30th nit , enkint for a revived cam of the speech to which you refer Se , .not received until lost night. The ,newnpaper report of the speech has never divers 'evict,' by me. The note. of the re porir wore submitted to me. and corrected to Rome catent,-before being pobliaheil, but not en titevoughly as I could have wished The report wa• actinium tally correct If I hod hail tiny idea that it would have been so ectenvivell circulated as it has been and teen repoblinhed in eo ninny pined, through out the country, I should have prepared ~.,copy for the preen in the filet place But I hod no such thought, , nnd therefore let the report go an it 111.1. There are several in noturneies in it, but the main points uppenr elemr for ell pract hoot purposes. Toe country is certainly in great peril; and no man ever liSdAsovier of , grenter re•pon nautili°. resting open tibia than you have in the present motusnlous criers Tours, most respectfully, A. II STEPHENS. lion. A. Lincoln, SPringfiird, 111 REPLT OF MIT. LINOOIOI, jFor your own eye only.] BPKII4OFIRLD, Duo. 22, IGOO My MAU Stu : Your obliging answer to my short note is just received, for 'fetich please seceitt my thanks. I fully appreci• ate the present peril the country is in, and, the weight of responsibilisy on me Do the people of the South really entertain fears 'hit • Itepublican Administration 'Gould, dtrectly or indirectly, interfere with their gloves, or with them about their slaves t If any do,l ist, tO assure you, as once a friend. im.l Ain, I hope not an enemy, that there Is nltAsustrliff, such fears. The South wnold be in es.-more danger In this respect than in the days of Washington. I suppose however this does not meet the case. You think slavery is right, and ought to be ex truded ; while we WO it is wrong, and ett,iht to be restricted. That I suppose Is the rub. It certainly is the only difference between us. Yours, very truly, Mel= •TtI•IIZY/TO 11111. LIXCOLIN CRAINTOMMIVILLC Deo. 80, 1860 Laaa Sin: Yours of the 22d instant was received two days ago. I hold it and ap• predate it as you intended rersonally I 1101 not your enemy—for from it ; mid how ever widely We may differ politically. yet I inlet we both have oo earnest desire to preserve ■od .maialain the Union of the Stotts, If it can be done upon the principles VOL. XII. , and furtherance of the objects upon which ' it was lor.netli It was with ouch feelings on my port dint I sUggested to you in my I ormer note the heavy respoutibility now resifu g on jail, and with the tame feelings I will now take the liberty of saying, in ell f llknees sod earnestuees, that Ibis greet orject can never be attained by forge. Thin istiled cony 'set it,n Consider the opin• i 1 ( r-er , wet l Ii it , end pain upon it for yourself • n error on this point may lend to the most dlsnetrons conneollmllers I will also add, that in my judgment that the people of the South do not entertajn any fears that a Re publican ndmin istrat ion, or at leant the one about to be maugurnted, would attempt to interfere, directly or immediately, / with sla very in the States. Their npprebension and disquietude do not spring from that source. They...do not nriae , from the foct,ot.tbe known 01111 slavery opinion of the President elect 4ashingion, Jefferson and other Presideni - Onre generally admitted to 'Joie been 01111 slavery in sentiment. But in ;hose day, Rini ida•ery clot not enter at an element into pert). organisations. Ques lion of other kinds—relating to the foreign policy, commerce, finance, and oilier legiii ' mate objectn'of the GenernLGovorninent— were the blink of inch nosociationa in their day The•private opinions of indi•iduals , upon the subject of kfricen sinvery, or the status of the negro wills as were eel look ed to 111 the choice of Federal officers any more titan their views upon inanely of re ligion, or any 011ier subject over whist. She Ou•erninent tinder the Constitution had no control Bid now thin subject, which i• confessedly on all aides outside of the con , tiiiitianal action of the Gorernment, no far on the Stales are concerned, is 111/00 the `.central idea" in the platform of principles nuiounced by the triumphant petty. The len/ling objects seem In he, simply end wan tonly if you please, to put the instuninoin of near'y I.lr the Sullies limier the Inn of Inttric °pit ion and netionnl ,condchinnt..m. This, mine getteral principles.. is 11111.: enough of itself to rouse it spirt cool only of 1 genernl indignntion; but of revolt, on the port of the proscribed. Let me illustrate It is generally conce Jett, by Ilia Republicans teen. (lint Con gress cannot interfere with slavery in the States It in viinnlly roncededthnt Congress cannot establish nay form of religious wor ship. Now suppose that nay one of the present faiiirist inn churches prevailed in all the Southern Stater, but had no existence in any of the NOrIIII;In States ; under such ' circumstances suppose the people of the Northern Srateli should orgiultwe political party, not upon a foreign or doniesdie poli cy. but with one leading iden of condenam• tion of the Joon inns and tenets of that pets.' flouter church, and with the avowed object of preventing iis extennion into the tom neon territories, even after the higlient Jo dicial tribunal of the land bail decided they laid no such' constitutional power' And enppose Illst n pat ty' so organiml should rairy a presidentiel cleat inn ! Is it not ap pnrent that a general feeling of resiminnce 10 the success, aims toll objects of such a party would necensurily and 00.16111 y en roe ' Would it not be the inevitable con- -,-F el.. ge sequence • And the morn no, if possible, from the admitted tact that it was n mutts beyond their control, nud one tint they ought not, in the spit it of comity bet ween co Stater, to attempt trkmiddle with:- I submit three thought. to yott for your calm reflection We nt the South do think Ain run slavery, an it exists with on, both mor ary and poluically right Thin opinion to fo inded upon the inferiority of the blank race Von, however, and perlinps a major •ty of the North, think it wrong. Admit the difference of opinion Tho some differ ence of opinion exiled to a more general extent among those who formed the Col, when it woe made and Adopted The changes have been mainly on our side An virile. were not formed ' on this differ ence of 'mutton then, why should they be now ! The some difference wdblil of course ex i't in the etippwed case (Irreligion When portico or comlunations of men, therefore, so form themneleen, must it not he onsnmed lu nlitte not from rennon or nny nesse of juettee, but from fanaticism The mutton ran evening from no oilier Aintree, and when nien conic under the influence of anaticism, there is no telling where their impulse. or missions may lend them • TIIIS in what creates our discontent and apprehension Von will also allow me to say, that it 14 neither tionatural or onrentionnble, especi ally when we see to whet extent this reck less spirit has already gone. Such, for to' stance, as the avowed dinregsed and bretch of the Constiintion in the passage of the mounts i,n a number of the Northern Sillies ageing( the redempt ion of fugii icon from ser vice. and such exhibitions of madnese as the John Drown 'lid into Virginia which Ilan received no much sympathy from twiny, anerno open eondemna non from any of the leading men of the present doudnant pony! For a very clear stmenient of tire prevailing sentiment of the most moderate men of the South upon them, I refer you to the speech of Senator Nicholson, of Tennessee, which I enclose to you. Upcitt *review of the whole, who can say lbal the general die , potent and spprehension Is not wall foun ded In addressing you thus, I would tint have you understand me as being s4perf oral enemy, but as one who would balm' you do what you can to save our common country. A word spoken" by you now would indeed be "lime apples of gold in pictures of silver " I nitres' you, be notrdesseived as to the nature and extent of the danger. or es to the remedy Conciliation and harmony, in my judgement, can never be estsblislied by force. Nor can the Union, under the Constitution, be maintained by force. The Union wan formed by the con sent of independent sovereign States. UI limate sovereignty still resides with them seperately, which can he resumed, and will be If their safety, and security, in their judgement, require it. Under our system, as I view it, there is no lawful power in the General Government to coerce Stales in ease any or them should throw herself upon her relived titbit% and re acme the full inelVille Of her sovereign powers. Force may perpetuate a , Union. That depends upon the eontingenoice elt war.- But such a Union would not be the Union of the Constitution. It would 'be nothing short of A consolidated noose roe for giving you these views. Extese the strong longtime used. Nothing but the deep inierest I feel, la proopeot of ffht '::;'ilititr4 El the mart alarming clanger. now threatening our cialman country, noted induce me to do it. Consider well what I write, end let it lin•ts such ivoight with you as,in your judo meat, under sll the responsibility resting upon your, it merits.. Your., respectifully, A is...v.tanii II &artless. lion A Lincoln, Spritiemlslp4ll TRANS-ATLANTIC VIEW OF THE SITUATION. A Isle number of Illaekitood's ..'agenott contains nn Article an Democracy in Amt., en, fr . not which we estrnet the following. (Jur English eo . nsins, free from the pa,suum and pelt) , prtjudecen which becloud the visions of too nmny people in the United Stales north of Mason nnd Docon's line, rem In here a egireet view of the 1.11113110 n which the wnr has left our country : .liree, we too may soy 41,4 10 AMC iCIC --look et it 111 it to in tiny lie blood and irennure bore bee. expended lb •ain. One section her conquered another by brute force--pnupelizeil c•crybOdy m the43,llh, the negroen an well as their ninsters—and , resolotely oechnen evert to nit oupt the rez torntion of the Union, xhich it took up arm to uphold. The Cottuiiiiiion, with us fine checks nod hal inces, ij deldro3ed or hiusied to score; Slate rightn nud local liberty--wihhoui dire tegnrd lor which it is Atjarly iteponsiblo fir the gavernment to exint is any otker elinpe Ilion tint of in militnry despot rem--art. see at naught; the chief magktrate in ,threntened w lib sot penchment, for no other (dice°, than • strict adherence to the Consliintion which lie more a solemn °gib to defend ; rind evert the , Supretue Court. the mat niegiaxt • hotly an the United Sinter. in ihrenirned with eupprensioll. becanoe the Radical fire lion I hat 11/18 a niojni it) in Ciingrea.har really no Congre• • tinker the SUIIIII 110 Ill reeenipl in it. i• opprelienvive that It deliberate judgment will he legally pro nonticeil in favor of the acme( the President and age MO their own George Wallington foreenw thnewils lint were likely to lie front lie angry anti aggreardre passions of an unlimited DEllooClrtcy, nud eatemnly warned Lis countrymen of the danger -- Jefferson. Madison, Monroe. Adams, Jack son--all these illustrious Presidents snit diem also and sounded the nlarm. Web. stei, Crutend,n and-Vdtglits--well filled to become President, but not destined for the pmlros position—also pre.beled the tad results of to day Did the Democracy had no eyes In see, no ears to bear; end in order to obtain It, destroyed the htterty et die white well of die South to give liberty o the blacks, converting the latter trout well fed laborers onto serelcbcd paupers, and reducing their number from four mil lions to about Iwo millions and n half In line process it left for the whites, both of the North and South, a crushing legacy of dad, deinornlisation, disunion,and' the eraititity of finoncial crn.ll that has 3ct to comb and astonish the wnrld by In meg- °Dude, renewed conOtct•, sectional bate•, _rind nil the crop of the dragon's teeth which the riding fuel ion are engaged in cowing, Ac If they delighted in the ',ton ged of bloodshed, pad smiled the carnage from efsr Nlfirly years ago there wins a good, man who lived at ore °flit° Italian universities One day 11. young nine roe up to hint with n firer belittling with joy find said tbst los greatest wish was now fulfilled, his parents barring just given Into ptruu•nion to lowly law .•So now Inm come," he ndded, the law school of ibis University on account of in great fame • nut! I mean to rpnre no pains in get through my studies ns welland quickly as posarble ' In Hail ;coy lie went on hiking for n long lime. When at last he Carrie to a clop, the good man, who hail been listen'ing elsisinr will, great patience. man!, ••Well‘and w lien)ou Lore got ill rstugh your course of studies, what do you mean to do then r' -Then I shall take my Doctor's degree," said the young man And then ?" smkcd St. Ftltppo Nett I= '•And then," continued die out h,, I Chid! lIOVC o 111.111ber Or diffiCillt Cligen to manage, and I shall catch people', notice by my eloquence, my zeal, my lemming, my neu!!nnti, ■nd gain a great reptita lion " • .I`nd Iltenr' reprnteA ilie Lnly mnn "And Abe.," tep:fetL the )oath: why, then there cannot be n /location. I shall be promoted to s 1111 l e It 101 office or other, be sides, I shall make money evil! grow rich " "And then•" repeated St Filippo. "And then." added the young lawyer, "then I shall live comfortably and honora bly, in health .0,1 dignity, and shell be able In look forward to a happy old age " Oh! was not adi ibis to ••look at things seen." But the holy man had not done. Again he stoked, "And then 7" "And then," said the youth, with a fal tering eoioe,—"and then—and then—then I shall die." Here St Filippp again lifted lip Lis voice and solemnly said, ••dad Thi• Met "and Ilion?" was brought home by God's Spirit to Ilia young titan's It coil. Prom that lime be sale! to look al things seen. Ile began to.feel the power of things unseen —Er. Tuts ROMAN Riu-Tists —An imtnene. majority of men in Rome never lighted a catle, unless sometimes at early dawn iletPthe custom of Rom? Vas the custom slvo of all nations that lived around the' great pond of the Nlediterranann. In Minor, Egypt, Palestine, Asia lilinor,orery /there the anoienis went to bed, like 'pod boys from /Test to nine o'clock. The Turks nail others Poole, uho succeeded In the stations and the habits of the ancients, do so at this day. The Roman, therefore, who saw no joke in sitting round a table in the dark, went off to bed as the darkness began. Everybody did so. Old Numa rompilius himself was obliged to trundle off iu the dark,. Tarquiniue utteiht be a very superb fellow; but we doubt whether he ever saw a farthing rnahlight. And though it may be thought that Okla and conspiracies would llourish...l.•,.such • oitylvieskness, it is to be considered that the conspirators themselves had no more candler than honest moo; both part Ire were in the Sark.—Ex. BECLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY., MARCH 29, 1867 Ile his ennitoueil, with oilier•, In uthject 111 to 9 jiiri•dimiota foreign to our Corny lin I initioutit tuileknorrieiitgeil by our In log-1,14 neiirtit to their pretet.ileil acts of legoilot inn ; "AND THEN.' It hog inflicted unequal to:Fitton upon Stntex which it refuses to rrilotr Reptesen toti•es in the Legialdture of the Republic ; " It has opt only Abolished all restraint; over nu inferior, servile race, but demands their elevation to political equality—a measure dangerous to the stability of the Vovernment and the liberties of the peo ple ; It has attempted to force the Stales to adopt distasteful Alterations in the Consti tution, concocted to secure power in the bands of ilia minority ; It is Attempting to reduce len Slates to the helpless condition of province., deny• Mg them the emal rights guaranteed by the Conettiution ; It is attempting to change the Constitu tion, in violajjoy of its provisions. be (le cturing less than three Nuttily of the States o legal majority, competent to ratif; the sense ; _ - "STATE RIMER'S AND FEDERAL UNION." TORRYI6M OF 1776 AND OF 1866 The insolent cabal at Washinglon ' are ins:king, in indelible ‘llltrelelerg. earl, day 'thorn distinctly, !lie lines of resemblance riot of idenlificiftion helicon thenpielres and the Tory party of 177h7 liver:, where die people are beginning to recognise in Ifni hoe-fluent.. of Ilse dr.poll.ol of tit-diy , the Odloll, fctnrre, NIIICII CLlllironlcli 01 lIIICCSIOPM lllthe re,olutionaly —whi c h threntened then', but ,recotled befor era e their [minty defiance the p Irby of pririlegii...,pf special exemption., the party uf gross expenilittit as, of arbitraty arrests. st it responsible powerl r of •failation wuhonl repreveiitation, in 'lle Emile iTory pint), whose tyrnnity drove the mill of the revolu tion to rernonni rite first and revolt n fie, tinrils The New II liven neve, asks what has become of the heroic spit it of Om men of 171'. 1 The Colll3no.tital l'ongreite, it ton3s, representing 11110111 three nut 10111 of people, deel ired with unessinpleil ihe King of Englind hailbeet golly of nre petite.' ipjorten and ...rpm ions, all having direct object, the establishment of on obsuluto tironny over these States " To prone this, they recited n merles of griet - Bocce. among winch nre lhrsc . • Ile (the Keg) bno made Judge, depend ent opon Ills will alone :or the tenure of their there, nod tar otnotted and pa) meat of heir oal it ten; He has cleated a mllllllll le of new of ficrs, and sent hither sn• trots b( officers lb It:mann our people net eat 0111 !heir stilt lottnce Ile he, nlieelec:; le render Iho a ilitnry, independent of nod eupertor to the civil 61012 • For (ion ri ertog 1 irge hod IP. 'o,f coned troop. nmortg u. ; ••Cur pros em log IL cm. by mock I. a I,T; am pun inhment fur any mortice.; 'which ;bey .110111,1 commit on the stillabitaAta np Illone Slob,, -—4 l For imposing lazes on CVIPC(II : il “For Wong away our eltariers, rthuluku - - ing our ninQt ralunble 4 4nrti. nod nltering fucolumenlally ibe fauns of our gore,la ••For surpending our Legitdaturce and declaring filen:moire,' inre•led wuh power In legiblate for 1111 111 ,, (11 CaIICS Snell are some at the charges which the men of 76 Nought In justifieatlon of n Den. In ratton of I:!4eporolenCe- an I nor ognirrvr Greg( Brilaill %%hot snavo of complaint hod our (tiller■ treniont King tleorge, that the tonjority of the penple of in-dnv hove not agninei the hull, on , eroptilnov faction that lion got povvevslon of oar gavel itineatt, and to !using it for ue oggrinvhsectient. regardlenv of, the prov tenon• of the Convt dnlion v II lint ore our complaints against thin Carton of Jac°. bin ii.itrilern. II has the country Ina lunwol f, Inorellomn (10111, or a centnly blet foltote4 11,1.110. lILCI 41111 feeltuv., and taught thr peoplo m darretst neolons or our cunioloo country to regnr.l enrb - It tloliberniely inciltd this loslilc frebog by forol4botg Ilia toc - 1114 1 - " ! nt`nting des ',ermines In K Ingo% nod sending John lb 'tyro and hitt intot: of cot !bowls into 1",- F Into II made War upon iln. do , neOle Iwo Ito noon of Ilie -Sow 13, And deivaleven. rt fort In 1/eneilro Inc pence 01 coon II invalsed the country lu t a f gldful civ it war, which it prolonged a, tolgef“ poi ble,nnil Intensified by every deaLitpiton of =BE It pt etended to desire only n restoration of the Union, while obstruct tug .:vet) plop 01ition rot a peaceful ...olut ion of the ion 11 mused tiro loss of tbousnoth of the best soil hinter; ellen of lint It nectlollM, nod The rotilining of imis of 111 . 9,1141. as more; It iloode.l the coutoiy with all it redeeinti.; blo 'toper corretiey, by which the indebted ors of the Curet nolent was tomiensely •5 eretteed ; It nelfored the treasury to he rolled of !methods ul milltnein of the Len rd mono, of no nrethol dotted people; It ftlled the !nod with no coley of office holder., tor Cal out 11.10 0 211obatilliee of the people; It hits refn•ed to Int, menilore, for the relief of the people (tom the burdens thus entailed noon them ; It has loitered monopolies and other mean. for impoverishing the poor and en itching ilia opulent It his de•t rayed fitotwin.l3 or millions of properly. end mow... !shed a whole section of the net oblic It imprimned in ni'ilitorp ftitatiles thou sonde of innocent men for no miler came than indei endent thought and speech uliaa public affairs ; ll refonea to permit lherentoration of the nom mol relat ions of the States to the General Gove•nment , It is threatening to depose the l'iesident fotopposing iii wicked usurpations; It is threatening to revolutionise the Supreme Court for dolloring against Ito ii lewd methods of punielling its,anemies ; It is deliberately conspiring , change ILe form of our Government from that of representative republic to on oligsroby, ruled by a sectional IMlnority faMien. jut 44thman. What is there tit the conduct of thtsosurp tng factlon, or the character of its reckless let.lers, wltfelt tthottl.l,tomninntl the longer forbearance of on otttraget! people ? The 1.1 raged nisj troy c f the people the whole country should unite in one tun, Protest again,T the clir•e of their oppres sors, Ihnit at least, posterity mu 'tattoo tbent of the charge of sitting quietly in tht Grace of enrols that wet% 10)01111g to file subvert.' ,11 of that benefiqls system of pof.- itlor government, that tirts horn of the lood, and toil, and wirulinn, and clone, of the fathers and founders of the Republic —Ere/nut;.., MEM Soya the Oil Commonetealgh . When a people are in rho iSi,as of a puhtical recoliatiitn men-atrincon capacity and bmtit pareihns Ilia surlaie. soil for tone the hot io teltei is ant loonof i Irian and ireat 114.1 not moral run an instin•tiie ahlorence at, and le ir of contamination by as ocialloll,.iirltik trim] public gIILICi and placeut pohlit irii•l Ciikglller society nu ocean The WIT, 1101,41 by the storms of opinion nod prep lice; hove rigilop.ll 111.1 t ocean lo the very bottom, nod cast to the surf tee till the Ito lain die'((, unJ gll tAge . wklell, Juridg the ntdl la.llller of pence, tvoll eettletl out 0 , right ft tonne, for n moment, at the eh ir szters nud il nog, of the persons who IrivP keen rt;141,1 into high pr19:111,11.1 through csrelessuess, pant ton oral trio I, doling the lust fewyo.iri of popular nglintion See the Boiler*, Sieranses, Ashle3s. Schenck,. 'A ilia le-t of ill It e 115... who are rite .101111.0.1.1 settlings riot:ma - We' it 'ln I hoe tot c itrorns of Isle a oceln. The whole cur rent it font ilir iti , :th which they hue rugs. ett to the surface Their presence nod ern. 11 , 4 , :0114111ve opre.l4l loiptil ily fit a Llr ttle. omitevery eli•4 of , evrl{ hi inch. niniost, — of the ptiblie nervice I tinlekl with clime ' Tune awl tplietinlo wrml.ll,ling relief 19 sending .110, filthy on 1 derttlinite ele intone hack to then ilenw•of 41kIleiA, 1.1101, ing flits they re m 434111. their lien - gtven,porrer 11p111 w;v!,.,3 I.n rp,..inil and on.l -ftre rliov Iturwii fig tin nod fig no to tho.nr hWO, where, w ith the hot!h on.l. lotto, they keep op ri 11,11 owl wk.) destruct Ike, nn 0 11110141(00120 everything Om comesit whin veldt. That they ore I per•onir of mein and ',coin] passions no one • deny Intl that, in peace. they would ask into olinvmh iv °guilty nnilentnblo So long liswevlt . r, its the people will per• nut themselves In he noted upon through their 0,110114 11111 to bo kept In n ennstont stole of nimbel e,eitetoent by those ettunittg and selfish actors. no long will the country stiffer for wont of men of Illy , merit and , I poitiothim no directors awl legislotots Patrol .3 Uoi A91114'101 s —When the Family followers of copper Itasca Oliver Cromwell were d0p0p4191,4 pop4191,4 ; Ireland—murdering awl exiling 1:11 p 911 1 , 1, 1- -. To 11tthatItiev, or la liollwith the paptiata the s!iihrtioill of the Mon) tw Pin win army That dta heh~ nl r,a it of the all walla Pat Jan hail ile•ectiil like an hen loam to, atol throng'', hta lirozeny of the P lynr mill Fork niti-1, of the Nen Weill, nil wil liens the lallowing or g ,,, Of I'rlifotnir Pin 1i411151,1, i411151,1, tile 1.1:1 Speaking of the recently reported elf trill of patties at tton to Its up a new eon! : trratniac, the Italical organ can of lire St/1111 , 1 1 1 . 11 people ..IVe bore Ink, n bock tutu Teri %tory which rebel% endeavored In trinke forer2n roil f,r u+; NV, 'lre not iinriiettlor ntiont viltot become, of the p ,, otile living on the Territory " The Wick hew! intern il" who ton Wier molt on a'roctutiv rent -vent in the fleo of tho nineteentheentuty, ileoerveo to be, no he no doubt it lineal deoceuil.t of the wom l'Urtinno vvltri drove the Irilk.to hell or U trlintloeo, nod who robbed noil murdcr <d the Pcgdod Tina N it itgairiet Itrititt,s "in the mime of ebriotiantly nrol for the glory of !lu.l_ - ; ,-.lreigienlal wad rao:/.vird terreirt it Itr c.rt —The II ironess de Sinel coitre,.ed that she waitld exchange Lall her knowledge for persona I elsortni,and con' tier it cheaply bought at Oyu price dll women know Clint IL is beanie. either than genius, which nll senor ition• of men wor.hipplul in the sex Can it he wondered nt, Ihrn,th it so 111.1;11 of wont, is * tune and Clteililoll short Id lie directed to rho olefins of developing and preserving Clint beim) , Women know. too that when risen spook of the Intellect of wonr tt they spynk critic illy, mutely, cooly ; lint when they come It , peak or the charms of A denittirnl omen, hall their language and their eyes kindle with nn entliusinsi», which shows them to be profoundly. if not indeed, ridic ulously to eirnest It is n part of the not trial impel!) of women to perceive nil this, nod therelire employ every allowable net to become the goddess, of dna nslarittion Preach to the contrary as we"trnay, against the nets employed by women for enlinneing the r beauty, there still stands the eternal Lot, that the would does not ptcfer the so ciety of nit ugly woman of genius to that of a beauty of lea. totelleCtuol acquirements. —Erchuror. —A grad jtom-1‘ came to I igILL t her of h er evening , in Washalgton, in relaticm .1 a certain member, naiad for' his galfantry: The Sergeant et arm+, it seems, called for Wm at hi, house, when the ho ioraLlo gen tleumn's wife ventured to remonstrate. " site slid, "doe, Mr.—imvo to go up to ilia house in night again ± lie too bad! 11/ lin, been up at the Houle all night long for the poet week, and comes home to the morning looking wretchedly !" The officer smiled, but did not eaploin lii the loving wife, that there had been no pret, ous night session this minter yet. —Tbe Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial lays that since the first of December the United States Sen ate ban ri.reeted for cinl positions more than fifty soldiers. wounded and disabled in the scenes of their country. Mid to these rejected, also, the names of hundreds of soldiers who for gallant services were tendered,positions by the President, and we find how utterly insincere are tie pro• fevsions of lore etude fur the soidlers by Radical leaders. The "grand Ansi, of the Repuldio" should • easaiaaly denounee this treatment of their fanner ootnradu by Radical Segtors.—/foloits Cowley ForllllUl. ELECTIONEERING ANECDOTE. At the clone arm election et Lewe•, the Duke of New C.1511C was so pleased with/he ecnatte't or, casting voter, that be said: \ly dery friend, I dove yen deerly: you re the grenie,t — initi in the world! I long in serve y:ut ' What elm I do for von ." "Nfay It please your grace, an excise-men of ibis town is •erysohl wish to succeed 'ion as soon as 111'4'1411 die." lye, that you chill with all my hotel Is noon as ho in ilead,set out to me,my dear friend; be it night or day, insist upon see ,ng me, sleeping or waking If lam not at ncolo'e inn -fields, come to court ; if I nen not al-court,pewer rest till you find me; nay, I'll glee orders for you to bo admitted. though the King and I were talking secrets together in the cabinet " The ' , voter swallowed everything with reuse.) , The esciseinan died tire hollowing ,winter As soon no the Duke's friend was ipprisel of it, he act oaf foti• London, arid reached • Lindoln's inn fields about two o clock to the morning. The Kroger Spain h td, about this tune, been seized by a dis. order which Monte of the English had been Induced to believe, (elm particular express- I es, he C 0,11.1 ail possibly survive Amongst these the Duke of NO,: Li Ile was the most credulous On the very fit It moment nt re• cetring this intelligence, he ha 1 sent cone- ' lees to II idi id, who were Comm ended to, room with the utevist h smite. as linen Rs the death of his Cllholrc NI ijesty should have I 'seen nimniinced. Ignorant of the hour in ertich they might arrive. the Duke ;twee strict orders to send any person toll is chant ber who should desire a Intitianoe after be hail retired to rest When the voter asked if he was at hone, the porter answered V.: liir gE9n, his ben in bed some lune, test we wore directed to aw tken him' .10011 99 yen come " lb: heaven bless hint' I know that the Doke always told me tuat I should be we:- I 9199 by night or by Joy Pray show mo Tine happy visitor MIS scarcely conduveil tontine .1.101 %viten he r nYlned into the net elimlier, and, Ir iniip3ried wilts joy, en led MO ''My lend, he I , dend, ••Tltnt o; well, my deir friend ; I am glad of it; Ind; all , my total! When aid be 'The morning before Iroa, Ind plesseyour EliEl “Whst. iw I itely ' Why, my worilly gnml eresiorr, you must have flown-Lib.- jkghtning oself mold m3,1,1143111.11' eo fo.st Its out. Tell lue you belt or men, how I sh sli c te2rn rd you • ” I beg ilvd your grace will please to rg tinnber your kind prbmise, and appoint mo to succeed him " •'1 ou, you blockheml ' you, King of Spain %Vitra kmily pretentious can you Lire! Let me look at you!" The astonished Duke drew back the cur tain, and recollected' tee race of his elec.. lone. Mg ft iend hot it waseeen with rage and disapbetniment ; the voter was o dlllllllll- ,1 will] till the ri ! thrice of nngcr and refus al At length the victim of the Duke s pas eon become an object of his mirth, and, when Ile felt the ridicule that marked the incident, ho -mode the voter an excise- E roils i TX --Eternity lint no gray hairs' The flowers fide, the heart withers, man grows old and ijies. the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, bill time writes TO wrinkle+ nn the brow of eternity. Eterni ty Stupendous thought' The every pre sent, unborn, uniecaying, but undying— •tho endless chain, compassing the life of Moil—the golden thread, entwining the des tinies of the uni‘erse E tett, likit - its beau ties, but time shron Is them for the grave: it, honors, they are but as the gilded sepia cli`ers ; its possessions, they are but toys of changing fortunes; its pleasurp, they are bursting bubbles Not so in the untried bonne In the dwelling of the Almighty, dm come no footsteps of dens]. It. will know no darkening—steroal splendors forbid theepproash of night. Its founds.- tionswrill tverer fail; they are eresb from the eternal throrie. , Its glory will newer wane, for there is the ever present Ood Its harmonies will never cense ; exhausted love supplies the song FIN ave. Aso Sarroans —The advocates of negro ',Ohne do not seem to have a very esslted opinion of the ability of the block man to lake care of himself. Mr Wilson wants bun protected against the schemes of claim agents, end so prestos., to t tke charge of the money due every colored eolther and put it by law in the bands of a t rant company. ft would be amusing to observe how :tonoroblegentlemancentrathat themselves about the blaok man's capacity if it did not involve such solemn interests. It isaerisplalf proposed to have the govern ment guard the funds of men who it i■ claimed hove not wit enough to keep fiom being swindled, by the very same men who bore formally declared by legislative enact ment that these helpless creatures shall be invested with the right hf suffrage. Men, many of whom cannot oaunt,erho are igno rant of the rudest elements of political knowledge, are yet mode voters 'of the , re ptiplio by the enlightened leaders of the Radical portyo—Es, tollett,-Msother miming, one gentle man pointed oat.* kandified individual to hi. friend on a asuiptar. What! reed his friend, ouch • looking chap as that a toulptor 1 Sore ly, you must be mistaken? Ifs may not b• the kind of one you moan said the informant, bat know that he ehissled • tailor out of a suit of clothes last week. --Dr. Francis was a wag, sad snot whoa No Nsnno Vi - irtaa is New Yana —The ; earls. peat were oo the table he ettiptitd the eon- House of assembly of New York calls upon I tents Franck!f, h.ts.l7.ffed.bos.ofrritierndthsai.h.at are you Frauds!the people of that Stine to elect delegates aheat , lute the. that way, was the answer. ton Conn it iit inlet Convention, but do?. not , of amuse, had the dith,),to himself; sad sllow the noble colored 'AI" to vote along. I when e• boa ...ludo, exclaimed: Ton thee' What does this mean We have now the tit was snuff, did you? Nothing but black declaration of the Itspahlicon party in New ' p. York, Otis and ; Mtchtgln, through the --OnedoyaPepeweengagedfgWsde notion of (heir Legislatures, that the Ne- nog the DMA, he same to a, passage which his green shall not be allowed the full rights of at i.4.. or assistant could sot interpret, • strutters, cititentliiP in Note States : yet stood by, In his humble garb, Tory modest party proclaim, there shall be no Ci•ilOos- ly onggestad that PA .had some little anions. °roman, In the South until the Negroes are ' tone* with the Greek, perhaps he eould assist made voters, and the mats of Whites there I them. Try it! said Pope, with thesis ore boy are denied that. privilege. Continency is a i who I. teaching • monkey to eat red popper. Jewell ! Timm It an error is the print said thb stranger, Dem tarots want a white assn's govern- t l ookinget the "i t. Rawl as If there wee we latarrognios point at the end of the, line, sag man, equal taxatipn, the old oonnitution of Washington and Jefferson, n Union of. 700 Pare the meaning at " H " L P°l".4 amiet upon thio ant improved equal Slitelf:lio Poland' or ilungerys or assage without difficulty. t, sad rendered the Pops was chspios- Irelands or Crete, among rafts. All these p . 1; he . ;;hid endure to be surpassed la we wag! and wcil hems, in spits of Disunion . anything. Tensing to the stronger, he said ho aegro worshippers. I p tareastie tomi, Will yeti pluses te tell what By hater twee we tiara the Senate bIIL an mi ammit i n sio Why amaid lb . now . glee, the negro the right to vole; and the mani ng the migiipag pis It 4 hsWe mu. broingbes cool,egs”.—areitereyo • ed. eoatantible thin that asks "maw r NO. 13 OE OUR' DEAD. Orieflnnot 'Ho thevi heck • And yet with frequent tears We bring to mod their cherished forms With thoughts of other years, Wsthiore that, neither death nor ebony' 'lath rower to sorer or estrange. I= From memory. written pegs; We cannot count them strangers, but, ds bull. in prison cage, We belt amain'. the Iron her That keep. ua from thine frflada afar. Oirlirtoo met not hang Its rtirMin OCT' their gram Thero an meter we can nip Like Lethe'e lolling ware; But food etferrion'e moaning wall Breaks frown. like theautumn gale. Ye are ntd dead $0 us; Hut, s s bright stars unseen, We huhd that ye are at er near, Thou:h death invades between. Like thin cloud. that reds (rem eight The counties wangles of the night. THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER —The fair sex recognise cotton as their bosom friend. remove stales from the character—get ir h. •--Mystery le metal only for the tarpon of concealing %nom.. —lVhen do ladies carry en? When they haretsper fingers —Those who make the world laugh, often themselyee laugh least —Cherish your beet hope. as a faith, and abide by thee in action. —Why are whist players like monkeys Became they have odd tricks. —Marriage Is &instated • !ride! state, cc it puts n curb upon most people. —Low as the grave is, you cannot climb high enough to eee.hez,oad it. —The kindovasOf distant (Hands i• like the polar sun, too far removed to warm us. —When is a young man's arm Ike the Go.- *t, When It makes glad the waist place.. -4. clergymen in Maine got thirty eight tents for marrying two maniac., the other day. --A eubinarint telegraph table fete be laid between Florida and Cuba in June next. —Why did • Adarn bite the tipple f said the eels .n 1 lower to one of his pupil. Because he had nn knife, replied the urchin. , —k young MY in Norfolig was Awed Ave dollars for throwing a brick at a lady's water fall. younewtiman In Chicago who had loth ber speech by a .erere cold had twenty of fer.. of marriage In one week, —Eighty Radical paper. In the South are alppo , ted by $.500,000 worth of Governjusent ad rartiaing. —People ire °orlon. to see irlasenum was right when he, raid the people lorio to be hunt bozge.sl —Aincng the cititeheof Augusta, Maine, is Timothy Hutchinson who toted twits for Washington as President. —Wa lick the stamps that the tYrants of the day impose upon us. Ourfathers licked the tyrants who sought to Impose stamp. on them. —Charles, dear, tow that we are married you know we must have no secrete ; so do, Ilk* • dove, hand me that bottle of has dye; you will Ilnd it ill ' my dressing ease. —fn a history on plants, the author mot lcee the virtue of hemp thus laconically : By this cordage scups are guitle,4 belle are rung, awl rogues are kept in awe ' —A book seller's catalogue, recently pub contains the following notice: Memoks of Charles the Flint. with a head capitally m elded —There's always one consolation, whatever our lirlienrl.o—lt might be wore.. Were life hanging on a thread, It would be a comfort to think that it 'woo not hanging on a rope. —Who is wise? Ile that Is teachable.— Who is mighty He that imagoes. himself. Who Is rich? Ile that Is contented. Who is honored? Ile that horareth others. —Tbo Radical 'am requires • five c of clamp to be dgred to marn•ge certificate. to make them legs'. Dom the lack of • stamp upon surh documents inrsßdat• an:turista —A bright little girl, le playful sager, Taught hold of an old, +deter, raying, Now Asks the sandint out of you, thinking the human specie. ma. got op on the same plea as her doll. —Near Boston lite.. hale and hearty mu possessed of the molt ...withe feelings, when hi. wife goes Into the yard and saws wood for half a sitabr the Ere with tears in his eyes. —A fanner near Montreal says no one need tell him that advertising won't cause a big rash fur be advertised ten bushel of grapes for sale. and the nex,t ow:wiling the boys bad ,toles theta all. —A little boy et Sunday School being ask ed What is the chief end of man ? replied, The end what's got the head.ni. An application of birch convinced him that the head might be the chief end, but it "wet the one that bad the most mart. —A Kentucky negro lately shot a 'streamed Bergua, near Lebanon, Illinois, merely to ob tain ■ rabbit chick the boy bad killed. The termer. waited to lynch the darks'', but the father of the boy had him handed over to the autboritim. letter from Georgia states that sines the passage orate Despotism bill Northern man fro winding up their business and withdrawing their eapital preparatory to leaving the State. liminess is consequently becoming completely prostrated. LET THE SOUTH STANO•FON4 A UT- TLE LONGER Tee Mephistopheles of the Demmer&lie press of till North Is the New York ' World. At tunes it is full of bre..., hold word.— sr:titbits a fidelity to principle worthy of ell prams., but far oftener its utterances are those of a craven; timid.hetrted, R fearing, demorslized and demoralising o gan of a cowardly, iloweerrieg, and spir itless polity. It alms at moms by follow• leg out littia_lricks of Vped,lenexastly ■hrtfts of 'oilfield }ageing—lndicting ci the party constant and 000tional defeats by pursuing such a course It still resorts to the same means and is filled a bland confidence of winning glortaue triumphs eventually. Xn a recent Imo it half way camisole the Sid:whet:a people to yield to the p term. offered by that illegal and infernal cabal sitting at Washington in the name of a Constitutional Congress. We quote team the article referred to: ••Whatever may be It. ultimate' basis on which this great controversy is settled, there must be advantages in the early adop tion of that basic The crippled business interests of lbe South ought is be lifted nut of the stagnation soused by the !misting uncertainty. To postpone reeonstruotion under Sberman'sidll for the sake of restos alion under the simple, unameaded Consti tution, would be wise and reasonable delay. But to potpone reconstruetion on the new plan ; to adopt the same or some similar., plan three or fire years berme, would. be short sighted, passionate telly. By's", year or militery goiernment puts back lbe re cuperation of the South, and (what is worse) .0111i0Mit the Federal Government wad the Northern poll!e to the dangerous prussic. of douiinalien The [olive and dangers than 'ermined may be reasonably accepted in the persistent pursuit of compennating end.; but not gratuitously—col as a hault ing place at which the South only loses time, property and quiet, to enter at last on the same repudiated path As between the Sherman bill pure and simple and the Sherman bill plus several years of addition al distraction, a reasonable people should not hesitate. "If the Souther Slates aribtever to reor ganize under the Sherman bill, they should do so ibis year and thereby gain the vantage of participating in the Presidential election. If they form new State Constitu ! lions during . the summer and autumn, end present them to Congress for acceptant!e at next winter's amnion, their Riley or seven ty votes may determine lb* result. But postponement till next year would shut them out completely, and might be the, means of subjecting them le four pears more of Radical tyranny. If tbernhould reorganize next year, their senstiintions could not be submitted to Congress for up. proval until after the Presidential election is past. ThelLith has a far deeper stake than any of at the North In resouing the government from Radical control, and their pkotoral votes would in aliprobability turn the scale."' No true Democrat would give snob Maid. lose and dangerous counseL If ever there was a time when with united vole* the Demoeracy should urge upon the South,' n State. to stand Srm,be patient,walt,endnre, bear submissively the yoke of tyranny for a little'while longer—that time Is now!— Let the premacondition of things continue —to the devil with reconstruetion pro. mores! There is one impregnable poll. tin—the South ocenples it to.day—l•l It no be threatened or cajoled late abandoned. Mg that position! Ole SoutAnve are Soo. aegis Slams, as scab entitled to all 'tbs. rights gaarateed them in the Constitution —let them accept no coMpremisee, yield to nothing expedient, bat demand simple Jun" t ire ! They are not g enough, it le true, to enforce their demands, at present ....they may, perhaps, have to 'Omit to a horde of military satraps, State lines and names may be obliterated, hut eventually the old Union, the old Constitution, will be restored, and truth and Jostles triumph over fanaticism and the Rump What if their representatives are denied scam to the legislative pig pen of the re public at Washington, or debarred partial patios in the inestimable , privilege (I) of voting for the neat Executive of ..the beat government lbe world ever saw"—thay eat live aed titrive excellently well without sharing in thole bootie (so coati). But let them borrow neither trouble err worriment on that account } They will participate in the seat Presidential contest ! The delays and hindranees in the work of reiterant.; and the settlement of the dill. cultic, of the country are producing 'their naturel moults at the North. Laberere, working men, mechanics, manalketunws, merchant* and business men are uneasy, troubled—the , volcano of revelation may burst forth and vomit out ite destroying fires at any,moment! The social elates of the Noith is reeking end throbbing with the earthquake throes of political discontent! Let the Rump do its went—it will but bring certain retritlition more ipeedily sad quickly ! Meanwhile, let the South STAND rT x and WAIT! There, will be music by sod by, and the adherents of the Lost Canto will neither here to furnish the instruments or foot tie bills for entertaining the Radi cals! With Wade ae President of dui Senate, and the Bag-eyed Spoon Pilfer! am loader of the House, it will mot rtR*V . litemy months to completely wear out of l thread bare gamma of,tcltkeen pottemste Crowe newboerit. WIIAT Naar.—A getilitteau riding wear the city overtook • well dreseoeyousreaas, led Invited Yin to lake • seat la Ma oar- Hags. "What," said the geatlewa• to tie intim stronger, "are your plane Or the future 1" am a clerk," replied tie yam( 1111111, nand my bops is to summed, and got lat. business formyself." "Ads what next 1" said tia ge, dross. nWhi I intend to marry, anduot up as eatabllshment of my own," sold I. youth. "And what next I" 'lt is the lot of all to die, amt I of maim Minnot escape," replied the young masa. “Atid what nest ?” once more asked the gentleman ; but the young men hod no maser to make; he had no purposes t►at reached Iteyead the present UN. How "wetly yoUbg men are in precisely the Dams condition. What pertains I. the world to some has no pleas in all their pllamoihr.... ^ - ---11 . 5 , 11a MID Now.—Paltiodekka 111041-k. No,pkrwer on earth eau or alkali Oran die Union. Patriotism In 160:-She Union j is distsolts. ad, and all who deny it are tepterlmaile and traitors. Trianon in 1864—T0 opoale-dil- I of t►e President and kin policy. Treason In 1868—To speak' 'tarlatan, of the Prinklent sad hla —A Beet boy vat driving • nab be JR=Silk lobos tbe•adwool 4•41•414•41004- - sad rotated to badge. “Weit't irtir fro, ibi" rid ibmbey. .4ee4 viad,rde yea . tyres you forget your Mier was • ima m."
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