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* [For th, Watagnin
THE DRUNKARD'S WIFE.
Is la her chamber, to listen sod welt
iif toil till the boon grow late,
g oply to dash the teary from her eyes,
the Ilght from the ilia Wring candle dies
- morning tilinight she has tolled ter bread,
hungry and cold will she creep to bed,
. 07 msalug her child to her breast
lulling It sadly, though softly to rest,
sits in,the darkness, memory bright
her book to the days of Tight,
her childhood boars so happily flew,
weaning Of sorrow she searwsly knew.
amount". her taw, 4q haat, on the
Id elm tree and the •ins-eovered door,
hir father 'lts In the pleasant shade
oft u a child she has merrily played.
.• olden has fled, she hears attilto door
and a voice she kiss heard before,
• starts from her dream in Agony wild,
he clamps to her heart the alumb'rieg
E
And e urrles the cradle achy out of sight,
Where , sy not ea* it, for onlyiast nisp6tY
• e oath., he had threatened to try
Some meted of stopping its sad little cry.
Then, trembling and fearful, she creeps to the
door--
She upshs It softly—and there on the floor,
Drunk, Moaned,Jtud boantry, unable to more,
Lies Um man elle liad Promised to honor and lore.
With tenderest ears, ee though worthy it all,
ale tottering etepeehp 'guides through the Intl,
Lap, hie paritlyeek limbs on the tumble bed,
And places the pillows beneath his head.
In agony mate, ehe then kneels by hie .
"Hare pity! O h ! Father in 'leaven," ehe cried,
"nave pity on me, and on mine, Oh, Clod !
And help me to bear thy chastening Md."
*hue night after eight, and day alter
Travii I aorrowing tread life's toilaome way—
go weary of eorrow—ao wirry of life—
liars pity, oh, God ! to oirrirunkorti's Irop
THE TARIFF-IS IT JUST?
This is the first question to be settled in
determining upon the merits of every not of
man, whether it be the mot of en individual
or of a government Justice in the great
high attribute of Ood, the loftiest virtue
and the greatest security of mnb When
governments cease to make it their rule of
action, the people have no se`ourity for the
enjoynynt of any of their rights.
"Is it just. ?" then, is the 'all important
question, by the answer to whjoh the mer
les Of miry bat of government must be tes
ted.
We propelse to apply this test to the tar
iff,end to shoe that it is unjust in principle
and unequal and oppressive in practice.
This being established,. it follows that the
highest and beet intereete of the country re
quire its immediate abandonment.
The (arta' presents itselc for our conside
ration in two characters ; in the one as a
measure for raising revenue for the sup
port of the government, in life other as a
intrigue° for what Its ftli - ocates call ',pro
tection" to certain interests in the country;
though why it should tie called "peelers.
'floe" to these we have never been able to
see, as nobody ; has ,:ever interfered with
them, so far as we know ; It strikes us that
•it would kpoore properly defined it Jt."was
welled thl'eystem of aggression, not only
upon other interests, but upon the rights of
tho people generally.
Tor the present we shnlldirect our atten
tion to its character as a measure for rais
ing revenue. Then, what isjuelice in rais
ing money for the support of the govern
ment! It is that every man shall pay in
proportion to his means. We suppose no
body will deny this , for the severest joss
lice cannot require that the poor man shell
pay more in proportion to his means than
the rich one ; it would be a mockery ofjus ,
lice to permit the rich man to pay lees in
proportion to his means than is required
of his poor neighbor.
Then every men should be required to
pay in proportion to his means We assert
and will prove that it in not in the power
of man to devise a tariff under which this
can be done ; and that any tariff must be
unequaled and unjust. We shall not un
dertake to dedide whether a Itriv tariff is
leas unjuet than a high one, tor whether,
as 1101110 contend, a- tariff which shirt. laz,
the rich exclusively is less unjust than
either All are unjust ; and what we seek
M justice to all ;. the rich as well es the
poor. Wheu we agree to lake euji tariff,
we yield the whole principle ; we abandon
justice as our guide : and whether we shall
bays a high or a low tariff, which shall op
press the poor, or wroug the rich, is a
mere quertion of power, and we shall have
the one or the other as the ono or the otli
%class shall get the control of the govern.
-tent It is unwise to confine ourselves to
choice of will, when the good is in our
power ; it is wicked to adopt, or continue
system of injustice and wrong, when one,
of justice and right is open to us What
the country needs and wisdom requires is a
system shall be jitst to all, now and for
ever, This system the people have the
power to adopt at pleasure Now to the
proof that no tentf can be just es a revenue
measure From the report of the Secrete=
ry of the Treasury for the year 1805, the
•afiens ofthe whole property of the country
at that time may be assumed at twenty
thousand millions of dollars. The tariff
collected for that year, ending 30th June,
1800, over one hundred and seventy nine
millions of dollars in gold ; for the conve
nience of calculation, we will call it one
bunfired and eighty millions. This was
ninety cents upon every hundred dollars of
the whole property of the gauntry. Then
ninety cents in gold, or its equivalent, is
what every man ought to have paid esevery
hundred dollars of his property, as his
just share of that hundred and eighty mil
lions Nobody can deny that. If every
body did not pay that,somebody paid more
than their-just share.' Tiers are men in
.this country., whose property is estimated
alien, twenty, thirty end even as high as
fifty millions. Ninety cents on the Infe•
dyed dollars is nine thousand on a million.
Nine thousand dollars, therefore Is the
&model which the mess with a million ought
to have paid. Auumidg the avenge of the
duties at fifty per cetit,4m could not have .
14,1 d his share until be had consumed eigh
teen thousand dollars worth of dutiable
foreign goods at oust. Let us see what it
have cost him. The goods laid down
in Niar York, cost the Importer eighteen
thoufltand dollars worth of gold ; he pays
the duties, amodnting to nine thousand also
in gold, this makes twenty seven thousand
dollars is gold; the profits of the several
merohania, through whom the goods pass to
the consumer, will probably reach at least
fifty par cent ; this upon the-tfenty
'thousand dollars, ;sat MIRY =Saud five
hundred dollars, which the man with a mil
lion of dollars must pay In gold for foreign
goods, for him own consumption, before he
could have paid his fair and just share of
that hundred and eighty millions collected
from the people, by the tariq.. It Is clearly
impoulble that he Gould Lave done it.
The altars or a man with abripdred tbeu
sand dollars, was nine hundred ; to hare
Tj,lif"Ptiliturraik. -- liii.'ilfitiOit' , .:
VOL. XII.
paid thin, be most have consumed eighteen
Itundred dollars worth foreign goods at
Doer.; duty and profits added make four
thousand and fifty dollars which he most
have paid in gold for foieign goods for his
own consumption. this does not include
foreign goods frei of dutyr, nor goods made
In this country, nor any of his °there:pen
men, so that he was a very extravagant man,
if he paid his share.
The share of the man with thirty milliocs;
Was two hundred and seventy thollsand
dollars. Before he could have paid it, he
must biro consumed four hundred and for
ty thousand dollars worth of foreign geode
at oast. And fifty,per cent duty, end you
have eight hundred and ten thousand ; add
fifty per cent, merchant's profits, and
gives twelve hundred and fifteen - thollsatir
dollars, which he must have paid in gold
(er foreign goods for his own consumption,
to have paid his share.
Suppoee . he 0011511Mell foreign goods to
the amount of forty five thousand dollars in'
gold, including dutiea.and profits, •then he
paid only ten thousand dollars of his share,
leaving twe hundred and sixty thousand
dollars of it to be paid by somebody else.
Who paid it '
The man with a million c fdollarscouldult
help him, fur wo have seen that he could
'not pay his own alter°. The man with a
hundred thousand dollar. could help him
but very little, if any, unless be was a fool . -
ishly extravagant) 'man. But somebody
paid every dollar of it, for the government
got it The question occurs,"who paid IC."'
This question we think wee can.a.nswer
satisfactorily to every sensible man.' The
share of the man with a hundred dollars
was ninety cents. When he bad consumed
foreign goods to the amount of one dollar
and eighty cents, he had paid his share-
Let us see what they cost him Add the
fifty per cent duty and youhave two dollars
and seventy cents, add the fifty per cent
profit and it ices four dollarsand five cents
in gold. 196e;n he had paid that amount in
gold, or its equivalent for !.,reign Rootlet,
he had paid his share. When he hail bought
himself a pair of boots, he had overpaid it;
and every time After that, when he bought,
for himself or his wife and children a pair
of shoes, or a garment, or a pound of tea or
sugar, or coffee, he went on overpaying it,
until if his family consumed a hundred dol
lars worth of foreigni-goods, he had paid
twenty two dollars and twenty two cent.,
just twenty two dollars and thirty (no centi;
more than his share, and just that much to
help make up what rich men did not pay of
their share, and which this system would
not permit theT to pay Miley would/ The
farmer, the niee'llauia, the day laborer, the
school master, the cheol mistress, the
preacher, the °ler , the shopkeeper, the
sewing w oman, the washer woman, all who
depend upon their labor for k living, not
even excepting the poor negro, are heavily
overtaxed to make up from their scanty
earnings, what justice required that the
rich should have paid from their supera
bundance
Can anything be more dishonestly, more
meanly unjust than such a system ? A
system under - the operation of whiih:thi;
rich man can, by no possibility, pPy' his
just share to the aupportofthe government,
nor the poor by any possibility escape the
payment of more than his. A systerirli ich
on one hand compels the poor to pay ten,
twenty and often a hundred times their
share for the support of the government,
and on ,the other cheats and robs them to
add to the wealth of bloated capitalists. Is
there in the whole country an honest man
who is willing to wring from the hard earn
ings of labor a porlion of the money scarce
ly' sufficient in supply the bare necessities
of life, either to pay what justice requires
that be should pay, or to add to his own
already useless store ? Not one
And yet this system, the offoprinr,/ of cu
pidity, the instrument of tyranny, the em
bodiment of meanness, deceit and fraud,tbe
most cunning And effeetivedevice which the
malice of the devil has inspired the inge
nuity of man to invent and to use for the
slow, but unremitting and unflinching tor
ture of suffering humanity, a device which
tests to its utmost the capacity of its •io
time to suffer and live, finds its warmest
Advocates and its strongest supporters iu
men who call themselves Christians, And
claim to be peculiarly the friends, the de
fenders and protectors of the poor; men
who profess to recognise as the cardinal
doctrine of their faith, and the governing
rule of their practice the obligation to
love their neighbor al themselves, a •
do with others what they would others
should do with them. Out upon such hy
pocrisy •
Let us take another view of the subject.
Government collected by the Internal Rev
enue three hundred and two million In cur
rency, and by the tariff a bundred and
eighty, millions in coin, which reduced to
currency, would be two hundred and seven
ty millions, nuking five hundred and eighty
millions the govetnnient collected in curren
cy. The internal revenue legislation le only
an internal tariff; and like the tariff proper,
collects from the poor much more than their
share. A man with a million dollars hap
ten thousand timer as much as he with a
hundred, hut he can neither eat, drink, nor
walk ten thousand times as much as
very poorest man who baValy geleinkeb
to kcep..bim alive through the year. Any
lax upon consumption, must, therefore,
necessarily be uumeal and unjust. '
Suppose there had been no tariff or inter
nal revenue system, and that this five hun
dred and eighty millions had been raised,
by collecting of every man lo_psoportion to
hie means ; what would have been the re
sult ?
First.—Tbst juetioe would have been
done to all of f men. And that is the
most important of all things. No man
would wow have any cause of complaint,
nor would any be made by any honest man.
&cond.—Hundreds of millions of moues
that was ustl in opeoulating upon fopd e,nd
enhancing la - price, would have gone through
the Treasury into circulation, while the
hundreds of millions of which the poor were
robbed by this system, would have supplied
them with many of them aaaaa lea and com
forts of life, of which they have Yee¢ de
prived. and muoh suffering would have
tonsb.preventeld.
Med.—Every legitimate busbies' would
now be in a healthy, prosperous condition.
We should hear of‘wwant . of employ for
lgbor, of no branches grin/illness paralysed
andbroken up ; even the manufacturers,
who are clamoring for this system, would
be in a batten condition than they are now,
for it is in undeniable fact that they were
more substantially prosperous from 1860
to 1860, under a low tariff, than they have
ever been under any high tariff.
Fourth.—All the pratiftetio4 of the coun
try would have been cheap enough for the
merchants to have paid their foreign debts
yith them instead of gold, while they would
have yielded the produserr more than they
did then, or do now, because he Would have
purchased with themptyre than he did then,
or can now.
FifiA —The increased activity and healthy
condition of every legitimat6 business,
would have given legitimate and useful
employment to all the currency of the
country, which would have largely dimin
ished the premium on gold. As the mer
chant could have paid his foreign debts
with the produce of the country, there
would have been no use for gold but to ply
the interest on the public, debt, there would
have been no necessity fdr the government
to make it scarce by locking up a hundred
millions of it, and there by increasing the.
premiuni on it. Raving no obmpetttion, It
could at any lime have gene into the mirk
et and purchased enough for tin immediate
use. bonds would have commanded too
high a price at home to have permitted
them to be a eubhat of speculation in Eu
rope, and as the goods, for which they have
paid, would have been pail for to produce,
if the bonds hod been sold in Europe at nil,
the proceeds would have come home in gold,
and to day it would have been plenty in
New York at a premium of lee per cent or
less
&Oh —Wo should now hear no complaints
from any honest maningoirist the injustice
of the government." These complaints are
now going up from all partwof the country,
and from every clams of citizens, and no
body denies that there is abundant cause
Tor them Though". burthened by hurry
taxation, we should be sustained by pres
ent prosperity, and encouraged by the
bright prospects of the future As it itiove
are a discontented, dissatisfied people, no
body is solialled with the condition of the
present, and every ono looks forward with
dread to the future.
But there would have been no necessity
for collecting flee hundred and eighty
; instead or collecting a hundred and
eighty millions in gold, the government
need have deflected no much money Milian
would hove bought the gold to pay the in
termit ns it become due to meet the other
expenses which would have been reduced
many millions of doltnee. There would
have been no use for the thousands o f men
who aro employed on our borders lo pre
vent and to help smuggling ; there would
have been no use for a guard to be planed
on every dist,llery in'the country ; there
would have been no use for the thousand,
of government detectives }frying into the
private affairs of the people, under the
pretence of hunting up frauds upon the
revenue ; there would have been no use for
the thousands of custom house officers;
there would have been no use for the cus
tom houses oath revenue cullers ; they
could have been cold for millions of dollars,
and the proceeds appropriated to the pay
ment of the public debt, or to defraying
the public expenses There would have
been no bill passeiPby Congress giving the
members Ave thousand dollars for a few
month's nertice, nor any of those-corrupt
bargains and frauds by which the people
■re everyyearrobbed of millions The Gov
ernment could have been carried on mneh
better than it was for a hued* . millions
lens than it cost, and mush more satisfac
tory to the people. ':very man could have
calculated to a dollar what each few expen
diture would coat him, and what each re
trenehment would save him, It would be
the interest of ertry mon, and parttenlairly
the rich, who hove the tune and means to
devote to it, to watch every expenditure,
and expose find punish their corrupt mem
bers. The tariff 18 a bribe to dishonest
rich men, to encourage corruption and
fraud, in government, because they- pay
lees than their share of the motley, and use
the men who profit by the tot jobs and cor
rupt bargains, and corruption has so perva
ded INS govdrnment and the people, that
the honest 4ich look on with fear and
trembling, and almost despair. Coder an
honest system of taxation, the people would
arouse themselves,' the expenses would
be reduced to the lowest point, and the gov
ernment would be purified by the expulsion
of the Harpies which HOW prey upon it.
Corruption would no longer have induce
ments to get into Congress by bribery and
frqud, because they would have no chance
to Meal, and Congress would again become
what it was in the better days of the Re
public, an honest and no august body:
It is now too-late to escape entirely the
evils the tariff has brought to our doors
We have sinned against light and knowl
edge, nod we must pay the penalty. "Gre
viouely have we sinned. and greviottsly
must we answer it." But we warn the peos
pie that there is no hope for the (afore, but
n the abandonments of this wicked-corrupt
and tyrannical system and the 'adoption of
an homes( system of taxation. And it be
hooves them to rise up everywhere and re
quire it of their.pre , senl representative ; it
may be too late elected wait for theaolion of
a Congress to be if they two years hence
N. I'. Day Book.
PARTIES —The New York Tows, com
menting on the fact that a recent joint-cau
cus of the Republican members of Congress
had especial reference to the organization
of a Republican party in the Southern States,
remarks that the said party, in order to d i p
anything at the South, willhave Id renounce
its sectionalism. The feet that the Repub
lican party has always been confined to the
Northern Slates has, the Times oonf
"unquestionably had greet influence on the
polhas it has from time to lime pursued."
Thts Is very evident,
But be desire to call particular attention
to the wise suggestion of the Tunes in the
words follow log: "Those who propose to
iln.dertake the formation of the Republican
!Tarty in the Southern States must, above
all things, avoid anything like setting one
class of the people against the other, or
one race against the other. There is no
greater danger at the present time to the
South than this r and It were better for both
that North and the South that the Republi
can party never bad an existence in the lat
tei than that its action shoal be of this
°hamlet., Above all," it adds, "the blacks
should be discouraged from politically an
tagonizing themselves against thedomluant
race." These are wise, humane ant Bally
suggestions, come whence they may, and
they will be properly appreciated by the
Southern peciple.—Oelession, Tress, News.
—The sum of seven thousand and
eighty dollars has been subscribed WWl
adelphia for the releif oflL staging peo
ple alb, South The paliett of that, city
complain that the contributions come In
very slowly.
"lITATR RIG = k AND rxxIER.ALL viszim."
BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1867?
'IRELAND AND THE IRISH."
The natal day of Ireland's patron Saint,
in in tension which Irishmen, the world
over, love to commemoiste. Clustering
around the 17th of March 'are memorfet
which excite emetionn.of in fervent patriot
ism in the celtic heart, as were formerly
evoked in our own land, by the annual re
turn of an old fashioned Fourth of July—,
favealax, Ignored and igtaominiodsly'ehel
ed along with the Silt of January, by the
radical Jacobins, who arl)hurryiug all that
is left of a heroic- past i o the maejstrom
of national death.•
• In common with their countrymen else
where, the Irishmen of Look Ilaven„azd
surrounding country, determined to dom.
• memorate in an appropriate manner, their
national holiday, and coming on Sunday,as
it this year did, the 25th of March, was
ilesignated by the St. Patrick Beneficial So
ciety of this place, as the day upon• which
the usual ceremonies would he observed
The St. Patrick Society, it is needless to
observe, is cotnposed of well known and
highly respectable and intelligent eitisens
Upon due reflection the Kl eullemen compos
to; the organization, above alluded to, de
termined upon securing thiservicesiof some
well known ft ienikof the Trish people, and
one closely identified with their interest.
for the purpose of delivering an appropri
ate lecture on the occasion before mention
ed Fur this purpose, Mr. William Lar
kins, the Secretory Of the Society, was dis
patched to Philadelphia, , tif possible, to
Indere the attendance of the Rev. Dr. Mori
arty. Owing to a severe indisposition, pr.
NI. was obliged to decline the invitation,
but referred Mr Larkins to Arr. Spellisy,-
editor of the Uns,erse, a leading, Cntholia
journal, ass proper person to aid L in
seouripg a lecturer. Agreeable to Dr. Mo
riarlf s request, Mr. , Larkins called upon
the editor of Out Universe, who by some
strange hallucination recommended Mr.
Thomas Fitzgerald as lbe man to edify our
Irish fellow citizens - Upon Mr. Spellisy's
endorsement Mr. Fitzgerald was invited,.
with the direct and positive understanding
that no question pertaining to American
politics should be discussed Instead, how
ever, of acting in good faCh with the socie
ty which invited him, Mr. Fitzgerald delib
erately ma& a hid, in the interest of the
radicals, for the Irish vote, and used a vast
amount of very ordinary "blarney" for this
purpose. As proof positive that the lectur
er waeln the interest of theradieal traitors,
we reproduce a dispatch penned by himself
and telftravrheil to the nsimoiated press, sin
hours before the delivery of the lecture
here:
I=
LOCK Ifni Iv, Pa , ilarch 25.—Colonel
Fitreerald. of Philade phis, delivered as
address,n inland and the Irish," to-night,
before the St Patrick's society of this
place. Tire hall was crodwei&to overflowing.
lie spoke for more than two hours, and his
remarks were received with enthusiasm
Every.lrish society in the State /mould hear
this able, itiatorical, political and literary
argument. Colonel Fitzgerald said the
Irishman must make common causewll;
'who seek political redress Every du
Help in valuable, and it is folly to stop o
inquire as to nationality (or et:implosion)
We stand on the imperishable charter of
A.crictin libel lies, which declares that
"all men were created equal," and fromthat
declaration we must not budge Irishmen
in America' should vole only for the party
that will pledge itself to aid the independ
ence of Ireland If imeltruen affiliate with
their real friends, with the friends of free
dom, they will receive legislative and ma
terial aid of incalculable value The Irish.
man has learned that one of the helps to
secure freedom for himself and his own
dearly loved land is to grant unto others
what he' would.have oilier, grant unto lulu._
[ft is the Irishman'. creed that all peoples, no
matter of what clime, cowl:ism., or eolor,elioolil
he free ] ,This is a platform as broad as the
world—it is the embodiment of political
faith and splendor. „The address was allot
able success It will be repeated in other
cities. ERIN
The above dispatch we copy, verbatim,
from Forney'e Press Against the wish of
the gentlemen who were inqrurnental in
bringing him here, Fillgerafd insisted on
sending the dispatch, as we have aloud be
fore, viz hours previous to the delivery of
the lecture After expostulating with him,
he filially erased the sentences which are in
italics and included-in brackets, and in this
shape the dispatch was telegraphed '... Save
in the mere matter of form ii was guile un
necessary that the dispatch should have
been forwarded at allots the nequenceproves
that the thing was nll "fixed up" before-he
even left Phillitelphia, otherwise the eras
ures in the dispatch prepared by him hero
would not have appeared L in the Press die
patch•
Not satisfied with the ealf-laudiltory dis
patch telegraphed to the associated press, ie
concocted a still more elaborate
himself, which ilio Universe was foolish
enough to publish, purporting to come from
Lock Haven, but which, as we can readily
prove was written in Philadelphia by the
windy individual himself As an example
of bombast and ynblushing perversion of
truth we republish it from thesheet la which
it appeared :
LOCK HAYIN, Mara 20
Editor Universe: Colonel Fitzgerald, of
your etty, lectured here last night with thk
most eminent success. before so Immense
crowd of our people I never beat d a bet
tor orator, never saw a larger audience.—
The distinguished gentleman had, of course,
Ireland for his subject. It can never again
be said that the Irishmen of Lock Haven
cannot celebrate Bt. Patrick's Day. `
Without deeming it necessary to comment
upon the subject, matter contained in the
marmots above quoted, we can nevertheless
hardly repress a smile at the modesty (I)as
well as the verdancy of the individual' who
"never heard a bet ter orator, never saw a
larger audience. We are almost led to be
lieve that he author was in aoondition aim•
ilar to the occasion of hie celebrated speoeb
in the rear of the custom House, In which
he feelingly portrayed his intignste acquaint
ewe with "all the children, aid all thebbil
drens' fathers 41 the fifth ward.""-
We are inclined to think that it would
have been, perhaps, quite aa well to have
permitted the mantle of oblivion to have
gracefully fallen upon Fits'e lamentable
failure—for we candidly bellillt that'iihi
game is not worth the powder already en
pendedbut on behalf of our large and in
telligent Irish population, whloh to a man
—and womrn too— udlate and morn the
contemptible eophisi ;Of the contemptible
tool of • ocuttemptlbl party. Ira :have elab
orated Morertuilp, porhapu,thaa hoottettarr.
Although, true to Molt nitlyo courtesy, the
large asoomblap of Irlstuueu patiently llat-
ened until the close, withal' any outward
sign of either dieopproval or approval, yet
we assert ass fact which can be &oily etas
stontiated, that should Mr F in the future
appear in the role of lecturer, there ore not
one docent Irishmen in Chntbn county who
would be induced to hear him.
Our symPathy is freely extended to the
gentlemen comprising the St. Patrick's So
ciety for the grievous imposition inflicted
upon them by Frtrgerald., It is due the
officers olethe society to state that this arti
cle ha. been inspected by them and meets
with their hearty oothinendstion,.spth the
exception that they comaider it altogether
too lenient, so ,for a i s , concerns the indivffi.
oat who, mid& the guise of a literary lec
ture, attempted' td - make a pulyisatcalsPaw
outof charitable essociation.—Clffito Den!.
Otto:
ANECDOTE OF . JAMES K. POLK /,ADD ,
JIMMY JONES.
There is a good anecdote toblof Preeyaytl
Polk, *bile canvassing the Staled Tennes
see with his elegant competitor, lenn James
C. Jones, many years agor•which we hare
never seen in print, and which we give be
low In tho days of Whiggery and Demo,
rely, there existed but a small difference of
opinion on ninny minor questions of the
day, and hence political animosities scarce
ly ever grew as bitter as in the present day,
when the breach is wide and cannot often
be bridged with personal friendshtts It
happened at the closing of thegubernation
al campaign between Polk and Jones, in one
of his speeohos, Mr. Polk took occasion to
refer pleasantly to the small difference of
opinion existing between himself and- his
competitor; that they had eaten,drank and
slept together, and he thought he had male
a gond Democrat out of his Whig compe
titor!
This, of course, somewhat puzzled lean
Jimmy, as he was familiarly known, for a
lime ; but on entering the stand in reply to
Mr Polk, he referred to the former's folio-
Ilona remark, saying, substantially ttLa
dies and gentlemen : My worthy competitor
has told you that we have been on the most
agreeable terms that there is little differ
ence in our vihws ; that he and I have eat
en, drank and slept together and that lie
thinks ho will be able to make a good Dem
ocrat out of use. Now, to exhibit to youths
fallacy of the gentleman's position, and to
ellitbil hie incompetency! to aegtpaplish the
task, I will direcrroAr attention to the fact
lh'tl he has been eating, drinking andsleep
ing with his lady (Mrs Polk) for the last
twenty yearn, and has not yet suedei4 B. l in
tanking a Democrat *lit of her!"
It is needless to say that Mr. Polk was
not ao boy ant a litErward, but blushed, and
drop* the subject '—Sentiorl on the Bor
der,Anoutilf,
We. Lowneeas or SouTtt CunoLixn.—The
into Marquis of Landsdowne remarked on a
Certain occasion to the celebrated Mr Ros
coe, that be "had just met the tallest, tkes
beet bred,eand the beet informed Man ha•
bad ever known " "Then,",said Mr. Sas
coo, 'you must have met Mr Lowadee, of
South Carolina, for I know no other person
that answer that description "
Mr Clay, on being ricked by Col. John
Lee, of Maryland, who of all tinspublio mgr
with whom he had been asseeiated, was, in
Ids opinion, the greatest, replied that it wait
verrdiflioult to decide among so many die•
neon with whom he had been in
timately connected ; but said he, "I think
the wisest man I ever knew was Mr. Lown?
des, of South Carolina." •
When we consider that the oldest citizens
of Washington Hier in their yenth
with such noldoehoracte s Lowndek,Miul
mon, Chief Justice Marshall, Rufus King,
Bushroil, Washington, Clay, Webster, Wil
liam Pinckney, Wirt, Story, Trimble, Wat
kins, Leigh and John McPherson Berrien,
is h strange as some of the Radicals appear
to regard it, that they do not conceive a
violent ousel ion for ThaddeuiStereas, Ben
Wade, Zachariah Chandler, Henry Wilson
William 1) Kelley'; J. IV Nye. and other
luminaries of the Destructive party ? As
well might we 'expect 111,3 me who drank in
their youth from the, pure well of English
undeSled," to rejoice in their old age in
draughts from (Le Pelailential fountains
which are fed by the literary adventurers
of Grub —.11121..al Intelligenctr
Out LOCAL OPPREASION —lf ever l'iero
woe an outrageuncalled forand unprovoked,
'inflicted upon a decent community, it hi the
negro ,offrnge bill for this District. The
bill requires - all the voters to be registered,
and it is really disgusting to go to the rag
'tkete'ritileltilithil to aeo the crowd of coat.
leaf, shoeless, ignorant, dirty negreee, that
are present by hundreds—no qualification
whatever, exceeetwenty-eight year, of age,
no proof of residence except their own elm
pie declaration snd embracing among them
the vagabond runaway. and criminals
from the adjoining qtatoe. It is to such
epos, not fully grown apes, that Am white
population of thti oily andel' tb.eip.proper
ty tiro handed oper tie betakra and the mon
ey spent at Weir discretion In every ward
where the registry has been oompleted,and
is definitely closed, the blacks far outnum
ber the whites, and at the next election can
undoubtedly elect a negro mayor and the
two councils entirely of negioes It would
not have been so bad, had there been any
qualification, even that of residing or writ
ing, as in Massachusetts, or a small proper*.
ty qualilleatiotr!as In New York. Bat the
infliction is more Ifritatiog t lwhen we reflect
It is done by the vote* of representatives
from States that will not allow a negro to
vote at all within their borders, and some
who will not even allows negro to live with
in their territory.—Washington Cot. N. Y.
&prim.
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—The defeat of Barnum destroyilll
our most ardently cherished billies of the
organization of a "Happy Family" in the
Contrai. He might have caged Butler,
8 , the hyena—and other congres
sioealettimals. But this fresh thold*for
Barnum's usefulness is aimed againstNma.
and• he roust go on the end ignobly
exhibiting Ist, bearded women intelligent
seals, sagacious mice, and Oalifornia bears:
Or if he wearies of this treed mill of the
Jarley family, be may try his !mad at an
other exhibition of gigantic bull Wogs like
that which filmdomd sheb a sensation and
terrible bellowing in New York during the
fall of 1866..
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EXTRAORDINAY REVELATION IN CON
NECTION WITH THE WIRZ
TRAO-
E,DY---WIRZ OFFERED HIS LIFE IF
HE WOULD IMPLICATE Ma. DAVIS",
The astounding rarelatien made by But
ler concerning the suppressed diary ofßeoll
and the consequent official murder of an in
nocent woman, is followed by another little
less astounding or disgraceful to the par
ties embraced in it, concerti - big the lawless
trial aneezeoution of theunfortunateWirs7
The iliaclbsure is mode in 'a letter from title
city to the New fork World, bearing date
March 27th. It is.a.s follow. :
It is, perhaps, not generally known that
during the incarceration of Win and Ma
jor Winder in the Capitol Prison, they oc
cupied adjoining cells, and enjoyed faaili
tiea of communication, one to the other, by
word of wetting, through an aperture not
observed, doubtless by the jailor.• No one
was permitted to see either, unless by ipinal
priu siege frurn the Secretary of War: an the
night previous to -- the elecutppl..'st r ikira
three men entered his cell, of course by
permission of t'lanton, and to
him, that if he .would agree to implicate
Jeff Davin in the alleged conspiracy to
starve the Northern prisoners confined at
Andersonville his life would be 'mare,'
Wirs replies' that he would not aarehis own
life by sacrificing the( of another innocent
man. The parties thereupon left the cell,
and Wlrs'immediately communicated all
Olt transpired to Major Winder The
Major prometime after met Mrs. ,Davis in
New York, and revealed to her what is here
stated, backing it up by an affidavit, which
he gave her, and which she now holds
The trial of Demi§ would -involve revela
tions which wield shook human*, and
test to its funnel whiStever sense of justice
or feeling of national pride is still left at
the North. IL is not unreasonable to pre
sume that popular indignation would be
aroused to a pitch a t?Cwould render it un
safe for the eon° ors of the vile plans de
•ieed to secure the sacrifice of Davis' life,
to prolong their residence among a people
whose fame and character they so grossly
outraged
fibtluld not the names of the trio who made
this infiMous Proposition to Wire be traced
out by some means? If the World would
initiate some movement to that end, it is
probable that some light might be obtained
wotkld the identity of these vil
lains. The time is eminently auspicious
for such rn enquiry; now thit the rogues
ars divulgiug each other's iniquities It
may be that Major Winder has some infor
mation which woulk give a clue to am names
of the parties if he has, ho should be in
duced to furnish it, and then the wretches
should be held up to the universal scorn
and contempl i they so richly deserve
A LITTLE GIRL DROWNED
—On Saturday evening, Aprile Gth, at
about 6 o' clock, our citizens' were some
what stasttled by the announcement that
Alice Foley, aged about 13 years, and
youngest daughter of lion. Wm C. Foley,
hicriallen infer the river. A large number
of persons at once hastened toiler rescue,
but they were -too late—she had sunk to
rise no more. The facts in the ease, as
near as could be ascertained, are as follows:
Alice and a little daughter of Judge Bar
rett's had gone As a rtft to watch the drift
wood floating by , and whilst than engaged
and when near the lower end of theraft
it seems Alice became dizzy and staggered
backwards, until she eteppeed off into the
water The ether little girl at once gave
the alarm, and Mr. Foley ran to there
lief of_las Aughter, but by the time be
reached the water's edge the swift current
had carried her a considerable distance
down the stream Mr Foley at once jumped
Into his skiff, and hastened to the reßef—
she was still floating on the surface of the
water—and had approached almost within
reaching distance of her, when she sunk
out of sight. Alice was a very amiable,
loving and interesting child. and hence the
grief of the family is deep and heartfelt
on acmount cif their sudden and unlooked
for bereavement The entirecommunity sin
cerely sympathise with thamourning family
in their loss, although every efforthas been
made ~hy our citizens to, reoover the body
of Alice, up to this time, they have been
unsuccessful —Ctrsrarld Journal
DEATII or SILNAIOII RIDDLE —lion George
Read Riddle, of Delaware, whose death in
Washington was Announced lart Friday, was
born in Newcastle Delaware, in 1817. Ile
wan educated at Delaware College, where
he studied engineering. lle afterwards
engaged In the engineering profession, and
was for years employed in 'costing and con
structing railroads and canals in Pennsyl
vania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia,
the last of which was the great work at
Harper's Ferry. Afterwards be studied law,
was admitted to the bar in 1348, nod-was
apdointed Deputy Attortey Diftelrsl-45-' . •
native county, which position be held until
1850, *ten he 'wive i2leoltd a Representative
from Delaware to the Thirty third Congress
serving, on the, CommiDie lip Roads and
Canals, and wap chairman of the Committee
on Engravings, and also of a special com
mittek.on the Peruvian guano question. (a
1840 he was appointed by the llovernor of
the State a commissioner on the part of
Delaware to retrace the celebrated "Mason
and Dixon!! line ,"the report of which *as
printed by the Legislatures of Pennsylvania
Delaware and Maryland in 1850. ile was
iloo a delegate to the several dehhooratio
national conventions of 1844, , 1848 and 1856,
In 1884 he wlti Malted a Senator in Con
gress from Delaware for tie term ending in
lem, serving on the committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia, Manufactures, Private
Land Claiins and Printing. In politics he
wee telassiA among tha old line Dimoorats
—The Bade propose to admit Utah am
a fl i titie under the name of posere q ty with
polygemy and negro a¢ ge. They
propos, tojalaw the Mormons hiapJoy their
peculiar Institution undisturbed if ths word
whits is left out .of the Constitution and
the Benotors and,polsgaLes ge to !Washing
ton pledgeld to go with Bummer and i'had.
Marcus. There to no doubt whatoter that
this proposed arrangement 1/1 lithe far on
the way to completion.
—The ',We people elf.lol
Tense of negleepWrielstor .
ud. arerreshaerlat ell the '.datkleip •
to
many Olean and ealhholi hAtelts 411
it palates • the oldest liliabltaa to
know where Om all eons fron t .
NO. 16
[For the Watchman.
THEY'LL THEN HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT
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A little girl in New York said she war glad
she was golog to dle, for her little brother, and'
sisters rould.the bare enough to sat. •
1 a 4 glad nil a ar go w tt p. to ri t g e, , ... ,,, e om the e r
The
ns .
And away, 'way off in the bright, bine ebyt
I can see my beautiful home.
-A musical soundithorue, mother,
Oh the cold and cheerlan blast;
And the outstretched armor angel form.,
I can pee as It whistle. peel.
WO . lll very little to eat, mother,
I am glad I thall.ipm t.elfree;
We've soaisl)3l hungry mouths to fill,
And too little for them .0 me.
And now they eon bare enough, mother,
S i infe . .efea little plate is gone ;
A
Akan be well supplied,
In my beautiful, bright new home.
rory up thole sorrowful tears, mother,
pl Why do you weep for me sot'
.Mien you know that all is so brightutd good,
In that beautiful home where I go.
Sweet music is on the air. mother,
The angels are whisper ing"some,",
And others, they tell . me, hero gone to prepare
For me a beautiful home.
Nun gather the little one. close, mother,
On earth we shall neer again meet,
And I would kin them "good bye,"little !lean,
I'm glad they'll Marl plenty to eat. '
0, look at that beautiful one, mother,
With the glorious, shirting form,
'Tie Ile who has come to convey me home;
He is taking me In his arms,
I am growing so cold anti falntoilother,
But I am glad I aro going to die;
Thitaittle ones shall have plenty to eat,
Good-bye, darling mother, good-bye.
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
—:The death pertal , y his been restored In
Blichignn
—A young lady seven feet high, resideqe
Memphis.
--Infanticide is again greatly on the In
crease in Great Britain.
—Brookhaven, L, 1., has elected a Demo
erotic city ticket by • gain of 150
—A LottieviUlan killed his wife recently by
striking her with a candlemtiek.
—ln Pulaski county, Ge., a freedman em
ploys hie former muter as orerset.r.
—George W. Randolph, ea-'rebel' Secretary
of War, died in Richmond on Wednesday.
—The Ohio Senate has passed ehf.hood
Barrage bill, es-eluding ex:rebels ' and 'desert-
—The size of forme Is growing email in Col-
Myrtle. Formerly the average war 4,066; now
ITEM
—Strawberries, grown In the open air,were
sellktig at Sap Francisco on the 14th ult., at 75
cent, a quart.
—Thirty-eight counterfeiter., 'eked by the
Government detective., were lodged In jail in
Rochester, N. Y., hut week.
--The National Democratic Convention, to
.met In Louisville, has been poslponeil until the
4th of July.
—Seventy-fve new building., twenty of
them saw mills, haat. been built in Peneaeo/a,
Florida, sine. the war.
--.The inmates of the Marierbutetts :State
Prison, who have suffered from Intemperance,
favor a prohibitory law.
Congressman w hirer Stream, has
been given • stolen ring *longing to Jefferson
Davis, that htgotay restoreit to Its owner.
--Governor Geary hes bused* warrant for
the hanging, in May next, of Robert Foliar, of
Washington county, (or murder
—The Boston Post thinks the Demoerats
of New Ilempehire had great cause fur Joy, but
the Nutmeg State funciehes a greater.
Evansville, Ind., a few nights sines,
• little boy was playing with • marble, and it
got into his throat and ohuked him to deith.
—A society out West Is disenieing the
question : If • man deserts his wire, which is the
most abandoned, the man or the woman ?
—Joseph It. Hawley, who was the Aboli•
tioil candidate for governor at the recent Con
necticet election, is a native of North Caroltdu
—More Indian outrages are reported in
Idaho. A elation was attacked recently and a
gage driver and two passengers were killed.—
The Indianetontinue hostile on the Tessa bor
der.
—On Saturday, at Rochester, ► Sr. engine,
returning from • fire, was ereeeing one of the.
Erie Cantl bridges, the llooring gave way, let—
ting the engine, horeee end three men into the
canal. O'e-of the horses was killed, and all
the men were more or less injured. •
—A little girl, 'daughter of W. Baukshaw,
died suddenly in Chicago on Sunday night—
said to have been whipped to death by her fath
er. The body of the poor child when examined
was found to be literally cut to pleom the fiend
ish punishment which caused her death baring
apparently been inflicted with a leather strap
or heavy raw hide.
—A New York correspondent writes that
the art of defrauding I. being rapidly brought
to perfection in that city. Seven pay roll• of
employees In the Custom None were recently
abstracted by some one coats:led with that es.
lablishment, and, being altered to suit the eras
mit month, were presented one after another to
the auditor and embed.
—Kentucky and Wisconsin have passed
laws for Ile payment of Who "arteries of their
member. of Legislature to gold. Arkansas has
followed thh example, though with • &femme*
—the member. are to Ita paid in (resubmits at
the prevalent Imhof premium on d geld. Very
little of the precious metal bulMtoly been sew
in that far-off men.
—Has 'anybody a nickel penny of IIISO
The Washington mar says there's en active
* march for them, and that they are considered
worth tweaty-Ere mats mob, because they bare
been almost wholly withdrawn from eireeletien,
and wilrb• 'vary valuable by.ad•by In eons
pletlng collections. The peaty in question will
be remembered as bearing on one face the ropes
amtation of • nondescript broka•baoked bird,
supposed to represent the American eagle.
A gentleman who has returned from the
South what* the loud meetly prevailed, repute
that Matra wyye gathered together in
_paddies
upon high . Flaw to bare thew from taing•
Ide beg* have destroyed inunonee 'UMW of
cattle. They woulteinnannee sad Int eat of
thair booth, awl tiontlaabig the *Math wail& at
ono* drew/ the ealwala or have them la web
*audition that they ,soar tionhi mown
—The Civil RigbUblTlliaa 'shoal sa Inge
eating wootba la Alabama. • Nodal ottlie
;Wm has boon arnotod for riodatingglio
ordering • aggro to lio whippator stoodingslo,
aimed of wading blot toga& Tiociantio~
Ott lea mud. the ordiprMows 1114 4 a=
wagtail to be *Wapiti laoloadat
...a. ta. Waal'
or what Um ups wind is
Owls bkirgall•
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SATURDAY MONTL,
. 4 .111nn more dajsoltt statettopiadj i tioni eta
—six gloom* nights to ihssiletillokersir e
ar. vy the sicker's% light 'hid . 000/110111111
~ .. of lifts—have iessed, to birusbitred
wltk 44.1pagjouific its iMymna TWO hive
preceded them eines' 800 dawn of creation.
And, reader, let it, sit together to night
and look back over the brief elite of Sears
that we have been awake le the audiog
realities eurroanding no and 'mak our kernel/
If we have grown older by aseeriewee Sr
bete, by ..,years--more pare 141 age and
wanner at heart —Note have-traveled near,
er heaven, or drifted farther filtrate realise
of Doubt. What have all thaw brief
Beeting_yeare dope far you amine, wrath',
what have we done for them! Have we
done more than live, eat and drink, sleep '
and wake, straggle and rest, weep mad
laugh? Have we made' a Oasis mark evalign
on the Maker's Footstool which shall lead
other erring feet from the rough had an
aertain road which we have ever traveled,
that will live after as Witless as? Not one.
Twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, perhaps sixty
years are gone, never to be mailed ! They
are swallowed up in the greet sea of Time
like tear drops in the ocean of eternity—
gone I Age Is creeping along over these,
earthy houses in which we dwell ; disease,
like the house breaker, bee often picked the
worn looks apd attend the rickety doors
and robbed the body of bealth—they were'
but forerunners to tell of he mortality,
the eessmbliog nature of the home that is
built upon sand and cannot prevail against
the storms of time I We have beee 'warned,
and how often leave we thadoors open WU*
intrusion of the ploWler P . Pallid, olaiimy,
suffeting disease not alone has altered by
the doors and windows °ribose tenements.
Before it same the syren of Temptation and
Violation, end Excess. Do they still some
welcome guests In the old tenements—these
old trauma almat past otteapation t Alai'
we fear they ere boos companion's, and
come still by invitatiop: i lt was but yester
day. as it were, tit you and as, reader, at •
.upon the mother's hose and dreamed the
innocent dream' of unpolluted childhood
Look at us to day ! IL was yesterday as
it were that we prayed with baby lips from
baby hearts t'ltallowed be Thy name—Thy
itingdoos come I" Do we still hallow the
Father's name, and pray that the kingdom
come to us 1
Saturday night, when thitoll and strag
gle of the six days of Temptation aregoing
to sleep, Is • good time to think of these
thing. This hearth, with its glowing coals
and fancy 'brooding', sad past red•llinge,
and present - forgeitinp, is a good thus to
pie thigaghtto than things. Here may we
ask ourself the question, what mire living
for It is merely to gain food, wealth and
place in the world 1 To climb the earthly
001i041101111 and reach Their pigmies • day
only before death I What are all limp to
you and us, reader, if we are to go to stelep
soon and be known no more In this shadowy
and uncertain existence i—Sratenel on Mt
Border, Evansville, Ind.
An Eye-Opener. •
The proposition introduced in Congress
on Thursday, and favorable received by
the Radiosls, to remodel the govenunintof
Maryland and force negro suffrage upon
that State, is such a step in advance as,will
help open the eye of the country. Thisprop
°salon was received with so much favor by
the majority as to be referred to the Jo
disiary Committee, and whether &bill is re
ported and pained previous to the adjourn
ment or not, enough' has been done to dis
close theft:tore intentions of the Radlerels.
Such a bill cannot be passed without being
discussed ; it will be that the Radicals will
End most of the atgumeols :available which
they have used for forcing lieges suffrage
on the rebel States. Congress has just's.
much authority, and no more suthority, to
force negro inalfrage open Miryland or New
York, as to forte it oh Virginia and Letitia
ants To do either is as clearly repugnant
to the Constitution as it would be to create on
order of nobility. Bat In transferring the
theatre of operations to State's that
seceded, the Radicals confess the hypocrisy
they have so constantly praoticed In making
• broad distinction between the aatiorityof
Congress over the *seeding and the non
seceding litotes. When confronted with the
Migrant unoonatitntionalit/ of theirrneas
urea, they have always hod the ready and
deceitful reply, that it is the prerogative
or the conqueror to dictate luau; to the eon
quered ; that the secession of the Soatiterit
States put them to the position of aUdl
enemies and invested us with all bellprest.
rights over them, until they submitto subh
conditions as may be our pleasure to hn
pose. By this dishonest dodge the .Badi
oils have evaded the constitutional objec
tion. but what will they may for themselva
now I
Wier the radicals argue from what they,
have dola y in the South to what consisteney
requires then to do in Mary land,ire admit
that the two manures are prenisely of •
piece, but we shall force them to abandon
the distinction on which they have hereto
fore rooted their whole define.. If their
course is defensible In Maryland, It will
follow that Commas might have interfered
to abolish the State governmeats of the
South if those State' had not seceded and
made war on the government. Dare
ihe Radicals take this ground I They will
Act,e to take it, we shall force Dims open It
in the distention' growing out of thisMery
land question. If they hare a right to
interfere in Maryland on the same groan/e
and to accomplish the same objects as la
the other Southern States, the right is net
founded on seceetion, it does not grow out
of the war, but must rest oe grounds whtelt
would have been, as valid in 1867 as they
are la 1867. The Itsdieals - that !sweep
awyryfiteir erhole-4418111T define., Audi as
it is.' They make it plain that the dim
tinotion on wide)* they professed to pro
ceed was not a reason, bed only a par.
test. The ' mask being thus thrown of,,
their diehoaesty sad hypocrisy are so
clearly akee' sled. that muter of their fellew
era will be undeoeived.--/Asylitook.
Ezeorson Busouir OLAIIIMID.--Tlie
Lancaster election effpdsolin is England
ands that of 1,519 poem who enlist al Pase
lent eleoLion, anoksding Amid athinoedeoll„
631, or more tben twe-thirdo, were 110kPi
in rams-aswiriag from is to 44 leke now
bor bribed by seek lefty Slits about ze d l l:
or the total naseber, 400 weill tutu
Nen, 1140 sonata frieinea.ense US Mew.
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