LOST AND FOUND
■T'ITOiL LTU
"What ■n you thinking of aunty, dear,
And why does the paper Ile
N The (12%12112 up of the Loet and round
.Let me, too, gleams Wit, aunty, dear,
And gam what your lou has been,
Not this—'From the 'lapis drifted of
A boat, painted white and green.',
"Or thlo—.4 terrior, bleak and but,
(They lege?. that to type, I know,
Well 11 . *:ng • dog will be loot
To lt,) nommen to 'Joe."
" pitiful.—Somebo4T here
Adrettimea 'a mourning pin,
A getting of jet the tire" around,
A look of white bait within.'
"A ridg with the words 'From Fred to Bow
Engraved on the inner side,' •
I wonder if Kra.' was gay tad good,
If Rose we're his promimd . bride t •
'Lod, • goI I
watch, with diamond spray
Enamelled ID blue, boating ease.'
And Another, n real old fogy's watch,
'Quite plan, with an opals Inc..'
"Ao I so It go.
You hars - lt
8o wby y
An dt
thioklui
Thst..l , lll co
Not golden bat
That lie Ithe
Thinking In pain of u human life,
That drifted and came uo more,
Prom the st.adfatit etaple of home and lova.
Fast driven on childhood's shore.
I •m thinking, too, of the stolen gold
All gone from my motheer hair;
Ah ! Time Is an unrepentant thief,
And keeps what he takes withsare
Ittave lost my WIC in earthly rood, ,
that once was so sure to me ;
And the, star or Hope recedes each dey
gill it fades in Eternity.
I hare lost an urchin's may cheek,
And srhoolhoy's shout of glee;
A bearded man calls me mother now
' Bat the boy is lust to me.
I have lent • daughter, well-beloved,
Who knelt at my knee each night;
E
o.
Only lent her, dear, t lost at all,
She walks with t saints; In white.
And so I think of t t and gone,
That may not come beck to ma,
And this, my child, is the reason why
I sigh, sad and tolently " ,
SOUTH---NORTH
Since the middle of January we have
traveled several thousand miles in that por
tion of the national domain which we cal
States, but which Is by Congress, termed
Military Distriots. We hate been by pub
-1 lie and private conveyance quite eaten
! 'lively through Kentucky, Tennesiee, Louie-
Jana, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi,
talking with, and attentively liktenning to
the people. black and white,old and young,
, men and women.
We wish the entire North would go into
the Southern States and see things for them
selves, Ind hot spite coat their hate and
prejudice by believing the false stories told
by southern loyalists, who are the "sneak
ing thieves" of polities and the eoum of eo-
slaty, Briefly, crowding musp into little
.pla he fame.
We found the SouthTAT more quiet, or
-• •derly, law abiding and peaceable than we
expected. There la more security for life
and property in the South than in the North,
and the farther removed from military, the
more quiet and orderly society in.
People of the South, everywhere, told us
QUM
fought-Lwe.were led to fight by our
lenders—we were placed in position where
we most fight• for our homes and . with our
States against them—we did simply as you
in the North would isave done under like
oircumetances You of the North made
slavery a pretext for warring upon us and
our long acknowledged and protected rights
our lenders made Radicalism a pretext for
war on you
We fought.
IVs (ought honestly, earnestly, bravely,
We fought to the end and did no disored
It to the name of American soldiery.
You whipped us.
You whipped us like the devil
We fought earneeV4
We gave up boneei
Wit . have no fight le in us.
Wet ought—we fell--we tried—we filed
—we endured—we foe, and we lost more
than did you of the North. We have no de.
sire now except to It,. in pence, to be good
citizens ; to help preserve the ones proud
confederation of States in their unity."
Snob is the feeling of the South Ai
limes their is a hot bend who talks much al
certain extreme radicals do North. The
Republican party North claims not to be led
by such Itadacals, yet would war upon the
South col- the words of a few there without
influence.
There is no need oft:flattery inthe South.
If the North would say to the people
“Too rebelled—you fought—you were
whipped. The Government has demonstrated
her power, her .9.1611ty to prmerve her glory.
Wo war not upon the future. Go to your
homes—preserve your organisation as States
—regulate your own affairs in your own
way—control your intellect, your capita
and your labor far the benefit of the nation.
Repair so well and so fast as you can the
damages of war. Enforce your Slate laws.
Give oegroea the right to voter if you wish
incremed power in Congress, or‘do not give
them • right to vote if you do not wish a
ull rep teflon. Make laws which will
aid towards getters] prosperity; raise all
you eon to live on and to sell, and jet rim
be the best citizen and truest patriot who
does the most for the good of the nation."
; Phis is what we ehoult tell the South.
There will be no more rebellion there. The
neM rebellion trip. begin In the North, and
it will begin if faidloalism Is muoh longer
forced upon the country.
We need the brsiu,the mumle, the indus
try of that country to help pay Maw If
we let the people alone, they can support
Memaelves and more. If •we do not, they
will not, for they isannot. The war ruined
thou/end; upon thousands. The wealth of
the South wee flu slaves and land. The,
aMrea were freed by war. And to the
wind. went wealth on whloh the South paid
MT!
The war killed her bravtmen by tie ar
mies. It used up her horses and mules
Northern officers stole millions and millions
from the Southr-Thousands of homes were
_Joottally robbed of all that was dear and
valuable.
Thouvada more irei4 robbed and theq
Maned.' Sherman went from Silents to the
era, and a strip of limit twenty miles wide,
bill and plain, was left desolate, with thou
sands cod thocurando of women And children
without a bed, a lffitlter, an ounce o[ food,.
a horse, cow, mule, pig, chicken or agricul
tural Implement ! These ,people now beg,
and starve, and Use in woods, in little cab
ins ale. sad die of starvation. The able
. bdtffalPSlrbes ran away leaving the:ad and
the young negroes to suffer.
Planters 11011141 plant. more, but they leek
for mutes, plowsand labor. There la land
there but tilt sapital and the labor wee loet
by war. It is no easy matter to build a
house when you hare no lumber, no nails,
no money I
It is hitfrfolaie a boms,whenyour !brat
ore was moles by army thieves for robbing
{,,scab.
4hp, - I,:inutEralit , :11.'tj-I.4ltlisia-n,
- 4 4,--
VOL. XII. r
It Is hard t• work a farm when you have
no mules, ploirs, hoes or cotton - gins, for
they were destroyed by the war.
it is to hard to employ negroee when you
lack money to pay them, food to subsist
them, gocols to clothe them,aud when lying,
meddlesome agents of freedmen', bureaus
11l the ears of ignorant negroeelth stories
about a general confiscatiort • ea. a life of
Idleness, Apt when the:, dharge each len
dollars for lading bins pr her a Situation;
charge 'The employee tea dollars each for
his help, and "regulate" that no labor
Shall be employed except on these terms
it is bard for women orate South to sit in
cabins and iciltiw that the books, p'anos,
paintings, spoons, .silver wtsre, carr
kale', family relics, to, are
besihtifying the home, offkomirrtitgNor h
who still war Alibi's, conquered people
And di is •hard for that people to hate
heart to labor, or brats to plan, or desire to
aceumulate,,or ability to' half pay lanes,
when rad alism still grab's, and jabs, and
'wculries, nd tramples upon a consheil and
ruined p ogle.
Ther:e no light in the South. But
there is ade to repair the damages war
has wrought, and if the North expects the
South to be other than a lax upon us, there
must bo•more liberality We do not know
So much of life as we should in the South.
The people there are men and women,creed v
urea of education as we are They hill'
their ideas, their whims, theit t notions, their
good streakee and bad streaks very much as
Northern wis le have. None pf us are per
fect. lltlt wo can of us be more liberal
then we are, and all will be better for it.
To.opprees the South, now is to break her
enterprise and le increase our taxation in
the North. To be just is to be great—to be
liberal is,}o,lle prosperous. Put the South
on her honor. Let her regulate her own
affairs, send such men se she chooses to
Congress for stuteig the rictorius North is
not afraid of a weak, unarmed people.—La
Crone' Demon,' 1.
A CHILD EATEN BY SNAKES
In the early part of the month of August
last, a girl named Eliza Drummond, 16414
11 years of age, whop parents' fled her
West Menroe, in this county, left home ope
morning for the purpose of picking berries,
and never returned. The most diligent
search was made for her by the parents and
neighbors, but no traces could be 'found -St
The event, which created a prßound sensa
tion at the time, had almost passed from
the minds of alloinve the stricken parents,
when' it was painfully recalled by a recent
oeourrence. d. Tueadiy last, live or six
boys went out hunting to the vicinity, and
during the day, come upon a spot where a
large number of black snakes were discov
ered and killed •
The appeal-ince of the reptiles In such
numberennd at this cannon of the year was
considered remarkable, and it was nugget
led by one of the party that a breeding
den must be somewhere near. A search
was immediately commenced, which remitt
ed iu a manner far different fromiheir ex
pectations. •
In the side of a little bill near the edge
of a swamp, was found a sort of opening,
which in the summer was concealed by tall
grass and bushes. In this opening was
found a human skeleton, from which every
particle Of flesh had been taken. The
bones were as white as ivory, and all ver
feet. Near by was a tin pail in a rusted
condition, and alm cup The boys were
terribly frightened, asql gave the alarm
The remains were taken from the mouth of
the don, sud ■n examination showed that
the place had been, and probably now was,
a breeding place for black snake. The bol
dest hesitated to enter. The entrance,
which was large enough for the admission
of a man's body, grew smaller and tended
downward Lighted balls of bay, soaked
In keroselm,lwere thrown into the cavity,
and In less than fifteen minutes 82 snakes,
ranging in length from I to 4 feet, were
The pail and cup were recognised by Mr.
and Mrs Drummond as those taken by
then child when she went away for the last
1.140. Physicians pronounced the remains
there of a female child, and there con be
no doubt but that the poor little girl, w
picking berries in the rioinity of • • Spot,
become Brett, mooted herself in shade of
the opening toTthis horrid den, was attack
ed by the repines in numbers and killed.—
The discovery has shtcked the whole corn
munity.—Ostvego (N. .1.,) Pal/odium •
APANIC IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
There is evidently a panic in the ranks of
the Republican party. The recenteleetione
have tilled Rum with nnopeakable astonish
'neat end dismay. They..hed been proclaim.
log "the Desnocratie party as deal ; " and
they had nothing to do but to march On
over the carcass of Constitutional liberty.
Suddenly, from an 'unexpected quarter,
they have not only' got. a check, but a eig
naieverthrow. From New England itself,
where they thought, themselves safe, defeat
and disaster came In -the midst of their
feast, the handwriting comes. on the wall,
and not In unknown characters, either.
Some of their Jnurnala are speaking out,
and Indicate the ehnfusion In the disunion
mongrel camp. The Vt. Y. liritune, even
'talks .about,"the lesson of onneetiout;"
and the Philadelphia North American thinks
that the fisdioal majority in Coitgreas
been' pushing along the car if national
progress, little too fast for so e sections
of the party. The Providenoe,Rhode laland t
Jourankstates idle calm WiZrerea' when it
declares thatthe party "cannot endure
everything wllloh ambitious end ealsome ,
men may undertake to acoomptal in Is
name," that the 'abeam' now fostered by
the Radical leaders "are mlsoheeous enough
to ruin any party;" that if impeachment la
successful "it„io cony enough tome, lAtel 41-
Republic** party is ruined ;" that' forcing.
suffrage upon the States Is "beyond the
power of Congress and will be eeeSe4inl/Y.
injerious to the continimece of the party's , '
power. The Springfield, Mass., Mum/diens
talks in the woe strain. They ' as
feat of Radicalism in one. of its strongholds]
Connecticut. The cry of the leading MOW
ea! jokirnitir 'Wove Is, that tbalasrty bah
"gone to far." It,. l/ Impassible that thli
going "lo far" may be followed by I rep9u
!muse thataomellehits: hid that the
phi may take Its. slow of • Western judge,
hs Oa elf WTI t /MP SO tnnws• Shinalob
entb• hoer trey do ; man Lhit
comes In at half past twellr."—Ex.
=I
THE STORY OF SANFORD CONOVER
When in Beielntitulary story a gallant
man was sentenced to 'die, he begged to be
shot, as **mode of ,honorable death. He
had committed no moral wrong—Was no
thief, or perjurer, or murderer. His pray
er wan rejected, and he died upon the W
ipers. John Willett Booth, who was e d
murderer, Id.. Eat an unsuspecting, mer
ry-making rnan:as it were from an ambush,
had the privilege which was denied to Me
re, and was shot tee,death, and hie last
words of affection to his mothe'r and dotto
lion to Ids ooeeniry were duly chronicled
and embalmed. But if he was not hung
or chained, or tortured, Mary E Surrutt
was. nailed, and manacled and perhaps
miaow:done, she, the Maryland mother of a
broken hearted daughter—perished on a,
gibbet, and her body rest, in the unconse
crated soil of a prlacni yard One 'Of the
witneeees on whose testimony she was pat
to death by Holt, and Steneon, apt! Hunter
and Wallace, woe Sanford , Conover, now a
convict of perjittly for the very testimony
gave. IYe -propose from authentic materiale
le tell the story of Sanford Conover, and
we beg for it the attention of our renters
It its worth it.
IL is not easy to find Conover's orikin but
the first fact we know of him is that before
the Lincoln murder, he nays, he was in
Dannda, a correspondent of the New York
Tribune. "As soon," says he ..ste the in
vesligntion took place, I came on to Wash
ington and offered myself as a witness "—,
And he was welcdmed and taken into pay
and as we have said, examined on the trial
of Mrs. Surratt, and proved everything as
to the complicity of the Confederate au
thorities that his employers desired, and
was kept in their pay afterwards Banging
Mrs Burrell was not enough., That was
easily managed. But implicating thorodth
ly tilto-OelffEtterate leaders in lho deed of
blood was more difficult, and so, tithe sum
mer and Autumn of 1862, Conover under
the auspices of the Bureau of Military
Justice, went to work to cook up lame
eorroborativo testimony, to enlist come
tore witnesses.
want to ask you," said the Chairman
the Jddictary •Committee, "in what ca
pacity-you were noting wheayou discover
ed the other witnesses you have named to
the committee this morning!" •
' Answer. I. wog acting as AOINT for the
Bureau of Military Justice
Question. You were employed, then, by
the government for the purpose!
A. Yes
Q. What was quo occasion of the em
ployment of your services. by the govern' ,
scent?
A The in rogation that I -gave to
Judge He4tywkis that I knew all these wit
anuses.
The summer of 1865 was an active time
with Mr. Conover and the Bureau. He
was an energetic agent, and before the let
oe November be had the wit all rea
dy, drilled and.on the ground. The princi
ple ones were two men oillihg themschlso
Campbell and Snevel They were taken to
Judge Holt, and on the 6th of November
1863, Congress then about to meet and an
investigation impending, ther affidavite
were made, Campbell's being taken down
by Judge liult himself, be-4—the Judge, so
zealous woe he in the cause—actually an
company mg the witn eases to the magistrate,
Mr. Catietin, to see that the work wee prop
erly done—and when the affidaviewas made
Campbell was taken to the While house and
introduoed to the President and Mr. Seward
•
and Mr. Stanton.
"Was this despotism," asked the commit•
tee, ' , written out by Judge Holt precisely
as you gave it to him on the aocaaioti of its
being taken!,
A. Yes. -."`
Q. Where was it taken?
A In Judge Motto office.
Q. Did you go with Judge Holt to the
President after this despotism was taken?
and was it rend over to the Presilent in
your hearing and did you assent to it?
k. Yes sir.
Q Were you interrogated by the Presi
dent and 11*- - Seword on that ow:melon!
A. Yes min
And again he woe asked: 1 2; 4
How much did you receive after, making
this 'affidavit!
A I think,
—sloo from,
from Jud,
Now
and
, tqtether fqr Ittrpenseta $025
dr. Conover, and the balance
lolt.
i.•ffidivit le a molt remarkable
riling prodoo lion, the leading point.
rin that Campbell bad been in the Confed
erate serrice—knew John IL eurratt inti
mately, was with blot in Richmond a short.
time before the Lincoln murder, and was
present when Mr Davis and Mr. Benjamin
authorized and ativieed and Instigated the
assaisination of the President, V,lce Presi
dent, the Cabinet and General Grant. "As
we were about to leave (and we can imagine
with what delight llolt wrote 'down the
precious words), Mr Davis - shook outataiu c i,s,
kindly, and said be hoped we would act
bravely and succeed, adding that there had
been so many attempts at this thing which
had failed that he had not much confidence
In them." We wish we had room for this
affidavit }swell as Sairil'e, but the points
are fairly given. Such was the cherish
ed testimony of the Bureau of Military
Justice.
Now for the sequel It is almost locred
Llo and yet tt la Ltarally true.
On or about the Bth or May, 1866,1amp
ball—this came men whom Holt bad Crtch•
ed and anaemia and introduced le the
President and whom Inward had inlerro
pled—appeared before the Judiciary Com
mittee of the House of Representatives—
all Radicals but rke-ea thus it, record
speak. :
Q \Vas tbe despotism made by you be
fore Judge Holt true or false (In Nor. 18th,
1865.)
A. Pulse
Q. Ilavegou ever been in Richmond!
A. Rio
Q. Do you know John Durrett!
A. No, sir.
Q Did you ever see Jefferson Davis?
A. No Os. -
Q. Were you ever in the Confederate
retest
A. No.
Q „pia you ever etc Judah P. Del/Je
re?
A. No sir.
And so on to the end the witness testify
ing, and the other. cont railed t 4 .het the
November affidavits were fabffieated by
Conover at a meeting at Ore Nat Hotel
In Washington in October, 445—written
out committed to memory, the original
skelehit•Cbnover'e writing being In the
p toot of the wttrotaaand by him giv
on tis confeetion, to the sioveapment
Now, here at ths esl of 464 dayh shsp
tis postai, )eSshig to Sur main .this
rood tar modttattos, tad tionotinrilkir thee
to Sluts, to Sensitise It to the' 'Elliot'.
We Wie'isposed porjary mad 1135b*.'
sough for to-day.. The story isorsasesist
serest es it roes ?1,11.-,..rhirie. Age.
, "STATE =CUM AND FEDERAL UNION."
BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 26„ 1861
OUR NEW TERRITORY.
The following ti tbe teal of the freely
ratified by,the Senate, by which Remain
cedes lionise America to the United Stater
The United Split°e of stmerien, nod his
Majesty the Emperor of all the Itussias,ne.
Lag dexiyous of etrengthening, if possible.
the good understatiiingishich exists between
them, have for th purpose appointed as
their plenipotentiaries, the President of the
United Slates, William II Seward, Secreta
ry of Slate, and his Majesty the Emperor of
all theltussias t Mr. Edward ileStoeokl, his
Etrioy Extraordinary and Minister Plea
ifinteatioried having exchanged their full
powers, which were found to be in due form,
have ' agreed.upun and signed the following
article, :
Attricut h. His Itle)esty, the Emperor
of ail the Russian, agrees-to cede lb the
United States, by this convention, immedi
ately upon the exchange of ihyntificetious
hereof, all the territory and, lomin ion now
possessed b' his saftl Itltijest3s.on the eon•
linent of America, and in the alymen I islands,
the name being contained within the geo
graphical limits herein eel forth, to ivti. •
The eastern limit is the line of demarcation
between the Russian and the British prossen-1
mons in North Amexica, an estahltshed by
he convention.between Russia milt Croat
Britain of February 28 1161, 145 - i "and de
scribed in articles third anti fourth of wild
convention in the following terms. l.Corn
melemg with the Southern most polnt'of the
eland 'Vaned Pr: ._-!lVales Island, which
point e. in the parallel of fifty four ile
igrees forty ininut...; earth latitude, and be
tween the one hundred and thirty first
and the west longitude, meridian of Green
, wich.—The said line ehall ascend to the
north along the channel called Portland
Channel as far as the point of the continent
where it strike. the fifty sixth degree of
north latitude.—From'this last mentioned
point the line of demarcation shall fellow
the summit of the mountains situated w
allet to the coast a.. : as the point of in
terseclion of the one hundred and forty first
degree of west longitude of the same meri
dian, and finally from the said point of In
tersection the said meridian line of the one
hundred and forty first. degree in its pro
longatieh as Dr as the FrozenOtsean." W tilt
reference toteft line of demarcation laid
down'in the preceding article, it is under
stood, first that the Island called the Prince
of Wales !eland shall belong wholly tdßus
eia, and now, by that cession, wholly to ;he
United States ; second that whence the
summit of I-he mountain, which ezienlk in
a direction parallel to the coast from the
fifty sixth degree of north latitude to the
point of intersection of 'rest longitude shall
prove lobe the distankof more than len
marinwlengues from the ocean, the limit
between the British possession. and the line
of coast j vehich'ill to belong to Russia, as
abitve'mentlened—that in to gay, the lush
to the possessions ceded by this convention
shall be formed by a line parallel to time
winding of the (toast, and which shall never
exceed the distance of ten marine leaguen
therefrom, The western limit withtn which
the territories and doKinion conveyed are
gouteined, passes through a point in Itering'-
Straits on a parallel of sixty five degrees,
thirty minutes north latitude, at its Inter
section by the meridian, which passes mid
way between the Inland of Krusenstern, of
Ignaalook, and itte Island of Ratmenoir, or
Noonarbook, and proceed. due north with
out litnita,Liota into the same Frozen Ocean
The name western limit beginning at ilia
liaise initial point, proceeds thence in a
coerce nistigly soeth west through Bering's
Straits and Bering's Sea, no as to pass mid
way between the northwest point of the Is
land of St. Lawrence and the southeast
point of Cape Choukottki of the meridian of
one hundred and seventy two west lough-,
dude.—Thence, from the intersection of
tat meridian in a southweeterlyrdirection,
no as to pass midway between the Island of
Alton and the copper Island of the Rut ,
manddorski couplet or group in North Pa
cific Ocean, to the meridian of ono hun
dred and ninety three degrees went longi
tude, so as to include in the territory
conveyed t h e whole of the Aleutam Inland
east of that meridian
Anr 2 In the cession of territory and
dominion made by the preceding article ore
included the right of property in al130:1
Ile lots and squares, 'scant lands, ondiktild
public buildings, barracks and other eddi
eel, which are not private individual pro
perty It is, ho waver, understood and agreed
that the churches which hove been built in
the ceded territory g 4 the Revision general
meet shell rEmaiti the properly of such
members of the Greek Oriontol Church rest
dent in the territory as may choose to wor
ship therein. Any government archives, ,
pollerb and documents; trilllttine to the ter
ritory Lod dominion aforesaid, which may
be now existing there, will be left in the
possession of the agent of the United States;
but an authenticated copy of euch of them
as may be required will be at all times
given by the United Stales to the Russian
government, or to such Russian offiecre or
subjects an they may apply for •
Any. 8 The Inhabitants of the ceded ter
ritory, according to their choice, reserving
their natural allegiance, may return to
Russia within thrall years, but if they
should prefer to remain to the ceded terri
tory they, with the eleeptiori of uumnilizel
tribes* shall be admitted to the enjoyment
of the rights, adrautages and immunities of
oilizens of the United Statei, on I shall be
maintained sag proteetel in the free enjoy
ment of their liberty, property sad religion
The; uninvilised tribes will be eubjoot to
suchlaws and regulations 111 the United
States may from time to One adopt in re
gord taaberiginal trtbia of that eountrq.
Any. I. Um NI kjeAty the Emperor of all
the Russians shall appoint, will, convenient
diepateh, an agent or agents for the pur
pose of formally dall4rint 'to' a' tifnilbre
agent or agents, appointed on beholfiibf
the United States, the territory, dominion,
property, dependencies, and appurtenan
ces whleh sire 'tined as above, and fordoing
any other set which may be' oeceedory in
regard thereto; but the cession, with the
right of immediate possession, is nevcrthe :
less to be deemed oemplets awl ebsillute un
the 'oohinge of ratifications, withinit wait
ing for each formal delivery./
Art. 3. Imoiedistoly after the go:livings
Of the i tsqoattoni of thtt oatrrotattp, any
forlifhigloor or- latAlary pal* vidair_ 44 11 /
Le 14 thp °ode/ territory oboll boatollvitrod
to the gent of the United Slates, arid any
Rumen troops which may be in the terri
tory shall be withdrawn as nein ite may be
reasonably and conveniently practicable
G in consideration of the cession
esnid, the Culled States agree to pay,
at he Treasury in Washington, within
months after the exchange nr ratifications
of his convention to the diplomat is repre
sentative or other agept of Ilia mniest, th
Emperor of - II the Rlre,iae, duly authoris
ed to receive the sanfi, —million dollars
In gold The cession of territory and do
minion herein made it hereby declared to
be free end unencumbered by any reserva
tions, privileges, franchises, grants or pos
sessions, 'r
by oily associated companies,
whether corporate or incorporate, Russian
or any other, or by an, parties exceptm ere
ly photo Midi a dual properly hullers;
and the cession hereby made euoecys nil
(be rights, franchises and privileges now
belonging to Russia in said territory or do
minion nod appurtenances thereto
Ant 7. When this conceal ion shall lime
been duly ratified by the Prevident of the
ni•Ns, by vmr h the odricr and
eoysent of the Seriate on the one part, and
on the other by his MtkleSfy the Emperor of
all the Ilnwiso, the r•ttfie ttiotty .tehall be
exchlug,l a. IV.tvlttitgiun wlthir , I—lnto
the into hereof, or sooner, it p •,,thle .> In
fatth whereof tie resin , nye plentpotenta
ries have_sagned this corn, n,and there
to of the seals of their artn
Illtte at Washington, the— do of —, in
the year of ouf Lord Ana t ouvand otelit
hundred and sixty meson
PROTECTION-- , HOW IT WORKS
••Protect me," is the i.nploring cry of a
comfortable, well fed. well clod persounge
whom, al first sight, one would hardly take
for a beggar Protect toe ' I own but ten
thousand acres of land in the world It is
toy all It is 101 l of cold tot thelloglitd,
men and Nova Scolionsy hare got coal too,
and oiler to sell it cheaper Ihfit the price I
want Shut out Iles foreign conl and pro
tect me, an American laborer." Ile looks
even less liken laborer than a beggar
..What makes coal so dear with the
retell:iv is so dreadlul cohl ! God help tie
poor !" canto from the chattering teeth of
a toil worn, rare worn shivering women, as
she measured out with stingy eye a amity
freshatipply of fuel to her wailing fire—
No cry trout her to the Governfnent for pro
tection. No protection io her from the
greed of the strong, the cunning, 14e ova
miens -.Work for yourself. IS ork or
starve Self-help Esery one for himself
If Government kayo bread or clothes or fuel
to the poor, it would dernoralin them.
Take better Ira -014-eho pennies you earn
Lsy them up in the summer forts wintry
day " Such are the answers she would get
if she asked for protection—if she turned
beggar. No °hence for her to put in a re
plication, The voices of the oonl owners
are mighty to drawn het. If she could be
beard she would say. .'flow can I lay up my
pennisa,when the strong arm of Government
takes them from day by day, as fast as 1
can earn them, and bands them over to my
richer neighbors 7 On every spool of thread
I buy Government takes front me a penny
or two to pay over to the M'oensocket Fac
tory Company, - eo that they melee dear
thread and big dividends On, every ,gar
went I weer, it robes pennies and shillings
from me wherewith to fill the purees of the
rich men who make cloth and stockings and
aliawle and who cannot be content with less
than fifty or ono hundred per oent lost:ease
of their wealth every year to pay them fur
tusking their clothes for the American Mu.
rer„.., When I buy a move or a _pa, of ecie
sore, A must pay some of niy hard earned
pennies to support the wealth) iron mailer
I beg no protection to my Inhor and I tisk
none. Lot no both n lone—me And the man
tlfocturer. yon let me work iu my hum
ble way slung as best I cau,lente him to do
the sand : Gyre 14 no pert of my earnings,
and lam content with my little share of
this worlds goods " If it demoralizes oc
elot). for Gortirnment to give the poor food
and clothes and fuel, in it not equally tie;
moralising for government to give to the
rich sad strong? And when it gives to the
* rich by taking from tho comforts of the
poor, is it not demoralising society at both
ends?
ttMether, to give me another blanket, I
wsti so begs Iti shivering child, of
wilater'm night, on our NorMeru frontier
"I hove no more, child.; blankets are DO
dear, and all sorts of clothesso dear. John,
what makes wdllen things dearer than they
used to be 1"
"I don't know , but they say Its all done
to protect us poor folks A tongue, man
told ill the other night the Government
must plotcot us from ilto blanket makers in
England and offer foreign countries."
"Yes, tint John, over in Canada they
have nothing but English blankets and you
can buy two blankets there for what ono
Costs here The English blanket makers
don't seep to be sc)hard on the poor people
after all."
"Well, I can't tell the elm exactly ; but
the tonguey man mode it all not clear I
thigk be said, too, that wool wouldn't grow
on our sheep unless they was purtected."
"Well, John. you don't mean that. they
hirer our American sheep with. blankets to
make their wool grow, end that'irhe reason
blankets are so scarce and so dear.
"Well, I don't know about that ; but he
made out that the sheep most he portaged
to get tbe wool, and then the men who
made the wool into blankets must be pur
(rated ; else we'd (tare to• use the cheap
foreign blankets, and then he cold we'd be
worse off ".
"Jolts, don't you think the tonguey men
warptalling some wool over your eyes ? If
I (mold get two blankets instead of ono to
keep the oh ilere,n warm the sheep could do
well enough with their natural klvering.
It seems to me that we poor folks, alga
an't hare any natural hirer of wool groir
log on our books, want perfection more limn
the sheep " .
that's just ghal, Deacon Weller!'
layer he enyw theme prices perfect us se
well ea (11p.pheerrwad yourkaw the Dew.
eon'iubrerlbee a good deal of money to the
poor."
"That's all Due, John ; but thou the
Deacon don't aeons- to get any'pootor for all
he girds away ; and the Deacon has got a
treittnany ilusep li net la owu ; end whatever
Is
. good for hie ghosp must bi• good for Om
Descoa's Mon potshot ; cad poly do toy that
he owns pert or a birblonkot factory dawn
In Rhode Island ; emd so, may be, the Dea-
006 wrongs its poor folks out ten of dollars
and then gives a; book one dollar of it in
charity , maybe, if the poor had cheap
blankets and cheap clothes, Ibex. wouldn't
!rapt any charity. You can't make me be
lieve we're any better off for having only
one blanket when, ti they was cheaper we
might have two "
The parable of Divers obti Lasortis might
be useful reading fur those who are getting
fat dividends from coal mines and factories,
—Exchange
THE NEGRct REPUBLICAN
Hatt, the independent negro goemiument
of the West Indies r has neveronjoyed peace,
tranquility or prosperity since it become
independent of Franco, although it has test
ed both the monarchial and republican sys
tems Houtouque, styling himself Famine
I , tried to initiate the French empire He
created titles of uo'aility—very atousicg
they were. too—and gathered about him a
Court resplendent with tinsel, bat distin
guished for nothing brit extravogance,arre
gaueo and licentiousuess.,Hise art li ame
a burlesque and 111111110 a I,yr. .y
people, indolent both by nature and climat
ic inlluenees, were nimble long to meet the
extravagant iteinntids of the Emperor and
nobility, and hence di , sensions arose,. bleb
soon took the shape of rebellion
ti 'venturer nomad Getfrard nuttily
took the lead of the miurgents, and when
Sentlowitte woe deposed,-And the emplte de
stroyed, 110 Won OiCel ell ('resident of the
Itcpublic which sprung nr, an 18.59 0,11-
rird aeons not to Lava been much better
than his royal predecessor, however, for
conspiinmes and rebellions hare been of
constant ocenrrence from that time till the
present, During (be first year of his ad
min int ration, the s'aot of on assassin alined
at him killed his dAerghter. Every year
thereafter ho wan compelled to crush his
people into subjection with the bayonet
In 1F,51 three attempts at rebeliion were
made, all of which were crashed by Geffrard
with great destruction of life
In 1805 Sablare, another adventurer, or
ganised a very formidable revolt, which
lasted for nearly half a year and was al
most successful GelTrard at lost came off
•ielorions nod Snlnave bad to fly to a Do
minican port It seems, Itilwe'ver that be
was the leading spirit in thexebellion which
ha just ended in"ffeffracd'a o•ereltrowand
eight, for be has teturned to Hayti in tri
umph and will no doubt assume 1116 Pres,
deney. That Sampson or,any other ruler—
emperor or president--will be permitted to
quietly govern long is not possible The
people are pmLitiour, intriguing,ineonstnut
ill treacherous, and so soon as they feel
responsibtlities upon them restricting
ea license and requiring tag contributions,
cy will become again discontented Those
en who arc now friendly to a new admin.
[ration may, heforii long, ho ripe for fresh
ohttien. It is more then emlenl, from
the history of Hayti that thenegro is in'bnpa
ble of Rolf government in the Irephice et
THE TAX ON REAL ESTATE
Las year the Radicals abolished the tax
on real estate in penimylvania, and this
legislative feast wan Iterated as a maguifi
cent achievement Radical newspaper■
congratulated the. farmers of tho Slate
thereupon, and assured them that this, was
only a small sample of what would euven
tually be done for them. Under such eco
noiniCal administration of the Stale Gov'.
moment no characterised Democratic rule,
this reduction of the revenue might not
have been found detrimental to the financial
intermits of the Slate We could hays gal
along without ft - fttu VIM so under the
present regime the late corruptvltatlical
Legislature appropriated more money than
could possibly be furnished by existing
rates of taxation Even after they had
Ju beeivy tax on coal and otli,r re
sources of the Stale, it was found thutthere
would he a deficiency. What was to be
done • It would not do to restore thetas on
real' cellar, just after repealing it with such
a grand flourish of trumpets, and yet the
money muet be had to pay extra salaries to
members of the Legislature, to support a
a email army of dependants about the two
lloustql, to furnish stealings for petty offi
evil., to pay extraordinary prices fur a
portrait of his Majesty, John W Geary, to
enlarge tho 11xectitive Mansion, to keep up
a useless agency at Washington, to provide
for a maintenance of a standing army to
menace the foreigners end the Catholics
of the mining regions, and for a multi
tude of other extraordinary and improper
purposes „
ittelfdal illfbuulty has never yet been at
a loss for a device, when 'an opportunity
for plundering either the Stole or lhe Ns.
Emma treasury Was presentedv, They did —What 'will take plus when women vote.
not results the tax on real estate, not in ' —And also in that day the mad who bath beau
express terms and In manner and form as tiful whiskers shall beat the li , mely man of,
once levied and collected, but they did What , "led.m for governor , oed tbe youth who nations
mounted to precisely the name thing.—, with exquitito grue shall be chiefof police in
!
T .y passed a law requiring the Commis
daterminod energy. preference to the man of practiced sagacity and
sooners of the several Counties, to levy i
—The travalino onrrespondents of
collect and pay into the State Treatittry an 1
North
additional nun of $300,000; the precise 1 etumnri Rad ical newspapers, Treed":/enrteanmd'ln'ed'
amount formeraly derived front the tax on I
s the ir attention to the manufacture of Wet teal
real estate. Of coo to the (armors know 11 speeches, upposed to bare been delivered by
irbo pay the county lax „which is to be ee e
ee seethe ,. e , teetege.
thus increased. It is notorious that the , .
rural districts pity snore than a proportion- , —Satrap Sheridan hal ordered a military
emethission,to try a man named Welker, who
ate share of it. This is another specimen -
o tbe wisdom hu been acquitted by a Jury 'of the charge of
t a d fairness of Radical leg.
, q
' murdering sereral negro.. That Satrap don't
filiation. Ilow 040 loo_ r will the tuatio: ...
sum to believe in courts and Jeri, s fur trying
es of Pennaylvailis allow themselues to bet emu. Of emiree not, as his adoution has been
made the dupe. of such a eet of conupl I fieeidedu IfissiVal.
political tricksters —Lancaster Intelbgeneer ' ~
i. —A Radical newspaper, bragging about
A MixiteOaTi; 13....—50 me time 1 the colored wealthy people of Philadelphia,
ago there was a dancing party given ''up ' makes out that the wealthiest one is a lumber
North," most of the ladles preeent had little 1 merchant—worth several hundred thousand
babies, whose noisy pervi talky required to) 1 dollars, and that the sound M wealth ',pawl
much attention to permit - the mothers to nearly an equal mum In the bounty braking itn
enj3y. the dance. A number of g allant I sinew—selling darkirs Into the army, of
young men volunteered to watch the young
noon while the pdrenti Indulged in a break- t count.
down. No sooner bad the worsen left the 1 —Miseollaneous.—tlood looking—The
babies in charge of the attiseblerous devil.. Bellfonte girls.—Large—Theirwaterfalls.—Lar.,
titan they stripped the infants, changed ger—Their tillers . —Dirty—Thwituffille- 1
their clothe', giving the apparel of one to
I lonic and out devil's face.—Poll-Oar job , box
another. The dance over, it was time to
go home, Ord the mothers hurriedly loot' —1 "'" a w d—R° "" . " ta° "" °—N°l " 7—The
each a baby in dress of her own, and start. boys who a ttend it.—Coipmenced The Court
ed to theli homes, some ten or' fifteen miles Ready—Oar sapper.
off, and were for on their way before day.
—During the coming Rummer the plea is
light litß the day follow4ag there - was a
to be tried of notillying rumen by telegraph of
tremendous row in the settlement; mothers
diseevereCtrbat it single night had ah l ea si d 1 applatchieg storms. The plan is to scud tab
thO nee of their emblem—observation-ens- . UMW, I. sai.i.• of the d 01.., te OMMti
closed PhrtnNii'libutodlhns, sad then cm - i seats, sod notifiemion theses seat to the tumors
mended eqlne of the tallest female'pedestri by the Anna of cannon. The farmers will et
anima; li i iggires apart, It reitilred two ; secs preened to oh.. i n t h e i r 1., ea mi.
days to u l=ate'
-e' babies, and as many ' mle
eit from wet or damage. The trouble
months t ' roatore the women to their matt-
Intl argot disposition. To this ,:t isy •t s i s r howaver,that the tumid of therm will not- reach
unsafe ter day of the baby ateliers to ten- I Wend a few milec—and against the wield
(tutie Into the territory —EzEhange. scarcely at all.
4
NO. 17
ON THE ' RIVER
==l
=I
A stately boirfteneoth out feet,
A carolers word {tom you to me',;
Suurtre to both dur heads, ardent
As runrue on the River'
t.ittorite on the River '
A mined (oilmen in nor vie*
Where Wrong bulb over-ruled the It fight
An idle +penh fro o me to you ,
Sunlight to both our hearts, irr bright
ltrirret on the River'
Moonlight on the River'
And soth-winds blowing sweet anti free,
"`. Faint songs from toreh•llt lantlings Iseerd.
A whispered thought ftom you to me.
Alight in both our hems. as weird
As moonlight on tillp River'
IV. 411
Nluaie on the hirer!
The dance, with fair forma circling through
Sort eyelids steeped in mallow light,
A fluttering plenum from ma to you:
Muric iu both our heart. that night
And music on the River'
shihatiowsion the Hirer:
A deadli hurt where lose should be,
Thnt hi Jo end mocks,but makes no moan,
itt or I from you to me,
S allow• through both our hearts nrestrown
And shadows on tho liner'
t VI.
ou t tha
Strange/y apart we4teep—we
Vhu•h .1.111 wake answer for thin work
cruel etteeeh froze toe to 30u,
kfuktight in both our !tenet', ae mak,
As nteltiwitt on the litter'
=I
THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER
--1 lot o thee shit. taut the quiet husband
to hoe ehntaring wife.
-1 1 7 oh don't often tho door to tho dot 11,
he g 'es .way
—Mad—Our devil, because he had to trash
the rollers, and distribute some •'pl "
—The. French sold spleothil carelri hones
for $o apiece before lv6ving Vera Cruz
—Florida produces lemons a foot in elf
cumforance and over a pound in weight.
—Tboro will be a' beery Inch emigration
to this country the presenlyear.
eno iu .eery len of hie 211,000
M!SE=EI:I
—The New York pilasters ray two tents
aro required to crone the Broadway bridge—an
on cent and a do scent.
—An exchange, so, tlel worst "cut" the
Bade have recewed lately is tho Connecticut
election
--The cry of Reed tames begins to be heard
in the Rest. Raidieal papers are the first to
annouee the unpleasant fact.
—Tho season,ti , kets for the Paris &void
lion will be .bout twelr• dollars Lir • lady, and
twenty dollars for • gentleman.
--To prevent your hair from comb g out
never let your wife catch you k Teeing the ter
vent girl.
—fliggory imp he alwap respects old age,
except when some one sti . uks him with a pair of
tough chickens.
----Why is a mull bull AO animal of convivial
deposition? Because he offer, every one be
meets a 'horn.'
—The American .la. of 'Niagara Falls has
gone beak about 150 feet within two weeks, in
consdquenee of the fall of huge manes of rocks
how copathie Optician an France cures
rherstegtienrby !placing a bee on the spot where
the pain to the severest anal exciting it until It
sting..
—Goy. Murphy, of Arkansu, l hen tele•
graphed to Senator tlarland •rdering him not
to file petition. fur injunetien agoinit the en
forcement of the military despotism bill.
--Subscriptions fur the suffering people of
I the South were opened at the office of the Pitts
burg Post on the morning on the 10th, and by
the next day the sums subscribed amounted to
'5t,927.
—ln Bryan county, Georgia, two nogroes
tetra lately in Jail under sentence of death for
murder, and three others for robbery. A mob
of negroos broke open the doors and allowed
the prisoners all to escape.
—The entire Democratic ticket we, elected
at Watervliet, New York, last week, by 500 ma
jority—a gain of 603 since last fell, when. Pen
ton, ltd , had 103 majority.
—Tho native population of 31assaohusetts
is rapidly ileerEaring, and fears aro entertaileil
that the Yankee race will be extinguished be•
fore a great , while by the influx of foreigners.—
There is swilling to he,deptoreil in that, surely-
----Mrs LushWigton, the sister of Alfred
Tennyson, oats engaged to Arthur Hallam, but
now w Ile of 4 e Greek Professor of Glasgow, Is
• remarkable singer, and renders her brother's
songs, it is sold, with 6na expression,
—A fanner mimed Martin Cane, sixty years
old, residing at Mount Morris, near Waynes
burg, area; county, murdered hit rriffirtti an
axe, on Sunday night last, and then hung hip
self with his suspenders to the limb Y amapPlo
tree.
THE END OF CORRUPT r tw RE
The Legislature of PerinsyNanla has MC
journed ;me der For that, Goff be praised!
High noon, of Tlrday, the 11th day or
April, found that miserably corrupt and
renal body ot ani4Vmorios By set limi•
tation it then expired, and majority of the
members returned to Aheiriomes to reader
up en account to eonetitnentsies which' (key
had outraged and betrayed. !deny left the
Slate Capitol with pockets well lined with
"stakigibacks," the bribery and ch•-..firnit of
tbeirehame. Andionesi few went fokh on
enriched by any him barter of their *lnteg
ell, and with their honor as men and their
fair fame as representatives untarnished
Be have neither time nor inclination to re
vert in detail to the many dark transactions
of this deceased Legirlature We tried,
from time to MIR, to ley bear the eorrup
tient, of the Bring body ; but to dissect the
dead and putrid csroties would be more than
our nerves and the olfactories of our read
ers could stand. ••,„
Corruption and bribery in the Legisla
lure of Pennsylvania ban Come to-be the
rule eioce the triumph of the Radical party ,
—benefit, cod integrity the exception. For
a number ofiyeare past the matter has been
growing constantly worse "Tiering" has
become a recognized Institutionr and the
question with the major ty of the 'members
ban beet, not is a propound measure right,
but "will it pay." Venal fanatics and
mousing politicians have crept 'into the
seals once occupied by honorable men, and
the halls of the Senate and the Bouse hie
each come to be regarded an a kind of poll
lice] shamble, in which professed law•mak
ere ere openly bought and acid by eny'man,
clique or corporation that can afford to off
er bribes. Almost every bill brought for
ward in the Legiklature which has just ad
journed was made to pay toll, and when ill
gotten gains grew scarce, some member of
the ring would introduce an act framed for
the very purpose of extorting money from a
wealthy corporation or institution which
had been created by former Legislatures.
Thus did a majority of the men who m
posed the recent Legielature of Pentilljfia.
in sit from day to day, devisitig schemes
for filling their pockets, and utterly disre
garding the interest bf the public.'
How shell we rank them upon_ honoieleaves - T
Potratica - liereo and blind, • peck erectly
thieve.,
As they stole In serviett of the Commonwealth
Ie not to whet tt(ey were dispose?. to etsal.
The DemocrOis were largely in he mi
nority in both breaches of the recent legis
lature, and, to their honor be It said, the
rings" were made up without them. The
Democratic leaders in both Itousee constant
ly opposed the corrupt end ernieloets a
of the majority, and did the nate od
service by acting as • check upon _ • -
leant faction The public morality of th
Democratic party has always been of • more
elevated ■tandard than that of 'the party
now in power With the/ advent of Know
Nothingieni, the fearful corruption in the
ranks of the party which stood opposed to
the Democracy began, and it has continual
ly increased from year to year. If there
has been a lowerihg of the high tone of ate
Democratic party of Pennsylvania we have
not mum it, and we believe It is as na.
now as ever to repudiate with scorn and
loathing any public man who dares to con
taminate his lingers with a base bribe We
hope and believe it will never lose the high .
sense, of honor which' has always charauter-
Teed in the past.
The people of all parties are alike inter
ested in seeing to it that there is a speedy
end put to the diegrsceful scenes which
marked the oareer of the Legislature whlph
is now happily defunct. Let them resolve
sternly to effect a complete and pe
reforin. As for the venal wretches who so
digrace the State, if their oonetituents are
not utterly_lacking in public virtue, they
"W bring them to account,
And emelt the vipers yet,
Who, singled out by • community,
To guard. their rights, did still, for ends eor
rdPt,,
And "reenbacked paper," sell and betray
them,
—Lanenter Intdkonteer
GRINDSTONE'S NICHT-SIDE NIGRO-
COSMS
Rome.--A nursery of human nature, ap
propriated to the use of boy men and girl
women.
Fothers.Foot mats for stripplings in swad
dling clothes.
kotherB —Furnishing institutions for ju
senile consumers.
husbands —Cowcatchers prefixal:l to foal-
ily trains
Wires —Richly laden orrafts, smuggled
through life under the gulls* of fuss and
feathers.
Young Ornamern.-r-Creaturee of oiroam•
stance se oepasiou, compounded of tie
scrubs and scum of society.
Young LodseB —Delicacies oomp'otinded of
sugar, salt and saw dug, aid=sorted wlgbaa
tbe driblets of fashion.
The Rich.—These whose pride of posses
elon has made theorpoor in principle.
The Poor.—Those Inapt rich in the nein
mai experiences."( pm:nil:el life.
Ifusbandenos —ghoul" commonen who do
not falsely pretend tcimeommon wisdom.
rrofesnonal Men. 7 Those uncommon pre
tenders who fool commoners out of • living
Trodeetoten —Tlatm.who live upon the ad
♦onta[he of eiventmetence and locality.
MecAanicc—Those who live upon the hoot
ege paid to the Mil itarioto aohieveuteuis of
plied
Athsta—Those driveling daubers whoa*
minds are compounded of gas and gammon.
Edttors —Thome marveling, struttering
over the lllumin►ked stage of life, with the
dry bone hope in their mOuths.
Lsterature.--Sickly fannies nod with
fa'
.leebood and fumbgalioulk
Science. —A jumble of iliffplillted
■Mono •Immered drown to a plaaiibl•
do:.
neology. —A nest Incubate nip shanghais,
who:ley beet when they cackle most.
Soeir4 nondescript compound.. of
snowshoe, made of the fungus, follies and
fancies of social, professional and conven
ial life.
Politics.—Nhe Source of all trickeries tits
lire on the oonvential blood of human folly
Loom—Rules of motion whereby Wpm*
might Is rendered right.
Physic —A desdestr trirrieps *wormy
with our bodieslo the greys
Hembeg.—A! senseless thittg best adapted
to popobtr taste.
Casicon.—A charter inseeporallnig all the
incangrulties of modern ignoramus' sad so
perstitutheo, spatitsred from all the prose
dentespf the past.
11..&n A whirlpool of simian 111/04
wherein wiggle all th • tadpoles of human
folly.
ireroc•nrsc—Curious shadows Mut quiet
ly willow to our latest Wags of truths la
lbs dark.—Mobile Agate,
—A nun who oaddialy bows poor la
Cincinnati Ibis winter, says IN to WORM
Ism from cold feet than fres linnedd shoal•
der.
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