Written (or the WATCHMAN "DYING." I3El=! Dying!" Yes my young Mold waning, Ere long will my spirit depart, And death will dilesit its throbbing, An he lays hie hand, on my heart. Draw near, forprz 9.0 dim is growing, That beammilii4 with hope, and with Arid And my lips foe, sobi, will gro w AR you weep and watch by my aide." "Dying! Dear mother I'm weary, Lay my aching head on your bread, And eing me to sleep as in childhood, Sing the eong I ever limed bent. 'TWae a soni of the AnrefeTi l anot her And aeon I shall join that band nee Chem! they beckon me thither, To that better and h'appier "Dying! Dear father, I'm dying; Soon the sands of life will be run time the light of the morning you welcome, With earth and its Joys be done. And bless me, my father, Ott' blcua me— Ere the life so hopeful, and bright— Ere the glorious morning of manhood, 1. lout in the shadow, of night?' "Dying! Sweet sister come near me, Your hand once more in mine place; One lode look, Oh! can it be, never Again, will I gave on that lace? You'll miss me;tlear sister, you'll miss mo In the song when evening draws near; Yet my presence shall lovingly linger Around thee in that home co doer." .'And the flowers, my darling flowers, Will bud and blossom again , But when 'mid their nullwe you wander, Yon will sigh for my wienee in vain. Thome flowers, so pure, an PO fragrant, Memory loves so to plant, and t o keep Akre with her tears, you will emitter O'er tre spot where I sweetly shell sleep. "Dying! Dear brother bend o'er me, Comes quickly my labouring breath, Ah ' life moms brighter, and fairer, As I grope 'mid the ehadoe■ of death. But I fear not, I shrink not, and deem it Dear for my country to die, Though her banner, in duet now ie trailweg, 'Neelll Ito fade, I proudly ehnll lie." "And bury me brother, oh! bury me, Beneath the sod of the battle plow, Whore to vactorys shout I have listened— Where to that shout I can listen again. And my sword, my trusty companion, In the grove by my side let it rest— Comrades in many a struggle, Together we'll crumble to dust." The night wended—the coming of morning, Shone on the dead face of the boy. Hushed were the lips ever loving— Closed the eyes that sparkled with joy. They wept o'er the heart hushed forever— Laid the flowers he loved ou his breast, With the sword, he so proudly had wielded, Beside him, they laid him to rest. FROM ALEXANDER MARION MELHORNE DEM: 1 . 115 PrAPLRII ON Tilt IPIItItS OT THE DAT. rE IND Sia.—Last Thursday evening,while Elmira was washing up the supper dishes, she all at once straightened herscif up to her full height, and says she-- " I don't understand why it is that there should be so much excitement relative to the striking the word white out or the Con stitution, especially as the word Constitu tion has been struck out of the Govern ment. The undersigned was struck with the pertinence of the remark, but continued to. smoke away in silence, during which the whole scene passed in rapid review before my imagination. Pretty soon Elmira re sumed tne thread of her narratiYe, and says she, with tli:e same ability above re ferred to— " I nowplainly see that revolutions never go backwatds; they frequently go black wards, though, as in the present instance " .My intellect being fully aroused by the well-limed language of my talented and worthy spouse, I accordingly leaned forward in my chair, and spoke in substance as foßnws- , -Elmirr carefully noting down the same to be incorporated in a work which she is no* getting ready for the press. Says I "What you have just observed Is too true Revolutions are of two kinds: One kin s propelled by reason, and circles andly a acefully around some great a noble tru h; the other kind is pro pelled 7 ' - madly, vio lently and :I amine ma. nia or sdpi lIIIMEMI oltalloos, 6 classified and social President ma= northern e and even Jonah, so ONE of train, !than!' "Thou 1 ohs g Litt aye come by er Elmira hi tures that I was able to proceed ] Finally, I went ahead again, and says It takes a man bf nerve and of brain to be the master of this disconsolate awl ... truly diabolical situatlon. The Routh, says I, organised a revolution upon the principle that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed " Where upon the north fermented more , furiously than ever. No man had any rightex - press' an opinion that wasn't fermpnted; if he did, soros crowd with their heads termi natin with Ebel? eyebrows, and who' were loyal to the fermentation, like a hog to the swill-tub, got a rope from some. cowardly cuss in the rear, and swore they would hang him. They - were a very prudent set of devils, though, mobbing women char; but a num-occasionally, where they had regiment to one. But,as I was saying, the north &mooted, and became worse than • brewery. The angry waves of a fermented public opinion dashed along in a perfect foam, roaring with fermented rage. They formed • "maleetrom" round the "Union" and that beloved institution went "down, derry down," and hasn't torn heard of since. That's the reason why nobody can tell since the war, whether a State is in the Union or out of it. I'retty soon the Cons. titution commenced "swinging sound" the fatal and swiftly narrowing oirole, and in less than no lima, it, too, wee among the missing, and that's the reason why the supreme Court, Congress and the President, don't know which which, or _which Is there any provision in the Constitution by which Congres is warranted in °Tarr throwing State governments, In times of protean( peace, apd rearing up In their stead, 'one-man' military despotisms? If Any mean white man can show the warrant the undersigned wkll cave with his usual [Here Elmira asked pardon for Interrupting the speaker, talt. affirmed .that she would like to be informed as to how the niggerhood Congress disoovered that one—military despotism war eq4l to two Republican State Clovernmentafr ' . 4 . 11t 1 tliAluttititit iki4lc.ll4oo, VOL. XII My answer was truly worthy of the he character whin', the undersigned has heretofore sustained for learning and states manship: Sup 1, the undersigned don't understand the "lower mathematioaC suffi cient to answer your able interrogitory.--- Whereupon I proceeded to illustrate my polition: Some years ago, says I, a per -9011 by the name of l'eter the Hermit went off on a crusading bum with a whole lot of guerrillas, regardless of expense. A good time was confidentially anticipated. Pete was trgay old Itod , and he carried in front 'fff his army an egrogionegoat, and likewise a goose, which, no history informs us, he told the loyal and deluded mob of bleak re publicans who accompanied the expedi tion, were 'both • filled with the Ilttly ghost. Elmira tan apparently tort in admiration and surprise. After which I proceeded in on animated tone to close out the {parallelogram in the follow ing happy manner Says I, there be three thing', which the undersigned tfill't comitreliend,as follows: lYnatology, (ooeeology, and NiggerOlogy I My estimable lady, wan evidently pei pieced, having been led by the course of the discussion somewhat beyond the intel lectual depth of her sex. She embraced the opportunity, however, by aooertiog that if the radicals would vary the aforesaid Butler In the (root of their vandal cohorts, at the gpme time neeervaitog that he was filled with oil- Ter spoons, there would be some esnee in it, The undersigned, relaxing somewhat of Ms gravity, laughed — heartily at the quaint conceit of his truly gifted compan ion Whereupon sloe rallied again, and says she, it is now generally conceded through out that portion of the earth's surface situ ate between the north pole, on the north, and the south pole on the south, that Mr. Butler is the most gifted epooniat on the presvt continent. To which I replied that what she bad just affirmed was too true • At title juncture a most tremendous egre gious noise smote upon the air like the voice of many waters and several pieces of ordinance. Thinking that probably the said Union was about to bo restored again, and that another loyal mob was strategeti catty after the undersigned with their us ual ability, as a preliminary objective point tostintive drew down my trusty rifle, ;while the gallant Elmira swung aloft a ponderous dog-iron, determining as heretofore, to sell our lives as dearly as possible! But hark! It was the voice of our son, Andrew, coming home from De-Geffe, at the same time opening the door, and says he, "hurrah for Connecticut I Bhe'e gone Democratic! The great reaction has com menced, still Brick Pomeroy has nominated glorious Tom Seymour for President in IRIIB " - No timi was now to be loet. Elmira with elastic step glided to the cupboard like a fawn-and set out the decanter. The writer hereof poured out a suitable installment, and, poising the name in mid air, nays I, "Wires to old Connecticut, and [ Tom Sey mour—the foremost•Blate and the foremost man in the grandest revslution since the original Fourth of July?" [Drank in silence and standing.] Andy ithitiediately rallied, and waving his Derby, says he, "All gill, noble Tom. Beymourl President, that shall be!" "Ole nnrtney'e stateliest aids ! Clive him three cheers!" Elmira then begged leave to offer the fol lowing sentiment: Says oht, "Here's to Andy Johnson, who„ fielding it somewhat possible to serve both the Constitution and the Rump, served the former with his lips, and the 'latter' with his army and navy, thereby elippinz down between the two stools, and at the same time illustrating the following proverb : NW nfrwords and not of deed. like a garden full of weeder other per called re• re correctly mliatnal and n was made After the applause had partially subsid ed, Andrew continued to detail the news, saying that Seward had gone back to Au burn. To which I rpspondod erne.— Says I by northern d on the of nigger, lo diegerged up" Honest r ~4, The shoals of honor If. had sounded But in iha 'clapih," alas. is drowndatl Andrew then referred at some length to European politics, closing with a succinct account of the difficulty between the French and Prussians, and the probability of resort to the refined and Christian male 'of arbitrament by which our late Union was. restored into several separate pieces, there by presenting an assortment of government equal to Europe. Irelands and Poland. constantly on band. Staten cut up to suit purchasers, and freedmen's liureass thrown in. Upon being interrogated by Elmira with retention to what France and primula were going to fight-About. I remarked that it was to settle some point in such a manner that another fight can be got out of it in short notice and on reasonable terms.' Similar to Mexico, says I, where the prospect of pence Immediately produces a ?pi° Mild of arms, and where everything in the world Is instantly construed into a rams bellL Consequeolly they fight it out on that line all the , time. OM= until after cent scrip Elmira Anil me are both , trembling now for fear that Prof. Agaseiz, who has hit the nigger "right where he liras" with a piece of scientific) ordnance—thereby setting him back a peg or two—will arouse the indigna tion either of Adonis Doloeous Hook, or John Quincy Pickerelltown Campbell, in whioh eau, Mg. Agassiz couldn't hope to survive the fatal malady. The undersigned iu contemplation of this not improbable oataatrophe , has been prepairing an epitaph, "liore lies Professor Agaseis. lie was led astray by the light of sciencie, - and died of being sat right again by a couple of chim panzees." tie was behind dal, age, but otherwise a well meaning person. It's great pity of Mrs. Agaseic and the Oil, dren. With marked ability, the uedersigated re mains. Acsx. Maalox Mitmoixa I. P.—And capstan to remain so. —An shohenne in a column of editor ial asks, ”Does it pay to be a woman." We are not able to answer the query; but w er it payo or not we ere unable to see how those unfortunate creatures eon help them selves, or whet Is the use of rithoullnitholr misfortune. TALK WITH A SOLDIER "Good moral briny I" "Good moral 'I" 'You went to war, I believe 1" "Yee, and I got home again alive, and that le more than come of up did." °Glad to see you book—sorry any of you were killed. Wbst did you enlist for 7" "Well, I enlisted to save the Union— Cousin Paul enlisted under a later call to secure the bounty and escape the draft, for he was a poor man. And Cousin Bill, who owned that farm up the creek, was drafted, had no money to get a substitute, and was obliged to go." , "Well, that was the inoonveniencr of be ing poor I Now tell :Fie what you fought for?" "To restore the Union." "Did you go into theVrar to free the ne groes 1" "No, sir—went to fight for our flag " "Could you have conquered wit.k.otat the aid of negro troops r "Could we havh conquered without the aid of negro troops t Do you mean Co ask me if white men of the North are inferior to the blaokmen of the South ? Do you mean to insult me—to insult the army ?" "Not a bit of it' I only ask for informa tion, as the Radicals say had it not been for the negroe you never would have won your battles." "Tell the Radical he lies Perhaps if all titi ii ;twa had been like him, we might not h on=but all wereAtot like him." 'Which did the most service in the army the nigger.] or the mules 14' -4. A mule is worth I.leizen niggers, and is good for aometbieig '.fidir when the war is over, and a tugger is not., The mule can pay bin way, the nigger can't. "When you heard that tho war was over, what did you think !" ..Well, all thought the Union was restor ed, and we could live in peace." 'Mow much did you make by going to war 9 " "Not much. I had no Hob relative, to push me ahead—except in battle I When we went to fight I could always get a front view?" "What made the aoldiers hate the Dem ocrats ?" "We were taught to believe you were die unionicts. We could not get a Democratic paper to read, we must read those against you or none, and gradually we began to believe all that Repubilican papers laid about you." "flow do you find us on your return 1" "R a find you in favor of the Union, the Republicans opposed to it, and asking us to go Into another war to fight an unarmed, submissive foe, that a few rich men may be made richer, and that more contracts may be given to the friends of those who live by war and agitation." "Did the Republicans - Seep faith with you while in the army 7" "No ! They did not ?" "Pleane tell me how and where they de ceived you 1" "Well ait down on that bench or log, and I will tellfou. The' ached me to fight to restore the Union. We fought till was no more army left, and they t 411 our Righting amounted to nothing, an Union is not restored " "They said Democrats were disunionists, and we find them all in favor of the Union. "They said if we would go and fight for them, they would take oars of our families, and stand the expense of the war, and that the rich ones should and would take care of the poor ones—the brave ones—the patri ots." "But have not the Republicans kept their words?" '•No, not even in one respect. "We went to war; we were poor and bad to go. Myself and two cousins They took care of our families by'towo tar, taking our property and little farms while we were fighting And after we had gone to war, they gave bonds of the town and county, bought them for half their face,and now de mand full pay and interest, and wo soldiers must now work to pay their bonds. "And when Cousin 13111 was drafted, he had at go and leave hts farm. And when the tax cell came, to escape the draft, they piled the taxes on the farms of us who were fighting, to raise money to exempt those who dare not go, and who were Smart enough to keep out at our expense, "And you see, now the war is over with , we oome home to find that our fighting did ,not restore the Union, and so we had better stayed at home, %nil voted lazes for some body else to pay. "And we find the towns and eountiescov ered with bonds, mortgagee, and that, be side doidg all the fighting,we are now made to pay more than our share of taxes—we are made to support the niggers' we liberated We are made to work to raise gold to lay in bank for Harlon to draw out ae interest on their bocids,wkich are not to be taxed. We are working, in short, to pay ourselves for the luxury of being shot at, while the 'friends of the seldiers' wire getting rich at home. "And we find the same Congressmen who who stampeded our army at Bull Run who got rich from war, Toting $lOO bounty to white soldiers, $BOO bounty to blank ones, and then stealing two thousand dollars a year each, and running off with it for no to settle in extra taxation." "Well, end whyl conclusion do jou cool( lot" "I have said We, that I would have been better off to-day-Bad I too stayed ,at home, voted taxes on some other poor man's prop erty, held office, speculated, got contracts, turned my property into United States Bonds, which bring big interest and pay no taxes, and have left the rampant, loud mouthed Abolition agitator. and stay►b home guards, who are still for war, done the fighting, then, as they may do next time, for I shall not I" 4 "Why, my dear frfand, you are a bad man. You talk like • Copperhead I You will be called a traitor." Wan% help it- , -that's the Way 'I feel ; tcat'is the way it worked in my case, and I don't intend to rote for radicalism, aria louse'', and unequal taxation any more. .But I gigst go to work ; the hood holder wants his Interest, the negro bureau must be kept up, the Congressmen want their pay, the negro must have is big bounty, while I hare a little one ; I must get some sUunpLand.pay taxes to a poet the po llee man who watobes tble rich 's bonds, and I must go tow ptir* hero my taxes are paid my poor limit/ will stem. Good day l"—/ilr. +. -, BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1867 CM FREE TRADE AS A PRINCI • LE. ANOTHER GOD-AND MORALTYITE COMES TO GRIEF. We live In hope that the day s corning when the . great masses of o countrymen The Crawfordsville (Ind ) Review gives will somehow, learn to do 1. air own think- the following account of • preen:me noun ing. At present pretty ..111313 all their drel by the name • ames'Weibington, , thinking is done by de. agogues, who alias Rev N. C. eyers„w o was recently make a trade of politics, a. • discover the arrested I ay county f Iterm, steal path to public office and prate ..ent in the lag promotion of sebemes . for the bane ~ • . '" is reverendehip has liourishei in hie of his own partionler locality, rather than oareer of crime with an unparalle We in the brolderlltinviples of a true political economy, which would not only diffuse its genial intluenom3Mpon all sections and in terests alike, but bind States that are now suffering from jarrint interests and partial legislation, more olosely than ever, In that common brotherhood, which is the best guarantee after •11, of "a more perfect Union." Tbia condition of things, howev er, can not last. In the course of events the mere politician will have to leave the stage, and then statesmen Will-come on. This is too great a country to tie governed eternally by smell minds Its material in terests are too vast and varied to be forev er subordinated to this or that political theory. It may require some years yet,and come additions to our already large stook of biter experiences to make these truths man ifest, but, we repeat we live in hope, and feel that it will come at last Thus hoping, and thus waiting and watching, we propene to join our bumble efforts cd 7 those-tri , o u r countrymen who be lie•e that the dawn of • better day, for the nation, will date from the demolition of the anti progressive and utter un-American ideas which have found a practical embodi ment in the hagli tariff legislation of the Federal Congress, espeoiallytriuring the past decade. We any this in no apirit of partisanship, for with mere party lines or party platforms we have nothing to do, only twee far as either may he necessary to promote the views which we conscientiously believe are for the advantage of the coun try. The issues involved in this question, tt no happens, rises above the level of mere partisan interests, and we are firmly per suaded that the time in coming when even New England, as well as the central States and the States of the South, will look back and marvel that it coglil have been so long wedded to • policy dhich, while enriching a few, has crippled theenergies and cramp ed the - enterprise of the erect maseen of the people. Her vast shipping interests will then recover from the ruinous depression which now hangs over them like a pall Iler hardy eons will then be enabled, as of yore, to bear the flag of the rePultliin on every ocean and in every clime. Iler ship yards will again resound with the hum of busy industry Her lumbermen, in the forests of Maine, will wake up from their sleep into newness of life. The race of hardy seamen which mite has nurtured, or used to msyture, for the common benefit, will be replenished and reinvigorated, and nothing will be wanting to enable her to take a oconnranding position in the forward mardb to commercial and maritime prosper ity. Iler manufacturing interest., mean while would not in any essential respect suffer from the change of policy which xu. 'ring forth such fruits as these On I he oontray, these would, in the course of lute, participate in the general prhsperdy, and gain, under the new order of things, a thousand fold more ,than the most narrow llinded protectionists fear they would los e by the adoption of the principles of, free trade. Those principles are now 'piacti cally recognised by all the great eivilined powers on the face of the globe, and the recognition has brought theist no generous,a measure of prospenty that it is scarcely within the bonds of posaiblil they will ever abandon it. It was but a day or two ago that, coming up the hay of New York, four noble ocean steamers, outward bound, swept past un—the Java, the Tripoli, the 'Great Eastern and the Hermann—all of them displaying the colors of a foreign na tionality. Our own flag was no where. Yet so common is the spetaele that a strang er, unacquainted with the causes which are producing these effects, might well doubt whether he was in an American port at all As of steaMpships, so of sailing vessels Foreigners are doing the bulk of the freight and passenger business between the Unitail States and Europe. It is they who pocket the profit, and we who are daily adding to their gains by a velem of self impoverish ment, which is in singular contract with the shrewdness and close business calcula tion which are, in most other respects, the charictermtics of our pimple, Under the same absurd system the agricultural clas ses have burdens imponed upon them which it is out of the question they coo endure, and yet prosper Every day we ate having ac counts from the IYest, indicative of a condi tion of things there which, there is but two much reason to fear is the precursor of a paralysis, in business and trade, which will; if no distant day, brinkhole ' within its influence. We do not seek to enforce our arguments by croaking, net' yet by looking through the "glass eyes" of the "scurvy politicians," to see the thing that ix not. But as truth is truth, and facts are I facts we inViud, with what ability we can command, tirutter the one and reoord the other until both have a wholesome influence upon the convictions of our countrymen American .Chip-owner and Free Trail; . Ex SZNITORS Toowns AND IVIRNON Toombs and Iverson were Senators from Georgia when the rebellion broke out. Of Toombs we learn from the clespondent of the Cincinnati COMUNIICIAL, that he has settled down into peaceful pursuits of pri vate life at his home in Washington, Geor gia, about a hundred mile, from that place. He came out of the war tolerably well, con sidering the share be look in bringing iton• He lost nothing but MN slave property. He has Itirge landed estates In Georgia, Ala bama and ICI lesiesipp i, and he Is now dill gently cultivating them with free labor Those who know him, and have recently seen him, say that no inducements could get him Into polities agalni He acespts the situation, will obey the law. and behave himself. Iverson is living at.hlaaon—bro ken down In fortune, and bad In health.— He managed to loose all hie property by the war, and now supports himeel by keeping a large wood yard. The Georgians laugh a good deal a at his Tifortunee, and when yen ask them what he in doing, they tell you be is sawing cordwood. —lt has been agteed by the Court and °onus.' that John Strrratt shell be tried on the 27th inst. nen., stealing horse. in near!). every‘lon) ity in this and adjoining States During the war he was immensely "loyal," and terrific were the philippics he pronounced against Democrats. As a matter of course was the beau ideal among the loyalists.— In Richmond he incited, by hie harfangues a mob of the saint. to destroy the ..frifer suntan office and was instrumental% having quite a number of persons who wereknown to be Democrats, mobbed, three of whom are now cripples for life from injuries re ceived at the hands of their brutal and cowardly assailants. In .I.ugust MIS, this "loyal" patriot made his advent into our city, when, to use a ..loyal" expression, he concluded to 'go for a copperhead' by steal ing his property, which he nuccemdelly performed by hiring a horse and buggy from Abraham Huff, representing that he would return the next day, and stating that he was a member of the elergical profes sion, exhibiting his license to preach, and that his business here wan the arranging of preliminaries for a •big melting' of the United Brethren To better impress Mr. Huff with his .nudity, he sternly reproved some little boys, who wore playing about pie stable, for their profanity Front the hour that he drove out of the stable with the horse and buggy, Mr Huff remained in ignorance of ,ltia whereabouta until last Saturday morning, when .he learned that the thief hail been captured in Jay county for stealing horses from a livery stable in Huntington Repairing immediately to the latter place, he had an interview with this eagetLaptistle_of witaaported an ellegent attire and wore an ,air of Puri tanical dignity that Theodore Ulan might have envied For a long time be refused to recognise Mr Huff, denied in the most sol- am manner suing ever beefy in Craw fordsville, told albedo and ieloatient language of th vast a nt of good he had dono the wick world by preaching the gospel, of great revivals that bad sprung up under his ministrations, in which hundreds of weather beaten sinners bad found grace and repentance, and how that during his life he had never smoked, chewed, drank, swore, danced or whistled, but had lived like a true saint. After lis tening to his sermonizing, however, Mr 11., by a resort to a littlestrategy, succeed ed in getting a recognition and a full con fession. lie told where he had theposed of the horse and buggy, elating that he had used them eight months when he sold them for three hundred dollars. With this grat ifying intelligence Mr 11. left for Kentucky on last Thursday morning, to recover his property THE CHILDREN IN THE WOODS . The Austin (Texas) Gazette narrate. the following melalSeholy incident of the death of two ohildren who had 'leaden° lost in the woods. They were twins—a brother and sister—four year. old, named Dunbar, re siding in Limestone county The Gazette says: "The day was mild and pleasant, and they had been playing between the house and the spring not far distant where their mother was-engaged in come house hold duty. How the little innocents were tempted into the forest's depthis is not known, bgt darkness came on and the children were inissed out did not return The country it sparsely settled • and no neighbors could be called, on to assist in the search until morning Then the alarm was given, and numbers joined in the vain effort to find tome truce of the lost ones This was continued ant dl the evening of the third day (the searchers then number my nearly one hundred.) when ihey were domo•ored in a thicket, shout two miles distant from the house, lying aide by side, dead They were the nephew anti niece of Captain Cane, of Dallas, the Governor's private secretary, and he ham read on a por tion of o letter from lite sitter, the unfor tunate mother, which has sensibly affected us, and from which we have gathered some of the additionakiletaile of this melancholy affair, given above She mentions another fact, which, simple as it is, touched our heart to the core Thu elpes and stockings of the little darlings had been taken off and were found near them. The explina lion of this to one mind is plain When night came on there was a Attdden change in or weather, peculiar to this region, called a wernOrther. The effect of the cold on the human system is well known. The children became more droweey as the pier cing wind chilled through their tender bodies, until they could resist the influepoe no longer, and then, ins half unconscious slate, thinking they were at home, they pulled off their shoes and stockings, and, as it seemed to them, went to bed' And so. looked in each other's arms, they fell asleep to swafeti in heaven." WHIT". Houses Alli63ol,lll.—Some good stories are told of the Iriehessm•'Edwerd," for four years doorkeeper of the White 01211 Edward went with Edmore to look at a carriage which the necessities of some Southern magnate had thrown upon the 1553711 "Well, Edward," said the President, "and how will it do for the Preside•t of the United States le buy • mond hand oar tier ?" "And sure, yer Excellency, and ye're only a second hand President, ye know." Mr. Fallout took the joke, but not the carriage. This anecdote was told me by Mr. Lincoln, and was Galled up by the tot- lowing : One dark and rainy evening we had got as far as the door, on our way to Oen. Mo- Ciellan's headquarters, without an umbi;l - and Edward was sent back after one, the President telling him whereabouts he might find it In a few moments he acme bulk announolng a fruitless seawall, and adding : "Sure, yer Exoellseey, and the owner must have oome for it.") The President laugh 4 heartily, and Ed ward found as another umbrella.—Er. MASSACHUSETTS SLAVERY fleotional papers gosh everything now wkieh tends to give a debasing Idea of Southern.striety A few years ago slavery was tolerated in Massaohueltin anti rthe newspapera were filled with diegusting .4- •ertisemonts relating to the et le of neiroes The followinpm-' Nom, ‘hereffrom old Massacht, \ and rnisheti by Mr. Moore, Not 'tork his- Ileaia pap rl hr.-inn i f LI rir i r il lretety, and reeent7 him One of them offer for 'Verb goodAtArlbadoes rem, 71 negro that has had the small pox AnOther trader oiler. Likely negro men wed women, just at rived ' Another has 'Negro men new, and negro boys who have been in the country for sometime ; al so, kour arrived, a choice parcel of negro boys and girls.' Another : 'A likely negro lan, bred in the atfuntry and breita farmer—fit for any service ' EEI=I 'A likely negro woman, about 19 years old and a child nix month. of age tit Se sold tuirthry or apart ' Mor;Vmarreloue in another, of the fol- owing tenor .A negro child aoon expected, of a good breed ; may bo owned by any person in clined to take it' The reader may by this time, esalaim Enough ! enough but here Is one sam ple more to complete the assortment .To be sold ; an extraordinary likely ne gro woman, 17 years old ; she can be war ranted to be strong, healthy and good na tured ; has no notion of freedom ; has been always used to a farmer's kitchen and dairy, and is not known to have any' falling but bg.ing with child, which is the only cause of r being sold ' The New Hair Register says : •It seems that in those very pisus days of Nlassaohu setts, it was cheaper to buy negroes thers, ready grown-. than to pay—for feeding-and clothing their infants while to young to work. Their good men were too stingy to pay for taking oare of helpless children, and so sold the mother into slavery, to get rid of them Tficy were not then up to the mod •en Maseacliusatts way of getting rid of children, by which as, their statis tics show, the present native population, though four times as large as the foreign residents of that State, have, annually, a less number of Children bore alive than have the small foreign population If such a collection of slave advertise ments, as above,. were collected "from the Southern ststee, (who imported most of their old stock by means of Massachusetts slave trade ship■,) how l would the Sumneis, %Valmont!, Philips, Boutwells, and so on, roll their eyes in horror, and swear, as did the pious Oen. Butler, that those States shotld never be repryenlsayt Congress 'till the heavens melt with fervent heat' THE FARLE_OF THE RAIN DROP There was once a farmer who had a taiga field of corn, and harrowed and waded it with great care, and on this field he depen ded for the support of hie family. But af ter he had worked h hard, he saw the corn begin to wither and droop for the want of rain, he thought he should lose his crop Ile felt very sad, and went every day to look at hie corn, and see if there woe any hope of rain One day Le stood theie-looking at the sky, and almost in despati, two little rain drops up in the eloudno•er hisheadMW kith and one said to the other, "Look at that poor farmex. I feel sorry for him ; he has taken such paths with his fields of coin ►nd now it in all drying up; I wish I mould do him some good " "Ye.," said the other, "hut you are only a little rain-drop, what can you do' You cant wet even one hillock " "Well," said the first, "to be sure I can't do much; but I can cheer the farmer a little at any rate, and lam resolved to do my beet; I'll go to the field to show my good will, if I clan do no more ; no here I go " And down went the rain-drop, and camepat on the farmer's nose, and fell on the stalk of corn. "Dear me," said the farmer, putting hie finges to his nose, "what's that? A rain drop. Where did that drop some from! I de believe we shall have a shower " The first ritnit z Lirop had no sooner started for the field than the second said, "Well, if you go, I believe I will go too; so here I come," and dropped op another stalk. By this time a grea4 many rain drops had come together to hear' what their compan ions were talking about ; and when they heard them and saw them coming to cheer the (truer and water the corn, one of them said: "If you're going on snob a good errand, wly I'll go too," and down it came. "And I," mid another, "And I,"—"and I,"— "and I," and so on till a whole shower of them catmf, and the core to: watered, and it grew and ripened, all beanie the first little rain drop deteyminedaird9on.lisst It could. Nr -be di 'raged, childro , , because _serer be discouraged, you can't do much. Do what Angels can do no more. —The Self-Examkting Society has pro pcnnided the following queries about this fl mulcts' period to wrarybody. Does it not eost anything toprint a news paper? flow long can a printer afford to furn teh a paper without pay ? Do printers eat, drink and wear any• thing ? If so how do they get it! ' Do I owe for my paper? in not this particular time a first-rate time to call and pa; up! -This Attorney General of the United States has redendered a decision declaring that General Sheridan has no power to re move Governor Well, of Louisiana, or the Chief of Police of New Orleans. A very modest young lady who was a passenger on board a whet ship, it is sold sprang out of her hearth and jumped overboard on hearing the °apish., during a storm order the mate to "haul down the sheet's." —H young women who west to buy a sewing machine blushingly requested to see one with s feller. 7,41/4 THE SHADOWS QUEST 'The shade at noon round the steeple clung, - Like a sehoq)-girls hat on her shoulder Bung, Blipping selfly back, slipping softly down, Till it lay at length en the greasy ground, [wall Where ``rare-stones leaned by the Old church Too'weak to stand, to statmeh to fall, While Time with the Aimient g r fought, Toblur what the godly workmen wrought , And this today was the ehadon'a quest. To find one atngle heart at rear. So, with hi. darlorobe trading b.k, Ile glided softly, clad In blank. Where weeds raught up hia giresenta dins And frayed it by ito golden rim; On orergrare and church—yard gate, Steady and cure as foot effete. MEI EIXI3 He mime to the dame by the 'cottage doer And laid himself on the minded *toy, Resting across the whitened reel,. Under the busy 'pinning wheel; But just no he stooped et ber feet to lie, From the woman's breast uprose a sigh, While her apron gathered a tear away, For she war widowed a jeer to-day, A fennel walked to thif hrook Surely no p.m thin heart m a y know, - Said the shadow softly be a m e her dill, As she neared the swolle n summer nil ; II l et at the water'. hrink she staid, BF bending head on her pale bends laid; Deceived and weary, she wrestled there, For strength to live, upheld by prayer. He stole to the Bennie; vine wrought 014 Who tohrhis rosary long and well f ' But here he learned how the old awe fought With grim Remove for past d s wrought. lie crept to the rich' mas'a coo ling room, And shadowed the factory wor r'e loom But the lore of gold, or Its psi ful lack. Gave only a weary answer id Croesing:the meadow with giud stride Ile stood by the Um, farmer'. eide, Leaped to his shoulder, and in his ear Asked "Are you happy, farmer, here ?" But the ploughman lowered his head en whit* And muttered iieftly,"No, not quite." While the grave inquirer dark and still, • Plunged in the wood behind the hill. Whither he went in the solemn night Ns token came to the watcher's mght ; But lo ! when the mOrnieg's mu was up On the western hill, from a li:y's cup Ile took one draught of the dew, and then Crept clowly backward home again, I •s Traeking with giant finger o'er At noon the shadow was home again, Resting where it had often lain, On silent graves by the old church wall; Silent, except for the cricket's call, Who asked, "Pray tell oce,, ehadoa & now,— Where do the happy dwell. and Wei" "Ilare," and the Shadow's linger fell Where the dead lay sleeping, long and well. —Exchange THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER —Chicago sad St. Louis have sail a Case of Asiatic cholera. • .—Agrienltnrol prorpooln •ro good In Cal: {fond. —5196,000 In spool° was 'ant to ?Campo, from Now York, Thureday —The Treasury Department conscience fund has been increased by some Philadelphian $153,60. —The Missouri river I. tieing rapidly People living uo the bolting lands Cr. Seeing to the bluffs. —The receipts of the Milted Staten Toga, ury from -rune 30, 1866, to the 23d inst., ag gregate $393,288,000. or. —slo,ooo in gold hes been received in New York, from Sen Pratte's , . , for the suffer ers In the South. --Thirty ilium and buildings are "to let= on Pennsylvania avenue, in the city of meg ■idCent distances. —The'eolored man', organ of Charlooton South Carolina. denouneeo Northern advent u —ttpn . Sickles has issued an order direct ing a registration of voter. in North and South Carolina on the third of Monday ofJely. —A number Of cult, for the recovery o captured cotton, biro lv ing large sum. of money, are now before the Court Of Claims. —Financial mstters ,ntloue unsettled In Masan. Many heavy failures hare recently occurred, and more ate exported. —The report of the First Ward Board,stating that the achoola were Irian extremely flourish ing condition, fru read and accepted —lion. Theodore S. Fasten), of Utica, New York, has submribed $20,00 upon condition that the comity will raise $20,000 more Ai pre ride a home for the aged. —A storm on Sunday night and Monday aused Ave crevasses below New Or Nits, ati3 Imoer whrolly destroyed the wire and °rang. ,rope. —ln Nort o lk, Va., yesterday, a large Nam house, used for storing bii,ilding mater 's& and naval stores, was burned by a high tide reach ing lime In the lower story. —Three pennons mine killed and two Wand by a ;opinion on the Bellefoutaine and Indlaa apolis Railroad, neer De Oral!, Ohio, on Wed needay night. —The colored people of St. Louis hese held a meeting and adopted resolutions demand ing the equal enjoyment of the street ewe, pub• 1k halls and soltool fund. —The "'bole number of sewing machines manufactured op to the Hose of last year I. computed at 750,000, and the present rate of manufacture at about 200,000 per mantra. —Wendel Phillip. say. he was wedded to truth and philanthropy when a boy. The Boston Poet thinks Wendel moat have become a widower when quite young. —A letter from Nailiville uy. three Cu. blood. of ammunition arrived on the lath Inst. directed to °evertor Brawnlow. A large_ num ber of muskets having the same dutination have ruched Louis, tile. , boos ynu can —A quar item of Information came out It ,the proceedings of I.lisajneinuati Board of Health lately. There are penned up in hones., within the corporate limits of Cincinnati, five hundred and eighty one cows. —False ears of dash colored India rubber have been Moonier' for the use of ladies with large eara• Thep are need in front of the real ears, which Sr. drawn book and concealed under the hair. —Paper pipes tuld cisterns have been used to London with perfect encores for• serer) menthe. They are prepared in eome manner, so that they are perfect non conductors of heat, and the water in them frosts.. —Firewood rolls for $45 ler cord in Vir ginia City, Nayada. Chinamen who pink op faggots 'anthem in handle. at $2 each. Oria mails will make about throe fillings for an or dinary box odors. —Frinfal obtain. 30 per ant. Emus shoat per am Ilea the Malawi data, sad Ragland more than (00 per cent. 'nada craps tkaa and the ocelot is Atonic r cultivation and ma nuring. —Wonders w II! wow. Mrs. James Walter, of Boon. County, Ilw, ripoesUs says birth to (oar boy., weighing Alt pouitde snob. She bad previously had, niz boys at three births sad bale now bpd pis bop In hal than s 'UT. ARTEMIS WARD-WAS ME FIRiT7 Then lone pals fill rumors, sdresdp, though the earth yet lies loons. over him as lie 11 e in KausalOr•ap, of Artacous Ward's dinsi pation while In Morrie Old England—that he`iired a kind of jolly rousing life, which made the sonsumption he carried from this country get 00 better Teri tam --it may be that It was nieces& ry to Browne • Swiss the hoar ail fellow well met With all tie tiler . that he should atteept the warm Invitation frow every elub door.whleh opsie el wide on ins hinges to let the genial fel low in tut. after all. it ie qu'enris abl e 'whetherL was worth while to peril Bp— and meet death, as, alas' tie th e cake of being coneldetned'a good Fellow sad malting his show famous. However we think this from the Springfield attiethhices is too never z t • NO. 20 ••The acconnte of Anoint. Ward• which thole who knew hint intimated give, now that he is dem!, are not calaulateii to inspire much respeci for hie character, He seem, to have been a ehiftleen, airalome. dissipated, tort of • fellow, with a rari genius for entree humor. but feeling un responsibility his power. and eincrel•ing them for no higher purposes. not even making wise or worthy one of the good fortune that 'they brought him. Eh did not study ; he did not re%l; be wrote barn. and painfully , : be ba ba! little intellectual ambition o r force. ttlis sooalled tettii)retr, or illustrated, disjointed but richly butiorous comments on life, were what he did bevi and enjoyed most. His was th• stuff that clowns thrive on to the cireiaor that makes successful itinerant soap' - pedler or showman; and his place was hrst an tbat timid, and by no means among nu intelbeCtu•l ph ilosophi bumorbets and wits, like Ifolmeeand Drinking and carousing by' day and night early induced consumption, mud he carried to England a worn ...A system which was no match for the barely > beads and sturdy digestion of the it h y fellows that met hint there," This voutele too ,cold and bitter—as if some prejudiced hand had written it We would much rather turn to bin pietnr=a tribUte to the dead humoriet by & Betatron It was written for the Northern Budget by Josh Billings, (who contributen so that pa per.)Perhaps It is well that Joshim should write thus It is • brother a privilege lo write the record ef • brother, if not indeed to say the prayer that Is necessary over the coffin that s so strange. We don't believe Josh Bill age ever wrote anything prettier or more • • • ing than the folio!. log We don't believe t • •hiloeophy was ever better united to the euderaese of grief Itls poetry in di* Dille( it Is the bears of. on honest m In yellow plush JO.ll lII ' LLINOT TO Titus WAND path but igne el thinly lately. Deth seldom is kind. but Death Is impareball; this is all thud kao birl.eie his favor He ,inowli with his ■Dbe awl round the world, ogw In this field, now in that; wheat Gowen and weeds drop, wilt and wither, for he sigthed early and late, la gild and town, bi the harthetun and away oph where the wanderers are. Delb hes dons • cruel tbinglately. Doti @Wool is kind. Here, a tether, a mother, a wee small thing, but a month on • visit ; than), Mary and Charley go down in white iihtbu—Deth mows and near is weary; Dell whistles and mows; mammy gelds are all bare, for Deth outs ohms, as well as cruel. Deth Ines to mow ; his stile. „Ile it old, and ell& erith him sickle; he mow. lk for Abel of old, and for Able or Jester• day. Deth mows strangoly, and round fall the dozy, and grew alone, snarling, stands the boars. thissel, left for what t Deth haat tell, for God only knew.. Deth, yu haw duns oruel thing lately ; ye bar mowed whar the wittyeat one or them awl stood, whose words hay gone Bog awl over the world, whose hart was at good, and no soft as a mother's. Deth, yu hay mowed where my Mead Artemis stood, sad Humor , wears moues./ log now for the child ow her , hksart.'"- sad and I am sorry. THE CURE OF THE EIRRIKAAD. A men long noted for intemperate litblts was indnoed by the Rev. John Abbott to -sign the pledge "In his own way," which be did in these words Pledge myself to drink no intaicating drinks for one year." Few be eyed be could keep it but, near tile • of the year, he again ap peared at ranoe meeting, without once Riving tou• .ed a drop "Are you not go to sign aga te . as •- ed Mr. Abbott "Yes," replied he. "if i can do my, n way j" and accordingly he signed t• • pledge fo# nine huadred nod ninety rase years, "andif," mid he, live to that time, I intend to take out n life lime." A few days after he ealled on the tavern keeper,whowelcomed him bock to his eld "Oh, landlord I" sold hie, as If lapels, "I have much • lump On my side!" "Thal's because you kayo slopped "'risk , ing," said Na Landlord •Too won't live long if you keep on." Will drink take the lamp away?" .• Yea; add If you don't drink, you' II soon have a lump on the other ' v eide.— Come, leis drink together;" aad he poured out two glasses of whiskey. mike& I won't drink." said the for mar inebriate, " especially if kmplai the pledge will bring another lump; for It isn't very hard to bear after all ;" and with this he drew the lump—a roll of greenbaske from his side pookel, and walked off leav ing the landlord to his reflections. Boman —Old gentlemen who sits I. ea an edlior's dumdum, and reeds the 'es- Changes aloud to him. Mothers who torte disinterested perilous to Iloilo' their children. Squalling babies on the ears Llutiv who crowd you out of your sqats on MEM A stniterieg men drunk. /1. drunken sus that does not Mourn. A young (oedema treble fres Ws travels. A still younger gentleman fresh tVen college. Creditors of sooty doworiittiow . A moo who witato to liortroW mossy from lon. - A pear of lovern A drunken partner at • hail.-the mine at a funeral. Wet nights for parties :Da thealrea. Men who take the WATCZMAJI and helot when their time runs out. —Bed bugs sresifii to hove 'riot aver. .ion to salt, bad did if the ertiele sad place Woos! wit► bed burr was►d with salt lister, sod the oriailsos la willeh tb vends bids are with It, tiny will give no mon trouble. -10111Ipplyi has boa irslif abol ished bi ssiwels et Traaaii Priasts. Holltud sadl
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