(Tor the WATCIIIIAII
THE VALUE OF A WORD.
er Wly,lll w. MASMIIX
A won] Is but a trivial thing,
But oil a world of moaning bearing,
From which delight, or woo, may spring,
A pleasing thought or sorrowing—
To charm a soot, or multi despairing.
Full many • heart of purest tone,
In friendsfilp's worm breast swelling.
Ilas been exiled, from Briondsbip's throne:
By some hank words& random shown; -
Or unmeant coldness thoughtless welling.
A bitter septenoe; half expressed,
May carry woe where: i t: t ele gladness,
Although It he hot het • jest,
And In a friendly tray adateaped.
'Twill brood no good but may bung tontine..
Thin, ob,beworo! lest ye In.
In breast's of those you fon cherish,
By careless words, feeling chill
Which may result In crime or 111,
Or cause your fairest hopes to pertri,
When friends, in churlieh mood appear,
Or angry, as you find them often,
Oh ! chide them not with thoughtless meat!
But answer with a smile or term,
And you will touch their hearts and en flea
Strive by the gentlest means to please,—
Rough winds augment the "troubled boon
twins,"
Ma the soft breath of tropic gene,
Dome on the wings of summer'. bream,
That melts the lee of Greenland. mountains.
Withhold no kind eneouragment
From tho young soul in life beginning
A favor elight, to childhood lent,
May Ming amok]] consequent
Noy lend a AM/11/1/ Ma /runt Ithillaray.
And it elm be but eligbt ex"peneo,
To givo a Mlle, or word of kindnere,
And theme may shines lifetime hence—
And in perpetual fructaaonce—
Bright beacons on a eoa of blindnens
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AMNESTY PROCLAMATION
Wheninoron, Sept. B.—The following
pardon proclamation, although prepared
yesterday, yes not issued until title after
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WUZILZAB. In the 41t: of July. Anno
Domini 1861 lhetwg Congress,
with extraordinary .4tilmirj, solemnly de_
declared "that the war then existing was
nut waged on the part of the Government
in any spirit of oppression,noi for any pur
of overthrowing or interfering with the
rights or established institutions of the
States, but to defend and maintain the su
premacy of the Constitution,and to preserve
the Union, with all its dignity, equality,
and rights of several Slates unimpaired
and that as soon as three object. should be
uccomp Halted, the war ought, to tease:"
And whereas, The Presideiit of the United
States, en-the eighth dity-of December,keno
Domini 1/46iLadon.11he twenty-sloth day
of March, Anno Domini, 1861,414‘1, with the
objects of suppressing the then existing re
bellion, of.induclng all persons lb return to
their loyally, and restoring the authority
or the United Stales, issue proclamations,
offering amnesty and pardon to all persons
sqin bad directly or Indlrictly participated
in Ytte then exist Mg rebellion, except as in
those proclamation., was specified and re
set wed ;
- Arid tolitron, The President of the United
'lltstes did,on the twenty ninth of May,Anno
Domini ISO, issues further proclamation
with the same objects before meutioned,and
to the end that line authority of the Govern
ment of the United States might be restored
and that pence, order, end freedom might
be establisbml : and the President did, by
the said last-mentioned proclamation, pro.
claim and declare that he thereby granted
la-all persons wino had directly or indirect
ly participated in the existing rebellion,ex
cept as therdin excepted, amnesty and par
don, with restoration of all rights of prop
rely, except Oslo slaves, and except in cork
lain cases'where legal proceedings hail been
instituted, but upon condition that such per
sons should take and subscribe .an oath
therein proscribed, which oath Should - be
registered for permanent preservation ;
and
Whereas, In sod by lb• saidtaetmenlion
eJ proelamation of the twentyininth day of
May, Anno Domini, 1865fourleen extenenve
classes of persona there nropeclallx dooorib
ed were alsogother excepted and lieluded
from the benehlp thereof, and
IVhereas, The President of the United
States dld,on the sooond day of April,Anno
Domjni, 1866, issue a proclamation dealer•
ing that the insurrection was at end, and
was henceforth to be so regarded ; and
IVhereas, There now exists no organized
armed resistance of misguided citizens or
others to the authority of the United States
in the States of Georgia, South Carolina,
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Florida and Texas, and the laws can be sus
tained and enforced therein by the proper
civil authority, Slate or Federal, and the
people of said States are well and legally
disposed, and hare conformed, or; if per
milted to do so, will conform In the legiela
lion to the condition of affairr, growing out
of amendment Is the Constitution of the
United States prohibiting slavery within
the limits and jurisdiction of the United
States; end
Where., There no longer exists soy rea
sonable ground to apprehend within the
States which were involved in the late re
bellion, any redewal thereof, or any unlaw
ful resistance by the people of said State,
to the Constitution and laws of the United
States; and
Whereas, Large standing armies,mllitary
occupation, martial law , military tribunal.
and the suspension of the priyilege of the
writ of habeas corpus, and the right of trial
by jury, are in time of peace dangerous to
public libertfa lirompatible with the indi
vidual rights of the eitisen, contrary to the
genius sod spirit of our free institutions,
and exhaustive. of the natural reso ..... ,and
ought not to be therefore sanctioned or al
lowed, except in cases of aolual necessity
for repelling invasion or suppressing insur
rection or rebellion . ; and
Whereas, A retaliatory or vindictive poll-
Ex, attended by unnecessary disqualifica
tions. pains, penalties, confiscations and
disfranohisments, no• so always,cmuld only
lend to hinder reconciliation among the
people, and national restoration, while It
mull seriously embarrass °helmet, and re
press popular energies, and national indus
try and enterprise ; and
Whereat, Per these reasons it le now
deemed essential to thepublle welfare, and
to the more nimble! restoration of Contain-
Mond law and order,That the maid last-men
tiobed stinfolantaken'at aforesaid issueatn
on the 28111 day of May, A. D. 1866, ahead
be modbled,and that the (Oland benefielent
pardon conceded thereby should be opened
and further extended lb a large number of
petiole who by Its aforesaid exceptions
hams bees hitherto excluded front Executive
clemency; '
Now, therefore, be it known that I, An
drew Johann, President of the United
States, do hereby dodos and proolabil that
- Cht. ' - A ) t* - 41Et4iir l'l9-41tihnia'zi.,:
the full punted described In the said proo
la.nation of the 25th of May, Aoeo Domini,
1805, shall hdnoeforth he opened and exten
ded to all persons who directly qr indirect
ly partiotpmed In the great rebellion, with
•he restoration of all privileges immunities,
and rights of property with regard to slaves
and exoept in MOM of legal proceedings un
der the laws of the United Slates, but upon
this condition, nevertheless, that every
such person who shall seek to avail himself
of this proclamation shall take and sub.
eeribe the following oath, and shall clause
the same to be registered, for permanent
preservation, In etc came manner and with
the same afoot as wilk the oath prescribed
in the said proolamation of the 20th of May
1866, tiamely :
do solemnly swear (or affirm), in
the presence of Almighty God, that I wil
henceforth faithfully support, protect and
defend the Constitution of the United States
and the Union of the Slates thereunder; and
that I like manner abide by and
faithfklly support all laws and resolutions
which have been made during the late rm
belhon with,referenoe to the emancipation
of slaves. So help me God."
Tho following persontrind no others, are
excluded from the benefits of this proolien
lion and of the said proclamation of the 29th
day of May, 1866, anruejy :
First. The Chief or phitemled Chief Ex
ecutive officers including the President, the
Vice President, and all heads of depart
ments of the pretended Confederate or rebel
Government, and all who were agents there
of in foreign State. and countries, and all
who held or pretended to hold, In the ser
vice, of the said pretended Confederate Gov
ernment, a military rank or title above the
grade of brigadier general, or naval rank o r
hide above that of ciaptain.and all who were
or pretended to , be, Governors of States
while maiNtaintng, abetting or submitting
to. and aegaiesotag in the gebellion.
cond. All persons who in any way
Ir sled otherwise than as lawful prisoners
o soes who in any capacity were
emp oyed o engaged in the military or na
val service of the United States.
Third. All persons who, at the time they
may seek to obtain the benefits of this pro
clamation, ere natnnlly_ In nixkleilitaxi
naval confinement or custody, or legally
held to ball, either before or after convic
tion, and all persons who were engaged di
rectly or indirectly in the assassination of
the into President of the United Statee,or in
any plot or conspiracy in any mennerthere
with connected
In testimony whereof I have signed Leese
presents with my hand and have caused the
meal of the United Stales to be thereunto
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[L. a ] Done at the oily of Washington
he 7th day of September, 18137.
Artnnew Jormson
lly ihe President.
WILLIAM IL SIMARD, 800. Or Btnle
CORBY
The Great Bell Matph—O'Paks Venus
Chad , -'Stupendouscilay—Brillient Bat-
My, Frantic Fielding, ande Remarka
ble Conolusion—The O'Pakes the Vie-
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DRAG Tho great Bees Ball
Match which I referred to lest wrk has
been played
It was between the (Wet (and only)nine
of the (Trate club, and ‘he Chad club.
We played on the Copitoline ground,
which had been nicely swept and sprinkl
ed and the bases white-washod.
The weather was fine though cloudy,
warm though windy.
The etteudianee of simatatore must have
• •en less than fifteen thousand,but for fear
of acaidente front heavy batting none were
allowed in tho enclosure.
Chad arrived first and throw has castor
into the ring and offered to bet a year'ssub
scription to the Poll Player's CArotude
against a ticket for a Turkish Bath on first
blood.
There wero no takers, as every ball play
er takes the Chromcle, but bone of them
oared about a Turkish Bath.
O'Pake soon after appeared, and was
received with applause—and music by the
band.
}lugh D. Mode, of the Rooster olub, WAN
oboaen Umpire, and play began.
The Chula went in first and we went
out.
We expected to have M. T...lugg for
pitcher, but he didn't appear but sent his
cousin O'Tard, who pitched in so heavily
et the start that he bit the batsman, corn
ered on the short atop, ,and knocked the
scorer ou of time.
The IJ4 e cried fowl.
O'P e wanted to, know who he called a
fowl—if he alluded to any of his nine.—
Red find there were no obicheue in that
crowd.
Umpire apologized, aml the game want
Chad got a 'pleaded strike, got al far as
We second base, and was calculating on a
home run when our right field, who was
■lalloned on the corner of Washington and
Greene avenues, (taught the ball on I fly.
Chad out.
Blister then leek the Ist; he Ist dy at the
bell, but the Oldies dodged, got battle en
hie breed-basket, end sent him to peal.
Float knock down for the O'Ritkee—
(Great sheering )
Came suspended to lake a drink
Bloater then tried his luok at the hal,
wbieh he handled with great skill, bat Bill
ed to eoaneet with the ball Ile always kit
when the Mle wasn't there.
lEftaFoire ruled him oat.
The O'Pekee then went la.
Chloride O'Llme then took the bet; eqd
. as soon as the bill (11111111 aloes, Cent It book
apliv'ead start 4„ in pursuit of the fret
bloc
flomsbow thil hall got theta' berm he Ma,
anti the *hap who ran that eat Le the
Ohmt Intermit plat htm oat. Itt
O'llygue had the pest ohaalts. 41tei
ninth tithe he got 11111 retake tutti l iWit a
hit.
0
f 01Anni. 31 SU 00.ter a
14 -
'o'Bllqatt rttg 1 ouwrii. 41
O'Llaa . 14 2 'Ohne Se
D'Pana I 165 Bloater 10 6
o'Bltarr .97 12 Boras 21 0
O'Door 18 17 Clhantontilo 14 1
O'Leandoe 11 125 Janipar 17 4
O'lrmust 15 231 lionyroyal 62 0
O'Tard • 9 141 wllingor 61 I
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Total _in Ulf Total 397 29
?We ore gobs, g to °O&M's'', the Atlantic'',
*At_itoos, an d Matosto.
' - I , m going • to write a book on Base Ball,
with explansti ono of the new =Ms, eta.
Sall Tonto
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tle I otrtloat moment in • man's We 1 „ or /kook:re . Bogie.
The ball cushioned on a house In Bed
ford avenue, ()around on the Ilaireqaft oflbe
Capitoline headquarteee, ani.wi'd Caught
on the bound by Caeleille.
O'Bilque out
(Boma mean person in the orowdalreered.
I eiterwards heard thit Cuterlle was impor
tad from Idaho, ixpreamy to billet us.)
I took • turn. The Grow/ liiispended Ito
broth.
, BELLEFONTE, PA.,- FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1867
wheit Wieland' for tb ... ! first lima with an
exaggerated potato masher In both bands,
to protect himself from flue designa of a
chaff in front who is going lo fire a ball at
him, another behind lobe hawk ready to take
any advantage of him, and all the field be
fore him.
But I stood a monument of resolute firm
ness waiting for the ball.
It came, I esw,l hit, I run.
The ball went to right field and landed
in the Union Grounds, about a mile off.
Orient the Al'antics who was playing at
the time, kindly threw it over the fences,
and . lame to-Imnd just as I bait scored my
fourth home rum—and td'ken something.
who
brilliant play atit•tetl up °Y oke
who we& in to beat it.
O'Pake was always good on the etrike,
whichtcyounts for his success in politics.
Ile countl•ted heavily on the hall which
went off to left field
The ball waalast eight of for some time,
but by the aid of the l'oticco Telegraph we
ascertained that it had COM down in Pros
pect l'ark.
A Committee was sent after it in a
buggy
Meantime we took a recess for refrbelt
niente
O'l'eke moored tiro home ruo►t Ile might
have made more, but be said 141 wan not
going to run himself out before election.
o%Mum took the bat ; being left handed
bo knocked the ball round the corner It
made salon stop on the Umpire's noesand
lapped hie claret.
Fire( blood for the O'Pakes.
Umpire got savage and ruled O'Shaw out
on the grounds that this abet was counter
base, contrary to rule 1114
This put our Bide out
The Chaitiste look desperate and played
as though they meat mischief.
Thep made one run, owning to O'Blique
o . lliique was left field, and having broke
Ili, eye glasp looking so hard through it,
Mid left theleld, to got s new pebble loser.
ted, and didn't get back in time to find the
ball before Casterile made a home run
It was the muffinist play I ever maw.
We went in and made another run, on
the bar, and told the barkeerer to score it.
We should have moored one, but the Um-
WO - ruled nit out on a tnehtricality:
O'Limo hod made the first base, when
o,l'ake mode IL hit and changed his bane.
O'Shaw came 'after him and made a ten
strike and wee followed by o,Dear who
made a foul , and woe subsequently caught
out on a fly by the pitcher, when O'Blique
made a hit and ran and got to the second
base just tie O'Shaw had made up hie mind
that it was too hot to run, and o . llike re
fused to leave his base until he had a drink.
The field hands being nimble to bud iho
ball the short slop was unable to put any
body out though thav were all out, at the
bases, and the rest of our nine having gone
to see a men there was nobody to take the
bit
The pire, who was made because we
hadn't asked Ir to.take a drink, ruled us
out
The Chad. n squared for work, and
Blister haring recover'ed hinitself, made a
hit nod got hie Ciro. :time in void style.
Borax followed and got his second base
because the small boy I lead 'hired to ran
(or me on loft field had run home to see if
hie mother wanted him
Chamomile bit to oentre field and
brought Blister home
This wee all they made
We went in again.
Things began to get mixed. It was toy
fern at the bat and going in I found they
were going to play a doubled game, two
lunlngs at once, to notice it
There were six tomes now.
Also two pitchers.
igraeped both the hate in boil. hands, and
stood on the two home bases
The two balls came at onoo, and trying to
hit both 1 went between them, and went
down to avoid puniehment.
The referee called time.
Asked what wee trumps?
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Somebody said clubs.
Said I'd pass.
O'Pake ineleted on my playing. Offered
to play muggiest for drinks for the crowd.
Somebody took me hp and stood me on the
base
The two Umpire° wanted to kar if I
was going to play.
Told them it was none of their darned
business, I'd play them or any other man
,even-up, till moonlight.
Short stop put in an observation on fleeing
As it wasn't hie pot in: I Copped him
port by dropping the bat on hie oounte-
The pitcher t'anagh he'd pitch in, and
caught it on the. frontispiece. .*
The play begun general
Things became very lively, and the bat
ting very heavy.
I got mixed ap with Custerile,
the Umpire, wool a oamp-etool.
We went to without regard to innings.
We tame ose will heavy scorer.
I saw somebody home, and have ,
been
home ever elate.
Duo Ball has a singular attest on parsons
unnooustozned I. It.
My shirk reek and treasons ripped in all
direotions.
My head has expanded and echos like
he mischief.
One of my eyes don't matelt the miser.
sad my nose Is much enlartge end Tau
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My limbo ve rheumatically out of joint,
and I es at et aorta generally.
I don't think bus ball Is my forte..
It's too vigorous. Something mailer
would suit me better,—fluob as muggine or
Maher.
Yours on the home bass.
Oesair
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P. 8.--O'Palm has Just brOughf me
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DID OUR SOLDIERS DIE FOR THIS ?
Tu vindicate the will of the ninjority and
maintain the existence of the nation the
people made every sacrifice dint is in a
people's power. With an unbolted exer
rise of strength the nation mit down the
greatest rebellion of which there is any re
cord, and then required of the dominant
party only that it ahouldipacify the country
and restore peace, exacting front the cen
t quoted merely such a guarantee as would
theoretically provide against the recur, once
of the war ; for parctically, the nation
looked upon the defeat of,the South in the
struggle fairly fought out as the besbof all
val./totem, for future peace. And whatdid
tbo leaders in view of this plain puipose
They ignored it entirely, treated:the known
will of the nation with an insulting indiffer
enoe supposed to ho- characteristic only o
Cottinnem Penmen Puritan rind nigger
was made the bargain to give to the half
civilized slave supremacy over his former
master, in order Clint the political balance
of this brutal, ignorant and unreasoning ,
vote might retain the Puritan in power
That is tire exact present position of the
radical party In accomplialting its pur
pose (has far it his traded away every title
of principle it originally had form the emir. 1
cos ofapower, and has reduced the 'memos
of giternment. to a greed swindle, filling
high places with con uptioubeyond ail par.
_Old. Will the people submit ! Will they
consent to see the principles upon which
the nation stands traded to and fro, between :
scoundrel. to whom the gamblers, thimble
riggers and pooketkook-droppers of our
streets are, by comparison, honest &Mere?
Will they see the very heart and life of the
nation rotted out, that a careen, brutal peo
ple, to whom slavery was more n benefit
than a degradation, may be met in power ,
above the white own of the country ?
California answers"-Nu !" And iu lice voice
we may hear what Is to come from the pro-
pie of New Yolk and Pennsylvania—the
doom of the political traders The people I
are no longer to bedecened by the sibboleth ,
of party cries that have covered with the
name of freedom all this atrocious seism '
ing They will make a salutary example
of the schemers —New York Iltrold.
AN IRISHMAN'S LETTER--PREPAPE
FOR A LAUGH
The fullowneg churneteristle lei Kr, writ
len by an Illbernian of air }oars' experl
taco Of American inatitutiona, •as submit
tea 10 a reporter or the New York Sun
NEW YORK. January 14,1867
, 11v DRAn Most—the darlint- of my heart
and sowl—l am well, but bad the fever toil
ager, and hope you are in the Caine clown
lion, thanks be to God. I wish you many
happy New Years and theChildren,and hope
you'll have three mune and ten of them
We bad Christrrins here, but the heythene
don't keep it like we used to at home Dlvil
rescue the one leer said to me, many happy
Christmas, or lind luck to nie, or any other
politeness I didn't get it Christmas box
until I was going home that melt and a
night-walking blagaad gave rilevile on the
eye, and axed rue for me monei 4 .. l Fero
him all I could, about a score pounde,
which knocked the entitle uut of him.—
They tell tne that the i(agur is going to be
the white man in future, and that the white
nagure 111 Congress (a big public house in
Washington) are going to try the President
for being a white man
If they find bun gu,lty, and thete's no
doubt of it, for they ore accuserelvtifbeiTs'es,
lawyers, judges, ell in one, they're going
to execute the Exectiii•e, make a fellow
called Cold facts President, and remove the
side of government to a place called Bosh
lon, celebrated for its Republicans and sin
ners. Thim to the came na the ridiculous
fellows they call ridteutere—no radicals—
saving your presence. They want to con
done their own power—God betting us and
all harm. They say the Southerners must
me down on their knees to them. They for
get thAt the poor d mils aro Hat on their
beckons the dust already, and they're a
mane sot to kick a man whin he's down.—
Be jabereat makes mo blood bile, to think
of it , nod that is the rasen I'm running
over on this paper Otto war is no sooner
over than they commence the beginning of
another in Washington, and God drily knows
where or whin it may laid I lost one fine
leg in the last, but I have another left for a
good cause, and I'll fight for d 'Anson ; for
I hear his great grandmother, by Ide fore
father's side, was an Irishuseas, * *
We have snow and frost here now, end at so
likely we will have more wither. Tffe tem
perance inen-09d save the mark—in a
place axlied'Albany, where the people sind
Rep resontativee to chats them, have stop
ped our grog. only by day light.
Idyll a much matter, any slays, for they
'don't keep a dhrop of decent Mink in the
country—no ral ould Irish potheen, a tum
bler of which would charm tiri heart of a
whsxl-harrow,'ox,A wed donee—
nothing at all but e s.? that would kill a
pig if heibad to live on it, monk leas a
Christian baste. * •' Remember am
to Jim ;.yell him he's well, and silk him
how I mini 'S i lk sorry to hear of the death
of the bull, and hope you're likewise. liar
milk ina bad. Tell Tady AleFinit If he
comes herehe'll see more of America In one
day than If he'd staid at home all his life.
I'm glad his wife got over the twins, and
hope she'll be better—next time. There's
room for improvement. I like thiscountry,
but there's no place like ould Ireland,where
you raft' monk whiskey for a shlllin' al
would make lay for six paple. If youdoa't
get this, write and let me know. If you
don't write soon I may be dead, for life is
uncertain under the Radicals ; hot dead or
alive I'll answer your letter. address pour
dear brother, Jimmy, New York, Anterlia.
and I'll ale for a letter from toy darllot
sister.
—The radios' organs ore writhing Un
der the reoont orpoeure of the Attorney
°antral In regard to,Asblay &
They cannot deny that radical numbers
of Congress—Ashley, for instance—were
eor Intimate with the convicted perjurer,
Conover ; or that prominent radicals out of
Congress—Hqlt, for instanoo—were not
SCUMS the radical throng who attended
Conovir's dolly receptions in the Waahing
lowjall.
---0, Wee Low wonderful are 'our
waterfalls.
[For tllO IY•riuuer
THY WORD, 0 GOD, IS TRUE.
Bearing in mind the principles of inter
pretation laid down, in a ,umber of rules
in the former article, for determining the
meaning of word.; our inquiry now is,
"What is the meaning oil) Reshith 7" ••In
the beginolug." "now is it ondermood by
our bent scholars 7" It will be accessory
in t' , as to our former number to intro
duce umber of words from the lanai&
Heine , Orrei, &c. The excuse ollerad
for this seeming pedantry Is, that it to tut.
possible to aioid their use Tim render
them intelligible, however, to every reader,
they are written in goglish and their pro
pri;nUnctalion ul imitated as nearly as pos
sible The meaning oFeseli worn in given
with the word.
We find that for the Hebrew It'lleoholh,
.oin the beginning," the Chaldaic version al
the Oil Testament gives as its equivalent•
the work, /(6adnitit, "luiantiquities " If
these words are equivalent, their meaning
must ho equivalent also But ll'Katintra
means “In antiquities," or "former time,"
Its root, fiimarily, i iiicanspriordy,and when
applied to time Meanie autmortty fiance
E'A',shilli may bedggned as signifying. in
oatmeal or former balm and when we read on
Gen. I. I. ..In the ItAnimeGod created
the Inetreene aunt the earth," we are not to
understand it to mean, ''at first, as to order,
or in the beginning, as to order, God crea
ted Sc " But we nro to understand it to
former linme,•of obror antiquity
011eforeated Scc," %Viten that former time
wan, of how old a date or of what duration
we are not told, but simply the fact, that at
preinunibine period, God created, Ito. Now
instead of a discrepancy existing, between
Moses and Geology, there is thy most per
feet harmony Geology says that the e•i
deuces arc that this earth to of vast age, a,
to ON elements Moses says--liits viand
point being the mention of crea
ted this earth, nen lo 114 clewcnts, an the it
thprities
Agntu in the Seplungint wo find Rn nrke
used for the Hebrew and Chnhle
en lindunn. St John in his gospel let
eh and let T. says, "In the beginning was
fIWOZILSIG22._ _Will any.nm .11.2.3 C -11 Ul.ll
phrase, "In the be, inning was the word"
refers us no further back than the period
when this earth was filled up for man's hab
itation • "In the beginning here refers us
' bock In the pro-existence of our Lord,lnfore
the foundation of the world Hence it is
evident St. John refers to a lime preiious
to creation, or the forming of our world.
Our best critics so interpret. For example,
Dean Alford, says, "Before the world was'
Meyer translates it rorre•tlerhkeel—pre tem
pera ity—and says it is equivalent to the
'Septuagint version of Proverbs VIII, 28,
"In tho beginning before he made the earth.'
Luke says, "In the beginning" includes
the idea of premusidane existence The
LXX translate in the same way. Betwyen
these authors and others that might be
qu'reteikihere is this agreement, that "In the
besinning" signifies Isom anima', of old or
of utettvoites Hence if geology has found
out, and c. rreeily, that the earth maybe
miitiotut of years old, it does not contradict
•
w h a t la said by Moses When therefore we
:mallae the first word, by which be introdu
ces bin account of creation—whether ue to
its construction without the definite article,
thus haying it indefinite; or os to its ety
mology inelnding the Ides, not of order, but
aulertor, or as to its civivalents in
Chalilee or Greek, moaning of old, of gntiq
uir "Before the world was" we reach the
sa e conclusion that Moses is scientifically
correist,in his history of creation.
But while Melee leaves the time when of
creation indefinite, merely tinting that it
was of old or former tune beds not thus iu
definite in his statement of the fact of crea
tion. And here again we sell attention to
the peculiar force of his language ; "In the
beginning God created thr heavens and the
earth " In the nem,unt we have of creation
there are three words used, that at first
eight eeem .to signify creatlnier to create
But they do not Alt mean to ereate,.: The
words used are the following: flora, wit lob
means he created, Areh, ho made, and Yet
mr, he formed. Bare, he created, occurs In
Gen 1 oh. and lv, where it is maul "God ore
sled the heavens and the earth," and nigni
fies is connection witty, "In for
mer times, or of old, God created from noth-
g" the heavens autl the eartltr:Wh kb he
Is now about to fOrm or fashion Into a now
system. Mth, he made, and Zalsar, ho
formed, may be predicated of man ; but
Bard, be created, is predicated onlyr,or God
and never of man. The forceof the4e..three
words, and the nicety of distinatuil Nada
by Moses is their use will appear bypseleo-
Ling • few of those plenae in which lb oy oe
our, in the account of creation
G. I. I. "lit the begietting Oott.,(Bard)
created the heasesus and the earth." Here
the creation, or production of something
tfrosa aothiag is theisce amid by the word
Bard. This is the grand picture iodic vis
ion of the narrator, and thin is the picture
be holds up to the game, yea and sanding
of future generations. Then follows the
announcement of another fast, that, "the
earth was without form and void," was vast
elms. Here the attention of tbe narrator
le flied upon that chaos, and he described
in plain and simple language what claws
to lt during the six days God work, in pre
paring It for man. The foot here estab
lished by Moses, is isert .„L in, the Use of a
word that eignifles, to produce, or bring
forth out of nothing.
Again Gen. 2 s 8, where It reeds God bleu
ed the seventh darand "rested from ell hie
,work,, which God had Created and made,"
there ocouroth Bard, he crested and Leo
soth, to make In Leasoth, L, is the prefix
preposition and Aso lA, the consiuot form of
deed. In this passage we lam the throe
of both words, and their use, side by Ind.,
minim their distillation ; while it hole:Acre
our adtalretion of Slob communes' of the
Mauls narration. Observe in the phrase,
"which God created midi:Bade.' In the orig
. lit reeds, "which God Greeted" to Koko
....serve again, the beautiful and aritios r
dittinotion, MOM. make,. booking at ao
finished work, a saw world, and_r! .... mapitu•
!sting the manner of Its building, he As
not say “oreated? nod made"--es it rends in
our &eighth Version,—eo though means;
and whine were *se and the same sot, but
ha tap, created, to make, s►gnityiog two
acts.' Created alluding L 9 the proems:Una
ant of manipotoome; la bringing something
out of nothing. To make, allnding to the
omitting chaos from which he made the
world. Thus am when of oce.ition is i brown
hook into the antiquities, 111111 ilie fart or
oinking brought into definite time,
Again, Comparing Bard, he crealed soul
%M¢.', he filmed, we find ihe same die
Uncles., and force of meaning Gen I . 27
—So God fltardlikereated man in his own
longs." Gen 2 7, .•And the Lord God
( Vey tt mir „,fysin %al :or) fenced men of the
duet of the ground" la the first passage.
allusion in made to the creation, or calling
into being, of tho sail, which is the man
prove, and which alone is ..in, or after
iniaTe and lilieliese" of God. In the second.
reference is hail to the building a house for
the soul, or body for the man, We have
now examined the three words, .11.11 by
Moses in bin history of 11 e creation From
them we not only learn the correctness of
his statement—in far as criticism is eon
cernen—but must coma to the inevitable
canclunion, that the same spirit which
“mored upon the face of the waters," mow
cii within him nine, in guiding hie mind to
the choice of vroptis, and controling his
pen in the faithful inscription of foals that
will mond the lust of a world's criticism
WHO ARE THE REPUDIATORS ?
The act of Assembly of June 12ib, 1810,
passed by a Democratic administration
made it obligatory to pay the interest on
our State debt in coin or Its etpii•alent A
terrible finan:ial crisis has just been pass
ed through, and the passage of the law wan
essential to the establishment of (lie credit
of the State uPoti — s I secure tr.sis Front
that day nett! January, 1864, the Treasury
paid the interest in epecte and our loans
had grown to be favored investments
The interest was payable on the that day
of February, and one 27th ring of Jan
uary, 1861, !ilem, of Allegb&y, then a
member of the House called up a bill wLich
read ns follows . That so much of an net
approved 12lb June, 1810, as reqnires the
interest on the public debt of this common
wealth to be paid in specie erns equivalent
and also the third section of an Act appro,
ed 11th of April, 1862, be and the same are
hereby repented." “That tt shall.he the
duly of the State Treasurer to pay all in
fanfitgdtie on, thepublic debt of the
Commonwealth, on nut after the 31st daj,
ofJanunry, 1861, in such notes as hate
been or may he ts•ned by the United States
overn m en t."
Ilightint put it on its [mitage at once
The Democrats resisted it and Ilighom call
ed the previous question, and two members
from Allegheny seconded the will. The
Radicals voted solid In favor of-the call,
■ll debate was cut elf and the first section
passed. Beery Radical voted for the ate
than and every Democrat against it The
next day the second section 0•1110 up and
was passed. Qn the 29th Bigham called
up the bill for final passage, and Barger,
Rice, Sharpe and Hakes, all Democeats,
spoke against the Bill, nightie], Etneir and
Cochran, of Erie, all Radicals, in its favor.
Kerns, Radical, of Philadelphia, called the
previous question and the bill was finally
passed by the House, every Radical voting
for it, andltiory Democrat against it
In the Senate on the Irnlt of March. Con
nell, of Philadelphia, called up tine bill nail
the first section was passed by a strict par
ty vote, every Radical prevent voting for it
ank every Democrat present voting against
it, Clymer Wallace and Beardslee, all Dem
ocrats, spoke against the bill, and Fleming,
Radical, in its favor
Wallace, Democrat, maid, “I:am opposed
to the repeal of tho Act of 1840 1 am
against repudiation, our faith is plighted,
and I, as a repreaentatire of l'enneylvan i•,
will newer consent that her Minor shall ha
tarnished by the payment of stoty cents
when she owes a dollar " - •
Fleming, Radical, in reply to Wollaao
said, "that the bill proposed to effect a sav
ing to the people to the amount offifty cents
ou the dollar, and that the business of the
Representatives of the people was to taco
money when they4o , uld, and the bill should
therefore mos, as It' proposed a saving of
at least fifty cents on the dollar." 4 ,
'Further debate was had upon the blll,and
it came up on a final passage on the
lath of April, 1864, was paesed,and became
a law Every Balboa' voted for the bill,
and revery llemoorat, except Kiumey, of
Bucks, voted against it.
Pending the passage of this bin, gold
stood at ICdi. Of the morality of its pas
sage and tits effects upon the credit of
the fitate•it acme to us there can be but
one opinion. It It was in 'effect reptlstion.
that it alfeeted the credit of the Common.
wealth is plainly apparent from the foot
that the Radicals at the lute session of the
Legislature forced through a bill raleiug
the rate of interest on our loans from five
to aux per cent . and thus have fastened up
on the people a higherrate of intereat.which
will be permanent until their final redem
Lion. Of the outrageous jobs and financial
tricky that the clique who rune the State
Treasury, have perpetratectin platting this
loan, and the amount of money they have
pocketed at the expense of the people, we
shall have more to soy.
The act of 1840, repealed by the repudia
tors was palmed when bank notea were at a
heavy dim:tenet. Financial distress perva
ded the whole conntv, - and that law was a
guaranty to those who invested Moor loans,
that they should not suffer depreelation -
Under the law, investments of the money of
minors, of trust estates and of those whe
had fixed incomes were made. They be
lieved that the plighted faith of a great State
would be inviolable Bed they supposed
when they oontracted to receive 5 per mat,
that they should receive but 8 per oent.,not
one dollar of there investment! would bows
been made. bow gross a wrong was PAW'
trated may be seen by taking the sass of *
minor whose $lO,OOO left him by. hie prate
was planed by order of Court In our seen-
Atlas. At toe par mut, before the ioda
tion of the Gummy his $6OO of faintest
was onielent to sloths and edneate him,
when the 000 of living was Increased by
the rise in gold,. his interest under the, ant
of 1840 %till was adequate tor his purposes,
horewhen the cot of 1804 wee pilled his
8400 in corret°, was only equal tb $BOO
in gold and Ws guardian was compelled to
drum upon the principal to support him,
was thlejust I Was it honest? Can oar
great Contozonwealtp plead that hi, noose•
slime required irf
The men who perpetrated this nreegmho
have thee timedsilied bar fame, beset•Mlii
power and her wealth. They Mill rule la
tad will ruin her lame and 4 bildhruPt h
ormilL—Prifiessrph Awl . •
NO. 37
'For the WATCII,I
TO SISTER-MAGGIE.
Whrn T ale 11111 dearest Maggie,
Whoa the death ileums dim my
When they bear me from the home hearth
Low in the grave to lie;
Will via be with them Maggie, ,
And elm.' above the bier
Of,yourgirl hood'. playmate
One tewiler, heart felt tear? .
Will you watch them ar they lay me
In my cold and narrow bed,
And learn me theriS notedly
Wtth the unforgotten dead Po
) would have them lay 31/11. Maggie,
Whore Om tall pin. en • •
And the sunbeams long linen reetet ,
On In) darling mutheCe gruve.
I with no nottl,prolud marble
To murk the humble spat,
But fileggie, plant a men boob
To tell kin not forgol
And romp at twilight hour, Maggie
The hour we loved the beet,
And smile, to think my tired heart
Han found Its dreamless rest.
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
—A Pitisburger canned Parker was shot
dead in Drandway, New York, on Saturday
—During the limit twenty yearr, four nl-
Inin emigrants have arrived at the port of New
York.
—The Maine Democracy hero certainly
gained coven State donators and forty. Repre
sentatives.
--Ex-Mean:ler Thomas Brown duo! at Tal
lahassee, Florida. on the 2.11 h nit , in the 82t1
Jeer of his age,
—Greeley liCell,o. Forney of using the par_
ty foods to distributtintivertinetstonta of bin two
paper. in the South
—Thp °Mom I .noturo s of tho Kentucky eloe•
(inn chow e. majoclty for Helm. Democrat, fo r
(lovernor, 4,47;950.
—The Worfirs Washington correepondent
says that Charles Francis Adams and Mr.
Seward will change pl.. lir
—The affair. of the Finnan end Olt leens
Nation id Bank of Crook lye are In the hand. of
a receiver. Alas fur depoegor.
The Ott emeriti. fir California hasottfrenti
nicks Ilaight'a majority 14 . 000. Nine counties
to hear Prow will incr.se the majority.
—The New Jersey Democracy hare opened
the campaign vigeruurly. An immense man
meeting eas held at Newark on the 9th•
—The yield of chestnuts, walnuts and but
ter-nets in Vermont this somon, will he larger
than any preceding amain for many years.
—Three of Brownlow's blackguard militia
hate been arrested at Nashville fur brutally In
stilling two citmens nod assaulting their wiles
—ln Virginia every negro over nineteen
years old Is registered to vote. This in a epee
-lal privilege not granted to the "white trash?.
--If you want the negro made your equal
—nay, your superior, vote the Mongrel ticket
with the Connecticut. Yankee, William., at the
head.
—The Radical. at Washington declare that
there will be no attempt made at impeachment
unless Wade is first raMored .. President of the
Senate
—Kavanaugh, Democrat, is sleeted toe
gross is Itiontana by 1,500 majority. The Ter
ritorial Legislature 'trammel. uraialmoaaly Dom
IM2=l
—Hamilton, Ohio, with a population of on
ly fourteen thousand, make more malt than
any other tonal in the Union,and has 325 drink-
ing solu ne
—When the Sultan was in Peri. and Lon
don, he was .hocked beyond expression by the
low-necked dresses and bare arms or the women
of fashionable society.
_,—Auother of ilairy's pocket paito• wits
produced In the York county Coal, but
week, by a person whose politic. demanded ex -
coalition from punirthment.
Cincinnati on Tuesday night, Joseph
Zumbnach stabbed himseltto the heart In a mil
linery stone, where Miss Amelia Della told him
she never wanted hisoompany more.
—(loperal bee hr arrived at Sweet Springs
Moor. county, Virginia, with his family from
tho Wh do Sulphur, whore ho had hem (or two
weeks. 110 will spend two week. at the Sweet
Springs. .
—The Democracy of rbiledelphts have on
their ticket two soldiers well known to the ctiun.
try for gallant eorViee in the field—Oem Pyter
Lyle, Par sheriff, and Oen W A, I,eeeb, fur log
ister of will..
—When a white mull votes, that is "suf
frage," but when the almighty nigger moues to
deposit his imonseuleto ballot, than you have
mnoihood surroysip all Its sublimity. The dif
ference is perfeitly hirensa.
—On Wednesday last, In Cleveland, a Mrs.
Ward, for gym. trifling offense of her little son,
told him that she would kill. hlm. Ile replkd
that she need not del/hat,. he would do lt,and
then took a piste Land abet himse:f.
—A remarkable ammeter named Said,a na
tive African, lire. on one of the 8. Islandkoster
C arlestou, South Carolina. He is said to be a
great, linguist, and speaks, reads and writes a
dozen language.. Ile is now studying Hebrew•
. —Old Thad. had felt the pulse of the Hall
cal party Very accurately when he declared it
w - 01 too much debilitated to make mach of a
fight ia Penasylvmela tide fall. If the Demo
cratic vote is out It will be literally annihilated.
—A apeohd to the New York Worltd, dated
Bangor, Maine, 10th Met.. Nap that It lorktake
some day. to decide certainly whether the Rad_
teal candidate...lhr Governer is sleeted. Flyer
counties hare certainly been pausal,: the Dem.
°erste.
—The local black and tan organ gravely
tells us that Elision Cameron bad um
oonidenoe In Andrew Johneon.. Do telll And
where, pray, is there a manAroman or ebtld In
Pennsylvania who has any eoaddenee %Aid
Mommln Tombs?
—A prominent Redieel—an ea-member o
) 15oturreet—adatitted to. toAllo4lo of this 014 7;
on Utopia/ hot, that diolittdre 'mad GOV
Atom sounty by live boodrel majority. Pb
admimion wet bated, grit, `arm the periwig
POPOlority_of the moo, and, moondly, art the
prevaillAggroundlerell arldmietaili
gad t,lee ay. to amita'efidie putt,
Ttsa,—Thelfew Terb ilk ad*. tees
fetton‘liaow woritag bets the etude brae pee.
pie that ttualasitaso oar debiltitebiouteed sot
to save the trafoa, butte save the Hadleel par:
t 7 and gat the newel sofa few that pa*.
Therew now tic !toadied %timbal meatelaegle,
tared sad 'three Wiliam et debt *seabed, idasply
to band op a fanatical patty, I. seak.•bir Pam
mad deal the public, mosey.
—llia &mime Opioadn, pultllabad Mob -
mond, Va., very trolly says Tls mut Wm
which Ls rapidly ovallawlas up soon other, Iu
Moak maa sada , bathes soul ,
Is
to be a orbits maa's obit
I. Mboalat
halt of ft is to be bola m grape,
les /masa tor MasistMllt Flat/ 6 1M lf At
rlmusb mulatto% atimatmi " P.M
and degree of YOMptibl/M and
• • • AYIAFAX
' • '• --!
rdf,k. iiopiv totiiii'ibrin.
Lincoln, and the men woo acted wiih bile
composing the , Replan/emu party of the
preeent day. (bat the South would not se
cede ; tberillce could not-ibe "kicked out''
of the Union ; that even if there should be
secession and war, thirty days, and "a tow
old cows" would @Mile the sailer ; that
weary body, wolonodloomobt, old ace! young,
amid, thereupon, quietly go to Mohr homes
nod enjoy the rights, liberties, and privit
egos guaranteo‘to them by the laws of the
land, without further disturbance: quit
this alight proacedingcould he the oaustrof
no groat additional national IMO:dodoes' :
that the onward proper' of the nation,toi
oroaperity would in no way be impeded,.
no!, tinnily, that the pillars of Constitu
tional liberty would, upon the whole be
otnengi honed
Now, was stet such a batik of lies of wo
important Choracter told before, by a poll
ties] pert, making pretensions to respects,.
billy ' As the world known the people of
the United Stales have now Impend on
them oriole • national debt u few countries
were ever milled to beer ; that we are pay
ing such taxes iu proportion to the value of
our properly as no civilised people were ev
er before required to pay ; that thousand,
upon thousands of the beet men of the na
tion, from meth end smith, arel —sleeping
the Bleep that knows no waking" on the
grandest battle he . ld the world ever saw, a
Cold etrotching from PrifinsYlvui• to the
Gulf of Mexico t in short that moraly,phys
ictly, socialy, pocunlarly, and politically we
no longer occupy the high position whilb
was our bout only six short years or.
Now, shall we not deserve the worn of the
earth if we do not rub our eyes and begin
ho inquire what party hut reduced to to •
position so utterly degraded
Why should this state of things be eon
tinned 1 The debt perhaps is inevitable ;
but wby does not the port) , in power `ice
us at least one thing which is of more tm•
portentie than any other, that Is, a restored
Union If this were done. other greivancee
might be tolerated. In due time they would
be removed . ; but with a dismembered
Union, a disfranchised white population,
and with negro equality, in fact in some
sections with negr reprosteryi we cannot
expect to aohleve the great triumph of re
storing to this continent that grand Repub
lic which was the work - of oar fathers, the
gloriof us of baler rewires, and the omission
of fear aid dread to the devote of the old
world
Ell the people arouse, and place In power
MOO of the old Union, constitution teeing
stripe, cud let the teachers of the higher
law dootrioe be smeltedd le the infamy
which is the proper portion of all who ig
nore and reed the will of the people se es-
Premed in the luadatoeutal law of the land.
,Califorala has spoken, and let the people of
the old ponimonedwittujilsengyjeggiop..
spond.—Es.
AN INCIDENT OF MARRIED LIFT.
A wild young fellow married a lovely
girl, and having been addicted to habits of
,dissipation, even the sincere attachment
which he entertained towards his wife„could
not entirely disentangle him from snares,
His occasional irregular hours would haws
given any but one of so pure and sweet dis
position every reason to expect shit did not
bold that place in his affections, which was
her right ; but this reflection scarcely ever
Intruded upon her spirits.
It happened ones that he was called out
of town, and in his haste, he leftbehind him
• letter, in which to plesse an unprthelpled
friend, he had spoken of his wife in teems
of oarelesaness, if not derielo•,aed dilated
freely upon his nouns all& Imagine the
&Safety and Suspense ofthaprolligate,when
be found himself bents by a rapid MAIMS,
upon &Journey whit& most of neessalip be
of several day's duration, yet remembered
distinctly that the fatal latter wan exposed
unsealed upon the table. Ha recollected,
too, with • pang, that he had wantonly, in
answer to her inquiries, boasted that It con
talOul a profound secret, which be would
notfbavo led for the world. Ile paced
the deck in agony of grief and shame. lie
pictured her opening the letterArning pale
with horror and indignation—perhapifalnt
leg with anguish—alarming the servants—
dying to her father, 'and renouncing him
f .
As soon as possible he returned, but with
a sinking heart he entered hie dwelling,
bracing himself to meet the Eery of an en
raged and wretched stelae: He '-opened
the door eeeftly. She was binding over the
table busily writing. A placid smile seal.
ed her mouth of parte.; beauty, and spread
over bar glowing features the mild expres
sion firjoy and peace; and even as she
wrote, the fragment of a sweet ballad r. 4
from her lips ip Ipw mole theeoply go ge
from a heart entirely at rest, The lueshapd
stole noiselessly around and Mid as bee
pep traced her gentle thoughts
xXoyeedettewis lying by we, the very
letter containing the ..prolound secret,"
Now I could punish 7011 for your carehrse
/Less bat, my dearest Charles. Iwo/ could
look you in the face when jog yellow, after
having basely violated your trust is my in
tegrity, and meanly nought to gratify a ail- "'
ly curiosity, at the expense of honesty, del
icacy, and confidence. Ito, the letter Is un
opened ; sod, lestyou should rwa uneasy. I
enclose it to you :with the sincere love of
your affeetionete wife."
..What an angel I" uttered the ettectolesee
stricken husband&
She started upF nob a yr, ofOeuvre,
and st Mues l met,the light of 'her dear
tuishrinking eyes, be new hamhied Oahe
Amid bare eutpectodi 'ben ad limply
struck with repentance al his own canduct.
He beneeforii severedailtias thsitisow him
abroad. And tfehe pato heist molten lo-
Boma had haw hl* la art auk, of AIM
bad perused all his owbooqudel lottate. she
would have found rot i lilqui,opaospolug }tr
ier acre twit. of Ofh-Opormal *pa ran
ndairation•-74._ . ,
—Whilst la ?toed' aaftalaitiolt, tie
priiprisiy anti' Hight • of , Nyilrormar
partial" or "ataaltoott imilaisit,'f the *Wl
rile us, it:eto Booth, ri,lrlektai the ' sf
rate to' tlas neapioa and a mill ttatNir of
Altiii;tad dotes' Cho of *nig to
handrails of litoilaarida .*fired
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