THE SWEETEST WORD On• sweet word of h o ly moan i ng Cometh to me o'er and o'ob, And the oohoes of Its mmio Linger ever—evermom. Trmr—ao other word we otter Can so sweet and preeious be, Turning all life's Jarring discords Into heavenly harmony. Need. of thickest blaeknew gather diet my loul's dark sea or eln, And the porter heaven was guarded Prom Way guilty entering in; Then mane Jesus, walking to me O'er the surging wave. (Alin, Calling clear above the tempest, that rrasteth, h shall win." Now. through an the sum! pages. Where my woe and doom had brolly,' Gleam those golden words ofprom WI," "Ile that t ritetath, heavea I I nII win"' Maned, atm, mid blood-bong Lt proinise,, Let me drink Its aweetnese in ; lie that trust Me eon! to Jean., "Ile that trueteth, heaven .hail win " 7'extt-0 Saviour! give its fullneer Co me at thy feet In prayer, Grant my dying lips to breathe It, LOAM, Its lingering sweetness thero—, Sweetness there, ta ■toy the breaking Of the hearts that love me so Whiepering from my silent coma, "Trost the hand which laid me low!' Loved ones, as ye refir the marble Pure above my waiting dust, O rave no other word upon it But, the boniest, s eeteet--Taver ; For thle password ow the angels; Guarding at the door Paasword to Ills b amines, Whose I trait to ver more. ,—Herbert Newbury GREAT AMERICAWSHOW Bondholder to hoe Wefe --.•Now, my deer, we will ride out and see our show It is so nice to bare a show of our own, one such • show as never was seen before." "Go slop, driver, so as to oot jolt. mad am and I !' "You wonder, my dear, where I get all my money. I will tell you, now. You know that do box which I keep In the bank I That in full of United State. Monde My fortune in Bonds. I draw $60,000 a year to gold as inozeet, and an I have no time to pay, of course we can enjoy all thin style You see this first cage That le a farm er—one of our slaves. Ile is a working tool of ours—a well meaning matt carried away by the negro gag, crazy on that sub jeol, but entirely willing to devote hie days to labor to pay taxes to support me in idle ness. I pay no taxes—he is willing to pay them all, and to pay interest in gold on my pile of bonds. •• What does hse wife do 1" Ab, my dear, she works hard—washes milk pane, churns, rubs, scrubs, patches and darns—tells eggs, butter, chickens and turkeys to unto get a little money to pay back to us Whites. Sometimes she weeps and mourns over her toil, but we must not hear her, my dear ! The next cage contains a returned soldier, a mechanic. liderae a nice man, went to war, fought, lost a leg, came home and is now working to pay axes to support the government and to pay us nabobs. ..ls that right 1" rshaw I my dear ! Don't ask such tool lab Might makes right, you know I He asp a poor fool. Ile believed all us Radicals said, and wa■ so engaged fighting forts country that be did not no tice how nicely us good, loyal, Islay-at-home Radicals, by the aid of our hiyal, speculat ing Congress, wound the bonds about him,. Ile had a brother in the army—killed on raid for the cotton our cousin made so much money from, you know He is now working to redeem his home from the mortgage we put on while he was gone, and to raise his portion of the $300,000,000 a year in gold we bondholder. demand as interest You know poor men always work i the best when they are in debt ! That is why a na tional debt is a national blessing ! Drive on slowly • Who is (hal poor woman 7" Oh, she is another one of our victims. She had a husband, he went to war, took a cold while on a raid for cotton, mules anti silver ware for the benefit of Curtis, Logan, Butler, Banks, and other thieving g Is, and at last died in a hospital. Ills wife, or his widow. is now workihk to support the children. The government is real good to her—pays her a bounty—a few peace a day for her to dream of her murdered husband, A. us Bondholders pay njk, taxes.. and it does not coat us one cent to support the government, we are willing all the women of America should Aare bonnet. so long as they pay them themselves from their own tan ings and do not forte us proLeeted bondholders to pay than ! Let them have bounties—by all means—and our interest is payable la gold! Drive on, slowly ! IV/ao n then in rags 4 dear is • poor minor—be is dig or us bondholders. Don't dis lon't eay anything till we pass returns from California and oh us to fear a little trouble from 'doh fellow. But here is a osge my dearorbiolt 'solos. You sea those orphans all at work ? They are our slaves—their fathers died in battle and us bondholders support them. To be ours we don't pay for their support, hut we levy taxes on the farmers, miner'', mechan ics, widows and children of the country to support these institutions. We mix up these things, taking care to draw our inter est in gold and to sandwich our claims be tween bounties and orphans, and so the willing people of Milgrim toil on ! Ain't it sloe, my dear, to be smart, and run this show to suit a few of us bondholders Never mind that cage, my dear I Driver crank up the horses • little I Touch the; off one a little on the flanks with the whale bone. That sage le full of fallen women,viotims of political preaabera, members of Con gress, government ahem lecherous old deacons and others of the God and moislity party. They were once good girlie, good women, but they fell during the war. But they pay taxes to support us bondholders —they furnish amusements for our manly sons—they add to the revenue. and their sages are distills which liter gold from Whew, and that gold buys the laoes you wear my dear I Drive OD, JO' "What cove is [Awe ?" A very pretty one, my dear. Hold on driver. Don't you hear the mania of ma chinery I The' . •lotims ere the factory operatives of New England—slaves to wealth —toilers to support us. We work them early and late—pay them in greenbacks, while our tpt eeeee is payable in gold. They work more boon Guth day than ever did the slaves of the South. They live poorer and work birder. We raise Their wages once end then lower them three Smite— they work lit the sound of the whistle or tap of the ' bell--march to their boarding houses intlong Dees, like oonviots,'est from boardingtonse table, and make excellent tl loves. If they w their strength they in Culd upset the ge. but the sturdy ne gro' there, with, I rod, keeps them in very sired e .r- , ' ft WI eery nice chow, my deirr 1 And now welwill sec the fun I The keeper will, with his greet Out kook, go around and .deser mat the seri, they beeeleerued while e ••• - • -, - -.---- . "--- . • r --- / ( ii iil _ 0i....., tr 4 I i ( , A... 11 0 1 4i dt , .., .10 "STATE Watt% AND DEDZAAL UNXON." . , yoL.xn. we have been looking at them, and it will serve to buy wind and game for our dinners, pianos for our house, silks for you, and more floods for me'! - Watch sharp, my dear ! You eee how the poor •ietims act as the hook draws out their earutoge ! Leta a little back, for some of them have seen us and talk of—Re pudiation Great God ! But that word makes me tremble ! Now we one watch them unobserved ! Bee the Ammer hold hie aohing back the hook drags out his earninge Beo the widow weeps and 'vile with leer- NI eye. upon.ber dying child as the hook brings to us thelittle she has earned ! 9es4he laborer. rush to the drunkard's cup as their earnings are snatched sway ! They say they might as well spend their money for beer an whisky as to support us Bondholders, so we will enact laws that they shall not spend their money. but give it all to us! flurry up, Mr Keeper—pake out all you can—load my carriage and we will be oil to drink the wine and enjoy the luxuries us Bondholders purehase with the money hook ed from the •ictims that make up our great show Kies your fingers to the •ictimo,my dtr! They work better if we notioe theta a little. Wave your embroidered handkerchief' to the sage we hastened by that the inma es may see our style and treat our sone la more attention. Rub a little of that im r ted cologne over my face—the sigho4of sweat on the facts of our 'intim@ mates mine a little sticky ! Don't put your feet up so far for we are aristocratic, now—pro tected pets of Radicalism and must sot die. creetly. Drive on Jehu I—La Crosse Deniorri GOOD ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN AND BACHELORS. Rev. Henry Morgan, oflloston, preached on Sunday night last to o crowded house, in the Continental Theatre, on the subject "Young men and early marriage." Text: "Whose findeth a wife findeth a good thing and obtalneth favor of the Lord."i Prow. xviii. 22. The speaker said nature, history and revelation declare "It is not good for man to be alone." Every man should have a helpmate—a bosom freind to oo.operate with him In the battle of life. A wife In the balance wheel of a man's ebaracter,the regulator of hie morals, the guardian angel of a husband's trust, confidence and pros ! perily. Man is but a single blade ofehearn useless, without • wife bound to him by • matrimonial rivet. A wife Is the magnetic needle pointing to the star of hope on the voyage of life. Her shadow is the wing of file protection , her genius the palladium of his morale ; her smile the inepiration of his great achievements. Better live In an attic under the hallowed influence of a wife than to revel In a palace in what is celled single-blessedness "A virtuous woman is • crown to her husband. In all your seek- Inge geek the favor of the fair In all your gettings, get %wife ; sop never cease from pitting until you gel married You say, "I cannot afford a wife." I. say youcannot afford to be without one; that is, if charac ter in to be taken into account "But wo man is extravagant to drew.," Vary well : there are • enough who ate not; don't mar ry such a one ; don't marry a milliner shop. Marriage is supposed to be uncongenial with literary pureuits Opinions have changed einoe the time of Michael Angelo and Sir Joshua Reynolds The wivea of Sir Walter Scott, Fenimore Cooper, Jona than Edwards, and Edmund Burke were io •tanoed as helpmates. A DARKEY JURY A friend of ours ♦ouches for the truth of the following:— At • recent session of one of the courts, in Soutki Carolina, an entire colored Jury was empanelled. A case was brought be fore them—the ,witn eeeee examined, and the attorneys madi their respective argumente. The Judge, after laying down the law, nod recapitulating the testimony, gave the pa pers Into the hands of the Foreman--an in telligent looking darkey—with inetruotions that, as soon as they found • verdict, to bring it in without delay. Thirty minutes or more el•psedwhen the Jury returned, headed by the Foreman, and stood before the Judge. . As the Foreman appeared to hesitate, and to wear a djpappoiated look, the Judge ask ed— Mr. Foreman, have you found a verdict ? Mamma Judge, webaben't found 'am,' replied the ebony juryman. •It's a very plain oaes,Nild the Judge. 'Can't help it, mamas, couldn't ..e ii.' •On what grounds ? 'We didn't look into de grounds, Massa Judge,' replied the Foreman; de coulter didn't take us out into de grounds, but he took as into a room, and looked us in. and tole us when we found de verdict, he wad led us out. So we began to find de verdisk, and sesrohed ebery nook, oorner, erepfse, etld ebery ling dar was in dar, wailn dat room, but we fond no verdiok— no, cofibt.okt kind dar f—Er. AWALIIIIIIO IFILOI2IOII OF RATTIA soAlsa.—A family consisting of the father and three Ions; lived in one of our South western States, and led a very worldly life. A good and perhaps energetic minister, la bored hard and long for their coneerelop, but apparently in vain. They all seamed quite obdprate and onimp d with his appeals and warnings. In this state of af fairs he was greatly surprised on receiving • call to go to the house and offer prayers for the son Jim, who bed bees miteue by a rattle snake, and who ikpeotedl • fits' re sult. The good man attended and 'peke In this wig*: thank Thee for all thy manifold bles sings. We thank Thee for thou thou sen debt midst our wishes. We thank Thee for rattle snakes. We thank Thee that a rat tle snake has bit Jim. We pmj Thee send another rattle snake to bile Bans. We pray Time send another to bite Jake. And, 0, we pray Thee to send the biggest kind of a rattle snake to bite the old man, for we verily pelleve that nothing short of rattle snake' will ever this famil any good, —1 4 .-A large rut 4s r of the deedgates to the Alabama °oust'tional oolinsibm slijk their names thus I 1) - j•X," Ilia an Xtraordier sly body— in reaped to (gnomes. SALEM WITCHCRAFT It is a long time sines thin monstrounde lusion perraded.parts or New England, but as most readers bare but •o indefinite idea of the erueltme practiced in the name of Masao and religion, it may be worth while to tiPriltducie some of the facts condensed from the work of Charles W. Upham In this age it seems almost impassible that such atrocities could ever be committed. 01lee Corey, no octogenarian, seeing that no one escaped, knowing that a trial was but a form of convicting hint of a felony by Which his estate would be forfeited, delib erately made oonveyanees of all his propirrty refused to plead to the indlotmAnt. nod was mindemned to be pressed to death, It is theonly instance in which the horrible death. by the common law judgment, for standing mute on arrangement, has been inflicted to America. It had a good deal of effect on the community. Then, there was Robert Calef, the unlettered but intelligent and rational Cotten Inkier, 'se malignant, cal umnious, and reprkalAtiLrnan," "a coal front hell," as Cotton Mather calls him. It is true that hie book was not published until 1700—but a man who could write as Cale! did had a tongue we may be surexind unquestionably used it to good effect while these events were transpiring. There was Joseph Putman, also, who gave satisfactory proof of downright pluck throughout the whole strange proceedings. In opposition to both hie brothers and both his uncles and all the rest of his powerful &mil', be denounced the whole thing through and through and through.-4or six months he kept one of his hones under saddle night and day ; without a moment's intermission of the precaution ; and he and his family were constantly armed Such courage, spirit, and resolution could not he without great influence. The conduct and appearance of the prisoners, too, bad their effect. It mast be understood that only those who refused to confess, or who had confess -1 ed and retracted the confession, suffered death. No one who confessed and stuck to it was executed. So that those who suf fered did, so In dare's°e of truth and integ rity. They were martyrs in the beet sense. The . gallowq ws• deal up, as Mr. Bancroft well puts it, not for professed witches, but for those who rebuked the delusion and persisted in asserting their personal inno cence And nearly all of tkele,'Mffierable victims exhibited remarkable characteris tics Some of the scene. and eventsof thett lime are indeed the most touching to , be fount in, history. "Surely," exclaiMed Rebecca Nurse, who was one of those hoe euted, an excellent mother of a large fami ly, fifty-seven years old—"surely, what s;n bath God found out in me, enrepented of that He shouldlay such an affiustOn upon me in my old age 1" "Dear chilli," wee the exclamation of Elizabeth Prlfolorto one of the witnesses against her, "it is not so There is another judgement, dear child." "I hale nobody else to look to but God," wee the desparing exclamation of another woman when half erased by the cruel exam ination to which ehe was subjected. At one period of the excitement to be acetified by the &dieted children was regarded as certain death. When officers came for Mrs English, "to was a woman of culture and high posilion, "she attended the devotion of her family." says Bentley, "kissed her children with great composure, proposed her plan for their education, took lease of them, and then told the officers she was ready to die " George Burroughs, the minister, a highly educated and excellent man, died like a ahriston here, as he was MaryZaely of Top.field, the mother of sev en children, who was hange4 with her sill ier, and who appears to have been a woman of great strength of nelnd isnd sweetness of disposition, after her trial, sent a petition to the court which was an exhibition of no blest fortitude, united with sweetness of temper, dignity and resignation The court had adjourned to the fiat Tuesday of November, 1092 "Between this and then" wrote Brettle, • ill be the great assembly." "Our hopes ' he aside, "are here The representative. Of the people must slay the evil, or New England in undone end un done." • • • Wileberaft wises crime by law. Everybody believed in it, that is, almost everybody 'I here were some doubters, as there always are "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live," was in the code of Messy. Hundreds and thousands bad been hung for this offense. Pope Innocent VIII , Luther, Baxter, Sir Matthew Hale, au well as Cot ton Mather, had a real horror of witchcraft. Sir Matthew Hale, that eminent and excel lent magistrate, condemned witches to death. But it must be confessed that, in the method of examination and trial, in the kind of evidence admitted and in the great orueftles practiced, the Salem court rather • bears off the palm. It was a popular tribu nal There was not a lawyer tioncerded in it Of the judges,, l Stoughlon and Sewall bad been educated as clergymen ; Winthrop and (Jockey as physicians ; Richard, was a merchant. Every rule of evidence and every sensible principle of &Olen was vio lated In these trials. Witchcraft was ale gal crime, and at least one excellent judge in England had eondemnedpersons to death for it, but Lord Holt, by applying the strict, rulti of evidence to this class of , ef feetually put an end to them. Tee RAOIIIIIIIWIIIN INDIANS AND lion ess —This novel rime came of at the miri, ing Park, on Saturday afternoon last, for • purse of $lOO, the horses to run six miles and the Indiana three. The horses were the trotter "Lady Patable," pacer "Marla Broug%," and runner "Lady Moody," sod their Ompotitore, Steep Rock, Boothe( and St , The race oommeneek at half past 8 o'elook. It was arranged that the men were to change each quarter mile, and the horses each mile. "Lady Patohin" trotted to sulky, and the others went under the saddle. "Palm:thin" and St led of, the former being relieved at the end of the first mile, by "Maria Brough," who was follow ed by "Lady Moody," the last three miles being run in the same order. At the qqar ter pole, halleriy arome the (rat*. Stev ens was relieved by Steep Rook, and be again at dui starting point by Reelect, and thus In rotation till the three miles were made, oath man being required to ran one mails in quarter mile dashes. The rum wen won by the Indians, Deerfoot eoliths in oft time home siretok nearly a quarter witin db in ad Of "Lady Moody," whim inn the last mUs.—Clueltand Flaindeoler. BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2?, 1867 "HAVE WE A GOVERNMENT ?" During the war this question wee fre_ quenfly asked bristliest editors and •pea. kers. Alter asking it, they generally fol. lowed it qp with an appeal to our young men to S to arms sod "prevent a dissolu tion of the Mon." This was all right— very proper; but if the question wee perti nent then, with how much more force can it be asked now Hare we a Government? Aye, that'. the question. For our part we don't think we have. We see ten States without representation in Congress, with out power, and trampled under foot by va grant negroes and hirelmas of an illegal. condemned and infamous Rump Congress. The men who own theme States—white men —are by brute force deprived of a say in their management, and vagabond blacks ho have been living on government rations_ or years; are to make laws and Conctitu lions for their government! Under this arrangement the paupers of the State—black paupers at that—are to dictate the law. (or the government of the whites Was there °ter on earth a system of ecoundrellom equal to (his' Was there ever a despotism that approached it in vil• Irony ! What would the people of Pdonsyl rania think should Thad Stevens' Rump Congress attempted such on outrage upon them ? Would they submit to it an hour ? No, they would not "But," answers the ' stay-at-home Rodioal,theee.'people of the South were rebels, and we are now punishing them for the sins they commit , led; they tried to break up the government anti•lhey must be punished for their trea son " That!, the talk of a fool and a cow ard. God knows the people of the South have already been punished as no people ever before were From affluence they have been reduced to want—from a proud people to a people, of mourning' Be household has its vacant chair, every truer. ship its bermes of widows. Desolation .1. stamped wherever our troops set foot, and the owl and the hat are the occupant. of charred churches and half-destroyed semi naries. Persecute snob a people! Who says that! Not the soldier who fought them ; no, no, but your Sumoers, your Wileone, your Wades, your Bill Kelley■ and your John Forneye—men who never smelled powder, but who made their piles of gold-bearing bonds out of theorecessities of our people—these are the men who con tinue to cry out for revgeaoce , these are the °realm es who are urging on the milita ry satraps and the hirelings of the Freed men'. Bureau to place the Southern States in the keeping of brutal negroee And this le the "reConstruction" about which we have heard se much. •Are the people blind that they cannot see the object of Sumner, Stevens &Co r They desire to seethe negroes placed in power in len of the Southern State., merely that they (the Radical couepirators,) may capture those Slates for their party at the coming Presi dential election Should the negroes bs the controlling power in these Stoles they will of comae oast their electoral votes for the Radical candidate for ]'resident, for negroee and ignorance, brulaltiL and cor ruption are the natural fillies df Radice. trertv and V illainy. The quest ion then tenure—have we a Government elite of affairs i. permitted to in on ; if ourtexee—and the, never was a people on God's foot-stool tax ed as we are—if our taxes, we repeal, are be swallowed up by a Freedmen's Bureau and upstart military entrap., merely that a thieving, corrupt, sondenmed and festering Radical Jaoobtn party may live, then In deed we have no Gorernmenf, no liberties, no rights If the Prelideat has no power to put a atop to Ahem. stupendous wrongs, then we lord bailer with one accord, ac knowledge that our experiment at self-gov ernment has been a failure, and that our orefathere made a woful mtelako when hey placetl this ootnitry ta the Imotln of hite men, for the benefit of N limeolves na their poelertly,rwKet, SWISS AND ENGLIS TS. The Swine and Gorman imbibe light wine orture beer with their fatuities and friends at a lea garden The English artisan-or peasant of the same class efthergulps down a Mime drain at a gin chop or besot. him self at an ale house Bulwor:in his "Eng land and the English," written a third of a century ago, relates that one day in Nor mandy he overheard a peasant excusing himself for not accepting the convivial in vitation of a comrade, by saying, have promised to take my wife and children to the guinicette, dear souls !" A week later he had crossed the channel and was riding In Doreetolore,wben he heard a laborer call ing out to a great hulking lad swinging tin a gate poet, "Bill, thee look to the old new. I be just going to the Blue Lion, Is net rid of my talents and the brats—rot 'em." The contrasted Arms speak velum • and the contrast really is scarcely an ex aggerated one. If you bear a number of men singing in Ihe streets ordeal's of Eng lish towns and , Magee, especially of an evening, or ins numbers, ten to one it is some drunter enrol or abmtene chorus. In Switzerland and Germany, and we believe in Sweden and Denmark 100, the ‘lnging out •of doors Is ossselees after the day's work Is done, and it Is generally good, al ways decent, and most often sentimental or patriotic The very amusements are different, and what is even more charameristio, the cor responding amusements are carried ondin different fashion. Blus) and dancing ►re = city) public houses and gin pieces; but these musk saloon. are among their worst and meet disreputable attractions In most towns and villages in Teutonic countries, you Bed large rooms gtted with rude or chestra aloosea, all furniture and accesso ries being of the humblest and simplest de soription ; but tie musk is always .of least moderate exoellenee, and the frequent• ors uusilly naezeoptionable.—Pan Nall Gasillc .. ~ . , ----At a Sabbath sehool , pot Mllet dptatit, only a few weeks ago. a reverend gentleman, after exhorting the selgpol pi ously and affeolionately for b half hoar, by way of giving the pupil' a (thanes to om i tribal. their mite to the general lory of_ the occasion, requuted them to a Jordan for him, expecting, of ileum, to . 11 r 1 On Jordan's sobiny banks Fsta4 Is., id ~ to his surprise, 'the scholars, with oni ' •• imi, reek up, Jordan am a futrd reed to • . I THE HEALTH AND LONGEVITY OF BRAIN WORKERS. An exhaustive paper on this subject, by Dr. Geo M Beard, in the beet winer Pr Hour. at Home, thus thoroughly disp 6es of the popular notion that many men are kill ed by hard study or other mental labor: It is true that many whose names shine brightest in the galaxy of the worlds think er., walked all their lives in morrow and pain, and sunk into premature graves But, on the other hand, it is just as true that the logical cause of the suffering and early disease of Wiese teen is to be found in most Instances, no[ In their intellectual ac tivity an trullorii so much as in their native feebleness of constitution, in their dteeipa 'led habits, or in their external eircumsten oes. Many delicate, finely strung natures are irresistably impelled to authorship by the force of their genius, and, if such are doomed to a live-long battle with disease, surely their c tiling should not be held re eponsible for their misfortunes Stine worry themselves to,death, others hattorit by over indulgence of the passiotis and others die simply because natiim lees not allow them sufficient capital to sustain life, but very few dieliduiply from over exertion of the mind. No one will pretend that writing poetry killed Byron, though he tao compose at midnight tinder the influence of gin and water. The daisies grew early over the grave of Reeks, nit because - ref toil so much ail/of painful worry eniendercol by others' efuelty and his own errors. The exquisitely feminine spirit of Sob tiler did not desert Its frail tabernacle before ho was 46, though ho worked terribly at irregular hours, under the stimulus of wine, and of tentimes under the most depressing eircum stances. We can but feel (hot be was taken Away in his prime, and yet he attained AJgcluellie average age of mechanic., and there Is every reason to believe that Lipd be bedn measurably obedient to the laws of hygiene he might lot, tired twenty years longer. (hi the other hand contemplan what wondets of toil us well as of suffering have been endured. by ninny authors who have yet attained a good old age. Sir Wal ter Scott, overwhelmed with debt, lonely (brought bereavement, persistingly planning and writing until he was past sixty , !Janie fighting with poverty and hieinwn weaknes ses, plunging into all mysteries and sciences for three score wars and ten Edwards es tablishing n rep mina as a theologian and philosopher that shall stand forever, while he was obliged to measure out his pliin food according to the caprice. of his deli oate stomach; Irving, working at his desk for twelve and even fifteen hours a day, rising often at midnight to resume his task, and yet not ooinpelled to lay nside his pen until he was .evenly-eix, Itesidee these, scores of names at once suggested of men of genius and letters who have struggled with poverty and various forms of 111, and yet have thought on and written on until past the allotted term of human life HON. S.S. COX OFFERS CONSOLATION TO THE RADICALS. lion. Samuel S. Cox reoently made • speech in Buffalo, New Cork, which is so full of consolatory advice to the defeated Radieals that ire must give them an oppor tunity to peruses few extracts lie telln them, in the following, of the use of minor- Wee Ifs says "1 would especially congratulate you, my unrepentant, truculent Radicals, that you are marching on, with meltusolioly music itud furled flag, to take that place no long and no honorably occupied by the Democ raey—the position of a reapeotable minori ty. Do not undervalue the position. In it you may earn the plaudit of Artemue Ward to General Washington . was useful " Mr. Emereon, the transcendentalist, said at Cambridge, last summer, that there woe great utility and hope in a minority The right and exercise of criticism—the virtue that disdains to follow power, to fatten on its rottenness, the independent and titterers eive dash, are the attributes of an honora ble and tinterrilied minority Three may be yours The hour oometh when our ma. jotity will dictate political action ; be sure we will not Immo your usefulness by fol lowpg your exempla We will but claire tine where we cannot •newer. We will not villopend where we cannot praise. We will not imprison where we cannot argue. We will not mob where cannot agree. We will not teach forbearance to the South while forgetting It to our neighbor. We will try and be as chrietian in the future as in the past " ••In one eense,it is quite pleasant to be in minority. You not only escape responsi bilities and Irdublee, bat you escape the cry of the vultures nod the jackals who follow the live lion till ho drops. You will find minority a healthy state No party ever needed It more. I hope you will pre pare for its duties better than you did for those of the majority." When he comes to Ohio. ha glows with flowery rhetoric in the following terms "To swamp forty thousand of the Republi can majorities of last year ; to gain in near ly ever °panty ; to detect the black suffrage by thirty five thousand ; and to eleot Democratic Legislature, and to unseat the president of the Senate, Senator Wade. is rather astonishing I It is said that in New Zealand there is a. splendid flower, white as • Illy, which, when its petals open to the sun, resiunds with the report of artillery In the tropical forests. This was the way Ohio lE.:arta:od I Is she not white aad ra diant 1 The thunder thereof, IL it not the very music of the sphere 1" ••Yet it is sad to see even the fell come, though it brit'se us the (roils, The russet leaves, the gray morn, the fading Sowers, the voiceless birds, and the wind moaning Its requiem over the grave of summer, are a part of that providential order which re tards as well the fall of a little sparrow as of • groat party. Uy Radleal friend, you he i r' been used tit seeking the ways of prov idence through political moots. Study them with tide @Motion in view, and tell me if I we not right when I say, "God is hold' big you over hell for some wise purpose." Hs may drop yof. Perhaps I might, In my Salta view of your deserts. Whether he does or not, may depend upon the quality of your pantaloons. If they ere shoddy, farewell I (f he suspends you for • Utne, to inhale the Wens, and hear the applaud of the pit, it may be as a warning not to draw your politics from hate and make, ♦ldols to not some front above, but follow at in the benignant teatihi•ge of good will to all."—Bs. THE ALABAMA "CONVENTION." Of the eighty odd , delegates present in this assemblage some 11Ce01111: has already beekgiven you, in a prior letter, and shb framing the fifty-tour aggregated Northern men and negroes there remain some twenty five, or one-fourth of the whole convention, who are either of loosen or probable South ern birth, As to the obscurity of these men ono fact alone will suffice Tho secre tary of State, the clerk of the House, and Shekel:tit of the State Central commit tee, !tea who from the necessity of the ser i eral ositions, ha•o the politics of the Stale at I eir fingers' ends are not able be twee them to locate more than ,nine 0111 of the umber The rest are as utterly tin_ 100 n as so many Entinimaus. All that can lie en is that they are Southern nice, ico el whether really Alabamians or int port it from lirowulow's domains for the no mishit) does not appear One man in ten. 1 , in hhe efore, is the ratio of citizenship this /tux rising State convention As to the tel ego es of Northern birth there to hardly a preenso of testdetice A 'wale" was made up here, it fleeing, and sent out to the negroes who dutifully voted ns they were told, "electing'• in this manner men who knew as Milo of their constituencies 119 short constituents knew about them Of course in the registration proceeding these ;lemmas and in the elections them selves the same free and easy, but et prely effectual, mode of treatment prevailed - Looking on their duties in the facetious light that irradiates ibis whole matter, registrar. did pretty much as they pleased, one in particular staling as, rather a good thing, that he 'just slapped down" two hundred mare votes than were registered. Another equally funny man polled his freedmen twice,and n third party, •oopyiet, ' gives a heartrending account of the number of times he must have recorded John Jones and Napoleon Bonapart The beauty of this republication, like the text womb would lit any sermon and the sermon that filled any text, was that there, out of the abundance of Bonaparte., was a name for every negro as there was always a negro forthcoming for every name. "Whatite yodr name?" would query the registrarie the euffragy. "Bony Williams, ash." Down on the list would go the official eye. No such name there. "What was your roaster's name ?" ' old mere name Jones—Jack Junes, salt " "Then yqur nano is Jones, isn't it ? Jack Jones ? Of course it is. Item you ore You soledfnly swear, etc ," and so the little game Went on As subsidiary to its successful , opera tion it ho elated that Alabama was gerry mandered after the fashion of all the other Southern State., but the step was hardly necessary. Bonaparte anti -- the Jonmea could have beep safely checked against for treble the draft made The whith man has "so Mauna in Alabama" is a common and true saying Under the existing regime be has no rights the,black man is bound to respect, and as a consequence of the state of affairs some leading citizens have moved off, and others are putting their houses in order, transfix:win/ sill available means North, and ready to move at the first sign of trouble between:the races flow' exten sively this is being done there are several bankers in New York can amply testify Speclid C"r N V. World MEASURING DISTANCE BY SOUND A bell rung under theJwater returns a lone no dielinol as if rung iu the atr Stop one ear with the finger and prole the other to the end of o long stick or piece of dead wood ; and if a watch be held at the other end of the wood, ticking will be heard, whatever tow:the length of the: each or wood T,e a poker on the middle of a strip of flannel two or three feet long, and press year thumbs or fingers into your ears while you swing the poker , againat as iro fender, and you will hear a sound like that of a hoary thumb hell These experiments prove that water wood and flannel are good conductors of sound, for the sound of the bell, womb nail the fender, pass throuo,h the water and along the deal and flannel to the ear. It must be observed, that a body in the ita . of sounding is in o elate of vibration, which It communicates to the surrounding air—the undulations of the sound effect the ear, and excite in us the 8611/10 of sound. Sound of all kinds, it is asoerlained travels at the rate of fifteen miles in a minute ; the softest whisper tra•els an fast as the most tremendous thunder. Theeknowledge of this fact has been applied to the measure ment of distances Suppose a ship In distress tires • gun,the light of which is seen on shore, or by soother sestet twenty seconds before the report to heard, It to known to be ►t ► die t/woe of twenty times 1,142 feet, or little more than four and a half mile.. Agala, if we see a .Ivid flesh of lightning and in two seconds hear a tremendous clap of thunder, we know that the thunder cloud is not more than 760 yards from the place where we are, and we should instantly re tire from an exposed situation —Exchange. Tae 1:110S0 BUREAU —During the year ending kept. Ist., as iodioated by the an nual report of Gen Iluward, of the Freed men's bureau, there were tuued'll,oBB ra tion. per day During the name period transportation WWI furnished to 778 re. • goes and 16831 freedmen, to enable them to reach places where they could provide for themselves. Testehers and agents bare also been transported. The number of refugees treated by the medical drpartmeot was 8,853, of which 191 died ; and of freedman, 185.296, of whom 4,1140 died. The number of physioises employed by the Bureau ws4 178. The ge cost of medicines and attesdenoe was $278 per patient—e total of $B9B, 620.77. The amount of bacon for niched wes 860,400 pounds, and of earn 6,809,820 pounds. The total number of persons speolally relieved woe 261,372. There are 2,207 sehools and 2.442 teacher., 699 of whom are eolored, There are 1110,- 786 scholars. The expenditures of the Bu reau for the year ending July tot were $B,- 886,800, and for eleven motalts ending Au gust 81st $8,597,397 The prinelpie items of expenditure are the following • For schools and school buildings, $553 016 ; subsislanse stored, 'Deluding special relief wider the sot of last Harsh, $1,460,326 transpertatios,s227,766 ; 'alerts. of agents, clerks, &o, 4621,420: medicaldepartment, $881,000; quarters, ftsel, /to., $185,100 ; clothing, $116,688. Nd. 46 , THE LONG AGb =I There'. a beautiful Isle in the tong Ago, All flooded 'rub golden light, And a riser that glebes by thawing. shore Whose wirier. are wondrous bright' And it bark that mores with snowy made, And the musio of silver uar, That carries us hark to the shining gains Of that beautiful Past once more' - • Aqd every beast bolds some sweet dream Of a beautiful long ago I There were bright hopes nursed in thnt Long Age, Fair flowers ha. c perished there. And the walls of the beautiful pant are bung With pictures bright and fair: And oh' there is room for our feet to tread The path of there by-gone years There are Joys that bloom in hlemory's grid, And a fount for our bitter tears— And that fount is filTil with the liallo'cd tears We wept in that long ago! There are . happy dreams the heart bulda dear Sweet dreaine of the day. of yore' And snored tears of the perished Joys That will return no more; And this. in the tang:eil webeel life Wo weere our ensiles end tears, And cling to the holy Ineovines That hang round departed years'' Ab' drop the silken eurtnin now' Of the beautiful Long Ago Shut out the light of filo. •embed year., Clime the door of the Past again, And hush the yearning thoughta that rime To pie the 11011.11 pain. Ah ' roll the heavy atone agaimit That sami, lire—the heart ! Why should thee, buried forme again To life and beauty Maid' The future may hold some dream se bright As those of bung A .0' THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER —llea Wade says Mrs Lupo.lo's rtatewent that Mr, Lzneoln left her little or nothinis a d —d het. —Theo Government ha. completed a treaty of amity and commerce with the Dommicau ltepablic. —We are committed to the doctrine ofum- Yotael suffrage, and T.lOOO is a Republican who would desert it now So stip, Ben Wale —Chicago threatens to open a nearer route than New York to the I.o2—through Virginia to the James River. The &ate Teneoheee Aseneiai ion of Tenneese holding tension. at NaAhvdle, propose.; to Iloilo the white and aggro schools. —A book entitled !bier.. of the War, le soon to be issued. Won!ler who it is that now prop.es to write • Meter, of the Duller &roils? —.Forney'. Caroaiete say. • We bare car ried Maesarbneette high and dry. Yes, and a pretty dry haul it was—Radical Inn on 101106: ty 40,01.0! -7,A Ow out West rho bad been tereraly (biked * AltrOlyitation of the heart, liege he ound tnetant relief by thee application of an .ther palpitating h.,rt to the pert ended. —Thriessittis of negro. In Virginia who desired to vole the Conservative ticket ware compelled to vote the Radical ticket for fear of =ME ---The Alabama darkiet are determined to pay no taxes—bavina agreed to abolish the pal tax. The disfranchised "rebate' must pay all the taxes for loaffers to rpm --An insurance agent in Georgia, urging a gentleman to anew, hie life, said Take a pol. icy for $lO,OOO, and if you die next week the widow'. heart will Nog lor Joy. —Jobe Iliekmae, Radical member of the Legislature, hays it is a chums that thewort "white" Is In oar Coastitatioa. Ikts. If i eases' John *414 fool man at home. —Speaking of the partiality of bronchitis for the clerical profession, the Providence ✓onr nal says It rarely attack. a clergyman whose .alary is lees than $2,000, or whose congrega lion is atot wealthy. —A Indy wbo hiss a great horror of tobacco got into the New Horan cam, the other diy, and inquired of a male neighbor: Do yon dhow tobacco, air f No ma'am, r don't was the reply, butt can get you a chew if you want one. —The Mongrels of Maryland have presen ted Chase a copy of hie late deolaioe about ne gro apprentices, printed 01 satin. It "ionid have been printed on a punt of • nevi , * shin. That Would bare sonde • charm of the thing. —Where is Jobe Brown's soul marching sow lance the •bections, which hare upset all his priciples and works t Where old Ben. Wed* and Thad. Stevens will be marching before• lung, we fear ----The Mongrel loaders, it is Bail boast that they are not hurt amok by the late •leetiona.— Then the reason must be, because the reseals have been killed so dead, that they hare lost oensati on. —The A Isisam• bleak and tau organ con. region has determined to make the Cone.!tn. Hop more proscriptive than the reconstruction bills, so test niggters will be certain to get all the offices. —lt heiald that debts', the impeacher, (Seaford Conover'. oonferee) Intends to have a bill passed by the Rump to prevent the Ohio Legielatnn frou districting the State in the Interest of Democracy. —A man being wakened by the captain o f boat with the announcement that he must not occopyhis berth with his boots on, very consid crated} rispliad the begs won't hart 'eta, I pleas; they an, an old pair. Let 'eta-rip ! tr)al of Mr. Darla Is age • • •• • • to next May. Then It will be again postpoited. The villiaas who hare wrought ali p the ruin that has fallen upon our country dare nut try Mr. Davis In a court of law. There it would be found that May are the real culprits. —Forney dev otee a column le the Phila delphia Pres. to its., subjecAef free baths. Die whole party In the late election. received a pret ty/re. bath of about the coldeet water that was liver Poured upon the bead. of refractory ram. —Judge . 111tunliford, of Now York, and Judge Bond, of Richmond, Imre both decided at property acquired or inherited after sa ap. cation has been Sled in bankruptcy Is not lia ble fo:r the debts of the party so applying. —ln Ranges the Democracy gain two =gm ben of the Senate and twelve members of the Hoe e. Negro suffrage is defeated by about 7,600, and female suffrage by abut 8,6U0. Dls. franothing disloyal persons Is carried by about 600, _See star Sumoar, smarting under the pub 117 siren to his domestic affairs, has easmel led all Ms lecture engagements. He has ex premed Unmet, as unable to'brase the mortify ing curiosity whilst' his appearannt would 62. / cite. ! • .4 4 A, —Tank of It, whits men of a North the South is full of gyro Myriam OCMINIUM, which perpetually thruten the I of white men, women and children ! What should be the punishment of the white heed moundrels, who . , hare the pat up negroes to murder their own ram 7 The Sunday boron elmilon la Ilsameinuetts all the mongrel mutate., b the that. praysd for the gnaw of snare prohitatioa. Behold the regalia of them prayen 1.. prohibition lima badlyebeston, sad the Democrats gained 48,111111 rote. In the State. if the Wools had rood two Bandar. Inagua,' of one, we should probably ham, swept the DUAL For the WATC.MIAS Pt)Bub OPINION. There le nothing in the world thot has ever struck cook terror to she beset as pub lic opinion Go where we will, we cannot escape its dreadful presence. It eirifeiell us like the very air whieh we Inhaland will not depart frowns no matter bow much we defeat its presttem When we isoneider ourairea beyond its powerful grasp,' and think that now we cannot be disturber] by Its molesting band, then, like a serpent, it lurks in ourititiniesr pattmand seeks some thing to give to the world, that the public might spend its opinion. It cannot be de nied that public opinion often zoos benefi cently and frequently exerts a good InfluT . nen but how moot. oftener is it the cause frustrate hopenof blighted expeetstione, od of wrecked lives I flo long as the ••wheel of fortune" turns in our favor, and the sun of joy and prosperity shines bright ly upon us, we pommel the approving smile and lauding voice of the publice; but let our wealth and worldly bowies be taken from us, let us fora moment glide bat en inch from ,hat footing which people have placed for us, and then our eummer friends Wid viols!: like birds before the winter storms. The voice of the public will then summon all its strength to hhrl us down from our standard into misery and degrade:. lion How many who ■re new outcasts of society, whose hands are stained with e, ,night have 'saved iv its highest rinks, and shone as glittering orbs among the great and learned, bad not public opue ion once pointed. at them. the finger of scorn, and laugh., I to assail them,. until they they were finally driven down to de spair and ruin The desire to be well thought of by otheri, is le of the most deep seated and ineradicable that ever burned within the human heart The mur derer of the scaffold,'whotte hands are red with the blood of bls victim, whose soul he timed with all the ♦lees wiitch disgrace our common nature, is still anxious 'bill the public may recognise some redeeming troits—some ernes among the thousand of crimes which Ahoy behold It behooves as all to consider well ere we express our °plutons pubholy, and to have • kind re gard for the feslingwor those around. CINTIII il ALL CLEANING UPI Farmer—Well now, Jane, what's the use ? You know we must support the government and it's our duty to do It. Wajr—l know It. John, but last look hero I The h tis over. We have, sown, gathered, thrashed and cleaned up, and thie tittle bng 61 , 111 all there is cf ours ! We bed n good orop. I help,/ to (deco up—i shovelled in, you turned and little Billy raked away. And we linen put the orop In bags. The 1.14 one is for t ereve England sod bee tend, then a Leg wiles for the. hoods, to support B9ndAolders Then there le one big.ooe for the nigger, and one so big we °sal stand it up for Taxes. And we hare cleauld up, and this little sack II all there le left for tte—all there Is of ours 1 Farmer—Nell ! I know, but you know we muet eopport the government which pro- =EN WO—prawns vhf Oh John, how you 'elk Is It protecting ua to make us sup port liondholders, Rigger', New England 'barks, army speculators and all the crowd who eat up our earning In taxes I is this he way a yearrnment protects its supporters! We raise the grain, and hard whrk it is. We have us bonds, nor money to buy them. If we had—if we bad stolen from the Aar ernment end invested In bonds tiadh.q.cte. publicans exempt from taxation, ptheirpoor folks would have had to work to pay us in- terest It's pretty bad, John, when th little sack holds all there is of oars, and the heft of the crop goes to MI them big bags' there. You know, SsMt, in Democratic daze, Ibis little beg held all we had to sell firr taxes, and we bad all the bik bags full to sell to fix up the house with. Farmer—But, Jpet, we have had war, and had to whip the rebels Iftre—Yee, we had a war and our two boys were killed ; We supported and pro tected the goyim:moot. Mr. Bondholder didatiot lo to Strir —sew the government protects him. pilklegro did not fight mor e On one side thae'os the other—now the government protean, him. ?he nabobs of New England, who made the West do the fighting. to whip our beet ?Pleads, did not spill a drop of blood, but they had army contracts, got rich, bribed Congress to tax Zit is the We•t to benefit. them, and now they are protected, while you and I, John, who lost our big boys Ia the war, must support th• government and the drones, I.. , Farmer—Well, well, we bad to do It—you ouldn't let a Democrat rule would you 1 Efe—Yes I would. They never robbed ea to benefit Degree., bondholders, Freed- Alen's bureau agents, lan oolleatore and boddy makers. Democracy earn for se-- Republicanism dares only for Degree. and arielocrats I tell you, John, it makes me feel bad at Janet, All our work is for others. We can't fix the house, the barn, the shed or the fence. I can't get a new dress this winter as you promised I could. You need shoes, and &vest, and • new coat! add some new shirts, and lout of things, and John when this little sack holds all there is of ours and we put the rest of the crop in theirs, it makes me feel dketoureked. I work hard—harder then yen wanted me to once, John, and herder than you thought I would when you some to ask me to marry you But I worked willingly. I did work to have • home. I get up. John, before you do—l wotk long after you are in bed, too, for there In so much to do. I mesd,and patch, and darn, and save all I ono, bust, John, we are growing poorer and poorer, end older and older, and ore esd more tired each day. When the government called for mem, one boys were given freely. We did not give them to destoy but to save the goveritmerat which protected ink him, aid this gall the thank. we fee it. And hue is littla Billy, he has no education yet, sad don't know that he ever will have say. *bees is something wrong—and it you lotted nut, John, as well tut I love yen, I know poi would not be willineto work allyonr for bondholders and ninety, while/our Vt., Is often tired end hungry, sick and heart pick. It may be all, right John, but if I was • man I would rote for Dements and for that Democracy which peeked' avers, as hutch se then isd Astral ,t Fwwww--well, - Jain, I billows Lt thtt to havix• Gimp, and WI pas pt a aim. paw Wit is devated.topwrsephs sad whirs Mks I will nod iws If ewe It • Int er way this ifiso tad If as. try it: -Tie Alebotas al. sod tut osolvea. don Woods to moot ,loota atotooptioro to be voted for shoultolo us tb. .arif ••Coostillosion." oiossehlo iosi• a bump to got itoli z iori PeNia plead*. **got } roo 9 6 4 3 . 4 ft 4444 " . ao*l4* of I iioioiNikdoo 11•11014 to wait orodiao otootod wok* a is *o****llol. o t tac i 14 .117 4 ; S : _fligito &2 1, 1 5:0 °.4 strootloo, cna oloVooold •to 1*• tio vim* Woe% • ' •
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