• IPor tb•WArcniirAihr. PARTING AND MEETING—THE BAT •_ ME OF FRIENDS. sr Away sirs. We parted in boyliood, we parted in tun, On the spot where we oftentimes wandered . ' and played ; • And we rowed that the vista of life's hidden 7011111, Should - oot 'rely. um of frienihblii piked, we Arayed. I left him in boyhood, I I him in team _Audiammed "41 where the win- ter sun sailed ; And while topped on surges of hopes and of feers, That friendship of childhood grew strong —never failed. Time swept 'round hie eyelas,-land wave after wave Broke In ',Musk, and Vod, 00 B-entity'a 'hors ; And these were the yeeri : Whleh my early youth gave ; They had kone,—save in memory; I know them n 9 more. While I neared on the ees-beach;' or mat In the Aside, ' The form of my friend through my vision would 'tray, And when sleeping, at night, nu my pillow was laid, In my dream a I oft walked, by hie side, far an ay Many years had now,paased,and our /Athlone had died, And their sons wore the mantles that fell from their forme,— Drew the sword■ that had hong, long in peace. brtheir side ; And brother 'gainsi brother now sprung up in arms. Cong I watched, with deep sorrel, the bale El re ascend, While faggot on faggot, now crackled and roared, Long I earnestly prayed that our trouble would end, tiro thb blood front the vein, of one kin• Bred was poured. But the battle cloud darkened—the signal flee flashed, And the tread of armed foemen dieturbed oar repose, that we &imbed, Like • fierce thunderbolt, on the briut of our foes 'Twsui duty that called—not the malice of fate, . . The patriot to strike for his Ohlldreo ;ad laws ; Though to perish, or live, be the Gat of We, We preferred, than he slaver, rather die in the emote. battle•waa fought, and a battle woe won ; And the •,crave" waved in triumph aloft o'er the dead Where, In cold grasp of death, mingled (nth er and eon, And brother 'gainat brother in the i.trug gla had bled. I wandered that night o'er the field of the slain While the pale moon and stare, looking down, teemed to weep, And the groans rose and fell, es the last ramp of pain, Choked the dying. sidoto in theirjpeneeful last sleep Near tree on the bunks of G murmuring IMMI Was a face upward turned, thrice ma pale as the ray ; And remembered of yore, like the loved of • dream, Whom, though doubting, we would pass by the way Then I paused, and my mind wandered back o'er (be put, And in childhood I stood with my friend once again,- 1 remembered—the tears down my cheeks trickled fast— 'Twits my friend ; and how sad was our meeting as man. We parted In childhqod, we parted in team Ind we vowed that our friendship should ever remain , In manhood we that, where We vquadron OIL 'Lod blood answers blood on the Li:noon mop t plain ..I s 1:=MI=:1 And e'er mince that night, as I gate on the sky, When the pale moon Igad stare Boat along overhead, 1 again Rem to stand, near the stream stealing by, .41one with ntyfriend, and atone fetid! the dead. WHAT SICIII.O fiLIYTHAQA CODT.—The Radicals admit that the oost.of voting the Degrees of the South will 1115 t be less than seventy live millions of dollars for the present year. Ler the white working men of the North think of that. livery dollar of it le wrong from their to 11,and they will have to pay it by the ewoat of their brows. Just think of it. $76,000. WO a year lie keep ten States impover ished and subject to semi-barbarian ne gro rule! Flow long is this state of things loin:online ? The workingmen of the,oeentry have the remedy in _their owe heads, if they will but use the ballet-box In thel way that common sense points out.—Orentsbury Repubiteals k Democrat I Whit tdant is it that is death on rats and mios—Cat-nap VOL. 13 THE FRIENDLY SPRITE [COSTINUND PROM LAST AUK] Bradbury tbot ght. of the second Mrs. II --, up stairs; and fancied he saw IS looybole. . "I was fifty-three, I believe, and she brought me thirly-live flatland pounds," '"..Bradbury I" and the bright eyes of the sylphide were fixed on him with a threatening glanoe—"Bradbnry, you're p lotting! When you married your first rife, Kates mother,you were three and-twenty ; a light-hearted lad like that portrait I and she was a good lit tle girl, with,a,bright loving face for her only dowry. And you, sir, what was your income then ?" "Seven' dollars a week." ea id Brad bury, penitently. "Not prixoely, Mr. Bradbury, but you made it enougydidn't you." "Ab, that. we did,"_ said Bradbary, "and were as happy as the day is long." "Your're condemning yourself, yen see." said the Sprite. young couple are older than you and your wife were then, and have is - gooi - difit aierei keeplhouse upon : and you know your self they love each other dearly," "Love a fiddle-stick," said Bradbury, "all boy-and-girl nonsense." "You're quite above that sort of thing murself, sir, I suppose 1" "I should rather think 1 was," said Bradbury, ilttn ••Very good," . said the lady, "very Rood.—Now. do you think you would know your own hand-writing?" And ehe looked searchingly at Mr. Bradbury, with her head on one side, and a misehievous twinkle in ber eyes, Mean Old Riley barrister who was gettiiig a witness into a fix, and intends to he down upon him tremendously in a min ute "Perhaps you will be kind enough to take any one of that bundle of letters, and tell me what you think of it." Bradbury did as was ordered. Tho Bret paper be laid his hand upon bad been enclosed in the envelope from which the sprite had emerged. It was yellow with age and sadly frayed at the edges lle opend it, and recognized itas a "val entine.' sent in years long ■go to his dead wife, in the happy days of their oourtsbip, A strange sensation fluttered at Brad bury's heart, and a mist seemed to come before his eyes, as he read the long for gotten lines. They were his own, and exhibited faults in plenty, both in meter and phratelogy, but they briesthed a warmth and life to which his heart bad long been a stranger. And Bradbury thought of one to whom-4hose lines, rough and irregular as they were, had been the perfection of poetry; who had read over and over again with unfailing pleasure,till,like the frayed edges of the paper they were written upon, the gen tle life had' worn away, and he had been left alOne.—Atone! deprived of her whose sweet presence had cherished all loving thoughts and tender sympathies — 2 whe by her gentle Influence had pre vented the osree of businees and the toilsome struggle for monies from effao ing all noble aspirations and generous sympalthies, from his Oise warm heart And Bradbury rememityyred now, when she had gone, that the good Influence had slowly faded away, attl, had left him wordy and avortoloue with the last beet relic of his former self, his lave for her oltild,deganaratlng_inta itAtain.atohi Lion to see her welt endowed with the gold whieb he had made his god, and then came a hitter thought. of his second marriag•---t marriage made for money only, imei of which cool indifference was the must pieasnt phase. And with a sharp pain at his hearffthiribury coifed his face with hie bands. "You ao not 000 ff at lore, BOW," said the Sprite. 'The tears which steal through your fingers ebow that there is some life in your frbsen heart. Weep oh, Benjamin Bradbury 1 Every one of tboso tears le worth a thousand of your golden coins. Learn this—, you knew it enoe; learn It again—and cherish the truth Iti your heart fore♦er; that every man who walks this earth is, by the bond of common humanity, linked to every other. Our Master, when He crested man, ordained that none should live for himself alone. Each one is link ed-by oords invisible, to friends, to kins folk, to humadity at large; and along these, electric wires oar sweetest Otis unto come. If man in his blindness, snap the oprds, those deayest pleasures shall come to Mingo more. The Various relatidne and deistillenoles of humanity are to each one as the boughs of the pa- '~ ~~ -- ~ ~ ~ -mama summit Al` BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY JAN. 17, 1868. rest tree. They derive their . ength and sap from him, but they render as Much mitbey receive. While hiebranches wavisroutid him each leaf shal catch a breath of the cool breeze, a ray of the golden sunshine, or a drop of the re freshing rain: and every genial it:Mu ffler: thus received shall said a thrill of pleasure to his heart. But' let him lop the branches which derived their life from him, and be shall be like fife trunk blasted by lightning. The sun May shine, and the rain may fall, but he is senertiva to their sweet influence" ,no longer, be shall be cold and de a l at heart forever. Benjamin Bradbury, for the lent halter your life such have you been. You have tried to shake off' all loving sympathies ; and you have well nigh suocreded. And what has Jour life been , slave you once known, in all your latter life,a thrill of pleasure equal to that produced in the old days by the gift of a penny in a real loving charity 1 Rave you ever had the happtnee of re ceiving a poor man's blessing! Have you, ever had the pleasure of seeing, in You owti Rome " oirol"e' or titiooeg 'those you call your friends, faces gladden or eyes grow brighter) at your presence 1 You know that you have not, You knot that in your heart o! hearty you would be glad, at this moment, to exchange half of your wealth for one week of the old light-hearted feeling the pleasant in• ward warmth which you had in thous boyish days Is it not so!" ''lt is! indeed it is!" "If such 4e really you feeling, the realization of your wish is in your own power. You cannot be young again in body, but you can be young.,at hear!, and regain much,very much, of the feel• loge of these old happy day's ; but the act must be your own, and you may make a beginning now. Would you con demn your child to a loveless life, and sell her for gold, for an existence such as your second union has been?" Heaven forbid I" -L am sure you Would not. Now think over this young man's proposal in a gen erous spirit You know full well that though it is not what the slang of the world calls a •brill li iant match,' it has every chance of being ahappy one But we will try It by a severe test, If your child's mother were living what would her counsel :le; think you?" think—l believe she would it's in favor of it." "And you know whether she would have approved lightly. Frabk Wilson is faithful, loving, honest. What would you have more' his fortune is amall,but it 'Jill) , rests with you to make it larger: , "Egad ! and so I will," said Bradbury brightening up "I'll give the couple five hundred a year and be shall bare a share in my business, it he likes " -That's right, and like a good fellow. Bradbury I was sure you'd consent. And now how do you feel?" "Filly per cent Jollier already !"said' Bradbury ••I feel like a young man again, and quite delighted at the idea of making my dear little Kitty happy. My dear lady. you have no ides bow this matter has weighed on my mind all day I'm really excessively obliged to you for settling it so nicely " "To be sure your are,".eaijl the visi "And now don't you want to know to whom you are indebted,yon ungrato NI man." Irmo "Tun my honor, I puite forgot alai we weren't old friends ." said Bradbury , "But I should Itke to knewu unoouttnen- “This I. my password,” said the lady giving a smart patient - IWe rap on the ta ble whit her wand. ••Now,, perhaps, you can guess." "Never was good at guessing," said Bradbury. "Give it up." - "Well," sold the lady, "I belong to the household of Banta Claus, and while he puts good things in the children's stocking, I put good thoughts into the hearts of thu old people. My Bole is Banta Clara. Mind you do net forget what 1 have told you." And she van lilted out or eight without even saying "good night." So Frank and Kate were married, and livid happy ever &Bemis* as might naturally have- been wipeoted. Old Bradbury was immensely imprbved, but be hasn't finished setting his desk to rights yet. very Christmas Ere he chute himself up , in his room,aftie everybody else abk4it the house has gone to bed, and reit s over , tbat peobet of old lettembut he has 'darer bad another visit from Santa Clara. Prdbably her time is pretty freely occupied ; for I rather Ism she has her hands full in tryieg to taken the many 'flinty hearts in this world. • II TZIDES.A.X. ITNI011." Our Negro Exemplars The island of Ban Domingo is formed like a heavy horse-shoe with a very thick back. The back is the tertitor.T of what Is called the Republic of Dom inica; the rest of the Wand rejoices to call itself the „Republic of Hayti• This land and the 'climate and productions are the finest in the world. It bits been very productive; but it is so no longer. The populations are negroes, mulattoes and whites, principally, vie believe of French and Spanish descent. Both ceo- tions of the island are it, ir constant state of misgovernment and revolution. The so-oallecl ofßoers,civil and military, ire habitually robbers and marauders, and are doing some good by killing one another. It is a war of revolution and of races, which seems to be growing by what it feeds on. Some time ago, as our readers know, Geffrard (mulatto) was so-called President of Hayti, but was savagely expelled and went on • French steamer to Europe. Ile is back again at Jamacia waiting on event. .Sal.naveL,rietrol,s,rl9,got the upierhan!, is facing a revolutionary party at bole, and is at war with the Dominicans. Cabral, a mongrel of some sort, was President of Dominica, at the last issue of our paper, and he bad put his patrio tic foot down against selling Mr. Sew ard the fine bay of Simians for three millions. Ile issued his proclamation to that effect. But it appears that ail, this did not save him for the last cable news from pavans is that Baez . (mula tto), who has been trying to oust Cab ral, has succeeded. Mr. Seward has en offer gf the bay of Santana for $BOOO,OOO **year. How this war Is iragiag be. tween Hayti and San Domingo, we are not advised, but we presume that it is satisfactory to 1101:126 albs parties, We had better not, however, iuvext in any real estate, nor yet in land covered with water or visited by earthquakes until we have some, assurance of title. It is rather a pity that Sumner, Stevens and Butler could not point to the Edeo-like sondltioirerf Ban Domingo to settle the vexed question of negro suffrage. We nod ittieneral Cary favors a black Minister of the United States to that quarter, but until he makqs his report we will wait for the fasts. ORDERED TO TUN FRONT.—Bisbop Ames, at the reunion of the Indiana Conference, told this touching story • A general in the late war told me not long singe, that among the troops that were under his command wan a youth hardly fifteen years of age, who was taken riotently sick, and the bin , s be longing to the company amypathised with him—hie mother was a poor widow living in southern Mind/a—they saw the little fellow growing worse and worse, so they made up a puree, And gent for his mother to.oome and see her soldier boy die. She came Ile was fast sinking. The general sympathised with him and daited hint frequently. He came in one morning—the mother was cluing up by her son's bedside and einging: "Jeans can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are The general listened till she liad fin ished, and then came forward, took him by the hand, and said, "How are you this morning, John V Said the dying boy, •: s iot vcry well, tdetieral—/ am ordered 'o (he front!" and to the front he want. Angelo came down to conduct(' t,fna to the rearms' or glory When GO4 Sn'teaily to iirderna to the front, I tryst we will be like the soldier boy, rea d y to march a , a me. Inent's Warning. WANTIN(I 01A1PANY.--Although , old Thaddeus Stevens • scems to possess a tenacity of life about equal to that of a (*ugh and venerable snapping turtle,— yet it is painfully vviderit that he can• not last much longer. The savage and extreme policy which he continues to urge upon his party clearly indicates that he 16as become indifferent to the fate of the Radios:le In this world, and is genious to cross the Styx with the bulk of his forties! The dominions of Plato are fortunately ample enedirh for the ecohmmodation of the whole arty, and the climate is everything which the admirers of the manners and customs of Equatoral Africa could desire. It in true that neither Vigil nor Dante make any mention of there being gorrillaa in that fevered region, but if the great majori ty •of the delegates elected to the "Con ventions" in the Southern States can be prevailed upon . to aecsimpaniThad. ace body guard, there will be nu lack of thosi loiereating aninnals.=Richemed Enquires. I 7 - [ Il< 1 C (k • % / / ,' • /* A - - --2 k,-9C - ) To-night I drown, siihetlove, of you, The sweetest dream that mortals telt— A dream of when our love wainew, 01 hours bewitched by beauty's spell. In twilight's Andel alt me down, To think o'er all my life ban been, And, gazing out upon the town, Bed thoughts of you come floating in Thoughts of the time when you and I Were friend., whom death •lone could mitt Before we leorned how quickly By The hopes must cherished by thef heart. Once more I feel your soft, soft cheek P d close against my w ill log face, While loving armP, about my neck, Are twined in fond and sweet embrace. And then your lips, which angel. oft Have hoped to leave their Heaben to kiss Steal up to mine, in pressures soft, And fill my starving heart with bliss. As in the days when all your eharm■ Were to my heart so fondly pressed, Again I ope my eager arms, And het, /m to my loving breast. 0. dearest dream of happie^ days, Sometimes return to bless the hours, 11Vb The cloud A e a d 11111241011 ranee 'oven For we are feeble, and, perchance, The light of love from other days, May in our desert'n wide expanse Implant the germ of heaven?, praise But stem realities awake My soul from thin Impassioned spell, And life's great burden up I take, Bidding the holy Past farewelll Clinton Demow rat THIS THAT AND THE OTHER —The Courts of New York city granted 53 dirontes last year and those of Chicago 209.. —Ten deaths to one birth is the ratio among the happy free negroes of Florida. The papers announce tbe'grat Vying Intel Lipner' that brandy forty yean old is made in New 1 ork from Jamaica rum. —A child hais been murdered in Colum bla county., New York, to procure an mini dent insurance of $5lOO. --The county in which Henry Clay and Patrick Henry were born, is represented in the Convention by a negro. , Wooden lege cost the tioveniment last year $35,208,50. Wooden iheads cost the governwent much more than/that. —The estimatee for War Department expenses for the outning year are thirty mil lion dollars in exoess of last year. --Flx.president Buchanan is said to be very feeble at his home near Lancaster Pa., and is not expected to live over the winter. —The Mongrel party struck boldly out for negro suffrage, but found only it: twin Teter, negro suffering. —Charles Dickens' weakness Is fond• nets for Jewelry—chains, rings, studs., but tons, /lc., of gold and gems. —4 Radical print nay' that Wayne McVeigh is in the field for United Rates , Senator. Hli■ travel that "veigh" will he all In "wayne." —lt was authored in Atlanta, the othe day, that Satrap Meade had, in obedience to the mandate of the mongrels, removed GOY. of tleorgia. --There was • heavy. drifting snow storm at Nashville, Tenn., on the 30th. T i he etorm was also experlensa et Portrers Munroe. --.--A lady In Florida, Whoa few the ago, had over a thoenand sheep, has had weary one of tbem 'Arden by the "men and brothers" who have become the ruling dais. ----The Washington Star has a atartliag article herded, "look out for a liar, - The editor of that paper need not look out, we should think, to find such a thing. Old Thad pays : "The Republican party' mat he Freaerved." Well, the Democratic party w ill send it far enough! up 4alt It irer to preserve it, if salt will do IL 4 —Au exchange says: " - The Radicals are beginiong to split hairs already." We should like to know how sash a set of nig gers can split hairs when they have only wool. —The Pacific cotton pill at Lawrence, Massachusetts, has notified a reduction of 15 per cent. in wages alter the 15th inst., and other factories have resolved to reduce to the canto elliervt. --z—Co-operation among workingmen for working purfrote. would be a very' good thing If Radical "reconstruction" had not destroyed ewery branoh of manufacturing busineos. A--A saw fashion has Dprung min Mis souri• A mewspaper of that State gives no. tines of marriages in adv,anee. They are in the amid fans erl4b the words "will be mar ried" intro/ludas the annonneement. 4 artirrwintseator, it k reportiathas been pentawd le Ave years imprisonment for attemptinglirisheat the English Event. want. I contemporary wonders srhother such a nontemee was ever imposed in this es unky. NO. 3 REMEMB RANCE by 3. W. pORIY An Eye to Business. The Washington correspondent of the New,York Herald has never forgotten the advice if Mr. Weller, and always keeps "an eye on business." In one of his letest dispatches be draw, a gloomy picture of the utter ruin of the South, which has been brouglit about by Con greesional legislation far the re-admis.. sion of these States into the ITWIon- on the basis of negro supremacy, and after mentioning the low price of real *tote in the South, resulting from the Marva lion of southern families, he plumps • own an enchanting view to the youths of l'ankeedom who may desire to obtain larger "Sobthern 'plantations" than the "six by three" which many of their comrades in The late war now hold in un disturbed possession. The prospect loses none of Its enohantment by reason of the fact that the stat ration' of Southern white women and children has been the meser of producing it. Nor, for that matter, in the "war of races" which be thinks must precede "reconstruotion," and prosperity, does he seem to care that "the poor negro will be the greeter eat ferer." Now mind that, so that " the young men" may turn an honest penay "Here - ,," says he, "is a fine chance for young men and industrious emigrants of small eapitakto invest and secure farms. Splendid g lantations that about eight years ago were from $2O to $6O per sore lan now be gun:dinned for as many cents. Even a war of races cannot destroy these farms. The conflict will be abort, the 'poor negro will be the greater sufferer, and the States will certainly be recon structed and prosperity return before two years. In such investments there is no risk, for landed property is certain to increase in value on the admission of the States, even on a negro basis."— Richmond Enquirer. COUILAti• ABOVIC PRAllll.—The ILO wan" sentinel who fearlessly brayed the horrors pr a terrible death rather' than dd rite post ef one or the gatelio-ra Pompeii—when, as a contemporaneous historian tells us, "day was turned ha ul night, and light into darkness, and an inexhaustible quantity of duet and ashes poured &len, deluging land, sea and air, and burying two entire oities —exhibited a courage in no way sup- erior to that with which Andrew John son confronts the enemies of the Union and the conspirators against tie suprem• icy of the white rem. The interpidity of this patriot is more impressive in his last message than usual, because he et-- poses the crimes of the Radicals against the lin ion, the Constitution and the Caucasian race, with the calm, dispas sionate dignity of a judge summing up against a criminal. The partisan warmth, fiery denunciation, and fie4e—inweetive with which he has sometimes hurled de fiance at the conspirators against the peace and prosperity of the nation, it this message are replaced by irresisti ble and masterly reasoning. The strength and crushing force of his miss terly argument against negro suffrage is not martini by a single word which his bitterest enemies can pronounce un worthy of the dignity of his high office CAPTORS OF A GIFT JIWURT EITAB- Lsemmarr.—On Monday the police of New York made a raid on what was etyl ed a "gift Jewelry' , store. The Knees, says they arrested a man named Velem tine, together with all the bogus jewel ry, about fifty dollars in greenbacke,and • quant t ity of envelopes prepared with cards, especially arranged for oheating The envelopes containing pertain num ben are out on the edges 110 as to supply a clue to the "rope in" and his compan ion When the number is drawn out the thumb is placed on the tail of a six. and makes the number 100. then the "rope in" bets a certain amount that. that same number is not 100, but 106 The green one jumps at the bait, ind posts the mosey. He is allowed to take the envelope himself, and to, his great disappointment cads it to be , 106.__ R 'Armond Ethingrer. SoLomos's !Soma —A gentleman in fair sad regular standing in one of the fashionable city churches, entered one of the leading music shops some time. since, and stated his wittos in gist wise ; "flare you Solomon', Song? want to get a copy." "No! no," said thlinatesman, not being able to remem ber any lithographed sheet with that title; ..no. I'm afraid not." "Ah '" paid the amateur, drawing on his kid , "perhaps it isn't out yet. Our rootn• spoke of it last Sundi s ay as a production of great genius and beauty, and I want my daughter to learn if." The shop mac, with what gravity he could com mand, regretted that he bad no copies in yet; and the yistomer left just in season not to hen the load lough at tlj desk behind themirtio, When, after three Jaye polling at the late so-called elect! nt hi Georgia, it was ascertained that- enough votes were not polled to authorize a °elven. tion, and the Registrar Generatisassaao ed the foot to Satrap Pope that august despot replied—"Reopon t he poile and to ahead. We must have me anyhow." The polls were reopened amd kept open two days longer, during , which .t.lotie,.it is stared, as-many as were needed to those who,, had prersously voted were brought up to the polls and *ousted.-- This secondary edeotion" authorised the present ceavention slid elected the deletatei who compose It. Thiele what self-styled-Republicans •tmiloostrue. No."
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