NEW YORK CITY Its Piddle Alorals—Polineal Cnr Corr opt City Governors—Scene - Streeis— Brick Pomeroy's Dc Decline— Ilidry •llitl's Den— SerMoll, Cie. EDITOR INI.LEPONTIS WATCHAIAN A Play fif four years in the in h f .a given me something of a knowledge of the moral conilit mode of life profaning in this've oral' 'Anierioan allies. To sal a m disgusted, is to barely co' i adequate impression of the cr.' wretchedness, tLo beartlessu He nod worldliness, which go to took .up the Morale of a city of over one au lion in. habitants, and which boasts I' be (be moving power, the very heart, 'if i s e ni .. tirient—e•ery throb of whose W i all-titreet , life-blood is felt with electrie,ifapnlity throughout the western world. With a view of giving multi of the readers of this Warcutitc as h ive never lived in New York, a correct idea of the 000dition of I'Ulll.lll 110111 LO exiAting here, 1 shall report 1-etuAl ob serrationi only, hoping to giw i t them in such manner ae to Interest all realere To assert that public moral} are at a low ebb in the metropolis iv 110 say po more than any well-informedrentler in aware of Ilut, how low, It i , itopo.,,i tile even for the preen to pro erly GI,II - to them 1' It hue been si.eried by 'intilligLut writer; thoxfully one third of the, pro. ple of New York city live by the proc. tico of de,;eption% and rmicstlitleq firm the other two third+ and the eomory abroad, in all milliner of form In Cut, any and every dodge,.o tietelly looney can be gained, no tiw ter what it 4 ot .1 , 11 character, to a legtlunalt 1111. in trade action, justified by the tone of public morale, nod applauded to the de,,reo of succevi wlitall follow*. its ',lrwin , . Or promeculion ilrnCr, the 1.1,—, .1 I h i . Country, I rum the St. L twe..loe i• to I lie ILI° 1 ir,ti le, 3,i well fille I vi; IA 11., it tract vertisemeni 11, them by the TllUllilleballl ,4 1\ Lid 11, II 1 , 11 l II r the Metropolog Jv ry 1 ie here legillinaliZed by 11111111 e ~1,1111011, or winked at by the exectintr I got Ira ians ..r thu law, aryl 101 ;hal pi is licery 11;ive In .to ry to r u.d. aid 11001 011 to ROOlOl .111 n 1,000. i, End trlittntrtlern sea, of LW/S.ll WN, 1.111: challvogel and tinabr..ll,l It could Hot br othvrvvi,t• 11.•,11 a city d..peralely over et p istng no wel: to do claw+, utit Hitter 1,11 inewte'y wenlihy or w re' 010.11) UOOl tiriny• Isomrin n 1.114! fitsl.ly gr d ,Vfli and beclrar, ni it excepiton nuJ not tho rule 111,,t1 nit irthle le , eun 11 Ole nt-ron of New 1..1;. tr Fr )111. Li if furntilt the ,thi .rver to 111 0 ,11101 l Ih^ t IMO I o,li (.1", I r MI; g 311 i 11, 11 1 • 1 0 I r .11/ .11 tniiiiing Sttfilily mil Ihr Ii• g: rub anti prv..P4 ot',vr nn Ivl.ry Illi . flt &t ill, I ',1;11.11, pr , ,ill. crimo ftre rompvtlioor lu^••iiu•i .0: Ihr elrr,•lm of Ni•k orl. street walker etij.ly 4..1111 no far a+ public ta,,1,11 , 4 are c nu.iL.P about t , ic tom,. re.p.,u ever, el ky h nee iI tr,l r“r 1.. 11, , tu t that ritnre lhall 1141‘ t t WI are kilcn 10-t to eh trile, fit t 1 tclll',4 Uli , ra 111' 1 1 . 1 h I La, nut Tit enc , ,itrage , l I, I \I tropolllan et,j.,y a 4...r1,1111 of •1 4 to court \ largo proi...r.ion nlot with on tiro Itlvroy, ry anti ot IP•r fmnoin I borough tati•, hkro• proNltlulrr from Few Elig I mo , i. wh were (Jump %oil: tug gala ut lII , ' 1:111.$ lit 1 ,, r, ll and r tv itt.re wli Ire 41 , 1,at Er,alway at night, it t o.olf 11111.1,MC and well V..111It! he numpectetl of their prn••i icev, W " ( ' they not In the habit of walking up to and Liking the mins of unmaitpeciing gentlemen from the rural titutrigto. and engsging in conversation. Tliet , e Women, although mostly quite youthful, are shrewd judges of huuutu naturo•, nod can readily distinguish ti stranger from n genuine New 1 orler Om: lareami by which they Recertain the ditlrrenee ,4 the gait of the pedestrian, for our:hero in the world do the people mono no fast as in New York, find he who loiters by the way or duce nut keep pace will -Use hurrying throng, in sure to be approach ed by some nynipA d pp••r .dhi the Bowery, the social evil is more thoroughly disgusting thou ellev.here in Now York--too disgusting to by com mented neon bore; hilt 1118 110 111/e9lll - for a wife in company with IVer lin:thaw' even, tote grossly It t errteit tko lewif'Svotien who monapolisollist slice!, and who dog the steps or have tioniething to say to all whom they meet 5 !1-,,719l y.trY (levant:4Elo , ll . - vfOut..if the oftry of New York iv morally a !meriting cauldron ot ct cue, largely by thieves, and bail worileil. and kid-gloved polizemon, It 1. , politically not much hotter It is only nominal/I/ Democratic, being con e t i . t r r slleil the in terest of the eat of Tainntany Hall by n..tritunvirite, j composed .ot the 4)4 ohamberlain, the _city , and a_ c uy • who have gratpeti power sullicient to permanently hold power.. Theie itt nothing. I)emeetaite - l - ), o> , 1 vll tal 11, float . . "/, 7/ 7, a /7 _ I n dition 071 die , nt rop ,lis ritctun.l on ILILIi ickodent , that I vey nn no nod VOL. 13. BELLEFONTE, PA.: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11,1868. connected with the city government of Now York. It is controlled by' three bad men, who possese neither education, honesty, or Democracy It is Into the lap of this miserable and most despica ble power that =I has thrown the New York Dully Demo crat, having disappointed the many friends who welbotned him here a few months ago In order to gratify this triumvirate of public tobbers, be has seltmed to conduct the Democrat, a cerpa of miserable black Ityellean writers and dead heats, with ono "Jo. Howard, Jr," as managing editor This man Ilea aril was never susteoted of being a Derau• cret, and the Irate , with whom ho ban surrounded himself, blow hot and cold for their masters, as demanded, for a ntipulatieu, which is paid really by the corrupt goveruors in City Hall So grey ions hail become the conduct of this ''Jo Howard, Jr " that the earnest and hunci.t supporters of hirick Pomeroy in ihiv etiy, such wheel horses of iiie Urmocraay nv J udge Trowbridge, of lirdoklytt long twice withdrew their support from it, and the Demomat bay e , orn , lueolly declined from 22.,000i1ai1y vi le . 0 and going down (tat It ee ' l , ../ , Iby Pomeroy s oldest owl true,t wet here ni hit. office, that the //, MoCrVi will Crane to be publArti by or I, fore the fi r•t of January, it nil in my of th...fn are loving confidence in him hene . t . y no i I=l :tear cittinot be better illuzirateil ntorially than to ItliprlMC lIC public that 1141‘ry Utllb Inattatirablo den of Tice is still continued under ilte nose of wealthy and t tabionable Broadway, with all tie vlgo! ~1" yetr4 ngo It 14, liorti•ver, lit ori;j , place of itit kind to thta etiy, where a stranger can enter wuh any degree of safety, for it IR ritllollll that, untwtthatantlinK the orgies nightly anaeteil there, ingeri are untnole.te.l, and It figures le, at It Eolith , ' than any otlygr aril in thr city lIC priiprietor, it to ny..Prt , •ll, o• • I " sr ws, 1,114 1, 11/ 41,111.1 to U. bru mionu thve:lin,.; I,u .A I ' 43llloll'olle 111 1 ( 1 11110, Wll. l ll 110 .1. 1 1 rlll •1f b. , 111.1171'1 by -;a0,1.1), mid tilt im e:y l•come ;rem nn r IL to wire %%her,. t.r.l al 1114! 11 , 1t4 . 111111eiltr I eVelilllri in 4if.llk Iltl.l 11:111C`, 41/4,/ g I .41 .Wll, .I , IA 11. .11.1511, tu n Irlurree •.0 oil h . ) 0114 aln re.t than in Potler.xfirld C. 411. , o ne afier!, to :111 ‘l4lttlrt by VI all r.tree• au I Trirtiry virtu ell Here wa h : Vi.. r,l o.•ti:Py ./p)11 Nil`h i~i,er, tine Loi I. ol Noe/ NV , ,f and the temple ..1 religion Tr icr , iy, nr ) , ,111' r.ler4 are prob tb , y all aware, lapin ty racing 'Wail t orero, upon whacb, all dressed out 1.1 i col 1, I 10 , 0114 10 POO I" a - pro ring /y , as mach JIM to b iy, am tame Ile gliriag proximity to the great uanildeim 1 it, ntnu,d4 the h.! holder of a 14,11 ionktlild, h'urtle's woumn, lareding hoe charms at Om do it lit a grog shop It im a lesson, too, of the folly of the times. NO longer are the people worshiping tiod in spirit and t o truth, and am their fithere and !outliers worshiped. in pain "meeting houses " Those are out of dale, audio their stead, rise coatly palaceo na beartlehe and formal within, as call and rash iooalile without, KN 14 . 1( EItIIOCK tli • Vaudobism 1‘ hen Congress comes down to bust toss, wo shall expect to read of a getter l out appropriation to aid the geocral ee- I of Vatulooism throughtut Hie country. Doing ono of the °Hurt and most interestiiig ceremonies of the native African "man and bro her." it ISiiiinently proper for it free nigger Con- I gress to encourage its adoption and use by the party of unparittlelid phy. It would.bc d pioper, also, to poor an aNetiduient to the Constitution re j quiring the Southern Status to build o:iiirebes and temples for those'whu de sire to remote,' its beautiful tuysterie and devil of incantation ceremonies. Why not elect one of this Vaud.° priests chaplain to (It:ingress, with a salary of say $lO.OOO per annum? Three are mere 9tiggesi iuno, but such as wi I no doubt carry weight with them to 0, , reasoning abltities trf ilhose exalted beings who loonirte 'ha .inajorpy in the Congress of the I. tilted hits tt 5. I r' "STATIS =GUTS AND PEIDEE.A.L UNION." Bellefonte Democratic Watchman Illy P. GRAY RIEEK. Editorial Grape-Shot —ft is noticeable that &lithe ot, ugly, bony, pug-nosed, tloa-bitten, whito•liv ered,sallow-akinnedlitton agitators Lae now astraddle the now Woman's !tights hobby, gal-loping along as ear agely tie when riding the everlasting nigger At the Boston benery and pout try exposition, the old, skin dried, anti slavery brigade occupied reserved seats, and ilia pullets, spring chickens and setting hens cackled with henTY delight! —lowa and Minnesota now constitute the Botany Bay of the other States, where , ionhiles.tly drift all the worthless, abifile.—+,-vagaboutl niggers who want to “vote," and it is proper to whist!, the niggers to lake up their wretched rosi deuce there, , ince their white-xkinned inferiors base invited them by over whelming majorities In accepting the invitation, however, it is a palpable con dn.censton on the part of tho nigger' -The lit arty loving E.rinimaux, we ere it nro packing up their snow and burgy Meal skin., with a view of le.v mg, 8 , ward's ,even million tee brrit or ~tasks, aloe° it line fallen into handy of Jacobin pirates It is a be toilful commentary on the condition of the country, when Esquimau,: leave 4t in dia.gu.t ' Shades of liberty' Thero is something of a contrast hetwer❑ the patriolion of Democratic Ind IL. publican office holders Mier a Ling' and ttrcinons pubitc teiv lee, Dcw- II: le and other Democratio Senators re ttre poorer than when they entered, while non men am narlan, of lowa, paupers a few yearn ago, are grown to be million 1111' 4, an r .o,llllgo in many f'crofir airs' —(inch IN 11 , 117 8%111 to be worth half omitlion dollars Abutit seven or right yrtirs Ile didn't hare money enough to pay for the mean whisky ho swallowed to the tow tittg ,, ,erirs of titileop. It pays 1,0 , 1 t r I - 1.1:1 for Ititcr,: to di as lot 1, to a tool for thieve than oet zsr,e Erofitless pawnbroker age at tit Lunn, as junior member of the liivi of —l:Jggs S Grant:" Shades of the what a rise W:111 this' —The cc:ocean,' of puckered wad i.eitiLled 4occedue33, which Ora lie din to: ~cdl lrag,rlyee on the Idaduo uir, war prepoled for oily sort. of weather, or v I[ll in tgl.t cove up Ullerl ill' ftrnore het rlllllll , l and CLAILIIICILILIti`d mar d:1:01 a, re fill eeate.l, a barrieldo acres tnc 1: ill W ttl 111 lido of their umbrelia, nn r ecolling eptelt d ire iut.ulc It woe, In leed, IL LILOLI MOW' .1 I ll* 11.5,1111,1.11413 of fetnalco men and ,00lio fool de., crowing heroiond net ton; t oe with a toler.Lble cid of pert pule..., all preguaut wttb upceoh 3,1 I.+Bllo' -V.! i) y /41:3111 . 1 . CS i h it Rev erly John , on went to Europe a rueak, hut tArcri op a lung-earidyaelsiiiii. Won der it it 14 neceviary tor Lie keeper'. to ro a him to &stet, to tte a weight to hie !1 , 1, as did. Bayard Tay 'or with lte•er ,l) in the inarkertourte of obi Cairo in Egypt " Ile may be a brilyiog asi sure enough but wit Llwaym him to lioestiok:a particular nd lianiphoo I ! inc De.iloetats are desperately de lighttltd in at . eutning to holteve that Ili rani 1113itses Simpson Grant to really a l),tmoer,o, ant assert that the Itepubit cans have pit another Andy Johnson on their hands Pooh' U Andy was mi• nutely entail and failed, what would this smaller man do' Johnson was a small or politiciap iu Tenno•tiee— would this nincompoop, who is not even a erti3e roads etatesumn, do as well? I . Nol pray to God that ho will faithfully Nerve, his otastehs, and much joy with huh' ---A ItaJtcel niggor, full blood, by the name of Nlauartl, has contested the seat of a I.4llot:rat. of Louisiana, since de ormied, t,,4 tI An unexplred 4 reYm ltt the Ittntrp. n rheinlity, otherwiso called Ft:pn grtrelt,4ith the likdlib:oodqf rfgciring it "Things'ifirorkin." V 11, why not , —the end must come; and rim know no more Appropriate place for ; ,,•, 411 nigger, or other wild beast, than wi rte the meanest creatures are gent. Week. 'Jiggers will do as well in Congress, an though All of one Color, 1:' nigstr ctn afford to testi eio with the white nigger' ' greit dappo irth• hmow h ug.frmu South Itrna, • hi". been and gone and done it"—he's got married to Miss Alla Wade—waded into matrimony, without weighing the oonse (pewee in Is variety of ways,,atid will now doubtlessly wade into the dregs of Radiceliam with an army of Wades, be hind, before and all around him, with a view of out-fferoding Herod, hia father in-law. !jilt bride is said to ho a blush tng dam-sell of about thirty-fire sum mers—a sort of 'Maternal" Radical Vioe- Presidentess How long 'before she will present her iiii;band with little told farts is her business, and not ours! —Tho white-slave drivers of Lowell, Maas , make their poor girl-Mayo; labor thirteen hours per day in the mills, for wages barely sufficient to keep soul and body t3gether. learly Now England ships abroad cargoes of want-rnade pros- litutes' from her slave mills And the phil.tnthroptsto of the I:4st are t,hoelted ith the "horrors" of African slavery, and continue to reach forth their golden arms in amelioration of suffering In for eign lands, and the further off, the mom readily reached' • —llunnicut, the white•livered, pale faced nigger of Richmond, has quarreled with his friends of the ereetimen'a Ltu rend rone”rning it, hn now says: is, id its heat estate, a curie, the most powerful ettotne of political trickery that has been known in the world since God m do Adam" Thal is true; but nod niqo ule• .I.4nrn ra.cnn. when hehern ar rn • Ilunnieut' --We have found an old acquaintance le is the editor of iho Tightasville Long :al! —the chap of whom it is ,isserted his Arkausaw mothee-in-law once exclaimed, in great anguish: "0 lord)! - who'd a thunk it! There's our Sal's gone and run off with a poor, miserable critter of a thing they call an editor, and dihgraced hrr poor mammy '" After perusing a Irate defence of the CI A It. humbug in the editor's eolurna., tee should judge the old lady 2new the fellow well at the IME —The owners of the elephant Jeff Itavia ar,• rt.ll botherr—l wrh KLsT,to d II 111111 e {II :'ll ;I. haL.l.i ; : rre, and polittclane :tvor hisdutcontrge, others • morn earnest hope to have hurl' tried before a packed Hugger and scala wag jury, (Illatleted, and hung uu their favor to •'t our apple tree '• They Crazy fellows that Jen l), sus actually did Inure at Rich t:eat In deleat Southern independence Clan tinj i i at W118111t1g,(016 ' luytcad :row.ng hit, the Itumpers ought to liter hint with the thatui.l of tour vat p,d t'om' ' --When the Ilindoos of Indit are ag grftr. , l r.t those Mh o wrong them, 'hey •ti thein,clvei with it dagger or cup of pci4ln, and lake seats at the doors of their cornice, refu , ing to ILlve until their grievanc , a ore righted coo toot t termed d'iurna, but hovrover fool ish the 4 euitoto of that simple people, it exhibits 11 spirit of resistUnce to tyr anny and epprinsion fir in advance of anythiug thowit in the past eight years by the boastful people of the Amends Des!, 010; for dhurna loan I.l4res to defy the power which Reek+ to bind his limbs whsle robbing hiti pockets' Remarkable Intelligenco of Two Wild Boasts A Yankee traveler tells Low he went to work to rig up a machine which would wake him up at a rurtnietel where there unreliable "help," in time for him to dross and be ready for the early train. It seems filar he built op a heavy fahl Y ie frotn'a smell foundation, ea follows: lie opened his watch, laid it on the table, poised his pen-kutife over it, so that the point of the half-opened hanging blade would come in contact with the hour hand when it Caine around to the "five spot." Then be fastened a airing to the i knife, and front the knife to his cane which hung nearly on a balance at the edge of th, table. From biz cane he attaohotha airing to his hoots, which were fiet on a balance over the head of Lis bed; and then he retirea. At the tight heur to the morning, the hour hand of hit watoh touched the blade of the knife, which tell on to and eapsized hie cane, the cane fell to the floor, end dragged the hoots oil their balance, right smack taro the sleeper's snoot, and woke hun up, of course! pat was good for one wild beast, if true. here is the way another wild beast accomplished a similar end: 'rho writer of thi4, "once upon b time h.id the t'atrrtn+nntinlnC H n 4.4.bbarding a' the (,morn• reeip Hou-te r n% Cou'ilcil NO. 19. Bluffs, lowa, for a uonsideration per week a trifle less than one third the value of the whole institution; and desiring on one occasion to be up in time to get an early breakfast, he conceived the glorious idca of inventing a machine something between a perpetual motion and a steam press which Brick i'omeroy had once sold us at three times itrvalue; hence it was a success. Before giving so the unfeeling readers of the IVatchman the medic, operandi of constructing the simple yet beautiful contrivance alluded I to, it is proper tc say, by way of intre doclioo, that the Pacific (louse at Coun cil Bluffs is, in one respect at least, a real "live" hotel—live with bedbugs! awe were Unable to ar pear in our place for hash and slope at the matte meal, we should not be unfeelingly suspected of ' having been "above" it front any wick edness of heart, or from spite at our stomach. This4ict is, after each night's tussle with a thousand or two of those plebotomiate and "more votern" for the Itepublimiy. party, we were too weak to get up, much lees to stand,. euch rßllo food as fried liver and alapjacke , In the mornings, we were usually greatly reduced In volume, and enjoyed a (cei ling of pious resignaticn, as though we should like to go "up the spout" and be la sweet little angel with leather wings. But we stood this till bedbug geese verenceceased Co be a joke, and we resol ved to wake up or die. Awl now for the ingenious contrivance which did alkshat was expected of it. Before venturing into our room, we secured two tumlts, it coil of rope, a navy revolver, six copies of n political tract - entitled tttitiind up for Jinks!" a deck of cards, a copy of the "Saint's Rest," a btishel of 'beaten bricks, an accordeon, and a lithogrilibio impression of the child's prayer, CUM -111/0101I1g "Now I lay me d to sleep hope (he' hugs from me will keep," which tatter we whistled by Cute. We then fastened one end of the rope to the bed post, taking a turn in it about the waist, parsing tt three tunes around our neck, the other end was baited with a piece of 11.1 f eo liver, well peppered and sab. , d, and n u t out of the wintlew, we then stepped on tip too to the window, turned a somersault out et it, so us catch an the sill of the window below by our 'teeth and toe nails; then in and through the ladies' parlor, where we a , ,ionisheil a green cough: courting, then we passed back to the pastry cook's, ate four pies (likes, and took a (urn about her. We then imme'dtately returned to our ' by way of a Sue, over the roof, down a ladder, and to "plageMf begin ning We then unrobed our Adonis-like form, dressy up the brooms to our elm gent habilitnents, pants, coat and bat, I r a the effigy on a balatiet , on tht4dge of the table, at it_Qeltue of 15 degrees, spread out the '•Stand up" tract and opened the —Saint's (test' book on the table, laid-the accordeon beside it, and the deck of earths opposite This MeC.l7l- mods.u „ qa for our companion.' being made perfect% Plnd agreeable, we proceeded to the bed, toot off the three-ounce leother bed and stuffed it in the key bole to stop draft, leaned the broken chair against a splinter; took the revolver in our teeth, a bowie knife grasped firmly by the hi t t toe of each foot, and both e'er hands full of bricks The light out, we then cautiously approached our bed, made a feint of getting in it; but we etirhi't: we slid under it and all was still. Morning came —aviolent jerk' The w h o l e contrivance was a success. Dog, below, had swallowed the liver, tried to cough it up, got sick, started home mad, pulled the tope, and our head nearly off. We awoke: but what woe Ahat which tilled our soul with wonder? Before us see sawing on the edge of the table, was the broom effigy, inhabited by about two thousand D. B.'s, enjoying themselves in evety eonoievable way—some playing whist, others the accordeott; while the more pious were either reading the "Saint's Rest," the "Oland up for J.'. tract, or were singing the doxology with great fervor, 'nod "things was workin." The whole, as the realer has plainly seen, was a perfect suocess. The bed bugs, m i rstakitig the broom effigy for "the undersigned." bad been busy all night with it, and 'we were left strength enough to answer the call of the dog porter with the liver and rope in his belly, and to eat a lite breakfegt in a Rye western hotel. Patent arettred. rerCopics of the IV AITIINIAN are sent this week to leading, working Democrats throughout the country, whose kiwi offi ces in itb hehulf are iovoked. Matters in which the Ladies take No Interest • -----Levi: —The otrong,st , po‘sion of the human heart, is the one moot lightly regarded and most stoutly denied. flow meny thousands of boingv fire v.ictimv of the power of love! Thu current of how. ninny' h - Ye 3 have been changed for bet ter or for worse by_thnt ouhilo power, whiob the whole world iretends to scoff at, to deny, find to 'Wien's! Th,e sballowueso, superficiality, andv4ertoe rimy of the age cannot be better illustra ted, than by its claim to a sort of stoical indifference on the subject of love' Speak of a youtig gentleman as being probably in love with a certain lady, and he replies with some coarse and un feeling remark, the effeett of which is to impress his hearer with the idea of his contempt for a sentiment which may even then be shaping the coarse of his future life. Ile iv eshnined, indeed. of being even suspected of enjoying that dearest feeling of the human heart. As soon would he be charged with the com mission of a crime, as to be even sus pected of loving, This be learns from earliest youth to regard as a weakness, to make light of it, ivn4 to study to be a stoic. Why all to stupidity? Why deny the laws of teats-re, and mock the purest and holiest sentiment which God gave to tuAnkindi Why lower the esti mate of that Heaven, from the Waives and joy!' escaped from whose pearly gates. mankind gels its first realizaSion in loving and being loved Why should a pure woman blush for the loving of a worthy and — true man.' Why speak lightly and fri•Olously to het...compan ions of the love or loving, of others' In °tom words, why he anhamed to be a natural woman or a natural man Home, Sonar 11,0111.--How few o f those blest with good and happy homes are 'botnpetent to appreciate the trials and sufferings of the homeless in anderei on earth's barren and cheerless high way . .. He who has no home, who in joys not the fragrance Cf the heart's nominee flowers of the lissrilr; who in alone, without wife, or child, or home, is indeed a stranger in a ntr Luse land ; esti yet how ninny such wandereee roam about over the earth, Peck lug, but never [hid ing, (hal rent and sweet peaco fur whiah the soul cries aloud in ws endows' Pante, the author of that beautiful song, "Horne, Sweet Home," wits one such No home's happy dot r opened its wel CuUu mutation itt rtolito_the sad spi'vit which 1 fined for its rent. and its losing, and its care Ile was a homeless WA derer to the world, nod dial ulumntely in a hirange land, unknown and unca:vd for . lntl his tool still cries aloud kr • home, .west, home," and thousands of heart. feel the }eluting nod answer as sad spirit, by ilitUitlVe responses. whore. ever his sweet song is sung --sofiutil.Sflll %1.1 a great filthy ,f opinion on the tub yet of youililul or early mairingen, but we th nl. thin ddferenee is ntirit ut to a want of sufficient knowledge of physiology, toe eh (reeler of the nut , , climatic inutiences, and other waiters 11114a1 IVIIICII Iho subject edits. Ne do not t helieee that in the Untied Staten early ui a riages erre beet., particularly in the `l‘rort hem, Eastern, or 1S intern St des , while in trophiotl countries, there e ut lie no surer morns) code kuvolsed than that of early or youthful marria ge. In all cold climate., It is well known than «I unkind develop leas rapidly but enjoy greater longevi y thou in vol teal climate+, where all nature is luxuriant, of rapid developaient, and where !denote to confined to en briefer period than el-ewhere s .l. girl of six teen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, or even twelve yi'arn of age, is a ripe woonan in the (topics In lhr States, at, sixteen a young lilies ono only contemplating marline; wide at twelve, they are hut children, ut the tropics they are 1110111 m with one or mare children In the States, thin woman of thirty is in the prime of life ;to the tropics see past middle age, or regarded an well advan cing. Vet the climatic rule is not Ilan lute, !or there are, no doubt, hundreds of girls fully developed In,..puy land,. competent to make good laiothe?s at fif teen, but they are rare eases compared• with population, and may ofteneet be found to the, Southern portion of the Union. But the question of early near-, riages is not confined to this country, but bus elicited maiximeut and critical examination is taigliad anti elsewhere, In Scotland marriages of this kind. are unusually ram, although is that happy kingdom minors are not required to obtaiVo consent of their guardians befur slipping on the matrimonial noose. The census returns of I,B6lshow that iu Bolton 45 husbands and 175 wives were married at the age et 15 and under Bromley 51 husband' and 147 wives of the lame prestigious ago Stockport, as a !coal jsertnal wrote, "as settled its proud pre enliaenee" by eon tribtiling Ns the census returns 60 bus toandh and l 7 wives who wire united Infore their fifteentlx birt day had passed. We holiest, howeve that it is best for women not to take the respon sibility of becoming mothers until eigh teen and past, and experience proves that the healthiest and happiest mothers and grandruntbera are those wile, as a general thiag, married long past twenty, 'rut we do sot believe the girls will ap prove of tbittodviee. r 41 1 .110 li
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