Bed i ; ocradc hatch>
BY P.'t idiffit't JVIIEEK. 1
Grape Shot.
PATHS'S tilt—The Meeting' and hand.
shaking , . bet Ween Thor Bens* and - A.
Joumsom, die late "retention." "Ilion
bless you, Ben." "Come to my arms,
Amer." "And their , - eyes twinkled,"
says a wltilees, 'the Proteideet t a two with
'old rye,' probably, and Baa'a ono be.
cause he lias but one!
Twinkle, {winkle, crooked eye,
Ilpin Rennts MAO so high:
? u m orposteh end Ain of rye,
tv,tchbor modl very shy,
roWZRFUL CONDINATION.—The Lott
ieville Cottrier-Journar is about to gob
ble up the Democrat of Louisville,
when It wilr probably be the Lottiiii
vile Courier-Journ4iDetnorrat. As
the Courier wad puirlieliett on wheels
during the war, the proper title of the
new organ would b'e':—Louisville, Bow
liuggreen, Nashville, Memphis, Grena•
de, daeltmon, etc., eta., Courier-Journal-
Denioerat. Where's the Sentinel-on
!hi Hol•der now?
CA:a-STEEL — The people have now
in the Black Republican shop an ex
cellent article of camt.steel. The rev*
part of the article in the difference be
tween bnnd•lordx and the tampered peo
ple, nail the steal part of it, in Chit
which every Shoddy and "roil" thief
dinpinyn in hie house in the matter of
pram y, clothes, jewels, etc., "cern-
Tiered" 'front Sontherar'n 11011M3
hence, caste-itefd.
"li4KITY AND BERI:TY."—LORD PACK
001%g-fired tII hearts yr him soldiery
at New. Orleans with the, promits , of
"boty 7111(1 tieility. "- rin nenty mole
up of the MINI' mnU•rial—Yuakee to
-ieq, New England thiel en and Item.
Englishmen, and 06 ent ores --
micveeded in later year.. under the
Star. and Stripes 1111(1 'WTI YR and
11ANK?., in reveling in WI,At I'Aekl - 9-
11All faded O . ) i,ecure for hi. %% VA
bond,.
ST I 11, )0411 STRIVE% IN '6l-%. --The
"stars mud stripes" bunting during the
late oar was the befit symbol of the
Ciiii:4C „r a Irntiken'rleeyoti.on 11 1101
I• 1111111 hat(' been until. Tinc stars here
visionary, being such its:iven through
red Ile- , and the inflitAre of mean
Northern whisky ; while \ this stripes
111'11' for the slat CM of k/W(4, , , as ‘1 ell to
to repre.ent, not Oil I t : siren eil priori
ph.”, but tile 111311) •(."I,)re( crelatirun
who hors on, for spollg, a ner that
Willi disgraced by itwitigrels, mai ghouls,
rind their parasite.% . \
141,10 1., iTelli.R —The Jim% ADAMS
re,-iirrectionimoi of featerilig
and h It enatellierm about the trraNe tit
'aired Lihertv are, like army and po
tato uorrni4 and iniwinged gram,-hop
beginning to, drag their Anil} car
raei. 011 hi Washington. II tits
I lin rieali eagle ever had reason to
hold it. 4 II t 11.4. while flying over th.tt
eit3. , ttreli it will lint e more Ica-on
lOW It it - calld takis' an eagto with n
stn,ng efoitittelt Itii•li could Il) of er
W 11,0111441141 is Itil one tribe, of thieve',
zoing and another tribe of pukes
going i in, without holding its nose.
l a futTrit SrocK.—An ambitiouti
io , er pat)s aJlwere im ported from Ken
topky to edit the WATCHMAN. Weil,
Ant of that? Were we a jackass, he
"voald be braying loudly to every pas:,
et by that we were his sire a n d that lie
Nun .litimited by _Doitatiek's imported
Ihimpliool (and the shiny who Line
, int.ettle.l bills ngain't Lilo
" I ' ANHANDIA:. AND 1 . 1%.. 11, Y. -lhl•
fillM;iltl "Panhandle route' thrutigh
West Virginia, in no misnomer. It -ts
the handle of the pan over which hu
man beings are "topped" donn Hat me
paneaken. The other day, the "Pan
handle" upset a car-load down aii em•
hanknied. With a recent Ikely ex
iwrietwe ON er that road, wedotibt if the
evoieer even stopped to turn hie (ol
right nide up.
NI.W SICRri SOL lIKTI. —A ries seeret
kielety, eomposed of half a doyen silt
pid fellows, has been started in Loult ,
\ i lly, Ky., one of the meinherii of
*liich informed us last week, that it
originate by Brick Pow KROI . The
conntry has euraed with enough
4.1 this secret raacality,ahe membership
of which are lietteridepared morally
and physically . , to enter a lunatic asy
lam, if not, a mitt ntyjair!
IiETTLIC ACORN'S tiKXAT OAKS
,i 14 " . ."-CAYS.ROSI Is clutrged with hay
,us slaughtered l'rartic and liaaw,
.inil with having borne forward to a
/ I "l>P3' seeding the little acorn SCOTT.
1. ' 1 4, little acorns upon great 'oaks
i-at, well as rice versa.
Hill Columbia I happy 'And.
I f. wt,lo4.l , lk4rn.7l4l.sve'lP tt 7 -1,.1 ... 1_
' This was the buccaneer song that
Atretutsit sung, when helot, his armed
incendiaries' into the town of Colum
bia, south Carolips.
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VOL‘ 14.
AN 081 PRIKST AND AN 'NNW.-
Congress is progressing on the road 'to
"God and morality." MENARD, the
negro Obi priest, and Calm Scums,
the German God-denying Infidel, are
likely to (welly> , prominent seats in it,
Pity JOHN - BROWN, PROBST, TIMEX
STRING JACK, ROBRAT MACAIRIC, Wzaz,
and other eminent members of the
"God and morality" party, tire - end
—what fine Chances they would now
have to get into Congress I
FA V PLY Fiamso.—The
Patriot intirrintei4 that it is a family
failing for the LOTT% to look hark.
Thin 14 a slap at ambitions %ERA Low,
who from n member of the Legislature
finally got to be piaster and folder.
The Patriot might have added, also,
that it is it family failing of the Lor
to be always doing something fur
which they are well "salted down
Coamurriotc UnreAttAti,mt.r.n.--tTlic
Republican press bout that the price
of a tote for Radical Senator IN 114 W lh'd
about the mtreetm of Albany, N. Y., as
the inietioncrr hawks the price of old
furniture under his hammer!
truth ii4eaking out with the life of
liberty I
—A V DREW JOIINM)S, 1,114
he V,11.4 11, ot, t•eleeLeil nn the l)emneratie
mon mee at New York. Ile will rob
;lily gi back Tl'n niNee and 1,(1 . ,, I1
a drliwrucr toy Ili 11RowN Lo%
and play the tato.) with the thigh
bone of lboor,Amordered mother Sett
11r , (ft ,rEt)
MO
NV %Rim sr. 1 . --,lllthe l'i.rtt
tinvitern in the country., vt hi* hope to lie
mappoiriteil to open the'hntik or Detre
eterats stint to step! ihi,intneklittt* newt , -
paper.. Irnur their tnikoriliti- 1
the real hot in . :till-4'4 r Ll Auv, Whi.ri
the inie.t of divine
will I key jn /sins,
l ' amiNa Or). —MI the IIAIIIiII Ife
pahltratis and (lIL t.r toe-htlekerH or
few fantails agi, who :in , in""horrild
d(mla to whether thu . I' . rer , ident I , a.
link 1(114100111 Or n Maid. I hrnnu•rU
-Zi fl , 1 • F. ,, Tl' I .1
PRolloTro
1,11,t
ntl n taetah, I 01 the I,egtolttotir
I , lt- r;t lid (..I.l‘ r
Pacific Railroad Swindles
N.JIV. 1(11.04)11'1111g lilt (lint 11,t+ 11... /I
, 111 , 1 iill , l fa% ora1.1) by rhirtic..,
th.• .•1111,1..‘ ,d the railroad tuon'.lo,
;ad.? ;oil 1:1 it. desert., and tairren
1 1;1.4,4 4,111 CrIII4IV the Piteitle Railroad
it out flint . ' 37ii1 then
that thi. govcriiiiient in bell' , tic.l VI%
:11.1 .1 4 .1r.111.1,11 I,‘ ih , M11:10,1 iiltu have
charre of their hirilding. We lial } e 01.
ten an- , erted that he l'iliOti Pacific
Rail mid WWI 11111011barOUOI pewlu,lh, nod
brought forwatd uhargen of Iraud a Inch
lati,e not and never will be ;minimal,
but ne did not irqstict to hear so soon
front vartien in the interedt,of thew
IVesterti corporations that the Pacific
di% intim of the immaculate Pacific
Railroad wits artually a "man ire p tind
nin oldie Here is whoa a resident con
renpinaltitit of the New York Work/
a rite. from .A,tiatin, Net Win, concern
'lig the manlier of its Luildin'i.; and the
dangers id travelers thereon. It will
nut he long before the whole press of
the country will be lilled with ninalar
artkles, at least that portion of the
press not piabsidirtyl hy the great cor
rupt i% corporation:
in lad. letter I spoke somewhat of the
merits ;if the great Central Pacific Railroad, hot
neglect;
it inent lotting some; of Its demerit% In
the first pinetl the road as thus far finished; for
diataner el over two hundred voiles is 111 com
plete man-trap yqppd swindle The tiA are put,
111.11—teqnportally, I 1111p110,40, and the truek
luLi of er nil alkalino region of country, whirl.
e, en during the dry Beason has hoe very
uneven and rough, and when the wet season
sots in must become not only unsure but the
arena of duly eterldentit. Even during thepast
«swoon 11,1•4 have been lost among the em,ploy
that the public has never heard tell of, and
trellis "off the truck" are of 'dolly occurrence.
Loot week a yoneg man by the namh of Artiell,
war. thrown between the ears and his lags bad
ly .'rushed lie died In some hours after
wards. lire company lisl nu surgeon on
tumid, end the poor boy (lied without any et
tendanee orA(ttentlom from the company lie
was the son of a prominent surgeon now h
eharr of a prominent hospital In the Interior
of Canada There is grestAlsoistisfeetion
among We employee.. and still mote In the
trarafing public, from the manner in whist.
Affairs are now carried on in this great nation
al enterprise, In which the money of the pro- '
le Is being expended by millions. A .1011,W
Is
Pores somewhere, and a change fur the bettor
demanded at ;ewe. The terminus of pareten
ger Inca( will soot; be changed from Argenta
to ?doggie Creek, 100 miles farther east, and
there will then Ist some 300 miles or more of as
dangerous railway travel as any on 111111 eenti•
vent, or newt probably in the world,
If this correspondent had been better
informed, he might have written that
cry foot of the foad from Omaha to
the Pacific coast, including both the
Union Puoific, theCentralPaoitie, and
all the other l'acitic ffailroad Swindles,
presents .langera to the traveler
“STATE Rl4l4Te• AND 41.E.DEK l AL UN1 4 0,N.” ,
IELLEIONPE PA. FRID Y, JANUARY 22, 1869
leing hastardone than a trip through an
Jriali bog on a amnia paper riiiway.
.• But the people have the consolation
of knowing that after it is finished and
paid for with government bonds, taxed
obligation's, land subsidies, and a gen
eral robbery of the people's treasury in
every conceivable may, they can take
up tie rails, regrade the "great high
way,'-' and build the road over again
with another issue of bonds and ;moth!.
er grant of linds from the' public, do-,
main. For all of this the people will
doubtlessly e/eerfully yhe
leeches of the Black Republienn party
—highwaymen, hind pirates, and
thieves--will have another opportani
ty of filling their pockets. ''
There is no doubt t rat these Pa
tithe railroad swindles ar the most au
damns and rinhirrahin ninithiey•
the mo,d gigantic, which have ever been
conceived and carried out. It in s a
lea
non b , the people, that, when they de
ported !MITI the old Democratic tenet
of opposition to iqiternul improvements
by the llovernrnent and States, they
countenanced, if they did not authorize,
a system of Crituds amid peculations .on
the Federal treasury, that buy be sat
isfied only with the titter de4tritetion of
the credit and rehonrcris of fl e GO% ern.
Libel Stitt agalnot P. Gray Meek--And
So-Forth
Hurt QUM ti
5et..11111)1. 4 , "11 1\ 1..)1111ity or 'I tivwitty ucx
B t n, 1)/
1. to Iti far that awful criminal, our
Principal, i a m.‘vcr the charge of
111.,.1. undiluted anti prorNcated
Dielomion Sem nalary. Ile truinl,loth
!
ri . "6l.!cutioll, ny 1110 reativri or
the \VAT , ' HSI rc L itre SAN M`, in msuuueit
;,, do. I.liHt • r'S (Ai' England gentleman
~~~"L~ ~ ci~l ei ••
ul tb ii .un Litt
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tiny, imimittaA toitoe I
i had the means to pure IMMO It Villain
h ,ml sometime Pince, 110 fithl 'ilortioo of it from the
. ..It ',port be tint.," etc• elntun ot the publi4ier, n, that u
boy.) ligrf ' wore 4117P0" 1 " . ter ae.orwong of cutuumtolmiosa?
pro, ,•ot aLmini.t Mr. DIFFit 'We told am-mlts daily of sharper and
1 .4 w,, hi, journul more damp.: burglaries, where the
Ili w i liullt 01 the terrible (7) burglar traits not the coveted booty to
liApeet pre,ented i. oar opponents. other hands.
Mr. I$lbEN • Piweli"l. Irtvti we an' liowoer, we did not intend to refer
.il,er foith. to that matter, but to Het the ()kaolin
(1.4.1 WI( ti (LW M //,mild before the 'Deinocraey IVO It 111114
Mt , F j. 4 11,1 lior.e.it le to Diel,imon earned it. , pm,itiom and to thus expose
inmalai . i. Ile belie under it. , its opposition to tlB.
pre .aatat flla nig, client, It it , n gcu,tl place
tar 1.1 :head girls to he taken in, anal
to "la aria a ihing or two, - anil , forth
rather .are wit uppueed to Dackionon
- We alwity - 4 -
ourageal the tatrenal of the grill.] old
Connecticut batch of Ott t yllower
We don. over a phinpk6 pie. frantack
anir lita4 at tipple fulmar, whittle pine,
"mile while clativg into wooden' lianni.
T rued )idle !tile grating pebble nut
'Ogg.. We a ant (air youth "calibrated."
Lot--we 111%e to see the 'Hindi', anal-no
forth, of our noble 'with expand, and
so-forth—we lone to have pioun persons
teach our ideas - how lat aaihnot,
and-nu lord), and to glow up ,with the
hig atal..inal-,udatrth, lull of
edge, anal co-forth. In fact, we lone to
awe thin visaged Yankee profv.aors fill
their rattling )noes with marrow and
1 their puekereih hides with fat, tor
worth to nimilif import !)
four M !- —now only at member
of the Legislature—Am young -«n
promising--moon to go up the spout t - - -
to al e promoted, like ZellA not
Irmo a legislator to a lackey boy, !tow
OE4, but from the lezislotive
t.) a j uil! -- :trial so-forth.
And then what happy trines There ' ll
IM at Dickinson Seminalari, when the
respected professor get« Will million
damages! Um , malty big ea steno will
glide down his warbling swallower?
How many gotxlicis will spread, their
life-giving jujees through his stringy
veins! flow nice he ' ll feel, 11041 how
happy Mr, K I All of which conies,
if not front being born with it spoon is
one ' s mouth, at least front having a
pew in 0110 . 18 ,And-so-forth.
----The folienriatitigem is very beau
tiful, us are alt. the eontributionn from
the saint' pen, lieretofore published:
NO SUMMER WILL COME FOR-ME
1T:13M3
The flowers lira , dead, s'nd the birds are flown,
And wintry winds in the treetops moan,
And the fields are white aud hare.
I There Is no sign of the conning birth
That will gladden the heart fifibb loneiy earth
Mid soften the heart of the air.
Yet I know that Hiirmiter will come again \
1 With AU of ittr)sivit,lfte the 010:401Pkigi;--
The bird, i4m reads , Mil Lt o
my hopes abet died hr t trittrrriii shots,
' ho resurrection will ever know,
SU Hummer will route for mr.
Moseislion, Pa., January le,
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A P*Pasite of the "Wend" In tha
West.
The Omaha Herald, wibieti ie eonk
ducted by one 1)r. MlLlit. It, Who, is the
nge9t of the New rod( Ora iu
breaks, pays its compliments Wit the
assistant *Moe of- thin papee,. In , a
length:i entitled on
gomeroy,' copying the fbrged , letter
athich was written and published by .
lingattov, and which hale 'all the evi
dences of forgery ou its faun, and palm
lug it otf on his readers se genuine,
thne ceuritenansing and' eneodraging
-forger. We copy 'the following nom•
melds, premising t,hostr the gentleman
reftirred to in the Arta tine (Judge . A.
V.."Ltaixr.a) was formerl) from this
county, and is one .of the leading, sub
stantial men and flemoerats of the
lirdpe - ." . ays - TM , Mrlitir:
a4'Juttgri badmen would eat) him, ham
prWueedeu ugly record on Mr.
tisl Pomeroy, and
ilia immcrrtg protetla Illbletruliet the falling
out of a brace of gehtionico each of whom,
With a few of the gam, Ilk, are of that pattern
of dentor!ate who constantly swear that WMa
but theynnelvem are really, such. It in en In
irtru6ive IHnstratlon to ttirt groat army of
Lannournto wit, hold the faith of prueriple,
and who meek Ito lee:wive with bonnet toupee.,
to beware of thoot men - whet are eternally talk •
tag About their cnra Immaculate democracy,
yapfd
who du out holuw
tt ij .tu l tr!s ' f,l 4u p ' r
canon than all the Jarohinn put
titer.
, fricutia of our "Air at Council Ithilhi
wi not fail to °Lowry., the a ory. impolite term,
which Mr. l'orneroy applleN to 'their Into nolo
me 1,1 two of thmn should mak.,
IsiliM4l it, re,miti ponderous
A)f" wit n "!trick " tiitionm , lino down Into n
'rhla inn rt•ttortion on thane who
aunts by, hot on, and Mood up for thin an t h e
"Moat cxpouuuer" cif Itentocimey lit the neigh
boring. ll)
Thp prim i p,d ingru,6cntin tlit nirove
entnpoaition imi4pite, lint We thank the
Doctor for the candid acknon ledge-
It:tent contained rn thillia4 truiragraph.
The lirruhl also applauds Rot
for Ainartnemx in having published a
portibm of a book which he reared.
We itk th e 11,17114 whether that act
*as cre , iiistlile nue. Mr i'omeaor is
• Mal, Of liVnie mstii,, null lit.,ltil,,e he
Opposite to - the city of Council Bluffs
in shateil cra7y tfrour,e FRIN(2I3
Ta tis's hoiatic town of Omaha, and
in that town 1,4 pUilllslied a large paper
with nn itifiniteTy snitill amount of
the 11ti ald, and its edi
tot is Doctor bi/1.1.F.R. The Doctor
belong, !” that clam or Democratic
t elhurnur Oho near a number four
hitt and number ten boots down at the
heel. Ile bits been trying his hand in
riiimijea.the Ilgmocratic party of No
tiraeka on the New York World plat
torni, and has succeeded in getting it
don ii to it t ery small point. He hid
others to help him in the good work
ti r the Republican party, and the re
•orlt of the List election exhjbited fully
the I)Octor's strategy. . A Democratic
Sutte was handed over to the Republi
can party with a crushing, overwhelm
iir4 majority. 'llia.waa brought about
entirely by the practice of the nervous,
ae....f.an -egg, kid-glove, broadcloth
eort of Democracy of the liver-com
Hlointert ars) dyspeptic World clique.
It horrified these conmervativea tf tit h e
name of it solid Democrat was even
called, and the report, ‘ in October last
diet HENRY CLAY DEAN 1 / 1 1 1 / 4 1.1 been
levied to make a speech at Omaha,
'turned the seamy Doctor upside down,
(and his better end, was up!) Ile got
sick, fainter), corned, and trembled at
intervals, and then wrote : "For , God's
sake, don't rend DEAN over here." It
namnot "for God's mike," really, but
- it wail for the sake of - hifttatt and kis
party of lireriompLetinted conserva
tives and 1,4.rd-worshippers. Dean
hearing of this', refused to go, of course,
and all other good s true, and able Dem;
ocratic eposkeen avoided the liverswain•
plainted and. dyspeptic shores b‘eyond
the Minsuari,, se they would Lave
avoided the satiall-pox—and the *ate
of Nebraska became thoroughly mote
grelized, cud went to Grant and the
Devil. '
biiiva 41001 like the u*sietent rdi•
for or dee Vll4scaratt. Foe * god
rramton. We•theiel, like political net.-
votwwitt,lxii*likrdedging, enfl cowetti
ire, owl beetle a &ti l t ltke the tatyle
of the °earth* iLd. W thitt. it
too far, Welt to vet U0.1,* C 01911144 MAN
TON M gnutaes, with ilitcll poor wgt,parses
foi'pleir pp:plias as Pr. a
brokatiidown politician and thrige-av
'fasted eundirlate.
Omaha don't ainotint to mndli tro
how, and amtbr Will with such 11:paper.;
Council •Bluth, to the place, and is surf
to go ahead 'and make a'great city, for
tli4 good, kind, onnl public spirited'
people who lead its destiny are , not of
the Doctor lilittwe Order. We remem
ber with much pleasure the thousand
svorin.lieseteek4eiends t including Judge
lAnricint, whom "fide, deception, and
perfidy willed we should part with for
a time.K.
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Matters of No Interest to the Ladies
Prami.x.—Wgman is nut
new deservingatml- meriting- stomment
for the rediculomodies of dress 'hair so
much as tholie whifdcered poodles who
hare abused her - in tire past for the
freaks of fashion. The sterner sex come
in very justly for ita share of ridicule
for the stupidity of style of dress.
What can be conceived more unmanly
and ungenteel, theft a Int, of
crooked bones, tied, together w,jth a
little flabby skin at the joints, and ex
posed by tight-legged pants; or three
ounces of brains arid a bushel of hair
covered a ith a hat the size of a tin pic
plate; or a body, shouldem and parts
cot erisi arts at burlesque of at coat
which doesn't rover the parts—a bob
tail affair, with ...11,444 . ps behind too
short even fir tinji—the whole a large
teittpooll reversed, the handle down
and split,' and altogether a spooney
atfturl Thil? is the modern miin as
peen daily, ib the scandal of our. civil
mon "lordship. - 18 it becoming to
have two little three or four-ineh
blinclie4 boh-tail flapping and slap
ping in one's rear, where sensible men
used to have a real imat-skirt hang de
cently? What 1`:111 be more stupid
and laughable than this stupid style,
which essays boldly to transform a
man into a-monkey, and succeeds 'WOW
derltilly well? If the ladies do wear
the pannier and incline it little a ha
GOT' 1 , 11111! for the sake of the grace it
afford, is it necessary 11,r 1111111 to ap
pear at the Smile Lillie like a lightning
rod aids it cabliaite on 1.M 9 Must;we ,
the masculine Milli, 'limb down from
01 4 iliistora dignity to play monkey to
renii 111 Ilit y'a kap/guns) ? Never!—at
least one of the aforesaid mitscullnity
oath lIC Cr But, seriously, when will
people learn to deem it handsomest'
and most itttritellse to ArCas ffeatlyand
genteelly only, and cease being the
toys with which t French fashidn mon
keys play?
a A very sensible woman has written
the following on the modern "gentle-
MD]
The press has never been remise In depre
cating the collies of the female rex, upon oc
melon, in sty 10 of female apparel but It Is a
noticeable fact that the popinjay style of
breech., now In vogue, more ridiculous than
anything the women ever wore', I. unnoticed!
Female beelines,. is much that It can make
charming any extreme fashion, but what
length of fandharlty, pray heaven, can ever
make tolerable, much lean comely, the nether
" P mln g es of a human crane, wound about
with cloth KO tightly as to stop the circula
tion, ti
Tho presort style of pantaloons Is neither
comfortable, comic!), or economical. The
...well" that adopts It run neither stoop nor
sit down without positive danger of an expo
sure 0(1111 0.11011 from ruptures caused by
retudon
When wo see these fashionablos of the male
persuasion In the street, we are wsminded of
the exortatlun of the raw-boned, 111-formed
preacher when. illustrating the wonders of
creation. Raising his long skinny arms high
abgge his head, he exclaimed, "God made this
frame." A rules, in the congregation replied,
"then his tools were mighty dull."
Hero conies a six-foot gallant with a number
ten hoot suit a figure like a pair of tongs.
There Is not enough of his legs to make ti
shadow, and he walks as if each toot was a 5
double has. viol Hy his aid., perhaps, is
another devotee of the Sante style, half his
length, whose make tip reminds one pf •
plumb-pudding perched on the handle - of a
pair of pincher... There they go, the extremes
of folly, and thw very entente of ludicrous
ness. Nothinelfornen ever wore will com
pare In folly, with tight breeches on a bandy
legged human biped
A Lovitw'w
Heine the nu‘hor of the following
little gem--a picture :
Thou barest fisher maiden,
Row thy boat to the hand;
Como here we'll sit together,
Whispering hand In hand.
Lay on my heart thy hazed, lore.
And, dearest, tear not me;
Thoughtless thou ',rimiest daily
The wild and restless sea.
Sly heart in Wks the sea, dear,
With etosert and ebb and how.
And many a lovely pearl Ilse
Mid in the depths below.
—A Tenxi...\llutehman having
caught - his eon in rang doing, deter
mined to administer a dose of hickory.
80 he trimmed a switch , and wept to
look fur the had, who inoontipettlkilook
to Ilk heals- After cluing the boy
iiround for a while,' tlte old matittiought
to pereuatie him to stop and lake the
licking. So he eboutedithop t
I ant mit *0 mad as vat-I..v**l'i
- • , Tite OeviikteeeedlOrAtmileeeese.. •
PAPti,N I I, ffitbitlAq t kiff i r
cpmmen upop t e ors re pro
gress of a .'pubis fox •imitirder., Had
asa „Jar * *.
w° lll 'ith#M ,
striking disquisition on the philosophy
of murder. D4ring the month of De
cember We &Opted 04 'qt-eight,
gpuq
(lere in diffbredt - parts
,bf 'ettitritt'y-
The Christ mas tlipmselves,
produced a tasie erdp. Since killing
one's Tencl-W-erPetftia
. has. WO*
every-day occutrence, would it no t be
well fbr some
,philosopher upon events,
like Dr. Diat.ita, ofllew York, to
analyze ;be mpniift, and endeavor to
get its diffelelt forms claSsifled• and
arranged / A science, such atuthis has
become, should, be 'S'ystematised. He
will observe thft murders in the Sot i ali
western States' spring from sudden
passion ; that ra sa draw anAperforate
each other , Iristaitt: prO;ooation.
in New-England and the Middle States
they are generally the result of careful
deliberation--:-witness those lately in
Philadelphia, /Bangor, Me., and Mal
den, Maxi. In the Northwest-the per
petrators are nearly wronged hue
bands, injured fathers, insulted females,
or parties equally wounded in the ten
derest domestic relations. The- lynch
ing business has also-grown to be a
feature in Western life. Jail bars are
ab iftra - W trelbic - trtilittrging - pOrdlttir de
niand for vengeance. The tiouthern
pigmies, too, are going largely- into the
fivorlte pastlmi. They display in
genuity, as well as zeal. We read of
.one ebony female in Mississippi who
poisons her husband, and then calls in
the assistance cif her lover to bury the
old man before the breath in otft-of'llis
body. In Kentucky, a gang of -men
of the like hue kill a comrade and
throw his body into a swine pen fur
the hogs to devour. In Georgia, othei
seraphs of color, newly born to free
dom, apply the torch to a tank house.
and roast three aged - white, ladies to
death ; for particulars of which, eel•
the daily paperer We repent, this
frenzy of the link* should be'fittislied
and systematized. Our o;11 idea in,
that the generatdemoralizatien unused
by indiscriminate throancuttintin the
Mnn_lo IVA' life
_yew
cheaply. A man's moral sensitive
noes to the command, "Thou shaking-a
kill," must be- eousiderably blunted
after he has butchered a dozen or so
of the enemy, even though it be in bat
tle. From some men who had bnt
little conscience anyway, the quarnis
have long since departed. 'Andemether
reason of the general lawlessness per
vadibg the country is the evil example
set by our State Legislatures. llon
can we expect obedience to the law,.
alienthe lawmakers are thernseive ,
habitual violators of them? Theetrilt
tag exam plea we have in Suarrsa, BIT
LER, and the-late Mr. STEVENS, 111 seoil
era at tine Constitution, the very corner
stone of the lawn, are nut likely to in
crease the number of good citizens in
ourmidst.
Sal
NO. 4.
With the Richmond Opinion a e
earnestly agree, that unless we go barl
to tike eortier-stone of peace and securi,
ty, even though we have to retrograd.•
through death and blood—through
the hanging galleries and sudden eourts
of Judge Lynch—will we ever be re
stored to the broad and level plains of
peace and popular security
The future of this country is ver b
black aua foreboding ; and unless we
are visited in society by - one--or several
—of those convulsive throes that have
east the countries of the old world on
their knees, this country is lost fur
171112
Good need have 611 e. people to ex
claim, were they only awake—
"My meal', OD kg from
An on I drive bonier darkness,
Like a blaalns ship."
A "God and Morality" Senator_
Gen. Ceti. Scuusf, well known to
the country as an infidel of the worst
type, absolutely ridiculing the ° exist
ence of a Supreme Ruler, ham received
the nomination and will undoubtedly
be elected to the office of U. S. Senator
from Missouri. Amotig other public
utterances, he said: "God is only an
itnew:jiery gentleman who, dwells be•
yond the cloak." "The Bilk is a
book only fit to amuse (thiamin."
"The Sabbath lea relic of berbaritim."
Such is the mtla whom "the patty of
great moral ideas" choeel to represent
it in the United States Senate_ The
choice is eminently proper and fitting.
Martean, the megro Obi Isis* all
member of the House, and ••Cats.
Scsuu.4 Ali Senate, prove beipnd
doubt that •Lle Hepublicaa party- is
—A , Jacksonville paper says :
" There are 18,000,000 acne of land
in this State subject to the claims of
acUnd.settlere model. what is known as
the homestead act. Any • man, black
or white, m take possession of 'one
hundred and atizty acres to-day, clear
it, itopro've
. itosnd build a home / upon
it/ 'Ad i 4 11, 0 1 .1 613 110 1 Tn0te 8.44444 1 still
gm him a deed *cit.
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