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ME YOU REGISTERED?
This is a question that tommerns ev
ery Democrat. Don't put it off till the
last moment, but go immediately and
ese that year name is on the Registry
list. Remember the mousse of the
Democracy depends on getting out our
whole vote, and way maw must be
Registered/ It won't do to neglect
this matter; therefore let It be atten
ded to at once.
Slot Ooburn end the Lewisburg .end
ipruee Creek Rail Road.
It is not hard to deceive honest men
once.. It is noway. difficult to sell out
unsuspecting friends or trusting neigh
bors a single time, but there is some
trouble in getting an opportunity to
play the same trick twice. Jim Co
ncur reached the highest pinnacle of
greatness be ever attained when he was
elected one of the director, of the Lew
isburg ak Spruce Creek S.R. Co., some
six or eight years since. It is about
Abe only position the people *Tyr gave
him, and be had scarcely got the chair
upon which be sat at the councils of
the company warmed, until he sold his
friends, the frieftds of the road, his
neighbors, and every advocate of the
Lewisburg and Spruce Creek Rail road
Company. What Fines ha got for his
vote ou that occasion—his vote to sell
the charter of that company to the
Pennsylvania raj/ road—no one but
Jia Coscsa and the purchaser will
ever know. That As got a price, he
will not deny; if he does then we ask
him why he voted to take that charter
out of the hands of the people of
Pennsvalley, who wanted and
seeded road, and to give it to an
over-grown monopoly, that cares
not if the road is ever touched? Can
pleasant Jaeu answer? as a di
rector of that rail road Company, chos
en by his neighbors and friends to
represent their interest in that propos
ed improvement, he would sell those
who had trusted in his integrity, where
is the assurance that he would not sell
the people of the county if chosen as
their representative at lJarriaburg ?
We assert here plainly that Jut Ca
■vae did sell the people of Penneva . -
ley in that rail rued matter s and his
friends dare not deny it. Will they
again trust him in a position where he
could sell them again, not only in rail•
road matters, but in every other matter
in which they were interested ?
Ilad that rail road charter s eet been
mold to the Pen nay l va n la company, long
ttefore this the cart would have been
running up'and down that valley un•
der the ma tagement of the Catawissa
Or Reading rail road companies, tor it
is *notorious fact that both these rail
road corporations were anxious to build
a road through that section of our
county in order to get our trade to car
ry over their routes, and were only pre
vented front doing so by the Penneyl
vania company getting control of the
charter. It was by JIM Coatnt's vote
that Pennevalley was cheated out of a
charter and a ndlioad. ne deceived
them once--sold them—pocketed his
price, and now we ask, in all candor,
how can he expect theta to trust him
again? Voters of Pennsvalley, re•
-renumber ibese thin* whoa you go to
the polls.
—When Mr. COBURN sold out the
PeanavaHey rail road, he was only
Ibiiiking of hie pocket. He forgoi then
that he might sometime salt the people
to sleet him to office. Bat So it ie.
Jaase P. got his pocket full, and now
Le wants to go to the Legletiture. As
(be people of the region to whom be
played traitor have considerable to say
sz ;
Itr that mum; e almost feel as if we
could tarn him over to their Wider
taereles., W .. hi nk they will settle his
I
bomb off Ily. At least they will
not put eir interest* again la Ma
handeto be betrayed and Outraged u
was their darling scheme—the rail
road.
" Yo 4 Oan!t Come It." Jury,
BUTTS, Jisar Burrs, Jammu's' D.
Bum, whd butted ant hie brains polit•
fealty, a re* years slime for the dirty
dish of a provost marshal oftme, is
now asking the Democracy of Centre
county to elect him Sheriff, over the
grillahrfiffir4rlppled, tftmlgltThur Dem.
ocrat--Woonativo. Jeaav may think
he is sharp, he believes he is he may
lumens he is popular, but imagination
don't make votes. He may consider
Democrats forgetlbl, but he'll wakeup
on the morning after the election to
find that they have not forgotten - when
he and a few other radical rapscal
lions, scoured the country to este
white men, for whom their masters
paid thirty dollars a head. He'll find
that they have not forgotten his little
wagon, hauled by two horses and load
.d with white men—his own neighbOre
—chained together like criminals whom
he was dragging off to head-quarters
at Williamsport. Oh, no! Men may
forgive, but they won't forget. JURY
may think he le ail right now, but
he'll And his record is most too recent
to run upon against an holiest, upright,
crippled veteran Democrat like Woon•
'two.
Jaitar has had his office. He sold
his principles Co get it, and a dirty, dis
graceful office it was, sc.:), and a dirty,
disgraceful way he took to get it, and
he should be the last man now—after
helping to Orosecu'it the Democrats 01
the county, as lie helped, in order to
make money of that office, to have the
ettonteiy to ask them, any of them, to
support him for the Sheriffehip. He'll
find before he gets through with the
job, that that office is much harder to
capture than brave .14J111 FOULTZ was,
and be knows that he couldn't capture
trim.
—lf Mir. ROTe, the Radical candi
date for Recorder, would draw a revol
ver on a defeneelece girl, because her
father was a democrat, would he not
be likely to deal as meanly with demo
crats who might be obliged to have in
tercourse with him in his official ca
pacity? Certainly, they could bays 11Q
confidence in him. because hie conduct
on th• occasion of his drawing his pie
tol on a young lady, at ones stampd
him ae devoid of all gentlemanly prin
ciple, and showed him to the commu
nity in leis true character of a, brutal,
coarse, ignorant, besotted. and con
temptible scoundrel. He now asks the
people of Centre county to make him
their Recorder- We don't believe they
will do it. Inasmuch as the gentleman
who is his opponent is a man of high
character, a individual Rho has lived
in honest intercourse with his fellow
men, and who would acorn to do a
mean action, we feel assured that they
will not fail to distinguish between the
decent man and the brutalized insulter
of respectable ladiea. That Mr (less
°au will be elected over Role we have
no doubt, else the people will say that
they prefer the stay-at-Lome outtager
of woman toe man who loot his leg
fighting bravely in the ranks of his
country's SZMIeII.
A Vicrie's L ,—We call espec
ial atientiou to the very suggestive
irticle found elsewhere, from ''• ty
xis." It was not our intention, at
this stage of the political canvass,
to give any extended space to the
operation of oil speculators or oil
speculations, but the evident fairness,
candor and undoubted honesty of the
author, for whose name tyrid responei
bility we can vouch, demands the space
occupied. If such high-handed and
deliberate swindling can be proved Tire.
ceding election, What may not our tax
ground and oppressed people confident.
ly anticipate upon the installment--
which may considerate Heaven avert—
of such deliberate falsifiers and ewind•
lers 7 A Republican of Potter town•
ship states timer facts—voucliee for
their truthfulness, and we int, ite can•
did members of that party to consider
well before casting their suffrage for
Lewis Hass, the "oil speculator."
—When Run CADWALLADER gets
to be Treasurer of Gentry county, it will
lie when the people forget the services
tendered to the country by the gallant
Lirut WOLF. What a ridiculous thing
for a man like Rasa to want to be
treasurer of Centre county. It does
really seem as though some men have
"lost their reason." It was a rash
thing for Lon to attempt to run
against WOLF, and he will be fully
convinceirof that fact after the elec
tion.
of the soundest old Demo
crats, one of the best working men in
the party, one of the most deserving
of candidates, le oar good gray-haired
friend, Join H. lioastsce, who will be
elected to the oak of Register in Oe•
tober nestv by not less than five hurt
dred majority. Hurrah for Mosalsow.
He •is a Democrat of the right stripe,
and Democrats can take pride is work
ing for him.
A Cord That Won't 111 q:
Dri--,n to th• wall, and deeperlati
Jrirei cue users..
because there is no hope for theta, rad..
ioalism in this county is working stren
dously to do something—lt cares little
what it is, only so it keeps its edurage
.up 'till the last moment. Bins the
county convention gave us the ticket
that is going to begloriaisly victorious,
thee* worshipers of wenches and advo-
eats. of negro voting, have tried about
forty different plans. 4o distract the
party. and to assist them to make in
roads upon tip majority of one or two
of our candidates. Their last move is
to get an independent Democratic can
didate out for some office--desperation
makes them care bnt little for which
one. If they can do no better they'll
accept some weak-kneed brother of
"copperhead persuasion," for coroner,
rather than odes their game, and then
roll up their eyes and howl "no party."
But It won't win: There is not •
Democrat in the county mean enough
to rum for them—not one that they
have money enough to purchase to do
so dirty a trick, and if there was, it
would be but one vote for them, for
there would not be another Democrat
who would bolt the ticket to support a
disorganirer, such is an "independent"
candidate would ne•esearily be. No,
gentlemen; to use a vulgar expression,
that "game's played out in these re.
gtons."
In the first place you can't get a
Democrat to:runomd in the second place
it would be utterly impossible for you
to get any one to vote for him, if you
could And one ungrateful or debased
enough to do it. Flo you may as well
turn your attention to something else.
Get up your meetings, send round your
speakers, and swear again, as you did
last fall, that your party is not in lavor
of negro suffrage?, Go it on that hook
again ! Try if you can cheat the white
men of this section on that question as
vo'u did last fall I We tell you plainly
that you are fooling away your time
trying to get independent candidates,—
they'll amount to nothing if you do get
them, and you'll only loose the money
you have to pay them for being tools
for you.
A Groat Horror at Plymouth
A most terrible accident occurred at
Plymouth, about 20 miles from Scran.
ton, on Monday last. Th. coal break
er of the Avondale mins caught fire
and fell into the shaft leading into the
mine, closing it up and preventing
either ingress or egress. Two hun
dred men wera ‘ i ‘ n the mine at the time,
and it is the general impression that
all have perished. At last accounts,
all business had been suspended, and
every effort was being wads to dig in
to the place when the unfortunate
men are supposed to be buried. The
lore, pec.unianly, will amount to about
$lOO,OOO. The following are the latest
dispatches in reference to the great
calamity :
P. 8. Sine. the above was written,
an entrance has been effected and all
the miners were found dead. The fol
io the latest dispatch :
Awoxpeha September A. Y
As entrance to the mine was effected
about half an hour ago. The cham
bers were reached without serif:nil diffi
culty. Meant body discovered was
that of Mr. Steele. Further on, and In
the most remote chamber, an appalling
spectacle presented itself. There, In a
heap, end In all sorts of positions In
which their agonies had placed them,
lay the bodies of TWO 1113ND1IIII) AND
ra.asz atsr, DILAD—not a vestige of IN
being visible in the countenance or ford
of any of the unfortunate men who had
met so untimely and horrible a death
The wildest excitement prevailed at the
entrance to the shaft, and the shrieks of
the friends of the dead, -as their bodies
were brought up, were deafening Noth
lag can Approximate to a description of
the scene. No pen can portra y it. The
peat up grief of those who st illhoped
against fate went forth try wails of heart
breaking agony; the endearing and tell
dermords of the n other o.- wife, as she
grieved the Weiss, form of her son or
us d, and tried to bring It again to
life, refusing-to Where it could be deed,
and desfending It against all attempts at.
retrieval
—Bora, the Radical candidate for
Recorder, showed his courage once
when he threatened co shcit a young
lady at Pleasant Gap, because her
father had a democratic banner before
his door, lie is now displaying his
courage a second time by fighting a
one•legged moldier for the, office of Re
corder. Tally two times for the woman
frightener sad the man who runs
against a ono-legged sellior. Brave
Rota 1
-..r—Sow comes it that the "organ"
of radintline—the National—la its no•
Lice of their tiara last week, forgot
Born? Does it think that Jeany's
record as assistant profrostlnars4l and
white man catcher, is too rough to tie
too? There's something wrong iotne•
where certainly. ; •
--4 vote foiito bosom, is vote
&pima tits meal of the Wows NO.
°lotion giving olgpre di. sight to
vote io Pennsylvania.
•TM 011 Markel.
I 4 from. PO* 2btoseilip.
CtVITIII HALt., PA.,
Elsrr. sth 1869.
HOtteal WATCOIAII.—An oily sub•
jinn, like a slippery eel, requires a peen
liar and delicate handling. I am not
a scholar, nor yet the son of a scholar,
but a novice in ibis kind of business.
A plain tartner, thinking and writing
as a wan who toils hard for his sub
'lettuce, I write you this, and if more
is required I may state that I am a
IRadical Republican• I- don't like you
as a politicion, for I have Minuted
"copperhead and "traitor" as loudly as
the loudest. I cannot say that./ will
vote against your county tiWei, nor
yet that I can frpro my antecedents
give it my undivided support. While
(hie has no particular reference to whist
calls forth this letter, it in proper that
the facts should be stated: lam by no
means standing alone in this matter,
although I may be the only one wil
ling to break "over the traces" and
"speak out in meeting." I have been
deliberately, and, as I believe, as So
others, pesignedly swindled by one of
the drincipal nominees upon ..the Re
publiean ticket.. I was approached by.
this "oleaginous cons," who, with the
Meekness and velvety manner of a first
class politico-ministerial pulpit strump
et, made representations to me of such
seemingly plausible character as to in
duce me to give him $3OO, to be inves
ted in a general Mock, which he said
was nearly raised by a select few, in
this township, and which won't', fforn
the "surface indications"—it being an
oil speculation—yield an immense divi•
dend. I asked him who the other
stock holders were, and he told me
some of them were men of means, Mit
by far the majority were as unable to
give that amount, as myself, in case it
was not a "sure thine." Hs assured
me that $15,000 was nearly subscribed,
but one stockholder giving more than
$3OO. I never received one cent, as divi
dend, or profit, and I have failed, as
yet to "see" anything of the principal.
About three weeks preceeding the
late Republican county convention, I
was approached by ibis man and told
that he was going to try and get the
nomination,for County Commissioner,
and in case he succeeded, and was
elected, I should get my money back.
'lie said the other stockholders had
consented to help him, with that un
derstanding. I saw some of the oilier
victims—we held a meeting—the would
be Commissioner was present, and
there and then he promised that in
case we would give him our township
delegation, and assist in his nomination
and election, that be would pay us
back 80 cents on the dollar. We con
sented, of course. So far, so good, but
I now understand that having secured
the nomination, be told one of the
stockholders—(a poor day laborer re
duced to abject want by hut in vestment
in "surface indications that would
grease a mares boots") that he
couldn't afford to pay back anything
and should not try to. That we took
our cha,ces and must stand by it.
Among othbr stockholders I may men
tison Messrs. Geo. ODlNalaic, 1 Amor
Gaunt, Maartx BOWER, WY. Brear
and Jonv:Krriv Ea—the latter a very
poor man experiencing difficulty in
gaining a subeistence for himself and
dependent family.
Now then, I ask if thin is fair, decent,
or honest? Is it what we had a right
to expect—nay, demand of this swind
ler? I. it what we aye* to expect of
him and perhaps of the entire ticket if
elected? I care not what the other
stockholders may think or say here
after—l know what they said at our
meeting—but I cannot, will not be
again bamboozled in open da!light by
this oily scoundrel now soliciting our'
suffiages. I know that the hope of re
ceiving back a portion of their money
alone induced the gentlemen mentioned
to support this man. I will no longer
give money to dishonest townsmen, nor
will I give them a suffrage which may
place them in a position to do others
similar and perhaps greater injury.
For/tali i4l—Lewis /Less.
A Victim.
The Comet *I 111118.
It wiU be premised by the following
from one of out e.tchanges, that anotb.
er comet is now approaching theaartlt,
and is to be seen in ..he heavens
" For more than ten years pout the moat act
entitle astronomers of the world have told ca.
through publicatioirs In -the magmata", and
otherwise, that during the month of July, Au
gust and September, this year, UM) the most
wonderful Gomel the world has ever known,
would reappear. They hare aloe tutsurcd sae
that It would approach nearer the earth then
any sometever dick before, sod that either the
earth or the comet would,har• to change Its
course, or a collision would be Inevitable. AA
this comet Is said to be many thousand times
larger then the cartkand Si itsolid mums or
Sr., glib a tail of Sri that would reach around
tip earth more than a huddred timed, It is 09%
at all likely that a collision with it would prole
se db the lore •• the late saildellt
oa the aria Itallroeld did to some of the more
tiatortaasai passengers. According to
onions, it was this cosset SAM was inantedl
leatterod by a tentble sonteatoet to ter rr p d
drew agates retwatrieet w
, a mot d
ftli:that, in a tea w••••• ant the
the walk more then ottie•heU the people
of the eatantels• visited by It. Borne years sic"
ter,
this comet appeored.wgi4p, qad_,lrste,
ceded by a most tango tent In Sernet i fi
followed by a plftuty or moors. th at piled
the dead in hisprla Theltereeti of *tat prop
°a.' Vito bury Ibur 4V tba e he . c' ai rne= i rr e
eleiblo, 4 lok , math Poteellie• time ,
thrar to log Oa f the 'Orton..
oot trots 60 oh seeessit of
weather. I t be seen With the naked eye
. err sty clear nig t,to northars parrot the
Itermine. at from 11 to 12 obloak, or WI the
atortdait star dee& The late hoary Wee have
not had the OW* to delay tip appeaname and
progress, or to dim Pe brilliancy, though la
ertll grow brighter and brighter, al It approarm ,
se the earth."
Out the Rotltleetion of the 15th
Amendment be set aside V
The Radicals assert that the radii
cation of the
_]sth Amendment laat
winter by a snap judgment of the Rsld
ical members of the Legislature, is ir
ripealatle—that it is binding for' ap
time. This preposterous ,proposition,
which would indict negro sum-age upon
the State whether the people were wil
ling or not, is nnanewerably disr.osed
of by the Harrisburg Patriot, in the
following able article :
TEM (KrIISTIOII Of itinrtrArtow
Quite recently the radical newspa
pers of the State hare manifienlid . a
purpose to take issue with the resolu
tion of the democratic State conven
tion on the question of the right of , the
future representatives of the peo p le to
repeal the ratification of the X Vth
Amendment by The last legislature.
An article in the Morning The/ of Sat
urday contained the following para
graph :
In this State the verdict already rendered Is
beyond their power, except the pernicious in
fluence. elsewhere which would Iseult from e
republican defeat; because there I. no Author
ity In law or precedent for settidg aside the
ratification of a that. after its action has been
officially recorded in the archive. of the ha,
lion. ,
The Reening Bulletin of the same
deli comes thus to the diseueeion of
this grave question :
The ratification le nbeolntey leteroctible,
and it must nilecesarily be so if any such leg.
leistion is to hate value. If the next legishr
tore has power to wall the action, in curb
owes, of lie peedocessor, the legislature of Of
(*en years hence will hare the mime power;
and so, with the changing supremacy of pu
ttee, ratification of the &meatless& will Other
be hopeless, of it will have to be taken out and
put the Conititution just as one party or the
other claims to control the majority of the ellf
fere& legislnfuree. This would be ridiculous.
It cannot, of course be porrnitfed, and th e
people will sot perm it IL But we want the
people of the flust• to bear In mind the fort
that a democratic legislature would assuredly
attempt this repeal, and strive to create con
flict between the Federal and State authori
ties.
It Is not difficult to perceive that the
immediate inspiration of this language
was the following utterance of that un
scrupulous radical demagogue Senator
Morton of Indiana, in his recent Pitts
burg speech
Your legislature ins retitled the flfteedith
arrientiment. It le done with it. That action
cannot M rveoneldered under the Cooatitotion
of the United Steles, and 1 tell my democratic
friend• in Pennaylvanii—and I. them make
their arrangement* accordingly—l tell them
the colored men or Penaeylvaata will vote in
• Now let us exentine the gross 'he
gumptions contained in all this, for
there is not the slightest attempt at ar
gument. The worst and the wildest is,
that the people of a State have no pow
er to reconsider the action of the legis
lature, but that the ratification is irre
vocable. Whence did these cprnmen
tatorr on the Constitution learn this?
Where are their law and precedent?
The only cases cited to sustain this
view are those of Ohio and New Jer
sey with relation to the Fourteenth Ar
ticle. But the action of these States
did not afflict that amendment, a suf
ficient number of States hang rati
fied it without them. Secretary Sew
ard, in proclaiming the adoption of the
Fourteenth Article, referred to the rat
ification end subsequent rejection by
these Stems. But the amendment was
shown to have been ratified by more
than three-fourths, and Ohio and New
Jersey formed by their action no pre
cedent on one side or the other. If
these States had been necessary to the
adoption of the amendment the impor
tant question we are now considering
would have arisen fur the first time in
the h'etory of the country.
The true republican doctrine is that
the States are in theory a legislature,
on the question of this amendment.
Until ratified by three-fourths a the
Suttee, any one of them may reject,
ratify and reject again. They are now
deliberating. There has been hasty,
inconsiderate, nay, fraudulent action
qn the part of the legislature of Penn
sylvania. There has been no verdict
of the people, but a snap judgment by
their faithless representatives. How
absurd it is to argue that if the next
legislature has the power to recall the
action of its predecessor, the legisla
ture of fi ft een years hence will Piave
the same power. Not if the amend
ment, iii the meantime, shall become
part oAt L he Constitution by the action
of three-fourths of the Suttee. Then it
will be too,late. To recall the ratili
cation will require a new amendment
of the Constitution by the concurrent
action of the - requisite Humber of States.
Up till the hour when three-fourths
the Stater have adopted 'the amend
ment, it is in the power or any of them
to withdraw its ratiflpation. Until
thee they art in legisletive iteration on
the *object. The-concurrence offthree-
fourths closes the deliberations. There
is nothing in .the mere !formal certifi
cate by the Secretary of State. Long
before that may have been issued, as
in the cam Of the Fourteenth Amend.
went, the adoption mar have taken
piece. The adoption of the axneo
- is made valid by the cum - entrant
action of the required number of States,
and dates fl'om the time the last State
shall have ratified it. The world must
take notice of the solemn seta of a
State, and the mere fitet of recor ding
them ' l emon; the sic:hives of e na.
eon" is [tailing to the purpose. It" is
quasar easy to record at Washington
he rejection of-an amendment on the
part of a State; as ha ratrihattion. That
le what the oltaittlit are therefor. The
power of the States to rescind the mti-
Of a Constitutional emendmini
has been denied by any authori
ty entitled to the least respect. That
poweris icititiolid in the Okay right of
self :government; 'To entablish the con.
eratstioetrina 1,1011111 be to place the
p eo pl e and therlitatoi constantly at the
lower or corrupt **di faithless legia
low". It le nos deeded by these rad.
iota authorities which we have ( p lo w
that Slates have in right to *hi/ripe r ,
their rejections of *inendmente and e t
termer& ratify them. it the case of
the Fourteenth , rAtneadment, fift een
fik a ge e led relented it. A number of
the south ern Stool afterwards under
compulsory legislation of Cong ress , re ,
ended the resolution of rejection sod
eat,itlad that amendment. If it be not
lawfhl to Whin:kap &hasty, fraudulent
or inconsiderate ratifkation, where je
she pore: to withdraw a resolution' re.
j ee a rl en amendment to the Contain'.
don ? If the one rule be good so is the
other and thus, then, by the originsl
rejection on the part of the Southern
States, the Fourteenth A.mandment lute
no validity. These asserters of the
s t ra nge doctrine that a State ites•no
right to reconsider its action pending
the discussion of en amendment i are
treading on dangerous ground. The
Fourteenth Amendment owes its, -exist.
ence to the constrained ratification by
the Southern States acting under the
domination of military power after they
had rejected it. If they could with.
draw their resolutions rejecting the
Fourteenth Amendment what is to
prevent the State of Penhaylvsnis from
taking back .the fraudulent ratification
of the Fifteenth Amendment -by th e
legislature of ISO? That is the plea
Lion for the Ilia and Bulletin to die
cues. It a resolution of ratification,
lie a low of the Medea and Persians,
be • ible, why shall not a resolu•\
don f rejection? The only true and
k \,)
rational doctrine is that of the demo.
cretin party, that each State has the
right to recall its action on an ameni•
merit at any time previous to its adop
lion by three-fourths of the States. On
this is the resolution of the State cow
vention founded. It is fully in actor.
dance with the great principle of re•
publican government. The other view
is worthy only of partisans and trick.
stern.
(For tb• WATCIIIIIII.
MUSINGS.
I=l
Mtn& ■osta upon the evening air,
And robe my heart armory busy tare ;
Memory's ever loving voice le heard to tell
Of distant friends, whom 1 have loved so sell
Softly come. the tender memorle• leek,
From friends 1 lowed oa ebildbood's track ,
Life seem ges dieteet from It. birth,
Yet we are Oadine—like th► beauteous lows%
of earth. '
Farb tender throb that conies to-alight,
May hold sore sorrow, hidden fromeor sights
Some blighted hope of years Sane by,
May brit! to happiness, a stilt.
Llfe cannot always dwell 'wild bowers,
Where beauty tint. the loveliest{ dowers ;
For isunehlee often hold. • shade,
And llfe's sweet drattns the soonest fade.
God filled the earth with natarafa bloom,
And 'unship, robe It. breast of gloom.
Throw ammo aollotialg,* the watching apt—
Ada. I they wash us but to die.
Each ooe, aspirins for the boob of }me
May Set ksieed, or write his moue.
yet whet le this Vs bat to show
That hone le bat a tickle glow.
Ambition eannot shield us from the tomb
Nor glowing names dispel Its gloom ,
What Rod intends, no one can know,
Death is our nature's direst foe.
AN EARTHQUAKE COMING!
A California Savant Predicts a Hea
vy Shaking-up of Things in Sep.
together or October.
The following article from the Sae
Francisco Chronicle we conunend 10
the perusal of scientific men. The
prospect of an earthquake is not a
pleasant one. Vapecially along the Pa
ciflc coast, where it is predicted to oc
our with the ruoetcertninty, the inkier
itants will not feel at all flattered.
Earthquakes are very distinguished
visitor., but they are also very terrible
ones, and in every respect their room
is better than their company. Wean
willing to believe , however, that Mr.
Stewart, while a very learned and III•
quirins gentleman, will, neverthelera,
as a prophet, be a disastrous failure.
We hope so, at any rate.
The bas Fratieisoo Chronicle pule
fishes the following prediction, made
by a local philosopher, W. Frank
Stewart: _—
During the past eighteen months the
earth and other planets completed the
moat remarkable conjunction AO
has ever occurred i and on the titglitof
the 14th of last November we again
witnessed
,tt e grand thirty-four year
star-ewitrin. Every intelligent pecton
is aware that for %period of nearly two
years our glob , has been autijected to
violent perturbations, such as have not
before occurred for many centuries
These perturbatione'llave been genet'
ally dierlEeltillabe at the planet.—
Storms, typhoons, volcanoes, earth.
'quakes, intense told and scorching
winds have alternately spent their fury
upon the denireite Of every hemisphere.
By careful obserrations, *Misnomer'
have Woad that fn rt period of about
eleven years the min turns toward es a
remarkably spottedditne, and it lien al
so any sudden
changes of light and shade upon the
sup deicing tide spotted 'Period instant
ly affect terrestrial -magnets. It Is
well known that in the autumn of la
-69 'one of these eetmiPot partnrhation s
was immediatelz followed by one of the
most' %MEW ATOM% B o realis ever
Witnessed in them:ethers hemisphere,
and still more sueptising
magnetic
&fort of the aurora' was to great that
Mlikefleis were freely' sent 'over telel
graphic lines with Out connection wltait
the batteries arid by means, of suror
current pions. Many additional facto,
showing the connection of celestial