The Democritic Watchmah. BELLsEN'ONTE, PA ON THE STREAM • UT THOMAS DUNN EBifiLlBll Night, bane cloud on the slcy; ' And, yonder, the lights of ibelstreet &am and quiver In aflame-spotted pyramid up from the Isar AS I float In my Moat tk , deSpalli ugly by • On the stream Quiet the ships at the piers ; Lrke a forest In winter, their masts and their spars, Stand In relief Tans the sky and the stars. I can see them in spite of my fist falling , tears. Iln the ntromn Preeptug from wooden-wallea liptt I watch the filleit ferry-honts ply to nod fro, littpattently pool mg the wove on they go, l'ltrentitng their uny through dm Innt-nn chorea ',hip. on the stream In the ler ilishinee, I MI, The light (urn lamp (ruin n w inane (IN Oinre. That war her eignal last rliminer—no 11111r0 Win anti hoop through the pane emit n glimmer for mo On the stream Though Rh my life .he N 1 R. 410111, 1 001114 have home it to think of her dead ltdi deeper thnti Unit aro the pang WllOll •ho fled %way tyltii another—fled. lent tnk.: inr , here On Or 4aitietitties they tell me I m crazed, itill I,llt I thIIIL 11. d niliifingh lead ma , . but 4tatiat•ti u [tit+ craiqi hll4 MOW 1 .111 keep lay .tetime, Illation floating amazed, Ohl t h e •invmi Fh.ating half nay (ruin the xlmtr— ."hn. 1%,11. nil out .11hr ',gill, 10141 tirin a Ilk ifs 311.1 the night I IlLahe annlll4•o,ll,•—and then they adl . . M= 1111:=E1 SECRETARY STANTON'S POLITI CAL POSITION tN 1860.-REMINI SUNCES OF THE CLOSE OF BUCHANAN'S ADMINISTRATION. -THE HON. JERE. BLACK'S CARD TO THE PUBLIC. Editirol'llie Herald since the death of Mr. Stanton, somc . newspaper writers have revived tee scandalous accounts which began to be propagated, I think, in 1;452, eon ce,rning his conduct. while a member Of Mr. Iluchanan's Cabinet. It iv fii. Aerted that he came into that adminis tration with views entirely oppo.ed to those of the Preeide.it and' the men who were to be his colleagues, all of whom, except Messrs. Holt and Dix, were in favor of the Southern Confed eracy, and ready to sacrifice the Union ; that supported by these two he bullied the rest ; that lie terrfied the President by threats 01' resignation into measures which otherwise would not have been thought of; that he urged immediate war upon the seceding Staten to crush out the rebellion ; that though defeat ed in this by the treason of his associ ales, he carried with a high hand other points of sound policy; that by these hardy displays of hostility to the administration which trusted him, he Promoted the interests and won the gratitude of its enemies. This is the substance expressed in my own Fololtin English of many state menu; coming from various sources ex tensively circulated and so generally be lieved that if •not soon contradicted they are likely to be received as au thentic history. They are not only false, but they must be injurious to Mr. Stanton's reputation; and they are ,grossly unjust to others, dehd as well as living. I am not the special defender of Mr. Stanton, and I certainly would not as sail him, Before he fell away from the Democratic faith our friendship was intimate and close. There was no seFaration afterwards except the separ ation which is inevitable between two peraons who differ widely on public subjects believed by both to be vitally important.. Our correspondence of last summer and autumn (began by him self) shows that I was able to forgive him my Farticular share of the injury he had done to the liberties of the coun try, and hA had..my sincere good wishes for his future health and welfare. Ilse political attitude towards the Bucha nan administration previous to his ap pointment as Attorney General is whol ly misunderstood or else wilfully mis represented. Ile was fully with us at every stage of the Kansas 'petition, and niti man felt a mote loathing con tempt than he did for the knavery of the ittiolitionitus in refusing to vote up. on the Lecompton constitution, when nothing but a vote was needed to ex pel slavery from the new State, and thus terminate the dispute by deciding it in the way which they themselves pretended to wish. lie wholly denied Mr. Douglas's notions, and blamed him severely for , unreasonable and mischievous schism which lie•had cre ated in the party. The Know- Dloth ingism of Bell and Everett found no favor in his eyes. In the canvass of 1859 be regarded the salvation of the country as hanging upon the forlorn hope of Breekinridge'e election. We knew the abolitionists to be the avow• ed enemies of the Constitution and the Union, and we thought the Republi cans would necessarily be corrupted by their alliance with them. As we saw the march of these combined forces up on the capital we felt that the consti tutional liberties of the country were in as much peril as Rome was when the Gauls were pouring over the bro ken defences of the city. Whether we were right or wrong is not the question now. It is enough to say that Mr.« Stanton shared these apprehension. fully. lie more than shared them •he inspired Thein;lr Lin-' coin personally, ' , and the account he gave °Chinon's. anything bat favors. bk. The 6th of,Ziovembeir came, and Mr. Lincoln was-legally chssen President, by the electoral machinery Of the Con stitution, though the majority Of the popular vatrwita iietthisMiti by more than a million. The question was now to be tested by actual experiment whether a party whiMi existed only in one section, and which was organizer on the sole principle of hostility to the rightS,interests and feelings of the other, could or would administer the federal government in a righteous spit , it,oljustice, or whether the predictionti of all our great statesmen for thirty years must be ver;fied OW the aboli• tionists when they got into power would disregard their sworn duty to the constitution, break down the jinn pial authorities and claim obedience to 'threw own mere will as a "higher law" than the law of the land. The danger was greatly aggravated by the crinti nal misconduct of large bodies in the South, and particularly in South Car• rdina, where preparations were o; enly made for resistance. What was the I Federal Executive to do 'miler these circumstances? Make war? Ile had neither authority nor means to do that, and Congress would not give him the one or the-other, Should he e 01» pro mise the dispute? Ile could offer no ts and make no pledges a hich Wahl not he repudiated by .the new administration. Could he thediate be tiveen the parties? Both would refuse his ninpirage, for both were as hostile ti Min as they 'rert , to one another. Nevertheless, he was hound to do them the best service be could. in spite of their teeth ; and that, service consisted in preserving the peace or the nation. It was his special and most imperit not io embroil the incoming administration by n civil war winch I bis successor might by limo Ming twap• pro% eor (I) pr .acute It as uniloulq ' ell right to Date the President elect a n d his Mil i-ry, in n /41111116 M a here they could take their choice between and tiglitinz. In 1 . 8(1 4 _ t Mr. Lincoln wits lh fit or of the Hirai er, it his inaugural be any sign of sentiments. The mind of no titan n as wore deep Iv imbued with these opinions than Sir. Stanton's. The idea never enter ed hie mi nd—certainly never Lis lips—that the President ought to make wok upon States or pat the n hole people out of the protection of the lams, and expose them all to ni• discriminate slaughter as public ene iiiies, because some individuals among them had done or threatened to do what was inconsistent with their obli gations to the United States. Ile knew ery well that no such thing was either legally or physically possible. General Scott had reported officially that five companies constituted the n hole available force which could be Befit to the South for any purpose, of lensive or defensive. Is it possible that Mr. Stanton could have under taken to conquer the South with halt a regiment ? lle was thoroughly con vinced that a war at that time, of that kimr and under those circumstances, would not only "fire the Southern heart," but give to the' secessionists the sympathy of all the world, and ul timately insure their success, while it - could not help but cripple, disgrace and ruin the cause of the Union. Nor did he feel pleasure in the anticipa• tion of any civil war between the two sections of bis country. 'From the stand point which he then occupied he said that war was disunion l it was blood, conflagration, terror and tears, public debt and general corruption of morals, all ending at best not in the union of the States, but in the subjugation ,of some to the despotic will of the others. lie was apt to take a sombre view of things, and he looked at the 'dark side of this subject. The glory, profit and plunder, the political distinction and pride of power which brighten it now, were not included in his prospective survey. On the 38th of November, I answer ed the Prtbeident's questions concern• ing his legal powers and duuee, hold ing that the ordinances of secession were niece nullities; that the seceding .States were and would be as much in the Union as ever; that the Federal Executive was bound there as well ire elsewhere to execute the laws, to bold the public property arid to collect the revenue: that if the means and ma chinery furnished by law for these pur poses were inadequate, he could not adopt others and usurp powers which bad not been delegated; that neither the executive nor legislative depart merits had authority under the Consti tution to make war upon a State; that the military power may be used, if ne cessary, in aiding tine judicial authori ties to execute the laws, in collecting the revenues, in defending or retaking the public property,but not in acts of indiscriminate hostility, against all the people of a State. This iti aid "opin ion" which has since been so often, so Much and so well abused, denounced and villified. Mr. Stanton did riot stul tify himself by denying the plain, ob vious and simple truths which it ex pressed. Theipaper was shown hits before went to the President, and al: ter a Might alteration suggested by' himself, to not only approved but ap plauded it enthusiastically. It'dimappointed the President' Ile had hastily taken it for granted that Congress might make secession a cause for war ; arid in the draft of his mes sage already prepared he had.. submit ted the question of war or peace to their decision. But the advice of the Law Department, supported by a powerful argument from General Cass, convinc ed him of his error, and that part of the moulage was rewritten. The sub stance of the message so modified re ceived Mr. Stanton's hearty endorse ment in everything that regarded se cession and the treatment it ought to receive, Soon after this General Case retired. I was requested to take the State De partment and Mr. Stanton was ap pointed Attorney Ganerar upon my declaring that I was unwilling to leave the care of certain causes pending in the Supreme Court to any hands but his. This appointment alone, without any other proof; ought to satisfy any reasoning mind that all I have said of Mr. Stanton'e sentiments must. be true. No man in his sober senses can believe that I would base urged, or that Mr. Buchanan would have made the ap• ',ointment if we had not both known with perfect certainty that he. agreed with us entirely on those fundamen tal doctrines of ponetitutional law to which We were committed. The faint est suspicion of the contrary would have put the Attorney General's office asliur beyond his reach as the throne of Fritnce. We took hint for what he professed to be—a true friend of the Union ; a devout believer in'the Con stitution ; n thithful man, who would trot violate his oath of offiar' by ttill fal disobedience to the law. I ant r ill c6-nviTivel that he did not deceive us.- If he abandoned those principles in 1862, the change, however-sodden and unaccountable, is not satisfactory evi dence that he vine an impostor and it hypocrite in 1860. Ile dal not tied Mr. Molt and lien oral Dix contending alone (or contend tug at «'l) against the President and the rest of the administration Mr Molt on the 3d of March, 1861, ap pended to his letter of resignation a strong expression of his glatitude for the "firm and generous support" which Nor. linclotnan had constantly extend ell to him, and pays a warm tribute to -the "enlightened statesmanship and unsullied patriotisin" of the outgoing President. Geoeral Firx Was not there at all when Mr, Stanton came tit. lle was appointed a. month afterwards, triter' there was no diengreertivia in the Cabinet. rile took up his rtsidence at the Pronlehes hun , e as a member of his family, and remained there dur lag the w hole time of IoS servicir 'head of the Treromry Piepartmen,t. Ile performed his duties laithlulle, firmly, and N%ll} Mild) 1110 11- .11-111VVI" sal a Ilproilltiloll. I do not.. recollet that he had one nerd of t+PHION COll trot uflier hill, rhe - lrkrerrhletrr n all any body else. If, therefore, Mr. Stanton was at any tone engaged in dragooning the President awl hector lug los colleagues, he could not Jotve hall Mr. Holt and (teneral lii for his hitchers. There were (filmic , and setnoll Ii tier (MCC. , (110/11:110,1 111 the l'ahnet dur ing the period of Mr. Stanton's service , but his-share in them has not truly been stated. lam not writing the history of those tones, mid therefore isay Huth. mg of what others did or forbore to do. except so far as may be necessary to show Mr. Stanton's lets and omissions in their true light. Before the election it was determined that the forts in Charleston harbor should be strengthened so as to make them impregnable. The order -was given, but the execution of it was un accountably put. off. When General Cass ascertained that the delay was ac quiesced in by the Presidept, he resign ed. Two weeks afterwards Major An derwon, commanding Fort Moultrie, and apprehending an attack, threw his garrison into Fort Sumter. Simulta neously came certain commissioners from South Carolina demanding the surrender ( of the latter fort to the State. The character of the answer that should be given to the commissioners and the question whether - Port Sumter should be furnished with men and provisions were discussed for three days, each day running far into the night. On one aide it was insisted that the surrender of the fortress was so utterly incompatible with our plainest duty, that the demand itself was a gross in suit. To leave it in a condition which would enable rebellious citizens to take it if they pleased easi still worse, for that would be merely another mode of mak ing the surrender, and a worse one, be cause it would be fraudulent and decep. tire. Major Anderson should, there fore, be immediately reinforced that "his castle's strength would laugh a siege to scorn," and then no attack *Mild be made. This last, instead of being dangerous, was the only measure that gave us a, chanoe of safety ; it would not bring hostilities, but avert them, and, if war must come at all events, the, pdsseasion of Fort Sumter, which commanded the other forte, the harbor and the city, 'would be of in calcalable value to the government of the Union. To this there Wall absolutely no an• ewer, except what consisted in saying that the fort conld not be relieved with out difficulty and danger of eucceeeful opposition ; that South Carolina would take it as an affront, and .that it was tantamount to a threat of coercion. The replication wan easily made ; There was no danger of even an attempt at resistance to a ship-of war, and state ments made of the hostile power were mere brag; if South Carolina took of ferce at our preparation for the safety of our own men and our own property, she must already be in a temper to make reconciliation iMpossible ; and, as to coercion, let her take care riot to coerce us, and she will be safe enough. At length the President pronounced the decision in the form of an answer to the commisaionera. • While it was far from satisfactory to the Southern members, it filled us with consternation and grief. Then came the desperate struggle of one alone to do what all had failed to effect. It was painful to the &Irene, but nnexpectedly short and decisiife. The President gave up his first ground, yielded the points on which he had seemed most tenacious; the answer to South Carolina was essentially changed, and it was agreed that Fort Sumter Should have men and provisions. During these discussions Mr. Stanton was always true, but the part ho took was by no means a leading one. Ile said many times that he was thereon!) , that I rnighthave two votes instead of one. Ott no oecasion was there the slightest conflict between him and me. He exhibited none of the coarseness which some of his later friends have at. tributed to him. He never spoke with.. out the greatest roe pect for his colleagues and the profoundest' deference to the President about resigning. Ile told me lie would resign if I did) but when cer tain conceptions were made to' my wishes he expressed himself perfectly satisfied. „Ile did not ihrnish one atom of tbe influence which brought the Pres ident round' on the answer to South Carolina. Nor did he ever propose or curry any measure of his own, directly or indirectly, relating to the secession troubles. Ile uniformly professed to be as anxious for the preservation of the public peace as any Mall there. It would he a wrong to the memory of Mr. Stanton not to add that, so tar as I know, he never gavne countenance or encourage neat to those fabulous stoi ries of hia behavior. JEIIENIMI S. ilf,A( —A loweeich pair oho had only a dollar To pay In Ow pr1 , ..1, for the eon legal I,llnr, It eie told 1,3 the wagon lds ,cgithar fee l'or marrying people was only a V. theo,” goon, the 01 . 11A11, " good parson. • HOW COMP A dollar I'M nuns, ought to marry Is Monte, "fl, all 171 hays got; pat ran take It, you k, And marry WI as far as tho . monay is ill go?" V ruiner him been well oletlned tn cinhlem of it thong'itful mind .Jro look npun It when you will, Nell 1111 d It in reflecting xlli . The Diplomatic Corps at Washington 'The Cincinnati Commercial ham the billowing from . Washington : The highest order, socially, is the Foreign Diplomatic Corps. This is git en, or arrogates to itself, the first position. Then we have the Senators, and Vu prone Court, and members ol the Cabi net, nearl) oh a level—or 140 near that it is doubtful. or...rather in dispute, as 10 which has the'preference. 'I hen we lia‘e members of the House, and the multitude 01 Minor officials. lhteiias to bt• amused . ‘OIN( looking at the little diplomatic corps that takes upon itself such an air olexchmiveness, and is look ed up to with such awe and' reepect Washington using regarded in Euro peso courts as a place for honorable huni. , ,litueut,„it being popially_midt:sirm Ide and possessed of no field ffir a dis play of diplomatic ability, the more in fliiential and able men 01 the profession shrink in dismay trom a residence in our beloved capital. The consequence is that Ave get only the lesser lights. Tliey are rather nice ijort of men, but not the sort to worship socially, or in any other 'a ay. To see the corps in its lull glory, one must attend on opera night at the Notional Theatre. lle will find the diplomats out in full force, and all clustered together in the front chairs of the orchestra, with a few, perhaps, perched like crows in one of the stage boxe. Between the arts the corps rise up and face the audierme. And then they appear in all theirawlul glory. Taken Separately, one would not be seriously oppressed, but to be attacked in diplomatic platoon is over powering. - If one draws near, he hears a chatteri4 in French, like unto so many dawn in mass meeting. The gods of the galleries have lately taken to resenting this facing about of the little corps, and wifen this diplomatic and dramatic move occurs,a general shout of derision goes up, and cries of "Down in front," "Ain't we handsomer and imitations of the croaking of crows are heard ; for, owing to their somber dress, these subtile representatives of effete despotisms are called crows by the gods of the gallery. The corps took this assault calmly and with superior ...Air ference, until a few decayed oranges and apples came, with indications of eggs in reserve, when the corps graceflally subsided. Frying Meats, Vegetables and Mashes. Frying is an expeditious and conve• nient mode of preparing food, but is not as healthful as broiling or baking. Much of this difficulty might be reme died, if more care was used as to the manner. Food that is to be fried in butter or fat, should Dever be placed 'on the spider, skillet or griddle, until the fat is scalding hot. By this means th'e food is served over at once, and the minute pores closed to the fat so that it cannot soak and penetrate?as when put in cold. A hash made of bits of mixed meats and potatoes, with a few fine bread crumbe all finely mixed, is moat delicious for breakfast, or tea even, when gintlemen are present, if well seasoned and put into gravy or tat thoroughly heated. It should cook slowly a long time, anitshould be kept moist with gravy or hol, miter, at the same time allowing it 1.4 brown a nice crust on the bottom. Potatoes, par snips and apples are very nice fried, but should by no means be put in cold fat. Apples cut a quarter of an inch thick, placed on a griddle to fry brown slowly on each side, and finished at last, with a tit bit of sugar on the top, which will melt while the other side is frying, is indeed a tempting side dish. Slices of bread, dipped hastily in milk, and then in a salted batter of eggs and I flour. and fried, is another addition to the breakfast table, and a good way to use stale bread. 'Steak may he made nearly as good as broiled, by placing it in a v4ty hot spider, without grease, and allowing each side about half a minute to cook. Use no water, nudge:aeon upon the plat ter. THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY yOF Tfli FIFTEENTH AIIaNDMENT.—A n Enquirer' sap that the Fifteenth Amendment can n‘ver be legally a part of the Con- Rtitution, for the following reasons: 1. It is a surrender of a fundamen tal reserved right of the States, and that can not be accomplished without the unanimous consent of all the States. To no three-fourths of the Legislatures wire delegated the power to change the Constitution in this regard. 2. The Legislatures of all the Smith ern States which have adopted . it have done so under duress—of force and compulsion—which vitiates all con tracts, and which thit.Fedenth.Goeeriv• ment had no tight to employ. , 3. The Amendiuent was not submit ted to the President• of the United States for his approval, which course is required by the Constitution. 4. If the Southern States were not I*-the Union at the time of the tuloy* tion of the Amendment, they had no right to ratify, and without them the necessary constitutional three fourths hate not been obtained* A Physioian on Dancing That., beautiful , gricelu accomplish ment of dancing, so perverted by late hours and the indecency of fashionable attire, has en_traged manveteneible peo ple, and led Them to detnive the young ones of the most simple mid healthful enjoyments, because it has been abus ed. ' For myself, I can testify not only to its healthful, but recuperative pow er, The fifteenth year of my age found me enjoying this life-cheering exercise. It should be one of the earliest amuse meats of children, and care should be taken by parents that it is understood as an amusement. Whi;a" am on this topic 1 will mention a calm ilia occur— red in my practice. A thoughtful moth Cr who had lost three children, brought, to me her only remaining child, a daughter. Iler temperament !lemma billious—the nervous anirfully pre dominant—with great irritability ofthe system, peevish, passionate, dyspeptic, sleepless, exacting, -arbitrary and lin• coin tort able ; the pooxicbild looked sad, old, morbid and miserable. She had, been to school, because her parents .thought it nn amusement for her to lie with other children. After critically \ainining her plisiognoniy, I said to her mother, "What rsrheternperanrent of , your husband ?" "Mc same as inv own,' she replied. "Then the child is doubly stamped. Very vigorous meas ures must be ° tased it you expect to re ,-tore her to health- Divorce her im mediately from anything mental, so far tic memoriziog is concerned; send her to (lancing school, that she may cotnittne stern c wail order nod mein dy, !Li] thus some of her rough edges may be rounded. The mes opened with wonder and deligqit, utter. ratite,' with "Daneingsehool ?I'll, how 1'3'71 r 'itir strong and leads to wiekedness." What a ohlemnia for a ! what n dihMinia for a child "Ind volt ever intend your daughter to play the pninA, guitar, or other musical metro mentsr I+l6ll. yes,' was the answer, 'Why,- I continued, "why how such p..rtiality to the upper ex tremities. 'rhe hands are rendered happy as a medium of melody ; the feet are rendered eimally happy in the same way. A nieeafternoon school revived the little girl who grew in health and liar molly every month as followed the hygienic rules perseribed for her. Dancing is a beautiful, graceful recrea tion, and is not responsible for the abuse luxury has thrown around it. The vulgarism and excitements of the ball room have no wore - to do with the Simple enjoyment of the dance than the rich wine and sumptuous banquets of the gourmand, in whom they induce diSease, have to do with the temperate repasts that satisfy-the natural wants of the boily,--Dr. IL K Hunt. Tux Voice or CONSCIINCE.-11Rve you ever heard of the greauclock of 14t. Pull's in London? At midday, in the roar of businese, when carriages, and cartsomil wagons, and omnibuses, go rolling through the streets, how many never hear the great clock strike un. less they live very near it. But when the work of the day is over, and the roar of businese has passed away— when men are gone to sleep, and si• knee reigns in London—then at twelve, at one, at two, at three, at four, the sound of that clock may be heard for miles around. Twelve I one! two! three I lour I HOW that clock is heard by many a sleepless man I That clock is just like the conscience 01 the impenitent man. While he has health and strength, and goes on in the whirl of business, he will not hear his conscience. He drowns and silences its voice by plunging into the world. He will not allow the inner man to speak to him. But the day will come when con• science will be beard, whether he likes it or not. The day will come when its voice will sound in his ears, and pierce him like a sword. The time will come when we must retire from the world, and lie down on the sick•bed, and look death in the face. And then the clock of conscience, that solemn clock, will sound in his heart, and, if he has not repented, will bring wretchedness and misery to his soul. Oh, no, write it down in the tablets of your heart— without repentance, no peace. "There is no peace, with my God, to the wick ed." Reader, lia 4 va you repented ? If not, will you repeat to day ? "To day, if ye will hear Ilia voice, harutri hot your howls!" atell3TY.—What a blessing to tradesmen is a liberal customer! A farmer went into a store in Boston, the other day, and told the keeper that a neighbor of his entrusted him with some money to expend to the best ad• vantage, and he meant to do it where he was beet treated. He had been used very ill by the traders in Boston, and he would not part with his neigh• bor's money until he found a man who would trent him about right. With the utmost suavqy, the trader says: "I think I can treat to your liking; how do you like to be treated t" "Well," said the fanner, with a leer n hie "iu the &at. place, I want &weir toddy,' which was forthcom pg. ."*Now, I will have a nice cigar," Hayti the farmer. It was promptly handed him, leisure ly lighted, and then throwing hiniself back in a chair, with - his feet as high as his head, he commenoed puffing away like a Spaniard. "Now, what do you want to pur chase?" says the shopkeeper. "My neighbor. banded me two cents when I,leii home, to buy him• a plug of tobacco -hareyou got the article?" A MAN advertised for a wile, and re quested inch candidate to enclose her car•le de visite. .A spirited young lady wrote to the advertiser in the following terms : "Bir, Ido not enclose my carte, for though there is some authority for putting a cart Wore a horse, I know of woe for puffing one 'before an ass." All Sorts of Paragraphs —Bilgham Young's wife has n cold Sho sneezes by platoons. —Minnesota is experienc i n g religion It finds it an entire), new sensation. is observed that those who Are severly opposed to smoking do not not object to stove-pipe hats. —The right principle is to get and t o give; but. many people have a faculty of leaving of the I,4ter. —The blacks sic making ti general ex odus into the (lull States, but without Moses. —The chap whp fell beck on his 01V4 resources su s tained injuries Which his physician thinks may lead to 4 T i m , difficulty. —When n man uses a cane he confes ses that it necessary to %aye three Ir g ,, instead of the conventional number of t Tim law of gravitation rulos. Even new.vnpors bnve been knowb to be run into dm ground, orment r iif humility IQ -a very good One, but us it has nut been fashion. able its use has hitherto been confined to thr select few —Tha editor of a Radical paper prune. hieg to do hiikdoly fenrleasy. Then let Ism hung himself. --It isn't the size but the giutlity of „ thing that tells, There is sometime, more in one dwarf than in a half-doze n giants —ln Spain, it wonviii at 20 is callvd an "old gal Thn explanatutn Spain at an early period .1' itq eki,tence —Memory Is not always so Ini(1 its II sreint , . People can genernlly remembec what lle•y vitro to I f uhiivfuu, On riiv int; delit,, they lire keen On what is dw• thole _ . _ —Nothing H more tpaefial t h an the '• yea-foci larirk "--but it as in an arch itectural aliect dint wo iety dna insti tution Thin-e corned ita the hat are fla weans conamendable —Any ono possessed of it whole coat anal at clean shaft, if ho is n anoniber ul Congress, caw go in \Yxshtngt nt pooltt. ikt once. —A repast of asses' flesh was luteli served up in a hotel in Lombardy Tht, is all wrong:. Brother should not war with brother. --The farmi‘rs of Santa Rose round Culifornia, aro tu , tenished at a i;t weighinc thirty-four pounds Thus beet beats all beets. —=The reason why Ben. Butler is wo ft candidate for tho Spanish throne, said to ho because the crown jewels art , already stolen —Josh Billings says the pew-renting system was nevqr beard'of in Africa The' "Fifteenth Amendments" there must study up • - A certain Miss Irene Frttout is hv • Wring on Womans' Rights in Indians Her friends`should take that Fat out of the fire. —California pays her State Legisla ture ten 'dollars par day i Rhoda Island ono dollar per day. These figures. do not include " pickings." —Which is the lower House of Con gress ? Both are low enough In all con science but we suppose there must b' somewhere a lowest deep. —The girls of Troy, Now York, sleep with revolvers under their pillows It is not safe to undertake to burgle any where in that vicinity. —A party of the Independent Order of Itolicking Rame, in London, latel2, bagged two hundred door knockers in a single night. —The colored MOM ben of the Oeor gia Legislature are parting their hair in the middle—au indication of their rapid advancement toward civilization. —A Sunday school library recently stolen In Florida. Such theft' ma, be pn&ctive of good by spreading religious trWls where they are most needed. —The children of Rochefort have no names. They aro designated simply a- No. 1, No, 2 and FO on indefinitely This Is both systematic and convenient —The rascal in New York, who ad vertised " small sewing machine , '" for sale at one dollar each,sent to applicant. shoemaker's awl, worth shout fifteen cents. —ln Delaware county ovary man can sit under - his own peed. tree, or If h.• don't lite one peach tree he can go to another, u there are fourtren to every voter in the State.' —A man in Kansas City lost an e3e lately in a lively discussion concerning the 'age of a goose. Therp, were two. geese in the neighborhood Just about that time. B. W. 'tonna, who has been nominated Attorney General by the Democrati of InntaZo, Is ono of th.• ablest men in the State, and ono of the the truest Democrats in the United States. —lt is sold that live thousand con • sumptive patients resort to Minnesota every year. Yes, to die, either there or on tbo way home again. —An exchange says : " The N. Yorl. World is trying bard to become all things to all men." That le, we sup pose, it wants to be '' the world, the flesh and the devil."—Day Rook. —Kilpatrick, Grant's minister t.. Chili, it is said, is doing a hbrse•jocke', business. He was largely in that busi ness during the war--stading govern- Mont mules and robbing ladies' ward robes. --Editorial courtesy must be don below per in the Weist." One pare, speaks of a colleague u a the reeegade squirt who edits the squib at the other end of the block. —The concrete pecverueei put down in some of our streets his been eh ris• toned the poultice pivement,..by some one who has not the fear of the paten • tees before his eyes.— —ThelVelsb !unman impudent saying that it a ;adman was as guide' with her Met as she is with her tongue, she mild catch lightning eaough to kindle the firelp thevforning. -=-The'buban Jutita are at flats if. with each other. It would be better it they would use their weapdbi' against the . eommou enemy the Spaalish inva ders of the Gans' of the Antilles. , • •
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