PtgDernocratic Watcliman,
LLEP'ONTE,
—For sonic reason or other, 'on
known to us, the "Copy - of
,"Wenring
the Crow," for the pre.eot number of
the WATCHMAN, ha 9 Wed to Make it 9
ippeetrance. We know that it AS ill lie
a disappointment to many of our rend
ere, but not more no, than it t. to our
THE PARTING HOUR
' [The Whoring eXpilaue poem, says the
Pbrtiatid 801/111.10 (Aminseretat, wet. written it )
the late Edward Pollack, tie gift, .1
poet, mi the th of January, IC .7 Avid hn.,
paver been published. It can given the
poet to a friend who was about to th pat
a learner for Oregon, Polhwk \nv ' fake
this; yop ray, pet haps, read and appieetate
the laillaltliMont long after I hate t e.a,d 1,, be
among the lining
There's something in the "ruling hour"
Will chill the warmest henr
Yet kindred, comrades, lore, a, ft wilds,
Are fated all to part,
But this l're seen—and lost, a pang
U.S pressed it on in) tlllll,l
- one whogoes Is happier
Than these helosee. behind
No matter x hat th 4 journey
Adventurous danger.)• far
To the wild deep or bleak it nlirr,
Tn •olttiole, cMvu"—
Still I.IIOITIet il mg elia'or , the heart that 4,1 r
In all of human kind,
And they who gu are httypit
Than those they lento 1W11;t1,1
The hr de gore to the bralegraan ham
With doohunge and with
Plat ttaelenot llore her rnailnlvr •pren.l
Aaron* her cloudy fear.;
Alan! the mother oho 1V111.111.C.
Whet comfort rant •he Mad
Rut thla--the gone to hamo, r
'Chan one }he leaven he
Have you a friend—a comrade dear'
An old and valued (need ,
Be sure l our term of sweet eonrour4e
At length A 4 hi hose an end'
And when you part—as part tout
in will—
Oh, take it not unkd
If be who goes le happier
Thu) you Its leaves behind I 4
God will. it •0.-ant; to
The pilgrims on their wan
Though wash and won, more rise ei WI a
Than a the real Alio may,
And wheel, at lard, poor Irian subdued
Lino down t' .WWI rnalloed,
1.1
'Vh• h n e lltZ t ne t ;t i e I ett l . e 1r:11111171'
Uric°lon's Religion
We have said that the loyal men of
the "higher civilization' . were intervie
ly sensational. In the good old days,
in the life time of the Colistitlllll - 1n of
the United States, this sensational
mania found exercise in an ovation
over an escaped runaway negro, a fen.
tival to a Japanese Tommy, or in tiani
ing pictorials of prize fights, and total
ter), tril r; Since the 0% ertbrow °four
republi form of government, the
, sensationalitits content thenc.elves with
big Joni ficatteins at funerals 'I bus the
remains of Mr. Peabody mere carted
atmut bunt ton it to town, 1111,1 hip,iiess
houses made firstelass advert ieemeni.
out of the dead man's hone. The ob.
Sequies of "Clifton Haase Burling
game," the big queue from China, did
not furnish so good an ads ertising me
dium, but aflorded a capital merry
making. The funeral ni Rea. lieoree
11. %llamas was splendid, rim nnh for
adv erlisement, but Mr self laudation
All the brat es of the ggrant army re
lotion had their speech,. ' ',Lout the
perilous exploits they had peilormed,
tinnier the rt e of the itlnstnuu VI rgtti
lan. They bad moat glonou reeoll Vl'
trouts of themselves &nil of the words ot
approval spoken 14 the dead hero,
when lie saw Or heard of heir pront,e
Old Tau," us he wan usu;illt eagle 1.
hated clap trap, Cubs and leatiterm, a n d
all kinds of S11:11118 II he could uult
have lookea...u,p IrDin ilie Dltti r of lot al
souls, how lie would l ii e longed it,
kick the play unnigeri,'.
But the wont delicious and et d ui-tie
NellSlo/011 ever enjoy I.') the loyal
North was to the case vii Mr. Lin,
I.is going oil ass tit the high Irai4e,i,
style iv nit all the Litt:writ:4i aert:oitipii
iiimetits, all, dress uncle, no a light:,
and music! It wui et/int:6l,ll,g to he
01; no vulgar, shishl) affair
the eau,4ed ma r tyr was the 1,1,4 of the
Patton whileltvnig, void his tragic end
tug igraWied the national vanity in the
highest degree. Kenible and lite elder
Booth never got tip anything better.
Ildrir. Lincoln, too, play td tile part of
V 1141.,, sit nw vi•Cy affect
she anew bereall upon the
dead body, wislit%.l that. she bad died
for him • wondering win they had
murdered the mint and lett the stoner
behind. Oh I it min beautiful, and
kow the nation enjoyed the -imitation !
Then, in her sore herenveindlit; she
shut herself up, would see no 01.1. Inn
carpenters and upholsterer..., whom she
employed in packing up ten boxes and
tile hales of S propertt to be trans
ported to the lone homestead in Illi
nois. And then, in the desolation of
her widowed heart, she bold six of the
martyr's shirts
A gorgeous tier if; gat up at the na
tional eAense and the martyr is put
on exhibition, first at Philadelphia.
Flo ‘ wers, fremh-ftwers, are brought by
lovely ladies and laid reverently upon
the collie... One of the lair donors
niapagee to get up a respectable faint
—probably overpowered by the odor
from the metallic box which contained
the martyr aforesaid. The lipeetators
are enraptured. It is a sensation o
the first thegfiltede. So they grateful
Ty stint, ld 111:11, thp Mimes of thernWeut
&pith, And iii lair lerttera the name of
O
gillf!, 114,tyllkwhu falated:
to 40'5 Ark; itootlice pig, 8110 W,
anottoetaturi of flowers, yojio. faint
ing. On up the tiudson ; anot h er ex
thibttolle4rifrri,7,6ights teat*, and
14ti;lid rid &Wit " •A ' tr I Phila.
llit twit -Lposaildy be
-414,e;
c . ettiee thal"littys,l)9N ti), (be
at~Toa'iv.t
8 1 4 trq.4.l)incifl
wax, •
94144%. 1 14' 91V944., ' paoll; Out
m
hoe,at,Orena . 1 / 'Wks es ilult•
Now occurs asingeleede/ity in the per;
fortnance of the last sensational rites.
i s o me devotad loyalists ,had made at I
present, of a burial lot, itoping to hand
down glicir mtnies‘tolhe lat#st getter
noon ha cOtieection with the illustrated
martyr, mud to secure forever a' tirst
clit-s advectits4sut,torltihitir Anteing's.
lint. the agouisidol in tie depths
of her anguieli, e et o let use nor
,ht r be"plante *t re,. n4I IV fie -shli
pie titloof tie e t atOttilittle .oiretr to
($
her. The ad Trtising Aoliors said,
No,novet!" ID Was a rich sensation,
almost equal to Mat of the Booth per
formance in Ford's Theatre, at Wash..
ington. Ittit, then, the scandal might
slarrmget the party, and so a comprom,
Ise was etfee(ed between the 'neon/4okt
hlgovidois and the advertisers.. Tim,
' tortyr was buried at last.
And now the artists go to work to
I get rip fresh.setisations. Beautiful pic
tures are produced representing the '
triumphant entry of Abraham Lincoln
' into Heaven ; Washington crowns hint
with float er-, cherub angels warble
aroursi him, golden, harps strike up
anthems ot welcome. Millions of these
pictures arc sent out, ,tail picture nest
ers grow rich, and the last 'sensation
is better than (he first
'rue nation is still not surfeited with
the sensational tenet. So the irreprea
slide Geo. 11. Poker, the indomitable '
poetaster ot l'hilaslelphia, gets up a
litchi-drama called the "Celestial lies
A rein," The marts r and the slain Fed
oral generals are represented as reviews
rug Ille shun Fisleral (roors in the pres
s mice of the I'ItI•NCE OF PEACE!!!
flits is the grand crowning sensation
tit' all, anil the local bear( has enjoyed
it exitinsitel. It has been a feast •of
am, on the leese The tint or sit blas
phemy hanging around it making it
ilel 'emus to the god]) loyalist.
But the richest thing, in connection
a ith pictorial and pectin'. representa
I twits of the Banded marts r in Paradise,
is this. ale belie% eft iii nor Lenten,
' nor hell, nor God, nor angels,:nor ile,
il. In his more genial moments, Ile
, helloed in (bid and heaven, but not in
hell. In hit seasons of mental gloom,
' which were very Irequent, he was an 1
,il/1/.ist. I
W. 11. Herndon, Esq., the law parts
tier of Mr. Lincoln before Inn election
to the Presidency, : has 'written a letter
to the Toledo Moo) Index, a Inch has
beets copied into Forney's Chronicle.
'Die first 1.. a InNal paper, the second
Is the organ nil ley :thy . so tie Lake it
that loyalty has endorsed the letter as
genuine and rehalle. Mr. Ilerichai
hiniselt i s aliat lie calls a Theoh, and
he contend-1 that Mr. Lincoln aas the'
same a licheier in one God, but a
scoffer at Christianity. IVe give court'
. \inct rect.'s, premising that the tlalies are
ours and Wit Mr:llerudon'o. I
, SraiNtitill.l.O, 111. Feb. lh W7O. 1
MIL Annul. : Koine time since I la.oin
iced you (hat I aisuld scud It Icier in
relation, to Mr. Lincoln's religion. I
do so unto. Itefore entering on that
question, one or two preliminary re
marks %sill hell) us to understand why
he disagreed with the Christian world
In ILI prlliCliolvii as well as in it, shoot
0, - .it In the firs( place, Lincoln's mind
wiLt a purely logiral mind; secondly,
Lincoln ass purely a practwal 'nem
Ile had nil homey or imagination, sold
not much emotion Ile has ft realist
s- otiolite , eol to an idealist .1.. , a gerrir
al rule, it not true thnt a purely logolal
mind has not mliell hope, if It ever lilts
Mit/i lit the uoisern awl unknown Mr.
Lincoln had not much hope and no
Idith iii things outside of the domain ot
demonstration ; he mi., so coin-hinted
--•n orgamunii--that lie could belie% e
nothing unless his seines ot logic could
rear li ii I have °lien rival to lion a
bra isniit, a decision, or something I
fancied , lie could not understand It
till":"Mie took the book nut of nit , hand
anti read the thing for honed'. Ile
could scarcely understand anything
st al e ,* lie liaff time and place lived iii
his mind
I hPearne !Mill/laded Millh Mr. Lin
coln in ltel-t, and I think I knew him
well to the day of his death. hit
iiiiritl ; when a mint in Kviillleltl, i•110 1 / 1
eil a egrtatthgloytth an utotucia) nature,
a I soenlifir alsitractethiess, a boil.] and
during skepticism. lii Indiana, from
11(17 to Is3o, It maniteatml the same
spialsoes or attributes iis in Kentucky ,•
it only inteasitied, slcteloped ite•elf
along those line*, in Indiana. Ile came
to Wittills in 1830, and, after smile lit
(le roving, settled in New Salem, now
in M.ensird count-1, Illinois. This vil
.!age hes at,otic testa' liiiiii , ' tiOriliViek
of this tilt. li use leis dust Mr Lin
coin I.e, :one ai. i ii.iiiiteil with a elms
of wen the world never saw the like ot
bettore tor Mince They Kerr large men
-Lai ile in Lod) am( large in mtnid ;
lined tiS whip, and never to lie fooled.
rite) acre a bold, daring, and 11•Ckleiiii
yet of men; they were men of their
own minds—believed whet wits tletlioll
strahle-- were men of -great common
pence. With-tltese men Nis. Lincoln
was thrown ; with them he lived, and
with liitlll he moved and allitust had
fns being, They were ft.! tics all
scoffers some.
a a a a a 1
"Ipwas here, and among these Iwo
pie, that Lincoln was thrown. About
the year 1634 he chance) to come
across "Voltielv . B 'Rohm," and some of
Paine's theological works. He at
onto seised hold of them, and aantint
tated,theot.tuto his own being, Kol•
t a tt y mad Paine becanto a part of Mr.
Lincoln Iront 1134 fo, the end of lom
nre. In 18:15 lie wrote out a Smell
work nit "Infidelity," and intended to
have it publtithed. It was an attack
upon tha--whole g=onini Di Crtstinni
ty, apd especially was it an ,attack
upon the idett that 3esus Was the Christ,
the true And only hegottott Ron of (16,1,
as tho Chriatina wet-id contends,' Mr.
Linqtd a POW ntthe glott st• Now Salem,
e9pi pet bluff), for ; Mr. ;iatopel Ili I I, a
merchant atnrjtstinenter of titneptace.
Afitl I"tver , e *cry friendly.
ekeptie al that
Anne.) 4 1 in4lri, one, any, after }he book
}TfOr
goo li f it -16 "440,4 to Mr . 11111-. bis
al r
rie t :' forint:Stgot d oft to fell hOw
Hill tried tO parkin& Lincoln not to
publish tlte , boOlt,'lteat it altonhl dant
age his political career. Lincoln was
resolute abqiit the publication and Hill
snatched at the inanusegipt, ran;inlo
aher rosuoi and thallinv it intio'the
fir !• , l
1
nether ' tregOt lie etre
1
fr. L col ran • for' Congres s itgqnst he tell: Pierkartairightt, in
lb. yea ) 1 oit,l N. j
t Lin that eon
tetitli als cuied, f *ling an ittitilel,
If riot an atheist s, lie never tleo4d the
oliarge—would not—"would die first : 0
in the first place, because lie knew it
could and would be proved on him :
and in the second place, he:was too true
to his own convictions, to his own PCIII
Ito deny it. From what L knew of M.
Liucolti, and from what I..have heard
and verily believe, I can say : first,
that lie did not relieve in a special
creation, his Idea betting that, all crea
tion was nn evolution tinder law : sec
ondly, he did not ' , clime that the lb
tile was a revelation from 140.1, as the
Christian world contends ; thirdly, lie
did not bel it.% it in miracles, as under
stood by the Iliristian world ; fourthly,
he believed in a nin crsal inspiration
and miraeles,under I:sw ; fifthly, lie did
not hello e that Jeans was the Christ,
I the Son of God, as the christ an world
contends; sixthly lie believed that all
thing., both matter and mind, were
governed by lawn, universal, absolute,
and eternal. All his speechel and re
mark. in Wash i tigton conclusi % ely
prone this. Law, inns iii Lincoln every
1 t hi ng al, I ..pocuil interference Olains
and L lelti.inn , I know whereof I
speak. I used to loan Jinn Theodore
Parker's works ; I loaned hint Eine! ,
son, soinettinvs, and other writers, and
be %%o'll,l Lutnetiines read and some
* men would nut, I suppose nay,
know
"When 3fr. Lincoln left thin en \
for Wanltittiztol%, I knew lie hail tinder
gone ito (littlige in bin religion.; opm
vim, and lie held ninny of the
('lit an in • ahltorrenre, and
among them wan thin one, namely,
that God would lorgive tie sinner for
a 1,,14.11,01 if iii, latVO. L1110)111
( ;id C 011 1 ,11191 forgit e ,
I th a t punt-ihment would follow the tin ,
that Christ mutt v wne wronz in tench
ing forgrineen; that it tended to make
man Fin the in hope that tiod would in
cuse, and -o forth, Lincoln contended
that the tninkter should teach that
(lid Lan affixed ptitoshment to , tn,and
that no reinnitanee wand bribe lIIITI to
revolt it. In one e•ent,e ul the aura,
:\lr Lincoln 1%11,4 a Unlner-qtlikt, and In
another .01.0 lie alto
but lie was a Theist, an we ant, under
stand that word , lie watt so lofty, tree-
It, unt i nt‘titall‘, hot Nt, !tn.] ( , penile,
;then our lit. stews. Mr Lincoln
wan will.p,ed I 111,111 . % people in that
rill, to he ;ill Atliei , t. and conic still
in. I
ran put that hopponition
at rent forever. I hold a letter of Mr.
Litle.oln m tut hand, addrenned to Inn
step brother, John I) Joh nnon, an d
trtted the 12. th day 3amiltr
Ilere follows tine hotter, upon which
Mr Ilernilon cninmenta thus:
it neetnn that )Ir. Ltnecati he
lie% ea ui (it'd nn , l 11,111wrailly, nn in t , ll
tin beaten n Filer. lie belleved in
no Lill all.l 1,,, ionulalirnent in the fin=
tore world
,ittehuso (Ara .11r. Lehr.lo fa big mo
ments of melancholy awl ,mole
war lir, yq ,, Y /he
and .1 dirt 4ira ',Mel/Ulf.? quit(' wholly
du-film , ' Alhe,grit. In kts harp/
wurruntl4 bricmibf inclng buck lo Theism,
and dwell Mere. It is po.3sible
lhat :11 . r I.moulli uu, nut ulnnt, res
ponsible fur i , ,bat lie•totiST - or thr4iglit,
h 4) I riteroe, 55:14 111 , 4
ttlelfifleh , ll3 "
Mr ifern.lon then greet on In shoo
that Mr. llollit I knew that he war,
leIIII no uqtruth ahem, to Lis "Lite
of Li:10 , 111, " reprChC,,th ( . 110 Mart) r
tII Laic been It chriat r iall:
tar more brief extract 19 all that we
can ve •
I ‘lo not remember of ever seciug
the cord Jeits ur Christ m print, QV
uttered 11 Mr. Lincoln If he has
the*OAvor.lA, they ran be found
Ile ueol the word Cod hut seldom. I
never liettr.l him uhe the name Of
Ghrtst ur Jesus but to confute the idea
that II,• an. the Christ, the only awl
truly begotten son of Grnl, am the
ehriatian . world undermittiiil it."
' ! ' lint tt etrangr f , ettillt. theme Ito
:LI men of the "higher civihiattou ,
but the mtrangeat thing about the m 1.4
their Neleviiim 01 'dolls before wlliellito
i'd,ll,l o wii and wormliip. They are late
ralk "IVor.hipper4 of .vler2Ryr ,:0,14'
--,timtl her n
Quickly
Quiekly voting man I Life is short
A greet, work Is ['enure you. It you
aunld surketsl in business, aim your
way to honor, anfl mme tour soul,
mint fln with your might what )011/
handy find to do. The sluggard flies.
•I'hi• .hell fit time rolls over him and
crofflies lion while he «deeps. Aim
high and awl. hard. Lite is uorth
the hi mg, and Ilea% en worth the gam
fool all will be won or lost while
the fifty goeth nwny.
quickly, ye men of humus:ea and
iiiightlYoar life is Inure Ulan half gone
alreafly. Vuu have passed the crest
of the and are looking towards
the setting sun. That young roan
who walks by your aide and calla you
lather is Agroaftua tall and man-dike,
and begins to bilk of the great things
he %sill .1.10. lie will iucrease, but
}•oil will decrease. If you have any
thing vet to do fur your Goa or your
own soul, yid lIIIISt do it quickly.
glattlevra are eQ frog, and the night
conieth. •
Quickly, ye aged Ince you thought
threw ifeore and ten to he an entllees
trine to paits'away. They have tame
and pone. They have left their mark
upon you.. (lave the, felt any loon
notenoi of good done or made record of
a cod aiorltterti"Y - rro -have conic to
logirialLiee Awl ixecubling. You have
come to utaetgrly faith, and tc:).pe that
looks stealifantly to the end 7
Alf quldkly, •rlgm toth6tf; tihd
gray haired eitett I 'Already the meager)
gere of death begin to tender their 11 eiv•
icea, and thet cad ie at, hAntl.
THE LATEST SONG
tiOtita—Wife at the piano; brute of a hug•
twain, bag no more soul for mime than Ilia
hoot, m an sitioining apartment, matting hill
toilet.
Oh nobehlds The if I weep
Oknee, Wife, and dew Oita button on.)
Htfelt )min es mine (ph never/Hoop;
("Monde he flireiroTherl gone)) v
For UhrevOlte ;lord rhkge grim!,
weals, w fe, gut being your sOIRAGM.)
And fhty'a vote* girls ne
(The child I Seed Loral Inea at my ruore)
No balm to ease the troubled heart,
( Wild starched thl, bosom I declare)
That vrrithea from Ilate'e envenomed dart.
onongla to make a parson sacra I)
When faith In man Is given tap,
(Hew plagpey shtftiese Ere memo women f
Then Sorrow fills her bitter cup,
(11l liars to got any other linen I)
And to its leen the white lips halal
tralth say, he's cemfaig tomight,)
While Mellee yield., her mockinglangh
(With A., and Jones, and Wright.)
ii, ttonl.l I stifle iu rry.breaftt
(.1.11.1 tall will 'bring some prime old
4herry))
This aching heart, and give it Hiatt -•
(Well inset some eggs for Tom-and-Jerry )
('nullLethe's waters o'er me roll,
(The, wt....kings would look better megd•
tt')
And bring °bait ion to my aged—
(When will von-hate that,litty-endelly
Then Happy 1. In tither skies,
ne,t better hate the oysters fried!)
Might find thfildve,that earth denies
(There' now at Hull my dickey's tied I)
—New iNtk Clippet
An Incident of the War of 1812
In the summer of 1812 1 witnessed
a most exciting ape - Finale from the lit•
Ile round windows in the easterly end
of the old Statet-.1.14uae.
Commodore Mull and n nuniber of
his officers fend brave tare were chicon
e.l up State street to the Exchange
Coll e y House, where a banquet was in
uniting for them.
They had just returned in the frigate
Constitution, "dtlfl Iron:tides," after
her successful cruise, during which
she raptured the British frigate. (liter
rit re, utter a brief and bluo,lc fiction,
It is related of Captain !Intl that he
will dad in a pair of Nankin panta
loona; the day being very hot, itnidthe
excitement of the ship to
get the weather-gauge of the enemy
didn't tend to allay a profuse perspira
tam. Meanwhile his lieutenants were
continually coining to hini, inquiring,
"Captain Hull, shall we fire'•• "No,"
said lie, "when I saw the word, then
let them has e it." 'Watching the fit
vorable opportunity, lie exclaimed,
"X ou!' and fitting the wont to the ac
min, raised his foot and stamped a n
emphatic '•Npiv t - --but the force of
his act, being more than nioist Nan
km could hear, lie split his pantaloons,
its the tare•md, "from clew to ear
ring, nuuultaneouely with the tir.t
All lii - inton was in a state of exul
tant exeitentent, am, the cheers and
lir.zati and Waving 01 lintidkerchieln
went roil)) '•with a will"—State street
wan attic!
In the mid-t iif all thin excitement,
and mine happier on that day, ACM
,John A., who, tinder peculiar circwtn•
atances, carat paeccuger in the trig
ate.
It k gal.!, "facts are stranger than
fiction," an.l his (APO MU) an apt illus
tration Milts saying—RA I shall PA
tOrtil—b , lt to my story.
tlapt..l., master amt owner of the
I.tig II mon, tinilel from Boston to Ca
,l./, Ow ar %Va. nrel , for a
cargo of cab, taking with him his son with admirable taste and nn almost.
,11,11 n, a Ind about tioirteen years of inatinetive pere.eptrtni of the taicoming,
age. .lint riean women abroad tiro
to his retlirti totagr, deuplV lailene - Mit*trip all competitors in the art or
(war ha. mg commenced uteaunhtlel , dressing - Plifriam•3 Ilagazine
he wa* plodding quietly along, when
he , li-revered it large phi!) bearing down
upon him, which proved to be the
littlish frigate Uuernere, Capt, pacre,
l'apt .1., was ordered on board
1114 paper-, and as there was nn altor
rout e, he
... complied. Capt.
niter e‘ftinriing the ;papers, declared
the brig a price, arid her Crew Anson
err, Capt. A., stated to Inc captor~
dial this Silt, an excet , lirigk hard p,t%e
for him, iN bitilittle all was inve.)ted
in the ves,el and cargo, and it would
beggar him, to vt filch Capt ()acre*,
who. by the way, Lelia% ed m it !Mot
gvnUvuruilt manner, replied that he
might rati.oni his vegse,,L , and cargo
raid (',apt. A., I have nothing t•
ransom with
Well, said Ilacree, give me a draft
NI Boston for $- --
and av I was you /14.114411110L1 oil board,
II take fo m as a hostage for the faith
till paym e nt of the same—and will give
you a pass through the bleckedni g
woad rtm, le.11:001/ ./(441 A., w as
transferred to the deck or the frigate
rbierriere, and the draft being given,
thev pursued (heir several ways—the
old brig plodded on, was overhauled
li) the s q uadron, the Admiral of which
gave 'apt. Ibteres e- -well tint a
blessing. for permitting' her to pass -
hut alter this ebilllttion of wrath wa-v
over, allowed her to go.
Meanwhile the frigate cruised eight
days, when the rry went birth, a sail !
a frigate ! a 'Yankee frigate! clear
away the decks and prepare for fief ion.
John A,, was called into the calati,and
Capt. Itacres asked John if lie would
go into the 'mizzen top with the boys
(liy the way, there were t,ev
eral renewtile Yankees on hoard); but
on a peremptory refusal to fight
own countrymen, he was ordered to
the berth deck, Dacres saying he was
responoble for his safety. Hardly htt.l
the boy got there, when bang t Crash
crash ! cams the sounds above, and the
dead, dying and wounded were rapidly
br oug ht down, and, brood flowed like
water. A terrible period of suspense
entitled, and then the cheer of victor,.
But to whoa) was it awarded; to onr
enemies, or was it, ours?
„Soon atupvntle and. *we were ex.
Changed fur joy. 5,01 th
,nall had site.
combed, and now clie transfer of pris
oners to old Ironsides And the boy,
.fohh stood/again beneath; his dent
old flag.. .
•
Lucky was it for John that liepos.
Bossed the-true Yankee gritand refused
to act with the boys, for, ne the old
song saj;s—
"The-44AL Latgadiatteltiladrd,
Bropgbt o th o ,,
;.•,1 'KZ.; refit? "
Whjdh „ ,
After cruising for agme, days,, the
Constitution meanwhile having
,blseen
the disabled nuerricre'up, cart. , Dull
wow
returned to Bostou—and .11,5‘ ea, the
pilotcarne on board, he saw J ,
n 1)( y
i t
the way, he was a e Di , ItYr, at
the devil
,are Jon d ng hate?" he' x
elairnadt• "Do yo know Ilse bey?"
said Goalmodoee hull. "Why : les;
he's akn old ticnusintanag', 'W . F II ,
then," said ths!Conamodo ";akeNien
and hie baggase ashore in your boat
to 11 is parents.'
nacres was taken to Boston and
lodged at Concert Hall, and treated
with the generous hospitality ota mag
nanimous Me,
After about twenty days the old brig
)(want and her briny cargo came saii•
ing up the harbor, and tire father was
overjoyed and surprised to find his boy
hid preceded him and arrived home
tinder such happy circumstances.
Suffice it to say, the draft given to
nacres was paid by the consignees up
on presentation, •
The hoy John
,subsequently went to
sea in the private brig Rambler, which
was so successful, and was put on
board a priLe (schooner) taken. lie
was captured, taken to England, and
was in Dartmoor Prison at the time of
the massacre.
Alter the war he thr many years
commanded ships in the India trade,
and now at a good 0 . 141 age ei enjoying
"otium cum digit/tate, - the remem
brance of having ildne Ida country
some eery ice,— Boston Transcript.
Beauty of American Women
Nature has endowed the American
lady with a profusion at rich gifts far
beyond her less Invored Rioters abroad.
really great beauties. are compara
ely rare - and even on lid, point
the (lit ersity of taste may lead to a
difference of oplnlon —the majority of
women are more than merely fair.
They are, almost without exception,
delicately made, and in this re-pest
very different Iron die rohus. t.p)e of
the .Errglish girl of the period, with
her ruddy color, and full form ; and
her deep masculine voice, arid still
inure different from the heavy, angu
lar German girl, who couitimes su
niyitWertowsly an immense amount of
sentimentality milt an unlimited ap
petite—. The neck and the extremities
are unilormily so small that European
iqablishinelits have to make collars;
hloie+, and blinem especially for the
A merican market, certain Firiem of thee
three articles tieing utterly twpsitlablei
ru Europe. Henee, spent the Amen
can girl readies her natural heaven,
Paris, and has been fur a few weeks in
the hawk or French arth-ts, she is
simply perfection. She outshinee the
Perlman oil her owl) privileged ground
111( . 11 IS 11l ioneinber n heir ew
York beam) rho tpoted Paris when
the Emperor wan will l'rwodimt, and
the furore hex erepiente toilets created
whenever she appeared at the opera,
at. the Elyeee, or at the Bow, Younger
men net d not be reminded of the recent.
rivalry between one of their beautiful
ernintrywomen T ad the brilliant Met
ternich, and the desperate but futile
efforts tnade by the great arbiter ul
fashion to nri,t the crown ul I ictor)
from her hawk. great
natural advantage. in healitv aridgrace
LOAD M I , ' At I. tlt 14 A Hot —The
following alowdote of land Aliteaulay
is taken (roll, a letter o alien by a
'4•otell school boy, durimr, 1114 VaCti
(loll, to Ids hither in r: r , ll, dated
'Claplinn, September YU, (8111. ' After
describing his journey from the hout,e
of ),Itit tutor at,,Norfulk, arid his arrival
at 6tipllann, he goes on . "NEN. Mite
(inlay ham got the firo , t family of rhil
tin-en I ever saw. The oldetnt of them,
of ten, cattle at ten-time RIO
shook handy laßk.t heartily. A keen
dispute aro-ie. before', Iwo arid hit tas•
ter about Scotland and England
insisted that Ile 1121. a Sentsmtin, and
that he shottlit henceforth be called
Tam inotead of Tom. Ile called one
()flits ei'tere dean, in•dead 01 datie,and
a younger brother .loch, imntead . of
John,whieLA.pntfhenn quite furious. It
Wftli goal -- lon how fiercely they
fought. - The writer of tine used often
t o .peak of Nl:leanly.% aw the very cle%
ere , t buy he e‘er met, oak the one
exception, of the hue John I/11,nm
Lockhart. Both of these boys were in
co:aqua reader',
Abraham Limoln used to say the
best story he mer read of himself' was
this Two (loahen•mseH were travelling
oil the railrMul, and were heard discos
sing the probable termination of the
war. "I think," said the first, "that
Jettettion t4licceo(.'"• Wily dues
thee think so "Because Jefferson is
a pm) mg man!: "And so is Abraham
a praying mart, ' objected the other,
" but the Lord will\thitik Abra
ham is joking,' the first replied, con.
CIIIRI eel y.
A HOMII with wtielt the Prrrich pm.
pieare quito fumil Lar--bom-bast.
Wti tem ckew n bonnet eons') to be a
bonnet? When it becomes you, my
dear. ,
CoNstnEitir‘u that the Pacific Rail
road i 4 to become the medium for trans
porting of eastward, we presume the
track is laid with the Trail.
IT is generally supposed . that Old
Ocean allows a free passage to every
body, yet it is R fact fhat there are thou
sands of deiid beads at the bottom,
--An aid lady named Clarke, aged alxnat
sixty years, • realdent Woodqe, twit'
Jaimetown, (el, dead, on Monday morning
last, while standing at a table welshing diShee.
—A coupe of sI ng Mar people, R mate and' II
female, appear - ea In Johnsto — w — nrist week and
preached, as the PublictEkilliith. ,They were
c1a44,44 Shaker coPtuiclulloo,4pPC4r.Spr°r7
Godly outside. Ile au& man 'preached that
ehrlit 'WOuildr Wettin 'rhYee
month m, bdi clict , ,flel, 14p to ! who., wiLy,,or 4'or
what purpose. rho female man preached a
aermonhn womah's rights and tree love. The
clergyman were out to here them.
All Sorts of Paragraphs
LTour linibet-LAunhearns„
Twaendst pordlnr wash—wkitewasli.
PLEADING Wt tlio bar—begging a
drink.
Tux swootnors of lifo—our coffee.).
tiotTeTre.
OLD men are mowed down, hut babiei
are cradled.
A BELL} doeiei . rtlwayx gi•a the Lest
tone to society.
Nor the chimney for a studio— ono
that won't draw.
To say of a lady'she is .no
is afoul assertion.
la a temparance lectuce synonymou s
with a water F pout?...
WHAT RAH) would cennileds inefer 7
The brrh of n bey.
Tut; kind of p u nishment 6,
vcirh—papor hangings.
S o of fall—banana and or.
now, peel on the sidewalk
nit: girl of the period's favorite eve
ning hymn (him)-her lover.
FultNEr says "the Renate 13 sound
IL is pretty much all sound.
Wu EN riding on a donkey, what fruit
do you rrprepont? A pear.
ORLFI EY is discoursing on "tin. folly
of lying " He ought to know.
A CAPITAL letter—The proppe • hold
er who lets his houses nt reduced rate..
IF you wish to 'see a woman go my
a flash, just accuse her of wing
o,y wily of giving a loan a itoolon
of rising in the world Knoeft him
down.
Tae bachelor has to look out f ,, r
number ono—the married man for ❑am
ber two
N E of our Iftwyera venturfN to n ,,, rt
tlint courting ig not altogt•ther n hlhwr .,f
love, •
As' anomaly—that the river sh.ell.l
be rising when it is constantly goin , 4
down.
To limp warm of ft cold dtty, women
doublo tho (aim mind man double Cho
horn.
To cum corns ; hold your foot by ti)
stove until the corn pops. Saul t , ,:be a
All ro cure.
" Yousu ladies of tho lower parlor
is what tho kitchen girls of H' ton c:111
themgelvei
A NionKn rnin.trol ought not An
Neither nitt.t he be with.,ut
bone:,
Wisgsw owtrriod man bP04111)011444),04i,
it 1 , 7 perfectly proper for his wife to pull
his oars.
. Ton Suez Canal is like the style of
some writer—tt. flows ruioothly enough,
but hicks depth
A QVP.ATION' of color—W6lll,l I° b••
proper to cull an Ignorant colored labor.
or a green hand ?
LIAT clum ought never to the ‘ltiL
consumptlon ? Nlerchunti w ith !It
inm che4l.4
Wurc beaux beennlp 'nose in tb. lr
.)„ni t ; Iwlue, hhould Kiva them
thu Bonque.
SOM OfICI inn:, about our ,00 ( .1 *l% Crll
ment A 3 how ndmmi•torod It I+
f'r nothing.
A f'ONTRM PORA RY that Ot e r all
Lull-room doors should Lo tuncritnA,
"Fool, out for tho train
I r hi nlrunq enough to trinkol a WWI
h - jan inn hoad when he ha,
0111 V bah f-il-c ro w n I
TILL tart ft - going to po! —3l r
100 mote.' In strike out filo paragraph
relating to cat Iron pots
WII an' told to ha% o hop, and gust ,
but %% hat can a f q.vero Uue du w bort li Lau
no longer got nny trust
Wu) are there three ohjeetioN. t
takin4 a glean of brawl) 7 ller au
there are three E.eruplea to a drain
Vous() women often keep their
by lean. " Ye.," 511)1+ Grurowig , 1,0%e
like heel, ie pre , erved by brine'
"Wii tr's in a name'?" A prinr.pni
upholder of giving women "fair play
in England bi niumal Playfair.
AN Indian from thu far fi
dreadful savage, wonders how it is that
almost all our woolen are bump-tau Led
IT li Said:that ever*thing II u
prorr element, but when a 1111111 drink ,
flAh ht. tnlituni tstais to mutter.
It TVAIAT,V. prenehor runrrieri n
ma
plo intoly in lowa. At t h e and .0f the
ceremony the ininttler kissed the gr..n]
TH JaPan"Se clergy puw u% or) tif.
teeen tnlnnu, in their diceour— and -iv,
to their e , mgregation, "lAA 119 hairs
hrnoko "
"F014.0w your nose and you arc
to he right," mayhe kit
it i 4 not every ono that retr i es to Ii Ulu'
no‘ed around , / , '
How tunny wives aro you allowrd by
the prayer Wok? SI/LIAXIII, 164. fw tor
hutt , r, 4 wor,u, 4 richer 4 poor,r t , da l
Bi x teen.
Stlll.llltCl' for a debating a socirty
'Which can citota the moat initiery an
audience, \l lQeen 131.1011unit:1 or the
Ilutchi SOD flintily, •
Hilmtitute fer the
the cradle. Givu women' 'one of
plena of furniture anti they will not de
sire the rither.
AN Illinois grave-digger, who buried
a 'nap mimed Button, Boca a 101 l to ho
widow nit follows • "to making ono but
ton-Hole, $2 60.0
'l'nx beginning of wisdom is to
now know.
noting 4n uncommon number 01
i i :co hce fkbotil. jth,,t, ow who hat ep
nrontly just begun
?tf(Yttrium used >e proVide n switch fur
thdirldsleaphtera 'from the nearest bush ;
now the cht , ughtga gots her own switchei
fropi lUp hair-drplera.
IN Paris there Is current saying that
Where'il Preticlinian trends five francs
an Kagoliiitiman wtll spend twonty, and
an' Anleainjut
11IAy• -
A YOUNG lady who has boon studying
finance for some time past, wishes to
kW)* wilAthbr the, day , rate of gold fa
-beta thlertuttabsi or siigar.
live( greet 911114 al life aro said to
:VgglkAMS. ttPyppipo bias, tight
a Iv As 14 and cross women. The
list di ttilePleithe I •
l A l sl4l 4 tiltisorrlikOki"-*Arito LA know
,w , ls7 , ,;aihicinklow York bag k City Chain
berlo,llAlt s.4couldo't also home 4 Chain
I hermitic!7 Wo iFivo It: up.