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Bellefonte Church Directory.
Presbyterian church, Spring St., services at
at 11 a. in., and 7A- p. m; Rev. Alfred
Yeomans, Pastor: This congregation are
now erecting a new church, in consequence
of which the regular religious services will
be held in the Court House until further
notice.
Methodist Episcopal Church, High St., ser
vices 14 a. m., and l' p. m. Prayer
meeting on Thursday night. Rev. Hie.
Pardoe, pastor.
St. John's Episcopal Church, High St., set-
vices at' 101 a. in., and 71 p. in. Rev.
Byron McGann, pastor.
Lutheran Church, Linn St., no pastor at
present
German Reformed Church, Linn St., servi
ces 107. a. in., and 7.1- p. in. Rev. Mr.
Kelly, pastor.
Catholic Church, Bishop St; services 101
a. m., and 3p. m. Rev. Mr. McGovern,
pastor.
'United Brethren Church, High Street, west
side of creek; services—
African M, E. Church, west side of creek ;
services al 11 a. in., and 71 p. in. Rev.
Isaac Pinvell, pastor.
DIRECTORY.
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President—Andrew Johnson.
Trice-President, pro tern.—Benj. F. Wade
Secretary of State—William H. Seward.
Secretaryof Treasury—Hugh McCullough
Secretary of War—J. M. ScSofield.
Secretary of Navy—Gideon Wells.
Secretary of Interior-0; H. Browning.
Postmaster-General—A. L. Randall.
Attorney- General—Wm. M. Evarts.
EMI!
Governor—.Jno. W. Geary.
Sec'y of Commonwealth—Frank Jordan.
Deputy-Secretary of Commonwealth—lsaac
B: Gara.
.A uditor- General—John F. Hartranft.
Surveyor-General—Jacob M. Campbell.
Treasurer—W W. Irwin.
Attorney- General—Benj. H. Brewster.
Dep'y-Att'y General—J. W. M. Newlin.
Sup't of Cont. Schools—J. P. Wickersham.
Sup't of Corn. Schools—C.R.Coburn.
Sup't of Soldier's Orphan Schools—Geo.
F. McFarland. •
COUNTY
President Judge—Charles A. Mayer:
Aisociates—
John Hosterman ;
William Allison,
Proi7eo2iotitilierrii. Lipton.
Register &Recorder—J. P. Gophart.,
Sheriff—D. Z. Kline.
Deifty Sheriff—D. Woodring.
Dist. Atey—ll. Y. Stitzer,
Treasurer—A. C. Geary.
Wm. Keller,
Commissioners, { Wm. Furey,
John Bing.
Clerk—John Moran.
BELLEFONTE BORO GNI
Chief Burgess—E. M. Blanchard.
Ass't " Capt. C. T. Fryberger.
Chief of Police—Wm. Shortlidge.
" Wm. Felty.
" Amos Mullen.
" Charles Cook.
Town Council—Wm. P. Wilson, Pres't.
S. M. Irwin, Clerk.
Robert Valentine,
gt A. S. Valentine,
Jas. H. McClure,
F. P. Green,
John Irwin, Jr..
tr Elias W. Hale,
Jacob V. Thomas,
to Geo. A. Bayard,
High Constable—Jamespreen,
Borough C o nstable—James Furey.
School Directors—Joh Hoffer, Preet.
lc Directors—Go o n
. B. Weaver. J.
// Win: McClelland, Tre'e
tr S. T. Shugart,
f• D. M. Butts,
Dan'l McGinley.
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BISHOP STREET, BELLEFONTE PA
The oldest Meat Market in Bellefonte.—
Choice meat of all kinds always on hand.
ja6'69.ly. B. V. BLACK.
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"0000 D-BY, OLD ARM 1"
A Hospital Incident.
The knife was still—the surgeon bore
The shattered arm away;
Upon his bed, in painless sleep, _
The noble hero lay.
no woke, but saw tho vacant place
Where limb of his had lain,
Then faintly spoke : " 0 let me see
INly strong right arm again!
" Good-by, old arm !" the soldier said,
As he clasped the fingers cold;
And do7n his pale but manly cheeks
The tear-drops gently rolled;
t i My strong right arm, no deed of yours
Now gives me cause to sigh; -
But, it's hard to part such trusty friends
Good-by, old arm! good-by !
"You've served me well these many years,
In sunlight and in shade;
But, comrade, we have done with war—
Let dreams of glory fade.
You'll never more my saber swing
In battle fierce and hot;
You'll never bear another flag,
Or fire another shot.
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" I do not mourn to lose you now,
For home and native land;
Oh! proud am I to give my mite
For freedom pure and grand !
Thank God! no selfish thought is mine,
While here I bleeding lie,
Bear, bear it tenderly away—
Good-by, old arm! good by I"
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From The Irish Republic.
THE WIDOW'S DREAM.
BY MRS. RICHARD C. KENDALL
I had a dream, a mad'aing dream,
About the witching midnight hour;
A husband, children, home r the theme—
It was a dream of wondrous power :
To worthless, drunken, brutal churl,
I gave my home, my all of joy.
What do you think of that. my girl ?
What do you think of that my boy ?
My husband fell in Freedom's cause,
A gallant soldier, brave and true:
And I forgetting honor's laws,
And fealty to his memory due,
Before the swine had cast my pearl,
For them to trample, crush, destroy.
What do you think of that, my girl ?
What do yon think of that, my boy ?
Two darling children, bright and fair
As God to mother ever gave,
I sold to want, abuse, despair;
Myself I sold a hopsless slave.
No more for them the cheerful whirl
Of pleasure, or the wished-for toy.
What do you think of that, my girl?
What do you think of that, my boy ?
While anguish thrilled my wretched heart,
From Heaven dawned a radiant beam—
I woke with torror's painful smart, .
And thanked my God 'twas but a dream.
Not for the wealth of duke or earl
Would I your happiness destroy,
My loving, fair-haired, angel girl—
My noble, handsome, darling boy.
pioallang.
A FRENCH WILL STORY.
"Is she dead, then?"
"Yes, madame," replied the gentle
man in brown coat and short breeches.
" And her will?"
"Is going to be opened here immedi
ately by her solicitor."
"Shall we inherit anything?"
"It must be supposed so ; we have a
claim."
"Who is the miserably dressed per
sonage who intrudes herself here?
"Oh, she ?" said the little man sneer
ingly, "she won't have much in the will.
She is sister to the deceased."
"What, that Anne, who wedded a man
of nothing, an officer?"
" Precisely so."
" She must have no small amount of
impudence to present. herself here before
a respectable family."
" The more so, as sister Egerie, of no
ble birth. has never forgiven her that
mesalliance."
Anne moved this time across the room
in which the family of the deceased was
assembled. She was pale, her fine black
eyes were filled with precocious wrinkle.
" What do you come here for ?" said,
with great haughtiness, Madame de Vil
leboys, the lady who, a moment before,
had been interrogating the little man
who had inherited with her.
" Madame," the poor lady replied
with humility, "I do not come here to
claim a part of what does not belong to
me; I come solely to see M. Dubois, my
sister's solicitor, to inquire if she spoke
of me in her last hours."
" What! do you think people busy
themselves about you?" arrogantly ob
served Madame de Villeboys; "the dis
grace of this great "house—you wedded
a man of nothing, a sailor of Bona
parte's.";
"Madame, my husband, though a
child of the people, was a brave soldier,
and what is better, an honest man," ob
served Anne.
At this moment a venerable personage,
he notary, Dubois, made his appear-
ance.
"Cease," said he, "to reproach Anne
with a union which her sister has long
forgiven her. Anne loved a brave,
generous and good man, who had no
other crime to reproach himself with
than poverty and the obscurity of his
name. Nevertheless, had he lived, if
his family had known him as well as I
blew Mm—lhis old friend—Anne would
BY GEORGE COOPER
"Let us See to it, that a Government of the People, for the People, and b the People, shall not Perish from the Earth."—{A. LINCOLN.]
be at this time happy and respected."
" But -why is this. woman here ?"
"Because it is her place to be here,"
replied the notary, gravely; " I myself
requested her to attend."
M. Duboise then proceeded to 'open
the will.
"I, being sound in mind and heart,
Egerie de Damening, retired as a board
er in the Convent of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus, dictate the following wishes as
the expression of my formal desire and
principal clause of my testament:
•
"After, my decease there willbe found
two hundred thousand francs in money
at my notary's, besides jewelry, clothes
furniture, and also a chateau worth two
hundred thousand francs.
"In the convent, where I have been
residing, there will only be found my
book, 'Mures de la Viarge,' holy vol
ume, which remains as it was when I
took it with me at the time of the emi
gration. I desire that these objects be
divided into three lots.
"The first'lot, the two hundred thous
and francs.
" The second lot, the chateau, furni
ture and jewels. •
" The third lot, my book, Heures de
la Virge."
" I have pardoned my sister Anne the
grief she has caused to us, and I would
have comforted her in - her sorrows if I
had known sooner of herreturn torranoe.
I compromise her in my will.
" Madame de Villeboys, my beloved
cousin, shall have the first choice.
"M.' Vatry, my brother-in-law, shall
have the second choice:"
"Anne will take the remaining lot."
"Ah ! ah !" said Vatry, "sister Egerie
was a good one; that was rather clever
on her part."
"Anne will only have the prayer
book," exclaimed Madame de Villeboys,
laughing. The notary interrupted her
jocularly.
" Madame," said he, "which lot do
you choose !"
" The two hundred thousand francs in
money."
" Have you fully made up your mind?"
"Perfectly so."
The man of law, addressing himself to
the good feelings of the lady, said :
"Madame you are rich, and Anne has
nothing. Could you not leave this lot,
and take the book of prayers, whioh the
eccentricity of the deceased has placed
on a par with the other lots."
"You must be joking, Mr. Dubois ?"
exclaimed Madame de Villeboy3, "you
must really be verry dull not to see the
intention of sister Egerie in all thie.—
Our honored cousin. foresaw full well
that her book of prayers would fall to
the lot of Anne, who has the last
choice."
what do you conclude from
that?"
"I conclude that she intends to inti
mate to her sister that repentence and
prayer were the only help she had to ex
pect in this world."
As she finished these words, Madame
de Villeboys made a definite selection of
the ready money for her share. Mon
sieur Vatry, as may be easily imagined,
selected the chateau, furniture and jew
els as his lot."
"Monsieur Vatry," said M. Doubois
to that gentleman, "even suppose it had
been the intention of the deceased to
punish her sister, it would be noble on
your part, millionaire as you are, to
give at least a portion of yours to Anne,
who wants it so much."
"Thanks for your advice, dear sir,"
replied Vatry: " The mansion is situat
ed on the very confines of my woods and
suits me admirably, all the more so that
it is already furnished. As to the jew
els of sister Egerie, they're reminiscen
ces which she ought never to part with."
"Since it is so," said the notary,"my
poor Madame Anne, here's a prayer
book that remains to you."
"Anne, attended by her son, a hand
some boy, with blue eyes, took her sis
ter's old prayer book, and making him
kiss it after her, she said:
"Hector, kiss this book, which be
longed to your poor emit, who is dead,
but who would have loved you well had
she known you. When you have learned
to read you will pray to heaven to make
you wise and good; and happier than
your unfortunate mother."
The eyes of those who were present
were filled with tears, notwithstanding
their efforts to preserve a feelirg of .in-
difference.
The child embraced the old prayer
book with boyish fervor, and opening it
exclaimed
"Oh! mamma, look, what pretty pic-
tures."
"Indeed!" said the mother, happy in
the gladness of her boy.
"Yes. The good Virgin in a red dross,
holding the Infant in her arms. But
why, mamma, has silk paper been put
upon the pictures ?"
"So that they might not :be injured
my dear ?"
" But, mamma, why are there ten silk
papers to each engraving ?"
The mother looked, and uttering a sud
den shriek, she fell into the arms of M.
Dubois, the nofary, who, addressing
those present, said :
" Leave her alone; it won't be much;
people don't die of these shocks. As for
you, little one," addressing Hector, give
me that prayer book, you will tear the
engravings."
The inheritors withdrew, making va
rious conjectures as to the cause of An
ne's sudden illness, and the interest
whioh the notary took in her. A month
afterwards they met Anne and her eon
BELLEFONTE PA., JANUARY: 6, 1869.
exceedingly well, but not extravagantly,
dressed, taking an airing in a two-horse
chariot. This led them-to make inquir
ies, and they learned that Madame An
ne had recently purchased a mansion for
one hundred thousand francs, and was
giving a first rate education to her son.
The news came like a thunderbolt upon
them. Madame de Villeboys and M.
Vatry hastened to the notary for expla
nations. The good Dubois was working
at his desk.
"Perhaps we are disturbing you,"
said the arrogant lady,
" No matter,l was in the act of settling
a purchase in the state funds for Mad-
ame Anne."
" What! after purchasing a house and
equipage has she still money to invest?"
"Undoubtedly so."
" But where did the Money come
from ?"
" What ! did you not see ?"
" When ?"
" When she shrieked on seeking what
the prayer book contained which she in
herited."
" We observed nothing."
"Oh ! I thought you saw it," said the
sarcastic notary. "That prayer book
contained sixty engravings, and each
engraving was covered by ten notes of a
thousand franks eaoh."
"Good heavens 1" exclaimed Va try,
thunderstruck.
"If I had only known it !" shouted
Madame de Villeboys.
"You had your choice," added the
notary, "I, myself, urged you to take
the prayer book, but you refused." ,
" But who could expect to find a for-.
tune in a breviary ?"
The two baffled egotists withdrew,
their hearts swollen with passionate en
vy.
Madame Anne is still in Paris. If you
pass by the Rue Lafitte on - a fine sum
mer evening. you will see a charming
picture on the first floor, illuminated by
the reflection of wax lights.
A lady who has joined the two hands
of her son, a fair child of scarce -six
years of age, in prayer before an" old
book of "Heures de la Vierge," and for
which a case of gold has been made.
" Pray for me," said the mother.
"And for what else," inquired the
child.
" For your father; your dear father,
who perished without knowing you,
without being able to love you."
" Must I pray to the saints, my moth
er ?"
"Yes, my child, and do not forget a
saint who watches froin Heaven, and
smiles upon us from above the clouds."
"What is the name of that saint, mam
ma!"
The woman, then watering the child's
head with her tears; answers :
"Her name is—Sister Egerie."
How TO RAISE TWENTY DOLLARS FOR
RELIGIOUS PURPOSES.-A. Preacher in a
frontier settlement had been collecting
money for some church object. There
were still some twenty dollars wanting,
and after vain efforts to make up the de
ficiency, he plainly intimated, as he lock
ed the church doer one day after service,
that he intended to have that said twenty
dollars before any of them left the house.
At the same time he set the example by
tossing $5 on the table. Another put
down a dollar, another a quarter of a dol
lar a fourth, half a dollar, and so on.
The parson read out every now and then
the state of the funds: " Thar's seven and
a half my friends." " Thar's nine and a
quarter." "Ten and six bits are all that
are in the hat,friends and Christian breth
ren." Slowly it mounted up: "Twelve
and a half." " fourteen." " Fifteen."
"Sixteen and three bits," and so on until
It stuck at $19.50. "It only wants fifty
cents, friends, to make up the amount.
mill nobody make it up ?" Everybody
had subscribed, and not a cent more was
forthcoming. Silence reigned, and how
long it might have lasted was difficult to
say, had not a half dollar been tossed
through the open window, and explana
tory voice shouted. "Here pastor, there's
yer money ; let out my gal, I'm tired
of waitin on her ! "
MARRYING DRUNRARDS.—Young la
dies or more elderly women, who contem
plate marrying at all, as most ladies do,
ought to reflect serimely that in form
ing family relations, that drinkig habit
must be excluded, or misery, shame and
disgrace are inevitable. We feel no
hesitancy in warning young women,
whether rich or poor, educated or uned
ucated, never to accept for a husband
any man who drinks ardent spirits,
however moderately. And, in the ex
pressive language of another, we warn
all men addicted to the vile habit of
drinking to excess, or even in modera
tion, that., in proposing marriage to a lady
properly informed, he insults her. The
promise of such a man to love, protect,
cherish and keep her in sickness and in
health is solemn mockery; it is a fraud of
the meanest kind, practiced on an unsus
pecting, confiding, and innooent female.
May heaven save the rising generation of
females from that worst of all degrada
tions, a drunken husband.
A 'girl of the period' comments thus on
Mormonism: "How absurd—four or five
women for one man ; when tha fact is,
each woman, in these times, ought to
have four or five husbands. it would
take about that number to support her
decently. "
A young lady astonished a Cleveland
dry goods olerk, recently, by asking for
"three yards of Grecian Bend."
What a Colored Man Thinks of Gen
Grant.
Rev. James Lynch, of the Methodist
Episcopal 'Church, made a speech at a
large Republican meeting assembled at
Yazoo city, Niss., No'retitber 14, to cele
brate the election of Grant, anaexpress
cd, among other things, the following
opinion:
The joy manifested by the colored
people of our State, in view of the elect
ion of Grant, is indescribable. It breaks
forth insinging and praying, as well as
in constant conversation. The effect on
the whites, who were almost unanimous
in their support of Seymour, is marvel
ous. Indeed, se far as they are concern
ed, the election of Grant was like the
voice of the Saviour saying, 'Peace be
still,' changing a raging, destructive
storm to a gentle calm. The hand of
Divine Providence is seen in the elect
ion of General Grant, which is nothing
more or less than that - a majority in
this nation flings to the breeze a sacred
banner on which is inscribed' 'Equal
rights for all . men.' Whether General
Grant shall lead the progressive, elevated
• sentiment of the nation or not, his elect
ion is a triumph, inasmuch as the issue
which he was elected was civil and po
litical equality for the colored man, all
othar : issues in the canvass were but as
the rivers to the ocean. But Grant will
sustain the expectations of the friends of
human rights; not because of any spe
cial sympathy for the colored race ; not
because Radical leaders will control him,
for the man Who made. in time of War,
one of the most important militarymove
mentsAnown to history against the ad
vice of Generals Sherman, Howard, Lo
gan and Thomas, will not be trammelled
by advisers in administering the affairs
of governinent in times of peace. Our
faith in general Grant comes from the
inexorable logic by which he IS govern-"
ed. His reasoning powers, rising in the
sublimity of genius, control his acts;
and as he has taken for his basis the
Constitution of the United State, as in
terpreted by the deolaration of indepen
dence, he will Work out as far as itis his
duty the legitimate results thereof.- - -
Genersl Grant will push forward in the
solution of What appenrs to be political
problems, just no the mathematician
does in geometry, recognizing correct
principles, regardless of results. If he
did less than this, ho would be the mer
est pigmy that ever sat in the White
Hortn.; l':;4!in this lies the seoret of his ,
power that has made him the wonder of
the age. His military career, ablaze
with the triumph of successive victories,
sustains the view of his character.
SUCCESSFUL SEARCLE.-Mr. L—af
fronted his wife, who, to punish him re
solved to act dumb whenever he was
present; and so well did she maintain her
resolution, that nearly a weak passed a
way,during which not a word did she ut
ter in his presence. She performed her
household duties as usual, but speak
she would not. He tried to coax her eut
of her whim, but in vain. At last he
tried the following plan to overcome her
resolution, by working on her curiosi
ty the most ungovernable of female pro
pensities. Returning one evening from
his employment, his lady sat there as
usual, mute. He immediately commenced
a vigorous search throughout the room.
The closet was examined, the bed-room
drawers, boxes, shelves; everything that
could be thought of was overhauled. His
wife was struck with astonishment at his
unaccountable behavior; and as he pro
ceeded in his search, she became nervous
ly anxious to find out what he was look
ing for. What could it be ? She looked
in his face, to glean, if possible, from his
expression, the object of his search but
no go, he was as - a judge. He lifted the
edge of the carpet, looked under the table
cover, and finally approached her chair,
looking under it, and even went so far as
to brush her dross partially aside, as if
what he sought might be there. She could
stand it no longer. She burst ont—"Bob,
what are you looking for ? He smiled
and answered—" Your tongue, and I have
found it.
DRINKING.—Within twenty-five years
we have buried three generations of
young men, who went to early graves.
through the baleful influence of brandy
and whisky. Some of these young men
gave promise of great usefulness—some
were extraordinarily brilliant—some
were the hope and pride of their fami
lies. But brandy and whisky were too
much for them, and down they went head
long among the dead men. Happily,
whisky is being voted a• vulgar tipple and
when the present race of drunkards has
gone the way of all drunkards, the new
generation now coming on the stage will
discard it altogether. Whiskey and
brandy may be taken as medicine, but
they are pernicious; as beverage—dread
ful.
THE TRUE PHILOSOEHY.—Two gardi
ners had their crops of peas killed by the
frost, one of whom, who had fretted great
ly and grumbled at the loss, visiting his
neighbor some time after, was atonished
to see another fine growing, and inquired
how it could be.
" These are what I sowed while you
were fretting," was the reply,
" Why, don't you fret ?"
" Yes, but I put it off till I have re
paired the mischief."
"Why, then there's no need to fret at
all."
"True, that's the reason I put it off."
A po s er woman can see more sympathy
in a sixpence than in a stream of tears
• From The Irish Republic
Labor and Capital.
Labor and Capital are the two giants
whose 'battle for supremacy shakes the
world. The fight of ages, that embraced
so many diverging interests, is fast be
coming reduced to the• single fight of
Capital and Labor. It is but the last
remnant of one of those barbarous con
tests whiCh a blind despotic past handed
down, and which a growing civilization
kept incessantly pruning, until there is
nothing left to throw its factious front
between mankind and perfect happiness
but this embittered and dying struggle
between Labor and Capital.
Now, this antagonism between Labor
and Capital is mere madness. The death
of one would be the destruction of the
other. When Labor aims an unfair blow
at Capital, the blow recoils on itself.—
When capital seeks to crash Labor, it is
merely paving its own way to destruc
tion. Instead, therefore, of these two
giants glaring at each other in this Re
publio,and each seeking the destruction of
the other, like two gladiators in a Roman
arena, they should unbend their; scowl
ing brows, tear all malice from their
hearts, and rash into each other's arms
like brothers, as they are. The great
ness of this Repnblio, the happiness of
the people, depend on the good fellow
ship that exists between Capital and
Labor.
In Europe the laborer is a mere serf—
aristocracy, the master. There, Capital
is the tyrant. It starves the children,
pollutes the dinghtera, brutalises the
sons, writes premature decay and Bor.:
row oft the mother's face and breaks the
heart of the father. There, Labor can
only hate Capital, and misery is its jus
tifleation. Soeiety in Europe, manger
all its glitter and gloss, is leprous. Its
cheeke are painted with ootirt rouge, its
eyes glowing with criminal passion;
laughter triokles from its lips, but the
body 15 misery and death. A few enjoy
life in its moat plethoric richness, but
the many ire Shut , but. from God's sun
shine b'Y the upas'of aristocracy:
But there will be a great upheaval of
the human . sea. Already the •putrid
waters are being agitated, and the storm
of Revolution that will purify and equal
ise 17111 follow in good time. Then La
bor, no doubt, will have its mad revenge,
not taking into consideration that Capi
tal, or aristocracy, was but obeying
some unseen power in pressing men down,
that they.raiglA 1.4_,,6"rar.:1- to aiaa— •lor
men will not rise unless by oppression—
but, acting from the small spirit of re
venge, rush into the extreme. From
slave to tyrant.
In America, the scales are justly bal
anced. Labor and Capital are of equal
weight. Where either side overbalances
the other, it is but a return to the op
pressive systems of the older nations,
that are rotten with corruption and dy
ing,for their sins.
In America, Labor and Capital should
go hand in hand. The interest of ene
must be the interest of the other. The
decay of one, the stagnation of the other.
It is our sincere belief, that all the
misunderstanding between Labor and
Capital here is owing to foreign agencies
and influences. As the cultivation of
smypathetio relations, between the man
who has money to give for labor and the
man who has labor to give in return for
money, is of the first importance to
every honsehold in the land, it is well to
investigate the causes of the misunder
standing that exists in this Republic be
tween Capital and Labor, and ascertain
why the supporters of both are forming
into hostile camps to fight it out.
Demand is the regulator of the labor
market. Capital is more independent
than Labor. It is the army in the cita
del, well garrisoned and provisioned ;
while Labor without raves and wastes its
strength against the stronghold of Capi
tal. As society is constituted, and as it
is likely to be for years, Capital is, and
will continue to be, the elder brother,
and, to a certain extent, Labor will live
on his bounty. Thus we see how Capi
tal is victor in every "strike." The
capitalist can afford to stop his mills or_
mines for six months without having his
children cry for bread. The laborer, on
the other hand, is growing weaker 'every
day he remains idle. His "enemy"
holds the bread of life, and when his
children and wife look hungry into his
face, Labor must submit.
We recommend to the laborer, then,
and especially to our countrymen, who
are, from the nature of circumstances,
more dependent on Capital than any oth
er people in this Republic, to weigh well
the relations between Capital and Labor,
and do their duty to themselves and the
nation by equalizing and conciliating
fdrces that are now in hostility. The
Labor movements have been worked to a
great extent for the last few years.—
Every trade is partly organized. Every
city, town and village have thir socie
ties.
This is Just; " Self-preservation is
the first law." But is it self-preserva
tion to antagonize or paralyze the very
power whose healthy existence is neces
sary to our own existence, and without
which Labor would be a mere machine
whose fires were quenched, whose works
were eaten up with the rust of idleness.
We would particularly admonish our
countrymen to be on their guard. The
Irish are a nation of working-men. They
are high-spirited and consider it dishon
orable to appear even on good terms
with ther employers. In fact, they con
sider the capitalist their enemy. They
are first in strikes and last to yield, The
consequence is, that they are the suffer
ers ou all oomsions.
In mills, mine; railroads, shops, etc.,
it is fair to estimate the Irish at fifty per
cent. Some eloquent president or secre
tary from some society excites a certain
factory or mine to strike. It, is agreed
on by the workmen, and 4' no sooner
said than done." The factory is struck.
The Irish are the most independent and
outspoken. The capitalists shut. the
mills, send to the next glutted market
for Labor, bring enough of men to fill
their contracts. Weeks pass, and the
old workmen are getting tired of being
idle. The flour barrel is rutting low.—
Everything is going out, and nothing
coming in. The ocean under such cir
cumstances, would dry up in time, and it
takes only a few weeks to empty the.bar
rel of flour. The old hands one by one
sneak back to work, glad to be taken.—
The Irishman hold out. It is the spirit
of our people. The end of it is, the em
ployers, finding they can get along with
out them, and feeling hot against them for
their foremost place ln the strike, will
notreceive them back on any terms, Off
they go, while their places are filled by
Germans; English, Scotch, eta
We have seen this thing a hundred
times, and we have often felt convinced
that some cunning enemies' of our people
have fomented Strike; in order to get
them out of their jobs, and get others in
their places, and also to create a feeling
of animosity between the American cap
italists and the Irish workingmen.
The Irish constitute, perhaps, seventy
five per cent, in the Trades Uniins. By
whom are the Trades Unions directed ?—
Who are the national. directors? Who
are the local directors ? We have look
ed into thia question and are thoroughly
convinced that the Naticinal Labormove
ment is directed from England. We warn
our people to be on their guard, and to
go no further than others in arraying
themselves against Capiital. We do not
discourage Trades Unions. On the con
trary, we think them necessary, for
many reasons. But we want the Ameri
can Labor movement to be directed in
an American spirit, and by men who feel
•
in sympathy with this Republic.
KUKLUX VIOLENCE.
-Prom the Memphis Post, Deo. 3.]
The condition of affairs in the north
ern part of this county demands the im
mediate attention of the authorities.—
The Kuklax in that quarter are, if possi
ble, more fiendish than ever. Sines the
election one D. Harrell killed a strange
colored man, cut the body open in the
most brutal manner, tied weights to it to
sink it into Hatchie river. In wading in
to place it into deeper water, Harrell
caught cold and has since died of the
pneumonia. On Saturday last some Kn
klux watched for colored men out hunt
ing, and waiting till they had discharg
ed all their shots, rushed upon them
with drawn pistols and robbed them of
their arms.
On- Saturday night, after midnight, a
gang broke in the door of Nat Jordan, a
colored man working at Crenshaw's seiz
ed him, tied his arms and legs, and gave
him one hundred and fifty lashes. They
.then called at Rnleman's place, and find
ing a colored man in, took his gun and
destroyed it. At Tom Armor's place
they seized a colored man named Alfred
McCallum, and gave him a most cruel
beating. The same gang was out again
on Monday night, and seized two eolored
men, Alfred Holmes, at the Gladden
place, and Jonas Holmes, at the Bate
man place, and nothing has been heard
of them since. They have undoubtedly
been murdered in cold blood.
We have been thus particular, that the
authorities might have no excuse , for
passing these bloody outrages in idle
ness and indifference. The colored peo
ple of that section of the county are fast
coming to the conclusion that they must
either leave or organize in their own de
fence. If there are any officers of the
law to whOm these suffering and helpless
people can look for protection, we beg
them to put down this lawlessness before
it assumes more formidable proportions.
TOBACCO--By Fanny Fern.—" I hate
tobacco. lam a clean creature, and it
smells bad. Smells bad is a mild word;
but I use it, being a woman. I deny your
right to smell bad in my presence, or the
presence of our clean sieterhood. I deny
your right to poison the air of our par
lore, or our bed-room, with your breath
or your tobacco-saturated clothing, even
though you may be our husbands. Terri
ble creature I 1 think I hear you say I
am glad you are not my wife. So am I.
How would you like it, had you arranged
your parlor with dainty fingers, and were
rejoicing in the sweet-scented mignonette
and violets, and heliotrope, in the pretty
vase on your table forgetting,in your hap
piness, that Bridget and Biddy had vexed
your soul the greater part of the day—
and in your nicely-cushioned chair, were
resting your spirits even more than your
body, to have a man enter with that de
testable bar room odor, and spoil it all?
Or worse, light a pipe in your very pres
ence, and, puff away as if it were the heav
en to you whioh it appears to be to him.
A lady who had refused to give, after
hearing a charity sermon, had her pock
et picked as she was leaving the church.
"On making the discovery, she said ;
"God could not find the way to my, pock
et, but the devil did. "
Truman Stahl], of Connectiou - t, has
proposed a new way to pay off the pub
lic debt. "Put a tax on words," he says,
'land the New York Court of Aappeals
will pay it in less than four years.
VoLl, No. 1
The Number Seven
This number is freqently used in the
Bible On the 7th day God ended his
work, the 7th month Noah's ark touched
the ground, and in 7 days a dove was
sent out.
Abrahan pleaded 7 times for Sodom,
Jacob erved 7 years for Rachel, mourn
ed 7 da a for Joseph, and was pursued a
7 day's journey by Laban.
A plenty of 7 years, and a famine of 7
years were foretold in Pharoah's dream,
by 7 fat and 7 lean beasts, and 7 years of
full and 7 ears of blasted corn.
On the 7th day of the 7th month the
children of Israel fasted 7 days, and re
mained 7 days in tents.
Every 7 years the land rested; every
7th year all bondmen were free, and the
law was read to - the people.
In the destruction of Jericho, 7 priests
bore 7 trumpets 7 days; and on the 7th
day they surrounded the walls 7 . times;
and at the 7th round the wall fell.
Solomon was 7 years building the tem
ple, and feasted 7 days at the dedica
tion.
In the tabernacle were 7 lamps, and
the golden candlestick had 7 branches.
Naman washed 7 times in the Jordan.
Job's friends sat with him 7 days and
7 nights, and offered 7 bullocks and 7
rams in atonement.
Our Saviour spoke 7 time front the
cross on which he hung 7 hours, and af
ter his resurrection appeared 7 times.
In the Lord's prayer are 7 petitions
containing 7 times 7 words.
In the Revelations we read of 7
churches 7 candlesticks,7 stars, 7 trump
ets, 7 plagues, 7 thunders, 7 veils. 7 an
glee, and a. 7 headed monster.
Spunky Sally Ann.
The Stanford Advocate contains the
following spirited' advertiament
To THE Plume —Whereas, my hus
band Edward H. Jones, has falsely ad
vertised that I have left his bed and
board, and that he will pay no debts of
my contraetting o las., this is to inform the
public that the aforesaid Edward H,
Jones, has neither bed nor board for
_me
to leave,lhe having been living at the ex
pense of my father—and further under,
pretence of procuring money to pay his
way to Birmingham, Conn., he borrowed
a dollar of my father, and with that paid
for this lying advertisement against me,
and even after that dastardly sot, 1) took
all the money I had, and borrowed every
cent in my mothers possetnion and left
the town.
For the past three months he has been
kept from nakedness and starvation by
the exertions of myself and relatives, he
squandered in dissipation all the money
his inborn laziness would allow him to
earn
The scamp need not have advertised
that he would pay no debts of my con
tracting for the public well know thathe
would not pay even his own.
He is a lazy, ungrateful, loafing scoUn
drel—not content with living at the ex
penes ofmy relatives and borrowing their
money he publishes an outrageous lie.
Xis bed and board I indeed .—if left to
himself, his bed would be nothing but a
Bunn, any I should not be much sur
prised if the bed he dies in were made of
boards with a strong oross-beam over
head SARAH A. JOWL.
Of President Lincoln, Thaddeus Ste
vens said :—" He was eminently a frank ,
nan. He (once rated me soundly for a
speech I made on the conduct of the war,
saying I was too fast, and wouldruin all.
I, of course, thought him too slow, and
we had a pretty hot disous#on. Abont
a year later he sent for me,' 4 and I went
to him. It was a hot day, and he was
lying about on sofas and chairs, in a dis
jointed way he had. I knew him by the
fragments, and so was able to recon
struct him. " Mr. Stevens," he said,
"I have just been reading a speech of
yours," " I am flattered, Mr. President,"
"but I am not:mare that I have made
any speeek lately." "I know it," he
inswred, " but this is a speech you
made last year—the one I scolded you
about, you remember ?" "Oh, yes. Mr.
President," said I, "one don't easily for
get your sooldings. I remember perfect
" Well, Mr. Stevens, you were right
and I was wrong."
UNHAVELLING.-A man coming home
late one night, a little more than half
seas over," feeling thirsty, procured a
glass of water and drank it. In doing
so, he swallowed a small ballof silk that
lay in the bottom of the tumbler, the end
catching in his teeth. Feeling something
in his mouth, and not knowing what it
was, he began pulling at the end, and,
the little ball unrolling, he soon had
several feet in his hands, and still no
end, apparently. Terrified, he shouted,
at the top of his voiee, " Wife 1 wife S
come here 1 I'm unravelling!"
An Illinois paper contains the follow
ing undertaker's advertisement, which is
a novelty in that class of literature I
"This is the way I long have sought,
And mourned because I found it not."
Undertaking in all its branches—Ready
made coffins—Good Hearse in attendance
(" Lay on blacDuff !")
(Opposite the hay scales.)
JOHN SMITH.
A lawyer on his death bed willed all
his property to a lunatic asylum, stating
as his reason for so doing that he wish
ed his property to return the liberal class
of people that had patronized him.
WHAT a comedy of grief is that per
formed by sympathetio undertaker& their
motto should be, "Hutu and Rehearse.