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Bellefonte Masonic Lodge, No 2GB, A. Y. M,
meets on Tuesday evening of or before the
Full Moon.
L'onstans Commandery, No. 33, K. T.,
meets second Friday of each month.
I. 0. 0. P. Centre Lodge, No. 153, meets
, every Thursday evening at their Hall,
Bush's Arcade.
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Bellefonte Church Directory.
Presbyterian church, Spring St., services at
at II a. m., and 74,- p. m; Rev. Alfred
Yeomans, Pastor. This congregation are
now erecting a ZIeW church, in consequense
of which the regular religious services will
be held in theCouit House until further
notice.
- Methodist Episcopal Church, High St., ser
vices 10 , 1- a. m., and 74 p. m. Prayer
meeting on Thursday night. Rev. H .C.
Pardoe, pastor.
33 t. John's Episcopal Church, High St., ser
vices at 10i a. m., and 71- p. m. Rev.
Byron McGann, pastor.
Lutheran Church, Linn St., services Hi a.
m , and p. m. Rev.,J. I.,...Eackenberger
paster.
Reformed Church, Linn St., no pastor at
present
Catholic Church, Bishop St; services 10.1
a. m., and 3p. m. Rev. T. 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 i p. m. Rev.
Isaac Pinaell, pastor.
DIRECTORY.
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President—Andrew Johnson.
Vice-President, pro tem.—Benj. F. Wade
Secretary of State—William 11. Seward.
Secretaryof Treasury—Hugh McCullough
Secretary of War—J. M. Schofield.
Secretary of .Aravy—Gideon Wells.
Secretary of Interim•—O. 11. Browning.
Postmaster-General—A. L. Randall.
Attorney General—Wm. M. Evarts.
STATE.
Governor—lno. W. Geary.
Sec'y of Commonwealth—Frank Jordan.
Deputy-Secretary of Commonwealth—lsaac
B. Gara.
Auditor-General—John F. nartranft.
Surveyor-General—Jacob M. Campbell.
Treasurer—W. W. Irwin.
Attorney- General—Benj. H. Brewster.
Dep'y-Att'y General—T. W. M. Newlin.
Sup't of Com. Schools—J. P. Wickersham.
Dep'!, Sup't of Com. Sehools—C.R.Coburn.
Sup't of Soldier's Orphan Schools—Geo.
P. McFarland.
EMI
President Judge—Charles A. Mayer
{ John llosterman,
Aisociates— William Allison,
Prothonotary—James H. Lipton.
Register &Recorder—J. P. Gephart,
Sher:ff—D. Z. Kline.
.Dep'ty Sheriff—D. Woodring.
Dist. Att'zf—H. Y. Stitzer.
Treasurer—A. C. Geary.
Wm. Keller,
Comntissioners,.{ Wm. Furey,
John Bing.
Clerk—John Moran.
BELLEPONTE BORO RR!
Chief Burgess—B. M. Blanchard.
Ass't Capt. C. T. Fryberger.
Chief of Police----Wm. Shortlidge.
" Wm. Folly.
" Amos Mullen.
Charles Cook.
Town Council—Wm. P. Wilson, Peet:et.
S. M. Irwin, Clerk.
• Robert Valentine, .
se A. S. Valentine,
re Jas. IL McClure,
ir F. P. Green,
John Irwin, Jr..
.• Elias W. Hale,
Jacob V. Thomas,
• Geo. A. Bayard,
nigh Constable—James Green,
Borough Constable—James Furey.
Sclhool•Directors—John Holler, Pres't.
re Geo. B. 'Weaver. See'y.
Win: McClelland, Tee's
" S. T. Shugart,
• D. M. Butts,
Dan'i McGinley.
B ELLEFONTE MEAT MARKET
BISHOP STREET, BELLEFONTE PA
The oldest Meat Market, in Bellefonte.—
Choice, haer4 °fall kinds.always on hand.
j y. B. VI BLACK..
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INSURANCE—LIFE k, FIRE.
Joseph A. Rankin of
this Borough, insures property for the fol
lowing Stock and Mutual companies, viz:
Lycoming Mutual, -York Company, Pa.,
Insurance of North America, Enterprise,
and Girard of Phila., Pa., Home, of New
Haven, and any other reliable company
desired. Also, Provident Life Company
of Phil'a., and other good Life Compa
nies. ja6'69.ly.
RAILROADS.
B. E. V. R. R.—GEO. C. WILKINS, Sup't
Westward from Bellefonte.
Mail, 4.27 r. at .
Accommodation, 6.00 A. 31
Through Freight, 8.42 4:. or at Milesburg
Eastward Irom Bellefonte.
Mail 10.28 A. tr.
Accommodation, 5.55 r. as.
Freight and Acc0m...3.55 r or at Milesburg
B. & S. S. B. It.-DAN'L RHOADS, Supt
Pass'r, 1eave..7.45 a m I Pass'. arr..° 50 a m
Pass'r, " 2.30 p m Pass'. arr.. 5.05 p m
P. R. R. CONNECTIONS AT TYRONE
Phil'a•Ex...,.i.sl a m
Emmigrant...2.l.s p m
Mail Train... 6.44 p m
Alt Ac. 5.35 a, in
MIFFLIN do CENTRE CO. "Branch R. R
EDIMEEM
No. 1, leaves Lewistown at 7.20 a. m., and
arrives at Milroy 5.15 a. m.
No. 2, leaves Penn'a R. R. 11:15 a. m., ar
rives at Milroy 12.15 p. m.
No. 3, leaves Pen 'a R. R. 4.05 p. m., ar
rives at Milroy 5.00. •
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No. 1, leaves :Milroy 5.40 a. no., and arrives
at Penn'a. R. R. 9.40 a. m.
No. 2, leaves Milroy 1.15 p. m., and arrives
Penn'a. It. R. 2.1.0 p. m.
No. 3, leaves Milroy 5.07 p. in. and arrives
at Penn'a. It. R. 6.00 p. m.
Stage leaves Bellefonte every day (except
Sunday,) at 11 a. m., and arrives at Mil
r(.y. 4 30 p m.
Stage leaves Milroy every day (except Sun
day) at 5.30 p. m. and arrives at Belle
fonte 10.30 p. m.
Stage leaves Bellefonte for Pine Grove Mills
every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
mornings at 6 a. m.
We&tern snail closes at 4.00 p. m.
Lock Haven mail closes at 10,00 a. m.
pHILADELPHIA AND ERIE R. R
WINTER TIME TABLE
Through and direct route between Phil
adelphia, Baltimore, Harrisburg, Williams
port, and the
GREAT OIL REGION OF PENN'A.
ELEGANT SLEEPING CARS
On all night Trains.
On and after MONDAY, NOY. 23th 186 S
the Trains on the Philadelphia and Erie
Rail Read will run as follows:
WESTWARD.
- Mail Train leaves Philadelphia 10 45
" " " Lock Haven... 9 31 a. m
" " arr. at Erie 950 p. m
Erie Express leaves Phila 11 50 a. m
" " " Lock Haven... 950 p. rn
" " arr. at Erie 10 00 a. m
Elmira Mail leaves Philadelphia 8 00 a. m
" " " Lock Haven... 745 p. in
" " arr. at Lock Haven 745 p.
EASTWARD
Mail Train leaves Erie 10 55 a. in
" " " Lock Haven... 11 21 p. in
"- " arr. at Philadelphia.. 10 00 a. in
Erie Express leaves Erie 6 25 p. m
Ce if " Lock Haven 6 10 a. in
" arr. at Philo, 420 p.
Mail and Express connect with Oil Creek
and Allegheny River Rail Road. Baggage
Checked through.
ALFRED L. TYLER,
General Superintendent
MISCELLANEOUS
TT IS our intention to dispose of our
IT
entire stock before the opening of the
Spring Trade. G. W. FAIRER CO.
WHITE FISH, Herring, mackerel, se.,
at
BURNSIDE s THOMAS'
j a6'6 9.1 y
MIIE highest market price paid for all
• kinds of country produce, at
BUPNSIDE & THOMAS'.
FOR A SON WllO HAD DIED OF INTEMPERANCE
All, all but this I could endure—
Ah, had he passed away,
When his young soul was fresh and pure;
And yet how did I pray
That he might live! he was my trust—
But now I bow my head n dust,
And veil my bleeding heart;
Childless and hopeless I must dwell—
My son, my son, who could foretell
That thus we two should part !
It seems as I could count the days
Since thou vast on my knee,
Lisping sweet words of prayei and praise,
That I had whispered thee;
I never dreamed amid my joy,
That sin such promise could destroy,
That hopes so sweet to cherish,
Like doves within the fowler's hand,
Or flow'rets rooted on the sand,
Were doomed to die—to peifsci
'Tis over—all my task is done,
My world forever past;
I did but live for thee my son,
And loved thee to the last—
The panders of thy vices fled,
But I have held thy aching head,
And watched and wept and prayed,
And sure, I think, had'A thou but known
What my poor heart has undergone,
Thou'would'st not thus have strayed.
Select Miscellany.
Day Ex 1.54 a m
Mail Train..3.oo p m
Cin. Exp.... 5.11 p m
Ex. 10.27 p m
Speech of Mr. Blaine, of Maine, on
the Results of Grant's Election.
In Committee of the whole, in the
House, 10th ult., Mr. Blaine said :
Mr. CHAIRMAN: The three Presiden
tial elections which have resulted in vic
tory to the Republican party are by far
the most memorable and momentous in
the history of our country. The issues
at stake each time have been grander,
the contest on either side fiercer, the
verdict in each instance more decisive
and significant, than ever attended pre
vious struggles for the control of the Na
tional Government.
In the first victory of 1860, slavery
propagandism received its fatal blow—
the American people decided that at all
hazards the further spread of human ser
vices into free territory should cease.—
This decision was resisted by a rebellious
war, and the war led to the necessity of
entirely abolishing the institution whose
existence had been merely checked by
the expression of the popular will. The
election of 1864 furred upon the point of
continuing or discontinuing the bloody
contest which up to that time had raged
with unabated fury, and with enormous
sacrifice of life and property. The vote
of the people demanded the prosecution
of the war until the rebellion should be
suppressed, the national unity secured,
and slavery utterly abolished throughout
the length and breadth of the land. Had
the verdict then rendered been enforced
in the Cabinet as faithfully as it was in
the field, the Presidential struggle of
1868 would not have turned upon - the is
sues which actually entered into it. But
the unexpected and unprecedented
course of the Executive, the revived ma
lignity of the Southern rebellion, and
the maftifold attacks on our national
character and credit by the Democratic
party, rendered the victory of 1868 as
absolutely essential to conserve and pre
serve the fruits of our great triumph, as
was the victory of 1864 to secure the
prosecution of the war to a successful
conclusion. And now that victory, com
plete and unsullied as new, and the pas
sions naturally engendered in the heat
of the canvass are gradually cooling, h
may not be unprofitable to take a hasty
glance at the ground we have passed
over, and to make a brief summary of
the points that have been solemnly ad
judicated and permanently settled by
the American people in the election of
Gen. Grant to the Presidency.
And first: The Union of the States
has been maintained, and its perpetuity
guaranteed, by this election, in a sense
and with a force that were never before
"Let us See to it, that a Gzvernment of the People, for the People, and by the People, shall not Perish from the Earth."—[A.-LINCOLN.]
Select Poetry.
THE MOTHER'S LAMENT,
And art thou dead? And must thy name,
My own, my only Son,
Forever bear this band of shame,
This blight that all will shun?
And when that name I sighing speak,
Will no kind voice the silence break
And grieve thy race is run !
And When thy bitter tears must flow,
Will none recount to soothe my woe,
Some good deed thou hast done?
The world thy latest years will see,
Where all of evil seems;
Thy early promise lives with me—
And those were blessed dreams,
When gazing on thy infant face,
I pressed thee in my warm embrace,
Reaping each feature's sign, .
And thought all was so pure and fair,
That never folly, guilt, nor care,
Could mar that page divine.
0 how usultingly I watched
My budding flower put forth
0, sure I thought there ne'cr was matched
Such charms in all the earth ?
Young mothers always think the same,
When kindles the mysterious flame,
Maternal bosoms prove;
The charm is in their hearts and given,
The signet binding earth and heaven,'
From God's own fount of love. •
And be entrusts this lamp of life
To woman's tender care,
Shielding it from the storms and strife,
Man's sterner strength must dare,
0, Love is woman's wealth her lame
The music of a cherished name—
But who will breathe to me
The name of my departed child ?
His father's name he has defiled
0, God,—this agony !
BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 13, 1869.
enunciated when the auestion was invol-
ved. Ido not mean to assert that the
election of Mr. Seymour would have
necessarily led to a separation of the
States, though there are not wanting
facts of great significance that might
well justify such an inference and such
a fear. But what Ido mean is, that the,
triumph of the Democratic party under
that Rebel lead, and the formal install
ing of that elemeit in supreme executive
control, would have destroyed the true
aim and spirit of the Union, and reduced
our Government, as Mr. Webster said
the same pernicious theories would have
reduced it in 1830, "to the worst forms
of the old confederation," in which the
"lost cause" would have regained its
paradise of State Rights, and its privil
ege of ruthlessly trampling on many of
the most precious principles and price
less guarantees of our Constitution.—
General Grant's election hasaverted this
great evil—not merely by a temporary
triumph, leaving the contest to be re
newed hereafter with doubtful issue in
the end, but with a victory that removes
it from the list of questions on which
parties will divide in the future. The
election of 1868 is the last in which the
lately rebellious section, even if it could
be wholly controlled by rebels, will have
sufficient power in the electoral "vote of
the country_ to make it the object either
of hope or of fear otithe part , of politi
cal organization striving for the key,
ernment of the nation. The tendency
has been in that direction ever since Mr.
Calhoun's famous theory of an equipoise
of free and slave States was destroyed
by the admission of California in 1850.
The relative power of the two sections
has been changing since that date with
startling rapidity, even without the in
tervention of war; and the approaching
census of 1870 will disclose the fact that
the ten rebel States, viewed as one
compact power, will no longer have suf
ficient strength to offer temptation to the
Democratic party of the North to sacri
fice its loyalty and ifs pride for the profit
of an alliance with them. The withdraw
al of Northern Democratic support from
these States will give to the loyal inhabi
tants, who are a clear majority iu each
one of them,the power of governing them
in the interest of loyalty, whereby the
sectional and clannish spirit that has
been their bane and their destruction
will be expelled, and broad, generous
national sympathies-taken in its place.
And the effect of this result on the North
ern Democratic party in turn will be to
f01:0° in the end y an absn,clonme.nt, .011
the disloyal attitude, by which it has
lost its ancient prestige and renown.—
The Southern rebels and Northern Dem
ocrats, having•derived no honor nor prof
it from their persistent co-operation,
may find mutual advantage and gain by
a separation in which each, disencum.
bered of the other, may atone at leisure
for the joint sins of the discreditable
partnership. 'lbis prospective and peni
tent attitude of the two great classes of
offenders heralds the dawn of that day
when Presidential elections will be con
tested and decided without a melancholy
prediction or a savage menace of a disso
lution of the Union. There are few
voters now living in this country who
ever participated in a Presidential cam
paign in which the fate of the Union was
not involved, either in the angry threats
of political malcontents, or in the timid
apprehensions of well meaning citizens.
That day hasllOW passed. Wehave heard
the last of that alarm in 18G6. The Un
ion was actually saved by Gen. Grant's
victories in the field. The menace of its
destruction ceases with his victory at
the polls.
Second. The reconstruction laws of
Congress have been vindicated and sus
tained by Gen. Grant's election. The
State governments erected under those
laws will be upheld, and the basis of im
perial loyal suffrage without regard to
race or color, will be accepted as the
permanent rule in the lately rebellious
States, as it will at no distant day
throughout the entire union. This result
is certain to be achieved, either through
the amelioration of prejudice and the
conquering force of justice in the indi
vidual States, or by the comprehensive
influences of a Constitutional amendment
which shall effect all the States equally
alike. The decision in favor of the re
construction measures must bring peace
to the South—and with peace will come
contentment and affluence. The rebel
lious element in those States, seeing the
hopeless folly of longer resisting the
mandate of the nation, will acquiesce in
the decision, if with no better grace than
merely accepting the inevitable. And
with this acceptance will begin the real
prosperity of that section, in which prop
erty will then be secure, investments in
viting and remunerative, labor in de
mand and amply paid. The bitter minds
even among the rebel leaders recognize
and admit that, as a question of practi
cal statesmanship, it is too late to dis
cuss negro suffrage, for, having been
granted, it is impossible to recall it. Be
tween originally withholding a franchise
from large masses of people, and annul
ling it after it has been conceded, wise
men can see a vast difference—a differ
ence literally quite as great, it may be,
as that between peaceful discussion and
bloody conflict. So that, even excluding
from the case the abstract and unchang
ing element of justice 'which underlies
it, it is demonstrably impracticably
to withhold suffrage from, the South
ern negroes, now that they have
exercised it, without involving con
sequences which would destroy all secu
rity for life and property in that section
for generations to come. Negro suffrage
being then of necessity conceded as one
of the essentials of reconstruction, - the
only remaining source of discontent is
the exclusion of a small minority of
white men from the polls by reason of
disloyalty. 'And here the evil lies in the
disloyalty and not in the exclusion; and
I know I am safe in saying that the ex
clusion will be removed quite as rapidly
as the disloyalty disappears. And the
disloyal white men of the South should
be quite contented if they acquire suf
frage as rapidly as the loyal colored men
of the whole country. May wenot hope
that the patriotic conduct of the one
class, and Elie softening of unreasonable
prejudice toward the other, will enable
the American people to hold the centen
nial celebration of our independence
with no citizen of the Republic disfran
chised, and with the sublime declara
tion that "all men are created equal"
accepted andrealized on the hundredth
anniversary of its majestic utterance.
Third. The election-. of Gen. Grant
has settled the financial question. I do
I not mean that it has adjusted - the details
or even foreshadowed the particular
measures by which the public debt is to
be provided for and its prompt payment
assured. I only mean that the Ameri
can people have deliberately, solemnly,
and emphatically recorded their decision
in favor of an honest discharge of their
publics obligations, and against all the
forms of evasion and delusion so tempt
inglir set forth in. Democratic platforms.
They have declared against policy
of wildly inflating, depreciating and
ruining their currency in order to pre
maturely pay; off any portion of the Gov
ernment bonds, and they have declared
with equal emphasis in favor of lighten
ing the public burdens by reducing the
interests on the national debtas prompt
ly and rapidly as it may be done with
honor. They have decided against all
forms of repudiation, "open or covert,
threatened or suspected," and in favor
of upholding the public faith and main
taining the publie honor stainless. Nay,
they have gone one step further; the
question of paying the public debt "In
the utmost:good faith, according to the
letter and spirit of the contract" is no
longer to be made a subject of contro
versy or of doubt in the American Con
gress. Henceforth we may do well to
remember that proud example furnished
us in the Parliamentary history of Great
Britain, where, just preceding the event
ful battle of Blenheim, the probability
of England's defeat being angrily sug
_gosteclba,-rem. of -the Commons, he was
am - sWiered by tire — iiiii4cTifiliTfaiThi3 an of
that day in these eloquent and ever mem
orable words:
"The question of England's ability to
maintain her position should not be discus
sed in her own Parliament. DiScussion
implies doubt, and doubt breeds disaster.—
Our business is to provide the means for the
national defense, and let us to our task."
Fourth. With the election of Gener
al Grant comes a higher - standard of
American citizenship, with more dignity
and character to the name abroad and
more assured liberty and security at
taching to it at home. Our diplomacy
will be rescued from the subservient
tone by which we have so often been hu
miliated in our own eyes and in the eyes
of Europe, and the true position of the
first nation of the earth in rank and
prestige will be asserted; not in the spir
it of bravado or with the mere arrogance
of strength, but with the conscious dig
nity which belongs to power and with
moderation which is the true ornament
of justice. And with this vindication of
the rights and the rank of our citizen
ship abroad will come also its protection
under the panoply at home. That pro
vision of the Federal Constitution which
solemnly guarantees that "the citizens
of each State shall be entitled to 'all of
the privileges and immunities of citizens
in the several States" will not be a dead
letter under the administration of Gen
eral Grant, as it in fact has been from
the foundation of the Federal Govern
ment down to this hour. Henceforward
it is to be practically enforced through
out all our borders, and every citizen of
the Republic, himself observant of the
raw and of the rights of others, shall go
where it may please him and speak as he
may see fit, unawed by mobs, unharmed
by murderers, unmenaced in life, limb or
estate. With these four cardinal points
settled by the people, Gen. Grant's ad
ministration will have high vantage
ground from the day of its inauguration.
Its responsibility will, indeed, be great,
its power will be large, its opportunity
will be splendid, and to meet them all
we have a true and tried man, who adds
to his other great elements of strength
that of perfect trust and confidence on
the part of the people. And to reassure
ourselves of his executive character, if
reassurance were necessary, let us re
member that grey t military leaders have
uniformly proved the wisest, firmest and
best of civil rulers. Cromwell, William
Charles XII., Frederick of Prussia,
are not more conspicuous instances of
monarchial governments than Washing
ton, Jackson and Taylor have proved in
our own. Whatever, therefore, may be
before us in the untrodden and often be
clouded path of the future, whether it be
financial embarrassments, or domestic
trouble of another and more serious type,
or misunderstandings with foreign na
tions, or the extension of our flag and
our sovereignty over insular or conti
nental possessions, North or South ; that
fate or fortune may peacefully offer to
our ambition, let us believe with all con
fidence that Gen. Grant's administration
will meet every exigency with the cour
age, the ability, and the conscience
which American nationality and Chris
tien civilization demanded
Odds and_ Ends.
How sweet to -recline in the laps of
ages—say about eighteen.
What word will make you sick if you
leave one of the letters out? Music.
When is money damp .When it be
comes dew in the morning and is mist a
night
Every man should paddle his own
canoe : but the difficulty is to get a
GEM
A gentleman asked a friend if he had
ever seen a catfish. "No," was the re
sponse, " but I have seen a rope walk."
When you fall out of a carriage, what
are you most likely to fall against?—
Against your will.
Words should be seconded by actions ;
it isn't enoughlor a house-wife to say to
a stocking with a hole in it, "You be
darned?"
A young lady who saw a steam fire
engine in Boston for the first time, inno
cently inquired why they boiled the
water before they threw it on the fire.
We believe the following td be the
worst conundrum extant:: When is water
like a rearing horse hitched to a post ?
When it's tide and rises.
Wives are often foolish enough to sit
up for their husbands, but you hear of
few husbands who have the patience to
sit up for their wires.
My yoke is nay and my burden is
light, as the young fellow said when his
girl was sitting on his lap with her arm
around iris z.ack.
. An old lady, when her - parlor said to
her, " God has not deserted you in y - 6 -
dm age," replied, " No, sir, I have a
very good appetite."
EVIL Tuonours.—" We cannot keep
the crows from flying over our heads,
but we can keep them from building
their nests in our hair•"---Hartin Luther.
A Sunday paper says it is in favor of
women voting, if they want to. We
should like to see the man that could
make them vote, if they did not want to.
"Pa," said an urchin, holding up a
sunday-school picture book, " what's
that?" "That, my son, is Jacob wrest
ling with the angel." " And which
licked?" inquired the young hopeful.
No man knows what the wife of his
bosom is; no man knows what a minis
tering angel she is ; until he has gone
with her through the fiery trials of this
world.
A clock baking just struck the hour of
- one, s. tentle - rzhearte'd -woman exclaimed:
"Oh,-what a cruel clock'!" Why so ?"
asked a friend. "Because it struck a lit
tle one, answered the tender hearted
mother.
The woman who made a pound of but
ter from the cream of ajcire, and a cheese
from the milk of human kindness, has
since washed the close of a year, and
hung 'em to dry on a bee line.
A gentleman out West was invited to
take a game at poker, but he refused,
sayinE : "No thankee ; I played poker
all one summer and had to wear nan
keen pants all next winter; I have no
taste for that amusement since."
A man in Andover, Maine, hitched his
horse to a board fence, and fed him with
hay in a big boy. There was a crack in
one of the board's large enough for his
cow to lick her tongue through at the
hay. The horse bit her tongue off so that
he had to kill h.r.
A drunken Englishman said to Judge
Ledwith, of New York, the other day :
" Your honor, I'm a nobleinan in dis
guise." "So I perceive," replied the
Judge; "You're disguised in liquor, and
as drunk as .a lord."
A darkey gives the following reason
why the colored race is superior to the
white race. Ile reasons thusly : " All
men are made of clay, and, like the meer
schaum pipe, are more valuable when
highly colored."
An Irishman, noticing a woman pass
ing along the street, spied two strips de
pending from under the lady's cloak.—
Not knowing that these were in their
right place and were styled "sashes,"
he exclaimed : " Faith s ma'am, your
galluses are untied•"
There is a boy down East who is ac
customed to going out on the railroad
track and imitate the steam whistle so
perfectly as to deceive the officers at the
station. His last attempt was eminent
ly successful. The depot master came
and "switched him off."
"My son," said an anxious father once,
" what makes you use that nasty tobac
co ?" Now the sen was a very literal
sort of a person, and, declining to con
sider the question in the spirit in which
it was asked, replied, " To get the juice,
old codger."
Wilmot, the infidel, when dying laid
his trembling, emaciated hand upon the
Sacred Volume, and exclaimed, solemn
ly and with unwonted energy, " The on
ly objection against this Book, is a bad
life!"
The best dowry to advance the mar
riage of a young lady is,—when she has
in her countenance mildness, in her
speech wisdom, in her behavior modesty,
and her life virtue.
A lady in Boston, a few days ago, fell
down stairs and broke her arm. The sur
geon Who came to set it fell on the steps
as he was going away, and broke one, of
his ribs.
DOES smoking offend you?" said a land
lord to his newly arrived boarder.
"Not alai]. sir." "I'm very glad to hear
it, as you will find your chimney is given
to the practie c?"
Androo's Arithmatio.
Mr. Johnson's head is about as well
balanced on the figure of arithmetic as
on the figures of speech. The lucidity
of his mathematical propositions is only
equaled by the clearness of his political
views. For instance, he - says in his
message that Government ~ received for
its bonds, in real money, three or four
hundred per cent; less than the obligations
which it issued in return." No man of
ordinary acquaintance with the English
language and the Arabic numerals would
ever make such a ridiculous statement.
Take an illustration. Here is a bond for
$l,OOO given by government. What
does Mr. Johnson mean by saying that
Government received "three or fourhun
dred per cent. less" than the $l,OOO for
the bond ?' How much is "three or four
hundred per cent. less than $l,OOO
Three hundred per cent. of - $l,OOO is
$3,000. Does the man mean that Gov
ernment received $3,000 less than 1,000
for every thousand dollar bond issued ?.
If that is his meaning, then the Govern
ment must have paid $2,000 bonus to
every man who accepted a $l,OOO bond.
But what a botch this fellow from . Tenn.,
makes of everything.—lfariford Post.
Random Thoughts.
You may joke when you please, ifyou
are careful to please when you joke.
A fool geneially leses his estate before
he finds his folly.
The use of money is all the advantage
there is. in having money.
If you wuold not have affliction visit
you twice, listen at once to whatitteaeh-
es you
Inte - nie stiicly of the Bible will keep
any writer from being fn/gar in_.point of
CM
A man passes for a sage if he seeks for
wisdom—if he thinks he has found it he
is a 00l
He who is right and doing right. need
not stop to inquire who or what stands
with him.
Prentice says wafer reddens the rose;
Jack Frost the toes and whisky the nose;
(He knows.)
Into the composition of every hap
piness enters the thought of having truly
deserved it.
- A patient is undoubtedly in a very bad
way when his disease,is acute andhis
doctor isn't.
People seldom improve when they set
up no other models than themselVes to
copy after.
Think little of yourself, and you will
not be injured when others think little of
you
Goldsmith thought people should write
their own flattering epitaphs, and then
live up to them.
Reforming the world is like patching
an old coas,which will soon need another
patch; but irit were not for reforMers the
the world would always be out at the el
bows.
NEw 310 DE or Swrzamixa.—The New
swindlers have invented a new method
of doing business, the modus operandi of
which is thus detailed : Some few days
ago an elegantly dressed lady, accompa
nied by a well dressed gentleman, en
tered the store of a prominent jeweler,
and asked to be shown some diamonds.
A costly tray was handed them by the
gentlemanly and obliging clerk, and • as
they were examining and "choosing,
comparing and rejecting," the clerk's
attention was attracted by the entrance
of a man who beckoned him cautiously
aside, and, showing a star concealed be
neath his coat, informed the clerk that
he was an officer, and that he had been
watching the couple at the counter for
some time. He advised the clerk not to
interfere with them, but show them what
they asked for, and if they attempted to
secrete anything he would arrest them.
The clerk soon noticed that the suspect
ed couple quietly stowed away several
valuable diamond rings,and at this junc
ture another person entered the store,
also bearing a star beneath his coat, and
at once gently tapping the genteel pair
on the shoulders, blandly requested the
pleasure of their society at the police
station. The first officer told the, clerk
that the prisoners would have " 'to be
searched, and that he would then return
the stolen property in the course of an
hour or so. The confulin&lerk assent
ed, and the prisoners and captors disap
peared. The proprietors have thus far
looked in vain for the glimmer of their
returning diamonds, and the men who
have a right to wear stars are looking
after the pretended policemen.
Brick Pumeroy's New York Democrat
bids fair to prove an elephant with a
very strong appetite. It is asserted by
the knowing newspaper men of New
York that it has taken into its capacious
maw the net profits of the LaCrosse con
cern, all that Brick could rake lip in New
York, and even now displays a weakness
in the legs greater than that exhibited
by Oliver Twist when he mustered up
the courage ttrask for "more." A paup
er and a newspaper, however, are two
different things; what one pleads for the
other exacts. So Brick's LaCrosse es
tablishment has been completely swal
lowed by the New York concern, and not
a word said about it by Mrs Tucker. If
the LaCrosse readers can't get along on
a weekly issued at New York, they must
seek elsewhere for the mental pabulum
they require. In the meantime, the
World was never so prosperous. This
is one way of saying that even Democra
cy can't live on filth and blackguardism
as a regular diet.
THREE hundred dollars was the amount
recently paid for marrying a couple in
New York.
VOL, 1, NO. 2.
The Oldest City.
Damascus is the oldest city in , the
world. Tyre and Syclon hate crntabled
on the shore; Baalbeo is a ruin;' Palmyra
is buried-in the sands of the desert;
Nineveh and Babylon have disappeared
from the shores of the Tigris and Ed=
phrates. Damascus remains what it was
in the days of Abraham—a centre of
trade and travel, an island of terdhrs'
in a desert predestined capital," with
martial and sacred associations eztend;
ing beyond thirty centuries. It was near
Damascus that Saul of Tarius saw the
light from heaven,' above the brightness
of the sun; the street which is Called
Strait, in which it is said he "prayeth,"
still runs through the city; . the
, caravan
comes and goes as it did one tholisiind
-years ago; there is still the Sheik, the
ass and the water wheel; the merchantii
of the Euphrates still occupy these"witli
the multitude of their wares." The city
which MahometstiVeyed from a neigh
borihg height, and was afraid to enter,
"because it is given to man to have but
one Paradise, and for hi's part he resold=
ed not to have it, in this - World," is rd
this day what Julien called the " Eye of
the East" as it was in the . tizhe of Isaiah
"the head of Syria." From Damascus
came our damson, or blue
. plums, and
the detici us apricots of Portugal, called
Damascus; damask, our beautiful fabric
of cotton and silk, with' vines and flow
ers raised upon smooth; bright ground;
damask rose, introduced into England at
the time of Henry VIM; the Damascus
blade, - so famous the world over for its
keen edge and reniarkable
the secret of the mantifaettird Of, Which'
was lost when Tamerlane carried off the
artists into Persia; and that beautiful art
of inlaying wood and steel with silver
arid gold; `a kind of Mosaic engraving
with sculpture united; called damascen=
ing, with which boisce and
_bureaus, and
swords and guns are ornamented: It i 9
still a city of flowers and bright inters;
the streams from Lebanon, the "rivers
of Damascus," the river of "gold" still
sparkles in the wilderness of "Syrian
gardens."
-A LOVING young couple, who had jusi,
been married, were stopping at 'anion
Hall, Saratoga. They billed and cooed
so much at the table that they were call;
ed - by all who sat near them the •°turtle
doves." After they had left, a facetious
young gentleman, Who had been sitting
opposite them while there. notified their
absence, and inquired of a friend by hiS
side if the turtle doves were gone. A
Waiter, who stood immediately behind
him, thinking the inquiry was addressed
to him, answered: "Yes, sir, but we have
plenty of chicken left."
A LATE Judge ; whose personal appear , -
mace was as unprepossessing as his le
gal knowledge Was profound and his in
tellect keen, -interrupted a female wit
.,
ness- 4, Humbugged you! pay good
woman, what do you•mean . 14 that ?' 5
said he sternly. Well, my lord," rd=
plied the woman, «I don't know how to
explain exactly ; but if a girl Called
your lordshiv a handsome man,'xiori she
would be humbugging you.'!,
AN eminent divine once remarkedin
lecture : " In selecting a paitrierfor life,'
choose persons of naturally food dispo
sition—those that are by nature cheer
ful and gentle. It, may strpriSe pin to .
hear me place these before piety, but I
am of Baxter's opinion, who' said that
the grace of God could live with persona'
that he could not.
"WHAT's that ?" asked ' .Sehoof
mastdr, pointing to the letter X.---
" It's daddy's name." " No, you
blockhead, it's X." " Taint X fluffi
er ; it's daddy's name, for I seed: him
write it many a time." That boys
"daddy" voted for Seymour.
Why are lovers like Good Temp- -
ars?
Because they hold secret rubbtin'gs'
at least once . a - week, make proposi
tions, form their circle of unity (with
the old folk's,)' desire to be united,
and add others to....their number'.
A Soldier on trial for habitual drunli
enness, was addressed by the President :*
"Prisoner, you haer the prosecution for
habitual drunkennesd, what hivie you' to .
plead in your defence ?"
"kothini, please your honor, lan't an
habitual thirst!"
NEWTON said,"Endenior to be rtnsx in
your trade or profession. whatever it may
be•" And this,' by the way, is the secret
of success and excellence. It matters
comptiratively little what that trado or
occupation, or profession may be, provid
ed it is u'seful.
THE Scientifi . c Aniericad says that a marl
in Grange county was found one night
climbing an overshot wheel in a fulling
mill. He was asked what he *asi doing?
lie said he was" trying to go Up to bed,
but somehow or other the stairs. Would'nt
hold still.
AT a sunday school examination a few
days ago, a little girl being asked by the ,
catechiser: "What is the outward visible
sign or form in baptism ?" innocently re
plied, "Please sir, the baby."
SATIRE is a sort of glass Wherein
holders generally discover everybody's
face but their own; which is the chief rea
son that so very few are offended with it:
AN Oregon journal is progressing. It
notices births under the head of "Come;"
marriages it styles "'Fixed to Stay,"
and deaths it reports under the head of
"Gone."