BY DAVID OVER.
P a t1 fl|.
DZ?~We take tbe following from a poem by <H. L
Flash."
And 1 have seen deai loving eyes
Grow dark in death's eclipse—
The golden ringlet lie unstirred
Upon the breathless lips.
0 star-like eyes! O golden hair!
0 lips that showered kisses!
1 pine for want of tenderness.
And faint for your caresses.
And what is lett to satisfy
My spit it's ceaseless yearning—
To lay tbe ghosts of murdered hopes
For evermore returning?
O death! my last my only boy
Relentlessly you've taken.
And once again the cry goes up,
"My God! I ana forsaken."
Forgive me, Christ! that I did use
The words which Thou hast spoken—
Smite lightly with Thy chast'ning rod
A heart already broken.
Forgive me, God! if in my pain
My reason was suspended—
That in the ravings of my grief
1 have thy grace offended.
"Forsaken!" her that breathes the word
Denies Christ's intercession-
Forgets the cross on Calvary,
The bloody sweat and passion.
"Forsaken!" no! that word should te
The Christian's brighest token,
Recalling all tbe love of him
By whom it once was spoken.
Then let tbe tempest rage in wrath,
Its utmost terror spending:
Why should 1 fear, while bright abovo
The bow of hope is bending?
I) Earth! your pains are but a dream!
O Death! your gloomy portal,
Tho' thronged with hideous images.
Leads on to joy immortal.
And so 1 turn my eyes above
To seek for consolation,
And find a light ne'er seen before,
To cheer my desolation.
0 Brothers! groping in tbe dark,
With hearts oppressed and aching,
Look upward to the dawn of God,
Which high above is breaking.
And thou, my friend of early days,
No more shalt hear rue sorrow;
1 'll stay my passions in their course,
And from them wisdom borrow.
Tbe bit? "rest sriefk that coi to me
No more shall find me frowning—
'Tia mine to meekly bear the cross,
And God's to do the crowning.
SECTIONALISM OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
As the Democratic party, so called, is, to
judge from what is going on at Charleston, very
near its final dissolution, it may not be unsea
sonable to take a slight retrospect of some
points in its history which have a bearing upon
the causes of its present extremity.
Notwithstanding the horror of sectionalism
which for several years past has been the chief
stock in trade of the Democratic politicians,
and the professions of nationalism in which
those politicians have so freely indulged, it is
nevertheless an undeniable historical fact that
iu the original formation of the now expiring
Democratic party, and during its first struggle
for power, it was upon appeals to sectional pre
judice that this same party mainly relied for
rallying its partisans.
With the Administration of the Federal
Government by President John Quincy Adams,
dignified, economical, and uncorrupt as it was,
very little fault conld be found. Just as lit
tle could cbjectiou be made to the political
principles which he and|hi9 supporters profes
sed, since they were the principles of Jefferson,
Madison, and Monroe, of the two latter of
whom John Quincy Adams had enjoyed the
fullest confidence. As to the matter of na
tionality, the supporters of Adams and Clay
signalised their feelings ou that score by taking
the name of National Republicans—a name
at which their opponents used to sneer, espe
cially the epithet national, as looking to as
sumptions by the Fedoral Government of pow
ers not granted to it by the Constitution.
The supporters of the various defeated can
didates who united to form what they oailed
the Democr&tie party, not being able to fiud
any solid grounds an which to base their con
federation agaiDst Adams and Clay, appealed
to the strong prejudice against New England,
to which the course of its inhabitants during
the long controversy with Great Lritain bad
given rise. Mr. Adams was a new England
man; the New England States had unanimous
ly rallied to his support; Mr. Clay, in confed
erating with New England, had forfeited all
claim to Southern and Western coufidenoe,
such were the sectional appeals constantly in
the mouths of those who called themselves
Democrats, and which went a great way
towards the election of the candidate on
whom they bad concentrated.
It is next to be observed that not only did
this party thus take scotional prejudice as a
stepping stone to power, but that from the very
moment of its success there commenced with
in its own ranks a seetional struggle which has
gone on from that time to this, till at last we
find the party splitting into a Northern and
Southern faction which can neither stand on
the same platform, however artfully construct
ed, nor run the same candidate for the Presi
dency. Scarcely bad Gen. Jackson formed
his Cabinet before a desperate struggle arose
between Mr. Calhoun aud Mr. Van Buren, as
to which of the two should control the policy
of the Government. In this struggle, which,
personal considerations apart, turned mainly
on the tariff question", Mr. Van Buren, who
represented the ttieu prevailing sentiment of
the Free Labor States in favor of protection
to domestic industry, carried the day over Cal
houn, who had beeo induced to forego his form
at opinions on this subjeot and to tall iu with
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the prevailing current at the South in opposi
tion to an; such protection.
Mr. Van Buren having been proposed as the
Democratic candidate to succeed Gen. Jack
son as Presideut, the Southern wing of the
party attempted the same mauoeuver against
him which bad been successful agaiust John
Quincy Adams. Advantage was taken of the
agitation of the Slavery question, theu begin
ning, and principally carried on to Congress by
C'alhonu and other Southern members, to de
nounce Van Buren as a Northern man, unfa
vorable to the interests of the South; and on
this occasion, and on this sectional ground,
another Southern secession, in addition to that
led by Calbouu, took place from the Demo
cratic party. But these seced*rs or their rep
resentatives, have most or all of them 6ince
gone back iuto the Democratic ranks, and it is
they principally who are the leaders in the dis
organization now going on at Charleston.
Down to the time when, under the auspices
of Tyler aud CalbouD, the aDuexatiou of Tex
as became a leading question iu our politics,
the Northern section of tho Democratic party
had pretty well held their own. Ou the ques
tion of the right of petition they had made
some disgraceful concessions, but on most oth
er points they bad upheld the claim of North
ern ideas, interest? uud sentiments to have
their fair shard of influence on the policy of
the nation. They experienced their first grait
humiliation when, through the treachery and
ambition of Gen. Cass aud the operation of
the two-thirds rule, they found themselves
obliged in the Convention of IS-U to drop Mr.
Van Buren as Presidential candidate. This
was the beginning ol an effectual sectional
pressure brought to bear upon ite Democratic
party by the slavebolding interest; acting un
der tho encouragement ol Northern Presiden
tial aspirants.
Tho nomination of Frank Pierce might seem,
from the circumstance that he was a Northern
man. to indicate that the Northern section of
the party had again recovered its influence.—
But, Mr. Pierce wa* nominated merely on the
strength of his entire ana total devotion to the
slavebolding interest, aud on the priuciple of
holding out to eveu third aud fourth-rate North
ern politicians the prospect of the highest po
litical position to be obtained, not by leadership,
hut by subservience. Mr. Pieroe was, iu fact,
not the candidate of the Northern Democrats,
but the candidate of the slaveholders, to whose
la*or he "wS'e indebted for both his uoonnatiou
and his election.
The effect of this new scheme of political re
generation was soon apparent, in the introduc
tioD by Mr. Douglas of tha Kansas-Nebraska
bill; the attempt to entice the Northern De
mocracy into its support, under the delusive
pretext of Squatter Sovereigu'y, and the effort
to coerce tho reluctaut by the whote weight of
Executive influence. But this was a point to
which the honest and intelligent portion of the
party could not be brought. Tne passage of
the Kansas-Nebraska bill, including the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, indicated a fixed
resolution to sectionaiize the Federal Govern
ment, and to make it subservient to the exten
sion and perpetuation of slave labor. The in
telligent Demoorats in tho Free-Labor States
refused to become parties to this procedure.—
Seceding at once from an organization which
could no longer be considered as anythiug but
a Sham Democracy, they assisted in foiuiiDg the
Republican party. What is now going on proves
that they did this ooue too soou. They have
washed their hands of the disgrace of Buch
aoau's Administration, and they have escaped
the humiliations of the Charleston Convention.
—JV". Y. Tribunt.
FAMILY JARS AT CHARLESTON".
National Democracy, as embodied at Charles
ton, is fast becoming a bore, its machinery
seems badly geared, and its running works sadly
iu need of lubrication. This is of course a
less formidable nuisance to people who are re
mitted to their virtuous beds at wholesome aud
seasonable hours, no matter what may be doue
or undone in the heated purlieus of political
intrigue ; but to editors, compelled to sit up
far ruto the small hours iu eager quest of de
cisive intelligence from the seat of war, writing
articles which the next flash of the electric
current disjoiuts and annuls, a week of this
kind of performance is a dose—a fortnight
would be a surfeit. If the Convention can do
nothing else, it ought at least to be competent
to adjourn. We trust that salutary and cLeer
ing opperation will not be muoli louger delay
ed. If we cannot have a Democratic candi
date for President, let us at least have peace.
The more important inaooeuvers in the Con
vention recorded in our columns to-day, sceui
to us replete with bad faith. The vote of certain
professed Douglas men, including the Soft
Delegation from this State, to require 202
votes to nominate, iu a Convention reduced by
voluut&ry secessions from 303 to 252, is not
what the eurnest supporters of Mr. Douglas
had a right to expect. Clearly, if the Dele
gates from tho Cutton States are to be counted
against a choice, they ought to be present and
acting. It is not the fault of the majority that
they have seen fit to bolt, and it should not be
that majority's misfortune. If Alabama and
her sympathizing neighbors choose no longer to
he represented in tho Convention, they have a
perfect right to stay out of it; but in that case
their votes ought not to count against a choice.
Let those States be in the Convention or out
of it as they choose; but not in nod out of it
at the same time.
Then, the persistent attempts of the minority
to dictate to the majority in the vital matter of
a Platform, do not seem to be repelled as they
should. A Convention is not authorized to
make a creed for its party, but simply to de
clare what that creed is. The Convention, by
a decisive vote, after a full and earnest dis-
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY. MAY 11, 1860.
! eussion, has formally adjudged that the Slfcve
Code dogma and its concomitants form no part
of the National Demooratio creed. That
to be conclusive. To attempt to coerce the
majority into saying, or even half saying,
to he the Democratic creed which they hfe
deliberately and formally decided is not, strikes
us as at once unfair and arrogant. So do lie
persistent and menacing intimations of oerWlit
elaveholding delegations that, if this or that is
not done or forborne as they diotate, they, tv°,
will tolt. To boh may, under due provoca
tion, be respectable; to threaten to bolt uniJitß
tle majority wdl consent to be ruled by the
uiuiority must be—as the threats are eath.'rt
or otherwise—either insolent or despicable.
The Convention, it is said, will adjourn oWsr
—perhaps to Baltimore—at all event#, to Jure,
and to some other place than Charleston. Tbe
better course would bq to adjourn without div,
leaving every Democrat free to name his ciam
candidate and make his own platform. In the
state ot dilapidation and desuetude into which
the Democratic organization has fallen, ins
would seem at once popular and politic.
trust the year 1860 will witness the last ta
sembhng of a National Convention to nominate
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pretfi
deocy. JV. Y. Tribune.
Strange but True Lore Story.
In 184", there lived in the town of Lands&iit,
Bavaria, a young mechanic named Louis S——
who had just arrived at the age of twenty-cue
years. He became acquainted with a young woman
the daughter of a wealthy citizen, noted for her
beauty and many accomplishments. The two were
soon deeply in love with each other, and were liv
ing in the blissful anticipation of soon enjoy frig a
world of happiness in wedded bliss. The matter
was mentioned to the girl's father, who bed me
very indignant at the presumption of the young
man, who was poor, in asking the hand ofrhe
daughter of one so wealthy as be. The yoang
man was driven from the house, and threatened
with personal violence should he return. With a
sorrowful heart au| eyes wet with tears, Louis
bade adieu to Susan, for that was the young girl's
name, and set sail for America on the 18th of April,
1848, in the ship Calois.
The ship was out two weeks, wildly tossed on
many a rolling billow, when one stormy, dark night,
the 27th ol April, 1848, she was struck by as En
glish vessel, and in less than twenty minutes sunk
to the fathomless depths of the ocean, carrying
several of the passengers and crew to "that un
discovered country from whose bourne no traveler
returns." Just as the vessel was going down,
Louis S and John Herbi>erger, who y-^the
voyage had become intimate personal friends,
plunged into the briny deep, and fortunately al
most immediately got upon a large plank, and
were quickly carried from the scene of dissas
tcr.
The English ship hovered around for several
hours, and gathered up a number of tho passen
gers of the Galois but Louis and Hershberger had,
in their frail bark got beyond hailing distance, and
the vessel went on her way without them, for
thirty-six hours they wero on this plank iu the mid
dle of the ocean, enduring all the horrors of
anxiety, hunger and thirst, when they were picked
up by the since ill-fated ship City of Glasgow,
bound for Philadelphia, where they arrived on the
Oth of May 1848. Hersbberger hired with a barher
in Philadelphia, and Louis S came on foot to
our neighboring county of Stark, where he worked
two months, and tlieu came to this county and
commenced work at his trade, as a partner in an
established shop, lie was a very tine workman,
sober end industrious, and soon gained the confi
dence of his customers and neighbors.
Tbe result was that he soon had all the money he"
needed, and some to loan, which he was always
careful to put in safe hands. In the year 1850, he
made the acquaintance of a farmer's daughter, of
this county, and, on the 29th of November of that
year he was married to her. lie continued to pros
per, and, ill 1852, purchased a fine farm, ami went
to farming. In June last, his wife died, leaving
four children- two boys and two girls—to battle
the storms of life without a mother.
News had been taken back to Germany of tbe
loss of the Calois and most of the passengers, and
among them Louis and young Hershberger. The
girl, Louis' first love, was sorrow stricken with the
sad news of Louis' supposed death, for she still
hoped that fortune would favor them so that they
might marry at some time. '-Hope springs eternal
in the human breast," and it wasthisthat strength
ened the young girl to hid farewell to her lover,
and pray to Heaven that he might safely be carried
over the pathless ocean; but when sad news of his
death reached her ear she was for many months al
most frantic, her rosy cheeks gave way for a death
like pallor, and her friends feared that they would
soon have to follow her to the grave. Time, how
ever, hail its effect, and she finally apparently forgot
the cause of her troubles. Many were the suitors
that applied for her hand, but she refused them all.
in the year 1854, lieishberger, who was a scholar
and a fine writer, wrote a letter to a friend in Ger
many, giving an account of the voyage, loss of the
vessel, and rescue of himself and Louis S.
This letter was published in a paper in German)
which fell into the hands of the faithful girl, by
which she learned that Louis had been saved; but
whether he was yet living, and if still true to her
put her in great suspense. Her father dhct in 1858 :
leaving her a large fortune. In July, 1859, she was
in a store in the town ot Landshut, and while wait
ing on the merchant, who was engaged to sell her
some goods, she pieked up a copy of JJer Duthchc
in Ohio, a paper published by brother liaby, of Can
ton, formerly of this county, and in it noticed the
death of the wife of Louis S. She concluded this
Louis was her old lover, and immediately she began
to make preparations to sail for America and seek
him out. She arrived in this country, at the house
of Louis, on the iilst of December, and on the 10th
of last month they were made happy by being uni
ted in marriage at the house of the bridegroom.—
Holme* County Farmer.
AN INTERESTING DIALOGUE WITH A POOR
MAN. —Stephen Whitney, who died iu New
York recently, leaving ten millions, was once
met by Jacob As tor, when the following dia
logue ensuod:
"Mr. Whitney, I hear you have retired from
busiooss." This was after his retirement in
1837.
"Yes," replied Mr. Whituey, "I havo re
tired."
"And how uiuch are you worth?" ioquired
Mr. Astor.
"About 95,000,000," replied Mr. Whit
uey.
After standing and thinking in silence for a
moment, "Well," said Mr. Astor, "I don't
know but it is just as well to retire on that STUB
as it is to be rich "
ARTEMUS WARD AMONG THE SPIR
ITS.
Artemus Ward, the showman, recently vis
ited Berlin Heights, and thus describes an in
terview with the spirits there assembled :
I will here observe that Mrs. Ward is & in
valuable woojun—tho pardner ot my goys and
the shairer of my sorror. In my atsuoce she
watches my interest <fe things with a Eagle
Eye, and when i return she weloums me iu a
affeoshunate atile. Truly it is with us as it
was with Mr. and Mrs. Jngomar in the play,
to wbit—
2 soles with but a single thawt,
[ 2 harti; which lieet as 1.
My nabors indorsed me to attend a Spere
tooul Sircle at Squire Smith's. When I ar
rived I found the west room full, includin all
the old wades io the village and all the long
bared fellers a4sed. When i went io i was
s dooted with "hear cunts the benited wan,"
"hear cuius the unbeleever," "hear cuws the
hory heded skuffer at truth," etsattery, etsat
tery. Sez iwy trends its troo iwo hear and
■itow Bring on your Sperrets. The company
th&n dratved round the table and the Sirkle
kowweost to go it. They asked me if there
was any body iu the Sperret land which i
would like to talk with, & i said if bill Tbornp
kius who was onst wy pardoer in the show biz
ness was sober, i should like to convarse with
him a fow periods. Is the Sperret of Wm.
Ihowpkins present sed 1 of the long bared
chaps, and there was 3 knox on the tabic.—
Sez i William how goes it? lie sed things was
rather ruf. Sez i air you in the show bizness
W illiaw? and he sed he was. lie sed he &
John Bunion was travlin with a side show in
connekshun with Shakspeer, Jonson & Co.'s
cousolerdated wenagery and circus, lie sed
old Bun (weaning Mr. Bunion) stird up the
aucrtuils agjd ground the origin while he teoded
the door. Occashuuly Mr. Bunion sung a
cowio song. The circus was doin mlddlin
well. Bill Sbakspeer bad wade a hit with
"Old Bob Ridly," and Ben Jonson was deli
tin the people by his trooly great acts of
horsemanship without saddul and bridal. Sez
i William kan yu pa ma that $lB yu o we?
&he sed no with lof the most tremendoous
knox i ever cxperinsed. 1 then kawled fur mi
grandfather Si lurned tliet he was weetin with
fare succoss in the peenut biznes & liked it
very well, altho the climit was rutber wartn.
When the Sircle slopt they asked we what i
iwowt f *, 5 oiy froda ive bin in the
show bizness now going on to 23 years. You
dewtlis beleevc the Sperret doctrin while I
think its mixt. Just as soon as a man be
comes a regler out & out Sperret rapper he
quits orf work, lets his hare gro ail over his
face & commeusis spungin his livin. He goze
round scarin the wimmin folks, & little chil
dren & diatroyiu the piece of mind of every
famerlee he entors. i must say the regler per
fessional Sperret rappets —them as makes a
bizness of it—air abowt tbe most ornaryest
set of cusses i ever encountered in my life.—
So sayiog i put on my surtoot and went Lome.
A HARD STORY.
"It is just twenty years ago yesterday,"
said our uarator, "that a party of us fellcs went
over to Cabokia creek, on a skating match.—
The day was colder than ten icebergs ail stuck
together, but the ice was as smooth as glass,
and we made up our minds to have a heap of
fun. Bill Berry was the leader of the crowd,
lie was a tall, six footer full of pluek, and
the best skater in all creation. Give Bill Ber
ry a good pair of skates and smooth sailing
aud he'd make the trip to Baffins Bay and back i
in twenty-four hours, only stopping long enough
at Halifax to take a drink. Well, we go to
the creek and fastened our skates on, aud after i
taking a good horn from Joe Turner's flask,
started off in good style, Bill Berry in the j
lead. As I was tellin' ye, it was a dognonncd
coid day, and so we had to skate fast to keep I
the blood up. There was little breath holes j
iu the ice, and every now and then we would
come near going into 'em. My skates got
loose, and 1 stopped to fasten 'em. Just as 1
had finished bucklin' tbe straps I heard a nois.
1 looked up aud saw something shooting along
on the ioe like lightning. It Has Bill Berry's
head ! He had beeu goin' it like greased elec
tricity, and before he knew it he was into one
of them cussed holes. The force was so great
as to cut his head off against the sharp corners
of the toe. "It's all day with Bill Berry,"
said 1. "And all right too," said Jos Turner.
Just as he got these words out of his mouth, 1
looked at Bill's bead, which had beeu going it
on the ice, and all at onoe it dropped iuto
another bole. We ran to it, and 1 heard Bill
Berry say,"quick! boys, quick—pull me out!"
1 looked into tbe bole, and there, as true as
I'm a sinner, was Bill Berry's body, which had
sbooted along under the ice. It was so thund
eriu' cold that the bead was froze fast to tbe
body, and we pulled Bill out as good as new.
He telt a little uumb at first, but after skating
a wbile be was as the rest of us, and laughed
over the joke. We went home about dark, ail
satisfied with the day's sport. About niuo o'-
clock iu tbe evening somebody knocked at my
door and said I was wanted over to Bill Ber-,
ry's. 1 put OD my coat and went over. There
lay Bill's body iu one place and his head in
another. His wife said that after he came
home from skating, he sat down by tho fire to
warm himself and whilo attempting to blow
his nose, ha threw bis bead iuto the tireplaoe.
The coroner was called that night, and the
verdict of the jury was that 'Bill Berry came
ro his death by skatiug too fast.' "
A man who LBS no enemies is seldom good
for anything. He is made of that kind of ma
terial which is so easily worked that every one
tries his hand in it. A sterling character—
one who thinks for himself, and speaks what he
thinks—is always sure to have enemies; they
are as necessary to him as fresh air.
A BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.
I It was night. Jerusalem slept as quietly
amid her hills as a child upon tbe breast of its
i mother. The noiseless sentinel stood like a statue
at his post, and the philosopher's lamp burn
ed dimly io the recesses of his chamber. But
; a moral darkness involved the nations in its
! uriliebted shadows. Reason shed a faint glim -
' meriog over the minds of men, like the c2d
; nd insufficient shining of a distant star. The
immortality of man's spiritual nature was un
i known, his relations unto heaven undiscovered,
: and his future destiuy, obscured in a cloud of
■ mystery.
It was at this period that two forms of ethe
' rial mould hovered about the lost of God's
, chosen people. They seemed like sister angels
i seut to earth ou some embassy of love. The
; one of majestic staturo and well formed limb, ]
which her snowy drapery hardly concealed, iu
her erect, bearing and steady eye, exhibited the
highest degree of strength aud confidence.—
Her right arm extended in an impressive gesture
upward where night appeared to have placed
ber darkest pavilliou, while on her left reclined
her delicate companion, in form and countenance j
the contrast of the other, was drooping like a ;
flower moistened by refreshing dews, and her !
bright but troubled eyes scanned them with I
ardent but varying glances. Suddenly a light !
like the sun flashed out from the heavens, aud j
Faith and Hope hailed with exulting songs the j
ascending star of Bethlehem.
Years roiled away, and the stranger was
seen in Jerusalem. He was a meek unassuming
man, whose happiness seemed to consist in acts
of benevolence to the human race. There
were deep traces of sorrow ou his countenance,
though no one knew why he grieved, for he
lived in the practice of virtue, aud was loved
by all the good and wise. By and by i; was
rumored that the stranger worked mitacles,
that the blind saw, that tbe dumb spake, the
dead leaped, tbe ocean moderated its cbafiug
tide ; the very thunders articulated, Wis the
son of God. Envy assailed him to death :
Slowly and thickly guarded he ascended the
Lill of Calvary. A heavy, cross beot him to ;
the earth. But Faith leaned on his arm, and j
Hope dipping her pinions iu his blood mounted J
to the skies.
THE POOR CUSTOMER.
"How much butter ?"
"One half pound, if you please."
"And sugar ?"
"Half a pound."
"And those orangeo?"
"Half a dozeu, sir."
"You go by the halves, to-day. Well, what
else ? Be speedy, ma'am —you're keeping bet
ter customers waiting."
"Half a peck of Indian meal, and one fine
French roll," said the wowau ; but her lip
quivered, and she turned to wipe away a trick
ling (ear.
1 looked at her straw bonnet, all broken, at
her faded shawl, Ler tbiu, stooping form, her
coarse garments, and 1 read povbrty on all—
extreme poverty. And tho pallid, pinched
features, tbe mournful but once beautiful face,
told me that the luxurios were uot for her.
An invalid looked out from his catrow win
dow, whose pale lips louged for the cool,' fresh
oraL o e, for whose comfort the tea, butter, and
roll were bought, with much sacrifice. 1 saw
htm sip tbe tea, and taste tbe dainty bread, and
praise the flavor of tho sweet butter, and turu
with brightening eye to the golden fruit. 1
heard him ask her, kneeling at tbe smoky
hearth, to taste them with bim.
As she set the broken pan on edge to bake
her coarse loaf, I beard her say, "By-aud-by,
when lam hungry." But "by-and- by," when
tbe white lids of the sufferer were closed in
sleep, I saw her bend over bim with a blessing
in her heart. And she laid tbe remnant of tho
feast carefully by, and ate her bread unaioist
e&ed.
I started from my reverie; the grocer's hard
eye was upou me—"l'oa are keeping better cus
tomers waiting." Oh! bow I longed to tell him
how poverty and persecution, contempt and
soorn, could not dim tho heart's fiue gold, pu
rified by maDy a trial; and that woman, with
her little wants und holy sacrifices, was more
iD the sight of God than many a truiopct
tongued Dives who gave that ho might be known
of men.
SINGULAR TRADITION.
Among the Seminole Indians there is a sin
gular tradition regarding the white man's origin
and superiority. They say that when the Great
Spirit made the earth, he also made three men,
all of whom were of fair complexion and
that after making them, ho led them to the
margin of a small lake aud bade them leap
therein. Ooe immediately obeyed and came
from the water purer tban before be bathed,
the second did not leap in until the water bad
become slightly muddy and when he had bathed
he oame up copper colored j the third did not
leap iu until the water became black with mud,
aDd came out with its own color.
Then the Great Spirit laid before them three
packages of bark and bade them choose, and
out of pity for bis misfortune in color be gave
•.ho black man the first choice. He took hold
of each of the packages and haviug felt the
weight, chose tbe heaviest; the copper colored
one then chose the second heaviest, leaving the
white man the lightest. When the packages
were opened the first was found to contain
spades, boes, aud all the implements of labor;
the 6ecoud enwraped hunting, fishing aud war
like apparatus, the third gave the while UIBD
pens, ink and paper—the engiue of the mind
x —the mutual lueDtal improvement—the social
| link of humanity, the foundation of tbe white
1 man's superiority.
VOL. 33. NO. 19.
What Democracy Is.
The North American makes and elaborates
some very strong points against the Democracy,
which, when condensed, amount to about these:
1. Democracy is the only parry that contains
and encourages, either by silence or by applause,
great numbers of avowed disuDionists. 2. It
is the only party that contains any advocates
of the re-opening of the slave trade. 3. It is
the only party that steadily takers fljibusterism,
wars, and annexations, all tending to destroy
good order aud the Uatou, aud all meant either
to strengthen slavery, feed the lust of plunder,
or retrieve a desperate campaign- 4. It is the
only party that has renounced every doctrine,
and broken every compromise, held good by all
for sixty years, and that solely for forcing slave
labor into the territories. 5. It is the oniy
party that has perpetuated or countenanced so
great an outrage as the three years of despotic
and desperate effort to "crush out" the senti
ments of (be citizens of Kansas. 6. It is the
only party that has constantly and shamefully
employed fraud or force at the polls. Tho very
charge of such infamy has rarely been formally
brought against any branch of the Opposition.
The democratic contestants for scats in Con
gress and the Legislature always limit them
selves to defence and exculpation. But from
Plaquemtue to ArcostGok, aud from oar Navy
Yard to Oxford aud Pembina, their frauds are
notoriously free and flagrant. 7. While no par
ty is entirely guiltless of legtolative corruption
and political proscription, democracy has so far
nearly monopolized the business. B.*Tbe most
important point of all for Pennsylvacian3, ex
cepting that of disuuiouism, is that democracy
stands pledged to free trade by its general prin
ciples and its general action. Not all of the
Opposition are protectionists; but almost all
protectionists are of the Opposition, and the
only hope of American Industry is through
them.
A DRUNKARD'S BRAIN.— The stattling
doctrine taught in "Youmau's basis of prohi
bition," is fully corroborated by the following
passage from the Boston MedicaJ Jouru&i:
Uyrti, by far the greatest anatomist of the
age, used to say that he oculd distinguish in
the darkest room, by one stroke of the scalpel
the brain of the inebriate from that of the
person who had lived soberly. Now and then
he would congratulate his olass upon the pos
sesseasiga cf a drunkard's brain, admirably fit
ted, from its hardness and more complete pre
servation, for the purpose of demonstration.—
When the anatomist wishes to preserve a hu
man bram for any length of time, he effects
his object by keeping that organ in a vessel of
alcohol. From a soft, pulpy substance, it then
becomes comparatively hard} but the inebri
ate, anticipating the anatomist, begins the in
durating process before death—begins it while
the brain remains the consecrated temple of
the soul—wiiile its delicate and gossamer tis
sues still throb with the pulse of heaven bom
light. Strange infatuation, thus to desecrate
the godlike 1 Terrible enchantment, that
dries up all the fountains of generous feeling,
petrifies all the tender humanities and sweet
charities of life, leaving only the brain of lead,
and a heart of stone.
Is THE WOULD A MISTAKE /—One of the
saddest mistakes which the good people hare
made, is io supposing the world to be a mis
take. To these people—and their number is
not small—the earth is but a theatre of pain
and sickness, sorrow and death. Joy is illa
sive, pleasure a cheat, laughter a mockery,
and happiness a thing impossible, and not cveu
to be looked for on this side of the grave.—
The performance of ail duty is the 'taking up'
of what they eall a 'cross/ They are actually
afraid to be happy, under an overshadowing
impression thai they have no right to l-e hap
py in this life. They believe there is some
thing intrinsically baa in the world that they
inhabit, and all the joy that proceeds from it.
They have an idea that the moral evil which
afflicts the human race has siruck in. To them
life is a trial—severe, unrelenting, perpetual.
All that seems good and graceful and glorious
in the world is a hollow sham, for the decep
tion of the unwary and the ruin of the un
wise.
A PROFITABLE GRAPE VINE.—A rather
large story is told by an exchange, to the ef- *
feot that a woman iu the county of Sauta Bar
bara, California has one grape vine which, iu a
single year bore 5000 bunches of grapes,
yielding §4OOO. When a girl, on leaving
Monterey for her present home, she picked up
a vine cutting to drive her mule. This cutting
she planted on her arrival, aud after a lapse of
seven years, the foregoing is the result.
O.*E OF TOE IRRESISTIBLES.—Anambo,
an African prince, visiting England, received
so many attentions from a celebrated belle of
London, that in a moment of tenderness, he
could not refrain from laying bis hands upon
his heart and exclaiming, 'Ob, madam, if Heav
en bad ODly made you a negress, you would
have been irresistible"
Lime is good for top dressing around fruit
trees, when used in a mode into quantity, but
white washing trees is in the main injurious.—
Washing the trees with lye will kill the bark
louse quite as effectually, and not close the
pores as lime docs.
Prentice aays be has heard of but one old
woman who kissed her cow, but he knows of
mauy thousand young ones who have kissed
very great calves.
Out iu Illinois au editor gives notice that
"there will be no paper this week," as bis wife
is using his scissors to half-sole bis casaiuiers
with.