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Be will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand, opr. 8,1884 — zt. .1 ENTICE* OF THE PEACE. JOHN MAJOR, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, HOPKWKI-L, BBITROBD COEKTV. Collection* and all business pertaining to hi* office will be attended to prompt ly. Will also attend to the iale or renting of real estate. Instrument? of writing carefully prepa red. Also settling up partnerships and other ac count*. April 1, 18b—tf. 1)1 KBOftKOW A bI'TZ, Editors and Proprietors. Mtti THE WORLD Is BRIGHT! SV FITZ lifts KX HALLECK. The world is brigh before thee, Its summer flowers are thine: Its calm blue sky is o'er thee— Thy bosom virtue's shrine: Ai d thine the sunbeam given To Nature's morning hour, Pure, warm, as when from heaven It burst on Even's bower. There is a song of sorrow— The death-dirge of the sky— That tells, ere dawn of morrow, These charms may fade away; The sun's bright beam be shaded, The sky be blue no more. The summer's flowers be faded, And youth's warm promise o'er. Believe it not: though lonely Thy evening home may be; Though Beauty's barque can only Float on a summer sea; Though time thy bloom is stealing. There's still beyond his art The wild-ilower wreath of feeling— The sunbeam of the heart. WANTED. Wanted a hand to hold my own. As down life's vale I glide; Wanted, an arm to lean upon, Forever by ray side. Wanted, a firm and steady foot, With step secure and free, i To keep a strait and onward pace, O'er life's path with me. Wanted, a form erect and high, A head above my own. So much that 1 might walk beneath— It's shadow o'er me thrown. Wanted, an eye within whose depth Mine own might look and see Uprisings from a guileless heart O'erflown with love lor me. Wanted, a lip whose kindest siuile .Would speak for me alone, A voice whose richest melody Would Breathe affection's tone. Wanted, a true, religious soul, To pious purpose given, With whom my own might pass along The road that leads to Heaven. NEVER AGAIN. Brokcu the golden chord— Severed the silken tie: Never again will the old days come, Da. ling, to you ami I. Dead the beautiful Pas'' Scattered around its bier Pale thoughts lie thick, and memories Of days that were so dear. Memories 1 Fold them up— Lay them sacred by; What avails it to dream of the Past? The Future! for you and t. Broken the silken chord— Severed the golden chain— Linking us with the beautiful days That never can come again! SENATOR SHERMAN ON SUFFRAGE Important speech in favor of Negro suf frage. From a speech by Senatoi Sherman of Ohio, delivered at Cireleville, Ohio, June 10, we extract the following : And first, as to the former slaves of the South, we promised them their freedom by every mode by which one people may speak to another. We proclaimed it by the proc lamation of Mr. Lincoln. Congress twice ratified this proclamation, and the people in two annual elections have ratified it. These slaves have won their freedom by their de votion to our cause. They have from the beginning been true friends. They have borne our flag in battle. They have carried our arms. They have been slaughtered for our cause. They have aided our sick and wounded. They have fed our soldiers when in prison, and have guided their escape. — They have performed the humble offices of the camp and the hospital. They never fought against us. They have relied upon our promise, and have performed their part. Without them, and without their presence as a weakness to the enemy, we might not have succeeded. By their ample faith in us, following our fleet and our armies, they have earned their freedom: The enemy know and confess that an inevitable incident of their overthrow is the freedom of the slave. I therefore conclude that we must secure them their freedom beyond all doubt or peradventure. and maintain it against ev ery danger in any form of reconstruction that may be adopted. WHO SHALL VOTE IN TIIE SOUTH. Will you in addition, authorize thorn to vote? Will you invest them with all the rights and incidents of citizenship ? Have you the power to do it under the Constitu tion of the United States ? It is perfectly clear that, unless the powers of the Rebel States are changed or affected by the Rebel lion, Congress cannot, fix the qualification of a voter within a State. The Constitution provides but for three elections; of President of Senators, and of Representatives. The President is chosen by electors appointed in such manner as the Legislature of the State may elect. Senators are chosen by the las gisfatujes of' the respective States, and members are chosen by the people of the several States, and the electors of each stale shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature. If anything is clear it is that the framers of the Constitution meant that each State should prescribe who should vote. The only limitation upon this power is the duty of the National Govern ment to maintain in each State a Republi can form of Government. But again the question recur.-, is not all this changed in a State where the voters have voluntarily re nounced their allegiance to the General Gov ernment ? Can such a State renounce all its duties, and yet insist upon its right? It is generally admitted, and it. is certainly very clear, that*the Cnited States may -punish a traitor by depriving him of his life, his property, and his franchise. If one, why not all who are eqnally guilty? If the en tire voting populatiou have openly revolted against their allegiance, it is absurd to say that we hare power to kill them, and jet have no power to prevent their voting.— Again, can we punish the counterfeiter of our coin with disfranchisement, and yet not so punish a traitor ? If one, why not all ? Rut it is said tliat the loyal people are left who can vote. It is a sad fact, but a very true one, that the number of -itch people in the Southern States would fi>riu a very nar row foundation for a Republican Govern ment. North Carolina and Tennessee may contain enough such. President Johnson intend? to try the experiment in rh<>M-tates. :.ui I fear he vv;\ find the spirit of Rebeli ion too deep rooted in those who have taken A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. the oath to make them good eitisena How is it when you come to South Carolina and Mississippi ? It is said, establish in these a military Government, Well, for a time, that may do., but it is expensive and contra ry to the spirit of our institutions. If we can put negro regiments there and give them bayonets, why can't we give them votes? Both are weapons of offense and defense. Votes are cheaper and better. Both are part of the military necessity put upon us by the Rebellion. Both are unpleasant to the Rebels, but medicines arc not usually savory. I conclude, therefore, on this sub ject of negro voting, that in all States who can claim their full rights under the Consti tution, it is a question for the State, and that in revolted States it is a question of policy and military Government, to be deci ded by the national authorities until the State is fully restored to its former condi tion. Jn some of the Southern States I would leave them under military rule until they provide the only sure security for the future; thut the negroes should have their share in reconstruction, as they have borne their share in fighting. Negro voting may not suit our natural prejudices of caste. — They may be ignorant, docile, easily led, and not safely trusted with political power ; but if you admit all this, they have been tree and faithful among the faithless. They have joined in putting down the Rebellion ; and now to place them at the mercy of those they have helped us to subdue—to deny them all political rights—to give them freedom, but leave them entirely subject to Laws fram ed by Rebel masters—is an act of injustice against which humanity revolts. Suppose JO" deny them suffrage, what then ? The .•southern States gain by the freedom of their slaves fourteen new members of Congre.ss and as many electoral votes. Not three fifths but five-fifths are counted. If you give the same men who revolted this increa sed political power, what safety have you ? Suppose ten years ago they had this addi tional power, Kansas would have been a slave btate this day, and they would have had ample political power to subvert your Government. without a resort to arms. We must have security for the future. All the evils that I perceive may arise from a mixed voting population, are insignificant, compar ed with the only two alternatives—the res toring to Rebels vast political power, and the uuiger and vast expense of military Governments. -JY 1", Tribune, THE NATIONAL DEBT. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON THE HENNETT PLAN OP PAYING IT —IT IS FREE TRADE IN DISGITSE—A CHARACTERISTIC LET TER. George Francis Train writes the following letter, under date of the 31st ult, to J. G. Bennett, in which he calls the latest "Miles O Heilly Joke, viz the plan to pay by subscription the whole of the national debt. He says, in his strange way : You and Bonner are rich. Forty thou sand is nothing to either! But what other journals could pay as much on call? You insult your less prosperous cotemporaries by your audacious proposition ! Vanderbilt is rich—with Pacific Mail, Harlem, and Hud son at present quotations ! What is live tiaiidre i nxunsaiiu to mm r tetewim eoula pay a million, with gold (it tiro hundred and fifty ! Would you like to have a rich man receive ton with open arms, offer to lend him half a million. Wealth is credit ; cred it is confidence. Take away that and down comes your partition. We live in the age of paper. (V our fortune is paper | Herald]) Paper houses, paper hanks, paper constitu tions. Men taarry paper wives, and unto them are born paper children. The wealth of the rich is already in Government paper; pay it off and they are poor. Suppose you get five thousand names instead of five hun dred? Only one hundred and forty-five thousand more will he required ! As a bit of bunkum for European consumption, your idea is good. The advertisement is cheap : as no margin is required and as 1 expect to be a millionare some day, put me down for one. hundred shares. Will y otnl-c it in Prairie Dog? Our national dci t is credit —a na tional firm- —thirty million of partners —cap- ital. three thousand millions. .Statesman ship begets confidence —confidence guaran tees debt; then our debt is gold, capital, wealth. Destroy either, and all fail. At Washington Heights you told me that you believed in panics. Inflation built Chicago; its founders were ruined, hut its palaces stand. Our debtguarantees _ American in dustry; pay it, and free trade is ruin. Look at Turkey, Portugal, India under England's pestilential tutelage. Nothing but intense vitality and enormous resources saved Amer ica from Democratic policy. Toadyism on the brain begat free trade. Bright and Cob den tired their double barrel, bringing down both birds. Abolitionism hit Whigs; free trade hit democrats. America, however, will bag the game instead ofEngjand. Yet, over the grave of slavery, by paving the debt which is protection, you would resurrect serfdom, which is free trade. Continental currency, French assignats, Confederate paper, were not hacked up by commerce; hence disaster. Let the Green baek-Chase-McCulloch system stimulate commerce, manufactures, agriculture, in stead of trying to control gold or stock mar ket, aud new industrial enterprises will cre ate general prosperity. Despatches go by wire now. not by mail. We cross the ocean in ten days under steam, instead of sixty un der canvass. England took duty off of corn because Ireland was starving and emigrants flowed America-ward. She called it free trade. Wc fools cheered. It was protec tion to her labor. England, (having five hundred million dollars in three thousand cotton mills) took duty off of cotton because we undersold her in the east. She called it free trade. We idiots cheered again. It was protection to capital] both these great political events were acts of protection, wliich we in our miraculous wisdom, inter preted free trade. Prohibit export of cotton, and make for eign fabrics contraband ; erect rolling mills, iron foundries ; establish potteries, cultivate sorghum and sugar beet; plant mulberry trees for silk worms ; increase woolen facto ries, cotton mills ; manufacture hardware ; open westward, the world's highway to Chi na; Paris to Pekin in thirty days, and speak the American language ; in short, he Amer ican. Let MeCtiHoch introduce the Credit Mobiiier system, by using debt to start through National Banks, factories every where, and skilled artisans will pour in, taxes will he reduced, and the Grand Impe rial Continental Republic is established for a thousand years. And Then America, crushed to earth, will rise again— The eternal years of God are hers ; But England, wounded, writhes in pain, Will die amid her worshippers. Sydney Smith assures tue that Mrs. l';tr timrdon tailed to mop back the sea. So will yon fa'l, Mr. Bennett, in stopping the man ifest d .-tiny of our race, in trying to force pauperism on our people, by introducing l'ii, i'r "f i" 'dV/o/s.. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. BEDFORD. Pa., FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1865J TWO VOICES FROM NORTH CARO • UNA. Several gentleman have conic from North Carolina to Washington to confer with the Government upon the subject of the re-or ganization of that State. Among them is trie Hon. W. W. Holden, who is understood to be a representative of the Union men at the South who are sincerely glad of the tri umph of the Government. lie was indeed a delegate to the State Convention in 1861, and signed the ordnance of secession because as he says, escape was 'physically and inor rally impossible." But for some time, as the editor of a paper at Raleigh, Mr. Ilol den has rebelled against the rebellion, and was the "Peace" or Union candidate for Governor against Vance. At a late Union meeting in Raleigh, Mr. Holden made a speech which is worthy of attention, as the authorative statement of the present views of the white Union men at the South upon the subject of re-organization. Ihe colored Union ci tizens of North Car olina have also exprexry* **-.;* -rWwc. us compare the two pratis. Which is the more just, constitutional, simple and thor ough There can be no doubt of the sincerity of 3lr. Gulden's exultation at the overthrow of the rebellion. He accepts emancipation. Regrets for slavery, he says, are now vain. "It remains for the people of this State, both in Convention and in the Legislature, to define the status and condition of this emancipated race." Mr. Holden says that he would educate the colored citizen ; rec ognize his marriage relations : let him read his bible, and hold property ; "but beyond that I leave him to the future action of the States themselves. * * * The whole vast continent is destined to fall un dcr the control of the Anglo-Saxon race— the governing and self-governing race. I look to the wisdom of the people in Conven tion to decide the relations of the two ra ces." Why white men are more the ''people" of the State than colored men, Mr. Holden omits to say. And wha tan American means by talking of a "governing race" is an inter csting inquiry. Has Mr. Holden yet to learn that in this country the government is not founded upon family, or race, or color, but upon the consent of the governed ? He proposes to educate the colored men. Hoes he forget that a large proportion of the "governing race" in his State arc themselves unable to read ? Did it occur to Mr. Hol den that if the colored citizen who stood liehind the platform and listened to his speech was yesterday a slave, he, the orator was yesterday a rebel, who signed the or dinance of secession, however unwillingly, upon that very same spot ? This is one North Carolina plan of re-or ganization—that the government of the United States shall concede the political dis ability of the only part of the population which has been always loyal, and commit their future and the tranquility of the coun try to that part which has been in various degrees disloyal, and which regards the colored race as iuferior and of unequal rights. The other plan is presented in a petition from the colored citizens of North Carolina to the President. They confess that they fow-men, ! Ymt have tried to help those who upheld the old nag through all the rebellion; and hundreds of Union escaped prisoners can say how effectively they did it. They declare that they cannot see the justice of denying the elective fran chise to men who have been fighting for the country, while it is freely given to men who have just returned from five years' fighting against it. _ "As you were once a citizen of North Carolina," says the petition to the President, "we need not remind you that up to the year 1836 free colored men voted in this State, and never, as we have heard, with any detriment to its interest. What we desire is, that preliminary to elections in the returning States, you would order the enrollment of ull loyal men without regard to color." Surely no plan could be more just, more simple, more constitutional and more effec tive. This will bring "the people of this State" into a convention as Mr. Holden wishes. And if this is not done, if an arbi trary enfranchisement is made, based upon complexion, or height; or age. or property, or weight, or size, how can Congress ack nowledge the government that may result as the republican fonn of government which it is constitutionally bound to secure to every State ?— Harper Wnhly. A BIT OF HISTORY -HOW AND WHY MASON WAS SNUBBED BY EARL RUSSELL. The Atlanta!Geo) Intelligencer makes a curious statement concerning the rebel agent Mason and Earl Russell, as follows: ' 'lt is said that after Mr. Mason had ad dressed several diplomatic notes to Lord Palmerston or Russell (we do not remember which), he was formally notified that on a certain day he would be reeeived.in his diplomatic character, and an audience gran ted him in London. Two days in advance of the day named for his reception, Mr. Mason repaired to London to await the summons of the British minister to the appointed conference. "The day passed, however, and no usher appeared to introduce or to convey Mr. Mason to the British minister's presence. Another passed, and ho was still neglected; and yet another, with the same mortifying result. Annoyed at this treatment. Mr. Mason, who had many personal friends 'at Court", made it known to them, and they,it is said, expostulated with the British min ister at his cavalier treatment and neglect of a gentleman who had been invited to London in an official card aud on official business. Whereupon the following in substance, was tendered as an apology for the treatment, by an official of the gover nment: "That the invitation given Mr. Mason to visit London and have an interview with the minister, and at the time specified, was given in good faith, but on the day pre ceding, a deputation representing the united cotton manufacturing interests of Great Britain, had been granted an audience, during which they protested against any recognition of the Southern Confederacy by that government, then or in the future. That then England was upon the verge of general bankruptcy, owing to the vast accumulation of manufactured goods of every description, and stored away in every warehouse almost in the kingdom, amoun ting to a supply more than sufficient for two years' demand, besides enough of the raw material on hand to last them for at least two years more. "That if the war continued, England would he saved from general bankruptcy, and noth ing else could save her. That even it the South were conquered, slavery abolished, and the labor to grow the staple withdrawn from it entirely, it would be better for Eng land and for its manufacturing interests. The former could vigorously encourage the growth of the staple in her East India pos sessions. arc! the latter could have time to get off* their accumulated stock of goods, to manufacture their raw material then on hand, and to prepare their machinery for the manufacture in future of the coarser Bat India staple. The facts and the ar gument prevailed. The British minister was sorry, very sorry, but Mr. Mason could not La* received, and the Southern Confed eracy must take care of itself. "the InteUuieucrr asks why this intelli gence was withheld from the people at the time it was com uiunicatel to the Confederate Seriate, and adds; Had the delusion then been removed from the people's mind of cotton being king, or of foreign recognition, the war might have closed two years ago, with less advantage to Great Britain and more to the South and the United .States than at this late day. But crimination and recrimination are now out of place. 'Cotton is not king, 'was not, and never caabe king. This, like some theories of our government to which the South has given credence, and long maintained —such as are embraced in the doctrines of state rights and state rerae djc*— must be con sidered baseless political fabrics. One peo ple. one government, united fir the general welfare, at peace, if it will let us, with all the world, but united against it whenever assailed. And so we go for a new, and, we trust, a peaceful and prosperous future." WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH LEADING REBELS. It is believed that the further intention of the Government on the amnesty ques tion, as far as it has taken form, is to indict for treason all or most of the persons excep ted from the proclamation, and when they are arrested to try them for treason, and on conviction to sentence them severally to be hanged by the neck until dead. It is also proposed to keep a vigilant eye on those embraced in the amnesty who shall make themselves exceptions to it by refusing to take the oath which tt prescribes, and when .such persons shall become obnoxious and mischievous by their pro-elaveiyisra and dis loyalty, they will be arrested and tried for treason in a manner similar to the above mentioned class, and. like them, sentenced to death. It is believed that when such per sistent rebels shall have been indicted, ar rested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to die a felon's death for treason, they will be deprived of all power to make themselves dangerous, even if the President should see fit to pardon the most of them, or remit the penalties against them. A convicted traitor, who is at large by favor of Executive cle mency. will be a very harmless creature, it i- argued, whereas many of the returned rebels are more pompous and self compla e nt than before the war, refusing to speak to old friends, who had been Unionists, and organizing into political factions to resume control of the .Southern States in the name of State sovereignty and slavery. These heresies are not yet given up, but they form the netrcleus/jf part isan*leagues throughout the Border States, which are full of danger. They not only vote against the policy of the Administration, but, as in Virginia, com bine through three-quarters of the State to ignore the Government, and delay and vio late the law. The trials and convictions spoken of as included in the perspective pol icy of the Administration, will take place in WTOWICt ... f ,v D. of 1 Southern States as fast as they arc organ ized. This will probably be tbeirtirst work: and it will lie prosecuted with no feeling of malice or revenge, but solely to vindicate law i.>d restore order in the land. Some of these trials will soon take place in Virginia, where they are much needed, and where the outrageous conduct of the traitors has al ready convinced mortof the clearest headed men that the return to civil government has been premature. — Serial Washington Cor rrxpnndent of the New York Tribune, MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. This estimable lad v died on Saturday June It), in Hartford, after a lingering illuoss.— She was born at Norwich on the Ist of Sep tember. 1781, and was consequently in her seventy-fourth year. During the quarter of a century ending, perhaps, somewhere about 1 >SO, her name was more widely known, in either hemisphere, than that of any other American authoress. Latterly her poetry has given place, in most libraries, to that of a more modern and varied school, though it will never be whol ly superseded. She was early addicted to verse-making, possessed a temperament which, while it never marred her sound and solid health, was nevertheles keenly suscep tible to the varied beauties and subtile influ ence of nature. She removed to this city in IBi4 where she opened a select school for young ladies, and where her poetical talent and many lady like and Christian graces soon attracted the notice and engaged the personal interest of the late Daniel Wadsworth. a gentleman whose artistic and iiteran - taste was fortu nately equalled by his pecuniary means; and be was tne means of introducing her to the fublic in a volume of "Moral Pieces in 'rose and Verse. " In 1810 Miss Huntley became the .second wife of Charles Sigourney. a well-known merchant of this city; and since that time she, while engaged in the domestic affairs of rearing a family of children, found time to contribute largely to the serious literature of the country, both in prose and verse. ' Her publisher! works, in all, number nearly fifty volumes. Her prose is marked by vigor, beauty and good sense, and, like her poetry, is full of good moral precepts. At home she was best known aud loved for her domestic virtues, and her rare neigh borly spirit of friendly kindness. Her heart and purse were ever own to all good works of philanthropy and charity; and she had a host of friends, and never an enemy. Ma ny will miss her kindly, genial presence, her active sympathy, and her large-handed charities. — I Ii rtford Coir ant. WHAT A GOOD NEWSPAPER MAY DO. Show us an intelligent family of boys and girls, anil we will show you a family where newspapers and periodicals are plentiful. No one who has been without these silent private tutors can know their educating pow er for good or evil. Have you ever thought, of the innumerable topics of discussion with which, thus early, our children become fa miliarly acquainted; great philanthropic questions-of the day, to which unconscious ly their attention is awakened, arid the gen eral spirit of intelligence which is evoked by these quiet visitors. Anything that makes home pleasant, ehocrfulaud chatty thins the haunts of vices, and the thousand and one avenues of temptation, should certainly he regarded, when we consider its influence on the minds of the young as a great moral and social light.— Ema wn. HE who. by lib conduct, makes good friends on the one hand, and bitter haters on the other, gives evic ence that there is some thing of the bold, it dependent, upright man in his composition : while the chicken-hear ted, imbecile character is capable of making neither friends nor foes. Vol 38: No. 26 POPPING THE QUESTION. A LEAP YEAH STORT. "But why don t y ou get married?" said a bouncing girl, with a laughing eye. to a smooth-faced, innocent looking youth, who Dimmed . mp to the oye.s at the Question. • , e " * said the youth, stopping short with a gasp, and fixing his eyes upon va cant} with a puzzled and foolish expres sion. "Well, go on ; you what ?" said the fair cross-questioner, almost imperceptibly recli ning nearer to the young man. "Now jut tell me right straight out, you what?" hv I—o, pshaw! don't know!" " i ou do, 1 say you do know, come, now, I want to know." "Oh, I can't tell you—" "I say you can. Why, you know I'll nev er mention it, and you may tell, of course, you know, for* hav'nt I always been your irierul T , J'Well, you have, I know," replied tie WJieaguoi'ttd youth. ' And I m sure I always thought you Hk edine, continued the maiden, in tender and mellow accents. Oh, Ido upon my word—yes, indeed I do .Maria, said the unsophisticated youth, very warmly, and he found that Maria had unconsciously placed her hand in his open palm. Then there was silence. And then—Well, John?" said Maria dropping her eyes to the ground. r.h 'Oh ! well! said John, dropping his eyes and Maria's hand at the same mo ment. I m pretty sure you love somebody, John; it s a fact, .Maria, assuming again a tone of raillery. "I know you're in love; and John. *Why don tyou tell me all about it at once ? "Well, I-" . \ 1 ', 9jb yoti silly mortal, what it. there to be afraid of?" . "Oh, it ain't because I'm afraid of any thing at all. and I'll, well, now Maria, I ml! tell you. "Well, now. John?" I_" "Eh-?" u r—" "Yes." "I am in love! now don't tell ; you won't will you? said John, violently seizing Ma ria by the hand, and looking in her face with a most imploring expression. "Why, of course, you know, John, I'll never breathe a word of it—you know I won t . don t you John ? This whs spoken in a mellow whisper, and the cherry lips of Maria were so near John's ear when she spoke, that if he had tamed his head to look at her. there might have occurred an exceed mgly dangerous collision. eh, 31 aria, said John, "I ve told you now and you shall know all about it. I have always thought a great deal of you, and— "Yes John." L am sure you would do anything for me that you could—" "Yes John, you know I would." "Well, I thought so, and you don't know how long I ve wanted to talk to you about uie long ago, if you wanted, forYw sure 1 never was angry with you in my life." "No, you was'nt; and I have often felt, a great, mind to, but—" "It's not too late now. you know, John." ell, Maria, do you think I'm too young to get married?" "Indeed, I do not John; and I know it would be a good thing for you, too, for eve ry body says the sooner young people are married the better, when they" are prudent and inclined to love one another." I hat's just what I think, and now Ma ria, J do want to get married, and if you'll just— Indeed I will, John for you know I was always partial to you, and I've said so often behind your baek." "Well, I declare, I've all along thought you might object, and that's the reason I ve been always afraid to ask you." '^Object! no, I'd die first: you may ask of mo just what you please."' '• And you'll grant it?" "I will." "Then, Maria, I want you to pop the question for me to Mary Sullivan, for—" " What ?" "Eh?" "Do you love Mary Sullivan ?" "Oh, indeed I do, with all my heart." "I always thought vou were a fool." "Eh?" * "1 say you're a fool, and you'd better go home, your mother wants you ! Oh, you— you—you stupui!" exclaimed the modified Maria, in a shrill treble, as she gave poor John a slap on the cheek that sent him reel ing. It. was noon day, and yet John declares he saw myriads of stars flashing around him, more than he ever saw before in the night time. A POOR WAY TO AVOID A DRAFT.— Dr. Samuel S. Wiltbank, of Philadelphia, a member of the examining hoard of drafted men at York, Pennsylvania, and long a sur geon in the United States hospital at that place, tells the following good story on a rich Pennsylvania Dutchman who was drafted : Anxious to avoid procuring a substitute, and to render himself incapable of "going to the wars," he went to a country dentist and had all his teeeh, which were entirely sound, taken out, with the exception of the huge grinders lying back in the regions of his jaw-hinges. Thinking himself properly exempt, hie marched off for the Provost Marshal's office, where his bleeding gums were examined by Dr. Wiltbank, who ques tioned him as to his recent tooth pulling, and became satisfied that the "masticators"' had been drawn to save the trembling Tue ton from putting his body in peril of a rebel bullet fie was then referred to the Pro vast Marshal, who, on learning the state of the case, ordered "Mynheer" to sit down telling him that he "could have his choice of the cavalry or artillery." After sitting uneasily and suffering terribly with hin lace rated jaws for several hours, the Dutchman arose and asked the Marshal if he would' nt take five hundred dollars and let him off.— "No!" said the officer, I have a great mind to send you to the army anyhow; but if you will bring a good substitute you can" go home. " Mynheer jumped at the idea, pro cured a man for eight hundred and fifty dol lars. and went his way rejoicing, minus his teeth, but contented that it was no worse with him than it was. Dr. Wiltbank re marks that this specimen of stinginess was but thirty-five years of age, and worth fully eighty thouaand dollars. —-Veic York Pa per. ' "AH ! Sam, so you've been in trouble have you?" |} "Yes, Jim, yes." "Well cheer up man, adversity tries us. and it shows up our better qunli - " "Ab ! 1 r: a ! versify didn't ft; •..! - an old viitriboui! of a judge, autl lie shown.* up my worst qualities. A NOTORIOUS CHARACTER ARRESTED.- Quaotrell, the notorious Kansas guerrilla, arrived in this city yesterday morning about II o'clock. He was conveyed in a country wagon, on a bed of straw, and a few pillows, and guarded by Tamil's men, disguised as guerrillas. He is wounded through the left nt 1 ' an< * ** bought he will die. Ail the honov for his capture is due Captain ierrui and his company of "decoy guerril- On Wednesday Terrill and his men sur prised and charged on Quantrell's gang, five miles oeyond 1 aylorsvifie. killing three of the outlaws and dispersing the remainder. They were also on the scent of Berry's guer illas, and only one hour behind them, when they received an order to report to the gene ral commanding. Quantrell has been sailing under the name of Clark, and it is supposed by mnny that it is not the veritable Kansas outlaw, but we understand that Terrill and part of his company are intimately acquain ted with him. One fact that will strongly corroborate their assertions is. that a pic ture of a young lady was fomid in his pos sessioa which one of the parties recognized as being the .likeness of Miss Hickman, who resides within five miles of the Kansas line. Quantrell also stated that the three follow ;rsof his who were killed, were from Mia- The news of his capture will cause great joy throughout the Union. The inhuman outrages that he committed years ago, such as burning the town of Lawrence, <KC., are still fresh in the memory of our people.— Chattanooga Gazette, 'lAtJi ult. OPPRESSION OP POOR CHILDREN IN ENG LAND. — It seems that a system has sprung up in some agricultural districts of persons collectiEK what is termed a "gang" of chil dren. whom they hire of their parents, and let out to fanners ; these child-gangs consist some of girls and some of boys, and some of boys and girls mixed,- and there are also gangs of women. The head of the gang is called an "undertaker" or "driver," whose interest it is to get as much labor as he can out of the children, and hit- conduct towards them is spoken of as very severe, they being in reakty slaves. This system, it seems, is in favor with the fanners where it exists, and it has prevailed in Norfolk for thirty five years, and in the fen district in Lincoln shire and Cambridgeshire for twenty years, and of late has much extended. The Bish op of Lincoln stated that his correspondents informed him that the gang system had the most demoralizing effect upon the youth of both sexes, and fostered the most vicious liabits among them. Lord Shaftesbuxy moved in the House of Lords, that the Com mission appointed in 1862 to inquire into the employment of children and young persons in trades and manufactures not already reg ulated by law, should include in its inquiries children employed in these agricultural gangs The motion was acceded to, and it is to be hoped that a system so fraught with evil will speedily be put an end to.—fir. Times. "IN MEDIO TCTISSIMUS IBIS. " —The oth er day—it was Sunday—soon after the as sassination of our Martyr President, there were found suspended near a certain pulpit two flags drained in mourning. This at old Tappan Town, in the county of Rockland, and in the ancient orthodox church of that place; not twenty rods from the old "Seven ty-six House, ' where Andre was confined, tried and sentenced, and not a half mile from where he was executed, buried, and, long af ter, exhumed. "Dem vlags must coom down," said one of the not over-loyal members of the congre gation. "No bizness in church ; nobolidicks ought to go into der church." "It is not politics, " said a loyal overbear er, "it is a token of grief and respect for our dead President." 'lt's bolidicks all der same," was the re ply ; "mus' coom down." "Let 'em be, dis time," said a brother Dutchman, in political accord with the ob "rs*he r nd"tne old Copperhead ; "den let der vlags stand." THE LAUGH OF WOMAN.— AJwoman has no natural gift more a sweet laagh. It is like the sound of flutes upon the water. It leads from her in a clear spar kling rill, and the heart that hears it reels as if bathed in the cool, exhilarating spring. Have you ever pursued an unseen figure through the trees, led on by a fairy laugh, now here, now there, TOW lost, now found ? We have. _ And we are pursuing that wan dering voice to this day. Sometimes it comes to us in the midst of care and sorrow, or irksome business, and then we turn away and listen, and hear it ringing throughout the room like a silver bell, with power to scare away the evil spirit of the mind. How much we owe to that sweet laugh 1 It turns prose to poetry ; it flings showers of sunshine over the darkness of the wood in which we are traveling ; it touches with delight even our sleep which is no more than the image of death, but is consumed with dreams that are shadows of immor tality. ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH.— The ground work of all manly character is veracity, or the habit of truthfulness. That virtue lies at the foundation of everything said. How common it is to hear parents say "I have faith in my child so long as he speaks the truth. He may have many faults, but I know that he will not deeeive. I build on that confidence." They are right It is a lawful and just ground to baud upon. So long as the truth remains in a child, there is something to depend on; but wheal truth is gone, all is lost, unless the child is speedily won back again to veracity. Children, did you ever tell a lie? If so, you are in immi nent danger. Return at once, little reader, and enter the stronghold of truth, and from it may you never depart.— SehctecL GEN. SHERMAN'S dispatches, which, with unjust haste he charged were suppressed by Secretary Stanton; aid not come into the hands of the latter until April 27th, they having been withheld until that time by Gen. GRANT. On the 28th their publication was ordered by the Adjutant General, and they were sent to the printer. These facts disprove the injurious allegations against the Secretary of War and show that in this matter Gen. SHERMAN has allowed his tem per to run away with his judgment . A SCHOONER captain, noted for his parsi mony, was one day waited upon by his oook who informed him that the crew were in a state of disaffection, bordering on mutiny, in consequence of their being compelled to subsist on such a scanty supply of provi sions. "What!' .hundred the enraged skipper, ' "have the ungrateful scoundrels the audaci ty to assert they do not get enough to eat ? Confound their insatiable gluttony! Give them three herrings for dinner, Joe; give j them three herrings, and let ! em bust, wast | 'em 1" "DOCTOR. I want yon to prescribe forme.' The doctor feels her pulse. "There is noth ing the matter, madam; yon only need rest.' "Sow, doctor. just look at my tongue ! just look at it ; look at it! now say, what does it mean?" "I think that needs rest too." Exit madame in a state of great excitement. IT is said that since the caving-in of the rebellion, the "reliable gentleman, " and the "intelligent contraband' have entered into partrii rship and gone into the oil business. 'Jeff Davis' coachman" will act as the busi ness manager of the new firm, "OH, mother I do send for the doctor!" ■id a little boy of three years. "What for ii dear"Why. there > a gentleman in ii.. .r who .***> lie 11 die if Jane don't many hitu —and Jane says she won't!"
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