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WHY DON'T YOU TAKE A PAPER 1
He was a model husband,
So generous and kind.
One like good naturod Alfred Gray
'Mongst men 'twas hard to find.
He had a household, hale and strong,
But dim was wisdom's taper;
Because the evening glided by
Without the weekly paper.
But woman's eye Is quick to see,
And Mrs. Gray was shrewd;
And though he was a quiet man,
Yet sometimes she was rode :
And when they went, last Friday night.
To call on Mrs. Draper,
She said her husband was a goose,
And doesn't take a paper.
Good natured Alfred when accused
Of this before them all,
Looked calmly round and softly said,
My income is too small ;
I always wear a bonnet less,
Said gentle Mrs. Draper,
Throughout the year to give my dear
His 'Democratic' paper.
llow would we know produce wu up,
Or shoes and dry goods down,
The name of our new President,
And where his native town,
Nor would we know yonng Andrew Brown,
Had wed the Miss Laypcr,
With ninety thousand, all in eash,
If 'twas not for the paper.
This hare I done said Mrs. Gray,
For bonnetlcss am I
I wear a hood of dingy silk,
Yet nothing hare laid by.
My Alfred says 'tis very Well
For every idle gaper.
Who has the cash and time to waste,
To buy and read the paper.
My Jane is twenty-six to-day,
And yet she don't get married)
Economy has been our rule,
Yet still at home she's tarried ;
And Alfred has three dollars now
Saved up to buy a scraper;
I wish that be would change his mind
And take a weekly paper.
The question was then put to rote
To know which was most meet,
Get something new to clear the mind
Or shoes upon the feet;
The good wives clapped their hands with joy,
The children cut a caper,
The vote at once were twelve to one,
And so he took the paper.
There is an edifice np town,
In upper-tendom street.
There's Alfred Gray, Esq's home,
The rich and poor to greet,
Ho rose quite soon from obscure life,
Soon left its murky vapor,
For affluence and usefulness
Because he took the paper.
Dear reader, in fretful home,
If you from day to day
Are hobbling awkwardly along,
As once did Alfred Gray :
If trials hard you have to bear,
Although you bear them meekly,
If you'd out-live them and he rich,
Why don't you take a weekly ?
QUIET WILLIE.
TALK ABOUT MARRIAGE.
BY T. 8. ARTHUR.
Two maidens, in youthful bloom and
beauty, sat earnestly talking. Their thoughts
were reaching away into the future; their
theme was marriage.
"I like him well enough," said one of
them, but—'
She paused, the objection unspoken.
'What is the impediment, Alice?'
'His income is to small.'
'What is it?'
'Eight hundred dollars a year.'
'You might live on that.'
'Live! Bah! What kind of living?
'Not precisely in style, I will admit '
'Nor scarcely in plebeian, Fanny. Eight
hundred dollars! Why father pays six
hundred dollars rent, and I'm sure our
style of living is plain enough. Eight hun
dred ! Oh, no, I like Harrv better than any
young man I have met t could love him,
no doubt. But he can't support a wife in
any decent kind of style.'
Did your father and mother begin their
marriage life on a larger income than Harry
Pleasants now receives? Mine did not, as I
have often heard them relate.'
'Father and mother ! Oh, according to
story, Job's famous turkey was scarcely
poorer than they were in the beginning.
Mother did all her own work, even to wash
ing and ironing, I believe. Father's income
was not over three or four hundred dollars
a year.'
'And they were happy together, I am
quite sure.
'No doubt. In fact, I've heard mother
say that the first hard struggling years of
their life, were among the happiest she had
known. But that doscn't signify for me.
That is no reason why her daughter should
elect to go into the kitchen, and spend her
years in washing, ironing and cooking. If
a man isn't able to support a wife genteelly,
and in the style to which she has been accus
tomed, let him marry some Irish Cook,
sewing girl, or washerwoman, who will man
age his household with the needed economy.
Young men who can't earn more than eight
hundred or a thousand dollars a year should
not look into our circles for wives.'
'I don't like to hear you talk in this way,
Alice,' said her companion. 'We are not
superior beings, but only the equals of the
men.'
'Did I say we were superior?'
'One might infer from your language that
you thought so.'
'I don't see how the inference can fairly
be drawn.'
'Our circles for wives, you said just now.'
'Yes.'
'What do you mean by it?'
'A circle of intelligence, refinement, taste
and cultivation,' said Alice.
You don't say wealth.'
'No. My father, though living in good
style, is not rich. 1 have beard him say,
more than once, that we were living up to
our income.'
'Then we have our own sweet selves with
which to endow our husbands. No houses
or lands; no stocks from which to draw an
income; nothing substantial on which to
claim the right of being supported in costly
idleness. We must be rich indeed as to per
sonal attractions.'
'We are educated and accomplished, and
—and—
Alice was a little bewildered in thought,
and did not finish the sentence.
_ 'Not better educated, or accomplished, as
girls, than are most of our young men. who
as clerks, earn only S7OO to SI,OOO a year.
In this regard they are simply their equals.
But, it strikes me, that in another view of
the case, we cannot even claim an equality.
They are our superiors.'
'Not by any means,' replied Alice.
'We shall see. Here is Harry Pleasant,
for instance. What is his income?' I think
you mentioned the sum just now.'
'Eight hundred dollars a year.'
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"That is the interest on—how Biaoh ?'—
let me see—about twelve thousand dollars.
To be equal as a match ibr Harry, then, you
should be worth #l2,oot'.
'How you talk, Fanny!'
'To the point, don'sl? If we are not su
perior to the young Men who visit us, supe
rior is simply virtue to our sex, then our on
ly claim to be handsomely supported in idle
self indulgence, must be in the fact that we
endow our husbands with sufficient worldly
goods to warrant the condition.'
'Your are ingenious!
'No, matter of fact. What have you to
say against my position. Alice ? Are we
better than young men of equal intelligence
ami education.
'No, I cannot say that we are.'
'lf we marry, we must look upon these
for husbands, Ekih men as a general thing
select their wives from rich men a daugh
ters. Our chances in that direction are not
very encouraging" Yours has no dowry for
his child, nor has mine. Their families are
large and expensive, and little or nothing of
the year's income is left at the year's end.
The best they can do for us is to give us
homes; and I feel that it is not much to our
credit that we are content to lean on our
fathers, already stooping under the burden
of years, care and toil, instead of supporting
ourselves. The thought has troubled me
not a little."
A sober hue came over the face of Alice,
as she sat looking into the face of her friend.
She did not reply, and Fannie went on.
'There is wrong in this. On what ground
of reason are we to exempt the common lot
of useful work ? We expect to become
wives and mothers. Is this our prepara
tion? Can you make a loaf of sweet, light
bread?"
'No.'
'Nor can I!'
'Or roast a sirloin?'
'No.'
'Or broil a steak ? Just think of it, Alice I
We can manage a little useless embroidery,
or fancy knitting; can sing and play, dance
and chatter, but as to real and substantial
things of life, we are ignorant and helpless.
And with all this, forsooth, we cannot think
of letting ourselves down to the level and
condition of virtuous, intelligent young men
who in daily useful work, are earning a fair
independence. We are so superior that we
must have husbands able to support us in
luxurious idleness, or we will have none!
We are willing to pass the man to whom
love would unite us in the tenderest bonds,
because his income is small, and many for
position one from whom the soul turns with
instinctive aversion. Can we wonder that so
many are unhappy?'
'But eight hundred dollars, Fanny! How
is it possible for a married eouple to live in
any decent style, in this city, on eight hun
dred dollars a year ?'
'They may live in a very comfortable
style, if the wife is willing to perform her
part.'
'What do you mean by her part, Fanny.'
'We will take it for granted that she is no
better than her husband. That having
brought him no fortune beyond her dear
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'Well?'
'He has to work through all the day.'
'Well?'
'Under what equitable rule is she exempt?'
'None. She must do her part, of course,
if there is anything to do it with. She must
keep his house, if he can afford a house.
But if he only has eight hundred dollars a
year. Why rent alone would consume half
or more than half of that. There would be
no house keeping in that case. They must
board.'
'And the wife nit in idleness all the day
'£he would havs nothing to do.' -
'Could she not teach ? or by aid of a sew
ing machine earn a few dollars every week ;
or enrage in some other useful work that
would yield an income, and so do her part ?'
'Yes, she might do something of the kind
—but if marriage is to make : workies' of
us, it were better to remain single.'
'And live in unwomanly dependence on
our parents and relative*. N •>, Alice; there
is a false sentiment prevailing on this sub
ject, and as I think and talk, I see it more
clearly. Our parents have been weak in
their love for us, and society, as constituted
has given wrong estimates of things. We
should have been required to do useful
work in the household, from the beginning,
and shonld have taught that idleness and
self indulgence were indisereditable. Our
brothers are put to trades and professions,
and made to comprehend, from the begin
ning, that industry is honorable, and that
the way of useful work is the way by which
the world's brightest places are to be reach
ed.
But we are raised daintily and uselessly
and so fitted for our duties as wives and
mothers. Our pride and self esteem are
fostered; and we come to think of ourselves
as future queens, who are to be ministered
to in all things, instead of being a minis
trant, in loving forgetfulness. No wonder
that an anti-marriage sentiment is beginning
to prevail among young ruen of moderate
incomes, in all our large cities. The fault is
in us, Alice. The sin lies at our door. We
demand too much in this copartnership.
We arc not willing to do our share of work;
our hasbands must bear all the burden.'
Alice sighed heavily.
Her friend continued: 'I have read some
where that the delight of Heaven is the de
light of being useful. And it seems to me,
as I dwell upon the thought, that the near
est approach to heavenly delight her#, must
be in that state into which a wife comes
when she stands by her hnsband's side, and
out of love for him, removes one burden
and another from his shoulders, and so ligh
ten his work, that smiles take the place of
weariness and the shadows of care. If he
be rich, she can hardly have BO great a priv
ilege ; but if they are alike poor, and know
how to moderate their desires, their homes
may become an image of Paradise. Eight
hundred dollars? Alice if you were really
fitted to become Harry's wife, you might
live with him, doing your part, happier
than a queen.'
'That is, I must take in work, and earn
money, if we board ; or—but housekeeping
is out of the question.'
'No, it should never be out of the ques
tion in marriage, I think.'
'But house rent alone would take half of
our income.'
'That does not follow.'
'lt does for any honse I would consent to
live in.'
So pride is stronger than love. But pride
has its wages as well as love; and the one is
bitter while the other is sweet. It is this
pride of appearances, this living for the eyes
of other peoplej who do not care a penny for
us, that is marring the fair fabric of our so
cial life. Fine houses, fine dresses, parties
and shows, costly luxuries of all kinds, are
consuming domestic happiness, and burden
ing lathers and husbands in all grades of so
ciety with embarrassment and wretchedness.
Alice, we must be wiser in our generation.'
'That is, coop ourselves up in two or three
little rooms, with our eight hundred dollar
a year husbands, and do our cooking and
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hotisework. Is it that, my pretty one?'
'Alice? you do not deserve a good roan.
You are not worthy to wed Harry Pleasants,
and I trust you will pass him by, should he
be weak enough to offer YOU his hand. He
can't afford to marry a girl of your expecta
tions ; he must content himself with one
who, like himself, regards life as real, life as
earnest; and the way of use and duty, the
way to true honor and true highest happi
ness. it
GENERAL GRANT IN CANADA.
What People T h P>*GfiLSay of Him.
A correspondent the Boston Journal,
writing on Ixiard the steamer Europu, wlucb
conveyed General Grant and his party from
Quebec to Montreal, relates the following
interesting incidents; —
THE DEPARTURE FROM QUEBEC.
When the tourists at Quebec learned that
General Grant was to go up the river by boat,
there was a rush for tickets Every state
room and berth was speedily engaged. There
is a crowd on board, and the steward is trans
forming the saloon tables into bedsteads. The
passengers have improved the occasion to
stare ad tibitum.aL the Lieutenant-Gencral.
Many have been introduced; many have in
troduced themselves. His uniform courtesy
to all is the theme of remark. His depart
ure from Quebec was marked by the same
enthusiasm which greeted him on his arri
val. The wharf was nacked with people,
who cheered vociferously.
GRANT SMOKES A CIGAR WITH ADMIRAL
HOPE.
Among those who called upon him was
Sir James Hope, Admiral, commanding her
Majesty's navy in America. He drove up
to the hotel this forenoon with three of the
officers of his fleet in full official dress. A
second carriage contained his valet and box
es enough to freight one of Adams and Go's
express wagons. The contrast between the
two men was very great. The Admiral is
taller than General Grant and older by fif
teen or twenty years, with iron-grey hair,
white whiskers trimly brushed, a grey eye,
florid face, quick and vigorous m his actions,
and a good natured countenance. General
Grant is so well known that I need not give
a description of his personal appearance. Sir
James found a plain man in plain clothes.
The admiral and his officers were gorgeous
in gold lace, bright buttons, crimson sashes,
chapeaus, noddingplumes,epaulets and stars.
After the call the Admiral sat down with
General Grant and enjoyed a cigar. He gave
free expression to his admiration of General
Grant. He said he wis surprised to see a
man so unostentatious. "He is not at all like
our officers," he said. The Admiral laid a
side his coat, chapeau and plumes, and ap
peared in naval undress of white pants, blue
coat, and plain cap.
CANADIAN OPINION OF GENERAL GRANT.
As stated in a previous letter, I am here,
not to speak of General Grant's movements,
V.ut, fimrvW VVoylv will fttt
of him. It is interesting ui hear me corny
ments. There is a large, stout, white-haired
man, dressed in Canada grey, accompanied
by his wife and daughter on a trip.
"I intended to spend another day in Que
bec," said he, "but when I found General
Grant was going up the river, I thought I
would go in the same boat, and so secured
tickets, my wife feels bad not to see Mont
inorenci, but then sie can see General Grant.''
"How does he in press you?" I asked.
"Oh, he is a gentleman. He is a plain
man, and the morel see of him the better
I like him. He is not stuck up at all, but
wears his honors qaietly,'' was the reply.
On the sftfa opposite to me is a young
snob, dressed in a grey roundabout. He has
red whiskers of the shoe-brush oattern, and
is quizzing the Genera] through his eye glas
ses.
"Aw, I don't see anything remarkable a
bout him," he says to a fellow of the same
breed who sits beside him.
If the subject of their remarks was ex
ceedingly dignified and wore full military
dress, with epauletts stars, gold lace, aud
gilt buttons, if he looked haughtily upon
everybody present, if he was proud enough
not to see any one who was not presented
with formality and dignity, doubtless these
fellows would see something remarkable in
him. They have not sense enough to know
that his unostentatious manners, his urbane
treatment of all who approach him, is so
very remarkable that the people recognize it
at once.
I stood upon the guard when the boat left
the wharf at Quebec and listened to the
crowd: —
"He'sa brick," said one.
1 That is the man who licked the Rebels,''
said another who stood by his side.
"I had a brother who fit under him," said
a third.
While walking around the citadel I fell in
to conversation with the soldier who con
ducted our party. He belongs to the Rifles.
"I had a brother who was under Grant,"
said he. "He was wounded in front of Pe
tersburg and has got his discharge."
"What does he say of General Grant?" I
asked.
"Oh, he says he is a bully boy.""
Then he began to talk about the fortifica
tions.
' 'These are no good. I reckon your guns,
which you have got, wouldknockthe.se walls
to pieces mighty quick." Then looking a
crossthe river he pointed out the place where
the new fortifications are to be erected at
Point Levi, and said, "What good will they
do when completed ? They may keep a ves
sel from coming up the river, but if we had
war with you. Grant would come up from
Maine and take us en the land side.
There was more practical wisdom in what
he said than in the whole Board of Admi
ralty, or whatever board of the Home Gov
ernment sat upon the Canadian defense ques
tion. Canada can't be defended any more
than the Confederacy could be defended. Are
the English lords and admirals bats that they
don't see it?
I have some important information on that
and kindred points which I must preserve
for another letter. But we are approaching
Montreal, the bitterest secession place in
Canada. It will be interesting to watch the
reception accorded to General Grant by the
people of that city.
BRITISH FREE TRADE.— Lord Goderich,
in a debate in the British Parliament, hit
the nail on the head exactly when he uttered
the following words: '•
"Other nations know, as well as the no
ble Lord opposite and those who acted with
him, that what we meant by free trade, was
nothing more nor less than, by means of the
great advantages we enjoyed, to get at the
monopoly of all their markets for our man
ufectures, and to prevent them, one and all,
from ever becoming manufacturing na
tions. ' 1
Free trade, as understood in England,
means nothing more nor less than all the
trade, in other words, monopoly, just as
Lord Goderich said.
MR. NASBY LAYS DOWN A PRO
GRAMME FOR THE COMING
CAMPAIGN.
FAINT'S REST, (which Is in the Hfaif }
uvNoo Gersy,) Joan V2th, 1865. j
These is the dark days of Uimocrisy. The
thisforchoons that befell our armies in front
uv Richmond, the fell uv our kappytyle.
I'ollered by the surrender of our armies to.
Grant and Sherman, Lez lmrt us. Our Tccd- 1
ers arc either pinin in loathsnm dnnguns,
inkerseffitid by the heavin-detrin, nian-de
stroyin, tyranikle edix uv our late lamented
President, or air barskin in the free are uv
Jtaly and Kanady. We hev no way uv keep-
Img our voters together. Opposin the war
wont do no good, fer before the next eleck
shun the heft uv our voters will hev disktv
ered that the war is over. The fcer uv
draft* may he. suihin inyum parts nv IVnn
sylvany and Svrthren Tllinoy, fer sum time
yit: but that can't be dependid oil.
But we hev won recourse fer a Ishoo —ther
will alluz be a Dimocrisy, so loug ez ther'sa
nigger.
Ther is a uneoinpromisin dislike to the
nigger in the mind uv a ginooine Pimoerat.
The Spanish bull fighter, when he wants to
inflame the bull to extra cavortiu, waves a
red flag afore him. When you desire a
Diinicrat to froth at the mouth, you will
find a black face will answer the purpus.
Thcr4 the nigger is. to-day, our best and on
ly holt. Let us use him.
For the guidance ov the faithful, I shell
lay down a few plain pools to be observed, in
order to make the most uv the eappytle we
hev:—
]. Alius assort that the nigger will never
be able to tak care uv Uisselt, but will alius
be a public burden. He may, possibly, give
us the lie by going to work. In sich a emer
gency, the duty uv every IHmocrat is plane,
lie must not be allowed to work. Associa
tions must be organized, pledged to neither
give him employment, to work with him, to
work for enny one who will give hin work,
or patronize enny who duz. _ (I would seiesfc
that sich uv us ez hez bin foretunit enuff 2
get credit, pay a trifle on account, so ez to
maik our r.atroniilge worth suthin.) This
course rigidly and persistently follered up,
wood drive the best uv em to stealin, and
the balance to the poor houses, proovin wot
we hev alius claimed, that they ar a idul and
vishus race. Think, my brethren, wot a in
spirin effeck our poor housis and jails full of
niggers wood hev onto the people. My sole
ex pans ez I contemplait the delightful vish
un.
2. Likewise assert that the nigger will
come North, and taik all the good places,
throwin all our skilled meehnniks out uv
work by underbidden uv em. This might be
open to objeeshuns. to wit: It crosses
slitelv Rcfcl the 1. and men mite say, ef
there's jist enuff labor fer here, why
not perliibit furriners from coming? I an
ser: Its the biznis uv the voter to reeonsile
the contradikshun—he may beleeve either
or both. Ez to thesekundobjeeshun, wher
is the Dimocrat who coodn't be underbid,
and stan it even to starvashun, if the under
bidden wuz dun by a man uv the proud
.K s ,.uain race? and wher is .the LJimpcrat
soTost to manhoodez to annkblud, yf the
same underbidden is dud by the nigger ?
The starvin for work ain't the question, it's
the color uv the cause uv the starvashun that
maiks the diffrens.
Nigger equality may be workt agin 2 ad
vantage. All men, without distinckshun
uv seeks, air fond of flatrin theirselves that
t somebodv's lower down in the skale uv hu
manity than they is. Ef twan't fer niegers.
what, wood the Himocrisy do for someboddy
to look down upon?* Its alsoshoor toenlist
wun stile uv wimmen on our side.
In times gone by I've notist gusliin vir
gins uv 45, full 16 bands high, and tuff ez
wire, hold'n aloft banners onto which wuz
inscribed "Save us from Nigger Equality."
Yoo see it soothed cm 2 hev a chance uv
advertism, Ist, That they wuz frale. helplis
critters, and 2d, That anshent and tuff ez
they wuz, some one wuz still goin for em.
Ef there aint no niggers, Sentrel (Jom
mittis must furnish em. A half dozen will
do fer a ordinary county, ef theyr hustled
along with energy. Ef they won't steel,
the Sentrel Committis must do it themselfs.
Show your niggers in a township in the inor
nin. and the same nite rob the clothes lines
and hen roosts. Ever willin 2 sacrifice my
self for the cause, I volunteer to do this last
kutv in six populous counties.
These ijccs, if follered, will, no doubt,
keep us together until our enemies split,
when wc will reap the reword uv our con
stancy and fidelity. May the Lord hasten
the day.
PETROLEUM V. NASBV,
Lait Paster uv the Church ur the Xoo l>is
pensa&hun.
OUR CENSUS.
The State Census now being taken shows
that the rural districts of our State have
rather lost than gained population since 1860.
There may be local exceptions; but we pre
sume there is no longer a doubt that the
general fact is as we have stated. We note
lit tempts to impeach there on the accuracy
of the Census, they seem to us unfounded.
At our late Presidential Election, when the
vote was very heavy, the Agricultural Coun
ties of Allegany. Cattaraugus, Clinton,
Franklin, Fulton, Genesee, Livingston, Rock
land. St. Lawranee, Seneca, Warren, Wayne,
and Wyoming gave each a smaller vote than
at the less excited election of 1860. Deduct
the increase in the cities and large villages
(Syracuse, Auburn, Binghamton, Owego,
Ithaca, Morrisania, Flushing. Ac,) and we
presume three-fourths ofthe Counties in the
State would show a like falling off
The causes arc not far to seek. The rural
districts sent the flower of their youth to the
war while the cities eked out their quotas in
larger measure from the ever in-flowing tide
of immigration. Some ofthe Counties draf
ted once or twice, which sent quite a string
of the more malignant Copperheads at full
speed into Canada, whence they had not re
turned when the Census was taken. (They
arc all disfranchised by their disloyalty or
cowardice, aud must be spotted at the polls
next Fall.) We judge that the migration
henoc to the Western States has been less
than formerly; but there is a steady relative
gain of urban over rural population which
we observe with regret. Our youth prefer
| to swelter on pavements rather than enjoy
the scope and freedom of the pure, free
country air. They forsake their fathers,
farms to pull teeth or measure tape or chop
logic in souie fetid city. \\ e must try to
teach thsm better. , „ , . ,
Nay: we must ennoble and dignity Agricul
ture by making it the intellectual, liberal
pursuit it might and should be. Now the
pettiness of its processes disgust aud repel;
it seems to most boys to be mere coarse,
rude, mindless drudgery. It can be quite
other than this, and in time it shall be.
More of this hereafter.—A 7 ! Y. Tribune
Twenty thousand Poles, it is said, are com
ing to the United States. The Poles are an
agricultural people, and to the Southern State,
they would be s valuable acquisition al
time.
Vol 38: No. 35
A STARTLIN(i SCENE IN CHURCH.
There wore many thrilling scenes in the
New England churches daring the Re vein-1
tionary War. The following one occurred j
in Bharon, Oorcm., under the ministry of llev.
Cotton Mother Smith. It is found in
Headlcy's "Chaplains of the Revolution."
Mr. Smith one Sunday took for his text ft\
part of Isaiah xxi. 11. 12;
what of the night?" The watdhman said.
' The morning cometh." The question in
the first part of this passage had been the
daily, almost tire hourly inquiry for nearly a
month, of every one of that congregation,
and hence its appropriateness was keenly
felt- by the etarfliag .announcement, "The
uioruiu9 ometh," took them by surprise;
and they could not at first comprehend its
significance or how it could be adapted to
the present prospect. Ilad he heard any
good new# What had happened that he
oould say so cenlidently, "The moraine
cometh? No. he had nothing new to tell
them, on'y to proclaim over again his un
shaken cthfideßce in God's promises. He
did not at tempt to conceal or lesson the ca
lamities that had befellen the country, nor
deny that a fearful crisis was at hand. He
acknowledged that to human appearance
"clouds and darkness were round about
(rod's throne;'' but said that the eye of faith
could pierce the gloom. The throne was
there, though wrapped in impenetrable
darkness. In all the disasters that had suc
cessively overwhelmed them, he traced the
hand ofGod, and declared that to his mind,
they clearly indicated some striking interpo
sition of Divine Providence about to take
place in their behalf. Man's extremity had
come, and now was the time for him to make
bare "his arm for the deliverance of the peo
ple.''
Prophet-like, kindling with lite vision on
which the eyes of his nis faith rested, he
boldly dropped tbc general subject of God's
faithfulness, and told his astonished hearers
that he believed they were on the point of
hearing extraordinary news of victory to our
arms. He would not waft, for an indefinite
future to prove his faith to be well founded
—he was willing to bring it to the test of the
present. They might judge whether he was
right or wrong, for, said he, "The morning
cometh." I see its beams already gilding
the mountain tops, and you shall soon be
hold its brightness bursting over the land."
One cannot imagine the effect of such a
time of doubts and suspense. He ceased,
and as he closed the Bible and exclaimed
"Amen so let it be," a silence profound and
death-like rested on the audience; each one
seemed to feel as if an invisible presence
was there, and some weighty announcement
was just at hand.
Suddenly the deep hush was broken by
the distant clatter of a horse's hoof alongthe
road. The sharp and rapid strokes told of
swift riding and of urgent haste. They
knew at once what it meant. For days and
weeks their eyes had strained up the street*
that led northward, to catch _ sight of the
messenger of good or evil tidings that was
hourly expected. He had come at last and
as nearer, clearer, rang the sound of that
wild gallop on the listening ear, each looked
to urate nfa ewtjwstriflrq'cnyy lirto nis neign
bor's face. Bight on through the place,
straight for the meeting house hasted the
swift rider, and drawing rein at the door,
leaped from the saddle, and leaving his
foam-covered steed unattended, strode into
the main aisle. On the deep silence that
filled the building like a sensible presence,
his armed heel rung like the blows of'a ham
mer. As he passed along a sudden pale
ness spread over the crowd of faces turned
with a painful eagerness toward him. But
looking neither to the right hand nor left,
the dread messenger passed on, and, mount
ing the pulpit stairs handed the pastor a
letter.
Notwithstanding the good man's faith,
his hand trembled and an ashy hue over
spread his face as he reached out to receive
it. "Burgoyne has surrendered," were the
first words that met his eye. He staggerred
under them as under a blow. The next mo
ment a radiance like that of the morning
broke over his countenance, and he burst
into tears, Hiring to read the incredible
tidings, such a tide of emotion flooded his
heart that he could scarcely utter them
aloud. The audience sat for a moment over
whelmed and stupefied, then, as their pas
tor folded his hands and turned his eyes to
heaven in thankful prayer impelled by a
simultaneous movement they tell like one
man upon their knees and wept aloud.
Sobs, sighs, and fervently uttered "Aniens"
were heard on every side, attesting the depth
of their gratitude and ecstacy of their joy.
"The morning" had come; bright and glori
ous, and its radiance filled all the house.
GO FISHING.
It was a very sensible piece of advice that
the philosopher of the Tribune gave to Bar
nuin, when asked whether he should con
tinue his business and rebuild the Museum
—"Take the rest of your life easy," said
Greely ; "go fishing. I've been wanting to
go fishing for the last thirty years, and have
not had a chance yet.'' The advice is none
the less sensible that Barnum didn't act up
on it. When men have been long in busi
ness and acquired a competent fortune—and
we mean by competent, a fortune sufficient,
if well invested, to return a revenue suffi
cient to support its owner comfortably—he
also acquires certain habits that he finds it
difficult to throw ofl. Very few men retire
fVom active life iu the possession of the fac
ulties of enjoyment. They postpone the
day: they want to amass a few more thou
sands; they want to figure as largely as their
neighbors in the income list; and so old age,
decrepitude, and infirmities are upon them
before they retire from business. Then, in
tend of enjoying life and fortune, their time
iB employed in postponing the visit of that
stern messenger who knocks with equal force
at the door of the rich man's palace and the
poor man's cottage. It is philosophical ad
vice, that of Greely. Go fishing. If you
have secured a competence, give way to
young men ivho are forward for the
same end. Retire from business; from the
confinement of the counting room, the per
plexities of the office, the strife of political
life, the cares of state. Seek nature in her
loveliest forms, in the mountain and the val
ley, in {he forest and by the river side. There
is a world of happiness to be found by those
who wisely searcn for it. and go after it. But
it will not mix with business, nor is it to be
found in the marts of commerce. Given
moderate wealth, good health, a contented
mind, companionable friends, readable books,
and the pleasures of rural life, and a man's
old age may be happier than his youth.—
Cincinnati* Commercial.
Sleep soothes and arrests the fever-pulse
of the soul, and its grains are the quinine for
the cold fit of hate, as well as for the hot fe
ver of love.
A kind word and pleasant voice are
gifts easy to give; be liberal with them, they
v re worth more than money.
WE are apt to hate them who won't take
our advice, and despise them who do.
' STRIDING.
It is difficult at time® not to feel that ire
are living in a land of dreams. Good ola
fashionel thinkers moralise about "the even
pace of nations; but in the Utter days it
seems that nations stride, and that over the
whole world there is one continuous rush
and roar. This month of July ended the
most magnificent hundred days hi history.
The hundred days of 1815 are memorable
for the multitude of eventi that 'crowned
Aem, although nothing remained a
Government which took no root and lasted
thirty yeare, and the exile of man who only
wanted that exile to turn.lbe world's hatred
into the world's pity. Ifa those Hundred
Days Europe was thrown back a century.
Tyrannv and superstition and oppression }
were all sustained and protected by the great
name of Wellington. The tinged, expen
sive and dustywWea that England calls roy
alty, ahd wWctl cover and dog and check
everything like free thought and free deed,
fvere burnished anew and wrapped tighter a
found the growing limbs or a struggling
people. In our Hundred Days we have
completed the overthrow of the rebellion;
we have reduced our armies to a mere con
tingent; disarmed a naw and sent ships-of
war back to the better duties of carrying
corn and cotton; hurled a victorious army
into the mines and cannons of the Western
Territories, and raised money enough out of
our own forms and looms to pay the extraor
dinary expense of the Government. Our
victories of peace are even greater than the
victories of war. On one side our pioneers
are girdling the Rocky Mountains with rail
roads —on the other we stand waiting to
grasp the hand of the Englishman who
brings us within an hour of London. There
is something uneasy in our very ambition,
To the South we nave a territory newly
conquered—unsettled, and sadly wanting
'Reconstruction' '—and yet we begin to look
longingly to the North, and to covet the St.
Lawrence and the vast Canadian Countries,
and chave at any boundary this diderif the
Polar Sea. In the majesty of newly asser
ted strength we stride toward a dazzling
destiny.
Do wc feci that every step brings us more
important and burdensome dutic9? For the
second timein the world's history we are call
ed upon to rise up and control the destiny of
the world. This is no vain thought. Men
are but representatives of ideas —and,ideas
are not bounded by religion, race, or terri
tory. Cromwell, Washington, Franklin,
Mirabeau, Napoleoh, Hugo, John Brown,
Lincoln —stepby step the idea of Resistance
to Tyranny has traveled over the world —
saved England, revolutionized France
destroyed Slavery in America. ThoAe Who
look at these men and their times, an<s see
what they call the ebb and flow of idefcs—
Croiuwell followed by Charles, Mirabeau by
Nepoleon, Franldfh by Calhoun, Hugo ban
ished by a Bonepart. and Brown hanged by
Buchattnan—forget that generations are hut
as days—that whatever temporary ebb may
come the tide always rises—that Cromwell
dead was as powerful as in life —and that
when John Brown's body went down to
moulder in the dust, his soul still marched
—on. Nor is our work done. It is merely
beginning. When John Stuart Mill tri
umphed over palace and treasury, aided by
"two hundred workmen," it was the logical
result of Grant's success. Those workmen
took comfort from America, and were sttong
and bold when they saw men of their own
blood and lineage defending their flag and
giving up their lives TOr & government with
more devotion than royalty ever commanded.
America has hot triumphed in vain. There
is not* desponding Rebublican that crouches
under the llapsburgs and Boneparte or eats
hard bread away down in a dismal mine that
my Lord of Westminister may carry a stick
before Her Majesty and eat up thousands of
broad acres in feeding oxes, hounds ana
deers, who does not feel stronger,
and more resolute, and more anx
ious for the hour to strike. Men call this a
selfish, sensual, mercenary age, but only in
our moments of petulence and impatience.
It is a grand old Nineteenth Century, full
of good deeds and brave endeavors, and
proudly to be remembered in song and story
and over many a cup of generous wine in the
good days coming.— Exchange.
I SPARE MOMENTS.
A lean, awkward boy came olie ihdrhing
to the door of a principal of a celebrated
school and asked to see him. The servant
eyed his mean clothes, and thinking he
looked more like a beggar than anything
else, told him to go round to the kitchen.
The boy did as he was bidden, and soon ap
peared at the back door.
"You want a breakfast, most likely," said
the servant girl, ' 'and I can give you that
without troubling him."
"Thank yen,' said the boy, "I should
have no objection to a bite, but I should like
to see Mr. , if he can see me."
"Some old clothes, may be you want."
remarked the servant, again eyeing th£
boy's patched clothes. 'T guess he has
none to spare, he gives away a sight," ana
without minding the boy's request, she
went away about her work.
"Can I see Mr. ," again asked the
boy, after finishing the bread and butter.
"Well, he is in the library, if he must be
disturbed, he must, but he does like to be
alone sometimes," said the girl in a peevish
tone. She seemed to think it very foolish
to admit an ill-looking fellow into ner mas
ter's presence. However she wiped her
hands and hade him follow. Opening the
library door, she said:
"Here's somebody, sir, who is dreadful
anxious to see you, so I let him in."
I don't know how the boy introduced
himself, or how he opened business, but I
know that after talking awhile, the princi
pal put aside the volume he was studying
and took up some Greek books and began
to examine the new comer. Every question
which the principal asked the boy was an
swered readily.
"Upon my word." exclaimed the princi
pal, ''yon do well, looking at the boyfrom
head to foot over his spectacles:—" Why my
boy, where did you pick up so much?"
"In my spare moments," answered the
boy.
Here he was. poor, hard-working, with
but few opportunities for schooling, yet al
most fitted for any position by simply im
proving his spare moments. Truly, arc not
spare moments the "gold dust of time?"
How precious they should be ! What ac
count can you show for them? Look and
see. This boy can tell you how very mnch
can be layed up by improving them, and
there are many other boys, I am afraid, in
jail, in the houso of correction, in the fore
castle of a whale-ship, in the tippling shop,
who, if you ask them when they began their
ruinous course, might answer, in my spare
! moments."
"In my spare moments I gambled for
marbles. In my spare moments I began to
smoke and drink. It was in my spare mo
ments that I gathered my wicked associ
ates."
Oh, be careful how you spend your spare
moments! Temptation always hunts you
out in seasons like these. V hen you are
not busy, he gets into your hearts, if he pos
sibly can, in just such gaps. There he hides
himself, planning all sorts of mischief.
Take care of your "spare moments."
A PRINTER'S TOAST.—"Woman—the fair
est work in creation. The edition is urge,
and no man should be without a copy.
THE slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient
if it produce amendment; the greatest 19
sufficient, if it do not.
i A LADY says moustaches axe the things
[ she sets her face against.