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SOMEBODY'S SON.
Somebody's uon was out last night,
Brushing about the town;
And if I mistake not, he WHS tight—
"Tight as a Derby clown."
I know he's considered a moi&l youth,
Above suspicion—but that
Is no reason, to tell the trnth,
He had "a brick in his hat."
Daylight morality often takes
Strange fancies into his head,
And -play the A—l" "jump ui snakes;"
When the public eye is in bed.
"My son can't dance," somebody said,
"For never a lesson took he
lint he danced last night when you were in bed,
And Twilight was there to see.
You may call it dancing or not, as you feci,
Though for half an hour or more.
He danced or "jigged" a "tangle-foot-reel,"
In front of my office door.
"My son can't sing," somebody swears,
But he sung last night, I know,
As rough a song as a demon dares
To sing in the regions below.
"My son don't imbibe." somebody thinks,
Well, may he he don't, hut then,
That he acts very much like one who drinks
Can be proved by a hundred men.
Yes something was tight—yes, drunk last night.
So drunk it could hardly crawl:
Perhaps 'twas the brim of a crowuless hat
That I tound by my garden wall.
So, for fear I am wrong and somebody's l ight
My hasty words 1 recall,
And say that the thing I saw last night
Was nobody's son—that's all !
A REBEL PILGRIMAGE.
The Pilgrim Fathers of Alabama -wind,
weather and Providence permitting—are to
sail to-day from the port of Mobile for Bra
zil, with one ton of freight, and probably, a
heavy heart eaeh. They turn their backs on
the land of free negroes and of mudsills for
ever. Like- and yet unlike the old Pilgrim
Fathers, they seek a distant and foreign
shore; not to worship theirGnd undisturbed
but to "wallop their nigger uneondemned.
As the Puritaus fled from the Star Chamber,
the Alabama pilgrims flee from the Froed
men's Bureau.
It is the beginning of a new secession
movement, which even Lee and Hampton
have no power to check. Not to-day by
States, but by families and colonies, they
secede from the Union once more. Unpatri
otic in their former action, they are eminent
ly praiseworthy now: —
"True patriots they: for, be it understood
They leave their country for their country's
good."
But they seem to have forgotten the pro
verb which advices us to look before we leap;
not to jump out of the frying-pan into the
fire; and especially the dgar-bought wisdom
which says that we should begin nothing
until we have truly considered the end.
The Puritans counted the cost, and the
results of their exile demonstrated their
wisdom. But have the "Impuritans" of
Alabama taken time to consider their step ?
We hardly think that they have given it
more than one thought—for they seem to
have been amply satisfied with the assurance
that slavery exists in Brazil. Let us take a
brief glance at. Brazil as a field of emigration
for the "overpowered ' but "unsubdued"
class of our Southern countrymen.
Christie, the last author who has written
on Brazil, —late "Her Majesty's Envoy Ex
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary"
there, —reports that the slave population of
the empire is variously estimated at from
two and a half to four millions. He says
the total population is about seven millions.
But the relative proportion of the races is
much more largely in favor of the colored
people than even in Alabama, where, in
twenty out of her fifty-two counties, there
is an excess of negroes; or than in South
Carolina, where they constitute, by the cen
sus of 1850, fifty-six per cent, of the popu
lation, and probably to-day stands as three
to two.
In the year 1825 Humbolt estimated the
entire population of Brazil at about four
millions. Of this number he calculated that
920,000 were whites, 1,900,000 were ne
groes, and 1,120,000 were of mixed blood or
native Indians. Thus, the proportion of the
colored races to the white is about three to
one. Later estimates give a total population
of live millions, with the proportion of col
ored to white as four to one. A stili more
recent authority, an English parliamentary
report, estimated the population on the Ist
of January, 1848, to be —whites, 1,000,(XX);
free colored races, 500,000; slaves, 3,500,-
000, —being in the same proportion.
The free colored races are mulattoes, wild
Indians, manumitted native Africans, free
negroes born in Brazil, domesticated obori
gines, tnamalicoes, (a mixed caste between
whites and aborigines,) and mestizoes or
zaniboes, the offspring of aborigines and ne
groes. When our new pilgrims are safely
landed, we wish them joy of this select
company. Like the boy at the menagerie,
they have paid their money and they can
take their choice!
But, alas! there is no Eden without its
serpent; and the repulsive feature—to the
overwhelmed but unconquered mind—the
repellant aspect of Brazillian society, has
not yet been hinted at. It is— Negro Equal
ity !
There is no country where the white and
black races mingle in which the field is so
fair for the negro. It is true that slavery
exists there, but it is equally true that it is
a personal relation; that is, between master
and slave, not between white man and black.
"Though in Brazil a slave is indeed a slave,
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''yet a negro is not in the American sense a
"negro.' This is the language of a well
informed English author. In Brazil there
is no social distinction between the black
race and the white, resulting in the general
proscription of the African. The races have
fused. The result is equality. There ex
ists a certain pride of purity of blood, but
black blood is no bar whatever to advance
ment. The races intermarry. They asso
ciate without friction or jealousies. The ne
groes and the mulatioes hold offices of all
grades in the army and navy. Some are
ministers of State; others are diplomatists;
Wharik mmrisfrsites hold court: yellow lawrers
make pleas. It has been noted, even, says
one writer, that, "contrary to the usual or
der of nature in such matters, these cross
breeds are endowed with greater quickness
and aptness for business than either of the
original races. "
One result of this social fusion has been
to make slavery more secure from insurrec
tions than in other couutries. As involun
tary servitude is wholly a condition of life,
not of race, there are as many negroes as
whites who are slaveholders; and therefore
they are as much interested in its perpetua
tion as our own chivalry in the palmiest
days of the €. S. A. As good as the whites
at the ballot box, they are as bad as the
whites in the slave quarters.
How will our fugitives from freedom, who
are running away from the North Stir as
eagerly as their bondmen once ran toward it
—how will they put up with negro soldiers,
negro generals, negro statesmen, negro mag
istrates. negro lawyers ? They will find them
all in Brazil.
And the worst is to come. There are Ab
olitionixts in Brazil ! Just imagine, if you
dare, how the Alabama runaways will 'swear
"and tear round" (as they express it) when
they fiud themselves again face to face with
live abolitionists, whom they can neither
gag nor hang, nor even tender the hospital
ity of a ride on a rail, or the seamless coat
made of tar and feathers!
One of the pet measures of the Brazilian
abolitionists is to emancipate all slaves be
longing to foreigners of countries in which
slavery is unlawful. Thi9 is bad enough,
but it is not all. A deputation from the
British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society of
London waited on Senhor Andrada in March
last. The Senhor has been secretary of the
Brazillian Legation for sonic years, and was
thea charged with the superintendence of
the Brazilian consulate. He told (he depu
tation that the Emperor himself, and all his
ministers, and all the Brazillian people be
lieve that it is a duty to humanity to abol
ish slavery. "lean assure you, he said,
"that not only the Emperor, but his govern
uient, his advisors and every Brazilian pos
sessing the feelings of humanity, think that
it is not only the duty but that it will be for
the interest of our country to 3b01i.-h slave
ry!" And still again: "The government and
people of Brazil think that it is their duty
and their interest, as soon as they possibly
can, entirely to abolish slavery."
Whither away ? Is there no hope in which
the unconquered can hide his head, and
"larrup his negro" undisturbed? Brazil
it is clear, will hardly afford even a tempo
rary abiding place. Suppose the emigrants
try Brigham Young, the much-married pa
triarch of the Plains? He is their only
hope. — Boxtou Advertixcr.
AN INTERESTING STORY.
Mr. Seward's Account of the Attack up
on Him.
The American correspondent of the Lon
don Spectator writes that he recently heard
Mr. Seward and Mr. Frederick Seward give
the following account of their own sensa
tions at the time of the attempted assassi
nation:
"Mr. Frederick Seward said that on step
ping from his bedroom into the passage ami
seeing the assassin, he merely wondered
what he was doing there, and called him
to account. On his re.-isting the fellow's
endeavor to press into Mr. Seward's room,
the assassin drew a revolver, which he pre
sented at Mr. Frederick Seward's head.
What followed, it must be remembered, took
place in a few seconds. Mr. Frederick Sew
ard's first thought was, 'That's a navy re
volver.'
"The man pulled the trigger, hut it only
snapped, and his intended victim thought
'That cap missed fire.'
"His next sensation was that of confu
sion, and being upon the floor, resting upon
his right arm, which, like his father's jaw,
was barely recovered from a bad fracture
—the assassin had felled him to the floor
with the butt of the pistol—he put his
hand to his head, and finding a hole there,
he thought, 'The cap did not miss "fire, after
all. -
"Then he became insensible, and remain
ed so for two days or more. His first indi
cation of returning consciousness was the
question: 'Have you got the bailout!'—
After which he fell oft" again into a coma
tose condition, which was of long continu
ance.
"On the very afternoon of the day when
Mr. Lincoln was assassinated, Mr. Frederick
Seward, who was Assistant Secretary' of
State had asked his father what preparation
should he made for the presentation of Sir
Frederick Bruce, which was to take place
the next day. Mr. Seward gave him the
points of a reply to be made to Sir Freder
ick, and he laid the outline of the speech
upon the President s table, and, as I have
previously informed my readers, Mr. Lin
coln that afternoon wrote out the reply
adopting Mr. Seward's suggestions, and
thus preparing that reception of the Brit
ish Minister by President Johnson, which
was regarded at the time, by the people
to whose representative it was addressed,
at so friendly, and lair, ami dignified.
"Mr. Frederick Seward's first inquiry af
ter he came fully to bis senses, which was a
long time after the assassination, was: 'Has
Sir Frederick Bruce been presented?' He
thought that only one night had passed since
he knew what had happened to him, ami his
mind took up matters just where it had left
them.
"Mr. Seward's mental experience during
his supposed assassination was in its nature
SO like that of his son, that it raises the
question whether this absence of consterna
tvoa and observation of minute particulars is
BEDFORD, Pa., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22 v 1865.
not common in circumstances of unexpected
and not fully apprehended peril. Mr. Se
ward was lying upon his side, close to the
edge of his bed, with his head resting in a
frame, which had been made to give him
j ease and to protect lis broden jaw from
pressure. j
"He was trying to keep awake, having
been seized upon by ask k man's fancy—it
was that if he slept he would wake up with
lockjaw. He was brought to lull conscious
ness by the scuffle in the passage way, fol
lowed by the entrance of the assassin, and
the cry of Miss Sewaul, 'Oh! he will kill
my father.' But he saw nothing of his as
sailant until a hand tppeared before his
face, and then his . 'What
handsome cloth that* ovv-oat is made or.
Tl.u MWNIUL'IU, 'Mien Appeared, and the
helpless statesman only thought, 'What a
handsome man!' (Payne was a fine looking
fellow.)
' 'Then came a sensation as of rain strik
ing him smartly upon one side of his face
and neck, then quickly the same upon the
other side, but he felt no severe pain. This
was the assassin's knife. The blood spout
ed, he thought 'My time has come,' and fal
ling from the bed to the floor, fainted. His
first sensation of returning consciousness
was that. he was drinking tea, and that'it
tasted good.' Mrs. .Seward was giving him
tea with a spoon. He heard low voices a
reundhini, asking and replying as to wheth
er it would be possible for him to recover.
He could not speak, but his eyes showed his
consciousness, and that he desired to speak.
They brought him a porcelain tablet, on
which he managed to write, 'Give me some
more tea. I shall get well.' And from
that moment he has slowly but steadily re
covered health aud strength."
THE SOLDIER BIRD.
One day in the spring of 1861, Chief Sky,
a Chippewa Indian, living in the northern
wilds of Wisconsin captured an eagle's nest.
To make sure of his prize, be cut the tree
down, and caught the eaglets as they were
sliding from the nest to run and hide in the
grass. One died. He took the other home
and built it a nest in a tree close by his wig
wam. The eaglet was as big as a hen, cov
ered with soft brown down. The red chil
dren were delighted with their new pet; and
as soon as it got acquainted, it liked to sit
down in the grass and see them play with
the dogs. But Chief Sky was poor, and he
hud to sell it to a white man for a bushel of
corn. The white man brought it to Eau
Claire, a little village alive with white men
going to the war- ' Here's a recruit," said
the man. "An eagle! an eagle!" shouted
the soldiers —"let him enlist; and sure en
ough, he was sworn into the . ervice, with
ribbons round his neck—red, white, and
blue.
On a perch ; surmounted by the stars and
stripes, the company took hint to Madison,
the capital of the State. As they marched
into Camp Randall, with colors flying,
drums beating, and the pgopie cheering, the
ouglo f fciaoJ tUo in nio L- nnit spread
his wings, his bright eye kindling with the
spirit of the scene. Bhouts rent the air—
"The bird of Columbia; the eagle of freedom
for ever!' The State made him a new
perch, the hoys named him "Old Abe," and
the regiment the Eighth Wisconsin) was
theneeibrth called "the eagle Regiment."
On the march it was carried at the head of
the company, aud every' where was greeted
with delight. At St. Louis a gentleman
offered Are hundred dollars for it, and an
other his farm. No, no, the boys had no
notion of parting with their bird. It was
above all price—an emblem of battle and
victory. Besides, it interested their minds,
and made them think less of hardships and
of home.
I caunot tell you all the droll adventures
of the bird through its three years of service
—its flights in the air, its tights with the
guinea hens, and its race with the darkies.
When the regiment was in summer quarters
at Clear Creek, in Dixie, it was allowed to
run at large, and every morning went to the
river, halt a mile off where it splashed and
played in the water to its heart's content,
faithtully returning to camp when it had
enough. Old Abe's favorite place of re
sort was the sutler's tent, where a live
chicken found no quarter in his presence.
But rations got low, and for two days Abe
had nothing to eat. Hardtack he objected
to, lasting was disagreeable, and Tom, his
bearer could not get beyond the pickets to a
farmyard. At lust pushing his way to the
Colonel s tent, he pleaded for poor Abe.
The Colonel gave him a pass, and Tom got
hini an excellent dinner.
One day a rebel farmer asked Tom to
come and show the eagle to his children.
Satisfying the curiosity of the family, Tom
sat him down in the barnyard. O what a
screeching and scattering among the fowls;
lor what should Abe do but pounce upou
ohc and gobble up another, to the great dis
gust of the farmer, who declared that was
not in the bargain. Abe. however, thought
there was no harm in confiscating, nor did
Torn.
Abe was in twenty battles, besides many
skirmishes. He was at the siege of Vicks
burg, the storming of Corinth, and marched
with Sherman up the Red river. The whiz
of bullets and the scream of shells were his
delight. As the battle grew hot and ho tter
he would flap his wings, and mingle his wil
dest notes with the noise around him. He
was very fond of music, especially Yankee
Doodle and Old John Brown. Upon parade
he always gave heed to "Attention." With
his -ye on the commander, he would listen
and obey orders, noting time accurately.
After parade he would put off his soldiery
air,flap his wings, and make himself at home.
The rebels called him "Yankee Buzzard,"
"Old Owl, aud other hard names; but
his eagle nature was quite above noticing it.
The rebel General Price gave orders to his
men to sure and capture the eagle of the
Eighth Wisconsin—he would rather have it
than a dozen battle flags. But for all that,
W scarcely lost a feather—only one from his
right wing. His tail feathers were once
cropped by a bullet.
At last the great rebellion came to an end,
and the brave Wisconsin Eighth, with their
live eagle, and torn and riddled flags, were
welcomed back to Madison. They went
out a thousand strong, and returned a little
band scarred and toil worn, having fought
and won.
And what of the soldier bird? In the
name of his gallant veterans. Captain Wolf
presented hiui to the State. Governor
Lewis accepted the illustrious gift, and am
ple quarters are provided for him in the
beaurifnl State House grounds, where he
may long live to tell us.
"What heroes from the woodland sprang,
When through the fresh awakened land
The thrilling cry of freedom rang."
' Nor is the end yet. At the great fair in
Chicago last summer, an enterprising gen
tleman invited "Abe" to attend. He had
colored photographs of the old hero struck
up, and sold sixteen thousand seven hun
dred dollars worth for the benefit of poor
and sick soldiers. Has not the American
eagle doue its part?-— Child's l'uprr.
WHAT THE SOUTH HAS DONE AND
LEFT UNDONE.
The Nashville Union reviews and depre
cates the mistakes of the South in not em
bracing more quickly the generous terms of
the Executive. It says:
"We will begin with Tennessee, the Pres
ident's own State. Has she come up to
this standard? She has repudiated the
rebel debt, declared secession null and void,
abolished slavery, ratified the Constitution
al Amendment, and elected representatives
to Congress who can t ike the oath ot office,
ho far all well. But upon the important
question of protecting by law the rights of
the freedmen, making them equals before
. law with the whites, what has she done?
Just notinng. UH .a i c,
the question of' testifying in the courts has
Eassed the Senate, but hangs fire m the
louse of Representatives; and, we are told,
will fail. Can Tennessee appear at Wash
ington, and as a supporter of the President's
policy—who has complied with all its de
mands—ask admission for her Senators and
Representatives in Congress? Surely not.
She can claim the favor of neither the Pres
ident's adherents in that body, nor of the
radicals.
"Mississippi started well. She accepted
abolition of slavery, and altered her Consti
tution to conform to the change in her do
mestic institutions, and declared her ordi
nance of secession null and void. But she
has gone no further. She withholds her
assent to the ratification of the Constitution
al AnienJment, has refused the freedmen
the right to testify in the State courts, and
appears determined to deny them the rights
and privileges which the President demands
for them, and without which freedom is a
name.
_ "Alabama, following next after Mississip
pi, with her constitutional convention, did
better. She added to what hor predecessor
did. the repudiation of the rebel debt. Her
legislature meets to-morrow. We shall not
anticipate its action. We hope its first act
will be to ratify the Constitutional amend
ment ; and that she will follow it up by do
ing full and ample justice to her freedmen.
North Carolina stands upon the same plat
form as Alabama. Her action has been the
same; and she has -Jill to meet the question
of ratification of the Constitutional Amend
ment, and providing for the proper protec
tion of her freedmen. She has elected to
Congress a delegation not one of whom can
take the oath, and perhaps bearen the Uni
on candidate for Governor, thus showing her
deep-seated hostility to the federal govern
ment, and her intention to do nothing she
can avoid, to return to her place in the na
tional councils.
South Carolina has taken a step in ad
vance ot Mississippi, Alabama, and North-
Carolina. and ratified the Constitutional A
mendiuent. But—she simply repealed her
secession ordinances, thus adhering to the
doctrine of secession, has not repudiated the
rebel debt, and seems inclined to keep her
free colored population in a state but little
better than abject slavery. Georgia, taking
the cue from South Carolina, repealed nor
secession ordinance, accepted the abolition
of slavery, but with an eye to future com
pensation, and not until she found it could
not be avoided, repudiated the rebel debt.
She has yet to act upon the ratification ques
tion.and to pass laws for the protection of
the fVeednien.
"Florida hassimply annulled her seces
sion ordinance, ana whilst recognizing the
abolition of slavery and adapting her organ
ic law to the change, has refused to repudi
ate the rebel debt, submitting the matter to
a vote of the people. This is as far as she
has gone. The other questions will eouie
before the legislature. Texas has, as yet,
done nothing. Her provisional governor is
'making haste slowly.' Louisiana is more
advanced than Tennessee, inasmuch as freed
men in that State are admitted as witnesses
in the courts. But she is still below the
mark in giving her colored population their
rights. '
"Arkansas is in about the same condition
as Tennessee."
ENLIGHTENED SUFFRAGE.
MANY of our most thoughtful and experi
enced statesmen are of the opinion that none
except such as can read and write should be
allowed to exercise the elective franchise.
It is thought that to require this would grea
tly foster the cause of education and materi
ally increase the intelligence of the com
munity generally—for no parents would be
likely to allow their children to grow up with
out qualifying them to become voters. Be
sides if every citizen had the ability to read
all would feel t hat ever increasing thirst for
knowledge which uniformly takes possession
of business and beautifies intelligent minds.
Newspapers and the current literature of
the day would be universally read and an
impetus would thus be given to letters which
in one or two generations at the furthest,
would produce a people beyond all question
intellectually superior to any that the world
has ever seen. In England a man can not
vote unless he has a certaiu amount of pro
perty. This policy inspires a thirst for gain
and the English have become a race of shop
keepers.'' The prevalent theory here seems
to be that age alone should entitle a citizen
to vote. This may not be casting "pearls
before swine," but it is making the great
privilege of elective franchise so cheap, that
the unprincipled mobleading demagogue nas
a power that is dangerous and detrimental
to the state.
To grant equal privilege to all citizens
without requiring any degree of intelligence
or prudence whatever as a condition prece
dent, is to deprive the state of one of its
most legitimate powers to elevate its moral,
intellectual, and material standard. In a
government that has already established free
schools for all. to require that all voters
should know how to read and write, could
hardly he regarded as oppressive or unjust.
Some of the European governments, having
learned by experience that ignorance breeds
mobs and riots, have adopted the policv of
forcing the rising generation to attend school
for a certain length of time, or until a cer
tain amount of knowledge is acquired. All
that is desired by these governments and
more than is attained by them, we can ac
complish without force. All we have to do
is to adopt for the rising generation the
policy of enlightened suffrage, and every pa
rent and boy in the land will at once havera
new incentive, and attach a new importance
to the acquisition of knowlenge. The result
of such a policy will be a whole race of men
of whom not one has had his mental facul
ties neglected, an accomplishment beyond
the power of any government on earth, but
our own, and possible to us only by making
our own schools free, and adopting the poli
cy of enlightened suffrage.— Anwr. States
man.
THE real object of education is to give
children resources that will eudure as long
as life endures; habits that will ameliorate,
not destroy; occupations that will render sick
ness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venera
ble, life more dignified and useful, and death
ler>s terrible.
VOLUME 38; NO. 52.
ONE or THE CHURCH MILITANT
The following story is told of Peter Cart
| wright. the hard-shell Methodist pioneer in
the western prairies. He believed in the
i use of the carnal weapons of war, and when
j with rough characters would assert his mas
ten' over them by simple physical strength
I and daring. The following incident resting
! on good authority, is very like one told of a
I North Carolina pioneer, who pummelled
j grace into a profane and fighting black
! smith.
J One day on approaching the ferry across
the Illinois, he heard the ferryman swear
: ing terribly at the sermon of Peter Cart
wright, and threatened that if be had to
ferry him across, and knew him, he would
• Peter onwenjolted
Stranger. I want you to put me across.'
'Wait till I'm ready,' said the ferryman,
and pursued his conversation and strictures
on Peter Cartwright. Having finished he
turned to Peter and said:
'Now I'll put you across.'
On reaching the middle of the stream,
Peter threw his horse's bridle over a stake
in the boat, and told the ferryman to let go
of his pole.
'What for?' asked the ferryman.
Well, you have just been using my name
improper like: and said if I came in this
way you woul'l drown me. Now you have
got a chance.'
'ls your name Peter Cartwright ?' asked
the astonished ferryman.
'My name is Peter Cartwright.'
Instantly the ferryman seized the preach
er, but he did not know Peter's strength;
for he instantly seized the ferryman, one
hand on the nap of his Deck and the other
on the seat of his trowsers, and plunged
him into the water, saying:
"I baptize (splash) in the name of the dev
il, whose child thou art."
Then lifting him up, Peter added :
'Did you ever pray?'
'No.'
'Then it is time you did.'
'Never will:' responded the ferryman.
Splash ! splash ! and the ferryman is in
the river again.
'Will you pray now!' asked Peter.
The gasping victim shouted :
'l'll do anything you bid me.'
'Then follow me : Our Father which art
in heaven,' &c. Having repeated after Pe
ter. the ferryman cried out:
"Now let me go.'
'Not yet," said he, 'you must make three
promises: First, that you will repeat that
prayer every morning and evening as long
as you live; secondly, that you will hear eve
ry preacher that comes within five miles of
this ferry: and thirdly, that you will put ev
ery Methodist preacher over free of expense.
Do you promise and vow?'
'I promise,' said the ferryman.
And strange to say that this man became
a shining lifmt.
COURAGE.
To fulfil successfully the duties of life, a
ilc-giee uf moral co-urago io necessary, to
which very many persons are strangers.
In every important undertaking difficulties
arise unforseen, and to the timid, insur
mountable. However well prepared the
mind may be. however surrounded by favor
ing circumstances, yet a certain amount of
bold enterprise is required to follow any no
ble end, and without which the most bril
liant talents are bestowed in vain.
Perhaps the most distinguishing trait of
great minds is that calm reliance upon self,
that fearless intrepidity which sees obstacles
only to overcome them. Such a disposition
is conipicuous in the characters of "\\ ashing
ton, Franklin, Howard, and others, and with
diligence and energy there is scarce any de
gree of success which is beyond its reach.
Providence has hung, as it were, the fair
est fruits of life on the loftiest bough, there
by intimating that it is alone those who, in
lofty thought, are. like Saul, above their
fellows, who are worthy of its rewards. And
while to the indolent, shame and mortifica
tion are the spontaneous growth of earth,
honor, wealth and heaven's blessing, is the
portion of those who are fearless in the
right.
THE POPE'S* PROSPECT.
According to the British Standard, the
"situation" at Home is not encouraging for
the Pope.
"The Roman people nearly to a man are
the mortal enemies of the 'Holy Father,'
whom French bayonets alone, for many
years past, have been the means of preserv
ing on his throne. Assuredly Victor Em
manuel will furnish no help. The treaty of
September only hinds him to make no attack
himself on Rome, and not to permit any
body else to do it. This is a master-stroke
against the man of sin, who is left to meet
his subjects face to face, and to settle mat
ters with them as he best can. No soldiers
are coming in to take the place of the French,
and the annual deficit is fearful. The reve
nue in 1864 was five millions of crowns, and
the expenditure ten millions five hundred
thousand! If this be not the way to the
Fleet,' or to Gaeta. we know not what is. |
Then as to Peter's Pence, only one million
two hundred thousand crowns have resulted
from these; and we vouch for it, they will
produce much less for the year now current.
At present, iudeed. it is distinctly intimated
that every pecuniary resource of the Pope
is steadily falling off. To raak# matters still
worse, the entire circle of Governments who
are Papal supporters are in a rickety, we
might say, a rotten condition. Cardinal An
tonelli himself actually showed at the late
council th&t 'no Catholic power was at pres
ent in a position to come to the aid of the
Holy See.'''
THE FENIAN CHIEF'S DISGUISE.— It now
appears that James Stevenson, the Irish
lonian Chief did baffle the English author
ities in a bold way, for some time previous
to his arrest. The Dublin correspondent of
the Irish American, says: "He played the
gentleman of fortune —• the man of large
means and expensive tastes. Instead of
dodging about the mountains, hiding in
peasant's huts, or sleeping in low lodging
houses, he rented a handsome mansion in
the neighborhood of the city, he purchased
a quantity of splendid furniture for it, —
passing ail the time as Mr. Herbert, son of
a Protestant minister of that name in the
south of Ireland, he employed gardeners and
a number of work people in beautifying the
grounds, erecting green houses, a moss house
and so forth. 80 lately as this week he had
purchased about twelve pounds worth of;
plants for his gardens and shrubberies. In
every way he acted np to the character of a
man of property; and thus while the police
were watching pedlars, tinkers, tramps, and
vagrants of every sort he escaped suspicion
until a few days ago. It is stated that the
magistrate when applied to for a warrant
enabling the police to search the house, re
fused to give one not considering as sufficient
the grounds of suspicion shown by the de
tectives. But subsequently his hesitancy
was removed; he signed the warrant and ;be
police proceeded on their mission." The
last steamer brings the news that he has es
caped from prison and it is expected that he
will soon arrive ki this country.
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MUSIC.
The effect produced by music on the heart
is owing more to the simple fact of associa
! tion than many imagine. It is true that in
the composition of music, the composer im
! hues it with much of his own feelings while
i writing or improvising it; and for a person
to listen to such music for the first time with
out being previously affected from any cauae
lie will be carried upon its tide very nearly as
the composer's power at first directed; but I
have known it in others, and have myself
experienced a feeling of deep defection whiie
listeningto music of a light and joyous char
acter. This was in consequence oi a former
association of the same sounds with a form
er trouble. "As much music is taken from
Tu^firrAM
of written music may have so nearly resem
bled such sound, heard before or since, for a
time forgotten: heard before when the heart
was so severely oppressed as to affect it at
hearing it again with the same emotion, and
from no other cause than that of associa
tion.
THE GREAT MYSTERY. —The body is to
die. No one who passes the charmed boun
dary comes back to tell. The imagination
visits the realms of shadows—sent out from
some window in the soul over life's restless
waters, but brings its way wearily back with
out a live leaf in its beak, as a token of emer
ging life, beyond the closely bending horizon.
The great sun comes and goes in the heaven,
yet breathes no secret of the ethereal wil
derness. The crescent moon cleaves her
nightly passage across the upper deep, but
tosses overboard no signals. The sentinel
stars challenge each other as they walk their
nightly rounds but we catch no syllable of
their countersign which gives passage to the
heavenly camp. Between this there is a
great gulf fixed across which neither feet
nor eye can travel. The gentle friend whose
eyes we closed in their last sleep long years
ago. died with rapture in her wonder strick
en eyes, a smile of ineffable joy upon her
lips, and hands folded over a triumphant
heart, but her lips were past speech and in
timated nothing of the vision that enthrall
ed her. — J. G. Holland.
MEMORANDA OF AN ACCOMPLISHED
YOUNO LADY.—The Buffalo Republic says
we recently picked up the following memo
randa which we saw dropped by a young lady,
attired in an embroidered velvet Talma, an
exquisite Honiton lace collar, a white hat
and plume, and a painfully brilliant silk dress
with exaggerated flounces:
"I innst get Vail. Broun hoes, Sarceknet,
Laise, Gluvs, Shimmyzet, Kulone."
We confess wc were startled at the last
item, hut think it means cologne. The
whole simply proves that wealth and intel
lect do not always hunt in couples.
RICHARDS was an inevitable chewer of to
bacco. To break himself of the habit, he
took up another, which was that of making
a pledge about once a month that he would
never chew another piece. He broke his
pledge just as often as he made it. The last
time I seen him he told me he had broken
off for good, but now, as I met him, he was
taking another chew.
"What, Richard,' says I, 'Won told me
you had given up that habit, but I sec you
are at it again.''
"Yes," he replied, "I have gone to chew
ing and lift off tying!''
AN Irishman asks a Long Island woman
the price of a pair of fowls, and is told,
"A dollar."
"And a dollar is it, my darlint; why, in my
country you might buy them for sixpence
apiece." .
"And why didn't you stay in that blessed
cheap country?"
"Oeh, faith, and there was MO SIXPENCE
there, to be sure!"
THE kissing stories of which we have re
cently given several seem to beget more. A
gentleman in Richmond, Virginia, writes
that in the beautiful village of Lexington, in
the valley of Virginia, a young gent having
devoted himself to the special ertertainment
of a company of pretty girls for a whole ev
ening, demandei payment in kisses, when
one of them instantly replied: ''Certainly,
Sir, present your bill!" -
SITLPHCR AND CgoLKRA.—Dr. Herring
in his '"Domestic Physician," says of Asi
atic cholera : —"The surest preventive is
sulphur. Put half a teuspoonful of flour
of sulphur into each of your stockings, and
go about your business; never go out with
an empty stomach; eat no fresh bread nor
sour food. This is not only a preventive in
cholera, but also in many other epidemic
diseases. Not one of many thousands who
have followed this, my advice, have been at
tacked by cholera.
"COLONELW —is a fine looking man."
said Jenkins.
"Yes," said Noggins, "1 was taken for
him once."
"You! why you are as ugly as a stump
fence!"
"I can't help that; I was taken for him.
I endorsed his note, and was taken for him
by the Sheriff."
A PLAIN and unschooled man, who had
received his education principally beneath
the open sky, in the field and the forest, and
who had wielded the axe more than the pen,
while speaking of children, remarked with
true simplicity : "The little chips are near
est the heart.''
Mas. PARTINGTON said she did not marry
her second husband because she loved the
mala sex, but just because he was the sixc
of her first protector, and could wear out his
old clotlies.
A PROFOUND observer remarks : "I have
often observed at public entertainments,
that when there is anything to be seen and
everybody wants particularly to see i\everv
body immediately stands uj> and effectually
prevents anybody from seeing anything."
A TOFNO lady who was rebuked by her
mother for Kissing her lover, justified the
act by quoting the passage—-"Whatsoever
ye would that men should do unto yon, do
you ye even so to them."
WE hear that His Holiness the Pope has
fiven positive orders that all his bulls shall
e kept within the precincts of the 'Vatican
while the cattle disease is rife.
A "UNION of forces" is well exemplified
in the following: . „
"A Turk wears so uiaay fleas in his shirt,
that a mathematician has recently demons
trated tliat if they should all jump at oner,
they would carry him across the Bosphorus!
"Trerich, said apoor Jew, "eat veni
j>on because it ish deer; I eat mutton because
it isli sheep,"
AN old bachelor says that the proper
| name for marriageable young ladies is "wai
ting maids,"