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WOUXDSD.
Let me lie down,
Just he-re in the shade of this eannon-tohn
tree —
Here low oti the trampled grass, where I may
seo
The surge of the combat, where I may hear
The glad cry of victory ! cheer upon cheer—
Let me lie down.
Oh, it was grand !
Like the tempest we charged, in the triumph
to share;
The tempest —its fury and thunder were there,
On, on, o'er entrenchment*, o'er living aud
dead.
With the foe under foot and our (lag over
head —
Oh, it was grand !
Weary and faint,
Prone to the soldier's couch ah, how can I
rest
With this shot shattered head and sabre-"
pierced breast ?
Comrades, at roll call, when I shall be sought.
Say I iought till 1 fell, and fell where I
fought,
Wounded and faint.
Oh. that last charge !
Right through the dread hell-iire of schrapnel
and shell.
Through without faltering, clear through with
a yell,
Right in their midst, in tho turmoil and
gloom,
I.ike heroes wo dashed ut tho mandate of
doom.
Ob, that last charge I
It was duty !
Some things aro worthless, and some others
so good
That nations who buy them pay only iu blood,
For Freedom aud Union each man owes bis
part,
And here I pny nty share all warm from my
heart.
It is duty !
Dying at last 1
My mother, dear mother, with meek, tcarfi.i
eye.
Farewell ! ac.d God bless you, for ever and
ayo !
Oh that 1 now iay on your pillowing breast
To breathe my last sigh on the bosom first
prest 1
Dying at laßt!
1 am no saint,
But boys, say a prayer. There's one that be
gins
"Our Father," and then says "Forgive us
otir sins."
Don't forget that part: say that strongly; and
then
I'll try to repeat it, and you'll say Amen.
Ah, I'm no saint!
Hark I there's a shout !
Raise me up, comrades; we Lave conquered,
I know !
Up on toy feet, with my face to the foe:
Ah, there tlies the flag, with its star spangles
bright—
The promise of glory, the symbol of Right!
Well may they shout!
I'm mustered out!
0 God of our fathers ! our freedom prolong
And tread down rebellion, oppression, anf
wrong !
0 land of earth's hope 1 on thy blood-red
dened sod
1 die for the Naffon, the Union and God
I'm mustered out !
T'olitiial.
THE MAJORITY AND THE CONSTI
TUTION.
A correspondent, whose letter we prin
elsewhere, expresses in a few words what i:
the difficulty of thousands of honest mindi
with regard to this dispute between Mr
Johnson and Congress—of men, too, wh<
do not approve of Mr. Johnson's course
but who, nevertheless, cannot pcrsuadt
themselves that he and the Supreme Cour
have not each as good a right to intcrpre
the Constitution —that is, defiue the limit:
of their own powers —as Congress has. I
is, however, quite plain to the eommoncs
intelligence that whatever a written con.-ti
tution can do, there is one thing it cannot
and that is, prevent these co-ordinatt
branches of a government from coming int
collision wben each attempts to define it
own powers. That these collisions bavi
not occurred ofteuer, or rather have no
proved of much moment hitherto, eithe
here or iu England, is dtiesimply to the fac
that in ordinary times the subjects on vvnic!
co-ordinate departments differ, and the end
they have in view, are not of
portance to tempt any one department int<
going to extremes. One is almost sure t<
give up before negotiation is exhausted
Therefore the arrangement- made by a writ
ten constitution for preserving the Ualanoi
of power may ordinarily work well. _ It
this country they have worked well. Unti
the Dred S o:t dee"-ion, although the pow
era claimed for the Fupremo Court undo
the Constitution had excited jealous an<
avowed intention not to lie bound by its dc
cisions. But the Dred Scott decisiot
. touched a point which the majority felt P
be vital, and at-once the authority of tbi
Court as an interpreter was repudiated b:
the majority. So, also, the issues raised ii
this reconstruction process are felt by tie
majority to be vital, that is, to go to tho ver;
foundations of the national existence, and
therefore," the slightest attempt of th
Court to control the action of Congres
would certainly be repudiated, and the Cour
knows it aDd wisely abstains from meddling
If the Supreme Court had the jiower o
interpreting tho (' nstittttion ltider al
"circumstance- and in all cases, the judge
would govern the country as a ,-mali oligar
I chy, and reform would be hopeless insid
half a ccn>ury. You may n-sert that thr
j have this power as much us you please, am
the majority in quiet times may act as i
they Vud it; but the minute troublou- time
t- me, and the majority is -ati-iied that if i
obey the judges the ends for which th
judges exist will he defeated, it will ndt obe
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To argue that this ought not to he
so, is idle; you might as well argue that hu
man nature ought to be changed. Perhaps
it ought, but governments are made for men
as they are and not as they ought to l>c. and
the wit of man is not etjuul to the task of
devising a written constitution which shell
be obeyed under all circumstances. Noth
ing would secure this result but some occult
I power that would cause anybody who viola
ted it instantly to drop down dead. In two
thirds of what is written on tho win city of
"fundamental law," including lite lone dis
quisitions of Mr. (jr. T. Curtis iu the World,
there is a false bottom to the thinking.
The reasoning is based on the assumption
that the Constitution is tho ultimate fact ol
our system of government. This is a delu
sion. The ultimate fact of this, as of all
Governments, is human nature; and until
■ human nature is totally changed, the major
ity of a great and free country will not al
low one mm calling himself an executive,
or nine men calling themselves a court, to
interpret the fundamental law when, in the
opinion of the majority, their interpreta
tion would be dangerous to the public
safety.
But this, says "Freedom," means a gov
ernment of "mere majority, and leaves my
breath dependent on their will." He is
right. This is exactly what it means. We
do live under a Government of the majori
ty. Tho Constitution is an instrument by
which the majority binds itself to refrain
from certain acts, hut it never gives up its
right, in the last re.-ort, of explaining the
sense in which it took tho pledge, or, in
other words of taking the President or any
body else whom it finds running about and
doing mischief, while professintr to take
"tho Constitution for his guide," and put
ting him under lock aud key, if it believes
his hermeneutics dangerous to tho State.
The idea that there is something very hor
rible iu Itcing dependent on the majority of a
Christian State for liberty and security,
which "Freedom" seetns to entertain, is the
product of that species of fetish worship of
which the Constitution has long been the
object. Tho Constitution, unless it he a
tiiiisman, cannot have any more force than
the majority gives it. If the majority de
sires to rob and cut throats, there is no vir
lucintbe parchment to stop it. If it al
lows Andrew Johnson and the Supreme
Court to define their own powers, it is sim
ply because it does not consider it worth
while to interfere with them.
This fact has always been so well under
stood by the highest class of minds, that in
constitutional countries the skill of great
statesmen has nearly always been shown in
avoiding reliance on the constitution, in per
stnding the majority into doing or not doing 1
* certain things without falling back on naked
legal rights, As soon as a King, President,
or Minister says, in exciting times, that he
will fail back on the constitution or charter,
and act on his own con.-truction of it, he
shows himself as much a fool and is as sure
to be destroyed, as a .'ingle man who should
point his rifle at a regiment. The end and
use of statemanship is to avoid bringing
things to this pa-s. The minute the states
! man appeals to force against the majority,
tbo majority measures its owu strength
against him, and sweeps hint aside.
This is just what Andrew Johnson seems
disposed to do. He says his interpretation
of the Constitution is the right one; Con
gress says its inter)iretation is the right one.
Admitting one to be as likely to be richt a
tho other, who is to decide between them?
The Supreme Court is simply, when the
destiny of a nation is at stake, nine elderly
men. Suppose they throw themselves on
Mr. Johnson's side, the_ result would bo
that ten elderly men would be of his way
i of thinking instead of one, because C'ou-
I gress does not regard the Court as any more
competent intellectually to decido such
questions as are raised in the reconstruction
problem than Congress is itself. If the
Court were more competent than Congress
to decide such questions, it ought to govern
the country completely, and tho election and
meeting of the Legislature is a ue-loss ex
pense. so that in the last resort the dispute
can only be ended by the majority using its
: superiority of force to decide —and this it is
sure to do. This may be an unfortunate
state of things, but nobody is to blame for
i it—neither theframers of the Constitution,
, ; nor those who live under it. In every free
' State the maintenance of liberty and jus
tice—no matter what the written forms may
' be—depends in the last resort on the char
acter ol" the majority ef the people. ''Free
dom" would be sure of his liberty in Phila
delphia if the Constitution were abolished
to-morrow; he would not be sure of bis head
'or his purse if he lived in Mexico, though
! every man in the country wore the Consti
; tution in a locket around his neck as an ara
t I uiet.— New York Notion.
' ; FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED.
i j The experience of the last six years
I should have taught us that even in the Uni
i ted States there is no security against civil
t trouble. A more appalling introduction to
t it notation ever had. Yet to the very mo
* mcnt of the actual blow it Was considered
impossible. The republic was charmed.
t Other countries had suffered, but we were
. exceptional. Wars were over, and however
lou-1 the threat of violence it would pass as
■ an idle word. The method of tho Southern
, madness was not heeded. The plainest
s declarations were regarded as political' gag.
; The most evident preparations were unseen
t or unminded. It was said that Senator
r Seward would rise in his place, and, iu the
t midst ot the most eourtcous hut crushing
i anti-slavery -peech, turn to Senator Butler,
who sat behind him, and hold out his thumb
and finger lor a piueh of snuff. The Caro
> iina Senator, averting his head, would cx
, i tend his box to his colleague from New.York,
I who still could not see any thine in the
- ' Southern speeches but party rhetoric. It
j j war- a game (hey played in the capitol. It
, j wa- Mipposed that th y would vow .-.-cession
1 1 ati i utauniou until after election, and then
. I nobody would be so sound and earnest a
r 1 Union man as Senator Seward's excellent
I friend from Georgia, Senator Toombs. It
; is only a cry of wolf ! wolf ! said comforta
i hie puDlic opinion. But one day the wolf
> came.
j Is it worth while to return to that ghastly
self-deception of .-ix and eight years ago ?
i Ls it any more foolish to believe that the
> President will push the present extremity
j to an armed solution, if he cut, than it was
t to believe that the see .-.-ionists would take
_> arms at the first favorable moment ? An
* drew Johnson is at bay. lie is conscious of
i tho contemptuous condemnation of his
country, and ot the doom to which history
f will consign hint, lie i< ignoraut, passion
! ate, and headstrong. He is surrounded by
, j the demagogues —by Fcrnaudo Wood,
. Jeremiah Black, and men in sympathy with
B them. Ho is the constitutional (Jontman
do,-hi Chief uf the National forces, and ho
| i.as told us hotv he interprets the Constitu
)' I tion. After a long aud exasperated Strug
s gle with Congress, in which it was supposed
t that he had been M> bound by the la\V6 as to
3 be powerless, if not to have aoquioseed in
,- the inevitable, he suddenly assumes the de-
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. SEPT. 37. 1867.
fensive, defies the unquestionable public
opinion of the country, auarrols, under po
lite phrases, with GoneraUGrant, and knows
: that within ninety day^Congress will assem
ble and will probably impeach him. Has
' he done all this tor the swkc of being im
peached? Ila- he done it with the intention
of placidly yielding when he is impeached,
and going humbly out of office ? Or does
he ui mi, if possible, to provoke an armed
crisis ?
Wo learn, upon good authority, that
there are ton "thousand men in Maryland
called millitia, armed and under the com
mand of rebel officers. Not long before Mr.
Stanton was suspended a requisition came
from the Governor of Maryland to the \\ ar
Department for batteries, which the Secre
tary refused. For what purpose is such a
body of men so armed and so officered ?•
We do not mention this to excite a foolish
alarm, but an alarm which is not_foolish.
It may be an untrue story, but it is rrot iu
the least improbable that the President in
tends some action hostile to Congress. It
may be in the guise of resistance to the
: process and results of impeachment. It
may be in pursuance of a plan to issue an
amnesty and to assemble a new Congress.
The wildness of the plan and its futility do
i not make it improballe. If the President
knew the feeling of the country he might
pause. But he does not know it. He can
not know it. Lie is surrounded and led by
men who misrepresent it; and to General
Grant the true friend of the country in the
Cabinet, he docs not listen.
The times are grave. No man should
deeeive himself or "deride," with the New
York Tribune, the imminence of trouble.
To be forearmed against danger we must bo
forewarned. We need not, indeed, imagine
that we are already Mexieanized; but we
ought certainly to reflect that in a revolu
tionary period, when the country still trem
bles with civil war, and peaceful order is not
yet restored, a desperate, ignorant, and ob
stinate Chief Magistrate may plunge us into
very serious difficulty.— Harper's Weekly.
COPPERHEAD LOGIC.
Our enemies persistently clamor about
the magnitude of the national debt, as a
proof of Republican incapacity to govern,
and therefore argue that we ought to sus
tain copperhead candidates for office. But
will they pay off the debt or repudiate it?
If they propose to pay it off in what way
can they do so without increasing the al
ready enormous taxation? Yet these same
copperhead's keep up the same_ clamor
about the taxation as being a vast incubus.
Ilow can they reduce both the debt and the
1 taxes? They already have the whol na
tional administration in their hands, inclu
ding the President and Secretary of the
Treasury. We ean give them no more pow
er to reduce either debt or taxes. If they
had a majority in both houses of CoDgress,
they could not reduce expenses without em
barrassing their own administration, unless
they were to stop all payment of bounties
and pensions to soldiers. Still they appeal
to the soldiers as being their especial friends,
and represent the Republicans as their ene
mies. Would tbey pay neveo and half
millions ot dollars for Ala.-kaand fivemillions
for Samaua, or would they repudiate these
engagements which are not Republican, but
made by Seward and Johnson ?
They magnify the burden of the debt and
endeavor to render it odious to the people,
at the same time that they pretend to accept
the lessons of the civil wat aud the splendid
results achieved it. If the war and its re
sults are to be considered thus as beyond
question, why dispute the debt without
which it could not have been carried on ?
If they do not desire to repudiate that debt,
why seek to render it odious? If they so
ardently wish to reduce tho debt, why in
crease its load of interest by funding
greenbacks bearing no interest in securities
that pay six per cent, in gold? If as a mat
ter of economy they are opDOeed to paying
bounties to the soldiers, why go on paying
out million- for more territory? If they are
so well satisfied with the greenbacks, why
reiterate all the old stale cries about an ex
cessive aud worthless currency? If they
prefer a guaranteed bank currency, why
seek to undermine the credit of the national
banks? If they are in lavor of a reduction
of taxation, why oppose the abolition of the
onerous taxes on domestic iudustry ? They
have constantly represented that there ex
isted so great and pressing a need for rev
enue as to leave no room for a lowering of
taxes, and yet they keep up a clamor at tho
same time against this very taxation as un
just.
They seek to make the Union soldiers re
gard t bem as their friends, while they con
tinually depreciate their glorious deeds, and
award more credit to the rebel troops than
to our own. They pretend to abhor the as
sassination of President Lincoln while they
lament the execution of his a;<s?.ssins. and
strain every nerve to render odious all en
gaged in their conviction and execution.
They lay claim to patriotism and adhesion
to the Union side in the civil war. while
they do not disguise that their sympathies
were with the rebels; and regard Jefferson
Davis and his associates as the greatest of
statesmen, and Lee, Btauregard, Johnson,
etc., as the greatest of generals. They per
petually cry out for the Constitution, at the
same time that they associate with rebels
who sought to destroy it. They claim to he
Democrats, yet oppose democratic princi
ples. They assert their devotion to nation
ality, yet oppose everything national. Such
a bundle of contradictions was probably
never before seen in any political contest.
The party is a thing of contrarieties, impos
sibilities, contradiction?. Its creed cannot
stand the teat of any great national struggle.
—North American.
THE PUBLIC PERIL.
Some of the Democratic parn are ro
peating their action of the autumn of 18f>0.
When at that time it was very clear that the
, Democratic leaders at th-> South and in Cab
inet intended to plunge the country into war
some of the Republican journal- in the
country called attention to the significant
signs of the times, as portending trouble,
and asserted that under _ all circumstances
the laws must be maintained. The Demo
cratic papers declared that such a strain was
incendiary, and that the Republicans were
stirring up civil war.
As we said last week the public apathy
and incredulity were remarkable, and the
country blindly lurched into war. If the
circumstances which were known to some
had been made public, it the tocsin of the
press had loudly rung the alarm, the war
might not indeed have been avoided; but we
should have been somewhat prepared for the
struggle. At the present time, as we also
stated last week, there is reason for grave
1 apprehension of trouble, and the country
j (night constantly to bear it in moid. No
i body ean seriously doubt that the President
j would resort to an armed settlement with
j Congress, if he dared. It is mainly a ques
j tion of his courage. Suppose the President,
I having issued a general amnesty, should de-
Clare martial law in the District of Colombia
and for as large an area around it as might
suit his purpose. He would then be practic
ally Dictator, and General Grant would be
officially his military Lieutenant..
This would be illegal, it would be revolu- j
tionary, it would he preposterous. I 'n- ■
doubtedly; but it is none the less possible !
und probable. Tho President is not a per
son who can be fusted, aud when that is
said all is said. He knows that Congres
will meet on the lllst of November. Ho is
very sure that thero will he a vigorous effort
for his impeachment. He is pretty sure
that the effect will succeed, and he probably
has very little doubt of the result. Now
he also believes, for he has told us very of
ten, that Congress as at present constituted
is a usurping body. He acknowledges its
authority, indeed, "but that acknowledgment
would not interfere with his action, for he
is wholly inconsistent and illogical, and he
is doaporate. Ha Id Hats that the lata rebel
States a>e entitled to representation; and it
follows, in the Presidential mind, that a
Congress which forcibly expels a part of the
States is not a body competent to impeach,
and not a body, therefore, whose action is
to he respected.
Is there any thing in the career or charter
of the President which make it unlikely that
he would attempt to resist or disperse Con
gress, or do something to make tnublo be
fore it assembles? Common-sense, indeed,
rejects such a course as stupid folly. But
is that a reason for supposing that it would
not be adopted by the President? It is
tolerably evident to most sensible men that
a great eause, a great faith, and skillful lead
ers are necessary to a great and successful
revolution; and that there is no cause, no
inspiration, no leadership, in Andrew
Johnson and his "policy." If be has
any reliance, it must he upon the Demo
cratic party. Is that party likely to sup
port him in a cmp de'etntf No, for they
are very careful to disown the President anil
the President's performances. But although
a great revolution requires a great cause, a
serious and bloody trouble may arise from
a very small one.
In insisting, as we do, upon the possibil
ity and probability of Presidential violence,
we wish to persuade our readers that it is
their duty to be awake and alert, aud that
no peace i 3 to be expected while Mr. John
son is President. It was universally sup
posed and asserted that Congress had_ bound
him so closely that he could do no mischief.
Does the event prove it? Is he not to
day in a position to do as much mischief,
more mischief than ever? And is there
any doubt that his doing it will depend
solely upon his courage ? He is undoubted
ly urged by evil counsellors, as Governor
Seymour of New York wa- in lM"i. The
Governor, upon reflection, did not dircctly
rcsist the National Government. It was a
very wise course, and it is useless now _to
speculate upon the reasons that ruled him.
If the President is as wise as the Governor
we shall be very glad. If he is not, we
shall not be surprised.— Uarptrs Weekly.
CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY.
Governor F.ngliJi telegraphs to Governor
Haight that his election "will gladden the
friends of Constitutional liberty the country
through." Governor llaight telegraphs
back that "California has echoed the voice
of Connecticut, * *_ * We have but
followed where you led in the sacred cause
of Constitutional liberty." What do these
gentlemen mean by Constitutional liberty?
They certainly mean something different
from that liberty affirmed in tho glorious
preamble to our father's, Declaration of
American Independence, when they pro
claimed that " all in- i are created equai,"
and "endowed by their Creator with inali
enable rights to iife, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness." Cv. stituth-nal liberty is
something radically different from universal
liberty, its chlmpions themselves being
judges. It is not that sort of liberty which
Governor English advanced when, amid the
despairing shrieks and howls oftho devotees
of "Constitutional liberty," he voted to
abolish and prohibit slavery throughout this
broad Republic. No, it is something very
different from that, as the two accidental
Governors—one chosen such by a lavish ex
j penditurc of his own and other millionaires'
money, and the other slipping in through a
: deplorable feud which distracted the Union
party and kept twenty thousand of its vo
ters from the polls— very well know.
John C. Calhoun was, for twenty years,
the leading champion of "Constitutional
liberty." Polk, Pierce, and Buchanan were
his timid and cautious disciples. The asser
ted right of every slaveholder to plant sla
very wherever he-might choo.-e, in defiance
of whatever looal or general repugnance,
was a direct deduction from this doctrine of
"Constitutional liberty. ' Abraham Lin
coln touched the core of it when, in his can
va-- with Douglass, ho defined squatter
sovereignty thus;- —"If A chooses to make
Bhis slave, C shall not iuterfere." God
be thanked that this swindling mockery dis
guised as "constitutional liberty is not the
liberty for which our fathers fought, nor
that which their lineal sons are determined
and destined to achieve I —A etc York Tri
bune.
THE ISSUE. —Was the war right ? This
is the whole issue before us, stripped of all
incidental and outside matter. It it was,
we do not want and will not liuve its effects
aud consequences construed away. This is
now the objective point towards which the
Democrats arc tending under the lead of
Judge Black, and to this end they are at
tempting to fill our courts with lawyers of
the strict or CalhoUn construction school.
Woodward tried to construe away the draft.
Sharswood attempted to construe away our
national currency. Black boldly decided
that the nation bad no power to defend its
own iife. So it goes. Step by step they
undermine all that we have cen living and
fighting for since 1770, aud if let alone, in a
short time world have us repudiating every
i lea or semblance of nationality. These
men, too, are conscientious in their heresy.
Calhoun could not have been more so. and
therein is the great danger. If we believe
that our war was right, that our soldiers died
in a good eause, and that our bayonets
gleamed through Georgia constitutionally,
then we must avoid, yea, spurn all men who
conscientiously believe the war to have been
wrong, and pronounce it, when they woulu
excuse it, an error and mistake. _ There is
no half way ground on this question. Tou
must vote for Williams and a constitutional j
war, or Sbarswood and an unconstitutional
war. — Philadelphia Press.
IT is announced that the President means
to rest awhile. This signifies that he in
tends to wait until after the Pennsylvania
and New York elections, and then, if the
republicans shall he defeated he will defy or
perhaps disperse Congress Do the republi
cans perceive the magnitude and gravity of
the issue ? Will they see to it that the
elections so result as not to give the Presi
dent a popular endorsement? — Pittsburgh
Gazette.
YOLUMEIO; NO. 3S.
PHARAOH HARDENING.— Mr. Johnson
keeps steadily on in his insane efforts to resist
tue wui of the nation. It now looks as
though he wished lo make a martyr of him
self, in order to got up another revolution,
and get himself into notice. He stands
about the best chance to get hanged of any
j Uebcl in or out of the country, we judge, if
we read his character correctly, and sec
what is just ahead of us. That he will fa:!
of becoming a martyr; that he will fail of
resuscitating'the dead Democratic party:
that he will he foiled by the good genius
who presides now over our country's con
science, and not he able to get up a revolu
tion; that the firm but silent man whohas got
ten into Stanton's place knows his man, aud
has him as tight as he had his friends Lee
and Davis once upon a time; that he will
make that public exhibition of bis folly be
foro all the narions so as to eclipse his inau
gural spree, and that other stagger round
the circle of last summer, we have no doubt.
Pray God to harden Pharaoh's heart yet
more, and the whole work will bo done..
The instrument ol' God is blindly doing His
will, and all that is left undone to complete
ly radicalize this nation will, or we arc no
prophets, shortly he revealed. God is in
this man, bad as he is, just as he was in Ju
das, in Davis, and in the chosen men who
do the will of Satan on earth. Thank God
for the madness of Mr. Johnson' May he
get no better very fast. —A' Y. Church
Union.
ML'SKETOES—W IIAT THEY AKE
A.MJ HOW TIIEY LIVE.
It is unscientific to say that musketoes
bite, for they have no teeth ; and they have
no need of teeth to seize upon or prepare
their food, for thejr are dainty, and take
food only in the liquid form —spoon vituals.
They are a chivalrie race, and attack their
enemies with a sort of sword or lance; no
doubt they consider biting and gouging quite
vulgar. The lance of the mnsketo is a very
beautiful aud perfect piece of work; it is
smoother than burnished steel, and its point
is so fine and i>erfect that the most power
ful microscope does not discover a flaw in it.
As the most delicate cambric needle is to a
crowbar, so is the musketoe's lance to the
best Damascus blade. The lance is worn in
a scabbard or sheath, which in every res
pect is worthy of it: it is often ornamented
with plumes. Man carries his sword at Lis
side, and the on his head. The
latter arrangement has manifest and won
derfel advantages—the weapon is always en
garth , and docs not impede locomotion by
getting entangled with the legs.
The lance and its sheath being on the
head and being somewhat flexible, is often
called a proboscis. This view of the case is
strengthened by the fact that the scabbard
is a suction pipe through which the mu.-keto
drinks its food. As Moses struck the rock
with his staff, so the musketo with a thrust
of his lance pierces the fountain, and the i
neefar, gushing into the scabbard, finds its
way to the more sensitive and vital parts.
The musketo might be classed among our
domestic aniiuales may we not say among
the household pets? They are the almost
oonstant companions of man in'town and
country, during the holliday season of the
summer. No home without the musketo.
What affection! How ihey stick to us, clo
ser than brothers! They often come a great
way—hundreds of miles —to be with us.
Most of those which greet us in this city
have left their distant homes in Jersey and
have made the perilous journey across a
wide river. They also love their own society
aud travel in companies which sometimes
comprise millions of individuals—in swarms
which obscure the sun. But the common
place detractors say that musketoes are
bred in unwholesome swamps, and that it is
only the wind which bears them, as it does
feathers and malaria, wherever it listeth.
Let us inquire about the earliest begin
ning of the musketo; let us take him in the
egg. The mother musketo has notions of
naval architecture, and out of the eggs 6he
lays she constructs a well-modeled boat,
with elevated prow and stern and well pro- j
portioned midship. For the boat she lem- ,
ploys 250 to 350 eggs, building it up piece- j
meal, somewhat alter the manner of men,
binding together the individual eggs by
means of a powerful water-proof cement,
into a substantial and complete structure.
Unfortunately we are unable to give a recipe
for the water-proof cement; there are many
who would like to have it. The boat is
built on the water, and when completed she
is confidently abandoned to the mercy of the
wind and the wave. Thanks to that water
proof cement, she can neither be broken,
wetted, or sunk; she is safer _ than if she
were copper bottomed. The little craft, it
must be remembered, is freighted with life
—each of its 250 or 350 little state rooms
has its tenant. After a few days cruising
the occupants of the shells come forth, and
the ship is destroyed. But those little
creatures are surely not musketoes! They
appear more like fish or serpents, or little
dragons. On closer examination they prove
to be what every one knows under the name
of "wigglers;" they are the larvae of the
musketo. They wiggle about in the well
known way for a week or two, and after
changing their skins two or three times, they
assume quite a new form and movement, j
They are now what the boys call "tumblers,'
and are the pvpee of the musketo. In
about a week, if the weather, etc., be j
favorable, something of the form of the
musketo may be seen through the transpa
rent skin of the tumbler. Shortly the
prisoner escapes from his confinement as a
full fledged and hold musketo, and soars
away in search of food and pleasure.—
Scientific American
THE Iloc EGOS. —The following from the
Calcutta Englishman, gives a full account
of the enormous fossil eggs—if eggs they be
—found in the Island ofMadagascar
The Mauritan mentions: on the authority
"of a Bourbon journal , that a singular dis
covery has been made iu Madagascar. Fos
sil eggs of an enormous size have been found
in the bed of a torrent. The shells are an
eighth of an inch thick, and the circumfer
ence of the egg itself is 2 feet 9 inches
lengthways, and 2 feet 2 inches round the
middle. One which has been opened con
tains about two gallons ! What was to
have come out of these eggs ? Bird or
crocodile t The natives seem to be well ac
quainted with them, and say that ancient
tradition is uniform as to the former exis
tence of a bird large enough to carry an ox.
This is only a little smaller than the roc of
oriental fable, which waited patiently till he
saw the elephant and rhinoceros fighting,
and then carried off both at one stoop.
Some fossil hones were found in the same
place as the eggs; but the Bourbon editor
says that he will leave it to the pupils o! the
great Cuvier to decide to what animal they
j belong. If they 'should prove to be the
; bones of a bird of size corresponding to the
. j egg, the discovery will indeed be an extra
' ordinary one.
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THE GREASE TREE.-- 11l China there
grows a tree known as the Grease Tree. It
is said that large forests of this vegetable
lubricant are to be found there, and they
form the source of a considerable local traffic.
This tree not very lone ago was imported
into India, and it is said the experiment of
• cultivating it there has proved quite suc
ecs.-ful. In the I'unjaub and northwestern
provinces generally it grows as rapidly and
as vigorously as in its native soil, and there
arc already thousands of trees on the gov
ernment plantations, yielding tons of seed,
admirably adapted to a variety of commer
cial purposes, lloctor Jameson, chemist in
the Tunjaub, has prepared hundred weights
of grease from this particular tree, and has
forwarded on trial a portion of it to the
Punjaub railway, to have its qualities tested
in a practical manner as lubricating mate
rial tor those parts of the machinery con
stantly exposed to friotion. The grease
thus obtained forms an excellent tallow,
burning with a clear, brilliant, and what is
iuficitely more to the purpose, a white light,
and at the samo time emitting not a trace of
any unpleasant odor, or of the ordinary
disagreeable accompaniments of combustion
—smoke.
WHAT ARE YOU LIVING FOR? —A pas
tor walking out recently, met a little girl be
lotK'ing.io bis flock. As they walked on to
gether, he spoke to her of her studies, and
wa > pleased to find her manifesting an inter
est amounting almost to enthusiasm in the
cultivation of her mind:
"But why, hi!ie,'' asked the pastor, "are
you so anxious to succeed in your studies ?
What do you moan to do with your educa
tion after you gel it?"
"Oh sir." said the girl, "I want to learn
that I may do some good in the world. I
don't wantto tell the Lord in the day of judg
ment that I have lived so long in the world
ithout having done any good in it."
Noble purpose ! Who of our young
friends are studying and living to so good an
end? Who of us are making an every day
• impress for good on the hearts and eyes of
those among whom we move?
THE BIRD or THE TOLLING BELL.—
Among the highest woods and deepest glens
of Brazil a sound is sometimes heard, so
siugulur that the noise seems quite unnatur
al; it is like the distent and solemn tolling of
a church bell, struck at intervals. This ex
traordinary noise proceeds from the arawan
da. The bird sits on the top of the highest
trees in the deepest forests, and though
constantly heard in the most desert places,
it is very rarely seen. It is impossible to
conceive any thing of more solitary character
than the profound silence of the woods, bro
ken only by the metalic and almost super
natural sound of this invisible bird, coming
from the air, and seeming to follow where
ever you go. The "arawanda" is white
with a circle of red around its eyes: its size
is about that of a small pigeon.
EXTENT OF THE UNIVERSE.— It way
give ; oUiC idea of the extent of the Uni
verse to know the length of time required
for iight, which travels 192,t)00 miles a min
ute, to come from different celestial objects
to this earth. From the moon, it cames in
one and a quarter seconds; from the sun, in
eight minutes; from Jnpcter, in fifty-two
minutes; Uranus, in two hours; from a star
of the first magnitude, three or twelve
years; from a star of the fifth magnitude,
sixty-six years; from a star of the twelfth
magnitude, four thousand years. Light
whieh left a star of the twelfth magnitude
when the Israelites left Egypt has not yet
reached the earth. Our entire solar system
itseil travels at the rate of thirty-five thou
sand miles an hour among the fixed stars. —
; Home and Foreign Record.
WAR. —Give me the money that has been
spent in war, and I will purchase overy foot
of land upon the globe. I will clothe every
man, woman and child in an attire of which
kings and queens would be proud. I will
build a school nouse on everv hill side, and
in every valley over the whole earth; 1 will
build an acadeufy in every town, and endow
it; a college in every State, and fill it with
able professors; I will crown every hill with
a place of worship, consecrated to the pro
mulgation of the Gospel of peace; I will
support in every pulpit an able teacher of
righteousness, so that on every Sabbath
morning the chime on one hill should an
swer to the chime on another round the
earth's wide circumference; and the voice of
prayer, and the song of praise, should as
cend like a universal holocaust to Heaven.
—Rufus Stevens.
LITTLE NEGLECTS. —By neglecting to lock
the stable door the horse was stolen, by
leaving a lot of old rubbish in the farm
yard, one colt broke his leg and another got
a nail in his foot; in neglecting to spend half
an hour in battering upon the, sheep fold, a
pair of twin lambs froze to death. By care
lessly tying the hull, the ox was gored and
died; by neglecting to kill the ticks on the
sheep, and lice on the cattle, the sheep bo
bame poor, shed all their wool, gave no
milk, the lambs died, and a fine stock of
cattle, in high condition when they came to
stall, lost all their flesh before spring, some
helped up by the tail and survived, while
others were snaked off by _ the neek, a short
retributive justice to their owners, always
attached in some way to human transgres
sions.
A SECRET WORTH KNOWING. —An able
writer gives utterance to the following valu
able secret: '"The looking forward to enjoy
ment don't pay. For what I know of it. I
would as soon chase butterflies for a living
orbottle moonshine for a cloudy night. The
only way to be happy is to take the drops
of happiness as God gives them to us every
day of our lives. The boy must learn to be
happy while be is learning his trade: the
merchant while be is making.his fortune.
If he fails to learn this art, he will be sure to
miss his enjoyment when he gains what he
has sighed for."
A WILLING DEBTOR.— Sir Walter Scott,
on one occasion, was desirous of rewarding
the wit and importunity of an Irish beggar
by the present of a sixpence, but found that
h< had not so small a coin in bis purse.
"Here, my good fellow said the Laronct,
"here is a shilling; but mind you owe mo
sixpence." "God bless your honor," ex
claimed Fat, "may your honor live till I
pay you!" The author of Ivanhoc was
highly tickled at the native reply.
"MART, do you remember the text this
morning?" "No. papa, I can never remem
ber the text, I've such a bad memory." "Ma
ry," said her mother, "did you notice Sarah
Brown?" "Oh! yes: what a fright! She had
on her last year's bonnet, done up, a pea
green silk, a black lace mantilla, brown gait
ers, imitation Honiton collar, a lava bracelet,
Iher old ear-drops, and such a fan 1 Oh, my 1
oh, my!" "Well, my dear, your memory is
improving."