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Out of the bosom of the Air,
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Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
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PTEFIUANFTIU*.
KIJCONSTKLCTION.
Speech of Hon. >Y. 11. Koontz, of
Pennsylvania, in the liousc of ftep
re&entatives, January- 20, 1868.
The House having under consideration the
bill (U. R. No. 4o'j> additional and supple
mentary to an act entitled '*An act to pro
vide for the more efficient government of the
rebel States.'' passed March 2, 1867
Mr. KOONTZ said:
Mr. SPEAKER: This bill has been pretty
thoroughly di-scussed on both sides of the
House, and I will endeavor, in as brief a
time as possible, to present to the consider
ation of the House my reasons for support
ing the measure. In di.-euasing this bill
there are three things to be considered: first,
what is proposed to be done by the bill ?
second, has Congress the power to pass it?
third, is there now such a pressing public
necessity as calls upon Congress for the pas
sage of tbe bill?
This bill proposes to declare that in the
iate rebellious .States '"there are no civil
State governments republican in form, and
that the so-called civil governments in said
States, re.-i-ecive'y, shad not be recuguiz-.- i
as vaiid or i- gai State governments either by
the executive or judicial power or authority
of the United State-."
The btll also proposes to confer upon the
General of the Army the power "to enjoin,
by special orders, upon all. officers in com
mand within the several military depart
ments within said several States, the perfor
mance of all acts authorized by said several
laws above recited, and to remove by his
order fr >m command any or ail of said com
mander> and detail other officers of the
United States Army, not below the rank of
colonel, to perform all the duties and exer
cise all the powers authorized by said sever
al acts.''
The bill also confers upon the General of
the Army the power of removal from and
appointment to the civil offices UDder those
several provisional governments. It Further
declares that "it shall be unlawful for the
President of the United States to order any
part of the Army or Navy of tbe United
States to assi.-t by force of arms the author
ity of eit her of said provisional governments
in said disorganized States to oppose or ob
struct the authority of the United States as
provided in this actar.d the act to which
this is supplementary."
Then there is added a section making it a
penal offence for any person to attempt to
prevent by force the execution of the orders
ot the General of the Army.
Those, -ir. are in brief the provi.-ions of
the bill. The next question is. has Congress j
the lawful power and authority to pass this j
measure? And, sir, iD asserting the power •
I ot Congress over this question it becomes
necessary to sustain the allegation ot fact I
i contained in the first section of the bill, that j
in th'-'ss States there are no civil State gov- j
crnments republican in form; for, sir, I con
cede that if it be not true in point of fact
that there are no such civil governments in
those States then this proposed legislation
and all the Ic-gi.-iation of Congress pertaining
to the question of reconstruction is wrong;
but if, on the other hand, it be true in point
of fact that there are no valid State govern
menu in those States, then I apprehend
that gentlemen on all sides of this House
will concede that there is necessity for some
legislation, either in the shape of this bill or
some other.
Now, sir. is it true that there are no legal
State governments in those States? I main
tain that it is. Ido DOI deny that prior to
V '! there were Segal State g- vernments in
those States holding their true relation to
the Government of the United States, and
acting harmoniously with the other States of
the Union, under the Constitution, the >u
I preme law of the land. But I assert that
those governments were overthrown by
traitors; that they were seized by men whose
I hearts w r° filled with treason, and all, or
nearly. al! of the legislative, executive, and
judicial officers ■ f those States assisted in car
rying i hem out-side of the Government of
the United States.
It is necessary, sir, to briefly allude to
| some of the leading event- of that period.
A Republican President had been elected in
i accordance- with the provisions of the Con
. -titution of the United States; but because
be and his party were of a different political
: faith to theirs, 'hey seized upon what they
onsidered a favorable opportunity to en
j force their long cherished doctrine of State
i rights. For many years the political lead
' ersofthe South had been promulgating the
wicked and dangerous theory that it was
wtihin the power of any one of the States.
: it its pleasure, to sever its connection whi
ch e Government of the United States, and
the election of a Prc-ident by the Republic-
I an party was made the pretext for rebellion;
and I would here remind gentlemen who are
| continually denouncing the Republican par
tv for what they aiiege to be its unconstitu
tional acts, that in the election of Abraham
Lincoln that party was strictly within the
limits of the C'-n-titution, and that the lead j
ers of the rebellion not only disregarded the I
[lain provisions of the Constitution in re- ]
fusing to abide by that election, but engaged
in their unholy work before his Administra
tion had come into power ar.d without wait- j
• ing to sec whether, so far as thry were con
corned, he would nor take care that the laws
;of the land w- re faithfully executed. It
will be remembered that they passed their
ordinances of seeessiou, and by the most
solemn l> tisfative enactment declared that
their States vre r.o longer bound to the j
General Government. Not only that, but
they seized upon ail the public property
within the limits of those States. They
seized upon the forts, arsenals, mint?, cus
; torn hou- s, navy yard an ! all the prop
eity belonging t<> the United States Govern
i ment therein. They went further, sir; they
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elected their representatives and sent them
to Montgomery. Alabama, and there they
united together under another government,
formed a constitution for tbemsc vos, and
adopted a flag different from the flag of our
fathers. By the most solemn forms of law
they created a separate and independent
government, with the avowed intent and
purpose of destroying the Government of
the United States.
And, sir, for four long years they wielded
the power of this great and tremendous or
ganization, extending over ten States, a vast
empire in themselves, holding within and
under its control ten million people, and
with almost unlimited resources, for the
purpose of destroying the Government
whic-h had ocen framed by Washington and
his compeer*. They were unsuccessful, but
I need not remind gentlemen of this floor of
the tremendous cost to the loyal people of]
the country in precious biocd and treasure to
maintain the unity and integrity of this Gov
ernment.
Now, sir, during these four years of civil
war where rested the legal power and au
thority of thß United States Government?
I answer that they were with the loyal, ad
hering. organized States of the Union.
Hoes any gentleman on the other side say
that the legislation for those ter States
during that time was wrong because they
were in armed rebellion? Will they deny
that the legislation necessary to carry on the
Government within the organized States
was iiiegal, unconstitutional , and void be
cause those ten States happened to be in
organized revolt? Was Dot the legislative,
executive, and judicial power of the Gov
ernment of the United fctates fully recog
nized by the people of the loyal States
during that time?
Mr. MUNGEN. We get appeals to this
side of the House, and I should like to an
swer.
Mr. KOONTZ. Not now. I answer
that during the time that those States were
outside of the Government, so far as they
could place themselves, the sovereign pow
er of the nation WAS reprsented in the organ
ized States of the Union. He would be a
bold man, indeed, who would controvert
this position; for to deny the authority of
the law-abiding, organized States to wield
the sovereign power of the government du
ring an insurrection or rebellion ID others,
would be equivalent to an admission that
the bare organization of rebellion in any sec
tion of the country would of itself work a
dissolution of the Government, for those
not in revolt would be powerless to prevent
it. But not only were the legal power AOD ;
authority of the Government of the United
States vested in the organized States by
recognition of the loyal people but thev were
recognized by foreign nations. The United
States of America did not in the eyes of
other Powers cease to be a nation because
a portion thereof was in rebellion, but its
dignity and sovereign power were as fully
aek nowleged by them as before.
Now, sir, if the proposition be true that
during the rebellion the legal power and au
thority of the United States remained in
the byal States, when did that power cease
over tbe disorganized communities? When
the war ended, say the rebels; when LOE
surrendered, say the Democratic party.
This would be equivalent to saying that
there should be no penalty for treason, for
there would be no power to impose it, as
the guilty would have an equal voice with
the guiltless in settling the controversy.
Against this doctrine the loyai people pro
test. earnestly protest, and insist that the
terms of settlement shall be fixed by them:
that as the power and jurisdiction of a court
over the criminal attach until tbe sentence
jis pronounced, so the power and jurisdio
| tion of the loyal States attach and remain
' over the disorganized part until all the
I questions springing AN and arising out of the
rebellion have 1 een fully and entirely set
tled.
j But, sir, if those States were not entirely
j overthrown, gentlemen will admit with the
President of the United States, a- they now
| -eem to have come to his position, that they
: required at least some legislative or execu
| tive action in their behalf, because they were
1 so far disorganized as R I require it, to set
I them on foot again. ' 'he President recog
-1 nized this when he declared that they weie
; without civil governments, and undertook
to as-urae the power of legislation on this
question. He recognized the fact that their
civil governments had been overthrown
when he established provisional governments
for them. We enly differed with him so
fur in asserting that the question of recon
structing these States was with the Congress
of the United States and not in the hands
of the Executive.
Then, sir, to establish the point I AM
makinz, namely, that these are not valid
civil governments, I deny that they ate such
because they are thecreatures of execu
tive power and not of_ legislative au
thority IT was a question thatb elong
td exclusively to Congress and not to any
other co ordinate branch of the Govern
ment.
But I object to these governments further
because they have had the breath of life j
breathed into them for the purpose of re
viving the fell spirit of treason that for four
long years spread disaster and sorrow
throughout the land.
Now. sir, I think I have clearly shown
that the power of this Government belongs ,
to the loyal States of the Union, those that
remained true to it duriDg the civil war.
Then the only question remaining is, is there
a public necessity for this bill ?
I urge, in the first place, that there is a
necessity for the passage of this bill to pro
tect the loyal men of those States. Does
any man doubt, from all the evidence we
have had during the last two years, that if
the military power is withdrawn from these
States the loyal men, black and white, will
| be entirely under the control of the rebels,
i who will have an ascendancy a? complete and
effectual as when Lee held uudisputed
I power over tfce whole region ?
It is needed, further, to prevent the ob-
I stack's that have been thrown in the way of
j reconstruction. We have had obstacles not
1 only on account of tbe construction of the
law, as was stared by my colleague, but in
adverse executive action; and in order that
there may be a harmonious policy, and that
all obstacles may be removed in the way of
the policy of Congress, it is necessary that
J this question should he under tbe control of
j the General of the Army and not of so manv
| different military commanders. We would
thus be relieved of the difficulty that exists
under tbe present law, of havine one policy
for Louisiana and another for Virginia.
But it is needed, further, because the
rebels and their sympathizing friends in the
North refuse J to accept the generous terms
! that were offered by the Thirty- Ninth Con
gress. That Congress offered a plan of set
tlement of tbi -E difficulties so fair and gen
! erous that no honest mind could controvert
it; and yet tlu->E people, aided and enooura
! ge-i by the President of the United States
and by the Democratic party of tbe North,
: ; J--d to ace pt the generous terms prof
fered in the fourteenth amendment to the
j Constitution of the United States. There
-1 fore it becomes Decessary that Congress
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[ should exercise its authority and demand
that other terms shall be acceded to by them
since they have tefused to accept so gener
ous an offer. Indeed, the terms of settle
■ ment contained in these several reconstruc
tion bills are more generous than were ever
offered to a vanquished foe before. A mag
nanimous people demand neither the lives
' or property of their late enemies; but they
' do insist that they shall only be restored to
political power in the Union upon the con
ditions prescribed by the loyal people of tbe
country.
These, sir, are in brief my reasons for ad
vocating this bill, and I propose now to ad
vert to a few arguments—l can hardly say a
few, because it seems to me there is but a
single argument advanced on the other side .
against this bill. The whole cry is that this
■ bill is unconstitutional. Sir, all tLe recon
• struction bills that have been passed by this
and the preceding Congress have been de
nounced by gentlemen on the other side as
unconstitutional. This is the old cry repeat
ed. We heard it at the beginning of the
war. We were then told it was unconstitu
tional to coerce a State; that it was unconsti
tutional to call out armies and defend the
capital of the nation, that it was unconstitu
tional to draft men into the armies of the
United States; that it was unconstitutional
to issue money to pay the soldiers who were
dralted, that it was unconstitutional and
wrong to arm the negro. In short, every
measure that was ever advocated by the
Republican party in these Halls lor the sup
pression cf this infamous rebellion has been
denounced by the Democratic party AS un
constitutional. They seem to assume, or
rather they do assume, that they are the es
pecial guardians and protectors of tbe Con
stitution. I desire, in the brief moments
that are left me, to point to some of their
own acts in regard to tbe Constitution.
It will be remembered, in IMIO, when the
conscience of the people had become aroused
by the aggressive spirit of slavery, and had
brought into life and party that
planted itself upon the ground, of opposition
to the extension of that institution, that
John J. Crittenden, a Senator from Ken
tucky, offered in the other branch of Con
gress a series of resolutions to perpetuate
the curse of human bondage. He proposed
to place in the Constitution of the United'
Statesthat word which Jam Madison re
fused to permit to go in. He wa- willing
not only to infert the word "slave" in the
Constitution but to dedicate the whole of
that vast empire south of 3IR T' to the
curse of slavery. That wa> Democratic doc
trine then. The Constitution might, by
'heir consent, be changed, provided it would
BE to the interest of the slave power.
iVe go a step further. After the Mont
gomery constitution had been adopted there
was a portion of the Democratic party that
was willing to run the line north of Pennsyl
vania and to exclude New Eugland from
the Union. They propo-ed to take in
Pennsylvania. New Jersey, New York, and
as mauy western States as chose to cotne IN.
and adopt the Montgomery constitution for
the purpose, as they said, of leaving New
Eogland out in the cold.
bir, let me say that New Eugland will not
be kept our in the cold, and THE rca.von of it
in brief is this, that -he is true now to the
cause of hrttiian liberty as she was when the
Mayflower landed her precious cargo upon
her shores and
"Tbe souuding aisles of the dim woods rang
To tbe anthem of the free."
But, sir, in answer to gentlemen upon
the other side who claim that the Demo
cratic party is the great protector and defen
der of the Constitution, I want to point out
to gentlemen upon all sides of this House
this significant fact, that when the great
unconstitutional work of this century was
undertaken, namely, organized rebellion in
ten State.- for the purpose of breaking up
and destroying this Union, never during all
that time was there promulgated from a
Democratic State convention or from a
Democratic State committee a single au
thoritative enunciation expressive of their
indignation at the great unconstitutional
work that the rebels were engaged in: no,
not one. AND permit me to say now that
if that party had denounced that great un
constitutional work with half the zeal and
half the energy with which they have de
nounced the measure- that were necessary
to put down the rebellion, and that are nec
essary to keep it down, the war would have
ended a year sooDer than it did, $l,OO0 ( 0U<V
000 of debt would have been saved to the
Government, and many firesides would now
have chairs occupied that arc vacant This
was the policy of that party that has as
sumed to act as the special defenders of the
Constitution. Let me add another item on
this point. I remember that in the latter
part of June, IS<53, the news spread abroad
throughout the North that General Lee
was advancing upon the State of PenDsylva
nia, and soon that news was confirmed, and
the invaders stood upon the soil of Pennsyl
vania. At that very time there was a Demo
cratic State convention sitting in the capi
tol at Harrisburg, and although the enemy
; was ready to carry destruction and devasta
: tion throughout the broad limits of the
Commonwealth, and iudeed, the whole
North, if it had been in his power, not one
word in condemnation of the rebellion or
denunciation of the unconstitutional work
its leaders M-re engaged in went out from
that convention; and yet, -ir, this is the
I party that professes to speak for the Con
; stituiion.
Mr. BOY Ell. Mr. Speaker —
Mr. KOONTZ. My time is nearly out.
1 would like to yield to my colleague, but I
| cannot.
Sir, I think I have effectually an-wered
' the claim that the Democratic party has set
up to be considered the special guardian and
protector of the Constitution of the United
j States. We maintain that the power we
! have had ever since the war began, the
I power that belonged to remaining or
ganized States of this Union to crush and
| destroy the rebellion, remains with us until
every vestige of treason is destroyed. And
'J if the provisional governments in these
States, created without any authority of law
are to be made instruments to reinstate trea-
I son in the high places of this Government,
; then they must just AS surely fall as did the
: military power of the rebellion before the
invincible armies of the Republic. We claim
that this bill is necessary to a proper en
"l forcement of the reconstruction acts hereto
fore pA-scd, and to a just and fair settle
; ment of this vexed question.
In conclusion, sir. permit me to say that
we are now eneaged in rebuilding the foun
dations of this great Government that have
been shaken by the fierce tempest of civil
war. Treason did its work in attempting
to pull down and destroy, Jet it be the work
of loyal hands to build up, beautify, and
adorn this temple of liberty. Let us see to
it that the loyal people are protected
throughout the limits of the whole country:
that equal and exact justice to all men shall
be the rule by which tbe Republic is guided,
and then we shall hare faithfully executed
the trust committed to us.
AFTER successfully popping the question,
' the next thing is to question the pop.
THE PALACF. OF JOSEI'NISE, THE
BELOVED OF NAPOLEON.
Malroatson, the favorite residence of Jo
sepnine and NapoleoD, in their days of
glory, is now undergoing a thorough restor
•DON. The Empress EUGENIE Las under
taken this pious work, and her plan is said
to be to restore the place to precisely THE
same condition, so far as possible, as when
first iohabited by the first Napoleon and his
only beloved Josephine, who died there
May 14, ISI4. Among other things, Eu
genie is gathering into Maimaison all the
relics of Napoleon and Josephine which can
be found. His simple cot- bed. on which
| "®. '■? , ~A T Helena; his camp-chair,
! which followed hint through so many fields :
of battle; his swords, pistols, epaulets, etc •
Josephine's watch, slippers, and a hundred
Other souvenirs of the first Emperor
and Empress of the French, arc already
gathered jnto the house of the dead.
V , i W " t ' n £ a P OD subject of Napoleon
and Josephine, memory carries us bick to :
our own pleasant travels in France, twenty
years ago. and these rise up Defore us, clear
and bright as visions only of yesterday; such
were our _asso , :iations and privileges then :
that we visited all the important Institution
of Paris and its environs, St. C'loud, Ma!-
maison, \ ersatlles and the splendid galler
j*? there, grand beyond description, the
King a Orangery, as it was called, with the
numerous palaces, and these scenes were
made familiar to us from the day- of Marie
Antoinette down to N atioleon and Josephine.
It was there and then that we gathered, for
our own interest and gratification, many his
tories of 'he past, and these we have kept
in our travelling sketch-book, to be used
when occa-ion required. Thus we are fa
miliar with what we write, and the days of
Napoleon are full of incident* that never
yet have been made known.
There L- another gem connected with this
palace—the beautiful ROSE— the favored of
the noble Josephine, known as Souvenir de
!a Malmfastm. This was the favorite rose
of Josephine, and was tbe one worn by iter,
as the first flower pre-cnted to her by Na
poleon. From this originated the name,
associated as it was with Napoleon's love
and the palace Maimaison.
I'is said that Napoleon wa.- as earnest
and faithful a lover as he was a Genera),
and among the private "Memoirs of Napo
leon apd Josephine" are found the records
of their "try-ting day,' from which we gath
er the following: On one occasion Napoleon
was attracted to a beautiful Rose tree,' and
-o much was he delighted with its gorgeous
beauty, that he selected it as a special gift
to Josephine. This gift was planted by his
own hand, and ever after, that Rose- tree
and that little garden spot was nurtured and
watched with the devotion which a fond
heart knows h w to bestow. This Rose
being the special gift of one who was so
tenderly yet nobly allied to her was cher
ished by Josephine as a Souvenir of Love,
and linked with her home and happiest
hours. When the darkened days came and
she was to be separated from Napoleon, that
Rot*, was -aved by her own hand and borne
away as the brightest SOCVBSIR OF MAL-
Heiif-c the name, "Souvenir de
la Maimaison." Loving, affectionate, ten
der memories and bitter regrets are thus
linked with one of the most beautiful of all
Roses, and Poetry. Music and bright flow
ers are wingled with the memory of Napo
leon and Jo*ephinc. Many interesting his
tories connected with those days are found,
which have been attributed to Napoleon's
pen after the loss of Josephine and the des
ecration cf their favored Garth n Spot where
this first Rose was planted These are sup
posed to be the !a-t sad thoughts of Napo
leon AS he looked upon the place where nis
feet would never tread more.— Anon.
IS ALL WELL*
"Twelve o'eloek: at night, and all's welL"
False prophet! still and statue-like at
yonder winnow stands the wife. The clock
has told the small hours, yet her face is*
pressed against the window pane, striving
in vain, with streaming eye. to pierce the
darkness. She sees nothing, she hears
nothing, but tbe beating of he own heart.
Now she takes her seat: opens a Bible, and
from it seeks what comfort she may, while
tears blister the pages. Then she clasps
her hands, ani her lip- are tremulous with
mute supplication. Hist! there is an un
steady step in the hall I she knows it! many
times, and oft, it hx* trod on her very heart
strings. She glides down gently to meet
the wanderer. He falls heavily against her,
and, in maudlin tones, pronounces a name
he had long since forgotten to honor. O!
all enduring power of woman's love! no re
proach. upbraiding—the light arm passed
around that reeling figure once erect in
"God's own image. \\ ith tender words
of entreaty, which he is powerless to resist,
if" he would, she leads him in. It is the
repetition of a thousand such vigils! it is
the performance of a vow, with a heroism
and patient endurance too common and
every day to be chronicled on earth; too holy
and heavenly to pass unnoticed by the "reg
isterine aoge! above.
"All'i well!"
False prophet I In yonder luxurious
room sits one whose curse it was to be fair
as a dream of Eden. I ime was when those
clear eyes looked lovingly into a mother's
face—when a kind loving father laid his
trembling hand, with a blessing, on that
sunny head, when brothers and sisters'
voices blended with her own in heart-music
around the happv earth. Oh! where are
they now? Are there none to say to the
repenting Jlagdalene—"Neither do I con
demn thee —go and sin no more." Must
the gilded fetter continue to bind the soul
that loathes it, because man is less merciful
than God?
"All's well!"
False prophet! There lies the dead or
phan. In ail the length and breadth of the
green earth there was found no sheltering
nest where the lonely dove could fold its
wings when the parent-birds had flown.
The brooding wing was gone that covered it
from the cold winds of neglect and unkind
nesa. Love was its life, and so it drooped.
"All's well!
False prohet I Sin walk- the earth in pur
ple and fine linen; honest poverty, with
tear-bedewed face, hungers and shivers,
thirsts, "while publicans stand afar off.
The window pleads in vain to the ermioed
judge for "justice," and, unpunished of
Heaven, the human tiger crouches in his
lair, and springs upon his helpless prey.
"All's well!"
Alt. yes! all's well; for He who "seeth the
end from the beginning" holds evenly the |
scales of justice. "Dives shall yet beg of j
Everv human tear is counted. !
They wiil yet sparkle as gems in the crown
of the patient, enduring disciple! when the
clear broad light of eternity shines upon I
life s crooked path, we shall see the snares;
and pitfalls front which our hedge of thorns ,
has fenced us in. and in our full-grown faith,
wo shall exultingly say—"Father, not as I
will, but as thou wilt."— Fanny Fern.
WHO is A bad house keeper ? Miss Man
agement I
VOLl 7 KIB II; 10 6.
THE STEED "MARK TWAIN" RODE
111 THE HOLY LAND.
In a late letter of "Mark Twain," to the
■ i Alta California, occurs tbc following des
cription of his Arabian {•teed named
i "Jerieo:"
While I am speaking o£ animals, I will
i mention that I have got a horse by the
, name of'"Jerieo." He is a mare. I bare
i seen remarkable horses before, but none so
remarkable as this. I wanted a horse that
could shy. and this one filli the bilL I had
|an idea that shying indicated spirit. If 1
was correct, I have got the most spirited
horse on earth. He shies at everything be
comes across, with the utmost impartiality.
He appears to have a mortal dread of tele
graph poles, especially; and it is fortunate
that these are on both sides of the road, be
cause, as it is now. I never fall off twice on
j the same side. If i fell on the same side
always, it would get to be monotonous after
a while. This creature has got scared at
: everything he has seen to-day, except a hay
wagon. lie walked up to that with an in
trepidity and recklessness that were aston
i>hing. And it would fill any one with ad
: miration to see how he preserves his self
possession in the presence of a barley sack.
This dare devil bravery will be the death of
; this horse some day.
He is not particularly fast, but I think
he will get me through the Holy Laud. He
has only one fault. His tail has been chop
ped off or driven up, and he has to fight the
flies with his heels. This is all very well,
but when be tries to kick a fly off the top of
his head with his hind foot, it is too much
variety. He is going to get himself into
trouble thrt way, some day. lie reaches
around and bites my legs, too. I don't care
particularly about that, only I don't like to
see a horse too sociable.
I think the owner of this prize had a
wrong opinion about him. He nad an idea
that he was one of those fiery, untamed
steeds, but he is not ot that character. I
snow the Arab has this idea, because when
he brought the horse to me for inspection
in Beyrout, he kept jerking the bridle and
shouting in Arabic. "Ho! will you? Do
vou want to run away, you ferocious beast,
and break your neck? ' when all the time
the horse was not doing anything in the
world, and only looked like he wanted to
lean up against something and think,
h henever he is not shying at things, or
reaching after a fly, he wants to do that yet.
11 it would surprise his owner to know
this.
WESTWARD HO !
Where are tho.-e Western "frontiers" of
which we have all read and said so much ?
The maps will toil us where they mml to be
in times past, but with the giant strides of
civilization, marshaled by the two Pacific
railroads, it would be impossible at any
given moment to tell where the frontiers
are no>r. A little paper was started at
North Platte and called the Frontier Index,
then it moved to Julesburgh, then to Chey
enne, and now it is foity miles onward to
Fort Sanders, where they are founding a new
town. The tide ot emigration carried it
alopg, it had to change either its local habi
tation or its name, and it chose to do the
former. Another little sheet comes from
"IHys Citv," and is called the Raihcay
Advance. _ What and where is Ilays City V
It L- a "city" 575 miles west of St. Louis,
founded on a spot where buffaloes, antelopes
and beavers were undisputed land-owners
up to midsummer of this year. It has al
ready 400 people, a railroad depot, three
railroad machine shops under way, two
hotels, a "fine theatre building," stores and
dwellinghouses in profusion, two express
lines, two overland mail and stage lines, and
of course, a brisk little newspaper, with
probably the largest number of "business
advertisements" ever collected in a town
which, three months ago, was a wilderness,
with no settlement witkiu fifty miles. This
is the way they do things "out West"—a
phrase now, we fear, as indefinite and decep
tive as "the frontiers." Hays City, says the
New York Times, is probably a specimen of
a dozen little railroad towns in that region.
We hardly venture to write what we hear,
lest, by to-morrow, we receive an indignant
protest from some Hays citizen, that the
place contains eight hundred people instead
of four hundred, has ten hotels in place of
two, and two rival newspapers instead of
one. As for the Frontier Index, that has
probably alreadv moved off "to the fron
tier."—Pittsburgh Evening Chronicle.
THE NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. —A gentle
man connected with the Newfoundland fish
ery was once possessed of a dog of singular
fidelity and sagacity. On one occasion a
boat and crew in his employ were in circum
stances of considerable peril, just outside of
a line of breakers, which, owing to some
change in the wind or weather, had, since
the departure of the boat, tendered the re
turn-passage through them extremely haz
ardous. The spectators on shore were quite
unable to render any assistance to their
friends afloat. Much time had been spent,
and the danger seemed to be increased rath
er than diminished. Our friend, the dog,
looked on for a length of time, evidently
aware of there being great cause for anxiety
in those around. Presentlv, however, he
took to the water, and made his way through
to the boat The crew supposed he wished
to join them, and attempted to induce him
to come on board: but no! he wou!d_ not go
within their reach, but continued swimming
about a short distance from them. After a
while, and several comments on the peculiar
conduct of the dog, one, of the hands sud
dealy divined his apparent meaning. "Give
him the end of a rope," he said, "that is
what he wants." The rope was thrown —
the dog seized the end in an instant, turned
round and made straight for the shore,
where a few minutes afterwards the boat
and crew, thanks to the intelligence of their
four-footed friend, were placed safe and un
damaged. Was there no reasoning here?
no acting with a view to an end or for a giv
en motive? Or was it nothing but ordinary
instinct?
A Holy LIFE.—The rising of the sun is
known by the shining beams; the fire is
known by its burning; the life of the body
is known by its moving; even so certainly is
the presence of God's spirit known by the
shining light of holy conversation; even so
the purging fire of grace is known by the
burning zeal against sin and a fervent de
sire to Keep God's commandments; even so
certainly the life and liveliness of faith is
known by the good motives of the heart, by
the bestirring of all thejpowers both of the
soul and body, to do whatsoever God wills
us to be doing, as soon as we once know He
would have us do it. He, that hath this
evidence hath a bulwark against despair,
and may dare the devil to his face; he, that
hath this, hath the broad seal of eternal
life, and such a man shall live forever.
Josh Bh-ungs says: "If you trade with a
Yankee, steal his knife fust, for if he gets
to wbittlin' you're gone in spite of thun
, der."
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SOCIAL CONDITIO* OF EIfGLJiIO.
The London Review devotes its leading
article for the new year to a retrospect ana
■ a confession. The confession is certainly
1 candid:
, At this time there is no country, no
; matter how embarrassed or how poor, in
; which there is so much pressing and painful
,so much vice, so much misery, as
in England. We have failed with our low
er classes to such an extent that in the
country wc find some of them working like
cattle, fed and housed worse than cattle,
while in the towns we do not know what to
do with them until they are ripe for drop
ping into the seething pool of vice and
crime. With all our wealth, and En eland
is a wealthy country, we have not succeeded
in distributing happiness or content in the
proportion 0 f winch we could be pftud.
e find massed against us a gloomy and
threatening spirit of in subordination, and a
gathering of ominous elements, from which
voices arc heard, that having broken down
in our task we should give it up to those
who wiil change all things. Criticism is no
longer a function limited to one class. Our
I future masters begin to take stock and value
of us.
"In that social iife in which most of us
are concerned, which may be placed above
the reach of sordid wants, can we congratu
late ourselves upon a distinct advance?
Around us on all sides we learn of families
living upon fictitious incomes, we find a rate
of increase in the taste for luxuries so incom
mensurate with the means for getting them
honestiy, that people satisfy" the craving
with a recklessness'which brings ruin upon
them. Comfort is a word the meaning of
which is beginning to disappear. Every
ope desires to be rich, and those who are not
rich keep up the pretence until the wolf is
at the door."
A LADY'S OPINION- OF A LADY'S MAN.
"Mrs. Stephens, in her Monthly Maocuine,
gives a certain class of men, the like of
whom are seen in every community, the
benefit of her opinion as follows: "Our own
private opinion of the lady's man' is that
he is thoroughly contemptible—a sort of
the life hardly worth thinking about—a
handful of foam drifting over the wine of
iife. something not altogether unpleasant to
the fancy, but of no earthly use. A woman
of sense would as soon be put to sea in a
man-of war made of shingles, or take up
her residence in a card house as to dream of
attaching herself to a lady-killer. Women
worth the name are seldom deceived into
thinkiDg a lady's man the choicest speci
men of his sex. Whatever their ignorance
may be, womanly intuition must tell them
the men who iive for a great object, and
whose spirits are so firmly knit that they are
able to encounter the storms of life—men
whose depth and warmth of feeling resemble
the current of some mighty river, and not
the pebbles on its surface, who, if they love,
are never smitten by mere beauty of form
and features—that these men are more wor
thy cvep of occupying their thoughts in
idle moments than the fops and men about
town with whose attention they amuse
them"lgos If we were to tell him this bo
would only laugh, he has no pride about
him, although full of vanity; and it matters
not to him what we broadly affirm or quiet
ly insinuate. Soft and delicate though ha
is, he is as impervious to ridicule as a hod
carrier, and as regardless of honest contempt
as a city alderman. Were you to show him
this article, he would take it to some social
party, and read it aloud in the most melliflu
ous voice, as an homage to his own attrac
tion."
OLD AGE WITHOUT RELIGION. —Alas !
for him who grows old without growing wise
and to whom the future world does not set
open her gates, when he is excluded by the
present The Lord deals so graciously with
us in the decline of life, that it is a shame
to turn a deaf ear to the lesson which He
fives, the feet totter, all the senses refuse to
o their office, and from every side resounds
the call, "Set thine house in order for the
term of thy pilgrimage is at hand." The
playmates of youth, the fellow laborers of
manhood, die away, and take the road be
fore us. Old age is like some quiet cham
ber. in which, disconnected from the visible
world, we can prepare in siience for the
world thati3 unseen.
TILE UNASKED GOOD. —The prayer which
Socrates taught bis disciple AJcibiades de
serves a place in the daily devotions of eve
ry Christian, even "that he should beseech
the Supreme God, to give him what was
good for him, although he should not ask it
and to withhold from him whatever would
be hurtful, though he should be BO foolish
as to pray for it"
"There Is this difference," says a recent
Scotch writer, "between doctors and law
years:" The more lawyers there are the
longer the cases continue while the more
doctors there are the less chance there is for
the patient to last The first lead you from
one judgment to another; the latter send
you double-quick to your final judgment"
A DUTCHMAN was relating his marvelous
escape from drowning when thirteen of his
companions were lost by the upsetting of a
boat and he alone saved. "And how did
you escape?" asked one of his hearers. "I
lid not go in de pote," was the Dutchman's
plaeid reply.
"ONE more question. Mr. Parker," said
the lawyer to a witness. "You have known
the defendant a long time. What are his
habits, loose or otherwise?" The answer
was: "The one he's got on now I think
rather tight under the arms, and two short -
waisted for the fashion.'.'
A MAN remarked while inspecting the
print of the feet of birds in the stones ex
hibited in the vestibule at the Natural His
tory building—that those marks were evi
dences of the antiquity of the tract society.
THE chief secret of comfort lies in not
suffering trifles to vex one, and in prudently
cultivating an undergrowth of small pleas
ures, since very few great ones are let on
long leases.
ALEX. DUMAS, the eider, returningJYom
a day's sport at the country seat of a friend
with an empty game-bag. was asked, "Well,
Dumas what did you kill? "Time," was
the quick the reply.
IF any one speak ill of thee, consider
whether he has truth on his side; and if so,
reform thyself—was the wise remark of an
old philosopher.
"IN my youth," says Robert Walpole,
"I thought of writing a satire upon man
' kind; but now, in my old age, I think I
should write an apology for them.
t SUCH is the blessing of a benevolent heart
s that, let the world frown as it will, it cannot
• possibly bereave it of *ll happiness, since ft
can rejoice in the prosperity of other",