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THE NEWB.
THE Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs
have determined to take no action on any of
the nominations now before them until after
the impeachment trial.
IT is stated in Washington that General
Schofield was offered the post of Secretary
of War ad interim before General Thomas,
hut that he declined it very politely and
diplomatically.
The Republican State Convention of
Massachusetts has adopted resolutions nomi
nating General Grant for President and
Senator Wilson for Vice President, endors
ing iuipeachinenr, and congratulating the
Republicans of New Hampshire on their
grand victory.
GOVERNOR BAKER, of Louisiana, one of
General Hancock's recent appointments,
has been arraigned at New Orleans, before
1 nited States Commissioner Shannon, on
the charge of having comitted perjury in
taking the test oath. He is charged with
having aided the rebellion.
THE Prince of Wales is to visit Ireland
during the Easter holidays. The visit is to
be signalized by the granting of a partial
amnesty to the Fenians. Reports from the
Turkish Government assert that the war in
Crete has entirely ended. So many similar
reports have heretofore been made that this
one may well be doubted.
THE President has refused to receive pa
pers sent to him through the War Depart
ment by General Grant, and it is said is al
so considering the propriety of orderiug the
Secretary of the Treasury to refuse to rec
ognize Mr. Stantou'a drafts: Army officers
who obey Mr Stanton's orders are to be
court-martialed.
AN immense Republican mass meeting
was held at Philadelphia to endorse the
action of the recent State Convention. The
resolutions of the meeting endorse impeach
ment and approve of General Grant as "the
best of Radicals and the best of Conserva
tives; Radical when treason and wrong is to
be uprooted; Conservative when Union,
liberty and right are to be preserved."
Tije Washington Star says that the im
peachment proceedings are generally consid
ered as unfavorable to the President. The
Express (Democratic) argues that the resig
nation of Mr. Johnson would stop the trial,
and that if "his couasel are satisfied that
there is no prospect of impartial trial, and
that conviction is a foregone conclusion, they
may advise abandonment of defence by res- !
ignation."
THE initial battle of the Presidential cam- '
paign has been fought and won by the Ro- !
publicans of New Hampshire. It was not
only the first contest of the great struggle of
1 v 6B but it was also fought squarely out nn
the question of Impeachment, both parties
fairly recognizing the issue and the impor
tance of the decission. On each side the
fight was an earnest, a determined and
thorough oanvaw
THERE is nothing new in the Impeach
ment case, but we have the u.-ual amount of
rumors as to the views of the parties most
interested. Mr. Johnson's counsel will ob
ject to every Senator who has expressed an
opinion as to his guile oi innocence, being
allowed to act as jurors. The question will
be if the trial can be conducted with the un
reconstructed States not represented, and
whether the twenty-seven States now rep
resented constitute the Senate.
THE correspondence between General
Grant and General Hancock, in relation to
some removals made by the latter, has been
sent to Congress. It exhibits no import
ant facts not already known. General
Grant tells Hancock that his "order of re
moval was based on certain charges which I
did not think were sustained by the facts as
they were presented to me." He then ad
ministers to Hancock a gentle hint that he
has used the telegraph too freely, and that
despatches of such length as his should be
sent by mail.
Is thellou-eof Representatives there
port of the Retrenchment Committee in re
lation to alleged frauds in the Treasury De
partment in the cancellation of bonds has
been further discussed. Mr. I/Ogan renew
ed his attack on the management of the
Treasury Department, and especially upon
Mr. Clarke, the Chief of the Printing Bu
reau, causing to be read testimony in rela
tion to the delinquencies of that officer taken
during a former investigation. Finally the
whole matter was referred back to the com
mittee, with instructions to report what
changes are necessary in the law authorizing
the printing of United .States notes ana
bonds.
TrtE Committee on Retrenchment of the
House of Representatives have prepared a
lengthy report on the whiskey and tobacco
frauds. After quoting the testimony taken
before aconitnittec of the Thirty-ninth Con
gress touching the collusion of officers of
the Government with dishonest persohs,
the report says that the Presidont had
abundant evidence, in numerous eases, show
ing conclusively the unfaithfulness of many
officers, yet they are undisturbed. No at
tempt has been made to prove the flagrant
violations of law in the cases of individuals
who have amassed princely fortunes by cun
ningly devised schemes. Cases of this kind
have been reported, jet not a single crimi
nal has been compelled to disgorge the fruits
of his crime, or to suffer the pains and pen
alties for violating the law.
THE Rebels in Tennessee are threatening
trouble. General Grant, received a brief
despatch from Major General Thomas,
s'ating that the enemies of the present State
Government in Tennessee were organizing
for resistance to the laws, and to get control
of the State. General Thomas asked for
immediate instructions. His telegram to
General Grant a-sured the latter that these
statements were positively fouuded on
movements of the Rebels and the supporters j
of the President. Without delaj-, General j
Grant telegraphed to General Thomas to '
use all the force at his command to preserve '
peace and protect the state authorities in!
the execution of the laws, to the fullest ex
tent, and to report if more troops were
needed. Nncver, in the history of Ameri
can politics, has the canvass of a State been I
so exhaustive, so thorough and minute, j
Wo have the tesult in a glorious victory—a
success which coming at this time and un
; der the surrounding circumstances has all
the importance and significance of a Na
tional Triumph. IN the House of Represen
tatives Mr. Stevens, from the Uomuiit- j
tee on Reconstruction, has submitted a
report in relation to Alabama, with a bill
providing for its admission as a iUate of
the Union. The bill for the admission of
Alabama was debated, the Republicans
advocating its passagcand the Democrats
opposing it. A very exciting discussion
took place between Messrs. Logan and Van
Wyck in relation to alleged frauds in the
Treasury Department.
A LOCAL AND GENKRAL, NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS
MOORISH MAGNIFICENCE: THE
GREAT CATHEDRAL. : SPANISH
WOMEN : FADED GLOKV.
Not until reaching Seville did I feel what
a luxury it is to live —just to breathe—to
inhale the delicious air and rejoice in being.
Other climates had been cold, or damp, or
chilly; some hot, debilitating; but this was
just right, and when a man comes to the
place where the weather just suits him, it is
time to sit down and enjoy it, It seemed
to me it was a privilege to be anything that
could breathe in this delightful elitne. It is
the latter part of February. If one of mv
lungs was out of order, or both of them, I
would stay here till they were well, or until
the weather became too hot for comfort, and
that will be but a few weeks hence.
The city is clean, well-built, and in the
evening the inhabitants throng some of the
streets so as to make it difficult to walk.
The courts around which the houses are
built, are beautifully adorned with flowers
and shrubs, and trees; in warmer weather
awnings are spread over them, and here the
family enjoy themselves with the piano and
guitar, the song and the dance. Here too,
tiic table is spread, and all Seville, it is said,
takes tea out of doors.
It was a dreadful day for Seville, and in
deed for Spain, when the Moors were driven
out of the country; they had conquered it,
and ruled eight hundred years. Four
hundred thousand Moors, Jews and
Arabs, left this city of. Seville in a
few days after it was surrendered to St.
Ferdinand. Wealth, learning, taste, art and
the eharm of Eastern life went out with
them, and Spain has been lower in the scale
of morals and manners ever since. This is
no compliment to Mahouictanism. To com
pare the present condition of Spain with
anything that has gone before it aud say
that the former days were better than these,
is saying very little for the better times. In
this old city of Seville we found the Alcazar
or Palace, being the first specimen of Moor
ish magnificence we had seen. It consists
of a group| of palaces, on the banks of the
Guadalquiver, and exhibits the same style
of architecture and mural decorations that
are so much admired and celebrated in the
Alhainbra. Indeed, the pavements and
columns and arches and apartments,have
been preserved, or restored with so much
greater care than the Aihambra itself, that
the latter appears to be a feeble example of
Moorish ta>te and skill, compared with these
glorious rooms in Seville. Fancy must
people these chambers with men and women,
of flesh and blood ; clothe them in Oriental
and gorgeous raiment, surround them with
every luxury that gold and labor and power
; can give ; hang these passages with curtains
whose richness has not been excelled by
anything that modern art has produced.
When the sleepy janitor opens the outer
gate and leads you through these deserted
and empty halls, in which your own footfalls
make the only sound, into apartments that
for centuries have been silent as the_ grave,
yet on every hand is beauty of coloring and
"srvintr and curiously wrought adorning that
you must pause to admire; even IU UICIUIOCE
<f admiration one cannot but mourn that the
barbaric splendor of Moorish glory has
departed, and the degenerate race of effete
Spanish civilization has taken its place. A
thousand wives of a proud Moor once made
these walls jocund with their mirth, and the
adjoining gardens, and the beautiful Guad
alquiver were gay with their revels and song,
and the moral tone of the palace was as high,
and the happiness of the people just as great
as now, when a dissolute queen and a
profligate court, and an ignorant, depraved
and impoverished people, constitute the
government and inhabitants of a nominally
Christian kingdom.
Instead of a Mosque, is the Cathedral of
Seville. It is the noblest example of the
Gothic ecclesiastical architecture in the
world. St. Peter's at Rome prdouces no
such effect on the sou! when first j.u enter
it. The Cologne Cathedral is nearer it in
power. I have no superstitious feeling that
compels me to be awed by a place. But 1
cannot enter this temple without worship
ping! Instantly as 1 stand within its walls,
its giant solemn columns rising around me,
scarcely visible in the twilight at the noon
of a brilliant southern day, its vastness, its
amazing height, the roof like a firmament
covering me, and resting on arches, dividing
it into sixty-tight compartments, one feels
that this surely ought to be none other than
the house of God. High Mass was celebra
ted during one of my many; visits to the
Cathedral. When the tinkling of the bc'.l
gave the signal for the "elevation of the
Host," the faithful, wherever they chanced
to be in the vast area, fell on their knees and
silently adored the idol which superstition
had just held aloft for the worship of an
ignorant multitude. A woman entered one
of the chapels and knelt before an image of
the Virgin and poured out her soul in prayer.
As if unconscious that spectators were all
around her, she struck her hands upon her
breast and wept as if some strong anguish,
like a viper, was gnawing at her heart.
The women of Seville are celebrated for
their beauty. In the Central Park of New
York; Hyde Park of London; or the Boisde
Boulogne of Paris, ycu notice that many of
the most splendid equipaeescarry very plain
women, and one often admires the compen
sation system that gives the signs of wealth
to some and saves the good looks for others.
But you may stand by the fashionable drive
of Seville aud the first hundred carriages
that pass shall have four handsome women
in each of them. A plain woman is the ex
ception, and rare as a black swan in the
Central Park Lake. It is nearly the same
1 j in other cities of Souther Spain. As "you
i would scarce expect one of my ago" to be a
| connoisseure in this matter, I will give you
! in the wordsof my guide the types of Spanish
I beauty: "Deep blue-black eyes adomnilados
sometimes, and at others full of flashes,
! each • punabida, a small forehead, raven
! hair, long and -ilky, which they might almost
turn at night into a balmy soft pillow, and a
long flowing mantilla by day, a peculiar
meneo, sal. and indescribable charm, natural
; ness and grace, in every movement, together
with liveliness and repartee, from the
j principal features of their appearance and
character." I leave his native words un
translated, that you may suppose I un
derstand them perfectly, and that they mean
! something much more expressive than simple
English. Like Latin in a sermon, it sounds
i very learned and makes up for a deal of
: dullness.
The dance and the song, the bull-fight
more than anything else in the season of it,
make this city the home of the gayest,
wildest, most dissolute men and women in
Ihe south of Europe. Corinth in the days of
Venus-worship, was not more wholly given
up to the lust of the flesh and the pride of
life, than Seville to-daj\ Yet it was once
the emporium of the New World. From'
its port set sail the fleet that carried
Columbus to a land beyond the sea and
brought back the wealth of the Western
India. It has been the residence of kings;
! and successive dynasties, faiths and customs,
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. MARCH 27. 1868.
have in turn made Seville their capital and
terrestrial paradise. It is girt on every side
by fertile plains, the orange and lemon trees
hang loaded all the year with their golden
fruit, and the silver river, whose name is
poetry and whose hanks are haunted with
the memories of Eastern delights, washes
the feet of this beautiful city.
I hop ! to be away from it at the end of
this letter, but shall have to stay a week
longer. IREN^EUS.
INVENTORS—THEIR OPPORTUNI
TIES AND INTERESTS.
The number of patent claims published
in our coiumns weekly is sufficient evidence
of the existence of a large amount of inven
tive talent in the country; that all these
patents do not prove remunerative, or that
some of them are improvements only in
name, does not militate against this state
ment. Still, the long list of patents might
be much further extended, we think, by the
more general cultivation, by ou? mechanics,
of a habit of close observation. An observ
ing and reflective maD, posseising natural
mechanical capacities, can hardly pass
through a workshop in any dipartnient of
industry, without seeing opportunities for
improvement either in the tools and other
appliances used, or in the metkods of doing
work. But it not uti frequent!' is the case
that the mechanic who is constantly engaged
on the work docs not notice the room for
improvement which the stnngersees at a
glance; the familiarity induus indifference.
Yet, the working mechanic is continually
meeting with abstaeles to rapidity and per
fection of work, and in providing temporary
expedients for relief, he may as well perfect
them and make them permanent and valua
ble fixtures of the shop. If properly elabo
rated and wrought out in the train before
being built, he may find that in developing
them he has unconsciously hetome an in
venter—made a patentable and valuable im
provement—where he looked ODIV for a
present aid, or a "make-shift.'' i'erhaps
tlie exactions of his business will not allow
him to devote the necessary time and atten
tion to the improvement, and he must con
tent himself with getting up hastily a tem
porary aid to his work.
Hut there come opportunities for thi3
mental labor, which, however, are not al
ways embraced. Such is the present state
of dullness in business. The enterprising
mechanic whose ordinary work fails him,
can pro Stably employ his otherwise unoccu
pied time in attempting improvements in
the materials, methods, tools, or other ap
pliance used in his business. If he is com
pelled to a state of comparative physical
idleness, so much more room and opportu
nity is afforded for the exercise of his men
tal powers. Plenty of instances of valuable
discoveries, inventions, and improvements
could be adduced to prove that such periods
of enforced bodily inactivity have been ad
vantageous to the observant and thinking
mechanic.
It is the interest, also, of the inventor to
make use of the means offered by our patent
laws to secure to himself a portion of the
advantages which hisiinprovementpossesses.
A false idea of honoris th;'. -hich either
ventor t-i reap a benefit from his improve
ment. He may consider it as not worth the
expense, time, and trouble necessary to
make hiin secure as its originator; but if
others deem it valuable enough to use, he
should deem it valuable enough to be paid
for. It is not the marked and notable im
provement that is always thomost remunera
tive to the inventor, but often the little and
:eemingly unimportant advance on previous
attempts, which proves a mine of wealth.
If the inventor has any idea which he has
so far brought toward a pjactical and visi
ble form as to be undersood, and which
promises to he an improvement on processes,
machines, tools, etc.. it is his duty, as well
as right, to secure his pnprietorship by a
patent at once. By this course he will he
benefitted, while nobody will suffer an injus
tice. Scientific .1 meric.au
THE WILD WOMAS OF TEXAS.
The Liberty (Texas) Gazette publishes
the following marvelous story: "In the
Grand Cane neighborhood in this county,
a short time ago, a gentleman in the depths
of the forest suddenly eawe upon a woman
as wild and almost as fleet as an untamed
deer. After a brisk chas; of some di.-tance
the gentleman on horseback overtook the
wonderful creature, who* she halted, and
he found her to be a medium sized, middle
aged, well formed woman, with long, dark
hair, and clear blue eyes. She was in a
state of nudity save a g:rdle of gray moss
about her loins. Her l>tdy and limbs were
covered with a beautiful coat of hair about
four inches long. She vas much frightened
and seemed unable to talk, hat must have
comprehended signs, as in reply to motions
of the gentleman Dy wliich he sought to in
duce her to accompany iim out of the wood
.-he constantly pointed to her own forest
home. Finally, the gentleman endeavored
to compel her to go the way he desired, by
getting before her, and by threatening ges
tures with hisgun, and she becoming enra
ged, seized a club, and turned upon him
with the fury of a demon, tnd it was only
bv the speed imparted to his steed by a
liberal use of the spurs that he kept out of
her way. After driving off her pursuer,
she resumed the dircctioishe bad so con
stantly pointed, and was soon out of sight.
The gentleman followed, and after going
some distance, came uponher home. Three
trees standing near each o.her, in a triangu
lar form, with the spaces letwecn them wal
led up with brush and moss, made her moss
bed between them sccurt from the rude
blasts of winter, and comparatively secure
from the pitiless rain. The only stores that
were discovered were a ftw nuts and some
four or five bushels of acorns. Very wild
stories of this wild woman have been rife in
the upper part of the coutty for some time,
but she was believed to be a myth by all ex
cept those who claimed tc have had glimp
ses of her. Now, however, her existence,
description, and the vicinity at least of her
whereabouts, are established beyond con
troversy. Her early capture may fie regar
ded as within the range of probability, as
concentrated efforts are being made to that
end.
THRIVE SLOWLY. —It is dangerous for a
man to grow rich and strong faster than be
grows good. Ido not think it is wise to
grow rich too fast, at any rate. I do not
mean to say that there may not be men of
such stature that they cau grow rich rapidly
without bring hurt by their riches: but
generally God makes the road to wealth one
of care, so that the process is one of educa
tion, and so that, when a man had attained
his competence, he has gone through that
which is a strengthened stiffencr, and which
prevents his being much iujured by it. But
when nieu come into the possession of wealth
without having earned it, they are apt to be
injured by it, because they have not receiv
ed that education which is necessary to ena
ble them to administer it properly.
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[ MR. NASBY MEETS WITH A MIS
FORTUNE.
i J} 0 ?'- ''ctjoleum V. Naaby having been
. called into Ohio to assist in the expulsion
of some children of African descent from a
. district school into which they had been ad
mitted by a New Hampshire schoolmistress,
> returned in a damaged conditiou, in conse
quence of an adventure which he relates as
follows:
\\ e reached and entered the skool house.
Jhe skool warm wuz there, ez bright and
ez crisp ez a Janoowary mornin'—the skol
ars wuz ranged on the sects a studying ez
rapiuly ez possible.
"Miss," sed I, "we arc iuformed that
three nigger wenches, daughters of one Lett,
a nigger, iz in this skool, a mingling with
our daughters ez a eqal. Iz it so'?"
"I he Misses Lett are in this skool," sed
she, ruther miseheevishly, "and lam hap
py to state that they are among my best
pupils. (
"Miss, sed I, sternly, "pint cm out to
us!'
'AY herefore?" sed she.
"That we may bundle em out! sed I.
"Bless me! ' sed she, "I reely coodcnt
do that. Why expel'em?"
"Becoz," sed I, "no nigger shel contami
nate the white children uv this deestrick.
No sech disgrace shel be put on to 'em."
"Y\ ell," sed this agrivatin skool mann,
which wuz from Noo Hampshire, "put 'em
out."
"But show me wich they are."
Can t you detect cm, sir? Don't their
color betray em' ? Ef they are so near
white that you can't select 'em at a glance,
it strikes mc that it can't hurt very much
to let 'em stay."
I wuz sorely puzzled. There wuzn't a
girl in the room who looked at all nipgery.
But my reputation wuz at stake. Noticin
three children settin together who wuz
somewhat dark eompiectid, and whose black
hair waved, I went for 'em, and shoved 'em
out, the cussed skool inarm almost bustin
with lafter.
Here the tragedy okkerred. At the door
I met a man who rode four miles in his zeal
to assist us. lie bed alluz Led an itchen to
pitch into a nigger, and ez he cood do it now
safely he perposed not to lose the chance.
I wuz puttin 'em out, and bed just dragged
'em to the door, when I met him enterin it.
"Wat is this?" sed be, with a surprised
look.
"We're puttin out these cossid wenches,
who is contaminatin yoor children and
mine," sed I. "Ketch hold of that pe
keolyerly disgustin one yonder," sed I.
"Wenches! You skoundrel, them
girls iz my girls!"
And without watin for explauaslien the
infooriated monster sailed into me, the skool
marm layin over on one uv the benches ex
plodin in peels uv laughter, the like of wich
I never heard. The three girls, indignant
at being mistook for nigger wenches, assisted
their parent, and between em, in about
four minutes. I wuz insensible. One uv
the trustees, pittyiu my woes, took me to
the necrest railroad stashen, and somehow,
I know not, I got home, where lam at
present recooperatin.
"trioivs nirvi'llS.
A sensible letter from Washington con
cerning Mr. Dickens' visit to the United
States appears in the Pali Mall Gazette.
The writer says:
"On his arrival in Boston Mr. Dickens
found himself in a literary society which
had sprung up since bis earlier, visit, and
as he has passed through the great cities he
has moved among a people to whom a 'live
author' is no longer a surprise or a curiosity.
He has produced no commotion by his walks
along Broadway, Washington street or
Pennsylvania avenue, but he has been
thrown upon his merits as a writer and
reader. He has in this manner been ena
bled to observe American society under cir
cumstances far more favorable than those
amid which his first "American Notes"
were taken, and we may apprehend that
the new conditions of the country are likely
to furnish him with subjects suggestive of
something more than spicy caricature. The
bonhomie with which he has been received
is itself characteristic of the growth of the
American mind, showing as it does that its
young and morbid sensitiveness to ridicule
has in a great measure disappeared. It
must be admitted, in the light of what all
now know to have been then in America,
that Mr. Dickens's work on this country
was calculated to produce irritation, not so
much by what it observed as what it did
not observe, the caricatures being almost
entirely unbalanced by any recognition of
the serious and important traits of Ameri
can life and character. It is not wonderful
that he should feel himself somewhat em
barrassed personally, as a person might who
finds himself incurring the obligations of a
guest to a man whom he had once held up
to ridicule. lam not surprised, therefore,
to hear of his preferring to be entertained
by English residents here.
"One of the chief counts of t he indictment
against England, as it stands in the Ameri
can mind, is that during their late struggle
the literary men of that country, they who
mainly represent to Americans ail its at
tractions, were cither hostile or indifferent
to their cause. It would probably have en
tirely altered the complexion of Mr. Dick
ens' visit, could he have pointed to any
expressions of sympathy written or uttered
by him for America during her late strug
gle. As it is, he is generally understood to
have shared in the the neutrality or active
Southern sympathy which characterized the
attitude of many among the higher classes
in England. All these causes have proba
bly conspired to disappoint the hopes that
had been held out of an influence from the
visit favorable to a more fraternal feeling
between the United States and Great Brit
iao."
THE OTHER SlDE.—Once in a happy
home a sweet, bright baby died. On the
evening of the day when the children gath
ered around their mother, all sitting very
sorrowful, Alice, the eldest said:
"Mother, you took all the care of baby
while s"he was here, and you carried and
held her in your arms all the while she was
ill; now. mother, who took her on the other
"On the other side of what, Alice?"
"Ou the other side of death: who took
the baby on the other side, mother; she
was so little she could not go alone?"
"Jesus met he there," answered the
mother. "It is he who took little children
' into his arms to bless them, and said Suf
fer them to come unto me and forbid them
not, for of such is the kingdom of heav
en!' "
USES OK TEMPTATION. —When a founder
has east his bell, he does not presently fix it
in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer
and beats it on every side, to see if there be
any flaw in it. Christ does not presently
after he has converted a man, convey him to
heaven; but suffers him to be beaten by
many temptations, and then exhaltshim to
his crown. — Arroicsmith.
VOLUME 41; >O. 13.
WHO ABE THE USEFUL MEN.
lii a building, the superstructure attracts
! the eye—the foundation is hidden. A tree's
leaf makes more noise than its trunk, and
the roots are all concealed beneath the
ground. Yet the tree shakes off its leaves
each autumn. But it holds its roots forever,
and even bares itself of foliage when win
ter comes, in order that the roots may be
covered, and nurtured below, and so glorify
its Maker and itself in the future Spring.
So in society. It is not the apparantly
great men, doing public things who bless
the world. Not many succeed in attracting
attention and applause. Men do not all run
to leaf, merely to get up that green thinness
which rustles for a summer, and then crisps
and falls to the ground as a mere nurturer
of the strong, but modest roots below, that
live and grow through all the years.
• *i? e 'tdenoe of real greatness to get
into high elevations, to work on the public
platform*, into into pulpits, or
even to tho Presidential chair. God's uni
versal plan is to keep the individual humble
that he may be useful and happy. Each
one is made for all. Yet every soul is great
er creation than a sun. You are appointed
there, yonder, somebody else between, or
beyond, and each one of us must bear his
own accountability, living and working ac
cording to our chances, doing everything for
a purpose— general good and God's
special glory. Every individual in the race
is a free agent, and in religion as well as in
all other relations should be recognized as
a unit, equal iu will and right to every
other. There is Methodism in Christianity
that votes and works with a purpose, not to
glorify men by making them "lords over
God s heritage," but rather to honor their
individuality, and prompt them to discharge
every duty as it defines itself to God's glory
and not to man's.
WHO ARE FOR AND WHO AGAINST IM
PEACHMENT. There are just two parties on
the impeachment question—those for it, and
those against it. Who are for it ?
The whole Republican party, North and
South including hundreds and thousands of
former Democrats, and nine-tenths of the
soldiers who fought against the rebel armies
of Beauregard and Lee. The widows and
orphans of every union soldier pleed for it;
all the great sanitary and benevolent organi
zations during the war plead for it; the
manumitted millions of the South plead for
it; the laboring millions of the North and
West plead for it; the hundreds and thou
sands interested in the National Debt plead
for it; every friend of a speedy return to
specie payments pleads for it; every advo
cate of new continental railroads pleads for
it; every friend of Freedom throughout the
world watches its progress as the last trial
of a great and a second time betrayed people.
Who, then, are those who are opposed to
impeachment ?
The whole Rebel army vanquished by
Grant and Sherman; all the sympathizers
with treason in the North; all the enemies
of the draft; all the enemies of the National
Debt; all those who rejoiced in the assassina
tion of Abraham Lincoln; all those who glo
ried in the treachery of Andrew Johnson;
all ills a-sailants of Grant. Sherman. Sheri
dau, Olvklw, IX. Tbuu.u.-, uuJ i.L^i
patriots, and every enemy of Liberty in the
Old World.
THE HUMAN BODY.—While the gastric
juice has a mild, blanded, sweetish taste, it
possesses the power of digesting the hardest
food that can be swallowed, It has no influ
ence whatever on the fibres of the living
animal; but in the moment of death it be
gins to eat them away with the power of
the strongest acid. There is dust on the
sea and land —in the valley and on the
mountain top —there is dust always and
everywhere. The atmosphere is full of it.
It penetrates the noisome dungeon, and vis
its the deepest and darkest caves of the
earth. No palace door can shut it out; no
drawer is so secret as to escape its presence.
Every breath of wind dashes it upon the
open eye, which yet is not blinded, because
there is a fountain of the blandest fluid in
nature incessantly emptying itself under the
eyelid, which spreads itself over the surface
of Die eyeball, at every wiuking, and washes
every atom of dust away. This liquid, so
well adapted to the eye itself, has some
acidity, which, under certain circumstances,
becomes so decided as to be scalding to the
skin, and would rot away the eyelids were
it not that all the edge* of them are little
oil manufactories, which spread over the
surface a coating as impervious to the liquids
necessary for keeping the eyeballs clean, as
the best varnish is impervious to water.
A SERMON TO A PREACHER.—Never
shall I forget the remark of a learned legal
friend, who was at one time somewhat skep
tical in his views. Said he to me, "Did I
believe as you do, that the masses of our
race are perishing in sin, I could not rest
I would fly to tell them of salvation. I
would labor day and night I would speak
with all the energy and pathos I could sum
mon. I would warn and entreat my fellow
men to turn unto Christ, and receive salva
tion at his hands. I am astonished at the
manner in which the majority of you min
isters tell your message. Why don't you
act as if you believed your own words.
You have not the earnestness in preaching
the lawyers have in pleading. If we were
as tame as you are, we would not carry a
single suit."
A decade of years has passed awav since
the remark was made. I bless Giod it was
addressed to me. It put a fire in my bones
which I hope will burn as long as I live.
God preached a stirring sermon to me that
day by the mouth of that infidel lawyer.—
Rev. P. Stryker of NOD Brunsickk.
FAILING EYES.—Persons suffering from
dispepsia or any other malady, must take
care of their eyes. Any disease impairs
the strength, and the nervous system is de
pressed; and when laboring under this form
of depression, the eye is particularly liable
to become weak. The reason of this is,
that of the ten nerves that go off from the
brain, six are distributed wholly t and the
other four partially to the eye.'' Through
the great sympathetic nerve, the disturbed
stomach, or liver, or intestines, communi
cates with telegraphic speed with the brain,
and so with the eye. The first advice to be
given with the reference to the comfortable
use of the eyes, undoubtedly is—to keep in
testines and liver and stomach in a healthy
condition, or in other words do everything
to confirm the general health. If this be
impaired do not read, and especially do not
write long without giving the eye a rest.
The great remedy for an eye whose disease
depends upon the nerve and not the muscle,
is ltest! Rest! 1 Rest!!!
"THE arm of a pretty girl wound tight
round your neck has been discovered to be
an infallible remedy in case of sore throat.
It beats pepper tea all hollow.
"THE strongest kind of a hint —a young
i lady asked a gentleman to see if one of her
rings will go on his little finger."
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OVERWORK AND ENDER-REST.
There is nothing better understood than
that an overtasked brain will speedily lose
its power, if, indeed, it be not driven to a
fatal congestion. We no longer err through
ignorance. A clergyman, for instance, knows
perfectly well if he devotes his nights to
writing sermons, instead of sleeping, that
very soon he will ask his congregation for
permission to go to Europe. Still ho keeps
his unseasonable work, and makes it a mat
ter of conscience to commit a long and de
liberate suicide. It is asserted, upon the
stienght of a post-mortem examination, that
the late much lamented Governor Andrew,
a public man, whose life was of the greatest
importance to the whole country, was really
killed by hard work'
It is painful to speak with any thing like
censure of a career so self-devoted, especial
ly when we consider that Gov. Andrew knew
perfectly well the terrible risk which he
was running. When he gave himself to the
cause of the republic, he just as literally
took his life in his hand as if he had volun
teered to lead a folorn hope upon the field
of battle. Was this sacrifice necessary?
Was it wise or prudent? Here was a man
of extraordinary capacity for public affairs;
here was a life of uncommon value to the
community; here was that rarity in history,
an able man with an educated conscience:
here was one*who might make mistakes, and
who did make them,but who was utterly
incapable of any act of deliberate selfishness,
and just in the maturity of his powers, just
when he had trained himself to fill higher
posts in the public service, he is suddenly
called away. "At this exigent moment," to
borrow the language of Burke, the "loss of
a finished man is not easily supplied."
Whoever undertakes to do the work of five
days in one, will be sure either to kill himself
or to do his work badly. In either case,
nothing is gained by excessive and un
reasonably prolonged application; yet this is
a truth universally disregarded by students
and public men. The President of a Col
lege makes a fine speech to the Freshmen;
he tells them that they must properly re
gard the laws of health; that night study is
worse than no study at all; that dyspepsia is
the bane of our colleges; and it turns out
upon inquiry that this excellent President
is in the habit of reading Hebrew for half
the night, and is himself a wretched victim
of chronic indigestion, has something the
matter with his head, is growing deaf, or
growing blind, smokes more tobacco than is
good for him, and will certanly be obliged
to go to Italy by advice of the family doctor,
unless Divine Providence works a speeial
miracle, which it is not at all likely to do.
"OWES ME A LIVING,"— It is among
men who try to get a living by some shift or
trick of laziness that we hear the famiiiar
wards, "The word owes me a living." A
loafer who never did a useful thing in his
life, who dresses at the expense of the tailor,
and drinks at the cost of his friends, always
insists that the world owes him a livißg,
and declares his intention to secure the debt.
I should like to know how it is that a man
who owes the world for every mouthful he
ever ate every ever put OIL
the world. The loafer lies about it. The
world owes him nothing bnt a very rough
coffin and retired and otherwise useless place
to put it in. The world owes a living to
those who are not able to enrn one—to chil
dren, to the sick, to the disabled and the
aged—to all who, in the course of nature by
force of circumstances, are dependent; and
it was mainly for the supply of the wants of
these that men were endowed with the
power to produce more than enough for
themselves. To a genaine shirk the world
owes nothing; and when he tells me, whine,
that the world owes him a living, I am as
sured that he has the disposition of a high
way robber, and lacks only his courage and
his enterprise.— J. G. Holland.
A PORTLAND (Me.) paper tells a story of
a countryman why was coming from that
place to Boston on one of the steamers, and
who met with a curious accident. The ves
sels, it seems, had fire annihilators placed
around in convenient spots. The gentle
man from the interior became thirsty, eyed
an annihilator for some time and evidently
concluded it was a new fangled drinking ar
rangement, and was not going to show his
greenness by asking about it. So he step
ped up smartly, put the nozzle in his mouth
and turned it on. The effect was instanta
neous and stupendous! The countryman
was knocked sprawling some ten feet away.
The shock to his internal organization must
have been something tremendous, for he
remained senseless and speechless for some
time. When he sufficiently recovered to
articulate, he wanted to know if "the hilar
had burst?"
GOOD THINGS. —Mutualities are good
very good to have about the house, good
about business, good in the street, good in
the wide, wide world. It is only another
putting of the golden rule. There are some
whose idea of this golden rule is a to get
gold. Nothing of courso could be more per
verted. Helping one another is the kindest
and best sort of help there is in the world.
It is the kind everybody should keep. To
be mutually courteous, kind, considerate,
iast, is to create a littla heaven on earth,
of which everybody is the center and mon
arch. "Nice thing, that," the reader says,
and adds, "People will see it, but won't do
it." All the worse for them. We toss up
the hint, which they may catch or not, as
they please.
SLANDER. —Slander, like love, is born
blind, and should be so represented, If
Love never sees a vice, Slander never sees a
virtue. It can never make others what it
whishes them to be, but alwavs makes others.
It strikes at others, but its blows recoil upon
its own head. It is a dog that bites the
biter. Ii is, however, false to suppose it
bites any one else, for, like a serpent, it
may fasten its fangs upon another, and do
it but too successfully; though it generally
ends like a scorpion; by thrusting its ven
om into its own head. But it is a poor
consolation to know that he who has killed
another, dies at last by his own hand.
SIGNS. —It is a good sign to see a man
do an act of charity—a bad sign to hear him
boast of it
It's a good sign to see an honest man
wearing his old dothes —bad to sec them
filling holes in the windows.
It's a good sign to sec a man wipe the
perspiration from his brow—bad to see him
wipe his lips as he comes out of a cellar.
It's a good sign to Bee a woman dressed
with taste and neatness—bad to see her
husband sued for finery. . .
It's a good sign to sec a man advertise in
the papers—bad to see the sheriff adveitisc
for him.
It's a good sign to see a man sending hi 3
children to school—bad to sec them educa
ted at the night school in the street.