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THE NEWS.
The trial of President Johnson on the
[ | Articles of Impeachment presented bj the
• House of Representatives was resumed before
! : the United States Senate at noon on Tborsdar
!of last weak. The Managers of the House
• ! examined two more witnesses, one to show
1 ' the hostility of the President to Congress in
! appointments to office, the other to es
; tablish a second riolation of theCirilTenure
act, in the suspension of a Poatma>ter without
j reporting the case to the Senate, a- re .-irtd
;by that act. The o|>eningaduress o-i the part
! of the defence was then commenced by Judge
Curtis, who spoke until the adj iir "' u ' ?us
| the Senate, wnbwnt having eonciaded. The
speech was an able specious effort, dealing
almost entirely with the technicalities of the
case. On Friday he concluded his argu- ,
i ment in behalf of the prosecution. Tak
; ing up the Managers allegation that the
President, in notifyng tbe Secretary oi
, the Treasury of the suspension of Secre
• tary Stanton, bad recognized the validity
of the Civil Tenure law Mr. Curtis octi
| tended that tbe President only recogaiz- j
|ed one section of the law, having no t
I connection with the President's power of rc
i moral. After further discussing the provis- |
| tions of the Tenure of Office law. Mr. Curtis
contended that Sectary Stanton's case does
j not come under that act. and that the Presi
dent has only acted upon his own the Presi- j
deut's * interpretation of a doubtful point.
!0n the conclusion of Mr. Curtis' remarks
Genreal Loreuzo Thomas. "Secretarrv of War !
| ad interim," was sworn as a wanes for the i
j defence. Throughout his testimony he was •
, particnlarly careful to eudeavor to impress
!' upon the minds of the Senators that Jur. John- j
sou was uot a party to his threats oi using !
force, and knew nothing about them but to
aoy unbiased mind, with any knowledge of
.he President's character ar.d'past actions his i
; would-be Secretary's efforts would be futile, i
for no one supposes that had Mr. Johasou
had a sharper tool, bat that he certanly in- I
tended using force, not only agasast Stanton,
but others. General Butler's questions and
Thomas' answers during the cross-examina
tion excited much laughter throughout the
galleries.
On Monday the Court of impeachment, af
\ ter considerable discussion, which was par
ticipated in by Managers Stevens and Wii
iiams for the first time since the opening of
the trial, refused to amend or alter its rules
so as to permit ail the counsel on both sides
j to argue the case after tbe testimony had been j
closed. We consider the action of the Sen-j
!p correct, as if all the counsel were per
' milted to speak, twelve speeches would be
allowed —seven on the part of the prosecu
; tion and five for the defence—prolonging
1 the case for an unnecessary length of time.
The amendment was laid on the table by a
tote of thirty-eight yeas to tc-n nays—nearly
all the Democratic members voting against
further time being granted. Lieutenant Gen
eral Sherman was again placed on the stand j
as a witness for the defence. The first ques
tion asked him by Mr. Stanberry was whetb
i er, after the restoration of Mr. Stanton to the j
War Office, he (Sherman) did not express
tbe opinion that the good of the service re- j
quired Mr. Stauton's resignation of the posi
tion of Secretary of War? Mr. Butler object
ed. and, with Mr. Bingham, argued at length >
against tbe question, and were replied to by-
Messrs. Stanberry and Evarts. After a pro
tracted discussion, the quesiion put by Mr.
Stanberry to the witness was ruled out by a
vote of fifteen in its favor, to tbirty-five
against it, and in favor of sustaining tbe ob- ;
jections of the House Managers.
On the resumption of the Impeachment
Trial on Tuesday Mr. Evarls announced the
illness of Mr. Stanbery, one of the President's
counsel, and asked thai an adjournment for
one day might be granted. The request was
acceded to and the trial was adjourned until
Wednesday at noon. General Sherman ap
peared before the House Managers of Im"
peach ment in the morning, in obedience
to a summons from them, and was examined |
with reference tu his interviews wiih the j
President in January last, when he was ten- i
dered the position of Secretary of War ad in
terim. It is understood that tbe examination
was cooducted by Mr. Butler, and was very,
minute, lasting over two hours.
! General Meade has issued an order requir- !
ing registrars to receive the votes of those ;
whose names have been strickea from 'the
lists without proper cause. He will not per
mit fraud in registrars. The municipal elec- ;
tion will not come off on the 20th. Xegroes
must not be forced by either party to vote, '
but must be left alone. Xo intimidation is ,
to be allowed on either side- All pei%ons
are forbidden to carry arms at any political
meeting or election. For violation of this
the party is subject to trial by a military com
mission.
From Canada we iearn that James
Whelao, who is charged with the murder of
D'Arcy McGee, is a Fenian who belonged to
a Quebec Lodge, and afterwards to a New
York Circle. There is very little doubt felt
at Ottawa that be is the real culprit. It is
reported that one of the persons under arrest
ou suspicion of being concerned in the
murder has made certain revelations im
plicating his fellow prisoners and other
parties not yet arrested. A plot has
been discovered to blow up the houses of
Parliament by means of nitro-glycerine. j
Dickens gave his last reading in Boston on
Wednesday of last week- At its close, iu re
sponse to "the demand of the audience, Mr.
Dickens made a brief speech, thanked the
citizens of that city for their kindness and
hospitality, and bade them adieu. Tbe au
dience rose and gave him three cheers, and
be retired amid the waving of bats and hand
kerchiefs.
A reunion of the officers of the
Army of the Potomac is proposed to be held
at Gettysburg, Pa., about the Ist of July, to
celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of
Gettysburg.
An order has been issned by the War
Department sending another regiment of •
I infantry into Alabama.
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ALOOAOAIItt NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITTC6, KIU'CATION. I.ITI MATt ill: AM) Mor.AT.S.
goftvu*
BABY'S LETTER.
Tbe fuUowiag letter, purporting to be fruui a
verjr picmising, rprig of tbe rising generation,
juet three weeks old, has been banded as, with
the X.-.--Urente that it is genuine as well as good,
which we do not presume to duabu If any one
has a smarter baby let it be exhibited.—£ t r OJ
(A'. V.) ffrnum
Dear old untie
I dot oor letter,
My old mammy
She ditten better,
Sbe every day
Little bit stronger.
Don't mean to be sick
Vwvj- mien longer.
Daddy's so fat
Can't ltardiy stagger.
Mammy says he jinks
Too much lager!
i Dear little baby
Had a bad colic.
Had to late tree drops
-Yaxri, paragolic!
Toot a dose of tatnip,
Felt worse than ever,
Shan't late no more.
Tatnip never!
Wind on stomit,
Felt pooty bad;
Worse fit sickness
Ever I had-
Ever bad belly ate.
Old untie Bill?
'Taint no fun now,
Say what oo will.
I used to sleep all day
iAnd cry all night;
Don't do so now,
Cause 'tain't yigbt!
But I'm growinsr.
Getting pooty la!;
Gain most two pounds.
Only tint o" yat!
Little fi&nnin blankets
Was to big before,
Nurse can't pin me
In 'em no more.
Skirts so small,
Baby so stout.
Had to let the plaits
In 'em all Out.
Got a bead o' hair
Jess as black as night.
And big boo eyes
Yat look very bright.
My mammy says
Never did see
A ny ozzer baby
Half as sweet as me.
Grandma comes often,
Aunt Sarah, too:
Baby loves zem.
Baby loves 'oo.
Baby sends a pooty kiss
To his unties all,
Aunties and cousins,
Big folks and small,
Can't yite no more.
So good bye,
Jolly old untie,
Wiz a glass eye!
PMhm.
[From the Toledo Blade]
.VASBY.
The Slate of Michigan—Tbe Exyrri-nce
ot ?lr. >aby therein, and at rightlul
Dream that he Dreamed.
LANSI.NO, Mich., March 2S.—Ef there is •[
a State in this Yooorun entirely worthy uv :
ix'in ranked with Massachoosits—entirely i
worthy uv bein con-idered searsdy second
* in pint uv Ham-ridicnlin. Onesiinus defyin
and Ifasar rejecting Abii.-hin infidelity,that
i State is Michigan. Massachoosits is ooery
and eu—id—Michigan s oueryer and cus
sider. Tbey hev colleges in every other
county—skool houses, gorjtus and mostly
'in every town and if that ain't enough, j
they bev a croole, tyranikle. barbarous Taw
forbiddin tbe sale uv sustenance! in the j
larger towns where one kin, without ma- j
terial danger, git suthin sustainiu, municipal
'aw steps in and compels the dispensers
therof to close at 11 P.M. In this town.;
from whence I write, I gathered together a
few uv the laithful, and wuz a confirmin uv
|cm in tbe faith, when, cz the clock struck
! eleven, the landlord put out the lites and us
together simultaneous. Kin sich things be
and overcome us like a summer cloud? They j
kin! Uv course there can't be no whole
hearted Dimocrisy in sich a State! They
don't hev time to tret fully Dimocratic. .
Eleven o'clock! The Diuocri-y uv Michigan
is a eleven o'clock Dimocrisy. They don't
| live out half'tber dayst They fall short uv
tbe troo stater uv full gt.iwti specimens just .
an hour. The only good and troo ones I j
hev seen were a few farmers and sich. who
carried it home in a jug. But, alas! ez tbey
never pav rent, they don't stay long enough
f in one place to make themselves felt. They
naterally drift back to Southern Illiooy, j
where fine tooth combsis nnknowu—where
; the wicked ceese trnnblin, and the
wearv are at rest. But we bev enuff uv that
kind here.
Ez I retired to my couch last uite. 1 was
filled with sadnis. Theeieckshunokkurs in
a week or two, and the Ablishnists perpose ;
to vote to tear down the few reiuainin land
marks and give votes to the disgustin niggers
in that State, (,'onteniplatin the gulf to
which Michigan is approachin—with nty
sole filled with forebodins. I feil into a
troubled sleep, and sleepin dreemed.
Methawt 1 wuz in Liberia, that country :
across tbe waters, settled by civilized niggers, j
I wuz somewot supprised at wot met my ;
gaze. Niggers to the rite uv uie —niggers
to the left uv me —niggers in front uv me
—rode the six hundred thousand uv em. j
Occasionally in the streets uv Monrovia, the j
cheeftown, I seed a white man—more
' frekently a mulatt&r, and occasionally one j
in wich wnz only a tinge uv white blood— ;
iist enuff to show that bis aocestersbad left
Kentucy many years aud generasbons before.
Passio a full blooded nigger on tbe street, j
he pushed uie contemptuously into the !
gutter, and forthwith a ralbieuv full-blood
ed nigger boys pelted uie with mud, yellin 1
at me, ez tho it wuz a opprobrious term, j
"White man! Yah! White man! Yah!
Yah! White man!"
A miled facet! nigger came to my rescue
and rebooted the boys: "la be," sed he,
"to blame for he in white? Item ember, boys,
the same Ud made him ez made you. and
that he is not to blame for his color! He —"
At this period be stopped talkin. The !
• fust nigger returned, and damnin him for a i
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. APIHL 24. 1868.
ui&turbin one idea radicle, knnckt him into
the gutter, and mutteria t!-in;i bout being
true to the tradishuc; uv las racv, stalked
hawtily away.
"Is ther," said I, iodwaantly. 'no law
for these outrages ? .kin Ito submit to bein
pelted by boy-; and puraimJled by men. and
no redress? Is —'!
_"Alars, sir!" sed the btnevotent tookin
nigger, who bed the appearance uv a Sunday
Schoolteacher, "alars, sir, ther isn't Yctor
color, sir—yoor color' They have preju
dises which they can't overcome, and that
; prejudis the boys even possess. Farewell
sir, some day it will be different, but now —"
j And he drawd a sigh and walked on
hastily, ez be notist a fresh crop of boys
approachin.
I walked on, in uy due®. Secin a large
house, I entered it It was the capitle. atid
boldly I essayed to pass the door, The
newer aw' oilw£.^, pr g±° F' skore *
{ that the white galled
I p I asceoded, dost under the roof, where
I there wuz possibly a dozen jnore like me,
and I sot and listened to a carious debate.
The measuie under coosidration wuz a
amendment to the Constitution of Liberia,
strikin the word ' black ' out uv that in
i strumeut! The thing bed km long pendin.
i Advocatin it wuz a half dozea members in a
corner by theirselvea, and opposin it wuz all
the rest of the House. The seen wuz very
' much sich ez I witnessed a good many years
, ago at Washington, whet; John Quincy
Adams wuz a champion in the idea uv the
ekality uv ali men in the Idoasc. One nicm
I ber denounst the leader uv the minority ez
I a "base, grovelin, low wretch, who hed lost
] all pride ur race—all regard for the purity
|uv blood—and who wuz iuridinsly plottin to
debase the pure and proud race of Ham by
mingling with it the pale milky blood ofthe
i interior rase#."
Another w&otid this House to ask itself.
"Do yoo want to march up to the polls
long-ide uv a white man? Do yoo want to
be tried for yer little crimes afore a jury of
white men ! I shudder at the thot!
See," sed he, pallia out from UDder his coat
a portrate uv a white woman, ez 1 seed
\ allaadygum do wanst in Ohio, at a Dime
cratic meetio. only he bad on his paste-board
a wench, "see to what the gentleman wishes
to ally hissclf." Another member askt the
House to serionsly ask themselves, afore
they voted on the till, whether this House
wantid to marry a white woman? He wantid
this House to ask herself whether she wantid
his dortor to marry a white man? "Ef we
let em vote we must marry em !" The vote
was taken, resaitin uv course in the votiD
down uv the Dill. The six Radicals were
towunst expelied for the introdoorin rich a
incendiary measure, and the House ad
journed.
The populace got hole uv the news, and
the wildest joy prevailed One wagon was
rigged up, into which wuz twenty-four black
girls with a banner over 'em. "Fathers
perteet us Irani white ekality," and another
similarly loaded carried a oanaeronto which
: was written, "Flack husbands or none! The
purity of our Rami" N'oticin me on the
street, the pcpuliee went for me. The po
I lice, with aught to have preserved the peace
(they were mostly imigvanu from aa islaud
1 off the coast, wierli thpv Uwl L, o .MI smriJtftn.
' uv br ing oppressed by the Rug uv another
island which bed got possessuu ur eal, and
; wuz a beario down upon 'em, the perlice
man. instead uv pertectio un, headed the
hunt, and lively they made it. I was caught
and rolied in the gutters, said shouts uv
| "Kill the white-livered whej!" and they
; pounded and pummeled me, and tore- my
clothes off. "To the white ctfun asylum!
sboute-d one of em, and to that cry I owed
mv life. They beleeved in vfcolesale kiilin
ruther than retale, and they aade a rush for
au asylum where the orfun- uy the few
despised whites wuz a livir, Short work
they made uv it. The orfutf wuz roasted
and beaten to death, the teachers run for
their lives, and the building) was sacked,
i the black women meantimi ridin around
. with the banners over em, aid the principle
citizens addressin the mob, teprecatin vio
; lence, but nevertheless applmdin uv cm for
( their zeal in preservin the pifity uv the race.
Two white skoolhouscs and eighteen dwel
i lings wus gone thro with, ezef by inspira
; iheo. Finally they got siu uv ine agin,
; and ez there wuzn't any otlgrs in rite, they
| cheerfully ceesed me, and rirgin a rope, run
me up to a lamp post. ' A\pt iohoomanitv!
Wat crooelty! Wat injustre!" sbriekt I.
, Forehoonitiy I did not 'urther commit
; myself. The shoutin and the sense uv
chokin awoke me. I woz tot in Afrika, 1
hed not been beaten and puneled and rolled
! in the gutter and bung, butthank the Izird,
! 1 wuz in America, the lard uv the free,
where, when such things isoons the white
j men do em theirselves. wici is more corn
| fort able.
But wat a friteful dreeri! Wat a mis
i forechoon it must be to be fr another race
: when that rac-e aint in a Majority. 1 rcely
sympathize with the niggea in this country.
I'ETROLECM V. .WHY, P. M
(Wich * Postmaster.)
<)>E POWT HE COL Ii) SWEAR TO.
A clever gentleman eutead our office the
other evening in a big htrry. "You re
member that fine, large Newfoundland dog
.of mine, don't you?—everybody knows
i him." We did remembertbe burly, busby
bow wowing brute, and stid so. "Well,
; sir," he continued, "someWdy has stolen
him—would you think it?" Well, we were
; surprised to find that any one so little cora
| prehended business as to steal a dog that
1 would eat more than half a dozen hearty,
; frolicking children; and we expressed our
I surprise. "I wouldn't takesso for him;
and —would you believe it?—wife says she's
glad he's gone! Now, I want to advertise
hint," We placed pencil and paper before
our patron, and he begau to write—"istolen!
. —From the residence of tbe Subscriber, —
street, a large Newfoundland dog, named
Towser. lie is black with white snots on —"
Here the advertiser stuot. lie admitted
that, for life of him. he couldn't say post
j tively where those white spots were located,
j Half of hi* face was covered with white hair
I but he couldn't tell whim half. One oi
his feet was white, but he was at a loss to
say which one, In fact, tow that he was
cornered on spots, he had owned the dog a
; year, could pick him fron a million dogs,
and knew every hair on hi* honest coat, but
■ he was ashamed to say tbit there was onlv
one mark about the dog which he could
I positively locate—he coukl swear that the
tip of his tail was whit' Finally, the ad
vertiser concluded to run home and see hi*
wife, who'd LDOW all about it; and off he
; hurried. He was back directly, His eyes
were bright, and his coantenance was cheer•
■ fu\ and we felt sure, before he spoke, that
jhe had seen, "Towser," And he broke out
with, "Don't you think I found my dog at
home? —fact! There be wa? on the hearth
rug. and the children were wooing hiin. and
fairly going crazy over him!—the brute!
Now, would you believe." he continued,
J spluttering! r, "the tip of the dog's tail isn't
" white! Why, it's as black as my hat!"
| This was the climax to his "comedy of err-
I ors." for hifl hat was a very light drab.
iSELEbS SPKCIiEATIOSiH.
Ti : er , e * strange quality in the huuian
mind, by virtue of which it ever seeks to di
vine the unfathomable and to unravel in
" P , lu )fories, neglecting often the more
us -iul and j.radical inquiries of every day
!iie in order to gratify its penchant for mela.
physical subtleties. Evens age hits been
taunted by some scientific phantom-problem
which it was beyond the power of human
®J. , t0 anc * the period of time in
white we fire forms no exception to this
rule. v\ hiie .crmerly tbe discovery of the
philosopher s stone." and other impossi
ouiues, engaged the attention of actual and
pretended philosophers, speculations con
cerning the origin of the world have of late
years become the favorite theme of theo
rize. But there is one fact to which we
will can attention. Tbe labors of the aicby
mi*t laid the fouodatioos of iDodero chenais
failure in securing perpetual motion we owe
the spread of clearer notions on the subject
o. mechanical principles; but what, we ask.
is the benefit that shall accrue to mankind
from the vain attempt to lift the veil from
the mysteries of the first creation ? Even
it any one of tbe thousand theories proposed
would commend itself to general approval.
It would only be a barren acquisition to our
theoretical knowledge, from which not a
single useful result could be expected, and
which would prove to be valueless in the
advancement of our race.
We make these remarks because an ex
am'nation of the correspondence sent to
this office discloses tbe fid that many ofonr
readers waste their time and abilities on this
unprofitable subject. We have also oeca
sion to notice the entire disregard or igno
r*vcCi° j • ™ ost e ' en) entary and best es
tabu-hed principles of science on the part of
these theorists. Wild notions of heat,
electricity, the properties of matter, and so
forth, form the cement which holds together
the hypotheses und speculations with
which tbey construct the unsubstantial
fabrics of their brains. They are not aware
that our knowledge of the behavior of mat
ter under the influence of extreme tempera '
lures . heat or coldf, is, as yet, far too iraper- .
Tret to warrant atu-mpts of generalization. ;
ihe creation of matter, its formation and j
gradual settling into the present arrange
meat is a fit subject for the reveries of the ■
poet or the unbridled speculations of the
metaphysician; but practical men who are
willing to improve themselves tad others
should leave it alone. There are too many
urgent questions of real importance which
claim and deserve all the attention and
energy which they can bestow upon theun.
1 hose of our lfiiends, however, for whom
the temptation to 'lift the veil" should
prove too strong, will paidon us for sugges- I
ting that their first duty is to obtain a com- '
prehensive knowledge of physics and oho- i
mistry. If. after obtaining this, they find!
•hat they are further from the solution of
the puzzle than th?y thought themselves
before, they will at least not" have to repine
for wasted time and labor, as they can ren
der their newly acquired knowledge useful
in a thousand different ways,— Scioitiric
A mrrionn.
THE I SE OF FLOWERS.
Ihe time has gone by—if it ever existed—
when a man was esteemed less "sensible"' or \
••practical because he appreciated the beauty j
of dowers, and loved to have them around i
him. Each year we are learning more and j
more of their loveliness, and showing the evi- I
denoe of a better educated taste in the more !
c .tended use we make of boquets and gar- j
iunds. A writer says:
There has been of late years a marked in- j
crease in the nse of flowers for social pur
poses. Every dinuer party or dancing party |
must uow be graced with these "stars of the ;
earth. At large assemblies there is always |
a lavish display of flowers, as if it were de
signed to intoxicate the guests with the de
licious odors of innumerable blossoms. If
we visit a lady, flowers must precede our j
coming: if we drive out with her, the odor of ;
flowers must sweeten the pleasure. Superb I
presentation baskets and boqnets are now '
seen in almost every parlor, and are the hor
ticultural compliments of gentlemen to Indies, j
The favorite flowers are the canielia, japonica |
the sweet Neapolitan violet, and the white j
and tea rose. Although a large capital is j
employed in producing these the supply al
ways is unequal to the demand, and they
bring high, even extravagant prices on great
occasions. Flowers are, of course, exten
sively used at weddings, but according to tbe
florists, they are employed more liberally at
lunerals. Five hundred dollars are not un
frequently expended in crosses and wreathes
for these solemn occasions As weddings
and funerals require white flowers only, they
cause these to be more rare, and of higher
price than colored ones. Some of our chur- !
ches, of late years, have employed flowers
extensively on occasions of religious festivals.
WE WANT IIORE PLISP WOMEN. —Tbe
Sew York Gazette concludes a plea for
■plump women" as follows; "But whatever
(-iucation your girls have, let ns have less of
it. American girls are notorious for their
pailor and frailty and tendency to wither and
lose their charms at an early age. This
country has no greater want, at the present
time, than of plump and girls and plump wo
men. I-et us have then plump and healthy,
whether they know anything or noL We can
teach their children what they don't know, if
necessary: by ail means let us have rosy,
blossoming, solid women. The Pacific rail
road is not half so important to the prosperity
of this country as tbe aggregate avoirdupois
of its women. Tbe female sex of America
ought to weigh at least as half as much again
as it does."
A HOLT LIKE.— The raising of the sun is
known by the shinning 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 j
shining light of holy conversation : even so i
the purging fire of grace is known by the j
burning zeal against sin and a fervent desire 1
to keep God's commandments: even so cer
tainly tbe lite and liveliness of faith is known
by the good motives of the heart, by the
bestiiriog of all the powers 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
evideoce bath a bulwark against despair,
and may dare the devil to his face : he, that
hath this, bath the broad seal of eternal life,
and such a man shall live forever.
VOLUME 41; 50. ID
THE EI.EME.NTS OF SI CCESS.
i Success is the true criterion of ability.
Though oiujt! won without merit and lost
wit! out dishonor, men persist in' thinking
tbey are Tndissolubly connected. And men
are right. Though some fortunate accident
mar raise a drone to emlnene, or gain for
dultncsi a brilliant position, yet great achieve
ments are the result only of work and exalted
merit.
Some men gather rags and waste from the
streets: others bathl cities, found empires, and
revolutionize the world. One earns his bread
by the hardest toil, and is supremely happy if
night finds him sheltered from the cold and
the storm: another plans adventures which
yield him millions, or directs the course of
squadrons on teaa thousands of mile* away.
Each lias bones, nerves, muscles; and per
haps, in ail physical respects, the rag-picker
is the superior of the merchant. Whence,
then, this difference? It is from mind. One
is a sort of a thinking animal—the other has
called into exercise his higher faculties, that
soblime intelligence which controls events,
sees the end from the beginning, and monldt
the future to its will.
To achieve success in any pursuit, there
must be mind to plan and energy to execute.
Without these, a man is like a ship without a
rudder, tossed about by chance and uncer
tainty. With these, success is as sure as des"
tiny. But to achieve great results, a man
must not waste his energies on small things.
He must lay out large plans, pursue
noble aims, and force them to successful is
sues. He uiust have boldness to conceive,
vigor and intelligence to execute. And above
all, he must be actuated by high motives, and
aim at objects which others have not the
courage or the virtue to adventure.
The man who does this has nothing to
dread. Unforeseen eTents may frustrate his
plans; unlooked-for disasters may bear him
down ; and envy or malignity may conspire
to crush him: yet he will rise, by the irresisti
ble energy of his own will, above all opposi
tion from men and things. Let no man,
therefore, despond. Success is within his
reach, if he will but grasp it. If he has the
vigorous stamina of intellect and will, the ul
timate result is certain. The force of his tal
ents will raise him from obscurity, and place
him in his proper rank in the estimation of
the world.
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS IK LIFE.
In Dickens's charming novel of David
CopperSeiil, which is supposc-d to contain a
great many incidents in his own life, occurs
the following, chapter forty-two:
I feel as if it were not forme to record,
even though this manuscript is intended for
no eyes but mine, how hind I worked at
}^Vc^^ r^f^Po Dd d, wvygi
of responsibility to Dora and her aunts.
I will only add. to what I have already
written of my perseverance at this time of
my itfe. and of a patient and continuous
energy which then began to be matured
within me. and which I know to be the
strong part of rnv character, if it have any
: stu ngth at ail, that there, on looking back,
I find the source of my success. I have
been very fortunate in worldly matters;
many men have worked much harder and
not succeeded half so well; but I never
could have done what I have done, without
the habits of punctuality, order and dili
gence, without the determination to con
centrate myself on one object at a time, no
matter how quickly its successor should
come upon it heels, which I then formed.
Heaven knows I write this in no spirit of
self laudation. The man who reviews his
life, as Ido mine, in going on here, from
page to page, had need to have been a good
man indeed, if he would be spared the
sharp consciousness of ifiaDy talents ne
glected, many opportunities wasted, many
erratic, and perverted feelings constantly
at war within his heart, and defeating
him. Ido not bold one natural gift,
I dare say, that I have not abused.
My meaning simply is that whatever
[ have tried to do in life, I have tried
; with al! my heart to do well; that wbat-
I ever I have devoted myself to, I have
devoted myself to completely; that, iu
; great aims and in small, I have always
been thoroughly in earnest.
I have never believed it possible that any
natural or improved ability can claim im
; munify from the companionship of the
steady, plain, hard working qualities, and
hope to gain its end. There is no such
thing as such fulfilment on this earth. Some
happy talent, and some fortunate oppor
i tunity, may form the the two sides of the
j ladder on which some men mount, but the
t rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff
to stand wear and tear; and there is no sub
stitute for thorough goiDg, ardent, and sin
cere earnestness. Never to put one hand
to anything on which I could throw my
whole self; and never to affect deprecia
tion of my work, whatever it was, I find,
now, to have been my golden rule.
DEBT AKD TAXATION.
The Democratic party is trying to get back
into power on the cry of debt and taxation.
Herein they show their contempt for the
intelligence of the people. He must have
an extremely short memory who does Dot
recollect that the debt and taxation were
created by a rebellion for which the Demo
eratic party is responsible. Buchanan was
I'residcnt.when the war began. We have
j the testimony of Lewis Cass that hjs ad
ministration was in league with the South.
To say nothing about the tendency of the
principles of the party and to go DO farther
back, it is within the recollection of every
one from the outset of Buchanan s ad
ministration, be and his Cabinet so shaped
affairs as to render the first blow of the
rebellion successful. A Democratic Secre
tary dispersed the Navy co as to be beyond
call; a Democratic Secretary filled the
Southern and robbed the Northern arsenals,
and sent the Army into remote quarters; a
Democratic administration placed Southern
| ers in the chief positions abroad; and when
j the rebellion broke out the South had a
large part of the machinery in its hand, and
the Government was crippled at all points.
Throughout the war the Democratic party
sympathised with the South, and in many
ways afforded it aid and comfort. The war
and the burthens of debt and taxation are
the legacy of the last Democratic adminis
! j tratiou the country has seen. To suppose
; that the people can forget these things or
Ithat they will under any delusion whatever
bring another hack so soon, is to suppose
that men have lost their reason and that no
speck of patriotism is left. The national
debt, so far from being an argument in
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favor of tho Democratic party, is to every
intelligent man perpetual admonition never
again to trust the Democratic party. It is
an insult to suppose that the payment of
taxes will have any other effect than te
strengthen the people in such a determina
tion.—Pituintrgh Commercial
tumorous.
Vot are a queer chicken! as the hen said
when she hatched out a duck.
A wive with a capital isn't always a capi
tal wife.
A little boy being asked what meekness was
replied: "Meekness always gives smooth an
swers to rough questions."
•r— -i .I7T7*T"T-L. !.dr
asked a gentleman to see it one of her rings
would go on his little finger.
Natoleox used to say. and think ha had
uttered a good thing when he said it, "A
general should not stand too straight; he
should lean a little on his siafL" In onr
country we think if a general cannot stand
straight, he is not fit to have a staff.
Tue Housatonic farmers have met and pas
sed a resolution to send only pure milk to
New York. The railroads agree to keep the
milk locked up till it gets here. But some
ladies refuse milk that has a "nasty yellow
scum'' on it after standing. For such it has
to be watered.
Madame de Stael cordially hated Talley
rand, and in her story of "Delphine" was .
supposed to have painted herself in the per
son of her heroine, and Talleyrand in that of
a garrulous old woman. On their first meet
ing. the wit pleasantly remarked, "Ther tell
me that we are both of as in your novel, in
the disguise of woman."
Is a real property case before a French
judge at an early period of the Revolution
(the story is told by the elder Berryer), the
defendant, whose title was contested, proved
that the estate had been in bis family for
more than two hundred years. "Well,
then," said the judge, "It is now full time
for another family to have a turn."
A horse dealer in the Athenian city of
Oxford, made an addition to his stud of two
fine horses, to which be assigned the classical
cognomina of Xerxes and Artaxerxes. A
gentleman commoner having demanded of
him his "exquisite reason" for so doing, he
replied, "Why, you see, when I drives tan
dem I makes Xerxes my leader and puts the
other in the shafts, and so I calls him Arta*
Xerxes."
A I'ITY.— A fellow who was hrfmeht. to
King James 1., could eat, it was said, a
whole sheep at a meal. 'What else can he
do,' asked the king, 'more than other men?"
'Nothing.' was the reply. 'Hang him, then,'
said James; 'for it is a pity a man should
live who eats the share of twenty men, and
can do no more than one.'
'A beautiful day, Mr. Jenkins.
'Ye3, very piesant indeed.'
'Good day for the race:'
'Race, what race T
•The human race?'
'Oh, go along with your stupid jokes; get
up a good one, like the one which I sold
Day.'
'Day, what Day
'The Day we celebrate,' said Jenkins as he
went on his way rejoicing.
A CousTitv schoolmaster, prepairing for an
exhibition of his school, selected a class of
pupils and wrote down the questions he
would put to them on examination day.—
The day arrived, and so did the hopefuls, all
but one. The pupils took their places as had
been arranged, and all went on glibly un
til the question of the absentee came,
when the teacher asked, "In whom do yon
believe?" "Napoleon Bonaparte," was the
answer quickly returned. "You believe in
the Established Church, do you not?" "No,"
said the youngster, "the boy that believes iu
the church hasn't come to school to day!"
Josh Biuisgs ox Bed Bugs, — l never seen
enny body yet but what despised bed bugs.
They are the meanest ov awl crawling, creep
ing, hopping or bitting things.
They dassant take a man by dalite, but
sneak in aftei dark, and chaw him while be
is fast asleep.
A musketo will the you in broad dalite, at a
short range, and give you a chance to knack
at his sides —the flea is a game bog, and will
make a dash at yon even in Broadway—but
the bed bug is a garroter, who waits till you
strip, and then picks out a mellow place to
ate yon.
If 1 was ever in the habit of swearing, I
would not hesitate to damn a bed bug right
tew his face.
Bed bugs are uncommon smart in a small
way—one pair of them will stock a hair
mattress in 2 weaks with bugs enoff to last
a small family a whole year.
It don't do enny good to pray when bed
bugs are in seasou; the only way to get rid of
them is tew bile up the whole bed iu aquafor
tis, and then heave it away and buy a new
one.
Bed bugs when they have grown aul they
intend to, are about the size ova blue jay's
eye, and have a brown complexion, and when
they start out to garrote they are ez fiat cz a
grec-se pot, but when tbey git thru garotting
are swelled up like a blister,
It takes them three days to get the swelling
out of them.
If bed bugs hev enny destioy to fill, it must
be their stummicks, but it seems to me that
they must have been made by accident, just
as gliwers are, to stick into somebody.
If they wuz got up for some wise purpos,
they must hev took the wrong, for there kant
be enuy wisdom in chawing a man all nite
long and raising a family besides, tew toiler
the same trade.
If there ez Borne wisdom in aul this, I hope
the bugs will chaw them folks who can see
1 it, and let me be, because I am one of the
i hereticks.