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SECOND REVIEW OP THE GRAND
ARMY.
I rend last night of the Grand Review
| 1® Washington's chiefest avenue—
-1 wo hundred thousand men in blue
! I think they said was the number—
Till I seemed to hear their trampling feet.
The bugle's blast and the drum's quick beat,
The clatter of hoofs in the stony street,
j The cheers of people who came to greet,
And the thousand details that to repeat
Would only my verse encumber—
Till I fell in a reverie, sad and sweet,
i And then to a fitful slumber.
When, lo ! in a vision I seemed to stand
In the lonely Capitol. On each hand
Far stretched the portico, dim and grand,
Its columns ranged like a martial band
j Of sheeted spectres, whom some command
Had called to a fast reviewing;
j And the streets of the city were white and bare;
j No loot fall echoed across the square,
j But out of the misty midnight air
■I heard in the distance a trumpet blare,
Aad the wandering night-winds seemed to bear
The sound of a far tattooing.
Then I held by breath with fe.r and dread,
For into the square, with a brazen tread
| There rode a figure whose stately head
O'erlooked the review that morning.
I That never bowed from its firm-set seat
Vr hen the living column passed its feet,
let now rode stately up the street
To the (thantorn bugle's warning:
Till it reached the Capitol square, and wheeled,
| And there in the moonlight stood revealed
A well-known form that in state and fie'd
Had led our patriot sires :
\\ hose face was turned to the sleeping camp,
j Afar through the river's fog and damp,
That showed no flicker, nor waning lamp,
Nor wasted bivouac fires.
| And I *aw a phantom army come,
j IV ith never a sound of fife or drum,
But keeping time to a throbbing hum
Of wailing and lamentation:
The martyred heroes of Malvern Hill,
Of Gettysburg and Chancellor.-villt,
The men whose wasted figures fill
The patriot graves of the nation.
And there came the nameless dead—the men
Who perished in fever-swamp and fen,
j The slowly.starved of the prison pen;
And, marching beside the others,
! Came the dusky martyrs of Pillow's fight,
With limbs enfranchised and hearing bright:
I thought—perhaps 'twas the pale moonlight—
They looked a.- white as their brothers!
And so all night marched the nation's dead
With never a banner above them spread,
Nor a badge, nor a motto brandished: .
No mark—save the bare uncovered head
Of the silent bronze Reviewer—
With never an arch save thfe vaulted sky,
With never flower save those that lie
On the distant graves—for love could buy
No gift that was purer or truer.
So all night long swept the strange array,
So all night long till the morning gray
I watched for one who had passed away.
With a reverent awe and wonder—
Till a blue cap waved in the lengGi'ning line,
And I knew that one who was kin of mine
Had come, and I spake—aad lo! that sign
Awakened mo from my slumber.
Apolitical
NASBY.
.1 Conference at the Corners —Joe Bigler s ;
may of building a lVatform and his ;
Failure.
POST OFFIC E CONFEDRIT X ROADS, )
(Wich is in tho Stait uv Kentucky,)
June 6th IS6B. )
We had a little consultashen at the Cor
ners one day last week on the subjick uv a
platform for the ensooin Nashnel Conven
shen. We hed present, ntinglitt in sweet
accord with us, a Demokrat from Injcany,
one from Illinoy, one from Noo York, one
from Connecticut, and one from Pennsyl
vany. Ez we wuz a consultin—a sort of a
feelin our way —Joe Uigler came in. ITo
pin to smooth the cuss down, I to wunst
interdoost him ez a Confedrit soljer, where
upon the Northern friends with less sense
that I spo.-ed men cood possess, sprung to
their feet and shakin him vociferusly by the J
hand, swore they were proud to meet him, i
and m.-istid on furnishiu him with ail the
flooids he cood consoom that nite anyhow.
And they to-wunst make known the suhjick
uv ther bein there and invitid him to join
em.
"Certainly," said Joseph, "certainly.
Let me see how we will go at this thing, j
You are from several different Stairs, and I
it is barely possible that ther may be a slite j
difference uv opinion—not enuff to eggcite
any onpleasantnis. but still enuff to kind o'
mar the general ononis, the sweet harmony
uv soles in unisoD. Let me sejest that the j
parson's hat be sot onto the table—Bascom, ;
yoo euss, wipe orf the likker that's spilled ;
onto it—and that yoo write eaeh on a slip !
the opinyons yoo hold and drop em in, that
when they are took out and compared they !
may be filed down ez it were, and the sharp
corners rasped orf —that thev may be sort
uv am&lgumated into once sweet smellin
whole. Is it a go?'
They all agreed. Dcekin Pograra, Eider
Punt and Leaker Gavitt declined to jitie in,
for reasons obvus to all who knowed em,
but Capt. McPelter and I, who kin rite,
represented the Corners.
"Now," sed this Joseph, winkin vishusly
at Pollock, who had dropped in a minit
afore, "we will prepare our little opinyuns
on the subjict uv 'The Nigger!' "
The entire Lillin of cm rote bizzy for fif
teen minits, each droppin his lucubrashens
into the hat ez he finished.
"Mr. Pollock, will you extract these
droppins uv wise minds and read em?"
"Certinly," sed Pollock. "Certinly.
Here is the first."
"I am opposed to cxtendin any rites to
the Afrikin because he is naterally inferior
to the white—so inferior, indeed, that all
the trainin and edueashen that cood be
squandered onto him wood not bring a fully
matoored one up to to the level uv an aver
age white child uv 14. To give the ballot
to sich wood be a dangerous percedin. wich
every lover uv liberty sbood frown onto
severely.
"JETIIUO L. KIITLNS, UV Uiinoys.
"'Bully !" sung out Bigler.
"I am opposed to givin the Afrikan the
ballot, bccoz when he hez it ofcoorse he wiil be
eligible to orfis, and will undoubtedly be se- j
lectcd to fill the most prominent posisbens.
Itnagin! Good Hevins! Imagin nigger
judges, nigger Congressmen, nigger Rcpre-
I scntatives, nigger skooi teechers, and nigger
j Governors ! My Anglo Saxon blood rc-
I volts.
"DENNMS O'SHAUUUNESSY. uv Noo York."
"Bully agin!', shouted Biglar; but some
how the rest of them dind't shout 'bully."
They begun to look puzzled.
Pollock pulled again.
"I am opposed to elevate the nigger, bc
coz there is a natural repugnanc, a heven
given, ineradicable conflict between the
races. The nigger, with his black .-kin,
thick lips, kinky hair, and disgustin odor,
eggcites loathin, eonteiupt and skoru in the
bosom uv every white, pertikerly uv ihe
proud Cauca.-Jien females. There is a bar
rier between the races wich nacher hez set
up and wich cannot be scaled. Why at
tempt it ?"
JONAS PEPPER, UV Injcany.
The gentleman from Ohio wanted to j
.3 iloral anft General flrtospaprv, Drbotrti to i?olitirs, ©tmcation, Eitcraturr anU fttovals.
withdraw hizzen and revise it, but Bigler
prevented him. "I agree with my esteem
ed friend Pepper," sed Bigler, "ez to the
characteristics uv the Afrikin and the nat
eral loathing wich eggsists in the bosom uv
every well regulated Caucashem But I dis
agree with him ez to the impossibility uv
the proud Caucashen aforesaid scalin it.
Deekin, hez it ever been scaled in this vicin
ity? Let not eko, but the hundreds of
valler niggers in these parts anser. Pollock,
go on "
"I am opposed to elevatin the nigger for
the reason that if onct releesed from ihe
disabilities the law imposes, be at once be
j cums our ekul. Wat follows? Do wc want
niggers for our sons-in law? Do we hanker
after female niggers lor our diughters-in
law ? Wood any ptoud Caucashen want a
nigger woman for a step mother? I de
maud, not only the continyooance uv the
laws we have agin inarryin niggers, but
more stringenter ones. I call upon my
common country to protect us from nigger
ekality.
"SETH MAWBF, DV Ohio."
"Spoken like a man and a Demokrat, ez
: yoo air," said Bigler. "llere is another
and a potent reasou agin givin the nigger
his rites. They grow on our hands. Let
us keep the run uv cm. First, ez he is so
much below us he can't be educated. Sec
ond, we must prevent him from being edu
! eated, for fear of bis bein our ekal. Third,
nacher made him too disgustin to approach
' us. Fourth, we must hev laws to prevent
ius from marry in him. Here is richness iti
| deed. Go on, Pollock— go on."
"I pertest agin this," sed 1, seein to
; where this insane cuss wuz leadin us. "I
pertest agin continyooin this any farther."
"Not a bit uv use, Parson. There are
several other opinyuns in the hat, wich we
will hev. Pull eui, Pollock."
"I, ez a citizen nv Connecticut, am op
posed to given the nigger rites in that Siait,
becoz, incapable ez he is of intelligent labor,
naterally indolent, careless shiftless, and
cussed ez he ez, he kin never be made to
work save when forced to do it ez a slave.
He wood cum north in droves and fill our
almshouses and jails, and be to heavy a bur
den for our overtaxed people.
"ZEPIIANIA SCTPDER, uv Connecticut."
"Percced, Pollock," sed Bigler.
"I stand opposed to conferral rites upon
the Afrikin, beeoz, hevin alluz bin accus
tomed to labor, and bein uv a naterally do
: cile disposishen. percisely the material uv
wich to make labrcrs, he wood overrun the
uorth seekin suthin to do, and ez he wood
i gladly work at less wages than the proud
; Caucashen labrcr, he wood drive them out
of employment and into the almshouses and
jails. P. Y EAGER, uv Ponnsylvany."
Pollock and Bigler laft vociferously and
uproariously, and the others looked ez un
comfortable as men cood. It hed gone too
j fur alreddy, and I seezed my hat and emp
; tied wat remained onto the floor.
"f?ir!" sed I, lookin Bigler thro and'
; thro, "yoor conduct is reprehensible in the
extreme. Yoo cum here, sir cz a disturber, J
ez a maker of mischcef, ez a destroyer uv
: poece, and "
' Easy, Parson, easy, or I may possibly !
forget the considt-rashun doo yoor callin, !
and choke yoo a trifle. The fact is, my j
. friend Pollock and I wuz actooated by the
highest possible motives, wuzn't we, Pol
; lock ?''
" Ctrtinly—why not?" arisered that 1
wretch.
"We felt that it wuz ncssary that suthin \
; be agreed upon in this nigger Question. It's j
, bin a tough thing to handle ever sense 1 ;
knowd anything about it; and I wanted to
harmonize our vitws ami put em in a shape
to meet and anser the objeekshuns uv our ;
common foe —the Ablisbnists. I confess I •
wuz disappointed. There are reasons enuff
: lor deprivin the nigger uv rites, but some 1
{ how they don't hang together. Thus, I've ;
i found one patriot opposes elevatin eru Le
: ooz they're incapable naterally uv bein ed
; dikutid—another demands laws agin their
being eddikatid, bccoz, ef they are given
: half a chance, they'll take ail the offices in
I the gift uv the people—eacther, beeoz
; they're so disgustingly made be uaeher ez
1 to eggseite loathing and disgust—cuother, '
j beeoz, ef tbey hev this one privilege, laws .
will be required to keep our wimmeu from
marry in uv em —enother, beeoz he won't
work, ccptin he's forced to —arid still enoth
! er, beeoz he is so naterally adapted to work
that he'll underwork tlie whites, and set em
adrift. Among all these reasons, he wood
be hard to soot, indeed, who cocdu't find
| one that wood soot him. But somehow
they're tangled; one mind can't take cm all ;
in. They don't seem to jibe, and in at
temptin to sort uv reconcile and arrange em
in logical order, and get em to dove tale to- '
! gelher, I'm all tore up, and so is Pollock. :
I wuz pleased with the first, third, and fifth
reasons, but, alas ! the second, fourth, and
sixth upsot cm. Ef I tie to the second,
; fourth and sixth, I am confronted with the i
first, third and fifth, and ez they are all A
1 Dimocrisy, what is Pollock and me to do? j
Reely, we are at sea without a rudder or
compass, and unless rescood, may float into j
the harbor uv Ablisbnism, wich, not hevin
but one idea, is easily comprehended. 1
must sleep on this, and ez it is time that we
I seek our virchus couches, Bascum will shct:
up."
And the cuss turned us out, and saw Bas
eurn lock the doors before he left. Suth
: in will yet happen to this Bigler.
PETROLEUM V. NASUY, P. M.,
(Wich is Postmaster.)
GRANT AND WASHIIUKNE.
The Washington correspondent of the ;
j ( jnvelaud Lead'-r says: Recently I met Mr.
Eliliu B. Washburne and his brother, the |
General. You are acquainted with their
faces, earnest, energetic, clear-headed, posi
tive men, with large frames. They began
in Maine, where many Washburues live at :
present. They have risen, to a large extent, j
j independently of each other, and by no j
means agree in small issues. Elihu B. '
Washburne has been a consistent, kindly, :
and admiring friend of General Grant. He
has been accused of taking no notice of Grant j
iin Galena, but Grant was a new-comer
there, and Washburne was away from home I
in Congress three-fourths of the year.
Grant's father sent for his son not long be
| fore the war, and offered him eight hundred
j dollars a year to take charge of his leather 1
and hide business. Grant went to work,
made few acquaintances, and was one of the
most unknown men in Galena. When the !
war began, Washburne stirred himself to
raise a company in Galena, and as it was
| known to a few that Grant had been a Cup- \
I tain in tl[u army, he was looked to as the ,
BEDFORD, PA., F&I
proper man to be chairman. Mr. Wash
burne described to me this hard-working,
commonly-dressed man, with an old. faded
dragoon cloak upon his shoulders, mounting
to the bench of the Court House, and stat
ing theobjeet of the meeting. When the
company was raised Grant was found to be
perfect in all the details of equipping it,
from boots to buttons. Washburne, Grant
and the rest took the company down to
Springfield. There, with scanty means,
paying three dollars a day for board, Grant
waited the disorganized process of the State
authorities, with Dick Yates, impracticable
as now, at the head of the State. Finally
Grant said to Washburne:
"I can do nothing here; T am running
short; I shall go home and go to work.
"Hold on!" said Washburne.
At last Grant was placed in the Adjutant
General's Department, and by happy luck
was one day placed at the head of a regiment
afflicted with a drunken Colonel. Ho began
the fame which has gone round the world.
Washburne's relations with Grant are
nothing more than those between two friends
Washburne finds in Grant latent abilities
developing every day, powers coming out of
bis modesty like a bee's nest in a violet bed.
He had no aid whatever itt writing any of
his letters or battle bulletins. The celebra
ted dispatch: "I will fight it out on this line
if it takes all summer," was brought from:
Spottsylvauia to Washington in Mr. W aslt
burne's pocket. He said to Grant as ht
quitted the field:
"General, have you any message to send
up to the War Department?" "I guess
not," said Grant. "I think it would ba
well," returned Washburne, "if you sent
some little word up to the people."
"Verv well. "
General Grant sat down in the tent, and
as quickly as he could transcribe, and with
out reading the message over, gave it to
Washburne, sealed. The latter came to
Belle Plain, took a boat, lauded at the Navy
Yard, rode in a horse-car to the War De
partment, where he found cvery-body blue
and doubtful, and delivered the letter to
Stanton. That simple bulletin thrilled the
country and went into the epigrammatic lit
erature of mankind.
So with General Grant's letter, responsive
to his nomination at Chicago. People were
saying among themselves: Somebody ought
to give Grant adv ice about that letter. He
might put his foot in it. That letter is vi
tal."
"Never mind, said Washburne, "he'll
do it uji right."
Aud without Jabor. spontaneously, cleri
cally, Grant wrote the letter, which is more
to the point and more electrical than any
mere platform in the history of politicians.
Washburne's regard for Grant is not that
of a father, nor close as a brother's. It is
the same admiration, only bettor informed,
that the country lias in the General-in-ehief.
lie admires Graut's simplicity, introspec
tion, sincerity, and capacity for every new
occasion.
tttiscftouw-.
NEWSPAPER PATRONAGE.
The Hancock (O.) Courier completely
explains the situation of things in the fol
lowing article in regard to newspaper patron
age:
"Many long and weary years of experience
in the publishing business, has forced the
conviction upon us that newspaper patron
age is a word of many definitions, and that a
great majority of mankind are either igno
rant of the correct definition or are dishon
est, in a strict biblical sense of the word.
Newspaper patronage is couiftoscd of as ma
ny colors as the rainbow, and is as changea
ble as the chameleon.
One man comes in and subscribes for the
paper and pays for it in advance, and goes
home and reads it with the proud satisfac
tion that it is his. He hands in his adver
tisement, asks the price, pays for it and
goes to his place of business, and reaps the
advantages thereof. This is newspaper pat
ronage.
Another man says, "you may put my
name on your books," and goes off without I
saying a word about pay. Time passes on.
and you want utouey, aud ask him to pay
what is honestly due you. lie flies into a
passion, perhaps pays, perhaps not, aud or
ders his paper stopped. This is called
newspaper patronage.
Another man has been a subscriber a long
time, but has never paid a cent, and at last
becomes tired of you and wants a change,
lie thinks he wants a city paper. He tells
the postmaster he don't want it. and you'll
yet a paper marked "refused. " But does
he call and pay? Oh, no! lie wants his
money to pay for his city pajier. He will
pay you after a while, he says. But he nev
er does unless you sue him. And this too,
is called newspaper patronage.
Another man brings in a fifty cent adver
tisement. and wants a two dollar uotiee given
it, and if you refuse he goes off mad. And
this is called newspaper patronage.
Another man lives near you—he does not
take the pajier—he don't like the editor—
the )taper is too small for him—yet lie goes
regularly to his neighbor's aud reads it, and
finds fault with it and quarrels with the
opinions of the editor. Occasionally he sees
an article lie likes, and begs or gives half a
dime for the number. This is called news
paper patronage.
Another man takes two or three city pa
lters and cannot afford to take a home paper,
but he likes it and comes into the office and
begs one whenever ho- is in town. This,
also, is called newspaper patronage.
Another ntan likes the paper; he takes a
copy for himself and family, and pays for it,
and does all he can to get new subscribers —
he never grumbles, but always has a cheer
ful word for the editor. If any little item
of interest occurs in his neighborhood he
informs the editor. This is newspaper pat
ronage.
Another man has a patent and wants you
to give it a two dollar notice every week ;
"it will be of interest to your readers," he
says, but, although knowing it will benefit
him most of all, he does not offer to pay for
it. This is called newspaper patronage.
Another mail has taken the paper for sev
eral years, but has uot paid for it, and tomes
in with a four or five dollar advertisement,
and asks you to insert it for nothing because
he is an old patron ofyours, 'litis is called
new.-paper patronage.
Another matt —"ayoung titan about town"
—no use of his taking a paper, knows all
that is going on. By-and-by be gets mar
ried and hands in the notice with "just hand
me a dozen copies." Ho gets theui, and
'AY, JULY 3, INOB.
a ben you mention pay, lie looks surprised—
"you surely do not cliarge for such things! "
And this is called newspaixir patronage.
Another man (bless you it does us good to
see such men), comes in and says: "the year
lor which I paid is about to expire, I want
to pay for another. He does so and re
tires. 1 his is uewspajier patronage.
Now isn't newspaper patronage a curious
thing? And in that great day, when the
gentleman in black gets his due—as he sure
ly will bow many of the patrons enumera
ted above will fall to Lis share? Now, it will
be seen that while certain kinds of patronage
Is the very life and existence of'a newspaper,
there are other kinds of patronage more
destructive than the "deadly night shade."
Reader ! where do you stand ?
VERY RESPECTABLE PEOPLE.
It seems to me that tbistcrmhas changed
its significance within a few years. Long
ago respectable people were those of whom
the world had nothing ill to say—who lived
qflfetly and did their duties, and were able
to win respect. Girls who worked for their
daily bread, with no stain upon their charac
ters —men who toiled at common employ
ments for the support of growing and well
trained families, were all welcomed with the
rich to church pew and parlor. To be very
respectable, was to be honest and upright.
Look.ing over our church to-day, I have
been asking myself whether I beloDg to the
respectable of the present time. One of our
neighbors lives in a large white mansion,
surrounded by pleasant walks and charming
nooks for shade on a sunny day, Within
everything is costly and tasteful. The only
thing wanting is domestic felicity. The
husband quarrels with his second wife, the
first children quarrel with their second
mother, the wife s decrepit father is insul
ted, and yet people call them very respecta
ble. Another within a stone's throw, lives
more elegantly still, is blessed with several
daughters in his own family, and numerous
sons and daughters in other families, and yet
bears au excellent name.
A member of our eburch—one of the best
churches in the land—is the gentlemanly
proprietor of a wholesale liquor store, and
□cither pastor nor people have as yet taken
any steps toward excommunicating him.
Another is in the wholesale grocery busi
ness but sells many a barrel of whiskey where
he sells one of sugar, for polite-license has
,n the iast few years made whiskey
a grocery article, a daily necessity in living.
A very efficient man has the misfortune to
-upport three wives and one large family,
two of these wives very fortunately having
no children. The drain upon his pocket is
heavy and business sometimes stagnant, yet
he is a pillar in our neighborhood. Anoth
er loans money to the poor, takes mortga
ges on comfortable homes, aud forecloses
them at the first good opportunity. Anoth
er keeps a large store, employing several
girls as clerks, paying them s•> per week for
work, out of which they pay 14,50f0r board
claiming the privilege of using any familiarity
he chooses, or they must lose their places,
anu he the husband of a refined woman.
Another, whom we meet every day, has a
wife aud lovely children, and yet supports
one and sometimes two Theatre Comique
girls, l'eople say what a fine business man !
What a noble face he has ! and all these are
called very respectable people.
Several of our neighbors have failed for
Urge atnouut.s. defrauding the innocent poor
tnd rninor says these failures were necessary
that they might lay by a little for their fam-
Sies to move in "respectablesociety." Many
nore never pay their honest debts, even
though they live in affluence, but custom
\as made this allowable.
A man who used to pack pork with greasy
iaods and soiled clothes, and was a very
"common fellow," after acquiring mouey
enough to build a fine house and drive a
handsome span, although too illiterate to
speak or write correctly, has become a high
ly esteemed citizen.
We have young men in our midst who
drink hard and live fast, and I have heard
young ladies say they were most respectable
associates, and these same young ladies will
B'le, and walk, aud talk with tbem, when
they should be a-leep, losing perhaps what
to money can regain.
A family with a good show of silver plate
aid silk dre.-ses, lives for the most part on
Inked potatoes, and sometimes few at that,
aid all this l'or the sake of being respectable.
')rto of our neighbors was assured by the
spirits whom he consulted that he and his
wife, though living together, for a score of
years, were wrongly mated. He obtained a
divorce and married his congenial spirit, a
young dashing girl, who knew as well how
tospend his money as his former wife did
to save it. The whole thing would hardly
ha e looked respectable had it not. happened
in i first family.
V lady who used to do dressmaking, hav
in&the fortune to ntarry a man of wealth,
Ins forgotten her old associate dressmakers,
indeed has forgotten how to make dresses—
"biiiks it must require so much skill and
patience!" Several young ladies whose
bruhers have married finely in a necuniary
reise, and not finely in any other, have be
came so elated by it, that their many airs
htve given them an immediate entree into
"jood society !"
Another lady, who has an invalid ltus
btnd—for which she is probably thankful,
alows herself to be kissed, and cloaked, and
gtllartted by a certain young man. Our
neighbors think it is not prudent, but then
hir family stands high.
Another, who dresses elegantly never
pits out her wa.-hing to the poor by the
dozen, except tliey are all the largest pieces,
and then under pretense that many are
poorly done, a full price is seldom paid, and
yet -he attends church and carries a very
Urge pi ayer book.
Atother scolds her servants incessantly,
carefully removes the sweetmeats from the
table after her family have eaten, takes off
the white sugar, and thinks common molas
ses at good for "low domestics," as Stuart's
: refined syrup.
Another makes elegant parties for the
reh.atid passes her poor relations on the
s reet without even a look of recognition!
< titer women neglect their infants for society
aid will not nourish them from their own
b easts lest their dresses become soiled, aud
tiey have extra care, so puttiug the child
where death eau easily find it. Such women
oight to be called brutes, not mothers, and
' y t all these are very respectable people.
The very respectable have fine cushioned
i p'lrs in cbuiches, fine Bibles and hymn
! btoks; fine establishments and fine snrroun
| diigs. I have cowo to the oonelusion that
to be respectable one must have several
thousand dollars, and to bo very respectable
a great number of thousand s. —Cleveland
Leader.
THE WHOLE ART OF KISSING
BY A LADY.
People will kiss. Yetnotone in a hundred
know how to extract bliss from lovely lips
no more than they know bow to make dia
monds from charcoal, and yet it is easy, at
least for us!
This little item is not alone for young
beginners, but for the many who go at it
like hunting coon or shelling corn. First
know when yon are to kiss. Don't make a
mistake, although mistakes may be good.
Don t jump up like a trout for a fly, and
smack a woman on the neck, or on the ear,
or on the corner of the forehead, on the
end of her nose, or slip over on her water
fall or bonnet ribbon, in haste to get
through. The gentleman should be a little
the tallest. He should have a clean face, a
kind eye, and a mouth full of expression
instead of tobacco. Don't kiss everything,
including nasty little dogs, male and female.
Don't sit down to it, stand up. Need not
be anxious to get in a crowd. Two persons
are a plenty to corner and catch a kiss.
More persons spoil the sport. It won't
hurt any after you are used to it. Take
the left hand of the lady inyour righthand.
Let your hat go to—any place out of the
way! Throw the left hand gently over the
shoulder of the lady, and let the hand falj
down on the right side toward the left,
Don't be in a hurry. Draw her gently to
your loving heart. Her head will fall lightly
upon your shoulder, and a handsome shoul
der-strip it makes! Don't be in a hurry.
Hend a little life down your left arm and
let it know its business. Her left band is in
your right, let there be expression to that
—not like the grip of a vice, bat a gentle
clasp full of electricity, thought and res
pect. Don't be in a hnrry: her head lies
carlesslyon your shoulder! you are nearly
heart to heart! Look down into her half
closed eyes! Gently yet manly press her
to your boson. Stand firm, and Providence
will give you strength for the ordeal. Be
brave, but don't be in a hurry. Her lips
almost open! Lean lightly forward with
your head, not the body. Take good aim.
The lips meet —the soul rides the storms,
troubles and sorrows of life, (don't be in a
hurry!) heaven opens before, the world
shoots from under your feet as a meteor
flashes across the evening sky (don't be
afraid!) the nerves dance before the first
created altar of love as zephyrs dance with
the dew-trimmed flowers—the heart forgets
its bitterness —and the art of kissing is
learned!
No noise, no fuss, no fluttering and
squirming, like a hook-impaled worm.
Kissing don't hurt; and it don't require
brass to make it legal. Don't job down on
a beautiful mouth as if spearing for frogs !
Do not muss her hair, scratch down her col
lar, bite her cheek, squizzle her rich ribbons
and leave her mussed, rumpled and flum
mixed! Don't grab and yank the lady as if
she was a struggling colt! Do not flavor
your kisses with onions, tobacco, gin cock
tailu, lager-beer, brandy, &c., for a mud
dling kiss is worse than the itch to a delecate
I sensible woman.
There, now, is your receipt, free gratis,
foruothing. Try it.— Lebanon Patriot.
THE ESTRAY LAW.
We are often asked what is the law in re
gard to stray cattle, sheep &e. It is briefly as
follows: It is made the duty of all persons
having strays in their possession, "within
four days to deliver to the town clerk a
particular description of the color and marks,
natural or artificial, of each stray, or strays in
writing or other satisfactory who, and for
every neglect or refusal to do the same" he
shall be liable to forfeit and pay the sura of five
dollars—"and it shall be the duty of the
town clerk, subject to like penalty for neglect
or refusal, to make entry of the same in his
book, for which he shall receive on each head
of horses 50 cents, each head of cattle 25
cents, and for every sheep six cents, to be
paid by such person delivering the said
notice aforesaid." If the owner presents
himself within 30 days after said stray has
been thus registered on the book of the town
clerk, he is entitled to receive his property
on the payment of the costs the keeping,
and the damage that may have occurred.
After the expiratioD of thirty days, if no
owner presents himself, the person taking
up the stray shall cause an advertisement
particularly describing sueh stray, to be
published in at least one newspaper in the
county—and if no owner shall appear and
make out his property in said stray within
ninety days after the publication of said
advertisement, the person taking .tp the
same shall apply to a Justice of the Peace
in the same township, who is required to
issue his warrant to a Constable, who, after
giving ten days notice, is reauired to sell the
same—the money for which is to be paid
into the hands of the Justioe of the Peace,
who is to pay all reasonable charges for the
cost of keeping, registering, advertising,
selling &c., and the balance, if there be any,
is to be paid into the county Treasury.—
Mcadville Republican.
CALIFORNIA POETRY.
AVhen from my room I chance to sttay, to
spend an hour at close of day, I ever find a
place most dear, where some friend treats
to the lager beer.— Sacramento Age.
Ah! yes my friend of city life, such a
treat cures such a strife, but better than
such dose by far, aro pleasures of a fine
cigar.— Pluccr IleraUl.
Such pleasures may suit baser minds, but
with the good no favor finds; we think the
purest joy in life, is making love to one s
own wife. — Volcano Ledger.
Most wise your choice my worthy friend
in Hymen's joys your cares must end; but
we, though tired of single life, can't boast
of having our own wife; and so, when 'neath
our cares we faint, we fly to kiss some gal
that aint —vet. — Napa Reporter.
That lager beer will bile provoke, while
'fine Havanas' end in smoke. To court
one's wife is better far, than lager beer or
vile cigar. Kisses the dew of love's young
morn, break on the lips as soon as born.
These are all nought to that greatest joy—
the firstborn boy!— Evening Ledger.
'Tia true a boy's a wished for blessing, but
then suppose the first's a girl! A dear
sweet child, with ways caressing, with pout
ing lips and flaxen curls, with dimpled
' checks and laughing eyes, to come and bid
jvapa' good bye! So whether boy or wheth.
' or t'other, embrace the babe and then the
! mother.—-Son t ramuco Globe.
VOL,. 41: NO. 25.
V MODEL PATRIARCH HI ALUERiA.
Mr. Henry Blackburn's "Artists ar,d
Arabs, or Sketching in Sunshine," contains
this picture of a model patriarch among the
Algerines: "Around the camp this evening
there are groups of men and women stand
ing, that bring forcibly to the mind those
prints of the early prtriarchs from which we
are apt to take our first and, perhaps, most
vivid impressions of eastern life; and wc can
not wonder at French artists attempting to
illustrate Scriptural scenes from incidents
in Algeria. There are Jacob and Joseph,
as one might imagine them, to the li f e>
Ruth in the fields, and Rachel by the well;
and there is a patriarch coming down the
mountain, with a light about his head as
the sun's last rays burst upon him, that
Herbert might well have seen when he was
painting Moses with tables of the law. The
effect is accidental, but it is perfect in an
artistic sense, from the solemnity of the
| man, the attitude of his crowd of followers,
I the grand mountain forms which are parti
i ally lit up by gleams of sunset, and the sharp
shadows cast by the throng. This man
; may have been a warrior chief, or the head
: of a tribe; he was certainly the head o!
large family, who pressed round him to an
ticipate his wants and do him honor. His
children seemed to be everywhere about him;
they were his furniture, they warmed his
tent and kept out the wind, they begged for
him, prayed for him, and genet ally helped
him on his way.
"In the Koran there is a saying of similar
purport to the words; 'Happy is the man
that hath his quiver full of them'—this one
had his quiver full of them, indeed, and
whether he had ever done much to deserve
the blessing, he certainly enjoyed it to the
full. Looked upon as a colored statue, he
was in some respects a perfect type of beauty
strength and dignified repose—what we
might fitly call a 'study,' as he sat waiting,
whilst the women prepared his evening meal;
but whether from a moral point of view he
quite deserved all the respect and defcrencs
that was paid to him, is another question.
As a picture, as we said before, he was mag
nificent, and there was a regal air with
which he disposed the folds of his bournous,
which, we, clad in the costume of advanced
civilization, could net but admire and envy.
He had the advantage of us in every way,
and made us feel it acutely. lie had a
splendid arm, and we could see it; the fine
contour and color of his head and neck were
surrounded by white folds, but not concealed.
His head was not surmounted with a bat
tered 'wide-awake,' his neck was not band
aged as if it were wounded, his feet were
not misshapen clumps of leather, his robe;-
—but we have no heart to go further into
detail. There is a 'well dressed' French
gentleman standing near this figure, and
there is not about him one graceful fold, one
good suggestive line, one tint of color, grate
ful to the eye, or one redeeming feature in
his (by contrast) hideous tout ensemble."
ASi ENTIRE CONGREGATION POI
SONED.
A letter to a Chicago paper dated at Xa
pierville, HI.. June 10th says:
' 'Never before in the history of Napier
ville was such an excitement created as on
last Sunday evening, when it was .reported
that the entire congregation of the I 'unkard
church, who were celebrating a love feast,
had been poisoned by eating meat prepared
in a copper kettle and allowed to remain
there until the uietal • had become oxydizcd.
Nearly every one in the village had a lriend
or a relative in attendance, and consequent
ly there %as a general rush lor the church
in question. Upon entering the building
the scene which met their gaze verified the
reports. In different portions of the church
were the sufferers, some sitting up, others
lying down, the latter twisting themselves
into all sorts of positions, rolling around the
floor; and all apparently suffering the most
excruciating pain.
Medical assistance was at once summon
ed, but. as it was very limited, considerable
time elapsed before all could be attended to.
The stomach pump was brought into requi
sition ami those who gave evidence of suffer
ing the most were considerably relieved by
its use. It was found that upon actual count
that no less than one hundred and thirty
were more or less affected, the major portion,
however, but slightly, they having partaken
of but a small quantity of food. About
twenty were found to be in a dangerous con
dition. These were removed to their homes,
and every attention paid to them, and be
fore morning inauy of them were out of
danger. Those who were but slightly affec
ted, with some little assistance, got home,
and in a short time were entirely recovered.
"It seems that the members were celebra
ting a love feast. On Saturday last a quan
tity of meat was cooked in a copper kettle.
About one-half of it was eaten that day. and
the remainder allowed to remain in the ket
tle until Sunday, on account of there being
no other place to keep it. Some of the suf
ferers did not recover for two or three days,
but now nil are pronounced out of <lngor.
PRUSSIA AND FRANCE.- The German
journalist, Bamberger, who is also one of
the most eminent members of the Customs'
Parliament, describes in a letter to his con
stituents the opinions of Bismarck relative
to a war. with Franse.
It is a fact well worth knowing that the
Prussian Premier Is opposed on principle to
a war with France, as he considers it would i
lead to a most lamentable disturbance of the
development of Germany, and as, more- !
over, he believes that a victory, however j
brilliant, could only be purchased by the ]
greatest sacrifices, since the French people i
would only be rendered more jealous than ;
ever of the Germans by defeat, and seek to :
retrieve the lossea of one campaign by a
second. There are many people who hold j
that Bismarck has made two great mistakes;
first, in accepting the line of the Main at
Nikolsburg rather than involve Prussia in a
war with France: and secondly, in not at
tacking France apropos of the Luxumburg !
question, when Prussia was far superior to
her rival both in armaments and military
organization. But I think these two mis
takes—if such they were—are in any case
much to his credit as a skillful and ready
! statesman. Nor do I believe Count Bis
marck to bo wrong in holding to the princi
i pie that a war between the two nations is
! the greatest of all the calamities thatthreat
; en us. and that so long as it is not proved to
demonstration that such a war is inevitable,
it is our first duty to prevent it and allow?
Europe tiino to free herself from the circum*
stances whence such a danger arises.
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DIP IT CP. —A ship was sailing in the south
ern waters of the Atlantic, when they saw an
other vessel making signals of distress. Ihey
bore down toward the distressed ship and
hailed them.
"Whatis the matter?"
"We are dying for water," was the re
sponse.
"Dip it up then!" was the answer "you
are in the mouth of the Amazon River 1"
There those sailors were thirsting, and
suffering, and fearing, and longing for
water, and supposing that there was noth
ing but the ocean's brine around them,
when, in fact, they had sailed unconsciously
into the broad mouth of the mightiest river
on the globe, and did not know it. And
though to them it seemed that they must
perish with thirst, yet there was a hundred
miles of fresh water around them and they"
had nothing to do but to
"Dip it up!"
Jc.-us Christ wys, "If any man thirst let
him come unto me and dri/J:. "And the
Spirit and the Bride say, cotnc and whoso
ever will let him come and take oi the wa
ter of life freely." Thirsting soul, theflood
is all around you, "Dip it up!" and drink,
and thirst no more.— Exchange.
AN ENGLISH IRON CLAD.— The London
Times says of the new turret-ship Monarch:
The admiralty have at last produced their
conception of a turret-ship, and a finer tar
get than the Monarch—the first turret-ship
constructed in (he Queen's dockyards—for
an enemy's artillery, was surely never de
signed. Rising out of the water with a free
board of fourteen feet, she extends her long
side, unbroken by a single port-hole, for
more than a hundred yards, two-thirds part
of which are unarmored, except at the
water-line, and the rest is protected by
seven inch armor, which the guns of the
Russian, Prussian, French and American
navies would all be able to shatter. She
combines the greatest defensive weakness
with the smallest offensive power. She is
.3,000 tons, and only carries tcven guns. At
sea her unarmored hull will generally be ex
posed, and she will rarely be able to fire her
guns with any accurate aim. She will cost
not less than £400,000, and in all the most
cs-ential portions of Admiral Goldsbor
ough's definition, it may be safely predicted
that the Monarch will fail.
FLOWERS. —It is said that almost all kinds
of flowers sleep in the night. The marigold
goes to bed with the sun and rises weeping.
Many plants are so sensitive that their leaves
close during the passage of a cloud. The
dandelion opens at five or six in the morn
ing and closes at nine in the evening. The
daisy opens its day's eye to meet the morn
ing sun. The crocus, tulip and many others
close their blossoms at different hours to
wards evening. The ivy-leaved lettuco
opens at eight in the morning, and closes
forever at four iu the afternoon. The night
blooming cercus turns night into day; it
| begins to expand its magnificent, sweet
seentcd blossoms at twilight, it is in full
! bloom at midnight, and closes never to open
again at the dawn of day. in a clover field
not a leaf opens till after sunrise. So says
a celebrated author, who has devoted much
time to the study of plants, and often
watched them in their slumbers. Those
plants which seem to be awake all night he
styles the bats and owls of the vegetablo
kingdom.
MR. BCRLINO.VME'S services, iu intro
ducing the institutions of civilization in Chi
na. are summed up by the Spirit if Missions,
as follows: '"Through his influence an Amer
ican geologist was employed, who has de
monstrated the great extent of their coal
mine-. Wheaton's Elements of Internation
al Law were translated into Chinese by Dr.
Martin, an American missionary, and adop
ted as a national text book by his advice.
The first grant for a submarine telegraph,
connecting the treaty ports from Canton to
Tientsin?, was made to him, by which the
trade of China was increased from $52.000,-
(100 to £300,000,000. He warmly fatorcd
the commission which two years ago was
despatched to Europe, and the establish
ment of a University for the cultivation of
the sciences of the West, and lias been an
ardent supporter of the great cause of mis
sions. which has done so much for civiliza
tion and for commerce, as well as for Chris
tianity."
FF.MAI.E INFLUENCE.—I have noticed
that a married man falling into misfortune
is more apt to retrieve his situation in the
world than a single one. Chiefly because
his spirits are soothed and relieved by
domestic endearments, and self-respect kept
alive, by finding that, although abroad be
darkness and humiliation, yet there is still
a little world of love at home of which he is
monarch. Whereas, a single man is apt to
run to waste and self neglect—to fall to ruins
like some deserted mansion, for want of in
habitants. I have often had occasion to
mark the fortitude with which women
mstalti ilie uiosl uvci wlicltuiug reverses of
fortune. Those disasters which breakdown
the spirit of man, and prostrate him in the
dust, seem to call forth all the energies of
the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and
elevation to their character that at times it
approaches sublimity.— Washington Irving.
THE LAST OP THINGS.— It is with some
melancholy interest, musing on the instabil
ity of human things, that the philosophic
mind surveys the last specimen of almost
anything. The last tinder-box, and the
last hackney coach, for instance, may be
looked at with a certain fond partiality of
regret. That they are the last of their sort
shows, to be sure, that they have outlived
coarse and barbaric expedients, and the
things themselves are neither beautiful nor
any longer useful. But they are the last,
and we drop a sympathizing sort of sigh as
we get rid of the worn out old bores. We
might be sorry, after a fashion, to see the
very last cockroach. The dodo was an un
gainly fowl, and was certainly not an orna
ment in the animal world; yet who but
would have sighed had he witnessed his
final extinction? — Satttrday Review.
SELFISHNESS HIBCKKD. —A. poor old
man, busily planting an apple tree was rudc
ly asked, ''What do you plant trees for? you
j can't expect to eat the fruit of them. lie
raised himself up. and leaning upon his
spade, answered, "Some one planted trees
before I was born, and I have oaten the fruit.
I „ow plant others, to show m.v gratitude
when I an dead." Tlius should we thuik
and net for the welfare of others.