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POLITICAL
ADDRESS FROM TUB CHAIRMAN
OF THE REIM IBGICAN SOMHEIIS'
AND SAILORS' COMMITTEE.
COMRADES: —When the rebel armies
1 were overthrown and the rebel leaders for
given by our magnanimous Chief, the
whole world wondered at the generosity
which pardoned men guilty of sceh a
| crime. The least we expected was that
| the Government, for which wo had fought
and for which so many had given up their
lives, was secured against the possibility
of another conspiracy. But warned by
| history and taught by our own experience
among the misguided people of the South,
, we maintained our organizations, and now,
in the forefront of another perii, congrat
ulate ourselves upon the wisdom of that
deeisiou. So throughly have our milita
ry brothers reunited themselves lhat only
a lew who wore the Union blue can be in
duced to join the ranks of the rebel l)e
i mocracy. Our camps extend East and
; West; from the Atlantic to the Pacific;
| and there is not a veteran who does not ro
; alize that the public danger may once more
call him to the held. The alarming spec
tacle of a formal combination between the
i two great columns of treason —the rebel
army of the Mouth and the rebel ,ympa
thizcrs of the North—is the liviog proof
of great impending calamities. These
j desperate men—the one side still vaunting
i their treason against the country, and the
other still boasting of the aid and comfort
| extended to them —profess to be confident!
! of success in the approaching election. The
i animosity they bore to our beloved Com
mander-in-chief—now the candidate of the
great Republican party —survives the hol
low gratitude with which they hailed his
liberal terms of peace, and now, reuieni
beriug ouly that he struck them in the
field, and coldly forgetting how he forgave
; their great offence, they are toiling with
superhuman eneigy to defeat him for the
Presidency, and to place in that high of
! fiee -a fit successor of its pre?cnt guilty oc- ;
; cupaut. Their hatred of Grant extends
to all our heroic ieaders, with one or two
j exceptions. The only offence of these ae- 1
I complished soldiers is their fidelity to the
; country for which they fought. Genera)
George H. Thomas in Tennessee, General
Irwin McDowell in Mississippi, General
George 11. -Meade in Georgia, General
Canby in South Carolina, and General
i Keynolds in Texas, with their predeces- j
sors, Sheridan, Sickles, Pope, Swayne, j
j and Mower, are proscribed and slandered !
—like common felons—while every Union :
man in the South, black and white, is sub ;
jected to inconceivable cruelty and oppres- j
sion. This wholesale malevolence, look \
ing directly to the restoration of the rebel
governments, teaches us not only the wis
dom and justice of our organization, Lut
invokes us to renewed efforts in favor of
Grant aud Colfax, the standard-bearers of
the Republican party, and for our gallant
comrades, Hartranll aud Campbell, our
standard-bearers in the Slate coutest.
The fundamental ideas of this rebel j
j combination arc lhat nothing has been |
gained by the success of our arms, but
that every thing has been lost. To forget j
the sanctified dead, to ignore and outiage
i the gallant living, and to remember and !
reward those only whose crimes in any
! other nation would have been punished by
death or confiscation, is the inspiring mo
live of our adversaries. What American j
soldier does not feel the insult? What'
American citizen does not burn to resent i
it? Instead of cordially submitting to !
: the laws passed by overwhelming Con- j
gressional majorities, and carried into ef- i
lect for the grand purpose of reorganizing ■
the South upon the basis of equal justice
and equal rights, our recent adversaries
openly threaten a new resort to arms.
At no period in the rebellion have they'
been at once so defiant and so cruel. Uni- |
ted in antagonism to the laws, to the na
tional eredit. to ihe national currency, to !
the public peace, aud to those great prin
ciples for which we contended, and suc
ceeded in maintaining, they cnoly appeal
to the jieople and ask a verdict in favor of
their incredible crimes. Speaking now
for the returned Volunteers of Pennsylva
nia, who were disfranchised by the Sey
m ur Democracy, we solemnly renew our
dcvotiuli to our beloved country, and ae
eert, not simply our readiness to support
our candidates at the ballot-box, but our
determination, at all times, to march to
our Government's defence against her en
emies. By order of the Committee,
i UHAB. 11. T. COLL IS. Chairman.
j A, L. RUSSELL. Secretary.
NASBY.
Mr. Nasby returns from New York before
the adjournment of the Convention—How
the nominations icere received at the Cor
ners.
POST OFFIS, CONFEDKITX ROADS, )
! (Wieh is in the Stait uv Kentucky. Y
July 13, 1808. )
I didn't stay in Noo York till the Con
ventual adjourned, for a most excellent rea
son, to wit, viz : uiv mouey run out. The
Mclesian female with whom 1 wuz forst to
board required payment in advauce, aud uv
course under sich an arrangement there wut
j nothing left for me but to succuni. The
length uv my stay redoost itself to a mere
! matter uv mouey. I tried the borrowin
dodge, and the chcekin dodge, but good
Lord ! wat cood Ido with an entire Con
venshuu, all uv 'em more or less tryin to
live in the same way? I left aud came
home while I cood, and before it was ever
lastingly too late. When 1 left I spozed
ther wuz no doubt uv the nouiinashen uv
Pendleton. The "young eagle uv the
West" hed received 155 votes, and wuz
againin, and Seymour bed declined so often
aud so persistently that goin back on my
yoosual disbeleef in these fellers, hcvin de
clined a great many offices myself lhat 1
wanted. I reely beleeved the cuss wuz in
earnist, and saw nothing that cood stand
between Pendleton and success. Ez I left
the Ohio river, I got out uv the reach uv
railrods aud telegraphs, and I told the peo
ple all along that Pendleton hed bin notui"
nated on the loth ballot, and that the coun
try wuz all ablaze with enthoosiasm for him
and greenliax, so certain wuz I uv his sue
cess.
On arriving at the Corners, I found that
intense anxiety wuz manifested by the cifci
jz- ns thereof. They were all gathered at
Base irn's discussin the matter when I hove
in sight 011 a mule wieh I hed borrowed at
Seccssionville t© ride over onto,
i "Who is it?" asks Dukin Pograni, keteh-
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 14. INGS.
in the mule by the bridle. "IV bo is it, aud
wat principles liev we got to eupport this
j fall?"
"Pendleton and greenbax," .-houtej I.
"Pendleton, the young eagle uv the West,
who is opposed to the bloated aristocratic
bondholders, wieh wood crush as labrin
wen into the dust. Pendleton, who he
leeves that ef grceubax is good enough for
us honest laborin wen, they are good
enough for the aristocrat, who, like the
King in the nursery rhyme, sits in his par
lor, countin his money. Pendle —
"Enuff!" said Rascow, "enuff save
that speech. Parson, till we hev our ratifi
c&shun. In the meantime, get off and take
stub in. So good do 1 feel over the result
that I am willing to stand treet for the
crowd. Cowe one, come all."
These few remarks of Bascoui's wuz hail
ed with satisfaction. Kz one man the en
tire crowd moved into Ids place, and ez one
man they all assuaged their ihurst. Baseow
can wove the Corners quicker that) any man
in it. Wat a bapj'j' possihen is hisst-u!
The next nite it wuz decided to hev a rat
ificashn, that the Corners mite contribbit
her mite towaid-t swcllin the enthoosiasui
on the buzzutu uv which Pendleton wuz to
sweep to glory. We met in the open air,
in front of Ba.-oow's, and'he iuipa-heut
crowd culled on u>e to give an account uv j
my stewardship.
I opened by statiu that I went to Noo
York under pekoolyerly emborrassin eir
cumstaoces. The whole money power uv
the east wuz arrayed agio us. The aristo
cratic Belmont which is the agent of the
Rothchiids, the money king of the world,
wuz determined to foist onto the Diwocrisy
either Chase, the accursed Abolitionist, or
Seymour, the inkoolyer pet of Wall street,
which street is, I niav sling in here for the
benefit uv my hearers, where the money
bizniss is mostly done, and w here they sleep
on Govemment bonds and spend the heft
of their time a clippiu off the cupons.
"Wat is cupons?" asked Deeken Po '
gram. I explained to the blessed old saint
wat coupons wuz, aud went on.
"This Wall street influence wood, my
brethren, hev corrupted the Demoerisy.
Wall street came into Tammany Hall and
wanted to contnd our ackshen. But we
wuzn't to be pure hist. The more Wall
street offered to euslave the Dimocrmsy, the
more yoor representatives, gloriyin in their
manhood, spurued their proffered bribes.
We went their determined to emancipate ,
the yeomanry uv the country from the
londage of the bloated bondholder —we
went there pledged to Pendleton, the young
eagle uv the West—pledged to tender the
bloated bondholder, if we paid him any*
thing, greenbax for his bloated bonds, or
nothin. We went ther determined to anni
hilate this yeer Seentore and his bloated
supporters."
"Itah for Pendleton!" sung out the
crowd.
"Three groans for Seymour, the bloated •
bondholders' agent!"
Both cheers and groans were given with a
will, and I proceeded.
"My friends, yoo nevr'll know wat we,
the people's defenders, hed to contend with.
The bloated bondholders hed money—we
hed none. They were determined to fasten
the yoke on yoor necks—we were dctcrmin
ed to hist it off. They wuz determined to
hev Seymour, with all Wall stieet at his
hack, fastened on to yoo, to grind yoo into
dust, hut feeling that if he shood be nouic
nated we cood never support him, we riz in
our mite and manfully compelled em to with
draw this man and give us the people's
choice, George H. Pendleton, tLe eagle of
the "
At this pint Dcekin Pogram's son Gauia
liel, wuz seen puttin dawn the hill ex fast es
his mule cood git. Joe Bigler nottst him
fust and rusht out uv the erowd to intercept
him. The boy had a noospaper in his hand,
wieh Joseph took from him, and ru ht to
where I wuz standin on ihe hed uv a bar!.
"Here's the last Louisville paper, sed
Joseph unfolding if. ".Bhel I reed it?"
"Reed! Heed!" yelled the the crowd.
"Giv us the noose uv the downfall uv the
bloated bondholders!"
"Before I reed," so' Joscp, who hed
glanced at the headings uv the telegraft col
lum, 'give three more cheers for Pendleton
and greenbax. Hip, hip—"
"Rah !" cheered the crowd.
"Now three groans, and let them he good
ones, for Seymour and his cussid doctrine
wieh will grind us into dust under the heels
of Belmont, arid aid the furrin capitalists
by payiu the bonds in gold !"
And they groaned as heartily ez they
cheered.
"We, ez Dimocratf " continued Josef,
"hev sworn by our altars and our fires, nev
er to support for offis wuo who wood pay
a debt inkurred by a uncon.-titooshnel gov
ernment in a unconstitooshnc! war in any
thing but the debased currency wieh that
unconstitoo<hne! government isliood."
"Never! never! we sware!"
"Very good," said Josef; "This paper
wieh I hold in my hand conveys the afiiictin
intelligence that on.the twenty-second ballot
Governor Horasho Seymorc, uv New York,
wuz nomenated, and that Frank Blair wuz
nouienated by acclamation. Ez Seymour is
opposed bitterly to Pendleton's greenback
policy, I spose, uv coarse, ihe Corners will
repoodiate the ackshen uv the eouvcn.-hin."
And with a laff which wui devilish in the
extreme, Josep left the stand.
The meetin broke up in a row. The Cor
ners ielt that they bed Lin impo.-ed upon
and hed I not got out uv the way 1 mite hev !
been personally iujoored. The Deekin,
Bascom, Kernel Mcpelter, 1-saker Gavitt,
and I met in the Post offis, after the excited
crowd had disfterscd, and consulted. We
wax in rather a tite place. Helayn on the
strength uv our candidate, wc hed gone too ■
far in denouncin the others, though for that
matter wat could we do? The two policies
is so cussid opposite, that we can't support
the one without denouncin the tother. It ;
wus decided that we support the ticket.
We felt it wuz safe. Seymour, if he is
elected, can't discriminate between his sup
porters in the distribooshen uv the post
offices, and after all that is the reel question
at ishoo. After givin the subjick a more
mai.oor consider,ashen, we came to the con
clushen that the credit and standin uv the
Government demanded the payment uv the
nashnel indebtedness in gold, and that any
thing short uv that wood be repoodiashin.
"I wonder." sed I, "that any honest
man—any man who bleeves in maintaining
unimpaired the credit uv the Government,
.-hood think for a moment uv pay in t lie debt
in anything but wat wuz contemplated—
honest hard gold!" At a meeting next
nite to ratify Seymour's nominashcu, I sed
ihii over agin, and asked em if any Dimo
crat who re mini he led the glorious fite Jack
son made for hard money, wood consent for
a moment to multiply a inedecmable paper
currency? No! Let us, ez our glorious
standard hearer Seymour hez so boldly pro
claimed, let us pay our debts in Dimekratic
money gold—hard, shinin, yaller gold.
I liree cheers for Seymour !"
Aud they cheered as vigorously ez I ever
heerd men cheer. Ther aint no trouble in
mauagin the Dimocrisy. All they want is
to hev it settled wat they are to hurrah for.
and they hurrah for it. Notwithstanding
the fopaw 1 made the first nite we shell poll
the usual vote for Seymour, and possibly
more. Yet the experiment wuz a little
risky. I will never ratify agin till I know
wal I am ratifying and for whom.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. M.,
(Wieh*is Postmaster.)
Git ANT IN THE MEXICAN WAU.
Toward night, as very hard fighting was
going on near the plaza, it was suddenly dis
covered that the detachment engaged was
almost out of ammunition. The uicu were
under a hot fire, and could not hold their
ground lor a moment without cartridges.
Taylor s headquarters were a mile back out
side ol the town, at "Fort Number Cne," a
captured redoubt. Grant, who had been
with his regiment from the firing of the first
musket, volunteered to go and find hiui or
Twiggs, and order up ammunition.
He prepared for his ride behind a house,
and then dashed out. .The moment he
emerged from cover he was under a sweep
ing artillery and musketry fire from forts and
houses. But he was probably the best
horseman in the army, and his skill did him
good service. Before running the hot gaunt
let. he had adopted the jtosture of the Ca
uianche Indians in similar peril—lying
against the side of his horse, with one foot
thrown over the saddle and his hand clutch
ed in the mane. Being on the opposite side
from the enemy, and shots to harm him
must pass through the steed.
His horse wu- well trained, and with
Grant clinging to him in that awkward po
sition. and "bobbing" up and down with
his motion, he started at a quick run. ()n
the way he had to jump an earth wall nearly
four feet high. He made the lea]) splen
didly. and though balls whistled aud shells
exploded all around him, Grant had the
good fortune to reach the lint safely. He
found Twiggs, who gave the order to for
ward the ammunition, hut before it could
start our troops came pouring back. With j
great but fruitless gallantry- they had got j
into a place in which they could not stay, j
As Grant himself afterward described it. ;
they were like the man who caught a wild :
boar.— llicltardson's Grant.
A DANGER of ELECTING SEYMOUR.
We do not endorse t lat mode of conduct
ing political warfare which invades the sanc
tuary-of a candidate's home, and discusses
tho details of his domestic affairs: but there
is one fact connected with the private bisto-'
rv of Horatio Seymour and Jii- family that !
it would be criminal to the welfare of the I
country to withhold from public knowledge, j
The ]>euple ought to understand that the
Democratic candidate for President is liable ;
to l c the victim to hereditary insanity, and ;
that his elevation to the highest office in the ,
(iovcrnmcut may .-pacdily result in devolv
ing its j lowers and duties upon Blair, whose |
known personal character and revolutionary !
sentiments, viewed in the light of recent ex- !
perience with Vice Presidents succeeding to
the Presidency, make the contingency wor- \
thy of serious contemplation.
Relative to Seymour's tendency to insani
ty, the Cincinnati Commercial makes the j
following statement:
'One of his brothers developed similar j
tendencies, and was confined in a lunatic
asylum, and there died. Mr. Horatio Sey- J
uiour himself was troubled, years ago. in a
manner si menacing that he spent several i
months in seclusion, abstaining from all bus
iness, and avoiding care and excitement of j
every kind.'
The New York Post has an article on the j
same subject, from which we extract the
subjoined paragraph:
"These facts aught not to be concealed;
the Democratic masses themselves ought to j
know exactly what their ticket means—it ;
means Blair as President. No ordinary mo '
five could induce the Evening Post to touch
upon the sacred fears and private misfor
tunes of a respectable individual, but when
the American people arc asked to make that
citizen their ruler, his private infirmities be
come public dangers, the solemn terrors of
his closet become the peril of the nation."—
Chicago Republican.
FACTS FOR CAMPAIGNERS.
The ordinary expenditures of the Govern
ment for the pre cut fiscal year are only
$102,818,447 in paper, whereas ten years
ago, on a gold basis, and before the era of
high prices, they were $70,000,000 under
the Democratic administration of James
Buchanan.
Since the war closed, iD a period of about
three years, the public debt has been re
duced between $200,000,000 and $300,000,-
I 000.
The Thirty ninth and Fortieth Republi
can Congresses have lemoved $191,000,000
of taxes, that but for this action the people
would now be called upon to pay.
In three years the army has been reduced
from 1,005.510 men to about 40,000, and a
proposition is now pending for its reduction
to 25,000.
The years of war cost $3,000,000,000, and
the years of peace about $300,1X10,000.
| The taxes removed have been all from
domestic industry, from cotton, from agri
• cultural products, irom miuerals, from pe
: troleum, and that the tax upon whisky has
i been red nerd 75 percent., and upon tobacco
25 per cent.
Of the eleven States which went into re
j bellion, eight have been restored to their old
relations to the Union under loyal govern
ments, and are now represented in Congress.
MARTIN F. CONWAY says he is going to
take the stump in the present campaign,
and declares himself for Grant and ( oltax.
He closes his letter as follows: "Me have,
had war enough. 1 prefeT peace, and am
willing to take it on the basis of existing
facts. M'e are lucky enough now (as we
were at the end of our great Revolution)
to have at the head of the army a man who,
though coming out a conqueror troui a
great war, sighs for peace; a simple and
virtuous citizen, whose ambition is to settle
the affairs of his country on a just basis,
and then, when Wis term of office is finish
ed, to re tin: to private lite. It seems tome
that we should be content to rest where we
are, without speculating upon tho results of
I another war.
foGnj,
[From the New York Tribune.]
"LET US HAVE PLACE!"
[f/eu. U* S Omni' Letter of Acceptance.]
BY WILLIAM OLA If B BOURSE.
"Let u have Peace!" is (he cry of the millions
Who fought for the starry-gemmed flag of the
free;
'Tis the prayer of the hero, the song of civilians,
That rolls from the mountains far down to the
sea.
The nation that rocked in the tempest and gloom,
And drifted in doubt to the wrecked on the
shore,
The storm has outlived, and the thunders that
boom
Are voices that prcphesy tempest no more.
"Let us have Peace f is the sigh of the lowly,
That walk in the vale cypress is seen,
Who mourn their departuie with tenderness holy,
And kneel where the graves are perennially
green;
Aud where the "Ur.known," in their silence are
sleeping.
The feet of the angels are pressing the sod,
Aud vespers of harmony round them are keeping,
While Martyrs of Freedom have gone to their
God.
"Let us have Peace! ' the evangel of LABOR,
Where toilers imploringly lift up their hands;
Go! wipe off the stains from the death-dealing
sab re,
And build the bright altar of hope for all lands;
Lo! radiant from darkness the temple of glory
Throws wide to the world the broad aisles of
the fame ;
And freemen shall toil as they utter the story,
And children repeat to the ages again.
"Let as "have Peace!" is the chorus ascending
From hamlets that lie 'mid the pinc-covered
hills,
And like a glad anthem in unison blending,
Floats on till the plain with its melody thrills;
And river- that roll to tho land of the West, j
And prairies that wake to the bymn of the free, j
W-ith millions of freemen imploring for reft,
Swell psalms of rejoicing while bending the
knee.
"Let us have Peace!" from the war's wild corn mo- '
Lion,
Tho trumpet's alarms, and the crash of the field,
An i let tho new bli*s, like the billows of ocean,
Roll over the land where the hero has kneeled; j
The sinokc f the battle has swept from the sky,
The thunders hare ceased, and the bugle's wild
blast:
The chains have been riven ! and loud from on
high
Ihe reveille calls to the love of the Past!
"LET rs HAVE PEACE !" in a holy thanksgiving,
The Hero-voice cries, in the name of 'he LORD !
For the sake of the dead! for the sake of the
living!
Turn spears into pruning-hooks—to plowshares
the sword!
And out of the darkness shall come forth the
beaming
Of Glory's bright sun where the foemcn have
trod,
And Freedom shall teach, with a truth all-re
deeming,
That PEACE WITH OUR BROTHER IS PEACE
WITH oi H GOD!
jP&crilanmis.
HAVING THINGS TO FIT
"Henry," said my unele to me one day,
just after the tailor had been measuring me
for a new suit, "can you tell mc why the
tailor measured you ? Why did he not make
your clothes without giving himself -so much
trouble?"
"Oh, uncle?" said I, "if he had not
measured my clothes, he would never
made them fit."
"Very true," said he "and now I hope
you will learn something from the tailor. If
he should make your new clothes too large
or too small for you, trouble enough will you
have with them, but if they should fit you,
why then they will add greatly to your com
fort. Much of your happiness in the world
consists in our having things to fit."
Though I understood what uncle meant
about mv new suit fittingme, I did not quite
catch his meaning as to the othor things.
I suppose he saw this, for he went on talk
ing thus;
"Things must be fitting to give comfort.
Ifa poor man, who cannot keep himself,
keeps a dog; if a man sets up in business
which he does not understand; if one ven
tures into deep water who canDOt swim, or
bids at an auction for what he cannot pay,
these things are not fitting, and cannot an
swer."
Uncle saw that I was listening, and pro
ceeded thus:
"If people would consider how they could
help each other, they would find themselves
better fitted to do so in a hundred instances
than they suppose. 'How shall I get my
potatoes to market?' said one to his neigh
bor, 'for you know I have a horse and no
cart.' 'Oh,'replied his neighbor, 'I know
one having potatoes to sell, who at this time
has a cart and no horse; you are just suited
to one another.' The two potatoe sellers
gladly agreed to help each other, and being
well fitted to do so, all things went off pleas
j antly."
Uncle kept looking at me to see if i well
i understood him.
"Sometime ago I heard of a blind man
and a cripple who wanted to goto the same
place, but could not tell how to get there.
As to helping ane another that seemed alto
gether out of the question. 'Nothing is
easier,' said a bystander, 'for if ydF take
matters right, you are just suited for each
other's benefit. Let the cripple use his
eyes, and the other his legs, and arm
and the affair will be settled.' And so
it was; they could not have suited one an
other better."
My uncle's meaning was plan enough |
now.
"I once was acquainted with a clever
tradesman, who knew very well how to keep
it. I advised him to take a partner, and
recommended to him a plain, honest man,
not one of your spendthrifts who run
through all they get, but one who was frugal
and prudent. The partners did exceedingly
well together. The one did the getting,
and the other managed the saving; they |
were exactly fitted for one another."
No one could deny the truth of every
word spoken by my uncle, who then said:
"All that is done by our Heavenly Father
is done suitably. Spring, summer, autumn
and winter, harmonize for the good of the
earth; the birds is fitted to fly in the eir;
the fish to switn in the water; and animals
to live on the land. Man is adapted to his
situation, and furnished with faculties to
enable him to do good and live to the glory
of his Almighty Maker. W hat can be bet
ter suited to one ignorant ot himselt and
• God than a book of wisdom like the Bible?
; With a little reflection. Henry, you will be
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satisfied that as it is in the clothes you wear
so it is in all other things, to CDjoy them and
to get good from them, they must fit you
and be suited to your condition."
The more I have thought of the remarks
of my uncle the more have I been satisfied
. of their wisdon and their truth.— Child's
' Compatnion.
A YOUN BIUDE IMMURED IN A
LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The New York S'ua of Monday says: A
singular case canie before Judge Bedle, at
the Hanson County Court House, Hudson
City, New Jersey, on Saturday, it was an
application for a writ o£ habeas wry us to de
liver from the custody of the Governors of
the Trenton Lunatic Asylum a Mrs. Men-it,
now confined in that institution. From the
affidavits made by the applicant and others,
it would appear that on the 4th of July last
Colonel H. D. Merrit, of Hudson City, was
married to Mrs. Frances J. Morton, widow
of the late William Morton. She continued
! to reside with her husband at her own resi
dence, near Mahwav, in the county of Ber
gen, until the 9th of July. Early in the
morning of that day her brother, Edward
Livingston Price, of Newark, a lawyer and
member of the last Legislature, went to her
house and sent word that he wished to see
her down stairs. She went down, leaving
her husband in the rooui. Her brother, who
had a carriage in readiness, put her in against
her consent, and had her taken to the IJer
gcu County Poor House, where she was
locked up until the 10th. She was then ta
ken to Hackensack, before a jury, summon
ed by a commission, appointed by the Chan
cellor, in pursuance of a petition filed on the
loth of July. Without friends, or any on c
to appear for her to contradict the state
ments as to her insanity, she was found to
be insane, and on the morning of the loth
of July, was taken by her brother and con
fiued in the Lunatic Asylum at Trenton.
From the time she was taken from the house
until her confinement in the Asylum, her
husband was unable to discover her where
abouts, and it was only a few days ago be
learned from a gentlemen in Jersey City
that she had been placed in an asylum. Im
mediately on becoming acquainted, with this
he applied through his counsel, Senator Win
field, for a writ of habeas corpus, which was
allowed by his Honor Judge Bedle, returna
ble on Saturday, when the matter duly came
before the Court. Dr. Buttolph, Superin
tendent of the Asylum, made return to the
writ that Mrs. Merritt was placed in hi- cus
tody by her brother, Mr. Price. Mr. E. L.
Price asked for a postponement for four
weeks, and asserted that the adjournment
would cause no inconvenience. The mem
bers of her own family had declared she was
insane; a jury so found, and the husband
would have been notified had it been known
where he then was. The case was adjourned.
WANTED--A BOY WITH 10 POINTS.
1, Honest. 2, Pure. 3, Intelligent. 4,
: Active. 5, Industrious. f>, Obedient. 7,
; Steady. 8, Obliging. 9, Polite. Id. Neat.
OliC thousand first-rate pW arc- ojM>n for
I one thousand boys who can come up to the
standard. Each boy can suit his taste as to
the kind of business he would prefer. The
places are ready in even.- kind of occupation.
Many of them are already filled by hoys who
lack some of the most important joint", but
they wiil soon be vacant. One is an office
not far from where we write. The lad who
has the situation is losing his first point. He
likes to attend the circus and the theatre.
This costs more money than he can afford,
but somehow be manages to be there fre
quently. His employers are quietly watch
-1 ing to learn how he gets so much extra
: .-jicriding money; they will soon discover a
leak in the money drawer, detect the dis
honest boy, and his place will be ready for
some one who is now getting ready for it by
observing point No. 1, and being truthful in
all his ways. Feme situations will soon be
vacant, because the boys have been joison
: ed by reading bad books, such as they would
| not dare to show to their fathers, and would
,be ashamed their mothers see. The
impure thoughts suggested by these books
will lead to vicious acts; the hoys will be ru
iued, and their places must be filled. Who
will be ready for one of these vacancies?
Distinguished lawyers, useful mitii.-ters,
-killful physicians, successful merchants,
must all soon leave their places for some
body else to fill. One by one they are re
moved by death. Mind your ten poiuts
boys; they will prepare you to steji into the
vacancies in the front rank. Every man
: who is worthy to employ a boy is looking for
you, if you have the points. Do not fear
that you will be overlooked. A young per
! -on having these qualities will shine as plain
ly as a star at night We have named ten
points that go toward making tip the char
acter of a successful boy, so that they cau
be easily remembered. You cau imagine
i one on each finger, and so keep them in
mind—they will be worth more than dia
mond rings, aud you will then never be
ashamed to "show your hand."
"I WILL!" —We like that strong, robust
expresion. No one, having uttered it in
sincerity, was ever a mean, crying man.
The pigmies of the world did not trouble
him. altho' they rose in masses to pull l.jm
down. He speaks, and the indomitable
prevails. His enemies fall before him. He
rides forth a conquerror. Would you be
great? Would you be distinguished for
your scientific or literary attainments? Look
not mournfully at your lot, but with ''l will"
breathing from your lips and burstiug from
a great heart, you can not but prevail
Show us the man that never rose higher
than a toadstool, and whoso.influence died
with his breth, and we will point you t0 a
greping, cringing wretch, who trembles at
the approach of a spider, and faints beneath
a thunder cloud. Let the fires ot energy
play through your veins, and if your
thoughts are directed in right channels you
will startle the slumbering universe.
BKAITT OF OLD PEOPLE.—Men and
womeu make their own beauty or their own
ugliness. Lord Lytton speaks of a man
, "who was uglier than had any business to
be," and if he could but read it every
human being carried his life in his lace, and
is good looking or the reverse, as that lift
lit as been good or evil. On our features thi
fine chisel of thought and emotion ar
eternally at work. Beauty is trot th
monopoly of blooming young men and c
pink and white maids. There is a slo'
growing beauty which only comes to pel
fectionin old age. Orace Wongs to n
period of life, tad improves the longer i
II exists.
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SUNDAY BEST A NECESSITY.
Nature reaffirms the divine law that one
day in seven should be set apart for rest and
worship. Both the brute and human world
need it for their well being. Dr. Farre, a
distinguished physician, says: Although
the night equalizes the circulation well, yet
it docs not sufficiently restore its balance for
the attainment of a long life. Hence one
day in seven, by the bounty of Providence,
is thrown in as a day of compensation, to
perfect by its repose the animal system.
You may easily determine this question by
trying it on the Leasts of burden. Take that
fine animal, the horse, and work him to the
full extent of his powers every day but one
in seven, and you wili soon perceive by the
superior vigor with which he performs his
fiinetrons on the other six days that this rest
is necessary to his well being. Man. pos
sessing a superior nature, is borne along
jby the very v'KOV of his miud, so that the
| injury of continued diurnal exertion and ex
citement in his auicnal system is not so im
mediately apparent as it is in the brute; but
in the long run it breaks dowff more sud
denly; it abridges the length of his life and
that vigor of his old age which (as to mere
animal power) ought to -be the object of bis
> preservation. This is simply as a physician
and without reference at all to the theo
logical question.
TIIE DISCIPLINE OF SOBROW*. —If the
block of marble that lies before the sculptor
was capable of feeling, how would it deplore
and bemoan every stroke of the hammer,
chipping ofF piece of substance. It would
deem its lot a pitiable one indeed. Yet,
that, hammer and chisel are transforming
the rough and shapeless stone into a form
of life, grace and beauty fit to adorn the
palace of a king.
So it is with us. Our characters are like
unhewn blocks of marble, rude, misshaped,
comparatively worthless. And God is
sculpturing theut into forms of divine sym
metry and beauty, that may forever illus
trate to the universe the power of His grace.
The heavy block of adversity and the ras
ping cares and petty annoyances of our daily
life are but different parts ofthesame divine
and loving ptocess.
And shall we look simply at the hammer
and ehi.-e!, and doubt the glorifying work
for which God is using theui? Shall we think
only of the chips which the bluws of His
presence strike from us. and overlook the
immortal characters which the Great Sculp
tor is seeking thus to perfect for His celes
tial temple?
DIFFIDENT MEN. —Wheu the world was
•younger, diffident people had a much better
chance of success in it than they have now.
Their modesty found favor with the wise
and good, and they were helped along, Pliny
the greatest lawyer of his age, recommended
quite young in"n of liia own profession to
the public, and sometiu.es refused to under
take a cause unless some modest junior
counsel was associated with him as a pica
dor. L>rr. don't do that sort of thing
now. It does not answer to implore the "
favorable opinion of courts and juries; the
advocate who expects to obtain their assent
to bis views must demand it. We have
popular speakers who simply "make a noise
in the world." Their heads are empty but
their lungs are stroDg and their tongues glib.
An ancient writer on oratory says that a
flushed face and an expression dashed with
modesty should secure the attention of an
audience. Alas! the evidences of diffidence
are death to the prospects of a speaker in
this age. A man who overcrows his better
is pretty sure to take the lead. In law. in
business, in politics—and sometimes eveh in
church —this rule holds good.
A QUESTION OF BOUNDARY. —The boun
dary line between Massachusetts and Rhod-
Island has not yet been detorreined, and
after years of contest the two States seem
to be as remote as ever from a settlement.
After many commissions and suits, a joint
commission was appointed solne years ago,
which agreed upon a compromise line from
Connecticut to the sea, the Rhode Island
commissioners yielding something on the
north line, and the Massachusetts commis
sioners something on the eastern line. Mas
sachusetts, however, refused to ratify any
part of the compromise but that which en
larged her own territory, and the question
was so nearer a settlement than before.
Rhode Island has recently had the entire
northern line re-surveyed, aud the result, it
i, asserted proves beyond a doubt that the
line fixed by the ancient colonial charter ex
tended north of that to which Rhode 1 -laud
now exercises jurisdiction, and would briug
into that State the entire villages of Black
stone and Waterford, now governed by Mas
sachusetts. A renewal of negotiations,
with a view to au agreement upon the char
ter line, is therefore recommended.
ABOUT Sl* months ago, in dead Winter,
the Kiowa tribe of Indians, then a hostile
band in Texas, made prisoners of a family,
of white settlers, consisting of six persons,
in Cook county of that State, and carried
them into captivity. Before they reached
their camping grounds they* killed four of
the number —the father, mother, uncle and
babe. The other two, who were little
girls, aged respectively four and six years,
they kept as captives. Several weeks
ago Col. Leavenworth, the Govern
ment agent . for this tribe of Indians,
had occasion to visit their eamping ground,
and there found these little children
prisoners. He compelled their release,
and has brought them to Washington. lie
had them at the Capitol on Thursday and
says that as they arc in the world alone
without a relative, he proposes that Con
gress dednet $20,000 froui the annuities of
the Kiowas to raise and educate them. The
Indian appropriation Ls under consideration
in the Senate, and a sufficient sum will uu
doubtledy be set aside for 3ueh an ob iect.
MEN are as susceptible to flattery as wo
men. Sugar is sweet to everybody,- and the
moment a particle can be dropped upon the
! palate the mouth goes wide open with a
bound. Human nature is remarkably preva
.l lent in both sexes.
11 IT is best to keep your secrets to yourself;
e ! you may then feel sure they arc yours, and
e 1 that you are not arousing the jealousy of
t{ I others or creating fears in yonr own mind
, r that others know how to wrong you-
WE have noticed already no less than
o fortv-sevon and a half puns on Seymour
ft nanie since he became the democratic can
didate.