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A CAMPAIGN SONG.
ADA ITU I> TROW SCOTT.
Arouse ! arouse; the standard flies,
The bugle sounds the call;
The loyal flag floats in the breere,
The name of Grant swells through the trees,
Swells from the lips of all.
From high Katahdin's peaks we come,
A band of brothers true;
From Colorado's hill* and vale*.
From California's golden dales,
The gallant boys in blue.
Though Seymour's minion* cry for war,
We know their ways of old,
They slept when Southern rebels fought,
They held the sword, but used it not.
Their birthright's would have sold.
Oh ! had they marked the warning call
! Their father's spirit* gave,
'■ Foal treason ne'er their ranks had mown
Nor honest patriots, desperate grown,
Dug their dishonored grave.
Shall we, too, bow the stubborn head,
In Freedom's temple born,
Tremble with knee and shoulder bent,
Before a dastard President,
i Or brooke a Seymour's seourn ?
No! once again throughout the land
We'll shout the watchword out;
Our rotes shall prove again to-day
That Freedom and Honor still held away,
Still can foul Treason rout.
' Arouse! arouse! for General Grant
And Colfax let us shoot!
We'll save our nation's honor^yet,
i Repudiate no cent of debt
And fling our baa ner out.
goHtiffll.
FIGURES FOR EVERY CITIZEN.
tost of the Rebellion—Entire Receipts
and Expenditures for Seven Years—
The Public Debt—F'ederal Taxation.
We have applied to official sources for
exact information on certain points of con
siderable interest to the tax paving people
and the results of our enquiries are cm
liodied in the statements annexed. Every
fact cited and figure repeated in this article
are taken from the Annual Reports of the
Secretary of the Treasury, submitted to
, Congress for the fiscal years ending respec
tively ami seriatim from June 30, 1860 to
June 30, 1867, with the data for the year
ending in Jane last (to be reported by the
Secretary to Congress in December next)
| which are from the recent official statement
I of Commissioner WELLS, the authenticity
of which no man can question, and for the
current year, ending June 30,1869, from the
' estimates of the various departments, as re
v iscd, cut down and appropriated for at the
: last session. These appropriations, be it
remembered, limit all drafts upon the
Treasury, and not a dollar can be lawfully
expended beyond the authority thus given
by the representatives of the people, and
the amounts thus authorized are therefore
assumed, under the uniform practice of the
| Government from its earliest days, as mak
ing the extent of probable expenditures.
We propose to show
I The money cost of the late rebellion, in
cluding therein the expenses of the War and
Navy Departments, interest paid on the
public debt, the cost of Reconstruction and
: of the Freedmen's Bureau, up to the period
when ali these expenses, except for interest
on the debt, shall have ceased,
j LI. The aggregate receipts and expendi
tures of the Government for the eight years
ending June 30, '6l to June 30, '6B, inclu
sive.
111. Where the money came from, which
we have thus expended.
IV. How this money has been expended.
V. A statement of the Public Debt at va
rious periods from July 1, '6O, to August
! 1, '6B.
VI The present condition of our system
of Federal taxation.
We invite to these statements the fullest
consideration of every reader who is a tax
payer, and challenge the most critical exam
ination of the figures submitted, in reference
to the official reports of sworn officers of the
Federal Government. The wildest and
most absurd misrepresentations of the rea'
state of facts have been indulged in by Dem
ocratic presses and public speakers, the
greater part of whom err through simple
ignorance, their incompetency to under
stand the details of financial questions, or
their willful and reckless disregard of the
truth. The country is already vocal with
these persons, many of them candidates for
office, for Congress and the State Legisla
tures, who either knowingly and purposely
state what they know to be nntrue, or who
exhibit a degree of ignorance aod incapacity
not only disqualifying them for the positions
they have the assurance and vanity to ask
for, but establishing their entire unfitness
to be trusted as political teachers, or to be
respected as men of ordinary veracity and
common sense.
1. THE COST OF THE REBELLION.
Expenses of ike War Department, Years
Ending June 30th.
1862.....$ .>94,368,407 36 1666 $ 281,449,701 82
1863. 699,298,600 83 1867 95,224,415 63
1864...- 690,791,842 97 1868 123,246.648 62
: 1865 1.031,323,360 79
Total, $3,218,702,928 02
Expenses for the year ending June 30th,
1861. were estimated at #20,000,000; for the
year ending JuneSOth, 1869, there were es
j tiniatcd and appropriated for, #33,081,118.
A sma'l part of this latter sum is estimated
for war claims remaining unpaid, but we
will accept il as represenling the proper ex
penses of that Department when peace shall
be fully restored, all the war debt liquidated
; into another form, and the military service
of the Bepnblic brought back to its normal
condition, commensurate with the material
growth of the people. The Depaitment
cost, for the year ending June 30th, 1860,
#16,409,767 10. It is fair to assume that
its proper expenses, bad no rebellion or civil
disturbance required their expansion, wonld
have averaged, for the seven years from
July Ist, 1861 to July Ist, 1868, not over
#3U,000,000 per annum. Dednct therefore
: $210,000,0DD from the above aggregate and
it leaves the proper expenses of the Rebel
lion in that Department at $3,008,702,-
1 j 928 02.
Ex) tenses of the Nary Department —tame
yeart.
IS6I-'6J $ 42,674,569 9
1862-'63 63,211,105 27
j 1863-"64 85,733,292 77
1864-'65 122,567,776 12
I 1865- 66 43,324,118 52
i l-'67 31,034,011 04
i 1867 '6B 25,775,502 73
T0ta1.... $411,320.376 IS
1 The Navy cost $11,513,150 19 in the year
BEDFORD, PAm FRIDAY. AUGUST 28, 1868.
! ending June 30th, 1860, and was estimated
at $12,000,000 for the year coding June
JOlb, 1861. but probably cost more, as that
included three months of the rebellion.
The estimates aud appropriations lor the
current year ending next June are #17,3*10,-
! UJO. We take therefore an average of #ls -
000,000 for the proper expenses independ
ent of the war, and, deducting for tho flev
en years, $105,000,<300, have a balance of
$308,340,376 13 to carry up against the reb
el Demoeracj.
Merest Paid oh the Public Debt.
ISO I-'2 $ 13,190,326 45
162-'3 24.729,846 61
1863-*4 53,695,421 6*
1-64/5 77,397,712 0#
1565-'6 153.067,741 •
1866-7 144,7.81,591 01
1867-'8 141,635,551 00
Total : ...$587,488,18# 35 \
This item is as properly chargeable in
the account, as if it had been money direct- j
ly spent for powder and ball. The e-timhto
of interest to be paid daring the current'
year is much reduced, being only sl26,oui'.- :
000. Mark that'
The Freedman's Bureau.
The accounts in the Treasury Departmtnt
show that the total expense of this Bureiu,
since its organization, have teen but $!,- j
617,000, no small part of which has bem j
expended to provide food for starving
Southern Democrats.
Expenses of Reconttrvethjii.
The Treasury accounts show that the x- j
penditures contingent upon tbeßecon.-trac
tion acts of Congress have been $2,341,-1
700,56, total to June 30th, last. This does j
not include the proper military expenses for !
the armed forces, retained in the South
ern States to regulate and restrain the rebel
allies of our Copperhead Democracy from
cutting the throats of their Union neigh
bors, and renewing the fight for the "Lost
Cause." These expenses are already inclu
ded in those given for the War Department
proper. And, as all the expenditures for
Reconstruction and tbe Freedmen are so in- '
eluded, we do not now charge them up!
again in the total account. We sum up as
follows:
Total Expenses of the R- hellion.
War Department $3,008,702,928 02
Navy Department 308,340,376 13 ]
Interest paid on debt 587,438.199 35
Total $3,904,531,493 50 ;
—and tbe $126,000,000 of interest to be
paid this year on the debt will more than
swell, at the end of the current fiscal year,
the money cost of the great Democratic re
bellion to the terrible total of four thousand
millions of dollars! now soon can we af
ford to have another, snch as they threat- 1
en us with?
11. AGGREGATE RECEIPTS AND EXPESDI- j
TURKS FOR TI4F, EIGHT YEARS ENDING
JUNE 30, 1868.
The Receipts for each year, from ail ■
sources, were as follows :
1860 *6l $ 86.835,000 27 j
1861-'62 583,885,247 06
1862-'63 111,399,766 4S !
1863- 64 265,961,761 65
1864-'65 1,898.552.533 04
1865-'66
1966 "67 490,634,010 ST
1567-'6B 406,3(10,000 00
Total receipts for eight year#, $5,1 17. jQ9, J"". 07
The Expenditures for the same period
have been:
IS6O-'6l f 84,57.8.8.34 47
1861-'62 570.-41.700 25
l-02-'63.„ 714.709.095 59
1863-'eu 865.2.34,0-7 86
1-61/65 1,397,674.224 60
1865 '66 1,141,072.666 09
1866-'6 346,729,129 33
1867-'6 406,300,000 (10
Total expenditures for 8 years, $6,027,140,000 00
This apparent discrepancy of about #y<j(>,-
<300,000, between receipts and espen.-cs,
may be briefly explained. The figures for
each year above include the balance.- which
are carried over, and which ought to be de
ducted from the actual summary of the
year's transactions. For example, in all
the years named, except '64. these
balances varied from $2,000,0<<0 to $144.-
4)00,000, making in all about $325,000,000,
while in the two excepted years the deficit
on the other side was about $ 1,203,000,000.
The balance represents substantially tbe dis
crepancy above shown. It is evident, of
course, that this balance or apparent deficit
is fully accounted for in the public debt, in
;to which it has been carried. It is also to
• be observed that large amounts on each side
: of the account, and tor each year since 18C1,
represent merely changes in the form of the
| debt, the shifting of certificates into seven
thirties, legal-tender notes, or bonds of the
varipus authorized issues, and to that ex
tent are independent of the actual receipts
and expenses of the year, although includ
|cd in the annual financial statement. Mak
ing these deductions, the aggregate of mon
ies actually received and spent would ap
pear considerably less than above stated.
111. THE SOURCES WHICH YIELDED THE
FUNDS.
During the eight years ending June 3th,
!868, the receipts from all sources, except
| loans, amounted to #2,340.848,605,35. For
] ooeyear, 1863, this includes receipts from all
sounds whatever. These receipts were de
rived from customs, direct taxes, interna!
i revenue, lands, captured and abandoned
i property and miscellaneous items generally,
j The customs, taxes and internal revenue
were the channels through which the money
j of the people was received by the tax gatb
; ercr. Deduct the amount thus realized
from the total of receipts, and the balance,
| ~ 76,660,830,62, was every dollar of it
raised by loans of various descriptions bas
ed upon tbe National credit, and making up
our present National debt.
IV. IIOW THE MONEY HAS REEN EXPENDED.
We have above Bhown what it has cost
the country to put down tbe Rebellion. Let
us look at the other expenses incurred dur
ing this period. The following table shows
the ordinary expenses, excluding those for
the War and Navy Departments and on ac
count of the Debt. It comprehends all
other expenses of the country, incident to
its necessities in war or peace. These are
grouped by the Secretary under tbe heads
of the Civil .Service, Pensions and tbe Indi
ans. The figures are:
; 1960 'l_ * 32,000,000 00
• 1862-'2 24,511 476 66
I 1562-'3 27.470,442 97
: 1863-'4 - ~.. 35,05.3,530 43
: 1864-'5 59,024,133 50
! 1965-'? 50,909,-37- 45
1866-7 76,689.110 75
; 1867 -*8 63,741,966 05
Total of ordinary expense* $378,400,039 61
* Estimated.
The estimates and appropriations for the
current year show a still further reduction
to $40,000,0tX), which is very nearly down
to the mark of our expenditure in tbe last
year of Mr. Buchanan's administration.
Large amounts have been applied to the re
duction of tbe public debt. The last Trea
*ory -report states "the actual reduction
! from September I, '65 to October 31, *67,"
at $2G6.15,12],43. From (Jetobcr 31, '65,
\ to August 1, '6B, it is officially reported as
| reduced in the sum of $285,014,956,88.
i vrilbout throwing out tho $32,210,000 of*
Railway bonds.. Let us add to these items
| the cost of the war, as above gmu, togeth
er with the suras which we deducted from
the expenditures in the War and Navy De
partments, as allowance for their average
; annual cost under the ordinary conditions of
peace :
Sinenses of rebrili ,■ proper.... $4,165, 07 I
Oraustrj siptD6si War Jjej art
meat see en years e.-Hmate ...„ *16,600.660 66
Ordinary expense* Navy De
partment seven years estimate 165, "00,(KM) 60
Ordinary expenses eiril service,
Ac. seven years 378.400,039 II
Reduction of Public Debt J u 5,014,656 80 1
~, - „ $5,084,051,379 06 !
Add for all expenditures, 1860-61 84,575,*34 47
Total of expenditures $5,488,630,213 53
This ,>h*ws a alight excess over the total j
.-of receipts as stated above, but, as we have j
remarked, the exclusion of all transactions
concerning the debt from both sides of the
account, and the omission of the respective
balances and deficits would reconcile the
difference.
■STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT.
July 1, IS6O $ 64,769,703 03
July 1, If6l $0,637.62$ 68
July 1, 1862 514.211.371 92
July 1, 1863_ 1,698,793,181 37
July 1, 1-64 . 1,746,690,45$ 49
July 1. 1865 2,681,734,717 38
Oct. 31, IMSS 2.808,549,437 55
June 30, 1866 2,650,538,338 10 j
Get 31. 1-66 2,551,424,121 20 i
June 30, 1*67 2,514,800,013 ;;:
Aug. 1, 1868 2.523,534,480 67 j
Deducting from the last report, the sum
of for bonds issued to the Pa
cific Railway Companies which are to be
provided for. principal and interest, by the
companies, but, being guaranteed by gov
ernment, are noted in the Report as part of
our debt, we have the amount of debt actu
ally due on the Ist of August 186S to be $2,
491,324,480,67, an actual reduction of the
gross debt from its highest point in October
W>s, of $317,224.'.56.88. or more than one
hundred million? per annum. The interest
account also begins to run down, in propor
tion as the principal is paid off/ The coun
try saves fi'teeD millions of dollars in that
wav this year.
The total expenditures for the current
year, including the extraordinary payments
for interest, pensions, bounties, Ac., cannot
exceed #198,500,000, and that amount is ap
propriated accordingly. The receipts on
the other hand, are estimated by the .Secre
tary at of which the customs
and internal revenue furnish $350,000,000.
Said the Secretary, in December last:
"Thrje estimate* ire made on the general aver
age of the receipts and expenditure* fur the past
nine months. The Secretary is hopeful, however,
that Congre** will taks measures to largely re
duce expenditure* in all branches of the .-ereice,
... tMat a tten'iy retinction of the debt be crjtv
tinucd."
Congress did take snch measures, cutting
down the expenatures from his estimate ol
#372,000.000 to $198,500,000 appropriated
for. If the receipts hold up to his estimate
x- they are likely to do, a surplus of #182,-
5 ',OOO will be applicable to the reduction
|of the debt. And in this way the debt is
| finally to be paid off.
In ld!6, at the close of our second war
with Great Britain, the Republic, with a
; jiopuiation not exceeding eight millions,
■ owed a publie debt of $127. ■ ■54,933.74. and
paid it all off in twenty years. Large as is
| our present debt, our forty millions of peo
ple, wielding the resources of a continent,
will not find it so great a burthen as their
i fathers felt the war debt of 1816 to be, fifty
; years ago.
The reader will perceive, in examining
the above statement, than when Mr. Bu
; cbanan and the Democracy retired, in March
61, from their ma! administration of the
government, they left an already existing
■ debt of nearly ninety millions of dollars, for
: which in a partisan point of view, only they
; und not the Republicans, are responsible.
\ I THE PRESENT STATE OF TAXATION.
When tbe late war closed, taxation was
universal: it covered about everything ex
: cept land, agricultvral produce, unmanuf'ae
i tured lumber, breadstuff? and a few other
| forms ot property or product. At least ten
I thousand distinct articles were then subject
jto tax. Now. after three years, there is
nothing taxed for Federal purposescxeept
i spirits, liquors tobbaeco manufactures, gas,
1 matches, and playing cards: a stamp tax
upon perfumery, medicines, and a few other
things, and upon written instruments, and a
' reduced tax upon incomes, a license tax and
ihe tax upon watches, plate, and carriages.
The amount of taxes abated or repealed
-inec the close ol the war has been officially
estimated by the Commissioner of Pieveuuc
' as follows:
Bv sot of July 13. 1?66... $60,000,000
• March 2<l, 1867 49,000,600
" '• " February 34, I*4? 23,769,000
j " " " March 31st, 1365 43,500,000
Total ....„ #167,209,000
The burthen of Federal taxation DO longer
affects the masses of the people. It bears
I upon wealth, luxury and personal indul
gence. As such the people wii! prefer it to
i the new Democratic theory of equal taxation
which is to press upon the farmer and his
i products equally with the wealthy capitalist.
VII. CONCLUSIONS.
Let the citizens, therefore remember thc-e
focts, which are established by the most am
ple official authority, and each of which, as
stated bv us in this article, are correctly
I cited, and may bd corroborated by reference
to the authentic documents.
Ist. The cost in m the Rebellion
was over four fhousan.il millions of (hilars.
2nd. t>f this cost, very nearly ODe-half,
i that is to say three-eighths, have been already
paid and forever discharged. Of this whole
forty-one hundred millions, only twenty-five
hundred millions remain unpaid, in the
shape of the existing public debt.
3d. The Republican party, administering
the National affairs for seven years, have, in
; that period, encountered and crushed the
most formidable rebellion ever known to a
civilized people, meeting and discharging
; all the ordinary expenses of the Government
aod very nearly one-half tf the cost of the re
: MHun itself.
4th. With the restoration of peace, and
the completed reconstruction of nearly all
the rebellious States, the cost of the public
service, in all departments, has been brought
back to the anti-war standard. Excluding
the extra expenses ill the current year, en
ding next June, such as interest ou debt,
pensions, bounties, kc., Commissioner
Weils estimates the regular expenses of the
nation ffir the year, at $90,381,01300, which
amount and no more, has been appropriated
therefor by Congress. The last two years of
Buchanan's administration showed a regular
expenditure of $81,000,000 andsß6,ooo,ooo
respectively. The alig t increase for 1 868 9
i* .'airly due to the groK h of tho nation in
Jiat period. With these allowances, the
Republican policy cott* no more titan that
of its predtcestort.
sth. More than one half of the money
spent in the last eight years was borrowed,
und more than one-tenth of this borrowed
money is already paid. The rest of the
money was obtained either from the regular
anti-war sources, or from taxes, the greater
part of which are now abated.
6th. The existing Federal taies do not
bear upon the masses of the people directly.
1 he receipts into the Treasury come mainly
from customs, i. e. duties upon goods im
ported from foreign countries, and from the
internal revenue, the principal sources there
of being tobacco, distilled spirits and fer
mented liquors. If these are honestly col
lected this year by Mr. Johnson's agents,
the yield will meet all the .requirements of
the Treasury without constituting an oner
ous butben upon the people. No other
Federal taxes are levied, except upon gas,
matches, -playing cards, perfumery, cosmet
ics, patent medicines, and a few other man
ufactured articles, incomes, licenses, watch
es, carriages and plate. Such a ' burthen''
as these constitute, people who understand
the matter, will not consider very distres
sing.
7tb. Tbe Federal taxes, abated or repeat-!
Ed, in the last two years, are estimated at
#167,000,000 annually. These taxes were
taken off because, with the reduction of ex
penditures, the payment of the pub lie debt
within a reasonable period, could be effected
without them. To that extent, therelore, ;
the public burthens were diminished.
>th. Every dollar of the money received
in seven years stands faithfully and honestly '
accounted for. If there has been any "Bad-!
ieal extravagance," it has consisted entirely ;
in the necessary payments for the expense j
of that rebellion which Democracy brought
upon us. No doubt, it is "extravagant" in
a Democratic point of view, to buy powder
and bail, payjsoldiers, build ships, raise ar
mies. equip fleets, take care of the wound
ed, fcury the killed, pension the crippled
veterans, the widows and tbe orphans—all
to uphold the intigrityof the Union, Doubt
less, it is equally "extravagant" to under
take to pay either the interest or the prin
cipal of the money borrowed upon the Na
tion's credit. It is against, Democratic
principles to pay that interest, and against
their interest to pay that principal But
an honest people will honestly meet all its
obligations.
9th. In three years, since the war closed,
nearly eleven per cent, of the debt has been
paid off. Republican economy faithfully
responds to tho popular expectations, and
to the hope expressed by Secretary McCul
locb, by continuing the curtailment of ex
penses, and his estimates show that a large
further reduction of the debt may be made
this year. If tbe Democracy do not plunge
us inCo another civil war, the ptresent scale
of receipts and expenditures will enable us
to pay off tbe entire debt within the present
generation.— Pittsburgh Gazette.
GENERAL GRANT AND THE JEH
ISII PEOPLE.
The Chicago Tribune of August 12. pub
lished the fallowing correspondence:
REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO,
111, August 6, 186S. —Hon. Henry Greene
baum —Dear Sir: A number of Republican
voters of your religious persuasion have in
timated to our Committee of Arrangements
a desire to give the public an opportunity
to hear your views on the relations of tbe i
Israelites to General Grant and the Re
publican party. In compliance with the re
quest of the committee, I have the honor to
invite you to speak upon the subject, at a
Republican meeting, on Wednesday evening
August 12, in Court House Square, in this
city. Soliciting your kind compliance with
this request, I am yours truly.
J. C. DORE,
President of Grant Club.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10, 186^. —Hon. JohnC.
Dore, President Grant Club: Dear Sir: I am
happy of the opportunity afforded me to
place my co-religionists properly before the
people, but 1 prefer to do so in a letter, be
i-au-e I have not made any political speeches
for some time, and have neither time nor
inclination to enter into the 3rena.
Oar Jewish fellow citizens are brought j
conspicuously forward in this I*residential
campaign, owing to a military order issued j
at one time by General Grant, known as or- j
d*r No. 11. This order was issued agaiflst
"Jews as a class," aud in this way repeated
a wrong frequently committed against my
race by the non-Jewish world.
The true Israelite has no prejudice against
any race. lib faith in Uoe God, having j
been strengthened by a history of forty
cepturies, leads him to regard all men as
brothers, and his highest happiness is to be
engaged in the interests of God and j
humanity. The issues of the war are fully j
appreciated by them, and it will be useless j
to expect assistance from them in impeding j
the progress of history.
The whole tendency ol strictly Jewish :
efforts is to progress and liberalism, and we
cannot ler.d our aid to inflict on others
wrongs which we have suffered ourselves,
and hence know them to be wrongs.
Had the nomination of a Presidential
candidate been left to Republican Jews,
General Grant would certainly not have
been their choice. But now that General
Grant is the nominee of the party, it is pay- .
ing a poor compliment to Jewish intellect j
and Jewish patriotism to suppose that we
I can sink all beneath the weight of personal ;
1 vindictive revenge, or even of holy indig
nation. General Grant knows by this time
that Jews must not be judged "as a class,"
not any more so than Christians; that
among Jews there are good men and bad
| men, as there are good men and bad men
among Christians.
Furthermore, I believe that the order re
ferred to was issued in the midst of com- j
I plicated military responsibilities, its sweep
ing effect not having been fully considered,
and that General Grant regrets that tbe
' order was ever issued.
Indeed, I know that a letter from General
Grant, expressing these sentiments, has for
j some time been in the hands of a prominent
co- religionist at Washington city, and that
! General Grant objects to the publication
thereof at this time, only on the ground
that it might be construed as a bid for votes
i on his part.
'! Very respectfully,
HENRY GREENEBAUM.
VOL. 41: NO. 32
SUCCESSFUL TEMPERANCE LOLIC.
A small temperance society Lad been
started in a community very much noder
the control of a rich distiller, commonly
called "Billy Myres.' This man had several
sons who had become drunkards on the
facilities afforded by their education at home.
The whole family was arrayed against the
movement, and threatened to break up any
meeting called to promote the object- <
Learning this, the Rev. T. P. Hunt went
to a neighboring district for volunteers for
that particular occasion. He then gave
out word for a meeting, and at the time
found bis friends and enemies about equal in
numbers. This fact prevented any outbreak
but could not prevent noise.
Mr. Hunt mounted the platform, and by
a few sharp anecdotes and witty sayings soon
silenced all noise except 'Billy Myres,' the
Dutchman, who occasionally cried out,
"Mishter Hunt, money makes the mare go.'
—To every shot, which seemed ready to
demolish him, the old fellow presented the
one shield, '3lishter Hunt, money makes
the mare go.'
At last Mr. Hunt stopped and addressed
the imperturable German:
'Look here, Billy Myres, you say money
makes the mare go, do you?'
'Yes, dat ish just what I say, Mishter
Hunt.'
'Well, Billy Myres, you own and work a
distillery, don't you?'inquired Mr. Hunt.
'Dat ish noneofyoure business, Mishter
Hunt. But den I ish not ashamed of it. I
have got a still.and work it too.'
'And you say, 'money makes the mare
go;' do you mean that I have come here to
get money of these people ?'
'Yes, Mishter Hunt, dat ish just what I
mean.'
'Very well, you work the distillery to
make money, and I leeture on temperance
to make money; and as you say: 'Money
makes the mare go,' Billy Myres, bring out
your mare, and I'li bring out mine, and
we'll show them together.'
By this time the whole assembly was in a
titter of delight; and Myres' followers
could not suppress their merriment at the
evident embarrassment of their oracle. In
the meantime we must premise that Mr.
Hunt knew a large number of drunkards
present, and among them the sons of Myres
himself.
"Billy Myres, who is that holding himself
up by that tree?' inquired Mr. Hunt, poin
ting to a young man so drunk that he could
not stand alone.
The old man started *3 if stung by an ad
der, but was obliged to reply, 'Dat ish my
son; but what of dat Mishter Hunt?'
'A good deal of that Billy Myres; for I
guess that son has been riding your mare
and got thrown too.'
Here was a perfect roar from all rarts of
Ithe assembly, and as soon as order was re
stored, Mr. Hunt proceeded, as he pointed
to another son:
'Hilly Myres, who is that staggering about
as if his legs were as weak as potato vines
after a frost?' 5
'Well, I suppose dat bk my son, too,' re
plied the old man with a crest-fallen look.
'Hehas been riding your mare too, and
got a tumble.'
At this point the old man put up both
hands in a most imploring manner, and ex
claimed:
'Now, Mishter Hunt, if you won't say any
more, I will be stilL*
This announcement was received with a
roar of applause and laughter, and from that
moment Mr. Hunt, had all the ground to
himself.
SIDEWALK ETIQUETTE.
Some one of our Chesterfieldian exchanges
has the following on sidewalk etiquette,
which we commend the attention of our
readers:
"Only villagers, or persons with rural
ideas, any longer contend that ladies should
always be given the inside of the pavement
in passing. The rule adopted in all cities is
to turn to the right, whether the right leads
to the wall or to the gutter; and an obser
vance of this common sense rule would
obviate much unpleasant 'scrougirig by
over-galiant gentlemen who persistently
crowd for the outside of the walk. Another
oommon custom, not required by fashionable
etiquette, and one which is as nearly as
inexplaiDably absurd, is the practice of men
filling out of - church pew, making them
selves as ridicuu ->s as an awkward squad'
practicing a catch step, in order to give a
woman the wrong end of the pew. Anoth
er is that of a man, when at promenade or
walk with a lady, to keep himself on the
! outside of the pavement. A little exercise
! of judgment will convince any person of the
' perfect uselessness of this bobbing biek and
forth at every corner. The common rule is
this: If men and women are walking to
gether, she should always be at his right
arm, whether it be toward the inside or out
i side of the walk; then the woman will not
be shoved against the passers. Those who
■ giggle at persons who follow this rule are
1 themselves the 'greenies,' and should read
the book of manners before they indulge in
the laugh of fashionable fools.
CONCEIT.
We cuil the following gem from Dr. C'ha
pin s lecture on the "Nobility of Labor.
Hardly any thing is more contemptible
'' than the conceit which rests merely upon
j social position—the conceit of those who im
agine that they thus are divorced from the
I c lay of common men. of those who shrink
! with horror from the idea of work, as some
thing which degrades by its very contact,
and yet who. very likely, owe their present
Position to some very remote ancestor, who
recognizing his call to work, lived more hon
estly in the world than they do, and was not
ashamed of soiled thumbs. It is one of the
meanest things for people to be ashamed of
; the work from which they draw their in
| come, and which glorified their ancestors
I more with their soiled aprons ana black
I gowns, than themselves with their fine rib
bons and flashing jewelry- I* might be a
I fine thing to be like the lilies, more glorious
ly clothed than Solomon, and doing nothing, ]
as if it were only lilies. Advantageous po
sition is only a more emphatic call lor work,
and while those who hold the advantage
may not be compelled to manual drudgery,
they should recognize the fact tnat manual
drudgery may be performed in tho same
' spirit as that which characterizes their own
rrork, and therefore that it is equally honor- 1
! able.
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TKI'E HOSPITALITY.
Let a man, then, say: My house is here
in the eouutry, for the culture of the coun
try; an eating-house and sleeping-house for
travelers it shall be, but it shall be much
more. I pray you, O excellent wife! not to
cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner
for this man or tbis woman who has alight
ed at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made
ready at two great a cost. These things, if
they are curious in, tbey can get for a dol
lar at any village. But let this stranger see,
if he wiD. in your looks, in your accent and
behavior, your heart and earnestness, your
thought and will, iL.-d which he cannot buy
at any price at any village or city, and which
he may well travel fifty miles and dine
-purely and sleep hard in order to behold.
Certainly, let. the bed be dressed for the
traveler; but let not the emphasis of hospi
tality lie in these thirgs. Honor to the
house where they are simple to the verge of
hardship, so t uat there the intellect is awake
and see the laws of the universe. Hie soul
worships truth and love; honor and courtesy
flow into the deeds. — Etnermv.
THREE TUINGB TO AVOIO.
1. Avoid bad thoughts. We cannot help
bad thoughts coming into our hearts some
times; but we can help keeping them there.
As somebody has said, "We cannot prevent
the crows from flying over our heads, but
we can prevent them building nests in our
hair." Fight bad thoughte; for just as sure
as you let them live and grow in your hearts,
they will breed mischief and misery.
2. Avoid bad words. Bad thoughts are
parents to bad words, and the children arc
even more mischievous than their parents.
For bad thoughts, so long as they are con
fined to your own hearts, only hurt you, but
bad words hurt others. They lead to an
ger, strife, and all kinds of black sin.
3. Yon must avoid bad deeds. Do not
allow yourself to do an evil action. If you
know an act to be wrong, never consent to
it. Keep yourself pure. Dare to do right,
though it be sometimes hard. Remember,
"'Thou, God. seest me.''
A BOSTON PAPER tells the following story:
"A few days since a well dressed young man
entered a broker's office in this city, and
said he desired to buy some bonds. He
gave the kind and amount, and said he
would cail again the next day. He did so,
and requested the broker to send him $6,000
worth to his place of business, naming a
store in a good business locality. The
broker was suspicious, and instructed the
messenger, his clerk, not to let the bonds
!go out of his sight until he had received
the money therefor. At the store the young
gentleman appeared, took the bonds, and,
opening a desk, placed them in a pigeon
hole, and then locked them up. He called
the clerk's attention to the operation, and
told him to sit down and wait while he
stepped out and cashed a check. The clerk
waited until it was apparent that the young
trader had disappeared, and he then in
vestigated tho matter, and found that there
was a 'back entrance' to the desk, through
which fhc bonds had been taken and car
ried of. The name of the business man is
not kr.own, his whereabouts are also in
volved in mystery, and a Boston broker is
$6,000 out."
THE POPE of Rome is described as always
dressed in white, when he appears in pub
lic. lie has, of late, taken a great deal
more out-door exercise than formerly.
About one hundred persons daily solicit
auciences from him. At these audiences, to
which often persons half crazy with religious
excitement gain access, it Ls very seldom that
the Pope, even under the greatest provoca
tion, loses his temper. Sometimes when a
visitor proves too troublesome, Pius IX
rings the bell, and say 3 to the camerier
who enters the room, "Take this man into
the fresh air. He is unwell! The Pope
speaks no German, excellent Latin and
Spanish French with a strong Italian ac
cent, which is by no means unpleasant in
bis rich, sonorous voice, aDd very pure Ital
ian, while souse of his Cardinals even speak
their mother tongue with a strong local ac
cent Cardinal Hohenlohe is one of tho
men whom His Holiness likes best. Strange
to say, all the sisters and other relatives of
that Cardinal are Protests fits.
LITTLE TmsGS.—Springs are little things,
but they are sources of large streams; a helm
is a little thing, but it governs the course of
a ship; a bridle-bit is a little thiDg, but see
its use and power; nails and pegs are little
things, but they hold the parts of a large
building together; a word, a look, a smile,
a frown, are all little things, bat powerful
for good or evil. Think of this, and mind
the little tLings. Pay that little debt; if it
is a promise, redeem it; if it is a shilling,
hand it over. You know not what import
ant events hang upon it. Keep your word
sacred—keep it to children; they will mark
it sooner than any one else, and the effect
will probably be as lasting as life. Mind
the little things.
NEUTRALITY. —In regard to the gospel
there is no neutrality, for Ist. It demands a
positive acceptance, and the condemnation
is upon them that do not aceept it. 2d.
When a man refuses to obey the gospel the
influence of his example leads others to do
the same, and he therefore stands as a
stumbling-block in the way of sinners 3d.
The Lord, in his classifications of society
never mentions but two classes, and includes
all within these. "He that is not for us is
against us." "He that gathereth not with
me scattereth abroad."
DIED AX THE CARD TABLE. —Officer D.
S. S. Morris, of this city, went to New
HaTen on business on Saturday night, and
on his way down stopped at a tavern in
Bethany to get warm. While here he ob
served four men sitting at a table playing
cards. This was between 7 and 5 o'clock.
On hi- retnrn about half-past 11, he was in
formed that one of the number, a man about
fifty years of age, had just been earned
home a corpse. While in the act of playing
he was noticed to straighten out his body,
gradually slipped out out of his chair on the
I floor, and was taken up dead, having expired
without speaking a word or receiving a mo
ment's warning. It was truly a fearfudy
sudden summons. - Waterbtirj/ American.
SKALD SOUL. -Said a crwy woman of a
penurious- stingy man; "Do r* **-
Lan? You could Wow his soul through a
humming bird's quill into a mosqmtoseye,
and the tiJoatuitO wouldn t wink.