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MF.YERS A DICKERSOX,
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II use'' April 13. 1865:t
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KANSAS CITY. MISSOURI.
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NOKA O'NEAL.
j Oh! I'm lonely to-night love, without you,
i And I sigh for one glance of yonr eye;
| For sure there's a charm, love about you,
Whenever I know you are nigb.
i Like the beam of the star when 'tis smiling,
Ia the glance which your eye can't conceal,
| And yonr voice i* so sweet and beguiling,
| That I love you, aweet Nora O'Neal
Causes:
I Oh ! don't think that ever I'll doubt you,
My love I will never conceal;
Oh! I'm lonely to-night, love, without yoa,
Mj darling, sweet Nora O'Neal.
Oh! the nightingale sings in the wildwood,
1 Aa if every note that he knew,
f Was learned from _ our sweet voice ia childhood,
To remind me, aweet Nora, of yoa.
But 1 think, love so often about you.
And you don't know how happy I fee!:
Bnt I'm lonely to-night, love, without you,
My darling sweet Nora O'Neal.
Oh : why should I weep tear* of sorrow
Or why to let hope lose your place?
Won't I meet you my darling to-morrow,
And smile on your beautiful face?
Will you meet me? Oh say you will meet uie,
With a kiss at the foot of the lane?
And I'll promise whenever you greet me,
That I'll never be lonely again.
WEARING Of THE BLUE.
Ala— H'eoriity of tie Green.
Hurrah for Appomattox! Hurrah for General
Grant!
; With him we whipped the Rebels, and a song for
him we chant,
We'U rally round his battle flag, the Sag of the
Union true,
j And drive the Rebel Gray again, before the Loy
al Blue:
Ob, he knows the Boys in Blue! Yes, he knows
the Boys in Blue!
And with ballots as with bullets be will find
them ever true;
And the Graybacks as the Copjerbead* will learn
the truth anew.
That our Yankee leds will ne'er forget the wear
ing of the Blue.
They may weep for Stonewall Jackson, and of
Lee they still may vaunt,
While we shout for Appomattox, and vote for
General Grant,-
They may sympathize with Davis, and uphold
his beaten crew,
But no Rebel Gray shall erer stay the Loyal
Boys in Blue.
Oh, We trust the Bovs in Blue ! Oh, wc know the
Boys in Blue!
And they'll never fiincb, or give an inch, while
work they have to do;
So. bring on your Rebel Gray again, and give as
but a view,
And we'll show you that we don't forget the
wearing of the Blue.
NASBY.
The Election in Kentucky—The morion*
Hrmorratic i'letory -.ilr. .\"aby'm Ac
count thereof.
POST Oms, CONFEDRIT X ROADS, )
{Wich is in the Stait tiv Kentucky,) >
August 6, 180s. )
Ef the Amerikin Eagle is in the habit uv
screcmin at Democrat victories, she kin now
test her capacity to the fullest extent.
The election in Kentucky resulted more
gloriouser than ever we Bad anticipated.
Eighty thousand majority is a big thine,
and we knowd it, but we felt that the eye of
the Dimocrisy was onto us. and we did our
level best. We wanted to inspire the Dim
ocrisy uv the North; to set em a example in
fact wich would awakin in em emuiashun.
The election at the Corners wuz the same
ez the others in the State, so in writin the
history uv the wun I am writin the history
uv all.
We held a series uv meetins, all wich,
with the exception uv Elder Pennibacker's
obstinacy, wnz harmonious and effective.
Gov. Seymour's letter wuz a great help to
us. I hed been afraid that he mite say
suthin in it wich wood bother us, but when
I got it I exclaimed haileloogy! He hedn't
sed a thing ! He hedn't techd any nv the
questions at isboo, and consekently coodn't
give no offence to nobody. Bascom took it
and swore that he wuz satisfied from readin
it in connection with his Cooper Instoot
speech that he was in favor of payin the
bonds in gold, while Pennibaoker wuz quite
as well satisfied from readin it in conneck
shun with tbe platform and Pendleton's
speeches, that he wuz in favor nv payin tbe
bonds in greenbax. They got to dispoot
in over it, and referred the matter to me.
Imitatin Beymoor, I never sed a word about
bonds and greenbax, but went orf into a
most elokent denunsiashun uv Joodis Iska
riot. It's always safe to aboooze Judis, ez
there ain't nobody nowhere to defend him.
"But!" sed they in korus, "does he per
pose to pay the bonds in gold or greenbax?"
Smiling benignantly ontoem, ez Seymour
did at the ConvenshuD, I replide in these
words : "31 y friends—for you are my
friends, let us confine ourselves to liviu
ishoos. Let ine ask yoo ez patriots, and
men who hev the best interests uv the
country at hart, do yxt want yoor daughter a
to marry niggertt' 1
"Never !" sed they, strikin tables, "nev
er!" and they rushed out into the street,
hoilerin "Hah for Seymour !"
Sich porshens uv the letter, however, ez
fitted our case I red to cm. That paragraff
into wich he bewails the oondishun uv men
like us at tbe Corners, wich be styles the
intelligence uv the South, Kernel McPelter
and I read to every one at the Comers, we
bcin all wich kin read; and the paragraff
in which he denounces the men who assert
that Unioo men ain't permitted to live in
i jieece in the South I red the first time to
twenty or thirty uv our people wich hed jist
returned from a raid onto the settlement uv
Abolitionists over on the Pike Run. Young
Isaaker Gavitt wuz so effected that he shed
tears, wipin his eyes with a bandkercher he
took from the body uv a Yoonun man wich
he bed jist shot in the presence uv his fam
ily, wich refoozed to leave the settlement
The eleckshun went off magnificently.
Never did I see in all my experience, wich
hez been very great, sich extensive prepara
tion made. Bascom's bar was made free.
Deekin Pogram, Kernel McPelter and my
self, one uv wich holds a Government offis,
and tbo other two expects to, had a barl uv
new eleckshun whisky purchist, wich Elder
Pennibacker, notwithstandin his disaffeck
shuu, furnisht at cost, wich wuz twenty
two oents per gallon, ez no tax hez ever bin
made in this districk.
I opened the polls, usin for the purpus a
hat, and the votin eommenst livelv. I put
in two. Basoom slipt in three under differ
ent names, and the other faithful ooes voted
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY, SEPT. 4, 1868.
ez tuEny times e* they thot necessary.
About ten o'clock Pollock came up to rote,
at wich I wuz surprised! When I say sur
prised I mean it. The very presence nv
the man at rich a lime and place wux start
j lin, and it hed a terrible effeck on the pup
ulis. "Wat!" sed Issakcr Gavitt, indig
nantly, 'dhei a Illinoy Abfcheist—-a man
not born in Kentucky—a man who hold*
views so totally different from ouro, peraoom
to vote at these ere poles ? Never 1"
And Issaker, bilin over with rage, went
for him, in wich he wuz assisted by the en
tire balance uv the Corners. The wretched
man paid a heavy penalty for his insolence.
He wuz carried off by some sympathizin
| niggers, a mere wreck uv his former self.
A little later the '"Yoonun men," ex tbey
call themselves, upon Pike Run, come down
|to vote. But Issaker and McPelter reas
oned with em. Kernel McPeltcr's remarks
wuz )>crtickerleyimpressive. • They asserted
that ez Amerikin citizens tbey hed a rite to
vote, and shood do so at all hazards. The
Kernel in reply stated to em that the Cor
ners cood not permit herself to be contami
nated with Ablisbin votes. "Should you
attempt it," sed he impressively, "the blood
uv the Corners will be up, and I wont be
answerable for the consekences. Beware!"
They pressed forerd, when from among
our people a single shot wnz heard, and tbe
head uv one uv em, a preacher, fell writhin
in the dust.
1 pitied the poor wretch, but wst kin we
do ? Why will they come about us, irrita
tin our people with their inoenjary votes?
That man had a family. Wat reason will
he give them, when he's carried home dead,
for his ontimely deceese? Its ever thus.
The Ablishnists will never let us alone.
And yet I spose that a birelin and subsidiz
ed press in the North, in the free uv the
provocashen wc receeved, will accuse us uv
murderin this man!
Our ambisben wuz to hev the vote clean
Dimekratic. But it wuz not so. At about
Ip.m., Joe Bigler, who beerd uv tbe do
ins, come to the polls. Issakcr and McPel
ter wuz a goin to prevent him from votin,
but tbe villian drawd a revolver the minit
tbey lookt at him, and tbey partid, makin
a lane for him to the hat
"Does iDy one challenge my vote?" sed
he, coc-kin his weapon. "Ef so, let em
speak."
But no one interfered, and 1 took it
When we oountid out, there was barely one
Ablishn ballot in the hat. It wuz Bigler's.
But we were ueer enuff yoonanimus, and
we perpose to keep so. The process is sim
ple. It consists merely in shootin all who
differ with us. Thus we hev peeec at home.
Our politikle pros pecks are mixed. The
reduckshen uv the tax on whisky inclined
many uv our voters towards Republicanism,
but I headed this orf by swearin that the
Democrisy wuz pledged to take it orf alto
gether. The Northern papers assertin that
Blare's letter don't mean revolooshen is
hurten us some, but that is more than bal
anced by the ease with wich we kin organ
ize. Yesterday an entire regiment in the
Confedrit servis reorganized as a Seymoro
and Blare Club —retainin their officer? ez
doorin the war, and yoosin the identikle
rolls, flags and sicb. It aids us wonderfiy.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. M.,
(Wich is Postmaster.)
THE SOUTHERN TRADE.
The Boston Post appeals to the selfish in
terest of merchants to vote the Democratic
ticket, with the remark:
"Before the war we sent south yearly, of
domestic goods, #240,000,000; of imported
goods, #106,000,000. We charged her as
interest and brokerage, #03,200,000. Isn't
this business worth recovering?"
It is not only worth recovering; it is worth
doubling, or quadrupling, it is worth putting
OD a sound foundation; it is worth managing
in such away that it shall not ruin those
engaged in it once in every dozen years, by a
general failure and bankruptcy of soul hern
debtors.
Tbe way to accomplish all that is to se
cure peace, free speech, equal liberty and
equal rights in the southern states; to break
dowD the influence there of the old and
stupid politicians—the Cobbs, Toombsea
and other men of that class, who are striving
under democratic colors, for a renewal of
their supremacy.
The old southern leaders, tbe former
planting aristocracy, were but poor custo
mers; they wasted a good deal, but they did
not encourage a substantial industry, such i
as makes a country rich and its trade
profitable. They would like to return to
the old state of things, and they have
persuaded the democratic leaders here to
help them; they wish once more to bully
and coerce the laboring classes in the South
they threaten to starve the workmen who
wiil not vote as these imperious masters
command.
Bat is a starved workman a good custo
mer? Is a slavish workman a good cus- j
tomer? There has been a goo J deal said of
the old "southern trade;'" but what was it?
What did it consist of? Tbe planters were
men of wealth, but they were few in num
ber; they lived luxurious lives and spent
much money abroad; and their system kept
the mass of the whites and all the blacks \
in abject poverty. It cost, according to an
eminent South Carolinian, Governor Ham
mond, less than twenty dollars per annum
to feed and clothe one of the South Carolina
"poor whites" before the war; and he ad
ded that most of them did not earn that
much. What was the "southern trade"
with these people worth?
The planters purchased for the slaves
only the coarsest and cheapest stuffs, tools
and food; they kept down, with all their
ingenuity, the expenditure for these slaves j
What was the "southern trade" for those
three millions worth?
Now all are free; all have an incentive to
labor, to acquire, to live comfortably, to j
dress respectably. The poor white, no
longer cast aside by the proud planter to •
make room for his slaves, has now for the
first time in the South, the chance to earn
a decent living; for the first time his ambi
tion is aroused; he finds himself no longer
robbed of employment by the intrigues of
the planter, who would give work only to
his or his neighbor's slaves. For the first
time the poor white has a chance to know
what it is to have money to spend: and if
we can only secure peace and equal rights,
if Grant and his sensible policy rule the
country for the next four years, the mil
lions of poor whites, turned to useful in
dustries, will be far more valuable custo
mers than the few pampered planters ever
were.
Then there are the otljer millions of
freedmeo. While they were slaves their
masters dressed them in linsey-woolsey, and
a bright cotton handkerchief or a plug of
tobacco was the greatest luxury the slave
ocw - now tbey are free they are ac
quiring Dew want*, which stimulate them to
more steady and remunerative industry;
and if only we can have peace—if Grant
and his policy role, these millions of blacks,
with their new wants, will soon create a
i southern trade worth a dozen times that
; of the few planters of the old times.
By a!! means let us foster the southern
trade: it will be in a few years so great, so
secure, so various, that no one will think
regretfully of the old "southern trade," for
wbieh merchants were asked to sell their
souls and their honor. But to foster, to
increase this trade, we must have peace,
law, order, equal rights, free speech, an in
tclligeot and independent laboring class;
then we shall have industry, production,
3nd a desire for greater comfort, for better
meassof enjoyment; in short, a "southern
trede of real and sound value.
The election of Seymour and Blair on the
platform of revolution, however, would at
once unsettle everything in the South. It i
would alarm capital and drive it away from '
the southern states; it would paralyze iudus-
I try; it would cripple enterprise, lessen pro
| doetion; and in the precise measure that it
i re- established the supremacy of the old
planting aristocracy it would injure tbe
"southern trade" by discouraging and disa
bling the laboring class, white as well as
black.— Evening Pott.
THEY LEARN NOTHING.
Four years ago people were greatly amus
ed by finding the Democratic platform—
which declared the war a failure, and de
manded an immediate cessation of hostili
ties —printed in many of the country pa
pers on the same page with reports of the
capture of Atlanta by Sherman.
The year before that, Mr. Scjtuour, of
this State, distinguished himself by a dol
orous Fourth-of July oration in this city; in
which he warned his hearers that we could
not afford to carry on the war any longer,
that we could never beat the rebels. Bnt
while he was speaking Vicksburg was sur
rendered to Grant, and Lee was beginning
to fly from Meade at Gettysburg: and Sey
mour's speech was accompanied in the next
day's papers with a gloss most unwelcome to
him and those who thought with him.
A number of experiences of this kind
ought to have warned the Democratic lea
ders not to attempt prophecy. Their
strength does not lie in that direction:
events appear to have a spite against them.
It would be difficult to imagine anything
more inappropriate than General Sherman's
capture of Atlanta just after the Democrat
ic Convention bad solemnly declared the
war a failure, and demanded immediate
cessation of hostilities; but the circumstan
ces under which the Democratic platform
appears this morning are not more fortu
nate.
Tbe platform denounces the Freedman's
Bureau and demands its abolition; but
Congress had already passed an act discon
tinuing the Bureau, which became a law
yesterday; and General Howard gives notice
in the same papers in which the democratic
platform is printed, that the Bureau has
ceased in South Carolina, and that he is
rapidly winding up it* affairs in tbe other
State*.
We read in the platform a demand for
the immediate restoration of all the States;
and turning from this passage to another
column of the papers, read that while all
are restored but four, South Carolina, I ir
ginia. Mississippi and Texas, South Caroli
na has just adopted the amendment, and
will doubtless be represented in Congres 8
within tbe week. But we read also in the
platform that the acts of reconstruction are
"void," which means that the Democrats, if
they succeed, will at once desitroy all that
has been done, and put us back again to
1565. This is a promise which will hardly
delight a people who have grown tired of
the long reconstruction squabble. To re
open this question, now settled in all but
three States, would be a caimity to the
country—but that is what tbe platform
threatens.
There are but two points in the Democrat
ic platform which events have not forestal
led; the clause favoring the taxation of
bonds and their payment in greenbacks;
and tbe clause demanding "protection to
American industry." But even in these
two particulars, General Butler and Mi.
Thaddecs Stevens, tbe one with the bill
taxing bonds and the other with the
with the new tariff bill, are doing all they
can to meet the requirements of their Dem
ocratic friends and allies. — Evening Pott
THE REBEL SPIRIT.
Says the Charleston Mercury: "Not one
honest man south of Mason's and Dixon's
line Is ashamed of the musket he bore or the
sword he drew in defence of the Confederate
flag. The man who says he is ashamed of
it lies. Let every honest man at the North
be sure of the fact that the man who says so
wants to swindle money out of somebody.
He is a knave either in the first or last de
gree.
The Kentucky Timet says:
"We venture the assertion that if Blair
were elected President instead of 3 ice Pres
ident, and there should be left out some
States of the South by virtue of the recent
legislation of Congress, he would tripe it all
out, take possession of the White House, and
Hot out the record of infamy made by Con
gress since 1865."
This is from the Memphis Appeal:
"Go on. boys; swear to murder Northern
Huns! Ann yourselves and organize, and
be ready to respond promptly when called
on. and fight bravely, even if you get killed!
The same rebel sheet says: "IV e do not
admit that the consolidation of the States
and the destruction of their sovereignty are
legitimated by the result of the appeal to
arms. We do not love, and will not pre
tend 4o love, the Union, though we have
agreed to obey the laws of the conqueror.
If the old Union cannot be restored, we will
hope to see the South independent before
we die; and if Jacobinism is to become su
preme in the North, we wish there could be
an impassable wall or gulf of fire between it
and our Southern States. The day wil'
come when the South will be independent.
Hie Appeal further declares the country
it by far too large to remain very long under
</ne government, and the day will come when
the South will be independent.
Tbe Augusta Constitutionalist says: The
boM declaration of Francis P. Blair, Jr., the
J Democratic candidate for Vice President,
| 'hat if duly elected he would have his rights,
and the rights of those electing him, by force
Jof arms, if necessary, alarms them. They
ido not relish such bold declarations. They
| tell of freemen who know their rights, and
I knowing, will dare maintain them. • *
The democratic party have also proclaimed
the Reconstruction acts unconstitutional,
null and void, and if their candidate! are
elected the legal governments of the Southern
Statet shall be reinstated, though the sword
has to be invoked.
GHANT AT THE SURRENDER OR
VICKSBURG.
General Badeau, in his work on the mili
tary history of General Grant, tells the
following anecdote of General Grant's re
ception by the Rebel generals whom he had
defeated, when he entered Vicksburg on the
Fourth of July, 1863:
"He went direct to one of the rebel head
quarters, but there was no one to receive
him, and he dismounted and entered the
porch, where Pemberton sat with his gen
erals; they saluted Grant, but not one of
them offered him a chair, though all had
seats themselves. Neither the rank nor
reputation of tbeir captor, nor the swords
he had allowed them to wear, prompted
them in this simple act of courtesy. Pem
berton was especially sullen, both in con
versation and behavior. Finally, for very
shame, one of the rebels offered a place to
Grant The day was hot and dusty; he
was thirsty from his ride, and asked for a
drink of water. They told him he could
find it outside, and no one showing him
the way, he groped ia a passage until be
found a negro, who gave him a cup of cold
water only, which bis enemy had almost
denied. When he returned his seat had
been taken, and he remained standing
during the rest of the interview, which
lasted about half an hour."
This is a perfectly correct account of"
what happened on that occasion. The
rudeness of the rebels was perfect, but so
was the dignified, imperturbable, forbear
ing politeness of their victor. Grant never
appeared greater than in his quiet en
durance of the absurd ill manner of the
men he had conquered. No one who wit
nessed the scene will ever forget it, and
those wLo have such reason to be asharned
of it will probably forget it least of all.
CATECHISM FOR THINKERS ?
What is the cause of the high taxes?
The war.
Who made the war?
Tbe Democratic party.
Why did they make the war?
Because they were expelled from political
power.
Why were they expelled from power?
Because they were owned, body and soul,
by an aristocratic, ambitious, sectional class
interest, which sought, in the defiance of the
Constitution, the will of the people, and nat
ural right, to perpetuate its power by ob
taining control of the territories and the
States to be formed out of them.
What chiefly encouraged this aristocrat
ic class interest to make war upon the
Uuion?
The oft-repeated, stereotyped, public dec
laradons of Democrats of all sections, never
rebuked or disavowed by that party, that
the Union should be dissolved if the de
mands of tbe slaveholders were resisted by
the people.
Who were in power when this aristocrat
ic ißterest undertook to dissolve the Uuioa?
The Democratic party.
What did they do to prcveat it?
Nothmg.
What did they do to assist the traitors ?
They gave them the forts, arsenals, can
non, ammunition and public money in the
South, and sent them all they could from
the North.
What did Gen. Scott beg of tbem to do to
prevent the war? j
To do as Gen. Jackson did, garrison all
the Southern forts.
What reply did they make ?
That the slaveholders would not like it.
How k)Dg was the Democratic party in
power after secession commenced ?
Three months.
What were the traitors doing all that time?
Surrounding Fort Somter with batteries
of British guns.
What did the Democratic Administration
order Major Anderson to do ?
To let them alone.
What did the Republican Administration
do when Sumter grew short of provisions ?
Sent them more provisions.
What did the Democratic party at
Charleston do with those British guns ?
They rained shot and shell upon the old
flag on the walls of Sumter until Anderson
was compelled to lower the flag and evacuate,
the fort.
What was the consequence ?
Four years of civil war; the death of half
a million of men ; a national debt of three
thousand million of dollars; the high tax and
high prices.
It the Democratic Administration did
nothing to prevent the dissolution of the
Union, what did the Republican Administra
tion do ?
They prevented it
Who said the war was a failure ?
The Democratic party.
Was it a failure ?
Yes; on their side.
What do they ask the people to do; now
that they have failed in the war they made?
Restore them to power.
Will the people do it?
We guess not.
•'TIGHT BREECHES"- AN ATTACK
FROM THE OTHER SIDE.
Some female, in an apparently revenge
ful spirit, thus holds forth on a prevailing
gentleman's fashion: The press has never
been remiss in deprecating the follies of
the female sex upon the occasion of each
change in style of female apparel, but it
is a noticeable fact that the popinjay style
of breeches now in vogue, more ridiculous
than anything the women ever wore, is un
noticed. Female loveliness is such that it
can make charming any extreme fashion;
but what length of familiarity, pray heaven,
can ever make tolerable —much less comely
—the dexter appendages of a human crane,
wound about with cloth so tightly as to stop
the circulation ?
The present style of pantaloons is neither
comfortable, oomely nor economical. The
"swell" that adopts it can neither stoop nor
sit down without positive danger of an ex
posure of his person from rupture caused
by teaekm. When we see these fashionables
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of the male persuasion on the street,
we are reminded of the exhortation of the
raw-boned, ill-formed preacher when
illustrating the bonders of creatioa. Raising
his long, skinny arms high above his head,
he exclaimed, "God made this frame." A
voice in the congregation replied, "then
his took were mighty dull.
Here comes a six foot gallant, with a num
ber ten boot, and a figure like a pair of
tongs. There is not enough of his legs to !
make a shadow, and he walks as if each :
boot was a double bass viol. By his side,
perhaps, is another devotee of the style half;
his length, whose make-up remind one of a
plum-pudding perched on the handle of a
pair of pinchers. There they go, the ex
tremes of folly, and the very essence of lu
dicroosnesa. Nothing a woman ever wore
will compare in folly with tight breeches on
a bandy-legged human biped.
rANN* FERN AND MRS. STOWE.
THEiil SCHQOL-ti I Rl, BATS
Grace Greenwood, is the book called
Eminent Women, writes a.- follows about
Fanny Fern and Mrs- Stowe as they were
before they became known to fame:
Sara Willis was educated at Hartford, in
the far-famed seminary of Miss Catharine
Beecher. At that time Harriet Beecfaer
(Mrs. Stowe) was a teacher in this school.
She was amiable and endearing in her ways,
and was recognized as a decidedly clever
young lady, with a vein of quiet humor, a
sleepy sort of wit that woke up and flashed
out when least expected; but of a careless,
unpractical turn of mind.
She was not thought by any means the
equal in mental power and weight of her
elder sister, whose character was full of
manly energy, who was a clear thinker, and
an excellent theologian, a good, great high
hearted woman, with a strong will and
remarkable executive abilities. <of all his
children. Dr. Beecher is sad to have most
highly respected Catharine. Sam Willis
must hero have laid an excellent foundation
for successful authorship, through probably
nothing was further from her thoughts at
the time than such a profession.
It would have seemed too quiet and
thought compelling a career for her, with
her heart as full of frolic as a lark s breast
is of aoging. There are yet traditions in
that staid old town of Hartford, of her mer
ry school-girl escapades, her "tricks and her
manners," that draw forth as hearty laugh
ter as the witty sallies, humorous fancies,
and sharp strokes of satire that give to her
writings their peculiar sparkle and dash.
If she grappled with the exact sciences it
is not probable that they suffered much in
the encounter. For geometry she is said
to have an especial and inveterate dislike.
Indeed, her teacher, Mrs. Stowe still tells a
story of her having torn out the leaves of
Euclid to earl her hair with. So, she laid
herself down to mathematical dreams, her
fair head bristling with acute angles, in pa
ralkdogrammatic and paraDelobibedonic pa
pillate 3 —in short, with more geometry out
side than in.
WORCESTER of DICTIONARY' FAME.
Doctor Worcester, in his latter days, {he
died in 1865, at the age of eighty,) seldom
walked abroad, his limbs being affected with
slight paralysis. He was, however, a con
stant attendant at Christ Church, the
Episcopalian, and walked slowly there and
back on Sunday mornings, accompained by
Mrs. Worcester. He took daily exercise,
driving in a curious old-fashioned buggy,
with an equally queer old-fashioned tum
bling, jolting horse, all in harmony with the
quaint occupant within. It was carious
sight to .see the venerable lexicographer,
rumbling along slowly over the plcAsaDt sub
urban highways, keenly eDjoyicg the brief
relief from his plodding labors.
Few, however, knew him, so retired was
he in all his habits, so intent upon his great
work, his association with the other were
not intimate. A tall, gaunt mac, thin and
apparently feeble, his lower limbs hardly
sufficing the carry him at the slowest pace;
his hair long and gray, curling toward the
shoulders; his face spare arid short, with,
however, a broad forehead and dullish, bine
eyes, hidden beneath spectacles. In man
ner he was simple and cordiah his welcome
was always gracious; his hospitality unosten
tatious, but always pleasant. His voice
was high and feeble, and in the latter years
of his life his hearing was very much affec
ted.
A stringent moralist and earnestly pious,
he was the model of a quiet Christian gen
tleman. His charities, unseen, were dis
covered, after his death, to have been wide
spread and well directed. He died posses
sed of an extensive property, consisting
chiefly of lands and houses in the vicinity of
his residence, where he had lived for many
years previous to his departure from earth.
Although a graduate of the rival University
of Yale. Dr. Worcester's literary career had
always been identified with Harvard.
The latter university adopted his diction
ary as an authority in preference to that ol
Dr. Noah Webster, patronized by Yale,
where the latter also graduated. In the
United States, Worcester's Dictionary is
generally prefen od among scholars for ortho
graphy, and that of Webster for accurate
definitions; the scale, on the whole, appears
to be turning in favor of the latter, due in
part, perhaps, to the essays recently pub
lished thereon by the distinguished Ameri
can philologist, the Hon. George P. Marsb.
now minister at the Court of Florence.
A SISTER'S INFIXTEXCE.— "That man
has grown among kind and loving sisters,'
I once heard a lady remark. "And why do
you think so?" said L "Because of the rich
development of all the tender feelings of the
heart, which are so apparent in every word.
A sister's influence is felt even in manhood's
later rears, and the heart of him who has
grown cold with its contact with the world,
will warm and thrill with pure enjoyment as
some incident awakes with the soft tones
and glad melodies of hi* aster's voice. And
he will turn from purposes which a warped
and false philosophy has reasoned into ex
pediency and weep for the gentler influence
which loved him in his earlier years.
AMOS LAWRENCE, the distinguished Bos
ton merchant, was an advocate of early
marriages, bnt was strenuously opposed to
any man marrying a fortune. Speaking of
a desirable match for a friend, he said. "My
objection to her is, that she has a few thou
sand dollars in cash. This, however, might
be remedied; for after purchasing a boose,
the balanoo might be given to near connec
tions. or to some institution.'
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CURATIVE PROPERTIES OF WA
TER.
A Timely bath has proved a irea'- and an
enduring Wearing. ITiere are not wanting
instances on record where a sho ver of rain
has saved the lives of persons. Such was
the cams during the prevalence of ydl.ro
fever at Quarantine, on Staten Island. Pa
tients that were given up as lost have been
resuscitated and restored io health by being
obliged from the <ircum stances to enjoy a
copious shower of rain during the night
while yet in their couches.
The power of water as a panacea is really
wonderful. It allays aD irritation and
physical excitement. Det a child burn itself
and in a moment the burnt part is thrust,
into the mouth and with the spittle the fire
lis put out. If it were possible to wrap a
i jierson caught in flames from burning clothes
in wet blankets before the air could reach
I the bum. -we bctiwre any case curable could
J. be healed by nothing but cold water.
| If your limbs are weary or worn wash
! them in cold water, and the body is refresh -
•<1 in a moment. If your feet are galled by
: tight boots, by too a aeh walking or by heat,
I put thorn into a tab of cold water, wash them
I thouroughly, He down to rest, don't rub
j them with towels or dry them too quickly.
| Let the water dry away upon them and
j then, if any soreness remain, put them into
i the water again, using perhaps a little castile
I soap, and ail sorness will pass off
One of the surest remedies for the tooth
| ache, is the hohlmg of cold water in the
! month riJ it gets warm, then replenishing it
| with a new application of the same, and so
on, until, if the tooth can be relieved at all
it will get well from this treatment.
An external application of cold water is a
sure remedy to fever, if applied in the begin
ning or early in the progress of the same.
We do not believe that any fever that
ever attacked a human being might not
have been arrested by some application of
water, eitherjnternally or externally, or
both.
Is HE RlCH? —Many a sigh is heaved,
many a heart is broken, many a life is ren
dered miserable, by the terrible infatuation
which parents often manifest in choosing a
life-companion lor their daughters. How is
it possible for happiness to result from the
union of two principles so diametrically op
posed to each other in every point, as virtue
is to vice! And yet, how often is wealth
considered a better recommendation for
young men than virtue. How often is the
first which is asked respecting the suiter of
a daughter, this: "Is he rich?" Yes, he
abounds in wealth ; bat does that afford any
evidence that he will make a kind and af
fectionate husband ! "Is he rich?" Yes,
his clothing is pnrple and fine linen, and
he fares sumptuously every day, but can you
infer from this that he is virtuous ? " Is be
rich?" Yes, he has thousands floating on
every ocean; but do not riches sometimes
"take to themselves wings and fly away f"
And wiH TOO consent that your daughter
shall marry a man who has nothing to
recommend him but his wealth? Ah, be
ware ! The gilded bait sometimes covers a
bearded hook. Ask not, then, "is he rich?"
but "is he virtuous ?" Ask not if he has
wealth, but has be honor? and do not
sacrifice your daughter's peace for money.
MAKE THE BEST OF IT. —A determination
to make the best of everything, is a won
derful smoother of the difficulties which
beset us in oar probationary scene. In
Peter Pindar's story of the penacce of walk
ing to a certain serine with pets in their
shoes, had been enjoined, are represented
as having performed their tasks under very
different circumstances, and in very (liferent
moods. One of them having taken the
precaution to soften his peas by boiling
them, tripped lightly and merrily over the
ground; the other, who bad not gnmption
enough to turn his hard pallets into a poul
tice by the same process, limped and hobled
all the way. It is pretty much the same in
our pilgrimage through this "vale of tears. "
The impatient and imprudent travel on hard
peas, the prudent and sagacious make
themselves easy in their shoes, and ran
cheerfully the race that is set before them.
A WAB OF RACES !—Then let us pre
pare for it! We sound the note of warn
ing to the people, and hid them be on the
alert. Preparations may be preventive; but
if, in spite of preparations, the conflict is
precipitated upon us, it can have but one
conclusion. The negro element in the South
is like a gangrene upon the body politic,
and the first drop of blood shed in a servile
war will be the signal for the extermination
of the whole race.
If such a war must come, let it come quick
ly. The South wants peace, and if it is now
to be required to wade through a sea of
blood to reach it. the sooner commenced the
sooner ended. Our white allies in Mary
land and Kentucky, not to mention States
further North, may be relied on for assis
tance, if we need it.— Richmond Examiner.
LABOI'LAT* has published a very remark
able paper on the political situation in the
United States. He says that, even though
the horizon should be less bright than the
most prominent Repnbhcan pa]>ers in the
United States claim, he considers Gi-mt and
Colfax's election a foregone conclusion :
"for. says he, "at every critical juncture
in its history, the American Republic, when
its citizens were' thoroughly aroused, has
had the best of luck, and so it will be again
this time. The election of Seymour and
Blair would he a great calamity, and the
United States are always too lucky on such
occasions to make me think, even for a
moment, that Grant and Colfax could suc
cumb.
TIIE execution of the murderers of the
late Prince of Servia was a horrible affiair.
The second culprit did not die until three
voileys had been fired at him. After the
first volley, when five bullets had struck
him, he stood erect for a few minutes and
then fell on bis face, so that the officer in
command throught he was dead; but sud
denly the wounded men sprang to his feet
again, and remained erect until the second
volley was fired. He fell again, but lay
writhing and groaning on the ground- The
third file of soldiers were then ordered to
stey dose up to the poor fellow and dis
charge their muskets into his brest.
"You ham* Jonea ? How the mischief did
you find your way out?" u Fitui my way
out'what do you mean?" "Why the last
Lei saw you you were lost in slum W
"Ah, well, I rode out on a night more /"