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BILL AM) JOE.
BT 0. W. HOLMNS.
[From the September Atlantic Monthly.]
Come dear old comrade, you and I
Will steal an hour from days gone by—
The shining days when life was new,
And all was bright with morning dew—
The lusty days of long ago,
When you were Bill and I was Joe.
Your name may flaunt a titled trad,
Proud as a cockerel's rainbow tail;
And mine a brief appendix wear
As Tam O'Shanter's luckleas mare;
To-day, old friend, remember still
That I am Joe and you are Bill.
You won the great world's envied prize,
And grand you look in people's eyes
With II ON. and L. 1. D '
In big brave letters, fair to see—
Your fist, old fellow! oft' they go!—
How aro you, Bill? How are yam, Jue?
You've worn the Judge's ermined robe;
You've taught your name to half the globe;
Y'ou've sung mankind a deathless strain;
You've made the dead past live again;
The world may call you what it will,
But yon and I are Joe and Bill.
The chaffing young folks stare and say,
"See those old buffers, bent and gray—
They talk like fellows in their teens!
Mad, poor old boys! That's what it means"—
And shake their heads: they little know
The throbbing hearts of Bill and Joe.
How Bill forgets his hour of prido,
While Joe sits smiling at his side:
How Joe, in spite of time's disguise,
Finds the old schoolmate in his eyes—
Those calm, stern eyes that melt and fill
As Joe looks fondly up at Bill.
Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? *
A fitful tongue of leaping flame;
A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust.
That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;
A few swift years and who can show
Which dust was Bill and which was Joe.
A weary idol takes his stand,
Holds out his bruised and aching hand,
While gaping thousands come and go—
How vain it soems, this empty show !
Till all at once his pulses thrill;
'Tis poor old Joe's "God bless you Bill."
And shall we breathe in happier spheres
The names that pleased onr mortal ears,
In some sweet lull of harp and song
For earth-born spirits none too long,
Just whispering of the world below
Where this was Bill, and that was Joe.
No matter; while our home is here
No soundiug name is half so dear;
When fades at length or lingering day,
Who cares what pompuous tombstones say ?
Bead on the hearts that love us still,
Hie jacel Soa. Hie jacrt Bill.
PIMLLAIWW.
NASBV.
Mr. Nasby at the Instance uv the Na
tional Central Committee Goes South
to Organize < olored Seymour and
Iflair Clubs.
POST OFFIS, CONFKDRIT X ROAI>S, )
(YVieb is in the Stait uv Kentucky,) V
August 27, 1868. j
The Nashnei Central Committee, hevin
notified me that I cood either pay an assess
ment uv thirty dollars toward defravin the
expenses uv the campane, or go South and
organize colored Seymour and Hiair clubs,
I desired to do the latter fer obvus reasons,
which are:
1. The entire community in wieh I reside
aint got thirty dollars, ceptin Baseom and
Pennibacker, wich, bein distillers and gro
cery kecepers hev naterally absorbed all the
capital uv the place.
2. I am fond uv travel, for elsewhere I
find ungleaned fields and pasters fresh. I
find men uv wich I hev never borrered, and
whose naehers hev never bin soured by un
forcbint lendins. I hev notist that I have
alius hev done better wher I aint so ..ell
known. My zeal rather wears out my
friends.
For these reasons I went. My first stop
pin place wuz in Western Tennessee, and
my success wuz glorious. I made known
my biznis to the leadin Demokrats, and
they took hold uv the idee with elacrity.
Every man uv em put on his gray uniform,
as they alluz do when they embark into a
politikle enterprise that their Dimocrisy
may not be questioned, and sallied out with
me to electioneer the niggers wieh were em
ployed onto their plantashens. Their meth
od wuz short, decisive and effective. The
niggers wuz mildly but firmly given the
cboiee between jinin aseemore& Blare club,
and attendin it to beer me speak, or being
discharged frotn their employment. Ez the
planters hev a jokeler way uv shootin at
site all the niggers who hevent eny employ
ment, the alternative mite be considered
equivalent to death, and with an alacrity
wieh I didn't expect they alljincd and all
come to the meetin in the evenin. One nig
ger when I wuz half thro speakin got up
and left, sayin as he went that he wanted to
work, hed jined the club, and wuz wiilin to
be a conservative nigger to bold his place,
but ez for hearin me clean thro he'd be —.
They wood hev finisht him on the spot, but
I bade em forbear. That nigger's vote is
shoor, and I don't mind the insult he put
onto me. "Let him go." I sed "we hev
no votes to spare, and sence Bookannon's
time we hevn't bin able to vote ded men to
any extent." Let Horasho Seemore, ef he
is elected, remember this thotfulnis and self
sacrifis. Sich qualities wood shine at the
head uv the Post Ofis Department. I mere
ly throw this hint out by the way.
The next pint I struck wuz a cheerful
village uv perhaps a thousand people.
Here I found a better spirit prevalin than I
cood hev hoped for. The druggists and
grocers were all Democrats uv the straight
est sect, hevin every one uv em served in
the Confedrit army: They were delighted
at the movement. Not five minits after 1
hed made known my bizness a nigger come
into a drug store uv wich the likker (wich
wuz kept for medissinal purposes only)
sooted me, askin for some calomel and qui
nine, wieh iz the standord remedy among
the niggeis here for ague, the whites yoos
in quinine and whisky for the same disease,
wich they take, omittin the quinioe.
"Shel yoo vote for Seemore and Blare?"
quoth the patriotic druggist. "Are yoo
wiilin to become a conservative nigger, and
jine a conservative nigger Seemore and
Blare club?"
"No sah !" replied the obtoote Ethiopi- j
an.
"Then, my buck, yoo can't hev no medi
cine at this shop."
j "But my children must hev it," replied j
HKI)FORP,'PA., Fit DA Y. SEPT. 25- IMiK.
the nigger.
"It makes no difference. We can't fur
nish medicine to R&dikals. We can't fur
nish niggers who ain't willin to vote with u=
who protected em in their infancy and wurkt
em for their own good in their matoorer
years, with remedies either vegitable or min
eral. Jine the club or no quinine."
Ess a matter uv course- the nigger listened
to reason. He wuz to wunst convinced that
the lladikels wus opposed to his interests
in all respex, and he jiocd. They were
thoro in their Democrasy in that place,
They detenniued to hev perfeck yoouaninii
ty in their vote at the polls; and the three
or four niggers wioh positively refoosed to
jino they hung, together with two white-
Ohio farmers and one white Pennsylvauy
blacksmith, wich persisted in ther "loyal,"
ez they called it, principles. It hed an ex
cellent persuasive effeek upon the remaining
ones. They eomo in liaudsome and jioed
without a murmur.
Tne next place I visited wuz a smaller
village, one wich reely gladdened me to y
proaeh. In thus class uv towns there is Iss
uv that cold formality wich charactcrtes
more densely populated secshuns. In |cb
places yoo find the troo gushin child ofoa
cher. It is a splendid eorngrowing secskin
wich soil is perkoolyerly lavorable to de
mocrasy. In fact, corn and democracy ii
inseverable, and our largest majorities iz
alluz where there is the best and most lutu
riant corn. The distillers convert the dm
into whisky and the whisky converts orgi
oal men into Democrats, and then its pliin
sailin. It takes three generashuns at least
to bring a people out uv whisky and tte
state uv toelis shoes, pants busted in tie
seat, and winders stufft with old hats, wiei
alius marks a strictly Dimokratic communi
ty. Its a singular fact that we never flouv
i.-h in a soil adopted to wheat, wich lid
ralerodes thro it. Wheat will make whb
ky, but its fine flavored, and the facilities
for getting it to market makes it too ligh
in price. The man who invented ralenxes
struck a blow at the hart uv the party. lor
our purposes we want little of the fitry
whisky wich eorn produces, and want tlat
little strong. But this Is a digression. ,\t
this pint the enthoosiasm Was unbounded.
The Democrasy wuz all alive, but tlar
wasn t that docility among the niggers tlat
I expected. These cusses, es soon ez tkey
saw me, and learned my biznis, took to the
woods, and we hed to go after em to elec
tioneer em, with the Dimocrasy did, takin
their dogs with em. It was a ebeerin ate
to see em follerin the black cusses thro the
swamps, the uioosic uv the yelpin uv the
dorgs eheerin us on to our work. Two or
three refoosed to be tolked to, and their
bodies, like John Brown's wuz left a dang
lin in the air, while ther soles went a mareli
in on. We beleeve in every man a ehoosin
for hisself, iu the greatest freedom uv
speech and opinion, providin alluz ther aint
nothin incenjiary in it. Ez everytliin that's
eed agin us we count iuccnjiary it simplifies
I matters wonderfully.
I got one good rueetin uv em, however, to
wich I wuz indebted to a Noo York dry
goods merchant, who is here makin stren
uous efforts to re-establish bis trade wick
edly and crooely broken up by the wicked
| onpleasantnis wich Linkin inaggeratcd by
resistin '.be South in 1861. He is a conser
vative who is after trade, and consekeotlv
is willin to do anything He told me uv a
: nsgger funeral to take place in the afternoon
and suggested that a score uv us arm our
; selves, surround em and keep ein in whether
jor no, ontil I had made my speech. "So
j ankshus am I," he sed to a retailer uv dry
1 goods, (it wuz dry goods he wuz sellin, by a
: singler coincidence) "for the success uv cor
| reet principles, that I will guard one uv the
| doors myself." And he did it, swearin
at \ ankecs all the time, and pronouuein
'■ cow—"caow," the while. 1 notist it, but it
mattered not to me. Why shood we be
partikler ez to the tools we yoose? When
we shake hands with sich, cau't We put on
gloves?
We surrounded the church and notfied
em that they cood'nt pass till we was thro,
and I commenced my speech, and spoke it
thro. I insisted that their interests lay
with their kind, good masters —that they
hed bin grevously deceeved in sposin that
there wuz any antagonism - between the
races. Who, I askt, gave the colored man
the rite to vote in Noo York? The Dimoc
risy. Who gave the colored man the rite
to stay in Ohio? The Dimocrisy. What
Vice President hed a nig—or rather colored
woman—-for a wife, wich wood hev been
mistress uv the White House, hed the
President bin llcpublikin, and consekently
worth our while to assassinate him? Ri. h
ard M. Johnson, a Bimocrat. Who hev
bin —
At this pint a pert mulatto remarked that
he hed a word to say, and I gave place to
him. He wuz himself a conservative nigger
uv the most conservatest kind. He shood
vote with his white brothers cheerfully, but
not for the reasons wich the speaker (meanin
me) hed given. He shood do it from a
| higher, holier motive than any advanced.
He should do it from motives of consan
guinity. He hed alius bin a humble nigger
beleven himself to he uv an inferior race,
but sence he had been free ho had been
searchin his pedigree. He hed been agree
aby surprised. He found he hed the best
blood uv Virginuy coursin thro his veins.
The Confederit candidate for Oongris wuz
his half brother,halleloogy, and he was
closely related to two thirds uv all sed candi
date's supporters, bbss be Lord, and ub
course he'd vote him, for de man that
woodn't take car uv his own blood is wuss
nor an infidel. He felt grateful to the con
servative candidate's family. Troo, he wuz
half nigger, but he prided hisselfon the
tother half. He felt all the pride uv race
uv wich he bed heerd so much. His ances
tors (on his fadder's side) hed been probably
the comrades uv Washington, and he wood
ent degrade hisself by mixen with men uv no
family from the North. lie wuz poor, but
his projenitors (on bis fadder's side) wuz
gentlemen, bress de Lood, and he stood on
blood.
And the niggers, bustin with lafter, at the
rage wich they saw depicted on to the coun
tenances nv their white friends, got up to
leave. We tried to stop em, so that I cood
speek further, but ez they hed more revol
vers than we hed, and didn't appear to be
disinclined to yoose em, we didn't attempt
to force. The most uv these niggers hed
bin in the servis, and you can't make men
docile who hev borne arms. I shel contin
yoo my work, however, never rnindiu these
temporary backsets.
J'KTHOLEt M V. XASJSV, P. JJ.
(With is Pusiuiastcr.)
DEiOCKATIC PRINCIPLES—A OIA
LOGIfE.
AJrjroignor, anxious to study the present
coodion of American politics, recently ia
'luirfi of a prominent Democrat what are
the fesent principles of the Democratic par
ty ( The following dialogue ensued:
ItptOCHAT. —"\\ hy, sir, the Democratic
pari has always been f rank in the statement
of it principles. You have only to read the
platorm adopted at its last NatiodSl Con
veuton, and you will find them set foith in
full,
I'lreionkk.—l have read it, and find the
onhaistinctive point in it to be "that, after
fou.'vears of failure to restore the Union by
war there ought to be an immediate cessa
tioopf hostilities." I suppose the triumph
of tie Government over the rebellion in the
fifthyear of the war must have obliged the
Denpcratic party to admit that they were
misukc-n.
Mistaken! Sir, the Democratic
party was never mistaken. But on reiiec"
tion, I perceive that tie present principles
of the party are not stated in its platform.
1 tic first is that this is a white man'seountry,
and that black men have no constitutional
right to vote, especially in reconstructing the
Southern States, and no human power caD
give themWhe right.
FOR. —You have heard of Noah Webster,
have you not?
DEM. —Heard of him—yes; and he was
not only the best lexicographer of the Eng
lish language, but he was a straight-out old
fashioned Connecticut Democrat.
For. —Well, he defines a Democrat to be
"one who favors the extension of the right of
suffrage to all classes of men. llow is it that
a man can bo a Democrat solely because he
opposes that doctrine?"
DEM.—Politics have changed since Web
ster s time, lie did not regard negroes as
men,
For. —lndeed ! He defines a negro to be
"one belonging to the black race of mat."
DEM.—Well, Webster is a mere peda
gogue. Our statesmen have thought differ
ently.
FOR. —Who are your statesmen?
. DEM. —Andrew Jackson and
FOR. —But Jackson led the free negroes
to the polls, and voted with theui side by
side.
DEM. —Oh, yes, we would be parfectly
willing to LEAD them to the polls, hut the
mischief is they won't he led. They march
to the poils in platoons to vote against L - s.
But this is not our principal point now that
negro suffrage has prevailed all over the
South; we have financial policies. The
national bonds should he taxed, and what is
left of their value after paying the tax
should he paid in greenbacks.
FOR. —What is a greenback?
DEM.—It is the promise of the Uuited
j States to pay a certain sum of money with
out interest.
For. —And are the greenbacks ever to he
paid ?
Dk.o —No, thoy aro to circulate as rnr- ,
rency.
For. —How long will they circulate as
currency after it is announced that they are
never to he paid ? And how much will
they be worth per dollar?
DEM. —That's none of my business. The
Black Republicans issued them, and they
must take care of them.
FOR. —But Demorats hold them, and will '
suffer hy their repudiation.
DEM. —Well, we'll consent to lose what we
have in greenbacks in order to break down
the aristocratic bondholders.
, FOR.—Who are they?
DEM.- -The rich men, the Asters, the
Stewarts, &c.
For. —But I am told these men hold no
bonds, and that nearly all your bonds are
owned, direety or iudirectly, by poor men.
DEM. —It must be mighty indirect, then:
I'm sure I don't own any.
FOR. —Let us see. Have you any money
in bank 1 '
DEM. —A little; and my wife has a deposit
in the savings hank, which she has saved
from her cheese and butter.
For.— You are both bondholders, then.
Are your lives or property insured?
DEM.—We have a policy our bou-e.
For.— What, are you such aristocratic
bondholders?
DEM. —How is that.
For. —Nearly all tho national bonds
owned in this country are held by the na
tional banks, savings banks, life, fire, and
marine insurance and trust companies.
These companies in turn are merely agents
forthnsewho insure and deposit, and do
business with them. In New York State
the savings banks alone hold $49,000,000
in bonds. These of Massachusetts, $25,-
000,000; those of Rhode Island, $13,000,000;
and, including the other thirty-four States,
it is safe to say that their savings banks
alone hold $300,000,000 and that these
represents the savings fo three millions of
poor people. The number of depositors in
New York and Massachusetts, together,
umountto 804,501 persons, all of whom are
poor and their humble savings would be
swept away by repudiating the national debt,
one seventh of which is duo to them.
DEM.—Is that so?
For.— Moreover, the life and insurance
com panies of New York alone hold SOO,-
000,000 in national bonds, How many
should you estimate were held by the insur- ;
anoe companies of tho entire country?
DEM. -Perhaps $300,000,000 more. I !
don't know.
For. —Nor I; but suppose it to be as you
say. Now you know that the national hanks
own $340,000,000 in the bonds, and that the
class who own and do business with these
banks are not all millionaires. They are
well to do business men, and no more.
About $500,000,000 of our bonds arc held
as investments in Germany, mainly by
persons of moderate means who had faith
in the stability of our Republican institu
tions. Besides there arc, all over the j
country, trust estates, and money of per- I
sons of moderate means, which have been '
invested directly in the bonds. The amount
of these can hardly be less that $200,000,- j
000. Here, then, we have a grand total of
$1,740,000,000 of the interest-bearing por
tion of the national debt, which amounts to
about $2,000,000,000, belonging to the
people who cannot be called capitalists,
eaving, say, $280,000,000 for the aristocrat
ic bondholders.
DEM.—Some of your figures rest upon
supposition, but, as it is impossible to
arrive st thi in l y estimates from the facts
-•r'trHy known. Your statement is new to :
uie, and I must think of it.
For.— Aro there any other principles of j
the Democratic parly on which you can give
nie any information?
DEM. —None at present.
THE SOUTHERN LAMBS.
We regard it as highly proper, says the
Buffalo Express, now to keep track of Mr.
Seymour's Southern lambs—"the Chiefs of
the Rebellion," and see in what manner
they are submitting to the results of the
war, and cultivating the arts of peace. Let
us fold and count them and mark well their
dispositions. We will begin with Col. Slay
buck, of the late Confederate army who an
nounces to his fellow confederates, in a re
cent speech at St. Joseph, Missouri, that—
The gallant sons of the South wc/uld gain
what they had fought for without the sacri
fice of a single principle.
Then we come to Judge Jones, who ad
dressed a Democratic ratification meeting in
Mobile, deeply deploring the failure of the
Confederate cause, and expressing the earn
est belief that—
In God'.-Providence the Democratic party
under the leadership of Seymour and Blair,
would re-establish the time.honoied princi
ples.
The Mobile Advertiser submits in this
wise after taking up the refrain of Wade
Hampton's speech. It says:
Texas. Virginia and Mississippi must |
vote, and the Democracy will see that "the !
vote is counted." "More blood letting" is '
necessary to complete the "counter revolu 1
tion.''
To which the Mobile Tribune cheerfully j
responds:
The "dagger of Brutus" may aid in ac
complishing Southern redemption. It has!
tried the histol and now it reaches out for
the knife.
The Meriden (Miss.) Mercury enlivens
this expression of Southern lamb-like senti- j
ment, by the following contribution:
With the skull and cross bones of the •
"lost cause" before us, we will swear that!
this is a white man's Government. We
must make the negro understand we are the
men we were when we held him in abject
bondage, and make him feel that when for- 1
hearance ceases to be a virtue, he has arous- i
ed a power that will control him or destroy i
him.
The St. Louis Times, one of the meek !
followers of Horatio, under the inspiration
of Blair's Broadhead letter, exclaims:
There is but one way to restore the Gov
ernment and the Constitution, and that is
for the President elect to declare these (re- j
construction) acts null and void, compel the '
army to undo its usurpations at the South, !
disperee the carpet bag State Governments,
allow the white pnopje to reorganize their
own governments, and elect Senators and
Representatives.
The pirateSemmes puts in hislampbiike
oar and declares—
I have given in my allegience to the "old
flag" provided the "old flag" covers my no
tion of the Constitution.
Gen. Lawton, another of the rebel chiefs
who has submitted to the results of the war,
now rises in his place and says:
Now. for the first time, we have a plat
form of principles and leaders around whom j
we could rally. It was the noblest, best,
boldest declaration of ever laid .
down in the United States, and the dem j
onstration tonight shows that it was in
unison with the feelings of the people. .
There iron nothing the South tainted that ■
was not there. The military despotism i
which had held us in thraldom was there
set in its proper light. For the first time
wc have a platform we can adhere to. We
: have work todowbich can be accomplished.
We have leaders to represent those
i principles who will carry us out of the
' 'slough of despond.'' Peace has its victo
ries as well as war. Those great principles
for which we fought, and which we feared
were lost, may yet he achieved.
The Atlanta Constitution puts in its lamb
like voice in the following submissive tone:
The guilty Belshazzars by whom we have
been oppressed are trembling all over the
land. Forbear a little longer, draw another
draught upon the long tried and exhausted
patience, step cautiously above the inerusted ;
volcanoes slumbering beneath yourfeet, with \
a firm trust in the saving power of Demo- ;
cracy.
The Mobile Tribune, again chimes in with
its meek note:
Oneo more to flie breach then—yet once
more! And when the cloud shall have
cleared away from the flaming field, oar flag
wdj be seen in its glory, streaming like the
thunderbolt against the wind. Let us then
rally once more around the dear old flag,
which we have followed so often to glory and
victory.
The Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union,
whose only fear is that Forrest and his
bloody-handed followers may be "too hasty,"
breathes out with Southern sweetness this
gentle admonition :
Suffer any and all taunts nnd tyranny un
til after November, and then—well we would
rather be a nimble squirrel than a white
Radical.
To clinch all this in the gentle embrace of
all pervading meeknesss, the New York
World exclaims :
Since our Convention the Republicans un
derstand that the Democratic party is tho
roughly in earnest, and is determined to
bring this reconstruction business to an
immediate crisis.
Verily the people do understand that the
Democratic party is thoroughly in earnest
with the schemes of repudiation and nullifi
cation, and they indicate, too, that they are
fearfully in earnest and determined in their
purpose to head off this new rebellion. Ver
mont leads off.
"WHO ARE THE BLOATED BOND
HOLDERS {"
The Hon. Amasa Walker, i.. an article
upon the "Claims of the Bondholders," in
Lippincott's Magazine for August, after
enumerating the various classes which would
suffer by repudiation, says:
"The Savings bauks have, from the first
to the present time, invested largely in the
National Bonds. All the interest they have
received upon loans made before the war, j
which according to the terms of payment :
should have beeu paid in gold, or in paper ;
on a par with gold, have been paid in green
backs, which they were compelled by law
to take, and, to a large extent, they have
invested these in public stocks, as also the
deposits made with them from time to time
| amounting to many millions, and belonging
in a great degree to the poorer classes, who, :
as we have seen, were certainly not 'bloated,'
if indeed they were not horribly depleted by
the issue of legal tenders. Are they not,
then, entitled to full payment? Did they
not pav what to them was the equivalent? i
Will they be unduly 'enriched at the ex
pense of the nation,' if they receive gold
for what to them had to stand for, gold, and
which, perhaps, they received, under legal
compulsion, for actual gold? These institu
tion must hold over oue hundred millions of
dollars in United States bonds.
"The colleges and oiher literary and
I scientific institutions of the country, too,
have funds consisting largely of Government'
| bonds. Upon the income from those they j
vol,. 41: NO. lid I
s rely to eke out the small" salaries of their
professors or teachers. Ho, also, of the
! hospitals and other public charities, secular
and sacred, of every name and description
j all are alike dependent on the faith of the
, nation.
j # "Many persons engaged iu the trade and
p manufactures of the country made large
,' profits by the advance of commodities in
, | their possession, and by the enhanced profits
; i they were able to obtain in consequence of
. | the pressing demand occasioned by the war.
I —They took great risks; they threw them
selves into the turbulent and perilous current;
and were successful. Such has always been
the case, at all times, in all countries, when
ever the general industry became disturbed
by military operations. This class of per
sons doubtless hold a share of the Federal
bonds, but upon what principle of justice
1 i can their claims be regarded as defective?"
THE DEMOCRACY AS© MRS. STRAIT. —
j One of the best replies we have noticed in
the canvass is that of the Hon. John A.
Bingham, of Ohio, who, while speaking at
j a Republican meeting in Bangor, 31aine,
: was insulted by a Copperhead, who cried
1 out, "How about Mrs. Surratt?" 31r.
i Bingham instantly responded:
How about her? Go and consult the re
cords of* the court that tried and convicted
her. Go and ask General Hancock, who
issued the order for her execution in spite
j of a writ of habeas eorbus which had been
j served-upon him; and, if you are still un
satisfied, go and ask that apostate President,
Andrew Johnson, why he refused a pardon
alter a petition had been sent him signed by
every member but one of the court who
tried her, and drawn up in the handwriting
j of the man you seek to insult. The copper
head wilted and "31r. Bingham proceeded
, with hisspeeeh.
A SINGULAR BIRD.—On Sunday of last
week a novelty in the bird line was killed in !
Illinois, opposite 3locnd City by a man
| named Harney, of that city. The Cairo j
j Democrat says; It is larger than the ostrich, :
and weighs one hundred and four pounds.
The body of this wonderful bird is covered
with snow white down, and its head is of a
I fiery red. The wings, of deep black, meas
; are fifteen feet from tip to tip, and the bill,
of a yellow color, twenty-four inches. Its
| legs are slender and sinewy, pea green in
1 color, and measure forty-eight inches in
{ length. One of the feet resembles that of a
duck, and the other that of a turkey. 3lr.
Harney shot it at a distance of one hundred
yards, from the topmost branch of a dead
tree, where it was perched, preying upon a
j full sized sheep that it had carried from the
| ground.
This strange species of bird, which is said
; to have existed extensively during the days
1 of the mastodon, is almost entirely extipct
I —the last one having been seen in the State
of New York during the year 1812. Potter
has it on exhibition in his office at Mound
City. Its flight across the town and river
was witnessed by hundreds ofeitizens.
RIDE YOUR OWN HORSE AND CAR
BY YOUR OWN FODDER.
An exchange paper thus notices the new
I idea of importing velocipedes front France
j for general use;
' To be able to live in the country and do
business in the city; to rise superior to
I schedules, and be independent of the hay
market; to command the services of a ma
-1 chine which, while exceeding the swiftness
j of a horse, is wholly free from the dan
-1 gerous power confined in a locomotive, and
requires no more attention than a post, is a
stride towards independent convenience and
comfort we confess we never expected to
witness in our time. Yet this convenience,
! it appears, is about to be realized by some
1 gentlemen of New York, who have impoit
j ed, for their own especial use, the veloci-
I pedes which have become so popular in
j Paris. It must be borne in mind that these
, recent importations are not the sort which
we have seen used by boys. The ordinary
plaything has three wheels, while the veloc
I ipedes that do their eight and ten miles in
and out of Paris daily have but two, con
: structed in such a manner as to admit the
j use of a saddle, with stirrups. A rapid
! movement of the foot creates a rapid action
of the apparatus. The mode of mounting
is said to be novel and rather difficult at
first, but should you fall there is no danger
of having your brains scattered on the pave
ment by a horse's hoof. Fifteen miles an
i hour is termed easy traveling with the velcc
' ipede; anybody can do twelve miles. To
i Pittsburgers this subject has a decided in-
I terest. No city in the country has a larger
| proportion of its population residing in the
j suburbs, and it is growing continually. As
we understand it, velocipedes will operate
: on roads such as we have leading into our
I city, and the idea of trying them has, we
| believe, entered into the mind of more than
one gentleman—and lady, too. Who will
I be the first to introduce the velocipede into
j Pittsburg? is a question we hope to see an
! swered before long. The cost in Paris of a
velocipede, we believe, is between fifty and
| sixty dollars.
DON'T FORGET IT.
Our Democratic neighbor of the Post
j boasts that its party has plenty of money to
expend this year in campaign purposes. It
: said yesterday morning:
"There is no trouble about the money this
year with the Democrats, there is slashins
of it —aud why not? The Democrats staid at
home during the tear, and got the mule and
j other fat conracts, whilst the Republicans
were getting killed in the arm;/. That,s
what's the matter."
This is a handsome confession ! It admits
! all the friends of the Union have ever charg
| ed against Copperheadism. Let it be known
jto the people everywhere! "THE DE3IO
-1 CRATS STAYED AT HO3IE during the
war, to get contracts, ichiht the Republicans
| were getting killed in the army,' the Pitts
burgh Post exultingly cries, and the Demo
cratic profits are to be expended to hood
wink the people into suffering the inaugura
; tion of more wars, with more contracts for
stay-at-home-democrats, and more Repub
licans to be slain in fighting for the flag !
Put that paragraph, from the Pittsburgh |
! Post , of August 30, 1868, in your pocket,
reader; refer to it when you
can find a democratic "soldier" to talk to,
: and ask him how that kind of Democratic
j loyalty suits him. — Pittsburgh Gazette.
WE Triumph over calumny only by despis
' ingif.
ADAM was the only man that never tan
talised his wife about "the way mother used
j to cook."
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THE Kl'-KEI'X IK KBHTUCKY.
A dispatch from Bowling Green, Ken
tucky, of the 7th inst., says: The murder
ous rebels of the Ku Klux Klan are more
active, defiant, and aggressive in this part
of the State than ever before. In many
cases they have ceased to threaten, and en
tered upon the work of murder outright,
boldly entering the houses of citizens who
were Union men during the war, and who
are suspected of entertaiuiog Republican
feelings now, and murdering them in cold
blood. On Saturday night they surrounded
Glasgow William's house, and as he would
not obey their summons they forced an en
trance aDdkilled him in the presence of bi
wifc, while she was on her knees begging
them to spare his life. Mr. Williams was
a Union soldier during the war, and had
proclaimed his intention to vote for his old
commander. After the disguised outlaws
had murdered him, still thirsting for Union
blood, they went to the cabin of an inoffen
sive negro who had also served in the
Union army, and taking him out, hanged
him under a tree until he was dead. On
Friday night the same miscreants made —i
attack upon a settlement of Shakers, and
wreaked their vengeance by burning to the
ground their large mill and woolen factory.
These Shakers, it need not be added, are an
inoffensive community, who have always
been loyal to the Government. The rebel
Democracy have resolved, if possible, to
expel them from Kentucky soil. Their loss
by this diabolical incendiarism is over
$250,000. The KikKlux Klan have warned
all citizens in this part of Kentucky who
were in the Union army that they must
quit the State, the penalty of remaining
until the day of election being death.
FACTS TO BE REMEMBERED.
It is a fact; Ist. That the so-called Deui
i oeratic party threatened, commenced, and
i carried on the war of the rebellion.
2. That the leaders of the Democratic
party were the leaders of the rebellion.
I 3. That the Democratic party controlled
the States in rebellion.
4. That the Democratic party opposed
every measure of the government to suppre>.-
the rebellion.
. 5 Tliat the Democratic party discouraged
enlistment into the Union army and resisted
the draft.
6' That the Democratic party gave aid and
comfort to the rebels in anus during the
war.
7. That the Democratic party refused to
give our brave and patriotic soldiers, in the
field, fighting for the life of the nation, the
right to vote.
8. That the Democratic party opposed
every measure adopted by Congress to re
store peace, harmony, and security to the
country.
9. That the Democratic party, by forc
■ ing upon the country, without a cause, a
long, bloody, and expensive war, created a
*asi puomr ueot, ami imposed upon ttic
people untold sorrow and burdens griev
ous to be borne.
10. That the Democratic party are re
sponsible for high taxes high prices, de
rangement of business, etc., which are the
legitimate fruits of the wai.
11. The Democratic party proposes to
increase these burdens by overthrowing
the State governments in the South, and
acknowledging the validity of rebel legis
lation and their debt.
12. The Democratic party and their
rebel aiders in the South, pronounce in
favor of a Dictator to overthrow civil gov
ernment, and to establish caste and class
legislation, and now ask the free people of
the North to help them to power.—Mon
trose Republican.
AN UNSPOTTED CHARACTER.—Moucy is
a good thing, especially in these hard times,
but there is something a thousand times
more valuable. It is character—the con
sciousness of a pure and honorable life.
This should he a man's first aim. to preserve
at any cost. In times of commercial dis
tress, while some are proved and found
wanting, others come forth tried by fire.
Here and there one eomc-s out of the fur
nace, far more of a man than before. Amid
the wrecks of his fortune he stands erect —a
noble specimen of true manhood. We have
occasionally witnessed an example of cour
age in such a crisis, of moral intrepidity
that deserved all honor. Let it be the aim
of every business man, above all things else,
to keep purity sustained. This is the best
possession—this is a capital which can never
be taken from him—this is the richest in
heritance which he can leave to his children.
FEAR in a sound mind is self-limited;
for such a mind controls its fears through
fear of the consequences of yielding to
them.
TIIE only Methodism I desire to know
is the holy method of dying to self and liv
ing wholly to God.— WhUtfidd.
WISDOM is mighty; meekness is mighty;
but the "meekness of wisdom" is almighty
.—Dr. A. Reed.
HE gives me the most perfect idea of a
fiend who suffers at the perfections of others
and enjoys their errors.
AN exchange says that self-made men,
like other madq men, are sometimes very
badly made.
THE door between us and heaven cannot
be opened if that between us and our fel
low men is shut.
GREAT talkers converse with each other
in half sentences, for neither waits to hear
a whole one.
TRUTH has never need of error, and
shades add nothing to light.
FLATTERY is a false coin which is current
only through our vanity.
JUST as you are pleased at finding faults,
you are displeased at finding perfections.
A REGULAR KXOW-NOTOIXG.—"Mister, I
says, I don't suppose you don't know of no-
L body what don't want to hire nobody to do
1 nothin' for somebody nowhow, yon don't, do
1 you." "Yes, I guess not."
A FAILUBK.—"Boy, what is your father do
ing to-day? Well, I a'pose he's failin. I
hern him tell mother yesterday, to go round
to all the shops an get trusted all she could— -■
, c ixr auisUteftf
■ an do it right off, too,—lor
1 thing ready to fail up to
that." JL
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