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Its ruined we are wid taxaysbun, The likes ov it nivir wuz known; The load that is piled upon UB tVud squash out the heart ova stone, Yez may talk about and justice, The price ov the Uuion, an that, But the price that is axed fur sich thrifles Is too high fur a good Deuimykrat. What's the wurrth ov the Union whin whiah . key , Ix taxed wid a shilliu' a quart? Can a Government be wan ov fraydum Whin you've got to pay out money lor't? To be shure, fur ayquil taxaysbun Its a Dimmykrat's duty to bawl, Butmeeself thinks it mity unpropur To be Dimmykrats toxin' at all. Is the Government wan or our choosin' ? Don't illckshuti returns ansir No ? Is Congress, that piles on the Taxes, Any snormthin a Kadikle show? Hev we got our fair share ov ploondher ? —An' the whole is all that we ax — Thin why shud a Radikle Congress Upon Dimmykrats levy a tax? "Its the war," is the radikle ansir, "Its the war that brought on the expinse." j That's a fact that I'll not be disputin', But what Radikle dares make praytinse That Dimmykrats wanted the fitin'? Faix, the Radikles, ull of 'em know Whin the South packed their thrauks to th ravel. We tould thim "God bliss yez, an' go." Did Vallandigham vote to buy powdher To kill Dimroykrat frieods in the South? Did Pindleton Sphake fur coersbun, - Or Sayfcore wid war fill bis mouth? Did they shware that by traitors an' rebels The Union shud niver be shplit, Though it tuk iviry man an' ayche dollar To maintain it?—Divil a bit! Whin our Southern irinds got mad in arnist An' blazed away at tbe Hag, Did the Dirnoiykrat chiefs savze their Boords thin An' rush to defind the ould rag ? Did we dhrop our picks an' our shovels An' run to iulisht, iviry man, To fight for the Union an' fraydum An' gloory?—Divil a wan. Twuz fitin' an' marchin, we did tho', But not ov the Radikle kind; While in front the sonljers wuz fitin' We wuz doin' our fiting behind. As fur marchin'! Set a dhraft wheelaturnin' An' we'd thravil away double quick, Whin a Dimmykrat paibriot wuz dhraftid He'd fur Canady slbrait cut bis stick. 'Ginst our Southern Dimmykrat braythrin' 'Twuz Radikle souljers that fought, An' they killed Soutbern Demmykrat voters Wid Radikle powdher an' shot. 'Twuz Radicles did most the fitiu' An' fired the money away, But now they put taxes on whishkey An' the Dimmykrats have it to pay. That the wans what did all the mischief Shn'd pay for't is sartinly sinse; An' if there'd bin no fitin' Tbere'd bave bin no war expinse. So its fair I'll be afther tbinkni' What a good Payee Dimmykrat axes, Tbat the souljers that did all the fitin' Thi mselves shud pay all tbe taxes. DEMOCRATIC ALPHABET. A—Andcrsonville, a place where tho Dem ocratic rebels starved 12,000 Uoion prison ers to death. B—Beauregard, a good Democrat, who wrote to the rebel Democratic Secretary of War of Richmond, in 1862, that it was time to hoist the black flag and kill the Union prisoners by the garrote. C—Canada, an English province, from where raids were made into the United j States by Democratic rebels. D—Jeff. Davis, the head of the Demo- ; cratic rebellion. E—Emissaries who were sent during the l rebellion by the Democrats, to France and England to persuade those governments to j help destroy our Republic. F—Forrest, the butcher of Union prison ers at Fert Pillow, a good Democrat, and a delegate at the Democratic Convention at New York. G—Guerrillas, Democratic partisans, who hung Union prisoners during the war, out raged the wives of the same, and burned their dwellings. H—Hunger, which Union soldiers, ss prisoners of war, were made to suffer by Democratic rebels. I—lndians, employed by tbe Democrats at Pea Ridge to scalp Union prisoners. J—Johnson, the renegade; a good Demo crat. The author of the New Orleans m assa ere, in 1*66, when Union men were mur- i i dered by Democratic rebels. K—Kuklux, the name by which the : Democratic murdering bands are known. Many thousand Union men have already • been murdered by these Democrats. L—Abraham Lincoln, murdered by that | good Democrat, J. Wilkes Booth, because he was true to the Union. M—Murderers were the Democrats in New York who struck down offensive peo ple, burned dowu orphan asylums, and were addressed by Ihe Democratic candidate for the Presidency as "my friends." N—Nigger! nigger!! nigger!!! is one of the Democratic arguments again>t the j party of the UnioD. O —Organization and aiming for a new rebellion is now preached by tbe leaders of the Democratic party. P —Payne, one of the conspirators and a good Democrat. Q —Quaatreil, a good Democrat, and who during the war hung hundreds of Union soldiers, aod murdered defenceless old men, women, and children; destroyed nearly the whole of the town of Lawrence, in Kansas. R —Rebellion against liberty and human ity was the battle cry of the Democrats in 1664, and it is so again in 1866. S —Semmes, a Democratic pirate, who burned many merchant vessels during the rebellion. T—Taxes! Taxes!! Taxes!! 1 is one of the great words used by the Democrats, but they never say that these taxes were made by the Democratic rebellion. U —The Union is only bated by Demo crats, and they were the only ones who en deavored to destroy if. V—Vicksburg is tbe place where General Grant made his second speech to a Demo cratic mass meeting. W —Wire is the name of a celebrated Democrat who was tbe executioner of thou | sands of Union soldiers. X—The substitute of a signature used by the majority of Democrats (who burn down negro school-houses) to make a mark, be cause they caonot write their names. Y—Yancey; the name of a Democrat who was a rebel Democratic commissioner in ! France. Z—Zeal was displayed by the Democratic ; rebels in hunting down Union men with j bloodhounds. BEDFORD* PA., FRIDAY. OCT. 16- 1868. CATECHISM FUK THINKEKS. What is the cause of high taxes ? The war. Who made the war ? The Democratic parly. 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 defiance ot the Constitution, the will of the people, and natural right, to perpetuate its power by obtaining conirol of the territories and the States to be formed out of them. What chiefly encouraged this aristocratic class interest to make war upon the Union? The oft repeated, stereotyped public dec larations of Democrats of all sections, never rebuked or disavowed by that party, that the Union should be dissolved if the de luands of the slaveholders were resisted by the people. Who were in power when this aristocratic interest undertook to dissolve the Union ? The Democratic party. What did they do to prevent it ? Nothing. What did they do to assist the traitors ? They gave tbern 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 them to do to prevent the war ? To do as General Jackson did, garrison all the Southern forts. What reply did they make ? That the slaveholders would not like it How long was the Democratic party in power after secession commenced ? Three months. What wore the traitors doing all that time ? Surrounding fort Sumter with batteries of British guus ? What did a Democratic Administration order Major Anderson to do ? To let them alone. What did the Republican Administration do when Somptergrew short of provisions. Sent them more provisions. What did the Democratic party at Char leston do with those British guns ? They rained shot and shell upon the old flag ou the walls of Sum pter until Anderson was compelled to lower the flag and evacuate : the fort. What was the cousequence ? 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 the high prices. It the Democratic Administration did ; nothing to prevent the dissolution of the Union what did the Republican Administra j 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 rnado ? Restore them to power. Will the people do it ? We gues-* not. HEATSON roll HOT LIKIKU HLAIK. "I don't like Blair," said a graybaired, , fanner-looking man, the other night, as we : stood before the St. Charles, listening to the General's speech. "'Why?" demanded a fierj-faced littie man, snappishly, "Ain't he a smart man? "Isuppose so." "Ain't lie a courageous, brave man?" "He may be; I dare say he is." "Ain't he a gentlemainly, social, good hearted fellow? G—and T—, both Repub licans here, say so. Don't you believe it?" | "I don't deny it." "Didn't he fight the rebels hard—didn't he defend the Government, tell mc that?" j "Yes, I believe he did. I won't deny 1 ! it- " "You cant\ Now if he is smart, and btavc, and gentlemanly, and social, and ' proved himself loyitl, why in thunder don't you like that sort of a man?" demanded the tiery-faced admirer of Blair. "Did you ever do anything in the way of | pork-raising?" replied the farmer like look ing man coolly. "No! What's that got to do with it?" "Why, there is s good deal of human na ture in hogs—or, rather, there is a great . deal of hog in human nature. I have had a good deal of experience in pork raising, and j | I've noticed a great deal of difference among j a litter of pie". There are hundreds of j sleek, well fed pigs that possess a sort of: i self respect. They take their feed quietly, j without any fuss, either holding their nose I in the trough, or, taking a few mouthfulis i j out, munch away at it contentedly. But ! there never was a litter of pigs so well be- : | haved and orderly but what you or 1 could : pick one out of ihem that had no manners, j : That's the one that gets into the trough!" ; Now, the Blair family may he a smart | family, social in their way, atld as full of ' fight as an egg of meat. In a general way, they may mean well to rhe Government, ; but from what I've seen aud in ard to night, I am satisfied that they arc all alike in one j respect. . Every one of the family is anxious j to get into the trough'.'' HATRED OF UNION SOLDIERS.— "It I I could have my way I would place JEFF. DA VIS in Congress, where he richly Iwlongs. ' Then I would go to Concord, take all the j miserable battle-flags from the State House, j and make a bonfire of them in the State House yard. (Great applause.) Then I would go all through the North and destroy 1 all the monuments and gravestones erected ;to the memory of Soldiers. In short, I would put out of sight everything which reminds us that we ever had a war with our Southern brethren. "I do not know that I would hang one legged and oue-arroed soldiers, but I would ; pray to God to get them out of the way as soon as possible."— Henry Clay Dean, in I a speech at Manchester, X. 11., February, I 1868. THE Copperheads cry taxes, taxes, taxes, ' and charge the Republican party with ex travagance and corruption, yet for the past j three years with the Treasury Department entirely in their control, they have collected and paid into the Treasury from taxes on whiskey less than s4.o,Chid.Out! when the . actual amount should have been $24(1.000,- | OOU. Such is Democratic economy. A "TAKING" SPEAKER. After General Blair had addressed the Democratic gathering in front of the St. Charles Hotel on Monday uight, oue Mr. Jones, hailing from some district unknown to tbe audience, mounted the rostrum and proceeded to deliver himself of *n intense ly honest and patriotic address. He was in favor ol honesty in all things, even in poli ties. He didn t take any bonds during the war, (because he couldn't get his bands on them) believing they were not a safe in vestment, but it was honesty now to pay every dollar of tlie debt in greenbacks. Ihe drift of the learned gentleman's re marks led all bis bearers to look upon him as the "honeste.it hindividual" they had ever heard talk; but the sequel to our story will expose the hypocrisy of his "tak ing" style. He retired to his room at the St. Charles to find the gentleman assigned quartets with hint sound asleep. Carrying bis "taking ' style into practical use, he pro •Cefded to take everything in the room had spoken too long, for tbe want of a watch, so he appropriated his sleeping partner's time piece. He needed some thing to illustrate the "carpetbagger" on his next political effort in the glorious cause ofthe Democracy, so he took the man'swell fillod satchel. He needed boots wherein to travel off, so he finis! Ed his job by drawing on his victim's patent leathers and leaving his own seedy brogans behind. Having another engagement to address a Democratic meeting he took a hurried departure, for getting tfrstop and see the clerk to settle the "little bill he bad contracted. The orator found himself suddenly introduced to two of Mayor Blackmore's police, at the Union Depot yesterday morning, just as he was about taking his departure for the East. He was brought to the tombs, stripped of his plunder and permitted to depart, as the patriotic Democrat whom he had robbed refused to make information against him. Mr. Jones will speak at the Battery some night this week in order to discover to tbe masses how easily Radical leaders steal from the Government Treas ury. Gentlemen with good gold watches are expected to attend, but they will be wise to leave their repeaters at home. So much lor the speaker who followed General Blair at the great demonstration on Monday night.— PittJjurg Gazette. HENRY WARD BEECIIER puts the ques tion straight in the following extract, which we quote from arccent letter written by him: "Since all the men who sought to destroy the government are rallying around Sey mour, it is fit that all the men who stood up for the Union should gather about Grant. It is an honor that will not happen twice in a man's life time to have a chance to vote for such a man as Grant. No young man can well afford to throw away his chance. Kveu if done, it ought to be in favor of some better than lie who, through all the years from 1860 to 1865, studied how to help Southern treason without incurring the risks and pains of overt and outrageous treasona ble acts."' PROF. MAHAN, of West Point, says of I the New York World's attacks on Grant's j military capacity: "Happily for American patriotism, the descendants of the men who are now engaged in defaming Grant's tuili- j tary actions will lire to blnsn for their sires and glory in the grand results of Grant's | triumphs; and when these detractions, which j are as ephemeral as the sheets which con- j tain them, now scattered broadcast through ' railroad cars and grog-shops, and their ail- , thors shall long have passed away from the | memory of man, Grant's name and military , fame, like those of the great captains Who | have preceded him, will loom up grander and grander, as thev recede into the mists j of successive ages. LOVE'S QUEEN. BY WII.LIAM WINTER. He loves not well whose love is bold; I would not have thee come too nigb; The nun's gold would not seem pure gold; I'uless the sun were in the sky. To take him thence and chain him near, j Would make his beauty disappear. He keeps his' state; do thou keep thine, — And shioe upon him from afar; So shall I t>aak in light divine That falls from love's own guiding star. So shall thy eminence be high, And so my passions shall not die. But all my life shall reach its hands Of lofty longing toward thy lace, And be as one who speechless stands In rapture at some perfect grace. My love, my hope, my all, shall be To look to heaven 2nd look to thee. Thine eyes shall be the heavenly l.ights, Thy voice shall be the summer breeze, j What time it sways, on moonlit nights, The murmuring tops of lealy trees. And I will touch thy beautious form In June's red roses, rich and warm. fiut thou, thyself, shall come not down ; From that pure region far above; Bui keep thy throne and wear thy crown, — Queen of my heart and queen ot love ! A monarch in thy realm complete, Aud I a monarch — at thy feet. piSttUmicmiiS. U 1)1 HON, THE AMERICAN NAT UCALIS R. BY JAMES PARTON. I One of the happiest of men, and one of j i the most interesting of characters, we have had in America, was John Jauies Audubon, j the celebrated painter and biographer of American birds. He was one of the few men whose pursuits were in accordance ! with his tastes and his talents; and, besides tbis, be enjoyed almost every other facility which falls to the lot of a mortal. Ilis father was a French admiral, who, about the middle ot the last century, emi grated to Louisiana, where he prospered and reared a family. His distinguished son was born in 1780. While he was still a little boy, he showed a remarkable interest in the beautiful birds that flew about his father's sugar plantation, particularly the mocking bird, which attains its greatest perfection !in that part of Louisiana. He soon had a considerable collection of iiving birds; and he tells as that his first attempts to draw | and paint were inspired by his desire to preserve a memento of the beautiful plumage of some of his birds that died. In delineat ! iug his feathered friends he displayed so iniueh talent that, at the age of fourteen, his father took him to Paris, and placed bun in the studio of the famous painter, Da vid, where ho neglected every other branch of art exoept the one in which he was des tined to excel. David's forte was in paint ing battle-pieces; but his pupil was never attracted to pictures of that kind, and he occupied himself almost exclusively in paint ing birds. At seventeen, he returned to Louisiana, and resumed, with all his former ardor, bis favorite study. "My father," he says, in one of his pre faces, "then made me a present of a magni ficent farm in Pennsylvania, on the hanks of the Schuykill, where I married. The cares of a household, the love which I bore my wife, and the birth of two children, did not diminish my passion for Ornithology. An invincible attraction drew me towards the ancient forests of the American conti nent, and many vcars rolled away while I was far from my family." To facilitate his design of studying birds ' in their native woods, he removed his fami ly to the village of Henderson, upon the bauks of the Ohio, whence, for fifteen years, he made excursions into the forest with his portfolio, rifle aod game bag. From tbe great lakes to the extrcmust points of Florida —from the Alleghenies to the prairies beyond the Mississippi—through impenetrable forests, in canebrakes almost impassable, and on the boundless prairies, be sought for new varities of birds, copying them of the size of life, and measuring every part with the utmost nicety of mathematics. Up with the dawn, and rambling about all day, he was the happiest of men if he re turned to his camp in the evening, in his game bag a new specimen with which to enrich his collection. He had no thought whatever of publishing his pictures. "It was no desire of glory," he assures us, "which, led me into this exile —1 wished only lo enjoy nature." Alter fifteen years of such life as this, he paid a visit to his relations in Philadelphia, | carrying with him two hundred of his de signs, the result of his laborious and perilous wanderings. Being obliged to leave Phil adelphia for some weeks, he left these in a box at the house of one of his relatives. On his return, what was his horror and despair to discover that they were totally destroyed by fire. "A poignant flame," he remarkst "pierced my brain like an arrow of fire, and for several weeks I was prostrate with fever. At length, physical and moral strength awoke within me. Again I took my gun, my game bag and portfolio, and my pencils, j and plunged once more into the depths of j forests. Three years passed before I had! repaired the damage, and they were three years of happiness. To complete my work I went every day farther from the abodes of men. Eighteen months rolled away, and my object was accomplished." During his stay in Philadelphia, in 1824, Audubon became acquainted with Prince Lucien Bonaparte, who strongly urged the naturalist to publish his designs. This, how ever, was a work far too expensive to be un dertaken in America alone. He proposed to issue several volumes of engravings, col ored and of life-size, with other volumes of printed descriptions. The orice of the work was fixed at a thousand dollars. Before he had obtained a single subscriber, he set his engravers to work and proceeded to enlist the co operation of wealtpy men of England ami France. He was received in Europe with great dis tinction, and obtained in all, one hundred and seventy subscribers, of whom about j eighty were Euroi>eans. While the first j volume was in course of preparation, he re- j turned to America, and spent another year ! in ranging the forests to add to his store, j In 1630, the first of his wonderful works ap- : pearcd, consisting of a hundred colored j plates, and representing ninety-nine varie ties of birds. The volume excited enthusi asm wherever it was received. The king of France and king of England inscribed their names at the head of his list of sub scribers. The principal learned societies of London and Paris added Audubon to the number of their members, and the great naturalists Cuvier, Humboldt, Wilson and others, joined in a chorus of praise. The work which consisted of four volumes of engravings and five of letter-press, was completed in 1839. For the later volumes, he again passed three years in exploration, and one time, was enabled to study the birds on the coast of Florida in a vessel which the government of the United States had placed at his disposal. Returning to New York, he purchased a beautiful residence ou the shores of the Hudson, near the city, where he prepared for the press an edition of his j great work upon smaller paper, in seven vol- j umcs, which.was completed in 1844. Many New Yorkers remember that about j that time he exhibited in that city a wonder- j ful collection of his original drawings, which contained several thousands of animals and birds, all of which he had studied in their native homes, all drawn of the size of life by his own hand, and all represented with their natural foliage around them. He was now sixty-five years of age, but j his natural Vigor appeared in no degree ' abated. Park Goodwin, who knew him well at tbat time, describes him as possessing all | the sprightlinesa and vigor of a young man. He was tall and remarkably well formed, and there was in his countenance a singular blending of innocence and ambition. His head was exceedingly remarkable. "The forehead high," says Mr. Godwin, "arched, and unclouded; the hairs of the brow promi nent, particularly at the root of the noae, which was long and aquiline; chin promi nent. and mouth characterized by energy and determination. The eyes were dark ! grey, set deeply in the head, and as restless |as the glance of an eagle." nis manners | were exceedingly gentle, and his conversa tion full of point and spirit. Still unsatis fied, he undertook in his old age a new work on the quadrupeds of America, for which he had gathered much material in his vari ous journeys. Again he took to the woods, —accompanied, however, now by his two sons, Victor and John, who had inherited much of his talent and zeal. Returning to his home on the banks of, tbe Hudson, he proceeded leisurely to pre pare bis gatherings for the press, assisted j always by his sons and other friends. "Sur- j rounded," he wrote, "by all the members of my dear family, enjoying tho affection of numerous friends who have never abandon ed me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes toward the Supreme Being, and feel that I an) happy. He did not live to complete his work up :on the quadrupeds. Attacked by disease in his seventy-first year, which was the year j 1851, he died so peacefully that it was more i like going to deep than death. Ilisremains VOLS. 41: HO. 38 were buried in Trinity Cemetery, which ud- , joins his residence. Ilis sons, it is said, have continued the j 1 ibo:a of thiir father, and design one day to publish the work on the quadrupeds of America. Mr. Audubon also left an auto- j biography, which perhaps may see the light. j Besides his eminence as an artist, Audulmrt j was a vigorous and picturesque writer. | Some passages of his descriptions of the I habits of thebirds are among the finest pic- j ees of writing yet produced in America, and 1 have been made familiar to the public! through the medium of the school reading- j books. We learn from the career of this estima- j ble man that he who would aceompli-h j much in the short life-time of a human be- j ing, must concentrate his powers upon one subject, and that object congenial with his tastes and talents. Audubon did in his life one thing, he made known to mankind the ! birds of his native land; and he did this so I well that his name will lie held in h.mcu as J I long as the materials last of which his vol- ! umes are composed. A CALIFORNIA WATERING PLACE. A letter to the Cincinnati Commercial J gives the following pretty picture of a Cali- ; fornia watering place: The "Glenbrook" is ' sacred to the watering place necessities of i rich folks in Virginia City. It is within a I few hundred yards of Lake Tahoe—the loveliest sheet of water in California. The lake, embosomed by snowy mountains, has an altitude of 6,218 feet. It is twenty-three miles long and fifteen wide. The boundary line between California and Nevada runs across it longitudinally, leaving three-fourths to the former. Lake Biglcr was formerly its name, but during the war, the Legisla ture of California changed it. on account of ! Gov. Bigler's sympathy with rebellion. The water of the lake reaches a depth of nearly 1,600 feet, and is so singularly clear that its surface tints are of three or four shades light pea-green near the shore, deep sky blue half a mile out, and indigo blue in the centre. The best swimmer can hardly keep afloat in its waters, so pure are they and so rarijed the mountain atmosphere. It is fed by springs and melted snow, and in July and August rises four or five feet. Prevail ing winds visit it daily, and more charming yachting is not afforded anywhere. The superb mountains that gird it round, are clothed with royal forests of fir, piue, balsam oak, and even silver poplar. The fine groves have attracted the enterprising Yankee, and several steam saw mills are planted ou the limpid margin. Kntrancing as Lake Tahoc is in repose, it has seasons of wrath and peril. On one oc casion last winter it writhed in its bed like a wounded tigress, and flung itself on shore with a vehemence like that of the ocean. It tore one saw mill to pieces and damaged all more or less. Even in summer, sudden squalls come and go, so the pleasure boats have an element of danger to spice their scudding over the blue expanse. Th# spe ml heanty nf Tato ic KmrraM Raxr. a land-locked little harbor on the west side, j i where the distant stony bottom is clearly 1 defined by exquisite prismatic refraction, j and where a most romantic waterfall conies I leaping down from the sparkling snow fields ! jon the summit. The climate is one of the j J most even, sparkling and invigorating on the Pacific Coast, and the future of lake j Tahoe is to be a great watering place. ! DISRAELI TRYING THE POWER OF SILENCE. ' A late London letter contains the follow i ing : Mr. Disraeli's silence begins to be com- j ; mented on. While his lieutenants arc istu ing addresses and making speeches in every | borough and county, their leader utters not : a word. Ordinarily, he attends one of the Buckinghamshire agricultural dinners held in the autumn, and says his say on such politics as happen then to be uppermost. This year he has refused all invitations, and gives it to be understood that he will make Ino speech anywhere at present. Nor has | he issued any address to his constituents. | His persistent reserve gives color to the rc ; port which daily becomes more current. ! that the Tory Premier meditates a flank movement. Satisfied that the No Popery cry has failed utterly to rouse the religious j fanaticism of his party, he is probably j ready to abandon it and the Irish church to- ; gether. The only question is, can he carry his party with him, as he carried them on reform. It is a slight matter that they stand committed, one and all, by their clec ! tion addresses, to defend the church to the j last gasp. So were his Cabinets committed against reform, but h# threw them over | without a scruple, and they suffered them- ! selves to be thrown over without much pro- | test. It is too soon to say they must un dergo the same humiliation as to the Irish church, but it is clear enough that Mr. Dis | raeli is considering whether they shall or . Dot. Except this strange reticence when all other men are speaking out, there is uot j I much evidence to add to what I have before sent j-ou. The address nf Sir John Paking ton, War Secretary, is thought a little fish, but thee Sir John is much too stupid a man to be in the confidence of his chief. Rath er more significant is the recent speech of Sir Stafford Northcote—significant again by its silence. Sir Stafford belongs to the "no surrender" faction of the Cabinet, yet even he makes nothing like a pledge of un conditional support to the church. He is for maintaining it, but there is nothing of i the "sink or swim, survive or perish" style l in his address. Possibly he has learned I prudence of his teacher. SUNDAY. —Tbauk God for the Sabbath! After six weary days of toil and care, and business anxiety, how delightful is the com ing of the Sabbath—the wheel of Ixion ceases in its turning revolutions, and the stone of Sisyphus upon the hill side, the back is eased of its burden, the mind is lift ed from the thoughts of daily cares and avo catious to the contemplation of higher and nobler themes. The Sabbath is a glorious institution. To the beast at the plow, to the nrteznn at his workshop, to the chemist in his labratory, to the professional man amid his books, and to the author with his pen—comes the Sabbath with a like blcss ■ ing to each. Libraries are the shrines where all the relics of saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion and imposture, are pre served and leposed. HE that does not know those things width are of use and necessary for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he knows besides. RATES OF ADVERTISING. All advert! foment* for leva than 3 montis 10 cent* per line for each insertion. Special notices one-half additional. All resolutions of Associa tions, oornmnalcatione of a limited or intfif idal interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding Are lines. 10 eta. per line. All legal noti ces of every kind, and a'l Orphans' Coart and other Judicial sales, are required by law to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notice! 15 cents per line. All Advertising due aflerflrst insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 monts. A months, 1 year One square $ 4.58 $ A.®# slo.o® Tee squares A.OO #OO 16.00 Three squares 8.00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth column 14.00 20,00 35.00 Half coiunni 18.00 25.60 45.00 One column 30.00 45.00 80.00 PATIENCE. If any essential is lacking in the American character it is patience. Patience is not in difference, or indolence, or want of ambition, or trusting everything to Providence. It is simply giving, in every plot, plan or expec tation, its proper place to the element of time. A man may drive business to the utmost, and yet be a model of patience. If he recognizes the fact that certain events cannot occur until after certain other events that certain processes require so much time and certain others so much; if, while wast ing nothing in unnecessary delays, he never tries to bring about a result before its prop er turn on the programme, which must be determined by natural and unalterable con ditions as well as his own will, he is practi cally paticut. And the exercise of patience is the subiimest of all art". It is impatience which has given us so many shabby railroads, i io.Vy muU, Ud t b.eomosvne, I break-neck roads, and bouses unfit to live [ in. It is impatience which so often rever ses the programme of household economy, and puts the spending before the earning. It i.- impatience which makes bad mechan ics and superficial students. It is itnpa tieuce which has needlessly created the most serious issue of the present political campaign—the disposition of the public debt. It is impatience which induces so many young men and boys to enter callings in which tbey get immediate pay, and which they are compelled to remain in all their lives, with little or no increase of remunera tion. It is impatience which makes so ma ny farms large and half cultivated, instead of small and thrifty. What we all want is more patience—a re cognition of the fact that time is an element in every problem, which cannot he overlook ed without vitiating the solution. Great results never spring from momentary efforts. The brilliant invention, the living book, the military triumph, are merely the suddenly announced consequences of loDg continued processes. The inventor may have been all his life turning his one idea over and over, and shaping his bits of metal so that it will work harmoniously with the laws of me chanics. —The author has spent years learn ing to write a correct paragraph, to say nothing of the time required for the collec tion and arrangement of facts and the trans formation of plot arid circumstances. The commander has been slowly drilled into the mastery of the principles whose judicious application makes his day of victory. The study of natural sciences suggests constantly this essential lesson; and in the latter de velopments of geology the mind is lost in wonder at the stupendous example, beneath | our very feet, of the divine art of patienoc. HINTS TO DRINKERS. There may be seen daily, on Chestnut i street a man clad in faultless apparal, with a great diamond upon his braest vainly en deavoring to outglitter the magnificent soli- J vatic uu Ula . Iu a Oct mat® uui versity he learned chemistry, and not even Licbig knows it better. His occupation is the adulteration of liquors. Give him a dozen casks of deodorized alchol, and the I next day each of them will represent the name of a genuine wine or a popular spirit. He enters a wholesale store bearing a large basket upon his arm. Five pounds of loc i land moss are first weighed out to him. To r aw lixuor this imparts a degree of smooth ness and oleaginousncss that gives to imita ! tion, brandy the glibness of that which is I best matured. An astringent called cachu, ' that would almost close the mouth of an ink bottle is next in order. A couple of ounces of strychnine, next called for, arc quickly conveyed to the vest pocket, a pound of sulphate of zinc (white vitriol) is silently placed in the basket. The oil of cognac, the sulphuric acid, and other articles that give fire and body to the liquid poisoD, are always kept in store. The mixer buys these things in various quarters. They are the stable of the art. — Philadelphia Bulletin. Tire GIRLS.— Can we not bring up our girls more usefully, less 6howily, less depen dent on luxury and wealth? Can we not teach them from babyhood that to labor is a higher thing than merely to enjoy; that even enjoyment itself is oever so sweet as when it is earned? Can we not put it into their minds, whatever be their station, prin ciples of truth, simplicity of taste, hopeful ness, hatred of waste, and these being firm ly rooted, trust to their blossoming up in whatever destiny the young maiden may be called? MEN of mere sentiment are to be avoided. They are generally in disguise. The cloven foot is ihere, but is covered for the time. Ladies should keep a sharp eye to the wind ward. Men who constantly pour into the ears the most glowing of sentiments, have generally a purpose as base in itself as their words are false. A sentimental man is not | only apt to be a fool, but a villain; while • i man of sentiment may be the finest of gen j tlcmen. ELM HARK is very generally used in j Norway for making leather, and it is said : the fine Norway gloves are prepared from i the elm bark, and that the softness and | beauty are attributable to this bark. The white willow is used in the manufacture of ! gloves. Russia also uses this bark in the i manufacture of fancy leather, the finished leather being impregnated with the oil of birch bark, which gives it a peculiar agreea ble smell. OLD ROGER was visiting a friend who had a remarkably fine little girl, about three ' years old, famous for smart sayings. As | usual, she was shown off bofore our esteem !ed friend. "What is papa?" said the pa -1 rent, in order to draw out the precocious I reply. "Papa's a humbug," said the ju- I vcnile. "I declare," said old Roger, "I j never in ray life saw so young a child with | so mature a judgment." TDE proudest triumph in a man's life ia j when be makes a friend of an enemy. The joy is then akin to what angels feel as they ! rejoice over a sinner that repentetb. HAIL! ye small, sweet courtesies of life, I how smooth do yc make the road of it! Like grace and beauty, which beget ioclina j tions to love at first sight, 'tis ye who open the door and let the stranger in. IF the spring puts forth no blossoms, in a summer thare will be no beauty, and in 3 autumn no fruit. 80, if youth be 'rifled a away without improvement, riper years will be contemptible, and old age miserable.