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A DIMM YKKATIC I* It O TEST AY
SHtIN AGAINST TAXABHUN.
BY M.VKIB O>IJIERTY.
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
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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.
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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.