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WASHINGTON HOTEL
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3 JLoral antj ©rnrral flrtospaprr, Drbotrti to politics, <st>uration, JLttrraturc ani fR orals
§toctnj,
DO Yt>t Jib AN TO FIUIPOhE ?
TO BE SET TO Ml'SlC FOB TIIE UCE OF ALLTOCFti
UMK.
Yon come very often, 'tis all very well,
You're a very fine man. and a very big swell;
You've a very good heart, and a very long
nose
But now to the poir.t!—do you mean to pro
pose?
The house is besieged both by rich and by
poor,
Who knock ail day long at grandmamma's
door;
They turn up their eyes, and they turn up
their toes,
But what is all that if they do not propose?
You say that you love me. but love all alone
To unmarried girls is a thing quite unknown;
You sigh and look down, and present me a
ruse
But that is ail stuff?—do you meau to pro
pose ?
I ain not so hard-hearted as I may appear;
Why slop and look sheepish?—there's noth
ing to fear.
You men are such geese! only Beelzebub
knows
The trouble you give us before you propose !
'Tis almost two seasons since 1 have been out;
You simper and smile and you whirl me about;
But this is not business, the horrid tiraagoes
Another will have meifyou don't propose!
You lake all the aits of a matt I've preferred;
You keep off the rest and you don't say a
word,
This is not fair play—sure a fellow who shows
Such uncommon devotion should speak and
propose !•
I want to be married—do you understand?
You'd give me a world! —only give me your
baud!
One can't go on always with ccns and with
pros—
Never come here again—or be frank and pro
pose.— London Old.
PHI DK
BT JOUN G. SANK.
'Tis a curious fact as ever was known
But often in human nature shown,
Alike in castle and cottage —
That pride, line pigs of a certain brood,
Will manage to live and thrive on food
As poor as a pauper's pottage.
Of HI! the notable things on earth,
The queerest thing is the pride of birth
Among our "fierce democracy !"'
A bridge across a hundred years,
Without a prop to save it from sneers—
Not even a couple of rotten piers—
A thing for laughter, fling, and jeers,
Is American aristocracy I
Depend upon it my snobbish friend,
Your family thread you can't ascend
Without good reason to aprehend
You may find it waxed at the other end
By some plebeian vocation ;
Or. worse than that, your boasted line
May end in a loop of stronger twine,
That plagued some worthy relation.
Because you flourish in worldly affairs,
Don't be haughty and put on airs,
With insolent pride of station ;
Don't be proud and tarn up your nose
At ( oorer people in plainer clothes :
But learn for the sake of your mind * repose
That ail jruud fli sh, wherever it goes,
Is subject to irritation.
Sftiscellanrous.
From the Toledo Blade.
StSflV.
The Last Outrage upon Kentucky—
I'ltssuge of the t ou-tilutionnl Amend
ment by the House.
Post OFFIS, CONFEDRIT X ROADS, 1
(Wich i in the State uv K> mucky ) -
February 7, 1809. J
The die is mostly cast —gloom he settled
like a dark spell onto Kentucky. The last
vestige uv Con<titooshnel liberty is swept
away, leavin Us nothin but the name there
of. wich is holler mockc-ry. Hfthe Senit
goes on and concurs with the II 'Use —wich
it wilt do—and the rt-ki-it number of States
ratify the ackshcn of them two accussid
bodies—wich they will do—why then all is
ever. Nieeers will vote in Kentucky the
same ez white men, and the star uv liberty
is sot forever! They may go so far ez they
will he in a majority, ez to disfranchise the
brave men who served in the CoDfedrit
army.
Ez might hev been expectid, the intelli
genco zffectid the Corners profoundly. We
wuz all a scttin in Ba-com's ez happy cz we
oood be. A new barrel lied 1-een tapjied.
Deekiu Pograni iied njoncv, and I wuz not
altogether unprovided, ez a letter bed been
dropped into the Post Offis that mornin
wich contained a reiui'tanco uv six dollars
to a lottery concern in NH) York. Es I be
leeve lotteries to be swindles and deniorali
zin in their nacher, I opened this missive
ami oonfi-eatid the contents. I will never
be the means uv leading young men to rooio
thro the agency oflotteries—never.
It wuz a plea-ant scene. The fire wus a
burnin brightly; wich reflectin on our res
pective noses, gave the room a more than
usual brirenis; Bascom wuz behind the bar.
his elbows leanin onto it, waitin for the or
ders wich he knew wood lie made. Captain
McPelter wuz a smokin his pipe, peaccflv,
a watcbin the clouds that ariz, forniin a sort
uv halo about his head; while Deekin IV
gram and myself wus jist in tie act uv takin
suthin hot wich had bin fixed for us. At
this morn nt P. nnihacker's boy rod- up on
Ba.-conT- mule and hove a paper at tue wich
contained the fatal intelligence. I read it
aloud. There wuz no more innocent mirth
that nite. Deekiu Pogram's hand relaxed
its holt onto the glass and it fell on the floor,
the precious flooid wastin itself thro the
cracks, and the ole Saint fell from hi chair
in a swoon. I bed more presence uv uiiud
—I drank mine with one convul-ive gulp,
and then dropped the empty glass. The ef
fect, so far ez matiifestin greet wuz concern
ed. wuz the same ez tbo I hi d dropped it,
likker and all, and it wuz hatter for me.
The glass wuz Bascom's—the sen-a hun io
my bowels perdooct by the likker was mine.
That even coustoo-hnel amendments can't
takeaway from me.
It didn't take long to figger how thisout
rage, efit is oon-animatid will affect thecor-
Ders. Titer is in this peeceful town-hip
sixty three loyal white voters, uv wich num
ber tbirtv-nine vindicated their manhood in
the Confederit scrvis, the others beiu too
old, ceptin Pollock, wich is from Liinoy,
and uv Ahlisben proclivities. Gsrrettstown
BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 5. 1869.
is itt this township, and onuntin them in
ther is two hundred and forty four adult
male niggers, aud ther wood he? bin a hun
, dred more, bed niggers all bin born bcllet
and ropo proof. So long ez these niggers
wuz in their normal condishun uv servi
! lomi ihey wuz indispensible—settee they
wuz crooelly wrested from u, we hcv made
em almost ez yooseful to us by hevin the
!i* into our own hand*. They hev ez a
rool accumulated suthin, for their labor.
We uv coarse held the offices. Issaker
Gavitt is Assossor, and Dekin Pogrxm
Treasurer, and the niggers hev bin made to
pay all the taxes that hcv bin paid. They
coodeot help theirselvea. for the law bez ter
rors when weeldid by strong and wiiiin
hands, and the hands uv our offishels are
both strong and willin.
But for these niggers the township gov
eminent wood be a mere nothin. Issaker
didn't dare to aksess Bascout for fear he'd
stop supplies onto him, nor wood Bascom
hcv any uv the wbite citizens taxed, lor wat
ever they shood pay in taxes that went eith
er into the county or State Treasury wuz so
uiu h 10-t to him. He wuz anxious to hev
the Diggers sweat, for uv the money collect
id uv them he got a large per cent., either
through the Collector or Treasurer, wich
wuz clear gain, ez they don't patronize him
anyhow.
In various other ways wo hedein. Pen
nihacker ia Justis uv the l'eece and hez bin
for yecrs, and he held the scales firmly.
The niggers wood occasionally labor in plan
tin time or in harvest for the white citizens
who owned land, and, filled with the idea
that they wuz free citizens, they wood in the
most insolent manner demand pay for their
services. Uv coarse they wood be re footed,
whereupon they wood bring soot before
Pennibacker. The result uv their vencher
it is ottDCcessary for me to state.
"Wat bizaiei hez a nigger in this yer
court ?" wood the indignant embodiment uv
the majesty uv the law thunder forth with a
face cz black ez a cloud. And di>mi-sin the
soot he wood promptly ishoo au excooshen
agin em for costs. Ten or twenty niggers
who sood wiiite men wuz sold out bob aud
sinki rby the court for costs in sich soots,
and when the costs didn't take all they bed,
the Ju-tis Wood fine em for coutempt uv
court for cumin before bitn at all. The nig
gers after a few experiments declined to
seek justis at that fountain head uv the ar
ticle.
Then agin in cases uv a-sau!t and battery
and in inquests on the ded bodies uv nigters
it wa> ne-sary to hev Pennibacker Justi-
Niggers wich wuz found ded hangin to
trees, and with bullet holes into em wuz
reclerly found guilty uv dyin by visitation
uv Providence. Ez they hedu't Votes uv
coarse none uv the offi-hols wuf afraid uv
em. I heard one uv em, wunst, who hea
bin fined twenty dollars for striking Issaker
Gavitt, wich hed in a playful mood chased
his daughter thro the Corugrs, groaninly
exclaim that he wi-ht he'd bin born in Ire
'and instid uv Atneriky.
But now how will it be with its? They
will vote and ihi-y hev a majority. Pollock
will be made Justis uv the l'eece. Joe Big
ler Asvssor, and a nigger cons'able. Wat
sckoority hev wc? Niggers will aoo us and
get judgments, and the nigger constable will
serve execoosben onto us. Why, Deekin
Pugram owes etiuft" to niggers to swamp
every aker he holds, and Bascont wood be
sweat severely. And when wc punch one
uv their In ads for insolence to us, then to
he arrestid by a nigger, and taken afore a
Justis electid by niggers, and be fined or
perchance imprisoned! It's too much.
When this happens will the Corners, I ask.
be a place for gentlemen uv prid and cul
cher ? Nay. And to this it must come.
I see one weak spot in the amendment, ■
viz; It provides that no State shel disfran- I
chise anybody beeox of race or color, but '
don't say that people can't be disfranchised
f.-r other causes, and I eagerly seczed hold
uv that tz a ship wreckt marinerdoes to a i
plank.
"Wat good will that do us?" groaned the j
Deekin.
"Why we kin disfranchise em on the I
akore uv ignorance!" remarkt I "ihe nig-,
ger- can t all read?"
"No moro kin 1" replied Isaker Gavitt j
mournfully "I'd be cut out with em."
And upon giviu the matter matoor re j
flection I saw that thcr was no bottom to
that hope. By makin readin a lest, the
sooperior class at the Corners wood be more 1
hurt than the inferior class.
Thank Heaven ten States kin block this j
game and save us this torment. Oh that j
they may do it. O, that this last bitter
draft may be spared us. May the Dimoeri- '■
sy uv the North put forth their strength !
and -ave us this last degradation.
PF.TUOI.EI M A*. NASBY, P. M.
(Wich means Postmaster.)
RUE FREE TRADERS' DILEMMA.
The Free Traders arc remarkable for the i
harmony and consistency of their arguments
relative to the pending Tariff bill.
1. If they denounce it as "class Icgi.-la
, lion" in favor of manufacturers, they admit j
that it will stimulate manufacturers into ad
ditional activity, and, by leading more to go
: int - manufacturing, will cheapen our supply
of manufactured goods; but.
2. As this is what the whole country
wants, they deny that it will stimulate
manufactures, and therein deny that it is
j class legislation.
3. They insist that the reason why it will
i not stimulate manufactures is because so
' many will rush into manufactures that em
peritioti will break d--wn the bu-iness; but
4 T ey thereby admit that, so far from
manufactures receiving no stimulus, the
; stimulus will be excessive.
5. If they admit that it will aid mauufac-
I turcs, they uiu-.t admit that manufacturers,
in order to avail themselves of its aid, will
compete for more men. and that wages will
i rise; but.
6. As this would cause all working-men
] to go for the tariff, they deny that it will
raise the price of wages, but assert that it
will rai-e the cost, of living.
7. In asserting that the working-man's
cost of living will rise, it would follow, as he
j livea on food raised by the farmer, that the
farmer must get more for his prodnce.
S. But, as this would cause farmers to go
| for the tariff, it becomes necessary to deny
that the farmer receives the increased price
which the working cla-ses aud townspeople
I pay for their food.
| 0. If they allege that a high tariff will
' check importations, it follows that it will
leaen the annua! balance of trade against
yus and ike flow of gold and bonds abroad to
pay for the excess of out consumption over
our production; but
10. Ah all our real statesmen and sensible
business men regard our enormous ouifl.iW
of bonds as the greatest evil of our situation
and whatever willcbeek it a-national saving
and eoßnomy, the Free Traders are driven
to allege ihat our imports of goods under a
high tariff will be as great as under a low
one.
U. Admitting that our importations will
not be lessened, it follows arithmetically
'list on the same importations a high tariff
will increase our revenne; but,
1-' Ah this is just what our Treasury
needs and the people want, thav, while still
insisting that a higher tariff will not lessen
importations, deny that it will increase our
revenue: thus in effect maintaining that 35
per cent, and 50 per cent, of the same
quantity amount to the same sum.
In this dilemma, they denounce all pro
tective tariffs as class legislation for the ex
clusive benefit of manufacturers, which
however, would speedily ruin them; as a
prohibitory tariff, which, however, docs cot
diminish imports; as a measure which at
once increases our importations, and yet de
stroys our revenue by the excess of tax it
collects from every imported article; as a
measure which will raise all prices to buyers
and lower all prices to sellers; and, finally,
as a gigantic robbery of the people by a few,
the proceeds of which, after the commission
of the crime, are in nobody's possession,
but are diffused so evenly over the whole
people that nobody has made a cent tiy it,
while evervbody has lost ! Query: Can all
these things be 'l—New York Tribune.
FOLK GREAT EXPLORERS.
There are three great travelers Vrbom the
Editor of the Magazine knows well, and
whom at various times he has specially in
troduced to its readers. The scenes of
their explorations lie far apart, all of them
being in regioni heretofore almost unknown
No three men can be found differing tnor
widely in personal appearance. Mr. Charles
F. Hall, to whom it has been reserved bj
bis own individual labor to clear up the
mystery of tbe fate of Sir John Franklin
at.d his associates—a task which has been
vainly attempted by expeditions fitted ou
by the Government of Great Britain and
th-- United States—born, we think, certain!
reared, in the Great West —is a man ol
large frame, with light hair, blue eyes, am
flowing beard, a very Viking in aspect;
rather slow of speech—a man whom upoi
fir-t introduction one would be apt to set
down as the most diffident person he evei
met. Mr. John Ross Browne, now
American Minister to China, born in Irelui d
but from Itoyhood an American, is rathe
above middle height, spare of figure, wit I
scanty dark hair, broad forehead, and tin
reneral air of a scholar rather than of an ex
■lorer. Mr. Da Chaillu—our "Frieno
: Paul" —is, though born in America, ot
French descent, and educated in France:
uid while he writes our language with per
fect facility, and speaks it with fluency, it i
with a marked Parisian intonation. He i
hardly five feet four in stature, and slighr in
form; we doubt if he weighs a huttdre
pounds. His clo.-ely cropped hair is a
i b!„tk as a raven's wing; and were it not lot
the flashing of a most brilliant black eye, h>
is about the last man whom one wou!
dreaut of being the tno-t daring traveler ol
; our day. To those three we add the name
|of another whom we only know from hi
| books, but who yet always seems to us !ik<
' a personal friend; David Livingstone.
| Scotch by birth, hut African by lon.
residence and wide travel. A spare, wiry
man of middle suture—we judge from hi
portrait—wi:h strongly inatked and rathei
rugged features, by no means a notabh
j looking personage.
But these three men whom we know
possess one characteristiciu common. Th-)
are lovable men. Children —those in
stinctive judges of human nature —take t<-
them at once. Let cither of them be seated
at your fireside, and in half an hour —you
can not teil how—all your young people
will be clambering around them. So, too.
with uncivilized men, who are hut big
children, and quite often very bad ones.
They take to these men. Livingstone al- j
clearly belongs to this class. There is hardly
in all story any thing more touching that
the perfect faith with which the wild Mako
kilo follow- d Livingstone across the whol
breadth of Africa, and for weary yea g
awaited his return f.-om England to lean
them back from the sea to their inland
homes. If a man lacks this p. rsonal mag
netism, no niattei what else he may have,
he will not be one of those great traveler
whose books men, women, and children
love to read. There is nothing more notable
in the narratives of these travelers than th<
perfect devotion which these wild attend
ants bear to their civilized companions. It
is the story, over which so many tears have
been shed, of Robinson Crusoe and his man
Frid iv. —.4. II Guernsey, in Harper's
! Magazine.
TIE views which folks entertain respect
ing economy arc often extremely curious.
A giil who is pretty, good-tempered, sen-i
--ble, an<l altogether charming, is considered
a bad match ; while some wholly undesira
tile young woman, who happens to have a
few thousand pounds, is reckoned to be a
good one, notwithstanding that the former
may under-tand h)w to keep house an-1
manage affairs, whijh is a lortuDe in itself. T
knew a case, says a writer in C ham her s
Journal , in which a mo t eligible damsel
was pronounced by his 1-1 nd- as unfit to
marry a certain voung divine, because,
lorsooth, ahe was "without a penny. He
was weak-minded enough, alter haviug pro
posed to her in form, to give way to their
remonstrances, and she was strong minded
enough to bring an action against hiui for
"breach of promise". The damages w. re
laid at five thousand pounds, and she
gained them (I am happy to say) in full.
The inipres-ional defendant, who had
reaped nothing but ridicule from his former
adriners throughout this trying ordeal-which
included a protracted cross examination by
Sergeant Valentine (always retained in
these delicate cases)—was now brought to
reason. He addressed the young lady in a
strain even more fervent than before: "I
have behaved infamouslyr" he owned, "but
if you will only forgive and forget, we may
be happy yet, [with other verses.] The
only objection which my friends bad to you
is now removed. They can no longer sav
that you are without a penny, since you
have five thousand pounds of your very own.'
And the hippy pair were married ac:ord
- iDfcly.
TUB climate of Arizona in winter is finer
than that of Italy. It would scarcely be
possinie to suggest an improvement. I
never Bxperienced such exquisite Christ
mas weather as we enjoyed during our
sojourn. Perhaps fastidious people might
object to tha temperature in summer, when
the rays of the sun attain their maximum
force, and the hot winds sweep in from the
desert. It is said that a wicked soldier
died here, and was consigned to the fiery
regions below for his manifold sins; but,
unable to stand the rigors of his climate
he sent back for his blankets. I have even
heard complaint that the thermometer
failed to show the true heat because the mer
cury dried up. Everything dries—wagons
dry, men dry, chickens dry; there is no
juice left in anything, living or dead, by th>
close of summer. Officers and soldiers are
supposed to walk about creaking ; mules it
is said, can only bray at midnight ; and 1
have heard it hinted that the carcasses of
cattle rattle inside their hides, arid thai
snakes find a difficulty in bending their bod
ies, and horned frogs die of apoplexy.
Chickens hatched at this season, as old Fort
Yurners say, come of the shell ready cooked;
bacon is eaten with a spoon ; and buttei
must stand an hour in the sun before the
flies become dry enough for use. The In
dians sit in the river with fresh mud on
their heads, and by dint of constant dipping
and spriokling manage to keep lrom roast
ing, though they u-uilly come out pa'
boiled. Strangers coming suddenly upon a
group squatted in water up to their necks,
with their uiud-covered heads glistening in
the sun, frequently mistake them for seals.
Their usual mode of traveling down the riv
er is astride of a log, their heads only bein*
visible. It is enough to make a man stare
with amazement to see a group of mud balls
floating on the current of a hot day, laughing
and talking to each other as if it were the
finest fun in the world. I have never tried
this mode of locomotion, but have an idea
it must be dedghtfu! in such a glowing sum
uier climate. — \J.. Ross Browne.
TUE FISCAL FAILURES OF NEW
YOKK RAILROADS.
The fiscal failures of New York railroad
companies, as com pat ed with the succes
uid economical mruagemeut of (he tatto
rind of road in Pennsylvania, is one of th
wonders which now attract the attention
•f financiers in all parts of th country.
As an example, tbe New York and Era
ailroad has been a fiscal failure from its in
ception. through its construction and dur
ing its operation. The originators of tin
•nterprise wete imbued, as after results
iroved, with the purpose of making it a
-windl-, so that from leading officers down
to insignificant subordinates, wlio had th.
haudling of funds belonging to tbe com
oany, a system of thieving has been prae
tised such as is not recorded in any ol
rhe criminal annals of the world. Th>
master spirits at the bead of this villainy
were and are those who assumed that all th
financial ability aod liberal enterprise ol
the country are centred in New York. In
heir opinion there is no business judgment
o fie found elsewhere than in New lotk:
out for the last six moDths, as competition
has slowly rai.-ed the curtain behind which
i his "business judgment" conducted it
iperations, the country is forced to behold
a development of thieving and false pre
tence which have no parallel anywhere but
a New York. In contrast with these aet
if bold viilainy how gratifying it is to be
hold, in the fair statements of the repotts of
Boards of Directors of Pennsylvania rail
roads, the honesty and just dealing with
*hieh all these enterprises are conducted.
There is not a road in thi? State that fails ti
psy its stockholders a just and even profi
table dividend. There is no scandal at
t ached to our great, roads such as disgrac
he managers of the roads of New 1 ork
These are simple facts without any det3ib
10 set them off to advantage, which reflect
the very highest credit on the energy and
honesty of the railroad men of Pennsylvania.
—State Guard.
ANECDOTE OL GENERAL WASH
INGTON.
Washington had accepted an invitation
(Vom Arnold to breakfast with him al West
Point on the very day the plot was discover
J, but was prevented from keeping his en
gagement by what men call chance —by the
earnest request, namely, of an old officer,
near whose station they passed, to spend
the night there and inspect, some works ir>
the neighborhood. Next day, while Wash
ington, with his staff, including La Fayette,
were seated at a tabic at this officer s quarters
a despatch was brought to the Americat
general, which he immediately opened and
nad, then laid it down without comment.
No alteration was visible in his countenance
but he remained perfectly silent. Conver
sation dropped among his suite; and, after
some minutes, the general, beckoning La
Fayette to follow him, passed to an inner
apartment, turned to his young friend with
out uttering a syllable, placed the fatal des
patch in his hands, and then, giving way to
an ungovernable burst of feeling, fell on his
„e;k and sobbed aloud. The effect produ
ced on the young French marquis, accus
lomed to regard his general (cold and dig
nified in his usual manner) as devoid of the
usual weaknesses of humanity, may be
imagined. "I believe," said La Fayette in
relating this anecdote, "that this was the
onlv occasion, throughout that long and
sometimes hopeless straggle, that Washing
ton ever gave way, even for a moment, un
.{OR a reverse of fortune; and perhaps I WA.
he only human being who ever witnessed in
him an exhibition of feeling so foreign to Li
tem perament. As it was, he recovered
himself before I had perused the communi
cation that had given rise to bis emotion;
and when we returned to his staff not a
trace remained on his countenance either of
grief or despondency."—Feb. No. of Lip
pincott's Magazine.
EARLY RISING Anti early-risers will
do well to note that one hour lost in morn
ing naps will put back all the business of the
day; that one hour gained by car y rising
will make filteen days in a year, or three full
years in a long lifetime.
IT is the little troubles that wear the
heart out. It is easier to throw a bomb-shell
a mile than a feather —even with the artil
lery. Forty little debts of one dollar each
will cause you more trouble and dunning
than one big one of a thousand.
"I would bestow my daughter," said
Themistocles, ''upon a man without tnouey,
t rather than upon money without a man.
VOIs. 42: NO. 9.
A TRUE MARKIACE.
I believe there are few thoughtful men
who have not come to regard as one of the
least explicable amocg the great riddles of
the earthly eeonoroy the rarity of well assor
ted marriages. It might be so different,
one cannot help thinking. The adaptations
for harmony so wonderful ! The elements
it happiness so manifold and so rich ! Vet
how often—how miserably sometimes—it
all miscarries ! The waters of Puradise
turntd to fountains of bitterness—the gifts
of iiearen perverted to cutses upon earth !
I do not mean that there are few unions
yielding reasonable comfort, friendly rela
rions, a life free from open quarrel or secret
heart-burniug; but I speak of very marriage
without flaw or jar—a mating alike of the
material, with its intangible affinities and
it-wondrous magnetisms, and of the imma
terial principle within' that survives the
death-change. I speak of a heart home
pervaded by harmony not only unbroken
immutable as that of the spheres; felt to be
so by those whom it blesses, cairn-, satisfies;
a social state to which, when man and wo
man attain, there remains nothing in the
way of earthly need or acquisition, save
daily bread, to be coveted or prayed for.
Some think that, in this trial-phase of
our existence, no such state of harmony and
happiness is to be found. Aiming the few
whodchndit none of these skeptics will
have place. No entrance into that temple
except for those who believe ! Without
'aith in the tiood and the Beautiful—the
Good that is felt, not seen—the Beautiful
(hat must be conceived before it is realize d
—a man is shut out from the highe-t enjoy
ment. And such a man can do little to
meliorate the world or elevate his race.—
' Beyond the Breakers," in Feb. No. ol
Lippincolt's Magazine.
MR. BEECHER ON WORTHLESS MEN.—I
think the most piteous thing in this world is
never written. 1 have read many a poem,
and novel, and tale, that made me cry—and
whether they were true or not, it was all the
-arne; but of all affecting poems and novel
and tales, I think life itself is the most af
fecting—common life, just as it turns out ol
the world. And when Igo out to measure
men, 1 >ay to myself, as one after anothe:
they pass before me. "Suppose that man
should drop out of life, what would be
come of him?" It pains me to see how
worthless men are—to see how men stand
in life, and what they are I have souietime
to perform the burial service over men of
whom I could not say a word, and of whom
if I expressed what I felt, I should have
<aid, "I bless God that he is gone. The
world is better off for his having been taken
out cf it." Look ac human life, break
through all the sentimental ways of Society,
weigh men as you weigh gold, unmixed
with dirt or quartz or any other sub-tanee
take men up and see how much there is ol
hem that reall answer the end ot the life
to come, and how many there are that,
dying, would not be missed. liow few
'here are that, dying, would make the com
i oiunity feel poor. How tew there are that.
! iieing dead, would yet speak.
LARGE BUILDING FOR STORING GRAIN.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad Company are
now having constructed on the east side of
Thirtieth street, north of Market street.
Philadelphia, a large building for receiving
nd storing grain. The house will be 555
feet wide. The lower or ground floor wi.
lie on the level of Thirtieth street. On the
upper floor, which will be about 19 feet
higher, there will be six railroad tracks ex
tending the whole length of the building
tod connecting with the main tracks of th
Pennsylvania Railroad. Y\ ithin the hou-i
--there will be standing space for ninety six
cars, and GOO bins of sufficient capacity tr
contain each one car load, or about 400
bushels of corn or wheat. The grain will be
transferred from the cars through trap-door.-
in the floor into the bins, which will be pro
viJed at the bottom with spouts. There
will be a clear height of eight feet from the
'ower floor to the bottom of the bins, ana
this floor will be appropriated to the passage
ways for wagons across the building, with
intermediate spaces for measuring and
bagging the grain as it is drawu from the
bins above.
FORGOT TO TOOK I I*.
I have somewhere seen the atory of a
man who went one evening to steal corn
from bis neighbor s field. He took his
iittle son with him to sit on the fence and
xeep a lookout and give warning in case
my one should come along. The man
jumped over the fence with a large hag on
his arm, and before commencing to take the
corn he looked all around and not seeiat
my one, he was just about to fill his bag.
Then the little fellow, his son,—a good
little fellow he was too, —cried out,
"Father, there is one way you havn i
looked yet !"
The father was startled, and supposed
-ome one was coming. Ho asked his son
which way he meant.
••Why," said the little hoy, "you forgo
to look up!"
The father was conscience-stricken; he
came back over the fence, took his little
boy by the hand, and homed quietly home
without the corn he had designed to take.
THE Revue ties Deux Months has some
curious revelations in regard to the art of
living in Paris. In the large lyceums and
schools of Paris hoys are generally very
wasteful; they will throw away half the
bread they get for lunch, tread upon it, kick
it into the gutter, ink it. &c. None of th
fragments are lost, the servant- sell them to
certain dealers, who are called boulangers en
vieux, and turn their acquisitions to account.
They first pick out all the tolerable pieces,
which they heat in an oven and then rasp
clean; thus prepared, these bits reappear in
the market in the shape of toast for soup
Most of the croutons cut into lounges and
served on the tables of the rich wi'h spinach
have no other origin. As for the dirty
crumbs and refuse left after the picking,
they are pounded in a mortar and sold to
butcher* as chajKlure, with which they cov
er their cutlets and knuckles of ham.
ONE can no more judge of tho true value
of a man bv the impression be makes on the
public, than wc can tell whether the seal
was gold or brass by which the stamp was
made.
A woman 100 years and 5 months old,
named Mrs. Tobie, lives in New Gloucester.
Me., and retains her mental powers almost
unimpaired. She lived 72 years wiih her
husband, who died a few years a&o.
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WRECKS.— Statistics have been published
showing that during the past eleven years
four thou-and eight hundred and eighty
three American vessels have been wrecked,
involviug a 10.-9 of one hundred and ninety
eight million dollars,
CALMING EFFECT OF FLOWERS.— It ia
reported from the Michigan State Lunatic
Asylum that some of the severest cases of
insanity in men brought to the institution
in irons, and manifesting the most violent
symptoms, have been suddenly calmed
down to a condition bordering on sanity
by the presentation of a boquet gathered
from the greenhouse.
THE D'Aacy M GEE MURDER.— It is
stated on the authority of the Toronto
TeUgrapk that Whalen, sometime previous
to his execution, said there were two others
engaged with him in kiding M Gee, .and
that he did not fire the fatal shot. On the
strength of evidence aiucc obtained, this
statement of Whalen • is believed, and it is
thought that one of the suspected parties
may yet be arrested.
TURKEY AND GREECE. — Although it
seems to be generally admitted that the
quarrel between these two countries has
b en settled without e tiling to blows, yet
it appears that Turkey was making prepara
tion for a conflict of some magnitude, since
it is announced that a number of vessels
have been chartered in the port of Tritstc
by the Turki-h Government, for the pur
pose of conveying military stores and mu
nitions of war to all the ports of the Otto
man empire.
FRENCH TRIALS. — A singular report is
furnished by the foreign papers of the trial
of a girl, in France, and her conviction on
her own confession. Circumstances subse
quently developed, showed that the girl was
innocent, and the Court of Appeal set aside
the verdicts, holding that the confession wa3
obtained by intimidation. The mother of
the accused girl had told her that if she
persisted in denying the charge ahe would
be sentenced to fifteen or twenty years' im
prisonment with hard labor.
THE BAROMETER IN MINES.— It has
lately been noted that fi.-e-damp explosions
in mines bave always been preceded by a
treat fall in the barometer, showing such a
change of atmospheric pressure as to permit
the excessive escape of the foul gas. This
instrument has therefore been recommended
as an important adjunct in mining opera
tions, and a wiiter recently recommends one
filled with wat' r instead of mercury; a kind
•f apparatus well known to physicians as
staving highly magnified indications of
changes of pressure.
MARRAIGE IN AUSTRIA.— The bill re
e. ntly introduced into the Austrian Legisla
ture for rendering marriage before the civil
luthori ies compulsory in every case, it is
stat-d, does not meet with the approbation
•f the Cabinet. Two of the Ministers, it is
repotted, have just declared that the Gov
ernment does not consider such a measure
necessary, and will therefore oppose it.
They think any attempt to deprive mar
iage ot its religious character would be re
pugnant to public opinion, and that the lib
erty now accorded of contracting a civil
marriage, when the e'ergy refuse to per
form the ceremony, is quite sufficient as a
measure of proteciion to the p ople.
STORMS IN GREAT BRlTAlN.—Thetorm3
in Great Britain, at the beginning of Feb.
ruary, have exceeded any similar events for
a long time past. The loss of life was very
creat. Some of the principal st-eetsof the
city of Cork were from three to four feet
deep in water. The traffic on the lines of
railway on both sides of the river Lee, on
which Ork is built, was stopped, the rails
having been submerged, and several
breaches were made in the Queenstown
direct line. At Youchgal the -ea broke over
the railway, destroying a portion of the sta
tion. overturning wagons and making serious
breaches in tjie permanent way. Part, of
Queenstown was also under water.
MEXICO. —A dispatch from Havana
rives some MexicaD news of considerable
importance. General Negrete captured the
city of Purbla on the 3d and it-sued some
incendiary proc'aniations, but. evacuated the
city oo the 6th, on learning that Govern
ment troops were marching against him. A
forced loan of $20,000 had been levied on
the merchauts of San Martin by the rev
olurioni-ts at that point. There was an in
•ipient revolution in Yuca'an, but not
deemed worthy of particular note. Trouble
xisted betw. en the civil and military au
thorities at Gaudalaxara, and revolution
was threatened. The Governor had re
igned, and thecourts had declared their in
ability to enforce the laws. There was a
revolution in Tlaseala another at Neuvo
lieon, where Qumnga. at the head of 1,200
well-armed men, had pronounced in favor
of Santa Anna. It was thought that Gen.
Corona would be appointed Minister to
VV ashington.
A FEARFUL RIDE.—On Thursday of last
week the locomotive Leonard W. Jerome
was "booked" to follow the mid day train
out of New York to stopping
nowhere except for wood and water. Just
as she was starting, and unknown to the en
gineer, two lads, respectively eight and ten
\ears old. mounted the cow-catcher, intend
ing to have a short ride. They were stated
.ID alow elevation, the cross beam of the
ow catcher, and were hid from tho en
.ineer by the smoke stack, haster and
taster whirled the iroo horse over the rails,
by cross streets, over rattling switches and
then with almost lightning speed the city
was left behind as the locomotive reached
the river bed of tho road. The roaring
srt-am, the sharp, rapid crack of the heavy
wheels as they cleared the joints of the rails,"
the swaying to and fro of the tons of iron,
the shrieking of the steam whistle as the
snorting eogine dashed past station after
-ration, sent thrills of terror into the hearts
.if the youngsters as they hung with death
like grips upon projecting bars or bolts,
yelling and crying with fright in vain, for
the deafening roar of the machinery and the
.lash of iron drowned their cries for heip
almost before they lelt their lips. And so
they rode tiil the locomotive came to a stand
still for water at Peefcskill, forty mile#,
when one, completely overcome with fright
and exhaustion, tumbled senseless to the
ground, while the other, too weak to walk,
was conveyed into the station, and after
| good care, the two were sent back to New
\ York.