I WISH HE WOULD DECIDE, I wish he would decide, mamma, I wish he would decide; I've beou a bridesmaid twenty times— ‘When shall I be a bride? My cousin Anne, my sister Fan, The nuptial knot have tied; Yet come what will, I'm single still— I wish he would decide, He takes me to the play, mamma, He brings me pretey books; Heo wooes me with his eyes, mamma, Buch speechless things he looks! Where'er I roam-—abroad, at home— He lingers by my side; Yet come what will, I'm single still I wish he would decide. I throw out many hints, mamma, 1 speak of other beaux, I talk about domestic life, And sing, “They don't propose;* And ah! how vain each piteous strain His wavering heart to guidel Do what I will, I'm single still I wish he would decide, I NOR TT ATI. DRIVEN TO BAY. *“Miss Cherry, Miss Cherry, itis time to come in. The old stable clock struck six as Nurse Nancy stood with her hand shad- Ing her eves—the sun was sinking be- hind the fringe of willows that out- Bned the river, and the dead leaves fluttered to and fro upon the brick paved walk that extended beneath the espa- lier pear trees. And Cherry Fountain, sitting in a low rustic chair on the river bank, never stirred. “Miss Cherry,” reiterated the old nurse, “Miss Cherry! If you're deter- mined to catch cold yourself, you might have some consideration for Master Wilfred.” “Nancy, don’t Cherry, petulantly. here, Willie and 1. us alone?’ “But your papa is asking for you. Miss Cherry listened with a curl of her lip, but little Wilfred jumped up and pulled sagerly at his sister’s dress, “Let's go in, Cherry,” sald he. love papa. And I want to see my, new mamma,’’ Cherry rose slowly and reluctantly— interrupt,” oried “We are happy Why can’t you let some glistening white material, came running out to the river shore, **Where are the children,” said a soft voice. “I want to see the children.” Willie, an affectionate little fellow of eight years old, ran into the arms of his young step-mother, and overwhelmed her with kisses which were most cordi- ally returned, but Cherry hung back with deflant glances, Fountain. *“Wby, you are nearly as tall as Iam. Papa,” turning archly to the bridegroom who had followed more slowly her flying footsteps, ‘‘you never told me that this Cherry of ours was almost a young lady.” “Because I didn’t realize it myself,” said Col. Fountain, caressing one of Cherry’s long brown curls, and think- ing, even at this auspicious moment, how much hike her dead mother she was growing. **Cherry, this is your new mother, with her!” —her lips quivered, Fountains quick eye saw it all, but she had too much tact to interfere. She only kissed Cherry and clasped her hand tenderly, and then began to talk about the beauty of the river, all reddened in the sunset glow. ‘“They are beautiful children,” she said to her husband that night. “I am sure I shall love them, if only they will let me.” *“I don’t think there will be any trou- ble about that, darling,” said the col- onel tondly. Nor would there have been, if Cher- ry’s frank, generous soul had been left to its own impulses. But the neighbors had condoled with her too sympathetic- ally. Miss Darling who would herself have been glad to console the handsome widower, had said, plaiatively: “You, dear Cherry, must remember your mother’s memory although your father seems to have forgotten it.» And Aunt Frederica, the elder sister of the deceased lady, bad ostentatiously come to the house to remove all the personal belongings of the late Mrs. Fountain, during the absence of the colonel on his wedding tour, *‘I dare say your new ma will be for flinging all these in the fire,” she said. “I only hope she will be kind to Willie, poor child!” *‘If she is not,” flashed Cherry, “she will have meto settle with!” But Aunt Frederica only groaned and shook ber head, And it was in tins spirit Cherry was prepared to meet her father's second wife. Small wonder that Alice Foun- tain found it well nigh impossible to win her love. “This is your dear mamma’s favorite flower bed, Cherry,” sald the bride one morning. “Willie told me so, You and I must make it our care to keep the place always bright and lovely.” Cherry blushed a little as she glanced down at the weed grown parterre, “There is no oecaslon for troubling you,’ said she. *‘I can take care of jt myself,” “But I should like to help you, dear,’ pleaded Mrs. Fountain. “I am so fond of 4 pre “I prefer to do it myself,” said Cher- ry, stiffly, Mrs. Fountain looked at ber wist(ul- ly, but said nothing more just then. In the afternoon she came to the little boudoir where Cherry sat reading, “Where ares your books, Cherry?" sald she. ‘Your papa thinks I could help you in practicing.” “Thanks,” said Cherry, suddenly want any help. just as I did before.” And once more Alice repelled. the bride's new theories of household management, markedly to Cherry. fancy that even her husband was differ. ent from what he had been, { she saw an express wagon loaded with { trunks drive up. where her husband sat in the library, “have you invited company?" Col. Fouutain reddened a little, “Company!” repeated he, “Oh, yes, I { see, I intended to have mentioned it before. The fact is, dear, my sister Frederica is coming here for a few months. You are so young and inex- perienced that I thought that perhaps it would be better for her to take charge of the housekeeping, for the present at least. “Alice's damask-rose deepened in scarlet. “Have I in anyway failed to meet your wishes, Felix?" said she, in a sti- fled voice. complexion rica thought,” said Mrs, | quickly, | and Willie is positively ungovernable, j and Frederica saysthat the house needs | a firmer hand to rule it,” went on Col. | Fountain. “Do you really think so, Felix?" i the head of a household like this.” Alice bit her lip, | said she, i “Now you are getting childish, | Alice,” said her husband gravely. “1 { ght about your temper!” Mrs. Fountain gould endure no more. She turned and left the room. | Like most men, he hated scenes, but | nevertheless hus conscience pricked him | alittle. He half rose, ss if to follow | her, and then sat down again. way to her in everything.” said he i “And perhaps she is right, { and walk through the garden with them now. {ought not to be neglected because I | have married again,” | of the casement and saw her husband Cherry fondly clinging to his arm, Wil- the rare white grapes which the old lantly. me,” she sald to herself, with a sharp pang at her heart. “‘I am only an in- truder here.” When Col. Fountain came upstairs to dress for dinner he found the room empty, but a little note lay on the bu- rean, “DEAREST FELIX,” was what he read, on tearing it open. “I hope you will not blame me for leaving your house. But [ have decided that I can: not like where I am not loved and trus. ted thoroughly. If you and Cherry can be happier with Miss Frederica than with me, I cheerfully abdicate in her favor. One thing is certain—there cannot be two mistresses in a home. And I will try to be as happy as possible with my Uncle Willoughby in the meantime. And please do not forget that I am still your most loving Avrice.” Col. Fountain's first impression was that of hot anger, his second a dull de- spair. But Aunt Frederica pursed up her lips, “Depend on it, Felix, "she said, “the girl Is tired of you. I despise these chits that never know their own mind!» ‘“Be silent!” said Fountain, hoarsely, “You have ruined me! Is not that enough?” A week of Aunt Frederica’s rule completely disenchanted the whole fa mily. Cherry burst into tears one day, when the old lady was especially exact. ing. “I wish I had my mamma back again, said she, impetuounsly. ° *Your sainted mother, dear child,” groaned Miss Frederica, “is in heaven. * “But | mean my mamma Alice,” sobbed Cherry, “I do miss her so dreadfully! I believe she really loved me. And—and [do love her, and 1 wish I had not behaved so horridly to ber. There!” “Can’t we bring her home?” shouted Willie, ¥ ships for me, now that mamma is gone!’ | who was just then particularly exasper- ated at discovering that Miss Frederica had been transforming Alice's boudol | invited sojourn at the house, { like **Mariana 11 the Moated Grange,” | was astonished that very day by the un. | expected vision of Cherry herself. ful, half eager, “dearest mamma, will { you forgive us all, and particularly me? | Will yod come home to us again? We | BAYS ———"? her arms. “WII you really love me, dearest?” | said she, { could but know how I have | your lovel” an undivided kingdom. FOOD FOR THOUGHT, Ten noes are Letter than one lie, God keep you from “It is too late,’ The great obstacle to progress is pre- judice, Lying hand, Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates and gossiping go hand From a little spark may burst a It is easy to say grace, but not half so A woman ceases to charin when she He only is a well-made man who Las a good determination. Suffering is the surest way of making Stand firm and immovable as an an. vil when it is beaten upon, Time divided is never long, and reg- ularity abridges all things. In almost everything experience is Those who plot the destruction of | threshold to welcome her back, “My dear,” sald he, **I have made a fool of myself. I see itall now, It shall not happen a second time,’ midly, “Sweetheart,” said Colonel Fountain right!» “Mamma is always right,” echoed { on their recovered treasure. The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us, Whosoever is delighted in solitude i8 either a wild beast or a god, The greatest of all faults, I should >atlirists gain the applause of others If you wish to remove avarice, you must remove its mother, luxury. Every noble crown 18, and on earth i i | at last, : § | Alice, ———— A —— Lincoln asa Gentleman, Pretentions to ! Lincoln had | manliness disclaimed any. technical gentility none, and fi with a § We had better appear what we are than affect to appear what we are not, The bread of life is love: the salt of life work; the swectness of life, poesy., The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. A wise man will neither speak nor do whatever anger would provoke him £5 in the on a jour horse fe 5 a Hix dd Philosophy i | arrant Ja ¥ * stable; but Hey “al ¥ Nurture your mind with great ights; to believe in the heroic makes correct an evil which 8 not 80 wise a8 to already ex- foresee and pre- i of conventional high breeding, | took oceasion to remark in Douglas; the { of the joint debate with outside polish, The latter I shall never | be, that which constitutes the inside of a gentleman I hop: I under- stand, and I am not less inclined to practice than another.’’ The of politeness change, but we | that men like Abraham Lincoln will never go out of fashion. | Lincoln lived at | managed to buy a second-hand copy of but | to study law, 2 * a { itself; unless handles or moves it, it is dumb, A life spent should be meas- by deeds—not s Fos ar worthuy words, The mportant part of every most | » know what ought to be Where love exists not, even though be in a palace, happiness can never ne, Those sentiments of love which ow from the heart cannot be frozen by ad. versity. Envy is blind, and knows nothing $ il x means of getting any Hawk war, who had been use of his collection, which, for a new country, was respectable, | ever, be had to walk from New Salem to Springfield, a distance of fourteen miles, and, it is said, would often | master thirty or forty pages on his way {home. He was often seen seated | against the trunk of a tree or lying on the grass under its shade, poring over his books and changing his position as the sun advanced, so as to keep in the shade, Stanley's Soudan Plan, The celebrated African traveler, General Gordon said that the Soudan was a useless possession, and that “for any body to reconquer it and hand i$ over to Egypt would be an iniquity,” he meant to refer to the present condi. tion of that country. General Gordon's real opinion, Mr Stanley says, which was often expressed, was that attempts at permanent occupation would be use. less until a rallway had been constructed connecting BSuakim with the Nile: The Government of the Soudan would then become much easier. Mr. Stanley expresses his belief in the soundness of this opinion, and save:—If you want to make something of the Soudan give the people of that country a chance to rest. Stop taxation, stop the courbash. Gar. reduced by equitable division; when ancient privileges are no longer the prize of the few, and when emigration ceases to be with many the sole altern. ative of starvation. If the Kohinoor brings destruction, it is to the few who have dominated over the many, thus insuring final order out of immediate chaos. LE me a ——— May not the brain be from time to time liable to some sickness which while it lasts, makes all things distorted iscolored ? the - and the soul wes asmmilated to that on which it thinks continually, It is strange that men will talk of miracles, revelations, inspirations, and 3ho Mia, as things past, while love re- He who prays without confidence, cannot hope that his prayer will be granted, Next to an effeminate man, there is nothing so disagreeable a8 a mannish Woman. The best heads can but misjudge in jurisdiction of Very nice scruples are sometimes the affect of a great mind, but oftener of a little one, It is excellent to have a paut’s strength; but it 1s tyrannous to use it like a giant, From the knowledge of what you should not do, you may easily judge what you should do. "Tis greatly wise past hours, and ask they bore to heaven, The very nature of Jove is fo find its to talk with our them what report benefit, but for Uieirs, Bacon says that labour conquers all things; but idleness conquers more peo ple than labour does, ted your misfortune. How could you not Lave supported it? self poor; in that manner one robs pov- erty of its sharpest sting. To be successful, have confidence. lieve in the winning, To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. and honorable sentiments, To most men experience is like the stern light of a ship, which illuminates only the track it has passed, Friends should be weighed, not told who boasts t¢ have won a multitude of friends, has never had one, There is no one else who has the power to be so much your friend or so much yourenemy as yourself, He who comes up to his own ideas of reatuess must always have had a very ow standard of it in hus mind, Our attention to little things is the index to our character, and often the balance by which it 13 weighed. The life of a mere worldly man is like an African river that wastes itself by soaking into the desert sands, Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only as a coachman’s follow’s the horses he is driving. Conduct is%he groat profession, Bee having Is the perpetual revealing of us, What a man does, tells us what he 1s, It is always well to walt the develop ment of his dealings with us rather than Loomplaty at our own disappoint. men A man’s strength in this life is often - All men must admire a frank and of pu though few ready to se 10 possess them ~dJefferson Davis is reported to be 80 sick that his recovery is doubtful, He suffers from rheumatism and from the breaking out of an old wound re- celved in the Mexican war. The candle works of Emery Bros | at Cincinnati were on the 1st, damaged by fire to the extent of nearly $100,000. The loss is covered by insurance, I. M. Snider's sawmill at Shidler, nea Munele, Indiana, was burned on the Slst, ult, Lose$35,000. The Ohio Valley tas Works at Brideeport. Ohlo. were 1 ist. Loss $30,000, 150 hauds are thrown out of work, burned in Lhe ithe $ ti * Lif ~-Near Winnesboro, Texas, on Sult, six masked man went house of A. H. Cline, *“‘a quiet, peace. able planter,” and took him out of bed and severely whipped and otherwise abused him until he was nearly dead, Through the pleadings of wife Cline’s life was spared, but the maskers notified him that unless left the country within fortv.eight hours he would be killed. The cause of the out. rage 8 a Cline by officers, The battle between forces of Barrios and those of San Salvador. be. gan on the 30th ult.,, was continued on the 31st. The Guatemalan forces were completely routed with heavy losses, 0 lis fie mystery i8 protected the ~The rebellious Indians in the North- west Territory made an attack on Bat- tleford on the 3lst ult,, killed two in- structors and sacked and burned the town. The Stony and Cree Jattleford, and it is expected that Bear's band and the Fort Pitt will also join in the rebellion Big Bear with 500 warriors, is with Riel, who is now said to have 2000 armed wen, but a: no Leld pieces Big Indians stated on the 1st by ernment official in Montreal, that sage from Lord Wolseley has ceived by Lord Lansdowne asking if he could get two regiments from Pils : HAT, Canada for the Bot a Gov- 4 Imes been IF srs w— 4 Was Tie One Of The State election « on the 1st, brought ou compared with that « officers elected are as follows G. P. Weimore, Rep.; Lieutenant Gov- ernor, L.B. Darling; Secretary of State, Jd. M. Addeman; Attorney General, samuel P. Colt: General Treas Sark. na few towns alae? few yt ar all ¥ : 5 i i 3 oad Ol THOT, urer, Sarauel ( Was n Legislative ticket, but the Assembly will be practically the politically. there the next General a part BAI ~—{zeneral Grant sank raph ist, and was feared that the end was near. living last night, and, it might survive for some time, ~In the Illinois House of Represen- tatives on the 1st, Speaker Haines cre- aled much excitement that, dissatisfaction re- lly on the several times He was still was thought, 4 3 by saying “a8 there has been garding employes of the House, he had come to the conclusion that the best thing he could do would be to dismiss all those who had been appointed by him.and he did so.” ~The public debt statement for March shows a decrease of $483 747. FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, — BECORD KESSION, EENATE, The President on the 30th, sent to the U. 8, Senate the following nomina- tions: To be Ministers— Alexander R. lawton, of Georgia, to Russia; Anthony M. Ki#ley, of Virginia, to Italy; Thomas J. Jarvis, of North Car- olina, to Brazil; Rufus Magee, of Indi ana, to Sweden and Norway: Isaa Bell, Jr., of Rhode Island, the ! Netherlands: Edward Farke Curtis Tewis, of New Jersey, Portugal: Rasmus B. Anderson, of Wisconsin, to | Denmark, and George W. Merrill, of Nevada, to the Hawaiian Islands. To pe Consuls General—Thomas M. Wal- {ler, of Connecticut, at London; Ed- "mund Jussen, of Illinois, at Vienna, and Frederick Raine, of Maryland, at { Berlin. To» be Consuls—A., Halier | Giross, of Pennsylvania, at Athens, and Even P, Howell, of Georgia, at Man. chester, The President also nominated Alexander McCue, of New York, to be Solicitor of the Treasury; Joseph E. J ohinston. of Virginia, Commissioner of lailroads; David Settle, U. S. Marshal for Western McMillan, Appraiser at fand William Caldwell, Surveyor i Customs st Cincinnati. The confirmed the nominations of seventeen | postmasters, among them Jones, Sr,, to be postmaster at Indiana. polis, tn 0 of {the president nominated Henry G. Pearson, present incumbent, to be post- master at New York. William R. Roberts, of New York, Minister to | Chili; Charles W. Buek, of Kentucky, | Minister to Peru; Richard B, Hubbard, of Texas, Minister to Japan; William T. Lang, of Texas, Consul at Hamburg, Charles T. Russel, of Conneticut, Con- sul at Liverpool; Norman 8. Coleman, of Missouri, Commissioner of Agricul ture, and Henry P. Kernschaw, Naval Officer at New Orleans, It is under stood that immediate changes are also contemplated in the offices of the Reg trolled. It is also intimated that Assis. tant Secretary Coon will resign shortly to engage in private business. The ter General has decided to re- of the Foreign Mail service, and point Nicholas M. Beli, nf st. hy his successor, Inthe U. 5, Senate on the 1st after the reading of the journal, the Chair ted several communications which received in to General favorably upon ali the nominations re- ferred to it, the [most frmportant being that of John T. McGraw to be luter al Revenue Collector for the Distret of West Virginia, vice Samuel P. Mi mack, to be removed, There is bility of a contest in the this nomination, as Mf been in office but a short Lime I fice has no fixed term, J 3 inclination to make a conte nomination of Lewis 3 Appraiser for New York, : ent with the spirit of « form,” the He ever, think it better no test in case of from offices to which fixed bylaw. The President A. Leo Knott, of Maryland ond Assistant Postmaster Genera also nominated a numberof post Adjourned, $e. iif ni BF 75 BA 8E0% Wore is some of renova ti HOUSE, In the House on the 27th, « of Mr. Sponsler, of Perry, a was adopted special orde for Thursday me sions, until disposed of Mr. Morgan, granting the House to Captain R. Indian train on the evening an exhibition of ti used in sald school, adopted making the bill for the | tion of the adulteration a special order on t A the first House adiourned. making revenue a resolu ie inrge time In the House on evenin providing that the bill rel : siological and hygienic insiruetion in he public schools shall be read the third time to-morrow al noon, After debate the resolution was rejected veas the affirmative. Mr, Stewart, of adelphis, introduced a 1 tin the o> g 2H Tor % 1 F ¥ A sin 107 read the first time Pennsylvame Legsiature SENATE. the 2 In the Senate on iti ing measures were reading Authors assessors for a term of quiring the names of business th agents, and the of the agents, to be registered office for the recording of desds county wherein their place « is jocated Amended so as ply to brokers or “facto the corporation act of ordered he thr a} tl sag il to further assessment. +3 3 * ie In the Senate on the ! v it were introduced by Mr, Dilis Thompson, of a single District for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and designating the city of Harrisburg the place for the holding and sitting of the same. By Mr. King, of Schuylkill, regulating the granting of wholesale liquor licenses mn boroughs and townships, After disc us- sion Mr. Humes made the point of order that the bill was not 1 order. because the amendments had changed nal purpose, The President pro (Mr. Grady temporarily in the sustained the point, but after discussion. the decision of the chair was overruled without a formal vote, and the bill was origi- fem. hair) ing. Adjourned, In the Senate on the 1st bills ond reading were taken up raotion of Mr. Kennedy the vole on the so called bullitt all for Pittsburg were considered, and the amendments then offered by Mr. Sutton, of Montgomery, and negatived, were withdrawn by Mr. Sutton. The amendments were to postpone the act until after the incom- ing of a new Mayor, and to make the act conditional upon a vote of the people in it. The withdrawal was to On BE Ali on - “he poned for the present, and five hundred The {intended to secure protection to the person solemnizing the marriage: pro. whether contracted in the presence of a imposing a penalty for a failure to make HOUSE, ~ Bills were reported favorably from the Commitiees; as it was expected that the Temperance bill would be de- Messrs, Wil- Theodore Hart, of Luzerne, appeared at the bar of the House and took the oath of office as Representatives, to all vacancies occasioned by death. The first bill of the calendar was the Senate bill relating to the study of physiology and hygiene in the public schools, The bill was finally passed-—yeas 131, nays In the House, on the 1st, Senate Con- "881 ment bill, as amen. by the House Committee, being next considered, Mr. MoeGowan, of Philadelphia, moved to amend by trans- ferring the Second Ward of Philadel phia from the First to the Third Dis- trict. This, he explained, would not alter the political complexion of the bill but would tend to equalize the popula. tion of the districts. Mr, Brooks, of Philadelphia, did not consent to the ap- t
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