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Ireland and the south.
4 I" cniim TO T1IR Vui IV ORAV.
- 7W MVrtn'ittf of fV (irtm.
V 1, jr it out fp'in rvrry Mmi1
l all I In- !j'i" frni v.ry fuM,
t'rr ft JrnnMTtic ("Hijilc,
J m our t.wih iii'-mii to holil ;
K' 'rr ftr nn-rev to I lie ttcatm fw,
Y,,r linilhfTP ft ttnVf been :
Iah t w1"' j -f t---in is we know,
f All we who fnr thf Own
y! what 0.j.n,ci'iin i wt? know,
i All w'l m',,r "lf "ri rn
fin mir very honwi what it i we know,
I We Ih-vb who wear the tirren !
tVe hiivc frit it in nnr Pirclanil,
W ith iti whip our rWkn nrr worrd;
Of the (South we'll make no Irclaml,
S''urpt"l with tnmtne ml the nwnnl ;
Xi, true Ihnt they trie,! the rM g;uiie,
i!nt pimi-lie'l tht'y have Iwn
Ami 1 Utticr think wr v done the nine,
All we who wear the Orent
wrswl '' hive done the vpry isice,
All we who wear the Orwn ;
Ami wc hope afrnin to do the mime,
Wo boys ttliu wear the Uroen !
0, .Manhood's pronlet duty
In to liw'ht for .Mhii.hhh.'ii faith ;
A rif 1 true eournpe han a beauty
Thai n'1 'ven crime can swathe:
In ehaou they plunpi J hea'iwunl, boys,
Their r'lt 'iit not pen-en:
Put our Kir met and Lord Edward, buys,
Did likewixe fur thu (Jnn !
Ave! bhearM andUrrand Ldward, boyi,
4tim ilelicli" f'-r lav ttren!
WutI, folic, and liund.and Ldwanl; bov
Did HkewiBP wear Uic Urccnl
hMerey" be the cwunter?ien,
And Freedom" the parole
hri the hucleti rins alon our line
And the drum for buttle roll!
And the cry rhall iwetl from every mouth,
And on our flap be aeen
We're for merry to the Kebel Houth,
W e Ret.i-li of the (in-en
We're a fellow feeling for the Pouth,
We Rebel of the tireen,
The boy who wiire the tiray down Poulh,
We boyi who wore the lirw n!
0 niciu-r.
!rick Pomeroy at a New England
Sewing Circle.
FPIIK Christian Ladies of this Congrefatiou are
inrited to meet 1 hursuay eveniti, i the pern -nor
of .Mrs. Sniviller, to form a Hew tug Society.
ii uJl attendants i reiieited.
Such, my dear hcurorH, rea(Jf a no
tice 1 find on my microd dchk lliin
ninrnin:, and I rvud it in hopes 3011
will pmtit thereh'.
Wo Mill now bing lealia UI, lir.st
(wo stanzas
My heart not huachfy is, 0 Lord,
Mine eye not lIiy r;
Nor do 1 deal in tutuu-rg ffreat
Or thing Um hijrh for me I
I nrely hare myself behar'd
W ith preat pint, and mild
A child of mother weaned, my aoul
li like a weaued child.
All Ring !
.Says 1 bully." Xot in a bully
spirit but with a port of puritanical
meaning, and concluded to go. Mr.
Sniviller Mrs. leacon Sniviller liv
ed in a larirc whito house, in a ptono
I patch under the hill, down b3' her lius
I bund's button hliop. Jlrs. Sniviller
I was a leading borne, so-called, in the
I toam of benevolence at JJuttonvillo
I She had a littlo peaked red nose about
I riht to open elams with; a nervous
I jerk to her head, spiral cnticcrs, and
I a waterfall the f-ize of a jlnm pud
I ding, but filled with more ingredient.
I Deacon Sniviller passed the plate Sub
I baths, and took the funds home to
count. Mr. Sniviller always gave
with liberality w tho next .Sunday !
wante.l logo 1 borrowed hoops
skirt, watoriall and etcaclpr. I puff.
ed my front hair, slung my waterfall
on my bump of obstinacy, hoisted an
onion into tho ridicule I carried on
the left arm, shouldered a cotton um
brella, took a piec of red flannel to
make a shirt for some littlo innocent
bud on the tree of Abolitionism and
sailed forth as the Yankee clock struck
two.
Mrs. Suiviller was in. Tho front
parlor, and the middle parlor was full
of noblo women, while the best bed
room wan full of bonnets, green um
brellas and reticules, in which to car
ry home sweet cake, tails, biscuit,
plum bits, apple cores, and little things
Rl.yly slipped Iron Mra. Sniviller .1
lame.
Mrs. Sniviller didn't know me. I
told her I was littlo Sally Sijniggle,
as what livid the.ro Tea years bclore,
and had been South tcacbin fkuln!
'Lordy inMu-,.a it is ! Why bow
natural you do iowk, now it all comes
to mo aain I Lless me 1 Let mo
liiss my dear .Sally, who lias escaped1
from the vvulcliee I" And angelic
JUrt Snivilior-cjnio near putting my
right eye -bors du combat with the
-nJ ofher nose !
I wft"iiitroduced. Nineteen women
were glad to seo inc and kissed their
dear litllo Sally, till my waterfall got
skewed clear around under my left'
ear and 1 b'gan to feel a rising ciia-j
lion in my throat from tho bugging
then and theto given, or words to liiat
irect !
After 1 bad been so affectionately
gono through, 1 went into tho bed
room to reconstruct I liracious! My
waterfall had got under my left car
making mo look as if Dome ngly man
of sin had lilted mo with one bras
knuckle and forgot to take it home
with him, while my beautiful front
liair ressembled a garden full of iea
vines after a hurricane. Hut I retained
my composuro and went out and be
came the centre of attraction.
' "My dear Sally !" I'recious Sally !"
"Little Sally Siuiggle,su re enough!"
"So glad you cum bum !"
"Neow do tell us all about it!"
Mrs. Sniveller was made chairman
and tho following resolutions were
'adopted :
l;i-.r n, Tlu l tin il.ull 1 cslMths P ull on -
rillr llfiT-Tuli-nl Rlf A'tcitioii.
Hr.nnrn. Thut Mn, Knmllcr he, n.l hrrrl.T
re our lr,M.i ni. that is heinous rebellion, justifying the
' KKMHtrn, Thut our nt i. lo Mi Ihe d' wn- , . . . v.,.-
tn..Mm .0.1 H n.M.u-.iiiirr.H li. .n. no ,n exclusion of an entire Slate lrom rep-
he phltchn. of loul Tilr ..i..lp. .nl to lln. rn'l i reSCIltat'on.
rirry nni of ti.o ii. i.' ii mk- one liuir I j (',it.io, an assassin endeavors
nmhpfiie. - 1 to shoot down the President of the
lic.oi.vrn, That we oj, and How our WictT I'nitcd States while exercising the
.ithpr.irr. ! right of freo speech that is putriot-
Kt.!oi.i i.it, Tliftf trb one of the mmlr invito . .
Kme uisii to po hoini ilh hi r nielli (Ifprp I i 'e"l
wm iout to ojoct tor fiBr of of ev"iiirr imi fur A rid so of every other instcnce in
fr ot espoiur i i oi.j.vt-S:i! ) ivhicli the relative virtue or character
After the society was organized ijofthe two peoples (for they are two)
wus kept sohusy answering questions are to be tested by timilar incidents
(bat 1 camo near not finishing the l and facts Pt tcnhirg Index.
baby tr1 elope I was working on and '
should imt, had I took longstitches as "Dr. Mary Walker," one of the
people do in beiiert lent sewing. t latest American Bloomerists, is now
Mrs. Snivellei said : in England, preaching reforms in
"Now Sally, ain't that ere Southern I women's dress and political position.
p'le, the hatefullcst proud eople j At the Manchester social acienco
theworl Ievertlidt.ee? Cousin Jul n meeting she sitid woman was over
whowentdown asa sutiler brouglit ' looked und her vitality exhausted in
home two trunks of the proudest silks, : carrying around a dry goods store.
laces, jewelry that was real gold, find j
set with party stones that wus real ! lr. Ilufresno of Laprairie, Canada,
r'iinnnds. and worth a powerof money. , has turned j.riest. llo forsakes a
lii fjlind them in bureaus, trunks. briHinnt position at tb rail of eon
closets and sich rlHf Th sipeskimr i.nee.
I i IjiytlJIjllljll I I r.tt.lU0: I I Biiyg B II BJ A PSu
y )H 1HI1-I n 11 B Hii B .I S !tHttr.W 1 : J: C 2 HT, B Mk1
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WHOLE NO. 1935. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11, I860. NEWSEIUES-VOI,8,NO.r18.
coward mon hud gono of to kill our
good peoplo and tho women wore at
work in tho hospitals and ulljolin hud
to do was to whip a lot of little chil
dren mid help himself I 1 know them
ere folk nro wicked, mean, ongratel'ul
wt, und out to bo killed."
Alrn. Puritan wunted to know if it
wus true thut the people of the South
actually cooked hiled dinners on Sun
day ' Jf they did, alio reully hoped her
cousin in Congress would puna a law
that whenever a man in tho South
cooked u biled dinner on Sunday ho
Miould lo bung before dinner and bis
..:..er miouiu oe sont .North ! I quest, and the tendency to propngun
Mrs. J'iinliback boned the war aism is so natural to mankind, that
Would continer to go on till there was
no lnoreend of nothing. Tor her part it
was ull stull' about the people guttering
during tho war. ller Josiuh had a con
tract and made two hundred thousand
dollars tho lirst year, and when her
brother J.evereiid l'erk&oeo Uanter
ennio hack from the war where ho had
periled bis precious life, eating pre
serves so they would not hurt sick
soldiers, bo brought home more than
fifty gold watches and the nicest gold
clasp fiible, which wus now used every
Sunday in one ot the Buttonville
Churches.
Mrs. Sijueak said the people of the
South were nothing but murderers,
for when her brother, Colonel Fibre
Hunter was out in field, doing nothin,'
killin' nobody, doin' notbin, but just
seein' how much cotton an army team
could drag, so ho could tell if it was a
good team, some cowardly gorilla shot
a bole cleun through him. anil wouldn't
even Msnd bis clothes home for her
Jedediah to wear out 1 And she hoped
if another wur ever did come, some of
them sinful men of the West would
go down and do it to 'em agin, not
that she cared as much for brother,
hutsho wunted them are clothes for
her Jedediah !'
Mrs. Cockeyo said she hoped there
would be a bull passel of wars, for her
cousin, her dear good cousin, Benja
min (tbo licust) bad madu lots of
money in the late war, and bad sup
plied nearly all her relations with
spoons, watches, silverware, Ac., and
said it was right tho war should go
on, for hercousin was safer in tho wur
than before a court of Justico even,
and said it wus a Christian duty to let
all Chrixtian wars bo continnered so
long as there wus anybody to con
tinner 'em.
Mrs. Sniviller here spokegain
"Well I don't care now bow. Tho
South should bo fought 1 What right
, j , fc icked b
niirgcrs without asking our consent?
And thej- wero rich. And they had
nice tilings. And we believe a nigger
baby is of more nccount than a w hite
pauper in the North. And my hus
batidj Deacon Sniviller, wants more
bones to make buttons of, he'll sell the
buttons to South and West, and they
will Iibao to pay as Njw Englund
Christiut for the privilege of wearing
out their own bones.
By this li mo tea was ready. We
had a good tea. Such curious silver
ware, old style, pure silver, didn't
taste brassy a bit, and all of us ladies
tasted all the silver dishes to seo! And
8ucl ,t of poons wilh'
Mrs mJilkr liaJ a
our initials
barrel of sil
ver spoons, and bunted thorn over
till she found ourregelur initials in
regular order ! Oh.it was so nice!
And wc piled all tho shirts tip in a
chair.and put a Bible rescued from the
wicked South on the top of the pile
and then l!ev. Mr. Slammer camo up
and made a prayer, while Mrs. Luyw
ier on a nice rosewooj piano played j
that patriotic pieco of music,
Juhn Ilnwn' hoiW liti mooMrring in tht frTe!
John Itroirn'. l""ly lirf moulilrnn In the grtre !
Juhn llrown'f hoilv Im mndl'lpring in the (mre!
t lory, ( lory HnllilujeJi.
Alter which tho lluttonvillo B. B.
Society of I'.uttonville, Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, adjtirncd till next
Thursday, when I am go'"'? again if
ihfy don't find out that Sijuiggles is
Itmt tiorrul,
"BnirK" POMEROY.
Distinction and ItilTcrtncft.
A Southern man is said to have
offered a reward for Lincoln's head
w hen Lincoln was his armed enemy
that is fearful fiendish crime.
A Northern clergyman, in a Chris
tian pulpit, prays for the death of Mr.
Johnson, liis own President that is
patriotism and publio virtu.i.
An assemblage convenes in New
Orleans to ovel throw the government
of the State against the known will of
the people that is patriotic.
A deputation of citizens of Balti
more, in tho forms of law, prefer
charges against delinquent liadical
public officers that is trenson.
In the backwoods of Texas, some
lawless men frighten an agent of the
Kreedmen's Bureau out of the country
i because of III insulting expressions
fUlrrnal and internal I'tatr,
Nothing connected witli tlio npirit
of our iimtitulions seems harder of i
comprehension to the publio men of
Europe, and to many, indeed, of our
domestic politicians, than our cardinal
doctrine of non intervention in tho af
fairs of other nations. It is nowhere
written in our constitution or laws,
and according to the course of tho
world's history is siippostd to be in
consistent with a republican structure
of government. Tho nervous energy
which is developed in a free people
has so often taken the shape of con-
despito the teachings of Washington
and tho unbroken iiractico of the 11a
tion since that time, the topic is con
stantly renewed, and always awukens
tho liveliest interest- So fur as tho
discussion of tho subject may be an
acknowledgment of the vast expan
sion of the power, wealth and com
mercial importance of the United
States, it is accepted as a wolcomo
tribute to our national pride. Perhaps
Napoleon never paid a more delicate
and acccptublo compliment to our
people than in tho suggested appre
hension thut the time wus not distant
when this great democracy, expanded
to embrace an hundred million of free
men within it) domain, should com
bine with tho autocracy of Bussia to
control the destinies of Europe and
the world. The forbearance which
we have all along exercised in refer
ence to tho French occupation of Mex
ico, and bis consciousness that a move
ment upon our part might peril bis
claims to be considered the universal
arbiter of the civilized world, perhaps
dictated the thought, while the distant
period which he assigned for the move
ment revealed the practiced skill of
the dipbmatist. The smaller specu
lators upon the future have taken up
the bint, and imputed to the United
States serious complicity with Bussia
in tho Eastern question, which now
exercises the quidnuncs of the conti
nent. Again, our innocent propagan
dists upon the Canadiun border are
reading impressive homilies to Eng
lund upon the importance of keeping
on good terms with us, lest in the con
dition of isolation in which she lias
placad herself with regard to Europe
an politics, she be left without a friend
in the world, and her probable help
lessness on account of Irish disaffec
tion, tho Fenian agitations in her col
onics, and tho threatened revolution
at home from the reform movement,
invito us to rekindle some old grudges
against her.
There is still anotlierclass here who,
upon the hypothesis that Maximilian'
empire is tottering to its fall, and that
none of the parties in Mexico have
solidity enough to establish and main
tain a government, urgo that the Uni
ted Slates should intervene for tho in
terests of republican institutions, and
sending an army of occupation of
twenty thousand men, establish order
and educate tho Mexican people up to
thestandard of self government. How
ever this may bo, circumstances may
occur by which in caring for our own
material interests, and in accordance
with tho principle of expansion ever
actively at work in this country, great
benefits may result mutually to the
United States ind Mexico by acquisi
tions of territory on our part at a
nroncr recompense. Aid may thus
be given to Mexico which perhaps
may bo tho beginning of a return to
something of permanent order in that
county. But so fur as direct political
intervention is concerned, the admon
itory lessons of the wisdom of Wash
ington, engraven upon tho hearts of
his countrymen in bis day, secra not
less important now.
Tho interests of the United States
aro pence peace within and without
friendship, cordiul understanding,
active commercial intercourse with
tho v.lioio civilized world. Our pow
er is ki.own and respected ; our influ
ence acknowledged on all hands ; our
examplo is felt, and our ideas are ta
king root in the sod of the old world.
The permanent victories of tho world
are victories of ideas and sentiments.
With the free interchange of thought
which flashes back and forth beneath
the waves, und alternately illuminates
theqno or other civilization the older
of tradition and combination, the
younger of freo vigorous development
tho0mwer of physical force is being borrowing td their lather,
daily subordinated to tho moral forceloino ot his chief attract
of ideas, and in lieu of material inter
vention, the conquests of America
over other nations will bo effected !y
their own spontaneous emulution of a
pcoplo who have no other limit to
their career of prosperity than an
abuse of the principles of self govern
ment may bring upon themselves.
Baltimore Sun.
Interei " .nex
change paper savs that the fustest
time "on record ,,f at all distances, is
as lollows :
1 mite pacing, Voeahrntaf
I mile trotting, lieiter
J mile trotting. Flora Tefnpla
8 mile, trotting, I'ulchmaa
16 miloa trotting, Trinoa
20 mile, trotl'.ng Trn.tea
loll anile, troltinr. t'onoiieror
tr
Msj
IKi
do noj
ss.SM
S.U.M
1 00 mile., double, Mailer Burke and
Itohm ln.n.52
1 tci!, running. Itenrr Te-trt
4 mile., running. l,eiiortn T.iyj
Oct married, young woman I never
pause because your suitor is not band
some. If he is good that is much bet
ter. Few handsoino men are good for
much, except to break wive's heart
withjcalousy, and fail in business, be
canso too much tempted to attend to
it assiduously.
A lady committed suicide in Now.
ark, New Jersey, lately. She loft a
note saying she could tolerate her
husband no longer. Ho was the third
to whom she had besn married.
Sunday School of a .tV-tr Style,
The Jleechcrs are natural growths
of Puriliinihiii fair sampD s of that
intolerance of belief, which finally
loses itself in impracticuhleuess und
unchristian ideas of rank infidelity.
They havo ceased to possess Christ's
religion, and uro full of Beechcr reli
gion, altogether a different compound,
a thing as changeable ns tho hues of a
chameleon, or an Abolitionist's notion
of what constitutes loyally.
Ward lieecher's church has been for
years little better than nSiniday ware
house for the inculcation and tlissenii
nation of the 'u!i?k"Ht sort; of Bluck
BepublicaniMii. Throngs '.ave been
in weekly attendance .Vi.'ju 0,1 "nJ.
laugh on Sundays as they would hard"-'
ly do on week Jays. Ho has grown
popular bus proved "paying card"
for the trustees, who invested money
in building the chnrch in which he
holds forth has received great sala
ries purchased hinds, and is one of a
few of the clerical lights w hoso names
figure in tho income lists. Ie affects
oddity, and tukes real delight in start
ling old fashioned christians with new
notions of liberality tow ard worldly
pleasures advocates billiards, occa
sionally "punches" a few himself, and
drives us fast a horse as any jockey in
Brooklyn.
This Yankee christian has a sister,
not to "fortune Hiid fame unknown"
she has written bonks books in w hich
the "colored cusses" whose ancestral
stock once worshiped fetishes in Afri
ca, figure as heroes and heroines, and
wherein men, of Southern birth and
white faces aio "no better than they
should be," viewed from the imagina
tive Beecher's standpoint. Tho name
of tho female, since she ceased to be a
Beechcr, is Harriet B. Stowo. She
had some peculiar notions, religiously,
which she has given to the world late
ly. Writing of Sunday schools, she
says :
"If the different rhun h.i of ft city would erort n
building where thi-re thould l hilh.rd t.Me,
one or two nine-). in .!h y., n reading-room, garden
and ground, lor hall playing, or innoeenl loung
ing, they would do more to koep Iheir young peo
ple froin the way. of in, than a Sunday at-.houl."
How do some of our good Lacrosso
admirers of, and believers in, the
Beechcr stock like '.l.ese recommenda
tions f Which of tho religious de
nominations in our city will titfco tho
necessary steps for the erection of such
a building as Uncle Tom's Harriet re
commend as a suitable auxilary estab
lishment for a well conducted Sunday
school f
Under tho progressive ideas of Pu
ritanism wo may expect to hear some
of our modern divines announce from
the pulpit, after a fervent prayer, that
at tho close of the services, himself,
and the Superintendent of Sunday
school, will play the deaoons a four
handed game of billiards, of five hun
dred points, for a new Bible; or hear
one minister challengo another to roll
him a string often puis lor a new con
tribution box 1 It will be startling
novelty for a little time, perhaps, to
see a champion bat suspended over
the pulpit of tho religious shop, boast
ing the best nine nt base bull, among
those who go to Zion by the Beechcr
route.
If this system of keeping "yming
people from the ways of sin" is to
come into general use if bilUrd rooms
and nine pin alleys aro suitublo ad
juncts for tho Sunday school, it cer
tainly seems to us that a first class
saloon should also bo thought of. Af
ter billiard and nino pins, "drinks ull
around" would bo tho thing, and af
ford a means for inculcating rino mor
al sentiments, religious toasts, and
pious maxims. New converts should
pay for tho "celestial cock-tails,""evun-gelical
juleps," or "angelic Tom and
Jerry." Whenever a minister receiv
ed a "raise of wages" he should "stand
the whisky" and appropriations for
benevolent purposes could bo decidod
by rubbers at "peaknucklo," or "sev
en up." Is there any thing moro im
proper or out of character in these
suggestions, than in tho ideas advoca
ted by Mrs. Stowe T
The fiendish character of tho reli
gions precepts" inculcated by New
England fanatics has driven from
Sunday schools and churches hun
dreds and thousands, and it is by such
artifices us those suggested above,
that the blood thirsty bigots seek to
till up their ranks and kindle a new
interest in their pernicious system,
tho devil,
attractions. It is
not at all out of character for New
England, but will seem to those not
living in tho "bruin of the Republic,"
(as the egotists term their narrow
minded section,) a little out of charac
ter to yoke the temples of the Living
God witli billiard rooms and nine-pin
alleys. What will bo tho next freak
of Beechcr Christianity f Lacrosse
Democrat.
Al.L ahoi't Nails. The following
table w ill show any one, at a glance,
tho length of tho various sizes, und tho
numherof nuilsin a pound. They arc
rated "3-penny" up tp ""0 penny.''
The first column gives tho number,
the second, the length in inches, nnd
tho third the number per pound.
That is: .
l-penny,
4 penny,
ft penny,
6 penny,
T-'niiy,
5 peuny,
lnponiiv,
12 penny,
20-penny,
rpike,
hpikea,
Ppikra,
hpikea,
Ppikeft,
1- rem
tnrh, bhl naif.
11 ilii-hex, &.S.1 nnil
1 inrhea, n iil.
3 inrhe., IS nail,
t ini'heti. Ml nail.
1) in l.n, li'l nail,
ij in -he., nail.
31 inrhr.. M nail.
S inrhea, 91 nail.
4 ini.hea, ISnaifp
l mehes 12 Dail.
f Inhe., 10 n.ll.
6 tni-hc, 7 nail,
t Inchee, I nail.
this table an estimate of
quantity and suituble .ires for any job
of work can bo easily made.
"Tvo buried my best friend," as the
undertaker said when be interred tbe
fjntclt doctor
The Supremacy of the t'ouitUn-'
Hon the only Saltguurd for the
Country.
In reply to a writer in one of tho
leading New England dailies, of tho
liadicul faith, who speaks of tho trial
of Jefferson Davis by a court and jury,
und objscts thereto, saying that "To
my mind the sovereign and victorious
majority of the people ol tho United
Stales aro superior to tho Constitu
tion," the New York Journal 0 Com-'
nurd argues that :
This notion is one of tho fundamen
tal errors of the Itudicul mind. It is
impossible to reach the reason of men
who believe in this doctrins by any
argument derived from tho origin of
the Constitution. - It is no uso to tell
them that the Constitution was not
made by the people of one State or
count', but was made by various
States, the ratification by the people
of each separate sovereignty being
necessary. It is of no use to tell them
thut there is no right in any majority
of the States to take away from a mi
nority, even of 0110 single State, the
reserved powers which that Stuto has
never yolui.tarily parted with. It is
of 110 avail to show them by history,
by tho records of Stuto and Uuilcd
States action, that the Constitution it
self is not subject to, nor the exponent
of the will of tho populace.
There is nothing whatever in our
national structure which establishes
the majority as the principle of our
government. Were it so, what would
be the fate of the liadical party? No
one pretends that it is a majority par
ty. It is long since even a Ptvnftlent
of the United States has been elected
by a majority of the people governed.
It is beyond question that of tho tax
paying, native born citizens of the
United States there is to-day a majori
ty of more than a million against the
1'adical party. If our liadical politi
cians succeed in impressing on the
popular mind the idea that the major
ity of the people of the United Slates
havo a right lo rule tho United Slates
without regard to the Constitution,
they will soon find that disabilities,
created by the w ill of a minority in
temporary power, w ill no swept to
the winds. It is a curious blunder
for sensible men to make, this doctrine
thut a minority may make laws dis
franchising a largo portion of tho pco
plo, and then claim thut they rule by
virtue of being a majority. Such an
absurdity will not stand the test of a
moment's examination ; nor could the
power of a minority bo sustained
against tho majority on any such
grounds.
There is no security for a popular
form of government like ours when
the people become so demoralized as
to teach disregard of constitutional
guarantees. As soon as the doctrine
is accepted that tho will of tho major
ity is supperior to the agreements,
grants,' stipulations, law whatever it
bo called of the Constitution, just so
soon the way is opened for anarchy
and tyranny. If it comes, it will
como like a thunderbolt. Nor will it
bo the tyranny of that party now in
power. That party could uot hold
power for a day iu tho tempest thut
would burst upon it. It holds power
now only by virtue of tho forms of
our law, through tho processes of
Stato and national elections, which
aro prescribed by State and national
law. Two Senators from Rhode Island
help to give it tho power it exercises,
equalling iu theirvotes the force, clse-
whero located, ol ten times the popu
lation of that State. Hemovo from
tho popular mind the respect for these
forms ot law, these constitutional
agreements for Stato as well ns popu
lar representation 111 the government ;
convince the people thai the majority
have a right to rule, and tho present
power of a liudict.1 Congress would
not lust llirougn me next uuy s sun
shine.
Wo beseech liadical men, however
sincere, to look canily at this sunjeci,
und recognize the danger to them
selves, if they will not see the peril to
the country, in this doctrine that a
victorious majority have a right to
overrule tho Constitution.'
Ai'ction of Women. It is well
known that nn auction of unmarried
women used to take place annually in
Babylon. "In every district," says
tho historian, "they assembled on a
certain day of every year all the vir
gins of marriageable Hgo. J he most
beautiful were first put up, and the
man w ho bid the largest sum of mon
ey gained possession of her. The sec
ond in nppearaneo followed, and the
bidders gratified themselves with hand
soino wives according to the depth of
their purses. But alas ! it seems that
there wero in Babylon souio women
for whom 110 money was likely to be
offered, yet theso nlso were disposed
of so provident were tho Babyloni
ans. "Wbenall tbebeautifulvirgins,"
says tho historian, "weio sold, the
crier ordered tho most deformed to
stand up j and after ho had openly de
manded who would marry her Willi
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to tho man vbo would bo sulistinl .
with the least; and in this manner j
the money arising from the sale of;
tho hnndsotno 'served as a portion to
those who were either of disagreeablo
looks or that bud any other imperfec
tion. This custom prevailed about
500 years before Christ.
A Bachelor editor, sensitive as to
his rights, objects to taking n w ile,
through fear 'that if "ho rboiild hnvo a
buby. his Lotcniporaries, who habitu
ally copy withoutgivingcredit, would j
reluse to give bun credit lor tlio buby.
There is a shop kept by a lady in
New York, in a window of w hich ap
pear these words : "No reasonable
.offer refund " .
Itaymond Photographs the Ja
tobin.
Henry J. Haptiioud, tho editor of
tho j ew 1 ork J imrs, who has oecn
forced from his support of tho Presi
dent by tho cluinora of tho Budicals,
but a few weeks ago published the
following pcn-pic.turo of tho Radical
wing of tho Republican party. Tho
fidelity of the picture is so striking,
that no one can mistake tho originals
of the different portraits.
"And more powerful for mi.i'hief than all of
theno couibiuud, wero eoMUl.nlojiKD orrirKHt
WHOKE OKril'l a 1. HKroltn MX hao.
W ith no highur view, ofmlriutic duty while the
great conflict was going 011, than personal mf gran
dixeinent, they have no uiirheroouortion ol honor
and right a political parti.ana now that the strife
i. ovar." . ,
But hero is what Raymond says of
the Radicnls :
"It has been tho misfortune of the
Republican party that so many of its
udherants have sought as it were
purposely to make it appear in the
character of a sectional und disunion
organization. A class of camp follow
ers, thrown out of employment by the
termination of hostilities men who
suffered neither in purpose nor in
property whilo tho wur lusted have
inudo themselves especially conspicu
ous as agents of discord and sectional
malice during the past eighteen
months- Some of them wero mines-
sarr but unscrupulous attaches of
Provost Marshals offices ; other were
speculators in cotton and various de
scriptions of loose Southern property;
yet another Bet had a stock of North
ern philanthropy, in which they dealt,
wherever paying prices wero to be
hud ; and, more powerful for mischief
than any or all those combined, were
COMMISSIONED OmCKKS WHOSE OFFIC
IAL KEC011D WAS BAD. The BCCCSsioll
of thousands of such men to any party
could only bo an injury, nnd to the
extent to which they might bo able to
mould its policy a calamitt. With
110 higher views of patriotic duty
whilo tbe great conflict was going on,
higher conception of honor and of
right as political partisans now that
the strife is over. And whatever er
rors of judgement there may be chnrg
able aguiust tho President or against
Conservative Republicans who have
given bis policy an independent sup
port, there has been nothing in the
wholo record of tho Republican Party
so fatal to its permanent inllucnce and
power as its association with the tribe
of mischief makers w hose fortunes
wero broken when tho armies of tho
Confederacy surrendered to Grant.
Their baneful influence has not only
been felt here in their nliv haunts,
where they only preach malice and
uneharitiibleness at will, but it spreads
itself ull over the country, and is felt,
to-day, more than anywhero else, in
tho mbjugated States ; stirring up
strife between master and servunt.and
keeping alivo the flumes of discord
between sections and races."
.1 llrauliful Tribute to a n'lfe.
Sir James Mackintosh, the historian,
was married to Miss Catharine Stuart,
a young Scotch lady. After her death
ho thus depicted her character in a
lutter to a friend : I was guided in my
choice only by tho blind affection of
my youth. I found an intelligent
companion and a tender friend, a pru
dent nionitress, the most faithful of
wives, and a mother tender as chil
dren ever bad a misfortune to loso. I
met a woman who, by tender manage
ment of my w eakness, gradually cor
rected tho most pernicious of them.
She Locarno prudent from aflVc
tion ; and though of tho most gener
ous nature, she wus taught frugality
and coon o my by her love forme. Dur
ing the most critical period of my life,
she relieved mo. She gently reclaim
ed mo from dissipation ; she propped
my weak and irresolute naturo ; sbo
urged my indolence to all the exer
tions that have been useful and credi
tablo to me, and sho was perpetually
at band to admonish my heedlessness
or improvidence. To her I owe what
ever 1 am ; to her whatever I shall bo.
In her solicitude for my interest, 6hc
never for a moment forgot my feel
iii"s or my character. Even in her
resentment. lor which I too often gave
her cause, (would to tiod I could re
call those moments,) sho had no sul
leiuicss or acrimony, ller feelings
w ere warm, nay, impetuous ; but she
was placuhle,tenilcrand constant. Sin b
was sho whom 1 have lost, when her
excellent natural sense was ripidly
improving after eight years' struggle
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nd us Inst logeth-
und distress hail bou
er and moulded our temper to each
other ; when a knowledgo of her
worth had refined my youthful love
into friendship, and ' before use bud
deprived it ol mucn 01 us original ar
dor. 1 lost her, alas I the choice of
my youth, tho partner nf my misfor
tunes, at a mcment when 1 had the
prospect of her sharing my belter
days.
Mrs. Partinokon ok Fashion.
There is ono thing sure, said Mrs.
Partington, the feiniilesof the present
! regeneration arc a bean more mile-
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saw a gal go by to-day that I know-
belongs to tho historical class of socie
ty, wilh her dress all tucked up lo
her knee, her hair all buzzlod up like
as if she liad'ut bad time to comb it
for a week, and one of her grand
mother's caps, in ati awful crumpled
condition, on her bead. Why, laws,
honey, when 1 was a gal, if any of
Hie fellows como along when I bad my
clothes tucked up that way, and my
head kivered with an old while rag, 1
w ouhj run for dear life, and hido out
sight, Well, well, the pals then were
innocent, uiic.otifiscuted creatures;
now they nro what the French call
"blazes
Gen. Buller talks battle, murder im
peachment, banging, and audden
death. IU ii a terribly man.
,1fl,ertfrVlraM Item.
Tb largest new steamer on the
Mississippi river is called the Robert
E. Lee.
A man proves himself fit to go high
er, who shows that ho is fuitb!ul whero
ho n.
Tho mammoth hotel at Williams-
port, tho "Ilerdic House," is to be sold
at sheriffs salo.
Tho telegraph of Switzerland is the
property of tho State, end they charge
one cent per word for any distance.
A Chicago wifo, on tho death of her
hushond by cholera, locked up the
houso and ran away with a live fellow.
Family jam are plenty, as ever in
piotiBNew England. Nine divorces
in one town in Vermont recently.
Carlos It. Golden, of Chicago, died
of cholera on the 2Gth ull., and bis
wife, of consumption on the same day.
A Mormon Bishop recently deceas
ed leaves 11 wives and 47 children to
mourn his loss.
What's the latest and sweetest thing
in I onnets ? The ladies' faces, to be
sure.
A man at Dubuquo, la., got his life
insured and then tumbled from a
church spire and knocked his brains
out.
The fall bonnets are pronounced
"Iove.lv," 'charming," "petite," "joli,"
'splendid," "eloquent," "unique,"
"recherche."
Mrs. Eva Lancaster, wife of an edi
tor in Texas, is conducting tho paper
whilo her husband is avoiding arrest
by the Freedinan's Bureau.
Why is tho suspension of the habeat
corput act in Ireland beneficial to the
Fenians? Because it quickens their
apprehensions.
Tho key to mother's heart is the
baby. Keep that well oiled with
praiso, and you can unlock all the
pantries in the house.
Spcuking of the undeveloped wealth
of the country, a loafer said that was
exactly his position ; he possessed vast
resources was very rich but his
wealth was undeveloped.
Rev. Mr. Carroll, pastor of the Ar
bor Hill Methodist Church in Albany,
has been dismissed and forbidden to
excrciso his ministerial functions, on
the ground of immoral conduct.
A man up the river got married,
went on his tour, and cut his throat
the second day out. lie would hnve
saved money by doing it before bo
started. if
A foolish and timid Tennessee swain
attempted suicide on his wedding day.
A stomach pump relieved him and a
little old Bourbon gave him pluck to
meet his fate with a coming dign;ty.
A little son of John Morrissey, of..
New York, was lately bitten by a '
monkey belonging toan organ-grinder.
If he is never bitten by one of his
"papa's" "tigers" he'll be fortunate. -
A wicked but pretty little chamber
maid stole a lady's jewels at tho St.
James Hotel in New Y'ork, valued ot
fO.OUO. She cried dreadfully when a
detective discovered them in bcr pul
pitating corset. fc '
Tho caso of Lirulxuv, the Rev. per
son who killed hit child because it
would'nt say its prayers, has been put
over until January. Lindsay defends
tbe killing, declaring that it was in
the way of duty. '
Gotleib Rohcrer's infidelity sogriev
ed Mrs. Roberer, of Hartford, that
sho drowned her sorrows in a flowing
bowl of poison ; but a stomach pump
restored ber to Gotleib and fresh sor
rows. Mr. Greeley has made $100,000 out
of the "Great Confflict." No wonder
thut ho wants another civil war. If
he ran get another war started he
w ould make as much more. Patriotic
is it not.
Bishop Whipple states that ho has ,
been in Minnesota seven years, and
has seen much of tho Indians there, of
whom there ore about 18,000. Ho
gives them credit for many virtues,
except in districts corrupted by tho
w bites.
Borers in ArrLK Trf.es. Much has
been written about Xhia post, and the
wholo of it does not amount to any
thing. When you find that one has
made a bole in tho tree, drive iu a
,1'big.
Thut iu death to them. So
says somebody.
A young lady in Wisconsin had
both legs and her collar bono broken
by the kicking of a horso. Her hoops
touched tbe horso w hile she was pass
ing on the sidewalk. He began kick
ing and ono foot got entangled in hor
hoops.
"If you ever mnrry," said a Roman
consul to his son, "let it be a woman
who bus sense enough to superintend
the setting of a meal of vituuls, tasto
enough to dress herself, pride enough
to wash belbro brcukliit-t, nnd sense
enough to hold her tongue when ebo
has nothing to say." . .
When Judge , a member of Con-
gress lrom Ulno years ago, was op-
j posed at tho second cleeloin on e
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naturedly admitted the fact, but insist
ed (hut ho never wus so drunk ns not
(airly to represent his constituents! He
was elected by a triumphant majority.
A correspondent of the Army and
Navy Journal says that experiments
at Fortress Monroe prove incontesti
bly whut was well known to practical
naval ollicers before, viz : that no
monitor in tho navy would stand for
any length of time the hammering
from a solid l.'i inch shot; and it is
doubtful whether it would stand moro
than three or four blows.
Tho Philadelphia correspondent of
the Ijondon Times announces that a
company bus been formed to exhume
tho trcusuro buried by Captain Kidtl,
"a pirate of tho seventeenth century,"
and that the company is guided by
the son of a man w ho possessed Kidd's
confidence. That son must bo what
Mr. Artemns Ward would call
"healthy old boy" by now.
Three bills have been introduced
into the Vermont Semite relating ono
way and another to marriage. The
tendency of most of them is to reduce
marriage to a limited partnership,
eacli party putting in as much capital
as ri( ems best, und the partnership to
Ik dissolved upon very small provo
cation. This is another moral idea,
and always exists where the Republi
can uuilontv is the greatest.
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