ANTONY AND C I.IMIFATH .
IIUK. IIUI.
Tht 'fi'lK'"J V"" " liroI,01,nr"' ,0
mruuallrd, in Pl' ?''. English
language '
I tin dying. Egypt, dying;
Kt.be thsenmson liie-tide faat
And the dark, I'lutonian shadows
Gather OB th evening blast I
Let tbin aims, 0, IJuecn, enfold i
lluib thy sobs and bow thine ea
1 Limn to (he (rest bearteeoreU
Thou, nnd thou alone niuil hear.
Though my scarred and veteran legions
Bear their eagles high no more,
And my wreckfnl and scattered galleys
Strew dark Aetium's fatal snore
Though aoglittering guards aurruund me.
Prompt to do the matter1! will,
nud perish like a Komen
lie the great Triumvir atill !
Let not Cesar's tervile minions
Mark Ibe lion tliui laid low ;
'Twaa no foeiuau's armi that felled hint,
Twai hii own that struck the blow
His, who, pillowed on thy bosom,
Turned aside from glorjr'a ray
Hit, who, drunk with thy oaretaet,
Madly threw a world away,
Should the bate, plebeian rabble
iare aeiail my name at Home,
Where tbe noble spouse, Ootaria,
Weepi within Uer widowed home,
Seek her; lay the godi bear witness
Altars, augurs, oireliug wings
That her blood, with mine eooiniiugled,
Vet lhall mount the t,hroue of kiugi.
And for thee, itar-eyed Egyptian !
tilorions sorceress of tiie ftile 1
Light the path to Htygian horrors
With the splendors of tbe smile 1
Give the Cassar erowns and arches,
Let his brow tbe lanrel twine,
I ean scorn the Senate's triumphs,
Trinnipbuig in uvv like thine I
I am dyiag, Egrwt, sjyiaHr
II ark 1 tb' insulting foeman's ery j
Tbey are coming ! quick, my falohion
Let me front them ere I die !
Ah, no more amid the battle
Shall my heart exulting, swell,
Isie and Osiris guard thee ;
Cleopatra, Rome, farewell
The Puritan Son-Killer..
Ettraordluar) Utatf meet el juel Lindsay,
the tlereymau who Beat His Hon to
lieatll Two-and-a-half Hours W bin-
nine Tue Drlrndaut Admit "He was
Not Angry," cVc.
That I should make this statement,
I feel is duo both to myself and to the
public. I have long wuitod for this
opportunity, but in view of the legal
purr. 01 me mauermuu me injunctions
of my counsel, my mouth Las been
closed and I have suffered in silence.
Had I been called before tbe coroner's
jury to my own statement of this case,
it would have saved me a great deal of
nain and the nublio much lalse l mures
sion. But this was not the case, and tbe
few words I spoke in respect to the
matter were spoken to Dr. Chamber
lain in a room alone, with no one pres
ent but himself and mo, and the com
munication was but a verbal one My
little boy lost his mother when about
one year and a halt old, a lady whom
I loved intensely and who loved me
with all the tenderness and devotion
of a woman's nature. After the death
of my wife, my affections were drawn
more closely around my child, and I
loved him most tenderly, lie was a
noble, manly, and beautiful child, very
affectionate in his disposition and
bright in his intellect. 11 is father and
friends looked opon him with prido and
hope, and I should not have been satis
fied to have mm been absent irom me a
week. My littlo boy had a wonder
fully firm will, enough for an adult,
but there was nothing malicious in it.
I do not speak of this as anything
against him, but on the ether band,!
consider it to have boen a God-given
talent of the highest importance, had
it been rightly trained. On the night
of bis death, his step-mother had tak
en him to another room to put
liim to bed. My littlo boy had
been trained by his own mother, dur
ing her life, to be put to bed by him
self alone, as on account of her feeble
health she was not alio to do as moth
ers ordinarily would, and he would do
it just as cheerfully and happily as
though put to bed in any other way.
In this instance my child refused to
obey my wifo, and she was striving to
secure obedience. I supposed a word
from me would be sufficient, as he very
seldom refused to obey me. But it
was not. We questioned whether it
was best to try to force obedience
or whether it was beat to drop the mat
ter and consider about it. I finally
decided, on my own responsibility, to
Jiunish him; not that I cared so much
or tho particular thing he was to do,
hut I felt it was important to secure
the habit of obedience I anticipated
no serious conflict at all. The instru
ment I used was a piece of a shingle
taken from some old shingles used for
kindlings, thirty years old, or more,
and the wood, I should think, was
hemlock, certainly not hard wood.
My impression is that it might have
been on inch and one-quarter wido,
possibly, but I cannot state with pre
cise accuracy the widih of it. It very
likely was less, as was staled in court.
It was not a thick shingle; nothing
like a club about it. It occurred to me
that obedience would be secured more
readily by It than by using the hand,
if it were necessary to use corporeal
punishment nt all. I recollect dis
tinctly of feeling whon I commenced,
that I would rather the blows would
fall upon myself than upon my boy.
As I continued to punish him, slop
ping at very frequent iutcrvuls and
talking to him, I felt convinced that
be knew what I wished him to do, as
his reply to my question, ' hy will
you not doit, Johnny 1 Fa is sorry
that Johnny will not mind," was, "I
do not wish to. I wish to do some
thing else," stopping crying at the
same time. I hud undertaken to se
cure obedience, and I felt that I must
accomplish it. It will be said that 1
orred in commencing at that hour,
when my child was tired by tbe play
of the day. 1 did err in so doing, but
as I have said, I had no idea of any
serious coflict at all. If I had had 1
should not have commenced. But it
was a part of my education and was
my own judgment that a child at that
age, however much as a general thing
the parent should avoid coming di
rectly acroas the will of tbe child, yet,
when that did occur, that there was
no belter or wiser way than for the
fsrent to wisely enforce obedience,
n this case I full that unloss my boy
with his firmness of will, obeyed, he
eould not he made to abey when older, j
Others, doubtless woufd differ, but
that was my honest conviction at the
time. I do not jpcak of these things
to excuse or extenuate my conduct,
hut to spread out. as far as I am ablo.l
the influence which operated upon my
mind at the time ; and then the pub
no must judge me. As I went ou I
recollect that my anxiety became verv
intense thaf my hoy should yield. !
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Had the point beon yielded I should
have felt as though a mountain hud
been removed from my breast. As to
whether he understood what was re
quired of him, probably most will
think that he did not. I at the time
believed that he did. Under this great
anxiety, with my mind fixed on the
necessity of my boy's yielding for his
own future good, and expecting thut
every moment thut he would yield, I
was not aware of the extont to which
I had gone, or to tho effects I was
producing upon my child. I suppose
my defective eyesight hud something
to do in the case hy preventing my
seeing tho autual effects I was pro
ducing ; but the main cause, I believe,
was great anxiety and my mind fixed
upon its being necessary for the good
of my child that bo should yield. I
was not angry or in a passion in all
this. I wish to state this and without
reservo; that, if I know anything of
tbe action ot my mind. X was not an
gry. I never could have punished my
child for an hour or half an hour, or
anything like it, in anger. Were it
so, I should have felt very guilty, and
to have done so would have been mon
strous. But never for one hour or
one moment have I boen consciouBof
any criminal intent in this case. No
true man or woman will wish me to
belie my convictions in this matter.
Do not misunderstand me hore. 1
huvo been greatly misrepresented up
on this point. I consider the act to
bavo been wrong and very wrong, but
as to a criminal intent there was none
in any form. I greatly misjudged,
and the fearful consequences, in the
loss of my child, have come upon me
with a crushing weight. A word
more here as to the idea that I was
angry. The Judgo says "bis (Lind
say's) statement to the Coroner that
be was not angry, is not to have the
same weight as the rest of his state
ment, because it was in his own fuvor."
Does not that depend on circumstan
ces T Is it just or impartial in this case?
All that 1 ask is that the public shall
have the same faith in humu.i nature
that I had What I mean Is that 1
made my statement in frankness to
tho'Coroncr. It you can discover that
I was then fixing up something for
my own detente to shield myself from
justice; if you can discover that I had
any idea of a legal prosecution, or that
my friends had; if I had known any
thing of the bearing of anger upon the
degree of a criminal offense, which I
knew nothingabout, then there would
be reason in such a distinction. But
did I have any such feeling or appre
bension, or did my friends f I could
then just as easily have shortened the
time during which I was engaged with
my child, in my statement before the
Coroner, as to have misrepresented
on the point of anger. What I might
have Bind to the Coronor as to the length
of time, I do not remember, but I
think I have usually stutod the time
at from two to two and a half hours,
and 1 should think it was as probable
that it wus more than two hours us
that it was two and a half. Tho Cor
oner testifies that I punished the child
until I saw signs of weakness. This
is a mistake; 1 do not wish to pro
voke a controversy with the Coroner,
nor am I accusing him of intentional
misrepresentation, but it is a mistake.
I made a statement to Dr. Crawford
on the same day and ho will testily to
the truth of what I say, though it
could not be brought into court. I
stopped punishment because 1 felt that
it was useless to go farther. I took
my little boy and laid him upon the
settee, and covered him up. At the
timo I ceased tho punishment, at the
time I laid him 'upon tho seltco, and
for some time afterward I saw no signs
that the child had been injured, lie
had tulkcd during this timo and ap
peared natural. Then there was a
change, and soon afterward ho died.
Then it was I began to realize my
fearful loss, and the tcrriblo pang the
circumstances of the caso guve to it ;
then it was 1 felt and said not Ion?
after to my father, that I would have
given my own life for my darling boy.
If men could have seen my heart us
(iod saw it, they would not have
borne down upon me so heavily as was
done becauso I shed no tears. Did
they not know thut tho deepest grief
docs not manifest itself in tears f Did
they not know that some countenances
did not show the mighty undercur
rent of feeling and sorrow which flows
beneath f ' But," they say, "he went
to sleep afterwards and slept till morn
ing." After being repeatedly urged I
did go to bed, and may have slept a
little through that long and weary
night. I am sorry that any should
have thought so poorly of mo or of
human nu'.uro, as to believe that 1
could have burned the feet of my child.
It wus impossible for me to have done
it, and such n thought never entered
my mind. A word as to why the
limbs and arms were so extensively
discolored. It arose from this, that 1
aimed not to repent the blows in the
same place. I carefully avoided tho
vital purts of tho body. There were
no blows at all upon tho body of my
child. I am not awure that I struck
the head at all with tho instrument
used, nor with anything else. I think
the slight marks must novo been pro
duced accidentally, as they might have
boen. As to tho time spent iu actual
punishment I could not state it with
accuracy. At frequent intervals I
stopped and talked to him, endeavor
ing to indue obedience The larger
portion of the time was spent in this
way. 1 will say something more as
to my feelings. For the first few days
I cannot at all describo them. While
the billows of public indignation and
excitement wero rolling around me
under a greatly exaggerated state
ment of the faclsjn the case, and a to
tal misconception of my motives of
conduct, I scarcely heard them I fell
them not. The heart was too full of
its own sorrow for anything more. It
lay crushed and wrung underthe keon
est anguish Aro jou a father who
has loot a dear and only child upon
whom your affections centered in a
peculiar manner f You may go a little
wuy in your appreciation of my feel
ings. But tnul other pang of huving
been in some sense the cause of the
death of your own child, unwittingly
indeed, Heaven grant that you iuay
never know that feeling. As the time
wore on, and the averted looks of mon
met me, shut out almost entirely from
sympathy, which seemed most pre
cious, and fiilso public sentiment rest
ing on ine with a crushing weight,
while my heart was still bleeding with
its own grief all was like daggers
piercing mo. ""' At' first my ftiunds
feared thut reason would be dethron
ed. And to-day language cannot de
scribe my yearnings for my child when
my mind reverts to him. rerhaps 1
ought to say something in view of the
conviction and sentence passed upon
mo. It may be inferred from what I
have said, believing as I do that a for
mer sickness had to do with this mat
ter, a sickness tho seventy and par
ticulars of which could be but imper
fectly presented iu courts, being for
years under tho most powerful tonics
and narcotics duily, a sickness from
which my physical constitution never
bus recovered and never can, it would
bo strange indued if my mind had the
same vigor which it hud before My
own judgement is, that had it not been
for this sickness and subsequent ner
vous prostration more or less connect
ed, being so for mouths after I came
home near four years ago, that ! could
not look into a newspaper, thut this
thing could never have occurred. But
as to the conviction : If I did not know
that I was not angry, if I felt thut
from a hard, unfeeling temper toward
my child I recklessly hazarded his
life or health; it I full thut I was do
terminod to conquer him at all haz
ards, come life or death, I would suf
fer silently, and feel that I deserved
x suffer. But if I was actuated by
the highest motives of any man's na
ture, in pain performing what I be
lieved to be duty ; if it was tho very
love I felt for my child which caused
that intense solicitude; if I felt alter
I saw tho result thut 1 could have giv
en my own life for my child, then you
may judge howl felt in view of.lho
sentence. The judge says tho majes
ty of the law must bo sustained. 1
had al ways supposed that human crimi
nallaw must be founded upon tho law of
God, and derived from it ulone its force.
Docs God hold a man responsible for
anything more than wilful wrong-do
ing in the present or in tho pust, or
for a neglect to do right arising from
culpable indifference to the right or a
preference for the wrong Is crime to
be determined by tho eonseqicnecs of
an act, or by the intent of tho heart f
Can you make crime without you can
prove some unlawful and criminal in
tent in some form f Can you mako
crime of an error in judgment though
it bo a very serious one? But the
judge says the majesty of the law must
bo sustained. 1 cannot see tho point,.
Such an application instead of sus
taining the majesty of the law, in my
opinion, sups its very foundation. I
feel that my home has been desolated
by tho deulh of a dearly-loved child
llio consequences of my own act here
comes upon mo with a crushing weight
in thut loss which many could never
have lived through. 1 frankly con
fessmy great error in this. My fami
ly has been broken np. My properly
has been swept away by too nccessury
expenses of my trial, and 1 greatly
fear that the lito of my wifo is at least
jeopardized in her present feeble and
critical stato of health. Jt yen ask
mo what 1 think of tho sentence and
conviction, in view of all this, I must
say that I feel it to bo unjust and un
worthy the code of an enlightened
Christian nation. In saying this I
do not at all impugn tho integrity of
the judge or jury who sot upon my
trial. While my reputation is as pre
cious to me as to any man, yet 1 feel
that character is infinitively more im
portant than reputation ; and this
has been my only support, my hope
in God in all my trouble that truth
would sooner or later bear sway in tho
minds of my fellow-men. 1 havo just
read in the ftepublican the remarks
upon my trial, myself, nod tho sen
tence. I thank Mr. Beach for his
frank statement and manly acknowl
edgment of tho error into which ho
had been Iod in my caso, and for his
appreciation in some sense of my suf
ferings. Tho gist of his closing re
marks, I think, is that though I in
tended nothing wrong, nnd though in
the immediate circle of relutives and
acquaintances it might do to lot the
cose rest or a penal sentence might
not bo necessary, yet in viow of the
public sentiment of the country, the
prisoner should have been convicted
and sentenced. It may be I have not
fully stated this, but, whatever are
those closing remarks, all I have to
sny is, let Mr. Beach or any other man
take my place he would feel much as
I do. All 1 nsk is that the law, do to
others as you would bo done by, be
applied to me by individuals and tho
public. Jokl LixnsAT.
The Erie Gazette bus the following
nmong its "locals :" "We notice that
another batch of wonderful medicine
men have arrived in Erie for the pur
pose of killing fools. This party is
irom Paris, and may be found at
Brown's Hotel. We "have only one
item oi advice for their patients : Tay
your money, but dont take the medi
cine. Somo peoplo ran afford the first,
but none ib.i stand the latter. '
Why is a kiss like a rumor? Bo-
cnufe it goes from month to mouth.
Lottery ttietndler.
A number of ex penitentiary sub
jects havo banded tbomsolves together
in our largo cities in tho Lottery and
Gift enterprise swindles, for tho pur
pose of plundering tho country people,
and are now, through the influence of
"grand morul ideas" and the supera
bundance of ''green backs," reaping a
rich harvest. Kvery -fcounty in the
Stato is robbed weekly of hundreds of
dollars by thoso unhung1 villians. The
editor of the Bel Air (Md.,1 Amis.
having beon the recipient of ono of
their "confidential" circulars, says :
Wo are about to be the recepiento
of a present of two thousand dollars,
as will bo seen by reference to the let
ter below. Such a present as this coin
ing into our htn4itvCw. nisrht limes,
is V) us a matter of very considerable
importance, and wo tender our heart
felt thunks to out benefactors for this
timely and but unexpected aid. How
wo wero discovered by this generous
firm wo are unable to say, unless they
are fumilliur with tho liict which
ought to be known to every one that
country editors aro always strapped.
But b(o thut as it may, we are glad that
these liberal gentlemen have fouud
out our dire necessities, and have
stepped forward so opportunely to
drive poverty from our door.
As much as wo prize tho bestowal
of this generous gift of'"Cireen Backs,"
we cannot but admit thut tho air of
disinterested kindness which seems to
run through the whole letter, togothcr
with tho earnest expressions of con
fidence iu us, over our neighbors, is
almost if not quite as acceptable to us
as our chance for the ('amount iu
Green Bucks by mail."
We are required to send ten dollars
to pay the managers of the lotteries
for a "splendidly arranged packago of
eight tickets," which has already been
'carefully selected." This is a small
amount it is true, but in consequenee
of the hubit that tho people have care
lessly fallen into ot sending bills to
to people who owe them, about this
timo of the year, we found it incon
venient to send the amount required,
and therefore wroto our donors to do
duct ten dollars from our share of
"Green Backs" which, ore to come
"by mail," and send tin tho bitlaco.
After deducting ton dollars to "pay
the managers," ourshnroof tho "splen
didly arranged package of eight tick
ets will bo ono thousand nine hun
dred and ninty dollars, and on tho ar
rival ot "that amount in gro.m backs
h mM" wo w i" Kivo duo mlco i"'1
procoed to "show the money" to ull
who may desire to make a liko invest
ment, hoping, in tbe mean tune, that
with tho assurance given below of our
early ability to pay,ourcreditors will
bo satisfied, and patiently await the
coming of "the amount in green backs
by mail.
Every man's vanity can bo flattered
more or less, by circumstances which
ordinarily surround him, but what
must bo the feelings of him who finds
himself selected as a "discreet and re
liable person," to whom "ufew thous
and dollars" are to he sent.
Tho sudden acquisition of wealth
has in some instances hud a very de
leterious effect upon the mind of the
recipient, but- we will endeavor to
prevent this unexpected good fortune
Irom upset tingourundorstanding. Tho
following is the letter of our unknown
but charaitublo friends :
Orr-ics or J. T. FrniM k Co.
Lu-iiRin ar thi U. B. )ovrnuniT,
New Vnrk, Kixxmlwr 2lh, Ixiid.
h:Aa bin : Ws hure come to Uie conclusion to
increase our bu.ine.s in jour part of llie country
ly ai'iine; to the ntitnler of our rnrrr.pnndcnts,
anl feeling conrinred that the safest and most
satisfactory lan of doing sfl is to send a prise of a
few thousand dollars to some discreet end retiahle
person, who will hare no objection to show the
money and state the fact to his acquaintances that
(hn prire money was drawn by a lucky Inrestmrnt
at our Office. We hare therefore selected yon as
the parly more likely than any one else to aid us
in our enterprise, and make you the following lib
eral and extraordinary proposition :
Hcnd ns 111) to pny the manager of the lotteries
for a splendidly arranged package of Kighl Tickets,
which we have carefully si-lecled and laln-led, sub
ject to your order, in I he enclosed Urand Scheme to
he be drawn on tbe plan of the Koyal Havana
Lottery. And that you may not suppose that there
is any deception is it, weinlorin you that the prise
money does sot come out of our pockets, hut out
of thut of the Lottery Managers, and we shall not
lose by sending yon a few thousand dollars, hut he
gainers by tbe increased amount of business we
shsll expect from TOnr neighbrrhood, when yon
shall show the "(ircen Hacks" and make it well
known that thcr are the proceeds of a prise drawn
at our Office. We make this offer to yon in slriot
oonfldenoe. The proHaal is plain. Wearetosend
a package of tickets for a rhanoe to draw a few
thousand dollars. You are to show the money as
above staled. The result will be that hundreds of
dollars will ha sent to as for tickets. Von may be
the gainer of a few thousand dollars. We shall lie
the gainers hy onr sales, and t lie parties who send
lor tickets mar be gainera by drawing prises ol
diflcrcot amouots as specified on tbe scheme, br
ery one who sends, will of euarse expect to draw a
prise, not knowing the offer we made privately to
von. And to set at rest any doubt yuu may bare
of our sincerity, we nereliy bind ourselves to for
ward you another package in our brilliant Kxtra
ifOttcrr tor nothing, if tne nrst we send does not
draw T"U, elear ol all expenses, two tlionsand nol
lars. VI e mention this merely to show that it is to
our Interest to send yon a prise, fee the enclosed
envelope In sending the $10, and state whether we
shall send you a Ural! on your nearest nana, or
the amount in '-(Ircen I!a-ks" by mail, which will
perhaps suit you bctler. He careful to write in a
lain hand, your post imico, eonniy and risie.
i'afcr or seal ronr letlcr so Ihnt it will not come
opea inthetnnits. PlcseennsideTth'sletterstrlet-
ly private and connuennsi, ana send your order
without delay.
v ery imeerriy yours,
T. J. I'l BIISS t Co.,
No. 4 Cedar street., N. V.
The official drawing of the above Lotteries will
be sent you as soon as over, and is also published
in the sw lork Herat and Itwes.
Office boars from t A. hi., to I i. M.
It will bo seen by tho concluding
clause of the uhove letter, that we are
requested to "consider it ns strictly
private and confidential." But over
whelmed as we aro with gratitude for
this timely "streak of luck" and anx
ious to extend the business of our gen
erous friends, and being satisfied that
innate modeety alone induced them to
require privacy at our hands, wo give
publicity to this noble act of generos
ity, feeling that it is no violation of
that confidence which should always
be ret peeled, in a horn.
f .tl other attempt to tlrotrti
heme If and tiro Children.
Mr. James liath, Mary his wife, and
several small children, aro living in
Millvillo borough. They originally
came from Knglund. Mr. Bath is a mi
ner and works in thocoul mines of the
Cumbria Iron Company. On Inst Sat
urday morning abnuj. ono o'clock, he
arrose from his bed to preparo to go
to his work (ha usually goes about
two o'clock in the morning.) His wifo
got up and prepared breakfast, of
which they partook. Mrs. B. goes in
to an adjoining room, tho sleeping
apartment, and takes her two young
er children out of bed, ono aged two
years and the other about six months ;
she wrapped her dress around them
and left the house carrying them
along. Hor husband soon missed her
and starts out to find her, after look
ing in vain for her a short timo, bo
hears a gurgling noiso in tho well, he
runs for his miner's lamp, gives the
ulurm to the neighbors, and defends in
to tho well ; here ho finds his wife and
children iu a drowning condition, lie
gets a foothold in tho rough stone
wall of the well, raises his wife's head
above tho water and holds it between
his knees, takes a child in each hand
and again culls for help. Mr. l'urtit,
a neighbor, arrives and lakes the chil
dren out of the well. A rope is fasten
ed around the waist of Mrs. liath, and
sho is raised, tho thrco ura taken into
the house in an insensible condition.
Thej' ware then divested of their wet
clothing, wrupped in dry blankets,
rolled and manipulated until signs of
animation returned.
Mrs. Hath and tho older child are
now fully restored, whilo the younger
child is in a critical condition, having
frequent spasms and in all probability
will not survive. Tho well is twenty
si x and ono-half feet deep, and there
is ten feel of water in it Tho walls
are rough and crooked and tho diain
tcr small, and had tho children been
thrown down, or tho mother jumped
down they must have in their decent
received severe contusion, but none
appear on their persons. Mrs. B. says
she carried tho children down in her
apron, which appears from the cir
cumstauce to be tho caso.
There has been no reason assigned
why this woman should thus seek to
destroy her own and her children's
lives. Mr. 3ulh is a sober, hard
working man, and his neighbors say
is kind to his family. It anjiears, how
ever, thut at the store his wife hud
drawn more than the amount of wages
(-oinihjr to him. and further niircluiM..a
j for t10 ,;, being, hud been stopped
The trouble of poverty may have been
an incentive cause, but more likely she
is insane.
This sad affair should forcibly bring
to the minds of those, who are in the
"lap of case caressed" that untold suf
fering, privation and anguish isaround
and about us, and thut a little effort
made to relieve tho sorrows and wants
of tho poor would prevent crimo and
bring relief and joy to many a woe
stricken and despairing heart. Johns
town Democrat.
To the Hoy In illue.
Our "boys in bluo" should note the
action of tho United States Senate in
the mattcrof confirming appointments
made by tho President. During tho
recent political canvass the liaidcals
mado direct appeals to tho soldiers,
declared they should bo preferred on
all occasions in tho distribution of
official patronage, and proclaimed that
tho "boys in bluo" were the wards of
the nation, and should bo taken euro
of as such. But these promises have
not beon kept. Soldiers have been ap
pointed to office by the President, but
tho Jindicui rcnate has insulted and
rejected them. The Cleveland Plain
dealer, whilo speaking of tho rejection
of Col. Moo, as Marshal of the North
ern District of Ohio, sums up the ro
cent doings of the hopeful cabal that
are now ruling the fr'onuto. Col. Moo,
says the Plaineiealer,s not tho only sol
dier who has felt the vengonce of the
Senate. The brave Col. Langdon,
who was among tho formost of our
army in tho churgo up tho hills of
Mission Bidgo, and who fell wounded
at its summit, bus been rejected for a
civil position ; that bravo old soldier,
General Couch, of Massachusetts ;
Col. Wells, of the Second Michigan
calvolry ; Col. Hunter, of tho Eighty
fourth Indiana ; Col. Grierson, of
Iowa ; Col. Cummings and General
Frisoll, of Ohio ; Col. Pnikhurst, of
Michigan, and other brave soldiers,
who hud been appointed to civil pos
itions who had biicccded mere l.ad
icul partisans are refused confirma
tion by onr loyal Senate 1 Tho rejec
tion of such men by such a Senate will
not injure them in the eyes of tho
people. This is liudicul lovo for the
"boys in blue." A)f.
This Mkankst Kind ok Wickkd
nf.ss. It is stated in the Presbyter
ian Banner, that in tho Court of Alio
ghany county, cemplaiut was hist
month mado of certain persons who,
though abundantly able to provide for
their poor relatives, yet abandoned a
parent or grandparent to tho feeble
provision of the alms-house. There
were threo cases of this kind. The
Judgo very properly decided that the
father, mother, grandfather or grand
mother, if nblo, is bound to support
his or her children or grandchildren,
and prevent them becoming a charge
upon tho public- and tho liko duty
legally devolves upon the children or
grandchildren of aged, infirm, or in
digent parents or grandparents.
At tho lute llalTimoro election a
man's vote was rejected by a Hadical
judgo becauso bis barber pole was
painted in red, whito and green, in
stead of red, white and blue. Had it
bad black in it, probably he would
hvepf(d.
The Ititlerenee and Why.
Our opponents nro indefatigable in
tho use ot all and every means to
spread delusion among tho musses.
W e often hear of thousands, tens of
thousands and sometimes hundreds of
thousand of dollars being niailo up by
mammoth subscripti.m and stock clubs
to establish Black Bepublicun papers
in our cities, und to euublo publishers
to afford them more cheaply, or of
larger size, it is thus thut lunuticism
excels cool-headed reason in zcul and
energy, whilo publications to sustain
special interests, to advocalo schemes
to steal from the people by "Turiff"
and other thievish legislation, to rob
the many of millions of dollars of their
savings, for the benefit of a few favor
ed interests, are a necessary means to
distract aod bewilder men tuiiuls so
thut they may dupo their victims, and
not bo detected and defeated in thoir
designs such publications are like
false lights set upon tho sea-shore by
another class of pirates. On the other
hand, publications in the interest of
the people at largo have no such sup
port as spoeiul interests can well af
ford to supply their orguns, and us
fanaticism is ever free to furnish ; but
must rely alone upon tho spontane
ous aid of ull intelligent citizens in
common. It is therefore a double duty
of all such not only to subscribo for,
but also to extend tho circulation of
such publications as advocate equal
rights iu'opposition to special interests,
and entire frocdom lor ull in opposition
to tho exactions of bigotry and fanati
cism a double duty, to encourgo und
roward those who advocate aud de
fend their equal rights and interests,
and to themselves, to avert their own
plunder and oppression. Middletown
(A7. V.) Banner.
A New Game. The Mobile Register
thus speaks of a new game played by
the darkies in Mobile:
"Fl? Loo." Look out for tho blue
toiled fly keep your eye on your su
gar lump "Lor' bless your soul, sabo
yourself honey" a new game has
turned up fur the frecdmon of leisure.
We hasten to lay it within their reach.
It is called "fly loo" and beats kino
and draw poker all hollow. It is very
simple, and can be ployed by any
number of darkies. The players all
put up a stake, and after the pot is
made up, each ono puts a lump of su
gar on his tongue, and tho one who
closes bis potato trap on the first fly
that lights on the sugar, rakes down
the spondulix. Darkies may be seen
sotting in tbe sun out West, playing
"flylxi," and their tongues hanging
oui like so many yards ot red Haunch
A Palheist minister met Dr. Em
mons one day, and abruptly asked:
"Mr. Emmons, how old are you V
"Sixty, sir ; and how old are you V
"As old as the creation," was the an
swer, in a triumphant tone. "Then
you are the sumo ago with Adam and
Kvef" "Certainly; I was in the gar
den when they were there." "I havo
always heard that there wns a third
person in the garden with them," re
plied the doctor, with great coolness ;
"but I never knew before that it was
you."
Frcntiec, in the Louisville Journal,
thus concludes a notice of tho lato
poet of Idlcwild : "Forcwell, Willis !
As the Hebrew girl by hor loved river
sits and listons to its melancholy wail,
mourning for glory long since fuded,
so sit we to-night by the fresh mado
grave and mourn for ono who was the
mugic musician whoso lightest strain
stirred our rugged nature and soften
ed its stern chords until only har
mony soft, sweet, delicious harmony
filled our soul. Willis, farewell."
A terrible instaneo of child-abuse
has como to light in Columbus. A lit
tle girl seven years old has beon sys
tematically tortured by hcrfuther and
her stepmother. Tho little victim's
bunds have been nenrly burned off hy
the fiends, and sho is a mass of fester
ing scars from head to foot. Hor skull
has been also fractured by a blow.
Somo of tho details aro too horrible
for relation. Tho parties have been
arrested.
Celebration in Boston. Tho Con
stitutional Club, of Boston, will ccle
brato their third onniversary by a
dinner at the Parker House on tho 22d
of February. Hon. Horatio Seymour
nnd Hon. John T. Hoffman, of New
York, Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton, of
Ohio, Hon. Benjamin It Curlis, of
Boston, and Hon. liobert C. n inthrop,
of Boston, have been invited to bo
present and address tho club.
A Wealthy Familt. Tho Taris
newspnpers announce the arrival in
that city of a wealthy American fami
ly, Mr. and Mrs. It., with the modest
inoomo of ili)0,00(i, who are to out-
shino Col. Thorn in the brilliancy of
their entertainments. All the para
sites of Paris are in a flutter of ex
citement. A Mr. Jones, aged seventy years,
recently married a young girl ir. Scho
barie County, N. Y., went to Albany
on, his wedding tour, fell downstairs
nt his hotel, mado his will, and left
her to go forth a rich widow who
enmo in as a wedded intendant to an
infirm old man.
"His pi' grimaire is ovor," as tho
druggist's widow said when she order
ed an epitaph fur his tombstone.
Donnybrook Fair is a good place to
take chances. There the Irish all club
together.
A codfish breakfast nnd an india
rubber coat will keep a man dry nil
day.
n ir u.nt tit. von.
A InUe notisute now and then
la rellsbed by ths bast of men "
A Tll.TER -
I saw her but a moment,
'Twas in a tilting skirt :
llow prettily she sailed along,
Tbe charming little flirt !
1 saw her but a moment,
Ah ! 'twas a prelly sight
To see her tread Ibe crowded street,
With footsteps free and light.
I saw her hut a moment,
Yet I swore by the "Old Harry,"
Tho' a pretty thing to look at,
ribe would never do to marry t
Tho I saw her but a moment.
Yet I knew she was a flirt,
Uy juuntiug airs she put ou
As she swung her tilting skirl.
Not ho bai, either. Two persona
who had not soon each other for some
timo met accidentally, and each asked
tho other how ho did. Tho other re
plied that ho was very woll, und had
manied sinc e they had last seen each '
other.
"That is good news indeed," said
tho first. "
' Nay," replied the other, "not so
very good either, for I married a
shrew."
"That is bad."
"Not so very bud, ai titer, for I had -?50(00U
with her."
"Thut mukesall well again."
"Not so well as you think, for I
laid out the money on a flock of sheep, '
and they died of tbe rot."
-.-rj'hat was hard truly.' v .1; ;
"Not so hard, cither, for I sold the
iduus for more money than the sheep
cost me."
"You were lucky, at last."
"Not so lucky as you think, for I
bought a house for tho money, and the
bouse was burned down uninsured," -
'That, indeed, must have been a
great loss."
"Not so great a loss, I assure you,
for my wife was burned with it."
On a trial for an assault, at the as
sizes, some years since, a medical wit
ness, in giving his evidence, informed
the court thut, on examining the
prosecutor, he found him suffering
from a severe contusion of the integu
ments under the left orbit, with great
extravasation of blood and ecchymosia
in the surrounding cellular tissue,
which was in a tumefied state. There
was also considerable abrasion of the
cuticle. Judge You mean, I suppose,
that ihe man bad a black eye ? Wit
ness Yes. Judge Then why not say
so at once ?
An ol4 woman on a steamboat ob
served two men pumping up water to
wash the deck, and tbe captain being
near by she accosted him as follows:
"Well, captain, got a well aboard,
eh V
"Yes, ma'am, alwavs carrv one."
said the polite captain. "Weil, that's
clever. 1 always did dislike the nasty
river water, especially in dog days.
A man advertised latolv to forward.
on receipt of postago stamps, "sound
practical advice, that would be appli
cable at any time and to all rcrsons
and conditions of life." On receipt of
tho stamns he sent his victim tho fol
lowing : "Never give a boy a penny
to watch vour shadow while vou climb
a tree to look into tbe middlo of next
week."
Wiggins was one day with a friend,
when lie observed a noor don- that hurl
been killed, lying in the gutter. Wig-
gins paused, gazed at tho dead animal,
and at last said : "Here is another
shipwreck." "Shipwreck. Where ?"
"Why, there's a bark that is lost
forever." His companion growled and
pilSCU VII.
Precocious. Shorn nrnmiKinrr tit f 1 a
boy, just learning to talk well:
"Father are vou point? to see the
rice to-day ! Father, brightening up,
"t bat race, my soul'" "I'he human
race," was the astonished response.
Husband to wife "Mary Ann, that
boy will be an editor vet.
Wifo "God forbid.""
"Dar are," said a sablo orator, ad
dressing his brothern, "two roads to
dis world, De one am a broad and
narrow road, dat leads to perdition ;
do order a narrow and broad road dat
leads to sure desti action." "If dat am
do case," said a sable hearer," "dis
cullcrcd indiwidual tukes to de woods.'
Cute. They aro n very smart set
of folks at Franklin, Venango county.
Some weeks ago the borough bought
a new steam tiro engine. In order
to givo tho machine a trial, a barn
standingoff in a field by itself was set
on fire, hut beforo the engine could bo
got out and in working order the barn
burned down.
"Sambo, have you fed tho pigs
"Yes, mossa, me fed 'urn," replied
Sambo. "Did you count them?" "Yes,
massa, me count 'em all but one ;dero
be one littlo speckled pig, he frisk
about so much mo couldn't count him."
Seventy-five of the handsomest girls
haveheen selected from the different
houses of correction at Toulon, to
send out to Cuyenno as wives for the
convicts of that penal colony.
An Irishman, on hearing of a friendl
having a stone coflln made for himself,
exclaimed : "By my sowl and that's a
good idee. Sure and a stone coffin
'ud last a ninn alifo lime."
That was a smart youngster who,
hearing his mother remark that sho
was fond of music, exclaimed. "Then
why don't you buy mo a drum f"
"Thoro are ties which should novor
be severed," as the ill-used wifo said
when sho found her brute of a husband
hanging in tho hay loft.
An Ii-inh editor, in speaking of the
miseries of Ireland, says : "Her cup
of misery has been fur ages overflow
ing,and is not yet full."
A Radical exchango snyi "there
will bo stirring times in Congreswhcn
Butler gets there." No doubt he has
tho spoons to do it.
Mr. John Stranpo was lately mar
ried to Miss Mary Story. Tho sequel
to the strange story will doubtless bo
a little stranger.
Tbe President of a Western railway
advertises for a "conductor who does
nol know how to steal." No applica
tions. Why is Bingen, in Germany, lik a
pig's bristles f It is on tho Kliine.
Why is a ting's tail a great novelty?
llecatme no one ever saw it bct'ire.