THE "CLEARFIELD , REPUBLICAN," rtlBLIBBBB BVBBV WBIIBBBBAT, BV nKORUK II. liOUULANDBR. ClfcAKl IKLU, PA. K T A II L I II E l IN I t . rite larg-eet Clreulatlou ef aay Newapaavr In North Central PeNneylvaitle. Terms of Subscription, J paiJ In advanca, or wlthla I monthi....99 (Ml If pbiu IUr and baton 0 uonttu V oil (t ii-vid aftar tba a.i.rLiga of 0 month,,, S 4 HI Rates ot Advertising. Trantlenl advarti.Miiianti, par quart) uf 10 Hnstor leM, 3 t.nn or l for Mh 'ubtoquant lowrtioa .... fct Jinlniitrtori' tnii KxoouUhV noticed t 69 Au.litoM' ..lira ..,.....,......-.... 1 St Caatiuni aal K.traya. ... 1 M Ditiolatlun tMitiwn I M Protiiiirml Cftr.tr-, i Hn or year...- I Uooal aottoai, tr I in 10 YKAULY AUVKUTIfiSMKNTS. I iquar 18 Ot i oU,....., 01 I fqu&r!... ...15 00 i nlumM TO 01 t iquiru.. J0 DO I 1 Kilini -..lit 01 UEOAOB B. (KJOUI.ANDKR. K.lilor and Publiihar, (Cards. TIOI. I. I'BT. orci.oDo MURRAY & GORDON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, t:S0'7 t'LEARFIKMI, PA. FRANK FIELDING, ATTOKN EY-AT-LAW, ClMrlltU. Pa. -Will .lt.Bd to .11 bailBeM tntru.twl to him piooiiilly BBd r.llbfullj. B0T1J7I ILUI. A. W41.LACB. BAV1B L. BBBBB. B1BBI f. WALLACB. JO W. VBIBI.BT WALLACE Su KREB8, (Su-ioFtsor to WaIIm. A Fi.lrfini,) A T T O it X K Y 8 - A T - h A W , ll-12'TS CleBrfield, Pa. DR. H.B. VAN VALZAH, CI.BAKPIK1.I. PKNN'A. OFFICE IS MASONIC BITILDINO. Olfcw hour, From It to S P. M. M.J It, tTt. DR. J EKKKKSON MTZ, WOHUI.ANI), PA. Will promutljr BtlenU .11 o,ll lo th. llBaofhil nrat.iiioa. ' " 0Br B. 'B9ALI.T. BAKIBL W. B'CUBDT McENALLY & MoCUEDT, ATTO UNEY8-AT-LAW, llo.rBoid, P.. pr-Vet. bBi'moM .tunded to promptly wltbj Hd.lltj. UM OB SMund IMI, bo. tb. Kil.l N.tioo.l B.nk. J.n:l:r G. R. BARRETT, Attobnev and Counselor at Law, ' OLKAKFtKI.U, PA. Il.rli.i raiifnod IliP Ju'lfMbip, b.i MBBntd b. proli "f th. In i. bli old offieo mt t'U.r. Brld, Will .lUnd tho ronrti or JITrB nd Klk eounti.. wh.n .pooiully itlAiood in e-inoMtioB .itb rcAidont eounirl. 1 14:71 WM. M. McCULLOUGH, ATTUKNKY AT LAW, IMti.rtifild. Pa. ea-ono. la o.ort iio.i,, (Shwii'i oo) l.i.gl bmineM proiapltjr attola lo, Uoujfbt and Kild. K.al orUt. Jell'TH A . W. W ALT E RS, ATl'lJltNEY AT LAW, Oleartlclrt. Pa. tefA-Oflo. la (Irnhata'a How. (doel-ly H. W. SMITH, ATTOHNEY-AT-IiAV) it:l:T CkarHcld, Pa. WALTER BARRETT, ATTOKNEY AT LAW. lOlea ob Sooaod St., Claarl.ld, Pa. botII,6b ISRAEL TEST, ATTORN K Y AT LAW, Clearfield, Pa. oB-OHl, 1 Pla'a Opera Hnaaa. tJT".'" JOHN H. FULFORD, attohney at law, Clcarlield, Pa. TOifla, ia Pia'a Upara Uouia, Room No. I, Jan. , IMI. JOHN L. CUTTLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Vml Heal Rotate Agent, Clearfield, Pa. nn., oa Third .treat. b.t.Cb.rrt A Walnat. "Kaapaotrallr offara III, aarrieaa la lalltag iad buying laoda ia Glaarflald aad adjaialog loontlaaf and with aa experUBOoe! ovortwaotv leara aa a aarreyor, Battara blraaalf that h, oaa render aatieraettoa.- iraa. aa;ea:ii, mDERKO'LEAEY BUCK, SCKIYEXEIt & CONVEYANCER, General Life and Fire Ins. Agent Deodi or Coorejanoa, Artlalaa or Agreement and all l-gal papera promptly aad ni-atly aaa. romptiy and ni-any aaa. aera Huuee. Room No. d. euted. Oflloa In Kie'a Cloartlrld, Pa April J, 174. J. BLAKE WALTERS, REAL ESTATE BROKER, AKO BBALBB IB Nnw IaO;ji mid Ijiimber, OLRARFIELD, PA. ffioa In Orabaia'ajlur L:,i!'.l J. J. LINGLE, ATTORWEY-AT - LAW, 1:18 Oaceoia, Clearfield Co., Pa. jr:pd DR. T. J. BOYER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, OOce oa Market Street, Clea'rnald. Pa. g'4fMOffloa honra i I to It a. m , and 1 to 8 p. jSTErS. sciIelTrer, IIOMiXOPATHIC PIIY81C1AN, Offie. In rrridenre oa Market at. April 24, 1871. Clearecld. Pa DR. W. A. M E A N 8 , PHYSICIAN & SUIIOEON, LVTIIKK8BURQ, PA. Will attend profrrelonal ealla promptly, anglo'70 J. S. BARNHART, ATTOKN KT AT - LAW, Itrllffonte. Pa. Will practice la ClftirlMd and all of the Court of th istn aiuaieiai .nei. ni wmn oum tnd siilleotioa of olaimi made pecialtUi. nl 71 G. W. WEAVER & CO., DRUGGISTS & APOTHECARIES, CUrtWK.NMVILLE, PA. D.alera la all kindi or Drogr, MadielnM, Fan ey iiiioda and Droaglile' b'Miidrire. Curaenarille, Maiik 17, IH74. GEORGE M. FERGUSON, WITU W. V. LIPPIXtOTT & CO., ilralera la HATS & CA PS, DOOTS 4 SHOES, .1:17 831 Matkat Slrret, Phlladalpbla. 71 If CHARLES H. ELLIOT, NOTE BItOKEK, wire Joaa W. Bbxtob Co. Stock aid Bond Commission Brokers, 111 flooib Tblrd glreet, rhilad'a. . Particular attention glaaa la peicheera and rale, ef tjarernmrnt H'ada. defer la M. W. Woodward, Req., Caehlar Maa arectnrara National Batik I Charlee Ulaneberd, E,q., Lumber Uarehent Herbert Rneaal A Ca.. l.uulj.r Me,ebanll la. atonlelma, "o... lee I'naidmt Bank oC Aaiariea I Powell A Co., Bank are, Will.ameport, Pa. eaobl4'781m A. H. MITTON, Man a facta rar and daalar It Harness, Saddles and Bridles, Collar.. Wblpa, Biaebaa, Fly Nelt,Triaia!Bgl. Ilutee lllanbeta, Ae. Vaeoom. Frank Miller'e Bad Nealiroot Olla. Ageat for Ballay and WiIbob'i Boggtee. Order, and repelrlag promptly atteoded la, 8kup oa Market .treat, Clearfield, Pa., la room formerly oeoupird by Jaa. Alazandar. 4:14'78 MITCHELL WAGONS. The Beat ii the Cheapeitl Tbnaiaa Rellry haa reoaivod aaotber large lot .r "Mitebell Wagoni," wbieb are amaag taa eery beat maaafaolBfed, aad wklah be will aaM at tk. meet roaeeeabl. raiee. Uie Btoe4l laalade, almaet aH deooriptioa, el wagoae largaad amell, wide aad marrow Met. Call aat eea tbem. apiw-74 TUUMA8 RIILLY. . .. . .... . , : y . .,.; -'i-'-VVJ-V.' ' i ..m . .! it .,!.!. . - .i-v.;' '.".v- " v.". 7 ;V'.).'' a ' .. CLEARFIELD: :lliflilllSf . . rr-LJ,X- -' ' vt-1 : ul. GEO. B. OOODUNDFroprietor.' - r ! ' "V ' ' ' : ' PRINCIPLE!',NT MEN; Vy.' ' 'r ! Z, ''.rrir. j' VOL. 49-WHOLE NO. '2420., ,; s i,;-o!.) '', . CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, -MAY-J 2,n875,';-i-: 'p:;;':N (axis. A. Q. KRAMER, A TTORNEY-AT-LAW Heal Etait and Csllrttloa Ageat, CI.BARFI BI.I. PA., Will promptly attend to all legal ballot m trutm4 in h.1 aara. jrtruflloa In Fit'i Optra Home, tttotd Star. aprll l-toi J. H. KLINE, M. D., PHYSICIAN & 8UBGEON, HAVINO looated at P.o.B.ld, Pa., ofara kit profuiloBal .rlc to th, ppl, of thai plao. ind rarrOBOdlnK ooaatrj. All 111 promptly attandtd to. . " it P. I R V I N, VBALtB IV GENERAL MEKQHANDISE, -AT THE- CORNER STORE, Cor..n.lll, Nor. 51, 1874. JOHN D. THOMPSON, Juitltw of tht Pmo. aad Borirmw, CarweasTllle, Pa. tn.Collwtloni aid BBd aion.r proajptljr paid sr. ?!I!L'- .a. .LIIIT BBNBV ALBt.M...W. AtBBBt W. ALBERT 4. BROS., Maauraeturan A oiUolIra D.alr, la Sawed Lumber, Square Timber, 4o. WOODLAND, PINN'A. AT-O-Ordir. lolielted. Bill, Ulled o ih.rt Balloa aad naaoaablo tanaa. Addraaa Woodland P. O., ClaarHald Co., Pa. 3i-lj W ALUKHT A BROS. FRANCIS COUTRIET, MERCHANT, v-reuehvllle. Clearfi.14 Coatity, Pa I.Di aoaatantlr oa band a fall aaaoitmaot or Dry Uoode, Hardware, Oroeerira, and aeerytblng aeuallr kept la a retail alore, wbiob will be aold, ror oaeb, aa ebaap aa eleewbere la tna coon.. Franohville, Jane J7, 1887-ly. THOMAS H. FORCEE, aaALaa ib flENKRAL MERCHANDISE, r.RAIIAMTON, Pa. Alav, extenilra manufaoturer and dealer In Square Timber and Bawed Lumber 01 an ainoe. C-Ordan aollelted and all bille promptly llled. ''L REU B! E N HACKM A N, House and Sign Painter and Paper Hanger, Clearfield, Penu'a. trauWlll aiaeata Job. la bli line promptly and in a workmanlike manner. .arra.oi G. H. HALL, ' PRACTICAL PUMP MAKER, NEAR CLEARFIELD, PRNN'A. ay-Pumpa alwaya ob hand aed mad, to order on anon nonce, ripe, worcu All work warranted to render aatiifactioa, and deUrerad Kdeelred. mylotlypd E. A. BIGLER & CO., bBAIeKMf IK SQUARE TIMBER, aad maaufeeturere of ALL klND (IF SAW K.I) I.UMBIiH, l-7'7 CLEARFIELD, PENN'A. ' JA8. B. GRAHAM, daatfr la Real Eatate, Square Timber, Boards, BIIIN0LE3, LATH, A PICKETS, :I0'7S ClearBeld, Pa; . JAMES MITCHELL, ? " DBAI.BB IB &iuare Timber & Timber Lands, jell'78 CLEARFIELD, PA. DR. J. P. BURC H FIELD, Late Surgeoaof tba 83d Regiaa.al. PaBniylrania Volantoore, haelaf rataroad from tb. Army, .fare hi. profooaloael eerrloei to thealllioa, of Clearftajd aoaaty. tHT-ProfaaaioaalMlll proaapUy atUadod to. Offlce oa Saapad atreal, foraaarlyoeoapled by Dr. Wood,. (apr4,,8.U H. F. NAUGLE, WATtll MAKER & JEWELER, and dealer la Watches, Closks, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, Sc., )ela"7i CL:ARFIKLD, PA, I. SNYDER, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER ABB pBALBk IB L Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, Oraioe.', flow, Arre Areof, ' I rMAHfll:M, PA. All kind, ef repairing la my Use promptly Bl ended lo. April !, 1874. HEMOVAL. REIZENSTEIN & BERLINER," wholaaalt deaUri Ik OEMS' HKMSHI(i GOODS, Haaa removed to 1ST Church atreet, between Franklin and White Ita., New York. JjM'7l JAME8 H. LYTLE, Bio 4 Ple'e Opera Houae, Clearfield, Pa. Dealer la Qrooeflee, PrnelsloBa, Vegetabtea, Fralte, Flnar, Feed, etc., elo. aprll'7-lf J"TMT5.WAfsT)N A CO RRAL ESTATE IIROKRRS, CLEARFIELD, PENN'A. Knuaei and Ofllce, to let, Collection, promptly made, and Arsl-elaal Coal and Flra.Clay Landa and Town properly for en le. Office ia Weetera liolel Uailding (2d oor, Second St. inyU'74y gTONE'S SAW GUMMERS AND SAW UPSETS. s We bare received the agenay for tha above aad will seH th.m at manafaetaTar'a priooe. Call aed aiauilne theBt, They are the bait. Jalt-71 II. V. UHI1.EB A CO JAMES CLEARY, BABAER dt HAIR DRESSEE, S1CORO BT1KET, CLE ARFIBLD, PA. (tl JRATZKR A LYTLE, AflENfR IN CLEARFIELD COUNTY FOR jL.OniLIdAItD'N CtUbratrrl.BraDda of Smoking & Chewing Tobaccos. Wt aro onablod It wtoltvalo tt daaltrt t n rough- oat lb ooantj at ally prlco. KHAUna i'T i u, Jot!74-tf Ckarfiold, Ta. JNDERTAKi: NDERTAKING. Tht aederrtlrott krt M fallr aiMrtd to arry m tba bnaiaatt tf VKTDJEBTAKINO. AT RIASONABLI KATIS, Aad remetlally eelleH Ike aeAreeage ef Ikon Beading ,ueh eerrleee. 4iinr j nun . nr., ' JAMES L LEAVI, , earetd,J;BiFek. l lMd. . J IME1 LIME I t - The BBderelgaed If sow Brweared aa raralak the poklle wtik aa eteeUaat qeejily ef Bellefoflte Wood-Burned Lime, for plaaleriBt arpeeae, by Ike large ef mart qaaallty. Oaa be Im for Ike pre Mat at Pie', ae bwlldiag, oa Market Mme. Wl'ir , . h. a, ovvauiueB. " ' ' OUR VILLAOl. Anag tb, old aooBitemed path, wllb muelag atap. w, go, Tha graea tree, ereh abere our bead,, ead erery braeeh wa koow i" The meadow haa lie l.le for aa, Ik, laaa He ato- rled hour. Compaaion, ia each hedge wo hail, a friaad La ,l fry flower. Tae baadetoaai by th, greet I rare, beer old fa miliar aaiaee, Eah, aa wa iIbbob timidly o'er, it, laah,rai,oi. ore olaima. Than a ,wa,t lou,b el attboi wak, h,r, lerlag magnter tana, 0a lame q'letnt l'g.rooordod. ir.1,, th, reeled ramombraoeodweiii. -, Tha little chill that g aaa, ap, with wide Mae wietfal eyee. raeenasloaa of what oharm for aa ta their ooft laetre liaa. Will aaawer with hac mother', tmile, er ta her fataer rolea. Aad la tba Boeen! to whoee tiag oar heart, eaa till rejoloe. Theeollaga door, era abet that aa'ar alaead oar ateoe at yore. Beelde the ovenlag hearth thay talk of a, aad oure ao mora. Ok, aad and rtrang, aad bard it aee ml, there are oo few to greet. Aa alow arid ellenlly wa traee th . wtadlag Tillage ftreot I Yet half furgouea aa we stead, amid th, kaaate or youth. The foldaa part aaeart, far a, Rl atrength ef lore and troth, Though other pathway, vc. a, bow, aad other boon, may eieia Tb, heme that ehiUhood'e hale Browned elalme of eopetate tenderneae. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IX THE VH1TED STATES. Tha interesting ceremonies ofinvos tituro appointed to take place to-dtty in tit. l'atrick a Lalhedral mar do consul ercd bs making the completion of a conlunaial cycle in the growth ot tho Catholic Church in this country. It is fituxl to rank, in Catholic eathnittion with tho patriotic centennial celubra tiona on which we have innt entered. Yo aro pereuaded that no pemon thor oughly conversant witn American His tory will tbinK tins a lancilul or lur fctchod iuijL'iwtioii. It is a well known fact that at the beginning of the liuv olution our people wore not only ag gressively rrotetilaiit, but that thuy denied oruiimrT political ngnu tntjalb. olics. The great principle of religious Irceimm, ol perleet religious equality and its noccftsary corollary ot a com plete d ivorco between Church and Hluto, raado its tlrst puulie ana aocisive step one liunUre1 y ears ago as Inaidpu tably as our Hevolution hail its birth in the battle of Lexington. If this statement Bhould strike any reader as a paradox we beg that he will follow us with candid attention in tho brief historical statement which we will lay before bun. It was one hundred years ago that I lie L ontinunuu Longrses sunt a lornial address to tho people of Canada invit ing their co-operation and hoping to secure at least, their neutrality in the sttiggle against Great Britain. At that period nearly the whole popula tion of Canada consisted of trench Catholics who had been subjugated in the then recent scvon years' war by wlucn Canada was wrested trom ui Kinff of Franc. Our tortlhthcrs and the British Kovernment were equally anxious to secure the support ot that Catholic proviuce. With this view rarnamciit passed wbat was known as "the (jtiebea act," reinstating tho Canadian Catholics in the rights they enjoyed under the French dominion ; and our Continental Congress made them a public otter ol religioua IreeUom I they would join us. i bote two acts laid the toundation of partial roliirious freedom in Englaud and full religious freedom in America. As to tho etlect of tho first of these tho Quebec act we will quote our national historian, Mr. Dancroll: "The troubles ol 'the thirteen colonics," says he, ''led the Court ot Great Britain to its first stop in the emancipation of the Catholics, and with no higher object in view than to strengthen the authority of tho King in America tbe Quebec act began tbat series of concessions which did not cease till the British Parliament itself and all tho high offices of adminis tration have become accessible to Taptists.' " ' It is equally true that tho invitation extended by tho Continental Congress to the people of Canada to join our resistance to the British Crown was the first great step toward tho full establishment of religious equality in this country. Tho Qtiobeo act went Into effect May 1, 1775, and the ad dress to Canada by a Congress whose mombcrs were imbued with bittorl'ro tcstnnt prejudices had a great influent' in soliciting thejcligious bigotry which possessed most of the colonies. We 3 note again from Bancroft : "But the esiro of including Canada in the con federacy com polled the l'rotostnnts of America to adopt and promulgate the principle of religious equality and free dom, in tlto masterly address to tho inhabitants of (jtioboc, drawn by Dick inson, all old religious jealousies ware condemned as low-minded infirmities, and the Swiss cantons were cited as examples of a union composed of ( 'atho lie and 1'rotestant States." Every body must regard it as a singulnr, and Catholics will bo apt to look upon it as a providential Coincidence, that the ceremonies of to-day nark tho centen nial of the fruitful public proceedings to which wo have referred, which led to the emancipation of English Catho lics and the complete divorce of Church and State in tiiis country. ' Another onincidonce' which wo will mention in passing is tho fact that the bull of Poire i'ius I., creating tha first Cathnlio bibliop and thus organising the Catho lic C blurb in the United States, was issued in 1789, the very year that our national government was organised under the present constitution. The American prejudice- against Catholics was only partially obliterated during the Revolutionary War, al though some events of the war hail a strong tendency to lessen it. The chief ol theso was the alliance of France, a Catholic nation, which so power fully assisted us in gaining our in dependence, and the undivided loy ally of the Catholics of Wary land throuahont th stioiijlo. Tb roplv of Washington to an address of the Maryland Catholics on bis election to thu Presidency i a proof both of re maining bigotry and of his own sense of its injustice. We can quote but one sentence: "And I presume," said Wash ington, "that your fellow cltison will not Ibrirot the patriotic Dart which you took In the accomplishment of this Kovoluliun ana lb establishment ol this government, or th important as siatanc which they received from a nation in which th Roman Catholic faith is professed." Th gratitude which the country bag always felt to Lafayotte, Kosciusko and He K alb, and its veneration for Charles Carroll, who was the lost surviving signerof the Dec laration f ladepondeuoo, hav tioN much to produce a mors liberal and just feeling in th American mind toward Catholics, lint th full achieve ment at religious freedom in this coun try was work of time. Jefferson and his able ooadjutor, Hadieon, did mor for this grwat , which is a ehlef pillar of onr institutions, than any other American statesman; but we have not spaos to recite their pre eminent services to-Oay. It is to tnem and to th sense of Catholic services in our Revolution that we aro indented for that noblest conquest of American Ireetlora by which the rights ol consci enoe are wholly emancipated from gov- ermental control and th principle of religious equality la deeply mocddou in th institutions f the country. There is nothing in our history which better deserves a centennial commemo ration than th earliest of those events which led to th divorce of Church and State. - In this centennial view th inauguration oeroiuonies to-day have an interest which a majority ol Ameri cana caunot be expected to feel in tbem as a mere event in tfio Catholic Church. Ws have noticed with pleasure that no part ot tbo American press no commented on this event iu an un gracious or churlish spirit. The fear of Catholic ascendancy has quite died out, and the general lueltng ot tb coun try is one ot congratulation, .with per bans a slitiht tinire of national aatisltto- tiou that our Catbolio fellow citizens have diminished reasons for looking abroad for spiritual guidance and ob jects of ecclesiastical reverence. If tho i'ope himself should oven come to re side among us no intelligent Protestant would grieve, and our whole Catholic population would find a new motive fur lovinir their country. Nothinir would do so much tosprcad the great American nrineinlo of a complete sep aration of Church and Slate through out the world as for this country to become tho local seat of tba I'apal au thority. The Tope would enjoy bore the most perfect fredoin iu the dis charge of Lis ecclesiaalical functions, and tbo genius of our government is so totally repugnant to any blending of ecclasiasticaland oivil authority that nothing would tend so powerfully to a final dissolution of every Church in Christendom from ties to a supporting State. Thero is no sound reason why any citiicn should object even to a I'ope, much loss to a Uardinal, on American soil. Our people have become too en lightened to think liberty is endangered by the Catholic faith. That great "keystone in the ijrch ot freedom, Mairiia Chart a, was extorted by Catho lic subject from a Catholic king. All the great safeguards of liberty which we have inherited from the mother country dale their origin from tbe time when .hngland was Catholic. Catholic France assisted us to achieve our independence, and then overthrew monarchy and aristocracy at homo. Eron the Catholics ot .Spain revolted against Charles V., in the nam of popular liberty. The Italian republics of the Middle Ages were es tablished by Catholics. The Catholic colonies of Sonth America set up re publican government when they threw off their allegiance to Spain. The Catholic Immigrants to this country trom Ireland detest monarchy with as hearty a sincerity as any class of American citizens. The Catholic popu lotion ot Louisiana oppose Ca'sarium with intonser hatred tban tbe people of any othor American State. The wonderful growth of Catholi cism in the United States should con vince every Catholic that nothing is so favorable to the propagation of a re ligion as national institutions which forbid favor or hostility to any sect. There is no country in the world where Catholicism has advanced with such iriirantic strides as it has in the United Slates since the full establishment of our great princinlo of perfect religious equality, tine hundred years ago mo Catholics formed but one-oiirhtb oven of th population of Maryland, and were a mere handiui in the other aiaios. Now they rank a the third, or, at least, the fourth, of our Christian denomina tions in point of numbers, and next to tbe first in the value of their Church property. But all our Protestant sects together so greatly outnumber the Catholics that tba latter are in a mi nority of seven or eight to one, and nothinir could be more chiinorirol than fears that they will ever control tho government. No such fear is enter tained by the great body of our intelli gent Protestant, who regard the pro cecdinirs at the Cathedral to-day as a pleasing addition to the variety of Amer- f r.r, ii lean me. ir. . jierata. THE WAIFS OF SOCIETY. Here is a brief record of tho tcnl of statistician most suggestive of the vils which result from tho usual in difference to tho waifs of society : "Somo of tho most curious and re markable criminal statistics ever ob tained have been given to tho public by Dr. Harris, of Now York, llis at tention was culled, some time since, to a county on tho unncr Hudson, which showed a remarkublo proportion of crime ana poverty to the whole popu lation 480 of its 40,000 inhabitants being in the almshouse and, upon looking into the records a little, he found cortain names continually ap pearing, Becoming Interested in tho subject,- b concluded to search the genealogies of these families, and, after a thorough investigation, ho discovered that from a young girl named "Mar garet," who was left adrift, nobody remembers how, in a village of the county, soventy years ago, and, in tbo absence of an almshouse, was left to grow up as best she could have de scended two hundred criminals. Aa an illustration of this remarkable record, in one single generation of her unhappy life there wore twosty chil dren ; ot these, three died in infancy, and savontcen survived to maturity. Of th seventeen, nino served iu the State prisons for high crimes an aggro gate term of fifty years, while the others were frequent inmates of jails, penitentiaries and almshouses. The whole number of this girl's descend ants, through six generations, is nino hundred, and besides tho two hundrod who are on record a criminals, a large number hare been idiots, Imbeciles, drunkards, lunatics, prostitutes ana pauper. A stronger argument for treatment of pauper children than those figures could hardly be found." Springfield HcpMican. Tho Uniontown Grniitg of Libtrty says a United States detective in the oomny of an old man baa made bis appearance In that town in search of a treasure hidden by the famous Dr. Braddee, who was tried In 1841 for robbery of tb United State mail.con victed on tb testimony of his accom plice, and sontenootl to ten year im prisonment. Braddee is said to have mad a eonftwavion before bis death to tbe United State district Attorney. Sx-Govarnor B. Grata Brown La lust built twenty-twa handsome resi dences in St Ixrals, and has began to oulreot th rents, which seanu a pleaa 841 tew eapkryiBwni tkaa being defeated) for ths Vicej-lrsarldenoy .;; jat'oould, ;,:.',: ,." "OATHS SKUTOm WALL ST I! ITS HERO.' PECTILIARITIM OF, THE GREAT MODERN . OPERATOR UlB RECENT SPECULATIONS AND PRESENT SCHEMES THE CAPTl'RE . OF PACIII0 MAIL, . .. . i ; , Wall street, so much' dorided by commonplace cities as the Dovil's Ex change, is at this tr.6r.ient a mirror of what is taking place everywhere. In stead of a dozen heroes in Its Pantheon, there is bat on Jay Gould, ii lias nearly broken Daniel Drew, the bead of the bears. - Rnfus hatch, whose op. ration in Michigan Southern stock in 1867 netted 12,186,000, has beon ex ploded by Gonld, and has sailed for Europe. Henry Keep has been five years asloop under a 1100,000 mauso leum, and his wife has found a husband for the 14,000,000 ho left her in Judge Schley, of Georgia. Vandarbilt no longer visits the street, and Lis stocks hold their high figure from the integ rity of tho mini ; that is, V under bilt will not permit Ilia own stocks to full on his friends, although tho condition of tho Lako Shoro Railroad seems to be anything but sound. Jim Fink died tho brawler's death ho coveted. Horace Clark passed away with the serenity ho had lived. 1 saw Leonard Jerotno a lew duys ago lunching in the purk, patse and mUiltcrent. lie was the Sanlanupalus of tho street, and under his domination Pacifio .Mail sold ai it nn more iiiieiiigcneo inuu any other broker, educated nt Prince ton, he lost millions by foolishly re maining up town at pleasure on The day his company held its annual meet ing, lie is now worth three quarters of a million, which ha husbands as closely as ho can and avoids tho street. Tom Durant dropped out of promi nence vcrv much tor the rcanofiiesvliich exhausted Joromc pleasure and ex travagance. There are no such times at present for rapid speculation as in tho period ot tho war and succeeding it. Dr. Shelton, the hermit operator, who used to appear late in the autumn from his country estate and enrty 75,000 shares at a timo, heaving irold meanwhile, Is only a, tradition now. Amasa Stone and Alexander Mitchell, who aro great railway ofticiuls, send in their orders at times, but have grown conservative. Jay Gould, desnito hisurrcat unpopu larity bas shown more tenacity, appli cation and clearness of liend.than any modern operator. He is not as triekv as Daniel Drew, with whose circum stantial aid he and Fisk contrived the celebrated panio and riot ot Black rnday, supiosing tbe fresulent ot the United States had been trained to their interest, through bis sister s husband, Corbin. Corbiu, an unscrupulous var- lmu, had played false with Fisk and uould, and also wltb the I'residcnt.but it took tho resources of the Secretary of the Treasury and enormous houses like Baring Brothers to defeat Gould's speculation. Ho merely locked up all the gold he could get, and depressed railroad stocks whilo pushing gold up to 150. After Fisk was murdered by a Philadelphia boy Gould held tho Erie Railroad until tbo mysterious cove d'etat of Dan Sickles was made, and tbe r.m l'resident a oOice was carried by storm. Gould then abdicated, but he is thought to have come out with very full hands. There is no other way of accounting for Lis subsequent capital. Tho tradition as to Gould is that he was originally a tanner in the Ijehigh Valley, but of Now York stock, with a little Hebrew in it. He failed in business and came to New York to make a way, which he did by chance trading until, with tho rise of the Tweod powor and Fisk's fcrtilo inven tion, he captured the Erie Railroad from Drew, and consented to the series ot frightful corruptions dovised by Fisk, ...l.A .)..: ...i..:. rin.- r..n vuu nae mo uuiiuir Blum. auo lull of Tweed, tho impeachment and ruin of Judiro Barnard, and the death of risk by a bullet, were consequences of that coalition. Alter risks death Gould was off-color, but like Josic Mansflcd, ho has since reappeared. His alleged, domestic purity, temper ance aud frugality gave him some foun dation to rebuild upon. Anticipating tho present conflict Letwoen the Balti more and Ohio and the tbrco Northern roads, Gould spent his exile iu ex tending his short and profitable piece of rail from Sandy J look to Long uraucb, on Iho Delaware river, through Vinolabd. This brought him within seventy miles of Bultiiuore by air-lino. Ho received help from the people on tne way, anu suowca such economy that it was the general belict that he made money ou the milcaire. No niece of road so cheap has been laid in the East. John W. Garrett was not very solicitious of a business partnership with Jay Gould, and the Jersey South ern has had its reverses, but negotia tions are presumed to bo still pending between Gould and Garrett, though it is my Denci that as ions as Uarrott can carry his New York freight by thirty hour outside steamers, be will not want to maintain three bay ferries and 1G4 miles of rail at Jay Gould's expecta tions. Gould fixed bis eye on th Union Pacific Railroad many Tears ago, and tbe principal article of im peachment against Judge Barnard was granting the order to let Gould blow open tho Union Pacifio safe an act which led to the establishment ol the Pacific offices in Boston. Subsequently it was proved that Oakos Ames k Co. were no more honest than Gould i, Co. Altera brief period of obscurity Gould again appeared by proxy, and seleoted the Union Pacific Railroad as the most available security in which to produce rapid movements. Of "conrse a move ment to secure the Union Pacifio in volved some attention to the Pacific Mail SteamshipCompany,os Ui steam ships presented tbe only rival line to the railroad, Yon can readily see how a bold, imaginative, continental mind would select the Calilurma trad fur the goal of hi endeavors, In th first place, the Union Pacific Iiailroad, by bad management, stood on tho market at a depressed figure, while tho Cen tral I'acifio itouil, ol which it was the only outlet, hail become one of the most enormous privalo corporations in the world, owned by fivo or six men, who earned on it six per cent, per an num, or thro millions 'and a half of dollars a year. Gould saw that while all the East was depressed by over production and tho decline of values, California was producing the precious metals in unexampled amounts, and that on the rise of mining stocks per sonal fortune wero raado in day compared to which Wall street leader ship was mare marble playing. For iga capital is mawed atUaa Francisco to lake advantage or . Ui rornantio in vestments than; the agricultural re source of the State are steadily grow ing better, and it bas com to be a pre valent luperstition that th Califoml arui are the boat financiers in th coun try and that their contest atrainst the greenback vd them many of tb evil result of the rebellion at this moment, . ,' t , ,.,.,,,.., i , , , Jay Gould had hisimagination aroused by this oondition of things on a tar distant coast. He probably saw that the Central Pacific Railroad .was vul nerable to attack, having so excited the California people by its exactions and despotic spirit that the last elec tion for Governor was made solely on the railroad issuo and tb Company beaten beforo the people by Newton Booth wbo . also came to the United .States Senate to start an investigation into tho. Central Pacific's affairs, which aro generally supposed to be as crooked as tho Union Pacific's under Oakes Ames and Jim Brooks. . The Central Pacifio RiiHruual, .In its uncharitable rivalry with the I'acifio Mail Steam ship Company, had threatened to ex tinguish competition by. taking the China trade from the steamship line through a line of British vessels. . Tbe Pacifio Mail Company was aUo very decrepit, having lost tho majority of its steamers, and selling low on the stock list. Gould knew that this com pany aud both the Union and Central Pacific Pailroails had Jaw-suits and debts with tho Government, and Lis personal acquaintance with Congress men and Senators had taught him that while thosa suits could be nsed to de press the stock they could also be compounded and compromised by a little money manipulation nt the seat of Government. Gould Is a moral in fidel a phroso which seems to excite ono of your Philadelphia preachers wbo knows all about a ncwsjiapcr. 1 am afraid that tho clergyman in ques tion was chiefly annoyed by my un kind allusion to Dan Draw, who was sketched as a persnnmon-fuccd hypo crite, who curries bis religion on mur- gins. Jay Gould was described to me by General Jones, Register of Now York city, as follows; "Jay Gould, like any man who has seen the hardness ol the world, is a moral infidel. That is, ho is a man of good habits, good to his family and without tlomestio scan dal ; but h has no Inlth in men, and delights in getting under tbem and hoisting theui." if Jay Gould doc nothing better in his way than ridding tbe street of old Drew, ho will No atf mired as much as if he had endowed a theological seminary on each an ex ample as hi business honor. Gould was a leader iu the atreet again after tbe Credit Mobilicr oxpoaure. lie combined capital and incessant appli cation. Working into Pacifio Mail, be endeavored strenuously to conciliate l'resident brant. ' Keeping bis own promincaco concealed (ibr Grant Las disliked Gouldever sine Black fnday), Gould had nearly had certain onerous accounts witb the Government settled when the "shorts," led by Dan Draw, sent Horace Porter to Washington to break the arrangement. "If it's to be for the benefit of this fellow, Gould,1 said Great, "we'll bate no settlement witb Union Pacific." There have been rumo rs of further treaties between th President and Jay Gould, bat they are not known to be true, Grant distrusts the man, and charges upon Jay Gould's organs mucu ol tne criuoism upon bim. Jay Gould's residence is opposite the n mdsor Hotel, ou r lllb avenue. Car riage can be seen nt tbe curb almost any hour of the morninc, until IS o'clock, at which hour Gould dines punctually with bis wife and interesting family of children. After dinner ho drives in tho Park, alone or with Lis wife, and at night is apt to walk down as fur as tho Filth Avenue Jlotol. Every day ot nio is n distinct battle in stocks.- Brokers, three or four in number, call on him at tt o'clock, confer and take his orders. Frequently they are placed iu different rooms, as are callers, so as not to obacrvo each other, and confer. His office ia in the basement. Four firms of brokers are known to make his transactions. A telegraph instru niont in his office begins to record the news and carry advices to his brokers from v to z 0 clock, lie Is parsimoni ous, but will pay liberally for informa tion on which ho can speculate, in tho railway and navigation or minlnir otticcs ot the speculative stocks, liould is poiicvca to nave contidcntial men who send bim the monthly business account before it is footed np or an nounced to tho directors. lie ernes long or short of the stock accordingly. no is at present using the national Eropcnslty Ibr investigations to further is movoments against rich but dis honest corporations, lie is himsolt a frood and mnid composer, witb a vein of sarcasm in his stylo, and be has not remarked in vain the later influence of tho press to disturb donhtlnlly acquired corporate properly. Jlofrooly receives and converses with newspaper men, and his money is in the press. II is t ho n mi operator since J .eonard Joromo, who used tho Now York Herald, in 1857, to "bear Michlirau Southern, who Las acquired tho stock columns in bulk, lie is only thirty -alight years of ago. A. n.Jiorso was worth thro millions at thirty -one ; A. W. Dimmock had A million at eighteen Sam Duller was tho head ot tho street, bankrupt and assassinated at thirty-seven ; Gould is probably good for 15.000,000 ; he settled with S. L. M. Barlow for I9r 000,000 plundered property of the Erie Railroad, ami gavo up ubout half a million of old junk, which Barlow took with tbanks. Jay Gould inspires dis trust of his character and coulldonce in his judginciuif you are receiving it. John B. Alley is said to havo remarked of him at tweqty.fbur : "I won't go into anything with that lad. Ho is tha only young man 1 ever saw who inspires ma with fear of him." Van dorbilt said Lis face was a scoundrel's. Another old person on tho stroct dis missed 1" m thus: "Ho a great man T bub I You ncvor saw as little a fellow as Gould with any room for a soul. It's all cunning and conspiracy. He "milks the street," "forces quotations," "washes," "covers his shorts," and hasn't a breath of human nature iu, him." Vhiladiiphia Timet , Gath. . Will nut an to Hell Henry Ward iieeclier seems very sanguine of the reception which ho will meet in tho next world. Tho conclusion of his sermon an Sunday morning is thus reported verltina- by tho JViotine. When 1 com up before tho Eternal Judge and say, all aglow, "My Lord and my God," will He turn to ma and sny, "Go down : you have never boen immersed ; go down?" Will Ho turn to me and say, "Yon did not come up the right road ; you don't come np from tho tru chnrch: go downf 1. to the foe of Jehovah, will stand ftno say, "God! wm'tgotv lltttl I will go to Heaven. : 1 love Thee. JVow, damn me if V'Aou eYimf. , 1 iov Thee." And God shall say, and the Araven flame with double and tripU raMtai, and tr.Ko mth joy. "Dost thou love? , Enter in and be forever blessed." Let ns pray. ' A handkerchief of William I'onn Is to be on exhibition at the Centennial, and a curious correspondent write to aax ii it is in anginal rnn wiper. X. EX IX Q TON AXD COXCOItD., ' One hundred years ago next Mon day, as every school-boy knows, tho shot was fired that opened the long war by which tba . American colonies gained their independence. It was a war. which lasted only about eight, years; but tho war which the good people of Massachu setts Lave since waged among them selves for tue honor of the first place in the history of that eventful opening day Los Luted fully half a century ,and is scarcely concluded even now, when tbe centennial of Lexington and Con cord is at hand. To most of us it is a question of comparatively little conse queneo just where "tho embattled farmers stood and fired tho shot board round tbe world," or which of them it was that fired first, sinuo we know that they did fire, ana that we enjoy tlie fruits of their rosistaaco. But to their own grandchildren and great-graud-cLildren it is a pcisonal concern, and each on of them stands up for his par ticular sire, or fur his own town, with a natural pertinacity. , In no part of tbo country Lave the memories and traditions of colonial and revolutionary J times been so carefully cherished as in tbo towns of F.aritcni Massachusetts, whero the descendants of the "select men" of thoso times are tho select-men of to-day, whore early forms and cus turns are still handed down from father to son, and where every family has its own special interest in guarding the common heritage. It is not surprising, therefore, that Lexington and Concord and Acton should watch the historians sharply, nor is it surprising that the historians should have themselves open to attack. . It is hard enough to reach the exact truth in regard even to cur rent events whose consequence is ap preciated by those who tako part in them, and which are recorded with tho utmost exactness in the newspapers the day after they occur. ". But hero was an event occurring ' a hundred years ago, when there were no enter prising reporters presout to put it down in their note books, nor special artists to photograph the scene , occur ring suddenly and without premedita tion, aud with such Lurry and excite ment that the actors theiiuwlves scarce ly knew what they were doing, or recognized at tho timo tho immense results that must follow from their act. The wonder, then, is not that ac counts of the affair should differ, but that we are ablo at this loug distance to tell the whole story with a reasona ble assurance that w Lava lost no essential detail. Of course it is the picturesque incidents of th affair that are most firmly impressed on the pop ular mind. . Most of us loam little of history in any other way, and between Peter Parley and the Colicord and Cambridge poets, the local heroes of tho Massachusetts towns havo boon well cared Ibr. Every child knows how Paul Revere carried tho nows of the departure of th lruoi Irani Bos ton , now tb minuto-nien sprang to arms before the break of day, and how Captain John Parker draw up Lis lit tle troop on Lexington green to await the coming ol tho regulars, and ordered every man to load bis gun with pow der and ball. "Don't fire,", said Le, "unless fired upon ; but if they want a war, let it begin hare." How the British Major Pitcairn cried, "Disperse, ye rebels," and how they did disiierse, but nut until there was need of ten new graves at Lexington. How tbe regulars then pushed on to Concord aud burned the colonial stores there ; bow tho men of Concord and Acton mot them at tho old bridge, and how tho first vollov from tho troops killed Captain Davis, who commanded the Actun minute-men. How Major But trick, seizing a musket from a fallen comrade, cried, "Fire, fellow-soldiers, for God's sake., fire!" and Low tha command was obeyed with such effect that Ins Jlaiestv a aoidieru turned and run. Ibose and many uuuorfucts and legends of tho duy are familiar to us all, and we all know bow bam Adams, as bo and bold John Hancock wore making their way from Lexinirton, cried out, "Uh, wbat a glorious morn ing is this." But tho exact relation of these incidents to one another, or to tho history uf April 19, ns a whole, is less nrmly hxod in tbo minus ol most, and wa are afraid that only a small portion of our many readers could icive a connected account of the events of th day. But it is small blame to them if thev cannot for urccisclv this rela tion of the parts to the whola is what tho people of Concord and Lexington themselves cannot agree about. The earneiitnoss witb which they Lave carried on the controversy is really delightful to sea. Loarneu ministers and doctors and deacons burl pamph let at one another witb the subiimest gravity and glorious scorn, until the world, which can see in tho history of the day only a connected serios of skirmishes which form, in effect, ono great event great, nut so much in iiscii as in us uuiiscqucncus wouuers whut all the trouble is ubout. But it is only this local and personal pride that has preserved fur us the story in any shape, and the spirit that makes theso people stand uu for their rrrund. sire's iiuue is a breath of the spirit of tbe sires themselves. And tho discus sion need not distract any one outsido of tho tho towns concerned, for the story really presents no difficulties. and any version of it is creditable alike to all concerned, it the so-oalled bat tlo of Islington, that is, the firing in the early morning of April 19, is made to. stand alono, it is a very trifling af fair; but regarded only aa tho opening of the battle, which spread over two town and over tho entire day, it Las a real importance, .i Th only point in dispute is whether tlie Americans re turned the tiro or tho ilritish ut J.ux- tngton, and w think thore is abundant evidence that a few of them did. They withdrew, howovcr, Tut they would havo Leon more than fool, to stand and all be shot down, and i'itrnim's men pressed on to Concord. "'Tho first forcible resistance," in th sens of tf. foctive, wa unquestionably mode) at Concord bridge, but when the regulars, on thuir retreat, reached Lexingtou in tho ntlernoon, they had a lull taste of Lexington prowess. It was actually but ono affair, and the lnon of each town did their part bravely and well.! Neither town can belittle the fftmo of tho other, nor noed oitlior bo jealous of tha other. Lexington and Concord stand fbrovor inacpcruhly Joined In his tory, as they will be joiuud in the cele bration on Monday next, .lb lam of on is tho fame of both, and the memory of their heroes and the itlory or their deeds belong to-day to the American people. t'him. Imtt. "ratker,M replied a Cairo girl, tears In ber eyrs,"you may jaw and jaw, and howl and rip and tear, bat I'll marry John Stewart if I die for It," Andtb old man leaned bock and realised that h might as well try to' pull a locomotive up bill. ' ' ' ' it THE SEW DKPAiiTVRE IX., , That kissing le tiltlrx'ly propel; on certain occasions aud under muiiy cir cumstances, is an indisputable tact.' If it bad not been fur kissing, many pouts, Swiubiirno among tho nubibcr, might havo' been at It kiss for subjects for their fancy to linger about and garnish with Its creations. ; If it had not been for kissing, this Beoobor scandal would probably not have occurred, and the stenographers would not bo having so prosperous times as they are now fat tening in. But the trial bas done more. Tbd place of the kiss in the economy of the universe and the or dinary affairs of life is now as definitely settled as that of tlto sun in tho solar system, to say nothing of the Sun in the world of journalism and in the af fections of nil right-minded people. ' . To tlx clergyman) it now seems, th kiss is a potent instrument fur irood. and a valuable addition to his puwor as a pastor, it is allowable also in a brother. The unspiritual objections to it must yield buibre convincing testi mony, i The circumstances that the Brooklyn discussion of kissing is differ ent from the ordinary treatises on tho subject in the fact that it is sworn evi dence and not random flights ot im agination or impassioned strains of poetry, must bo borne in mind by the carping critic and othor persons on low spiritual planes who object to other men's kissing their wives and sweet hearts, and whoso imaginations cannot take in the beauty and tastelulness of nig American men s kissing eacb other four inches below tb forehead. We trust, however, that the practice so authoritatively and auspiciously In troduced will not extend with rash rapidity, Tbe country must prepare itself for the innovation by proceeding to step up to the plane of the Brooklyn originators of tho new departure in os culation. Because Brother Bob Ray mond or ex Hi othor Joe Howard can kiss with impunity, is no reason for concluding that the ordinary citizen should immediately be allowed to kiss overy woman he meets, and when he feels unhappy, such men as his soul goes out to. That would be an ab surd and dangerous result, which could be reached only by tho imprudent and uiipliilosophicttl. Brother Bob Ray mond is an cx-prencher, and prays with an elocutionary polish unequalled. Joe is an ex-brother, and has had deep spiritual exeriuiicctt, and holds correct views as to the relations of the sexes. These facts, it will be seen at once, take these fervent souls out of tbe cat egory of tho average voter; and while tho latter would objoct to having the new departure of Plymouth introduced into his family and among his friends by other men, ho would probably hail with joy tho practice as realized by the ex-preacher and ex-brother. It cannot be too firmly fixed in tbe mind that there are differences among men. What is proper and decorous in one is bad and indecent in another. The failure of some illogical persons to rec ognize this broad distinction frequent ly results in their getting into prison, or at least being kicked onto! doors. The varieties of tbe kiss tinder Brook lyn dcfiiiltion are many. The parox ysmal kiss is not yet in evidenco, so we cannot include it among sworn kisses ; but it bears so close a relation to tho kiss of inspiration, that we are forced to think that it also belongs to the now departure. Tho kiss of in spiration is a holy kiss, but It may not be returned with enthusiasm even by a brother. 1 It will assist the reader to place this variety of kiss in its true relutivo place lo again st udy the follow ing explanation by Mr. Beccher him self of the kiss of inspiration. It was given iu bis -direct examination, and we regard this as one of the most im portant points in his testimony : , "I meeBl well, it wee a token of eoBfideBeej it waa a aalurloa that did not belong to Ibo com mon waiirteey of lifei neither waa it a hie, of fleaeare, or anything of that kind t bat it waa, aa eemetlmae have aeoa it im eoetrr if vea will clear, mo-et waa it oacmcd to ma, a haly kiaa. lea Bare raid eametblag aboal yonr aot rstaralng 111 A Well, air, 1 felt I Ml aa deeply gralahil I Let if t had returned tha kiee, I might have retnrncd It with an oalhoelaam that woald have offeadod brdelteeav I it waa oot boat. nodcr tb, eiroumileneea, thai aba and I ihould Biea.- Wo bon before he finishes, Mr. Boechar will go deeper into this in teresting subicct, and construct for us a Httlo dictionary ol kissinir. W hat the kiss of pleasure to which Le refers? n nai relation ancs it near to the par oxysmal kiss, ana vdii exaciiy is tnis lost r May tne kins ot pleasure or the paroxysmal kiss be returned 1 and if so, is enthusiasm proer under such oircumstancos? Whataiv'he circum stances nnder which it is not best for a pastor and his female parishioner to kissr 11 to return a kissnt inspiration wltb enthusiasm is to endanger irivine offence to her dolicncy, what kind of kiss may bo so returned without of fence to the delicacy of a lady 1 Those are Important questions, and wo hope Mr. needier will auswor them. Ho was lecturing to theological students ol iNew Haven Inst year, but he did uot instruct thctn in this essential part oi a clergyman s duties. Another matter is of great conse quence. Shall a minister confine his kiaaw, whether of pleat euro, uiapiration, paroxysmal, or holy, to the young and comely sisters, or must ho also include tho old and ugly ones? Tho settle ment of this question mlirht have an influence on the numbei of studonts for the ministry, mid it ia therefore ex ceedingly desirable that it should bo reached. jeic xork Sun. , 'i ns Biffalo Gnat. Many of our reader hav no doubt been tempted to inquire, what kind of on insect is tho buffalo gnat? Tho telegraph brings ns accoiinls of cnttlo and horses de stroyed In great numbers by them, hi Tennessee. An exchango thus de scribes thorn: "The bu ffido gnat, which ia causing no much destruction among cattle in tho .Southwest, is a small in sect, not mora than half tho sizoof the horse fly, which suddenly appears In tho air by millions and settles upon all fonr footed animals within reach. A horse or cow will be literally covered with tbem at night ; in tho morning tho animal will lo found dead and swelled to an enormous size. The bite is very poisonons, and tho wound quick ly festers. Cattle owners find that the most effoctivo way ol' protecting their animals is tu covor them with a coating of diluted tar, but if that rannut be dono fires nre built and the amok drive off the insects. Amongst tho wild animals, aspecially th deer, on the Arkansas tido of the river, lb ravages of tho gnat are everywhere apparent i. ii.ru w.ij iiu.ivuiiuii, me ueer lau victims in large numbers of this poison ous Insoct, which, however, doe not toucn man. . i a ' ' Tb Bchtnoctady father who bas thirteen daughters say that b cannot afford to observe Sunday, aud that it his girls insist upon an education, b win nave to (tart a r-male seminary. I JOHXQtIXCY AJAMS . , TUonicRioireofH.if imarknbinii; edited by his distingtrished son, Charles Francis Adams, furnish passages of great interest and Instruction. Under the dale of Chriktmas, in his diary, b comments with, remarkable candor on tbe trait of Lis children, as well a bis own: ... i :( , , ,"No attendance at the office. 1 gave) the Jay to relaxation, ud,with a vital. to make au experiment upon the tutu of the younger part of our present family, niter bivuklaal 1 read aloud Pope's Mosaiah, a poem suited to tho day, and of which my own admiration was great at au earlier age than tbut of my son Charles, tho youngest per son uow in my fiunilr. Not one uf them; eTTrnting -George; nrrpesred to take th slightest interest in it; nor I there one of them who hut nny relish for literature. Clmrles bas great fondness lor books and meditative mind, but neither (Imposition nor apt itude for publio speaking or correct reuding. i'harlus mast teach himself all that he learn. - II will learn noth ing from other. Literature bas beon the charm of my life, and, could I have carved out my own fortunes,. to litera ture would my whole lifo been devoted. I have beon a lawyer for bread, and a statesman at tho call of my country, In the practice of the law I never should have attained the highest emi nence, for the want of natural and spontaneous eloquence. Th opera tions of my mind are slow, my imagin ation sluggish, and my powers oi ex temporanoousBpeaking very inefficient. But I have much capacity ibr, and lovo of, labor, habits on tbo . whole of in dustry and temperance, and a strong aud -almost innate passion for lit erary pursuits. The business and sometimes the dissipations of my lifo havo in a great measure withdrawn me from it. Tbo summit of my am bition would have been by some great work of literature to bavo done honor to my ag and country, and to hav lived ia tho gratitude of future age. This consummation of happiness bas beau denied me. Tbe portion of life allotted to me is that of my moral ex istence ; but even in this failure oi my highest objects, literature has been to me a source of continual enjoyment and a powerful preservation from vice. . It would havo been a groat comfort to me if oil or either of my children in berited this nrom'iiaitr. George is not entirely without it. "-abe others have it not, and 1 havo found every effort to stimulate them to it, hitherto, fruit, less. Pope says "'tis education forms tho common mind," and so it is; but tho common mind will be always groveling in common objects. Then common miud must form itself." In March, 1821, Mr. Adams express es the following opinion of Henry Clay, which, considering the intimate rela tion between the two statesmen a few years afterward, may be regarded a one ol tbo curiosities ol political life: Clay IB an eloquent man witb very popular manners, and great political management. Ho is, like almost all the eminent men of this country, only half educated, llis school bos been the world, and in that be is proficient. His morals, public and private, are looso, but bo bos all the virtues indis pensable to a popular man. As he is the first very distinguished man that tho Western country bas presented at a statesman to tho Union, they are proportionately proud of him, and, being a native of Virginia, be hot all the benefit of that clannish preference which Virginia has always given to her sons. Clay's temper is impetuous, and bis ambition impatient. He bas long since marked mo as the principal rival in bis way, and bas taken no more pains to disguise bis hostility than was necessary for decorum and to avoid shocking the public opinion. His future fortune and mine, are in wiser hands tban ours ; I hav never, even defensively, repelled hi attack. Clay bas large and liberal views of public affairs, and that sort of generos ity which attache individuals to his person. As President ot tho Union, bis administration would be s perpetu al succession of intrigue and manage ment with tbo Legislature. It would also bo sectional in its spirit, and sacri fice all other interests to thosof the Western country and slaveholders. But his principles relativo to internal im provements would produce results hon- . orable and useful to tba nation. ' RoOOF.R LlKELT TO HAVE JuSTICI Done Him. A petition is before tho Massachusetts Legislature praying for s formal repeal of the sentence of pun ishment pronounced against Rodger Williams, by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay, Iu the year 1635. Tho ground of tbo petition is "that Rodger Williams was banished because of his advocacy of the separation of Church and Slate j that principle La since been recognized as correct, and mis since ueen oi great uenent to tho United Stntes, and therefore that Rodger Williams, its first advocate. ought to be set right" If Rodger is hovering about the ragged edges of timo as a spook, bo will be compelled to admit that posterity ia disposed to do the "square thing." m m m Third Term Reflections. Here is a mild estimate of the President's quali fications for a third term. It is from the Boston CottntT , "A Prcsitlont who takes gifts, who sits aloft, thwart ing tho will of the people, and dreams of an indefinite extension of his leas of power through tho continuance of anarchy in tlie Southern half of tho Union, should bo ineligible even to a socond term. Freedom itscll is worth less without order and an honest, intel ligent National administration. Grant bas never had a Cabinet capable of administering tbo affairs of great gov ernment. He lias had an unconquera ble aversion to anybody bigger than a bead clerk. Tho permmel ot the Gov eminent of th srasllost State in Europe would put ours to blush." Th. big clock and bell which will strike the dinner hour from tho belfry of Independence Hall on July 4, 1876, cost 20,000, and are inscribed with tho wonts: "Presented to tho City of Philadelphia for tho Belfry of Independence Hall, in th name of Adam and Mariah Sarah Seybert, and Caroline, their daughter, by their son and brother. Xlcnrv Sevbert" Thev constitute the most costly obituary no tice ever published in Philadelphia.and as fino a one as ever appeared outsido tho colnmns of the Leditr. 1 nee em . pa ii A Chicago court room waa latclv enlivened by the presence of a blush ing young lady, who appeared before tho eonrt to sustain petition for tb restoration ofsovon love letters, a glove, curl, and a ribbon, which the bad given to tho defendant during an en- Sttgemeiit ol several month. She idn't get them, though' The young man that spelled th word buzzard, "b-u-double-ixzard-a-r-d-buzzard," and was conseauentlv re. tired with a trombone requiem, is now going around tho country with an open volume of "Wobstsr" in his arms, beseeching the privilege of proving that Lis sjielling was correct. : The Pittsburgh Leader says, that in asuaucb as a woman is said to beat th bottom of all sublunary mischief, would It not be good idea to charge th winter weather of this spring to Vuis, wbo wa transiting around in light attire last' December, keeping winter back from iu regular season. . , ' An Atchison, Kan., girt at 'tan pounds ot wdding cake ia trder that she might dream ot hat hi tar haebaad. And now tb tayi that mony wouldn't hire her to marry tb man ah taw In that dream. ' ' ' .' .-. -
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