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t:S0'7 t'LEARFIKMI, PA.
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ll-12'TS CleBrfield, Pa.
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CI.BAKPIK1.I. PKNN'A.
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ATTO UNEY8-AT-LAW,
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N.tioo.l B.nk. J.n:l:r
G. R. BARRETT,
Attobnev and Counselor at Law,
' OLKAKFtKI.U, PA.
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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
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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.
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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. ' ' ' .' .-. -