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Cards.
TT W. SMITH,
ATTORNEY
AT-
LAW,
11:l;TS
Clearfield, Pn.
J. LIXGLE,
A'I'TOKNEY-AT - LAW,
l:U PuUlpaburg. Centra Co., Pn. yrpd
W. BARRETT,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
clearfield, pa.
January .10, 1871.
ISRAEL TEST,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Clearfield, Pa.
pVOIBeo In tbo Coart Uonio. jrllCI
HENRY BRETU,
(oarr.in r. o.)
JUSTICE OF THE i'EACE
ros bill rowaauip.
MJ 8, !878-lj
AY
Til. M. McCULLOUGII,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
COVe in Masonic building. Second .Ireet, op
po.ite the Court Ilouee.
y C. ARNOLD,
LAW 4 COLLECTION OFFICE,
CimWES"VILLE,
,211 Clearfteld Conou, Pann'a. 75y
o T. 1SF.OCKIIANK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Office In Opera House, np 26,'77-ly
JAMES MITCHELL,
obalbb la
Square Timber & Timber Lands,
ieU'7.1 CI.RAKFIKLD, PA.
s
V. WILSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office on. dnor eaat of We.t.rn Hotel building.
0'0ite Court llooa..
Kit.5,';7. CLEARFIELD, PA.
JiRA.NK FIELDING,
ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW,
Clearfield, Pa.
Will attend to ell bu.inea. cntrn.tad to him
uiomptly and faithfully. Janl'7
J K. SNYDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Ollie. in l'i.'a Opera Uouae.
Jun. 20, '76tf.
WILLIAM A. WALLACB. DATIO L. KaBBa.
B-aar r. willacb. Joaa w. wbiqlbt.
TALLACB KMEBS,
IT (Hu mei.ora to Wallao. A Fielding,)
ATTOIINEYS-AT-LAW,
jtnVH Clearfield, Pa.
r. o'l. Bir.'K. . A. A. eBAHAM.
1)UCK 4 (iHAIIAM,
J ATTORNEYS AT LAW, .
- ' CLBARriBLD, FA.
All leeal bu.ineia promptly attended to. Ofliee
In Oraham'. Row rooina formerly occupied by
11. II. 8woope. July24, '78-tf.
THoa, fl. MfBHAT.
ctuiii oanoa.
JUniUY Si CORDON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Offio. la Pi.'. Opera Uouaa, Meond Boor.
:S0'74
fOHara a. h'bkallt. ' dabibi. w. w'ctraDr.
fcENALLY & ilcCUKDY
ATTORNKYS-AT-LAW.
I iearucld, Pa.
XLtgnl baitocia attended to promptly wltbj
A'lflity. Ufflfie on Sooood itroet. abort : Pint
National Bank. jan:l:76
6- K tAMEIt,
A T T O R N E Y - A T - L A W ,
Real Estate and Collection Agent,
CLEAKKIICI.I), PA.,
Will promptly attend to all legal business .a
trusted to bis
s oar.
MrOffic. la Pie's Opera House.
Janl'70.
J P. McKEN RICK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA
All lege! businesi entrosted tn bis oar. will re-
eeire prompt attention.
Office opposlt Coart House, In Masooie Building!
eeeond Door. Bugle, ,n-iy,
JOHN L. CUTTLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
lud Real Eetata Afteut, Clearfield, Pa.
Offie. on Tblrd .treat, bet. Cherry A Walnut,
.ear R.sp.ctf ully offer, bl. service 1b celling
and buying land, la ClearBeld aad adjolaiog
oanti.B aad wltb aa .ip.rl.no. el over iw.nte
year, as a sarreyor, Batter, himsslf tbat k. .an
render lall.faolloa. IFeb. I8:'9:tf,
jyi E. M. 8C1IEURER,
HO.MIF.0PATIIIC PHYSICIAN,
Office 1b residence OB First et.
April 24, 1872. CUarneld, Pa.
I)
U W. A. MEANS,
I'UYSICIAN A SURGEON,
LVIHEHSnilHIl, PA.
Will attend profeeeioeal calla promptly. anglO'71
TJU. T. J. I!0ER,
I'UYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Olle. ob Market StrMt, Clearfield, Pa.
A-0lllce b.iurs: I to 12 a. , and 1 to I p. a
D
R. J. KAY WRIGLEY,
IIOMtEPATUIO PHYSICIAN,
tr-0ffir adjornlag tbo resldoace .f Junes
n rictev, Ksq., oa Mess ot., Lleerneto, a.
Iuly.l'l,'r"-lf.
y. II. B. VAN VAL7.AH,
CI.BARKIF.I.n, PF.HM A.
OFFICE IN MASONIC BUILDING
pm Office boors-Fros. It to 2 P. M.
May It, M7.
I)
, J. P. BURCH FIELD,
Uta g.rgeeaef tb. 134 Regiment. Peaa.yWanla
Volanteere, ba.iag r.larn.d from tba Army,
off.r. hi. prof.c.ionBl ..rTiooa to tbeeittsea.
fClearfleldeoaaty.
atT-Prer.eal.Bal .all. promptly atua Jodie.
Office ea Beeoad .trial, form.rlyoocapl.d by
Dr. Wood.. (aprVMtl
I
ARRY SNYDER,
BARBER AND HAIRDRESBBH
Chop oi Market 81., epposIM Ooorl Doeae.
A cbaa tow.l fcr .rery aaatemer.
Alee aaBfMtarar ef
All Klnda ef Artlrlea la Hemaa Hair.
Ckarield, Pa. atny l, t-
CLEARFIELD
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GEO. B. GOODijLOTEE, Proprietor. " ' PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. .' TEBMS-$2 per annnn to Advanoe.
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VOL. 52-WIIOLE NO. 2,588. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1878. NEW SERIES-V0L. 19, NO. 3(5.
(Cards.
WILLIAM M. HENRY, Juktioi
or tub Pawn mn Scriviimr. LUMUBU
CITY, Co.lvet.oni made md money promptly
paid over. Articles of agreement and deeds of
oonveyaooa neatly eieeutod and warranted eor-
reol or no ebartfe. lajy TJI
JOHN D.THOMPSON,
Justice of th. P.ee and Scrivener,
Curwenaillle. !
fesa-Colleetlon. made and mon.v promptly
paid ".ar. fb22'7ltf
JAS. B. GRAHAM,
doalor la a f '
Real Estate, Square Timber, Boards,
SHINGLES, LATH, A PICKETS,
0:1071 Clearfield, Pa,
WARREN THORN,
DOOT AND SnOK MAKER,
Market l Clearfield, Pa.
In lb. .hop lately ooeupled by Frank Short,
ooa door weat of Alleghany Uouia.
REUBEN HACKMAN,
House and Sign Painter and Paper
Hanger,
Clearfield, Peuu'a.
&.WII1 execute Joba la hi. line promptly and
In a workmanlike manoar. arr4,07
JOHN A. STADLER,
BAKER, Market St., Clenrlcld, Pa.
Freah Drend, Rulk, Rolla, Pie. nnd Cakaa
OB band or made to order. A general aaaortment
of Confecllonarlei, Frulta aad Nuta in .lock
Ice Cream and Oy.tara in leeeon. rJaloon nearly
n,poaite Ibe Fostolnee. I'rieea mudntte.
Maefh I0.'7.S.
WEAVER & BETTS,
ItKALERS IH
Roal Estale, Square Timber, Saw Legs,
AND LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.
-0(ltV on H nd lret, to roar of itoro
room of Ooorgo Wi aror A Co. f janH. '78-tf.
RICHARD HUGHES,
JUSTICE OF TUB PEACE
fob
Itrctitur Totruiihip,
Oseeola Mills P. O.
II official businor. .ntrasted to Irm will be
promptly attended t. tncliu, 70.
BLAKE WALTERS,
REAL ESTATE BROKER,
AD OBALBB IB
Naw lMf aud Iuinbor,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Ofllo. In Urabaia'a Row. 1:26:71
E, A. BIGLER & CO.,
DIALER! IX
SQUARE TIMBER,
nd manutaetureri of
ALL kINDN OF HAW III) LUMIIEH.
I T'7I CLK-VRFIKLD, I'ENN'A.
G. H. HALL,
PRACTICAL PUMP MAKER,
NEAR CLEARFIELD, PENN'A.
saT-Pomp. always on hand and mad. to ordor
an abort notice. PipM bored on reaeonabl. term..
All work warranted to render aatisfaetion, nnd
dell.ered If desired. my6:lypd
THOMAS H. FORCEE,
OENEKAI, MERCHANDISE,
CiR AH ANTON, Pa.
Also, extensive menafBetnrer and dealer la Square
Tlmbar and Bawed Liumberoi all Bind..
Mr-Order, solicited and all bill, promptly
lied. jylt'72
I. SNYDER,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER
ABO DBALBB IB
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry,
uVa.am's ffow, Jfarftef Arset,
CLKAHl'-IEl.I), PA.
All kinds of repairing in my line promptly at-
nded to. April 23, 1571
Clearfield Nursery.
ENCOURAGK JIOMK INDUSTRY.
TIIR anderslgned, baring osuhllihed a Nur
sery on the Tike, about halfway betweeB
Clnarfleld and Cnrwenirillf', is prepared to fur
nish all kinds of Kit I! IT THKKH, (standard ana
dwarf.) Krergreens, Bhrahbery, Urepe Vines,
UoofeberrT. Lewton Blscktmrry, Strawberry,
and Raspberry Vines. Also, Hibertsn Crab Trees,
Uulnoe, and early searlet Rhubarb, Ac. Orders
promptly attended to. Address,
J. I. WRIGHT,
sepSO Curwensville, Pa.
3c w Jf a r ble Ya rl.
The nmlenlgned would Inform the pub lie that
he fans oprnrd a nw Majble Yard on Third street,
iinhosite ibe Lntbrran Chureb, wbrre ho will keep
oonntsntly on hnnd a stock of various kinds of
msible. All Kinai oi
TOMBSTONES, MONUMENTS,
JoM for !e$neiery f.ot,
and all other work in bis lino will bo promptly
executed Id a aeat aad workmanlike manner, at
reasonable rates.
He guarantee satMertory work and low prices,
Oive bi in a call. J. PI.AHAKTY.
Clearfield, Pa., Mareh 17, IH73 if.
ANDREW HARWICK,
Market Street, t leai fleld. Pi.,
AvrracTvaiB aud oiaui in
HARNE8S, SADDLES, li It IDLES, COLLARS,
and all kinds of
HOMtK rVRNlStltlfG GOODS.
A full stoek of Peddlers' Hardware, Brohe.
Combs, Rlsakets, Kobes, ete., always on hand
and for sale at the lowest eash priees. All kinds
of rrneirtnt wrnmtitlr attended to.
All Hindi t hides tanen in e ion an re ir nar-
ntfS and repairing. All kinds of barneas Iratber
kept on band, and for anle at a small profit.
Ctearasid, iaa. iv, ie?o.
E. WARING'S
LAW BLANKS
Per sale at the Clearfield Ran lurm office.
The moni Complete Her it a of Low
H lank t pub UHhta.
These Blanks are .rotten ui In superior stylo,
aro of uniform alia, and ferntsfaod at vary low
figures for oasa.
Call at tho Raet siirsa ofteo and etamti
then. Orders by mail promptly filled.
Addreoa, UOODLAnDKR e) I.KH,
Jely . 1HTT tl. Clearfield 1'a.
llrv-u'lf t) It t V-II
Insurance agency.
PEilTI A RROCKBANK, Agent..
(RaeMMora to M array A tiordoa.)
Tb. following Irat-eleeaoompanlea repre.enl.d:
Nerlk British A Meteaatile Fir. let.
Co., of Kr.al.nd S,000,000
Seettlsb Oomnerctal Fir. lac. C, of
Eailaad .. 1 1 1 .001
North America, of Philadelphia ..7i0,le0
Fire Aeso.l.tloa,(.f Phlledelphla 1,100,000
Watertewa Fire. New York, taeure.
feral property ealy ,h..m 700,000
Mobile Fire Departeseat I.e. C. ........ I7t,0f0
Pareeac la the eeBBtr wanllaf laseranea, eaa
hat. it praaiptly atleaded to by eddrseelng a. la
hths or By letter. lowvn ptweioMrare. ursi
eless eompauiea. f eesce,s.e.fa. ornoo IB fi.
Oeera Hone.. AN DREW PENT,, Jr,
0. T. RROCKBANK.
Cleerteld, M.J I, lors-ly. AgeMe
s.
1,1b V.' LOKCilNGH.
A oblld ran laughloft on tba beaob,
The tun hone warm and bright
Upon her waving golden bair,
Her tiny form eo eHght.
"I wonder wby Ibe world's to fair,
So full of nun and innf,
I wonder wby big folke don't laugh
And play the whole day long."
A maid waa walking on the it ran J,
IS be geied far out to eea;
Where o'er the mnlit water! rode
A hark eo gallantly,
. "Ah love ft Cuming o'er the ware,
If enming toon to me,
I wonder how, In thii iweot wnrld,
Old fulki mob ihadowa aee."
A woman etoed upon the ibore,
Her eyee with weeping red,
Lookod sadly on the cruel ioa
That ne'er girea up ite dead,
"I wonder why the world was made
So dark and full of care,
IVo wonder that life's bur Jon leoma
Too great for one to bear."
. Near by tba window's ledge there sat
A gran iid tme, old snd grey
The window looking out to sea
Where ships atanahor lay,
"I wonder when mine eyes shall se
Life's ships at anchor He,
Within Uod't harbor peaoefutly
For all eternity."
THE FINAXCIATj ISSUE.
SPEECH of
SENATOR WALLACE,
AT LOCK HAVEN,
Monday Evening, Skit. 0t.li, 1878.
The fluunt iul irujuo U like llunquo's
ghost it will not down. A diritrottscd
people ntti-ibtito thoir illx to a vicious,
tiniinciul policy ,uiultlicy oeuk a remedy.
We arc confronted by it at every turn.
Tho homer! of our pvoplo, tlieir ditily
life, the bread nnd rool for their fuuiiliun
compel tut to diricuxs and frutikly meet
this ifsuo. At wlitmo door lies the ro
rtponsiliility for these evils? Whoso
policy nnd whose legislation are tbo
Iruitlul parents of the wrongs com
plained of? What modurii Cadmus
sowetl the Dragon's teeth that now
spring into vigorous lite in every local
ity, equipped and organized to battle
for a new thought J Whoso men and
whose measures whose policy nnd
whoso practices havo controlled and
moulded government nnd law during
the last ten years ? Tho Democracy
have never had an hour in that time
in which their power could either
make or unmake, law or governmental
policy. Tho wrongs lie at the doors
of Republican Legislators and Repub
lican ofliciuls ; the distress and penury
II
ow from their policy and their legis
lation. The new organization is the
outcrop of dissatisfaction with Repub
lican men and measures ; its life is to
be measured by tho extent of the dis-
tegration ot the Kcpublican party
and lis unhealthy drill toward the
loosening of National obligations by
tho measure of tho unjust demands of
tho money power through that party
upon mi honest but over burdened
people. The Democracy has nono of
tho responsibility, nnd Democrats who
now desert tbo standard ot their bulb
weaken tho only power that can ro-
dresa theso wi ongs, ond aid in main
taining tho control of tho law-making
power in Republican hands. by
shall Democrats abandon their ranks
at tho very hour in which Federal
power is within theirgrasp ? Wecan
paro tnoso wiio seek to loist incni-
selves to place by the aid of dissatis
fied Republicans and tho desertion oi
their ancient faith, for if wo preserve
our wondrous discipline and our ardent
devotion to Our Oaiisa, wo will co-ore t)
ictory without them.
Let us tako up tho attitudo of the
threo parties in reunsylvanio upon
this question nnd examine each.
The iicmiblican party in its plat
form of 1878, dodges tbo financial is
sue. It disrimses tariff with nn assur
ance that forgets that every Pennsyl
vania!) who loves his htntu will sacri
fice all clso to protect his people nnd
their interests. It prates oi labor and
singularly omits to bold both capital
nnd labor to a rigid Accountability to
law. It declares that commerce should
bo fostered, and ignores the pregnant
luct tbat seventeen years ol Republi
can rule has well nigh banished our
commercial innrins from the high sens.
Having given nwav all ot the public
lands to railway corporations, it pro
poses to reserve tho roiui.inderi'or actu
al settlers. It opposes tho payment of
Southern claims and noes not reier to
tho constitutional prohibition against
their payment or to tbo horde of Re
publican lobyisls who own nnd press
them. Vhilo a Jtepuniienn legisla
ture defeats laws intended to prevent
freight discriminations, it coolly de
clares they ought to bo prevented. It
sympathises uith Southern Republi
cans and totally forgets to eulogize Mr.
Jlayes lor anything, nnd (unmnuost
cut of nil) it endorses Gov. Iliirlranll
and totally forgets my colleague nnd
Ins predecessor, ho earnest anil so
full of sympathy for every interest bo-
yonil the blato, why has it no word of
sympathy with the unemployed labor
r, tbo struggling nusinessman, or too
manufacturer within tho rjtnto who is
crushed by tho viso ol a vicious
finanuial policy. Tho Republican par
ty is for the ' all street policy of forc
ed contraction so viirorouplv cnirineer-
ed by Mr. Sherman I It favors tho ro-
tirement ot the United mates legal
tender notes by their pnymet In coin
at tho earliest practicable moment I
It is against tbo repeal ol the resiimp.
tion slatuto of 18T5. It is for the per
petuation of tho national bank monop-
ly with all its ccnlntiiting power, ami
for the increase of tho interest-hearing
debt of tho nation to give to them tbo
entire control ol paper currency. We
have tho right to cliargo this. lor tlieir
Stnto plarorms of 1877 and 1878 being
silent, they stnuil upon that plank of
tbeir national platlurm ol IKiH which
declares
In tbo first act of Congress signed
by President Grant, tho National Gov
ernment assumed to remove any doubts
of its purpose to discbargo all just oli
ligations to the rubliv creditors, and
"solemnly pledged its faith to make
provision nt the earnest practicntue
period for tho redemption of tho Uni
ted States notes in coin. Commercial
prosperity, public morals and national
credit demand that this promise bo
fulfilled by a continuous and Bteady
nroirross to snecio pnvmtnt.
1 ,.w . . . . L ,a ium
1 Ins was ino acioi mnn n to, inu;,
nd was called the Act " to strengthen
the public credit." By tho letter of
tho law, under which tho 6 20 bonds
woro Issued, they were payable in
greenbacks. This Act wns thmignod
to onhaneo their vnlue by making them
payablo in coin.' When the bill caine
up in the House, debate Wat cut oft",
and it was passed nntlor tho gag law
of" the previous question." Tho vote
in the House was :
For the Ull-D.reoeratl. 1 1 lUpabllean., 00.
Agalnet the kill-Democrats, M , llepebli
, is.
In the Senate tho vote was :
Foe Ike bill DemoernU. 0 I Reoulilleee., 42.
Against tb. bill-All tb. Democrals i K.publl
flans, 7,
On the hill for the resumption of
specio payments, passed in January,
1875, tlio voto in tho Senato stood :
For lb. bill Democrats, 0 Republicans, At.
Against tbe bill All the Democrats ; Republi
can., I.
In the llouso the voto was :
For tbe bill PemocraU, 0 Republicans, 1.10.
Against the bill All tb. Democrats , Repub
licans, 24.
On the 23d of Novomber, 1877, a
bill to repeul tbo Resumption law
passed tbo Hottso. Tbo voto was :
For Ibe bill Democrats, 104 ; Republinsns, 28.
Against tb. bill Democrats, 2 Republi
cans, 02.
Tho bill was killed in tho Senato by
tho votes of Republicans.
Wo now turn to tho now thought
tho doctrine of tho National Greenback-Labor
party, as their platform
declares it.
It 1. tb. exclusive function of tb. Q.ncral
Government to euln and .cat. money and regu
late its value i all bank iesuea dseigaed to clreu
lat. a. money should b. suppressed. Tbe circu
lating medium, whether of metal, or paper, should
b. issued by tb. Oov.rnmst and mad. full leg.l
temler for all debt., duties and taxes tn the Uni
ted State, at it. atampsd value.
It is undoubtedly true that tho Fed
oral govornmont has exclusive power
to coin monoy and regulalo its value.
It is sound policy until our debt is paid
to substitute treasury notes for national
bank notes, and by utilizing tbo credit
of tho government in tho issuo of all
tho circulating medium, save the inter
est upon the aggregato thereof to tho
people. Hut 1 cannot agree that wo
have either the right or the powor to
add one dollar to tho volumo of legal
tender money that was created during
tho war; nor do I assent to tbo due
trino that tho stamp of tho United
States upon a piece of paper makes
that paper money, which all aro bound
to receive at its stamped valuo.
Tho two propositions here slated to
which I dissent are -
First. Tbat the p ..orcxists to make
paper money legal tender.
Second. That tho mero stamp ot
the government gives potency to pa
per, and equalizes it Willi a money of
intrinsic Value.
LEGAL TENDER PA PER LAWFUL.
Wo combated the proposition to
mako paper a legal-lender with all our
powor. Wo denied tbe right of Con
gross to compel tbo people to accept
anything but coin in payment of debts.
Tbo theory we hold then is tho theory
I hold now. No constitutional power
exists to add to the volume of legal
tender papor created for tho purposes
of tho war. The only way in which
such power can ho obtained is by an
amendment to the Constitution. But
as to tbe volumo that now exists, tbo
last interpreter of tho law bus declar
ed tbcm of binding force and obliga
tion as legal-tender. Tho Supreme
Court of the United Slates declares
their creation tho exorcise of a powor
vested in tbo government under the
exigencies and necessities that existod
when they were issued. Thoy were
tho creatures of necessity ; an cxerciso
of the war powor ; an unwiso ono, but
a stubborn fact. Wo yielded our opin
ions to the law thus declared, and as
tbo exigency has passed that coerced
our obedience, wo aro logically iorccd
to our former conclusions.
IRREDEEMABLE PAVER WOULD INTENSI
FY EVILS.
Is tbero such a thing as money sep
arata from value? It is the measure
of value. As tho measure of weight
must have weight, so tho measure of
value must have valuo. it is not vital
tbat it should bo intrinsio valuo, but it
must be reduciblo to intrinsic value,
readily and promptly. Gold and sil
ver have intrinsic value and make just
measures ot value, rapor, redeema
ble paper, the maker of which can pay
it on demand, paper in quantity, com
mousuralo with tho resouroos of the
makor, and convertible at will into
tnxos, debts or coin may also bo mado
the measure of vulue. Irredeemable pa
per, notes tbat tbo maker cannot pay
and does not promino to pay, or papor
n unlimited quantity, and beyond too
command of tho resources of tho maker,
aro not ond cannot bo just measures,
for they fluluato and vary in valuo,
and a measure that is longer ono day
than it is the next, is not a onto meas
ure cither of length or of valuo. Tho
stamp of tho govornmont may give
potency to paper, and may equalize it
witb monoy ol intrinsic valuo, out tho
quantity must bo limited by our obili
ty to promptly meet it; it must havo
he confidence ot tho people and must
be issued to supply an actual necessi
ty ot ooinmorco. The policy of tho
now organization that would IhHuo
largo quantities of irredeemable, paper
in payment of bonds to snvo interest
thereon, would intensify tbo evils wo
have. It is as much too far in tho di
rection of inflation and error, as is tho
loctrino of tho Republicans that all
must be sucrllicud to the single thought
of reducing thovoliimo of legal-lenders.
THE POSITION or Till DEMOCRACY.
The platform of tbo Democracy
adopted at Pittsburg gives no uncer
tain sound upon tho tlnuncinl question.
Its language is :
That further contraction nf the votum.of Uni
ted States legal-tender Botes Is unwl. and un
neeeesary. 'J hey should be reoeived for custom,
dutlee and reissued as fast as rece!v.d.
(lold, .ilv.r and Unilad State, legal. tender
notes at par therewith, sr. Just base, for paper
circulation.
A close connection of th. Federal fjoverninent
with tb. business Interests of tb. neopl., thro'
nntional banks, tends to munopoly and colral
isation, 'but. tn cneiiging an system, unt-
fornilty of notes, Mourity to tbe not. bolder, and
protection of tb. capital invested, ehould b. pro
vided f.r.
Treasury note., Issued ia exchange for bonds,
bearing a low rale of Inlereet, is the best form In
which Hi. credit of tbe government can be given
to papr currency."
Here are three distinct propositions.
First. Legal lender notes should re
main in existence, and be received for
custom duties.
Second. A papor currency should
have coin and coin notes as a basis.
Third. Tho national bank law needs
amendment, and Treasury notos should
be substitud lor national bank notes.
NECESSITY OF TREASURY NOTES.
Sinco the adoption of this platform
Congress has enacted a law preventing
further retirement nf tho legal tender.).
Tho policy of tho Treasury under Mr.
Sherman, was so radical that between
Mot. 1st, lbs 7, and Juno 1st, when
tho bill became a law, $7,800,000 legal
tenders wore cancelled and it was said
that $3,000,000 woro in readiness to de
stroy at the dato of the passage of this
oill. 1 l,e policy ol the Republicans, fins
been to substitute intorest hearing obli
gations tor U. S. notos. Mr. Sherman
acts daily now upon this policy, and in
four months has increased tho princi
pal of interest bearing debt nearly
scrvnly-four millions. The policy of
Iho Democracy declared and acted
upon was to keep ihem in circulation
and mako tbem tlio equal of coin. Tbey
were the creatures of tlio necessities of
the war; they added Inrgoly to tho total
of our indebtedness by the advanced
prices they compelled us to )ay for
commodities used by our armies. They
wore a part of tba machinery that fas
toned tho debt npon tho peoplo and
tbe necessity that crested thorn lasts
nntil the debt nf which they are part
shall be paid. Tboy aid in relieving the
burdens of the poople. Thoy save thorn
from the payment of interest upon nn
equnl amount of bonded debt. Tho
volumo tho war gavo as is justified by
supremo law. Thoy are the equal of
coin now, save for the rclusal to honor
them at tbe CuBtom House. Wo have
stoppod thoir contraction ; how wo pro
pose to mako them honored in tbo scat
of Customs. Neoessity gave us tho
legal tendor note ; neoossity gave us a
debt from which wo aro learning ter
rible lessons ; necessity impels us to
pay this debt; necessity calls for tho
aid of tho legal-tender noto in the vol
umo authorised to help us to pay tho
debt. Tbo nocd is tbat of tho people.
Tbe debt is that of tbe people. These
legal-tender notos at par with coin aro,
for ease of the burdens of the people to
run parallel with the debt of which
they are part and on' when the lost
bond is paid ought the lost legal-tender
note be cancelled. Help us to initialo
and to perpetuate this policy. New
burdens to the poople bring now duties
to thoso who rule. Constitutional ob
ligations aro tho only limits to our ad
vance in this direction.
We are practically at specie paytnemt
now. Throw down tho barrier to tho
entranco of legal-tenders at the Custom
llouso and they will stand equul with
gold or silvor. Do this and tlio futul
policy of buying gold, and hoarding it
may bo stopped. Tbe Republican po
licy of Mr. Shormaii adds duily to our
interest-bearing debt to accumulate a
fund to redeem notes that will com
mand a premium if he will himself re
ceive them. Wo meant what wo said
at Pittsburg when wo declared tbat
"gold, silver and U, S. legal tender
notes at par therewith aro just bases for
papor circulation." Is this soft money f
Is this repudiation ? Is this wrong in
friuciple? It is against contraction,
t saves the interest upon 317 million
of legal-tenders to tbo people, and it
enables us to add to our stock of coin
year by year ull tbat wo can accumu
late Irom our surplus earnings. vo
welcomo all tho inflation that can come
Irom this process; lor inflation in tbo
metals is always healthy for business.
Wo propose no violuntcbango in tho
national banking system, but a change
must come, lis tendency is vicious,
and only vicious. Tbe Democracy de
clare tbat tho capital invested should bo
protected, and tho security ol tho noto
holder und tho uniformity ol tho noto
preserved. Whatever change comes,
these aro to be essential partsof tho now
system. Whatever of good is in tho
system should bo preset ved und tboovil
eliminated. Wo proposo no return lo
state hanks. Until our debt is paid our
path lies in a different direction. Every
agency that can bo, with safety lo tho
people and justice to the capital invest
ed, should be, utilized to aid in its pay
ment and red ucotheonormous weight of
its pressure. Thissystcmof nat'lbanks
can bo and should bo thus ulilized. "A
close connoction of tho Foderul govern
ment witb tbo business interests of tho
people through national banks, tends to
monopoly and centralization." When
tho Federal officials pipo, tho national
banks must dance. Tbeir tendency to
concontrato at thoTreasuryall control of
thebnnksand their business is so unmis
takablo that tbe banks tbomsolvcs com
plain of it. Glance at tho figures
shown by generul results sinco Grant
camo to power In 1809. Legal-tender
notes reached thoir lowest quantity
then and stood at f 355,000,000. The
loans nt tho national bonks stood then
at (082.000,000 and tlieir circulation at
$2110,000,000, Tho Poderal government
released tho pressure and Irom 18G9 to
1875 tbo quantity of legal-tender notes,
gradually increased lo ;i82,000.000
whilst tho loans of the national banks
in the same period swelled from (G82,
000,000 to (084,000.000 and thoir circu
lation had increased from 26,000,000
to (320,000,000. Then camo tho re
sumption Act of 1875 and the pressure
was again put on. Legal-tenders ran
down from $382,000,0011 in 75 to (350,.
000,000 on 1st Jan. 1878. Loans of the
National Banks ran down from $084,
000.000 to 1801,000,000 on Oct. 1st,
1877, and their circulation in tho samo
poriod from $320,000,000 to $22,000,.
000. Tho powor horo displayed puts
evory business interest in the country
at the power of the federal officials
who control tho treasury and dictato
its policy. In this respect amendment
ot the law is imperatively demanded.
TREASI'RY NOTES MUST SUPPLANT HANK
NOTES.
We oppose National Bank noics as
a currency, and proposo to substitute
Treasury notes for them. This, too, is
in the Interest of the peoplo and to snvo
them tbo interest paid lotho National
Banks upon tho bonds deposited for
their circulation. It can bo done with
out Injury to tho people, tho banks or
their customers, nntl nlso preserve lite
uniformity oi tho note anil tbo security
of tho noto holder, whilst wo violnte
no constitutional principle and obtain
currency ot intrinsic value, which
will possess tho full confidence of the
people. Wo cover this thought in these
words ot tho pintlorm :
Treasury notes, Issued In oxck.ug. for bonds.
bearing a low rate of Interest, is the best form la
which the oredit of th. government can be given
to a paper eurreacy.
Treasury notes, greenbacks, bills of
credit call them what J-ou will any
thing but legal-tender in payment of
private debts. A Treasury noto may
be matlo a promise ny the govern
ment to receive its amount in pay
ment of every form of debt it is
creditor for, a promise that overy
agency that it possesses or controls
shall promptly honor and receivo it,
a promiso that It win pay it when mo
bond for which it is issued shall bo due,
receivable nt tho Treasury, tho custom
bouses, money depositaries and Nation
al banks, good to pit- debts to tho gov
ernment nnd to tbo National banks as
well as between such banks, hut not a
lawful tender between individuals or
for privalo debts. Such a greenback,
such a Treasury noto in tho room of
Piational hank notos, issued in ex
change titr a low rate bond nt par val
uo (the interest being suspended there
on), to tho National banks, it tbo best
form in which wo can givo tho credit
of tho government to a paper currency.
Such a Treasury note is a Democratic
idea. It originated with Madison, in '13,
and they w..ro again authorized un
der Ii i in in 1814 and 1815. Tbey were
issued under VanHuren in 1837 nnd
1838, and Tyler followed thoir load in
1812 and 1843. Tbey were tbo crea
tures of the necessities of the govern
ment, and issued in case of the burdens
of tbo peoplo. Tho epochs of 1837
and 1841 produced similar necessities
to those v.u have now.
Under tho present system, the Fed
eral government Is tho guarantor of
tho paper of tho national banks, nnd
pays tbo Interest upon their bonds for
the privilago of being such. Of
this Ibe peoplo complain. It then
taxes tho banks Uwn circulation,
deposits and capital to retuko a large
proportion of the interest thus paid.
REPUBLICAN
ONEROUS TAXES ON RANKS AND BOR
ROWERS.
The taxes thus Imposed and paid
by the banks, have a double effect.
the peoplo pay them through the
rates of interest charged by the banks,
and the price of money is enhanced by
tbo same causo. Tho whole amount
ol intorest paid to tbo national banks
upon thoir bonds hold for circulation
during tbo lust fiscal year was. $17,
597,091, and tbo nggregato amount of
taxulion collected from tbem was $(',
998,920, leaving a balance of $10,599,
0C8 paid to them in tho last year lor
the privilege ol endorsing their papor.
vv ny shall this continue I nlon taxa
tion of tbo nalional batiks, stop pay
ment of intorest to them upon tbeir
bonds deposited for circulation, issuo
to them in lien thereof a lour por cent
bond running from fivo to fifty yoara,
retire the national bank meies and
close your redemption agency at Wash
ington. Then permit your national
banks for tho present to deposit their
four per cent, bonds and -roccivo in
room thereof their par valuo in tho
Treasury notes I have described, the
interest upon tbo bond to bo suspend
ed whilst tho notos are outstanding,
and tho semi-annual installments ma.
turing to bo covered into tho Treasury
as paymont for tho franchise of bank
ing and for tbo notes issued. Such a
system may require tho enactment of
statutes providing for a scries of bonds
lor use in tho mode suggested, but It
it will save to the peoplo seventeen
minions oi interest annually and tend
to tho reduction ol tbo rato of interest
upon money in tho rural districts, now
so uttorly prostrated by reason ot tbo
high rales thereof, it is worth that
trouble.
Would it bo wrong toutilizo the credit
of tho government to the extent of tho
capital of tho national banks? Nay, is
it not our duty to do so il that credit
and tho needs of tho government will
equalize theso notes with those of Iho
banks as a circulating medium I Js it
unjust to any ono to save the interest
upon these bonds ? Is not our own
paper to an amount equul to the na
tional bank issuo, or oven ten percent.
more, as desirable to tho people us that
which wo now guaranlue? Will wo
not have uniformity of noto; security
of tbo note-holder; protection of tbe
capital invested by the banks ; caso of
convertibility, and absoltito confidence
by tbo people ? Tbe national banks
aro the creatures of the Federal Gov
ernment, and cannot object to such a
change Tbey are to bo treated with
justice, but our first duty is to tho
whole peoplo.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF 1878.
Tho Democracy of Pennsylvania
unanimously declare :
1 hat tho Republican party, its meas
ures and its men, are responsible for
tho financial distress, the misery and
the want that now exist :
It has had control of the legislation
ol tbe country, and has enacted and
perpetuated a policy that bos onrichod
tbo few and impoverished the many ;
Its system of finance has been one
of favor to monoy ed monopoly, of un
equal taxation, o! exemption ot classes,
of high rates of interest, and of re
morseless contraction, which bus do-
stroyed overy entorpriso that gave em
ployment to labor.
Its presont hold upon Federal powor
was secured by fraud, perjury and for
gery. Its laws are unjust and its prac
tices immoral ; thoy distress tho peo
plo and destroy tbeir substance.
The only remedy fur these evils is
an entire chango of policy and tbo de
thronement of those in power.
And we resolve that further contrac
tion of tho volumo of United Stales
legal-fonder notes is unwise and un
necessary. They should bo received
for customs duties and reissued as fust
as received.
Gold, silvor and United States legal
tender notes at par therewith, are just
bases for paper circulation.
A close connection of the Federal
government with the business interest
of tho peoplo, through national banks,
tends to monopoly aud centralization,
but in changing the system, uniformi
ty ol notes, security lo tbe note-holder,
and protection of lb,o capital invested,
should bo provided tor.
Treasury notes issued in oxclmngo
for bonds, bearing a low rate of inter
est, is tho besltorm in which the credit
of tho government can be given to a
paper currency.
Lubjr aud capital havo equal de
mands upon, and equal responsibilities
to law. Commorco and manufactures
should bo encouraged, so tbat steady
w'irk and fair wages may be yielded
to labor, whilst safety of investment
and moderate returns lor its use bo
long to capital. Violence or breaches
of order in support of tho real or sup
posed rights of oilhur should bo
promptly .suppressed by tho strong
urm of the law.
Tbo Republican party, by its legis
lation in 1872, which reduced the tar
iff on bituminous coal from $1.25 to 75
cents per ton, and upon iron, steel,
wool, metals, paper, glass, leather, and
all manulactures of each of Ibum, ten
per cent., struck a fatal blow at iho
industries and labor of Pennsylvania.
Tbe publio lands are tbo common
property of tbo people, and thoy
should nut be sold to speculators nor
grunted Id railroads or other corpora
tions, but should be reserved for homo
steads for actual settlors.
Our public debt should bo held at
home, and tbo bonds representing it
should bo of small denominations, in
which Iho savings of tbo masses may
ho safely invested.
Thorough investigation into the
electoral frauds of 1871) should bo
made. 1 rami should be exposed, truth
vindicated and criminals punished ;
hut wo oppose any attack upon the
Presidential titlo us dangerous to our
institutions and Iruilless in lis results.
The Republican party, controlling
tho legislation of tbo Stale, has rcfus-
cd to execute many of the reforms of
tho now constitution ; among other
thine, it has nei'leeted and refused :
To compel the acceptance of all of
its provisions ny tho corporations oi
tho Mate;
To prevent undue and unreasonable
discriminations In charges lor trans
portation of Ireight and passengers,
and without abatement or drawback
to any :
To givo all equal means lor trans
porting the raw material nl tho ntaie
in siicii manner emu u alien penuw,
they may prefer; and '
To publish in good faith monthly
statements of where tho money of tho
pontile was kept.
The Republican party creatos now
offices and adds enormous perquisites
to others, and fills them Willi luvonlos,
whose chief duty is to manage its po
litical machinery.
Its administration nf the Stale goT
ernmont grows more expensive with
each rear of its rule., i
Legislation haa heon directed by He-
publican lobbyists, who in turn manip
ulate and control tbe nominations of
the Republican party, and its candi
dates arc the creation of a junta whoso
ducroos aro acccptod as the irrovorsa
blo mandates of absolute hereditary
powor.
We donounco thoso methods, thoso
measures, and theso men, as unworthy
tbo support ol on honest nnd froo peo
plo, nnd we invito all, of evory shudo
of political opinion, to unito with us in
delivering tlio commonwealth from
tboir hateful rule. '
THE KEQROCREA TED BEFORE
ADAM.
Professor Wincholl of the Syracuso
Univorsity, has reprinted in pamphlet
form, with the titlo "Adamites and
Pre-Admimlto," an essay orignally
published in the Northern Christian Ad
vocate, designod to show that tho no-
f;ro race was in existencoon thiB globe
ong before the time ot Adam. Ilo
favors, also, reforming the popularly
recoiving chronology, and would place
the creation described in Genesis 10,
500 years before tbo birth of Abra
ham, or 14,878 years before tho pres
ent era. At tho same timo ho would
bring down tho stono and lako dwell
ing ages to within a poriod ot not more
than 0,000 years ago. In this way, ho
thinks, the Biblical record can be made
to agreo with the established facts ot
modern ethnological, phiological and
geological research. Some special
interest attaches to bis views, because
tbo publication of them has led to bis
dismissal from tho Vandcrbilt Univer
sity, at Nasbvillo, Tcnnesseo, where,
in addition to his Syracuse professor
ship, bo held the chair of historical ge
ology and zoology, lo spite of bis
earnest protestation of orthodox, the
President ol tbo University insisted
that be was an ovolulioiiist, and an
enemy of "the plan of redemption,"
and ho had to go. Tho principal rea
son assigned by Dr. Wincbell for be
lieving that tho negro is not dosconded
from Adam is tbat tho word Adam,
signifying "red" or "ruddy," cannot
have been Intondcd to describe a no-
gro. lie refers lo tho monuments ot
Egypt and Assyria, in which tho no
gro is depicted with tbo samo pecu
liarities which bo possesses at this day,
and henco bo argues tbat if the 2,000
years since those montimonts wore
sculptured have produced no alteration
of tbe negro typo, it would not do to
assumo that tho 4,000 years previous
could huvo developed it from the
white to tho negro is a degrcdation,
not an improvement, and this is con
trary to ibe usual conrso of develop
ment of the human race, which is for
ward and not backward.
"He's a Brick." If it is slang, it is
really classical slang. And yet of the
thousands who use tbo term, how few
how very few know its origin, or its
primative significance. Truly it is a
heroic thing to soy of a man to call
him a brick. The word so used, if not
twisted from its original intont, i ra
phes all that is biave, patnotic, and
ioyal.
riutarcli, in his iiio oi Agcsuaus,
King of Sparta, gives us the origin of
the quaint and lumiliar expression.
On a certain occasion an Ambassa
dor from Epirus, on a diplomatic mis
sion, was shown by tbe King over his
capital. The Ambassador knew of the
monarch's famo know that thoogh
only nominally King ot Sparta, he was
ruler of Grecco nnd he had looked to
seo massive walls rearing aloft their
embattled towers tor tho defence ol
tbe town ; but be founil nothing of tba
kind. He marveled much at this, and
spoko of it to tho King., ...
"Hire, he Bnid, "1 have visileu most
of tho principal towns, and 1 find no
walls reared torilelenso. i by is this 1
Indeed, Sir Ambassador," replied
Agosilaus, "thou canst not havo look
ed carefully. Como with mo to-morrow
morning, and I will show yon tbe
walls of bparta.
Accordingly, on the lollowing morn
ing, tho King led his great guest out
upon the plain where ins army was
drawn up in lull bnlllo array, and
pointing proudly to tho serried hosts,
ho said;
There beholdest tho walls of .Spar
ta ten thousand men, and ovory man
a brick !"
SONO or TnE 8TARLINO AND BoRO-
link. It California bos' no mocking
bird, liko tho South, and no bobolink,
liko Now England, it novortholcss has
a starling. The song of tho bobolink
is a sort ot ccstacy "pure rupture,
as Iko Marvel says tbo inspiration ot
its fuvorito climo in tho Carolinas, and
it sings never eo well as when sway
inir blithely on a wind rocked bush.
Tbo mocking-bird, loo, sings with a
Southern abandon, shaking Irom bis
little throat "floods ot delicious music.
But tho starling has the richest voice.
It sits all tho morning in tbo modest
Iilaco it loves generally hidden in tho
uish and, from the fullness of its own
deep and quiet joy, pours forth the
incomparable eweotness of its orisons.
It needs no spurts and jumps of co
quetry, no fluting and swinging on
tho bush, and flushing of gaudy colors
in tho sun, to trick lorth its peerless
song. In my opinion tbe California
starling is the one porlect singer of our
continent, France has never produc
ed a contralto singer, and Ilaly can
boast but liltlo more; but ice bound
Scandinavia gives us Jenny Llnd and
NilBBon. Tho flippant songsters ol tho
sunny South (for tho bobolink is near
ly Southern) can never compare with
the Burling, dwelling in the oool und
changeless mountain valleys of Cali
fornia.
Adulteration or Con Liver Oit
Mr. Khrohn, of Norwat-, an author
ity nn cod liver oil, says, in an article
contributed " tr tlirf Phftrmlcntitrhr.
Handilfhlntt thai in Norwegian oils of
the first grade there Is a liability to
tthstitutinn from the oil ODlnmed Irom
tho so-cslled hoakjarring, Nrymstij
tinrrntit, a Ash sometimes attaining the
length of twelvo or lit toon feel. As
much as two hundred or threo hundred
pounds are obtained from tbo I Ivor of
a single specimen, ana consequently
there is a great deal placed npon tbe
market The oil in bright ond free
from stennno, and somewhat cheaper
than cod liver oil. It is, however, very
difficult of digestion, and poasossos a
peculiar and disagreeable odor, lis
low price and good appearonco somo
times attract purchasers, who, in turn,
pass off tho oil lor tho genuino article.
An Irishman was laughed at for ma
king faces over some persimmons, and
be replied thusly .- "Ye may grin, y
mutton-headed idiots I but 1 can lather
the sowl out of the mon thai spilt vin
ogar oror them plums." i -I . :
Since the introduction of female post
masters, a girl goes up to tho window
says, is there a lellcrior ajibs morgan
rot HoDinson T" "Yss," says the post
m net ox. "here is one from John Jones.'
EDUCATIONAL.
BY M. L. McqOOWN.
On account of the educational col
umn being crowded out last week, we
have omitted a skotch of tho last week
of our examination tonr under the cup-
lion or "Un The ving lo a. jsul
in closing ottr account of tho tour ol
publio inspection, wo must odd that
iho fifth week was ono of special inter
est. Wo began the week at Curwcns
villo and closed August 30th, at An
sonville, in Jordan township. During
Iho fire weeks . traveling through the
county, wo mado mado many observa
tions, and uopo to bo ablo in duo tune
to give many valuablo suggestions to
toaohors. Wo don't purposo at this
time to open our noto book and in a
critical and sovoro manner point out
some of tho glaring defects of teachers,
and give tbem public notice. How
ever, in our educational meetings and
annual report wo shall give notice ol
somo evils to be removed and try at
least to proscribe a remedy for exist
ing faults. Wo feel liko thanking tbo
directors of tho county fur tho interest
thoy manifested in our public exami
nations. Our noto book shows tbat
ono hundred and ton (110) directors
attended these meetings during tho
tour lust closed. This is indeed cred
itable, Many Boards throughout tbe
county passed resolutions to tho cflect
that tbey would appoint tboir teach
ers on the day of examination, and no
application would bo considered unless
tho applicant was examined in tbe
district. 1 his undoubtedly was a move
in the right direction and productive
ot good results, and wo hope at tbo or
gunization ot the now Board next year,
that a similar resolution will nnd a
pluco on the minutes of every Board in
tho county.
Upwards of two thousand (2000) cit
izens attended our examinations this
year, and we trust next year a still
greater interest may be manifested
among tho pooplp ol tbo county.
Tho directors of Burnsido township
sends in their otnciul appointments
follows:
Pine Grovo School, W. I. Dowler;
Shepherds, Alex, ilcllwuine ; l atch
invillo School, Sue Patchin ; Cush
School, Mrs. Matt Irwin ; Elk Lick,
Kato Mitchell; Deer Run, Carrio M.
Flegal ; Harmony, Lawrence Reitb
miller. No appointments have been
mado yet for East Ridge and Cross
Roads nchool.
For tho benefit ol directors who are
in tho habit ot doing business when
but two or threo of tho Board aro pres
ent, wo iiiBort tho following extract
from the School laws, act of April 1st,
1 802, and hope it may receivo atten
tion :
"No tax for school or building pur
poses shall bo loviod, no resolution
shall bo adopted for the sale or pur
chase of any school or real estate, no
school shall bo located, or its location
abandoned or changed, no teacher
shall be appointed or dismissed, no an
nual school term decided on, or annual
series of text books be selected in any
common school district of this com
monwealth except by tho affirmative
voto of a majortiy of the whole number
director or controller' thereof, and in
each of said cases the Dames of the
members voting both in the affirma
tive and negative, shall be so entered
upon tbe minutes of the Board by tho
Secretary."
readino classes.
As many of our toachers remember
tho bints given on reading during the
examinations and the suggestions giv
en on how lo rid your exercises of that
monotony characteristic of tho avor
ago reading recitation, wo append a
valuable article on the subject, and wo
hope it will find a placo in every teach
er's noto book :
Mako your reading classes as inter
esting as possible. Children become
so tired of listening to tbo samo thing
read over and over from ono end of
tbo cluss to tho other. Of courso wo
must teach them to read, but it can bo
d:mc otberwiso than by reading a par
agraph around. II you wish them to
enunciate distinctly, havo thorn read
ono word around, doing it promptly,
sometimes beginning at tho ond ot a
lesson and reading backward ; they
are obliged to waloli every word and
they enjoy tho exorciso.
Concort exorcisos aro good lor urui
n teaching expression ; select tho
honest and most suitable pieces in tbo
Reader for that pnrposo.
Teach thorn the meaning and uso ot
words; select all the new or difficult
words in the lesson and write them on
the board ; havo tbo class spell and
pronounce tbom. Then ask tbem to
give sentences containing thoso words.
In this wny they learn tho spelling.
pronunciation, and correct uses ol
wonts, and it Keeps pu .his eager ana
nttontivo; for children like to acquire
knowledgo when tbo way is pleasant.
hen your class havo now lessons,
call on somo ono lo givo Iho outlines
of tho story in bis own words; this is
an exercise in composition, and an ex
cellent ono, too, as it helps pupils to
express thoir thoughts correctly. Ask
tbem for tho principal and most im
portant thoughts in tbo lesson, also
what it intends to teach. J his manes
them study carefully, nnd leaches
them to think.
Tench Ihem to lenrn tbo name of
tbe writer, (pupils can find the names
in tbo index). Ask them lo tell you
something clso tbo author has written.
Lot tho children llnd out what they
can about tho authors at homo, i. f.,to
what country they bolong, whetbor
they aro now living or not, and any
thing else they can learn, and bring it
Into the class tbo next day. Thus
thoy learn tho nemos and thoughts of
different writors, and cultivate a lasto
forliteraluto. It is well, il tho teacher
hits time, to tell them something ol
tho writer; but anything that chil
dren can learn lor themselves, never
tell them, but at tho samo timo use
every means in your power to Incieaso
their intelligence and . lo Blimiilalo
their desiro lor knowledge.
Vary your reading lesson as much
as possible; do not lot to-day's lesson
bo a repetition of yesterday's ; read
ono word round to day, to-morrow un
til thoy mako a mistake, the next a
paragraph round, tho noxt day in
concert, etc ; be sure they name
the marks of punctuation in each les
son; never give long lesson, but what
you do giro havo thoroughly studied ;
bo sure they understand tbo names
and uses of punctuation marks. II you
work thus you will bo surprised at
the results accomplished ; a little ova
ry day sums up in the end,
""Whon you speak evil of another you
must bo prepared to havo others speak
evil of you. Thoro is an old Buddhist
provorb which says, "Ho whoindulges
in enmity Is like ono that throws ashes
to windward, which comes back to the
same place and ctvers Mm all over.
GEN. JOHN B. MAQR VDER.
AN APPRECIATIVE 8 K ITCH BY A FELLOW
I, . . . CAMPAIGNER.
Magrudor sleeps .ue sleep of a sol
dier in a rude Texas gravo, ovor which
there is no monument. Tho grass waa
growing about it in tbe early summer,
and there were some flowers thoro,
withered and faded, scattered by a
woman's hand.
Magruder v. a wonderful man. Ho
stood six foot four in height, and had
a frame mon envied and women ador
ed. His nerves woro all iron. For
eign travel and comprehensive culture
Hd given o his wit a zost that waa
always crisp and sparkling. Ue never
lacerated. To the sling ot repartee he
added the honey ol tho clover. He
could fight all duy and frolic all night
In tho morning a glass of brandy and
a strong cigar renewed his strength,
and caused the cup of his youth to run
over with tho precious wino of health
and spirits, lie lovod magnificent uni
forms, magnificent horses, magnificent 1
riders, and magnificent womon. Gift
ed and graceful in conversation, he was
a pet iu tbe boudoir and a logician in
tho barracks. Ilo bad studied French
in Paris, Italian in Rome, and Spanish
iu tho hall of the Montezumas. His
horsemanship was of tho English kind,
that is to say, not gracelul, but impos
sible to be surpassed for firm riding
and onduranco. Ue wrote littlo love
songs that woro sot to music. Ono of
them, "lmogone," had in it the plain
live melody of a lover, and the sad
rhythm of burial bugles. In tho Cri
mea he astonished the French officers
by sleeping at the front with tho chas
seurs under tiro. In Mexico he sent
back to tbe Arohbishop a lady's per
fumed glove he bad found in the pal
aco when tho city was won, and with
it a noto which read, "It is pretty
enough to havo bolongod to a Queen.
Would she have pardoned me if 1 had
appropriated il?"
As tho Archbishop sont him the
noxt day a basket of delicious wine, it
is supposed that tbo fair owner of the
glove must have looked leuiontly upon
tho handsome American soldier. La
tor, and ho was riding with General
Scott down the long street of Iturbide.
Gonoral Garnett joined them, and Ma
gruder drew a littlo back for his su
periors to consult togoiber. A white
puff of smoke curled up and about an
open window, a Buddcn report followed
speedily, and Garnett and horso rolled
over together upon tho pavement. An
ounce ball intended for Scott, had bro
ken Garnctt's thigh, and killed his
charger. Fearing another fire, Ma
gruder galloped to the side of his chief,
and covered his body with, his own.
Tho old man's cyo never dropped nor
his voice changed an intonation. "How
long will it tako to batter down that
house!" bo spoke curtly to Lieutenant
Magruder, pointing with a sweep of
bis finger to the one nearest, and from
which the bullet came. "An hour by
tho watch, Gonoral." "Then opon fire
at point blank range, and lcavo not
ono stono upon another."
It was done, and well done, and
those who bow Magruder soonest aftor
wards noticed that he had another bar
on bis cpaulolto, and tbat he had been
mado a captain. War was his clement,
tho bivouac bis delight, and the battle
his perfect happinoss. Prodigal, fash
ionable, foolishly bravo sometimes, a
spendthrift, generous, a true friond and
staunch comrade, the surrender at Ap-
pomatox Court House mado bim an
aged man in bis primo, and wrinkled
his features, which had before resisted
all tho attacks of time. One who wan
dered far and long with him in other
lands, in sweet sunshiny weather, re
lates how from Vera Cruz to Chapul
tcpoc ho went with Magrudor all over
the battle fields ol the Moxican war.
Tbo light camo to bis eyes and the fire
to his f'uco when telling of Control-as
and Churubusco, Perote, Molina do!
Key, and the Helen Gate, ( hapultepeo
and tbe City of Mexico. His talk was
never ended of Scott, Twiggs, Wool,
Worth.Smtlh, 1'illow, Taylor and Wuit-
man, and all the young subordinates
who afterwards played such Diootiy
parts in the greatest of American dra
mas. Of McClellan he told this inci
dent among a thousand others : " Tbo
fire from tbe bill of Chapullopoc was
terrible. Fifty piocos of heavy artill
ery were massed against my four gun
battery, at point-blank rango, ana in
tho valley below a regimont of lancora
were forming for a charge Our (ire
bad been slackened, ond tbe mon were
lying down. A young man sat beside
one of tho guns, amusing himself with
picking up pebbles and shooting them
out from bis hand. Tho lancors camo
nearer. 1 called to the young officor
whom I have noticed, and ho sprang
up saluting. 'Your name, Lieutenant r
'Gcorgo B. MeClollan." 'Very well,
Lieut. ; take command of ono of thoso
guns and dispcrso tho lancors.' The
gunners rushed to their pioces. All
tbo great cannons about Chapultcpoc
wont to roaring. The battle began
anew. Vt orlh was sweeping up ino
acclivity, tho lancors woro routed, ond
tbo next I saw ol Jilcuieiian no was
smoking a cigar in tbopalaco of Santa
Anna, his faco as black as a powder
keg, and an ugly wound in his arm.
Sedalia Mo.), Democrat.
Flowers. Amongst all tho pleasant
things of lilo and the all bountiful
hand of Providenco has scattered the
path of our days with innumerable
pleasant things, if man would but en
joy Ihem there aro few more pleasant
than a walk in mo nower garuen co
lore breakfast on a sunshiny morning.
To see thoso muto and still, though not
motionless creatures we mean tho
blossoms opening their painted bo
soms to tho benificent rays which giro
tbcm their color ond their loveliness,
welcoming tho calm blessing ol the
light, as if will) gratitude, and seeking
in their tranquil stato of being for
nothing but tbo good gifts of God,
might well afford a monitory lesson ;
for everything in nature has its homily,
to us, tho eager hunters after fictitious
onjoymont How calm do thoy stand
in thoir loveliness, now piacia in ineir
limited fruition of the elements that
nourish tbem bow, in thoir splendid
raiment, do thoy sparklo in tho sun,
how do they drink up tho cup of dow,
and gratefully givo back honey and
perfume in retnrn.
In order to make us content witb
our present condition, many of the an
cient philosophers tell us that our dis
content only hurls ourselves, without
being ablo to mako any alteration in
ourcircumstunccB. This rather silences
than satisfies. Tbey give despair
rather than consolation. A man might
reply to ono of these comforters as Au
gustus did lo his friond, who advised
bim not to griove lor the death of a
person whom bo loved, because his
grief could not tetcb him to life again.
"It is for that very reason," said tho
Emperor, "that 1 griovo." On tho
contrary, religion bears a more tender
regard lo human nature. It prescribes
to every miserable man the moans of
bettering his condition ; nay, it shows
him that tho bearing of his afflictions
as ho ought lo do will naturally end
in the removing of them ; it makos
him easy hero becanso it can make
bim hnppy hereafter.
About four o'clock on tho afternoon,
during tho recent eclipse of th aun, a
resident or Whitney street drove bis
chickens into the smoke house, " 'cause
de col I ipso was commin', and lie didn't
want dem caught out aftor dark."
A lady being joked the other day
about her nose, which has an inclina
tion to turn up, said : "Ah, do not say
anything about my nose. I bad noth
ing to do in shaping It it was a birth
day present I"