qms>a M&irsnsjcßsm ss sss? a tp^suiasisnsißSs,
Whole No. 2757.
VjCwlstown Post Otlice.
Mails arrive and close at the Lewistown P.
0. as follows :
ARRIVE.
Eastern through, 5 33 a. m.
" through and way 4 21 p m.
Western " " " 10 38 a. in.
Bellefonte 44 " 44 2 30p in.
Northumberland, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, 6 00 p. m.
CLOSE.
Eastern through 8 €0 p. m.
*' " and way 10 00 a. m
Western " " 330 p. m.
Bellefonte 8 00 "
Northumberland (Sundays, Wednesdays
ami Fridays) 8 00 p. m.
Office open from 7 30 a. m. to 8 p. m. On
Sundays from Bto9 am. S. COHFORT, P. M.
I.ewistoivu Station.
Trains leave Lewistown Station as follows:
Westward. Eastward.
Baltimore Express, 4 40 a. m.
Philadelphia " 5 33 44 12 20 a. m.
Fast Line, 626 p. m. 350 * 4
Fast Mail, 10 38 44
Mail, 421 44
Through Accommodation, 2 35 p. m.
Emigrant, 9 12 a. m.
Through Freight, 10 20 p. m. 120a m.
Fast 44 340a. m. 815 ' 4
Express 44 11 00 44 2 35 p. m.
Stock Express, 5 00 44 9 05 44
Coal Train. 12 45 p. m. 10 38 a. m.
Local Freight, 645a. m. 626 p. m.
4Sf"-<ialbraith' Omnibuses convey passengers to
and from all the trains, taking up or setting them
down at all points within the borough limits.
SEC. 7T. ELDER,
Attorney at Law,
Office Market Square, Lewistown, will at
tend to business in Mifflin,Centre and Hunting
don counties ray 2(1
iD-ik
IS 533 X? <0 H SS3 <SJP
OFFICE or East Market street, Lewistown,
adjoining F. G. Franciseus' Hardware
Store. P. S. Dr. Locke will be at his office
the first Monday jh month to spend the
week. my3l
DR. J*. I. MARKS
OFFERS his Professional services to the
citizens of Lewistown and the surround
ing country. Office in the Public Square op
posite the Lewistown Hotel. janl3-6m*
Large Stock of Furniture on
Hand.
A FELIX is still manufacturing all kinds
•of Furniture. Young married persons
and others that wish to purchase Furniture
will find a good assortment on hand, which
will he sold cheap for cash, or country pro
duce akeo in exchange for same. Give me
a call a • Valley street, near Black Bear Ho
tel. feb 21
Jacob C, Blymyer & Co,,
Produce and Commission Mer
chants,
LEWISTOVVN, PA.
tt?*Flour and Grain of all kinds pur
chased at market rates, or received on storage
and shipped at usual freight rates, having
storehouses and boats of their own, with care
ful captains and hands. Plaster, B'ish. and
Salt always on hand. sep2
Lock Repairing, Pipe Laying,
Plumbing and White Smithing
HPIIE above branches* of business will be
1 promptly attended to on application at
the residence of the underaigued in Main
street. Lewistown.
janlO GEORGE MILLER.
AND
BRAID STAMPING
Done on the most fashionable patterns by
MRS. MARION W. SHAW.
Lewistown, Sept. 23, 18G3-
Kishacoquillas Seminary
AND
NORMAL INSTITUTE.
fTHIE Summer Session of this Institution
I will commence on
MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1864,
and continue twentyone weeks.
Cost for Board, Furnished Rooms and Tu
ition in the English Branches, per session,
stiO.
Day scholars, per session, sl2.
Music. Languages and Incidentals extra.
In order to secure rooms in the Institute
application should be made before the open -
ing of the school.
For further particulars, address,
S. Z. SHARP. Prin.
jan 13 Kishaooquillas, Pa.
Mt. Rock Mills.
ORDERS
FOR FLOUR, FEED, 4c.,
CAN, until further notice, be left at the
Store of S J. Brisbin & Co., or at the
Hat Store of W. G. Zollinger, at which pla
ces they will be called for every evening, fill
ed next morning, and delivered at any place
in the Borough.
nolS G. LEIIR.
BEST Note and Letter paper at
march 2. SWAIN'S.
TALKS & SKHTKSfiS
Matty Esmaine's Raffle,
"
'lt's for the benefit of the sick soldiers,
you know !'
Matty Ksmaine was sitting on a low
cricket in the very middle of the room,
surrounded by a perfect maelstrom of rib
bon, and velvet, and winking steel heads
and glimmering gold braid, a little Fairy
Disorder, whose wand was u diminutive
thimble, and whose magic ring was mark
ed by rainbow scraps of silk and tangled
mass of embroidenf floss ! She, smal and
: rosy, with liquid brown eyes, and cheeks
; tinted with the pinky pearl of the trailing
arbutus you sometimes find hidden under
the rustling layers of old leaves in sceot
: ed spring woods.—And her auburn hair—
j well it was looped up with cherry colored
j ribbon into what ladies call a 4 waterfall,'
; and very pretty it looked in its chestnut
shadows that changed to ripples ol gold at
j every motion of the head.
Kilen Ksmaine, the sober, elder sister—
who sat in the window seat, threading
! sprays of coral on the silver wires—was al
j together d : fferent; not a hit pretty, but ve
ry fresh and lovable; and the demure way
in which she watched Matty's elfish move
ments as a grown up cat might tolerate a
| little kitten's freaky, was a sight to see !
I Aud Montague Rayner, sitting 4 anchor' in
j a clear space in the sea of trippery, was
j occupied in holding a skein ot violet silk
; for the younger Miss Ksmaine to wind O!
j course he was dreadfully clumsy about it,
perpetually dropping the ends, and catch
' ing his great thumbs in meshes, and com
I mitting every faux pas that could be
j dreamed of in connection with a skein of
j violet silk; but then he enjoyed it so in
; tensely that Matty hadn't the heart to de
pose him from his position as swifts, pro
j tem
4 For the sick soldiers, eh ?' said Mr.
Rayner. 4 And am't the well soldiers to
derive any emoluments fherefrom V
4 Ot course not: they don't need it.'
4 Don't they ?' 1 tell you what, Miss
Mattv—if you could be on picket-duty a
| night or two, or carry a knapsack up and
i down the muddy Fairfax bills ten or twelve
j hours on a forced march, you might possi
bly alter your opinion on the subject of
well soldiers being the most fortunate
: creatures in existence. Hallo ! what's the
! matter!'
Matty had given a small deprecating
j shriek as Montague snapped the strands of
the violet silk in his enthusiasm.
'Nothing,' said Miss Ksmaine, dryly ta
i king the skein from him. Venus ! what a
| sensation ran through him as the soft rosy
: lingers touched his brown paws. 4 Only i
i prefer two chairs to finish this silk.'
j 'lndeed, Miss Matty, I'm very sorry,'
| said Montague penitently. 'Just let me
I try Tmce more; I'll promise to keep my
hands as still as mice. I know I'm a cluui
sy blockhead ; but—'
But Matty was inexorable, and the abash
: ed delender of his country withdrew his
batteries and opened fire in a new spot.
'Suppose the girls aud women are mak
J ing heaps of gini cracks for this fair, eh ?'
I 'To be sure they are,' says Matty, her
eves sparkling. Such a lot of money as
we shall make. There are to be seven dif
ferent raffles, only think ! Mrs. Vere
I gives a piano to be raffled for; and Kate
Windham contributes a cashmere shawl, a
I love ola real India ; and Major Hall has
| given us a silver dressing case ; and, oh
dear !' sighed Matty, stopping the very act
of sewing spots of gold foil upon the blue
velvet wings of a gorgeous butterfly that
was to be put down in the catalouge a
' Pen wiper. No 18'— 4 if I could only give
them something better worth having than
these ridiculous little gewgaws !'
4 Well, then, why don't you ?' said Ray
ner, twisting his moustache argumentative
'y-
-4 \\ hy don't I V flashed Matty ; 4 what
have Ito give ? If I had a piano I'd sac
ritice it in a minute. If I owned a sew
ing machine I d send it down to be raffled
for to morrow '
'lndeed ?' said private Rayner, arching
his eyebrows satirically, 4 I'm surprised at
; the extent of Miss Ksmaine's patriotism.
While we soldiers only contribute the vi
tal stream of our hearts blood, or it may
be, a (eg or an arm to the shrine of our
country's need, Miss Mattie Ksmaine is
willing to give up her piano if she had one.'
And he lightly hummed the lines :
I'd like to aid the soldiers
If I could as well as not,
And I'm willing everybody else
Should give them all they've got.
Matty's cheeks had crimsoued with an
angry glow.
4 Montague ! how can you t< ase me so ?'
4 Am I teasing you ? Really I was not
r ware of it.'
4 To tsunt me with papa's slender means,
when you know I would give anything in
the world to aid the noble fellows who
have fallen maimed on our battle fields, or
to make any sacrifice that lay within my
power!'
4 Then you really feel anxious to raise
money for this lund ?'
4 1 cant tell you how anxious!' said
Matty Ksmaine, with passionate earnest
ness. 4 1 have wished a thousand times I
were a man to shoulder the rifle my own
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1864.
self; but I am only a poor little woman
that can but toil and pray lor the gieat
work in the quiet of her own home '
' I can give you an idea,' said the young
man, watching htr with half a smile on
her lips 'Did you know that you poa
sessed a treasure worth a dozen pianos !'
' Now you are teasing iue again,' said
Matty with a quivering lip.
4 No I am not. 11 you will contribute
it to be raffled for—as you ladies say in
reference to your genteel lotteries—l be
lieve I may safely promsie that you will
sell firry tickets at ten dollars a ticket 1'
'bitty! repeated Matty, counting on
her fingers with girlish delight; 'at ten
dollars! Why that would be five hun
dred dollars !'
4 Of course it would.'
4 What on earth do you mean, Montague
Rayner ? said Ellen Ksmaine, suspending
her silver wire in mid air.
' Jus exactly what I say.'
Matty dropped her work, while cheek
and eye lighted up in bright unison. The
next moment her countenance fell.
4 Montague you ought not to play on my
credulity in this absurd sort of way.'
4 Shall I tell yon what the treasure is?'
4 Yes.'
lie leaned over and whispered a word
or two in her ear. She blushed rosier
than :he ribbon that tied up the ' watertall,'
aud then burst into a merry musical laugh
4 I don t care,' she said defiantly. '1
to iff'
4 Really and truly ?'
4 Yes, really and truly. Why not V
'1 hen said Mr. Mou agi e Rayner, draw
ing a ten dollar bill from his pocket, put.
me down as a ticket holder number one
Miss Ksmaine deposited the bit of pa
per in a little wire cage that she called her
purse, and made a business-like uiemoran
of the transaction on her tablets.
' \ ery well, sir,' she said quietiy. ' And
now I depend on you tor the other forty
nine subscribers.'
4 But 1 should like to take a few more
tickets myself,' said Montague rather sheep
ishly.
'No, sir !' said Miss Ksmaine, with an
emphatic stamp of her little kid foot on
the floor. 'No one shall purchase more
than one share! f!o now I dismiss you to
agency duties.'
Montague was rather unwilling to take
his departure on this unceremonious ticket
of leave, but Matty was to be melted neith
er by supplicatii*iis nor sulks, and hp went
Went muttering to himself as' he light
ed his cigar on the street corner.
' \\ hat a little, loving, fiery, tender, pas
sionate creature she is! Well, if 1 can't
marry Matty Ksmaine I'll ram my head
into the first wide mouthed cannon Jefl Da
vis is considerate euot-gh to plant in in\
way. And then it's like slu- won tare!
Heigh-ho ! I'd give my first chance ior a
pair of shoulder straps to get a peep into
Matty Ksmaine s heart! 1 wonder wlieth
er Eve aggravated Adam alter this fash
ion !'
Most probably she did, Private Rayner
We have no reason to suppose that human
nature has been materially changed by the
current event ol six thousand years.
'Why yes—yes. saiu Mr Josiali Car
berry, vigorously rubbing tiie gold eye
glasses that assisted his lading vision, and
giving his wig a sly jerk ; 'l've no objec
tion to contributing my humble mite to so
deserving a cause. I wish there weren't
so many bothering women tolks at the
helm though, Montague, my hoy. Of all
things a managing woman is my abhor
rence—l doo t like to come in contact with
'em il I can help it. And lam consistent
too, Monty—ha, ha, ha ! i)o you know
who darns my stockings and foils my coffee,
eh ? Why, Black Tom—and he's worth
forty housekeepers with their petticoats
and palavering ! Ain't that carrying out
one's principles, hey ? However. I've no
objection to go through this Fair with you
if you'll engage to stick by me aud keep
all the old maids and widows awav.'
And Mr. Carberry walked solemnly un
der the canopy ot stars and stripes that
draped the entrance to the brilliant lighted
rooms now thronged with gay guests attract
ed thither by mingled motives of fashion,
curiosity and patriotism, arm in arm with
Montague Rayner.
' Mont, my boy,' he whispered, aghast,
' there s a woman looking very hard at me.
Do you suppose she means anything ? I
wish I had staid away—it isn't—'
' something, Sir. 9 ' said a charming
siren, in blue silk and swans down, from
behind a table glittering wi h crystalized
sugar aud colored confectionery. Mr. Car
berry shrank close to Montague's side.
' Look here, Mont he ejaculated ner
vously, ' you ve got me into this scrape, and
you must get me out of it. Tell that fe
male I don't want anything !'
' Rut you II buy something to help the
cause along! laughed his companion.
'Any thing—every thing! Only Mon
tague you tell me how to invest, and do be
quick about it! Somehow I cannot breathe
Ireely when there's so many women around!'
'Then suppose you buy a ticket for Miss
Esmaine's raffle. Come, I'm on the man
aging committee, and there's just one left.'
'What is it for? A harpsicord that I
csn't play on, or ajuggering bonnet 1 can't
wear?'
'Nonsense, Carberry,' returned Rayner
with great equanimity; -its somewhat he
yond money and beyond price—a womb -r
luUiystery Invest, and you'll not regret
it lake share No. 50, old teilow—come!'
He had inscribed Carberry on the lis',
and handed it to Ellen Ksmaine before the
astonished old bachelor could take the bank
bill from his portmoiujie.
'Aejic, you ve done it,' was his despairing
comment, as he looked „iter his friend's
vanished form. 'Mind now I'm not re
sponsible; if it's a dog 1 won't have it, and
it it is a piano or a wax doll I'll shy it out
1 of the window.'
'Just as you please, Carberry,' said Ray
ner, absently watching the busy swarm of
people that eddied round Ellen Esmaine's
table. 'J he old bachelor gave him a sud
den nudge.
'Mont! Mont!' he whispered iu evident
trepidation, 'let's go away from here; that
j woman with the pink cap ribbons has look
! ed at me twice, and 1 can't imagine what
her intentions are. She's coining this way
j Mont; do make haste!'
'They are begioning to turn the wheel!'
! suddenly exclaimed Montague,wlu> had paid
| no manner of attention to his friend's spas
modic whispers. 'This way, quick! Good
| Heavens! if my mad freak should make
I her miserable for life!'
'.Make who? What wheel? Who the
deuce are you talking about?' ejaculated
Carberry. But Rayner dragged him
through the crowd, crinoline and all, to the
spot where all his interests were centered
—the slowly revolving wheel that was a
destiny to him 2
Ihe gas lights seemed to whirl in mad
circles around his head; the various excla
illations of the surrounding crowd blended
into one stream of vague uncertain sound !
the five minutes were like five ages to him !
1 here was a moment ot breathless silence
and then tbe lucky name and number were
pronounced.
'Carberry—Josiah Carberry—Share No
SU, has drawn the prize,' said the epecta
cied secretary. 'Walk iu, Sir, and take
possession '
'1 1 don't want to—some other time !
I'll call again to-morrow,' stuttered the
confused recipient of fortune's favors, but
all in vain; he was poshed forwatd to the
anteroom, expostulating all the way.
'Mind now ! he gasped as he was precipi
tated through the doorway, 'if it is a dog
or a parrot I'll—'
And the clanging hinges shut in the
remainder of his speech
If was a tiny room, with one chandelier
pouring white tides of lijght down on a fair
young girl, who stood laughing and color
ing in the middle of the apartment —Mattie
Ksmaine's dimpled, pretty self
'Miss Ksmaine!' faltered the blushing
bachelor, looking r. und to see if there was
any crack in t- i fh> r wide enough to van
i-h through and hacking confusedly toward
:ie door.
•' t-s, Mr t'arberry,' sa d Maftie demure
!y; catch a woman bating one jot '•! her
advantages when she knows'em '7' i rhe
prize, won't you take me!'
"•i'd sooner take—poison!' enunciated
Josiah, breaking into a coid perspiration.
'But you must', said Mies Muttie deci
dedly.
'Don't, Miss Esmainc.' groaned Josiah,
'l'm a poor, unprotected fellow, and you
oughtn't to be so unmerciful! llallo here !
let me out.'
'Not yet,' said Montague, edging him
sell into the room greatly to Miss Matty's
contusion 'You've drawn the prize Mr.
Carberry, and you're legally bound to take
possession of it.'
Josiah stared at him with distended eyes,
and pale quivering lips.
'Unless,' went on the ruthless private,
'you can get some friend considerate
enough to take the responsibility off your
hands, and—'
'L ok here, Mont,' exclaimed Josiah,
seizing Ilayner by the button hole; 'you're
not the fellow to desert an old iriend in such
a strait as this. It was all your fault
that I subscribed, and—and—Come now,
you take her. That's a good fellow. Do.'
'\ou legally transfer the prize to me?'
'Yes; anything—only let me get out of
this confounded place, and if ever I go near
a Ladies' Fair again I wish I may be
hanged or married, I dont care which.'
And Josiah darted from the room in a
species of semi desperation. Private Kay
ner turned quietly to Miss Esmaine:
'A truce to these absurd jests ! O. Mat
ty if you knew what I have suffered during
the last hour!
'Do you sanction the transfer, Matty?'
pleaded the young soldier. 'Oh, my dear
est. tell me, have I won you for life? Don't
trifle with me. Tell me now and forever,
have you courage to be a soldier's wife?'
One momentshe looked on him with saucy
defiance in her eye and smiled, the next
she burst into a shower of jewel bright
tears.
'Oh, Montague, it is a wild, wayward
heart, not worth your love—not worth a
tithe of your noble affection, but it is all,
all yours.'
And tbis was the auspicious termination
of Matty Esmaine's riffle.
A week subsequently the young lady
sent off a check for five hundred dollars to
the hospitals, and a seven sheet long epis
tle to a certain young soldier who had
joined his regimeut at Chattanooga, in
sEnKHMisj ip^s-ar,,
| which was the following gauntlet of defi
mee
'Don't suppose I'm going to waste any
fini.rati ..i; on }our patriotism, sir, if you ore
' > he m_ lord and master some day. No,
indeed Didn't I give myself tor my coun
try s benefit, I'd like to know? And have
not I given something dearer yet —my love?
Ob. Montague, it Heaven sends you safely
back to me, I shall never be unhappy
again.'
For Matty Esmaine's heart was full of
the vague, happy feartulness that broods
above the heart of every woman whose
dear ones are standing on the battle heights
of the Union.— Uurpcr's Weekly.
MORAL MEL IGIOIiN
The Christian Gentleman.
He is above a mean thing. He cannot
stoop to a fraud, lie invades no secrets
in the keeping of another. He betrays no
secrets coufided to his own keeping. He
takes selfish advantage of no man's mis
takes. He uses uu ignoble weapons in eon
troversy. He never stabs in the dark.
He is ashamed of inuendoes. He is not
one thing to a man's face and another at
his back If by accident he comes into
possession of bis neighbor's counsels, he
passes upon them an instant oblivion. lie
bears sealed packages without tampering
with the wax l'aper not meant tor his
eye, whether they flutter in at the window,
or lie open before him in unguarded expo
sure, are sacred to him. He profanes no
privacy of others, however the sentry sleeps
Bolts and bars, locks and keys, hedges and
pickets, bond> and securities, notices to
trespassers, are none ui thou for him. He
may be trusted himself rut ol '-'•■tit —near-
est the thinnest partition— anywhere.—
He buys no office, lie sells none, he in
trigues for none. He would rather fail
gain to his lights than win them through
dishonor. He will eat honest bread. He
trainpies on no sensitive f'ecT-ng He iu
suits no man. if he have rebuke for a
nother he is straight forward, opeu and
manly. He cannot descend to scurrility.
Billingsgate don't iie in his track. From
all profane and wanton words his lips are
chastened Of woman and to her he speaks
with decency and respect. In short, what
ever he judges honorable he practices to
wards every man.
IMEEMMfiOIiX
The Army of Fugitives.
The following very graphic ;i n<l touch
ing letter, from Mr. N. II Mann to Her
Dr. Eliot, is published in the Louis
Democrat, and is dated the 7th of March.
An appeal to the charitable accompanies
its excellent description of the hungry host
ol the black Urea! which followed the re
turn of Sherman to Yieksburg:
The return ot Sherman's expedition had
been anticipated by us all as sure to bring
along a crowd o( blacks, but no one 1 think
had formed any idea of the utter destitu
tion, the squalid misery in which they would
come. Ail the way from Meridian this
black river flowed iu the wake of the army,
increased by constant accessions until sul
len and slow it wound its way into Vicks
burg with 4,500 souls. Following through
a country twice ravaged by a devouring
host, they had literally nothing lel't tljetu
lor subsistence but the remains left by our
troops Foraging parties scoured thecoun
try on either hand to obtain supplies for
the soldiers, hut no one brought these
people food, and houses and barns pil
laged and burnt left nothing for them
save what the hungry soldier eouid spare
Many touching incidents connected with
this exodus have been related to me, but I
have room for only one or two, and wili
hasten to relate what has come undei tny
eye.
Col. , acting brigadier on this
exped.tion, states that while the heaps of
railroad ties were burning in the streets of
Meridian, an old man was noticed warming
himself by the fire, and now and then
laughing hilariously to himself. A Major
stepping up to hiui said: 'Uncle, what
ure jou laughing at?'
'Oh ! massa, Fsc been a slave all my life
—these sixty seven years. I worii for my
massa and be his nigger. To night l'se a
free man ; yah ! yah ! yah ! Two or three
days Yankees go away, and I be slave a
gain; but two or three days l'se been a free
man, any how; yah ! yah ! yah !'
Superstitions of the Sea.
IPtM it a Warning"*. —We find the fol
lowing in a late number of the Liverpool
Mercury :
On Saturday, a dispatch from the Brit
ish Consul at Coquiiobo was received by
the Secretary ol the Board of Trade, an
nouncing the destruction by fire of the
English hark Usk, while on a voyage from
the Swansea to fiuasco.
Before giving the details of the dispatch,
it may be stated that tliis was the unfor
tunate ship which put back eariy last year
from Cape Morn to England inconsequence
of the captain seeing, as he alleged, a vis
sion on the oceau which warned him not
to proceed any further on the voyage, and
that in the event of his persisting, both be
and the ship would be seat to perdition.
New Series—Vol. XVIII. No. 22.
Toe vessei s return 'o Cardiff, after a lapse
ot nearly t-ix months, in a good seaworthy
condition, naturally astonished the owners,
more especially when they heard the curi
ous story which had operated upon the
Captain's mind in putting the ship hack
when she had so nearly reached her desti
nation. A liuard of J rude Inquiry was
instituted into the Captain's conduct
The crew were examined, and they tip* ke
ot him as being a very sober, careful mast
er, although somewhat eccentric in his
manner, and when they had found that he
hud put the ship hack without any reason
for so doing, the chief mate remonstrated
with him and endeavored to take charge,
which the Captain resisted by placing
him in irons, 'llie Captain WHS exam
ined. and he solemnly declared that af
ter what had appeared to him he could not
go on ; it was the vision of the Lord, and
he was bid not to go on The result of
the inquiry w is that his certificate was can
celled A new master was appointed to
the ship, and she sailed on a second voy
age.
Governor Halm on Slavery
The new Governor of Louisiana has pro
nouneed his inaugural address. He speaks
good sound words, and certainly seems not
to deserve the suspicious g .'an cos that aro
directed towards hiru. Hr Hahn says:
I he I nit u of these States, handed down
by our Revolutionary ancestors, is of more
value than any faisely styled* Stale Rights,"
especially when these ''rights" ineun see
tiotiul institutions, founded on a gr- at mor
al, social and political evil, ami inconsistent
with the principles ot' Free Government,
i lie institution ot Slavery is opposed alike
to the rights ot one race and the interests
ot the other; it is the cause of the present
uum'ily attempt to break up our Govern
ment; and, unpleasant as the declaration
may s< umi to many ot you, 1 tell you that
I regard its universal and immediate ex
tinction as a public and private blessing.
It is not to be supposed that in the adjust
ment ot the altered relations of labor to
capital, an immediate satisfactory result
can fie reached, although the happiest
results have already been witnessed on
many plantations now w. -bed a r <d eultiva
ted under the compensated labor regulations
ol the distinguished Commander of thi.)
Military 1 department.
A desirable result will soon I c generally
attained, if the difficult natter is takerf in
ham as a practical question, free from the
perplexities that cannot fail to encompass
it were a return to the old system among
us conceivable or possible. To profit, as it
is in our power at once to do, by our situa
tion, we must dismiss dreams of the pnst
and accept accomplished facts as they are,
and as they are evermore certain to remain.
In the nature of tilings, if we will only
act. as become sensible people, the great
ness we have momentarily had eclipsed
will be ours again, and secured to us by a
more binding and lasting tenure than ever
before. It must be based on u devotion to
the Cnion, on a love of liberty to all men,
and on a spirit of justice and humanity.
The losses, if any. incurred by this change
in our labor system by the truly loyal
citizen, will doubtless be properly returned
to him iu due season by a generous Gov
ernment
Freedom and the Union, as the only
means of ensuring prosperity and perma
nent peace, are the safe pledges of Governor
Hahn's message.
—Make it a habit to keep clean.
1 hat was an inquiring young mind
that the schoolmaster where all the
figures went to when they were rubbed out.
—it is a fact creditable to barn yard na
ture, that., while curses come home to
1 roust, roosters never come home to curse.
—W hen a married man pays more at
tention to liis wife's cousin than to his wife,
h is a certain sign that the cousiu's visit
has been long enough.
'My 1 jord,' said the foreman of a Welsh
jury, when giving in their verdict, 'we
| tind that man that stole the tnare not
guilty '
Much of the pain and pleasure of
mankind arises from the conjectures which
j eveiy one makes of the thoughts of others;
we all enjoy praise which we do not hear,
and resent contempt whicli we do not see.
—I have no faith in eats; they are a cold
blooded race; they are the politicians
i among domestic animals ; they care little
who is master, or what are the overturn
i ings, so their pickings are secure; and
' wh it are their midnight caucuses but pri
mary ineet"?>£p< ?— Tke Marotl.
„l/i Attack on the Profession* —The
Shy lock who, with head erect, with hon
j est people mingles, should cease to shave
i his iellow men, and go to shaving shingles.
The lawyer would he better off. his con
science far less pliant, who owned a little
j farm in fee, aud made that farm his client
YV c have some doctors in our midst,
whose talen's they should use, by practi
cing the healing art —heeling boors and
| shoes.
j The minister, whose sage advice, a use
ful moral teaches, should mind and watch
as we'll as pray, aud practice what ho
1 preaches.