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hav met at Chicago and now we will try
To save`ille Constitution and hush the Orphans'
cry,
We have placed in nomination and will stand
at his bat•k
The man who saved our Capital—the bold
• " Little MAC.-
Clorw,—
Th , ll hoist up the flag, long may It wave,
)ver the Iln ion, the home of the brave,
by the flag, long may it wave,
Mel 'lel l.•tn will defend the homes of the brae,
We love the Constitution, we love the laws us
To cif date their spirit no one ran ns compel.
To all their binding precepts we'll always I,ay
devotion,
But WI• never can endorse the "Negro
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laliove in the fitedian of. speech and llu
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arre,t,
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.v. 0 1 , 1 is the only legal tender,
11111 think the Nat ion's credit Abe will ;wet
ty sorm surrender.
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The Stolen Bride
I t was night, and in the rude log cabin
or G,Oodwin joy and happiness
reigned supreme fur this was the ‘‘-‘2(l
- night of Silas' only child. Mary
loodwin, becomingly dressed in a rube
of spotless white, and her
,golden ring
lets looped back from her tn:u•ble-like
brow, W 11,4 beautiful as a poet's dream.
I ly her side was John (lraham, the .
to whom she had plighted her trol
and one in every way deserving of the
priceless gem he had won. The man of
God had just spoken the words which
joined these two beings together, and a
Bunt or admiration arose from those as
sembled, :is they gazed uponthe manly
form of .1 ohn Graham and his beautiful
wife beside him.
As the friends were crowding around
the newly married pair, otibring con
gratulations, a small boy- was seen to
enter the room, and, push.ing his way
t hrough the throng, he approached the
lumpy and smiling bride.
" Lary," said the boy, in a voice
scarcely above a whisper, " the widow
Jones is umu•lt wiorse, and, as she thinks
she cannot survive much longer, wishes
to see von."
" I Kill hasten to her '4)edside hume
diately:" said :Nlary, a look of sadness
st,:ding over her beautiful face.
"And I will accompany you," said
her hushand, fondly taking her had.
" said tlic Loy, "she said that
Mary iust collie alone."
" NVlty is this"" inquired the hus
lad, apprehensively.
I do not know," sajd the boy. ":- , he
only said that she hail something she
wished to say to Allay before she died,
and that it must be heard by none
other."
" I will go to her,
will hasten hack."
" ary, " hut
Do so," said ht•r husband,
shall lii. wvary until
.y.ur arrival
Throwing a light mantle over her
sffiiwy shoulders, she passed swiftly
out of the house and sped along in the
direction of a small log house several
hundred rods ifway. As she was walk
ing. along the little narrow path, and
had nearly reached her place of desti
nation, a dark form rose beforeher, and
ere she could utter a scream, seized her
the arm, and, placing his hand over her
mouth to prevent an out-cry', hastened
away in the direction of the dark and
silent forest.
isis the man entered the wood, bearing
whir him his helpless captive, he was
joined by some score or wore of dark
looking men. When lier captor released
her for a moment, Mary looked up .and
foupd herself surrounded by a band of
Indians, and in the eh ief she recognized
one who hurl long tried to_ win her
Laud.
"Is this the way to treat a woman
asked .Mary, indignantly looking at the
chieftain, her eyes flashing fire, and her
form drawn proudly up to its fullest
" War Eagle great chief—big warrior
—make pale face my wife," said the
Indian, in a tone of triumph.
"This is a novel way of winning a
wife," said Mary scornfully.
" The pale face must not talk," said
the Indian in a haughty tone ; and then
turning he motioned his comrades to
IMIEM
The willing savages hastened to obey
their leader, and placing himself beside
the helpless girl, the hard-hearted chief
led her along through the dark and
silent forest. Shortly after the bright,
golden colored sun had arisen, the party
halted beside a small and sparkling
stream of water, and began making
preparation for the morning meal. A
large buck, which one of the Indians
had shot, was dressed, and a portion of
the choicest cooked. This, together
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with a eup of pure, cold water from the
little stream, sufficed for their break
fast, and when they had finished they
arose and .once more set out on their
journey. •On the eve of the next day
they reached a small Indian village, and
placing his captive in a neat yet small
wigwam, which stood in the centre of
the others, the Indian chief left her.
When the fair young girl found her
self alone she sank down upon her
knees, and there, in the midst of an In
dian eneampmentand herself a prisoner,
she offered a fervent prayer to Heaven.
When she had finished she rose, and
casting herself upon a huge pile of furs,
,was soon hurled in a deep and refreshing
sleep.
The next morning - she was awakened
by a light noise, and raising her head,
she heliehl the form of her hated perse
cutor, the Indian chief, standing before
her.
" Does the pale face know John Gra
ham ssked the Indian.
" Yes—what of him ? For mercy's
sake, speak ! What of hinr.'" ex
clahned i‘lary, eagerly clutching the
" He outsilie," responded the ludian
with a low Otuckle.
What are yon going to do with him?"
ai.4:01 Mary, quickly.
" O ( !" sighed the fair girl, " what
:-.11:0.1
Then casting herself at the feet of the
Indian, -die exclaimed,—
" Oh, save him ! Spare him ! Kill
me if you will, but spare my InHhand !"
\Vill you marry me it' I let him go
"Oh, I cannot I" =aid Mary. "I am
already married."
" Theo hi. : , .11:111 eat fire!" and with
these wank, tile chieftain strode from
the cabin.
"Oh (;od.'2'' murmured Mary, sinking,
upon her knees and clasping her hands
together, what shall Ido
Then, ill agony at her hushamrs sup
posed fate, 'she threw herself upon the
pile of furs and ,(,1,11,(1 convulsively.
Let us, ‘lear, reader, leave the fair pris
oner ((1 awhile in the hands of her in
human captors, while we take a look at
the cabin Silas I 1 is 111. Th, at,
settee of l\lary seemed to east a shadow
over the party. The Muir,. \VaS Stf.piwd,
11101 the one-legged tiddler, perched
high upon the top of a barrel, rested his
instrument his side while ever and
anon regaled hiimell from the contents
of a mysterious black bottle which oc
cupied a prominent po,ition upon the
barrel, quite as much its did the musi
cian himself.
.lohn became greatly worried at the
lnngcd ;Msenee of his wife as the time
sped away and she did not appear, and
about an h o ur after her departure, he
arose and announced his intention of
.going after her. _Most of the men pre-
sent voluntemed to accompany him,
and the anxious husband led the way
out of the house, followed by about
twenty - sturdy hack-woodsmen, not one
of svllool but considered himself a match
for the most savage animal in the forest
surrounding. A.s the eager husband
led the way along the little, narrow
path which Mary had taken, no sound
was heard save the regular tramping of
the men behind, and the occasional
hooting i d an owl in the neighboring
woods.
As they reached the little log c•ahin
occupied by the widow Jones, John
hastily opened the door and entered
the room. lie Mund the aged lady,
nuu•h to his surprise, quietly seated in
her easy .•11:tit • berm' the tire.
What's the matter?" asked the wor
thy dame, looking up. " \V - hat has
happened•"
" \V - here is Mary asked John, not
heeding her words.
"Law sus! What should I
know
about the dear critter."' ejaculated the
old lady in surprise.
" ILts she not been here?" question
ed the now deeply alarmed husband.
" Not since yesterday," replied the
dame.
" Then," said John, turning to his
followers, " has been a foul con
spiracy here, and we must sift the mat
ter to the bottom-
"'pose we gut a lantern an' go 'long
back the path, an' p'rhaps we may find
some signs o' her," proposed one.
` We will !"
John turned to the old lady and asked
fort he loan of a lantern fora short time.
The aged sufferer, eager to assist in the
discovery of the ilear critter," as she
called her, was only too happy to ac
commodate him, and silently she
motioned to one sitting on the shelf.
John took it eagerly, and having, lit it,
set out, followed closely by his friends
to retrace It is steps.
At a short distance from the house
one of the !nen discovered a glove, and
he immediately handed it to John.
"That is Mary's !dove," said the hus
band, eagerly pressing it to his lips.
Ily a careful search they discovered
evidence of a recent struggle, and with
much difficulty succeeded in tracing the
footsteps of two persons in the forest.—
icre it was a more easy 'wilier to fol
low the trail, and the friends hastened
on, hoping momentarily to conic upon
Mary. But, vain hope! for the next
morning they came upon the smoulder
hug remains of the tire where the Indi
ans had cooked their breakfast, nut con
tinuing their march, the white settler,:
passed on, and, on the morning - of the
second day, they came quite unex
pectedly upon the Indian village.
The settlers, seconded by John, were
for immediate attack, and led on by the
latter, they rushed simultaneously into
the village. The Indians were taken
completely by surprise, and the whites
had hut little difficulty to encounter in
rescuing Mary, whom they found in the
small tent where we left her. The meet
ing between husband and wife was fond
and affecting, and, without much delay,
the whole party hastened back to the set_
dement. The parents of Mary were
wild with rejoicings when they beheld
the return of their daughter whom they
had regarded as lost to them forever.
DIDN'T WAN'I"ro Jerseyman
was very sick, and was not expected to
recover. His friends got around his bed
and one of them says:
"John, do you feel willing to die?"
John " made an effort" to give his
views on the subject, and answered with
his feeble voice—
"I—think—l'd rather stay—where--
Pin better acquainted."
—The sun is best seen at its rising and
setting. So man's native disposition is
the most clearly perceived when they
are children and when they come to die.
The author of poor books cannot go
to Heaven. None can be saved who
have done no good Works.
—A. military definition of a kiss
would be a report gt headquartes,
A Thrilling Adventure
" Father will be done with the great
chimney to-night, won't he mother?"
said little Tommy Howard, as he stood
waiting for his father's breakfast which
he took to him at his work every morn
ing.
" He said he hoped that all the scaf
folding would be done to-night," an
swered the mother, " and that will be a
fine sight; for I never like the ending
of those great chimneys, it is so risky
for father to be last up.''
"Oh, then-but I will go and seek him,
and help them give him a shout before
he conies downy" said Tom.
" And then," continued the mother,
"if all goes on right, we are to have a
little frolic to-morrow, and go into the
country and take our dinner, and spend
all the day in the woods."
" Hurrah !" cried Tom, as he ran off
to his father's place of work, with a can
of milk in one hand and some bread in
the other. His mother stood at the door
watching 'hint, as he went merrily
whistling down the street, and she
thought of the dear father he was going
to and the dangerous work he was ens
gaged in and then her heart sought its
sure refuge, and she prayed to God that
He would protect and bless her treas
ures.
Tom with a light heart pursued his
way to his father•, and leaving him Ids
basket went to his own work, which
was at some distance, in the evening on
his way home he went around to see
how his father was getting along.
James Howard, the father, and a
number of other• workmen, hail teen
building one of those lofty r•hitnneys,
which, in our manufacturing towns
almost supply the place of all other•
arehitectural beauty. The c•]timuney
was one of the highest and most taper
ing that hail ever peen erected and as
TOM Shadol his eyes from the slanting
rays of the setting or the sun and looked
up in search or his rather, his heart
sank within him at the ttppalling sight.
I'liy scatrold almost dawn, those at the
bottom were rem,' :0111
poles. TOM'S father sn a il alone on the
top.
Ile then looked around to see that
everything was right, and then wzkving
his hat in the air, the men held w an
swered him with a loud cheer, little Tont
shouting as loud as any of tnem.
their voices died away, however they
he:u•d a Oitlia•ent sound, a cry of horror
:did alarm ft•o1Il above.
The men looked around, and coiled
upon the ground lay the ropes, \\Adel'
before the seoilidd teas a reMoved, should
have been fastened to the chimney, for
Tom's father to come 111)1V11 ! 'Chi
sealibbling had Lieu taken down with
out renwmhering to take up the ropes.
There was a dead silence. They all
knew it was impossible to throw the
rope up high enough to rein 11 the top of
the chimney or even if possible it would
hardly he safe. They stood in silent
dismay, unable to give any means of
safety.
And Tom's father. He walked around
and round the little circle, the dizzy
height seeming more fearful, and the
solid earth further from him. In the
sudden panic he lost his presence of
mind, is Senses failed him. He shut
his eye t: he felt as if the next moment
he must he dashed to pieeeson the ground
sdow.
The day passed as industriously as
usual with Tom's mother at home. t-dw
was always busily employed for her
husband or children in some way or
other, and to-day she had been harder
at work than usual getting ready for the
holiday to-morrow. She hail just fin
ished tier:u•rangements, and her thought
were silently thanking God for the hap
py home, and ibt all those blessing,
when Tom ran in.
His fitee - Nvas white as ashes; he could
hardly get the words out: " Mother,
mother! he can—he cannot get down!"
" Who, lad—thy father asked the
mother."
" They have forgotten to leave him
the rope,'' answered Tom still scarcely
able to speak. 'clie mother started up
horror struck and stood for a moment
paralized, then pressing - her hands over
her face, as if to shut out the terrible
picture, and breathing a prayer to (Psi
for help she rushed out of the house.
When she reached the place at which
her husband was at work, a crowd had
gathered around the foot of the chimney,
and stood quite helpless, gazing up, with
faces full of sorrow.
"He says he'll throw himself down."
" Thee manna do that, lad," cried the
wife with a clear hopeful voice : thee
'militia do that wait a hit. Takeoff thy
stocking, lad and unravel it and let
noun the thread with a hit of mortar.
1)0 you hear no .Jew '.'
The man made a sign of assent : for
it seemed as if he ei)ultl nut speak, and
he began taking off the worsted yarn,
row by row.
The people stood around in breathless
silence and suspense, wondering what
Tom's mother was thinking of; and
why shesent him in such haste for the
carpenter's hall of twine.
" Let down one end of the thread with
a bit of stone, and keep fast hold of the
other she cried to her husband. The
little thread came waving.hlown the tall
chimney, blowin,h , "
hither and thither
by the wind but it reached the out
stretched hands that were waiting for it.
Toni held the hall of twh be which his
toothier caut iously' tied it end of it to
the tht,ad.
" Now pull it shwly," cried :she to
her husband, as she gradually tut wounil
the string until it reached her husband
" Now hold fast and pull," cried she,
and the string got heavy and hard to
pull for Tom and his mother had fasten
ed a thick rope to it. They watched it
slowly uncoiling from the around and
the string was drawn higher.
There was but one coil left. It had
reached. the top. " Thank ( '' ex
elaimed the wife. She hid her face in
her hands in silent prayer and trem
blingly rejoiced. The iron to which it
should have been fastened was there all
right but would her husband be able to
make use of it? Would not terror of
the past have so unnerved him from
taking the necessary means for safety ?
She did not know the magical influence
which her few words had exercised over
him. She did not know the thought
with which the sound of her voice so
calm and - steadfast had tilled him as if
the thread that carried to him the hope
of hfe once more had conveyed to him
some portion of that faith in God, which
nothing ever destroyed or shook in her
pure heart. She did not know that as
she waited there the words came over
him, " Why art thou east down, 0 my
soul, why art thou disquieted within
me? Hope in God."
She lifted her heart to God for hope
and strength, but could do no more for
her husband, and her heart turned to
God and she rested on a rock.
There was a great shout. "He's safe,
mother; he's safe, cried Tom. "'Thou
hast saved my life, my Mary," said her
husband folding her to his arms.
" But what ails thee though? Thou
seemest more sorry than glad about it."
But Mary could not speak, and if the
strong arm of her husband had not
lifted her up she would have fallen to
the ground—the sudden joy after such
fear had overcome her. " Tom, let thy
mother lean on thy shoulder," said his
father, " and we'll take her home."
_ .
In thei r happy home they poured forth
thanks to God for great goodness, and
their happy life together felt dearer and
holier for the peril it had been in, and
for the nearness of danger that had
brought them unto God. And the holi
day next day was it not indeed a thanks
giving day ? '
LANCASTER, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1864.
ittisccliancoo.
MISCEGENATION
What the Republican Party Proposes to
do .with the Negroes after
Emancipation.
READING FOR WRITE MEN
The 3liiieeurnation Pamphlet Indorsed
by Republican Papers and
Politicians.
Testimony of Abraham Lincoln, Horace
Greeley, Goy. Andrew, Charles Snm
ner. Gen. Bank, Hon. Mr. Kelley,
11. W. Beecher, Wendell Phil.
lips, Angelina Weld. Sarah
M. G rinike. Lucretia Mott,
Theo. Tilton. Parker
Pillsbury. William
Wells Brown.
The New York Tribune.. Independent
Eve " g- Post. the Philadelphia Press,
The Principle, the Anti-Slavery
Standard, New York Loyal
League. I many others.
Lincoln and the Republican party
proclaim to-day that the war shall not
end until slavery is abolished. So far
the country thoroughly understands
them. lint the question further arises:
what is to be the condttion of the negro
when he has attained his freedom? We
fear that the people do not realize fully
the answer that Lincoln and the leaders
have already made to this question. Se
veral months ago a pamphlet was pub
lished, to which very general attention
was called, boldly advocating, a.,s the
only result, and the desirable result,
of emancipation, .the absolute social
and political equality of the negro with
the white; and even arguing in favor
of the benefits of a mingling of the
races by marriage. SUM(' of the more
conservative of the Republicans, unwil
ling to go to such a length, have denied
that these ideas have any wide-spread
advocacy ill their party, and have even
avowed that the pamphlet WaS printed
Cur the purpose of twinging discredit
upon Mr. -Lincoln's adherents. The
pamphlet entitled Miscegenation " is
published j,y the American News Com
pany, New York, and argues its posi
tion logically and fairly from the stand
point of Republican principles. But as
the pamphlet is objected to as evidence,
we proimse to-day to give some outside
testimony nom the ranks 11l Mr. Lin
(,)lll's 111054 earnest supporters, and, bet
ter than all, from Alr. Lincoln himself.
The Tr“y Dully Whig, a Republican
paper, in speaking of " miscegenation,"
said : " - We dare say that our readers
will be surprised, as we are, to learn the
extent to which this disgusting theory
linds advocates zunong the extreme Ab
olitionists, and how fast it is becoming
a prominent article in their creed."
But let us see—unless the Tiny 117zii/
will admit what is the fact, that Mr.
1 - ,incoln and his supporters are all ex
treme Abolitionists—if it is these alone
who argue in favor of miscegenation.
The leading Republican paper of the
eountry is acknowledged to be the New
York Tribon, . Several months before
this pamphlet was published the Tri
brot, contained an editorial article of a.
column arguing in favor of the equality
of the negro with the white, and assert
ing that diversity is the condition and
precedent of races on thiscontinent, and
their o.:Nizz;i/wiozz the problem. Alter
the appearanee of the pamphlet it pub
lished an editorial concerning it wholly
favorable, from which the following is
an extract:
The re is, no dubt, a great prejudice
against the 1:1:tek race in the lltiterl Slates:
lan it impoisilile to ,:ity ~s hot 111”
ri'salt of it clan/ mot n . rMeitinetie
:Ma it Win viititinlit , to be itilliOssilite to say
this with the least logical accuracy until fill
traces of the bondage in which the blacks
have feu' nearly lien centuries been held
have disappeared. Such proindire is by no
means it novelty, nor has it all been con
fined to.lilacks. All Christians in the mid
ill., age supposol that Jews exhaled a litol
odor from their Indies. and the Innrriuq of
it Jew , rug! Chris/leo, it thud prrif,el would
litre itcr'n (err nun, ihily to prorolcc a tnol,
ire any e;rilic,,l city than the in , triirlya , of tt
whit. , ',of Si'! a bliri± tt , be
There is the simple fail. It is impossible
to get around it, or under it, or over it, with
the whole copperhead power of wriggle.
Now, the white hatred of the black in tins
county is precisely of this character. Del
icate people say that it is natural. We an
swer that it is impossible to prove that it is
natural. rif course it is easy to classify its
different sources, A man of great refine
ment may dislike to assOotate with ig
norant negro as he with any ignorant
man of whatever tribe. A num proud of
his purse Map . scorn a poor negro as he
would a white-man. A num system
atically acquiescent in the wrongs and
cruelties of sueiciv , max - shun a negro as he
would any unpopular white. A man who
tins
nut lecn under-estillinted May be
joali or ittl'ellipt to rlo,justicc to others.
Mit IV, lutist insist that till this settles no
thing except our common inhumanitx--ex
fiept that in spite of our religious profes
sk ins, cheep togethen• et-S brethren=
e.innvit (hitt tre an tint, in spite of' our Bildcx,
hrlirac tlurt creafrd all intvi of cue
blooff
It is hard to decide how long this preju
dice may continue to influence SIR•il!tV ; And
it Will probable enntinue to he lilt long
after all traces A' it have disappeared i'roin
the stiante-books of all the States.
thin! , is certainly clear—that tinder the con
stitution in its most liberal interpretation,
find admitting our elicrshed Anteriean
dno
trine of Ifiniti) rights, ii n 11•Iolh' 111101
pletlxr , (eo
1i t (;.41 NM", , 11 . 1'f'S MI Om! rt 11 . 11 h t
lia(Vele to prevent' or Net aside sad,
11 a meth eon sr, far ton
ynrr ',wine,' to et bittek woman as to
"why her thr wother of his children, we ash- in
the now,. of thr• rfiuinr lullr and of dtTency,
why he should not ?merry her
Horace (.reeky, in whose paper Ulla
appeared, is to-day the principal elector
on the Republican ticket for Abrahani
Lincoln for the State of New York.
For most Republicans the authority 0
the Tribtoo' is sufficient to decide any
question, but we will not stop here.
Next, perhaps, in influence and circula
tion in the Republican party is the pro
fessdly religious Lale'pcndrnt, edited by
Henry Ward Beecher. The leading
editorial article of two columns in the
issue of February 2.5, 1864, was upon the
subject of miscegenation and contained
the following language:
Leaving out of view our native born
Americans of English descent there are
enough of other stocks on this soil to make
three other nations—namely, the Irish, the
or in ans and the negroes. Even the ne
groes number one million more than the
whole populati,;n or the United States at the
adoption of the Constitution. But these
three stocks have not. come hither to estab
lish th'emselves as distinct peoples; but
each to join itself to each till ill together
shall be built up into the monumental na
tion of the earth !
Read this again, Irishmen and Ger
mans! The article continues :
We believe the whole human race are one
family—born, every individual, with a corn-
Mon prerogative to do the best he can for
his own welfare ; that in political societies
all men, of whatever various race or color,
should stand on an absolute equality betbre
the law ; that whites and blacks should in
termarry if they wish, and should not unless
they wish ; that the negro is not to be al
(owed to remain in this country, but is to
remain without being allowed—asking no
body's permission hut his own; that we
shall have no permanent settlement of the
negro question till our haughtier white blood
looking at the face of the negro, shall forget
that he is black, and remember only that As
is a citizen.
The article concludes :
Whether or not the universal complexion
of the human family at the millenium
not be white or black, but brown or color
ed," we certainly believe that the African
tinted members of our community will in
the future gradually bleach out their black
21C88. The facts of to-day prove this beyond
denial. Already three-fourths of the'color
ed people of the United States have white
blood in their veins. The tv'o bloods have
gradually intermingled ever since there
were whites and blacks among our popula
tion. The intermingling will continue. Un
der slavery it has been forced and frequent;
under freedom it will he voluntary and
unfrequent. But by-and-by counting the
years not by Presidential campaigns but
by centuries, the negro of the South, growing
paler with every generation, will at Asst
pletely hide his fare under the snow:
It is for the Democratic party to try
to find some other "permanent settle
ment of the negro question" than this.
The New York Evening Post speaks of
it as a wrong and pusillanimous policy
to exclude the negro from our country-,
and says :
We are a more hetrogenous and mixed
people than any that ever before appeared
upon the earth ; more than our ancestors
even of (treat Britain, and to this mixture
we owe much of our peculiar energy, and
nearly all our peculiar liberality and genial
kindness of heart. Nowhere in the world
are there so few inveterate prejudices of .
race, nowhere so few pernicious distinetions
of class, nowhere so many large, just com
prehensive and lionificent social arrange
ments as in the United States, I wcause • no
where else has there been such a collision
and final commingling of races, 'all
we doubt that if we are true to the grand
opportunities of our position ill reference
to these poor debased African's, as well as in
respect to the hordes of uncouth foreigners
poured upon our shores we shall not only
elevate then' to a higher condition but pn
duce in ourselves a manliness and sincerity
of character that will lift the whole nation
as tar above other nations in -moral dignity
as it already is in physical power?
The Twentieth U. S. colored regim nt
on their passage through New York
city were presented with a Hag mid an
address by—to quote from the address
—" the mothers, wives and sisters of the
members of the New York Union
League club," which closed as follows :
When you look at this flag and rush
to battle or stand at guard beneath its
sublime motto ' and Liberty,' is
nu /alit r also ((ii emblem Qf love
oio/ honor (lona ilfr this
firHtt inetropolis to their brave champ
ions in the field, and that they will
anxiously wateh your career, glorying
in your heroism, ministering to you
when wounded and ill, and honoring
roue martyrdom with benedictions and
with tears."
How many more words would it take
for these " Unkin League women " to
say that they considered these negroes
worthy to ht• their hushands. An orator
in Jacksonville, 111., said a feW months
ago that \viler( the war was over the
" brave Othello,: of the South would
come North and elaitn their lair I)esde-
Miscegenation was a part of the origi
nal purpose (2,1* the Abolitionists.
Gen. Bank's when in the House of
_Representatives said " In regard to the
question whether the white or the black
race was superior, he proposed to wait
until time should develop whether the
white rave should absorb the black, or
the black absorb the white." General
Banks is now creating rotten boroughs
in Louisiana to elect Mr. Lincoln ;
as a preliminary step to the enforCe
molt of the odious doe rice of inisettge
nation, is breaking up all the private
schools of the city, and forcing white
children and negros to sit side by side
on the same forms in the public schools.
Governor Andrew, of Massaehusetts,
said in a speech in Boston, in 150,
" t- 4 1avery will die out, because the day
shall surely be when there will be one
whole family of man upon a sanctified
earth as there will be in heaven. But _I
do act inb-pd to teal( th, procidcl,
f (iod to work it OW."
Henry NVikoti at the third decade )t•
the American Anti-Slavery Souiety,
stmmieil up what this Administration
had Rune for the black inan--Nvoulil
tliat it litul (lone as 11101•11 for 1110 Nvllite !
Two 111,1 a halt' year, havt , Ictssn,l away,
and there stand. a prochtmailon—never
be r..alled nr iwnlin,l--dual;.in2; throe tnil
lions hundrell tiliill,i111(1 111011 ill 1110
rebel States free forevermot
there stand, :ill ;let forever prohihitidg
slavery in the va,-I Tort Mira., of the rimed
State,, (appi,tll,e)-Ihore , 1011(i , all
abolishing slat ery in the Ith , trict
:nilltbnnhlgodthat lleotselllolllo
1111 ,•t• introducing that
abolished the cleaving curse in the emtitill
,if my country. ['Flirt, cheer, 1,1-
were propm , ett l i v Fred
anti given hy the audieneed 'cher, stand,
int act annulling the slave codes and I,lack
la Nv, ,if the District of rolitinhia, making
the Mark n o n annonable to the ~a llll,
to lie tried in:1110 sante manner, :0111 to 1,, ,
subjected to the same punkhinent r; Hitt
111011, illlll 1 ant thankful that it NV:, Illy
privilege to introduce tlmt ineiedlre of jti,-
tice alid. hut There,
tan, stands xll a: t, oLHhut, the 1'1'1,4,10111
stilt :lutlii)rity to place lie' sugrd, the
the bayonet, :tad the ilag, in tic , hand- , or
Hail; men, I, iii-1111 tile bailie, uttbc
There ix the recognition f I 11 , ` Ithc k
republic ~f 1 layli and I,theria--the treaty
far the ,appri_ ,, ,ion of tile Afrh•an slaw
tra,le—the opinion of the .Idtornov 1 loneral
that the black. 110111 the
State,—and the pa,,-,p , 01 . 1. aC the Se,retary td
State, the et Mom, to the nation, of the
lultzetwbip I,t men of th e _
(Applau,e,
Senator Sumner in one day in the last
Senate offered a series of seven resolu
tions on the slavery and negro (hues
tions, presented memorials praying that
the right of suffrage may lie extended to
persons of African descent, i rt
ducL,l a bill to repeal the Fugitive Have
act and another to enable negroes to tes
tify in federal courts. A negro was put
in nomination for the ollice of chaplain
at the organization of the last Massachu
setts Legislature and was barely defeat
ed, and Mr. Sumner wrote to some, of
his friends 'expressing his "mortifica
tion that the friends of human progress
in the Legislature of the Old Bay State
had not been more united and elected a
colored chaplain."
Hon. Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, in
his reply to Mr. Col's speech on misce
genation, quoted a passage from a work
on Central America, in which it was
stated that " the great work of practi
cal amalgamation had been going on
quietly for generations; that colors were
considered a mere matter of taste, and
that some of the most respectable inhab
itants had black wives ,and mongrel
children," and Mr. Kelley added that
the incident purified our minister of
some prejudices, and continued : " Our
fellow-citizens of African descent, freed
by the rebellion, will not be long in
Americanising this, to them, congenial
region, in which complexional differen
ces do not affect the social or political
position of a man, if we have the sense
and humanity to give them a fair chance
for culture and enterprise.
Forney, commenting on this in the
Philadelphia Press, says: "These are
practical and, therefore, 'valuable truths.
They open the way for statesmen to new
thoughts and to new preparations for the
eternal adjustment of the tremendous
issues growiqg out of the war."
Thus all the administration leaders
and organs who have spoken of this
subject at all, have favored the " sublime
mingling of the races." The "new
thoughts" and "eternal adjustment"
spoken of by Forney, are, of course,
miscegenation.
" If anybody wants to marry a negro
honestly," says the Bangor Whig,, (Re-
Publican, of course,) "Let him do it."
" The only possible basis of national
peace and prosperity," says the Oswego
Times, an Administration organ, " is
the recognition of the equal manhood
and citizenship of every race on Ameri
can soil, without regard to color, nation
ality or previous social condition."
"The slave of yesterday," says the
Leavenworth Conserruti ye, the "soldier
of to-day, must be, will he, the citizen
of to-morrow."
The front rank of the Abolitionists,
who have always brought the others of
the party up to their standard are-over
head and ears in miscegenation.
As early as 1N1;.-3 Wendell Phillips said :
Reit lenther this, t he youngest of you : that
on the-6th day of July, 186:1, you heard a
man say, that in the light of ;ill history, in
virtue of every page he ever read, he was
an antalgainationist to= the utmost ex
tent. I have no hope for the future, as
this vountry has no past, and Europe has
no past, but in that sublime mingling of
whi c h Is t;,,,rs own method of civiliz
ing and idevating the world. God, by
the events of hi, provideni-e, is crushing out
the hatred of nine which has (Tippled this
(.011111ry twill 1.-day.
'Theodore Tilton followed more bold
ly, devoting a Nvhide address to the de
fense of miscegenation, on one occasion,
and saying
The liisiory of thii iiit i ilization is
We word— which many arti afraid
to spiiii k inany more anal(' to 11-al--
and that is amalgamation.
l'arker l'illsbury, 00 receiving ad
vanced sheets of the pamphlet, wrote in
rapture to the author:
coNcono, N. 11„ January 10, 1504.
re A mine, ln
oiniPm ,, /, ICI streeii -\-•
Thiaigh all unknown to hie, I thank you
tt ihmisaiiil one brit} reading of
the sheets eon have O. void 00 oouo
.
lv
nun Hilly geed ; in
deed, publicly known, might lit you more
harm than goad. work has cheered
and gladdened a v. inter which I
certainly li.•gan in t•lmirj and ,11;1,1()‘\•.
Y , 111;;I't• lilt. IntOk.—p111,111• it
Hid
I hmo into bOOO oontidoot or the elll.-
I , ,IIIeSS 4d . :,.?til• phil.:4lllll . V 'h.( I llSrlttri
. (11.1 , 1(r1 r• r i rrr., 711Irrhlirrt rIS
'hit ?Wl!' ”Irt rLirtgcs it mmill Ow .1
irr I r•ai`, (al,. place Where im
fruilful yr ;;;;happy twic , )1" Jistutinnst
ara recognized.
It way not Lo tint, If; say Lot
it Wilt Vet Ino said, and I think not, ti.f)s.)ll.
Ail OW IllySt wmuirwis
in niir
eVL•11,11'1,11111 , 1 tit' yet and I hail your
werk :Is it true pro
l i :tribl Inv Ittialti, fur I nut autibly
with w‘wk ; but
MO , l truly 0. at to)
EE. I'l I,l,Slit'ltY.
I'illsl to is so enthusiastic that he
desire, divorce, trranted so that white
men :nay discard their white wives and
marry negroes instead !
Alig,elina G. \\lid and Sarah
Grinthe write to the author:
We ;ire wholly one witli you in ()pinion
to the (lesivalileness of the
rr.nit which is inevitillily heron , our eoun-
Lucretia Mutt writes to the author
1 t NV:I , all early and hold step in the las
sachusetts anti-slavery society to petition
lot. the repeal of the I:1W 111111iing int(Tlllar
ri:urt, of the races a crime anti penal
tl
(encv! By thoir is , i-siste.w- this repoat was
ctiticted.
\lhert Brisbane writes to the author
Al ophihtu is that the different races 110 W
i~tin!_en the earth :ire but the MIAS, the
rude elements of ;t future and perfect race.
Dr. .1. ...\lcClllll` SHIM' writes• to the
•mutt :
lam LcilliLl to put my signature to your
\\*Winn' \Veils lirovn, another negro
:mil particularly by the Republi
can In
1,111•11i ,, 11 kill ..Xiingtli, , llSlAlVOlT ilk
MI1'1:11111, all.' the 110 . 12:11 iS 111`111,401111 and
f1)1•1•Ver (I) lII' a Kurt of Elie nation. 11is 1110011
to NVilll than liirmer tippriis
,iir, :not thi• tvVu in one will
111: . Ik1' a !wire and
ha, (vi .
5i.,11 1101 . 4 Wl'.
The nglo-African teemed with lois
ce,enetie arguments for months after
tile pamphlet \la, published. The
,17,t,1(1(t(1 published a long
and complimentary notice of it, saying:
The Inliirc tilitst decide Illy black and
whlle :11, 1lb:111.11 i;511 other in
111;11 . 1•1;1 , ZO. prnkil.ility is that there
xvi!l I, a prngressive intcriningling, turd
111:11 till' 11;Iii , ,11 v: ill I t b1 . 111 . 11t011 by it.
ninny will agree with 115 in
iindiii2; the 1/M11111144 interesting and in
-51511 1i ve, :Ind ill thiinking tho unknown
;111111,11'
Thl` NI`NV VOrk i itt.ll.l Say, 4
of the :argument iu the pamphlet:
It tithe of it to preve that
maile 11111. hilaal all Mahal, Of
1111'11, 1•111111 \VVII 1110111 With laltlat rights, and
that aIII 0 , 11)[ the VIVil ;LllllllO
- pri•D.u . nliVl, :11111 priViiogl, of whet.
The pamphlet, "Miscegenation," is
cliii i nenee, poetry and romance, emu
pared to somc of these expressions of
nun who have led and still lead the Re
pulilienn party. The pamphlet lays
111,11 - 11 the precise platform upon which
the Republican, must stand if they
carry out their theories. It is to the
party to-day what felper's book was a
w ye zt r,. ;Igo. The Itepuldicans, when
yaited from that hook, stoutly ilt—
nied that it represented their ViCWS.
To-day it is Lehinll the age, and "Mis
cegenation " takes it , place, flaunting
its Banner of "progress "—progress to
ward anarchy and toward sear of
ray os as well asa war of States. The
suh s ' i cet is disagreeable to talk of; but
Mit :Ind civil war were disiu , recii-
Lie to talk of five years ago; yet, if the
nation had been better warned of the
dangers that lay in its path, a different
spirit might have actuated the pOOlllO,
and compromise might have preserved
to us peace and prosperity.
Mr. Lincoln is as much an cider and
abettor of the Abolitionists in this new
policy of miscegenation as he has been
in their policy of emancipation. He
will go wherever they push him. Hear
Frederick Douglass' account of his visit
to the White House:
I have been down there, said he, to see
the President, and, as you were not there,
perhaps you may like to know how the
I , ,,id e nt or the United states received a
Wade man at the White House. I will tell
you how he received me just as you have
seen one gentleman receive another (great
applause t, with a hand a voice well halaneed
between a kind cordiality and a respectful
reserve. I tell you 1 felt big there. (Laugh
ter.) Let me tell you how I got to him; be
cause everybody can't get to him. Ile has
to be a little guarded in admitting specta
tors. The manner of getting to him gave
ine an idea that the cause was rolling on.
The stairway was crowded with appieants.
sumo of them looked eager ; and I have no
doubt some of them had a purpose in being
there, and wanted to see the President liar
the good of the country ! They were white,
and as I was the only dark spot among them,
I expected to have to wait at least half a
day ; I had heard of men waiting a week ;
but in two minutes after I sent in my card,
the messenger came out and respectfully
hivited " Air. Douglass" in. I could hear
in the multitude outside, as they saw me
pressing and elbowing my way through,
the reniark, " Yes, damn it, I knew they
would let the nigger through," in a kind of
despairing peace Democrat, I sup
pose.
In an address to a bogus association
calling itself the Working -men's Demo
cratic Republican Association, from
New York, Mr. Lincoln took especial
pains to place working negroes and
white men on an equality. Said he, in
his turgid and awkward way:
None are so deeply interested to resist the
present rebellion as the working people.
Let them beware of prejudices, working
disunion and hostility among themselves.
The most notable feature of the disturbance
in your city last summer was the hanging
NUMBER 38
of some working people by other working
people. It should never be so. The strong
est bond of human sympathy outside of the
family relation should be the one uniting
all working people of all nations, tongues,
and kindreds.
"Some working people by other
working people" means negroes by
white men, and the President suggests
that the white man should should love
the negro better than any one except a
relative: and where such a love existed,
of course he might possibly in time be
come a relative. But can President
Lincoln harmonize the repulsions of
nature? Can the Ethiopian change his
skin? This "higher law'! policy to
which we have become the victims
under this Administration is against
reason, against instinct, against nature,
against social order, against religion; it
has involved us in a ruinous civil war,
which if continued under the same au
spices, will lead us to still more disas
trous issues than those which now
present themselves to us.
We believe we have succeeded in
proving that the social and political
equality of the negro in its worst form
is now the avowed aim of the President
and his supporters.
We have quoted from Abraham Lin
coln, Governor Andrew, of Massachu
setts, Charles Sumner, Henry - Wilson,
General N. P. Banks, Henry Ward
Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Theodore
Tilton, Albert Brisbane, Wm. Wells
lirown, J. McCune Smith, Lucretia
Mott, Sarah M. Grinike, Angelina G.
Weld, John W. Forney, of the Phila
delphia Pr(ss; Hon. Mr. Kelley, of
Pennsylvania; the Loyal Leaguers, of
New York, the New York Tribtiiu, the
New York Evening Post, the Ne W York
huh pemlctit, the Pr/tic/pia:the .I)lK
,Vuer Slmlrlard, the Bangor Whig,
the Oswego ritt,,, and other Republi
can local papers. Our extracts are not
garbled, but :ore the honest expression
of opinion or these persons and papers.
They might have been extended in
length and number, but arc sufficient
for our purpose.
The Mode in Which Soldiers Shall Vote.
The following is an abstract of the hill
prescribing the manner in which sol
diers shall vote :
SEcTiox first provides that whenever
any of the qualified electors of this (
mon wealth shall be in ticttud military
service under a requisition from the
President or ( tovernor, uutl consequent
ly absent on the day or holding general,
special, or presidential elections, they
shall be entitled to exercise the right of
suffrage as fully as if they were present
at their proper ',laves of voting., and the
right of such voter is not to be impaired
by reason of his heingcredited for bounty
in any other locality than his actual
residence.
Slit'. 2. A poll is to lie opened in such
company, composed in whole or part of•
l'ennsylvania soldiers, at. the quarters
of the captain or other officer, and all
electors of said company, who shall be
within one mile of such quarters
on the day of election, and not
be prevented from returning by the
proximity of the enemy or orders of
commanders, shall vote at such head
quarters, and no other place. Officers,
other than those of a company, the other
voters detached and absent from their
companies, or in any military and naval
hospital, or in any vessel or navy-yard,
may vote•at such other polls as are most
convenient to them. When there are
ten or more electors unable to attend at
the company polls or other proper places
of election they may open a poll at such
place as they may select.
Stic. X. The polls are not to lieopened
before 7 o'clock, and must be kept open
three hours, and, if deemed necessary
iti order to receive all the votes, until 7
o'clock in the evening.
Stir. 4. Before opening the polls the
electors present shall elect, rim
three persons for judges, and the judges
shall appoint two clerks, and prepare
boxes fit' the ballots.
SEC. 5, Before reeeivingany votes the
judges and clerks shall lie sworn to ob
serve the law and guard against fraud
and deceit, and this oath must be enter
ed on the poll-book and signed by the
judges ankl clerks.
Six'. sl.All voting shall he by ballot,
and the applicant to vote, if challenged,
must he examined under oath by the
judges as to his right to vote in the pre
cinct in which he claims residence.
SEC. 7. Separate poll-Looks shall be
kept, and separate returns made, for the
votes of each city or county. The poll
books shall 1101111. the company and re
giment, and post, place or hospital in
which the election is held. The county
and township, city, borough, ward, pre
cinct, or election district of each voter
shall lw endorsed opposite his name on
the poll-books, of which each clerk shall
keep one.
Sea 5. The tickets shall have upon
them the names of all the officers for
whom the elector desires to vote.
figs. 1. On receiving the ticket the
judges !Oust pronounce audibly the
name of the elector presenting it, and
if satisfied of the right of the elector to
vote, and he is not challenged, shall
deposit the ballot in the proper box,
while the clerks register the name and
legal residenee of the voter in their
poll-hooks.
11). At the close of the polls the
number of voters must be counted, set
down, and certified at the foot of the
poll-books.
Htx•. 11. After the poll-books are sign
ed the hallots are to he vomited, each
judge reading the names thereon, and
the third stringing the vote of each
county on a separate string, and care
fully preserving the same.
SEc. 12. Where two tickets are folded
tar ether, both are to be thrown out,and
where two ballots are voted together for
the same office, neither is to be counted
for that office.
Sbc. 13. Each clerk shall keep, in tul
dition to the poll-book, a list of the
voters for each county, which shall
constitute part or the poll-book.
Six. 14. The number of voters on tliese
county poll lists must also be set down
and certified.
SEC'S. 15 and, ln prescribe the form of
poll-book, anti the manner of entering
the returns.
SEC. 17. After canvassing the votes,
the judges will seal up and send the poll
!sink lists, and ballots to the Prothonary
of the proper county, and secure the
other poll-book and lists, to be called
for by the Commissioner appointed un
der the act. If not called for within ten
days, the second book,. are to be
sent to the Secretary of the Common
wealth.
SEC. IS. The Prothonotary must fur
nish the Return Judges with a certified
copy of returns so received.
SEcs. 19 and 20. The return Judes are
to meet on the Second Tuesday of No
vember to count and enter the vote of
soldiers thus returned.
SEC . 21. In 1 3 residential elections, all
returns received by the Hecretary of the
Commonwealth are to be compared with
the county returns, for the correction of
the latter.
SEC. 22. All elections are to be subject
to contest as under present laws.
SEC. 23. The Secretary of the Common
wealth is required to provide a sufficient
number of copies of this law, together
with extracts from the general election
laws, blank forms of poll-books, tally
lists, and returns, postage stamps, etc.,
and forward the same by commissioners,
or otherwise, to the commanding officers
of companies, detached posts and hos
pitals, who shall deliver the same to the
election judges on the day of election,
but no election is to be invalidated by
reason of such blanks not being received.
SEcs. 24, 2.5, 26, 27. The Governor is
to appoint such commissioners, not ex
ceeding one to each Pennsylvania regi
ment in service, as shall be necessary to
carry out the law. Said commissioners
are to be sworn to fulfil duties, un
der penalty of $l,OOO or imprisonment,
RATES OF ADIFIIRTISITIG
Busmiss AI EIcTtSE e, $l2 a year per
square of ten lines, ten per cent. Increase for
fractions of ayear,
REAL ESTATE, , Y.SONAL PROPERTY, and GEN
ERAL ADVERTISTNG, 7 cents a line for the
first, and 4 cents for each subsequent inser
on.
PATENT MEDIGINES and other salver's by tne
column:
One column, 1 year,
Half column, 1 year.—.......
Third column, 1 year,....:
Quarter column
BUSINESS CARDS, of ten lines or less,
one year, Business Cards, live lines or less, one
year
LEGAL AND OTTIER NOTICES—
Executors' notices
Administrators' notices,...
Assignees' notices,
Auditors' notices
Other "Notices," ten lines, or
three times,
for one year. They are to deliver four
copies of the laws, and at least two sets
of blanks, to the commanding officer of
every company and part of company ;
provide for opening polls, and call for
one copy of the poll-book after the elec
tion. They are to be paid ten cents per
mile for traveling to and from their re
spective regiments, and may vote at one
of the company polls. No failure of
commissioners to visit regiments shall
invalidate any election under the act.
SECS. 28, 29. The officers authorized
to conduct elections are to he subject to
the usual penalties for the non-fulfill
ment of duties. They are to receive no
compensation.
Six. 30. When the Sheriff issues his
p roc lam at ion for an election, he shall
transmit immediately copies of the same
to the troops in the field from the county.
SEC 21. :513,000 is appropriated to Car
ry the law into effect.
tit 33. IVllere less than ten
qualified electors are members of com
panies, or, where from any other stint
clunk and legal cause qualified electors
are separated from their proper i.onf
pan ies, or shall he in any hospital, navy
yard, vessel • or on recruiting, provost,
or other duly, they May vote ag.
Gash Voter is authorized, before the day
of the election, to place his ballot pro
perly foldi,l in a scale,i envelope, to
gether With n ,tatt.inclit signed by :the
voter iind his commanding officer, or
some other witness, and duly sworn to
and certified hoforc said officer or some
other competent person. This statc•-
ntent must set forth the following farts:
' l ' lhe 11:t1110 :Hilt proper R•sidenee ul t
voter.
'An authority to <„n u litalitic l voter
tt llo• pito,c of his ft-itlent-e, to cast tilt
ballot for hint.
Thal lit , timilitletl voter in the
precinct wlicre propt,,es to vote.
That lie i
is n the active military ser
vice, Intl give the intuit , or the org;ani
zation or Avitich nienilter.
'nal in lias not sent Ili, ',allot to
any other person than the one so tut
thorizull.
Tllat Ill' \VIII not attempt to \-()to at
any poll, ()polled On elevtion day,
:!Q, - place \clwl.voc~ et,
'l:liat Ile ha, not I)(.eo dishonor:ll)l . y
di,ni, , ed from Ow sorvioe.
Said sealed envelope, killots and state
-111(.11IS :tre to -cot by u ntil, or otherwise,
to the pi.o qwr I,erson, ell(101' , 11-
11111111 1%11 tile `Wail,' tart thereof, "Sol
dier', ballot for -- (wart)
or horough.) in tha county of
,V(•.
SErs. :;i, Sit,:;7. Tile elector to
WitOM j,,,..1 , 111 shalt deliver it
',no], dint, on ti day of the election, at
the proper pdis. election otlivers
.- , 11;t11 Gpen it in iii pre,enve or the
Honril, and dei,o,..it the
I.tlllots are
.lepo,itetl. 'I it, ren,oli the
hallo( ,11311 Lo ,onip t .ll, l l on
onth that he lins delivered it in the same.
,into a, \\ lieu received, tutu that he has
not opent.(l, of changed or altered the
conlents. Without Htelt oath the v()fe
shall not he received. The right to vote
of the person sending the ballot may be
challenged the same as it' he was person
ally present. Any eleetion °nicer re
fusing to receive and COnnt Slndl \nt',
except ychop fraudulent, and any elec
tor to whom such ballot is sent refusing
to present it at the proper poll, are pun
ishable by s. - inu fine and one year's im
prisonment. Any person making false
oath touching these !natters is subject
tot penalty of line tint five year's
imprisonment.
SEc. 3s. The Seeretary of State shall
prepare and furnish the necessary blanks
to carry out this act.
tific. 311. In case of an elector in mili
tary service on a vessel, the master of
said vessel shall be competent to take
allblavit 111111 written statement of said
elector.
SE . 40. Assessors are required to as . -
sess a county tax or ton vents On every
non-commissioned officer and private,
and the usual tax on every commis
sioned ollieer, known by them to be in
the military service of the United States
or or t h e st:tto, in the army or navy,
and when moues shall have heen omit
ted they must lei added on application
of any resident of the d intriet. Non
mnunissioned attics rs :toil privates tu•e
to lie exempt Iron' all other personal
taxes w h ile in till' ASSeSSOrS
must receive this tax from, not furnish
a certilieate of payment to any citizen
othering to pay the same for said soldier.
Where the name has lieen entered on
the assessment hooks no eertilicate of
assessments Anill he re i red. The cer
ti licate of payment shall set lbrth the
name of the person for whom the tax is
the date of payment, :ind the year
nir which it is assesssd. This eertifii-ate
shall he
evidence or paywont or taxes,
and shall preclude a demand for other
evidence of a right to vote. The penalty
for non-complianee on the part of the
assessors, colleetors, or treasurers shall
not he less than rCo, or more than SS2OO.
WEl,comi..—" Papa, will soon he
here," said mamma, to her three year
Old boy, "what can I feorge do to wel
come hint t' And the mother glanced
at the child's toys which Itt)- scattered
in wild confusion on the carpct.
" Make the room neat," replied the
little one, understanding the look and
at once hegall to gather all his toys into
a small basket.
" What el,) can we (I() to welcome
him t' asked she, when nothing was
wanting to the neatness of the rOOlll.
" Be happy to hint when he comps t"'
cried the dear little raw, jmnping up :mil
down with eagerness, as he waited at
the window for his father's coming.
Now, as all the dictionary makers
will testify, it is very hart] to give good
definitions, hut did not little tieorge
,give the very substance of a welcome!
„ Ile happy to him when he comes."
All parents who read this will know
that ehtgant apartments and sumptuous
entertai HlllOll6l and formal courtesy will
not avail in welcoming. their guests
when they come.
Dear children, will you also remem
ber, when your little friends (lite to see
you, that all your beautiful toys, and
pl a y:, a nd nice treats, will not give
your guests a "good time" unless you
are happy to them when they come.
Profits of a Flock of Sheep
The ..1/rune Farm, r publishes a state
ment received from Mr. S. Dinsmore,
of Norrillgewock, who, the Farmer says
has a line flock of high grade Spanish
merinoes, and who is one of the most
systematic and thorough farmers in
Somerset county, regarding the cost and
profit of his flock of sheep for the year
1862. Commencing - in January, 1862,
with one hundred sheep, Mr. D. had in
.January, 18133, ninety-nine sheep, hav
ing lost one during the...year. The clip
of wool averaged a fraction over five
pounds fourteen ounces per head, and
reckoning the lambs sold, the entire
proceeds of the flock were a little over
43.75 per head. He estimated the cost
of keeping the sheep—as the price of
hay was in 1862—at 3 per head for the
year, including winter keeping, pastu
ring, salt, washing and shearing. This
leaves a clear profit_ of Z 3.75 per head,
or 3375 on the whole flock, saying noth
ing of the value of the manure manu
factured. During the months of De
cember and February, being an average
of the weather for the winter, Mi. D.
weighed the hay' consumed by his flOck,
and found that the average amount
consumed by each sheep, was two
pounds ten ounces per day.
At a recent trial of the Ames rifle
gun at Brigeport, a shell, weighin'g 107
pounds, with a charge of 25 pounds of
powder, went a distance of 7} miles in 30
seconds, -