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W hell winds are high upon the main blossoms of the deep, AIM marked with white the sea-green plain pasture necked with sleep. Mbbbl spray weeps tears on passing wing Betost :It !breezy will, And rides the gale, where ere:Ming swing Th, arms of distant mill. Strange sails, In passing, seelil lo.lack Their motion on the Wal . 1•; Aul sailors to the land turn Ign•l: With looks and gestures grav, Is closed fill eye, awl eolqa la - ow And valnhal the pain :Ind tear? Neind the slieet ahout it no. .Vol lay the body h.q., ~~tftI1C1(. All-About Eyes )inn eannot six his eye_ on the sun, and, so far, it seems imperfect. Some years ago, however, a traveler in Sibera found men who could see the satellites of Jupiter with their unaided eyes. In some re,j•Jpeets animals of the lower ereation i•xeel us. Eagles ean look at Ili• sun, It idle loan cannot. Birds have n la r:wr sight too, than man, besides the :Ml:tillage given them bY their wings of a higher observatory. A cow can hid her calf, by secret signal, probably ;o r the eye, to run away, or to lie down intui hide lockeYs say of eermin horses, that "they' look over the The out-door life, and and labor, give equal vigor to the huinati eye. A farmer looks out at you as st rang as the horse, his eye-beam is like the stroke of a staff. An eye earl threaten like a loaded and leveled gun, or silt insult in a variety of firms, with thrilling eflbet ; or, in its altered mood, 'by beams of kindness it east make the heart dance with joy. Eyes are as hold as lions—roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction They ask no leave of age or rank. They respect neither poverty not' riches ; nei ther learning nor power ; nor virtue nor sex tint intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of we anti thought is discharged from one soul into another through the eye! The glance is natural magic. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, lint make a faithful confession as to what inhabi tant is there. The revelations are sometimes terrific. The confession of a low usurping devil is there mule; and the observer shall seem to f e el the stirring of Owls and bats and horned hoofs where he looked for innocence itnd simplicity. "Pis remarkable, too, that the spirit that appears at the " windows of the house " does at once invest himself in a new form of his own to the mind of the beholder. The power in a woman's eye was Mire happily ex pressed by the late George Stephenson. tin being asked what he considered the most powerful force in nature, he re plied : "It is the eye of a wontan to the • man that loves her ; for if it woman looks with affection on a limt should Le go to the uttermost ends of ,tire earth, t he recolleetion of that 100k...wi1l firing . hint hack." The color, too, of the hu man eye is very significant, and has, aecordingly, attracted consider:Ode no tice from many celebrated writers.— Some have often questioned whether there is such a thing: :is a eye, ex cept in persons of low, lympat ic tem perantent, when, say they, it invariably indicates weakness ,of mind and body. Light and dark gr:i eyes are the most common, and they are generally the in dex to w robust constitution and euer getir character. The majority of great men have such eyes. 'rho bcown eye is reflective, and not unlike the eaves of (wean, has " unfathomable depths." Thoughtful and truthful nu a :nod Wo men have brown eyes. The hazel eye is the most fitful, because it iisswites dif ferent colors in different lights, :mil may ho said to belong to merry aid capric ious dispositions. The Mai k eye is as soeiated with passion and genii's: It would appear to he, when analyzed or anatomized, an oriental eyo, and its proper climate is the torrid zone. About Great Men and Bob . Among the mountains of California stand some of the most wonderful trees ever discovered. They tower up more than three hundred feet, or taller than the highest steeple in this country.— There they stood hundreds of years be fore civilized men ever saw them. Ito they \\ ere ,lust an grand white in the solitude of the unbroken Wiid,llleS, when only visited by the winds, the wild beasts, and birds, and the equally . wild Indians, as they are now, when travelers flock to admire their stateli ness. So all truly great men possess the same nobleness of nature before, that they do after the world has discovered, aid: no wl edged, and applauded it. Those who long for opportunities of becoming great, forget that greatness is in the Man, not in the opportunity. The op portunity only, gives occasion for great ness to exhibit itself. Wash in,glon pos sessed the same high qualities when he told the truth and Loved his mother, and when he headed the American armies, and presided over the councils of the nation. A man may be great, though circumstances confine him to a narrow, sphere, just as a ray of light is as pure, as cheerful, and as much the child of the sun when shining in a rude hovel, as When flashing from the mirrors of a palace. Goodness, courage, devotion, manliness, patience, perseverance, rev erence, and love, will make a boy great, though he lived on the most secluded farm in the back-woods. There are thousands of such boys—many of them will read these words for their encour agement. The day may come when their noble qualities will be wanted in the public service, and all men shall see :And accomplish their worth. But if not, 'they are still rich in enduring wealth, and let them remember also, that life only begins in this world. DIDN'T WANT TO GO.-A Jerseyman Was very sick, and was not expected to recover. His friends got around his bed, and one of them said : " John, do you feel willing to die ?" John " niade an effort" to give his views on the subject, and answered with his feeble voice— "I—think—l'd rather stay—where-- I'm better acquainted." . . _ . . . . . . . , . . . . _ 7 . . , I iribir . . _ . __,_ . . . - ... . 7 - -- . . . . • 7.' • ' - _. • v • . _ . , . '77 .--,_ . '7. ,S . 1 ! , 7 ,. . ! , -,i , j .,. _ _ 7 7 - ' . . , ... ' ' :r TT ' :1 :::4. 1 I ''' : - .. --' ---: . ' . : i . - .... ; V : .--, I_, . ~.'' ' .._ !..-. ,•-• . ,_.. .: f : ''. . ' 1 7.:, .. -; !:.., tit: .::: .. : ', ,::: . ' - ::: 7 : . ' , 11,' . : •-• - i :./C-,.•,,, e., . - _ _ '-. -: : _ i : .:: ' . ' /e/ , • VOLUME 65. That some such person as Faustus has existed is asserted in the most direct manner by writers who profess to have conversed with him. Among thoseeye witnesses are Philip Melancthon, the great reformer, and Conrad Gesner, (1.561, and even in Luther's " Table Talk " mention is made of Dr. Faustus as a man irretrievably lost. The follow ing is the story of Faust on which (ioethe bases his poem: Doctor Jo hann Faust is a prominent character of the national and popular poetry of Germany. According to tradition he was a celebrated necromancer, born about A. D. 1480, at Knittlin gen, or Kundlingen, in \Vurtemberg. He is said to have studied magic at Cra cow. Havi rig mastered all the secret sci ences, he was seized with gloomy dis satisfaction at the shallowness of human knowledge, and with an intense long ing after a more elevated kind of mental and physical enjoyment, he conjured the Evil One, and made an agreement with him, according to which the devil was to sere Faust for full twenty-four years, obeying all his behests, and at the expiration of the term Faust's soul w a s. to he delivered to eternal damna tion. The I qmtravt, signed by Faust with Irk own blood, contained the fol lowing live conditions: " 1, he shall re nounn•e I and all celestial hosts; 2, he shall he an enemy of all mankind ; 3, he shall not obey privets; 1, he shall not go to church:nil partake of the holy (sacraments; 5, he shall hate and shun wedlock. Faust having signed this agreement, Satan sent him a spirit (IR iomiliariB (Mephistopheles, Mephistop hills, or Mephistophileso a devil "who likes to live among men." Faust now began a brilliant worldly career. He revelled in all manner of sensual enjoy ment of which his attentive devil-ser vant, with an inexhaustible fertility of imagination, was always inventing new and inore attractive forms. When re morse tormented Faust and surfeit led him to sober reflection, Mephistopheles diverted him with all kiwis of curious deviltries. Faust frequently joined in them, :111(1 applied his supernatural powers to the most astonishing feats of Witchcraft. This period of his career is embellished by popular poetry with nu merous comical tricks and miraculous feats. Finally, the term of twenty-four Years drawing to its close, remorse and fear overpower him completely; as a last resort he seeks relief and salvation from priests, but nothing avails him. All flee from the doomed man. Mid . - night approaches ; an unearthly noise is heard from Faust's room, the howling of a storm Which shakes the house to its very foundation, demoniacal laughter, cries of pain and anguish, a piercing, heart-rending call for help, followed by the stillness of death. Next morning they find Faust's room empty, but on the floor :mad walls evid'ence of a violent struggle, pools of blood and shattered brains ; the corpse itself, mangled in a most horrible mariner, they find upon a Adam's Conduct in Eating the Apple I have on various ()evasions seen learned disquisitions on what would have been the result if some great event which did happen had not- happened: for instance, if Grouchy had arrived at Waterloo before Mueller ; or if the Athenians had crushed Sparta in the Peloponneian war, or if Hannibal had alien Rome when he to its at es. Ito there is a greater problem What WOlllll have 1111 V Of these happened if' Ailam had refused to eat frie other : half of the afkile2 Would 1A have remained iu Paradise, and the hu- lllan race have enjoyed uninterrupted happiness'.' hatever answer ,might he given to those questions, I take it for granted that he understood all the comequenees of his aet. The common prineiples of justiee require that no punishment shall he inflieleil except in accordance with previous notitietition ran ()Wens° expressly prohibited. the amount of the punishment is not fairly stated, the offender can com plain of deception. The Courts cannot Millet a punishment greater than that stated in the law. And we read in Gen esis that full notification was given to .Adam. In the face of that notification, without any unmanly scolding, without delay or hesitation—with no attempt to dodge his incvitahle fate—he composed ly took that great bite which decided the fate of humanity through all ages. The heroism of Codrus, Mutius, Seevo la and Arnold W inkelried sinks into c;ignificance as compared with the great father of the race. Human nature was already pretty well developed. Bet ter woman without Paradise than Para dise without woman. Those were Adam's sentiments. Those are my sen- timents. Those are the sentiments of every man that is a man. If Adam's choice were offered to me to-day I veri ly believe that I have enough of his blood in me to do as lie did. I will call nth tir,it boy " aini when he iiets Li_ enoueili I will tell hint why. Of course, I accept the story as true.—Crtliforttiati. "Down in Front." An pld acquantance writes that there is among his acquaintances one, at least, who enjoys a high reputation, for he stands over seven feet in his stockings. Although a talented member of the bar, he is a good natured, modest citizen. Some years ago, when the Broadway theatre was the theatre of the town, he saw fit to winless the performance from a pmminent seat in the parquette. When the curtain rose and the actors advanced to their positions, a cry of " down in I . l'oll " became general throughout the audience. Their atten tion was directed toward the tall B—; who feeling himself the object of remark , thought he was re,i u i red to settle a little. Looking as though he would like to settle through the floor, he proceeded to raise himself to a standing position in such a manner, however, as to convey an impression that there was no end to hint. At last he did get straightened out to his full length, when slowly glancing around at the astonished au dience, he very deliberately remarked. " Gentlemen, to satisfy you that I was sitting down, I. will now stand up." A burst of laughter and applause suc ceeded ; the audience and actors became - - convulsed ; the curtain descended rapid ly ; the manager with beaming face came forward, and amidst the wildest applause, conducted the gentleman to a private-box. --The Sun is best seen at its rising and setting. So men's native disposi tion is the roost clearly perceived when they are children and when they come to die. —Some of our citizens are so afraid of breaking the Sabbath, that they do not work three days previous, nor three days after the Sabbath, A Victim In Paul Bedford's new volume of " Recollections and Wanderings " the following anecdote is told : "We en acted at York a very funny farce entitled, Deeds f Dreadful Note.' A dummy used in the piece became an object of great interest in the city. It was called 'The Victim.' This dummy was life size and to conceal it from curious ob servation it was deposited in a capacious bag that entirely extinguished the figure. But in the hurry of packing, at Newcastle, the bag was mislaid, and the only remedy was to put it into a pota to sack, which just reached the neck of the figure, lettving the head exposed to view, and in that state it was deposited in the luggagevan. We were to change trains between Newcastle and York, and as the York train was about to shirt, our anxious manager in quired if the luggage was all right, add ing, Where is the victim ?' and look ing in the van found it had disappeared. In his despair he requested Lyon to the other tray' and endeavor to recover the lost one. Lyon succeeded; and throw ing the sack across his manly shoulder, trotted along thexlatform, to the great horror and dismay of the passengers, whose heads were thrust out of the win dows in wonder and amazement ; for be it understood that the head of ' the victim' hung behind the figure of Lyon, and at every step the agile bearer took the head of the figure wobbled up and down—consequently tile gazers-on took us for a gang of 'swell body-snatchers. Arrived in New gork we housed at Eld ridge's Royal Hotel, and during dinner the waiter entered in consternation and whispered something in the ear of our chief, who said, Tell him to come in.' In he came. It was the head policeman, displaying in ' his right hand a paper, and saying Gentlemen, I don't wish to be unpleas ant, but when you have done dinner I must grab you all. This is my warrant front the Lord Mayor to arrest you as a set of body-snatchers.' Only imagine, gentle reader, the roar of laughter this created. The host, John Eldridge, was sent for, and Mr. Yates requested that he i.John) should introduce this myrmi don of the law to the innocent ' victim' in the sack. The interview 'fished, I lse inspector returned laughing, making all sorts of apologies, and after tieing invited to take a glass,of wine withdrew. Of course the'"inspector piped the atilfir throughout the city, and the conse quence was that the ' victim ' became the roost attractive star of the whole party." Empty Bottles Navigating the Ocean Captain Beecher, editor of the Eng lish Nautical ifugazine, lots Compiled within the last ten years the following curious voyages of bottles thrown into the sea by unfortunate navigators. A good many bottles cast into the sea next to the African coast, found their way to Europe. One bottle seems to have an ticipated the. Panama route, having traveled from the Panama Isthmus to the Irish coast. Another crossed the Atlanta from the Canaries to Nova Scotia. Three or four bottles thrown into the sea by Greenland mariners of Davis' Straits, lan . ded on the northwest Coast of Ireland. Another one made a curious trip—swam from the South At lanti Ocean to the west coast of Africa, passed Gibraltar, went along the Portu guese coast of France, and was finally picked up on Jersey Island. Onebottle was found after sixteen years' swim ming, one after fourteen, and one after ten years. A few only traveled more fhanone,- year, and one only five days. This was sent of - 1'1)y the captain of the " Race Horse," on the 17th of April, in the Carribean Sea, and was found on the 22d, after having gonetltrough three degrees longitude (two hundred and ten miles,) western dfrection. Capt. Mc- Clure, of the Investigator, threw a bot tle into the sea in 1550, on his way to Behring's Strait. It swain three thou sand five hundred miles in two him dred days, and was picked up on the Honduras coast. A Paying Religion Mr. Dickson, a colored barber, in a large New England town, was shaving one of his customers, a respectable citi zen, one morning, when a conversation occurred between them respecting Mr. Dickson's former connection with a colored church in that place: " I believe You are 'connected with the church in Elm street, are you not! Mr. Dickson'."' said the customer. "\o, salt, not at all." " What, are you not a member of the African church ?" " Not dis year, salt." " Why did you leave their communion, Mr. Dickson, if I may be iiermitled to ask ?" Well, I'll tell you, sah," said Mr. Dickson, stropp ing a concave razor on the palm of his hand, "it was just like dis. I jilted the church in good fait " ; gave ten dollars toward the stated gospil de fus year, and the church people call me " Bruddct Dickson ;" de second year my business not so gootband gib On y lire klollar, That .vea,,. the peo ple called me ";1L•. Dickson." Dis razor hurt you salt?" "No, the razor goes tolerably well." "Well, sa s h, de third year I feel berry poor ; had sick ness in my family ; I didn't gib nVia" for preachin.' Well, salt, arter dat dey call me "dot old nigger Dickson, and I left 'em." Oh ! Angeline,' said a young horticulturist to his love one evening, ' H you could only see my Isabella. How each (lay she developer new beauties— so beautiful!—hanging over ine so tenderly—no honey so sweet to the taste.' Angeline suddenly fell to the floor like a flat-iron. !' she cried, 'you love another!' and swooned away. Oh ! I have killed her !' exclaimed the young horticulturist, jumping up and wringing his hands. ' Oh, Ange line—don't—don't! You musn't for the world, Angeline—l didn't mean it—l only meant the grape vine!' Angeline recovered. THE NEW FOOTMAN.-A gentleman was going out one day, in his carriage', to call with his wife, when he discovered that he had left his visiting cards. He ordered his footman, who had recently cube into his service, to go to the man tlepiece in the sitting room, and bring the cards he should see there. The servant did as he was ordered, retaining the arti cles to be used as directed, and off started rthe gentleman, sending in the footman with cards wherever the "not at home" occurred. As these were very numer ous, he turned to the servant with the question— " How many cards have you left ?" "Well, sir," said the footman, very innocently, " there's the king of spades, the six of hearts, and the ace of clubs." " The duce 1" - ex - claimed his master. " That's gone;" said John. LANCASTER, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1864. Pitelianeouo. ASTOUNDING DEVELOPMENTS. Citizens Robbed, Shot, Imprisoned and Banished, Without Cluirgts or Trial— Infamy of Gen. Paine and•Republiean Congressman Anderson. From the Louisville Journal, Sept. P.;111.... • Sometime ago Colonel Craddock, of the Kentucky service, was called by business into the District of Western Kentucky, then commanded by Briga dier General E. A. Paine. The Colonel found the people completely cowed, not daring to titter a word, when every day their most sacred rights, by military force, were flagrantly violated. By close observation he became convinced that General Paine and,his subordinates were exercising thegron rule of despots, were persecuting and robbing the people un der various flimsy pretexts, and that the worst corruption prevailed in his office, and characterized all of his official acts. Being convinced of these facts, he sought Major ( ;eneral Burbridge at his headquarters in Lexington, and fully stated the case to hint. The ( len eral was loth to believe that crimes so enormous are represented by Colonel Craddock runl,l be openly practiced by by a man (+Allot with the authority and honor of till officer of the Cnited States t iovernment ; but, on the solehm assurance of the truth of the statement, lie concluded to ill point a commission to investigate the ease. On the sth of Septemlier, tin order was made detail ing, Gen. S. Fry and Colonel Brown as a commission to proceed to Paducah amt fully investigate the conduct of Gen. l'ainC while in command or the Western District of Kentucky. Crad dock was iTpointed to accompany the commission and assist them in their labors. Just before the arrival of Gen. Fry at Paducah, Gen.-Paine Was relleVed or Ids command by lien. Meredith. Paine NV as ordered to remain at his headquarters, and meet all charges that might be brought against hint before the commis sion. This he refused to do. \Viten lien. Fry and his associates arrived, they found that Oen. Payne had iled to Illi nois, where he i , absent without authority. or Ids subordinate offi cer, took " Freneh leaves," know ing that their smile •twould not hear investigation. Gen. Fry fyinid it very difficult operations; as ' the Main parties were absent, and the clerks and the orderlies with whom they had surrounded themselves, :Mil possessing a knowledge of their traiisac tions, hail been previously split out of the district. The citizens were so emu , pletel cowed that they would not open their lips with one word of complaint against the policy pursued by Paine. Acting on the authority of General Meredith and general Fry, Colonel Cradiiiiek publicly proclaimed the object or I lie commission in visiting Paducah, and assured the people that if they would come forward and testify to facts, they should receive full protection from all parties who might be implica ted by their statements. This h a d the desired effeet. Ceti. Fry Was received with the greatest enthusiasm. The people threw their restraint and ex tended the warm hand of welcome. They greeted him with cheers and smiles upon the street, and thronged his headquarters during the day, show nip him every kind attention in their power. lieu. 31ereilith is also very popular with the people. We published an ex tract from the Cairo papers some line ago, of the cheering demonstration t hal marked hisadvent into office. With the feelings of a true soldier, he atibriled every facility in his power to aid the commission in its latiors. All of the evi dence taken before the body is in the tbrin of affidavits, and the record is quite voluminous. It Was found that Paine had exercised the most ar hitary will, and that th, worst corrup tion prevailed in his (dike. Citizens had been arrested and thrown into pris on without any show of trial, ;Hid no record of a single charge preferred against them could be found among any of the official papers in the (dike. Pris oners were executed without it hearing, innd often without any definite eharge being preferred against then]. ['arty three graves, said to he thus,' of execu te,' prisoners, Were ciallikal l'adtleall. Alining this number were two men named Nolin :Hid Taylor, of well-known I.y :t hy, who, some act, idlimiled the General in power, a n d a tragic death was thi;ir doom. To show the manner in which the ex ecutions were made, we have a state ment f l ram the evidence given by Hiram It. Enoch, Quartermaster of the 1:C211 Regiment Illinois Volunteer I ul'antry. lle says that he heard of fiatr citizens being executed without a shadow of trial—Kestertim, Taylor, Mathew and Hess. Colonel MeChesney, eommand ing at Mayfield, by the appointment, and acting under the instructions of General Paine, told him, about the first of Septemher, that he bad shot seven into ;it Mayfield, and had one more in the guard-house, that he in tended to execute the next day. He said that he gave them no trial, and boasted that one of the prisoners was shot, and covered up in his grave in forty-five minutes from the time that he was first reported by a scout at his headquarters. The whole of (4eneral Paine's official career in the district of Western Kentucky was marked by the coarsest brutality, calculated to exaspe rate the people and send recruits to the rebel army. He would order citizens to his headquarters, and, without pro vocation, would abuse them, applying the most offensive terms to them, sbeli. as "d—d rebels, (I—d. scoundrels," &c. The people of Paducah were driven from their homes without any jUSt cause and their houses turned over to negro Families for occupation. Gen. Prince, commanding at Smithfield, states that forty-two of the citizens of Paducah passed down the river on boats under orders of banishment beyond the Fit ; eral lines i v order of General Paine. The property of these families was con fiscated by Paine's officials, as it Was said, for the benefit of the Government. Two old widow ladies, their hairsilvered by more than sixty winters, for no just cause, were torn from their comfortable homes, and sent to Canada under guard of negro'soldiers. The people were swindled in the most outrageous manner. General Paine's rule was absolute. A trade agent was appointed, not by the Secretary of the Treasury, but: by the self-created mon ' arch, who issued his edicts from. Head quarters District of Western Kentucky. He levied a tax of ten dollars on each hogshead of tobacco and each bale of cotton exported, and assessed an arl pa lore»i tax of twenty-five per cent. on till ' cotton or tobacco received... E. Wood ruff was appointed trade agent, assigned to this especial duty. The large tobacco warehouse,of Thomas Dale was taken possession of, and all cotton and tobacco subject to confiscation or tax was stored in it. Only particular faVbrites and pets of the General were allowed to carry on business, thus monopolizing the trade, General Paine sharing in the profits. Colonel W. H. Barry, of the colored troops, for months kept company with a notorious prostitute, appearing in public with her on all occasions. He forced one of the bankers of Paducah to pay this woman one hundred and fifty dol lars in gold, giving no excuse for the strange proceeding. Captain Phelps Paine, son of the General and Assis tant-Adjutant General on his staff, sent a guard to take from the house of Air. Scott Ford sufficient furniture to furuisit his private room in elegant style. After a thorough investigation, the commission were satisfied that Hon. Lucien Anderson, member of Congress, R. H. Hall, Provost-Marshal First Con gressional District of Kentucky, John T. Bollinger and Major Henry Bartling, 6th United States colored heavy artil lery, were guilty of corruption, and were sharers with - General Paine in his swindling transactions. At three different places in the dis trict, Azderson and Bollinger addressed the people, and told them that, if they'did not vote farLineoln,th ey would be grant ed no privileges, they.would not be al lowed to trade, theff property would be taken, and they would be reduced to beggary and a starving condition. Every possible efibrt was made to exasperate the people, in order to have a pretext to seize their property. Colonel McChesu. ney ruled Mayfield with an irori 9 hand. He nearly destroyed the beau tiful town by cutting down the shade trees and erecting a fortification around the Court house on the public square. On this work all citizens Ivere required to labor, neither sickness nor age ex empting a man from duty. If a person did not choose:to work he was assessed a fine of from $5OO to S:•'8,000. The fortifi cation was a useless.jobof work, as many of the hills surrounding the town com manded the square. The commission think it was simply done to exasperate the people and serve asapretex t toassess heavy tines on them. A box was found at Mayfield filled with various articles taken from the citizens, and addressed to Colonel Mc- Chesney's friends in Illinois. It is-es timated that the citizens were assessed by McChesney to th e a mount of &:(2,100, but S2,0(10 of which went to the ( lovern men t. 'rids latter amount was seized by (len. Fry while in transit north. The postmaster of :Mayfield, a worthy young man, who proved his loyalty in the early part of the struggle, awl has remained firm to the Unitiltl, because he said that he could not approve of the policy pursued by the Administration in regard to the negro, Wati stripped of his °like by Colonel McChesney, and tOrced to labor on the fortifications for three nicks. Major Peck, of the 1:1211 Illinois, t•ttinlmanding for :short time at Smithlantl, was one of Paine's subordi nates, and faithfully executed the orders of his chief. He executed sev eral citizens or Livingston county without a show or trial. Accord- ! ing to his own statement, the people were assessed to the amount of := , 1.1,00n but 4,000 of which resulted to the Gov ernment. At Paducah, Gen. Paine es tablished trade regulations requiring permits for all goods bought and sold, and charging tel cents for issuing a per mit forgoods valued as low as forty cents. No account was kept of this money, and there was not a paper to show that one cent of it was turned over In the Gov ernment. A relief fund was established for t Iv"pnrpose,a.sstated by t General of being devoted to the support of the wives of the soldiers in the district, All of Hie citizens were required to contri bute, awl yet not a single Kentucky soldier's wife was ever benefited by the fund. Captain Paine, for his own indi vidual wants, drew from the treasury at one time Sl,noo. There were three grand swindling, schemes in full opera tion throughout the district—the relief fund, the assessment to indemnify loyal people for losses suffered at the hands of guerrillas, anti the tax levied on tobacco and rotten. From various sources, it is estimated that General Paine swindled the people and the Government out of not less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. In the expedition after Adam Johnson, property was wantonly destroy'ed, and the people robbed and persecuted in 'the most cruel manner. No effort was made to capture the guerrilla gang-, as, when within live miles of t h e camp, Paine with troops wheeled about and slatted down the river for Path/call. It was simply a foray fin. 1,11111,T. Throughout the district the General made three ditl'erent speeches, in which he said that he was clothed with plenary powers—he reported to nobody but the President for instruetions, and to hint attune was responsible for his actions.-- He ass•rtcd tliat lie was not amenable to tetteral Schofield's orders, and would not obey any order issued by I;ttneral Pturltridge. He publicly denounced (.en. I talleck ;is a " dd scoundrel and a coward," pointing to his campaign at Corinth as proof for the assertion. lie let the rebels escape from that strong hold through cowardice and'incapaci ty. As a test of loyalty, the people were forced to adopt the most ultra views.— When asked what paper they read, if the answer was " The Louisville Jtua•- iurl," the parties were denounced as rebel, .1 the limulesl Lucien Anderson and Major.Bartli Provost Marshal of Paducah, in procur ing the release of Ashhrook, Ryan & (Ivliose store ha, I been closed or der of ;en. Paine, i from arrest, received a cheek for st:Wo. which was jointly shared hy the trr o parties. Prince & Hod,l, acknowledged rllioll men, paid the same parties s2no each, to he released from arrest. and ,tiaVe th e ir goods from contiSeation. 1.. 'l'. Bradley, master of the stennier Convoy, a craft belonging exclusively to the Government, and used only for Government purposes, on the Ist of August, wll,l ordered by Gen. Paine to li n seed down the river, and act 114,w-ding to the orders of Bollinger. At Hickman, seventy-live soldiers were obtained for fatigue duty, who placed eighty-four baleS of cotton and twenty-seven hogsheads of tobacco on hoard, when the steamer returned to Cairo, and discharged the freight. Bol linger claimed the cotton and tolwceo Eis Ids private property. ' The commission are prepared to prove that this man, Bollinger, who was Gen. Paine's right hand bower in all his swindling transaetions, is one of the most corrupt men in the country, and has been for months acting as agents for guerrilla hands in Southern Ken tucky, receiving stolen funds, furnish ing information, &e. When General Paine established his headquarters at Paducah, his baggage was hauled by an army wagon. When relieved of com mand, it required eight wagons to re move his private effeets, besides six large boxes shipped by steamboat.— Bollinger is still at large, but General Meredith is making arrangements to effect his arrest. Major Bartling, the Provost Marshal, is under close guard. General Paine and his son are in Illi nois, without authority. Col. McChes ney is in Chicago, and orders have been sent to have him arrested and sent to Paducah. - We have here VC!) 1 0!I a feu' of the facts de, eloped before the commission. The official testimony is very volumin ous, and in the course of ten or twelve days it will be laid before the public. We are indebted for our statement to the kindness of Colonel Craddock, who was present, and assisted the commis sion in its labors. The facts speak plainly enough for 'themselves. No word of comment is needed from us. On one occasion the senior Steph enson accidentally met a gentleman and his wife at an inn in Derbyshire, whom heentertai tied forsome time with shrewd observations and playful sallies. At length the lady requested to know the name of the remarkable stranger.— " Why, madam," said he, "they used once to (all me Georgie Stephenson ; now I am called George Stephenson, Esquire, of Tapton House, near Chester field. And further let me say, that I have dined with princes, and peers, and commoners, with persons of all chases, from the highest to the humblest. have made my dinner of a red herring at a hedge bottom, and gone through the meanest drudgery: ,I have seen mankind in all its phases, and the con clusion that I have. arrived at is, that if we're all stripped, there's not much dif ference." —Be careful so to treat the unarmed inhabitants as to contract, not widen, the breach existing between us and the rebel s.—l n structions to Gen. Burl, No vember 12, 1861. lA'aJ - Our Dabster says the government may tax our matches, but challenges the world to match our taxes. We've got to tax our energies and pay them. • —"Do you enjoy going to church now ?" asked a lady of Mrs. Partington. "Law me, I do," replied Mrs. P. "Nothing does me so much good as to get up early on Sunday morning, and go to church, and hear a populous min ister dispense with the Gospel." Address of the National Democratic Com mittee of the United States. NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 19i-4. To TII E PEOPLE OFTHE UNITED STATES: The National Democratic Committee of the United States hold it to be their duty to call the attention of their fellow countrymen, without distinction of party, to certain grave acts of usurpation and wrong now practiced upon theciti7ensof Maryland and Tennessee, but involving the clearest rights or :all the people in all the States, and the very ex istence . of those constitutional rem edies against Executive wrong-doing,which have heretofom saVed the nation from the convulsion. through which popular liberty in other lands has been forc e d m assert to maintain, 111111 Io extend its guarantees in the State of Maryland. I)11 30th day of September, the Ere .iournal printed in the rite of whielt had th:tt day, for the first time, puldkhed the eleetoral tieket nt the Denioeratie part- of that. State, was. sill', 1 1 1' 1,1,11 .1 the r.d imving,,nic, of Maj.-(;en. W 11111 11.1 . , c 11 111111:111 1 1111g the l S.lraip. itt : " .1lis11" Coitt's, BALTIMORE, Stitt. ktillitr , tti Even, I' .4 - t: lie ottittit-ti Imoll 401 fit . ..venting yolir 'wing fond, the ytiti 1% ill ilisi•iiiitioup thy iiirbliitation or your thelig I The cull• !,Hint for this order Nvas. the nis ,ertittli I lull titevrti t iti silithict to tile t.t . 4lajor I to riol iu ill, •iiiroiits of Ilia :11141 Itt 411,11411 1111 . 111'01/(11y or the ttittiiiirits,eiliiitintitt 1 111 tititititint or a state- Wont 111.4011 its 1111111• till hoard, itritiolint•ing it , tin iletit 4/1 . 111•\%, it rearllll riot in Chichi thirinu 11101)111• from ri•il upon tile 1111 1 11, 1440101 1 0 :tllll 1•11111111•11, several 14'111:4 kjlll4l :11141 441/1111111.11. ant h a proteXt en . , IICII all Order, is . o 111:111111• , tlyilisixries•hil to the tnilitury officer It 1,,,, in issuing it, ronG sses his irutbility to reslririnsiililiersonle• it:ill/mill service, tironi :e i• and "ill I a:4 , , that it i , intposihle to ll• tic 11,1 v•• 14..•11 rtnuiunet 1, :r hr Ili ,,, 111111;111 , 1. It the 4,1 ori StlltvS, had 1101 the sun pression or tin. Post, Whiell \las the Indy Pctilie•ralic journal published in 110011 designed the Executive Ih express ptirpilsl.llftlerriVitlV the politi cal iipponenis of the existing - \ tbninist i"n I I lluu eity ttf their so:eine:ins their opinions, :mil e 0 en o f 11:11 the illfl,ollllllioll nississitry to guide the parts to intelligent :Let ion ai •hp 111 k, \I arc land is a loyal State 11l le r President Lincoln, ill his Ines ;rle 'imgriiss, on the :nth leiecnilier, this emphitiie s\ tier railnlatb , are 1,111tir. , ,1 anti opt•II ; ,, v,•111111 , •11t. She already g^i ..,i• ••• •• • i s to the cause of tile Union, and nehe tie the enemy, and her people, at it re,filltir election, have sustained the Union 11l a large I . ll:ll.rity :11141 a larg.or aggregate veto than they ever any candidate 011:my .1111,44.11. - No enemy II a ;11,1ii..4 her The Vie 1111Vallee of Sileri(1:111 Iles Cleared e ,, ,1 her furthest herders of all the rebels iii arms. Ilex peep], are IS fairly entitled al.solute freedem to the ',Mk and in the ti--..•llsSir)ll 4,1 . Ili, la , Naeltusetts or liy are shallle !hie Prceil 111 i. a ale iv the liiseetuk e of his in motion to is Ins :111111.'111y Icy any exercise of iiiii,itrary paver, in eontempt of pemiltir :end in violation of all the la a's hy Edell !Wetly in America ha, b ee n hiihert., .\ll lull as to the illeanim,. el Ihls..oudtiet of th.. Executive ill \ !aryl:m.l.ls ',lit at all ellil In the Ovillrrellee ill !he Slate (11—relines :,•1 I:‘,‘ ,•111041 purpose h. 1 , 1:1111 tile 111. - alls fml•igll to our institutions mel llttai Iu our liherties. nI this day (~i wnal of vt)litlit hy Nipeinttnetit I , residwli ItilLll , ,, II It , illr ii• Ml , l hy the tirmlitititioil :he I:eloildie:lit eavelithite 1. the and Vitit. P11 , i110.111..\' T(1 111' baud iu I anti iiron.torilting tittliitrary titialitications at Ilse eitit•tion. order hatitt.tl uptai the procoriciiiii2ts ineoting Which lb, Mil it al ' . l" I I 1,11 is a frei. tit' Hifi of ;\ :11111 in it the pre , eribed to he tfilion :It I f will iitirdially ariliktict.itriitartiittlitins fnr neat' w . tritt , until liter t olistitlition oil' thii 1 . 11 . 0,0 ant! all !my, prt..•l:l - ill H11 , 11;111 , , 111,1 IT ;Ili the i . 111,11, unit Hid I trill litiartily :mil as ilia hiyal \vliati.vt•r itirt,urt, hi . tttainmettl of tho,e Thi s ~; (1 11 i.diror:ly ti)(lepri .1 Hi lii voio tit all of 1,51111.1'1 :1t lil.• 1)011, any :i iVot,lI ii by . 2,1 \ I ~..1 pitrly p.3!0• . \ - issip. Ih , v,prlll,V‘V,t;4illg,,lNo tho Silb111;2:Zill11 or Ili, ill hy 111.• retlol,l \vor. the fm.hi ( l.,l! IDA thl• .4”-4,111,41 „r t ip. Lill Nu ill. .11ly t Soldier 1,111,111- in nrms 1110 1.11i1,11. Th.' by the !tepid d iean I;,r the Vie,- Presidency to the t o . ,•itiz e n.of Tennessve, r.•,litirosof them an a I,solide adhesion to this policy of his own party ,0 the rendition of their exereise of illt• 111 , 1 , 1 Sanrl . l . l right of citizenship. In I ther A\ this oath eommitials every loyal eitizen 11f Ti1 , 11 ,, 01' U, VlllO for the Beim hliean eandidate, nr to al,.tai h I . rI„II MO poll , . 1 - Icier the operation of this oath 11 ,, holds such vi e w s of th e 1-11 o.)' 10 ire pnrsnOJ tuwnnl the Slates ill rebellion a- ihose put forth, kw n mph. by the Francis Adams, aetually minister of the Uriited State, in 1, , ,1111011, 140111,1 he defrau c hi,,.,l by the bayonets of the Executive in Tennessee. Sai.l 110. Adams, in the Noose 1,1 Hi._ presenta; it 1,, .1 Mina rY It , ls , ;1 : •1 :nu not yet ready to take the rosponsibilny o f a 1,,,,1nt e 1y the rll,O I ['lining 1/nl,lllllln Illy ,+ll to forgot the warnings (hat have de 5,V11,1,11 to its from many or the wisest and 110,1 ' , I:111,111,11 , g ' :11l 01110,11g/1111-1 this 11,1(1 and haughty mod, of orating L!'real iiis -0,10411t,, I 111111,1 ~ V 1, 1 . 1 0,,k till titel that, ~I ll' spit it of tit:l(llam did not feel it-,•ti ns ri tieing ally of it. proud di g nity b y I" ' - 11• . 1.1 ; ,, 11 . 11 1,, :11,1• ni, 1 , 1 1,1 11 1. 0 , 11' to every reasonable d mand, long after they - had Mae,' them selves in armed resistance to :ill the power of ireat Britain. Had George the Third list ‘noll to his words of wisdom. he might have saved the brightest jewel of his crown. l le denied the existence of grievances. Ile rejected the olive branch. 'History records its verdict ill favor of Chatham, and against the king." Hundreds or t housittids or citizens or the union, without distinction of party, ani nuded by a similar spirit and drawing a like instruction from the lessons of history, with I;enerai McClellan, ill his let ter accepting the Presidential nomination, that, so soou as it is clear, or even probable that 11)10 present adversaries are ready for Imi.e upon the basis of the Union, we should exhaust all the resourees of states manship practiced by civilized nations, and taught by the traditions of the American people, consistent with the honor and inter ests of the aonntry, rw-uctablish the Union, and guarantee for the future, the constitu tional rights of every State. The Union is the one condition of peaee. We ask no more. All suell citizens are out lawed in Tennessee, by the military Will of the Re pu bliean candidate , I . ol' the Vice Presidency; air Will ally mattube suffered by him to do the highest ditty of a freeman unless he is ready to iteeept a poliey which substantial ly ~eognizem the Republic of the Confeder ate States, by refusing to the several States now unhappily leagued together under that name, the right of returning to, and of maintaining peace with their sister States of the Union. Snell is the necessary effect of the Unprecedented course of the Military Governor of Tennessee, a eourse, of which, in the words apptiedhy two distinguished members of the Republican party. Senator Wade, of Ohio, and Representative Davis, Nfaryland, M the conduct of President I Lincoln in unlawfully creating another 1 Military Governor for the State of Louist ana, it may be said, "is without authority of law and therefore void," a "blow at the rights of humanity, and at the princi ples of the Republican Government." 'fhis course the President has sanc tioned, as he has sanctioned the course of Major-General Wallace, in Maryland, therein again forgetting, to use the words of the saute distinguished Republicans, his obligations to confine himself to his execu tive duties, to obey and execute, not make, the laws ; to suppress by arms armed re bellion, and leave political reorganisation to Congress. If the supporters of the Gov ernment, Senator Wade and Representative Davis go on to say, fall to insist on this, they become responsiblefor the usurpations which they fail to rebuke, and are justly NUMBER 41. liable to the indignation of the people,whose rights and security committed to their keeping, they sacrifice. To this plain speaking of men eminent in the Republican party, we might well content ourselves with pointing the citizens of the United States,in the presence of these new and atrocious at tempts upon the freedom or discussion and the sovereignity of the people; but we cannot forget that the very men who have so earn estly denounced executive usurpation in the past, have now become its passive instru ments and it silent apologists. This conquest of the last voices of constitutional liberty in the bosom of the Republican party, by - the seductions of power and of place, makes it imperative upon us to warn the people of America, that the perils prefigured by such men as Senator Wade and Representative Davis. are upon us to-day, -and that they can only be conjured front the future of our country by the united and resolute action, not of the partisan supporters of a partisan Uovernment, but ((fa pat riotic people. The conduct of President Lincoln in Maryland and Tennessee distinctly reveals a revolu tionary purpose. The electond votes of those States, eighteen in number cast at the dictation of arbitrary power may neu tralize the same number of electoral votes freely and lawfully cast in other States of the Union. Upon these votes, therefi we, the whole future of Amer ica may turn. To control these votes in the way attempted by Mr. Johnson in Ifennessee, and Mr. Wailace in Maryland is to plan a ((tittle against liberty and the republic. We are fully aware of iliegravity of this charge, but the rights, the interests, ! the issues here at stake are not less 0 - rave. Again and again, for the past four years, Mr. Lincoln and his ministers, under one or another plea of military or political " ne cessity.," have transcended the 'limits of Executive authority, have trampled upon the sanctity of communion and individual Helms. It may well Is' doubted whether any government in the old world' elaim ing, to 1101(1 its authority by divine right, would have been permitted IT any people of modern Europe to pursue its In fractions of law - , and its contempt of liberty, so tint as the American people,. in their de votion to the Union, have suffered the Ad ministration of Mr. Lincoln to go. But the patience of the American people has been the fruit of their traditional reliance upon the remedies provided by the Constitution ; the right freely to speak their thoughts, t'reely to print their thoughts, and above all, the inalienable right freely to choose and to change the agents of the public will. Once before in our history, under the pressure of an imminent national danger, Executive recklessness ventured uplift infractions of popular right. Tame and insignilicont enough to-day, these usurpations in Mary land and in Tennessee—then, however, though in the int'ancy of our constitutional expellence, the wise devotion of the people to the principles of our national liberty tri umphed over the assumption of power, and the " peaceful revolution" of 15>1 under Thomas Jefferson, secured to tie six tc years of freedom and or progress. The ambition of Mn, Lincoln and Ins supporters now threatens the very remedies through which the "peaceful revolution" of 151>1 was ac complished. This revolutionary ambition has already heel> met by Senator Wade and Representative Davis :t temper as revolu tionary, with it formal summons of the t,eoph , to extreme and ulterior measures, "if thtise voters-turn the balance in his ray, ir they exclaim, "isitto he supposed that his compel nor, iltircatealtysnch means, will :lowliest.... Let the people consider the remedy for the,. usurpations, :ma, having found it, fearlessly execute it." The National Democratic Committee do not so far despair of the future of the Re public. They believe that the American people, 4111111,1 with 111,' majestic authority o f the constitution and the laws, will meet those hingilllllll:4'S Of usurpation in the spirit and withrfe detertninationof their fathers; nor sillier liiNectltive ambition SO far lllcor rupt the constitutional remedies of Execu tive wrong-doing Wi In cond-nin this great and free propli• in the inint, , diate future to the condition or the t,wedie, or the subject population,: or i he ollett A t'w - sTE BELMIINT, Chairman. F. 1 Et:INCE, Secretary. Who Is Old ? A wise man will never rust out. As long as he eac move and breathe, he will do something for himself, is neigh hor, or for posterity: Almost to the last hour of his life, Washington was at work. So were Franklin and Young, and Howard and Newton. The vigor of their lives never devayed. No rust ever marred their spirits. It ii a foolish idea to suppose that we must lie down and die because we are old. Who is old ? Not the man of energy ; not the day-lahorer iii seience, art or benevo lence ; but he only .who suffers his ener gies to waste away, and the springs of life to become motionless ; on whose hands the hours drag heavily, to whom all things wear the garb of gloom. Care of the Eyes Looking in a fire is very injurious to to the eyes, particularly a coal tire. The stimulous of light and heat united soon destroy the eyes. Looking at molton iron will soon destroy the sight. Read ing in the twilight is injurious to the eyes, as then they are obliged to make great exertion. Reading or sewing with a side light injures the eyes, as both eyes should be exposed to an equal degree of light. The reason is, the sympathy between the eyes is so great, that if the pupil of one is dilated by being kept partially in the shade, the one that is most exposed cannot contract itself sufficiently for protection, and will ultimately he injured. Those who wish to preserve their sight should pre serve their general health by correct habits, and give their eyes just work enough, with a -- due degree of light. —A merchant in Belfast had, at one time, in his employ an Irishman pos sessed of a good deal more zeal than knowledge. His employer gave him filie key to the post °thee box one morn ing, with directions to "go to the post office and get the contents of forty." Pat vanished, but presently came hack with pockets, hat and hands tilled with a miscellaneous collection of letters, &e., and the explanation, " I couldn't open forty boxes, sir; but I opened all I could, and here they be l" ANOTHER meteor has fallen in Hub bardstown, Mass. It was first discov ered on the ult., and on examina tion proved to oe a mass as large as a hogshead, of a gelatinous, light colored, semi-transparent substance. A speci men was presented to the Natural His tory Society of Worcester on Monday evening, and although tightly corked in a bottle, it had diminished consider ahly in hulk, and was partially dis solved. It was of a light, straw color, and had a strong odor of sulphuretted hydrogen with a sulphurous taste. A chemical analysis will he made. The Affgans and the Lost Tribes In the ,course of a pedestrian tour among the Pathans (or Affgans) the Rev. R. Bruce, of the Church Mission at Dent Ismael Khan, in the Derajat, was informed of some remarkable tra ditions as to their ancestry. Mr. Bruce says: "Azeem Khan told me, among other things, that the Pathans were children of Israel, and this is the belief of all educated Pathans that I have met. I had an interesting hook lent me by the Nawab of Tank, whose city resi dence is close to us here, called " The Tawarikh Affghani," or " History of the Ppthans." In it they claini descent from Saul, king of Israel, and say— " When Bakht Nayer destroyed Jerus alem, and drove their ancestors out of Damascus, they took refuge in the hills of Kandahar." The book also contains a great deal taken from our Hebrew Scriptures—the genealogy in Genesis v., with accounts of Enoch and the age Methuselah, correct history of Noah, Abraham, and other patriarchs—not after the manner of usual Mussulman legends, but after Hebrew Scriptures. This looks very much as if they were the ten tribes, or a part of them." Su nday at Hone." OF Aoirruirierro LlB.l 1.4.: • SqUaTe Of ten 4PC74.te, R Per ~,T21%.,41(7/t!f" Anvannstsrd, .7, cents .a . for the drst, B.nd 4 centit .for, each snbssllnentAnSerz__ tiO n, 4, • , , PATssrr ?dimwits - ins road other adver's by Ina: oolutetn :' • One colunni, / • 11100 .. 'Half column, 1 year-- .... .... . ...... , 00 Third column, 1 year, ........... .. .40 9,uarter mho= 30. BosmEss CARDS, or 'ten lines or less, one year . .... _ .. 10 Business Cards, five lin es or less; one ' year, LEGAL ASS) OTHER NOTICEZ— • Executors' notices Administrators' notices Assignees' notices Auditors' notices ... Other "Notices," ten. lines, o less , three times , l.so The Daughter of a Chicago - *rehant, Marries a Negro Drayntah. It matters very little what the princi ple may be—however gross and abhor rent soever—let it but be early enough instilled into a child's mind, let it be inculcated with the other lessons of the fireside, and to that individual, in ordi nary eases, it will ever afterwards re main clothed in the same garb in which it was presenteil there. Tf it is erroneous, if it. is absurd, if it. is opposed to every sentiment of propriety, and is essenti ally derogatory in all its tendencies, if it is subversive of all Civilization in human society, and even if it be aliso! , utely unnatural and disgusting, in such a case these features are veiled and tut seen. The children of Spiritualists or dinarily grow up to be Spiritualists; the children of Mormons become Mor mons themselves, and if the offspring of believers in miscegenation do not in the course of time take unto themselves wives ,uol husbands front among negroes, it is because some white man or WOlllllll happened to win their affec tion ti rat. The event is purely acci dental. One of the most shocking cases of mis veg,enation which has yet occurred to the disgrace or the civilization or society in this city, has recently came to light, wherein one of the parties is a negro drayinan, is black as midnight, and the other a Piling and in numy respects ac complished woman, the daughter of a Chicago men•ll: u tt. Monstrous as lit.' statement may seem, these twain are man and Wife, and their nt:u•riage took placewitliTheconsent,freely and unhesi atingly given, of the bride's parents. It is something over a year slime the dis gusting sltou•l:tele was presented of a well 10-do merchant \ ohmtarily and proudly et rn, giPing tm ay his daugh ter to the emliruee, of a negro—some thing overa viarsince t he selected patty of leeot e e, tot his admirable philosophy gathered together upon that festive °p ension toadmire the 6t0rt.,.., eti«)lanegro's bride, and Witness the ceremony which was to forever brand her offspring. Front that time to this, husliniel wife have lived together in the niost af fectionate Manner. The Dian was her choice, her dearly beloved, mid no won der they should live happily together. The establishment maintained by them has ti ever been au inipo:jog one ; ittcas early found that even Motley cold(' not repurchasethe position whieh the yottlig woman had once held, and the newly unu•ried pair very quickly found it to the advantage of all concerned to take a small cottage in an obscure quarter of the cif l', where they now continue to dwell, and front whence the happy groom each morning - starts ntr with his dray, after imprinting It kiss upon the fair check of his affectionate Wife, snmk ing a short black pipe and gaily whist ling ." King,ltan Coming," orsome other popular tune. 'l'lle citizen :Wove referred to, and whose name tbr common decency's sake We suppress, is a strong believer in a certain modern school of politics, and like many unfortunate individuals in that party was led very far astray from sound ,reasoning by the boldly main tained* fallaeies and oily rhetoric of smile of their 'leaders and orators, and became a tigni and ardent supporter of the doctrine of the absolute equality— social and political—of the white and Flack raves. In this faith he rejoiced in being or 111,. strietest of his sect. His children were tauglii the samecreed, and grew up With a constantly deepening conviction that the question of color was but it silly pi ejudice, and that the black man WIIS after all in every respect the white inan's peer. In this way all the objections to such a remarkable match had been itt an early day uprooted from the girl's mind, awl she was gradually schooled to make the extraordinary choice above mentioned. So far as the immediate parties to this affair are concerned, the mother - is of trifling importance now. If any ywung woman is 111111:T1)y enough as trObe pos— sessed of such strong African proclivi ties, iL eau only be hoped that she may enjoy herself in such a union ; but in its tendencies upon public society, affairs of this nature cannot be too strongly condemned by every well-wisher of lTie rare.—Chi , :uf l'o,L The Ohl-fashioned Mothers The old-fashioned mothers have near ly all passed away with the l,lue cheek and home-spun woolen of a simple and purer time. Here and there one re mains, truly r , com p ished , in the heat and life, for the sphere of home. Old-fashioned mothers-4:od bless them—Who followed us, with heart and prayer, all over the world—lived in out lives and sorrowed in our griefs; wriO knew more about patching than poe try; spoke ito dialeet but love—never preached nor wandered, made melody with their hearts, and sent forth no hooks but living volumes, that honored their authors and blessed the world. The old homestead! We-wish we could paint it for you, as it is—no we (hire not as it is—as it was; that we could go together from room to room, sit by the old hearths, round which that circle of light and love once swept, and there lingered, till all those ampler, purer times returned, and we should grow young again And how .-an we leave the spot With out remembering one form that occu pied, in days gone by, "the old arm chair," that old-fashioned mother—one in all the world, the law of whose life was love ; and who was the divinity of our infancy, and the sacred presence in the shrine of our first earth idolatry; one whose heart is far below the frost that gather so thickly on her brow ; one to whom we never grew old, but in the plumed troop or the grave council, are children; still, one who welcomed us coming, blessed us going, and never for got us—never! And when in some closet, some drawer, she finds a garment or toy that once was yours, how does she weep, as she thinks you may be suffering and sad. And when spring Leaves her robes on the trues, does she not remember your tree, and. wish you were there to see its glory? " My DEA.R ELLEN," said an ardent lover to a young lady whose smiles he was seeking, " I have long wished for this opportunity, but I hardly dare trust myself now to speak the deep emotions of my palpitating heart; but I declare to you, my dear Ellen, that I love you most tenderly ; your smiles would shed— would shed—" " sever mind the wood shed," said Ellen, "go on with that pretty talk." ' —" Why don't you wheel the barrel of coals, Ned," said a miner to one of his sons. "It is not a very hard job. " There is an inclined plane, too, to re lieve; you." "Ah I" said Ned, " the -plain is inclined, but hang me if I am."
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