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A Kiss in the Wood.
An enterprising lover gives the readers of the
Home Journal a pleasant bit of autobiography
as follows:
"The pie-nic's all behind us, Kate;
'Twill take them long to find us, Kato;
There's a world of bliss in a harmless kiss,
And no one near to mind us, Kate!"
Her sweet face took a ruddier hue;
A hasty backward glance she threw
She did speak but on her cheek
The crimson tint still richer grew.
Then mute she stood, with down east eyes,
As fair as nymph in maiden guise;
Just then some evil disposed young de'l
My lips possessed by sonic surprise;
And stole a kiss before I could
Prevent thjj• sa.:ee-box, if I would ;
"Why, ligtrry Brake, how can you take
Such liberties here in the wood?
"It's quite too had ! besides, how queer
Teat we're alone together here!
Come, let us go—right well you know
I'd rathe have the others near."
A gland: gleamed front her bonny eye
That tempered well the curt reply;
With gentle has: eabout her waist
My arm crepteagerly, but shy.
"Don't, Barry dear!" 'twas soft and clear,
But bow it thrilled my heart to hear!
"Oh, Barry, don't"' "No Kate I won't!
Alas; bat yet I del, 1 fear!
1 kissed her haniN, I kisiiied.her brow
I kissed her dewy mouth, and now
With this for this, and kiss for kiss
She paid in usury - , I t ruvc
Then all her form was lute pi•issessed,
Awl lonilly to my heart she pressed:.
Willi blushing foci , :did free embraco
-She clasped me to her heaving breast.
" NV:I , 11,11:1d. us, Kate;
It t •ffir them Ions!, to tina us, Kate;
We proved what bliss Was in a kis:
And no one near In mind us, Kate."
Joh - ling the Odd Fellows
" Very well, Mr. Jenks, you know my
opinion of secret societies."
" Perfectly, my dear, perfectly," said
our friend, thrusting his hands into his
pockets with all the energy he could
sustain.
And you will join ?"
" Don't you think it besr."'
"No sir, once for all, I do not."
"Consider, my dear, if you should be
left a widow, with nothing to support
" Now what a ridiculous argument
1)o you suppose, Alr. Jenks
"My dear."
" Mr. Jenks."
" Will you listen for a moment?"
" Certainly "
" Well, then, much as I respect your
wishes, and you know I love you dearly,
it will be impossible for me to oblige
you in this instance. I have sent in
my document, and to-night am to be
initiated."
Mrs. Jenks opened her handsome eyes
in amazement, and for a moment was
lost in wonder.
" And you are actually going to be
initiated?''
" Yes my dear."
" Well, will you tell me all about i
when you come borne?"
" Perhaps so."
Comforted by this assurance, the lady
offered no further opposition, and our
hero took his departure. About the
hour of eleven he returned a wiser if not
a better mall.
" Well, my der," exclaimed Mrs.
Jenks, " what did they do to you—what
is it like—were You much frightened?
Come, tell me all about it."
" Don't ask me," gravely replied our
friend. " 1 beg you won't ask me."
" Why not, I'm your wi fe, you know,
and wife and husband are one. Why
" Hark !" said Jenks, " did you hear
anything ?"
" No, nothing."
" Silence, my dear, remember what
Shakespeare says about sermons in
stones, books, in running brooks. If I
should divulge it."
" Who, my dear ?"
" The patriarch of the lost tribes
Even now he may be at our window.'
"Mercy onus," ejaculated Mrs. Jenks
"how you do terrify a body. I—l—l
I—ship•—shiver all over."
"If you don't want to be tilled ou
right, ask no more questions."
"Sure you can tell me something
about it, an idea or two, that wouldn't
be divulging you know."
"What if you should in an unguard
ed moment let the secret out."
"Oh, trust me, it will be safe in my
keeping."
" You will never tell?"
" Never."
"Not even to your mother? You
know how gossiping some old ladies
"I'll never open my lips to her on the
subject."
"Hark!" exclaimed Jenks, with a
theatrical start, " hear you nothing."
"Nothing" repeated his wife with
unfeigned alarm.
" 'Tis only the wind," mused our
friend; " I thought it might be the
grand bashaw, armed with his circum
venter, and covered with the curious
devices of the order. Now listen if you
love me--for the sacrifice I am about to
make is great—and you must seal your
lips foi ever oil the subject."
" Well my dear," said the lady with a
long drawn sigh."
" You have often heard of the cat be
ing let out of the bag
y es. "
"Well, I saw that eat to-night."
"A real live cat?"
"Yes, and an immense cat at that, a
monstrous cat. But you shall hear.
You shall know all. Let me begin at
the beginning."
" That's right,'' exclaimed Mrs. Jenks,
breathless with interest.
" On arriving at the Hall, I was im
mediately seized by,four, smart fellows,
and taken upon the roof of the building.
Here I was tongue-tied and compelled
to answer about a hundred questions,
all having a direct bearing on the
science of astronomy."
" - What a queer proceeding," ex
claimed Mrs. Jenks.
" How I answered those questions
must ever remain, I suppose, a mystery
to myself—certain it is, however, I did
answer every one—although I did not
now it till to-night, there's a dipper
and a chair and a four horse team, and
I don't know what else in the sky. It
is not a pity that this beautiful science
is so sadly neglected."
" What, what then ?"
o Why, the next question is too ab
surd to be repeated."
" They wanted to know whether I
took a newspaper, and if so how much
I owed the printer. Fortunately, I had
just then paid my subscription, other
wise I must have been rejected, as no
man can become an Old Fellow who
owes a cent to the printer."
"Well, I never," exclaimed Mrs.
Jenks, " what an influence those news
paper do exert to be sure."
"Exactly! But scarcely had I an
swered thesequeriessatisfactorily, when
an immense flame shot up and we as
quickly shot down."
"What—through the roof?"
"Oh, not Isnppose*e tookthe stairs;
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but I was securely bound and tongue
tied. I hardly knew how we got down.
The apartment into which I was usher
ed was pitchdark, and a strong odor of
brimstone pervaded the room."
"Brimstone, my dear ?"
" Yes, it must have been brimstone,
for nothing else could have produced
such a stifling sensation."
" Well of all things."
"Then began the roar of artillery with
an occasional volley of small arms. In
the midst of the tumult I beard a low,
sweet voice, chanting a hymn of peace.
' Alan shall love his fellow, sang this
angel—cruel war shall be waged no
more—peace shall reign—slavery shall
perish—industry shall meet its reward
—charity fills the hearts of men.' When
this happy singer had ceased, a loud cry
for cheap postage rent the air."
"How very odd."
" Yes, but just like these Odd Fellows,
they are real reformers," replied our
friend.
" Well, my dear."
"Why then lights were prepared,
and I signed the constitution."
"Well, what of the cat of which you
were speaking ?"
" Oh nothing, my dear, only they let
her out, and for a minute or two she ap
peared quite bewildered. It was the
first time I had ever seen that cat out of
the bag. But what struck me with the
greatest awe, was the appearance of the
lost tribes, and the double jointed
bashaw, who in a loud voice, continu
ally said—' Life is short—prepare for
that which is to come. Let all men
have charity, and love their neighbor as
themselves,' whereupon the grand patri
arch armed with the tail of the great
rand-father's authority, arose and im
'essively adjourned the meeting."
Well, I declare," ejaculated Mrs.
" and this is joining the Odd
Fellows."
" Yes, but remember to keep all I
have told you, a profound secret," said
Jenks, with a half-smothered chuckle
as he buried his head in the bed-clothes
to keep from laughing out-right.
why women Dress.
The true explanation of the prevail
ing extravagant;e in costume is, that
women dress for one another.
In other words, they dress for eyes
which can appreciate the material and
migtimate the cost of every separate ar-
title they have on.
It is quite true that many men care
as much for, and are as competent to
give an opiiiion on, the appearance of
their wives, or sisters, or friends, asany
number of female acquaintances; but
the grounds upon which the two classes
of critics will base their several judg
ments will always be distinct, and the
conclusions themselves not unfrequeut-
ly quite opposite.
Ask a married woman to tell you who
is the best dressed girl at a ball, and you
will hardly ever find them agreeing in
their answer. Go a step further, and
costumes which have been selected, and
you will discover almost to a certainty
that the woman has singled out the
most expensive dress in the room,
whereas the man has simply asked him-
self which is the most becoming. The
one has suffered herself )be so impress
ed by the richness of the material, the
elaborateness of the embroidery, the
costliness of the trimmings, that in
the end she has found it simply impos
sible to leave these things out of the cal
culation. The other, happy in his
norance, has looked only at the general
effect, and has probably given the pref
erence to a young lady whose gown
has no other merits than those of being
scrupulously neat, becomingly cut, and
perfectly well made.
We submit, therefore, that if that
eference to masculine taste which is so
frequently professed really existed in
any appreciable measure, it would sup
ply an antidote to many of the griev
ances under which society now labors.
A week or two back, the correspond
ence of an evening cotemporary was
largely taken up with the sorrows of
parents, who have to see that their
daughters look 'like other people, and at
the same time to make both ends meet;
and we hal,e no doubt that as soon as
the elections are over, the columns of
the Timis will be thrown open to an
endless repetition of similar complaints.
My daughters' gowns must sweep the
pavement as they walk, cries one heart
broken mother, or if they do so far con
sult their pockets as to loop them up,
their underskirts must be flounced and
embroidered until they become as costly
as the gown. There is no necessity in
the case, interposes a sterner moralist;
young women should have no wish to
dress beyond their means merely for the
sake of rivalling their richer friends. It is
here that our theory collies in and har
monises these opposing views. Roman
ever feltanything of irritation at seeing a
woman's gown doing the business of the
crossing-sweeper, or attach any value to
the amount of open work displayed be
neath a looped-upskirt. If young ladies
would but believe it—or rather if they
did lei attach any importance to it
when they do believe it—a man will be
perfectly satisfied with their appearance
so far as these considerations are con
cerned, if their petticoats are spotlessly
clean and their stockings guiltless of a
wrinkle.
We do not say that even these char
acters, when added to the well-fitting
gowns for which we have already stipu
lated, are to be attained without some
expenditure of money, for cleanliness,
at least iu London, is not a cheap virtue
and it is not every dressmaker who
knows how to make a dress. But, at
any rate, the proposed standard is a
good deal easier of attainment than the
spurious fine-ladyism . after which so
many women toil in vain ; and we can
not but believe that if girls did but
think inure ofpleasing the other sex and
less of vieing with their own, their
parents would see reason to bless the
change, the next time they came to look
over their; milliners' bill.
—" Don't you ever go to evening par
ies ?"
"\o," said my friend Tom, "I used
to, but I am cured."
" How so," said I, anxious to learn by
experience
" Why, you see," said Tom, " I went
to one some years back, and fell in love
with a beautiful girl. I courted her
like a trump, and I thought I had her
sure, when she eloped with a tailor.
But I swore vengeance, and I took it. I
patronized the robber of my happiness,
and ordered a new suit of clothes, re
gardless of expense."
" Had you your vengeance?" said I.
" Yes, I struck that fellow in his most
vital part. I never paid that bill. But
those 'infernal clothes were the cause of
all my future misfortune."
"How so," said I.
"'Wearing them, I captivated my
present wife ! §he told me so and I
haven't had a•happy day since.'
Peach Pot-Pie
What's that, you innovator:' Peach
Pot-Pie ?"
"Yes, ma'am—tbat's exactly what I
do mean—a peach' pot-pie. Nothing
ridiculous about that certainly. I don't
know that it is even new to the public.
It has not been to me any time these four
years. I learned it of a Savoyard chef,
and I consider it one of the choicest bits
of kitchen science I ever fell heir to.—
Please bear it in mind till peach time—
experiment, and become converted.
Take nice, tender, lean veal, clear of
bone, cut it iutoshreds, then good, fine
flavored peaches—not so ripe to be
clumpy—peal thin and slice as thin as
possible. Have greased as many of the
smallest size soup-plates as you will
have plates laid at the dinner-table. On
each of these plates have a crust rolled
out a quarter of an inch thick, and lay in
an inch in depth veal, peaches and
thinly sliced potatoes in equal propor
tions. Add as much butter as will fla
vor the dish, but nut so much as to
make it greasy. A dusting of pepper, a
pinch of cinnamon, and then cover with
crust something thinner than the bot
tom one.
Thus fill all the plates then set the
first one in the bottom of a steamer or
tin kettle, cover it witli an inverted
plate, then set in another and another,
until all are stacked in. I f the steamer
is used, nothing more is required than
to cover closely, and to steam away fot
an hour and a half. If a kettle is used,
place it in an Iron pot or kettle, with
water enough to come half way to the
inner kettle, and boil as before an hour
and a half. Serve the dishes just as
they come from the kettle on other plates.
Farmers' Sons
The sons of farmers commonly think
their lot a hard one. most city
youths, they are compelled to perform
daily toil. Their life is not one of con
stant amusement. They cannot see and
hear as much as their city cousins.—
They do not dress in as fine clothes ;
cannot treat and be treated at the pop
ular saloons, or visit the costly gambling
resorts which abound in every city.—
Some of them feel that their lot is in
deed a hard one, and their highest am
bition is to go the city and see "all the
sights.''
But let us talk to our farmers' boys.
You are in the right place. You are
learning habits of industry and frugal
ity. By your daily toil you are acquir
ing a sound constitution—a most im
portant matter; and this is one of the
reasons that most of our great men
have come front farmers' boys. They
have grown up robust, with constitur
tions that null endure a great amount
of mental labor, which youths from the
city, with weak and feeble frames, could
not stand
If you cannot see as much as city
youths, neither are you exposed to the
vices and temptations of city life, which
prove the destruction of nearly - all who
are raised in the city.
You are on the right track—go ahead.
Resolve to form no bad habits. Indulge
in no intoxicating drinks; if you form a
love for them it is almost impossible to
subdue it. Do not acquire the habit of
smoking or chewing tobacco, or taking
snuff. Read good books ; let no oppor
tunity for improvement pass away ne
glected, and you will grow up useful and
intelligent men.
A Point of Order
One of the members of the Lower
House of the Legislature of New York,
rejoiced in the name of Bloss. He had
the honor of representing the county r t
Monroe, and if his sagacity as a legis
lator did not win for him the respect of
his associates, his eccentricities often
ministered to their entertainment. One
day, in the midst of a windy harangue
that had become intolerable for its
length and emptiness, a " gassy " mem
ber from the metropolis stopped to take
a drink of water. Moss sprang to his
feet and cried :
" Mr. Speaker, I call the gentleman
from New York to order."
The whole assembly was startled and
stilled; the member from New York
stood aghast, with the glass in his hand,
while the Speaker said;
"The gentleman from Monroe will
please state his point of order."
To which Mr. Bloss, with great grav
ity, replied:
" I submit, sir, that it is not in order
for a windmill to go by water."
It was a shot beyond wind and water;
the verbose orator was confounded, and
put himself and glass down together.
There is nothing sheds so tine a light
upon the human mind as candor. It
was called " whiteness" by the ancients,
for its purity; and it always won the
esteem due to the most admirable of the
virtues. However little sought for, or
practised, all do it the homage of their
praise, and all feel the power and charm
of its influence. The man whose opin
ions nt,b, the deepest marl: upon his
fellow-ne•u, whose friendship is in
stinctively sought where all others have
proved faithless, is not the man of bril
liant parts or flattering tongue, or splen
did genius, or commanding power; but
he whose lucid candor and ingenious
truth transmit the heart's real feelings
pure and without refraction. There are
other qualities which are more showy,
and other traits that have a higher
place in the world's code of honor, but
none wear better or gather less tarnish
by use, or claim a deeper homage in that
silent reverence which the mind must
pay to virtue.
—A well-known lawyer being sent
for to act as counsel for some men accused
of horse stealing iu the jail at:Waverly,
Bremer county, was sent for also by an
Irishman in another room in the same
prison. " Well, Pat, what do you want
with me?'' " And what should I want
with you but to get me out of this."
" And what are you here for ?" " Just
for burglary, I believe they call it."
"And what is the testimony against
you ?" " And river a bit at all. Only
I tould the justice of the pace myself
that I did it." " Well, if you have con
fessed it, I don't see but what you'll
have to stay here." " Au' is it that you
say ? Shure now, and in the counthry
came from nivir a bit would they kape
anybody in jail on such a trifling
ivi
deuce as that!"
The funniest story of the age is told
by a Detroit paper. A lady suspected
her husband of improper intimacy with
the hired girl. Without informing her
husband of her intention, she sent the
girl off that night and went to sleep in
the'girl's bed. She had not been there
long when somebody came and took the
other half of the bed. About two hours
after the wife rose, intending to reveal
the intended infidelity of her spouse,
struck a light, when lo ! it was the hired
Man,
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1865.
A favorite temperance lecturer down
South used to relate the following anec
dote to illustrate the influence of a bad
example in , the formation of habits,
ruinous in their effect.
Adam, and Mary, his wife, who lived I
in the old States, were very.good mem
bers of the church, good sort of folks
anyway, quite industrious and thriving
in the world, and Mary thought a great
deal of a goo ci glass of toddy.
Whenever the minister called to Make
Mary a visit, which was pretty often,
she contrived to have a glass of good
toddy made, and the minister never re
fused to imbibe. After a while Adam
got to following the example of the
minister to such an extent that he be
came a drunkard—drank up everything
lie had, and all he could get. Mary and
Adam became very poor in consequence
of following the minister's example so
closely ; but the minister continued still
to get his glass of toddy. One day lie
called in arid told Mary he was gbing
away for a week—should return on
Friday—and handed her a book contain
ing the catechism, and told her when
he returned he should expect her to
answer the questions. Mary said yes,
and laid away the book carefully. But
Mary, like a good many others, forgot it
until the very Friday that the good
minister was to return. " What shall I
do ?" said she, "the minister is to be
here to-day, and I haven'tlooked in the
book he gave me! How can I answer
the questions?"
"I can tell you," said Adam, " give
me a quarter, and let me go over to
Smith's and get some good rum, and
you can answer him with a glass of
toddy."
Mary took the advice, gave Adam a
quarter and a jug and off he started.
After getting his jug filled, and on his
way back, Adam concluded to taste the
ruin. One taste followed the other, un
til lie stumbled over a pile of rocks and
broke the jug and lost all the ruin.
Adam managed to stagger home.
Soon as he got into the house Mary
asked very anxiously for the jug of rum
Poor Adam managed to stammer out
that he stumbled over a pile of rocks
and broke the jug and spilt the rum.
Mary was in a fix—Adam drunk—the
minister coming—the rum gone—and
the questions unlearned. But here
comes the minister! It won't do for
the man of God to see Adam drunk, so
she, for want of a better place to hide,
sent him under the bed. By the time
he was fairly under, in came the min
ister. After sitting a few moments he
asked Mary if she could' answer the
question, " How did Adam fall?" •
Mary turned her head first one way,
and then the other, and filially stam
mered out,
" He fell over• a pile of rocks."
It was now the minister's turn to look
blank, but he ventured another ques
tion.
" Where did he hide himselfafter the
\Lire• looked at the minister, then at
the lied, but filially she spoke out with,
" Under the lied sir ! There, Adam,
you may come out ; he knows all about
The good minister retired--not even
waiting for his glass of toddy.
Talk of the vanity of woman. Is
there no vanity in man? Show me one
girl with her pretty head stuffed full of
her own beauty and consequence, and
I will show you fifty youths, upon whose
lips the small down, by much coaxing
has ventured to appear, and a hundred
hirsute dandies, exulting in a full facial
crop of spontaneous growth, who are
more perfectly possessed with a self satis
fied estimation of their own irresistible
charms than any miss in her teens.
Each of these apologies of men fan
cies every woman whom he happens to
encounter, desperately enamored of
him, awl is fully persuaded in his own
mind that he bears to the fair sex the
same relation that the late Martin Scott
did to the raccoon. " Don't fire," said
the raccoon to the captain, as the latter
was about raising his unerring rifle, " I
will come down."
"Don't pop the question," damsel, to
one'of these exquisite " I
will marry you."
A young gentleman was paying special
attention to a young lady, and one day
a little girl, about five years old, slipped
in and began a conversation with him :
" I can always tell,'' said she, " when
you are coming to our house,"
" You can !" he replied ;
you tell it?'
" Why, when you are going to be here,
sister begins to sing and get good, and
she gives me cake and anything I want,
and she sings so sweetly—when I speak
to her she smiles so pleasantly. I wish
you would stay here all the while ; then
I would have a nice time. But when
you go off sister is notso good. She gets
mad, and when I ask her for anything
she slaps and bangs me about."
This was a poser to the young gentle
man. " Fools, and children tell the
truth," quoth he, and taking his hat
left to return no more.
The Way to Avoid Calumny
" If any one speak ill of thee," said
Epietetus, "consider whether he bath
truth on his side ; and if so reform thy
self, that his censures may not affect
thee." When Anaximander was told
that the very boys laughed at his sing
ing, " Ay," said lie, " then I must learn
to sing better." Plato being told that
lie had many enemies who spoke ill of
him, said : " It is no matter ; I will liy9
so that none shall believe them." Hear
ing at another time that an intimate
friend of his had spoken detractiugly of
him, he said : " I am sure he would not
do it, if he had not some reason for it."
This is the surest as well as the noblest
way of drawing the sting out of a re
proach, and the true method of pre-
paring a man for that great and only re
lief againgt the pains of calumny—a
good conscience.
An old Methodist, very good at re
sponses, which were not always appro
priate, though always well-meant, went
one day to hear a popular preacher.
The preacher, usually lucid, was rather
perplexed, and felt it himself. He
labored through the first part, and then
said :
" Brethren, I have reached the con
clusion of my first point."
" Thank God !" ejaculated the old
man, who set before him profoundly
interested, ina voice that was heard in
every part of the church. The last part
of that sermon was harder to preach
than the first.
- -Mrs. Partington, in illustration of
the proverb "a soft answer turneth
away rath," says, " that it is better to
speak paragorically of a person than to
be all thelime flinging epitaphs at Wm.',
Adam's Fall
Not so Good
"and how do
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News Prom Washington.
WASHINGTON, July 24
THE ARCHBISHOP OF BALTIMORE
Father Walter has been requested by
the Archbishop of Baltimore to cease
all controversy relative to Mrs. Surratt's
innocence. This ends the matter, and
prevents a prepared reply to General
Hardie being made public.
THE FRACTIONAL CURRENCY
About $50,000 worth of defaced or
worn-out fractional currency is destroy
ed per day, and its place supplied with
new, the ettire amount in circulation
being upwards of $21,000,000. No more
three-cent notes are to be issued, the act
of Congress prohibiting them, and the
five-cent notes will also gradually be
withdrawn.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR.
Governor Perry and the South Caro
lina delegation left on the morning train
for the South. The governor returns to
enter actively upon the work of recon
struction in that State. The radical
clamor for his removal had little or no
effect.
TELEGRAPH TO THE PAtIFIC
It is learned here that additional tele
graph facilities are to be immediately
provided between the Atlantic and Pa
cific coasts. The United States Pacific
Telegraph Company have purchased
the wire for their new line, and the sec
tion between Chicago and Omaha, N.
T., and Virginia city to San Francisco,
are to be completed before winter sets
in, while the whole line will be com
pleted within one year.
ri==
Hon. Montgomery Blair, in company
with a large delegation from Baltimore,
had another interview with the Presi
dent to-day, with reference to the Mary
land federal appointments. It will he
remembered that two sets of appoint
ments have been made, but commissions
issued to neither. They are still in
abeyance. The opposing parties to the
contest are still earnestly engaged in
presenting their respect ive claims. The
Philadelphia and Baltimore delegations
occupied a good portion of the Presi
dent's time to-day. Two sets have been
appointed to office in Baltimore, but
both are hung up for the present. The
New York. appointments will be delayed
Mr some time.
THE AN DERSON VII. LE PRISON PEN
The case of Captain Wertz, charged
with inhuman treatment of prisoners at
Andersonville, has been delayed for
some days. The specifications set forth
that he grossly neglected to care for
those placed in his charge; that, he re
fused them a sufficient amount of food,
and gave spoiled meat, &c., to the men ;
that he refused them water, and forced
them to drink water into which had
been thrown and drained the slops from
cook-houses and camps; unduly punish
ing some for minor offences by chaining
them together until they died ; giving
them no shelter from heat or cold, and
robbing them of their clothing and
blankets.
THE sixicETA In - op' VA R
The Siiiiietary of War hasordered that
to secure equal justice and the same
personal liberty to the freedmen as to
other citizens akil inhabitants, all orders
issued by 1)04r - district, or other com
manders, adopting any system of passes
for or subjecting them to any restraints
or punishments not imposed on other
classes, are declared void. Neither
whites nor blacks will be restrained from
seeking employment elsewhere when
they cannot obtain it at a just compen
sation at their homes, and when not
bound by voluntary agreements; nor
Will they be hindered from traveling
from place to place on proper and legiti
mate business.
Obituary
Died at l'asselltt, the residence of his
parents, in Sewickley, on Tuesday morn
ing last, George Dawson Cass, son alien.
t;corge W. l'ass.
Death is a fearful visitor, at all times
and everywhere. Even the few, who
from age, or trouble, or privation, we
may think should he " a weary of the
world," never Welcome the universal
destroyer. But there are instances
where, not only to the afflicted, but to
those who know and sympathise with
them, the blow is especially severe—and
this was the case in the unexpected
death we have recorded.
The deceased had just passed the age
of twenty-one. He was a youth of abil
ity and abundant promise, and his in
dustry, energy, and bodily vigor, seem
ed to mark him for a long and useful
career. His unchanging kindness and
devotion to parents, brothers and sisters
—his cheerfulness of temper, his con-
stout readiness to gratify the wishes and
minister to the comfort of kindred and
friends, made him the beloved of all who
dwelt or sojourned in his home. The
centre of the affections, and the hope of
his family, his loss is unspeakably af
flicting. A wound so terrible cannot be
healed by the sympathy of stranger
hearts, and we feel how poor and weak
any expressions of ours would be, to
soothe or assuage the sufferings of the
bereaved. Their consolation must come
from the Fountain " whence all bless
ing Clow."—Pitt.sburg Post.
How the Shoddy Broth is Mixed
The New York Tribune discourses as
follows about the incongruous admix
ture of radicalism, shoddy, and all the
other odds and ends of the " loyal "
party in POnnsylvania
The contest is very animated over the
Philadelphia appointments. There are
three slates before the President—tte
congressional slate, the radical slate,
and the Cameron-Forney slate. The
Congressmen of the city profess the
right to control the Federal appoint
ments, and urge Morton McMichael, fur
Collector; Wm. A. Kern, for Post
master ; A. B. Sloanaker, for Surveyor ,
James Pollock, for Director of the Mint;
and Chas. Gibbons for District Attorney.
The Radical slate is headed by Thos.
Webster as Collector, John Gilbert
Brown of the Press, for Postmaster, E.
M. Davis for Surveyor, George I. Richie
for District Attorney, and J. Barclay
Harding for Director of the Mint. The
Cameron-Forney slate would gladly re
tain Thomas for collector, and Walburn
as Postmaster. Cameron wants B.
Brewster as District Attorney, while
Forney wants Daniel Dougherty, the
eloquent young Irish orator, for that
office, and Brown for Postmaster. Col.
Fitzgerald was urged by leading mer
chants for the Collectoship, but has
withdrawn positively in favor of Thomas
and is mentioned as the Union nominee
for Governor. M'Clure and Curtin have
scattered their preferences over the
slates, and are more anxious about the
coming election for Senator in place of
Cowan, and the Governor also. The
friends of Forney hold him in reserve
for the Senate. Judge Kelly is in high
favor with the Radicals xis candidate for
Senator, while Forney will be supported
by the War Democrats and Douglas
men. Curtin, it is reported, will go
abroad, and M'Clure run as his pandi
date for Governor. Pennsylvania is
hard to understand in a political way,
and never more mixed up than now."
Suicide of a Bank Officer
We regret to learn that William M.
Beetem, Esq., the well-known Cashier
of the Carlisle Deposit Bank, commit
ted suicide, early this morning, by hang
ing himself. The particulars, as far as
we have been able to obtain them, are,
that Mr. Beetem's mind had been slight
ly deranged for several days past, and
that his singular manners attracted the
notice of his friends, and the bank offi
cers, and last evening he passed out of
the bank, leaving its doors and safe
open. At a later hour, he, in company
with his wife, visited her parents and
returning home, retired as usual. This
morning Mrs. Beetem proceeded to mar
ket, leaving Mr. B. in bed. Upon her
return it was discovered that he had
arisen, shaved himself and left the room.
A search was at once made for him, and
his body was found hanging in the gar
ret of the residence, with life extinct.—
Mr. Beetem has for years been one of
the most prominent business men of
Carlisle, and his sudden death has cast
a gloom throughout the town.-- 2 Wed,
nescia,y evening's liarrisbury Telegraph,
how to be Independent.
Mr. Peter C. Brooks' maxim was that
" the whole value of wealth consists in
the personal independence it secures."
An amusing and singular illustration of
that distinguised merchant's maxim is
thus given :
" A merchant named Porter once had
h clerical friend between whotu and
himself there existed great. intimacy.
Every Saturday night, as Porter was
sitting balancing his cash, a note would
come requesting the loan of a " five
dollar bill." The money was always
punctually restored at eight o'clock on
the Monday morning following. But
what puzzled the lender was, the person
always returned the identical note he
borrowed. Since the discovery of this
fact he had made private marks on the
note ; still the same was handed back
on Monday."
- - - .
"One Saturday evening Porter sent a
five dollar gold piece instead of a note
and marked it. Still the very same
coin was returned on Monday. Porter
got nervous and billious about it; lie
could hardly sleep at night for thinking
about it; he would wake his wife in the
middle of the night, and ask her what
she thought of such a strange occur
rence. He was fast boiling over with
curiosity, when news came from the
reverend borrower one Christmas eve,
asking the loan of ten dollars. A bril
liant thought struck him. He put on
his great coat, resolving to call and de
mand an explanation of the mystery.
When he was shown into his friend's
study, he found him plunged into the
profoundest melancholy."
" Mr. B." said the lender, "if you
will answer me one question I will lend
you that ten dollars. How does it hap
pen that you always pay me the money
you borrow on Saturday night in the
very same coin or note on .Monday .
morning'."
"The person raised his head, and,
after a violent internal strnggle, as
though he were about to unveil the
hoarded mystery of his soul, said in
flattering tones : " Porter, you are a
gentleman, a Christian, and a New
Yorker; I know I can rely on your in
valuable secrecy. Listen to the secret
of my eloquence. You know that I am
poor; and when, on Saturday, T have
bought my Sunday dinner, I seldom
have a red cent left in my pocket. Now
I maintain that no man can preach
the Gospel and blow up his con
gregation properly without he has
something in his pocket to inspire
him with confidence. I have, there
fore, borrowed five dollars of you every
Saturday, that I !night feel it occasion
ally as I preached on Sunday. You
know how independently I do preach—
how I make the rich shake in their
shoes. Well, it is all owing to my
knowing that I have a live-dollar bill
ill my pocket. Of course never having
to use it for ally other purpose, it is not
changed, but invariably returned to you
I the next morning. But, tomorrow Mr.
George Law is coining to hear me
preach, and I thought I would try the
effect of a ten-dollar bill sermon on
him!"
The Former4lome and Family or Henry
Clay.
A Kentucky correspondent of the
Cincinnati Connacc'•iul tells the follow
ing story of Ashland, the late home
stead of Henry Clay, and the history of
his descendents :
" The homestead of Henry Clay is now
occupied by the family of Hon. Thomas
Clay, one of his sons, and present Min
ister to one of the South American gov
ernments. It is owned by the heirs of
James B. Clay, a degenerate son of the
great statesman, who, it will be remem
bereid, (lied in Canada, about a year ago.
The house in which Mr. Clay lived,
when at home, was torn down, some
years since, by James, and a mag.n (leen t
structure erected on its site, and there
is nothing now about the place to re
mind one of him who once owned and
honored it except the family buggy in
which the old man and his wife used to
drive about, and the oak trees in front
of the house, beneath which he used to
sit and talk with family and friends.
" Mr. Clay had five sons. Four of
them survived him. One, who bore his
father's name, was killed In the Mexi
can war. Thomas, as I have said, is
now a government minister. John is
living on one-half of the old homestead
(now divided into two farms.) lames
died a fugitive in a foreign land, and
Theodore (the oldest of the family) is,
ann has been for twenty-five years, an
inmate of an insane asylum, still avoiv
i illg to every one that he is the original
(leorge Washington, and refusing to re
spond to a call by any other name. :Ur.
Clay had no possessions of any kind at
the time of his death, with theexception
of Ashland, which was, of course,
worth a considerable sun) ; but even
that was very heavily mortgaged, and
he thought at one time he would be
compelled to abandon it to his creditors,
until one day when he entered the bank
to pay one of his notes, he was told that
he did not owe a cent. Kind and gener
ous friends had 'taken his case in his
hand and lifted the pecuniary burden
from his shoulders."
President Johnson and the Radicals
[Philadelphia Correspondence London Times
The course pursued by President
Johnson in reconstructing the South
has completely broken up the political
parties of the North. The democratic
party has gradually been drawn into
the ranks of his supporters, while the
radical wing of the republicans has
fallen off. There is very little doubt
that Johnson will turn out a dinnocrat ;
that he will be a freetrader and strict
constructionist, and that the party
which ultimately will support him is
the one which opposed his election to
the Vice Presidency. Johnson now gives
daily audiences to Northern democrats,
and says he wishes toseeall the leaders of
the party.' Several of these gentlemen
who nave recently visited him, and who
entered his reception room quite skepti
cal as to their belief in his reported De
mocracy, have left the audience highly
delighted. His views they consider as
sound and conservative Democracy. He
is opposed to negro suffrage, opposed to
repudiation, military trials and military
governments. In his appointment of
Southern provisional Governors he has
selected, he says, men who, without re
gard to their former connexion with the
rebellion, enjoy thegreatest confidence of
thepeople of the States they are to govern.
In his instructions to them helms mark
ed out a well defined path. They are
to make the military power subordinate
to the civil authorities. They are to es
tablish post routes and assist in opening
the channels of trade. - Beyond these
duties, the only things they are to per
form are to assemble a State Convention
as quickly as possible and have the am
nesty oath as universally taken as pos
sible. When the State Convention as
sembles it is to be the governing power;
and what it prescribes these provisional
Governors are to carry out. Of the
Northern radical republicans Mr. John
son-talks as sneeringly as ever a demo
crat could. His dislike of them and
their measures cannot be concealed.
Reduction of the Army and Navy
We again impress upon the govern
ment the necessity of a speedy and large
reduction of the public expenses. The
army should be reduced to a minimum
of twenty-five thousand men, and the
navy in the same proportion.
That is all the troops we require to
garrison the forts in the South and on
the Western frontier. The rebellion is
completely subdued. There may, and
there doubtless will be, a great deal of
talk and bluster among the Southern
politicians ; but there will never again,
for a century to come, be any show of
hostility to the government, rendering
a large standing army a necessity.
The aspirations of the South for a sep
arate independence have received a
quietus. It is the duty of government,
therefore, to reduce the expenses as rap
idly as possible; and if it is not done at
once the "national blessing" of Jay
Cooke will soon amount to five thousand
millions instead of three thousand.—N.
Y. Herald,
NUMBER 30.
" Poor Old Uncle Ned."
The head of the Freedman's Bureau,
General Howard, has notified the wheat
and tobacco growers of Maryland that
if they do not cease turning off their old
slaves to starve, or neglect to employ
them, the government will take posses
sion of their farms and put freedmen to
work on their lands. Slavery, it must
be remembered, has been abolished in
Maryland. The planters no longer have
the advantage of the services of the able
bodied negroes ; yet, acccording to Gen.
Howard's dictum, they are either gom
pelled to maintain in idleness the old
slaves left on their hands, or their farms
will be taken possession of by the gov
ernment, and the freedmen put to work
on them. (The reader will please re
member that he is in free America, and
not in Russia.) The government, in
effect, robs the planter of the services of
all able-bodied servants, and then re
quires him to feed; clothe and house the
fathers, mothers and helpless children
of these same freedmen. A more glaring
instance of injustice and wrong, and a
more discreditable threat than General
Howard makes, isnot to be found in the
longcatalogue of administrative usurpa
tion during the past four years. The
slaves in Maryland, being freed, the
planters are released from all legal or
moral obligation, except in so far as
common humanity requires, to feed,
clothe or take care of them. Gradual
emancipation was urged to avoid the
very sufferings which General Howard
aims to cure, but the radicals would not
listen to suggestions so humane and
proper. Now, seeing that immediate
emancipation has inflicted a grievous
wrong upon the negroes, it is ordered,
in a very czaratic style, that the late
slave owners shall be made to bear its
weight. The land owners are robbed of
all the labor that made slavery profita
ble, yet, under penalty of confiscation,.
are made to assume burthens which
they had no hand in creating. This is
a fair type of Abolition humanity, and
is about on a par with the zeal with
which these earnest patriots were will
ing to sacrifice their wives' relations to
bring the war to a close.
We are surprised that Gen. Howard,
New Englander as he is, did not borrow
an idea from home, for the relief of these
indigent Uncle Neds and suffering Aunt
Crows. In the New England States,
the town poor—poor whites—are let out
annually to the lowest bidder, the suc
cessful operator in Yankee flesh and
blood, obligating himself to feed and
clothe the unfortunates for a year, being
at liberty to exact as much labor from
them as possible. In Connecticut, the
State poor are rented out, at for the lot,
from $1,200 to 52,000 per year. In the
towns,the direct care of the great massof
the paupers falling on the local authori
ties, the rates, as we learn from the last
market report, in a Connecticut paper,
are as foliows : " Newtown, 4,000 lull:lb
itants, 5000 a year ; last year owing to
the high price of provisions, about $5OO
extra was paid. Barkhamsted, 1,300 in
habitants, the sum of $450 was paid, and
the contractor was Mr. Mason, of New
Hartford, who also keeps New Hartford
poor. Towns of 1,000 ,to 1,500 inhabi
tants pay S5OO to 6fillo a year, the lowest
bidder taking the paupers." We have
heard of instances of cruelty to these
paupers, rivalling anythingthe imagi
nation of Mrs. Stowe has produced, but
they rarely excited remark. It was all
done "in the interest of God and hu
manity," by " the party of great moral
ideas ;" and besides, slavery at the South
was a much better subject for glowing
oratorial displays, than the misery and
suffering, at their own doors.
(Yen. Howard should adopt in Mary
land, and elsewhere at the South, the
New England system of disposing of the
poor and unfortunate. The impression
is that his National-Joint-Stock-Negro-
Amelioration-and-Comfortably-Provid
ing Company will have on their hands
at least half a million of Africans, too
old or lazy to earn their hog and homi
ny. They should immediately be sold
off in New England style to the lowest
bidders. We have no doubt that some
of the Yankee operators in such
"trades," who know to a nicety the
exact amount of brown bread and cod-
fish that will sustain life, would be will
ing to take the whole lot, on a venture,
and at a reasonable price.—Pittsburg
Post.
Soldiers, not Hangmen
General Sherman lately made a few
remarks to some people at St. Louis,
during which he seized the occasion of
an interruption by a sneaking radical,
to administer to the Stanton-Hunter-
Holt hangman's arrangement the fol
lowing cut. Said he:
" You have cities to build, railroads to
build, commerce to develop, agriculture
to encourage—everything to do to build
up a great nation. [A voice--" And
Jeff. Davis to hang."] Hang him as
much as you please. [Laughter and
cheers.] On that subject I tell my sol
diers this: The soldier's duty is to fight
an armed foe ; allow the sheriff and the
jailor to do their executions. It is none
of our business. [Cheers.] For my
part, I and all my soldiers hold our
selves in too much respect to be hang-
men."
Sherman spoke "by the book," for
not a true or successful soldier has ever
been a member of one of those despica
ble military commissions, or has been
guilty of playing the infamous part of
hangman.
A Couutry Village Sacked.
HUDSON, N. Y., July 26
This city was visited yesterday by a
gang of roughs and thieves, who ac
companied the excursion of the Emmet
Guard from Albany.
The scoundrels spread all over the
city, robbing and knocking down the
citizens to their hearts' content. For
a long time they kept this up, for there
was no one to make them afraid. When
starting to return to the boat they com
menced a series of the most brutal and
devilish outrages, and
,still they were
allowed to have their way. They
amused themselves by firing stones,
revolvers and guns at the people, vary
ing this order of things occasionally by
striking them with their clubs and fists,
and maltreating them in carious other
ways. Leaden balls flew like hailstones.
Roughdom had, in fact, a perfect carni
val.
A young man named Race, of Hud
son, was shot in the leg. A boy named
Berry had his arm broken. Another
boy was badly beaten over the head
with a club. Officer Salspaugh, aged
seventy years, was pounded almost into
a jelly. Many other persons were badly
beaten and injured.
The saloons and drinking places in
the city were completely cleaned out,
and their occupants abused in the most
shameful manner. Over three thousand
people accompanied the excursion, over
one hundred of whom were the very
worst species of " roughs." Many per
sons were robbed of their watches,
money, and other valuables.
Prospect Hill was covered with men,
women and children, who had been
driven from their homes, and compelled
to fly by the roughs for their lives.
Only six arrests were made, and those
were let off to-day, with a light fine.—
The whole affair was one of the most
outrageous ever perpetrated upon a law
and order-loving community. How long
such dastardly outrages are to be tolera
ted with patience remains to be seen.
—Doctor, "I want you to prescribe for
me." The doctor feels her pulse, and
says, "there is nothing the matter,
madam ; you only need rest." " Now,
doctor, just look at my tongue, just look
at it; now say what does that need ?"
" I guess that needs rest, too." Exit
madam in a state of great excitement.
,-When Dr. Johnson asked the widow
Porter to be his wife, he told her can
didly that he was of mean extraction,
that he'd had an uncle hanged. The
widow replied that she cared nothing
for his parentage, that she had no money
herself, though she had fifty relations
who deserved hanging. So they made
a match of it.
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The Crops.
ARMSTRONG COUNTY.—The Kittan
ning Free Press thus discourses : The
present season has been a prolific one to
the agriculturisti of Armstrong county,
as well as to those of the whole country.
All over the country we hear but one
response—that the present harvest is the
most productive of any for some years,
in every respect. The hay crop has been
an extraordinary yield, and those hav
ing cattle and horses to feed smile com::
placently as they view the ponderous
shocks dotting the shorn meadows.—
The enormous healthy product of. the
wheat field causes the countenance of
the good house-wife to be illuminated
with a genial glow, because she, for a
season, will not be troubled with "sun
ny" bread. The oats crap is the heaviest
general crop known in Armstrong coun
ty for many years, and will produce a
material change in the price of grain,
which, while it may not prove entirely
sat is factory..to the prod ucer,will be hailed
by the purchaser as a precursor of better
times. Horses that have heretofore
been frameworks, will, in future, wax
fat and kick in the traces. The rye crop!
See thatjolly distiller, how complacent-
ly he strokes his whiskers in contem
plating the anticipated cheapness of
"stock in trade." At present prices of
the " extract " large profits may be
safely counted.
NORTII . I73IBERLAN I) COUNTY.—Says
the Miltonian : We never saw corn
looking finer at this time of year than
it now does in the northern part of this
county, excepton some of the low lands
on the river bank which were overflowed
this spring.
SOMERSET COUNTY.—The Democrat
says : The weather has been very un
favorable to the farming community.
There has been so much rain and
cloudy weather that it was almost im
possible to secure the hay and grain in
a seasonable state The crops now be
ing garnered are heavier than they have
been for many yea's. The Wheat, Rye,
Corn, OatS, Buckwheat, Barley and Po
tatoes are remarkably fine.
The Democrat thinks Mediterranean
wheat better suited than any other to
the elevated region of Somerset. It says:
That the Mediterranean wheat is bet
ter adapted to this climate than any
other kind we think has been fully de
monstrated this season. Every kind of
wheat, it is said, has been injured by the
weevil and rust, except the Mediterra
nean. It matures sooner and for that
reason is better adopted to our cold
climate and late seasons. Our farmers
should sow this kind of wheat and sow
more of it. There is no reason why this
county should not produce all the wheat
consumed in it. Experience proves
that by Vile use of good fertilizers, such
as lime and manure, as much wheat can
be raised here to the acre, as elsewhere,
and:yetevery year, flour is being import
ed from the neighboring counties. We
think that 20 bushels of wheat can be
raised to the acre in any ordinary season,
and according to that yield, there is no
good reason why we should depend
upon our neighbors in Westmorland
and Bedford to supply us with the
" staff of life."
Melancholy Occurrence----Three Chil
dren Drowned.
We are called upon to record a most
melancholy occurrence, which took
place on Wednesday evening last, about
two miles from this borough, by which
three interesting children of Mr. Joseph
Wentzel, of Putt grove township, were
drowned. 'Tice facts of the case are about
as follows :—During the absence 'of Mr.
Wentzel, who was employed in this bor
ough, his wife locked up the house, and
taking her children, five in number,
with her, went on a visit to her father
Mr. Jacob Manger, who owns a mill on
Sprogle's Creek, and who lives prob
ably a mile distant from Mr. Went
zel's. In the evening when Mrs.
Wentzel wished to return home, the
very heavy rain which passed over
this vicinity, came up, and Sprogle's
Creek, from a small, quiet stream, over
flowed its banks suddenly, and became
a roaring torrent. After the shower
was over, Mr. Henry Manger, abrother
of Mrs. Wentzel, undertook to take her
and her children home in a carriage,
and in doing so, attempted to cross the
creek, near Mr. Manger's. When the
horse had got fairly into the stream,
which was deep and rapid he fell down,
upsetting the carriage and throwing its
occupants out into the creek. Mr. Man
ger managed to get out, and Mrs. Went
zel was also rescued after being carried
under two or three times. One of the
children clung to the wagon and was
takenout safely,and another was rescued,
when nearly dead, about three hundred
yards down the stream, by its grand
father, Mr. Manger. The other three
children were carried rapidly away, and
perished in the raging waters. One of
them was found the same evening, but
the bodies of the two others were not re
covered until the next morning when
the flood had subsided. The names of
the drowned children were Hannah,
aged near ten years ; Mary, aged five
and Charles, a little baby boy of only
eight months. The horse which was
attached to the wagon, after falling
down, became entangled in the gears,
and was-also drowned.— Pottstown Led
ger.
THE FORTRESS MONROE correspond
ent of the New York Herald, writing
on the 25th, gives the following infor-
ation in relation to Jefferson Davis
Jef. Davis was last evening allowed
to come out of his casemate and take a
walk inside the fortress. An officer and
guard accompanied him. He protract
ed his walk nearly an hour. This is the
first occasion of his being allowed out
side his casement since he was first put
in there on the 21st of May last. iDr.
Craven, his medical custodian, I am
told, advised that unless he be allowed
outdoor exercise he would not live much
longer. The late extraordinary heat—
the thermometer one day indicating
one hundred and sever: degrees in the
shade inside the fort—has had a very
debilitating as well as depressing effect
on him.
In a recent letter I stated that, not
withstanding contradictions of my pre
vious statement that Davis was in de
clining health and would not survive
six weeks longer close incarceration
was not prepared to modify that state
ment, but fully and implicitly believed
the facts set forth to be true. Thetruth
of this statement is ,condrrued in the
permission just given to Davis to take
outdoor exercise. It is understood that
this permission is to be allowed him
every day, at least to an extent giving
assurance of preservation of his health
and life.
Somnambultc
A returned soldier, whose name we
will not mention, created a hubbub gen
erally about 3 o'clock on Saturday
morning by taking a night stroll with
no clothing on his person but his shirt.
To quiet his nerves he took a dose of
laudanum, which had the effect of
bringing on a delirium. Jumping out
a second story window, he walked to.
Dipple's tavern, got into a window and
frightened some of the inmates. Leav
ing there, he got into Mrs. Kernmer
ling's garden, where, being taken for a
robber, a pistol' was tired at him. That
region being too hot, he betook himself
to the canal, and waded in, but finding
it, perhaps, too cool, he returned to his
home, where he found the neighbors
aroused, ready to start on a search for
him, for fear he might, in his bewilder
ment, fall into the river or canal andbe
drowned.—Lcwistowit Democrat.
A FELLOW in Arostook, Maine, ad
vertising for a wife, describes himself as
follows:
" I am eighteen yearsbld, have a good
sett of teeth, and believe in Andy Joh
nson, the Star-Spangled Banner, and the
4th of July. I have taken up a State
lot, cleared up eighteen acres last year,
and seeded ten of it down. My buck
wheat looks first rate, and the oats and
potatoes are bully. I have got nine
sheep, a two-year old bull, and two
heifers, besides a house and barn. I
want to get married. I want to buy
bread and butter, hoopskirtsandwater
falls for the female persuasion during
my life. That's what's the matter with ;
me. But I don't" know how to do it,"
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