oilPfiliAtk PCTBLISMS) iMntY ! NiMiIq7SDAY BY COOPER, 'SA IiDERSON & pO. G .§Yarrrit, J. M. Coosa, ALFRED SANDERSON Wm.. A. MORTON, TER.ILS—Two Dollars per annum, payable, case's in advahee. tIFFICE4I)I3 nw,ssr COILNER os CENTRE QUAILE:' All letters on business should be ad- I reseed 'to- COOPED., SANDERSON Je. Co. tittrarg. The . Man Who Struck Himself. BY T. S. ARTHUR Jason Elder belonged to that. rather large class of persons who find pleasure in the sufferings or misfortunes of their fellowmen. Phis is stating the case rather broadly, and we do not doubt, that Jason, shouldthe ever chance todiscover this df himself to the pub lic, will reject our classification, so far as he is concerned. - We make it under standingly, however. The fault we have indicated is usually the companion of another. The man who feels pleasure in the ill-fortune of his neighbor, will hardly hesitate to inflict an injury, if it can be done with impunity. Men of the class to whom Jason Elder belonged, rarely pass far on their life journey without misunderstanding with some of their fellow-passengers i n wrong * And as they . are the injured and 'op pressed, it is the most natural thing in the world for them to feel indignant, and quite as natural to retaliate giving blow for blow. " The man who wrongs me, I neither forgive nor forget." This was one of Jason Elder's sayings, and a very bad saying we cannot help declaring it to he, particularly so in Jason's case, for he quite lived up to his principles. Of course, judgment as to wrong was al ways rendered by himself, and on evi dence wholly ex-parte. If he believed that another meant to do him wrong, and he could believe, sometimes, on very slight evidence, an evil purpose was-as quickly born in his mind as if positive testimony were before his eyes. In fact, Jason Elder was a very bad sort of a man and often very troublesome to those who had any dealings with him. Among those who were favored with the hearty dislike of Elder, wasa master mechanfb in a small way, named Mar tin Lee, who, by industry and economy had accumulated enough to buy him self'a house of moderate size, as a home for his family. Elder also owned a house in the same neighborhood. These houses were built on a piece of ground that originally belonged to the same es tate. Mr. Lee was a very upright man—too upright and independent to have much intercourse with a man like Elder, and not mortally offend him. He hal so offended him, and the offence was neither forgotton nor forgiven. In more than one instance his enemy had sought to do him injury ; but the poisoned ar rows, flung from this bow, had flown harmlessly by him. One day, while in conversation with one of those idl6, gossipping who give more attention to other peo ple's business than they do to their own, the latter said, in responding to some ill-natured remark uttered against Mr. Lee, " I learned a fact yesterday that may be you would like to hear." " About that Lee?" eagerly inquired Elder. " Yes, or I might better say, about the ground on which he has built that snug little house." "Indeed!" Our gentlemen was all alive now, and commileed rubbing his eyes in delighted eiKpeciation. " What about the ground?" " Title defective," was the laconic au- "No!" "Fact. Had it from old Larkin, and I rather think he ought to know some thing about it." Well, that is news ; got a bad title, eh? I wonder who's on the hip now, Mr. Martin Lee?" " But surely, Mr. Elder," said his informant, "you would not take ad vantage of this?" " Won't I, indeed ; wait and see. If I don't deal him a swaggering blow, my name is not Jason Elder—that's all. I always said I'd bide my time. Ha I ha! a flaw in his title. But that is just his way of doing business. I'd like to see any one pick a flaw in mine." True to the evil purpose declared, Elder took the first opportunity to search out the party to whom the prop erty owned by Lee would revert, in case a defect really did exist in his title, and communicated the fact alleged.— This individual, whose name was Earl, seemed at first incredulous; but when Larkin was mentioned as authority, seemed to feel quite an interest in the matter. " I am really indebted to you," he said with a bland smile; "should it prove true that there is a defect, I should have quite a windfall; and it could not have reached me in a better time. I will have the matter investigated at once." " That blow will tell hard, surely. I have planted it below the fifth rib," said Elder tolihnself, in a tone of cruel exulation, as he left the presence of Mr. Earl. Through much self-denial and hard labor continued through many years, had Mr. Lee been able to provide a modest homestead for his family. Ile had been the more anxious to accom plish this, from the" fact that declining health warned him of the approach of a day—how speedily it mightarrive, he knew not—wheu his beloved ones, who leaned on him so confidingly, would have none to care for them. If he could secure a home, into which they could cluster together, he felt that much would be gained. , And this he had accomplished—but the effort cost too dearly. He had toed his strength to an extent that prodOced a serious re action ; .and though he'secured a dwell ing for his family, he permanently weakened his constitution. One day, in making a sudden effort, he ruptured a blood-vessel, and was taken home in a dangerous condition. This was thevery day that Jason Elder made the unfortunate discovery of a de fect in the the title of his property.— Little dreamed he as, with death knock ing at the door, he found consolation in the thought that his family, even if he were taken from them, would not be left without a home, that at the very time, there was a movement to deprive them of their little patrimony. And well for him was it that the veil of ig norance was before his eyes ; for had he known of the threatened danger the knowledge would surely have cost him his life. On the following day, a gentleman called at the house of Mr. Lee, to notify him that proceedings were about being instituted for the purpose of testing the validity of his title, but learning that he •- was dangerously ill, he went away with out leaving any word as to the purport of his business. . In the meantime, Elder who had not heard of Mr. Lee's illness, was awaiting '• with some interestto seethe ultimate ef fect of the blow he had struck. There were tiracs*h9ll 7 measure, he re- . . • ... , . . , . ~• • . ... . . ...,. i01t26,:f 4 : . : . . ..__,_ •.•. ~ .... PI , ... ~ . . _.. • . ... _. ..._ .., ::::: il - -..-:. '.' '. : , ' I I . ' • . - .) ~ .q ........-. .c.. - ~....,.. I'.:. _,... .... . _• , •-- . , • t - :' , - ' l'. ' : „-:::: 4 •,, :c „ . , :...."-ii..,•,_..i5.:____.,...,.... : ..,..---.,,..,..:.:....,. ..... . . VOLUME 66. pented of what he had done, but the re pentance was not very deep, and his ill will toward Mr. Lee soon obliterated all traces thereof. On the third day, Elder received a brief note from Mr. Earl, desiring him to call at his offiCe, as he wished to see him on particular business. There was something in this note that affected Mr. Elder unpleasantly. What it was, how ever, he could not discover, although lie read it over and over again, at least half a dozen times. " I wonder what he wants with me?" he said uneasily, as he started off' promptly to obey the summons. " Ali, Mr. Elder ! I am glad too see you !" Mr. Earlsmiled, and offered his hand. 33ut there wassornething wrong in the smile, and no heart whatever in the presence of his hand. " I've been investigating that matter that you brought to my notice," said Mr. Early, and his countenance assum ed a grave aspect. " Ah, have you! Well, sir, did you not find it as I said ?" "There is a tlaw, certainly, and a very serious one "I was sure of it from what Larkin said ; he is never at fault in matters of this kind." " You aimed a heavy blow at Mr. Lee, my friend," said Mr. Earl. There was a quick change in his manner, followed by a pause. Then added: "But it passed him unharmed and struck another!" Who ?" eagerly iuquired Elder Yourself!" was the startling re- Me! I do not understand you, Mr The countenance of Jason Elder had suddenly become overspread with alarm. " Mr. Lee's title is perfectly good." " It is ?" " Yes ; but yours is defective?" "Impossible!" exclaimed Elder, turning pale. " Not at all. Mr. Larkin is rarely at fault in matters of this kind. He knew there was a flaw somewhere in the prop erty that once belonged to my uncle's estate, but erred in this instance. Mr. Lee is safe but your title is not worth a copper. lam much obliged to you for hunting up this windfall for me, for I should hardly have come across it my self, and in consideration thereof, will deal with you as leniently as possible. Of course, I do not expect you to take my word in regard to the flaw. Its ex istenve, however, will soon be demon strated. You had better see your lawyer and ask him to call on me. In the meantime, I will say, that, for various reasons lam ready to compromise. I don't wish to encounter the vexations, delays and expense of legal proceedings ; and therefore, if you are disposed to meet amicably, I will not be too exacting. In a word, then, I have in my ownmind the sum for which I will execute a quit claim to the property. The sum is five hundred dollars." Jason Elder groaned aloud. " If my claim on the property is good —and I know it to be," resumed Mr. Earl, " I can recover three times that sum. If you compromise, I will act in a spirit of great moderation ; but if you compel me to resort to law, I will take all the law awards." Poor Jason Elder ! The blow was a heavy one, and it staggered him. A care- ful examination by his lawyer, only proved the assertion of Mr. Earl. His title to the property was not worth a dollar. Glad enough was he to accept the proffered compromise, though at the clear loss of over five hundred dollars. Well for Mr. Lee was it, that the blow aimed with such bitter malignity, did not execute the will of him by whom it was given. The consequence would, to all human foresight, have proved fatal. Not until he was sufficiently recovered from his dangerous illness to be out again, did he learn the evil that had been meditated and how it had recoiled upon the head of his enemy. His pointed answer was : "He digged a pit for another, and himself fell into it. The declaration of Elder, made to more than one, that he had struck Mr. Lee a heavy blow was remembered in connection with his serious loss from a defect in his title ; and for a long time afterwards, he was spoken of familiarly among those who knew him as the " man who had struck himself." #broad illustration this, of what is taking place daily in hundreds of in stances around us. The evil that is meditated against others, usually comes back, in some form, upon those who seek to do their neighbor a wrong. In this matter there is a law of compensa- tion which acts with unerring certainty. The blow that is struck at another, may not seem to rebound ; but, as surely as it is given, will its power to do harm remain unspent, until the circle of con sequences is complete. Rather Thin A ludicrous incident occurred a Bloomingdale road. James' Hotel, o that place, is ornamented with a host ler whose fun is as fearless as his face is ugly. One day in January, while twenty or thirty fast gentlemen were standing on the front balcony of the hotel, an in dividual rode up the path on the thin nest horse ever mortal eyes looked upon. Leaping from the panting steed, the equestrian said, turning to the hostler : " Here, John, give my horse some water." "Sir," said John, with a look of as onishment " Give my horse some water," said the stranger. "Your horse!" ejaculated John, with more surprise " Yes, you fool, my horse !" said the stranger, looking savagely at him, and commenced drawing the lash of his whip through his hand. John walked towards him as though he would demand an explanation, and had taken about six steps, when he sud denly stopped, like one surprised be yond expression. " Bless my soul," said he, " I ask your pardon, sir ; but your animal stood on a line with that 'ere hitchin' post, and I didn't see him." The owner of the spectral beast tried to frown, but a roar from the balcony made him change his mind. Ciowding a Bachelor " What did you come here after ?" in quired Miss Susan Draper of a bachelor friend, who made her a call when the rest of the family had gone out. " I came to borrow some matches," he meekly replied. " Matches ! That's a likely story.— Why don't you make a match ? I know what you come for," exclaimed the de lighted miss, as she crowded the old bachelor into a corner; " you came to kiss me and hug me almost to death, but you shan't unless ,you are the strongest, And the Lord knows YOU are," • A Necromancer in Paris. Among the strangest of the many strange people who successively " turn up" in this city is a certain M. De Gas ton, a man of goiad family and great ac quirements, who came hither from his provincial home about six years ago, and has worked his way from poverty and obscurity to a lucrative profession and an acquaintance with everybody worth knowing in the capital by the aie of a talent for wonder-working that leaves all rivals in the shade. His feats -- - of prestidigitation are equal to those of the most renowned professors of the art; and in one department, that of tricks performed with a pack of cards, he far surpasses any thing accomplished by them. But the most astonishing of his Teats are bf a totally different order, and such as no other wizard ever attempted. For nstance, his head tied up in a couple of towels, and then covered with a paletot, he will request one of the audience to go to the farthest corner of the room and there to write on a sheet of paper a mass of ciphers arranged in parallel columns and go through the most complicated operation with them, subtracting, mul tiplying, dividing, stating the square of such a cipher, some minute fraction of another cipher; and so on—playing, as it were, with the figures written on the paper, and apparently reading them as soon as written. At one of his sead.ees he threw a folded paper to a lady friend of mine, who had never seen him, re questing her not to open it, but to put it - at once into her pocket and keep it there until he should ask for it; which the lady according ly did. Absorbed in watching the mar velous things done by the performer the lady had quite forgotten the paper in her pocket when De Gaston, turning to her, requested her to name one of the three kingdoms of nature. Thus inter pellated, and feeling rather nervous at seeing the eyes of the assembly fixed upon her, the lady hurriedly named. " The vegetable kingdom." De Caston , thereupon singling out another lady with his eye, requested her to name some class of objects belonging to the vegetable kingdom. " Flowers," re plied the lady thus addressed. Turning to a third lady, the wizard asked her to name a flower. " The Rose," said the third lady. Turning again to my friend, he requested her to read the contents of the paper in her pocket; on doing which she found that it contained these words : " The Vege table Kingdom. Flowers. The Rose." A man of great literary acquirements and reputation here, being invited to a private performance of De Caston's, at which he answered every question writ ten by the persons present, performed the most astounding feats of divination of numbers, stated the events that oc curred at an immense number of dates written by them—each paper being folded and held by them—went away very much disgusted, regarding the whole affair as a series of tricks pro duced by the collusion of the parties lresen t. " How very impudent," said this gen tleman to himself "a company of thir teen respectable-looking, gentlemanly, and intelligent men, all in league with a charlatan !" A day or two afterwards he received a note from De Caston, say ing that he should do himself the honor of calling on him in the course of a day or two, in order to give him a specimen of his powers in his house. M. L accordingly being determined to baffle his visitor, got down some rare old histories from one of the shelves of his library, and picked out about twen ty dates of little known historic facts, in the annals of several countries, and in remote ages. He drew up his paper with great internal satisfaction, feeling sure that lie had provided a poser for De Caston, folded it, put it away in his waist coat pocket, not showing it to any one, and awaited the expected visitor. The latter arrived next day, and was shown at once to the study where M. G was writing an article for some newspaper. " Pray don't disturb yourself," said De Caston, entering, "keep your seat, and let me place myself here," and drawing a chair to the opposite side of the table, he took a folded paper from his pocket, and gave it to M. G " Don't open it till I ask you to do so," said De Caston ; and M. G placed it unopened in his pocket. " Have you a pack of cards and a box of dominoes?" demanded the visitor. "Here are dominoes," replied M. , taking the box out of one of the table drawers, and handing it to De Caston, "as for cards, I don't think there are any in the house ; but I'll ring for my servant and send out fora pack." "Do nothing of the kind," replied De Caston, "we can do just as well without cards as With them by simply imagin ing that we have them." " Now," he continued, holding out his hand, " just imagine that I am offering you a pack of cards, from which you select four." M. 11 extending his hand in turn, fHgned to draw out four cards, and to place them before him on the table. " Be good enough to write on a piece of paper, what cards you have chosen, and fold it up as soon as written." M. G did as requested. " You have chosen the Ace of Spades, the King of Clubs, the Knave of Dia monds, and the Queen of Hearts," quietly remarked the wizard., M. G finished folding his paper.— Those being the cards of which M. G had just written down the names. After performing several other feats, equally inexplicable, with the imaginary cards and the dominoes, which came in play next, De Caston asked M. G—` \ o write a number of historical dates on \ a piece of paper, fold it up and hold it in his hand. " I have my list already!" cried M. G— triumphantly, and produced the paper he had prepared the day before. " Very good," replied De Caston, with a smile and a bow. '" Be so kind as to open the paper I gave you on en tering your study." "Judge of my stupefaction," said M. G—, on recounting this little scene to your correspondent, "when I found that the paper he had given me, on coming into the room, contained an exact duplicate of my list, not one be ing changed or missing, and the dates following each other in exactly the same order as in mine !" On another oetasion, M. G—being also present, a little group of scientific men, including the great astronomer, M. Le Verrier, had assembled privately to witness De Caston's wonders. " I do not pretend to any vastamount of science," remarked that gentleman to his learned audience, " but I have discovered a method of calculation which enables me to sobie any mathe matical problem, no matter how all. LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING-, AUGUST 16, 1865. cult, instantaneously." " Nonsense, sir," shouted M. Le Verrier, who is very rade when out of temper, " the thing is impossible P' " Try me," returned De Casten, re questing a great mathematician present to propound some very difficult problem in the upper regions of the algebra. The mathematician took out his pencil and wrote out the terms of some terrifically abstruse and complicated computation, upon which all present at once set to work, pencil in hand, when De Caston placing his paper on the instant before the mathematician, remarked, "I think Monsieur, you will find that this is the correct solution of your problem." " You see, Monsieur, that my method of calculation really yields very useful results !" said De Caston to La Verrier. But the latter, furious atseeing his state ment refuted, and giving full force to his ill-temper, assailed De Caston with torrents of invectiAcalling him a trickster, a buffoon, a c arlatan, and de claring that he would not stay to wit ness such impudent knavery, took his departure in a rage. It seems that be Gaston is often great ly excited and fatigued by the perform ance of his feats; and that he often suf fers from headache after performing them. But what is to be thought of op erations, mental or otherwise, produc ing results so utterly incomprehensible? Letter from Ireland TULLYMACCLESCRAG, PARISH OF RALLY RAGOET, NEAR PALLYSLUCHGUTHERY, IN THE COUNTY OF ICILKINY, IN IRELAND. MY DEAR NIFFEW : I havn't sint you a letther since the last time I wrote to you, bekase we moved from our former place of living and I couldn't tell where a letther would find you. But I now wid pleasure take up my pen to inform you of the death of your own living uncleKilpathrick, who died very sudden ti,y last week, afther a linger ing illness of six months. The poor man was in violent convulsions during the whole time of his, sickness, lying parfectly quote and spachless, all the while talking incoharently and calling for wather. I had no time to inform you of his death sooner, except I had wrote to you by the last Post, which went off ten days before he died and then you'd had postage to pay. I am at a loss to tell what his death was occasioned by, but, I fear, it was by his last sickness, for he was never well ten days thegither durin' the whole time of his confinement; and I believe his death was occasioned by his ating too much of Rabbits stuffed wid Pose and Gravy,—Or Pase and Gravy stuffed wid Rabbits—l can't tell which. But be that as it will, as soon as he brathed his last, •the docthers geave over all hopes of his rocovery. I can't tell you anything about his age, for you well know that in March nixt he would have been twinty-five years owld lackin ten months, and had he lived till that time he would have been just six months dead. His prop erty now revolves to his nixt 01 kin,— who all died some time ago ; so that I expect it will be divided between us, and you know his property was some thing very considherable—for he had a fine estate that was sowld to pay his debts, and the remaindher he lost in a horse race; but, it was the opinion of ivery body at the time that he would have won the race if the horse he run against hadn't been too fast for him. I liver saw a man, and the doethers all say so, that obsurved directions or tuk medicine betther than he did—he said he would just as lave take bitthers loways as sugar candy if it had only the same taste and Ippecacuanha as whisky punch if it would only put him in the same humor for fighting. But, poor sowl, he will Myer ate or dhrink more ; and you havn't a living relation in the world barri n, myself andyour two cousins who were kilt in the last war. can't dwell on this mournful subject, and I shall sale my letther wid black sale in wax and put on it your uncle's coat of arms, so I beg you , not to brake the sale whin you open this letter and don't open it till three or four days afther you recave it, 'by which time you will be prepared for the sorrowful tid ings. Your schweethait, Judy McGee, sinds you her love unknownst to me.— Whin Pat Finnegan arrivesin America ax him for this letther, and if he doesn't know it from the rest, tell him it's the one that spakes about your uncle's death and saled in black. I remain your af fectionate owld Grandmother, To MISTHER LARRY O'HOOLIGAN, lately of the town of Tullymucclescrag, in the Parish of Ballyragget, near Ballyslucligutthery, in the County of Kilkiny in Ireland—now in America— forninst the Pump. N. B. Don't write to me again till ye recave this. P. S. Whin you come to this place stop, and don't read any more till my The Power of Humbug An individual who owned a small tavern near the field of Waterloo, the scene of the last great action of Napol eon, was frequently questioned as to whether he did not possess some relics of the battle, and he as invariably and honestly answered in the negative. But he was very poor, and one day while lamenting to a neighbor not only his poverty, but the annoyance to which travellers subjected him, his friend cut him short with : " Well, make one help the other Yale some relies." "But what can I do ?" inquired the poor man. " Tell them that Napoleon or Wel lington entered your shop during the battle and sat on that chair." Not long after an English tourist en tered the tavern, and inquiring for relics, was told the chair story. The chair was bought at an incredible price. The next corner was informcd that Wellington had taken a drink, and the " Wellington tumbler" was ac cordingly sold. The third arrival gazed with breathless wonder at the nail on which Bonaparte had hung up his hat. The fourth purchased the door posts be tween which he had entered ; and the fifth became the happy purchaser of the floor upon which he had , trodden. At last advices the fortunate tavern keeper had not a roof to cover his head, and was sitting on a bag of gold in the centre of a deep pit, formed by selling the earth upon which the house stood. A SHODDY sheet says that President Johnson intertds to place one of our largest war vessels at the disposal of John Bright, an Abolition Englishman, for a free trip to this country and back. If this be true, let the expenses be deduct ed from Johnson's salary. Abolition pleasure excursions have already cost the people many million dollars. Several Government vessels are all the time awaiting the pleasure of rascally . who spend more time at their carousals than at business.—Harrisburg ,Patriot. When first I know Mr. John Horsely, he was an old white-haired man, and very rich. As he seemed never to have been in any great business, such as mer chants and speculators now engaged in, and as he was never accused of being a dishonest man, it was always a mystery to me how he came to be rich. I knew that his father was a poor country clergyman, and that John could have received no property from him. Meet ing my friend one day, when our con versation happened to turn on the sub ject of gathering property, I ventured to ask him how it was that he had been so successful in life. "When I was a boy," said he, "my father was a poor minister. We lived very plain, and dressed very plain, but that never troubled us. We always had enough of something to eat, and my mother was one who would contrive to have her children dress neatly if not richly. One day, when I was a little fellow, several boys and girls came along, on their way to pick huckleberries. They invited me to go with them. And when I saw their bright faces and their little baskets, and the bright afternoon, I wanted to go with them. So I went into the house and asked my mother. I saw she sympathised with me, but said I must go and ask father." " And where is father?" " Up in the study, of course." Up I bounded, Da in hand, and gent y knocked at the door. He bade me BIZEMII " Well, Johnny, what is your wish ?" "1 want, sir, to go with the children and pick huckleberries." " Where are you going?" "Only to Johnson's hill, sir." " How many children are there?" " Well, be a good boy, and use no bad words." o the bottom of the stairs, when my father called me back. 0 dear, it's all over now ; he's going to take it all back, I said to myself. Trembling, I again stood in the doorway, expecting to have permission withdrawn. "John," Said my father with a peculiar smile, " I have a word of ad vice to give you. You will find the berries growing on bushes standing in clumps, all over the lot. The children will pick a few minutes at one place, and then go off to another, in hopes of finding better picking, and thus they will spend half of the afternoon in roaming from one place to another.— Now, my advice to you is, that when you find pretty fair picking, stick to that spot, and keep picking there. Your basket at night will show whether my advice is good or not." Well, sir, I followed my father's ad vice, and though the children would wander about and cry out, "0, Johnny, here's a world of them," and "here is splendid picking," and " here you can fill your basket in less than no time," yet I stud: to my " fair picking" place. When we got through at night, to the astonishment of every one and my own no less, it was found that I had nearly twice as many berries as any other one. They all wondered how it was ; but I knew. And there was the lesson that made me a rich man. When ever I have found " fair picking," I have stuck to it. Others have changed occupation and business, and have mov ed from one place to another. I have never done so, and I attribute all my success to the lesson by which I learned to pick huckleberries.—[Rev. John Toad, D. D. It is a peculiar effectof virtue to make a man's chief happiness arise from him self and his own conduct. A bad man is wholly the creature of the world. He hangs upon favor, lives by its smiles, and is happy or miserable in proportion to his success. But to a virtuous man, success in worldly undertaking is but a secondary object. To discharge his own part with integrity and honor, is his chief Wm. If he has done properly what was incumbent on him to do, his mind is at rest; to Providence he leaves the event. His witness is in heaven, and his record is on high, sat isfied with the approbation of God, and the testimony of a good concience, he enjoys himself and de spises the triumphs of guilt. In pro portion as such manly principles rule your heart and you will be independent of the world, and will forbear complain-. ing of its discouragements, its imperfec tion of your virtue which occasions you to be weary in well doing. It is because your heart remains divided between God and the world that you are so often dis contented—partly seeking your happi ness from what is repugnant to your duty. Study to be more consistent in principle, and more uniform in practice, and your speech will be more unbroken. JUDY O'HOOLIGAN How to Pick Huckleberries. Seven besides myself. Please let go." Away I scatup,:ed, and had just got The Effect of Virtue ShAer Worship A correspondent of the Lewistown Journal, who has visited the Shaker vil lages at Portland and NeaGloucester, Mass., writes as follow; : The societies are made up of persons of all ages, and the best of homes are provided here for many orphans and all indigent or able-bodied persons whose fortunes and services may be thrown into their common lot. They believe, further, in the temporal kingdom of Christ—a kingdom indivisible—one in property, spirit, and action. Simplicity and an earnest zeal mark their religious gatherings. Their assembly-room is a medium-sized hall, well constructed and finished in sky-blue paint. The sexes enteratdifferentdoors. Atthe appointed hour the presiding brother gives a sort of nasal twang, which soon increases to full musical cadences, and brings all the worshipers to their feet. They then form in platoons; facing each other, men °acne side and females on the other, and indulge in full choruses and chants, beating time by an oscillating movement of their hands, with up turned palms. This finished, the elder advances from his seat, and, after a brief exhortation to a quiet and godly life, re sumes his position. The tune and danc ing are then indulged in with quaint steps and a pendulum movement of the body. They move in forward advances, and all hands reel around the choir, that chants in the center of the circle, sometimes giving a double shuffle. One exhortation more, and the families sep arate and leave the hall, previously in viting the spectators, the "world's peo ple," to keep seated until they have re tired. The remarks mane are highly interesting, and the "laboring," as they term the dancing, is of a decidedly queer and impressive nature. " Have a drap of the crathur, Ali chael?" " No, sure I've joined the timperance pledge." "Yes ; but didn't St. Patrick advise Tamothy to take a little wine for his stomach's sake?" " Maybes he did ; but my name isn't TamothY, and there's no throuble with my etimach." I pioallanteno. Extraordinary racing—lndians Versus Horses. From the Chicago Republican.] On Saturday afternoon a number of races took place over the Chicago Driv ing "'ark, in the presence of the largest assemblage of people which we have seen there this season. There were fully two thousand persons present, among whom were many of our leading citizens, and quite a number of ladies. The oc casion of this large gathering was to witness one of the most singular races that has ever taken place in this coun try. Two Indians were entered against two trotting horses. The former are known as extraordinary runners, while the horses have earned a good reputa tion as fast nags. The match was Such a singular one, that not only the sport ing fraternity but the public generally were more or less excited about it, and the result was looked forward to with considerable interest. INDIANS VERSUS HORSES The great race of the day was the next called on. The Indians are well known in the sporting world as astonishing runners, having on many occasionsper formed almost impossible feats. Their names are Deerfoot and Stevens, and they both belong to the Seneca tribe, of New York State. They possess all the peculiarities of their race, are of medi um height, loose, active, and wiry looking, and move along with that slouching gate peculiar to the Indians. They are young men, and go about pre paring for a run with all the coolness imaginable. They think no more of starting for a run of ten miles than others would think of taking a pleasure walk. Their opponents were Mr. Gates' well known bay mare " Princess," and Mr. Hastings' equally well known horse "Cooley," both of which have made remarkably good time on more than one occasion. The men and horses were all in good trim, while the weather was all that could be desired. The race was for a purse of $l,OOO, and was to be run in the following manner: The Indians were to ruu two miles and wenty rods while the horses trotted four miles—the Iftdians to relieve each other during the race, and the horses likewise. Close upon four o'clock the men and horses appeared in the field. The former were dressed in tights, and were the ob served of all observers. A spot twenty rods north of the judges' stand had been marked off, and here Stevens took his position, while Deerfoot stood upon the starting line in front of the judges' stand. It was arranged that Stevens should run the odd twenty rods. Deerfoot the first mile, and Stevens thesecond mile, while Princess should oppose them the first two miles and Cooley the second. Be- fore the start, and during the progress of the contest, betting was freely indulged in, and those who knew the Indians backed them heavily, while, on the other hand, many persons staked freely on the horses. Several thousand dollars must have changed hands. After the usual amount of exercise rincess got into a nice trot and started off at a rattling pace, while at the same instant Stevens dashed over the rods to the judges' stand with almost equal speed, when he suddenly stopped, and Deerfoot took up the race, and started off at a fine pace. The mare trotted beautifully, and did not break through out the race, while the Indian ran splendidly at a steady rate, his lengthy strides carrying him over the ground with astonishing rapidity. As the mare passed the judges' stand, on her first mile, Deerfoot was at the half-mile post so that the odd twenty rods had already been made up by him. He did his second half-mile at even a better pace than the first, and though the marecon tinued to trot steadily, she could not overtake her fleet opponent, who ar rived opposite the judges' stand about three hundred yards in advance of her. At the stand Stevens took up the race and Deerfoot fell out, while the horses were changed by " Cooley " taking the road, and "Princess" retiring. These .changes were, of course, made without the race being stopped, or a second lost. As " Cooley" crossed the score, and re lieved "Princess," Stevens was about hree hundred yards ahead, shooting along at a rapid rate, and he was near the first-quarter post before the horse overhauled him. Between this point and the half-mile post, the Indian ran with amazing swiftness, and when the horse crossed the score and started on the fourth mile, Stevens had only about one-third of a mile to do.- It was evi dent the race was the Indian's, and Stevens saw this, slackened his speed, and did the-last quarter in an easy pace. The horse trotted well, but it was utterly impossible for him to catch the Indian, and he had just reached the three-quar ter .post when Stevens passed the Judge's stand amid the most vociferous cheering. The horse continued his pace, and crossed the score thirty-six seconds later. The result of the race seemed to be pleasing to the large majority of the crowd, for the Indians were cheered again and again. Time—" Princess" did her two miles in 5:15, and "Cooley" his two miles in 5:38 ; total, 10:53. The respective times of the Indians we did not get, but they made the two miles and twenty rods in 10:17, thus beating the horses 38 seconds. The men ran at about the same rate of speed, and there could not have been more than two or three seconds difference between them. They certainly ran beautifully, and the easy victory they won over the horses is one of the most remarkable feats in the annals of racing. They came out apparently as fresh as they started, and seemed to be very much less fatigued than their four-footed opponents. Too Mach Mother. Artemus Ward gets off the following good paragraph : Our ballad writers put too much mother in their melodies. Thus, we have " Dear Mother, I've come home to die"—" Mother, dear, 0 pray for me" —" Write a letter to my mother," etc. The other night we heard an athletic Ethiopian minstrel dismally bleat, " Mother kissed me in my dreams," just as though she would do it until he washed the cork from his face. A mother is a good thing. Without mothers, in fact, life would be unpleas ant. But why sing the maternal parent's merits so persistently, and in such shaky verse ? Why not vary the thing, and occasionally produce a father or two ? If we must continually sing about our parents, let us by all means " give the old man a chance." "Yes, Mrs. Mifflin, said a visitor to her hosts, "dear little Emma has your features, but I think she has her father'F hair." " Oh, now I see," said little Emma, "it is because I have papa's hair' that he wears a wig." NUMBER 32. Romantic History of a Young Female Criminal. The New York Herald of yesterday has the following romantic history of a young female criminal : The criminal court of such a city as New York presents to the student of mental philosophy a practical Held for his operations. It is true that there he only witnesses the abnormal develop ment of human nature ; but the variety of crimes on the calender, the individu ality of each ease, and the wide differ- ence there is in criminals, learned as well from their appearance as by- the light reflected from the witness stand, constitute an ever changing panorama, full of sad but instructive lessons one moment may be seen the tender child, scarcely old enough, one would suppose, to leave its mother's arms, who, from natural instinct, the neglect of parents, or vicious examples, or (what is still mare lamentable) from actual training has pursued a course of theft. Near by stands the more advanced criminal, who, by confirmed habits of wrong doing, has become the accom plished forger, the skilful burglar, the daring highwayman; or, by yielding to ungovernable passion, inflamed by poisonous liquids, becomes the hardened murderer. Between these two extremes are often found those who, in an un guarded moment, yield to the -tempta- lust, passion, or the tons of avarice, adverse turn of the wheel of fortune, and appear at the criminal bar for the • first time. Thus, as we have said, the calendar of the criminal court for a single day is full of interest, and if the secret history of these persons, from prattling childhood up to the period of their ignominious end, were revealed, it would form an instructive chapter in literature. A case on yesterday's calendar of the General Sessions reveals at least some incidents in the life of a female criminal full of romance and adventure, especi ally when the age of the subject is con sidered. Four years ago last Julie a beautiful young girl, only fourteen years of age, upon whose cheeks the flush of health vied with the freshness and beauty of the blooming rose, clothed in neat and elegant apparel, rode in an up town stage, seated beside the wife of a mer chant prince. The fair Adelaide (for that was her name) with the skill of a master, abstracted the lady's portemon naie from her pocket, which, fortunate ly, contained but a few dollars. She was suspected, and the lady immediate ly caused her arrest. The services of eminent counsel were secured to defend the girl, and he succeeded in getting the trial postponed till October. At that time she was arraigned upon an indictment found by the Grand Jury, and tried by a jury of her fellow citizens. The testimony of the lady was so clear and conclusive that, notwith standing the strong and eloquent appeal which the apparent in nocence and striking beauty of the cul prit made to the sympathy of the jury on her behalf, they were compelled to find her guilty. Among the spectators in the court room while the trial, pro gressed might have been seen a tall, motionless looking female, whose coun tenance was an exact counterpart of Dickens' character of Fagin, who, it will be remembered, trained juveniles to the profession of thieving. This was the mother of Adelaide Irwin, who, it was known to the authorities, had, by a course of discipline, succeeded in making her daughter one of the most experienced, and consequently a very successful operator in the streets and public conveyances. Besides, her win ning looks ; refined manners, and ele gant dress, enabled her to carry on her operations with profit and comparative security from detection. She was faith ful in delivering the result of her un righteous gains to her mother, who at this time resided in a fine house in For tieth street. When the jury had pronounced the verdict of guilty the fair young thief exhibited marked signs of penitence.— She wept bitterly, and would not he comforted; and as a result of this, the sympathy which pervaded the court room reached the bench, and under a solemn promise of good behavior, Ade laide was bidden to- "go and sin no more." The next chapter of her life opens in a large retail fancy store on one: of the leading avenues, where she procured a situation as saleswoman, under an as sumed name. For a time she ran well, and by her affability of manner, and quickness of perception she became a favorite with her employers, and, it is needless to add, her services were in constant demand by lady customers. At length she returned to her old ways, and was caught in the act of pilfering from the store. She was given into the custody of a police officer, who convey ed her to the Tombs, and while pass ing to the cell, one ofi the attaches of the Sessions recognized in her the peni tent Adelaide. He communicated his dis covery toDistrict Attorney Elall,who had her arranged on the previous charge of pocket-picking, and the Recorder sen tenced her to the Penitentiary for two years. While serving out her term of imprisonment on the island her person al attractions were such as to awaken the admiration of the son of a very re spectable gentleman in the city, who was paying a flying visit to the institu tions. He became so infatuated with the charms of the fair Adelaide, who, though clothed in convict's attire, still exhibited traces of beauty and intelli gence, that he actually proposed mar riage, and shortly after the happy pair eloped from the Penitentiary and resid ed in the metropolis. She, probably, by calling into requsition the skill and services of the dressmaker and barber, might have eluded the vigilant gaze of the practiced eye of the detective and ridden down Broadway or visited the opera and theatre and moved in fashion able circles unsuspected and unharmed were it not that she again yielded to what would seem to be a hereditary in stinct to steal. She was arrested recently on two charges—one of stealing a lady's valise, containing wearing apparel valued at fifty dollars, and another similar to that —stealing a carpet bag containing cut lery and other articles, belonging to Mr. Brewster, of Newburg, which was taken from one of the staterooms of the steamer Thomas Corness. It is a singu lar fact that the smitten lover and now the fond husband was so infatuated that he actually visited one of the ladies who made this recent charge, and beg ged her to interpose with the authorities in her behalf. ' How can you love such a dreadful wicked person?" inquired the lady. "Is she not an angel," re plied the pleader, " I love her for the semblance." He begged in vain for mercy, and the machinery of the law was again put into operation, which resulted in the indictment of Adelaide on the above charges.— Although considerably shattered in physical appearance by the vicious course of life she pursued, still traces of beauty were visible, and the writer, on a hasty glance at her face, which was enveloped in a veil and partly hid by a screen over the eyes, at once recognized the blooming maiden who four years before had captivated the spectators in that same room. She simulated blind ness when placed at the bar, and played her part with admirable skill, butit was whispered by the initiated that she really was laboring under an affection of the eyes, superinduced by her imprudent conduct. She well knew, however, as did her counsel, that the punishment due to her offences would only be aggra vated by passing through the ordeal of a trial ; for the prosecuting officer and the Judge upon the benchiwere perfectly familiar with her brief but eventful career. She therefore discreetly pleaded guilty to the charge, throwing herself upon the clemency of the Court. The Recorder sentenced her to im prisonment in the State Prison for the term of three years. Her history affords another illustration of the Scriptural aphorism, "The way of the transgres sor —General Carrington has been re-ap pointed 11. S. District Attorney forthe Dis trict of Columbia. 1.,14 A 2 2 1 08 8. 418rAiERT Bmmalgsa AlMrasnissat i, a V sW ter a A Z r square of ten lines ;teri per cent. In • frectidaeota year,— • Haas: ElsrATs,' ••• NAL PELOPERTY,M7= _aaAL 'ArrnEatrilii:M34 7 cente •ri f "the first, and 4 -comte4or each sutceiinerit - - I"Arrarr .111Entarkrma and other. Silver's "by to One column, 1 - Half cabman, 1 00 . Third columxi,l 10 • Quarter _ 80 Busmen Came, of ten limeor letie, one year,— ,_ l6 Business Cierde,llve linage? less„ one 1 ... . LEGAL AND OTHER - • Executors' 2.00. • Administrators' n0tice5,...........--- 200 Assignees' notices, Auditors' notices Other "Notices;' ten lines, or less, three times ........ ... .. . ...... ...—..—. .50 From the Boston Post The Suffrage Question. A Dialogue Between Various Colors. NEGRO. SCENE : A Crowded Thoroughfare, NEGRO-" Go way dar ; Injun and Chinaman no account—no account a' INDIAN-" Ugh !" CIIINESE-" China man have big country—do much business. American man come long way to get' tea, silk; many tings." NEGRO-" Go way, I say ; you got no right suffrage—you ain't a man and a brudder." INDIAN—" Me right of suffrage from the Great Spirit. This country my hunting ground ; pale face bring thun der and lightning and fire-water, and drive poor Indian away, but the Great Spirit looks on. Ugh !" NEGRO—" Pale face no account; de chief Judge say dat nigger superior race down Souf, and I guess he know." CHINESE—" HOW much monish you got? You work now ?" NEGRO—" Catch dis nigger working now. Yah, yab, no sar, dis child under de protection of de Government. Yah, yah, work? yah, yah. Look yeah you China man, we gwiue to vote now we niggers, you China men and you Injuns belong to the 'ferior race, and dese white men no 'count tall. You just wait till Fred Dough*. is de President den you see who's de 'ferior race." INDIAN—" My tribe fight for the pale face in th—urnay of the great chief Pope, weAave much farm, little Injun go to school, me go to see the great Father Lincoln, me no vote. Ugh?" CHINESE—"Me see great Mandarian American man in the great empire of ze sun ; he say much fine thing; me come to America land ; me like Ameri ca land ; China man no vote ; me see African man vote; he no Mandarian; American man come to his country ; Injun man fight for Merica land, he no vote." NECIRO—" Yah! yah! you don't know notlin 'tall, don't you see de declaration independence don't mean you folks, it means consent of de governed, don't you see; Massa Sumner told me dat hisseir." INDIAN—" Ugh! me tight pale face. Ugh! ugh !" (with a war-whoop.) CHINESE—" Me no consent, me steal much." NEGRO—" YRII ! yah ! yah! You go long, you no 'count 'tall." The Apostacy or the Protestant Pulpit. The following language, whose severity is in exact truthfulness, is from the last number of the Free Christian Commonwealth, a strict Presbyterian paper, " conducted by an Association of Ministers :" The clergy of the Protestant Church are now the most bloodthirsty of any class of citizens. They have been preaching a gospel of blood• and de struction for four years. New phases of thought and forms of denunciation • have taken possession of the pulpit, and have familiarized their hearers with a manner of thought and sentiment which in old times could only be found in the most abandoned characters. This is uow the height of religion—praise.- worthy zeal in a good cause. The clergy, as far as the public can judge, are more bloodthirsty than the generals or the soldiers. Several of the most eminentgenerals have lately shown , a commendable tenderness of life, and I to their credit in many instances have exhibited a magnanimity which belongs to the greatness of character. But the clergy, whether in their pulpits or on the platform, when they assemble with their fellow-citizens, still howl for more blood, and demand greater severity. This, too, is done by them at a time when the country could well afford to be merciful, and when the masses of the people, if they were permitted to follow their better instincts, would, be merci ful, but the clerical leaders all agree,that Mr. Lincoln was permitted by Divine Providence to be taken away in the fearful manner of death by assassination, because he was too merciful. On this they are per fectly agreed. These clerical leaders differ on points of religious doctrine, but they all converge from all points of doctrine and creed, on the meaning and lesson of the President's death. Methodist and Episcopalian, Presby terian, Old School and New, Baptist and Congregationalist—all harmonize, and speak with as much confidence as if they had, been up in heaven, and were authorized here on earth to pro claim the mind of the Lord. Some of the weaker brethren, astonishedatsuch a spectacle of unity among those who disputed with no little rancor, cry out that the millennium is coming, and that it is even now present. In wild fanati cism they preach this to a gaping peo ple, and the gaping people admire—if not the millennium—the wonderfulpro gressiveness of the preacher, and his ready proficiency in the spirit of the times. And this is what we are compelled to witness. It is painful to the Christian who desires in times of trouble to retain the fear of God in his heart. And what shall be the end of such preachers and hearers? It is written, that if the blind ! lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. The Cheyenne Massacre Defended—Ad- dress of Methodist Clergymen. From the St. Paul Pioneer, Aug. 3.1 The butchery of friendly Indians by Colonel Chivington, which was so atro cious and heartless that the Committee on the Conduct of the War, after inves tigating the circumstances, concluded its report by calling upon Congress to " punish as their crimes deserve those who have been guilty of these brutal and cowardly acts," is defended by six Methodist clergymen of Denver City, in a letter addressed to " ministers and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the States." They commend Colonel Chivington as "truly loyal to our Church,anduntlaggingly devotedto her interests. The arduous duties of military life have not abated his zeal. Always ready and able to aid in coun cil, and more willing to assist inaction, it is to him more than to any other man that Methodism, under God, owes.its present prosperous establishment in the territory. His church and ministerial relations are untarnished, and we re gard him as a model for large-hearted liberality and Christian energy." Of the massacre itself, the address says: " We believe our only hope for safety as a territory lies in the repetition of like battles with the same results. In the destruction of these Indians, the murdering and scalping of white men , _ women and children, was by such avenged. We are fully persuaded that the laws of war in this action were fully respected, and only fear that similar oc currences are likely to betoounfrequent for an immediate and complete subju gation of the treacherous, - bloodthirsty red men." Miss Emma Richards, residing tem porarily in Reading, a daughter of John Bihar& of Birdsboro, while in company with some of her friends, on last Thurs. day evening, ate fourteen plates of Ice Cream, complained of feeling unwell on Friday morning, and died on Friday afternoon,—.Reading Record. EEC= Exeunt omnea.
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