ght VoqlOater utintelgOtwar, riTBIASEXD fflraßY VIMYFYSDAY BY COOPER-,:s*Nrwrat S 0 N dc CO. H. BAthrr, • S: COormac, - ALFRED SAIrDIEBSON Wax. A. MORTON, TERMS--Two Dollars - per trusum, payable all eases in tylvance: oFFlCE—Botrra - wEsT comma. as cEarnre QUA-11E. air A.ll letters on business should be ad reased to COOPER. S.LISEDEBSOIS dt CO. 4.sttrarm. After- Many Days. " Cast thy bread upon the waters for thou shalt find it, after many days." " I wonder what that means," said Hamilton Brent, half aloud, as he sat looking-into the brightauthracite, blaz ing with such a pleasant light before him. " I'm quite sure that I under stand what that man meant, when 4 after he stopped me and asked for work and looked at his rags, I gavehim some thing to do in the lumber yard, more for humanity's sake than for the work, lie took my warmly gloved hand in his cold one, and repeated the Scriptdre proverb, that my mother had so often taught me. I'm sure I was not cast ing bread' in the sense I have alwtiys thought of it. Had I given spoor child a quarter, or a poor man some meat, it would have been a parallel case to this one. Both might have remembered me for a while, but with numberless changes the mercy of my charity might never have returned to bless me. The man may not come to his work, or if he does only stay until he gets a little money and then go to his friends, if he has any, and that may end any relation we may at present or for any time sustain to each other." Thus in the heart of the employer the matter was laid to rest ; but in a pair of other ones the promise of work boding of many good things yet in store kept hope from growing feebleand sick, and then dying in despair. From the house of Giles Davis—a home rendered cheerless now by want and suffering, went up ninny blessings for hifn who in the darkest hour had befriended them ; and I doubt whether the intelligence of great fortune would have made that young wife's heart lighter than did the announcement of her husband, "to-mor row, Ellen, I will have work-0, if to morrow were but here." Dreams, pleasanter than those that for weeks had visited their pillow, came to them that night, and before half of his fellow laborers were thinking of their daily task, 'Giles presented himself at the of fice door of Hamilton Brent, to receive his share of the duties that fell to the lot of the lumber dealer: Brent met him at the door. Hi! 'punctuality, or rather extra punctuality for Davis was ahead of time, very pleas antly impressed his employer, himself a man of hard work, always first, and lnvariauly last, around the yard and in the olliee. " my man, I'm glad you came : I didn't know but you would forget the number, or something pf that sort. What is your name ?" " (riles Davis." n a moment it stood on the Day-book and Ledger, in the great round letters for which Hamilton had been praised when a school-boy. " Now go with me." At this juncture Porter came in, the formal " head of the handj;," and to his less tender mercies the new collier was given over. After the two had gone in the yard, Giles set at the task assigned him, and Porter had returned to the of fice, Mr. lirent,said to him, " Uo not al low Davis to work he hard ; I guess, the poor fellow has seen hard times." "I shouldn't wonder," was the reply, " but he works as though he meant to do his duty." " I hope he will ; I like a man thoroughly in earnest, in whatever he undertakes, and there is an expression in Davis' eye that I like. I believe I can rely on mman who owns such a pair of eyes as he does," and as a hint to Por ter to busy himself Brent turned to his books. During the clay his mind did not re vert to the " chierity timid," as his fore man called Davis, but when at night he went to look about the yard, he found him hard at work piling some oak tim ber which had promised to have meas ured and delivered early the next morn ing. " How is this ?" said the careful merchant to himself, " should he be waiting to steal or to burn ? 1 must see the last of hint, before I leave," and so he came up to his new hand, with dis trust in the heart where confidence had reigned in the morning. Thus quickly do the hourandimptilse.make sad havoc some times of our nature's hightest, and holiest qualities " Why have you not quit, Davis ? The other men have been gone a long time." " Mr. Porter wished me to pile this timber, and I staid to do it, sir." " I believed I hired you to work from seven until six, didn't I ?" " Yes sir." " Then .you have no business here after that hour, unless I bid you. Por ter has no right to impose upon you more than ten hour's labor." " He ()tiered me a shilling for doing this job, and—and"—the man's voice grew very hoarse—" times have been very hard with me—sickness and no work have kept me pretty low, and I am glad to earn an honest penny when ever I can, sir." That's all right ; but I want to sh up myself, and 1 can't wait until you get through. You must go home now." " But then"—and the man stopped. His voice could not trust itself in words. " But then what ?" said Brent, be ginning to grow cold and impatient. " I was going to say sir, that then I should have nothing to eat until to morrow ; I was to go to Porter's house on my way home, and get the shilling, and would not go and ask for it before my work was done." " Do you do this for money to buy something to eat ?" " That is all, sir." Here is your day's earnings," hand ing him, as he spoke, a dollar bill, " let the lumber go. I will see to that in the morning." All this for me ? lam working, sir, not begging ;'• there was a flash o independent dignity in his eye tha Brent liked to see. " I hired you," was the cool. business answer, " to pay you as I do other men whom I have to work. I would give all more, it' I could afford it ; I certain ly would be a heathen to give a man, who has a family to support in a city like Boston, anything less than six dol lars a week. I like you—l believe I can trust you. This is to be your place and I, your master, until you get a bet ter place and a better master somewhere else. But I must lock up, and you must go home." Who shall describe that home made glad by a few of the comforts to which it had been so long a stranger ? Allthe way to Bacon street, Hamilton Brent thought of it, and after he sat down to his own dinner, pictured the supper table in Davis's room, the very centre piece of the Altar of Thankfulness. To his matronly housekeeper, whose heart was ever open to the deeds of charity, he told the sad story, and promised to And:the aest day where the lived, that front the 6ounties he had been blessed • • ' • 1• ' . . .•1111111V , do. • • . • • . VOLUME 66. with Giles Davis's home might be yet happier and pleasanter. The next morn ing be did not forget to ask Giles where he lived, and after dark the housekeep er and son paid a St. Nicholas visit to the room designated, leaving their basket upon the platform in front of the door, with nothing to show from whence it came, but the two letters "H. B." burned upon the handle. Early and late was Giles Davis at work, and the ragged " charity hand" that at first the men in the yard had shunned, grew to be respected by all, from his employer down to Tip, the little fellow who made fire and did the errands of the office. The old house- keeper after being caught in her second visit a la St. Nicholas, used to goin and chat with the little woman whose heart and life grew marvello , ,sly strong, as the better days coming gleamed upon Hope on her its heavenly radiance shed, And dared Its silver pinions o'er her head The winter went by and March came —the month of winds and snows, of hails and rains—of days that are cheer less and nights that are gloomy even to the gayest heart—and still master and man stood as firm and as high in each other's confidence as ever. Often as he sat alone, Hamilton Brent conceived an imperfect knowledge of his proverb shining upon him, in the kind effort of Giles Davis ; but the full time had not yet Wale for him to see " after many days" the wealth of its promise. Erpon one of those stormy days you and I have seenin March, came an or der for ship timber, which Brent must attend to himself. All day long he staid in that drenching and chilling storm. That night his walk home seemed long er than usual—the house colder—the matronly housekeeper - " crusty." His grate visions were sad ones ; his dreams more like spiritual visitations than like visions i that we we love to linger around and above us in our sleeping moments. The next day at his office passed sadly and drearily, until it grew nearly night when heart and flesh failed him and he fell fainting to the floor. In the hour of excitement that followed, tiles Davis stepped into the position of counsellor and nurse. Every one in and around the office gladly followed his directions or asked his advice. He it was whom they agreed should support Brent home and stay with him. During the illness of many weeks that followed this rash exposure, (dies' strong arm was the one on which the good old housekeeper leaned for help and guidance. The quiet little woman was brought from her humble home to the grander one of her husband's employer, to assist in the onerous duties of nurse. The sick man, whose friends (with the exception of an invalid aunt, who lived with her daughter in Maine,) had all gone " to the spirit land," looked in moments of consciousness the gratitude he could not speak, every day, as (files would go to the office to consult with Porter and report fa,orably to his employer. It was not until "April showers" had brought "May flowers" that Hamilton Brent took his old place in the office, and Giles his accustomed place in the ! lumber yard. But the strongest tie twat can bind humanity together, united their hearts, and in his health and pros perity the master never forgot that. un der Cod, he owed his after prosperity to " the charity hand." During the sum mer evenings, when his bachelor home grew silent, he would think, with a lingering regret, of a pleasanter one in a quiet street, and devise some plan to insure that as a part of his own. It was not until Christmas that his plan was perfected. Then, when the other hands received their slip of paper with " A Merry Christmas," written on it, and a dollar note pinned on it, Giles received a little package and opening it in his pleasant home, found it to contain the gift of one-fourth interest in the lumber yard, provided Mrs. Davis would con sent to occupy the home in Bacon Street, in company with her husband, Hamil- ton Brent, and her old friends, the matronly housekeeper and her son. Mrs. Davis was not unreasonable. She went, carrying nothing with her save the sweet smiles that had made her humble home a paradise for her hus band ; and as Hamilton Brent enjoyed the pleasantness of the group that lin gered in the pleasant moonlight of his ancestral mansion, his heart understood at length the blessedness of the com mand, " Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days." Origin of the God Ilimen Danchet, the French poet, tells us that Hymen was a young man of Athens, obscurely born, but extremely handsome. Falling in love with a lady of rank, he disguised himself in female attire, the better tolcarry on his amour ; and, as he was one day on the sea shore celebrating the Eleusinian rites with his. mistress and her female companions, a gang of pirates came upon them by sur prise, and carried them off to a distant island, where the pirates got drunk for jay, fell asleep. Hymen then armed the the virgins, and despatched the sleeping pirates; when, leaving the two women upon the island, he sped to Athens, told his adventure, and demanded his be oved in marriage as her ransom. His request was granted ; and so fortunate was the marriage, that the name of Hy men was ever after invoked on all fu ture nuptials ; and in progress of time the Greeks enrolled him among their gods. Ile Forgot Something "What did your mother say, my little mau ? Did you give her my card?" asked an inexperienced young gentle man of a little boy whose mother had given him an invitation to call upon her, and her street door was accordingly opened to his untimely summons by the urchin aforesaid. " Yes, I gave it to her," was the innocent reply, "and she said if you wasn't a nat'ral fool, you wouldn't come Monday morning, when every body was washing." At this juncture, mamma, with a sweet smile of welcome, made her appearance at the end of the hall,when, to her surprise, Mr. Verisopht, the visitor; bolted. "What does the man mean ?" in quired mamma. " I dunno," replied Bub, " guess he's forgot sumthin' !" —A Dutchman being advised to rub his limbs with brandy for the rheuma tism, said he had heard of the remedy, but added, "I dush better as dat ; I drinks to prandy and den I rubs my leg mit the bottle." AN impatientboy waiting for the grist, said to the miller : " I could eat the meal as fast as this mill grinds it."— " How long could you do so ?" inquired the miller. - " Till I stiirved to death," was the sarcastic reply. David Watson BY JOHN G. WHITTIEB. Who of my young friends have read he sorrowful story of " Enoch Arden," so sweetly told by the great English poet? It is the story of a young man who went tosea, leaving behind asweet young wife and a little daughter. He_ was cast away on a desert island, where he remained severalyears, when he was discovered and taken off by a passing vessel. Coming back to his native town, he found his wife married to an old play- mate—a good man rich and honored, with whom she was living happily.— The poor man, unwilling to cause her pain, resolved not to make himself known to her, and lived and died alone. The poem has reminded me of a very similar story of my own New England neighborhood, which .I. have often heard, and which I will try to tell, not in poetry like Alfred Tennyson's, but in my own prose. I can assure my reader that iu its main particulars it is a true One bright summer morning more Lulu three score years ago, David Mat- son, with his young wife and his two healthy, bare-footed boys, stood on the bank of the river, near their dwelling. They waited there for Pelatiah Curtis to come round the point with his wher- ry, and take the husband and the father to the port a few miles below. .The Lively Turtle was about to sail on a voyage to Spain, and David was to go in her as mate. They stood there in the lovely morning sunshine, talking cheer fully, but had you been near enough you could have seen tears in Anna Mat son's blue eyes, for she loved her hus- band, and she knew there was always danger on the sea. And David's bluff, cheery voice trembled a little now and then, for the sailor loved his snug home on the 'Merrimac, with the wife and her pretty boys. But presently the wherry came alongside, and David was just stepping into it when he turned back to kiss his wife and children once wore. " In with you, man," said Pelatiah Curtis ; " there's no time for kissing and such fooleries when the tide serves." • And so they parted. Anna and the boys went back to their home, and David to the port whence he sailed oil in the Lively Turtle. And months passed, autumn followed the summer, and winter the autumn, and then spring came, and anon it was summer on the river side, and be did not come back.— And another year passed, and then the old sailors aad fishermen said that the Lively Turtle was a lost ship, and would never come back to port; and poor Anna had her bombazine gown dyed black, and her straw bonnet trimmed in mourning ribbons, and henceforth she was known only as the \Vidow Matson. Now you must know the Mohameden people of Algiers and Tripoli, and Mega dore and Sallee, on the Barbary coast, had for a long time been In the habit of fitting out galleys and armed boats to seize upon the merchant vessels of Chris tian nations, and make slaves of their crews and passengers, just as men call ing themselves Christians in America were sending vessels to Africa to catch black slaves for their. plantations. The Lively Turtle fell into the hands of one of these roving sea robbers, and the crew were taken to Algiers, and sold in the market place as slaves, poor David Matson among the rest. When a boy he learned the trade of ship carpenter with his father on the Merrimac, and now he was set to work in a dock-yard. His master, who was naturally a kind man, did not overwork him. He daily had his three loaves of bread, and when his clothing was worn out its place was supplied by the coarse wool and camel's hair worn by the Ber nier women. Three hours before sunset he was released from work, and Friday, which was the Mohamedan Sabbath, was a day of entire rest. Once a year, at the season called Ramadan, he Was left at leisure for a whole week. So time went on—days, weeks, months and years. His hair became grey. He still dreamed of his good Anna and the boys. He wondered if they still lived, whether they thought of him, and what they were doing. The hope of seeing them again grew fainter and fainter, and at last nearly died out ; and he re signed himself to his fate as a slave for life. But one day a handsome, middle aged gentleman, In the dress of one of his own countrymen, attended by a .great officer of the Bey, entered the ship yard and called up before him the American captives. The stranger was none other than Joel Barlow, Commis sioner of the United States to procure the liberation of the slaves belonging to that Government. He took the men by the hand as they came up, and told them they were free. As you might expect, the poor fellows were very grate ful; some laughed, some wept for joy, some shouted and sung, and threw up their caps, while others, with David Matson among them, knelt down on the chips and thanked God for the great deliverance. " This is a very affecting scene," said the commissioner, wiping his eyes, " must keep the impression of it for my Columbia," and, drawing out his tablet proceeded to write an apostrophe to Free dom, which afterwards found a place in his great epic. David Matson had saved a little money during .his captivity, by odd jobs and work holidays. He got passage to Malago, where he bought a nice shawl for his wife and a watch for each of his boys. He then went to the quay, where an American ship was lying just ready to sail for Boston. Almost the first man lie saw on board was Pelatiah Curtis, who had rowed him down to the port seven years be fore. He found that his old neighbor did not know him, so changed was he with his long beard and Moorish dress, whereupon, without telling his name, he began to put questions about his old house, and finally asked him if he knew Mrs. Matson. "I rather think I do," said Pelatiah ; " she's my wife." " Your wife !" cried the other. "She is mine before God and man. I am David Matson, and she is the mother of my children." " And mine, too!" said Pelatiah. " left her with a baby in her arms. If you are David Matson, your right to her is outlawed; at any rate she is mine, and I am not the man to give her up." " God is great!!" said pocr David Mat son, unconsciously repeating the word of Moslem submission. " His will be done. I loved her, but I shall never see her again. Give these, with my bless ings, to the good woman and the boys," and he handed over with a sigh the lit tle bundle containing the gifts for the wife and children. He shook hands with his rival. " Pel atiah," he said, looking back as he left LANCASTER, PA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2a, 1865. the ship, "be kind to Anna and my . boys." "Ay, ay, sir," responded the sailor in a careless tone. He watched the poor man passing up the narrow street until out of sight. " It's a hard case for old David," he said, helping him self to a fresh cud of tobacco; but I am glad I have seen the last of him." When Pelatiah Curtis reached home, he told Anna the story of her husband, and laid his gifts in her lap. She did not faint nor shriek, for she was a healty woman, with strong nerves; but she stole away and wept bitterly. She lived many years, but never could be per suaded to wear the pretty shawl which the husband of her youth had sent as his farewell gift. There is, however, a tradition that, in accordance with her dying wish, it was wrapped about her poor shoulders in the coffin and buried with her. The little old bull-eye watch, which is still in the possession of one of her grand children, is now all that remains to tell of David Matson—the lost man. The President and Seth iiinman. The - Washington Chronicle of Sept. 9 contains an account of the presentation by Seth Kininan, "the California Hunter," to President Johubion, of a unique chair, constructed from bears' bones and skins, with an apparatus at tached, 'whereby, upon touching a spring, the head of a bear protrudes rem beneath the seat, snapping and gnashing its teeth as natural as though alive. The Chronicle says: " Upon the arrival of the chair from its place of manufacture to this city, it was conveyed, under guard,' to one of the committee rooms at the Capitol, where only a privileged few, consisting of ' officials ' and a small number of ladies, were permitted to gaze upon the wonderful work of industry and skill. After the lapse of several days it was carried to Brady's well-known gallery and there photographed. On yesterday, through the intervention of the Hon. K. V. Whaley, member of Congress from West Virginia, the President agreed to set apart any hour after 4 o'clock, P. M., for its reception. Ac cordingly a few minutes after this hour the chair was carefully placed in a wagon, and, accompanied by Kinrnan, was conveyed to the White House. A little before 5 the presentation party were met by the doorkeeper, and 'the chair ordered to be brought within the first large entrance room of the man sion. Only a few were admitted, and the eager crowd which had collected on the outside were only allowed to gratify their curiosity by peering through the windows. " After a short delay a messenger came running down the stairway, and an nounced that His Excellency was ready and waiting. At this stage the mem bers of the press were kindly invited to ascend, and they, together with the re mainder of the party, following on the heels of Kitimat', soon found them selves on the threshold of the Presiden tial sanctum. The door of the room had been thrown open, and, without intro duction or formal ceremony, the hardy pioneer of the wild Pacific slope, the conqueror of wild beasts and wild men, grasped by the hand the honored Pres ident of an all-powerful Republic. Kin man was evidently no stranger to the President, who received him in a most cordial manner. " Leaning upon his rifle, and as calm as though lie had been conversing with a prairie companion, he stated to the President that recently he had been up in Pennsylvania constructing a chair from the skins of several 'grizzlies,' which he had killed with his own rifle, and which he desired to present to him. That in offering it as a token of respect both to his person and office, he desired to say that in his opinion the President of these ITnited States was the biggest man in the world.' The President was much gratified at his emphatic compliment, and, in re urning thanks, said he thought he flew how to appreciate both it and the chair The President here insisted that "Seth" should sit in the chair, after which lie sat in the chair praising high ly its beauty and comfortable qualities. The "bear-killer," in the meantime, had become so much at ease in- his in tercourse with the President that he de scanted and chatted upon the promi nent points of his gift with perfect non chalance. This originated, however, from no want of respect to his Excellen cy, but rather from a buoancy of animal spirits and a genial good nature, which has won for Kinman a host of friends wherever he is known. " After displaying all the parts and points of his wonderful chair, calling attention to the formidable claws that clustereld on its sides, the natural feet of the animals on which it rested, the old hunter paused. It was plain, however, that something remained to be told, something startling is to be shown, and the Rocky Mountain speaker had not pronounced his peroration. Carefully unloosing the cords which concealed the huge head, he suddenly darted it, snapping and gnashing its teeth, close to the President's knees, which was re ceived by the crowd with uproarious laughter, and heartily enjoyed by the President himself." " The grown children of His Excel lency, several in number, now mine in, and were loud in their demands to be ' shown again and again this wonderful feature of the chair. No one seemed to enjoy their delight and fun more than the President, whose care-worn face was lighted up with benignant smiles, and whose stern nature seemed to have relaxed and grown cheerful over the pleasing incident. The crowd of their own accord now withdrew, leaving Kin man almost, alone with the President. At last, however, upon suggesting to his Excellency that he should keep the head of the " grizzly ' well protruded, in order to frighten off the office-seek ers and unrepentant rebels who besiege his mansion, and receiving a warm in vitation to visit the White House at his pleasure, the worthy old hunter with drew, well pleased with his reception and success." [From the Chicago Republican.] We are happy. to say that Mr. Moore, of Bloomington, 111., (formerly editor of the Pantagraph), after constant experi ments for more than a year past, has succeeded in discovering the process, which was patented July 4th, 186.5, of granulating the cane juice or molasses in all cases, entirely removing the gum and acid, making a sugar as free and dry as any in the market, samples of which we shall have on exhibition this week at the State Fair. Mr. Moore has made, since last December, about twelve hun dred pounds of sugar from sorghum syrup, sent to him in small quantities from different portions of Illinois and other States, varying in quantity from three to six pounds to the gallon, ac cording to the amount of saccharine matter contained in the syrup. Over and above the cost of making molasses, the expense will be about one per cent. per pound, if made iu large quantities, directly from the juice. A large steam sugar factory is nearly completed a few miles from Bloomington, erected at a cost of $B,OOO, sufficient in capacity to make several , ,thousand pounds of sugar, which will be in full operation in a few weeks. —ln 1558 it was enacted that "no lady or knight's wife should have more than one velvet or damask gown for summer; that all ladies should wear russet or camlet three days in the week, under the penalty of ten shillings per day, and that a surveyor should examine the ladies' wardrobe." Just fancy such a surveyor in these days! --There will be a great international ex hibition in Northern Germany in June and July, 1866, Sugar from Sorghum piortliantono. Gossip Concerning Our Generals, - Military men are extensively patron ized just at present by all sorts of insti tutions, from political parties and col leges down to boards of trade and the municipal organizations of frontier towns. In lowa, Colonel Stone has been governor for one term, and is nominated for another ; although the military achievments of that gentleman are limited to a small battle which he did not win, at Blue Mills, in Missouri, and the prompthess not to say alacrity and cheerful compliance, with which he re sponded to a demand to surrender early during the memorable battle of Shiloh. His opponent, the soldier and anti-nig ger-equality nominee, has slightly smelled gunpowder, and so have Van Auda and Trumbull,on the same ticket. In Ohio, General Cox leads the Abo lition hosts, and General Morgan leads the Conservative forces, and has before him a meaner foe than, and almost as hard a task as, he Lad when he charged the bluffs in front of Chickasaw bayou. In our own State an ex-veteran wields gubernatorial powers ; and his lieuten ant is a man full of military ardor, and who was only prevented from taking the field in person from the possession of au acute discretion, which suggested that fighting is more agreeable and safe when performed by somebody else. In fine, not to be tedious in enumeration, we may say, in brief, that everywhere political organizations are committing their standards to the hands of men who have just sheathed the swords wliieh they have wielded against secession. In literature the heroes ofthe shou Ider straps are receiving equal honors. But ler sometime since was d—d by a Massa chusetts college; Bowdoin has made Grant au LL. D.; and as the lieutenant general has not the slightest pretensions to scholastic ability, we infer that these words refer to Grant's operations on the rebellion, and have the rather profane signification of " licked like d—nation." Meade has ,J.)een made a D. D. by Har vard ; and Howard ditto by Waterville. As the latter is not particularly learned, it is notable that the titular conferment of Waterville has reference to the freed men's bureau, and may be literally translated as the Darkeys' Deliverer. But in any ease these heroes deserve their political and literary promotion, although it is doubtful if any one of the new made I). D.'s and LL. can read even with a lexicon, the Latin warrant of his promotion. But this is nothing, for two thirds of the young gentlemen who yearly graduate from our classic institutions are in the same fix, and are forever ignorant of the hieroglyphics upon the sheepskins in their pockets: The degree in the case of military men are designed as testimonials of respect, and may be considered as a gathering of the muses to do honor to sour-faced Mars. The most unfortunate of all our gal lant veterans is the lieutenant general. Instead of being allowed a few weeks rest after his arduous labors, a couple of one-horse politicians are exhibiting him over the country very much as Barnum did Joyce Heath. Whether these two individuals, or more properly keepers, of the lieutenant general receive a share of the profits which accrue to places from Grant's visits, or whether they are walking him over the track in order to get him warmed up for the great Presi dential race of ISGS, is more than we can tell with certainty. If the latter, we venture the suggestion that they will experience the luck of the indi vidual who, in order to jump over a fence, took a run of a mile with a view of getting a ,start, but who was so ex hausted when he reached the fence that lie was obliged to lie down to rest, in place of jumping over. The friends of Grant ought to get out a writ of habcaB corpus and take him out the hands of Jones and Washburne, for if they do not, Grant will make poorer time in iStis than Scott did in 18.52. A good jockey will always drive round the course before the race in order to warm the blood and limber the joints of his animal ; but he always does it just on the eve of the match, and not a year or Iwo before the occurrence.—Chicago limes ...- Politics Ten Years Hence Address of Mr. Crow to his Coust ito tents jw 1875. From the Maysville (Ky.) Bulletin.] The following is supposed to be the adiress of an enlightened colored gen tleman, Mr. J. Clesar Crow, who has represented this district in Congress for one term, and is seeking a re-election. It will be seen that Mr. Crow is a politi cian of the liberal stripe, and is for al lowing white men some very important privileges, particularly the right to 'Larry colored ladies, &e my (Adored and While Cbtitiluents nG de Ninth CbnuresNional : Fellow-Citizens: I hal) felt greatly flattered by de call you hab made on me to become a candidate for re-election. to Congress from dis district. De knowl edge ob be fac dat I hab done my duty fur two years as your representative hab been a great source of consolation to me, and dirgreat public endorsement ob my course in de legislatiff halls as a statesman, a patriot, ?lab filled de meas ure of my political glory full to de top. Widout flattering myself, (I hope you all know I would scorn to do dat,) I tink I can say wid propriety dat I hab did as much, if not more to elevate de charac ter ob de black race abroad dan any od der man oh my limited emperience.— Already de foreign countries wid whom we hab had domestic relations is speak in' ob de internal policy ob our gober- ment wid a proper respec, while I is free to admit dat our course towards de sufferin' white man ob dis country hab not been as liberal and just as I hub ad vocated, and I still tink we will sooner or later come to dat stage oh de game which will require us to show great magnanimousness, and forgetful ob our forefathers' injuries. It am my great desire to establish de superiority ob de colored race to any race in de world, and to do dis it am necessary dat we should exhibit a noble and generous im pulse towards our fallen foes. For my part I am for doin de white man justice wheueber his necessity requires and ex igency ob de case will admit. I am confident dat by proper legisla- tion and a yielding policy on de part ob de administration, ob which de venera ble and de honorable Mr. Fred. Doug lass am de head, de white man may soon be restored, in some measure, to de rights and de position in society (dar is no disputin de fac) he once held. While it am true dat de white race in America am rapidly passing away afore de superior blood ob de colored man— as de white foam goes before de dark strong wave—still while dare is yet lef a vestage oh de white blood, it am our duty, as a great nation, to protect it in ebery lawful and honorable planner.— It will never do for dis great colored nation to hab such a history ob de white man as de white man hab ob de Indian. In conclusion, my fellow-citizens, I will say that I am : First. In fabor ob a repeal ob de law which prohibits a white man from mar rying.a lady ob color. Second. I am in fabor of a repeal ob de "act entitled an act" which prohib its a white man from owning more dan one acre ob land. Third. I am in faborob white suffrage and always will be. De white man am as' much entitled to vote as de colored man if he behabes himself in a proper manner. Dare are many odder miner issues— such as de employment ob white men on Gobernment works—de raising ob three regular new white regiments, &c., &c., which I am in favor ob, but which I hab not time to discuss. I will meet my opponent, de Honorable Mr. Cuffy, at all ob his appointments where my views can be hard at greater length. Wid many more thanks for your flat tering call, I hab de honor to be gentle ment Your huble obedient servant, July 1, 1875. J. CESAR CROW. —A large amount of plunder taken from the Union prisoners at Andersonville has been recovered at Norfolk. The Restoration of the South Foil Report of President Johnson's Speech to the Southern' Delegation. The other day we gave a telegraph ic re port of the conference between a dele gation of Southerners and President Johnson, at the Executive Mansion, on Monday. The following is the full re port of the speeches ou the occasion: JUL FARLAN D'S SPEECH. The delegation was admitted soon af ter eleven o'clock, and presented to the 'President as follows by Mr. McFarland, of Virginia: MIL PRESIDENT: The gentlemen ac companying me, and whom I have the honor of introducing to you, constitute a number of the most respectable citi zens of nine of the Southern States. They come, sir, for the purpose of man ifesting the sincere respect and regard they entertain for you, and to express their sincere determi nation to co-operate with you in whatever shall tend to pro mote the interests and welfare of our common country, and to say that they are as earnest now and faithful to their allegiance to the United States and to the Constitution of the Union as in the past, and that they have great confi dence in your wisdom to heal the wounds that have been made, and in your disposition to exercise all the leni ency which can be commended by a sound and judicious policy. That they are assured, ill doing this, of your de sire and intention to sustain and main tain Southern rights in the union of the United States. PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S REPLY. The President was surprised at the imposing appearance of the delegation, and- was evidently much affected in re ply. Every gesture and utterance was full of subdued eloquence. The reply was as follows : GENTLEMEN : T can only say, in reply to the remarks of your chairman, that I am highly gratified to receive the as surances he has given me. They are more than T could have expected under the circumstances 1 must say Iwas un prepared to receive so numerous a dele gation on this occasion ; it was unex pected; 1 had no idea it was to be_so large or represent so many States. When I expressed, as I did, my willing ness to see at any time so many of you as chose to do me honor to call upon me, and stated that I should be gratified at receiving ally manifestations of regard you might think proper to make, I was totally unprepared for anything equal to the present demonstration. I ton free to say it excites in my mind feelings and emotions that language is totally inad equate to express. When I look back upon my past actions, and recall a period scarcely more than four short years ago, when I stood battling for principles which many of you opposed and thought were wrong, I was battling for the same principles that actuate me to-flay, and Which principles, I thank my God, you have come forward on this occasion to manifest a disposition to support. I say now, as 1 have said on many former occasions, that I entertain no personal resentments, enmities or animosities to any living soul south of Mason and Dixon's line, however much he may have differed from me in prin ciple. The stand I then took I claim to have been the only true one. I re member how I stood pleading with my Southern brethren when they stood with their hats in their hands ready to turn theirbacks upon the United States; how I implored them to stand with me there and maintain our rights and fight (Mr battles under the laws and Consti tution of the United States. I think now, as 1 thought then, and endeavored to induce them to believe, that our true position was under the law and under the Constitution of the Union with the institution of slavery in it; but if that principle made an issue that rendered a disintegration possible—if that made an issue which should prevent us from transmitting to our children a country as bequeathed to us-by our fathers—l had nothing else to do but stand by the Government, be the consequences what they might; I said then, what you all know, that I was for the institutions of the country as guaranteed by the Con stitution, but above all things I was for the Union of the States. I remember the taunts, the jeers, the scowls with which I was treated. I remember the circle that stood around me, and remember the threats and intimidations that were freely uttered by the men who opposed me, and whom I wanted to befriend and guide by the light that led me ; but feeling conscious in my own integrity, and that I was right, I heeded not what they might say or do to me, and was in , spired and encouraged to do my duty regardless of aught else, and have lived to see the realization of my predictions and the fatal error of those whom I vainly essayed to save from the results 1 could not but forsee. Gentlemen, we have passed through this rebellion. I say we, for it is we who are responsible for it. Yes, the South made the issue,, and I know the nature of the Southern people well enough to know that when they have become convinced of a error they frankly acknowledge it, in a manly, open, direct manlier; and now, in the performance of that duty, or, in deed, in any act they undertake to per form, they do it heartily and frankly ; and now that they come to me, I under stand them as saying that: " We made the issue. We set up the Union of the States against the institution of slavery; we selected as arbitrator the God of bat tles; the arbitrament was the sword. The issue was fairly and honorably met. Built the questions presented have been settled against us, and we are prepared to accept the issue." I find on all sides this spirit of candor and honor prevail ing. It is said by all : The issue was ours, and the judgment has been given against us ; and the decision having been made against us, we feel bound in honor to abide by the arbitrament. In doing this we are doing ourselves no dishonor, and should not feel humiliated or degraded, but rather that we are ennobling ourselves by our action ; and we should feel that the, Government has treated us magnani mously, and meet the Government upon the terms it has so magnanimously prof fered us. So far as I am concerned, personally, I am uninfluenced by any question, whether it affects the North or the South, the East or the West. I stand where I did of old, battling for the Constitution and the Union of these United States. In doing so, I know I opposed some of you gentlemen of the South when this doctrine of secession was being urged upon the country, and the declarations of your right to break up the Government and diSintegrate the Union was made. I stand to-day, as I ever stood, firmly in the opinion that if a monopoly contends against this coun try the monopoly must go down, and the country must ge up. Yes, the issue was made by the South against the Gov ernment, and the Government has triumphed ; and the South, true to her ancient instincts of frankness and manly honor comes forth and expresses her 'willingness to abide the result of the decision in good faith. While I think that the rebellion has been arrested and subdued, and am happy in a conscious ness of a duty well performed, I want not only you, but the people of the world to know that while I dreaded and feared disintegration of the States, I am equally opposed to consolidation or con centration of power here, under what ever guise or name; and if the issue is forced upon us, I shall still endeavor to pursue the same efforts to dissuade from this doctrine of running to extremes;' but I say let the same rules be applied. Let the Constitution be our guide. Let the preservation of that and the union of the States be our principal aim. Let it be our hope that the Government may be perpetual, and that the principles of the Government, founded as they are on right and justice, may be handed down without spot or blemish to our posterity. As I have before remarked to you, I am gratified to see so many of you here to-day. It manifests a spirit I. am pleased - to observe. •I - know it has been said of me' that my asperities are sharp; - that I had vindictive feelings to gratify, and that I should not fall to avail my self of the opportunities that would pre NUMBER 37. sent themselves to gratify such despica ble feelings. Gentlemen, if my acts will not speak for me and for them selves, then any professions I might now make would be equally useless.— But, gentlemen, if I know myself, as I think I do, I know that I am of the Southern people, and I love them and will do all in my power to restore them to that state of happiness and prosperity which they enjoyed before the madness of misguided men, in whom they had reposed their confidence, led them astray to their own undoing. If there is anything that can be done on my part, on correct principles, on the princi ples of the Constitution, to promote these ends, be assured it shall be done. Let me assure you, also, that there is no disposition on the part of the Gov ernment to deal harshly with the South ern people. There may be speeches published from various quarters that may breathe a different spirit. Do not let them trouble or excite you, but be lieve that it is, as it is, the great object of the Government to make the union of these United States more complete and perfect than ever, and to maintain it on constitutional principles, if pos sible, more firmly than it has ever be fore been. Then why cannot we all come up to the work in a proper spirit? In other words, let us look to the Con stitution. The issue has been made and decided ; then, as wise men—as men who see right and are determined to follow it as fathers and brothers, and as men who love their country in this hour of trial and suffering—why cannot we come up and help to settle the questions of the hour and adjust them according to the principles of honor and of justice? The institution of slavery is gone. The former status of the negro had to be changed, and we, as wise men, must recognize so patent a fact, and adapt ourselves to circumstances as they sur round us. [Voices. We are willing to do so.ifYes, sir, we are willing to do so.] I believe you are. I believe when your faith is pledged, when your consent has been given, as I have already said, I be lieve it will be maintained in good faith, and every pledge or promise fully car ried out. [Cries—it will.] All I ask or desire of the South or the North, the East or the West, is to be sustained in carrying out the principles of the Con stitution. It is not to be denied that we have been sufferers on both sides. Good men have fallen on both sides, and much misery is being endured as the necessary result of so gigantic a contest. Why, then, cannot we come together, and around the common altar of our country heal the wounds that:have been made? Deep wounds have been in flicted. Our country has been scarred all over. Then why cannot we approach each other upon principles which are right in themselves, and which will be productive of good to all ? The day is not distant when we yhall feel like some family that have had a deep and desper ate feud, the various members of which have come together and compared the evils and sufferings they had inflicted upon each other. They had seen the influence of their error and its results, and governed by a generous spirit of conciliation, they had become mutually forbearing and forgiving, and returned to their old habits of fraternal kindness and become better friends than ever. Then let us consider that the feud which alienated us has been settled and adjust ed to our mutual satisfaction, and that we come together to be bound by firmer bonds of love, respect, and confidence than ever. The North cannot get along without the South, nor the South from the North, the East from the West, nor the West from the East; and I say it is our duty to do all that in our power lies to perpetuate and make stronger the bonds of our Union, seeing that it is for the common good of all that we should be united. I feel that this tinion, though but the creation of a century, is to be perpetuated for all time, and that it can not be destroyed except by the all-wise God who created it. Gentlemen, I re peat I sincerely think you for the re spect manifested on this occasion ; and for the expressions of approbation and confidence please accept my sincere thanks. MR. M C I ARLAND'S REJOINDER. ➢lr. President: On behalf of this dele gation I return you my sincere thanks for your kind, generous—aye, magnan imous—expressions of kindly feeling towards the people of the South. The remarks of President Johnson were frequently interrupted by ap plause; and all seemed highly gratified by the interview. President Johnson's Reply to the Ins' tation to Visit Richmond. The following is the published letter of Charles Palmer, chairman of the committee appointed by the citizens of Richmond to request President Johnson and his Cabinet to visit Richmond: To the Citizens of Richmond: As one of the committee appointed by a mass meeting held on the Capitol Square, for the purpose of inviting the President of the United States and his Cabinet to visit this city and partake of its hospi talities. I proceeded to Washington on Saturday, the 2d instant, and on the Monday morning following, called at the Department of State on that patriot and greatest of statesmen, the Hon. William H. Seward. Marred and scarred as he was by the assassin's knife, he received me in a most cordial and flattering manner, and, after reading his invitation, desired me to accompany him the next day at 12 o'clock, to be in troduced to the President and Cabinet. To this I readily acceded. My reception by them was in highest degree cor dial and dignified. My interview with the President was necessarily short, but highly gratifying, as he regarded me as coming to him with a heart true to the South and my whole country, repre senting those of similar feelings. The invitation with which I was charged gave him manifest pleasure, and he expressed both a desire and in tention to visit Virginia, as also his native good old North State, when the season and his public duties will admit of it. These two States, especially, he said, should have remained in the Union, and were not (I think he said) fairly carried out of it. He spoke with much feeling in rela tion to the unhappy situation of Rich mond, and of the condition of the South generally, which I think he will help as much As - circumstances will allow.— Take him all in all, I do not believe any proud monarch of Europe, whose race of Kings by " divine right " has flour ished a thousand years of time, has a clearer conception of his duties and knows better how to temper justice with mercy than Andrew Johnson of Tennessee. From my interview with the Presi dent I drew the most cheering auguries. It impressed me with a conviction that the South will find in him a friend and protector if she will come up to his re quirements cheerfully, and accept with true hearts the terms of reconstruction offered. With one voice and one heart we will greet his coming to this old Commonwealth with joyous welcome. Most respectfully, your fell6W-citizen, • CHARLES PALMER. Lynch Law In North Carolina From the Raleigh Progress, September 6. We heard yesterday—without the at tempt to give names—that an effort had been made by a negro to ravish a lady within a few miles of Forestville. It appears that the culprit ventured into the house of thelady and ordered break fast, after which he grew insolent, and demanded a more'intimate knowledge of her affairs. After ascertaining that her husband had been killed during the re bellion he insisted that his affection should be recognized. Upon the lady's refusing his concessions he attempted to enforce his claims, when she resisted with the heroic courage of a true woman. At this juncture a young darkey (be it said to his lasting credit) ran a distance of a mile and a half and brought rellef. The scoundrel retreated, was pursned, and discovered near Henderson, on the Raleigh and Gaston Road. lig was then hitched to a buggy, broughtbadk to a point near Forrestville, and after conviction as the party attempting-the rape, shot fifteen tunes, each ball giving ajnortal wound. '4I7IMM: • ADVNEInffliMa? " 7 ' 4 - 8 --, ADVlterralaflarys,ifis'a.s'yetx' quare,of ten lines; ten per cent. increase for • .bons of a year. latar. aLTATE, Pa..” so az POrlillerrillild eszoi . - ARAL ADVIUTINIIING, 7 cents. fine for the first, and 4 oestErlM' each sulistaltr baler. - P4lxorr 111mm/cairn and other edver's.by tie ' • One column 1 ... Halt column, 1 year.............. 110 f Third column, 1 ..... 40 nemeas CARDS, of ten Ines or less, " one year, .. 10 • Business Claiiii,iiirellireircirless, one • • • year, LEGAL AND OTllza NOTEDS— Executors' notices . . 2.00 • Administrators' 2.00 _ Assi gnees' notices, ............ 2.00 Auditors' notices 1.50 Other "Notices,' ten lines, or. less, three times, An Appalling Explosion An Ammunition Train. Blown 139-- Twelve Cars Destroyed--Three Lives Lost—. Marvelous Escape of Other& We find the following full account of the recent terrible explosion of an timmu nition train near Nashville, in the local columns of the Nashville Press of Satur• day: Yesterday morning about half-past eleven o'clock, a train of twelve cars from this city to Johnsonville, was blown to atoms about seven miles out on the Northwestern railroad. The train was composed of twelve cars be sides the engine and tender; nine of the cars were loaded with powder and ammunition, another was an express car and contained freight, and ,the other caboose car a few passengers. Just as the train was nearing the seven mile tank, crossing an embankment and just entering a cutting, a spherical shell, probably carelessly packed, exploded, and in an instant an explosion ensued which shook the Capitol, and matte the earth tremble for miles around. There were probably eighty • tons of ammuni tion in the cars, and the shock can be imagined better than it can be described. There were three persons killed out- - right—Robert Thompson an employee of the road, a Government employee and the engine sinker whose name we did not learn. Wm. Coffee the engineer was dangerously wounded, and will hardly survive. The conductor Mr. McCormick, was hurt, and three others suffered severe wountis, while eight or ten others were more or less damaged. The wonder is that any escaped slaugh ter. We visited the scene last evening. It beggars description, The woods for acres are perfectly leafless, and blacken ed and bald as tho' they had been dead for years. The ground is strewn with branches torn froth the forest, and large trees are shivered as by a bolt of light ning. The embankment appears as if a volcano had vomited a chaos. The rocky ledge at the left of the track is split and shivered as though an hundred blasts had all been exploded at once.— Fully forty rods from the place of the explosion lies a dead mule without a wound upon him. The concussion or fright probably killed him. The railroad track, for the length of about four cars, was suddenly scooped out five feet deep. One of the rails was found about forty rods off notin the least bent, while another was found in the form of an ox-yoke, where it had been arrested in its flight by striking against a large tree, which it had badly shat tered. A section of a truck wheel was discovered some one hundred and fifty yards from the wreck, partially imbed ded in another tree, which was split by the shock. In some places, trees one and a half feet in diameter were blown off, leaving a stump about ten feet high. Others were torn up bodily by the roots. In every direction a scene of desolation was presented, to describe which words are inadequate. That any person on the train escaped, is almost incredible. The numberkilled outright is believed to have been stated correctly in our article yesterday. The wounded are only a few more than sup posed at the time. On such occasions names are difficult to procure, and have been so in this case. The great explosion over did not ter minate the danger. Shells were scat tered over the ground in every direction; and every moment perilled life by ex plQding. Yet we have not heard of any person being injured by any of them:—. Shells were also momentarily bursting in the midst of the wreck, which soon became a mass of flames. The debris was burning until after seven o'clock in the evening, and, even at that hour, proxituttly to the locality was dangerous from the occasional explosicn of shells, and from the liability of coming in con tact with the numerous ones which strewed the vicinity. Later at night, nothing but a few car-wheels,. a battered locomotive, some old scrap iron, and a pile of smouldering ruins were all that was left of the extensive train that had been rolling along the rails a few hours before. What Ex-Confederate Officers Are Doing, (From the New Orleans Picayune.] One of the distinguished Major Gen erals in the Confederate service from this State is, we learn, about to take charge of the construction and repair of the wharves for one of the contractors with the city. Two brigadiers have al ready secured places in the Commercial Express Company. One brigadier is prosperously engaged in the business of boss drayman. There are othergenerals who are spoken of as civil engineers on our railroads. Almost every store has a colonel or major. There are three dis tinguished colonels extensively engaged in the auction business. One colonel, who has heretofore directed big guns with great skill and heroism in some of the fiercest battles of the war, is now selling bale rope and bagging. Another, one of Stonewall Jackson's favorite regi mental commanders, is pressing cot. ton as vigorously as he pressed General Banks' rear at Winchester. Our lawyer generals, of whom there are several who stand very high in the regards of the people, are not as well off' as the others, owing to their exclusion from the United States Courts, which have the most prosperous business in the law line; by the test oath. Unconditional Surrender of Gen. Banks, The once formidable General N. P. Banks has had his rear pressed as heavily lately at New Orleans, as it was by Stonewall Jackson in. Virginia or Dick Taylor on Red river. He has been for over a year occupying the large and expensively furnished mansion of Mr. R. H. Short, which was previously in the possession of the " so-called" Gov ernor Hahn. Banks, finding it a more pleasant house than that of Mr. J. P. Harrison, which he was "confiscating," made Hahn " swop " unlawful posses sion with him. Not long since Colonel Bob Short re turned from the Confederacy; found out how things stood, went on to Washing , ton, where he had an old classmate in high position whose fiat was sufficient to settle the matter, got his pardon and came back with an express order for the return of his• house, furniture, clothing, plate and everything. When he came back to the city he took counsel with one of the bar, who has lately had a political quarrel with Banks and Hahn. Acting under his ad vice he rirst called on Gen. Banks and informed him that he had such an order. There NV as no response. He then left the order with Gen. Canby, to whom it was directed. That officer also sent a note to the late general commanding, informing him that such an order had been received, but that it would not be enforced until a certain time, in order to permit a voluntary abdication. Of this no notice was taken. At lasta guard was sent round to take possession; whereupon the occupant unconditionally surrendered the fort, after first asking and being refused an acknowledgement of his having com plied with the order. Colonel Field in timating that an inventory would need to be taken to ascertain how, much of the valuable personal property which was in the house when General Banks gave possession of it to Mr. Hahn was yet remaining. Whether the two dis tinguished confiscators are to be held jointly or severally responsible for the deficit, is a question which the law will probably hereafter decide. —A- clergyman, at the examination of the young scholars of his Sunday school, put the following question; "Why did the children of Israel set up a golden calf?" "Because they had not money enough to set up an ox,"was the pupil's reply. —When Caesar was advised by his friends to be more cautions of the secu rity of his person and not walk among the people without arms or any one to defend him, he always replied to the idmonitions, " He that lives In fear of death, every moment feels'itil tortures. will die but once."
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