Ski finteaoter ffottlitgactr, ' F;I7SLINEED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY H. G. SMITH & CO. H. SMITH A. J. STEINMAN TERMS—Two Dollars per annum, payable aU oases in advance. UFFIOE-BouTHvnrsr comma OF CENTRE SQUARE. .arA.ll letters on business should be ad dressed to H. G. Slant da Co. gotirg. BY THE RIVER, IN JUNE. We stood by the river, my friend and I, One beautiful night in June; Oh, fair was the river and calm the sky, Our hearts were beating in tune— In tune to the last good night of the birds In tune to the breeze o'ernead ; In tune to the loving, musical words, That each to the other said. Though our smiles Were rare and our wards were few, God knows how happy we were; We trusted each other's affection true, We felt that the words were fair, Our kindred spirits were nicely strung, Duetting in perfect tune; Oh, friend we were careless blithe, and young, By the river that night in June. We stood by the river, my friend and I, The summer was scarcely past; But a change had come over eartn and sky tittle,: we saw the river last. A lew of the roses had died away, A Hong-bird or two was hushed ; But the earth looked mournful that August day, For our hearts were dry and crushed. We left the still river, my irleud and I, We saw never again, And years, bearing changes to brow and eye, Have glided away since then. Oh, stead last my friend! with the earnest eyes, My friend with the trow serene, O'er,the tanished past we may mingle sighs, BMW of weary miles between. It will not be long, for my eyes are dint, Thy raven hair must be white; We shall meet, once more by a river's brim, Death's river, dear, will not fright. A stranger will mark with a careless eye Two graves In the church-yard sod, While we stand by the river, my friend and I, That gilds the city of God. Irittrarg. llondsbossehe BY J. M. NEALE, 1). Open the map of Holland, and look along its Western Coast. Those dark lines which you see, dividing the sea from the land, are the Dunes. And what are the Dunes? The greater part of Holland lies lower than the sea. Ou the great rivers the keel of the ships floats above the chimney of the houses; and the frog, in his bed of rushes, can look down upon the swallow as she skims through the air beneath. Therefore if there were not a strong wall all along the sea coast, the whole country, at high tide, would be swal lowed up by the waters. And God has so ordered it that two of the things most unlikely to resist any great force, should form this wall :—sand and grass. Stretchingalong almost the whole coast, are the Dunes, or sand-hills, whence Dunkirk, that is, Uto Church among the Dunes, takes it name. They are about thirty or forty feet high ; and the wind and the waves if they were left to them selves, would sweep them away in an hour. But there is a kind of coarse fibrous grass, called Bc/be/a, which dear ly loves the sand; and it is regularly sown ou the Dunes every year. There it grows, and knots and mats the loose sand together; till all that long line of coast from the Hague to the Helder is one large piece of basket-work. The sea might dash to pieces a wall of wood or of stone; such a barrier as this is scarcely to be moved. And very pretty little valleys there are among these same Dunes, and in the spring -time they are bright with the -harebell and the heartsease that grow iu the mould of the dead sea-bent. I said that these Dunes girdled in the West of Holland. But are one or two gaps in the dam; and there the hand of man is left to itself. Of these the worst is at a place called the Hondsbossche, near the Helder. Here an enormous embankment is raised ; its foundation is of Norwegian granite ; its heart is of clay and sand ; its sea-face is clay, wat tled down with willow twigs. I wiis told when I was there that, it the whole of this huge dyke had been at first, made of gold, it woul have cost less than the repairs have cot from that time to this. NOW, look at the map of Europe; or you will not understand my story. The summer of the year 1287 was wet and stormy. The wind, day after day, was from the south-west. It seemed as if the weathercocks would never shift Trout the south-west. From May till September, every hour, the clouds and the waves poured in from the south west. Now, understand what happened from this. The water from the Atlantic Ocean was driven up, past the coast of Spain, past the Bay of Biscay, past Ire land, between Iceland and Scotland; and so, in the Artie Ocean, and off the coast of Norway, it stood many feet higher than it did in the Mid Atlantic. Ships, iu coming from Portugal to Eng land, were, so to speak sailing up hill. This was the case all summer; but, on the 23d of September the wind suddenly veered round to the north. All this mass of water, then, was driven down ipto the German Ocean, which thus be came too full ; for the enormous waves came rolling in from the north, far more swiftly than they could race out through the straits of Calais. Therefore, as you must see for yourselves, when at three o'clock on the afternoon of September the 25th, the wind again suddenly chopped round from the north to the north-west, and rose to a hurricane.— All this weight of ocean was driven right on to the dykes of Holland. Close to the Hondsbossche, there was then, and there is now, a little village called Kamp. Let us see what was hap pening there when the wind, on that 25th day of September, had shifted for about three hours, and all men began to say that it would be an awful night.-- Doors were blwed, windows were shut tered, fires NIEPte roaring up the yawn ing chimney, and every now and then cast a bright cheerful gleam into the village street. The clouds drove over head like a pack of wild horses; the wind grappled with a roof here, dashed through a tree' there, shook the well fastened door with a giant's hand, roar ed like a wild beast down the chimney, and then went rioting along over what is now the Zuyder Zee, but was then one long fruitful pasture meadow. A poor old man entered the village at nightfall. "Friend," he said to a stout-hearted laborer, trudging courage ously homewards, "is there any one here who will give me a lodging to night for the love of Christ?" _ "Try at Jan Maarsen's, up yonder, father," he answered. "He is rich enough, Our Lady knows! but he love his own too." " Yonder farm?" inquired the beg gar. " Even so," said the laborer. " God be with you !" Aud he went on. A pleasant place was that same farm house towards the close of a fine sum mer day, Its huge gables, its thick thatch, and white walls, the three or four elms that sang a quiet song, as the evening breeze sprang up ; the orchard, with its rich promise of fruit; the little garden, with its trim plots of tulips and roses; the two yews, one cut Into a peacock, the other formed into a lion ; the red lane feeding in the deep, green meadows; the Flanders horses in the farm-yard, lazily whisking their tails, to scare off the hosts of gnats. But now all was gloomy and desolate ; the orch ard trees clashed their arms together in the tempest ; torrents of water poured from the thatch ; now and then a heav • ier gust caused the spray of the distant sea to mingle with the rain, and pools of salt water soaked here and there in the garden. The beggar unhooked the wicket, passed iu, and with feeble hand struck the door again and again. " Who's there?" at length exclaimed a gruff voice from within. ' A poor man, that begs a night's lodging for the love of God." "Then God may take care of you, for I will not," said the farmer. "So be off. There be trampers enough I know, now-a-days." " Only an outhouse and a bundle of straw," pleaded the poor man. " Be off with you,".shouted the far mer, " or I'll loose the dog." " I give you one more chance, Jan Maarsen," said the beggar. you yield me a night's lodging?" "Here, Gormo! Gormo!" cried the farmer again. And a fierce growl within showed that the dog had answered his master's voice. The beggar, without troubling him self to hurry, walked quietly through the garden, out into the village street and passed on. Now come with me to another farm. XNe(ittaOtict $/utzetti4cltet. VOLUME 68 house,:half a mile further on, and some what nearer the sea. This time we will step into the kitchen, and see who are A cheerful, happy group. At one aide of the fire the Housefather, (as the Ger mans say) Conrad Schoorl, a strong, sun burnt, good humored farmer. He is righting a pair of shears that are out of order, and every now and then casting a well pleased glance on the others—on his wife, Dame Fleta, who is plying her needle busily on the other side of the fire, and Colletta, who is helping her younger brother Willibald to make a cross-bow, and little Trudchen, who is playing with the great long-haired dog that lies basking before the fire. " I wish Poppo would come in," said Dame &hood at length. " More like that I shall have to go out," answered her husband, The Water Staat will want all the hands - _ they can get to-night. It is an awful storm, surely. By S. Willibald, what a gust that was !" I must stop to explain to you that the Water-Staat are the persons into whose charge the dykes of Holland are given. They have a large revenue, and many officers and servants under them , • and one of their chief stations is the Honda bossche, of which I have already spo ken. " I trust, father, there will be no mis chief," said Coletta. " Aye, child, and you would say so a thousand times as earnestly if you could remember the last great storm— ten years ago come next month. Ay ! that 1110 a storm indeed ! And yet we had but little of it here." " I shall go out, wife, if this lasts," said Schoorl. " Last tide only wanted four inches of the highest I ever saw it; and that is near a foot above Great Dan ger mark. Hark ! what is that ?" A hand was laid on the door, and an aged voice said—" Take a poor man iu for the love of God!" "Marry, come in and welcome," cried Conrad, starting up. "It is not the night for a dog to be out in." He drew back the bar—the door was dashed open by the wind,—the squall beat into the house,—the fire glared out, and it wanted the strong man's full strength to close it again. The same beggar whom we saw before, pale, weary, and dripping from head to foot, stood in the kitchen. "Come in, good man, come nearer to he fire!" cried Dame Fleta. "What;s is use, but to warm a body at? Nay, lever stand about the tiles. warrant t's easier to clean them than to curve a ever." " That's true," said the honest farmer. "Or stay :—step this way, man ; any thing were better than those wet rags. With many thanks, the beggar fol lowed hishost, and presently came back, wrapped up iu a thick dry rug. " Set on supper, girl," said her father to Coletta ; " this honest man is an hun gered, I know ;—and if he is not, I am." So the supper was set on ; a mighty boar-ham, the bearer of which had fat• tened himself on acorns of Oldenburg; a great Permerend cheese; bread as white as snow, and Alkmaar beer. And now the storm lulled a little. The beg gar, seated at the lower end of the long table, that shone like a black looking glass, said little and ate scarcely any thing. The others, and more especially Conrad, commented on the tempest, wondered if Poppo would return that night, and told doleful stories of past floods. Towards eight o'clock the wind rose again. " I will go out," said the farmer; " it is a shame to leave those men on such a night." And he had just taken down his poudrous stick, when the door was shaken violently, and a voice shouted, "Let me in! let me in !" " It is l'oppo!" cried the young man, rushing iu, battered and drenched with the storm, " come to the Dyke instantly ! The water is higher than the Water warden remembers it in the year of the great flood—all the village is out—old Simon, the sail-maker, has sent us his last pare of canvass; come at once." And father and son were off in a mo ment. A wild, fierce scene. A long dyke, steep to the land, sloping more gently oil to the sea; its narrow summit alive with strong men, hurrying this Way and that; torches glared out with a horrible brightness ; the sea roaring and shouting with a noise far more dreadful than thunder; the long wave licking up the ascent, even to the very top, and every now and then sweeping over, and deluging the laud side with tuns of water; the wind howling and shriek ing along the embankment; some hur rying onwards with bundles of willow twigs, some in groups of five or six kneeling on the ground, and stitching up sacks of sand ; the officers bellow ing out their orders; here and there a heap of straw fired for a cleared light seaward ; everywhere terror, confusion, cries, thunder of captains and the shout ing. Old Jan Osterhout, the Water warden, had just given orders to raise a work of sand-bags, breast-high on the worst defended part of the dyke. Four times had the sea washed over it, and the last time a stream of water twenty feet broad, pdured down into the vil lage. I think it's giving below, Captain," said Poppo Schoorl. "Then God have mercy upon us!" cried the Water warden. "Can never a one of you lend a hand to peg a sail down?" " I'll try," cried Poppo ; and "I'll try," said Conrad ; and I'll try," cried three or four more of the stoutest hearts. " Straw here ! straw here !" shouted Osterhout ; Schoorl, look to that.— Poppo, have three sail breadths stitch ed together. We want more hands. Run down, some one, to old Willi bald's wife, and tell her to ring the alarm bell. Hold hard, lads! join hands ! God a' mercy ! Here it comes." Hands were clasped in a moment. The bellow of the approaching wave— the hissing lapping sound as it rolled up the bank—and then the surge swept over the top, and for a moment none could tell which was water and which land. The wave swept back into the great deep. Then came the race for life and death. Barrows of sand rolled up to the place,—the needlesflew through the canvas,—the bags were filled,—a hun dred hands were busy it seemed as if the waves were baffled in their intent. Towards nine o'clock that night the gust drove fiercer, and the rain beat heavier, on Farmer Schoorl's gables. And ever and anon came a sound which none then present had before heard,—a heavy fall and a rush on the roof, as the tops of some of the mountain waves werecarriedrightoverthe embankment, and swept down like a deluge into the village. Mother and children sat by the tire in terror ;—scarcely a word spoken ;—only now and then a half suppressed cry as the thunder of the sea, on the roar of the falling spray, was louder than common. A knock at the door. It opened. The beggar who had left shortly after Conrad Schoorl had gone forth, again entered. "Do you wish to be saved ?" said he. "If you do follow me." "Follow you where ?" cried Dame Schoorl, wildly, "And where is my husband ?" • "Be of good cheer," he answered, "Your husband shall be saved also.— But in an hour, where we are now standing will be deep sea. One house only in the village will hold out against the inundation, and that is Jan Dlaar sen's. Thither you must go." They looked at him in amazement. Beggar still in outward appearance, he spoke so that they felt that his words were truth. None dared to ask him whence he had his tidings. They knew not who it was that spake ; only they felt that he was not of this world. " Will my husband and my qon be saved ?" asked Dame Fleta, in a low voice. " I will look to their safety. Follow me, and at once." gteadying themselves as well as they could against the blast, the mother and her children went forth into the village street. A pitch-black night. On the sea-wall glaring ghastly.fires ; and ever and anon a bright cloud of spray burst ing up high above them. In the street, women and children hurrying wildly by. Cries, shrieks, and confusion every where. " Press on, and turn neither right nor left," said their leader. A louder thunder from the dyke; and such a shower of spray fell as drenched them to the skin, and made them gasp for breath. " Keep on to Maarsen's," again said their guide; "I go to save the others." They passed on. At the garden wall, they met Jan Maarsen himself, hurry ing out in a frenzy of despair. Stay, good neighbor; stay," cried Dame Schoorl. But he rushed past. Thankful once more to be in shelter, the three hastened in at the door which the unhappy man had left open, closed it, and sank down on their knees. ".We have made a good fight, boys," said the Water-warden on the dyke; " but we are beaten. God have mercy on our souls! for our bodies will be for the fishes." " Can nothing more be done?" said Pop o. " What is the use of building above, when the foundations are going ?" said Osterhout coolly. " Come, my lads, let us all forgive and ask to be forgiven, if we have any matter between us; and then kneel down and the sea may do its worst." " Follow me," said a deep low voice at Conrad's side. "Where?" he cried, starting. "Who spoke?" "Follow me," again said the voice. And father and son afterwards used to say that neither knowing why nor whither they were to follow, they felt compelled to go. They saw nothing; they only heard a voice before them. Generally it only said, "Follow" but once or twice it cried more loudly, "Follow me quicker!" Onwards and onwards it led them, till they stood at Jan Maarsen's door. "In," said the voice, "and take refuge in the upper rooms; and you will be saved." At the same hour, fifty miles off, Philip Schoorl, the boat-builder of Harderwyck was sitting - at supper.— A low, quaint, boarded room, leaning out over the canal ; the walls ornament ed with three or four strange fish, dried and nailed against the panelling; the fire, crackling and merry ; the rain dashing in floods on the shutters ; even the lazy canal rippling against its bank. "A bad night this," said Philip to himself. "A very bad night. The Water-staat will have enough to do. Try the dykes, this will." And he so laced himself with another draught from the tankard which stood by his elbow. A step ou the crazy, tumble-down stairs. " Whocau it be at this time of night ?" said the old boat-builder. "Why the whole town must be abetl." The beggar, whom we saw before at Kamp, opeued the door. "Philip Schoorl," said he, boat for Alkmaar " The old man,—he knew not why— trembled. "A boat for Alkmaar !" cried he. "And why?" "To save your brother," said the other. "-end how? I pray you," asked Philip Schoorl. " Half an hour ago," said the i'isitor, " the Hondsbossche gave way. In an hour, Lake Flevo and the nyder Zee will be one. In two hours both will join the ocean. Do as I bid you, and do it without loss of time," and be vanished. That was indeed a night for Holland. In peaceful little country villages wearied men lay down to dream of la bors of another day ; mothers pillowed their little ones on their arms and re- joiced in their sweet sleep; nurses watched thd uneasy rest of the sick; evil men awoke to their deeds of dark ness, and went stealthily about. Sud denly, a distant hum, like the sound of evening insects round a sunny oak. It grows louder ;—now it is like the wind in a distant forest. A strange, cold, sprayed gale. A fearful shaking and trembling as of an earthquake. A rumbling and bellowing, louder, fiercer; then a roar of water, —a few moments' struggles, and the village was blotted out from the world. Between sunset and sunrise eighty thousand persons went to their last account. Two houses only stood where the in undation reached; one the castle of Bredrode, near Dort ; one the farm of Jan Maarsen, at Kamp. And a hundred years after, before Maarsen's gate, might be seen a stone with the legend, in old Dutch letters: " B not forgetful to entertain stran gers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." A Man-Wolf. Rev. Dr. Butler, the well-known Methodist missionary who established the mission of that church in India in 1856, recently returned to this country. He makes the following statement of a remarkable case: In 1859 a British soldier, while bear ing a dispatch from one magistrate to another id the kingdom of Oude, passed an unfrequented ravine, where he saw a pack of wolves, and with them a hu man being, evidently one of their com pany. Immediately turning back he reported the circumstance to the mag istrate for whom he was traveling. The latter forthwith mustered a number of coolies and went to the place. The pack of wolves fled a short distance, and sought refuge in a sort of cave or den. Beginning to dig, the party soon dis covered the feet of the wild man, and, drawing him forth, succeeded in bind ing and carrying him to town. Dr. But ler has seen him often since, and says he is evidently a man, and at the time of his capture apparently about twenty four years of age. The captured creature at first violent ly resisted the attempt to put clothing upon him, but after a while ceased to tear the garment. He is now kept by a gentleman in the City of Thabje Vampore, some eight hundred miles west of Calcutta. When first taken he was unwilling to eat anything but raw meat, and has never been able to speak or make any approximation to a knowl edge of the alphabet. If any one looks earnestly or sharply at him, he ex presses his annoyance by a half-uttered grunt, immediately turning away and settling upon his haunches in a corner of the room, or lies down. He eats his food off the ground, and although evi dently human being, is in habits a wolf, with the instincts of that beast. This is certainly an anomalous fact in natural history, although it is said that four similar cases are known to have occurred in India, presenting the same general facts. The Preservation of Silk Silk articles should not be kept folded in white paper, as the chloride of lime used in bleaching the paper will proba bly impair the color of the silk. Brown or blue paper is better; the yellowish, smooth India paper is best of all. Silk intended for dress should not be kept long in the house before they are made up, as lying in the folds will have a tendency to impair its durability by causing it to cut or split, particularly if the silk has been thickened by gum. Thread lace veils are very easily cut. But dresses of velvet should not be laid by with any weight above them : if the nap of a thin velvet is laid down, it is not possible to raise it up again. Hard silk should never be wrinkled, because the thread is easily broken in the crease and it never can be ratified. The way to take the wrinkles out of silk scarfs and handkerchiefs is to moisten the sur face evenly with a sponge and some week glue, and then pin silk with some toilet pins on a mattress or feather beds taking pains to draw out the silk as tight as possible. When dry, the wrinkles will have disappeared. The reason of this is obvious to every person. Some silk articles should be moistened with weak glue or gum water, and the wrink les ironed out by a hot flat-iron on the wrong side.—Leisure Hour. Gaylor, the principal counterfeiter of the notes of the Third National Bank of Phila delphia has been arrested at Danbury, Conn., and taken to Washington. $104,000 in counterfeit ten-dollar fifty-dollar notes, together with tools, were captured with Gay lay. LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 3 1867. An Ape's Revenge. Captain Lanseer was in temporary command of the military post at Pud ser, and had in his detachment a large body of native troops. He paraded his soldiers for inspection, and put them through a thorough drill. The evolutions of the battalion were per formed with-promptness and precision; and the manual of arms was nearly equal to that of the best drilled Euro pean troops. I had heard that these Sepoys were not so well disciplined as the English soldiers ; but Lanseer as sured me that their discipline was well nigh perfect. In size they are smaller than the English ; but they readily adapt themselves to the light uniform, and are very hardy. Our second evening at Pudser was spent at Captain Lanseer's quarters, and after supper, we worked our way into story-telling. "Gentlemen," said Lanseer, as we filled our pipes the second time, " I can tell you a very curious story of circum stances that have transpired in this place within a month. If you can think of nothing better, I will give it to you." Of course we could think of nothing better, and the vote was unanimous that he should proceed. "About four weeks ago," commenced the Captain, "a wealthy zemindar, named Hoosian Kahn,—" " Zemindar," interrupted Ben Gilroy ; • "what's that?" "A zemindar is simply a land-owner," replied Lanseer. "As I was saying, the zemindar Hoosian Kahn was found one morning dead in his bed, with his throat cut in a most shocking manner. It was not cut clean across, as a suicide would have done it, but it was hacked fright fully. Upon the floor, close by the bed side, was found a razor covered with blood, its stout horn handle broken, and theshank bent. The zemindar had been an excellent man, respected by the peo ple, both high and low, and his shock ing death was the cause of much excite ment. And first it was thought the murder had been committed for the pur pose of robbery : but not an article had been stolen from the house. The Eng- lish watch, the jewels, the purse, and the leather pocket, which were with the clothing in the room, undis turbed. I was called to the scene of the murder as soon as it was discovered, and, with other officers, did my best to unravel the mystery. There had been some struggling on the part of Hoosian as was evident from the condition of the bed ; but he had notstruggled much. We found a large bunch of hair upon the pillow, where the murderer had held the head back while the fatal work was being done; and this, together with the broken handle and bent shank of the razor, signaled to us that the assas sin must have been a fellow of immense physical power. While I was gathering up his hair, onemy companions called attention to some marks upon the floor. A quan tity of blood had run down upon a grass mat by the side of the bed, and not far from this, upon the floor, were several bloody prints, which appeared to me to have been made by a man's hand. They were certainly not theprint of a human foot. I could only account for them upon the supposition that the murderer had either slipped and fallen, or had been pushed over by the struggling zemindar, and that here was where his bloody hands had struck. The window was open, and we found stains of blood upon the stool very much in the shape of those upon the floor. This sleeping room was all our chamber, and the murderer had made his exit by the window into the tree, the limbs of which dropped towards the house. " The first person whom we called as witness was an old woman who had been employed for some years in the family. The zemindar's wife was just then too deeply affected to give us any coherent information. This old woman, whose name, I think, was Zaloa, recognized the razor as having belonged to her master, and she also showed us the little closet where it had been kept. The closet door had:been opened and the razes taken from the dressing case, and that, too, in the dark, from all which it appeared that the deed had been done by some one familiar with the premises. There had been no robbery, so we were "man a ed to further conclusion that the murder; had been an act of vengence. And who could have entertained such feeling toward Hoosian Kahn ? We had ques tioned Zaloa, but she shook her head. She did not reply with that promptness which might have been expected from one who had no suspicions; but she seemed rather to avoid the subject. I questioned her closely, but she was not inclined to speak. "'Do you know,' said I, 'if any of the servants in the house had any feel ings of against your master?" She begged of me to ask her mis tress. The mistress had just then entered the room, and, al she heard this remark, spoke. She said, there was a servant who had such edmity against her husband ; and she nained the khid mutger, Gholam. " Khidmutger," interrupted Ben Gil roy, taking his pipe from his mouth, "what's that?'' "A khidmutger is a table servant," exclaimed the Captain. " This khid mutger's name was Gholam, and he was the most powerful fellow on the place. I knew him well. He was high tempered and bold, but I had never thought him vindictive. It seems that two or three days before the zemindar had punished Gholam for some slight misdemeanor, and the latter had de clared that he would have vengeance. Finally the woman Zaloa confessed that she heard the man make such a threat; and she had hesitated telling it because Gholam was a good-hearted man, and had been very kind to her. " Gholam seemed utterly astonished when be was accused of the•haurder. At first be pretended to think we were not in earnest; but when he found that we meant what we said, he protested his innocence in the most vehement manner. We knew the superstitious nature of the cast to which he belonged, and we expected that he would betray his guilt when he beheld the bloody corpse of his victim ;—but it was not so. He was horror-stricken at the sight, but quickly recovering himself he walked directly to the bed, and placing his hand upon the cold how of his old master, he called on the avenging God to witness that he was innocent ofthe crime. My belief in the guilt of Gho lam was staggered, and yet circum stances were strongly against him. We knew that the murderer must have been not only well acquainted in the house, but also acquainted with the ze mindar's private affairs; and we wore 'furthermore confident that the deed had been one of revenge. " Gholam was arrested and confined, and two days afterwards he was tried and condemned. Still he was not imme- diately executed, as is generally the manner in capital cases in this country. His protestations of innocence 'were so strong and consistent, and his previous character was so well known, that the judge sent him back to prison, there to remain awhile previous to his execution. "Hoosian Kahn had furnished con siderable provisions and forage for our regiment, and after his funeral I went to his house to look over his account, which he had kept with his own hand. I was accompanied by Mr. Cranston, one of my lieutenants. It was in the evening when we reached the house, and as all the zemindar's papers and books were in the room where he had slept, we were conducted thither, the woman Zaloa leading the way, and bearing candles. The bed was still in its old place ; but the clothing had been exchanged, and the blood-stains had been washed from the floor. Zaloa set the candles upon the table and then withdrew, and shortly afterwards we were joined by Hoosian's clerk, an intelligent Mohammedan named Ben Abbas. As there was quite a current of air coming in at the open window, we moved the table up into one corner, opposite the foot of the bed, to take the light from the flickering draft, after which Ben Abbas produced the books and papers. We had been engaged over the accounts half an hour when a noise out of doors arrested our attention. It was a chattering sound, accompanied bylortl hoarse grunt. "'Abbe!' cried the clerk, 'that is surely Mika.", "'And who is Kaka ?' " "'He was my master's baboon,' re plied Ben Abbas." " 'He ran away more thap a week ago.' " Why did he run away ?' " ' Because Hoosian Kahn whipped him. He came into this very room while his master was out, and ransacked the closet, and pulled the clothes from the bed. Hoosian caught him in the very act, and beat him without mercy. Kaka leaped from the window and ran away into the woods, and has not been seen since.' "As the clerk ceased speaking, I heard the baboon mounting the tree, and I at once extinguished the lights and bade my companions draw back with me into the extreme corner be hind the table ; for I had a great curi osity to see what his baboonship would do. I remembered the animal very well, as I had frequently seen him about the premises. The zemindar had cap tured him when young, and reared him for a pet. Up the tree the fellow came, and presently he swung himself upon the stool, and thence to the room. The moon was shining brightly, and as the rays shone in through the window, leav ing us in the shade, we could observe the movements of the interloper with out being ourselves detected, and you will remember, furthermore, that we had the table as a screen." " Kaka was one of the lungoor species, standing five and a half feet high when erect, and presenting a pretty good specimen of physical development. As I saw him enter the room, looking so ugly and dangerous, I instinctively clapped my hand to my pistol. Perhaps you will imagine the suspicion which had already dashed upon me. This brute and not the knidmuiger had killed the zemindar. Crouching behind the table, and remaining perfectly still, we watched the fellow's movements. As he entered the room he stood erect upon his legs and gazed upon the bed ; then he went to the closet and opened the door and took down the dressing case, the contents of which he overhauled al most as systematically as a man would have done. Presently he uttered a loud cry, and dashed the case upon the floor and. then sprang toward the bed. He seized the clothing and tore it off, chat tering and gnashing his teeth in a most frightful manner. Coverlets, sheets, pillows and mattresses came off in quick succession, and, when the brute found that he was only spending his rage upon inanimate substances, he caught one of the pillows and tore it into fragments, scattering the feathers over the room. "I could near the scene no longer. As the lungoor moved back, after hav ing rent the pillow, he stood directly in the moonlight, and I think I never be. held a more savage and repulsive look ing monster. I carefully raised my pistul above the table and aimed at his head. lam not apt to miss my mark, and I did not so in this instance. As I fired, the fellow reeled and clapped both his hands to his ears. In an in stant I was upon my feet, with my sword drawn, and before the brute could recover himself, I had run him through the heart. " By this time the family was aroused, and in a little while we were investi• gating the subject of the murder under the light of this new and wonderful cir cumstance. One look at the feet of the lungoor enabled me to account for the cu rious blood prints which I had attributed to the hand of a man. There were the very outlinesand proportions which had been stamped upon the floor. And now, too, I could account for the breaking of the shams, and for the mass of hair that had been pulled from the head of the murdered man. Hoosian's widow, as soon as she saw the body of Kaka, and heard our story, cried out that the lun goor had killed her husband. She in formed us that Kaka had been in the habit of seeing his master shave, and that several times he had been found with the razor in hand standing before the mirror. Then she told us what Ben Abbas had already communicated —how that Hoosian had whipped the lungoor severely, and that the brute thereupon ran into the woods. " On the following morning the native officers were called in, and after a very short consultation it was decided that Gholam was innocent, and that the lun goor had done the murderous deed.— There could be no mistake about it. One experiment which had not been thought of at the time of the trial was now tried. It had been evident that the murderer had gained entrance to the zemindar's chamber from the tree: but when we came to experiment, we could not and a • man able to perform:that feat. Therewere several branches drooping toward the house, but they were not strong enough to bear aman,.and we:now had itdemon strated that a man of Gholam's bulk, in order to reach the window from the tree, would have to make a clean leap of at least twelve feet. In short, the evidence was plain and substantial.— The lungos was the criminal. "Gholam was a happy man when it was announced to him that he was free ; and Hoosian's widow was particularly gratified, for she prized the knidmutger as the best servant of the establishment. The only recompense which Gholam claimed.in return for the indignity he had suffered, was the teeth of the lun goor. They were readily given to him, and he wears them about his person, as so many charms against future ill." The Maine Law The good puople of Maine have been trying the virtues said to lie in a strict enforcement of this well known statute. The constabulary having concluded their legitimate labors, have recently been employed as follows, if we may believe the Standard, published at Augusta. It says : We give the following as the result of last week's labor : A cow arrested for having " two horns." A colored individual, lately deceased, fined for being "on his bier. , A pair of boots seized for beink "tight." A little boy's kite sentenced to have its tail cut off for having been on ",high time." A clothing dealer "hauled up" for advertising "Great Bar gains." A confectioner tried for selling "Gin•ger snaps," A horse ran away and smashed a wagon. The horse was promptly ar rested, but it being proved the "smash" contained nothing intoxicating he was acquitted. Several "cocktails" found in the hen coop of a prominent citizen, were con fiscated. The success of the police in this seizure caused much "crowing," and it will doubtless "spur" them on to increased activity. An unfortunate Hibernian was locked up for getting a " punch'? in the head. A worthy shoemaker, seized on sus picion of being a " cobbler," but proving there was no " sherry " connected with him, was released, on condition this should be his " last" offence. He was informed that any future dereliction would involve confiscation of his " awl." The excitement " waxed " intense. Complaint that a barrel of beef was mind " corned " at Adams'. I Poor Bale that Don't Work Both Ways. Last year a widow lady and her daughter, doing a brisk millinery busi ness on one of our leading thorough fares, returned a very handsome income to one of the Assessors. The other day the daughter, a neat bit of femininity, called at the same office with the in come reported for the present year. The report was neatly made out, perfect in form, but showed that the millinery business had not paid; indeed there was a dead loss of $1,900. The lady gave in the return and sat down. The As sessor and his clerks kept on with their business. After a long wait she timidly asked if she "should get it now, or would it be necessary to call again ?" " It ?" inquired the Assessor, " I don't understand you." " Why," said she, " the $1,900 the Government owes ma ?" Louisville Journal. FOON1108084)1:f.i,(0)W - rO s Aim,11110),. A Temperance Union Formed--Its Con• stitution—The Passage of a Prohibi tory Liquor Law to be Urged-- No Candidate to be Supported Who Does Not Favor Such a caw-- Spicy Debate on the Resolutions. The Temperance Convention assembled in the Court House on Tuesday last. The attendance was very slim, the supply of cold water being too plentiful. 'lt still rained incessantly. The Committee on 'Resolutions not being ready to report, Rev. Mr. Spade, of Stras burg,was invited to address the assemblage, which he did. The Committee on Resolutions having returned, reported through James Black, Esq., the Chairman, the following Constitu tion, providing for the formation and gov ernment of the society : GM= WHEREAS, For many years past, the friends of Temperance have, through a va riety of instrumentalities, been aiming at the disuse of all intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and the suppression by law of all traffic in them, have by the divine blessing, wrought great and desirable changes in the opinions and social customs of the people; and WHEREAS, This grand success of past efforts for the furtherance of the cause of Temperance should stimulate us to the em ployment, on a more extended and united scale, of all instrumentalities thus owned of God and sanctioned by past experience; and NN , ILEREAS, We deem it proper, and be lieve the time has fully come when as the representatives of different churches, and the various Temperance organizations and friends of Temperance generally here as cembled, we should form Union Associa tions for the more speedy accomplishment of the great and beneficent end at which we aim: viz, the removal of the curse and scourge of drunkenness from this county. For our guide and government we do adopt the following : CONSTITUTION OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY TEMPERANCE UNION, AUXILIARY TO THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE TEMPERANCE UNION. ARTICLE L—Name This Society shall be called the Lancaster county Temperance Union and shall be auxiliary to the Pennsylvania State Tem perance Union. ARTICLE ll—Object. The objects of the Union shall be to unite all temperance organizations and christian people in one great, earnest, effectual and perpetual body, leaving each to operate in their individual or private capacity to do the work of temperance reform in their own way. But collectively to provide for a thorough organization of the county, in order to the adoption by the masses of the people of the practice of total abstinence from the use, manufacture and sale of in toxicating drinks as a beverage; and the enactment by the State of a prohibitory Liquor Law ; this shall be done, by holding public meetings, the use of the pledge, by the circulation of temperance literature, and by all other methods calculated to remove the evil of intemperance from the comrau nity ARTICLE lll—Members This Society shall be composed of dele gates not exceeding ten in number ap pointed at one time, from any Church, Temperance Society, College, Academy or temperance organization within the county, who after signing the pledge and roll book of the society and paying to the Treasurer one dollar annually, shall be entitled to all the privileges of members. Other persons, not delegates, by paying $l.OO may become members by signing the pledge (Article IV) and any person paying to the Treasurer fifty cents, may become a contributing member, by vote of the society at any meeting, but without the privilege of voting. Signing the pledge and payment of five dollars shall constitute a life-member. The society may also constitute honorary man agers for life, as an evidence of respect for character, services and fidelity to the prin ciples of temperance, by a contribution of $25; but membership so constituted, shall continue only during a faithful adherence to the pledge and laws of the society, and shall be entitled to all the privileges of the society except voting in election for officers, which shall be the exclusive privilege of delegate members, as aforesaid. ARTICLE iv—Pledge. No person shall be a member of this society who does not subscribe to the fol lowing pledge: We the undersigned do agree that we will not use intoxicating liquors as a beverage, nor manufacture, nor traffic in them ; that we will not provide them as an article of entertainment or for persons in our employ ment ; and that in all suitable ways we will discountenance their use throughout the ,community. ARTICLE v— r Officers The officers of this society shall be a Presi dent, two Vice Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer, with an Executive Committee of two from each township, borough and ward, who shall be elected annually and hold office till their successors are elected, and shall constitute a Board of Managers, live of whom shall constitute a quorum, and shall have power to fill all vacancies and conduct the meeting and interests of the society. The duty and powers shall be the same as those perforti led by officers of similar societies. The Society shall hold annual and quar terly meetings, and such other meetings as the board shall judge best, or the society may direct, ARTICLE VII Any Society not inconsistent in its objects and principles with this constitution, may Leconte auxiliary upon the payment of five dollars. ARTICLE yin—Amendments This Constitution may be altered or amended at any regular meeting of the so ciety by the vote of two thirds of the dele gate members present; the amendment having been proposed in writing at the pre vious meeting. The above constitution was on motion adopted section by section, by a unanimous vote. Mr. Black, from the Committee on Reso utions, reported the following RESOLUTIONS IN RELATION TO THE ENACT :KENT OF A PROHIBITORY LIQUQR LAW WHEREAS, It is the desire of the tem perance people of Pennsylvania to secure the enactment and enforcement of a Pro hibitot y Liquor Law, and WHEREAS, Laws will not enforce them selves, but require officers to execute them who are elected and supported by an en lightened and firm constituency, and WHEREAS, The ballot is a great instru mentality in the Providence of God for instruction of the people in the questions that concern their material interests, and also the best mode of manifesting the peo ple's will, and their decision upon all ques tions of popular agitation, And WHEREAS, The Beer Brewers' Con gress of the United States, and the Liquor Leagues of Pennsylvania and New York, have published their resolves to sustain at the polls no man who is in any way identi fied with total abstinence from intoxicating drinks, and to make the continuance of the licensed traffic a political issue, and have .thus thrown down the gauntlet to all tem perance men to meet them on this question at the Ballot Box, therefore, Resolved. That the right exercise of the .voting franchise is a moral as well as politi cal duty, and as advocates for "total absti nence" and " prohibition" we cannot sus tain those who in practice or sentiment are opposed to these cardinal principles of the temperance reform, and that the right exer cise of our political privileges demands the deposit of our ballots only in that way which will best and practically carry into effect our cherished principles. Resolved, That the declaration of princi ples and measures adopted by the State Temperance Convention heldat Harrisburg, Feb. 26 and 27, 1867, meets our cordial ap proval, and that we heaitily rejoice in the formation of the State organization called the Pennsylvania State Temperance Union composed of representatives of all existing temperance organizations, thus providing a common bond and a common channel I through which the efforts and influence of all desiring the prosperity and success of temperance reform may be made more effec tive whilst free to labor in their favorite organization. Resolved, That we do earnestly recom mend all friends of temperance to make known their determination not to support for office any man who is not willing to use his political power and influence in favor of the utter suppression of the traffic in in toxicating drinks in our Commonwealth. The indications being that a debate of some length would follow, the motion to adopt the above resolutions they were, on motion, laid on the table for the time being to give the members of the business com mittee, who were absent a chance to hear and participate. On motion of Mr. Roberts, the following resolution in regard to medicinal prepara tions called bitters, Ste., was unanimously adopted: WHEREAS, The use of the various decoc tions called bitters, cordials, &c., have in many instances produced or revived a love NUMBER 26 for intoxicants; and whereas, These de coctions are freely sold in bar-rooms and restaurants as bar drinks, advertised in such places by signs prepared by the man ufacturers themselves, thus showing that their alcoholic and not medicinal properties are those presented to the users of such drinks; and whereas, Such preparations have not received the sanction of the Medi cal Faculty, but are disapproved by it, and are pressed upon public attention, not by their merit, but by the expenditure of large sums of money in the parading with all the puffery which money can command certilt cates of assumed cures, often largely exag gerated, and frequently devoid of essential truth; therefore, Resolved, That we believe it to be our duty to warn our friends against the use of the decoctions called bitters, or so-called tonics, under whatever name they may be presented, as delusive and dangerous to the user; possessing little or no medicinal properties of value, which may not be pro cured in another form without liability to injury, and as an insidious enemy to the individual or family who may bo seduced into their use. MORE PROHIBITORY RESOLUTIONS The following resolutions were read and on motion passed unanimously : Resolved, That the traffic in intoxicating drinks is the fruitful source of drunkenness, pauperism, wretchedness and crime; that this train of evils is not merely incidental to the traffic, but inseparable from it ; that no police regulation, however strict, can prevent or greatly mitigate these evils ; that the object and duty of government is not to regulate, but to prohibit wrongs ; not to license, but to punish crime; that for in juries inflicted upon society by this gigantic wrong, there is, and can be no redress alter the injury is done, and that, consequently, the only adequate remedy must be to pro hibit such traffic altogether. Resolved, That we earnestly recommend to all Sabbath School associations, to or- ganize Temperance societies in their schools, as one of the most effectual means of pro moting the cause of Temperance, and crea ting a purer moral atmosphere in our land. Resolved, That one of the most formidable barriers in the way of the Gospel of Christ, proper education and true religion, Is found in the present drinking customs of society ; and that it is the solemn duty of the religious community, ministers and physicians, to give their strongest influence and best efforts to aid the temperance reform, by teaching total abstinence from all Intoxicating drinks, as the only safe mode of obtaining national sobriety. Resolved, That the history of the past and all sound experience demonstrates clearly that the habitual use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage, fosters habits of intemper ance and engenders vices subversive of social order, domestic happiness, national prosperity and individual integrity; and that total abstinence is the only true and sure foundation of a permanent Temper- ante Reform. Resolved, That while we believe the Min istry and the Christian Church is designed by God to take a leading and prothinent part in the great Temperance Reform, we cordially welcome to one common platform, all true Temperance organizations! and that we regard the Orders of the " Sons of Temperance," "Good Templars," and "Temple of Honor" as deserving special notice for the zeal and efficiency with which they are now carrying on the reform. On motion of Mr. Roberts the resolutions demanding the passage of a prohibitory liquor law, and pledging the Temperance Union to support no candidate for office who did not unequivocally declare himself in favor of such a law were taken up, *lid Mr. Black proceeded to address the Con vention. 11 said the time for theorizing about temiltrance had gone by, and the time for action had come. If the temperance organ izations of Pennsylvania could be induced to grapple with the evil on practical grounds, at the ballot box, the victory could not long be delayed ; the traffic in drink would be voted down and prohibition be made the law of the State. Shall I, said he, advocate temperance for three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, and then, on the very day when I am armed with the power to prevent the sale of liquor, go to the polls and vote to continue the traffic? The speaker referred to the result of former agitation on the subject in Lancaster county, claiming that the temperance party had constantly increased in power until it elected three out of four members to the Legisla ture. Then, in 1854, came the repeal, at the instance of Stephen A. Douglas, of the Missouri Compromise. That, said ho, kindled the fires of the anti-slavery excite ment, and in their efforts to destroy the gigantic evil; of slavery the temperance men for awhile laid aside the cause they bad seen so near securing a grand triumph. Now slavery is dead, and the great monster of intemperance invites our assault. The Brewers of the United States and the Liquor League of Pennsylvania have thrown down the gauntlet. They have declared the pur pose of supporting no advocate of total ab stinence for any office, and have avowed their design of proscribing all such in business. All temperance organizations are by force of their very existence in favor of prohibition. Does any one here suppose that will not be the great issue two years hence? Has not the gallant and patriotic Governor Geary taken his stand for the purpose of making it the chief issue? Shall we desert him now, or fail to rally to his standard when he shall call us hereafter? No ! We will make him our chosen leader, in the great battle for which we must com mence to prepare this very day. The beer men have said let us appeal to the ballot. So say 1. Let 10 appeal to the ballot. Shall we carry out our principles or shall we craven like yield to the fatal cry of expedi ency? I hope and believe this Convention will do the work set before it, as becomes men and women met in such a cause. After Mr. Black had concluded Dr. J. G. Moore took the floor, and took issue with him, declaring that his observation led him to believe that the cause of temperance bad always suffered from every attempt which had been made to ally it with politics. That one or the other of the great parties would necessarily be alienated, and thousands who could be brought under the influence of temperance organizations, would thus be thrown off. He regarded the banner which bore on it the inscription of " Truth, Friend ship, Love," as too pure to be dragged in the filth and mire of partisan politics. Rev. C. I. Thompson was the next speaker. This gentleman totally dissented from the remarks of the last speaker. He did not believe either temperance societies or the pulpit should stand aloof from politics. They had been told slavery was a thing of politics and not to be touched by the pulpit ; but the pulpits of the North had been the main agency in working out the great revo lution through which we have passed. We intend now to make an assault upon an other gigantic evil; to wage against the liquor traffic relentless war; to carry that war into the political arena and not to give over the battle until the sale of all intoxi cating beverages is prohibited by solemn legislative enactment. We will send men to the Legislature pledged to vote for such a law. Let no one say politics is too impure for us to descend into the political arena. We must and will do so on this great ques tion of prohibition. Mr. Marriott Brosius obtained the floor, and commenced by expressing his regret at having to differ with Brother Black in any matter relating to the temperance re form. He felt it a duty to do so in this in stance. A man was morally bound to cast his ballot for the political party which he believed capable of effecting the greatest good. Vital political issues now appeal to us, demanding to be settled. There are othbr and wider interests than those of the person or the family. Would any loyal man have been willing to be bound to vote for none but temperance candidates, when Grant was thundering at the gates of Rich mond. The issues of the war are not set• tled. The great question of political and social equality for all men irrespective of color yet demands to be met by us. Shall we thrust the temperance cause before that, and thereby endanger it. I am not for yielding temperance principles, but only for subordinating them to the great unsettled issue on behalf of which the blood of heroes poured on six hundred bloody fields. If we thrust the question 01 prohibition for ward now there is danger that the Demo cratic party may triumph, and the triumph of other and greater vital issues be delayed or defeated. Dr. Gibbons was the next speaker. He said he regretted that he should feel im pelled to differ with Mr. Black, almost for the first time in his life. But this is a ques tion of expediency rather than of principle. We must first educate the people of Penn sylvania up to a point where they will be prepared for prohibition before we put the question forward in the political arena. To go headlong for a prohibitory law now is to endanger the future success of the Re publican party, the party of loyalty, and it may be to throw the control of the gov ernment into the hands of the disloyal Democratic party. I wassurprised to hear Mr. Black talk of banks and tariffs as the chief political issues of the day, when he can not help but know that there are other, greater and higher issues involved in the contest now going on between the two great political parties. There is one grand over towering question to be settled—the ques tion of the social and political equality of all men, without distinction as to race or color. layer is dead, but its spirit still EAT= or ADVI2IIOIIIIII, Butanes' Antznisziouth, en' Si 'Vic pop square of ten lines ; $6 per year ler each sap ditional square. litnan InnaTir, Pzasonin Psognmff,snd Gaar- MIAr. ADVERTIeree,• 10 eentsa line Ibr the first, and 5 seats for each, subsequent Msgr. lion. 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As brother Black admits, the temper ance men waited for i ten years with out doing it, we can wait a year or two longer now, until the other great questions advocated by the Republican . party are settled. The temperance cause is a grow ing power; it is making c rress every where, even among the stpDutch in the northern end of Lancaster nty; a soil so barren that I never expected to see such good fruit grow on it. To thrust the ques tion of prohibitory liquor laws into the political arena now, is to endanger if not to delay the progress of the party of great moral ideas, and to retard the coming of its lull triumph, when by it and through it all distinctions of race and color shall be com pletely and forever done away with. Mr. Brosius moved to amend the resolu tions of Mr. Black, so as to pledge the friends of temperance in Lancaster county to do all they could to secure) the nomination of temperance men, leaving the members free to vote as they pleased after nominations were made. Rev. C. I. Thompson obtained the floor and proceeded to make another speech. He contended that those who opposed the resolutions of Brother Black, on the ground that they might prevent the attainment of political and social equality between the white and black races, had not learned wisdom from the great work in which they had themselves been engaged. The anti alavery party was not strong until it suc ceeded in uniting itself with one of the great political parties of the country. When temperance is fairly brought into politics the power which we seek will be general. The men who were the chief advocates of temperance have also been the foremost ad vocates of equal rights, and the head and front of the party which destroyed slavery. If you show me a truly earnest temperance man I will answer for it, in almost every case, that he is a faithful and honest ad vocate of the political and social equality of all races and classes. Mr. Wm. P. Roberts made a speech of some length. He was for delay, because he thought the great work of establishing political and social equality might be re tarded by rashly forcing the issue of pro hibition before the people were prepared for it. lie thought the hydra of slavery was not quite dead. If it was he wanted to know what there was to Induce Congress to assemble in the midst of the dog days. Ho was sure they would wipe out all the cru dities of Attorney General Stanbery. Tho temperance mon he thought should work in secret as did that great and good tarty known under the sacred title of know Nothing. We had a country to save from death just now, and could not afford to peril its life by being in too much of a hurry to introduce the question er prohibition into politics. The rum sellers aro organized, the temperance men aro not, &c., Dr. J. G. Moore made a low remarks, deprecating the excited political character of some of the speeches, and expressing a tear that the cause would suffer at the hands of Its friends. Rev. .1. C. Cromlish obtained the floor, and after some discussion between himself and others, as to the largo latitude of de bate which had been allowed, he proceeded to address the Covention. Brethren, said ho, seem to be very anxious to perpetuate parties. The only way to do that is to per petuate principles. Look at the Whig and Tory parties of England—the names they boar are the same they have long borne, but tho name is all of the past that is left to them. So it has been and will bo in this country. There never have been more than two great parties amongst us ; there aro wily two now. God has selected this country as the theatre on which to work out his mightiest problems. Here all mor al agencies are to war against evil. Such being the case, there have been but two political parties permitted to exist in the past—the one the party of ,morality, and the other the party (Vf immorality. The 4 ,4 party of immorality stood u ' le . slavery, the party of morality oppos • o-day the party of morality dome s. e uni versal application of prohibitory liquor laws, and the party of immorality opposes, just as it opposed our assaults upon slavery. The man who is immoral In ono point is immoral in all ; the party which advocates 'the continuance of one cause of immorality will be found ready to advocate all other Immoralities. The party of great moral ideas has killed slavery. Do not let it stop now to kick the dead caress. lam as great a Republican as any man here, and as anxious for the success of the party of morality. Let us go forwards. God de mands that we shall Blake this issue against the sale of liquor. The Brewers' Congress have put forth their manifesto. Thoy dare us to try the issue at the ballot-box. Shall the party of great moral ideas shrink from this contest? No! Let ue call the sale of beer and of all kinds of liquor what It is—a crime. Every man who does not join in the crusade against slavery will be found arrayed against us. Wo must not fight as McClellan did, at a distance, with spy glass in hand. Wo must march right up to the enemy. Let us strike the devil squarely in the face. The women of the land will be with us, and it was the women of the North who gavo us success in the con test against slavery. Let there be no lowering of our standard from timidity or on account of any mistaken notions of ex pediency. Dr. Gibbons again addressed the conven tion, warning those present that the rum sellers would serve the friends of prohibi tory laws as Thomas served Hood, drawing them from a really strong position into one where defeat would inevitably follow as the result of rashness. He wanted to prevent that. The friends of prohibition could not show their strength this fall or the next. They would wait if they were wise and sagacious. He had always been a radical reformer, but in this matter he urged delay. It was no time to embarrass the party which was battling for social and political equality with the issue of prohibition. He hoped there would be a proper regard for expedi ency. Mr. Black rose to reply, and commenced by declaring that if he felt as Brother Gib bons seemed to do, he would abandon the temperance cause at once and never strike another blow in its behalf. If they were . _ not prepared to make the issue on prohibi tion now, he did not believe they over would be. Ho wanted to say to the two political parties, if you do not nominate men for office who will pledge themselves to labor for the passage of a prohibitory liquor law, we will not vote for them, but will put up candidates of our own. Dr. Gibbons asked Mr. Black how he would have. oted during the war, if there had been two candidates, one loyal and intemperate, the other temperate and dis loyal? Mr. Black replied by saying that he had voted, during the rebellion, for loyal men whom he know to be drunkards, and op posed to the temperance cause. He con cluded with an earnest appeal to the con vention to come up and occupy high ground. When ho had taken his seat the question was called, and a vote being taken the amendment of Mr. Brosius was lost by a vote of 18 ayes to 27 nays, and Mr. Black's original resolutions were adopted by a vote of ayes 20, nays 18. The announcement of the result was received with applause. Mr. Black reported that the committee which had been engaged in selecting two members from each election district in the county to constitute a board of delegates, had not quite finished the work, and moved that when the Convention adjourn it'adjourn to meet in the Court House on the third Tuesday of September next. Carried. C. H. Pfhaler was elected Treasurer of the Union by acclamation. The brethren and sisters present were invited to come forward and sign the con stitution and pay over their initiation fee. On motion the Convention then adjourned. Effect of the Recent Rains The protracted rains, so unusual at this season of the year, are a subject of serious alarm in those sections of the country where the cutting of the wheat crop is about to commence. The grain in the South was harvested in early June, and from the first week in June till August grain-cuttingpro gresses northward. If the season continues as it has begun, there will be danger of sprouted and spoiled wheat, and of a conse quent short crop. The reach of rain has extended over almost the whole country at the North. Our exchanges notice the wet season everywhere, the swollen streams and the damage to the farming interest. Within a week Lake George is said to have risen a foot, and all the streams in the vicinity were fall to overflowing. These rains are poetically considered to be bene ficial to young ducks, and they will certain ly put the growing grass for the second hay crop in fine condition, but for other crops the continuance of these heavy rains day after day, with no prospective let twin as unfortunate as it is unusual,—.lf. 1, Woridi
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