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BELLEPONTE, PA.
Thu Lnrgeit, Cheapoit unil Boat Paper
PUHLMHID IN (UNTKK COUNTY.
Thurlow Weed ou INttl.
lIIS INTERESTING REMINISCENCES 0V THE
WAV IN WHICH MR. KVARTS 11111
NOT IIECOME A SENATOR
FROM NEW VORK.
Calling by instructions at the resi
dence of Mr. Thurlow Weed just after
tho breakfast hour one morning last
week, a reporter for the World found
the veteran politician sealed at a large
open window in the dining room, on
tho second floor, overlooking the beau
tiful grounds surrounding Ur. l'uxtoii's
church on Fifth avenue. A refreshing
breeze was blowing in at the windows,
and a very lively little mite of a Scotch
terrier was playing with Mr. Weed's
slippers. The venerable journalist was
in the best of spirits, and liis eyes had
not lost their peculiar brightness.
"Air. Weed, hero is a clipping from
the •Saraloyian about which iho World
would wo be glad to have your views,"
said the reporter—while Mr. Weed, lis
tening, bent his head forward in his
well-known listening attitude. "Its
purport is that 'Mr. Hugh Hastings, of
the Commercial Advertiser, bus contribu
ted a spicy chapter to the political his
tory of twenty years ago, telling what
hi- knows about the ylection of Ira Har
ris as United-States Senator over Win.
M, Kvarts.' it also says that Mr. Hast
ings alleges that 'Mr, Kvarts was de
feated because he was a conservative
\\ hig and uiude pto-slavery speeches
before the organization of tho Republi
can party.'"
"Well?" said Mr. Weed, interroga
tively.
"1 would like to ask whether it is
really true that the present Secretary
ot State was once a pro-slavery man,"
said the reporter. "This 'spicy chapter'
referred to is a long article published
in the Commercial Advertiser over the
editor's own initial letter. It is nomi
nally a review of an interesting paper
recently published in the North Am,-r>
can Review entitled 'The l>iary of a I'ub
lic Man.' Roth ' i'lie Diary of a i'ublic
Man' and Mr. Hasting'" 'spicy chapter'
about it have been the subjects of a
good deal of talk in political circles,
and it is ireely asserted that Mr. Kvarts
never made pro-slavery speeches. Now,
did he or did he not?"
"Mr. Hastings was right in saying
that Mr. Kvarts made pro-slavery
speeches before the organization of the
Republican party. Mr. Kvarla was a
Conservative Whig."
"When and where did Mr. Kvarts
make pro-slavery speeches ?"
"I don't remember just now when or
where it was, but I think it was at Castle
Garden, and it must have been during
the Fillmore Presidential campaign.
Yes, now that I come to think of it, i
am sure that lam right. 1 don't recol
leet the year, but that is easily found
out. At that time most of the large
public meetings were held at Castle
Garden."
"That disjKjses of that matter. Now,
will you lie so good as to let tn® call
your attention to some other statements
in Mr. Hasting's article. Mr. Hastings
says that the author of 'The Diary of a
Public Man' must he either an impostor
or an ignoramus for as-erting that Wib
li*m If. .Seward, President Lincoln's
Secretary of State, accepted an invita
tion to dinner in Richmond. What do
you think of that ?"
"When this article of Mr. Hasting's
came out my daughter read it to me, so
that I am not unfamiliar with it* gen
eral features. But that part aliout Mr.
Seward leaving Washington at such a
time to dine with prominent citizens of
Richmond struck me as particularly in
teresting. I have been thinking about
it a good deal. Ono of Mr. Seward's
sons wo* here at breakfast the other day
and I was going to mention it to him,
hut I forgot all about it. I ran say.
however, that no man was more inti
mate with Mr. Seward in those times
than I was, and if he accepted such on
invitation to go to Richmond I am sure
1 never knew of it. I can think of no
occasion for hi* visiting Richmond for
such a purpose at that time. I wo* in
almost constant communication with
iiim, and I am inclined to think that
the story is not true, although I cannot
jiosiiively deny it."
"You have seen that the subject dealt
with particularly by Mr. Hasting* was
that part of a 'Diary of a Public Man'
which concerned the inside history of
the memorable Senatorial rontest be
tween Horace Greeley and William M.
Kvarts which took place in this State
just before the breaking out of the war.
The 'Public Man' says that you slaugh
tered Kvarts at -Seward's instigation and
that you claimed to have 'invented'
Judge Harris, of Albany, who ws* final
ly nominated and elected, while Mr.
Hasting* say* both statement.* are in
correct."
Mr. Weed's eye* twinkled brightly,
a* if he wo* amused by old recollections.
After a little he said :
"Mr. Hastings perhaps come* nearest
.the truth. Mr. Seward had no hand
in slaughtering Mr. Kvart*. Here is
just the way the matter stood. Tho na
tion wa* threatened with civil war and
New York wa* on the eve of an election
of a United State* Senator. In those
time* I had a good deal to say about
Republican nomination*. My own choice
would have been Gen. Jamea M. Cook,
of Saratoga, but 1 concluded that the
peculiar exigencies of the case demand
ed that we should tend lo tho United
States Senate a man who wa* well
known to the people and who would be
a [lower in debating vital nationaf ques
tion*. I wa* opposed to Mr. Greeley on
account of his iiersiatent advocacy of the
aliolition of slavery. Mr. Greeley and
hi* friend* went into the contest with
this principle a* the main issue and 1
thought it wouldn't do, a* it would only
tend to make the South more deter
mined and more de*iterate. Mr. Kvart*
wa* just aa thorough a Republican a*
Mr. Greeley waa, but he had ahown by
hi* speeches that he didn't believe the
anti slavery question worth going to
war about. JThe South, which had been
divided by political partiea up to that
time, became United against the North,
anil I wanted tho Nortli to bo tinit<>< 1
A I NO. 1 wax in communication with Mr.
Liliroln all the tilno that tho Senatorial
contest win going on. He and 1 agreed
that tho only hope of dealing succes*-
fully with the South and preserving the
Union was in a united North. Most of
tho Democrat* were opposed to Heees
sion, hut if tve had not been very care
ful tve might have caused a great many
people to declare openly in favor of the
South. Ah it was, you see what waa
done. Kven Tammany Hall rained a
regiment of Union soldiers."
"How dit] Mr. Harris finally come to
be nominated instead of cither Kvarts
or Greeley ?"
"Hero tho 'Public Man' is right and
Mr. Hastings wrong. It was done at
the last moment. The Republican mem
bers of tho Legislature had been in cau
cus for some liuie. Mr. Greeley's
friends were working very hard, and
we found it very difficult to advance
Mr. Kvart'* interest. Mr. Kvarts, Gov
ernor Morgan and myself were in the
Kxeculive Chamber, and Mr. Hastings
and Mr. Littlejohn, the Speaker of the
Assembly, were coming in and going
out frequently, keeping us posted as to
what was going on. At lost they came
in and said it was no use to try to hold
out any longer, as if they did Mr. Gree
ley would surely be nominated. After
a short consultation we agreed to com
promise on Mr. Harris. As soon as the
*fcrd was given it carried thu caucus,
only two members opposing. So, you
see, Mr. Kvarts was not slaughtered by
Secretary Seward. In fact Secretary
s.-wurd was very anxious indeed to have
Mr. Kvarts sent to the Senate, and so
was Mr. Lincoln. It is hard to imagine
what might have been the result if we
hud held out for Kvarts until Greeley
had got the nomination. It might have
resulted in dividing the North and thus
making it much mote difficult to save
the Union than it was. Hut I have al
ways believed that if we had put Gen.
Couk forward at the outset we could
have got him nominated and elected
over Mr. Greeley."
"How about that remark credited fo
you. that when asked whether you knew
Harris personally, just us the votes were
piling up for him, you replied, '1 think
i I ought to; 1 invented him'?"
"1 remember making use of that ex
i pro-don some time," said Mr. I,
laughing, "hut I don't think it was at
that time. 1 might have made it with
reference to Mr. Harris, but on some
other occasion. Mr. Harris was a mem
ber of the firm of Harris A Dutchcr, who
were considered to be very smart law
yers, of the kind of Dobson .V Fogg in
Dickens' work. Luring the anti rent
times in Albany 1 wanted to select a
gpod smart lawyer for member of As
sembly, I mentioned it to two lawyers
and they both declined. Then Mr.
Harris ofl'errd himself, was accepted and
elected. He made very good mem
ber and in the following year he came
up for State Senator and was elected.
He was subsequently elected to tho
bench of the Supreme Court. Mr. Hast
ings is wrong nlout his being elected to
the Court of Appeals, and if he was
I ever on that bench it must have l<een
i under the old constitution, when, I
i think, the Court of Appeals was consti
tuted by judges selected from the Su
preme Court bench. I'.ut that remark
of mine about 'inventing' someoody—as
I come to think it over it seems to me
I said it first in reference to President
Fillmore."
"V> hat was the chief issue in the con
; test over Greeley and Kvarts?"
"Why, we thought that Greeley was
too prominent as an abolitionist, and
that to elect him to the Senate at such
a time, would only have a tendency to
incite the slaveholders of the South to
more desperate measures. Mr. Greeley
belonged to the same class of Republi
cans as Sumner, Wade and others then
in I 'ongress, while Kvarts was ranked
with Seward and Republicans of that
stamp."
Mr. Weed said that the Senatorial
contest of ISbO was one of the most ex
' citing he had ever seen. He was afraid
that if Horace Greeley was elected to
tho United States Senate at such a criti
cal period it would hare the effect to
irritate ami stir up the South and divide
the North st the same time. Mr (free
ley's one great aim was to abolish slavery
first and take the consequences after
wards. Rut the friends of Mr. Kvarts
took tho gound that if there was going
to he a war the question of slavery
would take care of iuclf, as in fact it
did.
Ilow we are Rooming Ahead.
Fr<.m th IWilUroor#
The withdrawal of $250,000 of double
eagles, or twenty-dollar gold pieces,
from the Rank of Kngland, on Wed
nesday last, for shipment to the Unit
nil States, marks what is probably the
beginning of extensive ini|>orinttons of
gold. The low rates of sterling ex
change have brought the market to the
"hipping point, and there seems to tie
nothing to prevent payment of our
heavy cxportations ol merchandise in
gold. In addition to the enormous bal
ence of trade already in our favor, our
axports continue large without prece
dent. The shipments from Baltimore
last week were two millions, from New
York seven millions, and yet the out
flow of grain to supply the Kuropean
scarcity, from scant harvesU, is hardly
begun. The receipt* of cotton at the
shipping ports indicate that the new
crop of cotton is coming in and the ex
portation* in this staple will greatly
swell the balance of trade In our favor.
There i* no corresponding increase in
our imnortafions, and the difference
must, therefore, lie made up in pay
ments of gold. It is reported that the
Rank of Kngland has large accumu
lations of American double eagles in its
bullion reserves, and these will prob
ably lie the first to return to this coun
,rJr -
A uorxi.Bss person is one who deserts
himself.
Whrn the moon get* full it keeps
late hours.
Tn* oldest verse in existence—the
Uni- verse.
lonorancb hoe no light; error follows
a false one.
lis wno blackens others does not
whiten himself.
Thirb is no grief like the grief which
does not speek.
lIH mining.
Jlrimping! S,i the (leriimn |ie,ipln
Whisper when tlicy hear the bell,
Telling from some gray old steeple
Heath's familiar tula to tell ;
When they hear the organ"dirg ft "
Swelling out from ehn|>el <lom"
And the singer* chanting surges
"Jlrimqany I" He is going home.
Jfnmgnng / Quaint and lender saying
In the grand old Herman ton gee
That hath shaped Me'unclhon's praying,
And the hymns that Luthur sung;
Blessed is our loving Maker
That where'er our feet shall roam,
Wtill we journey towards "Hod's Acre," —
"llrtmyany /'' Alw.iys going homo.
• * ' # •
•
llcimyany I Wo aro all so weary,
And the willows as they wnvo
Softly sighing, sweetly dri-arv,
Woo us too the tranquil grave.
When tlio golden pitcher's broken,
With its dregs and with its foam,
And the tender words are spoken,
"lltimyany I" We are going home.
—A. J Duynnnr.
The lluttle of l'luirualia.
I'p'in Fruinlc'i (Viar.
Pompey 11nd ordered hi* first linb to
stand still and receive Cieser's charge.
They would thus he fresh while the ene
my would reach tin m exhausted a
mistake on Pompey'* part, Ciosar
thought, "for ii fire and alacrity," hi'
observes, "is kindled in all men when
they meet in battle, and u wis,- general
should rather encourage than repress
their fervor." The signal was given,
<' i sar's front ranks advanced running.
Seeing the PotllpciallH did not move.
; they halted, recovered breath, then
rushed on, flung their darts ami closed
: sword in hand. At onco Pompey'#
horse bore down, outflanked i'c ar's
I right wing, with the archers behind
i and between them, raining shower* of
arrows. Ijesar's cavalry gave way he
lore the shock, and the squadrons came
wheeling round to the rear, expecting
that thero would he no one to encoun
ter them. The fourth line, the pick
and the (lower of the legions, rose sud
denly in their way. Surprised and
shaken by the fierceness of the attack
on them, the Pompeians turned, they
broke, they galloped wildly off. The
best cavalry in those Roman battle*
were never h match for infantry when
in close formation, and Pompey'* bril
liant squadrons were carpet knight*
from the salon and the circus. '1 hey
never rallied or tried to rally: tliey
made oil for the nearest hills. The
archer* were cut to pieces; and the
chosen corp, having finished so ea-ily
the service for which they had been
told off, threw themselves on the now
exposed flank of Po-npey's left wing.
It was composed, a.s ba.s been said, of
the legion* which had once teon Cn.-*ar s,
which had fought under him at the
Vingeai)*" and at Alesis, They ill
liked, {x-rhaps, the change of master*,
and, were in no humor to stand the
j charge of their old comrades coming on
with the familiar rush of victory, f a-sar
! ordered up his third line, which had
i not yet been engaged, and at once ou
all sides Pompey'* great army gave way
and tied.
Pompey liimsejf, the shadow of his
old name, long harassed out of self-re
spect by his Senatorial director*, a com
mander only in appearance, had lelt the
i field in the beginning of the action.
He had lost heart on the dA>*t of the
| cavalry, and ,had retired to hi* tent to
wait the issue* of the clay. The stream
■ of fugitives puring in told too surely
, what the issue had been. He sprang
! ujwin his horse and road off in dispair.
Ill* legion* were rushing back in cunfu
sion. t'n-inr, swift always at the right
moment, gave the enemy no leiaure to
reform, and fell at once upon the camp.
It woa noon and the morning hod l-een
sultry, but the heat and weariness were
: forgotten in the enthusiasm of a triumph
which all then lielieved must conclude
(he war. A few companies of Thra
cians, who had l>een left on guard, made
a brief resistance, but tbey were soon
! borne down. The beaten army, which
a few hour* before were *h*ring, in
'imagination, the lands and office* of
their conquerors, tVd out through the
opposite gate*, throwing awny their
arms, flinging down their standards, and
racing, officers and men, for the rocky
hill* which at a mile's distance, prom
ised them shelter.
'F he cainp Hself was a singular picture.
House* of turf had been built for the
luxurious patricians, with ivy trained
over the entrance to shade their delicate
(ace* from the summer sun; couches
had been laid out for them to rej>o*e on
after their expected victory ; tables
were spread with plate and wine* and
the daintiest preparations of Roman
cookery. Ciesar commented on t)*>
scene with mournful irony. "And these
men," he said, "accused my patient,
suffering army, which had not even
common necessities, of dissoluteness and
profligacy 1" Two hundred of Causer's
men had fallen. The officers had suf
fered most. The gallant Crostinus, who
had nobly fulfilled hi* promise, had
been killed, among many others, in
opening away for his comrade*. The
I'nmpeians after the first shock, had
been cut down unresisting. Ffteen
thousand of them lay scattered dead
about the ground. There were few
wounded in theae battle*. The short
sword of the Roman* seldom left iu
work unfinished.
Cot. McCi.ras. of the Philadelphia
7Wj, ho.* been seeking for information
of Joe. .Smith, in Susquehanna county,
I a., where the father of Mormonism
planned and first preached the new
religion. Smith we* a lumberman, but
was too lasy to work steadily. He pre
ferred to get money a* a "peeper," or
man who pretended to possess the gift
of telling where minerals and water
could be found. He had a green stone
that was regarded hy the superstitious
people oa a wonderful talisman, and
credence was generally given to his
storiea of supernaturalism. Deep pita
still mark a spot where, under his di
rection, a man spent thousand* of dol
lars digging for mythical treasures.
Smith married a girl against her father's
wishea, and went away to become a
farmer, but was too shift lees, and oon
returned to be supported by his father
in-law. Hi* Mormon scheme waa laid
there, and the Book of Mormon written,
but hardly any converts were made in
the region where he wae well known.
The New t oxide## of Liberty.
►'ruin lII* Wuslilintuli I'int.
Ihe silver dollar ho* suddenly uo
quired a now interest. It I,as a value
that enn no longer he measured hy it*
mere buying rapacity. It has a history
an well, the truth of which ha# hern ex
cavated |,y a reportorial Hchliemnnii on
the Philadelphia Itironl, after eighteen
months ol persistent hard work.
When the new dollar came out it was
immediately noticed that something
was tlio matter with tlio eagle. Its
broad and sweeping wing was not so
broad and sweeping us usual, and it had
somehow missed it# customary attitude.
But the reverse side of the coin fully
made up for all ornithological short
coinings. The liguro there engraved
wit* not the Hoddes# of Liberty. Thero
was a public sense of relief. First and
last, we have had a good deal of the
Hod (less of Liberty, and as she i* not a
creature of infinite variety, we were
ready for a change. The now woman
who looked across our standard silver
dollar, was of the ox eyed, idi-al sort,
with a generous mouth and chin, whose
firm, sweet curve* quite cast into the
shade the achievements of the Hoddes*
of Liberty in that locality. The coin
of the original design, when one come*
to look at it, i# rather a slipshod affair,
which seems to he beating a retreat
from tlio rest of the face. In the new
face, the liberty cup is pushed back
from the brow, and' her hair, guiltless
j of crimping pins, escape* in gn at, lux
j uriant wave* ; whereas the (Joddei* of
Liberty b is'drxwn her cap down *o low
| over her laultle-s p:utile that only the
. faintest suspicion of idiot fringe is vii
-j hie. Iler hair looks like scroll-work,
and i* heavy beside the exquisite draw
i ing of the latter coin. But the interest
!of the design does not lie so much in
the artistic workmanship, as in the fact
that it i* the portrait of •• red liv wo
j man, with a loeal habitation and a
i given name. She livi-s in Philadelphia
Her name i- Mi-* Anna Williams, and
! -he was induced I y Mr. I. ,kins, the nr
ti-t, to pose for Mr. Morgan, the • X] < rt
designer and engraver, who w, im-
I ort d to thi country by the Treasury
ja< partment to do thi- work. He came
t.Vir in 1*76, find immediate!)- began to
.bunt up ad- ign. Hi* artistic instincts
! rc-oiied from a mere reproduction of
j the monotonous Hrc-k profile With
| which we are so familiar. He wonted
hi* work to l>e American. Art, of
, course, speak* the univei-.,1 bnig . .
but he was dctcrmin- d that hi* design
should talk in dialect. Toiling to pro
duce something that should startle the
nation, he went on a still hunt through
the school* of design* and the galleries
ol Philadelphia for a typical American
; face. The trail of the antique was over
them all. Not one of those plaster
women would answer, neither would
j the models of the life class. He made
ideal head* and threw th<-rn aside in
! despair. In thi* emergency Mia* Wil
| liam* conent-<l to sit (or her portrait,
without the slightest suspicion that she
| would ever, in consequence, become his
torical and l>e drowned j„ printer's ink.
She shrink*, it i said, from the pub
l licity which ha* befallen her. There is
no special reason why she should
shrink. It wa* not n matter of j-rson
a! vanity, but simply a praisewo thy
willingness to help an arlit in hi* work
hy lending her delicate 'ireek profile to
the service of her country. She will
not-bc recognized %nd annoyed by the
i attention of young men who buy photo
graph* of celebrities, because Mr. Mor
gan has taken certain artistic liberties
which change the expression somewhat.
And then dres is a great transformer,
and Mis* William* probably does not
go down on Chestnut street with a fold
ed liberty est, on her head, and typical
fruits ami flowers in ber hair. The
Hrecian brow and lip* are Mis# Wil
liams', and with these her admirers may
fall in love. Beyond that they must
draw the dead line. For there i* a
mortgage on the chin. It is in fact the
chin ol Mr. Morgan's wife, and in jus
tire be ought to account for thi# break
j in the utter Americanism of the face
fhe young lady whose features have
thus Ixwrnr a subject of public inter
est, is a teacher in a refoim school, is
winning and wise, and it is eminently
fit that this graven image on the dollar
of the people should bo a daughter of
the people. And as the silver dollar
tell* no tale# in regard to complexion,
wo will add that this American cousin
of the Hoddes* of Liberty is a blonde
of the purest typo.
Nun Spot*.
from lA* PftitlWt
A large group of sun spots ha* re
cently appeared upon the *olar dik.
It i* derril>ed a* long and very deep,
with uiiihta anil penumbra dark and
well defined. These *|mt* are prohahly
j the forerunner of a change in the nolar
condition tola* anticipated shout these
day*. The sun ha* been quiescent for
year* ; (ew spot* have vsrieif the monot
ony of hi* surface, and lew flaming (ire*
have hurst beyond the bounds of his
photosphere. He has been passing
through the minimum ej>och of *uu
spots, and is now approaching the maxi
mum of the same phase. No astrono
mer pretend# to explain the exact na
ture and mission of sun spots, hut the
most reliable observers agree that they
appear in the greatest magnitude and
abundance after an interval of about
eleven yeiws. at a period coincident
with the perihelion of the planet Jupi
ter, whose near approach to the sun
stir# up an intense commotion among
the solar fires. A* the perihelion of our
brother planet occurs in September of
next year, and the three outer planets,
hy a very unusual combination of force*,
are doing their beat to help on hia ma
lignant purpose, it is natural to expect
unusual commotion among celestial
power* for two or three years to come.
Juat auoh a condition of afTairs occurred
about two thousand years ago, but the
earth safely weathered the gale and has
passed unharmed through many an ele
mental experience since. Therefore
sun spots by the hundreds, tongue* of
firo darling in rosy protuberances, bril
liant auroras flashing in response to solar
electricity, and every form of warring
elements which can agitate the terre*
trial atmosphere are naturally to be ex
pected about these times. A wise phil
osophy will bear up under atortn* oa
well aa rejoice in sunshine, and a firm
faith will trust in the power that holds
tbeaolarsystemin harmonious equipoise.
llati'hct.
TIIK MAN Will# IN VfcNTfcJ' IT ASI# r.T IT
AOOIJCG.
Jmtmm l'rt"ti In fli </f Annriuri IlliVir),
Toward# the clmft of the last century,
an eccentric Ixiokacllcr, Wby name,
used to ride about, in the Southern
.State# willi un assortment of literature
lin hi# little wagon HII'I a fiddle under
j tlio #eat. He sold in tlm daytime, from
lIOUHO to limine, and from bounty to
j county, and in the evening, when ln
I put up for tie night at some plantation
nou lie w.# ready willi hi# fiddle,
either to am i#o the family or to go into
! the negro quarter and strike up a tune
| for the servants to dunce to. Jle seems
to have been a good-natured, easy going
I man, with a talent for telling stories, a
I talent which make* almost any man
welcome almost anywhere. 1 have call
ed this man a hook peddler j hut that
was hy no means the title he gave him
self. If he iiad such a thing as a card
about him, it would have horn the
words, Iter. Mason Lock Weems.
Among the polite readers of this peri
odical, I presume there are many who
have never so much as heard the name
of this singular genius. I continually
met well informed people who know
j nothing of him, and who gaze with in
-1 credulity when they are told that he
was not only a voluminous author, hut
: one of the most influential that ever
, lived in the I nited St; tes. Take one
| remarkable instance: It was Weems'
! "Life of Washington" that assisted to
call forth the latent mind of Abraham
; Lincoln, when he was a ragged, igno
rant, barefooted hoy of the frontier,
i • rtcen years of us. Hs borrowed
the ft-i inating little took from a neigh
j bor, and as often as ho could snatch a
j few minute* ho read it with avidity, as
hundreds of thousands of hoys had done
In fere him, and h., thousands are now
I doing. When he hegall his •'l,if,- of
! Washington" he evidently reached to
give hi* readers an abundant supply of
-neb anecdotes. He *aid the people
had hard enough of Washington, "the
hero, the detn.god, the sun beam in
council, and the storm in warbe
meant to present to his countrymen
Washington, the dutiful son, tlio afh-c
-| donate brother, the cheerful sohooll-oy,
! the neat draught- man, the widow's hu
band, the |snr man's friend. For this
be had two qualification*: A style of
considerable force, and an absolute in
i sensibility to the cl urn* of truth, to
which we may add the artifices of the
practiced story teller. The fiction of
the hatchet and the cherry tree i* dec
•-r i!< 'i W illi di-.iiila equally >*IUIll . but
siiey acre such a. gave pleasure to the
simple childhood of j a>t generation*,
hhe comic paragraphia! has now appear
e 1 m the world, and this story, on< iw
edifying, has fallen him as awl
easy prey. It wa- tie- pc idler Wl
nevertheless, who created the tradition
al Washington, "the sunbeam in coun
| oil, and the storm in war;" Washing
ton. the gre.test of the great, in whose
overj-owering presence no mortal oould
stand unabashed ; Washington, wl oe
a; hlirne serenity nothing was ever
kno rn to distnrb, one of those majestic
•>omniander w|,o in no stress of circum
stance* could ever use "a big, big I!"
! The lying little book had the more
j weight with rustic readers of the earlier
time from a fiction which the author
i lioldly placed upon his title pagp. where
he styles himself, "M. 1.. Weems, form
| erly itector of Mount Vernon I'arish."
It may be that the term rector was not
very accurately defined in old Virginia,
but at a later dav, as remarked above,
the ltishop of Virginia regarded this
claim to the rectorship as something
ridiculous. "His name," adds ltishop
M.-ade, "never apjears on the journals
•if any of our conventions." If Weems
ver officiated at Mount Vernon. it
must have lieen because there was no
other clergyman to perform the duty,
♦
The Diocese of IVnn-jHunla.
The proceeding* of the ninety-fifth
convention of the Protestant I'.piscopal
• 'hurch of Pennsylvania have just been
issued and contain some interesting
, statistics. They show that the number
of clergy is 201, priests I*7. and deacons
13. There are 124 parishes, containing
113 churches, at which the average at
tendance on Sundays was 11,931 and
8.681. The Sunday-schools contain 26,-
\ 231 scholars taught hy 2.683 teachers.
In the miscellaneous societies, guilds,
etc., there are 5.200 meml-era and ITH
oflkors. The receipt* from pew rents
amounted to $313,620.78 • church col
lections $139,411 .98, and from Sunday
-1 school collections $6,824.34. The aver
age value of the parish properties is $6,-
■*•60,000, upon which there are mortgages
amounting to $206,005. The aggregate
j salary of the clergy is placed at $lBl,-
065. The current expenses, including
rectors' salaries, were $328,396.43 ; sup
|>ort of Sunday achool*. $14,556.76 ; sup
port of the poor. $24.223 64; foreign
missions,sl4,i'.l7.9s; Kpiscopal Hospital,
$14,330.89; church buildings, $.*>1,162.46.
The Florida Ship ( anal Scheme.
Lloyd Aspinwall has been in Wash
i ington in consultation with Senator
I .lones, of Florida, in regard to the con
struction of a canal to connect tbcUulf
of Mexico with the Atlantic. Mr. As
pinwall showed that he has money
enough subscribed to construct the ca
nal, and only asks a special charter from
Florida. Senator Jones it going in a
few day* to Florida to urge a special
session of the Legislature to grant a
charter. He ia convinced that a com
pany ia ready to begin work and haa
money to complete it. The estimate is
that it will take $20,000,000 and three
years' time to complete the canal.
There ia no doubt now that the Florida
legislature will be convened within
aixty day* to grant a charter, and that
work will be liegun by the first of Be
oe tuber.
Fame* Pktib of Oldenburg is at the
head of the Imperial Russian college*
for fjirl* afid ia very diligent in per
forming his dutiea. He lately decided
to see for himaelf whether there were
any grounds for the numerous com
plaints of the poor food furniahed at the
Hmollng Convent, where $OO girl* are
educated. Proceeding to the institu
lion junt before the u*u*l dinner hour,
ho avoided Uie main entrance and walk*
ed straight towards the kitchen. At
the door he met two soldiers oarrying a
huge Hte-arning cauldron. "Halt!"' le
called out, "put that kettle down." The
sddicre, of course, obeyed. "firing mo
a HjK.on," added the I'rince. The spoon
wax at once produced, hut one of the
soldiers ventured to begin a stammer
i*• K remonstrance. "Hold your tongue,"
ci led the I'rince j take ell' the lid. I
insist on lasting it." No further objec
tion wan rained, and hix Highness took a
largo spoonful. "You call this roup,"
be exclaimed ! "why, it is dirty water!"
"It is, your Highness," replied the sol
dier; "we have just been cleaning out
the laundry."
Tilr. |>en, says the Ho* ton Cwrier, may
be mightier than the sword, but it does
not rattle around the heels of a militia
Colonel so vigorously or trip him so
gracefully as the sword does.
JURY AKD TRIAL LUST. —The follow
ing is a complete list of the Crarid and
Traverse Jurors and Trial List for Au
gust Court, commencing Monday, August
26, 1H79:
OKA SO J I holt-.
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OrriCIAL DIRECTORY.
RcctTiA Tnai nr riot *?—rirth M .ilivi <4 J u
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flkMl
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Jkeno tirooLO.
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Nikiiu.
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DIRECTORY.
oariu iibo. Ac
rRKSBTTRHIAN. NttuliM on Rprinc ond had of
ll.'oonl att.a t. Mvj, (.otitln? nl It. .10 A. a. ond
tl "• ''m.'m ttifalino,. W taln*fklM |T|r ■ huudni-
Or fowl, iff* r. O. in lit M too MM. n.olf .fatal oaet-t <.f
Ofaioe an.t latent. I'mH. K.. W .liuao. Unno; not.
<lm><, R|,rtns atr~t oaiih of M.-tloali.t , hot. h
I MVTIItIMRT WINftPAI., Kltftalol nonihmaot cat .
I.m d |.finf ond ll..wont iliwii ti*f * itaat. (handot.
■at ltiat .. o n.l ra. l - rarM .nfa.|| l(([ , aalnfaklor
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.. t htmdk. l-0a1..r. Bet A H. Va um. rMOdcc.
| 'Virlfo air col, tonot of N|.flno.
NT. Jt.llVtt RiIMAN CATnotlr. Httnalod ,u.
14a...|. Mori lata .an Alice Itfti? 0...1 I Von Vniffki
Onnda, o ond |i* A. ond 7>. r. a . nil .dhcr d...
' '*■ * Ihftor, Bar. A. J. 11 lit on ; r.atdcftrw- kkinlh
oMn ot Baahf.( hta**Mi A lint I. cot ond r.nn.
OT JttHN 0 M'lttUirAl. Nlliiotad nntthnnd
* laanh fdecMa. Baa Than. *tt.,.t a ?
A. B. at"' . l d Pa. Mclfitaalki kfohato ' l or.
■_n<l latttkiaUi Onndn? J r a. In I .........t .4
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Lat.il, Mrfft mot id k|,i>..|..| rhnnh
I.I'TIIRBAN, Nttnlad kintboaM laawr of ll,rh
ond IVnn ateoa-te. Mat-aoaa. hundo? lit >,a ■ ond'Ur.
■ Hit nda? Mr It. mm OtindoT In Im, ton nataan .d rhnnh.
I totja torMlno M rdn—l.a : L, r ■ lhal..f Mr, tiun
ual K lurat. maddntan, M Itertnmoer, lll c h Otnrt.
oOI the rhutvh
til-MM AN MKr.tMMKIt. Mil noted n-rthripot MMOfC
of Idnn ond Nfoine "ttaHo Mrramn Hondo? ol In .TO
L*. W?•" "" *>dntMMte? :u ra.
Onii<te?-.ht> l h*. A. n In lh> .North.
MAITIRT. (hfnnted nnrthnnol lann of Huh nod
IVnn atmte. Vtvt.ra, liaindo? Item a.a ond 5T< r a
Hqndoinrh.M.l. Nando? f 1 B in <hrh. lUt,
v r * rt f -K *p "M Md <d AHaßhaay
nonlh of R|4wMnatl rhorrh.
VNITBII BRoT I men. Nlntd coraw tenth Hih
Mad Tlma almte N-rrf, *o H.nAo? of MM A. B.
tm *' V * rtr*nnanUn M ndntuAo? 1S na. rw
teaith, Iteal-adMn nddrnno, te tM nla.
ARMICAN MRTIKtDtNT, telnohad .Mrik and of
Hiirh air . NnrtTcaaa, Nando? MAO A.a. ond T| T. a.
Praar, mndlne. M adnaodo? T| a. NnkadoT-fMhoal la
thnrrh ot teao p. a. Pnatear, Mat. JuM*. n iiHiort^
rMIKIIIi? t 'NHaMtel m.l t Upon MM, .
.Bfdtetento Andean? HAMInfO, Nnndojr II V ■„
IVrdn—la? II aa,
T. BC. A, Prn?ar oaaaUaoo on haM anrr Onndor
of ond una Pridoa allhi a In lha noai of iba
AnatrWho nhuTa Ma Pnaf Often A I nk* naau-Uau M
%add In lh rn.*a lha Ond Nnnda? la onrh tenth oil P.
a. Mffoan *o mnrj Mhi fen. f b, I r.a. ant lha
NoAtenal thrtaUa* Tatepnoaar* l ot,* ol TAn r a. a*
thoradoj.
Th. LA I. IBM TRMPEM AN'tK PBATER MKETINa
"WS^rarriaasTak*