(PIE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA:
Tlirfltay Moroiiig, Juno 6, 1861.
jwltclti
AT THE MILESTONE.
NR JOH>' I- HAT.
A nesr.T tr**e!er. toiiis
iVitb * lll - heart.
The milertone h m on * b3r one :
I wliiaper, L*r* " lb* : "
So f*r upon the dusty way—
" So far from Childhood's land of joy.
Where Time £*?e all the year to May,
And Eden blossomed-in the bojr.
I dream : Oh 1 fresh, oh! fair the road-
Throonh fields, how jreeo 1 .y streams, how brignt
I wandered, while the morning flowed.
And the earth dxnceo m Heaven s sweet light.
The Echoes with the ch.tdren played
Sweet birds, sweet Echoes singing were ;
Joy knew the fountain in the ahade ;
Hpe netted mc in rainbow-air.
The dusty way—the day * hot flarce
the wheels they flvsh. the hareesta f iow,
The milestone knows how far 1 came,
but not how far I still muat go.
J sit npon a milestone here.
Mr heart, a milestone too. in gloom ;
It te, how tar—a sigh, a tear ;
Both miiesf ■ are aoove a tomb.
" * " * J==
pisnllantous.
[From the Liuerne Union.]
To a Southerner.
T-.e Rev Thoa. P Hunt, of Wyoming, last
*? received a ie'lcr from a relative in
'. •; r : . on the present unhappy condition of
coo dry. The Virginian's cpi-tie was
cd :i, about the warmest secession lan-
I ;e o" any d>x*mnent we here as yet iu*t
I i The following i* Mr Hunt's r. p.y. and
■ rromir.end it to the readers of thj.t'n; t
I m y jtiir characteristic of that gentleman,
I . ; it itniiodvin,t a most forcible Union argu
I;: ; Mr Hunt is now in the nrtnr. having
err appointed chaplain of the Slli .Luzerne
ft'g.'Beut. Read the .ettcr:
IVvcmiso. Ts . May C. ISCI.
liter. Ntrnrtr; —You need not itave been
i'raid '.o -iyn vocr name to your letter whicli
ha i ust been received, without the least inju-,
■ to my '• person or repu'.at ' The dreuil
' ,:.s i'c ';t " irrctp*eJ. -tid the fatal con*e
v r ccs to my<r.f and prop-* ty if it had be
c.vsf known ti:a". I Ia i received a ielter from
I . r. ' i; in keeping with a great deai ol
I. ern Lao*ledge of northern sentimrnt
ve not gut down sc low as some people
v edge I;'#, fortune and sacred honor, who
♦t inn* that but little is risked in the vow
t- ■ ■'{. Pennsylvania has no law
g business and friendly corresoon
She only forbids giving aid and coin
*r'o her enemies. Witii the exception of .
i . '.siice " We are well, and send love."
■ * < notiii'ig of comfort 111 your letter;
• pain, sorrow end mortification. I
I :k- that as a " farewell let'er "
| -* sgain, ami like one wiio has less of
ft :.t o abuse and more of a heart to love
IX '.o fi'cive even your enemies.
! s r. sorry that your " facts " ti flfer so ranch
' ~ facts t iftnseives How many armed
' ss were sent to Charleston when F.r:
V. trie was re-l; t.ie Star of tne West
t*ei iuto; Fort SuiDter surrounded with for
: "cations ami l.aUviies, u;,d South Carolina
ircedf \ unto rebellion! If the President of
the United Slates is bona i to protect and de
ter j tne property a- i enforce the law? of the
M, the people of the States are bound to
F ort him in hi? efforts to io so. if he make
aoo. ami to impeach him if he do not. Your
•! have jst as much rgnt todeelare them
*?t :ree, re-.st your iais, ar.j steal vour
[ e'ly, <, y i tuve to rebel against vo ir
-T -ps ; jr laws, ami steal its property.
-•" rght beionga to neither.
"t s<. undesignedly and nngnardeulv.
uttkmsi rerasrti in your ietter. After
'•t. gmy \valty to ray covernment, you
l*cnbo it as moot M doviliali, lying.
r, AtJ. Now, ]am not willing to
t lan a fool or knave. I would
Ur * - b->ih to b the w :ing tool of su> h
T it. SO "•utterly destitute of every
- <of tiuth. houes'y, ciriliution. that
** yet unborn must be purged awav
■T '• 4 w.i! recogn ze the scw.a of u*h
L> wvrthy of trust aud confidence " Now,
~ '-Ht the blood of ray generation will
t pu-grd to a point so thin that it can
I Hied States, arni repose coafi-
' 'he fraltit-j je of men who once
'• I now that thre are wicked
But descendant.* even of Old Z.ke
V 1 J "r a< ,ie *o, have become worthy
* 1 trist John Tyler himself i*
v '?lni* s jewels. And tVyor bw
• V ® ?Crn * of meeknes*. or else
r _ - ca". Profesors have fan'en into
.. " itioas. Even Floyd has ceased
I. * • : < Stalt, and has become |
ip.. T c coiisience and trus; aai-i: g
-^ n, l PATIS himself is the
v* oent of & people who submit to
'heir Totes. All these purging*
p'-*ce before one generation I.as
• far *C O J OA TFT J NOT HEJJ ETE
R -RESA TOA describe All that is
...J' T 'O re-More TVEACE and con tide nee to
, B *- T ? FHAT each rcan confess his own
*. • (F THEM. HARA L *L himself before
1 F<* thoe thirgs which are I
(V, 5 Tien U.e work wili be
v.; and formatter.!.
. thit yoa " know Toar destinr,** J
wp :.ow oars, correctly staling
T.. I-!' 4 W A pnw." No." TOO do i
a: * L" 6 '* iny, Mir do we on*g. AU I
>zr- \'* " th * c jrea: biindness has hap- I
• Sak ovt ! " d ; coh w Wide ess <
"•li,/ r * U, ° f * U a P°° Worn wtio-s he
H *r* >Mr ..pj ,re "
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
beginning to drink of the cup of his wrath.
Oh I how bitter it is even before we reach the
unmingled dregs at the bottom! Wnat the
result is to be, none but God can see; no man
can foresee. Our forefathers calmly, wisely,
patriotically examined the whole subject of
: the union and the sepnratiou of this continent,
and they determined that our safety consisted
• in just such a union as has existed for nearly
i e ghty years in this land, and made it the
greatest aud happiest land ou earth. We are
i net " contending," as you say, " for a theory,''
' but for a demonstrated fact. If we desire a
| democratic republic, we dure uot consent to
despotism. " The military despotism" you
! speuk of will be upon us both if we separate, i
I was once a cititen of these United States, ;
and by birthright and us a citizen of the Uti ;
ited States a citizen of every State in it. Yon
Sir " Virginia is no longer your State " How .
curat I robbed of ray right ? How did rebels
and traitors dispossess me of the graves of my
! fathers? Military despotism is at work with
you already. No legal pro ess, no consiita- '
' tionul appeal, no remedy, in law or right, per- :
mils me to try my right. It isgone, you say, ,
forever. Eighteen millions of freemen a few j
week ago claimed in common, Virginia as
theirs. All, every one of them, with roe,have
been made aliens, not by a vote ot Virginia's;
. few slaveholders even, but how? Is there no j
despotism here? Neither Virgiuia, nor Jeff
. Davis's soldiers, gave me and the eighteen mil- ,
lions of freemen their right of citizenship in
Virginia. They l.uve 110 right to take it, and
shall never own it to our exclusion, except bv
military despotism. Never was there a great
er mi*tuke than that made by you. You are
not •' fighting for principle," nor " facts," nor
" hearths " You are fighting for the destruc- (
tiou of this Union; for the doctrine of seces- i
sion und the denial of the right of your gov-;
eminent to coerce obedience on rebels revolt
ing against it; for abstractions and imagina- >
tions. The fact that you gave, " that Vir
ginia did not and would not secede," unless
your government attempt to enforce its laws,
defynd its property, and collect its revenue, !
and it did secede the montent the people were i
called upon to do their duty, proves tins state
inent. Your only reason for the sudden j
change, was, that the President called upon
you io raie yon* quota, with others, to exe
cute the law Why wus your secession kept
M-cftt, ami made before the 24th of May,
without a vote of the people? Tnat Gospori
and Harper's Ferry and Washington city
might lie stolen, wn ie you were crying out,
" Ii you coerce us not to steal, or to heip co
erce lite rogues who have doi.e so to r<tore
their pelf, we will esteem it a declaration of
w a-."
Your language about "mobs" and " free
dorn " sounds strangely to me. with your two
ietttra beiore mc iu your first you say, "my
respected uncle, it grieves me to any it, but I
must speak the truth, you or any other minis
ter holding your sentiments would be ino beu
I.ere." > In your iast, " we are forming a home j
guard to lake care of such northern abolition
Christians whose zeai," &_• Your abuse of
Philadelphia was strange. Tne only uiob I
ever witnessed in tiiat city was in favor of .a
vt-:y. Whit caused the mobs in lialliuiorc?
TV hat is driving hundreds from the south,
l-.-tving their uropercv a prey to the lawies*?
We have no dread of mobs htre against any
mau. not even against you, if you would vi.*u
as. We eight give you a iittie touch of legal
•ocr ■1 t 6> make yourself ca -y about uy
being mobb*-d for receiving your letter. It
has beeu read by hundreds, and if yoa win
give me permiss.on I w-ii stand the mob and
have i: published, io order that cur people
may see what, as in truth he is, an educated,
high-minded Christian centieman, sujs and be
lieves in the south. A'as! aiasl can no'.hiug
truer and holier be g.vea for Virgiuia's re
voit than this?
You ask me, " if I am not afraid of having
my house nurnt over my head for writing to a
rebel, to give you ray opioioa ou the dociriues
of disunion " I give it freely. A division of
tliis government into two or more, will be the
ruin of democratic l.bt-riy on tins continent
If there were no quarrel, and the roost perfect
harmony existed, and the purest motives led
to the act of division, it woa d have to be
speedily undone, or ruin would eusue You
say, " mere sftali be m PeUuds, no Ilunga
r.e* iiere." I tell you there will be Polanus
and Hangaries iu divided America, but none
iu united Italy. You read history. You
yourself see most clearly what w ill come upon
us. You express it forcibly aud correctly. It
will come upon you too. It has come; even
now the Phi istu.es are upon you it w.il
most certainly come if we divide and separate
undtr the doctrine of secession, denying the
power to coerce or to enforce the laws. I be
lieve that toe sooner now, tne severer, the
evils come uiiou us. the sooner and stronger
andek-arer will be seen toe necessity of return
ing to ami abiding by our former tried, proved,
and happy government, even without awy a!
teration This is the only bright eieaa in
the midnight darkness around me. Our peo- i
pie w ii learn in adversity and trial soch a*
tuan never felt before, the value of the Union i
the south e> ks to crush and destroy. Were i
we not ail that can ccald hope once? Dsvi- <
ion has come. Wnat are we now? Let it 1
continue and extend, and what will we be? 1
Jiff Davis say*, jus: Jet ns destroy the Ua- <
•on. aud let us aione. and there will I* pesce i
You say that " unborn generation* must be i
purged of the sin of being sons of the I
iying. cheating Fdhoores end Stocktons and
Pierces and Lincoln*, rt id <m*t /ew, before i
the Union can be reeonstrae'ed.'* Yoa forgot 1
to aod that the-e may be some purging among i
the sons of sires we know at the s:ath. too i
Well after ootoai m strost. unjust acrusations. £
and m.staken view? shall hare dose their work s
of ruin, both seciious will find that no Qifficol- c
ty existed that eould not hare been remedied i
in the Union, while thousands of evils that t
have no remedy bat the sword, will continue t
to spring p iu disunion and separation. Eight ?
or fifteen State* nay greatly ibea- i
while they will t benefit the eigbieea. I a
T-e eighteen mey bleed ted ufitr seer to t
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY R. W. STI'RROCK.
! death, without giving life and strength to the
fifteen. My candid opiuiou is let tne revolt
iog States return to their duty, cousult with nil
the States, and they will find and secure in
peace and union every right If you know of
any other way of safety that does not threat
en the destruction of liberty, let me know it,
and 1 will gladly pursue it with you.
| T have never suffered as I have in this de
struction of my country. I would give everv
dollar I possess (and yon know thai lam ca
pable of parting with every dollar from princi
ple) if I could be convinced that the south
was right. I would most cheerfully shed my
biood for her if it flowed for the truth. A putt
j from my little family around me, 1 have uot a
biood relation wno is uot in the south. Ex
; cept mv iittie Susan Meade, every mouldering
body that I love as boue of my bone, is buried
.in the south. I would love to fail, if fall I
must, near the graves of father, mother, broth
ers, sister, liu: I cannot die for error. I date
not fight for wroug. I dread to face my God,
■ wounded aud bleeding for such political' soph
istry as uow drives ou toe south to its ruin and
| our own.
Do you really believe that the south means
to patronize the slave-trade? I should judge
so from the intimations you give of liostou
and Xew \ork being ready to engage iu it
j By the way, I have somo curiosity to know
what makes you call it "lying New York"
, 1 am under the impression that tha Htrald
led you to tuppose that New York wouid
stand by you for the sake of the " batten and
fatten " it would get in ail your trade, slave as
wed as tiie rest. Do let me know If Bennett
has fooled you, when you hud out that he is
uot always correct, but liable to mistakes, you
will say Benaett iooled me, and everybody
will believe you that knows him But it will
| take a good deal of credulity before intelligent
men tins way will believe that "Fillmore and
Stockton and Stewart" have u with tongues
blistered with lying" broken tucir word of
honor to any.
As to my views of " State sovereignty and
rights, I repiv; I beiieve that the State never
yielded anything that concerned the existence
of tiieir sovereignty when the people made tiie
Uuion. All of sovereignty that tney had be
fore the Union they retain uow. But the ri"ht
of union never belonged to a state. It is not
the right of unal but of dual States. One
State cannot make a Union nor force another
State to make it. There were no matrimonial
rights existing between me and uiy wife until
we created them. I have uo co-palnership
rights until some one creates tnem with me.—
The Union creates I;EW r:gl ts which COD!J wot
exist without it, end it is sneer nonsense to
talk about ais-oivisg. regulating or altering the
Union by rights it did not create. The bond
binds ti, and iu amending or dissolving, the
consent of tiie parties who made is nece*sarv
to unmake. I con id not trcke the to alone. I
cannot dissolve them aione. S iof State 11 gnts
they could not create alone, nor can they dis
solve contrary to the will of the parties and
the condition ot the covenant,without fraud or
violence. Secession, revolutioi, must be found
ed not ou State rights a State ha* no right to
secede, to revolt against itself . but no individ
ual and moral cghis; hy appeal to jastiee if
the claim be right, and by force if that right
ciaim be dt-n ed. As tne Slates iiad uo right
touching tiie L nion except what a"e created
by the Union, it is foolisn and wicked to talk
•boat destroying or even changing tiie Union
contrary to its provision* arid without tliero -
sent of the parties who formed it. Until such
consent is ootainet;. all neg ect or refusal to
comply with its tenia is wit-.ed.and the actors
" evil doers " according to the B.hle.
You see then where you stand in tiie pres
ent form of your complaint. Yoa sav, " a.i
pro;>osit;ons for compromise have been reject
ed W eil, what then? Have net the par
tics interested the right to hoid oa to the Un
ion a* they mads it. without change ? Bui
South Caro.ina never even rands a proposition,
never consulted a State, much less the United
States—never pursued one constitutional, legal
remedy for rcdre** ; ar.d when the narties in
terested in the Union insist anon it that the
laws shall lie enforced and the constitution
obeyed, and caii upon tne parties in the Union
to ao their duty, you take part with this ille
gal secession, and without trying the remedy
bt your life fortune and sacred honor
were pledged to the world to sustain, without
tiie vote of your State even, you turn against
the L nion with loathing, and tranpie its Sag,
tha". represents its priucip.es, under foot !
Mav GOD forgive yoa.
For my own benefit, if I am to unlearn al!
that I have taught to Ie true. I wid thank
you to give me the true Cleaning of some
terms. " Sic scape-' tyraunus" (the Virginia
sea. Does tt nwan. Thus may tyrants be ev
er trampled under foot an i chains of siaverv
be broken ; or, Tha? may ;• ever lie by tyrawts.
keep the r feet upon the neck of a man? "Give
me liberty, or give me dea'.fc " Does it mean.
I had rather c;e than be & slave, tnerebv as
ser'.mg tnat aiavery is a curse, more to be
dreaded than aeata ; or. does it mean. Give
uie the liberty of enslaving others, or ceath
with which to pnn sh all who deny my rieht to
do so ? " Ail tuen are equal." Is it false ie
eaue som* men arc shorter, sraaher, weaker,
whiter, wiser, stronger, richer, healthier, older
than others ; or, because GOD has giTen rights
of manfiood to one class of iraraortai free agents
and denied them Io others ? In other works,
is it true tiie rights of oamanity belong ai.ke
to ad human beiegs ?
I do cot wac. t.nese questions answered io
any otaer than logical, classical definitions.—
When yoa convince oe that men are not eqsai
io their tights, that ttiey have the right oa
ae. ouut of difference in stature, color, or aov
other incident, to make tyrant* of some and i
s.aves of others, and tnat taose are worthy of
death who temch that slavery is a cor-e to
wnieh death is to be preferred, and that iib- i
erty is not every man's right. Chen I will re
turn sooth, and go to glory with " Dr Atkin
son and hi* m;ai*sering brethren and theoog.
teal students.'' not ta preaching peace on earth
aod good w*H to tare, aad H~ertj to tha cap
tint tt Is b-'a*; of war as j rh, erohaat
" RBHAR.DLKSS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
2 shout of men who are now ready to slay my
sons aud ruiu ray country, because ve feel
1 bound to preserve this Uuioa for ourselves,
i our children and the world. If I coold only
f see that you were right, I had rather die with
• you, thau to live without you. But as Henry
, Ciay had rather be right tn&u to be President,
so I had rather be an outcast from among men
- than to be au accursed of God, as I most cer
r tainiy should be, if, with mypreseut conviction
■ of truth, 1 should defend the suicidal measures
■ of the slaveholders. Slaveholders I Yankees !
i How differently these terms sound in different
; care ! Yankee Doodle is a reputable geutie
t mau all over the world, except among secession- j
i ists. " Slaveholders " is a term of reproach
everywhere, except among siaveholaiug seces- i
r sionists. Strange that uo one uuderstam's the
• ! Bible, nor State right, nor the rights of mau,
[ but secessiou slaveholders.
You *ee what kiud of a heretic your nncle
: is. Will you let him go to the grave of hi?
mother iu Virginia, aud upbraid her for teach- \
■ iugs that have led him so far estray from truth?
| and make him bless God that he had ruther be !
• a Yaakee than a slaveholder ? I used to mourn '
i that my father Hog* was buried iu Pbiladel
: puia instead of Virginia. Now I moura that !
my mother is uot sleeping at bi side. I could
then stand aud weep tears of gratitude for all
the instruction I received from them, without
' danger of having my mangled corpse drawn
over tiieir graves by hands that would glory
| j to be bathed iu the heart's gore of her husband
if he were living, aud dared to teach what he
i died heiieviug.
Better times will return. In every sin, it is
: said, is the seed of its own destruction. The
i soul tuat sins must die, is God s universal law
Some men destroy the Union, fearing that
Zioutb Carolina will not permit them to sell
their slaves to her, if they remained. South
Carolina denounces the Confederate States
for denouncing the siavc trade. She will open
' j it, if Boston and New York will not help her, if
she can, and then site will not give a living
price for slave breeding. Whtreareyou then?
Both from principle and interest opposed to
tiie African slave trade ; yet stick to the Con
federate slave States ! You have mobbed out
of your State, already, some of your best men,
leaving their property a prey to the lawless.
"The outside pressure that bore so heavily o:i
every Union man," will assuredly crush out
every Union man at your unnecessary ap
proachiug election, for jou have already, with
out a vote of tiie people, renounced your ahe
giaoce to the Union ; provisionally joined the
Confederates ; glory iu South Carolina ; and
committed depredations oa the property of the
L aion, and are in armed open rebellion against
wnat was your pride once local! your country. !
Where i freedom now in Virginia ? Who
dare rcfj*e to join your home guard, to vote
for Union, to pre*ch what they believe to be
the truth about publics or slavery or anything
else, if the " rough riders "do not like it ? In
the Wheeling district it can be doue. They
w.;, secede, aud yonr doctrine of noc-coercion
will meet you there, and the unequal taxai.on
in favor ot jl.iTeuoiders wul he settled without
your Convention. Long ago old General Gate
came near burning Richmond and murdering
its men, and diviutug its women autoag ins
followers. There were no aholniouists then
Oid Nat Turner is not forgotten among you.—
lie 'aid tne Bible made him fight—noone ac
cused ihe abohtionis'.sof urg : ng iura on. Three
sevral tunes tuc blacks of South Carolina
made its whites turn whiter with tear, long be
f re the north agitated Jtne subject cf s.avery.
Old Dan's head is yet uuuuriwd in North Cr
ol.na. If there was danger then, it is uot uo
mit.'shed *o*.
Oid John Brown was a tiie secessionist
He waated to destroy the Uuion to ?•* up for
himself. He bore the first mark of secession.
According to the new uotioa Le had a right
to set up for Iv.mself, and none had the r ght
to coerce. lie was huug for doing en a small
scale that which is being done now among you
ou a larger one. Ad the John Browns are
vol dead. Fifteen of them, with four negroes
and fifteen whit* men each, could acep your
wbeie confederacy iu a coiitimai uproar at.a
turmoil. How can you prevent it ? Your
confederates have locked with an evil eye ap
ou our commerce, and set yjur pirate? a: work
to steal it. One of the greatest aifiicuities we
now have, is, to keep the people irom taking
the matter into their owu hands. There is a
fearful oa'.side pressure, which yon say " we
cat.not control." 6unoose we foiiow voor ex
auipie AND yieid to it and tarn it against TOO ?
Tnat spirit is pressing towards ine South.—
Those who murdered sons of Massacbussetts'
mothers, goiug to the Capitol, caunot emect
uiueh sympathy for tho mothers whose sons
committed the bloody deed Let the crnel,
wicxed work of robbery, piracy and murder go
on, aud yoa wtil see trouble that vou never
dreamed ot. If the men you are so abusing
wonld only get out of the war, one fell swoop
woaid be made that would cause he;! itself to
' own it was outdone, both north and south, in
deeds cf rioiecce. Already crowds of slaves
are said to be passing through tnis State, urg
ing the free biacas to join tin;® and them
against their former m*?ters. L\*t week sev
enty five blacks were loond arm~d ani tra :i
-ing. and burning to go. It is horrid It makes
tne (hood run co>d to think wnat mav come
Ine biood sp.lt in Baltimore, and tne vioient
aggressions m the first place, from the firing
on the N ta/ of Lie li'esf to tne stealing of Har
per's Ferry. i 5 provoking whole States to se
cede, if they are not permitted to reverge a-,d
avenge. What c*a we do to preveot it ? Up '
to tne uking cf Fort Samter, t.o one here
though: seriously of war. F'ring on the SLIT I
of iit West d.d some m;?cfcief ; bat still we all :
Jes.red peace, and many of as deep'y strapa :
i lb:ed with yon. Bat the giving of fiery stone?
instead of bread to Major Anderson and his
meu, i fifty fignting for thirty-six hoar? a gainst 1
many thousands, who at las; marched ont on
| the;r own term?,} did tae work. Thesis but <
ont p*rty now. All are one. ard hold all that . ;
they have as one for the Union. Virginia can
blame none bat nerseif. Crying peace. se
famished momuoos of war, and oee and a.*- i
sloes vo the dtarro*%rs cf the Uaio- she pr> j
fessed to love. She strengthened the hands of
the confederates while tryiug to weaken and
1 to bend those of the Union ; and at last broke
j off from the government because sh* wascall
' ed tipou to d>.fend her country aguiust its de
| stroyers. May GOD forgive un'd avert the evils
j she is bringing upou herself aud us
Y'ou will hate your uncic, all those whom
I be dearly loves at the south will hate him and
] treat hiui as a tied dog, wheu I tell you that
! I leave home on Monday to joiu th* army or
my country. Igo as chaplain to the Pnn
: sylvauia Btb. Igo to pray for dying men, and
1 to be a friend to the youth of my *ountry who
are willing to di for its flag. I wiil let you
i know where to find m wneu our armies meat.
| I shall pray for you always. Oil ! is it uot
1 horrid ! Why ha? GOD given us up? Can
not the thing be stopped ? If not, GOD'S will
i be done. How I should uate to see your corpse
among the rebels, fighting agaiust your couu
; try ! You do cot kuow, you cauuot tali how
! 1 love you. Only son of my only sister ; child
j that I prayed for ; boy that I taught ; young
| mau that 1 gloried in ; muuruer aud sufferer
1 that I wept for; friend and follower of the
JESUS I love ; have you aruied yourself to de
stroy your uncle's land ? Have you already
stolen his birthright, and become the first to
tell him " he no longer own* his mother's
grave?" It is hard, hard to bear. But fare
well, now. This is uot tny last farewell. If
we live, I will write again. If it is my last,
read it often, aud remember that your uncle
would sooner die than wound th* child a dv
! ing sister left to his love. We wiil meet at
the Judgment bar. May cur meeting there be
swce*r than our present parting. Let on
only nephew take the love, tne forgiveness and
blessing of his oniv uncle.
THOMAS P. HUNT.
A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT.—Life bears u; on
like a stream of a mighty river. Our boat at
fir*t glides down the narrow channel through
tiie playful murmuring* of the little luook and
the winding of the grasy borde-s. The trees
shed their blo?soiu> over our voting heads,
the flowers on the brink seem to offer them
selves to our young hands, we u-i happy in
hope, and grasp eagerly at the beadle*
around us ; bat the stream hurried oa, and
still our hands orefempty. Our coarsein youth
ar.d manhood is along aw ider and deeper
■ flood, amid objects more striking and magnifi
cent. We are animated at the moving pic
tu*e of enjoyment and industry passing around
us ; arc excited a-t some short lived disappoint
; raeut. Ihe stream bears as on, and our jovs
and grief* are alike left behind us. Yv'e may
be shipwrecked, we cannot beiLiayed ; wheth
er rough or smooth, tne river hasten? to his
home, till the roar of the ocean is in our ears,
and the tossing of waves is beneath our feet,
and the land lessens from our eye?, and the
floods are lifted p around a?, and we take
our iear* of earth and its inhabitants, until r f
ourfirther voyage there is no witness save
the Infinite Eternal.
I.TVE Wjirrv Yocf. MEANS.—One great
source of social distress, is the hiring of more
expensive bouses than people can afford Now.
the truth muy be that yoa don't want double
parlors—-one sunny little parlor is sufficient,
and then you wiil be obliged to retrench on ,
parties. If there is uot cnocgh room,
you w;l! be obliged to rrtrencn on voor ward !
robe. If there is no nursery, vou w:il Lave
your children out more in open air, where taev
ought to be. If there is no ?moki :g room,
vou will have to drop the practice of smoking
The smaller yoor bouse i, the less rurm yoa •
have to furnish, warm, ard keep clean. We
have een kitchens * pienant as parlor?, their
presiding genins more ladylike than half ocr ,
miiiior.airs' wives If there is the genuir.s
sparkle of a diamond, it wiil be a? bright in i
the kitchen a? ::i the parlor. If pe"-p!e want
to live more cheaply, let thra abandon the
gilded places that entail cn almost endlews ex
pense. Let women give op the vain idea of ■
rnaaing a show, and try. ir.stead, to mike hsp
py home?. A great deal—more, perhaps, than
tiie world imxgioes—tiepends upoa cons?*
TRT:NS THE COLO?. —An old lacy fro'c the
country went recently to a llr.endraper'i shop I
and began examining a piece of cotton nr.nt
She p ilied it this way at.a t.-i&t.cs if she would
tear it to pieces, held it cp to the light in d.t
ferent positions, we: a corner and rubbed it
between her fingers, trying if tie color* were
good Then she paused awhile, seermug.v uot
entirely sat.-fied. At last she cat off a piece
with a pair of scissors sae hid dangling a; her
side, and handing it to a tad. gawky looking
g 'l, or about sixteen, standing beside her,
said, " Here. Lizzy Jane, yoa uk* au' cbaw
that, an' see if it fade*." Lizzy Jar.e put it
into her mouth accord.ugly, and oat.fully went
to work.
AN IX:SH ASGCXSNT.—As the late Mr. G .
a Fa rmer at Daddisgstone, once stood a: h's
gate, an Irish lad came ap tohia and request
ed to be employed.
Mr G —"Go away, s'r ; I will never em
ploy any of vocr countrymen again.'*
Irishman.—" Why. yonr honor ? Sure we
are good workers. God bless yoa I do give '
tee a job."
Mr. G—" No, sir, I won't ; for ihe last
Irishman I employed died on n.v band?, aad
I was forced to bury him at mr own cost.
Irishman—" Ah, your honor ! yoa need
not tear that of me ; for I can g;T a cxrtifi
cale that 1 never died ia the employment of
any mi-.er I ever eerred !"
There were no resisting this Poer Patrick
cot emp.oymeat without the certifcate.
4®* A httle girl focr years old was recent
ly ca..ed as a witness ia a po -ce coart, aod,
:n answer to the question as to what became
of little girls who told lies, she innocently re
pled tot they were sen: to bed.
£&* An oid bachelor m a traveler on lie's]
railroad, who baa entirely filled to sake
proper coeßeefoc*
VOL. XXII. —XO. 1
(Educational §cparfmeut.
Levy of School and Building Tax.
Qcrsnox : llow are the sshool tax and the
building tax tu be assessed and apportioned.
, Separate!? or together ?— MUajbnrg L/t ,
i i Centre co.
■ 2. Arc single freemen w!.o do not foilqw
any occupation, &r.d persons wue pay the one
doilar occupation tax for " school " purposes,
; liable to a similar amount of tax thp same
, year for "buiiding" purposes ?— Mikslnrg Dt.,
Cenlrt county.
ANSWER* At f.rst slew, there seems to be
. difficulty in asctitai ling the intention of the
Legislature on these points ; but a careful ex
amination and collation of all the provisions
on the subject, in connexion with the objeat
to be effected, render it plain that the two
separate sums voted to be raised for " school "
and for " building" purposes, are but parts o'
the same lax, though intended for different
objects, and are to be assessed together Seo.
< 33 says, " that the Building tax shall be lev
ied aud collected at the same time,in the saosa
manner, and with a!i authority, as the regular
annual tax;"—and.Sec. 30, "that ail taxes
levied and assessed by the Directois or Con
lrollers, withiu each school year, shall be con
tained in the same duplicate."
When to this it is added, that the money
for both purposes is paid by the tax-paver in
one combined scm, is placed by the collector
1 in the hands of the same D.itriet Treasurer, ia
, by the latter kept together, and is only
| rated when it comes to be oppl cd to its speci
fic purposes,—it is dearly ot sious that thoceb
tico sumi hare been voted by the Beard, one
tar. only is to be in the duplicate.
Tiiis being the case, the mode of levying a
combined school and Luilding tax, is as faU
lows:
1. Tne Board asccrtaiu what sum will La
required to ket p the schorls in ojxralion the
proper lime during the coming year,from which
sum they are to deduct the amount receivable
as State appropriation; and this process will
show tbe amount required to be raised by tax
for jreueral "school purposes." The? a-e then
to determine tife awouot if any) required for
" building during the yeur, " not exceeding
the amount of the r-eutar annual school Ui;"
j and tLis added to the amount required by tax
for general school purposes, gives the aioooßt
of combined tax to be assessed. Tbiscombia
[ ed sum is then to be- levied by rtsclulv-n-nf t/n
B tard : and the resolution, showin? how roach
j is for " school " and how eioei; is for " baild
ing " purposes, is to be put on their miaetes.
The calculation wilt stand thus :
I Neceaaary for #cho! purpose*.
j exonerations and c-j: of coiiectiss, s:.j #JOC 00
bedoci appropriation., He wO
Arsoant to be n.:-eu for school purposes, 1400 00
Add tor oui. jiug pur.-os-.i, AO? 00
' Total combined tax to be raised, t-'JO 06
2. The " adjusted valuation" is then takea
up, the number of single freem%n over twenty
one years of age who do not follow airy " oc
cupation or calling " ascertained, and one col
lar assessed cu each ; which will give this .re
sult :
A rco-int to bo raise 1 as above, $-04 00
. Deduct freesiea il St. 5u c<o
Amount ret to be ra.ffJ. 00
3 Oi an adjusted valuation cf say. s7s,<bC<o
in the District, this last sum will form a rate
of ten mills ; and this rate applied to the
" trades, profession® and callings," uii! iow
that all valued at $lO<W? and less, become sub
ject to the one dollar tax These are next to
be taken out, thus :
Baitaace to be ral-ed a- at ~e. $755 M
; Deduct 40 oeeupailjoJ at It, SO #)
, LtaTi&g ye: to be r*.?ec ty tux, srtw uO
4 To raise this last narted sum, a rate o!
ten mills is to be pet on all the other subjects
and th.ngs in the " adjusted valuation," ioclui
i*>g the whole amonat of each " salary, 77 and
of eac+i " occupation "over $lOO, bnt omitting
single freemen and also occupations at and un
der $10?. Tills rate is not to be lessened ca
c.couv of tie subtraction of the occupations
coder s!C>'\ becaose tie same rate having
been applied as the test to ascertain their lia
bility to tbe $1 tax, it is still to be retained as
the tax on the other "subjects and things ;**
and if it produce any excess over the sum fi.-it
e-timated and levied, this excess will go
towards loss by exonerations. Ac
5. When collected and the col'eclor's com
missions dr I: t- j, tbe nett proceeds of the en
tire duplicate are to be divided between th 9
ordinary "scLcol " and the " balrdiug " funds,
in the proportion of the original levy,—thai
is, jr. the supposed case, one-half to each, or in
whatever other proportion they bear to each
other.
If t*-r? eras either a "balance on hand "for
school purposes, or a " debt" from last jear,
when the levy was made then the first is to.be
deducted from or the second added to, the
amount te be raised; and the rema*r.der,or the
total, thus iscerts-'ned, is the am.ant to be
ievied a; school tax.
Th s constroclion and mode of arpfyl~g the
taxing previsions of b school law, DO* only
, dispose of the difScelty in re'atior to the cue
•dollar tax on occupation- and i ing:e freemen,
bnt eoape several other object ions a*sd inequal
ities that must result from a separate assess
ment of eich portion of tax. ft increases the
of trade 5 , professioss ar.-l occupations,
liable to tbe general **te in exact prop-ortion
with the increase of the rate ; i* gives to each
fond r'.s dse pre-portion of the one dollar tax
on occupations ar.d single freemtn, without
violating the law by imposing on either a less
sum than cne do'iar ; wh le it imposes on each
its proportion of the loss by exonerations, and
of the exper.-e cf collection.
Under t: s construction, it need s-carce'v be
remarked, that two one dollar taxes a-e uf to
be assayed on single freemen and occupations,
the same year.
a&T Mrry complain that they ara so: ap
precia'wd prcperbr simp'y beca-se 'hey v*