JTF WAAR PER INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
XOWAXDA:
Jtarsday Morning, March 13, 1C62.
MARCH.
BT BAIORO TAYL3R-
With rushing 3V ind,gloomy
The dark and stubborn Winter dies;
Far off, unseen. Spring Dmitly crioa.
""^,,1
Bf streams .till held in icy snare
On Scut'.rein hit; sidet. melting .-ire.
O'er el* t'>- m T™ !?'='
Tkat lhe duß,rful *' T '
March!
What though conflicting seasons uiako
The days their field, they woo or shako
The sleeping lids of Liie awake.
And Hooe is strouger for thy sake.
March !
Then from the mountains, ri'ubed with saow,
Ou.e more thy rousing bugle Glow !
And Ea-t aud West, and to and fro.
Pro. aim thy coaling to the foe :
March
c a -: the picket, cliiUed and numb,
Sav to tiie raiup'simpatient hum,
Sav t L.e trumpet and the druui:
I.ift up your hearts, I come. I come !
March I
-\ to the waiting hosts that stay
I 0o - tally sea -ids. far away ,
>•< l.trsliy isle and gleamin? bay,
Where Southern March is Northern May ;
March !
Aacouuoe tii.. seif with welcome noise,
\V!:cre Giory's vi. tor eagles poise
\- iv the proud, heroic b<>ys
Of lowa and Illinois :
March !
Then down the 1 >ag Potomac's line
Sh ■ t iiKe a storm i>n liili* of piue.
"I ran. sis nog and bay j mis shine :
•• Advance! vue CUlefUn's eaii is mine :
March I"
vjlisttllantons.
Sut Lovegood's Dcg.
" Boy-, 1 '.ever told cay ou ye ove my dog
W.-ope, C: 11'
.V Not, tint as we knows on ; you ve
. icti /> o g-o in all yer doings that we cau't
a. aJiic; what dog scrape you
•V'c.l, 1 iutan old 'Stuffgut." D.d cuy ou
i'. eve." see 'tui P
I Wvil, ye missed a site. lie wur a powcr
. Jog, an aouietimes ye'd think that he wur
ior three dogs, if ye'd see hitn eat ; not a
uutiu ove his tail, for he had'nt env. W hen
*ur a pup, Dad, dnru bun. took him tu :t
tw-cutter, jniued his stern elost up to the
me of the cussed gullotiu, and fotch down
le nife, uud there lay t'ae whole tail iu the
uft, like a letter S, and here rua the pup u
a/ing like a hound, and his staru looked iikc
u'd hasted ripe looiutis onto it. Vt ell, il
.langed his looks m.tely, and his natur more
t j* as to Lis looks, rite onto tiie spot where
- tail orter staid, tlpgg grow J a bunch ove
J, ash cuiiured bristles, what puiied every
it;, liae onto a split broom with the rappin
. lease, and rite ;n the midil ove all Luis
hssej looking patch ove bar, the pint ove his
sea bone, kivt-red with a gnstil, stuck out
£t .ij api '.giu's aig. caze he sot orto bit
aiiich Well, the affair looked uii'y sassy
.:i tie i.ke, eny how, purticolarly when he
a strut:iu up to a big strange dog tu stncil
j.-'i h:.a It taade his stam look hier thau hts
i tiers, purpendicalar aud squar ;an he bed
- *y ove walk.u slow and solemn, like I've
i-i young fellers do at camp meetin when ap
.'Mohin ove a gall at a spring with thar stud
o- ose ou. agwiae sorter sideways aud uiity
erfu!. I've seed little hogs go through the
it; motions, wuu in a peach orchard and the
*:in a lane, when they thot they wauled
-it*, and wad a dun it but for the fence
'.it war utwecn em. I never found out that
*vt:good for euy thing but to keep bred
-a m-jii i.u, and meat from spiiin ; and when
k vaated to how glad, as he bed uo -Ca.il to
e wagged his hole staru and his hind
si.ppcu about oo the ground, sorter like a
...a:.. gal walks wbeu she thinks some fel-
icckiu at her. He vrur cuiiured adzactiy
1 itwidsadil skirt, and he curried his
a " -4 atoa in sort of coek, like unto a mule's
* . -^,. ret ] 4 H e 'j whiskers round his
a Li- hiue tegs Aod must have had
* --..ve cQushiuce fur Ite war the
xeMttii coos;ttaneei dog I ever eeed iu my
Nov n ;alii> natur, you couldn't uever
v " 3 "j:o any thing you wanted tu, aod
; —h.o off of anything he got atter
&soa accivd. He war skeered all the
i;,i - >tud ready to rna orto steal as the
"- e --t't be ; and takin bun ahogethar,
T **jasttke r.te sort fa dog to belong to
a*: *artr. a d>ro, and orter been killed
- tr 5 "-I 1 " °pen.
t '' eli . S.uff Got, he followed nc to town
t "" "ji-.'ust care I didu't want bias to ; and
*-. #ur getun ua a bed of steam at the
' --" r T. ne .-tarred roau tewn on a steeling
;Wt'on ore bis own, and like hts cassed
got h<aoAf iato a scra|>c and skvre
half try.ng. and in less oor no l.tae at
I ted giu niiself ashake in the doggery,
cored the whiskey in me slosh. I ksowed
- - my load aUiard, so I corn oot inter the
;i ~ the—fust ti>ing I seed he cum a
* i';*a the street fifteen times faster tbau
* • -ud rau, ji>t a blowin of hisself, his
* -*t onto b.s neck, and his bristles ail
a '-.Bck pearch's top fin, his eyes shut
j*. ~ oa a ?ort ° Te ,ar "
• ..~ i " oa * er steingi, sorter like the set Dad
t *aen he acted boss, and he war hauling
old stage lantern and it filled with wet
. 504 afire. Now the sparks and
1 1 c acd tee dn* ao ratHn, and the
£' JifHla int-m " s'ia -aas adt co f 1 CV~ > * i ffcf ' mtH {mi* bujiiusd )wl ? rUtad oildoq j oaerirmK wfJ 1? Juc* ,iwJnGD lBC?:in r* dwe ' | Hp}" '• * *'T
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
youlin and growlin und barkin, and the eighty*
uine or ninety dogs ove all kinds what wur a
cbasio ove him made sum seaashun. Well—
it did. Whew w-w. When I seed hiui pass
without nowiu me, I thought ove dad's Lornet
tribilation, aud felt there wur such a thing as
a retributmo at last ; aud then I got mad, and
looked for sum one to veot my rath on, and
seed a long-legged cuss, sorter of the Lovegood
stripe, with his hat cocked afore, sitting a
straddel ove a boss rack, a swinging bis legs
and a staging—
" Rack back Davy, daddy shot a bar ;
Shot ! iin m the eye, ami never tech a bar.'*
" 1 seed it wur my best chance to breed a
lite, so I jest lent him a siataeriu calamity
right whar his suout began a sproutii; from
atweeu his eyes, with a ruff rock aboat the
siso ove a goose aig. It fotcbed him ? He
dropped ofen the boss rack, but hit a jqurrel
ho't on the pole with his paws and hine feet
and buug hack douu. I jumped bead fust
through atweeu his belly and the po e ; my
left broke his holt, and we cum to the ground
a fitio, me ondcrmo--t, and tarned heads and
tails. So I shut my jaws onto a mouthful
ove s:euk. Lie fit tuucly for the chat ces he
lied, but I soon seed he hod a cross ov.j bar in
liiiu, for lie couldn't stan tiekliu behine, if it be
called tiekliu at all ; for every time he got his
hitie legs onder hitn, he tried his durndest tu
jump loose, but my holt hilt, and we would
take a ui>t position ageu. 1 thot OVE a box
ove matches what I Led iu my pocket, so I
fetch the hall boxfui a rake on the gravel, an
stuft eta alt a bluzta icter one ove the pockets
in his eoat tail. New mind he knovred nirthiu
ove the-e pereeedinErs, fur his miml wur exer
cised powerful about tbehurtiu L wur a iielpin
Li in to behine. I kuo.ved he'd soou show
strong signs ove waatin ogo So the fust
bi;r rare he fotch arter the fire reach his side,
I jest let ray mouth fly open—so —an he went !
hi;) hole (ale iu an awful blaze.
" Rite here, boys, I must teli von somethin
I d : dn't know myself, or dura me if I hadn't
let him beat me inter poultis uforu I d sot him
afire —l'd seen him darned fust. He had two
ponds of gunpowder in to*her pocket a takin
home to a shooting match.
" Well, he aimed to rnn past a tin peddlin
wagon, whot *in a sUodin in the street With
a lust rate set ove old live ooues atween the
shafts, while the Yankee was in the dupery
a firin up to tcave tona. Just as he got to
the carryall, the powder eo'ch fire, and soon
arter went off : and so did he, head fust, fro?
fashion, rite throo the top lode ove tin war
He lit u raaning, ten foot tottier side. His
coat tails wur blowed off tu his shoulders ; the
bine eend ove his gallu-ters wus rapp. d roan
his nevk : the tail of bis shurt wus up in the
air about thirty one feet, and still a rizin, bluz
in 1 ke a koaiit ; his britches buns' loose ou the
front side, like onto a foiked apurn, while the
sittin part ove them was blown to. kuigdoni
cum, aadb so war every thing else belongia tn
that region ; while his back wur as black as
a s'tle ove npper lether. It rained tin buckets,
and pepper boxes, and pans, and stage horns,
all over '.bat suett for taore'o two minutes and
a half.
" Now that explosion, and the tin war a
ratlin and a rainin, made a rito smart aais,
specially ove a still day ; in fack, enough to
wake up the old boss bones, and gin him the
idear that he'd best tu leave town quick, so he
laid his ears back, and straitened out his tail,
and shot, lie made kind lin wood ooteu the
wagon agin a sine post, and then bo tuck bis
self to the woods, stretched out about twenty
feet long, and not nior'u three feet high 011
the withers, with about enuff harness stickin
tu bitn to make a collar for a bed cow, Thar
wus WUR cussed nutmeg ma kin Yankee broke
plum up, and I'm darned glad ove it. Old
Hack liack Davy, the ho->- rack man UQ ide for
the river, and 1 lollered tu see tf he haunt
drownded hisseif ; but LO sir-e e ! Thar he
wur, about the middil ove the river, a swimmin
fur tother side, j st a splitting the water wide
open, and bis ousted britches lees a boating
arter hiiu. He looked over bis shoulder every
other lick, as if he specteu tu see the divil ; his
face wur as black as a pot, sept a white ring
roan his eyes, and the Smoke wur still risiu
from among the sturop6 ore bis burnt bar
11.a bed, boys, iu that raver, was the ugliest,
scraiesl, and sav.dgest site 1 ever seed or spec
,tu see iu this world, eny how. 1 drcauis ove it
yet ove nights, and it skares the sweat outer
rac. I seed a lot ove felhrs a fisbin ondcr the
bank so I thot I'd belp him o:i a liule faster,
so i noiiered. 'ketch ike murderer, five hun
dred dullard abd a Dig bosa reward. He's
R.Jed a womua an utne cuiiureu, and 1 spec a
dog and like tu w hip another plum to deth.'
They jumped inter thar canoes an tuck arter
h;m. opening on hw trail like a psck ove bonus.
The last I eve- see-ove him he wur a rackiu
up to the Luther batik, on his all four, and
looked miudy like an old bar tliat had cum out
ove a burrykane. He still kepi up bis lookiu
' back, and *1 spect wus the w u.-t skeered man In
i the wurhl. and it he aint ded, he's running yet
! The idear now begin to soke throo my har
i that owiu to the fuvi atoff-tiut and he had
raizt-d, that perhaps I d betier scout lest they
moot want uie. to I left :Q a smart trot, and
got on old Stuff's trail. It wus like a wugOn
' had been drug epside down by a par of runa
way mules, and dy grass, and leaves, and in
sum places the fences, wus sot on tire. lit
tuck to the mountains, aud turned wolf, and
tuck to the trade ove sheep ki'fiu Foriivio.and
the hole settlement is new out arter his skulp.
That trip tn touc, like the cuttin box lies
•changed his diaper-it ion agin, ull showin the
powerful changes that kiu be made even n a
t dog I cum outen that scrape perty well, yet
I bed tu show the family aispersiuou ta make
d d fools ove tb&r sefs "
•' How, Sot ?"
" Why, I ought to have toted off a lode ove
that permtscus tin war."
A jolly old doctor said that people who
, were prompt in their payments always recov
ered IQ their sickness, as tbey were good cus
j toraers, and physicians cooid oot afford to lose
1 tfcetn A good bint and a seusrb'ia doctor.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH.
Abraham and Sarah.
" And he lifted up his eyes, and looked, and lo' three
meu sti-od bv him. * * * Aud he said, my Lord, if
! now 1 Lavs found favor in thy sight, pass not away,
i * * * And 1 will fetch a morsel of Bread, aud com
j fort ye youg heart* ; alter that ye shall passoa.*'
Upon one of the cold, dreary, raiuy Satur
, days of the last mouth, the 76th Regiment of
i New York Volunteers, arrived in this city,
after a cheerless night ride down the Hudsou
Rtver Railroad from Albany. By some slight
accident one of the trains was detained, with
j all the priucipal officers, while the other train,
full of hungry meu, arrived at Thirty first
, street in time for a late breakfast, but with
I little prospect of breaking it, for they had uo
' one to move them forward, and the orders of
their officers, which a soldier's first duty to
obey, were to await orders at that point; and
: tbt re, till after teu o'clock, in cold cars or up
on cold pavements, they did wait, tantalised
with the thoughts cf being vpou the very
threshhold of plenty, but un<ble to eross, tbo'
they sboaid parish with hunger. The air was
chilly and fetid iu the cars; it was uot aoheer
ful begiuuiug of " marching onward" to the
war.
In vain they looked about for some inviting
place for hungry men to appease their raging
appetites. None was iu their sight, By aud
by, oue sallied cut, as he said, to cross the
Potomac on a foraging expedition. Although
he crossed a good deal of water, we don't thi:,k
it belonged to that river. When ho returned,
i he had a loaf of bread, which he divided with
his uiess, and tiny ate as though it was uu
couiir.juiy good.
" I say, Bill," said oce soldier to another,
" lend me tijsixpence.and I'll go and get a loaf,
and div.de u with you. I'm hungry euoagli
to eat horsex"
however, refused to lend, because Jim
; had failed to pay a former luaa.
Several ether So'diers tantalized with the
3 ght of food, M: hnugery all the keener; aud
as though they cculd not sit there starving.
. started out iu pursuit of food It was not
i easy tor a stranger to find it in that ueighbor
; hood us in souie parts of the city.
Tlier could find grog anywhere. If we mis
take not, there are three of these paupernia
kiug, so.dier killing holes on the corners of
Thirty second Uret and Tenth evenue, while
I on the other there is a very humble looking
j butcher thop kept by an irishmao, with a
i heart biger than that of any ox he ever hang
upou h.s meat-books. The only name that
we can give him is the only one that he gave
us wheu we inquired it. it was "Abraham;
" ami vou wife s?" " Sarah."
If the doctrino of transmigration is true,then
hud these good people the soul of the old pa
triarch auu Ins wife. Their character corres
pond to theirs of old, that we read cf iu the
Book where we found the lines that head this
item.
As a soldiers were wandering along
the opposite side of the street peering about,
| Abraham saw they were in pursuit of some
j thing tha'. was not to "tie found in a bar room,
nr.d "he lift up Lis eyes" and beckoned with
( his Laud, and wheu they cauie over, he said:—
; " Are you huugry ? Then pass not away.—
Come in heie ; I will fetch a morsel of bread
aud comfort ye. GOD bless ye."
Aud as be led them through his little meat,
shop, iuto a little back room, and there was
I Sarah ; and Sarah said : " Och sure, gentle
' men, ye're welcome as sunshine iu harvest, to
the little that we can give ye, and eft is none
lof the richest, 1 am sure ye have got what'il
be after givtng it the sweat taste "
So, wuiie Sarah bustled about her kitchen,
parlor aud timing room, all in one, that did
not contain a single whole chair, but several
benches and stools, upon wh eh she seated her
guests around the little pine table, Abi&haai
| went out aud brought in some loaves cf bread,
and Sarah sliced off generous quantities of
head-cheese, and poured out cop after cup of
good not coffee, and probably never felt hap
pier than she did to see these men her burn
; bie tare with such a reL&h.
In the mean time Abraham had gone in
frout of his shop agaiu to " lift np his eyes,"
and whenever he saw more hungry soldiers, lie
beconed theuiover, introoueiug them to Sarah
something iathis way :
" 1 say out woman, coold you be after giv
ing these a sup of yer coffee and a bite of
bread ; they're as hungry as the others, and
GOD will be giving ye bis blessings for it; and
maybe somebody will be feeding our M.ke
when fie is hungry."
" ludade i will, to the last sop in the shan
ty. Now, good meo, will ye that are fall, be
after retreating a bit, so that the empty ones
' can get in. GOD biess ye."
Again the cups aud p'ates arc replenished ;
agatu Abraham sallied out to some place that
Le knew of for a basket of loaves ; aud so
squad after squad were fed, and we hope ail
felt as much thankfulness in their hearts as
those good souls did pleasure at the opportQ
i nity of giving the best they had to feed tbe
t soldiers of their adopted country
A gentleman who happened to be present
at this interesting feast, was auxions that
* Abraham and his wife should accept something
(in the any of compensat'on.
I " Niver a ha'penny. An' havn't I a son
. and a nevy ia lae army, an' won't GOD be
good to the®, to pay aie for all this ? Au'
iDivhap oue o' them may want to share a crust
that some of these poor fellows may have to
' sive some dav An' won't it tate all the
, ava 6 |to know their p?oor old mother has
, paid tor the crm-i in advance, with & btte and
a sup to these poor fellows ? No, no, 'tis
' never a ceut that'll cross my paints for all I
have given. It woald be the curs? to me, and
barn a hole in my px-ktt to let the silver oot.
, I'm sure ye're as welcome as those that Abra-
I ham aud Sarah of old fed with tbe young
calf, nice and tender ; aud all I ask is that ye
will read that story when ye want to remem
ber os a* ye * pass on.' GOD bkas and always
feed ye, as long as ye fight tbe immies of oar
country."
And so, with thankfulness aud blessing, the
soldiers paxs/rd oa - t bet they never will forget
Abraham and Sarah aa tbey found them io
NewY*k--V YTnhvm
" RESARDLE3S OF DEMONCIATIOM FROM ANT QUARTER."
a/A? J-1J
Feminine Appellations.
Arabella, the first in alphabetical order of
the female names, derived from the I.atiD,
means a fair allar. Barbara is from the same
source as our barbarous, but has properly the
sorter meaning of strange or foreign. Beatrice
signifies makiug happy. Few names have been
so sweetened and hallowed by poetry as this.
Cecilia (and the less common male name Cecil)
have, in tiie Laliu, the signification of gray
eyed. Cicely is a pretty familiar.zatiou of' the
uauie, giving it quite a rural character, and
i bringing before our miuds a rosy dautsel, toss
' Ing the hay-ricks in the sun, or pressing with
embrowned hand the udder of the patient cow.
1 Cicely is intrinsically and every where a maid
l of the dairy. Clara is one of the very finest of
| our female names. It has the meaning of clear
|or bright Constance bears a similar meauiug
, to that of CcinsUiUioe —uamely, resolute.—
; Grace, one of the sweetest of ail the names
; given to Christiuu women,signifies slfcpij favor,
or grace iu ibe sense of luvor. Felicia, the
feminine lrom Feltx, baa thesame signification
of b-ppy. Letitia, usually shortened iuto Let
tice, deuotes jqy. No sense could be batter
than tbw, whether the word is though of as
. falling from parent's or from lover's lips. Lucy
jis a favorite name with almost all. It is de
; rived from the same Latin word as adjective
Uci-l, and has much the same meauiug. Never
was the image which one instinctive associates
i with the name of Lucy lietter painted thau iu
l the Hues which Wordsworth puts into the
uiou'.b of Natmv, wheu he paints that power
, as proposing to mould a maiden to her own
; lav.es. Mabel is either from malnla, signify
ing my fair, or contracted from avibalii, lovely,
tor ann.ible. la sound and sen-e, whichever
, way is right, Mabel is wdl worthy of being
perpetuated. Oiiv.a is a good name, Jeriwd,
j like Oliver, from the symbol of peace, the olive.
Patience means what, in common speech, the
word impiiea Never, iierhaps, was there an
appellation so consistent in its meaniug with
i the impresaiou we have of those who bear it,
as PrUciila. A Prisonl* is an antiquated,
j starched dewsoiseila in uineca-e3 out of teu, and
: the word, with a touch almost of irony or
satire iu it, signifies a Utile ancunt To Pru
dsnee, which deuotes what it professes to do,
we have the objection over-comiioess. Rosa
t ia the prettiest form, denote simply a rose.—
The uauie is sweet and fragrant. To close this
catalogue of babtismal names from the Latin,
we Lave but oue other to aliu le to, namely,
j Ursula ; aod how this appellation came to be
, given io auy ruo.al womau, we cannot guess.
Oue uncousciousiy ihit.ks of an aged woman,
■ stooping, withered, aud wrinkled, at mention
of the name Ursula ; but the etymology justi
fies even warse thoughts, for the word signifies
a female bear !
—
How a Man Feels on the Battle Field-
i Few persons are there who have not sonii
curiosity about battle-fields, and who do not
desire to know how men feel when under fire,
especially before custom has made them feel
indifferent or secure. Most of those who were
at Donelsou must have hadthis experience, as
the field was such that few could go to any
, part of it without incurring more or less rik
Hardly any ODe could see the enemy of guus,
and consequently the first intimation of their
presence would be the fainog of a shell or the
rattling of shot or bails iu Lis immediate
| vicinity.
I do nit suppose I have much physical or
moral courage, but the scusaiioos under fire,
judging from my experience, are different lrom
what is expected.
A reasoning man at first feels alarmed, and
his impulse is to run away ; and if be has no
reaeon to stand, he probably does run ; but at
each exposure, he grows less timid, aud after
bearing canister and grape about his cars a
dozen times, begins to think he a not destined
to be hurt.
j He still feels rather uneasy, perhaps ; but
the danzer becomes fascinating, aud, thougn
he don't wish to be hit, he likes to have nar
row escapes, and so voluntarily places himself
in a position where be can incur more risk.
After a little while be begins to reason the
matter ; reflects upon the doctrine of probabil
ities, and bow much powder and iead is neces
sarily vrasted before a man is killed or wound
ed. Why should be be, be thinks, so much
more unlucky than many other pe~p!* ; and he
soon can hear the whizz'nsr of bn'.'ets with a
tolerable degree of equanimity, taougb he in
voluntarily dodges, or tries ;o dodge, tue can
con balls or shells that go howling around his
immediate neighborhood. In the afternoon,
he is quite a different creature from what he
was in the raorniDg. aDd involuntarily smiles to
see a man betray the same trepidation which
he himself exhibited a few hours before.
The more he is exposed to fire, the better
he can bear it ; and the timid being of to day
is the hero of to-morrow ; and he who runs
r from danger on the first battle field will ran
I into it on the next, aud court the hazard he
I once so dreaded.
The courage, as it is styled, is little more
wifh most men than custom ; and they learn
' to despise what has often threal°ned withoat
causing them barm, if wonrdsd, they learn
wound-- are less pttiufal to bear than they had
sappored, aod then the doctrine of prcbabilili
ties leaches them once more they are less liable
to be wounded again. So the mental process
eoes on until the cerves become by degrees the
* subjects of will ; and be only fears who has
not the will to be brave.
A beautiful young lady, only daughter
of rich parents, cat of all her long golden tres
ses one night last week, while io a somnambu
listic state. She was quite pot out at the
array style of her head in the morning, bnt
was soothed by tbe barbor, who promised a
wig of the locks which should defy detection
The occurrence took place at Cincinnati.
ItSf A man advertises for a " competent
person to undertake the sale of a Dew medi
cine," and adds that " it will be profitable to
tbe undtrUks* " Nodenbtofit
The Opiam Shops of Java.
What spiritons liquors are for the Europe
an, opium 13 in Java for the Mohammedan and
ChiDaraan. A European of the lower classes
may sit in his tamproom and debase himself
by bis sottishness ; but he does it with an up
roarious merriment which would make one
think he wns really happy spite of the head
aches and dtlirun trmense he may koow are
in store for him. But in an opiam hell all is
still as the grave. A morky lamp spreads a
flickering light through the low-roofed suffocat
ing room in which are placed bat bat or rough
woe den tables, covered with coarse matting
aud divided into compartments by moans of
bamboo reed wain-cottirg. The opium smok
ers— men and women—lost to every sense of
modesty, throw themselves languidly oa the
matting, and their beads supported by a grea
sy cusutou, prepare to indulge in their darling
vice
A small burning lamp is placed on the table
so as to be easily reached by aii the degraded
wretches who seek forget fulness or elysiuoi in
the fumes of opium. A pipe of bamboo-reed,
with n bowl at oue end containing the opium,
is generally made to do service for two smok
ers. A piece of opium about the size of a
pea, costs a sixjenoe (a day's waizes ;) bat it
is snffioieot to lull, by its fumes, the series of
the smoker. These fumes they inhale deliver
ately, retaining them in the month as long as
they can, aud then allow them gradu
ally to cxhalo through their nostrils. After
two or three inhalations, however, the opium
is consumed, and the pipe fails from the hand
of its victim.
At first the smokers talk to each other In
a whisper, scarcely audible ; but they soon
become still as the dead. Their dull sunken
eyes gradually become bright and sparkling—
their hallow cheeks seem to assume a healthy
roundness—a gleam of satisfaction, nay of
ecstacy, lightens up their countenances as they
revel in imagiuatiou iu those sensual delights
which are to constitute their Mohammedan
piaradise. Enervated, languid, emaciated, as
they are in fact, they seem and feel for the
time regenerated ; aud though they lie there,
the shameless and impressive slaves of sensual
ity and lust, their senses are doubtless steeped
in bli.-3. Aroused, however, from their dreams
au ldeius'ms—the potency of the charm ex
hausted, driven from their " hell" fcy its pro
prietors—see them next morning walking with
faheriug step, eyes dull ns lead, and ehetks
hollow as ccffiosj to their work.
TUE HOLY LAXJ. —Is is said that the Su'-
tan of Turkey is eucuaniging the emigration cf
the Jews to Palcstiuc, and Le offered to sell
them us much lacd as they choose to buy, and
that Le even bints at a willingness to disposa
of the Mosque of Omar, which stands secood
only to Macca as a sacred shrine.
All this seems aimost incredible, bat his ma
jesty is hard up, and is willing to part with
anything that he has for the ready cash. He
has lead a particularly fast life, and he has
been thorocghly pinched by his favorites of ev
ery description. Whifest he and other oppres
sors of the chosen people have been growing
pour, the children of Israel have been becom
ing rich. They hold the purse strings of En
rope, and are able to buy all Jarusaletn when
ever the owners are disposed to sell. Can it
be pos-ible that the Turk wii! sell oot, a d
that meu of this generation will live to see the
Restoration of Israel lo the Holy Land ?
' Pr.TN'xixG re Jovrox. —Tbe celebrated J.
Yardman, of Kentucky, though a stiff Baptist,
always manifested tbe utmost courtesy towards
other denominations, and attended their minis
try when he could. Being at the monthly
meeting of the Presbyterian Church on a very
hot day, he sat, as was his custom, near the
pnlpit, and closed to tbe table in front. Beiog
thirsty, he several times drank from a bowl of
water on the tuLie, probabiy supposing it was
there for that purpose. But at tbe close of
I the sermon the minister called for certain in
J fants to be brought forward for baptism, aod,
descending to tiie table, discovered there was
no water. Handing the bowl to a triend sit-
I ting near, he requested it might be filled.—
Vardeman, struck with the mischief he had
done, startled tbe people by crying out,
" W'kat ' aid I drink ttp ytn.r Jorda i P
• Mas. PARTIXCTON VISITS THE CAMP OF THE
F:.YIXO ARTILLERY.—" Mister Century," said
she to the guard at tbe gate, " is this the
Camp Meeting of the Pennsylvania Volunta
ries P
I
I " \ e<v" r?iplied the sentry smiling, " this is
one department, the Flying Artiilery depart
j ment is over on the liili.''
" Oh I" said Hie, " this is the light infaatile
1 corpse, is it? When is the artillery going to
fl.v?"
" Why, ma'am," said the guard, " the ar
tillery is moved by horses and wheels, as yoa
see than gnn now moving."
" Ob, ! thought it was one of the wings of
the army 1"
The old lady soon left, thanking the sentry
for his attention.
THE GOOD OLD TlME —Living was cheap
enough io tbe olden rimes. Socrates was sup
posed to have lived npon an iLCome of seven
ty five dollars ; bat he lived worse than a
slave. His coat was shabby, and be wore the
same garment winter and summer ; he went
barefooted ; bis chief food was bread and wa
ter ; and as he engaged in no bosinesx to mend
i bif estates or income, it is not wonderful that
his wife scolaed. Demosthenes, bis sister and
i their mother, paid for their board $lO5 a year
aod provided the boose in the bargain.
Learn in childhood if you can, that hsppi
! cess is oot outside, but inside. A good heat
i and a clear conscience bring happiness which
no riches and no circumstances alone ever
| do.
t&- Why is a vain young lady like a re®-
j timed drvnkered * Because neither of them
selitfed with moderate use of the glare
VOL. JCXII. —NO. 41.
REMARKS OF SENATOR WILMOT,
la the United States Senate. feVvarj 28, tttt, ®oa
theqaestnn af adm.tiiug Bc-vJiHtN 61'OrJgrja,
to a seat in that hodjr.
Tho following resolution pending :
Resolved, That BKBJAHIN STAB* . pt Oiegon , AppoffeV
ed a Senator of that State hy the Gaternhr thereof, now
charged with dieloyalty by the affidavits of many citizens
of Oregon, and also by a letter addressed to the Secretary
oi State, and signed by many c:Usen*of Oregon, SUM of
who:* bold public trusts under the United States, Is Hut
entitled to take the c<ntttut'onal oath cf offi w without
a previuoa investigation into the truth of the Charge.
Mr. WILMOT. Mr. President, I sappoaa
it is proper to come back again to the questioo,
which I understand to be this : The gentleman
front Oregon presents himself here claiming a
seat as a Seuator : be is met upon the thresh
old by representations from very respectable
sources in his own State, declaring his disloy
alty. The point is, whether we shall admit
him without investigating the matter, it may
be proper to attempt a definition of disloyalty,
as it is called for by my colleague. If I shall
say that it i 3 unfaithfulness to the country and
to the Constitution, he may require a defini
tion of that ; but substituting the word " un
faithfulness'' for " disloyalty," he understands
it—every gentleman understands it. It ig in
fidelity to the country, sympathizing with and
adhering to and supporting its enemies, not
by overt acts which constitute treasoo.bal
by open expressions of sympathy and adher
ence and support. We are not now trying the
qneotion of the loyaiity of the Senator from
Oregon ; we are merely determining when we
shall ester upon the question. My colleague
and other Senators here, say they will enter
upon it, if ever, after he shall have been ad
mitted to a seat ; then they will try the ques
tion of whether he be a loyal man or whether
he be not. If I understand, that is the posi
tion they take.
Now, s r, would it not be a farce fo admit
to a seat in this body an acknowledged disloy
al man ; a man that everyone of us was ready
to pronont.ee disloyal, unfaithful to the coun
try and to its obligations as a citizen ; to per
mit htm to be sworn, and theu to tarn him
cat ? It most certainly would, in my judge
ment. There can be no reasonable objection
to trying the question of his loyalty or disloy
alty here when be presents himself. Th is
not like the House of Representatives. That
is a body that is disorganized every two years;
for lengthy periods of time, it has no organized
existence; and if e very member of the Uooae
of Representatives were to be met by the same
objection, and it were first to be tried, the
liouse eould never be organized. This body,
however, is in permanent organization ; it is
never disorganized, and hence the distinction
between the action of the two Houses is a clear
one,and a very proper one. A geutlemao pre
sented himself here to be sworn as a Senator ;
he is tact by representations ot bis disloyalty.
Now, snppose the claimant to this seat wero
admitted to this floor, and he ehoald.as a Sen
ator iu this body, assert what these respecta
ble gentlemen say he asserted in Oregon, woakl
you permit hiin to continue to sit here ? I
imagine not ; i imagine that not a member of
ibis body would permit him to sit here longer
uuder such circumstances. Tbe simple ques
tion is, when will yon iuqnire into the fact ?
We do not by the vote on the pending prop
osition pronounce him disloyal'; we know noth
ing about it, except from the representations
which are made to us ; and we propose now,
in the very outset, to inquire into the fact ;
and if it turns oat to be true that he is disloy
al, that be is unfaithful to the country aod
to the Constitution, we than propose to refbse
him a seat in this body. Certainly, it eeems
to me entirely proper that we should da ao.—
If be were admitted here, and bis disloyalty
were made perfectly manifest and clear, if ho
declared berein the Senate tbe sentiments
which is represented that he proclamed in Or
egoo, most certainly tbe Senate would expel
him ; there can be doubt of it Then are wo
to admit a man for the purpose of going thro'
tbe form of his expulsion ? My colleague
says we do not try the religions qualification
of a man; we do not try his intellectual quali
fications
Mr. COWAN. Will my colleague allow
me to a-fe him whether there was any motion
aiade in tiie Senate to expel Jefferson Davis,
Robert Toombs, and divers other gentlemen
who talked infinitely more mischievous taL.
than all that against this gentleman.
Mr. WILMOT. The Senate then had
really no power to enforce any sa.-h expul
sion.
Mr. COWAN. It eeems to me that it *u
the duty of somebody to try.
Mr. WILMOT. My iiepreMtoa • that
some motion w3 made with that view; bat it
matters not. When the Senate was powerless
to carry out its purpose of expulsion, the fact
that it was not done furnished certainly no ar
gument that the Seuato has no power to do
it. Are we to be the victims of any and every
man's disloyalty on this floor ? Is every man
here privileeed to rise in the Seoate and de
clare that in his judgment ours is not a Gov
ernment, that the true Government of this
country is the government of the coctederate
States, that Jefferson Davis is its true Presi
dent, and that he stands ready to sacrifice hi
life aod bis property in the maintenance and
support of that government ? Is any man at
liberty to stand up here aad say ".bat ? If be
is I have miscon.-trued entire's the organization
of this body and the duty of its members.
N:w, sir,as to the constitutional test. My
colleague says that we do not try the intellec
tual capacity of the candidate Surely not :
neither at this or any other time do we try it;
we are never privileged to enter upon it—
Nor do we sabject him to any religious teat
either now or at aoy other time. For ought
I know it may be made perfectly clear that
the Senator from Oregon is entitled to hh
seat ; bat what I contend for is that if ha be
disloyal, if be be not entitled to bis seat, or if
there be any question as to this poin, we may
now enter upon the ioquiry of his loyalty or dis
loyalty ; that ibis is the proper time; that it
wield be a perfect farce to admit bits to a
seat oc this floor, lbu icstitote an inquiry as
to his loyalty, find oct that fce was dioin/s!,
and thee expel h to