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ROCK 3IE TO SLEEP.
I ir .). turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
■ L:t . a eliild again, just for to-night!
1., e.iiue back from your echoless shore,
I again to your heart as of yore :
p.. a..:a my forehead the furrows of care,
p ...tli the few silver threads out of my hair,
| ■,v slumbers your loving watch keep,
I f> sleep, mother, rock me to sleep !
I .1,1. flow backward, O tide of years :
~ u, arv of toil and of tears —
I ;i , it recompense, tears all in vain—
I these and give me mv childhood again!
ef.avn weary of dust and decay,
I flinging my soul wealth away ;
I i\, i sorrowing for others to reap,—
I to sleep, mother, rock me sleep!
k ,(the hollow, the base, the untrue,
jj 0 mother, my heart calls for you!
I . vitamer the grass bus grown green,
I ...fuetl and faded, our faces between :
I .iftii strong yearning and passionate pain,
k : 1; -night for your presence again ;
I :i: tli> silence so long kept and deep,
I . in. to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep!
I my heart in days that are flown,
I ~ like mother-love ever was shown,
I :i.er worship abides anil endures;
I unselfish, and patient, like yours!
like ■ mother can charm away pain
I . the >i k s.ail and the world-weary brain,
I■! - - ft , aim o'er my heavy lids creep,
I k :• t' sleeji. Mother, rock me to sleep!
ft i.-t your brown hair, just lighted with gold,
ft .vt-r your shoulders again, as of old,
ft : tail i.ver my forehead to-night,
ft .G my weak eyes away from the light ;
ft :• L its sunny-edged shadows ouee more.
I; ' -ill throng tlie sweet visions of yore,
k -oftly. its bright billows sweep ;
fc .. t" sleep. Mother, rock me to sleep 1
jt ilear mother! the years have been long j
I i W;LS lust hushed to your lullaby song ;
I ih. i,. au.l unto my soul it shall seem
1:....ah...id's years have been but as a dream ! J
I liny• or arms in a loving embrace,
IS . >• tr Uht laslivs just sweeping mv face, j
I. r hereafter to wake or to weep;
ft t.> .sleep. Mother, rock me to sleep!
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f REPORT OF THE AUDITORS.
i) ii (ieoiißii ii, Editor Bradford Eepor- j
er i 1 Sir. :—I am constrained to ask
ft; publish the following extract from ]
Be: st of the Auditors, appointed by an j
Kt \ssonihly to re-audit the accounts of
■ N M KK.IX, late Prothonotary of this;
■ .\!j. As tliis subject has been the j
lot t much misrepresentation, I feel it
tat myself'that this publication be made, ;
B die public may know the facts. I !
■ ; ask its publication, in your paper,
IT. |> iblisln rof the Argus has refused j
B sh the report, although he had re
ft :iy promised me he would do so when
ft !• at was finished. (I allude to Mr.
ft- VS.)
ft will be recollected that in 1860, an ar- j
lici ij.p. ared in the Bradford Herald, al
tag butt Pol. MCKF.AN was indebted to
ft v i> f i excess of fees received during !
via years of liis term, in the sum of
ft'i ■ .in, made up us follows :
ft
-t t.-rui. Nothing
By V-rm. S 705 00 '
B 11- rut. 1535 00
B lok t<-riQ. two vcrrs, 1807 50
I llowing report shows he had ac-:
B y iv. eiit.l over and above SISOO per;
B us follows :
■ t< nu. §615 04
I ! "1 terui. '2367 67 i
3446 68
■' u ' ; - term, two years, 2583 06 !
I , I
#OOI2 43 j
1 "i.e-half of which is $4506,21, being
B v . 1 more than the amount estimated in j
I Herald article.
B correctness iif the audit is not dis
!•> i 01. Mi Kmv, and the Report of
A i'lit.ir Central shows that he has
the Mate Treasury the full a- (
■ tepoi ted against hint. Ido not de-j
us time to revive any controversy j
• matter, hut us the facts in
|- are matters of public, record, 1 de
iv. them published that those who ,
" disposed to think tliat the or- i
| arges were groundless and not;
• in. i_v judge for themselves how j
I Mice has been done.
1 am very respectfully,
JAMES 11. WEBB.
I out it,,r General of Pennsylvania.
• eangiied auditors appointed by
't ' omnion Pleas of Bradford
.mi pursuance of an Act entitled:,
'■ t hi relation to the accounts of
K.-an. late Prothonotary of Brad
i f iX > approved April 14, 1863, and
, ■ rr l '"' provisions of the supplement ;
|; ' ' approved the 27th day of April !
v .'iy report. That in pursu
t "ai l appointment we commenced >
( aiiiatiou of the accounts of Allea!
( June 1863, and continued the
I 1 l '"' first of July 1863, when, at
t i"'t Mr. McKean we suspended
L ligation to enable him to go into
i V '' v - oe "" ca " Gover
h Ke n, remaining in the service
1 'he time limited in the act for
r ' K| - report had expired, and we did ,
[ a . mr examination until the sup
i j- -ve referred to authorized us to ,
I " the 20th of June last, after 1
[ " •'' to Mr. McKean, we j M et at To-
L concluded our examination of
I L ' 'words. We then examined a.
E. O. GOODRICH, Il>lixher.
VOLUME XXVI.
number of witnesses, and, as it appeared
by testimony before us that Mr. McKean
had private books and accounts showing
the amount of fees paid during his term of
office, also the amount of fees remaining
due at the expiration of his term, and also
the amount of fees received by him since
the expiration of his term, we notified him
to produce the said books and accounts for
examination. A copy of the notice is an
nexed to this report marked " A." Mr. Mc-
Kean declined to produce the books and
accounts as desired, and we were compelled
to close our examination without the aid
A'hich these books might have afforded us.
We then adjourned to Tunkhannock to
make out our report. After our adjourn
ment a letter was received from Elhanan
Smith Esq., counsel for Mr. McKean, stating
his desire to submit additional evidence.
This letter is attached hereto and marked 'B.'
In reply we informed him we would hear
all the evidence he desired to produce
and sent a subpoena to assist him in pro
curing witnesses. Mr. McKean attended
with one witness and made some further
explanations. He also made some remarks
indicating that in his opinion we might get
additional facts if we were again in To
wanda. We then proposed to him that if
he would produce for examination his pri
vate books and accounts, we would meet
in Towanda again, and hear all evidence
that he desired to produce. This proposi
tion he declined. We submit the result of
our examinations, in statements annexed,
to which we refer.
We deem it proper to add here that all
fees on judgments marked " satisfied " in
the hand writing of Mr. McKean we have
included among tlie fees marked paid. Mr.
McKean protested against tins and we an
nex his statement and protest marked "C,"
but as he had evidence in his possession to
show the facts which he refused to pro
duce on notice, we felt it was just to pre
sume the payment of that class of fees. In
some few other cases also, for small
amounts, we presumed payment of fees
when we had strong reasons to believe they
were paid, but as a general rule we merely
report the facts as they appear on record.
We have thought best to adhere to the
record as it stands, although the great dis
crepancy between the amount charged and
the amount paid (in most of the years) af
fords a strong presumption that a large
amount has been paid in fact but not marked
paid on the dockets. This presumption is
made stronger by the evidence of witnesses
examined who testified that they had paid
fees which are not marked paid on the
records. When payment was thus proved
we of course included it in the fees paid
but it is clearly impossible to find and ex
amine all the witnesses who could testify
in relation to the payment of fees. We
therefore present a statement of the records
as we find them with the few variations
made by other evidence as above stated.
All which is respectfully submitted. July
21st 1804. Signed, S. 11. CHASE,
A. K. PECKIIAM,
THOS. J. IKGHAM.
Statement of Fees charged and received by Allen
McKean during the entire term of his office as
Prothonotary of Bradford Bounty :
Fees charrjed. Fees jstid.
Year from Dec, 11848 to 1849, 2621 48 1720 69
" " 1849 to 1850, 2757 62 1663 49
'• 1850 to 1851, 2799 86 1730 86
" 1851 to 1852, 3719 00 2477 71
" 1852 to 1853, 3964 21 2102 60
" 1853 to 1854, 3753 46 2287 36
" 1854 to 1855, 4228 05 2545 59
" 1855 to 1856, 4425 66 2783 70
" " 1856 to 1857, 4442 76 2617 39
" 1857 to 1858, 4782 55 2987 14
" 1858 to 1859, 5182 73 2595 90
1859 to 1860, 3043 97 1972 61
Fees received since the expi
ration of his term of office 571 62
Mr. McKean in his protest
clains for satisfaction fees which
he denies having received a
mounting to $234 34
The Auditors say : "In addittiou to this
Mr. X. J. Keeler, clerk iu the office under
Allen McKean and who assisted him in
setting at the close of his office, testified
that in fiis opinion more than one thousand
dollars had been collected since McKean
went out of office, and it might be three
thousand dollars."
SECRETS OF TREE MASONRY-
Not many years ago, at an Inn in the
west of England, several persons were sit
ting around a fire in a large kitchen, thro'
which was a passage to the other apart
ments of the house, and amongst whom
was a female traveller and a tailor. At
this Inn a Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons was held, and it being lodge night,
several of their members passed the com
pany in the way to the meeting room. This
circumstance introduced observation on the
occult signs by which Masons are known
to each other ; when the female observed
that there was not so much mystery in Ma
sonry as people imagine, and that she her
self could show any person a Mason's sign.
" What!" said the tailor, " the sign of a
Free Mason ?"
" Yes," she replied, " and I'll bet you a
half-crown bowl of punch, to be decided by
auy one of the members you may please to
appoint, that I perform my promise."
" Why," says the tailor, " no woman was
ever admitted, then how is it possible that
you oouhl procure the secret ?"
" Xo matter lor that," says she, " I will
readily forfeit the money I lay if I do not
prove the fact."
The company urged the tailor to accept
the challenge, and the amount of the bet
was deposited. The woman immediate
ly started up and took the tailor by the
coat collar.
" Come," said she, " follow me," which he
did, trembling as he went along, fearing he
was to undergo some portion of the disci
pline in initiating a Mason, of which he had
heard such a dreadful report. She led him
into the street, and pointing to the sign of
the Lion Si Lamb, asked him whose sign
that was.
" Mr. Lodge's," answered the tailor—as
tho name of the Innkeeper.
" Is he a Free Mason ?"
" Yes," replied tho tailor.
" Then I have shown you the sign of a
Free Mason," said the lady.
The laugh was so much against the tail
or, that it was with much difficulty that he
couhi ho prevailed upon to take some of the
punch which was forthwith produced at his
expense.
B*i"e your neighbor as seldon as possible.
Most writs arc writs of cn*>r.
TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., JUNE 2!), 1865.
A CAPITAL COMIC SKETCH
DOO FIOHT IN FBOOTOWN.
There is an excellent moral to the follow
ing story, which is told with great skill.—
It shows ns how a whole village is some
times torn to pieces by a fight between two
puppies.
The most remarkable dog fight on record
came off at Frogtown, on the Frontier of
Maine, some years ago, it engrossed the en
tire community in one indiscriminate melee
—interminable lawsuits or suits of law.
A fanciful genius, named Joe Tucker, a
man about town, a lounger, without visible
means of support—a do-nothing, loafing,
cigar-smoking, good-natured fellow, owned
a dog ; a sleek, intelligent, and rather pret
ty beast, always at Joe's heels and known
as well as his master, and liked far more by
the Frogtowners. One day Joe and his dog
were passing Bunion's grocery store, when
a piebald ugly-looking dog standing by a
wood wagon, bounded on to Joe Tucker's
—knocked him heels over head, and so
frightened Bob Carter's wife,who was pass
ing towards hbr husband's blacksmith shop
with his dinner, that she stumbled back
wards, and her old sun-bonnet Hopped off,
and scared the horse attached to the wag
on. He started, hit Lathenn's barber pole,
upset a load of wood, all of which falling
down Gumbo's refreshment cellar struck
one of Gumbo's children on the head, killed
it for a short time stone dead,and so alarm
ed Mrs. Gumbo, that she dropped a stew
pan of boiling hot oysters into the lap in
stead of the dish of the customer who sat
waiting for the savory concoction by a ta
ble in a Corner. Mrs. Gumbo rushed for the
child ; the customer for the door. Mrs.
Gumbo screamed, the child screamed, and
the customer yelled !
'• Oh, oil, oh, oli ! my poor child !" cried
Mrs. Gumbo.
" Eh, e-he e e e," screamed the poor child.
"Oh ! murder ! Oh, my everlasting sir,
I'm scalded to all eternity ! Murder, mur
der !" roared the poor customer.
The horse, a part of the wagon, and some
wood were in their mad career. The own
er of the strange dog came out of the store
just in time to see Joe Tucker seize a rock
to demolish the savage dog ; and not*wait
ing to see Joe let drive, gave him such a
pop on the back, that poor Joe fell forty
roods up the street, and striking a long
ladder, upon which Jim Ederby was perch
ed, paint pot in hand, some thirty feet from
terra frma, brought ladder, Jim and paint
pot sprawling to tin.' earth ; crippling poor
Jim for life, and sprinkling the blue paint
over the broadcloths, sattinetts and calicoes
of Abraham Miller, a formal and even-tem
pered Quaker, who ran out the door just as
the two dogs had gone fairly at it, hip and
thigh, nip and catch. A glance at matters
seemed to convince Abraham of the true
state of the case ; and in an unusually ele
vated voice, Abraham called out to Joe
Tucker, who had righted up.
" Joseph Tucket, thy dog's a lighting !"
" Let 'em fight it out," yelled the pugna
cious owner of the strange dog. " Let 'em
light it out; I'll bet a log of wood my dog
can eat any dog in town, and I can eat the
owner."
We have said Abraham Miller was a
quiet man ; Quakers arc proverbially so.
But the gauntlet thrown down by the
stranger from the country stirred the gall
of Abraham, and he rushed into the store,
and from the back yard, having slipped las
collar, Abraham brought forth a brindle cur,
strong, long and powerful.
" Friend," said the excited Quaker, " thy
dog shall be well beaten, I promise thee !
llvke, seize upon him !—Turk, here, hoy,"
and the dogs went at it.
Bob Carter, the smith, coming up in time
heard the stranger's defiance to the town
and bent on a fight with somebody for the
insult and damage done to his wife, clamp
ed the collar of the stranger, and by a
series of ten pound-ten upon the face, back
and sides of his bully antagonist, with his
natural sledge hammers, stirred up the
strength and ire of flic bully stranger to
the top of his compass, and they made'the
sparks fly dreadfully.
Joe Tucker's dog, reinforced by Abraham
Miller's took a fresh start, and between the
two the strange dog was being put cruelly
to his trumps. Deacon Pugh, one of the
most pious and substantial men in Frog
town, eaine up, and indeed the whole town
was assembling, and Deacon Pugh, armed
with a heavy walking-stick, and shocked
at the spectacle before him, marched up to
the dogs, exclaiming, as he did so :
" Fie, fie, for shame ! disgraceful I —you
mean citizens of Frogtown, will you stand
by and "
" Don't thee, don't strike my dog, Deacon
Pugh," cried Abraham Miller, advancing,
to the Deacon, who was about to cut right
and left among the dogs with his cane.
" Your dogs !" shouted the Deacon with
evident ferver.
" Not my dogs, Deacon Pugh," said the
Quaker.
" What did you say so for, then ?" shout
ed the Deacon.
" I never said dogs, Deacon Pugh."
" You did !" responded the Deacon with
excitement.
" Deacon Pugh, thee speaks groundless
ly," said the Quaker.
" You tell a falsehood, Abraham Miller."
"Thee utters a mendacious assertion,"
reiterated Abraham.
" You—you—tell a lie !" bawled tho
Deacon,
"Thee has provoked my evil passion,
Deacon Pugh," shouted the stalwart Qua
ker, " and I will chastise thee."
And into the Deacon's wool went the
Quaker. The Deacon, nothing 1 loth, enter
ed into the thing, and we leave them thus
to " nip and tuck," to look to the stranger
and Hob Carter, who fought and fit, and fit
and fought, until Squire Catchall) and the
Constable came up, and in the attempt to
preserve the peace and arrest the offenders,
the Squire was thrust through the window
of a neighboring watchmakers, doing a
heap of damage, while lawyer Hooker, in
attempting to aid the constable, was struck
by the furious blacksmith in the short ribs,
and went reeling down Gumbo's cellar with
frightful velocity. The friends and fellow
churchmen of Deacon Pugh took sides
against the Quaker antagonist, and the
shop boys of Abraham, seeing the employ
er thus beset, come to the rescue, while two
Irishmen, believing it to be a free fight,
tried their hands and sticks upon the com
batants indiscriminately, so that in less
than half an hour the happy vilage of
REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER.
Frogtown was shaken from propriety by
one grand, sublimely, ridiculous and most
terrific battle.
Heads and windows were smashed, chil
dren and women screamed, dogs barked,
dust flew, labor ceased, and so furious, mad,
and excited became the whole community,
that a quiet looker-on, if there had been
any, would have sworn the evil ones were
all in Frogtown.
A heavy thunder storm finally put an
end to the row, the dogs were all more or
less killed, a child severely wounded, a man
scalded, a wagon broke, the horse ran him
self to death, his owner badly beaten by
Bob Carter, whose wife, turd the wives of
many others were dangerously scared, the
painter was' crippled, dry goods ruined, a
Quaker, a Deacon, two Irishmen, Joe Tuck
er, town constable, lawyer Hooker, Squire
Gateharn, and some fifty others most shame
fully whipped. Lawsuits ensued, tends fol
lowed and the entire peace and good repu
tation of Frogtown annihilate*!, all by a
remarkable dog fight.
DUELS AMONG*PUBLIC MEN.
The other day an incident occurred is the
Parliament of Belgium, which recall some
: of the most unpleasant events in English
, and American history. A member of the
Lower House by the name He Lact, who
| represents the large, wealthy and infiuen
! tial city of Antwerp, and who is regarded
I as one of the foremost politicians of the
country, accused the Ministry of provoking
the hostility of the United States by taking
; too active a part in the process of imperial
izing Mexico, merely because Maximilian
i the First happened to be the son-in-law of
the Belgian King. In the course of his re
: marks he asserted that the officers of the
| Government had granted permits to emi
j grants for Mexico, which were so worded
I that the holders could be shot as deserters
unless they joined the army of Maximilian
pon their arrival in the distracted country
|of their destination. Hereupon the Minis
j ter of War, Baron Chazal, became exceed
! ingly irate, and declared that the man who
| made such an accusation could alone be ca
! pable of performing such an act of "infamy."
j The deputy from Antwerp appealed to the
j chair, asking to have the Minister rebuked
for what he deemed a violation of parlia
mentary decency. Failing to obtain satis
faction in this way, the deputy challenged
the Minister. The challenge was accepted.
Baron Chazal was slightly wounded, and
then the combatants, in accordance with
j the usual custom in such cases, declared
j themselves satisfied, shook hands, pronouuc
jed each other men of honor, and swore
| eternal friendship. There is certainly a
j comical side to duelling. Two men, indulg
j ing in such bitter feelings of enmity, that
| each is willing to risk his own life for the
! sake of endangering that of his adversary,
j meet, fire once of twice at each other, and
j then utter the warmest protestations of lira
j tual regard. The warmest malicious ani
j ruosity changed, by a pistol shot, into the
I most devoted friendship !
The days when duels among public men
| were common in Anglo-Saxon lands seem
jto have passed away. But they do not lie
I very far back in the past. In England,even
| during the present century, such statesmen
j as Canning, O'Conncll, the two Peels, the
I Duke of Wellington, Castlereagh, and D'ls
j raeli have not been courageous enough to
S refrain from sanctioning bv their example
this absurd and wicked practice. In our
country the list of public men who have
participated in duels is still larger. -The
mournful incident of Hamilton's death, at
the hands of Burr, is well remembered.—
Five shots were exchanged between He
Witt Clinton and John Swartwout, while
Clinton also challenged another gentleman.
Jackson killed one man and fought several
| others. So did Benton. Clay and Ran
j dolph fought in 182tJ. Many men still com
j paratively young, will recollect the affair
) between two members of Congress, Cilley
j and Graves, in 1838, in which the former
J was killed. Even now scarcely a session
j of our national legislature passes without
| threats of a resort to this code of honor.
! Happily of late years, either on account of
j the unwillingless of our eminent legislators
| to deprive the country of their services, or
! because of a wholesome fear of public
| opinion, these threats have generally cnd
| ed with their utterance.
GEXKRAI. GRANT KISSEI> BY THE LADIES AT
THE CHICAGO FAIR.— On Monday, at nine o'-
clock, the general performed the greatest
military movement of his life, lie perform
ed a succesful flank movement on the peo
ple of Chicago, and visited Union Ilall in
quiet and peace, remaining there till ten o'-
clock. There 'were present a large num
ber of the most beautiful " aids," and the
General was instantly surrounded by the
volunteer staff. Here a most laughable in
cident occurred.
Mrs. Livermore said to him, "General
Grant, these girls are dying to kiss you,
but they don't dare to do it." "Well,"
said the gallant general, "if they want to
kiss me why don't they ? No one has off
ered to since I have been here." Instant
ly abojit a hundred fairies pounced upon
him. lie attempted to retreat, but in vain;
he essayed to break through the rosy ranks,
without success. Then, for the first time,
he confessed himself vanquished, and calm
ly awaited the event Never was such a
man subjected to such an ordeal. On
came the maidens by squads, in file, or
singly; they hit him on the noso, smgeked
him on the cheek, chin, or neck. There
must be dozens of kisses lying aroilud loose,
hidden in the general's whiskers. During
his ordeal the hero of a hundred battle
fields blushed till hisface became almost
purple. At last the girls were partly ap
peased in their " noble rage," and he esca
ped.
THE TONGUE. —A white fur on the tongue
attends simple fever and inflammation. Mel
lowness of the tongue attends a derange
ment of the liver, and is common to billious
and typhus fevers. A tongue vividly red
on the tip or edge, or down the centre, or
over the whole surface, attends inflamation
of the mucous membrane of the stomach or
bowels A white velvet tongue attends
mental disease. A tongue red at the tips,
becoming brown, dry and glazed, attends
typhus state.
SHAKKSPEAR, Butler, and Bacon, have
rendered it extremely difficult for all who
come after them, to be sublime, witty or
profound.
AN INTEBESTING LEAF OF HISTOBY.
HOW THE EMANCIPATION PIIOCLAMATIOX WAS WRITTEN.
The New York Independent of this week
contains an interesting article from Mr. F.
B. Carpenter, giving the history of how the
emancipation proclamation was written,
j Lincoln gave the history to Mr. C., and the
| latter quotes Mr. Lincoln's words as fol
lows :
"It had got to be," said he, "mid-sum
| rner, 1862. Things had gone on from bad
to worse, until I felt that we had reached
the end of our rope on the plan of opera
tions we had been purusing ; that we had
about played our last card, and must change
our tactics or lose the game ! I now de
termined on the adoption of the Emancipa
tion Proclamation ; and, without consulta
tion with, or the knowledge of, the Cabi
net, I prepared the original draft of the
proclamation, and, after much anxious
thought, called a Cabinet meeting upon the
subject. This was the last of July, or the
first part of the month of August, 1862."
(The exact date he did not remember).-
" This Cabinet meeting took place, I think,
upon a Saturday. All were present excep
ting- Mr. Blair, the Postmaster General,who
was absent at the opening of the discus
sion, but came in subsequently. 1 "said to
the cabinet that 1 had resolved upon this
step, and had not called them together to
ask their advice, but to lay the subject
matter of a proclamation before them, sug
gestions as to which would be in order, af
ter they had heard it read." Mr. Lovejoy,"
said lie, "was in error when he informed
you that it excited no comment, excepting
on the part of Secretary Seward. Various
suggestions wereofi'cred. Secretary Chase
wished the language stronger in refefence
to the arming of the blacks. Mr. Blair, af
ter he came in, deprecated the policy, on
the ground that it would cost the Adminis
tration the fall elections. Nothing, how
ever, was offered that I had not already
fully anticipated and settled in my own
mind, until Seward spoke. Said he; 'Mr.
President, I approve of the proclamation,
but I question the expediency of its issne
at this juncture. The depression of the
pubiie mind, consequent upon our repeated
reverses, is so great that 1 fear the effect
of so important a step. It may be viewed
as the last measure of an exhausted Gov
ernment stretching forth its hands to Ethi
opia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth
her hands to the Government.' "His idea,"
said the President, "was that it would be
considered our last shriek on the retreat."
(This was his precise expression.) " Now,"
continued Mr. Seward, " while I approve
the measure, 1 suggest, sir, that you post
pone its issue, until you can give it to the
country supported by military success, in
stead of issuing it, as would be the case
now, upon the greatest disasters of the
war!" Said Mr. Lincoln: "The wisdom
of the view of the Secretary of State struck
me with very great force. It was an as
pect of the case that, that in all my thought
upon the subject, I had entirely overlooked.
The result was, that I put the draft of the
proclamation aside, as you do your sketch
for a picture, waiting for a victory. From
time to time I added or changed a line,
touching it up here and there, waiting the
progress of events. Well, the next news
we had was of Pope's disaster, at Bull Run.
Things looked darker than ever. Finally,
came the week of the battle of Antietam. 1
determined to wait no longer. The news
came, 1 think on Wednesday, that the ad
vantage was on our side. I was then stay
ing at the ' Soldiers' Home,' (three miles
out of Washington.) "Here I finished
writing the second draft of the preliminary
proelamation ; came up on Saturday ; call
ed the Cabinet together to hear it, and it
was published ou the following Monday."
" It was a somewhat remarkable fact,"
he continued, "that there was just one hun
dred days between the dates of the two
proclamations, issued upon the 22d of Sep
tember and the Ist of January. I had not
made the calculation at the time."
At tlio final meeting on Saturday, anoth
er interesting incident occurred in connec
tion with Secretary Seward. The Presi
dent had written the important part of the
proclamation, in these words :
"That on the first day of January, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-three, all persons held as
slaves within any State or designated part
of a State, the people whereof shall then ho
in rebellion against the United States, shall
be then, thenceforward, and forever free ;
and the executive government of the United
States, including the military and naval
authority thereof, will recognize the free
dom of such persons, aud will do no act or
acts to repress such persons, or any of them
in any efforts they may make for their ac
tual freedom." " When 1 finished reading
this paragraph," resumed Mr. Lincoln, "Mr.
Seward stopped me and said : ' 1 think, Mr
President, that you should insert after the
word 'recognize,' in that sentence the words
' and maintain.' 1 replied that I had al
ready fully considered the import of that
expression in this connection, but I had not
introduced it, because it was not my way
to promise what 1 was not entirely sure
that 1 could perform, and 1 was not pre
pared to say that I thought we were exact
ly able to " maintain " this.
"But," said he, "Mr. Seward insisted
that we ought to take this ground ; and
the words finally went in !"
Mr. Lincoln then proceeded to show me
the various positions occupied by himself
and the different members of the Cabinet
on the occasion of the first meeting. "As
nearly as I can remember," said he, " the
Secretary of the Treasury and the Secre
tary of War were here at my right hand—
the others were grouped at the left."
Mr. Chase told me that at the Cabinet
meeting, immediately after the battle of
Antietam, and just prior to the issue of the
September proclamation, the President en
tered upon the business before them by
saying that " the time for the enunciation
of the emancipation policy could no longer
be delayed. Public sentiment," he thought,
" would sustain it, many of his warmest
friends and supporters demanded it—and
he had promised his God he would do it !''
The last part of this was uttered jn a low
tone, and appeared to be heard by no one
but Secretary Chase, who was sitting near
him. lie asked the President if he correct
ly understood hint. Mr. Lincoln replied,
"I made a solemn vow before God that, if
General Lee was driven back from Penn
sylvania I would crown the result by the
declaration of freedom to the slaves 1"
per Annum, in Advance.
LIFE IN THE MEXICAN CAPITOL.
Mexico has great wealth, which is lav
-1 ished in all the means of comfort and lux
ury known to civilized life. Houses, whose
forbidding exterior of stone and plaster,
with grated, prison-like windows, little in
dicate the elegance within, are adorned
with all that art and wealth can supply,
brought from Europe and the United States
at fabulous expense. Costly carpets, cur
tains, mirrors, chandeliers, pianos, statues,
paintings, libraries, aud all that goes to
complete a sumptuously furnished mansion,
are displayed, oftener with reckless pro
fusion than in conformity with good taste,
and all suggesting to the calculating Amer
ican a valuable market in our nearest neigh
bor, if we have the sense to keep on good
terms and make our friendly relationship
more intimate. The private equil pages
in the streets are a special means of ex
hibiting wealth and taste. Most of the
carriages, barouches and the like vehicles
belonging to wealthy families are imported
from Europe, though a few are made iu the
United States. Many of them are elaborate
ly ornamented with silver, as are also the
harness. Mules seem to be in general de
mand for carriage animals, though a fine
span of English or American horses now
and then dash along, the ribbons held by
livered coachman, while behind sits the
footman in all the splendor of red, blue,
and yellow. Principal drives are to the
Pasco de Bacarell, the Basco de la Viga,
along the crllc do los Platoros and the
Alamanda. At the last-named place, which
is a park of about twenty acres handsomely
laid out with flowers, shrubs, and large
shade trees, the fashionable world of Mexi
co resort for morning drives and equestrian
exercise ; and here may be seen some of
the famous Mexican riders in all the grace
and love of display ; for nowhere does the
Mexicaujgentleman feel so proud as on his
horse, with his splendid silver mounted
saddle and gaily ornamented scrape. On
a fine morning a multitude of horsemen
are curvetting along the romantic roads of
the Alemeda, now half hidden among the
foliage, passing out of sight behind the
fountains and wheeling into sight again,
all in apparent confusion, but yet, owing
to their perfect control of their animals,
never coining in contact. Among the
crowd are seen the flashing uniforms of
French and Austrian officers, trotting their
heavy horses at a jogging pace, holding on
to the reins with both hands, their elbows
squared, feet pointed out at right angles
from the .stirrups, and presenting, in all
respects, a ludicrous picture compared to
the elegant horsemanship displayed around
them. When one of these warriors (mostly
effeminate-looking gentlemen, with pale
faces and spectacles) comes thumping by,
the Mexicans quietly make room, and ap
pear not to notice the contrast. Never an
approach to a smile is seen beneath the
ample sombrero, though doubtless the scene
affords them food for fun in some more
fitting place, where the rules of politeness
would not be violated by a hearty laugh.
SICK-HEADACHE-
Sick headache is sickness at stomaoh, a
tendency to vomit, combined with pain in
some parts of the head generally at the
left side. It is caused by there being too
much bile in the system, from the fact that
this bile is manufactured too rapidly, or is
not worked out of the system fast enough
by steady, active exercise. Hence seden
tary persons, those who do not walk about
a great deal, but are seated in the house
near all the time, are almost exclusively
the victims of this distressing malady. It
usually begins soon after waking up in the
morning, and lasts a day or two more.—
There are many causes ; the most frequent
is, the derangement of the stomach by late
and liarty suppers ; by eating too soon af
ter a rgular meal—five hours should at
least intervene —eating much of any favor
ite dish ; eating without tin appetite ; forc
ing food ; eating after one is conscious of
having enough ; eating something which
the stomach cannot digest,or sour-stomach.
Aiiy of these things may induce headacho
of the most distressing character in an hour;
it is caused by indulgence in spirituous li
quors. When a person has sick-headache,
there is no appetite ; the very sight of food
is hateful: the tongue is furred, the feet
and hands are cold, and there is a feeling
of universal discomfort, with an utter indis
position to do any thing whatever. A glass
of warm water, into which has been rapid
ly stirred a heaping teaspoonful each of
salt and kitchen mustard, by causing in
staneous vomiting, empties the stomach of
the bile or undigested sour food and a grate
ful relief is often experienced on the spot;
and rest, with a few hours of sound, re
freshing sleep, completes the cure, espec
ial' y if the principal part of the next day
or two is spent in mental diversion and out
door activities, not eating an atom of food,
but drinking freely of cold water and hot
teas until you feel as if a piece of cold
bread and butter would really taste good.
Nine times in ten the cause of sick head
ache is the fact that the stomach is not able
to digest the food last introduced into it,
either from its having been unsuitable or
excessive in quantity. When the stomach
is weak, a spoonful of the mildest, blandest
food would cause an attack of sick head
ache, when ten times the amount might
have been taken in health, not only with
impunity, but with positive advantage.
A diet of cold bread and butter, and ripe
fruits and berries, with moderate continu
ous exercise in the open air, sufficient to
keep up a very gentle perspiration, would,
of themselves, cure almost every case with
in thirty-six hours. Two tablespoonfuls of
pulverized charcoal, stirred in hall a glass
of water, drank, generally gives relief.
THF. MAN OF INTEGRITY. —W e love to gaze
upon some beautiful planet in the heavens,
and watch its course every night as in
majesty it travels on among the stars. We
are tilled with admiration; and like our
selves thousand are gazing on the same
planet, filled with inexpressible emotions.
Like a planet in a dark sky is-a man of
unbending integrity. We look upon him
with the same feeling of love and admira
tion, as we watch his daily course among
his fellow men. In troubled times his
light goes not out, though it may burn
feebly. He still exerts the same glorious
influence, and hundreds gaze upon him
with delight. No seats of honor dazzle
him, no wealth can seduces him, He push-
es straight onward in the path of dnty.—
The fear of God is continually before him,
and he feeltf the importance of every mo
ment's work to lead mankind to the foun
tain of truth and purity. Behold the man
thus filled with the love to God and his
creatures ! Every art tells nobly for the
cause, justice and humanity. Every deed
is a living epistle to the truth.
Would you share in his glory ! Labor
in the same field. Would you lesen| the
toils of humanity, and assist immortal be
ings to reach the skies ? Imitate his ex
ample, and walk in the same virtuous
paths.
How BODIES ARK EMBALMED. —By embalm
ing, people generally are apt to imagine
that the modern process consists of satura
ting, filling and surrounding the dead body
with spices, gums and other indestructi
ble and preservative substances, as is un
derstood to have been the process practic
ed by the ancients. Such, however, is not
the case. The modern process is about as
follows: The blood is drawn of through the
jugular vein. An incision is then made up
on the inside of the thigh, through which a
chemical liquid is injested by a mechanical
means. This 1 quid permeates all the veins
and arteries, taking the place before oc
cupied by the blood, and in a short time
renders the entire body as itard as stone,
and as rigid as a statue. A portion of the
scalp is removed and the brain scooped out.
The chest is opened and the heart, lungs
and viscera are abstracted. When the
process is completed, the body is reduced
to a mere empty shell, having only the out
ward semblance of the departed individual.
How long a body thus prepaied will re
main unchanged we cannot say. The pro
cess has only been employed for a few
years—since the war commenced, we be
lieve—so that time sufficient has not elaps
ed to test the indestructibility of bodies
thus prepared.
NUMBER 5.
AIM AT SOMETHING. —Arthur Oilman, in
one of his public addresses, tells what he
calls an "Andover story." One day, he
says, a man went into a store there, and
began telling about a fire. "There never
had been such a fire," he said, "in Essex.
A man going by Deacon Pettingill's barn
saw an owl on the ridge pole. He fired at
the owl, and the wadding some how or
other getting into the shingles, set the hay
on fire, and it all destroyed—ten tons of
hay,"six head of cattle, the finest horses in
the country," &c. The deacon was nearly
crazed by it. The men in the store began
exclaiming and commenting upon it.—
"What aloes!" Says one. "Why, the
deacon will well nigh break down under
it," says another, and so they went on spec
ulating, one after another, and the conver
sation drifted on in all sorts of conjectures.
At last a quiet man, who set spitting in
the fire, looked up and asked: "Did he hi/
the oud?" That man was for getting at the
point of the thing. Let all public speak
ers, in the pulpit and elsewhere, heed the
moral. Did you aim at something, and
did you hit what you aimed at? No mat
ter about the splurge and the smoke, and
the hay—" Did you hit that owl ?"
DON'T COMPLAIN. — Don't complain of
your birth, your training, your employment,
your hardships; never fancy you could be
something if you only had a different lot or
sphere assigned to you. God understands
his own plans, and knows what you want
better than you do. The very things that
you most deprecate as fatal limitations and
obstructions are probably what you most
want. What you call hinderancee and dis
couragements are probably God's oppor
tunities, and it is nothing new that the pa
tient should dislike his medicines, or any
certain proof that they are poisons. No! a
truce to all such impatience. Choke that
devilish envy which gnaws at your heart
because you are not in the same* lot with
others; bring down your soul, or rather
bring it up to receive God's will, and do
his word, in your lot, in your sphere, un
der your cloud of obscurity, against your
temptations; and then you shall find that
your condition is never opposed to your
own good, but really consistent with it.
TOWER OK BABEL. —A writer in the recent
issue of Blackwood's Magazine thus de
scribes the Tower of Babel as it appears to
travelers at the present day :
After a ride of nine miles we were at the
foot of Bier Nimrood. Our horses' feet
were trampling upon the remains of bricks,
which showed here and there through the
accumulated dust and rubbish of ages. Be
fore our eyes uprose a great mound of earth
barren and bare. This was Bier Ninrood,
the ruins of the Tower of Babel, by which
the first builders of the earth had vainly
hoped to scale high heaven. Here, also, it
was that Nebuchadnezzar built, for bricks
bearing his crime had been found in the
ruins. At the top of the mound a great
mass of brick work pierces the accumula
ted soil. With your finger you touched the
very bricks, large, square shaped and mass
ive that were "thoroughly" burned; the
very mortar--the "slime" now hard as
granite—handled more than four thousand
years ago by earth's impious people.
GENERAL SI.OCUM ox THE PRIVATE SOUHER.
—Major Gen. Slocum was welcomed to his
home, in Syracuse, N. Y., onjThursday last-
In response to an address of welcome, he
paid the following compliment to the sol
diers:
" The field of battle is not the only test
of courage and manliness in the life of a
soldier. The long and fatiguing marches,
the labor in trenches, the short allowance
of food, are all tests as severe as any pre
sented by battle. I have seen the men of
my command, after working waist-deep in
water, building bridges over the rivers and
roads through the swamps of the Carolina*,
go quietly to their tents, and, without a
change of clothing, make an ear of corn
supply the place of the usual ration. 1
have seen this frequently, and never yet
heard a word of complaint. Happily, all
those things are now over The soldiers'
work is done. They return to you better
men, physically and mentally than when
they left you; and 1 am confident you will
find the great mass of them uninjured in
morals.
TURNING GLASS. —A writer in Chambers'
Journal says : Glass may even be turned
in a lathe. Strange as it seems, this is
literally true. No special tools even are
needed ; any amateur turner who has oper
ated on either of the metals may chuck a
piece of glass on his lathe, and turn it
with the same tools, and in the same way,
as he wouhl a piece of steel, only taking
care to keep the chips from Ins eyes.—
This strange discovery was made almost
accidentally, in the early part of lst'.o, by
one of our most celebrated mechanical en
gineers, and might have been patented,
but the inventor contented himself with
simply putting it on record, and generously
presented it to the nation. The conse
quence was that no one cared or thought
about it, and the idea has been suffered to
lie nearly barren, though capable oi being
turned to great account.