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1 , lilt. UtTUT.IE. OF EDINEUBO.
. t the threshold, weary, faint andsore; I
homing, for the opening of the
til' thi Master shall bid me rise and come, j
r" Lis i -.•.-n — . to the gladness of his i
j
~ i th Ive t -.elei, 'mid darkness, storm <
.m,I -trite;
ii..i!.v .: burden, struggling fur my life ;
tl.i n. an is breaking, _my toil will soon :
<< i-r,
... t ling at the threshhold, my hand is on the
•< ; t Lear the voices of the blessed as they
st.nul,
- , ig in the sunshine in the far-elf sinless laud ;
v ild that I were with them, amid their shining j
throng,
'l. i"hng in their worship, joining in their song!
friends that started with me have entered long
'a - by one they left me, struggling with the foe ;
pilgrimage was shorter, their triumph surer
won,
loving they'll hail me when all my toil is j
done.
Vith them the hi -set ,my*-ls that know no grief or
sin,
I i c them by the portals, prepared to let me in—
■l L id, I wait thy pleasure ; thy time and way are
be -t;
u i ;a wasted, worn and weary ; O Father, bid
m rest.
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RADICALISM AND CONSERVATISM-
In ev ry political contest in a Constitu
,l system the names ol Conservatism |
1 Radicalism will be applied to the op- j
- g policies, while the history of such j
: •.'•liuneiits shows that the policy which !
_ conserves the principle and spirit of
system is that which is called Had-!
In the conllict of opinion in En
. U i ne our Revolution George 111.
:ir. J hnson were the stillest of Tory |
: vaiives, and saw in the doctrines
: i liey of Edmund Burke nothing but
distil and tiie overthrow of the tnon
. But Burke was the true Conserva
llis policy would have saved the cm
: up >u its own principles.
. th:> c uiutry at this moment both Rad
.. -:n and Conservatism, as the names of ■
. ; I icy .4 national reorganization, are |
■ ; easily defined and comprehended, j
■ .-> Radicalism holds that the late rebel j
~ tibl nut be sufiered to take part j
... g avnmient of the Union which they
•v.: i /.eali.usly striven to destroy except
b'.i-r - i: .-hi:—- inquiry into their condition,
v...; put up.>ti t.-rms which shall prevent j
-my i iv.iiit.-tge having been gained by re
-1 . By [fie result of the war the suff
- !a v .tor iu South Carolina weighs
'.iiirit as tne vote of two voters in New
: • • tii 11 a desirable state ol tilings?
i any lair-minded voter in South Car
• citt.ai tii.it he ought t" have a prefer
i t i • I nion because, however hon
has rebelled against it ? Radical-!
■leT'-lbn;, favors an equalization of
■ .- liialion as a condition precedent to
recognition of the disturbed States,
very c:li/.eii of those States who siu
y ! -sires national unity and peace will
•V T It tilso
idiealism holds that equal civil rights
the law should be guaranteed by the
• .-Jutes to every citizen. It claims
Government which commands the
.. e of every citizen shall afford him
i r '■•'".mil, and tliat the freedom which the
: the United States have conferred
pie of the United States shall main- !
Is that a perilous claim? Is any
' arse consistent with national safety
•' in mor ?
1 bice more ; Radicalism asserts that, as
v national welfare and permanent union
ll: established only upon justice, there ;
i he no unreasonable political disl'ran- i
meat of any part of the people, it de
> ta-.t complexion, or weight, or height
' " isouahle political qualifications, and
•firs to the history of the country to
•v that they have not always been so re-
I'd even in some of the late slave
' *.t'*s, and remembers that both President
.son and his predecessors were frierds
■ partial sufl'rage. Holding this faith,
•O'iicalisni urges that while we may hon
■by ditier as to the wisest means of se
•r'ng political equality, yet that all our
rts should constantly tend, with due re
t for the proper and subordinate fuue
sof the States in our constitutional
" tii. to protect those equal rights of
"i with hose assertion our Government
- in. Hid in comsequence of whose denial
'■ vornment has just escaped the most
dp 'Buig fate.
1 .sis Radicalism. Is it unfair? Is it
-stitutional ? it is anarchical or rev
lonary ? It denies no man's rights, it
rn sno man of power or privilege. It
' " s !• r the National Government uoth
winch is not inseparable from the idea
'"eh a Government. Does it demand any
" that every prudent and patriotic man
-" ii "t to he willing to concede ? The
s "t Mr. Thaddeus Stevens and of Mr.
::t r . sincerely entertained and ingen
•o defended as they arc, are not the
'"'•d p licy. Mr. Stevens holds that the
1 <-d States are conquered provinces
•" !| the land should be confiscated, as
1 Ireland has been three times over
Ul giving* Ireland peace. Does any
13. O. GOODRICH, Publisher.
VOLUME XXVI.
body suppose that even the House, which
respects Mr. Stevens's sturdy fidelity to his
own convictions, agrees with im.or that the
National Union party holds his view ? Mr.
Sumner holds that equal suffrage should be
required ol the absent States as a condition
of representation, and in a Radical Senate
which passed the Civil Rights bill over the
veto by a vote of 33 to 15, Mr. Sumner's
proposition obtained 8 votes. These gen
tlemen, of course, support the Radical pol
icy, but they do not shape it. The opin
ions of the Union party are to be found, as
President Johnson says, in the party plat
form. The policy of the Radicals is to be
seen in the measures they adopt ; and of
the forty-two bills which at the time of the
last veto they had presented to the Presi
dent, he had signed forty.
In our present political situation Conser
vatism is the policy which declares that the
late rebel States are already in a condition
to resume their full functions iu the Union,
and which denounce Congress for presum
ing to inquire whether that opinion is well
founded. It denies to Congress—that is, to
the representatives of the loyal people who
have maintained the Government—the au
thority to look behind the credentials of any
man who comes from a State still panting
with rebellion, and ascertaining the origin
and validity of the authority that issued
tiie credentials. It objects to the legisla
tion of Congress while eleven States are un
represented, without reference to the rea
son of their absence, tlius virtually main
taining the monstrous proposition that a
combination of States, by refusing to be
represented, may prohibit national legisla
tion. It denies that the United States
ought to protect the equal civil rights of
citizens before the law, and would admit
the absent States to Congress before re
quiring their assent to an amendment
equalizing representation. Conservatism
is the policy which, forgetting that the
United States are bound by every moral
obligation to secure the freedom which they
have conferred, apparently believes that
that freedom will be best maintained and
the national peace most truly established
by leaving those of every color who were
heroically faithful to the Government dur
ing the rebellion to the exclusive mercy of
those who sought to destroy it.
These are the distinctive points of the
Conservative policy. Are th©y agreeable
to an honorable and intelligent people?
And of what is this policy conservative?
If of the Constitution and Union, it will of
course be earnestly supported by their true
and tried friends. Is it so supported? Who
are the present Conservatives ? Who shout
and sing and fire cannon and ring bells in
jubilant exultation at every measure in
supposed accordance with this policy? The
reply is, unfortunately, unavoidable. The
Conservative party, or the supporters of
the policy we have described, is composed
of the late rebels and of those who justified
and palliated rebellion, with a few Repub
licans. And"who oppose this policy 1 Who
are the Radicals ? The great multitude of
those who believed in the war and suppor
ted it, whose children and brothers and
friends lie buried in the battle-field in every
rebel State, whose sentiments are now as
they have been for five years expressed by
the Union pi ess of the country, and whose
voice speaks in the vote of the Union Leg
islatures and in the result of the spring
elections.
It is useless for Conservatism to claim
that conciliation is essential to reorganiza
tion. Nobody denies it. But the cardinal
question is, not what will please the late
insurgents, but what will secure the Gov
ernment. If it be said that the Govern
ment can not lie secured by alienating its
late enemies, the reply is, that it certainly
can not he secured by alieniating its un
wavering friends. If conciliation contem
plates the filling of national offices in the
South by known rebels to the disregard and
exclusion of Union men, thereby rewarding
rebellion and discrediting loyalty—if it
proposes to leave freemen of the United
States to the Black Codes of Mississippi
and Carolina, and to recognize the fatal
spirit of caste which has been our curse—
then conciliation is simply a name for ig
uornity, and Conservatism may see its fate
iii that of Secession.
Radicalism has not a single vindictive
feeling toward the late rebel States, but it
does not propose to forget that there has
been a rebellion. It has the sincerest wish,
as it had the most undoubtiug expectation,
of working with the President to secure for
the country what the country has fairly
won by the war, and that is, the equal right
of every citizen before the law and the full
resumption by the late insurgent States of
their functions in the Union only upon such
honorable and reasonable conditions as
Congress might require. All reasonable
men who support that policy will not light
ly denounce those who differ with them.
They will strive long for the harmony of
those with whom during the war they have
sympathized and acted. They will concede
minor points of method, and bear patiently
with impatient rhetoric leveled at them
selves. But they will also bear steadily in
mind the words of Andrew Johnson when
he accepted the nomination which lias
placed him where he is : " While society is
in this disordered state and we are seeking
security, let us fix the foundations of the
Government on principles of eternal justice
which will endure for all time." The Rad
ical policy was never more tersely ex
pressed ; and it will unquestionably be
maintained, for it is founded in the plainest
common sense and the profoundest convic
i tion of the loyal American people.—Jlar
per'a Weekly.
ILLINOIS.-— The name of the State of Ill
inois orignatod in this manner:—A party
j of Frenchmen set out upon an exploring
j expedition down the river, which they af
! forwards named, providing themselves wiih
i bark canvas, and relying chietiy for their
subsistence upon game. They found at
the confluence of this river with the Mis
sissippi, an island thickly wooded with
blackwalnut. It was a season of the year
when the nuts were ripe, and this party of
explorers, encamping upon this island,
greatly enjoyed the luxury of this fruit.
From this circumstance they called the
island the "Island of Nuts"—or, in French,
" lale aIIJ- nobs"—which name was given to
the river which they explored, and thence
to the territory and State.
fiiououT is the father of words, but many
. a great and noble thought dies childless.
REMARKS OF HON U MEROUR-
In the House, April 24, on the proposition to strike
from the Army Bill, the section continuing the Pro
vost Marshal's Bureau.
Mr. MERCUR. Mr. Speaker, in addition
to the objections, which appear to me to be
personal to the present Provost Marshal
General, it strikes rue there are many objec
tions to the establishment of this bureau as
a permanent oue. The reasons for its ex
istence during the war were manifest ; but
it strikes me that the reasons which exist
for its abolishment since the termination of
the war are equally manifest.
The bill, upon its face, provides for two
classes of duties to be performed by this
bureau. The oue is the recruiting of the
Army, and the other is the arrest of deser
ters. It provides that two persons shall
take charge of these duties, one with the
rank of brigadier general, and the other
with the rank of colonel of cavalry.
Now, it appears to me that all these du
ties can be properly performed by a person
occupying a lower position, and receiving
much less compensation than these persons
would receive. The recruiting of the Army
is not a business of such vast dimensions
nor will it be prolonged so long as to re
quire the creation of a permanent bureau
like this.
After the Army is filled, and we are in
formed that during the last six months re
cruiting has gone on very rapidly, this will
not be needed, and whatever number we
may fix upon as the proper number for the
Army, we have reason to know that the
vacancy can be filled up in a few months
without any great difficulty ; and when the
Army is once filled on a peace establish
ment the duties of a bureau of this kind, so
far as recruiting is concerned, will neces
sarily be very email.
Now, iu regard to the other duties of this
office, the arrest of deserters, I take it that
there cannot now be a very large number
of deserters that the Government proposes
to pursue and arrest aud punish. In these
days of general amnesty and of geueral
pardon, I presnme the Government will not
pursue very sharply and rigidly those per
sons who have deserted from the armies of
the Union. Aud if there is no great num
ber of deserters now who are to be arres
ted, is it to be supposed or assumed that
the number will increase to such an extent
in the future as to create a necessity for a
permanent Bureau to look after andjtrrest
deserters? I think not; and hence I as
sume that neither for the one purpose nor
the other specified in the bill is there any
necessity for the creation of a permanent
bureau of this character.
Now, in addition to the absence of any
necessity for this bureau, it does strike me,
if I understand the sentiment of the country
aright, a sentiment which grew and
strengthened with the progress of the re
ceut rebellion, that the present head of this
bureau did not satisfy public expectation in
the discharge of his duties, it is not my
design to attribute a want of good faith or
a want of integrity to that bureau. In my
judgment, though I may err, it was a want
of capacity which created the great dissat
isfaction which existed in the minds of the
loyal people throughout the country.
The fact cannot be disguised that a great
many of the complications and entangle
ments which arose during the progress of
the war were solely in consequence of the
orders which issued from time to time from
the Provost Marshal General's Office. They
complicated matters so much, one followed
the other in such rapid succession, chang
ing, modifying, aud throwing confusion up
on what had preceded, that no one could
form any adequate idea of what was re
quired. No district could tell how many
men it had to raise, or.how many men they
had received credit for. Such being the
fact, there is no reason, no justice, no pro
priety, in continuing this bureau for the
benefit of the present incumbent.
Tiie gentleman from New York (Mr.
GONKLING) has suggested oue thing in which
this bureau was somewhat conspicuous,
that is, its power of absorption of the com
mutation money which was paid by people
all over the country, and of which no sat
isfatory account has yet been rendered.
But there was another reputation which
this bureau established, and that was its
peculiar and unique way of combining fig
ures. The country was frequently aston
ished by this rare and peculiar power of
combining figures, not only during the pro
press of the war, but since we have met
here this session. I refer to the effort made
to arrive at the probable cost to the Gov
ernment in case we should adopt some sys
tem of equalizing the bounties to be given
to our soldiers. We met here, every man
of us zealous and warm in his desire to
equalize the bounties. But the Provost
Marshal General, with his peculiar combi
nation of figures, has again thrown a dam
per upon us.
It strikes me that the House ought with
great unanimity to vote down this section
aud cause this bqreau to be abolished.
BUSINESS. — Business is business. This
is the peremptory maxim of many who
would be puzzled to define the word, and
yet feel that it stands for something quite
distinct from other occupations which they
pursue either for pleasure or of necessity.
A man may be pressed with cares, or ab
sorbed in entertaining studies, which have
nothing to do with his business, lie may
meet the first bravely, and follow the other
methodically ; and yet both may be wholly
separated from the work of his life, that
ecial work which is involved in his vo
cation or calling, and is expected of him
by the other bees in the hive. To that he
must give his best days, and the best
hours of his day. Whatever other duties
he has to perform must, as a rule, make way
for business. They must be attended to be
fore or after hours, however important.
Unless(as in case of accident, fire, and the
like) they are of so sudden and pressing a
nature as to justifiy obviously the neglect
of the regular day's work, they must wait
till the work be done. You must feed your
master's pigs before you set down to your
own supper.
" PAP, I planted some potatoes in our
garden," said one of the smart youths of this gen
eration to his father, '• and what do you suppose
came up?" "Why, potatoes, of course." "No
sire ! There came up a drove of hogs and ate them
all." The old man gave in.
DEAN SWIFT said, with much truth, "It is
useless for us to attempt to reason a man out of a
thing he has never been reasoned int6."
REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER.
TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., MAY 3, 1866.
A correspondent of the Providence Jour
nal, writing from Montevideo, gives a grap
hic description of the great slaughter house
for cattle. We quote :
The Saladera is truly a feature of this
country. Let me give yon a picture of the
largest in South America. It is that of Sir
Le Fondc, across the cove, or inner harbor,
from Montevideo. The surgeon of the Uni
ted States steamer Susquehanna and your
correspondent visited it one morning before
breakfast, byway of getting up an appe
tite. Well mounted and spurred, we star
ted from the Hotel Oriental at sunrise, and,
after a pretty morning ride of five miles, we
approached the establishment.
The strong odor from the tallow boilers
and the bone kilns signified our approach,
while yet almost a league away. Over the
plain before us, as we rounded the head of
the cove, we saw an enclosure, perhaps of
thirty acres, in which were broad, low,
black-looking roofs, covering a large area,
in the centre of which stood a tall brick
chimney, from which rolled the foul black
smoke of the bone kilns. We found the
cattle pen on the side next us in our ap
proach. The pen is a circular area of two
or three acres, surrounded by a fence about
nine feet high, very strongly built. From
its gate on the side next us two great fen
ces opened into the plain, like very jaws of
death, as they are, the distance between
them constantly widening as they extend
from the pen.
Opposite this gate is another, which
opens into a lane or passage about one
hundred feet long, and fifteen feet wide at
the head and eight at the foot. Into this
the cattle are driven in lots of fifty, more or
less, at once. At the further end of this is
the slaughter-house, a building several
hundred feet in length and about forty feet
wide, sloping toward either side from a
railway track in the ce tre, running the
entire length on either side. On the outer
border of the slopes is a deep gutter for
carrying off the blood. The floor of the
lane above referred to is of plank, and the
ground has sufficient fall from the pen to
the slaughter-house to give an elevation of
about two feet to this floor at its lower end.
Into this, and forming a part of it, a truck
fits, upon which the slaughtered ox is car
ried to such dresser along the route as may
have dispatched his last.
On the outside of the passage of death,
as I shall call the lane above described,and
fitting against the fence, is a platform about
five feet high and four feet wide, running
its entire length. Upon this stands the ma
tador with his lasso, the other end of which
runs through a pulley, and to it are attached
two horses, harnessed side by side, each
with a rider, whose beat is at right angles
to the passage of death at its lower end,
and on the same side with the platform.—
The matador throws the lasso, catching by
by the horns or head one, two or three ani
mals, as the case may be. lie sings <rtit,
" Eda bien !" which means " it iB well," or
" all light," and away gallop the horses,
snatching the cattle from one end oi the
lane to the other, and bringing them up on
the track with their heads against a sliding
bar, all in a jiffy.
The same man who lassoes them thrusts
his ugly knife into the top of the head just
back of the horn, striking the point of junc
tion between the spinal column and the
brain. Agaiu he sings " Eda bien," the
horses turn about, the bar slips aside, the
car runs away, the cattle are dumped off,
and it is back again, "while you would be
saying Jack Robinson." But meanwhile
the matador has lassoed a couple more,aud
it is quite a race between the car aud the
victims for the fatal end of the passage of
death. One matador was killing, while we
looked on, an average of five a minute.
We proceeded thence to the slaughter
house, which is open at the sides, We had
no ideu of the destructive.capacity of a sin
gle butcher knife. The bullock is turned
with its head toward the gutter ; his throat
is cut, and, ere he is done kicking, has lost
half his hide. One man alone takes the en
tire hide off, the entrails out, and cuts the
meat off the bones iu fifteen minutes; some
even do it in ten minutes.
Boys carry everything away. He stirs
not from the spot. Another bullock drops
down at the l ight in place of the oue just
despatched, and mysteriously slips out of
his hide aud disappears iu like manner.—
The hide of his predecessor lias meanwhile
been hurried away to a succession of baths
in three different vats, and bounded away
with two skips and a jump into a tiugh bed
of salt with its fellows, where it sleeps a
little season undisturbed, and from which
it rides out to get the benefit of fresh air
and sunshine, after which, in a stack with
thousands of others, it goes into the market
where they are sold by the cord.
Meanwhile the meat of the bullock of
which it was part and parcel has quitted its
bones in two long, lean slabs, gone through
a like process of bathing and sleeping in a
salt bed, or a series of salt beds rather, af
ter which it comes forth, is shaken and is
spread layer upon layer until a stack is
built about twenty-five feet wide, fifty feet
long, and fifteen high. In this state the
whole stack is subjected to an immense
hydraulic press, by which the entire Btock
is pressed into less than half its previous
bulk. Thence it is hung out to dry. This
is done on two railed fences about seven
feet high, six feet distant from each other,
with tlie rail about two feet apart.
The sides of beef are hung across those
rails closely beside each other, where they
too spend some days in the fresh air and
sunshine before they are offered for sale.
They are then restacked and sold by the
cord likewise. We saw many such stacks,
and several acres of these sides, drying as
above described. This is the well-known
jerked beef, and from this place and Buenos
Ayres the Brazil, Havana and Mediterra
nean markets are supplied. Some of it is
cured with coarse salt and some of it with
fine Liverpool salt, and some of it is fat and
some lean. A different kind is sent to each
market. The tallow is tried out and bar
reled for shipment on a corresponding large
scale. About a thousand cattle are killed
here every morning
AN Irish glazier was putting in a pane of
I glass into a window, when a groom, who was
i standing by, began joking him, telling him to mind
! and put in plenty of putty. Tho Irishman bore
j the banter for some time, but at last silenced his
j tormenterby "Arrah, now, be off wid ye, or else
I I'll put a pain in yer head without any putty."
A GREAT SLAUGHTER HOUSE.
THERE IS BUT ONE BOOK
A few days before the death of Sir Wal
ter Scott, there was a lucid interval of that
distressing malady which had for some time
afflicted him, and to remove which he had
travelled in vain to London, to Italy, and
to Malta. He was again in his own home.
In one of these calm moments of reason,
"gentle as an infant," says his biographer,
when the distressing aberrations of his mind
had for a time ceased, he desired to be
drawn into bis library and placed by the
window, that he might look down upon the
Tweed To his son-in-law he expressed a
wish that he should read to him. "From
what book shall I read ?" said he. "And
you. ask?" Scott replied ; "there is but
one." "I choose," said his biographer,
"John xiv." He listened with mild devo
tion, and said,when I had done. "Well,this
is a great comfort ; I have followed you
distinctly, and I feel as if I were yet to be
myself again."—[Life of Scott, vi; 588.]
I comment not on the dying testimony of
this eminent man in favor of the Bible. On
the bed of death, "there is but one" book
that can meet the case. Not his own beau
tiful poems, nor his own enchanting works
of fiction, were his comforters there. He
had come to a point where fiction gave way
to reality ; and we can conceive of scarce
ly any scene of higher sublimity than was
thus evinced, when a mind that had charm
ed so many other minds, the most popular
writer of his age, if not of any age, in the
solemn hour when life was about to close,
gave this voluntary tribute to the solitary
eminence of the Bible above all other books.
Would that bis dying declaration could be
imprinted on the title page of all his works,
that wherever they shall be read his solemn
testimony might go with them, that a time
is coming when but one book can have
claims on the attention of men, and but one
book will be adapted to guide their steps
and to comfort their hearts.
May I suggest to the readers of novels
and romances that the time is coming when
one after another, these books will be laid
aside ; when the romance of life will be ex
changed from the sober reality of death ;
and when the most gorgeous and splendid
illusions of this world will give place to the
contemplation of the realities of that ever
lasting scene which opens beyond the grave.
Then you will need, not fiction, but truth ;
not gorgeous descriptions, not the enchant
ing narrative, not the wizard illusions of
the master mind that can play upon the
feelings and entrance the heart ; but the
World—the eternal Word of that God who
cannot lie, and the sweet consolations of
that "one book," whose beauties, after all,
as much transcend the highest creations of
genius as its truths are more valuable fic
tion. We may live amidst gorgeous scenes,
amidst splendid illusions, amidst change
less clouds, amidst vapors that float on the
air, and then vanish ; but when we die we
shall wish to plant our feet, not on evane
scent vapors and changing though brilliant
clouds, but on the eternal Rock, a position
which shall be firm when the rain descend,
and the floods come, aud the winds blow —
(Mattiiew vii : 25.) And in reference to
that dark valley which we must all soon
tread, that valley which appears so chilly
and dismal to man, along which no one has
returned to be our conductor and guide,
whatever may be said of the Bible in regard
to the past history of our race, or our own
history in particular, or the various inqui
ries which have come before the human
mind, it is indubitably then to be the only
certain "lamp unto our feet, and light to
our path."—[Rev. Albert Barnes.
THE SKILL OF CHINESE LABORERS. —The
scaffolding for the purpose of covering the
court is proceeding rapidly, the c lief sup
ports being now completed, and the upper
part in process of being covered with light
bamboos, placed about two feet apart. —
These act as supports for the matting,
which is all double, having lining formed
of the millet stalk. Some of these sheets
of matting are fitted on bamboo frames,
which are not intended to be moved, while
others are so arranged that, by halliards,
they can be pulled open or shut like win
dow blinds, thus enabling the court to be
covered or uncovered, according to temper
ature, rain, or other circumstances. The
skill and ingenuity which the men display
is remarkable. They move about on the
top o! i his work, some forty feet from the
ground, with the agility of monkeys, and
run up and down the straight poles like
squirrels, using only their hands and the
soles oi their feet. A leg of mutton on the
top ot a greasy pole would stand a poor
chance of remaining long an object of com
petition among Pekiu scaffold constructors.
The frame work is secqred only by ropes
and twine, and great economy is exercised
in picking up and removing the portions
that are in excess, several little boys going
round in the evening before the men leave,
and picking up the scraps that have been
cut off and thrown down. The Chinese
workmen display great expertness in
throwing materials from one to the other to
a considerable height. I noticed this to
day among the scaffold-men, and it recalled
to my memory having seen one of the ma
sons' laborers taking a spade full of mortar,
and throw it, spade and all, to a man on
the roof of a house, who caught it without
dislodging a single particle of the mortar.
The paper hangers also are very expert in
throwing up sheets of paper, with one side
covered with paste ready for being put on
the wall. Their paper for room purposes
is very good, the "satin pattern" being that
most commonly used. Paper of this kind is
not kept in rolls, as with us, but in squares
of about 12 by 10 inches. One man Btands
by the table and applies the paste, and
then adroitly throws the sheet up to an
other one, who fixes it on the wall.— Pekin
and the Pekingese.
Socrates when asked why he had built for
hi rnself so small a house, he replied : " Small as
it is, I wish I could fill it with friends."
IN every journey there are some tedious
passages, the very remembrance of which i* weary
ing ; and in the pilgrimage of life the analogy
holds good.
THE first institution vouchsafed to our
race was the Sabbath ; the next, marriage. So,
give your first thought to Heaven, the uext~to your
wife.
A profound observer remarks : " I have
often observed at public entertainments, that,when
there is anything to be seen, everybody immedia
tely stands up and effectually prevents anybody
from seeing anything."
per Annum, in Advance.
For the Reporter
COMMON SCHOOLS, No- 2.
In a former article we stated that the ob
ject of Common Schools was to place the
advantages of Education within the reach
of every youth in the State, and that the
reason why so many are growing up in
ignorance, was not the fault of the School
system, but was, in part, owing to the
want of interest upon the subject, among
the people themselves. Several ways in
which public sentiment might be awakened
and improved, were pointed out to the rea
der. In a Republican form of government
like our own, it is essential to educate the
whole people—for its greatest benefits are
manifest where it is most widely diffused.
But education, to become generai, or uni
versal, must be systematized—its benefits
the common right of all. This plan, in
some form has beeu found necessary in
every Northern State of our Union. Had
the Southern States adopted a similar plan,
' and thrown open to all the wide portals of
j knowledge, the "Great Rebellion" had never
j existed. The few can never rule the many
, unless the many are kept in ignorance. In
all the South there has never been a sys
tem of Common Schools. The rich were
able to school themselves, the poor did
without it. We believe very many in our
own State do not appreciate the school
system as they ought to. They do not
comprehend its advantages, hence we fre
quently hear them denouncing it as a hum
bug, and school taxes as unjust. Now,
Mr. Tax-payer it pays to educate the people
—the whole people. Thrift and prosperity
follow in its train. To be sure it costs
much to keep open the schools for all, but
it costs more to bring them up in ignor
ance. It costs considerable to build school
houses, but no more than it does to build
jails, penitentiaries and poor houses. We
venture the opinion that the proper educa
tion of all the children would reduce the
poor tax of the next generation nine-tenths,
and materially lessen State and county ex
penses. Your farms are worth more to
youth for being in an intelligent commun
ity. Every acre of your real estate would
appreciate in value, were your directors to
erect a new and commodious school build
ing within a mile of your premises. Yes,
it pays to educate. Intelligence pays a
better interrest in the end, than your 7-30's.
Give your children education, and they will
succeed in life without that pile of "green
backs" you are hoarding up for them. Keep
them at the Common Schools.
ALPHA BETA.
DANGERS OF HASTY BURIAL —ln a debate
in the French Senate, on the petition set
ting forth the danger of burying those who
are not dead by hasty interments Cardinal
Donnet, Archbishop of Bordeaux, recited
three cases of living persons supposed to
be dead whom during his experience as a
priest he had saved from burial. In two
cases there was complete restoration of
life—one of the persons so rescued, a lady
of distinguished family, is uow a happy
wife and mother. A fourth case, told by
the Archbishop, accounts for his own long
sustained attention to' the subject. He
said :
"la the summer of 1820, ou a close and
sultry day, in a church which was exces
sively crowded, a young priest who was
in the act of preaching was suddenly seiz
ed with giddiness in the pulpit. The words
he uttered became indistinct, he soon lost
the power of speech, and sunk down on the
floor. He was taken out of the church and
carried home. All was thought to be over.
Some hours after the funeral bell was tolled,
and the usual preparations made for the
interment. His eyesight was gone ; but if
he could see nothing like the young lady 1
have alluded to, he could hear and I need
not say that what reached his ears was not
calculated to reassure him. The doctor
came, examined him, and pronounced him
dead ; and after the usual inquiries as to
his age and the place of his birth, Ac., gave
permission for his interment next morning.
The venerable bishop in whose cathedral
the A oung priest was preaching when he
was seized with the fit same to his bed
side to recite the De Profundie. The body
was measured for the coftiu.
Night came on, and you will easily feel
how inexpressible was the anguish of the
living being in such a situation. At last,
amid the voices murmuring around him, he
distinguished that of one whom he had
known from infancy. That voice produced
a marvelous effect and superhuman efl'ort.
Of what followed I need say 110 more than
that the semingly dead man stood next day
iu the same pulpit. That young priest,
gentlemen; is the same young man who is
now speaking before you, and who, more
than forty years after that event, implores
those in authority not merely to watch vigi
lently over the careful execution of the legal
prescriptions with regard to interments, but
to enact fresh ones in order to prevent the
recurrence of irreparable misfortunes.
A MATCH FACTORY.—A match factory in
Western New York is noted for the cur
ious machinery used in the manufacture.
720,000 feet of pine of the best quality are
used annually for the matches, and 400,000
feet of bass wood for cases. The sulphur
used annually for the matches is 400 bar
rels, and the phosphorus is 9,600 pouuds.
The machines run night and day, and 300
hands are employed at the works. 500
pounds of paper per day are used to make
the light small boxes for holding the
matches, and four tons of pasteboard per
week for the boxes. Sixty-six pounds of
flour per day are used for paste, and the
penny stamps required by Government on
the boxes amount to the snug little sum of
$1,440 per day.
There are four machines in use for cut
ting, dipping, and delivering the matches.
The two inch pine plank is sawed up the
length of the match, which is 2J inches.
These go into the machine for cutting,
where at every stroke twelve matches are
cut, and by the succeeding stroke pucrhed
into slats arranged on a double chain 250
feet long, which carries them to the sul
phur vat, and from thence to the phosphor
us vat, and thus across the room and back,
returning them at a point just in front of
the cutting machine, and where they are
delivered in their natural order, and are
j gathered up by a boy into trays and sent
to the packing-room Thus 1,000 gross or
' 144,000 small boxes of matches are made
I per day. The machines for making the
small thin paper boxen and their covers
are quite as wonderlul and ingeniously
contrived as those that make the matches.
A long coil of papei as wide as the box
is long revolves on a woeel, one end being
in machine. It first , ..uses through rollers,
where the printing is done ; from thence to
the paste-boxes, where the sides and ends
only are pasted ; from thence to the fold
ing-apparatus, where the ends are nicely
folded and the whole box is pasted togeth
er and drops into a basket. A similar ma
chine is at work at the covers, and thus
144,000 boxes per day are manufactured.
HOIJJIKG FAST. —A young man was taken
by his uncle as a clerk in his employ.—
After filling this office for a year or two,
he had the offer, from a wealthy relative,
of a collegiate education. The offer was
tempting, he was found of books, he would
be free from the drudgery of business, he
might be a minister of the Gospel, for he
was a pious youth, Upon the other hand,
he had just begun to be of use to his em
ployer, who had borne with his failings
and blunders patiently, he displayed great
aptitude for business, and had won the es
teem and respect of all about him.
lie asked the advice of his pastor in the
matter, and the sound old man, said to him,
"Thou art started in thy way, hold fast to
it." He took the advice, and held fast to
the calliug in which he had commenced ;
he acquired property, and honor, and ease.
He has educated many young men for the
ministry, among them one of his own sons;
he has been a mostliberal contributor to all
the benevolent enterprises of the Church
and the country ; he has served God, as
an elder in his Church, with fidelity and de
votion ; he has lightened the load of many
a burdened pastor, wiped the tears of many
a desolate widow, provided for many fath
erless children ; and to many a wavering,
undecided, volatile young man, has he re
peated the words of his wise pastor, that
settled his own course. "Thou art started
in thy way of life, it is a good way, hold
fast to it."
NUMBER 40.
It is better by "patient continuance in
well doing" in one field of labor do life's
work, than to vascillate, and change, and
change again. Respect, usefulness, and
happiness are gained by steady and con
sistent devotion to one calling which God
has marked out. There may be eccentric
exceptions to thffi general rule, just as
there are cornets in the celestial system ;
but the fixed stars are more useful than
the comets to mankind, and their steady
light, year after year, and age after age,
is better than the meteor blaze of a night.
—N. Y. Observer.
A HAPPY WOMAN. —"What are you sing
ing for ?" said 1 to Mary Maloney.
"Oh, I don't know, ina'arn, without it is
because my heart feels so happy."
" Happy, are you happy ? Why, let me
see, you don't own a foot of laud in the
world."
" Foot of land is it ?" she cried with a
loud laugh : "Oh, what a hand ye are af
ter a joke Why, sure, I've never a penny,
let alone a foot of land."
" Your mother is dead ?"
" God rest her soul, vis," replied Mary,
with a touch of genuine pathos. "The
Heavens be her bed."
pose ?"
"Ye may well say that. It's nothing
but drink, drink, and bate his wife—poor
crayture."
" You have to pay your sister's board?"
" Sure, the bit crayture ! and she's a
good little girl, is Hinny.willin to do what
ever I axes her. I don't grudge the money
that goes for that."
" And you haven't many fashionable
dresses, either ?"
" Fash'uable, is it ? Oh vis, I put a bit
of whalebone in me skirt, and me calico
gown spreads as big as the leddies. But
then you say true ; 1 haven't but two
gowns to me back, two sloes to me feet,
and no bunnit, barriu' me old hood."
" You haven't any lover?"
" Oh, be off wid yes ! catch Mary Ma
loney wid a lover these days, when the
hard times is come."
" What on earth have you to make you
happy? A drunken brother, a poor he'p
less sister, no mother, no love—why,where
do you get all your happiness ?"
"The Lord be praised, miss, it growed
up in me. Give nie a bit of sunshine, a
clean flure, plenty of work, and a sup at
the right time, and I'm made. That makes
me laugh and sing. And thin, if troubles
come, I try to keep my heart up. Sure, it
would be a sad tiling if Patrick McGuire
should take it in his head t<> ax me ; but,
the Lord willin', I'd try to bear up under
it."
"MY dear Horatio, l had a very mysterious
dream about you."'
"What was it dear?"
"I dreamed I saw you carried up to heaven iu a
golden chariot surrounded by angels clothed in
white and purple. What is that the sign of dear?"
"It is a sign oi a foul stomach, my dear."
BRIDGET fared badly when slip came to
New York, and found to her inexpressible regret,
tha she had lost her certificate 011 the way across
the sea. But her cousin Patrick supplied her with
another in the following words : "This certifies that
Bridget O'Flannegan had a good character when
she left Ireland but she lost it 011 the ship coining
over."
A j EA i.ocs husband, being absent from
home, went to a clairvoyant in London to know
what his wife was doing. "Ah," cried the clair
voyant, "1 see her ; she expects some one ; the
door opens ; he comes ; she eert sses him fondly ;
he lays his head on her lap, and"—husband mad
with rage—"he wags his tail." It was the dog. The
husband was calmed.
"I AM glad this coflee dont owe me any
thing," said a book-keeper to his wife the other
morning at breakfast. "Why?" was the response.
"Because I don't believe it would ever settle."
A TITTLE girl, hardly three years of age,
who had been accustomed to hear the singing in
i St. George's church.New York, and had been much
I impressed theredy, was taken by her grandmother
! to look at the ruins of the edifice, after its recent
! destruction by fire. After gazing at the fire .marked
I and smoky walls for some time 111 silence, the lit
j tie creature looked up with sad anxiety and said,
"G'anny, did they burn up all the tunes?"
A sermon in four words 011 the vanity of
earthly possessions : "Shrouds have no pockets."
A LADV once remarked that "carelessness
was little better than a half-way house between ac
cident and design."
AN Irish editor, in speaking of the mis
eries of Ireland says: "Her cup of misery has
j been for ages overflowing, and is not yet full."
MEN are called fools in one age for not
j knowing what men were called fools for asserting
! in the age before.
IF you have a heart of rock, let it be the
j rock of Horeb that gushed when stricken by the
; prophet's rod.
i " WAKF. up here and pay your lodgings,"
j said the deacon, as he nudged a sleepy stranger by
! the contribution box.
" 1 SAY, landlord, that's a dirty towel for
a man to wipe on." Landlord, with a look of
amazement, replied: "Sixty or seventy of my
■ boarders have wiped on that towel this morning,
I and you are the first to find fault."
THACKERY tell of an Irish woman bog
ging alms of him who, when she saw him put his
hand iu his pocket cried out. "Alay the blessing
, of God follow you all your life," but when he pulled
i out his snuff box, immediately added —"and never
| overtake ye."
" Your brother is still a hard case, I snp-