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MERGER & MORROW, Attorneys at Law, Towanda, Penn'a, The undersigned having associated themselves together in the practice of Law, offer their pro fessional services to the public. ULYSSES MERCUB, P. D. MORROW. March 9,1863. OATRICK r. ii W. Stone, for the practice of his p ofes sion Particular attention given to the treat ment ot women and children, as also to the prac tice of operative aud minor surgery. Oct. 2,'66. DR. PRATT' has removed to State street, (first above B. S. Russell & Co's Buik). Persons Irom a distance desirous ol con -ultiug him, will be most likely to find him on Saturday A each week. Especial attention will be given to surgical cases, and the extraction of teeth. Gas or Ether administered when desired. July 18, 1866. D. S. PRATT, M. D. DOCTOR CHAS. F. PAINE.— OF FICE in (IOBE'S Drug Store, Towanda, Pa. Calls promptly attended to at all hours, lowanda, November 28, 1860. £DWV MEEKS—AUCTIONEER. All letters addressed to liim at Sugar Bun, idfoid Co. Pa., will reeeive prompt attention. L'RANCIS E. POST, Painter, Toic- X amia. Pa, with 10 years experience, is con fident he can give the best satisfaction in Paint ing. Graining, Staining, Glazing, Papering, Ac. #■ Particular attention paid to Jobbing in the c mntry. Aprils. 1866. | .T. N EWE LL , COUNTY SURVEYOR, Orwell, Bradford Co., Pa,, will promptly attend T ill business in his line. Particular attention given to running and establishing old or dispu te ! lines. Also to surveying ot all unpatented lands as soon as warrants are obtained. myl7 \V* JIERSEY WATKINS, Notary • Public is prepared to take Deposi tions, Acknowledge the Execution of Deeds, M rtgages, Power-' of Attorney, and all other instruments. Affidavits and other pipers may 1 be sworn to before me. Office opposite the Banking House ot B.S. Russell A Co., a few doors north of the Ward House. Towanda, Pa., Jan. 14, 1867. Orntistrp. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS EXPERI- I EXCE IN DENTISTRY. J. s. SMITH, M. D., would respectfully inform : e inhabitants of Bradford County that he is aaantly located in Waveriy, N. Y., where h: 'us been in the practice of his profession for • past lour years. He would say that from his 1 and .successful practice of 25 years duration be i- familiar with all the different styles of work d°ne in any and ail Dental establishments in .'.y or country, and is better prepared than any 'her Dental operator in the vicinity to do work best .ffiapied to the many and different s that present themselves oftentimes to the i'i i.t.-', as he understands the art ot making his cvn artificial teeth, and has lacilities tor doing ' .•• same. To those requiring under sets of ' e'h he would call attention to his new kind of was which consists of porcelain for both plate >a i teeth, and forming a continuous gam. It is ® durable, more nuturai in appearance, and pv hfa tter adapted to the gum than any other Kia.l of work. Those in need of the same are o.vited to calf and examine specimens. Teeth to last for years and oltent mes for life.— < ilorofo.m, ether, and "Nitrous oxide" adrnin -I.ccred with perfect safety, as over four hundred patients within the last four years can testify. i will be ia Towanda from the 15th to 30th of every month, at the office of W. K. TAYLOR, (formerly occupied by Dr. o.H. Woodruff. )Hav •.g made arrangements witb Mr. Taylor, I am prepared to do ill work in the very best style, at tils office. Nov. 27, 1865. J)K H. WESTON, DENTIST— ■*-' Office in Patton's Biock, over Gore's Drug &ai Chemical Stors. Ijan66 WARD HOUSE, TOWANDA, PA. On Main Street, near the Court House. C. T. SMITH, Proprietor. Oct. 8, 1866. IMIBICAN HOTEL, I TOWANDA, PA., Waving purchased this well known Hotel on or-age Street, 1 have refurnished and refitted • • • convenience for the accommoda - of all who may patronize me. No pains will spaicd.to make all pleasant and agreeable. May 3, tr J. g. PATTERSON, Prop. HER HOUSE, a four story brick , tJ - fi oe near the depot,with large airy rooms, j cmt „arlors, newly furnished, has a recess in ■ • ■■ addition for Ladies use, and is the most v and only first class ho'el at Waveriy, . ■ ls e principal office tor stages south 1 express. Also lor sale ot Western Tickeis, i I'MIU I U ? ' Grand Trunk Rail-way. Fare ~. ™ , fron J Buffalo, $4, is cheaper than any route. Apply for tickets as above to *♦•>!! a c. WARFOBD. nc " an " care Horses at reasonable i Waveriy. N. Y., 0ct. 26,1866— 3m. C. W. P^/^^ME^OFNTLY * WR Books at the NEWB|ROOM. E. O. GOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXVII. TWO TKAVELEKS. I. A man passed over the road In the early days of Spring, When the grandest flower that ever bloomed Was brightly blossoming. And never a word he spoke, And his face was marble cold, But millions of men above him wept, And a million bells were tolled. And the cities were draped in black, And the towns were draped in gloom, "For he is dead." the people said, " Who made the ilower to bloom." Down many a swarthy face Unnumbered the tear-drops flowed, " For he is gone " —the bondman spoke— " Who lifted our weary load." And they builded him a tomb Afar in the silent West, And that beautiful flower which men call Peace Spread its leaves above bis breast. 11. A man passed over the road Ere the Summer days were dead, And the leaves of the flower that bloomed iu Spring He trampled with ruthless tread. And many a word he spoke, And his arrogant face was flushed ; And laughed aloud with the noisy crowd When the leaves of the flower were crushed. But down many a swarthy face Flowed tears of bitterest pain. "For he is come"—the bondman spoke— " To forge our chains again." He must seek the tomb some time Afar in the silent West, But will ever the flower which men call Peace Spread its leaves above bis breast ? PijSWIIMWfIUS. THE DWARF'S WEDDING. It is well known that ice is capa ble of such great solidity as to re tain in cold countries any desired shape for a long time ; and houses have been constructed of it which have resisted the elements, not only through the winter, hut far into the succeeding summer, and in some in stances,even during several years. In illustration of this fact, the Cour ier des Etats Unis tells the following story : Peter the Great of Russia had in h's service a buffoon, named Nickol eff, a dwarf in size, and particularly ugly i'u appearance, hut possessed of a mind full of intelligence and over flowing with wit and sarcasm, in the exercise of "which even the sacred majesty of the Czar was not always respected. He one day approached his master and requested permission to marry. "Aud who do you suppose would marry you ?" demanded the Czar. " Catherine Italivaski," replied the dwarf. "Catherine Italivaski ! that ma jestic, beautiful creature, attached as fille de chamber to one of the Em press' ladies in waiting ! Impossible, my poor Nickolieff! She is young and beautiful, and you are old and ugly." " She loves me?" said Nickolieff, swelling with offended pride. "Ev erybody does not look upon mc with the unfavorable eyes of your majes ty 1" " You roust be very rich, then, or she would not love you," said the Czar. "Allow'ng that to be, I should not be the first one who has been loved for his wealth !" replied the buffoon, with a cynical smile. " I kdow of one far more rich and more powerful than I am, who has thought himself loved for himself alone, instead of his piles of yellow gold, and was so plainly deceived that he alone was unsuspicious of the true object." The Emperor turned pale with an ger, and bit his lip until the blood flowed, for the buffoon alluded to a love adventuie of the monarch well known at court, but of which none had dared to speak above a whisper. " Very well," said he, controlling his rage by a violent effort, "since you desire to marry Catherine Itali vaski, you shall do so. I charge my self with the whole expense of the nuptials, and you will receive from me the palace which you will occupy with your charming bride. Mean time you are forbidden to leave your chamber, under penalty of being made acquainted with the knout, in comparison with which the blows of my wife, which have often made your shoulders ache, are mere love caress es." Fifteen days after, the day of Jan uary, 1720, the buffoon was awaken ed at daybreak by the sounds of music at the door of the chamber which served him as a prison. A number of the servauts of the Czar entered, clothed him in a magnificent suit of garments, then placed him on a sledge, to which were attached four of the most beautiful horses in the imperial stables, and surround ed by a cortege composed of the greatest lords and ladies of the im perial court, conducted him to the cathedral Notre Dame de Kazan, where the nuptial ceremony was cel ebrated with a splendor and extrava gauce which not only reassured, but delighted the proud Nickolieff. The nuptial benediction pronounc ed, the happy couple mere placed up on the sledges, and conducted to an isolated place, a short distance from the city, on the banks of the Neva, where had been built a palace the like of which never existed, except in fairy tales. The palace, which seemed to be constructed of crystal, and whicli reflected in thousands of luminous rays the blazing torches of the cortege, was built ot massive blocks of ice,cut out as if from stoue aud fastened with water in place of cement. The dwarf aud his wife were introduced into an immense hall, the furniture of which, tables, chairs, chandeliers, every tiling was made of ice, aud were served, in the presence of the Emporor aud his at tendants, with a feast of regal sump tuousness. The choicest and most delicate wines were served in abund ance, and the goblets of Nickolieff and Catherine—also carved from blocks of ice—were kept constantly filled, until, at a signal from Peter, the spouses, stupefied with wine, were carried to the nuptial chamber and placed upon a bed of solid ice, richly carved and gilded, and there left, without fire or other clothing, iu the frigid temperature of a Russian winter. The doors of the chamber ; and palace were then sealed by pour ing water over them, which immedi ately congealed, rendering them equally solid with the walls them selves. As the cortege withdrew, the cruel Czar remarked.— "Behold! a nuptial night such as was never witnessed before." Eight months after the fatal night, says the historian Leveque—that is, at the close of the month of August —this palace and tomb of ice still existed, and in an almost perfect state. Certain portions of the ex terior only had yielded to the influ ence of the warm winds and sun,aud, melting, ad formed about it a species of opaque stalactites. The mouu meut itself gradually lost its trans parency, and became a dirty, tarnish ed mass, through which it was no longer possible, thanks to God, to distinguish the bodies of the frozen lovers, of which the very features had been so long visible. Another winter passed,consolidating the fear ful tomb anew, so that, two years later, under the combination of frost, hail, snow, dust, sun and rain, this fairy palace was completely trans formed into a little hillock and hid eous to behold. When, at last, Peter the Great l gave orders to demolish the frightful witness to his barbarity, the pickaxe and bar were found insufficient for the purpose, and recourse to blasting was necessary to relieve the shores ; of tha beautiful Neva from the vill- j anous object which recalled so dis- < graceful a history. A BULL FIGHT AT MADRID. The capital of Spain is justly re garded by all travelers as one of the very dullest and most uninteresting cities in Europe. Its gallery of paint ings and its armory are indeed mag nificent, and should be visited by all lovers of the arts ; but with these exceptions there is little to repay a lengthened sojourn within its pre cincts; for its public places of amuse ment are few and poor, except as re gards one sport—that truly national one of the " Toreo," which in this metropolis of the land of hull-fights, is to he seen to perfection. During a short visit to Madrid, a few years I ago, we were fortunate to he present at one, which we will describe from our notes made immediately after the " function," as it is graudiloquently termed in Spain. Passing through the entrance cor ridor of the amphitheatre—which struck us as resembling, on a vast scale, some of our country circuses, only open at top ; a sort of cross, in deed, between the old Roman circus and Astley's—we were soon seated in the front row. of the first stage, surrounded by a buzzing crowd, the men all smoking " cigarillos," and the women all flirting their " ahauicos," while they anxiously await the open ing of a small door opposite to us, from which the bulls destined to be fought and killed for our amusement and instruction will soon enter the arena. A number of gaily dressed ama teurs, gentlemen of the ring, we con clude, in full " majo " or native swell costume—short jacket of many col ors, two diminutive white handker chiefs, one each side, jauntily peep ing out of the breast-pockets, gaudi ly-colored silk waistbands, many folded, and long ashen wauds, peeled at, short intervals for ornament— saunter in groups around the arena. The " innocent" Isabella does not occupy the royal box in her own proper and royal person, but is rep resented by some of her noble and intellectual court. A trumpet now sounds, and, lo ! a gentleman in black rides in, some thing like Hamlet grown very corpu lent and shabby ; and he is followed by the " toreros " who are to figure in the games of the circus. They advance in procession to the royal box, and make each his obeisance lowly as he passes, went silently out again. Shortly the doors open once more to admit some half-dozen "plea dores" cased in ungainly suits of stout and inflexible yellow leather, and wearing broad-brimmed " som breros." They bear, in martial man ner, each his long lance or goad, and, mounted on very sorry Hudibrastic hacks, they take their station at in tervals within the circle, amidst a Budden and deep silence. Not a word is now spoken. There is something awful in the silence of that vast mul titude of humau beings, with their eager and glittering eyes .fixed so earnestly on one point. The bright blue vault of heaven spreads cloud lessly over-head ; the scorching sun looks fiercely down on the scene.— Suddenly the door opens again, and a dark object, indistinct through the dust raised by it, rushes into the are na It is the bull. He pauses for a moms it to biok around him, and then we see him, black and broad-chested, with glaring blood-shot eyes, that seem to dart fire. He lashes his sides REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., FEBRUARY 21,1867. furiously with his tail, hut only for a few moments, while he eyes his foes, who await his attack motionless as statues, each horseman fronting him with firmly-leveled spear. He dashes madly at the nearest of his foes ; in vain the spear opposes him ; horse and rider roli over with a crash.— There is no time now to see whether he is killed, for the bull, desp.sing bis prostrate foes, rushes at the uext and the six picadores are ignomini. ously overthrown iu as many seconds, Some vault over the harrier, whilst others are helped to rise by the "chu los," and make a hasty retreat. On ly one of the horses remains stand ing ; blinded aud bewildered, the poor oeast staggers about the sandy arena with his entrails trailing on the ground, a horrible mass of blood. The hull, now m the centre of the arena, is saluted with one universal shout of delight—" bravo toro ! viva tor >!" But he glares round at the applauding crowd with blood-shot eyes and bleeding head, for he has not escaped without some severe wouuds, aud looks as though he would like to clear the barrier and destroy the whole crowd of his tormentors, when his eyes suddenly alight upon the poor staggering horse. Immedi ately he bends low his gory and foam covered head ; he paws the ground for a few moments savagely with his hoofs ; and then, receding slightly and growling lowly ; he makes a sudden and fierce hound. Do you hear that hollow crash ? His horns have pierced through and through the wretched animal, whom he bears bodily up in the air lor au iustant, and then dashes him agaiust the har rier with a shock which seems to make the place tremble. The ap plause is now redoubled ; handker chiefs are waved by fair delicate hands ; and " bravo toro !" resounds on every side. After a short pause the " handilleros," with their sheaves of little darts, leap over the harrier. They run fearlessly, one after the other, up to the hull, each dexterous ly fixing in his streaming hide his small barbed and bannered weapou. The hull, wild aud distracted with the number and agility of his ene mies and the stings of the darts, blindly rushes, first at one, then at another, and now stands still a few moments, roaring with rage and vain ly trying to shake off the fluttering arrows. The " chulos," with their colored cloths or veils, now run up to him, tempt, taunt and dare him to at tack them. One man holds the ob noxious veil low upon the ground, and as the bull, with bent head, makes a rush at it, jumps nimbly over his horns, amidst the "vivas" of the spectators. Ah ! tnat hold fellow with the blue vail is surely caught. No, not yet : hut the hull is close upon him. With head low bent he makes a rush ; he has him on his horns. No'; the nimble " chulo " has vaulted over the barrier amongst the spectators, leaving his veil, how ever, beJiind him, which the bull tears into a thousand tatters. Mad with rage and panting with fatigue, he moves slowly into the centre of the ring, glaring savagely around him, sole and victorious hero of the scene. j The laughter and shouts which greeted the lively " chulos " subside; a death-like silence pervades the whole place. The bull seems to know the meaning of it by instinct. He stands motionless himself, and gazes dully around him. The door again opens ; now enters the " mata dor " —slim, lithe, and debonnair. He bows to the royal box, and then, marching jauntily up to the bull, stands fully in front of him, and with one arm outstretched holding his blood-red banner, with head and body erect, feet firmly planted together, and the right armHlrawn back, he points his light straight sword at the bull's forehead. The action is sig nificant. It is a language the bull appears to understand perfectly— " touch me and you die." Thus mo tionless they remain facing each oth er for some few moments. The " ma tador " becomes impatient. He wav es his red banner before the bull's eyes to enrage him. With a low moan, the bull holds down his head, paws the dust with his forehoofs, and backs slowly for some yards, his eyes still fixed upon the blood-rea banner. The " matador" follows hitu up, again assumes his position, and again waves the banner. The bull now rushes forward.— Quick as lightning the steel is driven into the nape of his neck, lie halts, staggers, and is about to fall, wheu, with one violent effort, he sends the sword, still vibrating with the blow, up into the air. What a roar of rage pain and despair echoes through the amphitheatre, crowded with animals more savage and brutal than the ani mal they thus delight to see tortured. It was pitiful to see the poor beast, as he staggered up to the barrier for support. Pity, indignation and dis gust moved us by turns. What can these people be, who find a pleasure in such cruelty, such inhuman and bloody work,and think it good sport? Our whole heart was with the brave bull ; but in vain. No one can help him—he must die. The " matador " has regained his sword, and again approaches his devoted victim. The indomitable animal, worn out, woun ded, and fore knowing his fate, as he does, still shows no sign of giving in—nay, he seems bent on a still greater effort, for be uow follows up the banner steadily, but warily, and clearly meaning mischief. At last he makes his final bound forward, and the sword again is driven, but this time up to the hilt, in his muscular neck. His knees bend under him, he gives one low moan, his head sinks down, and he falls heavily, a lifeless, bleeding mass, prone on the ground. Rounds of wild applause salute the smiling, bowing " matador," as he proceeds to withdraw his sword from the neck of his prostrate foe, cleanses it from the blood with his banuer, aud, once more gracefully bowing to the assembly, marches proudly out of the arena. Agaiu the door opens, and a man drives four horses into the ring, with-thick ropes trailing after them. These are at tached by hooks to the carcases of the dead horses, which have been left where they fell, and are now car ried out. Fiually, the heavy body of the noble bull is dragged ignomiui ously away at full gallop, sending up a cloud of dust, aud leaving a blood-red mark on its track. The first fight over, groups of " ma jos " leapt over the barriers, and noi sily discussed the performances ; shouting, laughing nse again once more with unpleasant liveliness on the ear ; the ladies, laughing right merrily, went through all the tan ex ercises, aud a general movement of sit and stand-at-ease took place throughout the amphitheatre. Subsequently to this, which was prououuced to be a first-rate battle, five more bulls were sacrifice to the popular thirst for blood ; but the la dies laughingly agree that none of them showed such mettle as the first. One of the poor animals was struck three times unsuccessfully by the " matador," who was finally hooted out of the arena, whilst the poor bull crouching on the sand,moaned and sobbed iu the angony of its anguish. Perhaps its thoughts had reverted to its lost liberty, to the greeu pastures by the flowing Tagus. I think, in deed, it must be so, for it stretched forward its head with a look of in describable longing and despair, and licked the dust with its parched yet blood-stained tongue, as though it saw there the fresh running water of the stream. Three men now ap proached, two of whom heldjthe bull down by force —it did not require much to effect that—whilst the third, raising a long and glittering knife aloft, plunged it deep into the ani mal's spine. With one convulsive bound the bull sprung up, and tlieu suddenly fell prune aud motionless in the dust. We felt sick aud disgusted when we left the field of blood, aud yet such a p iwerful fascination did the whole scene exercise ou us that it re quired some resolution to avoid at tending the subsequent bull-fights which took place during our sojourn in Madrid. We did, however, refrain, aud thus euded our first aud last bull fight in Spain. INHABITANTS OF THE HUMAN BODY. What think you reader, of your body being a planet, inhabited by liv ing races, as we inhabit the earth ? Whatever may be your thoughts on the subject,it is even so. Your body is but a home for parasites, that crawl over its surface, burrow oeueatb its skiu, nestle in its entrails, and riot aud propagate in their kind in every corner of its frame. The sensation in regard to trachiua in swine flesh basset the scientific to "knocking their heads together," and the result is the following facts : Parasites not only inhabit the bodies of all animals used by us as food, but they aretyso found in abundance in our own or ganization. The species trachiua spi ralis,of which so much has been said, aud whose existence has been discov ered iu pork, is, according to our best j anatomists, fouud iu almost every muscle of the human body. It lies along the fibres of the muscles, en veloped in little cysts or sacs about one-fourth of an inch in length. It can be distinctly seen and examined only by tho use of the microscope.— Professor Wood, of Philadelphia, says : "No evidence has yet been produced of any morbid influence ex erted by the trachina upon the sys tem during life. They have been found in subjects carried oil' by sud den death (accident) and in the midst of health." An English authority says : "It is a notorious fact that the uumerous parasites do crawl over our surface, burrow beneath our skin, nestle in our entrails, and riot and propogate their species iu every cor ner of our frame. Nearly a score of animals belonging to the interior of the human body have been already discovered and described, and scarce ly a tissue or an organ but is occa sionally profaned by their inroads.— Each, also, has its favorite or its special domicil. One species of stran gle chooses the heart for its dwelling place, another inhabits the arteries, a third the kidneys. Myriads of mi nute worms lie coiled up in the vol untary muscles, or in the areolar tis sue that connects the fleshy fibres.— The guinea worm aud the chique bore through the skin and reside in the subjacent verticular membrane. Hyatids invest various parts of the body, but especially the liver and the brain. A little fluke, iu general ap pearance much like a flounder, lives steeped in gall in the biliary vessels. If you squeeze from the skiu of your nose what is vulgarly called a mag got —the coutents, namely one of the hair follicles—it is ten to one that you will find in that small sebacious cylinder several auimaculre, exhibit ing under the microscope a curious and complicated structure. Even the eye has its living inmates. With this knowledge of our composition, it mat ters but little how many entozoa we consume, so long as we do not see them ; it is nothing more than all ages have done before us. We might with as much propriety refuse to driak water, which, however pure, is fairly alive with auiinalculaas, as to refuse to eat meat because it exhibits (under the microscope) entozoa." A LITTLE Swedish girl was walking with her father one night, under the starry sky, intently meditating npon the glories oi Heaven. At last, looking up to the sky,she said : "Father, I have been thinking if the wrong side of Heaven is so beautiful, what will the right side.be?" REMOVING SOLDIERS' REMAINS On Tuesday last a train of army wagous passed up Potomac street.— A portion of them were loaded with stained pine coffins, standing on cud; the others contained the camp equip age and provisions of a portion of the Autietam Cemetery Burial Corps. They proceeded to the grave-yard on the county ground, near the bone mill. The wagons were driven to Colonel Hughes's field, and prepara tions made for a camp. The snow was shoveled away from a space large enough to pitch the tents, which were soon put up ; fires were built, and soon the bleak fields had some of the appearance of a military camp. On Wednesday morning the process of disinterment commenced. After removing the snow from the outside row of graves, the first grave was opened, and the body taken out. This left a place for the earth from the next grave, and a " breast" or a chauce to get at the frozen crust of earth covering it (about a foot thick) and so on through the row or tier.— The bodies are buried about three feet below the surface, the graves about eight inches apart, and coffins were used in all cases. The earth is taken away down to the top of the coffin, and carefully cleaned there from. Then the top of the coffin is split by a pick and taken off. The body lies there, a black mass of de composed flesh and bones. Some have blankets around them ; others have not. The new coffin is placed alongside the grave ; one man sta tioned himself at the head with a square, short-handled shovel ; anoth er at the foot with a spade ; and with these implements the remains are removed into the new coffins.— What was apparently the form of a man as it lay in the coffin, when dis turbed is nothing by a pile of bones, the flesh all being decayed, and turn ed to black dust. The skull is placed at the head of the coffin, the other bones, and decayed cloth thrown in indiscriminately, the coffin covered and lifted away, and another grpve opened. About two hundred bodies are buried in this place, mostly those who died in the hospital after the battle of Antietam. A few were kill ed near where they were buried, when Kilpatrick attacked Lee's re treating army. Some rebel dead were buried here ; these are not dis turbed. About thirty bodies were taken up the first day.— Hagerntoicn Herald. VITAL STATISTICS OF MA.VKI.NT>. —There are on the globe about 1,288,000,000 of souls, of which 369,000,000 are of the Circassian race ; 552,000,000 are of tin- Mongol race; 190,000,000 are of the Ethiopian race ; 176,000,000 are of the Malay race; 1,000,000 are of the Ande-Ameri can race. There are 3,648 languages spoken, and 1,000 different religions. The yearly mortality of the globe is 3,333,333 persons. Thus, at the rate of 91,554 per day, 3,730 per hour, 60 per minute ; so each pulsa tion of our heart marks the decease of some human creature. The average of human life is 36 years. One-fourth of the population die at or before the age of 7 years—one hall at or before 17 years. Among 10,000 persons, one arrives at the age of 100 years, one in 500 attains the age of 90, and one in 100 lives to the* age of 60. Married men live longer than sin gle ones. In 1,000 persons 62 marry and more marriages occur in June and December than in any other months in the year. One-eighth of the whole population is military. Professions exercise great inflnence on longevity. In 1,000 individuals who arrive at the age of 70 years, 42 are priests, orators or public speakeis, 40 are agriculturists, 33 are workmen, 32 Boldiers or military employes, 20 ad vocates or engineers, 27 professors, and 25 doctors. Those who devote their lives to the prolongation of that of others die the soonest. There are 335,000,000 Christians. There are 5,000,000 Iraelites. There are 60,000,000 of the Asiatic religion. There are 100,000,000 Mahomme dans. There are 100,000,000 Pagans. Iu the Christian churches : 180,000,000 profess the Roman Ca tholic faith. 75,000,0u0 profess the Greek faith. 80,000,000 profess the Protestant. A TEA party without scandal is like a knife without a handle. WORDS without deeds are liks husks without seeds. FEATURES without grace are like a clock without a face. A LAND without laws is like a cat without its claws. A MASTER without a cane is lik§ a rider without a rein. MARRIAGE without means is like a horse without his beans. A QUARREL without fighting is like thunder without lightning. A MAN without a wife is like a fork without a knife. WHY is a handsome laced boot like the father of a family ? Because it is a prop er gaiter (propagator). WHY should every lamplighter be named William ? Because Bills run up so quickly. AN exchange says, lovers, like ar mies, generally get along qnietly until they are engaged. A YOUNG woman who went to buy a sewing machine blushingly requested to i see one with a feller. Low as the grave is, you cannot climb high enough to see beyond it #2 per* Annum, in Advance. REMARKS OF HON. 0. WAYNE KINNEY, MEMBEK FBOM BKADFOKD COUNTY, In the House of Representatives, Thursday afternoon, Saturday 31, 1867, on Senate bill No. 3, entitled Joint Resolution to ratify the amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Mr. KINNEY. Mr. Speaker, the proposition before the House sug gests a chauge in the fundamental law of the land. While its thorough discussion would seem to be the la bor of statesmen—of men well versed in the theory of government—l pro pose nevertheless, briefly, to glance at the subject as it appears to my simple understanding. The Constitu tion itself has so carefully guarded all approaches to it, in the way of al terations or amendments, that I have no lears of any undue encroachments upon it. All sovereignty resting in the people of this Government, their voice fairly expressed, may always be relied upon as safe and whole some. The danger consists in thwart ing their decisions or stifling their expression. So much, sir, is the Con stitution venerated, that the growth and advancement of our institutions may be retarded from sheer conserv atism and reluctance to change.— Such is notoriously the fact in rela tion to the church, and it seems to me, sir, to be quite too true in the af fairs of State. It should be remem bered that no country named in his tory can compare with this in ail the elements of advancement and great ness ; but in many respects we are still wearing the garments of youth, and in danger of being dwarfed out of fear of a change in our habiliments. We seem afraid to trust ourselves in repairing the damage caused by a well known defect in our system, or strengthen weak points developed by the terrible years just passed. We have witnessed the growth and culmination of a rebellion of stupen dous proportions under this same Constitution and yet there are those who seem to think no change or mod ification in it is necessary to prevent a like occurrence. That men reared in the same latitude and locality should think so unlike upon questions of right and duty and Government, may be set down as one of the anorn olies of our existence. That a sys tem of persistent drilling and educa tion should transform the adherence of men, in a generation, from a de mocracy controlled by law to a disin tegration of our Republic, is among the strange things we have wit nessed with sadness. The proud and defiant Democratic party, which had so long controlled our Govern ment, had become manipulated by the immaculate teacher, John C. Cal houn, till it finally became the cham pion of rebellion. The transforma tion had been so gradual and com plete that it appeared to require no sacrifice of principle to sympathize with,if not directly to aid in,the over throw of Republican institutions on this continent The seeds sown by that apostle of evil, John C. Calhoun, bore in due time legitimate fruit. The doctrine of State sovereignty, and the still more daugerous sentiment he ineul- I cated of liberty unrestrained by law, ! were nourished by the immaculate Democratic party and rolled as a sweet morsel under its tongue. " The cohesive power of plunder," held the elements and cemented them into a bond of corruption, not dissolved till the eup of abominations ran over.— The persistent labor of educating and drilling the masses, was entrusted to worthy and willing bauds, North and South. Their appliances were some times crushed,but what did it matter, the great unterrified held domination, and the reins of the Federal Govern ment were firmly held by the slave power. They dealt out crumbs from the plantation table to their North ern parasites, and in return their ad herents North did their bidding and their dirty work. They were educa ted to love slavery and lick the mas ter's hand. The ark of the covenant between Democracy and slavery was studious.y preserved and guarded, and became the bond of a great Dem ocratic brotherhood. When Thomas W. Dorr, of Rhode Islaud, wishing to change the system of elective fran chise in that State, wheeled the can on upon the law-and-order citizens of Providence, it was one of the first lessons in the chapter of anarchy and disruption, which grew rapidly into gigantic proportions under the culti vation of Democratic teachers'. Dem ocratic presses everywhere applaud ed, and when Dorr was finally incar cerated, they howled with terrible in dignation. The same party, with tin same presses, justified the gutting of this House by Democratic rowdies, and pronounced it a blow for liberty. Jolly they were over the election of members of this House through its i windows and back doors. And when, ! later, the mob dictated an election by revolvers and bludgeons, few denun ciations emanated from their organs. Their acquisition of Texas from a sis tor Republic, wholly in the interest of slavery,was a continuation ol their lawless history, lu permitting the slave power to stir up the difficulty with Mexico, pouncing upon two whole States as Texas, then carrying the war into Mexico, and seizing still more of her territory to indemnify them for taking the two States, was according to the most refined Demo cratic idea of " extending the area of freedom." The history of the repeal of the Mi.-souri compromise, with the organization of Kansas into a State by a Missouri mob, and the horrible massacre of free State families by red shirted ruffians in the employ of slave Democracy, these are all fresh in the memories of men ; but the whole truth has never been !old. The I barbarities of the slave power in I Kansas exceed all the "shrieking" | ever yet published. Following up I these events were disturbances in Mexico and tie filibustering expedi tions of that " gray-eyed man of des tiny," Bill Walker, in Central Ameri ca, to carve out slave .States. All these things were connived at, wink ed at and encouraged by the Demo cratic narty, and when Walker was taken in the wa'ers of Nicaragua by Commodore I'auiding, Mr, Buchanan denominated it a " grave error," and all the Democratic presses echoed it as a " grave error." Can it seem, then, so very strange to find these same elements of Democracy falling so gracefully into the embraces of se cession ? With this constant train ing, is it a matter of surprise to find them sympathizing with their "err ing sisters" of the South ? Once in the maelstrom they could not extri cate themselves if they would ; T think they would not if they could. Sir, I have ailu led in the briefest possible manner, to a few ouly ui the evidences of disruption and anarchy produced by the political education of the Calhoun school. That their party attachments should be so strong as to relinquish their grasp upon the last vestige of rational liberty on eartK may seem unaccountable The approaching census of 1860 was to disclose to the South the great disparity in the growth and popula tion of the respective sections. None knew better than they the lessons de ducible from that disparity ; one of which was that, except by some won derful political legerdemain, tbe scep tm of power in the Federal Govern ment was hereafter to be wielded by the North. Their efforts to secure slave territory in Mexico and Ceutral America had proved a failure. The Dred Scott decision had proven abor tive by their defeat in Kansas. The reopening of the slave trade conld not be m ide available without the acquisition of Cuba as the entrepot from which to distribute into the ter ritories. These nicely laid schemes having all been defeated by Northern sagacity and firmness ; the power of the Democratic party in the free States having been broken by the light of intelligence imparted to the people through free schools, free pul pits and Methodist stump speakers, the South was ready for separation by rebellion. Without so much as putting forth to the world a bill of rights,or setting forth a list of grievances, they com mitted several clear and positive acts of war, and then fired upon Fort Sumter. Without reciting what is so sadly familiar to every household in the land, permit me to say that for four years every link which bound | those seceding States to the Federal Government was severed. All au thority in the South was wielded against the Government. Their ter ritory remained within the bounda ries of what was once the Union it is true. But all that constituted a State, and all that constituted civil or mili tary authority, was not ouly without the pale of the Union, but was bitter ly hostile to it. Every school boy can comprehend the truth. They took up the sword and perished by the sword. Their conduct was simply right or wrong. If right, then they are entitled to all the privileges and franchises they ever had under the regis of the Government, and Mr. Johnson and his newly-made friends, and the rebel and his long-time friend and ally are in the right, aud their very kind and benevolent views should be respected accordingly. But if they were clearly and palpably in the wrong —if the destruction of hun dreds of thousands of the best men of the laud to butisly an unholy am bition was wrong, then should they be made to suffer tor the wrong they have done, and no mawkish charity or licentious benevolence intervene to save that people from such a de privation of civil and political rights as will in some measure deter tlicit* from a renewal of the strife,and leave some laud mark of the disapproba tion of all right-minded men. These amendments propose to do this. They are offered as a mild protection against future treason. They do not propose to restore to ws our lost ones; they do nut deal out anathemas for our losses, but they do urge that we come back to those ideas of govern ment enunciated in the immortal Dec laration of Independence, founded up on the equality of human rights.— Like wise rulers they intend strength ening the weak points in our nation al fortifications—weak points devel oped by these four years of internal strife. Would they not be unwise not to do this ? Whoever may have stamped them as a "string of glit tering generalities," matters little ; we are in deep earnest—as were our fathers—that they are eternal truths, and that they shall enter into the fu ture of our Republican government. As the great party of progress, we assume the responsibility of amend iug ties fundamental law. Let our friends mourn, it they will, that their Southern allies cannot be pbte.-d in the jury-box on this trial of them selves. We are willing to adopt tin theories of i'hilip Sober, when he de clared that rebels should have no voice in the restoration of the seced ed States. We are willing to listen to the voice of that loyal element which stood by the llag when to do so " tried men's soul but to place the question in the hands of t! c gujlty parly would l< most supreme folly. Nothing is asked but wh tis dic tated by the clearest se: se of justice aud mercy. \V hen we consider the magnitude of their great crime, the unjustifiable barbarity p-acliced up on their prisoners, taeir persistency in beginning aud continuing the war after so many assurances itad been given them of the enjoyment of all the rights they ever had in the Union, we can see no malice, no revenge for past wrongs—nothing but fairness and even magnanimity in the pro posed amendment ; and their friends ought to blush for their sharp opposi tion to such benignant terms. "Oh! my dear child,how eani<- yon so wet ?" inquired an affectionate mother of her son. " Why, ma one of the boys said 1 darestn't jump into the creek, and by jine" I tell yon I ain't to be dared." " llow are you Smith?" says Jones. Smith pretends not to know him. and rc - ; plies hesitatingly— "Sir, you have got the advantage of m j " Yes," retorts Jones, " I suppose even | body has that's got common sense." ! Smith looks nnhappy. "Bi bby, why don't yen go home | und have your mother sew up that hole in ! your trowsers ?" "Oh! go along old woman, our lolks aie i at the sewing circle, working for the heath en." NUMBER 38.