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.f.ay Morning. by S. W. Ammo and E. J.
CLAuscost, at $2 per annum in advance. •
ADVERTISEMENTS, minding :Mean
lines are inserted at mat moms per line for
fi r st insertion, and rns cows per line for
subsequent inserthms. Special notices in
•serted liefore Maniages and Deaths, till
be Charged 1111311:111 CMS per line for each
insertion. All resolutions of Assodations
communications of limited or individual
interest,and notices of Marriages or Deaths
exceeding five lines, are charged sms curs
p PT line.
1 Year. 6 mo. $ me.
One Column, $lOO $6O $4O
Half " 60 35 25
Oue Square, •16 10 _ 74
Estray,Oaution, Lost and Found, andother
advertisements, not exceeding 10 lines,
three weeks, or lea, $1 60
Administrator's 1 Executor's Notices ..2 - 00
Auditor's Notices • 250
Business Cards, five lines, (per year)..6 00
Merchants and, others, advertbdng their
business, will be charged $25. They will ,
be entitled to 4 column, confined excituda•
IT to their business, with privilege ofgaartee
ig
changes.
Advertising in all cases exclusive of
anbsoription to the paper.
JOB PRINTING of every kind, in . Plain
and Fancy colors, done with neatness and
dispatch. Handbills, Blanks, Cards, Pam
phlets, ko., of every variety and style, pla
ted at the shortest notice. The Rum=
Onus has just been re-fitted with Power
?roues, and every thing in the Printing
inc can be executed in the moat artistic,
canner and at the lowest rates. TEEMS
LNVAEIABLY CASH.
W .
B. KELL Dentist. °Moe
• on• Menu* Y.
Mask's, Towanda".
Parties/sr ctlention fa called to Amarmuma
a base for Artificial Teeth. Having need
this materiels ' for the past four years, I can
coafidutly reomainsad it as being far for
to Rubber. Please call and amain
IL Chloroform administmed when desired.
• Nay 20, 1968.
11 - ENRY PERT, Attorney at Law, M MILL 1
Ll Towan is, Pa.
jan27, M. 4F•a•
41ciitts.
VDWARD OVERTON Jr.;Attor-
Aney at Law; Towanda, Pa. (MI6 korner
xenpled by the late. 0. Adams. -
March 1,1869.
LIEO - ItGE D. MONTANTE, AT-
Uf AT LA iV=Omee corner of
data and Pinestreeta. opposite Porter's Den
Store.
lA. PECK, ATTORNILY AT LAW,
• Towanda, Pa. Office over the Bakery
south of the Ward House and opposite the
Court House. Nov.l, 1868.
IfRIIR. H. WESTON, DENTIST.-
.
Office. in Patton's Block. over Gore's Drug
~nlChetalcal Store. 11=68
H: ,, WA.RNER, M. D., Physician
N.J• and Surgeon, Lettaysvilie, - Pa. After
nearly seven years experience and extensive
practice, would Teepee tfvlly tender his profes•
Mortal services to the people of Lettersetlie and
vicinity. Office same as formerly occupied by
Dra Dewitt S. Davis.
March 3. 3mo
DOCTOR H. A. BARTLETT,
BURLINGTON. ',BOROUGH, PA
J alp 1868
FB i'OßD—Licensed Auctioneer,
•
TOWANDA, PA.
Wti att , u‘s promptly to all business entrusted
to him. .7hargros moderate. Feb. 13, /668.
FOWLER & 004-Rea/ Estate
•,:Dealers„No. 70, WAWA to St., oppo.
pera House. Chicago. 111. . Reel Relate ,
p lamed a..d sold. Investments 'mad. and
m ney I aned. - L. Lm.
April 21, 1869. ! - - R. Powira.
M ISS E. 11. _BATES, M. D.
.131 (Graduste'of Woman's Medical College,
Philadelphia, Class 1854.] Office and residence
No. 11 Para street Owego. Particular atten
tion given to Diseases of Wonien. Patients
visited at their homes If requested.
May 48.1968
PRANOIS E. POST, Painter, lbw
anda, Pa, with 10 years experience. Is con
fident he can glynthe best futtisfaction in Paint
ng, Graining, Staining, Glaring, Pa ring, &c.
war Particular attention paid to Jobbing ',the
"antry. - April 9, 1866.
f K. VAUGHAN—Architect and
•J • Builder.—An kinds of Architectural de
-igna tarnished. Ornamental work in Stone,
.rou and Wood. Office on Main street, over
.k Co.'s Bank. Attention given to 80.
sal Architecture, such as laying out of grounds,
&c. April 1, 1867.-Iy.
N I E t R ClUR aw, ,r& MOuß owan, Pß97l,, Attorneys
The undersigned having associated themselves
:ogether in the practice of Law, offer their.pro
fessional services to the public.
ULYSSES MERCUR P. D. MORROW.
March 9, DM.
tV H. CARNOCHAN-Au
V T • at Law, (District Attorney torM
ford Coant),y Troy, Pa. Collections made
and promptly remitted. Feb. 16, 1868.-tI
JOHN W. MIX, ATTORNEY AT
LA IV; Towanda, Bradford Co. Pa.
General insurance; and Real &tate Agent—
' Bounties and Pensions collectei. N. B.—All
••• hadiniss in the Orphan'. Court attended to
promptly and with cate.t Of3ce ldercnr's new
•.lock unrth aide Public Square. 0ct.34, '67.
TORN N. CALIFF, ATTORNEY
zJ AT LAW , Towanda, Pa. Particular at-
I cation given to Orphans' Gonit business, Con
veyancing and Collections,
*7- Office at the Register's and Itecoider'a.
otlice—so th of Court. House. Dec.l, 1864.
B. JOHNSON, Physician and
L• Surgrimi, TOWANDA, Pa. Office with W,
B. Kelley, over Wickham d. Black. Residence
•A' tilrv.. Humphrey's on Second Street.
Aril IC, 1668.
BEN'J. M. PECK, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Trani... Pe. .&U business intrusted to
oure will receive prompt attention. OMce
in Int. etrke !ately occupied by Mercur &
of Xarl [louse, up stairs.
July 16, isqs .
PRICE LIST-CASCADE MILLS
Bettnality Winter= Wheat Float per
hundred • ...$.5 00 CO SS 50
Be'dqu.ility Rye Flour per hundred • 3 GO
Corn Meal and Rye and Corn. Feed 2 00
Buckwheat Flour, per hundred; 3 SO
A fair margin allowed to des'ers.
Cuatom grinding usually done at once, u the
eAplcity
„ot tht mill is sufficient for a large
amount of work. EL E. INGHAM.
Camptdwn. M - eh 24,1869.
AMERICAN HOTEL,
EAST SMITHP lELD, PA
The sabgcriber having leased this house, late
ly occupied by '1 .4:. Bentley, and thoroughly
repaired and re-fitted It. is now ready to ac
commodate the trsvelliog public. Every en
deavor will be made to satisfy those who may
favor him with ticall. A. G. REYNOLDS-
Feb. t, 16 9.-6m* _
AMERICAN HOTEL,
11 Cor'. Bridge and Water Streets,
TOWANDX, Pa.
B CALSINS Proprietor, audited by L
T. Bores, formerly of ' Royse House," Balding
I on, Penn'a. Feb. 24, 1E0 . 9 tf !
E LWELL . HOUSE, TOWANDA,
JOHN Q. WILSON
Having leafed this 1:011.10 - . Is now ready to ad
commodste: the TraveMng public. No petits
nnr expense will levered to give satisfaction
In those may give him a call. •
• North side of the publicsquire,
:rertr's new block [now building].
R IISIMERFIELD CREEK HO
PETER LkNDIIESSREt,'
Raving mewed and thoroughly fitted this
014 and well-known stand, formerly kept by
Sheriff Griffis. at the mouth ,of Rummereeld
Creek, is ready to give good/accommodations
and satisfactory treatment,tO all who may fa
vor him with a call.- - _ /Dec. 23, 1868.-tf.
WARD HOUSEA'OWANDA, PA
On Main Street, near the Court Hone.
C. T. SMITH, Proprietor.
on. S. 1888
OW. STEVENS,
• COUNTY SURVEYOR.
Cs mptown, Bradford Co.. Pa. ;Thankful to
his many employers for put patronise *mild
respectfully Inform the citizens of Bradford
County that he is prepared to .lo any work la
his line of business that may be InUmand . to
I him. Theme haring .disputod lines woad do
well to bare their property accurately snare
Ixoore allowing themselves to feel sg
their neighbors All w oft warranted
rs correct
...'ear as the nature of the case will permit...
All (=patented lands attended to as soon as
rare:sots are obtained .
Pet). 24, '69.—ly
DOCTOR O. LEWIS,
a asadtaite of the College of "Physicians
l iarg.,enas,"lfew"York city, Class 1843-4.-.
give tacluslve attention to the practice of his
Illf,,ession Office and residence on the east.
P-n slope of Orwell Hill, adJoinicg Henry
!salary 14. 1869.
ALL RINDS SPICES, COFFEE,
Nutted, ready pound, or' ground .0 order
DU/. U? JO 'ki t 3, 11,, or Would / gni
it NEE.
11
LUKE XXX.
AA B. MoKIAN,_ ATTORNEY 4i
Alm COUNSELLOR, dT LAW, Towaw
ils, Pa. IPailkabir ittastlos paid to Million
a' the Orphan' Ova& Jul,7 10. UNIC
lgir T. DAvnB3, Attorney at LAW;
*.joileida.Ps. Oise with Wm. Wet.
smg Particular stlankm paid to Or
'bum' Oonetbadness and settlement of deer
seats estates. - •
w.. - imam *Timms
4 comtaß/40R .42 1 Law.
__
Abe b NOTARY PUBLKI,. rosokat Is too
,
bo of To mails, Pa., for acknowloilesit
El• EX of Dodo, Nortopos. Whim or
rooli# 4l.
ttar" . 1/Pla Costroda, - ANdsiits, Pow
like out °Um Legal lostroammts..
AprlllB,
Byer, Poeta & Co., will deliver 'Floor. Feed ;
Weal, Grabsa Pious t orlaz:_thlas else fa their
Use In say pa t ef the
Customers will dad aaz Book at the
more of Paz. Stemma, Nam & Co. All of
Gera left la mild book will be promptly atter' d
id to.
Amy humbles la regard to ing. or
liminess a the MR, eaterel u r ead Book will
be answered. '
- MYER, FOSTER & CO.
Tomandi, Joao U, lfl6B.—tf. '
THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE
opened &Banking Bones in Towanda, un
der the name of G. P, NABOB I CO.
They are prepared to draw Bill of Ba
chaage, and Rake collations In New York,
Philadsiphla, and all patins of the United
States, as alto BaglaM,Germany, and Prance.
eneral
To Loan mosey, receive deposits , and to do a
g Banking basins*.
O. P. Kamm wu one of the late firm of
Laporte, V son I Co., of Towanda, Pa., and
his lusowle p of the bubbles men of Bradford
end adjolumg Coutles,and having been in the
banking buftess for about fifteen years, make
this home a desirable one, through which to
make collections.
Tcysatia, Oct. 1.1866.
BRADFORD 60IINTY
El B. McKBAN, RBA'. Es l An Awn.
Valuable Puma Hill Properties, City and'
Town Lots for ale.
toWlWing property, for sale will find it
advantage by ftearing a description of
the same. with tease of ale at this agency, ea
parties are %instantly enquiries for farms U.
R. IIcKBAN.
Beal Estate Agent.
Jas.°ice Mon
1887.tanye's Block,
_Towanda, Pa.
29,
ATTENTION THIS WAYI
Have on hand for the Spring trade, the lareat
assortment of
BUGGIES AND PLATFORM WAGONS
to be foundd in this part of thecountry,
which they will sell at the most reasonable pri•
ces, and warrant all work. All that doubt need
but call and examine. A word to the wise is
rallicient. L Mg= A CO.
A , ril 1,1869.-6 m •
MYERSBURG MILLS 1
The-subscribers laving purchased of Mr.
Barns his interest in the Mnatanuno WWI
will carry on the business of Milling, and
guarantee all work done by them to likr of
the very best quality.
Wheat, Rye and Buckwheat Flour, and
Feed constantly on 'hand, for sale st the
lowest cash price.
Also now on band a large quantity of
best Ground Cayuga Plaster tor sale.
MYER & FROST.
Myersburg, Sept 24, 1868.
lIARDING & SMALLEY,
Having entered Into al:p-partnership for the
transaction of the PHOTOGRAPHIC business,
at the TOO= formerly occupied by Wood and
Harding, would respectfully call the attention
of the public to several styles of Pictures which
we ma k e specialties, as : Solar Photographs,
Plain, Penciled and Colored, Opaltypes, Porce
lain Nacres. &c., which we claim for clernness
and brilliancy of tone and Artistic finish; can
set be excelled. We invite all to examine them
as well as the more common kinds of Portraits
which we make, knowing full well that they
ikillbear the closest inspection. This Gallery
claims the highest reputation for good work of
any in this section of country, and we are de
termined by a strict attention to business and
the superior quality of oar work, to not only
Main but increase its very enviable rep/Dation.
We keep constantly on hand the best variety
of Frames and at lower prices than at any other
establishment in town. Also Passepartonts
Card frames, Card Easels, Holmes' Stereo
scopes, Stereoscopic Vies, and everything else
of importane6 pertaining to the business. Give
us an early call,
N. 11.--Solar Printing for the trade on the
most reasonable terms. D. HARDING,
Aug. 29, '67. F. SKALLEY.
CHEAP PASSAGE FROM OR TO
IRELAND OR ENGLAND!
4:117103Ch CO.'S LINZ OF ITZAXIIIIIFT MOIL OT TO
Williams & Onion's old "Black Star Line" of
Liverpool Packets, aalllog every week.
Swallow-tall Line of Packets from or to I ..n
-don,kailing twice a.montn. ,
Remittances to England, Ireland and Scotland
payable on demand.
For farther particulars,apply to Williams d
Quits, 29 Broadway, Now-York, or
O. F. BASCOM 3 O.: Bash era, •
Oct. 1, 1866. Towanda P ■
GS. PECK. MILLWRIGHT &
•MACHINIST, TOWANDA. PA. Ellis ballt
and Sepal , ed. Engines and Bolters set In the
best manner. I would 041 , the atter tlon 11
mill owners to my
NEW VORTEX WAVES WHEEL.
As combining all the elements of a finnela as
molter., simplicity of construction, accesdbit
ity, t
amo s u t rnetn gh
o o w f
e.
r p w atdrnuloping
11e
aired,
aired, running under backwater with no det
/riment to power except diminitkm of bead; re
gn hiss no alteration in Inn frames or addition
to tun, will fan under low head, and wide of.
any dabbed capacity. These wheels will be
furnished at lees than one-half the cost of any
other Int-class wheel In market, and warrant
ed to perform all that is claimed foe them—
These wifeels will be made for dllivery with or
without cues, on short notice of the lot Iron
in manes.
Yor fell particulars address or enquire of the
andersigned: B. PEOH, Towanda, Pa.
P..l3.—These wheels us be seen hi operation
at Ness. Horton & Wells' KM Towanda twp.
The wheels are wholly - composed of Iron as now
made. • Jan. 1849.—tf
WAVERLY INSTrTIITE.
One of the best Liter Institutkma of the
matelots:eights fro m ; pants, Is Stated
at
WA Y, TIOGA couirr, N. Y. -
The same* are complete, the "0 laid
cal" sli those stadia required for ad
sissies our best Colleges. Also a thorough
drill is modentlangoages.
The Halt course comprehend% both th e
comma ee, tanaht in Mesentery
&boo d yof the - higher branch*, usu
ally ed In a the Collets, In the Commer
cial the instruction is u thorough and
eomp uln our most succemfal Commercial
Co
upon the Piano and I organ by the
Old Also by Robins! new Amains meth
od, by vilich pupils can acquire a knowlsdp
of Ifasign one-third the time which it Marra
e
li r rimi,
re
of talon are very moderate. Bard ,'.
nd
an
obtained reasonable prioss--a lisitsi dnai silli•
her of cut be accoatodated in the
of the ctors. loose ea be sees
which am bond lbeirelves aid .
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Serbs.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
G. F. MASON,
2,4,24. GABON.
REAL ESTATE AEIENCY,
N. KINNEY & CO.;
li#Airimir, N. Y.,
QM:IP/TOWN OP irrizrooi.
, Softly.
Tax sza.vzit inn!,
go Asuiesaul, soon of Ooluintis
Ho farther airiSuandlinnuthdlut softly*
Clauie with the !Wee that roll &iris the vat.
bola with the wild winds that on the Wale
— Witsiesarthoi4b4; the Whir Tie.
Seals of Columbia.. eicingnerors forever 1 - .
Whose banners and ..induatry, nations;
'COnta like the then ye are. come without
'number, -
J..): the guides the way, come where
• elamters—
Hare is home by the Silver Tie.
Distance is vanquishealinountains ere httm
-Whirl on through 'fastnesses, ride thro'
the sky,
Hand down the legendto children th!‘t won
der,
How with the speed of the lightning and
thunder,
All the world poured on to gaze at the Tie.
Stand gu_ the mannish:a. where preciorug
genie glitter,
• Gazing both ways where the twin oceans
he,
See how they clap their hands, even they
voider,
Hear them shout back through the tempest
and thunder :
" Strong is the Union with Silver 71e !"
D. D. Fasserr.,
•The last tie on the Pacific roadie already
on its way to its destination. 'lt is encased
in silver and is to be . pinned down with gold
spikes.—Newspaper. •
':;: banalleSUO.
REGISTRY LAW.
&emu 1. Be it enacted by the- &n
-ate and House of Representatites ?the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in
General Assembly met, and it is hereby
enacted by the authority of the site,
T-hatit shall - be the duty of each of
the assessors within this common
wealth, on the first - Monday in June
of each year, to take up the transcript'
he has received from the county coin;
missioners under the -eighth section
of the act of fifteenth ,April, eighteen
hundred and thirty-four, and proceed
to an Immediate revision of the same,
by striking therefrom- the name of
every person who is known by him
to have died or removed since the
last previous assessment from the
district of which he is the assessor,
or whose death or removal from the
same shall be made known to him,
and to add to the same the name of
any qualified voter who shall be
known by him to lave moved into
the district since the last previous as
sessment, or whoseremoval into the
same shall be or shall have been
made known to him, arid also the
names of all who shall make claim
to him to be qualified voters therein.
As soon.as this revision is completed
he 'shall visit every dwellirgir house_
in his district and make careful in
quiry if any person whose same is on
his hat has died or removed from the
district, and if so to take the same
therefrom, or whether. any qualified
voter resides therein whose name is
not ton - his list, and if so to add the
same theretn ; and in all cases where
a name is added to the list a tax shall
forthwith be assessed against the
person ; and the assessor shall iu - all
cases ascertain, by inquiry, upon what
-.ground the person so assessed claims
to be a voter. Upon the completion
of this work, it. shall be the duty of
each assessor as aforesaid to proceed
to make out a list, in alphabetical or
der, of-the white freemen, above twen.:
ty.one years of age, claiming to be
qualified voters in the ~ark borough,
township or district of which he is
the assessor, and Opposite each of
said names state whether said free
man is or is not a 'housekeeper ; and
if he is, th.• number of his residence,
in towns where the same are num
bered, with the str e et, alley or court
in which situated ; and if in a town
where there are no numbers, the name
of the street, alley or court on which
said house - front, ; also, the occupa
tion of the person ; and where ho is
not a housekeeper, the occupation,
place of boarding and with whom, add
if working for another, the name of
the employer, and write opposite each
of said names the word " voter r
where any person claims to vote by
'reason of naturalization, he shall ex
hibit his certificate. thereof to the as
sessor, unless he , has been for five
consecutive years next preceding a
voter in said district ; and in all cases
where the persoii has been natural
ized, the name shall be marked with
'the letter , " N r where the person
'has merely declared his intentions to
become a citizen and- deeittris to be
naturalized before the - next election,
the mime • shill be marked "D.L. ;"
where the claim is to vote by reason
of being between the ages of twenty
one and twenty two, as provided by
.law, the word' age "'Obeli be-miter
ed ; and if the person gas moved in
to the election district to reside since
the• general election, the letter
" R shall be placed opposite the
name. It shall, be the further duty
of each assessor as aforesaid, upon
the Completion of the duties herein
iniposed, to make out a separate list
of all new assessments made by him
and the amounts assessed upon each,
and furnish the same immediately to
the county commissioners, who shall
immediately add the names to the
tax duplicate of the ward, borough,
township or district in which they
have been assessed.
SitcrioN 2. On the .list being com
pleted and the assessments _made as
aforesaid, the same shall forthwith
be returned to the county commission
ers, who shall cause duplicate copies
of said Bate, with the - observations
and explanations required to be noted
as aforesaid, to bumade out as soon
as practicable and placed in the bands
of this assessor, who shall, prior to
the first of August in each year,.put
copy . thereof on the door of or on
the house where the election of the
respective district is required to . be
held, and retain the other in his pos-!,
session '
for , the inspection, free, of,
charge, of any persim resident in the
slid election district who Shall &lire
to see the same ; and it shall be the
k i ‘ 4
"!;-1-
Tov.ir.A,N,p2v4.AßApPq*p::,oolt- i :-..tpA 4 ili-1it:=;4809;, , ,
duty of the said assessor to add, from
time _to time, on the personal: applies
tion of zany one claiming the tight to
vote, the name of such chihnant, and
mark opposite the name "0N.," and
immediately assess him' with
noting, as in all other earl, his me
capatwn, residence, wheither;a
er or honielteeper ; if a'boarder,isith
whom he boards • :Ail Whether riat
drained .or. designing f,ci be, marking
in all inch cases the letteri, Opposite
the name, N." or " DI," as the case
nay be ; if the person claiming to be
assessed be naturalized, he ihall „ex
hibit to the assessor his-Arta of
niturslization ,• and if he cis that
he designs to be naturodized before
the next ensuing election; he shall ex
hibit the certificate of his declaration
of intention ; in - all-cases where any
ward; borough, township or election
district is divided into two or more
precincts, the assessor gall_ note in
all hiis assessments th 6 (diction pre
cinct in which siseb eleiitor yesideb,
and shill make a , separateretuni, fcir
each to' the county conimissioneti in
all cases in which a return is requi red
from him by the' provisions of this
act ; and the co unty commisfliontirse
datioriorta-eo l ikrerviribll !nob
returns, shall-make duplicate copies
of the names of the voters in 'each
precinct, separately, and shall furnish'
the same to the assessor';
and the
copies required by this act to be plae.
ed on the doors of or on election
places on or before the_first of August
in each year,
shall be' placed on the
door of or on the election place in each
of said precincts. -
Sscrwe B. After the assessments
have been completed on the tenth day
preceding the second Tuesday in Oa
tober of each year, the assessor shall,
on the Monday immediately follow
ing, make a return to the county con
missioners of the lama of all per
sons assessed by him since thereturn
required to be made by him by the
second section of thiii act, noting op:
posite each name the observations
and explanations required to be noted
as aforesaid ; and the county COW
inissionerd shall thereupon cause the
:fame to be added to the - return re
squired-by the second section of this
Dot, apd a full and correct copy there-
Of to be made, containing the names
Of all persons so returned as resident
taxables in said ward, borough, town
ship or precinct, and furnish the same,
together with the necessary election
-blanks, toihe officers of the election
in said ward, borough, township or
precinct, on or before six o'clock in
the morning of the second Tuesday
of October ; and no mau shall be per
mitted to vote at the election on that
day whose name is not on said list,
unless' he shall make proof of his right
to vote, as hereinafter required;
SICTIoN 4. On the day of election
any person whose name is hot on the
said list, and claiming the right to
vote at, 'said election, shalt produce
at least one qualified voter of the dis
trict as a witness to the residence of
the claimant in the district in which
he claims to be a voter, for the period
'of at least ten days next preceding
said election, which witness shall take
and subscribe a. written, or partly
written and partly printed, affidavit
to the facts stated by him, which af
fidavit shall define clearly where the
residence is of the person so claiming
to be a voter; and the .person so
claiming the right to vote shall also
take and subscribe a written, or part,
ly written and partly printed affida
vit, stating, to the best of his know
ledge and belief, where and. when he
was born ; that he in a citizen of the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania and
of the United States ; that he has re
sided in the.commouwealth one year,
or if formerly a citizen therein and
has moved therefrom, that he has re
sided therein six months next preced
ing said election ; that he =has not
moved into the district for the pur
pose of voting therein ; that he has
paid a state or county tax within two
years, which• was assessed at *least
ten days before said election ; and, if
a naturalized citizen, shall also state
whet', where and by what court he
was naturalized, and shall also pro
duce his certificate of naturalization
for examination ; the said affidavit
shall also state when and where the
tax claimed to be paid by the affiant
was assessed, and when, where and
to - whom paid ; and the -tax receipt
therefor shall be produced for exami
nation, unless the affiant shall state
in his affidavit that it has been lost
or destroyed, or that he never receiv
ed any , ; but if the perion so claiming
the right, to vote shall take and sub
scribe an affidavit, that he is a native
born citizen of the United States, (or
if-born elsewhere, shall - state that fact
in his .affidavit, and shall produce evi
dence that he has' been iaturalized,
or that Le is entitled to citizenship by
reason of his father's naturalization;)
and ehall further state in his affidavit
thatihe is, at the time, of taking the
affidavit, between the ages of twee
trone and twenty-two yearsl;: 2 tteit
he - has resided in the state lone year
and in the election district ten days
next preceding such election; he shall
be entitled to vote, although he'shall
not have paid taxes ; the said affida
vits of all persons making such claim's,
and the affidavit's of the witnesses to
their residence, shall be preDerved - by
the election board, and at the close
of the election they shall be enelosed
with the list of -voters, tally-list and
other papers required by law' to be
filed by the return judge With the
prothonotary, and shall • remain on
file therewith in the prothonotary'e
office, subject to examination, as oth
er election papers are ; if the - . °leo
tion officers shall find that the appli
cant or applicants possess' all , , the -le
gal qualifications of voters, he or they
shall be permitted to vote, " and' :the
name or names shall be added to the
list of taxables by the election GM
cent, the word " tax" being added
.where the claimant, claims to vote on
tax, and the word " age " where E lie
elaims to vote on age; the same words
being - added bribe -clerks in each
- case respectively, on the lists of _per -7
sons' voting at such election. .
Suwon b. It shall - bi 1041 fir
any qualified citizen of -the distrieti
notwithstanding the name of the pro- -
posed voter is contained on the
.lien
of resident taxables, to chilling° . Ahe
'vote of such persont • .. hereupon.the
same proof of the rig ht of
is now required by SW shall* -06,
i*up3msal; or
Holy, made self acted on by Abu elec=
tion-board a:Albs-vote admitted or
rejected, according - to the- evidence 4
every person claiming to boa nuttr
elite(' citizen: shall be ligiired- to
produce, his nittnralizationoertifloate
at the election before voting, except
where he has been forten years, con
secutively, a voter in`- e district> is
wilichhe offers his vote;- sod'on , the
vote of apch person ' being received,
,it shall be the duty of the - election
officers to write or stamp on each cer- -
Itificate the word " voted," -with :the
month and year. ; and if any electiop
officer remove a set_
.ond vote on the same day, by virtue
of the same certifixiate, - excepting
where : sons ire entitled to vote:. by
virtue-9f the naturaliaatiOn of their
fathers, they and the person who shall
offer such second vote, upon so offend
log shall be guilty of a high misde
meanor, and on conviction thereof; be
fined or imprisoned, or both; at the
discretion of the court ; but the fine
shall not exceed one hundred dollars
in each case, nor the imprisonmeit
one year ; the like punishment shall
be inflicted on conviction, on the offi
cers of election who shall neglect or
refuse to make or cause to be made,
the indorsement re9nired as aforesaid
on said naturalization certificate.
Simon 6. If any election officer
shall refuse orneglect to require'such
proof of the right of suffrage as is
prescribed by this law .or the laws to
which this is a. supplement, from any
person offering to vote whose name
is not on the list of assessed voters
or whosn right to'vote is challenged b any whose
voter present,. and
shall admit such person to vote with
out requiring such proof, every per
son so offending shall; upon convic
tion, be guilty of a high misderpeanor,
and shall be sentenced, for every
such offence, to pay a fine not exceed
ing one hundred dollars; or to under
go an imprisonment not more than
one year, or either or both, at the dis
cretion of the court.
&cries '7. Ten days preceding every
election for electors of President and
Vice President of the United'States,
'it shall be tho duty of the assessor to
attend at the place fixed by law for
holding the election in each, el4dtion
district, and then and there hear all
applications of persons whoseitMeW
have been omitted from the list4sis
seemed voters, and who claim the right
to vote, or whose rights hair) origi
nated since the same was made but,
and shall add the names'of such per-i
eons •thereto as shall shim that they
are articled to. the right of suffrage
in su4r. district, on the personal' ap
plieation of the- claimant only, and
forthwith assess them with the prop.
er tax.. After, completing the list, a
copy thereof shall be placed on the
door of or on the house where the
election is to be held, at least eight
days-before the election ; and at the
election' the same coarse shall be pur
sued, in all respects, as is required
by this act and theects to which it
is a supplement, at the general eke.
tione in October: The assessor shall
also make the same returns to thei
county commissioners. of all asses s•
made by virtue of this section;
and the county commissioners shall
furnish copies thereof to the election
officers in each district, in like man
ner in all respects as is required at
the general elections in'October.
Samos 8. The same , rules and reg
ulations shall apply at every special
election, and at every separate city,
borough or ward election., in all res•
pecta, as at - the general elections in
October.
Semen 9. The respective assessors,
inspectors and judges of the elections
shall-each have the power to admin
ister oaths to any person claiming
the right to be assessed or the right
of suffrage, or in regard to any other
matter or thing . required to be done
or inquired into by any of said offi
cers under this act ; and any wilful
' - faise swearing by any peritiu in rela
tion to any matter or thing :concern
ing which they shall be laWfully in
tcrrogated by any of - said officers,
shall be punished as perjury.
&erten 10. The assessors shall inch
receive the same compensation for the
time necessarily spoilt ib performing
the'iluties hereby enjoined as is pro
vided by law for the performance of
their other duties, to be paid by the
county commissioners as in. other
cases ; and it shall. not be lawful for
any assessor to eased& a tax against
any peraore whatever within ten days
next preceding the - election to be held
on the second Tuesday. of October,
in
any year, or 'Within ten days next be
fore any election for,electorii of Pres
ident and Vice President of the United
States • any violation of this provision'
shall be a. misdemeanor, and subject
the officers 80 offending to a, fine, on
conviction; not exceeding one hundred
dollars, or to imprisonment not ex
ceeding three months; qr both, at the
discretion of the court.
SECTION 1 / . On. the-petition of fieP
or more citizens of the county, stating
under oath that they verily believe
that frauds will be practiced: at the
election about-to be . held, in any dis
trict, it shall be the 'ditty of the court
of common pleas of said county, if in
session, or if not, a Judie thered in
vacation; to. appoint two judicious,
'sober and intelligent citizens of t the
county to act as overseers at said
election ; said overseers shall be se.
lected from different .polittcal 'parties,
where'the inspectora belong to differ
ent parties, and where both , of said
inspectors belong to' the same pnlitit
cal party, both of the overseers shall
be taken , from the opposite, political
party; said overseers shall have the
right to be present with the officers
of the election, during the , whole •time
the time le held, the votes' minted,'
and the retains made oat and signed
by th eleotion eflicers;Ao keep a list
of voters, if their, see proper ;- to chat—
lenge any person Offering to vote, and
interrogate .him and . h i s Witnesses,
under-oatb; in regard to his, right of
_suffrage at said electioa, and* . to, ex
-amine bin Papers prodtund Sod; the
officers of sstd election are, roluired
to a ff ord to said stiepteested
and appointed every aonlkdance and
facility for the discharge oft their do-
tips; and if said election officers - shall
;refuse to permit said overseers ,to be
preseut 'and perfor o ' . their duties as
aforesnid, Or if they shill be driven
away fro-Ml*o falls by ,1010/108 'or
intimidation, all the • votes polled at
nor 'ist aTiurss
such election — district •initY be rejected
by .4 tribunal 'trying's' coiled - AU
dee said eleethin flVovidek That no
pinker signing' the 'petition 'Ann be
appointed an:overseer. .-• *
- SZOTION IS. If any ; prothonotary,
elerVorthe deputy if either;er any
other person, shall affix -the seal •of
office to - tiziy" naturalisajtj• p aper or
peen&tbritiinie Eli be t ot. ilve
on - rise ocpermit. the. same;, ,to
.trut, blank, whereby./ it
it '
randulently used, or fur-
Outwit, - alisatina T 1 certificate to
our liesmitsholshall.tiot have been
duly examined: And :Aware: - in . ,open
court, in -the presence of sawed the
JAM:thereof, aksiording- to the act
of confrAss,-or shall 'Aid: connive
at, or in any way permit the issue of
any.fraudnlentliaturalization cord&
cate.be shall , be guilty of a high mis;
demeanor ;- or if; any one shall fraud
ulently use any such certificate of
natualization, knowing that it was
fraudulently issued, or shall vote, or
attempt -to vote thereon, Or if any one
shall vote;or Attempt to vote, on any
certificateof naturalization not issued
to him, heAhall be guilty of a high
misdemeanor, ; and either .or any of
the persona, their 'eiders or abettors,
guilty of either of the misdemeancirs
aforesaid, shall, on conviction, be
-fined - in a sum• not exceeding one
thousand dollars, and imprisoned in
the proper penitentiary for a period
nut exceeding three years.. , ,
Seertoe, 18. Any person who on
oath or affirmation, in or before any
court in this state, or officer author
ized to adininister oath-, shall, to
procure a certificate of uuturalizathm,
for himself or any other 'person, wil
fully depose, declare or affirm any
matter to :be fact, knowing the same
to be false, or shall in like manner
deny any matter to be fact, knowi ng
the same to be true, shall be deemed
guilty of perjury ; and any Certificate
pi naturalizationissued in pursuance
of any such deposition, declaration or
Affirmation shall be null and void ;
and it snail be ;the duty of the court
issuing the same, upon proof being
Made before it that it was fraudulent
ly obtained, to take immediate mea
sures for re-calling the same fur cau
-1 collation ; and any person who shall
vote, or attempt to vote, on any pa
per so obtained, or wile shall in any
way aid in, connive at, or have any
ageecy wl;ateveri, in the issue, drew
lation or use of any fraudulent uatur
alizatioa certificate, shall be deemed
guilty 'of a misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction thereof, shall undergo au
imprisonment in the penitentiary for
not more than two years, and pay a
fine, not more than one thousand dol
lars'for every such offence, or either
or both; at the discretion of the court.
Szenos 14. Any assessor, election
officer or person appointed as an over
seer, who shall neglect or refuse to
perform any duty enjoined, by this
act,withont reasonable or legal cause,
Shall be subject to a penalty of hie
hundred dollars ; and if any ,ssessor
shall assess any , person as a voter
who is not . qualified, or shall refuse
to assess arty one who is qualified,
be shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
in office, and on conviction be FWD
iabed by fine or imprisonment, and
al -o be dubject to an action fur dam
ages by the party aggrieved ; and if
ally person shall-fraudulently alter,
add to, deface -or destroy any list of
voters, made out as directed by this
act, or tear down or remove the same
from the place where it has le;en fix
ed, with fraudulent or mischievous
intent, or for any improper purpotfe,
the person so offending shall be - gni'
ty of a high misdemeanor, and on
conviction shall be punished by a fine
not exceeding five hundred dullare,
or imprisonment not exceeding two
years, or both, at the discretion of
the court.
lieertos 15. All elections for city,
ward, borough,- township sod election
officers shall hereafter be held on the
second Tuesday of October, subject
to all the provisions of the laws reg
ulating the eleition , of Such officers
not inconsistent with- this - act ; the
persons elected to such offices at that
time shill take their places at the ex
piration of the terms of the persons
holding the same - at the time of such
election ; tont no election• for the of
fice of assessor .or assistant assessor
shall be held, under this act, until the
year one thousand eight hundred 'and
seventy.
Ssertos 16. At all ek:ctions here.
after held, under the laws of this von
niouwealth, the polls shall be opened
betsieeri the, hours of six and' seven
o'clock A.M., and closed at seven o'-
clock P.M.
13scrtox 17. It shall be the duty of
the secretary 9f the commonwealth
to prepare forma for alt. the blanks
made necessary by this act, and fur
nish copies of the same to the county
commissioners, of the several coun
ties of the commonwealth ; Ind the
tounty commissioners of each county
Mtif, as soon as may be necessary
after receipt 'of the,eame, at the prop
er expense of the county, procure and
turni.h to all the election officer's of
the election districts of their respec
tive counties Copies of such blanks,
'in such quantities as may be render
ed necessary for the discharge of their
duties under' this act.
Sacrum 18. None of the-loregoing
provisions of this,act shall apply-to
the city ofPhiladelphia excepting
sections twelve and thirteen••
‘Szertott 19. That citizens of this
state temporarily in the service of
the state or of the United States - gov•
eniments, oe„ clerical - or ether duty,
and who do pot vote where thus em
ployed, shall not be thereby deprived
of . the rightio vote in their. Bevels ,
election districts if---,otheritlee duly
qoulifled. !
- -(The -other section of this law re: — ,
fer exclusively to the city of ruila- ;
del ph ia.) - - •
AN illiterate correspondent;lwhe is
ghee to'sportiag, wants to know when the
anloam= race," no much talked abput,
is to some off. '
A LOA* man—the pawnbrolde
•
" SHINGLE weddings" are becoming
&Mang& Thai occur when the
Mt child b old enough to spank.
ills great secrets of navigation are
aonUilaa la a mall tempos.
War are , your nose and chin . wa ys
mime? Bemuse words are
,
v
efittutt4 Nr;ttry.
rvx BMWS TH.INKIIIIO.
I've been thinking; F. been thinking,
What glorious worldwern this.
Did folks mind their &minute. more,
And mind theiT i meighbor's less
For instate% you and I, my. friend,
Are sadly prone to talk
Of matters that concern us not,
And.others' follies mock.
I've been thinking, if we'd begin
To mind our own affairs,
That possibly our neighbors might
OontLive to manage theirs,
We've faults enough at hometo mend—
It may be io with others ;
It would seem strange if it were not,'
flinee all mankind are brothers.
Oh! would that we had charity
For every man*nd woman ;
Forgiveness is the mark of those
Who know " to err is himan."
Then let us banish jealousy
Let's lift our, fallen brother ;
And as we journey down life's road,
Do good io - one another.
COMMUNICATED.
Tay : POLYPI:WI and many others of thejow-..
er fonifilof life, live and grow after vivisec
tion,_ and this they are enabled to do, only
because the single nerve arc Is Table of
sustaining the imperfect existene of each
part. A life so simple and uncoimplicated,
requires only. the simplest orgenism to per
formil
its functions. The origin plan of
nervous development, no doubt, mbraced
that of man as its tenifiniui, sad ence, we
believe that. all additions to the primary
nerve aro are simply supplementary—not
new erections of nerve apparatus, ant such
complementary changes as rtnder the sys
tem complete, and perfect in itself
But is the system complete? Is there to
be in the interminable future another , de
velopment of nerve force?, It so, what is it
to be? Another sense? We have as many
senses now as we-can use with dismition.
Is it to be a prescience of the futere? We
can form a pretty correct opinion oi our fu
ture now, if we will be guided by l iast ex
perience, and adhere to the right. Indeed,
we can see no occasion for the use of anoth
er sense, or of a knowledge of what is to be,
so long as oar analytic and reasoning pow
ers remain what they are Let us be con
tent with what we have, and improve what
we have, and be grateful for what we have.
This train of thought has arisen in our
mind by the announcement that a foreign
physiologist of great reputationend learn
hey, has recePtly declared, as a result of
earnest inquiry, that the average weight and
size of the human brain had perceptibly in
creased within the last eight hundred years,
and the inference is, that pentad power has
bad a corresponding increase, independent
of the civilizing process to which it has ha ' en
subjected. We make no comments. It may
or it may not be so, but in such an investi
gation how are we to separate original in
herent brain force from the results of civili
sation and cultivation ?
:We may say, there are three developments
of nerve force, first, the instinctive, such as
we see in the lowest • class of animals, and
uddeli originates in the single nerve am—
,.
Norma, the imitative or associative, which
is bailisi upon the sympathetic serve arc,
but 3ebioh receives much of its nerve force
from the spinal and cerebral arcs ; and third,
the cerebral or intellectual development.
In every act of the first, sensation and mo
tion are instinctive and entertain° ; in the
second, instinctive and imitative. In the
second, instinctive and initiative motions
are associated, making a near approach to
consciousness—perhaps there is a degree of
consciousness, as there is an imperfect
brain ; in the third. there are all three kinds
of nerve force, and manifestations, instinct,
imitation, and consciousness, or • intellect.
The early savage inhabitants of one earth,
lived in their instincts and imitations,—
but little above the prates. They dwelt in
caves, in imitation of the animals they saw.
and clothed theit naked bodies with skins,
having learned from them the virtues of fur.
They used gestures and signs to communi
cate with each other, and then, after,ranch
difficulty and delay, rendered the signs into
words. Thus, they had a lenguage,—aud
the facilities of speech made many other
advances. less laborious.. Rude tails; and
implements of tie chase were now construct
ed,—stonebit knives, and sto e hammers, and
spears cameo into use. amines, by con
tiguity and association, ame tribes, and
tribe warred with tribe, the victors claiming
the spoils, and eating' their prisoners._ How
long this savage life continued we know not,
but this we know, that the intellect had not
es yet iscended to its higher development
of reason and analysis,—the brain had
, not
received that plastic touch of sonl-power„
which ilnecestiary to solve the problems of
.the higher life—the moral sense was dor-.
mint or engaged in the worship of fetiches,
law had not asserted its office of controlling
and civilizing, and government was but an
instinctive force, to
.oppress and defraud:
We find that the physiology of the nerve
force has impressed itself upon social de
velopment 'from the beginning. Thus, gov
ernment was at first only an emanation, an
outgrowth, of selfish instincts, and base pro
penalties. It was an . assertion of the one
man power, and couLi_hold its sway only
by blood and violence, After a long exper
dance of its abominable turpitude, men who
had advanced to the plane of a higher de
velopment, threw it off, and inquiring of
their higher soul-life, established constitu
tions arid republics. :nat. - so with rellgten.
Founded in instinct and fear (fear" is only
an instinct), the earlier religions • fall of
the world Irma gigantic fraud, & despotism,
more math= the world has seen since.
-an all-enibracing scheme of its ministers
and administrators; to repress every asps-
ration' for'the good, and the true. ' And this
they did by chains and fetters,' by Are and
faggot. It was a contest of man's baser nts.
tore with his higher intellectual soul. j , '
Instinctive selfisinessiand &tire to:pow
er,' is no base for a religious faith. The ea ;
lightened soultabulties abhor it, but they
turnip Lova as a foundation for the ens.
chnof an enlightened worship of the good,
_the beautiful, and the , tree, with cc•mplai.
_sauce and delight. The Divine Founder of
our Most Holy Faith, taught nothing , but
love. _ initeds is why religion must
endure. He who worships through:fear;
worships as the savage worshiped, in his
Wirer life. In such wonhip, there is no
'lifting np of the ion), no aspiration of the
heart, no enlargement of the intellect; and
b tin unmans of worship, it can hare
no answer. .Love, being a dominant mini.
isitAken prima forae, embraces and anbs.
geS all Other faculties of the moral sense:
a filet - inifsiE 2 PathY , it 4-Philadaroli
lice petilottim, it is
. honor and hone* it
0 2 Per A.41111n,-in • diertine:e.
is courage and duty, in their largest sense.
Althatmere approirriatelorm could worship
assume than that of Zove; which connects
itself with, and beautifies every other virtue?
Nerie force is the, architect and builder
of the hedy... Lite itself is ti result of its ac--
tion. :: lte controlling and _directing influ-
ence is,perceitibli in the earliest beginning
of embryonie 'structtire„ and it •domimitee in
the bit gasp for breath. It impieties her,:
editary tendencies and capacities on , the
pliant plasma, which through s long life Of
thronging instincts and sensibilities, he
roine unfailing and Inerdling clurracteris
tics. The child is father of the Man in more
senses than one, but what - the el:did le;..the
father has been. The rule has, therefore„_
two aspects, looking behind as well as be
fore, and there is a continuity, of being, from
life to life, and from age to lige. There is
no break between ns and our fathers, there
will be none between us and our chfidren—:
the hopeful youni, progeny who `are, even
now, ready to ptudidcfront our stnobs.•
Hereditary. t,enciencies have a more direct
comieotion with our lives; than is geniindly
supposed. WQ know but little concerning
them, or the conditions their Manifesbl•
lion; but, it is thew . experience a i
p
the world, that they do I exist. And there
are national; as wen as victual forms of
(Lim.- The Celts and Saxons , are diverse
now, and have teen, &tiny the time to which
the memory of man runnetti not to the con
trary. The- divergence, so.. long tradition
szy.:is now; -undoubtedly, organic, having
become so by long years of exhansting War;
fare.. and the prjudices engendered by rival
religious worship. The Hindoo, transplant
ed in European soil, never loses trace of his
East Indian ancestry. The Magyar, though
he lives in Hungary, prides himself that he
is not a Hun, but a Mauer of - the Caucasus
still. The Schwa despises the Turk, and
the Turk the Christian. The Puritan is dia.:
gusted with the cavalier, and the cavalier
laughs at the Puritan. Now, ills often true
that education and discipline contribute to
these differynties,• but it is neiertheless true
that these Teri influences may, and do, so ire' ' ,
press the mind, groove it if you please, that
they become 'organic, and .are' transmitted
i
to the next generatiOn. 'I
What race or people is eventually to "ob
tain the mastery? Pant ianguago is to be
the language of the world? What religion
is to unite all men in one worship? What
system. of law i 8 to govern. the 'thronging
millions? NoW just here the legislator and
reformer is to take conned with the physi
ologist, for they. are more questions of phy
siology than of statesmanship. Physiology
alone: holds the keylbilheir ifolution. One_
thiniis clear—so long as legislators and re
formers build systems, which violate the
first . principles of man's moral nature, so
long as they pander to his instincts alone,
as they have dote in all t me past, so long
will our earth be an area: of bloodshed and
woe. as it ever has been. .
Can we prove the- exis once. of the soul
from the, structure of the rain and nerves ?
It hi admitted. we think, that the soul ie an
immarial something, whose activities are
manifistod in the phenomena of life, and in
tellection. And again,. that the brain, which
is its organ, is passive and quiescent; unless
moved to action by some force foreign to.
its structure. How, then, do we escape the
conviction that the soil is the impelling
agent; seeing that matter cannot move it,
self?
Let us take the inverse problem--topr ove
the existence'of the soul, by the structure
of the nervous system. Let _us follow a
simple 'repression from , its inception in the
single nerve are of a limb, --we will say the
impression is one of pain. The inerve of
sensation carries it to thezegister of sense
which is a part of the brain, and the
regilter transmits it through fibres of nerve
matter, to the convolutimui. Received there,.
the impreision becomes a consciousness, a
thought. The thought goes to the register
*of motion, and a volition, a will, is sent
with lightning'speed to the suffering part.
This is what occurs .in those cases which
require a simple exercise of- - the will, bat in
others, requiring a process of reasoning, the
register retains the impression; until' the
reasoning is finished: It is no objection to
this, that time enters as an element to com
plete the process. If ; light passes .through
space at therato of tiro hundred thotiefuld
miles in a second;if . electricity can girdle
the earth thrice in the same 'time, - surely
the nervous fluid can pass six feet in a mil
lion times less. •
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Now, is not the material construction of
the nervous apparatus exactly fitted to man
ifest -a thinking determining force, which
sets Hirt operetion,---that force being the
soul ? How else could the oarxmanxrr
nu= devise n scheme to enable his favor
ed creature to look abroad limp the beauti
ful world He had given him, and than to
look inwardly upon one still more beArdi
ful, and himself a denizen of both?-- _
A denizen of both? Yes, we repeat it.
Looluat the horse, the oz„ the elephant.
They know but one world, and live but in
one ; they can enjoy but one, because a
wise determining force has designed them
for but one. They have motion and sensa
tion, but not the thought that adapts them
to soul life,—they hive not soul organize.
tion.
Just so far as man Izereises the ennobling_
virtues, and has faith in a higher life,-just
so far he lives In it, and just 'so; far he is one
of its denizens. •
The problem we. have presented, inverse
though it be, is ono of the seine character
of that whicli for years engaged the inge
nuity, of the astronomers of Europe and
America, and at leng-li received 'a happy
solution in the discovery of a new world,
rendering the name of the discover* most
illustrious in the, annals of science. The
reasoning is from effect to entitle, and as he
smirched for the force which could effect
subh pertnationsira the planet Uranus, in
the perturbations themselves, so we sea rch
Air the &ice which. Moves the brain, In the
phenomena which the brain "manifests.
Leverrier 'could point to Neptune as the
rverlScation pf his speCulations, but we can
have no such touchstone of the - truth of
ours, as the soul is • •
"HO° on Born Sings."--In atertain
manufactneing villUge-not a thottand
miles from G otha m • small
storekeeper namcd, Baccitr, whole ex
treme pareimony seemed it . :Cionder
hinriiot altogether lovely inane eyes
of his acquailitanee. 'an cite oboe
sign a customer' wait giving vent.to
Itia opinion of the person,' when a
bystuuler inquired the name of the
merchant.' •
' • Was the - reeithiie:
", Well," -*tuned Abe standee*, "I
have - traded With him Myealf, - and
knew .he „watt a mein ntalr o . ; but
didn't suppose until now that he was
"hog :on both sides J . ' „.
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• 'Perhaps there - is'no truer thing in
ShikesPeare 'than his' division - of tho
life.of -man into so many aged; '.such
,of Op/emu:a:ed. by a sevir.te
player upon the world's stage. , It is
not easy-for any ono in, •after
realixo the fact that s he or hhe was
once,, and not-so very long ago o a
damp, unpleasant baby. Of that first
part of our existence none of us know
much.; bat of our seconcrpart,
"The whining schoolboy, with his eats h•.l,
&id shhillig morning face, creeping like a
nu o
TinwillinglY to = lO 4
almost, all of us retain alyely rce.,l
- • Not that we were all whin
iog,or tdsehool ;
but,
.nevertheless the joys and sor
ii3We Of ,those days are indellibly
piinted- on: Out memories, rather as ,
happening to sonic .boy or girl of our
acquaintance, and lwho was dear to -
us, with ythom s 4. sympathized, uud
whom ive,liity•or_admire still, tkan
as, having occurred to - ue in our own
:early youth. In those days joy was •
ecstacy and sorrow was despair ;
sensation was intense-but brief ; now
it faint and long drawn out. There
were terrible momenta "in that spring
-- Who dOes not remem
bet• the first day at sOool,wheu turn•
ed the playground among slot
'of big, tough, unnympathizink .
strange_ boys?—good fellows, bu 4
letrible in their want of 'veneration
for all appertaining to the home and
adjuncts of their small new 5ch.,01.-
fellow. Then, to some Came nights
when they lay down in misery, and
mornings when they awoke with an
undefined sensation of dread, all be
cause:of that Greek ay Latin iu which
they were consciously deficient.,---
There - tilled to be, too, masters
not icontent to punish - with Attu: or
task, would scold 'with a shrewish,
reukiese.tungue frutn long pracuett
clever at wounding the feelings of
children, knowing their tendercet
parts both in body and in spirit: It
_hoz happened to a boy who has bro
ken down in.a line of Latin to he de
nounced by his master,' betori, , the
whole scbool,tis a thief why was p!ek
ing hiff'father's pocket, iu that he
had not learned what his father had
paid for his being taught. Of,course,
the dull 'and careless boy puts his
tongue in his cheek and grins, the mo
ment'th aster's eyes are turned
away bile one who is sensitive :Lod
!Jig spirited is filled with passionate
indignation. Such ahoy feels injurcil
and outriiged and the insult rankles
his heltrt, possibly for the rest of
his life. He never - boars of or thinks
Of his old master but—like the schout•
boy when told that :Julius Ctesar in
danger of drowning swam to land
Carrying his Commentaries- in Lis
feeth7 r -he exclaims audibly or -m-vn
ially, "lite beast? In these lattei
Oays ilogging'seenis too pretty well
abolished, but we will,venture . to say
that arboy who. is worth anything
will feel less dishonored by a caning
than by the scolding of a savage and
spiteful man.
But to leave schoolmasters; and to
come to the parents themselves. Do
they,, as a rule, treat their children
with an intelligent sympathy ? A m 314
whose says are spent in the city,and
whose talk is of stocks and" funds,.df
law, or of the produce-market, what
is generally his idea of duty to his
children? Probably it is to leave them
as much money'as possible. Re for
gets the' romance of his own,child
hood, and how' he once wasentraiiced
by Robinson Crusoe ; how his soul
wetit out with that desolate hero as
he built his hut to dwell in ; how his.
flesh crept on hiti little bones at the
-footprint in the sand ;- -and how he
felt that to he shipwrecked on a des
ert island was a blessing reserved by
the gods for those especially, favored
by them. If a man would only call
these. things to-mind, he would tell
the good wife at home to.be a little
blind to.the torn knickerbockers and
dirty boots of the boys, who have
their own desert island, their canoes,
their savages, their wild beasts,even,
as he had in the days that dome not
again to him: Perhaps, though, they
may come again to him, if, instead of
ridiculing the romances of his chil
dren'slives, and chilling the best and
most joyous side of their natures, he
sympathizes with them. Then, per
haps, they will let him watch them
as they make their own cave, and
plant the willow wands that are to
sprout and grow and hide the en
trance to their retreat. If he has
been, a companion to them both id
body and spirit, they will take him
into their confidence, and use his
greater muscular strength to assist
them in'their ltibors ; of his intellept
hi such matters tifey will,at the best,
we fear, havehut a low opinion, for
he-must not expect to rival the great
Crusoe himaelf. Then, as he becomes
their beast of burden, their hewer of
wood, iheir delver in - the soil, pei
haps, thoselong lost trays=may Come
again. if, then, with the sweat of
nnacbustomed labor on his brow, he
ilea on tht green turf a little . off from
the wild
have
where, the chit
dred have their own domain; and
watches the little Crusoe as he walks
around his island, and, in pretended
unconsciousness near the- band of
whispering savages, there will be a
lighter heart within his breast than
within that of many a more- success
ful and perhaps many a better man.
qn the other hand, if he has treated
his children's romances with ridicule,
has made fairies .a -laughing-stock,
denied the existence of the great Cru
soe, and has sat ift thAseat of the
soorner,ho had better notgo near the
children when theii small hearts beat
, high and their souls pant after the
unknown. The first glance'oettn un
sympathizing person scattersi their
imaginations ,-each one will walk off
in a different direction, and while the.
Intruder is near, their joys are ended.
PerhapsAhe sight of this may make
him touchy, and - he takes the oppor
tunity to - remark upon troublesome
children always -digging holes, ma
king themselves dirty, and . tearing,
iheir clothes. / The •man who does
this may be pronounced by his friends
a,good father;-he may leave his chi-_
dred abundance of money, and when
he is dead and gone, they may re
mein* him with respect as arrex-
Cellent man of business, prudent and
honorable, but their hearts will not
-go up to him with passionate yearn.
jug and affection,, nor until they
themselves are old men and women
lilt they alvtays mention his name
with, fat tenderness of voice and
look of love that keep his memory
green to his children's children After
him. .. . • -
THE chief - 11 Terence between a
%one and a yelool e has beeit discovered
to be the ease which'the /attar- lies
;lotto. -
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SupsismAL knowledge is like oil
upon water—it _ klues.deeelthilly," but can
easily be &bathed* • "
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• Frenclumi said or Shakes%
Ps" "Tam you find. Asnirlicsock - do nck
undentiand, It 4 Awqszontaggii#ol.l..
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