1 11. H. FRAZIER, Publisher. V OLITAM 11. guoittoo glottal. DR. E. L. ET.AK • ALEE, . P ETSICI AA AND BURGEON, b u located at Brooklyn, Ses- Dounr. P.. WIII attend promptly to a ll WI: wv6 be ma be Neared. Mee al L. Belden:11. Pr. - 4'ra. Julylo, DR. E. L. GARDNER, PprSICIAN AND BURGEON, Hondo ., Pa. Otties over Flom Boletls al tkarlo a ktotal. aluttroas.Jana 3,1110.41 GROVES . REYNOLDS, TIASITIONARLF. TAILORS. Mop ono Obaione. r rn , 112 A venue. Mottroso. June 12. 1222. Da CHARLES DECKER, ,-, l rrntorAN vD SURGEON. lavtag located hlmaelf at r rchsnlv , ll4 Suednehatma County. Pa., yell) alum) to all tbs welch am may be favored with promptesseandatteddloa „rd.. m am rseidexce mar orange Rotes, Ram, Sumo. Co.. Pi. May =. JOHN BEAII3IONT, uenumi., Cloth Dream.. sad Manufacturer. et the old .and known u Smith's Cardlog /Leehlr.e. Tema wade wt. .ben the work Is brought. :eon , Mart :a. 1851. Dn. G. Z. DIMOCK, T1171"n101/1T end SURGEON. MONTROSE, Pa. Once on street, morale the Enrcrehross Ogre. Boards el r nee. rehrnary nth, 1665.-Ipp C. M. CRANDALL, If Oi. I:FACITITREII of Ltnesv-vrtmels. Wool.sheela, Wheel -I,ada elnen-raell v &e., Wood to door to order. and ' • .o.na rem:lncr. ming Shop and Wheel FactOry Sawa uf r mm. January rath, 1855.-U B S. BENTLEY, JR, NOTARY PUBLIC, MO NTROSE. it KES AdDOWiedrnarlt of Z Mort dm, for Any •—te In the United Males. l ea, Poo4oo Voen met .NtY • Am. elettAed before lam do 120 t require the or . te toe :.•L of t be Court. Waltman, Jut. 0, 18,5.—U. CHARLES HOLES, EILEit IN CLIN3KS, WATCHES, AND JEWELRY U KoperlTl done WI 1111, 00 Ithortliolice er.d reasonzblet Avenne In F. B. Chwaler's Sznre. V.. 1 , De. 7. ISM DR. R. L. RANDRICH, P',,.: sTi t and Sulcosorf, rerpecttally tzadare ht• prof. In the dttrrzt of Primaeval. and victolty. Of of Ur. Leet_ bawls at J. Hoeford'a. r..c../EVait,J , ./y 97, 1,14.-tf S. W. SMITH, SS A L , OUISSKLLOSS AT LAW and Laceszed CUM, a nt•lat ofßce over Lea's Drag _nom. ,t2.T/chants Der.Ot Jaassary 95. I.M. EL BURRITT, D rmc x. rtovca Oils. z D t oc k idrr and Aboca, !jai; yam Dnialbes.. Orocalca, Prosisious. ac. r,:snrc, Pa, Lpril 11. 1064.-tf S. H. SAYRE & BROTHERS, ar Mgt FA CTURESS of 11111CILKillspa, Castings of all klo yi • •i - n and ra beet Iron Ware, Agricultural Implements. • • Drr Cloaks. Uroceries, Crockery. Go. r fehrnary 13,1E44. BILLINGS STROUD, tv.trancacted by C. L. Brown. February 1, 1.464.-11 J. D. VAIL, M. D., ME , .PATFLIC PHYSICIAN, Ma permanently loattst ja Montrose, Pa_, &tore he promptly ntter.S t Lle p , f4.01011 with which he may be favored. oMese o,lence W?-St 01 the Court Herm, near Bentley & Ftteth's. t Febuary I, 1864.-Oct. 73. 1861. A. 0. WAIME,.N, rrPIIN ES AT LAW. BOUNTY. BADE PAY Ind PEN CLAIM AGENT. All Peruslau Char• inkreful ly prr morn rot:petty occupied by DrlVsll. la . • helcyr Searle'. MAO. V. Feb. 1.1881.-4b17111888. LEWIS KIRBY & E. BACON, F.EP ennetnedy on hand a full atipply Of every variety or ft* , ERIS 4 cad CONFECTIONERIES. By atrict Mien moMmm. and fauns. in deal. they hope tomerit the Sher,' , • -,¢...l the out:lc. An OTaTER and EATING KALOttr to the Grocery, where bivalves, la Kamm, an served In CY that the tastes of the pahlledem.d. Rememberlte place. , Mot, Grocery stand. on Math Street, halo. the PostoOce. Noy 17. 1,36.8.—mch17,63.-tf Dn. CALVIN C. HALSEY, PWASICILN AND ..I.7E.GEON, AND EXAILININD FUR ~ V , , N for FENSIONED.S. Ofßee over Um pure of J. Lyooo I Ave.. Bos,is St M. Etheridge . - arc, I , , totxr. 18.58.-tf D. A. BALDWIN, k ET AT LAW, and PClllllOt., Bounty. and Buck rut akent, Oman Bend, Bnique.bsons County, Pa. vrtat Bend. A wart 10. lell.-ly BOYD & NVEBSTER, D tbltove Ptpc„Ta ; or,angrs 1 p.gr.r,Codc. ista. Thar Lumber, and all loads of Building Materials - • sr-tries Hotel, and Carpenter bhop net the , ~,/ PA.. January 1, 1884.-tf DR. WILLIAM W. SMITH, x s ,. •• st 7 RAMON DENTIST. Office over the Banhlnt ace of Co per & Co. All Dental Operation/ grin he pe rform to usual ; good style a • Itc.en, her, <Mee formerly of E. Smith & Son. jawoL7 1. 1854.-41 E. J. ROGERS, US* Jr/WTI - ELSE. of all descriptions ofWAG oNy, csa.M.AUES. SLEIGHS. &c, In the orw ntmanship and of the but mania* nand of K. H. ROOEM, a few red* east sl eratrose, where he .111 be happy to r* • 0.1 wor want anything In hia line. ~ ..June 1814.11 DR. JOHN W. COBB, ITtiUIl l' , de D ROZON. runrectltaly teackrz 4L scfv. kee of 1,13 Cd owl.. County. He will gm. eEpecial r..:, , tretni end medlcal trvatromt of Clamees of the t • sod ~av re consulted relative to eargin.l operations . over R. J. & S. H. IdulfornBtCre mai:, met. eon" of J. 0. Tarbelre Hotel. 0•orr. County. Oak., Jane 11.1803.-tf BALDWIN & ALLEN, a. lmo 6. "zr,„ Syrup, Tea and Coffee. West side o hrrht.t °IA door below J. Etheridge. .4.OEttLIAC, January 1. 186t.-tf DR. G. W. BEACH, aND SUMMON. having permanently lonia' lir,tlys, Center. Pa_ taida-a hie prat:aeon.' eer •-•••• • clt:reue Susguehanna County.. tame corn nezaar. .tcceplea the offlee the into Dr. 11. Richard Me.. Richardson's. Center, Pa.. June 11.1864.-17 F. B. WEEKS, CTICAL BOOT A.BD SHOE MAKER: also Dealer In 0,, J. Et, Leather, and Shoeoe FLAtoga. ItLopaleing done . ADC. alep,tch. Two doors above Searles Howl. ~ Jaw:l6l7 1, 11361.-tf & Whl. H. JESStP, 4 — 7 ., !;NEI'S AT LAW. Mm2ITWA R. Pra.th,e In BuN.' Uradford. Wupne. wrominz cnd Lure ComU JAuctar7 Ist, 1861. ALBERT CRAItBERLEN, ATTORNEY AND ATTORNEY AT LAW,— os,r the Bore formerly occupied by Peelt Brothers. le. January 1. MO. J. LYONS & 80N, nEA LEM. 1 ,, DRS 000 HO, HoXanea.Croctory. Hardware Tmware. UoOks. Hamden., Mean and all kinds. of Masi ton;ls. sneer Huatc Jrc. AlJur carry on BA Book Bind s • ...tees In oil Its hrauclu.. J. LYONS, 4 'nt , -.rt, January 1. 1564. T. •. LTOSI• ABEL TtifiRELL ILA], Elt IN INCI7 GS. MEDICINES, CH EM ICALR, aaJl 4.nte, Olin. Dye-stun. Vantlellea, lam ••*". Grocerien. tlxsckery.Glnaswart Watt-P a per, Joe. . 1 , •• • 'Tory Perfumery bm-glasl Instrtrucuta, Trur • • •,,ct. Brwlien. Arent for Rii or the mot P"..P.' ! , •-nt bieditlnea. Elontrose. Jarman' 1,18.51. C. 0. FORDHAX iv C. of BOOTS h SHOES, Montrose, hrwp over DeWitt's Store. 4.11 kinds of work mode ,'• set; replaying. dotte neatly. Work dense tenon pram 11euirose. April 7. 106 - If CHARLES N. STODDARD, CA LEI?. In 1100T8 h SIIOE-4. Id-s”.er and Find. Maio ttdrd door I..elovr nearlr'a Hotel. it& Work wade to order. and repairing done neatly. o Pa_ December 12.1860. L H. BURNS, k ItNEY AT LAW. PM* witb J TutrelL Fvq. Itoari.,)l Hnl L Pen6lols and iSuutity Claims adeful 42.Jitc.ltorin proinrOly made- B. R. LYONS it CO.. DRY °CODS, OROOXII,IES, BOOTS, snots, (katc.. Carpets, 011 (.11,tbs, Walhartd Vindov Ps. out, &c. Store on the eut side of Public Aurae. READ, WATROL'S & FOSTER, rIEALEItS IN DRY GOODS. Drags, Pant; 01le ttraterlm Hardware, arockery. Iron, Clock., Watchea, Jew. •• s ttpotala. rerrunuory. 44c.. Stick Block. Moatnse. a GAD A. WAT2OIIO O. !DST= !Swam:. January I, 1584. WILLIAM W. 814tITH, .....,,,..e...„ 4: ,-,.. ~..!..--e...:1;...: CAIIIIIIL7 62:1) ClL&lid MANI). A N V . '— -^"".. , 5, factuter. Kenya conntaney o..nndal u (Itanter rssrstnaz, or eat ' l ".'d . 1 111.nrt notke. &top end Ware &VMS feat of Main 81 I,l crarose. Pa, March 8, ItBB.-41 PHILA.NDER LINES, ""'t•Z .4 FiTns,tUd• 4111 tribe' 1111 p, , 7 l A t I 'l l 'lit an. V Fbr the .Inciependml Republic's& • A DIRGE FOB =MU NOW. Oti Father, weep I For the darling little daughter— For the winsome, blue-eyed daughter— In her young life'sisweetest blooming, Laid to sleep Mother, weep! For the music of her laeghter, Like glad birds—the 'piing showers after— Greats no more thy listening spirit -Yearning deep I Brother, weep! Standing In the homestead olden— By its spell of sweetness holden, Where affections' blossoms, gladly Thou dolt reap; Waiting vainly the earresslng, Of those small arms 'round thee pressing, Brother, weep! Sister, weep! For the youngest, and the dearest ; Blrdling nestled warmest, nearest, To the loving hearts at home! Sister, keep Fresh with tears, each memory cherished, Of the little form that's perished; Fresh the mound 'neath which they've laid her Down to sleep I Loved ones, weep l Bat weep not wildly, nor despairing ; With "lore ones gone before" she's !sharing The great Shepherd's care, who leadeth All His sheep! AN44M:IV:W4A): 11 4: 4 00111A:1017P4e Negro Suffrage pnd Representative Popula tion—The Three-Plfth Principle In liggram vetted Form. T. the Fred,lent Sir—From the recollection, now twenty years old, of the years when we were Congressmen together, I derive an abiding faith In your probity, your pa triollam and your stern devotion to democratic prin ciples. Suffer me to address you, and through you to the people over whom you preside, a few consid erations touching a great measure of public policy. I know it is your habit kindly to receive, if even from private and unofficial source, such honest sing. gestions as are of a character involving sectional harmony and national safety. There is an aspect of the negro-suffrage question which has, I think, arrested less attention than It merits; not the aspect of right; nor the question whether, in restoring to a lowly and humble race, down-trodden for ages, their outraged liberty, we ought to give them the ballot to defend it; but a question more selfish, piloting to our own race; one not of sentiment but . of calculation; essentially practical and of imminent Importance. Permit me, first, to recall to your notice a few facts which any one, by reference to the census of 1860 and to the Constitution, can verify. The actual population of the States composing the Union, and their representative population, have hitherto differed considerably; the actual popula tion. in 1860, being upward of thirty-one millions (31,143,047,) and the representative population about twenty-nine millions and a half only ('29,553,273.) The difference between the two is nearly one million six hundred thousand (1 3 594,114_) Bee Compendium of Census, page 131-13'.1. The reason of this is apparent. In the year ISGO there were, in round numbers, four million of slaves (3,1150,531) In these States. These slaves were not estimated, in the representative population, man for man. Five of them were estimated as three ,• for by the Constitutional provision regulating the basis of representation (Art. 3, Bee_ 2, R 3), there was to be taken the whole number of free persons and three-tins of all other persons. Two-fifths of the "other persons" werejeft out. But two-flfths of four millions is one million six hundred thousand. About two million four hundred thousand of the elves are to be regarded as having entered, under the 'Bet census, Into the basis of representation. In other words, the white el.veholding population of the South obtained a political advantage the same na that which they would have reaped by actual addi tion to their population of two million four hundred thousand free persona. As under the last census the ratio of representation was fixed at one hundred and twenty-seven thousand (census, page 4) the South, in virtue of that legal fiction of two million four hundred thousand additional freemen, had eighteen members of Congress added to her repre sentation. Her total number of representatives be, ing eighty-four, she owed more than one-fifth of that number to her slave property. It follows that If, in a republican government, the number of free per sons be the proper basis of representation, abe had upward of one-fißh more political influence than her just share. Each one of the voters possessed a power, so fax as the election of the President and of the House of Representatives was concerned, greater by one-fifth than that of each Northern voter. No man friendly to equal rights even If (being a white man) he restricts the principle to persons of hie own color, will offer a justification of a partition of a political power so unfair as this. It was not de fended, on principle, by those who assented to it. It was accepted as a necessity, or supposed necessity, in the construction, out of discontent materials, of the American Union. We of the North have hitherto acted upon it, as men under duress—our hands bound by the Con stitution—as it were wader protest. We preferred unequal division of power, as regards the two great ' sections of the Republic, to tho t' ante of anarchy. That was in the past. Are we, In the future, having got rid, by terrible sacrifice, of the cause of that injueliee, still to tolerate the ininstice Itself, even In aggravated form ? Doubtless, new that our hands are free, we have no such intention. Let us take heed lest we inereasd and perpetuate this abuse, as men often do, without Intention. Seldom, If ever, has there been imposed on any ruler a task more thickly surrounded with diffien Wee than that, now before you, of reconstruction In the late insurrectionary States. Uncertain as we are of the sentiments and intentions of men just emerged from a humiliating defeat, little more can be done than to institute an experiment and then wait to see what comes , of it. It would he premature to lay down any settle plan from which, let events torn as they will, there is to be no departure We are traversing unknown and treacherous seas, and must take soundings as we go. Nor should we omit the precaution of a sharp look-out for breakers ahead. It seems to me that we may expect such on the coulee we are pursuing. The present experiment appears to be, to leave the work of reconstructing Government In the late rebel South to the loyal whites; or more accurately stated, to the whims who shall have purged them selves from the crime of treason, actual or Implied. so far as an oath, taken from whatever motive, can effect such purgation. Will this experiment, if It proceed unimpeded, result in the permanent ex clusion of the negro from suffrage? In proof that It will, It might suffice to remember that these men have grown up in the belief —have ' , teen indoctrinated from the cradle in the convic tion—that the African is a degraded race. Add that the war has brought the blacks and whites of the South into antagonistic relations, exasperating ugain.t the former alike the rich planters, from whose mastership they fled, and the " poor whitea," who always bated them, and to whom emancipa tion (raising despised ones to their level) is a per sonal affront. But there is a motive for exclusion in this ease stronger than anger, more powerful than hatred— the incentive of self-aggrandliement. They who are made the judges are to be the gainers—unfairly but vastly the gainers—by their own decision. Observe the working of this thing. By the Con stitution the representative population is to conaiet of all free persons aid - three-fifths of all other per sons. If, by nett winter, slavery shall have disap peared, there will be no "other pervons" in the South. Her actual population will then coincide with her representative population. She will have gained, as to Federal representation, 1,000,000 per sons. She will be entitled, not as now to 84 mem bers, but to 94; and her vote for President will be in proportion; Congress , if It intends that the Constitutional rale shall prevail, will have to eller the apportionment go as to correspond to the new order of things. Now, If the negro is admitted to vote, the Con stitutional rule will operate jestly. For then each voter in the South will bare precisely the same pe litieal influence as a voter in the North. The unjust three-fifths principle will have. disappeared forever. On the other hand, if color , be deemed cause of exclusion, then all polltleal power which is withheld from the emancipated slave is gained hy the South ern white. For though, by law, we may denyauffrage to the freedman, we cannot prevent his being reckoned among those free persons who constitute the teals of representation. His presepm, whether disfran chised or net, adds, in spite Of all weesan do, to the poUtical hieuence of the State, for it Increases the number of Its voters for President and the number of its representatives in (loneness. Now, somebody mast gain by this. The gate le shared equally by every retrial voter in the State. If, hinny State, the number of blacks and whites are equal, and 11 0 In that State,, blacks are excluded from voting, then every white voter will go to the polls armed with twice the political power enjoyed by a white voter I in nay Northern State. But pgatn,.tnio Is on Ike euppoeitiorq that every white ;adult In the State is loyal, and therefore entitled to Tate. Are the Ralf of all Soutima male adults at itla Freedom and Right against Slavery and Wrong." MONTROSE, SUSQ. CO., RA.. TTT - FqT) NY AT; GUST 8, 1865 time, or will they be for years to come, Moro thoo Wilt It f rj,rfj .6 f fff - n.:• tz lip-loyal it even that? I think you Will not soy that .11r olvli im, •-" they are. It Would surely he an extrovmmut colou , Unsoc-0 4 4nd e3norA, b. ohso'l' p re•off..i latlon. If more than halt the whites In ex inthlr- Beca,ion oat Unich: rectionsoy Staten shall actually tinnily them6olv(s hot, ha t", - yin{ .' ff , con‘ •rt oil 11m as voters, will you not lled yoomli compelled to nhobituotw ova Cl-',. tnto po otnctniee, tif'ffrf‘'eff, udmlniater the Government, In the late sect eg , on an F.TT,t• IT, I ,•! lb Tito Cett portion of the Union, through the atrenchq at its t.,•1 T. -:1! . : •I enemies? One-third would he fail cotlmato, , mato fol aft O f iVt• • 'tfl i tO jAr.I., mtjudgment, for the truly loyal. ;,o coodtri .•1 . tat let us assume that two-thirds of all the white , lost blavcr , -h. I cc. -e c.d.; rord mato adult. of the South become voters, rand that Vtat no , torts On- earls they exclude from suffrage, Ity law or ho Constittis ~t repr.••• . J.C.1.1110 of C Jr. ~ C • tional provision, all persona of color, what would cd I ~• t be the political consequences under such a state of If mit rit flit ti • things.? It, as we may roughly estimate, by to 1,4,, r, ,I 1,,n titnitinite, and W1;1, struction through war and by depletion of poptals- son, d.l, prod oil or. If A, nett:lt-et to 'tui tion through emigration to Mexico, to Europe and the svetn.d condition, An ellgurAtiy, on nn es• elsewhere,ittto number of whites throughout the laic I roded teals, will grow Up In os e large section of rebel States shall have been reduced until bltv•ks and the country, working grave Injustice towards the whites exist there in nearly equal numbers, then, In voters of another aevtion. The tbreo-fifth abuse the case above supposed, each voter in these States, will re-appear lu agiant form. when they approach the ballot box daring Con- I But If we suffer Baia it cannot fall to produce, as greasional or Prealdential election, would do so Slavery produced. alienations and beart-burnings. wielding three times as much political Influence as Under any plan of reconstruction involving so tla a voter in a Northern State. This vast advantage grant an Injustice it is In vain to expect harmony or once gained by Southern whites, Ls It likely they permanent peace between the Northern and South will ever relinquish it? ore sections of the Union. Nor, it we disfranchise the negro, Is there any es cape from such consummation, except by rooting out from the Constitution the principle that the whole number of free persons shall be the basis of representation. But that principle lies at the base of all free government We abandon republicanism itself when we discard it. Thus it appears that the presc4 experiment In reconstruction, if suffered to run Its 'comae, and if Interpreted sa I think we have just muse to fear that it will be, tends, inevitably, It may be said, to bring about two results: First: To cause the disfranchisement of the freed man. Whether we effect this directly, as by pro vision of law or by a disqualifying clause in a pro clamation, or whether we do it by leaving the de cision to his former masters and his old enemies, matters nothing except in form and in words; the moult is brought about with equal certitude in eith er way. Passion, prejudice and self-Interest con cur to produce this result Second: It establishes—not the odious three-fifths clause, not even merely a five-fifth clause—but something much worse than either. It permits the investiture pf the Southern white with a preponder ance of political power, such as no class of men, in a democratic Republic, ever enjoyed since the world began. I do not—believe me in this Mr. President—over look or underrate the grave embarrassments that beset your path, torn as you will. I call to mind the overbearing Influence of passion and prejudice, and I shall admit that when these prevail, in exag gerated form, throughout a large portion of any sta tion, a wise ruler recogaites the facts of their exis tence and regulates his acts accordingly. But the sway of passion and prejudice, despotic for a season, has but a limited term of endurance, and should be treated as an evanescent thing. It Is too transient and unstable to furnish a basis for a comprehensive system of policy. Tenderly it should be treated, but not falsely respected or weakly obeyed. Mercy, God-like attribute as it is, may run riot- It is very well, by act of grace, to restore to penitent Southern Insurgents their legally forfeited rights; let us be friends and fellow-citieens once more, as Christianity and comity enjoin. Bat to suffer each of these returning rebels, when about to cast his vote for President or for Representatives of the peo ple, to be clothed with three times as much power as is possessed by a Northern voter exercising a similar right. is, very surely, a somewhat superflu ous stretch of clemency. And what manner of men, I pray you, are those whom we propose thus to select from among their fellows—granting them political powers un known to democracy, luvesting them with privileges of an oligarchical character? It is ungenerous to speak harshly of a vanquished foe, espetially of one who has shown courage and constancy worthy of the noblest cause; but the truth is the truth and is ever fitly spoken. There are men whose ferrible misfortune it has been to be born and bred under a system the most cruel and demoralizing the world ever saw. The wisest of those who have been sub jected to such surroundings have confessed its evil power. "There must doubtless," said Jefferson In his Notes on Virgiuls, " be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce be twceu master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions—the most unremitting despotism on ode part, and degrading submission on the other. * .• • The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and his moral's under such circumstances." (Notts, page 270. j Those arc the habitual results of the system. To what incredible excesses its occasional outbursts may run we have frightful evidences daily coming , before us; schemes of wholesale incendlarlam, in volving deaths by the thousand of women and children; schemes to poison, by the malignant virus of the yellow fever, ap entire community; deliberate plane to destroy prisoners of war by Insufferable hardships and slow suffering; plots, too successful, alas I to shroud a nation in mourning by assassina tion. Many honorable exceptions no doubt there are, in whom native virtue resists daily temptation. Such exceptions arc to be found in all communities, no matter how pernicious the surroundings. But in deciding national questions we must be governed by the rule, not by the exceptions. The Southern whites rimy be subdivided into three classes: The slaveholders proper, many of whom are excluded from pardon by the Proclamation of Amnesty; the "poor whites," and what may be called the yeomen of the South—of which last our country feels that her worthy President is a noble type, and of which we regard stout-hearted Parson Brownlow as a clerical example. II this last class, from whence have come the stur diest Union men In secessiondom, constituted, like the mechanic of New England or the farmer of the West, a large proportion of the population, we might hope that It would leaven and redeem the ex tremes of society around it. But it is found sparse and in Inconsiderable numbers, except, perhaps, In Eastern Tennessee and the northern portion of North Carolina. The poor whites, of whom the clay-eating pine-lander of Georgia and other Gulf S ta t es i s th e type, far notuumber them. Of this last class Mrs. Fanny Kemble, in that wonderful book of hens, " Journal of a Residence on a South ern Plantation," gives, from personal observation, a graphic description: "They are, I suppose" she Rays •• the most degraded race of human beings claiming an Anglo-Saxon origin that can be found nn the face of the earth—filthy, lazy, Ignorant, brn tal, proud, penniless savages, without one of the nobler attributes that have been found occasionally allied to the vices of savage nature. They own no slaves, for they are, almost without exception, ab jectly poor; they will not work, for that, as they conceive, would reduce them to an equality with the abhorred negroes ; they squat and steal and starve on the outskirts of this lowest of all civilized societies, and their countenances bear witness to the squalor of their condition and the utter dqgra• dation of their Datum." [Journal, page 146.] I have often encountered this cross. I saw many of them last year while visiting, as a member of a Government commission, some of the Southern States. Labor degraded before their eyes has ex tinguished within them all respect for industry, all ambition, all honorable exertion, to improve their condition. When last I had the pleasure of seeing you at Nashville, I met there, in the office of a gen tleman charged with the duty of issuing transpor tation and rations to Indigent persons, black and white, a notable example of this strange class. Re was a rebel deserter • a rough, dirty uncouth speci men of humanity—tit'', stout and wiry -looking, rude and abrupt in speech and bearing, and clothed in tattered homespun. In no civil tone he demanded rations. When informed that all rations applicable to such a purpose were exhausted, he broke forth : " What am I to do then ? Row am I to get home ?" " You can have no difficulty," was the reply. — " It is hut fifteen or eighteen hours down the river" (the Cumberland) "by steamboat where you live. I furnished you transportation; you can work your way." Work my way !" (with a scowl of angry eon tempt.) "I never did a stroke of work since I was born, and I never expect to, till my dying day." The agent replied quietly : " They will give you all you want to cal on board, If you help them to wood." " Carry woad!" he retorted with an oath.— " Whenever they ask mo to carry wood, tell them to set me on shore ; I'd rather atarve for a week than work for an hour; I don't want to live In a world that I can't make a living out of without work." Is it for men like that, Ignorant, illiterate,vleions, fit for no decent employment on earth except man ual labor, and 'pinning aft labor as degredatlon—is It In favor of such Insolent ewaggerens that we are to disfranehlse the humble, quiet hard-working ne gro Are the votes of three such men as Stanton or Seward, Sumner or Garrison, Grant or Sherman, to be neutralized by the ballot of one such worthless babarlan ? Are there not breakers ahead! To such an issue as that may not the late tentativea at reconstruc tion, bow faithfully aoever conceived and intended for good, practically tend ? The duty of the United States to guarantee to ev ery State in the Union a republican form of govern ment is as sacred as the duty to protect each of them from invasion. Is that duty duly fulfilled when, with the power of prevention In our own hands, we suffer the white voter In the least loyal, the iraat intelligent, and the least industrious sec Lion of the country to usurp a measure of political poser thmo-fold greeter than in the rest of the ra ges, a Totf4 Goys =E=:==2=22l3 It is not here denied, nor is It deniable that, un der ordinary circumstances, a State may, ' by a gen eral law applicable to all, restrict the right of suff rage; as, for example, to those who pay taxes, or to those who can read and write. And It is quite true that the effect of such a law would be to give addi tional political power to those who still enjoyed the elective franchise. But a State can only do this al ter she has a State Government in operation, not when she is about to frame one. North Carolina is in the Union, as she has always been ; but her peo ple, having lost, by war against the government, their political rights, are not allowed to go under their old Constitution and laws. They have to be gin again. As Idaho, II desiring to be a State, would have to do, the people of North Carolina have to elect members of a Convention, which Con vention has to frame a State Constitution, to be pre sented, for acception or rejection, to Congress.— Now, just as Idaho, taking her drat step towards State sovereignty, could not, on her own authority, begin by denying a vote in the election of members of her Convention, to half her free population, or if she did, would find her Constitution rejected, for that cause, by Congress, as not emanating from the whole people; so, in my opinion, ought not North Carolina, having forfeited her State rights and be ginning anew as a Territory does, to be permitted. in advance, to reject more than a third of her free pop niation—C6l,&aotit 924622 I hope ebe will not so construe her rights as to venture on such a rejec tion. If she does, Congress ought to reject her Constitution as authorized by a part of her people Only. But, beyond all this, we cannot safely allow the negro exemption clause to take its chance along with other possible restrictions to suffrage which a State, fully organized, may see fit to enact, Ara : Because Mita magnitude. It is an act of ostracism by one-half the free inhabitants of an entire section of country against the other half, equally free Secondly: Because of its character and results.— It is un act of injustice by those who have assaulted the life of the nation against those who have defend ed the national life; an act by which we abandon to the tender mereles of the dotibtfolly loyal and the traitor those whose loyalty has stood every test, un stained, unshaken; men ignorant and simple in deed, but whose rude fidelity never failed either the Union fugitive beset in the forest, or the Union cause imperiled on the battle-field. The decision of a matter so grave as this should be taken out of the category of those rights which a State, at her option, may grant or may withhold ;-- because, being national in its consequences, it is national in Its character. This Is a matter for Fed eral interference, because, like emancipation, It is a matter involving Federal ..fety. It is because I know the frankness of your own character, Mr. President, that, at possible risk 01 conflicting opinions, I —etre to you thus frankly It is because I am deeply impressed by the vast im portance of the issues at stake that I write to you at I think of our Union soldiers, the survivors of a thousand fields. I recall the last days, not of con flict but of triumph, when Confederate, arms were stacked and Confederate paroles were Oren, nail the Stars and Gars fell before the old Flag. I re• member with what fierce fury those who surrender ed at last, fought, throughout a tour years' desper ' ate effort to shatter into fragments that benignant Government under which, for three-quarters of a century, they had enjoyed prosperity and pmtee• tion. I remember all that was done and suffered and sacrificed, before, through countless discern] , sgements and reverses, treason's plot was trampled down ar.d the glorious end was reached. And as, In spirit, I follow victors and vanquished from the scene of conflict, I think th't never was a nation more gratuitously o- Mon. fJully assailed, and nev er did nation owe to to deliverers front anarchy and dismemberment a deeper de'-t of gratitude an I good will. Then I ask me self a great question. Shall these soldiers of liberty, returning Irom fields of death to Northern fields of' labor and of peaceful contest—,-f contest in which the ballot Is the only weapon. and the bulletin of defeat or of victory is contained In the election returns—shall these veterans, who nev er flinched before military force, be overborne, with their laurels still green, by political stratagem?— Their weapons of war laid aside, is the reward of these conquerors to be this, that, man to man, they shall be entitled to one-third as much influence in administering their country's Government as the opponents they conquered ? Are the victors on the fields of death to become the vanquished In Halls of LegisLtion ? It is a question which the nation cannot fail, ere long, to ask Itself ,• and who can doubt what the ul timate answer will be May God, who, throe hoot the great crisis of our nation's history, overruling evil for good, has caus ed the wrath of man to work out His own gracious ends—directing us, without our will oragency, is paths of justice and of victory which our human wisdom was 100 feeble to discover-.--direct yon also, throughout the arduous task before you, to the Just and the Right ! ROl3Ellll' Dare Owme. New-York, June 21st, 1865. A JocyLau Crtaftriax.—A poor man lived near Deacon Murray, referred to in the tract, " Worth a Dollar," and occasionly called at his house for a supply of milk. One morning he came when the family were at breaktsst Mrs. Alumiy rose to wait upon him, but the deacon said to her, " Walt till after breakfast." She did so, and meantime the deacon made some Inquiries of the man about hie family and circumstances. After family worship the deacon invited him to go out to the barn with him. When they got into the yard, the deacon, pointing to one of the cows, exclaimed, " There, take that cow, and drive her home." The roan thanked him heartily for the cow, and started for home, but the deacon was observed to stand In the attitude of deep thought until the man had gone some rods. He then looked np, nod called out, "Hey, bring that cow back." The man looked around, and the deacon added, "Let that cow come back, and yon COMP back, too." He did so, and when be came back Into the yard again, the deacon said "There, now take your pick out of the cows ; I ain't agoing to lend to the Lord the poorest cow I've got! pgrA young lady of California recently broke her neck while resisting the attempt of a young man to kiss her. We know from personal experience (in days gone by, ahts!) it Is the Saratoga Republican that speaks—how prone young girls are to peril their precious necks by twisting away from a fellow at a time when, by Judicious exorcise, or silt and bold your head steady activeness, perfect happiness might have been abed abroad, end the ambient air made luxuriant with glory. Deargirls, hold your heads steady, and don't break your darling necks! Uaronximaxn CoarsttmisOlf.—A lady entered a dry good atom in street, and expressed a desire to see "some wool dolelnee. The polite clerk, with elegant address, showed her a variety of pieces of One texture and choice coloring. After tossing and examining to her heart's content, she remarked : "The goods are part cotton, sir." "My dear mad am," returned the shopmen, " them goods are as free from cotton as your breast is (the lady starts) free from guile," he added. A PICTURE or vice BED SELL —HogartL wee once applied to by a certain nobleman to paint on hie atalrceee a representation of the destruction of Pha raoh's host In th• Red Bea. In attempting to lit u tu v r :pe c trir at Alo o tt r alt il b s became patri d w int . e s d lai w i w ttt z t; to give more than hall the real valve of the picture. at last, out of all patience, he agreed to his terms. In two or three da,ta the picture was ready. The nobleman, surprist.d at such expedition, im mediately (Ailed to examine ti, and found the apace painted all over red. " Zounde," said the purchaser„ " what have you here? I ordered a scene of the Red Bea " " The Red Bea you have," said the painter. "But where ere the Israelites?" They have all gene over." " And where aro the E.mtlans 7" "They are ell drowned." The raiser's confusion could only he equaled by the haste with which be paid hi. I. The biter bitten. Wby le a eea•sick man on his way to tog land like Whittler? Answer—he lea " conts Mato/ '49 144,A,tlikatte." ===al====::= v;z:SiF,E,Ii 0E0711.11 MEE] T” . r NClrth‘V,.lt, watt of the I- a thi:etr rof luta lar history. The de el juaille/Inut t.tore has been eireet. • c .ri or the existing generation. :e• n , ••.0 :•!•1 ttlinoi., Indiana, Onio, Mehl slid Minnesota aro linked o ..••. • e a .•• nle Ay, lake and river connee . .r 7 , 1 , was , leen warningly Impro , .:••e 3110kit3.1.V.41 of magic. Their produc r,i: , ~cO, rattle, and the useful metals, t—r, r^ , l iced, have covered their broad r. t inti ~ o,s of wealthy and prosperonn popn- 1' • no better index of progress of civilization ardong a people than that Waisted by its artificial means of transit, and in this respect these Rates are quite up to the progress of the age. In 1848, Great Britian had 5,127 miles of railway, and we had 6,682 miles. In 1862 Great Britian had 11,551 miles, showing an increase in fourteen years of 125 per cent. At the same time the tnited States' miles had risen to 31,769, showing an Increase of 459 per cent. lint this increase, large as It is, by no means measures the growth of our Internal commerce, for our railroads are doing more business, and quite generally many times more business per mile than they did in 1848. The growth of lathe per mile is not less remarkable than the Increase in miles of line. In 1861, the total miles In ail lands was 69,- 072; of which the United States had TA. 263, or ve ry nearly one-half Our progress hereafter In these improvements will be measured with no one nation, but rather with the world. We have now between the sea-board and the West nine distinct avenues of transportation, besides many parts of lines covering portions of the route. A greet empire still, the vast region west of the %needslppl, is rapidly emerging from Its chrysalis state. It atzetches through sixteen parallels of lati tude anti seventeen of longitude, and embraces one million of square miles. Of this region St. Louis is the natural eastern entrepnrt from which flow the MissOuri,ttavigablefor 3,000 miles,and theMialissippi, extending north IXIO miles. The next five years ' , rill Witness a migration of men and capital thither ward without parallel in modern history. Its min eral and agricultural resources defy the cunning of statistics. Even during the great rebellion it has advanced with amazing strides. Raven hundred steamers now fiord the Mississippi, and a large com merce already exists between St. Louis and the ex treme northern territory, Idaho. That great enter prise of the age, the Pacific Railroad, which will connect the golden elopes of the Pacific with the Atlantlo sea board, Is being pushed forward with all possible energy, at both ends. It takes up the rail way connection finished 340 miles west of St. Louis, and is advancing to the Rocky Mountain passes. When even I.artistly completed, say 800 miles at either end, it will Open a region of gold, sliver and other mineral wealth, compared with which the diamonds ofßoleon da the minveof Potosi and.Mexice, and all the fabled treasures of Eastern story, will be as nothing. How truly, "Westward the star of Empire takes Its way." FAULT.FINDI7.O Wrrte CIIILTREN—A flint to Rae mit—Bins. H. B. Stowe, in the Atlantic Monthly, has done a good service for both parents and child ren in exposing this common mistake. The follow ing extract conveys the pitch of her views on the subject: " Childrea aro more hurt by Indiscriminate, thoughtless fault-finding then by any other one thing. Often a child has ail the sensitiveness and all the susceptibility of grown persons, added to the faults of childhood. Nothing about him is right a s yet; he Is immature and falsity at all points, and ev• erybody feels at perfect liberty to criticise him to right and left, above and below, till he takes relbge in callous hardness or Irritable moroseness " A bright, noisy boy rushes in from school, eager to tell his mother something ho has in his heart, and Number One cries out : "0, you've left the door open' lAn wish you wouldn't always leave the door open! And do look at the mud on your shore ! flow many times must ! tell you to wipeyour feet?' —" Now, there you've thrown your cap on the sofa again. When will you learn to hang it up?" —" Don't put your slate there; that Isn't the place for It. Haw dirty your bands are! what have you been doing ?"—" Don't sit In that chair, you herek the ridings bouncing."—" Mercy. how your halt looks ! Do go op stairs and comb It." —" There, it you haven't torn all the braid off your coat! Dear me, what a boy !"—" Don't Speak ec loud ; your voice goes through my bead." —" I watt to know, Jim, if It was you that broke tip that barrel that I have been saving for brown dour."—" I believe it was you, Jim, that hacked the site of my razor "—" Jim's been writing at my desk, and blotted three sheets of the belt paper l" Now, the question is, if any of the grown people oft he (ninny had to run the gauntlet of a eu , .. h crl: id,als themselves equally true at thee, that salute La lucky Jon, would they be any is lured about it than hu is? No; but they 07.. grown up peopl , .; they have rights that othcra are bound to respect. Everybody cannot tell them exactly what he thinks about everything they do.— If ever] one did, would there not be terrible rear. lions 1300109 U Boos AND GIRT.9.—DId you over see a well-di - eased boy or girl compel poor woman car rying a I , lis basket or bundle to step off the side walk I ' , RTC, and I been also seen a glossy-coated boy or a silk-clad miss give such poor person a look of scorn which seemed to say: "I am china, you arc deli. Get out of my way! How dare you presume to stand In my path!' You civilized little boor," I have said to myself at such a sight '• you haven't a particle of politeness In you. If you had, you would pity that burdened woman and get out of her way." If I have such an impolite boy or' girl among my readers I wish he would take a Mason from the life ni Napoleon. When he was on the Island of St. Helena he walked out with a lady one day. A poor man with a heavy pack met theta The lady kept straight on, but the ex emperor gently waved her on one aide saying: Respect the burden madam." "Respect the burden I" That's a good motto. Yon will find that most of your schoolmates and friends carry burdens of some sort Not on their backs, perhaps, but In their hearts. 'Little .1511t,ggie, for ex ample, carries a burden of bashfulness. Respect It by being kind and gentle to the little dean s. Your friend Robert whom you call a alnw coach," car ries a burden of dullness. Respect It by explaining his lesson to him. Your mother carries a burden of sickness, your father of care and work. Respect their burdens by giving them love, and obedience, and help. In short you must respect everybody's burden whom you know, and thus help make the world happier. Do you understand? Yes! Very good. Then mind you respect the burden! -9. B. Advocate. ?mammal. Jawnro.—A few days since, writes an attorney, as I was ailing with brother C— Ln his office in Court Square, • client came in and said : "'Squire, D— W—,the Mahler, shaved me dreadfully, yesterday, an d want to come up with him. "State your case," says Client—" I asked him how much he'd charge me for a horse to go to Delham. He said one dollar and a half. I paid him one dollar and a half, and he said he wanted another dollar and a half for com ing bac k, and made me pay IL" gave him some legal advice, which the client immediately acted upon as follows: He went to the stabler and said : "How mach will you charge me for a horse and wagon to go to Salem r Stabler replied, " Five dollars." Hamera him rm." Clleatosent to Salem, came back by railroad, went to t h e stable saying— " Hero is your money," paying him Ave dol lars. " Where Is my horse and wagon?" says W—. "He le at Salem," says client, "I only hired him to go to Salem." Bs YOUR OWN Rtouv HAND KAN.—People who have been bolstered np and levered all their uves are seldom good for anything In a crisis. When misfortune comes, they loot around for something to lean upon. If the prop is not there, down they go. Once down, they aro ss helpless as capsised turtles, or unhorsed men in armor, and cannot find their feet again without assistance. Such silken fellows no more resemble self-made men, who have fought their way to position, making difficulties their stepping stones, and deriving determination from defeat, than vines reusable oaks, or sputtering rueblighta the stars of heaven. Efforts persisted In to achievements train a man to self-reliance, and when he has proved to the world that he can trust himself, the world will trust him. We say, therefore, that it Is unwise to deprive young men of the advantar,cs which result from their energetic action, by a - 1)0001E1g" them over obstacles which they ought to surmount alone. Wuo'a HIT ?—Rov. J. Hyatt Smith, of Philadel phia, 1,, nn address to his people, add " I have br.tri enure pronounced upon President Lincoln beciubo rtrfrei a theatre. My friends, I look upon a patriot in a theater u better than a copper head at a prnycr meeting." rTo in, did Mrs. Green get the medicine I or. dereA 6. j awe "eon" replied John, " I eaw crape on the doq,,the P 13;0;04." DESERTED. The river flowed past with the light on its breast, And the weeds went eddying by, And the round red sun esok down in the west When my love's loving Ups to my lips were prest, Under the evening sky. Now weeping gene by the river I stray, For my love he has lett me this many a day, Left me to droop and din! As the river ftow'd then„the river flows sWl— ripple and foam and'apray— On by the church, and round by the bill, And under the sluice of the old burnt mill, And out. of the Laing d a y. But I love it no more, for delight grows cold When the song Is sung, and the tale is told, And the heart is given away. Oh, river, run far! Oh, river, run fast I Oh, weeds, float out to the lea! Fur the sun has gone down on my beautiful put, And the hopes like bread on the water I cast Rave drifted away like thee! 8o the dream It is fled, and the day it is done, And my Ups still mnrmar the oh - tae of one Who will never comu back to me! SEEPING TAVERN DOWN BELOW ; - OR SQUARE BALL AND /RS CUSTOMERS In the town of Kingston, and State of -, there was a tavern-keeper by the name of Ball. He was en may well-to-do sort of mac, who had a longing to be rich. He had not always been a publican ; when he started In way a farmer, and he still kept his fain and raised most of the matters from It which he wanted for his family nee As this fann ing brought him very little ready money, he took It into his head to try some other way of adding to his Income. Re lived on the Comm, near the meeting.house, and while the store and the blacksmith's shop, and post-office, and a dozen other estanltshments were right there, they had no tavern. Mr. Ball wastempt ed to hang out a edmn, and add the alluring words, " gotertainment lot man and beast," which was common on a tavern sign in thatl.rt of the coun try, gig - allying that super people and drunkardu could both be entertained :here. He thought there was DO harm In selling rum, es pecially as he was a member of the Church; he kept a Bible In his Bar, and often talked to his cot ton:tent of the blessedness of religion, and the value of the hope of heaven which he had indulged In ev er since be was a boy. It was Squire Ball's custom, (for he was a justice of the peace, and, therefore, called the Squire, by everybody,) to close his bar room at ten o'clock every night, unless the rnn of bush:mit at the bar made it expedient to dispense with the custom; bat on ordinary occasions he was wont to stoat up at ten, and when ail were gone he would take his Bible and read a chapter, and then he would kneel down and pray with an loud a voice that be could be heard by the neighbors for a con• siderable distance around ; so he wee sure they knew he was a praying man. He got a name for this ; and as it was known that he prayed In the bar room, where he sold his rum, it was reasonable to Infer that the Squire was a very conscientious man in business. Certainly he would not pray hi his bar room, and so loud too, unless he feared God, and meant to keep his commandments. One night there was quite an affray in the Squire's har-room. Some of his customers were more than usually excited. Two of them were so drunk that he put them out of the house, and when they sought to return he drove them off with a horse-whip.— And those who were not quite so drunk, were even the most turbulent. They finally proceeded from load words to fighting, and one of them was beaten so badly that they were obliged to carry him home helpless and bleeding. It was nearly midnight before the room was clear, and the landlord had more thirst for liquor than for the Bible or prayer, when the house was still. He would have gone off to htll as soon as he had locket up, but the force of habit Is as strong sometime!, lu good as evil, and he could not be easy at heart if be should neglect his chapter and his prayer. So he took dowb the book, and opening It at random, he read the chapter which contains these words—" So drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of Gott" They seemed to glisten as he read them—those words did. What did they mean? He had begun to think over the drunkards whom he had known, and who had died. He called up their names ; he began to grow confused In his mem ory, and to help hims-If on lb the work he had an dertakce, he took down the hook of Dr. and Cr., in which he had for years kept a running amount with nis neighbors. There were many who had once stood in his bar, and now they were In ettamity.— They had died drunkards. And the Bible told him they had not gone to heaven—they mast be In bell. He looked over the list, and asked himself, Wes Ulla man a drunkard? And fhia man?" And Mr. Bail would try to recollect how they looked the beat time they were In bit her; and ore after another would come back to his memory, and soon a whole group of them was there, a horrid group! dead drunkard• ! for he had seen them all dead. And now, when they rote to his view, they teem ed to come from the grave and from hell ; they laughed fiercely and swore terribly, and roared as if they were beasts let loose. They wanted something to drink, and would ha%e it ; and when the Squire remonstrated with them, and told them that they had been drinking already, and that be never sold liquor to men after they had enough, they leaped to the bar and helped themselves; and one of theta leaped astride the shoulders of the landlord, and an. other threw the Bible at Ma head ; and then they made a great uproar, like that which had marked the fluky Nat of the evening, until the Squire rose up in wrath, and ordered them to quit the house. Instantly they rushed ripen Lim like so many devils, and seized him in their arms, and asked him, as they hors him away, how he would like to keep a tavern in lid! Before be had time to recover himself, or Indeed to get his breath so as to be able to speak, he felt himself flying through the air on the fiery wings of steeds, and then down, down he sunk, with his bar-room company, WI at last, alter an boor of rapid travel downward, he was suddenly pitched into a world of darkness, so black that he could feel it„— And strangely enough, he could see that this dark world wee inhabited, for the people were like so many names moving madly amid the dismal gloom ; and he conid hear chain, rattling es the people crowded along, so that he was soon convinmd that he was in the world of despair. Here he wits to keep tavern The old customers who had brought him, had been sent as a committee to end the right sort of e man to keep tavern in hell ; for they often declared there was no man doing so good a business as Squire Ball, or who had so many quslifleations for the high honor of belugthe landlord of the hosts of the prince of darkness. He was instantly and duly installed In office, and commenced dealing out spirits to the spirits in prli on.. But his surprise was great, and his confusion truly pitiable, when he recognized in every enatom er that came Into Ms bar the faces he bad known in Kingston, and all of them his neighbors and their families. " Ile I Squire Ball, is that you ?" said a fierce looking man, who came for a drink ; " when did you come t" The Squire perceived in tke new comer • man to whom he had sold liquor for fifteen years, and who had died in the poor-house. He was amber, decent, Industrious man when the landlord of Kingston first tempted him to taste a dram, and his progress le the downward mad had become sore and rapid tram that day. Next came a female fury, a lost woman, a wild spirit who dew at him as she entered his infernal tavern, and reproached him as the cause of her ruin and that of her family. " Bet for you," said she, in a shrill, clear voice that piereed his ear like a knife, " but for you I might be an angel in Heaven , and now I am a do mon in Hell. Yon made my husband a drunkard, and 'now we are both of us here." The Squire was speechless. What could he say? Ills face blazed red with theme, and ha tried to find some words of excuse, but In vain. At last he thought of his and gathered courage to say: " Didn't I often tell you that you must repent of your sins, or you weald never go to Beacon ?" "Yes, I know you did, and I have beard you pray ing half a mile off; hut what good do von suppose the preaching or praying of a rum-teller would do? All you wanted was to get the money for your liquor, and it was nothing to you what became of the souls of your customers. But I am glad thatyon are here at last. I never wanted to see anybody here as much as you. Did you hring your Bible with you, Squire?" No," said he, "I came away in great hurry. Indeed, I had no thought of coming at all, but was seized In a moment when I had no; expectation of being summoned away, and was bght bent !against my will; I do not see how I waaw rou anted here. " Why yon were wanted? You were wanted that yo - t might see the fruits of your doings, the end of your labor; and that you might feel the tires you have kindled for the souls you have destroyed.— You have come to your own place, and you will know what it is to be agent of 'Devil on earth, and his slave In hell. I. am glad you are here." While this wretched woman was raving and eon- log, a troop of spirits rushed Ifito the infernal tavern, and whom should the astonished publican behold but the company who had been at his tavern In Kingston the day before; and among them at the head, were the two whom he bad driven away from his door, after they had become so drunk that h could bear them no bnker. In they came, Vlth Chi Omani of the. All, Sal enitnir itith Seel& 62.00 per annum, - in advance 116.1SJ►Al:)W:1 mese of the pit ; and a s they mitered, they gave time cheers for the landlord, that made the whole mina of darkness ring with horror. " Why, you are hero before us," cried ono album Caueht you too!" said ano th er. __ _ _ . G. Thin i the place for you su d your business." " You'll make money here, and get My In Mil own coln," said another. . . And so they went on Jeering him until his watts was kindled beyond measure, and he began to storm in reply. And then they laughed. " Why, yon can't hurt us now. We have as a right here as you, and If you wish to have it all to yourself, we only wish you could. Btit yon sent as here. and now we most have yogi company The Squire sunk down with shame and remorse. Ile saw ids own work. These were his victims.— Once they were his neighbors, honest, Industrious men, until they begun to frequent his house, and then they grew worse and worse, till they became quarrelsome, noisy, profane, Sabbath•breshing men, and now they were In hell, and he among them, where he deserved to be. Then the epirita of all the men wheitit he tart murdered by selling rum, came thronging around 'him, and he wished - that he wee blind, so that he could not see them ; or deaf, that he could not bear them ; but when ho shut his eyes he could sat them still, and be could hear them when hie cue wars stopped. It was terrible to the poor *wretch, tad he ins ebrieked with agony ; and as he shriakedawoke I The verso he had put read about driankardis bad bold of bis imagination, and away he bad been borne to the region's of dark devair. And, as he awoke. the memory aids dream was all fresh and terrible,: It was some time before he could persuade himself that it was a dream. Ile bad been asleep perhaps an hour, and the scenes through which be had pear ed were Impressed upon his mind Indelibly. They were written there with a pen of tiro Though it woe a dream, it wee truth he bad seen and beard ; and ho knew that this lesson wu for his warning and coun.seL The landlord took ble lamp, now burning dimly, and finding hie way from the bar-room, weal to bed, but not to rleep. Theft. wig no rest for him that night. He toes-d upon his pillow, till his wile was awaked by his restlesenes's,and begged to know what .2 .4 the matter. He told her the terrible dream ha had In the bar-room, and confessed he looked upon it as the voice of God, that bad come to warn him to cease from hie wicked work in which holm en. gaged, that of waking drunkards, and abutting them out of the kingdom of God. " I have told you a hundred times," assid his wife, "that this business was a wicked one, and that 1 wished you would give It up. It la an awful thing to Mot: of, that we are killing our neighbors and sending them down-to bell Let ns abut up the tavern, and do something else for a living. For my part, I would rather starve than live by nicking drunkards" " And 1 have thought that ft must be a bad busi ness that does no good, and certainly leads many to poverty, and, If there is any truth In a dream, that leads them to hell. I have half a mind to takedown the arta, and never cell another drop of liquor. " Do, Mr. Ball do give it op. Here's the farm ; we can get a living from that ; and I'll work my fingers off, if you will only quit the bar." And, after some further deliberation of this sort, it was mutually agreed that there should be tumors tavern-keeping in the home, and this resolution having been once taken, the landlord and his wile went to sleep, and slept till a very late hour In the morning. And when the inn rose up, the Squire 'stirred himself about the house; he waited quietly for Ids breakfast, summoning his family to worship, which ho had seldom found time to do before, and stepped Into the her-room to get his Bible. But just as he enured, be heard a loud knock at the door. "I say, SqulrP, are you sick to day ? Why don't you open the door ?" The landlord ratsed the window, and throwing open a shutter, put his head out and said: " We are not sick, exactly, but we are sick of Gell in rum. This tavern doesn't go any more I" The disappointed customer was frigh toned. " Why, filpire, you're crazy," be ventured to say. " Not so crazy as you think," said the landlord, " rvel.ernf.d a lesson at tot, and have come L to the conclusion that making drunkards Is no business for me at all !" And so he did- lie took down his sign that day, and saved his tool from any thither mall?, In the damnation of his fallow-men. CArtittaa Perior Ham:vine. Dn. Dto Luis-is—hear Sir stranger, 11 address you on a subject vitally connected with the interests of the race ; at any rate, of that portion, claimingto be civilized and enlightened—yes, even ideal and ar tistic. Some time ago, I read In the Liberator your letter to women, on the importance of well-dresdni„ and protecting the feet and limbs, for which I thank you most heartily. I have waited, hoping that some one would respond, and also ask von this question-s -can you not reach onr fashionable woman on the subject oftight dressing, and through them, the 'rows who follow ? This question involves, to some extent, the wellbeing of the world. The women of America are committing deliberate suicide by com pression of the vital organs; I say deliberate, for onewould think enough had been said and written by physiologists to have warned our women against disease and death on the one hand, and to have charmed them into admiration of nature's work manship on the other, to have resolved them to be no longer guilty of violating these laws of phyaical growth and health. But, through ignorance, or pride, or false Ideas of beauty, they are led on to commit the same folly and the unto crime with those who have suffered before them ; and so will have to incur the same penalties, and pars through the same bitter experiences. At theSionteagle Hotel, Niagara, where Ispent a Sunday ay= ego, I saw , ray twenty, young mar ried women—evidently the pride of Oak husbands —with fair forms generously moulded by nature, but their waists so distorted by art, that without doubt my hands and one of theirs would have much more than spanned some of them; While others, it seem ed, I could easily clasp myself with outstretched fingers. It was a painfully sad sight to me, and I could have preached a sermon, if that had been the time and place, and (f I bad been the person. No, no—the last (/stands right in the way; It needs, perhapa, a man ; at any rate, • distinguished phys iologist and advocate of the laws of health, and who has been auccessfol. " Nothing succeeds like suc cess," nye Emerson ; and your system of gymnas tics is taught the country , over—fuhlonable women and men practise, and send their children to learn the health-giving exercise. Now, will yon not speak to onr women and rebuke them for this flagrant I disobedience to the laws of their being, and this barbarous outrage upon true Ideals of beauty ? As charitable as possible, I will believe that many need information and teaching; that they are nut aware or the extent of their sinning •• and if they could Mies be set thinking, they would arouse themselves to bring about a reform. It needs no prophet or astrologer to read the hor oscope of the young women mentioned, together with tenaof thousands all over our land, ea well ea in PranCe and England. A sensible, observing mother, In middle life, might see them a few years hence (and a very few) faded, diseased, perhaps for rowing, either watching over diseased - and dying babes, mourning those that were gone, or looking forward to the wasting and going nut of their own lives, so that they must leave their helpless treas ures bellind. Ob !if these young wives could feel, for one moment, in their souls, the trammel:dent joys of motherhood, nothing could tempt them so to barter away their birthright for the applause of vanity and folly, and for the sake of compliance With false standards of taste. This is s constantly increasing evil, gaining by fashion very much within a few years, and Increas ing also by Inheritance. It needs attention of VIP Octane, physiologists, and conscientious men and women everywhere. It Is a vital and serious qua lion ; and I most earnestly wish that you who hors spoken to women of subjects so intimately connect ed with this, would loud your influence to advance a reform, compared with which t to me, all other " dress reforms " shrink Into inalgnigcance. Respectfully yours, CLTILLEINII A. F. flrazonre. Pfr Charles Lamb tells his sad experience, as a warning to young men. in the following language t The waters have gone over me. But out of the black depths, could I es heard, I would cry out to all those who have act a foot in the perilous flood. Could the youth to whom the flavor of the drat wine is delicious ea the opening scenes of life, or the en tering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when ha shall feel himself going down a precipice, with open eyes and a pass ive will, to his destruction, and two no human power to stop it, and yet feel kali the way emanat ing from himself; to see all godliness emptied nut of him, and yet not able to forget a time when It wan otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle of hie own ruin; could be see my 'fevered eye, leireialt with the last night's drinking, sod feverishly look ing for to-night's repetion of the folly; could he but feel the body, of the death out of witich.l cry hourly With feebler outcry to be delivered. It were enough to mate bim dash the sparkling betting* to the earth, In all the pride of its mantling tempt ation, • • . • roe Why Is playing chess a worttexemplaryoeco piiOn tbsoplayingrArdat Ana.—lkaaaserraphy •~ Flu' two tifoltOpi, canttiral Rmr IFfrPll. TIGHT DEMISING RocrresTEß, N. Y., May let, 1865. MEI
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