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[The following poem, brimfull of pleas
antry and characterized in every lino by
true:poetic genius, is from the facile pen
of our --friend William Ferdhatn, of Som
erset, Ky. Mr. F. we knew among our
old friends of the editorial fraternity, and
we note with pleasure his - every contribu
tion. May there ever shine for friend F.
a "lucky star" to light his way on file's
uncertain paths:]
THE STAR SHOWER.
r.
BY FPM. FORDITA3I.
3
C.►n I ever forget, those terrors sublime,
That thrilled thro' my nerves at that no-
table time
When the stars were to fall ? Ah ! well I
remember, '
That night of all nights, in the month of
November,
When the meteors' glare would illumine
the 'night,
So tertihly grand, so dazzling, so bright.
Determined to see all the glories of heav-
en,
When the gods from their homes in the
stars should be driven,
I had taken my stand at the root ofa tree,
Where I could see no one, and no one see
me;
To protect me from cold, and the inolem
ent air, •vi`,
I'd provided myself with a competent
share
Of all I thought needful, for viewing the
stars,
Two bottl es of whiskeyond a dozen cigars.
In or.ler to brighten my vision I took
Fonr ample potations to help me to look.
Then turning my face toward the beauti-
•
ful stars,
Gazed steadfast, and fired at the planet
called Mars.
The ht.avens glowed bright with ceru?erin
b . IIIP,
But instead of ore star, I thought I saw
two; •
This wonder amazed mo a little at:firta,
But soon I coneei%ed it had already burst,
And waiting awhile his godship's desire,
Ere he started to move in his chariot of
fire.
It was painful indeed to be gazingso long•,
And the bones of my neek,though healthy
and strong,
Were nigh being broke with the 'twisting
they got
With looking, straight up t all the while at
one spot.
My neck gave a twinge, from the effect of
the strain,
And I drank of my whiskey', to ease me
•
of pain.
Half mad pith anxiet whisks.): and fear,
Ex peel ink each mar to kap Irvin it. , sphere,
Aud plunge through all parts of iu6ulte
space.,
And annihilate all but the Africat race,
I gazed and drank on, and smoked my
ciaar,
'Till star after star was added to star;
The firmament never had shone half so
bright,
With new constellations created that
night ;
New galssies formed at every potation,
And wheeled into orbits in proper rota
tion,
Had I stood aLthe head of the starwise
profession,
With the aid of the gasses I had in pos-
session,
A thousand new stars would have bright-
ened my fame, 1
And a thousand new titles attached to my
name.
As it was, even then I was crowned with
delight,
By the wonders displayed, and discover
ies that night;
My joy was unbounded ; like a king on
'his throne,
The stars were my satraps, the world was
my own :
On the pinions of Fame I could visit each
star,
And myriads of votaries would welcome
me there.
As I gazed on our planet's broad banner
unfurled,
And drank the eclat and joy of the worlJ,
My bosom - grew big with emotion and
pride,
For Science my hand-maid, and Fame as
as my bride,
Stood gazing in wonder and pride at my
form,
Like an eagle defying the tempest and
storm.
Ob, World ! I exclaimed, how beauteous
thy face,
How verdant thy laiidscapes, how firm in
thy place,
How sweet, are th'e flowers that to'lman
thou }last gived, \ :
How glorious the twinkling star-light of
. Heaven,
The dew-drops and crystaline fountain§
how pure,
How balmy. the zephyrs, bow, constant
and sure
Thy seed time and harvest, how beaute
ous thy spring,
When the waters and warblers -enchant
- ingly sing,
Oh bright shining worlds,above me, shall
ye •
Leap. forth from your orbits, as frantic
and free
Al the lightning ; in frenzy as-chaioless
aud.giaad
As the comet's bright glare by the sun' s fury fan 'd
0 tell me bright orbs that bespangle the
sky, .
Are ye to diSiolve, to fade out and die--
Like thn-Pleiads shoot forth and start
from your sphere, -'
No longer to shine on the star-gazers here?
0 twinkle once more, oh stars of my heart,
And cheer my despondency, ere thou
- start •
On thy way to. the utter dimensions of
space,
To find the lost Pleiad, the first of thy race
Who wandered away from their orbits on
• high'
And bade their companion an eternal good
bye.
As I spake the last word, I stumbled and
found
Myself in despair, supine on the ground ;
Each star in the heavens above we burst
forth
In bright scintillations above the whole
earth :
My vision a radiant spectrum presented,
And heavenly glories were there repre
sented.
The heavens dissolved ; a thousand wild
stare
Shot funk, from the disc of my favorite
Mars.
Oh God ! I exclaimed, has my own moth
er earth,
The home of my childhood, the placeof
my birth,
Left her place in the skies to follow the
track
Ot her frolicksome sisters, and never come
hack ?
A thousand wild fancies revolved in my
brain
As I wri lied in the maddening contor
tions of pain.
The day was approaching, I lay there
alone,
With the clear sky above me, my head on
a stone,
I My whi,,key all gone, and my favorite
Ai rs
shining in heaven, the kingly orators.
I have only to say to Professor Agassiz,
And a score of such astronomical asses,
W hen they fool me again with the falling
of stars
They may find themselves riding astride
of old Mims,
And butting their heails 'gainst the rocks
in the moon,
Or be sent on a goose to the skies with a
broom. (2u-rust-sc.
For Ile Democrat.
A History of the Great Struggle in
America between Liberty
.and Despotism.
We have heard from the lips of learned
men in the Repnbican party, a denial of
the fact that Gen. \\'a-hingion refused
the offer of a , crown. 'We there appeal to
history to estaLfi>h the truth that there
was
,a party during the Revolution, and
at the formation of our . Constitution,
which des' red a king'y instetd of a Repub
lican form of government, which has
been acknowledged by the party in pow
er to have been the " best government ev
er established upon the earth." It, was to
maintain and uphold the government al
ready existing, and not to overthrow it
and establish another, that President Lin
coln called out his immense army of war
riors. To overthrow the best govern
ment on earth and build another; was the
design of the leaders of the party now in
power, and this is the party which was
defeated in its plane when the govern
ment was formed, and the aims and ipten-
Lions of that party' are to change the
American: government into a despotism
or a monarchy.
S. C. Goodrich in his history of the L.
'S., says :
" Had- 1 1Tashington been as ambitious
ill
as Napol on, pr oven as Bolivar or Fran
cia, he m gin have been dictator for life
l as well 4 they. Such a course was even
i proposedi to him in 1782, when it was be
-1 lieved thin the country was not yet ready
1 for anything but a qnali6ed monarchy;
but be turned from it with disdain."
In the funeral oration on the death of
Washington, by David Ramsey, in
Charleston, S. C., in January, 1808 4 he
says : •
" If. WaFhington had been a JtiliusCms
ar, or an aiver Cromwell, all we proba
bly would have gained tty the revolution
would been a change of our allegiance;
from being the subjects of George the
Third of Great Britain, we shonld have
he dome the mubjeets of George the First,
of America."
XII the Masonic eulogy upon the death
of ! , Vashington, before the brethren of St.
JOln'ti Lodge, by brother Geo. Blake, he
says:
"There was a lime when, had the am
bition of a Cmsar been united to the pow
er of Washington, this fair eouritry which
we now inhabit, this fair residence of lib
erty and peace, might perhaps have been
prostrateat-:the feet of an :imperidus -ty
rant. Was there not a time; my 'broth
ers, when Washington might have deci
mated our councils as Cromwell garbled
the rarlinment,,oud.. qampled with impu
nity on thefreedom he was commissioned
and affected' to protect praine.bo
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, JAN. 1,. 1867.
to heaven,'oitr L Washington was incorrup
tible by the possession of power and glo
ry. At the altar of Liberty,When he pre
sented our Charter of independence, he
also laid down the sword by which it bad
been "tiebiev-ed.'-'
In the eulogy of J. M. Sewall, of Ports
mouth, N. H., on the death of Washing.
ton, he says :
"/Did Washington, - like Caesar, after
vanquishing' his:country's foes, turn MS
conquering arms against that country?
Before the great council of our na
tion the patriot hero now appeared, and
in the presence of numerous admiring
spectators, resigned his victorious sword
into the hands of those who gave it."
In another funeral eulogy pronounced
by Josiah Dunham, at Oxford, Mass., he
says:
"Compare Washington with the he•
roes, the patriots, the sages, the legisla
tors of antiquity. Do we not find him as
much their superior as the golden sun is
superior to the swift meteor of night ?
a hero, compare him with Alexander,with
Crohiwell, with Cmsar. Alas! Where is
their greatness? What were their vitt
tuns? Curse on shelf virtues' They have
undone their country. Cromwell, with
saereliglitts ieal, destroyed a throne toeu•
throne himself: Cmsar subdued nations';
but Cat.:ar was ambitions—he enslaved an
empire! Washington fought not to con.
quer, but to defend ; not to rain the foe,
but to protect his people; not to enslave
a country, but to free, to bless, and build
up a nation ; to establish it on the broad
basis of equal right s , under the enjoy.
merit of liberty, and under the protection
of law."
Wm. Linn, D. D., in his funeral eulogy
on Washington in N. Y. City, delivered
the fol'o wing panegyric:
"America claims a 4 her own, one who
was justly the admiration of the world.—
And shall she be silent in his praise? But
the language of mortals can with oiflicul
ty, if ever, reach so noble a theme. The
name of Washington is above what Gre
cian of Roman story presents; and it
would require more than Grecian or Ro
man eloquence to- do it justice; How fiir
superior his fame to that ofAlexauder or
Ca..Aar ! They, fought for the sake of con
quest aqd.to enslave Marikind; he in-cie
fence of their just rights and to make them
happy."
Now, gentle reader, what does this so
called Republican party say about Wash•
in , rton ? The hero who chose to be the
Father of his people instead of a King or
Dictator over them, is thus spoken of by
the great Leader of the party in power,
Hon. Horace Greeley. He says, a few
months ago :
"The fact is, nnr original great men
are fast becoming as mythical, as shad
owy, and unsubstantial as the heroes of
Homer or Ossian. IVashimrton, we are
afraid we must give up. That be was a
burn-in being—that he could eat and
drink —that he could dance a minuet
with stately grace—thin we know in spite
of the precautions of Mr. Spam ks. But the
majority of the Americans have long ago
ceased to regard Washington with any
thing like familiar affection. He has only
been a little while dead, and we already
speak of him as the Romans spoke of Rom
ulus., and as Englishmen speak of Alfred."
Ungrateful wretch ! And who are those
Americans who long ago 'ceased to re
gard the Father of their country with
anything like familiar affection, but the
party which commenced a revolution for
the purpose of overthrowing the govern
ment which he founded ? Who have been
fighting, not like Washington, to protect
&
and fend their country, ut for con
quest, for subjugation, and for the en
slavement. of mankind, but the Republi
can party ? What did the founder of the
Democratic party say to a proposition to
put the power of a Cmsar into the hands
of any one man, and invest him With the
title of Dictator over the people ? He
said, '"the Very thought was treason
against the people—was treason against
mankind in general."
What did the leader of time Federal par
ty think of Julius Caesar'? Thomas Jef
ferson says : " Alexander Hamilton din
e 1 with me while I was Secretary of
State. The room was hung around with' :
a collection of the portraits of remarka
ble men, among them were those of Ba
con, Newton, and Locke. litinilton ask
ed me who they were. I told him they
were my trinity of the greatest men the
world ever produced, naming them. He
paused fur some time. The greatest nian
said he, that ever lived, was Julius Cm
sar." Jefferson believed that Alexander
Hamilton was resolved in the first revolu
tionary crisis of our country to establish
Monarchy by the sword. Join Adams
believed the same. In his life by his
grandson Charles Francis : Adams, this
opinion is stated..
" Alexander tlanailton was in favor of
a .permanent 'military org,iinization. His
tendencies were never to popular ideas.
The motives of the Fed,eralists - Of the
Hamilton school in wishing war between
'France and the United States, were Ist._
The, preponderaffov which • at appeal to
the patriotic :feeling, people woo .
.
gm og to their party: 2d. Th# great mil-
itary - Organization which it was throwing
into their hands. With the aid a. these
forces,•-they,trusted to procure modifies-.
tion in the laws, and even in the Constitu
tion itself so to, fortify their positionlin the
Government, as
,to render it impregnable
to the opposition. These ideas were nev
er even remotely shared by Mr.. Adams."
b.other words, the followers of Ham
ilton trusted by the aid of the army to
change, the Constitution and laws of
the United States, and change the Gov
ernment into a Monarchy.. This is pre
cisely what they are doing now. Look at
the picture of Alexander Hamilton in the
" Loyal Republican Convention" in Phil
adelphia. He was the admirer of Julius
Cmsar and took him for his model. Jul
ius Cmsar after vanquishing' his country's
foes, turned his conquering armies against
that country, and reduced it to slavery.
Alexander Hamilton despised Washing:
ton, for his love . of country, instead of
pot% er and glory . . His son, John A.Ham
ilton, for the last twenty years, in writing
the life of father has tried to disparage
the services of Washington to his coun
try, and transfer the honors due to him, to
Alexander Hamilton. John A. Hamilton
was present at the Convention, which se
lected the portrait of his father, as that of
the statesman who reptented their prin
ciples of the Republican party. In that
Convention he boasted of having urged
President. Lincoln to remove Secretary
Seward from his Cabinet, and for the fol
lowing reasons. "Mr. Seward .wrote to
Mr. Adams, that President Lincoln did
not believe the federal government, could
reduce the seceding States to obedience
by conquest. Only an imperial or des
potic Government, could sunjugate
thor
out;hly disaffected members of the State.
This federal republican system of ours is,
of all systems of government, the very one
which is most unfit for such labor."
"The President," says Mr. Hamilton,
" did not agree with me:but I think that
if he-had, we would have fought the bat
tle better than we did."
Now let the difference between Presi
dent Lincoln and this son of Alexander
Hamilton who is true to the principles of
his father, be distinctly understood. Abra
ham Lincoln, al honor• to his memory
therefor, fought for the free government
established by — Washington. All his des
potic acts were forec h d upon him by the .
followers of Alexander Hamilton, who
saw in -this state of war, the crisis or es
tablishing a Monarchy. They fought to
reduce the States to conquered provinces;
to destroy State rights and to rule over
the people of the S outh as Julius Cmsar
ruled the country be vanquished. Presi
dent Lincoln, Seward, and honorable and
patriotic men, fought only to preserve the
honor, with all the right, and dignity of
the States unimpaired. Among those pa
triots was Andrew Johnson, who is carry
ing out the policy of his predecessors, and
has thereby brought upon himself the cur
ses, of the followers of Hamilton. Would
we know the reason of the hatred of
Parson Brown,low against President John- ;
son, we have but to open his " Book"
and there hear him proclaim, " I am a
Federalist. I believe in a strong Central
ized Government. lam a disciple of Al
exander Hamilton." And so were all
the "Loyalists" assembled to gaze upon
the picture of their great Leader. Their
loyalty consists in allegiance to Monar
chy.
We will close this number by quoting
the fdlowing from Willard's History of
the United States: There were officers in
the American army whose personal ambi
tion, carried them beyond the mark of
right and justice; and brought up the re
flection that if the army could remain en
tire under its head, it might now subdue
the country which it had defended; and
altliong:h if a monarebial government were
established, the Commander in Chief
I must be the sovereign, yet the officers
coming in for the next share of power and
; consequence, would become the aristocra
cy. To tempt Washington to connte
mince these views, one of the Colonels of
the army was fixed upon, who wrote him
a letter in a smooth and artful strain. He
commented on the weakness of republics,
I and the benefits of mixed Governments.
There was a prejudice existing which
confOunded Monarchy with Tyranny, and
it might be necessary to choose, with a
monarchical government, some title appa
rently more moderate, but the writer be
. lieved that strong arguments might be
produced for admitting the title of King."
Washington was astonished, displeas
ed and grieved. He replied that no oc
currence during the war had given him
more painful sensations than to learn that
such ideas existed in the army, ideas
which he must view with abhorrence, and
reprehend with severity."
j Among the officers of this army was
Alexander Hamilton, whose history and
character will be exposed in the follow
lug numbers.
—ln Albany, a few days since, a little
boy by die name , of Hogan was playing
among Borne empty barrels with his com
rades, when he , got into one of barrels,
feet foremost, and his companions raised
tho.barrel upon the end, thus placing him
upon his head. In this position he was
left for : some time. When removed he
was insensible, and died in a few hours af
terward:.
A Bit of. Romance.
The Chatfield, Minnesota, Democrat re
lates the following, truth stranger than
fiction" story : -
.•
Had we the time and ability, we have
here the ground work for a pretty little
romancer—something to' dim the eases
of old ladies' spectacles and:make young
girls blubber; bat as we have neither,.we
will tell the facts and leave the romance
to thernovelist. -W,ell, to begin : Some
twenty years ago,. there resided in Eng
land Captain Sladden, who held a commis
sion in the English navy. • The Captain's
family consisted of wife and two children,
a boy and a girl; t r he Captain enjoyed an
ample fortune, .and had all to snake life
' pleasant. When Sarah, the name of the
girl, was some four years old, the father
sickened and died, leaving his fortime.to
his children. Au interim of some six or.
seven years now occurred, and the next
we hear of the parties, thirteen years ago
the girl says, is that the widow is married
to a Mr. White, and residing at Detroit,
Michigan. A sister of Mr. White's was
then visiting the family, and after re
maining a while, left clandestinely, taking
the girl with her, it is supposed at.the In
stigation of her, brother, now -Mrs. Slad
den's husband. The boy, Sarah's broth
er disappeared about the same time, but
with whom we are not informed. After
remaining with her aunt for- some time,
she discovered that she, as an innocent
and virtuous girl, could not. remain with
her in safety, and leaving she went to re
side with a family with whortrhe was ac
quainted.. With this family she lived
several years, residing, during the time,
at Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and other
points. At some point in 'isconsin, we
could not learn how long since, she left
the family with whom she had been living
and joined that of another, who soon
thereafter brought her to the vicinity of
Preston in this county. We next hear of
her as a hired girl, working in the family
of the Rev. Mr. Kemper. While there a
brother of Mr. Kemper, residing in Cin
cinnati, visited him, and during his stay
learned the eventful story of this girl's
life. In the meantime she worked in dif
fereut families until some two months ago,
when she was married to Mt. Robert
Sturgeon, a worthy, industrious farmer's
son, living near Preston. When married
she was at work in the woolen factory in
this town.
Now for the interesting part of the sto
ry. Mr. Kemper returned to Cincinnati,
and a few days since, while looking over
a newspaper his eye fell upon an adver
tisement under the head of "Information
Wanted. In looking over the advertise
ment he saw that. th e information sought
was for the whereabouts of a young lady.
Reading the' desci ipi ion of the girl in the
advertisement, Mr. K. was startled to find
that the description corresponded exactly
with that of the girl ho had met at his
brother's. Feeling a lively interest in,the
matter, Mr. K. immediately wrote to-the
persoo• desiring the information, and in a
short time received a letter from Sarah's
mother, describing her so accurately even
to marks on her body, that no doubt is
entertained by any one but that she is the
"lost one." Mr. -K. forwarded a copy of
the advertisement and the letter to his
brother a short time since, with a request
from the mother of Sarah that, she would
come to Detroit, for which point she and
her husband left, last week, to take pos
session of a fortune of a hundred thousand
dollars or two that .bad thus far been
wrongfully detained from her.
The brother has been discovered and is
at home, and the meeting between moth
er, daughter, son, sister and brother, may
be better imagined than described.
The Deacon and the Wasps.
A worthy deacon in a town of Maine
was remarkable for the facility with which
he quoted Scripture on all occasions. The
divine Word was ever at his tongu's end,
and all the trivial as well as important; oc
currencetf of life furnished occasion for
quoting the language of the Bible. What
was better, however, the exemplary man
always made his quotations the standard
of notion.
One hot day be was engaged in mow
incr. with his hired man, who was leading
off, the deacon following in his swath,
conning his apt quotations, when the man
suddenly sprang from his place, leaving
his swarth just in time to escape a wasp's
nest.
"What is the matter?" hurriedly in.
qnired the deacon. .
" Waspg," was the laconic reply.
" Pooh!" said the deacon. "The wick
ed flee when no man pursueth, but the
righteous are as bald as a lion," and ta
king the workman's swath he moved but
a step when a swarm of brisk insects set
tled about his ears, and he was forced to
retreat, with many a painful sting, and in
great discomfiture."
"Ali!" shouted the other, with a chuck
le.-" The prudent man forseeth the evil,
and hideth himself, but the siinple.pass on
and are punished.
The good deacon bad found his equal
in making applications of the sacred wri
tings, and thereafter was not known to
quote Scripture on trivial occasions.,---tEx.
—There has never-been a-divorce gran•
Led in - &lath Carolina.
I VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER :1.,
,
Shetland Stockings, arid their Knittere.'
. There is' perhaps community that
gives such indiettions of industry =tong
the female population as Shetland. The
knitting needles and the worsted ire eon- .
tinually in their hands, atid'estemto_forrit
a part and parcel'Of the`woman Itareelf.;:j ;
If you take a walk toward' `"""
will meetor Pasailoaeas of womext - going
for otreenirning with peat from: the hill,-
"WV Ithilliag - ?!9 120 a stocking ! . and, euk
other a stout shawl or cravat.'_:/he Seer
articles, scarfs, veils and lace - shawl.,
which are often exquisitely'fine, catitiot '
be worked in -this ofl• hand why,. and-are
reserved for leisure hours at -home.' The r 7
" keyshie"—straw , basket, like a large le !
verted bee hive—may be fall or empty,
but you never fail to find the busy
This carrying peat is an almost'daily task:
and you sometimes see a• woman with
"strongly markedleatures arid large frame
who from constant exposure to sunshine
and shower, and rendered gaunt and wi
ry by hard work, recalls Sir Walter
Scott's description of " Notna of Fitful
Head." The poorer classes- generally ,
wear no shoes, but ' rivillins," a kind
sandal made of untanned, cowhide, trir ,
sometiineri seal skin, - witlf the hairmut- -
side, and lashed to - "the " foot wit thongs.
All the wool of the pure•Shethrild sheep •
is fine, but the finest , grnitni.:tindetthe
neck, and is never shorn eiChut " rooed"
—that is, gently pulled - It is said thit
an ounce' of wool earrliy skill. be spun in
to upwards of 1,000 -yards of three ply
thread. Stockings - eau be knitted of sueh .
fineness as topho'f3asilydrawn through a
finger ring. ;The Annuatprocelds of the ,
industry areNaid to be no less than £lO,- ,
.000. It ii*ite common for a servant,
when inking an engagement to stipu- ,
late that she shall . 6 have ber hands to
herselfe..
All she can make kni eng goes into.her '
own pocket., The industry of the women
is to be atectunted fur by fact that-by
their knitting they inn ply themselves
with dress,' but especially with tea, of
which they are intemperately fend. It, is
a perfeetWitiSCertalned fact, that the val
ue of tea annually consumed in SLetland
far exceeds the whole land rental—abeat •
£30,000. Very large ceuintities of eggs
are sent south, bringing in, - it is said,
thousanda Of pounds annually, a great „
portion of which" finds its way into the
teapot.
"108 1 8 Rock.''
The grounds comprising the Antietam
Cemetery, Sharpsborg,Muryland, was the
spot occupied by Gei3erel Lee and his
staff during the battle orA4tietam, - and it
rook protruding about three "feet" ,
the surface has been pointed Otiti;4oo - 1-Z_
visitors as the one ou hich General.Letßt;
stood and viewed the . progre.s of , the bat-
tle. It was from this rock that he i ssued
bis orders. Those who toik part' in the
battle usually take their pnsition upon tide
rock to point to their friends the 'fad
hou - se to the left in which General
Clellan had his head quarters, the .Barn-,
side Brigade' to the right and RedeNt
Mountain in the distance on the apex of
which the gallant General'of that name" :
fell mortally wounded early in the battle.
In short, all the points of interest are ape,.
eially visible from "Lee'slioCk. •
At the meeting of the'Roard of. Coin':
missioners representing a t'ew °file States
held at Sbarpaburg last springis vote was
taken on the question of leaking-,j,ee'a."...
Rock stand, when it was ) -hylk close votes .
decided to haie it. blown. up - and
ed. At a meeting on Thursday
last, held in this chi . , on ,mutton Abe •
Conuniesioners froM . Weit"Virginrai
onded. by New tork, the order todeetrOY.:
the rock was rescinded, und it :was deck
ded that it should remain, ._:, ,trt
The ejoriti
in thus decidlng; • considered ' Lee'e - Reok '
to be a historical mark of the battlifield,
that must always prove of; interest,' sap*
. 1
cially to the visitors from a distinoe i whe'.',:
for the fi rst time view the field "
of this . ,
most sanguinary bettle.—Baltimoredeter-
ican.
-=Don't pit out icerosene , tamps by
blowing down , the chimney : A dootor
Peoria tried it the other night, the lamp
exploded, and the doettir narrowly escape
ed losing his eyes.
—Noticing the recent public btirning
of the Constitution of the ITnited Statea
iu the streets of Joliet, illiooie, btaittOto':
of the Radical's of that plaqe,:arrAtisrait
cheering, the Springfield ReAter it - ayat
"It wasn't worth wnile to burn tha.tioor
old document ; it wasn't in their *ay."
—They have a lesbian in Boston V
lustrating their election - tickets. At the .1
recent municipal election that city the
Republican ticket had onit a large, spread
eagle on a- slate colored imir.sonot
On the front was an engraving -01%4 eel-.
dier and a sailor,.with the eity4sesi *bees
and ajort and monitor belarri,
headed gi Republican' , ticket:" in fintirlat-;
tern. The straight Derancretic ticket had
a Very handsome- figure head, viz: Law.
ty, seated on a 'pedestal, her head stt
rounded by stare, - with - rays'oftlags tan
each side. - Below her a 'vim: in amiatati.Q
featuring city : oh '-ano_hand i , a SOutkiaL
Vatitatioa oh- the':ottiOri
hands between