A. J. GERRITSON, Proprietor.}
FOR THE MONTROSE DEMOCRAT
Of the Great Struggle between Liberty
and Despotism for the last
Hundred Years.
BY MRS.'L. C. SE&IILE
Irving, in his Life of Washington, says
" Lord Dunmore's plan was to pro
claim liberty to the negroes of Virginia,
invite theft to join his majesty's troops—
in a word—to inflict upon that State the
horrors of a servile war."
"If that man is not crushed before
Spring," writes Gen. Washington, "he
will become the most formidable enemy
America has. Motives of resentment ac
tuate his conduct to a degree equal to the
total destruction of Virginia. His strength
will increase as a snow-ball by rolling,and
faster, if some expedient cannot be hit up
on to convince the slaves of the impoten
cy his designs."
What do these words of Gen. Wash
ington imply, but that the slaVes'would
have risen at the call of the kingrof Great
Britain as soon as at the invitation of Ab
raham Lincoln? Bancroft says :
" What might have been accomplished
had Lord Dunmore been master of the
country, and used an, undisputed possess
ion to embody tiain the negroes, can
not be told ; but as it was, though he
boasted that they flocked to his standard,
none combined to join him from a long
ing for an improved condition, or even
from to their masters."
Thomas Jefferson says that " from an
estimate made after the war, it was found
that Virginia lost 3 1 0,000 slaves"—but
they were stolen or enticed away.
" In truth," says Bancroft, "the cry of
Dunmore did not rouse amonfr the Afri-
cans a passion tla. freedom. To them,
bondage in Virginia was not a lower con
dition of being than their former one ;
no struggling aspirations of their own,
had invited Dunmore's interposition ; no
memorial their grievances had preceded
his offers."
, Here a Massachusetts bisorian admits,
that after the negroes had been slaves in
Virztnia fur a hundred forty years,' tney
were contented with their lot, and had no
ill-will against their masters. 'They had
not been reduced to any lower condition
than the one they had occupied for thous
ands of years. They enjoyed as many'
privileges iu Virginia as they did in Afri
ca, and had nothing to regret by the
change. Their memories could not inn
back to a time when they bad ever en
joyed political privileges, and therefore
they were not prompted to demand any
change. They were not struggling fqr
freedom themselves, for they had no aspi
rations for any position in life above what
they were then in, and had not invoked
the interposition of Dunmore in their be
half, or sent to him a memorial of any
grievances for which they desired redress.
It was not the slaves, then, who were en
mica to their masters—not the black: race
who were arrayed in deadly hostility to
the white people of the South, but the
white tyrants of Great Britain, who wan
ted them to become " hewers of wood and
drawers of water" to their aristocratic
brothers across the ocean ; and these
white princes and lords of the Old World,
who had sent to Africa and brouglit
these African barbarians over by the ship
load and forced them among the colon
ists of America, now offered them their,
freedom if they would help to kill their
masters, who refused to submit to their
tyrannical power.
Neither was it the black race in the
South who hated their masters in 1863,
but the " British faction" who wanted to
gain the power over lthe descendants of
the patriots of 1776, who still clung to
the Democratic form of government es
tablished by Washington, instead of one
" formed after the model of Great Bri
tain," as the Federalists, led by Alexan
der Hamilton, have been struggling for,
ever since the Union was formed. To
prove that it was not slavery which these
Federalists hated, but Democracy, we
• give the opinions of ! C arson Brownlow,
the present Radical governor :runes
see, and a methodist ministe for many
years. " The slaves in 1775," 'says Ban
croft, "were contented with their lot,and
had no aspirations fora higher position of
life." Seventy years from this time, Par
son Brownlow held a didenssien with Rev.
Mr. Prime, of New York; upon the sub
ject of slavery in the South, in which he
gives the following description of the
condition of the mime race: '.
"The sinless spirits that surround GrOd's
throne look down with delight upon what
slavery is doing for the African race. Oh,
with what ecstacy do they ponder on
God's ways, when they see Him bending
upon the abject African race an eye of
tenderness, and in his profound wisdom,
devising for them the institution of slave
ry as a`plan of restoration, and by his wis
dom bringing life, harmony and salvation
to the African race through the mild in
stitution of slavery. The preservation of
the relation of master and slave is essen-
tial to the continued improvement and
future welfare of the negro race of the
'Seuth. American slavery is a blessing;
ra blessing to the - master ; a blessing to
I .nou-slaveholders ofthe South ; a blessing
to the white race in general, and a bles
t sing to the negro slaves in particular."
In 1861 Brownlow says : " I am a pro
slavery man, and so are the Union men
generally of the border slave States. I
have long since made up my mind upon
the slavery question, but not without stu
dying.it thoroughly. The result of my
investigation is, that there is not a single
passage in the new testament, nor a sin-
gle act in the records of the church
ring her early history even for centuries,
containing any intended censure of slave
ry. The original Church of Christ not
only admitted the lawfulness of slavery,
but masters and slaves bowed at the same
altar."
In Parson Brownlow's book, printed in
1862, he says :
" Zn 1858 I was engaged in a debate on
the slavery question with Hey. Abram
Prime, in which I defended the ifistitti
tion of slavery'as it exists in the South.
The debate was published, and exhibits
my sentiments upon that great question,
which have undergone no change since
theA. Thirty years ago I had a contro-
versy with Mr. Posey, a Calvauistic min
ister, a man of tal i ents, and I herewith
gi\e my opinions on slavery then, and
they are the same now. Mr. Posey taun
ted me with the false charges that meth-
odist preachers were the friends of ne
groes and opposed to slavery; and that
Wesley, their great idol, wrote and
preached against slavery. Both of these
charges are false. Many of the Methodist
preachers are opposed to slavery ; but as
many more of them own slaves and are
advocates of the institution. I own none,
but it is because of my poverty, and not
um - au esu Tta - ! uppm•cti to - uw mug tn etn.—
The methodistS in New Engiana, and 0111-
er denominations there, take the ground
`that slave-holding is a sin, an injustice, a
barbarism. Ido not believe them. I be
lieve, with the Constitution of my coun
try, that slaves are a lawful species of
property, and that those who feed knd
clothe them well, and instruct them in re
, ligion, are' better friends to them than
those who set them at liberty."
Three years after the publication of his
book, Parson Brownlop thus desy.ribes the
blessings of freedom to the negroes of
Tennessee
"There is• a bad feeling between the ne
groes and the whites, and it is daily grow
ing more bitter. Many of the negroes are
insulting to white families, who never
owned any of their color, and never did
them any wrong. They frequently elbow
white women off our pavements, and
curse white men passing them just to
show their authority. Others swear that
they will clean out the town. k, And still
another class swear that if they are not
allowed their rights at the ballot-box,
they will resort to the cartridge-box !
And they swear that they will be backed
up by the government. As one desiring
the welfare of the colored people, they
will permit me to say that they cannot
drive the Legislature of Tennessee into
conferring upon them the elective fran
chise. The Federal government has no
right to control the suffrage question in
Tennessee; and the great Union party of
the nation will have more sense than to
attempt to control the question by Con
gressional legislation.
"The negroes entertain the idea that
the government is bound to supply all,
theirs wants, and one third of them are
not willing to stoop to work. They
think the government is bound to furn
ish them with houses, if, in order to do
that, the white occupants must be turned
out.. There is a large demand for labor,
in every.section of the State, but the ne
groes, with here and there a noble excep
tion, scorn the idea of Work. They fiddle
and dance at night, and lie around the
stores and street corners in the daytime.
And some of the indiscreet teachers of
the negroes from the North, who know
nothing of the negro character, have been
known to telt them not to hire to white
People. Having the single idea in their
beads of abolition, they advise the negroes
to a life of precarious subsistence, of idle
ness and dancing, and of crowding into
the towns to be educated, in preference to
good' wages and. comfortable homes in
I the country. The negroes,,as well as the
whites, must learn,to take care of them
selves. A portion of them, I belleve,will
be-quiet and industrious citizens, provid
ing for themselves and families. The great
majority of them will not, and they will
get into •trouble—many -of them will
break into. the, penitentiary. They will
fai!.ht their threats Of Illolence,,to
auY good.: fad he is their best . friend
idrifiewthesn'agitinet this costae of
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, AUG. 13, 1867.
conduct. I am informed that balls are
getting to be very frequent, which white
soldiers and officers attend, and dance
with the colored women. One Ohio sol-
dier procured a license to marry, but not
disclosing the color of his intended, actu
ally married a yoting wench, formerly a
slave in this city! If this sort of alliance
suited his taste, I have no complaint to
make. But Ido complain that the mor
als of the colored population are Trot so
good since their freedom as when they
were in bondage. And at the speed
which is making in the direction, of their
enlightenment, - of teaching, preaching,
praying, singing and dancing, half of
them will go to ruin in a short time.
" Colored soldiers in Federal uniforms,
with gnus and pistols in their hands,must
know that East Tenneisee will not be in-
timidated by thew, or suffer their fami
lies to be abused. I know these people,
and I know they will not submit to be
run over by negro soldiers. And know
ing this, I desire to keep down any con
flict between the races. Loyal men con
cede to the negroes their freedom, but
they are not prepared to see all their
churches and school houses turned over
to them, and the innocent white children
of Union parents, who never owned any
slaves, denied houses of worship, and_
houses in which to teach school, because
a few impudent teachers, upstarts from
the North, out of any employment, have
conceived the idea of immortalizing the
negro. There are those of us here, claim
ing to be on the side of the Union, who
still think, notwithstanding the !result O'k
the war, that a white child is as good as I
a black one. We do not recognize the
right of the government, after emancipa
ting the negroes of Union men, to take
their lands and property as a punishment
for hosing owned slaves 1 There are
those of Els here claiming that there is no'
discount upon our Unionism, who don't I
recognize the right of the captain of a ne
gro regiment, upon the representation of
a negro of bad character, to arrest respec
table, loyal white men with negro bayon
ets, and march them from one county to
another for trial, when their condemna
tion has been agreed upon by the negroes
in advance, and there thousands of true
hearted Union citizens and discharged
Tederal soldiers, who will die right here,
in a second war, before they will submit
to such insults, wrong - a, and outrages.—
getting up throughout the Mate upon
this subject. I think I see where and
what it will lead to, and I desire to reme
dy the evil. Let those who have control
of the negroes advise them to a peaceful
course, and to reconcile it to themselves
to see white men and their families enjoy
what rightfully belongs to them. Let them
frown down allmalicious complaints from
negroes of bad character against white
persons who always stood fair. Let thpm
cease to arrest gentlemen of characli3r
and standing and of loyalty because some
enraged negro has fancied he can procure
such an arrest. A day of reckoning will
come hereafter, and if these encroach
ments upon the rights and liberties of oy
al men are continued, the day will come
sooner than any of us want to see."
One of these days of reckoning came
soon after this document of Parson Brown
low was issued, which was known as the
day of the " Memphis Riots ;" another as
the "Massacre of New Orleans." The
key to all these tragic scenes is found in
the fact which the Parson states, that
white people would not submit to be run
over by negroes. Congress therefore has
sent an army Sbuth to compel them to
submit, by giving the negroes the politi
cal power to rule over them ; and Parson
Brownlow, with the instinct of a demon,
has joined the side of the negroes. Thad
Stevens' says, " the Southern people de
serve to be shut up in the penitentiary of
hell ;" and the Republicans have prepared
the penitentiary and guarded it with bay
onets. Brownlow says if they rebel,they
will be swept from the earth.
The picture which Parson Brownlow
gave of Tennessee, after the negroes were
liberated from slavery, was a true picture
of all the other States in the South. The
white people were the ones who were in
sulted, wronged and abused by the ne
groes, causing all the disturbances, which
Congress 'has undertaken to remedy by
putting the whites into bondage to their
former slaves.
" The sinless spirits that surround God's
throne, who looked down with delight
upon what slavery was doing for the Af
rican race, in redeeming them from-a
state of barbarism," behold now the
whole South turned into a pandemonium ;
the masters who civilized and christian
ized the barbarians, punished with dis
franchisement and slavery, and made to
change places with their negroes, because
they refused to submit in 1866 as in 1776,
to aid in establishing despotic power
over America. If they would vote the
Republican ticket, and thus restore and
ratify the claims of the King and Parlia
ment of Great Britsin, now represented
by the Congress of the United States, ev
ery Southerner would be released from
this prison-house to-morrow. They hold
-in their bands, now , as ever, the liberties
'of the whole white race in Ainerioa. •
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8,50'8 barrel,,
I ' P
Speech of Judge Sharswood at the Anniver
sary Dinner of the Hibernian Society,
March 17, 1860.
In response to the sixth regular toast,
"Pennsylvania," Judge Sharswood said :
That he felt highly honored in being
the guest of the Society on this, as he had
been on so many former anniversaries, and
especially on the present occasion, in
being called on to respond to a ,toast in
honor of his native State. Pennsylvania
has not been sufficiently appreciated by
her own sons. Many reasons may be
given for this. There never has been a
feeling of brotherhood among the people
in different parts of the Commonwealth.
There has been always something of a
jealousy of Philadelphia through the in
terior which is not to be observed in other
States towards their metropolis,
and which
may, perhaps, be traced to early political
differences. Besides which the Quakers
iu the East, the Germans in the midland
counties, the Scotch and Irish in the
West, and the Yankees in the North,
have never fully fraternized. The time is
at hand when these marked distinctions
of races will have. worn out. The valu
able though varying traits which distin
guish
them, when blended in their com
mon descendants, cannot fail to produce a
state or national character, we may hope
good as well as great. The simple but
earnest discipline, mental and moral, of
the Friends, „the steadyjndustry and fru
gality of the" Germans, the indomitable
courage and energy of the Scotch and
Irish, and the inventive enterprise and
shrewdness of the sons of New England,
these have all had their respective works
to do in founding aid settling our broad
Commonwealth, and well have they done
it. To their descendants, the present and
coming generations, they have left the
task of uniting together, and cementing
more strongly the North, 'the South, the
East and the West, in the common senti
ment that we are indeed all brethren of
one family. In the future history of the
Federal Union—this great Commonwealth
of nations of which Pennsylvania is one—
she will have an important part to act.
She, the very keystone of that old Federal
arch, which, springing on one side from
the shores of the Atlantic on the north
east, and almost from the Gulf of Mexico
;;;ere, in the very centre. Although her
geographical position in relation to her
sister States has been much changed from
what it was with the Old Thirteen, not so
with her political position. Sho is still
the Keystone of the Arch. Always true
to the Constitution and the Union, she
will stand by these priceless legacies of
the Revolution to till very last. In every
conflict which involves these—God forbid
that such conflicts should ever come—you
will know where to find the sons of Penn
sylvania—bravely fighting under the old
stars and stripes as long as a single shred
remains.
He would not dwell on such a topic but
hasten to ask what will not Pennsylvania
become with such a population, and with
her great physical resources and material
wealth, in the onward progress and ex
pansion of this great Confederacy ? The
eminent scientific gentleman, (Professor
N. D. Rogers,) under whose superintend
ence the geological survey of the State
was conducted, bas, in his riant report,
summed up the results by expressing his
deliberate - opinion that the coal strata of
Pennsylvania alone "confer upon it an
amount of accessible wealth surpassing
that of any other Commonwealth of the
Confederacy, or that, indeed, of any equal
country on the globe." "To the states
man," he adds, "this display of the pre
eminence of Pennsylvania in mineral
wealth cannot but be viewed with deco
interest, as it must appear to him by far
the largest element in the problem of her
future industrial, social, and political ca
reer." The coal measures within her
limits cover an area of about 12,622
square miles, or not much less than one
fourth of the whole surface of the State.
Each acre of a coal seam, four feet in
thickness, is equivalent to about 5,000
ton, and possesses a mechanical power
equal to the life labor of more than 1,600
men. Each square mile of one such
I single coal bed contains three million of
ton of fuel, equivalent o one million of
men laboring through twenty years of
their ripe strength. Multiply that by
12,622.
This is but a single element of the
future growth and,power of Pennsylvania,
if she continues to share, in common with
her sister republics, in the blessings of
Union and peace. Add to this her inex
haustible mines of iron, the most useful
of all the metals—her rich valleys, which
gained for part of them the well deserved
name of the gardens of America—all
combined with multiplied means of easy
transportation and internal communie‘-
tion—and who will undertake to calculate
in figures what she will be, oven half a
century hence, in population and wealth?
,With schools and colleges eveowhere es
tablishca and growing in favor with the
masses, and with that, constant and steady
progress, the feeling of which is that
; which 'ores life ,ttn4 strength to a corn
,ukaulty77wto ;Will undertake • 1.0 lare•
shadow the rnorttl.ao political power! in
the Union, or the moral and political in
fluences of that Union upon the destinies
of the whole race?
Let a summer tourist, who flies his ac
customed haunts in order to benefit health
or enjoy relaxation, instead of wasting his
time, without gaining either, at some
crowded watering place, in a toil of plea
sure and a round of discomfort, seek both
in an excursion through our own State.
lie will see natural beauties of scenery
not surpassed anywhere, while the local
and particular knowledge he will acquire
of men as well as things will foster a just
State pride and better fit him for the
practical duties of the citizen. He will
know and feel that Pennsylvania is a State
for her native eons to be proud of, and
that it becomes them to support and main- 1
tain her just claims to a high and com
manding position. Let him pass through
the great Valley .of Chester County and
look down upon a landscape painted like
a chess-board, but in brighter and richer
hues—through Peqnea Valley, with its
I broad acres and well garnished barns—
through Cumberland Valley, with all the
evidences of a happy and wealthy farming
population, in fields heavy with abundant
harvest. Let him climb the side of the
Cove Mountain, and from its summit stir ,
vey that glorious valley stretching south
even to Mason and Dixon's line, often had
the speaker stood' there and shuddered at
the bare thought that those quiet and
smiling scenes, studded with towns anti
villages Chambersburg, Mercersburg
and Greencastle and ever and anon
some modest church spire pointing heav
enwards, and sending up as it. were
hymns of grateful praise to the Creator
—might, at some distant day, even
though long distant, be the battlefield of
civil war. Or if the tourist prefers, let
him start north, through the rich German
sett!ementsqf upper Berko, Northampton
and Lehigh,fintil from the brow of the .
Wilkeebarre Mountain the beautiful Val
ley of Wyoming bursts upon his vision;
or, taking the great central route, let him
pass through the midland counties, along
the Valley of the Juniata, across and
through the heart of the great mountain
chains which divide our eastern and west
ern waters.
He could easily dilate neon this topic,
but he would not detain the society
longer. He might be allowed to say that
Irishmen. and the sons of Inishminx hays
vations which have made rennsylvania,
and especially the western part, what it
is. ,They have left their mark on her
history, filling chairs in her institutions of
learning, seats in her legislative halls, and
on the bench of the Suprethe Court, as
well as honorably represenang her in the
councils of the Union, and bravely fight
ing the battles and leading the armies of
the country in all her wars. When an
Irishman adopts a country he does it, as
he does everything else, with all his
heart, and as his heart is always in the
right place, it - follows that wherever the
honor or welfare of his adopted country
is at stake, he is always in the right place
too.
Obadiah Snodgrass being called
upon to depose, dus so at once without
serrimony as follers, viz:
That "Truth is stranger than Fiction,"
yes, and stranger too. That the "Love of
money may be the root of all evil," but
sum how or other people 410 take to the
root most awfully. That the sayin, "in
times of peace prepare for war," applies
to a cross wife full as well; by tying her
up when she is good-natured so as to be
reddy when the spell kums on. That the
sayin "feast to-da and fast to-morror" has
reference I spose to the day before fastin.
That a kontented mind ma be a kontinnal
feast, but I dont believe it kompares with
roast turkey and etude oysters, dns it, i
it dus its the cheapest liven invented yet.
"Hope ma keep the hart hull," but the
thing hoped for makes it huller, i'll bet a
shillin. "A life on the rollin sea" sounds
well on paper, but when you git there in
earnest it's most too rollin for a man of
weak stumick and limited -bowels. That
to git a luvia wife is a good investment,
no doubt, but if the old man has plenty of
munish I think the afoursed dear will be
more lovin in a finanshall pint of view.
0. SAIDGRAss, B. B.
—The cost of Supporting the army in
the Southern States during the present
year is estimated by the Treasury De
partment at $35,000,000 to $40,000,000.
Think of that, you tax-ridden tsx-pay
ere! But for the Radical system of ty
ranny in the South, forty million dollars
worth of officers and soldiers could be
dispensed with, and that amount of taxes
saved annually. This sum will pay the
interest on $500,000,000 of government
bonds. This species of extravagance will
continue just as long as the Radicals re
main in power, for it is one of the means
they use Co perpetuate their dynasty.
—The Negro Bureau officials are on•
gaged in transferring to Tennessee'fi•om
other States all the vagrant negroes that
can be picked up, in order to make them
voters for 13rownlow. Noithern•taxpay
era are thus made to support perhaps
thousands of darkies in idleness for weeks
and months in order to secure the election
=of tbUtold i•eprobite. Will sat& Infainous
doipin'never cense I'
{VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 38.
" Kitty, kitty, you mise.blevons elf,
What have fop, pray, to day for yourself ?"
But Kitty Was now
Asleep on the mois t _ I _
And only drawled dreamily, " Ka•c-ow I"
" Kitty, Kitty, come here to Ind,
The naughtiest kitty I ever did seel
I know very well what you've been about;
Don't try to conceal it. murder will out.
Why du you lie so lazily there ?"
" 0 I have had a breakfast rive I"
" Why don't you go and htint for s monse
"0 there's nothing at to eat in'the hOusel"
- "Dear mei Bias Kitty,
This is a pity ;
Bat I guess the cause bf your c hange of ditty,
What has become of the Dm:intik! thrush .
That built Der nest in the heap of brush ?
A brace of young robins as good as the best ;
A round little - , brOwn little, snug little nest ;
Four little eggs all green and gay,
Four little birds alliparelirid gray,
And Papa Robin went foraging round,
Aloft on the trees, and alight on the ground.
North wind, or south wind, he cared not a great.
Bo he popped a fat worm down each wide.oridu throat
And Mamma Robin through sun and storm
Bugged them op close and kept them all warm ;
And me, I watched the dear little things
Till the feathers pricked out on their pretty wings,
And their eyes peepedup o'er the rim of the nest..
Kitty, Kitty, yon know the rest.
The nest is empty, and silent and lone ;
Where are the four little robins gone?
0 Fusel you have done a cruel deed!
I Your eyes, do they weep? your heart, dries it bleed ?
Do you not feel your bold cheeks turning pale?
Not you t You are chasing your wicked tail,
Or you just cuddle down in the bay and parr,
Curl up in a ball and refuse to stir.
But you need not try to look good and Wise;
I see little robins, old. Puss, in your eyes,
And this morning, just as the clock struck four,
There was some one opening the kitchen door,
And caught you creeping the wood-pile over—
Make a clean breast of It, Kitty Clover 1"
Then Kitty UOll3.
Rubbed up her nose,
And looked very much at If coming to blows;
Rounded her back,
Leaped from the stack,
On her feet, at my feet, came down with a whack.
Then, fairly awake, she streghed out her paws
Smoothed down her whiekers, and unsheathed her
claws, ...
Winked her green eyes
With an air of surprise,
And spoke rather plainly for One of her size.
" Billed a few robins! well, what of that'
What's virtue in man can't be v 4 ce in a fat.
There's a thing or two ishoubilike to now,
Who killed the thicken a week ago,
For nothing at alithat I could spy.
Bat to make an overgrown chicken pie?
'Twixt you and me,
'Tie plain to see,
The odds is, you like fricassee,
Whilis my brave maw
Owns no such law,
Content with viands a /a raw.
" Who killed the robins ? 0 yes 1 0 you
I would get the cat now into a metal
Who was it pot
Au old stocking foot,
Tied up with strings,
And such shabby things.
On the end of a sharp, slender pole,
Dipped It In oil. and set lire to the whole,
And burnt all the way Mom here to the miller's
The nests of the sweet young caterpillars?
• • Grilled fowl, indeed!
Why, as I read,
Tou had not even the plea of need;
For all von boast
01 oven a caterpmars ghost, - • ;
" Who killed the robins t Well, I should thin.,
Hadn't somebody better wink
At mypeccadilloes..if houses of glass
Wont do to throw stones from at those who pass I
I had four little kittens a month ago—
Black,,and Malta, and white as snow;,
Atfd not a very long while before
I could have shown you three kittens more.
And so in batches of fours and threes,
Looking back as long as you please,
Ton win find, if you read my story all.
There'were kittens from time immemorial.
" tint what am I now f A cat bereft ;
Of all my kittens, but one is left.
I make no charges, but this I ask—
What made:vouch a enlarge in the waste-water cask t
You are quite tender-hearted. 0 not a doubt!)
But only suppose old Black Pond could speak out.
O bother don't mutter excuses to me:
Qui facli per Aurn fade per se."
" Well, Kitty. I think full enough has been said. •
And the best thing for yon ie go straight back to bed
A very fine past
Things have come to, my Liss,
If men must be meek
While pussy-cats speak
Grave moral reflections in Latin and Greek I"
—Our Young Yolks for July
lAcopmc Eit:IDEII3.
The Bottom Falling Ont.
The Hazleton Sentinel gives the follow
ing account of the late " sinking sensation
of Jeansville, Luzerne County: The old
mine working under a portion of Jean,-
vile, where the pillars have been robbed,
gave way on Tuesday mornig, causing a
depression of an acre of ground to the
depth, in the cent?e, offive or six feet. The,
Armory, building, settled bodily without
injury, the kitchen attached to the bout°
of John C. Hayden, Egg., Superintendent,
and the back porch of the Jeanville Hotel,
parting at the top a few inches from the
main buildings, and an ice house leaned
considerable from a prependicular ; but no
serious damage was done, and none is
apprehended, as the pillars are reported to
be good under the houseti: As might be
supposed, however, the families living on
the brink of the depression felt Some un
easiness, and we found two or three of
them preparing, on Tuesday evening, to
remove their goods. The surface was rent
in several places leaving fissures 10 or 12
inches wide at the top and 12 or 15 feet
deep. The_ ground gave •way_ suddenly
with a report that startled those who heard
it, and then continued to settle slowly and
gradually for several hours.
The Battle Cry.
An Independent Judiciary will be 'the
battle.cry of all good men at the coming
elections. No wooden judge who will
dance as New England pulls thii string;
no partisan judge who will decide great
questions of law; as the demagogues in his
party may dictate; no judge bound by the
political platform upon which he stands as
a eandidate, to decide, not according to
the law, but according to the mob ; no
Henry W. Williams, but an independent,
learned, high•toned jurist, untrammelled
by any considerations outside of the , law
itself, George. Shorewood,. of Philadel phia.
—Bedford Gazette.--
_Registration closed in Savtmnab, Ga.,
on Saturday, thefigarea Itanding, *bit**,
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