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von THE X024=0101 DIS2IOOIIAT.
.a. mr xea .x. co 3n. -21"
of the Great Struggle. between Liberty
and Despotism for the last
Hundred Years.
THE PURITANS THOUGHT NEGROES; NOT
WORTH RAISING
Americans ! You have read anew the
doctrines and opinions of the founder of
Democracy in America concerning the
Negro race. Turn your eyes now to the
records of Puritan New England, and
read the sentiments of the Puritan saints
upon the worth and capability of their
black brothers. In Moore's history of
slavery in Massachusetts, is the following
extract from the Boston News Letter of
June 10, 1706, under the beading, "Com
putation that the Importation ;; of Negroes
is not so profitable as that of White ser
vants :"
" By last year's bill of mortality for the
town of Boston, we are furnished with a
list of 44 negroes dead, last year, which
computed one with another at .60 per
head, amounts to the sum of £1,320, of
which we would make this remark,: That
the importing of negroes into this or the
neighboring provinces, is not so beneficial
either to the crown or the eountry as
white servants would be, for the follow
ing reasons:
"For negroes do not carry arms to de
fend the country as whites do.
" Negroes are generally eye servants,
great thieves, much addicted to stealing,
lying and purloining.
"They do not people our country as
whites would do, whereby we would .be
strengthened against an enemy.
"By encouraging the importing of
white men servants, allowing somewhat
to the importer, most husbandmen in the
country might be furnished with servants
at 8, 9 or 10 pounds a head, who are not
able to launch out 40 or 50 pounds for a
negro, the Dow common price.
" A man then might buy a white man
servant we suppose for 10 pounds to serve
4 years, and boys for the same price to
serve 6, 8 or 10 years. Ic a white man
servant die, the loss exceeds not £lO ; but
if a negro ies it is a very great loss to
the husbandman. Three years interest of
the price of a negro will near upon, if not
altogether, purchase a white man ser
vant.
"If necessity call for it that the hus
bandman must fit out a man against the
enemy; if he has a negro servant he can
not send him,but if he has a white ser
vant it will answer the end, and perhaps
save his son at home.
" The bring*, in of white servants
would much enrich this province, because
husbandmen would not only be able far
better to manure what lands they have
under improvement, but would also im
prove a great deal more that now lies
waste under woods, and enable tilis prov
ince to set about raising of naval stores,
which would be greatly advantageous to
the crown of England and this province.
" For the raising of hemp t here, so as to
make sailcloth and cordage to furnish but
our own shipping, would hinder the im
porting it, and save a considerable sum in
a year to make returns for which we now
do, and in time might be capacitated to
furnish England not only with sailcloth
and cordage, but likewise with pitch, tar
and other stores, which they are now
obliged to purchase in foreign nations.
" And here you see that in one year the
town of Boston has lost $1,320 by neL
groes, which is also a loss to the country
in general ; and for £l,OOO the country
may have 500 men in 5 years time, for
the 44 negroes dead in one year, and the
whites would strengthen the country
that the negroes do not."
Now here is a record of the Puritans
themselves, of the utter worthlessness of
the race into whose hands they are pla
cing the government of the white people
of the South. After an intimate acquain
tance of seventy years with this negro
race from Africa, they pronounce ,them
vastly inferior to the *ite race, even
when a state of servitudk places both on
a level under a superior power. When a
negro. died among the Puritans, they
mourned him pot as a citizen, but as a
loss of so many pounds to his master and
to the country in general. Up to the time
of the revolution of 1776, these negroes
who are to rule over the South, and over
the North, , were rated with the horses,
oxen, sheep, goats and swine of thapuri
tans. They have now rushed to the South
sword in 'hand, to make them valuable as
voters to place these puritans in the seat
of power, from which the founder I of De
mocracy said ' 4 ! their sins bad hurled
_
The puritans felt - no, compunctions of,
conscience for buying these n?groes and
making slaves of them, but their !entente=
tions were on account of these slaves not
being worth the money invested in them.
They could not cut doWn their wend
clear up and improve their lands,p r
tA ,
raise hemp, pitch, tar or others re ps,
whereby the-puritans could enrich thein
selves. There could be no sugar, rice or
cotton raised on New England , soil, and
the puritans were glad at last to pie the
negro children away, as they .were not
worth raising. Dr. Belknap says ' '
" Negro children were considered an
incnrabrance in a family, and when wean
ed were given away like puppies."
Horace Greeley, in his " American Con
flict," says: "The labor of the hands
without the brain would procure a scan
ty livelihood on the bleak hills of New
England. He who was compelled for a
subsistence to be by turns farmer, me
chanic, etc., might possibly support one
slave, but would be utterly ruined by half
a dozen."
Mr. Wells in b;s Life of Samuel Ad
ams says :
"Slaves Were not only bought and sold
in Massachusetts, but the slave trade with
the African coast and the West Indies
was openly countenanced. Under the cap
tion Just imported from Africa,' Capt.
Gwin advertises in the Boston Gazette,
July 13, 1761, a number of prime young
slaves from the windward coast, to be
sold on board his ship, lying at New Bos
ton. In the same paper is offered a likely,
hearty, male negro child about a month
old, to be given away. A year previous
we find in the Gazette, 'To be sold,—a
Spanish Indian woman, 22 years of age,
and a negro boy to be given away.' The
negroes were of such little value that the
custom increased of giving away negro
children to whoever would accept them."
Horace Greeley says : " The Puritans
did their best to enslave the
They sold them ff to foreign climes, and
tried to get up domestic institutions for
them. The only difficulty in their way
was that the Indians would not stay put.
They could no more be enslaved than
quails could be domesticated."
The Indians would not stay in slavery
to the Puritans, but ran away to their na•
Live forests. The negroes were not worth
buying or raising, and the Puritans were
glad to find any of their neighbors who
would take a negro baby off their hands,
and raise it as they would a " puppy," for
a pet animal in the household. Besides,
they were'generally, that is, with few ex•
ceptions, " eye servants, great thieves,
much addicted to stealing, lying and pur
loining."
And theie Puritans, or this party boast
ing of being the Puritan party, have
placed the. white people of the South tin
der the role of this lying, thieving and pur
loining black race, whom they found so
worthless while in their own midst, that
they would not raise one from childhood
to manhood ; and this negro race is the
"eternal rock" upon which Senator Mor
ton says " the Republican party have
planted the column of Reconstruction,
and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it."
Where the Puritans got their white
slaves will be seen in the forthcoming
numbers.
Tragedy on Shipboard—One White
man conquers six Negroes.
We are informed that Captain Bram
ble, while asleep in the cabin of his ves
sel, anchored in Hooper's Straits, on Mon
day May 4th, was securely fastened in by
his crew, consisting of six negroes. The
negroes then began to get the vessel un
der weigh, the noise of which aroused the
Captain, when he attempted to go on
deck. Finding the doors of the cabin
barred, he suspected something was
wrong, rnd the motion of the boat dis
closed the startling _fact that she was
under sail.
Fortunately he was well armed, and
with"the assistance of an iron rod succeed ,
ed in making an aperture between the
doors of the cabin, sufficient to get the
end of his pistol through, and a slight
glimpse of the negro at. the htlru. He
fired, when the negro at. the helm imme
diately fell, and the other negroes rushed
to the forward part of the vessel to arm
themselves. Captain Bramble then made
a desperate lunge at the doors of the cab
in, the hinges of which gave way, and be
came on deck. Instantly two immense
Africans made at him, but the ardor of
their fury was terribly cooled by the lead
en missiles of death. Two others mad
dened with savage frenzy, instantly rush
ed upon the brave Bramble; they too met
the fate of their fiendish companions.
The remaining one quickly jumped in
the hold of the vessel, begging for his life,
which the captain generously spared.—
Captain Bramble then run the vessel into
Holland's Island; and gave himself and
the remaining negro into the bands of an
offieer.--Prineess Ann (Md.) Marylander.
•
Logan Quotes Shakespeare.
In the printed speech which Logan has
filed in favor of impeachment be quotes
from Shakespeare, saying, we (the Mana
gers) thought "If 'us done, then 'twere
Well it were done quickly." This very ap
propitiate quotation is from Macbeth when
he is abott tomurder Duncan. It was an
'apt quotation, and the parallel suggested
woad haverbeen, still more complete if
Logan had proceeded with other extract@
from the same soliloquy of Macbeth.—
With:what entire propriety be might have
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latch retina
To plague the Inventor.:.: „•. ,
Beicldeitble Duncan Lath bogs
So elearin his great ade, that bta virtues
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-the 'profits 'Cif the Ties" for
last year was 01500,000.
MONritOSE, PA., TVESDAY, MAY 19, 1868
SYNOPSIS OF, THE REGISTRY LAW.
APPROVED APRIL 4, 1888,
TIME OF OPENINGCAND CLOSING POLLS.
At all elections held-under this act, the'
pools shall be opened between six and seven
o'clock in the morning; and closed at 6 oclock
in the evening. (Sec. 12.)
PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO
OCTOBER ELECTION, 1868.
PREPARATORY DUTIES OF ~COMMISSIONERS
AND ASSESSORS.
The Commissioners of each county
must furnish to the assessors,,within sixty
days, alphabetical lists of all-persons as
sessed for 1868. [Sec. I.]
The assessors, inspectors and judges of
election shall each take an oath" to per
"form the several duties enjoined by this
" act with fidelity and according to the
" requirements thereof, in every particular,
"to the best of their ability." They shall
each have power to administer the oaths
provided for in the act, and any false
swearing in relation to matters herein
contained, shall be punished as perjury.
[Sec. B.]
The assessors shall, before the Ist day
ofSeptember, ascertain the qualifications
of the white freemen above the age of 21
years on the said lists, and their claims to
vote, thus :
If the assessor knows they have the
right to vote, he shall write the word "vo
ter" opposite the name.
If any person makes claim to the said
assessor to be a qualified voter, he shall
write the word " voter" opposite the name.
If the person is a housekeeper in a town,
the list must show it, and must also show
the number of the house, if it is number
ed, with the street on which it fronts; tf
the house is not numbered, then the name
of the street must be given.
The occupation of the person must be
given; and if not a housekeeper, the name I
of the person with whom he boards; if,
working for another, the name of the em• I
ployer must be given.
Naturalized citizens must produce their
certificates to the assessor, (unless they
have voted for five years in the same dis
trict;) and the assessor shall place the let
ter N. opposite the name; if he has only
declared his intention to become a citizen
the name shall be marked D. I.
lithe person claiming to vote is between
21 and 22, the word " age" shall be writ
ten opposite his name.
lithe person claiming to • vote has re
moved into the district since the last gen
eral elet Lion, the letter R. shall be placed
opposite his name.
The assessors shall forthwith assess a
tax against all persons not already upon
the lists furnished by the Commissioners.
[Sec. I.]
The assessor shall return said lists, when
completed to the Commissioners.
The Commissioners shall forthwith make
duplicate copies of the lists, witk all the
additions placed thereon by the assessors,
and shall immediately place them in the
hands of the assessors.
The assessor shall immediately (*) place
one copy thereof on the door of the elec
tion house, and shall retain the other in
his possession.
Any person resident in the district shall
have the right to examine the said lists in
the hands of the assessor, free of charge.
The assessor must add to the said lists,
at any time, the name of any who pecson
ally applies to him and claims the right to
vote, and mark opposite his name C. V.,
and at once assess him with a tax. This
list must be produced at a meeting of the
registrars. [Sec. 2.]
(*The law says this shall be done before
the first day of August.)
FIRST MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGISTRY.
The assessor, and tbejudge and inspec
tors of election, shall constitute the board
of registry.
This board shall meet at the election house
the tenth day preceding the election, and
they may meet on any or all of the four
days preceding the said tenth day, for the
purpose of registering voters.
They shall give notice of snob meeting
and its purposes, by at least six hand bills,
put up in the most public places in the
district.
When met, they shall continue in open
session from 9 o'clock A. M. until 6 o'-
clock P. M.
Theboard shall then hear proof of the
right to vote of the persons whose names
are on the assessors' lists.
Those whose names are not upon the lists
may then apply and make proof of their
right to vote, and be registered.
All who have not voted in the election dis
trict before, shall then make due proof of
their right to vote.
The assessor shall forthwith assess a•tax
on each person so proven entitled to vote
if not already assessed.
When the lists are completed, the elec
tion officers shall make duplicate alpha.
betical lists therefrom, and place one
thereof on the door of the 'election house,
I and tbOadge shall retain the other for
inspection by citizens , and to be produced .
on election day. [Sec. 3.]
MOND MEETING OP TKIE BOARD OP BEG;
Thelroard of registry shall meet again
olt Zfainday befora the . election,. between. 9
and 10 A.M. and sit until aP. M. : .
The board shalt than boor and deter-
seer, neglecting or refusing to perform
his duty under this act, without reasona
ble cause, shall be fined one hundred dol
lars.
fidavi t of at least one qualified voter of the
district, that he has resided in the district
ten days nest preceding the election, and
where that residence is.
The person then claiming the right to
vote must also make and subscribe an af
fidavit, stating when and where he was
born; that he is a citizen of the State and
of the United Stater; that he has resided
in this State one year; that he has not
moved into the district for the purpose
of voting therein; that he has not been
registered elsewhere; that he has paid a
State or county tax within two years—
when, where and to whom paid; that the
tax was assessed at least ten days before
the pending election, and when and where
the same was assessed; and that he was
prevented from registering his name at
the first meeting of the board for that pur
pose held. He must produce his tax re
ceipt, or swear he never received oue, or
that it has been lost or destroyed.
If the person claiming to be registered
is a naturalized citizen, he shall make a
similar idlidavit, and shall also state therein
when and where, and by what court, be
was naturalized, and shall also present his
certificate of naturalization, unless he has
voted in the district for the preceding five
years.
If the person had been a citizen of the
State, and had removed therefrom, he
must swear that he had resided in the
State six months preceding the ensuing
election.
If he claims to vote on age, he shall take
and subscribe an affidavit, that he is a cit
izen of the United States; that he is, or
will be by election day, between the ages
of 21 and 22; that he has resided in the
State one year, and in the district ten
days preceding the election; and he shall
then be registered, although he shall not
have paid taxes. All these affidavits shall
be kept by the board and preserved in the
ballot box.
If the board find that the applicants
possess all the legal qualifications of vo
ters, their names shall be added to their list
alphabetically, and placed at the foot of
the list on the door of the election house.
[Sec. 3.]
ELECTION DAY
These lists are to be in the custody of
the election board on election day, and as
each person on the list votes, the clerk
shall mark the word " vole" opposite his
name.
It shall not be lawful to receive the vote
of any person whose name is nbt to be found
upon the registry list.
Receiving the vote of a person not reg
istered, shad be a misdemeanor in the elec
tion officers. [Sec. 3.]
The right of challenge shall exist as
heretofore, and f proof may be required of
the right to vote, and the vote may be re
jected, although registered.
Naturalized citizens are required to
produce their certificates to the election
board before voting, unless the voter has
resided for ten years in that district, in
which case his oath shall be evidence of
naturalization. The election officers must
write the word " voted" upon the said cer
tificate, when the vote is admitted, with
the month and year of voting.
Election officers receiving a second vote
on the same day upon the same certificate,
and the persons offering such second vote,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and the
election officers shall be guilty of a like of
fence for neglecting or refusing to have
the word " voted," with the month and
year, endorsed upon the said certificate.
[Sec. 4.]
The registry list shall'be sealed up and
kept in the ballot boxes, with the other
papers, as now provided by law. [See.
5.]
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
OVERSEERS TO PREVENT FRAUD
On the petition of any five citizens of
the county, stating under oath that they
verily believe that fraud will be practiced
at an election in any district, the court of
common pleas, or a judge thereof in vaca
tion, shall appoint two citizens of the coun
ty as overseers of the said election.
When the inspectors are of different
political parties, the overseers shall be of
different political parties; when the in
spectors are of the same political party,
the overseers shall be of the opposite po
litical party.
These overseers shall have the right to
be present with the officers during the
time of the election, of counting the votes
and making out the returns.
They may keep a list of the votes if
they see proper; may challenge any person
offering to vote; may ask him and his
witness questions and may examine any
papers produced.
The election officers shall afford the
overseers every facility for the discharge
of their duties ; if they refuse to permit
them to be present and perform their du- -
ty, or if the overseers shall be driven
away from the polls by violence or intimi
dation, the whole poll shall -be thrown
out. •
PrRALT/Z9.
It is made a misdemeanor for any as
sessorto assess a tax against any person
viltoissoiver within ten days preeeding,a
general orPresitfential eleatinn, „Pm ail
Any assessor, eleetion eider or over
mine the claim of any person to vote
whose name is not upon the registry.
Each person who then claims to be en
titled to vote must make proof by the of
Any assesser or election officer who
enrolls a person whom he knows is not
qualified, or refuses to, enroll one whom be
knows is qualified, shall be guilty of mis
demeanor and liable in damages.
Fraudulently altering, adding to, defa
cing or destroying a registry, or tearing
down or removing the same when put up,
shall be a misdemeanor. [Sec. 11.]
Fraudulently affixing the seal of office
to any naturalization paper, or giving the
same out in blank, or furnishing the same
to any person not sworn in open court,
shall be a misdemeanor.
Fraudulently using any such certificate
of naturalization, knowing it to be frau
dulently issued, and voting or attempting
to vote thereon, shall be a misdemeanor.
[Sec. 10.]
PAT OF OF OFFICERf3.
The assessors, inspectors and judges of
election shall be paid by the county for
their time as in other cases, and also shall
be paid a proper allowance (to be judged
by the Commissioners) for the expense of
making out the registries. [Sec. B.]
SEVERAL DISTRICTS WITH BUT ONE ASSES
if a ward, borough or township shall be
divided into two or more election districts
or precincts with but one assessor for the
whole, the board shall consist of the as
sessor and all of the election officers, and
after giving due notice they shall meet for
registration at the election house in the
district or precinct which polled the lar
gest vote at the last preceding election.
In such case the assessor shall assess
each voter in the district or precinct to
which he belongs, and shall furnish separ
ate duplicate lists to the election officers
in each election district. .
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN
NO VEMBER.
All who were registered and voted in
October shall without further proof or ap
pliattion, be placed on the registry for No
vember, but they shall be subject to chal
lenge at the polls and may be required to
show their right to vote. [Sec. I.]
The board of registry shall meet at the
election house ten days before the Presi
dential election, and shall sit the same
length of time as before.
The board shall hear applications of per
sons whose names have been ommitted
from the registry, or whose rights have
originated since the same was made out,
and they shall add thereto, on the person
al application of the claimant only, the names
of such as shall prove their right to vote
therein.
The assessor shall forthwith assess the
claimant with a tax, if not already assess
ed.
When the list is completed, a copy
thereof shall be placed on the election
house at least eight days before the elec
tion, and thereafter the same course shall
be pursued as in the case of preparing for
and conducting the October election.
SPECIAL AND MUNICIPAL ELEC
TIONS.
The registry lists may be used by the
election officers at special, city, ward, bor
ough or township elections as evidence of
the persons entitled to vote thereat.
The election officers shall require all
persons not on the said list to show their
right to vote.
The want of registration shall not be
conclusive against the right of the claim
ant to vote at sucb election, but the , right
be determined by the board as in other
cases.
(Cut this out and preserve it for refer
ence.) .
Practical Application of Radical Policy.
It is reported that a gentleman t a Dem
ocrat, living in the southern part of this
county, being desirous of illustrating the
beauties of radicalism, and testing the sin
cerity of its votaries and advocates, invi
ted a certain radical to his house to stay
over night with him, and at the same time
invited a " man and brother" to pass the
night under his hospitable roof.
Bed time arriving, our Democratic
friend took a light and conducted the
" brother" to the room and pointed out
the bed he was to occupy. Soon after,
the Radical gentleman (!) desired to re
tire, and our friend also conducted him to
the same room, and informed him that he
was to occupy the same bed.
" Who is in that bed ?" asked the radi
cal. •
" Mr.—,".-vas the answer.
" What 1 That nigger I" indignantly
exclaimed the radical; you don't suppose
I am going to sleep with him, do you ?"
" I most certainly do," was the quiet
reply. " You voted to force this state of
affairs upon me and my people, and took
and subscribed to an oath that you would
grant the negro every " privilege and im
munity" enjoyed by any class of persons,
and (producing a six shooter (by the eter
nal you Shall carry out your policy—so in
there with you!"
Mr, radical, not liking the close proxim
ity of the pistol got into bed, bat we
....
don't think be staid there till morning.
Black River (Ark.) Standard.
wb* pqrpofiEL Eve mato
rot , Adams Express Oompoy,
I VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 21.
" Some few weeks ago nearly one hun
dred souls were flashed into eternity bye
frightful death in the burning of the stearti
er Sea Bird on Lake Michigan. The ad.
casion of the disaster is a lesson. A stu•
pid porter threw out a scuttle of live coals
and ashes to the windward. A part of
the freight on deck was wrapped In loose
straw, besides being in itself combustible,
In a moment after the sparks and coals
were sent drifting in the face of the gust,
the ship was blazing. A little intelligent
labor would have saved the catastrophe.
Uneducated service is loss. The sooner
we come to understand that the betters
So much for the industrial part of this in-
cident. But let push it one step further.
We will venture that this stolid, unthink
ing servant is a Democrat, and that ha
casts his vote just as stupidly, dumbly,
and dangerously as he cast overboard his
ashes. By this vote our country is in part
governed, and just here is our danger."
The above is from Forney's Press. It is
a fair sample of the puritanic and pharisaie
slang of the Press and its nigger suppori
ters. All the wealth and respectability
are mongrelials in the estimation of the
Press, and all the unlettered white people
are democrats. Nine tenths of the Poi.?
ters on steamboats generally—east and
west, are negroes ; and if Forney will take
the trouble to make inquiry, we doubt not
he will find that his " uneducated" voice
in this instance was of the wooly[tribe.
In a recent letter to a radical friend id
Massachusetts, in regard to his views on
finance, Ben Butler sets himself up as
the avant courier of the radical party, or
rather as the inventor of all its
. principel
measures. He says :
" I am so accustomed to have my pa
litical views accepted by my party and the
country from eight to eighteen months
after date, that premature clamor about
them is but little annoyance.
" I advocated the emancipation of the
negroes in August, 1861. They began to
be emancipated in September, 1862, and
were finally proclaimed so in January;
1863. I armed the blacks in August ;
1862. The Government adopted the pol-
icy in the summer of 1863. I declared .
for impartial suffrage in the summer of
'66; it became the creed of the party in
the spring of '67. I insisted on the ne
cessity of impeachment in the fall of '66.
I am now managing the trial of the Prest-
dent in the spring of '6B, and therefore
have not time to write you a longer letter,
or more elaborate."
There arc two other - important meas
ures which we think he might have ad
ded, as follows : " I commenced digging
the Dutch Gap canal in the fall of '64, and
my party commenced its voyage, np the
'salt' on it in the fall of '67. I projected
my powder boat in the spring of '65, and s
from present and past indications, Iverily
believe my party will go np in it in thf!
fall of '6B, on a most magnificent "bust."
The New York Tribune sneers at the
consequences of Impeachment, and saye
that it is not likely to become a precedent
because there was an Impeachment in
England two hundred years ago, which
did not become a precedent, and was nev
er repeated. It forgets to state the rea
son, which was the terrible retribution
visited by an indignant nation upon the
Impeachers of Charles Stuart, under the
name of regicides. There is still pointed
out in New Haven the ,grave of a regicide
who died there in exile. Many perished
by the hands of the executioner, more
were banished, almost all. were outlawed
and stripped of their property, and but a
wretched few shrank into obscurity and
died a natural death in England, despised
and execrated by its people. Such watt
the fate of the Parliament which impeach
ed and condemned Charles I. No won
der that impeachment was not repeated'
in England. And we venture the predict
tion that impeachment will never be re
peated here, not for want of efficiency as
a political weapon, but on account of the
sharp retribution which will overtake
those concerned in it.
A Dying wife selects a future bride for
her Husband—No wife no Money--
A widower in a Quandary.
"Come haste to the wedding." This ie
a strange song to sing at a wife's funeral,
but the festive Teuton in Detroit would
have been glad to have done so on Mon
day, bad not all his joy been turned to
sorrow by the last will and' testament of
his decased wife, who came from the
" Gem of the Sea." This man was worth
about $20,000, bat he wishing to keep it
out of some one's reach, put it all in his
wife's name. She was buried Monday,
but left, n will in which she gives two hun
dred dollars to a servant girl who bad
been very kind to her, The balance of
the property is left .to the children, the
husband only to have the rise of it until
the youngest child .should be of age, pro..
vided be either lives single or marries the
servant girl aforesaid. He don't wish•tcb
marry the girl, but be does wish to many
another, and -that at oncel but wishise to:•
live on, but knows he most forfeit it iflow,
does so. Poor fellow! .::That funeral.
Mendsy was not so pleasant, an OW oft
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ter all.
Uneducated Labor.
" Spoons" as a Leader.
The Reason Why.