FER JDeootcir to politics, literature, Agriculture, Stum, JWoralifg, au& General intelligence. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. NOVEMBER 24, 1864. VOL. 23. NO. 40. THE JEE SON Published by Theodore Schochi fud before the end of the yeai, two dollars and filly wall hn Vi rrro.! 9rn ra r...n .l,tla re 9 vfa bxeeptat the oplior, of the Bmior. Nonan.rdiscontinUeQuniiiiinirc.ii-6i;n:jiaiu, . rjrAuvernsrint." - -, itf, one or three insertions $1 50. Earl iscnioiis i ou. z..irii uuumoii.u Longer ones in proportion. insertion, 0 cents. JOB PRINTING, OF ALL KINDS, RxBtd in the highest style of the Ari, and onthe most rcasornuie icrms. , v I.TTTLE MAC AND fRTAT)1ir I SENT UP SALT EIVER. Tune"0 Susanna," I had a dream the other night, When all around was still ; I dreamt I saw Old Honest Abo,. A climbing up the hill, The way, though steep, he once had trod, "When many a foe was near ; He presses on, with trust in God, For now the way is clear. CHORUS. 0 McClellan ! you cannot follow me; You're going up Salt River, With the platform on your kuee. While Abe was climbing up the hill, And almost at the top, I'oor Mac was panting at the foot, His race compelled to stop. He carried too much weight to win In any even race, His own and all his party's sin Told hard upon his pace. Ciiouus 0 McClellan, &c. Poor Mac ! he tried to climb the hill, But it was too steep and. high ; A pipe of peace was in his mouth, And a tear stood iu his eye ; One foot upon a war-horse placed, The other on an ass ) But the brutes ran off in opposite ways, And he fell on the grass. Chorus 0 McClellau, &c. Poor Mac got up and rubbed his eyes He was in an awful plight And when he scanned the hill again, Old Abe was out of sight. 8iid he, Oh dear, what shall I do ? I'm ruined now forever ; I'll jump on board ann old gunboat, And sail up old Salt River. Cnonus 0 McClellan, &c. CAPT. SPEKE'S ADVENTURE. At the earliest possible moment tit l,.,nf iftcr our camp had been pitched, a hunt r . i n i n 4. . .nu was set afoot, aud Captain Grant, myself ! , i and some attendants were soon making -.u ,i, friMrn nr. nnr war to "the nath Iherc were no r- animals there when we arrived, except a few bippotami, and we were obliged to wait the coming of more palatable game. Our patience, however, was severely taxed; and after a long delay, we were about to 'bag" a hippopotamus, when oue of our attendants, perched in a tree about half a mile distant, began waving his blanket. This was a sigusl that game was approach ing. We immediately drew into cover and awaited the coming up of the latter. We were not delayed long, for present ly a long column of animals, from the el- i rwt f in in l,r.rt Anr otrinnrnd In VI fXC . i i trotting at a good pace to the river. T, . , , .A tn onri ' I' I .A firrl. TWBf?oll . . . ., . . Jr . V. i I" nrm. lit h l lr- 1 I. ntll I nunllr succecssful with a hoo doo : and several spears, cast by our attendeuts, j 1 ' . , stopped the career of one or two different animals of the herd. At this juncture, however, occurred an unexpected adventure, that finished our eport at least for that day. I had sprung forward, immediately after firing, in or der to obtain a fair shot at a huge ele phant that I wanted to bring down on ac count of bis immense tusks. I got the desired aim, and pulled the trigger of the unnnJ At. t!p mnmpnt. nf 1T1T do- inc so a wild cry of alarm, uttered by one looked upon the effects of his tremendous especia ly so should Savannah or Charles b ' J. . . , . .r .l j ...-i tnn Tin his destination. of the blacks, called my attention. Glan- cmg around my eye chancod to range up ( into the foliage of the tree beneath which. Capt. Grant and myself bad lain for sev eral hours previous. My feelings may possibly be imagined, u I beheld an enormous boa constrictor, lif? nml neck nroiccted pome diEtance into view, showing that he was about to make a fatal spring. Hi direction was certainly toward me; and as h dished from hit position like a thun derbolt, I gave myself np, for ere aid could reach me, fold after fold of the ,j t. r j . rp.rs their children, but takes away all h s way lor 0 nines oi uis icuiuua uumoo poster would bare crushed my strong rears theirchn j & frame into a quivering pulp. I felt, seem-; .-J- Karrisons, there to be trained run for life from the blood-hounds used ingly caught in a whirlwind of dust, and for tVjC army. There are three hundred by the Confederates to patrol their roads, a strange, indescribable scuffle ensued. thousand of this kind of loldiers now in Once he escaped from the hounds by dar Id the midst of this terrible strife, I sud- the Russian army. ting into a field of peas where negroes j i , . -,.' i-- had been at work, and hiding amongst the aenlj became conscious or the prescp.ee, : , j f' j,nnft fnr ea. nf 3 A s fno' Perhaps men are the most imitative pea-vines, scarce daring to hope lor es ofaeecond Tictim; and eren after the P the - WQrld of natur0 0nly cape, and saw with glad surprise the Ume that has elapsed since then, I still oQe asjj ever ke i;kc & maQj but hund- hounds lose tlie scent among the tracts recollect with what vividness the thought re(j8 0f thousands of men are daily talking of the negroes, and go off on a false trail, across my mind that this second vie- like acscs, "giving him an opportunity to flee again. tim ts Captaia Grant, my noble coin- At last, after being tbus whirled about r , i ::r 0 , - , - , " minon ft there ensiiori a n i ct.i mess : 1 jas dcathj aud j opeucj my eye3; expec tins to look upon those unexplored land- ' qonrio whieh hre sron nnlir in the nniin 1 1.,. , T . j c .v -1- u v uuyuuu iuu iuuiu. jLuaiuau ui mut. x saw Cantain Grant levelim? his rifle tow- CJ behind him were the blacks, in every conceivable attitude of the most intense , suspense. In a moment I comprehended all. The cow, between which and him I hadun-j luckily placed mysolf at the moment or.,, Jn.n. n- J r j devilish Turnose or kiihnr on the nnson- c a. i A .. lar good fortune had attended me, howev er, for instead of being crushed into a mangled mass with the unfortunate cow, niv left forearm oulv had been caught in . ' . , , uij uu.j Ua 0 or beef was given the rice and molasses between the buffalo's body and a single ( were Wlthheld, and the meet rations when fold of the constrictor. The limb laid j given consisted of two raouthsfuls of ba just in front of the shoulder at the root of jcou or five of beef, and the later always the neck, and thus had a soft bed of flesh, ! spoiled The stockade formed a square, ..' . , i fand withiu the stockad walls and tweuty into which it was jammed, as it were, by . feefc from them was an interior square the immense pressure of the serpent's within which the prisoners were confined. body, that it was like iron in hardness. J As I saw Grant was about to shoot, a tcr- ror took possession of me ; for if he re frained, I might possibly escape, after the boa released his folds from the dead cow. But should he fire and strike the reptile, it would in its convulsions crush or drag me to pieces, .hven as Uic idea came 10 ! me, I beheld Grant pause. He could see how I was situated, that my delivery de pended on the will of the constrictor. We could see every line on each other's face so close were we, and I would have shouted or spoken, or even whispered to him, had I dared. But the baa's head was reared within a few inches of mine, and the wink of an eye lid would perhaps settle my doom j sol stared, stared like a dead mau at Grant and at the blacks. Presently the serpent very gradually began to relax his folds, and retightening them several times as the crushed buffalo quivered, he unwound one fold entirely. Then he paused. The next iron-like band was the one that held mo prisoner; and as I felt it little by little unclasping, my neaii.si.uuu ""fx J . 1 Perhaps upon being freed, my a 1 f . ' l f uncontrolled by rav will, might tail Ir u,,tuul " - - . ' ; the cushion like bed in which it lay my heart stood still with hope and fear. rm from the cushion like bed in which it lay. i Aud such a mishap might bring the spare 1 fold around my neck or chest, and then farewell to the sources of the Nile ! -Oh, how hardly, how desperately I struggled to command mj-self ! I glanced at Grant and say him handling his rifle anxiously. I glanced at the negroes, and saw them azins as though petrified with astouish mcnt. I glanced at the serpent's loath some head, and .aw its bright, deadly eyes, watching for the least signs of lift- in its prey. Now the reptile loosened its fold on-my arm a hair's breadthj and now a little .-11 IP : 1. T n n nnnnvnrfl more unui nan au men ui s julu cuy.. 1 its mottled skin from my arm. . I could have whipped out my arm but dared not take the risk. Atoms oi time dragged - iV thr risk. Atoms oi time drawee themselves into ages, and a minute seera- "J ' Q removed entirely, and tne ghould j dagh away tself ! The second fold was next was eas- now, or wait a more favorable moment? I decided up on the former; and with lightning speed I bouuded.away towards Grant, the crack of whose piece I heard the same instant. For the first time in my life I was tho- rou-hly overcome; and sinking down I remained in a semi-conscious state for sev eral minutes. 'When I fully recovered, Grant and the ...x'miii) nofrrnaii linlfl tin nnd TlOint- ' U.c.jujw u.wv- r r- ed out the boa constrictor sun wruuiog' i hi death a-onies. I shuddered as 1 dying screngiu. xui j-w-uu-u 1 Jl V. . st sk n onnlinrrc n ii ne ) J, g CXCCpt the more fully' fr' t elGan off. as if thev I UIU1TU VI I.I.U i.w.tw , w f had been trimmed with an immense' scythe. This monster, when measured, was fifty-one feet two incnes anu a nan m tI f th i! j ttie xxix was nearly extreme lengtu, wnue ruuuu uic mv,Mi - O ' . 1 ! fl, T believe, to be the largest serpent ever authentically, is heard or. I The Russian Army. The Russian Government encourges marriages among its soldiers, provides 'the couple with a house, supports tnem Of , AIe? Onderkirk, of the fist D. C. Cav airy, Col. L. C. Baker, who was captured ; the vicnjt of the Richujorjd and Dan -r..:i j .1.. 10.1. .f at t. vne xiauroau on me iqiu ui iuajj llua made bis escape, and arrived in this city. His narrative, is exceedingly interesting, anu in ies3 exciting times wouia anora .material for columns ,of newspaper notice. xxiuur ms uapiuru lie wua uiiicu iu "Rili .1 f... -i . 1 . JLIVUUiVUUj MUU tlh-t IIH1U biUUUtVI "V oners were confined in a stockade without Pticle of shelter from the fierce rays of the sun or the pelting storm, except 'when the prisoners denrived themselves 0f necessary articles of clothing to make The prison fare here seemed to have . r r a - . r ers by slow starvation, hastened by the exposure to the weather. The daily rations at Andcrsonville were one half piut corn meal, two spoonsfuls The lines of this interior square were marked only by a line of stakes with slips or boards nailed on at top sometning iiK.e telegraph posts and wires, and this vague defined line was designated as the "Dead Liue," the orders being that any prisoner passing a hair's breadth past the line should be shot by the guards stationed on the walls of the stockade. It was reported that for every Yankee thus shot the guard doing the deed was granted a furlough of 30 days a piece of diabolism almost beyond belief, but which receives confirmation in the fact that in numerous instances prisoners where shot dead when they were not within five feet of the dead line. In three instances while Onderkirk was there, prisoners wild with the insan ity of hunger, and fever from exposure, courted death, aud sprang out past the ' dead line to receive the welcome bullet that relieved them from the horrors of such an existence. The prisoners were so ravenously hun gry that they would crawl under the ra tion wagons like dogs in quest of the crumbs that might fall to the ground. Onderkirk says that at the time he was , at Andersonville our men were dying at th'e rate of 150 to 200 per day When , Sherman took Atlanta, the Rebels, in a Iarni lest he should make a raid upon An-1 dersonville aud release the large number of prisoners there, transferred the prison- : ers in hot haste to various points Savan- 5 nah, Charleston and elsewhere. 1 Onderkirk was sent to Savannah. Here the fare was somewhat better than at Au dcrsonville, but they were kept in stock ade, upon the bare grouud, exposed to sun and raiu day and night. The scanty pris on fare was made more tolerable by the . kindness of citizens of Savannah, especi ally the ladies, who scut in supplies of food and clothing until the brutal Geueral Winder, who seems to indulge the, hate of a devil towards our unfortu nnffi men. intcrfcrred. and imprisoned . j - - 4 some of the most respectable ladies of Sa vannah in the guard house over night as a punishment for their exercise of this mere act of Christiau charity to the un fortunate, starving prisoners. With the same systematic cruelty Winder peremp torily refused the offer of citizens of Sa vannah to erect shelters for the prisoners at their own expense. ! Eight thousand prisoners were connned in the stockade at Savannah. When news come that Hood was mo ving into Tenuesseee, in thejear of Sher- j man, the prisoners at Savannah, with oth- ; ers, were transferred to Millen, Georgia, j where a large stockade peu had been con- , structed. Millen is aqual distant from Savaunah, Milledgeville and Auguata, Georgia, aud being at a conven ent pom to make it their main prison quarters. A glanceat the- map, will, however, show that it will be a mighty convenient . . o QLorm!in tn Jrnn (lown uri0n in ,uu " " " , -n r 0. , ma marcn tnrougii ui v,unu.. v ton be his destination. Whcrflhe train conveying Onderkirk, with other prisoners, from Savannah to Millen was about 10? miles west of Sa- i I ' V."l vannab, he jumped lrom the train while the train was moving at the rate of about xo inues an uuui, auu uiuuijh siuuuuu ui B - I 1 I 1 1 If k ll. .....nntltt !awav and hide himself to tho apparently honeless undertaking of making his way, barefoot and unguided, through .78 miles oi nosum luiiii-uijf, u w.c- - Afl..r.fo This ho. nhsolutelv accomplish- led, walking by night, in 17 nights, ma- king long, detours to avoid regular lines of travel, where, he would be liable to de- lliuuiai j a tectum, ana tuusi.o Thrilling Experience of a Prisoners The second time he escaped from blood hounds by swimming the Oconnee River, 150 yards wide, and the pursuers having no means, of conveyance across, reluctant lantly gave, up the chase, and called back the, dogs. His only food was what he ob tained from the fields, sweet potatoes, &c., and what the friendly negroes (who al ways found as true as steel,) provided him. with. Until within 40 miles of At lanta he could get no deffinite infor mation concerning the direction of that place, but he traveled in a northwest di rection, taking the seven stars for his guide," as he says. He escaped on the 11th of October, and struck our picket line one and a half miles from Atlanta on the 1st of November. He saw, or heard of, but few Rebel soldiers until near At lanta, when he was obliged to lay low while, some 5,000 of Wheeler's cavalry passed on a. raiding expedition, moving in the direction of Stone Mountain. Our forces at Atlanta, under Gen. Schofield, he found well provisioned, and on his (Onderkirk's) way over the railroad from Atlanta to Chattanooga, sixteen trains of cars with supplies passed in one day, cn route to Atlanta was amply guarded and guerrillas were obliged to keep a res pectful distance. Onderkirk's description of the country through which he came has much inter est in view of the reported grand move ment of Sherman's in the cotton States, which, according to the intimations in the Richmond papers, is startling the Rebel leaders out of their propriety. Onder kirk of course, knows little about Mobile or Charleston, but he was at Savannah and thinks that place could be easily ta ken by Sherman should that point be aim ed at by him. The defenses of Savaunah are mainly on the coast side, and on the northwest or land side there are no defen ses of account, and the country is so level as not to afford any favorable defensive positions 1 here were very iew iroops ai fcavannah when he was-tnere ; in iacD, so .i r few that on every third night the marines on the Rebel boats in Savannah harbor , were detailed for guard duty at the pris on stockade. ; The roads through the country from Atlanta, in that direction are generally good, being through a flat country for the most part. The streams are easily forded and with low banks. The hundreds of acres of sweet potatoes, corn and peas, would afford sustenance and forage for a f no 9.5 . 000 Union nrisoners confined at Millen wnlrl h n tpmntW bait for Sherman in ' , o that direction fbeing on the direct line Trnm t Mnri m n:iv:i ninin i uv iL .1 ii 1 1- . o i.o... u ji 'mm Atlnnfn tn SownnltflM !nr ViV n Tfin- j j-t . .-j -- -.j r u cavairy uasii muy ujik111' uo ocuujuu, hn,,.rh it i, nrnhnhlr. that nn the first though it is Drobable that on the first knowledge of Sherman's advance toward the Atlantic coast (such as the Richmond papers indicate he is successfully accom plishing), the Rebels would make haste to remove their prisoners to a safer place of confinement. Onderkirk says that the Rebels count ed much upon McClellau's election, when , l. . ,lrl onnn Ia nvrr and the Confederate independence achiev ed. The Apple' Crop. The Pittsburgh papers say that the ap ple corp in that section is enormous, the trees in many cases being borne down with the fruit. Notwithstanding this abundance of the fruit, it is said to com mand a high price in the markets. The Pittsburg Gazelle says : , . ...... ...j.. has been gathered m, lor a great reuue-, tion,. and behve that they will se 1 for seventy-five cents a barrel before Christ- 4 J,-r-, j i mas. ii uuc ljio v;i up uiuuuu iiwij w very heavy, it is a partial failure put West, and a very heavy business is now being done in shipping apples to Mil- wankee Chicago and other western towus Cleveland appears to have been the chief from $10,000 to 100,000. About thrce noint from which they are sent and some fourths of the quartz mills of Nevada are r. ... . . . 1 1 . , .1 ll. U.I I... ,r,..t-n. idea of the magnitude wnicn tne ousi- ness has assumed, may be gathered from the fact that over 7000 barrels were ship ped fron there to Green Bay, Chicago and Milwaukee, on Saturday. The freight is thirty cents a barrel and, they sell readily at the noints named at high prices, the business pays." A nvl.n'n i nt nnvfnr nf winMi anrl A.nrarJI in Philadelphia keeps a private drawer well ten stamps each, making one thousand, , -yy hen the order was given outtolfire, his filled with Havanas, and has been much 1 with capacity for crushing one thousand ' muskct refused to obey orders. Ihinking annoyed by the freedom with which an 1 tons per day. This ore will yield at the he had too small a load in. he said Ihee acquaintance has been in the habit of ' rate of $50 per ton, giving a daily pro- WOn't go, hey 1 well, I will give thee, an JL ini', fl,m Th nrtiw fhiv he I finer, nf S'20.000 or S15.000.000 per an- nthnrnW.' and down went another load. tt I nuilliauuii, uiiiu. hVd some ciears made with a fire-cracker had some cigars made with a fire-cracker in the centre ot each, uunng nis au sence his friend helped himself, as usual, in spite of the remonstrances of the boy in charge of the office. The consequence was an explosion and an abrased nose, and the private drawer will in future be unmolested. A little boy disputing with' his sister on some subject, exclaimed, "It's true, for ma says so ; and if ma says so, it is so, if it ain't so." This childish faith is ve ry beautiful. We were reading, not long since, where a Sunday school teacher as ked his scholars if they ever know a per son who was always right. One little fellow raised . has hand, and replied, "I do : its my mother." A profound dealer in statistics says : "Only sixty-five persons out. of one, thous and marry ; of this sity.fivs, three are d vorced, 'eight run away, louriecu uvo like cats and dogs, thirty are indifferent Miserable world." and ten are happy. The New State of Nevada. The Territory of Nevada, which has just been admitted to the Union as a Statc, by proclamation of President Lin- coln. was organized in March. 1861. For this purpose about ten thousand square miles were appropriated from the northern extremity of California, and about seven ty thousand from Western Utah. At the time of its organzation the Territory pos sessed a population of very nearly se , - ven thousand white settlers. The devel onement of her mineral resources was ra- pid and almost without parallel, and at- tracted a constant stream of immigration to the Territory. As the population has not been subject to the fluctuation from which other Territories have suffered, the growth of Nevada has been rapid and steady. At the general convention elec- tion of 18G3 nearly eleven thousand votes . were cast ; during the present year great accessions to the population have been made. TnE SILVER MINES. eentiferous leads. These leads arc found ugiuuo scattered over the entire Washoe county, .the richest of which is that known as the Comstock lead, at Virginia City. The lecalities of the other principal mines in the region east of the Sierra Nevada, are the Emerald mines, one hundred miles south south east of Virginia : the Hum boldt, oneliundred and sixty miles north east; the Silver Mountain, sixty miles south ; Peavinc, thirty miles north, and the San Antonio, oue hundred miles south of Austin, now the principal town on the Reese River. Lying south of Virginia, and extend ing to the Carson River, a distance of eight in ' miles are the Gold Hill, Dev il's Gate and Sulphur Spring districts, containing innumerable ledges, many of theDJ j and exhibiting fair prospect o , th ir 0Utcr0I)S. iJcrc arc scores of tunneiSj solue ot- ti,em two thousand feet lnnfr . nnfi shfyQ w;hmit. nmnher. varvinr in depth from fifty to three hundred feet IMMENSE BASIN OE SALT. A few months ago another deposite of mineral wealth was brought to light, which has proved of incalcuable value to the sil ver mines. This was an immense basin of salt, five miles square, near the sink of the Carson River, This basin, says a gentleman who writes from Virginia City, appears once to have been the bottom of a lake, and the salt istound good even on 7 the surface. A, covering of about three i i i i?nr i . l i i ne lies is loose anu inuinereno: oiu a denth of fourteen feet, pure rock salt is ' , . i i -i tl fouud as clear as ice, and white "as tne river snow." Beneath there is water, which seems to be filtered through salt for an unknown, depth. The whole of the fourteen feet in thicknesss does not cou- tain a single streak of any deleterious" matter or rubbish, and is ready for quar rying aud sending to market. Great blocks of the pure stuff can be raised the ?orvm 00 if worn irA nr fitnno nn P.xnn- Same as II It Were ICC Or stone : on expo sure, however it crumbles sufficienly to admit of being closely packed in sacks or wagon boxes. Grinding is necessary to prepare it for the table ; otherwise na ture has "done the clean thing" in its preparation. Once that loose salt on top , is removed, one man. can quarry and ' wheel out five tons each day he may work. The importance of this discovery ' may be estimated from the fact' that J many hundred tons of salt arc supplied I to the mills of the Territery every month in acrirregating the ore. The local lity is ? ;, , , nF1,onitf. n;rftr. Qf y. iaia Qn th(J Overland Road. QUARTZ MILLS. In January of this year there were 125 quartz mills in operation in Nevada which were erected at a cost ranging driven hy steam anu uic uuiauw mnu power. Ui tne entire uumuw, luuimmo are in the vicihty of Virginia. The most of them rccciye their supply of rock from the claims near that place and the adjoiu ing town of Gold Hill, It is calculated that every stamp will crush a ton of rock in twenty-four hours. There is an aver age of one hundred mills iu. cpnstaut o- peration. These will carry onTan average, . J ' - num. The Intelleetual Observer says; Dr. Paul Bert lias published a work on the curious subject of animal grafts. Hc'suc ceeded in making Siamese twins of a cou ple of rats, and in many other monstrosi ties. He exclaims : "It is a surprising apectacle to see a paw cut from one rat, live, grow, finish its ossification, and re- . ..n.ln, the skin nf nn- rrenerare lis nerves u.u- - v in we plant a plume of tJm Ikinofadog, whuta 1,10 , . . i ather ;"and fonthor nnnr miracle to see the , interrupteu v . -i voQimie their course, and tho aoa the interrunted vital pueuuujuua . . . . Lmnnhnffi bird receive nourishment 1 I.IL'JIIUUI. ' - frnnrment from the blood of a mammal. A queer story is related of a hog near Pittsfield, Mass. This annual has for some time been running wild, lives in a swanlp, digs potatoes and kills' sheep for a living. It has been known to kill four sheep in a single day, and is so de structive that a reward has been oUered for its capture. XT , . , , . . , . c,, . 1 course, the House of Representatives are Nevada is probably the richest otates . . . . r , , , - . j m conspiracy against popular rights is in Union in respect to mineral resources, -j. , r t . i .t. i " . . TV ii . i ridiculous, because the people themselves, No region in the world is richer in ar- , , . 4. The Government. Every man in the country should resist the effort which is often made to repres- ent "the Government" aa an.independ- ent and dangerous power. "The Govern- ment does this, "the government does that, e Rfc told "by fiery orators, as if the Government were an oppressive and despotic tyrant. That is a kiud of talk which is intel ligible elsewhere, but which has no sig nificance about and beyond the people f it is simply the constitutional expression of the popular will. Consequently, to resist the Government is to resist the people ; for the same instrument which establishes, the constitutional form of the Government also provides for correcting its errors and withstanding any conceivable invasion, of popular liberty. If, for instance, a man is of opinion that any officer of the GoV- .. i - , ,i ... ernmeut is exceeding nis autnoniy, ne may complain, and the law gives him the remedy. But to suppose that all the offi cers of the Government, including, of T K . , , , J :uv In anv svstem. indeed, where rmestions In any system, indeed, where questions' are decided by ballot there may be such fraud or force that the result will not jus tly indicate the real wish of the people. But while such disturbing elemeuts are found at particular points, they can not exist universally without betraying a condition of affairs which proves the pop ular system to be impracticable. Nobody supposes, probably, that all the votes pol)-' ed at a general election in the city of New York' are fair and lawful votes. The result in that city can not be held to in dicate, according to the aetual proportion, the ayes and noes upon any question or candidate. When, therefore, there were the same uncertainty overhanging every poll in the county, there would be a dis tressing doubt as to the real popular will," unless the figures were palpably beyond the suspicion of fraud. IJut that very state of things would reveal such an in difference, timidity, or acquiescence in fraud as virtually to make the vote'ex press the foice, is not the actual numbers," of public opinion. Votes are valuable when there are men' behind them, as Emerson says of words. The question of this rebellien simply whether there are men behind the votes. If there are, the Government of the Uni ted States is merely the American people' willing, speaking, acting. If there are'' not, then the Government is a - mash, which the most daring haud-will snatch and wear. ITarjpers Weekly. - Pamily Courtesies. In the family the law of pleasing ought to extenedfrom the highest to the lowest. rYou are bound to please your childern.; and your children are bound to please each other; and you are bound to please yourjservants, if you expect them to please' you. Some men are pleasant in the house hold and uowhere else. I have known such men. They were good fathers aW kiud husbands. If you had seen them in their own house, you would have thought that they were angels, almost ; but if you had seen them iu the street, or in the store or auy where else outside of their housej you would have thought them almost de moniac. But the opposite is apt to be the case. When we are among our neigh bors, or among strangers, we h.dd our selves with sell'respect, aud endeavor to act with propriety ; hut when we get home we say to ourelves, "I have played, a part long euoughraud am now going to be natural." So we sit down, and are ugly, aud snappish, and blunt, aud disa" greeable. We lay aside those thousand little courtesies that make the roughest floor smooth, that nrafoj the hardest things like velvet, and make life pleasant. We expend all our politeness in places' where it will be profitable where it will- bring silver and gold. Story of a Quaker. A returned soldier who fought at ths battle of Gettysburg, tells the following story about a Quaker : "A Quaker, who had never fired a gun in' his life, joined one of the Pennsylvania ..r,;,r.oi,c of. flip hat.tlft of Gettysburg. a c' iim.ii it w - w l "v..-. , . . .. , , V 1 He tried again, but it was no use, he kept On loading and trying until he had seven cartridges down when one of his comrades, on examination, found the tube obstructed aud told the Quaker what to do. So fol lowing his advice, he soon put his gun in1 trim. By this time the order was given to fire, and he did, a the same time turn in" two or three somersaults. The cap tnfn noticing this strauge manoeuvre? wnlked towards him, at the same time picking up the musket By this time he Quaker raised h nise f up, leaning on ..,r,l cp nf? the captain take oSmed, at the top of hW up the gun; cxcuuiici , tr nr.,v thee, taptaiu, toucrr n nos-j voice, l pray v P , y ,j ... , it will hurt theo. 1 have put soveir maus in it. It will fire six times iuore, as.sura as there is a God in Israel..' " t,: An Irish witness in a court of dtSfceJ being asked what kiud of "ea'nnaTka" fiie the hog in question had, replied 'Fle had no particular eur-inurJw? except a va ry short tail' 7! . tf r - "1 'H i .t 3f"J
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