THE JEFFE RSO N I ATT
Bcuotcu to politics, .fitcrotnrc, agriculture, Science, 4ttoratit, nub tncral Sntcllig
encc.
VOL. 25.
Published by Theodore Schoch.
TERMS Two dollnrs a year in advance and if not
piid tf re the end of the year, two dollars and filfy
ct. will be h;irgpd.
No p;iper discontinued until allarreuiagesare paid,
except at the option of the Editor.
E7A'lvertisenie!!ts of one sqmire of (eight lmcfOor
JeJ. nnc or three insertions 1 50. Each additional
iiicrtion, SO cents. Longer ones in propoition.
JOB PREXTIXG,
OP ALL KINDS,
fxecutcd Inthe highest ytyle of the Arl.and onthe
most icasori tble terms.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, AND GENERAL
CLAIM AGET.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Office icith S. S. Drchcr, Esq.
All claims against the Government prose
cuted with dispatch at reduced rates.
03" An additional bounty of 100 and t)f
$50 procured for Soldiers in the late War,
FREE OF EXTRA CHARGE. mQ
August 2, 1660.
DJl A. REEVES JACKSON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Begs leave to announce that, in order to
prevent disappointment, he will hereafter de
vote THURSDAY aud SATURDAY ot j
each week exclusively to Consultations !
and Surgical Operations at his office.
Parties from a distance who desire to con
sult him, can do so, therefore, on those days.
Stroudsburg, May 31, 156G.-tf.
Furniture! Furniture!
McCarty's flew Furniture Store,
DREHER'S NEW BUILDING, two
doors below the Post-office, Strouds
fcurg, Pa. He is selling his Furniture 10
percent. less than Easton or Wa'ehington
prices, to say nothing about freight or break
age. May 17, lSGG.-tf.
INING-ROOM FURNITURE in Wal
nut, Oak and White Ash, Extension
Tables, any size you wish, at McCARTY'S
new Ware-Rooms. May 17, 15GG.-tf.
IF YOU WANT A L.UUD I'AKLUll
Suit in Rose, Mahogany or Walnut,
McCARTY has it. May 17, 16G6.-tf.
IF YOU WANT A GOOD MELODEON,
from one of the best makers in the Uni
ttd States, tolid Rosewood Case, warranted
5 years, call at McCARTY'S, he would es
pecially invite all who are good judges ot
Music to come and test them. He will sell
you from any maker you wish, $10 less than
ihose who sell on commission. The reason
is he buys for cash and sells for the same,
with less thin one-half the usual per centage
that agents want. J. II. McCARTV.
May 17, ISGG.-tf.
NDERTAKING IN ALL ITS BRAN
ches. Particular attention will be given to this
branch of the subscriber's business. He will
always study to please and consult the
wants and wishes of those who employ him.
From the number of vears experience he has
Lad in this branch of business he cannot and j
will not not be excelled either in cityor
country. Prices one-third le3 than is usual
ly charged, from J to 73 finished Coffins al
ways on hand. Trimmings to suit the best
ilearse inthe country. Funerals attended
it one hour's notice. J. II. McCARTY.
May 17, 10G.-tf. .
Saddle and Harness
Manufactory.
The undersigned respectfully inferms
the citizens of Stroudsburg, and surroun
ding country, that he has commenced the
above business in Fowler's building, on
Elizabeth street, and is fully prepared to
furnish any article in his liue of business,
at short notice. On hand at all times, a
large stock of
Harness, Whips, Trunks, Vah'ccs, Car
pet Bays, Horse-Blanket?, Bella,
Skates, Oil -Cloths, dc.
Carriage Trimming promptly attended
to. JOHN O. SAYLOB.
Stroudsburg, Dec. 14, 1SG3.
Gothic Hall Brag Store.
Wi 1 1 in in EI o 1 1 i h ca d ,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist.
STROUDSBURG, Pa. "
Constantly on Laud and for
sale cheap for cash, a fresh sup
ply of Drugs, Medicines, Paints,
Oil, Glass, I'utty, Varnish, Ker
osene Oil, Perfumery and Fancy Goods;
also
Sash. rSsiBfs mad Doors.
Pure Wines and Liquors for Medicinal
purpose.
P. S. Physicians Prescriptions care
fully compounded.
Stroudsburg, July 7, 1801.
TIN SHOP !
The undersigned begs leave to inform his
friends and the public generally, that he has
flow opened a 27.V SHOP, on Main street,
near the Stroudsburg Mills, opposite Troch
& Walton's, formerly R. S. Staples' Store,
vhere he is prepared to' manufacture and
sell at wholesale and retail, all kinds of
Tin, topper and Sheet Iron-Ware.
ALSO,
fclon s Stove jo aud Elbows.
Old and second band Stoves bought and
Sold, at cash rates.
04-S7 paid for Old Lead, Copper .and
(r Roofing, Spouting and Repairing
promptly attended to and warranted to give
satisfaction. Cull and see for yourselves.
WILLIAM KEISER.
fctroudslurg, Dec. 8, 100.
CO M M ONcTlAI RSofaTl kinds, Cane
Flag aud Wool Seats; Dining, Bar
K.'rn and O-ffice Chairs, with or without
Cushions, Rocking-Chairs of every descrip
tion at McCARTY'S Wurc-Rogme.
Vay 17, l"?GG.-tf.
For the Jeflersoman.
TO MY DAVQHTER,
ELLA,
On her Twelfth Birth-Day.
BY. A. B. B.
Twelve years already gone?
Do now face the teens!
Am J thus hurrying on
To adult's sober scenes?
If this be so each childish thing
Away for those more wisdom bring.
To books, to thought, to play
Apportioning well to each
Let me arise each day
Myself to learn and teach;
Not satisfied unless each night
Shows an advance in wisdom'a liht.
My motto, Onward," now,
Xot hurrying years agone,
But, with an earnest brow.
Pressing to catch the dawn
That streaks the morning of that day
Where Knowledge sheds her honored ray.
I welcome struggle, toil,
So high a point to gain,
Not daunted, no recoil,
Else Mottoes are in vain ;
But, firm in purpose and in aim,
No hindering cause e'er yet o'ercame.
Then welcome, fuller years,
I to my part respond.
Not harboring doubts or fears,
Though these may circle round;
J trill in early years secure
The real though the false allure.
Water Gap, JY6. 8tb, 1SG7.
Oh! Well I Remember! -
Oh ! well I remember
How sadly I tore
v The first checkered apron
That ever I wore.
How I boohed and bellowed
And flooded with tears,
When my mother gave me
A box on my ears;
Then a big piece of pic for the damage she'd
done
To her dearest, her darling, but' good-for-naught
son.
Oh ! well I remember
(They are fresh in my mind)
Those little trousers,
All buttoned behind;
How I played in the puddle
And daubed them in dirt
How my grandmother shook me
Till I screamed villi the hurt,
But promised to buy me a nice sugar toy,
If I'd but remember to be a good boy.
Oh ! well I remember
My advent to school
How I got cn the dunce-llock,
And felt like a fool;
IIo-.v I pulled out the paper
From Emily's curl?,
For which I was planted .
On a scat with the girls!
'Twas punishment fraught with confusion
and pain,
But, oh ! I should like to be put there again.
Oh! well I remember
When older I'd grown,
I had to spread clover
As fast as 'twas mown ;
And the finger of fincy
Still points to the churn,
And the hated old grindstone,
1 dreaded to turn ;
Fori churned and I turned till as weak as a
cat,
And sweat till as wet as a water-soaked
rat
Oh! well I remember
The old sorrel mare,
That look roc to meeting,
- To mill and to fair
I rode her a plowing
Till lender and sore
Became mypoor " t'other,"
. And I couldn't ride more;
But o'ten times since I have heavily sighed
To think of the "horse" that I daily must
ride.
A New Way of Getting a Drink.
A good joke is told on one of our clev
er saloon keepers, which is too full of
genuine humor, " under pressing circum
stances," to be lost:
A short time ago a representative of the
Green Isle stepped into the saloon of tho
person above alluded to, and with a coun
tenance full of inquiry, said:
" 44 An' bare you got any good rye whis
ky?" " Yes, very good; the best in town,"
said the saloon man.
44 Au' have you got any half-pint bot
tles, uiy good man?"
" Yes," was the reply.
" An' will you please to fill one with
your Lest rye whisky for me?"
" Of course," said the obliging dealer;
and after reaching for the required flask
and spendiug a full half-hour in cleaning
it, repaired to the cellar, drew half a pint
of his Bourbon, and presented it to the
gentleman in waiting.
" Pat" took the bottle, raised it to hia
lips, swallowed about half of its contents,
aud then, after making the appropriate
face over it, said in a very confidential
tone:.
" Will you please sit this to one. side
till I call for it?"
The saloon keeper, 44 eaaelling a large
sized rat trap full of small mice," carefully
stowed away the half-filled bottle. The
fellow nover called for it, but took this
novel way of obtaining a drink. .
,
A number of seamstresses in Pari have
been suffering from violent colic, attribu
ted to putting the sewing silks they use
in their mouths. The silk being soliLby
weight, u adulterated with sulphate of
lead to make it heavier, hence, its delete
rious effect.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE
The Friend of the Friendless.
The State of Pennsylvania pave to Gen-
era! Jackson over fifty thousand majority
ior l resident. 1 he whole Commonwealth
ov-l'UJtu uuuiuuu iw iue nerneiuai swav ot
mat school ot politics thenceforth; and
the young citizen of our State was a
bravo man who, in those days, for con
science' sake, refused to float with the
current.
About that time a young lawyer from
New Endland settled in one of the south
ern counties of the old Keystone. Being
gifted with .unusual powers of intelcct
and filled with high and proper aspira
tions, many wondered that he did not be
come a Jackson man, and he carried on
the wave of popular applause to the high
est post of honor in the land.
Ilad selfish ambition been the ruling
passion in his mind, doubtless he would
have joined his fortunes to those of the
dominant party, and thereby,at the expense
of his principles, have reaped the ephe
meral harvest of partisan triumph; but
his was a different mission, and self was
made to kick tho beam by the weighter
matter duty.
At that day the whole country was ruled
by the twin sisters of oppression Ignor-
ance and Slavery. Scarcely env man
dared risk his reputition, who desired offi -
. J
l.T i?i! 1 1 l n
cial position solely for the public good,
by espousing the cause of the poor and
downtrodden as against the power of
wealth and caste, even in republican A
merica. When it was not only unpopular
to be an Abolitionist, but actually dan
gerous to life, the career of this young
man began, amidst a people living in a
border county, who had daily intercourse
with slaveowners living on adjoining es
tates. Separated only by an imaginary
State line, the prejudices of those living
north of that landmark the far-famed
" Mason and Dixon's line" were as
strongly developed as were those of their
neighbors living to the southward there
of. Nothing saved him from being caste
aside and being trodden under foot of
men but his own high-toned, manly dig
nity of character and a 'heaven born zeal
for tho right coupled with marked elo
quence of utterance, which enabled him,
not only to convince all who listened to
his earnest appeals for the friendless of
the honesty of his own convictions, but,
in many cases, to convert former enemies
into lifelong friends. His first experi
ence in connection with slavery, which
was rapidly followed by others several
case3 of which I propose reciting, which
have never been published was in this
wise: -
Being eDgaged as counsel in several
importaut suits in one of the courts of
Maryland, he learned that a poor girl
was confined in jail for the purpose of be
ing sold at noon of Saturday of the first
week of the
frrrr n tifirt. nf n n nefrjfn
but who was believed
to be free.
On
learning that she had no
after her rights none of
person to
look
the local
mem-
bers of the bar caring about attacking the
prejudices of the day, or of going into a
fight, for no fee or hope of reward, against
one of the wealthiest and most powerful
families in the county, which claimed her
this bold young man, from a neighbor
ing State, volunteered his services.
When an interview was brought about
j between him and his new found client, he
wa3 utterly amazed to find her to be as
white as he was himself. lie took hold
of the case with all the energy of his ar
dent nature, and, after a desperate strug
gle with the abloit lawyers in that bar,
he succeeded in rescuing the poor
from the clutch of slavery.
rrirl
on
Several years thereafter, while.
going
from his home at Gettysburg to the city
of Baltimore, in his own private carriage,
he stopped at a hotel on the route for
dinner. The bar-tender a bright, intelligent-looking
young man evidently a son
of the landlord from the striking resem
blance drove the horse to tho stable,
and the young lawyer walked into the
parlor. Soon afterward a beautiful young
woman came in and addressed him thus:
" Oh! sir, you are the man who saved
me from a life of slavery and misery; can
you not also save my poor husband Irom a
similar fate?"
Upon inquiry, he learned that she who
stood before him was the same in whose
behalf he had labored at the court of that
same county a few terms prior thereto
as already narrated.
' Who, is your husband ? and what can
I do for him?" he asked.
" lie is the young mau who took charge
of your hcrso," she replied, " and his
father the landlord, is now about selling
him to a soul driver."
" Why, that young man is white!''"
" Yes, sir, I believe Jie is; but he is a
slave."
Just then an open buggy was driven
in front of the house, and our friend re
cognized its occupants to be the landlord
and a notorious slave-dealer, from the ci
ty of Baltimore. Overhearing a remark
which fell from the lips of the former, he
discovered that the statement of the wo
man was true, and that no Fule had yet
taken place.. He immediately called the
bloated old publican aside, and asked him
" What he was proposing to sell doubt-
less a favorite horse?"
No," said the brute, " I want to sell
that boy."
11 Nq, certainly not; Le is your own
son."
41 Yes, I know he 13 my own sou; but
I have made up uiy mind to sell him. I
t-old two brothers of. his nnd a sister, and
I will sell him. I aui going to the races
COUNTY, PA., FEBRUARY U, 1867.
next woek, and must take with me five
hundred df11nr nnit T finva nnln nna Viiin.
drrd and fiftr in1 Will Coll Vlitn f,r t rr
J hundred and 'fifty dollars. 1 am offered
three hundred and forty; but I must
i liarft rh in nmmmf "
Come,
come now; I will
the one-
half, and you give your son the other half,
and we will manumit him."
" No; I must have the full sum."
" Very well, I. will give you two hun
dred dollars, and you give him one hun
dred and fifty."
" Not a bit of it. If you want him I
will sell him to you as soon as to the slave
dealer, for he has been a faithful boy, and
i Deiieve that it you get him you will set
him free "
'him
" I want him only for that purpose,
and I am pleased to hear you speakincr of
;him. lie ousht not to bo seDarated from
his wife. The money you get thus will
do you no good. One week at the races,
where you are sure to lose every dollar,
will be poor consolation for inflicting life
long misery on these two poor creatures.
Come, I will give you three hundred dol
lars and you give him fifty."
' Vn nn nt T .M t 1 T -i' 1.
; to it.
' "v, uv. x uau aaiu Ik uuu J. sum
I must have the whole amount.
No gentleman!) would think of goin
the mm wiili ! tlmn fim iinn,i
to
I - " .uw-bUUU U V 11 UUUi
I - -
dol-
!lars, and I must have the full amount.
44 I will make you another offer. I
will give you three hundred and twenty
five dollars, and you give twenty-five."
44 No, I wont; and I am tired talking
to you. That dealer is going to see an
other 4 boy and if he buys him he will
not want mine."
44 Now see here that man wants your
son to sell South for the purpose of mak
ing money on him. I only want to set
him free. I will give you as much as he
offered you three hundred and forty dol
lars." 44 There now you Lid the same sum,
and
I will put him at auction between
you; and I must knock him down to the
highest bidder."
44 No; if I buy him that man must not
know that we are talking on that subject
till all is arranged. You remain here till I
send for the clerk of the court, and, I will
give all you ask."
The clerk was sent for; the papers
made out; the money paid down, and the
son of a Maryland father was made a free
man by the money of a Pennsylvanian
lawyer, and slavery thenceforth owed him
a debt which she has now nearly paid by
her decease, but which will not be fully
cancelled until every vestige of the foul
wrong is forever banished from tl the
land of the free and home of the brave."
The people of Adams county, feeling
the necessity for the services of this cham
pion of friendless humanity in the halls
of legislation, sent our friend to Harris
burg to represent them in the Assembly.
While there he exerted all his influence
and efforts to promote the welfare of the
people of the State, without regard to
creed, party or. complexion. A bachelor
on the owner of large estates, which would
be, and which were heavily taxed to raiso
funds to educate the children of other
people, he is the recognized father of the
admirable system of free Echools which
now exists in his adopted State. - This
system will remain, while time lasts, an
imperishable monument to the disinteres
ted benevolence and far seeing wisdom a3
one of Pennsylvania's best and ablest cit
izens Thaddcus Stevens.
A Pointed Illustration.
A correspondent of the Milwaukie Sen
tinel says that the following colloquy re
cently occurred between a noisy, brawl
ing democratic politician and a quiet, ob
serving republican. It hits the nail on
the head, and is too good to be lost:
Democrat. I demand to know, sir, if
the States lately in rebellion are in the
Union or out of the Union. Just auswer
that, if you will.
liepuilican. The question is well il
lustrated in your own personal history.
Four years ago, you united with the
church here; and if I am rightly inform
ed, you have been rather a hard member
to manage; and lately charges have been
preferred againstyou for downrightmiscon
duct, and you have been suspended until
your case can be examined, and your fit
ness for membership determined. Now,
sir, I demand to know whether you are
in the church or out of the church.
The democrat appeared to see the point
aud left.
Here is the U. S. Supreme Court :
Tho best faces intellectually are those of
the Chief Justice, Miller and Nelson.
The latter has an especially keen look,
with his mobile nervous features, his long
gray hair, bushy eyebrows, and keen, rest
less eyes. Miller has a noble brow.
Davis has a heavy, ploding look, a lawyer
great in the books, but slow in digestiou,
by whom revolutions whirl while he is
cogitating, and thus leave him stranded
like some clumsy saurian who has left its
story in tho rock. Field, of California,
is a remarkably obstinate looking man.
That is his marked trait. Grier is a fat
man, unwholcsotnely eo. Wayne, the
Southern Judge, has a good face. Clif
ford looks as if in a state of hybernation,
and Swayne has tho appoarauce of a care
ful ponderous thinker, adevourerof books,
but not a reader of men. The face of tho
Chief Justice is the loftiest and noblest
of them all.
A woman in Michigan asked for a
vorce from her husband because he
fused to wear a mustache.
dire-
NABSY.
If- -7.. Tf Ct T .
ur. j.yasuy ij$says a sermon, out is in
terrupted ly a Xioqer, who is Aided
and Abetted ly the Perverse Joe Biyhr.xns, only a quarter onto my wife, only an-
Post Offis, Confedrit X Roads, .e,St onto my daughters, only a sixteenth'
(Which is in the Stait of Kentucky.) Coato my daughters children, an there's
January 10, 1S07. ) . lyt uv niggers in this ycr visinity wat
I wuz rekested a wCek ago to preeeh 1 ?wroortHn ptV;-rJ9k.kund or thensiX"
discourse i-mm fi,- -I JLu i. nui ty-fouTth part of it hangintoem. Guv
and highminded Guvncr Bramlette used
-waiwu Hl, VI lis 14 LUC UUU1C
with such crushin force in his last annual
message, to wit? Tv-; i 7
O ' JL I U I 1IU
juouiiareu
Changs his spots or the Etheopian bis
skin ?" and alluz feeling anxious to do wat
I kin for the cause, I did it last nite, or
rather essayed to do it.
. 1.1
Anil rirf I at ma .....1. il.i'it i
aint a more devoted people in Kentuckv1 monUl Jr bcm immensely condemned,
than them lambs ez composo my flock. iCXpe P10?1 ansers. or r:itliCr 1
It wuza tcchin site and one wich filled Su?rdlaQ and pertcctor do."
my
the
sole with joy to see cm pour out uyL,
hornjandtosee Pennsbackcr, whichownes
tho distillery, stoppiu work to come ; but
the most cheerin and encouragin sign to
me wuz to seek Dekin Pogram, who wuz
a playin seven up for the drinks with El
der Slathers, at Bascom's, lay down his
hand when he hed high, low; and jack in
it, and hed only three to go. 4'EIder,
there's the horn. Let us to our dooties.
'Ligion must take the front scat uv tcm
p'ral matters," and sighin ez he cast a
parting glance at his hand, he strode rc
solootly to the saDktooary.
I opened by readin the follerin from
Gov. Bramleett's message :
4'The nigger is the inferior uvthe white
he lacks the power to rise. Ontil the
leopard kin change his spots, or the Ethi
opian his skin, all efforts to repeal or
nullify God's laws will be unavailin."
4,My brethrin these words is words uv
wisdom, and fur cm let us be thakful.
The skin uv the Ethiopian wuz inflicted
onto him for the express purpose ur dis
tinguishin him from his brethrin, those
servants he wuz condemed to be, for all
time, ez a punishment for the sin uv Cain
or the imptoodence uv Ham, wich, the
Democratic divines lieven't settled on.
With the black skin he wuz given all the
other marks uv inferiority. He wuz cust
with long arms, immense hands, flat nose
and bowed legs, and that their mite be no
mistake in the matter, he wuz given wool
instead uv hair halleloogy.
44Ah, my brethern, wat a blessed thing
for U3 is this Ethiopian ! What a consola
tion it must be to yoo all to know that
thcr is a race below yoo, and how blcssid
the refleekshun that they . can't change
ther shin, and by that means git above
you
! I hit a f Pft inmfnrf wa nriv Irnni
the skripters.
aumww tawv W IM .WAV 11W UiUII 11 U1U
Wat
horror it wood
who is snorin
be
so
osrram.
peacefly.
"Drcamin, sweetly drcamin, the happy
hours away," cf when the Soopremc Court
decides the ablishin amendment uucon
stooshnel, and he gits his niggers back
again, if ther shood be a new dispenaas
hun aud niggers shood be permitted to
change their skins ! Wat sekoority wood
we hev for our property 1 Some mornin
he'd wake up and find em all white per
sons, which it would be unconstooshnel to
wollop.
"My brethern ther hez been many ef
forts to change the skin uf the Ethiopian,
or rather thcr hez bin many who wanted
to. The Boston Ablishnists hev tried it,
but wat hez bin the result ? Aint they
niggers yil, and aint they still the degrad
ed wretches they alius wuz ? I paws for
a reply."
I made this latter remark becoz, and
only becoz it sounded well, not that I bed
any idee that anybody wood reply. I
amagino my surprise at scein a gray-headed
nigger, wich hed bin, doorin and after
the fratrisidle struggles, employed in the
Freedtncn Burow, rise, and remark that
he hed a word to say onto that pint
There wuz a storm of indignashun, and
the impudent nigger, who wuz so sassy
ez to prccsoom to speak in a white meet
in wood hev bin sacrificed on the spot hed
not Joe Bigler, who wuz half drunk,
drawd a ugly looking navy revolver, and
remai kin that he knowd that nigger that
he hed more sence than the hull bilin uv
us, and he shood hev his say.
4'Ef," sel this recklis Joe, 4cf lie beats
you, Pcrfessor, truth is truth ; let's hev
it. Ef he don't, why, it's all the better
for you. Ef your Websterian intellect
kivcrs tho ground, all rite ef hia pon
derous iotellcck gets the best on't jist
rite. 4Out of the mouths uv babes and
sucklins.' Elder, I go my bottom dollar
on this sucklin. Speak up, venerable
there won't none uv em tech you," and
and he cockt his revolver.
. "Beggin pardon," ted the uiggcr, "1
agree with voo. Perfesser, that the Ethi
opian can't change his skin himself, but
docs the scriptcr eay that it can t be chang
ed for him ?"
'A user tho venerable babe," sed Joe
Bigler, pintin his revolver at me.
'I can't say that it does," sez I.
"Very good," retorted the nigger ;
"Iicznt there a change bin a goiu on iu
Kaintucky from the beginnin ? My moth
er wuz ez black cz a crow, I'm considble
lighter; my wife's a half lighter than 1
am; my gal's children is a half lighter
than their mother, and I want to known
wat Guvncr Braruletta's got to say to that?
The white mau ain't got no cuss onto him,
hez he !"-
4'Speak up, Perfesser the euckliu
wanta yoo to bo prompt," said Joe Big
ler I answered that he bed not that it
wuz plied onto Ham or Caiu and thuir
dtjctudeuti, uud uubody else.
NO. 47,
4iVery well, then," scd the nigger,
chucklin all over, 4,cz I am only half Hani
or Cain (wich you hcven't decided,) than
uv coarse there s only a halt a cuss onto
I 1 4 . 1 . . .
; ner Bramlette also sed
; T.v? ,.!8Saf n z
gers being degraden
coz twuz their na
: V1"1' U,VA " lua- uaicasnea
woodenfc
1 f,, v
vLU i
"Perfessor," sed the tormentin Bigler,
wich hed just wisky cnuff into him to be
1 ugly, "I must remind yoo that the par-
tikcler babe and sucklin out uv whoso
r fU5er?a um s,u S lt tCnCr UV
"Ef that s troo, why don't the mulla
tres come up faster? Ef its the natural
stoopidity uv the nigger, the white ain't
effected by it, and the mullato only half.
I are 'quainted with the heft of the pec'
pie afore me, and I'll bet my last year's
wages,- wich Deekin Pograia ain't paid
yit, that half uv em can't read any mor'n
i. 'Pears to me I'd like to hev Guv
nor .bramlette take the load off us, for a-
year or two and see whether we'd rise or'
uot. A e raoutn't, and then agin wa
mout. But I ruther its a leetle too much
to put a millstone on top uy a man and
then kick him for not gettin up."
44Bully !" sed Joe Bigler. 4'Go on ! gc
on !"
"It ain't just square playing to make
all sorts uv laws agin our risin, to flog us
for heving speelin books, to make it a
penitentiary offense to le'arn to read, and
to burn our skool houses, and then, be
cause we ain't just ready to enter college
to insist on't that we are naterally incap
able. And above all, ain't it preesoomin
a little to charge it cnto the Load ? Aint'
yoo mistakin your own work for hizzen I
'Praps ef Guvner Bramlett's father hed
bin flogged for wantiu to learn to read,
and Guvncr Bramlett's mother hed him
brought up ez a field hand, and the sacie-
strategy hed bin practiced on Guvner"
Lramlett s grand-father and great-grand
father and great-great-great-grandfather-
and h"i3 jrreat "
4lIIold on, venerable," said Joe Bigler,
"don't enumerate.. Jest say his ancestors, -back
to the identical time when they wuz
slaves to them Normans, which held its
progenitors jist ez closely ez yoorve bin
held, and it'll be sufHshent. But go on."
"I plead guilty to the big hands, flat
nose and bowed leg3. Possibly the first
nigger hed em possible not. Ef Guv
nor Bromlctt's father, and his grandfa
which is to say ancestors hed bin kept
at the hce, his bauds wood hev been ez big'
ez mine ; cf they'd borne burdens forever1-'
his legs wood be bowd, and ef her noses
hed him pcrpetooally smashnt, hizzen
wood be flatter than it is."
4llcv yoo eny more questions to put to
the Perfesser ?" sed Joseph.
4No," . replied the Ethiopian, 4I her
sed my say." -
"Then," said this Bigler, wich wuz gee-'
ting more and more reckless every minit,
"I dismiss this congrcgashua, with this
remark, that that nigger is under my pro
tection care, and ef a single lock uv his
wool is disturbed I shel feci it a solium
but painfull dooty devolvin upon me, to'
put a ball into the carcass uv each uv the
ofiishils uv this church, commencin with
the Paster, and contmum all the war
down to the scrible. Git !"
And pell mell the congregashun piled
out one over another.
It will be necessary to dispose of Joe
Bigler seuiewhow. lie lost what proper
ty he hed in the war, and is becoming
exceedingly loose in biz talk. lie can't
be tolerated long.
Petroleum V. Nasdy, P. M.r
(Wich is Postmaster.) and likewise Pro
fessor uv Bibhkle Politicks in the South
ern Classikle Military Institoot.
Making Other
A mother who was in the habit of ask
ing her children " bafore they retired for
the night, what they had done to make
others happy, fouud her twiu daughters
silent. The question was repeated. " I
can remember nothing good all this day,
dear mother; only one of my schoolmates
was happy because she had gained the
head of the class, and I smiled on her and
ran to kiss her; so she said I was good.
That is all mother." The other spolp
timidly. 14 A little girl, who sat with mo
on the bench at school, has lost a littlv
brother. I saw that, while she studied
her lesson, she hid her face in her book
and wept. I felt sorry, and laid my face
on the same book and wept with her.
Then she looked up and was comforted,
and put her arms arouud my neck; but I
do not kuow why she said 1 had done her
good." " Come to my.arms, my darling !'
said her mother: 44 to rcioice with those
that
rejoice,
and weep with those that
weep, is to obey
the blessed IJedccmcrl'
The terms of service of 15,000 troops
enlisted in 1S01 in the regular army ex
pire during the current year, aud the
War Department will Gil thtir places by
fresh enlistment. About 12,000 mea'
have been recruited since October 1, and
if enlistments contiuue in the sauso ratio,
ihe minimum strength of the army will
Le reached iu about three mouths.
Condemn
you thiuk.
no
man fW not th
inking
as