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VOL.27.
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Drs. JACKSON & BIDLACK,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
DRS. JACKSON &. BIDLACK, arc
prepared to attcnJ promptly to all calls
of a Professional character. Office Op
posite the Stroudaburg Bank.
April 25, lSG7.-tf.
DrT D. D. rbmTM,
Surgeon Dentist,
Office on Main Street, opposite Judge
Stokes residence, .Stroudsbirg, Pa.
OCT" Teeth extracted without piin.
August I, 1967.
.A. Card.
The undersigned has opened an office for
the purchase end sale ot Ileal Estate, in
Fowler' Building, on Main streel. Parties
having Farms, Mills, Hotels or other proper
ty for sale will find it to their advantage to
call on me. I have no agents. Parties
must sec me personally.
GEO. L. WALKER,
Ileal Estate Agent, Strcads-burg, Pa.
S. HOLMES, Jr.
ATTORNEf-AT-LAW, AND GENERAL
CLAIM AGENT.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Office, one door Lcloic llory's Tin Shoji.
All claims against the Government prose
cuted with dispatch at reduced rates.
OT" An additional bounty of 100 and of
50 procured for Soldiers in the late War,
FREE OF EXTRA CHARGE. -lQ
August 2, 166.
.A. Card.
Dr. A. REEVES JACKSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
BEGS TO ANNOUNCE THAT HAV
ing returned from Europe, he is now
prepared to resume the active duties of his ;
profession; In order to prevent disappoint- j
mcnt to persons living at a distance who i
may wish to consult him, ho will be found
at his office every THURSDAY and SAT
URDAY for consultation and the perform
ance of Surgical operations.
Dec. 12, liG7.-l yr.
WM. W. TWL. t. D. HOAR.
CHARLES XT. DEAN,
with
WM. W. PAUL & CO.
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS & SHOES.
WAREHOUSE,
623 Market St., & 614 Commerce St.
above Sixth, North side,
PHILADELPHIA.
March 19, ISGS. tf.
I tcli! Itcli! Itch !
SCRATCH! SCRATCH! SCRATCH!
IHILUNSIIEAD'S ITCH & SALT EKEl'M GHTME ST.
No Family thould be without th?3 valua
ble medicine, for on the first appearance of
the disorder on the wrists, betwecu the fin
gers, &c, a Blight application of the Oint
ment will cure it, and prevent its, bring ta
ken by others.
Warranted to give Eatiefaclion or money
rctunded.
Prepared and tolJ, wholesale and retail,
by - W. HOLLINSIIEAI),
Stroudfburg, Oct. 31, '07. J Druggist.
-XI. I. COOJLISACJGEI,
Sign and Ornamental Painter,
SHOP ON MAIN STREET,
Opposite Wovlai Mills,
STKOUDSIXUKG, IA.,
Respectfully announces to the citizens of
Stroudsburg and vicinity that he is prepared
to attend to all who may favor him with
their patronage, in a prompt and workman,
like manner.
CHAIRS, FURNITURE, &c, painted
and repaired. -
PICTURE FRAMES of all kinds con
stantly on hand or supplied to order.
June II, 16G8. ly.
J. DENTIST.
Has permanently located him-
ksclf in JStroudtsburg, and jnoved
hi? office next door to Dr. S.
Wulton, where lie is fully prepared to treat
the natural teeth, and al-so to insert incorrup
tible artificial teeth on pivot and plate, in tip
latest and mont improved manner. ' Most
persons know the danger and folly of trust
ing their work to the ignorant as well as
the traveling dentist. It matters not how
much experience a person may have, he is
liable to have ome failures out of a number
of cases, and if the dentist lives at a distance
it is frequeutly put ofl" uutil it . i too late to
eave the tooth or teeth as it mav be, other
wise the inconvenience and trouble of going
to far. Hence the necessity of obtaining the
services of a dentist near home. All work
warranted.
Stroudsburg, March 27, 1602.
DON'T rOR(arr that wlnii
you want any thing in the Furniture
or Ornamental line that McCarty, in., the
Odd-Fcllowa' Hall, Main Street, Strouds
burg, Vi , it the place to get it. (Sept. 0.
NASBY.
The Chicago Convention Jlr. JTasLy
Attends it and jets on a heavy disyust
-1 Lecture on Democracy
Post Offis, Contedrit X Roads,
(Wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky,)
May 124, 1803.
I wuz at Chicago one day, and that one
day satisfied me. My ears wuz stunned
with 'rors for Grant ; Whichever way I
turned ray eyes I saw nothing but Grant
badges and Grant medals; the bands wuz
all playing uv the Star Spangled Banner
and sich, and even the street organ grin
ders hed attooned their lyres to the same
Albishun melodies.
On my arrival I askt a vishus boy
(wich I knowd waz Dimckratic, from the
fact that his little shirt wood hev hung
out uv his little pants cf he'd hed any
shirt), cf he cood show me where the Ab
lishun Convcnshun wuz a holJin itself.
"Ccrtinly I kin, my old buffer," sed
he. "It's in that ycr bildin," pintin, ez
he spoke, to a ruthcr gorgu3 edifice with
a steeple to it.
I entered it, and wuz surprised, not on
ly at the fewness uv the delegates on the
floor, but at thcr pccoolycr appearance.
They didn't look like delegates to any
Convention I hed ever attended. Thcr
noses wuzn't uv the color I hed ben ac
customed to. They wuz all solemn look
in chaps with gold spectacles, black coats,
high foreheads and white ncckcrchcrs.
"Is this," thot I to mypelf, "the unifrom
delegates wear at Kcpublikin couven
ehens ?"
At this part I turned to a man sittin
besides me, and in an undortone askt
wich wuz ahed cn the last ballot, Colfax
or Wade 1
"Sir," Ecd he, "are you a Johnson post
master?" "I am," sed I defiantly. "How didst
determine that pit V
'By yoor breath," sed he. "Yoor
mistaken jn the place, my friend. This
is a Methodist conference."
That wikkid and perverse boy hed
in-
tcuslijclly deceived me.
On mv return we wuz a settin in
Pas-
corn's u discussin the nominashens.
Deekin Pogram wuz indignant, "Good
Heaven I" said he, with horrcr in his
.sainted face, "Kin it be that nicn. perfes
sin nashncl views wood offer sich an iu
sult to Kentucky ez to nominate Bich a
man ez Grant, who, sword in hand, de
vastatid her fertile fields and piled , the
bodies uv her nootral sons who resisted
his advaucc mountains high ? Kin it be
that" ,
"Easy, ' Dcckin," replied I, '."stiddy!
stiddy ! Don't take posishen rashly. It
ain't improbable that we may hev to nom
inate Hancock or some other soljcr. ' In
that event but I've sed enuff."
"Well, at all evence," Bed the Deekin,
"its a most hoomiliatin thing to hev
thrown in our faces a infamous proposi
ehen to pay a debt inkurrcd iu a infamous
attempt to subjoogato us to pledge our
lnher tn mv a debt unconstitooshuallv in-i
kurrcd and un " ;
"Pcckiu," sed T, "yoor zeal I do ad- anu "aJ ouly reached his majority a low
mire, but yoor rcely indiscreet It may' months before.' His family were wealthy,
be found necessary in order to carry Noo and powerful, and .Mr. Clay entered
York to nominate Pelmout'a man, who UP0U wliat seemed destined to prove a
will bee pledged to'lhis very thing. Go a.1?081 brilliant career in public lite. Py
little slow " the war he lost all his property, and is
"Well, however that may be, it's a D.ow racd with asthma and consump
burnin shame to throw into Kcntuckcy's tlon- lc w,as d,n3 through tho coun
facc a Abolisbnist-two u? cm in fact :try a borscback, seeking by the change
anj . of climate and cxeitcmcut to better his
1 : J
"Dcckin," (I Fpoke this time severely)
'vnnr vow in, iuitoI tn.i .nr. It s ro-
.-.. ! .i r.'
siblc, and I may say probable, that that'?0.' he KaiJl
noble patriot, CheelJustis Chase, who av? txi WurL lul
hez biu a friteful Abliohuist, aud who, cf
be tuue, Will, for vbvua reasons, make us
STrvOUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JUNE
swallcr at the beginin a porshen uv his
heresies, may be our candidate. Say no
thin, Deekin, that yoo'l hev to take back."
Fcelin that rite here wuz a splendid
chance for an improvin discourse on the
nachcr, objicks, and aims uv democracy,
I opened out onto cm.
''Dimocrisy," I rcmarkt, "is distin
guished checfly for its elasticity in adap
tin means to ends. One worn! snnnnsn
.that Past-Offis is itschccfcnd. In one
sense it is. Dimocrisy is willin to sacri-
i lice any thing which it hez for Post Ofiis.
j It might raise Deekin Pograci's ire to sc
jest the nominashen uv Hancock, on ak-
kount uv his slawtcnns, or Dclmou t can
didate on account uv his insistin on pay
ing on the jNashnel Debt, or Chase who
, hcz bin in his day suspected uv bcin
i tainted with Ablishinism. But my brcth
. ring let it be remembered that success is
:thc main objick. Success is wat Dascom
wants, that I, bcin continyood in offis,
may hev the means to pay for the likker
'I consoom, and to avoid the necessity uv'
; bein continyoorlly rekested to chalk it
i down, which practis he esteems disgustin,
and. one wich greatly increases his labors.
jCapt. McPcIter wants success that he
may continyoo to hev Assessors, Collec
tors, and Kcvenoo ofSscrs with which he
kin divide the profits uv the S2 tax on
the whisky ho makes, and Dcckin Po
grani wants success that ho may hev his
niggers agin or a least that he may hev
priviliegc of hirin em for S i per month,
deducting 25 cents per day for each day's
absence, without no Burow offiscr or oth
er military catrap hangin about to molest
or make afraid. Success 13 the main pint.
and cf Hancock is the way, walk ye in it
ef Chase or Seymour is the way, walk
ye ditto, for with cither uv these men all
these things we'll hev. When they come
to us they lccvc thcr former selves be
hind. Put mcThinks I hear one say, Han
cock is a soljcr, Seymour a anti-rcpudia-tor,
and Chase a Ablishnist ! What uv
that 7 They may be wat they like when
they go into offis assosiashen with us
fetches em sooner or later. Kin yoo tech
pitch and not be defiled ? Doolittle, Co
wan, and Dixon wuz Ablishnists. When
they split from Ablishnism tho minit
they fell into our embraces they became
ez satistactory Dcmokrats cz I cood wish.
The road down is a easy one to travel.
It's easier to slide than to climb, wich is
the reason why so many more arc damn
ed than saved. Democracy, like Pas
com's new likcr, hold3 r. man when it gits
him. Johnson waz a good cnuff AbolUh
nist till he called onto us for hcln, and
then he wuz lost. Let Chase stay with
us a wccjc, and nc d lorgit all
ideas, yoo bet. Shood yoo poke
his eld
that sil-
vcr pitcher at lam the
niggers give him
m
at Cincinnati, for defendin a fugitive, and
he d swear like Peter he never saw it
only diffcriu from Peter in that he'd
stick to it. And there is no goin back,
for the principal one3. Ther remorse
kind o'drives cm deeper and deeper, till
they finally arc worse than cz tho they
originally wuz uv U3. Let us, my brc
thrin, never reject any help we kin git.
Let it come in any shapo and from any
source, it'll finally assimilate to U3 and be
uv us. Remember, Johuson, Cowan,
Doolittle and Dixon swore, when they
started at Philadelphia, that they never
cood 0 into the ranks uv the Dimocrisy j
in a year they wuz siakin speeches for
us in Connecticut.
Ez I concloodcd my remarks, my cir
cle all agreed that it wuz safe to take
whatever we cood git from the enemy,
and we retired, I fcelin that whatever
other localifics mite do, the Corners wuz
safe. Wat an outrage it U, though, that
the Ablishnists nominated sich a man for
Vice-President ez to make Grant perfect
ly safe from bcin removed cz Linkca
wuz. Ef he's elected he'll serve out his
time sure.
Petroleum V. Nasby, P. M.,
(Which is l'ostmastct.)
A Ruined Rebel.
, A correspondent of the Chicago " Tri
bune " says:
" I saw on the streets of Nashville;
yesterday, an attenuated and emaciated
form belonging to a man who filled quite
a large space in the public cyo during
the war. It was none other than Cle
ment C Clay, one of the commissioners
of the rebcb abroad, and the companion
of Mason and Slidcll in their negotia
tions with France and England. Clay
was the man who was met by Horace
Greeley, at Niagra Falls, towards the close
of the war, the two ostensibly coming to
gether for the purpose of arranging for
some sort of peace. The negotiations
were all futile, as will be remembered.
" Clement Clay wa3 one of the most
rcmarkublo men in the South at the
breaking Out of tho war. lfn had iiif,t
been elected from the Iluutsvillc. Ala-
baraa,' district to the National
tongrcss,
ill 1 . . r
caltu. lie lives in lluntsvillc. still, and
'Practices law. vc arc a i noor Iuiks
riav"v-VJ ,a"
poor
OU13,
a
fiicud of
living.' "
aud
or a
.Maine has 70,0'J'J farmers.
The Peabody National Medal
It will be remembered that at the last
session of the Thirty-ninth Congress the
l'residcnt of the United States wa3 au
thorized to present to Mr. Gcorrrc Pea-
body a gold medal, in consideration or his
beneficent gift of over a million dollars
to the South for educational purposes,
to be applied without regard to color. It
has just been completed and received at
the State Department, and is decidedly
the handsomest and most unique affair
ever made in this country, and as a work
of art surpasses any medal ever present
ed by our government heretofore. It is
three inches in diameter and a half inch
thick ; on the front is the profile of Mr.
Peabody in alio relievo, and on the re
verse the fallowing inscription : "The
people of the Uuitcd States to George
Peabody, in acknowledgment of his
beneficent promotion of universal educa
tion." It i3 mounted on a base, and to
the right of the medal arc two palmetto
trees in gold, six mchc3 hih. around
which is ivy, emblem of friendship.
To the left of the medal is the figure of
benevolence, with one hand resting upon
the medal, holding in it a spray or laurel,
and with the other pointing to Mr. Pea
body. Under the palmetto trees arc two
children, one reprscnting a white child
and the other a .black, and white child
pointing to benevolence and the black the
one to himself, es if saying, "Am I, too,
to be educated ?" The base is six inches
long, three-fourths of au. inch thick and
one one-quarter inches high, and the
whole work is of solid gold. In the rear
of the medal, resting upon the base, is a
perfect globe, which revolves, and around
this arc books and various instruments
representing tho progress of civilization
and education. On the front of the base
is our national shield, executed in enamel.
The medal is enclosed in a handsome
cabinet of ebony and bird's cyo maple,
lined with purple velvet, the top cf which
revolves when the medal isplaccd upon
it, thus exhibiting it without placing the
hand upon it to change it3 position.- The
cntirff work was made with tools and not
struck from a die. It is a most beautiful
piece of workmanship, and is greatly ad
mired by all . who have seem it. On
Thursday it will be exhibited to the Cabi
net, after which it be placed on exhibi
tion in the Capitol. tzhi)ijton Star.
The Sexes and Amusements.
It may be laid down a3 a general rule
that amusements which separate the scxc3
arc dangerous. I would not press the
truth too narrowly and literally; but
undoubtedly it is a general truth that
where women seek their amusements in
one way by themselves, there i3 in both
ways a tendency to degeneration and
temptation. God meant that man and
woman should live together, work to
gether, and in all the functions of life
civil, social, religiou3, artistic and intel
lectual co-operate with each other;
and their mutual relations arc harmoniz
ing and balancing, and no where else
moro than in the seeking, and prosecu
tion of amusements. I believe that boys
and girls should go to school together.
As they sit together in the household, so
I think they should sit together in our
temples cf learning. Colleges should not
be for all men or all for women; but tho
same buildings aud the same professors
should be provided for both in common.
And as it is in crerv thinn tU
should bo in amusements
There is much
greater liability to temptation and im
morality, where amusement is sought in
the isolation or separation of the sexes.
Therefore, all exhibitions of pictures
and statues, all provisions for recreation,
all institutions for public amusements,
should be such as to enable pcoplo to go
in groupes and families.
1 do not think amusements can be
good generally, in a community in which
a man is ashamed to take, his whole fam
ily to them. If their is any thing you
would not like your wife and children to
participate in with you, the presumption
is that it is wrong; and if there is any
thing you would like them to participate
in with you, the presumption is that it is
right. And this might be made a rule
of judgment far more widely than it is
now. II. Vf Ihtchcr.
Failure of Weston, the Pedestrian.
Postox, June 4. Weston, the pedes
trian, who began the task of walking 100
miles in 23 hours, at Riverside Park, yes
terday afternoon, accomplished ouly i)0
miles in 22 hours and 52 minutes, and
lost the $4,000. Payne of Albany, who
started to walk 70 miles at the same place,
while Weston walked the last 87 of his
tramp, on a wager of $500 a side, com
pleted the distance in 18 hours and 42
minutes, being one hour aud'lS minutes
inside of time. About 5,000 wilucsscd
the walkers this afternoon, and the pedes
trians were urged on by a brass band.
Considerable money changed hands.
A .milkman in New York dropped
some money while crossing the ferry, and
the scrip was conveyed by the wiud to tho
East River. A byttandcr consoled tho
vender of tho lacteal with thcrcmark that
" what comes by water generally goes by
water."
Salt Lake City requires young men to
marry at ID or pay three hundred dollars
fine.
In Sc-arcy, Arkansas, a pair of twin
girb were Loru a IVw d.iys ng' each bav
in tr ' Clil V litJC Lb.
18, 1863.
Tctcr Cartwright, who is an attendant
of the Methodist Conference at Chicago,
is a most notable character, and is thus
sketched by a correspondent: "lie is
now aDout eighty four years of ago, and
has been an effectivo preacher for sixty
four years, and served in the office of pre
siding elder for half a century. He has
attended every General Conference since
the first organization of Methodism in
America, except two. He is one of the
few links that connect the hcroio age of
Methodism with the present. Some men
became eminent by culture, gathering
through years of toil the lore of buried
ages, but some heaven-appointed leaders
arc born great, and to this clas3 Peter
Cartwright, who in his day was a really
great man, belongs.
When in his prime, he was about five feet
ten inches in height, with a compact,
symctrical, sinewy form, black hair slight
ly curled, a round, well-poised head, and
dark, piercing eyes. His face was, and
still is, strongly marked with intelligence,
will, power and energy, and in an early
day, when his voice was clear, powerful
and musical, he wa3 a prince of camp-
mceting preachers. lie is now too old to
participate much in debate, yet few who
know him would even now care to stir
the old lion, for fear his paw might still
be pointed. In the early years of his
ministry he was bold even to rashness, if
it did not sometimes border on roughness.
It is said that he was once prcachincr
in Nashville, Tennessee, to a very crowd
ed congregation, when an unusual stir
about the door disturbed the congrega
tion and annoyed tho preacher. A min
ister sitting in the pulpit said to him in
at apologetic undertone, "Brother Cart
wright, Goncral Jackson just came in."
"Well," responded Cartwright, "who is
ucncrai dackson f it he don t repent
he'll be damned as quick as a Guinea nc-
ro I I his was said in so loud a tone
that Jackson heard it, and next day meet
ing Mr. Cartwright in the street, he said
to him : "bir. if 1 had an army of ten
thousand men of your courago I could
whip the world."
A Country Girl in Beecher's Church.
41 At first I thought he was a farmer, he
told us so much about sowing and har
vesting. Then, when he talked of train
ing, roses and pruning grape-vines," I
changed my mind, and concluded he was
a cardener: but soon after he described
printing, and made it so plain, I decided
that he must be a printer after all. The
queerest thing about it was that he should
know all the folks up at Cross-cut Cor
ners, and be able to describe them so ex
actly. When he, spoke of people who
think every thing they have is just the
nicest and best going, 1 thought of Huldy
Tucker, and when he described those
wno Dciievc they arc in a state ot per
fection, and can't do wrong, I knew he
must mean Deacon Pcttigrew. I was so
much interested in all he had to say, I did
not think of any thing else, except once,
wncn my mougnis new to doei. 1 so
longed to have him there beside me !
For I want Joel to love Sunday; and I
am sure he never will unless he sees, as
I have, how beautiful it can be made, and
what a good, happy, cheerful thing such
a religion as Mr. Beecher's is. The con
gregation looked so interested, so eager to
hear all he had to say, I do telieve they
would have stayed till night, if he had
chosen to go on preaching. I did not
notice a single girl chewing caraway seed,
or a single boy using his jack-knife on
the back of the pew. Deacon Spiccr,
eighty-five years old, always goes to sleep
and snores between our Parson's Hin
man's " fifthly" aud " sixthly;" but the
old, white-haired men at Mr. Beecher's
looked just as wide-awake as tho young
ones, and I do believe everybody went
away feeling better, and kinder, aud more
resolved to lead good, true lives than
when they came." Independent.
At a meeting of the Iowa Radical Con
gressional Delegation the other day, the
lollowing resolution was passed : licsohed,
that ...
Old Crimes w dead, that mean old soul,
We'll bury him to-day
lie never hall set foot again
On the soil of Iowa.
Old Grimes dead, the poor old u.,
He ne'er was worth a dime;
lie chiseled us on Monday last,
We'll chL-sel him next time.
We'll bury him fo deep, deep, deep,
That when old Gabriel sounds
The trumpet of the jubilee,
Old (i rimes will not lc found.
Earthly Treasures.
When Sheridan had bought a beauti
ful place, ho invited old Dr. Johnson to
go and sec it. The stern old cynic went,
aud looked through the house and library,
and tasted the wine from the cellar, and
walked into tho garden, and said noth
ing; and Sheridan said to him: "Well,
Doctor, what do you think of it 1 " " Ah 1 "
said hc,,"thcso are things that make
death terrible."
Jefferson Davis's trial has been again
poeponod uutil October. As during that
month the country will bo in very heat
of the Presidential canvases, it is hardly
to be expectod that cither judges will be
found to hear or counsel to argne this
case, delayed already uutil it has lost all
iutorc.it Mr. Davis will, iu all probability,
Lc tiaLufcncd as a loacy to the incoui
inir Ai;iint.!trjtir?i
NO. 12.
Something Interesting About the
Locusts,
Mr. Daniel Lehman, tho. messenger at
the York County National Bank, informs
jthc editor of the "True Democrat" that'
the locusts made their appearance in
1817, on the 23d day of May in 1S34,
about the same time, and iu 1851, on tho
26th of May. Ho has ascertained tho
fact, too, that the most of them arc now
about five inches below the surface of thV
earth, and their protracted stay 13 attri-
duicu to the continued' wet weather.
Manv of them have died in the trround
on account of the frequent' rains, and'
we may justly conclude that they win,
by no means, be as numerous as in form
er years. In 1817 Mr. Lehman made
the following experiment: He took some-
of the small branches whera the cirrs"
had been deposited and wrapped thenv
carefully up and laid them away and did
not open them until 1831, when the lo
custs made their appearance again; and
then by the aid of a microscope discov
ered that the cgg3 were dead and had
never made the least advance toward
incubation. In that year he put a quan tity
of the eggs in a bottle and corkcot it
up and did not examine its content
again until 1851, when he found the re
sult the same the eggs were dead and
had made no progress towards hatching.
Prom this it i3 well established that
the eggs of the locust must come in con
tact with the earth before they will ad
vance towards life that the soil is es
sential to the development of the life
giving property they contain.
By frequent experiment Mr. Lehmarf
has also ascertained that the locusts
never descend farther than six feet into
the earth, which is an entire refutation
of tho fallacy that they pass entirely
through it during their long abscence of
seventeen years. What they live on, or
how they subsist, in their self constituted
grave; whether they increase or multi
ply, or remain, to all intents and pur
poses, dead all this time, we believe, has
never been ascertained. Thcso singular
insects are certainly the most wonderfof
of all natural phenomena, and should ba
made a special subject of study. Their
coming &nd going is an object of interest
for the curious and scientific, and cer
tainly teach a lesson which has never yet
been fully and satisfactorily explained.
The Celestials.
In his eloquent speech at the San
Francisco banquet, Mr. Burlingamo
frankly explained what he and his col
leagues in the Chinese embassy expect tV
accomplish. He said tho.
embassy was largely due to the adoption
01 1113 co-cperative policy; the policy
by which the representatives at Pekin nf;
me - treaty powers " act together in al
discussions with the imperial government
1
uuuer tuis POllCV. he said, trade has n.
creased from $82,000,000 to $300,000 -
rrr . - '
uuu; steamboats have been multiplied,
railroads have been built, light houses
have been erected; hundreds of foreigners
nave Decn taken into the civil service of
Ch ina; Wheaton's International Law has
been adopted a3 a text book of the cm
pirc; Christian missions have advanced
from tho Yellow Sea to the great plains
of Mongolia; and now the imperial gov
eanmcnt has determined to seek closer re
lations with Europe and America. " The
embassy," said Mr. Burlingamo, " means
progress. It means that CWina will havo
her questions stated; and, conscious of
her own integrity, she is willing to sub-
mit ner questions to the general judgment
of mankind. It means that she intond"
to come into the brotherhood of nations.
It means commerce; it mcan3 peace; it
means a unification of her own interests
with the whole human race." This is
glowing language, but that is no rcasou
for pronouncing it exaggerated. Mr.
Burlingamo is certainly better able than
we arc to interpret the motives which in
uueuecu uic a ciiin caoincc to give hinr
his appointment, and to forecast the re
suits which will flow from their act. A
At
all events he has the good wishes of all
the civilized world for his complete suc
cess in tho exceptionally important work
which he has undertaken.
Jones was, or believed he was, near
his death, and tho doctor calling, he held
a long and earnest conversation with him
about his chances for life.
"Why, man," said the physician;
" you arc likely to die any hour. You
have been living for tho last fifteen ycars
without a constitution lungs gone;
liver deceased, and all that sort of thing."
"You don't mean to say," replied
Jones, qucstioniugly, "that a man cau
livo fifteen years without a constitution V
" Yes, I do," retorted the doctor, " and"
vour arc an cxamrde "
" Then, doctor," and a bright smile if
luminatcd the ralid face of tho doomed
man, " thcu, doctor, I'll go it ten yearn
more on the by-laws," aud ho did.
A Numerous Progeny.
Mrs. Regina Paul, who died near
Orwigburg, Schuylkill Co., Pa., on tho
30th of April, aged 00 years, 4 months
and 18 days, was tho mother of 14 child
ren, 110 grand-children, 287 great grand
children and over 300 great grand-children.
Wooley, the coutumactious witness, is
a thorn in Democratic flooh at Washing
ton. If is he compelled to tell what he did
with all the money he handled, there will
j bo a liciucuJon-. Cutter among the Copper.
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