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Cod of our fathers, now extend Thy ever gracious hand, And grasp from fell destruction's powr Our poor, distracted land The land so blest by Thee with afl A nation could desire, Where like a beacon for the world Has burned dear Freedom's fire. God of oar fathers, strll the storm That sweeps across our shore, -And into every throbbing heart The sweats of concord pour ; -Bid Thou the winds oi passion Stay, ' 'The wavesof auger keep No longer let the fearfu! gale 'Round Freedom's -cradle sweep. God of onr father's give us. light, t Turn darkness into day, Let wisdom in our Councils rjt, 'Mid those whd would betray, Oh ! yield them light, thai they may see How fearful is the bldw That gives a nation to despair . Aud Freedom up to woe ! tiod of our fathers, He who hears The so nl's least whisper'd prayer, Now listen to our people's voice, And take them ''neath thy care, Thv hand is mighty to protect. Thy voice the dead may wake Stretch forth thy hand-oh! speak the word, For our dear country's sake ! Tne Inaugural Address of President Lincoln. Fxllow CiTizms or rut Unitcd Statcs : In compliance with a custom as old as Ihe Government itself, I appear before you ! o address you briefly, and to take, in your presence, the oath prescribed by the Con j etitution of the United States, to be taken ' by the President before he enters upon the ' execution of his office. " I do not consider it necessary at present Tor me to disenss those matters of adminis- iralion about which there is no special anx- ' Seiy or excrement. j Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern Stales, that by the ! "accession of a Republican administration, ' their property and their peace, and their 1 personal security are to be endangered. j Tnere has never been any reasonable cause Tor such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the 'contrary has all the while existed and been ; tipen to their inspection. It is found in all ; Ibe published speeches of him who now ' addresses you. I do but quota from one of ; these speeches, when I declare that "I have ! no purpose, directly or indirectly, to inter- j fere with the institution of slavery in the . States where it exists. 1 believe I have no j lawful right to do so. " And I have no in- j rlination do so.' Those who nominated ! and elected me, did so with the full knOwl- edge that I had made this and many simi lar declarations, and had never recanted them. ' And more than this they placed in ae platform, for my acceptance, as a law lo tnemselves and to me, the clear and em, phatle resolution, which I now read i Retched, That the maintenance inviolate Tf the rights of the States and especially the right ol each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to Sis own judgement exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the per fection and enduranee of our political fabric tlepend and we denounce the lawless in vasion by an armed forced of the soil of anj sta'e or territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.' - I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so, I only press upon the public at tention the most conclusive evidence of which the care is susceptible. That the property, peace and eecority of no sec'.ion re to be In anywise endangered by the Incoming Administration. I add, $oo, that all the protection which consistently with the Constitution and the lawn can be given will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully - demanded, fc'r whatever cause, as cheerfully to one lection as to another. ... There is much controversy about Ihe de Ihreriag of fugitives from service of labor The clause t cow read is as plainly written in the Constitution as any other of its pro visions. " ' 1 : "No person held to service or labor in a ute undo: the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law cr regulation therein, be discharged from ecch service or jabot, but shall be delivered cp on claim of the party to whom such ser jaor labor may be due." ' It is scarcely questioned that this provis S foa was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves, and the intention of the law -gi vet f is the law. AH members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitutior--to this provision as much as any other. To tha proposition then that slaves whose c : ; cr-."3 wiihia ths tertss of this clause, End "shall ba delivered up" their oaths are t titanic: dus. Vovr, if they wonli make the I c-Tort in 0Qd t;r.-.per, CsuU they not with! nearly equal unanimity frame a law to keep good that unanimous oath. j There is some difference of opinion ; "whether this"clause should be enforced by national or State authority, but surely that difference is not a very material one. If! the slave is to be surrendered, it can be of ' but little consequence to him or to others j by which authority it is done. And should any one, in any case, be con- Tent that his 3a1h shall be unkept, or a merely unsubstantial controversy a to how it shall be kept 1 Again In any law upon this subject, Ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilised and humane ju risprudence lo be introduced, so that a freeman may not be, in any case surrender ed as a 6ave ! And might it not bo well, at the same Vime, to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution, which guarantees that "the citizens of each State shall be entitled 'o all the provisions and Immunities of citizens inthe several States?'' 1 take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose now to specify , particular acts of Congress as proper to tB enforced, I do suggest that it wi'l be much safer for all, but in official and private stations to conform to and abide by all these acts which stand on repealed than to violate any ot them, trust ing to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional. It is nearly seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. Outing that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens bare in succession administered the executive branch of the government. They have conducted it through many per ils, and generally with great success. Yet with alt this scope for precedent I now en ter upon the same task for the brief term of four years, under great and peculiar diffi culty. A disruption of the Federal Union heretofore only menaced, is now lormida bly.attempied. 1 hold that in contempla tion of the universal law and of the Consti tution, the Union of these States is perpet ual. Perpetuity is implied it not expressed in the tundamental law of all national gov ernments. 4 It is safe to assert that if the government proper never had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. I shal con- tinue to execute all the express provisions j of our national constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action noi found in the instrument itself. Again, if the United Slates be riot a Gov ernment proper, but an association of States in the nature of a conitact merely, can it . vi 1 1 .u 11 .v be peaceably unmade bv less than all the parties who made h? 0,,e party to the contract may violate it, break it, so to speak does it not require all to lawfully rescind j Descending Trom these general principles we find the proposition that in legal con - templation the Union is perpetual, confirm- edby the history of the Union itself the . 1 . . ,, . . , ,, Union is much older than thrf Constitution. . . . . , , . . sociation in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Indepen- dence in ITT6. It was further matured, and .. ' the faith of all the then thirteen States ex- .... . , . . . , . pressly phghted and engaged that it should 1 u . 1 r r 1 anon in 1778, and finally, in 1789 One of the declared objects for ordaining and es tablishing the constitution was to form a ' more perfect Union ; but if the destruction of the Union by one, or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, tne Union is less than before the Constitution. The Constitution having lost the vital ele ment of perpetuity, it follows from these views that no State upon its own mere mo tion can lawfully get out of the Union. That resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally, void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the au thority of . the United States are insurrec tionary or revolutionary, according to cir cumstances. I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and laws, the Union is unbro- ken, and to the extent of ray ability 1 shall take care as the Constitution expressly en - joins on me, that the laws ot the Union be faithfoly executed in all the States During this I deem lo be only a bimpltt duty on my part, and I shall perform it so fat as prac ticable, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withold the requi site means, or in some authoritive manner direct the contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the de clared purpose of the Union that I will con stitutionally defend and maintain it. In doing this ihere needs be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority k The power confided to me wilt be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties on imports, but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people any where. Where hostility in any interior locality shall be eo great and so universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from ho Id ir 3 Federal officer, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object, .while the strict legal right may exist in the govern ment to enforce the exercise of these offi ces, the attempt to do so would be so irri tating and co nearly impracticable with al! that I deem it better to forgo for a lime the use of such offices. The mails, unless repelled, will continue o be futniBhed in all parts of the Union so fir as possible. The people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which the most favorable and Calm thought and reflection can rive The sourse here indicated will be followed, unless current ever.ts acd experience shall show -a modi j fication or change Td be proper, And in every case and exigency my best discretion will be exercised, according to circumstan ces actually existing, and with a view and a hope of a peaceful solution 01 the Nation al troubles, and the restoration of fraternal sympathies and affections. That thrt art persons in one section or another, who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad Of any pretext to do it, f will neither affirm or deny, but if there be such, I need address no word to them. To those, h'owevet. Who really love the Union, may not speak, before entering upon so grave a matter as the 'destination of our national fabric, with all its benefits its memories, and hope, would it not be wise to ascertain previously,.wby we do 60. Will you hazard so desparate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you think the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from? Will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake ? All profess to be content in the Union if all Constitutional tights can be maintained Is it true then that any riahl plainly written in the Constitution has been tnio,l 1 I think nnt. Hannilv lh htimafi mind is constituted tnat no party can reacn to the audacity of doing this. Think, if you can, of a ingle instance in which a plainly written provision of the Constitution has ever been denied. If, by the mere force of numbers, a majority shall deprive a minority of any clearly written Constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view justify a revolution. It cer- ptainly would, if such a right were a vital one. But such is not our case. All :he vital tights of minorities and of in dividuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmatives and negatives, guarantiees and prohibitions in the Constitution, that con troversies never arise concerning them. Hut no organic law can be framed with a provision specficably applicable to every question which may occur in practical ad- ministration No President can anticipate, nor any doc ument "f reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions. For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy, a yeat or two hence, arbitrarily sStfeJe again, precisly a9 por- 1 ... ! secede from it? All who cherish disunion j Mnlittnenta erenow being educated to the , exact temPer of do,nS ,h,s- I 18 there pnch Per,ect idenlUv oT ,nteres8 arnonu the Slates, to compromise a new ! Union, as to produce harmony only, and ' PreTent renewpd "cession ? Plainly the cenlral idea of "cession is the essence of ; n:jrchy. 1 A majority, held in restraint by constitu- I . , , , ..... , , 1 tional checks and limitations, and always t,KnM...nAndltt a- it h K A Halt Ka ro t A h O tf fVAa : of popular opinions and sentiments, is the . .. . , . Whoever rejects it, does of necessity fly ! . , . TT . . . ; to anarchy ot despotism. Unanimity is ; . T r 1 impossible The rule of a minority as a ! ciiliaucill aiiuiigv.iiiv.Mi .17 .,tj ittuvj 111 iu i sable, so that rejecting the majority princi pie ; anarchy and despoiibm in some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court. Nor do I deny that s jch decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit as to the object Of that suit, whiie they are also entitled to very high respect and consider ation in all parallel cases by all other De partments of the Government. And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be eroneous in any giv en case, still ihe evil effect of following it being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled, and never bpcomH a orucedent for other cases. an hfM,i, h Snt,n lhan onl(, th(, viU nf a different praclice. At the same time the ' - . , m . confe!(9 ,hat ,he oli. cy of the Government upon vital questions effecting the whole people is to be irrevo cably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court,, the instant they are made in ordina ry litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own tulers. having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by national or State authority ? The Con stitution does not expressly say. May Congress prohibit slavery in the territories ? The Constitution does not ex pressly fray. Must Congress protect sla very in the territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. From questions of this class spring all our Constitutional con troversies, and we divide upon them into majorites and minorities. It the minority will not acquiesce, the majority mast, or the government must cease. There is no other alternative for continuing the Government, but acquies cence on the one side or the other. II a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce,. they make a precedent, which in time will divide aud ruin them for a minority of . their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to fee controlled by such a minority. Nor is there in this view any assault up- patriotism, christianty, and a firm reliance on the Court or the Judges It is a duty on Him who has never yet forsaken this fa Irom which they may not shrink to decide vOred land, are still competent to adjust, in cases properly brought before them, and it the best way, all out present difficulties, is no fault Of theirs if others seek to turn . In your hands my dissatisfied countrymen their decisions to political purposes. One , and not in mine is the momentous issue of section of Our country believes that slavery ' cml war; the government will not assail you. is right and Ought to be extended, while the You can have no conflict without bemgyour other believes it is wrong and ought not to selves the aggressors. You have no oath be extended. This is the Only Substantial dispute. The fugitive slave clause of the Constitution and the law for the suppres sion of the foreign slave, are each as well enforced perhaps as any law ever can be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each. This 1 think canndl bo perfectly cured, and it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections than before. The foreign Slave trade now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived without re striction in one section, while fugitive slaves now only partially surrendered would not be surrendered at all by the other. Thysically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassible wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced to go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other. But the different parts 'of our country can not d6 this They cannot but remain face lo face, and an intercourse either amicable or hostile must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satislactory after separating than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make Jaws? Can treaties be more faithfully en forced between alien than laws among friends ? Suppose yon go to war, yon cannot fight always, and when, after much loss on both sides 'and no gain On either, you cease fighting the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. This country with i;s iriStitu'.ions belong to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary 6f the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary Jight to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be igno:ant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the National Constitution amen ded. While I make no recommendations nf amendments, I fully recognize the rght ful authority of the people over the whole subject to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself, j face o ,hal morningt and lhe little half ar aud I should, under existing circumstances j ticulate voice wouj have been faintly re favor rather than oppose a tair opportunity j memt)ere(J bj tne mother had they gradu being afforded the people to act upon it. J ay djed in boyhoo(1 aa manhood ; but i wiil venture to add that to me the Con- , fhat day Rlereotyped them ; they remained vention mode seems preferable, inasmuch uncnanged. as it allows the amendment 10 originate . Have you seen, my reader, the face that with the people themselves, instead only had grown old in life, grow young after of permitting them to take or reject a prop- death? the expression of many years osition originated by others, not especially ince, lost for long, come out startingly in chosen for the purpose, and which might the features, fixed and cold? Ever one hot be precisely such as thty would not has seen it; and it is tometimes strange wish to either accept or refuse. : how rapidly the change takes place. The I understand a proposed amendment to rnarks of pain fade out and with them the the Constitution, which amendment, how- marks of age. I once saw an aged lady die. ever, I have not seen, has passed Congress sne had borne sharp pain lor many days to the effect that the Federal Government , wjth the endurance of a martyr ; she had to shall never interfere with the domestic in- Dear nharp pain to the very last. The fea stitutions of the States, including that of i mres were tense and "rigid with suffering; persons held to service. To avoid a mis- ey remained so while life remained. It struction of wt.at I have said, I depart from was a beautiful sight to see the change that my purpose not to speak of particular took place in the very instaut of dissolution, amendments so far as to say that holding j The features, sharp for many days with such a provision to be now impliedly as j pain, in that instant recovered the old as constitu.ional law, I have no objection to j pect of quietude, which they had borne in its being made express and irrevocable. health ; the tense, tight look was gone. The Chief Magistrate derives all his au- j you saw the signs of pain go out. You felt thority from the people, and they have con- j that all suffering was over. It was no more ferred none upon him to fix times fot the j of course than the working of physical law; separation of the States. The people them- ' but jn that case it seemed as if there was a selves can do this also if they chose, but the executive, as such, has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer the pres ent government as it came lo hi- hands, and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successors Wh should there not be a fraternal confidence in the ultimate justice of the people ? liMhere any betier or equal hope in ihe world ? in our present differences is either patty without faith of being in tight if the Almigh I ty Ruler ol nations with bis eternal truth and justice upon your side of the North, ot on yours of the South, that truth and justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal, the American people by the frame ot the Government under which we live; this same people have wisely given their servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short interval. While the people re tain virtue and vigilance no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. My countrymen one and all, think calmly and well upon this subject; nothing valuable can be lo6l by taking time. If there be an object to hur ry any ol you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that ob ject will be frustrated by taking time, but no good object can be frustrated by it Such of you as are dissatisfied stilt have the old Constitution, unimpaired, and on the sensi tive point the laws of your own framing un der it; while the new administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either, if it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the pispute; there still is no single good registered in heaven to destroy the govern ment while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle field and patriotic gravrj to every lov ing heart and hearthstone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus ot the Union, when again touched, as surely as they will be the better angels Of our nature. The Dead. The dead are the only people that nevet grow Old. There was Something typical in the arrestment of time in the case of the youthful miner, of whom we have already poken. Your little brother or sister that died long ago remains in death and in re membrance the same young thing forever. It is fourteen years this evening since the writer's sister left this world. She was fifteen yeaTS old then she is fifteen .years old yet. I have grown older since by four teen years, but she has never changed as they advanced ; and if God spares me to four-score, I never shall think of her as oth er than the youthful Creature she faded The other day 1 listened as a poor woman told of the death of her first-born child. He was two years old. She had a small washing-green, across which was stretched a rope that came in the middle close to the ground. The boy was leaning on the rope, swinging backwards and forwards, and shouting with delight. The mother went into her cottage and lost sight ot him for a minute; and when she returned the little man was lying across the rope, dead. It had got under his chin ; he had not sense to posh it away: and he was suffocated The mother told me, and I belive truly, that sl.e had never been the same person since; but the thing which mainly struck me was, that though it is eighteen years since then, she thought of her child as an infant of two years yet ; it is a little child she looks lor to meet at the gate of the Gol den City. Had her child lived he would have been twenty years old now; he died, and he is only two ; he is two yet ; he will never be more than two. The little rosy further meaning conveyed. And to it seems to me when the young look comes ' back on the departed Christian's face. I Gone, it seems to say, where the progress of time 9hall no longer bring age or decay. Gone where there are beings whose life may be reckoned by centuries, but in whom life is fresh and young, and always will be so. Close the aged eyes ! Fold the aged hands in rest ! Their owner is no longer. Lrorx Recollections of a Country Pursoii. a m . tA Warning to EtXHRt I'lathis. A young man in Rochester, who is very fond of euchre and also very fond of the daugh ter of a pillar of one of the churches, was taking tea at the houe of his adored a short time since, and had some fruit cake offered him. Being somewhat confused on ac count of his situation, a the cake was held out, "I pass." The father hearing himj and having played some in his younger days, was horror struck at his infatuation for the game, and thought he would leach him a lesson. He spoke bluntly "You pass, do you? then, 1 order you up and there's the door ; I shall make a march l" One Drop at a Time. Have you ever watched an icicle as it formed ? You no ticed how it frozo one drop at a time until it was a foot long or more It the water was clear, the icicle remained clear, and sparkled brightly in the sun, but if the wa- ter was but slightly muddy, the icicle look ed foul, and its beauty was spoiled. Jut so our chatacters are forming one little thought, ot feeling at a time adds its influ ence If each thought be pure and right, tho soul will be lovely, and will sparkle with happiuess ; but if impure and wrong, there will be final deformity and wretched- KIND HEARTS. Let but the heart be beautiful, And I care not for the face, I heed not that the lorm may want Pride, dignity, or grace. Let the mind be filled with glowing thiol's And the soul with sympathy. And I care not if the cheek be pale, Or tha eye lack brilliancy. What though the cheek be beautiful, ft soon mast loose its bloom ; The eye's bright lustre soon will fade In the dark and silent tomb; But the glory of the sonl will live Though the joyous life depart, And the magic Charm can never die. Of a true and noble heart. The lips that utter gentle words Have a beauty all their own, And more I prize a kindly voice Than music's sweetest tone ; And though its sounds are harsh or shrill, If the heart within beat free, And ecnoes back each glad impulse, 'Tis all tho world 10 me. Scene in a Gambling Honse. The following very remarkable circum stance is vouched for by Green, the reform ed gambler, which we condense from his work on gambling. There is a degree of romance attached that in a degree relieves it of the horror exci'ed by the catastrophe. It occurred at New Orleans some years ago. A sea captain was in the habit of frequent ing a roulette table, kept by a Frenchman, in company with a party of gamblers. Green remarks that they played vith more fairness then than is customary or general now. The Captain wa evidently influenc ed in his visits more by a wish to kill time lhan for any passion for the sport. He had visited ihe room frequently, and his invari able bet was twenty five cents, and winner or loser he never increased it. He visited the place on the night in question. The sea captain, having placed bin bet upon the red, sat with bis head leaning up on his hand, as if to await the result of the game. The ball fell into the column, and he was the minner. The wheel started agaio, but lh captain did not move, and contrary to usual practice, the amount of his bet was doubled. He won the second. third, fonrth, and fifth, the amount doub ling each time. Thus it went oh io the eighth time, when the gamblers began lo ge. excited, and uttering loud curses, ex claimed, "He wins again 1" Al this many who were in the room gathered around the table. The result of the ninth and tenth being the same, one of them cried out, "He is a fool ! why don't he make sure of what he has won ?" The eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth brought the same result, and many exclaimed, "He is mad 1" But the game went on and the captain continued heedless. The fourteenth was in his favor. At the fifteenth thousands were at stake, from the small beginning of twenty-five cents, and all eyes seemed fix ed in amazement. Still he won. The six teenth was the same. The bankers vocif erated enrees on the wheel player. Others urged the captain to withdraw at least a part of his winnings. ''Sixteen thousand dollars'.' were at stake for the seventeenth The ball flew like lightning, but there was no change. The money was piled up be fore the captain In heavy bank notes, but he moved not a finger nor uttered a word. At this juncture a husky voice, ia sea man's phrase, was heard "Haul in cap tain ! you don't bet all that pile against this set of land pirates ! Haul in !" and a hand was stretched forth from one at ihe table, grasping the money and depositing it in a bat. Having thus secured the money, he seized the captain by the shoulder, saying, "Come, you have a full cargo, it's time to set sail" when horrible to relate, tne corpse of the Captain fell against him. He had teen sitting with his bead upon his hand throughout all this exciting scene,hav ing died while in the act of betting the first quarter. The mate called for water, and dashed it in his face; then for spirits; but all efforts to resuscitate him were in vain. Life was extinct. The gamblers then demanded that the money should be refunded ; but the mate had rolled it up in a handkerchief, but in the hands of a cabin boy, and charged him to tun with it for his life to the ship, deliv er it 10 the clerk, and summons the crew to the gambling house. The confusion was so great that the boy slipped away unno ticed. When the corpse was laid on the plank the gamblers again demanded the money of the mate, stating that, as the captain had undoubtedly died betting the first quarter, justice required that it should be returned to the bankets. The mate, in a tone of de fiance, replied that the orphan children of the captain needed the money, and should have it. Force was then threatened if he refused lo give it up. Seeing that their threats were unheeded, they rushed upon him with violence, seized the hat and bore it off, supposing that they had thus secured the money ; but to their surprise the hat was empty. A large number who were present took the part of the mate, and great excitement prevailed throughout the house. An insult was made upon the mate. Some cried one thing and some another. "Down with him!" "Get the money!" "Let him alone ?" "Von have no right to rob him !" rhingleJ with oaths, and impreca tions, and curses. At this moment twenty to thirty of the ship's crew rushed in, and one word from the mate brought them to the rescue, and the gamblers were soon made to stand at a distance. Something j wan said about thejm one vtwbi c hJ "iLtb 1 robbed, and Were about rushing upon "Monsieur Grampin" as the proper Derson to indemnify him for any toss he mighlhave sustained, but were diverted by the entrant of. some twenty of the city watch, armed witn snOrl swords. The sailors kae the character or this posse, made op of what were called br them "wharf-rat Frenchmen," and were no more daunted by their array of force than they would have been by the display of tin swords in the hands of so many "trained monkeys. A fracas was. however, ore vent. ted between the sailors and the watch by me assurance ot the mate that lhe money was safe, and a request from hlra that they would quietly return to the vessel. He pro posed to take the corpse on board, but waa informed by the captain of the watch that the coroner's inquest must be held over it before it could be removed. He then seal ed himself by the corpse of the captain, to watch over it during the rest of the night ; and the gamblers returned to the commod work of darkness, playing cards and drink ing liquor, meanwhile, now and then, utter ing curses upon the dead body of ihe cap tain. frinter't Proterbi. . Do not tead aloud in the office of the Printer, for, peradventure, he may have read the articls a dozen times; and he and his workmen are nOt interested by thebuz zing. It is not well to occupy the editor's chair longer than one hour in the morning, when there are half a dozen waiting for their turn bf bourse the editor has no use for it Read the papers which are before jhee, and then fold them properly and replace them. It is an annoyance to have them left open and scattered about the floor. "I should like to take your paper but can't afford it I'll step irt and read it oc casionally," is poot encouragement lor the printer. Profitable employment for the time thou loungest about his office would enable thee to pay for a dozen paper. Pay up and stop the paper, if you don't like its politics or its moral, and then stop whirling about the manner in which it wai conducted. It is not printed for thy special amusement or edification alone. Never inquire thou of the printer fot news, for behold it is his duty at the ap pointed time to give it unto thee without asking. When thou dost write for his paper never say unto him, "what thinker thoa of my piece?" for it may be that the truth aiay offend thee. It is not fit that thou should ask him who is the author of the article, for his duty requires him to keep such to himself. When thou dost enter a printing office, have a care upon thye!f that thoa dost not touch the tye; for thou mayest cause the printer more trouble than thoa thinkesU Look thou not at the copy which is ia the hands of the compositor, for that is not meet in the sight of the printer. CT Ir generally costs little to get a wife, but often a ruinous amount to keep ker. ET Bribery Offering you a pairoflips-i for a kiss, justifiable Corruption Taking the bribe. VST "Business before pleasure," as the man said when he kissed bis own wife be- j fore going out 10 kiss his neighbor's. BT Fact. If a roan's Aim in this world be gooJ, the chances are that he will Miss Fire in the next. Cy Abdul the only person we ever heard of. that wasn't spoiled by being lionized, was a Jew named Daniel. Ir some men's bodies were not straighter than their minds, they would be crooked enough to ride on their own backs. rFTelHshnesa sometimes works well If Eve had only eaten the whole apple in stead of sharing it with Adam, human na ture would have been evil only on tha mother's side. ty Deliver us lrom temptation is a peti tion less dwelt upon than give us our daily bread, and yet, without such deliverance, the bread is not worth praying for. E7A young lady in town says she would like to do something so as to have her name in the pipers. We advise her to get some young man to put his name in with hers. E7Il is said of French ladies that their fondness for effect runs to such an excess, that widows who have lost their husbands practice attitudes of despair before a look ing glass. ty Many a man thinks it is virtue that keeps him from turning a rascal, when it is only a full stomach. One should be care ful and not mistake potatoes for principles. CyA speaker at a stump meeting, oat West declared that he knew no east, no west, no north, no south. "Then," said a typsy bystander, "you ought to go to school and larn your geograpy.'' Women are said to have stronger at. tachraents than men. I: is not so. Strength ol attachment is evinced in little thing. A man is often attached to an old hit ; bo I
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