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Beneath the weight of lime ;
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In blooming manhood's prime.
But bitter cares, and weary years.
Have borne their j-ys away ;
Till notrgbt remains bn age and tears,
And wasting, dim decay.
Life's sweetest hoar have hastened past,
lis bloom has faded now ; . "
Anc do.ky twilight deepens fast
Along the furrowed brow.
And soon the shattered remnants all
A narrow fionse receive ;
For, one by one, they silent Jail,
I.ike wi-.hered Autumn leaves.
Oh ! then, tp kind, where'er thoij art.
Nor deem men action vain ;
Kind word can make the aged heart
Seem almost young again.
"her thoo the weary pilgrim on
To Jesu'f Heavenly told ;
And o4f ihe same for ihee be done, .
When Jhou, thyself, art old.
3! j- Cnardian Anef.
Thru srt my guardian angel, Mary,
My hope and fuiding star,
No matter where'er I chance to be,
At home, or wandering fir.
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When thou art by my side,
Fr thon art all the world to me
. My life, my jay, and pride
I often meet thee' imy dreams,
'Mid groves anJ shady "bower,
And wander ihronsjh that lovely land
01 sun-bine and of flowurs.
Methinks no earthly cloud nor care
Could linger round my heart
Thy sweet, angelic, happy smile
Would bid them all depirt.
f From the Richmond DiyUck Nw 9
THE SOUTHERN PRESS.
NORTHERN ELECTIONS.
TnE l.MTED STATES MBRESDESISG ITS
LIBhRTItS.
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.Yet-rddy will be long remembered in
the annals id mankind. On yeerday
twenty millions ol human beings, but four
jear ago esteemed the freest population
on earth, met at various' points of assem
blage to the purpose of miktn a lor nal
surrender of their liberties,, not to a great
military conqueror; not to a renowned
statesman ; not to a' fellow-citizen who
has done fie S'.a'.e services that rnnnot be
estimated in wortHly wealth ; not to one
who ha preserved the Slate from foreign
tyranny, or increased its glory and its great
nes at home, not to a Caesar or a ISapo
leon, . the glory of who-e achievements
miiiht be pleaded as an. Bpoloay tor the
abjct submission of the multitude ; but to
a vulgar tyrant, who ha never seen a shot
fired in anger ; who has no more idea of
statesman-hip than as means of making
money whose career has been one of un
limited ar.d unmitigated disaster, whone
personal qi'ali'ie are those ol a low buf
foon, and who? most noteworthy conver
satinn is a medly ol profane jMs and ob
scene anecdotes a creature who has sqnan
dered the lives ot millions without remore
and without even the decency of pretend
ing to feel lor their misfortunes ; who still
cries for blood and for money in the -pursuit
of his a'.rocioh designs To such a
man, yestejjay, the p?oplu of the so-called
United S:ates sarrendereJ their lives, their
liberties, their persons and their parses, to
have and to bold the same tor al least four
years, and for as much longer as he shall
chooso. For it is plain that if he so wills it,
he may hold on for bis namral life, and
transmit the sceptre to hie decendents.
There is nothing in the world to prevent
bim should he feel so disposed, and there
is no reason to think that thus disposed he
wiil not be. It reems strange to ns that he
should have condescended to submit to an
election at all ; and we are, convinced he
would never have done so, had he not been
convinced beforehand that it would result in
his favor. How McClellan conld ever have
been so infatuated as to tburst himself in
his w?y, we are nnable to conceive. The
light punishment he had to expect, was to
be crushed, for he might have fell assured
that even bad be been elected, he would
Dot have been allowed to take his seat.
All the preparations of Lincoln Indicate a
determination - to take possession of the
Government by force his military arrange
ments ; the stationing nf soldiers about the
polls, the arrest of the New York Commis
aiohers ; the prohibition against any tickets
ot his own in the fleet, his jealoos super
vision ol the ?'ing f b armjr all these
indicate a determination lo conquer by the
ballot box" ft possible, but in any event lo
conquer. H w cookJ McClellan expect to
weather such a storm as his adversary bad
it in hi power to raise at any moment ol
the day 1 Even the grand resort of tyranny
in all ages has not been overlooked in this
case. Huge conspiracies are discovered
designs to born whole cities to overthrow
the best government under the son; to shoot
Lincoln lo staff the ballot-box to assist
the Confederate armsto do evejything that
U awful and jast io the very nick ot time
jo st in time to imprison influential friends
of AlcClellan, and to keep ihe body of his
supporters Iram going to the polls. And j
this lz:z is so i9 called art election: aodj
Lincoln, seated opon his throne at Wash-
inaton bv the bavonets of his troops, as de-
cidedly a the First Napoleon was seated
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upon me imperial inrone u. rr.ul-, , w. , . ; . hodv I tion of the Union with an enthusiasm on-
military power of the nation, st.ll retains j is not allowed to go on shore, and " kdf I pn.cedented in history, and vdunleer sol
the title of President, and adheres to the , ,s permuted to come off to h.m from .he; F
forms ot a republic, as Augostu-na i.oer-
;n hart ihmalea'rffonlariv elected con.
iushad themselves 're2ularly elected con -
suls and tribunes long after thev had con -
cen!rted all power in Hheir own persons.
We are pro?ie to believe that every na
tion enjoys the exact propor ion of free
dom to which it is entitled. If the Yankees
have lost their liberties, therefore, we(binlc
it is felfevident that it is because they
never deserved to bave them. If they are
slaves, it is because thev are fit for the situ
ation. Slaves taey have been tor years to
all the base pasions that are indicative of a
profligale'and degenerate race; and - when
natioas advance to that point, the transi
tion to material bondage costs but a single
step.
Surely, the surrender which the Yankees
madoon yeterday of their liberties to the
Jack Pudding, Abraham Lincoln, is in its
way the most remarkable event of which
history makes mention. Surely the Yankee
nation, :f not the greatest, is, at; least the
most interesting of all existing nations.
THEIR NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
Ft om the Richmond Whiz .
It is now time to wish our Northern
brethren joy which we nnaffectionaiely do
npon- their new form of government. Y
would not snit as ; but as every govern
ment derives it power from the consent ol
the governed, and as they consent to this
one, it is all right. A d-upotism tempered
by epigrams was long the constitution ol
France before the revolution here, in 'tbe
land ol the brave," we see a despotUm
tempered only.by its own little jokes Hoo
sier jnkes, racy with whisky ot the corn.
Lite on this continent is fast; history is
in a hurry to turn out social and political
revolutions, as i it were by machinery and
steam, like Massachusetts boots and shoes.
Otherwise, one might find it hard to be
lieve that within less than tour years the
very pople we used to know as citizens,
with certain rights, laws and franchises, I
I have snnk into a generation of obedient
, subjects., groveling submissively before the
footstool, not ol some high and far descend
ed monarch not even of a conquering
chieftain but of an anointed Hoosier.
The mode in which that Illinois majesty
'manages his election in his own way,"' do- ,
ins what he will wi:h his over. , excites
so-re wonder not wonder at the despotic'
auihority which h- thinks it rigit to exer- ;
cise. but in tfie thin veH of leaalny, the 1
taint souvenir oi pop.nar ivr-rB,K...,, ....... ,
i he m ill deems ,t politic to spread over the
transaction. He may as well make short
j work with that old worn out rubbish, and j
proclaim himself at once emperor by the (
grace of the devil !
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I at a iitiia hnar that nrmrii ancf f
l MCT CSW ' f
i which they still effect to call an election is
, going forward, rvery province of the em- ;
i pire, epecially it believed to be somewhat
I restive onder the new order of thing, is
j atrongly garrisoned by armed men from
other and more loyal provinces. For ex- ;
ample, Indiana has the privilege of quar
tering some Massachusetts troops, just as
! in ;he Austrian dominions. Venetia is held
down by Croats and Bohemians, while
Hangary is dragooned by Tyrolians and
! Italians. Now in the late "election" as it
i was called for officers of that "Sta'.e," as
j the district is still termed, we learn from
the candid letter of a worthy Massachusetts,
trooper that the chief function of himself
and his comrades there was to vote and '
vote again tor Governor Morton, as if ihey
f !.!. Pl;,,tv
there is no need that the emporer should
permit this voting-he might a. well have
nominated his perfect Morton in Washing.
ton, and sent some Massachusetts regiment 1
to indoct him into his office.
The same system ot popular election is '
were iircii. ui ...uia.ia. .n,
now universally established and in good ;
"Working order all over ihe North country,;
wherever disaffected subjects are known to
lurk and plot. But there is also a very j
large number of men of voting age in the:
army and navy. We have already seen,
how military officers bave been arrested
and cashiered for presuming to procure for
Soldiers in their command what are called
"copperhead tickets" that is, the docu
ments prescribed to be filled op by soldiers
in camp, to proxies at home, authorizing
those proxies lo vote tor them. The o fraud- j
ing officers had given out some of these
documents filled op with the name of Gen.
McClellan. Soldiers are to be supplied by
their officers only with lhe loyal tickei ; and
those who do not wish to vole for their
sovereign may find tickets how best they
can, or not vote all. As for the navy, we
bave some details of the workings of this
election among the forty thousand seamen
and marines, republished in yesterday's
Examiner from the New York Herald. Na
val officers come on board -a ship ; muster
all hands; inform them "that if they want
to vote lor the present Administration, they
may vote ; but il they wish to vote against
it they could not be allowed the privilege."
That was in the squadron at Beaufort. On
board the Minnesota, again at Hampton
Roads ; "All the kailors on board who hail
ed from New York and desired to vote were
ordered to lay aft on the quarter deck,"
whereupon the commodore addressed them:
"All those that wish to vote for the Union
:..tr ramatn aft all the rest can bo for
-tA nt of this' And so on the other
.hin. -no .mia"drons. Those who are loyal
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to'LioHn arst fnrntshed by Ltscoin'town
officer with the dne tickets, but the officers
carry no outlawed papers" if any disloy-
al traitor wishes to vote for the . pretender, J
u m n u. ti.Am in ihnri To be sure he I
snore
' he wi exercie bis franchise under dim-t
' he will exercie his
j cullies. Again, one cannot bat wonder
that the sovereign should still submit to j
such pretenses of popular election, bul ;
probably he does it by way of a little jnke j
and it is not a bad ooe. Ai the end of his j
next term, however, and beginning of his,
third one supposing that any memory ot (
franchises and votes still exists id that j
country he can cause an officer to pipe'
op all hands to the gangway ; the loyal
t aKasf lor hia Maia.tv nnrt rftt (heir '
grog; but any disloyal traitor to get, instead j appended paragraph ,t appear, that both
6 . ' ,,, i schemes have Jailed lo accomplish the de-
ol grog, three dozen well laid on. j (. j orect
Some may imagine that the progress ot ; . , t i. .
3 Til How the privilege of procuring substi
despotic power in the country must alarm : J.
the peore of every province equaUy-tho,e. anno( d h- BubBli.
o New York and Massachusetts as well as i 1 . .
.... . r. Tt' i tute takes the place ol his principal, and
o Indiana and Ohio. By no means. This ? r
.... . we are equally in the dark as to the fail-
despolism represents and is irt fact the des .
K . ,r L . t r. i i ore of the bounties to a'lure mercenaries,
pottsm ol New York and New England ,
- , ,. . . .l 1 white or black. 1 he denciency we believe
over Indiana and Ohio; u represents the, ....... , , , . . .u i
. . .. . . . , r is acribabe to the dratt and not to the paid
power of the Abo'itionists to rule the Dem- -
r , , . . . enlistments. But a new draft is to be or-
ocrats with a rod ol iron, and to make the,
.... i . ., , dered, not only, as we understand it. 10 fill
dynasty perpetual in their own -'crowd " I ',;. . , , ,, K .
. a a t ' up the deficiencies in the old call, bul to
Herein the American Empire differs from if.. . , . . ,
. . , . obtain three hundred thousand men under
that of Austria, for whereas in the latter .
. .... ... a new requisition, uch is the prospect
gary by Venetians, in the other Empire
New England has no fear, whatever, that
Indiana regiments will ever dragoon there,
as Massachu-e ts regiments are now keep-
ingdown the people of Indiana. In other j
words, this is not the despotism of a dynasty
it is the despotism ot a section and a j
faction, which is a thousand times worse, j
No wonder the Hoosier emperor, thus ;
backed and encouraged, lays nis nana on
heavily. With a large army and navy, and
Seward for prime minister he has advanced
lar on the road of absolute power; all the
old and well-known agencies of tyranny are
. . : .
already familiar t& his Administration
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Amongts the rest plots. The gunpowder, ,
- ei
the rye house, the meal tub plots, all sink
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inio insignificance (like everything else in
those decrepit old countries) compared with
the -'gigantic conspiracy" just dragged to
light a most fool and unnatural plot, it
seems. whoe object appears to have been
to supply McClellan voting tickets to ihe
army and navy, so as in some measure lo
counteract ihe regular court electioneering
of the commodores and colonels. It is
quite probable that some of these nefarious
plotters may be hanged. So it goes. And
m knoHil at which it eoes almost makes
lQ ,ook . u Already ihe new
rtgime M tt)e Nor,n ha3 gona farout of sight
o E(jrop.an perience. Th-? alleged
inler!ere(ice ot Nap0eoa with the vo-
tiug on hl9 OWQ electioo as emperor never
annroached in ooen. course, brazen brr.uli-
ty to his managing of the electioi in Lin
coln's ' own way," in the land of the free
and fhe home of ihe brave. We trust they
like it, but confes that we should not.
Nay, may it not be surmised that they are
pigeoned livered, and lack gall to make
oppression bitter." Otherwise some brave
Democrat, devoting himsel lor his country,
would surely with bullet or poigr.ard rid
the world ol that grotesquely horrible Frank
enstem prostrate that obscene image with j ;(J Aff Stanton by Provost Marshal Fry. It
Iront of brass and leet of clay and )g ,,,a,ed that this document claims tna t he
whether the atmosphere would clear after ( ?ieaenl conscription law is not only a fail
the Ion! apparition is exercised and sent to ure in projacios lhe rj2nl kid ot men, but
the Rd Sea. Perhaps the theory and,, a monMroil- expense, not only to ihe
practice of tyrannicide has not been ma- ( (; JV.rnrni!rtt bot lo individuals, cities, coan
turely considered by the people of that j e9 and ,ownshipj. General Fry urges
cnptry ; hitherlo this has been abhorreot j ,hat lhe ,aw ghooM be arnttrivledt not alovr.
to all their habits and ideas. But it seems j in? 60D5til0,e3 aild compelling the person-
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A"'" I- aesunea io x.-r ...
history European nations, w, h this d.fier
tha here Wllj mTe '9' j
,er and ,hinS8 Wl11 be done of C0Dree' Q j
more stupedaoos scale. . Now to execute r
judgment upon a bloody tyrant has been a .
feature or history in all ages ana nations,. , -ji,, Committee of both the Senate and
We speak not of Julius Cffisar finding his House Blrongy orged the striking out of
Brutus, lor the parallel would be too absurd; j Le Bobg,ilu:e clause in the last Congress,
but Murat found his Charlotte; and her h waa aJso the earnest wish ot the War
name is saluted and inscribed upon the pepar,meni and the Provost Marshal Gen
fasti of patriots, and forever eraj , l9 nridersiood 'hat the Secretary of
Named among the famonsest War will recommend to Congress the abo-
Of women iung at solemn lestivals. i Jition of the right to procure substitutes.
Not that we desire to see Abraham Lin- j
coin put ool of the way either by that meth- J
od or any other. He suits us exactly as the
ruler ol an enemy's country; and our sug
gestion is altogether in the interest of any
ot his unfortunate subjects who may still
possess the spirit of men and ol Ireemen.
Such persons, if any, will hereafter be hu
miliated by the reflection of having been so
transported wilh blind rage against the
South as to make that brute dictator and
kaiser over them and their' children and
the South not conquered alter all The
horse who invited the man upon bis back
that be might be revenged upon ihe stag,
alter his enemy was hunted to death, could
not shake off ihe man. Bot if the horse had
set upon his back not a man but a baboon,
and it the stag was not banted down, bat
the horse was foundered
They tell of three sisters married to one
msn, in Sail Lake, and all four seem pleas
ed wilh the arrangement.
Fifteen couples were divorced in one
month, in one court and one county of
Connecticut.
Wht do hens always lay in the day
time ? Because at night they become
rt-crs.
Conscription.
When the war commenced, the people
rushed forward for the defence and restora-
e iremem, of ,he Gorn
ment. Nor did the effervescence soon suo-
side It was not checked till the war cry
of the '-Negro"was substituted for that of
the Union ;" and then the zeal for volun
teering began to flag The Administration,
to obtain men :o fill the depleted ranks in
the field, found itself compelled to adopt
the double system of bribery and coercion ;
of temptation, in the shape of erjormoos
bonnties, and of force, in the form of an
unconstitutional conscription. From the
i before the people ot this countrj dralt,
! debt, and starvation if the presen: dynas
ty continue to hold power.
Conscription was called by Bonaparte,
as we learn from Thibaudeau, "the dread
and desolation of families." Even in the
country where it originated, and under the
vigorous enforcement ot it by N apoleon, it
oraa nnt it mio(sa. It was rnnrpnlinr. nf
Jordon jn nndef ,he fim ca j-
1800, 200 000 men were raised. Bonaparte
rf course foand the system io operation
when ha attained power, and be applied
himaelf Rtrnnnnntlv lo nrnmnlK ila efficiency'
D . . . . c . .
Being for a long time confined to young
,
men between the ages of twenty and twen
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iv five, and ihe levies heme, ama I in mm-
- ,
naninn of lhoA dcman,ait htr Ihrt vait
panson ot those demanded by the vast
military spirit of Mr. Lincoln, it was less
oppressive on families and" less injurious to
the productive interests ihan our miscella
neous and gigantic system. But-there it
was not effective in keeping large armies
afoot.
In the latter part of 1313,350 000 con-
I scripts in addition to the troops in service
were placed at the drsposal ol the emperor,
and about the same time 180,000 were tak
en from the national guards for the defence
of towns and fortifications ; nd yet in a
lew months after, he had harJIy 150.000
regular troops to oppose the allies. Such
was French experience. We -are learning
something about the system, and it is to be
hoped we may profit by our lessons.
Let the legitimate object of the war be
resumed, and the draft will not be needed ;
volunteers will again flock to tne stars and
stripes.
A Washington letter to New York says,
among other things :
'It is understood here that the report of
the Secretary of war to Congress will em
brace the substance of a very important
communication opon the subject of the
conscription act, which has been addressed
al services ot every man, no matter what
hia BQoa he ig dfahed h
foand that the last rati tor five hundred
thousand men has probably not added lo
our armies more than one hundred thou-
eaQ(1 j, he remembered that the
and the fifty-day notice, so that hereafter '
the men drawn will be promptly pot into
ihe ranks. Three hundred thousand more
men will be needed lor the prosecution of
lhe campaign, if il is deemed advisable to
keep op our armies lo their present stand
ard. It is lound that as our army is pushed
into the Soathren territory a greater number
of men are needed to cover the enormous
extent of our lines. Hence it is almost
certain thut a peremptory draft for three
hundred thousand men will be made as
early as the first of January."
.
A Desert. What a solemn stillness
reigns on these vast arid Asiatic plains,
deserted alike by man, beast and bird !
Men speak of the solitude of dense for
ests ; I bave ridden through their dark
snades for days together, but there was the
sighing ol the breeze, lhe rustling of leaves,
the creaking of the branches; sometimes
the crash of one ol these giants ol the for
est which on lading woke up many an echo
causing the wild animals to growl and the
frightened birds to utter shrieks of alarm.
This was not solitude ; the leaves and the
branches found tongues, and sent forth
voices ; bul on these dreary deserts no
sound was heard to break the deathlike si
lence which bangs perpetually over the
blighted region. ' "
arming the Slaves.
There is no longer any room to doubt
that the Southren people are about to liber
ate and arm their able-bodied slaves. The
Richmond Enquirer, Jeff. Davis' organ, rec
ommends this course, and it is approved by
six rebel Governors, who lately met in
council, and by a seventh, in a letter on the
subject. The South contains 3 000,000 of
slaves, of whom one-fifth or one sixth are
fit to bear arms This measure would se
cure them 500,000 soldiers.
Abolitionists surely cannot deny that ne
groes will fight, and the rebels are begin
ning to agree with ibem. But will they
fizht for their masters? History proves
that slaves have always dona so, even
without being liberateJ ; bnl if freed and
rewarded with land, as the rebel propose,
they will undoubtedly defend the soil of
their nativity ana homes. The mastering
of slaves into the rebel armies will not only
dispel another Abolition delusion, bet ex
pose the folly of employing negroes on our
side, when the rebels have at least five
times the number at their command.
But will the rebel masters consent to
sacrifice so much property? Ot coure
they will, for under Lincoln's manifesto
"to whom it may concern," they are bound
to lose their slaves if they return to the
Union, and under the policy of the Aboli
tion Congress the remainder of their prop
erty will be confiscated. Il is I heir interest
to sacrifice part of their property to save
the rest, and as their passions suggest the
same course, they will doubtless adopt it.
But il the slaves are taken . into the ar
mies, who will till the soil ? Any one who
has travelled two miles over Pennsylvania
ground within a month, can tarnish the an
swer (rom what he has seen among our
selves, the women, old men and children,
white and black.
And if ihee untamed negroes are mus
tered into the rebel armies, and the hordes
are poured upon yoor plains, Farmers of
Pennsylvania, remember the burned and
blackened Valley of the Shenandoah !
Copperhcad and Addkrs. The Lincoln
abolition party and the Loyal Leagners de
light in giving the name of "Copperhead"
to all who differ from them, and to all who
do not bow down before their 6hrioe of Lin
coin and the negro, to all who are opposed io
tyranny and who are lovers of the Consti
tution and the Union ; in fine to all who are
truly for liberty. (Hence the term from
the head of liberty on the old copper cent.)
Now what has this telf-called loyal and
patriotic party done for our country ? Let
us see.
1st. It has been ths adder of imaginary
clauses to the Constitution.
2d. It has been the adder of imaginary
States ot Western Virginia lo the Union.
3d It has been the adder of S4, 000,000,
000 lo our rational debt.
4th. It has been the adder of hundreds of
thousands of slaughtered soldiers to gur
bills of mortality.
5th. It has heen the adder of a countless
host of shoddy coutraciors to the govern
mental patronage.
6ih. It is constantly the adder of insult to
injury to all pure ci'izens who dire prefer
the "Union as it was" to "Disunion and
abolitionism."
Are not ihey, the Lincolnites, " Adder"
of the most venomous type?
"Adder. A kind of Serpent foH of poi
son, it. is eaid to stop its ears, the one on the
earth, the other with its tail, to avoid hear
ing." liutterworth's Concerdmce.
And truly the Lincoln Adder dislikes to
hear the truth.
From a tree that measures abont a foot in
diameter, belonging to Abraham Hogzins,
of Sheffield, was gathered, this year, 22,
750 apples, averaging nearly 1,200 apple
per boshel.
The larsest valley in the world is the Val
ley c. f ihe Mississippi. It contains 500 000
sqnare miles, and is one of the most fertile
and profi'able regions of the globe.
Army pies are so terribly tongh that the
soldiers call them leather pies. A poor fel
low ot Grant's army, whose arm had just
been amputated, wbs being carried past a
stand, the other day, where an old woman
was selling pies, when he raised himself in
ihe ambulance and called out, say, old
woman are those pies sewed or pegged."
Is Boston there are now one hnndred
and sixty-six divorce soils opon the calen
dar of ihe conrts. Also a large number of
petitions for leave to marry again by di
vorced persons.
Tom Hoon called the slamming of a door
by a person in passion "a wooden oath."
Most men swear by word or deed, and
there is perhaps no particular difference in
the sinfulness of the two modes.
The Western ladies know their rights
and dare maintain them. They lynched a
man who tried to rob from sundry honest
farmers the affections of their wives.
The Japanese Ambassador to England
have published a book in Japan, in which
the noble Albiocs are s'ated to be "red-faced
and fond e! eating."
What is the difference between a person
transfixed with amazement and a Leopard's
tail t The one is rooted to the spot, the
other spotted to the root. -
The Blind Prineeis.
The blind young Prinfees1 of ' - was
presented to the Empress Eugenie at Schaf
bach a lew days ago, and the utmost inter
est and sympathy were excited by her -story.
The lady is well known all over .
Germany; ber princely doroicil is visited
every year by crowds of strangers. ' The
beautiful portrait by Cornelius in ore nf
the talotti is examined with jnoch interest,
and every one departs little dreaming. ibt
the large and soil blue eyes seeming lo look
from the picture so full of sweetness and
benevolence have in life no power to re
turn the glances cf syra patby and kitidoesr
directed towards them. . . .
The story of the princess is perhaps the
most toocning romance of the nineteenth
century. ; As a chili she had been stolen
from the gardens of the very chateau she
now inhabits. A cateless nurse, bent on
her own enjoyment, had suffered her mas
ter's child to stray toward the river, and
when, in answer to the frantic appeals and
the search made io every direction, no sigo
of the infatit's presence could be discovered,
it was concloded that she had (alien into lhe'
river and got drowned. The despair of the
mother was beyond description, bot the
idea of the child's death, accepted by a:l
besides, was rejected by her. The river
bad been dragged, no trace of the corpse
had been found, and so, after a few yers'
time, when the death of the prince, her
husband, had released her from the obliga
tion lo remaiu in the chateau, she gave up
the domain into the hands cf ber brother-in-law.
and 6et oat upon a strange pilgrim
age all over the continent, fully convinced
that she would find, one day or otbef, tne
object of her search. The sums of money'
spent in the pursuit, the time, the toil, the
a.ixiety, absorbed upon every high-road,
need not be described. During the embas
sy of Prince Talleyrand, she cams to Ii
don, and was received by Queen Adlaide
with the ctmost kindness and sympathy.
Soon afterwards she went ouce more to
the South, still bent on finding ber lost
child. Oae day the carriage climbing slow
ly up or.e of the steep hills in the neigh
borhod of Iosanne, she was accos ed by a
beggar woman, holding by the hand, a
poor blind girl, tor whom she was implor
ing alms. The girl looked gentle and sweet
tempered, resembling in no way the harsh
vixen whom she called mother. .The in
mate ol the carriage had tallen into a doze,
and the woman bade the girl sing, to arroe
the lady. The song was a vulgar ditty, be
longing to the district, with no romance to
insure attention, and yet it woke the lady
from her trance; something in her voice
reminded her ot a sister lost many years
before, and she stopped the postillion white
she questioned the girl as to ber origin
The day and hour were come at last: ev
ery word uttered by the maiden confirmed
the suspicion of identity. Memory was
contused it had vanished with her sight
but by dints of threats and promiies the
woman was made to confess that she bad
purcha-ed the girl, when quite ati infant,
from a beggar woman, like herself, who
owned to having deprived ber ot sight in
order to excite compassion. The locality
whence the child had been taken, was pioof
sufficient of the train,
Tte prince returned home with her
poor blind companion,' and devoted her
whole life to the prospect of cure, as she
had done before to that of ber discovery
But all attempts failed, and the mother
then gave herself op entirely to ihe educa
tion ot her helpless oharge. In this she
succeeded perfectly, and the princess is
considered one of the most accomplished
reciters of Uhlaud and Schiller in all Ger
many. Berore dying ber foodmother reap
ed her reward in the marriage of ber
daughter with the young prince, ber neph
ew, and this consolation is lh& greatest
which could be felt by ber friends.
The young princess recited, with the
most exquisite clearness and pathos, two
scenes from "Count Egroont'' and "Ttie Di
ver" on the visit to the Empress, while the
imperial lady listened entranced, ar.d the
large tears rolling down ber cheeks as sh9
gazed on the wreck which the wickedness
a id cupidity of man bad made of one of
the most beautiful works ol God's own
creation. London papet.
The President's Washington organ aiys
"the peace men ought to be crucified." '
That is just what ihe murderers ot ihe
' Prince, ot Peace" thought eighteen hun
dred years ago.
An enthusiastic Vermont parson who bad
been ts see Lincoln, says bis wit is inces
sant but quiet. He makes no display about
it 'he is the most silent wg I ever mw."
Nonsense lhe wag of a dog's tail beats
him all hollow, both in si'cice and in ds
cency. The preacher who ia io favor of xar end
blood, ought instead al faking the Bible and
hymn book into the polpit to have a gnn
and a sword. The wails of the battle field
should be the responses to bis sermons and
prayers.
An old widower, says, Always nop the
question wilh a laugh ; il you be accepted
well and good if not, yon can say yon
were only joking ! Here is wickedness.
Every man who is put into the United
Slates service ia Concord, N. II, has h
photograph accurately taken. , O . the back
of it his descriptive liat is pUced. '! n Ms
then filed awsy for fatore refsrsngs, - -