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Would you learn the,bravest4hing
Tbitt man can ever do !
Would you be the uncrowned king,
Absolute and true 1
Would ye seek te emulate
All we learn in story
Of the moral, just anJ si re at,
R:ch in real golory ?
Would you lose much bitter care
In your lot below ?
Bravely speak out when and where.
Tia right to utter 'No."
Men with goodly spirits blest, v.
Wilting to do right,
Ye who stand with wavering breast
Beneath Persuasion's might,
When enmpaions seek 10 taunt
Judgment inn pin
When the loud laugh fain would daunt
Your better voice within
Oh ! be sore, ye'll never meet
M re insidious foe ;
But strike the coward to your feet
By reason's watch ward "No."
Ah, how many thorns we wreathe
To iiue our brow around,
By not knowing when to breathe
This important sound !
Many a breast has rued the day
When it reckoned less
Of trims upnM the moral "Nay,"
Than flowers upon the "Ys."
Many a sad repentant thought
for is lo "long ago."
Wheu a lucklesi fate wa wrought
By wau: ol saying No."
Few have learned to speak this word
When ii should be spoken ,
Resolution is deferred
Vows to virtue spoken,
M-re ol courage is required
Thi- one word to nay,
TiMti to stand where shots are fired
In the battle tray,
life ii fi'ly, and ye ll se
Many a lot below
Miu) t e schooled and nobly ruled
By p wer lo utter ' No "
fleatness in Holland.
AmM-rdam i the cleaned city in the
i- i .
world. It is kept in thio condition system- I
attcally and undergoes a rigid purification '
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fcrv Sutordav. Kvprv house then nre-
, , , . , .
. -cene of nnexamnled aetiviti. both
i ji
j inMde a d out. Then are pat into opera
J lion a I me moppiug, and sweeping and
KTuhMn j. and dnstin'7. that the house
o, lhg qj 8cho(, knnw we; how
t make ore of in the practice ol their pro-
fession. This process is not confined to
f e threshold and marble steps, a flight ot
which is soon rubbed full tt holes; tht
pavement, walls, windows, and each indi
vidual brick in front ot the buili'ings are all
cleaned in the same thorough manner.
Spots out of reach ot hand are visited by
u wed aimed stream tronr a small engine
kepi by every family for that purpose.
The results of all this weekly expurga
tion are sometimes disastrous to the unso
phisticated stranzer. On emerging (r m his
hu el for the fir-t time early on Saturday
moroig be medita'es in a philosophical
way'on the 'prospect of a dehcioue walk
before breakfast. He walks on in a sort oi
delicious dreamv abstraction thinking of '
the solemn and impressive appearance of a
grea' city in its slumbers, the entire deser
tion ol sireets so late'y crowded, and
iheb-ence ol that busy hum of industry
"which." he says to himself, ' one short
hour will call into fresh lite aud action, how
.ohort," when he is startled from his revery
ry an avalanche of water on his hit. Tak-
ing it lor granted that a water-snout has
burst open from the nearest canal, he takes
relate under the next porch, aud after re-
covering Irom his fright, looks forth to see ,
nothing but an ambitions servant girl, a 1
sort of water nymb, who, having pursued j
an indiscreet spider, the last of his race,
to the top of tbe spout, is throwing bowl- t
lulls of water at htm to bring him to terms, j
After repairing damages, he again ventured j
forth, only to receive on hid shoulders two '.
or three blows Irom a muddy broom, in
tended for a mosquito that had been so j
foolish as lo rise np from the canal where j
he belonged. He progresses still further, '
when a stream propelled from a small hand
engine with more than the vigor of Cochil
oate, demolishes entirely the elaborate ef
forts or the laundress. At length becom-
1 ing Bewildered and amiable, from the quan
tity ot water wun wmcn lue streets are
dooJed, to distinguish them from canals,
he completes bis philosophical tour by
walking into one ol the Utter and taking
a delicious bath before breakfast. Being
thence fished out by the nearest domestic,
the ha lp less savant is conveyed into'a hotel
in a stale of imbecility. Fires io Amster
dam' would eDjoy lite less than auywnere
else in the world. Their race has long
since died out, aud were one to make his
appearance io tbe street he would be mob
bed. Mud is kept down with a strong arm
and the raising of a cloud of dust is in
stantly suppressed with the most stringent
rigors of the law, Boston Recorder.
The friend of a poor fellow who lost bis
Lis left leg at Petersburg remarked that, al
though maimed, be would always have one
good point of a well drilled soldier his
left foot foremost," as it was permanently
pIaQ,8j at the froot.V "Yes." said a wag,
The Late Election.
The following article upon thia subject is
full of good sense and practical consolation
to tbe great conservative Liberty-Union-lcv-ing
party ot the country. - It is from the
Philadelphia Sunday Mercury :
It appears by the returns that a majority
of the people have decided that Abrham
Lincoln shall, for four years more, have
charge of the afftirs of ttie nation. It is not
worth while to attempt cow- any precise
analysis of tbe means and methods whereby
the result was accomplished. Tbe election
ha , ostensibly at least, gone in favor ol the
Administration, and the fact is irreversible,
however the opposition may regret if. To
charge that it was effected by fraud and
violence, is easy enough. But it would be
quite impossible to prove the charge, if
made, and unless it could be susiaiued,
j there would be neither sense nor utility in
making it.
It is jnst as welt, too, since Mr. Lincoln
is to retain his present office for another
term, that he received the vote of nearly
evety State. He will be more encouraged
to carry out his policy to its legitimate ends,
and wbe'.her tha: policy is right or wrong
in principle, and will prove beneficial or
otherwise in practice, the sooner it is sub
jnected to the test ot thorough experiment,
the better will it be tor ;he country.
Nor need the Democracy lament their de
teat in the late coutest. On ttie contrary,
they may truly congratulate themselves that
ttiev have e -caned dividing with tbe Re
-
publican's the responsibility lor this civil
war, and for its leeble, barbarious, and in
j effective conduct Irom its beginning to this ,
I hour. It is proolematical at any rate,
vihether a Democratic Administration could
: have made peace with the seceded States
on the basis oi the Union. In the contin
gency ol a failure to conclude such a peace,
the prty was committed by the exuresa en
gagement of il candidate, Gen. McClellan,
to prosecute the Jar to tbe final putting
down of the rebellion, and as that task iny
be as impossible as the other, and must, at I
1 all events, involve an inca'culaole expendi
ture of blood and treasure, the Democrats
may esteem themselves fortunate that they
were not called upon to continue a conflict
of which the issue is extremely doubtful, 1
pernaps very uisi.,..
Moreover, with the progress of the war.
t . . , .
.a... nnn nil i ni nar u i nil rMii
debt, taxation, and alt its other
evils must rapidly accumulate upon the
people, until even their ptience expires
with their ability to bear the overwhelming
burden, and in that case, we shall behold
the curious speciable of an Administration
asaileJ with the complaints and reproach
es of the very populace which has just giv
en to it a new leasa of power. There most
come new drabs lor men aud money tor
the war. Goid has already begun to ad
vance, and the prices or all necessaries
most rise sympathetically. .No one can
perceive any near prospect ol improvement
in the currency ot the country, nor is it to
be denied that w th new loans and an in
creased issue oi treasury bills, tbe financial
condition of the nation must grow trora bad
to wor-e, until :hd ultimate catastrophe is
reached. Whether the war shall terminate
now or go on, it is only reasonable to say,
thai prices will never settle back to what
they were before the war began. Once we
did not leel the Government. Never again"
will we be insensible to its presence and its
m -I f I I
( pressure, let ttiose, tnereiore, wi.o uave
brought about this sad change in our nation
al afftirs have all the credit and the respon-
tdbtlitv for it with this generation and its re- j
molegt posterity.
We have no disposition to disparage the
choice of the people in the late election, or
even to iosinuate an impeachment of its
integrity. That choice has been made by
an apparent majority, and to that voice the
minority will submit with all due resigna :
t,0n. But then there may be some ose in
calling attention to one or two signficant
facts in this connection. The majority lor ,
Lincoln on the popular vote is so small as
to show to those who oppose him are too
formidable in numbers to be utterly despis- ,
ed. Allowing the President about two bun
dred and twenty five thousand majority of ;
the lour millions of votes cast, aud bearing .
in mind that he has under his control many j
more stipendiaries, civil and military, than
the majority ol ballots polled lor him, the
conclusion is inevitable that he probably
woold have been defeated in default of the
enormous patronage which he wieloa as the
head ol the Government. And this may be
said without at all implying that the Presi
dent personally employed that patronage
to influence a single vote ia his own favor,
or was privy to its employment for such
purpose by other A great writer on civil
government bas said, in speaking of the
elections ol France : "We may certainly
assume thai every government officer, or
person connected in some way government,
is worth his four or five votes at least
which be will direct, as be io turn is direct
ed to do by bis superiors, or be loses his
place." And the same author, Professor
Francis Lie be r, LL. D . io his essay on
elections, contained io the appendix to his
work on Civil Liberty and Self government,
makes tbe following remarks, which bave
special meaning fax the American people
just now. He says :
Consicen'ious and well-informed men
may possibly differ io opinion, as to the
qnesiion bather Cromwell was at any
time tbe freely accepted ruler of tbe Eng
lish people ; whether be was gladly up
ported bj the people at Urge and readily
acquiesced in by a small majority ; whether j
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the army, and allayed opposition by the
wisdom ot his statesmanship ; or whether
he chiefly ruled by armed "fanaticism. But
it may be asserted without hesitation that
there is not an Englishman nor American,
substantially acquainted with elections
whose judgment on this subject could be
influenced in. any degree, one way or the
other, were informed that Cromwell had re
ceived an ovewhelming majority of votes
all over England, confirming him in his ab
solutism, after he bad parsed his famous
act of 1656, by which he divided the British
territory into twelve districts, each presided
over by a Major General, with absolute
power over the inhabitants, all existing
laws to the contrary notwithstanding. There
is not an American or Englishman, I think
who believes that such a confrontory vote
could have added to his right, or that, had
such an rdvent taken place, it could bave
kept Cromwell 00 the protectoral throne,
or retarded the return of Charles the Second
a single day. And the larger the majority
for Cromwell should have been, the more
we would now consider it as a proof of the
activity exerted by the Major Generals in
deed, both in preteing aud compressing,
but no oue ol us would connect it in any
way with a presumed popularity of Crom
well, or consider it as an index of the opin
ion which the people at large entertained ot
al his repealed making and unmaking Par
lunenls. A real or pretended result of such ex pos'
fncto totes may have a certain proclamatory
value ; it may be convenient to point to it
and decline all farther discussion. " The
People's Elect" may be a welcome formu
la tor ribboned orators, ex pec'ant poets, or
.adaptive editors ; but there is no intrinsic
value in U. Votes ot this sort have no
meaning for the historian, at least so far as
the subject voted on is concerned, and they
have a melancholy meaning lor the cotem
porary patriot. There seems to be a Neme
sis eagerly watching these votes, and each
time to prove, by events succeeding shortly
alter, how hollow they were at the time.
An election which takes place to pass
judgment 011 a series of acts of a person, or
to decide on the adoption or rejection of a
fondamen'al law, can have no value what
ever if the following couditions are not ful
filled :
The question must have been fairly be
fore the people for a period sufficiently long
to discuss the matter ihor3ughly, and un
der circumstances to allow a free discuss
ion. Neither the police restrictions of gov
ernment, nor the notorious procedures of
mobs , nor the tyranny of associations ought
to prevent the formation of a well-sifted and
duly modified average public opinion. The
liberty ot the press, therefore, is a conditio
fine qua non If ibis be not the case, a mere
general opinion of the moment, a panic on
the one hand, or a maddened gratitude, for
a real or imaginary benefit, of a multitude
excited tor the day or period, may hastily
and unrighteously settle the fate ot genera
tions to come, and passion, fear, or vain
glory may decide that which ought to be
settled by the largest and freest exchange
of opinions and the broadest reciprocal
modification of interests. It requires time
for a great subject to presdut itselt in all Ihe
aspects in which it ocght to be viewed and
examined, and it requires time lor a great
public opinion to form itself the more time
the vaster tbe subject. All the laws regula
ting the formation of opinion in the indivin
ual apply with greater force to the forma
tion of public opinion.
It is especially necessary that the army
be in abeyance, as it were, with reference
to all sobjecs and movements appertaining
to the question at issue. Tbe English law
requires the removal of the garrison from
every place where a common election for
Parliment is going on. Much more neces
sary is the total neutrali'y of the army in
an electiou of the sort of which we now
treat."
We are in no humor to complain of what
has taken place, nor would complaint, if
made, be of any avail to undo what has
been done. All that remains to that great
party which fought so gallant a fiht at the
polls fer constitutional liberty and for the
Union, is to adhere to their principle, to
support the Administration cheerfully in all
lawful aid prudent measures aud to main
tain to the last a respectful, but firm oppo
sition lo Executive usurpation.
Brain. An American sloop ol war had j
put into an English port, aud the first lieut. J
went ashore to reconoiire. In the course
of his travels he encountered a tavern where
a number of British officers were carousing.
They at once recognized the lieutenant's
nationality by his dress and resolved to
amuse themselves by bullying him.
"Well, comrade,'' said one, "you belong
lo tfe United Slates, 1 see V
"Right," was the auswer.
"Now what would you say to a man who
should say that your navy did not contain
an officer fit lor a gunboat V continued the
Englishman.
"I would blow bis brains out," returned!
the lieutenant, with g'eat cooloers.
There was silence among ber Majesty's
servants for a moment ; finally one ol them
more muddled than ibe rest, managed lo
stammer out
"W-well, Yank, I I say it."
The American walked to bis side, and
replied caraly
"It is lucky lor you, shipmate, thai you
bave no brains to blow out."
. Struck by tbe dignity of the answer, tbe
offender al once apologized, and our hero
A Theatrical Incident.
Some years ago the manager of a "well
regulated theatre," somewhere a'ong ihe
line of the Erie Canal, engaged a-good
looking and brifk young lady as a supernu
merary. It happened that the young lady
in question had formerly officiated in some
capacity as a "hand" on board a canal boat
a lact which she wasextremely anxious lo
conceal She evinced much anxiety to
master the details of her newly choeo pro
fession, Mid soon exhibited a more than or
dinary degree of comic talent. She was
duly promoted, and in time became a gen
eral favorite with both manager aud public.
One night she was announced to appear
in a favorite part, a couple of boatmen
found their way iulo the pit, near the foot
lights, particularly anxious to see the new
famous commedienne. The house was crowd
ed, and alter the subsidence of the general
applause which greeted her appearance,
one of the boatmen slapped his companion
on the shoulder and with an emphatic ex
pletive, exclaimed loud enough to be heard
over hall the house t
"Bill, I know thatgal !"
"Phsaw," said.B.lt, "dry op."
"Bui I'm d d it 1 don't now. Bill.
It's
Sal Fiukius, as sure as you're born. She's
old Flukins' daughter that used lo run th
li.juerd Polly, and she ued lo sail with
him."
"Tom," said Bill, "you're a fool, and il
you don't stop your inlernal clack, you'll
get put out. Sal Flukins ! you know a Bight
it you think thai' her !"
Tom was silanced, but not convinced.
He watched the actress in all her motions
with. intense iuteresl, aud ere long broke
out again :
"I tell ye, Bill, that's her I know 'tis.
You can't tool me 1 know her loo well !"
Bill, who was a good deal interested in
the play, was out of all'patience at this
persistent interruption on rhe part of Tom.
He gave him a tremendous nudge in the
ribs wiih bis elbow, as an emphatic hint
(or him to keep qniet.
Tom, without-minding the admonition,
said, "you just wail I'll fix her, keep your
eye on me."
Sure enough he did fix her. Watching
his opportunity when the actress was deep
ly absorbed in her part, he song out in a
voice which rang through the galleries.
Low Bridge!"
From ibe force of habit, the actress in
stantly and involuntarily ducked her head
to avoid the anticipated collision. Down
came ihe house with a perfect thunder of
applause at this "palpable hit," high above
which Tom's voice could be heard, as he
returned Bill's punch iu the ribs with in
terest "Didn't I tell ye, old boy, I know'd 'twas
her. You couldn't fool me."
A Rebel Senator's vibw of the Situ
tio in Louisiana. Senator Semmes. ol
Louisiana, delivered a speech a few eve
nings since in Mobile, concluding with a
brief view of the situation beyond the Mis
sissippi. We have there a large army ; how
large it would not be proper for him to say;'
and il is constantly increasing under the
operation of the Conscription law, which
could not heretofore be etilorced. But now
we hold the country down to the Atchafa
laya. The laws of the State and of Con
gress are executed to lhat limit. Supplies
of all kinds.are ample ; the army cannot
consume tbe tithe of corn, and of meal there
is nearly as great an abundance, while our
laboratories at Shreveport, Louisiana, Tyler,
Texas, and elsewhere, are turning out
evr rythig needed in the way of arms, ordi
nance stores, &c. with all this the spirit of
the people of Louisiana, among whom he
had traveled extensively, was indomitable.
In the midst of ihe blackened remains of
their once happy homes, their determina
tion to persevere to the end was nobly
strengthened by the wrongs and sufTerinss
they were enduring. Nowhere except in
Virginia to which Slate he conceded the
palm for sublime heroism had he seen so
much distress, so much onblenching resolu
tion. The events of the last campaign had
proved the impossibility of the enemy occu
pying the country, and nol only could the
trans Mississippi hold her own. but, posses
ping, as she would by next spring, 3n army
not less in numbers than one of the great
armies on lhi side ol the river, she would
even be able, il the means of crossing
would permit, to seed reinforcements to
her brethren of tbe East. Richmond In
quirer Valuable "Secrets" The unpleasant
odor produced by perspiration is Irequently
the source of vexation to persons who are
subject lo it. Nothing is simpler than to
remove this odor much more effectually
than by the application of such cosily un
guents and perfumes as are in use. It is on
ly necessary to procure some of the com
pounds piri'.s of ammonia, and place about
two table spoons ful in a basin of water
Washing the face, bands, and arms with
this, lesres the skin as clear, sweet, and
fresh as one could wish. The wash is per
lectly harmless, and very cheap II is rec
ommended on iheauthority of an experi
enced physiciad.
A man io Vermont set a trap lot bears
that were troubling bis sheep, and goinz
out early one morning found a "varmint"
caught. He rushed for a gun, fired and
killed a black sheep of his own flo?k !
The next Lincoln draft will be for bOO'COO
ATTEMT TO AKKEST DeSEBTKKS R KSlsT-
kckto Officehs MenShot. Last week
Lieutenant Kress of the Provost Marshal's
staff, accompanied by three ssistants, pro
ceeded to Keating township Clinton coun
ty, to arrest some drafted men who had
failed to report: technically deserters
About twilight in the eveuitiK they proceed
ed lo the house of oue of the Gains', a large
family of desperate mulatoes, one of whom
is now in our country jail under sentence
ot death for murder.
As they approached the house, the occu
pants escaped through a back window.
Kkkss entered and found supper prepared
for lour persons A gun was fired by some
one outside and a skirmish al once occored,
during which several shots were fired
Lieut. Kress was dangerously wounded by
a rifle ball which struck him under the arm
and passed up into the opposite shoulder,
perferatitig his lungs. He and his assistants
lhen"retreaied and returned 10 Wilitam
sport. He is reported as doing well, aud if
infiatnattdn pr severe hemorhaze does not
occur will probably recover. It is supposed
that one.of the Gains' was wounded
These facts are correct in the "mainland
are as nearly'-accurateiin detail as we have
been able to obtain them . Clinton Dem
Absence of Mind The Lowell Journal
ives an account of a rich scene that occur
ed in one ot the Lowell hotel recently. A
lodger, who hadbeen!ou a spree the previ
ous evening, arose in the morning and rung
the beil violently. B-.-ots appeared. "Where
are my pants I locked my door last night
and somebody has stolen them ?" Boots
was green, and a lilde terrified. He left,
however, struck with a sudden thought and
returned with the identical pants. Ttie land
lord was called to receie comp'ain' against
Boots; bul he made it evident that the man
had put out his pataloonsto be blacked in
stead of his boots. The lodger left iu the
first train.
A Wheelbarrow Bi-t Another oda bet
on the Presidential election was paid re
cently in New Yoik City, the loser appear
ing on tbe third avenue with a wheelbar
row, in which was seated the winner, and
thus ihe two proceeded up town.
The loer iu this bet is an ex-conductor
on the avenue railroad, and by keeping the
wheel ol his barrow oti ihe track rail, he
appeared to gel along with comparative
ease. The couple att raced considerable
attention and curiosity,and numerous drinks
of ale and beer were sent out to the unfor
tuna'e wheeler, while the other man didu;t
get a drop.
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A young lady was heard to declare that
she could n't go to fi2ht for her conntry. but
she was willing to allow the young lo go,
and die an old rr aid, which she thought
was as a great a sacrifice as anybody could
be called upon lo make.
Artemus Ward writes lhat be is tired of
answering the question as to how many
wives Brigham Young has He Bays that,
all he know about il is that he one day
used up the multiplication table in counting
the long stockings on a clothes-lir.e in Brig
ham's back yard, aid went of feeling dizzy.
A Jersey mai was very sick, and was not
expected to recover. His friends gol
9 ro u ti d his bed, and one of them says:
"john, do you feel willing to die V John
made an effort to give his views on the
sutject, and answered with his feeble voice
"I think I'd rather Btay where I'm
better acquainted "
Certain- very ill-uaturedpeople say lhat
the only time" Abe Lincoln has exposed
himself during'the war was when he went
on board the gunboat to escape Mosby's
raiders 'the biler miaht have burst."
If you want to kindle the flime of love in
a lady's breast, you must tpark her till she
is eager lor a match
A clergyman in Tennessee on a Sabbath
recently, gave out the first line of the
hymn.
"Lord, let a repentant reble live," when
a shoddy official sprung up exclaiming.
"Not unless he takes an oath to vote for
Lincoln."
Why is the letter R the embodiment of
every American patriot's hope? Because
it is the end of war and the comxencemeut
of re-union.
An auctioneer lately sold a large lot of
Testaments at a sale in Baltimore. On ex
amination, the purchaser found that the Tes
taments were in the Choctaw language.
Horace Greely is reported to have pur
chased a new hat
In New York a lady broke her husband's
knee-pan in leaning over him to caress
their child. Ladies are careless.
Why are chickens' necks like door belli-?
Because ihy are often wrung for company!
A planter io Kentucky paid S550 for a
substitute for his slave who was conscri-
About a thousand lives a day this admin
istration and war are costing the country
That great public calamity a
gold is ihe inevitable sequence
colnism.
rise in
of Lin-
A husband telegraphed to his wife :
What bave too lor breakfast, and bow is
'the baby ?" Tbe auswer came, Buckwheat
NUMBER 6.
A lad Picture ef the Northern United States
Popular Liberty (iiiue The war Grow-.
leg More and Sore Envenomed.
New York Cor. London Times.
The fiery ordeal of war ha tried the sta
bility of the institutions on which popular
liLerty seemed o repore, and found ibem
insufficient for the day of peril. The lon
ger ihe war lasts ihe more envenomed il
tirows. N rth and South are not free Re
publics fiihiing against each other for a
principle ol honor but hostile despotisms,
ignoring the rights of the people the one
striving to exist, the other to dominate.
Liberty and war are found 10 be as incom
palible on oue side as on the other The
law of miht ia the only law recognized.
Men's passions are inflamed to the fever
point, and madness takes the place of rea
son. Thieves and swindlers ia high places
grow fat upon the plunder of the army and
the people. Commerce in ihe Federal
North is demoralize I, aud, having made
tip its mind for high prices, shudders al the
prospects oi peace and reconciliation, re
mote and shadowy as ibey are, and curses
the victories, real ol supposed, which the
Government and generals in tbe field an
nounce, because they bring down the pre
mium on cold, reduce prices, aud, if con
tinued much longer, will ruin thousands of
speculators, large and small, and produce '
financial collapse, perhaps nailoual bank
rupicyi een though they might not in the
long ruu be foand stable and productive
enough 10 produce the pacification of the
country. Party feeling is venomous, and,
as the day ot election tor the President
draws near, brings into play the worst char
acteristics ot human nature, and should the
j contest prove close, threatens to introduce
. a new element of revolutionary 'convulsion
into the seething caldron oi popular pas
lion. The existing Administration is at its
. wit's end lo catch the wavering favor of the
multitude lies by itself, or iu agents, on
evey event of peace and war lua: it can
J twist or exaggerate into a reason, or a sera
j blauce of reason lor the perpetuation of its
j power. The working classes are sullen and
j discontented, scowl at the idea of a forced
' conrcripiion, always threatened but never
at empied in any populous community, and
I clamor for an amount of wages in depreci
1 ated paper which will represent the pur
chasing power of ihe wages in hard money
i they received before their'ibands, or those
' ot their sons, were imbrued in the blood of
their Soulhren brothers, and up to this time
' clamor, and are likely 10 clamor, in vain.
States as large as European kingdoms are
, governed under martial law by attorney
and mule drivers, who seem to think that
the more horrible the atrocities they com
mit on iheir political opponents the greater
j service ihey will render to the Govsrnmeui
; that employs them. And over and above
these sources ot evil broods the dark, in
i iquitous conviction thut if the North cannot
I conquer the South, or the Sooth the North,
' and that the Union cannot be restored by
1 a civil war, a foreign war against France or
: England, unprovoked although it may be
! by either of those Powers, may afford the
lasi desperate chance of preserving what
those proud Americans call "the life of the
nation;" a nation, however, that has never
yet existed, and which, if the civilized
world was wise, and awake to its own in
terest and security, it wodld never suffer to
exist, if ihe formal recognition ot ihe South
as an independent powerjwere sufficient to
prevent, or even 10 retard the consumma
tion. If the Union be, "indeed, moribund
which the Northern Americans passionately
and continuously deny il dies hard. The
suong man disbelieves ia bis own dissolu
tion. All things are mortal bat himself.
Rome and Greece may be dead, England
may have approached her last boar, bat
tbe Union is in its vigorous and rampant
youth, and nei her iusidious disease nor
sudden calamity 6hall strike il down He
feels lhat no external hand has aimed a
blow al her vitality and cannlft believe lhat
in his rude and lusty frame there exists a
poison that he can neither eradicate nor
neutralize, and that the same physical laws
which apply to other living beings apply
also to him. HeAcurses bis doctors, repu
diatei.their remidies, and even in the last
agony thinks a vigorous maturity and a
green old age are before bim.
Married on Horseback. A wedding look
place at Sherwood, in Illinois, recently, the
contracting parties . being Mr. Josiab VV.
Crandall'and Miss Helen B. Hurst. Tbe
ceremony was performed io front of the offi
ciating clergyman's residence, and the bride
and three bridesmaide dressed and mounted
en cavalier. The bride's costume consisted
of a deep bloe'clotb dress-coat, deep blae
casaimere pants, buff cassimsre vest, black:
dress hat, choker collar, black necktie, raf
fled shin-bosom, aud buff kid gioves plain
flat gill buttons of a rich quality on the
coat and ve6t. The bridesmaids were dress
ed precisely like the bride .excepting only,
lhat they wore plain shirt-bosoms and lav
ender colored gloves. The novelty of tbe
ceremony attracted a large prowd of tbe
neighbors. After the ceremony was over,
the bridal party rode to the residence ot
Mr. Crandalfs inother, where tbe formal
wedding least took place. The bride and
bridesmaids wore their riding sails daring
the whole day.
Tut editor of a Western paper is la clo
ver. His primer boys having gone to fight
the Indians, he eo listed half a dozen nf the
best looking girls in town aud is now trattw
ins a corps ot compositors not subject ki
the draft. "Blessed be crinoline," tid iht
enihnH!.ie mw. ; - - v '
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