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BLOOMS BURG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEPNESDAY, -JANUARY .17, 1866.
NUMBER 13
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; : tis Tin .ill this repixiad.
7 rf is vain all this repining,
Tha pat nonght to me; r
Tbe present ton is shining, . i ;
r ! ,Tir And brighter yet may be. ! "
The land-marks stilfllt follow
J Where'braver feet have trod,
Though Friendship'? smile be fcollow
And sorrow bears her rod. .
t ; ; .J. .i .". 4s '.' . ."
. .The heart raosr brave each sorrow, ;
--j Win back the smiles of Hope ; '
And from The Past riot borrow.
Biit with the Present cope.
And those vf to now are watching ,
. Out passage o'er the sea,-.
v. Some hope will still be catching
U biarely on ' press 'we. '
To- day the sun in darkne9 '
Behind the cloods may hide, 4
To morrow light and brightness
. He'll scatter iar and wide.
And on theoad we're moving
, Rich gems of thonjht will spring ;
t. V For those wKo're troly loing ,
f 1 - The prize at last shall win. ,
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fc .:.; TK haniaK lt ranlninT. -
Forjbbn'gh the road is rocgh, . , .
Above the fun is shining
And there there's joy enough.
AVVE8itRN correspondent -says: in a
district in the Jar west we bad a gentleman
teacher who thought it advisable t to cive
J some lessons in politeness. ' Amorig other
' things'he told the boys in addressing a sen
ltman they shonld always say Sir, and
K t ?av4heru examples, and made quite a les--'.or
Of it. One boy was "particolarly de
' 'li4h'ed ; and took occasion to speajc .to his
. eacher, often, to show La profiled . by his
; '--leaehJr!j?9r When Be went home to dinner
-!' iiis father said :
r' have some meat!'
'". 'Ves, Sir, I thank )ou."
t - The next thin? the child knew hi fath
f -r'a hand came whack on his. ear, and his
" ' father's voice thnndered forth, "I'll teach
.yoo to sass yoar dad !" Tom gave np being
.polite, i . - ". : . .
Steljgs in tue Indian Bukead A few
.jtlaya before the adjournment of Corgres,
I - .'write "Msck'' to the Cincinnati Commercial,
' ' resolution viFas nushed ' thronah both
', Houses'; appropriating' half a million of dol-
t vara for destiiuie ; Indians. . Half of this
moaatr be'thiuks. will stick to the - hands
ttbroozh which it 1s intended to "pass to the
'Ki.n.' i; -U. t - h:m'i';rtmsa.'.;n -
Indians.' ' It decors to him as somewhat sin-
golar that everybody who bas anything to
do with this bnsioess gets rich, ahd he al-
leges that there are ms'ances where agents I
f and employees hate been known to save
550,000 a yearoot-of a salary of 53,000!
must be a source of autaciion to tbe peo
pie who pay "rh xcesive taxation of tha
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' present day lo know that the public money
f i filched to hameles!y; -
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Osr of the Northern 'Vchool marms,"
ho i employeif in teaching the freed-
'men," told a 'sprightly negro ''girl lhat she
"must nol call tbd woman with whom she
lived, mislress that' sh.s was as good as
. anybod.' Pretty soon ihe girl asked her
teacher what business sbe followed before
coming South ' to teach,
maker,'! was the reply.
"I was a bonnet -
''Well!7' said the
, ,-girV, gathering qp her books and making for
be door, "1 am not go'ng to 'sociate wid
yoo any longer yoa say I U ekel to my
rnittre's, and she don't 'eociate wid .bonnet
.zkers.". -,.,
A Chicago bootblack accosted a returned
soldier with the usual salutation "black
your boots, sirl make 'era chine l' . Look
ing at his unpolished "gunboatt" in 4 con
i templaiive way, the war worn veteran re
plied: "Well, I don't care, if yoa do fall
in promptly, though." The urchin gazed a
"tsoment at the soldier,, surveying him from
hileather" upwards, and 4ben, taming
to comrade near, by, shoated oat : "I say
, Cill, lend ua ' hand, won't yert I'vb got
an army contract," ; ' ' .
Whts x win. A farmer boy, who
is
anxious to get a wife, advertises for one in
this wise:
lie wanls to know if she can milk,
- And caks his bread and batter;
And go to meeting without silk,
To rn.ka a show and splutter.'
He'd like to know if it would hurt .
Her fcand.s to take up stitches, V . .
" Cr saw a bnitcn on his sfcirt, .
4 C; make a pair of breeches.
l inaa is detested by, all;
s hurt by his cendact it
-j !3 throw a damp upon gea-
: ; ; ; Chased by a Hoaoaaaiac. . ; : ,
j-; Abont a year ago Irfiad oocasion to visit
the remote village of Ravensward on busi
ness While, there I became tbe recipient
of a cordial invitation to attend a reception
at the honse of Mra. Satterlee.
My' first impulse was to decline, bat on
mature deliberation 1 decided to attend, rwul
I did not regret it, for it was a brilliant aflair.
The rooms were' filled with the elite of the
place. - "
. Araong the many, to whom I had the
pleasare of being introduced dcring the
evening was a certain Mr. Morrill. He was
a noble-looking man. Dark complexion,
finely rnon'ded features, rather tall, and
altogether just ' such a peron ai was my
beau ideal of what nature intended man :o
be. I found him to be eloquent and witty
in the extreme, and we had not conversed
long ere I mentally . pronouncad him the
most gifted conversationalist I had ever
met: '
x I was strangely interested in Mr. Morrill,
and when opportunity offered, f asked Dr. i
Cooper, with whom I was on terms of in
timacy, who he was that had so strangely
interested me.' In answer to my inquiries, j
he told me that 'Mr.' Morr ill was a lawyer, !
who etoood very high in his profession, and t
had been elected to the Legislature about a '
month previous. ' " '
Von wonld not think," continued the
doctor, ' that lie had ever been a inonama
niae V1
nt r ?
iiinfinnmiiiac ; i
"Wall, be has been. Comeout on the
balcony and I'll tell yon all aooot it. - Two
years ago-," resumed he when we were out
out of hearing, "Mr. Morrill was prostrate'
with brain fever; he was just beginning to i
recover, wheri'we discovered that his mind j
was affected. He imagined himself deaf
and dumb, but in every other respect he j
was perfectly sane. When be was sufli-j
ciently recovered to admit of his going oat,
ha went to his office, and attended to his
business as well as a deaf and dumb man
could. He would converse with his pan-
ner on paper, but nothing coald induce
him to speak. His wife was in the great
est dibtress. I called one morning andfound
her weeping sadly on account of her hus
band. I resolved to try once more to com
pel him to speak, and before .Ieaveitig bad
arranged a p!an with her which we limped
would prove successful. Although simple,
yoo will see how "effectual it proved. - j
On the succeeding day I repaired in Ms '
hou&eaboat the lice I supposed ha would
be home lo dinner. He was seated at the
dinner table when I arrived. I boed to
him ond p.i?seJ into an adjoining room. -His
wife soon followed me. We had pur
poely left the door sjar, in order that he
might hear u.
'Mary,' saiJ I to hia wife, 'I wish yoa
would leave Morrill and marry me. He's a
mean, stingy old racal. If I
' l'sn a mean, stingy old rascal, am I?''
aid he, rushing in wiih a pair of tongs
which be had pick ! up.
Springing tbrocgh the open window I
rashed up the street, running at the top of
my sped. H followed close after me.
i At firsl I ther enjoyed the excitement, but ;
V " w" ,rtBl "tsuwmn.g ..e.iu.ia. i was get-
M'ag tired but dared not atop. e pnroed
j me 80 closely that f had not time to enter a
t house, and foon there were no houses to en-
j ter, for we had left the village far in the
distance
' ti r A n tar A m ri nh'tiln m w -9 mm ., t
yoa may wew imagine, oy tnis time
i. . was gresuy exnauaieu, ana Knowing it l
continued my flight much longer I must
! """ely be overtaken, I determined to turn
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, rounu a,m lrtCe mJ iporsuer. i laceu mm '
J nd few seconds he was up with me. j
"He immediately aimed a-blow at my!
j DMd w,'h ,h tongo, which he had retained j
during the pursuit. I stepped lo one side ;
and received the blow on my left arm, un-j
I fortunatly shattering the bone. We then i
: clutched, and immediately commenced a'
, desperate strucgle lasting several mioutes.
In tbe disabled condition in which the blow
i
; ' tbe tongs had placed me, 1 felt I was
. !owly but sorely being overcome, and be-
g" to be seriously alarmed for ray safety,
j wbhen suddenly his hold on ma relaxed,
i ar,d he Ty motionless before rae on the
grass. He had swooned.
In my disabled condition, I could do bat
very little for him bul sit down and wait for
someone to come that way. I had not
waited long, when a farmer with a team of
oxen and anempty wagon, came along.
With the help of a laborer, the farmer got
us both iniu tbe wagon, and bore ua back to
the house we had left so suddenly.
His wife was, of course, much alarmed on
beholding him ; bnt I quieted her by say
ing this wonld - probably work an effectual
cure. A physician was called who dressed
my arm. Mr. Morrill was immediately put
to bed, and before I leftI had the pleasure
of seeing him in healthful sleep..
The rest is soon told. He slept rhrongb
all the afternoon and nighf, and into the
next day and awoke with his mind as clear
as it now is. He now stands an bonoredj
legislator and an ornament to his profession.
1 .recovered entirely from my injuries in a
lew-weeks, - end" I often .think of, but do
not regret, being 'chased" by a raonorra
ciac." ' ' '
; EoRDto House. Rbcommrndtioss. A
boarder at one of ocr city boarding houses,
on being askod bow they lived there, replied
that the hash was rather doubtful, but the
besf was "bully This dubious indorse
ment failed to aitract a now boardr. i
in Editor's Qoalifications.
' The following is a very respectable epi
tome of the necessary qualifications to be a
futceseful local editor :
'It is easy enough to be a local editor, if
yoa think so; but some special qualifica
tions are necessary to success. For tbe en
lightenment of yonng men who have an
itching that .way, we will enumerate soma
of .he indispensable virtues without which
success is impossible. A good local must
combine the loqoacity of a magpie with the
impudence of the d I. He -must be a
encyclopedia of useful knowledge.; He
must know how to time a race-horse, gaff a
cock, teach a Sunday school, preach a char
itable sermon, ran a nan mill, keep a hotel
turn a double somersrult, and brew a whis
key panch.' He must be tip to a thing or
two in political economy, au f 'tai in Ibe mat
ter of cooking beans. On the the trail of
mysterious items he must be a veritable
sleuth-hound. His hide must be liice that
of a rhinoceros. He must ' throw modesty
to the dogs, and let his tiger howl. But
above all, he must be an adept at the art of
pafling. The nearer he approaches to the
condition of a blacksmith's bellows, the
belter he will succeed, fie must be ready
at all times to say something funny in re
gard to Smith's grocery, or to surround Miss
Flounce' millinery ; establishment with a
halo of glowing adjectives. He must be
enlhsiastic on the subject of hams, verbose
in extolling hardware, and highly imagina
tive in the matter of dry good. He must
look pleased when invited to walk sixteen
squares in the broiling sun, lo write a six
fine puff for a labor saving churn or a pat
ent washing machine. He mnst feel grate
ful when invited to dine at the Dognose ho
tel, and write a glowing account of the ex
cellence of the hash and durability of the
beefsteak. If he fee's any tense of humili
ation in sitting down to a festival gath
ering, on occasion of the presen'ation
of a sword to Captain Sankopanzy, era
set of silver plate ervice to a horse in
spector, he must smother it, and revenge
himself on the champagne and cigars. He
must affect to believe that he is invited in
a purely social way, and not for the sake
of having him write a good account of the
ceremonies, with three colums of speeches
in full, for the next morning's paper. If he
flags in his description of Hodges premium
bull, or 'lets down' in writing up the oil in
dication on Shoreldyke's farm, he must
take it kindly when he is reproved for his
Bhorcomings. lu the matter of fhoT, the
local must alvrays be brilliant. He tnnst
talk learnedly of panaramos, with a liberal
ndmixtnre of knowing words, such as 'tone,'
'warmth,' 'forehorening,' 'high lights,'
'foreground,' 'perpec!iv9,' &s. j he ranst be
heavy on concerts, with a capacity to appre
cia'e Miss Sqnawk3 execution of difucolt
fears in the- 'upper register he must be
ecstatic in praise of double-headed calves,
and eloqnent in behalf of fat women and
living kele!on. All this, and more, it
takes lo be a local. Sawing wood is equal
ly a? honorable, more independent, and ea.
sisr."
Ingratitude to Parents.
There is a proverb "a father can more
easily maintain six children than six chil
dren can maintain one father." Lather re
lates this story:
There was once a father who gave np
everything to his children his bonse, his
fields, his goods and expected for this the
children would support him; bnt after he
had been some time with the son, the latter
grew tired of him, and said:
"Father, I had a son born to me this niht
and there, where yoar arm chair stands, the
cradle must come. Will yon not, perhaps,
go to my brother, who has a large room?"
After he had been some time with the
second son, he also grew tired of him, and
iaid :
"Father, you like a warm room, and that
hurtR my head. Won't you go to ray broth
er, the baker?"
The father went, and after he had been
some time with the third son, he also found
him troublesome, and said to him ;
"Father, the people run in and out here
all day, as if it were a pigeon house, and
you cannot have yoar noon-day sleep ;
wonld yoo not be better off at my sister
Kate's, near the town wall?"
.The old man remarked to himself,
, "VeSj I will do so, I will go and try If
with my daughter."
She grew weary of him, and she was al
ways so fearful when her father went to
church or anywhere else, and was obliged
to deseed the e.eep stairs ; and al her sister
Elizabeths there were no stairs to descend,
as she lives on the ground floor.
For the sake of peace the old man assent
ed, and went to tbe other daughter; but
after some time, she too, became tired of
him, and told him by a third person, that
her bouse near the water was loo damp for
a man who suffered with the pout, and her
sister the grave diggers wife, at St. John's
bad much drier lodgings. The old man
ithooght' himself tbat'sbe was" right, and
went outside the gate to his youngest daugh
ter, Helen; but after he had been with her,
her little son said lo his grandfather,
"Mother said yesterday to cousin Eliza
beth that there was no better chamber for
you than such a one as father digs."
' .These words broke the old man's heart,
io he sank back in bis chair and died.
Young gentlemen who would prosper in
love shoeld woo gently. It is not fashiona
ble lor ladies lo take ardent spirits.
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Arteinns Ward on Arran-Na-Pofue.
Arteraus went to see Bonrcicaolt & Co's.
new drama, when it was brought out in New
York. Here is his dissection of it :
You ask me, sir, to cling ome ink for
your paper in regards to th9 new Irish
draray at Niblo's Gardin. I will do it, sir.
I found myself the other night at Niblo's
Gardin, which is now, by the way, wheat,
ley's Gardin. (I don't know what's becum
of Nib.)
walked down the ile in my usual digni
iied stile, ' politely tellin' the people as I
parsed aleug to keep their seats. 'Donrl
git up lor me," Ised.. One of the prettiest"
men I ever saw in my life showed me into
a seat, and I proceeded to while away the
spare time by readin5 Thompson's Bank
Note Reporter and the comic papera.
The ordinance was large.
, I tho't from a corsiry view that the Finni
an Brotherhood was well represented.
There was no end of bootiful wirain and
a heap of good clothes. There was a great
deal ef hair present that belonged on the
heads of people who didn't cum with it.
The orkistry struck up a teon. &. 1 aked
the Usher to nudge me when , Mr. Pogue
corn out on the stage lo act.
I wanted to see Pogue, bnt strange he
didn't act durin the entire evenin'. I reck-
en he
has
left Niblo's and gone over to
Arrah-na-Pogue was vrrit by DionO'Bour
cieolt Si Edword McIIouss. They rit it
well. O'Bourcy has rit a cartload of plays
himself, the most of which are first-rate.
I understand there is a large number of
O'gen'lmen of this city whe can rite better
plays than O'Boorcy does but somehow
they don't seem lo doit. When they do,
I'll take a box of them.
Ack the 1. Gler.dale by moonlight
Irishmen with clubs. This is in 1793, the j
years of yonr birth, Mr. Editor. It appears j
a pairiotic person named McCool has bin j
raisin a insurection in the mountain tli- !
tricks, and is now goin to leave the land of J
his nativity for a tower in France. Previ- j
ously to doin so he picks the pocket of Mr '
Micheal Feeny, a gov'mtnt deiectiv', which ! haunt that tree till he or they ehal! choose
phases tbe gallery very muon indeed, and ' to take possession of some other enfortu
they joyfully remark, 'hi, hi.' He meets, ' nale. .The girl seemed now weak and ex-
also, at this time, a young woman who luva
Lira dearer than life, and who is, of course,
related lo the gov?ment ; and just as the Gov
ment go?s ain him she goes for birn. This
is nat'ral, but not grateful. Shecz:"And
can this be so? Ar, tell me ti is not so thus-
ly &s this thus
iC-3 wca!Jetfe"n V or words
to that eiTack. He sez it isn't any other
way, and they go cff. Irish rnooic by ih-3
band. McCoole goes and gives The money
to his foster sister Miss Arrah Meelish,who
is goin' to shortly marry Shaon, the Lamp
Post. Mac then alters his mind about goi;'
over to France, and thinks be'lgo np stairs
and lie down in the straw. This is in Ar
ray's cabin. Arrah- say s it's all right my J tell him her demonical name. She sharply
darlint. o'ch hone, and shure, and other pop- , turned upon him, and with a scream utter
'lar remark?, and Mac goes to his straw. j ed her name. He then inquired how many
The wedJin' of Shaun and Arrah comes ; devils had possessed her, to which she re
off. Great excitement. Immense demon- j plied, five. Have they all taken their de-
stralion on the part cf uhe peasantry. Barn-
door j;g, and rebelyus song by McHouse,
called "the drinkin' of the Gin." Ha, what ;
is this? Soldiers cum in. Moosic by the j
band. "Arrah," 6ez the Major, "yoa have i
those money." She 6ez, "Oh no, I guess j
not.'-' He 6ez, "Oh yes, I guess you have." j
"It is my own,'- sez she, and exhibited it. j
"It is mine," says Mr. Feeney, and i Jen-i
lilies it. Great confusion. Coal is produe- i
ed from up stairs. "Whose coal is this?" I
6ez the Maj "Is it the coat of a young man j
secreted in lhi3 here cabin?" Now this is i
rongh on Shaun. His wife accooseJ of theft, j
the circumstances bein' very much agin her,
and also accoosed of havin' a han&um
young man hid in her house. But does
this bold yonng Hiberian forsake her? Not
much he don't. But he takes i; all on him
self, sez he is the guilty wretch and is
marcht off to prison.
This is a new idee. It is gin'rally the
wife who suffers, in the play, for her hus
band. ; but herers a noble young feller who
hui his eyes to the apparent sinfulness of
his new young wife, and takes her right
square to his bosom, It was bootiful to me,
who love ray wife, and believe in her, and
would put on my meelin' clo'hes an' go to
the gallus for her cheerfully ruther than
bslieve 6he was capable of taking acyboi's
money but mine. My married friends;
listen to me. If you treat your wives as
tho' they were perleck gentlemen if y oa
chow 'era thai yoa have entire confidence
in them, believe me, they will be troo lo
yoa, most always.
Sbaun is tried by a military commission.
Cof. O'Grady, altho a member of the com
mission, shows he sympathizes with Shaun
and twits Feeny, the Gov'ment witness,
with being a knock-kneed thief etc., etc.
Mr. Sionton'a grandfather was Sec'y of War
in Ireland at that time, so this was entirely
propder. Shann was convicted, and -goes
Iojh'iI Hears Arrah singin' onteide. Wants
to see her a good daal. A lucky thought
strikes him, he opens the window and gets
out. Struggles with ivy and things outside
of the jail, and finallyr eaches her just as Mr.
Feeney is about to dash a laige woolen
stone on his bead. He then throws Mr
Feeney into the river. Pardon arrives
Fond embraces, tears of joy and kisses a la
Pogue. Every body much happy. Cur
tain falls.
Yours till then, A. W.
Oca Devil cays that young ladies shonld
make no objection to being squeezed by
printers. Tbey shoald make every allow -
ance for freedom ofthe press.
Castle; out Devils ia India.
The Carnatic (India) Telegraph says :
Casting ool devils is extensi velypracticed
by the natives ; but there is as much diffi
culty lo get at the frnth as it is to get the
spiritualists, the Davenports, to declare
themselves consummate cheats. We were
present a few weeks ago at Bn exercise of
exorcism. The possessed was a young wo
man of abpnt sixteen, hale and hearty in
appearance, and withal "very good look
ing," as is the expression applied to native
women. She was much excited as she nc-
corcpanied, or rather preceded her exorcist, j
and broke out occasionally into sinsinc and t
danch.2 with an energy and manner which
showed that the had no self control. The
AtKhfthad no --elf control. The i
party which went with her stopped at a tree
on the way, when the exorcist desired her
to ball. Hia command instantly brought
her prostrate before him, and she rolled on
the ground " in violent, contortions. But it
was objected by her father to fi,t the demon
to that tree; and accordingly the exorcist
addressed his patient in a tone of sternness
to rie and go on farther.
She did so, and with a running dance to
tbe sound of the tomtom and the Pnjiiri's
band-drum, she ruhed along seemingly un
qpnscioua of all around her. They halted
then under a palmira tree, i't a deprt pUce,
near the foot of a hillock, where the poor
girl was desired, to the music of the prient's
hand-drcm, to balance herself gracefully,
and approach the tree She did so, and
then embraced it with a tremour, the effect
of compulsion rather than free will. The
exorcist went through a few strophes of in
cantstory singing ; then taking a few locks
ol her bair, and knotting them together, he
fastened the bunch to the tree by a n-ail,and
then seizing a live cock in one hand over
her head, with the other he'' cut its throat,
and shed its blood freely over the stooping
stumbling girl.
He then cut off her hair, and thns freed
her from her fastening to the tree. The
blood-stained bunch of hair thus left be
hind, it is said, detains the devil also, and
that he, or a legion thus exorcised, will
j haunted, and could hardly vra'k forward
with a steady pace. She was held by one
of the ma'e assistants of tfce priet, and
condccteJ to a tank where she was bathed,
somewhat 'ike our Baptist sisters, in her
clnthes' and came oct of Let cwn accord,
hardly jet ia her right mind.
But t!-.e sctne was not over. The Pjira
broke a cccoar.ut, and after placing it over
the smoke of. incense for a Ii'tle while, he
lilted the smoking censor to her with the
usual incantitorv music and sinking. She
agai.t gradna
y lost f er cons
iousness, and
' swayed to and fro with wild dishevelled
locks Her exorcist demanded of her
parture, he asked
Yes was the reply, and
immediately alter she ran along dancing
fra itieally, while the party ran alter her lo
the hone, where, after other devilish cere
monies, she recovered consciousness, and
the following day was married. We o-ght
to have remarked that Ihe demonical pos
session look place on the firl day of her
nuptial rites. She is now
and lives happily enough
husband.
all right aain,
with her young
"Haul, Dad, Haul." We doubt whether
Dixon Iliinois, was a healthy locality (or
tbe editor of the Rep:i!hcan after he penned
the following fishing item :
"One day, as a fisherman who lives not a
thousand miles from Dixon, (and who, ty
the way, has five bouncing daughters.) was
shooting his seine, it was darnageJ by corn
ing in contact with some substance ly ing iu
Ihe bottom of the liver, so that he had lo j
take it ashore for repairs. While doing this !
the seine fcrther down the river tnade a j
gooa haul, thus radical. ng ,tnat a l:ge
school of fish were passing up. The old
man became so enraged to think lhat he
could not get his share of them that he fairly
danced up and down and tsvTore like a
trooper. The gills who were near by, t aw
something was going wrong, and went om
to render what assistance they could. Ar-
riviug at the spot they comprehended the j
difficulty, and as the water was warm and j
not deep, they joined hands jumped into
the river spread - their crir.olir.a and sat
down . After sitting Hbaut fire minutes,
extended her
the one neatesl the shore
hands towards the old man and exclaimed
at the lop of her voice:
"Haul, dad, haul ; we are chuck full !"'
The old man did baol, as al?o did several
men who by ihls time were attracted to the
spot. The result was one of the lar?e.-i
hauls of the season. The old man has al
ways been opposed to hoops, but now he
declares that he has not a word to say agin
'em no way."
Bad men are never completely happy, al
though possesed of. everything thai this
world can bestow ; and good men are nev
er completely miserable, although deprived
ol everything that the world can take away.
There is as much difference between
good poetry ai.d fine verses, as between
the mell of a flower gatdeu and a perfu
mer's shop.
( Our companions please us less from the
j charms we find in their conversation than
from those they find in oors.
j
J
on tbe east-
Central Rail- ;
road running daily between Utioa and Al
bany. Ward had been in the employ of the
j Central railroad for a long period o! years,
and is one of the oldest conductors in the
country. In variably attentive to the ladies,
he always managed to make himself a fa
vorite with ihoe ol the fair sex who ac
companied the train under Iub direction
The Buffalo Republic relates the following
anecdote of what happened to Jim, because
he didn't know a main- from a female baby :
A short time since, when a train, under
h!s direction, was on its way e;
east from Uti
ca one o'.lhose interesting i
ncidents oc-
curred on board the train which Bdd to the
visible number of pa-sengers, but scarcely
ever improve the profits of the trip. Ward
as soon as he discovered the condition ol
the lady hustled about, and with the train
running forty miles an hour, fixed up a por
tion of the express car and had her convey,
ed there. A physician by the name of
Beecher was on the train; his services
were immediately put in requisition and in
a short time Ward had the pleasure of an
nouncing to his anxious passengers, that
mother and babe were "doing as well as
could be expected uwler the circumstances."
The mother was a poor woman, and as
soon as it became known, Ward went round
with a hat, and in a t-horl time a handsome
pare was collected, and Jim, with his
countenance actually filterin of happiness,
look it lo the mother. After he reappeared
the pas-engers proposed that the child
should be named. No sooner said than
done. Jim went in and got the baby, and
with the consent of the delighted mother
brought it out when it was proposed that
it should be "James Ward'' alter Jim, and
"Beecher," after Ihe physician who had
professionally attended the moiher. It was
adopted with acclamation, amid a shout of
approbation, the babe was named "James
Ward Beecher ." Jim, with a smile of
ill-concealed delight was lujging off ;his
little namesake, when some of the ladies
requested to see tbe "little baby." It was
passed from hand to hand among the ladies,
all admiring the little bundle, but at the
same time a general disposition to smilf
and stuff bandksrehiefs in their T.oo:hs
becsme manifest among the women.
Jim wondered in vain whalihis subdued
laughter meant until the baba was handed
to an old lady. She had not had it mora
than a mince, when eha erclairr.ed
Law Suz! '
"Well, ma'am what's the matter? said
Jim fearfully.
"Why it's a gal !" said the old woman,
handing the babe to Jim.
Then rose a yell cl laughter; the men
J broke out first, then lite women, then they
to broke out toaether,
until the universal
scream fiHei! the car.
Several gentlemen threw their hats out
ol the windows, while ethers endeavored,
unscccefsful'y, to "caw their legs off." Tne
women blushed and screamed; the men
t-houted and held their sides. In the midst
cf this storm ol fun and laughter, Jt'm made
his escape from the car with'his female
"Jim Ward Beecher," and lor the rest of
the trip, on the platform of the bargage car,
ruminated on the sjdJea
taiions cf human lila.'
charges end nu-
Emulators in Georgia.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
wri:e from Savannah: A gentleman jut
arrived in this ci'y from the interior, in the
vicinity of the A'tamaha, draws a most
gioomy picture of ttie condition of affairs
among the backwoods people of that sec
tion. He has large timber interests in a lo
cality about fitly miles from Savannah, and
has teen htlemptins to make use of the
freedmen's lator in gelling out his timber
for t!e market. Ha has given up the en
deavor to make free negro labor remunera
tive, a: d is decided in his conviction that it
is utterly idle !o look to the freedmeu for
the pre.-ent at least.
As he is a Northern man by birth nnd ed
ucation, and iloes r.ol tbare the bitter preju
dice against the freedmen whicfi is foil by
the natives, I place jreat reliance upon his
tta'ements. He tells me lhat, although be
offered them the most liberal inducements,
paying from twenty dollars to twenty-five
dollars a month, and finding them in quar
ters and ration., his negro laborers daserted ,
hi in one after another, afer having secured !
j a few dellars in advance, and in many case3 j
' ,akin3 w ilh ihem, cn absconJing, whatever j
they could lay their hands on tools, stock,
previsions, harness, and not unlrequently
i animals.
Under these discouraging circumstances
he has determined to abandon bis work al
together, cntil he can obtain white labor
from the North. Ha represents the white
peopic of tr.e region to be in a ad cor.d'r
tion. Tha country is bare of provisions,
the roads almost everywhere ura impassable
and in the impending distress of the' sec
lion, and its complete isolation from all hu
manizing influence?, the inhabitants have
become desperate and vicious to an extent,
onit i nl iturf Ail intA n 1 ! f Ka n - M v C r - -1 .1 t
mm ' i i j Q v uiiu call lllC CI 119 J 1 oi'i.ll
chaos. Springing naturally out of this dis-
ordered state of affairs is an organization of
"Kegclators," so called. Their numbers
include many ex-Confederate cavaliers of
the country, and thetr mission is to visit
' scmraary justice rpon any offenders against
! ihe pubtia peace. It is needless lo say that
their attention is largely directed to obtain-
in quiet-and submission among the blacks,
i n I L 1 1 r 1 1 1: :j r.r . i r i n 1 n lt it ri mw mrmm nn.
, 1 Slight mistake.
Jim Ward was a conductor
ern division of the New York
- 1 - a a -1 r w
Btreperous "nigger" by the ''Regulators" i
so common an occurrence as to excite little
rema, f;or ja ,ne otk. of proscription
rtnfini in tha rrMHmen entr' Tha Rph.
alators" go 13 the bottom of the matter, and
strive to make it uncomfortably warm fur
any new settler with demoralizing innova
tions of wages for "niggers," &c.
My informant, the timber merchant, al
though having lived ten years In the State,
and served in the late war, felt his life un
safe among the "Regulators,'' by whom be
was openly menaced, and for whom he al
ways took tbe precaution to make ready
j warm reception on retiring at night. H
was heartily disheartened with his experi
ence in tbe interior, and does cot seeami
no more do I what is to be the immediate
healthy solution of the matter, except in
the thorough introduction of comp!ete'wLi;a
labor.
Polities! In tiler n nc 9.
Hnman nature is so constituted, that bI
hongh men may persuade themselves, thnt
terror, religious or political, is a damnable
crime, the voice of conscience protests so
tlrongly against this doctrine. Calumny in
the homage which both religions and politi
cal dogmatism has ever paid to conscience.
Even in those sad periods when the guilt of
heresy was universally belieyed.ihe spirit of
intolerance was only sustained by the diffu
sion of countless libels against the misbe
liever, and by the systematic concealment of
his virtnes. How sedulously theology that
lime labored at the task; how ucscmpnloas
ly they maligned and blackened every lead
ing oponent in their views; how oagerly
they fanned the flame of sectarian animos
ity; how uniformly they prohibited those
whom they could influence from undying
the writings, or frequenting ihe society of
men of different opinions lhan their own, is
well known to all who are acquainted with,
eccclesiasiica! history. The politiesi histo
ry of the last four years has revealed on the
part of the fanatical Radicals, nay even on
the part of men who professed lo be conser
vatives' tha bame embittered rancor, ihs
same proclivity lo personal abuse, tha same
malignant animosity towards those who
differed with them, that makes the dagmat
ic theology of centuries ago. Where was
there ever such a fierce spirit of develisb,
hate as that engendered a&atnst Clemen L.
Yallar.digham, and yet no purer, more cun
sciencious public man ever fiilled tha post
of Representative at Washington. Ona
canse of this ceafcless embittered crusade
doubtless was, tbat ia all trials and through
every strait, he had come off vic:orioa,
combeliing even Lincoln to yield. Had ha
been conquered, broken down, suing for
pardon, they might have been con'ent
Besides, l.ke all other guilty spirits, they
have to al", who have erffared Irora pere
cu ion, "a foarlal looking of a juJgmeot to
come." Take, too, ihe course of intolerance
and persecution lhat pursued this journal
its circulation illegally seized and confisca
ted, its office closed by the action of a ty
ranical Federal power,' its motives maligned
and its 6er.timen:s belied. Yet it has sur
vived it ail, and to day rejoices in a pros
peri'y thai is the envy of tnosa very journals
that wera the loudest iu their denunciationa,
and which hastily j-jstified the infamous in
tolerance pursued. There is evidently a
great change of public fenliment rapidly
going on ; thetot er second thought is be
i;i:ining to work, and what remains for tnose
who have unjustly sufiere.l is to make up
the truthful record of the limes truly, fully,
and accurately, and, in the great day of ac
count, when the tribunal of human judgment
is set, and th3 backs are opend, 4 to mete
out punishment, not, indeed, with the blind
fury cf revenge, but in the spirit of justice,
thus guarding the future of American
against a repetition of the same tyranny and
w;on-g 2ezc York Xeics.
Card on the Beast
The La Crote Democrat, ia an article of
about half h column bids farewell to the
"Bottle Imp" of Gen. Grant, in rather severe
bul deserved ana:hema. V'e give an ex
tract :
The greatest enrse a mother could pot
npon a child would be to wish it the heart
; and attributes of Ban. Butler, whose sonl
has at last sunk in the deepest infamy, and
whose eternity we trut will be spent in the
ko:ve rf his employer. Thief, robber, aboli
tion patriot, military plunderer, woman iti-j
suiter, grave-yard robber, soldier murdeier '
egoistical ass, pet of republicanism, child
of the devil, cock-eyed abortion of human-!
ity, bottled bragzadocia, played oat politi
cian, dishonored general and traitorous eiti
zen, A i are'.
Bottled Blunderer, Big Bethel Batcherl
Bigoted Braggadocia, Een Beast Butler!-
Begone t
They tell a story in New London, illas-r.i
live of Gro'.on business enterprise, wb'cH
runs thus: A green grocer in Groton sen
his clerk to New London one morning U
summer with a bag of green corn to dispes
of. The young man was gone all day, an,
at night returned with bis bag of green con
j on his shoulder, and dumped it on ihe fioo
with ihe remark: "There's yous green cord
I go and sell it yourself I can't." "Why.l
! said the grocer, "havn't yoa sold any ?"-J
t ' Sold any ? No," saii he. "I've bean aj
' over New London wish it, and nebody sai
' anything about green corn. Two or thre
fellows asked roe what I'd got ia tnyb?
j and I tol J 'em 'iwamone ef their d-
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sineis;
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