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BY S. J. EOW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., "WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1862.
VOL. 9 WO. 17.
THE MEEEY GIELS.
"(he laughing girls, the happy girls! ; '
0 ginger, how wo love 'em ! - "
Sweet, pretty girls with sunny curls,
0 what can be above 'em ?
.We love to see them ran and skip,
And hear them laugh and giggle ;
' "VVe like to press the nectar lip.
Ha! how it makes as giggle!
0! none but hateful, hunchbacked churls
Can hlp but love the pretty girls!
The law, the lass with rosy checks !
0 roaring, fighting C;eaar !
We'd clamber up the Alpine peaks,
To get a chance to squeeze her!
She's plump and neat as any doll,
And, glory, how we'd flounder
-We'd give our fortune, pip and all,
To get our arms around her!
For none but hateful, hunchbacked churls
Kefuso to squeeze the merry girla !
'The maid, the maid with laughing eyes !
O save us, mighty Juno!
'Who can the pleasing orbs despise?
Oh we can't do it, you know!
'We'd kiss all the babies now in town.
And try to look some snugger;
'We'd always smile and never frown,
If we could only hug her !
For none but hateful, hunchbacked churls
"Will study long to hug the girls'.
Croak on. crouk on ye-baches"' old,
We'll lixten to you never!
We'll bug the girls till we grow cold !
We'll love them on forever!
O! sing and talk of single bliss,
JJut we'll not hear your story ?
We'd sell ourself for one sweet Kiss !
O! glory! glory! glory!
For none but hateful, hunchbacked churls
Can help but love the merry girls !
THE TEEASTJEr EEPOET.
We cannot better analyze this most impor
tant and elaborate document for oar readers
than by taking up its conclusions Erst, and
beginning at the end of it. Tlic Secretary ex
preseshis decidedjopinion that, notwithstand
ing the great dillicu Ities created by the vast,
sudden, and protracted expenditures of the
war, ho can still maintain the public credit
and provide lor the public wants. The means
ly which ho proposes to acomplisli these great
tuds are simple, and the general plan is con
densed in a short paragraph ;
"Ho recommends that whatever amounts
may bo needed beyond tho sums supplied by
revenue and through other indicated modes,
bo obtained by loans, without increasing the
issne of United States notes beyond the a
monnt fixed by law, unless a clear public ex
igency shall demand it" lie recommends also,
the organization of banking associations lor
the improvement of the public credit and lor
the supply to the poople of a safe and uniform
currency. And he recommends no change in
the law provided for the negotiation of bonds
except tho necessary Iicre.'.so of" amount and
the repeal of the absolute restriction to market
value, and of the clauses authorizing conver
tibility at will."
The estimate made by the Secretary's ex
penditures of the current fiscal year for all
purges other than or the War and Navy
Departments, and of the public debt, arc the
same as was the actual expenditures last year,
$24,511,476; Interest on public debt, $25,
041 5C2 War and Navy Departments, 730,00-3
.739; Total, 788, 658,777. Of this aggregate of
course the greater part is due to the continu
ance of the war, and while there is little pros
pect ol a reduth.n of the expenditure before
July 1 next, there is, we trust, reason to hope
that it will hot continue throngh the succee
ding fiscal year. The Secretary estimates a
still higher sum for these two departments,
for the year 1S63 4, should -the war continue.
To meet this expenditure the estimate of
receipts from revenues proper is as' follows':
From custom, $68,041,736 ; From internal rev
enucSSo.SOS; All other sonrces, $ 13,9-33,-759;
Total.S 167,451 ,798. Add to this a balance
unexpended from the former fiscal rear of
$13,043,546, and an amount to be realized
from loaos already made or authorized of
$831,150,914, and the excess of expenditures
lor the current year is $276,912,517. This
ura must ie provided through new legislation.
This balance is less than the public have
penerally believed it would 1. With the pub
lic credit at the high point it was shown to
have been, at the placing of tho last loan,
there should be no great difficulty in provi
ding means to get though the year, and the
Secretary expresses confidence in being able
to do so. He advocates at great length a sys
tem of hank note circulation based on United
States bonds, which would, when established,
absorb bonds and provide revenue by their
sale. lit advocates the removal of the limit
now assigned to the acceptance of temporary
posits, and expects to get $25,000,000 from
that sourse Tor tho current year, if tho limit is
removed. Not much of immediate revenue
is expected from the proposed banking system,
if adopted, and the great resource, therefore,
s additional loans. The laws of last session,
.authorizing the issue of $500,000,000 of "five
twenties,, in bonds, and $250,000,000 in Uni
ted States notes, convertible into such bonds,
ere attended by conditions which have made
the negotiation of large amounts imposible,
and it is recommended that these restriction
to repealed. If repealed, it is believed that
the requisite amount can be realizedfrom them
alone. These bonds are not now negotiable
below par, and therefore they are taken only
individual investors, and. as no taker can
make a profit on either bonds or notes, they
go off slowly. . 1
Bonds tvr a longer time, or at a higher rate
of interest, would offer one alternative tj the
repeal of these restrictions.
lext to these propositions the Secretary
would prefer the 7.30 three year bonds, con
vertible into "five-twenties" (6 per cent.) at
maturity, and of smaller notes being 3.65 per
cent.-interest, as formerly recommended by
him. Through one or tho other of these meas
ures, all easy of execution, he is confident of
raising the $276,912,517 required for the cur
rent fiscal year, and also the greater sum of
$627,388,183 required for the fiscal year fol-lowing!8G3-4,
in' case the war shall continue.
- The dark side ol the picture is the public
debt, though the increasing wealth and strength
of the country render it far less discouraging,
as the Secretary thinks, than it would be to
any other Power of the earth. The estimated
expenditures for 1863.4 if a year of war, are
$845,413,183. The actnal debt, July 1 1862,
was $514,211,371. On July 1, 18(53. it is es
timated that it will reach $1,122,297,403, and
on July 1,180-5, S1,744.G85,5S6. Of course
this is calculating the war to continue on the
present gigantic scale a calculation which is
obviously greatly in error. Either the rebels
will be beaten, or we shall be, long before Ju
ly 1, 1861. If tho war ends, the Secretrry es
timates the expenditures of 1863-4 as follows :
War and Navy, $55,833,834; Other Depart
ments, $24,511,476; Interest, 50,000,000; Pen
sions and bounties, $10,000,000; Total, 140,
357,310; Or not to exceed $160,000,000 under
any contingencies. The British annual bud
get is more than twice this sum $364,435,682
fortheyear ending March 31, I8G2, and that
of France nearly three times as much, or for
1802, S421, 823,900.
,Tns New .Metal, Thallium. Mr. Crookes,
the discoverer of this new metal, gives the
following description of it in tho Proceedings
of the Ui.yal Society: "Thallium iu the pure
state is a heavy metal, bearing a remarkable
resemblance to lead in its physical properties.
Its specific gravity is, however, higher about
12. Tho freshly scraped surface has a bril
liant metallic lust.-r not quite so blue in color
as lead, and it tarnishes more rapidly than this
Utter metal. It is very soft, being readily cut
with a knife and indented with the nail ; it
may alio be hammered out and drawn into
wire, but has hot much tenacity in this form.
It easily marks paper. Tho fusing point is
below redness, and with caro several pieces
may be melted together and cast into one
lump. There is, however, generally a loss in
this operation, owing to its rapid oxydation.
The metal itself does not appear to be sensibly
volatile below a red heat. I have made no
special attempts at present to determine tho
atomic weight, although from two estimations
ol tho amount of sulphur in the sulphide it
appears to be very heavy. The figures ob
tained did not, however, agree well enough to
enable me to speak more definitely on this
point than that I believe it to bo above 100.
I. may mention that I obtained this element
in the pure metallic state and exhibited it to
several r.-iends as early as January last, and
nhould then have published an account of it,
had it not been for the reasons already men
tioned. Thallium is soluble in nitric, hydro
chloric, and sulphuric acids, the former at
tacKing it with greate&t energy ,with evolution
of red vapors." ......
Gtx. Koseckass' Gallantry. W. D. B.,
of the Cincinnati Commercial, is Assistant
Provost Marshal General at General Rose
crans' headquarters, and has charge of the
female department. Occasionally a refractory
female breaks away from Capt. B., and insists
on seeing the General. One of these yester
day rushed up to Gen. Kosecran, intruding
herself between Gen. R. and Gen. Hamilton,
saying
"Is this Gen. Rosecrans ?"
Yes, madam."
"Well, General, can't I have a pass ?"
"Madam," (with a low bow,) "it is not my
business to give' yon a pass ; it is my duty to
refuse it."
Another lady approached on another occa
sion, and began with a pitilul story in regard
to her "poor, dear, sick nuclo."
"I conclude with yon, madam," said the
General, in that quiet way of his, "It is un
fortunate that the uncles will sometimes get
seriously indisposed. I, too, have a dear, af
flicted uncle."
"Then, you can sympathize with me,"she
said. .
"Ye, madam, 1 do, and when ray Uncle
Sam gets over his present serious indisposi
tion I will give yoo a pass." :
It would of course be an anti-climax which
would ruin tho story to relate what the lady
did.
Weil Said. One of the best things the,
President ever said was when he met M'Clel
lan, after the Army got back into its old tren
ches : " Well, General, I have heard of peo
ple being knocked into the middle of next
week, bnt we are the first people I ever know
who were knocked into the middle of last
year."
An Irishman, being a little fuddled, was
asked what was his religions belief. "Is it
me belafeye'd be askin' aboqt ? It's the same
as the widdy Brady's. I owe her twelve shil
lings for whisky, and she belaves I'll niver
pay her and faith, that's my b9lafe too 1" .
- Why is a man dead . drunk like a piece of
artillery ready lor action ? Because bo's all
limbered up. . ' - ' -
COL. K'NEIL AT SOUTH M0UITTAIJT.
Col. Hugh McNeil, of the famous ''Buck
tail" regiment, who was killed at the battle of
' Antietara, was one of the most accomplished
officers in the federal service. A soldier re
lates an exploit of bis at South Mountain
which is worth recording.
During the battle of South Mountain the reb
els held a very strong position. They were
posted in the mountain pass, and had infantry
on the heights on everj side. Our men were
compelled to carry the place by storm. The
position -seemed impregnable ; large craggy
rocks protected tho enemy on every side,
while our men were exposed to a galling fire.
; A band of rebels occupied a ledge on the
extreme right, as the colonel approached with
a lew of his men. Tho unseen force poured
upon them a volley; McNeil, on the instant,
gave the command s "Pour your fire upon
those, .cocks fr" """v . -
The Bucktailslicsitated ; it was not an or
der fuatthejfUad been accustomed to receive;
they had always picked their men.
"Fire !"thundered the colonel, "I tell you
to fire at those rocks!" .
The men obeyed. For some time an irreg
ular fire was kept up ; the Buoktails sheltering
themselves as best they could behind trees
and rocks. On a sudden McNeil caught sight
of two rebels peering through an opening in
tho works to get an aim. The eyes of tho men
followed their commander, and balf-a-dozen
rifles was levelled in that direction.
"Wait a minute," aaid theColonel. "I will
try my band. There is nothing like killing
two birds with ono stone."
The two rebels were not in lire, but one
stood a little distanca back of the other, while
just in front of the foremost was a slanting
rock. Col. McNeil seized a rifle, raised it,
glanced a moment along the polished barrel ;
a report followed, and both the rebels disap
peared. At that moment a loud cheer a lit
tle distance beyond rent the air.
"All is right now," cried the Colonel;
charge the rascals."
The men sprang up among the rocks in an
instant. The affrighted rebels turned to run,
but encountered another body of the Buck
tails, and were obliged to surrender. Not a
man of them escaped. Every one saw the ob
ject of tho Colonel's order to fire at random
among the rocks. lie had sent the party a
rouud to their rear, and meant this to attract
their attention. It was a perfect success.
. The two rebels by the opening in the ledge,
were found lying there stiff and cold. Colo
nel McNeil's bullet had struck the slanting
rock in front of them, glanced, and passed
through both their heads. There it lay be
tween them flattened. The Colonel picked it
up and put it in his pocket y. T. Post.
Contents op as Ostrich's Stomach. The
Lyons Journals state that a few days back some
ruffians succeeded in getting hold of the os
trich kept in the Pare do la Teto d'Or, with a
view of stripping it of its feathers. The poor
bird was shortly afterwards found lying on the
ground in a dying state, having had its neck
almost dislocated by the miscreants. Alter
its death it was dissected by M. Rey, profes
sor of the veternary sohool of the city, who
found the following strange articles in its sec
ond stomach : three' clay tobacco pipes, quite
whole, bat having become green ; a knife
with abrass handle, twenty centimeters in
length ; twenty-five brass buttons of diflereut
infantry regiments; a ten-sous piece, thirty
two sous and centimes, on most of which the
effigy had been worn off; about fifty bits of
brass, reduced by corrosion to small triangles
fragments of watch chains ; various bits of
other metals; six large whole walnuts, and
several fragments of a hawthorn walking stick ;
lastly, a piece of iron wire, ten centimeters In
length, which had pierced, the sides of the
gizzard, was found imbedded in the abdomen,
and does notseem to have caused the creature
any pain. -
A good story is told of one of our country
constables, who was directed to serve an ex
ecution. Ho was told that the property to be
levied consisted of three heifers, and after
taking charge of them he must endorse a re
turn describing the property. With a view
to be entirely correct, and not finding "aul
heffers," he specified as follows : " 1 went to
level on 3 heffers, but they warnt aul heffers
only won wars a shee heffer, and ' the other
wars a moely bull and the other wars a bully
moul."
. Wet the Powder. Two Irishmen in are
cent engagement were gallantly standing . by
their gUD, firing in quick succession, when
one touching the piece, noticed that it was
very hot.
"Arrah ! Mike, the cannon is gettin' hot;
we'd better atop firin' a little." -
. "Pivil a bit," replied Mike ; "jist dip the
cartridges in the river afore yees load an' kape
it cool." -
Some music teacher once wrote that the
" art of playing on a violin requires the ni
cest perception, and the most sensibility of
any art in the known world." Upon which
an editor comments in the following manner:
The art of publishing a newspaper, and ma
king it pay, and at the same time have it
please everybody, beats fiddlin' higher Ihan
a kite." :- " ' ' V ; '..
J. WESLEY GEE E HE,
Eich and Eacy Affair.
The Chicago Times, an unscrupulous Breck
inridge print, has, for some time, been elec
trifying its readers, particularly, and Seces
sion sympathizers generally, with the revela
tions of a certain J. Wesley Greene, who, it
was said, had been in Richmond, and had an
interview with Jeff. Davis, who had submit
ted certain peace propositions, "of the pre
cise terms" of which the editor of the Timet
says, he is "not at liberty to speak, but they
are such as the South could honorably make
and the North could honorably accept." It
now turns ont that the whole story of Greene
is a fabrication, from beginning to end, and
Greene himself the gayest kind of a "lark."
The Pittsburg Gazette, of tho 13th, publishes
an expose, from which it appears that Greene,
in 1861, aspired to the ministry in that city,
and presented a forged certificate of member
ship in a church at Buffalo, ne next turned
up in Cincinnati as "a geat sinner' but, pro
fessing repentance, he borrowed $10 which be
forgot to pay a confiding- brother, before bis
departure. Subsequent revelations show that
he was actually preaching at Cincinnati, and
whilst acting in this capacity, forged notes
and papers by means of which he cheated an
old lady out of her property, having first in
gratiated himself into her good graces and
married her daughter. He then took his wife
east, speuding money, travelling from place
to place, getting into trouble, and finally was
convicted of obtaining goods under false pre
tences, an sent to the penitentiary. Whilst
there his wifo learned, to her horror, that he
had already a wife and several children. Hav
ing served out his time, he went east again,
and married a third wifo, and, it is alleged,
again got into trouble which consigned him
to the Penitentiary a second time. Wife No.
8 obtained a divorce. In process of time, he
again turned np in Cincinnati and married a
fourth wife. A card from Mr. John Dunlap,
of Pittsburgh, sets forth that Greene has been
in his employ for something over a year,work
ing at the ornamental japanning business, and
has been seldom absent that in the month of
October, the time fixed for his having been in
Richmond, he was absent bnt Jite days. It
seems that whilst in Washington City, en
lightening the President and his Cabinet, in
reference to Jeff. Davis's peace propositions,
he forged an order, signed by Secretary Stan
ton, upon which he diddled a shop-keeper
out of an elegant and costly set of furs. The
fiend was not discovered until be had left, and
as he took another route from tho one he said
he was going', he has thus far eluded the offi
cers who were set on his track.
This denouement of Mr. Greene will doubt
less spoil all the nice arrangements that were
flitting through ihe head of Fernando Wood
and other "Peace Democrats" in the North.
All the political capital they have made or
can make out of the fiction of this adventure,
they are welcome to. Wo should think, how
ever, that hereafter they would be chary abont
persons hailing from Richmond, lest the pub
lic might think that there are other green peo
ple than those bearing that name.
If any of the Peace Democracy" know of
the whereabouts of J. Wesley Greene, they
can make the fact known, by addressing the
Secretary of War, or "any other man."
A "Sucker's idea of soundness aptly illus
trated in the remark of an old beehunter in
one of the Egytian counties. The times were
the topic of conversation, and the soundness
of the various Illinois banks was under dis
cussion. Among these is the Gaston Bank,
owned by Smith, a popular man among the
copperas breeches there-abouts.
Is Smith sound ?" inquired one of the
party.
Uncle John, an old pioneer, taking his pipe
from a hole in his face like a sit in a side of
sole leather, broke out:
Sound ! Smith sound 1 Weft, he is. Tie nev
er wur sick in his life, weighs more than 180,
voted for Duglis, and believes in immersion
sure ! I call that sound some.
. Washington's Will Stolen and Sold.
It appears by a statement made at a meeting
of the New York Historical Society, that the
will of Washington was stolen on the advance
of the a:my into Virginia, and has since been
sold to the British Museum. It was the last
production of his pen, having. been written
exclusively by Washington. It was deposited
in the Fairfax court-bouse, and was stolen by
a soldier, and has found its way, notwithstan
ding the general announcement of the theft,
into the curiosity shop of the British, where
it will doubtless remain, unless efforts are
ruade to have it restored.
You have heard, perhaps, of the encounter
between an Englishman and the market wo
man at a fruit stand in New York. The Eng
lishman had learned of the Yankee's habit of
bragging, and he thought be would cut the
comb of that propensity. He saw some huge
watermelons on the market-woman's stand,
and walking np to her, pointing at them with
a look of disappointment, said : "What! don't
you raise bigger apples than these in Ameri
ca?" The woman looked at him one mo
ment, and then retorted "apples ! Anybody
might know you was so Englishman. Them's
huckleberries- '' " "
A SH0ET CATECHISM FOE DEMOCRATS
Question. Who was the General to receive
negroes within his lines, and to refuse to re
mand them to their rebel owners ? ' '
Answer. Gen. Butler ; a Democrat.
Question. Who was among the first men to
take ground in favor of confiscating rebel
property, and using the negroes tor military
purposes?
Jlntwer. John Cochrane, a Democatio Con
gressman from New York, now in service of
his country. " -
Q. Who was the first military Commander,
under the war power, to issue a proclamation
for the unconditional freedom of the slaves ?
A. Gen. Hunter, in South Carolina, an
old Democrat.
" Q. Who first gave orders to shoot on the
spot the first man who would attempt to tear
down the American flag
jl. Gen. John A Dix, a Democrat.
Q. Who hung the first offender for thus
tearing down the flag ?
A. Gen. Benj. F. Butler, a Democrat.
He hung Mumford in New Orleans, for tear
ing down the flag on the U. S. Mint.
Q. Who hung the rebels in Arkansas for
treachery towards his troops?
A. Gen. G. N. Fitch, recently a Demo
cratic Senator.
Q. Who were among the most zealous ad
vocates In the Senate of using the negroes for
military purposes 7
' A. Senator Rice, of Minnesota, and Wright
of Indiana, both Democrats. The former
quoted English precedent for raising colored
regiments. .
Q. When a Cumberland Senator last win
ter at Augusta, in the Senate Chamber, exui
tingly asked, Where is the officer who will
lead a regiment of colored troops, who was
the man to respond by rising ?
A. Cl. Frank S. Nickerson, of the Maine
Fourteenth -rra Democrat.
Q. Who are among the foremost men in
the Empire State, to nrge the uso of slaves as
we would use other property, in putting down
the rebellion by putting them to any use
that can be made available?
A. DanielS. Dickinson, and Richard Bus
teed, two of the most prominent Democrats of
the State.
Q. Who was the first actually to raise a
colored regiment ?
.3. General Hunter, a Southerner by birth,
and a Democrat.
Q. " Who was the first who proposed to lead
a colored regiment to the field, and share
with them the trials atd dangers of battle ?
A. Gen. Spraguc, the richest young man
in New England, and tho Demooratie Govern
or of Rhode Island.
AMother'8 Kiss. A day or two since, a
ragged and dirty looking boy, fourteen years
of age, pleaded guilty in the superior criminal
court to having fired a building. For two
years past, since the death of his mother, he
had wandered around the streets a vagrant,
without a home or human being to care for
him, and he had become in every respect a
bad boy." A gentleman and lady interested
themselves in his behalf, and tho latter took
him one side to question him. She talked
with him kindly, but without making the
slightest impression upon his feelings, and to
all she had said be manifest the greatest indif
ference, until she asked him if no one ever
kissed him. This simple inquiry proved too
much for him, and bursting into tears replied :
"No one since rny mother kissed me," That
one thonght of bis poor, dead mother, the
only being, perhaps, who had ever spoken to
him kindly before, touched him to his heart,
a hardened young criminal as he was. This
little incident caused other tears than his.
Boston Recorder.
A firm of Johnson & Co. recently started
the busines of issuing sbinplasters in Elmira ;
but for some mysterious reason they could
not keep them issued, They came back so
rapidly that the responsible member of the
firm, Dr. Golden by name, found it necessary
to change his base, and, curiously enough, for
got to pay his board bill. The Press says :
It is quite often we hear of a run on the
bank-' Things have changed. . Yesterday
our citizens witnessed the anamaly of a bank
on the run. The last seen of the bank of
Johnson & Co., it was making a straight coat
tail through the Erie Railroad woodshed to
ward tho woods-" '
An old maid, who has her eyes a little side
ways on matrimony, says : "The curse of
this war is, that it will make many widows,
who will be fierce to get married, and who
will know bow to do it. Modest girls will
staud no chance at all."
The Rebel papers speak: of Gen. Bntlcr as
"Butler the- beast." They no doubt think
him the big beast of the Apocalypse. They
must be awfully scared.
Many who dress extravagantly should be as
much ashamed of their clothes as Adam and
Eve were net having any.
If Humphrey Marshall wants to crush the
Union cause in Kentucky, he bad better sit
down upon it. . ; ; , .
Tho bride elect of Prince of Wales is named
Alexandria Caroline Maria Charlotte Louisa
Julls. : : . -'!: .:' '
ANECDOTE 07 A TEACHEE-SOLDIES.
The following anecdote ot a teacher soldier,
was related by Prof. Wickersham in bis lec
ture on "Awakening Mind." Tho incident
narrated occurred at the battle of Fair Oaks.
We would have given it a plaoe in our report
at the time had our columns allowed it it is
too good to be lost :
A rebel battery, handled in a masterly man
ner, was mowing our men down, and it seem,
ed impossible to drive it from its position.
The General, seeing this, rode up to the Cap
tain of a Lancaster county company. 'Cap
tain, 1 want some ono who will go out between
these armies and shoot the officer in command
of that battery." "Why, General, it's cer
tain death to attempt it I" "I know it; but
you see how that fire is decimating our ranks.'
Is there no nan willing to sacrifice himself?"
"I'll see," replied the captain, as he turned
to his company. "Boys, who of yon is wik
ling to go out between these armies, and shoot
yonder officer ?" A young man stepped out
of the ranks "I'll go." '
He went, seemingly to c-Ttain death. Craw
ling along, he finally reached a slight eleva
tion behind which ho was partially sheltered.
There was a crack of his rifle, but the ball mis
sed its mark. Again steady aim a puff of
smoke I The officer is seen to throw up his
arms. His gunners spring to catch him as he
falls. Tho battery is forced to abandon . its
position. The brave soldier returns unharm
ed. "And," said the Professor in a burst of
enthusiasm, "I would have searched the ar
my through, but I would have taken that
young man by the hand and said to him, It
was bravely done I"" He was a teacher from
this county. I will give you his name Geo,
K. Swope! Lancaster (Pa.) Express.
. Goincj to Rest. Did you ever know a child,
though half dead with play, who was willing
to gojto bed ? How they will wink, open their
poor eyes, and stare about, and linger round
the bright lamps, and plead for a reprieve,
"just a little longer, just five or ten minute !"
Time will cure them of. that soon enough,
poor things, so don't try to teach them the les
son now. Let them "sit up," before tho evil
days come when sleep is the most coveted boon
on earth ; when they dread nothing so much
as waking to a Dew day, and its repetition of
weary struggles with wrong and wrong doers,
lighted by glimpses of sunshine so few and
so transient. Cro-yd into the children's in-scect-lile
all the happiness you can, that they
may have that at least, to look back upon,
when theyjhavc po Joqger the wishyor the pow
er to "sit np." '
Good Places to Live. Cedarburg, in
Ozaukee county, : Wisconsin, gives 346 Dem
ocratic votes to 3 Republican, but , is beaten
by MarshSeld, in Fon du Lac, county, which,
gives 307 Democratic votes, with "nary a one
for the Opposition." . A man could have soma
peace of mind in Marshfield. Democratic
Exchanges. . ... , .
a It was in this same delightful region, cal
led Ozaukee county, that the recent anti-draft
riot took place. These Democratic masses
wouldn't make up their quota by volunteer
ing, and determined to resist tho efforts of tha
authorities to complete it by draft! What a
delightlul place this would be for a genuine
Vallandighamer I Will our Vallandigham co
temporaaies still complain that their party has
furnished a majority of the volunteers ?
Don't White There. "Don't writo there,"
said one to a lad who was writing with a dia
mond pen on a pane of glass in the window
of a hotel. "Why not ?" was the reply. "Be
cause you can't rub it out." There are other
things which men should not do, because they
cannot rub them out. A heart is aching for
sympathy, and a cold, perhaps a heartless
word is spoken. The impression may be mora
durable than the diamond npon the glass.
The inscription on the glass may be destroyed
by the fracture of the glass, but the impres
sion on the heart may last forever. On many
a mind and many a heart there are sad inscrip
tions, deeply engraved, which no effort can
erape. We should be careful what we writo
on tho minds of others.
An Old Acquaintance. Lord Chief Jus
tice Holt, when a young man was vory dissi
pated, and belonged to a club of wild fellows,
most of whom took an infamous course of life.
When his lordship was engaged at the old
Bailey a man was convicted of highway rob
bery, whom the Judge remembered to have
been one of his old companions. Moved by
curiosity ; Holt thinking the man did not
know him ; asked what had become of his old
associates. The culprit, making a . low bow,
and fetching a deep sigh, replied "Ah my
lord, they are all banged but your lordship
and I." ,
Bread has just been made from corn eigh
teen hundred years old, found at Pompeii.'
Moreover, it is said that a bitoh of eighty-one'
loaves from a Pompeiian oven, oddly prcserv-'
ed from the beat of the lava by a thick coat--ing
of ashes, has also been discovered in the
recent explorations of the ruins.
"Can you tell me how the word "saloQD' is
spelt ?" was asked of a cockney by a quizzf-
cal fellow. "Certainly," said the Londoner,'
with a look of triumph, "there's a ucss, and t
hay, and a hell, and two hoes, and ahon,." -'
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