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BY S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1864.
VOL. 10.-NO. 43.
j?dcrt octrtt.
KISD WOED3.
kind word are liko the morning sun,
. That gild the summer nhower;
Kind word are like the blessing spread
kj every rummer shower.
They light the heart with sunny bc&mj;
They hed a fulgent ray.
And cber the weary pilgrim
As be wanders on hi way.
If you bare nought to give the poor,
W hen winter's anow-cluudj loom.
Oh ! nerer forget that oue aweet smite
May cb4e away their gloom.
Kemeu)brr, too. that one kind word
May blunt affliction's dart,
And softly full, like healing balm,
Upon the wjunded heart
Let us hear cone but gentle word ;
No talss of dismal strife ;
lJut only kind word whisper.
As you tread this vale of life
Thtn try by every word and glanoe
The suffering to beguile ;
And watch tbem when you speak kind word,
Ilow happily they smile.
. PEAOTIOAL INSTRUCTION.
In the admirable report of Agazzis in re
lation to the museum of comparative zoo
logy, the great naturalist gives an interest
ing sketch of hisniethcd of natural history.
He puts them at work among the specimens
themselves, studying tacts, tracing analo
gies, developing differences, and mastering
principles; for, say lie, "1 have satisfied
myself long ago that the general and most
elementary principles of one science are bet
ter understood when illustrated from nature
than when explained in a mere apstraet
manner." On this the Washington Chron
icle makes the following sensible comments :
'The divorce between text-book instruc
tion and practical knowledge is one of t ha
g eat curses oi American education. e j
know accomplished divines who cannot U l j
We have seen more thanone excellent (J reek
scholar who was incapable of distinguishing
1-ctween a fif Id of -growing wheat and one of
rye. A large proportion ot our college grad
uates ate ready to confound iron pyraU-s
With specimens of goM ore; and we have
known numbers who made capital recitations
in chemistry in their college coarse, who.
never really learned, are now in entire mae-
iu.-umi;ii;iii.c win ecu a cuesi nui anu an oak
t tcai ignorance ot tno appearance
e. cuavac- j
chemicals, j
istics ami users o: the simplest
te nave seen more than one voting man I
who. .niter twelve years good K-hoohng, and
tinder ai-complL-dicd teachers at that, could
not draw an ordinary note of hand or calcu
late a simple- sum at interest.
It is this ignorance of eveiy day things
vhich makes our scholars the tport of your
rough practical men. They get plundered
in the market and cheated iu the More.
1 hey am taken advantage ot by th
r gr -'-!
c.T. and imposed upon bv their
L- i
ureiif-r.
oiiscious ol lucir ignorance of what many
ii wide-awake eight-year old is famiJIiarwit.'i,
thev shrink from coming in contact wit h
iiien in business ways, and so go through
life one-sided. We do not believe it will
hurt a statesman to know how to sew on a
button or handle a hammer. We are sure
that no divine will be worse for beins famil
iar Will;
d. the secret or the kitchen arid pan- j
.nd we are quite certain it do..- hot I
ir . .via we are
.VIC
iiuit an editor to bu a indfe nf Hon- nr of
gwnl beef Ours is a practical people, and
we need a more thorough every-day educa
tion of young men and young women. The
ji idlest .-O' iety is the most thoroughly self
helping. It is compatible with the highest
caiture to be able to wait on one's self. For
ourselves we would as soon be: handed over
to the executioner as to be dogged by a va
let. But in order to free men from imposi
tion and fit them for every day duties they
ii.u.-t he trained to them'ih "tlic-'r youth.
A child will learn by observation and by
t-jucli a thousand thin?:) in his early years
fci'fiout effort, which it would take weeks of j
imrd work to secure at a liter period. We I
our ctuktrentoo iuucn in school rooms. I
! hey wa-ie too many precious hours over !
?H;s that, duwdhng over them as thev do.
! the niin i more harm than food. The
KUoUl'l
mid surrounded more with objects and j
i''SS v,:rh text-hooks : tautrht sizos. Torm
yjutifj. color', aetiisi contact, rather than
;Ur to acquire abstract descriptions. We
tape '.cine day to see a reform in the meth
"U i'" teaehing, and to see chiMren practi
'liy inducted into the secrets of nature,
&n'! .'.quiring by actual observation and ex
Knnicnt an amount of valuable knowledge
-iii.h tiiere study of tcxt-honL-s enrmot ro--
iMj bestow
Coal Harbor,
iiiis name is indiscriminately spelt Cold
"Mbor and Coal Harbor. Some of the
"sps have it one way and some the other,
-n McCjellan-a report it is called Coal Har-p'!"-
lue place is simply a locality no vil--a
cross roads and a dilapidated old
ern. The roads passing here, however,
'-ciporrant ; oue leads to Richmond, sev
a toits distant; another to White House,
tl . L,ules distaut ; another to - Old
tn u"' ve miIes f'rora which a road leads
"naimvertown ; another to Dispatch sta
n, near Bottom's Bridge, on the Rich
hI and York river railroad.
iI-'e "?vy department has received infor-
'onol the capture, off Velasco, Texas,
tte 2sth May, of the blockade running
j"" Isabel by the steamer Admiral. She
juoade upward of twenty successful trips
Thfr f!at anl Mobile and Galveston.
ij f atjd crew the IsabeI foaght
tJMii i11 courage before they were
urea, and did not surrender until they
The broadsides at short range,
cargo consists of powder, arms, percus
fi aP8, jardware and medicine. ,
Sf0I,lract for dead hcrses in tte
nny hw fat bB let for fl2,00a--
SPEECH fjF DB. BSECKINBIDGE.
Rev. Dr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, on
taking the chair of the Union National Con
vention as temporary President, delivered
the following pointed and eloquent address :
I Gentlemen of the Convention : You
i cannot be more sensible than I am, that the
j part which I have to perform here to-day is
i merely a matter of form ; and, acting upon
uie jiuucipieui my wnoie me wnen me sug
gestion was made to me from various quar
ters that it was iu the mind of many mem
bers of the Convention to confer this dis
tinction upon me, I honestly declined to ac
cept of it, because I have never sought hon
ors. I have never sought distinction. I
have been a working man and nothing else ;
but two considerations Jed me to change my
mind. One was personal to a class of men
in the country, far tjo Email for the good of
the country those men who, merely by
their example, by their . pains, and by their
voice, try to do good, and all the more in
j perilous times, without regard to the rewards
i that may come. It was good to make such
! men understand by the distinction conferred
upon oiiii ot t lie humblest or their clas,
that they were men that the country would
cherish and who would not be forgotten.
Applause. J The other motive related to
yourselves and to the country at large ; and
it is good liryou it is good for every na
tion, every btate, and every party to cher
ish all geih-rons impulse, to follow all noble
instincts ; and there are none more generous
and none more noble than to purge your
selves of ail v. ho jook to self, all betrayers,
and to confer your favors, if it be only in
the mere term, usion those who are worthy
to be trusted, and ask nothing more. Ap
plause. Now, according to my notions of propri
ety, havings-aid this, 1 should say no more
I '0o on. J but it has been intimated to
111C from many quarters, and in a way which
1 camiot disrc-ur,K that 1 would disappoint
the wishes of iny friends, and nerhans. the
j;ist expectations of the Convention, if I
did not, as briefly and yet as precisely as I
eouM, say a word upon the great matters
which have brought us here. Therefore,
in a very few words, as plainly as I can, I
will endeavor to direct your "attention to
one and another of these great matters in
which we are all engaged.
Ifl tin f;rs;f". Tit:tm -iint1nnnr nan 1 r r i-a
striking than the fact that you are here, the
representatives cf area'lv great nation the
voluntary representatives chosen without
form of law, l ot as truly representing the
feeling, ami, if you choose, the prejudices
of the' American people, as if it were all
written in the laws, ana sii passed by votes ;
for the man that vott will nominate here
j fur the Presidency of the United iStates.the
ruler of a great people in a great crisis.' is,
1 suppose, just as certain to be that ruler as
!,rii-triin!v u'i.Iai- ICin-n .,i-f..;., i .,,..:
- - - ' - - - i v-'l ' V 11 I . " V V. I L (111 1 ut-lVlVi 1 L
fates nhiei- II.n.,,1 I
And, moreover, ynu will allow me to say,
though, perhaps it is hardly proper that I
should, but, as tar as i know your opinions,
I suppose it is just as certain now, before
j oit utter it, whose name you will utter,and
which wiii be responded to from one end of
this nation to the other, as it will be after it
tr.ry. LApplause. Does any man doubt
that. thi. ( 'oni-pnf;Ti ;wLm c,-,il,,t a.
Lntham Lincoln should be the next Presi
dent of the United States. Vociferous
applause. What, however, I wUh to call
your attention particularly to is the gran
deur of the mission upon which you are met,
and therefore, the dignity, the solemnity,
the earnestness, and the conscientiousness
with which you, representing one of the
greatest and freest people of the world,
ought to discharge these duties.
Now, besides the nomination of the Pres
ident and Vice President (in regard to which
second office I will ray nothing, because I
know there is more or less a division of o-
pinion anion
'nations you
you, ) but besides these noni
have other and most solemn
duties to perform. You have to organize
this party thoroughly throughout the Uni
ted States. You have to put it into form.
t that will contribute all that wisdom,
oacked by energy and the most determined
effort can produce, to gain the victory which
I have already said was in our power. More
than that, you have to lay down with clear
ness and precision the principles upon which
you will carry on this great political contest,
and prosecute the war which is underneath
them, and the glory of the country which
lies before us, if we succeed. Plainly, not
in a double sense, but briefly, and with the
j dignity and precision
I tericg iy its represe
of a great people ut-
seutatives the political
principles by which they intend to live, and
for the sake of which they intend to die, so
that all men everywhere may understand
precisely what we need ; to run your furrow
80 deeply and so clearly that, while every
man worthy to associate with freemen may
see it, and pasd over it to us, every man who
is uuworthy may be either enabled to pass
or may be driven from us. We want none
but those who are like us to be with us.
Loud applause.
From among these principles if you will
allow me, for a moment, to say so the first
and most distinct is that we do not intend
to permit this nation to be destroyed. We
are a nation no doubt a peculiar one a na
tion formed of States, and no nation, ex
cept as these States form it ; and they are
States, but they are no States except as
they are States in that nation. Applause.
Historically they never were, and they have
no more right to repudiate them ; and nei
ther of them have any shadow of right, and
we intend, God helping us, so to vindicate
that truth that it shall never be disputed
any more in this world. Great applause.
It is a fearful alternative that is set before
us, and yet there are great compensations
for it.- Those of you who hare attended to
thif? subject, know, or ought to know, that
from the foundation of the present Govern
ment using that word in its proper sense,
mis present institution there have al
ways, in every generation, been parties that
nau no taitu in it. The men who tornied
it were doubtful of its success. The men
who opposed its formation did not desire its
success and 1 am bold to say, without de
taming you upon this point, that after all
the out-cry about our violation of the Con
stitution, this present liviuer generation and
this present Union party are more thorough
ly devoted to that Con stitution than auy
generation that has ever lived under it.
While I say that, and while olemnly be
lieve it while I believe it is capable of the
clearest historical proof I will also add that
it is a great error which has been propaga
ted in our land, to say that our Federal life,
our National life, depends merely upon the
existence of that Constitution. Our fathers
made it, w e love it, and we intend to main
tain it. Applause. But if it suited us
to change it, we would change it, and when
it suits us to change it, we will change it.
Applause. If it were to bo torn into a
thousand pieces, broken all over, the nation
would be as much a nation as it i3 to-day
as much a nation as it was before this par
ticular Constitution was made; a nation
which always declared its independence as
a people, ana who have lived united until
now, a nation independent of the particular
institutions under winch they lived, and ca
pable ot moaeling them precisely as the in
stitutions of successive generations may re
quire. Applause. J V, e ought to have it
distinctly understoou, both by friends and
eneoiies, that while we love that instrument,
and are in most, respects satisfied with if,
and will maintain it, and that we will, with
uudubitable certainty, put to death the
fri end or foe who undertakes to trample it
under foot, if we can get rid of them in no
other way, yet, beyond a doubt, we will al
ter it to suit ourselves from generation to
generation. Cries of "good, good," and
applause.
Xow, one more idea on that subject. Wc
have sanctified andput into that instrument
the natural right of revolution. This very
thing, that you may change it, which never
existed before the American Constitution,
and which existing, there is no rebellion, in
surrection, or civil war, except upon the
denial of the fundamental principle of all
free governments, to wit, ; That the major
part must rule. There is no other method
of carrying on society except that the power
of the majority shall be the power of the
whole so that, in one word, to deny the prin
ciple which I have tried to state , to you, is
to make dogmatic assertion that the only
form of government that i-? possible,
or that is approved by philosophy, or
mat h acknowledge by uml.is pure and ab
solute despotism. The principles, there
fore, which I am trying, in this feeble man
ner, to state Ik-fore you, are principles which,
if they be not true, freedom is impossible, and
no other government under the sun but a
government of pure force is or can exist and
ought not to endure among men. But the
idea which I say they are to carry out as
special compensation for these troubles and
sorrows is this : Jreadful as they are, these
fearful truths run through the whole history
of mankind, that whatsoever else may be
done to give stability to an authority; what
ever may be done to give perpetuity to
institutions, however may be the philosophy
of it, it has been found that the only imper
ishable cement of all free institutions has
been the blood of traitors. Applause. J No
goverment has ever stood upon irresistible
foundations, which foundations were not
built on traitors' blood. It is a fearful
truth, but we had as well avow it at
once. L'very blow you strike, and every
rebel you kill, and every battle you
win, reluctant as we are to do it, is adding
a decade, it may be a century, it maybe ten
centuries, to the perpetuity of your Govern
ment, and the freedom of your children.
Cries of "good" and applause.
Now, passing from that point, and passing
over many other things that it would be
proper lor me to say to you if the time ser
ved, and this were the occasion, let me add
that you are a Union party. Your origin
has been referred to as of 8 years ago. In
one sense it is true, that you are far older
than that. I see before me here not only
primitive Republicans and primitive Aboli
tionists, but I see also primitive Democrats.
I see primitive Whigs. I see primitive A
mericans, and if you will allow me to sav so,
I myself am here, who, all my life, have
been in a party to myself. Laughter and
applause.J As'a Uniou party I will follow
you to the ends of the earth, and to the gates
of death. Applause. But as an Aboli
tion party, as a Republican party, as a Whig
party, as a Demoratic party, an American
party, I will not follow you one foot. Laugh
ter and applause. And this is true of the
American people. Whatever you may be:
come hereafter, however you may divide or
scatter, while the country is in this peril,
call yourselves as you call yourselves to
day, as you styled yourselves in the call of
this convention, a ' 'Union party. ' ' You are
for the preservation of the Union. You are
for the destruction of this rebellion, root and
branch ; and, in my judgment, one of the
grand errors that has been committed by the
Administration of. the Federal Government,
the chief of which we are now about, as I
think, to give another term of office ap
plause one of the errors which has been
committed is their readiness to believe that
they had succeeded in places where they
had not succeeded, and to act in a manner
in which it would be proper for them to act
in accordance with that belief. But you
never willucceed until you have utterly
broken the military power of these people.
Enthusiastic applause. .
Well, I will not detain you on these points
their incidental points pne of which has
been made prominent in the remarks of the
excellent chairman of the National Commit
tee. I do not know that I would be willing
to go so tar as, probably, he would; but I
cordially agree with him, in most that he
uaa saiu. considering what has been done
about slavery, taking the thing as it now
oiu3, ovenooKing altogether everything
u couuemnauon or approval,
what has brought us to the point at which
"?aic present r jseueving m my con
science, with all my heart, that what has
urougntus to what we are is the original sin
and the tody and treason of the secession
ists in ine matter ot fclavery : because, you
wid remember that the Chicago Convention
itself was understood to say that they would
not touch slavery within the States,yet leav
ing this altogether out of the question, how
came we where we are. Upon the particu
lar ground we are prepared to go further
i-uiu, LJie original nepublicans themselves
were prepared to go. Applause. We are
o Y 7- ueinana not only that the whole
of the lenitories of the United States shall
nufc l me sIave Territories, but to demand
that the General Government, and tin A-
mencan people, shall do one of two things,
(and, as it annears to me. t,hpr is nnd,;,,
se that can be done,) either to use the
whole power of the Government .Wh th
war and the peace power, to put slavery as
near as possible back to where it was, so
that, athough it would be a fearful state of
society, it is better than anarchy ; or else to
use tne wuoie power ot the Government
both for war and for peace, and all the fur
ther power that the people of the United
States will give, to exterminate and extin
guish it forever. Vociferous and Prolong
ed cheering.
Now, I fcave no hesitation in saying for
myself, that if I were a pro-slavery man,
t hat if I believed this institution was an or
dinance of God and was good for man, I
would unhesitatinglyjointho.se who demand
of the Government to put it back where it
was ; but as am not a pro-slavery man,
and never was, applause I write mvself with
those who believe it is contrary to the hirb- i
est interest of all races and all governments,
contrary to the spirit of the Christian reli
gion, and incompatible with the natural
rights of man, and would join myself with
those who say "away with it from the face
of God's earth. " Loud and continued ap
plause. I fervently pray God that the
day may come wheri, throughout this whole
world, every man may be as free as you are,
and a capable of enjoying regulated liberty.
Well, I will not detain you any longer. A
single word you will allow ine to say on behalf
of the State from which I come one of the
smallest of the thousand of Israel. Laugh
ter. ) We know very well that our eleven
votes are of no significance in the Presiden
tial election. We know very well that in
our present nnhappy condition, it is by no
means certain that we are here to-day rep
resenting the party that will cast the ma
jority of the votes in that unhappy State.
know Very Weil that the sentimpntu wMoli
I am uttering will cause me great odium in
the State in which 1 was born, which I love,
and where the bones of two generations of my
ancestors and some of my children are, and
where, very soon, I shall lay my own. I know
my coleagues will incur odium, and they
know it, if they endorse what I say: but we
have ptlt our faces towards the way in which
we intend to go and we will go in it, come
good or come evil. If we are to perish, we
will perish in that way. All I have to say
to you is, "Help us if you can; if you can
not, Jjeheve in your hearts that we have
died like men. (Loud applause.
OBEGON.
It is announced that the State most dis
tant from the Federal Metropolis, one of the
youngest and geographically most likely to
slough off from the Union, has just elected
the Union ticket by a largely increased ma
jority. This, ; though expected, is a grati
fying result. Oregon was prematurely ad
mitted as a State in order to increase the
already overwelming Pro-Slavery majority
in the Senate. . One of her earliest Senators
was Gen. Joseph Lane, a North Carolinian,
sent out to her as Territorial Governor, and
one of the most servile tools of the Slave
Power. He was chosen Delegate in 1S57
by 5,605 votes to 3,471 for Lawson, Repub
lican ; and her people that year, while re
jecting Slavery, adopted a brutally Pro-Slavery
Constitution and forbade negroes to
settle in their State by 4,828 majority. It
thenceforward voted for whatever was call
ed "Democratic' till 1860,when Lane & Co.
represented it at Charleston, helped frame
the Breckenridge platform, bolted from the
Convention on its rejectiou, and Lane was
the Breckenridge candidate for Vice-President.
The party then broke in two, but
Lane held on to the larger fragment the
vote of Oregon forPiesidentstanding Lin
coln, 5,870 ; Breckinridge, 5,006: Douglas,
3,951 ; JBell, 183. Its represetative in the
last, as in the preceding Congress, was pret
ty fully in sympathy with the Rebels. It is
now represented by a thoroughgoing Union
ist, and one of like faith has just been cho
sen to the next House the first Member e
lected to that body. The votflpof Oregon
may be counted morally certai1or Lincoln
and Johnson. Tribune.
""WTiat is a Copperhead
An anonymous corresponbent whT signs
himself" "Inquirer," wants to know the
meaning of the term "Copperhead," as ap
plied to the friends of Jeff Davis in the
North. For his benefit wee the follow
ing analysis which wc find ready at hanfc
Copperhead means :
C onspiracy.
Opposition. ' '
P eace on any terms.
P iracy.
E nmityto the Union. -R
ecoguition of the C. S. A. K..
11 atred to the government .
.' E arnest sympathy with traitorsf'
A narchy. , . V : v
D isloyalty; " V - ' ' --. ,
THE OLEYELAND CONVENTION.
Since our last issue we have read with feel
ings of disgust and pity the letter of Gen
eral Fremont accepting the nomination ten
dered him by this pitiable Cleveland Con
vention. Disgust that a man of Fremont's
unquestioned ability should be made the dupe
of cunning tricksters, and pity that a man
who has received so marked a token of a
people's partiality, as Fremont did in the
campaign of '56, should have fallen so low
in the mire of partisan politics. But the
old adage that "vaulting ambition too often
overleaps itself has found found a fitting
indorsement in the case of Fremont.
As fen evidence that not only the mana-
gers of the Cleveland Convention were in
fluenced in their action by bitter hostility
to President Liucoln, but that their candi
date for the Presidency is influenced by the
same motives, we quote the following ex
tracts from Fremont's letter of acceptance.
Had JUr. Lincoln remained faithful to
' the principles be was elected to defend,
no schism could have been created and no
' contest could have been possible. This is
' not an ordinary election Tt. w
" for the right even to have candidates, and
i:uu mncy, aa usuhj, ior i ne cncicc among
' them. Now, for the first time sinea '7fi.
" the question of constitutional liberty has
wkcii uiuugui, uirecuy ueiore tne people
uitu 6C11UU3 eonsiueiation and vote.
The ordinary rights secured under thp
constitution and the laws of the country
" have been violated, and extraorrlinarv
" powers have been usurped by the Execu-
tivo. It is directly before the people now
w "iiiuici ui hoi, ue principles es
tablished by the Revolution are worth
maintaining.
..Again :
u " 'J-'o-day we have in the country the &bu
4 scs of a military dictation, without its u-
nity of action and vigor or execution: An
4 administration marked at home by disre-
gard of constitutional rights, by its viola
4 tions of personal liberty and the liberty
4 of the press, and, as a crowning shame, by
4 its abandonment of the right of asylum,
a right especially dear to all free nations
44 abroad. Its course has been characteri
44 red by a feebleness and want of principle
44 which has misled European Powers aud
44 driven them to a belief that only commer
44 cial interests and personal aims are con
4cerned, and that no great principles are
44 involved in the issue.
And again
It the Convention at Baltimore will
nominate any mrlrl whose past life justi
fies a well grounded confidence in his fidel
ity to our cardinal principles, there is no
reason why there should be anv division
4 4 amo g the really pat r iotic men of the cou n
4 1 try. To any such I shall be most happy
" to give a cordial and active support.
"My own decided preference is to aid in
44 this way, and not to be myself a candi
44 date. But if Mr. Lincoln should be re
44 nominated, as I believe it would le fatal
" to the country to endorse a policy and re
44 new a iiower which has cost us the lives
44 of thousands of men, and needlessly put
44 the country on the road to bankruptcy,
44 there will remain no alternative but to or
44 ganize against hira every element of con
" stientious opposition, with the view to
" prevent the misfortune of his re-election.
. 'In this contingency I accept the nomina
" tion at Cleveland, and, as a preliminary
4 step, I have resigned my commission in
" the army.
The above extracts plainly show the real
sentiments of Gen. Fremont. In attempt
ing to stab the man and party who gave him
whatever name or fame he may have, l e
makes patent to the world the fact that his
patriotism looks only to the defeat of A
braham Lincoln, and not to the preserva
tion of the Union and the salvation of the
country. In doing this, too, he makes use
of assertions, charges and misrepresenta
tions which would do no discredit to Vallan
dighain, Voorhces or Fernando Wood.
Lancaster Examiner.
Foreign Loans. The New York Times
makes the following definite statement as to
some reported proposals for a foreign loan,
by accepting which it is believed that the
Secretary of the Treasury may affect mate
rially the gold market : 4 'He will be res
pectfully urged to accept certain offers of
money from Europe, which have been un
der consideration for several weeks. These
offers we understand to be coupled with no
conditions that reflect upon the dignity of
the public credit, or that imply any advan
tage to foreigners in the purchase of or by
way of advances upon the stock of 1881 o
ver our own bankers or the people of the U
nited States at large. We hear that in one
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certain firms in England, Holland and Ger
many, on no other stipulation different from
the ordinary federal tenor of the stock, than
that the gold should be paid on the half
yearly coupons in the commercial capital of
Holland a State always friendly and ever
likely to be in accord with the United States
-in place of JN ew i ork. 1 he difference, in
any event, would be the trifling one of the
freight and insurance-.' .
ti Taunton, Mass., there is a turkey that
has entered into copartnership with a cart
ridge, both setting aide by side on the same
nest, with an indiscriminate mixture of eggs
oeneatn them.- .. -
The consumption of meat in New York
has fallen off one-quarter .under the high
prices. ..People eat fish, and vegetables.
cheap and "werry filling at th price."
A Good Thing to Breathe. .
The great mass of the inhabitants of
the Northern United States live in
better houses, wear better clothes, and
eat better food than the mass of any.
other nation, but they breathe the worst air
of any people.in the world. They like bad
air. Every man chooses to have his clothes
and food prepared fresh . and new for him
self, but he likes to have his air breathed
over a few times by his neighbors before he
takes it into hia own lungs. In this process
its oxygen is diminished, its carbonic acid
is increased, it gets a little warm, and moist,
and dirty, and then it just suits the Amer
ican taste. ;
All through the winter months our city
radroad cars are literally packed with pas
sengers, and the doors, windows and ventil
ators are kept tightly closed. If any pas
senger ventures to open one of the little nar
row ventilators in the upper part of the car,
some very nice gentleman, with a clean col
lar, white teeth, and a carefully-dressed wig,
who is drawing in at everv breath marts
air loaded with tobacco fumes, and animal
matter from the lungs of his fellow pas
sengers, is sure to give a shiver, and re
quest that the minute opening may be
closed.
In our churches the eon Ternti iino epnor.
ally have air in the forenoon which is quite
tolerable, but in the alternbon their con
sciences and good manners are subjected to
a constant strain m enorts to resist the etur,
pefying effects of the noxious gases with'
which the church has become filled during
the mornine service.
But the worst effect of this national pre
delection i3 seen in our schools. T?nndr4
of little boys and girls are confined in close
rooms for three hours at a time, breathing
over and over again the same air, constant
ly diminishing its oxygen which is the sup
porter ol life, thus reducing the force of the
vital functions ; while at the same time the
brain, that inevitably shares the enervating
influence, is stimulated by the most exciting
ambition to exertions too great for even its
undiminished strength. By this course
hundreds of helpless children, each the
pride and joy of its home, have been doom
ed to lingering disease and early death.
There is no necessity for breathing pois
onous gasses. We are placed in a great o
cean of air which has been prepared by na
ture in just the proper .proportions, or ox
3'gen, nitrogen and watery vapor to adapt it
to the structure of our lungs and the health
ful action of all our organs. We know that by
breathing constantly this atmostphere, tak
ing a fresh and pure supply at every breath,
our physical system will attain to the high
est degree of health and strength of which it
is capable. It is only by laborious effort
that we can box ourselves in, so that we can
obtain the foul air of which we are so fond.
French Designs on the Isthmus.
Recent developments lead to' the opinion
that France does not intend with th
duest of Mexico to cease her encroachments
upon the terntorail integrity and national
independence of American republics. The
New York Evening Post has received nu
merous intimations from reliable sources
that the policy of the French Emperor in
cludes an attempt to establish his power
permanently on the Isthmus, aud that w
are about to have a revival of the once fa
mous Panama question. One of its cor
respondents, whose letter is published, as
sests that certain prominent persons in Gua
tamala arid Nicaragua 4,have perfected an
arrangement, through the intervention of
Gutierrez de Estrada, the originator of the
Mexican monarchy, by which a movement
for annexation will be set on foot immedi
ately on the arrival of Max the First in his
dominions."
Mr. Lincoln was about the last, man in
Washington to hear of his nomination on
Thursday. A dispatch was sent to him,but
it failed to reach him, announcing that he
was nominated by acclamation. Towards
night he was looking over the war telegrams
in Mr. Stanton's office, when a despatch was
brooght to him stating, that Mr. Johnson
was nominated as Vice President Mr. Lin
coln asked, "Is it customary to nominate a
Vice Ptesidentzr" A friend asked him
in astonishment if he had not heard who
was nominated for President? and Mr. Lin
coln replied that he had not ! There proba
bly were few men in Washington who had
not heard of the action of the Convention
at that time. .2 . :
Ma. Wade on Lincoln. A copper
head Congressman was bewailing, a day or
two ago, the prospect of hard work ahead in
the political campaign, and, speaking to
Ben Wade, remarked that stump-speaking
was dreadful hard labor. "So it is," said
Mr. Wade, 4 'but there won't be much, use
in it this time. Out in Ohio we're going to
take it easy. We'll just let old Abe run
himself. There's no use in saying anything
for or against him. The people have : e
lected him already, and saved us a great
deal of trouble. Ir you don't want to em
bark in a very fruitless business, you Dem
ocrats had better stay at home next sum
mer, and save your powder for some other
time." . .
How to Spoil a Girl. Tell her she is
a little lady, and must not run, and make"
her a sunbonnet a yard deep, to keep Jier
from tanning. Do not let her play with
her male cousins, ."they are so rude., jell
her not to speak loud it is so masculine; and
that loud laghing is quite ungenteel Teaah.
her music, Dut never mintf hr spelling:
Give her ear rings at six years, of age.
Teach her to set her can for beaux ateleven.
And after your pains-taking, if she does not
grow up a simpering, nnrenecnng noDoay,
that cannot answer a love letter without
some smart old aunt to help her, give her
up she is past all remedy.:.. . , . , .
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