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Address, JACORY& IKEI.ER.
Bloomsburf. Columbia County, Pa.
For the Democrat and Star.
CAMPAIGN SONG, NO. G.
BY RAVEN.
AlR Red, White and Blue.
Hurrah, for the morning is breakmf.
And til light streams o'lt from afar;
for to country from slep is awaking.
And the people at last are astir.
Cbokcs Hurrah, for the people are true.
1 bougn the nniion be rocked to it centre
She'll aland by the Bed. White and Blue.
Lnnf and drear bar the night been upon us,
. With its storms and its lempets abroad.
And the barm that the durkntu has done us
Canaet be expressed in a word.
Cbokcs Hurrah f ot toe people are true tie.
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The rum cart ne'er be forgotten,
I' is written wit , lears and with blond.
And thesystem that caused it is rotten,
Opppel to the country and God,
fBoaoa'-Hurrah fertile people art true, fcc,
Rot a truth .warms the life itoody,
t And its caicasbad never a wuf,,
It is made up of nigsrrs aud shoddy.
Nut a patriot's nnuie on its roll.
Cnoa.cs Hurrah for the people are true, Ilc
Its (Wickedness b no exception.
. &Asiund and re'rropt to that, rore.
It prospered alune by daeeption,
1 ut cannot deceive any more.
Cboros Hurrah" for the people are true. ate.
When the war dogs commenced with their howling,
,Tne Union alone was the cry.
And the people in thousands came rolling.
For Unto were ready to die, .
Cuoaus Hurrah for the people are true, &.C.
But new bine the war is all aver.
The sirmke of its guns cleared away.
The trick they begin to iiftoyr,
" Endeavor to bide it who may.
Chuh.cs IIuTrab, for tLe people are trde, lie.
The ronuiry they still And dtvide.it.
'1 he Union has net been restored.
Their efforts to do so! drii?e.'t. .
Though torments of blood have been poured.
Caos.cs Hurrah,' for the people are true, tec.
ika storm-cloud the ljeopfe are risinr,
- . They eooMi from the East anil tbf Wert,
The North with the South compromising,
Oeter,nuned the nation shall rest.
Caiats Hurrah, for the people are true A.e.
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The Keystone will show in October,
Whatly ballots, not ballets they mean.
Till Stephens and Murcurlook aooer.
And al their dependents look green.
Cnoacs H orrab, for tke people are true, fee.
COMMDNICAT10KS.
Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio.
Messrs.' Jiicoby & Ikelcr: You will please
find enclosed two dollars fcT yohr- .valuable
paper, namely, the Columbia. Democrat
AND feTAR OF THE NORTH.
I. wa formerly a retadesnt of Colombia
County, and thb 'early recollections of child
hood often carry me back to those rleamt
clays cf the beautiful scenery around and ou
the banks of Stillwater. Thirty years hare
rolled away and still the hills and mountains
are beautiful in my recollection. The pl&oo
where now lives Iiir.vm Hess, on the banks
of Raven creek, is the place where I fir?t
saW' the, dawn of light. But at that day,
peace and harmony prevailed and the voice
st freemen- could be heard unmolested and
nnawedbya despotic administration. But
Kow has it been eince? Many, yes many, of
rny old ! school-mates and Hons of my near
friends, too, have, by the hands of tyrants,
been forced from their homes an 1 shut up
in dark and dreary bastilesfit only for criiu
irrtTA to occupy wnil art'aitin!; the sentence
of; dedtfc And what was all this for? Only
because those men were Democrats of the
Jackson stamp and they, too, were the sons
of ..Revolutionary sires. When the news
reached Ohio, that Gen. Cadwallaper,
with an armed force, was marching up those
beautiful streams for no other purpose than
to wreak .or avenge the hatred of some dirty
miscreant1), whose ancestors, if where known,
had ought to have been hun in the place of
Nxijcr. Andre.r. But X am happy to Fay that
tnose days are gone, a fid that one "Andrew
Joijnson is now President of these United
Slates, 'wh regard the Constitution of the
United plates, the supreme lawot tne land ;
and knowing this, is riot afraid to defend the
same."
, The day is dawning when Black Copper
heads will have to e'ent their holes and nang
their heeds in shames, and go Ann in arm
with the.men and tcomzn. that they so much
love (the Nigger). For, after all, men al
ways feel most for their "dearest friends. So
with Black Republicans, all the love they
have is for the poor African tcench if you
pleaso).
HrEsnot Clymto will be your next Gov
ernor and that will put an end to the man
called Curtin, who would have the ague
eSery'time he heard of the Pickard bar
"baritv Lct the voice of, Wm. Roberts
Vhp lies in his long resting place, tell ; also
IJmanuel Kline, who died only by the
hands of tyranta. Let the murderers quake,
foV the day cf vengeance draweth nigh,
rche'u all eMIF gfve an-accoun of 'the num
ber of lie3 "they told and the number of
dfeaths or murd?T9'they committed.
Iay the God of mercy )?r;are their wretched
lives until a sense of justije and' repentance
overtake them or they will sink down, down,
to he depths of eternal death,, where the
worm dieth not and the fire is not nnenhed.
Respectfully yours, W. K.
SO The Coliimbia Smith Carolinian says :
It not a Tact generally known that Govern
or Orr has tha honor of firsts suggesting the
'-'icessity of the Philadelphia Convention.
Ms was first done during a conference with
-iie of the leading Conservatives 01 W asii
i on when he was in that city, and subse-
itiy tha idea was enlarged upon in alet
Thich at sons fixture "day wi EhlU give
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Policy Democrats, and Demo
cratic Policy.
Brothers in a holy cause. ,
There are two paths to pursue two argu
moHtu tn imp two results before us.
There are two kinds 01 Democrats in our
norrv. when theFe fhould be hut one.
There are the nolicv Democrats who "if,"
and "and," and "but" and halt between two
or three opinions, and find all sorts ot apolo
gies for dealing kindly with those who are
robbing, strangling and murdering them and
the nation.
They seem to be afraid to lack pluck
to insult their faith hy refusing to stand up
like men for the principles thnj profess to en
dorse.
They are the men who would offer primers
, . . 1 ir
to macimen pictures to aoga religious
tracts to murderers apologies to those who
insult them and paper kites to cannon balls
in hopes to effect a reconciliation. Had it
not been for time serving, timid, policv Dem
ocrats, there to-day would bo a Union of
States an equal rate of taxation, peace, pros-
Zj. 1 i-i. i!iv.ir:i.ii!..i..
pcniy anu pieniy, oerau tue uuueu omius.
Here is our religion, belief and Democracy,
If we have a friend we back him and arc
ready to ccpss swords with the one who in-
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suits mm wnen away, ana not oy to ueienu
Kis name or honor.
As we profess faith wc are willing to stand
by it.
If we belong to a party, we are willing to
advocate our principles and to ueieml them
belore- all men, be they tyrants, clowns, or
statesmen.
We do not believe in the policy dodse: If
wc are right we are right: If we are wrong,
we are wrong.. If we, as Democrats, are
right, let us in God's name stand by our col
ors, or take down our flag. ...
We believe lrriSapoIen ss'jle 01 scnumg
balls first and blank cartridges afterward.
We believe in this kind of Policy the true
Democratic policy, without milk, sugar or
feather edges.
Stand our ground.
Jf a man strikes us we shall strike back.
If a man burns our oflko, we'll burn all he
has.
If a marf robs us, he is welcome if he es
capes.
We have a thousand weapons to fight the
radical, Union hating party now in power.
Charge it home upon them from press and
platform in letter aud conversation bv ar
gument and illustration that the Republican
party .
Is a disunion party, for it keeps eleven
States out of the Union.
It is a treasonable party f jr it violates
oaths of office, and wars upon the Constitu
tion. .
It is a tyrannical party.for it endois .'d Lin
coln, the joker, Stanton the tyrant, and Sew
ard the Bell Ringer.',
It is a law breaking party For it grew into
power by the aid of mob, prison-, and acts
cr violence.
It is the'enemy of the people, for it taxes
the poor to support the rich.
It is a party of injustice for it taxes eleven
States while refusing them representation.
It is a party 01 usurpation iot i takes
power out of law, precedent or constitution.
It is a party or intolerance tor it proscribes
men and states for an opinion.
Hurl the charges we have in hand against
the traitors, abolition agitilors and sectional
plotters. Show up their misdeeds ; point to
their wicked unjust and unconstitutional
acts. Jleld them to account lor their mis
deeds, mismanagement and hc misery
brought upon the country. Point to the rec
ord of blood, of spoils, of theft, of incom
petency, of rascality, 01 venality, of corrup
tion, ot t;r-iniiy, 0 usurpation, 01 extrava
gance.
Jlold the sickening picture abolition and
rqjpublicanism ha painted for the land up to
the gaze of those who still would sit under
the Deadly Upas, and educate the people to
know who are the tviauts aud enemies 01
liberty.
Cite to this, and to that to that, and to
thia to the thousands of wrong acts born of
republican power to curse the land.
Ask for owe blessing brought by rqnilAican
ism ! And while the staintncring tool of a
fool stutters and hesitates for a reply, pour
into him a broadside of abolition pictures of
mobs, prison," tortures, taxation, non-rcprc-sentation,
imbecility, extravagance and re
publican legislation.
This is Democratic policy. Kill the trai
tors with their own weapons, and let the
blows fall thick and hard on the heads of
those who would deprive States of their
rights and white men of their voice in the
halls of Congress.
And if the damnable wrongs heaped upon
freemen by the Brown Lincoln-party now
on its downward Lane be not enough to incite
you to a war for the right, tell us what an
swer you will make to chldron of those who
were mobbed, robbed, ih'urdf red, im prison
ed and tortured while policy Democrats stood
by in silent fear ! Would you teach your
children to despise' a party that lacked but
men to defend its principles ?' - ,. .
In our opir.fon it is high time to strike
when a villain has fired your home, turned a
dividing stream through your garden, stolen
your stock,- pillaged pour cities, desecrated
your churches, insulted your wives ami your
daughters and stands with onejrand in your
pocket and the other holding a poisoned dag
ger to j-our neart, intent .in striking you
whether erect or prostrate. '
Some policy democrats may wish further
insult, but the majority think otherwise.
. If it is not policy to begjn an attack'now,
when in God s name will it be ?
We have tried conciliation for five years
just five years too long, till we are taunted
with cowardice, and hooted at as victims. i
No milk and sugar policv for us. We want
Democracy, or extermination in the effort to
obtain it Brick Pumcroin
Vote for Geary. If'yctr' ijrant to be
taxed to support the Negroes of tbs South
in idleness vote for Gear'.
If you want to pay for a swarm of useless
office-holders to keep up an antagonism be-
sween tne southern negroes ana tneir em
ployeesvote for Geary.
If you think thefamilic
you think the families of the Ireed-
men should be supported from the money
you are taxed to Bupply the Treasury with,
while the orphans and widows and families
of the white soldiers are left to provide for
themselves vote -for Geary.
If you endorse Wade's assertion "that negro
soldiers are entitled to the chief praise for
the euppresion of the rebellion vote for
Geary. Lf you want negroes tovote vote
for Geary. ,
Jf you want eleven stars stricken from the
flasr of the Republic rote for Oearv;
' If you. don t pay "taxes enough and really'
ache to contribute a tew hundred millions a
year to feed, clothe . and. educate the negro
; gentlemen", who ought to work as you are
obliged to do Tote for Geary: Erie Obser
ver. '
Only a Flirtation.
BY MARY E. CLARKE.
"So there is no engagement between
you !"
"Engagement 1 I should think not Why,
Joe, I am only eighteen, I shan't be enga
ged for the next five j'ears. I am not going
to tie myself down to domestic life yet, I as
sure you."
"But, Nettie you are wandering from the
subject. I cannot think you utterly heart
less, yet I frankly ownyou pain me by this
dreeuful spirit of coquetry you display. I
am sure Graham Curtis "
"Now, Joe, don't le tiresome. It is only
a flirtation. We dance, chat, ride together,
but that is nothing. I flirt quito as exten
sively with a dozen other gentlemen."
"But, Nettie," and a very grave look came
over Joseph Lawson's face, '"Graham loves
you-"
"So they all do, if I am to believe their
protestations."
"So my friend, the man I honor and love
above all other men, is to be the plaything
of a woman's caprice. Sister, be careful,
you are playing a dangerous game."
The crimson blood dyed the cheek of the
little beauty, as she ran laughingly away
from her brother, saying.
"I will come for the rest of the'sermon, to
morrow." One long stride the brother took, and pris
oning the lit tic brunette in Ids strong arms' he
took her to tle sofa, and drew her down to
a seat besid him.
"No," and his face grew sad, very sad,
"you shall hear ni3T sermon to-day. Do you
know, Nettie, why I am now. at thirty-five
years of age, a bachelor" with a lonely aching
heart t
"Lonelv. Joe?" And Nettie, now crave
as himself, laid her head .on her brother's
broau breast.
"Yes, Nettie 1 Even my little sister, dearly
as I love her, cannot fill my heart."
"1 ell me about it ! '
"It was twelve years a so, when I came
home from college, that 1 first met Laura
bee
"Mrs. Holmes?" .
"Yes : don't interrupt me. I will not tell
you how slowly my heart woke to the sense
ot love, of the gradual growth of her image
in it till it filled it entirely. Parents, home,
sister, all became second to the one hope of
my life 1 I met her often. Wc moved iu the
sapie circles hi society,' and at every party I
frequented I could dance and chat with her.
Her beauty attracted; her intellect interest
ed ; her sweet, gracious manners finatcd
me. I was young then, and trustful, and
when she let her little hand linger in mine,
and turned from others to converse with me ;
when she let her large, dark eyes, full of
soft light, dwell thoughtfully on my face, T
believed that tho devotion I lavished upon
her was understood, appreciated, returned.
You knowMhat I am not an impulsive man.
but I cannot forget easily-, nor recover readily
from severe blows. Day after day the love,
the omr love of my life, grew into my heart,
absorbing me to the exclusion of all cl.se. 1
felt so secure, looking into her lovely face,
hearing her winning tones soften for mv car.
feeling the answering pressure her hand gave
mine, that it was Ion? before I spoke my
love. One evening, deep inspirations
heaved the strong man's, chest, and Nffttie
could hear tho rapid blood as it coursed
throuch his veins, and made his heart beat
under her car, "one evening we were alone
in the parlor. She had been singing, and
the rich, full notes seemed to hang lovingly
around me, and I spoke my love.
bhe drew away ironi the arm that would
have caressed hcr,and said with a lightlaugh,
'Why, Mr. Lawson, did you not know I was
engaged?' 'Engaged?' I cried, 'Yes,' she
re pli ed. 'M r. 1 J ol n 1 es h as , been away pi n'Se
I knew you, but 1 thought you knew cf the
engagement.
I knew this was false. Fearful of losing
the attentions she had been accustomed to,
she. kept her engagement secret, that in so
ciety she might still reign as one free to be
won. I said to he:, 'Forgive me that I have
anno3-cd you , 'Oh! nOj not at, all. I
shall always be glad to see you. I am sorry
there was any mi.-take, but I thought jou
were, like myself, only flirting.'
. "So wc j-artcd. 1 came home maddened,
sickened. 'I,' and here his voice sank to a
whisper, 'drank deeply, Nettie, to try to for
get, but my nature revolted at this degrada
tion and I tried study. My father's death just
woke me from the delirious agony of thought;
and when my mother followed him, leaving
you, a child, to my charge, I sternly faced
life, trying to forget the Pamdi.se I had
dreamed of and lot Ixst ! Never can I
trust again as I trusted then. Where do
inestic happiness should have blessed my
life, she has thrown bitter memories to take
its place. She has made me stern, cynical,
distnif tftil, a"d 'dxeusts it to herself on the
ground that it was 'only a flirtation.' Do
not let me see my little sister following in
her footsteps, or I shall learn to hate and
despise all women."
: "I am sorr!'!.. .:
"Nettie. Graham loves you, would"" make
you his wifj ; he has spoken of it to me.
Yet, if you cannot love him, let him see now
that his shit will be a vain one. Do not lead
him on, till you are his one hope, to drive
him to despair at last.- He is rash and ini-
Culsive, and may not live down such a
low." .
"Joe " in a low tone.
"Yes, dear."
"Tell him I lore him and am not
flirting "
: "And Joe don't hate me."
A tender, loving kiss was pressed upon
her forehead, and a low voice bles&ed her for
her decision.
Tiie Difference. The difference be
tween the two parties may be briefly stated
thus :
The De.mocratic party sustain a Union
President in his efforts tj restore the old
Unien to place all the States in their proper
position under the constitution.
, The abolition party oppose a Union Presi
dent in his endeavors to restore the country.
This party opposes the Constitutional Union
policy of a Unon President. The tyrant
policy is thcire they wish to treat eleven
States as conquered provinces- as Russia
does Poland.
Choose vc between, It is UNI02T or
DIS UNION.
J6S5 "Will you have some catsup ?"asked
a gentleman ef Aunt Priscilla at a'- dinner
table. "Dear me, no 1" she replied, with a
shudder ; " I am fond of cats in their places,
but I should: as soon think'of eating .dog
soup 1' ' The gentleman did not urge her.
. tST" It is stated that a large number of
the freedmen of the South will, on clos
ing up their labors for this year, remove
with their families to the homestead lands
provided for them bythe Government in the
new bill.
Fight between an Elephant and
its Trainer The latter Killed.
Mr: Alfred Moffat of equestrian notoriety
in England, who, for the past hve years, has
been performing Richard Bell's two ele
phants, waskillcdat Morat, Switzerland, on
J unc 2$, while performing with Bell and
31yers' Circus Company. The elephant had
some trouble with the groom a short time
previous. Mr. Moffat tried to subdue the
beast byla3"ing about him with his spear
and tomahawk, and compelled him to kneel
down for him to fatten the chain round his
neck. Mr. Moffat kept the spear in the an
imal's ear while lie was doing this, but had
to turn his back to the brute while he took
a chain from off his leg. Just at that mo
ment the elephant rose to his feet, and Mr.
M.j who hold had of the handle of the spear,
which was still fastened to the f'fnmrl's car,
was raised from the ground. The elephant
then commenced turuinghishcad backwards
and forwards until he got Mr. Moffat in front
of him, then siezed hnnwith his trunk, and
threw him about twenty feet in the air, and,
as he was doming down, caught him in his
tusks, and gored him to the ground. Mr.
Mofl'at still had presence of mind to call the
animal by name, and while en ihe ground
said, "Go back, Palm ;" but at that moment
the infuriated auiuuil put bis foot on Mr.'
Moffat's breast, and killed him almost instan
taneously I The female elephant, seeing her
keeper and trainer being maneied, ran at
the male elephant, and gored him with her
head, then, with the assistance of the mem
bers of the equestrian compan3', Mr. Moffat
was got away' from his enemy, but he was
no more life had flown at the time men
tioned above. The female then went back
into the stables, and seemed to try to get the
male elephant to do the same, but in spite
of all he would not go in, he appeared quite
wild, and he commenced (as through re
venge) to tear Mr. Moffat's coat, which lay
on the ground pulling it inio a thousand
pieces, and then eating it. Ihe company
tried abont three hours to get him in the
stables, but they could not do it, either by
force or kindness. At last the female came
to the stable door, and commenced erring,
which drew him to her. She then closed the
doors rfter him, and," seeming quite sensible
of what had happened, placed herself at the
door so that he could not get cut asrain.
1 hiring this time Messrs. Bell and Myers
had sent for a cannon to shoot the monster.
For eight long hours the female elephant
stood sentry at the stable door, guarding it.
with her own body by the word of command
from the groom, George Mason, who had
always fed and cleaned the animals, and
drove them on the road from town to town,
and whose life has a time or two been saved
by Mr. Moffat At last the cannon arrived,
and was at once placed in position near the
stable door, George Mason then called the
female, clepnant away from the door, the
male then came out, and the word "fire" be
ing given, a six round ball from the cannon
made a hole right tdrough his body, and he
fell dead on the very spot where he killed
his trainer.
You Wont But You Must.
Mr Republican, this way , plcn.se sir ; wc
do not mean the candid, independent man,
but he who is under the party lash.
Ten years ago you cried out for retrench
mcntand reform. You declare 1 j-pu would
never support men so extravagant as the
Democrats.
Time passed. Your party obtained power.
Its corruption and extravagance surpassed
all precebent.
You declared that the South was a bill
of expense, and you would bo better with
out her, paraded your faith by carrying six
teen star flag3 in honor of the sixteen North
ern States.
Your masters cried Union, and you shout
ed loudly " it must be preserved."
Your masters now sa' the Union shall not
be restored until the South embraces the
sentiments of New England.
You embrace the doctrine, and declare
there is no hurry about restoring the Un
ion. "
Your masters called the Democrats 'Union
savers.'
You caught up the sound and hissed it
from your throat?.
Your masters called' the Democrats trai
tors. You halloed it from hill top and valley.
Y'our masters declared that slavery should
not be interfered with.
You became as strong pro-slavry men as
the Democrats.
Your musters fd slavery should, remain
unmolested where it existed, but should not
be carried into the territories.
You applauded the doctrine and declared
it just and right.
Your masters said slavery imist, be aboli.-h-cd.
You cried alcud against the "accursed
institution."
Y'our masters said the negroes were an
inferior race and should not be placed on an
equality with the whites.
You adduced strong arguments to prove
that negroes should never have tlu right to
vote or hold office.
Y'our masters now declare the blacks equal
to the whites.
You curse all that dare to insinuate that
God created ono race inferior to another.
Y'our masters pretended friendship for the
foor man. ,
ou were eloquent against the oppression of
the rich.
You swallowed their opinion and pro
uonnced it good.
Your masters told you tht you belonged
to the decency party.
You strutted ' in style and sneered at the
hard fisted sons of toil
Y'ou bow in humble submission to their
decree, wallow in the African ' mire and
declare it good.
Y'ou are the slave of our corrupt men.
An instrument used by knaves to promote
selfish ends.
Y'ou have no principle. No "stability. No
minds of 3'our own. Like the weather cock,
you turn as the winds of your masters blow
upon j'ou.
We respect a political opponent who dares
to act independent and seeks to do right
The man who, like an old fiddle, can be
made te play a tunc, wc despised
If you arc in favor of the bwdeu3 of the
Government being equally distributed as
its blessiDgsl . say so and act according'.
If you consider yourself better than a nig
ger speak out and act for the interest of the
white mah. . ....
Don't wait for tho whip to crack over
your back and drive yon into the party traces.
Act the man; Act independent It will
beget respect. '
"ToM"," said a man to his friend, a day or
two since, "I think it is highly dangerous to
keep the bills of small banks on hand now-a-days."
"Tun," said the other,M"I find it
Mexico.
The Mexican question appears to have en
tered into a new and important phase. The
Empress of Mexico lately arrived in. Paris,
entrusted with a political mission, it is said,
to the Emperor Napoleon., Ono on dit is
that she has n.sked, on behalf cf her hu.
band, titular Emperor of Mexico", that the
French troops now in that country suall not
be withdrawn. Another intimates that she
only asks for a further supply of money, as
Imperialism has "outrCn the constable in
the ancient Territory of Montezuma. A
third assertion i3 that the fair lady has re
quested Napoleon not to insist on collecting
the duties receivable at the custom-houses
of Vera Cruz, Campeche, Tampico, and
other ports, a collection now made in the
hope of getting back something of the large
amount due by Mexico to France. It is said
that Napoleon has given a direct refusal to
each of the Empress Carlotfcfs requests, and
that she has told him that, unless he change
his niind, his friend and protege, Maximilian,
will have to abdicate and return to Europe.
There surely is no great personal reason why
Napoleon should any longer protect and
maintain Maximilian on the unstable throne
of Mexico. The greatest political mistake
he ever made was the erection of that throne
and the invasion of Mexico by a French
army. For almost five years, Napoleon has
been troubled on account of this Mexican
move of hi 3. France has condemned, from
the first, such a waste of blood and treasure
as this Quixotic feat demanded, and Napo
leon can scarcely venture to persevere in the
vciy tortuous course which he entered, lie
will have to let Maximilian pass awa3' as a
failure. From the first the Austrian prince
had very little chance. Personally amiable,
he made some friends at first, but he and
his wife, proud of having an imperial role to
play, dashed into all excesses of lavish ex
pense, and foolishly dissipated in luxury and
ostentation the money lent them iu Europe,
to be cmploj'cd in founding a new dynasty
in Mexico. It is inexplicable why Napoleon
originally took ujon himself to send this
couple across the Atlantic. The Emperor of
Austria was not a warm ally of 1 ranee
could scarcely be, after the part taken by
Napoleon in the Italian war of ISo'J and
therefore there could not have been any
great friendship for the Archduke Maximil
ian ; and as for the Archduchess Carlotta,
though she is first cousin of Queen Victoria,
with whom Napoleon wishes to be on good
terms, she is also grand-daughter of Louis
Philippe,' for whom it was impossible that
Napoleon could have any regard.
In a very brief time, most probably, we
shall hear that Maxamilian has departed to
rejoin his wife in Europe. The last account
left her on the road to Miramar, his old
abode, which he had the good sense not to
give up when he accepted the crown of
Mexico. It matters little what may become
of him. He can resume his place next the
Austrian throne, as next brother to the Em
peror. But it matters a great deal what will
becomo of Mexico. Here is an amiable
usurper, compelled to leave the county-.
With his fall that of the Empire is identi
cal ; but how and bv whom is the Republic
to be re-established? The curse of Mexico
during the last fort3' years has leeu that
there is in that country a perpetual struggle
for supreme power among oliticiaiis.
Whether it be lturbide or Santa Anna.
Bravo or Canalizo, Paredes or Hcrrera, Ar
ista or J&lvrfrez, Comnfort or Zuloga, Rob
les or Miraiuon, Ortega or Juarez, the ruling
man has almost always been opposed by
some soldier who desired to have his place,
and. poor Mexico, so constantly the scene of
civil war, is the miserable sufferer. Were
Maximilian to leave Mexico to-morrow.
Juarez would almost certainly be opposed
before he had been a month in" the capitol,
b' a prrrty which would claim that he had
not been properly elected to the Presidency,
and that somebody else had. Such inquie
tude lcing the normal condition of Mexico,
there is very- little reason to hope that it will
become prosperous and peaceful alter Maxi
milian and the French quit that count rjv
This is precisely what ought not to be. If
the United States had ben a little more firm
and a little less magnanimous eighteen 3ears
ago, the condition of Mexico would le very
much better than it now is or promises to
be. Plain. J'icss.
Another Civil War A Threat
from the Radicals.
Gerrit Smith, of New York, has recently
published a letter, in which he predicts
another civil war.' He says :
'''The irar trill break ox( again if Suffrage
is withheld from the black man. It will, in
that case, brenk out in revenge upon the
loyal whites of the South, in-persecution of
the blacks of the South, and but too proba
bhy, 011 a much broader, if not, indeed, on a
national scale.
"7t all proljtdtility our nation rriJl learn
no more of riy!di'Cii.,irxs until she shall have
drift) don to another bnakuig up.' In all
probability she must rca'h another bloody
catastrophe before, her sunken soul shall fed
another upward innnd.se.'
"In closing this letter, let me say that I
would not underrate the present Congress.
In the main it is composed of men who are
neither ignorant of the right nor indifferent
to it. Unhappily they were not sufficiently
resolute to follow up their convictions and
insist on harvesting the fruits of our dear
bought ict0r3-. Alasj that Congress ha,
but too probably, left it impossible for these
fruits ever to be harvested. Alas, that its
mistakes have, but too probably, rendered
vain all this expenditure of blood and treas
ure 1 The nation must pas? through another
season of sorrow ere it shall reach its season
of 103-. Seed must gain be sown in tears
and blood ere this nation shall reap its har
vest of salvation."
A late telegram . from Knoxville to the
Radical Chicago Tribune, says :
"Governor Brownlow spoke here to-da3
he said . the rebellion, headed by Andrew
Johnson, would share the same fate as that
headed by Jeff. 'Davis. ' lf attempted, a
million of loyal swords icotddleap frtnn their
scabltards, find- millions of bayonets surround
the Capitol, and sweep the usurper and trai
torfrom the Executive Mansion. '
The Rochester Democrat (Abolition) also
grows bloo thirsty, and in a recent issue
cries havoc as follows :
' "If by rcisori of advantage in. position,
the ojnosit ion insist in holding ovt, then it
must he reduced to a trial of nlain strength,
and the weaker party viust go to the vxiii at
fast. We have no fears of the result, but
regret the waste of life and treasure,, the
humiliation in the eyes of foreign nations,
and the impediments to the country's pro
gress in power and prosperity which the ex
ercise of a little common sense on the part
of the minority night prevent "
If these do not mean civil war and blood
shed what do they mean?
f, Til 11
Tragedy ai St. Paul.
One of the.eaddest and;most melancholy
events that has occurred in this city for a
loig tihie took place yesterday morning, at
0.30 o'clock, at the Mansion House, on Wa
bashaw street, in which a 3'0ung and happy
wife was suddenly killed, bythe accidental
discharge of itf pistol in , the hands of her
husband. The tragic occurrence shed a pall
of gloom and grief over all who were more
immediately connected with the unfortunate
wife, thus cutoff in the bloom of her youth,
and the even more unhappy husband, who
was the unintentional cause of the dreadful
c-alamiti', and whoso grief under the distress
ing circumstances borders on the agony of
despair; and the whole city was impressed
with the painful particulars of the mournful
catastrophe.
From the evidence presented at the in
quest, it appears that about three months
ago Mr. M. A. Hawkes, a native of Marble
head, Mass., but latterly of Chicago, came
to St. Paul for tho benefit of his health, and
since then has been stopping at the Mansion
House. Some three weeks since Mrs.
Hawkes came to this city to join her husband
who anxiously awaited hr coming, and to
whom he was devotedly attacheed. During
the three weeks past the husband and wife,
who have been but eight or ten months mar
ried, were, ns he stated to fl' friend, really
spending the honcymooif. Together they
visited the lakes. Wherever the husband
went the Wife accompanied him', ?.nd every
evening was spent in her company. Such is
the uniform testimony of all who were inti
mate with Mr. and Mrs. Hawkes, and whose
conduct and reputation have been entirely
beyond tha tdiadow of reproach.
Yesterday morning the husband and wife
went down to breakfast at the Mansion
House in their usual good spirits. After re
turning to their room, Mr. Hawkes took out
one of two pistols which he possessed and
began to clean and oil it, his wife iu the
meantime, seated in a rock Tng chair, was en
gaged in sewhig. One of the servants in
the house wa in and out of the room during
this time, and having adjusted the furniture,
she had returned with a pitcher of water,
and was standing in the corner a few feet
from the chair occupied 13' Mrs. Hawkes,
when she heard the report of the pistol, and
looking round, saw tho My leap from her
seat, exclaiming, "Oh 1 n3- God !" and then
dropped upon the carpet, weltering in her
life-blood, and expired. The husband, when
ho realized the calamif3' that had befallen
him, was overcome with grief and anguish,
and in the midst of his unutterable woe
nearly lost his reason, and he could with diffi
culty be restrained from adding a suicide to
the fearful drama.
Drs.- Stewart and Mattocks were immedi
ately sent forhy those who first rushed into
the room after the shrieks were heard, and
they promptly responded to the call. But
all human aid was unavailing, for the spirit
of the beloved wife had already winged its
flight Xt. Paul Pioneer, Aug. 22d.
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Haw to be Happy.
The happiest place on 'earth should be
home ; and 3'et how many homes there are
destitute of nearly all true happiness I
Why is it so ? Answer. Because hus
bands and wives do not understand and ap
preciate each other as they should.
Parents and children are strangers to each
other. The holiest and purest affections of
the soul arc never called into action by thou
sands in daily- life, but rather chilled and
deadened.
We live under the same roof, cat at the
fame table j-ear after year, "and j-et are ns
really ignorant of the inner life of each oth
er as strangers. These things ought not to
be so. But the old Purjtanic spirit which
we inherited from our ancestors has not all
disappeared. Well do I remember feeling,
when livimr in mv childhood home, surround
ed with all needed comforts watchful and
1 1.1
provident parents brothers anu sisters near
aiM dear that yearning of soul, that crav
ing fir sympathy and love which manifests
itself by outward tokens and expressions
from mv loved and honored father ; but in
vain, JNo, it was not thought to be digni
fied and manly to give expression to tender,
affectionate feelings in the family circle ; it
would look weak, silly, trom-anish.
!al, tatai mistake I How much ct domes
tic happiness is lost through ignorance of our
own natures !
Fathers and husbands ! do you not know
that life is made up of trifles f that one
bright ra3" of love cast upon the home-altar
will impart more warmth and life to the souls
gathered around there than all the golden
trappings of wealth and show ?
Away with the idea that fine houses and
splendid equipage appease the hungcr
ingsof the immortal mind or nurture and
develop the sweet, affect ional natures which
a God of love has wisely given us. both for
our happiness here and in the bright hereaf
ter. Oh, could we as parents fully realize
how much it li5s in our power to do for our
selves, our cnildren, and ommunit.v, we
should a Waken as from the stupor of death !
Wc are so accustomed to the old zigza? rout
ine of evciy day stereotyped duties, that we
nted the trump of the angel sounded in our
dull ears to arouse us anew to life's great and
all important duties, both in our families and
in the moving teorld I
New Orleans
The abolition papers are troubled because
the President exercises "unconstitutional' '
powers in Louisiana. Wc do not remem
ber that they were particularly horror-struck
when General Thomas closed every Episco-
Eal church in Alabama, and suspended the
iishop and clergy of that Diocese from the
exercise of all their clerical function, even
the baptizing of the young and the burying
of the dead.
To be sure the cases are different Then
it was the "rebels" and their wives and chil
dren that were made to feel the rough hand
of a rude soldier, and the Constitution was
not made for their protection. AW it is
General Baird of the Freedmcn's Bureau,
and the negroes whom he has corrupted, who
are made to' feelthat the Federal Govern
ment can protect, when it choose?,' thewhite
man as well as the black, the Southerners as
well as the New England, and that the Con
stitution is again resuming its way over all
the land and all its iceple.
A correspondent at Toulon, in France,
states that one of the French ircn-clads was
recently placed upon a dry-dock there to
have her bottoTn cleansed. She : had been
but eight months in commission: but this
operation, it was, found, had been begun
none too soon. There was an imnlense macs
of vegetation adhering to her plates, and
even coral had been formed upon some of
them. An even more serious .trouble than
this was found in the holes from a third to
a half-inch in depth which'had been ; bored
by worms just along the water-line, the most
Counsel to the Noting.
Resolve to form your liyes upon some cer
tain principles:'!- Man was made to be gov-,
ernea by reason, and not by mere accident
or caprice. It is important, therefore, that
you begin early -to consider find inquire what
is the proper course, and form, somq plan' for
3'our future lives. The want of such con-
siderations is manifest in the copduct of
multitudes. They are governed by ''thfcfi
pulstts of the moment, reckless of the con
sequences. They have fixed no steady aim,
and have no certain principles of action.
Living thus at random, it would.be a mira
cle if they went uniformly right In order
to 3'our pursuing the right path, you must
knoy what it is, and to acquire this knowl
edge you must divest yourself of thought
less giddiness yon must take .time for se
rious reflection. It will not always do to
adopt the recommendation of those who
mry be about 3-ou, or may themselves be
misled by error or prejudice. Persons al
ready involved in dissipation or entangled
in error, naturally desire to keep themselves
in countenance by the number of followers,
who they rein seduce to tfteir fca'th c'f vice.
As reasonable creatures, therefore, judge for
yourselves what course is right and fitting,
that you slwuld, pursue,. ; Exercise your own
reasons independently and impartially; and
give riot yourself up to be governed by mere
caprice and fashion, or by the opinion of
others.
Beautiful Extract.- flfve n5' to know
that the doctrine of Jesus is bread from
Heaven and that it sustains the spirivand'
prepares it for Heaven, and I may well be
indifferent weather that bread descended,
like the mannain the dessert in nightlydew
or whether fike the food of Elijah, it was
brought to my eager hands by the ravens or
whether it was broken for myself and the
hunirry thousands around me bv the hand
Ldmbucd with miraculous power. So long as
1 know that it was sent to me bythe rather
of my spirit, and that, eating it I shall life'
forever, I know that can'rive it valu, and
awaken my gratitude. When some friendly
hand presses a cup of cold water to my lips,.
as.I am fainting with thirst in a thirsty land,'
I -will not ask for I do not care, whether that
water was showcrd from the skies or gushed
from a spring,Iask not whether it was brought
mcin a goldcn urnor whether it wA presented
in a crystal Vase or a soldier's helmet Iti
water that bids mc live, and that is enough
for me. , , ,
Tcrcniva Incident. We are informed,
says the Nerwalk (0) Rcgiiter, that a gen
tleman recently traveling from the. .West . ia
a sleeping car, witnessed the following scene :
In the same car with him was a gentleman
trying to still a crying child by carrying it to:
and fro in the same coach, and which, hy its
screams, finally iritatcd a man in one of the
berths to such a decree that he could endure
it no longer, and cried out profanely, "What'
in : is the matter. with thatyoung one ? ' "
And soon again "Where is the mother of
that child that she. is nothere to pacify it?'L
At this the poor gentleman in charge of the
child stepped up to the berth and said :
"Sir, the mother of this child is in her
coffin, in tle baggage car 1" XYnr informant
says the gruff grumbler immediately arose",
compelled the afflicted father to retire to his.
berth, and from that time until morning took
the little orphan under his own card"
CiTEERFUL. Arfemus Ward, in describ
ing his journey frcri California- says : "The
driver with whom I sat outride; infprtnime
a we slowly rolled down the fearful moun
tain road which looked down on either side
into an appalling ravine, that he has met ac
cidents in his time that had cost the Cali
ifornia stage company, a great deal of moncv,
because, said he, juries Is agin us on pnrei--pie,
and every man who sues us is sure to re
cover. But it will never le so-again, not
with me, you bet I Howls that? 1 said.
Wh3-, you sec, hercphed, that corpses nev
er sue for damages, but maimed people do.
And the next time I have an overturn, I
shall go round and carefully examine the
passeners. Thenf as is. dead I shall let,
alone ; but them as is mutilated I shall finish
wit h the king-bolt 1 Dead folks don't, fiue.'t
They ain't on it Thus, by anecdote, did
this driver cheer me up, '
What Writings RF-QdEETAMrsv
1st Instruments of writing ' dated before
October 1, lSt2, do not require a stamp. .
2d.. JTho.se dated between October 1.1 862,
and August I, 18C4, may be-tamped before
or after use, by the Court, Register or Re
corder. .
3d. Those dated since August 1 , 1SC4, and
not tw)ve months old, may be stamped be
fore a United States OoUe-";tcr without pay
ment of the penalty of $50.
4th. Those dated after August 1, 1SG4,
and more than twelve months old, can be .
stamped upon the payment of the penalty
of $.50.
..., , r
Let it Nevfji. be. For.GOTTEN,7-That ,
when the Democratic party wont out of pow-.
er a National Debt was a thing almost un
known. .
That by no act or deed of the Democratic
ical party, embezzled and spent it.
That on every evidence of indebtedness is -
the ugly autograph of some Radical phru-,
derer. To them exclusively belongs tho non-
or of our present burthensome taxation.
.,-. . .
IS?" There is olhcial authority for denying
the statement that the Secretary of the Treas-un-
has given instructions that no money.,
shall be paid out of the Treasury ..under the
provision of the Land Appropriation law for
additional bounties to soldiers. As soon as
the regulations governing the payment 6hall
be agreed upon by the Comirusion, they will
be furnished .to, the Treasury Department,',
and not until then, will be presented for the
decision of the Secrctary the question wheth-.
er the law carries with it an appropriation
for the object specified.
ST So far we have not heard of a single,
"delegate" (delegated, each by himself) to
the Convention c ''Southern, . Unionists, ,
that shouldered a musket or drew a sword in,
defence of the Union, nor even one who"
risked ans-thing or lost anything by the war.'.
They are all errtcctants, however. They are,
waiting for the bread and butter when'
Rumpism triumphs at the South, and makes'
them rulers over the "conquered prOTinces."
tST Nearly' $300.Q00 has been stolen'
from the Marine Bank. Is is not known by .
whom. The Bank is not the loser, as the "
money was placed on special deposit by
Messrs. Crocker, Wood & Co.. ship chand-
ler3. Great carelessness is evident, as no one
was acquainted, with the loss for eighteen .
days. Detectives are on the trail of th
party vas the present huge debt piled up. . 1
That a Radical Congress contracted it, a
Ha lical President endorsed it, and the Rad-