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FRANK R. SNYDER.
Sleeping.
The violet eyes lie shaded deep
Beneath the white lids closing;
The cheeks flushed faint with rosy sleep,
The dimpled hands reposing—
The sweet red lips hold half apart—
Smiles coming and retreating;
Ood bless and keep tho little heart, .
Within the white breast beating,
As baby sleeps.
The tiny, restless, busy feet
Lie in cradle nestling—
The clinging arm, full, white and sweet,
Upon the pillow restinfg ;
Close out the burst of noise and glare—
Harsh sound and harsher seeming--
And let the soft, sweet siiiiituer air
Float gently through his dreaming,
As baby sleeps.
And life and time go hurrying on,
Their varied meshes weaving;
And Ileaven is lost. and Heaven is won,
And joy gives place to grieving.
The Pinot user comes, the summer flies,
And brings the Autumn's glory—
While mill my darling's violet eyes
Repeat the same old story
That imhy sleeps.
I ait and muse, while yet apace
The future year. are winging,
I think what gifts of love and grace
Their hidden hands are bringing;
What pail, tliri little feet may teead ••••
%VIM work the hands be inoulding—
W hat crown awaits my darling's head,
When heart and soul. unfolding,
No longer bleep.
AL Hope haft ninny a fairy theme,
From her sweet lips nufuldiug—
Andmlife has many a golden dream,
That some rend heart is holding;
But now so glad as those that rise,
In light met beauty blending.
To shine before a mother's eyes,
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Above the cradle bending.
While baby keeps
A SUNDAY IN MADRID.
A valet-de-place, who was leading as to
church on Sunday morning in Madrid,
F poke very fair English, and I :vied hint
where he kid learned it. Ile said : "At the
wissioitry's selinel in Constantinople - Ile
was quite a polyglot, professing to be able
to spook seven languages fluently. It was.
interesting to meet a youth who knew our
mi m ior i gne, there, and entertained a great
respect for his old teachers.—and it gave MI
an idea, toe, of thc indirect influence which
such schools must be exerting, when youth
are trained in them, and afterwards embark
in other callings than those that are religious
in their purpose.
Ile led us to the Prussian Ambassador a,
where the ohaplain preaches in the French
language. No Protestant preaching is al
lowed in Madrid—none, indeed, in Spain,
—except under the nag of another Govern
ment. The Ambassador,or the Consul, has
the right of course, to regulate his own
household as he pleases; and under this
necessary privilege, he has, if ho is so die
posed, a chaplain, and , divine service on
Sunday, when his doors are opened to all
who choose to . attend. The practical work
ing of it is that a regular congregation
comes to be cetablised under each flag, if
there so ninny persons of that country and
of a religious mule:it:yes to make it impor
tant. In most of the great- capital of Eu
rope, there are people of other countries
resident for business, health, or pleasure,
and they find a ohm or worship in their
own tongue. In Spain and Home only—
write it in large letters and tell all the world,
to the infinite shame of the religion falsely
called Catholic—no religious worship is
except that which the Ambassador,
under the flag of his country, can maintain
in his own house and at the point of his
country's sword.
The Germans resitle.nt in Madrid speak
the French language, as well as their own,
and the present chaplain preaches in French.
Ile is an earnest, excellent man, and his
pulpit abilities would make him greatly
useful in a wider sphere than this. In an
upper chamber, that would scat fifty per
sons, a little congregation, not more than
twelve or fifteen, had conic together to hear
the Word. The desk, or pulpit, was habit•
ed after the fashion in Germany, with black
hangings, embroidered neatly by the Lauds
of the wife of the Prussian Ambassador,
and with the words in French, "Go ye into
all the weld and prtach the Gospel." I
war told that the Christmas and liseter,festi
val, of the Church, souse two or three hun
dreds of German Christians come to church
and to timid:n[lllmillion; but the rest of the
year their spiritual wants do not require the
weekly ordinances, and the congregation
rarely exceeds thirty people.
At the protient moment. there Is as little
religious toleration in Spain as in the days
when Popery was most fearfully alive and
Carlin 11 Xim , ,nes undertook to convert all
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heretics by means of the faggot and tire.—
There are Bibles in Spain, but there an no
Bibles in circulation. Several thousand
sent over by the . British and Foreign Bible
Society have been seized by Government,
and are now lying in boxes in a cellar, to be
sent back or destroyed. All attampts to
spread the light of Divine Truth, through
any other than the channels of the Church
of Rome, aro prohibited, and it is a high
crime against the law, or the royal will,
which is the highest law in Spain, to preach
or distribute religious books. This puts an
end to all coloring° and to evangelical ef
forts of every kind. The Queen is the most
religious of all queens, but her religion is
after the patert of Saul, not of Paul.
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We went after church to the old Palace of
the Inquisition. It is now converted into
dwellings. Over the main entrance was the
inscription, common all over these foreign
countries as in some parts of our own, "In
sured Against Fare." The poor victims
who in former years were dragged under
that portal, would have been glad to read
such words, if they could be ;ntorpreted
into an assurance that they were to be safe
from the fire of an auto (la fe.
The Spanish Inquisition affords the sad
dest story in the annals of the human race.
Whatever the name or creed of the prose
cutor—Jew or Gentile, Roman, Greek,
Protestant or Mahometan—the saddest of
all possible facts is this, that man has put
to torture and to death his fellow man on
account of his religious opinions. Lot God
be praised that in all the earth except Spain
and Rome, men may worship Him in their
own way, with none to molest or make them
afraid.
And it is very well to boar in mind that
persecution has its spirit and souse of its
power, where the victims ore by law insured
against fire. In the press and io the pulpits
the venom of bigotry and the bitterness of
intolerance may be poured on the heads of
those who are guilty of other opinions than
ours, and in God's sight such persecution
may be as offensive as the rack and boot of
the inquisition. The sqirit of the Master
rebukes the use of the sword, eveu in the
handa of Peter, to cut off a servant's ear,
and the same spirit forbids us to be unchar
itable towards the meanest of theses who
have not the light or the grace to see as we
see, or to defend Christ in our way.
Well it requires all this charity and more,
to imagine that a people can have any prop
er idea of tho - Chtistian religion, and spend
the Sabbath as these Spaniards do. To see
them at it, we must go where they most en
joy it. They have no cathedral in Madrid,
but their churches are many, and in the
morning they, women especially, go to
church. The Spaniards are wore devout
than the Italians. Infidelity has not made
so touch progress. There is a proverb that
to go to Rouse is to disbelieve. The people
in Spaiu has not seen Itotuanism as it has
been seen in Italy, until the popular mind
is sick of it. But they make abort work iu
Spain of' their devotions.
The I'redo is their Park on the skirts of'
tho town. And this is not enough for them
on Sundays. We saw the crowds pouring
out towards one of the gates, some in car
riages, but most of them on foot—inen, wo
men and children, hundreds, thousands, in
holiday attire—and we followed. Beyond
the Alcala gate, near which is the bull ring'
half' a utile into the country, we came to the
meadows over which these pleasure-seeking
Castilians had spread themselves to enjoy
their national and favorite pastime. A little
later in the season, when the weather is
warmer, thousands of these people would
stop at the bull-ring, an see the battle of
men and beasts. It is too cool as yet, and
the hulls do not fight well except in hot
weather. But it is not too cool to dance out
of doors, and fur this
,divertisomeut these
thousands have come. On the wide mead
ows there is not a house, not a shanty, not a
shed or booth. We have passed on the way
scores of wine shops ; and there the people
can resort if they choose. But on the
grounds there is nothing to ha had but the
pure and the blow* air. The people are
distributed in groups all over the plain.
The grass is green. The sun, a winter sun,
is kind and genial. The city lies in full view
with palates and domes and pinaeles. And
in the distance, but in this blazing sun and
lucid atmosphere apparently very near, long
ranges of mountains stand covered with snow
white, pure, glistening like silver in the sun
light and forming a magnificent background
to the gay picture at our feet. In the centre
of each of those many groops a dozen, more
or less, of young mon and women, are danc
ing to music. This is furnished by one,two
or three musicians, strolling bands, with
guitars and violins. Often one is an old man
blind. his wife and daughter aro with him
with their instruments. The airs are not
wild, not even lively, as compared with those
of Italy. But they aro spirited, and some
times lineally to the foreign ear ; for the airs
of music, like the airs of' heaven, travel all
around the world. The dances are pretty
and modest, singularly tame, and far from
being as full of frolic and abandon as one
would expect to see in the out-of' door am use-
MCI) Li of the common people. For these are
the lower classes only. It is the pastime of
the sons and daughters of toil, and perhaps
want. They were not ill dressed, and some
of them were well dressed. But they ap
peared to be the class of people who had
but this day in the week for pleasure, and
were now hooking and finding it in a way
that cost them little or nothing. More were
looking on than danced. Yet the seta chap.
god frequently, and the circle widened as the
number- of dancers grow. and them was al-
BLCOMSBMtG, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1868.
ways room for more ; for the meadows wore
wide, and the heavens was a roof large
enough to cover them all.
And the strangest part of this perform
ance is yet tube mentioned 1 more than half
the wen iu this frolic of the fields were sol
diers of the regular artily, in their uniforms
without anus, enjoying a half holiday. They
and all the rest, men and women, seemed to
be as happy as happy could be. If we had
thought the people of Spain, and especially
of Madrid, where the governmentis felt and
seen more severely and nearly than elsewhere
to be gleemy, sullen, discontouted, miserable
and ready to rise in revolt, such a thought
would be put to rout by seeing those soldiers
and others, men and wumen:;thousamlo: and
thousands, making themselves so easily hap
py of a Sunday afternoon.
In one of the circles of dancers two young
men, better dressed than the rest, were
either the worse for liquor, or were feigning
to be tipsy. As the other dancers paid no
attention to them, and let them amuse them
selves in their own way, it is quite prob able
they were playing the foul. These were the
only persons in the multitude, of the lower
orders of the city, who gave any sign of
having been drifting anything that could
intoxicate. There were scores of wine shops
on the street, within the easy walk of all.who
wish liquors. It was woassary to pass them
going and coming to and from the city.—
And thousands doubtless "took. something to
drink" both going and cowing. The young
men would treat the girls, and, of course, all
would have as much wine as they wished.—
For it is almost as cheap niwater—chcapor
than water in New York perhaps; for there
the tax that somebody pays fur Croton is
something, but here in Spain wino is so
cheap that what was left of last year's vint
age has often deep emptied on the ground,
or used instead of water to mix snorter with!
That" is a largo story, but will be proved
when I come to speak of the winos of this
country. Yet drunkenness is not one tithe
common vices of Spain.
And this was illy first sabbath in Spain,
worshiping in French with a dozen Chris
tians in the morning, and looking at thous
ands of the people dancing on the green in
the afternoun.—Dr. Prisms iX 4Viao lurk
Observer.
The lieuegaden.
The most infernal whelps in the whole
yelping pack of mongrel-nom hell-hounds
are the prominent converts from the Demo.
;made party made by bribes of military com
missions, or the prospect of plunder during
t h e c i v il war—as, for instatioc, the trimmer
and tyrant Stanton, who was made Secreta
ry of 11 ar, and exercised authority in a
manner for which despotic is a mild term;
Holt, whose blood-thirsty disposition evinced
itself ou every occasion of trial by court mar
tial or military commission in which he took
part; Butler (the beast) who was male a
general, without capacity, playcd.tho black
guard, tyrant and thief at New Orleaus,but
ded himself at Dutch (iap, and is now one
of the meanest wretches and moat contempt
ible scoundrels that compose the catalogue
of names that form the present "infamous
Congress; Logan, of Illinois, who (as Mrs.
Lincoln alleges,) was bought by a Colonel's
commission, a low fellow, without talent, ge-
Ilions or principle, whose time is almost
wholly absotbed in doing the slang talk and
general dirty work of the party; he, too, is
a member of the present 'infamous" rump,
which has dune its worst to subvert the gov
ernment and subject the country to utilitary
rule. These and such as these, renegades
from the Democratic ranks, are foroutest
among the very lowest and worst of the bad
men who are now ruling the country to its
ruin. But there is comfort in thu thought
that the day of their misused power is
drawing to a close, and that they will soon
be called by the people to a final laud, per
haps, bloody) settlement of accounts.
They'll run their race m did,the.French tri
umvirs,
And leave baluil a name their sons will
rue ;
Less bold of heart, but greater far in num
bers.
The devil at last will get his honest due.
PUBLIC DEBT.—From the last monthly
exhibit of the United States Treasurer,
M'Collough, the public indebtedness in
creased ttccnty stallions of dollars. At this
rate of increase, the question may be asked,
how long will it talc for the people of the
United States to pay twenty-six hundred
millions of dollars of debt? It is all non
sense for the party in power to pass resolu
tions in Township, County and State con
ventions, in favor of economy and a reduc
tion of taxes,when the men whom they elect
to office do not legislate so as to effect what
they resolve. The people must afford the
remedy which is at the ballot-box.
GENTIMMEN from the north and west
branches of the Susquehanna, ropost krom
three to five feet of snow in those regions,
and ice from ten to fifteen inches tljek on
the rivers and tributary streams. Fears ore
entertained of a sudden thaw, in which
event a very damaging flood may be looked
for. The mountains in the Juniata region
are also covered with snow four or five feat
deep.
Scaarcntat IN lionsm—For scratches in
horses take white pine pitch, rosin, bees
wax and honey, one ounce each, ikesh lard,
one-half pound, melt well together over a
slow fire, stir till quite thick, so that the
parts may not settle and separate. This
alto makes an application for harness galls,
outs and sores of all kinds, on horses and
eettle
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4 4Prlacipla, non liossluestP,
[lllosl TEE Lt CRoRAIL DEMOCRAT.]
The Northeast corner of this office rests
on a large marble block on which, in a half
circle over a band grasping a dagger is plain•
ly out the sentenoe forming the caption of
this article. Translatod from the proud old
lAtin
Paisctrus, NOT NEN I
Our motto is this—our aim to strike true
and cut deep in its defence, and to defend
principles is our pleasure, no matter where
the blow falls.
in the ease of the Chicago l'inies, former
ly ono of the most reliable Democratic pa
pers, when it departed on its financial raid
into the camp of negro suffrage, and sought
to lead the Democracy of t h e Northwest in
to .that mnrdorous ambush, it became our
duty to strike boldly at the traitor—one
blow wit. 4 ruff:it:lent to teach it duty, to de
prive it of power for evil and to make it
stand by its profession. We cut for princi
ple, caring not one whit where the blow
might fall. The result is known.
We this week are called to unmask the
Now York World for the same reason—not
to sustain Clement L. N'allandighatn, for we
are no man-worshiper ; but to show our
readers, of whom we have ton where the
World has one, who it is that, lacking true
Democracy, sits like a decoy duck on the
troubled waters to lead the unsuspezting in
to danger and death. Our compliments to
the World will he found in another column,
and with this we hand the World over to
Train, whose recognized orgau the World
uow beanne.
• • • • •
Alew months since in Ohio a plan
of political Matto was decided on as fol
-10W11:
To redeem that State and defeat Ben.
Wade for return to the U. S. Senate the
Democracy united. Judge Thurman was
decided upon as the candidate fur Governor.
To better insure success and rally the ',topic
it was decided that in event of carrying the
Legislature, C. L. Vallandigham should he
sent to the Senate in place of Waile,first, to
insure an outspoken I)eu►ocrat there; ate
otatlly, to teach the Rump Congress that one
of its curses had come home to roost.
This plan of battle united the war and
anti-war Democracy. Pendleton was then
to receive unittel support for the Presidency
—redeemed Ohio, with her 1/clever:icy uni
ted and encouraged would be a tower of
strength, like Kentucky, New York, Con
necticut, Pennsylvania, Califoruia, Delaware,
\den land, etc. In this planning was wisdom
and :.trengtli. The election time came.—
Thurman, Vallandigham and Pendleton
were three political giants of that State—
they curried the banner high—they battled
earnestly—they pressed the enemy on
every side; they .hurled deGanee and
the records of misdeeds in the very teeth of
Republicans—they won a glorious victory.
The legislature was carried by Republicans
awl returned soldier;► in hundreds of cases
voting fur Vallaialighatu legislators where
they did not vote for Governor on either
ticket.
Thurman ne,:ived a majority of the hon
est voted of Ohio, but for cause unknown
did not claim the chair which he would have
had by claiming, and the Democracy would
have seen him defended in its pomea
sion.
After the election, certain Democrats of
Ohio wanted a new deal. A move was then
made to send Thurman to the Senate, ob
tain control of the Slate organization, s(111
oat the friends of' l'allaudigbam, and, with
those things accomplished, as was tele
graphed or sent to the editors of the CM.
cinnati Enquirer, " Vallandighani may go
to hell I"
The bargain and sale was effected. Ap
pliances brought to bear, elected Thurman
to the office ho was not a candidate for, and
gave him an office he bad given his word, or
his friends had given for him that ho would
not accept, even if defeated for Governor.
The election of Thurman by the legislature
in Columbus was like a funeral—no cheer or
exultation—but the men in some instances
acted as did Judas Iscarriot, in gulag oat,
but not to hang themselves.
After this mile bad been made—after the
friends of Vallandigham, after the brave
Democrats of that State who are Democrats
from principle and dare stand by and defend
their Democracy at all tams and nailer all
ciretarmtancrs saw the fruit of victory
snatched, from them, they gave up. Here
was the great ckance. The broken enemy
should have been pressed into a rout—should
have been charged upon and cut to pieces
—the flower of the "old guard" should have
been sent to the front, and this would have
given pluck to the men of nerve and princi
ple who alone have by their boldness and
determined nand against usurpations stemed
the tide and given us a hope for the fu
ture.
But the Ohio Democracy, led by the poli
cy men made a Bull Rue retreat, and lost
the advantage they had gained. The army
was disbanded at the moment that victo
ry was settling on its struitlard, and as the
Democrats grew timid, the Republicans
vow bold.
Then came a special election in the Sth
District. The policy men to conciliate the
half whipped Republieatus, put up a policy
man, one who would not in '(3 vote for Val
landigham, nor support any Democrat of
that school.
Taunted, betrayed, ignored, many carneet
Numerate had no heart for tlio fight, as
there is no choice between a Republican and
Democrat who has ~hod "PoHey Ste.
tia," the half Lewis, and who has his bag
gage checked through. As they were not
wanted at the feast, they had no heart to
prepare the viandm--the election of the Re
publican candidate was the result. Mr. Val
lindighatn refused to go farther. No man
could pleammntly ltims the foot that had kick
ed him ; and his friend', wrote that "Burns
iy defeated, for we bad nothing to work for
nothing to gain if eleeted"—he telegraph
ed to Cincinnati:
"have you hoard from the Nth District?
Now you may go to hell once l"
Tv the ones who broke faith with the
working, victorious Democracy of that State
is this defeat in the Nth District chargable.
You cannot long betray and insult your beat
friends. Had Vallantlighani been sent to
the Senate, Pendleton could have carried
Oitio, Thu, ri.tri ts:co the next Governor,
and our victory for '6B would to-day have
been won! But the battle is now to be
fought over again, and we are worse off in
Ohio than we were in October. Neither
P en dl e to n or Vallandigham could carry that
State today, nor this year for any °Sue.—
Having been sold, betrayed, and cheated,
the people will not ki- , s the rod that smote
thew, nor would the timid Democrats dare
vote for l'allandiehant. And there the pot
that had three legs under it three months
since is now leaning on but two, and neither
one with confide:K.oin the other!
In this matter we stand by principles. We
do not like to see a brave man saeritiood.—
Vallandigham's crime is that he always has
been a Dernoerat. Ile has never forsaken
his faith nor the people. 116 home bears
many a mark of mob violence—he has re
sisted unsey offers made by Lincoln to sell
his principles— be has always stood by the
people, the rights of States- the prosperity
of the people—the white men of the coun
try. This is the offence- nothing more. Ile
6 loved by the people—for he is true to
them. Lately brutally assailed by a pro
fessed Democratic paper, he lies no word of
complaint. We care nuthing fur VAllandig
hum. It is a question of prineiple. It is
whether brave men are to be killed as offer
ings to enemies. The Democracy of Val
landighani is above suspicion—that of his
ussailuet is not. We would see the next
Presideut a white man and a Democrat,
working for white men and Detuirracy. We
care not who that man is, it' he will only be
true to principle. We would vote for our
most bitter personal enemy if he were only
true to principle, and mild be relied on in
time of danger to defend his principles and
the people.
It isswith this feeling we step between the
lime Democrat of Ohin who is guilty of no
crime or betrayal or friends, with our little
army of over a hundred thousand brave men
and shall protect him, far in so doing we
protect our principles.
The Work/ struck a cowardly blow. But
the victim is not reached by it. Its mask
is thrown off too soon—hut better that it
came off than be born longer to decoy and
delude honest people. TILVOi GOD the
day has passed when venal newspapent; al
ways in the marl, ; reipt* thr pul
icy. The arm of all theso qi , l4r , , of ‘ ,„„ ro e
tion is growing shorter to strike down as
ours is growing longer and stronger to strike
np and strike hack!
14incepio, non Hoonines !
A Tale of Arizona.
Oa the maps the territory of
Arizona called Arezuma, and a wild trial
tiot. 13 still prevalent among, the Pueblo In
c:inns, says it is the name of an Aztec Quden,
idle once ruled over the plains and moun
t:tins :Aretehing away to the Western waters.
Site was white and beautiful, and two rival
kings of the South sought her hand. But
she refused their offers prefering to remain
unwedded rather than link her fate and that
of het people to a strange laud. Wars re
sultcd, in which the Indian Boadicea led her
swarthy to Fantle. After years of
during %M AI the rivers ran
biood and the cities were laid in ruins, the
followt.rs of Arezuma were overpowered.—
Then proffers of peaoo came again from a
Southern king, but Arezuma received them
not. N% irh a few warriors she left the land
she could not rule, and never was heard of
again. Some think she will return with
Montezuma to redeem the Aztec race. Oth
ers say site died in tho mountains with her
soldiers. Ifer spirit visits El San Francisco,
and often when the Indian hunters pass
through the forests in the pale moonlight,
they hear the sighing of the Aztec Queen.
And some say they have seen a form of
beauty passing towards the snow peaks,
dressed in white and gold, bearing in one
hand a silver-hew. and in the other a quiver
from which all the arrows bad been fired.—
After the eouque.t of Mexico, many Spanish
adventurers led explorine parties into this
lurid ; amongst them Coronado and Miens,
who returned to speak in extravagant terms
of the number of people and immense wealth
Mend in the mountains of Colorado. The
people they met have passed away or degen
erated, but the beautiful landscapes and
wealth remain.
AN orator, warming with him subject, ex
claimed. "I guess there ain't a niun, woman
or child in the house who has arrived at the
ago of fitly years, but *hat has felt this
truth thuodering through his, her, or its
mind for centuries,"
WHAT. can bo a more desolate spectacle
than an old maid sitting on an inverted half
bushel, in a cold kitchen, with her feet on
the brim of a slop bucket, pairing her ems
with a ease knife, by the light of a tallow
candle.
""God Bleu us every Our.to
Wf 01101101 COOPIR.
Shako hands and let the past go by
Our idle fears forget;
The leaves may fall, the breeze may sigh,
But spring will greet us yet.
Oh heed the lemon of the year,
While rill the seasons run;
A smile for those both far and near,—
"God bless us every one I"
Ob ! hear it whispered by the loaf,
And thundered by the wave ;
'Tis written on the golden sheaf,
And oven on tho grave:
A lesson which the robin tells,
In shadow and in sun '
•
And bark in merry Christmas bells,—
"God bless us every ono!"
A kindly word for each and all,
And come there flowers or snow,
How sweet the sunlight that will fall
To keep the heart aglow I
And this our song, where'er we be,
Until our days are done,
In pleasant homes and far at sea,
"God bless us every one I"
ELoprorr Passaux.—For the'greatest
human intellects there is uo exception from
the common doom, 1 have sometimes
thought how sublime must have been the
emotions of that man whose privilege it was
to stood by the coffin of Shakespeare, and
gaze on the sweet, noble face, when
,death
had called out all the strange beauty which
never lives there. It was worth a lifetime to
have stood there one minute—to have laid
your hand on that broad brow, and started
at the cold chill—and so caused to have call
ed up in memory all the niagnifkoent crea
tions of his genius, ■nd worship hitu there
in the silence and in the gloom.
But he is dead and gone I
At his head a grass green turf,
At his heelsi stone.
So they all go. Man dies, but nature is
eternal. The seasons keep their appointed
time ; day returns with its golden splendor,
and night with its eloquent mystery. The
sante stars which lit the ghastly battle field
of Troy, rough with the dead bodies of an
cient heroes—which shone on the marble
streets of imperial Rome, and on the sad
eyes of vigil keepers in the living glow of
inspiration—the watch-fire of the angels
which, through centuries of devastation and
change have still burned on unceasingly—
speak to us, as they did to Dante, Shake
speare and Milton of the divine glory, the
omnipotence, the everlasting beauty and
love of God.
JOHNNY SITELt, the "oil prince" of two
years ago, who fur some time enjoyed the
pleasant little income of $2,000 a day, on
Thursday last, we loam from the Erie Ilia
patch, filled a voluntary petition of bank
ruptcy in the United States District Court
at Pittsburg. After Johnny had lost - his
property ho was obliged to earn a living by
by driving an ell team, and later still, by
tending the door of a minstrel show which
be started with hie own money. His
.in
debtedness, &S set forth in his petition,
amounts to $lOO,OOO. Some of the items
are quite heavy, a few of which we note:—
To Henry W. Katiga, of the Girard House
Philadelphia, he owes $19,824 ; J. E. Cald
well S. Co., Philadelphia, for jewelry, $5,-
500; John I). Jones, far harness, $1,250;
W. Home & Co., for cigars, $562 ; K H.
Conklin, Philadelphia, liquors, $2,0'34;
Phelan & Collender, Philadelphia for bil
liard tables, $1,500; to an unknown oredit
or, for oil paintings, $2,200 ; to the account
for hats, $3OO. A considerable amouneof
his indebtedness is for money borrowed,
notes, judgments, etc. When "Johnny"
took a notion to rent a hotel for a few days,
he would do so ; and whenever he saw any
thing that pleased his i fancy, ho was bound
to have it, regardless of cost. Perhaps no
man in the United States ever squandered
as much money in the spaoesof time.
I'IFFICACY or ONIONB.—A writer mays :
We arc troubled often with severe coughs,
the result of colds of long standing, which
may turn to consumption or premature
death. Hard coughs cause sleepless nights
by constant irritation of the throat, and a
strong effort to throw off offensive matter
from the lungs. The remedy I propose has
been tried by me, and recommended by mo
with good results, which is simply to take
into the stomach before retiring for the
night a piece of raw onion, after chewing.
This esculent in an uncooked state is very
heating, and collects the water from the
lungs nod throat, causing immediate relief
to the patient.
Tut Horticulturist says that although an
imal manures are said to be injurious to
evergreens, it has recently been proved
that old, well rotted barnyard manure may
be applied to them with the best possible
resul ts.
Tua excess of births over deaths in the
United Kingdom is now about 1,000 a day.
In England it is above 250,000 a year; in
Scotland, above 40,000 in Ireland, it is esti
mated at nearly 70,000.
Tna examples of all ages show us that
mankind in general desire power only to do
harm ; and, when they obtain it use it for no
other purpose.
A BROOK trout twenty-nil Inches long,
and weighing seven and one-half pounds,
was moistly naught near Middletown, Con
necticut
Glys tut not men liko weathercocks, that
change with every wind, but men like moun
tains that change tho winds themselves.
Wins is a flea like a looomotivo ? When
it goes over the sleeper.
luau pitch—Tarring a reef.
/I
NUMBER 2.
Odds and Ends.
A mammon= ohmeater-the mania
the mom
WHAT sweetmeats did they have is the
ark? Preserved pairs.
AT whet season did Eva eat the apple ?
Early in the fall.
To oldest business in the world—tilt"
nurser)%builiness.
Wur is dancing like milk? Because it,
strengthen the calves.
You cannot preeorve happy domes*
pairs in kuily jars.
WHY is a doll like jelly ? Because it Is
made with eyes in glass.
JOHN SHMI has started a daily paper ill
Canada. Everybody knows him.
WANT less then you have and you will
always have more than you want.
CARPENTERS should, be looked after—
many of them are counter•otterss.
A cur confectioner fitivertioes broken
hearts for thirteen cents per Noun).
Oun devil says "hoops surround the lots.
Hest of all things—girls and whisky."
EVERY man magnified injuries he has re•
ceived end lessens those he has initiated.
WilT is coffee like an u with a dull edge?
%MUM it must be ground before it is used.
WHIT is the James river like a keg of la
ger Leer? Because they both dew into the
dutch gap.
A NZWLT married editor has - dismored
that there is a deal of illusion about even
jug dresses.
" I AM pamaionately fond of paintings,"
as a young man said when he kissed the
rough cheek of his sweetheart.
A CRAP, who Wag told to "remember
Lot's wife," replied that he had been in
trouble enough already about other mane
wives.
" I KNOW well enough." said a fellow,
"where fresh fish comes from, but where
these salt ones aro catehed, I'll be lumped it,
I can tell."
A cuAttnT scholar, under examination in
the Psalms, being mked, "What is the pee
tilence that welketh in darkness?" replied
"Plume, sir, bed-bugs."
A YOUNG lady refused to go into the Wa
terville arsenal because she heard that some
of the muskets were without breeches. She
viewed the arsenal from a distance.
A YOUNG man who was about Jumping
from a train while in motion, wax deterred
by a reporter, who askedlor his name, age,
business and resideaeo•for an obituary item.
"Wm , did Joseph's brethren cast him
into a pit?" asked a school teacher of his
elm "Because," replied one young lady,
"they thought it a good opening for a young
nine."
Ara colored party Sambo asked Dinah if
he should help Ler to some of the breast.
"Now ain't you 'slimed, to say breast be
fore de ladies? I'll take a piece ob turkey
bosom."
SMART Boy.—"My child, take these eggs
to the store; and.if you can't get ninepenos
a dozen, bring them back."
"Mother, let me alone fur a trade. They
all tried to get 'em fur a shilling, but
screwed 'cm down to ninepenca."
Mite. hurrtNoros says: "For my part,
I can't deeeivo what on sixth eddioation is
comin' to. When I was young, if a girl
only understood the rules of distraction,
provision, multiplying, and the common de
nominator, and all about the rirers:and their
obituaries, the covenants and their dormito
ries, the provinces and the umpire, they had
eddication enough. But now they have to
demonstrate oppositions about the syco
phants of paralielgramps, to asy nothing of
ozhides, asheads, coweticks and abstruse
triangles." And here the old lady was so
confined with technical names she broke
down.
Staxs.—lt is a good sign to Boos man du
an got of charity—a bad mign to bear Lilo
boatfof it.
It's a good sign to see an honest man
wearing his old clothes—bed: sign to see
them filling boles in the windows.
It's a good sign to see a man wipe the
perspiration from bis brow—bad to ow him
wipe hid lips as he mates out of a cellar.
It's a good sign to see a woman dreaded
with taste and neatness—bad to see her hus
band sued for finery.
It's a good aiga to see a man advertise in
the papers—bad to see the sheriff advertise
for him.
It's a good sign to see a man tending his
children to school—bad to see them edues,-
ted at the night school in the street.
Wale schools are greatinstitutions. Mr.
Jiggers, known in public to Signor Jiggers,
got hold of a pulpit hug week who was one
horse and a hitch strap ahead of him.
"What is a voice?" asked Jiggers.
"The compound extract of wind."
Whki is in .'o?"
"An tunnel, .'orio banking institution
which never redeems the notes it Istleo."
" What are wind inotrutuouts?"
"Great blowout "
Name a few of them."
" Well, bugles, sensation preachers, trom
bona t, politicians, French borne, Gothamites,
porpoises, Englishmen, clationeta and dab ,
papers.
" What ire williesl bars for?"
"To make a division of measures. Ai
some bars three anteroom emoted as a fait
measure for a horn."
awe puts the new pupil dam us
sharp who eoultl 1I Set under eny dream.