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vat-- 44 q. /NA Eeet
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tAildroa sa m related madly rated Elite.
t to letesiters i Illtaoo. your shake. at 1100, worts
VAN UM lot Ltutles Olove•liii Itiostrolo aid
ihiliters et OM. woo! $490.
Coffers, Teas, Sugars and Syrups.
, Tan balsam_ ad go, steak anefaiidni all kinda of
, wt pwapariloasaly low prices.
Country punka. waate4, Cub paid fur butter and
ow. !torn on Mali littret below Mullet.
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SOLLEDER'S
ROOT AND SOON STORE,
rCIPKIIITTIi TIM lir MOP 4 L CilliJacit.p
On Maim Otrset, Bloomsburg.
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it • propl• M ii4440014/111, •144tity, fiat I. 044
cu bud a ant Ma lac 1444.0111441 of
BOOTS AND SHOES, ill
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Ira* 401/014 rianaammararli; 04 betty • practical
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w.YUitau witurrial badly olds INN
'olllo Iles wetted b wall
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• ha A
GOOD ARTICLE,
• d at prises tevoltkoatabowars.
AU permit who iisaina light es bury work nada
ardor can ba asomossoitated at his intablieboroot.
Allah llpatriog will ba dews with ants... aid
Ai elegant aseortowat of Ladies Spring aid Ouse
Mat
303 3 1140 e. NM o ok head. SuLt.V.DCIL.
J • J. BROWN, (t Mai* & .fraststs.)
ihow ihkries *lb@ robin An STOOK OF
SPRING GOODS
r hi part of a full line of
INGRAIN, WOOL AC RAG CARrETS.
Yid., nlto6l and cnaainn.ne far LaeHat' nails.
11.•od•otne Ih•la anode of all rAtlerni aid qualltlac
11'.laIna and Prints of tartan' qualltlni and plea*,
riiathei and Brown bluillog, Ladies ['tench Cursete
v I
BALMORAL SKERTIL
ti .od astnriuntat of Laillea and thildtono' Gahots
a. 1 Reocto.
t r+.ll groceries and Spice!. ~ I rw asaortni•mt of
lasi aid Qseeasware.
x argerei i n 'lnv tptlf anJ one fourth &mix
Nerve IN the time to ware purr 'election'. it I am
~wing good, at very low pricer Lad nur motto is
f , . .r &eating to all, and not to be untlerenlit by soy.
J. J. bRUYi 66.
omsburg, April 30 11+417
a Etali ARRIVAL OF FAMILY
UROCERIFS, AT
JOHN K. GIRTON'S STORE,
11100111115151110, PENza.
~,.....ffibermeJ e pt returned ffMle the eastern
rr tea with a large and choice stock of Arm class
Ilaf•Celitli a led Dry-Gawk,
%hit) he oat, to the Wizen, of Illoorurburg and
orriaity as low ales* be bad of any Stealer fa this
anstiam of the Covoty.
His it nett ettatiets of the best sarietiro of
exlrreß, IMOLAI/11M
TEA,
FIAN (of due quttlity,) PULS,
01118 MEATS, (in Muir samosa,
burro"! • AND OTllti caAciii ) tt s
A OAP CANDIZO . Ate , CHI E,
COAL & LINSK BD OIL/.
• Is a nice assortmist of Dry floods wed Iftelsty.
and a fall eyelet, of goods of the altos. class, and
of other kinds. Is addition to which he has recto*
alas! to his stork a Au assortment of
CEDAR WARE AND
WILLOW WARE;
In *which 'oriel) , of pods Re bee several beer
astaeles of ■admw limenaloo, aiteesivelly lowa
where knows, lad which 1111.1hl come 1110 use berm
Ne also bail AIM 11Upply Of
French illioroccoes;
n elan of Unfaelea Linings for Mloomaker's
; sad a "mod assortment of
Queensware.
GT Call and examine.
JOHN L.GIRTON.
E. Comer of Nato and hos fltroolo.
Moooisburg. Nov. 90, )&J7.
NEW BAKERY AND CONFEC
TIONERY
LlElarlanAblatlastlarancorna
ON MID STREET,
mow MALE T.
3. T. PDX, Proprietor of this establishment, walla
teswectAilly trillium his old and haw esswiatire
14 bat everything hued ey al, his MM wean to se
able lila to finish th ee with 111LAn, OARED.
AND CONIIIO2IOI I IIIIIIOII, es heretofore,
2C7' Henan:iv all promo. who have beets Aweigh
We with Ale, toga &ter, sail Porter, ay the whole
half, or smarter barrel, will eaU upon WI tsLIAN
ill LAPEL el his Saloon Is
eitives , Block, Main Strtet,
who Ilso beta salhoeiowl by the owdoseigised let sell
the same. He will oessetranUy have • asipply co hand,
whit* will be feted at the lownist medal rite.
Mr. T. talkie mow o with his kb p sad C.
Hloaerp., flf{ea a/ tow rq tw sale G
10E CRE4III,
wDb Inv hIVIR blot wilk , lfeetr miles $e
4. also velem W wake It. Cream in lerge aged
ties for eartlats,_ Sc social lithe tiers. ea the
ease may N. Diterylkieg portallolsi Si hie Hes d
bowmen will mole* weal mad &Went alteoHos.
ro" 114 Is thookfitto Its eastowenre Dv past A
vats, sad most covelally aolLtita stesothusaises of.ibe
wins, J. t. ro t.
App 11, thgf.
N EW RESTAURANT,
Is Oblvo', Pulliam!, 01 Mils Stmt.
WM, GILMORE,
ablate tbd atlases nfllleocasbarg arid rlelsitl rho
• has eptosel a bow
IBIKSTALURANT I
511144 ober, ;is invites Ms old fri•adeaal
~roman tomtit and reirtake of ht. refreshments,—
t is his lavabos to %rev Ihs tint
LAGER ND ALE,
.astaally as bud ,• A 1.., Porter, darsaparills. lilla
al NNW. rainy lowooldolos. ilasolleny sad Lepo
Syria',
as. always be bolsi hie Ilealaurant.
to ilia oriSlea Has s popeesSe a
SEIM OW NISI
itetpuilid la ate blase ; via, Fiala Ordain
ow. berdaert. nor, Ilerbeered Chlckan,
sni usairitrosas, att. IN 1410 his door
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oilier., Jane la, WOO.
flantoturg Naomi,
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imilthitt.
II aplesoritatie.., without Wirenissisaia. tereaty.
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am, Ilia grit imialmioa.
Mated a Ives Oka akin low by
FRANK S. SNYDIR.
FOVIVD DEAD IN THE STREET,
The labor is over and done,
The sun has gone down in the west ;
The birds are asleep, every one,
And the world has gone to its rest—
Sleepers on beds of down,
'ls eath clover of silk and Laid!
Soft, as on roses now-blown
Slept the great monaruh at old
Sleepers on mother's breast;
Sleepers happy and warm,
Cosy as birds in their nest,
With never a thought of harm I
Sleepers ie gyrate high,
'Neeth Covolot ragged and old ;
And one little sleeper all under the sky,
Out in the nMht. and cold I
Aloe* in the wile wide world,
Christi's*, matiMrless, he ;
Ileffng or stealing to live, and whirled
be waif ea s angry see.
The daisy looks up from the
Fresh from the ingeraof
To welcome the birds as they pass,
And drink in fresh rivers of light.
Sleepers on mother's breast,
Waken to summer and mirth ;
But one little sleeper has gone to bisrest,
Never to waken on earth—
Dead—found dead in the street,
All forsaken and torn ;
Damp from head to the feet,
With the dew of the sweet May morn
Dead—for the want of a must I
Dead—in the cold night-air I
Dead—and under the duet,
Without even a word of prayer ;
In the heart of the wealthiest city
In this most Christian land,
Without even a word of pity,
Or the touch of a kindly hand
In the western part of the State of lowa,
there is a ridge of sharp bluffs, which for
some distance flanks the Missouri river. It
was hem the Indians met in treaty several
years ago, and from the fact a city has taken
its name— Council Bluffs.
Among the early settlers of this section
of the country, there was a family by the
name of' Denver, consisting of father and
mother, one son and two daughters, the
eldest of whom was sixteen years of age.—
She watt a lovely young creature—lovely in
her innocent goodness, and she was beloved
by a young man named Edwin Hobart.
Hobart had formed this attachment for
the young creature while ebe yet resided in
the East ; and then her father removed to
the West, the young man followed. But he
had never been an especial favorite of the
father, and now he appeared to be len so
than over.
Mary Denver had formerly received the
address of the young man with some degree
of favor, but she saw the dislike her father
entertained toward the young man, and al
though she could not give any reason for it,
she felt that it could Dot be without fbun
dation. So she tlankly inforrsed Hobert
that he must cease to address her, until her
father should fee! differently in the matter.
To this Hobart replied :
"Mary, I have loved you long and tender
ly—even from my earliest recollection. I
have left my home to follow you. I have
carefully examined every act of my life, and
I can not find an intentional dishonest one.
I believe your father's dislike to myself to
be entirely without foundation. But you
know your own feelings. If you will love
me and consent to be mine, your fsther will
soon learn that he has hated without a cause.
If you reject me, you will send me upon the
!world with a frosen heart; and God only
knows, in my Impulsiveness, what I might
do, or what would become of see."
"This sounds something like a threat,"
returned the girl, proudly, and she turned
away.
Two nights atter the oonvenation, the
alarm of Indians was given. Mothers
sprang from their couches and duped their
little one* to their bosoms in terror. Strong
men seized their weapons, and prepared to
defend their homes to the last.
Ono dwelling was already in flames. A
few shots had been beard, a shriek had
arisen upon the still nigbt air, and then all
was still me the crackling fins No other
house was molested, and the mews appear.
ed ty have withdrawn,
In'a short time the daylight dawned, and
the neighbors began to assemble around the
destroyed home, which proved to be that
belonging to Mr. Deaver and his
A search for the inmates IMP at rune lit.
atituted. The mother was &nod horribly
mutilated and scalped. The eon had
nobly fighting, as his wounds attested, and
the youngest daughter was mangled in an
equally horrible manner,
G, PA.
THE FROZEN HEART.
ST lIVIIRT CRERTIR.
A still further search rasaltad is the dis
t:loony of Mr. Deaver. He bad been scalp
ed, but was still Ave, and bad trawled into
ditob for tonoealment. But be was in.
sinsibla.
All seareh for Mary was vain, she was no
were to be ftrand.
Among those present was s young men
who appeared to be deeply of soted by this
terrible deed, and he even wept. But dry
ing his teem he exclaimed :
"I must leave tests to Women. Men must
think of rerengu. Where is Edwin Ho
ban?"
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"He does not appear to be here."
"Not here I He mot be foal at owe.—
He is a young man like myself, and must
become one of the leaders in this natter.—
It shall be %Bowed up to the bitter end.
Hobart was nowhere to be found; and
Charles Barr, the weeping man, appeared
somewhat uneasy. Then he hinted his sus
picious, and at Wit declared openly that if
Hobart did not soon return, he should be
lieve that the deed was performed under
his direction, by savages whom he had OM
ployod. Allusion was then made to the re
jection of Hobart by Mary and be was un
derstood to have made a terrible threat at
the time.
Mr. Denver was new able to speak a few
words. He told them that savages had
done the work ; but that he believed them
to be headed by a white man in disguise.
"Could that white man have been Edwin
Hobart?" asked Barry.
Mr. Denver remained silent for a time.—
It appeared to be a difficult question to ans
wer. Bat be finally said:
"If Hobart bad any motive for doing this,
and I could believe him capable of commit
tingle terrible a deed, I might fix the guilt
upon him: for certain it is that the white
man is about the size of Hobart, and his
motives were much the same."
"He is the gat) , one," said Barry; "and
by Heavens be shall gaffer! I'll hunt him
to the very ends of the earth, bet I will find
him and bring him back."
The day pissed and the easitomeet in..
creased in the little settlement. Ilobart
was still absent. Stouts had been sent out
however, in search of him ; and just as
night was coming on, he was brought beck.
By this time the excitement had reached
such a high pitch that the infuriated people
could scarcely be restrained from rushing
upon him and tearing him to pieces. But
Barry assumed the command and declared
that everything must be done in order.
The trial was a brief one. Hobart could
explain his absence no further than to de
dare that he had merely been away on a
hunt. This was unsatisfactory.
Just before the dacission was given, an
Indian came forward and offered to give in
his testimony. Ho was permitted to do so ;
and he declared that Hobart bad tried to
hire him, some days before to engage in
that work; but that ho had declined.
This was enough. The Indian was a
drunken, worthless, fellow; but his wordy
were believed—more especially as the amu
sed had very recently been seen in earnest
eoavereation with him. Hobart was con
demned to be hanged at midnight.
Two hours were to elapse before the exe
cution was to take place; during this time
preparations for it , met be made.
Barry had resolved that it should be a
grand affair. An example must be made of
Hobart for the benefit of all such as should
be inclined to do wrong in the future.
The preparations were complete at half
past eleven. A gallows bad been erected
upon an open field. Around this was heap
ed up quantities of brush-wood, forming a
circle. These were then to be lighted and
the prisoner then marched to his doom.
There was no place where Hobart could
be imprisoned with safety, and so he was
fire ly bound with ropes and placed prostrate
upon the ground. In addition to this heavy
chains were placed upon him, and forked
limbs out hem trees, the prongs sharpened,
and driven down into the earth over his
limbs. In this pipeful position the poor
accused was kept for two hours, unable to
move, his floe and form flat upon the frosty
earth.
The citizens zurrotmded him, heaping
their curses time hint, while some could
not ever refrain from inflicting blows upon
him, even though they felt sure he would
soon pay the penalty of his crimes with his
life.
Everything in readiness, Hobart WU taken
to the fatal spot. The chains clanked fear
hlly at every step, and he staggered under
their weight; but his bearing was that of
man resolved to suffer bravely, although in
silence, •
The fatal noose was placed around his
neck, and than the area were lighted. The
flames shot up, throwing their red glare all
around. And that scene wse a sickly one.
The doomed man stood erect• His eyes
shone Ike *an as he galled upon the burn
ing masses near him and the orowd of angry
oitesena. HU rhos vas very pale, sad wore
a deathly hue in the light of the biasing
log ; bat there were no marks of fear upon
IL
"Have you anything to all befbre you
die?" &eked Beni.
"Only this," replied the doomed man,
firmly. "If you ever see May alive, tell
her that I loved her to the last, and that I
am innocent of this crime."
"Up with the wisteh I" cried Berry.
"Stay! Let the white man live I" ex
claimed a commanding' voice, and a huge
Indian chief leaped within the circle.
"What wants the chief?" atled Barry,
evincing now fear
"To speak vith your people for a ma
meal."
Theo Muting to them he mined :
"You are ehildren. The guilty die not
like that man, You should know this."
"Is he nal guile' asked a handrail
voices.
"Nat'
"Who is the guilty ens r'
"Listen, fbr the chief speaks trots% A
dog of a pate•face came to toy warriors...-.
He gave them fire-water and mde them mad.
Theo he bribed them to do that deed of
blood, and led them on. He told them that
they should kill all in that wigwam bat the
pale maiden. She bad refused to become
his Squaw; but he would take her to the
mountains and make her his slave."
"Where is the pale maid ?" cried several
voice, r
"I have brought her back. I can not
give you back your murdered ones, but I
will give you the dead bodies of those who
murdered them, for I have slain the break
ers of our treaty I"
Mars now entered the circle, and was
received by the warmest greetings. But
the men asked :
"Have you killed the white man with the
other murderers?"
"There is the pale-faced dog."
The chief pointed to Barry, who attempt
ed to escape, but was "soured, and in ten
minutes was hanging in the place ho had
for Hobart.
The blow wan a severs ono for all. Poor
Hobart suffered an age of agony in the few
short hours of that night, and he could not
readily recover from the shock. His heart
had been frosen ; but Mary, as his wife,
warmed it into life again.
Tw• Children Lou.t
ram LIVIA PRIAIRVILD DT A DOG.
On Wednesday, says the Keokuk (Iowa)
Constitution, two boys named Lynch and
Nicholson, aged respectively nine and ten
years, went to the woods west of the city, to
got a pieoe of hickory to make a bow. They
wandered out so far that they got lost. In
their bewildered state they searched about
for some land-mark that would lead them
to their homes. While thus engaged, they
espied a black lamb frisking about near them,
and Lynch told Nicholson that be was going
to Catch it, and accordingly gave chase. In
a few momenta he and the lamb both disap
peared in the thick underbrush• Nicholson,
after waiting some time for Lynch to return,
set about to find the way back to the city
himself, which be succeeded in doing, and
arrived at home late in the evening. Young
Lynch, however, was not so fortunate. He
wandered ■bout in the woods till late at
night, when he lost all hope of finding his
way out of the forest, and laid down beside
a log and slept till the next morning. Be
ing refreshed by his sleep, ho again went
forth with more buoyant hopes to find his
way home. But he was again doomed to
disappointment, and after strolling through
the woods all day was again compelled to
make his bed upon the oold ground with oo
cover but the blue sky. He had Just laid
himself down when an unexpected but wel
come visitor arrived to share hie bed and
keep him company. This strange visitor
was a large Newfoundland dog, which staid
with the little fellow till Friday morning.
A short time after daybreak the dog showed
signs of great anxiety and uneasiness, and
started to leave young Lynch, but he had
enough foresight to foltow the dog, and was
conducted by the faithful animal t I the road,
where he saw a man upon a wagon. He
hailed the man, and after telling his adven
ture, was put into the wagon and brought
to his home. The joy of the parents upon
his return can better be imagined than die•
gibed. After searching for their boy in
every imaginable place where it was thought
he could be, without avail, they bad about
given up all hopes of finding hiss, and there
is a probability if it had not been for that
faithful Newfoundland dog, the child would
have starved to death or died of grief in
the lonesome forest, During the two days
and nights that he weak* he was without
a mouthful to eat, and his countenance
showed plainly that be had indulged Weir
sively in tears.
INYANT SLAV:URL —Of thirtreeven
metropolitan districts in London thirtf-two
are on the black list for their slaughter of
infant life. In one thousand infanta born
five hundred and seventy-one die during
the first month. The current pries for
adopting an intknt, no questions asked, and
no ftirther trouble to be given is fifty dol
lars. In answer to an advertisement offer
ing a child for adoption, three hundred and
forty-live replies were received I One per
had seven cliWien on hand, two of
whom were dying. The waste of lift I.
London, Manchester and Liverpool is so
great that a famous doctor said that the
children of the idolatrous tribe who passed
through the fire to Moloch sanely incurred
more danger than do she children bon is
several diatriels of the large sides. The
system of What murder by neglect, rho•,
is said to be rapidly gaining ground in all
civilised countries.
A LADY who was curried ow Friday,
when asked why she ammuomated Nosh int
portant besinem on such an unkteity day,
responded that she had been married on
every other day in the week, sod had al
ways wade inch a poor fist of it, that .Lo
had concluded to test hangman's day, hoping
that the halter woulthefelip this time.
Why is a selfish friend liko tho letter P ?
Ann.—Because, though he the firm in
O F , he i thr last iu help,
VW, Osaustials of Africa.
IX du Chall}u gives the following *doh
of a Conan' tribe of Mite, called the
I=
Thos :
I never befbre saw each will men. Thor
were all erased to the teeth with spears,
soeed arrows and knives. Their bodies were
tattooed all over, their teeth were dyed Walk
sad they Wilted more like ghosts them mow !
On the grated were skulls of dead me,
and bones vett scattered ell *MO, tai'
strata The woolen were the usllidleiree
my, and were mart than the men. The
king did not want to lee me, being afield'
that he would die if he saw a spirit. The
men did not seem afreid, but the women did.
I saw one of the latter run into one of the
beta with the leg of a man Just cut off.—,
This made me feel uncomfortable, and my
only consolation was that Iwu very thin,
and not worth much for eating. At length
the king came to me, surrounded by his
warrior. He was dressed with the skins of
wild beasts, and held a spear in his bands
He looked at me with wonder, and I did the
same with him. He said he was not afraid
of me when surrounded by his warriors. I
put a bold !hoe on it, and said that spirits
were never afraid, also. They gave me a
bet to sleep ht, but I did not sleep that
night—the woman with the leg depressed
my spirits: In the morning, when I arose
and went out at the back door, I met with
a great reception. Cannibals from every
pert of the country had come to see me.
They got accustomed to me in time, and I
'to them, and wo became the best friends.
After a fbw days the queen came to see me.
She was a lovely creature—teeth sharpened
to a point—body tattooed all over. Cooked
plantains were brought me to eat. I told
them I never ate cooked food, for I was
'Medd that men's flesh bad been cooked in
the same pot , before. The cannibalism of
the people is of the worst kind. They eat
bodies, not of their enemies only, but also
of their own people. A man, however, does
not eat the body of his own family, but %m
-ules exchange their deed with each other.
In one case that I knew of, a corpse, five
days dead was sold for food. They like their
gaits high. They all agree that a woman
is tenderer than a man—not the heart mere
ly, but the whole body. Boys, too, are
tender, but old men very tough. I myself
could lee no difference in the appearance of
the flesh of' men and that of the gorilla,
except that it was a little finer in texture.
But in spite of their cannibalism, they are
the finest tribe in that country. Their houses
are built low, not more than five feet in
height, on account of their tornadoes The
walls are made of the bark of trees, they
have a little door in front and back, but no
window& Polygamy is common among
them, and the more wives a man has the
happier he seems to be. Slavery is known,
but is not much practiced, because men are
Woe, and they prefer to eat them rather
, than make slaves of them. They work iron
I in the most beautifbil manner, make knives,
spears, and very sharp axes. They are ex
ceedingly given to fighting, hence their fond.
nese of working in iron, and their aptness
at it. Nothing from the coast reaches them
except a few beads and pieces of copper.
They cover the bandies of their knives with
skin taken from the bodice of men. On
parting, the king made me a present of one
of these, it bad belonged to his father and
was covered with human skin.
One day, as I was lying in a forest, I got
waked up by an army of bashiqus, a strange
kind of ant. I was so math bitten by them
that I was half dead. An antelope had
been killed the day before by King Bongo,
which I had intended to eat. But it was
now covered with, oh, millions of ants!—
They are the most wonderful insects in the
forests. They are the plague and dread of
every living thing. When they attack a
village tha people have to light foes, pour
hot water around, and drew burning ashes
around to get rid of these little beasts. They
are really wooderhl—always in single line,
and sometimes the line is miles upon miles
in length. The line is generally two inches
in breadth, and there are officers through
out the entire length, keeping watch, so
that none of these ants get out of line. I
watched a line passiag one particular spot,
and it was twelve hours before the last of
those ants had passed. And as they go
through the forest, at a certain signal they
spread themselves out and attack everything
that oomes out in their way. They will
even go to the tops of trees, and the insects
and everything else fly away before them.
Elephants, antelopes, gazelles, snakes, seer
pions, all run away as fast as they can. Is
Got, many a time have I been warned of
the oomiog of these bashiquas by the insects
and other creatures flying away in an oppro.
site direction. I got ready for them by
having the fires lighted. They are the most
voracious little creatures you an imagine,
If they found a dead elephant on their line
of march they would Week* sod in every
short time nothing would be left bet the
bones. Sometimes the °hie* will have a
man tied up to a tea, sad ht an hour or
two nothing 'mild be left of hint but the
skeleton. They certainly ere the most vor.
miens creatures I ever saw. One singular
obewnstame ooaneotsd with them Is, that
they are afraid of the sun. It they mete
to a part of the &rest where the man is
shining, they dig a tunnel under the spot
and rem it by that mum, and so continue
their march through the forest, in a single
file, as beam _ _ _ _
A podium who took a young lady to
Niagara WM obliged to being her bows io•
mediately, because she waajealotta of Niag
ara'" waterfall,
Milts_
No nmicotkm of the great debt is now ta
king pisoe, The moodily reports of the
Secretary of Tremor, show either an in
most* is the weight of the terrible incubus,
or reoupitulatioa of the pirevionsfbotinp.
The harden is greater than the patios sin
beer. The strongmen of the mewing, who
started off steady and bold under his beck
ioad, sow, that the day is advanced and he
is well into his toil, begins to stagger end
show signs of realises'. If he falls now,
what will he do ere the noon of his national
life is Niched? What is to be our future ?
if the Mongrel" go on in the revolutionary
work they have laid out, the great debt will
increase millions a year, while the industry
of the country, crushed out as it will be,
can provide no means of keeping up the in
terest, or of paying the ordinary expenses
of the goverement. Chaos will set in.
Commence and trade dead, no income for
the Treasury, ruin on all aides, the paper
currency of the country will tumble in value
as rapidly as did that of the old Continen
billets, and a greenback will not sell for a
silver aixpence.
The credit of the paper-muney today is
based upon the fact, that hitherto the in
come of the Goverment was made large
enough to pay its expenses and the interest
on the great debt.
The moneyed scheme of 1780 originated
under precisely the same circumstances as
ours of 1863—a war debt. The failure of
the credit which first sustained the afresh
lion of that three humbled and eighty millions
of the Revolutionary war-debt currency,
grew out of the fact that there was no gov
ernment income to secure the interest on
the debt. As soon as the people were made
to understand that the paper currency of
that period was based on air, it fell to so
low a degree of value in one short year, that
a copper penny would buy a paper dollar.
Our people of to-day are attempting to
do what the country in 1780 could not do—
eustain a heavy public debt.. The huge sum
of four or five hundred millions a year must
be ground out of the nation whose resources
are being destroyed by the men who profess
to govern with wisdom. As time rolls on,
we see these resources contracting, through
the results of this wretched administration,
and the debt of this country expanding.
Prom January, 1867, to January, 1868, the
debt was not reduced twenty-five millions.
If the debt is not lessened, and at the same
time, if the resources of the nation are be
ing destroyed—two great facts now patent
to the world—if; added to those, an Admin
istration is to be again fastened upon the
country, the basis of which is plunder and
theiving, and of ooure entailing upon the
people continued ruinous taxation, the final
result must be the MOM as that which visit
ed the country in 1780: a total explosion
of public credit and the destruction of our
financial paper-currency scheme. Our pa
per dollar has been kept to a certain point
of credit, 30 to 40 per cent, below par,
through the well-known fact of a govern
ment income, scilficient to pay the demands
upon the public treasury ; but once let it be
understood that the debt is gradually in
creasing, and the ability of the country to
bear taxation gradually decreasing, and we
shall see our paper dollar, and the national
bonds, with all other evidences of debt,
sink, as did the old Continental "promises
to pay," or the assignats of France, to the
debt of complete worthlessness. The na
tion cannot remain on the present track.
It is sure to lead to the most terrible social,
commercial and political anarchy. The
debt must show a quarterly decrease in vol
ume, or we are as surely nearing the preci
plop as we live. If taxatiou cannot be made
to bring this about, the debt must be volun
eddy compromised, reduced, or repudiated.
The people, the wealth-producer, cannot
do impossibilities. Munson nature cannot
accomplish superhuman works.
It is only through galling taxation, which
inaugurates a system,of white slavery, that
the financial credit of a country in the con
dition of ours can be maintained. The dom
inant party of this country is led by bad
man. They will have no mercy on the peo
ple, whether their own followers, their ors
'supporters, or their political enemies. Gov
ernment expenditures will not be curtailed
to a degree that the people require, in or
der to be able to meet them. The debt,
therefore, either breaks the people down IS
eett To maintain " public, credit" enslaves
the magma, If public credit is not mails
tamed, the debt must go. It Is white air
very or repudiation. A taxation equal to
the necessities of the nation, no people on
earth can 'rapport, unless they are as servile
as dogs, and will allow themselves to be
worked like dogs ; live like dogs ; lick the
hand that scourges them, like dogs, and die
like dogs, having worked their line oat to
no purpose, save to hermit a base party of
despots, who stole Into power under the
gals. of Republiosnisin.
'ls there nose:ape from repudiation?"
asks the high-toned American, who would
fide bear some taxation to, what he calls,
" preserve the national credit." In des ,
perste cases, good sir, it is folly to disguise
the truth. The chums are terribly against
no, If we can mean coal old Democracy
to power and rule; if we an Institute Dem
*retie economy ; if we can put into official
positions capable and booed men—Andrew
Jackson's only required qualification--we
may, perhaps, struggle on and bet
tbs chines' are mightily against st.
Our drat dory la to Grath, by the Ism of
the ballut-box, every Testi!. of the politi
cal rottenness and corruption now bolding
power in this country; that dope. we can
then take up the final nucirtion
No? GUICRALLY Knowc—Mertin Van
Buren ii %homely matt who held the odieeg
of President, Vice President, Minister to
England, Governor of hie own State, and
member of both tumour Cowers. Thom.
H. Benton is the only Mall who held 4 seat
in the United State, Senate for thirty con•
seentire years. The only instance of Wh
et sad ma is the Uaitimi States &mu, at
the muse time, is thst. of Hon. Hem &mfr.
Senator from Wissonsitt, and his son, Au•
Pews C. Dodge, Senator from lows. Gen
eral Jams Shields is the only man who
over represented two States in the United
States Senate. At one time be war Sena
tor from Illinois sad subsequently from
Minnesota. John Quincy Adams held po
sitions nada the government daring every
administrstion from that of Weshisitrin to
that of Polk during which be died. He
had been P4inister to England,: member of
both Houses of Congrem, Secretary of State,
and President of the United States. He
died ON a member of the Hones of Rep
resentatives.
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A SAD Sroar.—From Madagascar there
°owes a terrible dory of shipwreek A
French vessel bound from Calcutta to Mar
was wrecked on the reefs of Isle St.
Brandon, and the crew took to their boats,
two in number, One of them was thrown
back upon the reefs, and all its ooeupants
were drowned ; the other made for the
nearest Mae days all the provi*.
ions were exhausted, and the Captain sue
cumbed to fatigue sad privatation. The
mote thereupon proposed that they should
all drown themselves together, but the bug -
gestion was rejected, and the de:anion was
made to draw lots as to which of them
should be killed and:serve as food for the
others. The victim was designated and un•
derwent his fate with resignation. Three
days after this horrible racrifko on the 6th
of January, the boatttouched at Ma/mob°,
in Madagascar, and there, more dead than
alive, the famished men were kindly receiv
ed and sent to the French Mosul.
Tns position of the Republioan party
with reference to the impeachment and re
monl of Mr. Jobnson is well illustrated by
a " a little story":
" What do you think of impeschutent?"
said a gentleman to a Radical, a night or
two ago.
" Well, I'll tell you . it's like a boy who
was digging after a woodchuck like biases.
A man who was passing inquired:
"' What are you doing, boy?"
‘" Digging fora woodchuck."
"' You don't aspect to get him ; do you ?"
'" Yea, airree, by thunder must have
him ; we're out of meat !"
And this is percisely what's the matter
with the Radical gentlemen who are digging
after Mr. Woodchuck Johnson.
A poor woman and her child lately settled
in a western city, and were greatly in need
of food. The:child seeing a chicken in the
back yard wanted to kill it and have a pot
pie.
" No, no," said the mother, " that would
be wicked, and God would surely punish
you. "
"Then," said the youngster, looking up,
" let's move back to New York ; there ain't
any God there."
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A young man who had the misfortune to
resemble a member of the:California Legis
lature wax recently knoekeddown, and kick•
cd, and stamped npen!nntil half dead, in
Sacramento. It is a way of lobbying they
have out there.
"MANY, my love," said a not very ellen
ire hasbarld to his wife:at the dimmer table,
"shall I help you to a piece of the heart ?"
"I believe," said she, "that a piece of the
heart is all I have error got from you."
A COMMIT lawyer who wu the ham
father of ten tall girls, averaging abort ii
feet in height, often boasted that he had
about sixty feet of daughter&
Wow= aet, on imps* men oo Nemo.
The mink is that women occupy tea times
as many positions as men, ad. get at and
from them with corresponding speed.
"STEEL your heart," said a ressidente
father to *son, "for you are now going
among low fascinating girl." "I had
much rather steal theirs," said the promis
ing young man.
A NAN ont Wed who offered bail for il
friend was asked by the judge if be had an
ineumbranoe on Ms firm. " Oh, yea,"
said he, "my old woman,"
Tax beet quality of mind that may one
can come into possesion of is the sittingtit
to boat op against disappointments mad oda
:attune.
AN and man .o suppresses his pat•
dons thinks Irene than he speaks: and if
an anjry man chides, he speaks worse than
be thinks,
A thief who tat* broke open a groow'e
warebooae, armed himself oa the piea
that he only meat to Wm tea.
" Saaa, pant debt." " Debi is a am
mo ems, oppressive mood, sad theedfid
atee." " That'll d 4. Go to the heed."
A thundering lie is ow rtitfered— Ohl.
initiating enlargement of elongated rem
it,.
AD old booholor eve the te& et woliea
is usually about wen : (met theirikosh ie be,
he, bc
Who Actium im taloned to winter tbit
voiding calla ilititys frost 4