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The runner Roy%
"I'm !..iek of hoeing in the corn
And following the plow
or working hard from dewy morn.
'Till ore with heated brow,
,N 0 longer will I stay to mow
mr Intel' the , vented hay;
To the mem city I will go,
Where wealth is gained by play."
tut, 711,1' Man! 11101 11411.
Let wiAum be your guide ;
That tircam wealth may lead you wrung,
Awl wreck you on the tide.
eit down milli me upon this stone;
Your team will take ink harm;
11' we ain't king. 4 upon n throne,
IVe'vr kiu upon a farm
t Is”allhy hrcrrr round you blow,
Ilk bird-. your music make,
And sweie,t rust hi yours, you ktow,
When night death 1/VPrtake.
klrVe t Will your toil repay ;
of waving grain
Are growiln , through the ‘onny day
Anil iu the :owner raid.
7Tql work .1 , hard A: you. in Addy,
fr; and panels beta ;
The work of 1,«.
I 't i dy yep icw e e t content.
It linty hr, tiett, my friend. tee Pith
/int 'tis the truth I tell:
All work i 5 vory hard to do
To tho s e uho do it well.
• , ;,, , tarlation, you no u rg Rand
Th v h emnutereial
You nuty iu ttl-ty reach the laud,
You may land on the racks:
, tu: pay is certain nu the lam),
"Though grain ttoq not be :•014:
trr ranieq 3:ou feel no ;tit rut—
\Vheat t+ are errand as 01,1.
st, up yoar whip. tin bbl suer tuant
I)r4g uo du: bohlo pluw,
nut I , :t ua Mb: , irvant
plam , l pair y,utiliful brow,
In ye a rs to enn u t, (shim vhildren roam,
Nttll take tln by Ow a I'M
wi ,ay; "Vun'd butter stay tit home
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uig-,K, July 0, 'Nw,
51n, Etkit , o.. lam sorry to ul , ei VO that
here is ‘Valit hirer io
gs,l to our loeal ealelidatcs. This should
not 1, , e, for v , e an 2 un the eve Of till' luo-t
ilipgr a
Alta .11:- issues are tre•
mendous. They involve the life, the liberty
anti the prosperity crf the nation. Penes.-
racy or I. ll ol,otiqii is to rule, as the result of
lit dooi:iou or the people this fall. Wheth•
er we are to rest pem'elliity Miller the wi ngs
or the Eagle of Liberty, or crouch in fear
under the glittering sword of the Tyrant
hung over us. 1 have no fears but that our
party will he united in the final struggle ;
still, every local question has its influence,
and we cannot afford to waste a particle of
our strength, or give the enemy the least
advantage. We want not only the centre to
be watched with ceaseless vigilance, but the
out•posts to be guarded with great care.
We want not only a man to sit in the chair
of the nation whose abilities as a statesman
will enable hint to understand the "situa
tion," and whose love of the whole country,
his moral principle and heroic firmness, will
dispose him to net for the good of the whole
of the states and the people, but we want
men of true principles in Congress, in the
.S.tate Legislature. ill county, and even in
township offices. for "all are parts of one
suipeniluous whol e ."
In the selection of candidates, therefore,
let the first consideration be the necessary
qualifications of the man for the office he is
to till, and then, so far as it can be done con
sistent with this idea, concede to each part
of the county the rights that belong to them.
Wo think that the trouble in regard to the
epresentafive question originated in the
officiousness of certain individuals in select
in, t a eandiihite for the upper part of the
ocuoy. It seems to have been conceded
right bobtugs to us, with the pro
, implied "that we lm allowed to name
Loath" arc 1‘1;11111 the right of the
iforro.-cutative this year, we do not concede
~.theW, , think that we are
as well t•npal,lo of judging of the "most
suitable person fin' that oftiee" as others. it
true, that we of the "back townships"
are not generally as intelligent as they are in
some other parts of the county ; yet we arc
improving, and think we are able to go
without "leading strings." One thing we
have learned is, that Illoouniturg, however
much we may rejoice in its improvement and
prosperity as our county-seat, is not Colum
bia county; and another thing we are be
ginning to find out, that a few men who re
: ble at ttue county-seat are not all of Blooms
burg. There are other men there who want
to live, and should live, and shall live.
Our objections are not so much to the men
mimed, the selecting of them for us. We
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no trouble, We suggeNt to the-at gentlemen
hereafter, when a candidate belongs to us,
to allow us the privilege of naming the wan
of our choice, and we roost certainly will
not interfere when it is their privilege.
Yours for right principles and mai so far
as they represent them,
Enrron .14;moctuvr;—"The want of har
mony" among us originated two years ago,
and is traceable, in a great measure, to the
lelegnte system itself, or the manner of in
structing the delegates ; and as the time of
our preliminary meeting is nigh at hand, I
would call the attention of the people to it.
I
Where there art two or more candidates
for the same office, let them all be voted for.
Let the delegates also be voted fbr, and in
structed to go for the man that has the
highest number of votes on the list, as the
people's fir 4 choice, then, if he is with
drawn, for the next highest, and so on. In
this way the delegates, being definitely in
structed, will know just what the people ex
peet of them.
The candidates should not be allowed to
►ppoint the delegates, nor to have any eon
r i d whatever over them after they are up.
pointed, and home could not transfer their
delegates to one another, as is often done.
It would do away with all this "wire-pulling"
and confusion that sometimes attends our
County Conventions, and save a great deal
of the hard feeling that lingers after the
conventions are over. But it may be said
that our delegates are not bound by oath,
and therefore not to be trusted—that they
might be rontroled by influential men, or
bought ley tho,e , who have plenty of money.
1 do not know how it might be in other
townships, but 1 will vouch for Fishingervek.
No man an►ong us who has any regard fur
hbf reputation us a politician or an honest
—and we wouid appoint no others—would
dare do such a thing. We would put a
mark on him that he would never be able to
wipe out ; we would not coef►de in him al'
terwards fur the office of tioglielter.
A Mr, W. A. 'Worth, of Troy, New Yo r k,
died recently. Twenty years ago. Mr.
Worth was a young and promising mer
chant. Ills per appearance was com
manding, and he was regarded as one of the
sp ee in t , ai s of manly beauty to be found
in the city. In his flintily relations he was
too-=t happily blessed. but neurahr,ie pains
?wean to dart through his person, and in a
short time he was taken down with a eon
hum] and inauridi, rheumatism. For
. ‘IIIIIC time how.: were entertained that the
disease woithl give way to medical treatment,
but these were finally abandoned whim it
was discovered that anchylosis of all the
j..ints in the body was rapidly taking place.
Th e end was soon reached. Every hone be
value °sifted and contracted. Ile was un
able flioVe a joint or muscle of the body.
Ev e n hi s jaws became set, and for years he
Hieked his notiri-liment through his tectli•
llis feet beeame enlarged to enormous size,
and great ulcer: formed upon them. lii
this condition he live I for years, suffering
at times exerntiating torture, though some
times he was baldly free from pain. During
sixteen years of his invalidism, Mr. Worth
was attended solely by his wife—now, we
are assured, an angel in heaven, as she cer
tainly was on earth. That excellent woman
nursed and tended him with uncomplaining
love and heroic fiirtitiole, never murmuring
at her lot, but cheerfully performing her
s i,, s i on o r l o ve and duty. We doubt il'
there is on record in the pages of history or
fiction, another instance of more complete
wifely devotion, of stronger conjugal fidel
ity and love. A little more than a year ago
Mrs. Worth died from disease induced by
her lung and persistent care of her hus
band.
To add to Mr. Worth's misfortune, about
FiX years ago his eyes were attacked by dis
ease, and gradually be lost his sight• Ills
strong mental faculties, which had through
all his long years of illness remained unim
paired, absolutely grew stronger. Ile recog-
Ikea the steps of visitors with entire ex
actness, and could distinguish between halt'
a dozen persons entering the room lle
also played chess, and his memory was so
perfect that in this game he was able to van
quish almost any opponent. She newspa
pers were read to him daily, and he kept
thoroughly posted upon the current news
and literature of the times. Though he
band not walken the streets of Troy for years
ho knew almost every change that had taken
place in the buildings that line them. His
mental characteristics were almost as re
markable as were his physical misfortunes
and terrible deformity.
Stone months previous to the death of
Mrs. Worth, who only relinquished her
care when disease was fastened upon her,
Mr. Worth was removed to the Troy Hos
pital, Ile appeared to be very tenacions of
life—elinging to it with even mere desire
than most strong and robust men manifest.
A few months su►ee he was again removed
to the Marshall Infirmary, where he died.
Every organ in his body, one after another,
had been attacketl,and we luny say destroyed,
until only the heart, the citadel of life itself,
remained unimpaired. This, too, at htst sue
entubed, and the poor ratan, who contacd his
sufferings, in duration, by year:, and the in
tensity beyond the power of language to
describe, was released from the thralldom of
the body.
"Ltrr us have peace," says Grant. 'War
to the knife on all tlioso alto von't %at our
t ' d.r,. hip
FIHIIINOCREEK, July 20, 1808.
Ills I .
A Strange Ilktory.
BLOOMSBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1868.
The Defender of Pennsylvania,
We do not know a meaner spectacle than
a Pennsylvanian depreciating,:with studied
falsehoods, the noble conduct of Governor
Seymour, during the invasion of our State
by the rebels. What need we say to men
who saw and felt the inspiring influence of
his vigor, to recall the feelings of gratitude
which then filled the breast of every true
son of our State, towards Horatio Seymour?
His stirring telegrams, each announcing the
march of fresh regiments, kindled hero the
spirit thnt our own imbecile leaders failed to
rouse. Fast upon the announcement of his
troops, followed the glean► of their bayo•
nets, as they marched through our city.
The Federal government had reinforced
Philadelphia with the following ;orr,mvs, all
borne by one man Maior•General Napo
leon Bonaparte Andrew Jackson Tecumseh
Dana. This gentleman, who hailed from
Massachusetts, threw all the weight of his
imposing name against Governor Curtin.
The Governor declared that "military men
"have concurred in the opinion, and prop
"erly, that the defense of Pennsylvania
"from invasion—certainly of the city—wil
"be found upon the banks of the Susquo
"henna." In this, it acems, General Dena
did not concur, but paralyzed all organize
thms for service on the Susquehanna, by
making a futile organization of the citizens
for the defense of Philadelphia, on the
Schuylkill, In consequence, Governor Cur
tin could not get a regiment raised in Phila
delphia. Even wealthy associations like the
union League, and the Coal Exchange, did
not got a regiment complete till after the
victory of Gettysburg. For the sake of the
contrast we will print together a proclama
tion or Governor Curtin and a telegram of
Governor Seymour, dated the same day.
PRoCIAMATION or OnVERNon CURTI i.
IlAttutsunto, June 16.
Fur nearly a week pan it has been pub
licly known that the rebels in force were
about to enter l'unnAylvania. On the 12th
irktant an urgent call was made on the peo
ple to rake a departmental army corps for
the defense of the State.
Yesterday, under the proclamation of the
President, the militia was called out. To
day a new and pressing exhortation ha s b een
given to furnish men. Phibo/c/p/ii,t /ors
rexponded.
Meanwhile the enemy is six miles this
side of Chambersburg, and advancing rap
idly. Our Capitol is threatened, and w e ,
may be disgraced by its fall; while the men
who should be driving these outlaws from
our soil are quibbling about the possible
term of service lbr six months.
It never was intended to keep them be
yond the cominuatwe of the emergency •
You all know this by what happened
when the militia was called nut last autumn.
You then trusted your guvemment and were
not deceived. Trust it again now.
I will accept men without referenee to the
six months. if you do not wish to 'war the
ignominy of shirking from the defense of
your State, conic forward at once, clot your
places of business, and apply your hearts to
the work. Come in such organizations as
you can riElll.
tleneral Couch has appointed Lieutenant.
Colonel Ruff to superintend y
s. R our organiza
tioneport to him immediately.
(Niguel) A. U. Cl it
On the day he i'sued this plaintive ap
peal, Curtin could not say "Seymour has
not responded." Here is one of many sim
ilar telegrams :
Atausr, June 16, MI
Governor rurtia, Ilarrishnrll:
1 am pushing forward troops as fast as
possible; regiments will leave New York
to-night. All will be ordered to report to
I ;encral Couch. HORATIO SEYMOrR.
We trust that our Governor at least ac
knowledged these services as heartily as
they were given. Down to the last moment
of doubt and danger, we still find him call
ing upon Seymour.
li.maQurrur, July 2, 1863.
T o His Eredl,mey, Governor Seymour:
Send forward more troops UM rapidly as
possible. Every hour increases the neces
sity for large forces to protect Pennsylvania.
The battles of yesterday were not decisive,
and if Meade should be defeated, unless we
have a large army, this State will be over
run by the rebels. A. G. Cerny,
Governor of Pennsylvania.
Here are some of the acknowledgments
whieh the Federal government made to Gov
ernor Meymour, on the occasion :
SEcItETAILY NTANToN TO OOVF,KNOR SET
ADJUTANT,
[ By Telegraph.)
WAsitoarrox, June 19, 1863.
7/) Adjutant- GClieNti SpraMll4;:
The President directs me to return his
thanks to him Excellency Oovernor Seymour
and his staff for their energetic and prompt
action. Whether any further force i s likely
to be required will be communicated to-mor
row, by which time it is expected the move•
meets of the enemy will ho more fully de.
velopud. LIVIVIN N. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
SECRETARY STANTON TO OOV. SETMOVR.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
WASIIINOTON, June 27,
18G3.
Dear Sir: I cannot forbear expressing
to you the deep obligation I feel for the
prompt and cordial support you have given
to the government in the present emergen
cy. The energy, activity, and patriotism
you have exhibited I may be permitted per
sunnily and offleially to acknowledge, wait
out arrogating any personal claims on my
part to ~nelt service, or to any service what
ever.
shall be happy always to he esteemed
your friend, EDiviN M. STANTON.
His Excellency, Horatio Seymour.
And now, we repeat, we do not know a
meaner spectacle, than a Pennsylvanian try
ing to depreciate the service that Horatio
Seymour rendered to our State, in what
Own Kerma to us all a desperate eritiis.--
Ph do. .4
A FRENCII critic, says that Miss Bradawl
is the wort impudent literary thief' that ever
wrote novels. Ho asserts that she stole the
plot o 1 all her novels trout French works of
fiction, and that silo often was impudent
enough to literally translato whole papa
Crow thew.
addrem or the Democratic State
Committee.
DIMOCRATIC Nt►TO Onvirniu mmvs.
1111114111/111141, Pso Jul VI, IVO. $
Democrats of Itonsyleania
MR HOUR FOR WORK U.S COMM
Weitarnestly invite you to organize for
victory.
Attention to details, persevering energy,
organization and discipline will bring tri•
umph to your principles.
Zeal and perseverance in ccevy Democrat,
and thorough organization in every locality,
are the true made to success.
Superficial effort, noise and parade are
valueless. The stake is a mighty one, and
must be we by systematic work and busi
ness-like enemy.
Pennsylvania is the battle-ground. At
the October election the enemy will make
their most determined contest.
You occupy the post of honor—the van•
guard of the Democratic army, You have
proven your ability to carry the State ; and
individual effort, faith in your principles
and courage in their maintenance now, will
enable you to count your majority by tens of
thougands.
The drift of the tide is toward you ; the
evidences of changes arc abundant; and it
is apparent that the political revulsion now
in progress will end in the utter overthrow
of Radicalism.
liet us labor to deserve so propitious a
result.
We invoke you, then, to energetic action,
to close attention to the details of your or
ganization, to the formation of clubs, to the
conversion of voters, to the enthusiastic
support of your candidates—Seymour, the
statesman, and Blair, the gallant soldier.
Let us recognize in their names the sym
bols of change, the representatives of hatred
to Radicalism, and extending the hand of
fellowship to all who will aid us in saving
the Republic. Conservatives and Demo
crats will move forward under their banner,
as a mighty phalanx, united, determined
and irresistible.
Let your warfare be aggressive. Defend
nothing. The Radicals in power are re
sponsible for the unhappy condition of our
country. Charge upon them their extrava
gance and their crimes. Demand of them
an account for your treasure wasted, your
Union not restored, your race degraded,
your business destroyed and your govern
ment prostituted.
Let your rallying cries be, a government
of white men ; equal taxation ; one curren
cy for all.
orga n ize ! Organize ! Organize !
To work ! To work ! To work !
By order of the Democrat ie State Com
mittee. WILLIAM A. WALLACE,
Selecting an Empress
Just now everything relating to China
and the Chinese is read with revived interest
in America, owing to the presence here of
the remarkable Burlingame embassy.—
Among the strange customs of that peculiar
people none is more curious than the man
lier in which the Emperor of all the China
men °lash's his wife. The present Emperor
is a lad of thirteen summers, and the time
has arrived—not for lion to choose his con
sort, but for one to be chosen Jim him by the
dowager Empresses. Of course, the young
Emperor will, in due time, have as many
consorts as he shall imperially choose, but
the one who is now selected is to be the Em
press par excellence' This is the way the
Chinaman put it : "As there is but one sun,
there can be but one moon, though she may
walk in the midst of a train of brilliant les
ser lights." This Empress is to set an ex
ample to all Chinawomen, while the Emper
or 'performs that service for the men of his
extensive empire.
It seems that it is not necessary that the
Empress should be selected, as in Europe,
front the royal families of other States, nor
must she be of princely or even noble blood.
She must, however, be a member of the
dominant race, free from physical blemish,
smart intellectually, and beautiful—that is,
according to the Chinese idea of beauty.
Not many weeks ago it was announced
that the Empress was to be chosen, and a
great excitement was occasioned among the
female circles of China. At last the people
saw going through the streets 9& closed car
riages, containing the fairest maidens of the
empire, all on their way to the court to un
dergo the sitting process. At the court the
first sitting by the dowagers aforesaid re
duced the candidates to 20. Another ex
amination took place resulting in the dia.
missal of all except six maidens, two of
whom were nieces of the imperial ladies.—
At the latest accounts the final choice bad
not yet been made, and it was suspected
that one of the two nieces would be chosen.
This seems a very curious way of choosing
an Empress, but the question arises wheth
er—supposing the electing dowagers able to
remove themselves from the influences of
celestial nepotism—it is not infinitely pre
lerable to the system of royal intermarriages
so prevalent among western nations, and
which tends to the perpetuation of a race of
crowned semi-imbeciles.
=
Itons in church on Sundays, Just now,
have tasks to perform: first, to fight the
dies that alight on their features; second,
to keep their mouths so closed that the
drops of perspiration shall not roll into
thews; and third, to combat the natural
drowsiness that steals over the heflieli when
the thermometer is wrestling against the
temperature,
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—lt is reported tint Senalur Conklin of'
Nov York rofusirs to wn his pulitleal influ
ence again t f!'eyrauur.
"As lie Passed to Shun,ent."
The words of my text, my hearers, you
will find in the II Kings, IV chapter,
verse 8
"And he panned on to Shun'em." Take to
heart the lesson our text teaches, and when
temptations try you and evils lie in wait to
ensnare you, "pass on to Shun'em."
When you ace men of wrath fighting and
breaking beads and necks, and bear them
cursing and swearing—mind the words of
the text, and "pus on to shun'em."
And Oh I my hearers—if you should
come into one of our little towns and behold
a row df nice little offices with tin signet' on
the door of each, and hear men talking of
attachments without affection, and wines.
trations without quiet—ah ; and seize yowl;
and nerds. theirs—ah ; and about eternally
going to law —oh ; it will be to your profit
to mind the words of the prophet and "pass
on to Shun'em."
And if you go around where the mer
chants are— ah—and they rush out to shake
hands with you ; and are especially anxious
to learn the condition of your wife's health
and the children's, and the worms and the
crops, and offer to moll you a little bill of
goods a good deal lower than cost on account
of their love for you, and for cash—ah--
"pass on to Shun'am."
And if you should happen to go round
the corner—ah—and see men drinking beer,
that will bring men to their bier, and gia
slings that will sling down the strongest, and
smashes that will smash a man's fortune
faster than commission merchants who ad
vanced supplies on the last crop—oh—oh,
my friends, "peas on to Shtm'etn,"
But oh, my hearers !—if you should go
down to New Orleans—that moderan Sodom
and Ooniorrah, where I have lately been—
ah, and when the gas is flushing and glim
mering, and cabs aro dashing along the
streets, and obliging drivers are offering to
carry you where only steamboat-captains and
fast gentlemen go—ah, and brass bawls are
crashing music from the balconies, and men
in little holes are ready to sell you tickets to
go in and see the Black Crooks dance with
nothing to wear, and make spectacles of
themselves—ah, oh my friends, "pass on to
Shun'em."
And oh ! if' later in the evening, with a
very particular friend, you go up stairs into
splendidly furnished rooms—ah, and see
the supper table spread with delicacies from
every clime and country, and teal dueks
and snipes and yeller legged pullets and
pheasants and all that fish, flesh and foul
can afford—ah, and champaign and brandy
Burgundy and Chateau LAM, older than
Waterloo, and nothing to pay and all free
of charge—ah, and a nice gentleman with
rings on his fingers, and a diamond breast-
pin, playing with little spotted paistboards,
and another turning a machine and drop
ping a little ball that rolls round and round
and stops sometimes on the eagle bird, and
Wiener don't—oh, and when the players
generally put down more than they take op
—ah, and men sometimes win, but mostly
don't— ah—oh, "pass on to Shun'em !"
And in conclusion, my friends, when the
world, the flesh, and the devil—ah, lie in
wait fur you—"pass on to Shun'em!"
Chairnian
During the three years since the close of
the war, the expenses of the government
have been upwards of aim hundred millions
of dollars! In Democratic times the an
nual expenses of the government averaged
scarcely one hundred millions. If there
had been a Democratic Congress at Wash
ington, during the last three years, six hun
dred millions of donors would have been
saved to the tax-payers of tlds country.
Who?
Human nature is the same thing in all
parties, says "some one." That is not quite
true, because
,fiestatical human nature is
reckless and devilish, whilst consertsit ere hu
man nature is staid, and steady, and relia
ble. hut, for the sake of argument, grant
ed that what "some one" says is true. Does
that answer our assertion that a Democratic
Congress would have saved two•thirds of the
cost at which the Radieals have administer
ed the government?
No !
The Democratic policy would have restor
ed the Union three yearn ago; the Demo
cratic policy would have abolished the stand
ing army of .5u,000 men; the Democratic
policy would have established no military
government, at an enormous expense, over
ten States of the Union; the Democratic
policy would have erected no Freedman's
Bureau for the benefit of carpet-bag adven
turers and black lazzaroni, to eat out the
substance of the people; furthermore, the
Democratic policy would have changed the
entire character of the internal revenue sys
tem, so as to enable the government to col
lect its taxes by a fir less complex and costly
machinery. Thus would the expenses of
the government have been reduced.
Now, think of it!
Is it not about time that a change of pub
lic servants be effected?
Is it not about time to rate in wen who
will have some regard for the public welfare,
who will labor to decrease, instead of do
vising schemes to increase, the burthen of
the National Debt?
Verily, verily, we Any unto you, if there
be not a change , for the better, Noon, there
will be, ere long, the dawning of a dark and
dreadful day, the name of which will be
written in the calendar of the owning years,
REPUDIATION.---Betiford Gmla tee.
—The Democrats of New damp' have
F
nominated Hon. Theodore F. Randolph for
floverner.
Think of It f
The Seasons of Life.
The years glide by, and on their wings
Our dearest memories bear ;
While constant changes 'round us seem
Occurring everywhere.
As on the sea of Time we roll,
'Till its tempestuous waves
O'urwhelm us, and we sink to root
In deep, oblivious graves.
Life's morning sunbeams softly fall
On Childhood's happy days;
We while away the merry hours,
Amid our sports and plays.
Such is the sunny side ot' life,—
The Spring time of the year,—
When, in our primal innocence,
No earthly cares appear.
Spring glides away; its flowers fade;
Its pleasures soon are gone;
And Summer conies; iu life we put
Our manly vigor on ;
And, forth to toil upon the world,
We leave our childish plays '
To rear the terms that Fancy built
In dreams of youthful days.
The transient Summer disappears,
And "Autumn's solemn form"
Appearing on Time's troubled waves,
foretells the Wintry storm.
The golden harvest of the year
Is gathered and in store,
We leave the toil for younger hands,
Our fathers left before.
The old, old year soon glides away,
By Wintry cares oppressed,
And heavy with the frosts of age,
We long to lie at rest,
The past seems like a fleeting dream,
And soon Life's yellow sun
Sinks down beneath the sea of Time,
Our earthly cares are done.
A Great Bear Story.
We have to record a rerysingnlar deliver
ance of a girl about three years of age to
its parents, after being carried off by a black
hear, and a search of about thirty-six hours
through the forest by the excited parents.
The facts as near as we can g Aber them,
are substantially as follows ;
Mr. Henry Flynn lives about forty miles
east of this place, at or near the lodging
camps of Mr. Ludington, and, we believe,
has charge of one of the camps. He start
ed one morning to take a horse to pasture,
about two miles distant from the house,
and as he was ready to start. his little girl
appeared and seemed very anxious to go
with her father, who, in order to please the
child, put her upon the horse's back and
let her ride a short distance, perhaps forty
rods from the house, but in plain view of
it, where he put her dow and told her to
run home. He noticed that the child was
standing where he left her, and, on looking
back after going a little further, saw her
playing in the sand. He soon passed out
of sight, and was gone about an hour. ex
pecting, of course, that the child could re
turn to the house after playing a few mo
ments.
On returning home he made inquiry
about the child of its mother, who said she
had not seen the child, and supposed he
had taken her along with him. On going
to the spot where he had left her, he saw
huge bear tracks in the sand, and at once
came to the conclusion that the child had
been carried off by the bear.
The fiimily immediately made search
through the forest, which was grown up to
almost a jungle, rendering their search very
slow. All day these anxious parents search
ed for sone traces of their ehild, nor did
they stop when darkness came on, but re
mained in the woods, calling the child by
her name, and with aching hearts would
listen, with almost breathless fear, to catch
some sound by which they could discover
their lost darling. Morning came and their
search was fruitless.
A couple of gentlemen looking at land
came to the house, and, being informed of
the circumstance, immediately set out cat
help find the child. No doubt existed as
to the fate of the little one by all, and if
they could only find where the boar had
dispatched his victim, they might then go
home with the assurance that they were
never to see their child again, but until
some traces of her was found, there was
hope.
The gentlemen alluded to had wandered
about, and as they were passing a swampy
spot where the undergrowth was thick, they
either called the child, or else were talking
aloud, when one of them heard the child's
.voice. Ile then called the child by name,
and told her to conic out of the hushes.—
She replied that the bear would not let her.
The men then crept through the bush, and
when near the spot where the child and
bear were, they heard a splash its the water,
which the child said was the boar. On
going to her they found her standing upon
a log extending about half way across the
river.
The bear had undertaken to cross the
river on the Jog, and being closely pursued,
left the child and swam away. She had re
ceived some scratches upon her face, arms
and legs, and her clothes were almost torn
from her body, but the bear had not bitten
her to hurt her, only the marks el his teeth
being found on her back, where, in taking
hold of her clothes to carry her, he had
taken the flesh also.
The little one Pays the bear would put
her down occasionally to rest, and would
put his nose up to her face, when she would
slop him, and then the bear would hang
his head by her side, and purr and rub
against her like a cat. The men asked her
it she was cold in the night, and she told
them that the old bear lay down beside her,
and put his "arms" around her, and hugg
ed her to him and kept her warm, though
she did not like his long hair• She was
taken home to her parents, who could hard
ly express their joy at her eyfety%
NUMBER V.
The bear has been seen lurking about in
the Vicinity, it is supposed for the purpow
of yet carrying off the child. The suppo.
sition is that it is a female bear, and hay
ing lost her cubs, came across the child and
adopted it. Steps are being taken to cap
ture the bear.— Ludbigton (Mich.) Seord.
A PRYI 4 IOI'S LOT.—The Bedford Gazette
Rays that U. S. Grant is the man who, in
cold blood, demanded of the War Depart
ment that no exchange of prisoners should
be made, when thousands of the bravest
and best of our brothers and friends were
suffering and dying in Southern prisons. It
is eminently fit that ho should be supported
by Horace Greeley, the bail of Jeff, Davis,
by Joe Brown, of Georgia, the foamier of
the Andersonville pthon, by Ben Butler,
the man who assisted in preventingnn ex•
change, be Stanton, who declared that he
would not exchange healthy rebels for the
skeletons of Union soldiers, by W. W. Hol
den, who offered a reward to any 111101 who
would assassinate Abraham Lincoln, by
John A. Logan, who tried to raise a regi
ment in Southern Illinois for service in the
rebellion, but failing sold himself for a pair
of epaulettes, by Bingham, denominated by
Butler the murderer of an innocent woman,
and by all the carpet-baggers and negroes
who are now reaping the fruits of the suf
ferings and sacrifices of the soldiers of the
Union. Grant and his supporters are a
precious lot, truly. How their record ap
peals to the support of soldier citizens! It
is positively irresistible.
A HARD lIIT AT AMEItIcAN WOMEN.—
Among Leon Goalan's posthumous papers
was found an essay on the characteristics of
women, which will not add to his popularity
among American ladies. Just read this
outrageous paragraph "A French woman
will love her husband if he is either witty
or chivalrous ; a German woman, if he is
constant and faithful ; a Dutch woman, if
he does not disturb her case and comfort too
much; a Spanish woman, it' he wreaks ter
rible vengeance on those who are under her
displeasure; an Italian woman, if he
dreamy and poetical; a Punish woman, if
he thinks that her native country is the
brightest and happiest country on earth ;
Russian woman, if he despises all Western
ers as miserable barbarians; an English
woman, if ho succeeds in ingratiating him
self with the royal court and aristocracy
an American woman, if—he has plenty of
money.,,
A NV Yanlixe having WI an
Englishman that he zhot, ou one particular
occasion, nine hundred and ninety-niny
snipes, his interlocutor asked him why he
didn't make it a thousand at once.
"No," said lie. "not likely Fin going to
tell a lie for one snipe,"
Whereupon the Engli,hman, rather rill 1,
and determined not to he outdone. began to
tell a long story of a man having swam from
Liverpool to Boston.
"Did you see him ?" a-ked the Yankee.
"Well, of course did. I was coming
over, and our vessel jetised bhp a wile nut
of Boston
"Well, am ylatl ye saw !din. straii4er,
because yi , r a witileps that I ilia it• That
ll'
roltNEy*s has loci forca to twatit
ntw of its lief already. It does so in the
following ungracious style, the assertion
about any negro being in attendance on any
Southern delegation, except as servants,
being as untrue as the report of their prc. , -
ence in the Convention, which the
forced to take back. But here is what it
says:
" 111 response to an imiuiry whether
there was a "tiegro - delegate — in attonlaneo
at the New York Convention, we are en•
abled to say upon the hest authority that
several colored politiciani went to that city
in company with delegate , :, ime of ir h ou , is
still there. None of them appeared in Con
vention am delegates, but two waA said to
have been a delegate elect front Tennessee,-
apordote is told of cx•l'resident Iln
chanan, when, having cleared a man of
homicide, he rernm.4l a fits, saying to 1) . 1.4
client "RI you take this money and more
1/:-.t it to lirpin lire again. Stop
drinking and churk,h, and that is 11 ,
best way to pay inc," Tradition relate+
that the man Came bid; after a period or
yo ES, repentant and well-to-do, and t banked
the old lawyer,
Iv the course of a trial of au engine -driver
at the Gloucester (England) Assizes, on a
charge of manslaughter, of which he wa4
acquitted, the counsel for the defense Mei
&many gave an essay rule !or remembering
and distinguishing railway siguals--
117dif for "right," red for "wrong,"
Auld for "gently gv a10m.:."
A ()W K.—Piddle Opini,,n, has Coni,l
somewhere the rollowing original joke :
"The earliest mention of a banking mos.
action—When Pharoah reevivel a cheek on
the Bank or the Red Sea, which was crossed
by Moses & Aaron."
Was it a Iharoah Bank ? 11' why
should there be Arun upon it?
Mtn FaAr.—A German wrote au obitu
ary on the death of his wife, of which the
following its a copy; "If mine wife had
lived until next Friday she would have been
dead Aust two weeks. Nothing is possible
with the Almighty. As de tree falls so west
it stand."
AIL who bow the knee to the Rail of
Radialiam are at once "realmetruoted" and
made truly IA" All who roam to do
this, are disfranchised "rebel..." "141 us
have peace," says Urant.