VOL. XXXII.
OFFICERS OF courmistA
Proiflent Jmtg.. --lrion, William Elwell.
Associate t i r e n t l e N err l i
er nun.
p ru dey an d k Courts—Jesse Coleman.
Ro g i a t er a nd Ikeorlier John G. Freese.
f Joint F. Fowler
CommiAoers-- -; Montgomery Cole.
1 David Yeager,
Kura —Mordeeai
Treasurer—Jacob Yolie,
L. It Rupert,
kuditors John P. llatmon,
I Jacob [Burk
Nitutuissiouer's Clerk—Wm. Kriekbatuu.
Vonnuissioner's Attorney—E. 11. Little.
Mercantile Approker—W. Jacoby.
!outily Surveyor- -Lome A. Dewitt.
District Attroney M. Trough.
cruoncr---William J. Ikelcr.
4 'minty Superintoolent--(luts. ti. Barkley.
A ,,, e40p; Internal Irevenue— R. F. (lark.
( John Thomas,
.Nsl.istant 14 , P.^.(1r"""' S. B. Diviner,
Daniel McHenry
'olleclor—Benjamin V, Barthian,
Moomsburg Literar) Inglitute.
130.1111) OF I NSTIIt VTION.
II EN II V CAE V EH. A. M., PrinciFtl
l'roprietmt,
t wra Plitheomity,
Nli-4 Sarah A. Carver, Pretteptrocs,
TV:whor or Fintli. Botany atatOrtlamental
Brattehei.
lav Bet , t, A, .11.,
l'r.tro.isor!of Atteitmt Langmigt , tt.
Charles E Nr A. It,
Proli-÷or J Mathemittivs,
E M.
Yeavherl3.tok-koettlitg and Enzlith
Itrattelte.t.
Mi.. 4 Alio. M. Carvor.
T,,, t eher or he4romental Mmie.
T , ather of V iwa i
kw Julia
gain Primary Pcpartmear
S ntm eotittatmett April lath, I Sei l / 4 ,
itbtat , bitrtr. Match N. N 44.
DR. W. H. BRADLEY,
Moo:ea Army,)
Physician scud Surgeon.
:# hi Ow Eork// 11010. ill mumborg. Pa
I ails promolly .11+ , 101 , 4,u bob +tight and rloy.
Htooombory, 1vr0y,.,11, Immy
NATIONAL FOUNDRY.
I,OOMSBURG,
Co„,PA.
I Hi: 41114eriber, proptietor
I 4 the akeve itattlegl et
'onive e4t4httshmentas no*
, epare.l to receit,tt orth:ro
All Kinds or Machinery,
• •t. r•ol,rie4, Must Furnucee, St:mollhty 1:1101WA
t Tit II Oil/ INC; M t Ar r
MOW StOVe., hit eiarx and
WO% 11 ori., and every Ming mitac itt
rto1111141W•4
the mmse. tnrigcier and prnMical workmen, Wet.
me, to tet nun; the leletet rontteLte 011 the
re,40.1104 , 1,0114
1 -; rain , 4 411 klildS wifi ite Wien in exchange fot
, 4-111 , go.
w-ar ttm luerbeetwa
n.e N Meineweteterg theimeied Deepen.
l'ElFelt 1111.1.'4'1'VA.
14!ootro.hiirg,
VIEW It EST.II *HA N'r
tfilii , lthg 3tuin t
WM. GILMORE,
”f Motirofiburg and VlClfilly Olt
has ap, itlti a %.,H=
kt.%►TA Rill NT,
n Ott* piaar, whrtl• tic inyttra hi. cod irtenda and
tr,ol,ol.lVryi tOthli nudpartake "I• hk.mirc.htuentis.—
n ra WS intention to kelp the b,,,g
LA V EI: BEER A Xl.) A LE.
onotanti) on hand ; 41'4, Port< r.Sarsaparilta, Min
4Voicr, Fan, y Lottodtade,:, Ita4pherry and Leta
~.i.eyranA, ran alwayo he had at h,,, Restaurant.
140 ttw eating hue he pir,Aeut,
xxx.z, Or rAltil
not a+apua~ed to taiir place, viz, Pickled nyclocc
Bariltiiev Barbecued Chicks, Pickles
Tc*lre nod Beet' Torrio., acz,, dox. Ile al vo iris a poi
vrtich. of
74de.i (Ind Cht.iridy 7:dree“
1. , r 1 / 1 4 .3.tonit•to 27" rtiv.l4uu a rail
tiluoutsbatg. Jam: 13, IMO,
OMNIBUS LINE,
rritiguna.,„, g ....l would respectfully announce to
.1 the citizens of Bloomsburg, and the nubi l e gen.
aridly. that he running
un ONlNtlit'S bc
tween this lace and the dif. ~•.ils;;;;;;'airk4*
recent Knit Road Repots dai• . .Jlll * .as
ly. (Sundays mewed)) to
connect with the savers) Trains lining South a West
out the eatawissa and Williamsport Rail Road, and
itn those going North and South on the Lack, &
Bloomsburg Road.
Ilia °MN litUrtz-CR are in good condition, commo
dious and comfortable. and thanes reasonable.
" Persons wishing to meet or see friend,
de on rt rest be arrow moil aced, upon teasonnbte
.harges, hy teac mg timely notice at any of the Ho.
JACOB L. (IRTON,
Proprietor.
Itinotin.hurs, April ;27, IoC4
New Millenary Goods
At the .Pottett Mort! (4 .
AMANDA W . I.:BK.IIEIBER,
'go dURY PikIKULLY,)
lll,ooMihttlth, PA.
fhe public are reopeetrully informed titnt they can
be furnished with tVerythifig to tho litAnaryy ling
upon the host reasonable tams, and in pada not
surpassed for style, beauty, or durability in this
town, tier spring ovine of hats, bonnets, andother
articles for tNomea and NUMMI wear, urn beautiful
and well calculated to suit the taotta of the most
homiletic. MIT her a call Store on Ma in turret
toetth *Wei below Market. raprartiti-3m.
ENV BAK EltY A, NI) CO N HC
-" Ti ONEIi
Laiasa4alitkliasszkr.macentatt
ON THIRD STREET,
RELOW M A RKET.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
I. F. PDX, Proprietor ot tine establlohnient, would
reopeettuity intbrai his old nod now rustomere, thus
he hair everything fitted op at hie new stand to en
nide hint to futnielt them with BREAD, emms.
AND treIIYPECTIOVERItIet as herepitore.
"ird - Her* after all persons, who have been furnish
ed with Ale. Leger Beer, and Coder, by the whole,
ldi, or piarter barrel, will call upon WILLIAM
tHi.muitr., at his Saloon in
Chives' Block, Mein Street,
who hue touut enthuriae,l by the umlurnipned to orell
tnt>'mow. II e wlllt , ott Manny have a 'amply on hand,
trill be 'aid at the lownet maraca r.-tee.
Mr. V. has in entitle , . with MP ant y and Lou.
tketi . :Jett , — fitted up mome for the WOO Of
ICE CREAM,
t e, all whl may favor him with their rollout fie
1 4 also prepared to make tee eff , 4ol in large qoariti
ties for parties. {midis or social gatherings, ns II"'
tame may he. Everything pertaining to his line et
Rnstneee 'seines eareffil and diligent intention.
lre lie is thtiolifiii to hie cuehoners for past fa
yore, and most cordially saiicita a continueoce or the
Nittle- J. F. FOX.
April 3,1 V
r1itt...1n.1.1.1114, March Ist, MA
1% u.,44.g tot throne you that we are pre
owed to otfer t fer year leeptut mu out usual
assortment of MILINERYtOCK)OB.
enrisittii4 of the newest shapes itt MOM Shit end
ffiMp Hate, Goonete,ilic, Velvets, silk Good Rib•
b oas , Floweret nether*. blather, Crapee,, , loodesk
Weide. ornaments, Sic. We shell be happy to
Newton you at our tittle, fot receive your nrdert—
Nices tow fbr Lash. air, li, WARD,
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contrast.
Hominess ■ousts, without advertisement, twenty.
came per line,
Trnnelent edvertlepinente mantel In edt one° all
inhere due after the Oro Innation.
Katie Lee and Willie Gray
Two brown heads with laughing curls,
lied lips shutting over pearls,
Bare he white, and wet with dew,
Two eyvs Murk and two (TN Nue,
Little girl and boy were ! t h ey,
Katie Lee and Willie limy,
They were standing where a brook,
Bolding like a shepherd's crook,
Flashed its silver, and thick ranks
(11' green willow fringed its banks:
Halt' in thought and hall in play,
Katie Lee and Willie Gray.
They had cheeks like cherries red ;
Ile way taller--'most a head ;
She with arms like wreaths of mow,
Swung a basket to and fro, ",
.!Vi she loitered, half in play,
Chattering, to Willie Gray.
"Pretty Katie," Willie said
Anil there eame a dash of red
Through the brownness of his cheek
-Boys are strong and girls arc weak,
And 111 carry, so I will,
Katie's basket up the hill."
Katie answered with a laugh,
“Von Anil carry only half
.lad then tossing hack her curls
Boys are weak as well as girls,"
IL, you think that Katie gues.4l
halt the wisdom she expres,e,l?
Men are only boys grown tall;
Ilearts don't change much after all
And when, long years from that day,
Katie Lee and Willie Way
Stool again beside the brook,
Bending like a Atephortra crook—
Is it strange that Willie said—
NV hilt. again a dash of red
Crossed the brownness of his cheek,
"1 am strung and you are weak ;
Life is hut a slippery ste,p
Hung with shadows vold and deep.
Will you trust me, Katie dtar—
Wulk beside me without filar?
May I carry, if I will,
' All v,,nr burdens up the hilt?"
And she answered with a knelt,
—No, but you may carry fiat!:
('lose ',psi& the little brook,
Beading like a shepherd's crook,
11 . a. , Iiitig with its salver bandit,
Late at,il early at the satvli,
Is a cottage where today
Katie lives with Willie Gray.
In a porch she sits, and to
Swings a basket to and
Vastly different From the one
That she slating in years ngnne ;
This is long and deep and wide,
And has—rockers at the side!
Frank P. Blair Defines his Po
sition.
WAsnINGToN, June 30.
Co! Ja.g. 0, Beo,rdioad.
DEAR CoLunt.: In reply to your inqui
ries, I beg leave to Fay that I leave you to
determine, en consultation with my friends
from Missouri, whether my name AA be
pre-ented to the Democratic Convention,
and to submit the i b ilowing a- what I OM
bider the real and only i-sue in this contest.
The reconstruction policy of the Radicals
will be complete before the next election ;
the States so long excluded, will have been
admitted; negro suffrage established and
the carpet-baggers installed in their vents in
both branches of Congress. There is no
possibility of changing the political charac
ter of the Senate. even if the Democrats
should elect their President and a majority
of the popular branch of Congress. We
cannot•, therefore undo the Radical plan of
reconstruction by Congressional action ; the
Senate will continue a bar to its repeal.—
Mnst we submit to it ? how can it be over
thrown by the authority of the executive,
who is sworn to maintain the Constitution,
and who will fail to do his duty if ho allows
the Constitution to perish under a series of
Congressional enactments which are in pal
pable violation of its fundamental principle.
It' the President elected by the Detnoc
raey enforces or permits others to enforce
these Reconstruction acts, the Radicals, by
the accession of twenty vpurieus Senators
and fifty Representatives, will control both
branches of Congress, and his administra
tion will be as powerless as tho present one
of Mr. Johnson.
There is but one way to restore the gov
ernment and the Constitution, and that is
for the President elect to declare these acts
null and void, disperse the carpet.* State
governments, and elect Senators and Epp.
resentatives. The House or Itepreentlt.-
fives will contain a majority of Di:limonite
from the North, and they will add the Rep
resentatives elected by the white people of
the South, and with the co•operation of the
President it wili not be difficult to compel
th, Senate to submit once more to the obli
gations of the Constitution. It will not be
able to withstand the public judgment, if'
distinctly invoked and clearly expressed, on
it its 1:10 pre
BLOOMSBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1868.
way to avoid all future strife to put this
issue plainly to the country.
I repeat that this is the real and only
question which wo should allow to control
us : shall wo submit to the usurpations by
which the government has been overthrown
or shall we exert ourselves for its full and
complete restoration. It is idle to talk of
bonds, greenbacks, gold, the publio faith
and the public credit. What can a Demo.
eratie President do in regard to any of these
with a Congress in both branches controlled
by the carpet-baggers and their allies? He
wiH be powerless to stop the supplies by
which idle negroes are organised into polit
ical clubs—by which an army is maintained
to protect these vagabonds in their outrage
upon the ballot. These, and things like
these, which eat up the revenues and resour
ces of the Government and destroy its cred
it, make the difference between gold and
greenbacks. We must restore the Consti
tution before we can restore the finances and
to do this we must have a President who
will execute the will of the people by tramp•
ling into the dust the usurpations of Com
gm's, known as the reconstruction acts. I
wish to stand before the Convention upon
this issue, but it is one which embraces
everything else that is of value in its large
and comprehensive results. It is the one
thing that includes all that is worth a eon
test, and without it there is nothing that
gives dignity, honor or value to the struggle.
Your friend,
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A Word to Laboring Men.
Poor white men are falling victims to the
heat all around us, as they toil, toil for daily
bread, and for money to give the tax-gath
erer. Thousands of poor fellows have left
their families at home in the morning, gone
forth to provide for the nest day's necessi
ties, and never returned. A paragraph in a
newspaper records the fact that a man has
blett sun struck, or it may be that scores
are included in a few lines, and it is said
"the eases of stun stroke wore very numer
ous,"
Down South,. the thick-skinned, thick
skulk(' negro, who could bear any amount
of heat without serious incouvenienco, and
certainly without danger, is taking his ease,
or doing the voting for the whole country.
le is not working at all, badly as his labor
is needed, yet be is living at the top of the
heap, and getting into legislatures, where
laws are made to govern white folks.
How is this? Who has reversed the or
der of nature, and who is paying the expen•
spas of cuffee's subsistence? The poor white
Wearers who are falling in the heat of the
tun are supporting Meeks and whites both.
They are bearing the whole burden of the
country ; they are not only keeping the lazy
negroes at the South. supporting the army
which is quartered there. and keeping up
the carpet-baggers who swarm in that ardiet
eel couutry, but they aro also paying millions
of dollars in gold to the capitalists of the
country, who pay no tax at MI. Ever; 'lay
the pour man most work harder and grow
poorer, while the rich man works less and
grows more wealthy. Yet, the party which
promised so much for the poor has been in
complete power fi l e eight years, and all the
chauges which have taken place have been
the work of their hands, and not of ours.
If the laboring men, the bone and sinew of
the country, have received any benefits from
their administration of the government, let
them have full credit for it, for we certainly
had no hand in it. But if, on the contrary,
the poor man has been dragged from his
home and set up as a mark to be shut at, if
his taxes have been increased, if the price
of living has been doubled, if' all together
the poor have been oppressed until they are
sinking from exhaustion, we bear none of
the blame, we had nothing to do with it.
Nungrelism did it all, and has fairly won all
the praise and all the blame which can at
tacit to their eight years administration of
the government.
But it is time laboring men were waken
ing up to their interests. We propose to
lighten their burden at least one-half the
first year we have complete power. Will
the people give us power? Are they tired
of feeding and clothing negroes, and
porting armies to keep their brethren from
exercising the rights of men? If they are.
let them stand forth in the dignity of man
hood, and place in power a party which
never betrayed nor oppressed them in the
past, and which alone can save them in the
future. Dem acre t is li itschuran.
S. Startling Fart.
There are one hundred and fifty-six mem
bers of the South Carolina Legislature, and
of these one hundred arc negracs The
whole amount of tax assessed upon these
representatives of the people and property
of the Palmetto State, does not reach $5OO,
and many of them cannot be compelled to
pay any tax at all. These sable vagabonds
clad two U. S. Senators, whose votes will
mom as much in the upper [lotto of Con
gress, as those of the Senators from Penn
sylvania. Of course, the Senators to be
elected by these blacks, will be "carpet.
'stagers," who, in order to retain political
power in South Carolina, mu. t pander to
the wishes of their colored constituents.—
Such is the work of Grant's military recon
struction. The representatives or idle thrift
less, worthless, vagabond negroes sent to
the United States Senate, to kill the votes
of Pennsylvania on all questions of 6mtnee,
taxation, tariff and the interests of white
civilization! Shall Grant be elected and
this hideous fraud be perpetuated?
—A popular stopping place—lirawly Sta•
0
A Western editor thus describes the effect
produced by the numerous founderies, iron
works, d.c., et Pittsburgh, Pc:
Pittsburgh people never have fresh air
except when out of town. They live on
coal smoke and floating cinders. We in
baled seven tons of coal the first hour we
were there. The people breathe awoke, eat
smoke, chew smoke, and carry it loose in
their pockets. It is now seventy-two years
since Pittsburgh has been warmed or reach
ed by the sun's rays. Once a streak of sun
shine, of several years' condensing under
took to penetrate the cloud of smoke over
the city, got lot, became smoked, and fell
like a standing edition of the Black Crook.
The ladies use smoke and coal dust to
protect their complection. Little boys and
girls stand on the corner with wet brooms
and sponges to wash people's faces for five
cents. Everybody is of a color in Pitts
burgh. At the postofftce window the clerk
distinguishes people by certain signs, it be
ing impossible to see their faces from the
layers of dust and smoke. We saw a little
boy crying on the street because he had lost
his Niter, who was six feet ahead of him in
all the darkness.
Every one is mourning in Pittsburgh. A
barber once went there to color hair and
whiskers. He man busted in a week
31en kiss each other's wives in Pittsburgh,
unable to tell which is their own only by the
taste. Women send their children on er
rands, first writing on their faces with a
thumb nail or wet stick. People feel their
way by doorknobs, and read by raised type.
FRANK P. BLAIR.
A man once Ftood in his room wish his
window raised—changed his shirt nine times
in four minutes, and only got a clean one on
hin► when the window fell down by accident
and kept the smoke out.
Bedclothes arc unknown in Pittsburgh—
just leave the window open and bhect. of
smoke rettle upon you like ucw. , papers from
a machine press. Some years since some
snow fell into that city from a cloud of
smoke—the smoke was not hurt, but the
snow looked sick. When looking at a watch
to see the Wlr it is the fashion to light a
match. Men carry lanterns to see how to
shake hands. They mike black broadcloth
by hanging a spider's web out till filled with
smoke, and use hot coal dust for pepper.—
They roll the smoke, sweetened, into sticks,
and sell it for licorice.
Still another name and a new bit , iiiess for
Grant. The Tri/pme de;:lares that his moue
is "Uncle Simpson Grant, — and that he ham
gone into the 'olitelotites” business. Here
k tli, handsome way in which it notices
these interesting facts:
"rnolo - Simpson has for AI& u t i•
forms of the Pendleton curt.
The ritimee, a: usual however, can only
IT half right. U. S. Grant may very well
stand for — l7nele Simpson Utant•" An
eminent shipowner of this city remarked,
when one of his friends remonstrated with
him for ordering the word "Asha" to he
painted on the stern of a vessel which he
desired to baptise in honor of the largest of
the continent:, "lf A, s, It, a don't spell
Ad a , what in thunder does it spell?" In
like manner, if 17. S. G. don't stand for
Uncle Simpson Grant, we should like to
know what in thunder it does stand ewe
But if U. 8. U. has bought "the uni
forms of the Pendleton escort," it is not
that he may sell them. Finding that he ex
cites no attention, and receives no cheers on
his western tour, the Radical candidate has
made up his n►ind to disguirc himself and
his suite in these Democratic costumes, in
the hope of thereby receiving a better re
ception. The Pendleton men ought to have
foreseen this and guarded against it. "Give
me your card, sir v:elaiuted one angry
student to another at Bob Sawyer's party.
- hive you my card, sir ?" responded his an
tagonist, "not 1, indeed ! you will put it on
your mantle piece, to snake your friends be
lieve a gentleman has called upon you."
A SAD MliTAKL—People not well post
ed in biblical lore should be a little careful
how they quote from memory. Very grave
mistakes have occurred before now ; but the
}Whring, told by Mark Twain, shows con
elusively that different commandments refer
to different things, and that the captain un
wittingly made n confession :
"Why Captain, you appear to have a
very bad cold."
"Yes, mtulan," said the captain, who is
fond of working io his garden early in the
morning, in his shirt sleeves, "I suppose I
deserve it; I caught it while breaking the
Seventh Commandment, last Sunday."
The party, male and female, started and
kinked blank ; and then the lady who had
brought out the remark said, as well as a
choking fit of laughter would let her:
" Well, upon my word, Captain, consid
(wing the unusual circumstances of the case,
and your present surroundings, it was bra
iy neeessary for you to enter so much into
partienlays
When the innocent captain got home, he
found, to his dismay, that the Seventh Com
mandment does not say "Thou shalt remem
ber the Sabbath day to keep it holy I"
A tirslguatonovetnent is to bu made in
the next Legislature to increase the pay of
jurymen. Two dollars a day in a paltry sum
far such service 4, at least those who have
their boarding to pay, think so.
—A lively urchin accosted a traveling
dealer on Market street, the other day, and
cried, in an earnest voice "Mr. —, please
give me an apple; my brother goes with
yo..ar el , do
A Western Editor Describes
rittiburols.
Tarte Simpson Grant.
=:=
Why Grout Should not be Eele—
ted.
If none others could be named, there are
two substantial reasons why General Grant
should not be elected President of the Uni
ted States. The first is that ho is not qual
ified to fill the office, and the second on ac
count of the political principles he professes
to represent.
We have never met a man who will say
that he possesses the requisite qualifications
to fill the office of President. His most
ardent admirers will nut say that he does.
And hew i 4 it po—ible that he should have
them? tic has never had experience as a
i statesman, nor has be ever held the simplest
1 civil office or appointment. In all matters
of State craft he is as unlearned and unso
phisticated as a child. Ile is totally igno
rant of the essentials necessary to qualify a
person to preside over this great country as
1 Chief Executive - knowledge and experi
ence. He who supposes that any man can
Ibe picked up and put in the Presidential
chair, and can, as a matter of course, dim.
' charge the duties with intelligence and 'ht•
dotn, is very much mistaken. Knowledge
and wisdom are as essential to a statesman
as a mechanic, and he who undertakes this
calling without qualifications will fail. The
Pres; tent of the United States needs great
capacity, great experience, anti great wis-
I dom as a statesman, none of which General
IGrant has the credit of possessing. He
was nominated simply as an expediency can.
didete. Tho Radicals have no man of their
own who would stand a ghost of a chance
of election, and therefore seduced Grant by
the nomination and induced hint to become
their candidate. If a person wished an
agent to conduct any business, whatever, he
would select one skilled in the particular
occupation he was to take charge of. If
this is important in private pursuits, how
much more important is it in the manage
ment of the intricate and important affairs
of government. The people cannot expect
their public business to be well managed in
the hands of en unqualified agent.
No Sabbath.
Ina prize essay an the Sabbath, written
by a joerbeyman printer in Scotland, which,
for singular power of language and beauty
of expression, has never been surpassed.
there necurs the following passage. Read
it, and then reflect for a while what II dreary
and desolate page would this life present if
the Sabbath were blotted out from our cab
eulatiun
"Yokefellnw ! think how the abstraction
of the Sabbath would hopelessly enslave the
working classes, with whom we. are identi
fied. Thick id' labor thus going on in one
monotonous and eiernal cycle, limbs forever
on the rack, t h e fingers forever straining,
tien brew forever sweating. the feet forever
plodding, the brain forever throbbing, the
shoulders forever dropping., the loins for
ever nehirg, and the restless mind forever
scheming.
"Think the beauty it would efface, of
the meirpheartedness it would extinguish,
of the giant strength it woubi tame, of the
resources of nature it would crush, of the
sickness it would breed, of the projects it
would wreck, of the groans it would extort,
of the lives it would immolate, and of the
cheerless graves that it would prematurely
dig! lice them toiling and moiling, sweat
ing and fretting, grinding and hewing, weav
ing and spieuing, -crewing and gathering,
Hom i ng am i d reaping, raising and building,
digging and planting, unloading and storing,
striving, struggling—in the garden and in
the field, in the granary and in the barn, in
the Newry end in the mill, in the warehouse
and in the shop, on the mountain and in the
ditch, on the road s ide and in the wood, in
the city and in the country, on the Rea and
on the shore, on the earth in the days of
brightness and of gloom. What a sad pic
ture would the world present if we had no
Sabbath."
Staying Damn Church to Head.
Some stay away from church to read.
They say they can find better religious think
ing and teaching in their books than in any
of the pulpits near thew. Suppose they
can. Do they yet the better 'exciting? Are
they really at home for purposes of religious
culture? Are (bey actually growing better,
mom godly, by this reading which keeps
them from church? Let them be honest
with themselves, and see if this is not a
flimsy excuse fi,r spending their Sundays,
not in mere religious reading, but over all
sorts of books. Even if they give their
Sundays up wholly to religious reading,
they have generally mistaken the aim of
public Sabbath services if they think it can
be thus met at home.
God expressly commands us to "rever
ence his sanctuary," to "lift up our hands
in his sanctuary," and promises to come
unto us and bless us there. We should go
to church to worship; to worship publicly
and unitedly, as well as to receive instruct
lion from the preacher. Would an Ismel.
lie have been held blameless who never went
to the temple-worship because he had a roll
of the law at home? But the church Ker•
rive is, in a sense, our temple-worship. No
ether appliance of religious culture can take
irs place. Abolish all church services, and
you abolish Christianity. He who stays
regularly sway from church is doing what
little he can to introduce heathenism, He
is contribn.ing his influence toward seoular
izing his columunay. If his way was uni
versal, irreligion amid be dominant, and
the nation %mit slowly sink hack into an
atheistic barbarianism.—Fhrish 17sitor.
—Why does a young lady love to waltz ?
.01.3* She ?owe oggin'•
Charity
In the hour of keenest sorrow—
In the hour of deepest wee—
Wait not for the coming morrow,
To the ill and suffering go;
Make it thy Sincerest',lmmure
To administer relief—
Fully opening thy treasure
To assauge a brother's grief.
Go and seek the orphan sighing—
Seek the widow in her tears;
As on mercy's pinions flying,
Go, dispel their darkest fears;
Seek the stranger sad and weary,
Pass not on the other side,
Though the task be sad and dreary,
Heeding not the scorn of mide.
Go with manners unassuming,
In a meek and %Met way—
O'er the father no er presuming,
Though thy brother sadly stray ;
'Tis a thtvioni kind compassion—
'Tis His righteousness alone,
All unmerited salvation
That around thy path has shone.
When thy heart is warmly glowing
With the sacred love or prayer,
Be thy words of kindness flowing
Not as with a miser's care ;
DtrrY e'er should be thy watchword—
Pity drop the balmy tear ;
Always toward the fallen cherish
Sympathy and lova sincere.
All Sorts of Items.
—Sheet music—The cry of Children in
Led.
—Greeley aim that "truth will out.'
Certainly, but not from his mouth.
—Radical songs may be properly styled
"singing psalms to a dead horse."
—An honest man is the noblest work of
God, but the edition is small,
—ffole•in•the•Day's widow is worth two
millions. A fine catch for some young
brave.
The La Crosse Dentnerta hat.; a corms.
pondent who hurrahs for "Grunt and Grafi.
tax."
—The discussion of the temperance ques
tion, as applied to candidates, staggers
Grant.
—Wendell Phillips shrieks to "shoot the
de. ertem" Does be want to decimate his
own party ?
—A man in Norwich dropped a lire coal
into a bombshell "to hear it fizz." He
heard it.
—A locust stung a Radical editor out went
the other day. The editor survived, but
the locust died.
—Ben Butler says the national debt must
either bo paid in greenbacks or repudiated,
Ben is a good Radical.
—"General Grant,' the trotter, is dead.
His namesake is about to make his last ap
pearance on the course.
—The Glenwood (lowal Opining says
that the grasAoppers are destroying every
thing but gram widows in that section.
—The New York Timm fears the Demo
cratic majority in that city nest fall may
teach 90,0u0 votes. Shouldn't wonder.
—An the magistrates elect in Shelby
county, Alabama, are negroes, and not one
of them con read or write. Who wouldn't
be a Radical ?
—The Radicals propose getting up sing.
ing clubs for the campaign. Bingham wll
sing the "Hangman's refrain," and Butler
"Spooney Bill."
—What is the difference between the Em
peror of Russia and Useless Grant ? Wen
dell Phillips answers : The one is a despot
and the other a whisky-pot.
—The Radicals say that Grant carries the
banner of peace and forgiveness. This is a
mistake; he marches to defeat under the
banner of vengeance and hate.
—The Radicals, in a spirit of infamous
calumny, say that Gov. Seymour inherits a
propensity to madness. 110 won't be half
so mad after November as they will.
—Frank Blair fought in more than two
score battles, and yet he is denounced in
unmeasured terms by the men who stayed at
home and sold shoddy cloth, bad coffee and
paper :soled shoes to the soldiers.
—A man, in telling about a wonderful
parrot in a cage hanging from the window
of a house which he often passed, said: "It
cries 'stop thief' so naturally, that every
time I hear it I always stop
—Down in Mississippi, at a colored Sab
bath school, a few weeks ago, a teacher
asked the question : "Who died for you?"
After a spell of whispering, and a spell of
silence, a little nig, about forty years old,
replied : "Abram Lincum."
—A poor scamp left his with in a great
rage, declaring that she should never see
his face again until he was rklt enough to
come in a carriage• He kept his word, for
in two hours afterwards he way brought
home drunk in a wheelbarrow.
Turnow Wen's OPINION.—The Rad
ical newspapers generally appear to think
their readers have no sense, and that it is
only necessary to abuse the Democratic can
didates. Thurlow Weed, the shrewdest
Republican politician in the country, enter
tains a very different opinion. He says, in
the New York Co/miter/7M:
"Governor Seymour is not to be beaten
by being called a copperhead, or Frank
Blair to ho distanced in the race because he
is called a revolutionist. Ridicule Seymour
as some Republican journals may, he is the
most popular man in the Democratic party."
The small fry of Radical editors, whom
Greeley so aptly styled "narrow minded
blockheads," would do well to make a note
of Mr. Weed's remark.
"OR rot n thottgana tmignes"w••BB the
urchin remarked when inxide
hcro.l4-A
NI:11111:41'k 2
St ronl4" Drink.
The history of strong di Ink is the 1..
I
of ruin, of tears, of blood. It i • Merl
the greatest curse that ever ....outer tl
earth. It is one of depravity's worst tr
Ia giant demon of destruction...Nleit is
earthquakes, storms, conflagrations, fie.
despotism and war ; but intemperww.
the use of intoxicating drinks, ha- en
volume of misery and woe into the -.r.
or this world's history, more fearful
terrific than either of them. It '
Amazon and Mississippi among the tiv .
wretchedness. It is the Alex:K.ll,4r an I
polean among the warriors upon the pc
mid good of man. It is like the pale l •
of Apocalypse, whose rider is )).• ; 011
at whose beds follow hell and deists net
It is an evil which is limited to no ace
continent. no nation, no party, no ...,•:.:
I period of lint. It has taken the 1 •,or
I at his toil and the rich man at Id- 4..
I senator in the halls of state and the dr..
lon the street, the young man in hi, ~ •
tics and the old man in his r e....
1 priest at the altar and the layman Il•
I pew, and plunged thorn into a coma it 1
llt has raged equally in times of war an
times of peace, in periods of' da pr••-
• and in periods of prosperity, in repel
and in monarchies, among the mit - .1,, 1
among the savages, Since the tin..
Noah came out of the ark, and I.' .1
vineyards, and drank of their - io• .
read in all histories of its terribl• .i...
and never once lose sight of its I late is
bloody tracks. States have recot 1.'6
aetments against it, eeelesiastical p ~.
have been imposed upon it, soeieti... I
succeeded societies for its cum feinted
but, like him whose name was 1. _'...n
man has been able to bind it. roc tl
four thousand years, it has been r... rage
the world, destroying some a virtu • s f
lest flowers and some of wisdom ;s fruit:
I It was this that brought the original et
t of servitude upon the dceendants el' H
' that has eaten away the strength of empt
wasted the energies of' states, blotted
i the names of families, and crowded h. II s
tenants. Egypt, the source or s t ien,
Babylon, the wonder and glory of the w •
—Greece, the home of learning a n d o f
erty—Rome with her Closers, the Rost
of' the earth—each in its turn had i. I
lacerated by this dremlfel conker worm,
thus become an easy prey to the II tr..
It has drained tears eaough to took a
expended treasure enough to . : 1 t;I:t. ,
. curiae, shed blood enough to r. 11, It
and
! waves of every ocean, wrame, o.: 7
ilug enough to make a chorus to rho ;.;:t
tations of the under world. Si; o
I r
mightiest intellects, some of ifs mo-t :
i emus natures, some of the happiest hot
, souse of the nolle-t, tel of moat
I has blighted and crushed, 4...1 buried
squalid wretchedness. It hay sal 'p
every jail and penitentiary, and ahosho ,
I and charity hospital in the wet pith
I . ar
I anti. It has seta forth begg , Ali t
.. 1
i street, anti flooded en my city with I • a.
i ity and crime. Awl it ha-. w • hap-, •I
I more towards laingill: call!. : 01 4 Le!:
i get her, than any etw other form of t
i Coubl we but do up this one owed .11
1 and sweep away l'orever all the r• -nit
I thi s one total. of :..in. Ity w001 , 1111,,11, 1
i such thalgs as pri.ons, a stt i n n s, e h.,
houses, or police. l'he children of ha,e
want would sit in the halls of plenty.
tears of orphanage and widowho o d.
disappointed hope, would dwindle it
goodly measure. Disease would he rol
of' much of its power. The clouds w,
vanish front ten thousand afflicted I.ot
And peace breathe its fragrance on
world, almost as if the day of it- r... 1.
tine had come.—nr. ,1. A. .`hiss.
A Wwtstustrrox special to th e I' . +.
Age of the 29th ult., says: A large ma
ity of the members of each house of 4
gress have already left fur their bon, .
the Capitol to-day presents rather a 1.
appearance. The Democratic and It t
Congressional Committees have their
quarters in the building, however, and .:
a large force is employed sending out d
merits for the pending Presidential c
paign. From present indications it i
likely that there will be a session in
tcruber, but as the matter rests w ith )
gan and Schenck, it is, of course, impt
Me to tell what these worthies will tto w
the time comes round. It is observed
the Radical leaders, and even the 1;11,m
are more cautious now than they were w
the New York nominations were first i n :
They declared then, as will he remein ht.,
that they would have no trouble in clef
~ ' eyntour and Blair Now they ‘ay it
require hard work, and some of the u
sagacious men of the party express
opinion that New York. Pennsylvania
Ohio arc already lost to the t ;r a m
This agrees with the i)emoeratie
the matter, awl the probability is that
the expiration of the first autumn na,
the liadicaln will dim-twee th a t
been "reckoning; without their
that the election of Seymour ,ttol It; I,r
foregone conclusion.
A Wrsmitx papa ~ays that a ,
Grant WIII cowing off the cars at St, I.
he was stung on the nose by a 10 , 0
mediate!y aflerward3 the locuo , •
with terrible convulsions, an , l
time died in a lit of delirium ircnicn...
and bad whisky ar. in .Icmaml when
locusts are bed.
A North rap.!inii • ; •ro
famine in I ire, at/tin:going to W
ineton to prevail upon t i ongreiA hi irgl
tw