VOLUME 2.
For the Citizen, j
IBM V G'OIinKNPOX I»EX< T.
CAMP LOWELL, Prospect Hill Ya
Dear Scr: —Permit me, a representa
tive of old Butler county, to give you a
brief history of our doings iu "Johney
dom." As you are aware of the fact, that
we are Heavy Artillery, and, as a matter
of couise, are doing Artillery duty c\erj ;
day. iu the shape of work, you would I e
astonished at the progress we are mak ing
on our pieces we turn out every morning
for drill. Every man shoulders his piece
and goes out to practice on them; T tell
you they learn fast. They handle their
pieces well. We have a good set of offi
cers, tmr Colonel is a fine fellow and is
very sociable with his men, but a strict
military man and a gentleman with every
one that makes his acquaintance: his
headquarters are at Vienna,distant K miles
on the north Hamshire and Alexandria
ltailroad, one batallio.i at Fairfax Court
House, one at Vienna, and one here-
Major Hear in command and t.. see him
you would take him for a private, by the j
way he goes around among the men in
his command, getting off some el hi dry
jokes and Belling us precariously and run- .
ning off and laughing at u*. We all
like him and will do all we can for him. !
In fact all aur officer" are fine men, eour
teous and obliging to the men under them, i
Since we arrived in this plaei; we Im\c
boon as busy as bees dign'iur idle-pits,
building block houses, abbot'ls and Rai
ting batteries. There arc four block
houses, one at each n irncr of our en-|
painpment, and six battenes, when iom
pleteJ an I mounted I amcerl.iin we .-an
hold our position a-ain-t any number they :
may send against, u-. Wc have a l.ue << \
r'.flc-pitf extending all av-un 1 ( imp. an I
if it « i in a straightJine it would mea
tire over a mile in length, and our abbe!- i
tis is the best I ever saw, it extendi ft!
around eam,v but outside of rifle-pits the |
limbs pointed so as to turn horsemen il j
attackeddiy rebel cavalry. Me aregeti
ing along fine an Ido our sharp ot pi' - |
eting—we are supporte Iby a rei-ini-ut ot !
eavairy, the 13th NowYprk; we are .m |
tenle 1 and have plenty tof a f . but no deli- !
caciesand arebctterwithout them. Iln-a
is no sickness among our i -ill i.lion •"ml
only one or two deaths since we came out
we are in a very good place pleiiiy ot
good walerand wood and can in a clear
day see the Capital from onr camp. —
we arc in sight of nine large I'ort* and
can see lor miles any way we may look, i
axcept towards Drainsvillc, a place noted j
fur cut throats and vagabonds. We arc i
on the Lecsburg pike, and on the camp I
ground ol the old JVuija. Reserve-. 1 have
seen where they lay and can see where
jtlie rebels lay when our men -lay on one
side ol' the l'otoiuae, anil they »-i the otH
er. Well we are here now, but hope we
may all live to get home again, when
peace shall once more spread her mantle
over our once smiling and prosperous but
n w distracted country. But the old
ship has sailed fur over eighty years, and
she shall uot go down while Americas
sons ure able to keep her afloat. I aui
proud of our dear old flag, ''long may it
wave, over the land of the Iroc. and
may her presence make tyranny tremble
and traitors turnpale and Hot dare touch
thatensign'a if purity that our forefathers
fought to sustain, and which now wc
arc trying t> keep from their grasp,
and by the strength of willing hands and
the help of Him, who rules above, we
shall preserve from dishonor; and if eve
yy true American will put their shoul
ders to the wheel, t]iis rebellion must an 1
shall be put down. By the choice of the
people the eh.iir of State is to be filled
once more, by one who has piloted her
through near four years of war; bo can
certainly bring her thiough four years
more, aud may his next four years be as
peaceful as a well governed family, is the
wi-h of every good and true American
soldier, aud may peace be restored iu
such a maimer that war may never ruin
our couutry with its iron will, is the sen
timent of the soldiers, no treaty with
traitors but unconditional surrender.
Y ours Truly,
11. S. SYMIAB.
A story i.-> toid of a certain Mrs. Pe
troleum whose husband had ouddculy
come into possession ol a large fortune,
and had e.ected a U >use to eooresp nd to
his means. Mrs Petroleum had heard
that it was uocea ary to have a •■library,"
and accordingly sent to a popular book
store and ordered oue. A well asorted
library of standard works wes scut .up to
her house. .Next day, comes dowu uiy
lady iu a towering rage at their selection
—"Choicest works?" cried slie, as an
explanation wa* attempted, "botheryour
.choicest works;" they were all different
friz-sand colors. I want them all iu
J>lye aud to match tuy 1 uiuitu;'C/
I Speech of General Beiy. F. Butler. |
At ii I'ubllc Medina Held to Re
joice overtUe Hatilleatlon of
"the < 'onatilutloiinl Amend
incut* Boston, Feb, 4, lHttS,
Almost ninety years since, amid the ra
diant glories of midsummer, our fathers
assembled to congratulate each other upon
a declaration of human rights which has
since been claimed to be a charter to the
white man only. Seventy seven years
ago. in mid-winter, Massachusetts debat
ed the acceptance of the Constitution ol
the United Stato3—the solemn compact
of assurance to those rights—the most
perfect formo.f Government ever devised
by man, but which left qucared for and
unnrovided safeguards of freedom and
equality of right to all men, irrespective
of color. Our fathers believed that the
clear interests of the rising Nation would
protect it from tins receding weight of
Human Slavery. But, a'asl a single
Massachusetts invention—the cotton-gin
—opposed the present iuterestsof the in
dividual to the future good of I lie State,
and made the burden—greater than that
I of Pilgriiit Christian—seam eternal.—
! From that one defect of Constitutional
; law hits arisen the most gigantic national
siu. followed by the most terrible nation
| ;iI retribution with which the Divine will
: has seen tit to tiflliet the children of men.
j 'I lie nation, brought to a sense of justice
I by its cli i-ti-ement, we are now met to
0 iiaatulatc ourselves upon the first step
taken in supplying this omission of ihe
J • ii:e of government of SJ. llclcascd
| from all coDsiituti nal obligations to pro
tect Slavery, acting upon the fmne of
' Government itself, three-f urths of the
1,; d people of the country will have no
11flic i i\ in erasin.: from their futidauicii
i.,l law tuis. the l.;-t blot upon their viv
diz.it ion. Amid the joyous scenes of this
j irium; h of the liiht which animates the
I hearts ol all g> id men. even now aud
j here, it may not be unlit to pau-e for a
aionieut to consider the duties iiud obli
gations under which we find ourselves to
I this.chis* as con-, mted and declared by
i iio change iu our or.anie law. Living
I aside ail prejudice ; g ving up all llieo-
I ries; putting away all predilections ; wc
I should nppioaeli the .-ul j''ctus one calling
! for prompt, active, and olliciene justice;
it lean t to make amends for former long
continue 1 wrongs. By the final passage
of the Amendment which wo celebrate,
cverv slave is made a cii'zei) of the
I niled Siiites, euliiled as of light to ev
ery lioiitical and le :il imniuuity and
1
1 privilege which belongs to that great
I franehi-e. He may well say, v I am an
I American citizen." If bo may not proud
; ly proclaim with the apostle, " 1 was free
horn," yet he can truly claim as did the
chief captain, " Mi h a great sum > b
tained 1 this freedom." <>l these rights
or either of them, no man, and 110 combi
nation or confederation of men, can with
justice deprive the negro. As a natiou
lie is ol us, ami a part of us; equal in
right under the law. To th men of
Massachusetts, in this so clear and self
evideut proposition, there seems no diffi
culty. Since ITS'.), tbo colored man iu
Massachusetts, under the laws thereof,
j modified only by the laws of the I nitod
States, has enjoyed the rights and privil
eges of every other citizen of assachu
sctts. The child goes to the same school.
| The man partakes of the same employ
ments. The same learned professions,
medicine, the bar, the pulpit, are open to
him, and more than all. be carries to the
election of his rulers and trainers of the
laws, the equal ballot, which
soft fulling
Like the snow-flake on the sod,
Executes the freeman's will
As Helming executes the willof God."
In other soctionsof the country, themiud
warped and twisted by the influence of
the systemtof Slavery—whose funeral ob
sequies we. are now attending—doei not
at once comprehend these truths, and ad
mit the force of the inexorable logic of
EQUAL RIGHTS. Men otherwise just aud
good have been brought to believe, that
tiie negro can have no practical rights as
a citizen; no claims to be eousidered as
an integral part of the inhabitants of the
country, and is to be treated as if lie were
an alien—nay, more, as if he were a beast
and a dangerous beast beside; .cither to
be sent out of the Country or to bo herd
ed and penned as such in some remote cr
unhealthy corner thereof, as not fit to liv
uu the soil which gave hiuj birth, and to
which he has every right, and is held by
every tie and attachment which biuds a
nj iu to that portion of caith which he
cjdjs home and .country. It him been,
j theudbre, proposed to scud him away—
! to herd him iu rice swamps or cotton Isl
ands— where alone he may li.-tcu' to the
sad music of ihe roar of the oceau surg,
uot jiiu'e leleutless and uuceasing to him
thaii the Wrongs of his fellow meu ; there
| to prevent any white may vr white jpouian
iu the miasiuj Uary labor yi iuve ty yiMl
" Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do our djty as we understand it"— A Lincoln,
BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY to, 1805.
Itim • uneducated, to put him beyond the
pale of education; to allow his cljiM
never to know the benefit of the common
school. .fu!:t released from a worse thau
Egyptian bondage, te make him a Colon
ist, without the implements of coloniza
tion or fostering care on the part of the
mother country. To any such illogical
and unjust treatment of the negro, itnecd
not be said that the people of Massachu
setts will never consent. Our material
interests, the interests of tlx- country op
pose it. l'or two hundred and fifty years
at least we have been importing the la -
borer, because wc needed labor in this
country. The necessity for labor here
has caused it to be imported, even to be
cmpl yed in the wasteful habits of Sla
very. Shall we now, that four millions
ef strong hands and willing hearts are
made free laborers, productive and profit
able, take them from the lands which
they have tilled ? From the homes which
they have reared? From their hearth
stones, as dc ir to them as our roof-tree is
to us. and send them away to some for
ei:rn land, or shut them up in gome comer
of this, where their labor, if not wholly
unproductive and lost, ruu t be unprofita-
bio ? Off sense of Justice denies it.—
They have taken up arras freely mid will
ingly in our defenfe, and we hare given
them their freedom and rig|its as citizens.
What just freedom is it totheui to be pen
ned in a corner, or to be shut up in a rice
swamp and not bo allowed to see the faces
uf their follow citizen*, except it way bo
ni a soldier scut as their guard 112 V hat
true citizenship is it, to bo deprived of
their equal rights, in the land their amis
have helped to save from the fiery furnace
of Rebellion, and to be put upon such
portions of it only as are uot thought to
be well habitable by their white fellow
soldiers ? What lair division can itbeol
(lie heritage acquired in part by their
blood, to their white fellow soldier
line hundred and sixty acres ot laud, to
In be located where he chooses—'• ihe fi
nest the sun e'er shone upon"—lohiiuund
his heirs forever, while to llie colored sol
dier, scarred pevha; s with honorable
w 'llll di. but forty acres 'f a i ice-swanip is
to 1-e allotcd. or eight hundred leet front
ill marsh an a sluggish river, and that a
111--cssory title only ? And yet the dis
t nguished (jeuoral who makes this prop
osition says " the young and able-bodied
iii-:: rui'- are to be encouraged to contribute
their share toward maintaining their own
freedom and securing their rights as cit
izens of the United States." Wliot en
i-ouraiieuu nt to enlist io this * hat
freedom ? What lights of citizensuip for
which to shod one's, even if it is only i
black blood ? What wise statesmanship |
i Vft yet founded a colony from which the
young and able-bodied tney were taken as
soldiers? Where the blacksmiths, car
penters. and the skilled mechanics were
taken from the settlement; and where
the respectable heads of families had no
inducements held out to them lor leaving
the hornet^of their childhood and mak
ing new homes in the wilderness, save a
possessory title only To forty acres of land
uot too mucin ut of water? Under such
inducements, uuder such pupilage, with
such restrictions, aud with such hopes,
even our luir-ly Anglo-Saxon fathers, who
lauded at Plymouth, would not have thriv
en. How much less, then, is the negro,
by our wrongs untaught, uncultivated and
without the habit of self-dependence, fit
ted thus to take care of himself? The
j.nceptsof our holy religion forbid it.—
livery benevolent christian in the land has
contributed his mite to send the self-sac
rificing missionary to redeem the I'agan
f'roiu darkness, an 1 yet here it is proposed
to erect a heathenuge upon our own soil,
into which u<; Christian minister or Sab
bath school teacher, upon their high and
holy mission, shall penetrate,if it is their
good fortune to have a white face. I re
peat again: Massachusetts is unalterably
<'l>j)ostil to any proposition uf colonization
or legregation of the American citizens,
made to by this Amendment of the Con
stitution. No! We propose.on the oth
er haijj. simply to let the tjegro alone;
that he shall, in fact, enjoy the right ol
selecting his place of labor, the person
for whom he will labor, if not for him
self; to make his own contract for his la
bor; to determine its length and its val
ue; to allow him at least the enjoyment
of the primordial curse, " liy the sweat of
thy face shalttjiou eat bread restrained
only by the laws applying to hint, aud to
all alike; as the rain t'allcth upon the just
and the unjust. We also accept the fact,
that by our injustice to him and his race,
be is thrown upou the Government, un
used to care for himself, uul'urnishcd jrith
the means of beginning life anew. And
we agree that it is ourduty and the duty
of the Government to remedy thi# injus
tice, to see to it tjjat lie is taught; that
, ho w jjrjulyaiy Jny.fchJ to # state oi' wit-
dependence aud independence of others;
that ho shall have a fair share of the
lands that he and his fathers have wro't
upon ; that lie shall be left in the several
States where his labor is needed and is
productive, and that lie is furnished at
first with the mpans of beginning that
life which justice, equal l4',vs and equal
lights have for the first time cpgncd up to
him aud his children forever. Aud ;y|ien
this is done, we believe our duty is done,
and that thereafte;, so far as Government
interference goes, the negro is to be let se
verely ALONE. We believe that lie shall
work as every man must work, or become
a vagabond. We believe he must be
taught, us every man must be taught, to
be a good citizen. We believe he must
be furnished with the means of begin
ning life, either with education, habits of
self-doppndcnce, or with the fruits of an
cestral earnings ; and when these are giv
en to him, we have repaired, iu part, the
wrong we have done hiui. We may theu
hope to receive the pardon of the A -
mighty for the sins we aud our fathers
have committed toward him. Failing in
this, our duty, we may fear still further
chastisement from His hand who has sus
tained us, as He sustained our fathers, be
cause the bitt.er cup of purification and
chastisement has not yet been suffered to
pass-from our lips. As a nation wo have
taken the fiistslep in the right direction.
We have bowed to the first principles of
eternal justice. If we go forward with
no halting tread, taking no ftep back
ward, we may look with humble confi
dence that hereafter our political sky shall
be so healthy and so pure that notliu der
storm and torrent will . e sent to clear the
national atmosphere, and to wash away
with blood the sins of the people. Un
less we do justice, how can we hope for
justice? Although the punishment for
uati ual wrong and national siu i* some
times, in wisdom, delayed, aud wickedness
seems for a time to e. : ca 1 e punishment,yet
although
'■The m■ l -of Owl grind slow, but tliey giiijt) excelling
•mail."
Amid our joyous notes of congratula
tory triumph, may we not also pause for
a moment to turn our memories to those
pioneers in the causcof justice, of whom
we can say, Would tliey had lived to s»e
this"day!" I need not name them, 'iheir
memories arc still green in our hearts, but
the names of two flash before ijs—PAKKKU
ihe divine, whose lips ever defended the
cause of freedom iu this hull; MANN, the
teacher, a pioneer of education to an op
pressed race. It shall not hereafter be
said that Massachusetts is uugaatef ul, for
to the latter, at least, we look forward to
iho hour when his statue, gracing the
front ol our legislative halls, shall do
honor to him and to our Commonwealth,
The two statues overshadowing the, broad
entrance tu ovr Capitol, niakiug together
the lull compliment of a Massachusetts
statesman. One Conservative, who wise
ly expounded the Constitution us it was;
the other Progressive, who dared to look
forward to the amendment of u material
defect of that great iust rumeut whose pas
sage now brings liberty and equality ol
right to the world.
DAWSON'S ALE. —The following is too
good to be lost, although it occurred some
year ago in Uermantown, in a hotel uot
many miics from the railroad.
"Will you give me a glass of Ale, i!
you please?" asked a rather seedyisli
looking person, with an old but well-brush
ed coat aud a most too shiny hat.
It was produced by the bar-tender,
creaming over the etfge of the tumbler.
"Thankee." said the recipient, as he
placed it to his lips. Having finished it
at a swallow, be smacked his lips, and
said :
"This is very fine ale—very. Whose
u it ?"
"It is Dawson's ale."
"Ah ! Dawson's, eh ? Well, give us
another glass of it."
It was done; and holding it up to the
light and looking through it, tlie eonnois
sear said:
" 'l'on my word, it is superb ale—
superb!—cle.tr as Madeira. 1 must have
some more of that. Give me a muff of
it."
The mug was furnished ; but before
putting it to his lips the imbiber said :
" Whose ale did you say this was '!"
"Dawson's," repeated the bar-tender.
The mug was exhausted, and also the
vocabulary of praise; audit only remain
ed for the appreciative gentleman to say.
as lie wiped his mouth and went towards
the dour:
•'Dawson's ale'is it? I know Dawson
very well—l shall see him soon, and will
settle with him lor two glasses aud a mug
of his incomparable brew ! Gpod paw
ning!"
—Which is at once the easiest and har
dest of occupations ? The musician's;
for he plays wlieu he works, and works
t nhea lie
wrrm wisdom.
—Sure way to get up ice-screams—
Slippery sidewalks.
—When is a hen most likely to hatch?
When she is iu earnest (her uest.)
—What beams often fall on men's heads
without hurting them?— Sunbeams.
—-There is more than one link in the
chain that cements earth and heaven.
—We have already a female doctor,
why not jiave a female druggist? Aud
if so, why not pall her Ipecaeu Han
nah ?
—The " youug lady,' 1 who hid the key
of our sanctum, pan have at} opportunity
of setting up a night with our dpvil, to
think over the matter. Pitch in N —e.
—-'Marriage," said an unfortunate hus
band, "is the oburcjiyard of love." "And
you men," replied the not less unpappy
wife, "are the grave-diggers."
GUEAT SHOCK.—A lady we know was
startled the other day, by being told that
someone was waiting below for her ' body.
Dressmakers should be careful.
—An impudent wretch came near get
ting his ears boxed at a wedding recep
tion, the other day, for wishing the beau
tiful youngbr do "Manny happy returns
of the day,"
—An Irish Paper, in reference to the
projected construction of a tunnel under
the river ut Dublin, says: "A Thames
tunnel is about to be constructed under
the Liffey."
—" Miss," said a fop to a young iady,
"»> hat a pity you wasn't a mijror."
"Why so?" said the blushing lady. "Do
cause you would be such a good-100/ctiig
lass."
—True superiority of mind exists not
until the person possessing it becomes
perfectly conscious of his own equality
with mankind, and of the fact that his
existence lies in the hands of a supreme
power.
—Never compare thy condition with
those above thee; but to secure thy con
tent look upou those thousands with
whom thou wouldst not, for any interest,
change thy fortune and condition.
— ; Thcre is this difference between hap
piness and wisdom —ho (hat thinks him
self the happiest man really is so; but he
that thinks himself the wisest man is
most generally found to bo the biggest
fool.
—Dr. Casio having heard Thomas
Fuller repeat some verses on a scolding
wife, was so del glited with them as to
request a copy. "There's no necessity
for that," said Fuller, "as you have got
flie origional."
There ire throe kinds of men in
the world—the 'Wills, tbo Wonts, and
the Cants.' The furmereffect everything;
the others oppose everything. 'I will,
builds our railroad# and steamboats; —
■Went'don't believe in experiments and
nonsenso; while 'I can't' grows weeds
for wheat, and commonly ends his' days
in the slow digestion of bankruptcy."
—Sorrow and suffering arc the nurses
of all real goodness. The process we
shrink from. Dut should we if we val
ued the results as we ought ? And does
not the measure of our shrinking show
the measure of our lack of appreciation
of the "peaceful fruits of righteousness
afterwards ?"
—The reason why we recollect what
we write better thau what wo read, is
because that which we commit to paper
must be clear to the mind before it can
be properly writ en; and very few can
illustrate an idea so clearly to others as
it appears to the miod of the origina
tor.
—Cleanliness is regarded as a cardinal
virtue : but there can be such a thing as
too clean; with our best trails, during
life, there will be some alloy so firmly at
tached that the attempt to cleanse perfect
ly will wash away many a yirtuo.
—Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal;
no one feels who does not at the same
time give it. To be pleased, oue most
please. What pleases you iu others will
generally please them iu you.
—Sambo lo&t a dog, the tail of which
be finally found and recognize 1 lying in
the street in front of a sausage-shop, upon
which the darkey exclaimed, as he point
ed to certain well filled skins hanging iu
the window, while he held up Carlo's
tail, —
" I won't say nuffen agin dat ere sau
sage shop, but I know where my dog is
—General-.Great, says a Washington
corresposdeut, " looks upon the whole af
fair of peace negotiations as a farce. He
believes that the sword alone can bring
the rebels to honora.de terms. The mo
men,t that Lee's army is beaten the rebel
lion will collapse. A prominent G.eneial,
jrhy w iu cou&duwuo of tiuu> XJnuifc
Beecher on Furnishing Liquors,
A church which listens to such preach
ing as the following should not do many
wrong things, lleecher is a plain talker
and we like the positivoness of his preach
ing. Ilere is an instance :
I most respectfully, but earnestly, in
voke the consideration of those who aje
beginning to introduce wine and strong
drink into their households, and ask them
whether they have lent their ear to fash
ion or to God. I have tlio utmost res
pcct for a man's liberty, and for the san
ctity of the family. I would as soon cut
off my right hand as I would become a spy
in a man's house, because lie put a bottle
oil his table. All I ask is, whether you
have given to intemperance the consider
ation of aCluistian man, aud not a ban
iiitiiil. Have you determined this quts
tion in the light of your duty to God and
man ? 1 have not a word to say, if you
have. I respect your liberty. But if you
have drifted into habits of indulgence;
if. beeusc you have seen your neighbors do
the save thing, you have unthoughtedly,
as a curious experiment, and as a thing
that seemed to be acknowledged as re
spectable, you have allowed intoxicating
drinks to creep into your household, is it
not well for you to stop ant] make the mat
ter a subject of self-examination und of
prayer ? I tell you it is not a small thing
to bring up a family of children ; and I
tell you that to bring up your children to
believe that intemperance is a dangerous,
lurking, insidious, untamable enemy, is to
send them into life much saler than to
bring them up in habits of indulgence in
intoxicating drinks.
And allow me, iu the near presence of
the holidays, te make an exhortation and
request. I believe that, for the most part,
the families of this church and society
are not accustomed to spread their board
with intoxicating drinks; but recently,
at weddings,at social festivities, and at
the (Miristfflas and Newy ear's holidays,
there is beginning to be a renewal of this
dangerous habit. It there is any day of
the year oh which you ought to clear your
table of all intoxicating drinks, it is the
lirst day of Jauuary. It is the worst day
in the yaar for a man to begin a bad hab
it on. Audit is an unkiridness for you
to put them there on that day ; and you
know that when young men come into
your house, and the sideboard is there,
and wines are proffered to them, it will
be an exception for one of them to have the
moral flrmuesstosay, "I never take them."
You know that there are scores of young
melt that will drink against their wish,
aud against their judgment, because the)
are ashamed to make themselves an ex
ception to those with whom they arc in
company. You know that, by their sym
paihies aud kinder feelings, tliey will be
dragged into a compliance that is bad for
them. And, allow me to speak the truth,
it is di graceful to you. You have no bu
siness to spread a snare on your table for
the young and unwary, catching them
unawares.
Tlio Wise Ambassador.
Wo remember reading, in an old French
magazine, accounts of an ambassador
from the court of the Emperor Charle
magne to that of an Eastern monarch.
Dining one day in company with the
barbarian king and the groat men of the
court, not knowing the regulations and
the etiquetteof the East, the ampassador.
without dreaming of harm, moved with
his hand a dish which had been placed
near him on the table..
Now tb# laws of the tyrant repaired
that if any guest touched a dish that was
brouglii forward, before the king was
served, he should stiller the penalty of
death; consequently, all eyes were turn
ed upon the ambassador of Charlemagne*
and there was immediate outcry against
him; lor tho courtiers of the tyrant
thought to gain hb favor by upholding
him in his tyranny.
The barbarian king feared to displease
so great an ejtnperor as harleniagne, but
he feared to transgress his own laws more,
and he then told the ambassador that he
must suffer death for what he had
done.
"Great king,"said the Frank, '• I sub
mit to uiy fate. The laws of so powerful
a monarch should not be broken with im
punity. 1 die without a murmur, but, in
the name of the great emperor whose
servaul 1 am, I beg of your majesty one
favor before i die."
"'lhou speakest well," replied-the bar
barian king. "It is not my will that
thou sutler death, but, siuce tho laws re
quire it, I give thee the promise of a king,
whoso word is late, that whatever thou
askest shall be granted. 1 have spo
ken."
"Theu I am satisfied!" replied the
ambassador, proudly; a.ftd he glanced
contemptuously at the obsequious cour
tiois: "All I ask is thin :—tiivo ms the
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yese of every man who saw pa eo^mii
the crime."
The tyrant seemed confounded, add his
flatterers turned pale; bit his irord had
gone forth, and must be kept. The
Frank's request must be granted.
"It is well!" said the king. "Their
eyes shall be plucked out for thee."
But when it was who had seen
the ambassador move the dish every cour
tier was eager to deny that be had seen
the act. The servvmti also exclaimed
that they had not witnessed it, tjpd' tljo
king also declared that ho hipisejf had
not.
"Then why should I die, great kinfc?'!
said the I'rank. "The deed couuotevyi
be proved against me!"
Ihe king was pleased ; and not only
pardoned him, but, acknowledging and
praising his cunning and wisdom, sent
him home to iiis master loaded with pres
ents.
A MERCHANT'S STORY.—A member
of a large merchantilc firm
mo a bit oi bis early experience. Said
he, —
"I was seventeen years old when I left
the country store where I had tended for
three years, at;d caiup to Boston in sere!}
of a place; anxious, of course, to appeaE
to the best advantage, I spent an unusual
amount of time aud solicitude upon my
toilet, and when it wa? completed I s#i :
\eyel my reflection in the glass with no
little sati-faction, glancing lastly and
most approvingly upon a seal ring which
embellished my little finger, and my cane
a very pretty affair, which 1 had purcha
sed with dircpt reference to thisoccasion
My firstday sexperience was encouraging.
I traversed street after street; uponeside
and down the other, without success. I
fancied towards the lost that the clerki
all know my business the moment I open
ed the door, and thaCt they winked ill
naturedly at my discomfiture as I passed
out. But nature endowed me with a good
degree of per*istency, and the next day
I started again. Towards noon I entered
a store where an elderly gentleman stood
talking with a lady atthedoor. I waited
until the visitor had left, aud then stated
my errand.
" 'No sir/ was the answer, given in a
peculiarly crisp and decided manner,—
i'ossibly i looked the discouragement I
was beginning to feel, for he added, in a
kindlier tone, 'Arc you good at takir.g
hint ?'
• "'I don't know,' I answered, while my
faee flushed painfully.
"YY hat I wish to say is this,' said ho,
smiling at my enibariassme.it, if 1 were
iu want ot a c.er.v I would noten
gigo a young man who camo seeking
employment with a flashy ring upon hi?
finger, and swinging a f'ai.cy cane.'
'•Tor a moment mortified vanity strug
gled against common sense, but sense got
lie victory, and I replied with rather a
shaky voice, lam afraid—'l 'm very much
obliged to you,' aud then boat a hasty re
treat.
"As »oon as I got out of sight Islipped
the rirjg ito my pocket, and, walking rap
idly to the Worcester depot, I loft tjio
cane in charge of the baggage master un
til called 112 ir. It is there now, for aught
Ikn ,w. At any rate I never called for
it. That altcr.noon I obtained a situation
with the firm of which I alii now a part
ner Uuw much my unfortunate fi.fCry
bad injurce my prospects on the previ
ous day I shall Lever know, but I never
think of the old gentleman aud his plain
dealing without leeling, as I told him at
the time, -very much obliged to him "
SLEEPING OUT OF DOORS.—A sensi r
bio writer to Harper'* Magazine for Sep
tember, concerning this matter, says:
"I thought I should never get to sleep.
I had a bed of cornstalks, but I believed
I was roughing it. It was the dreadful
~ xyosure to the night air which worried
me, aud not the proximity of hostile ballf
and bayonets. And when I was aroused
at five in the morning, to detinue the
march. 1 actually folt tnor3 fearful of bo
iug broken down by \yunt of proper rest
than of being shot ia tlio approaching
engagement. llow mistaken our mothers
were when they warned U3 againgt expo
sure to the night air, aud sleeping in
damp clothing, and going with wet feet !
Judging from a two years' experience of
almost constant field service, I avert that
these things are wholesome and restora
tive. It does not require a fitr.ong con
stitution to stand them; it is sleeping in
side which which ougot properly to be
called exposure, and whi.ch demands if
vigorous yiial.it/; and its the crowning
triuuipJ l of civilization that it
humanity to do tKiy without extermina
tion. I have a creed to deliver Jay
on this subject to a misguided and
jiuiaouod pU^iiOl