VOLUME 2,
THE PEDDLER'S JOURNEY,
A wearisome jouni'iioy it wan. Along
" lho hot and dusty highways, in tho long
mifisuuimer day*, by yellow field* where
men were reaping the autumn
and orchards where merry boys were
gathering in the apples; through the
deep snows of winter, when other tra\-
tdcrs were daunted and turned back to
comfortable inns to wait for better roads;
still, with his pack on his back, and with
.that sad but watchful look on his face, ho
journeyed on.
Three years ago/Giles was not a ped
dler, but a shopkeeper, in a little town
in New Kngland; and one warm suinuior
evening, as he sat with his child on his
)tncc.4at the door of his shop, and tho I
how like her blue eyes and golden curls
were to thoso other blue eyes and goldon
curls that were hidden from his sight for
ever mider tho churchyard sod.and tho't,
too, how he must be a father and mother
to the little ouc now, a customer entered
the shop, tides sat the child down, and
went to attend to tho wants of the comer;
ami, presently, when lie returned, the
child was gone ! Giles called and search
cd ; then the neighbors were roused, and
tho whole village was searched ; next day
the country around was alarmed; then
came advertisements in tho papers far and
near; and Giles, well nigh beside himself
in his agony, traveled hither and thither,
wherever some vague rumor told him of
a possibility of finding traces of his dai
ling; then, tho excitement dying away,
Giles was left alone in bis distress. He
was restless; ho felt he must be doing
something.
" There aro many places that the pa
pers seldom or nevor reach," said he ; " 1
will sell out my store" (it had never been
opened since that fearful night);" I will
take a pack on my back, and travel thro'
the by-ways Hid secret nooks, aijd try, and
trust in God.
It seemed a wild undertaking; in such
an immense extent of country what could
one man do? Dcsides, tho child might
have been carried off to another country.
Hut the effort was a rolief to (Jiles , for
so long as wo Can do anything for the sake
of our lost ones —lost to us either by ab
sence or death—so long we seem not whol
ly separated from them.
And so it was that, for throo long years,
Giles had plodded wearily along—thice
yearn had done tlio work of thirty on him,
wrinkling his smooth forehead,and sprink
ling silver on his hair; and so it was that
0110 stormy winter night fpund him seat
ed before tlio fire of a littlo inn far up
among the mountains. It was a plane fre
quented by travelers in the summer sea
son, but de.serlod as soon as the snows be
gan to fall, and ;ut effectually cut pflf from
all human society as an island far out in
the ocean*
Giles had finished his stoiy—(lie story
of his loss and of his wanderings.
" Ah, well, man," said the host, after a
pause; "wo must all have our troubles.,
Your child is lost., and just belora you
oamo in, comes the poor old woman that
lives down the lane and tells me her child
is sick to dying, and no doctor short of
twelve miles; and twelve miles i» no bet
ter than fifty, so far as getting him to
night goes."
" Did sorno one go for him ?" asked
Giles.
"Oh," said tlio host, in amazement;
" did some one want to be eaten alive by
the wolves, or buried alive in tho drifts?
No ; nobody in my liouso."
"Then, with God's help, I will go,"
cried Giles, starting up.
" Are you out of your mind, man ?" re
turned the host; a good twelve miles—"
"In what direction 1" asked tho ped
dler.
" Tho very road you came up to-day,
and a hard day's work you had getting
""up; what do you expect to do fu the
night?"
" llavo you no kind of an animal to
lend me? lam goiug to leave my pack
here; you need not fear to trust me with
a horse."
" No beast of mine could pick his way
to-night; or should, if he could," he ad
dod in an undeitone to liin^clf.
The peddler had buttoned up hts over
coat, and taken his long stick in his hand,
before the host, convinced of his resolu
tion, slowly rose, ttpd muffliug himself
up, took dowu his lantern, followed Giles
to the gate, gave him tho last directions,
looked on him recodii,g through tya dark
ness as on oue he was never again to be
hold alive, and roturucd to his comforta
ble fire.
A fearful journey through that winter
night. Now and then tho sijow would
come drifting aud driving against him,
blinding, almost Stunning, him; now and
then, far off through the forest, he could
hear the cries of the hungry wolvep; onre
at twice he missod his way, and theu his
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
heart tank liim, and his courage
well-nigh failed ; but he thought of the
(jpsolate mother watching alone by her
dying child, and he thought where might
his own child bo; and with a prayer tu
our Father in heaven, ho plot|ded brave
ly on.
The twuive mlies worp accomplished,
the doctor was found, horses were sad
dled, and it was bright morning before
the two reached the little inn up in the
mountains, much to the astonishment of
the host, who, sljakiug the doctor and
peddler each by the hand, declaring they
were two heroes, and, then, directing them
to the poor old woman's abode, piomiscd
them a capital breakfast on their return.
" Hut. good sir," he called {o the ped
dler, " why not stay hero !" I'll warrant
tho doctor will find tho house alone."
" 1 always go everywhere," returned the
peddler, in a quiet, despondent tone, that
expressed his passing thought: So far all
in vain, why then further ?
" Thank tins'good man for saving your
little girl's life; two hours later would
havo been too late," said thy doctor, as
he came out of the little patient's room,,
and stood with (I ilea and the old woman
by the stove.
I want no thanks," the peddler replied;
"I know what it is to lose a child. How
old iu yours ?"
"Seven or eight, I should say; she
cannot tell her rge," answered tho old wo
man.
" Caq you not tell the age of your own
child, woman?" said the doctor, testily.
" Good sir' it is not really mine, though
(jod kuows I love her an mine," the wo
man answered. " Twas a poor little wco
thing—some tramps loft it hero, and 1
believe they stolo it; it was sick near to
dying; go, not to be burthoiied jfith it,
they lcl'l it at my door one night, and the
poor wee darling dried. (It was two
years ago 1 had buried my old man.) I
heard it cry and I took it in. "Thcgood
God has sent nie something to care for,"
says 1 ; and I cried as much as the child.
' Vou are sure she will get well now doc
tor '!•'"
"Sure," replied the doctoy; but dur
iug tjio woman's account the peddler had
listened like ono in ,■> dream, trembling
violeutly. " Show me tho child," said lie.
The strangeness of his voice startled them.
They led him into tho bedside—he fell
dowu speechless! The father s heart
had borne so much disappointment and
agony, tho first shock of joy overpow
ered it.
Tho happiness of tho father ij) finding
his child, the joy of the poor woman in
seeing herself the cause of so much joy,
tho interest the kind doctor took in thorn,
must bo imagined, not described; and
this was tho cud of the peddler's Jour
uoy.
110 hired a little in the village
where the doctor livyd, and stocked it
well; he prospered in his business, nnd
provided generously for the old woman.
" You must come and spend the rest
of your days with us," said he : " and the
little darling luustca 1 you grandma.'"
lie ncyor afterward neglected an oppor
tunity of doing a kindness to any human
being; and lie never spoke of the past
without raising hio eyes icvcreutly to
heaven, and saying :
" That fearful night when I walked
thoso twelvo miles, 1 thought it was to
save a stranger child. God bo blessed,it
was iuy own!"
Too Sharp all Bouiid.
An earthenware dealer at Lille, finding
himself going to tho bad, determined to
swindle his creditors, and go abroad with
tho money he might uuass. He lot his
wife and clerk into the secret, and told
them to sell clandestinely all the goods iu
tho shop; this done, he was to scud a tel
egram to his wife announcing his death
in a duel at Belgium ; thercupou she was
to oolobratp a funeral service to which all
his creditors were to bo invited, appear
in deep mourning, and rejoin him with
the spoils at Belgium. Tho wifo laith
fully followed tho part of her hus
band's orders.' She sold the stock in
shop, had tho funeral soryice celebrated,
went into mourning, and ran off with tho
Creditors' money, but instead of joining
her husband, she ran in another direction
with tho clerk. Her husband had told
hor lie was a man iu whom shp could place
implicit confidence. Tho husband, furi
ous at tho double trick played on him,
laid information to tho police, and all
throe have bccu a r res ted ( tri«d, and S£n
teucad to imprisonment.
—llow long Eve, tho first Woman, liv
ed, wo do not know. It is a curious fact
that, in sacred history, the ago, death and
burial of only oi>£ woman, Saralj. tho wife
of Abraham, is distinctly noted. Wo
man's ago, over siuce ; appears not f.o have
been a subject for history or discui&iou.
"Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do our duty as we understand it"—A- Lincom*»
BUTLER, BUTTER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER G 1865.
Rebels Insulting Federal Officers.
Tho Savannah Ke/mbUran, of August
5, giveu the following account of the mat
ter in which several secessionists wore
punished for abusing Union men :
Yesterday afternoon, shortly after tho
guests of thel'ulaski House had partaken
of. tho throe o'clock dinner, tho usual
quiet and order of that great public cara
vansary was suddenly disturbed. Wo
deem it our duty to make public a truth
ful statement, which may prove instruc
tive to a certain class of disloyal persons,
and teach them to ko»p treason and in
sult between their lips when in the pres
ence of loyal men, whether ofljeers or ci T
vilians. Within tho last six weeks con
siderable open insolenco litis 1 een mani
fested in tho public places of our city to
ward persous who believe in the United
States Government, and arc willing to
stand by it at all hazards. It is almost
impossible of lato for a Unionist to fre
quent a public place without receiving ati
insult, and plain talk is required in order
to convince the thousands of secret pne
mics of tho United States Government,
now living in security and ppaeo under
its flag in this city, that the day has pass
ed when any kind of insult can bo offer
ed to the American Hag, or tlu-de who up
hold it.
The vestibule and stairways of the Pu
laski House, yesterday afturuoon, resound
ed with exclamations too vile for insertion
in the coluninsof a respectable newspaper.
Tliese words proceeded from a gang of
loud-mouthed secessionists who were
amusing themselves, delighting their lis
tening friends and revealing their chival
ry by applying insulting epithets to the
Union people, and begging for tho privi
lege of " whipping some d d Yan
kee," repeating at the same time tliQ old
sterrestyped Southern brag of "one South
erner being able to clean out five Yan
kees." At this time a small, delicate
looking officer, of the rank of captain in
the army, politely stepped up to the tur
bulent crowd and ijuietly informed thein
that he could not stand quietly by and
hear Midi, language, and unless it was
"stopped, lie should be under the necessity
of taking stops to prevent it. The re
proof was not received in the right spirit,
but vm* resented as an invasion of the
rights of free speech. Tl;ij interference
with a crowd ot men who were onjoying
happiness by denouncing the Union, was
than Mjg. JcfF. Davis'bother could
stand, and lie forth wit]) prepared to "do
mand his rights," vi ct armi Tho hon
or of dealing (lie first blow at the Union
officer, we believe, was conceded to Mr.
Howell, Jeff. Davis* Ijrpthcr-in law, but
in less time than we can write it, the offi
cer had "demolished" his rebel antago
nist, in spite of the l}i)ited efforts of three
of his confreres to help tho falling pon
fedcratc. I'fows came fast and indiscrim
inately from tho little Yankee. With
bruised head and eyes all sore, and nasal
organs full of gore, the rebel lay upon tho
flour, and was soon afterward taken to the
lock-up. 11 is three friends lfjade
their escape.
An insult to Union men was offered in
the gentleman's ordinary at the Pulaski
House, not long since, where a Western
officer whipped an insolent rebel soundly,
but we refrained from making it public at
the request of the proprietors, who felt
unwilling to havo any such odious trans
actions reported as occurred at their house.
In future, we have resolved to publish
every such outrago that is perpetrated, in
order that the people of the North may
gain soifie fruitful knowledge of the real
animus of a very large and dangerous
class of rebels now in our midst.
A UEAUTIF.UL MISTAKE.— A lady in
Nuslivillo was making a visit to tlio peni
tentiary. ami was permitted to look thro'
the various wards. In one room she saw
three women engaged in sewing,and tur
ning to tho keeper, who was showing her
about, said to him in an undertone:
"Pear nic ! the viciousest looking wo
men I ever saw in my lifo 1 W hat aro
they put hero lor ?"
"They i>rc here," he roplicd, ''because
I am here ; they aro my wife and daugh
ters, madam."
But the visiting matjam was traveling
out as fast as possible.
—Horatio Seymour is figuring for tho
Democratic nomination for President in
1968. Tho plan adopted is to keep Sher
man in view as a candidate, with no in
tention of nominating him, but with a
hope of producing a division between
him, Grant and Johnson, and tako advan
tage of tho confusion to run in a reliable
man, that man being l|6ratio. The plan
is too intricate, aud has too many contin
gencies to work successfully. The politi
cians will find that neither (Irant uor Sherj
man have uoses of Wjtf, and cy.nnot read
ily be manipulated.
WIT AND WISDOM,
» 1 •
—A wise drink —sage tea.
—A grave sin—Writing a lyingc pi*
taph.
—Hostp.n has a population of about
two hundred thow&nd.
—lt is dreadful easy to bo a fool —a
man can be one and not know it.
—England, like Japan, worship yU
low sovereigns.
—The daily product of oil at Pi thole
is estimated at 2,760 barrels.
—An impudent newspaper writer des
ignates doctors as gentlemen of the turf
—A kind of angling that docs not al
ways take—Fishing for .compliment®.
—A Roman's (Mrsoften softens a man's
hpart. ller (latteries sottons his head.
—A schoolmaster, like a hone, sharpens
a number of bladp? ( but wears out by the
process.
—Peaches arc selling in Delaware,
ready for transportation, at £1 per bas
ket.
—Kpitaplis are like circus bills ; there
is a great deal more iu tho bills than is
ever performed.
A Fenian " Cjrclo" has been organ
ized in Ilarrisburg. it has sixty mem
bers.
—New fashioned Unionism in South
Carolina is said to bo very like the old
article of Secession.
—lt is human to prr, but awfully in
convenient. Forgiveness is diyiuo, aud
that accounts for its scarcity.
—At one of the grand balls in London,
this season, t'lrcc hundred Indies appeared
without crinoline.
—A young lady poured Kerosene on
her fire it) Chicago, to hurry it, and was
roasted ton crisp iu coHßgoiicricc.
—For every vice or virtue a man ex
hibits, ho generally gets creditor discred
it for a whole brood.
—Real happiness does not oonsist so
much in what a mau don't have us in
what he dont want.
—lt is whispered that tho girls have
changed tho pronunciation of tho word
jictticoots to Jrfj'h ont*.
—A man in Chicijgo <;pt his throat
last week, because, us he sijid, a man who
had recently djpd owed him SJOO, and
ho wanted togo after It.
—Uuey Stono sayj, 112 Tho cradlo is a
woman's ballot-box." Then wo have
known some illegal votiug whero two bal
lot# were deposited at a time.
—A preacher remarked tho other day
that the women of-the present time are
generally a shiftless set. llow did the
rascal know that?
—lf running after the women be $ sin,
it is opo that is very easily checked, All
that is necessary is for tho women to stop
running away from tho mon.
—A hypocritical scoundrel in Athens
inscribed over his door, "Lot no evil en
ter here." Diogenes wroto under it,
" How docs tho ownorget in ?"
—An editor of a city paper, ronioved
to the country, thus writes to a friend.
" Oh the transcendent joy of living ip so
charming a locality, and raising your
own vegetables, and laying your own
eggs."
—The following verso commemorates
the most uncommon misfortune of u very
hungry urchin.
" Thero » inn Mm|l i»«y nt Pintuckot,
liubought him an orange to kifck it;
110 along n- HW.
Ami n* you rimy ioi|>|i«*o,
Into tho orange ho stuck lt. n
—A lover, vainly trying to explain
some scientific his fair inamora
ta, said, "The (jnestion is difficult, and I
don't see what I can do to make it clear."
" Suppose yon pop it," whispered sweet
Jemima.
—At a wedding tho other day, ono of I
the guests, who is often a little absent
uiiudci), observed gravely, "I have re
marked that there havo been more women i
than men married this year."
—A gentleman of New York, inquir
ed of Nyt of Nevada, the other day, what
he thought of Jeff. Davis iff petticoats.
" Think ?" said the Governor. "I think
it is tjie last war -fujiyp of the rebellion."
—A gentleman, about whose Toa.tonic
origin thero could be but one opinion, was
passing alung the street, a few days since
when ho came to a halt beforo one pf tho
huge posters announcing the coming of
the Panorama of the Paradise Lost. He
road ibis line, "A Rebellion in Heaven,"
when ho broke forth as follows : "A Re
bellion in Heaven ; that lasts not long
' now—Oukol Abe isli dare.
—rlt if said that the friends of Jeff.
Davis in Washington are raising money
lor Mrs. Davis, who is represented as be
| iug in a state of destitution iu Alabama.
A Political Catechism.
There are some lucn who wm horrified
at the idea of giving any but white men
the benefit of the truths which the "Fath
ers of the Republic declared concerning
all men. The Fame men usually have
much to say respecting the principles of
the Democratic l'arty, and profess theiti-
Belves tho only true followers ol Thomas
Jeffersou and Andrew Jackson. Tho fol T
lowing catechism is a good subject for
meditations:
Who said that all men arc crcafod
equal ? Thomas Jefferson, the Falser of
Democracy.
Who gavo tho negro tho right of suf
frage in New York? Tho Democratic
Parly.
Who prcsidod over tho Convention
which gavo this privilege to tho ncgroch ?
Martin Van Huron, a Democrat.
Who afterwards elected Martin Van
Huron to tho Presidency 112 The Dufljo
cratic Party.
Who married n negro woman, and by
her had mulatto children? Richard M.
.Jol nson, a good Democrat.
Whq elected llichurd M. Johnson Vice
President" of tho United States. The
Democratic Party.
Who made the negro a citizen of tho
State of Maiue? The Party.
Who •enacted a similar law in Massa
chusetts? Tho Democratic Party.
Who gavo §ic negro the right to vote
in New Hampshire ? The Democratic
Party.
Who permitted every colored person
owning £260 in New York to become a
voter,? AGcupral Assembly, purely Dem
ocratic.
Who repealed the laws ol Ohio which
required negroes to givo bonds and secu
rity before settling iu that State ? The
Domopratic Party.
Who made muhittoes legal voters in 1
Ohio? A Democratic Supremo Court,of
which Reuben Wood was chief Justice.
What, became of Reuben Wood? The
Dmoeratic Tarty eloctcdhim Governor
three times and UQ is still a leader of tho
Democratic Party.
Who hclpod to give free ijogroos the
right to vote in under her Con
stitution of 1790 ? General Jackson.
WHS General Jackson a good .Demo
crat? He generally passed as Sucli.
Who, with the above facts, and many
others, gtaring them in the fhcc, are con
tinually wt.i|jing about "negro Buffrago"
and negro equality ? Tho Democratic
I'arty.
All theso things wcro done by Dem
ocrats, and yet they deny being in favor
of negro equality, and charge it upon tho
Republicans—just like tho thief who
cries 'stop thief" the loudest!
P/I YBIOLOO I CA I, I'IIKNOMKNON.
Among ttio soldiers wlio have just re
tnmod from the Gold, tjioro is a physio
logical phenomenon observable) which is
some what at variance with usual theories.
It is that light-haired men, of tlie nerv
ous sunguine type, stand campaigning
hotter than the dark-haired men, of bil
ious temperament. Look through a raw
regiment, on its iray to the field, and you
will find fully onc-lialf of its members
to bo of the black haired, dark-skincd'
large-boned bilious type, See that same
regiment on its roturn for muster out,
and you will find that the black-haired
element has melted away, leaving at
least, two thirds, perhaps three-fourths,
of the regiment to bo represented by red,
brown and flaxen hair. It is also no
ticed that men from tho cities, slighter
in i/h/xirjuc and apparently, at outset, un
able to endure fatigue, and. privations
stand a Bcvero campaign much better than
men from tho agricultural districts. A
thin; pale-lookiiig dry goods clerk will do
moro marching and starving than many
a brawny plow-boy who looks muscular
enough to take a bull by the tail and throw
Jii#4 py<jr a staked and ridcred feuco.
—Murder has become a fashionable
crime, and its popularity seems to be in
ducement for its con on them int
trivial offenses. Maidens with broken
hearts no longer weep themselves to death,
but murder those who win and triflo with
their affections. Men suspicious ofthcir
wives, instead of cutting the connubial
knot, ftraiglitway cut some Lothario's
throat or blow out his brains, and then
live happily with their spouses, satisfied
with the popularity thus acquired.
-i— Ex-lJrigadior General ilamsey, the
robel brute who ordered tho imprison
ment of Governor lirowiiloy at Knox
villo, in 1801, and to whom that gcntlo
-111 an is indebted for much hard and in
human treatment, has been arrested and
will shortly be tried at that place; upon
which occasion tho development of some
rich scenes is anticipated.
- Why U a beard like seose?
i iiecau.-c iiecau.-c no wouutn it
THE MAIDEN AND THE HERO,
On the night of tho battle of Bhindy
wilic I was sent with a message from Gen.
Greene to Count Pulaski, a noblo l'oland
cr, who took a prominent part In our
struggle for freedom. He was quartered
in a neat, farm house-near tho upper forts.
After our business wns finished tho Count
asked me to tako somq refreshments, and
at the same timo called out—
" Mary, my lass, Mary!"
In an instant a rqsy cheoked girl en
tered, her face boaming with'jtiy, it would
seem, at the vpry sound of l'ulaski's
voice.
" Hid you call mo, Count*" said the
maiden timidly.
"llow often have I told you little love,"
he said, bending liift tall form to kiss her
chock; "not to call mo Count; eall me
dear Pulaski. This is a Republic, my
littlo favorite ; we have 110 Counts, you
know."
" Hut you arc a Count, gir, when at
home, and they say you ca((ic a )oi)g way
over the ocean to fight for us."
" Yes, Mary, very true —I did como a
long way—the reason was I had to come.
Now, can you get for this gentleman and
myself a little refreshment? lie has a
long way to rido to-night."
" Certainly, sir," and slio went out of
the room like a fairy.
" Fine, pleasant girl," said l'uluski;
would that I had the wealth that I once
had ! I would gtvo her a portion that
would send half the yuijth hereabouts af
ter her sweet face "
Qil the morning ofthellthol Septem
ber, J 777, tlio Itritinli tinny advanced in
lull force to Ohadd'H Ford, for llio pur
pose of crowing I'rnndywine Creek and
bridging on an action with Washington.
Sir William llowo drove Maxwell's divi
sion across tlio creek by ten o'clock at one
of the lower fords.
The Hessian Qoneral Knypliausen,
with a largo forco, advanced upon tho
crock, and uniting with Lord Cornwnllis,
who commanded l]}o left wing of the army,
crossed at the upper ford of the liypr and
creek. It so happened that during tho
conflict, jj'lipn carrying orders, I passed
immediately in the' direction of Pulaski's
quarters, that I had visited tho night be
fore. Suddenly a sheet of (lames burst
forth; the liouso was on firo. Near the
door-steps lay tho body of Mary her head
cut open by a sabre, and l,fir brains ooz
ing out of the tcrriblo wound, t bad
been there but half :t mirmtp, when don
era! Pulaski at the head of a troop of
cavalry galloped rapidly to the house.
Never shall I forget tho expression on
his face, as ho shouted like a demon on
seeing the animated form of Mary
« Who did this?"
A little boy, who had not been before
noticed, lying on tjic grass with .his leg
dreadfully mangled, replim! :
" There they go
ITo pointed to a company of Hessians,
then some distanco off.
" HIOHT-WIIKRI.—MEN, CHARGE !
And they did cllAit'l l:. I do not think
that one man of that Hessian corps oyer
left the field except to bo placed in the
grave.
The last of Pulaski was on tho battle
grounch of IJrandywinc. 110 and his
sweat Mary fell on the same field.
—The New Orleans I'irm/inic says ;
A prominent politician, of a very radical
pcrsuation, from this city, recently visi
ted Washington and waited on President
Johnson. • Afted tho oxclungo of the
customary courtesies, ojjr pitizen asked
the President what words ho had to send
his friends in Louiajipa. '• Tell thorn,"
said tho President" -'to goto work and or
ganize the Government as quickly as
possible, and semi on their Representa
tives to Congress. In this way tlioy can
manifest their patriotism, and insure a
specedy return to the old ways of the
of honor and civil govern
ment."
—The Copperhead Organs arc loud in
the advocacy of tLy pri/jpiplo that intell
igence alone shoild be the qualification
for the exercise of the elective franchise.
If this principle were applied to that or
ganization, it could not control a ward,
presinet, township or couuty i» the
United States.
—Kvery Southern Man who tooik part 1
with the Government in the effort to sup
press rebellion became, during the var, ■
a decided aLoJitiouist while every North
ern man who sympathized with treason i
had his love for slavery intensified iu the
meantime.
—The Goveruuieiit having ceased to"'
give out rations to the poor whitps
Charleston, listrcss is said to
prevail.
Who kwfced the girla ou Sunday
- NUMBEIi SSj
Where Andrew Johnson Stands.
A Washington letter fo tho St.
Democrat says:
It is but a short timo sineo a distin
guished Sepator called upon the Presi
dent. A delegation of Conservatives had
just left him. Turning to the Penator.hq
na?d : "1 wonder il' those persons,
but now passed out, imagine that 1 for
get tho pnwc'r and tho party to which I
owe my elevation. There was qo( q man
in that delegation that Wouldpu't have
united in offering a roward for my scalp a
few years ago, and now they talk to me
as if I owed everything to them. 1
guess they'll find I lievc a memory."
Again: A well known editor of a
prominent Northern journal p;iid to thq
President: ."Tho Democracy say- yoi)
will yet be found with them. That yo\\
have always been a got,d democrat, and
will always so remain."
"Do they," respondod Mr. Johnson.—
"Woll, sir, yon are at tho liberty to tel|
all such gentleman that, while, as Presi
dent I shall endeavor to drop any parti
san character, I certainly am nqt prepar
ed to do moro than pritif for those who
dcspitefully use mo. I think thoy stand
| in need of prayers, and it is nil I can do
for them."
"Mr. President, wo are discouraged,'}
said a committee of'frcodiueu to the Prca
ident. "llichmomi is as nmo|i iu thq
hands of secessionists now as it was bo
fore Loo surrendered. Nominally froo,
wo arc yet tho worst of slaves, and wq
sec ne liopo of rodrcss, unless you aid us "
'•Gentleman," answered Mr. JOIII.BOM,
"you must oxercisq patienco. You arc.
free, and tho vainest Virginian sljall yet
not only acknowledge your freedom but
your ri/urtlifjf if you are true to your
wlcn."
"Hut the local and fstatq laws of Vir
ginia, Mr. President—
"What of the looal and Htato laws of
Virginia '! Until these F. F. V".'s come to
theirsenscs, 1 ratjipr t|)i()li. IJnitod States)
bayonets will ho abouttho only hnct thej
shall have (io back to your homos—
work, hard, do your duty; and I will sco
that tho lowest among you is qeobrcd in
his right and titlo to lilo, liberty and tho
pursuit of happiness."
As tho President uttered this last re
mark, his faco glowed with a high resolve,
and I never saw manhood moro sterling
and eroct thau his ever lineament bcto
kernel}-
SHAM. CANADA IIK ANNEXED?—THO
feeling of tlio Canadians in favor of tho
annexation of their province to this coun
try is Represented to be gradually grow
ing and strengthening, notwithstanding
some drawbacks with which it met in the
late Commercial Conyention at Detroit.
The provincials, while their towns remain
dull and almost dovoid of btiisiness,
across the line and see cities and yilages
close to them alive with all the sfir, liuiu
and bustle of teeming trado and industry,
and quietly but earnestly long to be un
der the (lag and institutions in suuii
proiperty inheres. It is said that tho
contrast formed by tho buisincss activity
on one side of the border, and the ab
scnce of it on the other, is just now even
more marked than at any former timq,
aj)d it i« believed that unless the provin- *
rial Parlimout does somotliinj,
session giving promiso of' improvement
to the Canadians, the annexation storu.
will break cut with fury.-—But putting
the question of annexation fair and square
before the American people. Do they
desire Canada to be annexed '( They on
ly answer we can give is, that no suclj,
desire has been expressed by tho l'coplo,
however it may have been by
prossfcg. ,
OoN VICTION OF A I'ASTOit.—The tri.'li'
of the Swedish l'astor, Lindhach, charg
ed with administering poison in the wino
used for communion service, terminated,
as ffss OJfpectgd, in his conviction. The
chief difficulty was to assign sukcient
motives, those named by the prisoner ap
pearing utterly insufficient to account for
three or four ffticoossivo |Jo'h»'
scrtcd throughout that the niurdored per
sons were cither incurables, or were in
other ways likely to become burdens ou
liis parish, and that it was for the purpose
of relieving it of the burden <sjf their
presence that ho became guilty of tjiia
series of crimes. IJef'org ho was taken
into the court lie was deprived of his ec
clesiastical vestments, and aftor sentence
had been pronounced, ho th
'Judge and the Goverpor of the produce
| acknowledging the justice of his sentence,
lie afteaword made a spcooh to tile crowij
J to similar effect, and expressive of his
confidence of obtaining pardon in the next
world. ' '
Sickness is greatlj iiKie.isioji im
Uicluuond.