VOLUME 3.
jftfot poetry.
From the Lottitvilla Journal.
FAREWELL.
Farewell, farewell, a long adieu,
I whisper ere you go;
Its eeho falls upon my heart,
Though whispered soil and low.
Ilark, ye'. What mournful sound is that?
It is the parting bell,
And sighing, throbbing, on its breast,
Lies my heart's s d farewell.
Such a moaning and a groaning
Is heard from this old bell.
How it throbs and sadly sobs
As it groans the long farewell.
The gloomy hour comes rolling by
When you and 1 must sever.'
Wc, who have loved so long and well,
Perhaps part now forever.
The winter winds in black array
Go wildly shrieking by,
And as they pass their hollow voice
Is whispering good bye.
Hear the sighing and the crying
Of the hollow winter wind,
As round your heart, ere we part,
Their icy aims arc twined.
And must wc part ? Well, be it go;
Alas '. 1 know it well
The rod of separation moves, .
Aud L hear the parting bell.
We part, I fear, to meet no more
Oil earth, where pleasures fade.
Hut m\.-j we meet where crowns of light
Aud wreaths of truth are made
Where bright day ne'er lades away
Where holy angels dwe 1 —
Where spirits move thro' fields of love
Where's breathed no sad farewell.
£ctcrt £targ.
THE FEDERAL CHAMELEON.
A SKETCH OF SCOUTING STRATEGY.
One evening about an hour after the
sun had gone down a couple of stout
men, dressed in soiled rebel uniforms,
holding in his hand a good Aus
trian rifle, tapped at the door of a small
frame building near the C road in
Virginia.
The knock was answered by an old
woman whose face was almost concealed
%iy the tangled masses of her gray un
oodlbcd hair.
"And what Hlo you want here?" she
exclaimed as her deep set eyes flashed
on the two mon. "I haven't the smallest
bit of johnny cake in the house to offer
ye, for it was all-"
"No, no," interrupted one of the sol
diers, "we don't want anything to eat,
but we want you to tell u», and in quick
time too, whether or not you've seen a
slight but strong looking slip of a man
go by here of late."
" Dressed in blue, and carrying a
double-barreled rifle," added the other.
"Hey, hey,!" cried the hag, lifting her
hands and speaking in a sharp angry
voice, "if you hadn't interrupted me, I
reckon you would a heard uie speak of
just now, as he was the very man who
came here and bought all my cakes. It
was about two hours ago, and—"
"Which way did he go after he had
jeft you ?'' enquired both men eagerly.
"Before I answer that question, you
must tell me who he is," said the old
woman with the curiosity natural to her
eex.
"He's a celebrated Union scout whom
we call the 'Federal Chameleon,' because
he changes liis uniform so often. Some
limes it is blue, other times grey, and he
has even been seen wearing the disguise
of an old farmer. He has shot more of
onr men than is pleasant, and we have a
roving commission from our colonel to
go and hubt after him, and capture him,
jf we can, either dead or alive. And
•now we have replied to you," continued
the speaker a little impatiently, "we de
mand that you answer our questions
and—
"Demandinterrupted the hag in
shrill piercing tones. "Is that the proper
way to speak to a woman—an old woman
At that ?"
"Come, eomc, answer us if yon please,"
cried the soldier in a milder tone. "I
iinean no harm—its only my way of speak
ing."
"Wdll perhaps I may forgive, and per
haps not," said the old woman, shaking
tar head. "How lar is it to your camp
from here?"
"What is that to you ? what has that
*o do—'
■"There yoa go again with your cursed
incivility?" shrieked the hag fteroely,
•"hat you shall anawer ay question be
fore you get another single word out of
Die. Sow, then, how far is your camp
from here, a*4 how many Men have you
in and around fc? I intend to carry
your fellows some corn eakes, d'ye see,
and I want to kaow the number of wottths
I have to code for."
"Oh, in that case," said the rebel, "I
<do not see any reason why I should not
satisfy you. Our eamps. then, are about
Ave miles from here, «e»r the cross roads,
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
and our number may be about five thous
»oj."
"That will do," cried the old woman
with a grin of satisfaction—"yes that
will do. And now you are sure that the
man who came here to buy his aupper is
the one you are after?"
"We are sure of it, for although we
have never seen the man's face, we'd
know him by the double-barreled rifle, as
nobody else in the yankee army carries a
weapon of that kind."
"Ay, ay, it's the right one then, said
the hag. "After he had finished aud
paid me for his meal, he says to me:
"Frieud I should like to put up here for
the night if you have no objections."—
Rut as I did not like the idea of accom
modating a Yankee any more than I
could help, I told him there was no room
for him, as I expected visitors before
many hours. "Well, then," says he,
"can't you tell me of a place where I can
pass the night a little comfortable 112 You
see, " he added, looking toward his dou
ble-barreled rifle' "I don't like to camp
out as it looks like rain, and this piece
might get hurt by it." I know of no
place, I auswered, short of four miles
from here in an old barn which is tight
enough, I think, to \ecp off the rain.
"Four miles is a pretty long distance,"
said he,"and I have been tramping about
considerable to-day, I don't feel mutch
like carrying this hoavy load so far,'poin
ting at his knapsack as he spoke. "Will
you be kind enough to let it remain till
morning?" "Well, yes," said I, hesita
ting a little, and throwing a glance at
the well filled pocket book in his hand.
He understood the look and gave me a
green back dollar. All right said I, and
he then departed, saying he would call
for his luggage in the morning, after he
should wake from his sleep in the barn."
"Now, then," continued the woman
"which will you do—go after him at
once, or wait in ambush for him till morn
ing ?"
The two soldiers drew back a few pa
ces and held a short consultation, after
which they advanced to the side of the
woman
"We will go now," said the one who
had spoken first; "that is if you can de
scribe to us the exact position of the
barn."
"I don't think that I could describe
it so you could find it in the dark, but
as I am willing to do everything in my
power for the confederacy, I w : ll go with
you and show you the place."
"That is right," answered the rebel,
"and we will see that you are rewarded
for your zeal."
"I don't want any reward for helping
my countrymen," repeated the hag. "I
am always ready to help along the cause.
With these words she disappeared into
another room, but came forth in a few
moments, with a gray blanket thrown
over her shoulders.
"I took this out of the Yank's barer
sack," said she with a short, dry laugh;
"Don't you think it becomes me ?"
"Aye, aye. my good woman, very much;
but lead on ifyot please, for wo have no
time to lose."
"Forward, march !" she exclaimed, im
itating the voico of a man with strong
lungs. "Forward, march ! Close up!
Close np!" And she moved along the
road at the tottering pace to a person of
her years.
The night by this time bad become
very dark. The sky was obscure with
tftick driving clouds, and the wind scream
ed and roared among the tall pines that
towered upon each side of the road. Oc
casionally a branch wrenched from its
native trunk would fall into the road with
a terrible crash, and more than once the
rebels started back and cocked their pie
ces in the belief that tho din waa caused
by the discharge of some Yankee rifle.
"Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the hag upon
one of these occasions, "it seems to me
that you are caaily startled. Don't you
think your commander might have picked
a pair of bolder hearts than yours for this
expedition V
"You'd better keep a silent tongue in
your head, my good woman, until you
have an opportunity of witnessing as
many battles as we have," answered one
of the men, "a good soldier h always on
his guard."
"Aye, aye!" replied the old woman,
"bat you should know bow to distinguish
between the crackling of a branch and
the ring of a rifled musket."
Tu* rebel did set relish the noise made
by the loud shrill tones of the female
guide, and in order to put an end to it
he controlled himself sufficiently not to
reply to her last remark. The party then
continued on their way in silence—which
was Mt broken by either of them until
they had gone about three miles, and a
loud clear challenge suddenly startled
the rebels,
"Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do our dutjr as we understand it M « A Lutootw.
BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, .JUNE 2T, 1866.
"Halt ! Who comes there !"
"Friend !** answered the old woman in
a ringing voice; "friend with prisrncrs.
"We are betrayed !" yelled her com
panions, and, even as the words passed
their lips, they were surrounded by a
dozen Federal soldiers, one of whom car
ried a lantern.
As the rays of the light flashed upon
the hag, the rebels saw the gray hair, the
blanket, and female apparel drop to the
ground, revealing the slight but iron
like frame of a Union soldier in the prime
of life.
"It is he, by—!'' exclaimed the pris
oners simultaneously, as their glances
wandered to the double burreled rifle
which he now hold in his hand : "it is
he—the scout—the Federal Chamole
on !"
"Aye, aye!" answered tho latter, as
he leaned upon his weapon, with a quiet
smile, "yon are trapped sure enough,
thanks to my disguise, which is only one
of the many which I earry in my knap
sack. Allow me to express my thauks
to yon for the information you gave me in
regard to the position of your camp and
the number of your men : I have already
sent a message to my Colonel in relation
to the matter, and perceive lie has com
menced to act upon it."
And as he spoke ho pointed down the
road where the dark outline of troops
formed into line might be faintly distin*
guished.
The are soon in motion, and in the
course of half an hour the booming can
non, tho rattling musketry, and the cheer
ing of Federal troops proclaim that the
combat had commenced. The din con
tinued for about an hour when the pris
oners heard from others who were brought
to share their quarters, that the Southern
troops had been surprised and totally
routed.
Nasby On the Memphis Riots.
CONFBDKMT X ROADS, (which
is in the Stait of Kentucky,) >
May 12, 1866 )
The news from Memphis filled the soles
uv the Dimocrisy uv Kentucky with un
dilooted joy. There at last the Etbio
piad wuz taught that to him nt least the
spellin book is a seeled volume, and that
the gospel is not for him save as ho gets
it filtered through a sound constooslinel
Dimecratio preecher. We met at the
Corners last night to jollify over the brave
acts uv our Memphis frends and I wiu
the speeker. I addressed theni on the
subjick uv the nigger—his wants, ntcd«,
and capacities, a sulijiek, permit me to
state, I flattir myself I understand.
Probably no man in the Voonited
States he* given the nigger more study,
or devoted mom time to a paslient inves
tigation uv this species uv the brute
ereashen, than the undersigned. I have
contemplated him sittin and standin,
sleepin and wakin, at labor and in idle
ness, in every shape in fact, ccptin e* a
free man, wich sitqashen is toodisgustin
for a proud Cauoashen to contemplate
him, and when he aril before my mind's
eye in that shape, I alluz turned shudrin
away.
I had proceeded in my discourse with
a flowin sale. Its easy demostratin any
thin your nwjcncc wants to belecvc, and
wich their interest lies in. I hod gone
on and proved concloosivoly from a com
parison uv the fizzikle structer uv the
Afriken nnd the Oaucashcu that the nig
ger wuz a beast, and not a human bein.
and that consekently we hed a perfcck
rite to catch him, and tame hiui, and
yoose him, ez we do other wild animals.
Finishin this hed uv my discourse, I glode
easily into a history uv the flood—ex
plained how Noer got tite, and cust
11am, condcmnin bim and his posterity
to serve his brethren forever wich I in
sisted give us an indubitable warranty
deed to all uv em for all time.
I warmed up on this elokently.—"Be
hold my brethren the beginnin uv Dim
ocrasy." I sed, "Fust the wine (wich
was the antetype uv our whiskey) wuz
the beginnin. Wine (or whiskey) wuz
necessary to the foundation uv the party,
and it wuz forthcoroin. But the thing
waa not complete. It did its work on
Noer, but yet there wuz a achin void, —
there wux no Nigger in the world, and
without nigger there could be no Dimoc
rasy. Ham, my friends, wuz born a
brother ev Japhet and wuz like unto
him, and nv course could not be a slave.
Whiskey wuz the instrument to bring
him down and it fetched him. Ham
looked upon his father and wux cost, and
the void wuz filled. There was nigger
and whiakey and upon them the foonda
shens uv the party wuz laid broad and
deep. Methinks, my brethren, when
Ham went out from the presence uv his
father, black in the face as the ace uv
spades ef I may be allowed to yoose the
expression, bowing his back to tb« bur-
dens Shem and Japhet piled unto him
with alacrity, that Dimocrasy, then in
the womb uv the future, kicked lively
and clapped his hands. There wui a
nigger to enslave, and whiskey to bring
men down to the pint uv enslavin him.
There wns! whiskey to make wen incapa
ble uv labor—whisky to accompany horse
racin, and poker playin, and sich nation
al amoosements, and a nigger enst espe
cially that he mite sweit to furnish the
means Observe the fitness ur things !
Bless tho Lord, my brethren for whiskey
and the nigger, for without cm there
could be no Dimoer'wy, and yoor beloved
speaker mite hev owned a farm in Noo
Jersey and bin a votin the whig ticket
to-day."
At this pint a venerable old frccdinan
who was a sittin quietly in the mectin
aril, and asked if he wight ask a ques
tion. Thinkio what a splendid opportoo
nity there would be uv denionstratin the
sooperiority uv the Caucashen over the
Afriken race, I answered, "yes,"' gladly.
"Wall! Mas'r," «cd the old imbecile,
"is I a beast?" "My venerable friend
there ain't nary doubt of it."
' Is my old woman an old beastcss,
too?" "Indubitably," replied I.
"And my children, is they little beasts
and beastegses?" "Onquestionably."
"Den a yaller feller ain't but half a
beast, is he?" "My friend."sod I,"that
question is"—
"Hold on," seil ho, "wat I wanted to
get at ii> dis: —dere's n heap uv yaller
fellers in dis section, whose fadders must
hev bin white men, and cz der mudders
wuz all beastesses, I want to know whod
det dcraint no law in Kentucky agin"—
"Put him out!" "Kill the black
wretch 1" shouted a largo majority uv
them who hed been the heaviest slave
owners under the good" old patriarkle
system, and they wont for the old repro
bate. At this pint a offioer uv the Freed
mon's Rurow, who we hadn't observed,
rix, and buslin with laughter, remarked
that his venerable friend shood have a
chance to bo hocrd. We respeck that
Burow, particularly as the officers gener
ally have a hundred or two bayonets
within rcech, and chokin our wrath, per
mitted ourselves to be further insulted by
the cussed nigger, who, grinuiu from car
to car, ri* and pcrceeded :
"My white friends," scd he, "dat pears
to be an objection to my reference to
subjeck uv dis mixin with beasts, so I
wout press do matter. But I askyoo did
Nocr hev three sons 112" "lie did," sed I.
" Uerry good, wuz dey all bruddcrg ?"
"Uv course !" .
''Hum came from dc same fuddcr and
mudderus deodder two?' "C er-t-a-i-n.l-y.
"Well den it seems to mo, not fully
understmdin tho seripter, dat if we is
beasts and beastesses dat yoo .is bunsts
and beastesses, also, and dat after all we
is brudders." And the disgustin old
wretch threw his arms around my neck
and kissod me, eallin me his ''long lost
brudder."
The officer of tho Frecdnion's Buroo
laft vociferously and so did a dozen or two
soldiers in the crowd likewise, and the
awjence slunk out without adjournin tho
mcetin; one of em remarkin audibly that
hti had noticed one thing, that Dimoerisy
was extremely weak whenever it under
took to defend itself with fax or revela
shen. For his part, he'd done with ar
gyment. He wanted niggers, because he
cood wallop em, and make em do his
work without payen cnj,.wich he coodent
do with white men.
I left the mectio house convlnat that
the South, who worked the nigger, leav
ing us Northern Demokrats to defend the
system, hed the best end uv the bargain.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
Lait Pastor of the Church of the Noo
Dispensation-!
—An old fellow in a neighboring town,
who is original in all things, especially
egotism and profanity, and who took part
in the law great rebellion, was one day
blowing in the village tavern to a crowd,
of admiring listeners, and boasting of bis
many bloody exploits, when he was inter
rupted by the question:
"I say, old Joe, how many rebs did
you kill during the war ?"
"How many did I kill, Sir? how many
rebs did I kill ? Well I don't know just
'jactly how many; bat I know this much
—I killed u many 0' them as they did
0' ine!"
—ln the exuberance of his rage at
some one who had offended him, a veugo
ful individual said:
"By Jove, I'll have revengel'll give
his little boy a tin horn."
A one armed soldier in lowa cuts
and cord* two and a half cords of wood
per day. He offera a wager of fifty dol
lars that he can split one hundred and
fifty rails a day.
Pittsburgh Female College.
Annunl Kerinon by ihc Rev.
llrrrick Johnson, nt Ch rial's
M. E. Church.
The commencement exercises of the
Pittsburgh Female College, which began
on Thursday 14th inst, embraced an an
nual sermon, which was delivered on the
afternoon of tho 17th inst., in Christ's
I Methodist Episcopal Church, on l'cnn
street, by tho Rev. Ilerrick Johnson,
pastot of the third (N. S.) Presbyterian
Church, of Pittsburgh. Tho pupils of
the College occupied a portion of the cen
tre aisle of the church, aud among their
number was the graduating class of 1800,
whose names nre as follows : Misses Ma
ry T. Dihm, Classical, Allegheny; Olivia
J. Smith, Classical, Sharpsburg; Vir
ginia L. Stevens, Classical, Zcno, Ohio;
Elizabeth Dalzell, English, Enon Valley;
Eliza 11. Duffy, English, New Castle;
Caroline 11. Lynch, English, Allegheny ;
Elizabeth D. M'Ccy, English, Biairsville;
Mary 11. Pumphrey, English, Pittsburgh;
S. Elizabeth Smith, English. Sharpsburg,
and Annie M. Steen, English, Pittsburgh.
A few minutes before three o'clock,
the Rev. E. B. Snyder, pastor of Christ's
M. E. Church, Rev. I. C. Pershing. I).
D., and Rev. Herrick Johnson, entered
the pulpit, and the services were commen
ced by a voluntary on the organ , after
which the quartette choir rendered Ilum
mell's solo and quartette ; "Thou art our
Father," from Baumbach's sacred quat
tette collection. The 990 th hymn com
mencing .
"Jesus »h«ll relj»n where'er the nun
Does liiit successive journeys run," Ac.,"
was sung by the congregation. The Rev.
E. B. Snyder then offered a fervent prayer,
after which tho congregation sung tho
99Gthhymn, commencing: •
"Hasten, Lord, the glorious time
When beneath Messiah's sway," kc. \
The Rev. Herrick Johnson then deliv
ered the annual sermon, taking the fol
lowing text: "Wo to thee, O Land, when
thy Kiog is a child." Ecrktiaifes, tenth
chapter, ami sixteenth vcrsr. Tho rever
end gentlemen's theme was . "The stabil
ity of a Nation secured by the nental and
moral activity of the governing power."
He said, the land rcfcrrod to in the text
is the"land"of Persia. The word"child''
did not mean a child iu years, but in un
derstanding and in heart; in intellectual
power; in wisdom and knowledgo. Ac
cording to tho Israelitish standard ; ac
cording to the standard of God's law, even
the best of the Persian Kings were more
boys than men. "They are not kings
who have thrones, but they who know
ho vto govern." One of the prophets of
God, declared of the reign of Hczckiah,
a king of Israel, that wisdom and knowl
edge should be the stability of his times
and the strength of his deliverances; wis
dom, meaning among the old Hebrews,
true piety—the fear of God. Historic
fact subsequently confirmed and corrobo
rated the prophetic utterance. Ilezeki
ah, ascending the throne when his people
wore pol'.tioally subject to the Assyrians,
and morally under the bondage of idola
try, and freeing them from both, was one
of tho most worthy, honored and efficient
kings that ever swayed sceptre. He was
magnified in tho sight of all nations.—
Great reforms, the overthrow of idolatry,
the progress of public improvements dis
cnthrallmcnt from grevinus political op
pression, distinguished deliverances, and
finally, years of uninterrupted prosperity
and peace, make his reign memorable in
history. He was buried in the chiefest
of the sepulchres of tho sons of David,
and over his tomb even tho King
of Kings pronounced a glowing and peer
leas eulogy. An understanding that qual
ified him tor the high and perilous duties
of sovereignty, and a heart aver loyal to
Him who sways the sceptre of universal
empire—in other words, knowledge and
wisdom, these were declared by lerael'a
seer to have been the stability of his times
and the strength of his deliverances—the
voice of the prophet is the voice of God.
These possessed by the ruling power will
secure the perpetuity of any people, and
fix the foundations of government as upon
• basis of adamant. This was the clear
voice of history, ringing it down the ccn.
turies, that these and these alone arc tho
conditions of stable and enduring nation
ality. "History is philosophy teaching
by examples." Abstract prinoipla is of
ten embodied and made concrete in his
toric fact. Theories find form and ex
pression in events and external truth is
realized and made actual in the world's
life, while piety and knowledge belonged
to the governing power of th« nation.—
Judah prospered. 80 have other King*
doms of the earth. So will Amorwa.—
But the government ip other cases has
been a monarchy. Here, where is it ?
In the people ! The poople is King
Each mangoes to make up the sovereign.
Here, therefore, wisdom and knowledge,
td be tfce stability of our timc? ; fhould
belong to the people. The people must
not be "a child." Intelligence and God
liness must permeate the en'ire body po~
litie—pervade aud leave the whole mass;
ia fact, there must be a mental and moral
activity throughout, all the ramifications
of society, or icilh »M, those conditions of
the governing power arc wanting, that
secure the stability of a nation. This
being true, it was well that ours was the
age, and ours the land, and where such
wide diffusion af knowledge is possible.
We were standing in history where self
aud representative Government, freedom
of conscience, the separation of ecclesi
astical and civil power, and. education lor
the masses are no longer Utopean dreams
of wild enthusiasts, but realizeJ matters of
fact, challenging the world's recognition.
It was true a curse is in tho world for
plucking fruit off the tree of knowledge,
yet that forbidden indulgence so perver
ted conscience and beclouded reason, that
to-day, ignorance was the curse of God.
Tho world was being slowly educated up
to this idea. To this tho race had been
tending for eeuturies, and men were be
ing oompelled to admit that in the broad
est aud highest senso "ignorance is in
deed tho curse of God— knowledge the
wing wherewith wo fly to hoaven." Tho
revorend gentleman adverted briefly to
discovery, invention and reform as sever,
ally contributing their quota toward this
desired result, showing that wherever the
governing pawcr lies, there must be in
t*U!gtiue to discorn and virtue to adopt
that which is wisest and best; that gov
ernment must bo thus conditioned or free
dom is lost in anarchy or despotism. The
dangers that had threatened our Ameri
can national life in tho past had arisen
in largo part from ignorance. Whore
ever discussion had been tho greatest,
mind the most active, knowledge the
most universal; wherever the cause of
general education had been best support
ed, there the pillars of State had stood
the firmest.
Hut, the education, lie said, must be of
tho heait as wall as of the head. Moral
as well a.< mental activity must character
ise tho governing power. Koligion was
no less essential than intelligence. Wo
nocded and must havo a sanctified schol
arship. Our philosophy—so much of it,
at all oventafßi is political and practical,
must ho pervaded by the philosophy of
the Gospel and baptised with the spirit
and power of true Christianity. An ed
ucation with no heart in it was a perilous
thing. Knowledge without religion was
a Godless education. "History has scorod
with her most precious oursos." "God
only is great," said Massilon. True, and
hence man is only truly great as he is like
God. Revolutionary France declared
the throne iu the heavens vacant, and
made proclamation that there is no God.
The Sabbath was changed to a decade,
and the sanctuary to a stable. The Bible
was paraded through the streets in mock
solemnity and placed on a pyre to be
burned. Society was reft of its safe
guards ; the goddess of reason was en
throncd for worship, and the maddest vi
olence committed under the sacred name
of liberty. If wo would pcrpetuato the
basis of our government we must shun a
godless education and a perverted Chris
tianity. A genuine Christianity keeps
side by side with learning. There must
not be tho least compromise with infidel
ity or skepticism- A president of one of
our colleges rings out the true doctrine
when he says : "Wo shall not apologise
for cbrietianity, nor treat it even as a
handmaid of natural science, but as the
queen regent over all our studies and our
lives ; our richest possession in lime, our
only hope for ctarnity." Ho wished for
the ear of every man of wealth in this
begrimed and busy city, and exclaimed .
"O, that the great beat of our trip-ham
mers, and the busy r ; ng of our anvil, and
the rattle of our machinery, and the buzx,
and whirl, and roar of our busy life could
be arrested long enough to make man feci
that investments for mind aud heart yield
a richer return and pay a better percent,
than investments for stomach and pocket
—that this community would be far moro
advanced to-day, even in its material in
terests, if its accumulated wealth, long
ago, had been freely given to build up a
university for young men and a college
for young women, that should have com- |
pelled for the State and nation their rec
ognition as among tho foremost and most
distinguished of tho hooies ot science
and of sanctified scholarship in the land."
Mr. Johnson then briefly discussed
the proportion that tho individual should
not be lost in the piasa—tho per Mtnin
the people. We talked so much of tbe
nation, the race and the age, that wo
were apt to lose sight of tlio importance
of the sepcrate particulars ol'which they
are compose). It was a faul mistake to
suppose that so long as a large majority
of the people are intelligent snd hoof t
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wc * ro exposed to no (laagers. The re
pent crisis through whiuh we have pass
ed should teach us better than this.' In
a laud like America, where people ia
king, and where with every ( ehila there
are glorious possibilities, there being no
royal riiud to place and honor, woman's
influence was the mightiest and most po
tential. Upon her rested the responsi
bility of deciding the question whether
the king shall be "a child," or vitalised
with tho energies, or ennobled and adorn
with tha graces of intellectual and mor
al manhood. llow important then that
she should be pri.viledged with tho'most
geuerous und thorough culture; that to
the giaces of her person should be added
the richer charraniental cultivation, and
above nil, that her scholarship should b«
baptised into the spirit and power of th.»
holy religion o» Jesus Christ. The rev
erend gentleman addressed a few words
of congratulation and advice to the grad
uating class, and closed his discourse.
The oonclu ling devotional exercises
were then observed, the congregation join
ing in the 1031st hymn, commencing:
' while flrv all mankind we prat,
Of I'Tefy rliiDf mi<| count,
O, he.tr «-< for our native l*ml—
TIIH lind lore the muwt."
A Pen Picture of Thad. Stevens.
Thaddcus Stevens is just coming in
from his committee room, and looks so
feeble, the great old man, it makes ma
sorry. The men abroad who assail him
with »uch ferocity, if they could see him
now, would be quite disarmed. His spi
rit is not bated, his sarcasm cuts as keen
ly as ever, his wit flashes as brightly, his
great intellect seems in no wise dimmed;
yet the hand of Time lies heavy upon
him. The will which never swerves,
which always conquers and rules men, is
powerless to resist the pressure of pain
and the infirmity nf age. Although no
casual observer would think it, Thaddeus
Steve-;* is over seventy years of ago. A
comely wig robs him of the hoary crown
which always hallows tho head of age.
His face in outlino approaches the Indi".
an Type. The equsra, perceptive brow,
the deeply-set eyes, the high cheekbones,
the broad jaw and saturnine mouth are
most marked. The fape in repose is
stern, qnt not savage. The " sardonio
smile" that wo read so much about is a
very human and kindly smile, after all.
Thaddeus Stevens' inimitable sarcasm
and wit seem purely intellectual gifts,
flames of tho held, free from all smoke
of personal malice. ne will say the
most savage things of a man's acts or
opinions, without one emotion of ill will
toward tqe man. He will annihilate *
member in a speech, and then clapping
him on the shoulder, ask the discomfited
brother togo with him to Innoh. You
hear of his many kindly deeds from those
who know him best; of the gentle char
ities which blossom along his private path,
of tfie many poor boys whom he has lifted
from poverty and obscurity to gire then
help and a motixe in life. For many
years he has been a powerin the nation,
a leader in the House, marshaling in the
van the hoets of liberty. No man is mora
eagerly listened to. No man perhaps
would be so positively missed if he ware
to pa tin forevor from the Congressional
Hall. He has siood here so long, his in
tellect is so powerful, his personality so
positive, his utterances so unique, his
spirit so masterful, his memory will not
pass away with his presence, nor his name
with his generation.
He is is one whose sayings will live
long after bitn. Hie jeweled witticiama
will be Bet in many a speech, and gleam
in many a Congress, when tbe brain which
pave them birth has gone back to dust.
But the old lion of the House is fighting
his last battles. One who has fought so
long and so bravely does not like to con
fess that he is at last worsted by Tim#—
that even he has found a conqueror. To
hrve lived in the world, to have been
with it, and of it so long, to love it only
to leave it, bow bard. To a heart broken
by its own burdens, death comes a heal
ing and a consolation; but to a man who
has sought U> find the satisfaction of life
in public spheres, whose activities have
been expended ou the issues of the age,
white the grand problems of his time re
main unsolved, and tho east victories, of
the future yet uncoasuannated—to him
death is as unwelcome as it is irremedia
ble. Such a man has no time to die.—
Xeto York IntlrpvmleHt.
—"Old Cooper" is a Dutchman, and
like iu«ny another man, of whatever na
tionality, has a wife that is "som#."
One day the "old mau" got into some
trouble with a neighbor, which resulted
in% fight. The neighbor was getting
the better of the "old man," which Coop
er's wife was uot slow to see. The -old
lu/in" was resisting hi? euemy to the best
of his ability, when his wife broke out
with: • I "
"Lie still, Cooper ! lie still I.lf be kills
.you I'll KUC him % damages J"