VOLUME 4. (Drinmal |3oetrij. FOB THiCimg.f. THE COUNTRY SABBATH BELL. llow beautiful And how sublime When silence broods o'er bill and dell, At the sweet and silvery chiming, Of the Country Sabbsih bell. Soft, floating oVr thedi-tnut hills, To make the christian's heart Rejoice, While silent are the clatteriug mills, And hushed the sturdy plough man's voice. The leaves upon the aspen limb, At each vibration whirl around, The daw drop* shed, from Illy cups, Llko diamonds flash upon the ground. The very earth, the fragrant air, The silence 011 the flowery plains, Mrdi and bee*, and all declare, The Holy Ood of Sabbath reigns. Oh! give me nature tindsftled. Among**? tbe wild woods of the dell, And the cadence and mild. Of tha Country J-abbath Bell. It takes me back to boyhood's years, When often through tbe silent wood, Over moss-clad logs I clambered, Happy in tbe solitude. Through the feathery T rambled, All along the path well trod, O'er the hill and through the valley, To tbe well known nouse of Ood. Oh I to heir its plaintfva chiming. When the wild flowers clothe the dell, You wonldsay, there is no music Llko the Ccuiltry Sabbath Bell. All the gew-gaws of a cit>, AH ft* bells and all It* beaux, All its bnuldes can't compare with Tho wild lily and tbe ross Thongh they clang their braten vessels, Thongh their hlgh-t.»n«-d organs swell, Nought of all sounds HO mel-»dtous, As the Country Sabbath Bell. Stilina, Aug. 12. 1*67 ) L. Wis*. THE NEXT PRESIDENT, It was inevitable that General Grant would be nominated by Homebody for the Presidency. So great a fame and so uni versal a popularity were capital too prom ising to be unappropriated. If to be made President it were euough to be tha bcro of New Orleans, or the hero of Tip pecanoe, or the hero of Buena Vista, it Would seeui that the conquering hero of the greatest wars should be President, of course, and without a nomination. From the famous morning at Appomattox Court House, therefore, there have been long ing uld have an opportunity of reminding him in the distributing day of cust iin houses «»ud other fat things that they were up rery early in the Worning and brushed 4he spaikiini; dew caroling his ime It is evident that General Grant is the controlling fact iD tbe Pievidential c_n *»ss, unless b* ab'olutely and finally re fuses to be a candidate Usually it is not clear that any particul ir person must be a candidate. Hnw.ww warm and rc solved a large and apparently dominant wing of a party way be. their preference as in the case of Mr Seward, may be Ret aside, and a wholly and insignificant person, as iu the case of Mr. folk, may be nominated, ■fen at ihe pres ,«ut time it is very easy to «ce that in a .nominating couveutiun Mr. Chase, or Mr Colfax, or Mr. Stauion, or whoever the iiuost promising tuau should be miuDt bo .necessarily abandoned form entirely new person. Put it is not possible to see that if he be w lling the reasons for General Grant's nomination should prevail over all others. The reasons indeod are of various kinds. There is, to begiu with, the un doubted seusc of national gratitude for his part iu the war,and the genuine pop. ularity that results from it. There is then the equully undoubted confidence in 'his judgmeut of the state of national affairs, and in his sympathy with the pol icy of Congress and the lovai country. — There is the further feeling that he is already The choice of a powerful portion of the dominant party, aud that hie nom ination is approved by some of the most eminent Republican leaders, and openly (advocated by some of the most crn-picu ous Republican paper*. Pesides this, there is a reason which is fait to be ol Sreat weight as between the nomination AMERICAN CITIZEN. of (general Grant and that of Judge Chase, the chief candidate named with him. It is that the nomination for the Presidency of the Chief Justice of the Uniied States would be a fatal demorali zation of our politics, for nothing could well be more disastrous than to make tho Suoreme bunch a stepping sDue to the . White House. Beneath all these con siderations there is also the feeling that in the present unsettled condition of the country a President of the military sbiN ity, moderation, and renown of General d rant would iniurc a peaceful and firm administration. It seems to us undeuiabl! that if he were nominated General Grant would be borne into the Presidency upon a whirl whind of popular enthusiasm. But there is one thing more important to the coun try than his election,an4 that is tlje con tinuance in power of the Republican party, not for a Presidential term, bur tor a long time in the future. The suc cess of that party in the Presidential election is unquestionable some wholly unf'orseen and incalculable change in public affairs occurs. Whoever it nominates will be the next President But if it should nominate a candidate who was not sincerely and profoundly con vinced both of the importance of the party principles and tho necessity of the party ascendency, the next {'residsntial term would be a kind of no party inter, regum in which by means of a disastrous p#i'ty impartiality, as it is called, or a policy based upou the theory that one parry is about as good as the other, the dominant party would of necessity be de moralized and disnpjeir If it were clear that General Grant were likely to pursue such a policy no folly could be greater than his nomination. To the question whether it is desirable for the national wellarc to retain the lie publican organization it seems to us a sufficient reply to say that the Demount* ic orcaniz ition, such a we see it in Ken tucky, will not be relinquished, and to disband the Republican party Would be to leave the parly which has just been successful in Kentucky, and which sup. |iortg the President against Congress,m is ter of the field. It is a sufficient l'uther answer to say the truly progressive liberal men of thislouuatry, those who heartily believe in the American princi ple—not, of .coarse, without exception, but the vast majority of them—act with the Republican party, and to their effi cient action the party orgap'zatiou is nec essary. Unless, therefore, we are willing to abandon tj\e better direction which has been gives to the Government and believe that those who have been bred in thorough contempt of equal liberty can safely be trusted as its guardians, we must maintain the organization of the patty which wu9 founded to withstand Slavery, which victoriously defeated the tremendous assault of Slavery upon the Government, and which is now restoring the Union upon the principles of liberty. Our candidate must consequently be a man thoroughly and earnestly persuaded of the truth of those principles, and who would be sure to administer the Govern ment, not to please every body, but to secure the gains of the great smuggle. It is because he is felt to be such a man that Genetal Grant should be nomi nated. if nominated at all, and not be cause of his great poouiar! }' and illus trious services, nor because of a fear that the Democrats w li take him if we do not. What! the builders of the Chiou go platform nominate "the btischer!" No, tho Democrats cannot nominate him. He is inflexibly hortile to their policy no as he was during the war, and he would not and c»uld not be their tool.— The assertion that he is an equally avail able cand' lite for both parries is ju't as untrue of him as it is of General Shori dwi. 01 a ret'eent man any thing may be said. His acts must reveal liim. We doubt if there be atjy man in the coun try who apprehends more profoundly than General Grant the wisdom au 1 ne cessity of a truly radical policy. The ••Conservatives" who nominate and plaud him dosolortwo reasons: the first is.that some Radicals—General But ler, for instance —are unfriendly to him ; aud tho second is, thai they think him suie of success Their nomination is merely Mr. Toot's opiuion. Finally, warned t>y terrible experience let us be sure that our candidate for tho Vice Presidency be no less true and tried and onpuble aud jierfeetly known thau his companion The best and wisest mm in country is not too good uor too wise for iho Vice Presidency. And as we value the peace of the country and its pr sperous prog-ess, let ris take care to B-uujnnte uo m in lor Vice Presidency whom we w uld nit willingly and gladly elect President. — Harper'* IWVy. Maximilian'* ||«d}. The latest re; ort concerning the poor body of Maximilian is that it has been or is to be gives up to the Austriaus. A letter from the city of Mexico, of course uot to late as the above, says: lu regard to the fcody of Maximilian, it was em balmed iiy Dr. Ribuadaueria. medical Iq spectorof the Army of Norjthren Mexico on the staff of General Kscobedo. After toe Convent of the Capuchin Nuns, where it lay a few days ago under a guard awit> iug to be claimed by some competent and auth mod person. It is stated that the Doctor has a claim upo:> tho corpse for $20,000 or $20,000 professional fee for servioes, aud that it is held for this fee. The coffiu is an ordinary affair, the face of the corpse covered with glass. The t ody is poorly dressed and imperfectly embalmed. At the time of the embalm ing it is foolishly reported that the females ' of yueruUro came and requested to dip j their handkerchiefs in the blood of Max- i imllian "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. LINCOLN BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PENN'A, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1867. THE SECRETARY OF WAR. • If the request of the President to Mr. Stanton that he would renign the Secre taryship of War means that he is about undertaking to change all the military personnel uuder the Reconstruction bill, substituting men like Steedman and Rousseau for Sheridan and Schofield and Sickles, thf deluge will not be after Mr. Johnson, but upon him. We do not be lieve that the country will submit to such a plain paralysis of its purpose. The services of Mr. Stanton to this country are incalculable. It is not easy to conceive of a more efficient Secretary ol War at a time when that office was of tlje very highest importance. The faults which were popularly ascribed to the Secretary, his abruptness, his brusque ncss, were often merely a necessary de<« cision and rapidity of action. A man in sifch an office at such a time may be par doned if he does not stop to make bows, and if he speaki too crisply fjr common courtesy. Coming into the >v ar Depart ment at a time when the headquarters of General George B. M'Clellan were fast becoming the head bureau of the G«v ernment. and when even the President went *o the General, instead of requiring the General to come to to him, the Sec retary of War taught General Jl'Clellan that the Prosident was to be respected as his Co nmander in Chief. Mr. Stanton was never deceive 1 in the chaiaeter or the capacity of General M'C ellan. Tho Secretary's comprehensive grasp of the vast duties of his office, his unquailing energy, his exhaustless industry, his si lent B leiity.were no le3s rem irk ible than Ins heroic faith in the people and his in flexible determination that thenar should be fouirht to an unconditional overthrow of the rebellion When that result was almost accomplished he inslautly repudi ated the immense error of General Sher man; and when President Lincoln was murdered, and there was a moment of inexpressible confusion, it was the steady hand of the Secretary of War which seized the government and passed jt to Mr. Lincoln's lawful successor. Daring the melancholy and humiliating admin istration of Mr. Johuson, which lias sought in every way to defeat the nation al victory and to demoralize the national mind, Mr. Stanton has tenacious ly clung to the real issue, and he alone in the Cabinet has represented the national con viction and national purpose. He, there fore, has been the especial object of the President's hostility, aud alter a thous and rumors of his designed or attempted removal the President has pt last formal ly summoned him to resigu. Mr. Stanton's retirement would be a national misfortune. Upon the part of the President it would be another impo tent blow at the purpose of tho country, which he can not change. But if, as we said, he should farther,and by appointing his own creatures show an evident inten tion to defeat the objects sought by t 1 e Reconstruction bill, he would bo hoist with his own potrad. Pen us) 1v a niii Democracy. The address of tho Democratic State committee of Pennsylvania has one mer it—it is short. But, brief as it is, it contains almost as many false assertions as sentences, and is a specimen of the very worst kind of political trickery. All the evils of the war—tho loss of life taxation, debt, high prices, paper ourren cy— are enumerated as the direct work of tae llepublican party. Not a word is said of the Rebellion. We wonder what stuff a Democratic State Committee bj made of which gravely submits such an arguineut as this to tho people. It is true wo have a great debt, which bears as heavily upou Bepublioans as on Dem ociut.s jit is true thdt wo aro severely taxed to pay it ; it is true that prices are high, thai the currency is depreciated. All this we kugw au<] lament; but it is also true that we owe these eviU, first, to the Rebels, and second, to the l)emo«j-»t --ic parry, and wholly to their cjmbioed efforts to destroy the Ivuioo. It soero? almost absurd to repeat these truths, for oo ingenuity wiil ever conceal tlie great lact tiiat • hfc Couth rebelled, that the Dcuijoratic party sympathized with re beliion, and that the Republicau party diiected and maintaioe,! the War for the Luiou, and brought it to a triumphant end. It is notorious that the Rebels depended lor aid upon the Democratic party \ that the official actjob of that party was haued iu the South as an en couragemcut to persist in rebellion ; tiiat it it had not been for Democratic opposition, the war would hsve ended \ears, perhaps, before it did., snd that the dent and a 1 our national evi's would uuw be immeasurably lefts. There is nothing piainer than that tho Democrat ic party —next to the Rebels—-is respon sible lor the war aud the n>isforttines that have iollowed it. We repeat, therefore, that to c mpare the rate of taxatiou iu lb.Qi) with the rate in 1806, in proof that Uie llepublican party Jb«s misman aged fiuauec*. without a word of ref erence to the war, is simply the mean est kind ol political trickery, and certaiu to damage the cause it was ment te help Ihifi address is insulting to the intelli gence <1 the reader, and a slander of the Nowh, ior the Republican party and the North throughout the war were one and indivisible. It is all the joyai States that this Democratic Committee accuses, ot tyranny, and hatred, and corruption. A fir \ork Tribune.— The Last Dodge*— They are form ing Snnday liquor, drinking clubs in New York. The object of thes? so cieties is to meet 44 on Sunday at their usual places of resort to avail them selves of the privilege of enjoying the beverages which they have pre viously paid for during the week." The Whiskey Frauds In 1800 the productian of d istiiiad ppirita iu the United States, accord ing to the- census return, was 90,000,000 gallons. Since 1862, from various cans' cs. this product has been much reduced. The manufacture of burning fluid, in which 24,000,000 proof gallons of spirits were used, has stopped altogether- The use of atlcohol for manufacturing and mechanical purposes, in patent medicines and in pharmaoy, has ceased or greatly fallen off. The present yearly produc tion and consumption is estimated at about 0f,000,000 gallons. The fit at tax on distilled spirits was laid July 1, 1802 at the rate of 20 cents the proof gallon. In March, 1864 it was raised to 60 ceut; in July of the saiue year it was carried to $1 50, and the following January to 32 per gallou. The amount of revenue realized under the several rates of tax, and the produotioo represented by it are, as follows : Under the tax of 20 cents, a little over §3,000,000, ropresentating 16,000,000 gallons ; in 1864, under the rates of 20 cents and 60 cents, 828,000,- 000, on u production, p'obably, ot 40.* 000.000 gallons; in 1860 under the rates of $1 50 and 82, $8,000,000, represen ting a production of about 5,Ol)0,000 gallons; in iB6O under aB2 tax, 829,- 000,000, representing a production of 14,500,000 gallons. The returns for the year ending June, 1867, are not yet com plete, but they will probably show a collection of not more than 815,000,000 representing a production of 7,500,000 gallons. From these figuies it will be seen that at uo time sinoe the tax was kid on distilled spirits has it been to any considerable extent collected. With an estimated average qtjuual pro duction and consumption of 50,000,000 gallons per aumuu, there has been an average annual (collection of tax on only 17,000,000 gallons about one-third of the actual consumption. These are no newly discovered facls. They have been constantly before the people, but while we had a surplus revenue of 81,000,00" froui other sour;es, they a/racted little attention. The large de licit in our financial budget now threat ened has drawn public attention to this enormous waste of nearly §90,000,000 of revenue. A good deal of indignation is naturally enough excited, and one of our cotemporanes proposes to remedy it by a grand holocaust, in which Secretary McCulloch, Commissioner lvollins, and an indefinite number of revenno officers are to be the victims. An impression has gained currency, too, that iu some way or other nearly all the fruds through which the revenue from spirits is kept from the Treasury originate in New York City, and that the remedies and correctives are mainly to be applied here. But the wholesale corruption has a wider scope ind theater than that heretofore pointed out, and thc*remidies required are more radical and senrching than denunciation or even sacrifice of individuals. The capital invested in distilleries in 1860 was a littlo short of §12,000,00°; of which amcuut about 81,000,000 was in the New England and Southern States about §4,000,000 in the Middle States, and upward of 86,000,000 in the West* em. Tho enhancement of the price of whiskey siocc the imposition of tax has stimulated its production, especially in tlip groin growing regions of tho country, iiffoiiiing as it does a near and profitable market for this great staple. The facil' ities for illicit distillation are much greater in the West and South than else where, owinf to the greater extent of country and its scattered population. It is in these sections that the frauds'in distillation huvo thus far been mainly committed. In the East illicit distilla tion has been constantly harrassed and impeded, but in the West and South, faXored by the circumstances just refer red to it lias met little cheek. The Report of the Special Revenue Commissioner, Mr. Wells, made last Winter States that the copper smiths of St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, and oth er Western cities had been so busy in supplying demand for small stills, that it wus almost impossible to procure any oiher work from them. Rut the bulk of illicit distillation has uot been done in this .small wly It hag been until quite iately carried 00 openly, and without at tempt at concealment by the largest dis tilleries throughout the West. In tes timony given befure Mr. Wells, it was shown, that fmm a single distillery in Illinois 80.000 gallons of uninspecrive spirits were shipped, against 81,000 gal lons tl at were inspected ; from another 800 barrels were shipped uninspected , from others still 1,200 barrels, 2,000 barrels, and 4,000 barrels, respectively- Many ot these distilleries were situated forty or fifty miles from any principal. revenue office, and were visited only oc casionally by an inspector; sometimes orly when requested by the distiller huii self. Not unfrequently the inspector was a workman or a partner in tho dis tillery iuspected. This neglect has beeu partially corrected in the last few mouths in the West, but iu tho South a recent report of a special agent in regard to the States of North Caroilna and Vir ginia indicates that Uicre is uo effective supervision. Prooably there will be DO great improremut, and nut much is fcas ibie until civil government and society baVe become more settled. The consideration of these facts rnaies it clear that tho "whisey frauds" are not local. They are involved in the whole sweep of the operation of the law, and the charge of individual delinquencies alone, whether in the Department at Washington or among the eutordinate officers, is inadequate to their explana tion. Especially is this evideut when it is considered that in every other branch oi the Internal Revenue system there has been a steady and marked im provement in administration— New York Tribune. Contempt for i'raitorx. Mr, JEFFERSON DAVIS, with as little good taste as sound judgment, Las left tho home in Canada in which he decided to pass liis self-inflicted exile an«l paid a visit to the loyal region of Northern Vermont. With some show of discretion, he entered the State at a point as remote as possible from the line of march taken by tho Sajnt Alban raiders afew years ago. 1 His experience in the village of New port was hardly of a character to tempt h(ip tocall agair; the incidents which tartispired did not give his ride through the streets in the best turn out which a few obsequious sympa thizers could afford the eewblance of a triumphal march. Boys and men hooted at him as he passed; crowds on the corners sang the refrain made familar in war times, beginning with, "We'll hang JEFF DAVIS on a sour-ap ple tree;" loyal gentlmen residing in the suburbs of the .village declined in gentlemanly but emphatic terms to permit him to drive through their parks, and to enter their housps; and one, a woman, bitter with the recoll ections of a boy lost at Andersonville, hurled a stone at him as he dashed through the streets. It is to be regretted for their qwn sake that the Newport people should have for a moment lost their temper, even ijtjder tho great provocation which they suffered; but since the in cident occurred, it will be wise in the rebel loaders and their sympathizers at the North to regard it in its true significancs, and forbear in the future to provoke a shifter, if not a harsher or surer fate than the one which must finally overtake them. Let them uot suppose that it has been out of respect to traitor* or treason that the people of the North have, with unpralleled moderation and magnanimity, per mitted the leading spirits of the re bellion to pacs unmolested and almost unnoticed along their highway.— There exists among the loyud masses at the North no sympathy with the crime or the criminal; both are held in detestation. All hate, too, is not yet dead, and it may prove danger ous to provoke too far, by such offen sive displays as that alluded to, the anger of even so wise and moderate a people. Nor should theße men make the not less grievous error of supposing that the feeling at the S"mth which has induced the people of that region to cling to their lead ers, to elevate them to positions of honor and places of trust, arises from any thing more than an erroneous idea of fealty, originating in gener ations of false and pernicious teaching or that it is aught but a spasmodic burst of mistaken devotion. A few years only will elapse before the South will be thoroughly educated into a clear comprehension of the true issues of the war against slavery, a.t>d will come to look upon their former lead ers aa the enemies of republican lib erty. Then DAVIS, and LEE, and the rest, taking their proper place in history, will go down to posterity in the same category with ARN.ILD and BURR. Let Mr. DAVIS be urged to go quietly as the others are going and have gone. Ex. THAT FORGERV. — L'he old saying that N falsehood will travel ever so ijiany leagues while truth is putting mi its boots is heing illmirated anew in the ense of the forgery paraded ill nil the Democratic papers in this Slate. It consists in a pietended extract from the Salem, M.issachuse tts, /«ur«a/,cal culated. #herevrr believed, to prejudice the pu.iptc cl Pennsylvania tijst Judge Wil liams. Altlmugti it has been shown that ibera is no such paper in existence as the one natnod, and alth the has been fastened up in a vile copperhead short at the Capitol, is still travels by evcrv de scriptinn of Democratic conveyance and no doubt is destined to travel in those benighted regions wh re ihe 'ruth seldom peneirat#-, and where,as a consi-quesee, the Democratic vote is heaviest. Bat nniung the enlight ed portions of that party, such a coinage will not only h»vve no etfict adverse to our candidate, but will gain hi 11 strength. With candid and decent men lying and forgery are not safere lianoe wherewith to achieve a good it can be relied onto bring con lus on upon the heads of those agains: whom it is proved. And s> it will be in th is instance - the forgery will work the greatest in jury to the prepetrators. N. A. Gray, formerly a staunch Democrat, and connected with the (Jleaveland l'laindealer , has experi enced a change of heart: '• I am in favor of giving a vote to four class of colored men: First— I would give it to all who had borne ,a,rms in putting down tho accuised| rebelion. Seconed—to all who could read and write. Third—To al who had tho thrift and energy to ac cumulate sufficient to take care of himself and friends. Fourth,- and last To the balance. Tho order for the removal of Sher» idan is expected hourly in Washington. Is this to be the first result of the change in the War Department? We are not willing to believe it. The Prcf4ltleultt,nflM.i' Stanton. The distinguished ability uud fidelity to the goverument, which liuvebeeu ills played by the Secretary of War, daring all the period ol its most trying limes hare secured to liiui the profound re spect of all the loyal people. This be< iog a good deal more thau can be said of Mr Johnson, the effort of the latter to remove Mr. Stuuton from the office which he has BO highly honored, very Dattirally arouses the suspicion that it augurs no good to the interests of t|w Nation, and this suggests a critical ob servation of the muvemeuts of the Presi dent in the case, accompanied by the wish that Mr. Stanton should maintain his position, if he o&Q do su with the sanction of the law. As a general thing, the power of re moval and that of appointment are the same. Hut the very fact of special legislation having been deemed neces sary, in consequence of the abuse of that power by Mr. Johnson, implies that ra strietions aud modifications, may be it})- posed on it by the Represeutrtives of the people. This was the special purpose of the tenure of office bill. Removals and appointments made with debigus or with tendencies that would revolution ize the character of the Administra tion were meant to bo precluded by this bill for the reason, that it would be rnak ine the will and policy of one man sub versive of thejwill of (be people expressed in the most recent batibnal elections. And if the law referred to was framed to prevent so serious an evil being effect ed by arbitrary Executivo patronago in ! geueral, much more must it embrace so important an officens thatof Bee'y of, War The plea that Mr. Johnson can dis place Mr. Stanton, merely because Mr. Stanton, was appointed by Mr. Lincoln ami not by tMr. Johuson, strikes us as a very flimsy quibble. And we are not surprised to learn by the later dispatches that Mr. Johnson has concluded not to base his action upon it. The position taken by Mr. Stanton in his response to the president's note asking him to resign we take to be the true and tenable one, viz t that according to the law, tho ad vice and consent of the Senate, which cannot be ha I till Cougress meets again, are requisite for his removal and for tho appointment of nny one else in his place. The history of Mr. Stanton's admin istration of his office, his conduct of the affairs of the army during the war, bis prompt and energetic action during the excitement and danger accompanying tho assassination of Mr. Lincoln, and his firmness and faithfulness since that event, furnish strong reasons for his continuance in his office, as well as ex pose to just suspicion the effort of the Executive now to displace him. And as the interpretation of tho laws, iluder which alone it has been deenjtsd prac tic able, canr.ot bo maintained, we hope tho removal will not be effected and that Mr. Stanton will continue to bo Secre tary of War at loast till the ad"ico and codseut of the Senate can be hud.— I'ittsburat The raft has kept perfectly watertight ull tbo way, not a leak of any sort h&ve iug occurrd. She isfitted up with an ap paratus for filling the tubes with air.— On the arrival of the raft, JJr. J. R. Stebbing, the president of the chamber of Commerce, went on board, congratula ted the crew on the success of their dar ing enterprise, aud tendered them any good offices that might be required.—The captain landed on his arrival to report to the United .States Consul Captain J. liriLtou. —GEN. CASEY'S Hoard of millitary Claims appcin.'ed under tie act of the last session >of Congress, to cxaiuiue claims of Ohio and Indiana against the United States Government on account of tho Morgan raid, ure new in session in Columbus These claims involve a lar_-« amount, and clerks in the A fjutant Gen eral's office have been employed lor some time past iu preparing ttieiu for presen tation to the Board. NUMBER 3 6 = WIT AUD WISDOM. I'iie ladies*--Wi at Pointers. SWiluhit ia 11 uftMe. Wa weave a thread every itay Jay at fait wo cannot break it, Advice is tho only sort of viae that some people dtm't follow. JfeSfW hut do we often drop, jet never stoop to pieß up? A hint. I le who servath none but himself ii a I l ■ to » fool B©-»V hen may a steamirbft nil to be in love? Wnen its lender to a Miin-of war. OS#-When may she be romantiotttly in love? YVlieii HUH is attaohed U> a buoy, JWNVhaii is she awbitionsly in leva?' When she makes up to a pier (peer.) he editor who said thAt his mouth never utterod a lie probably spoke through his nose. fltry*w hat is the difference between an editor and u wife? One sets articles to rights und the other writes articles to set. Mr* Why is a soldier who has not rison from the ranks for three years, like an ils licit manufactory of spirit? Because he's a private still. 66?" Harry you ought not to throw away nice bread like that, you may want it «omo day. ' " Well mother, would I stand any better ohance of getting it then if I should eat it now?'' fyr"'\oung man, do you believe in a future state?'' "In aourse I duz; and what's more, I intend to enter it as soon as Betsy gets her things ready." KoJ-Att Irish fad hrtf'mg beeh asked if tho mail who had last fibbed hlm'was his father, replied : " Yes, sure ho is the parent iv me j but tio tr.ites me as if I wal his son by another father aud mother, bad luok to him." In former times a wife regarded her husband us a companion ; now be i» her banker. S6P* Ihe first pair of buckskin breeches seen by the South Sea Islanders were »o lit. tie understood that the natives stuffed them with seaweod.ani had them "biled" for din ner. l®"Divorcos are said to be sn common in Detroit that a cit'mon of that city hold a reception party the other night, to receive congratulations upon having visited Clii> c a go and returned without being divorce! f'oni his wifo. £*iyAt an examination of somo girls for the rite of confirmation, in anrwor to the question, " V, bat is the outward and visis ble sign and form in baptism ?" one of them replied, " Tho baby, Sir." SS#*At u wedding recently when the of* filiating priest put to the lady the question. " Wilt th HI have this man to be thy wedded husband?" she dropped the prettiest conr tesy, ami wiili a modesty that lent her beau ty additional grace replied, "If you please." GjfA man nod his w 112 • on a Sunday ev ening go', into a critical dispute The .wife said she thought " David (King David) hadna tacn much pains wbon he inetred tho Psalms on which her husband flew into a passion at her ignorance, and reminded her that it was George Huchantwn who me tred the Psalms, Stay The Irish Chief Sserc'ary, being tho owner ol a fine ostrich, which somo weeks ago was safely delivered of an egg, re ceived ilie following telegram from hisstew. aid : " My L >rj, as your lordship is out of the country, I have procured tho biggest goose I could find to sit on tho ostrich's egS-" Jiu#"On one occasion, Mr. James T. llrady, of New York, was defending a hard case, when the Judge made several rulings very much against tho defendant Wlierenpon Mr. Brady blandly inquired, '•May, it please your honor, who's e;i gaged on the otber side of this case be side. the Judge J6Sai~ln a school, recently, a toacher took occasion to relate an anecdote of the little iiirl who tried to " overcomo evil will gdod'' by giving a New Testament to a boy who bad ill-treated her. The story was appro mated, for, a few minutes afterwards ono bo/ struck another, and, on being asked the reason, said bo was ''trying to get a Testa* ment." This was a practical bearing alto gether unexpected. TH* THREE or COMPARISON'.— An excel lent turn was made nt dinner-tablo by Judge Hoar, of Massachusetts, to good to bo lost. A gentlemen remarket! that . who usetl to be given co sharp practice, was dotting more circumspect. "Yes," replied Hoar, " he has the superlative of life he be gan by seeking to get on, then he sought to get honor, and now be U trying to get hon est." t