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every Sunday Morning at I I o'clock, A. M., and 7
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SOCOIId Presbyterian ('hUrch, corner of South Ilan
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Services commence at 11 o'clock, A. M., and 7 o'clock
P. M.
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of Centre Square. Ited. F Clerc, Rector. Services
at 11 o'clock A. M., and 7 O'clock. I' M.
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and l'itt Streets. Rev. Thomas 11. Sherlock, Pastor.
Services at 11 o'clock A. M., and 7 o'clock P. M.
Methodist E. Church (second charge,) Rev. S. I,
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Church of God Chapel, South W.,t cur. 01 West Ft.
and Chapel Alley. Rev. 11. F. Beck, faster. Sees ices
at 11 a, tu., and br p.m.
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Rev Pastor. Services every other Sal,
bath. at IS o'clock. Vespers at SP. M.
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Bedford streets. Rev C Fritz°, Pastor. Services at
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VISION OF A DIALOGUE
ETNN I:EN THE TWo ANDIEs (.IAcKsON AND
JOHNSON.)
I was reading, one evening, a little vol
ume called the "History of the Pilgrims,"
which gave an interesting, I may even
say a thrilling, account of the struggle of
our I'uritan forefathers after their land
ing on Plymouth Rock. When I closed
the book, I found myself reflecti❑g on the
mysteriousness of Providence in calling
his people from a far country, and yet
leaving them exposed to so many perils
and hardships. flow long I reflected I
cannot tell. I know ono thing, and that
is, sleep overtook me in the large rock
ing-chair in which I was sitting, and I
soon began to dream, and my dream was
of a very peculiar character, üblike any
-thing I had ever experienced before. I
dreamed that I was in the parlor of a ho
tel in Nashville, Tennessee, amusing my
self looking at some pictures hanging a
round the wall's, among which was one
painted in bright colors, representing the
Battle of New Orleans, with General Jack
son mounted on a b,:autiful white horse.
As I looked upon the General, I thought
I saw his lips move. I was startled. I
drew back. Soon I heard a voice ex
claiming, "Why arc you afraid ? I/raw
near and hear what I have to say ? I am
the Hero of New Orleans—the true and
ried friend of my country; and times
like these force me to give utterance„ to
sentiments that have, for a long time, been
burning for expression. I knew well the
history of the devilish doctrine of seces
sion, and South Carolina knows well what
I thought of it. When it first began to
reveal its hideous form I put my foot up
on it and thought I had crushed it for
ever. But lam now free to confess that
I was mistaken. However, I don't wish
to dwell on the past, I would rather speak
of the present."
Just then a gentleman entered the door
of the parlor, whom I did not immediate
ly recognize.
"Ho ! ho I" says the General, "is
that you, President Johnson ? You aro
the very person.l have been wishing to
see. I called at the door of th.o_ White
House a number of times to see you, but
you were always closeted with a number
of your Southern friends, and I was not
allowed to enter. But lam glad to meet
you now."
The President appeared astonished to
hear the voice that addressed him. He
"was unable to tell whence it came until
his eyes fell upon the pieture on the
wall. As he saw the lips of " Old Hick
-ory" -move - , - face beeame—white
snow, and the joints of his knees trem•
bled. He was abput to fall, when I
rushed forward and supported him. In
a few moments he recovered himself, and
soon the General began to speak.
What a gigantic war you have ,had
since my departure, and all caused by the
ll:Seri:4d spirit of Be cession What - .vast
armies sprung into - being, as if by, magic,
for the defence of the blessed old flag,
and,. what vast multitudes have been
slaughtered to -keep it waving over 'the
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thousand soldiers at New Orleans, while
yours amounted to a million. I have
been thinking of your dead. Could they
be . gathered from the bloody fields on
which they fell and be formed into a oon-
tinuous line, they would almost reach
from Nashville to New York. And all
these noble fellows—fathers, sons, and
brothers, were deliberately butchered by
men whose supremo ambition and desire
was to perpetuate and extend the odious
and eieerable system of slavery. They,
base/wretches, talked about their own
rights and freedom when they denied all
rights and freedom to a part of theirl:iop•
ulation almost as numerous as themselves.
"But I don't wish to dwell on that
point You whipped them, notwithstand
ing all their pride and boasting, as they
deserved , and now I would like to know
what you propose to do in order to recon
struct your glorious Union."
"Well, General," replied the President,
cwhile I am heartily glad fo \hear your
voice again, I must confess that I am
somewhat backward about expressing my
thoughts on this subject, for fear that our
views might not fully harmonize. I must
confess that I feel rather disposed to try
to conciliate the Southerners. They, you
know, are a noble people, and you and I
were raised among them. I prefer a little
salts and ipecac, to the knife of the sur-
go( n."
When these words were uttered by the
President, I glanced at the old General's
picture, and I noticed that the cheeks
were becoming flushed with anger.
" Andy," said he, " for I like to speak
familiary, do you really imagine that all
that is needed by those bloody handed
secessionists is merely to have their
bowels cleansed ? Don't you know and
believe that each one of them is a min
iature edition of John C. Calhoun, and
that his whole head and heart were alike
diseased ? Such conciliatory measures as
pia suggest will !lever answer. You re
member, 1 presume, the fate of the coun
tryman who took the serpent into his
bosom to warm it into life. As soon as
life returned it stung its benefactor.
Such will be your experience. The
wretches who assassinated your noble
Lincoln need some kind of exorcism more
thorough and complete than can ever be
effected by salts and ipecac."
" Hold ! hold ! General cried the
President. " You misunderstand me. I
am in favor of some severity. We have
htow sunir. They were tried, condemn
ed, and consigned to the gallows."
" Ah, yes'." replied the General. "I
know all about that ; you hung some
boys and one old woman for striking at
the life of the President ; and that was
right. _ But whom have you hung for
striking at the life of the aorernment ?
The dignity, and worth, and glory of the
Government are far beyond the dignity,
worth, and glory of the I:LI-rewire of the
Government. Have you laid your hands
on any of these persons, worse than par
ricides ?• You have, I understand, after
offering a great reward for his apprehen
sion, the chief traitor . locked up in For
tress Monroe—and I would like to inquire
what you intend to do with him ?"
" Why, General," says the President,
" you still seem to retain your old ire.
Your thoughts fly out of your lips like
red-hot balls. But in answer to your in
quiries, I would say, that my mind has
been greatly perplexed about those points.
I don't know hardly what to do with
Davis, Lee, 13cauregard, & Co. I wish
they were out of the country and beyond
my reach. By•the-way, I would just sug
gest to you, as you may not have heard
of it, that Gen. Lee has got a nice berth.
Ele is now President of a college,—and
at last account was making an excursion
in the loyal States, and meeting with a
cordial reception among his admirers.
Poor Mr. Davis—l rather pity him.
fig confinement has been long and pain
ful. Ile is now shut out from all the
pleasures of domestic life. To tell you
the truth, I have been cherishing the
hopeilay, by keeping him in confinement.
the people of the North may begin to lose
sight of the magnitude of his crime, and
then feelings of hostility may subside to
such a degree, that he may be safely re
stored to liberty, and settle ,down quietly
as a private citizen. Besides, you know
that I am a public man, and hereafter,
when these rebellious States aro restored
to their former good standing I may need ,
their favor; and therefore, it would not
be well 'to exasperate them by any sever
ity inflicted upon those they delight to
honor."
"Thunder and lightning, ,I.ndy I" says
the old General, " what ddes all this talk
mean ? All the dine you were talking,
every, bone in my body was aching.
What is treason ? Is treason a crime, or
not ? If treason is a crime, what fmn
irdmrent-does-irdeauL ye r — - You talltiilititit
expelling some of the leaders from the
country; but why do you wish to expel
them, if their crime is not extraordinaryj
And if their crime is extraordinary, why
send them abroad to live at their ease ?
Would it not be more manly, more pa
triotic, to look their crime in the face and
dealwith it as it deserves ? If traitors
escape with the impunity with which you
think they ought, how long will it be be
fore another brood of them will bo batch
ed, worse than any we have seen yet
Would_that I wore in yeur 'position. I
Carlisle, Pa., Friday, March 9, 1866
would hang the leaders of this infamous
rebellion as high as Haman ! Aridy, You
must excuse my strong language ; I still
feel an interest, a deep interest in this
country, although I am now the resident
of one that is purer and better."
",General," says the President, ".I
must confess I admire your earnestness—
your outspokenness. But still I would
suggest that you must not lose sight
some of the good effects of this war.
Four millions of slaves have been eman
cipated. To be sure, this was rather an
incidental result, but still it was an im
portant one. I ought to say, however,
in all frankness, that since the slaves have
been emancipated, I hesitate greatly in
conferring on them all the rights of citi
zenship. They, you know, are ignorant,
and ere unfitted for the enjoyment of the
rights of suffrage. To be sure, thousands
of them knew how to fight for their coun
try, and that bravely, too ; but it is one
thing to fight and another thing to
vote. The best thing for them, in my
judgment, would be to emigrate to some
foreign oountry and there colonize them
selves, and then their masters would not
be pained with their presence in their
midst. You know, we Southerners don't
like free niggers."
"My blood is rising, Andy; yes, I may
say it is boiling hot," says the General.
''The more you talk, the worse I feel.
I had heard of the emancipation of the
negroes. One day, as I sat on a sunny
slope in the paradise above—l heard a
loud shout of exultation among tha
angels singing around me, and I inquired
into the cause of it, and was told that in
telligence had just reached them that
liberty had been proclaimed to four mil
lions of American slaves. I, too, instantly
joined the hOsannah that was sung by
myriad lips, for my heart was full.—
From that moment I could not rest until
I visited the land of my birth, to learn
how this sublime event had occurred.—
And I am now here on that errand,
"These slaves, you say, when emanci
pated, instead of turning round and cut
ting their master's throatS, joined the
Union army and fought for their country.
This was magnanimity, indeed; and now
you say that they who have always worked
for you, and now fought for you, ought
not only to be denied the _right of. suf
frage, but ought to leave their native
soil and colonize in some foreign land.—
They, you think, have not education and
means enough to locate them good citi
zoos here in the midst of your civiliza
tion ; but they have education and means
enough to locate themselves on a foreign
soil, and there originate and carry for
ward the whole machinery of government
without any persons of a higher civilization
to help them. Now let tue request you,
Andy, to think over that point again I
also understand that you are of the opin-
on that .while it is unsafe for the °wan
cipated pegroes to vote, you regard it as
perfectly safe for those who have just
now been forced to desist from fighting
against their Government, and who are
covered all over with the guilt of treason,
and with the bloo''d of their loyal coun-
trymon, to stay tin their own land and
vote too. That is, you are willing to treat
the loyal dark colored poor, worse than
the white faced rebels, who are guilty of
all the blood shed for the last three years.
Have you not been troubled more for the
last forty years by white rebels voting,
white rebels plotting mischief, white reb
els poisoning and murdering Presidents,
and white rebels exerting all their intel
ligence for the overthrow of the best
Government on the face of the globe,
then you have by the slaves sweating and
toiling, and singing, and praying and suf
fering, and fighting, and dying for our
comfort—our liberty and the perpetuity
of our noble institutions ?
"How would it do, Andy, to deny the
rebels the right of suffrage, and; if post
sible, colonize them? Could their negrdes
possibly do worse in the future in this
country than what many of their masters
have done in the past:"
"General, I must interrupt you for a
moment," said the President. "You.are
.aware, no doubt, that we cannot always
do as we wish. I have so many different
minds to suit and to please. By the way,
I would just say, that my course, so far,
has not only been quite pleasing to my
Southern friends, but-it has even extor
ted commendation from many who have
been unjustly stigmatized as copperheads.
They endorse me heartily, and you know
that it is well to transform, if possible
enemies into friends. I acknowledge
that there is some dissatisfaction among
these who voted for me. But still I an
ticipate that what I lose among them I
willl gain among the Others."
"I understand you. "Yes, I understand
you fully,"says the General
what game you are playing. But permit
MO to say that you may be disappointed.
The right course is the wisest, best, and
most politic. You have tried your old
friends, and you have not tried your new
ones. Let me counsel you not to go
bank from the ground you once main
tained. I have learned that the piotures
of the noble Lincoln are hung up in the
hearts and houses of thousands all over
the land, and I also understand that not
many of yours are there. It might be
well for you $o ask yourself, what lie the
reason of this ? Be careful not, to run
against justice. Many have been wrecked
by so doing. My last word to you is., Bp
just and fear not !
"Farewell ! I must leave you. You
have my prayers for your personal wel
fare and the prosperity of your great and
growing country." And the voice was
hushed.
The President sat with his head bow
ed, and his right hand upon his forehead.
I awoke and a little canary bird was
singing sweetly in its cage that hung
over my chair. E. H. N.
THE VERMONT BRIGADE
The following sketch of the Vermont
Brigade is one of the liveliest and most
condensed piece of military sketch writing
that we have ever read. it is from the
pen of a Maj. General of the Army of the
Potomac, who did not belong to the brig
ade, and who was never in Vermont :
They were honest farmers turned vaga
bonds, They were simple countrymen
changed into heroes. They were quiet
town;men that had become rovers. They
stole ancient horses and bony cows on
the march. They pillaged moderately in
other things. They swept the dairies
and they stripped the orchards for miles
where they traveled. They chased rab
bits when they went into camp after long
marches, and they yelled like wild Indians
when neighboring camps were silent
through fatigue. They were ill disciplin
ed and familiar with their officers. They
swaggered in a cool, impudent way, and
looked down _with a patronizing Yankee
coolness upon all regiments that were
better drilled, and upon that part of the
army generally that did not belong to the
Vermont Brigade. They were strangely
proud, not of theMselves individually, but
of the brigade collectively ; for they knew
perfectly well they were the best fighters
in the known world They were long of
limb, and could outmarch the army
They were individually self-reliant and
skilful in the use of arms, and they hon
estly believed that the Vermont Brigade
could not be beaten by all the combined
armies of the Rebellion.
They were veterans in fighting quali
ties almost from their first, skirmish. This
was at Lee's Mills. They crossed a nar
row dam under a fire, made the attack
they were instructed to make, and came
back wading deep in the water with a
steadiness that surprised the army. They
were incorrigible, irregular, noisy set of
rascals. They were much sworn at, du
ring their four years of service ; yet they
were at all times a pet brigade. There
were but two things they would do—
march and fight ; and these they did in a
manner peculiarly their own. They had
a long, slow, swinging stride on the march
which distanced everything that followed
them. They had a quiet, attentive, ear
nest, individual way of fighting that made
em terrific in battle. Each man knew
that his neighbor in the ranks was not
going to run away, and lie knew also
that he himself intended to remain where
he was. Accordingly none of the atten-
Lion of the line was directed from the
im
portant duty of loading and firing rapidly
and carefully. When moving into action,
and while hotly engaged, they made
queer, quaint jukes, and enjoyed them
groatley. They crowed like cooks, they
ba-a•ed like sheep, they neighed like
horses, they bellowed like bulls, they
barked like dogs, and they counterfeited
with excellent effect the indescribable
music of the mule. When, perchlince,
they held a picket line in a forest, it
seemed as if Noah's Ark had gone to
pietas there.
In every engagement in which this
brigade took part, it was complimented
for gallant conduct. One of the most
remarkable of its performances, however,
has never appeared in print, nor has it
been noticed in the reports. After the
battle of Gettysburg, when Leo's army
wa s .in the vioinity of Hagerstown and
the Antietam, the Vermont Brigade was
was deployed as a skirmishing line, cov
ering a point of nearly three miles. The
enemy wore in force in front, near Bea
ver creek. The Sixth Corps was held in
readiness in rear of the skirmish-line, an
ticipating a general engagement. The
enemy had evidently determined to attack.
At last - his line of battle came forward.
The batteries opened at once, and the
skirmishers delivered their fire. Our
troops were on the alert, and stood watch
ing for tho skirmishers to cow in and
waiting to receive the coming assault.—
Bat the skirmishers would not come in,
and when the firing died away it appeared
that that the Vermonters thus deployed
as a skirmish line had actually repulrd
a full line-of-Mettle attack, Twice after
w_eriLtbst_onatny_advanced,t-cLoarry—the-
position, and wore each time again driven
back by this perverse skirmish lino. The
Vermonters, it is true, wore strongly post
ed in a wood, and each man fired from
behind a tree. But then everybody
knows that etiquette in such matters is
for a skirmish .lino to come in as soon as
they are satisfied that the enemy means
business. These simple minded patriots
from the Green Mountains, however, a
dopted a rule of their own on this ma
sion;" and the enemy, disgusted with
suoh stupidity, retired across• the Beaver
, creek. "
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Llcl' -k ..
When the Vermonters led the column
on a march, their quick movements had
to be regulated from corps or division
head-quarters, to avoid gaps in the col
umn'is it followed them. If a rapid or
forced march were required, it was a
common thing for Sedgwick to say with
a quiet smile—" Put the Vermonters at
the head of the column to-day, and keep
everything well closed up."
After the riots in New York, when it
was found necessary to and troops to
the city to prevent a recurrence of the
outbreake, the Vermont brigade was speci
ally-named by the War. Department for
this duty. Within two hours after the
receipt of the dispatch, the command was
en route for tll9 riotous city. They occu
pied the public squares there for some
time, enjoyed themselves not wisely, nor
yet virtuJusly ; and returned to the arm
of the Potomac sadly demoralized in all
but the two great essential qualities of
fighting and marching. It was a fortun
ate thing for the New York mob that it
avoided a conflict with the New England
troops at that time.
Upon the return of the brigade to the
field, they quietly held on to their old
routine of life, and maintained to the
close of the war the splendid reputation
they had won at the very outset.
There were many regiments equal to
the Vermont regiments in actual battle,
and some tliat not only equalled them in
fighting qualities, but greatly surpassed
them in drill, discipline and appearance
on parade• A§' - a brigade, however, they
were undoubtedly the best brigade in the
Army of the Potomac, for they not only
fought ac well as it was possible to fight,
but they could outmarch with the utmost
ease any other organization in the army
It was the intention of the writer only
to refer to this brigade as furnishing the
best type, of the American soldier, but
this article has grown beyond its intend.
ed limit, and we have therefore not the
space to examine 'into the causes of this
superiority Two, however, may be briefly
stated. First, that the KgritueV from
Vermont were brigaded together. This
ruleqtrange to say, seemed to ivoek' well
only in the smaller States; like Vermont
and New Jersey. Second, the fact, that
Vermont during the first year of the war
recruited for hei regiments and kept
them full. Regimental and company of
ficers, knowing that their ranks would be
filled up, discharged men freely, and thus
managed to get rid of their weak and
worthless soldiers For these reasons
the Vermonters were good men. They
were fortunate, moreover in having
such commanders as Gen. W. F. Smith
and Gen. W. T. H. Brooks It naturally
resulted from this combination of circum
stances that they. became a great power
in battle, and earned a reputation of
which every man and woman in the
country may well be proud.
In Africa there are two kinds of can
nibalism The one is sacrificial, and is
performed by the priests, whose office is to
eat a portiOn of the victim, whether man
goat, or fowl. This custom, prevalent
among many ancient nations, is still ex
tant among many parts of North Guinea,
especially in the Delta of the Niger.
The other is simply an act of
,lice. A cannibal is not necessarily fero
cious. fie eats his fellow savages, not
because he hates them, but because he
likes them. A craving for meat, to which
the natives of these parts are subject, and
for which in their dialect there is a spe
cial term, may first have suggested the
idea, but I am rather inclined to believe
that it is a practical extension of the sac
rificial ceremony. Neither the women
nor the young men are allowed to touch
the dainty : it is reserved by the patri
archs; and the head, which is supposed
to contain a grand fetish, falls to the
king.
Although the missionaries bad mixed
a great deal with the Fans, they told me.
that they had never got a clear confession
of cannibalism frotu one of them, though
they had " no more doubt that the Fans
ate men than they had that they ate plan
tains." It was not however, denied of
the tribe, but only of individuals. Thus
the natives of village A would stoutly de
ny that they were cannibles, but they
would., accuse the villagers of B. The
villagers of B would disown the soft ini
peachmenti and denounce the natives of
A as cannibals of the most confirmed or
der. • :77imilar answers had been returned
to me by the Fan slaves, whom I had met
with among the Bush tribes of the Muni,
They did not eat men, but the other peo
ple of their tribe did.
I resolved to exercise a little finesse in
tinYinvestigation of this matter, and, after
-lit ad passed - tlie villagerwlitehrh - ad .- pre= -
viously been inhabited by white men, I
called a veteran cannibal to me and ques
tioned him about the people beyond the.
mountains to the east, Did they eat men ?
Oh, they all 'eat men. And he ate men
himself. He volunteered this statement,
and burst into a loud roar of laughter, in
which we all joined very heartily. 'I
asked him if man was good., Ho replied,
with a rapturous gesture, that it was
like monkey, all fat."
I then wished to know the class of per-
Rona he had been in the habit of discuss
ing. He said only prisoners ''of war;
TERMS:--$2,00 in Advance, 0r152,50 within the year
CANNIBALISM
that some of his friends were in the hab
it of eating witches condemned to death,
but that, for his part, he did not consider
them wholesome. The best of it was,
that be thought I was a cannibal, too;
belief which is universal among them
and of which the slave trade has been the
cause. I remember that 'when I was in
the Camma country, a Bakell slave, who
had been brought down from the far in•
interior, who had never seen a white man
before, squatted before me, with his great
round, prominent eyes on my face, mouth
wide open. At'last he heaved a gasp of
wonder, crying. " And are these the
men that eat us ?" Winwood Rearle's
Saracp Africa.
FACTS AND FANCIES
Old Snarl says that love is a combina
tion of diseases—an affection of the heart,
and an inflammation of the brain.
Jeff. Davis was born in the same year
with President Johnson, but will proba
bly die some yeasrs sooner.
An old maid is more liberal than a
young one. The latter may always be
willing to lend you a hand ; the former
will give you one, and thank you too.
In the Gallery of the Convent of Je
suits, at Lisbon, there is a fine picture o
Adam in Paradise, dressol in htnehowch
rs, with silr•cr hwVes, and Err orith
striped / Of irnitt.
When Brigham Young dies, what a
scene there will be! Twenty-eight bro
ken-hearted wide,ws and fifty-three fath
erless children, following one old man to
a grave 1
The spacious mansion of Pierre Soule,
near New Orleans, is occupied as a Col.
ored Orphan Asylum, under the charge
of a lady of color, from Boston. named
Madame Le Mortier. "7'o /his comi,/,.,-
1 111 !ISt We. corn,' llt hISI. „
It is bad taste for a host to praise the
dinner on his table ; it is still more in
consistent and ridiculous for him to make
excuse for it. It is taken for granted,
as a matter of course, that you give the
very best at your command and within
your means.
A Pun about Prince Alfred is current
in New York. It is this : "Why would
not his Royal Highnes Prince Alfred
have anything to do with foreign U recce?''
The answer is, "Because his Royal High
ness preferred his native //,.."
"Why," inquired an enamored youth
who was riding with his sweetheart in a
wagon, "are your cheeks like my ponies
there ?" "Is it because they are red ?"
she inquired. "No," he replied, "be
cause there is one them on each side of a
a,/,/in tongue."
A doctor in Pittsburgh, who is a great
operator in Petroleum lands, as well as a
most successful physician, prescribed some
pills for a lady, when she asked how they
were to be taken. "A quarter down,"
said the doctor, "and the balance in one,
two, and three years."
"Are you fond of novels ?" asked Mrs.
Jones. "Very," responded the interro
gated gentleman, who wished to be
thought by the lady/questioner a lover of
literature. "Have you ever read," con
tinued the inquisitive lady, "Ten Thou
sand a Year ?" "No, madam," said he;
"I never read so many as that in all my
life."
It is suggested ty if the surviving
heroes of the war are to have a hundred
and sixty acres apiece,, the acres should
be chosen of the beat in Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala•
batna, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas,
in ab:mndoned lands or confiscated estates.
That's the way to give a proper tong to
t' e Southern society of the next genera-
"I've heard, Captain," said an English
traveller to the captain of a steame run
ning on the upper Mississippi, "that your
Western steamboats can run in very shoal
water—where, in fact, the water is not
more than two or three feet deep'.'' " Tiro
or dirt, Pet deep !" exclaimed the cap
tain, in tones of withering contempt ;
"why, we would n't give a for a boat
out here that conidn't run on the street
of rz ?Mier 2Titcher
On the day of the President's funera
a bronzed and weather-beaten soldier, in
order to obtain a bettor view of tie, pro
cession, happened to step before a party
of ladies and condor - nen. One of the gen
tlemen nudged him on the elbow, at the
same time observing : "Excuse me, Sir,
you are right in front of us " Bowing
handsomely in return, the soldier replied:
"That is nothing remarkable for me, Sir;
I have been in front of you four years."
“Nly friends,” said a returned mission
ary, at one of the late anniversary meet
inga in this cites "tet
The inhabitants of Hindos
tan, where I have been laboring for many
years, have a proverb that, 'Though you
bathe a dog's tail in oil and bind it in
splints, you cannot get the crook out of
it.' Now, a macs-sectarian bias is simply
the crook in the b'og's tail, whieh catinot
be eradicated ; and I hold that every one
should be allowcd to wag his own pecu
liarity in peacc.l' ; , ',Great laughter and
applause.]
Inien PROVERIEM—Men of straw don't
make the best bricks— It is a narrow bed
that hat) no turning. Whin money is
sent flying out of the window, it's pover
ty that comes in at the door. The pig
that pleases to live, must live to please.
One man may steal a hedge, whereas an
other dare n't even as much as look at a
horse. Short rents make long friends;
and it holds good equally with your land
lord and your clothes. Money makes the
gentleman—the want of it makes the
blackguard. When wise men fall out,
then rogues come by what is not their
own.
NO, 10
When the Rebels began this fight they
thought they had us, and it was a safe
thsng Now they are in the same fix
with the men who caught a bear. Two
men were out hunting, and a bear came
on them so suddenly that they dropped
tbcir guns and took to their heels. One
of them ::climbsi a tree, and the other,
other managed to get the boar by the
tail, and ran round and round as the bear
turned and tried to get him. At length
the man cried out to his friend in the
tree : " I say, John, come down and
help!" "Help! What can I ?"
" Why, help me let go of this bear!"
He is above a mean thing. He can
not stoop to a mean fraud. He evades
no secrets in the keeping of another. He
never struts in borrowed plumage. He
never takes selfish advantage of our mis.
takes. He never stabs in the dark. He
is ashamed of inuendos. He is not one
thing to a man's face and another behind
his back. if by accident he comes in
possession of his neighbor's counsels, he
passes upon them an act of instant ob
livion. He bearssealed packages with
out tampering with the wax. Papers not
meant for his eye, whether they flutter
at the window or lie open before him in
unregarded exposure, are sacred to him.
Ile encroaches on no privacy of others,
however the sentry sleeps. Bolts and
bars, locks and keys, - hedgeslfnd thickets,
bonds and securities, notice to trespassers,
aro none of them for him. He may be
trusted himself out of sight—near the
thinnest portion—anywhere. He buys
no office, he sells none ; he intriems for
none. Ile would rather fail of rights
than win by dishonor. Ile will eat hon
est bread, He insults no man. He
tramples on no sensitive feeling. If lie
have rebuke for another, he is straight
forwai d, open, manly. \Vhatever he
judges honorable he practices toward every
man.
Early Indulgence of tho Appetites.
Parents should ponder well on; the
dangers
_of an early and capacious indul
gence of the appetites and imaginary
wants of their children. Repetition soon
becomes a habit once formed, even in
childhood, will often remain during the
whole of after life, acquiring strength
every year, until, at last, it sets all
human and divine, at defiance. Let par
ents who yield to the cries of their chil
dren for dainty and promiscious food, or
who allow them to torment domestic an-
imals, or to strike their 'nurses, or to raise
the hand against any person, consider well
on the consequences. The moral effects
of pampering the appetites of children
are most melancholy. Is the mother
afraid of an explosion of passion, a bribe
is too often promised in the shape of a
cake or tart, as a peace offering.
Does it annoy a whole company by its
boisterous or ill-timed pranks, it is per
suaded to be quiet by the promise of some
sweetmeats. IF it had been good, as the
phrase is, and learned its letters, the re
ward is still too frequently 13 ornething fur
the stomach. Eating is soon regarded as
the chief end and object of life by a child,
who sees in it the chief incentive to good
behavior. A premium would truly seem
to be given for gluttony. The use of the
other nobler faculties of the mind, the
early cultivation of the kindlier and bet
ter feelings of our nature—generosity,
disinterestedness, pity, filial love—all are
overcome or postponed i favor of the one
sensual, selfish and jr ,:lrbing act of gor
mandizing.
fr
Smoking Hams
In the first place, hams should be placed
so far from the fire that the smoke will be
absolutely cool before it reaches Lbem.—
Then they should be hung in a room open
to the atmosphere, not tight like a barrel,
and should not be smoked rapidly as they
would be in a barrel, until nearly black on
the outside. A moderate smoke made twice
as many days as a ham weighs pounds, will
make good, sweet smoked meat. Never
commence smoking until your hams have
hung long enough after being taken out of
the pickle to be thoroughly dried. The En
glish dry their hams and use them without
smoking; they are lar preferable that way
to hams smoked as recommended aoove, iu
barrel or any similar contrivance.
Many persons have spare room about their
buildings, sometimes in the garret of a
dwelling, in which hams can be smoked, by
making a fire out doors, or in a stove-pipilr
We have seen a very nice smoke house
where the fire was built fifty or sixty feet
from the building in a little oven, dug in the
ground, the smoke being conducted through
a covered trench up a hillside to the base
of the building, and through a wooden pipe
to the garret, where the meat was hung to
the rafters. During the smoking operation
a window was kept open in each end of the
1211E1
Rememoer, as n rule, the slower you
smoke m. at the better. The best wood is
green hickory, then maple, beech, ash, ap
ple-tree. Never use locust ; the bark Imparts
an iiiipTer — ts alit fin v o — Sifv - erTit
other kinds of wood do the same. Corn cobs
make very sweet bacon. Never use any
wood that makes a black smoke. Never use
rotton w )od or saw dust. 'The last day , of
smoking it is a good plan to burn a few pep
per pods.—Solon Robinson. ,
Why should Voluutee:ll especially dislike
he letter T'l Beeniise it turns rifles into
CM
'When are ladies cut to pieces? when: they.
aro bettor halves..
-Why is a urpru-out shoo like, ancient
Greece? Because it once bad a Solon (solo .
on).
What is the only „jam a school boy will
not eat? Door jam. • '
A True Man.