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TIME OF HOLDING COURT.
Second Monday in Jauuary,
Last Monday in April.
First Monday in August.
First Moudny in November.
J.egql ftOucl'.i,s:lnclis.
pOURT T R O C L AMATIOtf.
I ; Whereas the lion. Hon. Thomas
W W:ll;. JVncblrvnf nnil linn K. ("!.
Schultze and Hon. Jcsso Kylcr, .Asso
. I . iiiiaiuni iLiJiivuv " -
ciato Judges of tho Court of Common
1J mus. n n d Justices of the Court of
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aud Court of Oyer and Terminer, and
General Jail Delivery, for the trial of
camtal and other offences in the county
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havo ordered the aforesaid named courts
to be holdon at Ridgway, in ind for the
county of Elk, on the LAST MONDAY
IN APRIL, it being the 22nd DAY of
the month, and to continue one week.
Notice is hereby given to the Coroner,
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the county of Elk, that they are by
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of said day, with their
vnlU roenrds nnd inauisitions, and other
remembrances, to do those things which
their offices appertain to be done, and
ibnt oil Justices of said county make
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JntA l. Cnra them, to the Clerk of the
Court as per Act of Assembly, passed
TMor 1 1R34. And those who re
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cute the prisoners that are or shall be in
the jail of said county of Elk, aud to be
thp.n and there to prosecute against them
as Bhall be just.
J. A. MA LONE,
April 11, 1867. Sheriff
DIVORCE KOTICE.
J"
"ohn. C. McOonucll 1 Elk Co. Com. Pleas
versus No. 15J, November
Charlotte McConnell. J Term, IPO.
To Charlotte McConnell :
Take notice that you aro required to np
hear at tha next term of said Court to' be
held on tho last Monday in April licit to
answer the complaint of the Libullynt in
ihiscase. JAMES A. MA .ONE.
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"VTOTICE is hereby given that the M
11 lowine named persons have filed their
applications for License at the Court of
Quarter Sessions of Elk county, agreeably to
the act of Assembly of March 31, nt 1 Soli,
entillod " an Act to regulate tho sale ot
intoxicating liquors,"
John A lie'l, Tuveru, Junes township.
Martin Sowers, Tavern, Jones township.
Peter Wilhelm, Tavern, St. Marys
George Hathorn, Tavern, St. Marys
Thomas Kennedy, Tuveru .81. Marys
M. Wellendorf, Tavern, St. Marys
Wolfgang Auniun, Tavern, Jay t'p
Lenard Cook, Tavern, Kidgway t'p
G. A. ItATIIlU'N.
April 4th, 18H7. I'rothonotarv.
ADMINlSTltATOI! S NOTICK. Notice
is hereby given that Letters of Ad
ministration, with will annexed, on the es
tate of TIIKW JOHNSON, late of Jienczctt
township, Elk county, deceased, havo been
grunted to the undersigned. All persons
indebted to said oslato uro requested to
call ami settle, and those having claims
ugainst the same will present them duly
authenticated for settlement.
J. O. JOHNSON,
niarllGI. Administrator.
OPAUTNEUSilU'.
V,
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into copartnerliip under the tirin name of
11KA1.Y & (ilLLlH, iuthesalo of 1'rovisi
ions, Flour, Peed, (jrains, &., at the stand
heretofore occupied by the lute firm of Ilea,
ly & Mil. W. C. IIEALY,
March 14, 1807 Ct C. V. OILLIS,
JOJING. HALL, Projector.
J011NF. MOORE, Publisher.
Selected Sftlisrcllanu.
a
From The People's Magazine.
an editojvs Holiday.
it was seven o clock and a sunny
morning when 1 turned my back on
tho honeysuckle and rose-covered porch,
beneath whoso pleasant shade sat Polly
and Horry, sedately eating their currants
and cherries fresh with the dew, which
always adds a delicious flavour to fruit
gathered and eaten before breakfast.
The tempting red bunches and rosy lips
reminded me of that charming line of
Tennyson's
MuuJ with the sweet purso mouth, when
in- father dangled the grapes
And 1 thought the picture was a do
loss charming one in which the actors
were both children, ondone of thctn had
his battered staaw hat stuck all around
? . I .11 l n . .
wmi ciuver auu wind flowers ana ripe
grasses, by the tasteful little hand of his
tiny sister. With a hurriey " Good bye,
Horry ! good-bye, Polly, my lamb 1 " I
strode away to meet the irou.horse,
having a mile to walk across our breezy
common, aud less than twenty minutes
to uo it in. Uut Polly irrepressible
Polly is not to be defrauded, of her
dues. Out of the porch, currants and
cherries forgotten, across the forbidden
lawn (ihus early in the morning), nnd
along the winding path, now hidden by
the shrubs, now in full view, with hair
and ribbons streaming, she flics, scream,
ing after " Papa." So a few precious
moments aro lost (no, not lost, but
stamped upon the memory with an added
brightness), while the " euvicd kiys " is
hastily given, and then I depart in
peace lor Wraysbury, in quest of an
" Editor's Holiday."
Aud why an " Editor's Holiday ? "
and why " Wraysbury ? " Because an
editor's holiday always means some kind
of work which may conduce to the
amusement or instiuction of his readers :
and at the distance of a mile, more or
less, from Wraysbury, is Bituated the
parish church of llorton, memorable
for its connection with the history of
Milton. It Was to llorton that Miltou's
parents retired in the decline of life, aud
from thence the poet dales much of Lis
correspondence in the interval between
1032 and It was there, in 1037,
that his mother died, and there, imme
diately in frout of the chauccl, she lies
buried. It was in his new home at
llorton, after leaving college, that our
immortal poet tnade that intiuiute ac
quaintance with Nature to which his
minor poems are indebted for their es
sential charms. Here he wrote his
Sonnet to the Niyhtinaalc, his incom.
parable companion pieces, tho Alleyro
aud Penseroso, his Arcades, and his
Comus. Render, if the first three of
these pieces are not fresh in your mem.
ory, take your volume ot Mil ton, and
having failed your imagination with the
" sweet images of Dature " they suggest,
tell me if I could have turned my short
holiday to better account than by visit
ing the rural scenes which inspired
them, and if my friend the artist could
have found a prettier subject for his
pnncil withiu the same distance of
London.
Leaving Wraysbury Station, and pas
sing over a rustic bridge ?pauuiug the
dark waters of the Colue. wo fiud our
selves on a level road which runs while
before us, with a hawthorn hedge and a
broad shallow ditch on either side, uearly
at tar cs the eye can reach. Already,
perhaps, we are in the lootsteps ot Mil
ton, for there can be no doubt that
these wide shallow ditches, almost chok
ed with water plants aud rushes, are of
ancient dute ; and if so, no important
chaugc, or change at all, can have taken
place in the roads and foot paths. On
tho left arc seen, ot iutcivals between
tho trees, " the towers and battlements "
of Windsor Castle, which arc alluded to
a.s a feature of tho. landscape in the Al-
tiro, 1 he Scotch thistie and various
umbelliferous plants, Millefolium and
" Jack in the hedge," Cockles aud Pirn.
pernels, grow abundantly by the road.
side : and on either hand stretch the
rich flat pastures of Buckinghamshire,
bordered with pollard wythys and Mil
ton's " bcdge.row elms." A pleasant
sauuter of about a quarter ot an hour
brings us to where a cross road reveals
s'iido bigus of a village, so hidden from
, however, that we require the as
surance of a countrymau that " llorton
is an along here, before proceeding "ou
our way with confidence. In a few
nnuutes mere, after passing tho Five
Bells, and the adjaceut smithy on the
left of the road, and a l-n,l
on the right, we find ourselves opposite
tho ivy-clad church. Farther on still
wo come to a fine old elm in the middle
of an open space where three roads meet
and though the houses havo to be look
ed for iu tho nooks and comers around,
there is evidence enough that this is the
yrctid square shall we call it ? of tho
village ot llorton. l or a mile further
the road again runs white and straight
to Colubrook : aud Laving resolved to
extend our walk to that tuwu before
visiting the interior ot Miltou's old
iff I
MM" J.'
RIDGWAY, PENNA.,
church, we find there a long street like
o stranded wreck, with the desolate re-
mains of at least a dozen inns, by which
in tho pre.railway period, a hundred
coaches and waggons rattled and creak'
ed daily on their way to and from Lon
don. Who know but that tho railways
win be obsolete, too, some day r
Tho way back to llorton is hot and
dusty ; but every step is interesting, as
we are now certainly in the poet s track
These runnels at the roadside existed in
his time, and in all essential leatures the
landscapo remains what it was. On
these hedges grow the " bloomy spray "
where the nightingale sang, to which
he listened wilh a new.fouud joy on his
first visit to the " paternal coautry
nouso ; and hereabouts were those
Meadows trim with daisies pied,
Shallow brooks and rivers wide,
With every other charming featuro of
the scenery to which lie has alluded in
the AllvyrOf except tho imaginary
" mountains," for which it is necessary
to substitute the modest Berkshire hills
which bound the landscape. Bcturning
thus towards llorton Church, pleasantly
dreaming by the way ol tho old Puritan
times, and of the footsteps which have
so long since been effaced, we pass on
the left the rectory not tho old house
of Milton's time, for it has long since
been replaced by a model structure,
standing in its own pleasant grounds ;
and See ! ou the right a carriage has
drawn up at the door of a cottage,
which proves to bo the dwelling of the
sexton. But what have muslin dresses,
and gay parasols, and rosy faces half
hidden beneath their shade, to do with
this grave functionary ? These arc
visitors, going like myself to llorton
Church, not altogether on the poet's ac
count, as I presently discover, but to see
the gravestones of their people.
Like a true Fnglishman, I always try
to climb as high as possible ; so, the
right key having been produced, I
mount tho stairs of tho church tower,
and find that it commands a fine view of
tho surrounding country. This is the
only point, iu fact, from which a " land,
scape " can be said to present itself in
the neighborhood of llorton, except the
distant view of Windsor from the Wrays
bury road. This fact set mo thinking,
until I persuaded myself that the young
poet had often mounted these well-worn
stairs, and that the scenery of tho Alio
yro was sketched from this " coign ot
vantage. It may be a lancy, but
where else could tho poet have imagin
ed himself standing, when he exclaimed,
with a bnrst of delight
Slrai't mine eye hath caught new pleasures,
While the landscape round it measures
Mount tho tower, as I did, after a ram
ble through the neighborhood, and you
will not doubt for a moment that those
lines mark a transition in the poet's
feeling, and a new and larger view of
the landscape, than had been present to
his mind's eye a moment before. It
may even be that the contemplative po
et sat here at midnight to " outwatch
the bear," unsphero the spirit of Plato,"
and brood over the trajiic memories so
solemnly recalled in the Pcnseroso.
Milton paints the cuchaiitmcnt ot xigst
as only one familiar with its solemnity
culd paint it : and somo " rising
ground" not easily to be found in
ilrtton, or somo " lonely tower form
ed lis ideal if a Rpot suited for reflec
tion. I Ah mo ! My meditations were sud.
uenly interrupted by the sharp- ringing
of a bell, and Milton aud all belonging
to him vanished angrily iu the trail of
smoke and stcuui, which told me once
more that we are not now living in
Milton's times, and that I was just a
miuuto or so too luto for the train
homewards !
JCsiyTruc happiness is a tender plant;
coxious iu-ccts ever hover round it, an
impure breath kills it. Man is appoint
ed its gardener, and has for his wages
blessedness. But how few there are
who understand their business ; how
many themselves introduce into the
close cup of tho flower that flower's
deadliest foe ; how many look on uncon
cerned, or even amused, while hurtful
insects settle, gnaw and fret, and the
blossom fades ! Ilsppy he who looks
up in time, and wilh ready hand saves
the llusium aud kills the Ice ; he pre
serves his heart's peace and saves his
soul alive these hanging together like
body and spirit, this world and the next.
Key-plcasfure is u rose, near which
there ever giows a thorn of evil. It is
wisdom's work so carefully to pluck the
rose as to avoid the thorn, and let its
rich perfumes exhale to heaven in grat
itude aud adoration of llim who gave
the rose to blow.
f7Machiavclli has well observed
that there aro braihs of three races.
Tho one understands of itself: tho sec
ond understands as muuh as is shown it
by others ; tho third ucither understands
of itself nor what is thown it by otheis.
Br-&,I'erv day is a little live, and our
whole life is but a day repeated.
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APRIL Wit 1S07.
From the Komo Courier.
ARP ON THE SITUATION.
BILL
Rome, Bio Shanty Tkmiitory, 1
No. 3, March 8lh, 18G7.
Mr. Editoi My iutctition was to
have remained in dignified obscurity
the small remnant of my miserable
days, but my friends, Bob Hide. Sam
McCracken, Tip and other respectable
gentleman of all sexes and colors,
seems to be deshevcled about tho times,
and insist on my views about the mo
mentous Btato of our suffering country.
The good people in Atlanta have got
shaky in the knees, and it is tho duty
of every good Citizen to keep tho disease
from sprjadin if he can. I haventbeen
to Washington, nor been playing scnti'
nel on the watch tower, but my obser
vations convinces me there is a power of
fuss on hand about something. Poltics
look sqnally and alarming. Bill Sher
man overrun the country and destroyed
and carried away our property, and
now his brother John is finishin up tho
job, robbin us of the rights and
liberties our forefathers won. General
Thomas is playing Vantoua with bis 21
orders puttin harmless boys in the
borracks for tableauin with an old rebel
flag accusing us of all the crimes in
the decalogue : such as murder, rape,
larceny, arson, burglary, bigamy, per
jury and suicide, throwin up in our
teeth the maynimity of our conqunrors,
as bein our safety valve from death and
Belzebub. Good gracious. What au
awful people we are
But my friends we've got nothing to
be ashamed or. Since tho wai our pur
suits have been peaceful and honorable.
We. needn't humilato ourselves through
fear of what mankind can do to us. If
tho Radicals intend to confiscate us, they
will do it, and no acceptance of Sherman's
bill will prevent it. If they want our
cabbages, they aro going to have 'em. If
they will ride over one law, they will
over another. If they disregard Mr.
Johnson's great argument, they will
disregard anything. I don't know how
it is generally, but there aint an unpar.
doned llebcl in this country, anj.if they
confiscate they have got to declaro the
pardons all void. Nobody knows what
they won't do, or when they will quit
doing it, and my advise is to suffer and
be strouy, endure everything and accept
nothing. All is lost save honor ; hold
up yonr manhood, don't lick the hand
that's raised to strike the blow. Jod
Brown's banner says ' all is lost save
honor, and that is only tolerable I thank
vou. It crows ponnv and weak. He
says we can have representation in Con
gress. Who by ? A man who ean
take the test oath and control the nig
ger vote. Who wants such representa
tion ? How long before he would jino
the Radicals and go in for confiscation.
If he controlled the nigger vote ho'd
promise 'cm land or anything else.
Demagogues have always controlled the
ignorent whites, demagogues will con
trol the ignorant blacks. Who controls
the nigger influence in Tennessee?
Why, Brownlow and Lis party. Tennes
see has done just what Joe Brown wants
us to do, and now look at her and weep . a
nigger candidate running for Ooveruor,
But suppose wo had representation
and elected all good men, lair men, just
meu. what could they do for us ? Just
nothing at all. With the present Radi.
cal majority all our votes wouldn't undo
anything that has been dono, and with
a 1! adieu'. lTcsiuent they . could do as
much as thev pleased. Just let them
all alone, give 'em rope, morj ropo ;
history is repeating itself, tho crisis will
come some time, tyranny and oppression
must run its course. Joe Brown's
progammo wont stop it. One of his
resolutions mado my head swim. I felt
like taking cloroform. lie would make
the whole Yankee nation believe that
we loved 'cm lik j brothers, aui wanted
'em to coma out South and let us hug
'cm. Well, all that sort of stuff is played
out, There ainta hundred men in the
State that has any moie respect for a
Radical than a hyena, Joe Brown knows
it. But the good Lord knows our
hearts, and how loudly we cling to those
moderate men of the mighty North who
would save us from the humilution that
awaits us. Let a kind word bo spoken
to a subjugated Rcb, and tho warm
blood quickens in the veins.
Oh, but here, tho Union Leagues,
somebody says, what aro they going to
do with us ? Never mind, my friends,
the Union Leagues aiut agoiu to' hurt
nobody ; they aro made of flesh and
blood like we ore, and tbey aro citizens,
and their fate will bo our fate. They
are as much disgusted at Sherman's bill
as anybody. They aro our Lcighbors
aud our friends, aud if thcro is auy bad
men among 'cm there is enough of the
good to mako 'em do right. So keep
quiet and bo easy, aud the Union
Leaguers are uot going to troublo you
If they want to save their own, it dou't
follow that they want to steal yours.
But Joseph is afraid wo can't stand a
military government. Well, I know
its huiuilatiug, witherin, crushing, but
we have stood it tnd cau try it awhile
longer. We do it till we cau do better.
VOLUME SEVEX NUMBER 5.
TERMS 1 50 PER ANNUM.
Military government aint the cause of
our poverty and distress. Its a govern
ment higher thau Sherman or Sheridan.
Its loss of crop and tho want of rain.
The military never stopped tho corn
from growin, and their is just as much
rain in ono platform as another, it' the
Good Lord will only ble.-s us with abuir
dant harvests everything will go on
smooth euoitgh with tho humble and
honest people who drive the plough
and hoe the corn. If they prosper,
everybody else will too, if they mind
their own business. We will have to
quit talking so much, and quit writing
altogethcr.iiinzzlcd lips nnd gigged
press. I ve done took warnin myself
anu quit. Had my l:le insured in the
Knickerbocker, aud tho policy wout
allow mo to cSposc myself to jump into
unnecccssary peril. The military can
out write us anyhow. Folks say tho
pen is mightier than the swerd, but you
put 'em both together, aud they will
flauk a mau out of his liberty, and may
be his life, in double quick. Tho Mayor
of this town had a liile billet doiu with
General Thomas tho other day, and
only come out sccoud best, though it
wasent an open field nor a fair fighf I
thought myself that 21 order must
be a hoax, got up by Brick Pumcroy or,
6omebody, and was looking for the Gen.
eral to come out in a card denying it,
but I soon found tnat it ras a genuine
Kobcspcrean document. I still think
his postority will deny it some 20 years
hcucc.
Well, I was mighty mad, 1 would
have giveu a hundred dollars to have
played Yantoun with him one hour,
just to have been tuincd loose in tho
papers, all free, no gag, uo jail, no
barracks, no bayonets, no guard. I
would have got such a grin on him for
the next six months as would have made
everybody except Brick Pomcroy forget
that Beast Butler stole spoons. ' Liviug
on their magnanimity ! ' I tell you
that got me, that burnt me, when I
knew there was'nt enough magnanimity
in a ship load of all such to support a
poor lteb 24 hours. Mag nanimity ! My
opinion is they have lost the seed aud
don't know what the comodity is. I
was as full of epitaph as Brownlow is of
pisen. Language comes to mo spontan
eous ; regular hidelifters, that would
havo peeled the bark from a man's car.
Cass liko skinncn au alligator- But you
see I was in the cautious state, and had
to smother my feelings.
I thiuk I should have gone up with
spontaneous combustion if my wife hadu't
broke the spell with her comic scenes.
flie is an ainusiu and luterestin woman.
but much given to music in these days of
numerous and lively offspring, but just
as soon as order zi came out she hunted
.1. ... .- ! 1 . 3
ujj uiL-y grey j.ickci ana tno con
quered banner,' and just such a stle
soiree as I have 21 times a week, was
never heard in Big Shauty before. She
seems to take belight in lettin the Rcb
flagon tho title page 'sec the light,'
aud ' flaunts it about ' in my face be
cause I call myself a Union man. She
says part of the order about Gen. Han.
son's remains was founded on Scripture,
and so was Phil. Sheridan's abont Gen
Johusou's, lor Solomon said iu Eccle
siastics, ' that a living dog is better
than a deal lion.'
My opiuioii is that it will bo impossi
ble to harmonize these women durin
this century. Such orders as 21 will
cut off all hope of it- I thiLk if Gen.
Thomas had'ut been a Virginian, he
wouldn't have issued it. I've noticed
that when a Yirgi.iiaa falls, ho falls
heavy and fur. lie gils further on tho
side agin us thau anybody. I've heard
that tho General and Edward Johnson
were both powerful seeaah, and got
mighty impaticut because tho Old Do
aiaion was so slow in inovin. 'J' ho
General s.iid all the good offio.s would
bo gobbled up before she seceded.
Well, they say old General Scott got
hold of 'em about this time, and toi,k
'em up iu a high mountain aud showed
'em a kingdom or two, and the General
fell dovu aud worshipped, and lid
Johosou woulJent. I tell you my
friends, a mau ought to be careiul about
going up onto those dangerous moun
tains, aud this leads mo to remark we
ought to petition Mr. Johnson to put
over Big Sha:ity a General who stood
squar to his State.
Hope for tho best, my friends. Don't
imagine you see panthers and Injuns, be
cause you are in a territory Dou't mis.
tako a Bureau track lor a bear sign.
Don't fear it will be sickly because Flor.
ida ij hitched outo our diggings. Attend
to your business, keep off u high niouu
taiu, aud all will be well. I would say
more, but my wife's music has begun.
Yours, ro.-pectfu!ly,
Bui, An p.
P. S I date niv Lttet" from Big
Shanty, as I hear these ' di;iiis ' are to
have that name. Let us all be thankful
wo know whero wo ure. For two yours
it has been doubtful whether we were
in or out. My opiuiou uow is tlmt ir.-
are out, aud 1 hear a feamulo voice say
whgopee ! B. A.
,?nil sibt da.r t'uoD-
elected )oer5.
A PO ETl'3M LP LI Y? "
The following h'imnrou.s mnrrvi.ii,
Which WO clip from tho Forest County
Pi ens, in ils peculiar style, is ituique.
Ky the lake where drooped tho willow
How, vn-isals, vov ! '
I want to be nn anjrel.
Ami jump Jim (Jrow.
An old crow sat on a hickory limu
Nona named him lit to praise '
Let nie kiss him for his moilipp, ' :
i'or In; siudls ot fiolnveitzeikase.
The minstrel to the war has f.rne,
Wil li the banjo on his km-i. : '
He woko 10 hear his senli irfi shriek.
There's a lijrht in t lie window lor 'thee.
A frng ho would n woning (ro,
His hair was curled to kill' ;
He used to wear all old ttv.ty coat
And the sword of Uunker J I ill.
Oft in the stilly nilit,
Make way for liberty I he cried,
I won't (ro home till morning,
Wilh Peggy by my ai,0.
I am dying. Kgypt, dying,
Pusnnritih don't yoii cry
Know how sublime n tiling if is
To brush away die blue-taib-d By.
The boy stood on the burning deck.
With his baggage cheek,! !, Troy,
One of the few immortal names,
His name was Put ilalloy. ,
Mary hod a little lnmb,
He could a tale unfold,
He had no teeth for t en! the corn cake,
And his spectacles were gold.
Lay on, lay on MscdnfT,
Man wants but liilie here holow,
And I'm to be queen of the May,
So kiss me quick and go ! '
THE TEKPEBANCE MOVEMENT.
The following art'o'e, which wr
transfer to our columns from the FrU
Observer, meets so nearly with our an.
probation, that wo give it to our readers
without comment : Pub.
It would seem as if a general effort
were being mado through the State to
revive an interest in the cause of tem
perance, which was lost sight of almost
entirely during the war. A State Tem
perance Association has boon formed,
having anioung its members some of the
leading public men at llanlsburg, and
auxilliary societies are rising up with
extraordinary lapidity iu almo.:t every
town. The friends of the eauso have
taken hold of tho matter in earnest, and
unless they repeat the mistakes of the
past, will not fail to exert a most poten
tial and beneficial influence. It mu,--t
be confessed, however, that thcro isau
unfortunate tendency on the part of the
short sighted advocates of this cofovm
towards carrying it to au extreme that
is always certain to rebound against any
moral movement in which their advice
is allowed to prevail. Of our sympathy
with any measure that will tend to bene
fit our fellow.men we trust that by this
time nono will doubt, and it may be,
therefore, that those to whom we" refer
will give to our views one of that eons
sideration which is always duo from
those who aro striving iu a good cause
to the opinions of their crllabureas.
The fact must not bo forgotten that
tcmperanco, like religion, is a subject
peculiarly of moral suasion, aud. eannot
be mado successful by mere compulsory
measures or party action. W lieuuvor it
has entered tho domain of politics, tho
inevitable result has been to defeat tho
purpose aimed at, or, if successful, the
triumph has been simply of a temporary
nature. We are not of those who be
lic7e iu enforcing our own views or
modes of life upon our fellows, any more
than we aro willing that they should
enforce their's upon us. A rigid pro
hibitory liquor law, such as is now advo
cated iu some quarters, will fail of its
object, and merely create an ill feeling
that will in time react upon thoso who
secure its adoption. Men's, appetites
can no more be controlled by law thaii
their religion, their party sjmpathies- or
their affections. To reform those wh
indulge iu immoderate drink, they must
first be convinced of 'ho evil cliects of
intemperance, and whea this cannot bo
done by moral or intellecturl influences,
it cannot bo done by legal remedies.
The severest laws ever passed have noc
restrained a single individual who was
determined upou having liquor from
getting all ho desired, or converted a
snlitaryoul to the opinion that it was
l ight to deprive- him of it, when hU
taste called fvr a supply. A certain
auidttilt of ihtuxiia'ititf drink -will ,bi
sold iu every co'itintnii'y, under all cir
cumstances, and it i.i a question in our
mind whether iu the end it wou'J uo:
bo leunj the b.'st plan (o a'low J ils
salo ou the same principle th:it we d-j
all other articles, holding the dealers
responsible for such violations of the
criminal code of the Slate ns may ensue
from an iuibropcr use of their privilege.
Let this fact be stcalily borne in mind,
that iu all questions of a moral character,
what cannot be done by conviction will
never succeed by legal reiruireuieijts,
and that we can no inoio make men
teuq erale ly an act of the Li-!;i!uturo,
than wo can force than to ueeept ot
Methodism, Iio iianism Ilajiti-oii, ol any
other den im national creed, by tho sa:u i
formal ceremony.
nX.l'as-ioii die.i .voo, ku.u.g its.-!?
wilh its o.vu lood. I'Nteem lives util
strengthens by i;s wti p r.vci.
The Fott Wayne find.') i:i :: tei'.i
of u Lid named Mir.-liall, n,od ii!',een.
Well known in tint pi ice, wil l l ist lml.'i
speech and hearing s.xlceu in hi! Ii ag'i,
haviug tho-ie laeu .; s i'.-.-t.ited to li-c.
by u thorough drunk which liu t n i . ! -ed
in expcriui nil. illy a week .r I
since. A Mr. 1.1 yd, I'm. ling bin iue.
tiriuted, plied biiu wiili moie li j i .
and thou micj k i.ou uid ru jujd h!i.
vigorously 'i ll'.' i c jit was a sudda '
return ol t.hi-f-- p s-c.-iuiij to llio u.i.
Lo III Jed delight uf the boy.