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"We have been told that the uiilortiinate subject actually- died In one ot our hospital. It U a composition breath ing the. essence of pathos and of poetry, but like many other gems of literature. It Is one of those fugitive pieces tlail float nrotind without the name of the author: Oh! thcsiHnv, the beautiful snow, Filling the sk.v and earth below : Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of the people yon meet, Dancing. " Flirting, Skimming along; Beautiful snow! It can do no wrong, . Flying to kiss a fair lady's check, .(Jliuging to Hps in aJVolU-.ksonie freak ; -r.cautil'nl snow, from lieaven above, I'urcas an angel, gentle as love! Oh ! the snow, tho beautiful snow, How the Hakes gathcrand laugh nstheygo Whirling about In tho maddening fun, It plays in its glee with every 0110 Chasing, Laughing, Hurrying by ' It lights 011 the face and sparkle's the eye, And the dogs, with a bark and a bound, Snap at the crystals that eddy around The town is alive mid its heart in a glow, To welcome the coining of beautiful tnow! ITow wild the crowd goes swaying along, flailing cadi other with humor and song; How the guy sledges, like meteors, pass by, Hi iglit lor the moment, then lost to the eye .Kinging, Swinging, Dashing they go, Over the crust of the beautiful snow; Snow so pure when it falls from the sky, To be trampled in niiul by the Crowd rush ing by, To be trampled and tracked by the thou sands ol feet, Till it blends with the llltli In the horrible street. Once I was pure ns snow but I fell ! Fell liko the snow-llakcs, from heaven to hell; ' Fell, to be scoffed, to bo si'it on and beat ; rioiiding, Cursing. 1 heading to die, Selling my soul to whoever would buy. Dealing in shame font morsel of bread, Hating the living, and- fearing the dead; Merciful (iod ! have I fallen so low ! And yet 1 was once like tliodieautiful snow. Once I was fair as the beautiful snow' With an eye like the crystal, a heart like its irlow : Once I was loved for my innocent grace mineral ami soiigiir. lur tiiu c Harms or my iace: . Father, Mother, . Sisters nil. Ood and myself, I've lost by my fall ; The veriest wri tch that goes shivering by, w 111 niawe a wme swoop lest 1 wander too 1111:11; For all that Is on, or above nie, I know. There is nothing tint's pure as tlio beauti- liu snow. How strange it should be that this beautiful snow Should fail on a shiner with nowhere to go! How strange it should be, when the night comes again If the snow and the ice struck my desper ate urain, Fainting, Freezing, Dvinsr nlone, Too wicked for prayer, too weak for a moan To be heard in tho streets of the crazy town, Gone mad in the joy of the snow coming down, To be, and so die, In toy terrible woe. W una bed and a shroud ot the beautUtil snow! SPEECH —OF— JUDGE A. G. THURMAN, —AT THE— Democratic Convention, —IN— Columbus, Ohio, January 8, 1867. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention: There is no one here, I suppose, who does not know that I have neither sought or desired tlfo nom ination that you have been pleased to confer upon me. Indeed I can truly say that, although more than a third of a century ha3 elapsed since I began to take an interest in public affairs, yet I have never willingly been a candidate for office. To decline office, when I could honorably do so, has been, as many of you know, a rule of my life. That this is no merit, 1 am very well aware. It is a matter of demerit ; for he who devotes him self to the public service with an honest purpose to discharge official duties as they should be discharg ed, is more .entitled to praise than is he who gives tho preference to his private concerns ;. and there is, perhaps, no ambition more lauda ble than the desire to fill a public station, not for its emoluments, or the gratification of personal vani ty, but for the benefit of the State. It' is not, then, to take credit to myself that I mention my lack of ambition, or, if it may be, of a proper publis spirit, but simply to account fotmy-unfeigned and often expressed, reluctance to be a can didate. - But, gentlemen, you have seen' fit to decide for me ; and, as a true Democrat, I am bound to ac- knowledge and respect your au-; And certainly no one could feel more strongly than I do how great is the debt of gratitude;hy I owe you. For.be the result what it- may, the honor of your unani mous nomination is a distinction that any man, however high, might well covet, and the posses sion of your confidence and esteem a favor to which a grateful heart could never be insensible. ' Gentlemen, I accept your nom ination,' and will strive to prove myself worthy of it. Gentlemen, usago requires that I slgauld . say something more, but it is not my purpose to make a long speech. You have much yet 're mjfiiing" to dd; and I would not willingly interrupt your proceed ings, or unnecessarily consume your time. The campaign before us will last many months, affording an ample opportunity for discussion, in which I hope to be able to take a proper pare, .uur, at me very outsiue, 1 wish to observe that the return of Democratic party to poweij seems to mo. as inevitable as it is" desirable ; and it is most desirable, if we wish to preserve and perpet- uato free institutions, and once more see a happy, prosperous, and uuueu country uniieu. not material force alone, but by the. ..1 1; 1- n t stronger ligaments -oi reoiprocai affection, mutual esteem, common interests, and a cherished belief in a common and glorious destiny. How long it may be beforo the reins of Government will again bo in our hands, I do not presume to say; but that, sooner or later, and at 110 very distant day either, we will hold them ' again,, and again guide the chariot of State, as we did formerly guide it along the pathway marked out by the Coni slittition a path ; of pleasantness and peaceI do not entertain a doubt. For tho Democratic party is tho natural party whose princi ples best harmonize with our forms of government in a word, the Na tional party of this country. Our whole history proves this. .It was tho Democratic sentiment that freed us from Great Britain ; it wasf-rul, this sentiment that laid the foun- dations ot our State and b ederal 1 Governments ; it was this senti merit that gave to our party so long a rule, and made its rule so beneficent and glorious. It was this sentiment that gave to our country for more than seventy years ,the profoundest domestic peace the world evefsaw. So that of that long period of time it can truly ue ouservea wnat can not be said of any such period in any oth er country that in it no man in the Republic lost his life for a po litical effenso; no man ever per ished in civj war. And it is not strange that it -Was so. For the Democracy administered the Gov ernment for the equal benefit of all, rejecting lelfishness, discour aging sectionalism, abstaing from usurpation, and with a wise jeal ousy of power requiring all Consti tutions, State or Federal, to bei strictly construed. It knew the. tendency of power to steal from the many to the few, thepronehesa of Government to enlarge its aui thoritv, and the imminent dange of centralization ; and it therefon clung to our Consiitutions as tin great barriers against the evils i apprehended. It is 'to-day what it has eve been, the great Constitution an Union loving party of the country. It loves the Federal Constitution for the glorious events that gave it birth for the glorious memories of its mighty framers, for the incal- culablo benefits it lies conferred ! upon me country, ana yet more than all these, lor the limited pow ers it contains, and the reserve! rights it leaves to the States and the people. And we love our State Constitu tion for the wise form of govern ment it institutes, the guarantees of liberty anh property it contains, its express recognition of the peo ple as the source of power, and its care not to trench too deeply on tie rights of the individual. And our late sad experience of Consti tutions violated, and their most sacred guarantees trampled under loot, only makes us adhere the more strongly to the instruments designed for our protection. And believe me, gentlemen, that no party that habitually disregards our Constitutional rights can long moiutain Us 1 ascendency. This is a land of.-written Constitutions, and has been so from. its very first settlement, for. .even, the royal charters of the olden (iuiQ.'imper thority. feet as they were,' guaranteed ' many liberties of tho people, wrung sturdy manhood from reluctant Kings.' and wo in cirnct nniton experience of our late war. In that terrible struggle a large por tho I lion of tho peoplo became for a time regaullcss'of our fundamental lows, and without even a mtinncr, i saw them daily violated. They Dv,er wnv con d tho TJonnhl e l.o 'eminent) is that the majority shall hut the minority- hav-wgUs that must bo respected. But the ColRtitutions. It has ever been a part of American education. to rc gardwritten Constitutions as es sential to our welfare, happiness and freedom. For more than eighty years it ha3 been our boast that there was no such thing as an unwritten Constitution, or an om m'polent Parliament in the United States. And for more than three quarters of a century, we'havo re quired every officer, greater small, to solemnly swear to support our .written Constitutions. And time and again have we, by amend ments, yet further restricted the powers of Government, but never, until 1SC5, by amendment, en.larg-, ed'theni. These are most significant facts. and the infereuco tolo drawn from f them is not over-thrown by the sad seemed to think, and. most of them ' probably did think,' that in no oth- 9aved from destruction. A most erroneous and dangerous belief, ,but nevertheless entertained by many, t'-ough never by me. ' And even now, when war has ceased, we lind a majority of tho people of the North apparently sustaining a self-styled Congress in the plainest infractions of tlio Federal Constitution, and of tho rights of the States. But let no Democrat therctoro despair. This state of things is necessarily tem porary. Tho force of reason, edu cation, habit, wisdom, patriotism, and magnanimity will again be felt, and the landmarks of the fath ers will once more bo set up. Then, gentlemen, what is the plain state of the case ? The fundamental idea of American institutions fsnma. what modified in the Federal Gov- IJadical nartv now in nowpr srl.-s to establish precisely tho reverse of this. Tl ough a minority of tho voting population of the United States arrogates to itself an exclu sive right to rule, and it denies its millions of citizens their plainest Constitutional tnivileces. it does not deny that it is a minority. On the contrary.it avows it, and makes that lact tho ground for seeking to enfranchise half a million of ne- grocs in order to recruit its ranks of voters. But as that would still leave it in a minority, it demands the disfranchisement of" a million ofwhires. It seeks thus to per petuate, or at least prolong its power. . I know full well the force of par ty organization and party tics, and it has been exemplified too lately to bo easily forgotten. For oppos ing the mad and anti-American f)lans of the Radicals, the President las been deserted by the party tnat elected him, and is threaten ed with impeachment. For com ing to the regcuo of the Constitu tion in a point most vital to the liberty and safety of every man, woman and child in the Republic, the Supreme Court is menaced with a signal, but as yet undefined chastisement. For daring to breat he the word "Constitution," tho Dem ocratic party is denounced as trait tors or sympathizers with treason ; and threats of armed force to nut down the will of the maioritv of the people, whenever it shall be ex pressed, have been heard too often to permit those who desire peace to feel unconcerned. That these are evil omens it would be folly to deny ; and assuredly they teach us but too plainly that tho future is full of danger. But, nevertheless, I adhere to my belief. There is still virtue enough in the country to save it, and it will bo saved. The Democratic party a mighty host is all right, and the hour is not far distant when thousands and tens of thousands of our opponents will freely confess it. But be that hour far off or near, our duty, my lellow Democrats, is plain. We are enlisted in a sacred cause; enlisted not for one or five or ten years only, but for our en tire lives. , We can not abandon our principles, we can not desert Lour banners, we can not give up the snip. . What, then, can we do, but bat tle manfully and earnestly for the right; and be assured, my friends; that we can not achieve success by supinencss, irresolution, and indo lence. If you would save your country from destruction; if you would transmit the name of your grand old party to posterity; if you would preserve your liberties, pro perty, and sacred horor ; . if you would bestow upon your children the blessings of freedom and pros-' perity, you must reject all such phrases as "masterly inactivity," all timid counsels of indecision or fear, and spurn from you as utterly base tho advice disorganize in or der to conquer. No, my lriends ; conquer you never will by disor ganization, indolence,, irresolution, or humility. ' To conquer, 3-ou must be organized,' active, earnest reso lute and perservering. If defeated to-day, you must buckle on your armor again , U-morrow. Your safety , of the whole country de mands that you show your strength and show it in a solid organization; that you assert vour. rights, and show yourselves resolved to main tain them. Do this perserve in doing it, and your enemies will not dare to pro- 1 ! I , . 1 iung usurpation, mildness to. re kindle .the fires of civil war. Fail to do. your duty, and your rights will be trampled in tho dust. Do your whole duty, and your reward will be a united, prosperous and happy country under the benignant rule of the true and time-honored Democracy. Sensible of Against Changing Treason. The following very sensible speech was made lately in the House of Representatives by Mr. Jenckes, of Rhode Island: : Mr. Jenckes I wish about five minutes. I will yield them to the gentleman from New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, the statutes of 1790, a portion of which is sought to be repealed, by the bill now before the House, created four capital of fenses: first, treason,(ixing the pun ishment of treason as the Consti tution empowered Congres,s to do; second, murder; third, piracy: and fourth, forgery. This bill seeks to repeal a limitation to the prosecu- uon 01 certain 01 these ollenses. In the statute itself I find no limi t.Vion in the cases of willful mur der and forgery. ForgQry has since ceased to be a capital offense in the courts of the United States. The exception of willful murder still remains. The eflect of this bill, therefore, will bo to extend the timeTor finding indictments in cases of treason and piracy alone. I submit that upon every ques tion of justico and public policy this bill ought not to pass. Courts of justico have, in these latter times, paid greater respect to statute-- of limitation than thpy have at any former period in the history of the law in England and in this country. They luve declared em phatically in cases civil and crimi nal, that they are conducive to the peace aad welfare of society, and ought not to be disturbed. They have been construed strictly both in civil and criminal actions. This proposed repeal, if it inten tion, is made only in reference to cases of treason. Piracy is always committed upon the high seas and out of tho jurisdiction of any State under a flag not recognized by any civilized nation. Its proper defini tion confines it to thoso who com mit offenses sailing under the black flag alone. They are not only criminals against the United States or the laws of the United States, but are enemies of human kind, and wherever arrested and found may be punished, not only by the laws of the United States,, but by the laws of every civilized nation. I consider, therefore, this repeal does not affect any case of that kind. It is made, then, solely against the time for finding of in dictments for treason. Now, Mr. Speaker, if there is any offense for punishment or pros ecution to which a statute of limi tation should be passed it is of that class denominated political offens es, of which treason is the highest. Every person who has committed that offense against the United States during the late rebellion has been for twenty months within the actual powei of this Government; part of the time within the milita ry power; now within both the mil itary and civil power. This repeal refers to the time for finding the indictment. If an indictment can not be found within twenty months, what assurance can the gentleman a I . ADVEItTISlNfl. TPflM One square, ten line'...'..:.:.... 51 (KT ricu uuuiiiouiu insertion, 4(j Cards, per year, ten lines, . : 8 OO Notices of Executors. Adminlsira- . tons and Guardian, r. :.... 2 OO Attachment iwtk-e befor J. TV, . . a OO Local notices, per 11 ne, ; . . 1 0 Yearly advertismenU will be charged $70 per column, and at porportinnate rates lor Jess than a colutun. l'uyablc la advance v give that i,t. can be fonnd within twenty years? , ' -- If it cannot be found. within three years, what reason is there for hav ing it found after, three years? - If the state 0! thing3 briefly referred 10 as ueiug me moving cause 01 this bill, then the defect is in the machinery by which the law is to be carried into execution. Reme dy I hat, and do not repeal your old statutes. These offenses commit ted against the majesty . of the State are thf?e of nil others which aro soonest healed by the action of time. There has never been any sedition, any treason, any rebellion, in which parties of. the same coun try and. nation,- arrayed in arms against each other, when at anoth er period they have not been found acting together. It ii contrary to the history .of nations to suppose', that they can be permanently or eveu long divided on political ques tions, even though those questions have driven them to arms. , , Mr. Speaker, we have examples in history of the error of this kind of legislation. We might go back to the Bepublic of Kome, and lind a consul arraigned, after furty years, for the murder of a leader of sedition. ' We can go back to Eng lish history, and cile cases in addi tion to those cited by tho gentle man from Pennsylvania (Mr. Me. ver.s) yesterday, where pcrjn, long after the commission of the offense, have been tried, convicted, and executed. We may look even to the case in England which in . ourstatute falls in the exception, where a Governor of an island was indicted in London, tried, convict ed, condemned, and executed twen- ty years after the commission of the oil'ense. If we repeal all stat utes of limitations and refuse to pass statutes of indemnity, tho Judge Advocate who prosecuted the assassins of President Lincoln, the Court. that tried t hem, tho I'res ident who signed their death war rant, might be arraigned beforo an adverse court and jury in this Dis trict without limit as to time ex cept the duration of their natural livesand condemned and executed. Such a state of things is foreign to tho spirit of the law, of the aire. and of Christianity, . and it ought not to be suffered to be reinstated in the laws of this nation. It had " but a brief existence, if it had any, from the time of the adoption of the Constitution until the passago of the statute ot April, 17U0, and never ought to be imported into our laws i'roffi the . English or any other law. . Nay, Mr. bpeaker, wo might go further. Tho last Congress passed acts in the nature of statutes of limitation to prevent the' prosecu tion of loyal men in arms obeying tho orders of their superiors. And this Congress has beforo it bills of similar character following tho examples of these precedents. A Congress of a different mind might repeal all these statutes and sub- , jectthe innocent servants of 1ho Republic to suits for damages or prosecution for crime at any time, as this bill expresses it, or within any new limit which another Con gress might fix to it.. I trust, Mr. Speaker, that this bill will not pass; that we shall look at this statute of 1700 as learned courts and wise judges have looked at this and other statutes of limi tation, as a statute of repose, a statute of peace, and leave the punishment of ciitnes, the time and manner of their prosecution, to the law as il stood when the pffenso was committed. Som;i for Oxck. A correspond ent has a good anecdote of a mn who rarely failed to go to bed in toxicated, and disturb Irs wife the whole night. Upon his being charged by a friend that he never went to bed sober, he indignantly denied it, and gave the incidents of one particular night m proof. "Pretty soon after I got into bed my wife said: 'Why, husband, what is the matter with you? You act strangely. 4"lhere is nothing the matter with me,' said I, nnfbniv of all ' MV Ull. u 'I am sure tl ere is, said she; 'you don't act natural at all. Shan't get up and get something for you?' . "And she got up, lighted a can-' die and came to the bedside to look at me, shading the light with her. hand.' . - ; " M 'I knew there was something strange. about yfcu,' said she; 'why, -you are sober . "Now, this is a fact, and my wife will sweai to it. ,", ,..' ','