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I. Terms of Publication. fraa Wat!cehburo Hkpcblicaii, Office In Mayers' bullillns, cast of Ui Court House, la pub lished every WeunesnnT morning, at per annum, is advaxce, or 50 If not paid with lu the year. Allsabserlpllosi MnuK must ke settled annually. No paper will be sent out of the State unless paid for I ADVASca, and II Mich subscriptions will Invariably bo Ulseon tinned at the expiration of the time for which they are pnl'l. Coin m unlrat Ions on subjects of local or general Intend are. respectfully boIIpIImI. To ensure atli-ntlon favors iiflhl kind must Invariably lie iToniiiiinhil by tin- name of the author, nut for nuMli 'ition, but ns guurtintv nlnt Imixmltlnn. All letters piTtulnlnir t hiislneaanf lliu ullke tnut lie aildniwiil to Ihe Kdltnr goctni. IF 1 THE R.1HX. BT THOMAS LACKLAKD. OH funntr Joe steps through Ihe doors At wide to him as gate r Tliehos ; And thoughtful walks about the flours Whereon are piled his Winter stores, " And counts Ilia profit or hU glebes. Ten tons of timothy rtp there, And four of clover in the bay t lied top that's cut, well mlddlln' fair. And bins of roots, oblong ond square, To help eke out tin crops of buy. A dozen licud of cattle Btutid Itetlecting lu the leaf strewn yard i And stalks nre stacked on every hand, The luteat ofTciing of the land To labor long maintained and hard. Cartloads of pumpkins yonder lie The horse la feeding in Ins stall, Theoals are bundled w;i!"M l.';,'h. And pens and beans uie lu-uped luid by, As if Ihcre were somo festival. At length .Old F rmcr Joe sits down A patch across each of his knees ; He crowds Irs li.it back on his crown, Then clasps his hands so hard und brown- And, like a fanner takes his ease. "How fit Uie years do go!" "It seem", in fatt. but yesterday, That iu this very barn, we thiee David, Kzokii-1 and me Pitched in the Summer loads oriiay ! David ho sails Ills clipper now ; And 'Z'-kiil died in Mexico 601110 one must slay and rUto to plou ;h, Oet np the horse and nilik the cow And who, of coitntu, hut little Joe ! I might have been I can t tell what ! Who knows about It till he tries ? I might have setll ;d m some spot, Wliero money If mure easy got ; Perhaps beneath Pacific's skies. I mlglt have preached like Par-'on Junes ( Or got n living at thn liu. ; I might have guns to (,'oi'greas sure ; 1 might have kept a Vat .r Cure ; 1 might have gone and been oh, pshaw ! Par better is it as it Is ; What future waits him, on man knows j What he lias got, lli-.it sme, is his; It makes no odds if stocks have rbj, Or politicians come to blows ! C'oi.tent 1? rich and miiieili'm' more I llii'ik I've h'.'iiul somebody say j It' it ruins it's npt to pour ; And 1 am tich mi tlio barn fluor, Where- all la iin that I can nisc. I've i.luughrd nnd moweil this dear old farm. Till not a rod but what I know ; ' I've kept Ihe old links snug and warm And livid wh'iotlt a twingo of liar; I I doll t ere how the si inn inl.'il liioiv. Ami 011 lli'.s amc old firm I'll lay, An 1 r.ii e my cattl., and my com ; Here shall these liaiis tuin vli.i.!.-' my ; These fid shall never le uti to stray i Hut I will where 1 w;is hoi:i." And Farm?!- Joe pulled down his hat, And stood upon his feet nncj mora ; He would not argue, aflcrtlmt, lint, like n barn aiii.lneiat, Ki'i oh his wall' abonl t lie floor political Ur:il'UIATIU. IX lllSlil INI'.. iU'iiinst the lolly and weakness and Immediately upon the organization political sin that they are committing, oftlic Federal Government the men M the first year of" Washington's inl and mind of the country had a doubt- ministration the Government was not ful conflict to wage with the mob and able to pay a dollar of its matured its demagogues. The Involution had debt, or of the accrued and accruing left a debt upon the people, as great interest upon nny of its obligations, relatively to their resources as the but its go:l-fathers, who stood spon debt of the late rebellion is to us, and sors for the political instruction of the our existing means for meeting it. infant nation, boldly undertook for it But it was not only tho amount of the that it would maintain the faith pledg debtof Independence, like the amount ed in its name, and from that day it of our present burden, which, in Wash-; grew in grace and favor with God and ingtonsphra.se, was "terrible -." bni i'.s fu;.;.. "We have them for an ensnm charaeier or claims were held to beiL." Xational Jmerirmi. iquestionablc. It had been contracted , ;nt war prices; some of it at continental j inn ext anoncy prices, and the certificates or ev-, idenecshad passed fionithehand of tlis original or "meritorious" holders into thvte oteapialists, who had purcliosd them at enormous rates of discount. Out of these indisputable facts a plausible sophistry was able to build a theory of repudiation fit for popular presentment ; just as n popular mur kier jfts itself softened down to justifia ble homicide, 'when the victim is odi ous and flic slayer is the exponent of popular possum, or was legal au thority wanting in support of resistance to the odious imposition. No part of the debt had D3eu funded, orassumed by tho new Government. It had all licen in a round of exchange, a sort of lumbering currency, transferred from the hands of the necessitous of those vfho had more means, and faith enough in its ultimate redemption, to oiler anything for it, and must the shnmo tui story be told? Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State,' gave Washington his official opinion tlmt cuwea in action Were not negotiable under the common law. For our own protection, and to render Mr. Jcftcrson the cxaetest and severest justice, wc quoto his own words i . "By tho common lawofEn- land the conveyance of a right to a ebt, whereof the party, is not in pos ecssion,is not ouly vokl, but severely punishable under the laws of mainten ance r and champerty ;". adding that bills -of exchange tinder tho law tner ehanl, and notes and bonds, were the only -, exceptions to the general rule that in all,, other raises assignments Were void; and that the debU of the soldiers not having been put into cither tit thess forms, Were Void The nttct point at issue is worth stating, for' we art threatened with ft rehsrealof this great controversy. The Si' JAS. K SAYEltS, VOL. XI. soldier, said tliu repudintors, who lias shed his blood mil risked his life, and the victuliir who litis credited the sus tenance of the uriny to Congress nnd to the States, have a merit in their ! claims which the broker of their cer j tifieati's eaniiot claim ; and the nation ! was almost bullied into the reimdiu ' tion of all domestic ilcht which was ' not still in the hands of the first hold I crs. Ilninilton insisted tlmt "to caiy the risks of parties ; to supersede the eon tracts between them ; to take away a riht to a specific thing, are not less violations of property thim direct con fiscation." His whole argument went brntidsido through Jeilcrson's cabinet opinion, and it triumphed. Even Jclftrson himself afterwards absented 1 to this funding of the entire debt- of the country at contract prices, in wlmtso- ever hands, an 1 irrespective of all the preto'idi'il entities ii'minst even tlie rim- o'i.: ixious classes of it ; and yet, iiuiiiilton to the day of his death nevet . got rid of this oll'ens? against the prcj ' udices of the populace, excited by the I success with which he vindicated the credit, ami, resultingly, the true pcr- niaiicnt interests of the nation. Arc ! we t ) hive this i chapter of our history id shall wc find men ' over Uipiin? and 1 enough , and they great cnotigh, for a similar sacrifice in the hour of trial ? , Will thciv be somebody, whom this people must hear, to tell them as I Hamilton told their fathers; "that be I sides tin motives .if political cxpcdU ency , there are arguments that rest on the immutable principles of ni.iral ob ligation ; and in proportion as tip nun! is ihsp -cd to contemplate, m the order of Providence, an ultimate connection between public virtue and : public happiness, will be its repug- iiam-e ton violation of those principles." I We have now nil "enormous debt, ( and oppressive tax to provide for its j interest and for current government : expenses. The evidences of this debt j must, in the nature of things, work I their way into the hands of those who have capital to invest lit interest. I They were bought (iir greenbacks at ' greater or lessratcsof depreeiati on, but 1 the least very considerable; these bonds must rise to the par of gold if ' their credit and value are not iuipcach ;ed, and then we shall have some men i who do not know nny better, and not j a few win intend the worst, to raise the ' cry cither of payment in a depreciated ; curreney,a forced reduction of the rate of interest, or total repudiation, for peace lias (linger iw t'lxitt as war. A national ill lit is not it national iilessmir, but it need not be a national The vigorous eii '.iiraueeiif n burden sti'cngtliens the l . arer ; th dishonor able al and inmeiii of a duty paralyzes tliu rei r. ant. Them t burden so heavy as a nati i:i's shame, and no alms of reason so shabby and disrace f: il as an ulteript to justify it to em ploy law and equity in the revolting ei'viej of dishonesty. The best that we can w ish for the advocates of rcpu ibati i t, in any form or degree, or j under any name, is the submission of Jc!i''rson : and the worst, that they si all stand with him in thn pillory of i history to warn the next generation If impudence were n virtiie,nnd the possession ot one virtue, in nn extra ordinary edgree, would make one vir tuous, then might we speak of the vir ttt nis Democracy. Democracy and Impudence, in these days arc synonymous. So great is tiieir impudence, wc can compare it with nothing but their ig norance. Tiieir claims to purity their pro fessions of devotion to country their reverence for the Constitution their love for the soldicr--and their pro fession of patriotism aro all the bold est Impudence. After four years struggle to" over throw the government, wherein they failed not from want of will, but want of power they ask nt once to be re stored to the control of that govern ment. , After a revolutionary attempt to overthrow the authority of the Consti tution, they claim to he mar excellence, its friends,' aud charge those who sav ed it from general ruin, with being its enemies. With thrir hands yet red with the blood of loyal :ncn, and their mouths, yet foul with their praises of traitors, and their hearts yet black will) sym pathy for rebels, they ask the survivors of Belle Islo and Andersonvillo to aid them in their attempt to get into power;','.' V : 'V ' With; a record yet fresh in our memories of their resistance to drafts, of wordsof comfort sent to our enemies, of rejoicing at rebel victories, aud of slanderous, abusiveepithets, (as, "mur derers," "thieves," "hirelings,". &c.,) heaped upon our soldiers they now turn to those whose loss they then counted their gain, and ask them to FIKMXES8 IX THE RIGHT WAYMSIOG, vote fir their traitorousjlimdcrs, as the true friends of the soldier. With the fiicts recorded in history that our immense public debt was oc casioned by their resistance to the laws ot the country by their persistent op position to the authority of the govern ment and by their efforts to depre cate the credit of the nation they charge the .blame for this burden upon those who defeated their attempts to overthrow the authority of the gov ernment and bankrupt the nation. u itli lir.mls, hearts anil souls black with treason they scorn the thought i of loyal men, whose skins are black, , licing allowed an equal voice with lCr'' published in that county : theni in the government. j To his sisters, Jane and Hannah With the, vilest of the vile, (town or j Wclty, of Westmorland comity, ho de eities) and the most illiterate of the : vises lands in Indiana and Westmor- lgnorant, in their ranks, they protest lli.lllll.-l. II s UH,ttJ lUtlll". on account of their ignoranec 1 Impudence! Impudence! Great is Impudence ! ' "As impudent as the "devil," is a phrase that loses but little of its rough ness, and none of its fiiree, by the sub stitution of "democracy" for "devil." Tiffin Tribune, Ha Won't Do. The Louisville Courier recently pro posed General Sherman nstho Demo cratic candidate for the Presidency. The liii Crosse Democrat, edited by Brick l'ouieroy, thinks he won't do for that important position, and remon strates in the following forcible lan guage. "And such a candidate! Sherman William Teeumseh Sherman Van- lal Shernian, priiiei'ofti band of bum- tners, thieves, vajjubondsund rulliuns Sherninn whose '-march to the sea would have (lammed to till eternity a lemon ot Piiatcs and Im-booter.- Sherman, the lackey, tool leflenaut of the Saiuramon brother of t!r; devil the obeene brutal find boorish Lincoln Sherman whose hands nre red with the blood of thousands of Aniericcn freemen Sherman, whose most glori ous nets can be written in two words "Atlanta" and "Columbia." "This iiiushroon of civil war, blood watered,rank,tho corruption and wick edness engendered in tho hellish cru sade for the enslavement and degrcdn tion of white men, nnd the triumph of niggers this thing a. Democratic can didate for the honors which as a party, we have conferred upon Jefferson Madison, Jackson, Van Biircn, Pierce am J i.ic.an:... V I ropoml by a Ken- tuekiiin, from a Sovereignty thousands IU WHOSO tillllS ICSI, III IIIII1U11UCU , ,,, T r , T graves, slain for thn love of liberty by , ''J1?,,l CY'. J:1,1,0S,L Lruw'",80 D: Sherman's minion? Gre.-.t God l" that y-!.ot V, ,lH,1,l,Stolb 1 ., one thousand a Democrat should so disgrace himself and humiliate tho grand old party !" : "'lo IJ,!V- William P. Harveson, of . . - Pottersville, Butler county, I'a., (now a I'lnin Mintcmeiit. 0f Aniitv, Pa.,) five hundred dollars." The rebel papers of Vir;:hiiu as well ( "To Miss Ann Valentine, of AVash as the Copperhead papers of the North, ington, Pa., two hundred dollars, in make a great ado because the freed men annual instalments of fifty dollars." of that State voted almost solid u-'uinst the. whites. O.ieof t!io freednien, in neiciiceoi ins race, writes lo uiu-cw York yVAitncgiving very clear reasons why they so voted. 1 le say. they were compelled by a sense of duty "to vote in solid phalanx against the whites." As it scented to the mucks tlmt the question on which they wore voting was whether they should ever have the ehanee to vote again, it was abso lutely impossible that they should vote away their own right to vote. He predicts that as soon as the question of thwrriglit to vote is settled, which will bo done by the ratifying of the Consti tution fo bo adopted by the Conven tion, the black vote of Virginia will bo as diversified as the white on nil questions of Slate and Xational policy. The blacks not only believe but arden tly pray that after the Constitution is formed, securing their rights, the blacks may never again bo obliged to vote as a party together, or against the whites. This is certainly a clear state ment of tho case, and it cannot lie won dered nt that the frcednien of Virginia voted iu the manner in which they did. Tiik Louisville Democrat says: "Wc know positively that there does exist in the breasts ot Secessionists and Southern sympathizers a violent and iicrsonal hostility to Union men. Wc know that they consider they have a revenge to wreak upon those who were for the Union, nnd that ninny of theni Jiuve sworn never to support lor omce any Lnion man 1 heso are , the men who rejoice nt 1 emoeratie , P.. emocratioi victories in the North, and for whose tl.tl.lll IU ru,,t.l lilt. A't llivf. t.tttt. j'Ul is now struggling. Gkx. Siikrman's Views. The Democracy may derive some consola tion from the following words utiered by Gon. Sherman nt a meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, lately held in St. Louis. Speaking of the burdens entailed upon the country by the war, he said : "We of the North have to mourn the loss of fathers, brothers, sons and friends, and are burdened with a vast national debt, binding on im in fact, in law and in honor; never, I hope, to be questioned by any honorable man in ylmfriea till every cent is paid." John W. Riddle, was nominated for Mayor by tho Republicans at Pitts- burg, Monday. McCarthy, the pros- cnt Mayor, was nominated for Treas- D...1. ...il i ran., III LI, JJULU UlUUUO ITOT KCIl Ub A 11L9- . .. . . burgh. The total strength of the army, on the 30th of September, was about fifty six thousand five hundred, 'w stag aeiiltam AS GOD GIVES US TO SEE THE PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1867. clctt grading. THE WILL or JOHJ M. BRADY. John S. Brady, Estj., the eminent uttorney, who died in Washington county, this State, a couple of weeks ago, seems to have had a warm friend ship for a largo number of his neigh bors and acquaintances. Before his death he made a will in which he bc niieathed them a large iiortion of his property, JUany oi tno legatees are well known bv a number of our citi- zt.n8. The bequests are as follows, as w(! learn from the "lteview A Exutuin : lad eotinties,held by him iu common . with t hem. To James Kclley, w ho bus for many years resided on his (Brady's) farm in (irecno county, he bequeaths a farm in Monongnhela county, W. Va., con taining about four hit ml red acres. All the rest of his real estate con sisting of a tract of land, in Wetzel county, W. Va., containing three hun dred acres more or less, a tract in Washington township, Greene county, Pa., containing about two hundred and fifty acres ; a tract in South Stra- bano township, Washington county, containing about two hundred and seventy acres ; a tract in C'untoii town ship, Washington coitntv, containing about ono hundred and thirty-five acres, and occupied by Joseph I'otter ; la tract in iiu'tli township, Builer county, I'll., containim.? about two hundred ceres; and all other real est:.3 owned by him and not particti- i hirly described, and not otherwise il is- posed of he authorizes his executors to sell nt either private or public sale, as they may deem best." 'lo Alexander Murdoch, Esq., he gives a live aero lot on the Hickory mad at the head of Washington bo rough." "To Miss Isabel S. MelCennan (now Lmighlin,) (laughter of William Me Kei'.nan, LVq., ho gives a handsome gold watch and chain to ba purchased uy ins executors, a.ut inseriiiea witn ii.n ,.,!.- ' I, .,,.,.;. ,1 r,.,., t.,1... ii V ' v ' """"" J"',y : "To Miss Rebecca Murdoch, daitgh- ; tcrof Alexander Murdoch, Esq., live hundred dollars. , "lo Miss Anna ll. Monbrnmei-y. daii'iliter ot JtoUert Alontirotnerv. ot ; ; Lvcolllillg count p one thoiisand ' nK j "lo Jolin !S. Jirady llaniinond, son of Mai. (ieo. T. 'lammond, of Wash itwton, l a., three hundred dalhirs. to be applied to tho payment of his education." "To the United Presbyterian church of Washington Pa., fivo hundred dol lars.' "To the scientific Department of Washington and Jefferson College, es tablished at Washington, Pn., five thousand dollars." "To Mrs. Jane W. Achcson, wife of r...1.. t ..I. nn.... A 1 .1.11 .iuim;.n;uiT'in, eigne imiKircu uoiuirs, to be expended by her in the pnrolinse of u silver service set, to be suitably inscribed and kept by her as a memo rial of his high regard for her." "To Jane and yvnii McCnusland, daughters of his niece, Ann MeCtius land, of Westmoreland county, ono thousand dollars each." "To his niece, Ann McCr.uslund, five thousand dollars." "To Alex. Wilson. Eso.. intrust. such portion of his law library ns his executors may select, as the nucleus of a library for tho use of the court and t he contributors Jhercto." The Court jiiuri ry niunorizeii by net ot Asscm- lily had not ben established at the date of the will. - As n memorial of the long and inti- mate friendship which subsisted be- tween himself r.nd William Wangh, John D. Chnmljcrs, William Mclven- nan nnd Alexander Murdoch, all of Washington, ho bequeaths us follows; j To l,rn V,n.,l. :..lf l !.. 1. - " ""r,11 IOiVyIUIIlUCI CHCIl H ,1i,i ..,., ,i?,i. ... ... ,. ... , .v" ."iu 1.11,1111, in ih; iiiueiia-jeii i,v ha .-.tti.. -i.. i i,v i.;a v, i !..-.. :to Mr; .Mclvennan, fifteen h. scrioeu: liindrrvl lollars, and to Mr.Miirdoch one thou sand dollars." "To Ell Harris, and John Keenyof South Sirahino township, this county, Ixiih of whom had lived on his farm in that township, as follows: Harris one hundred dollars, Kecny two hun dred dollars. ' ' ,, "Ho directs his executors fo pur chase a gold headed cane for each John L. Gow, (now deceased,) A. W. Ach cson, Alex. Wilson, James Watson, Joseph W. Henderson, David 8.- Wil son, John D. Chambers,' and John II. Ewing, of Washington, and Sobieski Brady of Wheeling, all to be suitably incribed.'' .,!,!, . ,', .- "To the Washington Cemetery he be 3ucatllij fiv0 hundred dollars to keep l8 ,ot in FT'al repair. - He also directs that the bodies ot his wife and cm,J 8Ua11 be removed from tho old irrnvpvnrd nf iltianlnnA l. o .mibihwj wontmvfc I t ttn lk , a n il 'After the payment in full of the proceeding legacies, he devises the res idue of his estate to his sisters, Jane and Hannah Welty and their represen tatives five sevenths to Jane who has RIGI IT. Lincoln. five children and, two-sevenths to Hannah who litis two children. His brother Hugh V. Brady, of West morland county, is released from a t'ebt of seven hundred dollars. Be yond this he is silent as to his brother believing as ho says that he lias a comiKitency. However he directs his cxecuionj hi case no is nnsiaKcn in tins belief to mako such provisions for the brothers comfort as in their judgement may lie amply sullieient. The will is dated September, 13C5, and William McKentmn and Alex. Murdoch are appointed executors. In addition to the above, wo nny state that it is rumored and gene-ally believed, that he gave to Miss Lottie Wilsou daughter of Major Win. J. Wilson, for whom lie entertained feel ings of warm friendship, notes on his executors for the sum of two thousand dollar.. ' . -.. .; The estate of the deceased is estima ted at one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. tONVKKNATlOV. This is an art in which the French ladies excel; they arc always light agreeablc,wittv,aiulcnterhiiniiig. With out wishing t'utt American ladies pos sessed altogether the qualities of French women, wc may desire for them a little more of tho French iliciiltiesof making themselves agreeable. Too many of them, when culled up on to entertain ctnuii'ers, sit cold, dull and stupid, unable to start a topic of conversation or answer a question ex cept in monosyllables. Benieinber, the art of conversation can be cultivated, and that it is one of the duties of women to cultivate it in order to give the proper tone to society and enliven the domestic cir cle.. In selecting a sill ject for conversa tion chose soinet'uiiig that will interest your companion. There is nothing more illbred than to tall; much cf your self, your own plans and projects and above all of matters which tend to ex alt your own importance. Ljiy to whatever is said to' von, a good Listen ; well that is to, say liiterest- iistonor i(, Il3 yMj as a good . ., . . . talker, tind never interrupt persons when they are spenutng, or commence n rcatiiiir soniothinir calculated to dis- ti-.ict the attention from what be or she is saying. Avoid subjects in society such as po.itics or religion, upon wnien pci-sons nre most likely to differ. It is teste to assert one's opinion against is bad t that of another person, and tho vieldinr of it through politeness might bo mis construed. It is illbred to use foreign terms in your conversation as it is to whisper to one person when there are others present. Je ciireitti now vou encourage n reputation for faying smart, sharp, or sarcastic things; it will make you both uiH liaritalilc and unpopular. If you venture on a story in com pany, be sure that it is sharp and to the point. Zsever talk upon subjects with which you are only slightly acquainted such as art and artists for instances. It is easy to betray a great deal of ig norance without knowing it. Make yourself acquainted with cur rent events, current literature, and the topics ot the day, in order to converse iiuderstaiidingly about them. Joh nilllnffnon (Jong. Josh P.illings reliiteth his first expe rience with the gong thtisly: I never can eradicate holi from mi memory the sound of the fust gong I ever hen!. I was sett i n on thef ront steps of a tavern in the sitty of Buffalo pensively smok in. The sun was goin to bed, and the hevins foraltour was blushin at the performance. The Ery kanal, with its rroldcn waters, wnson its wav to Al- hanv, nnd I was ncrusin the line botes !a ffotin by, and thinkin of Italy, j (where used to liv,) and her gondo- lers and gallus winimin. My entire sole was, as it were, in a great swet. i wnntnj to ( I frit grcnt) j nc tulv grew. There are things that are tu 'big tti lw trifled with ; there are times when n man brakes luce from hissclf, when be sees spcrrcts, when he as tho he kud fill both hands with the still's of hcvin, and almost sware he was n bank president. That's what ailed mc. But the korso of true luv never did run sniootho (this is Shaks pearc's opinion, too.) Just as I was duin my best du:nmer,diimmcr,spat bang, beljcr, crash, rour,ram,dummcr dtimmcr, whang, rip, rare, rally, dum mcr, dummer, dum with a trcmcn- jusjumn l struck the center ov the sidewalk, with another I cleared the gutter, nnd with another I stood in the middle ov the street snortin like an Indian pony at a band of music.; I gazed in wild despair at the tavern stand, mi hart swelling up as big at a out door . oven, rai teeth was as luce as a string ov bedcs. I thot all the crockery in the tavern had fell down; I thot ov fenomcnons, I thot oy ,Ga brcl and his horn; I was jest on the pint ov thinkinov eontcthin else when the landlord kum out nn the front stupe of the tavern, holdin by a string the bottom of a old brass kettle. ; lie kawlcd me gently with his hand. I .went slola up to him. . He kammed mi fears, he said it was gong, I saw tho kussed thing, .he said supper was ready, and axed me ef I would have black or green tea, and I scd I would, :; l ; -. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 10. 24. 3IKWNPAPGR ttOS&IP. Tt ta npmuun.1 li. Iiolll ft COMVCntlOll 4 . .9 ,MnjOtK w ............ of editors in the State of Delaware to further nnd nroteet the newspaper in terests of that State. A new daily has been started nt Scrtintnn. Pn. . It is issued from the oflice of the Scronton Weekly lkpub lican, and is well printed and ably edited. Serantoii now has seven news papers; two dailies nnd five weeklies. HoUACE B. FCLI.ER, of Boston, has purchased Merry's Museum, ami .:n :... u :.. v..:....t.... :.. ... ... irviiiu it iii wi uiuuv-r in mi en larged form. TliE Pittsburg Prexbutirian Iianncr has been enlarged by changing its form from folio to quarto. THE Rnleieh (X. C.I Reimter was established in 17UD. It is 'published daily, scmi-wcckly and weekly. JNKiutASKA has two daily newspa pers. Mn. John" E. Noik iioss. of For ney's I'rens, has accepted a position on .1 . ft .... - w . ino ixu(c. sentinel, nt Aiontgoinery, Aiaiiama. FofltTKKV of the New Orleans edi tors were attacked by the yellow fever during its late visit to that city. Only ond died. TllE first newspaper printed in New Hampshire wns the 'A'-w J fumpsltirc Uflrtw, ifsueil ono tmn-lrul and eleven ycaii! n;;o. Ihe Gazette still exists, under its ordinal title, m Portsmouth. The New York Lrihirr him now n weekly circulation of' three hundred i ami inrty tnousand copies, nnd allow ing unit live persons iv.i I each copy, it has one million i'e.n liniuliv"1 thousand renders. The first newspaper wasnrinled in Virginia in 1780. Its subscrinfhiii ! price was $30 ikt annum. Advertise-, incuts ofmoilerato length $10 first; week, aud 7 00 caeh stibseouent in- sertkn. GkoIKIE A. PnTTEl!. of Brooklyn. writes the financial articles for the Hound Table. , The sailors on tho receiving ship Km lltmjhirc, lying attho Gosjiort nvy luru, edit and publish a paper called the Jully Tar. Mn. Wii.kie Cou.ixs: will hike charge of All the 1 ear Hound duriii" Mr. Di ekens' absence in this country. Tub New York Tribune has over three hundred editors, reporters nnd correspondents. Ohio boasts of nino women ns edi tors and assistant editors of newspa pers. The Galaxy is said to have lost $20,000 within the last two vears. It is announced that "William Sliakspeare,' has sold out his interest in the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazelle. Tiieke aro sixty-five newspapers published in Mexico, two in English and one' in French the balance being in. Spanish. All tho editors of tho "Hound. Table" arc said to wear glasses. The correspondent at Washington of the Philadelphia Morning l'oxt is James It. Young, who is: also corres pondent for the New York Tribune, and brother to John It. Young, man aging editor of that paper. A kew daily Republican paper is to bo started at Harrisburg, Pu.,on the second of December. .Sa.m't.. Si.n-ct.air, publisher of the New York Tribune, ia flm Innn't stockholder in the concern ; owning some twenty shares, worth nt present valuation, about $122,000. O.v Wednesday, tho 15th inst., the Xorth Amerkan and United Slates Gazelle commenced its ono hiindrcilrli volume, and appeared in an entire new dress. lion Tlinililens Nlevens. Of the condition of thn Hon. Tli,1- dcus Stevens, a Wosliington corres pondent writes that it is evident that he is in a decline, mentally and phys ically. 1 lis conversation upon subjects which have Ion? ocennied his mind is disconnected and broken with frcn- qtient pauses, manifesting a great ef fort to confine himself to rnnsv-nrivr train of thought. Atintervals a gleam ot enthusiasm passes over his mind, when he brightens np nnd utters sen tences - with vio-or nnd Pinnlmuia lint-. soon relapses into a kind of intellectu al torpor. Physically ho is greatly emaciated mid nnlneld cent illness. If Mr. ! Stevens finds strength to attend tho sessions of the coming Congreeshe will be unable to take jwirt in its proceedings, and it is tnc general impression tliat it will be hia last session Ox Wednradnv nio-bt. luafc lwys, hile playing in the .vicinity of the Eno-n I Irmrnrv. none tha Do lor Icpot of tho Pennsylvania llailrond, found three boxes used in mail cars to hold valuable letters, secreted in a cul vert there. All thrt hnvoa kail Koon smashed open and were empty. Near by was found an empty envelope, tho stamp on it bearing date November 4th. It is supposed that. some mail car has been robbed. Pills. Paper. A DisPATCir from Maryland .tates that the Confederate flag was flung to the breeze in Frederick County i when the rebela there received news from the New-York election. -' . : i., -. xrre UKEENE liALLECK, thepoet, died at Guilford,Connecticut, on Tuea day night, the 19 inst. Terms oC Advertising MB W H . AUTKHTraniKSTg Inserted at SI Pr iqnar for three lincrtli.im, unit SO p-t square for ftveh iMl.lUlonal Iruvrtliin : den lines or lew conntttl n stianrv). All tntaslcntwlverUMiuenM tn.be rlil for In advsnre. ' , Hchikm NoriCfJisetnnilerfhe heniiof lorml news will tie ehnrKrd Invulablf ! IlM forewh Inserllou. . A liberal ileiliirllon msrfd to persons adTsrtls- ! tn by the niwrter, half-year or year. 8pe'" notices ehanted one-lialf niora than regular ad vitrtlwineiits. ' . Jon Fkintino of evprr hind In Plnlinnn Fn eyc.i'orn; Hand-Mils, Wanks, Cards Pamphlet Ae., of every variety and style, printed at lli shnrtedt notlee. llie KanraMCAH Orrica lias Jtil Im n rt -Mlied, mid every thing In the Print line lln eiih Ik executed In tlw most arliaUt iiiuiiiii;rand at the lowtst rates. avwawsMMsMMsaaaaassaaaBassl A will kuown poet scat two pofclfral Islters to the "poot-ofnee'' of ta Episcopal fair nt BttsfleM. In one of them Ihe first st-iuw waif "Fair lady, wliosoo'er ibou art, . . . . Turn this poor leaf with tenilerest en re j And husli 1 oh hush! thy beating heart TU? one thou Invest will be there I " : On turning the "poor leaf "' tliern was found ; a one diilbr bill wlt.'i snniii Torses, beginning i i "Fair lady, lift thine 'et and tell . If Uiis b not a trullifiil letter : , This Is the (1) thou Invest well, . . , Anil nnujht (0) can uiako thco love it belter (10)." - a- .: r-t ItAi.EUitr, Noveuilier 19. Th election jiossed oft' quietly in tin's city. Tho negroes behaved with tho utmost propriety. Strong military nnd po lice forces were stationed at the polls, and paraded tlie streets nllday . 'About ' ' twelvo hundred votes were cast, most- . ly negroes, and all lladienls with two exceptions. The whites will reserve their strength until to-morrow. Wii.MixtiToy, Novemlier Tho election passed off quietly. About 1, 100 votes wcro polled, nearly all ne groes. One hundred and twenty-fivo whites voted nguiimt the convention. The whites will vote to-morrow almost iiiKini tnotisl v n.-raiust the convention. The Parkcrsburg Gnzellt editor saji he has beca rc(Uitcd to designate his preference hutween tho vnrlous Bt-wlng machines. Ho nnswera Unit ho prefer "One of tho kind that a mnft can love, That wear a shnwl and soft kid glove, 11.18 the merriest eye and the daintiest foot, Ami sports the clmriningcst gaiter boot, ' And a bonnet Willi feathers, ribbons and loop. And an Inilrflnile number of hoops." Vi:ttv I':v Jimt Iu Enston, the other evening, just tut a pi rfi rniiince In tho public liall was ub , nt to ond. two wags put them selvjs In front of tho ilior way with an nm brella, and waited far the ontcoming crowd. ' It was nut raining, but when the fi at pontons of the audience reached the door and saw tho warning uinhrclhi, scores of hands were thrust out, coats were buttoned closely.and d reuses taken up whilo quite a number remained in . tho hall, refusing to como out on account of tho rain. Tho .'sell'- w .s complete. Kisiisess, Kind words aro looked npon like jewels on the breast, eovortobu forgotten, and perhaps to cheer the memory along sad life ; while words of cruelty or carelessness, are like swords in the bosom, wounding and leaving scars which will be bomo to the gmva by t lelr victim. Do yon think thoie la any 1 rimed heart which b'.-ars tho mark of such a wound for you ? If thore is a living one which you have wounded, hnstcn to heal it, for Ufa is short to-morrow may bo too late. "Contraction and expansion aro convertnble terms, as applied to cur rency," said an inveterate humorist to a financial friend. The friend, as in duty bound, asked, "How so?" Tho reply came thus: "You admit that our currency is a debt ?" The friend nodded. "Well, then, when you con tract a currency you contract a debt ; which, I take it, is equivalent to ex pansion. So you see the twoi things mean the same thin!?." "A max nt Lindsay, Canada, was -. iincd $5 fnrctisiiig the Queen." What a tremendous internal revenue would aecnio to the United States if this sum fjiuld be collected' from every mnn, (Democrat and llobcls included) who should vent a curse upon the Presi dent ! The proceeds of a single day's swearing nt Andy would well nigh extinguish the national debt. Chicago 7W ' : . - As inquisitive chap asked a soldier with nu empty sleeve "how he lost hit) arm ?". "In thrashing machine," answered thn soldier. ' "Wcro yon running thn machine ?" "Well, no ,' General Grant had ehargo." Nk.VELY everv En'irliaTi Tor.fnroe ne public speaker who now visils thin country, devotes 'about two-thirds of each speech or lecture tea , disingen-.; nous apology for, and a . sneakinglv,,, false explanation of, England's hostile ' ' and dishonest conduct towards tho United States daring the rebellion." 7 11 ) .Vi.il O.vb Pound of Gold may be drawn ; j into a wire that would extend arntinrl '. the glolic. So one good deed may be felt throiiirh nil timer and cast its tni Alienee into eternity. Though don in" :' the flush of youth, it may gild tho last ,i ...j hour of a long life,; and form the. , brightest spot in it. . , , O.v July 1st, 186,tn fjouthcfrl -awt railroads were indebted to- the Govern-... f-l men t in the sum of over ai-r milltnn.' - - - ..fti V4VV',, and a half of dollars. To June 30. 19ft7 lk. ,.T..t .t;..' i.i A v."- in;.iuii Liiiu to nve millions ' nine hundred :.'ruiiil' ' n'! dollar- - i- ,!. ji'.j ; ! -,i-.r:.i; !':l 1.1.1 TllE number nf 'annoWlnna T..i'"!''l ; - - J' - y 111, HJblULrj used bv followerw of Wnmuf :.':r ' lustrritofl bv showing how' much may''rn bo said with fewer tlmn tlio mntU-i- -- --- MtuiUDe. -. . ' ' ed allowance: - "Die nay Jack 8-ki. when Jack gavDica nocon the ban - with a thie stic." ' ' " " M ".AroTHEB," said IkB-Partington, "did you know that tit !n k2 ..r got but ono car f . : . -n une car? Merciful mam, childi, ... Whflt do Vou menn ?" ' ' ? " . vvt. iLi- :.. .' - (. ' '. ;., ... uy, uie engiQ-er, to be snre.i ' ' " ' " 1 11 ",.vU .M"U A Lady im'vim r nr l? . - . , ., , " "ojiniiiijrofi, nation.' - suiu a Dystonaer, "for , the 1.:. I IT V.-