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town. There have been meetings of council
I ...i the subject (in one of which there was a
and the Gatettc is loadod down with
; i omuiunicntions pro and con.
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n e ate indebted to a kind friend in Automatic,
for a Christina.-} autl New Year's route
ubrance in the form of a box of delicious
edibles, "very useful in a family." We are
u>t ou'y personally complimented but are
pleased to see iu it a token that editors, to
whom 110 holiday ever comes, are kindly
thought of by those whom they serve.
The Philadelphia Nurth American says the
cargo of wheat which lately arrived there
* from California, was brought all tho wny by
*t-a from San Francisco, at a loss rate per
bushel than is charged by railroad from
?'hitrago. No more striking illustration could
b* giveu of the great disadvantage of locations
far in tho interior.
John G. Kyan, of Arkansas, was arrested
in Memphis, in July, lSGo, was chained hand
and foot, carried to Washington city, incarcerated
iu the Old Capitol prison, in solitary
eoiiflneinent, for some weeks, was then removed
to Vicksburg and kept in solitary confinement
till November, when he was turned
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out without satisfaction or explanation. Sucli
i? an illustration of military justice. Mr. j
K van is going to sue for damages for false iui- j
Atv n?AV> f T ? to mi rrrvAfrt/l f linl Iia n?na mie I
($1 iakeu for John II. Surratt
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l ho Rockingham Register pays a just tribute I
to Dr. J. B. Strayer, one of the delegates
from Shenandoah county, when it describes
him as "ouo of the most faithful, vigilant,
diligent and attentive representatives to be
found in tbo Legislature." There is no mciuber
of tbo Legislature more devoted than Dr.
St rayer, to the interests of his constituents
and the people at large, and none of more en- |
_ Uehtancd view.?k ,.IL? i? tt. renr?.s<a:?i;ivo Afj
! which any constituency might bo proud.
The Radicals no longer attempt to disguise
that they aro seeking to compass a revolution
in the government, such a? will at once
make it absolute, and concentrate all its
lowers in Congress. As Stevens expressed
it the other day :
Tbo Presidont is Commandnr-in-Chief of the
arniv, but Congress is his commander, and he would
b* compelled to obey. He and hie minions must
learn that ours ie not a Government of kings nnd
satraps, but a Government of the people, and that
Congress is the people.
Tii* Oonstitptional Amendment.?Gov.
Worth says bis duty to support the Constitution
precludes bim from assenting to "a
scheme of compromise based on the idea that
North Carolina is not a State of the American
Union, or to any scheme of amending the
? original compact which tho State shall have;
do hand in proposing."
Gov. Jenkins, of Georgia, says:
To submit to injurious changes in the Constitution,
when forced upon a State according to the
t'..rtns prescribed for its amendment, would be ono
thing; to participato in making them by duress
>' against hor sense of right and justico would bo a
ery different thing. The difference in principlo is
ii* broad as that whioh distinguishes martyrdom
front suioido. We had batter calmly await a returning
sense of justice and a consequent reflux of
the tide now running strong against us."
The Governor of Delaware says :
Whatevor may have been the expectation or
objeot of Congress, the rejection of this amend?
inent is demanded alike by every consideration of
justice, patriotism and humanity."'
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"A Hit?A Pat.pabi.e Hit."?In the
House of Representatives, on Thursday, Mr. j
Eldridge, of Wisconsin, offered tho following j
resolution :
Resolved, That tho following resolution, introduced
into tho llousa of Representatives December I
4, 1802, by Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, expresses tho j
(.onriction and senso of this House, to wit: " Resolved,
That if any person in the employment of
the United States, in either tho legislative or the
executive branch, should propose to make peace,
or should accept, or advise the accoptancc, of any
such proposition, on any other basis than tho integrity
and entire unity of tho United States and
their Territories as they existed at tho time of the
rebellion, ho will bo guilty of a high crimeand
that House bill 643 is clearly in violation of the
- spirit of said resolution; and that tho same docs in
fact assert, or at least adroit, that secessionists and
rebels were successful in the dividing of tho Union,
and destroyed cortain States of the Unitod States,
as such in the Union, degrading them into territories;
and that the Hon. Thaddeus Stevone, in and
by the introduction and advocacy of said bill, has
manifested a mind and heart disloyal to the Constitution
and tho Union of tho Statos as they existed
tp at the time of the rebellion, and is guilty of the
mr% 1 ?:a on/1 tharAfnrfi I
(I crime spociueu m mm icnim?vi>, ??
lienorvee (ho reprobation of this Qoaac.
Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, objected to the introduction
of the resolution.
Mr. Eldridge aaid ho did not doalro to press it, aa
-the gentleman named In the resolution was not
-.'.ben in his seat. [Laughter.] It was laid over.
Tito National JnUUigtnar, in noticing the
return of tbo Congressional excursionists, i
S0JB:
In going and returning they had upon nearly all
the lines ef tho roada over which they paaaod special
traina attaohed, to which were refreshment cars,
that were served in tbo most genoroue and liberal ;
manner by direction of tho several presidents who
accompanied tho party on their respective roads.?
1'residents Owens, Tate, Burns, and Goneral Ticket
Agent Moffott went with tho excursionists to New
Orleans and returned with them aa far as their
homes.
We understand that the ooel of tho trip will bo
st least thirty or thirty-five thousand dollars, if not
more, and this from the ruinod and desolated South
to those that alto feels to be inimical to her is an
example of genuine genorusity and magnanimity
worthy the emulation of tho Congress of tho United
?| States.
[We 6ball be agreeably disappointed If we
do not get our reward in abuse E.nqviher.]
& Our farmers generally have salted down their
pork, preferring to do this to selling at present
prices. There has been a large quantity thus dieposed
of.?fry**(*>.
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i SEW YORK EARMING.OIt MUCH ADO
AllOUT NOTHING.
i We write with the census of 18C0 before us,
| but use round numbers and omit small froo1
tions. Inthat year New York,with a population
I of nearly four millions, produced eight millions
of bushels of wheat, and twenty millions of
bushels of Indian corn. Her farming lands
were valued at 'eight hundred and throe millions;
her farming machinery and implements
j at twenty-nine million dollars ; she had live
| hundred and three thousand horses ; one million
one hundred and twenty-three thousand
milch oowa ; a hundred and twenty thousand
working oxen, and seven hundred and twentyseven
thousand other cattle; two and a half
millions of sheep, and one million nine hundred
thousand hogs.
Now, one may seo at a glance, that in so
cold a climate, the twenty millions of bushels
of Indian corn would not feed her live stock
four months in the yoar. Milch cows are
there fed on meal the year round, and would
of themselves cat up double the corn crop.
TMc Inariia (/ *? Kpao/1 onil I
A. Miw IVM'VO iVi MIVHM U WV U V kll V UUO 11 t 11 OllU |
a pock of wheat a head to her inhabitants.
Add to tVdj v^lue of farms. tb? cost of
implement*, 'the cost of support of work
oxen and work horses, the wages of labor, and
the millions spent in condensed chemical manures,
and we should say that New York
high scientific farming is the most costly
amuscmfcnt that gentlemen ever indulged iu.
Their lands should improve rapidly, because
veiything they make on them is consumed
at home, and four times as much more consumed
from abroad. This immense manure j
fund, added to the concentrated manures,!
and guano, lime and plaster, which they ap-1
ply to their lands, should rapidly improve j
them. On the contrary, they would seem to ;
deteriorate. New York made thirteen millions '
buahels of wheat in 1850, and only eight mil- j
Hons in 18C0, her population having increased j
about a million in the mean time.
Now York and New England farmers aroi
the worst in the world. The results prove
it. In fact, their fanning population is very
generally poor, ignorant, and unintelligent.? j
Southern farmers have heretofore been the j
best in the world, because nine-tenths of the '
learning, wealth and talent of the South |
was engaged in farming. Such an agricultu-,
ral phenomenon has never before existed sinco!
the early aud pure days of the Roman Repub- j
lie, wuen lier nobles were all farmers. >Y ltu a j
smaller population nnd loss capital invested in j
farming, Virginia, North Carolina and Ken- j
tucky produced abo ut four times as much of j
agricultural values as New York. Of corn and j
wheat five times as much.
Yet these three States were not half so rich,'
prosperous and progressive as was New York ; j
for thev contained only ten thousaud of pau- i
pers and criminals, and she about two iiun-J
DK?I) AM) TWENTY?FIVE THOUSAND. It is :
estimated that there are always ten destitute
persons not yet driven to crime or the j>oorhouse,
to one criminal or avowed pauper. On
this basis we may compute the numbers of j
the destitute in New York at two and a
quarter millions. Nowtheaccurnulated wealth j
of cvciy country b> the rwnxit of tho cXpJoi- j"
tation of labor by skill and capital. Tko:
poorer the laborers, the richer, more pros- j
porous and progressive the country;?for all;
wealth is made by labor, but exploited or ab- j
stracted, and expended or accumulated, by;
skill and capital. If laborers are permitted
to consume what they make, thore will be
nothing for the rich to abstract, and expend
in luxury and ostentation, or to accumulate
We of the South permitted our slaves to
consume most of what they made, hence no
one was driven to beg or iteal; but then, little
was left to accumulate or expend in luxury,
or in great public or private works. That j
England, New York and Massachusetts, are i
the most prosperous countries in the world
is evidenced by the fact that they have mo6t
criminals and paupersjust as the magnitude
of commerce is indicated by the number
of wrecks, and the amount of travelling
by the depth of the ruts.
The loss of the Southern staples, trade, and
market, will tell very severely on the gains of
the rich and cunning at the North. Northern
agriculture will afford, as wc have seen, a
narrow basis for exploitat ion,?for abstraction
cannot advance ahead of production. Everything
depends on the revival of Southern production
; but instead of repressing vagrancy
and idleness here by a proper police, the policy
is to patronize and protect them in the name of
frppdiiin. With our laborers at work. South
em production might approximate to the
status quo ante helium. But Tliad Stevens,
who is higher authority at the North than
Constitution or Inspiration, says the only
cure for the evil of tho times will be to set
the negroes to voting. VTe must havo moro
political agitation, more hatred between the
races, more persecutions of the South, upon
the theory that the hair of the dog is good
for the bite.
Ilolden weeps because the people of the
South have not been massacred and robbed
since laying down their anus. lie says:
"If tho estates of about flvo hundrod loading
robols in each insurgent State had been confiscated,
and if hgiuo eight or ten of them in each Stnto had
been duly tried and executed for treason, the Southern
States would havo been now in tho Union."
The Alexandria Gazette, one of tho beet and most
valuable papers in the country, commenced the 89th
yoar of its existence on Tuesday, tho 1st of January.
If the length of its coming years and the measure
of its prosperity be in proportion to its morita, it
will live forovor and bo always rich. We hopo it
may.
ftofnrn tho war. the Countv of Norfolk Dossoesed
an aggregate valuation of real and personal estate
more than that of any other county In tho State,
except that of Henrico. The personal estate of
Norfolk county was 816,820,964; the real, 512,101,493,
making an aggregate of 828,928,466. Tho
aggregato valuation of Henrico was 857,022,445.
The Frodoricksburg Ilerald says tho merchants
there have commenced rejecting what is termed the
"short curroncy," viz: the small-sized quarter and
half dollar notes. They have not passed in business
transactions in Baltimoro for months past.
Rev. Jamea Murray having doclined the call from
the Prosbytorian Church in Portsmouth, and having
completed his temporary engagement with the
Church, has resigned his connection with thatconj
gre gallon.
Dr. Williams extracted, last Saturday, from the
windpipe of a child of Mr. John Bolton, aged nine
months, a large grain of corn. An inoision of the
windpipe had to be made to oxtrioate the corn.?
Tho child ie doing well.
Six hundred persons wero fod nt the Soup-House
in Petersburg Thursday, and tho Index says that
the suffering from poverty in that city has never
been so extensive as now.
It is stated authoritatively in the Norfolk papers,
that Mr. Davis is In dealituto circumstances, and
that measuroe are being taken in that oity for the
r*U?f of his fullering family.
aotiD
TUESL
I ULNEHAL LIARLY'S BOOK.
| We are Indebted to the kindness of a
friend for a copy of the volume recently published
by Qenoral Barly, under the following
title:
A Mbmoih of the lam yoar of tho War ft r Independence
in the Confederate Statue of America:?
containing an account of the operation* of his
, command* in the years 18W and 186-5, by Livatenant
Genera! Jubal A. Early, of the Provisional
Army of the Confederate Stales. Dedicated to
J the memory of tho Heroic Dead, who fell tl^ht- '
| ing for Liberty, Right and Justice. "Deo \ in- j
| dicb." Toronto.
The narrative rovers ojierations of which'
i no detailed reports were ever published or |
j even rando, and- concerning which there is ;
{much both of ignorance and misapprehension.
General Early has. therefore, made an
important contribution to the i ruth of history,
and performed to hia countrymen and his
late command, a grateful service, in the publii
cation before us. As but a limited number
j of copies was printed, and none for sale, we
| shall publish copious extracts from tho book,
for the pleasure of our readers and the grati
fication particularly of the battle-scarred
heroes who so enthusiastically followed "Old
Jube," to many a glorious victory. Wo can^not
do bhtter to-day than to present the Preface.
Tho style shows that the old hero's
pen is as sharp as his sword ; but it is replete
with noble sentiments, and shows tliat the
writer is as generous as he is brave. We
read in it a stern rebuke of such as refer to
anto-war differences on the theory of secession,
and seek an idle dispute over responsibilities
for a result forced upon us from without,
aud whicb was {.imply a necessity to us
all. Tho General pours a hot volley, too, into
thoso who write carping criticisms of campaigns
which they took care not to share,
and pass harsh judgments on those who
wero entrusted with Confederate affairs.?
The generous tribute which ho pays to President
Davis and General Lee, is evidently
the homage both of his judgment and his
heart.
We append the promised quotation :
I'KRFAC'B.
Under a solemn senso of duty to my unhappy
country, and to tho brave soldiers who fought under
me, as well us to myself, the following pages have
been written.
When the question of practical secession from tho
United States arose, as a citizen of the Stato of
Virginia, and a member of the Convention called
by the authority of tho Legislature of that Stale, I
opposed secession with all tho ability I possessed,
with the hope that the horrors of civil war might
bo averted, and that a returning senso of duty and
justico on llio part of the masses of tho Northern
States would induce them to respect tho rights of
tho people of tho South While eoine Northern
politicians and editors, who subsequently took rank
amonp tho moat unscrupulous and vindictive of our
enemies, and now bold tno to bo a traitor and rebel,
wore openly and sedulously justifying and on
couraging secession, I was laboring honestly and |
oarncstly to tiroaorve the Union.
As a monitor of the Virginia Convention, I voted j
against tho ordinance of socossion on its passage by j
that body, with tho hope that, even then, tho col-1
lision of arm* might be avoided, and some satis-!
factory adjustment arrived at. Tho adoption of t
that ordinunco wrong from nie bitter tears of grief; !
but I at onoo recognised my duty to abido the deci- j
sion of my native State, and to defend her soil i
against invasion. Any scruples which I may have j
entertained as to the rijhi of secession, were soon |
dispelled by tho mad, wicked, and unconstitutional i
measures of tho authorities at Washington, and tho
frenzied cluiuur of tho poople of tho North for war
upon their former brothrcn of the South. 1 then,
and over since lmve, regarded Abraham Lincoln,
his counsellors and supporters, as the real traitors
who had overthrown the constitution mid government
ctf tbJ UaUed StntrC, end p?mblisL *1. ?i Iwiv
ihoroof an odious despotism; and this opinion 1
entered on the journal of tho Convention when I
signed tho ordinance of secession. I recognized
tho right of resistance and revolution as exercised
by our fathorB in 177b, and, without cavil as
to tho nnmo by which it was called, 1 ontcted tho
military service of my State, willingly, cheerfully,
and zealously.
Whon tho" Stato of Virginia beenme one of the
Confederate States, and nor troops were turned
ovor to the Confederate Governniont, I embraced
the oAUgo of tho wholo Confoderacy with equal
ardor, and continued in tho service, with tho determination
to dovoto ail the energy and talent I
possessed to tho common defence. I fought through
the entlro war, without onco regretting the courBO
1 had pursued, with an abiding faith in the justioe
of our causo ; and I never saw tho moinont
when 1 w>mld have been willing to consont to any
oompromise or Bottlomont short of the absolute independence
of my country.
It was my fortune to pnrticipato iu most of tho
great military operations in which tlio army in Virginia
wae engaged, both before and after* General
Leo assumed the command. In tho last year of
thia momentous struggle I commanded, at different
timee, a division ana two corps of General J/iu's i
army in the campaign from tho Rapldan to James j
river, and subsequently a separate force which j
marched Into Maryland, threatened Washington ;
eity, and then wont through an eventful campaign
In tho Valloy of Virginia. No detailed reports of tho
operations of these different oommanda were made
before tho close of tho war, and tho campaign in Maryland
and tho Valloy of Virginia hae been the subject
of much oomment and minapprohcnnion. I
havo now written a narrative of tho operations of ,
all my oomraande during the closing yoar of the j
war, and lay it beforo the world as a contribution
to the history of our great struggle for independence.
In giving that narrative I havo made ench
statements of the positions and strength of tho opposing
forces in "V irginia, and such reference to
their general operations as wero nocossary to onablo
tne render to understand it; but 1 do not protend
to dotail tho operations of other commanders.
I havo not found it nec.HRsarv to ho miltv of thn f
injustice of attempting to pull down tho reputation
of any of my fellow-offlcers, in order to build up
my own. My operations and my campaign stand
on their own merits, whatever they may be. Nor,
in anything I may have found it necessary to say
in regard to tho conduct of my troops, do I wish to
bo understood as, in any way, decrying tbo soldiers
who constituted the rank and file of my commands.
I bolieve that the world has never produced a body
of tnon superior in oourage, patriotism and endurance,
to the private soldiers of tho Confcdcrato
armies. 1 have repeatedly seen those soldiers submit,
with chcerfulnoss, to privations and hardships
which would appear to be almost incredible; and the
wild choers of our brave men, (which woro so difforont
from the studied hurrahs of the Yankees,) when
their thin lines sent back opposing hosts of Federal
troops, staggering, reeling, and flying, hove often
thrilled every fibre in my hoaut. 1 have seen with
ray own oyes, ragged, barefooted and hungry Confederate
auldiers perform doeds, which, if performed
in days of yore by mai ed warriors in glittering ar
mor, would have inspired the harp of the minstrel
and the pen of the ;>uot.
I do not a9piro to tho character of a historian,
but, having been a witness of and participator in
great ovonts, I have given a statement of what I J
saw and did, for the uso of tho futuro historian.? '
Without breaking the throad of my narrativo as
it proceeds, I havo given, in notes, comments on
some of the orrors and inconsistencies committed
by the Commander of tho Federal army, General
Grant, and tho Federal Secretary of* War, Mr.
i n tkoia fAVmvf u ma^A civroA Vira aIaqa a/ i
OIOUIUUj lit tu?ii supvsto uiauv omtu tuu wuov v* ,
tho war; also some instances of cruelty and bar- j
barity committed by the Fedoral commanders which
were brought to my immediate attention, as well as
some other matters of interest.
Aa was to have been eipectod, our enemios have 1
flooded the press with sketches and histories, in '
which all tho appliances of a meretricious literature
have beon made (use of, to glorify their own cause
and its supporters, and to blacken ours. Dut some
Southern writers, also, who preferred the pen to tho
Hword or musket, have not been able to resist the |
temptation to rush into print; and, accordingly, '
carping criticisms have boen written by tho light
of after events, and even histories of the war at- ,
tempted by persons who imaginod that tho distinctness
of their vision wns enhanced by distnnco from ;
the scene of conflict and an exemption from the
disturbing elements of whistling bullets and burst
ing shell. Perhaps other writers of the same class
may follow, and various speculations bo indulged
in as to the cause of our disasters. As for myself,
1 have not undertaken to speculate as to the causes
of our failure, as I have seen abundant reason for 1
it in tho tremondous odds brought against us.? 1
Having had some moans of judging, I will, howover,
say that, in my opinion, both President Davis 1
and Gonoral Leo, in their respective spheres, did
all for tho success of our causo which it was possible
for mortal men to do, and it is a great privilege
and comfort for me so to beliovo and to have
beon able to bring with me into exile a profound
love and vonoration for those great znon.
In regard to my own sendees, all I have to say
is, that I have the consciousness of having done my
duty to my country, to the very best of my ability,
and whatever my fate, I wouJa not exchange that
gcagpaa?as ir*
>AY MORNING. JANUA
J consciousness for untold millions. 1 bavecorae into !
j exilo ratber than submit to the yoke of the oppress- '
ors of my country ; but 1 have never thought of j
attributing aught of blame or censure to those true ,
men who, aftor ha\ing nobly done tht;ir duty in the j
dreadful struggle through which wo passed, now i
that it has gono against us, remain tu share the ;
misfortunes of thoir people, and to aid and comfort;
them in their trials; on the contrary I appreciate and [
honor their motives. I have not sought rofnge in an- j
other land from insensibility to the wrongs and sufferlngs
of rny own coun'ry; but I feel deeply nnd j
continually for thorn, and cuuld my life socuro the ,
redemption of that country, as it has been often I
risked, so now it would be as freely givon for that!
object.
There were men born and nurtured in the South- ]
era States, and some of them in my own State, who I
took sides with our enemies, and aided in desolating
and humiliating the land of their own birth,and
of tile graves of their ancestors. Some of them
rose hi high positions in the United States army,
and others to high civ il positions. I envy them'
not their dearly bought prosperity. 1 had rather j
bo the humblest private soldier who fought in the |
ranks of the Confederate army and now, maimed ,
and disabled, hobbles on his crutches from house to
houeo, to receive his daily bread from the hands of i
llie grateful women for whoso homes lie fought, 1
than the highest of those renegades and traitors.? j
Let them enjuy the advantages of their present j
positions as best they may ! for the deep and bitter
execrations of an entire people now attend theiu, j
and an immortality of infamy awaits them.
As for all the onumies who have overrun oraided ,
in overrunning my country, there is a wide nnd im- :
passable gulf between us, in which I see the blood '
ot slaughtered friend.:, ' ?>r?radc*t and countrymen. ,
which all the watera'af. tju. -4<r,^ameut ?hovc and
the il'-aa beneath caivfnv* wash away. Those oueinion
have undortuken to render our cause odious
and infamous; uud among other atrocities committed
by them in the effort to do so, an humble subordinate,
poor Wirts, has been selected as a victim
to a fiendish spirit, and basely murdered under an
UAlMJUUkU CUK l, lUUUUUU UU CUU nUIllUUUU Ul II V1Hdictivo
and illegal tribuuiil. Let them continue i
this system 1 they arc but erecting monuments to !1
their own eternal dishonor, and furnishing linger !
posts to guide the historian in his researches. They I
nitiv omploy the infamous Holt, with his "Bureau j
of Military Justice," to sacrifice other victims on j1
tho altars of their hatred, and provost marshals, ''
and agonts of the "l-'roedmon's Bureau" may riot [1
in all tho licunso of petty tyranny, hut our enemies j1
can no more control tho verdict of impartial histo- i:
ry, than they can escape that doom which awaits j1
them at the-linal judgment.
During the war, slavery was used as a catch-word j;
to arouse tho passions of a fanatical moh, and to i '
some extent tho prejudices of the civilized world j 1
were excited against us; hut tho war was not made
on our part for slavery. High dignitaries in both
church and state in Old England, and puritans in 1
New England, had participated in tho profits of a <
trade,by which the ignorant and barbarous nnlivcsof
Africa were brought from that country, and sold into
slavery in the American Colonies. Tho generation
in tho Southern States which defended their country
in tho lato war, found amongst them, in u civilized
and christianized condition, -1.000,0011 of the
descendants of thosu degraded Africans. The Al- j
mighty Creator of the Universe hud stamped them, ,
indelibly, with a different color and an inferior .
physicul and mental organization. He hud not [
done this from uioro caprieo or whim, but for wise c
purposes. An amalgamation of iho races was in [
contravention of His designs, or He Would not have (
made them so different. This immense number of ,
people could not havo boon transported back to the
wilds from which their ancestors were taken, or if j,,
they could have buun, it would have resulted in j
their relapse iuto barbarism. Reason, common !
sense, tine humanity to the black, as well as the J c
safety of tho white race, required rlmt the inferior ' '
race should be kept in a state of subordination.? j i
Tho condition of domestic slavery, as it existed in 111
the Suutli, had not only resulted in a great improve-1"
merit in tho moral and physical condition of the '
negro race, but had furnished a class of laborers as ! t
happy and contented as any in the world, if not more j *
bo. fheir lnbor had not oiilv developud tho im- 1
rnensu resources of the immediate country in which
they wero located, but was the main source of the <1
great prosperity of the Uaifod States, and furnished
tho means for the employment of millions of the f<
working classes in other countries. Nevertheless, c
tho struggle made by the people of the South was n
nut for tho institution of slavery, but lor the ines- t<
tunable right of self-government, against the domination
of a fanatical faction at the North ; and
slavery was the rnero occasion of the development Ml
A tho antagonism botween the two sections. That
right of self-government has been lost, and slavery w
violently abolished. Four millions of blacks have n
ihus been thrown on \hcir own resources, to aturvo, ,<
to die, and to relapse into barbarism; and kenn. f
tOivubfo miseries httve borS cniuiicd on the white o
ace. e
The civilized world will find, too Into, that its a
jhilanthropy has been nii false, and its religion all j?
vntng or. tliiH subject; and the people of the Uni- b
ed .States will find that, uuder the preten- e of n
'saving the lifo of the nation, and upholding the p
>ld flag," they liavo surrendered their own liberties u
nto the hands of that worst of all tyrants, a body X
if senseless fanatics.
Vhon the passions and infatuations of the day .
ihall have been dissipated by time, and all the re>nlts
of tho late war ahall hnvo passed into irrovo- P
table history, tho future ebronielor of that history ?
rill have a most important duty to perform, nnd ls
wsterity, while poring over its pages, will be lost P
n wonder at the follies and crimes committed in J
his generation.
My narrative is now given to the public, an.l the ?
ioIo merit I claim for it is that of truthfulness. In t|
vriting it 1 hnvo received material aid from an no:urato
diary kept by I.ieut. William W. Old, aide fj
o Major Genera) Edward Johnson, who was with p
no during tho campaign in Maryland and the She- p
inndoah Valley, until tho 12tho'f August, 180-1, and
ho copious notes of Captain J. Ilotchkiss, who
ictcd as Topographical Engineer for the Second
Hurpa and the army of the Valley District, and a
ecorded tho events of each day, from tho opening h
if the campaign on tho llapidan in May, ISM, uu- P
il tho affair at Waynesboro, in March," 18G"). y
Xovember, 1966. J. A. K.uu v.
A STEAMBOAT STORY. [
A funny scone transpired on board tho steamer ,
*t. J nines on her last trip down. Tho St. James, ,
js it known, is a favorite boat with wedding par- '
ies, on account of her superior accommodations
md the goneral cleganco which distinguishes her. z
At Aberdeen, a young man, dressed in his Sunday's p
jest, and showing in all his movements that this 'b
vas tho happiest dav of his lifo, catno aboard, load- b
ng by tho hand a timid young woman, who had
iworn that day to love, honor, etc., tho young man
iforesaid. Thoy woro on a wedding tour to Cincin- *
lati to hoo tho Dig Bridge, the Nicholson pavement, Q
ind other objects of interest. Approaching Clerk P
ilognior, tho young man st coped in bliss said: u
"Look a' hero, Mr. Clerk, 1 and Maricr have just
loubled teams for lifo. (Marier blushes souio more 0
ind tries to draw away, but the tothor half clings j,
g> her.) Wo'vo determined to tnke a day to our- j,
lelres and go to Cincinnati. Now wo want a?
[hesitating) t?a room?well a room (with desperite
energy)?both together."
Brido?(reproachfnlly)?"Josior 1" n
Bridegroom?Stoutly?"That's what I say, and r
wo want the best room you've got on tho boat." 1
The clerk disposed "of them satisfactorily, and fi
"Marier," blushing more than ever, retired to their
state-room, it being late in the night, while her ^
"Josior" lighting a cigar, paced the forward cabin ^
with tho importance which every young man feels l
when be lirat assumes tho responsibility of paying
i young woman's board as a consideration for her
changing her name. ii
Junior at longth concluded to seek his ' Marier." 1<
Accordingly he directed his footsteps towards his v
itatc-room." Softly ho tapped at the door?softly
tapping at that state-room door?but no response rrom
within fell upon his listening car. Then he
;avc a louder rap, and npplyinghis hps to tho key- c
bole, whispered shrilly, "Marier, open tho door to v
pour Josier." Still no reply. He turned the hanJle,
and the door being unlocked, it opened readily. 0
He advanced one foot inside, gave a look of bowiliermont,
and then rushing back into the cabin in
i state of frenzy, ho screamed, "Stun the boat' ?
she's gono 1? overboard, may be! Captain 1 Oh,
Mr. Clerk ! where'Bmy Marier ? Has she drowned n
herself? Why didn't I got two rooms ? Oh, dear,
:ell tho pilot to stop her! Givo mo back my Mari- j.
;r !" By this time Captain Oakes, hacked by his
;lerks, Hegnier and Ross, and reinforcod by the
passengers, generally, was on the spot.
"\\ aat tno neuoe is me mauerr asicea me v-ap- i
lain. vs
" Oh, Captain!" paid tho distracted bridegroom, s
tearing up and down the cabin, "she always was a t
timid gnl?afraid of getting married?gone crazy 1
?nd jumped overboard?why didn't I get two rooms? f
Oh, dear!" a
Ho then pointed to the siate-rooin in which he r
had expected to find his "Marier." s
"Why, it's empty," said tho Captain. 1
"Yes," said Jo>;er, tearing his hair, "and don't ii
you see tho outdoor's is open ? She went crazy, 1
tell ye, and jumpt d overboard." Then falling upon
the Captain's neck, he screeched, "Oh, givo mo c
back my Marier!" I
At this moment a state-room door adjoining *
opened, and there was a glimpse of a snowy night- v
cap, while a low, sweet voice said: a
"Josier, you'ro a fool, what you tearing 'round u
at that rate for P Have you boen drinking ?" '
Josier gave a yell of nstoniahmcnt ;and delight, a
and nut himself insido of that state-room door in a t
twinkling. Ho had made a mistake of the number
of his state-room, that's ail. Marier hadn't gone j
crazy, and she hadn't jumped overboard.?Cine in- s
nali Timet. ,
The Rockingham Re.jitUr is in favor of Judge !
William J. Robertson, of Albemarle, as the next t
Governor. <
t iHitllw?C*
car?t'lV
RY 8, 1867.
THE SOI' T II.
Arrest jiy the l\ S. Marshal.?On Monday
last Col. Lemuel C. Mcud, late of the Confederate
army, a citizen of Jackson county, Ala., was arrested
by Marshal Douglass, and required to give
bond, which he did, in tho sum of 1,000, for his
appearance ut the nest term of tho U. S. District
Court in this city, to answer an indictment for the
alleged violation of the Civil Rights bill by tho
purchase of a freedmnn. The facts are that a negro
was arrested in Jackson county its a vagrant
under the State law, which requires .-tich person,
on conviction, to be fined 8"i0, and give bond l'ur
his good behavior, aud in default thereof to be hired
for six months to the highest bidder, who shall bo
entitled to his labor for that period, tie- amount of
tho bid to be puid into the County treasury for tho
benefit of the poor. The law existed before the war
nearly as it is now, but applied to white persons
alone. Since the war it has been modified so as to
apply to all persons, without distinction of color.
The law is s ?ru.<l nnn nnd similar laws have been
in foieo in Northern and Southern Slates for many
years.
We understand that, tho Judge at tho Jackson
county court, lion. M. P. Brown, and tho county
Commissioners, 11. W. Clay, John Crawford, Moses
Maples and Lewis Armstrong, who ordered the
hire, and Sherilf II. D. Tipton, who executed the
order, liavo been indicted likewise. Col. Mead's
bid was ten dollars and twenty-live cents.
If the law had operated un a white man instead
of a negro, it is probable the matter would never
have been brought to the notice of a grand jury, or
a grand jury have been fouud to act on it. But the
superlatively "loyal" must give tul! proof of their
loyalty l>y intorjuninj/ir t>oOn'i cf the ' inevitable
uiggor."?J hint utile Democrat.
Kukioht Tantrr Disckimtxatiox?'The Petersburg
Index has found out "what hurts Petersburg,"
and tells it as follows:
We have in possession a letter written by a North
Carolina customer, residing en the line of tho Wilmington
and Wohlon Kailroad, to a wholesale grocery
firm in this city, complaining of tho difference
in charges by that company's tariff on goods transported
from Woldon South, and those shipped from
Wilmington to tho interior, the discrimination, of
course, so operating as to force purchasers into tho
latter market for supplies. As before remarked, our
information is obtained from tho letter of a merchant,
and except for his statement, we are uninformed
in regard to tho matter, but if this discreptncy
of charge alleged exists, there is dearly an unfair
influence being exerted against our "city and
State, and the Virginia roads connecting with this
line should so control their future policy as to counteract
it.
The funeral of Bishop Elliot t?ok place at Savannah,
on Christmas day. The Savannah .Vcter
mil Herald says:
The funeral was the largest that has probably
ver been seen in this city, and duriug its passage
to the cemetery the people thronged the sidewalks
md stood in mournful silence. The negroes, in the
nidst of their holiday enjoyments, ceased their
iporis and fell into tho line in immense numbers,
Allowing that limn who in life I hey loved, and
chose memory they revored, to his last restingdaco.
Thousands of pimple wended their way to
bo cemetery, where the last sad rites were performed
>f which a pleasing incident was the beautiful chant
jy a nuuibur of the young gentlemen. Thus were
he last honors rendered to one whoso loss to the
haroh, to the country, and society can never be
upplied, and whose memory will remain dear to
ill who came within the sphere of his acquaintance.
The Wilson North Carolinian says that a state
if lawlessness provails in Greene, lower l'itt and
he adjoining counties, almost startling in a civilzed
community. Murder, rape, arson, robbery,
ind almost every crfinn known in the catalogue,
.re committed in those sections, almost evm v day.
Is a commentary 011 tho demoralization of the ;
imps, men hitherto occupying tho first positions in
oeiuty, are said to be implicated in the most of >
hese crimes. Such a reign of terror exists, that J
ye witnesses are frequently deterred from making I
isclosures.
It is somewhat remarkable that this state of af- j
airs is conlined exclusively to those sections oil
ounlry, wherein the "unmistakably loyal" are the
ion; numerous, showing conclusively, the charaoer
and stuff of which theso aro made*.
,. I
rspeiiKmt; ?j ine gruwtu <>i Arianra, tao.><or urn
ays:
"The unprecedented growth of Atlanta is the
ronder of al! who visit it. Our advancement is a!?ost
incrodiblo. The people have quit politics and
re giving their whole Attention to more substanil
nn-1 honorable Matters, t- wir building up
fa peat and flourishing city. Merchants, mohanies,
physicians, lawyers, young men and old,
re all working unitedly and faithfully for this iniortant
and desirable end. We have resolved to
uild up a first-class city in every particular, and
0 power short of the Great ltuler of events can
rcver.t it. In live years, at the furthest, Atlanta
ill Le to th" South what St. Louis is to the mighty
I'est."
Somo of the county sherill's of Kentucky settle
heir nccounts with the State in wolf scalps, at the
rice of six dollars per scalp, which is the houny
allowed by the State for killiug these pests. It
t said that some of the sheriffs can cam au honest
enny by keeping a pair of wolves and killiug the
oung ones as they become old enough.
The Willinmston (X. C.) Expositor makes no
lore expositions. It suspended " forever so far as
hat place is concerned " on the 2'2d ult. The editor
ivs he has published it for twelve monthsa posiive
loss, and takes the town to task for not importing
the cnterprieo. He quotes the adago, "a
rophct," Hcc. Hut it seems that th.>ro whs no /irn/t!
1 liis paper.
The SpringGeld (Mo.) J'utrint, of the '2'id, says
child was born in that place on the day previous
aving hut one arm and hand and the slightest
ossihlo stump for a second. It had no lower liuibs
,'liatcvcr, whilo out from its left hip grow only an
npeifect foot.
An old gentleman living in Crockett, Texts, is
he father of live children, four daughters and one
on, who hnvc all got married within a twelve
aonfh. The old man himself lias just obtained a
ivorce from his third wife, and is on lhe lookout
or the fourth.
Thomas II. Ellison, Esq., a highly esteemed cition
of Washington, N. C., died suddenly, of apolexy,
in his room at the National lloto), Now
fork, on the 17th ultimo. Ilis remains bavo been
rought homo for interment.
The Raleigh Sentinel has been selected by tho
'ostoflice Department of tho United States as its
dvertising medium in North Carolina. The prnosals
for carrying the mails will appear in it? colmns
in a few days.
A negro was shot and killed near Enfield, N. C.,
n Monday last by Mr. John Branch, l'ho negro
,ad boon shooting Mr. Branch's cattle, and upon
oing spoken to about it, got hi? gtin and was in Iho
ct of shooting Mr. B. when tho latter lircd.
The negroes near Goldsboro', N. C., rofusc, in
rany cases, to work, and band together to waylay,
ob, and beat, all the likely looking whito travelers,
'cams of horses are their weakness, and more than
urty fine ones havo been recently stolen.
A nogro fell from the cars of the Petersbug and
Vcldon Railroad on Monday night, noar Garysurg,
and had his leg tnnshed to a jelly from tho
nee down.
It is now stated that throe hundred peoplo per(h'ed
by the burning of tho steamer Fasaion on the
nwer Mississippi. They were mainly freed men
rho wcro nbroaa on e. holiday excursion.
CllALLTtSOr. FOB TUP. HOUSE KENTUCKY.?Mr.
.eonard Jeronio is understood to offer to run his
elebratcd horse Kentucky against nnyborse in the
rorld, from two to four mile heats.
The 145th term of tho University of North Curlina
will commence on the l'Jth of January.
A superb ovation was given to General Joe Johnton
at Holly Springs, Mississippi, Thursday night.
''Tho I-aughing llyona" is tho pleasing title of a
,ew paper recently started in Texas.
A circus company gave a performance in Memphis
itely for tho benefit of a church.
The Cholera at St. Thomas.?The Xew York
7erald of yesterday says: We have news from
it. Thomas, W. I., uatod 19th of December. The
evore cholera morbus, which has been epidemic in
he island, had roappeared. To the morning of the
oth ultimo, tho number of deaths wt ro 301, and
rom the loth to tho 13th at S A. M., 107 individuls?all
poor people-had died, so that tho total
lumbar of victims was 471. Cattle were being j
hipped from the East side of Porto Rico to St",
'bonus, and public food kitchens had been opened j
a the town.
On Sunday evening an intense excitement was
roatcd in St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church,
'hiladelphia. Ono of tho candles upon tho altar
ras tipped over, and the flames coming in contact
rith some drapery, set it on fire. A panic ensued |
mong the congregation, bat tho coolness of some 1
f the members allayed the fear of those who were j
naking from the building, and thus prevented any !
ecident. Tho burning drapery was speedily ex- j
inguished.
In Canton, lately, a yonng lady hanged herself
>ocause her husband scolded her for giving away
lixteeu dollars in charity. The person for whom
he money was intended did not get it, and she
wisoned herselfin her vexation, and a third person I
vho had intercepted the sixteen dollars, hearing !
hat his dishonesty had caused the death of two !
jthers, threw himself into a well. 1
^ r f I Hfixwi ?I?nnr twjqiitreE:
N
jTSTORK FOR THE CHILDREN
[ Trarulated Jrom the Crnnm.)
THB WOOLEN STOCKING.
"Why do you cry bo much i" Tliia wow a (juoation
which Ella's friend, Louisa, asked her v.-hrn
she called one afternoon and found her crying as if
her heart would break.
"Mother gives nio so njuch knitting to do that I
never havo much time to rnn about and play," was
the answer which Ella made to Louisa.
"Now, don't get impatient and angry, for your
mother is very kind to you. Sho baa made you
knit, just as my mother makes mo knit; but our
fathers arc poor, and wo ought to work to help pay
expenses."
These consoling words had a very good effect on
F.llu. She brushed away her Sears, took up the
stocking, and said that she would finish it in a good
humor.
Now, Ella's lather was a good, honest man. He
was a mason in a largo manufacturing town in Germany.
lie had to build very high walls, and chimneys
as high as shot-towers. At the timo of which
I atu speaking he was building a great chimney
for a sugar refinery. Everybody who saw him
working on it thought it a vory dangerous place.
Ella went to her mothor, and said :
"Futher will finish the big chimney to-day;
won't he. mother?"
"Yds, he said that he wa. going to throw the
whole scaffolding down this very afternoon. And
I atn very glad of it, for I am always anxious about
him just before he finishes a high chimney, 'l'hero
is great danger, and your father is generally the
ast one to cotno down."
"Thon," said Ella, "Willie and I will go to see
him, if you will eonsont, and wo will have a good
j time culling to him before he come* down."
[ "Hurrah I" shouted Willie, who was an interested
listener. Consent was given by their mother,
and soon thoy wero both running through the
streets just as fast as they could go. By-uud-bv
thi.y reached the groat chimney. Hio scaffolding
was nearly all down, for the workmen had been
tuking it down very carefully nil day. The lust
piece was taken off. Willie and Ella* saw a great
crowd of peoplo gathered all around. By-and-bv
the last stroke of the trowel was made by Mr. Sin
gcr, the hither of Ella and her brother. lie stood
uu thoro alone. He took off his hat and choereJ.
All the people beioiv answered him with loudshout.s
of congratulation.
But in a little time after the cheering: bad reaped
they heard Mr. Singer call aloud, as if in great distress,
''the rope! the rope I"
The workmen who hud taken down the scatf.lding
looked around, and, behold ! there was the great
rope lying tint on the ground! It was the one
which was to have been fastened at the top of the 1
chimney for Mr. Singer to couie down on. Strange
to say, 'it had not been thought of during the whole
day.
A deep silence prevailed. Everybody was panic-stricken.
It was impossible to throw a rope t?
the top of thut high chimney; and it was equally
impossible for Mr. Singer to conio down without a
rope. All the people were at a loss to know what
to do. And the father of little Ella and Willie 1
He was in a perfect terror. He walked arouud and
around the narrow tup of the chimney, trying to
see something which could help him down. But
all in vain. Iio became very dizzy. The ground
seemed to be further and farther from him. He shut
his eyes, for the people began to cry and scream ;
and that scared him more than over. He heard
his two little children crying as it their hearts
would break. He thought be must fall; he did ,
not see how he could hold on another moment.
Ella and Willie ran home as fast as they could.
They could not tell what was the matter at lirst; 1
but Ly-aud-by they were just able to gasp, "Moth- '
or, rnuthor, father can't come down ! The rope is
on the ground, and nobody can't get it np to him ! 1
Oh, mother, the people are crying, and ho certain- 1
ly will fall down 1" * '
Mrs. Singer was calm and silent, nad a stranger
soon her conduct ho would have said that she '
had but little fooling. But that would be a great '
mistake. Sho had as much ns anybody else. Hut I
she was in the constant habit of trusting in the Sa- :1
viour under all circumstances. She went calmly ' 1
lmck to her private room, offered up a prayer to |1
God, put on her shawl and bonnet, and went with j 1
her little heart-broken children to the scene of the |1
great danger. 1
When they camtfto the place they heard the peo- j:
pie saying to one another,
"Now ho is about to fallNow' now ! Oh, what'1
can savepo/r Mr. Singerr" f - I'
Mrs. Singtr call out ui him wi A great caimn. ss,;!
"My dear husband, you must not fall, for our sake. I'
Ileru wo are-our littlo children and myself. Hold I
on I lake on vour Mocking' and begin to unravel
it. Tio the end of the yarn to a bit of mortar or a 11
piece of brick, which you can break otr. Then keep :
on unraveling, and let the bit of mortar or brick j
alowly down. Do you hear me r"
The people wero as silent as the grave. He made 1
a motion with hia hand, indicating that ho under- 1
stood what she said. The people did not know how 1
a st< eking and a piece of mortar could save hor hus- I
band. 1
Mr. Singer slowly toek oil onoof bis boots, nulled
out the end of one of his stockings, which toslipped
off his foot, fastened it to a picco of brick, ,
and gradually unravellod the stocking. The thin ,
thread came down shaking ir. the wind. But at last
it reached the two hands which were stretched out (
ready to receive it.
AVhnt was to be dono now ? Let us wait and sco ,
what Mrs. Singer is still thinking about. She
said :
" Give me a largo ball nf strong twino." In a
few minutes she had it, and fastened the end of it ,
to tho end of the yarn. " Now, draw up the yarn
again," she called out to hnr husband. He hoard,
and slowlv drew it up. By and by he held the .
twino in his band; the other end of the twino
being still on the ground. Then Mrs. Singer fastened
the twine to the rope and called out:
" Now, if you can draw the rope up and fasten it
to tho top of tho chimney, you will be safe." He
hoard hor. People who wero looking up at him
through opera-glasses saw him smile. They breathed .
freer, for now they could sco how he might be j
able to got down again.
Finally tho rope was at the top. " God be ,
praised," shouted everybody. " God bo praised, (
lhatnoblo man is almost safe now 1" His wife said,
" Yes, God be praised. Ho will nnswer prayer. Ho ,
hns answored tnino. Ho it was who showed me
who to rescue my husband." Then she buried her ,
face in hor hands.
Tho question now is, "Is Mr. Singer so weak
that ho has not strength enough to let himself
down 1'" His wife bows in prayer, saying : "Now, |
I can do no more, Heavenly Father ; but I pray
Thco to save him. Do save rav husband, for
J onus' sake." The people wore moved to tears.? (
She arose calmly, took a seat, and did not even I
look up to seo how her husband was getting along.
She looked na if perfectly sura that her prayer was
answered.
All at onco tho people shouted at the top of their
voices, "Ho is eafo ! He is safe 1" Ella and Willie
ran up to their father, and ho kissed them many
times. lie was wooping, and his heart was fooling
too docply for him to speak. lie could only weep
and smile. God had saved him. _A11 hearts wero
happy.
Tho next day was Thanksgiving Day. The people
sent many little presents to Mr. Singer and his
family. In tho evening Ella's mother called her up
uud said: " My child, do you know that the stocking
you knit was tho means of saving your father's i
life? You r.rted bocauso 1 wanted you to work a j
little. Neither yon nor I knew then what your!
work would eventually do. IIow glad I am that j
you oboyed me 1 I know you aro very thankful fur j
what you have done. I hopo that you and all the :
girls and boys in this great world will always do
willingly what thoir parents tell them. Such work
may save the life of somebody whom they love."
A gentleman who recently put up at a log tar-1
ern in Wisconsin, was awakened by a young man j
who commenced a aeronadc thus:
"Oh Sally Rice,
I've called you twice,
And yet you lio and snore I
I pray you wako,
And see your Jake,
And ope to him the door ;
Or tho window, I don't care much which, for? ,
T. i;#?u
To either you or I?
Bier pig, little pig,
Hoot hog, or die."
A lawyer, who was sometimes forgetful, having ,
been engaged to plead the cnufio of an offender, bv- |
gan by .?aying: "I know the prisoner at the bar,
und he bears the character of being a moat consuro- J
mate and impudent acoundrel." Here somebody
whispered to nim that the prisoner was his client, '
when be immediately continued; "lint what great
and good man ever lived who was sot calumniated
by many of his eetemporariea ?"
"Elder, wil! you have a drink of efder 7' inquired 1
a fanner of an old temperance man who was spend-1 1
ing an evening at his hoase. "Ah?ham?no, i1
thank ye, said the old man, I never drink any liouor .
of any kind?specially cider; but if yon'll call it
apple-juice, I'll take a drop!" j j
A person asked Mr. Patrick Maguire if he knew j1
Mr. Tim Iiutfy. "Know him!" said Pat, "why.
he's a very near relation of mine; he once proposed j,
to marry my sister!" (
"Bob, is that dog a hunter 'f "No, he's half
hunter and half setter: he hunts bones when he's
hungry, and 'seta' by the fire when he ia satisfied."
"Wake up, hera, and pay for yonr lodging," said
a deacon, a* he nudged a deepy worshipper with
the contribution boa.
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E W SERIES-NO X
ANOTHER VEAH.
AmokImt year, atiotlier year,
' 'It. wtio shall iim another yeart
Shalt thou, ah! mail of hoary hoar],
Of eyesight Jim and fccblo tread<
Kxpcot It not! time, pain an.l grief
Have made thee like the- nutittuti loaf.
Beady, by blast or self-decay,
From i:? slight boM to drop away And
some wul morn niny gild thy bin
Long, I oil it before another year'
Another year, another vear, _
?>,. who fliivtl k'u another yiilr
ffhnll von, the youiu;' or you, the fair i
Ah: the presumptuous thought f'crivnt
Within this church yard's peaceful bound"
Come, pause anil ponder o er the mounds'
Here beauty sleeps--(luit venlant b-rijth
< if grave eon tains what onee war sfn ngth '
[ The child?the boy?tlie man arc to . .
You inay not see another year:
Another year, another year.
Oh. who shall sec another year f
iihull 1, whose hurning thirst of fame
No earthly powi r can ipieneh or lame'
Alas' that burning tlilrr t may soon
lie o'er, and all W-bcath the mooti
All mv fine virions, fancy wrought.
And all this vortex whirl* of thought.
Km ever cease and disappear
lire dawns on enr'h unilinear )e.-.r'
The Man who was Tired of* Being Ilitiiiied.i
" Ask me no more ; the leech may draw my 1-1
The kite may swoop trout Heaven, and -en/- l is prey
Tlie dim by pemcvcrtuic"- get his pay-?
I've answered this as calmly as I eould.
Ask me :io more I
Ask me no moro?>our answer y m revive.
I do not love thy "cheek" and angry ru ;
,Do not provoke my writ's by c'ib a jt y.
Ash me uomore ?'lest rhastlseineiit J give.
Ask tin? no more!
Ask me no more?your hill's sad fate is seal. I
1 strove to raise the tin, out ail in tain :
K'en let the nlieritf take me hi the tw .in ?
No more, my ft tend ' hut to 'u'a touch I vield.
Ask me tin more'
Financial.?A man without money is iiko the
following things, according to oar e.vpetietn e unJ
observation :
Liko a body without a soul.
Like a wagou without a pole.
Like n thresher without a flail.
Like a ship without a sail,
Liko a leaver without a prop.
Like a drunkard without a drop,
Like a church without h pres. lor.
Like a school without a teacher.
Liko a hunter witlioul ft gun,
Like n day without a sun,
Like n mill without a wheel,
Like a negro without a heel.
Like a poet without :i sonnot.
Like n woiiiiia without u bonnet.
Like u maid hereti of her tongue's tip,
Who cannot join in the gossip,
A pair of spurs without the rowels.
An ftlphftbct without the voWtds,
In the metier as far as his feeling* ;' >
lie feels liken gir! without h hems.
II.
If it man fails to have money the following things
generally occur.
The men all doubt him.
The women ail rout him.
The children all scout him.
The men call him green.
The women call him mean,
The children call him lean.
A moral to be drawn from our ol?ervniion.i
The root of all evil is love for the pelf,
liut want of it, friends, is th" devil himself.
Tilt: Giieat Toiiacco Facto:iy or Spain-.?a
sojourner at Seville writes
The change from the fairy seen" in and around
the Alcazar to the tobacco factory is like teUhiin.
in this planet. I'ut your hand into n pitcher of hot
setter and quickly plunge it into another of eo[,I,
ind the change will r.ot lea whit inoro strnugo
ihun to pass from the hoautiful Alcazar to the presence
of 5,000 young girls, all in one room, and
Sauilluiiinu t.\n itr ll.ft *.?< ??. rt> 'I'li.-v ftf.. i!
nough t? bo mischievous end " put mi-." 1
loubt if as many black eves run be sri-n in any otio
place as in this factory. 'f'heir line r.-; iii-iv.- i.t'pidh
mil their tongues a little faster. Until consume ten
thousand pounds of tobacco pi r day, l.t-r \mj mus*.
not suppose thai they use tobacco in ant shape ;
no, hut they must talk, and talk thev do with it
rapidity that is unitizing. 1 have often heard thai,
v woman's weapon is her tongue, and thai tho
M'X were notorious lor using it, but, like nutty other
unkind statements against Heaven's best, last gilt
to man, I doubted it until I peepe-' >ntotho l-'abricn
or Tolaic-V Seville. * Wnut any la, ;!? wo->htot
mischief tiSSsw'actnrod -i-ic -i'-.vj with th-.j
cigars, I den't know ; but 1 feel safe in stating thai
it is at least eijuttl with the tobacco. This taetoty
was erected in 1750, is Oi'JI feet long by o'.'/l wide,
and is surrounded by a mour. It is the principal
factory in the kingdom, as every one uses tobacco in
some shape in Andalusia, not excepting the ladies,
but it is when they are on the shady side ot forty
that they pull and cogitate. Snuff, cigars and cigarettes
are all manufactured here. The l est workers
itnong the girls earn alsiut forty cents per day, ilm
purest about half that amount, liverv night they
are all pi/arched.
Gosstr WITH CONTRIHUTOltS.?>*c noil's will he
look?from this duto hemtfterwads?ovletters tlutt
hain't got a postage stamp onto litem.
Don't write only on one side ov tuitnuskript. and
ior.'twrite much into that.
Don't send a manuskript unless jvij can read it
yourself, after it goto dry.
We pay. all the way up hill,from tencm i mono
lollur for contribushuus, ackurding tew h :t.
Aul settlement made promptly nt the 1 f ilio
next ensuing year.
Poetrv and nrose nieces resnectivelv scrlicite.l.
The highest market price prtid For nwlul rcleroai
unafthos, and elopements with another man's wife.
No swoaring allowed in unr paper.
Isaac,?Yure article on "frogs" i.'. received.
It made ino latF like lightning.
Yure idee "that frogs might be incroav-d by proMiration',
is bully.
Yure idee "that frogs wax diskovered by ' 'lit i*fo pher
Cplumbtu in the year 14!t2" had (dipped mi
aomorjt.
You also say "that frogs grow more bohtaib d as
they prow older." This iz too cussed good to bo
jntiroly loot.
Koah.?We very huntbly decline your < s<a on
the flood.
Yure remarks might possibly lead one more man
to think az you do, and wo don't want our e..llumn
to bo held responsibel for the increasing number of
phoole.
The vyorltl has already got more phools then tharo
is any nood of.
There aint no doubt in mi mind but that the flood
was a perfeckt success, and I have thought that
another just sueh an one would payw.lt now :it
sum sektions ov the country. Jomi ldn.Li.No*.
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A gontlctnan riding a very ordinary looking
horse, asked ft negro whom ho met, how far i:
tr\ a T>niiFh1?nrino' fnu'Yi u*hitlinr hf? xthm fn.'tit* '! !>..
negro, looking at the animal under the rider, uiili
a broad grin of Contempt, replied "Wi* ('-it u:
hoHf, mas&t, it's jiat fo'teen miles. Wi' ? good
chunk ob u hose hobon miles; but,if you ji.-t had
mam Jimmy's boss! you're dar now!"
"What do you know of tbo defendant, Mr.
Thompson? I)o you consider him a pood musician
Y" "On that point I wish to swear with stent
caro. I do not wish to insinuate that .Mr. Vanslopes
is not a good musician. Not at all. lint 1
could not help observing?people will ob-erve ijuot-i
things ut times?that after be communed] playing
on tho claronct n saw-filer who lived next door" J< It
homo and has never since been heard of.'*
A little chap who had, among other Christmas
presents, a "mechanical box," in which two "colored
pussons" wore intended to dunce, en being
"wound up," found it would not work.?and appealed
to an older brother to "fix it." Jack looked
at it,und immediately exclaimed, "why! they nm'f.
be fixed so as to 'work,' Bob! They ere /'< ? . yon
know i"
An Irish gentleman called on an eminent ringing
master to inquire his terms; tho master said that
ho charged two guineas for the first he-son, but only
one for us many as he pleased afterwards. "Oh,
bother the first lesson," said the applicant, "let us
commence at the socond."
An old lady and her son, five years old, were gathering
scraps of iron on ouo of our ba- k streets,
wherewith to procure their daily bread. ' 'Id woman
sat. down on n rook to rest. JVo< >, ious boy
exclaims?"Mammy, go to work. I can't support
the whole family."?Coiundus Sun.
Consolatory.?A good deal of tho consolation
offered in this world, is about as solacing as tho assurance
of the man to Lis wife when she f. I! into
the river: "You will find ground at the bottom,
my dear!"
Can yon tell nie, Billy, how it is that tho ch tnti:!--er
nlwavs keeps his feathers so smooth and slick '
"No." "\Vell it is becauso he always >urrvs his
:omb with him."
"Why will you persist in wearing cretin r wr man's
hair on your head t" asked Acid ot !iis wife.
She retorted : "Why will you persist in wearing an jther
sheep's wool on your buck
"Sure," said a sanctimonious Irishman of a prie-t
who was given to secular pursuits on tbo 1-orJ's
lay, "Sure, an' that inon is a mighty sinner, is h?
?for it's niesolf that has seen hiiu break tin. Sabbath
ertry day of his iije!"
A lady seeing a mar. in the gu'ter, said she was
afraid he was dead. IVt. who had been ?< tr enough
fcj smell his breath, exclaim-d : "Faith, and I wish
I had half his disease."