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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany News, Agriculture, Markets &c Vol. X. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 25, 1874. No. 12. THE HERALD IS PUBLISnED~ EVERY WEDNESDAY MO-ING, At Newberry C. H., RY4MOS, P. GRENEKER, .Editor atu'l Proprieror. Terms.. $2.50 per dnum, Iuvariubly in Advance. Y'T Tbe paper .it stopped at the expirat ion of timt for thich it is paid. y?'7bo X mark 4denotes expiration of sub a rption. (From our tMont hly.) THE E. tI G R.AN T' F.A-R E WELL TO HIS N.ATsVE LAND. ~BYWLLIU FITZG IULD. The la t breeze from Eri. has passed o'er my brow, he-gldof the ocean is over me now, I'leave thee rny c,>autry farc we:l! though t!a.u art TIe life pulse that *Stirs me, the veins of ray he.art, fri ma Vourneet, farewell. te bright sun that falls to the west Tingeing the blue clouds which hang o'er J uny breast Tbe.hitk.bears me from thee to sail o'er the deep W hile on thy green bosom I gaze-and-I f Weep. Erin ma Vourneen, farewell. 'wepfor the spri;g time of beauty is o'er vA4Tfeel while my dim'd eye is on thy lov'd shore Ae he mourner when fixing his eyes on the dead, He bends o'er the cold earth whose spirit is +zin ma Voarneen. farewell. The tear drooping willow hangs o'er thy The ebill blast hath broken each soul stir- 1 -ring wire, 1"'ugftbe gloom of thy darkness no day beam appears And thy sweet type, lerne, is ge:nmz'd by thy tears. 1 Erin ma Vourneen, farewell. eWelIfor no longer I gaze on thy shore s The mists are between us, I view thee no more. I Perhaps to ny country I breathe the lait strain ferhaps I may never behold thee again. i Erin ma Vourneen. :arewell. 1 -Thbugh in darkness, lerne, thy sun may have 1 set Thy emerald bosom I ne'er can forgot, And while o'er the green ocean the breeze: bears my bark 1] Thy heantIike it billows heaves deeply s and darl. - l9 Nima Vournaeen, farewell. e NoTE-)fra-F. is one of the emigrants re ently arrived. We publish this poem be- d cause it)/isaally good and illustrates the kind o&aeial that is being brout:ht into C our country..-;ED~. or Oua MoYTItL. THE PRESCRIPTION; a OR,o OUR GRANGER STORY.. -DEICATED TO THE HU7sBANDS OF TARt-f uERs' wIvEs. "I wish you would tell James, .when he comes in to turn the cows ninto the lower lot. And it Turpin; calls, tell him I have concluded toa take those.sheep--I want the meri nos. And while I am getting ready, i please take my memorandum book and note down four harness straps, I five pounds of nails, and a gimlet, t half's, jockey strap, and-and--yes, j I believe that is all. I forgot them t 'made out the items thise morning." Mrs. Streeter r o s e wearily, laiciher sleeping babe care- I fully in~ itcrib, and proceeded to t recoildh -articles named. She wasa young-snot over twenty4five-butr the complexion was sadly faded. -y and faint lines~ were already mark- I ing the white forehead, while the e tiredi eyes-told of care, and hinted stronjigh of an unsatisfied heart. .1 And this thin-cheeked, pink-lipped f woman had been called a beauty only' seven years before ! And w hen I she gave her hand to Newtoni Str eet *er, she could say what so few girls can: "I married niy first lov e. I Judge Streeter, the father. wats It supposed to be wealthy. But soon I after his son's marriage a financial e ci-isis came, and the thousands dwindled into hundreds. 1 It was a false pride, perhaps, but ! the young man shrank fr-om a p)osi-s tion under those who had oncet looked up to him. And his thoughts turned wistfully toward the West ern prairies. Ho expected objec-. atons from his young and accoml- 1 plished wife. But she saw with his eves, and was not only wlig u eager to go and help him make ac home that should be all their own. The purchasing of a prairie team. some farming implements. and the expense of building a small house. eichausted his capital-and t h e young couple began their mnarried life as many others had done, whoc had not been blessed with their ad- : vantages. The small dwelling con tained but three sleeping apart ments, and this fatct a1(dded to their uncertain income, indneed, Mrs. Streeter to take upon herself the entire care of the household. Two children had come in the seven years toenestle in her bosom. .But one, a fairy child of thtree smtn mers, had slid aIway fromt them, and was nlow slee-ping beneath the flow-1 ers of the prtirie: and the tired wife had sighed as she looked on thie cold, folded hands. "She will never toil t.s I have done: but, oh, I wantted her so) nmuch. the lonely mother sobbed tuth Nysically and mentally strong, and 'Vith a gentle. loving wife ever tudying his tastes and wishes, why 1hould lie wear out fast? But of her ? Naturally frail, she iad been like a willow, bending be ieth a burden voluntarily taken up. iVith the exception of an effice!nt ,irl for a few weeks when little Jary died, she had performed all he labor required in the house ince she became its mi.stress. Newton Streeter took the memo 41ndui, glanced hastily at the neat r written items, and then he step >ed int the light buggy and drove ,way. But no longer might she linger. or the sponge was waiting in the itchen to be kneaded. and the aby's naps were like anrel's visits. Lnd before the task was well over is bugle note sounded to arms. nd the fretful child was tiken up nd caressed and soothed to quiet ess. She was conscious of a strange izziness. IWhen she arose from a tooping position her head was ach ag miserably and her eyes seemed urning. What was coming over er? She must be ill. Oh, no; she ad no time for that! And then ,er thoughts drifted away to the ear old home of childhood: and he asked herself, for tho first time. she had done wisely to leave it >r this life of toil and care ? It was a dangerous question for wife-mother, and she clasped er child more closely to suppress i her heart the disloyal auswer. When Mr. Streeter returned. ex tant over the dollars he had de osited in the bank lie found no npper prepared, and his wife help ss upon the bed, with cheeks flush d with fever, and the wailing child istracting her with demands for are. A physician and nurse were soon ammoned from the city, and the ,eary wife enjoyed the luxury of eing ill. But convalescence soon followed; nd before leaving his patient, the d doctor, a close observer and ad deep thinker, took the husband side. and asked: "Do you know what brought this ever on your wife, Mr. Streeter? on have worked her nearly to eath." "You are speaking of my wife, ot my horse." "Granted; and I say again, you re working her to death." "Really, Doctor, such language unpardonable." "And yet you will pardon it. And urhermnore, by your great love for he6 self-sacrificing woman we have Lst left, I shall perform an opera ion on your eyes that you may see vein as I see." And then he placed the cold, ard facts before him, from the ime she became a bride, beautiful nd accomplished, to the village, .p to the date of present illness, in rhich domestic cares only had aunted in her feverish dreamns. In oncluding he added: "I tr'uly believe, if she takes up er old burdens at once, that be ore the year has passed the grave r the insane asylum w~ill receive er. The strong man shuddered. "As heaven is my witness, sir. I ave only permitted, not exacted his sacrifice. She voluntarily took er place by my side, and has un omplainingly kept step with me." "No, she has not kept step, tt"foi ow your Own figure. Uniable to :ep up with your long,rapid strides, he .has fallen, faint and footsore, by he way. I tell you, she must have est for both mind and body, or I rill not answer for tihe result. And twould be better found away from "Yes. I begin to comprehend : nd it can be found away. And." .fering his hand, "I will take care. loctor, that you do not get a chance o administer another such dose to Mr. Streeter went back to the oom where his wife was sitting. ropped up by pillows, and a gush f unutterable tenderness swelled a his heart as lhe glanced at her ale face and almost transparent ands. He sat down beside her and aid softly: "You don't knowv how glad I am hat ou are better." "Thank you. Yes. I am almost .ell now-shall soon be able to be a the kitche'n. I am sure I must sadl"y needed there by this time." "No. vou are not needed there. 3 the way, would you like to have ae put the farm to rent this sum aer and you take the boy, and go ae'k to the old g'ranite lills." "Oh could you? May I go ?" and he voice quiv'ered with excitement; hen wistfully. "but the expense, gw'ton. It would put us back so nuch." "Yes there it s; the old doctor was right," he thought. And th( aloud: "Do you know what I wei to the city for the day you we: ill ?" "To deposit some money for moi laud, I think vou said." she r plied, wearily. "Yes: but I do not need thi land. I have far mure than I culi vate now. And you shall have th money-or, at least, all that yc want of it-and go home and sto all the summer, and try to get son of your bloom back. I shall wri t!)-day that you are coming." "Mrs. Streeter could hardly b lieve it was not one of her feveris direams. But it all came about in goo time. and she arrive-d safely at hom, where she was petted and caresse to her heart's content. "You are all trying to spoil me she would expostulate; "I sha never be fit for a farmer's wife an more. And thus among loving friend riding, walking. and when at hom reading, music, and writing Ion letters to her husband, the sumME passed swiftly away. And now he had written that b was coming, and she was countin the days that must elapse ere sb could look back upon his face, an be clasped to his heart. She wzi eager to go now. Her holiday wa over. Health had returned, an not an instant did she shrink froi the old life. And when the husband came an saw the wonder one summer ha wrought, he again told himself thi the good old doctor was right. A few days were given to the ol friends, amd then they turned the' face toward their Western home. It was e-:ening when they arrive< and the wife looked with bewildei ment on the change. A handsom. front had been added to the ol dwelling: and before she had tin: to question she was ushered into parlor newly furnished and alread lighted. An elegant piano stood i a recess evidently constructed f< its reception. She turned toward her husban to assure herself that he, too, ha not changed into something< somebody else. But the mern twinkle in his eye told her that I was enjoying her surprise, ar slowly she began to' realize tl whole situation. Yes, now she u> derstood his strange reluctancei mention what he was doing, and h willingness to have her remain, eve after she had expressed her aniel to return. "Come, I have more to show you and he showed her into a large. cot modious room, furnished for h< own sleeping apartment, even to h< baby's crib. "This is for you. And now 1 aside your dusty garments and pr pare for tea. It must have bee ready an hour ago. I will go an see." When he returned he found h little wife sitting in her little rocki and weeping silently. 'Have I wounded (vhere I wis1 ed to heal?" he asked reproachifu Iv. "Forgive me," she said, smniling "I am a goose, but a tired-wing 'on on know. And 1 am so happy 1 be at home in such a home, that have no words in which to tell n: happiness." He stooped to kiss the offerE lips. And thus the new life bega And what a different life it was busy, not burdened. Time for tI wants of the mind as well as t1 body. Good help in the kitchen a the time, and chi>ice reading f< any' leisui'e hour'. The farm was an unfailing sour< of income, fully defraying all e: pensesC each year and showing ab ance in favor. "Been improving. I see," said D Meeker, as he reined his light ca riage to the neat fence. "Yes. Doctor. Come in. I wa, to show you all the improvement Here, Mary. the Doctor wants i see vs. And as she camne to greet hit Irosy with health and happiness. I nodded his head at her husband. - "Yes, that will do." and the glancing at the open piano, "I a: going to stay just long enoughi hear one tune played. Will you f; vor me .'" And with the old gz lantry, fitted so awkwardly to h brusque manners, he led her to ti instrument, and stood hat in hat while she played. "There, that you, I have cut oftf my own supplie No more fees for me here, I see. .ust my luck. I never did kno enough to make my bread and bu ter. Good-bye. Mr. Streeter." At again nodding to the husband. I trotted out to his vehicle and we: on his way, his cheery voice hur ming to his horse, perhaps the tmn he had just heard. [.M'oor'ts Rural Newe Yorker. 'e MERRILL'S BLOOD-MOXEY. SENAToI1 BAvARI' S VINDICATION OF THE PROSTRATE STATE.-THE WRONGS OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE-A NOBLE SPEECH. it u The recent speech of Senator Bay v ard. of Delaware, in the United Le States Senate on the resolution to e investigate the conduct of Maj. Mer rill. of the regular army, in receiving e- a large sum of money appropriated h by the plndering Legislature to re ward his zeal as a Ku Klux hunter, d was one in all respects worthy the better days of the Republic. In the d course of his remarks the senator said: It struck me as a very illogical 1 proposition stated by the honorable v senator from Pennsylvania. that be cause this individual had been sent to South Carolina to perform a very e unpleasant military duty, one that g required him in point of fact to su r persede the civil government of that State, and take under his control the e security of person and property within its limits, he should have e me, with social ostracism by certain I families in that State, and that, as a s seq"itur, he should, therefore, be s properly paid some twenty-odd I: thousand dollars out of the treasury r of that State as a .latiint for the alleged wounds to his feelings and 1 those of his family: so that Th'e jinglir.g ot' thu guinea helps the hurt that honor feels. It is an .odd proposition to be gravely advanced by the senator. r But one thing let me say in re gard to what I have several times I, heard complained of on this floor. -The questions of social intercourse e and social relations are not govern d ed and never will be governed by .e statute law. They are not gov a i erned, and never were or will be v governed. by coercion in any shape. n Social intercourse is controlled by human sympatbies: sympathies of taste, coincidences of education d and of culture; sympathies of feel d ing, sympathies of occupation, sym >ripAtiesin joy, and, deepest of all, y sympathies in sorrow. All these Le things in their way control the so d cial intercourse of men, and no law e of Congress, no fiat of any autocrat, civil or military, can ever change othis truth. It seems strange to me sto hear these complaints in the Sen. n ate of the social ostracism of of. y ficers in the army of the United States, and of citizens from the "Northern States, going to the South, ~when even the dull intellect of that rinimitable idiot, Dundireary. found rout the great rule that "birds of a feather flock together." Even he vdiscovered that ; and yet it seems athat senators have not yet discover n Ied it. d Now, Mr. President, there are many reasons, if senators will but ireflect upon them, why the hospital. er ity of the South is not what it was. There are many- sad reasons for it. 1 The hospitality of that region of 1- our country was one of its glories. It was one of its chief and most de .lig'htful virtues. No man ever tast eed of it but would wish again to re o new it. But many things are need I ed to make it possible. In the first y place, there must be the question of sympathy between the host and his d guest: mutual good will is a prime Snecessity: then there is required some degree of pecuniary means wherewith to exercise it. The hearts of the Souhr eple are as gen 11 erous and warm as ever, but their > opportunities for hospitality and generosity have been sadly curtailed eand destroyed by the war that has wasted the region wvhere their homes are. and uprooted their system of domestic service and menial labor. rMany, many are the proud. gener r.sadsensitive men and women eof that country whose doors are closed simply from sheer want, ibarred by poverty: and they are too 9' pru to have that poverty inspect 0 ed by cold and unfriendly eyes. Let those who would criticise the ab 3 sence of that free and bountiful hos te pitality for which in other and hap - pier days they~ were renowned, re n member what has caused it in so n many cases to disappear. o0 Why sir, the other day a gentle Iman from New England. whose 1- home is now in Carolina. and who s5 feels a deep interest in the people e of that State, desired to have a d convention of the property holders, k or holders of the remnant of the s property that is left after taxation - and war in that State, that they I cmight onsider how they should t- relieve themselves from the confis .dcation that their estates were being e subjected to at the hands of their it rulers. He sent letters to the va -rious taxpayers in the State. and te among others to a gentleman who had b)een the governor of the State, do not mention in public, but whc had been a man of great wealth pri or to the war, of high character, well known and esteemed every where. When that gentleman re plied to the invitation.to join in this convention he was compelled to re ply that, despite the need of his presence, despite his desire to at tend, he was absolutely unable to raise ten dollars wherewith to pay the railway fare from his home to the City of Charleston. And this is but one case of a long and dis tre;sing catalogue. Mr. President. it is not simply the question of pccuniary ability, it is the question of sympathy, it is the question of feeling, that will always control the intimacies of men. It is the peculiar genius of our govern ment that men are left free to form their associations, religious, politi cal and social. and such will ever be the case, and all attempts by force of law to change it will prove fruit less and unavailing. A word more, sir, in regard to our military men. It is my pleas ture and good fortune to number among my friends and personal ac quaintances many gentlemen of the United States army. I have fre quently heard from them expres sions in regard to the unpleasant nature of the duties they have been called upon to perform since the end of the war in the Southern States. They have been placed in an attitude of coercion and of appa rent unfriendliness to the people in order to execute congressional leg islation. They have not been al lowed to execute those laws accord ing to their own theory of wisdom and propriety, or in accordance with their own sympathy; but they have been placed there as a kind of police, at the beck and call of partisan ap pointees. They have not been al lowed to treat the people of the South as they desired to do, but they have been compelled to per form a vast amount of most objec tionable work at the call of a low, base set of wretches, thrown to the surface of society in the throes of revolution and excitement. What have you seen in Louisiana? Thi! Army of the United States, with a soldier somewhat distin guished at its head, compelled to obey the command of such a class of political scoundrels and adven turers as those into whose hands political power has been placed against law and the popular will in that unhappy State. How can men 'who are subordinated to such crea tuires as Pinchback, Kellogg, Pack ard and the like, expect that they are to be received as guests and friends by the gentlemen over whom they dominate, and by the people of whose civil rights they are made the instruments of destruction. It is absurd to expect it, and no sen sible man does expect it. . Depend upon it, sir, the human heart is the best teacher in regard to this matter. Whenever the Southern people or the people of the North shall feel that an army of ficer or a civilian, whether the rep. resentative of the government or a private citizen seeking either health or recreation. comes among them as a friend, and with the heart of a friend, he will be received as such: but when he comes among them otherwise he will not be received as such, and all the laws you may pass frmnwuntil dooms-day will never bewrhone farthing for the pur pose of preventing it. But, as I said in regard to this individual case, having no per-sonal knowledge of Major Merrill, having never seen him, and all that I can learn of him in this transaction not making me desirous of making his acquaintance, all I can say is that his course in this matter may in the eyes of the senator from Pennsylva nia be perfectly honorable and pro per, but I cannot believe it will be so considered by his brother offi ceers or by the American people. whose paid servant he was and still is. It is the firs ttime in the histo ry of our country, to my knowledge that any offieer of the United States army has pursued for his private gain the trade of 1lobbying in a State legislature to obtain pecuni a v rewards for the execution of the duties for which he was entrust ed w ith large powers and high dis ce tion, ar d especially assigned to excute. and paid exorbitantl~ ten times the amount of his officl sal ary. And all this for the perform ance of functions which are justly regarded as ignominious. The name of informer is odious to the American people. The name of detective is not respected by the American people. If such things are sometimes necessary, they are unhappily necessary; but they are not to be performed for the sake of pecuniary gain by officers of the United States army, especially when, as we all know, martial las; isha en procaimed in that State. -Aartial law is no law. but simply r the will of the commander-in-chief. i Al other law fades away before his r glance; and part of the time that a this officer was in Carolin-t. in a v large part of that State he was the a military commandant. and his will t was the supreme law. for the Pres- i ident of the United States had sus- i pended the writ of habras corpts. e What was the power of such a man s over that country?- What was his r: influence over the body of ignorant f, and degraded people collected un- r der the name of a Legislature in b that State to plunder those who f had no power to control their selec- d tion? It was omnipotent. How t could they resist his demands? a They could not; and therefore, as a b matter of course, when his influence t] was thrown in the scale, his demands 1t took the shape of law, and this large c< sum of money, thirty-five thousand n dollars. was taken out of that t:eas- I ury for the purpose of paying these tl rewards in the criminal cases. r * * * * * 0 The senator finds fault with cer- o tain well-known highly honored cit o izens of the Southern States for p having publicly called for pecuniary aid to defray the expense of de- f< fending the men who were indicted 0 under the enforcement act. Whom c did they employ? They sought N men eminent in the North: and, sir, a there is a world of meaning when v the Southern men have to come to r the North to get a voice to be heard e in their behalf. It was not that t there were not able lawyers in the i South; it was not that there were t not men of eminence in the South; t it was full of them; it is full of them c but they would speak to Northern c ears, and Northern ears that were t deaf to the appeal of the'Southern t people for justice; and so they came I to the North, and they selected C Reverdy Johnson and Henry Stan- t bery, both of whom had been at- I torney-generals of the United States, I men of the highest grade of profes- C sional ability and standing. Is there t to be reproach in that? Did they con- I duct this case in an unprofessional, unworthy, underhand way? Did < they seek to defeat justice by the sly tricks of the lower grades of the t profession? No, sir, they sought < only to see whether the constitution t could not extend its shield over the t Southern man in the Federal courts' of the South as well as in the Fed-i eral courts of the North. They1 went there to urge an honest plea; j not to shelter crime, but to insisti upon the protection of innocence. They lent their abilities to vindi cate that which is your protection,t sir, and mine, which is your heri tage and mine, and of which the Southern people have been deprived by the legislation of Congress for the last eight years. The guaran-( tees of liberty intended to be se-t cured by the constitution of the United States-this was all that itI was sought to intervene between the parties charged and their prosecu tors in the Federal courts. They I simply wished a test made of the constitutionality of the enforcement I acts. Does not the senator know that when one of that class of cases came before the Supreme Court of< the United States the writ was re-t fused only by a tie vote of the court. and that as yet the questior. '-emains undecided whether Congress has the right to enter a State and try a man for crimes which are cognizable by 1 the State laws, and which they arec fully disposed and amply able to punish ? But, Mr. President. has it come to be a crime, are men to be held up in the Senate of the United States as being guilty of a crime, when: they seek the courts of law to vindi cate their rights? This enforce ment act was passed under the pre- 1 tence of enforcing law, of prevent-1 ing lawlessness, and this chamber 1 resounded with the voice of my friend from Pennsylvania, and his colleagues on the other side, in fa-~ vor of the enactment of the law ,o pentlawlessness. They said te Southern men had appealed to law lessness, to violence, instead of ap pealing to law ; lo, when the law is passed and they appeal to the law. the senator rises in his place in the senate and, by inference at least, denounces the men who raised the money to enable their poorer coun trymen to test the constitutionality of the act : for such is the positio.n to which he comes. * * * 4 4 I I passed through the State of South Carolina. I passed through those counties in which martial law had been proclaimed, and where Maj. Merrill's will was the sole law of the land. I remember well cast ing my eyes to the right and to the left from the time 'we entered the borders of these counties until wec emerged from them, and it was a scene of desolation. No white mant could be seen. He depopulated the counry. The people fled from hisi ule. The plow was left in the fur ow: tl h-farms were abandoned. No aan was safe. I remember meeting ,t a railway station two young men rho sat at the table with me, and I 6 sked theiml in regard to the condil- I ion of the country. They told me! b was because of the declaration of aartial law: that no man. howev r aged, however respectable. was' t afe if the basest negro simply ointed his finger at him and asked :r his military arrest. It was a eign of terror. Men w-re arrt sted y hundreds. dragged from their . nmides, incarcerated without writ, ischarged sometimes without ques on and without any explanation. b nd without any charge being rought against them. Such was t ie condition of things there so )ng as there was no writ of habeas )-rpus with Major Merrill in con land, and no court open for relief. C 'hat was martial law in America- a e suspension of the writ of habeas t >rpus by the President in a time f profound peace,with all the courts i pen, where every judge was of his wn party, every juror of his own arty, every prosecuting officer of 0 is own party, the whole machinery i )r the arrest, trial, and conviction I f men confined to men of his own IC hoice, because by the test oaths. -hich still prevail in the South. men re disabled from serving on a jury rhoever performed the most natu t, dictates of humanity. the slight st act of friendship. of assistance. owar their own, kindred and riends during the entire period of lie war. The senator may snee?at he affected solicitude of the people ,f South Carolina for the honor if the Federal army. It is for him o consider whether it is just to hem and whether it is just to iimself to do so. But the people if South Carolina did not cause his resolution. I make no especial >rofession of solicitude for the ionor of the American army. I mly say that I have, in every way hat man can obtain it, a right to ye solicitous; it is my right to be olicitons ; and if there were no )ther moving cause than my ympatby and friendship for a dis ,ressed and down-trodden people if my own race, and desire to save be poor iemnant of their proper. y from further robbery; if there vere no other reason than my feel ng of respect for the army of the nited States, that is sufficient to ustify me, as it has prompted me, n offering this resolution. A STORY FOR BoYS.--It is rela ed of a Persian mother, that on ~iving her son forty pieces of sil er for his portion, she made him ear never to tell a lie, and said: "Go, my son-I consign thee to lod, and we shall not meet again ,ill the day of judgment." The youth went away, and theI arty that he traveled with were ssaulted by robbers. One fellow sked the boy what he had, and ie answered: "Forty dinars are sewed up in ny garments." The robbers laughed, thinking ~hat the boy jested. Another ask d the same question and received he same answer. At last the chief ~alled him, and asked what he ad. The boy replied : "I have told .two of your people hat I had forty dinars sewed up n my garments." The chief ordered the garments ,o be ripped open, anid the money bas found. "And how conic you to tell ,his ?" "Because," rep)lied the boy, "I vould not be false to my mother, o whom I had promised never o tell a lie." "Child," said the robber, "art ,hou so mindful of thy duty to thy nother at thy years, and I am in-' ensible at my age of the duty that [o o.ve to God ? Give me thy hand hat I may swear repentance on He did so. and his fellows were truck with the scene. "You have been our leader in nuilt." said they to the ch'ef. "be he same in the path of vir-tue," md taking the boy's hand they ook the oath of repentance on it. A preacher took up a collection in Sunday and found, when his hat as returned, that there wasn't a enny in it. "I thank may God," aid he, turning the hat upside lown, and tapping the crown of it rith his hands, "that Tve got my Lat back from this congregation." While a compositor on the Mon real Witness was sitting up an ad ertisement of a lost canary, a few lays ago, the bird flew in at the difice window. This shows the val te of advertising. Clia lo nsr--Lent sermons. I IATRIMONIAL INFELICITY. A melancholy argument against he undesirability of marriago is emonstrated by the many unhap y couples who are yoked togeth r for life. and liave not the tact r kindness, to conceal from the rorld how that yoke galls. The ruth is, that the greater propr ion of the so-called incompatibil ies and uneongenialities of do lestic lie, which are so often iade the ground for the disrup ion of the inatimoniil bond. are lad misiblec as a justifyingground )r any such dissolution, and could e readily, overcome and blotted ut of existence if the narties lost concerned had only the will o do it. A couple are no sooner married han they find that differences of pinion and mutual jarsensue,and 11 is not gold that glistened ; and hen one or bo:.h straightway im aine that there is no remedy but : ruthlessly breaking the solemn, icred tic that binds them. A ague. restless feeling seizes upon ne or both, producing discontent, 1gendering a certain thought of resent bondage which exists only ,i fancy. and creating a feverish esire for other associations and pheres, which are supposed to be aore fitted and providentially de igned for the mind and heart. 'o escape, it is said but in cutting heknot. Itisadelusion. Themar iage relation. in all its history, ras never expected, perhaps, to e entirely free from raisunder tanding and discords. .roolish to think that the whole nutual life can flow, like the ear y stream, without a ripple or ed ly. Home is a school, a discipline vhere husband and wife are to ,row into each other, getting -id of their angularities, harmon zing their peculiar characteristics, Lnd more becoming one in thought, iympathy and life. The true ylessedness of wedded souls is not nsured by a simple exchange of' )lighted fai-th. It comes through nd after many a self denial, many i crucifixion of the will, many a ,courging of the resentment, an rer, pride, vanity, and passions of -he heart. It is true here, as in other relations that he who saveth his life shall lose it, and he that oseth his life shall save it. FH E DE ADLY EVILS OF GOS SIP. I have known a country society .vhich withered away all to noth ng under the dry rot of gossip >nly. Friendships once as firm as ;ranite desolve~d tojAly, and then ~way to water only because of this; ove that promised a future as en luring as heaven, and truth, evap >rated into a morning mist that turned to a day's long tears be cause of this. A father and a son were set foot to foot with the fiery breath of inger that would never cool again between them, only because of this; and a husband and his young wife, each straining at the hated eash, which in the beginning had been the golden bondage of a God blessed love, sat mournfully by the grare where all their love and joy lay buried, and because of this. I have seen faith transformed to mean doubt, hop)e give place to ~rimn despair, and charity take on tself the features of black malevo ence, all because of the fell words >f scandal, and the magic mutter ngs of go.ssip. Great cri mes work great wrongs, and the deeper tragedies of life spring from its larger passions; but woeful and melancholy are the unatalogued tragedies that issue rom gossip and detraction:; most mournful the ship wreck often made of noble natures and lovely Lves by the bitter winds and dead salt-waters of slander. So easy to say, yet so hard to refute-throw ng blame on the innocent, and )unishing them as guilty, if una ble to pluck out tbe stings they never see, and to silence words hey never heard. Gossip and lander are the deadliest and cruel est weapons man has for his bro .her's hurt. The following is the latest effu ion of an Iowa poet: I sit upon a tree-top, A gazin' at the r.ye-crop; A sunbeam kissed a dew-drop, ! hove a si. Lnd then expired. The question is often discussed vhether the savages enjoy life. It s to be supposed that they do, as hey always seem anxious to take t when they get a chance. Editing a newspaper is very much ike raking a fire-every man thinks te can perform the operation better han the man who holds the poker. ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertis-ements inserted at the rate of S1.00 per square-one inch-for first insertion, arde i5c. for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements ten per cent on above. Notices of meetings, obituaries and Lritates of re-pect. same rates per -quare as ordinay advertisements. Special notices in local column 20 cents per nue. Advertisements not marked witb the num ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver tisers, with liberal dedactious on atove rates. JOR PAITrNG Done with Neatness and Dispatch. Terms Cash. PEARLS. Time is eternity in infancy. Solid love, whose root is virtue, can no more die than virtue it self. To love and labor is the sum of living, and yet how many think they live who neither labor nor love. A gon,l heart and a clear con science bring happinless. whi-h ino riches and no circumstances alone do. Carefulness makes the mind clearer, gives tone to thought, and adds gr-ace and beatitv to the coun tenance. It is the mind that makes the body rich ; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor pecreth in the meanest hab it. The only way to make the mass of mankind to see the beauty of justice is by showing them, in pretty plain terms, the conse quence of injustice. How easy it is to please, if one will take the fragrance of the rose instead of the thorns, and hold the knife by the handle and not by the edge. Wisdom and truth,the offsprings of the sky, are immortal ; but cun ning and decelption, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment, must passaway. Happiness is a perfume which one can not shed over another without a few drops falling on one's self. He that would make others happy must be happy him self. Good words, like the golden earrings of the Israelites, are valu able in themselves; but if once erected into a golden calf to be worshipped and relied upon, are permecrous. Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality ; sham, in a .large sense, is never successful; in the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the state, pretension is nothing and power is everything. LITTLE Tm H os.-The perspicu ousness of little things was never more beautifully expressed than in the following from M r.B.F. Tay bor: Little martin-boxes of homes are generally the most happy and cozy ; little villages al-e nearer to being atoms of shattered paradise than anything we know of; little fortunes bring the m ost con ten t,and little hopes the least disappoint ment. Little words arc the sweetest; little char-ities fly the furthest, and remain the longest on the wing; little lakes are thbe stillest; lit tle hearts the fullest.and little farms the best tilled. Little books are the most read, and little songs the most loved. Derig the absence of Anthony Coggswell. of Chapmaunville, Pennsyl van ia. la.st week, his wile died and was buried. On returniug, he had the coffin opened, and it was found that the body had turned in its plaen, indi eating that the woman was only in a trance when buried. The discovery so affected the husband that he is now a maniae. A city chap bought an orchard containing 200 apple trees, and tapped them all for eider. As it didn't run freely, he ingnired of a neighbor the reason. He gave a new hat to keep it dark. A \ irginian editor who was re cently fined $5 for libel intends to appeal, on the ground that there is not a man in the county whose character is worth so much. A clergy-man at Par-is, Ky., stop ped his pr-ayer to lead an unr-uly man out by the ear, and then wvent on : '-As [ was saying, Oh, Lord." An irate man who was dlisap p)ointed in his boots, threatened to eat up the shoemaker., but com promised by drinking a cobbler. The women take a lively inter est in the farmers' move:nent. They .are natur-ally Patrons of Hlusbandryv. "Love." says an amorous writer, "is an intcernal transport." The same might be said of a canal boat. A country editorje ports money "close but not close enough to be reached." "Wild oats" are said to be the only crop that grows by gas-light. A circuit court-The longest way bomne from singing school. The condiment for late dinners -Ketch-up. In tents excitement-Panie in a cir-cus. Pies that suit the Celestials Pup-pies. Nature's tailoring-A potato patch. A-Gr' Club"-ro han Ad Gi-sClbe.iaoihn dle. maaimn-Testth A woman's ailment-The stitch.