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rUBWSIJED SVEKY THijRSDAY BY
EditbreT'and Proprietors.
MAYSVILT.K. JtlNK... 18C
A TELEGHAM.
Br fcTRxi. nns,
Whilots eager promoters wait,. -Shading
Ujiht-and lighting tbadows,
j 6uropinjr mottoes coldly terse,
Listen to -one eirige mci.iage, '" '
ThiB-4"Qorn qvicklyj mother's worse." '
banghter M ay, fling down thy jewels,
Bride and belle, at revel bright
They will mias -while M.jy in sorrows
Faces home and coming night .
Kight, that brings s'nch sad to-morrow
Always to some mourners reft, .
Kight, that ma bring no to-mcrrow
In the land a soal has left.
Harold, close the opening ledger,
' Blot and blur the last amount,
Life that eave yours is fiittina
Slowly to its last account.
Gent'e Gporgie, bost beloved,
Leave the toil ot bruih and pen,
Lay the head with silver snadod,
On yoftr sfionlJer once again.
Wayward Will, forsake the wassail,
' Stop and think as best yon may,
Of the Ibve, whose like will never
, Meet yoa till your dying day.
Yet her patient blest-ing waits yon,
You, whoso falling otucra corse,
et the words bring quick contritition,
"Will, "Come quickly, Mother's worse.
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Children, gather in about her,
So yon'r meeting hand.t shall clasp,
Cradle her from earth to heaven,
Till ber angels bending grasp
At her sbiniug garments trailing
On the path among the stars,
And before thescul triumphant
Lowered lie the crystal bars."
There is n wire electric yonder
"Where the peaceful spirits rest
For coming ill, or wailing message
To the soul unprernely hlcst,
But ever still when stats are watching,
Thrilling through a spscc betweefa,
A mother teems to send her greeting
J3y a pathway all nnseen.
. Bend Beneath the Blasti .
-.i. bt nm.x jonrso?. .
When sorrow's tempest round us Toar,'
And overwhelm the soul ;
O, trrist thon not in worldly pride,
Or seek the tirapting bowl;
Bot with a firm and trusting heart, ;
Bead ldw beneath the Llust;
And He above who chnstencth thee
Will raise thee when f J past.
The lofty oak, the rnoactain pine,
f So stately in their pride, '
Mutt bend or.break before the storms
. That cn'lhe eight winds ride; ... .
While the -meek wiilow. lowly stoops . .
Before the raging blatt, ' . - " . '
And lirts its head in beauty decked,
7 When storms and "clouds are past. .
Eo'thou, O, marl , mut lowly bend, -'
When sorrows ion nd" Jhce press;
They may be angels in dh-gaise
To lead t happi aes-s; " '
O, trust to Him wno rules above,
. I And.bcDd beneath the blast, .'..; " .
And He will raise thy drooping sonl
When storms of life are past.
IHcfce ire'po evidenct of personal worth-;.
The Colchaln ram bad a fieece of gold; but
be mas probably Vry ibeanTnDttoD; '."
Hope is -riwajB liberal, and ihey that
trust he -promises make littie tcrople of
reTeliog to-day on the profits of to-morrow.
It is; better-to reconcile an enemy -than to
corjquer him.
A good question Tor a debating society.
Which ilh raost delightful operation.
"To kiss a ratrVoman on"adark eight, of:
dark womannorj a fair .-nightT .-1
Ar red "nosed gentleman asked a-wit
whihr- be-believed in spirits? Ay ir,
repliW be.-To'tllo him fair Jo the. face;
tee too mach 'eVIdeDce" before me to doubt
it.' ' "i " "'i '
GiBLS Satest whin 2omt. Ihe wo
men ef: Poland "have a watchful -eye 6er
their danghtert.nd make tbera wear UttTe'
lellsiTjn their persous, to denote where tbey
aie acp wbat;tbey are about.
The Government may tax our matches,
but e challenge the "world to match onr
taxes: -- '- v ;;.
New.Enoukd Gebebaj-s. The Albany
New-England bas-given to the-war
that larceoins.phnanthrppist. fndi jdifgraced
Geusral.NxAL Dow, the coarstr arid repaci-.
pns Bvtleb, Jwnd; tlio, sleek and corrapt
Haikl the euox of war inscn.ate .-
otinp rteWlas rVordn of fa?e
Speaking idom In Nimble measures
Thlx Armies of the Ancients.
" The annexed succinct account of the vast
nrmieg which the ancients hroazht into the
field,' will be berusetl with interest. No
army of modern, times can at all compare
with them, except that with which Napo
leon the First invaded Russia, and that
nurobpred 600.000 men only. The trmy of
the United States is, however, now to vast
as to make those statements, which former-
ly 8rpfrfd exazsention. plausible and
feast. When we know that a r-il splitter
commands one mi. lion two hundred thous-
and men we can essily believe that a Prus
sian monarch commanded two millions.
Sennacherib, the Bible tells us, .oat. tn a
single night, 185.000 men bj the destroying
angel. . .
The city of Thsbeshad. a hundred gate,
and could send out at each gate 10.000
fighting men 200 chariots, in all 1,000.000
men and 20.000 r harlots.
The armv of Trerh King of E'hopia
consisted of 1,000,000 men and 3,000 char
lots of war.
sesostris lvtng ol Jgvpt, lad against ois
enemies 600.000 men 24.000 cavalry, and
27,000 sevthe-armed chariots.
llimilear went from Carthage and landed
near 1 alermo. tie had a tleel ol 2.00 ships
and 3 000 small vessels, and a land force of
300 000 men. At the battle in which be
was defeated, 150 COO were slain.
Nious, the Assyrian King, led ogatnst the
Bactnans h.s army 1 700 000 foot,. 200,-
000 horse, and 16 000 chariots armed with
scythes, '
Semiramis employed 2 000 000 men in
building the mighty Babylon. She took
100 00 D Indians prisoners at the Indus, and
suck 1 000 boats.
A short time after the taking of Babylon
the forces of Cyrus consisted of 600 000
foot, 120 000 horse, and 2 0C0 chariots arm
ed with scythes.
An army of Cambyses 50 000 strong, was
huried up in the desert sands of Afric i, by
a south wind.
When Xerxes arriveil at ThermopvliO his
land and sea forces aruourrted to 2 641 610
exclusive of servants, eunuchs, women, sut
iew, &c: numbering in all 3 2S3 220. .
The army of Artaxerxes, belore the bat
tle of Conaxa, amounted to about 1 200-
000.
On the fatal field of Issus there fell 10-
000 horsemen and 100 000 foot soldiers.
When Jerusalem was taken by Titus,
100 000 perished; in various ways.
The army of Tamerlane is said to have
amounted to 1 600 00 J;' and that of his an
tagouist, Bdjizet.to 1 400 000.
Morals at Washisgtos It is a . sad
aud shocking picture of life in Washington
which our correspondents ore giving lis.
A bureau of the Treasury Department
made a house of seduction and prostitution.
The necessities of poor and pretiy women
made the means of' their debauchery by
hi"b. government officials. Members of
Congress putting their rt. (stresses into clerk -
abips in the departments. An honorable
Senator knocked down in the street by a
woman be bad outraged. Whisky drink
ing ad libitum. The government cheated in
contracts and openly robbed by its employ
ees. Writes our most careful corresponden t
a lor.g rebident of the Capital. Wash
ington was never quite so villainously cor'
runt js at the pretent time. In the palmy
days ol Southern rule, of slavery, there was
tint half the corruption there is now. We
do not doubt this is strictly true; and we
reheat, itis a sad and snicking picture.
Sprirgfield (Mass) Bepublicao.
A IIappt Woman What spectacle more
pleasing does tbe world afford then a happy
woman contented in her sphere, ready at ul i
times to benefit her little world by her ex
ertions, and trnsiorrtiing oriars ami-morns
of life into roses of ParadUe by the magic
of her touch? There are those who are
thus happy because they cannot' help it
no misfortunes dampen their sweet smile,
aud-tbey diffuse, a cheerful . glow around
them as they pursue the even tenor of their
way. They have too secret of contentment,
whose value is above the philosopher's
stone; for-without setk;ng tbe baser ex
change of gold, which may buy some sort
of pleasure, they convert everything they
touch into jiy. What 1 beir condition is it
makes no difference. They may be rich or
poor, high or low, admired or - forsaken by
tba fickle world; but tbe sparkling fourDin
of happiness bubbles up in tneir hearts and
makes-then) radiantly benutifal. Though
tbey live in a log cabin, they make it shine
with a lustre which Kings and Queens may
covet, and they make wealth a fountain ol
blessings to the children of poverty . Happy
women are the highest type of hnraaoity,
and we cannot Bay bow much we owe to
them for the progress of the race. Would
there were enough' to go around!
It may perhaps be thought difficult to
decide which is the most destructive the
mortar on tbe battle field or the mortar in
the drugstore. - - : ..." - ... .
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A tceotestaet for, tbe '1st Congressional
seat from .Missouri eaja:.- If' the city, of
Wasbing'ton had been standing'by the side
oL Sodom in the time of -Lot, its superior
iniquity would have saved Sodom. '
:- Gently the dews are o'er me stealing, as
tbe men said when be bad fire bills presen
ted tq- hlmat one time. ; - ;; ,: t :' .; k -
1st St. - Louis, recently, a man and bis
wife were engaged-in arranging for a separa
tion. Tbe principal difficulty was the oaoy,
which the woman tearfully begged to be
allowed to keep, while tbe man angrily re
fused, At length the wife almost threw
tbe child io'to tbe husband's rms, and ex
claimed, "Take' it; I can soou have an
other?'.' -it-,.", a. : -.' r . :
Two Lawer in Loweil," returning from
court-the-otber-day, oao said to the-other:
I've a notion to join lie v. Mr.- 'a
church; bee -debating the, neater for some
time What . do vou thiok of .,it?'
Wouldn't do it." "Well, why?" "Be
cause, -it would--do you no pcwsible good,
AAhileVtt: would be a very. greaS1 injury to
the chBrch.. : a i;:j,
National Expenses Eight Years Ago.
One of oar subscribers sends us the follow
ing. clippd from the New York Ledgtr ol
July 19, 1856. which is curious, when con
trasted wtib the expense account of the
presentday. Mr. Bonner expressed alarm
when be footed up the expenses of the gov
ernment under Mr. Pierce and emphasized
I bis alarm with " platoons of exclamation
points, as is seen in the extact referred to
The expnnses of the government of the
United States, under the present ad minis
I tratton. are as follows.
$75 686.400 a year I
6,307.200 a month ! I
1,452 920 a week ! 1
207 560a day !!!!
8,600 an hour!!!!!
144 a minute !!!!!!
2, 40 a second !!!!!!!
Two dollers and forty cents at every tick
of tbe clock! That will do for Young
America. But where does the money go?
rur.wnai is n appueu unuer Air. roitt's
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administration, during the Mexican war.
wheu we bad a hundred thousand men un
der arms, and large armies and Dumerous
garrisons in Mexico, the annual expenses of
tbe government were little over forty-four
million a year.
Load on this picture. The expenses of
the government of tba United States under
Mr. Lincoln's administration are as follows
$ 1 000.000.000 a year!
83.333.333 a month I !
20.833.333 a week !!!
3,000.000 a day HI!
125.000 an hour 1 ! I ! !
2.083 a minute III!! !
35 a second !!!! ill
Thirty-five dollars at every lick of tbe
clock! There is no use cf asking where the
money goes to, for what it is applied.
Some of it lsused for making warlike imple
meets, vessels, and mi. siles, millions of it
to enrich coo tractors and office-holders,
all of it worse than wasted. Mr. Bonner
offered to take' the government and carry-it
ou for fifty millions of dollars a year, and
also, furnish each man, woman, and child
with a copy of his paper as a free gift.
Would he like to renew his offer now?
Bridgeport Farmer.
The Bones of Battlefields. If there
are sermons in stones, books in running
brooks-, tbe bones of battlefields also dis
course with an eloquence of their own.
Homilies have been often enough preached
on the horrid glories of war and many a
moral is yet to be embellished with later
instances of that wholesale human sacri
fice, historically and popularly known as a
great battle. Nevertheless war will con
tinue to redden the green fiolus of earth
ad write lis enmsou endorsement- across
tbe charters ot nations, as long as peace is
not in the hearts of men, and might is
made, in the final argument of every secu
lar controversy, tbe only measure and defi
nition of right. It the future had a ton
gue as sincere and truthful as that of the
past, many an illusion of hope might be
corrected, many a dream of ambition dis
solved, many a proud and fanatical pre
sumption chocked and humbled, before thoy
invoked battle and slaughter to plead their
cause. But the voice of the future is oily
the echo of human passions. The dead
ptist i-t left to bury its dead, and record his
tory for its dead. Itmiy tell us that the
calamities of war are not necessary, that
the glories of war are hideous and infernal
mockeries unless they illustrate tbe triumph
of justice and benificence over malignity
and wrong. And yet, hereafter, as hereto
fore, men will doubtless be seen - marching
by thousands to their graves as to tbeirbeds,
exaitei by the pride, pomp and circum
stance of glorious war, and travelers will
moralize over battlefields yet to be fougbt,
and tbe bones of whose heroes may be col
lected by some enterprising agricalturUt to
manure turnips and cabbages, as has already
been done in other instances, one of which
is thus mentioned in an old English piper:
Thafpio is LIumait Bones. A ship la
den with bonus from Hamburg, arrived at
Lossiemouth, on the 25th of October, the
property of an ag.-lcuhurist of Morayshire,
and intended for manure. The mister of
the vessel states that the bones were coKec
ed from tba plains and mirshes of Leipsic
ar.d are part of the remains of tbe thousands
of the brave men who fell in the sanguina
ry battles (ought betwixt France and the al
ies in October, 1813. What a commenta
ery, is this upon military glory I and how
true is the exclamation of che poet, "To
what base uses we may return, Horatio!"
English paper, 1828.
A Poor Opinion.
"Brick" Pomeroy of the . La Crosse Dem
ocrat, has a poor opinion, as everybody
ha?, of the Loyal Leaguers, ect. 'Brick
says:
Lives there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself bnth suid,
. I'd rather bo a "Copperhaad,"
Or dead Tom Cat on B3me wcod-shed,
than an Abolitionist or Loyal Leaguer, too
big a fool to keep bis mouth abut too lazy
to earn an honest living, and too cowardly
to-take a gun and go to war in defense of
the principles to dear to everydody? If so,
let him speak out.
Our currency is like some fat men wi
know of too great in quantity too poor in
quality. ... -
Well to Ksow it. Chickenikept In an
orchard will eat all the worms from the
trees. Old ; orchards that have been a al
most profitless on account of worms, have
been entirely restored in two years, ma rely
by the protection of a few. hens.
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Reading is among the greatest consola
tions .of liifeit ia-the nurse-of virtne; tbe
upholder io in adversity; tbe prop of inde
pendence; ' the support of .just pride; the
strength en er of elevated opinion; it is a
shield against the tyranny of petty passions
it is the lepeller of .the fool's scoffs and
the knave's. pussioo. .- ,
Seventeeu western paper support Fre--mcM
for tHePrr6idencj. Twe've of tbem
r German, one is French and one is Bo
hemian.'; ' . i '
, A Military Necessity.'
A Hapfy Illdstbation. When peace
with all its rear and substantial benefits,
smues Deniticently open the people,, then
nothing is beard of that ple'a of all- tvrants
since the world began, 'military necessity .
But if designing and ambitious men infWn-
ced perhaps by foreign jealously and in
nate ambition, after an effort of veaia. ano-
ceed finally in disturbing the peaceful rela
tion of their country, and brina- trouhla and
distress upon the people, then be on your
guard against their insidious wiles. Tbey
will tell of your , wily foe; of bis courage, his
strength, his numbers. They will plot for
your enemies to be defeated, and your trea
sure wasted, your young men to be destroy
ed, and tbe whole people to be dissatisfied
with their dreadful situation and gloomy
prospects, and then thev will tell you that
"military necessity' dictates the surrender of
the right of self government in order to de
teat tbe foe. The old fable of the horse
. is
quite apropos us an illustration.
Aasod tells us that tbe horse, finding tbe
other beasts of the field unwilling to ac
knowledge him as their sovereign, applied
to man lor assistance in subduing his foes.
Msn immediately conseuted. and proceeded
to put the saddle upon his back.
'Halloa?' cried the horse, 'what is that
for?
'Oh, it will be necessary for me to get on
your back, and have tbe full control of you
or a time, if X am to assist you,' answered
the mau.
The next step was to put tbe bit Into tbe
horse's mouth, to guide Jim right. Man
took a whip in bis hand, fastened a pair ol
sharp spurs on his heels, and mounted.
The horse did not like the spurs, and ob
jected, but be was told that it was all for
his own good, and thoy would be used sim
ply when he did not pursue his enemy fast
enough. When mounted, and the horse
about to start on his career of conquest, a
wise serpent addressed him as follows:
'You fool! why have you given up your
liberty thus? You were free, and now you
have placed a master upon your back, and
be will make you do whatever be pleases.
Why submit to such despotism'.
'Ob, you do not understand replied the
horse; 'I place this power in his bands only
for a time, that I may conquer my enemie:
when that is done I can just throw him off.'
lhe serpent replied: 'Never! you bare
surrendered your liberty; and be bas obtain
ed a seat upon your back, vou have sub
mitted to be saddled, bitted and bridled,
and so you will continue forever hereafter.'
The horse laughed, and tbe man cried out
and plungod hisupura into the sides of the
horse
'Don't listen to him, he's only a Copper
heal.' Just so it is now with the Abolition Ad
ministration. Tne saddle, the bridle, the
whip, tbespurs, are all ready. The peo
ple, apparently, stand quiet and are ready
to be mounted, whipped and spurred. Do
oot be deceived, 'Military necessity' wiil
fasten upon yoa an incubus of debt and
taxation; military satraps will eat your sub
stance and destroy your children, and finally
with a large standing army of a different
face (negroes,) they will enslave you. Take
warning in time.
How many times has tbe back-bone of
the rebellion been broken? How many
times has the South bein starved out? How
many times bas tbe rebellion been oo tbe
point of giving up from exhaustion? O, so
many times! Almost as many as months
have elapsed ein;a we began the business of
subjugating. . And yet we are still every
where confronted with armies which we
dare not march upon with armies which ,
to tell tbe truth, we are awfully afraid will
march upDQ us. Then the rebellion seems
to be like that Titan who, every time be
was thrown to the earth, regained a new
strength -, we nave louoa it so; aoa we
shall find it so even to the end. Eight mil
lions of people whom you compel to fight
for their altera and their homes for their
property and their lives, are Titans they
are never exhausted; never give up. The
end will be that we shall give out, and give
up first; just as England, after having vain
ly hurled the might ol tne most poweriui
natiou on earth against the Titanio will of
these feeble and despised colocies, gave up
in shame and despair at last. We.are foot-
ishly acting that piece of history, over again,
with the exception that we, io the North,
play tbe part of England this time. And
England laughs at our fo.ly, lor she weli
knuwa the road we are traveling. Old
Guard.
In a town in New Hampshire lived old
farmer P.,. who was very deaf. On bis farm
near . the road stood a very large tree And
thirty feet-from tbe ground oo this tree was
a large knot. As farmer P. was passing one
day be thought he would cut it. down to
make a mill post of it. He had been at
work some time, when be thought some
stranger would come along and ask him the
followiag questions, and he would make tne
following aoswers:
'What is that tree for?' asks the stranger.
A mill post, replies the farmer.
How long are yoa going to cat it?' .
Up to that k oot.'. .
How much do yoa ask for it?'
. 'Five dollars. .
T won't ffive it.' ... 1
Well, if yoa don't somebody else will.,'
As old farmer P. was working away, sore
enough a stranger did ooree along and the
following dialogue ensued: " ;
Good morning eir, said the stranger.
A mill post, replied the farmer.
How far is It down to the comer?4
Up to thai knot.' -
'Yob don't understand me; hew- far is it
to the corner?1
"'Five dollars.' ' - -You
old scampll havea good miDd to give
yvu a whipping!"
Well, if you don't somebody else will;
; Affairs Io the Treasury Department at
Washington are said to be Chased but not
virtuous.- - ' : '
Neal Dow is able to walk about now and
take bis cocktail in the morning regularly.
Wendell -Phillips made a speech in
ew iors .ast wees, at a convention of
Anontiomsts and J? ree Lovers, m which he
took grounds for a speedy peace, for ending
the war immediately, because to continue it
he asserted, would bring ruin and an end of
white men's liberties. He asserted there
was "no other srich despotism than we now
have here this side the wall of China He
endorsed the peace platform, depreciated
the war, seeing in it the seeds of debt, mili
tary despotism, and ruin. He asserted that
the great question between the North and
South could never be settled by war or bat
tles, but by statesmen, and intimated that
we nave not now in omce men competent
for that task, and hence be goes in for turn
ing them all out and putting in power men
of honest integrity and ability who can and
w:II settle our national troubles,
Old Abe wont like that sort of talk
coming as it does, from one of his petted
friends. Indeen, Phillips seems to be
coming waked up to a true sense of ou
ruined condition, and is becoming alarmed
de even admitted this nation bad greater
and higher interests than mere abolition o
siavery. Well done. JrnillipsJ Would that
the people universally could only realize
this fact. If they, would, and act upon the
principle, the present miscegen party would
soon be burled Irom power
The Female Clebk: System. -The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York ifeuw
thus writes:
"The war news absorbs everything else.
and it is unlortunate for at least one person
that it does; mean Mr. Chase, Secretary ot
the Treasury., The investigations of the
Congressional committee into the affairs of
tbe traasury department, if they do not find
any Kinds of leaks in the financial affairs,
will certainly develop a great leak, in the
moral affairs of the concern.. Tbe lady clerk
employees will certainly bring Mr. Chase
to grief. 1 understand the committee have
brought to ligh t one of the most stupendous
and infamous systems of immoral conduct,
to say tbe least, ever known in public af
fairs. Congressmen, grayheaded officials,
government contractors ; are all-brought to
he , surface, and corruption, venal, vile,
damning corruption, stare U3 stark in the
face. .
There are: upwards of eight hundred
young women employed in tbe different
apartments. They are frequently brought
to their work io carriages, driven or occu-
pied by prominent men, others are escorted
by congressmen and others. They go as
they came. An inspection of the rooms
during working hours only goes to establish
tbe opinion originated by exterpal move
ments. it is no uncommon thing to see
these female clerks, who are taken ia on
of semi-charity, wearing costly Jewels
diamond breastpins, ear-drops and rings.
Fancy for a moment a female gettiog
salary of $500 per annum wearing $450 of
jewels, as bas been and is tbe fact in Jan
Chase's department, . , . .
1 only wish the congressional committee
would hurry np and make public their de
velopments, and I will venture an opinion
it there is an honest, moral. man in con
gress, tbere will be several resolutions offer
ed to expel some of tbe debauchees-that
now disgrace .that body. It is enough to
make the blood of any man cbill, to think
in the midst of a devastating war for the
nation's very life, our cabinet ministers, our
legislators aDd government ofhaials have
their garments Stained with one of the foul
est sins prohibited in tbe Decalogue.'
..What a poor administration" we have got
at Washington. It is the favorite adminis
tration of tne Rev. clergymen of the land.
From the Louisville Democi at. '
Enlistment of Slaves in Kentucky,
Lebanon, Kt., May 17, 1864.
To the Editor of the Louisville Democrat:
Our Provost Marshal Captain Fidler, an
nounced to our citizens yesterday that be
had received official instructions to enlist
all slaves that m'ght offer, with or mithout the
consent of their masters,
.1 examined your paper of. the loth and
the Journal ot the 16ib, and could find no
official order communicating such intelli
gence to the public. .
Yesterday the draft commenced in this
district. The counties of Sbelby, Hardin,
Bullitt and Meade were drawn negroes
and whitea alike. Afterthe drawing; for tbe
day was over the "polls were opened' and
twenty-five slaves were enlisted. This
morniog the streets of our town are thronged
with negroes from the country, and the
number- of 6laves enlisted to-day will be
large.
Is this by authority? . The public are
atixious to learn. If continued , the culti
vation of all of the" large and many of the
smaller fanas mufst be abandoned for want
of laborers. What -information can you
give us?
The Governor calls for ten thousand six
mouths' men to'
finish tbe war and save our
Government!!' ' How macy men, think you,
will enlist in Kentucky under this state 'of
things? Will the men who are thns robbed
of. their property be aDxious td preserve this
Government? ' . Lebanon.
p. s. Was there an arrangement between
oar Governor end "the President that slaves
should only be enlisted with the codbsdI of
their masters -y . .
Ootbaoes B Neboe3 -The late massa
cre of negro soldiers near Vicksbarg is 'now
said not to have been a rebel outrage, but
qute otherwise. The negroes went to a ho
tel occupied solely by white women ana
children with their servants. committed tbe
grossest, possible outrages on" the women,
and then burned the hoose. An" Indiana
regiment beard of the affair, attacked and
killed the negroes No rebel were foneern
ed in the shocking affair.- Admiral Porter
said in a late report: ""The negro tropps
near Vicksburg have been' commitmg many
outrages." I 7 wonder th at the J bru
tal negro soldier meets a ternble fate when
their elutbern masters capture them? The
con sequences of armtog- those black de
mons re destined to be awful in the exi
treme." d the punishment fof which'
certain aa the lapse of time . : ' - : - f
Our Planet -on its Travels , -Professor
Mitchell.' the celebratrd astronomer, in oni j
of bis lectures recently delivered; in-New
York, said the astronomers had reason to
suppose that our solar system was traveling'
through space, becanse in one direction the
"tars were closing together.. Argelander;
the Russian astronomer, some years ago' at
tempted the solution of this, by observing
some 500 stars all over the hnavpna. Hi
divided them iDto three classes those which
moved a second of a degree per year; those
which moved half a second. nn.I fhn
which moved less. It was plain that if thev
sun were moving, there would be a ring of
stars which would move most rapidly; these
would be the stars which were passing in
our course. Taking this ring as an equator
we would be ' movin? towards tha north
poles while the stars would be opening',
and from the other where the stars would
be closing together. This was found .to. ba
the case, and we were now actually moving,
toward the stnr Mu in the constellatioq of
Hercules. Other astronomers had deter- '
mined that we were moving in that diree v
tion at the rate of 154.000,000 miles annum,"
at which We might reach that star in about
a million of years. What wa3 the mysta- ..
rious force which drove us threugh space af
such a terrible, such an inconceivable rate;
It could not be gravitation; it could only be .
the arm of the Omnipotent himself. ,
The Mim Wat. This well-known
phenomenon is a great luminous band. .
which every evening stretches all across the.
sky. Atone part it sends off a kind of
braDcbmwhich agains unites with the main
body, after remaining distant for about one .
hundred and fifty degrees. This remarke
blebelt has, from the earliest ages witbj
which we have any record, maintained the -
same place among the stars; andwben ex
amined through a powerful talescbpeVtt i
found to be composed of myriads" of glitter-
ing dust, od the back ground of the general .
heavens. Sir William Herschel bas divi
ded it'into a number of nebulous systems!'
or separate clusters of stars, and has des
cribed their appearances and shapes; but, as,
yet, it is to us but the shadowy outline of
another' branch' of astronomical research,
which will require more powerful instru
ments and more human genius than is now
at command for its exploration. The same
authority above referred to thinks that the
phenomena of the milky way agree, with) '
the supposition that the stars of our firma
ment instead of being scattered in all. direc
tions indifferently through space, form a'
stratum, of which tbe thickness is small in
comparison with its length and breadth, and
which tbe earth occupies a place some
where about the middle of its thickness . . .'
Little Things. How many beautiful
action are daily overlooked by us, because
they are so little and so common. Take;
for instance, the mother who has had bro
ken slumber, if any at all, with the nur
sing babe, whose wants must not be disre
garded; she would fain sleep a while,, wberj
the breakfast hour, comes, but patiently and
uncomplainingly she takes her timely seat at
the table.: ' Though exhausted and weary '
she serves all with tbe refreshing cup of cof
fee or tea, before she sips it herself; and of- .
ten the cup is banded back to her to be re
filled before she bas had time to taste, her
own. Do you hear her complain, this weary
mother, that ber breakfast is cold before she
has time to eat it? And this not for one
but every morning perhaps through tha
year. Do you call this a small thing? Try
it and see ! ' Oh, how does woman shams
ns by ber forbearence and fortitude in what
are wrongfully called little things. Ab
it is these little things which are. the testa
of character; it is by these little' self-deni-".'
als, born with such self-forgetting gentle-,
ness, that the humblest bomeismade beau
tiful to the eves of angels, though we fail to
see it alas! till the chair is vacant, and the'
hand which keot in orderly motion all this .
domestic machinery Is powerless and cold."
Barter and Treat. . , ,
In illustrating a topic, a speaker related
the following as having transpired '.'dowri
east:" . . .
A countryman, who wa3 cute in his owa
eyes, at least; called in at a country store,"
and announced himself as a customer who
desired to barter. He had brought with biui
an egg, .with which h'e proposed' to buy a
darning needle for the old. woman," as ha.
called bis wife, when the following colloquy
took place: ; ..
Countryman 'I see you barter here.'
Trader 'Yes, we exchange goods for any
thing .we can sell again.' r . , ......
C. 'Well, I have brought along an egg;
and Twant a darning needle for it.
T. Tbat's a ra'her small trade, but we
keep our word nevertheless. So here's the
darning needle.' - ' ; . .
- The needle was examined, and then care--fully
thrust op the buyer's coat sleeve!
After looking around to see, what else there)
might be tha he wanted, his eyes rested on
the sign "Barter and Treat." A new idea
seemed to flash over him, aa he observed?
I see von treat wbee yon trade. .
T 'Well, we, ah, well, we do treat when
we trade, but so sriiaU trade, we "
. C 'Oh, never mind, if you don't keep
yon? woad, bow do you expect to get cs-
t0Ti Well.' we'll keep faith with yprj, k
any 'rata. What will yon have - ,
. Cjj Oh," 1 never take anytnmg bat
ndy -
The decanter of brandy was taken down,
and - the customer poured into a tumbler
four fingers width of the liquor. Taking
the glass and taming-to the trader, he said,.
'I never drink brandy without an egg io it, '
and reaching oat bis hand he took op tbe.
egg ha bad just disposed of. and. broke ft,
jnto the- glaai, i but immediately tarted:
back, excUtniing, 'My .gracioosf H'a
double yokerf say, mister, won't yOagiva
ua another darning needley-r" . I . . H -
An Infamnna old. bachelor being
aVked if r.
be ever wuneseed Public execution, re
plied No, bnt.1 one saw a mamagV: OStj
the brute. . ; - -"'
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