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MAUD MUI.LER.--Dy John Ci. Whrttlcr.
MAUD MUM.KB, on a summer's day,
Raked the meadowsweet with hay.
'Beneath her lorn hat glowed the wealth
Of simple beauty and rustic health.
Singing, she wrought, and her merry gleo
The mock-bird echoed fiom efcry tree.
Bat, when she glanced to the far-off town,
White from its hill-slope looking down,
The sweet song died, and a VagUe urirest
And a nameless longing filled her breast—
A wish, that she hardly dared to own,
For something belter than she had known.
The Judge rode slowly down the lane,
"Smoothing his horse's chestnut mane.
He drew his bridle in the shade
Of the apple-tiees, to greet the maid,
And itt-k a draught from the spring that flowed
Through the meadow, across the road.
She stooped where the. cool spring bubbled
up.
And filled for him her small tin cup,
And blushed as she gave it looking down
'On her feel to bare, and her tattered gown.
'■Thanks!" said the Judge, "a sweeter draught
From a fairer bond was never quaffed."
He spoke of the grass and flowers and trees,
Of the tinging birds and the humming bees;
Then talked of the haying, and wondered
whether [er.
The cloud in the west would bring foul w calb-
And Maud forgot ber brier-torn gown,
And her graceful atrk'es bare and brown;
And listened, wbilo a pleased turpi i o
Looked from her lottg-lauhed haze! eyes.
At last, like one who for delay
Seeks a vain excuse, he rode away.
Maud M uller looked ami sighed . " Alt me ! j
That I the Judge's bride might be !
s ' He would dress ine up in silks so fine,
And praiaaad least im.ai.h.s aima,
<l My father should wear a broadcloth coat;
Tdy brother should sail a painted boat.
**' I'd dress my mother so grand and gay,
And the baby should have a new toy each d. y '
■*' And I'd leed the hungry and clothe the 1
poor,
And all should bless me who left our door." j
The Judge looked buck as he climbed ihe '
hill,
And saw Maud Mutler standing still.
"A fotm more fair, a face mote sweet,
Ne'er hath it been my lot to meet.
"And her modest answer and graceful ait |
Show her wise and good as she is fair.
"Would she wore mine, aid I to-day,
Like her, a harvester of hay.
■"No doubtful balance ofTigbls and wrongs,
No weary lawyers with endless tongues
"But low of ea'.tle and song of birds,
And health and quiet and loving words."
But he thought of his sister, proud and cold, !
And his mother, vain of her rank and gold.
: So, closing his heart, the Judge rode on,
And Maud was left >iti the field alone.
But the lawyers smiled'that afternoon,
When he bummed in court an old luvelune ;
And the young girl mused beside the well,
Till the rain on the unrated clover fell.
He wedded a wife ol richest dower,
Who lived fdr fashion, us he for power.
Yet oft, in his marble hearth's bright glow,
He watched a bright ptcltrro come and go:
And sweet Maud Mullet's hazel eyes
Looked out in their tnnoceu: surprise.
"Oft, when the wine in hia glass was red,
He longed lor the wayskle well instead ;
And closed histyes on bis garnished rooms,
To dream ol meadows and clov.tr brooms.
And the proud man sigfred with a secret
pain,
"Ah, that I were free again 1
"Free aa when 1 rode that day,
Where the barefoot maiden the hay."
She wedded a man unlearned and poor,
And many children played jound Iter door.
But, care and sorrow, and child-birth pain,
Lett their traces on heart and brain.
And oft, when the summer sun shone hot
On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot.
And die heard the little spring brook fall
Over the roadside, through the wall.
In the shade of the apple-Uoe again
She saw arider draw hi* rein,
And, gazing down with a timid grace,
She fell b.s pleased eyes read her face.
Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls
Stretched away into stately halls ;
The weatr wkeel to a spinnet turned,
The tallow candle an astral burned,
And for him who sat by the chimney-lug
Po/ing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug,
A manly form at her side she saw,
And joy was duty and lore and law.
Then she took up her burden of life again,
Saying only, " It might have been."
Alaa for maiden, alas for Judge;
For neh repiner and housebolu drudge !
God pity them both ! and pity us all,
Who vainly the dream* of youth recall.
For of alt sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these :' It might have been!'
Ah, well! for oe ell some eweet hope lies
Deeply burled from human eyes;
And, in the hereafter, angels may
Roll the atone from it* grave away
BLOOM'SISTJRG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, FA ,'THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1855.
UNITED STAI ES SENATOR.
As everything relating to tlria subject pos
sesses especial interest at this lime we give
In full the pioceedings of the Legislature on
the 'l3th inst :
IN THE SKNATK.—Mr. Jordan introduced a
retj'luiion fur the appointment of a Joint
Cummin"* °' l ' le Senate and House to in
quire whethe.* any undue influence or cor
ruption has been L*ed 10 'frect the election
of a U. S. Senator, and ."Uthorixing the Com
mittee to send for perbPns • ni ' papers
Adopted unanimously.
IN THE HGU/E.—The joint resorption IR<T*UI
| the Senate for the appuinlment of a select
Committee relative to the charges of brl
i bery in conyclion with the election of U. S.
| Senator, was taken up, and led to an ani
| mated debate, in which Messrs. Frailey, Mc-
Combs, Cummiugs, 'Chamberlain, Carlisle,
Kirkpatrick and Simpson participated. The
resolution was then adopted by a vote of 97
l yeas to 1 nay.
The Speaker and members of the Senate
were then introduced aud 6ea(ed, aud the
two Houses went into Convention (the Speak
er of the Senate presiding) for the purpose of
electing a United Stales Senator, to serve for
six years, from Ihe. 4th of March next, in
place of Ihe Hon. James Cooper, whose term
expires.
There was great excitement in the town
on the subject, and the Hall of Representa
tives was crowded with anxious spectators.
The whole number of Senators and Rep
resentatives present was 130, and 66 voles
are necessary for an election. Mr. Melling
cr of the Senate, and Mr. Clappof the House
were absent.
Tellers having been appointed, the con
vention proceedod to ballot with the follow
ing result:
FIRST BALLOT.
For Simon Cameron, (American) 58
' C. R. Buckalt-w, (Deni ) 28
' J. Pr ingle Jones, ... . )|
' D. Wiltnot, .... 9
1 Thomas Williams, - - - 8
' James Veech, .... 8
' Thomas H. Baird, ... -2
' Henry M. Fuller, ... 2
' ——- Smith, .... 2
' .Geo. Chambers, .... l
• J. C. Kuukle, .... t
' .I S. Black, .... l
1 O. H. Tiflany, .... 1
For S. Cameron—Messrs. Crabb, Cress
well, Frazicr, Fry, Ifaldeman, Hendricks,
Kiliiugcr, Sellers, aud Shuman, ol the Sen
ale, arid Messrs. Aliegood, Barry, Bnal, Bow
man, Caldwell, Carlisle, Clover, Crawlord,
Criswell, Cuinmings, of Philadelphia, Cum
min-, ol Somerset, T/orfal'dcon, Eysfkr, Fear
on, Fletcher, Foster, Frailfey, F'ree, Gross,
Guy,Haines .Hubbe, King, Kirkpatrick,Krepps,
Lane, Leas. McConkey, McConnell, Mengle,
Moirison, Muse, North, Paliner, Reese, Rit
letihouse, Roller, Shorer, Smiih, of Alle
gheny, Smith, of Blair, Steel, Siehley, Stur
devuut, Waterhouse, Weddell, Wood, Yer
kes, Zeigler, and Strong, (Speaker,) of the
House.
For Chas. R. Buckalew—Messrs. Browne,
Goodwin, Hamlin, lloge, Jamison, McClin
toek, Piatt, Quiggle, Sager, Walton, Wher
ry aud Heister, (Speaker,) of the Senate, ar.d
Messrs. Baker, Bush, Christ, C'aig, Dough
erty, Dunning, Dugan, Fry, Johnston, Mc-
Clean, Maxwell, Orr, Sallade, Stockdale,
Thompson and Wright, of the house.
For I. P. Jone—Messrs. Taggarl of the
Senate, aud Fuusl. Harrison , Hodgson, Liu
dernian, MoCombs, Magill, Pennypacker,
Simpson, Smith, ol Philadelphia, and Slew
ait ol th House.
For David Wilrnot—Messrs. Avery, Bald
win, Downing, Holcotnb, Laporle, Lalhrop,
Lot!, McCalmoat and Wiekershant of tho
House. .
For Thomas Williams—Messrs. Dame,
Frick, Price, and Skinner of the Sonate, and
I Chamberlain, Powell, Ross aud Wtimer of
the House.
For Jas. Veech—Messrs. Ferguson, Fleu
tiikeu, and Lew is of the Senate, and Ball,
Franklin, Ilerratid McCulloogh of the house. 1
Eor H. M. Feller—Messrs. Yladdock and
Morris of Ihe Houso.
For Mr. Smith —Messrs. Fuller aud Tage
of the House.
For T. H. Baird—Messrs. Gwinner and
Throne of the House.
For George Chambers—Mr. Lowe of the
House.
FOT John C. Kunklc—Mr. Jordan of the
Senate.
For 0. H Tiffany—Mr. Bergetresser of the
House.
For J. S. Black—Mr. Buckalew of the Sen
ate.
No one having received a majority, Mr.
Chamberlain moved that the Convention ad
journ to this day Ihtee weeks. -Lost—6l
yeas, 69 nays.
After some debate upon the rules, and the
disposal of various points ol order, the con
vention proceeded to a second ballot, which
resulted as follows:
Simon Cameron,
Charles 11. Ruckalew, * 27
Scattering, 42
The vole was the same as on the first bal
lot, with the exception that Mr. Sallade, of
Berks, who had previously voted for Mr.
Buckalew, now voted for Mr. Cameron.
There being nq choice, Mr. Teggert moved
that convention adjourn, to meet on this
day two weeks.
The motion, after some debate, was agreed
to. Yeas 67, nays 64, as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Browne, Buckalew, Crabb,
Darsie, Ferguson, Flenniken, Frick, Ham
lin, Jamison, Jordan, Lewis, Mellinger,
Ptice, Sager, Skinner, Taggerf, Walton and
Wherry, of the Senate, and Messrs. Avery,
Baker, Baldwin, Ball, Bergetresser, Bush,
Chamberlain, Craig, Downing, Edinger,Fear
rpn, Fonst, Franklin, Fry,Gwinner, Harrison,
Herr, Hodgson, IlalComb, Hubbs, Laporle,
Lalhrop, I.inderman, Latt, Lowe, McCal
mont, McClean, VcCombs, McCullough,
Maddock, Maxwell, Magill, Mengle, Morris,
Orr, Page, Palmer, l'enoypacker, Powell,
Uoss Simpson, E. H. Smith, Steel, Stewart,
Stockdale, Thorn, Wiekersham, Wifmdr and
Wright of the House.
Nays—Cresswell, Frasier, Fry, Goodwin,
Haldernati, Hendricks, Hoge, Ktllinger, Mo-
Clintock, Piatt, Quiggle, Sellers, Shuman
and Heister, (Speaker) of the Senate, and
Messrs. Barry, Boal, Bowman,
Caldwell, Carlisle, Christ, Clever, Crawford,
Triawell, Alex. Cummings, Jos. Cummins,
Daugt*rly, Donaldson, Dunning, Eyater,
FJetcher, Foster, Frailey, Free Grose, Glry,
ttjine*, Johnson, King, Kirkpatrick, Krepps,
Lane, Loas, McConkey, McDonnell, Mofri
son, Muse, North, Revse, Ritlenbouse, Rut
tet, Sallade, Shorer, D. L. Smith, George .
Smith, Stehley, Slurdevant, Thompson,
Waterhouse, Weddell, Wood, Yorks, Bigler,
and Strong, (Speaker) of the House —64.
The Convention then adjourned until Tues
day the 27th inst.
The members of the Senate then retired,
and the Teller of the House reported the ac
tion of the Convention.
The House then adjourned until to-morow.
Schuyler, the Kuined Danker.
A New York letter writer makes the fol
lowing comment upon the fallen fortunes of
the celebrated Robert Schuyler: •
I passed the other day the splondid man
sion of Mr. Schuyler,whose stupendous frauds
are so well known. It was closed, and ap
parently solitary, though his. family still resi
ded there. What a contrast a few months
has apparently made in that family ! Its glo
ry is dim. Crowds r.o longer assemble in
the spacious parlors; the coaches of the splen
did and gay do not line the sidewalk ; the
brilliant lights a:id the dashing company no
longer allure the crowd to herd around the
curbstone—all is solitude. But what a les
son does this even! teach.
Mr. Schuyler had two characters. In bu*
siness, on Change, at his rooms in the As
tor, he was known as the high-minded, hon
orable, successful, pure-minded man, one of
whom New York was proud, and one whom
she delighlhd to honor. Now come with
me into one of the least pretending streets
in New York. This house is as unpretend
ing as the street. Mr. Spicer lives here. Let
ns enter. Mrs. Spicer and a family of
children from 19 years and under, compose
the household. It is said to be a singular
l'am4y. Mr Spicer is * singular man.
one ever sebs him. The Butcher, the milk
man, the landlord don't know him. Mrs.
Spicer does all the business. Mr. Spicer
comes in late ; he goes away early in the
morning.
He is a business man: he has so much bu
siness that he is never seen in his family.
Remain ihete day arid night, and you will
never see Mr. Spicer. The daughters be
come young ladies. They are well educa
ted* They go out into -society, but no
one knows their father. Mr. Spicer's name
is not in the business directory. So bave this
family lived for twenty years in the heart of
New York ! At length the elder Miss Spicer
is engaged to a most worthy man. ft ie
needful to gain the consent of Mi. Spicer that
the marriage may take place.
A time is appointed and the mrpectant son
in-law ia placed face to face won Mr Spicer
He is told by the father himself that bis
name is not Spicer, bnt it is Mr. Schuyler;
thai tbe mother of bis daughter is not a wife;
but if Itid daughter is taken in marriage Ihe
mother shall bs wedded. Tho double act is
consummated; the veil is removed, New
York is 3gitaled for a moment by the disclo
sures : an elegant house is taken on twenty
second street, and tho family is launched
on the wave of fashionable life. All the
world knows tbe sequel. With so rotten a
foundation, how could the superstructure
stand 7
CT* Gov. Pollock was not quite so careful
in the wording of his Inaugural as he might
have been. Tbe "Johnstown Echo,'' allud
ing to tbe Governor's statement that Provi
dence had placed "limestone everywhere, and
just where moat required," saja : —''How
grateful we ought to be to Providence for be
ing so kind as to furnish 'limestone every
where, and just where me si required.' Hud a
'kind Providence' distributed 'litneslono ev
erywhere,' and left none 'just where most
required,' the busiuess would have been
beautiluily botched."
OF" Henry Ward Beecher, of New York,
while approving the chief principles of the
Know-Nothings, dislikes, as a great many
others do, the practice of secret organization
and meeting. He says:—An honest man is
a secret political organization, has "the pe
culiar advantage that fiiea have in spider'e
web—the nrivilege of losing their legs, of
bnazing without flying, and being eaten at
leisure by big-bellied spiders."
QUILTS.—We never look ut them with
any pleasure; they remind us of one 6howr. to
Dr. Johnson, whioh, having a good deal of
red in it, provoked the surly old cynic to say:
"It is all red with the blood of murdered
Time." We expect to see them disappear,
except as samples of the work of little girls,
pot together in the way Of eduqalional exer
cises.—Prairie Farmer.
OF" A MISNOMEB.—'What are you 7' asked
a railway passenger, of an obtrusive official.
'The Conductor.' 'What'e your name 7'—
'Wood.' -Pooh I' exclaimed ihe querist, 'that
cannot be; Wood is a non-conductor.'
Truth and Right Cod and yu Coaatry.
THE MEW UEGIMENT OE COLONELS.
The following from the West 'Chester Re
publican is 100 good to be lost :
Governor Pollock is attending to the milita
ry department with a commendable zeal,
and seemingly with a determination not to
ba outdone by bis worthy predeceasor, Gov
ernor Bigler. Our cotemporaries on both
sides, and indeed on all sides of the house,
are giving us the names of those who are
being promoted to the rank ol aids to the
Governor, and the queerest thing of all is,
they are wilbont the slightest exception, Ihe
very perfection of the genus homo. No one
is made an aid to the Governor now a-days
who is nut a most "capital fellow." He is
the soul of honor, and the free expansive
pulsations of his heart are all impulses of
probity kud virtue.
If we desired to selcdl candidates for holy
orders, we think we should go first amongst
the Governor's Colonels, ut least if we mhde
up U(u opinions of meu from what we learn
from the views of our good brethren of the
Press. One will aunounce " that Gov. Pol
lock lias just appointed our fine portly friend,
Nicodemus Nincku'mduudy, Esq., one of bis
aids, with the rank ol Lieutenant Celonel.—
We Congratulate our warm hearted friend on
bis new dignity, and although differing with
him politically, are free to say the new Gov
ernor of the State could not bave selected a
truer man on whom to confer this remarka
ble honor." 'Something of this fashion finds
its way into the columns of the many news
papers that are daily laid on our table. As
a matter of course, after the tumor conferred
is duly announced in the papors, that puts
an end to Nicodemus Ntnckumdandy, Esq..
and he becomes ever after Col. Niitckutu
dandy. You will always hnd the Colonel,
when the Governor makes a trip to Phila
delphia, oloseled with bis Excellency.
1 he very moment he hears that his friend,
the Governor, as he obsequiously has it. has
arrived, ho immediately deserts his chair at
the ward tavern, and betakes himself to the
first-class hotel, and desires to be immedi
ately shown up to tho Governor's suit of
apartments, where lie immediately ingrati
ates himself, acting as a kind of gentleman
usher, who meets every one at the door, and
takes him forward gently by the lip of the
elbow, and confers upon liirn an introduc
tion. When the room become* empty, Col.
Ninckumdandy sits down by his executive
Excellency, giving him all the political
knowledge of the day. He begins with the
state secrets at Washington, and winds up
-ftrti-rbe —(||iii"f jgjifiiiaMiia Arret
of the peifiet admtntsfrfrions of the Gover
nor himself. He tells him what Bplendid
movements lie has on foot to secure his re
election ; and finally, Col. Ninckumdandy
having exhausted himself, suggests that he
will ting for the servant to bring a pitcher ol
water, which the Governor, by a single
glance at the nose of tbe Colonel, sees is
not the liquid he delights to indulge in, and
the consequence is that a decanter accom
panies tho pitcher of iced water.
This is a new influence, aud ihe Colonel
grows more interesting and more emobatio.
New friends call, and our military friend
takes the centre of Ihe apartments, and ar
gues a point totlo voce, in a ring of good fel
lows. He is Urging upon them a line of
political policy which mast be attended to,
in order ihat his liiend the Governor may be
fully sustained. The small hour* of tbe
night warn the dignilv'e* that'll ie time to
disperse, aud Colonel Ninokumdandy leaves
the august presence with a profound bow
and a promise that he will call early on the
morrow to escort his Excellency to see a
few choice friends in his ward, who render
ed him especial service during the cam
paign.
These officers,as a matter of courso, are
all selected by the Governor himself, with
out extraneous assistance, because ho and
every one else knows them to be among6t
the most prominent citizens. Tho Gover
nor needs the aid and assistance of such
props and stays, and he accordingly take* a
survey of the Slate, and these gentlemen
peering up above the crowd are accordingly
1 selected. The idea that they had gone to
the Governor and hinted that they should
like to be a Colonel, or any thing of that
kind is slanderous in ihe extreme, and our
cotemporaries might well lake ntnbrage at
any one who would suggest that so good
and so honorable a fellow as their friend
Col. Ninckumdandy had five* hinted the
idea of his official longings to the Executive
of the State.
We are free to confess that we think the
Colonel's trnmp cards and we hope Gov.
Pollock will continue to increase the army.
His predecessors have done their duty, and
it gives us unfeigned pleasure to be assured
that the present Executive will neglect noth
ing in this line. It is just as well to have
the whole rank and file turned into these
military officials. The neit war we get in
to, we can organise two or three regiments
of these valiant officers, and it will be quite
interesting for the superior or commanding
officer to report that Colonel So and So was
killed, anil Colonel Thia and That, badly
wounded, &c., &c.
n>Sli
ty A counterfeit article of buckwheat la
said by tbe Western papers to be abroad.—
Ft is made from tbe seed of broom-corn, and
meets with an axtensive sale in Pittsburg
and northern Ohio, at 4 ola. per lb.
ADVANTAGE OF HARD TIMES.—We notice
that the price ol the various ways ' make a
fortune," has generally fallen from one dol
lar to 25 cts. It strikes us that this is one ad
vantage of Ihe hard time*.
BE" THE following SONS composed by
HENRY BRADY, was surig by him at tbe I'iin
ters' Festival, held at Reading, Pa. on tbe
17th inst., iu honor to the birth of Benjamin
Franklin:
SPAY THE PRINTER.
BY HENRY BRADY.
As honest men, atleud and hear
The setious fact, —the limes are dear;
Who owes a bill, 'tis just as clear
As star light in the winter,
That he should come without delay,—
That's if he can—that bill to pay,
And ere'he puts bis purse away,
'Fork over' to the Printer.
The Printer's cheeks is seldom red,
The tine machinery ol bis bead
Is working wbe/ft you are in bed,
Your true and faithful 'Mentor'
All day atjd night he woars his shoes,
Am} brains to furnish vou with news;
But men of conscience ne'er refuse
To pay the toiling Frinter.
'Tis known, or ought to be, by all,
His dues ate scattered, and they're email,
And if not paid, he's bound to fall
In debt, for fuel bread, rent or
Perhaps bis paper; then to square
Up with his help—a double care
Bows down his head—now is it fair
That you don't pay the Printer 7
His wife and little prattlers too,
Are now depending upon you ;
And if you pay the score that's due,
Necessity can't stiut her;
But if you don't, as gnaws the molo,
'Twill through your conscience eat a hole !
And brand your forhead thus— 'No soul,'
Of hint Who cheats the Printer.
Tho cats will mow between your feel,
The dogs will bile you on the street;
And every nrchin that you meet,
Will roar with voice of s'.entor, —
'Look to jour pockets, there he goes,
The chap that wears the printers clothes !
And proud, though everybody knows
The grub ho gnaw'd the Primer.'
Be simply just, and don't disgrace
Yourself, but beg the 'Lord ol grace,'
To thaw that hardn'd icy 'case,'
That honestly may enter,
This done, man will with man act fair,
And all will have the 'tin' to spare,
Then will the 'Editorial Chair,'
Supjroit a well-paid Printer.
Lnbor-*IU Uighti-/ Dalies, Wunts unit lu
te rests.
The New York Sun recently offered SSO
for a pr'ze essay on labor, its wants, duties
and iulerests. A number of articles were
presented, and they are being published in
that paper. These contain some good
thoughts and suggestions. From the prize
essay itself, we make the following two cx
traots.
p- TUC WANTS l.y I.AUOIt.
The wants of labor are few. It wants right
direction in the laborer, right distribution in
the work market, and permanent, remunera
tive employment. Perfected intelligence on
ly can give universal right direction, by prop
erly applying every worker's talent. Num
berless workers, of capacity, doing thereby
injustice to their task*, and suffering relative
ly therefor in abridged rewards. Intelligence
sufficient to grasp the simplest philosophy,
with wisdom enough to carry out its lesson,
will give right distribution. With labor, as
with everything else, demand regulates sup
ply, aud no law nor contrivance can give prop
er employment to two, three, or four persons,
with one person's wutk. That is a fihysical
am! moral impossibility. And where prices
of labor aro not kept up by violent and intim
idating means, associatianal or other, they
will fall under the pressure of an over stock
of labor, just like other marketable articles.
This is a perpetual fact. Permanent employ
ment will inevitably result from u right di
rection and distribution of labor—and r.ot on
ly permanent, but as remunerative as the
worker may reasonably choose. Employ
ment and price will be at bis option. That
is, to him who works for another. The earth
is wide enough to gi7e every man a field Id
himself, and suppose all men were self oc
cupied, providing for themae lvos an independ
ent subsistence, could they be enslaved and
famished asnow, when many pairs ofhanils
rush to do tho wotk of one pair 7 Plainly, no!
Tbe ' condition' of labor for others would
be at their own will The degree in which
this optional power may bo exercised by
the worker, depends on the distribution of
labor. It must nowhere overstock the mar
ket, but rather keep the supply short, and it
can treat with' capital' as an equal, and
fairly 6haro the profits. For inslanoe, there
is always a certain demand for labor in this
city, and Iho door of that labor is entitled to
an equitable share of the profit. If not
twharted by competition, lie can got it. But
competition, the result of overplus, places
him at the mercy of' capital.' Ptiis is gen
erally the condition of labor, particularly in
cities. Once in a while, in specially enter
prising or speculative times, capital com
petes w itb itself, and gives labor an advan
tage, but it '.a only an exception to the rule.
Labor is down ten times where it is up once.
It is not ao wise and shrewd as capital.—
That seeks new markets when the old ones
are full—shifts about, distributes itself, and
lakes advantage of labor-pricoa and all other
prices. While thousands of workers are
suffering from forced idleness hero, or else
where, there is, in all Ihe land, abundance of
Work for all. If the um total of labor was
so distributed as to meet the demand of the
whble market, every worker would be profi
tably and permanently employed. The no
blest organization labor could form would
be one to intelligently distribute itself, or
its *uiplus, by coun*el or pecuniary aid,
from the overstocked to die understocked
market, and thoa command it* own terms.
THE INTERESTS OF I.ABOH.
The interests oflabor may be considered
as many and complicated, or as few at.d sim-
pie. The tewer and simpler, the better lor
their clear understanding. Labur is the cre
ative power, the eldest and noblest capital.
It is the worker's interest to regard and re
spect it as such, and to so fortify it by intel
ligent application, as to make it the market
able or commercial equal of money capital.
It is its interest to be in hartiiony with mon
ey capital, and it can be without humiffir
lion or subjection, with great advantage to
itself; for money capital is labor's exchange
agent, as well as aid creative. Keep labor
rightly distributed and money capital will
meet it half way. It is not the interest ol
the worker to bave labor protected as to
hours and prices, save, perhaps, for appren
tices and minois, by legislation or intimidat
ing associations. This is a false basis, sel
dom bringing present, arid neveT securing
permanent goud It only grreamoney cap
ital an excuse for legislating and banding in
turn, and the latter being more a unit and
more shrewd, will always out-legislate labor.
Trade's Unions, such as nave developed
here, are not labor's best friend. They have
kept multitudes from work by dictating ar
bitrary prices, in defiance of the natural law
of demand and supply, and permitting none
of their over stocked, competing craftsmen
to work for less prices, when labor and 'live
lihood were thereby to be had.
They have also raised a false and mis
chievous prejudice against money capital,
and done the greatest injury to the working
classes, by creating the impression that the
prostrations of labor ard owing to the rich,
when they ore, generally, and in the main,
wing to the ill-direction and ill-distribution
of labor. Workers have thus been blinded
to their real interests .and to tho truth.—
Rightly distributed, labor can define its hours
as welt as dictate its prices—and do it on a
sure basis. Let labor abjure legislation for
Itself, and it can, with triumphant force; as
well as justice, demand the abolition of all
such statutes and ordinances as define what
a carlman shall receive for hauling a load
of brick or flour, but leave tbo builder, ba
ker or landlord to chargd what they please
for their labor. It is the interest of labor to
have done with all this sott ol legislation,
aud then, intelligent and well distributed, it
can victoriously battle its own independent
way. The public will always be secured
.front over-lax under this absence of law, by
healthy competition. It is the interest of la
bor to have intellectual, social and benevo
lent organizations to compass soma part of
all of its market product consumption at first
prices, though labor would suffer very little
In this direction, il it was rightly employed.
Tbe crowning inteveal oflabor is, by the com
binaliou of all its movements, to enable it
self to stand alone, dependent on no extrane
ous aid, its own governor and master of its
own fortune.
A Dur liooiu Picture of Keudins-
A strait-laced New-Yorker, who spent a
winter at the " Mine Holes" on the South
ern bordar of Berks, in the chimerical hnnt
among copper-ore for the wherewithal to re
cruit a disipatod fortune, relates his experi
ences iu the last Numbet of Putnam's Month
ly ; and gives us, byway of episode, the
following birds eye picture of Reading, as
seen through the somewhat opaque atmos
phere of abai-room. For such a picture, it
Is truthful enough, with only the slightest
dash of caricature; but we would venture
respectfully to submit to the writer, that if
lie had obtained a glimpse of Reading,
through the genial light of its home life, he
would have discovered that the people can
and do speak English " pure and undefiled,"
in an unbroken thread; that hard drinking
.is not Ihe regular employment of "every
body ;" and 'that the social democracy,
which is our pride, although it may be his
derision, does not conflict with the pleasan
test and most refining domestic intercourse.—
Reading Gazelle.
"There, (in Berks county,) overy man is
as good as his rich neighbor, and holds it
for an inalienable right to call him Tom or
Sum, as tbe case may be, and never to mis
ter him, except on occasions of great cere
mony, when the compliment is reciprocal.—
To a stranger this levelling system is very
striking, even iu tho city of Reading, al
though I have been told it is only a deceit
fnl appearance.
" In point of fact, I was led to remark (ox
a Stranger) (bat Reading, over and above
ber machine shops (for they deal in iron
there, and make many locomotives and such
like knick-knacks) is remarkable Tor three
things. In that the people converse prom
iscuously in two languages—to wit. English
and Pennsylvania Dutch. In Ihat everybo
dy drinks spirituous drinks with a regularity
and a capacity perfectly amazing (f never
saw it equalled in any community except
among the Congress men at Washington)
and in that, in tho outside intercourse of the
men there is no aristocracy. I have seen
them assemble at luncheon time In the bar
room of the principal hotels : Tinkers and
bankers, petty shopkeepers, macbinests. aud
great iron-masters, engineers and railroad
directors, drinking and clinking their glasses
together in perfect jovial unanimity, soot
and dandyism in contact, uncoutamiualed."
A BSICHT BOY.—'Papa, can't I go to the
zoological rooms to see tbe comobile fight
rye-no-sir-ee-hoss 7'
'Sartin, my son, but don't get yonr trow
sets torn. Strar.ge, my dear, what a taste
that boy has got for nat'ral history. No lon
ger ago titan yesterday he had eight torn cats
hanging by their tails to Ihe clothes-line.'
'No! bless his little heart—eomc to his moth
er.'
[Two Dollars per &■■■■
NUMBER 5.
A Beautiful '1 bought.
So should we lire, that.every hour
May din a* .die* the n'ural floV'dr,
A self-revolving iti ing ol power,
Thnt every thought and every deed
Mil) hold within ilsell the seed
i Ol iulute good and future need;
Esteeming sorrow, whose employ
Is to develope, not destroy,
For better than a barren joy.
Ullll.tinu OF Moecuw.
We wdnder /f history ever tells (he exact
truth. The following article on the burning
of Moscow, would make us think not. We
clip from the Muscatine (Iowa) Inquirer :
Coming up to the boat a few day* ago, we
happened to full in company with Senator
Douglas, who came on board at Quincy, on
his way .10 Warsaw. Ju the.course ol atery
interesting account ol hie travels in Russia,
much of which has beeu published by letter
writcrs, he 6tatcd a fact which has never yet
been published, hut which slarirtgly contra
dicts the received historical relation of oae
of it's most exlruordiuat) events that ever
fell to the lot of histoty to record. For this
reason, the Judge said ho lull a delicacy in
making the assertion, that the ci'y of Moscow
never was but tied !
He said, that previous to his arrival at
Moscow, he had several disputes with life
guide as to the burning of life city, the guido
declaring it never occurred, uud seeming to
be nettled at Mr. Douglas's persistency ih
his opinion, but on examining trie fire marks
around the city, and the ci'y itself, he bu
catne satisfied that the guide tvas correct.
The statement goes oo to set forth the an
tiquity of tho architectural "city—particular
ly of its six hundred first-class dhurcbes,
stretching through anti-Napoleonic ages to
pagan times, and showing the handiwork of
different nations of history—detiioiAfrtfl&i
that the city was n6ver burnt down (or up).
The Inquirer adds :
The Kremlin is a space of several hundred
acres, in the shape of a flat iron, and is en
closed by a wall sixty feel high. Within
this enclosure is the most maguificenl pal
ace in Europe, recently builqbut constructed
over an ancient palace, which remains, thus
enclosed, whole and perfect, with all its
windows, &c.
Near the Kremlin, surrounded by a wdh,
| is a Chinese town, appearing to be sevorhl
hundred years old, still occupied by descend
ants of tho original settlers.
The circumstances which gave rise Ih the
j error concerning the burning of Moscow,
| were these: It is a city of 400,000 inhabi
tants, in circular forua, oooepving a tu*se ~
spuo,' Ave miles across. There the winters
aro six months long; and the custom was
and still is, to lay up supplier of provisions
and wood to lust six months ol severe and
cold weather. To prevent these gigantic sup
plies front cumbering the heart of the city ,and
yet render them as convenient ss practica
ble to every locality, a row of wood houses
was constructed to circle eonpletely round
the city, and outside ol these was a row of
granaries, and in these were deposited tho
whole of the supplies. Napoleon had en
tered the city with his army, and was him
self occupying the palace ol* Kremltn, when
one night by order o1 the Russian Governor,
every wood-house and every granary aimul
taueonsly burst into a blaze. All efforts to
extinguish them were Vain, and Napoleon
found himself compelled to march his army
through the fire. Retiring to an eminence
Ihe saw the whole city 'enveloped in vast
sheets ol llaraes, and clouds of smoke, and
apparently all on fire. And so far as lie tk*e
concerned it might as Well have been, for
though houses onottgh we're left to supply
every soldier with a room, yul without pro
visions or fuel; ar.d a Russian army to out
oil all supplies, he and his army ccutd r.<x
subsist there, touring this tiro some houses
were probably burnt, but the city was not.
In the Kremlin a magazine blew up,'crack
ing the church of Ivan more than a hundred
feet up, but set nothing on fire.
Mr. Douglas saw the fire marks around
the city, where wood-houses and granaries
(or winter supplies now stand as of ok), but
there appears no marks of congagiatioti
within the city. On the contrary, it bears
tho unmistakable evidences of age.
' How do you do, Mr. Printer. I want a
Sunday School banner printed ; we are u g<>-
iu' to have a latin fourth of July celebration,
and our school wauls a banner.'
I So you ought, sir. What ilo you want
on it ?'
1 VVa I, I don't know ; we ort to bavo a
text of sciiptur on it, I reckon.'
■ That's a good idea—what shall it bo V
' Why, I draught this would be as good trs
any—' Ho sure you're right, then go ahead '
Mrs. Sroikes says, the reason children
are so bad this generation, is owing to the
wearing ol gaiter shoes, instead of the old
fashioned slippers. Mothers find it too mnch
trouble to untie gaiters to whip children, so
they go unpunished; but when she was a
child, the way the old slipper used to do ils
duty was a caution.
MEN AND BRUTES. —'Now, gentlemen,'
said a nobleman, to his guests, as the ladies
left the room, * let us ncderstand eacli other,
are we to drink like inert, or like brutes?'
The guests, somewhat indign ant, exclaimed,
•'Like men, of course.' 'Theu,' replied be,
I we are going to get jolly drunk, for brutes
nover dtink more than they want.'
CP* It is observed that the most ceusoil
ous are generally the least judicious, who,
having nothing to recomihend themselves,
will be finding fault with other*. No man
envies the merit of another who has enough
of Itii own.