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VOLUME 3.
The Surgeon's Story.
A TRUE INCIDENT OF THE WAR.
"Th« only time," said the surgeon,
••'that I ever saw prisoners roughly han
dled was at Winchester."
The ladiee united in asking him to re
late the incident.
"We made regular trips," he continu
ed, "once or twice a week from Harper's
Ferry to Winchester. We did not mean
to garrison it but to prevent the rebels
.from holding it. At the time I was speak
ing of we had orders to enter Wiuches
vter, and push as far as we could safely go
"beyond it, to find out whether the enemy
had any forces in the neighborhood.
"We reached the rebel town in the
evening.
"The General ordered us to rest for
the night—until he could get the reports
of spies, and of one or two scouting par
tics that he had sent into the country.
"»\ c dismounted. The officers told us
to make ourselves at homo. The boys
searched all the stables and barns in the
town for forage, a.id others weut out iu
squads to the neighboring farms.
"As soon as they got their horses fed
they entered aaylionse they pleased and
took up free quarters in it.
"As a squad of three of our men were
about to enter a barn in the "outskirts of
the town, three rebel soldiers suddenly
jumped up from among the bay and
let blaze at them. One of our men was
badly wounded, but not fatally. Ili* two
comrades ran for help. They soon ro
turned, I tell you, with as uia I a set of
fellows as you could have mustered in
Virginia They hunted the barn high
and low, every nook and corner, up loft
•fid down cellar, but not a trace of the
rebels could they find.
"We knew 'bey hadn't got out of our
lines ; for our pickets uere too (strong for
that.
"There were some houses near by and
we searched them. Hut we had the same
luck—not a trace of tho rebels !
" 'Well, boys, we must give it up,' said
Torn llynder; 'but I'll be hanged if I
see how the Johnnies got off.—
They hero—somewhere nigh by,
too —but they've given us the slip as slick
ns grease.'
" -Net much they haven't,' shouted
Bill Green, a Maryland soldier; 'y u
don't find this child leave this till he col
jars them doggoued rebs. 1 tell you they're
msWc ten rods ol here, tuuie'crcs, and I
tell you I'm agwine to get 'em dead or
alive. 1 know their tricks, by jolly, aud
1 tell you they're in that house thar some
'cres or other. llillo! Look at that
hole ! llow are you, Johnnie ? Fm alter
you !'
"And with that characteristic speech
oft lie ran to the nearest house, which we
Lad searched already from top to bottom.
The houses there havo no cellars. They
are generally raised about three or four
j'cct from the ground, and sometimes rest
ou a stone foundation which is built nil
found; and sometimes again they rest 011
a little piece of masonry at the corners
only, while the spaces between them arc
banked up with earth. In the baukiug
of this house there was an opening that
uHee of us had noticed. The Marylan
der made for it and squatted on hiskuecs
and peeped in.
" 'Are they there ?' *re sJj««ted.
"He looked up and said nothiug. He
was evidently disappointed.
•' 'No,' he said at last, after musiug a
while, 'oui they're here some'ere, aud Fm
agwine to find thetu. Llillo! bub, couic
here! Come along with me!'
"A little fellow had just come out from
the house. lie hung back, but Bill
coaxed him into the barn. I went with
Jhiui. Bill told the other incu to keep
tike women of the house inside, talking
to them, so that they might not see him
with the boy.
" 'Now, bub,' said Bill to the boy, 'do
you know that Pm agwine to burn down
your honse V
"The boy looked scared.
",'Oh, please not, Sir,' he cried ; 'them
ifellars ain't thar ; true's death, Sir, they'a
not thar'
" 'And I'm agwine to bang your dad,
bub,' added Bill, without taking any no
tice of what the boy bad said; 'Mid, like
wise, I'll be obleeged to give yon tbe go!*
darnest whaliug you ever beard tell on in
all your barn days!'
" 'Ob, please don't, Sir !' cried tbe lit
tle fellow again—be was thi./mighly
frightened now—'the solgers ain't thar.'
' " 'How do you kuow V asked Bill.
"'I knows they ain't,' replied the
boy.
"Bill seised hiui by tbe collar and
spoke fiercely. .
" 'Now, boy, I'll bang you and your
4lad, and burn down your jtopee in ten
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
minutes, if you don't tell me whar thein
fellers is hid I'
" 'Oh, please, Sir, I'm afraid,' said the
boy.
" 'Don't be afeetd,' Mill told him—
'thry sha'n't harm you; nobody sha'n't
harm you but me; and, by hockey, I'll
pull your gizzard out and hang you doub
le quick if you don't out and tell right
off whar they're hid !'
"The boy was now completely cowed.
"'Well, Sir,' he said, 'they'* bid un
der our house. They's dug a hole in the
ground right below the middle of the par
lor. You can't see it when you look in
that hole in tLe bankin', bekase they tot
ted all the dirt away, and you see it'etoo
dark to notice the other hole thataway.'
" 'All right, bub,' said Hill, 'you'll be
a man before your mother if you keep
your cye. peeled ! Wc won't hurt you.'
" 'Oh, please, Sir,' cried the boy, 'dou't
burn down our house; we'a Union folks'
" 'ln what direction ?' asked Bill, with
a grin.
"'I don't know nothin* about ary di
dircction,' said the boy, with a puzzled
look.
" 'Oh you don't ?' continued Bill, 'well
ye oughter. You oughter say you're
Union—
' Over rti« /«/(, you knm ot tr thtle/L?
lie sang.
"Bill rushed out, and told one of the
soldiers to stand with his revolver cock
ed at the hole in the banking, and to
shoot down the first man that tried to es
cape through it.
'•Then lie went into the house and ask
ed for.au axe.
•' 'Wlmt in tbewsrld do you want with
an axa ?' the old woman inquired, with
ou ayxious glanc.e at his face.
"/I art uie uo questions and I'll tell ye
no lies,' said Bill; 'but, unless ye want
this house burned over yer head, bring
me one in lcG than two-forty.'
"The woman saw that Bill was in tio
mood to bo trifli'J with aud went and got
tliu axe without any more ado.
"Hill then turned to the three soldiers
who had followed him into the house and
told them to draw their aevolvers and be
ready to shoot. They did so.
"U ithout a word Bill seized the carpet
at the edges and tore it up.
"The women screamed.
"'Lord a messy !' shouted tho old wo
man, 'what on airth are je spiling uiy
Carpet for? The ole man and all on us
is Uuion, and has alters bin 1'
" 'Pou my word and honor,' added one
of the daughters, 'there ain't nary rcb
hid in our house.'
"'We don't know nary thing about ary
rcb,' said another young woman.
"They all made a fuss and hollered,
but Bill took no more notice of them
than if they had been a parcel of hogs,
lie tore every bit of the carpet from the
floor.
"As soon as he had doue it he took
the axe, and with one blow bloke through
the thin floor.
" "Bo ready, boys !' he said.
"The women were crying aud screaming
and talking Union all the time.
"One or two blows made quite a large
opeuing, aud with a single jerk Bill tore
up the flooring.
"What do you suppose we saw?
"There lay the three rebs, dressed in
ditty homo-spun, huddled together at tho
bottom of a wide hole that they had dug
beneath the house.
Bill was a powerful fellow. He seiz
ed one of the rebels by the nap of the
neck, and not only pulled him out, but
pitched him to the further corner of the
room. Ono of our boys instantly cover
ed him with his pistol.
'■Without waiting to rest. Bill served
the two others in the tame way.
"You ought to have seeu him as he
turned to the wouefl :
" Well, old .Sixpence, you're Union,
you ai ? an' the ole UIUD ? and alien hex
bin? And yt* never seeu u>j reb, you
never did, Mi*s Brass? Nor you Luther,
on your word and bouor, Miss Secesh V
"Tncy hung down their heads, blushad
up to the eyes,.aud left the room without
a word.
"We disarmed the rebels and led them
to the Geacral. Bat it was hard work.
I never saw men so exasperated. They
wanted to lynch these assassins. If our
wounded man had died I don't believe
the General could hav» held them back.
* "Next day we had orders to return to
Harper's Ferry. The iferee rebs were
lariated to the bows of saddles, and forced
to keep up with us all day long on foot.
Their shoes were taken from them, and
they had 'a hard road to travel, I believe/
that day. That was ail the punishment
ever inflicted on thew for attempted
assassination of our men.
"This," added the Surgeon,, "waa in
the days when we wadp jrar on peace
j principles, and it not ferry done
Let us have Faith that Right makes Might j and in that Faith let us, to the end, dare to do ou. duty as we understand it"—A- Ltwootw.
BUTLER. BUTLER COUNTY. PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 18GG.
then to have hanged these wretches. It
might have exasperated the Sooth, you
know. So, as I said, all we did to them
was to force them for one day to keep
step to the music of the Union cavalry's
hoofe."
WIT AHP WIBPOM.
—A tender-hearted railway engineer
on a certain railroad says he never runs
tver a man when li 3 cau help it, because
"it musses up the track so."
—lt is calculated that the clergy cost
the United States twelve millions of dol
lars annually ; the oriminalf, forty mil
lions; the lawyers, seveuty millions; rum,
two hundred million! I
—l)r. Gross, the justly celebrated sur
geon of Philadelphia, was once danger
ously ill. Shortly after his recovery, he
met one of his lady patients—they are
not always patient ladies—who remarked
to him :
"Oh Doctor I I rejoice to see that you
are out again; had wc lost you, our good
people would have died by the dozet I"
•'Thank you, madam." replied the affa
ble Doctor; "but now, I fear, they will
die by the Gruts t"
—Our Charlie, being the youngest,
considers it his especial privilege togo
wherever his mother does and feels that
he has been deeply injured if she makes
a visit without him Fergctting this,
however, I one day called him to me
while I was reading the Hible, and said :
"Sec here. Charlie, what Solomon says
about punishing little boys : 'The rod
and reproof bringeth wisdom, but a child
left to himself bringeth his mother to
shame.' "
Overlooking the former part of the
verse, and recurring to his own particular
grievance immediately, he turned thi ta
bles on me by exclaiming :
"Well, what does she ever leave him by
himself for then ?"
A SOLOMON. —It so happened that the
good citizens of a Louisiana town elected
to the important position of Justice a
full set, lager-bcer-shaped Dutchman—
just as stupid as he looked. lie spoke
French as well as German. On a certaiu
occasion two Frenchmen got into a quar
rel, and after belaboring each ether pret
ty soundly, resolved to settle the matter
by a Buit before our friend.
"Well, now," said tho Alderman, with
all the gravity of a "how will you
be tried ? by French Lw or United Stitea
law 1"
Both being French, agreed to be tried
by the laws of Frauce.
"Well, now, Henri," said his Honor,
"you struck Jonas."
"Yes."
"Well, now, Jonas, you struck Hen
ri."
"Yes."
"Well, then, you are both guilty, and
by French law I lino you both five dol
lar? I"
The parties paid the fine, and left poor
er if not wiser men.
—hittle Charlie Warning is a thought
ful, soulful boy, who iooks into your fate,
out of his great blue and pays such
wonderful unaccountable things. Though
he is such a little fellow, only eight years
old, still he goes to a military shool. One
day last summer he stood on his father's
balcony at Amsterdam, looking at the
rainbow, and wondering what it was.—
l'resently he weut into tho library and
said to his father :
"Papa, what is the rainbow ?"
"I can not tell you now, Char! e," said
the father. "I am reading "
But Charlie still stood,looking ery dis
appointed, and presently his fatbrr said :
"At some future time, when ou -will
understand it, I will tell you all about
it!"
So he walked away, looking iroabled
and thoughtful, and took his stand again
where he could see the beautiful bow,
now fading away in the evening sky.—
Suddenly a gleam of light came across
his face, as if some angel were whisper
ing to fain, and he ran into the parlor
and said :
"Papa ! I've found out about the rain
bow ; 'tis the angels out on dress parade"'
The angels on dreas parade 1 Who but
a little innocent child would ever have
dreamed of any th.ng so sweet and beau
tiful 112 Why will we over forget the pres
ence of the angels ? WTiy ever forget
the presence of the great God, Father of
angels and of men ?
—An editor and his wife were walking
out in the bright moonlight one evening.
Like all editors' wives, she was of an
exceedingly poetic nature, au<| s*id to her
mate, "Notice that iuoqu ; how bright,
and calm, and beautiful 1" "Couldn't
think of notioing it for any leu than the
usual rates— a dollar f9d fifty, ceuta for
twelve line* J"
The Status of the Southern St&tes.
There are no questions of political law
more important than this at thepresent timr,
and none upon which there is more con
fusion of ideas, than those which pertain
to the civic rights of the States lately in
rebellion. What is their political s(alus 112
Are they States at all, or only territories ?
If they are not States, when did they
cease to exist as such ? If they are
States, what are their rights 1 Are they
eutitled to elect members ot Congress?—
Do they stand upon an equal footing with
New York, Ponnsylvadia, and Ohio? If
so, why does Congress exclude their rep
resentatives eveu for a day ?
These are questions which are constant
ly and naturally asked. ''Oovernor" Per
ry, Mr. Vallandighain, the New York
World, and the New York Times find no
difficulty in answering them. According
to these authorities, the answer to all
such questions depends upon the answer
to one, namely, Are these States in or out
of the Union ? If they are in the Unioni
it is confidently asserted that they must
needs be entitled to all their ancient
rights. If they are out of the Union,
then it is said the war 112 r tho Union has
failed of its purpose.
This fallacious reasoning, transparent
as it seems to us, misleads a largo portion
of the loyal people, and confusos yet
more. Let us cn'ry it to its full extent,
and it will be easily i.'cn through.
A large part of Louisiana is kept from
total submersion by water, only by a long
line of dykes. Let us suppose that the
whole State was in the like condition.—
Let us further suppose that, in order to
carry out military operations, it became
necessary to break down all these dykes,
and to submerge the whole State, BO that
it sheuld become permanently uninhabit
able. Would the war have bceu necessa
rily a failure because Louisiana was des
troyed ? True, the war was not underta
ken for the purpose of destroying a State,
but neither was it undertaken for the
preservation of a State. It was not com
menced for the purpose of spending three
thousand millions of dollars or of sacri
ficing five hundred thousand lives.' It
Was waged to preserve tho nation, and
thi was meant to bo done whether th c
lives of individuals or of States should
perish or not. So much for tho argu
ment from the supposed "failure of tho
war."
But, in truth, all that is said about
States being -'in or out" of the Union is
utterly irrelevant to tho argument. * The
Territcry of Colorado is i-urely in the
Union, notwithstanding it has not bean
admitted as a Slato. Does citizen of
n territory find any difficulty in obtaining
a passport as a citizen of tho United
States ? Were not the residents of Lou
isiana admitted to all the rights of citi
zenship, by treaty, long before they or
ganized a State government ? These con
siderations dispose also of the argument
that the election of Mr. Johnson proves
that Tennessee was a State then in exist
ence. There is nothing in tho Constitu
tion which prevents the election of u cit
izen of Nebraska or tho District of Col
umbia to tlm Presidency. Nor is therd
anything in the faat that Mr. Johnson
continued to act as a Senator of the Uni
ted States, after his State had become
disorganized, which binds Congress now
to recognizo the continued existence of
that Stato. It was a favorite doctrine of
Henry Clay that every member of Cong
ress represented the whole nation, and not
merely his own particular Stato or dis
trict. This doctrine is unquestionably
the true one, and has been gradually ac
quiesced in by all parlies, though vehem
ently denied at first. It follows that no
member can bo deprived of his seat (ex
cept by regular process of expulsion),
even if the entire Stato or district from
which he co>ncs should be swallowed up
by earthquake or inundation. Much
more is he entitled to remain, if ho choos
es, after his State has lost its corporate ex.
jstence.
Coming then to tho conclusion that the
controversy is not to be disposed of by
one or two phrases, let us consider what
are the facts upon which it turns.
For the purpose of our present argu
ment, we lay aside all considerations
founded upon, the belligerent attitude of
the South, aud dismiss entirely all ques
tion as to the effect of tho Sute rebellion
upon State rights. Waiving these, the
following facts remain:
1. That Virginia, North and South
Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama. Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas
elected regular State conventions, wbich,
according to the universal law of this
country,h d 4 right to make any changes
in their framo of government not prohib
ited by the Constitution of the United
States.
2. That thee* coaveatioos adopted or-
dinances declaring that their respective
States were 110 longer within the Uuion
striking out the words " United States"
wherever ihey occurred in their constitu
tions and laws, and substituting tho"Cou»
federate States" therefor, absolving all
State officials from their oaths to support
tho Constitution of the United States, and
requiring Ihein to take oaths of allegiance
to the new State constitutions and to the
" Confederate States."
3. That Teunc-ssee jossed similar ordi
nances, only by her legislature instead of
by a convention..
4. That all these States repealed the
laws pioviding for the electiou os Repre
sentatives to thu Congress of the United
States.
5. That all tho officials of those States
took an oath of allegiance to the "Con
federate States," and reuouncrad their al
legiance to the United States.
0. That long before thc rebellion ceased,
tho official term of every State officer
within these States,who had over taken an
oath of allegiance to the United States,had
expired ; and no one held office ia any
ouo of these States, by virtuo of an elec- 1
tion prior to tho ordinances ot secession,
except, possibly, a few judicial officers.
Now, in the language of Chief Justice
Uronson (Indiana v. Worain, G Hill, 33),
" that a State is a corporation cannot be
doubted." Viewed as a corporation, can
there be much question as to the legal
effect of such a course of action as we
have set forth above ? Setting Tennesseo
aside for 'he present, tho other States
took every possible means to destroy their
corporato existence. What more could
they do than they have done ? Acting
through the most authorative exponents
which they could summon into existeuoe,
they declared their fixed determination
not te exist any longer as States of this
Uuion. They abolished every law of
their own which gave them a place in
tho Uuion. They vacated every office
held as an office of a State in the Union.
They destroyed every right which they
had to elect representatives to a Congress
of tho Union. They left not ono Bhrod
of legal and constitutional government in
existence. True, they bolieved that they
could exist as govcrnmcuts outside of the
Union; but they broke down all the
bridges behind them, and pciilled all up
on tho hazard of their opinion. Tho war
has settled that (hey were mistaken upon
this point, but it faas not provided any
remedy for their voluntary destruction of
v thoir own institutions. That act of folly
must be repaired by regular constitutional
prjces^es.
It is null that the Statci did not lose
their identity, although they rebelled.—
But a" Stato, like any other corporation,
may cease to exist, although all its pow
ers are assumed, all its property taken,
and all its officers continued, by another
corporation bearing precisely the same
uame. Thus, a number of banks in New
York, which wore organized many ycais
ago under special charters, reorganized
uudcr the general act of 1838, without
the slightest change in name, stockhold
ers, officers, property, or business. A
few years ago the question arose, in an
action brought by one of these banks,
whether it was one and the same corpo
ration throughout. The courts held,
without a shadow of doubt, that it was
not, and that tho new corporation was as
distinct from the old as a son frou>
bis father. Just so Virginia, as a State
of the Union, is totally' distinct from the
Virginia which professed to oxist as an
independent or Coufederato State. Nur
does the fact that Virginia, as a Confed
erate State, never had a legal existence,
have the least tendency to prove that the
former Virginia did not destroy itself.
The case of Tennessee, a3 we have
said, differs from that of the other revol
ted States iu the fact tw.»t no convention
was held therein, liut all legal govern
ment was destroyed thero for four years
as effectually as in any other State, and,
practically, it stand* upon the same foot
ing as the rea, cxeept that its constitu
tion cau survive tho destruction of ali
government under it.
In all theso States, then, thero was DO
civil government, no cirilJaw, no civil ad.
ministration of affairs, for year*. Never
theless, it is claimed that, by virtue of
gome undefined principle of immortality,
the States outlived all the forms of gov
ernment and law which are usually sup
posed to constitute a State.
Can a State continue to exist without
a government or any lawful nean* of
electing one ? Can it exist after its peo
ple hare, in a regular and proper method,
declared their will that it shall not exist ?
Is there any self-acting power in a State
government that keeps it alivo after it has
taken every conceivable means to put an
end to itself? Were our fore fatherswrong
when they dsolved tho right of the peo
plo to change, alter, or abolish tho form
of government at trill, and enn wa ouly
change, and not simply abolish ?
Thess are questions which tho suppor
ters of the President's policy never dis
cuss. But they are practical questions,
and the President has himself oonceded
a great part of our position upon them.
Lie has uniformly assumed that tbera
were no legal governments in the rebel
States after the passage of their ordinan
ces of secession, and that not a single of
fice, from governor dowti to pound-keep*
er, was legally filled in any of those States
when the rebellion ceased, except where
Mr. Lfbcolu had re-organized their gov
ernments. Tho only difference between
our conclusions aud his theory is, that he
believes in tho coutinued existence of a
State after its entire government has per
isheJ, while we hold, with Mr. Henry J.
Raymond, that a State ceases to exist
when its constitution and j-ovemuient are
destroyed.
The real points in controversy are,
whether the duty of restoring the States
is a duty devolving on tho President 1
alone, or upon Congress, voting subject to
his veto power (which w.< shall discuss
hereafter), and, above all, what, ;s wa
pointed out two weeks ago, will be the ef
fect upon tho national safety of admit
ting the rebel States to their old plaeos
now ?— The Nat inn.
A Connecticut Story,
The following is related as a fast, hav
ing actually happened sjnio years sinca in
tha State of Connecticut:
A man iu rather iodifferout cireumst: n*
ces, surrounded by a larg3 family, being
entirely out of meat, had recourse to the
sbeepfuld of a ueighbor. a wealthy farm
er, for relief. The neighbor having a
largo lot of sheep, did not perceive that
ha had lost any, until one of the finostof
tho flock, very largo and fat. was missing
—and counting his sheep he found ho had
lost several. Uuablo to account for this
extraordinary loss, ho resolved a few
nights after to watch.
About midnight heobservodan uncom
mon disturbance ninong tho sheep caused
by tho appoaranco of a man in disguise.
Curiosity, as well us to obsoira tho cou
duot of tho person, so as to find him out,
induced him to lay still. In tho flo :k
there was a ram, with whom itsoonn, tha
man was in tho habit of conversing, as if
he had been the owner of tho sheep.
" Well, Mr. liain," says tho nocturnal
sheep stealer, "1 havo eome to buy anoth
er sheep : have you any inoro to sell
Upou which ho replied, as in tho penon
of tho ram.
" ¥es I haro a sheep to soli."
Hy this time the uurnor had discovcied
him to bo one of his neighbor?.
" What will you tako for that largo fat
weather?" says the purchaser.
"Four Jollsr«," replied Mr. limi.
"That is a *ery high prieo," says the
man, "but as you are so good as to wait for
the pay I think I will take him."
" Well Mr. Ham," contiuued the hon
est sheep buyer, ''let r&e see how many
sheep I have bought of you t"
'■ If I am not mistaken," says the ram,
"this is the fifth," and then went onto
cast up :hc whole, giviog Mr. Ham a po
lito invitation to call ou him for pay, and
bidding him g.wd night, ho led the sheep
homo, while the owner lay laughing at
the novelty of the scene, highly gratified
and amply paid for the whole. A few
nights afterwards, when ho supposed his
neighbor was out of inuttoo, ho caught
the old ram and tied a littla bag under his
neck, and placed a piece of paper between
hie horns, on which he wrote:
" I havo come f'«r uiy pay."
Under this line ho footed np the whole
sum of fivo sheep, exactly as his neigh
bor had dono, as before related, he then
took the ram to hit neighbor's houeo
where he tied him near the door and theu
went homo.
When the ueighbor arose in tbe morn
ing, bo was surprised to find a sheep tied
to bin ovru door, but it is beyond word* to
express bis astonishment when he found
out that is was the 013 ram with whom he
had been dealing so much in mutton, witb
his brand on bis forehead, and the amount
of five sheep actually mado oat, as he
bad a few days previous in tlio person of
a ram. Suffice it to say be obtained the
money, and after tying it in- tbe bag, and
tearing the paper from bis horn* tot tbe
rain at liberty, who immediately ran home,
jingling the money, as if priud of haring
accomplished the object of £is errand—
is the no small gratification of hi* owner.
—"Ah, Sam, you're been ia trouble,
have you t" "Yes, Jim, yes." Well,
cheer up, man ! adversity tries tries us,
and shows us our best qualities." "Ab,
but adreroity didn't try mo; it waj an
old vagabond of a Judge, and bo showed
op my worst qualities."
NO'AIDKR 17
KICKING AGAINST TIIK S ')U
Saturday Ust, a curious exbibitiou of • it
constructed" temper waj witnessed oo
Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Metropol
itan Hotel. A tall and well formed young
man, dressed ia "Confodorato gray," was
walking along carelessly, evidently a lit
tie under the influence of a geufirjus flag,
on, or so, when hit eye fell upon a oast.
■to n figure of a negro boy, whioh sin ilea
upon the wayfarers on tha Avenuo, and
holds up invitingly a ring in whioh to
fasten the reins of horses. The recon
structed gentleman paused in his prome
nadeauJ walked around .be statue, stir
veying it for some time with an air of
•mused curiosity, which so.-n changed to
a look of ineffable sooru.
The Southron evidently c <usidered tho
statue as typifying nil tffa troubles and
woes of tho lite so-ftllcJ Southern COD-*
foderaey, his lip curled with suparcilioua
hato, and, drawing back his right foot, ho
kicked the wolteu image with a concen
tration ot spiteful rage that was laugha
ble to behold. Ho kicked as though he
would have the kick felt by tho entire At
rican race, but lie only kicked onee ! The
little "nigger" stood unmoved, and held
up his ring as grinningly as before, wliili
tho "reconstructed" recoiled and limped
away with a very wiy face. This hint
to his understanding changed his aspeot
visibly, and ho wont off a uudder ani a
wi'er man. ]Vttshmr/ton paper.
South Amerioa.
Another ot the South American repnl-,
lies, that of Bolivia, has joined tho South
American alliance against Spain" Imme
diately after crushing the armed opposi*
tion to his administration President Mel
garcjo (Jun. 80), informol tho Bolivian
Minister at Lima of his determination to
dofeud, in union with Ohili and Peru, tho
common American interests, and on Feb.
24 tho Mioister communicated tho inteu
tions of his Government to that of Peru.
The ali os which are now joined together
_in an offonsivo and defensive alliance rep
resent the following territory and popula
tion :
* > *7>"« k,lm. I.
Bolivia 87i,Wd 1,957,0«J0
( ' hlli 159,000 1,559,000
Evador 2 I'J.OOO 1,040,000
l'«ru 250,000 2,500,000
Total 1,023,000 6,583,000
A* the area of Bpain is ostimatcd at
170,000 wjuaro miles, and tho population
at 10 S'JO,OGO, tho united Republics eon
taiu about two-fifths of tho population of
>paiu but oxceed that poworij territory
more than five times, Bolivia, like Kq
uador, cannot furnish for tho present my
considerable addition to tho allied fleet;
but tho formal alliance greatly adds to
tho power of resistance thus far displayed
Vy Chili, and is a new guarantee for the
final success of the republican institutions
of South America in their struggle with
Kurope.
Tho United State.3 of Colombia, which
hive a population exceeding that of any
of tho Republics above uamod (two mil
lion seven hundred and ninety fuur
thousand), have preferred not to con
clude for tho present a formal al
liance, but to content themselves with
a strong declaration of s mpathy. Pres
ident Murillo, in opening tho Columbian
Congress, emphatically expressed this
sympathy, but was silent on the subjoot
of tho alliance. Iu the Congress, A
motion to join tho alliance was made, bat
it was voted down. It b thought, how
ever, that this resolution may not bo ir
revocable, and that tho President elect,
who will enter apon his offi<:a in April,
may successfully employ his infiuenco
for bringing about tbo alliance— N. Y.
Tribune.
EDCCATIXO GIRLS. —With f«w and in
significant exception', girls have been ed_
ucated either to be drudges or toys t&-
naath men, or a sort ol angels above him;
the highest ideal atmed at osoillating be
twsen Clarchen antj Beatrice. The pos
sibility that the ideal of womanhood lies
neither in thu fair saint or in the fair sin'
ner ; that the female type of character is
neither better nor worse than the male,
but only weaker j that women are meaat
neither to be men's guides nor plaything*,
but their comrades, their frllows, and
their equals, go far as nature puts no bar
to that equality, does not teem to havo en
tered into the minds of those who liave
had the conduct of the education of them.
•-"Sow and you shall reap." That' so.
We sewed our old tout tho other day
and reaped a lot of tares.
goeth before o fall." It fro
quently gaeth before a waterfall.
| —-What part ui a building wonld a
proud mau be likely to avoid ? A hw
neat

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