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tained OA -A ; . J
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For tho entertainment of regular boarders And
transiec t gaesis.--
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ana incrougtuy.fe-furnisncd. witfl jxjsvr vxjUd
Bedding and iWni&ure. ;
: THBTABLE
Is prmded with ererj substantial And rare
jreator xe A&aAena.
. txhj noons
Are Cojuaodioos and well -ventilated. Prompt
and CAxe&l Attendance is Assured to guests..
Th California Kf a ir rnmnanv'i nail eoaehefl
eome to and go from the Hotel. Charge moderate.-
ata A a i
AICjpj, AUgHt Mtfi, AUgXiU
of the yiilSJSw
kaix on mi: noor.
When the humid waters horer
Over All the starry spheres,
And the mclanoQely darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
What a joy to press the pillow
Of a cottage chamber bed.
And listen to the patter
Of the rain overhoA.
Erery tinglo on the shingles 0
Has an echo in the heart
And thousand dreamy fanoies
Into busy being start.
And a thousand recollections
Weare their bright hues into woof,
As I listen to the patter
Of the rain npon the roof.
Then my little seraph sister,
With her wings And waring hair,
And her bright-eyed cherub brother
A serene, angcHo pair!
Glide around my wakeful pillow
With their praise or mild reproof.
As I listen to ihe murmur
Of the rain upon the roof.
And another comes to thrill ma
With her eyes, delicious blue,
And forget I, gating on her,
That her heart was e'er untrue;
I remember but to lure her,
With rapture, kin to pain,
And my heart's quick pulses vibrate,
To the patter of the rain.
There is naught in art's brarnrss
That can work with such a spell
On the spirit's purdcep fountains,
Whence the holy passions swell,
As that melody of nature,
That subdued, subduing strain,
Which is played upon the shingles
By the patter of the rain.
Marryi.no a Wife's Sister. The
British House of Commons have, by
decided vote, rejected a bill to legalize
marriare between a man and his deceased
wife's sister. This subject has been a
long time before the British Parliament.
The Commons have more than oucc, if
we mistake not, approved bilb legalizing
such marriages, but the Lords have re
1.1 tr
jecieu mem. ine ucuato was a warm
one. The Commons had received reti
tions, bearing, it is said, the signatures of
over a million of persons, including, at
least, one Bishop and several hundred of
the clergy of the Lnglish Church, in
favor of the measure. -The friends of the
bill pointed out that iu prohibiting these
marriages hngland was an exception
among civilized nations. France allowed
them; Switzerland allowed them; they
were sanctioned by 'all the Protestant
churches out of the British dominions.
and by the Roman Catholic Church the
latter under the restriction of requiring a
dispensation. The point iaot warmly
discussed was, whether a woman couia
live in the family of her married sister.
honorable and free of all imputation of
KOLiog m. aucuwion, as long aa.tliAL.r
permitted the possibility of her being
married to the head of the family. This
was denied on one hand, and maintained
on the other. The presence of the wife's
sister in the family, if marriage with the
husband was, however remotely, possible,
was, it was argued, the fruitful cause of
jealousy on the part of the wife; and.
despite the best intention on the part of
the sister, her presence in the family cre
ated in her mtnd an idea that she would
be the successor of her sister as the wife
of her brother-in-law. On the other
hand, it was argued that the deceased
wife's sister was to be preferred as the
step-mother of her sister's children, and
that the law which excluded her from
that relation, and turned these children
over to another woman,, a stranger in
blood and affection, was cruel and unnatural.-
Chicago Paper.
:Tho Princess Helena of England,"
says the Gazette dc France, "by her mar
riage with Prince Christian of Augustcn
burg, will become the &?ecc of a New
lorklady named Lee. The family of
this latter, some vear3 a:ro. established
themselves at Pai, hoping, as it is not
unusual with rich Americans, to form an
alliance with some noble European fami
ly. There were two young ladies, both
of whom attained their wish, as one mar
ried Baron Wachter, Minister of Wur
tenburg at Paris, and the other sometime
after inspired with the warmest love
Prince Frederick, brother of the late
Sovereign Duke of Augustenburg, and
uncle of the present Princess. The mar
riage took place at the United States
Embassy at Paris, and the bride and
bridegroom starte.d for the East on a wed
ding tour. They had reached Beyrout
in Syria, when the Prince was taken ill
and died.. His widow returned to Paris,
to the house of her sister, the Baroness
Wachter, and now becomes aunt of an
English Princess."
Fashionable Intelligence. The
habituea and visitors to Saratjgga Springs
will be much pleased to learn that Mr.
Edwin A. Brooks, the popular proprietor
of the great New York Boot and Shoe
Emporium, opposite the Metropolitan
uotei, nas opened a large
at Saratoga Springs. Mr.
well known and so much
branch
store
Brooks is so
respected by
all who know him, both
in and out of
a "
business, that, in addition to the pleas
ure it will give his old New York cus
tomers to see his pleasant face, combin
ing the utile cum dulci and improving his
health at the same time, there will be the
convenieace of not having to send for
their boots and shoes to the Empire City.
The ladies will be especially gratified, as
we all know how pretty ankles are im
proved .when their shoes and gaiters are
made by so accomplished an artiste as
Mr. 13 rooks, who may be said to have
carried his science to its utmost limit.
At a church in Scotland, two candi
dates offered to preach, of the name of
Adam and Low. The latter preached in
the morning, and took for his text, "Adam,
where art thou ?" In the evening Mr.
Adam preached and took for his text,
'LoJIam here."
SPEECH OF MR. YOORIIEES,
On tho evening of May 81st, a hand
some cane, bearing a very complimentary
inscription, vras presented to Hon. D. W.
Voorhces by his friends at Washington.
In accepting it he tnado an eloquent
speech, from which wo giro tho following
extracts :
You have most kindly alluded to my
course in public life. I entered Congrcsn
Gro years ago in the midst of grief and
gloom. Civil war was upon us like a
baleful simoon of the desert, darkening
the very sun and quenching the light of
the stars: Men wero groping about in
tho darkness and confusion for firm po
litical footings. Somo left their old and
solid positions to take their places on the
hitting and treacherous quicksands of
the hour. There was a vast political mi
rage just before us all deluding us away
from tho ancient landmarks of safety.
Many plunged forward into its deceitful
embrace find thus increased our - calami
ties. They acted as if tho Constitution
had already perished iu the storm, and
society was remitted to its original ele
ments wherein each man is a law unto
himself. On the contrary, I recalled the
sublime origin of that instrument, the
wisdom that framed it, tho startling mag
uiGccnce and glory which it had given
our country iu the midst of the nations
of the earth, its sufficiency in times past
fur all tho purposes of war and of peace,
and I determined that whatever others
might do, on it, and on it alone, I would
build the house of my political faith. The
winds have beat upon it, the rains have
descended, but that house has not fallen.
I have lived to hear the Executive of the
nation proclaim from tho steps of his
mansion to tho listening cars of the civ
ilized world that the Constitution is once
more unrolled and lifted up for tho heal
ing of the poople. I have lived to hear
him declare that it need no amendment
that it was sufficient for our fathers,
aud that it is sufScTcut for u?. I have
lived to hear him denounce its original,
ancient and persistent enemies as traitors
to their country. Gentlemen, the Con
stitution is once more triumphing. It
has passed through a long night, but the
dawn is breaking. Malignant elements,
it is true, still strive to retard the coming
day of deliverance, but they will be dis
pelled before tho snows of another winter
whiten tho earth. There is a great polit
ical alliance now being formed between
which no combination shall stand. It is
the alliance of the American people with
Andrew Johuson on the basts of a re
stored Constitution and an unbroken
Unicn.
But in zv devotion to the Constitution
of my couutry it has often been charged
that I lost sight of the importance of the
union of thetafes. Is this true ?. Can
fje.-wbo gi-el all the labors of his life to
the supremacy of the Constitution, be an
enemy to the Union ? Bid I, or tboe
with whom I acted, engender and foster
the fierce sectional animosities which re
sulted in war? Bid I. or mv friends, aid
in enacting laws in nearly one-half of the
Northern States prior to nn oppeal to
arms, nullifying the laws of Congress, and
making it felony for any one to attempt
to enforce them in their borders ? Was
not the Democratic party rather engaged
in a close and terribfe contest with a par
ty whewe watchwords were "No Union
with slaveholders," "Tho Union is a
league with hell, and a covenant with
death," "Down with the flaunting lie,"
"Let the South go ; she can't be kicked
out of the Union!" Did we ever circu
late Helper's infamous book with nearly
a hundred of the names of our party
leaders to it ? Did wo liken the execu
tion of John Brown to the crucifixion of
our Saviour ? Gentlemen, there is a re
cord of the past which cannot perish. It
bears the impress of dark premeditated
crime crime against the Union and the
peace of the United States. The leaders
of the party which now holds high car
nival oyer the rights and liberties of the
people in the halls of Congress were dis
unionists before the war and arc disunion
ists now; nor would they havo professed
to be for the Union even during the four
years of war but for the fact that they
thought that they could use the engines
of war and its results to carry out their
long-cherished purposes and overthrow
our system of government.
These arc the men who have impeached
my devotion to the Union. There were
many and powerful reasons why they
should be in favor of a dismemberment
of the country none why I should. They
hated and still hate the people of the
South. I loved them then, and I love
them now. The Northern disunionists
never desired, and do not desire to live
on terms of equality with the Southern
people. They do not claim them as
fiiends, or love that portion of the coun
try. I hail them as American citizens,
equal under the law, and entitled to all
their rights under 4h6 Constitution. I
have never seen a moment since our trou
bles began that I would not have given
my life to restore them to their allegi
ance and fellowship in the Union. It is
constantly charged that there is a sym
pathy between the Democracy of the
North and the people of tho South. It
may be so. I trust it isj but j such
is the fact, why should we have wished a
ermanent separation from our friends,
eaving us naked and exposed to the ran
cor of a merciless, sectional party ? No j
in our adherence to the Constitution, we
gave the Union its best and most rationa
al support. And now, when tho war is
over the friends of the' Constitution are
still the friends of the 'Union : and the
enemies of the Constitution those who
have assailed its sacred frame-work with
more than a hundred measures of de
struction, called amendments, during'the
present uongress are the determined
enemies .of the Union, denying to eleven
States their legal politicaj standing, and
as the only disunion party of the country,
i-: x :n: i i - -, K
"vug wAca uu uiiuivus oj. .American en
izens to whom the? deny representation.
Who but they in all this broad land op'
poso the union of tie States ? Who but
they are responsible at this moment for
tho sad spectacle of a divided country ?
Tho disunion party of tho South has
perished. It tookfup arms to make good
its principles. It made war upon a scale
such as tho earth has rarely witnessed.
With five millions of people and no imi-
gration, without rocogmtion or credit in
tho family of natiins, without finances or
foreign trade, it withstood for four years
tho shock of twenty millions of a brave
and heroic population, 'constantly replen
ished by arrivals from the shores of the
old world, and supported b a credit and
resources which in after times will read
like tho fables pfthe middle ages. But
tho finaljiour came at last, and that par
ty which sought i destroy the Union fell
beforo tho cannon and tho bayonet. Its
armies surrendcrpd ana went Home.
Peace, like an ntKcl-visitant, came with
its song of love aid charity end good-will
to fill tho land ilh joy. The people
from one ocean to' the othcr welcomed the
celestial messenger with a universal jubi
lee. Plain and honest people thought
the end had come that the Union was
restored. The President joined them in
their simple faith, and announced in his
annual message that the healing princi
ples of the Constitution fchould no close
the gaping wounds which war had made.
With cousutnmatc skill and a compre
hensive f tatcsmanfthip, ho commenced
their application to tho disordered parts
of the machinery of government, and the
beautiful system of our fathers once more
showed life and motion. But in tho
midst of his labors, and while tho Gov
ernment was reviving under his benefi
cent treatment, the old party of disunion
at the North sounded its ancient rallying
cry, and rallied around its ancient and
true colors. It now confronts tho Execu
tive and obstructs his labors in behalf of
tho Union, and in behalf of the just
rights aud liberties of the pople. What
m the issue thus formed ? What is the
precise point to try before a iurv of the
American people at the approaching clec
tions? Let there be no iu if takes. Iet
the case bo fairly stated and then go be
fore the country for a verdict. The
President holds thatf-ecesston was simply
tusurrcctton against Jaw. As such it had
uo legal lorce. it changed nothing in
our form of Government. It created
nothing and abrogated nothing. It
neither added to nor diminished the Con
siitution or the Jaws. It has spent its
force and subsided, end the waves of Fed
eral authority have again Cowed in upon
every portion of the Southern soil. The
same Government which existed before
the attempted revolution goes back into
hat fcc'.ion. Slaverv, it is true, is abol
ished, but :. is by the consent of the
Southern Stato3 thcmscJves, a consent
wuwlv based upon the social results of the
war in their midst. But the powers of
the Constitution, in all its relations to the
States and to the citircn of the Slates,
are the same to-day that they were before
a gun was fired. These I understand to
be the premises of tho President, and
they are certainly mine. From them fol
low, as inevitable conclusions :
1. That no State has the legal right to
sever it connection with tho Federal
Government.
2. Failing m such an attctnnt. thev re
main their ancient place, fixed immova
ble, and shorn of none of their attributes
as States.
3. Hhe right to immediate representa
tion in Congress as living, lawful and
legitimate members of the Government.
4. That the American Union is re
stored, and stands unbroken, without
flaw or blemish, and with domestic tran
quility in all her borders in tho presence
of the nations of tho earth.
Such arc the principles and such the
view of our condition which the friends
of the Administration present for tho
consideration of the people. On tho oth
er hand, what do its foes present? The
ablest and most consistent of their party.
icu uy xur. oievens m me Jiousc, and
by Mr. Sumner in the Senate, hold that
by virtue of some deadly mystery in our
body politics, some hidden, fatal chemi
cal which escaped the vigilance of the
fathers, eleven States have either been
killed by the Federal Government, which
mado war to preserve them, or have
themselves committed suicide that they
aro dead no longer political organiza
tions, and that the American ltepublic
has lost by the recent conflict nearly half
the States which it formerly possessed.
I shall only state this position not
argue it. If it is correct, then repre
sentatives from those stagnant regions of
political death havo indeed no business
at the seat of this Government. They
may go homo and prepare to enter upon
a longer, drearier night of bondage than
that which closed over the Hebrew cap
tives when they mingled their hitter tears
with the waters of Babylon, and refused
to sing the songs of their distant and
desolate homes. If such a policy can be
established for one year, the same reason
ing may continue it for a century. If
the Constitution can be so changed and
amended by a dominant faction as to
consolidate and perpetuate power in its
hands, and to destroy tho existence of
States, who shall bid 'them livo again
and wnen win tne aawn or their resur
rection appear ? Not until long after
the moss has gathered upon your graves
and mine not until new and far distant
generations tread this continent per
haps, never Let such a policy be adopt
ed, and we havo a gigantic and successful
revolution, . a complete overthrow of
American institutions treasonable, base
and infamous, but successful; as clinging
and tenacious in its hold upon the future,
and as blighting and withering in its
effects, on the destiny and glory of the
country, as the poisonous shirt of the
Nessus was to him who wore it without
the hopo of escape. ' '
But there is another, class of adherents
id the Radical party who accept the oon
elusions but deny ths premises of their
more logical leaders. They will not ay
the late insurrectionary States aro dead;
they will not say that they are out of the
Union j they will not say that they have
been murdered, or have committed sui
cide j but still they deny them represen
tation, and thus rango themselves under
the banner of disunion. These are the
men who should bo beaten with many
stripes. Thev are tho unfaithful stewards
who sec the right and pursue the wrong.
They arc the trimmers who always occupy
shaky and uncertain political quagmires.
While they arc extricating one foot from
a dilemma, tho other sinks into a new
ono deeper than tho first. This class in
tho present Uongress nave no oitu
ground whatever, good or bad, on whiich
to stand. With fecblo protests against
the dictation of stronger minds, they are
only practically, useful in point of num
bers for the purposo of mischief. They
may make well sounding speeches, but
thev answer the roll-call on the side of
destruction, disunion, non'-reprcsentation
and Federal dictation to the States. They
arc nearly all wedded to some particular
form of Constitutional amendment. Kaclf
one is inspired with a notion that be nas
more wisdom on tho subject of the Con
stitution th;in Madison. Washington.
Hamilton and Jefferson combined. They
seem to think that God winked at the
ignorance of the days of 1781), but that
they aro now His chosen ministers to give
to the people a new dispensation a more
perfect Constitution. They want some
thing in it which they vaguely call a
guarantee. They appear to be afraid of
somebody that the South may send here.
They arc especially anxious in regard to
the basis of representation, lhey are
alarmed at tho idea of the Southern
States obtaining too many members in
proportion to their population. This
comes with peculiar force from those who
voted a fcwtlavs airo to admit Colorado
into the Union, with far lesspopulation
than tho county in which I live in Indi
ana. But it may be that there is some-
a. . m .mm
thinsr which ousht to be done on this
subject. Let w, however, first have the
Union restored ; let us have all the
States here; let the family circle be full,
and then we can calmly talk the matter
over. We will examine the question
from Maine to Georgia. We will dUcuss
the rational propriety of a population in
the feix States of New England being
represented by twelve Senators, while the
same amount of population in New York
is represented by only two. Yes, we will
take the subject under consideration, and
if the pruning-knife is to bo applied, let
it tc done with indiscriminate impartiali
ty But let the day of this work give
place to the day of complete restoration.
Gentlemen, .are there no facred mem
ories clustering around this Constitution ?
ft cost us the long agony and bloody
Sweat of the Revolution. It sprang from
tho minds of those who charged the Brit-
isa lines ationmoutii. Treaioir, Camtvi
ga and Kutaw Springs, and who saw the
crofsof St. George lowered at Yorktown.
It lifted us in the great days of the past
to hights of national renown, further up
the dazzling mountain of human progress
than the footprints of the proudest na
tions of the earth had ever trod before.
It has been our cloud by day and our
pillar of fire by night, guiding to regions
of domestic wealth and happiness, more
fruitful and pleasant than Canaan, with
its corn and wine, its milk aud honey.
Like the dews of heaven, its blessings
have descended upon all. It has given
peace and security to the humblest hearth
stone in the land. It has fostered reli
gion, learning, and public virtue. Shall
it now be torn in shreds and scattered to
the winds f Shall its ruthless enemies,
like the Vandals of old in some sacred
temple, batter it to pieces and reduce it
to a shapeless ma?3f Shall tho'O who
are sworn to obey it be allowed to deface
and ruin it? Shall our children and our
children's children be despoiled of such
. M . ft
an inheritance f V ill the American
people stand calmly by and see tho sub
lime charter of all their liberties reduced
to the abject purposes of a party platform ?
It cannot be. Upon such an issue 1 have
faith in tho future. Shall the Constitu
tion stand ? Shall the Union be restored
under it ? These aro the questions for
the people to answer, and upon their an
swer depends the destiny of this Repub
lic.
Let tho friends of the Constitution and
the Union band themselves together in
close and solid phalanx. Let them sus
tain and uphold with unyielding devotion
the Executive in his noble efforts in be
half of a united government. If this be
done with unselfish patriotism, with no
thought but for our country, our whole
country, then the winds of autumn will
sing the funeral dirgo of the present dis
union Congress, and the bones of its
members will be left to whiten on every
political battle-field from tho Aroostook
to the Columbia.
When this great result is accomplished,
and a Congress elected in favor of tho
Union on the principles of an unaltered
Constitution, this country will once more
assume. her ancient and magnificent pro
portions. Prosperity, order and stability
will reign in every department. The tri
umph of the President's policy of resto
ration is thfc triumph of every branch of
the business and. policy of tho Uovern
ment. Our foreign relations will instant
ly cease to vex our venerable Secretary.
The nations of the earth will take notice
that unity and power are here that the
locks of the strong man, now shorn in the
lap of a seductive and treacherous fanat
icism, have again grown to their full
length, and brought back with them all
their ancient irresistible force.
JRev, Ward Beecher crawled through a
34 foot pipe of his new church organ the
other day, on a challenge of one of his
flock. He came out puffing and covered
with dust and sweat, and exclaimed as he
touched the floor t . "I want no mau to
tell rBo anything abodtf tRis organ. I
know all about it. I havft bfcen through.
it."
tivillzinc the Frcedmen.
The local of tho Mohilc Jleguter is
responsible for the following instance of
how the Negro-Bureau is christianizing
and reforming the poor negroes:
It appears that a negro couple, had
been living together for some time as
man and wife, but "widout de circumfer
ence of de law." They disagreed, sepa
rated, and the weaker vessel laid her
case before "do -Bureau," where thei
charges were heard and Sambo and his
Dinah were sentenced to be married. In
order to be sure that the sentence was
properly executed, tho couple were
placed under a military guard, and
marched off to Squire Starr office. . Ar
riving there, the officer of the guard re
marked, "Squire, here s a couple for you
to marry."
"All right," replied tho Justice: "just
step in tho back room."
J he couple and the officer followed him
to the room in the rear of the ront of
fice, and after explaining the duties and
obligation of married life, the Squire re
quested them to join hands.
lirtde "I isn t Ucular bout marrytn
wid de gal. I neber lubed de wench."
This protest opened the Squire's eyes
"like two full moons in the harvest." He
akcd what was the meaning of it, when
the representative of the Bubcau inform
ed the Justice that they were ordered by
the Freedmeo's Court to be married, and
he came up to see that tne sentence was
executed.
Wih this understanding Justice Starr
told the "happy couple," to join hands,
which they did after much persuasion,
and the following scene ensued :
Justice "Do you take this man to be
your kedded husband, to love, honor,
obey," &c.
Ijride "No I doesn't not much
doesn't I wouldn't hab a four acre lot
ob eich trash."
Frcedmen's Bureau " Yes wo do,
Souire. We take him sro on with the
ceremony."
.Justice "And do you take this wo
man to be your wedded wife, to love,
cherish, &c.
Groom I tole ye dat I isn't 'ticular.
I isn't hankcrin' arter de 'crow.' I kin
lib widout de ole gal."
Ireedmens Bureau "Certainly we
take her of course we do suits us to a
single allspice. Hurry up the cakes.
Squire.
Justice "Then I pronounce fyou all
man and wile, and may the .Lord have
mercy on your souls."
,
Mosks. The Radical press have fallen
into the habit of speaking of President
Johnson, by way of derision as "Moses."
There is more pertinence in this designa
tion, says thp Columbus ktaUtman. than
most people, at first glance, will imagine.
Aftcr.Mes'es had delivered the cjiildren
of Israel from the clutches of the Egyp
tians, under the guidance f God, lhey
became dissatUfied with him thought
him a slow coach false to his pledge
and promisesand thereupon "the peo
ple gathered themselves unto Aaron, and
said unto him, Up, make us "gods which
shall go before uj ; for as for this 3Ioses,
the man who brought us out of Egypt, we
wot not what has become of him.' "
Aaron took their jewelry and made
them a molten calf, which they fell to
worshipping. The Almighty became so
displeased with this conduct that he
would have visited swift destriictidn upon
the whole of them had it not been for the
intercession of Moses ; and he had en
countered great difficulty in inducing the
people ia return to the worship of the
true God. Like Moses, President John
son, in the estimation of the Radicals,
was a slow coach, and falso to his profes
sions an J promises, and they turned to
Stevens and called to him, 'Up, make us
gods that shall go before U3. Like Aaron
he has mado them a political molten calf,
which they are now worshipping instead
of the Constitution. Moscs-likc', Presi
dent Johnson is calling upon the people
to abandon this false worship and return
to the worship of the Constitution, lest
they shall be visited, as a punishment,
with political death, as the children of
Israel would have been visited with phy
sical and moral death had they persisted
in the worship of the molten calf which
Aaron had made them.
A Feat of Telegraphing. When
the Queen of England, at the opening of
the present session of Parliament, deliv
ered her speech, it was actually trans
mitted to Paris by telegraph in less time
than it could have been heard there, had
the Parisians been able to listen to it.
Sound moves through tho air at tho rate
of about ,1,400 feet a second, and, con
sequently, it would have taken 20 min
utes to go from London to Paris. If the
Queen had said, "My Lords" in London
at 2 o'clock, the sharp-eared Parisians
would have heard her at 20 minutes past
2. But as it was, the entire speech was
telegraphed to Paris in 10 minutes after
its delivery had begun that is, the end
of it had reached Paris over the wires
10 minutes before the people there could
possibly have heard the beginning,
A plain spoken Western preacher de
livered tbie following from his desk : "I
would announce to the congregation that,
probably by mistake, there was left at
this meeting-house, this mornings a small
cotton umbrella, much damaged by time
and tear, and of an exceedingly pale
blue color, in the place whereof was taken
a very large black silk umbrella, and of
great beauty, Blunders of this sort,
brethren and sisters, are getting a little
too common.
" vv onaerrui things are none now-a-
days " said Mr. Tinjmins : "the doctor
has given Flack's boy a new lip from his
checK." ; . . .v . -
"Ah," said his wife, "many's the time
(have known a pair taken from, mine,
and no very ptinfuj operation, either.
Swawno Bab 1E8. -Last week a j
strange woman, with .an infant; in her
arms, entered a house in Bosioh.and asked
leave to stay a while, as me was weak
and tired. She also asked for something1
stimulating, sajriri that she had recently"
been confined. The lady of the houso
went Id get a glass of ale for the stranger, ,
and on returning found that her own in-
ianc, wincri sne nau ien asieep in me
cradle, had been taken away by her visitor
andancgro.Jtaby left in his stead,'; Noth
ing has been li'eard of the woman since,
and tho affair creates great excitement
among the interested parties. Ex
change. - . ,
Too bad I' now could any woman' so
far forget herself as to leave a nigger'
baby, in a white family in Boston ? ?And,
yet it is all right. Boston is the heaven
for niggers. Massachusetts is the elysium;
for the dear .cherubs.'! A nigger baby is
not jso bad after all. Boston would swap
the Goddess of Liberty off for a, thick
lipped wench, and of .course it would be.
glad to change white babies for black
'tis true., . Let the nig. bab. be cared for.
Name him after Beast Butler, Potash
Anna or Sumner, who went to France tb
have his back tone scraped down instead
of strengthened up. Teach it to follow
the example of Butler, Sumner and
Anna Dickinson build it a cradle in
Faneuil Hall, kiss it for its mother, and
tell the traitors all around you that a child
is given unto Boston. We should not'
wonder if Massachusetts should seok by
law to make out that it is of divine ori
gin, and worship its advent as the coming
of the Messiah ! God bless the little
nigger baby ! Let it be adopted in place
of the boat load of poor white girls sent
off to the Pacific. Waddle it and swad
dle it, for great is Massachusetts, and the
nigger is its prophet ! La Croste Demo
crat. Notable Pedestrian. A St.
Louis paper, referring to the expected
arrival Of Mr. Fj. Schaefer, a noted Ger
man foot-traveler, in t&at city, from La
Crosse, Wisconsin, says: He is now
about thirtv vcar3'5of aire, considerably
deformed, but of .an enthusiastic, mind.
He was born in 'Carlshafen, in Kurhes
sen, and at the age of nine year3 became
so interested in the study of history that
he determined to see the world himself.
He was
poor,
but this did not deter him.
His first trip on foot and alone, , with no
money and no baggage, save what his
knapsack contained, was in 1847, when
he was very young, and continued through
the German States and Russia. Afteri
ward he continued on through Europe
and Great Britain, and thence-into and
through Africa. . Then he took up Asia,
going through that country. Not long
since he came to the United fatates. land
ing in Boston, traveling on foot to Wash
inton, and from that city West. He
goc3 from St. Louis,, across the country,
through Utah, to Uahiornia. Schaeler
is feeling good, and enjoys his migratory
habits exceedingly well. His amhitiod
appears to be to travel over every part of
the globe on foot, and he bids fair to ac
complish that object now. His expenses
are very small, and these are made up to
him by friends whom he makes wherever
he goes, nis portfolio contains, among
other things, the autographs of crowned
heads, distinguished literary, political
and scientific men whenever he has been,
and is a curiosity, with sketches and tes
timonials, which have been given him by
all he has met. The energy of the man
entitles him to success in his travels."
Perils by the Wat. A writer in
the London Reader ays that in that city
the population is indefinitely augmented
by hourly arrivals from all parts of the
world. The metropolis is clasped, inter
soetcd and undermined ' bv railroads.
Broad streets are building for the recep
tion of the swaying multitude, the river
i3 made to yield up a portion of its Jbed
for the construction of a new highway,.
1 ? II
ana gigantic uoieis, springing up in au
Quarters, are unable to supply accommo
ations ; for the increasing crowd is daily
becoming more perilous to human life;
Last year 140 persons were killed in thd
streets.
.Rev. Colonel Jacques, recently trifid
for seduction and murder, Eaya an ex
change, through a ruling of tho Judge
which refused the State's Attorney, pet
mission to enter a nolle prosequi in the
case of one of the parties indicted for
having a hand in the transaction. The
State's Attorney then asked " to enter a
nolle prosequi in the case of all. three of
the parties, including Jacques, which, the
Court allowed, and so Colonel Jacques'
was acquitted. It was an unheard "of
ilmg, which cut the State off from the
main evidence of Jacques' crime. ".He
thus got off from the State Prison.
' Cure for tiie Hydrophobia. The
Leeds (England) Times says that the ni
trate of silver rubbed into tho wound
made by the teeth of a mad dog will cure
hydrophobia, or prevent all injurious con
sequences of the wound. It should be
applied as soon after the accident as may
be. In six weeks the virus is dissemina
ted through the system and then hope is
gone. Youatt says he has byeri bitten,
eight or ten times and always cured hhxU
self in this way. J
True Religion. Dr. aysqn.,vfaa ' ;
man ot genuine piety, but much opposed
to the noisy teal that seekethi "to - be
known of raen." A young divine, who
was much given to enthtisiastic . caht, one
day said to him, "Do you suppose you
have any real religion?" Noiae to speak
of" was tho excellent reply.". , :
A. young lad j possessing more vanitjr
than personal chartiisy remarked, in i.
jesting tons, but with an earnest glance;
that "she traveled on her good looks.''
A-'rejected lover beings present, said that
he "could now account tot the young
lady's never having bei) found fer froa
home." '