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A'l Hini'txi. ti'anmrtions upon a Specie baL. r- ' -. - A Move in the Right Direction. At an Anti-Coolie meeting in San Fran cisco, held this week, the following pro ceedings were This is a move ia the right direction, and the rat-eaters will be forced to leave our Coast before many das in spite of the exertions of their friends and protectors in the hulls of Con gress : OWiikiieas. Employment of Chinese la bor in shoe and boot making; business and oilier trades in this city has reduced the w.iges nf such trades fifty per cent, there by driving out of employment many of our number: and whereas Unemployment of Chinese m.nur trades is rapidly increas ing in spiie of our "pt'o'e.sts, no attempt in ide to put a stop to such immigrai ion to ir criKiiYy. the very means of our peo ple being used to encourage the importa tion of Chinese by paving large subsidies to steamers that bring them here ; and wln-reas. the Chinese i tesli ni having be come a national on . our fellow working in -a in the Eastern Suites being already threatened by the same competition that is tteoiiving us of bread ; therefore, be it. Jt-'s-ilreil. ly the mechanics and labor ing nCTm of S in Francisco here assembled, tli it we dewWre our determination to pre vent this evft an I monstrous competition that is now driving us and our families to starvation, by any and all means in our pow er ; that ve c ill upon our fellow workmen throughout the United States to siaml with us in this common danger and m ike it. a (i!ies.i.a in which there shall be no equivocation or subrenuges. '-'. re J. That we demand of the Gov ernment, of tin- United States a stoppage of payments now being made to Chinese s eauiers. and that we insist upon the ab regi'ion of the treaty with China and the passage of a law prohibiting mongolians from cuining to this country, except for Comm-M'cial purposes. soli-ad. That for the better manage ment ot our opposition to Chinese compe tition, we are in favor of a convention of mechanics and other laboring men of this cify. q A'.'-.soU'cZ. That all labor associations in this city are requested to take immediate steps to favor such a convention. The meeting was addressed by A. Sum- ner, t.en. n inn iiarris. ieo. i. .Mooney Mr. Campbell. C. C. Ilidcey and others, ne udy a!)of whom counsel d the most violent, measures. The Anti-Chinese tarty were advised to form civil and military organization to oppose Chinese, and Mooney said he had been preaching this theory "night after night, of taking steps to prevent the immigration of Chinese. ITe was pleaded with the resolutions, particu larly urgin ' on iom to form anti-coolie companies and establishing headquarters for men to be instructed in the drill, and when we had 10 1.0)0 men organized, we would see what would become of the Chi nese, before the meeting broke up it passed the, following: 7?e.W(V Z. That when we adjourn, we will do so to meet ag uu next Friday night, at the P.ivili in. to hear the proposition of O Ahe Miianic"s State Council to carry out our views relating to organization of La bor Convention, so as to concentrate our vieys in opposing further immigration of Chinese to this country. O Amalgamating the' Army. The following dispatch appears in the regular telegraphic report from AYashington : Orders will soon be issued authorising the assignment of white recuits to the 9th and 10th cavalry regiments, now composed of colored troops. The object is to keep the regiments to the numerical standard. It is difficult to obtain colored recuits. That's it ! Mix the nisjerers with tne white soldiers and thus jrradu ally accustom the people to amal gamation in all quarters! That is i their game and yet we have some silly fools in the Democratic party who would savLet us accept the situation V (Jj'v.ycrhctcl. O A negro judge in Alabama, when his first case came on, and every thing was ready, was told by a lawyer that he "had neglected to charge the jury, he rose up, put ou his specs, and said : "Gentle men ob de jury, I charge you half a ilollar apiece, and you must pay it "fore de case goes on." lie will he in the U. S. Senate some of these days. .Why Talk About Eeditance? From the Maine Democrat. So inquires a friend in reference to our suggestion to resist the Fif teenth Amendment by an appeal to the ballot-box, or by judicial test, though Aye at the same time believed that forcible resistance by a single State in violation of law not decided uneonstitutional,vould be as unwise as it would be hope lessly futile. Yet we by no means intend to deprecate an uprising of the people of this country against the future aggressions of the fac tion at Washington. On the con trary, it is our deliberate conviction that all further aggressions and usurpations of Congress should be checked, if it can be done no other way, by the mighty voice of a pop ular revolution. We speak these words advisedly. They embody the doctrines for the vindication of which the founders of the Ameri can Kepublic staked their fortunes and their lives, and it becomes the people in every State to cling to them now, despite the menaces of the faction which wields the purse and sword of the nation and con trols the corrupt current flowing from what a short time since was our great fountain of justice. AY hat is called loyalty to-day is a ban en lie, and true patriotism means stern and manful resistance to the pow ers that be. Is there never more to be opposition to arbitrary ride? Is there never to be a limit to sub servient submission? Are ihe ma jority of the citizens of this country to refrain henceforth from having a voice in its affairs? Is the Rad ical faction to be suffered to oblit erate the Constitution altogether and forever, and to trample at will upon the rights of two-thirds of the people? It would seem so. Xow or never is the time when those who would stop this mad Radical revolution must act. This year the people must reconstruct Con gress, or rather substitute a better one. Xo tyrant has ever more manifestly abused the power con fided to him for the public good than has Congress none has ever rendered himself more justly amen able to popular indignation and lmnishment than the leaders of the Radical faction. The- have over thrown the public laws and time honored chartered institutions. They have cruelly oppressed and wronged thousands of innocent men. They have, by trickery and violence, forced upon the people of various States rulers whom the latter justly and cordially despise. They have wrested political power from the hands of the white man and conferred it in a. large measure upon the "negro. They construct and overrun date governments by their own despotic edicts, regard less of the will or ricrhts of the crov erned. They are the masters of this land, and if thev be not now called to account, the American freemen must soon sink into the political serf. The hypocrites call their course " progress." Crom well called it the " Lord's work" when he put his foot upon all that was best and noblest in Kngland, stabled his dragoons in her churches and cathedrals, and filled the Parliament at Westminster Hall with a set of ignorant and canting levelers. Marat preached fraternity when the heads of hun dreds of innocent women were fall ing beneath the guillotine, and lit tle children were being shot and drowned en vta.o in the name of liberty. If resistance to the course which the Federal Congress is and has been pursuing be not the priv ilege nay, the duty of the people then the teachings of all history are wholly false, and the principles for which"our fathers fought were but so much clap trap. They be came but perjured traitors by tak ing up arms against the successor of the Plantagenets and Tudors, if Americans are to be accounted culpable should they refuse further submission to the decrees of the sham Congress which now claims to be the real and legal representa tives of the people of the United States. The South is helpless Maryland is threatened standing alone, and on the verge of deadly peril, as did the prophet upon the edge of the pit of ravening lions. iut the Democratic party still ex ists. The majority of the North ern people, even here in New Eng land, cannot but deplore the ruin which is being wrought, and de spise the agitators who recognize now no law but their own will and their own interest. The timid sub serviency, or to speak plainly in this great crisis, the cowardice of the conservative leaders of the large Northern States, has made the Radical faction what it is. For OUEGOjV. CITY, OREGON, SAT UK years they cowered before military insolence and. the threats of arbi trary power. They not only main tained silence when it most became them to speak out manfully, but uttered from time to time thoughts which they loathed, and accepted doctrines which they despised. Since the red cloud of war has passed away they have ceased to speak with bated breath, but mis trusting the hsmest instincts and noble courage of millions who await the signal to vindicate lib erty and constitutional govern ment, they are dallying with sell ernes by which to cheat a bold, insolent faction out of its power of seeking the channel through which it may be most "expedient" to filch back the rights and freedom which have been taken. ITow long the true patriots here at the Xoith propose to bear the yoke of our untrammeled and despotic Con gress, we do not know. How long they intend to consent to a surren der of all they were taught to hold so dear and pticeless, we may not surmise. But in the name of all that is patriotic in our cwn patri otic and beloved State, not quite powerless, we. protest against this shameless apathy, this quiescent degradation. On lier behalf we demand of the intelligent and lib erty loving people of this land a re-assertion of the sacred right of revolution, and when they do show the knaves in power that they are in earnest and resolute in tlie deter mination to defend themselves, a revolution will ensue than which none has ever been more bloodless and peaceful. AYhere there is lit tle danger, Congress is bold and insolent ; but with a few honorable exceptions, not a more infamous set of cowards ever pervaded any legislative body. Let there be a general uprising ol the people de termined to govern, ami the now defiant members will cower in the dust. AVirz Scraps of History. The New York World, in criti cising Judge Black's defense of Stanton, published in the Galaxy, introduces the following incident : "Nor is it amiss here to state a fact not generally known, but sus ceptible of proof, that when on the trial of Wirz, Judge Ould, the Commissioner of Exchange, came to Washington as a witness under subpoena to prove the facts as we have stated, Stanton sent him word if he did not return home at ohcc his parole would be determined, lie went away and AYirz was hung." Commenting upon the subject, the Savannah (Georgia) Hepub lican says : "To which we would add the ad ditional fact, not generally known, that Gen. R. E. Lee and Gen. How ell Cobb were also subpoenaed and ordered to Washington as witnesses for the accused, but were subse quently met en route by dispatches from the government, ordering them not to come on. Gen. Cobb got as far as Savannah, and, re ceiving his dispatch, turned back. The prosecution had both these gentlemen rejected as witnesses on the ground that having engaged in the rebellion they were person ally infamous and not to be believed on oath. " We may also state, aUffh in teresting fact in this connection, that Gen. Cobb, who was in com mand at Macon during the year 180t, had he been allowed to reach AYashington, would have testified that upon receipt of a very large number of wounded Confederates from a recent battle, more than could be accommodated in Macon, he wrote to Andersonville to have a quantity of lumber that had been collected at that place sent up im mediately, to be used in the con struction of temporary hospitals. This lumber AYirz refused to let go, alleging tha"t he had been trying long and had procured it with diffi culty in order to shelter his pris oners. AYe had this circumstance from Gen. Cobb's own lips." Thus it was that witnesses for the defense were silenced by that bloodthirsty court, and poor -Wirz, innocent though he was. was sent to his last account. Stanton has gone to meet him before a higher tribunal, where no witnesses will be required. An exchange savs: " You might as well attempt to shampoo the head of an elephant with a thim bleful of soapsuds as to attempt to do business and ignore printer's ink." That man's head is level. Accepting the Situation. Under this title, there is a spir ited paper in 27ie Old Guard, for July, commences in the following' was ; One of the most eminent politi cal writers of England of the last century says: "No man can be too desirous of the glory of his country, nor too angry at ill usage nor too revengeful against those who abuse and betray it." It is not a little inspiring to the heart and bfain of one, in these collapsed sort of times, to read brave old fashioned sentiment like this. The drift of political writing at this moment is altogether another way. For a man to be anxry now at the ruin of his country is to draw up-i on his head the censure of a thou sand asses, who, having made Up their minds to " Accept the situa tion," can see only "imprudence" and " im practibility" in the more brave and patriotic man, who does not propose "accept" any " situa tion" which involves the loss of liberty and the destruction ot his country. Looking out, through the windows of the present time, into the history of the past, we find many great and glorious ex amples, which appeal to us with the power and authority of bat tles, and triumphantly vindicate the manhood and the sagacity of those who have refused to accede to the demands of despotism in every age. Aristotle was a mem ber of the Cabinet of Alexander the Great, when he wrote his work on government, entitled Politics, which was in opposition of the ambition and tyranny of Alexan der. No doubt the general run of the politicians of those times were quite shocked at the hardihood of Aristotle they denounced him as an "Impracticable," "extreme," and " imprudent" , sort of man, who refused to "accept the situa tion" or to bend to the lessons of "manifest destiny." Rut behold now what a different fate time has measured out to all these parties! AYhile the thousands of timid or venal fools who cried out at the imprudence of Aristotle have piss ed away into a voiceless oblivion, and while even the glory of Alex ander has grown dim, the book of Aristotle survives, as an oracle of political truth and wisdom for all generations of mankind. The work of the "extremist" who could not be silenced by the hope of office, nor the threats of power, lives m perennial glory, while all who denounced it have gone into nothing but dust and oblivion. Their ignorance, their venality, and tleir cowardice have, thank God, perished with their own bones. The worms which fattened on their decaying carcasses arc now of just as much importance to the world as the once rich and swollen "conservatives," whose to tal virtue and wisdom consisted in "accepting the situation," and eat ing the dirt of power like so many hungry dogs. This bit of history must be taken as a lesson to those pitiable cowards in our midst, who are reduced to that last extremitv of degredation which can see no sagacity in anything but "accept ing the situation" of admitted force, fraud, and usurpation. Alas, alas, what wretches! what dogs ! There is another example of a great and honest writer, Titus lAc ius, who in the time of the Em peror Augustus, wrote to discoun tenance the silly doctrine of "ac cepting the situation," which called for submission to wiong and on- press ion. The same did Sir Thomas Moore j in the time of Henry the Eighth. I The works of Machiavelli were Written in opposition to the "situ ation" of Italy when it a-as ruled by princes, who oppressed the peo ple. The same may be said of the greater part of poetical writings of Petrarch and Dante. These works notwithstanding they were ,de nounced by all the fools of their day, have been growing in the re spect and admiration of mankind ever since. And all this time they have been the fountains from which honest men and patriots have imbibed lessons of liberty and truth. The world is as much bet ter for having had such men in its generation as it is worse from the legion of knaves and fools whose highest maxim has been to "ac cept the situation," whether good or bad. The writings of Harrington, Sidney and De A'oe those ever to be revered names which were such tremendous protests against the political "situation" in Eng land in their days, were bitterly assailed by all the ignoraDt, or 1 A Y , .1 UjL Y 28, 1870. venal, or cowardly raff of politi cians; but they worked upon the public opinion of England until the "situation" was entirely changed, ami this once free repub lic of America, was actually born out of the writings of these brave and true men. Such are the great results which come from refusing to accept the situation on the port of true and brave men in every age. All the liberty in the world was, from time to time, born of the proud resist ance to the "situation." And all the unsurpation, all the political crime, all the despotism in the world, came immemorially out of the accursed aeeept-the-situation policy. This has been the fruitfull old mother of all abominations. It was the hist and only friend that stood )y George the Third in his battles against our forefathers. All those detested loyalists of our Revolution, who had at least to flee as enemies to their country, were only for "accepting the situa tion" when despotism ruled over this laud. Those who are now for "accepting the situation" ought to get together in grand convocations, to celebrate the memory of their great-grandfathers, the traitors of! our Revolution. Those who were for "accepting the situation" un der George the Third, were princes of honor and manhood compared with the wretched cowardice or venality of those who now advise the people to "accept the situation," under the black ami dirty despot ism of Grant and Congress. The scoundrel who proposes to "accept the situation," when he sees the honor of his wife and daughter threatened, is a fit com panion of that renegade politician who tells his countrymen that their liberties and rgihts are all passing away, and at the same time ad vises them to "acct pt the situation." The Stone Face in the Desert. In the mountain around which we had passed on the last day's journey from Gila Rend, is to be seen, plainly and distinctly, the face of a man, reclining with his eyes closed as though in sleep. Among the most beautiful of ali the legends told here, is that con cerning this face. It is Monte; zuma's face, so the Indians believe, (even tiiose in Mexico, who have never seen the image) and he will awaken from his long sleep some dav, will gather all the brave and the faithful around him, raise and uplift his downtrodden people, and restore to his kingdom the old power and the old glory as it was before the Hidalgos invaded it. So strong is the belief in some parts of Mexico, that people who passed through that country years ago tell me of some localities where fires were kept constantly burning in anticipation of Montezuma's early coming. It looks as though the stern face up there was just a little softened in its expression, by the deep slumber that holds the eyelids over the commanding eye; and all nature seems hushed into death-like stillness. Day after day. year after year, century after cen tury, slumbers the man up there on the height, and life and vegeta tion sleep on the arid plains below a slumber never disturbed a sleep never broken ; for the battle cry of Yuma, Pimo, and Maricopa that once rang at the foot of the mountain, did not reach Montezu ma's ear; and the dying shrieks of the children of those who came far over the seas to rob him of his sceptre and crown, fail unheeded on the rocks and the deserts that guard his sleep. Overland JSIonlhbj. " May it please your honor," said a lawyer, addressing the iudire. " I brought the prisoner from jail on a habeas corpus." " Well," said a farmer, who stood at the back of the court, "the lawyers will say anything. I saw the man get out of a cab at the court door." Josh Billings says: "I don't be lieve in bad luck being sot for a man like a trap, but I have known lots of folks who, if there was any first rate bad luck laying around loose, would be sure to get one foot in it ennvhow. Gifts. He gives twice who gives quickly, according to the proverb; but a gift not only given quickly but unexpectedly is the most welcome of all. Affability. This quality must not go confounded with -politeness i me tatter is me resur . ot external polish, the former an indication of ! ators and Representatives, a Con , goodness of heart. servative Congressional Campaign Congressional Address to Democrats and CcnservatiYts. ADVICE TO THE SOUTIIEKX PEOPLE. Washington, June 24, 1870. The Democratic Senators ami members in Congress, at a caucus held last night, agreed upon an ad dress, which was to-day signed and issued, as follows: To our fellow citizens of the Unit ed Mates, f riends of constitution al, economical and lionest yov emment: The undersigned beg leave to call your attention to the peculiar im portance of the elections which take place this year, and respect fully to submit suggestions for your consideration. By the State Leg islature to be elected nearly one third of the United States Senate will be chosen. Neatly all the members of the next House of Rep resentatives are to be elected next fall. Upon the coming elections then depends the question whether the Democratic and Conservative element in the Senate shall be in creased, and whether that element shall have a majority of Represen tatives in the House of Represen tatives, and as a consequence, whether we shall have constitution al, economical and honest Govern ment or a continuance of revolu tionary, extravagant and wasteful partisan ride; whether we shall have a general, uniform, just and constitutional legislation, with rea sonable taxation and frugal expen diture, or unconstitutional, partial, unjust class legislation, with op pressive and unequal taxation wasteful expenditure.' That we have strong reasons to hope for a favorable result is plainly apparent. The elections already held clearly show that the tide of reform has set in with a power that cannot be resisted. If no blunders be com mitted by the friends of reform; if they do their duty and act wisely ; if they throw off all apathy, and act with vigor" and steadfastness, there is every reason to hope that their efforts will be rewarded by success. Let there be no dissen sions about minor matters; no time lost in the discussion of dead is sues ; no manifestations of narrow or proseriptive feeling ; no sacrifice of the cause to gratify personal ambition or resentment, and let the best men be chosen for candidates, and we may hope to see our coun try redeemed from misrule ; and in this connection we beg leave to say to our fellow-citizens of the South ern States : Do not risk the loss of Senators or Representatives by electin 1" men wli o cannot take the test oath, or who are under the dis ability imposed by the fourteenth amendment. AYhatever may be said as to the validity of that amendment, or of the test oath act, you may rest assured that Senators elected by the votes of members of Legislatures wdio are held by the Radicals to be thus disqualified will not be permitted to take their seats, and that members of the House of Representatives thus dis qualified will also be excluded. It is the plainest dictate of practical wisdom not to incur any such risks. AYe liope soon to seethe day when all disabilities will be removed; but in the meantime do not, we entreat. you, lose the opportunity to strengthen the Democratic and Conservative force in Congress, and the possibility, nay, probability, of obtaining a majority in the next House of Representatives, by put ting it in the power of our adver saries to overthrow or disregard your elections. Signed. A i Thurcnau, Ohio; VCm T Hamilton, Mxl ; John N Johnston, Va; 1) , Garrett Davis, Ky; Oeri Viekers, Id ; J 11 Storkton, N J ; T F Bayard, Delaware ; K easterly, California; Thos V Met retry, Ky; W buulcbury, Del; Dan'i S Norton, Minn ; Of the United States Senate; and by the following members of the House of Representatives: S J Randall, Perm ; P Van Trump, Ohio ; It J Haideinan, Penn; J L Oietz, Penn ; l.toyd Winctif ster, Ky ; (i W "Woodward. Tenn; iet'ii .vreiKT, .MU; John D Stiles, Penn: J S Met "orcm.-k, Mo . KJNiUaek, Indiana; O Cleveland, .N .J ; Fernando "Wool, N Y ; E M Wiison. Minn : J S smith, Oregon ; E t Dirkinson, Ohio "h Jioi-gan; mio ; reter w Htrader Ohio- ' 1 'I'" um, a, .luuit jjl i reus, Illinois T N MeXeely, Illinois: Patiick Ilamill. Md - Era.-t u.-( Welirf, M o ; l'eter M Dox, Alabama oiwAoonnsiHi, ai Jt J Calkra, New York- Ben 1 Biprs. Deieware ; J G Shumaker N V -Jas B Beck, Ky : W H Bammn Vonn D W letter, M Y ; Thos 1 . .Inn, ' i?.m ' Sam Mambleton, Md ; J (J Conner Texas'- J Proctor Knott. Kv; "W N Sweenv, Ky ; Tos II Lewis," Kv; D S Trimble, Kv; John T liird, N J; Thos Swan. Md : S S e'ox. . ew York ; ( has Haiht, N J ; S S Mair-hall, 111 ; S L M ay ham, N Y: John Mornw. N Y John M Rice, X y ; j.nn i o.x, iew oi k ; Sain Is Axtell. Cal: v ru S lloiman, Ind ; C A Kldridsre, Wis; M C Kerr, Indiana ; Oeo M Adarn. Kv ; D M Van Auken, Penn; J M ( "avanaus-'h, Mon ; J as Brooks, NY: J K Shatter, Idaho ; Alberto P.urr, Illinois; S T Nuokolls, Wyoming; AVm ilngen, Ohio ; DW Voorhees, Ind; A A G Rogew, Arkansas. At an adjourned caucus of the Democratic and Conservative Sen- ' Committee was selected, consisting of two Senators at large, and one Representative from each State represented in the Senate and House by Democratic or Conser vative members. This Committee had power given them to appoint a Democratic and Conservative resident committee, together with citizens of the city, to the number that may hereafter agreed upon. Hon. J. S. Smith is on said com mittee for Oregon. q . &- frw How Mr. Munsren Stirred the Wrath of the Austrian Envoy. A curious incidenfhas leaked from the State Department, a very0 leaky vessel in esscntialsCthougl so mysteriously and solemnly reti cent in small 'particulars. Shortly after a very objectionable sjeech from the Hon. William Mungen, of Ohio, on . Cuban affairs, Baron Charles Lederer, tfic Austrian En voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, visited the Secre tary of State, with the speech afore said in hand. The interview is thus narrated : Tfie Baron called thePnttention of Mr. Fish to it, and said that ho had come on belialf of liis Govern ment to ask explanation and satis faction from the Government of the VJnited States. O "Tin's," he said, "is not the mere production of your newspaper canaille but it comes from a mem ber of Congress, and is published m the Government organ, the GluLc" The Baron wished to knov whether Mr. Fish approved it, either categorically or otherwise. Mr. Fish declared and no doubt with unusual sincerity) that he did not subscribe to any part of it ; and furthermore was willing to concede thtit the speech was an outrage,and Mungen a nuisance ; nay. heVould even agree with tdie Baron that both th"e press and Congress were nuisances. But what oulde do in the premises? Mmigen had abused him. " Never mind dat " said the Baron, "I would not even mind it if he abused me; but it is my Gov- O eminent he insults, and deii I feel it here," striking his breast. o " But, Baron, he had abused the British Government, and the Rus sian and the Spanish, and United States Government." " Yes, but I am not ze keener of the honcur of zesc1, but it is for the insult to my JEmperexir I demand reparation." ' My dear Baron," replied the Secretary, "I really can not make this an international question. I deeply regret that we have no power to punish tljj's exasperating man. Our laws unfortunately do not permit it. Look, he has abused even our own President." " Ware dat ?" asked the Baron "No he call him gifted President? means genius, talent: flatter him: abuse everybody and all govern- ments else." No !" ejaculated Mr. Fish he meant to insult the President - bn perpetrated an out ra ere : he told .a 7 falsehood when he said the Presi- dent was mited " "AYhat?" asked the nuzzled Baron, " he says what not true when he call the President gifted ? AY ell, met f,i! zough you and I, Monsieur Fish, knoAtDthat he is not very ongtit, you Ins Mjnistere might have let him pass zat leelle compliment. But if he abuse zo. President and you have to suffer zat, I have no more to sav. Good morning, Monsieur le Secretaire." Air. Pisli (very obsequiously) -"Good morning, Baron." "But stop, Mr. le Secretaire. You want to know what we clo in Austria with this fellow you call 31 ungen ?" " What would you do, Baron?" " A e would put him in one dun geon, Vlr. Fish." - Washington Cor. AT Y. Sun. q . Not having heard from the de bating societies, in relation to the conundrum, " A"hy do hens always lay eggs in day-time?" a cotempo rary answers, " Because at night they are roosters." AATiy is the letter R very unfor tunate ? Because it is always in trouble, wretchedness and misery, is the beginning of riot and ruin, ami is never found in peace, inno cence, or love. Correction does much, but encouragement will do more. En couragement after censure is like the sun after a shower. Spurgeon's nose has become a matter of London newspaper com ment, It is as much reel as his sermons. o o 0 a O o o o o o o o c o o o o Y 7 o