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Volume 3.
Unis VtRERKWiTH\I,
A man may hnvo wisdom and w<rth,
And honor and wit at his call•
But whnt does this matter on earth
If he has not the wherewitflj (
His home may be circled with friends,
If he only keeps up the hall;
But friendship soon changes and ends,
If he has not the wherewithal.
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Then seek for the wheiewithal,
Make sure of the wherewithal—
For pleasure, like friendship, soon ends.
If you have not the wherewithal.
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The purse is t' e dial whose face
Shows best when the sunlight doth fall,
He is always fiist in the race,
Who is the first with the wherewithal 1
Some say that the high can be mado mean ;
Some say the groat can be small!
But trifles like this are not seen,
If blessed with th^wherewithal 1
Then seek for the wherewithal—
Make sure of the wherewithal;
For pleasure, like friendship soon eikls>
If short of the wherewithal*.
Love smiles on the casement that shows
A picture within to enthrall;
When gold’s in the heart of the rose.
There’s love in the therewithal.
Yes, ir en may have wisdom and worth,
And honor and wit at |their cal],:
But what do these matter oh earth’.
If you have not the wherewithal 1
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Then seek for the wherewithal—
Make sure of the wherewithal} ,
For pleasure, like friendship, soon ends'.
If short of the wherewithal.
Latest mMMI Reports.
Honor—Scarce; old stock ekHinsted*,
and the new will be a failure.
Honesty—None in the market
Prudence—All in the hinds of old
stockholders, and held close.
Modesty—Stock badly nialiAged * none
for sale to street speculators.,
Vice—Market overstocked'.
Pride—Market glutted.
Politeness—Cheap ; holders unable to
'dispose ot any at present cheap rates.
Scandal— None at wholesale ; dealt in
chiefly by peddlers at re..ii.
Religion—Very little of the geWlltt'e
article or. hand. Stock generally adul
terated.
. Love—None offered, excejit fet green
backs.
The Modern Tree of Knowledge.
The Tree of Knowledge-rthat upas
tree of modern times—overdiadows us
all alike, and the sweetnesses of wnmo-l
hood droop ana die oeneain its . poison
ous shade. Medical studies carried on
in company with men; the country
stumped in advocacy of woman's rights,
which means nothing more nor less
Ilian the revolution of society and vio
lence done to nature: the
stumped, too, on bghicn no
woman who respected nerself should
touch with her little Anger—what
chance have oiir girls now-a-days?
Born, bred mid fostered in a vitiated
atmosphere from first to last, can we
wohiler if men say sorrchf hilly tli'it the
English girl of traditlbii is a, tiling of the
bast, and if their apologists can find
nothing better as an excuse than that
they are like so many boys, with no
harm in them, but. Ho .wcmsLihcoa :
Eor ourselves, we hold lo the expedien.
by of ignonihee (jf some matters —ig-
liorance of vice; of tiie,, darker tacts of
human histofy, of tile filthy, byways of
life; of the seething undercurrent be
fleath the tranquil surface ot society.
tVe see no good to come ot the early
Initiation of children into the knowledge
Hat helbtrgs properly to maturity; of the
jafticibiiiion of vLornen in that which
iroperly to rileh alone; We
liinlc tfibre 16 ii charm in maideH jnno-.
ierice; in womanly ignorance, which bo
fifiiount of bold trafficking In the secret
Verities of life can makfe up for, and we
grieve tp see tile small Hsbount ot which
these olcl-lasHidtiecl Qualities are reckon,
ed. For eating of tHe TteS.br Know!,
edge A Ham find Eve were flung out of
Paradise; arid perhaps the analogy holds
good for the children iff ttifin at the
present day. _ r T
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There Is ho siitlirner word than duty.
There Is cti path so safe as that of
duty.
There is no sweeter reflection than
this: I have done ttiy dtity. i ( , ,
Trust in the Lolth Had do your du
ty.
The most refreshing fountain gfish
along the rugged path of duty.
No sadder words than these Wfere eter
heard : “Ye knew your duty b’dt aid it
not.”
At a criminal court a few da} s ago; and
learned gentleman, dissatisfied at, J)is
success with ail Irish witness, complain
ed to the couit. Paddy exclaimed :
“ I am no lawyer, yer honor, and he
wants to puzzle me.’
Counsel—“ Come now, do you swear
you are no lawyer V
Witness—“ Faith and I do; and you
may swear the same thing about your
self without fear of being liable tor per
jury" ______
ll umax Nature. —People bavensually
three epoehs in their confidence in man.
In the first, they believe him to be every
thing that is good, and they are lavish
with their friendship and confidence. In
the next, they have had experience,
which has smitten their confidence ; then
they have to be careful not to mistrust
every one, and not to put the worst con
struction on everything. Later in life
they learn that the greater number ot
men have mote good in them than bad,
nnd that, even where there is cense to
blame, there is more room to pity than
to condemn)
CONYERS, GEORGIA: THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 187 G.
Twelve Holes for Farmers.
1. Have a written contract with all
laborers by the month or year.
2. Pay working men their wages
promptly when due. *
3 Use only the best implements on
the farm, and keep them always in order
and well protected from the weather.
i T e fL ßtock re .t?'ilt'’ly, and recol
lect a fat lidrse eats less than a poor one
and does milch better work.
5. Early plndtitig is best, nine years in
ten, therefore, tilant daily.
6. Early cultivation secures a good
crop—always push your work—never let
your work push yort.
7. An ounce of brain is worth a pound
of muscle ; therefore, alwas think well;
and plan before hand wliat.is ISpst tb be
done. Order is Heaven’s first law.
8. Never suffer that which is made to
be lost or wasted ; preserve it, and econ
omize. It is the saving more than the
making that gathereth riches.
9. Never buy what you can produce
at home equally as cheap. In this way
you save time, expense, and the profits
of two merchants,
10. Never plant more than you can
cultivate well, for all crops abhor neg
lect, and refuse to grow well for A lazy
man.
v U. Nevor borrow from a neighbor
except ih a ctlse of necessity, and then
return whateVer you borrow as soon as
possible, lest a misunderstanding arise,
and good neighborship be destroyed.
J 2, Prepare well for market whatever
you can spare from the farm and sell it
when it is in the best statd Of prepara
tion. The loss ley SftHfa&Hge aba refat
tetiing is more Wan speculation in price
to ihost farmers and had best be avoid
ed'.
The Rage for Fefcttliftt&ft'.
The for fettililerS Vn this sect fob
Is nh alarming as it is wonderful. It errl
braces every kind known to the trade'.
We have not the figures at hand to show
the exact quantity that has been brought
to this market y but all the dealers inform
us iMi thfe d’ehiah'ii, wfls lieVc'r so great*.
The planters seetrl fr'intic for fertilizers,
and they are reckless ,As to what they
bfiyA. They do not aMc what it is, nor
o they bare wliht it is. It rHay be three
fourths Band- wltj! 'dilty enough gditno to
make it smell bad \ it mly fib iMefly
worthless ; it may be enljlely llnaaapled
to their ’and or to tile beclllldr tlse they
HiU’v for it \ but the oldy 'fiucstibli tney
Strife ageb'n jnftAifnaf fibis ,beUt tdr
two kinds of guano. One kina is very
popular, because it lias been tried and
found good. The o'hei kind is not pop
ular ; but on the popular kind the buyer
must pay four or five dollars freight per
tbii <&>/\ ; the other kind is sold entirely
'bri preuit; freight find all. Qf the first
kind the dealer sells very little I all tile
farmers buy the kind they don t like, sirlq
ply because they are not required to
mate,ca'feh filly merit of a few dollars on
each ton. , ~
Another dealer tells its that lie, sells
an excellent and very .popular, k’uji of
guano at forty-five dollars per ton cash,
and seventy dollars on time. Most ot
the,purchasers take it on time! they
w oil'd ffitn.er.jray twenty five dollars a
ton extra than to pay cash. (
Now it is useless to argvje , ( WlfH such
men as the ones mentioned abovfl.,,, If
you tell them to pay cash for guano or
not buy it all, they will ,tell you . they
have no cash and must have guano ; that
they carinot make a crop without guano,
and cannot buy guano without credit.
Let them alone! They are going to
make large cotton crops this year and
turn it over to the men from whom they
buy guano In other words they are
acting as overseers for the guano manu
facturers, and finding themselves. — La-
Grange Reporter.
ffIJtjARA AFTER A OALE.
Says the Suspension Bridge Journal
of March 2d: The incessant gale from
the North and northeast for the past
fcHii'.ea a wonderful change in the
Niagara river. During Sunday and
Pdopfciity ,lhe falls presented an appearance
such as has not been witnessed since the
year 1848. Many o( pur citizens, and
more especially the visitors who happen
ed to be in town, rushed fronj point to
joint viewing the wonderful flighf. jThe
lugfe roots below the American Falls
that are usually covered with water from
fifteen to twenty left were bare,
and stuck out like mountains. „ W)Mtn
Glassbrook, the old ferryman, said he
could have walked from the entrance to
(he “Shadow of the Rock” up to the
“Ca7e of the Winds” in front of tho
river between 06'at Island and
Park, where the water, Usually runs more
than twenty miles ah hour, was checked
to such an extent as to be wadable anys
where without the slightest assistance.
But tkh grandest view of all to behold
was the gt&ft Hoppesboe Fall. This
had lost fully two-thirds of its immense
body ot water, and,, fafy compared by
many with an ordinary mill hepd. The
stream immediately above Table -Rock
and far beyond Street’s .Island, a distance
of more than four htfndred feet, present
ed one solid bed of rock, but hardly a
drop of water. The place just opposite,
where the old Terrapin Tower torme.ly
stood, corresponded very much with that
already described, and the handful of
water that remained, comparatively
speaking, was forced through the deefi
channel in the center, which forms the
Horse-shoe.
The polish residents in Prussia are
preparing for a public demonstration
against the prohibition of their language
iu the schools and coups.
THE falling ROCK.
SIX THOUSAND TONS OF SANDSTONE ABOUT
TO ROM. DOWN THE SIDE OK LOOKOUT
MOUNTAIN.
On Sunday hundreds of people visited
the mountain for the purpose of taking a
ook at the immense mass, which is slow
ly severing itself from the ledge of rocks
ai Braggs Bluff, near the toll gate. The
brat indications of this severing process
were discovered about a week ago, and
since, then the *dfe Hti tVUrri Alnfor.t'cii
stantly going on. The greatest progress
so far discovered has been an inch an
hour, but on Sunday, at 3:30 p. m. it had
leached a distance of about sixteen feet
irom the parent ledge. The crevice is
about thu ty Jeet dee}) ,’J’hte Vtfgth 0 f
the falling rock is about oiVe
feet, the width about twenty-rive feet
and the weight is estimated to be six
SnS l T- X h \ bomtnences
Jtist ffboVe the spririg near the toll gate,
out of which, standing under this great
mass of rock, so many people have
drank, feeling perfectly secure. When
the rdbfc frill* it will take with it this cool
chamber \vhwp so many hiive slaked
their thirst. ( DoWn at the base, between
the falling part rind the ledge has been
opened a bank bf beautiful white ssnd
which has been protlbunced by judgeo
to be superior for disking glass. The
severed part is ornaihented by three
pretty good forest trees. The distance
between the road and the cliff is 8o small
that the rock will undoubtedly fall acrosS
the road and go thundering" dowii tlie
side of the mountain, carrying with it
trees and whatever may be in its track.
People are still passing in front of it on
foot, and a few venturesome ones on
horseback. We fear somebody will try
this experient just once too many times
Sunday night about ten o’clock, some
thirty tons of rock from the front of the
bloving mass fall. It is still moving, though
less rapidly than heretofore. The tall
Will be a wonderful sight, and ages
hehbe, people who see this huge mass in
the valley beneath, will wonder what
great upheaval sent it to its resting
place. “Thus time the tomb builder”
levels mountains and fills up val ieye, and
we doubt not that much which is
ascribed to be wonderful commotions in
nature is the result simply of the cease
less working of the never idle destroyer.
Time. ’
i. Recommendation.
yesterday morning a man auwnt lunj
yefi’re tola and decidedly old-fashioned in
ii.ok was thebe fvnitijig for him. He
talked about the weather fora while, and
then remarked :
‘ A man down here on Larned street
sent .me here to you, saying that you
'could ff coimiietid trie to soiiie nice look
in * ' .>>
ing widow. , j, ( , l|( ,
Tile court had become used to such
applications', and without bet raj'big any
surprise, he gave the stranger written
directions to find a widow who .dives in
the northern part of tiie city'. The man
went away, but returned in the course of
t\Vo Hours', one qf His eyes growing black
ami blue, a scratch on his a torn
coat collar, and a generally Unsettled
look. lie sat down, pulled rip his pant
leg to exhibit the marks of a dm? bite,
pointed to his eye, and grimly observed:
“I believe you recommended Lie to a
widow I'■
“Yes.”, ■ . „ . ...
“But she didn’t want to marry—didn't
seem tp care anything about the holy
bondsof wedlock!"
“I didn't think she wonld !” sighed
His Honor, as he turned to his law books
again.
The stranger lo .kcd at him for jGye
or six minutes, and then went out with
out another word. —Detroit Free Press.
CRUMBS.
Great talkers don’t frighten me—it is
the listeners 1 am afraid of.
The history of mankind prpyes thfft
jvfiile they can lisq at times far above
the brutes, they can sink at other times
faf below them.
About as mean a position as .any man
can p(lt himself into is to work all the
time for the devil, and look all the time
to the Lord for pay.
Honesty first,, next to that conies wis-
dom, and alter politeness. , ~,
Tliere js no man cqn tell what can
do until (to bps tried ; and there fire a
good many who can’t tell even after they
have tried. , (
Surfeit has ruined more peoplo than
starvation has. •
It is easy to mistake laziness for pa
tience-laziness is the cheapest kind of
i j n
patience.
There arc no weeds that wilt so cjuick
ais widow’s.
Heroes scarce, but the man , who
can make poverty respectable is one of
them.' ,
Mar,kic'cj loves to be cheated, but they
want it done by an artist.
Young man, don’t forget that the
world are all watching you and most of
them are more ready to charge your •H
count with something bad than some
thing good. ,
Tliefe seerii3 to be two kinds of ab
sence of mind—one is the result of too
to if oh thought; and the other of no
thtrtight dt all. . (
- I have known men so stubborn that it
was fust about as hard vvotk to convince
them that they were right as* it was that
they were wrong, — Josh JRiUinge.
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It’s an unpleasant tact that what your
friends call self possession your enemies
call brass.
MARK TWAIN.
Coming out of the Erie railway build
ing. I yesterday saw Mark Twain, whom
we used to know in the old Frisco drity*
#9 Sam Clemens. He wears the same
old brigand lint and cloak, and onp
is always sure when looking at him trial,
he would rather look shabby than went'
a pink overcoat with yellow buttons. It
is now just ten years since I sal ono day
on the steps of the American House, ii>
.flrpnjjloln, Sandwich Islands, with Clem
ens, ana happened to mention that I was
writing letters to the New York lltrald.
He was then unknown, except ns an
odd character in San Francisco, and as
the writer of letters to the Saoramento
Union, and he very timidly said he had
receiyed art effer I} orb a musical monthly
to writhe a page for it for six dollars. He
wanted to know whether it would pay
him to go on to New York. I had
Dc-ver read Anything of his, and I told
hin} that It he went oil to New York he
cduldn't earn his salt. Yet there he
stood yesterday, with bis Raucy mous
tache and gimlet <yes, as unconcerned
as if he hadn't made a hundred thous
and dollars, and hadn't married a girl
witli more salt laying around loose than
would pickle all Honolulu.—[N, Y Cor.
Danbury News.
“Swkat.” — A year or two ago we
asked a well-to-do fprmer of this county
what kind-of Itjrt.ilizei; lie usd, and ho
replied “ Sweat." Frotil this ans\v< r,
we understood him to ,|jiean. that he
took gdodcare of his ground, gave it
the most thorough preparation before
planting, and the incst thorough culti
vation aftei'tj/ih'ds ’ and that he used
nothing for tiie enriching of his giouud
except what lie lijajie at home. A man
who will use no fertilisers except those
he can make at home, and who will give
his ground that preparation and cultiva
tion w’hich it ought lo have, will make
a profit on his crops. The person refer
red to is Judge Iliraiq Dennis ; every
body knows whether or riot lie is a suc
cessful farmer.—[LaG range Reporter.
The Portland (Maine) Press of the
10th tells it thus: “Yesterday as life
morning train over the Rochester road
was nearing Alfred, tlie engineer discov
ered a large Newfoundland dog on the
track. He blew the whistle but the dog
stood his ground, and thinking some
thing was wrong the engineer whistled
down brakes, and the engine stopped
to cross the track, but tiie sleil caught
on the rails. The driver heard the tram
approaching mund a curve, end rushed
dewn the track to stop it. Ilia dog took
in the situation, and dashed around the
curve and s'opped the train. It would
have been impossible to stop the train
after seeing the man.
YoL"Tnrri. Conduct.— The line of con
duct chosen during the five years from
fifteen to twenty, will, in almost every
instance, determine his character for life.
As he is then carelul or careless, prudent
or improvident, industrious or indolent,
truthful or dissimulating, intelligent or
ignorant, temperate or dissolute, so will
he be in after years, and it needs no
prophet to cast his horoscope or calcu
late bis chances in life.
There is a story qf a country clergy
man who was sent for suddenly to visit a
cottage, where he fonnd a man,, in,, bed.
•‘Well, my friend,” said, the pastor “wliat
induced you to send for me?" Tljo pa
tient, who was rather .deaf, appealed to
Ins wife. “What ao he say ?” “He
says,” shouted the vyomsgf,' “what t)he
deuce did you send for hnn for?”
AIRY ATTIRE'.
1 ! " r n .'•! ;j i
HOW THE BET.SES OK, SEVENTY YEARS AGO
WERE MESSED.
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Lillie Deyeranx, ivrjtes Jo Demqresl's
llhistvjgitqd (< Hjoijthly : Sixty years ago
(,(ifp gffijrticity ot New York was a mod
erate sized town, From Mrs. I), a ven
erable dame, who was herself a great
belle in those early days of the century,
I have gathered a full description ot the
costumes and fashions of those by-gone
times. , . ..
The earliest ball to wlfjeh this lady
ever.,wqnt was qne given by the Dutch
niint3tq)' to this country in 1815. It
took place at Castle garden, and was
l|pld ifl hofior V.f/hq entrance of the
aliieq ijilq Paris and the freedom of the
Netherlands from the power of the
rfiigfity conqueror, . Napoleon. It, was
called tiie (J range f?al,l,’ and in honor of
the pccasion every lady displayed orange
color in some part pt her dress. Mrs.
D.’ who was very yoqpg at the time,
wore a simple white muslin dress, ex
tremely scant in' the skirt, pnd so short
wpisted t,he belt was jiist below the arm
pits.’ On thio she wore orange-color
ed satin shoulder braces, a firm of
trimming then much in style. Broad
ribbon was crossed on the back and
passed around the arm-holes, exactly
like the braces used to strengthen
looping shoulders ; it was then twisted
about the waist anil tied in a sash at the
baefc, ~, j . „ i.
When' this lady first made her debut
into society, the waists were at the
shortest,' and the “ classic style,” as it
was called, the prevalent mode. And
these Excessively e,hort waists were
disagrpeable, . at|d i painful to wear., A
dress in those days measured two yards
and a half at the bottom,. of the skirt,
and was gored upward until the little
fullness tii.it remained was gathered in
by a drawing string at the neck.
Nineteen of the thirty-seven States in
this country have Democratic Governors.
LAST WORDS OF EMINENT STATESMEN.
The following are the dying words pf
some of our eminent statesmen, recently
deceased :
Shed no muleteers for me.—B. II Bris
tow. ~
■ Tli* game is played put.—Poker Bob
Sonenck.
, Stand by you* |>ost traderships —7t,U
and Armeo —Belknap.
Urttoto? 4ut I die young. It would
lie n terrible iliiilg to grow old and sinful.
Williams.
My son, never write icltari Pierre
p°nt. . , •
This is not suicide, but assassination.
John B. Henderson,
If I had only been I .could
have made just twice as mucli.—-Orville
L. Grant,
Some love to roam o'er the dark sea
foam, but as for me, give me a worm
eaten hull in n snug harbor,—Robeson.
Don’t weep for me. I'm glad to get
out of the wilderness. Meet me on the
happy hunting grounds.—Delano.
Tell B. Butler I died happy, by spe
cial request.—R. 11. Dana.
Look not on the still when it is crook
ed- —John McDonald.
1 hey say the streets of the New Jeru
salem are paved with gold. I want to
go.—Boss Shepherd-
Who would have thought that cold
tongue would kill a man ?—Jabbering
Jim Blaine.
A tanner won't last you more than 8
years.—Babcock.
A New Haven wtrrqspoqdent of tliq
Cincinnati Enrjuiref writes trat '.bit
money party of Comiecticiit thoqghf at
one time of nominating Mr. Donakt
Mitchell for Governor, and a conn nit. tee
waited on him to seek bis consent. He
replied that lie was in full sympathy
with tile movement, but could not ae
eept the Honor. “ The spring has come
""““I“id. “and the singing birds
which has
been ice-bound tor iriany mopths, onqe
,nore ,. splinters.Jauiljlv onward in un
fettered freedom to liieel tile sea > anon
the meek-eyed violet ivill be seeii in
Clieltejjed olaws ofi yonder hillside, and
the stun y damlellbn will gleam oil the
breust of the meadow with tile southern
'ope. Yuii tell mo this movement is
strong and popular ; suppose I should
be elected and compelled to take up my
abode in brick and mortar environed
Hartford, whilo all the coppices ot
Governor; 1 would miner su iu i'n>
library ot an evening and watch the
growing corn undulating in the western
wind, than sit in the chair of state sign
ing bills for public acts ; and the bright
flag floating above the capitol would not
bo so pleasing in my eyes ns the smoky
banner of the far-off steamer seen
athwart the dancing wsiters silvering in
the June situslilfJe.
TRAYER BEFORE BATTLE'.
Whethef it is true or not that tpe
Welsh af a rjuarrelsotne people, jWC
cannot nnaertiiHe.to say ; thq foliowiqtr
laughable flnocdotej howeyejy would
seem in some measure to ; countenance
the conclusion (and ShaKcspeare, we
believe, almost invariably represented
his Welsh, characters a* tyuchy to, a
degree J that there is a rnodnim ,pf trut h
in the, cHarge! But to the story. , A
Scotclt peddler, without tie remotest
intention on his part ot getting into a
(Juwel.pr ,ngh; with any man, had put
up (wfih L'is pack) for tfie, night, at a
forcing „op Wales,
whe r e, as tqp fates .Kfiqld have,,ft, die
found a ruotely assemblage in , tlio
kitchen of the inn, .of not the most
desirable individuals ; and among the
i;est, a Welshgian,’ whosq from the
very first, it seemeq to be tp get into hot
water with the poof Hawnoy,, The lat
ter,' sagaciously appreciating the true
character, of tormentor j and determined
tq get rid of him in the quietest possi
ble way, told him that he “did not want
to fight.’ This only excited to a still
higher pitch the bravado of the Welsh
man, and he told the Scotchman that he.
would “ make him | fight.’ “ Well,’ sayfi
Syvanpy,' “if f n^tist, fight, let rife say
my prayers before I nght,’ wj’tch the
VVelshman conceding, the, Scotchman
fell upon his knees, imploripg thp maicer
to pardon him for “ the two men he had
already killed; and for the pno that was
abppt to. .die.” d'H? Scotchman plowly
arose from his knees, but not befofe tfie
Welshman bad made a precipitate re
treat from the room.
Here is something neat.from the (J rtf
fin News . A poor towp cow, that would
bog up and mire down m, three inches of
mud, can climb v mto a, countryman's
wagon and eat tweflty-tour byndles of
fodder and ,a tyssket full of ; eggs while
fhe innocent victim is Rafting (its first
dram’.' This kind of cow js proverbially
dry. The strongest persuasion in , be
half of a sick infant won't her let
dotyn.a “drop,’ and yet she, w ( ill open
your front gate at apy time in the night
and eat up all the shrubbery and plants
in sight. What she don't eat she tram
ples°under toot and destroys. When
you search for the owner to get damage?
you never find him. But when that cow
meets the inevitable fate of ell such
cattle —to-wit: it is , run over by the
railroad cars—then there are r.n abun
dance, of and they , prove the
cow. is worth a hundred dollars. The
railroad pays, and everybody is glad.
Why is a pig the most provident of
animals? Because he. always carries a
spare rib or two about him.
ISTumbex* &8.
FALLEN GREATNEBS.
A citizen of Cincinnati, writing'to the
New York Bulletin, says :
The case of Mr. Pendleton is a sor
rowful but silfchi.fleant Sign of our public
condition. YVe art} under, the reign of
two pssviona, viz: 'inordinate love of
money and unbridled ambition, and
wonder that those who hAve inebriated
stagger and fall. Terriperanec criisa
tiers are wanted against these two mon
sters ; but neither street prayers nefi;
party bowls ul/e the triio remedy,! noj'
will it answer to receivgthe old Mosiac
policy of providing scajiegoats. Tho
cure liegins only when we can say to our
selves in full consciousness: We nre a
siijfnl people j sjnf.il, not so much iq
drpikiug, dancing and wearing fine
clothes’, but sinful in misusing our polit
est, liberty for many grent and little
abuses pf public power. We at e daily
and hourly s our two great
nublic passions'; pitr press fans them,
our public life feoqp them', And our hy
pocrites whitewash , I know
Mr. P. well. His impiifoes have been
misdirected by persons whoiti he thinks
his friends ; and tins is reason why
a man who might have .been an orna
ment to our society has hqq to tell his
own sad tale without feeling all the dis-
Kraco it i ivolvos. ita I jiis ambition
een tempered, his love of money re
strained, lie would not now be one ot
the paiipered, fallen children of Ameri
ca,
\ cillPSt IE TIW: Aik. t .
oj the i’hila*
delppia Press writes : ,
“ ()ne of the strangest and inq*t.,Kq’*-*
ribh, ot ( s'lisationai. incidents
the Pthpr djjy; A ( ( .Euteau.Y. A Bprty of
children iylip vtofc )Vf?)'tt\g n ( , trjfc litii
runs discovered floating !:1 the air, and
partly entanglad amid the Jiratkdtvfl of a
a tree, a white parcel upborne by means
of gome twenty or thirty little red toy
balloons, which were attached to ft,
Ihe attention of the police being cntled
to this singular object, it was brought
dofliif ni) the package opened, whieli
proved to.cqntain a corpse of a ue w horn
infait. Inrcstlgatiou in the matter
brought to yg'Jt tiie fo’lowins facts:
The child was tlidj, cf a poor toy maker
and his wife. Jutjf, aftpr the confine
ment of the latter fhg husband bad d'ed
suddenly, and all household goods
and chattels had ficcp seized for rent.
hin.d |ier a wwitteu paper) in whfch she
deemed her intefitldft ( of committing
Buicid?; nfid. sditL , S H°
‘ jiaq gptten lier baby ready to go up to
1 leaven. , j*iy a irti ’ ' 1 .
A sadder tale, with a istrancer, termi
nation, it would be hard to find. Thq
toy balloons evidently had formeiL part
of the ilcafi husband's stoclc in trade.”
, • I ' '■ i I,
Thk Interposition ok , Pnoymcwm
—lt is not great battles afonp that build
the world's history, pqj* ,grpat poems
alone that make the grow.
Theh.fH If |*l Hmall rain, from Heaven
ijirtt lijiM morCj.to (io, with .fhe blessed
ness ot nature, and of Imman nature,
than the mightiest earthquake or the
loveliest rainbow.
>ll M ii,-.' in • I‘niu ■! J' l,,! " i*
A Danbury man carried lionqo , four
quarts of soft shell clams In an overcoat
pocket. In the same pocket was a
handful of loose tobacop. The soft
shell clams had often heard of the weed,
of ifqs, Wan, the. first samplq
thqy Had sqeq,’ and by the time the roau
reacflcq.yiome eqch clam had a rice
quid comfortably rolled under its tongne."
The, clamri were opened, and cooked,
without the family noticing the filthy,
habit they bad .got into. They wore
served, for breakfast and partly eaten.
The Danbury, maais now convinced that
he either must find 80inething yj.hf>r
than a to carry clams home in;.,
or get a wider back door.
in (lip April number of tie Galaxy Mr.
Latviencp Barrett; tlie (Ascribes
the Bonanza Mines,of Nevada. Pictur
ing his descent into tf|p mines,’ he says
“Our destination fs ihs |£wer level, 1,600
feet beneath ; but we pass openings hero
and there upon our ( ,, journey, through
which we catch f\ glimpse of light uno,
hear the sound of the workman’s pick •
tfiesi} are the upper levels. At last an--,
other jerk ; the rushing sound is over;
we are stopped • we stop off the cage,
into what 1 The eye cannot yet distin
guish, but the atmosphere is strangely
altered.; we were cool arid comfortable
above ; the air was bracing there and
also in the shmi fferc }ve are in the
tropic?,' find are ab'p.ut to traverse passa
ges cut by tlie imiias of tnan one third of
a mile beneath the surface of tho earth.
Wo are standing frtce to faoe with
greatos'vhpdy ot silver and gold, ever
discovered. Here is a past; ot g°'d and
silver computed to be worth $800,000,-
dOO, which yields, <j?er $2,500,000 a
month, ap'd nfirp a diyi'W of $L > P’
share each' i ijsu 108,000 shares.
A Wish Excvbk —On one occasion at
a dinner at, tho Bishop, ot Chester s,
Hannah More urged Dr. Johnson to tolw
a little wine.' He replied. “I can t drmk
a little, child, .and, therefore, 1 never
touch it. Abstinence easy to me as
temperance would be; difficult. , Many
have the same infirmity, but are destitute
J the same courage, and therefore .are
ruined. . .
Srntirrtonts, of friendship which flow
from the heat t piunot, be frozen in ad
versity.'