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F. R. FI LUES, Editor
VOL. VI.
£hc (OuUnvun giimtcv.
AiMiu i s' u;vn:i{ Ko. IV.
Was man benefited by obtaining the!
knowledge c.f go'd and evil? In tliu |
last pnragi aph of the, lliiid letter »’c
have so asserted, and in this reassert it.
We have also asserted, in a previous !
letter, that man, in his primitive state,
was not a subject of rewards or pun- ■■
fehmonta for any act which lie did, or |
might have done. And, reader, the j
reason is obvious: lie had not attaineu j
to that high moral and intellectual emi
nence of the Gods, to know the existence j
of the priuciple of good and evil. And |
further, I assert upon principle, that it j
was not only necessary lor man to know
the existence of the principles oi good j
and evil, blit that lie must know and j
comprehend the characteristic elements
of each; or, for obedience, he could not
enjoy the rewards of the one, nor, f>r
disoledior.ee, could he, in justice, suffer
the penalty of the other.
There was but one c< mmatul given:
thou shall not cat, etc. S' ) pose Adam i
had strictly obeyed t'. at ci mmand, could |
ljo in any otherwise have stunt'd and liavi :
been accountable for the act to any tri ■ |
banal in the universe? Suppose be bad |
cut down tbe tree of life, would lie have j
sinned? If s->, against whose law?
There was no law commanding him n t j
to do it, and by what principle of justice
eonld a-penalty be inflict)d? Any pnn- i
ishment for tlio act would have beoi |
vindictive and ex pint facto. Suppose'
Adam had slain Eve, as Cain did Abel
would be have b.'cn accountable for that
act? If so, to wl at tribunal? For in
stance, the deed had been done, and
Adam arraigned before the Judge of the
universe for trial, and Paul, who says
he failed not to declare the whole coun
sel of God, had appeared as his ndvo
cate, would ho not have nv ved to quash i
the indictment, upon the giound that
there was no law upon whic'i to predi
cate it—and would he not then, as the
Apostle of Christ, have reasoned as ho
did in it) mans v, 13: “Sin is not iinpu
ted when there is no law. ”
If Adam had taken to wif ■ one of tl i j
daughters of men, ns did his descend uita j
and for which the world was ihu’r vi and
would l.c have siued by eo doing?
Certainly not; because to Ids mind ;hiri ,
was tm law, either malum in «• or ni i'u
prohilrita. Thai the consi quc era ■ f hi
acts, would have been evil tin re can 1 <
no controversy; but not criminal, fui j
crime consists in the violation of an < x- :
isting law. If a man’s lifo bo taken,
tbe evil is just as great if done by an
irresponsible, as if done by a responsible
agent, but certainI}' 1 }' a vast distinction I
in ihc ciiminalty. The ev.l priucplej
by which the man is brought to bis|
death, existed always, bat the sin con
sists, not in tbe principle, but in doing j
the act, knowing the oil. Adam k ie\v
he was commanded not to eat; he a!g" j
knew from the woman that the Serpent
advised them to eat ; but l.c know no!
distinguishing good us tin one from tin
evil of the other. Neither da I, for I re
gard both os the same -a Divine men
tality and without personality.
Now, my dear theologians, you tell ns j
that Adam was created immortal and j
perfect in his morals. If created immor
tal, his immortality was a great truth,'
an eternal truth! Was that truth
changed to falsehood by tbe art of man?
You say lie is mortal now. When did,
bis immortality cease and Ins mortality j
begin? You tay with tbe fall; what pro
daccd the fall? Sin, yon say. Then j
sin was antecedent to the fall, oi the
fall could not have been the consequen
ces of sin. Did Adam sin btfuro the I
fall, or fall before tbe sin? If you sav
he sinned first, then evidently be was ,
not perfect; fur be had to be imperfect
to sin, and bad to sin to fall. Do toll |
me, if the immortality and perfection of I
Adam was an eternal truth, at what
period his perfections ceased or hie mor
tality began. Are you not inevitably
driven to the assertion, that a perfect
man fell; or to the admission that Adam
was not perfect? If he was perfect, he j
would not fall; if imperfect, he could not.
Now, my theological friends, have you j
not in your eager reach in the pursuit of I
the winds of di ctrine involved your
selves in tLc inextricable rr.eshes of theo
logical solicisms? You say you believe
tbe Bible, and that it teaches you that
Adam was made immortal and perfect.
1 say I believe the Bible, aid that i:
teaches me no 6ueh thing. You have
the affirmative, and to prove the humor- '
tality of the body, you assert that the
| soul died, and that was the death that
| was to take place in the day of disobc
| lienee; and then, ns a further penalty,
tbe body must die. Now you have im
mortality twice dead, and not satisfied,
;or rather insist that the law is not sat
j isfied, and that (here is yet another
more fearful penalty awaiting a dead
soul—a dead body—an eternal death
beyond the grave. From where do you
j get your definition of immortality? I
understand it to mean a state that never
| ends. Was Adam created immortal in
! that sense of the term? If so, the pur
j pose of the Deity was as futile as the
! purpose of a finite being, for it changed,
j But then, you say, bn*created man hy
pothetically immortal, to wit: that his
! immortality depended upon the contin
gencies of his own acts; that he was
immortal, ortain, if ho pursued one line
of conduct—if not, then he was not im
mortal. Avery enviable immortality,
indeed, to be entrusted to a being whose
understanding was so darkened that lie
had to sin to open tbe eyes of his under
; standing, and thereby forfeit his immor
j tality.
To my theological friends I must say,
[with n y conception of immutability,
| that your pleaching in that regard is
alsurd and in no wise sustained by the
j scriptures. With all due respect to the
j opinions oi cithers, I take the position
that man was created mortal—(l refer
t<> his body)—that the element of decay
was in the composition—that it was
crcati and for temporary purposes, design
ed to pass away, and that (4e law man
ifested in the creation of man was as
changeless as any other principle in
God's universal code. Does not every
day and hour testify of man’s mortality?
Do .-s not every death prove that hois
not immortal; and does not his present
mortality either contradict the assertion
of his previous immortality, ortho im
mutable principles of God's laws? God
did not say to Adam, for that which
thou hast done, shaft thou return to the
dust; but in Gen. iii, 13, “In the sweat
of thy face shall thou eat bread, till thou
return to the ground, for out of it wast
thou taken: for dust thou art and unto
dust shall thou return.” The period of
h s hfo was not changed, but the man.,
ncr of living. I have never doubted tie
immortality of (he sml, but believe that
and was as perpetual and pare as the em
ulations from Divinity that animated
and vital!/, and the singing lusts of Ilcav
■ n: but the spirit blended with the clav,
benumbed the sensibilities and restrain
ed the moral undf intellectual capabili.
ti. s. In the understanding’s thus ob
scured condition, there cou'd be no joy,
no sorrow, no love, no bate, no progress,
no gratitude, no aspirations. This was
the original condition of Adam. Does
any sensible man envy it; does he de
plore the chang< ? If not cease to revile
the serpent that taught them wisdom’s
ways. In the person of an infant babe,
you have Adam’s primativo condition:
it is naked and knowetb it not. S> was
l»'. Will that child be ungrateful to
its fond mother, who carefully unfolds
its little mind, and sows the seeds of
knowledge, teaches its pratling lips to
speak the language of earth, and say
“our father who art in Heaven.” If not,
be thou not ungrateful to the alma ma~
ter ol Adam’s race, though it lie a ser
pent—for that is just what it did.
I therefore take the position, that
there was no law tj govern the conduct
of man from the opening of tlio eyes of
Adam's understanding, save his own
volition, until the law given to Noah
when lie left the Ark. Gen. ix. And
God saw that Adam’s race had gone to
the extremities of iniquity, and that
they were incapable of self government,
and he cut them off, preserving the pu
rity of the race in the family of Noah.
And to Noah he gave a code of laws, all
of which were advisory, with one ex
ception. Gen ix, 6:"Whoso shedeth man's
blood by man shall his blood be shed.”
These laws were insufficient to restrain
I the descendants of Noah; they, too, like
j their Antedeluvian progenitors, sinned
: and brought upon themselves the con
sequences of their wickedness. No otb
!er law did man have until the grand
! scene of Sinai, when the decalogue was
I delivered to Moses: and that was the
1 rule of man's moral action until tiie ad
vent of the Savior. It was the law bo
-1 fore; it was tbe law when he came; it is
i the law now; for he said he came not
to d< strov, but to fulfil the law. I won -
j dor il theologians are willing to recog
-1 nizc it us Uic law? if God thought it
HEHE SHALL THE FKESS THE PEOPLE'S RI3HTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY PEAK AND UNEEIBED BY GAIN.
QUITMAN, GEO., SEPTEMBER 1, 1871.
was enough, his ministers ought to lie
satisfied with its sufficiency. I believe
in this law, and that man violated it : I
believe in the necessity of a Savior:
that he came to earth, that, he lived, that
lie died, that ho was resurrected, and
that he ascended to his Father. Now
this is the belief of every rational man;
the preachers all say so, and I believe
them. As to his advent, his life, his
death, his resurrection, as a historical
fact, we all agree. But as to the pur
pose of his advent, the purpose of his
life, the purpose of his death, and the
purpose of his resurrection, I cannot
understand it as it is taught by the
ministry, and of course do not believe
as they do. I have no quarrel with the
ministers of any denomination: they aie
honest in their opinions, numerous and
diversified as they are. I, too, am hon
est in my opinions, and cannot forfeit
mine fur theirs.
And now, in the conclusion of this
letter, I would just remark, that iuas
much as rny former letters have been
a subject of pulpit and side walk criti
cisms, upon the ground that they go far
back and raise issues that have long
since been settled; that they are res
adjudicala', if so, the precedent has not
been published bv any competent bind
ing authority; therefore I do not regard
it. Error docs not bccomo right be
cause of its antiquity, and if at this ri
per age of the world, wo look back
through the musty domes of the past,
and see that a glaring error has over
shadowed truth, shall we say it is too
late to correct it now, or rather to dis
cover it. If one stray beam comes to
us through the mean de rings of the long
gone by, isn’t it right tliat wo should
trace it back through the dark lanes of
the eternal past, and exhume it from its
long interment—that its celestial purity
may expose the predominant errors of
tho past, and with its own supernal
brilliancy illume tlio paths of the future,
that leads to peace and j .y? But the
reader enquires, what wonderful error I
lias Amicus discovered in the Bible? 1
a: svver, none at all; but a most glaring
ono in tlio preaching from it. You
preach one original sin, that damned the
whole race of man. The Bible teaches
me no such thing. But I learn from il
that Adam discovered tho existence of
good and evil, and that by him, as the
federal head and representative, that il
was manifest) dto all his race. That
his descendants, or nearly all, sinned by
the Itvo and practice of evil, ami
brought condemnation upon themselves
It was not for any sin us Adam, hut tor
the specific and substantive i ffensts of
then ms of Adam. If all were alike
condemned, low did Noah escape? He
knew good and evil, and practiced good,
and rca ized the good effects. Ills
brethren knew good and evil, loved and
practiced evil, and suff red its conse
quences. And as a basis of this reason
ing I refer you to Gen vi, I—9, inclu
ti j vc; and 1 insist that there was no one
original sin, but that every sin, is an
orminal sin, a substantive crime, and in
justice must be, and can only bo expia
t<d by Him who commits it.
This line of argument will bo contin
ued.
A Little Story on Grant. —The Roan
okr (Virginia) Times publishes tho fol
lowing:
A good story is told by one of the
Methodist ministers now in this place
attending conference. Wo do not ri col
lect of ever seeing it in print, and we
think it ia too good to be b st. It is as
follows:
During the war a “Confed,” was cap
tured by the Yankees and happened to
be taken to General Grant’s headquar
ters. After being questioned by the
General, the old “Confed.” asked him
where lie was going.
“I am going,” says Grant, “to Rich- j
mond, to Petersburg, to Heaven, and, it
may be, 1 will go !o Hell.”
After eyeing tbe general for several j
moments, the old “Confed ” said:
“General Grant, you can’t go to Rich
mond, for General Lee is there;you can't
go to Petersburg, for General Beatire
gard is there; you can’t go to Heaven,
for Stonewall Jackson is there, but as to
going to Hell, you may get there, for I
know of no Confederates in that region.”
They say snakes will be careful Imw
they bite Georgia editors any more. The
last one to try it was a beautiful inocea-
I sin, in tbe central part of tbe State. It
I saw its chance, crawled up to the editor
of the Milledgeville Radi, and bit him
|on the knee. The great man passed on
j without noticing it, but tbe snake ex
! pired in great agony a few moments uf
j ter. The editor of tho Ranh had just
: taken a prescription labelled “new de
j purlure,” and the poor snake didn’i know
it. —New York Commercial Adverti
CREED.
I believe if I should die,
And you should kiss my eyelids when 1 lie
Gold, dead, and numb to all the world contains,
Tho folded orbs would open at thy breath,
And from its exile in tho nisles of death
Lite would come gladly buck along iny veins.
1 bel iovc if I were dead,
And you upon my lifeless heart should tread,
Not knowing what the cold clod chanced to he,
It would find sudden pulse beneath the touch
Us 111 in it ever loved in lifo so much,
And throb again, warm, tender, true to thee.
I believe if on my gravo,
Hidden in woody deeps, or by tin* wave,
Your eyes sh ould drop some warm tears of regret,
From every salty seed of your dear grief
Some fair sweet blossom would leap into leaf,
To prove death could not'nmke my love forgot.
1 believe if I should fade
Into those mystic realms where light is made,
And you should long mice more my face to see,
1 would come forth upon the hills of night,
And gather stars like faggots, till thy sight.
Led by the beacon blaze, fell on me!
1 believe my faith in thee.
Strong as my life, so nobly placed to be,
I would as soon expect to see the sun
Fall like adoad king from his height sublime,
His glory stricken from the throne of Time,
As thee umvortb the worship thou hast won.
I believe who has not loved
Has half the treasure of his life unproved!
Like one who with the grape within ids grasp,
Drops il. with all ils crimson juice unpressed.
And ail its' Inciotts sweetness left unguossed,
.Out from Ilia careless and unheeding clasp.
t believe love, pure and true,
Is to the soul a sweet, immortal dew
That gems lite's petals in its hours of dusk;
The waiting angels see and recognize
Thu rich crown jewel, love of l’urailise,
When life fails from ns like a withered' husk.
EQUALITY.
An old Scotch minister on being ask
ed to preach u sermon in favor of equal
ity, at a time ’of great excitement on
tl at subject, said at the close of a ser
mon, in substance as follows:
Von asked me top'each a sermon on
equality. Since that time I have ranged
in vision through tlio vegetable world; 1
saw flowers of equal lustre and per
fume, trees of unequal height and value,
but there is no equality there.
I passed to the animal kingdom, and
■saw the trained horses and tlio fierce
beasts of prey, the linnet and the.hawk,
the sparrow and the eagle, the sheep and
the horse, each occupying a relative
sphere.
In the sea were tho mollusc and the
whale, the dolphin and the shark, the
timid and the fierce, each properly or
j gani/.'.'d and doing its proper labor, bui
I saw no equality.
Lastly, I entered the gate of Heaven,
and on a great throne sat the Judge ol
tbe Universe; eheitihin and seraphim,
foil 1 eforc I im, angels of lesser degree
eid his bidding. I found seven heavens
rising above each oilier, but no equality
Pure 1 gu/.ed on the stars, arid found
“one star different from another star in
glory;” but there was no equality. So
you nee that there is no equality in ail
God's vast kingdom.
A Bkait'H'T'i, Tiuiutk to Virginia. —ln
afpoich made last week at L-nir.vilk*,
Ky , the Hon, D. \Y. Voorhees, of Indiana,
said:
“Il I, on the other hand, was Calling
witnesses to the Democracy, I would
point first to the old i'.tato of Virginia,
the most : llbcli il of all, the most torn to
pieces of all, with her mate population
diiven away, her bosom thrashed w'itli
the thrashing machine of death from one
border to the other. She has emerged
as from a fire of ten-fold heat, but she
tins fallen into the hands ofC'jnservatism
and not of Kodicul sin, and no Radical,
not even Ben. Butler, dares wag his foul
tongue or point Li r f l"iie"U& finger at
her. [Cheers.] And this 1 eu'd to him,
too, on the flour of the House. Virgin
ia, the very head and front of the st ug
gle on the part of the South—she in
whose bosom lies more buried valor than
in any other equal space of ground the
sun shines upon—[ applause | —where
heroes surpassing those that Homer sung
of met and clashed their swords and
hied and died—she on whose fate the
whole Mouth hung, vAio never faltered,
and when her great leaders laid down
their bwords all others were laid down.”
WSrA few days ago, at Kansas City,
Mo., there died the oldest man on the
western continent. Near as can be es
timated bis age was 124 years- For
three quarters of a century this remark
able man has lived west of the Mississip
pi. Jaques Totiriiiei, or “I’ino,” as ho
was more commonly called, came origi
i nally from Canada, arid in luted numer
ous particulars of the death ol Gen.
I Montgomery, who fell before Quebec in
i 1777. When Gen. Jackson called for
defenders against the British legions
preparing to attack New Oilcans, ‘Pino’
was among the fust to offer his services,
but was “refused on account of his old
age.” Although more than half a cen
tury pawl, the old man thought this; the
worst rebuff oi his life. In the celebra
ted trip of Clarke and Lewis ovet the
continent, we find him engaged as guide
and hunter.— Exe.
“Bob I’r .wn, did you say that my fa-;
tber bad not as much sense as Billy j
I Smith’s little yellow dog? “No, I never [
I said any such a thing. I never said, |
I that your father had not as much sense!
at Billy’s little y How dog. All I said, 1
; was that Billy's little yollo.w dog had
more sense than your father—that’s all 1
! ever salt!.’ “W oil, i' a ail well you did 1
1 not bay the other.’
Look to Your Whitewashing. —Good
whitewashing, well applied to fences,
rough siding, and tho walls and ceilings
of buildings, has a highly sanitary influ
ence, as well as being in the highest
degree preservative in its effects. To
be durable, whitewash should L>o pre
pared in the following manner: Take
the very best stone lime, and slake it in
a close tub, covered with a cloth to pre
serve tho steam. Salt, as much ns can
be disolved in the water used for slack
ing and reducing the lime, should be ap
plied, an i the whole mass carefully
strained and thickened with a small
quantity of sand, the purer and finer tho
better. A few pounds ol wheat flour mix
ed as paste may be added, and will give
greater durability to the mass, especial -
ly when applied to the exterior surface
of buildings. With pure lime, properly
slaked and mixed with twice its weight
of tine sand and sifted wood ashes, in
equal proportions, almost any color may
be made by tbe addition of pigments.—
granite, slate, freestone and other shades
may be imitated, and without any detri
ment to the durability of the washr This
covering is very often applied and with
good effect, to underpining stone fences,
tools, and the walls of barns and other
out-buildings. Probably tho pure white
wash is more healthy than tho colored,
as its alkalescent properties are superi
or, and when used iu cellars, kitchens
and sleeping departments, produces sa!
utury results.
No person who regards the health of
his family, should neglect to apply a
coat of it every spring. Country places,
especially farm out-houses, fences, etc.,
are greatly improved in appearance by
an annual coat of good whitewash, and
will add to their permanency much more
than many would imagine. It is cheap
and easily applied, so that neither ex
pense nor labor con tic pleaded against
i t.— Germantown Telegraph.
SLEEP, FAINTING, APOPLEXY.
When a man is asleep, his pulse beats
and his lungs play, but ho is without
sense, and you can wake him up.
If a person faints, lie, too, is without
sense, but he has no pulse and does not
breathe.
Apoplexy is between the two; the heatt
beats, the longs play as in sleep, anil
there is no sense as in fainting, but you
cannot shake the mari back to life.
In sleep, the face is natural; in a faint
ing fit, it has Ihe pallor of death; in apo
plexy, it is swollen, turgid, and fairly
livid.
11 a man is asleep let him alone; na
ture will wake him up as soon us he
has got sleep enough.
When a person faints, all that is need
ed is to lay him fiat on the floor and he
will 'come to’ in double quick time. IL
fainted because the heart missed a beat,
failed for an instant, failed for only once
to send the amount of blood to the brain-
If you place the patient in a horrizontal
position, lay him on his back.it docs not
require much force of tbe heart to send
blood on a level to the head; but you set
a man up, the blood has to bo shot up
ward to tho head, and this requires much
more force; yet in nine cases out of ten.
if a [ii'iTon faints and fall to the fl >or,
tho first done lo him is to run to him and
set him in a chair.
In apoplexy, as there is too much blood
in tbe bead, everyone can see that the
best position is to set a man up, and the
blond naturally tends downward, as
much so as water will come out of a
bottle wlii n turned upside down, if the
cork is out.
A SINULAII CASE.
The following story showing tho sa
gacity <J a dog, was related by the late
Rev Scott, I). I)., the first pastor of the
Mill Creek, Beaver county Presbyterian
church. Long ago when people crossed
the mountains on foot or on horSo back,
Rev Scott was coming to the then far
west to preach. One day whilst in the
mountains, he noticed a large dog trot
ling along by tho side of his horse.—
Supposing the dog lost, Ire requested
the landlord where hc.stoppcd next night
to c. idine Idm in the morning until be
would be sonic miles ahead, hoping that
he would go back to his owner. Bill
before noon the dog overtook him, and
continued to trot along by Lis side until
a very suspicious lo iking customer made
his appearance in front of the traveler,
when the dog at once attacked the high
wayman and so alarmed him that he :
protested lie meant no harm. Mr. S.
continued his journey, mentally determ
ining that lie would never part with his
defender. After trudging along awhile,
thanking Providence for lis escape, lie
looked for Ids deg, but found that he had
disappeared, and ho never saw him a
-rain . The good man always regarded
tho appearance and action of tiie dog as
a protecting act of heaven.— Washington
Review 1 .
| Chignons are Doomed! —At a certain
j fashionable wedding tire other day, it \
\ was noticed that some of the belles came j
j “in their own hair,” done up ill a braid j
, behind tbe cars, or twined gracefully a- j
! louml the head. Good-bye, horrible old
monstrosity I The chignon, like many
| good things, lias been abused. It was
|an invention, originally, for those who
i had thin or no hair, and was a small
make- believe braid. Then it grew with
the imagination of sh ipmon, and became
' a bag of horse-hair, with a rivulet of hu
man hair running over it.
$2.00 per Annum
NO. 35
FOR MARRIAGEABLE GIRLS.
If a man wipes liis feet on a door-mitt,
lie will malic a good husband. Ifa' mini
is snuffing a candle, puls it out, you may
be sure bo will make a stupid husband,
if a man puts bis handkerchief on his
knee while taking tea yon may bo sure
ho will make a good husband. In tlm
same way, always mistrust a man who
will take the last piece of toast, but pre
fers waiting tor the next warm batch it
is likely ho will make a greedy and self
ish husband, with whom you will enjoy
no “brown” at dinner, no crust at tea,
and no peace whatever at home. Tho
man, mv dears, who wears rubbers, and
is careful about wrapping himself up be
fore venturing the night air, not unfre
quently makes a good invalid husband,
that mostly stops at homo, and is easily
comforted with slops Tho man who
does not take tea, ill-treats cats, takes
snuff, stands with his back to tho fire is
a brute \v loin I would not advise you,
my dears, to marry for any consideration,
either for love or money—but most de
cidedly not for love. But a man who
when tea is over, is discovered to have
had none, is sine to make a good hus
band. Patience like liis deserves to bo
rewarded with the best mothers in-law.-
My deais, when you meet with such a
mail, do your best to marry him. In tho
severest, winter lie wouldu’t mind going
to bed first.
TOUCHING DEVOTION OF A CHILD.
One of the most fearful cases ever
told on paper, is this, of a little boy, a
mere child, Jw’ o travelled 1,400 ft lies;-
taking care of his mother all the way.
An expressman, upon roachinir biff
office one cold morning in January, ob
served on tho side-walk a long, heavy
box, which his practiced eye at once
identifi'd as containing a corpse. Upon 1
the end of the box, shivering with cold 1
sat a half clad boy about seven or eight
years of ago. Addressing him kindly,
lie said:
“My lad don’t sit there yon will ft'ecz'e.-
Como in and sit by the fire.”
Bursting into tears the little fldlotV
replied:
"No, I can’t come. My mother ikin'
this box, and I promised her I would not)
leave her until wo got home.”
Deeply effected with tho touching de
votion, of this bravo little boy, he final-'
iy hucco aled in convincing him of tho'
entire safety ol his precious charge, and 1
taking him to a restaurant, gave him a
warm breakfast, and then leaned the
particulars of his story.
His father died but a year previously,
in a remote village in Minesota, leaving
liis mother in poor health and nearly'
dest'lutc. She died hut a few days be
fore the hoy’s Bad journey, charging tho
little hero with tho sad duty of convey
ing her ri mains to her friends in a dis
tant State, a id furnished him with fall
■she had) a sum of money barely suffici-*
rut to carry them both to their destina
tion .
The liltlo lellovv had actually ridden'
night and day in a freight Car witli liis
melaiichnlly trust, never for a moment
losing sight of it.
Tine Swnanutc Parrot. —Two f icndly
neighbors bought each of them a parrot.-
That of Mrs D was a bird of grave
depor.incut, who had been taught to
speak very proper words. That of Mrs.
M was an iippious fellow, for biff
language abounded in bad vforJs. Now
Mrs, M—- felt quite shocked at Die ir
revi relit talk of her parrot, and prevail
ed on her friend to a'lloW the grave par
rot to pay a visit to tho swearer, in hopu
.of reclaiming tho roguu by good exam
p’<v The Iwo birds stayed together for'
about a month;- but iirtagino the Contator
nauoii of good Alls I) on the return
oilier more grave decorous bird, to bear
him Swearing terribly. The la'ct is, that
instead of teaching Im lias been learning,
and from Dint sad day his language was
as had as that of his- scape-grace associ
ate .-
Let all scholars learn from this that
although they have never been guilty of
profuiKiriuss, nor of speaking foul or un
clean words, yet if tl.ej keep' company
with wicked buys who delight in swear-*
ing, they will sion be likely to indulge l
in profane language; for “evil com
munications corrupt good manners.'*
IJ. Nash.
Too Good To mi Lost. —The following
diulogtn is said to have taken place be
tween two colored sisters on tile day fol
io wing the recent municipal elbetioh ' iir
Charleston South Carolina;
Phillis.—Now I tell you it's awful,-
Chlore.
Chloro.—So it is, chile. Why it
seems like wo was all gwine back info'
Egypt. ,
Phillis.—Now I tell yon deso white
sisters getting sassier and sassier every
election. What yon think? Pas' night,
j jus’ soon as my missus knew marso
j Wagoner was ’looted, she rang do bell
for hot water at ’lovon clock at niglit
| (Echo of indigiiali ai front Chlore.) Why
1 was so mad, I jus’ took my chignon off
o’liiy head an’ (rowed it down on to do
| floor. Den 1 took up dgt licit water an’
t carried it. up stabs.
Mrs. Mary Ann Cleveland, of Afaquo
• kola, lowa, has sued ten s doon-keepers
in that city for $5,000 damages dyne her
jby funds..i;«£ liquor to her husband, __