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Home Again.
Oh, are there any sweeter words
In all our English tongue
Than those the Birds so happily
To music sweet hath sung !
What mortal has not felt at times
A vague, half yearning pain,
A longing for one scarce knew what,
Oa hearing •* Home Again.”
My pets I my noble Clarence boy,
My daughter, loving girl,
With eyes that sparkle like the eta-s,
Hast felt, in pleasure’s whirl,
When mirth and jest west circling round,
And young hearts bounded.free,
A something o'er thy spirits steal
That spoke of “ Home and me.”
Clarence, my boy, when wine and wit
Made bright the passing hours;
When the whole world seemed filled alone
With music, love and flowers ;
Did thought of her, thy mother fond,
C:oss o’er thy heart the while,
When friends and eti angers vied alike
To win thy beaming smile ?
Alice, my star-eyed pet, when w ords
Os flattery sought thine ear,
And many a glance told the sweet tale
That youth so loves to hear,
Didst find ’tie pleasant now and then
’Mid strange, new scenes to roam,
Tho’ all around is bright to me,
Still dearer far is home?
Then welcome back, my own loved ones,
Unspotted from the world;
The pleasure a’l her fairest scenes
Before thy gaze unfurled.
Thus purely may ye life enjoy,
While sunny youth is given,
Keeping enshrined within thy heart
Thy Mother, Home and Heav.n.
R. A. L.
[From the Globe.
The Dishonored Banner.
ADAPTED FROM “THE AMERICAN FLAG.”
Tl>t banner, whose dim, waning light
Glims faintly on the trembling air,
Seems filched from the robe of night,
Without one star of glory there!
Erst glowed its folds with gorgeous dyes,
Like raylets from the azure skies,
And gleamed its pure, celestial white
With streakings of the morning light;
Flag of the tree heart’s hopes and home,
By angel bands to valor given !
Its stars did light the welkin dome,
And all its hues were b rn in heaven;
Now on its lolds th’ unwilling sun
Sheds lingering rays of the evening’s dun,
Since late lorn by tyrant’s hand,
3 he symbol of his vaudai baud-
Majestic monarch of the cloud I
No moi e 1 thou rearhbt on high thy form
JI mid war’s tempest howl t g loud,
Amid ti.e hurtling d ath-shafts driven,
As though the bell fie' ds of the storm
Had seized the thunderbolts of Heaven !
While Freed m from her eyrie gazed,
Beheld her banner of the fiee
Careering where her temples blazed I
And, erst, her plains ot victory
Ensangui ied with her children’s blood,
And darkness where her al tai s stood.
Then hade her angel from the skies
Wash from thy folds her gorgeous dyes!
Flag of the brave! no more thou’lt fly
The sign of hope and triumph high 1
No more the standard of the brave.
Thou’rt the symbol of the trembling slave,
Since he alone thy strip, s will bear
And all thy shameful gueidons wear.
No more the soldier’s eye shall turn
To see thy meteor glories burn.
For those red meteors rise and fall
Like gluts of flame on midnight pall;
Nor foes shall heed their fitful glow,
Nor gallant arm shall strike below;
But darkling hosts shall cower beneath
Thee, hateful messenger of death,
For freemen’s life-blood, warm and wet,
Has dimmed thy glittering coronet!
Flag of the seas 1 the ocean wave
Shall spurn thee floating o’er the brave,
And shamed afoam shall hurl thee back
As ’fore the broadside’s ree ing rack,
When death, careering on the gale,
Sweeps d irkly round the bellied sail,
Each hapless wanderer of the sea,
Whose gaze toward Heaven s'-all pause at thee,
Shall blush as thou dost mocking fly,
Like hovering ghoul, to see him die 1
Cold are those hearts that warmed for thee,
And all ’heir love-born hopes are fled;
No more thou’rt standard of the free,
Thy sons of valor all are dead !
Grim horror claims the free heart’s home,
To vandal hordes for rapine given,
Whose flames did light the welkin dome,
And shamed the genial glow of Heaven 1
Go ! float over yon Bastlie’s towers
Where laie the despot hade thee wave,
And as the night of freedom lowers
Henceforth be standa- d of the slave.
Behold I the young morn streaks the sky;
The old stars deck the welkin dome;
See Faction’s clouds how swift they fly I
While Freedom seeks her ancient home ;
She flings her banner o’er the lea;
It greets each sun-lit hill ar.d dale,
Salutes the sky, the earth, the sea,
And floats in beauty on the gale ;
Its azure folds how bright they gleam I
Since all its hues were born in Heaven—
Like lingering mi mories of a dream,
Or weird forms in Summer’s even ;
Still miscreants claim its magic sway
In vapid boastings, deep and loud,
While Freedom’s self they scourge away
To die within her bloody shroud.
New York, April, 1868. P. C. W.
A Plea for Eggs-
[These are the days for “pleas” of all kinds.—
“ Pleas” for women’s rights; “pleas” for the poor,
the young and the tempted; but the annexed “ plea ”
s something out of the order of “ common pleas
Be gentle to the new-laid egg,
For eggs are : rittle things ;
They cannot fly until they’re hatched,
And have a pair of wings.
If once you break the tender shell,
The wro ig you can’t redress;
The yolk and white will all run out,
And make a dreadful “ mess.”
’Tis but a little while at best
That hens have power to lay;
To-morrow eggs may addled be,
_ w . ere ( l lji te fresh to day.
Oh touch be light
That takes them from the keg ;
There is no hand whose cunning skill
Can mend a broken egg!
J! with at “n<Jer touch,
For, till the egg !s biled,
Who knows but that, unwittingly
It may be smashed and spiled ? ’
The summer breeze that ’gainst it blows
Ought to be stilled and hushed • ’
For eggs, like youthful purity, ’
Are awful when they’re squashed.
Information Wanted—Of Mr. John or P.o
bert Kinney, who were born in St. John’s New
Foundland, he years 1804 and 1808, the sous
of Rob. : Catherine Kinney ; they left
with their lather for Halifax, N. 8.; Robert
went to Boston and John to New York ; if liv
ing, they will hear of something to tbeir’advan
tage by addressing Mrs. Krowl, 60 Gansevoortt
street, New York.
(From th" New Orleans Crescent.
Abandonment of the Gulf States by the
Whites.
NUMERICAL PREDOMINANCE OF NEGROES IN
THE BODY POLITIC INTOLERABLE.
* Some of the newspapers of Virginia ap
pear to anticipate a considerable addition
to the white population of that State by
migration from Southern sources. They
refer especially to a tendency in this direc
tion on the part of South Carolinians, who
are anxious to put themselves beyond the
sweep of the dark, portentous shadow of
impending negro supremacy. Under this
impulse, a number of new settlers, it is said,
have already arrived from South Carolina,
and a great many more would come were
it not so difficult to sell the lands which
they abandon in the one State and to buy
lands on which to make their homes in the
other. In order to abate the last of these
difficulties, it is proposed that landed pro
prietors in Virginia unite in the offer of
liberal aud inducing terms to this class of
immigrants.
This migratory movement is as abnormal
as it is melancholy; and, though it may
portend still deeper disaster for South Caro
lina, it is not surprising. Let us hope,
however, that it will prove to be only tem
porary, and that this dejected and unhappy
State is destined yet to experience a situa
tion which will invite immigration, instead
of repelling its own population. Mean
while, a few salient facts, political and sta
tistical, afford a ready explanation of the
movement. There is no other Southern
State except South Carolina, unless Flori
da be one, in which the numerical predomi
nance of the negroes is great and decided.
There are four hundred thousand of this
population in South Carolina against three
hundred thousand whites. Politically,
this disproportion is made much greater by
disfranchisement under the reconstruction
law, and by the frauds of Radical registra
tion ; the registered white voters of the
State being only about forty thousand,
whereas, its registered negro voters are up
wards of eighty thousand. Those whites
who are prone to emigration by reason of
these facts are doubtful of the success of a
struggle against such numerical odds. It
is not the mere game for political ascend
ency which they are prepared to throw up
in despair. The carpet-bag Radicals have
no imprescriptible charter to colored voters
in South Carolina any more than in Vir
ginia or Louisiana. The political status of
the negro once out of the question, it is by
no means improbable that the policy of
Wade Hampton aud other South Carolina
Conservatives, based on the recognition of
identity of interests, will at length prevail,
and that the majority of the colored voters I
and the majority of the white voters will
work harmoniously together, and form the
preponderant political powers in the State. ,
But all this is involved in a problem of the
future. In the interval, negro supremacy, |
organized by carpet-bag Radicalism, looms ! i
up as a baleful certainty, disturbing socie- I j
ty, paralyzing industry, depreciating pro- (
petty, closing every avenue and suppress- ,
ing every element of hopeful prosperous ac- j
tivity. Hence this impulse of emigration. <
It is significant that the emigrants in this ,
case do not seek home in foreign countries, I ]
in the West, or in the far North ; but that ,
they turn toward Virginia, in a somewhat j
higher latitude, indeed, but where they find |
a sympathetic public opinion, a climate and .
a soil not much different from their own, ,
and social elements, including a considera
ble colored ingredient, such as they leave I
behind them. They are not repelled by the
negro population of Virginia, because they ,
have no fear of its predominance there, nu- ,
merical, social, and otherwise. This a very
suggestive fact.
— I »
[From the New York World.
Editors and Offices.
A clerk of any ordinary court, from the
lowest county court to the Supreme Court
of the United States, who should argue in
any newspaper the cases on trial would not
be allowed to retain his office a single day
thereafter. If there can be any degree of
flagrancy in such an action, surely the
most flagrant outrage upon all propriety
and all decency is the Clerk of the High
Court of Impeachment in daily giving dur
ing the trial of the President to such as
read his two papers his arguments for the
conviction of the accused and his reasons
why Senators should coincide with these
arguments. The question admits of no de
bate. It has but ope side, which fact no
amount of ingenious arguing can disprove.
Shame enough it were that this editor and
clerk should commit the outrage; to de
fend it. is even a greater shame. For, be it
remembered, the articles which he has
printed, and of which complaint is made,
were not editorials purporting to express
the opinions of the two papers in the
anonymous style of American journalism,
but letters signed with his nom de plume,
which is familiar to such of the public as
may be familiar with the said papers. But
Forney is both indecent and a defender of
indecency. He says ;
We have newspapers of all soits, and
amongst the most prominent of them those
which are devoted to the advocacy of political
principles. Are we to be told that the editors
and proprietors of this influential class of news
papers are to be forever excluded from public
office ? that no editor may be clerk of the
House of Delegates or secretary of a State Sen
ate, or of the United States Senate, without
abandoning his business ? that, in fact, the
prominent position a man has attained as a
publicist debars him from the reward which
men in other professions claim ? This would
make a person worthy of high station in the
inverse ratio to his Influence ; and he who is
least able to affect or control public opinion
would be the most fortunate.
If all editors held such notions as these,
what would become of journalism ? Those
who have attained to the highest distinc
tion in this profession have been neither
office holders nor office seekers.
There can hardly be a question that the
profession of journalism furnishes ample
scope for the exercise of all the powers that
men are ordinarily endowed with. Now
and then a rare genius is vouchsafed to hu
manity, who can be at one and the strne
time a colonel, the clerk of the United States
Senate, and the editor of two papers, both
daily. Fortunately for the good name of
journalism, such instances are very rare.
“ The business of publishing a daily news
paper as journalism is styled in the ar
ticle quoted from—has become as truly a
, profession as the law, or medicine, or the
ology. Moreover, it furnishes its own re-
AUJUofA, GA., WEDNESDAY MOKNING, MAY 27, 1868.
| wards. Nor are they stlch as are specified
j in the above excerpt. Superiority in the
conduct of a public journal is not measured
by the success of its editor in obtaining pub
lic offices. As well apply the standard to
1 the three other professions. Like them, it
is an organism of itself, has its own stand
ards of excellence and its own rewards.
With very rare exceptions, the editor who
seeks or accepts an office t hereby confesses
his incapacity to be an editor.
The Artful Dodger.
A GLANCE AT THE CHICAGO PLATFORM.
“ Mack ” makes the following disclo
sures about the Radical trimmers who are
to manipulate the Chicago Convention. He
says:
As to the platform likely to be adopted
at Chicago, I can say this much: that I
have seen a draft of what I was assured had
received General Grant’s approval, and was
certain to be the platform of the conven
tion. It was in the hands of a gentleman
whom I know to be an intimate friend of
Grant, and whom I know also to have come
to Washington from the West and been re
peatedly closeted with Grant while here,
for the express purpose of ascertaining the
General’s views of this subject. It may in
terest the “ earnest ” wing of the Republi
can party to know that the person to whom
I refer was a Democrat throughout the
war, and has never voted a Republican
ticket, or even what was culled, during the
war, a “ Union ” ticket, in his life. I met
him not long since returning from General
Grant’s house. He had talked about the
political prospects, and especially about
the platform to be adopted at Chicago.
He produced from his pocket a closely
written page of foolscap, which he said was
“ Grant’s platform,” and added that Grant
was in a condition to dictate to the party,
and not the party to him, and that he
would run upon no other platform than the
one he then allowed me to read. I read it
over from first to last. My friend asked me
how I thought it would suit the convention.
I told him it was remarkable chiefly for the
skill with which it evaded the great issues
of the campaign—reconstruction, negro
suffrage, equal taxation and the mode of
paying the national debt. From first to
last there was not a line in favor of the
Congressional policy of reconstruction; not
a single indorsement of the Fortieth Con
gress, or any of its measures; and no hint
as to a financial policy. The whereas was
i twice as long as the resolved. There were
some glittering words about the late war
for the Union, a vague hint at equal rights,
without any special application, and a giit- i
tering generality in favor of maintaining ]
the public credit. It meant every thing or i
nothing, just as you liked to it.
I could see nothing in it that the Demo
cratic Convention might r.ot adopt in July, ,
without a dissenting vote, and, at the same ;
time, there was nothing that the strongest ,
Republicans could object to as squinting
toward Conservatism. It reminded me of ,
the tariff plank of the Polk platform—in ,
which the Democracy resolved themselves ;
in favor of a “judicious tariff.” In South j
Carolina this was declared to mean free
trade, or the next thing to it—revenue tariff. 1
In Pennsylvania, where the iron manufac- ,
turers were greedy and avaricious, it was
translated into a pledge for a tariff* of one ]
hundred per cent. You paid your money
and you took your choice. On reading the ,
platform carefully, I assured my friend that ;
I did not believe it would suit the convert- (
tion—to which he responded by repeating
the assertion that Grant must be nominated .
on his own terms, or not at all. “ There’s
enough in that,” said he, “to suit any rea- ;
sonable man. Those who don’t like it may :
travel further and fare worse. For every :
Radical who bolts the nomination because
it is too Conservative, we’ll get ten Demo
crats to join us.”
He wouldn’t listen to any suggestion,
such as that the Fortieth Congress would
have to be indorsed in all its acts, including
impeachment, reconstruction, and the leg- •
islation in regard to the Supreme Court;
or that something would have to be said as ’
to how the national debt must be paid. He
insisted, on the latter pointy that the mere
declaration in favor of maintaining the pub- 1
lie credit would successfully bridge the 1
chasm between the greenbackers of the '
West and the yellowbackers of the East.
Strange to say, this meek and lowly plat
form meets the indorsement, real or feigned,
of a great many of the most violent Radi
cals in the Senate anti House ; and though ,
there may be some grumblings and conse
quent secession because of it at Chicago,
still there is little doubt that it will be
adopted at Chicago. Many of the most
rampant impeachers are willing to nomi
nate General Grant without a platform, hav
ing unbounded confidence, as they say, in
his firm Republicanism. When they are
asked to point to an evidence of that'** Re
publicanism ” they refer to his war record,
forgetting that by the same standard Gen
eral Sherman, General Hancock and Gen
eral Frank Blair are equally firm Republi
cans.
The mystery of the matter is why men
who are so liberal toward Grant as to take
him on trust, should be so rigid with John
son as to impeach him for differing from
them in the construction of a law which,
like most laws passed now-a-days, is ca
pable of half a dozen constructions. For
that, after all, is Mr. Johnson’s offense—
Congress passed a law so loosely worded
that, after a mouth’s argument by the
ablest of counsel, it is still an open ques
tion what it means. Mr. Sherman will
undoubtedly vote to impeach the President
for construing it to mean what he, himself,
.as its special champion in the Senate, said
it meant; just as Mr. Schenck, who was its
champion in the House, has already voted
to impeach him for construing it to mean
what he told the'House it meant. It is a
question of construction, and not of viola
tion of law, that is involved in the im
peachment.
The whole matter turns upon whether
Stanton’s case did or did not come under
the operation of the tenure-of-office law.
At the Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph,
in Southampton, the priest, the Rev. Father
Mount, announced to his congregation, during
Divine service on Sunday morning, the 26th,
that a beloved son of her Majesty had been
treacherously shot at, and he hoped that his
congregation would ofler up their prayers to
the Throne of Mercy that the Queen may be
sustained and consoled in her great affliction,
and the whole congregation rose spontaneously
and chanted “ Domine salvum sac Reginam
nostraia Victoriam,” &c., with the utmost fer
vor.
I An Excellent Fertilizer.—One of the
> very best artificial fertilizers used upon our
I farm, for all the cereal grains and root
crops, we have prepared in the following
i manner: Take one barrel of pure, finely
ground bone, and mix with it a barrel of
good wood ashes; during the mixing add
gradually about three pailfuls' of water.
The heap may be made upon the floor of an
outbuilding, or upon the barn floor; and,
by the use of a hoe, the bone and ashes
must be thoroughly blended together. The
water added is just sufficient to liberate the
caustic alkalies, potash and soda, and these
re-act upon the gelatine of the bone, dis
solving the little atoms, forming a kind of
soap, and fitting it for plant aliment. In
this way the most valuable constituents of
bones can be immediately available, and the
addition of potash and soda aids in the for
mation of a fertilizer of inestimable value.
The water added is not sufficient to make a
mass, difficult to dry, but is enough to lib
erate the strong alkalies from the ashes.
This preparation is so cleanly, convenient,
and useful, every farmer should prepare as
much as possible for his crops during the
coining season. A gill placed in a hill of corn
will work wonders. It is excellent for garden
vegetables, and for all kinds of roots. It
must be used in small quantities, or in
about the same as the so-called superphos
phates. A barrel of this mixture is worth
two of any of the commercial fertilisers,
and the cost will be but about half as much.
It remains to be added, if the bone meal
and ashes are very dry, four pailfuls of
water may be required ; but care must be
exercised not to have it inconveniently
moist. It will be ready for use in a week
after it is made. Pure, raw, finely ground
bone and the best of ashes should be em
ployed.—Journal of Chemistry.
A Receipt Worth One Thousand Dol
lars.—“ Take one pound of sal soda and
half a pound of unslacked lime, put it into
a gallon of water and boil twenty minutes.
Let it stand till cool, then strain off, and
put it in a stone jug or jar. Soak your
clothes over night, or until they are
thoroughly wet through—then wring them
out and rub on plenty of soap, and in one
boiling of the clothes well covered with
water, add one teaspoonful of washing
fluid. Boil half an hour briskly—then wash
them thoroughly through one suds, and
rinse with water, and your clothes will
look better than the old way of washing
twice before boiling. This is an invalua
ble recipe, and I want every poor, tired wo
man to try it. I think with a patent wash
tub, to do the little rubbing, the washer
woman might take the last novel and com
pose herself on a lounge, and let the wash
ing do itself. The woman who can keep a
secret has known this a year or two, but
her husband told it while on an electioneer
ing tour.” So says the Ohio Cultivator.
A Conscientious Widow.—A poor man,
on his death-bed, made his will. He called
his wife to him, and told her of the pro
visions he had made:
“ I have left,” said he, ** my horse to my
parents; sell it and hand over the money
you receive. I leave yon my dog; take
good care of him, and he will serve you
faithfully.”
The wife promised to obey, and in due
time set out for the neighboring market,
with the horse and the dog.
“ How much do you want for your
horse ?” inquired a farmer.
“ I cannot sell the horse alone, but you
may have both at a reasonable rate. Give
me a hundred dollars for the dog and one
dollar for the horse.”
The farmer laughed, but as the terms
were low, he willingly accepted them.
Then the worthy woman gave the hus
band’s parents the dollar received for the
horse, and kept the hundred dollars for
herself.
Right shrewd widow, that.
Our Cavalry.—The gentlemen of the
—“ long swed, saddle, bridle.”
persuasion, upon a hand full of whom we
have been relying to keep the Plains clear
of hostile Indians, do not seem to have
made a very powerful impression upon “the
noble red man.” Not if we may draw de
ductions and inferences from a recent de
claration of that painted murderer and
consumer of Government whisky known
by the queer appellation of “ Spotted Tail.” (
Says this euphoniously named individual:
“ We don’t care for your cavalry, because
we can ride down within a hundred yards
of them, and then if we give our whoop
and shake our buffaloes, one half of your
men will fall oft* their horses, and the other :
hall will run away.”
Which is complimentary to the armed
gentry, who each cost us about $2,000 per
annum, thousands of whom are quartered 1
in peaceful States for the ourpose of carry
ing the next Presidential election for the
Radicals. — N. Y. Express.
German Element at the North.—
The Boston Pioneer, a leading German or
gan, hitherto Radical in politics, has a sig
nificant article on the recent election in
Michigan, which resulted in the rejection
of negro suffrage by more than forty thou
sand majority. It attributes that result
mainly to the wide-spread defection of the
powerful German element from the support
of the Radical party. The defection, it be
lieves, is becoming very general throughout
the Northwest, and is mainly owing to the
intolerant features lately engrafted on the
Republican platform. “ The Germans,”
says the Pioneer, “ feel the necessity of al
lying themselves with the Democratic par
ty in order to prepare themselves for the
impending struggle-' against the social,
spiritual aud industrial rights of the foreign
born population.” It adds: “Since our
adherence to the Republican party became
treason against ourselves, treason against
our fellow men, and treason against the
life of the republic, the bond between us
and the Republican party is severed. The
small minority of the Republican party
which remained true to its principles will
have to seek other associaties.
She Brought It.—An Irish girl in the em
ploy of one of our first families was sent by
tlic lady of the house one day last week to a
dry goods store, with instructions to bring
home a bed comforter. She returned, after a
short absence, with one of the clerks.
Colonel C. F. Hampton, brother of General
Wade Hampton, a large land owner in Oconee
county, Miss., has expressed a willingness,
with many other public spirited citizens, to do
oate lands to bona fide settlers—Germans an
ther foreign emigrants.
: London Times Compositors.—The last
• number of the Bookseller gives us an insight
into the admirable system which prevails in the
. composing rootins of the London Times. Com
positors evince the greatest desire to obtain
. employment in the great establishment in
Printing House Square. “ None but first rate
compositors, however, stand a chance of being
taken on, and the list of eligible candidates is
generally a prettj’ long one. Moreover, the
Tinies' system of raising competent composi
tors from apprentices keeps the supply nearly
equal to the demand. The Times is the only
London daily paper that employs apprentices,
and this employment is, indeed, the chief cause
of dispute between it and the Society, though
the apprentices are only engaged during the
day, principally upon advertisements. When
a compositor applies for employment upon the
Times, he is tested, in a room by himself, upon
a piece of Parliamentary debate “ copy,” which
is usually written in a not overlegible style, an
abbreviated long hand. If the applicant can
compose sixty lines of minion in a fairly work
manlike manner, without * doubles,’ 1 outs,’
wrong spelling, or a disproportionate number
of literal or clerical errors, within two hours,
his name is placed on a register of competent
hands, and he may expect to be called in at the
first opportunity. Once engaged, the perma
nency of his post depends upon himself. No
applicant oyer thirty years of age is eligible,
and if he fail, upon trial, ’,o come up to the re
quired standard of efficiency, he is paid for his
sixty lines and dismissed, no one but the mana
ger and himself being acquainted with the fact
of hfs application, so that in no case can injury
arise to a Society man from asking for work op
the Times. In the printing office of the * lead
ing journal,’ a capital system prevails. Men
are encouraged in provident habits as soon as
they attach themselves to the pacer. Half a
crown in the pound is deducted from the earn
ings of each regular compositor, pressman,
machine man, and warehouse man, which sum
accumulates at interest during the whole period
of his employment, and is given up to him on
his retirement, aud on no account before. A
sick fund has been founded by the men, to
which nearly every one subscribes ; and a sur
geon is permanently engaged on the staff, and
is always in attendance or within easy call.
Refreshments of all kinds are obtainable on the
premises at nearly cost prices, and the club
principle is carried out in every department.
Thus, not only are the employees eared for
during the hours of their working life, but none
can leave the Times, after any number of vears’
service, without possessing that penny fn the
purse which we are told is the best friend at
court. Could not other large printing offices
be conducted on like principles and with equal
benefit to masters and men ?”
I
The Monoply of Life—The general char
acter of life is that of monotony. Whether we
regard the life of man, or the life of beasts, we
are struck by the same remarkable fact, that
life, to all outward appearance, is a monoto
nous succession of scenes and movements —
all but incidental. We wonder how the interest
is kept up. But. we never tire of going to bed
at night, and we are very sorry when we tire ol
getting up in the morning. We never weary,
except with regret, of breakfasting, dining and
supping ; and yet these actions are repeated
incessantly three hundred and sixty-five times
in the year, with renewed excitement on every
succeeding occasion. We take off our clothes
once every day. We do this at nearly the same
hour, in daily succession ; and when health is
good, the pleasure derived from so doing is not
marred by the repetition of the act; for the
ebbing and the flowing of our bodily sensa
tions prepare us, without any effort on our
part, for all the vicissitudes of our existence.
When hungry, food is agreeable; when weary,
sleep or rest is a treat; when cold, the pleasure
derived from a cheerful fireside is delicious.
The excitement is kept up by contrasts; and
we purchase the enjoyment of one feeling by
encouraging the reverse. With health, 'and
youth, aud prosperity, we should never be
weary. It is age, and weakness, and poverty
that prepares us for death ; and even that comes
easy upon most men, at least, like a sleep, and
the heaviness of the heart gives even the last
sleep a welcome.
Cold Weather Caused by Holes in the 1
Sun.—The astronomers have brought forward >
an explanation of this protracted “ cold spell.” 1
They say that the sun’s disc is at present rid- ’
died with holes, in other words, with spots, !
one of which is of very considerable size. It 1
is a deep cavity in the phostosphere, and so 1
wide that the whole terrestrial globe would 1
find room in it without touching the edges.— J
There is another spot which, though much 1
smaller, still has one of its diameters as large 1
as that of our earth. Herschel and Arago, j
having conceived the idea of comparing the i
annual price of corn to the number of solar '•
spots observed each year, found, ou compar- J
ing a series of twenty-five results, that the 1
greater number of spots the higher was the '
cost of breadstufls. This shows that these phe- *
nomena may reduce the heat of the sun con- 1
siderably. f
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A Male “ Modiste.”—The Allentown, (Ra.) i
Democrat of late date says : Many of our ladies <
will remember being called upon at their resi- <
deuces, last fall, by a lady agent going around’ i
and selling ladies’ corsets, and fitting them at a s
remarkably low price. Recently, in an interior f
town in this State, the very same woman, by t
the cheapness of her stock, aud a decided and i
unwarranted partiality shown a beautiful lady t
customer, aroused suspicion, and, on the lady t
being arrested, she was found to be a young t
man in disguise—fitting and selling just for the >
fun of the thing. He says he has uassed through ]
Easton, Ailentow’n, Reading, Pottsville, and j
many other towns, fitting corsets to several
thousand young ladies. The Columbia (Pa.)
Herald says the same party has been fitting the ,
ladies of that town. And, later, he appeared in j
Cairo, 111., and came near being fitted with a <
coat of tar and feathers. Let the ladies beware ;
of the corset-fitter in disguise.
We are called upon bj’ the Citizen to explain 1
how it is that the income tax is uneoustitu- ,
tional, so that it must be set aside whenever
the issue is properly presented to the Supreme ‘
Court. We will try to satisfy our contem
porary. The constitution provides that all '
direct taxes shall be levied upon States iu pro- '
portion to their population. Congress has no
power to levy any direct tax upon individual
citizens. It must impose such taxes upon the
States, and upon them only. The income tax
is a direct tax. It is levied not upon the States,
bat upon individuals. Therefore it is uncon
stitutional, and cannot rightfully be collected
of auy man.— N. Y. Sun.
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A story is told by Congressman Chandler, of
New York, which shows that the great Eng
lish novelist, now on a visit at Washington, is
taking notes. A gentleman on horseback pass
ed Mr. Trollope, and, by accident, the horse
bespattered the Englishman with mud. The
gentleman reined up aud apologized. “No
matter, sir,” said Trollope ; “ but I would like
to inquire if your horse has a name, and if not
I would name him. “ Certainly,” responded
the gentleman, " you can name him.” “ Then,
sir,” said Trollope, “ I name him Donnely.”—
No explanation was needed. The novelist had
evidently been an attendant upon the late ses
sions of the House of Representatives.
What is the difference between editors
and matrimonial experience? In the former
the devil cries for “copy.” In the latter the
“copy cries like the devil.”
VOI. 27. NO. 22
'1 he Death of Lord Brougham.
The death of Lord Brougham, the veteran
English statesman, is announced in our cable
dispatches. We give below asketch of his life,
as published in the Intelligencer in April, 1867:
Os that veteran anomaly in the House of
Lords, now completing his eighty.ninth . year,
tall, gaunt, bizarre, graceless, rough in person,
rude in speech, awkward in manner, possessing
neither the address of society, nor the dignity
of station, nor the gravity of years, and yet
who has achieved more brilliant success and
gained higher honors than any member of the
British forum the last two hundred years, it is
next to impossible to say anything fitly and
wise. Henry, Lord Brougham, was born
in Edinburgh, in September, 1778. In early
life he was the companion Jeffrey, Murray,
Scott, and Wilson, and one of the “ founders
of the Edinburgh Review. When that work
had been published five years he wrote to Mr.
Constable for a thousand pounds, promising
to repay it by writing, in making which good
he actually w rote all excepting two articles in
one of the numbers of Volume XVII. Asa
lawyer he has managed more important cases
than all the rest of the bar. He was the leading
counsel for Lady Elizabeth Ktr, when she
claimed the dukedom of Roxburgh; of the
English merchants who resisted the Orders
in Council; of Queen Caroline, when, in 1820,
she sued for her right in the British crown ;
of Ambrose Williams, when the Church
brought against him an action of libel for an
article on the refusal to toll the bells on the
death of the Queen ; and of the Dorchester labor
ers, when they resisted the act of transporta
tion. He has been fifty-seven years in Parlia
ment. He acted on the slavery question with
Clarkson, Wilberforce, and Grenville Sharp.
He opposed the dragooning policy pursued by
ministers towards the thousands ol hungry men
aud women who protested against the corn
laws ; he has attacked the hierarchy with the bit
terest irony and most cutting gibes, and has
fearlessly pleaded the cause of freedom in the
cases of Smith, of Demerara, the Catholics of
Ireland and the victims of the Holy Alliance. —
His power of invective has never been equalled.
He accused Canning “ot the most monstrous
truckling for office that the whole history of
political tergiversation could present,” and
while indignantly alluding to the Duke of Wel
lington’s declaration against reform, he ex
claimed, pointing to Sir Robert Peel, “ Him
we scorn not —it is you we scorn—you, his
mean, base, fawning parasite.” His history is
the history of law, government, literature,
science, moralsand reform in Great Britain the
last half century. His activity hardly seems
moderated by age. On every question of in
terest he still addresses the lords, and. though
his voice has the melancholy crack of age, his
reasoning is as cogent as in other days. Du
ring the vacations of Parliament he resides at
his chateau in Cannes, in the South of France,
uuvisited by troops of friends, for he is pre
eminently unsocial, but engaged as earnestly in
study as sixty years ago.
In the year 1860, at some time between the
hours of twelve and four of almost any day du
ring the session of Parliament; there might
have been seen, by one who patiently watched,
walking through the Westminster Hall, where-
William Rufus held his first court in 1099,
whose timber framed roof is the finest existing
example in the world of scientific construction
iu carpentry, and which for more than seven
centuries has been the hall ot justice for all
England, eight men, each past threescore years
and ten, aud each notable as having been at
some former time, in his way, the first man in
the United Kingdom. Os those, Brougham
and St. Leonard alone survive. Lyndhurst,
Ellenborough, Landsdowne, Grey, Dundonald
and Campbell have passed away. Lord Pal
merston might be added to the number ; but
to the world, less even than to himself, with
his alacrity and optimism aud modern dress,
Lord Palmerston, even when past his sevent}’-
fifth year, did not seem an old man. They
were the giants in intellect whom the eigtheenth
century gave England, unsurpassed yet by the
men who have succeeded them.
Logan.—The British Museum, in London, to
whose magnificent literary treasures and costly
relics of antiquity General Logan has made
such a valuable contribution by the presentation
of his hnpeaebment speech, has a library of
575,000 printed volumes, 40,000 volumes of
manuscripts, and more than 200,000 pamphlets
illustrative of English and French history. A
great deal of its celebrity is due to its works of
art, the more recent contributions to which are
the celebrated Nimroud marbles, brought from
the ruins of Ninevah and Babylon by Mr.
Layard. It may be doubted, however, whether
there is any such curiosity in that Museum as
the undelivered aud bottled-up speech of Gen.
Logan, which will probably be kept in spirits,
in a glass case, near the human-headed bull
and other monsters in the Assyrian transept.
It is gratifying to know, in the event of danger
from fire or robbery, that the British Museum
will not have the only sample of this oratori
cal abortion, specimens having been sent to
the Prince of Wales, the Bishop of London,
and various literary characters, who, never hav
ing heard anything of Burke or Sheridan, will
be greatly astonished by their new acquisition,
no doubt. It is to be hoped, however, that
General Logan has taken the precaution of
stating, in a preface to his production, that he
is not the Indian chief of that name who took
so many scalps in 1774. The English have
sueh away of not knowing our celebrities,
and of confounding native Americans with
aborigines, that we shall not beat all surprised
to see it announced in some English paper that
this tomahawking impeachment speech is by
the same man who once said to Lord Dunmore :
“ Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on
his heel to save his life, Who is there to meurn
for Logan ? Not one.”— Baltimore Sun.
A Fenian Sticking to His Oath —The trial
of William Roy, of Eastport, Me., for conspir
ing with others to seize and destroy
schooner Two Friends, at the time of the Fenian
invasion in Passamaquody Bay, two years since,
is naw occupying the attention of the United
States Circuit Court at Portland. On Saturday
the District Attorney placed a witness named
Michael John Mooney on the stand, and asked
him the question whether he, with others, went
on board the Two Friends on the night of May
1,1866. Mooney refused to answer the ques
tion, saying that as a member of the Fenian or
ganization he was bound not to reveal anything
that would criminate others, and he wished to
keep his conscience clear. He was warned of
the penalty of refusing to answer the question,
unless it was for the reason that it would crimi
nate himself. Mooney declined to answer, not
on the ground that it would criminate himself,
but that it would criminate others, aud was
committed to jail for contempt of court.
Dress in Men and Women.—Women are
accused very unfairly of being over-extrava
gant. As a rule men are far more so, and the
account against them is principally due to
those who fritter everything they gain or sell
in numberless and nameless trifles. A woman
has a natural title to being well clad—to being
indeed clad so as to make the most of her ap
pearance. She has a taste for jewelry. To de
ny her ornaments is to stifle a genuine and
reasonable Instinct. But a man who parts with
a considerable portion of his income in order
to comply with every freak of his tailor, and
who really seems to have only used his brains
up-” the patterns of neckties, is one of the
most pitiable creatures alive. A gentleman
ought to be correctly and neatly dressed.
Salt Lake lately had a Leap Year ball, of which
one of Brigham Young’s daughters was floor
manager.