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Sljc tocckln Constitutionalist. BY STOCKTON & CO, OVR TERMS. The following are the rates of Subscription: Pailt, one year flO 00 Weekly, one year |3 00 That City. I know her walls are jasper, her palaces are fair, And to the sound of tiarpings the saints are singing there; I know that living waters flow under fruitful trees— But ah I to make my heaven it needeth more than these. Bead on the sacred story ; what more doth it unfold, Besides the pearly gateways and the streets of shining gold ? No temple hath that city, for none is needed there; No sun nor moon enlighteneth; can darkness, then, be fair t Ah I now, the glad revealing, the crowning joy of all; What need of other sunlight when God is all in all ? He fills the wide ethereafwith glory nil His own, He whom my soul adoreth, the Lamb amid the throne I O, heaven without my Saviour would be no heaven tp me ; Dark were the walls of jasper, rayless the crystal sea He gilds earth’s darkest valley with light and and peace; What, then, must be the radiance when night and death shall cease ? Speed on, O lagging moments ! Come birthday of the soul! How long the night appeareth : the h urs, how slow they roll! How sweet the welcome summons that greets the willing bride I . . 4 And when mine eyes behold Him I shall be satisfied. [From the Missouri Republican. Star-Spangled Banner for the New Nation. .Vo'.'tw ordo Seclown. O say, can you see, since the war's deadly blight, Our time-honored flag, without sadly regretting The fate of a people who sold their birthright; And behold now the sun of their liberty setting! And the tax we now pay (near two million per day) ■ Gives proof that fanatics and tyrants bear sway: While the star-spangled banner in mockery waves Over bond-holding tyra- ts and tax-ridden slaves. The brave soldiers who fought amid trial so sore, (As they thought) for the ol’ constitution and Union; And hoped they would see when their perils were o’er, The States all united in friendly communion; But now they behold from our Union of old, Many t tates stricken out and by niggers controlled ; While the star-spangled banner deridingly waves O’er a country destroyed by fanatics and knaves. O what would our sires (who for liberty bled) Think to eee their homes sunk in such vile degra dation ? The South ruled with bayonets, powder and lead, And the North under bends ot most galling taxa tion ? Could they rest in their graves while their children are slaves, To these shoulder-strapped tyrants and bond-holding knaves, While rhe star-spangled banner doth tauntingly wave ! O’er these war-blighted realms of Liberty’s grave. The Radicals say they wi;l force the States all To accept manhood suffrage and miscegenation ! j Porwitlroot »t ’Uy know that tSetr party must fail, I Ac J do't. /o hope oftheir mongrrt new nation- And they ki.ow if they can’t get old Useless 8. Grant | To be their dictator, their schemes must avaunt. . And the etc. -pa-tg ed banner in truth may yet wave ■ O’er the land of the free and the home of th’e brave. — - Deep-Sea Soundings- Mariner whu of t’ e dc- p i This of the deep: Twilight is there,and solemn, changeless calm; Beauty is there, and tender, healing balm— Balm with no root in earth, or air. or sea: Poised by the finger ot God, it floateth free, And, as it treadeth the waves, th ■ sound doth rise, ■ Hither shall come no further sacrifice; Never again the anguished <•! tch at life, Never again great Love and Death in strife; He who hath suffered all need fear no more, Quiet his portion now, fur evermore. Mariner, what of the deep ? This of the deep : Solitude dwells not there, though silence reign; Mighty the brotherhood of loss and pain; There is communion past the need of speech, There is a love no words of love can reach; Heavy the waves that superincumbent press ; But as we labor here with constant stress, Hand doth hold out to hand not help alone, But the deep bliss of being fully known. There are no kindred like the kin of sorrow, There is no hope like theirs who fear no morrow. Mariner, w' at of the deep ? This is of the deep : Though we have traveled past the liae of day, Glory of night doth light us on our way, Rad.ance that comes we know not how nor whence, Rainbows without the rain, pass duller sense. Music of hidden reefs and waves long past, Thunderous organ tones from far-off blast, Harmony, victrix, throned in state sublime, Couched" on the wrecks begemmed with the pearls of time; Never a wreck but brings some beauty here; Down where the waves are stilled the sea slfnes clear; Deeper than life the plan of life doth lie. He who knows all fears naught. Great Death shall die. A Sewing Machine. One of the kind that a man can lore, I’hat wears a shawl and soft kid glove ; Has the merriest eye, and the daintiest foot, And sports the charming gaiter boot; Anda bonnet with feathers, ribbons and loops, And an indefinite number of hoops. One ‘bat can dance, and pos-ibly flirt, And make a pudding as well as a shirt; One that can sing without dropping a stitch, And play the housewife, lady or witch; Ready to give us sagest advice, And do up our collars and things so nice. We like that sort that can laugh and talk, And take our arm for an evening’s walk ; That do whatever the owners may choose, With the slightest possible turn of the screws, ’Tie the cleverest thing that ever was seen, Our wonderful family sewing machine. The Miss. We stood beneath the chandelier— Ah me ! her tender eyes I “ Good night,” I whispered, bending near— Ah me I her low replies. The gaslight flickered overhead— Ah me ! her tempting pout! “ Fray turn it down,” she archly said; Ah me! I turned it out I There’s Providence in many slips— Ah me ! her cheek was fair, Oft Love is born of wedded lips— Ah me ! ’twas then and there. We stood within the lighted hall— Ah me I her chiding eyes 1 1 stooped to whisper, “ Pardon all;” Ab me : her rnute replies. Davenport, the Tragedian, in the Pul pit.— A passenger, recently arrived at New York by one of the California steamers, tells the following story. The affair happened in San Francisco: “On Sunday evening I noticed a most im pressive and novel ceremony in the saloon. It had previously been announced that divine ser vices would be held at eight o’clock, and hun dreds of persons assembled there at the hour named. Who should walk into the pulpit but Mr. E. L. Davenport, the celebrated tragedian. He read a chapter from the Bible, and then made the sweetest prayer I ever heard. If all preachers would pray as fervently as he did, the effect would be much better, to say the least.” Mass Meeting of Workingmen at Cooper Institute. SPEECH OF GEN. CARY, OF OHIO. A tremendous mass meeting of working men was held at Cooper Institute, New York, on Friday, July 3d. General Cary, of Ohio, and Senator Henderson were the principal speakers. We give below a con densed report of the speech of Gen. ('ary, as given in a dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer: GEN. CARY’S SPEECH. The question is sometimes asked, half in derision and half in earnest, who are these lyorkingmen who are claiming to be recog nized as a power in the nation. This ques tion will be answered according to the stand-point occupied by the person to whom it is addressed. Senator Hammond assert ed that they were the mud-sills of society, and that you might as well attempt to buiid a house in the air without a founda tion as to construct society with thesp mud-sills. Their chief requisites, according to the same authority, are vigor, docility and fidelity. You must have this or you can not have that other class which leads civili zation, progress and refinement. If I were to attempt an answer to the inquiry I i would say that they are God’s nobility, who obey the divine decree, and eat their bread in the sweat of their own faces. Those who produce all the wealth of the nation, and, as a class, have nothing to show for it. They sow while others reap. They are those who fought the battles of the late war, saved the Republic from de struction, made all the sacrifices, and are now toiling in the fields and ivorkshops to pay the debt incurred by the war. They are not those who staid at home, making money out of their country's misfortunes, and who are now living upon exorbitant rates of interest, exacted from the toiling millions. The workingmen live on the coarsest fare, while shoddy contractors, bondholders and bankers are appropriating the products of their toil upon their own terms. The workingmen are the producers’ 1 of all the wealth, while capitalists appro priate it with an insolent and merciless power. The labor reform movement is a solemn protest against this outrage. According to the Hammond theory, capital should own labor; according to ours, capital should be the servant, and not the master of labor.— By means of legislation, the producer of wealth eats the crumbs, gnaws the bones, and wears the cast-off garments of capital. The old law, “If a man does not work neither shall he eat,” has been reversed or superseded by another, viz : “ He who does not work shall have everything to eat, while the worker shall often go s'npperle®-' to bed.” • We insist that that society’ needs recon- I struction that is wrong side up. The work ing men assert that they are deprived of, their just share of their joint earnings of i capital and labor. That by means of un- : just legislation, by’ the establishment Os ’ land monopolies and moneyed monopolies by the granting of exclusive privileges, by ■ banking systems, by unequal taxation, they are robbed and oppressed. Inspired by a resolute purpose, they are resolved by- the establishment of labor unions, by co-opera tion, by doing their own voting, and through the political parties, or in spite of them, to correct the abuses ot which they’ complain. They are not, as falsely charged, agrari ans, demanding an equal distribution of property, nor any’ distribution except such as providence and improvidence, industry and idleness, virtue and vice produce. They are no repudiators, but believe in paying | the debts incurred by the war to the utter -1 most farthing, according to the letter and I spirit of the laws, under which they were j created. They were ready to offer their , lives to preserve the integrity of the Union, ' and they will cheerfully contribute their full share to preserve its honor. ■They know their rightsand will maintain them. They have fought the battles of their country, and they will, without a murmur, pay their portion of its pecuniary obligations. They insist, and will demand, that those who grew’ rich without making any sacrifices shall contribute to the liqui dation of the war debt. They will not heed the insolent demand of the bondholder that he shall not only be untaxed, but paid in a better currency than he furnished to the soldier, who, in the camp, in the hospital, on the march, in the prison, and on the battle field, suffered, and struggled, and bled, and died to save the Republic. What the widows and orphans of our fallen heroes receive for their support, what the sons of toil take for their daily wages, the bondholder shall receive for his profit able advances to the Government. The capitalists made no sacrifices during the war; they loaned their money to the Gov ernment at exorbitant rates of interest, and now have the effrontery to claim twice as much as they advanced. T.ieir apologists and confederates of the press, and their attorneys in official position, denounce us as repudiators, and say that we should have our ears nailed to the pillory because we assert that the money of the people should pay the debts of the people. When we consent that . the soldier's widow shall receive over the Government counter one kind of money, and the bond holder another ; when we pay to her a dol lar that will buy a bushel of potatoes, and pay to him a dollar that will buy a bushel and a half; when we consent that the la boring man shall pay one dollor and a half of his earnings to pay one dollar to the bondholder —when we do this, our ears ought to be nailed to the pillory, and there is no indignity to which we ought not be subjected. Politicians make their declarations of principles, and call it a platform. The workingmen have a platform. It is com posed of but few planks, but they are made of sound material, and are broad enough ■ and strong enough to hold the millions who are rallying upon them. The declara tion made by the Labor Congress at Chica go, August, 1867, is a proclamation of emancipation to labor, and sooner or later will prevail. One of our fundamental principles is that , the public domain is the common property of all the people, and that not another acre shall be given to any corporation or grant ed to any speculators under any pretext, but that the public lands shall be with drawn from the market, and granted at a nominal price, in small quantities,to actual settlers, both native and foreign born. AUGUSTA, GA,, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 22, 1868, Another planjc is, that we shall have a national currency, created by the sovereign power, good for all purposes, as a legal re presentative of the value of all property, and receivable in V a y ment for all debts, public and private. \ A third plank is, thst the burdens of tax ation shall be borne according to pecuniary ability. [Fr-’m the New York World, Bth. The German Ba becue in Honor of the Con vention. The grand metropolitan barbecue at Lion Park, near Eighth avenue and One Hundred and Tenth street, held yesterday afternoon and evening, in honor of the National De mocratic Convention, did not terminate quite so successfully as was expected, owing to the failure of most" of the dele gates in the convention to arrive. The committee of arrangements had chartered twelve special coaches to convey them to the barbecue, but the convention remaining in session till so late an hour, those who attended the festival went by their own conveyance. The barbecue was gotten up by the German Democracy of New York, and among those chiefly interested in it were the names of many of the wealthiest and most influential Germans of the city.— The preparations for the festival were most elaborate and extensive. The large car riage entrance to the park was beautifully arched with evergreens, and decorated with numerous flags, and other emblems. In the centre of the arch was a large shield, upon which was printed in plain capitals, “ Welcome, Defenders of the Constitution.” The decorations in the large belvidere were gotten up without regard to cost. The speaker’s stand was thickly canopied with American and German flags, and on either side stood the beautiful Temple of Liberty with a female figure in the centre, repre senting Columbia in the one and Germania in the other. In the opposite end of the hall stood a splendid marble bust of Wash ington, five feet high, on a pedestal of seven feet. The bust is about five times as large as life, and is claimed to be the best bust of Washington ever made. It was cut by Mr. F. Bauer, at a cost of SSOO, and was ob tained expressly for the purpose of having it on this occasion. Around the walls were hung life-size paintings of the Presi dential candidates whose names have been advanced in the National Convention, and the belvideres, the dining saloons, the pro menade, &c., were lighted in the evening by a thousand crystal lamps of stained glass. Every door, window, hall and pass age, every verandah, balustrade, arbor and alcove was profusely ornamented with flags and shields of every nation under the sun, and brightly illuminated at night by lan terns and glaring calcium lights. The cost of these decorations and the barbecue, pro-: per, falls little short of $15,000. The festi val took place in the- two large satoons, ■ and of course everything was barbecued.— I The pig was served up with tail and all | on; the fish was whole .as if it had swami from the water to the tureen ; the lobsters wore their claws, and the oysters had not their heads cut off. The champagne flowed at “ wholesale ” rate. In the evening no less than 10,000 or 12,000 persons had as sembled, and a meeting was organized in ] the belvidere. Mr. Charles E. Loew was j •lected President, and the assemblage was addressed by Hon. Richard O'Gorman, Andrew J. Rogers, of New York, Col. Watcher, Dr. Bartholne, of Brooklyn, Her man Schroeder, Col. Joachiman and C. E. Loew. After the speaking a pyrotechnical display took place outside. The music was furnished by an orchestra or sixty pieces, and a brass band of forty pieces. Important Letter from Mr. Ohase. The following letter from a distinguished statesman of Ohio, addressed to a gentle man in this city, was sent to Chief Justice Chase last week, says the New York World: June 25,1868. There is a growing disposition among the Democracy of the West to accept of Chief Justice Chase as their candidate. If cordially received by the party, his election will be certain, and it is the safest and best we can do. I see the Commercial doubts his consenting to leave the question of suffrage, without distinction of race, to the States, and considers it a departure from his long avowed principles. This Ido not per ceive. Chase is in favor of two things—the ■Const? ution of the United States, including the right of the States under it, and suffrage without distinction of race, and I think he has never said he would violate the first in order to secure the last, and it is not an in consistency or a departure from principle to refuse the attainment of an end, however desirable, by an assumption of ungranted powers. REPLY OP CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE. In returning the foregoing letter to the gentleman to whom it was addressed, the Chief Justice very clearly and tersely defines his position on the question of suffrage in relation to national politics as follows : July j, 1868. Please say to your friend that he is en tirely right as to my views of suffrage and State rights. What I desire for the Southern States is peace and prosperity, with all dis franchisements and disabilities removed and all rights restored to all citizens, and it is my opinion that these ends will be best secured by according suffrage to all citizens. But the practical disposition of the question of suffrage, as well as all other domestic questions, is for the people of the States themselves, not for outsiders. On this question I adhere to my old State rights doctrines. In the event of nomination and success I trust I should so act that neither the great party which makes the nomination, nor the great body of patriotic citizens whose co operation would ensure success, would have any cause to regret their action. It is an intense desire witli me to see the Demo cratic party meeting the questions of the day in the spirit of the day, and assuring to itself a long duration of ascendency. It can do so if it will. Foot-rot in sheep is generally caused by keeping them in lowormaishy ground in warm weather. Remedy.—The foot-rot must be carefully examined, and every por tion of horn that has separated from the parts beneath, thoroughly removed, and the sore lightly touched with the butyr (chloride) of antimony, applied by means of tow or cotton rolled round a flat bit of stick, and then dipped into the caustic.— Remove the sheep to high ground. [Stock Journal. Impeachment. THAD STEVENS’ NEW ARTICLES. The following are ths new and additional articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson, prepared by Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, and presented to the House, Tuesday.— Nation'll Intelligencer, Bth. Whereas a high court of impeachment has lately been in session to try Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors, and has ad journed without completing its judgment; and whereas it is proper that additional articles should be filed if the House deem it expedient: Therefore, Resolved, That a committee of be ap- pointed to prepare additional articles of im peachment, and report the same in sub stance as follows: Additional articles of impeachment ex hibited by the House of Representatives in the name of themselves and of all the peo ple of the United States against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, in maintenance and support of their impeach ment against him for high crimes and mis demeanors in office. FIRST ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. That the said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, did abuse the patron age of the Government, which by virtue- of his office had been entrusted to him, and did pervert it to improper and selfish purposes, inasmuch as he used i: to corrupt the peo ple of the United States, and to induce them to abandon and renounce the principles which they conscientiously held, and to adopt others which they did not approve, in order to promote the selfish purpose of the said Andrew Johnson. The President of the United States came into power and received his office because he professed to hold the principles of the Republican party, and zealously avowed his determination to carry them into effect. When he came into power he found the offices of the Govern ment, many thousand in number, filled with men professing the same Republican princi ples, and who had been appointed expressly to carry them into effect. When by a fatal accident he became the Chief Executive of the nation, he determined to seek an elec tion for the same office at the next Presi dential term. He foresaw that it would be necessary to renounce the principles of the Republican party, and to establish a new personal party especially devoted to him self; and he did not hesitate to apply to that object the profits of thousands of officers and of millions of revenue. He set delib erately about turning faithful officers out of their places because they would not re nounce their principles, and of appointing others to office because they pledged them selves to support him and his principles.— The removals and appointments were avowedly made for no cause of merit or dews;-fit, bn* 'V* 'ls-j purpose o f adillng.re cruits to his new party. SECOND ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. .1 That the said Andrew Johnson, being the Chief Executive of the United States, and being assigned by law to the duty to take care that the laws shall be faithfully exe cuted, having no judicial or legislative powers confided to him by the Constitu tion, and all his duties being strictly execu ive, did, on the 29th day of May, 1865, and before and after that time, usurp to himself the power of another branch of the Govern ment, and did do acts and exercise func tions which belonged to the legislative branch alone; and in pursuance of such claim, having at the time the army and navy of the United States at his command, did establish and erect into a separate gov ernment that portion of the United States from the so-called Confederate States of America, and which was lately embraced within the boundaries of the State of North Carolina; and did, by his own usurped au thority, create a State and form of govern ment hitherto unknown to the United States, and did create an office hitherto un known to our Constitution, and appointed thereto an officer, whom he called Pro visional Governor, and directed him how to construct and carry out said govern ment. He fixed, and by his own will de creed the qualifications of electors, and who should be eligible to office in the new gov ernment, which he by proclamation de clared was deprived of all civil government by the armed forces of the independent belligerents with whom we had been at war, and he appointed W. W. Holden to the of fice of Provisional Governor of North Caro lina, and directed him to administer the offices;of the newly created State. On the 13th of June, 1865, he usurped the same powers, and without any direction from Congress, to whom it belonged, erected into an independent State that part of the conquered territory formerly known as the State of Mississippi, and appointed Wm. L. Sharkey Provisional Governor thereof.— And on the 17th day of June, 1865, lie, in like manner, created a portion of said terri tory into what he called the State of Geor gia, and appointed James Johnson Pro visional Governor thereof. On or about the 17th, 21st and 30th of June, and the 13th of July, he, in like manner, created govern ments which he called the States of Texas, South Carolina and Florida ; and when af terwards Congress declared such govern ments and constitutions null and void, and prescribed other methods of governing said territory, and to enable it to enter the Union by consent of Congress, the Presi dent declared such laws null and void, and advised tlie people to resist their execution, and he has never aided in carrying into ef fect, but has resisted what are called the “ reconstruction laws.” THIRD ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. For that Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by his corrupt practices, did attempt to induce tne Senators elect from the State of Colorado to. perjure them selves upon the conditions of his signing the bill admitting Colorado into the Union as a State, and thereby admitting them as Senators of the United States. He did also pardon and restore the right of franchise to one hundred and ninety-three deserters who, during the war, deserted from the United States army, upon condition that they would vote for the Democratic party at the then immediately ensuing election, and they did thus vote and give to the De mocratic agent, Hon. Thomas B. Florence, the sum of one thousand dollars in cash. He appointed numerous persons to office who could not take the test oath, and did not take it, but were allowed to act and discharge tlie functions thereof in defiance of law. He ordered agricultural scrip to be issued to the State of North Carolina, which scrip was issued under the act of 1862 when North Carolina was in armed warfare against the Union. He restored without authority large tracts of forfeited property, enough, it is believed, to pay the national debt, which had been forfeited under the act of Congress approved July 17,1862. By reason of all which outrages this Government became impoverished, the people embarrassed, the rebel raiders al lowed to flourish, and the Constitution flagrantly violated. He sold pardons for money, and allowed it to be done through pardon-brokers. FOURTH ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. He did take from the Treasury of the United States large tracts of land and large amounts of money, sufficient, it is believed, to have paid our national debts, and which had been transferred to the United States by act of July 17,1862, as enemies’ property, to be applied’ to the expenses of the war and the debts of the United States. This was corruptly and unlawfully done, with out any authority of Congress.’ FIFTH ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. He did usurp the powers of the other branches of the Government, and exercise the legislative power in defiance of the Con stitution in creating, or attempting to create, new governments out of the terri tory conquered from the “ Confederate States of America,” so-called, and to govern them by his owp mere power, by form un known to the Constitution, without con sulting Congress, but defying her authority when they had spoken, and denying the constitutionality of the laws of Congress enacted to govern said conquered territory. Foreign Scientific Items. About twenty Gallo-Roman tombs have been discovered in a field, near Toulouse, France. Each one contained a body, which crumbled to dust on the admission of the air, and a monogram was found stamped on the bricks of which the tomb was built. The bodies w’ere placed on bricks placed on edge. An interesting' archaeological discovery has been made in a railway cutting at Point de Pierre, not far from Chalons-sur- Saone. At three feet below the surface of the ground a group of thirteen skeletons was found in a narrow space, and wonder fully preserved. They seem to be the bones of full-grown men, who had died in battle. One evidently had been decapitated. The skeleton of a woman has been discovered among the others. Between the jaws of one of the . dead was found an obulus, which the friend of the defunct had doubt less slipped in to enable the departed to pay his fare to Charon. Acoin,verj’ much de faced, but still seen to beag the effigy of the Emperor Gordian, was also picked up among these remains, which leads to the conclusion ■ that 1700 years have elapsed since they were Biere interred-. The French ’Academy of Sciences has re ceived a highly interesting paper ffioiu JI. Flammarion, on a • series of meteorological observations made during ten balloon ex cursions, some of which lasted from four teen to fifteen hours. They all took place under different atmospheric circumstances, by day as well as by night, early in the morning and late in tlie evening. The au thor had two balloons at his disposal; one belonging to the Emperor, and of a capaci ty of 21,600 cubic feet, and the oth er pertaining to JI. Godard, and mea suring 32,400 cubic feet. The latter gentle man was entrusted with the management of the ascent on all occasions. One of the results obtained by JI. Flammarion is most remarkable, and it may be stated thus: — “The humidity of the atmosphere increases from the surface of the soil to a certain altitude, when it attains its maximum; from this point upwards it decreases steadi ly. The zone of this great moisture varies in altitude according to the hour of the day, the time of the year and the state of the -weather.” It is very seldom found at a short distance from the earth, and then mainly at daybreak. Its lowest point was in one case observed to be at 150 metres (about 450 feet) from the ground; on an other occasion the distance was 1,100 metres, and these may for the present be considered the two extreme altitudes be tween which this zone may vary. M. Flam marion notices another curious fact, an extraordinary difference of temperature between the strata of the atmosphere that are in the shade and those exposed to the solar rays. For instance, on one occasion, at an altitude of 10,000 feet, the thermome ter, placed at the bottom of the car, and. therefore, in the shade, marked eight ge grees centigrade, while the reading of tiiat in the sun was twenty-three degrees, a difference of fifteen between two strata little more than five feet apart from each other. At a still greater elevation (12,650 feet) a few days later tlie variation between the two temperatures rose to twenty degrees centigrade, the feet of the aeronauts being benumbed with cold at nine and a half de grees below freezing point, while their faces and shoulders were comfortably warm at ten and a half above. This effect JI. Flammarion attributes to the diminution of moisture in the upper strata, whence'he concludes that the preservation of solar heat at the surface of the soil is owing to the aqueous vapor that envelopes it. Horace Greeley, struck dumb by Horatio Seymour’s scathing exposure of Radical misrule and extravagance, proposes to an swer the standard-bearer of the Democracy “ with a cowhide.” Horace judges Horatio by himself. For when Rusk, of Texas, an swered Horace Greeley “ with a cowhide,” on Pennsylvania avenue, Horace took his whipping for a conclusive argument, and held his peace forever after. Horace, you see, is in favor of “compromises a/terwar,” or in other words, of bullying your antag onist until he wallops you, and* then hum bly begging his pardon* Horatio Seymour believes in “ compromises Without war,” or in other iwords, in treating men like men, and settling disputes by manly forbearance and an equal sense of justice. [New York World. The timid old people who inhabit the Tribune are dreadfully scared by the nomi nation, which they think means “another civil war 1” It is lamentable to see such an exhibition of cowardice on the part of these half-witted grannies, and we hasten to calm these unnecessary fears. A war is impossible, for the fighting element is all on one side, and that isn’t and never was the Radical side.— World. "A crazy man in New York is trying to do without eating.” VOL, 27. NO. 30 Divorces and Domestic Morals. The New York JPirrW prints the material portions of a paper on “ Frequent Divorce in New England,” which appears in the American Quarterly Church Review for JulyJ The statistics are from recent registration reports in several of the New England States, and these facts and figures, taken in connection with the low grade of domestic morals, the general decay of public senti ment in respect to religious matters, the frightful spread of foeticide, and number of illegitimate births in that section of the country, are calculated, the writer in the Review thinks, “to fill one with consterna tion and dismay.” To these social evils is added the growing frequency of divorce. The World, in the course of its analysis, goes on to say : “ Prominent among the causes for these frequent divorces is the law, which is near ly identical in all the New England States, and which, while granting divorces for rea sons other than adultery, ignores all dis tinction between separation and absolute divorce, by permitting peisons divorced for any reason to marry again, thus violating what the Review writer quotes as the Divine command on the subject, and actually legal izing adultery and polygamy. Now, un questionably, marriage is, as the church considers it, an indissoluble bond, or it is, as the laws of New England and of other States view it, merely a contract between parties which may be dissolved as easily as it is made. The old theory that marriage is a Divinely-appointed sacrament is giving way in this country to the very general idea that individual sovereignty controls the matter, and that people may marry and unmarry themselves. It is assumed to be an affair that affects only those who are imme diately concerned though it reaches farther —to society generally, and certainly to the children of those who are married and are afterwards unmarried. But society, assist ed by State laws, is striding rapidly in this country towards a greater disregard of re lations which have heretofore been held, if not as sacred, at least as essential to the well being 'of individuals and communi ties.” . The alarmed writer in the Review pro poses certain remedies: “ the State law of every State should solemnize and dignify the estate of marriage by preventing all hasty, secret, illegal and irreponsible mar riages.” But this (the World tells us) — “Is very.much like proposing that the statute law should see that every child in the State is sent to Sunday School; and clergymen should refuse to marry divorced people to other persons, which weald only be throwing away ten dollars, or a larger fee, since the persons desiring to marry could go to another clergyman, to a justice of the peace, or could even marrj - them selves by a simple agreement in the pres- I ence of witnesses. “ The lamentable and fairly shocking i view of the whole subject is, that there is I actually no remedy for the evils growing out of ill-assorted marriages and easily obtained divorces—to society, to families, especially to the children of such broken families. These evils obtain most widely in a section which assumes to be the con i servatpr of the social and political morals of the whole country. Slavery and polyga my were pronounced by New England to be twin-relics of barbarism; and yet, in New England, the marriage tie is almost as little regarded as it ever was among the Southern blacks, while the simultaneous polygamy of Utah is nearly offset by succes sive polygamy which the divorce statutes of New England legalize.” Railroad Euchre.—Think of the staid and sober Boston Advertiser publishing the following directions for playing this new and popular game, and recommending it as a pleasant diversion for travelers: Railroad euchre is the as common euchre, with these few exceptions: The game is twenty-five points instead of five. This, modification is necessary on account of the rapidity with which the points can be cofffited. When a player, in ordering up the trump, assisting his partner, taking up the trump, or making a trump, chooses to “ go it alone,” he has the privilege of taking his partner’s best card, discarding his own worse card to make room for it. In return, his next opponent to the left has the privi lege of taking his partner’s best card in the same way, and playing alone in opposition. If the next opponent to the left “ passes” this privilege, then it goes to the opponent on the right hand, who can play alone against the first player. In either case, one side or the other must score four points, unless indeed the first player succeeds in making just three tricks and thus saves his euchre. If neither of the opponents chooses to play alone? then the game goes on as usual, but this does not often happen, since a player can frequently guard a single high trump by drawing his partner’s best card, and so block a low hand ; and in general the trumps held by partner’s are more ser viceable when they are all brought together in the same hand. In this game, the dealer can play alone, after his partner has called out that he will assist him. A player can refuse his partner’s best card when it turns out to be lower than the one he was about to discard, but he must still play alone. The trump turned up is reckoned as belong ing to the dealer’s hand until it is turned down, and may be passed over to his part ner as his best card. Bio Head on Houses.—Bleeding is the first thing to be done. The blood is very thick, almost black, and moves very slow*. Bleed three or four times at intervals of a week or ten days. Corrosive liniment may be applied by means of a small mop to each side of the head and jaw ; it must be kept in an earthen vessel. To remove his stiff ness, loosen his hide and regulate his d’- gestion. Give one tablespoonful of stramo nia seed (“ jimson weed,” as it is common ly called) in some meal or bran, every othf r day, until three or four doses have been ad ministered. It may then be omitted for two or three days. This medication should then be repeated so long as may be neces sary. Keep the horse in comfortable quar ters, and not exposed to cold or wet. [American Stock Journal. Rowed to ruin—the bankrupt oarsman?
