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HERETOFORE.
Fresh are the roses of to-day,
With hues that match the sunset's glow.
Hut sweeter, dearer far than they
Are flowers that withered long ago ;
Young flowers that graced a radiant shoro
Washed by the waves of Heretofore,
Take back this tome with gilded leaves
The work of one by woe untaught;
The soul of constancy that grieves
Within can find no room for thought ;
1 love nlonc to ponder o’er
The blotted scroll of Heretofore.
Names written on that record dim,
And stained with unavailing tears;
While airy visions round me swim,
liring back the.joys of other years:
And beams, outshining noontide, pour
Through the torn clouds of Heretofore.
Discordant to my mood of mind
IS music of the present hour,
For only in the past 1 find
A voice that hath the spell of power—.
A voice that Wakes to life once more
The buried forms of Heretofore.
I Ibve the home so glad of old,
Though damp and mouldy now its walls,
And converse sweet with phantom hold
And glide at midnight through its halls
For they are wanderers from the shoro
Of thy dim realms, oh, Heretofore !
Kind looks, as slowty they depart,
On me the wan procession cast,
For well they know that one poor heart
Keeps a green remembrance of the past-—
A heart that trembles to its core,
When sung the songs of Heretofore.
I lore old’ daks that feebly wave,
And weeds that hide a ruined hearth ;
Pale moss upon a sunken grave,
And every crumbling wreck of earth ;
For they are teachers of a lore
That lends a charm to Heretofore.
cast do"wtthoiit a paper.
/'Wliat! do without ft paper! No.
I’ve tried it to my sorrow :
i So, to subscribe.for one I’ll go
isur wan. umn to-morrow,
j Should lovers hang or drown tlicmsclves,
Or other foolish caper,
I never get to hear of it—
If 1 do not take the paper!
Why, there's my neighbor, Toby Scott,
lie always reads the news,
And, having news to talk about,
He never gets the “blues:”
While others yawn in ennui,
His mind is light as vapor,
The cause is plain to half an eye—
He always lakes the paper!
While neighbor Scott hears all the news,
Anti knows each current price,
And always minds the lrs and Q's,
lly taking good advice,
I cannot tell the price of grain.
Of poultry, coffee, taper,
Or any kind of merchandise—
Because 1 take no paper!
Though T have studies which require,
Much time and mental labor,
Yet 1 can spare a little time
As well as Scott, my neighbor:
Though time be precious, I can use
A longer midnight taper,
And thus find time to read the news—■
There I’ll take the paper!
IS RACE AN ACCIDENT?
We hear a great deal said by radicals
about the injustice of making “the acci
dental hue of a man’s complexion his
qualification for the exercise of political
power,”—and some who chatter on this
subject pronounce it absurd to do so—
that is, in plain English, to refuse suf
frage to the negro because of the complex
ion of his skin. This looseness of lan
guage is indicative of the looseness of
thought and of ideas of the people who
use it in connection with giving to the ig
norant, brain-dwarfed negro, equal politi
cal privileges with those which are the
legitimate property of the Caucasian white
man. We say looseness of language, be
cause mere complexion lias not excluded
men, in the southern States, Irom the
suffrage privilege at all. Moreover, the
hue of a negroes’ skin is in no way an ac
cident—but one of the immutable, deter
minate operations of Nature, by no means
the most marked of radical differences that
have set him apart, from the outset of hu
man history, as of entirely a different and
inferior order of the human genus to that
of the white. Indo-European, and his
offspring. Those who talk thus of the
disfranchising effects of color, forget that
it is blood, not color, that has settled this
question, in the southern states; and per
sons (juite as white as Senators Sumner
and Wilson, have, consequently, been ex
cluded from the jealously guarded, and
valued privileges of the white man, be
cause it was known that negro blood
mingled in their veins. And this blood
distinction can through all the laws just as
the Deity has asserted it, in the minutest
possible ways, down to a peculiar charac
teristic discoloration of the finger nails.
The black complexion in the Divine econ
omy, is but the exterior badge of an infe
rior, coarse, human organization, physical
and intellectual. To the African, of the
negro ty pe, yvas assigned—not accidental
ly. at all, but as a part of the All-yviso
order of the creation—a -black skin, of
coarse, thick texture, crisp woolly hair
surmounting a head and brain altogether
distinct, in all its characteristics, from
those of the yvhitc man. Differently
formed bones and muscles, arms and fin
ger-nails, legs and feet, as well as mental
parts, were given, also, to the negro from
those that the Almighty for His inscruta
ble ends, bestowed upon the white man in
so rich a measure. And those who prate
of the injustice of human society to the
negro, do it in sheer disregard of common
sense, if not common honesty of purpose.
Many are knaves who do so, some arc
blind, infatuated, one-idea enthusiasts, the
rest a mass of self sufficient, shallow pated,
ignorant men and women, ever ready to
concern themselves with the remote, rath
er than their own immediate social and
domestic duties—not to speak of abundant
evils just under their noses! Hut we fear
there is no hope for us, for relief from
these people, or from their perpetual agi
tation and din about negro suffrage. We
may as well resign' ourselves to it as an
ever-welling source of disturbance in our
industrial system, an ever present irritant,
or apple of discord—and a clog and ob
struction upon all efforts to rehabilitate
the country.
Men whose leaders and scnsc-bearers in
the discussion of questions of the highest
political significance, affecting the political
life and social order of millions of the
white race, can speak of the accidental
bearing of a mere black skin in controlling
the result, will never heed reason, or any
thing else, save the impulse of their preju
dices and the teachings of their knavish
demagogues. Slavery has been abolished,
but that has in no way diminished the ag
itation or silenced the voice of one aboli
tionist !' At present the Southern people
are helpless; they must endure as patient
ly as possible; recollecting that man pro
poses but God disposes. What Ilis pur
poses arc We know not, in any wide scofiej
but we do know that He set impassable
barriers between the negro and the white
race—as distinctly marked to-day as in
the dawn of creation—that have made the
former subordinate in all human relations,
and we will not be lured or forced to es
tablish an unnatural equality of the two
races, among us. Upon this the Southern
people arc resolved! And yet, they arc
convinced, they are the true friends of the
Blacks; those who, if left alone, would do
most to give the negroes that degree of
social and educational culture, and that
scope of civilization, for which they are
fitted by Nature. They believe, sincerely,
on the other hand, the professed friends
of the Negro are those who are compassing
his inevitable annihilation as an element
of civilized society.—[Memphis Appeal.
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Singular Accident in Buffalo.
From the Buffalo Courier. ]
A most singular accident occurred Sat
urday evening, in the brick dwelling-house
No. 22 Ellicott street. A Mr. Bancroft
had moved into the house that day, lie
having spent some two months in papering,
painting, and otherwise reparing it. Sat
urday evening, about 9 o,clock, the house
hold were on the point of retiring for the
night. A very strong smell of gaas had
been noticed, and became unendurable.
Mr- B. started with a candle to find out if
possible, where the leak was situated.
He had looked through the rooms up stairs,
and had taken one step down when he was
sudenly surrounded by flames. The buil
ding began to shake violently. Mr B.
and wife rushed into the kitchen. The
servant girl, who was in her room at the
back of the rear extension of tiro building
in the second story, was forced out of it
and down stairs into the kitchen also.
How she got down she does not know.
She says a strong force seemed to push
her out of the room, first accomodatingly
bursting the door open.
The first thought of the three in the
kitchen was to get out of the house,
but the back dooi' was locked, and the ser
vant fortunately could not find the key
Fortunately, for in a moment more the
whole wall of the upper story fell out into
the yard, making an immense pile of brick,
mortar, etc , which would have inevitably
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locking the door.
The front wall of the house was also
flinch shattered, being pressed out by the
force of the explosion. No one, strange
to say, was in the least injured.
The cause of the explosion was in the
front parlor, where a gas-fitter had been
arranging for a new fixture, and had care
lessly left the pipe unstopped, so that the
house was literally filled with gas. It is
very singular that while the leak was in
the front room down stairs, the greatest
force of the explosion seemed to be in the
back rooms upstairs, where, as we said, the
whole wall was forced into the yard. The
fact that the back extension was newly
built, and that the walls were not well sea
soned is the only explanation that we have
heard. There is a fine opportunity for
scientific men to study the phenomenon.
The flames were extinguished in a few
minutes, and did but little damage. It
will require §1,500 at the least to repair
the building, liather discouraging for a
gentleman who has just fitted up a new
house. Hut the family have such cause
for thankfulness in their escape from death,
that we presume the pecuniary loss is scarce
ly lamented.
-The use of the comma is sometimes im
portant. At a banquet ibis toast was given :
"Woman—without her, man is a brute.” It
was printed: '“Woman, without her man is a
brute,”
Some Things Tn at Do Not “Pat.”—It is a
common tiling, among business men. to say,
“it doesn’t pay.” Ask a merchant., for exam
ple, why he will not send a carg'9 to n certain
port, and his answer is, “it doesn’t pay.” In
quire of a manufacturer why he makes a floor,
cheap article, and his reply will be that the
public does not patronize a higher-priced one,
and that to produce it, therefore “Would not
Pay-”.
We have often thought, that there were other
things that “did not pay.” A man who lias
made a little money begins to think it time
that he should “get into society,” as the cant
phrase goes. His wife is often only too ready
to accord with him. Their vanity instigates
them to cultivate the acquaintance of a sot of
fashionable idlers, who live chiefly for display,
spend their entire incomes for their own self
ish gratification, and affect to look down on
the rest of the world. Accordingly our par
venu buys a carriage, builds a fine house, or
ders expensive furniture, gives extravagant,
parties, cuts his poor relations, and toadies to
these would-be-aristocrats. At last, perhaps,
he and his wife gain admission into the exclu
sive circle, but only to find that they are no
happier than they were before. Oftener,
however, the husband becomes bankrupt be
fore his foothold is made good, through the
spendthrift habits in which his silly ambition
has involved him. In either event, does it pay?
A young man meets a silly, selfish, gay,
rattling, extravagant girl at a party. She has
already become an adept in flirtation, nnd is
excessively fond of admiration. Her fine eyes
soon make a conquest of him. Probably after
wasting unheard-of sums in boquets and other
more costly gifts, ho ventures to propose, and
is told, with feigned astonishment, that she
never thought of him “except ns a friend,”
Possibly he receives a favorable reply, espe
cially if ho is good-looking and rich, or if the
lady is growing old; but if he marries, lie soon
discovers that a fashionable coquette makes
but a sorry wife, and a still more worthless
mother. In either case, docs it pay?
A young lady makes the acquaintance of a
plausible young gentleman. He has an ele
gant moustache; wears lemon-colored gloves
anil patent-leather boots ; and dances, ns she
tells her confidant, “divinely.” She is soon
“head over ears” in love with him. Her pa
rents remonstrate in vain with her. They
tell her he is idle, selfish, a spendthrift, per
haps also a roue. She docs not bdieve awoVd
of it. She looks upon herself as a heroine,
;i.nd on tinr ft.dnri>r n.n n. nnrKmitoil Inver A I.
last slic elopes. A week of bliss is purchased
by years of misery. She Wakes from her de
lusion to find herself tied for life to one whom
she loathes and despises. Does it pay?
We might extend the catalogue. You give a
dashing party, are praised for the fine supper,
and settle the next day bills to a scandalous
amount. You go to a great public ball, for
which you have to buy your wife a new dress,
and have a headache the next, day, caused by
the villainous champagne you drank. You
squander so much on a summer trip that you
are pinching all the rest of the year. Does it
pay? It would be bettor for everybody if they
would look at things ns they are, and find be
fore it is too late whether or not they will pay,
Strange Freak of Nature.—Policeman P.
Smith, who lives on the South side, has a little
poodle dog, a great pet among his children.
Some weeks since the dog took to the kennel
which was provided for it, and could scarcely
ever be induced to leave the warm nest. It
was supposed he was sick, and every care was
taken t>f him. On Thursday what was the
surprise of the family to see the dog running
about the house with two infantile ducks fol
lowing after him, and he endeavoring to exer
cise a parental care over them. It seems that
Mr. Smith’s little boy had found the eggs and
placed them in the kennel to feed the dog.
In the warm nest, incubation had been the re
sult, and the young ducks made their appear
ance. The surprise of the dog at the result
of his labors, and the job he has so success
fully carried out is great, yet he seems to be
aware of the great responsibility now devolved
upon him, and watches with jealous care over
his proteges. Woe be to the chicken or any
other animal that comes near them while
feeding. Of course, excellent care is taken
that the litt.lo ones shall not want for the
choicest delicacies. They seem to take the
matter as all right, but, on some occasions, do
not show that parental respect which they
should, as they will frequently when nestling
in the longhair of the dog, feel imbued with
a spirit of mischief, and pull the hair severe
ly with their beaks. Of course his dogship
does not like this, but the rebuke administered
is of a gentle nature. This singular trio can
now be seen in Mr. Smith's yard on the South
side.—[Milwaukie Wisconsin, May 29th.
Influence of Femaj.e Society.—It is bet
ter for you to pass an evening once or twice
in a lady’s drawing-room, even though the
conversation is slow, and you know the girl’s
song by heart, tL.an in a club, tavern, or the
pit of a theatre. All amusements of youth to
WHICH Virtuous wouum arc o-uumicu, icijt
on it, are deleterious in their nature. All men
who avoid female society have dull percep
tions, and aro stupid, or have gross tastes,
and revolt against what is pure. Your club
swaggerers, who arc sucking the butts of bil
liard cues all night, call female insipid. Poe
try is insipid to vokel; beauty has not charms
for a blind man; music does not pleaso a poor
beast who docs not know one tune from anoth
er ; and as a true epicure is hardly ever tired
of water sanchy and brown bread and butter,
I protest I can sit for a whole night talking to
a well-regulated, kindly woman, about her
girl coming out, or her boy at college, and like
the evening’s entertainment. One of the great
benefits a man derives from woman’s society
is, that he is bound to be respectful to them.
The habit is of great good to your moral man,
depend upon it. Our education makes of us
the most eminently selfish men in the world.
-It is not your dress, ladies, your expen
sive shawl or golden fingers that attract the
attention of men of sense ; they look beyond
these. It is your character they study. If
you arc trifling and loose in your conversa
tion, no matter if you areas beautiful as an
angel, you have no attractions for them. It
| is the loveliness of your nature that wins and
continues to retain t lie affections of the heart.
Voting ladies sadly miss it who labor to im
1 pvove their outward looks while they bestow
j not a thought on their minds. Fools may be
I won by gew-gaws and fashionable, showy
J dresses, but the wise and substantial arc nev
i or caught by traps. Let modesty be your
| dress. Use pleasant and agreeable language,
' and though you may not be courted by the fop,
; the good and truly great may linger in your
J sU'ipp.
A Kjch .Sermon.—Wliere is the man with
the harp of a thousand strings ? ,,
The following extract from a sermon will
bo recognised at. a glance by some readers
here, at home. It loses much of its humor
because wo cannot put in print the peculiar
sing-song stylo and appropriate gestures that
accompany it:
“My friends, Sir'makes the purticst young
man in the world ugly-ah. And I tell you
how I know-nh. I was coming up to church
to-day, when I saw some men - in the road-ah,
and thought one of them the purtiest young
man 1 ever saw in my lil'e-ah. And as I drew
nigh unto them, I discovered that they wero
playing at marvels, and they all drew nigh
unto a placo what they called taw, and they
marvellcd-ah. And when ho marvelled he
jumped up and Happed his hands like a roost
er does his wings, and says—‘I wish I may be
d-d if I liain’t fat-ah!’ And oh, my
friends, then 1 thought that was the ugliest
man 1 ever saw* in my life-all. And I opened
my mouth and spake Unto him thus: says I,
‘young man, this is not the way to salva
tion.’
And lie said, ‘look here old hoss if you had
been salivated as bad as I was, you would not
love to hear talk of salvation.’
And now, my friends,. if that yontig man
said he was fat, he told a lie, for he was loan
as that hungry looking sister over thar, that.s
always praying so piously when the hat is Vic
ing passed around-ah.
And, rty friends, if that young man had not
been blinded by sin, he never could a mist tick
mo for an old lioss-ah.
Artemus Ward on Naroleon’s Life of
(Lesar.—I set up a spell by the kitchen fire
rondin’ Napoleon’s Life of Ceosar. What a
reckless old cuss ho was f Ctcsar made it
lively for the boys in Gaul, didn’t he? He
slewed one million of citizens, male and fe
male—Gauls and Ganlusscs—and then he sold
another million of ’em into slavery^ Ifc Con
tinnered this stylo of things for if dm time,
when lie was sassinated in lloliYo by sum high
toned Homan genimen, led on by Mr. Brutus.
When old Bruty inserted M’s knife into him,
CtesffiT admitted that he tfas gone tip. His
funeral was it great success, the house bein,
crowded to its utmost capacity. Ten minutes 1
after the doors wero opeued the ushers hud to
put up cards on which was printed, “Standin
Room Only.” I went to bed at last. “And
so,” 1 said, “tliou hast no car for sweet melo
dy!” A silvery snore was my only answer.
Betsy slept.
Prentice vs. Brownlow.—Prentice's “lat
est” on Brownlow contains the following:
Brownlow has all the worst, qualities of the
devil, but the latter, if he has any redeeming
qualities, is, in comparison with the “parson,”
a Christian gentleman. Brownlow is a rattle
snake, with his rattles at the wrong end of
him. lie is a hog, with the kink in his head
instead of his tail. If bayonets bristle at
him, ho can turn tho back of his neck and
bristle back with interest. Wo have ground
him until he is a ground-hog. Wo have
hedged him until ho is a hedge-hog. He is a
small man, but a great swine; ho may be a
rich man, but he is a poor devil. He is “a
porcupine rolled up the wrong way,” thus
pricking himself to death with his own quills,
The more he writes, the flatter lie gets, just
as an adder’s head Hattons as he becomes fu
rious. If his heart were not a salamander, it
would long since have been consumed by tho
hell-fire in his bosom".
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An Eventful Career.—A Confederate sol
dier has just returned homo after an absence'
of lhore than four years in the servico of his
country., He joined the regiment of Colonel,
or now Major General Kershaw, in this State,
subsequently changed his command, vlent td
Virginia, was engaged in thirty-one battles,
and one hundred and twen'ty-thre'e skirmish
es, not including the “’rows” On picket: Was
shot twice; returned to the field ; and iui tho
geneaal smash up, while making his way
home to South Carolina, wus captured and
paroled. A Confedejute officer then pressed
him and twenty others into service to guard a
portion of the baggage truin of Ex-President
Davis, in which service he was captured a
second time. Found with a violated parol in
his pocket, he was carried with his comrades
to Hilton Head, where they were tried for their
lives. The Military Court failing to agree*
they were sent to New York, tried a second
time, five of the number were ordord to be shot
which sentence was carried into execution.
The remainder were conveyed to a prison in
Springfield Illinois, within sight of the home of
Mr. Lincoln, and there remained until the
term of their confinement expired. He has
had four wives, all of whom are dead and, by
each wife a pair of twins, whom he bad not
seen until his return, since the beginning of
the war.—[Columbia Carolinian,
-The city editor of the Richmond (Indi
ana) Telegram heralds the advent of a new
fangled bonnet in that place thusly:
Tub Latest.—The latest Eastern fashion
for a bonnet appeared on Main street yester
day. It consisted of two rye straws, tied to
gether with a bine ribbon on the top of the
head, and red tassels suspended at each of the
four ends of the straws, It was a “love of a
bonnetprice only nineteen dollars.
Sensible advice.—If you would be happy
when among good men, open your ears;
when among bad men, shut them. It is not
worth while to hear what your servants say
when they are angry ; what your children say
when they have slammed the door; what a
beggar says whom you have turned out of
doors ; what your neighbor says about your
children ; what your rival says about yotlr
busines or your dress.
-A lawyer and doctor were disputing ltd
other day about a bill a fellow owed ea6h of
them, and so be left tlie matter to themsel^Cs
who ought to have the money. ‘I oughtf'to
liave the money as a matter of course,’ said
the lawyer, ‘for I saved the fellow from going
to the penitentiary.’ ‘Well,’ said the doctor,
‘I saved him from Ii—11.’ It is needless to
add which one got the money.
-‘A pair of pretty eyes,'said Coxcomb,
‘are the best mirrors to shave by.’ ‘\cs,’ re
plied old Ilunx, the bachelor, ‘and I have
known many a man shaved by them.’
-The latest invention !s*the “palpitating
bosom,” for ladies, which gently “heaves” by
the touch of an “emotional spring” concealed
under the left arm.
-A wise man will speak well of his
i neighbor, love his wife and pay for his uews
^puper.