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’Tis sad. yet sweet, to listen
To the soft wind's gentle swell,
And think we hear the musie
, Our clrldbood knew eo well;
To gaze out on the even.
And the boundless field of air.
And feel again our boyhood's wish
To roam like angels there.
There are many dreams of gladness
That cling around the past—
And from the tomb of feeling
Old thoughts eome thronging fast;
The forms we love so dearly
In the happy days now gone,
The beautiful and lovely,
So fair to look upon.
Those bright and gentle maidens
Who seemed so formed for bliss.
Too glorious and too heavenly
For such a word as this;
Whose dark soft eyes seemed swimming
In a sea of liquid light,
And whose locks of gold were streaming
O’er brows so sunny bright—
Whose smiles were like the sunshine
In the spring time of the year—
Like the changeful gleams of April,
They follow every tear!
They have passed—like hopes—away,
And their loveliness has fled;
Oh. many a heart is mourning
That they are with tho dead.
Like the brightest buds of summer,
They have fallen with the stem;
Yet, oh, it is a lovely death
To fade from earth like them!
And yet the thought is saddening
To muse on such ns they,
And feel that all the beautiful
Are passing fast away!
That the fair ones whom we love
(Irow to each loving breast
Like the tendril of the clinging vine.
Then perish where they rest.
And wo can but think of these,
in tho soft and gcntlo spring.
When tho trees arc waving o'er us,
And the flowers are blossoming;
An! u'n.Lnntv (lint irinfnr'j Anmin.
With its c»ld and stormy sky,
And the glorious beamy round ua
Is budding but to die!
STANTON AND GRANT.
(iii-Ioum Chapter from the Secret :
History of the War.
Correspondence of the N. Y Times,]
Washington, .Tan. 19, 18G9.—A most
singular, pregnant and hitherto entire
ly unheard of fact in tlie career of Gen.
Giant lias lately become known to a
few among the inner military circle
here. It is, under existing circumstan
ces, hardly possible that this should re
main very long a secret ; and I feel
free to outline it, in flic expectation
that Ibis publication will call forlli tlie
full documentary history of so valua
ble a passage in (lie life of owe who
now occupies the largest share of the j
attention of the American people.
In order rightly to appreciate the
circumstances under which tlie event 1
am about to narrate took place, it will
be necessary to briefly glance at some
earlier passages in tlie military career
of the General-iii-chief, and to bring
tliis review tip to mid-summer of the
year 18(53, when he lay encompassing
in fatal coils the Confederate army be
leaguered within its bulwarks at
Vicksburg.
Grant made his debut at Belmont.
Now, though tlint affair lias been am
ply justified by the fuller information
mid calmer criticism that have been the
growth of the intervening years, yet it
must not lie forgotten that at tlie time
it subjected the commander toa torrent
I of obloquy—press and public equally
insisting in calling it a "Ball’s Bluff”
blunder and disaster.
With the spring of 1862 came Doncl
mhi. Here, again, it behooves us to
put out of sight the glamour of that
track of splendor which Grant's later
ii'liiini>lis east buck upon Ids earlier ac
tions, and endeavor to realize the llieu
estimate of Ids character and capacity.
For, admirable as was the victory at
Donelson, and spontaneous ns was the
burst of gratitude and joy that leaped
from the national heart, the victor of
that field, nevertheless, fell under the
i censure of a considerable part of the
press, and—what to him was of graver
consequence—incurred the Bevere dis
pleasure of Ills superiors. This Btate
; of taels is sufficiently evidenced by the
following dispatch, sent by Gen. Hal
leck, then commander of .the Depart
ment of the West, to Mr. Stanton, then
' Secretary of War, a few days after
, Donelson :
“I have had no communication with
1 Gen. Grant for more than a week. He
left his command without my authori
ty, and went to Nashville. His army
seems to be as much demoralized by
the victory of Fort Donelson as was
thntoftlic Potomac by the defeat of
Hull Hun. I can get no returns, no
reports, no information of any kind
from him. Satisfied of his victory, he
sits down and enjoys it, without any
regard to the future. I am worn out
and tired by this neglect and inefficien
cy. ('. F. Smith is almost the only of
ficer equal to the emergency.”
The day following the date of this
dispatch, Ilallack (having, probably,
meantime received authority from
Washington) telegraphed to Grant :
"You will place Maj. Gen. C. F. Smith
in command of the expedition, and re
main yoursep'at Fort Henry.”
The expedition to which reference is
mads in the latter dispatch was tbs
! movement which resulted in the ginnl
encounter at Pittsburg Landing—the
| battle of Shiloh. It was designed Thai
; Smith should permanently supersede
Grant as commander of the Army ol
J the Tennessee; but circumstance!
; brought it around that the latter was
; again sent into the field, and, n« Smith
became sick and afterwards died, It fell
i out that Grant commanded at Pitts
burg Landing. We now appreciate
that Shiloh was one of the decisive ac
tions of the war. and the commander
has received the fitting meed of honor
therefor; but at the time, most inaccu
rate accounts of the battle were circu
i lated, and Grant again fell under dis
grace. The followingoxtract from the
official volume of Col. Badeau correctly
pictures the disagreeable and humiliat
ing position to which the General was
now reduced:
“Rumors were industriously spread
that Grant was drunk during the battle,
etc. The country believed many of
these rumors, and in the West especi
ally the outcry was fierce. The news
papers took up the theme; Congress
men and politicians beset the Presi
dent to relieve Grant entirely from
command. Even Grant’s military su
periors seemed affected by the clamor.
Gen. Hallcck, removing his headquar
ters to the field, superseded Grant, who
was left second in command, it is true,
but wns quite ignored in all tho opera
tions. In the army, his situation was
universally regarded as one of dis
grace.”
Such was the position of Gen. Grant
up to July of that year, (1862)ut which
time Hallcck was assigned to the con
trol of all the armies, with his head
quarters at Washington. It would
seem as though the leadership of the
army of the Tennessee might then have
ualurally relapsed to its former head.
But first of all, Gen. Hallcck offered
the position to a Quartermaster named
Robert Allen ; nor wns it till that per
son had declined the baton of com
mand, that it came again into the hand
oi mm who, uiougn lit' miu won linn
elson and Shiloh, had not succeeded in
Winning the confidence of his military
superiors.
Passing now rapidly forward, tjc
come to the operations tliat illlrd up i
the autumn of 1802 and the early
months of 1808—to those numerous
tentatives against Vicksburg, the deep
ly interesting story of which has >o of
ten been told. It is well known that
these attempts were, each in succes
sion, lamentable failures. Well, again
politicians, press, public and military
superiors grumbled and clamored.
McClernand, n vain and ambitious po
litical General, declared he was -tired
of furnishing brains for the Army of
the Tennessee,” and was assigned to an
independent command. The old ru
mors about Grant’s personal character
were revived, lie was pronounced
utterly destitute of genius or energy.
Even Lincoln’s limitless faith did not
extend beyond “trying him a little lon
ger.” When finally he ran the guant
let of the batteries and turned east
ward to invest Vicksburg from the
rear, the audacious enterprize called
forth condemnation from headquarters.
The kindly President afterward
wrote him that he thought “lie hud
made a mistake.” It may be imagined
that the dissatisfaction was not de
creased by the occurrences that at
tended the early period of the siege,
lie was blamed for inaction, and it was
sagely predicted that Joe Johnston
would fall on his rear and destroy him.
Then lie was censured for an attack he
made and failed in. Then came, to
ward the end of May, another assault
| of the works, which was also a failure.
And then there was that done at
1 Washington which has not hitherto
been known—an order was sent to
(Sen. Hanks (then investing Port Hud
son) directing him to go and take the
I cnmmfiiwl of tin- arinv from Gen. Grant
i and to assume it himself,
i I have said that this fact has never
hitherto been publicly known. It is
not only in none of the Lives of Gen.
j Grant—not even in that of Badeau,
who had access to ever scrap of known
documentary material—but there exists
not a written trace of the secret among
the archieves of the War Department,
or of the office of the General-in-Chief.
It remains now to add a still more
surprising fact—the secret of this criti
cal passage in his life, was, until within
a month, never known even to him it
so closely touches, was neverkuowu to
1 Gen. Grant himself!
The offices who was directed to
supersede Grant in the command of
the army investing Vicksburg was, as
I have already said, Gen. Banks. The
order was an imperative one. Never
theless. Gen. Banks did not obey the
; order. lie replied expostulating
against it.
The considerations on which that
officer based his expostulation will
appear when this remarkable corres
pondence sees the light. rl his much,
however, may be said. He pointed
out that for him to abandon his posi
tion at Port Hudson would be to give
up the key of the Mississippi, imperil
ing not only the tenure ol'Ncw Orleans,
but jeopardising our possession of any
point of vantage on that vital water
line.
To this rejoinder came, from Wash
ington, a renewed command to super
sede Grant, anti when the impolicy of
the step was again pointed out by
Banks, he was severely censured for
diaobedicuce of orders.
Well, this remarkable correspon
dence went on and on. and bade lair to
be indefinitely prolonged, when sud
denly Vicksburg fell, and tbe military
gentlemen and politicians, who at
Washington had been plotting Grant's
destruction, were forced to tune their
pipes in ptcans and lo Triompltes to
the laurel-crowned commander. Every
scrap of paper bearing on the subject
was spirited away from the archives in
tbe Departments, while Ranks, putting
the writings by, kept his own counsel.
How it eante about that a short time
since the General-in-Chief got wind of
the 9ecret, and, obtaining copies of the
j correspondence, learned for the first
time, this notable episode in his career,
i9 not for me here to tell. Let us
rattier follow out one or two of the
lines of suggestion that radiate from
this pregnant fact.
And, first, one cannot but note
the absolute manner in which
the destiny of the captain who brought
the war lo a close depended, in its
keenest crisis, on the will and decision
of one man. The examples are frequent
of generals who were made or marred
by what men call chance or fortune.
Hut this is not a ease of this nature;
It is a thing apart and unique.
For, nothing is more manifest than
that, had Gen. Ranks carried out his
instructions and relieved Gen. Grant
at Vicksburg. Grant’s historic career
would have been abruptly and forever
closed. Vicksburg was the knife
balance of his fate. Triumphant there,
the prestige of his victory gave him
command of larger means and ampler
opportunities, and so on, along the
entire chain of independent events,
up to this hour.
Rut, suppose lie had been stripped
of bis command a month before the
fall of the stronghold on the Missis
sippi? Would not this have been then
acorriorcmanquee—a failure? Ricall
to mind what has already been set
forth: that he had fallen under the
displeasure of the military chiefs who
ruled at Washington—chiefs who had.
before, removed him from command,
to which, indeed, lie seemed to relapse
merely l>y Hazard—duels who hud pre
ferred before bim in one ease a second
rate politician, in another au obscure
Quartermaster. That woum u;»c ...
but a beggarly prologue, which, inclu
ding Belmont, and Shiloh, and Haines'
Bluff, stopped short, and rose not to
the swelling themes ot Vicksburg, and
Chattanooga, and Five Forks. It
staggers the mind to attempt to follow
out the lines of conjectures that suggest
themselves in the event that Banks had
obeyed bis orders and displaced Grant
but the inference would certainly seem
to be enough that the opportunity for
whatever the President elect has grown
to. ns well in the military as in the poli
tical way, lie owes entirely to that offi
cer who being ordered to supersede him
declined to super-ede him. It is war
rantable to assume that Vicksburg
would equally have fallen, without ref
erence as to who might have been in
command; for the surrender was the
result oftho blockade, and was an in
evitable result. But, had Vicksburg
capitulated to Banks, not Grant, what
a different history of the war would
there have been lo write! It will
probably be hardly possible to refrain
inquiry both as to the reason of Gen.
Bunks refusal of the command, ami as
to his motive for keeping so long se
cret a fact so important both to Ihe
General-in-Chief! and to himself. Ii
would certainly not have been well
that the revelation of ibis passage in
Hie history of the military administra
tion had been made during either ol
' the past two political campaigns. But
the full hearings of Hie subjects will
. only be apprehended when the corres
pondence itself comes to be given to
the world; and then alone will it be
this newly discovered secret in it y have
on the fortune of those whom this cor
respondence concerns. As a single in
stance one can hardily help noting that
it was not long after Grant's becoming
for the (Irst time, tuvare of the existence
of such a correspondence that Mr.
Stanton announced his intention to
I retire from public life.
Meantime the numerous biographers
of tlie President elect will need to
revise tlieir histories in the light of a
fact which is as vital in Grant's career
as is the fact that lie was born.
Busily Nulled.
A printer out of work advertises for
a sit uation. His advertisement is a tine
illustration of what sort of a person
the universal American printer is. !i
savs: “Wants a situation, a practical
printer, who is competent to take
charge of any department in a printing
and publishing bouse. Would accept
a professorship in any ot the acade
mies. lias no objection to teaeii orna
mental painting and penmanship, ge
ometry, trigonometry and many other
sciences. Is particularly suited to net
as pastor to a small evangelical church,
or as local preacher. He would have
mi objection to form a small lint select
class of vou.ig ladies, to instruct them
in the highest branches. To a dentist
or chiropodist lie would be invaluable,
as he can do almost anything. Would
cheerfully aepept a position as bass or
tenor singer in a choir.”
A man out west, who offered bail lor
a friend, was asked by a judge if he
had an encumbrance on his farm. “Oh,
yes. "said he,“ my old woman."
a
! From , lie llriilgcporl Fm tnvr.1
The History of llie Italiras
Corpus.
About (>50 years ago, on an island
I meadow in Ibe river Thames, still
1 known ns Runnymedc, on the 12tli of
AugusUhe iron clad friends of freedom
in England met King John, and wres
ted from him the same rights tlial have
been trampled upon by Abraham Lin-j
coin and tho Radical party for the last
seven years. That dav was the birth
day of the Magna Charts, the great
charter of English liberty. It contain
ed these words: “No man shall be ar
rested, imprisoned, or deprived of his
own free housliold, or of his liberties,
or of his own free customs or outlawed
and banished, or injured in any man
ner; nor will we pass sentence upon
him, nor send trial upon him, unless by
the legal judgment olhis pecis, or by I
the law of the land.” This is the great
germ of our civil liberty. It was
defended in England bv many bloody
wars, and has been ratified hv many
acts of Parliament and at the present
day no King or Parliment of England
would dare, iu any way, to restrict, the
privilege of the habeas corpus. It wns
engrafted as a fundamental principle
in our Constitution; and*our fore
fathers believed it to be a sure guar
antee for the rights of future genera
tions.
About six years before (lie Federal
Constitution was adopted, a remarka
ble prophecy was uttered under the
following circumstances: In 1780, j
Henry Laurens, former President of I
the Continental Congress, was sent as (
Minister to Holland. On his way lie 1
was raptured and imprisoned in the I
Tower of London for fourteen months.
When Lord Shelburne became Premier,
Laurens was brought upon habeas cor
pus and released. Alter his release lie
dined with Lord Shelburne when the
conversation turned on tlie separation
of tli< Iwo countries. Lord Shelburne'
remarked : “I am sorry for your peo
ple." "Why so?" asked Laurens.
"They will lose the habeas corpus," !
was ilie reply. “Lose (lie habeas cor
pus sinl J.iurons in astonishment.
k,Y <*>,” said Lnrd Hiclhurne. ••Wo
purchased it with centuries of wrang
ling, many years of lighting, and had
it continued by«ut least fifty acts of
Parliament. /\n imr inti^in •).. |
its value; and it is so ingrained into
llieir ereed as the very totiudaliun oi
llieir liberty, tiuit no man or parly will
ever dare trample on il. Your people
will pick it up and attempt to use it.
but having cost them nothing, they j
will not know how lo appreciate il.
Al the first great iiitcrnal feud that you
have, the majority will trample upon
it and the people will permit it to he
done and so will go your liberty.’’
■lot, to lie Happy.
Everybody wauls to know how to he ,
happy. Happiness is the great aim oi
us all. There are many things that
tend to make us happy, hut most of all
a well-regulated home. It is not in
the power ot the husband, the wile or i
the child alone to regulate home as it
should be. The efforts and co-opera- j
tion of all are needed. Hut most de
pends it|iou the wile. Her time, labors
and interests are nt home. If she does
her part well home will have many ’
attractions and do much to make its
\
inmates happy.
1st Order. A home should be order- j
ly. It should have an order of time,
place and conduct. In this order of
lime, a regular hour should be observ
ed lor rising, retiring, eating; for eve
ry part ot the household work, wash
ing, ironing, mending; house-cleaning,
sweeping, dusting, chamber-work, &c.
In this order, there should always be
a time for reading, recreation and re
ligious exercises, for general affection
ate communion.
In order of place-there should be a
ulaee for everything and everything
ill itis place. This makes n house look
well, convenient, agreeable and easy
managed. It prevents confusion, pre
serves articles from unnecessary des
truction, keeps them ready lor use and
where they ran be found, saves itilicit
time and more vexation. It gives a
homc-liko characteristic which is al
ways agreeable.
Ill order of rondnet, there should be
courtesy, true home-politeness, an
agreeable way of doing and saying
everything. Men should he moral,
women should he womanly, children
taught civility, obedience, and general
good behavior. Kill'll one sliottid be
respected in his or her duties, and as
sisted so far as may be. Kind words
are the only ones that become home.
Obliging manners are the only ones
that adorn home. Good deeds arc the
only ones that bless home. A woman
mitv tret and scold anywhere else,
rather than at home. A man may
eomplain. play the tyrant, he careless,
disobliging, hateful and profane, any
where else better than home. What
ever pertains to the ol der of good eon
duet should ho strictly observed. A
house thus in order, a home thus man
aged, will help more to make its in
mates happy, than the gayest apparel,
the greatest wealth, the finest display
that mortals can make.—lineal World.
A story is told of a young lady
teacher In one of onr Sabbath Schools
who recently asked a youngster what
matrimony was. lie mistook the ques
tion for | u gatory. and answered : "A
place or stale ■ f punishment in this life,
where some souls suffer for a time be
fore they go to hearsu."
From Ibe Newark, (N. J , (Frees.]
How a “Wicked Fraud" was
Pul I'puB Murk Twain in
Newark,
It is seldom plensnnt to tell on one’s j
self lint sometimes it is a sort of relief'
to a man to make a sad confession. I ]
wish to unburden my mind now, and j
yet I almost believe that I am moved i
to do it more because I long to bring !
censure upon another man than because !
I desire to pour balm upon my woun
ded heart. I don't know what balm is. j
but I believe it is the correct expres- !
sion to use in this connection—never 1
having seen any balm.) You may re
member Ilia! I lectured in Newark
lately for the yourg gentlemen of the]
Clay t on i an Society? I did at any rate.
During the afternoon of that day I j
was talking with one of the young j
gentlemen just referred to, anil lie said
lie had an undo who, some pause or
other seemed to have grown perma
nently bereft of all emotion. And .
with tears in bis eyes ibis young man
said :
“Oil, if I conld only sec him laugh |
once morel Oh, if I could only see him I
weep!”
I was touched. I could never with- I
stand distress. I said.
“Bring him to my lecture. I'll, start '
him for you.”
“Oh, if I could but do if! If you
could but do it. all our family would
bless you forevermore—for he is verv
dear to us. Oh, my benefactor, can
you make him laugh? can you bring
soothing tears to those parched orbs.”
I was profoundly moved. I said :
“My son, bring the old party around.
I have got some jokes in that lecture]
that will make him Inuglun—and i
if they iniss fire I have got some others
Unit’ll make him cry or kill him, one or
I lie oilier.”
Then the young man blessed me, and ;
wept oif my neck, and blew his nose on !
my coat tail, ami went after hi* uncle.
He placed him in lull view, in the sec
ond row of benches that night, and I
began on him I tried him with mild
‘ tllDII Wltll BIH'nl'Ii *111*10* I 1 .
him with bad jukes and riddled him
with good ones; I tired old stale old |
jokes into him. and peppered him fore
ind aft with redliot new ones: I warm
'd tip to my work, and assaulted him
an the right «»d left, in front and be
hind ; 1 111 men . ... j, ... , j
iced and routed, till I was hoarse and
sick. and frantic and furiors but I never
moved him once—[ never started a ;
nnilo. or a tear! Never a ghost of a
smile, and never a suspicion of mois
lure! I was astonished. 1 closed the!
lecture at last with one despairing :
shriek—with one wild burst of humor
—and hurled a joke of supernatural !
atrocity full at him. It never phased
him. Then 1 sat down bewildered and 1
exhausted.
The President of the societ v came up
and bathed my head with cold water
and said:
"What made you carry on so toward
the last ?"
I said: "I was trying to make that
confounded old tool laugh in the sec- I
ond row.’’
And he said: ••Well, you were wast
ing your time—because he is deaf and
dumb, and as blind as a badger.”
Now was that any way for that old
man’s nephew to impose ou a stranger
and an orphan like me? 1 simply ask
you, ns n man and a brother, if that
was any way lor him to do?
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Wlml t'uine til lion-ow ing Gen
tlemen i urktys. *
In former days there dwelt in the
brave corucracker State, iP close prox
imity to each other, a young, buxom
and wealthy widow and a bachelor of
scarcely more than her own age. Both
had inherited the property, and were
comparatively strangers to each other.
But their plantations joined, and many
were the acts of neighborly kindness
dial passed between them. Well, ns
somebody sang to the witch widow
Machree, the time arrived when the
‘•birds go in pairs,” and the widow
found that although she had plenty of
lien Turkeys, she had none of the oili
er persuasion. they having mysterious
ly disappeared, itut as she knew that
her neighbor hud plenty of a rare
breed, and so sent Sambo over to bor
row a couple, hi due time lie came
buck with a large gobbler under eaeli
arm, and a broad grin on his lace.
‘Well ?'asked his Distress.
Massa said.’ was the answer, ‘dal he
send drill turkei s, and dat ii dev didn t
answer, he’d jest come over and gobble
his ownself.’
Tio hack and tell him to come,’com
manded the widow with cheeks like
peonies.
The negro did as lie was command
ed—i lie horses of tlie bachelor were
hitched that night until a late hour at
the post in front of the widow's door
—and thorewasa wedding within three
months.—Ex.
- -
-in a recent private letter Charles
Sunnier wrote: “I have no relations
with the present administration, and
therefore know nothing of the prin
ciples which govern appointments
made under it. Where the capability
of the applicant is equal, the policy of
prefering the one who has served in
the army lias been sanctioned by the
country, and l see no reason for be
lieving that soldiers will not receive
a proper recognition under the next
administration, lilmself a soldier
the President “lect will naturally bo
able to appreciate their claim and re
ward the deserving.”
Propel Orplli for Ploughing.
All crops grown on land of the samo
quality do not require an equal depth
of plowing. If sod ground be turned
for corn, it should only be ploughed
deep enough to get warm, mellow seed
bed. The subsoil plowing may be re
sorted to with profit, for that pulver
izes the subsoil deep, admitiug air and
moisture, but does not bring it to the
top. or mix it with the surface mold
If spring grain is to follow the corn
t lie next ploughing should be deeper
than tlie first one, deepenougli to bring
to tlie surface the decayed sod and an
inch of the subsoil to mix with it.
These make a fresh fertile seed b^d for
for the spring grain. If wheat succeeds
the spring grain, the ploughing for it
should be deep and thorough. No
matter how deep. That is the oppor
tunity to mingle the subsoil and the
top soil, nnd pennanetly deepen the
seedbed. The latter part of summer
and early autumn is the time of the
year when the land is most bcnefltted
by deep ploughing, and, of all
grain crops, wheat demands the deep
est preperation of the toil. And this
deep ploughing for wheat brings soil
to the surface that is fresh for the crop
to start in. The grass seed will be i
sown in this; it will become a turf,'
grow dark in eolor, and when the field j
is ready to break up again, tin's top '
soil will have become rich mold. This
is the proper method of ploughing, ;
with tho object of gradually deepening
our soil, hv exposing it to the action •
of the air, light, plants and manures.!
—Ploughman.
IJve.Within your Means.
Limited means and gaudy pride can
not walk hand in hand through life— j
one must yield to the oilier or discon- !
tent will follow. If yon give ear to the '
silly voice of pride, and over step your j
income, momentary happiness may be
yours, luxury may surround you,
display enchant you. and friends gather
admiringly around you. but it cannot
last—the truth will come — the bub
ble is too trail, too brilliant to buffet
life,s rough winds, and in a moment it
is gouo, leaving you to the hand of
misfortune, and in remorse and you
sink to mourn your sad choice, On
the other hand, if you patiently listen |
to the modest pleadings of prudence
"n/t *>001)0111 v. and heed their counsel :
all will be well. Remember, the lofty
house, audspacious ball, gaudy display
jeweled and tinseled robes and fashion
and lollies, oftener cause more sorrow i
and bitter tears and frowns and turrows
than their pleasure are worth. True,
the wealthy have their joys and hap
piness which many envy. Their hoard-!
ed gold and proud titles have their fa
vorites, but they only last while they
live within their means. But nobility
of heart is more to be enjoyed. It
teaches us economy and self sacrifice
to bring our wants to meet onr means.
While content dwelt in Eden’s bower
it was paradse, but as soon a9 vain
desires canto whispering through its
leafy groves, the happy angel took its
flight, and all nature felt the curse.
—-,-♦
JonIi Hilling's l.evlcon.
Law—A sword in its scabbard
Flattery—Holding a man by the but
ton-hole with one hand and pinning a
placard to his coat tail with the other.
Promises—Eggs with a thiu shell on
purpiss tew bust.
Conscience—Heaven's right ov way
through the soul ov man.
Innocence—The pet lamb that strayod
away oph, years ago, from the rest ov tho
flock, burnt bin herd ov since
Philosophy—The religion of the brains.
Pedigree—Thar iijistas much virtue
iu a pedigree az thur iz in hundin down
< from father to son ten thuusuud dollars in
: Continental money
i Heath—A square deal
i Boarding houses—Asylutnns for sour
; bread, vagrant hash and homeless cock
roaches
Money—The root ov all evil to those
who spend (heir lives rooting lor it.
Toper—A poor untonuuuie devil with
only one throat.
Superfluity—A kut with £ix tails to
watch.
itesulution—The gang plank of success
Despair— '1 he anchor of phools.
Lies—The devils ointment, with which
he greases the snake’s holly.
Locality— '.emery's pincussion.
Chastity—A chrystal pallaas with a
(Juceu in it.
Muse —The snubbing post ov the boddy.
lutuiits—Angels’ visits not alwax few
nor far between.
llispepsy—Might mare in the stumuck.
lieauty—A blank cartridge
Oaths—Sins in itulliks.
Old maids—Luthers from which the
sparks have fled.
Kquivocution—Dancing on a tite rope
between two lines iu the presence of truth.
Error—The crook in a pig’s tail, hard
tew get out
Honor —A siubt draft on integrity.
Legacy*— A charity dated ahead.
-mc— , i . . .
-In the Florida legislature, Lieut,
Gov Gleason, on vacating the chair, on
the 9th. called on a colored member to fill
it, and then sent in his resignation as
President of the Senate.
-A monument to Kobinson Crusoe
is to be erected on the island made famous
by bin.
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Fanny Fern on the Fasthlon.
Oh, the relief it is to meet a lady in
stead of a ballet girl; oh, the relief it is
to see a healthy, firm-stepping rosy,
broad-chested, bright eyed woman clad
simply with a dress all of one color, and
free from bunches and tags! I torn to
look at such a one with true respect, that
she has the good sense and courage and
good taste to appear on the street with a
dress befittinir the street; leaving to those
poor wretched women whose business it
is to advertise their person' a free field
without competition. If I seem to apeak
harshly, it is because I feel earnestly on
the subject. I had hoped that the women
of 1808 would have been worthy of the
day in which they live. I had hoped
that all their time would not be spent in
keeping up with the chameleon changes
or fashions too ugly, too absurd for tolera
tion. It is because I want them to bo
something, to do something higher and
nobler than a peacock might aim at, that
I turn hcart-siok away from these infinitesi
mal fripperies that narrow the soul and
purse, and leave nothing in wako but
emptiness. Nor is it necessary, in avoid
ing all this, that a woman should look
“strong-minded," as the hug-bear phrase
goes It is not necessary she should dress
like her grand mother, in order to look
like a decent woman, It is necessary she
should forswear ornamentation, because it
was better and more respectable to have
it confined to festal and home occasions
and less to the public promenade She is
not driven to the alternative of muffling
herself like an omnibus driver in January,
or catching consumption with her throat
protected ouly by a gold locket 1
“He Done HIm Level Beat”
Mark Twain puts forth the following
touching epistle, which he claims to have
received from a fiiead iu California:
Mr. Mark Twain :
Dear Sir: The witlitn man, which
I’ve sot to poetry unuer the name and
stile of “He Done His Level Best,’! was
aniung the whites men you ever did see,
1 judge, and ’taint every man which
knowed him as can find it iu his hart to
say he's glad the pore cuss is bursted and
gone homo to the states. He cunt here
in a yearly day. and was among the han
dies men at taking hold of any thing cum
along you most ever see
Pieacbin' were his nateral gate, but he
wa’n't a man to la back and twiddle his
thumbs because there didn t hupen to be
any th'nggoin’ on in his ounspeshal line.
No, sirree ! He’d wander fourth, and stir
up sumthin’ to sute hiaself His lastacks
wos to go his pile on kings, and culkerlaten
to fill; but lie faled to fill, when there was
a flush aganest him. So naturaly, you
see, he went under. So bein’, as you
may say, eleened out, be struck the home
trail—cheerful, but flat broke. I knowed
this talented man in Arkansnw, and if you
will presetue this here umble tribute to bis
abilateas you would greatly oblige bis
onhapy friend.
Simon Wheeler.
Was he mining on the fit,
He done it with a zest;
Was he leading of the choir,
He done his level best.
Was he preaching on his beat,
He’d tramp from east to west.
And north and south in cold and heat,
He done hie level best.
He’d yank a sinner ou't-,
Aud land him with the blest;
Then snatch a prayer, 'a waltz in again,
And do his level best.
He’d drink and dance and shout and pray,
And howl and shout aud jest.
And lie and steal—alt one to him—
He done his level best.
Whale r this man was sot to do.
He done it with a zest;
No matter what his contract was,
He done his level best.
t.u,K Kiifi ulnar.
Two boys left, last week, tbeir coun
try homes to seek their fortunes in the
city.
T shall see what luck will do for
me,’ said one.
‘I shall see what labor can do for
me,’ cried the oilier.
Which Is the best to depend upon,
luck or labor? Let us see.
Luck Is always wailing for some
thing to turn up.
Labor will turn up something.
Luck lies abed wishing.
Labor jumps up at six o'clock, and
willi busy pen or ringing hammer lays
the foundation of a competence.
Luck whines; labor whistles.
Luck relies on chances, labor on
character.
Luck slides dowu to indoleiTte.
Labor strides upwards to indepen
dence.
Which is likely to do most for you,
boys?
-Captain John Travis is out with a
challenge to all pistol shots in the world,
and lie bets SSdOO that ho can heat any
man in thejuse of the weapon, 'iravis will
shoot his pistol upside down, backward,
or between his legs, and will allow bis
opponent to shoot in the regular way.
-An illustrated paper represents :he
New Vear as a beautiful buy advancingou
a velocipede, and the old one going outj
very drunk; on a wheel-barrow.