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LIFE’S LOT.
BY THE DEAN OF CANTERBURY.
I know not if the dark or bright
.Shall bo my lot;
If that wherein my hope delight
15e best or not.
It may be mine to drag for years
Toil’s heavy chain ;
Or clay and night my meat be tears,
On bed of pain.
Dear faces may surround my hearth
With smiles and glee; *
Or I may dwell alone, and mirth ‘
Be strange to me.
My bark is wafted to the strand
By breath divine.
And on the helm there rests a hand
Other than mine.
One who has known in storms to sail
I have on board ;
Above the raging of the gale
I hear my Lord.
lie holds me with the billow’s smile,
I shall not fail;
. If sharp, 'tis short; if long, ’tis light,
lie tempers all.
Safe to the land—safe to the land,
The end is this ;
And then with Him go hand in hand,
Far into bliss.
TRIAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
j'lie evidence (thickens upon us that the
Government of the United States is about
to close the final act in the drama of this
great Civil War, in the judicial trial oi
.Jefferson Davis, President of the late
Southern Confederacy. As an American
citizen, feeling ourselves bound up in weal
or wo, in glory or sliame, with the desti
ny of this indivisible Republic, we are
glad of it—for, henceforth, whatsoever
touches the honor or sullies the fame of
the American Union, touches the honor
and undermines the foundations of self
respect of every citizen over whom floats,
as a proud symbol of national strength, the
once-adored ‘‘Star Spangled Banner” of
the Rermblic The cruel incarceration of
this feeble old man—the bloody-minded
mutterings of fanaticism which have, time
and again, rose to a howl of popular clam
or for his swift execution,—have king
enough put in jeopardy the character of
the American people; and it is quite time
that we should afford the expectant na
tions an opportunity to render the great
verdict whether we are indeed a civilized
people worthy to he entrusted with the
leadership in the cause of popular liberty—
because capable of surmounting the pas-,
sions engendered in a war of ideas—or so
steeped in inherent barbarism as to be in
capable, like kings and despots, of stifling
the savage instinct of revenge.
The execution of Mrs; Surratt, Wirz
and others, is a great blot on our national
history, only to be glossed over by the ex
cuse of indignation at a crime so stupen
dous as to madden the nation, and excite
the popular heart to a degree which made
it iucxorab’e in demanding an atoning
victim It was the misfortune of these
persons to be in the way of being seized
on as subjects whose execution seemed, to
the then exasperated popular mind, retrib
utive justice In such a condition of the
popular mind and heart, suspicion assumes
the garb of certainty, and circumstances
which would be e asily explained at the
tribunal of cool and unimpassioned reason,
are invested with the solidity of the most
damning proofs. *
Hut in the case of Mr. Davis, now,
there is quite a different condition of
things. No one, who is not himself such
a madman or fool as to be capable of any
extravagance, however absurd or crimi
nal. believes that any crime can justly be
1 •■•'■ainst Jefferson Davis, save that
of being Chief of a people ,n wvvlt ^”nst
a pre-existing Government—the head ot a
Revolutionary Government, seeking, by
torce oi arms, losonuiiy lusea into ausuiuiu
National Independence. This is the head
and front of his offending. Whatever
acts of war were committed under his
sanction and direction we venture to affirm
were strictly in accordance with the laws
of war; for he was bred a soldier, and
knows what is and what is not lawful war
fare. It is too late to say that lie was- the
leader of a local revolt, the head ot a cir
cumscribed '‘rebellion.” None but sim
pletons or fanatical demagogues speak or
: write of the late terrible struggle, as otlier
: wise than as a public, Civil W ar. The
| Government which orders his trial so re
I cognized it, in various ways.
The crime, therefore, oi Mr. Davis, if
he be criminal, is a political crime, the
, highest of which a citizen or. subject can
! be guilty—that of treason against the Gov
ernment of which lie was u citizen. 1 he
question is a novel and will be a moment
ous one, in its decision. II Mr. Davis he
i <>-,iilty of treason, and therefore worthy of
ileath on account thereof, wliat is the
; crime, and what shall be the punishment
I of almost the entire southern people, of
1 whom he was but the executive represent
ative? It would be infamous injustice to
put to death Jefferson Davis, and let the
teas of thousands of southern men—and
women—without whom he^ could have
j been nothing, go free. Nay, more if
| Jefferson Davis has been guilty of treason,
! specially and personally, what is the crime
of the Statesmen who, tor forty years and
more, have (aught doctrines of the theory
of our Government, whereof Mr. Davis has
but furnished a practical and logical ex
amplification ? What shall he done with
ihe men of Massachusetts, of Pennsylva
nia, of Illinois, and other States who, in
Ihe past legislation of those States, have
flouted the Federal Government with im
punity. basing their action upon that same
dogma of absolute State Sovereignty, the
practical exercise of which, on a larger
scale, is Mr Davis' whole offense?
We apprehend no such result of this
trial. We do not believe there is a Court
under the canopy of heaven, that will, in
view of all’ the facts, award a sentence of
treason, punishable with death, upon Mr
Davis. To do so, would ho to transport us
back into the dark ages, when the con
queror was the absolute arbiter, for life or
death, of the vanquished; and be a judi
cial promulgation to the world that this
Republic is not a national confederation
of free republican States, but a consolida
ted despotism—that the constitution of the
United States is a sham and a snare, mean
ing just the opposite of what it says—that,
it furnishes no guarantees of organic or
statutory law against the will of a majority,
and that the Judiciary Department of the
Government is but the executioner ot the
passions of the multitude.
No—this has been a great, public, Civil
War, not a petty rebellion ; and the Laws
of Nations, the Spirit of Modern Civiliza
tion, not the local statutes of this country,
not the passions and. resentments of the
victorious party, must and will determine
the status of this illustrious actor in one of
the greatest political dramas enacted in
the world’s history. Thank God*the Ju
dicial Department of the Uriited (States,
like that of the Executive in the hands of
Andrew Johnson, remains true to the high
| trust reposed in it by the Fathers and
Founders of the Republic.
Why, then, is Mr Davis kejtt incarcer
ated as if he were a common malefactor?
Other actors in the great events of the
Civil War, not less guilty than he, are at
large upon their paroles, to appear and an
siiot nnv invcUiimfinn which liciv ho or
dered upon their participation in it. V\ by
not, in like manner and upon the same
terms enlarge Mr. Davis, and tlius afford
him the opportunity of preparing for the
great argument which will determine
alike his fate and the character of our po
litical institutions ? In and of himself,
now, since the enterprise of which ho was
made the leader has utterly failed, Mr.
Davis is nothing. In not many years, at
most, ho will be beyond human [tower to
I exalt or humiliate him. Ilis political ca
reer on earth has closed. It is only us the
representative of a defeated, conquered
j and bereaved people that lie is, or can be
of political importance. If he be guilty,
| they are equally so. They feel his humili-.
i ation as if it were their own; and the
Government of the United States could
1 not so win the affections which were alien
: ated from it, by any action so much as by
magnanimity of concoct to him, their fall
j on chief There may be, and there are,
differences of judgment among them as to
the influences he exerted upon the fortunes
| of their gallant and self-sacrificing strug
gle for independence; but these are left to
| P * '
the verdict and the just revelations of
I Time. In this his hour of humiliation and
peril, they remember only that this humil
iation, this peril, came upon him in their
'service; and millions of true hearts send
up prayers to heaven that bo may have a
happy issue out of bis thraldom. The
South throbs as with one bosom in bis bc
( half, as the hour of determining his fate
approaches. Surely, a great and powerful
Government must desire to afford him all
possible lenity, consistent with its own dig
nity. Ilis enlargement, and such free in
tercourse with counsel as will afford every
possible legal means of defense, would im
meucCl" tend to restore the old affection of
the people towaru tlic Government, while
we can imagine no possible way in which
such magnanimity could be abused to its
detriment —[Memphis Appeal
The Presence of God.—The habitual con
victiou of the presence of God is the sovereign
remedy in temptations; it Supports, it con
: soles, it calms us.
I We must not bo surprised that we are
tempted. We are placed hero to be proved by
| temptations. Everything is temptatioi^to us.
: Crosses irritate our pride, and prosperity flat
: ters it ; our life is a continual warfare, but
Jesus Christ combats with us. We must let
I temptations, like a tempest, beat upon our
heads and still move on ; like a traveler sur
i prised on the way by a storm, who wraps his
| cloak about him, and goes on his journey, in
' spite of all the opposing elements.
! In a certain sense, there is little to do in
doing the will of (god. Stiil it is true that it
is doing a great work, because it must be with
out airy reserve. This spirit enters the secret
foldings of our hearts, and even the most up
right affections, and the most necessary at
tachments, must be regulated by his will;
but it is not the multitude of hard duties, it is
not restraint and contention, that advance us
! in our Christian course. On the contrary it is
; the yielding of our will, without restriction
and without choice, to tread cheerfully every
day in the path in which Providence leads us,
to seek uothing, to see our duty in the present
1 moment, to trust all else without reserve to
the will and powey of God. Let us pray to our
Heavenly Father that our will may be swal
lowed up in His.—[Fenelon.
--:
-Miss Dickinson is going to get married.
She is in advance of most young ladies, who
do not usually lecture till after marriage.
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LETTER FROM iiEX. i<R.i\T.
AA’e copy the following from the Missouri
Democrat, of the 18th.
AYasiunoton. May IT.—The President to
dny sent-a brief me-sago to the House, includ
ing the fol[owing letter from General Grant :
llEADtlUAUTEllS Abmies or the United
States, AVasiiington, II. May 1 <*. 18dd.—
To lion. K. M. Stanton, Seen tarn °f War: In
view of the long dolay in the lower Mouse in
agreeing upon a plan of reorganisation of the
army suitable to our present requirements
and the urgent necessity for early action, I am
induced to present the-matter to you officially,
and to ask the attention of Congress to it. be
lieving that wlien they have toe matter fairly
before them they will do what should be done
speedily. Atthcprcsenf time settlements are
springing up with unusual rapidity in the dis
trict of country between the Missouri river
and the Pacific ocean, where heretofore the
Indian was left in undisputed possesion.
Emigrants arc pushing on to those settlements
ana to the gold fields qf.rlie Uccky^Mfluntains
by every available highway. The people who
are flocking to those regions arc citizens of
the United States, and are entitled to the pro
tection of the Government. They are develop
ing the resources of the country to its great
advantage, thus making it the interest as well
as the duty fo give them military protection.
This makes a much greater force west of the
Mississippi than was ever heretofore required.
A small military force is required in all the
States heretofore in rebellion, and it cannot
be foreseen that this force will not be required
for some time to come It is to be hoped that
this force will not be necessary to enforce I lie
laws in those States or Nation. But the differ- •
encc of sentiment engendered by the great
war which has raged for four years will make
the presence of a military force necessary to
give a feeling of security to the people. All
classes disposed to obey the laws of the coun
try will feel (his alike. To maintain order
the Government, has been compelled to volaiti
volunteers. All white volunteers have become
dissatisfied, and claim that, the contract with
them lias been violated by retaining them af
ter the war was over ■ By reason of dissatis
faction they are no longer of use and might as
well- be discharged at once—every one now
remaining in the service. The colored volun
teer has equal rights to claim his discharge,
but as yet he has not done so. How lo.ig will
existing laws authorize the retention of this
force, even if they arc content to remain?
The United States Senate passed promptly
x bill for the reorganization of the army,
winch, m my opinion, ,ia iistreelroin objection
ns any great measure can possibly be, and
which would supply the minimum requisite
force. It gives but a few thousand additional
men over the present organization, but gives
a largo number of additional battalions ami
companies. The -public service, guarding
routes of travel over tho 1’luin.s, and giving
protection in t he Southern States, demands l lie
j occupation of a great number of postal for
many of thejn a .small company is ju*t as
efficient as one with more men in it would be. ,
i The bill before Congress, or the'one that has |
passed the Senate, gives ail increased number I
of companies by diminishing the rank and file
of each company. It is an exceedingly ap
propriate measure in t his particular, for it. pro
vides for its increase when oocasion requires
' more men. The company is t he smallest limit
| of organization that can be used without ma
j terially injuring discipline and efficiency.
The belief that Congressf would act promptly
! in this matter, if their attention was called to
j it, lias induced me to respectfully call your
i attention to it, and if you agree with mo in
this matter, 1 would also ask, if you deem il
proper, that this, with suuli endorsement as
; you may be pleased to make, ba*laid before
Congress, through the -Speaker uf the House 1
Very respectfully,
U S GRANT, Lieut. Cicn. j
This letter was referred to the Military j
Committee. Ail effort was mads to coupled
with if instruction* that the Committee at
once report the pending Senate bill reorgau- !
Ling and enlarging the army, but the endt ttVsr
was not successful. That Committee, as is
well known, is much opposed to the Senate ;
bill. It is understood 1 bat they have inform
ally agreed upon a modified form of their own I
bill some time ago, but the temper of the I
j House has been so adverse to uiy army bill i
that they have not fell warranted in bringing
it forward. The letter of the Lieutenant Gen- j
[ eral will probably give some gentlemen new
ideas of the wants of the country, and it is 1
! likely the House will bo constrained to early
action in the matter.
-o<8>»
Tun Lawks’ Man.—Hy bis air and gait, the
I ultra-fashionable style of bis clothing, the
i killing curl of his mousin'.-he, the “look and
; die” expressions of bis simpering face, ids
: stream of small talk,and sundry other signs
■ and tokens of a plethora of vanity and a lack
! of soul and brain, yop may distinguish at a
i giance itie ja liv'dimt who plumes himself a
' -ladies-man.” ITis beilcfto Ws own irrespoa- |
j sibility is written all over him And to say fho !
truth your ladies men have some grounds for 1
tlieir self-conceit. It is indubitable that girls ,
UU 5UU1U llliuiii liiu III iy»o, ui nuw .''u^jihov uidj i
love, fellows who look its il'tliey had walked
out of tailor’s fashion plates—creatures that
by tbe aid of llie “make up” of human popin
jays, have been converted into superb exam
ples of what art can affect in the way of giving
man an unmanly appearance. The woman
who marries one of these flatterers is to be:
pit ied; for if she has any glimering of common j
sense, and a heart under her bodiee, slio will j
soon discover that her dainty husband has no j
more of a man’s spirit iu him than an autom
atic figure on a Savoyard’s" hand-organ. But
a woman worth a true man’s love is never
caught by such a specimen of ornamental
hallow-ware. A sensible woman is, in fact,
a terror to “ladies men,” for they arc aware
that her penetrating cyo looks through them,
and sounds the depth of their emptiness.
She knows the man indeed from the trumpery
counterfeit and has no touoh of the mackerel
propensity to jump at a flashy bait, in her
wholesome composition. The ladies man
1 should be permitted to live and die a bachelor.
ilis vocation is to dangle after the sex, to talk
j soft nonsense, to carry shawls and fans, to as
tonish boarding school misses, to kindle love
flames ns evanescent and harmless as the fizz
of a squib. If, however, he must needs be
1 cornea Benedict, let him be yoked with some
vain and silly flirt, his natural counterpart.
! So shall the law cf fitness not be outraged.
-A celebrated character, who was sur
rounded by enemies, used to remark: They
are sparks which, if you do not blow, will go
out of themselves.
Origin of “Skbino tiir Elkpiian-t.—About
thirty years ago, nt one ot' the theaters, a
pcgeaut was in rehearsal, in which it was
necessary to have an elephant. No elephant
was to be had. The “wild beast” T-ere. all
traveling, and the property man, manager and
stage director almost had fits when they
thought of it. Days passed in the hopeless
Disk of trying to secure one, but lit last in
genuity triumphed, and the elephant was
made to order of wood, skins, paint and vnr
nish. Thus far tho matter was very well, but
as yet they found no means to make the com
bination travel. Here, again, the mnnngopi
stage director and property man struck out,
and two “broths” Wfcre duely installed as
legs. Ned Cov, one of the true genuine
“h'linys,’’ held the responsible position of
fore legs, and for several nights played that
heavy part to tho entire satisfaction of the
managers and tho delight of the audience.
The part however was a very tedious one, as
the elephant- was obliged In bo on the
stage for about an hour, aud Ned was rather
too fund of tho bottle to remain without ,
“wetting his whistle,” so lie set his wits to
work to find a way to ibirry, a wee drop with .
him. Tho eyes of tho elephant being made
of two porter bottles, with the neck in, Ned
conceived the briliant idea of filling them
with good si uff. This.lie fully carried out, and,
elated with sucess, lie willingly undertook to
play fore legs again.
Night came on, the theater was densely
crowded, the music was played in the sweetest
strains, tho curtain arose and tho play began,
Ned and the “hind legs” marched upon the
stage. The elephant was greeted vvitli round
after round of applause; the decoration and
trapping were gorgeous. The elephant and t ho
prince upon his back were loudly cheered.
The play proceeded—The elephant Was
marched round and round upon tho stage.
The fore legs gut dry, withdrew ouo of the
corks and treated the hind legs, and then
drank the health of the audience in a bumper of
genuine, elephant-eye .whiskey, .a brand, till
then, unknown. The’ concluding march was
to be made—the signal was given, and the
fore legs went staggering to the front of the
stage Tho conductor pulled the elephant’s
car to the right—the fore legs staggered to the
left. The foot lights obstructed the way, and
he raised his foot and stepped into the or
chestra! Down went the fore legs on the
leader’s fiddle over of course, turned the
elephant, sending the prince and the hind
legs into the middle of t he pit. Tho managers
stood horror-struck—the princes and hind
the actors choking with laughter, and poor
Ned, casting one look, a strange blending of
drunkenness, grief and laughter at the scene,
tied hastily outoftho theater, closely followed
by the leader, with the wreck of" his fiddle,
performing various cut and thrust motions in
the air. The curtain dropped on asoenc behind
the scenes. No move pageant—no more fore
legs—every body .held their sides. Music,
actors, pit, hoses and gallery rushed froin the '
theater, shrieking between every breath —
“Haveyou seen the elephant?
MiSL'KLLA^WS irl-m
--How many knaves do you suppose live
in this street besideyourself ? Beside myself!
Do you mean to insult me? Well, then, ho .v
many do you reckon including yourself ?
-A smart young lawyer’s clerk, bearing
it stated by a lecturer that ‘‘man is merely a
machine,” remarked, Then I suppose an attor
ney may bo said to be a suing machine.”
A Tact or Won.—“1 clasped her tiny hand
in mine, Ida sped her beauteous form : l vowed
to shield her from (he wind, and from the
w •rhl.s cold storm. .She set her beauteous
eye: ori me. the tears did wildly flow, and with
her little lips she said, ‘Confound you ! lotmo
go.”’
A Snap JrimnR.vr.—A clergyman on nno
occasion received up fee for marrying a parsi
monious couple, and meeting them several
mouths after iu a social gathering, took up
the. baby and exclaimed: “I believe I have
a mortgage on this child !” Baity's father,
rather than have an explanation before the
company, quietly handed over a §5 bill.
-A country editor is an individual who
reads newspapers, writes articles op any sub
ject, sets type, reads proof, works press, prints
jobs, runs on errands, saws wood, works in
thegarden. talks to all who call, receives blame
for a hundred' things that are no one's business
but his own, works from fi a si fo 10 p. m.,
and frequently gets cheated out of one-fourth
his earnings,
-Prentice says that the war of arms is
at an Aid but the war of ideas still rages. The
bloodshed of tlie former is ouly equaled by tho
iukshed of the latter.
-“Well, Miss,” said a knight of die birch,
“can you decliue a kiss ?” ‘Ves, sir,1’ said
the girl, dropping a perplexed eourtesy, “I
carl—but 1 hate to, most plaguily.”
-It is not tho gold or diamonds about a
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-A soliool-cpmuiittec writes; “We have
a school-house large enough to accommodate
four hundred pupils four stories high.”
——The Spaniards say: “At eighteen
marry your daughter to her superior ; at t wenty
tohercqual; hut at thirty to any one who will
have her.”
-The English Government won't allow
its soldiers in China to use umbrellas.
-To bo shamed out of religou is to be
shamed out of heaven.
-She that, marries a man, because 1 lie is
a good niat.ch,” must not be surprised if he
turns out a “Lucifer.”
-Many, says l’reatice, who think a great
deal of the maxim that “tho truth should
be told at all times.” can t be made to under
stand that falsehood never should.
-A bill will be shortly introduced in tho
house directing the secretary of the treasury to
refund to the proper party of parties the amount
of tax paid under section seven of the acts Hi
increase the internal revenue and for other
purposes, passed March 7, 1804, upon spirits
imported prior to the date of said aot.
——On the 10th, a torpedo, which had been
sunk for three years and one month in
Charleston harbor, exploded oft' the beach of
Sullivan’s Island, near battery "11,” in about
eight fathoms of water. It is supposed to
have been exploded by the dragging of a ves
sel’s cable. It lifted au immense volume of
water, aud presented quite a grand appear
ance,