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ATffiWS.
ooon wen nest.
A little time and wc shall rest
From all.tbe ills of life;
A little time—and then will cease
Its joys, its cares, it strife.
Each heart’s wild throbbing will be Still.
Its restless longing cease ;
Who’ll weep that we aro sleeping thus,
’Neath the green sod of peace ?
Oh ! should there be one loving heart
Thus kindly beat for me—
Refreshing with a silent tear
The dowers of wteuiory—
IT! bemt me from Che he'me of light,
V, If such to me ia given,
And be that spirit’s guiding/star,
To bring it up to Heaveu.
The Volunteer Counsel.
John Taylor was licensed, when a
yot|(h of twenty-one, to practice at the
bat. He was poor but wc^l educated,
and possessed extraordinary- genius.—
He married a beauty who afterwards
deserted him for another.
On the 9th of'April, 1810, the Court
house at Clarksville, Texas, was crowd
ed to overflowing. An exciting case
was about to bo tried, (ieneral Hop
kins, a wealthy planter, had offered a
gross insult to Mary Ellison, the young
n»d beautiful wife of his overseer.—
The husband threatened to chastise him
for the outrage, when Hopkins went :
to Ellison's and shot him at his own
door. The murderer was arrested and
bailed to answer the charge. This oc
currence produced a great excitement,
and Hopkins, in order to turn the tide
of popular indignation, circuisted re
ports against her, and she sued him for
slander. Both suits were pending—for
murder and slander.
The interest became deeper when it
was known that Ashley and Pike of
Arkauias, and S. S. Prentiss, of New
Orleans, by enormous fees, had been
retained to defend Hopkins.
Ilopkins was acquitted. The Texas
lawyers were overwhelmed by their
opponents.
The slander suit was for the 9th, and
the throng of spectators grew in num
ber and excitement. Public opinion was
lor Hopkins, liis money had procured
« i messes wxio served ms powerful ad
vocates.
When the slander rase was called.
Mary Ellison was without an attorney,
all had withdrawn.
“Have you no counsel ?" asked Judge
Millctt, looking kindly upon the plain
tiff.
"Xo, sir, they have all deserted me.
md I am too poor to employ any one,’’
replied the lady, glancing around the
bar.
The lawyers were silent.
“I will, your honor,” said a voice
from the thickest part of the crowd be
hind the bur.
At the sound of that voice many
started—it was unearthly, sweet and
mournful.
The first sensation was changed into
laughter, when a tall, gaunt, spectral
figure, elbowed his way through the
•rowd and placed himself within the
liar, ilis clothes were so shabby, that
the Court hesitated to let the case pro
reed under his management.
“Has your name been entered upon
the rolls of the State?” demanded the
I udge.
“it is immaterial,” answered the
Granger, his thin, bloodless lips curling
with a fiendish sneer. “Hero is my li
cense, from the highest tribunal in the
land !" and lie handed the Judge along
parchment.
The trial went on.
lie suffered the witnesses fotell their
own story, anil allowed the defense to
lead off; Ashley spoke first, thou l’ike
and Prentiss. The latter brought the
house down with cheers, in which the
jury joined.
It was now the stranger's turn. lie
rises—before the bar, not behind it—
and so hear the, wondering jury that lie
might touch the foreman with his long
bony fingers, lie proceeded to tear to
pieces the arguments of Ashley, which
melted away at his touch like frost be
fore the sunbeam. Every one looked
surprised. Anon ho came to the daz
zling wit of the lawyer, l’ike—the curl
of his lip grew sharper, his thiu face
began to kindle up, and his eyes to
open. (Inn and dreary no longer, nut
vivid as lightning, red ns fire globes,
and glaring as meteors, Die whole soul
was m his eye; Die full heart streamed
out of his face.
Without bestowing an allusion to
Prentiss, lie turned short around on the
oel'jui ud witnesses of Hopkins, tore all
their testimony into shreds, and hurled
into their fares such terrible invectives
that all trembled like aspens and two
of hem tied from the Court House.—
The excitement of the crowd was now
becoming tremendous. Their united
litj and soul seemed to bang on the
turning tongue of t ho stranger; lie in
spired them with the powers of bis ma
lignant passions; be seemed to have
stolen nature’s long hidden secret of at
traction. Hut his greatest triumph was
yet to come.
His eyes began lo glance at the as
sassin Hopkins,as his lean, taper fingers
assumed Die same direction, lie hem
med the wretch with a wall of strong
evidence and impregnable argument,
cutting oil all hope of escape. Ho dug
beneath the murderer’s feet ditches of
dilemma, and held the slanderer up to
the scorn and contempt of the popu
lace.
Having tlms girt him about with a
circle of lire, he stripped for Die mas
sacre.
Oil, then it was a vision botli glori
ous anil dreadful to behold the author.
ins fictions became as impetuous as the
motion of an oak in a hurricane. His
voice became a trumpet tilled with
wild whirlpools, deafening the car with
crashes of power, and yet intermingled
all the while with a sweet under song
of the softest cadence.
His face glowed like a heated furnace
while his countenance was haggard as
that of a maniac, and ever and anon he
flung his long, bony hands on high, as
if grasping after thunder bolts.
He drew a picture of murder in such
appalling colors, that in comparison
hell might be considered a beautiful
place.
Ho painted the slanderer so black the
sun seemed dark at noon-day, when
shining on such mi accursed monster;
and then fixing both portraits on the
shrinking man, closed by a strange ex
hortation to the jury, and the bystand
ers.
He advised the panel, after they
should tiring in a verdict for the plain- j
tiff, not to deal harshly with the do- '
fondant, however richly lie deserved
it; in other words not to “lynch the ■
villian, but leave his punishment with
God.”
This was undoubtedly the most artful
trick 6f all, and best calculated to in
sure vengeance.
The jury returned a verdict of fifty j
thousand dollars, mid the night after- j
wards Hopkins was dragged from his !
bed by lynchers, and beaten almost to 1
death.
As the court adjourned, the stranger
said :
‘‘.John Taylor will preach here this*
evening at early candle light.”
He did preach, and the house was
crowded. I have listened to Clay, Cal
houn and Webster—to Dwight, Beech
er and Bascomb—but never heard any j
thing. In the form of sublime words,
even remotely approximating to the el
oquence of John Taylor—massive as »
mountain, and wildly rushing as a cat
aract office.
The Reconstuction Plan in the South.:
i here appears to be considerable ex-1
eitement in the South on the subject of
the Military bill and the plan of recoil- j
struction it proposes. The agitation :
ol the subject of acceptance or rejection
nas cominenceu in Georgia with much
spirit, Ex-Governor Joe Brown has ta
ken the lead in tlie advocacy of the
acceptance of the terms prescribed hv
Congress, and it was fitting that he
should. A thorough-paced demagogue,
who lias an eye single to his own in
terests, and is governed in his every
movement and impulse by what lie
thinks will redound to#his own bene
fit, possessing little manly spirit, and
hut a languid sense of honor, lie lias
ever stood ready to barter offtheinter
osts and honor of his State and section
tor his own personal aggrandizement,
lie lias written a long letterin response
to one addressed to him by a parcel of
individuals, the greater portion of
whom are controlledV>v similar impuls
es with himself, men who were either \
among the earliest advocates of the
revolution and then in total disregard
of all the requirements of patriotism, I
used it tor their own emoluments, !
while others were left to tight out the
war which they had precipitated, or
were actually hostile io the Confeder
acy. 1 hey and Joe Brown amassed
fortunes by questionable speculations,
while the men whom they had guided
to to the vortex of revolution were
••inking theiAives for principles which
these men did not think it worth while
ti incur any risk to defend.
All over the South we can put our
fiiger upon men of this class, who
would he prompt if they doomed it safe 1
to argo the Southern people to accept
thi* inexpressible dishonor. Having
dole nothing during the war to corn-1
meid themselves to either side, and
having gained no heritage in the glory
whidi either side achieved, they have |
notimg to sacrifice in the way of honor
and ian best subserve their personal
entenrises by (lie restoration of the
Stntei, and this they are willing to ac
001111)1811 by the surrender of the most
valuei public rights, and the last vcs
! *ifTc «' State sovereignty. They have
i no hcstation in prescribing the gallant
spirits viio professed the same princi
ples Will ’ themselves, but a lio led
| when tley dared not follow, and who
poured mt their blood on the fields of
glory wlile every thought of their sor
did and elfish souls was ben! to the ac
, cumulati u of gold which they secured
at the expose of the credit of the Con
federacy.
These ten have a holy horor of fhe
loss of thuidundcr, they so disreputa
bly acquird, and the threat of confis
cation ofScjthern property, which may
involve tlitr own lias brought them to
their knees. They now appeal in pite
ous tones to he people to (lee from the
wrath to cote, and avoid a ruin more
complete by accepting that now ten
dered-ns the vily mode of escape. This
is the point lion which Gov. Brown
chiefly relics t> move the people to his
cowardly puroscs. Confiscation is
the specter wiich haunts him, and
which lie sees 01 every side, lie points
to it as the dead alternative which
w ill surely be inflicted as the conse
quence ot furUer obstinacy. The
groat principles of liberty which, in
lMil, he so earned y urged the people
to defend, are not lost sight of, and do
not Weigh in the vale of dirty dollars,
i In* danger of thc-.-unsolidntion of the
government whiel it was then so im
portant to guard aginst and oppose, is
now a matter of Inconsiderable mo
l ment, not worthy of a thought. The
i fact that the plan of restoration which
lie now sustains is the overthrow and
I destruction of the Constitution and the
establishment of a central and grinding
despotism is unimportant; and tlie sub
stitute of the negroes for the whites as
the ruling power is a trivial matter.
Danger, fearful anil appalling, lurks in
the policy of the Congressional Jaco
bins, ready to be launched upon the
devoted South, and to crush the people
to atoms.
Gov. Iirown should know the peo
ple better than to suppose that they
can be so exclusively controlled by
fear, as lie seems to be. Vet his argu
ment is addressed wholly to their ap
prehensions of evils which are to come.
He loses eight of the fact, that the
adoption of every measure proposed,
will furnish no guaranty of security
against the legislation he so much
dreads. That if the Congress really
desired that the Southern States should
have the system they propose, incorpo
rated upon their policy, it would have
been just as easy, quite as lawful, and
no more violative of 1 he Constitution,
to have declared the system adopted,!
rebels dislrancliised, and negroes ad
mitted to suffrage, than to have left any :
part of the proceedings to their option,
and left nothing to depend upon their
assent. As tlie Constitution was nec
essarily disregarded in this scheme, it
was altogether unimportant that tlie
Southern people should be asked
to give their sanction. That
could not cure the violation of the
(.ouslitution, or give the slightest ap
pearance of magnanimity or decency to
tlie scheme. Nor will the acceptance
of these infamous conditions protect
tlie Southern people against further
persecutions and exactions. If every
demand is concedcdand these victims of
tyranny determine to submit tainelv to
all that is asked of them, and they are
restored to the Union, they would still
he helpless, and liable to confiscations1
and other penalties, with tlie despera
does who control the government see
Proper, for the gratification of their
ji.vnrif»n m* mullfn h> „ .1 .. 1
‘ f 1 ,uupu
they stood resolutely up in vindication
of their honor and their rights. Self
abasement and betrayal will have no
effect to conciliate the spirit of Jaco
binism, which riots in power, and ex
ults iu the ability to trample upon a
prostrate foe. Nothing is to he gained
by the cowardly relinquishment of con
stitutional rights, or by indorsing the
lawlessness which characterizes all the'
legislation intended to affect them.
I hey can better uttord to endure even
greater wrongs than are threatened
than they can to degrade and dishonor
themselves by abject submission.
We feel confident that neither Un
people of Georgia, nor of any other
Southern State, will listen to the craven
advice of Joe Brown or any of his
squad of dishonest demagogues. The
history of these men contains nothing j
to inspire respect for their opinions or
confidence in the houestv of their mo
tives. They are disreputable and lim
ber-kneed political tricksters who are
willing to deliver the South, bound
hand and foot, to their northern foes.
Constancy, fortitude, unswerving de
votion to principle must yet triumph
over the designs of their persecutors
and leave them vindicated and secure ;
but cowardly and unmanly concessions
will only stimulate to fresh demands
and more ruinous exactions, and leave
nothing in the track of aggression
worth preserving.—[Louisville Cou
rier.
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Provisions of the Bankrupt Act.
So many inquiries have been ad
dressed to us touching the peculiar
provisions of (lie Bankrupt act, that wo
are induced to furnish the appended
synopsis. The act itself will make a!
pamphlet of sixty pages. For the fol
lowing recitals of the provisions of the
act, wo arc indebted to the St. Louis
Hcpublicnn :
Jurisdiction of cases in bankruptcy
is vested by the law in the District
Courts of the United States, the TTi.i
ted States District Courts having su
pervisory power as courts of equity, j
Registers in bankruptcy, who must he !
counsellors in some court of record,:
will assist the Judges in the perform
ance of their duties. In case of dispu- j
ted questions, an appeal from the Reg
isters may be made to the District
( ourt Judges and thence to the Circuit
( ourt, and, in cases Uivolving tM’o thou
sand dollars and upward, to the Su
preme Court of the United States.
The act provides for two kinds of
bankruptcy, voluntary and involunta
ry. In the former any person iudebted
more than three hundred dollars, and I
insolvent, may petition the Judge of1
ihe district where he has resided for1
six months proceeding the date of his
petition, and for the longest period du
ring that six months, and thereupon be
declared a bankrupt. The creditor*'
upon notice meet ami appoint an a*-’
aigneo or aligners of the debtor; the *
appointment to be made by the credit-j
ors in proportion to their value ami
numbers of those who have proved
their indebtedness, if the creditors
cannot agree, tbe District Judge ap-!
points, or it ther* is no opposition, the
Register. The entire estate of the
bankrupt passes into tiie hands of the
assignees, who have full power of col
lection and adjustment and closing up
ol the estate. AM moaevs received are
guarded tiv Iringeilt rules for deposit
| anti safe keeping, anti in case of delay
in settlement, tbr their safe investment,
i T1|C bankrupt is always liable to be
called up fbr examination upon oath
upon all matters pertaining to his prop
erty or business transactions, and for
good cause shown, his wife also may be
compelled to appear and testify.
In the distribution of the estate, div
idendsnre to be paid as agreed upon by
the creditors, a majority in value deter
mining. But the billowing claims have
precedence, and must be paid in fuel .
First, expenses of the Bankrupt act, in-1
eluding fees, etc. Second, debts, taxes, j
ect., duo the United States. Third, '
State debts and taxes. Fourth, wages i
due operatives, clerks and servants, not j
exceeding fifty dollars, for labor per- '
formed within six months preceding
bankruptcy. Fifth, all debts due to
persons preferred by the laws of the j
United States. If no fraud appears
the bankrupt is entitled to his dis
charge. Fraud or conccnlmenl de
prives him of the right of discharge.
No person once discharged can again be
come a voluntary bankrupt, unless Ids i
assets will pay seventy per cent, of his j
indebtedness, or unless three-fourths!
of his creditors agree to his bankruptcy I
in writing. Preferences and fraudu- j
b ut conveyances are declared void. I
Provisions arc made for the voluntary 1
bankruptcy of partnerships and corpo-1
rations.
The exemptions under the laws are :
necessary household and kitchen fur-;
uituru, such articles as the assignee!
shall designate and set apart, but not to 1
exceed in value in any case five hund- j
rod dollars: also the wearing apparel
ol the bankrupt and that of Ids wife
and children, and such other property
as is exempted from seizure under ex
ecution by the United States laws, and
such other property as is exempted
from levy and sale hv tile laws of flic
•Stnte where the bankrupt resides at the
time of commencing proceedings in
bankruptcy. Involuntary bankruptcy
's declared liable to ensue under the
following circumstances: First, de
parture or abscencc from the State
where debts are due, witli intent to de
fraud creditors. Second, concealment
to avoid process tor the recovery of
a mm, concealment of prop-,
erty to avoid seizure on legal pro
cess. Fourth, assignments to delay
or defraud creditors. Fifth, arrest or
detention for seven days under execu
tion for a debt of one hundred dollars
and upwards. Actual imprisonmt for
seven days in a civil action, founded in
contract for one hundred dollars and
upwards. Seventh, assignment, gift,
gift, confession of judgment, or any
other act by which a creditor, indorsor
or surety is preferred. Eighth, dishon
oring commercial paper, nr suspending
and not resuming payment for fourteen
days.
In any of these cases one or more
creditors whoso debts reach two hund
red and fifty dollars may petition for
an adjudication in bankruptcy. The
petition must he brought within six
months after the act of bankruptcy is
committed. In involuntary bankrupt
cy, ttie proceedings are very severe, the
penalty for fraud or concealment, di
rect or indirect, being imprisonment,
with or without hard labor for a period
not exceeding three years.
1 lie hill iiad a hard tight through the
House, and was supposed to he dead
several times. It was passed by a ma
jority of two only, the vote being 73 to
71. The supporters of the hill, to save
it, consented to an amendment by
which it is provided that, in all pro
ceedings in bankruptcy commenced af
ter one year from the time the act goes
into effect, no discharge shall he granted
to a debtor whose assets do not, pay
lilty per cent, upon the claims against 1
the estate, imlesaa majority of his cred
itors, who have proved their claims, as-!
sent in writing to his discharge.
The foregoing outline of the provis
ions oftlie bill will show to creditors
fid debtors what the law is. It will
he perceived that tlioso who expect or |
liope for a discharge, entirely indepeu
rltuit />!' ... ... fi . i
— v . VI wiuiivio, n UVUI
er their assets will pay fifty percent,
or not, must commence their proceed
ings within one year from the
time the act goes into operation. Af
ter that time they are dependent on the
Assent of the creditors to their dis
charge, if their assets do not pay fifty
per .cent, of their debts.
c have picked up somewhere ■
tlie following joke, which is too good
to be lost:
A gentleman accompanied by a fine
dog, walked up to a first class hotel, ,
And recorded his name. The clerk .
nodded at the dog and saidWhat's 11
tour friend’s name ? We like to regis-' (
er distinguished visitors.” “I don’t ' 1
Anew, said the guest, “ Suppose you <
•all him ‘Andy Johnson'?” ‘•\o," i
mid the clerk, “ that would he disre- t
sportful to the President.” Suppose 1
«e write him down lien ISutler.’”! (
Vo, no, said the guest hurriedly,j r;
"ttiat would be disrespectful to the «
dog! ”—[\. o. Picayune. ,
l*sS“ ‘"Daughter, why don't you wear *
your rings ?” ’ 1
‘"Iieeauss, papa, they hurt me when *
Anybody sqtusexcs my hands."
hat business have you, I Would '
ike to know, to have your hands '
squeezed ?” '
'•Certainly none t btit still, von know
impa, one woiild like t« keep in squeez- s
iblc order.” v
t
Farmers Read This.
The following article, taken from the
columns of the Memphis Avalanche, is
full of interest to you, and it contains im
portant truths that cannot be disputed.—
Read and profit thereby :
Food ! Food ! Food 1 This is the first
pressing want of our Southern land. In
many portions of Alabama, Georgia, and
tlie Carolinas, the widows and orphans of
our Confederate dead are actually starv
ing ! Not Iruiu their misfortunes, as a oo
temporary has it; nor from the acts of
their friends. Rut first, a ruthless, de
mon soldiery marched through their fields
destroying and burning as they went, as
Edward the first, moved through unhappy
Scotland, and devastated the land because !
the people loved ‘‘the Rruco.” Then, be
fore widows and orphans could repair these
damages, came such a drouth (1866) as
has not been before seen for thirty years
Want, and suffering, and death, in appall- ,
ing forms, have visited already our woe i
stricken people; and in fine, the whole '
country is arousing to the duty of succor
or help.
Societies are being formed in almost ev
ery county of the South, for sending food
and clothing to the hungry and naked
widows and children of those gallant men
whe bravely laid down their lives that the
South might lie free IIow commanding
is thip call for help. IIow pleasantly and
cheeringly is it answered from every hill
and valley of our own land, though abun
dance lias not been among us for years.—
And, even in the distant North—the coun
try ruled by a faction which sets the obli
gations of the Constitution at defiance—
?vcn tl ere, where we have been taught
the sad lesson that our foes are in power,
and do not recognize us as “in the union”
—even their sympathy has warmed up the
human heart, and our friends, at least, are
holding meetings to aid our suffering poor.
Could we do ought else than thank them
for this ? Surely not, and wc do so hon
?stly and sincer cly, in the name of a sor
rowing people.
Rut while the pressing ills of life arc
ItiK nvnlrlnrr tl>.< umvm . a.
better side, let us not forget here, at the
South, that another important lesson is
thus taught us. It is within ourselves to
this suffering shall never be repeated
Among us. In one year we can raise two
jr three times as much food as wo can
lonsume. Let us do so henceforth and
forever. Give us full burns aud bay :
Hacks and we can defy want. As long as
ive pitch our crops for cotton alone, trust
ing to buy from the Northwest all the food
xc need, just so long shall we be liable to i
'offer lor food. Every Northern farmer
ilways has enough food on hand to last
lim a year ahead, and if the season should
ail him he never suffers, though lie may';
lot grow rich. He always has enough on '
land to feed meu and animals, and we can
lo so here.
M e have never been so forcibly remind
id of the value ol having enough on band
or all our wants, ns we were in perusing !
he following opinion of the United States '
Jouimissioner of Agriculture, touching \
die advantages of Northern and Southern
Agriculture. Who, among all of our
•eadors, would have thought that the but
er crop of New York, in 1860, was worth
wiee as much as the cotton crop of Geor
gia And yet Georgia has the decided
idvantage of being able to produce not on
y this cotton crop, which New York can
lot do, but she can also raise all the butter
die needs, it she will but do it. New
fork can raise no cotton, while Georgia
■an; but New York makes her butter
:rop twice as valuable as the cotton aud
lutter of Georgia.
If New York has this amount of butter,
>f course she has the cattle too ; and thus
ior people live on the tat of the land —
fliey know nothing of want, such as we
ire now experiencing, aud such as wc
uay always suffer if we are not true to i
mrsolves.
Again we sav to our farmers and nlnnt
>rs—“food! food 1” This first, then col
on and manufactures. This year wo can
ay the inundations for an independence
hat may bo as lasting and permanent, as
mr soil is good, and our climate gonial.—
Let us do it, both in justice to ourselves
md to the memory of the great dead,
vhoso bones bleach a laud they died to '•
nako free.
—--—
"Why YoUno Ladies Stake.—An ex- j1
hangc says the reason young ladies '
tare is because they can’t help it, as to 1
teep in the fashion they are compelled ;
o wear such a bunch of stuff at the i
iack of the head that natural hair is ,
Irawn to the highest tension, and as |
he skin of the forehead is drawn back. |
he eyes get an upward tendency that
caves the impress that the girls look '
ierce and bald. It is all a mistake.— 1
Tie dear creatures arc just as tender 1
nd lovable as they ever were, and they 1
I’ould very willingly lower their eve- 11
ids if they could, without lifting the J
rentendous ball that is bound to the I
stek ot the head in such a disudvnu- 1
igcous position. When the waterfalls ,
re dried up, tho girls will look just as
icck-cycd as they did before the ad
ent of that monstrosity of fashion. <
*®“ A negro In Vicksburg threw n t
hell in the fire to sec if the powder ]
•as l?ood. He fouud out. t
The Fortieth Congress.
Mr. Speaker Colfax, when resuming
his place, delivered the following ad
dress. It occurs to us that there never
was a speech, the first and last para
graphs of which were so remote from
each other in morals, theory and fact:
“Gf.ntiemev Elected for the third
time to this responsible and trying po
sition, I appreciate, more than ever be
fore, the importance of the trust, and
realize, more than ever, when entering
on its diffimlt duty, the absolute neces
sity ot vour confidence and support.
Xor do I overrate the gravity of our
position ns American legislators, The
years have never dropped their sands
on mortal issue so vast and grand as
ours to-day. A nation decimated by
conflict of fraternal strife; a land des
olated by the destructive march of hos
tile armies; a people with the fruits of
prolonged war ripened into the harvest
of hearts dead with the bullet, as well
as hearts heavy with bereavements and
hroktui with anguish, look anxiously
from Xortli to South alike, and by that
light should We walk, It is to guide
our steps by the justice of God and the
rights of men ; it is to banish all malice
and revenge, and to justify our faith
by our works ; it is to anchor our leg
islation on what the great commoner
of F.ngland, John Bright, declares to
tie the simple but sublime principles on
which all great national questions shall
be settled—the basis of eternal right;
it is to write on our banner these words,
that will shine brighter than the stars
which gem the Armament: ‘Liberty,
loyalty and law.’ It is to make historj
that posterity shall rise up and call u.s
blessed.
“The Congress which lias just passed
away lias written a record that will be
remembered by the poor and friendless,
whom it did not forget. Misrepresent
ed or misunderstood by those who de
nounced it as enemies; harshly and un
justifiably criticised by some who
should have been its friends, It proved
itself to he more faithful to human lib
erty and progress than nnv of its nre
deecssors. The outraged and oppressed
found in these Congressional Halls
companions and friends. Its key-note
of policy was protection to the down
trodden. It quailed not before the
migliticst^nor neglected the obscurest.
It llfled the slave up whom the nation
had freed, to the full stature of man
hood. It placed on our statute books
the Civil Rights Hill as our national
Magna Chnrta, grander limn all enact
ments that honor the American code :
and in all the region whose civil gov
ernment had been destroyed by a van
quished rebellion, it declared as a guar
antee of defence to the weakest, that
the froedman's hand should wield the
freedman’s ballot. It proclaimed there
could be no safe reconstruction on a
foundation of unrepentant rebels and
disloyalty.
"Fortunate it will be for its if, when
tve surrender these seats to our suc
cessors, we can point to a record which
will show on our history’s page like
that of the Congress which has just ex
pired.
“\\ ith such convictions of duty, 1
come to this chair to administer your
rules, hut not as a partizan. I appeal
to you lor that generous support by
which alone a presiding officer can be
sustained, pledging you in return an
inflexible impartiality which shall be
proven by my deeds, and invoking on
your deliberations Hie blessings of Him
who holds the destinies of the nation
in the palm ot Ilis hand, I am ready to
take now the oatli of offico prescribed j
by law.
The Speaker was then solemnly
sworn into office by Mr. Dawes, the j
member having the longest continued j
service, and then the Senator proceed
ed to administer the oatli to the mem
bers by States.
Soliloquy of a Massachusetts Yan
kee.
I am life, death and immortality.—
Prom me proccodeth. % me tilings are 1
produced. I am creator. I am brain, in
ellect, science, art, ingenuity, courage,
magnanimity, purity, patriotism, society,
•efinement, philosophy and philanthropy.
L navo descended 1. o. from a puro stock.
My forefather and forcmotlier wore most1
excellent people. They were courageous.
I'liey destroyed women that were witches,
md took the ears off of men and women
or eadng mince pies and walking in the
'ardent. They were quite strict though.
say from me proccedeth, i. e. invention,
mprovements, doctrines, they call “isms”
—for instance, free-love-ism—aud nut
“Cgs they say are wooden, but good if you
;ratc cm. 1 regulato the solar system by
ny wooden clocks. I am Alpha and Omc
;a. I am the philosopher’s stone, “per-!
ictual motiou” and the Kldorado they are
muting after. 1 am “uurora-boreulis,” j
nd the everlasting big elephant. I am
unrise and sunset, the Declaration of In- '
ependence, Fourth of July, Christmas,
he Union and the Constitution. Thev
ay wool grows upon my brain; not so, j
(ie,it mistake, it grows ouly upon my jj,.
elleet. Shame they should slander me.
n short, 1 am the great big one that cats
tp all the little ones.
SV> . Gold discoveries on the l'coos riv-1
r, lexas, have caused great excitement;
nd sensible Texans fear they will lead to j
lie neglect of agricultural arid industrial]
'iirsuits, which are worth more than all
he gold that can he dreamed of.
SALMAGUNDI,
OsS” A Colporteur says lie can always
find sinners, because lie tracts ’em.
tuf Parson Brownlow (hicatchs to
retire to private life, Private iifo will
suffer.
ftST One of the tnilitia sent to Lafay
ette county to “preserve Order nrr,l
serve civil process,” picked up three
buck shot not long since while robbing
a hen-roost.
S3”' What air does the young Ihoitsc
sing to (lie old mouse, when biting his
way through the scenery at the opera?
“Hear me gnaw, ma,”
ftaT’A Frenchman cannot pronounce
‘shin. The word is “slice]),” in his
mouth Seeing an ironclad, lie said to
a boy, “Ish disli a wav sheep!1” “Xb,”
answered the boy, “it’s a rain.”
JBS? A Scotch blacksmith thus defines
metaphysics: “Two men arc disputin’
tliegitlicr—he that's listenin’ disna ken
" lint lie that's speakin- means ; and he
that's speakiu' disna ken what lie's sav
in himself— that's metaphysics.”
fl®* A Western paper contain the
following:
» anted, at 111 ir office, an editor wild *g
can please everybody; also, a foreman
"’ho can so arrange the paper as t& al
low every man's advertisement to head
the column.”
A man lately made application
for insurance on a building situated in
a village Where there was no engine.—
He was asked:
“What are your facilities for ex
tinguishing a fire?”
ell, it rains sometimes,” lie inno
cently replied.
Skw-ICsteem—A schoolmaster who
had an invctcrato habit of talking to
himself when alone, was asked what
motive lie could have in talking to him
self? Jonathan replied that lie had
two substantial reasons: in tlio first
place lie liked to talk to a sensible man ;
and, in the next place, lie liked to hear
a man of sense talk.
63“ A pair of Quakers were lately
heard in hisrli noiilrnvpi-Bi- .i
exclaiming:
"Ini determined to have one quiet
week with thee I” '
"lint how wilt thou be able to get
it? said the haunting spouse, in that
reiteration which married ladies so
provokinglv indulge in.
"I would keep thee a week after thou
art dead, was the Quaker’s prompt re
joinder.
A young couple went to Rev
Ibtttl Davis to got married. Mr. D. is
a wag, and by an innocent mistake, be
gan to read ironi the prayer book as
follows :
"Man tlmt is born of woman is full
of trouble and hath hut a short time to
live.”
the astonished bridegroom suddenly
exclaimed—
"Sir, you mistake, we came to be
married.’’
"Well," replied Davis, “if you insist,
I will marry you, lint believe me, my
friends, you had much better he bu- *
tied!”
Josh Billings oii^feyer.
1 rom too many friends and from
things loose at ends, good Lord deliv
er us.
From a wifo who don't love ns, and
front children who don’t look like us,
good Lord deliver us.
I' rom snakes in the grass, from snakes
in our boots, from torch-light proces
sions, and from new rum, good Lord
deliver us.
From pack peddlers, from young
folks in love, from old aunts without
money, and kolera morbU, good Lord
deliver us.
From wealth without charity, from
ptaise without sense, pedigrees worn
out, and front all poor relations, good
Lord deliver us.
From newspaper sells, from pills
that ain't physic, from females that
faint, from men who flatter, good Lord
deliver us.
From gals that ehnw girm arid wear
dirty petticoats, and front men who
don’t love babies, good Lord deliver us.
Pi'nin rWlx... 4 V.11-V . _ . . .
.. « wwavio, aim irillII
our own ; from mormons, and inegttm
and from woman's committees, good
Lord deliver us.
From virtue without fragrance, and
butter that smells, from nigger caaiip
meetings, from cats tliat are courting
gucul Lord deliver us. °
BSf* Tho corset is not a necessary part
of a ladies’ wardrobe, and alas.’ when one
docs begin to wear corsets, she will wear
theui too small, and will tug at the laces
until her breath gets short, and she feels
it necessary to refrain from a comfortable
meal.
A loose corset injures the appearance
instead of improving it. All wo can say
is, don't squeeze, whatever you do. You
will surely have dispepsia, aud grow yel
low, and cross, and unhappy; secondly,
your hands will grow red ; thirdly, your
nose ; fourthly, you will bo unable to walk
a mile at a time; fifthly, dinner will be a
misery ; sixthly, your shoulder-blades will
grow weak ; you will be a sickly old wo
man, and brtak down at thirty Or there
about.
If these truths do not frighten women'
Irom tight corsets, perhaps the information
that gentlemen generally do not admifri
ivhat dressmakers call a “pretty figure, 'so
much as a natural uue, may have some in- *
I ucuec.