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, r:. . s /'<• • v ^ • _ 5l . .•2|"/. /-' wmm \.i.;. <_>' •' <"•' I. VAN SLYK£, Edft»r and Pufcl'sher. FTTOHENRY, ILLINOIS. fpctu! f laimlciiln jST2 ̂ TSSf̂ M ~ my wife and myself, at Richter's house, and there we talked the matter over un- $il we concluded tlmt the best thing to be done was to seek divorce." I>r. Bau- mailer is a reputable physician with a large practice. Ricliter has been a Street Commissioner, and is wealthy. In one respect he seems to get the best of the bargain, for hi| i^w^ijfe^ia^ while his old wife is 50, and he is (ft). Bau- miller is 3% A temperance movement is on foot in "Tfcxaa. In many towns and villages all the sots and drunkards have knocked off whisky and are taking chloral for their nerves. This exchange of tlie bartender lor the druggist is encouraged by the ladiea. JUDGE SWING, while presiding in the United Stale* Circuit Court at Cfticfh- nati, sprung off the bench, pulled off Iris coat, and with it extinguished flames which enveloped the head of a negro bay, who had exploded a can of alcohol iH .the eourt-room. A sTosr comes from Georgii, arid its 'truth is vouched for by the Henry Coun­ ty Weekly, that Johnny Wesbrook's hair, which, until recently, was a flam-, ing scarlet, lias turned as white as snow; And, what makes it more strange, Johnny is only 12 years old. A mad bull chased him, and his hair-dye was fright. TKB Canada Pacific syndicate has or- •derotl 20,000 tons of steel rails, to be delivered this summer. Land to the Amount of 300,000 acres has been sold, the price being 52.50 per acre, one-half the purchase money to be refunded if the territory is cultivated within three years. No bonds will be issued until the road shall have been nearly com­ pleted to the Pacific coast. CONTRARY . to general supposition, Lord Beaconsfield leaves a fair fortune, although the exact amount will not ap­ pear in the will. His wife brought him A good property, and he made some­ thing out of his books. Then that ro­ mantic old lady, Mrs. Willyams, left him £10,000 on condition that she >ahould be buried beside him at fiugh- •endan. Mrs. Willyauw is buried in the .same vault as his wife. THH public will learn with surprise as well as interest that so practical a asoieniist as Commander Gorringe has Qbeen deeply impressed by the *' Keely *tj|otor," a public exhibition of which was "Cad recently in Philadelphia. A Sorre- ,aji£>nd<uit of the New York Herald, who •poke afterward with Commander Gor­ ringe, who was present, asserts that he .s&id : "I c.m amazed at what I have seen. It is certainly one of the most re­ markable curiosities I have ever looked •upon and appears bona fide." • Aw ltalian couple, Tocci'by name, are ^.present exhibiting at Vienna a most "remarkable specimen of their progeny, a pair of twins named Jacob and Bap- tiate. ThesI boys are grown together rom the sixth rib downward, have but -on^ abdomen and two feet. The upper patt of the body is completely developed in each ; their intellectual faculties are -of a normal character. Each child thiuks, speaks, sleeps, eats and drinks independently of the other. This inde­ pendence goes so far as to admit of an ^disposition of the one without in the least affecting the other. They are over -3 years old, in perfect health, and seem­ ingly in excellent spirits. PHILIP WENZEL, of Steinbach, Ger­ many, has been sentenced to death for murdering his betrothed. Philip could not hope to marry the girl for several jsears because he had to complete his term of military service first, and when *he determined to remove with friends to another city the fear of losing her "4rfd the forebodings of jealousy caused him to take her into the garden behind her house and shoot at her until she was dead. Many a young German has prob­ ably felt like doing as Philip Wenzel has done. Military service has always b en a great burden in Germany. It has often bkghted the prospects of a life, and has destroyed the happiness of j - many a home. HE is an ungrateful brute, or else has }>een seriously imposed upon, or he wouldn't have refused to pay the bill and compelled his friend to sue him. It appears, from the testimony taken in the New York court, that the defendant wa6 too busy to do his own courting, and, suffering for the care and affection of a wife, he deputed a friend, the plaintiff in the suit, to look him up a partner. The friend was successful, and the marriage took place in due time ; but after the honeymoon was over the friend suggested that he had been sub­ jected to some expense during the court­ ship by proxy that the principal ought to pay. Ice-cream and oysters, theater tickets and bouquets, car-fare and sever al volumes of poems were among the it^xos, and the plaintiff considered them legitimate expenses; but the defendant demurred, saying, "You had your fun with her and ought not 'to grumble." Whereupon the suit was brought and is eiill pending. THE oldest ex-United States Senators now living are the Hon. Joseph Cilley of New Hampshire, and Hon. David L. Yulee, of Florida, both entering the Senate during the first session of the Twenty-ninth Congress (1846), thirty- five years ago, the former having been appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the Hon. Levi Woodbury, appointed by President Polk Judge of the United States Supreme Court. Col. Cilley was born Jan. 4, 1791, and is still living at the ancestral liomo in Nottingham, at the greatly-ad­ vanced age of 90 years, in the possession of his mental and physical powers to a remarkable degree. He served with dis­ tinction in the war of.1812-15, as did'his father in the War of the Revolution. The late Hon. Jonathan Cilley, who was killed Feb. 24, 1838, while a member of Congress from Maine, iu a duel fought by William J. Graves, member from Kentucky, was a brotner of the ex-Sen­ ator. Of the parties^ to this memorable duel only one is now surviving--ex- Senator George W. Jones, of Iowa, who was Cilley*s seoonil. Gen. Jones, then a young mail, was a delegate from the then Territory of Michigan. After the admission of Iowa into the Union in 1848, he was elected United States Sen­ ator, serving two tenms. He visited Washington during tl\e late session of Congress, and, though considerably ad­ vanced in age, is still active and in good health. The two oldest ex-members of Congress now living are the Hon. Mark Alexander, of Mecklenburg county, Ya., and the Hon. John A. Cuthbert, of Mo­ bile, Ala., both of whom entered Con­ gress in 1819--sixty-two years ago. THH case of the two Indianapolis hus- ^ bands who agreed to swap wives, by means of divorce, is curious. The couples were intimate friends, and the trade has •been amicably carried out. Dr. Bau- cauller went to St. Louis on his honey­ moon tour. "Mr. Richter and I," he said to a reporter, "are like brothers. .Not long ago I discovered that I Joved Mrs. Richter better than I did my own wife, and that she preferred me to her husband. I also discovered that Mr. Richter and my wife stood in exactly the •ame relation to each other. What were we to do? Quarrel? It was use­ less. It was so and could not be helped. I had tried to suppress my feelings, and I would have done so if I had not found that Lena, my wife, loved Richter, and that Richter loved Lena. We 4id not OULOIOIS LEGISLATURE. SATCBDAY, April 23.--SENATE.--1There was no qnorum this morning in the Senate, and no buainesB was don& HOUSE.--In the House there waa no qnornm, and baaipegs Was confined to the reading of House aud Senate bills a first tima. MONDAY, April 25.--Oniy fourteen Senators and forty-four members of the House answered to roll-call, and of course no business was pos­ sible with this small attendance. TUESDAY. April 26.--SENATE.--Senator Shaw's bill, extending the jurisdiction Of the State Court of Claims to cases arising from damage* sustained by the erection of State dams was read a third time and lost. Bills were passed: Giving County Courts the power to appoint guardians for children exposed to want or suffering from excessive dnukine, idleness, gainiug, or other misconduct of their parents; petmiUiug county authorities to sue in debt for the reoovery of delinquent taxes; the three House bills introduced "by Mr. Baldwin in r«<- gftrd to the election of county oflicer --a passed, they sinipty carry ant the provuioi so. the latest constitutional amendment adopted last falL HOUSK.--The House refused to recede from its amendments to Munn's Canal resolution, and a committee of conference was ordered. The bills for the Mieroslawski-Scharlau con­ tested-election case were wrangled over for a long time, and finally recommitted. A com­ munication was received from the Gov- ornor, inclosing a report by the ex­ perts appointed to wtimato the ex pense of rebuilding the north willg of ihe Auna Insane Aavlum. The estimates were as follows : $3l,9Ul> to restore the north wing ; $47,288 to extend the aamd in order to make it uniform with the mam wing ; $5,470 for now dining-rooms; f2,( 87 for bay-windows ; for >.n alcove ; 4)37,81)0 for an extension to the east wing, and $3,000 for furniture. Total, $ 131,081. A resolution asking the Executive for information in regard to a list of Mexican- war veterans was adopted. WEDNESDAY, April 27. --S*NATB. --The Com­ mittee on Judiciary cleaned ap its docket yes­ terday afternoon, and, as the fruits of its labors, reported a soore of bills this morning, with a recommendation that nearly all of them be tabled. Appropriation bills on'second read­ ing were then taken up and occupied the entire session. HOUSE.--A resolution was adopted asking what was the reason for the Southern peniten­ tiary on Jerbidding the Joliut institution in the keeping of United States prisoners. Mr. Car­ ter, of Adams, moved to suspend the rulea to call up (Senator Clark's resolution providing for the two apportionments at this ses­ sion--the Congressional, on the basis of twenty districts. Tbo resolution was taken up, when filibustering commenced and was kept up the whole day, the Republicans failing to aocure votes enough to pas- it, whue the Democrats refused to vote. A number of calls of the house showed abont 108 members present, while on a vote onlv from fifty-tight to sixty-eight voted. On adjournment a coil for a Kevuoliean caucus was read. THURSDAY, April 28.--SENATE.--Bills wore passed: For the establishment of teachers' in­ stitutes ; making general election and Decora­ tion days legal holidays. Senator C.tlloa'a bill > imposing a tax of 2)4 per cent, upon the gross earnings of railroads, in lieu of the capital- stock tnx; and Senator Merrkt's bill, compell­ ing insurant companies to pay policies in full in ease of loss, were raad a "thirl time and killed. Senator Hunt rose to a qu^tion of priviJege, and, paving a handsome tribute to President Hamilton as a presiding <<fti er a nd a gentleman, presented that gentleman, in the name ot th« Senators, with a li fe-size crayon portrait qf himself. HOUSK.--'The Senate Apportionment resolu­ tion «ama up th« first thing in the shape of on- finished business, and the first ballot showed the result of yesterday afternoon's e&ncus. The Republicans voted aye to a man, and ihe Democrats sat in their eoats smiling, uncon­ cerned. and refusing to vote. The result was-- yeas, 71; nays, .0--not a quorum. The at­ tempt to pass the resolution continued until 4:30 p. m., no k s* than twentv-seven roll-calls having been taken when the House adjourned for the day. FSIDAY, April 29.--SENATE.--A resolution was unanimously adopted which adjourns the Sen­ ate from to-day until Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Appropriation bills giving Johet pen­ itentiary (32,000 for repairs, and the Blind Asylum at Jacksonville §51.000 for ordinary expenses, were read » third time and passed". Senator Berggrens bill, permitting Sheriffs to take bail in criminal casus whtn oonru issuing writs are not in session at the time the arrest is made, was read a third time and passed. Senator Parkinson's Sunday Litjuor law was read a third time but failed to arrive, by a vote of yeas 23, nays 13--not enough to pass it. The State Pharmacy bill was passed by the S-nato. Senator Fuller's bi!l cmpovrcr ng Jus­ tices or the Peace to comnii de'endants iu cases of misdemeanor until the fine and costs were, paid, was read a third time and killed. HOCSK.--The deadlock continued, and was only broken just before adjournment. Person­ al explanations and roll-calls consumed the day. At last the resolution for apportionment was iaid on the table by a rote of 63 to 22, the Democrats helping to break the look, n-ni) Hoaae adjourned till Monday evening. SOUTHERN TOWNS. tfka War-lrsa ••••fwwm. I Bath's Southern letter. J The average Southern town which bn| growtt np since the war, surrounding & railroad station, consists of two to live drinking saloon, a few stores and a series of cabins or shanties of planks or logs, set hither and thither, without much reference to a town in the future. Through a long range of country there are no fences on the side of the railroad track. The trains are kept constantly whistling to avoid running over cattle or mules. This is the case within sight of Montgomery, Ala., where there are some 16,000 inhabitants. Occasionally one finds a steam saw-mill put up since the war in the midBt of the wood, sawing out lumber. The rivers are full, almost to the level of the landscape, in high water, and they ate principally efficient as to flooding the surrounding bottoms and eroding new soil for agriculture. Alto­ gether the most hopeful country in the South, for various occupations, is along the mountain lines of Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, where I saw a number of iron funiaoets, and in two or three cases cotton mills, built by Northern capital in a perfect manner. One of the furnaces which gives the name to the railroad station was called "Stonewall," after Stonewall Jackson. The rsext was called "Tecureseh," after Gen. William Te- cumseh Sherman, and is operated by ex- Senator Warner, of Alabama, who waa on Gen. Sherman's staff. Warner got into the train at his station and talked to me as far as Rome, Ga., and said to me: "There are just four towns in the. South which are picking up rapidly--Chat­ tanooga, Rome, Atlanta and Birming­ ham, Ala. My brother-in-law, Justice Woods, of the Supreme Court, is inter­ ested with me in the Tecum sell furnace. We worked along for some years during ihard times without much returns, but we are now making money, and so are the furnaces generally in this section, of which there are a dozen or more. All of them are charcoal furnaces, and two of these are said to be the largest charcoal furnaces in the world. We have orders for iron a long way ahead. The ad­ vantages of making iron here are cheap­ ness of materials and of labor." He said that they paid about one dol­ lar a day for labor, and paid about fortv or fifty centa for cut wood per cord. I "also understood him to say that the ma­ terial enteriug into a ton of iron procured on his land cost only about sixty-five cents. I presume he njeant without la­ bor. This wns disputed by Mr. Folger, who thought Warner must have had said six dollars and a half, but I am pretty sure he said sixty-live cents. Warner said that the present Governor of Ala­ bama was a pretty fair man, and that, while the State was not improping much, industry would soon startup. A bank had just burdt at Borne, Ga., and Sena­ tor Warner was just going up to see what had become of $8,000 of his furnace money deposited there. Throughout the South there is a rising opposition to any more State banks, and a general op­ position to my further noise about what is culled "States'right." I have shown you in another communication how the exasperation against "States' rights," so- called, has broken out among the most dogmatic soldiers of the rebellion, who want a better living for their families and less political theory. Suing for Pardon. This story is often told, in and about Richmond, of an interview, said to have occurred after Lee's surrender, between Secretary Stanton and Major Drewry, commander of Drewry's Bluff at the time of the attack npon it by the Union fleet in May, 1862. The Major, who had been a dry-goods merchant in Rich­ mond before the war, and who is a com­ mon-sense man of the world, knowing that all further resistance was vain, went at once to Washington to see the Secretary of War. Very doubtful whether Stanton, always stern and un­ usually overbearing, would see him, if he knew his nanje aud mission, he went into the Secretary's private office unan­ nounced. In his presence the ex-rebel, without any preamble, said: "Mr. Sec­ retary, I am Major A. H. Drewry, of Richmond. I have fought against the Federals as well as I could for four years. But now the war iB over, and I want to go to work again. I have hun­ dreds of acres of wheat land on the Jcmes; they have been sadly neglected all this time, aud they need my immedi­ ate attention. We've been whipped. I've got sense enough to know it. Now that peace has come, I want my par­ don." "On what grounds?"inquired Stanton, severely. "First, on the grounds of having hod fighting enough; secondly, because I have helped to improve your navy by showing you how poor wooden ships are m action. After I had driven off the Galena, Aroostook, and the other ves­ sels, you began to build iron -boats and made jour navy what ft ought to have been at the start. You owe me a pardon for the valuable information I furnished to your cause." Htauton relaxed as the Major went on, and finally, pleased with his candor and boldne.-a, invited him to call the next day at a certain hour. Drewry was prompt. The two hod a long talk, the Secretary gaining much needed informa­ tion about the South, its condition, and prospects, and handed the Virginian his pardon. The Major kept his word. He went to work immediately, and has continued • to work ever since, without troubling himself about politics or political theo­ ries. If more of the Southerners had imitated his example the South would be in a far better condition than it is to­ day. He was, we believe, much blamed in Richmond for wiiat was called his precipitance iu suing for^Federal favor; but results have shown his wisdom, if not his patriotism.--York Timt*. Listeners. . Nothing ia truer than the saying that listeners never hear any good of them­ selves. Why it should be so cannot be explained; but, although kind woids are often spoken of a listener, he never hears tbem. Praises may be lavish, but it is only the cruel criticism that catches the ear of the listener. Kindly excuses may be uttered, but it is the reproach which the erring one inevitf.bly hears when he becomes an eavesdropper. I think that in early youth every ro­ mantic person has had the idea of listen­ ing to the conveisation of his intimates for the purpose of making suro which were true-hestted; but one who has ever curried out the sentimental plan probably became aware that by this mothod he would be apt to prove him­ self without a friend in the world; for, by some strange trick of fate, those who have concealed them*elves behind cur­ tains to hear their own pruise generally remain there, shocked by cold or satir­ ical remarks, and do not end the little drama, as they intended, by bouncing out with a cry of, "My dear friends, I know your true hearts now; I know you all adore me;" but glide away sadly and miserably, with a large store at . * i; Wmm. budding suspicions and grudges which ate to rfprft fwto very bitter fruit. And yet, there is not always reason for this. The tongue is a very unruly mem­ ber, and expresses momentary emotions more re&dily tlian it does abiding Senti­ ments, and <>n0 may thoughtlessly say some veryIrritlttmg or unpleasant thing about you. who is really vour friend at ^ in Xew °r ' ym-Htd'-r '• ' INTERESTS! PARAGRIPK Tocso'iaen maybe |oo fre^ but egos --never. WE have no objection to a man*# bor­ rowing trouble; but we want him to keep it to himBelf after lie has borrowed it -- Buffalo Courier. "WOMEN "are either thinking about nothingjor else thinking about something else." This passes for wisdom because it was said by Dumas. , SINCH 186C nine thousand divoroes have been granted in Italy, Milan being set down for no less than three thousand. Since 1870 Rome has had six hundred. AN exchange remarks that gout, which is becoming quite fashionable, will never affect the editorial profession, as cracker and beer lunches never produce so high- toned a disease. WHEN Pliiladftlphiams see a tnqpi, with a black eye,, bloftdy obee, and g«n«ra£y larrnpped appearance, th^y point to hiSn and whisper: "He's a statesman."-- Bo*ton JPost A cHtiRcrt never splits on account of its numerical strength. Tt is only when two deacons can't decide which one is to boss the sexton that need is found for another building and minister.--Detroit Free Prese. ACCORDRND to Professor Swing, "the coming man will be. temperate, chaste, merciful, just, generous, charitable, large-hearted, sweet-tempered, Christian, a good neighbor and faithful citizen." What a nice time the coming wom^a will have. A WHITER in the London Truth says that the "fifteen puzzle" was worked out in Hutton's "Recusations iu Mathemati­ cal Science" more than fifty years ago. The Hindoos, ^ Chinese, aud Egytiaus were familiar witli £hc pxurzla, the square of sixteen being consecrated to Jupiter. A man is eitiitor a fool era physician at forty, and when he is the latter there is no physician--in this country at least --who can teach him anything. He knows somebody's domestic medicine by heart, and ifnagpfcaB he is suffering from every disease known to the books. In a medical point of view it is occasionally not a bad thing to be a fool. WHEN a Chinaman dies on the hpaje- ward passage from Sau Fnutcisep to China, his remains are embalmed by his companions, in a simple bnt effective method. A gash is cut in his neck, and an artery opened, and about two gallons of arsenical solution injected into the veins by means of a hand pump. The artery is then tied up „a«d the body placed in a box; Tns: following figsjes hate been pub­ lished, giving, it is said, the exact num­ ber and nationality of soldiers who were engaged on tiie Union side in the "lato t u i p l e a s a n t n e a a i r r i t 1 - w x-' -'risrrtnt. ...1,523.300 76.43 . . . 6 3 , 5 0 0 8 . 7 6 . . . 1 4 4 , 2 0 0 7 . 1 4 . . . 8 8 , 8 0 0 2 . 4 0 . . . 4 8 , 4 0 0 2 . 3 3 . . . 4 5 . 5 0 0 2 . 2 6 . . . 2 6 , 5 0 0 1 . 3 3 Native Americana German Irish British American Other foreigners English Foreigners uukuowa.. Total number 2,018,'"H) A YOUNG Italian painter, Signor Carlo, in Paris, has been, astonishing a select circle of spectators with some wonderful perfbrtnances in tH&Vay of rapid execu­ tion. A membt>r of the company chooses a subject, and without a mo­ ment's reflection, the painter proceeds to depict it on a large canvas, six feet by three. In four at five minutes the pic­ ture is finished a;sd ronlete with details. Of course, being prixluceii at such a rate, the work leaves much to be desired; but as an instance of lightuing sneed, combined with a harmopions ensemble, it is simply marveldus/ ^ A Pleasing Incident. There is a lady living in a little four- room cottage in the environs of Boston, whose name is well known to literary people. She depends wholly upon her own exertions for the support of herself aud children, aud does all her own house­ work, yet her cottage is the focus of the best society of the locality. A gentle­ man calling tkere recently was received at the door lw a daughter of the lady, who told him her mother was too busy to be called, but that he cotild see her in the kitchen if he pleased; and he fol­ lowed her to that room. The lady greeted him without the least embarrass- ment, though she had on a big apron and her sleeves were pinned back to her shoulders. She was cutting a pumpkin into strips for pieS; and there sat a ven­ erable gentleman gravely paring the strips to the accompaniment of brilliant conversation. I was asked to guess who the gentleman wss, and, after several fruitless attempt*, was told that it was the poet Longfellow. While the pump- kin-paring was a success,; snotht* dis­ tinguished poet called, and he also in­ sisted upon being impressed into the rervice. It was a dreary day outside, aud no one cared to leave the pleasant cottage, so they ill stayed to lunch, one of the pies forming the mree de resist­ ance of the occasion. Speaking of this incident afterward the lady said: " My friends are kind enough to come and see me, thongh they know I cannot leave my work to entertain them. Visiting and work must proceed together, and when I set my callers at work. with me we are sure to have an agreeable time."--Lip- pincotL Pleas« Poit Fret. There is one sin which seems to me is everywhere and by everybody midar* estimated, and quite too much overlooked in valuations of character. It u the sin of fretting. It is as oommon as air, as speech; so common that unless it rises above its usual monotone we do not even observe- it. Watch an ordinary coming together of people, and see how many minutes it will be before somebody frets --that is, making a more or lew com­ plaining statement of something or other, which, most probably, every one in the room or the stage, or the street car, or the street corner, as it may be, knew before, and which, most probably, nobody can help. Why say anything about it? It is cold, it is wet, it is dry; somebody has broken an appointment, ill-eooked a meal; stupidity or bad faith somewhere has resulted in discomfort. There are always plenty of things to fret about. It is simply astonishing how annoyance and discomfort may be found in the course of every day's living, even at the simplest, if one only keeps a sharp eye out on that side of tilings. But even to the sparks flying upward, in the blackest of smoke, there is a blue aky above, and the less time they waste on the road the sooner they will reach ifc. Fretting all time wasted on tbe road.-- Helen Hunt. FRYRA FUSILLADE. rtee Rattling Fire Dellwre* M Ihe Democratic I.trat* bf iha Junior Sen* al*r from naiae. [Prom the Congrenioaal flMb*] OKSTLEMEX: We said to yon when this contest started here that we intend­ ed to fight on this line till a solid South, made solid in these devious ways, lost its Bolidity. We recognize in' the fight in Virginia the entering wedge, and be* cause we recognize it as the entering wedge, and for that reason alone, we have determined to stand by it, to give it our amen and amen, hoping that sooner or later the South may rise up to the dignity of free and independ­ ent States and yield to every man, white or blacK, his rights. Senators from the South, we shall make that fight forever, unless victory comes before forever ends. It is certain, " though the mills of the gods grind slowly, yet they grind ex­ ceeding small." Sir, the gentlemen may smile at the expression of the Senator from Pennsyl­ vania (Mr. Cameron) of warning, but they need not. They should remember history. It has been written in this country for our benefit and for the benefit of men aspiring to freedom the wide world over, and the man for whom history is written, who reads it not, and learns no lesson from it, is a fool. There were, unfortunately, two civilizations in this land of ours ; the one the civiliza­ tion of the Northk founded upon the school-book and Bible; the other the civilization of the South, planted upon slavery; the one a pure democracy, the other an aristocracy sitting down upon barbarism. They could not live side by side in the same country. There was an irrepressible conflict sooner or later to open up between them, and God was to give the victory to one or the other. Both could not live forever in a free country. Barbarism grew, and grew, oh, so fast, so strong--grew so powerful that she seemed to have had her grasp upon the whole broad country. Instead ot freedom being the corner-stone, it was slavery, it was barbarian!. You grevr ao strong that vou swallowed up the great parties of the country, so strong that you bought great territories to strength­ en yourself still more, so strong that you made laws even for a free people, so powerful that you put on the statute book the most infamous laws that were ever recorded on the statute books of any country, civilized or uncivilized, in the wide world. You grew PO strong that you euacted a law and compelled the freedom of the North to submit to it, which, iu the old Commonwealth of Massachusetts, right in sight of Faneuil Hall, where liberty was said to have been bom, compelled Massachusetts men to shoulder the musket, and, 2,O K) strong, hunt down one poor black man, to deliver him to his master, and the bar­ barism was so insolent and wicked that when the poor fellow was brought home to bondage it built bonfires on every hill all over the Southern land, and made the Southern heart rejoice with joy ex- cdeding. It grew so strong that finally it reached out its poisonous hand to seize upon the free Territories, and then, for the first time, seemingly, the civiliz­ ation of the North--born of the Bible andthe school-book--woke up. It started into power, called a halt, and suid to your barbarism, " Thus far, and not one step further, forever." The barbarism was so insolent that it levied war--tried to destroy the country --but civilization, now alive to its du­ ties, raised armies, built navies, equipped both, fought you for four years, made your rivers run red with blood, finally conquered you--conquered secession-- conquered the infamous doctrine of se­ cession--and then the war was over. Suppose barbarism had triumphed, what would this country have seen? Would not estates have been confis­ cated ? Would not great cities have bean pillaged and burned ? Wyuld not men have l»®n huug in the North ? Ah, but thank God, civilization--born from the Bible as well as the school- book--prevailed, and not a dollar was confiscated, not a m»u was hung, not a man was punished, aud when the great commander aaid to the Congressmen, "Go home in peace, be good citizens, and I will take care of you," the great heart,of the North said: "Amen and amen," and you went home. In the meantime we had made 4,000,- 000 men, women and children free. While you were carrying on the war they stayed at home, worked your farms, and took care of your wives and your little children. They were faithful, they were kind, they were tender, they never betrayed you. Not one. The Northern civilization thought that with that record for the colored man his chivalrous master, the white man of thd South, would give him every right he was entitled to, out of gratitude, if fqr no other reason, and it left the colored race in your hands, and then the very first Legislature you oalled together, with the spirit of barbarism still hover­ ing over you, enacted the infamous laws reducing the black man to a serf­ dom worse than slavery, the la\ts the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Boar) read here in this distinguished presence the other day. When the story of these law* came to us at the North we could not believe it, but we were forced to be­ lieve, and then determined tfaat the black man should have his rights, and to that end we put the ballot in his hands. We made him a citizen of the United States, your equal in the eyes of the law, and then you commenced the contest, the bitterest, suvagest history that ever was written on the page of any his­ tory in the wide world, pagan, barbaric or civilized. The gentlemen may deny as much as they please, but the couutry knows that thousands and tens of thou­ sands of black voters were killed in cold blood in your Southern States. You men know it in Mississippi; the Sena­ tor from Louisiana knows it in Louis­ iana. Ah, gentlemen, the pen of his­ tory, with its iron point, has written the terrible story of those few years in your bright Southern land, and your children ana their children reading it will hide their faces in their hands and their hands in the dust I li*ve no desire to recall or recite it. The North deter­ mined thiit it should stop. We sent oar armies down there, ami it did stop. Our armies st^id there, scattered through tliu South, and the black man exercised his right of suffrage. Then time wore on. Mr. Hayes was elected President. You went to him; you made him brilliant promises, and, allured by those promises, he withdrew 1 the soldiers, and from that day to this you have had a solid South. From that day to this you say it has been peaoeable. About so is the graveyard peaceable. From that cay to this you say it has been free, fair votiug and an honest count. I put upon record here evidence contradicting that. We in the North know to-day that you are refusing the black man the rights which have been aceorued him, and now, impelled liy our civilization, wo come once more, and we say to you solemnly that every o.tizen of the United States, white or black, foreign-bom or native-born, thall have and enjoy all the rights granted to him by the constitution of his country* aud more, we say to you now, compelled bv that same civilization, that the laws of the United States upon this statute book shall be enforced in every inch of territory over which floats the stars and stripes, and, Senators from the South, by the help and in the name of Al­ mighty God, to* «iil accomplish that purpose. Outraged Democratic Virtue. Th® Democrats are disposed to assume a virtue though they have it not. They are terribly wrought up just now over what they call an " outrageous political bargain " between the Republican Sena­ tors and Mahone, of Virginia. Thev justify their present obstructive tactics in the Senate on the ground that it is a high moral duty they own the oountry to resist the consummation of thisbar- gun." Their virtuous indignation arises from two causes--first, because th« Senator from Virginia should refuse obedience to the Bourbon caucus and act with the Republicans; and, secondly, beoanse the Republicans should consent to avail themselves of the co-operation of one whom the Democrats please to call a 1 * repudiator." Thp Democratic mana­ gers eee no contradiction in this state of things. The Democratic caucus might avail itself of thevoteof a "repudiaior," and the transaction would be all right; but if the Republicans entertain such a person the spectacle is disreputable ! How the Democratic politicians can get up even the appearance of resent­ ment at the suggestion of a "bargain," is difficult to understand. There is no, kind of political trade which the Demo­ crats have not tried within the past few years in their unceasing effort to grab the spoils of office. They took up Hor­ ace Greeley and agreed to make him President if he could draw enough votes from the Republicans to constitute a majority with the Democratic votes. That was certainly a more serious " bar­ gain" than the effort to make a friend of Mahone's Sergeant-at-Arms iu the Sen­ ate. The Democrats have also bar­ gained with the Greenbrckere and pandered to the Communists wher­ ever they thought they could gain party advantage by such a course. Why is Mahone's association with the Republicans any more of a 1' bargain " than his association with th& Democrats would have been ? Why is it any more disreputable than the associa­ tion ol David Davis with the Demo­ crats ? Mahone was elected as an Inde­ pendent. During the canvass he bitter­ ly opposed the Bourbons, with whom, now lie is elected, he refuses to act. The majority of those who sent him to the Senate are Republicans. He claimed, however, to be free of all obligation to eklier of the existing parties in the United States Senate. The Democrats endeavored to persuade him to vote and act with them. He refused. Ill voting and acting with the Republicans he lias furnished no more evidence of venality thau if'he had gone into the Democratio caucus, and his attitude is more consist­ ent now than it would have been then. Affectation of Democratio contempt for a " repudiator" is just as transparent as assumed indignation at a " bargain." If Mahone is objectionable to the Dem­ ocrats on tiiis ground it is because he is not enough of a repudiator. He wants to pay two-thirls of the old Virginia debt and leave the other third to be paid by West Virginia, which enjoyed its bhare of the benefits. The Bourbons don't want to pay any part of this debt, 1jut merely to keep tlie account. On the Democratic side there are repudiati­ on of alt shades and degrees. There are these representing constituencies who "scaled their State and local debts, and there are also those who pro­ posed to repudiate the entire national debt, and made a Presidential cam­ paign upon that issue. Au exhibition of Democratic resentment at any kind or degree of repudiation is, therefore, sim­ ply ridiculous. These same Democrats would have gladly welcomed and eager­ ly defended Mahone if he had consented to take his seat on the Democratic side. The Democrats will not be able to conceal from the country that they are obstructing publio business for the sole and selfish puri>ose of retaining Confed­ erates and Bourbons in a few subordi­ nate places in the Senate. It may be that the Republican effort to gain pos­ session of these samo places does not warrant a suspension of executive busi­ ness, but even that theory does not ex­ cuse the Democratio policy of obstruc­ tion nor warrant the Democratic pre­ tense of superior virtue.--Chicago 1'rib- une. ' How the Golden Legend Was Written. In the summer of 1851 Longfellow wrote his poem, " The Golden Legend," and it was the good fortune of the edi­ tor of the Republican--then a composi­ tor and proof-reader--to set the type and correct the proofs on that work. It was stereotyped in the old University print­ ing office at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The copy was written with a blunt lead- pencil, on rough'(or unsized) white paper of ordinary letter-page size; the lines were widely separated, but in a rather cramped back-hand, and sometimes illeg­ ible. The poet used classic and eccles­ iastical phrases which puzzled the com­ positor, and in more than one instance, when he oame to our "ease" to bring his proofs, we asked him to read passage? in his copy and to explain Ehrases he had used. He was then a ale, portly, fine-looking man, nearly six feet in height, * well-proportioned, with a tendency to fatness, brown hair and blue eyes, and bearing the general appearance of a comfortable hotel-keeper. His dress was fashionable without being foppish; his manner gracious, but not familiar. "The Golden Legend" is a sort of drama, with brief poems inter­ spersed, and at the close of each scene a place and date were given, probably to show when and where it had been writ­ ten. The compositor was directed to omit the same; but we recollect Newport, Nahant and Cambridge among these places, and the dates were from one to two days to as many weeks apart. The poet was seized with inspiration at sun­ dry times and places, and wrote when­ ever he felt like it. He would occasion­ ally cancel a verse or passage, and once he canceled abont seven pages; but the identical poem appeared several years afterward in the Atlantic Monthly. He was Professor of Modern Languages aad Literature in Harvard University, and wrote most of this poem during vaca tion. We saw him once in the Uni­ versity Library inquiring for a book on Natural History from whioh he could learn the color of a certain bird's eyes. The severest criticism ever uttered upon Longfellow was that he looked at things through the windows of literature rather than with his own unaided eyes.--JAUU- ing (Mich.) Republican. 1st the harbor of Wisenar, in the Baltic, animalcules increase and muitiply at a great rate, for 17,000 cubic teet of mud are formed there every year, and every grain of this mud contains 100,000,000 uf the beautiful siliceous remain* Of the infusoria. .1 > PITH A5D POIST. Bt* was the first to set a fatf ^ THR man who talks shop has wtbret knowledge to common ioate. t A MAJ? who was Jormerly niffa watchman sefea to it ashk late O^VTIIXV- , tion. A POOB excuse is better than none, ^ and the same may be said of a poo 1̂ dinner. - ..i -- . ... f A " SAID Byron : "I hate a an." He meant to say that he haU^^o' see a good thing cut short That • HE couldn't raise the mortgage oa hi# building-lot, and so, poor man, withoul becoming blind, he lost his site. *' JACOB, is there much difference? be­ tween a sea and a sow?" " Ye*, the difference between sea aad mw> jm m tense.* . / WHAT is the diffimenoe between thftf hungry Chinaman and a hungry trou| ?? One flies to.his rice and the other rides to his fly. " MASSACHUSETTS newspapers are te> li# prohibited from publishing notices in the future, because is a lottery. ? BEFORH nMrnageflhewwdhor and lie was her treasure, bat afterwanl *h^lg»- came dearer and he treasurer ̂azufyffc they are not happy. NKW style pocket handkeroliiefs have the day of tne week embroidered on them. This is to prevent » lazy maft from carrying the some handlK»f«duai ! the week through. "MRS* BBOWN, I do wish you would try to bring David out a little. Wlrr. do you know he is so bashful that I , really think if he caught the measleft ' they wouldn't come out." " • THBTI tell of a very " cultured * vine in Boston, who, instead of saying, " The collection will now be taken up," impressively remarks, "The accumular tion ol money will now ensue." " WHAI are you doing with that hasin of water? Don't you know you'll #et your clean waist?" said his mother. "That's all right," said 6-year-old, ae he threw a luciier into the water, "I'm only watching a swimming match." i , f THE following description of the OOOR dition of the roads in Tennessee wn apply to some of the roads in thisaeo- tion: toad* amfi«l ya«abta, Not even jackassable, And a I who wou <1 trav®' 'em: ' Must turn oat aud gvavetNinfc • » e,? ? " WfT*T are you doing there?" edMf asked an elderly and pious-looking man of a young fellow who had fallen on the sidewalk, and was rubbing his thigh with considerable energy. " Doing!** he exclaimed, pressing his jaws together to keep back a torrent of prafanjt$*^{£ am trying to be a Christian." JKREUIAH W. MCSPILLKINB is the oojy son of a Gulveston widow who keeps a boarding-house. Jerry does not do much work for his mother, except at meal times. Gilhoolv asked him the other daftr why he looked so sad, to winch Jerry replied that he was troubled about his mother's health, adding, with real tears in his eyes : "I could not live without her." "That's so," responded the heartless Gilliooiy, "you waald starve to death."--Galveston "SEIZING the gigautio Indian around t'ie waist, the brave boy lifted him into the air and flung him headlong down the chasm. Panting the boy stood and watched the Indian's body fall from crag to crag until it disappeared in the dhrk- ness below. Just at this moment---" Just at this moment the father of the boy who was reading thi* trash oame along, lifted the youngster by the ear, a id in the woodshed matinee that fol­ lowed the boy had no thought of flinging the old man down a cluum. There waa no ohasm handy. " ARK you fond of flowers?" she in­ quired. " Very much so," he replied. '• What are your favorite flowers? she farther inquired. " Tulips," he an­ swered, as his eyes dwelt admiringly upon the twin cherries that were parted in a ravishing smile, displaying " teeth like ivory dipped in milk," as Joe Brad­ ford says. There was a pause. A warm blush suffused her velvet cheek; tho lily lids dropped, half concealing the starry eyes, and she murmured: "It you were to ask me which i? my favorite vessel, I should say a amaok!" Let us draw the esrtain. IT was the merry, Jtaenry houset-clean- ing time, and when he stepped airily out of bed in the morning he tried to hold both feet up in the air at the same time, while he leaped from place to place and made remarks that were en­ tirely inappropriate to any occasion. "Practicing for the circus?" asked his wife, from her place among the downy pillows, with illy concealed sarcasm. " Oh, yes," he replied, " I am just re­ hearsing my famous carpet tacked." And then his low convulsive sobbing d&d away in muffled strains like the last sad throbs of ft hoart breaking under the bedclothes.--Hawk-Mue. Discriminating Against Auttaert. Manuscript is merchandise, and often goes to a dozen possible purchasers, and then returns to the author to till his waste-basket, or lie in his secret drawer till-- * 'Lord knows when." But the post- office officials discriminate against this particular kind of merchandise. Oreo, dry goods, nursery stock and the like may be sent through the mail for a cent an ounce. It makes no difference whether these commodities hav# actually been sold or whether they are sent as samples. Nearly all sorts of books and other publications require onlv half a oent postage to the ounce, and the rest one cent. The classes chiefly benefited by this cheap rate are corporations, such as mining companies, factories and whole­ sale dealers, and the publishers of books, periodicals, newspapers, novels, pam­ phlets, advertising sheets, etc. Now if the departments of OoTcnzmeat must discriminate against sonw class, why should the wealthy eso^p© aad^ thp needy be oppressed by this discrimination? After a book or an article is otico in type, no master whether it is yet pub­ lished, it has, in a degree, changed hands; it has, in part at least, become the property of the publishers. Then it goes through theniailsto the proof-reader, who may be the author, for half a oent an ounce. The same book of article, when it belonged wholly to the aether aud w»s still in manuscript cost, him each time he sent it to a publisher six cents per ounce, and he had to enclose the same amount in stamps iu order to secure the return of the work if not "accepted."--Vor. Uprin^/ieid jhijniftli YOUNG Hayseed, a knowing raring fellow from the country, was iu town the Other day and "put np" at one of the first-class hotels. Alter diunrr he strolled out to the office, and, pickiug up a toothpick from the box ou the office counter, used it vigorously on a sit ol tobacco-stained grinders, a?*d theit re­ placed it carefully in the box, saying as he did so, ** Some fellers would put that air sliver in their pocket and kerqr it away, but their ain't nothiug mean about me, I kin toft Oommerciai Bulletin. "\ J * TR K *- 1 LA,