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Why pill your tears in showers, Heaven h land lies nearer than we think, ' Unto this world of ours. . . ' ' 1 So very near that I can hejir ' j Its rivers softly flowing; ... 1 An 1 feel its bfesscd atmosphere .1 'Upon -my forehead blowing. '. . : 'When April danced upon the lea I 5 With Ivmlpfs nn hr lnnm I-said, I. shall not live to see -' The Jlay-tinie violets blossom.' 'But God's own kind and loving way " . 'Tis t me alone discloses: ' ( . I thoug it ere May to pass away, But h ere I clasp1 June's roses. . 'So gei tly tUbs niy life away, ' I marvel you can sorrow. The.eyels that oped on earth to-day. Shall fope in Heaven to-morrow. 4 For at the going of the night 1 1 heayd-a spirit warning, Look, yonder breaks 'she rosy light' Of your last earthly morning. - "Yonr love has given my life its charm, 1. ' Throughout all my being flowing. J But stronger, tenderer is the arm, .1 To whose kind care I'm going. ,: i , To bear me over Jordan's tide, ' - ' - ; God sends his strong evangel." She Ve tsed. Our home hath lost its pride;i i Biit Heaven hatn gained an angel. L '5 "" ' : : - -1 '! We jleyote a -considerable part of our . outside to the republication of the follow- in extracts trom an able and eloquent speech delivered' before the Democratic Sfcite; Cotiii ention of Kentucky, at its late( session, by the Hon. Mr. Hanna of In- Jidwna: - : - . . .) .. , J: Let Ji8 sir, for-a littlip while consi.ler this i I a of tre.tsun we hear so much. nnry ta'k ;about,;aud see if we do not find Vhesame Ifatal estoppels in the way-of 'the move- menta of the K.ujical party that we have he questiipn of the responsibility found in a . or. the w;fr. 1 think we will find them to be in ore; n u merous, and even1 liiore form - rt ! Idablea - . . . .LA "' ;In tfeejgreat convention in whieir the Consti utioivof: the United States had its j Orfgjii, there were but two great distinctive, ; antagonistic ideas: - One lookinsr to the abjishinent of a consolidated and central ized Govern mel if, with all essential -legislative (powers deposited with the' Federal ; Congress the other preserving 1 the' full identity of;the States, giving up nothing to the national Government except that which was. aosoruteiy necessary tor the common velfare,'with no grant of Federal . power j Over.the domestic institutions of the several States. iThis -was the great issue. The . wisest, of our fathers thought confidence was a saer and su'rer foiihdation tor a re publican government than power." They in tended that the relations the States should sustain to each other, and that all should bear toward the national! confederacy, ..should be so delicately and so sensitively established, that the bond should be the strongest cable of the Union: For and against this theory, sir, two great political parties were established. Alexander Ham ilton was the leader of one element; and 5 Thomas Jefferson of the other. Atid here is what I conceive to. be the origin' of the democratic party as. distinguished from hb Federal party. The former has ever since been the party of the people and the party of the Gonstirution, while the other , has been merelv a party -of onnosition. of I short . lived schenies. of exoeriinents of I nountebauksf a;i:i:essions and usuritjjtions. ? Strict construction of the Constitution has j.alwpys been -t'h caitlinal 'principle of the 1; Democratic faith, whilst the opposition have laerteii a. fealty and a higher law. The radical party of the present day is but a 1 new eruption of the leprous and cankerous J body, of Federalism. ! Its slitirm it nn,- i.. f j. - itivilf VWII spi racy and its treason are inherited crimes. To rule of' ruin the Government has been r theirr settled purpose. The wicked , and rerfiorseless ctusade. they are now waging against the leaders 'ami iepresentative nieii oi the ; latts insurgent States, comes with poor grace froih them. Nullification -was bom oii' 1 1 ie very soil oft i he saine New JliiiZiand States v hos nn nt& nr c rprlific of anathemas against secessionists .arid whose nn n and. wmuen daily supli-; cate to Almiglity God lor the sw'tt. pri.vi- ; lege of washing their hand- in the. blood of JcfiersoQ Davis. The hiatory of. tlifc coua- HI i i ncbiit in the satementf and no successfully deny it. , Let us 1 few pages and see bo it is. 1 my hand the address published sous Convention held at Hartford, lit, on the-1 5th day of January man can turn oven II hold L-onpec lassach uset t s; New ' Ham psh 1 re, Connectic t, ! Rhode i Island and Vermont wore I all represented in that Convention. Among - i ie names or those who represent i4;afewetts.! I' see the name of one? Samqel Sumner; who most likely at the same tim transmitted his name and "his treason to .Charles Sumner,- the present Senator! ot that State; '.Laughter and ap plause.! fl But that was doubtless before the Sumr&r family-had resolvWdj tomake treasbnoaiousJ,, If will indulge me rTITw W rreM amiteerxt at 1 f "Event? may prove that the causes of our calamities! are deep and permanent. : They may jbe fcund to proceed, not merely, from the blindnes of prejudice, pride of opinion, ipleickj of party spi rit, or the confusion of hie t)rries butkhey T;hVay' be traced to im placable combinations of individuals, or of States, Mtq. monopolize power and office, and to trample! without remorse upon the rights aui interests of commercial sections of ! the TJniorR Whenever it shall appear thattheselcauses are radical and permanent, a seniaratibn bv ebuitable arrangement, .will ' be preferable to an allegiance by constraint, anionglhoiriinal jtriends but i-feat'enemies, inflamed fby mutual I hatred and lealpusy, and invlitlns. by intestine divisions, :: 1 coiH tempt ajnd aggressions from abroad. Heref sir, the right of a State to secede. trom the Federal Union was promulgated ;in;Nw. Epglan'd as much as. fifty years! ago. Nowldo. ypu not think these I people down there; had better be saying mass for the liberation of the poor souls ot heir seditious fathers frc m the cruel; jaws of purgatory, instead ol spending so much breath in prayers tf at the weary spirit of '-Jefferson Davis imy be sent .there in j the midst of ;such rrlbnrel and , contaminating society? Bu t this! e idence does not stop here. , I All o; t icse States which fc r the past six year hlav' t talked so much of their loyalty that tlie ery vyord has. become hateful in tlie ears o' men who really clo love their country; jallof them, sir, fot years (have stooc. irj o len violation of the Constitution and in d fiancb of the lavvsjof Congress! I. underp Le to say that the .fugitive jslave law -was ;!s binicMnir as one, oP the clauses of tlTrjoTrtati it. : i- iThe whole of New England, sir, has nul lified that! portion of the Constitution. Let th't - ;Cantii:ig Senator from Massachusetts tel m ht w; and upou what hypothesis, miilifici.ti )n and rebellion are any less crmjhal irNevy England than in the South erii State; , witll whom they have been at war.i l et him answer, we wa it the reasons; vve vyjiiit o hear the explanation. If he denies, lu factj I challenge his examination arid -reconciliation of the statutes of the Statj ht3 lepresents. ; 0n pagje 74, sec. GO, he will find the following lavy to-day: ! -o ptrson,! while holding any office of hipn(r,iortrust; or emolumeiJt, under the ajwiof.fis 'State,' shall, in my capacity, tsikd cc giizande of any case i ue any v-ur-riiutor hr, process or. gWht aqy certifir cate, undfer orby virtue of an act of Con gress, a ppro ved the 12th day ,of Februa ry , 1793f senfitledj "Ail act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service; of their masters;" or under or. by virtue otlan act ot uonsress. approved the l:Bth;dayof September, 1350, entitleil, 'An act respecting tujzitives iroins lustice. and persons efecaping from the service of their uaser&;ior , shall in any capacity serve such vyarjant or other process. Any ius- tlce of j the peace' who offends against the provisipjs of this section, directly or indi rectly; acting Jin such cases, shall forfeit a sjinij not exceeding SliOOO, and be imprison-2 en ijn jaii not lexceeamg one year tor each herehs a law, sir, and I ask if it ; is not full of exasperation and nullification? A fine of one thousand dollars a penalty of oineyjBarS; imprisonment imposed for the perfotpince ot a duty which Daniel Web steij saidwasa sworn dutyi The compul-rf sion ot albtate othcer by pains and penalties to yrolafe ra solemn oath to support the Gocistkqtion of the .United States! A por- uoo-oj uie oouiuerij otates, iv is True, did put asipe the Constitution, . and set : at naught the powers of the Federal govern ment. - jNow1, New England says, iri doing this, tpey can commit a crime which only ; b$ expiated by the hecatombs of a tlwiisaup victims sacrificed upon a thousand sinbkini; alters! How manv victims does slit briijg tonhe same altars, to be (offered ;iip by the same priests, in : atonement': for flu: f skiiie crimes'- How many ' does she briiigl $i r? H We want-'to 'hear' no more lec- ureStfrb m that quarter about Constitution- belli lence. so ioncr as naries umner ch erj tl; morejof turpitude and gibbetsj whiltithey. themselves, made a mockery of civilpijtiou; by theiradulatious of the crest ed et iliinals they nourish in their midst; so! long its Hanks. is tolerated and Butler runs jat larJe. i.Yes,:siir,i Banks, that man who',1 for; spfcculationJandrgain, dashed 'his own. a rmy In the open jaws of death, and iu the. pitesimfce of , whose . notorious infamy the paJle'hqstSKthat! flit. -along the Stygian shore and: read over? the record : of "their crimie by the vglare of hell,' would : hide aWaVitbeir -faces iin . horror; arid Idismavi And. IButier Butlbniu Ihe 'Huvnaniliatt try hears onense. HT ; t f M livei devil and less tHan lialf human, begotten of the Prince of, Evil and spewed . from the cancerous and rotten womb of Crime in the revolting lap. of Civilization! tfow I don't want to hang! anybody; I have no taste that way, but Sumner 'and his friends ought not to go' pegging for that pleasure,1 for they have some of the choicest subjects just now- down in that country that ever wore the cap or stepped upon the drop. 1 But, Mr. Chairman, there is still another view that may be taken of this question, hikI T think it is iha view bnon which the whole case ought to turn. ; As for the right, the duty and the power of a State, in any emergency, to secede fr0m the Federal Uniori of States, there oug it to be no con- All that matter has been J troversv now, and the results must be conclusive. Buti sir, there is a very grave quest on arising out of these results that we oiight to con sider. We cannot escape it; it has been hrust upon us ir the late developments of the times, and t lis government must dis pose of it. The radical party is in favor of the disfranc lisement of eleven great' States, and of the utter political extinction, of millions of American citizens.- ThePresi dent and entire conservative element of the country are against it; against it because it would be unjustjvindictive; despotic, cruel and disastrous. jAVhen I speak to this ques-; tion, I desire to address myself to the ear of Christian civilization. The mob that fol-lows-at the heels! of bigotry and intolerance is no part ot my audience. Let them take their course, audi willtake mine.. As I would spear the volf that delights to sweet- en his tooth witli human blood, so I would ! hunt from the. land the worse than wild beast of that fanaticism which has no plea- ' sure above its sayage rapacity, and no office above the offices of cruelty and death, i Away with it, vyith its hates, its persecu- tions, its fancorl, and its m?series away with it forever, sir. Then a new dayspring from on hinh shall visit us then the last days of our prosperity shall be restored men uie wiuuows or. neaven snan once n peaccuuie huucssiuu ia iussiuii,, int more be opened and the long exiled minis- ing States will be assisted to go, that this tier of peace, sheading fromj his white wings needless and bitter controversy may be the ambrosial dews of hope and joy upon brought to an end. If the Union is to be our famished and fruitless Jearth, shall de- dissolved, a bloodless separation is, by all scend to us again, and dwel with us in the means, to be coveted. Do potletus make midst of increased confidence and happi- that impossible." ness. - .-:'..'. , ' And, sir, the New York Tribune, seem- The question of the 'right or wrong of ing to feel that it had not said quite enough State secession had been discussed by the on this question on the 9th .ot November, American people? for' years and iyears 'I: ''feiofbrced ifs. position i on the 16th. Here ia'sTrqwn yua .ikwtttTpxecmrui.un w . , - -j ( 1: n'n nmT ppssinnigl?Jivp fight of a State to withdraw its allegiance' t , even said. ' Mark:tbeiposi.tion: ( . from the general, government was asserted i J'lf the cotton States unitedly and earn- in New England almost three quarters of I - i.. if. - . a century ago. fine people hoiutlv differ- ed on that question, as they have differed upon other puonc questions., come ot tho ineru to ruiam vvouiu ue couiiaiy iu uiu most distinguished men of thecountry, both' principles enunciated in the' immortal De ln tlie northern and southern State's, belie v- claration of Independence; contrary to the ed that this right was absolute, and that it existed inside ofthe spirit of the Constitu- tion.' As far back as 1625, William Rawle, bf Pennsylvania,! published atreatise called A Vie A' ot the Uonstitution.ot the United "... . .! ... .. - fetates." His name is intimately connected with the erowth! of iurispriidence in that reat and powerful Commonwealth. Judjre? Rawle, it is welt known, was distinguished in letters, eminent in legal learning, and1 universally held in the greatest "reverence! Jfor the purity of his conduct. He was ap-j pointed by President Washington United! States district attorney for.the district of rennsy ivania, a station he tilled with mark-, ed distinction. But With all this, he be- lieved in the right of secession as a Consti-i tutional right. JI have in my hand the book - white arid the wheat fields as golden he wrote, and will iust read one or two when we acknowledge the'Southeun Con-; extracts from it.! ' Here are his own words: i ,:"If a faction should subvert the Govern-!;. ment of a Stateltor the ufpose of destrov-Vi ing its republican form, tlielpaternal power I of the Union could tlius be called forth to subdue it. Yet it is not to be understood thaiits interposition would be justifiable, if the people of a State should determine to withdraw from the Union, whether they adopted another or retained the same, form of Government or if they should, with the express intention of seceding, expunge the representative system fromjtheir code, and thefebyincapaCitate themselves from con curring according to the mode now pre scribed in the, Choice of public , officers of the. United States. The principle of repre sentation, although certainly the. wisest and best, is not essential to the beinsr of a re public, but to Union, it must continue a member of the be preserved, and therefore the guarantee must be so! construed. It i depends upon the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, be cause it depends on itself -whether it will continue a'member 6f the Union. . To deny this riLrht would be -inconsistent' with the principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is that the people have in all cases the right to determine how theyl will be governed." r.-. v: I ' There is the 'ho1e ; theory, sir, clothed in words as strong and concise as words can do it. ! THe popular. mi nd, of course, was influenced by it everywhere.:: The young nieu of the coimtrr read it,- and many vofl tliem'settled down to a; conviction . of -its truth. ; Parties were built up upon it,. and tji'eir representative men were called to the highest and most responsible offices-: If was a' question, sir, about vvhich the-whole pop ular mind was unsettled 'popular in some districts of the country, arid unpopular, in othei8.: At such a time,.and with such surr roundirigs, , the question i was .thrust iupon the ctmntryt The cotton States had tru posed to withdrawfupon the idea of a peace able seceision--and to show you something of tle condition of the public mind at that time, even at the North, I call your atten tion to what some of the Republican organs said jabout it. The New YorkTribune not only! contended for the right of secession, but even went so far as to. (. advocate its policy. . Under date of November 9," 1860, thatpaper said: , ; i "If the cotton States shall -become satis fied that they can do better out. of the Union than in it, we insist on jetting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a reyolutionaiy one; but it exists neverthe less.! We must ever, resist the right of any St?ite to remain, in the Union and nullify or defy the law vthereof. t To withdraw from the Unioyiiite tmother matten , and I whenever a considerable portion orurj Union shall resolve deliberately to go out, weshall resist all coercive measures design-, ed to keep it in." : i . That seems to be pretty strong arid un mistakeable language, sir. , But the New York Tribune did not stand alone in these views. The Indianapolis Journal, a- pow erful party paper, and the Radical organ of the State in which I reside, fully coincided with the tribune. In its issue of Novem ber 13,:1SG0, while discussing the threaten ing aspect of affairs, thus addresses itself to the South: . ; . . , i "They know very well that if they are determined to leave the Union, no republi can will care to have them 8tay. A Union preserved only bv intimidation and force lis a mockery, and it is better broken than whole. If South Carolina and her associ- atesin.folly really.-want to leave the Union, they, can go without, a word of objection from any man north of Mason, and Dixon's Jine.'V j , i ! I Thp Chicago Tribune, on the 1st day of December, 1S60, said about the same thing, It ernployed this language: ( ' "No man knows what public policy may 'demand of Athe incoming Administration; but the, drift of opinion seenS to be, that. estly; wish to :withdraw peacefully from the T-T il I .1 I I 1 . 1 111 union, we mm iney snouiu ana wouiu oe allowed ,tp do so. .Any attempt to force fundamental ideas on which human liberty is based." ;' The Cincinnati Commercial, also a very able. , and widely circulated Republican - ... ,. .1 l newspaper, cast itseii into tne same cnan- nel. In March, lbbl, at a later ana more mature date, more than a month after the seven cotton States had passed their ordi- nances of secession, it published the follow- ing remarkable paragraph: j : "War for the subjugation of the seced- ers would be nnwise and deplorable. If there are two nations nere ;wno nave.Deen living in an unnatural union, they should, ior tna Denenu oi oue ur.uoui, uu uepuruieu. The; sun will shine as brightly and the rivers run as clear the cotton will be as fe.de racy. We are nortn favor, of retaking by force the property ot the united states now in the possession of the seceders. We would recognize the existence of a Govern- ment formed of all the seceding States, and cultivate amicable relations with it." .. Now, Mr. Chairman, this the record. The Radicals may read it oyer and over and . It it I L A. 1 torture it an. tney can. uuu- iney cuu uuver change one' sentence, or line, or one word of it. It is all written in the great book of time, and can not be blotted out. There it is; let them read it and j make the most of if. i And now shall they say, to us that it. means nothing that it must all be for gottenthat they are not responsible for it -and; still cry more retribution, more humiliation, more suffering and more blood? Sumner and Stevens, and Banks, and But ler, !may; say so all the dwarfed bigots and fanatics or radicalism; and puritan in sanity may say so-but the stately and plum ed giants of the land say ho,'.. Not another strokeiof retribution, not another drop of blood. Humanity is against it, civilization i against it; the very stones that have, been stained on a thousand .battlefields cry out in mutiny against it. ; The President's veto power was brought into requisition that these questions might be, referred to the disposition and the wisdom of tlie people. I am willing to leave. them there and abide the-judgment. There , is but one little doubt about what the verdict will be.,, I think I may safely say what it will be in Indiana; 'llie voice of a virtuous and hon est people will be. heard there this fall, and it will- be the. voice of thunder. ; It will not, mucli longerbe saiditha Belshazzar of Babylounvvas , the only worshipper at the shrine of the dumb and powerless gods . of . crime,: whose , couutenance. was changed, whose thoughts so troubled him that;the-joints bf bts, limbs, were, loosed, and tlwit his knees smote one against anoth er; in diaiay,. , GBAHT NOT A GREAT GENERAL. "Druid," the Washington correspondent of the New York News, is the first Northern writer we haTe seen who.pliices a proper estimate upon the character and capacity of "General" Grant Speaking of the ef forts in Congress to heap more honors upon Grant, he write s:-- ! . ' Ulysses Grant is not a great general, and all the fulsome flattery that has ben be stowed upon him by Stevens and others cannot make; a great soldier out of him. It werelan easy task to show that General Grant Has uo brilliant military talents; that he has no military talents at all; that he is not a great soldier in any sense of the word; that the American people are disgracing themselves by thp sickening flatteries which have been heaped upon ;a. man. who owes his present elevation entirely to the fact of bisa&inrr pandered to tliat horrible taste for the U(ood(of thet30TitlicnTtrt f to our disgrace, prevailed in the North dur ing the late war. - -- ' -. :- A great general is one who accomplishes his purposes with small but admirably drilled armies; who accomplishes great mil itary results by strategy more than. by fight ing; who depends for success upon the legs of his soldiers (i. c, upon movement) more than upon their arms; who never fights a battle when it can be avoided; and who gains the military." ends which he has in view by the exercise' of his own brains and not by sacrificing the lives of his troops. Not one of these characteristics belong to Gem Grant, j Yet modern history affords half a dozen jillustrious examples of such generals. They were, indeed, great soldiers. Cornpared with them and . their acliieve ments, into what- a pigmy does Grant sink! How insignificant do all his boasted achieve ments appear beside those' of Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Marlborough, Prince Eugene. Washington and General Lee!. The first named arid the. Inst bf these truly illus trious generals were greater even in defeat than Grant in all his boasted victories. Trace Grant's career, from the first chap ter to1 the last, and what does it present but a series of horrible and useless butche ries? Placed after th'ee years of wat fare had nearly exhausted the powers of endur ance of the South, in command of the North ern armies, Gen, Grant found himself in possession, not only of absolute power, hut of military means'that were almost limitless. A million of men weie under arm?; half a million more had been drafted, and were ready to be sent to him as soon as half of his million had been exterminated. The National arsenaU and magazines had been flUetCLrealetibn.with all sorts ot arms and munition ofjwar. All' the'vast parapher nalia of war of a rich country was placed in the hands -of this one man. Such was the situation when Gen. Grant began his campaign against Richmond. He knew exactly the position, of tht- Confede rates, and the straits to which they were reduced. J He knew that their last armies were in the field, and that their resources of every kind were exhausted. If he was a soldier, he ought to have known tiiat a campaign, conducted by the ordinary rules ot honorable: warfare, would have giveo him the victory, liut he knew also, that small as the Confederate army was, it was strong in its discipline; that it,; was com manded by real Generals, and that the men of whom it Was composed were actuated by what they believed to be the noblest and holiest motives. He did not like the aspect'of the case; but he called to him Sherman and Sheridan two other "Gene rals" of the modern Northern school gave them their instructions, sent them off about their work, and began his own. The pages of hi$tory will burn and blister as they re-. Cord in afteriyears, the deeds of these threej ' Sheridan, entering the lovely Shenandoah Valley, swept through it like a demon, burning dwelling houses and barns, con suming in the Hames,- grain, hay and pro visions, driving innocent families of women and childrenjout of their homes, to erish of cold arid starvation, while the crackling flames soon: reduced ' to ashes all their possessions, j ; - ' Sherman, marching through Georgia and South. Carolina, marked his , progress by a broad belt of desolation, and. by horrors, LurliicU.have. not bcenparalleled in modern warfare.. As for Grant: himself, he set out on his overland campaign to Ricnmond, de termined tc kill aa many of the soldiers pi Lee's army ias possible, not caring how many ot his own men he got killed, calcu lating that he could command eight men to every one of Lee's, and that if ; it "erst him the lives of 3200.000 meu to kill 2U,uuu ot Lee's men, he could well afford todoso. This is the ikey to. the Richmond cam paign. There was no strategy aoout it. There , was !no generalship exhibited in the whole, campaign. He .was deieatea in every! battle that he fought on the route, o He j was defeated at the Wilder ness, defeated : at Spotsylvania, defeated on the North Anna, defeated at Cold Harbpr. It was a campaign ot mere butchery. lAgaiu and again he hurled his men with reckless and impotent lury , a gainst. Lee'a lines. ; The, rivers on the route ran red : with blood; trie, bones of 80,000 needlessly, slain men strewed the way, andJ his track was lighted, at night with the glare of the lurid flames of 'hun dreds of happy homes in the Shenandoali Valley.n; yas tnw generalship..' : n . Gr. Hdsaphat has'a plan for paying off the national qeot.. nis pian w io couvert the . entire indebtedness1, into ' greenbacks, ; aiid koep tbbra iri circulation tillXyoro oiit.1 , The Philadelphia Gazette' relates the lowing: ' i ' Among the strangers in Philadelphia at this moment, are two ladies from Martins burg, West Virginia. Yesterday they were purclrasing a seed drill, a mowing machine and other, agricultural implements, whose cost in the aggregate was about eight hun- U red no liars. 1 heir home was very losi to the theatre of the late war. t Bttwe'U the. two contending armies their houses and their barns were burned, their horses and cattle driven oft, their oidy brotln-r conscripted into the Confederate army, and themselves left utterly destitute ami bone less. 'Anyone who, seeing a yo.unsr ladv such as we saw yesterday, had been t;dI that she had personally plowed and planted uiany acres ot land, wouhl hay laughed'to scorn the parties informing hin. Stich, p'.TcVerriS iitert7 th-'Cf.?.'.' '-WH-rM.jJl the facts.fro'm a gentleman residing, in the vicinity. : The smokTrig nriiH-of the farm upon which these young people resided, had scarcely cooled when theneighborselubhrd together, built them a log house, and extem porized a sort of barn. Horses were loaned to them," and the girls with their own hands plowed the ground, ami seeded it'with corn. The crop grew apace, and with their own hands they harvested it. - They sold it to good advantage. They had owned f rty seven Uiejrro slaves. Some of these went into the Union army, others deserted the. locality. The girls were left alone to battle with the vicissitudes of the war. Presence of Mind Ska. On a n' cent 'passage of the steamer Ajax between" the. Sandwich Islands and ; Califbrni i. a terrible and prolonged storm tore "all light rigging to shreds, upset all'fui nituro that could be upset, and spilled pai'iigt-r- around and -knocked them hither and thither with perfect looseness. For fori y eiiiht hours no table could be set, and everybody had to eat as best thev,jnight l under the . circumstances. Mot of the " party went hungry through, and' attend ed to their praying. But there was. one Set of "seven up" who nailed a card tabln Lto the floor and stuck to their game' thi ouuh thick and thin. One night the storm sud denly culminated in a climax of -unparalleled fury; the vessel went down on V beain ends, and evervthing let o with a crash; passengers, tables, cards, bottles everything came clattering to the floor iu a chaos of disorder and confusion. In a moment fifty sore 'distressed, and plead ing voices ejaculated; "Oh, Heaven help us in our extremity!" and one voice laijg out CTUarn lid sharp iiborclhe jliHitic hoi us. and said, "Remember, boys, I played the tray for low!" ' Take the words "lady" and."geutlenvan" and see how differing are men's opinions of it: An alvertisementof a wax work exhibi tion said that no lady or gentleman would be admitted in a state of intoxication.. And 1 another exhibition of thefihting of one hun- dred rats said none but gentlemen would lu admitted. Coleridge and George IV- wer.; called gentlemen,' but those who debased themselves by drunkness were not gentle men. Wealth cannot purchase tin; name: A man may be the possessor of millions and be a weak, mean, despicable, miserable screw. The highest nobility maybe typi fied by the poor English letter-.earri.-r, who tduchingly told him he was accustomed whenever he saw the cheek of the maid. ser vant to turn pale at the sight of a black seal ed letter, to take off his hat in silent sympa- thr- ' i Spread Eagleism. Down East they sometimes talk in very flowery language when patriotism is the theme. Tire Hous ton (Me.) Times says the people of that town are agitated upon the question of a new town hall, and that in the heat of de bate one gentleman urged the" measure iti order "that the young men of our town may have a suitable place to assemble, and be so imbued with the spirit of liberty and patriotism that every hair on-their heads will, be a liberty pole,, with the star spangled banner floating from it!" . A young schoolmistress asked a little white-h'eaded bov, "Bud, how old arv yout" "Mv name ain't Bud, it is John. "W u, what is the rest . of your name?" ."Why, , that's all the name I've got jist" John. You need'nt put pap's name down, he nin't. romitr to school." "Ui-ll how, are you?" -"I ain't old at all, I'm young". Mr. Quibble, reading that "it has been decided in the Court ot Queen's. B-.-nch, in Dublin, that a clergyman of the (urch of England can legally marry ; hiirs-df," ob served that that might be very well as a measure of economy, hut that even in the hardest of times he should prefer tu, marry a woman. . -' : : The New York News learns that W. B. Nash, 'whose affidavit has been published by the Nw York Evening Post to convict . Gen. Wade Hampton of false statements in his letter on the burning, of Columhi , is 'a freedman." His testimony will be rated,1 however, all the higher by tlie U.idi cals for tiat. . - A convalescent soldier in Paris, Avhile I stretching himself, exclaimed, "Oh, God." I" A vniincr and verv pretty Sister of Cirtriry. ran up and inquired, "what woul'd you' have God do to you? I am his daughter."; The convalescent replied, "Accept uic tor. His Eoa-in-law." " - . .