Indiana American, Volume 6, Number 52, Brookville, Franklin County, 20 December 1867 — Page 1

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Ci- ÖV JJ )"NQ H A XI , : Proprietor.' y2rrnthtTIatieAaliBarik Baildinsr, .ill A t i t i If I v , TERMS OF SU3SCRIPT10NI U.tfr.PER.YAlt, ii ATaxct. , .'., JXJOT" . " it hot rAi i A&fAno Wo vtr es papers tWivered within tbil ft i Ml t T I", J- J - . .' 1 , " " ' ' . s . Cho' Prc&idcnt'o lMczsarco. . 11 CvuclihJed from Lat Tuk J T , VM.AJl t'tPfRTMENT. . ' ' The-trjr'of the Secretary of. War ad iVfcrnH('.'ex!jibti;: tha - operations of the array, ni the several buieaua of, the War Department; i ? The aggregate strength of the military force, oa the SUth of September' last, wai 6G 315 ' v -I ,.'!!: -i , . The total estimate for - railitary appro

priations if $77,l?4,707t including the deficiencyfri' last 'year's ' appropriation of SlJ,600,UU,,,Tho ; payments at tho Treasury, tn account of the service of the War Department, from January 1, to October 29, lfiC7, period of tea ' months, amounted at'$10?,Sv7,OUO. ; Xb!f,r''i,er of ,bf .military establishment, a$ well as the, number of the army, are now thre time as great as they have everheVn la time of peace, whire discrotionary power if , vented in . tho Kxccutive to add million to 'this 'expenditure by en fucrvfi'V.pf,. ihe 'ribj,', to the maximum atreiigtU allowed by Uf '. , ', . V 1 VlsofA.r Amies;, " The menacing attitude of aome of the I arllEe bands' f "Indiana, inhabiting the Utnt otcouutry between the Arkansas and l'latte rivers, and portions of Dakota 7 efritotyj required the presence of a large lotfiffry, ioreo in that region. Instigated by real or imaginary grievances, the Indians hive' occasionally committed acti of barbarous tioleoce upon "emigrants and our irootiet settlement, but a general In dlaa war hta been providentially averted. arumissieoers,. under the act of Jaly 20, 1M7,' were-invented with full power to adju'-l exiting 'difiieultles, negotiate "ireatieswUh difTeeled band, and eleot- fuf .the tu reservation remote from traveled routea between tho Mississippi and IViGo. ..'' They entered without delay upon - the execution of their trust, but liavo not yet frfaaebyi4i.ielaf report of their proceed iog. - - ' Ir la'rf riral Importance that our taut errfttfHej shoutd be exempt from Indian outLreaka, and that the construction of ibe jPaciAtf Uilroad an, object of oa tional impjr.ance, "ahoulJ out be interrupted by itoatile tribes. . '.4Tfie?e'oVjects as well as the ' material intercxta aud moral and iotellcctual impro'vemetit of th Indians, can be most effVciuully kecured by concentration' them iipou porüoö of country, act apart for (heir exrtutive use, and located at points retnotfi Thun dur highways and; encroachlug whiie.aettletueuta. , ' " PACIFIC RAILROAD. ' Since, the commencement of the second petüMf f nhe Tbii'y-ninth .Conirre, fire JitihJrcJ 'anJ ten miles of road have been ctuiructed on the inaio line and bmuchea )f the Pacific liailw'ay. The line from Omaha i.i rapidly approaching the eastern bat-e of the lively Mountains, while the terminus of the hit section of constructed toad ;ia 1'aliforuia accepted by Governlueut, ua the 24th of October last, was but eleven miles distant from the summit of -the 'Sierra Nevada. The remarkable energy eviuced, by -the' companies offers the atronpe! aaaurance that the couipletioo of the road from Sacramento to QuiaL will not bu long deferred. : , , , PUBLIC LANDS. ' .During the Uat fiscal year 7,011,114 acres of public land were disposed of, and the rah receipts from sates and fees exceeded by öue half tuilliou dollars the um realized from those sources during the preceding year. ' ' ' , pensions. . '' ,The amount paid to pensioners, including the expeucs of diabursetnents, whs $18,6 10 95i; and 36,432 names were add .1 i. edvto the rolls. The entire number of pena-ionepjOn the 3U .15574,, (Jib of June last .was IUTENTS. . . . i " Eieren thousand six. hundred and fiftyfive patents and designs were ixucd during the year endib September 30, 18G7, end at that date the balance in tho Treasury to the credit uf the Patent Fund wis 28G.CÜ7.. -..t , TUB NAVY- . The report of the Secretary of the Navj (atatea that we have teren aquadrons ao.tively and judiciously employed under cfhcieot and able cotnuiandera in protection the persona and property of American cilizeos, maintaining tho dignity and power tf the Government, and promoting the 'eommeree and buainesa tntereata ot our countrjmcn'la fcverypartof the world. Of two hundred aud thirty-eight vcksuIa composing the present Navy of the TJnited States, 56 carrying 507 guns, are Id quadron - rervice. During the year the nunfbeT.ofvrisels tq cotnmieion has been reJuiTtwetve,'and there are thirteen teas on rquadron duty than there were at tie date of the last report. A largo number of'Tesnels were commenced aod in course oP eotiatructioo when the war terminated, and although Coogresa hai made the nccsay eppropriationa for their completion, the .Department., baa either sunpenued work upoaij.y or limited the slow completion biatm veiteela ao aa to meet the ntraU.for machinery made with private 'UabltalTuienia.- ".The total, expenditures of fbcrNitry Department fur the year ending June 80,151)7, were' 531,03-1,011. alpftiprlatlina have been uiado or re quired cinco tho close of the war, for the construction and repair ot vcinels, and fur .ateam! 'iaichinory. Ordnanoe, provUiooa and clothing, fuel, hemp, Ao . the balaorec under these several heads having beon jinore thaq pußicieot for current expenditures.' It' should also be stated to the credit of the Department, that besides aaling---.-appropriations for the above Jccrt'-fDHhe !at two years, the Secretary of toe N4vv, on tho 30th of (Sflptcmbcr laat, in accordance with the act of May Jr,ll8C0; requited vihe Secretary' of the Treasury to carry to the surplus Juud the tum of 8Q5,0U'0,OÜO, beiog the amount received from sal-s of vesayid ,ui other war

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' The report of the Vostmastef Oenerar shows the busioeea of, the,; Poatvffive De-I ' partmcnt and the condition ot tue postal service in a very -fayorable liht, and tho attention of Couresa'ia called, to its practical recommendations.' , , .,. ; The receipts pf the Department for the year ending June 30, 18U7, iooluding all special spproprintions for sea . and land service, and for, free mail matter, were $19 978,093. .The expenditures for all purposes, were $19,U5,433; leaving an unexpended balsnco in favor of tho Dopurimeot of 1743,210. which can be applied toward the expogaca of the Department for tho current year. . Tho increase of tho postal revenue, independent of specilio appropriations,, for the year 1 bi7, over that of 1SÜÜ, waseS5O,0lO. The increase of revenue. from tho sale of tamps and stamped,' envelopes, was j $783.40 1. Tho increano . of expenditures for 1867. over those of the previous year was owing chiefly to the extension of land and ocean mail service. , Durfng the , past year new postal conventions luve been ratified and exchanged with tho .United Kingdom of Great Britain and, Ireland, Belgium, the Neiheriands, Switzerland, North (Jermun Union, Duly aud tho Colonial Governinent at Hong Konu', reducing very largoly the rates ofjxean and land pootaes to and from and within those countries. AGRICULTURAL' bEPAUTMCNf. The report of the Acting C'ouitDinaioner of Agriculture concisely presents the con dition, wants and progresn cf an interest eminently worthy ,the, fostering care of CongrcKs, aud exhibitd'a large measure of useful result .tchievud ' during the year1, to which it refers..' 4 . ' 'OREIUX AFFAIRS.. . S ., The re estsbliahiuant cif peace. at horaoand the; resumption) of extended trade, travel and commerce abroad have served to increafo , tbo number and variety of questions in the Departmentfor Foreign ArTairs. . Nona t)f these juetions, however, huvo seriously aisturbod our relations with other States. ' Tbe'llep'iblio of Mexico having been? rxltevtfd from foreign' intervention, is earnestly engaged in efforts to re-cstablUh her constitutional system of government.-' A good understanding continues to exist between 'our Government aud the republics of lluyti and San Do mingo, and -our cordial - relations with the Centra) aud South American States remain uuehauged. The teuder- tuade in eon fortuity with the resolution of Congress of the good offices of our Government, with a view to "an amicable adjustment of peace between " Brazil and her allies on one side, and Puraguay on the other, and between Chili aud brr allies on oue. aide, and Spain ou the other, though kindly received, has in-neither case been fully accepted by the'belliereute. The war in the Valley of the Parana is'atill vigorously ujaiutained.' Ou the' other hand,' actual hostilities between, ibo PaciGo States and Spain have boon morethan a year su-t paudtd. 1 shall ou any. proper., occasion that luay occur . renew the conciliatory recommendations which have already been made. 1 . , . Uraxil, with enlightened sagacity and comprehensive, statesmanship, has opened the great channels of the Amjaon aud its trilitarie, to universal commerce. One thing more seems needful to assure a rapid and cheering progie.-w - in South America. I refer to thoe peaceful habits,' without which States and Nations cannot in this age well expect material prosperity or social advancement. c TUE FAlJtS EXPOSITION. - The Exposition of universal industry at Paris has passed and seems to have fully realized the . high 'expectations of the French Goveriuueut. , If due .'allowance be nade for the recent political derangement of industry here, the part which the United States has borne in this exhibition of invention and art may bo regarded with very high sstisfsction. ' During the Exposition a Conference. was held of delegates from several nations, the United State be ing one, in which the inconvenience to commerce and s cial intercourse, resulting from divers standards of money value, were very fully discussed, and plana were do velopcd fur establishing by universal consent, a cororutfn ' principle for coinage of gold, these conferences are expected to be renewed, with tho attendntico of many fore ix o States sot hitherto represented. A report of these interesting proceedings will bo submitted to Congress, which will, no doubt, justly appreciate the groat object, and be ready to adopt any measure which may tend to facilitate ' its ultimate accomplishment.,, A QUESTION WITH PANISI! CLAIMANTS. On the 25th of February, 11SC2, Congress declared, by law, thai tho Treasury notes, without interest, authorized by that act should be a legal tender in payment of all debts, publio and private, within the United States. An annual remittanco of $30,000, less stipulated expenses, accrues to tho' claimants under the convention made in Spain. ' Theao remittances, since tho passage ofthat act, have been paid io such notes. The claimants insist that the Government ouht to require payment in coin. The subject may lo deemed worthy of your attention. . . . TUE ALABAMA CLAIMS, No arrangement has, 1 aa yet, boon reached for the settlement of our claims for British ,depedationa on commerce of the United States. ' I bare felt it my duty to decline the proposition of arbitration, made by. tier Majesty 'i Government, be cause it ha hitherto been accompanied by reservations and limitations .incompatible with the rights, interests,1 and honor of our country. It is not to be apprehended that Great Britain will persist in b er refusal to eatufy ?' these Jut, and reasonable claims, which involve the sacred principle of non-intervention ' principle henceforth pot r&uro important' to the United States than to alt other commercial ua-. t'tom,

, The West India . Islands were., settled and colonised by European States simultaneously with the settlement snd colonic aation of the Amsrican continent. . Mos

of the colonies planted here became inde pendent nations in the close of the last and the beginning of the present century. Our own country embraces communities which, at one pcxiod were colonies of Great Britain FranC9, Spain, Holland. Swcdsn and Uussia. The people in the Westlndics.with the ex cotpion ofthose of the Island of'layti, have neither attained nor aspired to Independence, nor have they become prepared for selfdefeuse. Although possessing considerable commercial . value, they have been held by the several Kuropean States, which colonizod, or, at some time, conquered theai, chiefly for purposes of military and naval atrategy. , In carry log out European policy and designs in regard to this continent, in our Revolutionary war, the ports and harbors in the West. India Islands were used by our , enemy, to the great injury .and cinUrrastnient of the United States. We had the same experience in nur scoond war with Great Iiritain. Tho Hume European policy fur a long time excluded us even from trade with the West Indies. While we were at peace with all nations, in our recent civil war tho rebels and their piratical and blockadebreaking allie found facilities in the same ports for the work, which they too successfully accomplished, of injuring and devsbtatiiig the comuerco which we are uow engaged in rebuilding. , We labored epecislly under this disadvantage, that European steam vessels .employed by our enemies found friendly shelter, protection, and supplies iu West ludiati portr, .while our own vavhl operations woro necessarily carried oo from .our ou distant shores. There was then a on; versa I feeling of want of an advanced naval out post, between tho Atlantic coast of Europe. , The duty of. obtaining such aa out-post peace , fully aud lawfully, while neither doing no menacing injury to other States, engaged the attention of the Executive Department at the closo of the war, and it has not beeo lout sight of since that time. A not entirely dissimilar naval want revealed itself during tho same period, ou the Pacific coast. The required loot hold there was fortunately secured by our late treaty with the Emperor of Kussiu, and it now teems imperative that the more obvious,, necessities of the Atlantic coset should not bo less carefully provided for.; , A good and convenient port and harbor capable of easy defense, will supply that waut. . With tho possession of such a station by tho United States, neither we nor any other American nation need , longer apprehend injury or offenso from any transAtlantic enemy., . I agro! with our early statesman that the West Indies .naturally gravitate to, and may be expected ultimately to be absorbed bj the Continental States, including our own. I agreo .with, them, also, that it U wine to leave the question of such absorptiou to tho process of natural political gravitation. , The -Islands St. Thomas and, St, Johns, which constitute a part of the group called the Virgiu Islands, seemed to offer us advantages immediately desirable, while their acquisition could be secured in harmony with the principles to which 1 have alluded. A treaty has therefore been concluded with the King of Denmark for the cession of those islands, and will ba submitted to the Senate of considerat'o . THE Fl'RCUASE OF ALASKA. It will hardly be necessary to call the attention of Congress to th subject of providing for the payment to Uussia of the sum stipulated in the treaty for the cession of Alaska. Possession having beeu fni mally- delivered to ; our Commissioner, tho Territory remains, for the present, iu cure of a military force, awaiting such civil organization as shall bo directed by Coegress. ; j--CLAIMS FOR MILITARY SERVICE OF NATURALIZED AMERICANS. Tho annexation of many sra ill Germ an States to Prussia, and the reorganization of that country under a new and liberal constitution, Lave induced me to renew the effort to obtain a just and prompt settlement of a long rexed question concerning the claims of foreign states of military service from their subjects naturalized In the Uuited States; and, in connection with this subject, tho attention of Congress is respectfully called to this singular and embarrassing conflict of laws. The Executive Department of this Government has hitheilo uniformly beld, as it now holds, that naturalization in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the Uuited States absolves tho rccipieut from his native allegiance. The Courts of Great Britain hold that allegiance to the British Crown ii indefeasible, and is not absolved by our laws of naturalisation. British Judges cito the courts and law authorities of the Uuited States, in support of that theory against the position held by the Executive as the authority of the United States. This conflict perplexes tho publio mind concerning the righta of naturalized citizens, nd impairs tho national authority abroad. I called attention to this subject in my last annual message, and now again' respeotfuliy appeal to Congress to deolare too national will unmistakably upon thia important question. i THE BLAVE TRADE. - The abuse of our iawa by clandestine prosecution of the -Al'ricau slave trade from American porta, or by American fitizen. has altogether ceased, and under existing circumstanoes no apprehensions of its renewed in this part of the world aie entertained.' 'Under the oircumatanoea, it beoomea. a question whether we shall not propose to her Britanio Majesty's Government a suif tension or a discontinuance of the atipualiotia for maintaining a .naval for the suppression oftbat trade. , -1 Anurew Johnson. Wasuixuiox, December, 1 86 7. ,

. Man Ooneldered Scientifically. I met; td-day.: with the following - pnM ice in one of Honth'fc sermonaS "An Aria

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totle Was but. the 'rubbish' of an i Adam. :of the year, and whether the birth of and Athene bot the rudiments of Para j Christ occurred o j the twenty-fifth day of dise."' This Is a pretty rhetorical war of December, or a few days earlier or later, butting'an Utterly groundless fancy which j Is it matter of n great moment. The aig. has possessod the mind!ofman for ace, jfiiSoance of setting apart a day consists in arid which is the foundation, not of Cbria-i; the fact that all Christians, by general tiantty, but of the Jewish aod Christian consent, accept it specified time for tho religions. ' Itrcd io : the strictest orthodox , celebration of this event. faith and having to this day .never Toad a J --In pagan Rome there was a yearly eelfree thinking book, lean not help seeing .ebration called the Saturnalia, or Festival that if Adam is to be taken as a rrprcnen- ; of Saturn, which was marked by the prevtativeof primitive man, and Paredijo as i alence of a universal license and merry the "name of man'e primitive hnbitAf ion, j making. The slaves were then permitted tho movement from Adam to Atille, ! to enjoy a period of freedom in speech fram Paradise to Athens, was not"15vvn- ' and behavior; everyone feasted and reward, but slowly and painfully prd. joiced; work and business were entirely All I the significant facta in the history, of i susponded; houcs wero decorated with n . . .. . ., - !l t. -

everv race shows that tt ImerovcJ .irom : the very time of its first appearance, ' although ia aomo cases very sluggishly or fitfully, and in othera only up Iu a .certain point; and, consequently, that winkind has made progress from the begioing. The Dark Ages were aa eclipse of the civilixi- . MSa a.. a'. ar a i tiou oi KuDie and. Ureece: but they were the darkness before the dawn of day upoa, a wider horizon,' within which were nil the higher raoes of the earth. Human nature Las not always been tho same, i Iu essence is the same, but it has grown with. the. lapse of lime, and has boon developed by self calture. Of the race, as a thoU,- tho intellectual capacity haa increase, and the moral sense becomes finer as the World grows older. ,The amelioration of human society is due lose to the conviction or the conversion of individuals than to this development of human' nature. , Tho sigua of thia development appear first in individuals, aometimes in not more than one or two, in whom the effects of the change which is taking placo are!io. strong that that they ran uot be concealed; then othera find that they aro not like those who have gone before them, and most of those around them; this discovery spreads, as new generations take the plaoes of old ones, and huiaiity has a new birth. .The man nf a certain race in one age is a differ cat creature from the man: of the same race in a previous age. . The man animal is distinguished from tho brute aotmal chiefly by this capacity of development and change of nature. : But as the earlier races of brute auimals have passed away before new races of finer organisation, so it would seem as if there must haro been races of men who passed away before thoso who now rule the world. Ihe remains of some of these yet exist upon tho esrtb. The Mongol and the Negro are but human aauriaus who reached long ago yet in the history of man but a little while their full development, and are -now. moral fossils. Other races have the capacity of continuing tho progress of development which began in them when aomo of those had already reached the point'' at which, for centuries, they have stopped. ; There waa never a Fall of Man. Man began at hi lowest' mentally, morally, and I believe,, -even physically, and haa risen. There never was aGoldto Age; but there may be one - hereafter. Austolle wasnearer it than Adam; and we are noarer than Aristotle. It is the conscientiousness of bis capabilities, and of how far abort he has yet fallen of them, which, in the endeavor to reconcile the possible with the actual condition of the race, has led man to the invention of Jewish Fall aod the Gentile Golden Age. It is because I have seen and felt this almost ever since I began to think independently that io spite of my admiration of the poetical beauties of the "Paradise Lost," I have never beeo able to read it with interest hardly with patieuce. Its subject seems to me absurdly irreconcilable with the dictates of coin mon ceuse aod the facts of. history. But! my reverence for Christianity is not thereby disturbed; for let alltbis be as it may, what has it to do with the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount? Nebukoe, in Galaxy. . . i Three Important Things. Three things to love Courage gentleness and affection." " three things to admire Intellectual power, dignity and gracefulness. ' Three things to hate Cruelty, arrogauce aud ingratitude. Three things to dolighk in Beauty, frankness and freedom. Three things to wish for Health, friends and a cheerful spirit. Three things tu pray lor Faith, peace and purity of heart. Three things to like Cordiality, good humor and mirthful ties. . Threo things to avoid Idleness, loquacity and flippant jesting. Three things to cultivate Good books, good friends and good humor. Three things to contend for II on or, country aud friends. ' Three things -: to govern Temper, tongue and conduct. Three things to think about Life, death aud eternity. ' v " Crime. ' ' i , ( Our country is fillod with crime of all descriptions. Not an exchange or daily comes to our notice but is filled wit., his tories of terrible events, such aa murders, robberies," suicides and all manner of crime. ' Indeed wickednesa seems to stalk unchained over tho whole world, caused by ignoranco, drunkenness, jealousy, and the hundreds of other conditions thtt produce Climo. It would see in that in time of peace such a statu of things should not exist. How' bhatl a change uo brought about? ''We D'ed something that will prevent the committing of crime Tather than more puuisbment for thoso who depart from the right. Wo need a better system of education and a more practical religion. 1 Sympathy and Uenevolence". SymDathv aud benevolence constitute those finer feelings of the soul which i'at1 ones support and adorn human nature '

Christmas Its History. Christmas Day is regarded throughout

the Christian world as the important dav laureis anu everzreens prssonia wero laurels and . . . - . . made by parents nnd friends, and all sorts cf games and amusements were indulged in by tho citizens.- In tho early ago of Christianity, its ministers frequently experienced difficulty in inducing the converts to refrain from indulging in the popular amuteinents which wcro ao largely participated in by thoir prgin neighbors At last convinced, partly by the incOicacy of uVnuociutlons.r and partly influenced by tho idea that tho spirit of Christianity miht thereby bo advanced, tho Church endeavored to amalgamate, as it were, the old an J' new religions, and sonht, by transtorriog -the heathon cereutnuies to the solemnities of the Christian festivals, to tnako them subservient to tho cause of religious piety. Engrafted thus on thö Unman Saturnalia, Christmas festivities received in England further changes and modifications by having superadded to them,' first, the Druidical rites a tid 1 super stitions, and then, after the arrival of the Saxons, tho various ceremonies practiced by tho ancient Germsns. Tho result has been tho strange medley of Christian and pagan rites which contribute to make up the festivities of the modern Christmas. Thus ceremonios, rites, and symbols, onco full of meaning to pagans, have been transferred . without, their' meaning to Christians, and have come to have an en. tirely rnow .and differeut signification. This, at least, is true; they have come to mean joy at the birth of the Saviour, joy in view of his love for mankind, joy in burying animosities and reviving friendship amon men, and last, but not least, in opeuiog peculiar, joy to millions1 of littlo folks who are not old enough to understand the mysteries of mythology or the intricacies of theology. On the evening of the twenty-fourth of December, or Christmas Eve, the Christ mas holiday may be said to commence. Sir Walter Scott gives a picture of Christmas Eve in tho olden time in verse, as follows: ' "OoCbrlitran Ere tbs belli were rung; On CkrUtmas Era tbs mast was laag: That only eight la all taa ytr Saw (he ttoled prieit tbs chalice rear. Tbe dimsel dunnsd her kirtle heen; Tb hall was dratted wi-h holjr gresu; Forth to the wood did insrrj tuen go, To gather in lbs miitlttoe. Then opened wide the baron's hall To valval, tenant, ferf, and all; , Power laid his rod of rale anide, . And Ceremony doffed kis pride. The heir, with rosei in hit thoei, That night might village partner rbooie. Tbe lord, ucderogntlng, ibare Tbs vulgar game of 'joit and pair.' All bailed, with uncontrolled delight, And general voice, tbe happy olgbt, That to the eottage, as the cruwa, Brought tiding! of salvation down." . .The Christmas, tree is supposed to have originated in Germany, but it is incorporated with the celebration of Christmas in England and the Uuited States. In England, it naturally comes from German tock, for its princea are imported why not some of their custom? In America, especially in New York und Pennsylvania, the Germarls have dotted the land with their happy homes, and have brought their Santa Claus, their KrUhkinkU a corruption of C7n kuulUiii, or the Inr.... I',.: ,. k.. (!,.:...,.. i... fant Christ their Christmas tree, and with the German and Euglish and the Roman ceremonies, customs, and ideus, the result is a day of days with a central idea, but with many converging associations widespread, rendering the' day rich in composite symbols centralized upon tho one great thought, Messiah God with u.-! Hanging up the stocking, for Santa Claus to Uli with good things for the good, and.rods for the bad, is of German origin; and when the doors of the parlor are Opened, and the bright eyes and palpitating hcnrts of tho little ones come in to see what the Christmas tree bears for the n, who can estimate tho joy that belti .1.- in..! I I .1.: ....... . !... the Christian woild on this great annivcr sary of tbe year Many of tho grotcsquo ceremonies of ancieut time have been laid aside, but all that was sweet and rich has been cherish-1 eu aim npcui'u, uiiiiguiK i'K"1 lu lue.uara. corners of the world, aud awaking joy in thousands of hearts whose sorrows had else made them feel estranged from men and forgotten of God. As in old pagan times, when Christianity was in its infancy, Christinas had its abuses, so at present it L, with many, tho occasion of dissipation and evil. We have hOinetimes been amazed- that men who are celebrating Christmis with such hilarity and zeal, should ao far forget the commands of tho Saviour whoso birth they celebrate, aa to violate all the precepts of tho religion he came lo establish, by drunkenness, wrangling, and other exoesncs Let us hope that all our readers will remember that Cbrijtmua means forgiveness of enemich; the lifting up and encouragement of those who aro bowed down; the ministrations of mercy to those who are in need; the deepening and re-establiihment of friendships and affections, and tho remembrance that lie vrhose birth is celebrated requires pureness of life and corrcctnos of conduct, as well as faith in his mission, and an adheroueo to religious tervicos. Let this be a day when bad habits shall In) abandoned, and good habits entered upon, that tbo Christ may be to us salvation indeed, as well as in name. Lot each of us cou tribute) by word aod by deud, &jnieihiyt . 1 1 1 1 . . 1: ,v 1

be it little or much, toward bettering , tbe condition of those around and among us; and it will be to all, what we wish it may bo, dear reader, to yon and yovr$, a llAPPT cimiSTJiAH. Phrenological Journal, r e ! . . tntlde a Printing Offlee It is not alone compositors who will enjoy the foPowing. It is a capital and very forcible illustration of a priuting of fice dialogue. ' Foreman, of the office. "Jones, what are you at sow?' , Compositor. "I'm setting 'A House ou Fire,' almost done." Foreman. "What ia Smith about?" Compositor. "Ile'a engaged on A Horrid Murder.' Foreman. "Fioieh it as quickly as potbible, and help Mono through with his 'Telegraph.' Bub what are you trying to get up?'.' , - Bob. A Panio In tie 'Money' Market." . Foreman. 'Thomas, what are you distributing?" , Thotnns. 'Prixcs in the Lottery." Foreman. ''Stop that and take hold tf 'A ; Runaway Horse.' .Slocum, what in creatiou havu you been about this last bulf Uoui?" Slocum. "Justifying the 'Compromise Measure' my subset up.'' . Foreman. "You, chap on . the stool there, what are you on now?", Chapou the stool. "Ou tho 'Table that you gave mo." t Foreman. ''Lay it on the table for the present; no room for it." .

, Compohitor. "How about these 'Muni cipal Candidate!- . t oreman. "Kun cm in. hat do sou say, Slocum?" , - V Slocum. "Shall I lead , thesoMen of Boston?'? r . , ' ' Foreman. "No; they, are solid, of course" . ;' . , Compositor. "Do you want a full-faced head to 'Jenny Lind'a Faiuily'f ,t ' Foreman. 'No: rut Vtu in small cars. Joseph, havu't you got' up that. 'Capital joke"?,' . ; '. . Joseph. "No sir, I'm out of sorts." Foreman. "Wellthrüw iti this 'Million of California Gold, end when' jou jyu some get through with it more. , Editor.- "What do you want' now?" .. Devi'joe "Mor9 cvpy'eir." .'.'.'.' i Editor. "IIa ve you . completed . that 'Eloquent Thanksgiving Discouri-e'?" Devilj'oe! " Yei, sir, and I have just set up 'A Warm Winter." . A Mother' Voice. , . . t Sinee the prevailing Indian troubles commeuced.'an Indian camp was captured, together with a number of prisoners, including eq views, and some half dosen white captives, boys aud girls, from fiva to twelve years of ago. W ord was sent throuh out tbe country, inviting . those wbo bad lost children to come to the camp and identify, if possible, their children, aa none of them could give any account who their parents were, or where they were taken from, so youog wero they when they were taken captives by the Indians. Numbers went to the camp many more than there were children and of course many of them returned with heavy hearts at beiog unabe to find their lost ones. Amoug tho number who went hundreds of miles to the camp, was a mother who lost two children a boy and a girl, one three and the other five years old years ago. Efforts were made to persuade her not to go, and so loog a time had elapsed, it was certaiu she could not identify her children, even if they stood before her. But she could not rest; she must go, and go she did. On arriving at the encampment, she found the captives ranged in line for inspection. She looked at them first from a distsnce, her anxious heart bouuded in her bosom. Dut she did not see her children; at least she saw nothing .1 . .1 . l . .1' 1 ... in the group that bore the slightest resem blance to her baby boy and girl as they looked wheu playing about her door step. She drew nearer", and peered deep into tbo eyes of each, who only returned her look with a atony gazo yet anxious one they too hoping to see something ia her that would tell them she was her mother. She looked long and steadily at them, as her heart bean to siuk and grow heavy iu her bosom. At la-it with a tears aud aobs, she withdrew, and when aomo paces off she stopped aid turueJ about quickly, as, apparently, a thou 'ht hai occureJ to her. Drvinir her eves, she broke forth io g weet hymn she had buen wont tu aing 1 . . . . . 11 1 ' to tier children us a luliaoy. scarco a lino had been uttered when two of the 1 captives a boy and a girl rushed from 1 tho ine. exclaiming. "Mumms! maiMius! The mother went home perfectly atutied iho had found her long-lost children. aatatawaessajawata.iafc . 1 An unfortanato man, who had never drank water enough to warrant disease, was reduced to such a state of drousy that a consultation of physicians was held upon his case. They agreed tapping was neccssarv, and the poor patient was invited to'submit to tho operation which Lf seemed 10 do in spile of the entreaties of his sou, a boy seven years old. Oh, father, father! do not let them tap you," aaid the young hopeful; 'Do nut let them tap you!'' "Why my dear, it will do me good and I shall iio ioug iu health aud make jou happy. io father, no; you will not. There never was anything tapped in our bouse that lasted lunger t hau a Wtekl" Neitiieu DjxroND noii de Sanguine. What we liopo or fear may not come to pass. No human cheme cau be so accurately projected but some little tircurxtstancs intervening may spoil it. Gheat and Shall. What will paralyze email tuiuds may incite larger ones, as the breath which extinguished the candle will kinüle and strengthen tbo flame upob the hearth sloue -

Oneenlema, eflMtrshU nrUfty....J..M..T M Thrfe-fjsirters tt a ei.lwura. S St One-baif ef a ruli ia a Ose-a.aarfer f a .! w. ...... M Ooe eighth ef ovl It 9 4 TrBtlitt.itlMiuwii sheald la all eases 1 (aid for la adenre. ' t'alrii s psrflcnlsr time Ii iffrlf i4 wkea liseeü ia, ad arü'eiBsati will V atlithed aalil er Sersdaal sad eharsed aaeerdiaatj. rr . -..j - 1 Some Aifvrc; ' 1 - iVe tränlste the following irom," Josh Hillings into Ei.gVub.'c specially for the peru-aPoftlie "luotal BtsTdorTsTTaJiTiU reader, -Of fOurffl yeung u-tij will not rare to read it. It tuu a ttkrcr irony, as the man said when fe kbotUd his friend doau with a pokefr1 "'1" My yoertg fiieod, ub are bat H? t-e-

gie hie, aad although it tay eoi irts4i fully inipossiVle to. you, i.everthelcis )ot will be liable lo nuke täte auibtakts while you are scoring, or during' tie list aii or to. ' 1 j i n' Itt me mix up a little ati'ce fof our to take till you get to trutiiua: S'sady, . : ?. You will vlfrre tbe adtice ia deaigctd, for )oung alleiütn , who ihow yUt signa of jed. and atr"ibat Veasou right from the ehouldt-r. ,J'.-!' ' ' :al 1 Treat the' old man aoi the t!J wt-rssrt. as yt-ur riusls: stniie. w tent ifeev: exhortand laaph when they enlrrai, vr iieycuiig luau van ni))e ivr sutees tu me orua meutsl wilks of lile aho does Wot weir lLa' belt at home. ';'! )$ I -.jii- . 2. If you csnni t raise a mpitJcbe.-eota-, mit suicide at uuve and bevi , again:, lor it is better lw die lLau ! eufler dir-urace. 3. Cultivate itupudci.oe impudence ia a good subject for ' Iravr ry ouly "be1- a little earel! to pick jeur uueteiuera wbc you.try.it.. t j f.,. t 4. Keep a trotter and fightieg ,'rpier.j These animals' will let you into the, tuufideuce of men who will wsith 'dt'er y odr' morale and nurse your getiias. -i ' i '"i b. Avoid the old- logics; thsy are tJ miserable set of cowardly troskrs,;w.o, like a third rate dog, have Icarurd what little tley know about viitue' ly simply' being overmatched in a fair Cgbf. "' r"l G. Su.4jpect II Wcajaloi virtue, i Thiai will Itive ypu an easy fl.w ,of smligUi-: langaage while in the society of tht Udicej aod .enable you to aaaken cn1uaija,, which you cab call eoiuctLls-i; Vlsöl '"' " 7. If ob jtet doperne, ani tnuM lirtr ry,' marry tort ducats- marking' tor blood. or;fo.lyto j tvu. stvppy ,fir; a, uaa .-of; spirits. Love is a low passion, aud ia designed for tao-slory housea' in one' 'or ihe back streets, Lot Tor" a brvwn stoue fromf.eJ.'.n r-t-0 Ht f.-f h?r,?r 8. By all mVan 'Itarii c ö 'swear, aad smoke :fietly, and dou't never suistake rain, water for tii'lk. ;puueh nnicM JOU) want a eolt thing. ,(-(. y .- ,,. " J). Call religiuu "a stock'jolbtr pul5 gedo to catch flaiawlrh; say that' vlrtde ia1 only the galvanised in.portsare ofowsttd; that wisdom is but att gg that'ie . addW;laugh at all things that are solemp; at.dJ swear 'that ßst-elma and Venus are the' only two gods fit to be worshiped.'" ,6 1 Young mari, culiivate all the above gra' ees, aad add to them whst nhe ardarttf your genius may inspire, and if tbe jockeys and piuips geuerslly don't, say you are a "brick" of the brihest hueaud' if the devil dou't make you a. 'lo'e flstur' ing propoeala, ' the days, of 'rV'iTalry areV positively over, and pudding and milk baa got- more glory iu it than a brandy ömh,, a rum sour, or even a torn and jerry. . Young man, (a few woids with yoa io private,) let ihtse cheerful "remaiks t-ettler down into you when yoa get to an letting' at 12 o'clock some rainy -night, ,. ., Don't make a Jool of youri-cLf by trying to jump t5 feet at a jump and laud among; the "U'hoys" at once,' but enmiue your" build closely and see it you are" tot betUr constructed for something honert....; 1 j But if you fiud you must go. to despair, then put on all the steam you can carry and either burst or get !there'as soon a , possible. ' ; : . . ' . 1. 8. When yoa g t there and have Lad enough of it, just drop, tue a line and l will see what tau be done fvr you.- Bot don't forget one thing that the road! back ia three times aa farand riS all the way up hill besides. :' . ni" ; mi fs Music in Church. ..... r; ,t'f In Philadelphia, one pleasant Fpnday evening, an old lady, whose failing e,es demanded an utiu.uslly lare prayer book; started for churi-h a little tally.' Stop ring on the way to rail on a friend.' ehe Isyed her prayer-book op the table! WLeu the bells began to ihiute , she snatthed whit she supposed o be her prsjcr book, and (tated I r church. l er heat, was at the chancel end i.f the gallery.1 The organ ceased placing. The minuter said: "The Lord is in his Holy temple, let 'all the earth keep silence before hiwt.','. . I a, the effort to t j en her euppod prayerbook she stsrtcd tho spring of the tuurie box, which she had taken iust'-ad'- It began tu play in her conKterpstiou the put it on the floor. It would iot sljup ah put it on her seat it souided loutlrr than ever. Fi tju I ly she curritd it out while it played tbo WaVhlng Day," so ttih Jig.' Fpenmnu. the Sauuath. A Fcotch lady trutii a 1-011 u try towu.tu.lLe ti if bland being taken to Kuinbuigh, and litaiing modern singing in a ihuich for' the first time, was acted by the lady -who look her there what she thought of. the muJc "lt'a verra Lonfiy, vtrra buuay bulfiO my U-Jdy I its su awful way ol rpeudinjf th Sabba'-Ll'' CoMBADiaouv. It may rcem ftrsr-ge but it is a fact well known lo tbot-c Who huvo but a tlipht and suj clCcisI acquaint ante with cietitc. thai, if ivu ktep a I F . . j fire llmrunghly c ., you will ptbatty kesp yonisell thoroughly waiui. Ful.LT VEKhia KKAVkfclr. Self deuiat leuds to the most exslied plisiuies,' aui the coti(uet cf evil habiis is the u.ost gliiious triumph. Tis much betHrr to lev. thoult a loot tlisb (0 Le a ki.se. .1 i " 1 ! it Wife, I tliiopht jou taid ycu were je-. ing to hate a poure Kr diutti?' 'ho 1 did; and l'e kept luy wefat.' : ' ' Wlieit is it? Why, n.y diar.aU't ia kuts fi JioHCT?' - .. .-v'.- . .) ? i bmitleis ttuldii't mi lit (vbt bf tlxt juLe- " -, ! .... ' i

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