Indiana American, Volume 7, Number 20, Brookville, Franklin County, 15 May 1868 — Page 1

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CHoa la the National Bank; Ealldtoj, i u . (fAird story.) TERMS OF SUDSCniPTlOMi . $1,50 PERYEAH.iw AiTisici. 3,00 " ' If BOT FAID IW ABVAKCi, No postagt on papers delivered within thia County. ' Mr. Edgerton't Second Eplitlt. The Cspperhead candidate far Lieutenant Uoveroor ofihie State, Hon. Alfred 1. Kdgerton, ia sorely afflicted with that di aas called by faa.iFiou persona cacoethet teribenili, but in tLe plain vernacular, tbe acribbliog iteb. In hia pompous, egotis ticat and grandiloquent letter announcing .hitoselt to bo the owner of a large amount of Government bona on which he bad managed to escape all taxation, bo succeeded in writing himself down an ana; and in a mora recent epiatle. addressed to aooio political ftieuda in Uloomington, be seems determined to cam the additional title of acouudrcl. The burden of his lamentation is tbe taxation necessary to paytbe interest and principal of tbe debt that Ibo Democratic rebellion haa fattened upon tha country. Dissatisfied with the alow proceaa of con fiacatioo by compelling the surrender of the bund of te Government for an equal mount of currency, for tbe redemption of which no provision ia coutemplated. Mr. Kdgerton covertly bot unmistakably 'advocate the entire repudiation of the debt, oq the miserable pretext that its bolders are a favored class and the enemiea of tbe people. (Starting oat with falsehood, be naturally gravitates to robbery and national drshonor, and furniabea another striking but unnecessary proof that tbe tendency of Copperhead Democracy ia to hopeless depravity. W give the following extract from this scandalous letter, aa a lair sample of the whole: ' but who ia to pay tbia debt which now make taxation in every form tucessar)? Not the bondholder! They say they ate xeuipt by the Jaw, by the contract. Who made a contract to exempt wealth, or the ability to lite without labor, from taxation? Such a contract ia void, in every element, from the beginning. It is against public policy, au outrage upon equal and exact justice, and is o Uw for any people. The greattst good ot. the greatest number demands that there hould be no auch law. There ia no binding force, in an unjust law, upon people whose constitution ia not inviolate, liut the tuouey lendera, tbo bondholders, made this law to enable them to convert a depreciated indebtedness, and therefore liquidated to the eiteot of the depreciation lordepreciation was pay tneot into a mortgage debt to be paid by the nation's industry, dollar for dollar, in old. Its spirit is, "Leithe people work lor us bouuhoiucr and our bonds ahall tell ua bow much work they owe us." Mr. Kdgertoo is not' an ignoramus it would be better tor bis reputation if be were and he livact that there is not a ,li w in exisiein-e that exempts bondholders Irotu taxation for-FederaP purpose. II know that bonuholdcrs, unless they are harptra like himself, do pay taxes to tbe j ovemme nt of the United states. There is no United Mates tax to which a bondholder ia subject not precisely as are those who hold no bouda. They are required to pay a tax upon the incone derived Iroiu their bond; they pay taxes on what they consume, a other tiieo do; if they huppeu to owu oilier property taxable under the internal revenue Uw they are required to pay taxes on it; if they give a provisory note, or make a deed or mortgage, they sre required to aßix t revenue tatiip to the instrument; if they are dealers in merchandise or stocks they must pay a license, if they engage in manufactures they pay tho same taxes imposed upon others following the same business; in kliurt, they are not in any respect absolved from bearing their proportion of tbe burden of supporting the Government and paying tha interest and principal of the public debt. It is aot impossible that some bondholders have escaped the payment of the income tax by sharp practice tid fraud; indeed, Mr. Kdgerton bas stated over bis own signature that be held $1ÜS,(KHJ of six per cent, bonda for four year?, without paying t dollar of taxes on them; but in all such cases the Government is defrauded by the individual bondholder, aa the law requires that be shall pay tbe tax. Nor is it true that bondholders claim that they are exempt by their contract with the General Government from being taxed for its support. There was no auch contract nor baa any bondholder been silly enough to advance auch an idea except tbe author of this demagogical letter, if, indeed, be is an exception. We infer that be found it impossible to longer escape taxation on bia bonda, and bas therefore sold them; otherwise he would not in dulge in such abusive language towards those who are now creditors of tbe Gov crtiUiCiit. and have not been as successful as bimaelf in evading taxation. Tbeie can be but one object in striving to excite odium against publio creditors and that ia to prepare tbe popular mind for the real purpose of the Democratic party the absolute and unqualified repudiation of the national debt. The men -who are now the leadera of that party have never ceased to lament tbe failure of the rebellion, and the consequent overthrow of their favorite dogma ot tbe supremacy of each separate State over tbo National Government which represents tbe union of the States. They know that the rebellion would not have been suppressed but for the generous sums of money advanced ti the Government in exchange for its bonds, and they know that if tbe war debt is ever repudiated the nation will thenceforth be powerless to grapple with another rebellion, and . State independence will follow &j a matter of course. . , When a Democratic administration contracted debts, either to carry on war or to feed tbe tasaroni of its party In time of peace, we beard nothing agsiost the iniquity of exempting such debt from taxation, either by national 'or State authority. They wer exempt from State taxation by tha Constitution, and no Democratio politician then proposed to ' override the Constitution. la .order to tax tbemj far local purposes. Nor they .were, not, taxed by the United States Government.

1 vol: 7, no. 20. Its revenues were raised by taxes on im porta.' The material of which the labor! lug man's clothes were made; tne salt with which be seasoned his food, the implements with which bo worked, the medicines administered to him when sick, and r tbe shroud to wbioh be was robed lor the

grave, were all taxed in tbia form to pay jcctej f(,r tjl0 tlirce m0nths was 83,390, the debts contracted under Denucratio 40o 04, which we auppose is less than the rule; but the bondholder, who received coM cf official ,ervice that is provided for his interest and principal in gold, paid no collecting this excise. Yet nearly the tax upon his bonds. Tbe Republican wbole amountoflhe exclo at t2 a gallion Congress made the income from Govern- j ou, 0f tne pockets of tho conment bonds tsxable for national purposes; .urnerg tn th0 satno as if it were paid into the Democratic party when iu power made ,ne Treasury. And let no man think bondholders a favored class by exempting ,uilt j,c jg not a consumCr, and therefore their bonds from taxation, and it U the lDat ne j DOt roubcdj for this article enonly party that hua tolerated that distino- ; ttTt jnl0 eo n,IDy tncchauical usee that tion in favor of weaitb, and against the al ,r0 coiisumers. And they are direclly masses of the people. f Journal. robbed in another way, lor they have to m makfi up in other tuxea, what the revenue Andrew Johnson." i robbed of in tho whisky frauds. . The life of no man who bas ever figured Somewhere from seventy to one bun conspicuously in our politics presents dred millions of dollara are l"t.ktD more strange contradictious thsn that cf , out of the pockcla of the people by his Andrew Johnson. In 18C0 a supporter!" and put into the pockets of this of Ulackeondge for the i'r-idoncy. gang of thieves. That ia the naked reagainst Douglass, when he could but know j asirstsnds. This gang Include, dis. it would disrupt the Democratic party and I dclcr. officers pohttt. .i.,iiAn r i.sn..,in in l,irl i cisn, managers of rrwidentiul candidates,

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even II WH kU UCVKICU I'UIIMJHO vi uw - . n . . South to secede from the Union; yet, fcere of the Government Ctt.iens see when tbe election of Lincoln was secured ,n every community the members of this ..j t.n itr-...tir,Knr, showing tho evideucca of creat

iAnmmA their States out of tbe Union, be remsined at his poat. lie was the only man in all the bouthern delegation who recognised tbeclaimaof the Government aa being above those of a State.-Staudinir thus alone, deserted bv his old asociatea in Congress, persecuted by his old political friends and his tamily driven . from their State because he did his duty, be had the sympathy and the blessing ot every true Itieud of the .Government everjÄhere. Ilia conduct exhibited a moral heroism seldom seen in political life. Whether as a Senator in Congress, or Military Governor of Tennessee, he maintained bis fidelity and gave an unequivocal support to tbe Government during the war. And when it became evident that the de struction of slavery was necesMry to the successful prosecution of the , war, he earnestly advocated its extinction. It is not strsnge therefore that when the Republican party came together at Daltimore in lbGi, they should select him as the candidate ot the party lor the Vice Presidency. There was a natural desire to recognise the services of one who had sacrificed so much for the country, liauiliu had performed his duties in an unexceptional manner, and by party usage was entitled to the nomination; bot he waa mercilessly ahelved to make a place for Johnson. In six weeks after bis inauguration as Vice President, he became President by the assassination of Mr. Lincolo. Here was his :reat opportunity for usefulness and distinction. The rebellion was completely crushed; and the South was in a condition to accept any terms we tbould offer. The rebellious States whether technically in tbe Union or out at the clote of tbe war, "bad, (as Mr. Lincoln expressed ii) severed their practical con nectiou with the Government," and had to be reorgauixed. To reorganize these State guverumeuis, and to re establish proper practical relations betweeo the htates and the Government, is a work surrounded with difficulties. Mr. Johnson took the work into his own hands, instead of calling Congress together, to which depart me ut the subject of reconstruction properly belongs, tie assured the country he would carry out the policy'of his predecessor. However honest or patriotic his purposes may have been, experience demonstrated the failure of his policy. Congress suggested another policy, (the 14th article) he stubbornly clung to his, even after the people had pronounced against it. He turned squarely upon tbe party that placed him in power, made open war against the Congressional policy, and advised the South to hold out against it. Under this encouragement they did so, and tbe Reconstruction has been delayed until its embarrassments have been in creased a hundred fold. This, though political in its uature, is the most aeiious offeoce he has committed, and the most injurious and damaging to the country. We can not enumerate his minor offenses here it is a loog course of misconduct. Finally his premcdiated and open violation of the Tenure-of Odice- Act. de termined the long talked of impeachment proceeding. He is now upon trial, charged with tbe commission of "high crimes and misdemeanors." That he will be convicted and ousted from bts office; and that the people whom he haa so remorselessly betrayed will sanction tho verdict we have not a doubt. It is a great fall, and will furnish the first instance in our history of a Presidents going out of office by Impeachment, and, without a party. Ilia position has afforded hitu the greatest opportunities for usefulness. If he bad employed them for good, he would have dooe the country inestimable service at a critical period. Hut bo has chosen to betray the people, and to employ himself in reviving the hope of a lost cause and must take tbe consequences. In the darkest days of the Atlantic telegraph enterprise, a friend of Cyrus Field bought 81U.ÜU0 of stock for a 810 bill. Mr. Field magnanimously offered to take the atock at a considerable advance. 'Well, what do you advise me to do, Mr. Field?' 'Take your atock home was the reply; 'lock it up in your safe and never look, at it or think of it, till you como to me for your dividend on it.' And that man ia now receiving, on bis investment of tcu dollars, $3l)0 per annum in gold. "It ii not meat only that ia io enormously dear," said careful housewife, hot I caunot obtain flour for pudding for less than double the usual price, and they dq not make egg half eo large as they a$ed to iii'. . .

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T II E .UN 10 N, ; .T V E CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS

Tha Vhttky Thieves. The report of tbe revenue collected from distilled spirits for the first three months of the present year, which we pub - liahed on Monday, ahows that this excise a- -.t.i. .Aui. r... tiA K-ft r - ftr rdnudarera. Tha who a amount ml. u v v CaMnm tviwi j v s sau uvuvut vi ea s u 11 ' proprietors of newspapers, and hijrh el wealth, and making trrcat purchases of ! ho.B0 nJ nJ- cn lbeJ lth' rP.ectiC,re foro their eyes without ! "mn feeling of disgust tor the Gov mtuent which permits it? Mow can they conltut to pay taxes on their property, and on their honestly earned income, when they see the publio revenues delivi ered into the bunds of a gang of thieves? This caunot exist without demoralizing the collection of all the revenues. Why should anybody pay honestly, or any rev enue efheers be honest; when the revenues are openly plundered by the oflicers, and the Government winks at it? The tobacco excise is delivered up to thieves in the same way, but we speak of tho collection of all other taxes, and we inquire how long any honest returns or honest collections can exist in the face'ef the universal knowledge of this rascality? Nor can any man give ground for a rational expectation that this system of robbery cao bo broken up while the (2 excise is retained. Wha.tever diflcrenco of opinion may heretofore luvo existsd io this regard, it is now so plain that the conviction cannot be resisted, that the retention of this rato of excise is playing ditcctly into the hands of the gan; of thieves. This relation of. cause and effect is (to palpable, that, in the face of the geneial information ihat the managers of the whisky ring have their agents at tho Capital, tu use any amouut of money to keep up this excise, it will be hard to satisfy tho public mind that there is not a relation between this influence and the final perseverence in this tax. What nhall be done? The present system is reduced to simply a license granted by the Government to a gang of thieves to plunder the people of from seventy to one hundred millions a year. And, as we have said, it is getting so tbst the Government pays tho thieves something be aides. The immediate, unconditional repeal of the excise would be a great relief from this. Tho whole country would be i purer for it. The publio would everywhere rejoice that the reign ot these kuaves was at an end. An t millions of dollars that have been inv tt.'l instills, in places where the buaine. wjuld not be attempted but for this excise, would be made valueless. '1 he decease is so bad that the mot rad ical remedy, the cutting off of tho whole tax, would be a great relief. It would also save revenue. And the whole air would be purified by the dismissal of this horde of corrupt revenue officers. Thus, in every respect, morally and pecuniarily, an absolute repeal of the excise would be a great reform of the present situation. We have thought that a teduction of the excise to 25 cents a gallioti would abolish all the stills that havo grown up by illicit distillation, would restore the distilling business to the grain growing regions, would make it unprofitable in the Kastern cities, and in tho inaccessible parts of the South, even if they cheated tho revenues, and would so reduce tbe amouut that coutd be stolen, that it would be insufficient to keep up the gang, and to corrupt the revenue officers. Dut it is impossible that this is too high and that 'JO cents would bo better, and perhaps a lesser figure still. Tho excise must bo so reduced as to break up tbe distilleries that have grown up on illicit distillation, and to break up the ring of distillers and revenue officers. Any attempt to compromise by a mnderato reduction, say to a dollar or fifty cents, will only trifle with the situation by continuing the plunder in reduced dimensions. The treatment roust be radical, and for it we have this encouragement, that the abolition of the excite altogether, will bo a pecuniaty profit to the 't reasury, and a vast moral profit to the country. Only a low rate or excise cao promise any revcuue. I Gazette. No Defense For It. "The Democratic party! It needs no vindication no defense. Its history is interwoven with the history of the country," - Sentinel. ' Yes; and a bad interweaving it was. History records that thUrlurty bad become so arrogant from the long possession of power that when the people in tbe exerciso of their constitutional powers and prerogatives elected a President not acceptable to it, t rebellion was inaugurated by tbo people of the States where tbe Democratio party was in the ascendency; that those betitocratto States organized a separate governmeut hostilo to that of tbe nation: that they set on foot large armies, and with them attempted to overthrow Unconstitu tional authorities 01 the country. This crime of tbo Dctnocratio party in-

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i tolved the nation in a bloody war, in whioh ! hundreds of thousand of men perished, ; on tola millions of treasure were aert , ßced-all because the people elected a I ro 1 ent to serve tour years, who was not en . dorscd bv this vaunted Democratic party. i r . f. r II BUCn IKCUS saw vtwivuo! ava the renion that its conduct is utterly inds feosillo. flod Journal. For the AmarUan. The Quack. On Jy a iJ looking bsla Coming from toward tu railroad atatton, TV act ws.klog 0 la tirtst, and log A "boua tu 1st," mail application. To know rw halber bacilli rant a room on tWk. "I'd Ilka lo'ftnta roam," said Daoanna I'm told It ! unhlthyj led bj my Due to rief iklil, 70a iae, ' I footi shall to intf quit wsaUliyf BeIJ., i'J b 0 b&adf, (k juld job rar t taken down sloa." XT "Your look to tos, Mr." ld i'ia man, "Dcrptak well, I won't ra It Yonr ror-tlon,Mrt HsOax. Not nwa tu, sad not y It, So I'll 1st aim bo a room for a month, on bis own Until." TbU contract mad, bis fblog'o nost 11 a hung out to tba wtathor; "Now tbo," said h."t gain reiptot, I'll ioll'h up my leather." So Is turned over an old frjlng pan, aad spat on For three long weeka bo aoal appeared, To k1 advice from liolut Blue. "Ala!" said be, "tW as I fere t Ihoelhowtnf my eoat are through." The Cond) lea Lelngt.il.lolj vlilbls through the rent. A elrcumitance one day occurred, Which bro-ight the Doctor like a oomotj "A lady's Up-Uog" 'twet averred Would die, unlet U got a vomit." So Doo. administered FvoorauLia to the ludleposed pujpy. "Well, Madamt I shall call ngntn To-night," said Doctor as be turned to go; Keep fliea from off the ileepiog'feim,' And be'tl be better, then, 1 know." Secretly njolciiigat hit success, the Doctor waa a happy man. True to his word, the Doctor came, liut found tht patient's fever blyh, With quickened ule, and febrile frame A wild light shinging Iron ble eye. "Itfinlte tuial doiet of Caloaiei are food In euch catee," said he; a o he gave It some. "I have great brpet yonr pet will lire," Said be. locking in the womaa's late, '-Owtn to the ueoaTto etult' 1 give, I bevcr loet a single core. In the luornlbg, AI auu m, I will renew my alten.ileus. " And next morning when lie rote, "I'll toemy patient now," be seid, And hurrying on lilt threadbare clothes, Acrors the way he qulrkly ped. What was hie turprlac, oliscri--, disappointment, vexation and sorrow, vbeu be found hit patient dead. "Materia Medice prcecriba Tbe antidote I reed," Mid he; Terhapt tbe ganglion of IiiUt Wat oct of or ler, tbnt maybe; At au rets, I'd !- to in .kv ajjxiKt mortuum exauiiokiioa of ita encjuo. 'You know, ilcar Madam, that we gala Our skill, by aurh dineecting; I'm lure my rcalpel would explain Itt cerebral affection, Beeidee, there might be something the matter with its StaaiASTiA rtsutSA srosoiota tabCi'Losa. "The 'Attolleut aurum' and 'Qaetroneralus;' Ptactarie," "Soleae" and tbo origin Of tbs "Ulotel," and tha "Jiplenltu;" Bring into vlow the "menial foramen" By a alight inri.lon in the Pelvio region through which all iheeo may be ren. I ."My carot Madam, Ifeol sure Tho renaon why tbe patient died, And why the doiet would not cure,lit epigaitrium ossified." The poseibility ef this phyelological fbenomenon, produced, Asrarxi. The lady, ehortly f ktnlng breath, Said. "LEAVE MT HciVSK, Di BLUB? Your prerence here will eauee MT death, At I very well remember You caund the ueath of poor Teen you heartIce quack." Tbs citizen turned out Ex masse, And ran Eclectic out of town; II I ( and board, both went to grass, And that's tbe way all quacaa come down Hooner or later. Harrison, CT., May 2. 1 80S. ScGba. Kindness Repulsed. It is strange how unkindly our efforts to preserve the Caucasian Democracy from coutamnation are received. For example, tho Sentinel represents us assailing the Decatur Democracy "because they proclaimed that this is a white man's (J overtime nt, and refused to recognize the claims of umbo to become our ruler." Nothing , could bo more foreign "to truth. So far from assailing the straight haired, lilly"faced Democracy of Decatur, we called the attention of their friends elsewhcro to what wo conceive to bo a departure from Demo cratic principles tbe "time-honored" sort, we mean in the resolution wherein they attempted to enforce the doctrine that thi is a white man, a (Jovernment. They resolved that' this (Jovernment was made by white man for white men and their potUri'g. Now, as the cencus fchows that there are half a million of mulattocs, quadroons and otcorooos in the United States, nearly all of whom are the posterity of Southern Democrats the Decatur resolution necessary includes them as a political clement in tho white man's government. We could not beleive that a Democracy so imbued with hatred to all persons having a visible admixture of uegro blood, was' ready to take to its embraco this largo pot ttrity of tbo white Southrcn chivalry, notwithstanding the bs me party once elected as Vice l'residant a man who was the recognized father of a likoly family of child rdn. We suggested that, hereafter, Democratic conventions should study more exactness iu their phraseology than did the careless Decatur Caucasians, and not adopt resolutions that would open the doors of the Democratic temple to the mixed progeny of White Democrats. To this end wo proposed that they hereafter resolve that this Government was made for white men and the posterity of whita camtn. We really tbought wo wero doitg tho Deocrucy a kindness and aro at a loss to account for the snappishnea of tts Sentinel. Journal., If small streams are not able to bear great ships, or yield great treasutcs, they may, at least, water somo drooping llawer; If not by tho fireside of harne, by the way side in life's pathway.

Some New Anecdotei of Wordsworth. Fiist, let me give you some idea of tbia venerable and good man, who, ia tiisny things, resembled Milton. There was the same austerity of life; tho same rigid mor ality,bonesty, and Independence; aud, despite bis great genius, the ssme narrowmindedness. In hight he was tall, being oyer six feet, and gaunt and etraggling in his person. His clothes were always too large for him, and seemed is though bo had thrown them on loosely. Ilia fore head waa not high, his nose was large and slightly aquiline, and bis lip and chin were drooping. Ho had straggling whiskers, which waa all the bair be wore on bis faco. Iiis eyes were deep-set and abstracted, and of a brownish gray. Leigh Hunt said tl ey always reminded bim of the prophet Jeremiah's, being generally fixed in dreamy musing, as though be was looking within himself, rather than out at the world. Ills voico was deep, and sounded as though it came from the chest; this was eminently characteristic of tho man's nature, which was most emphatic and earncvt. Indeed, he ace med as tlsaugh he wan always talking under oath, and giving evidence in a court of law, rather thsn joining in a conversation. lie was entirely destitute of humor, and could not understand a joke, unless it was logically put, aud then proved. If anybody wished him to appreciate one. he would have to fmt it into a mathematical shape In fact io saw no more fun in Joe Miller than be Euclid. In telling the commonest occurrence, be would be painfully precise aa to whether it happened on a Monday or a Tuesday, and thus often destroyed the spirit in preserving the letter. Coleridge once told hilft to bis face that he loved fact better than truth; and Wordsworth told me, very gravely, when speaking of Coleridgf. at ho could see no diffetenco between tfiem. Let us, while we are at this point, relate a short anecdote, which will give a better idea of Wordsworth's want of sympathy with bumor than a labored disquisition. He was dining in 1810, at the table of that fine specimen of a Christian jurist, Thomas Noon Talfourd, equally distinguished as a lawyer and a dramatist, when one of the company, Robert Drowning, tho poet, made an allusion to Moore's wit. Wordsworth, who was very chatty when in the society of those he liked, said, 'Well, I don't think that 1 am a witty man by any means. Indeed, I do not think that I was ever witty but once in the whole of my lifo!" Of course there was a great desire to hear this solitary w itticism. Thus importuned, the old bard said, "Well, well, I'll tell you. 1 was standingone evening at my gate at Uydal Mount, when j a man cuuio up, and Paid, "oir, did you. see ray wife pass by?" Whereupon I replied, "My good sir, I did not know till this minute that you bad a wife.'" Here he paused. We all baw that he bad told all ho bad to sav, and the whole company laughed heartily at this specimen of Wordsworth's wit. The dear old gentleman always took the merriment this story provoked us a genuine tribute to bis facetiousness. Among bis prejudices, was a rooted aversion to actors and actresses. On one occasion, I was with him at a party where Miss Ellen Tree, afterward Mrs. Charles Kean, was present. The hostess asked roe to introduce her to the poet. Knowing his peculiarity in this respect, I went to Wordsworth and asked permission to introduco tho distinguished tragedienne to him.- lie tried to avoid it, saying: 'My dear friend, I would rather not. Why, I never spoke to an actress in tbe whole course of toy life, and I don't think Mrs. Wordsworth would like it.' Finally, overcoming his almost religious scruples, I mude the two acquainted; aud he was so much pleased with her, that they remained in pleasant conversation the rest of the evening. Lat me mention another proof of his intense simplicity. Some yearn afterward, Mr. Mac-ready, also well known to the American publio us tho hero to uc a sctisutioual commonplace, of the Astor Place riot, 011 bis way to Edinburgh, pnid Wordsworth a flying visit at his Westmoreland homestead. I question if there ever lived a more arrogant, over bearing and conceited man, on or off the rtage. than William Charles Macready. When tho old poet visited London, some months alter, he told me that he was very much pleased with Mr. Macready. "1 found him aa bumble minded man, with a very modest opinion of himsell; he is a bad actor, and he knows it. Indeed, ' said Wordeworth, "ne as good as con fessed that to mc." Dear old simple-minded philosopher! To mistake tbe bupcrcillious pretense of sell negation, which tho great actor assumes when he receives a compliment, for humility and modest! I will mention another of bis personal traits, which shows how a slavish rovereuco for rank permeates through all classes in England. If Wordsworth received on Monday an invitation to dine with a baronet, and ucc-ericd it, ho would con eider himsclfperfectly absolved from keep ing tho engagement, if he received on Tuesday another invitation from a baron, which would be overslaughed if on Wednesday he was invited by an carl, who in turn would have to give way to a marquis, who would, iu his turn, be put hör du combat by a duke. What made tho whole thing more ridiculous was Wordsworth's inability to understand that he had been guilty of any rudeness, or that the slighted party had any ground of complaint. One moro anoodote, a tri we will sketch the other members of his family. One tuoruinu: he called, and asked me to accompany him to an adjoining street, where ho was told a cheap tailor lived. The address be had received from hi friend was so precise that we found it without trouble. In wo walked. "Is this Mr. Jones?" asked tho poet. A man coming forward etid, 'Yes, sir.' "Are you Mr. Jouea, tbe tailor?" "o. sir." "Then I want to tco Mr. Jones himself."

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Jones wss up stairs, but he waa summon ed. Wordsworth, having made certain that be had now got bold of tbe veritable Jone, then very solemnly informed bim that he was a friend of Lord Montesgle tbo Chancellor of tbe Exchequer and that he waa on a visit to bim, ana that Lord Mootraglo'a butler, who was 1 very reliable and decent man, bad recommended him to Mr. Jones aa being a very reliable tailor who sold cheap for catb. Jones bowed deferentially. "I now want you, Mr. Jones," contin ued the poet, "to measure roe for two suits of clothes, one for Sunday, and the other for walking about in the country. I ought to have told you Mr. Jones, that I live at Itydal Mount, near Ambleside, Westmoreland, and that I am 1 great wan derer about the fields and hills there." Jones bowed, and wss about to meaiure him when Wordsworth said: Stop a bit; let m rshow you bow I walk in the country. You will then see that I want the clothes made very looae, and the stitches made very strong, so that I may throw my arme about in thia fashion, with out splitting the garments. Saving this, Wordsworth commenced to walk up and down tho shop, taking long strides, and tlmcing Ins arms about aa though he was a windmill in a gale of wind. Hy this time the people employed there seemed much amused at the scene. When the old poet had sufficiently im rressed upon the tailor tbe necessity of making hia clothes very strong, io order to reblet his gyrations, ho walked up to tbe somewhat obfusticated Jones, and said with treat earnestness. "You have seen how l walk, now measure me." Jones measured him, and we departed, Wordsworth telling tbe tailor to vend on to me if he wanted anything further. Next morning the tailor called on me; and, aft er a little humming and hawing, in quired with much mjstery, and in a sub dued tone of voice, if he was really to make the clothes ordered by the old gen tleman. "Certainly. "Why do you ask?'' was my rejoinder. "Because, rdr," said Jones, deferential lv. "I thought he was a little crazy, and that you only bud bim measured to bu mor bim." I then informed the sceptical Jones that the gentleman in question was a very distinguished man, being no other than Mr. William Wordsworth, the great poet. I am sorry to add, for the reputation of all tailors, that Jones was no wiser than be was before, never having beard of the author of ? Peter Bell" till that minute. Upon my assurance, however, that the old gentleman waa no more mad than either Jones or myself, he made the clothes sent them home to the care of Lord Monteagle's butler, with whom Wordsworth had left the money to pay bim. -Our JJoys and Oirls. Cure for the Whooping Cough. The season of this dreaded affliction to children and others is now in force, and very many are already suffering from the fearful malady, we could not do better than give a remedy for it by Dr. A. U. Castle, of New York, a well recommended physician. He says: "I will simply remark that a certain remedy, and a very simple and natural one has been discovered for it. Dr. J. Unzicker, of Cincinnati, Dr. Coddington, of this city, and the results of my own experience says that the decoction of the leaves of tho chestnut tiee -'castanea-vesca' is a nafe, perfect, and sure remedy for the cure of whooping cough. During the past two years this medicine has had a lair trial, ond we all agree that, at last, a remedy has been found to cope with the discatic. In every case it has given decided relief within the lirst two weeks. tty its use tho cough is at once cut short, patients test easier through tbe night lroro the time they commence taking it, and after ten to til tee 11 days from that time, the sjmptoms disappear very rapidly. '1 he method of administering tbe leaves is as follows: Pl.ce half aa ounce of the leaves in one pint of water, in any convenient vcsi-el; apply beat, to that it approach to boiling point; then empty the whole, without straiuing, into an earthen vessel a tea pot, say. To be partaken of occasionally throughout the day, every day, especially at bed time as much as the patient will drink. Sugir may be added to the decoction, if preferred, in th same way as tea is prepared, the taste of which, by the bye, it somewhat resembles. It is best, however, when in the form of a plain decoction." No Reasonable Offer Refused. e In the show-wuiuow of one of our shops there was posted not long since this placard: "No reasonable offer refused." "It chanced that a very pretty maiden was clerk in tho establishment. A youth just in the tender peach bloom period, being somewhat enamored of the fair lady, uoticed the placard as he passed by, and at once rushed into the store, when the following conversation ensued: Youth to tho fair "I noticed your plucard in the window and thought I'd a aa come in. "Yos," enid ehe, "glod to aie you let tue sell you some goods. "Well," taid the youth, "I would like to buy borne dry goods, and I want a pretty little face in them. I thought os you refused no reasonable offer, 1 would take the best dress pattern you have and also yourself." "Very well," said the fair clerk, "I must stick to the text. It is a trade. Pav for the dress, and I will throw my self into it in the bargain." There was soon after a wedding, and the sign "No reasonable offer refused became quite popular among the lady clerks of the city. One is much less sensible of cold od i bright dar than on a cloudy one: thus tba sunshine of cheerful oces and br yfill lighten every trouble.

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Chastising Ita Own. Tbe Stntintl ofSetarday devotes along editorial to whjt it represent to bava been the doctrines, ritual and practica of the defunct Know Nothing party. Our neighbors may hammer on the coCn cf Know Nolhingism, and rattle its dried and flesbless bouts to its beart'a content, and we hope it will enjoy the exercise. We are not disposed to call in question our neighbor's lDtin.ae knowledge of Know JS'otbingiam as it wss, for so targe a portion of that old orgiflitatlon is now ia tbe Democratic parfytbat it is vndoubt edly able to speak from full information, and not unlikely from actual participation in the secrets and ceremonies cf ,,cim." Among tbe distinguished Know NotbV ings of thistStatt was that noted Demo erat, 11. II. Po. M; wbo in 18C4 waa an idol of the Indiana Democracy, a brilliant loader of the Sn of Liberty, tbe found er of the peculiar system of evangelisa tion then patronised by that party, and the inventor of a Snnday School literature beating tbe ahape of cavalry pistols. Tho only candidate the Know Nothings ever ran for uovernor of Ohio. Judge Van Trump, is tow a Democratic retro-' ber of Cotigtrss from that Ftate, and doubtless thinks it a good stroke of Democratic policy to disfranchise Union soldier. The first Know Nothing candidate for President, Millard Fillmore, is and long bas been a Democrat, and the second, John Dell, joined the Democratio party of Tennessee, as soon as it had made its pur pose manifest to withdraw that State from the Union aud join tbe forces of Jeff Davis in making war ou tbe National Gov ernment. From tbe Ohio river to the Gulf of Mexico, the once numerous and powerful Know Nothing party has Ween absorbed into the present lovely concern called the Democratic pnrty. The brutes and fiends who slaughtered foreigners and burned their dwelling in Louisville, on "Hloody Monday, either perished 10 the Demo cratio rebel army, or are now members io full fellowship with the unadulterated reb el Democracy of Kentucky. A largo msjotify of those wbo were Know Nothings when Know Nothiogism was a power, are now noisy Democrats, revilers of Congress, bitter enemiea cf the Republican party, and ready to throw up their hats aud exercise their throats for Mr. l'eti'dleton, "f r any other man," who may receive the -Democratio nomination for Piesidei-.t. The Xmliurl bas a tight to do as it pleases with its own, so it may lash and slash Know Nothings a much as it pleases, without fear of opposition from ua. II -.ving become the residuary legatee of tbe Know Nothing estate, tbe Democratic party haa a clear right to do as it will with the assets, snd it is not the privilege oi outsiders to interfere. Jour nal. Democracy Bankrupt. Ysc find the following extract going tbe rounds, credited to the Chicago 77mra, one of the ablest Democratic pspers In the West. It bespeaks a terrible scarcity of capital just now iu that old party. What next? Can the Democratic party succeed until the negro question begot out of the wav? It cannot. Whf not? 7s not nrgro $"jfraje inevitable, and is not the quickest way to at onr to conerde tht tuff rage making issue only on the degree to which it ahall be conceded? We know that many Democrats have not reached this advanced view of the cae and that such are Hill greatly inclined to revolt at the proposition of negro suffrage in any degree, but let us tell them that it it i. tcay tcite tt accent the inevitable tcficn thu tnttitaUc enmcs. Negro rnffrage, we sar, is inevitable, and whether it shall be qualified or universal depends upon the prompt ncss or othctwise with which the Demo cratic party shall move with reference to it. The &tulh trill tiwedily it.ld qualijiM nrgro tvffrage upon the motion of the Ihm oeratte jtarfy; because, it tor no other rea son, fcl.e will soon see, if she docs not already see, that if she does not field it, she will ultimately be compelled to accept universal negro suffrage. Qualified negro suffrage yielded by tbe South and by this we mean impartial tuf frage. or suffrage dependent upon tbe in telligence of the ma n, irrespective of color, at ta noio the rnte ti JIattaeineff$--lh negro qurttion will hnt:e. Lira dltyotnl vt and tha occupation of the .Yur'Arr Ripnb fican jiartg teilt be gone jurtcer. Not one inch of ground will it have to stand upon; and the country cau once more turn to those material questions ot publio policy, the right disposition of buh ia aoesseutial to the publio prosperity. It will be upon these questions that the Dem ocratic party will triumph and it will be by this triumph that constitutional gov ernment and our Federal sjitem will be preserved. If the South be wise it will not wait on this suffrago question, even lor the motion of the Deiuocnitic party. If it lm wic, it will lesa no timo iu putting in motion the neetssnry machinery by which it will, at the same time save itself from huuiili- . atiou, prom its own nclf-icspect, lid tho country of the most vexatious questions that ever distracted any couutry, kill tho worst political party that ever existed on tbe globe, and put tbe Uuion iu tho way of speedy reconstruction. Thia luochiuery consists, of course in conventions to revit. the State Constitution. Flirtation. Floatation, whether so riously or lightly considered, is injurious to a woman as stell as unbecoming to ber. It is a broad uublusking confession which the individual makes of ber desire to at tract the notice of men. No girl ever made a happy union by fiiitatiou, becaue no man capable of uiikiug a vomio fermauently happy was ever attracted by that which is distrusting to persona of iu telligence and rtfincmeut. Kxcltugo.