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rCBLlSHKD EVERT FRIDAY r C. II. B I NGII A.M, Proprietor.

Office ia the National Bank Baildinir. (Third Story) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: $2.50 FER YEAR, tx advance. $S.OO " " ,F K0T pAlD I ADTAKCC jfo postage on paper delivered within this County. GENERAL THOMAS. Honors to His Memory. The following is the full text of the order of the General-in-Chief announcing the death of General George U. Thomas: "Heapqcartkrs of the Armt. -1 370.) Adjutant General's Office "Washington, March 29, 18 'It has become the painful duty of the General lo announce to the army the death cf one of our most able Generals, George H. Thomas, who expired last evening at half pt fCveo o'clock in San Francisco, Calitornia. There is no need to turn to the archives to search for his history, for it is recorded on almost every page during the past ten years; but his classmate and tomraJes owes him a personal tribute, in which he knows every member of the army shares. General Thomas entered the Military Academy in the class of 1S3G, graduated in 184U, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Third Artillery and sent to Florida. lie served with his regiment continuously until December 24, iN'o, when he became a Captain, having been particularly distinguished at Monte rej ana Buena ista, Mexico. "On the 12th day of May, 1855, he was if pointed to the Second Cavalry as Major, and served with that regiment continuously until he became its Colonel, on the 3d day of May, 1861. The great civil war found him at his post, true and firm amidst the terrible pressure he encountered by reason of his birth place, Virginia, and I'n-Mdctit Lincoln commissioned him as Brigadier General cf Volunteers, and sent him to Kentucky. There, too, his services were constant and eminent in the highest degree. Lie won the first battle in the West, at Mill Spring, Kentucky, and frotu first to last, without a day or au hour intermis&ion, he was at his post of duly, rising steadily and irresistibly through all the grades to the one he held a Major General tf the llegular Army at the time of his death. "At Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Stone River, Chicaitiatiga, Chattanooga, Atlanta and ahvillo, he fulfilled the proudest hopes of his mot ardent friends, and at the elose of the war General George 11. Thomas stood in the very front rank of our war Generals. The General has known General Ihomas intimately since they sat i hoys on the same bench, and the quality in him which he holds up for the admiration and example of the young is his complete and entire devotion to duty. Though sent to Florida, to Mexico, to Ttiss and Atir.ona when duty there was al'Miiute ba m.-hment, ho went cheerfully and never aked a tersunal favor. cxemria ion t uaxe or aiset.ee. in e i

evcr wavereo; utm and lull ot latth in : rec0jj,4iied representative of mv downLis case he kntw right would prevail, and j trodden people, I deny the cha'rge, and .e never sought advancement or rank r ( hurl u b,ck into the teeth of thoe who l otu.rat the expense or any one; what. ; 1ale u n d whl) i l)elieve have not a twr he ian.ed ut thee were his own, and truc ,nd conscientious ,iesire to further no one d.sj utes his fame. The very im- ,6 in,cres,s wf ,he wllo!e ouln. icrsonatton of honesty, integ.ity and hon- .-Certainly any one possessing a knowl or, ho will stand to us as the beau ideal of cdae wf ,,ie ct,lured population of my own the holdicr and gentleman, 'though he or ally oilvr (ate ,,eed not be reminded leaves no child to bear his name, ihc old j he nobc collducl tl. lhaX lopie under army ot the Cumberland, numbered by he most trying circumstances in the his tens of thousands, ealled him father, and 1 , of lhe ,a,e war, when they were be-

-ui weep wr mm in lears oi matuy gnci. , ins Aitc, who cheered tutu witti messages of love in the darkest hours of war, will Biourn him now in sadness, chastened by the sympathy of a whole couutry. The last sad rites due him as a man and soldier ill be paid at Troy, rs'ew York, on the arrival ot his remains and family, and all his old couirades who can be present aie it- -. . ... .ajitea mere to share in the ot.sequ.es. At a I military posts and stations the flag lw. ..i...... I -. l.-ir - ... i ki... jruos fired oil the day after the receipt of the order; and the usual badges of mourning twll le worn thirty days. 'By command of General Sherman." The following dispatches were received t Indianapolis, and are published for the information of the couirades of the Army ef tbe Cumberland: Nathan Kimball, Vice-President for Indiana. Chicago, March 30, 1S70. Gen. Nathan Kimball As the Vice President of the Society of the Army of umbcrland, the undersigned assumes he duty of making to the Society the sadsest announcement it is possible for it to tteeive that of the sudden and unexpect- ! death ot the object of its supreme love nd respect. Our President, Major Gen1 George II. Thomas, is dead. True oJ Oioutst. hrace and trusted llio nprfprt , - - -. - , - - j....... -Pe t'l soldier and gentleman, he ia ro ore. The army and the country have "ferieneed au irreparable loss, but the wsssustaiued by his children of the old Army of tbe Cumberland is tbat of a beloved father. Mis uoble life and deeds 1 not be re-called to them. Thev are 6u-knoirn ....I ... ;ii V.. r...ll.. ... wred by every member of that old army S tie dearest lhinr thev nosac. lie j- i . J t as it was fittiug he should, with his Lh V- -1 U requested that the usual badire of purutng be worn by the Society lor 30 J' At its next meeting suitable steps fce taken for a full commemoration of "it treat l.icc i) rr . . " Vice President. AVasuinvjton, March 30. T Gor. Iler, General X. Kimball and "ntrtt( Juin oc . , lour di;ipatch is received, and I am f J lhe tate or Indiana proposes to do Aour to the memory of Geueral Thomas. fording to present advices his remains . "' leave an Francisco tog.ttended by his family - 1 have instrnottt-t t "hi leave Sn l.1. ... . - a. t au.iBuu t o UiUl Lun and two offor Trov, New llsr. . V. in .Port their route and progress; but hardJ suFpQfe they will pass Indianapolis. I e 'so directed them to ascertain Mrs. amas wishes about the faneral, and to

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VOL. 9, NO. HJ report in time for all the tiecessary ar- ' rangements. Of these you shall have full ' and prompt notice. W. T. Sherman, General. Speech of the Colored Senator Revels, in the Senate Chamber, on the 16th. j "Mr. President L rise at this pticu. j lar juncture in the discussion of the Georgia ; Bill with feelings which perhaps never before entered into the experience of any member of this body. 1 rise, too, with misgivings as to the propriety of lifting my voice at this early period after my admission in the Senate. Perhaps it were wiser for me, so inexperienced in the de- i tails of Senatorial duty, to remain a pass- J ive listener in the progress of this debate; j but when I remember that my term is short, and tbat the issues with which this bill is ' fraught are momentous in the present and I future influence upon the well being of j my race, I would seem indifferent to the I importance of the hour, and recreant to the high trust imposed upon me, if I neglected to lend my voice on behalf of the loyal people of the South. I therefore waive all thoueht as to the rrorrietv of;

entering into this discussion, breaking j cruelty and oppression toward those who through a generally understood etiquette sought to rend in twain this goodly fabric of this body, when questions arise which j of our fathers' priceless heritage, of so bear upon the safety and protection of the 'much hardship and endurance in revoluloval white and colored reocle of those ! tionary times? Let the reconstruction en.

States lately in rebellion. "I can not allow any thought as to mere propriety to enter into my consideration of duty. The responsibilities of being the exponent of such a constituency as 1 have the honor to represent, are fully appreciated by tne. I have about me daily the keenest sense of their weight, and that feeling prompts roc now to lilt my voice for the first time in this Council Chamber ot the nation, ana, sir, 1 stand to-day on tkU fl..r i. .l,iV, wi,.,;n fr,.... ' strong arm of the Government for her i loyal

children, irrespective or color or j nepuouc will, consistent wun tne recora who are citizens of the Southern!" has already made for posterity, throw

race, States, and particularly of the great State of Georgia. "I am well aware, sir, that the idea is abroad that an antagonism exists between the whites and blacks; that that race which the nation raised from the degradation of slavery and endowed with the full and unqualified rights and privileges of citizenship are intent upon power, at whatever price it can be gained. It has been the well considered purpose and aim of a class knot confined to the South, to spread this charge over the land, and their vilorts are as vigorous to-day to educate the people of this nation into that belief as they were at the close of the war. It was not uncommon to find this same class, even during the rebellion, prognosticating a ser vil v.r It may have ltn that the wish was father to the thought. Sir, as the ! . t,)e nrole..lion cf ,iQ Kcder.l forces. i . 1 while the Confederate army pressed into its ranks every white male capable of bearing arms. The mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of the Southern soldiers were left defenseless and in the power of the blacks, upon whom the thains of slavery were still riveted; and to bind tho?e chains clo.er was the real issue for which so much n,e nJ , r, w sacriued. ; , MJllW dia ,at r,c0 A nd now act? Did they in those days of Confederate weak ness and impotence evince the malignity of which we hear so much? Granting for the sake of argument, that they were ignorant and besotted which I do not believe jet, with all their supposed ignorance, and evidently they, in their way understood as fully as you or I the awful import of the contest, they knew if the gallant corps of national soldiers were beaten back, and their flag trailed in the dust, that it was the presage ot still heavier bondage. They longed, too, as their fathers did before them, for tbe advent of that epoch over which was shed the hallowed light of inspiration itself. They desired too, with their fathers, to welcome the feet of the strangers shod with peaceful preparation of good news. The weary years of bondage had told their tale ot sorrow to the Court of Heaven, iu the councils of the Great Father ot ail. They knew the adjucation of their case, albeit I delayed for years, in which patient suffering had nearly exhausted itself, would, iu tbe end; brine them the boon tor which they sighed God's most blessed gift to his creatures the inestimable boon of liberty! They waited, and they waited patiently. In the absence of their masters they protected the virtue and chastity of the defenseless women. "Think, sir, for s moment, what the condition of this land would be to-day ii a slave population had risen in servile insurrection against those who, month by month, were fighting to perpetuate that institution which brought them all the evils of which they complained. Where would have been the security tor property, female chastity and childhood's innocence? The bloody counterpart of such a history of cruelty and wrongs would have beeu parailed only in those chapters of Jewish history as recorded by Jusephus; or in the still later atrocities of that Reign of Ter ror which sent unfortunate Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to the scaffold. Nay, tbe deeds iu that drama of cold-blooded butchery would have out- llerodid the most diabolical acts of Herod hirusef. "Mr- president, I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which to-day animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatred, no animosities. They aim not to elevate themslves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow-citizens. They ask but the

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rights which are theirs by God's universal law, and which are the natural outgrowth and logical sequence of the condition in which the legislative enactments of this nation hare placed them. The? appeal to Jou nd t0 me to see that they teceive that protection which alone will enable them to Prsue their daily avocations with success, and enJy their liberties of citizenship on he 8am footing with their white neighbors and frlends"1 do not desire simply to defend my own race from unjust and unmerited charges, but I also desire to place upon record an expression of my full and entire confidence in the integrity of purpose with which I believe the President, Congress and the Republican party will meet these questions so' prolitre of 'weal or "woe not only to my own people, but to the whole South. They have been, so far as I can read history, oft times influenced by no spirit of petty tyranny. The poet has well said 'Oh.it is excellent to have a giant' strength , Lot it is tyrannous to use It like a giant.' "And how have they used that power lodged in them bv the people? In acts of actments answer the interrogation, fco poof words of mine are needed to defend the wise and beneficent legislation which has been extended alike to the white and colored citizens. "The Republican party is not inflamed, as some would fain have the country believe, against the whole population of the South. Its borders are wide enough for all truly loyal men to find within them peace and repose from the din and discord ef angry faction, and be that loyal man hi,e. ,?r b.la.cki th great party of our around nun the same impartial security in his pursuit of liberty and happiness "If a certain class of the South had accepted in good faith the benevolent over tures which wero ollered to them, with no niggaid reserve, to day would not find our land still harassed with feuds and contentions. "I remarked, Mr. President, that I rose to plead for the protection of the defonse-le.-s race who now send their delegation to the seat of Government to sue for that which this Congress alone can secure to them. And, here, let tne say further, that the people of the Nurth owe to the colored race a deep obligation, which it is no easy matter to fulfill. When the Federal armies were threatened by death and disaster, and sombre clouds overhunjr the length a ii J ttreaditt ot ino ltopublic, and the very air was pregnant with rumors of uf defeat, whose memories even vet haunt i us as an ugly dream, troru what source did our nation in its seeming death-throes gaiu additional and new found power? It was the sable sons of the South that valiantly rushed to the rescue, nd but for their intrepidity and ardent oaring many a northern fireside would miss to-day the paternal counsel or a brother's love. Sir, I repeat the fact that the colored race saved to the noble womeu of New England and tbe middle States the men on whom they lean to day for security and safety. Many of my race, representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South. If those quiet resting-places of our honored dead could speak to-day, what a mighty voice, like to the rushing of a mighty wind, would come 'up from those sepulchral hones. Could we resist the eloquent pleadings of their appeal? Ah, sir, I think that this question of immediate and ample protection for the loyal people of Georgia would lose its technicalities, and we would cease to hesitate in our provisions lor their instant relief. "Again, 1 regret this delay on other grounds. The taunt is tre4uently flung at us that a Nemesis more terrible than the Greek pcrsonatiou of ahger of the gods awaits her hour of direful retribution. We aro told that at uo distaut day a great uprising of the American feoplu will demand that these reconstruction acts of Congress be undone, and blotted forever from the annals of legislative enactments. I inquire, sir, if. this delay in affordiug protec.ion to the loyalists of tho State of Georgia does not lend an uncomfortabte significance to this boasting sneer with which we so often meet? "Delay is perilous at best, for it is as true iu legUlatioo as in physic that the longer we procrastinate to apply proper remedies more, critical becomes the malady that we seek to heal. The laud wants such as dare with vigor lo execute the laws; her festered members must be lanced and tended. lie is a bad surgeon that for pity spares the part corrupted till gangrene spreads and all the bodv perish. He that is merciful unto lhe bad is cruel to the good." Mr. Revels then reviewed the history of affairs in Georgia, stating that at the election in November, 1SG7, for members of the State Convention, thirty thousand white and eighty thousand colored votes were policd, and a number of colored delegates elected. A constitution was framed and ratified, and a Legislature elected under it was convened. After all this, supposing they had passed beyond Congressional control, the rebel element in the Legislature assisted itself, and many of those whose disabilities had been removed by the State Convention, which comprised a number of colored members, joined in a declaration made by that Legislature that a man having more than an eighth African blood in his veins was ineligible to office. These very men to whom the Republican party extended all the rights and privileges of citizanship, of which they had deprived themselves, denied political equality to a large majority of their fellowcitizens. Tweoty-eight members were expelled. On December 22, 1S69, au act of Congress was passed requiring the reassemb-

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ling of persons declared-elected hy the, military commander, restoration of the expelled members and the rejection of others! who were disqualified. All the conditions had now been complied with,' and having ratified the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Constitutional Amendments, Georgia presented herself for recognition. " . . The Bingham amendment proposed to legalizo the organization of 1808, , and would legalize the aet of- the Legislature in appointing the judge .who-decided in favor of class distinction in the State. As a meana of future protection for loyal Georgians he desired these terms should commence from the date of the present legislation. lie asked this in the name of the 100,000 white and colored Georgians,, and reminded the Senate that he who permitted opposition shared the crime. ; i - Upoa the conclusion of his remarks, Mr. Revels received the congratulations of many Republican Senators and others, and then the immense audience in the galleries, which included many persons of color, slowly "dispersed. How to Make Money Fast end Honestly. Enter into a business of which you have a perfect knowledge. In your own right, or by the aid of friends on long time, have a cash capital sufficient to do at least a cash business. Never venture on a credit business at the commencement. Buy all your goods or materials for cash; you can thus take every advantage of the market, and pick and choose where and when you will. Bo careful not to overstock yourself. Rise and fall with the market on Ehort stocks.' Always stick to those whom you prove to be strictly just iu their transactions, and shuo all others, even at a temporary disadvantage. Never take advantage of a customer's ignorance, nor equivocate nor misrepresent. Have but one price and a small profit, and you will find all the most profitable customers the cash ones or they will find you. If ever deceived iu business transactions, never attempt to save yourself by putting the deception upon others; but submit to the loss, and be more cautious in future. According to the churacter or success of your business, sot aside a liberal percentage for priming and advertising, aud do not hesitate. Never let an article, parcel, or package, go out from you without a handsomely-printed wrapper, card, or circular, and dispense them continually. Keep yourself unceasingly before the pub lie by judiciously advertising; and it matters not what business of utility you make choice of, for if intelligently and industriously pursued, a fortune will be the result. llow to Get Rich. When must, Time hang .... . ...., " up his scythe? T l. w lie SI1U1! UC II O lUOiwfar New Name for Weaning Babies. Botc lu,Ps The Jockey-Club Perfume. Essence of horseradish. "A wild goose chase," according to London Fun, is "quill driving." A Chicago printer objects to female compositors because he enn't swear at them. A very greedy boy The one who recently took the measles from his little sister. Portraits of Secretary Fish's children are said to be sardiues little fishes done in oil. A young lady in Iowa, wanting to commit suicide in as pleasant a way as possible, made a nice cake to put her poison in. Fontenclle thus daiutily, compares women and clocks: The latter serve to point out the hours, the former to make us forget them. A Dayton (Ohio) paper corrects a ty pographical error in this wise: "lor notorious legislator in yesterday's issue, read virtuous legislator." A Boston trader has outdone his competitors by displaying iu his window a large placard saviug, 'Selling at cost aud more too.' An undertaker iu a town in Vermont having a baudoned his undertaking for the shoe business invites the custom of his old patrons. A poor fellow rescued, half drowned from a river, was asked " to take some spirits and water. ' "No, I thank you," he replied; "I have had water enough already. I'll take the frpirits alone." Mamma's darling didn't hurt his little cousin purposely, did he dear? It was all an accident, to be sure.' 'Yes. mamma, U i want is a chauce to crack him again. Josh Billings says: 'Whenever I find a real banisome woman engaged in wimmin's rights bizziness, then I am going to take my hat under my arm and jine the procession." A lady of certain age says the reason an old maid is generally devoted to her cat is, that, not having a husband, she naturally takes to the next most treacherous animal.

Non-Committal. Old Lady 'Can you tell me, my good man, where I can tied Mr. Jones?" Pat "Sure, ma'm, I expect it would be at his housa ye would find him." Lady ?'Does he live anywhere in the street here?" Pat "Sure, no indade, it's not for the likes of him to be living in the street at all." Lady "You stupid fellow, I mean what number does his family stop at." Pat "Now' ma'am, you have me, he has six boys and four girls already, but whether he manes to etop at that number" Lady "Oh, you blockhead!1' Exit Old Lady in a tremor of indignation)

R C E M E NT OF T HE L A WS ' - ' - A BRAVE BOY; , Of, a Lesson to Parents. The following narrative from a gentleman in Boston, is true in every particular, and ought to leave an indelible' impression upon" the mind of all persons who read it, be they parents present or 1 prospective, J r. - -tn ii " A few weeas before he wrote, he had buried his eldest-son, a fine,' manly little fellow of 'some " eight years of age, who had never, he said, known a day's illness until that which finally removed him hence to be here no more. His deitth occurred under circumstances which were peculiarly painful to his parents. 1 A younger brother, a delicate, sickly child from his birth, tbe next in age to him, had been' down for nearly a fortnight with an epidemic fever. , In consequence of the nature of the disease, every precaution had been adopted that prudence suggested, to guard tbe other members of the family against it. But of this ene, the father's eldest, he said he had little to fear, so rugged was he, and so generally hearty. Still, however, he kept a vigilant eye upon him, and especially forbade him going into the pools and docks near his school, which it was his custom sometimes to visit; for he wa-i but a boy, and boys will be boys, and we ought more frequently to think that it is their nature to be. One evening this unhappy father came home wearied with a long day's hard labor, and vexed at some disappointments which had soured his naturally kind disposition, and rendered him peculiarly susceptible to the smallest a on ova nee. While he was sitting by the fire in this unhappy mood of mind, his wife entered lhe apartment and said: "Henry has just come in, and he is a perfect fright! He is covered from head to foot with dock mud, and he is wet as a drowned rat." "Where is he?" asked the father sternly. "lie is shivering over the kitchen fire, lie was afraid to come up here when the girl told him you had come." "Tell Jane to tell him to come here this ins'ant," was the brief and only answer to this information. ' Presently the poor boy entered, half perished with fear aud cold. His father glanced at his sad plight, reproached him bitterly with his disobedieucc, spoke of the punishment which awaited him in the morning as the penalty of his offense, and in a harsh voice concluded with r-"Now, Sir, go to your bed." "But, father," said the little fellow, "I want to tell you" ... "Not a word, gn to hedV "I only wanted to say, father, tlm'' WitK p-o m i.tnr j stamp imperative wave of his baud toward the door, aud an ugly frown from his brow, did that father, without any other speech, again close the door against explanation or expostulation. When the boy had gone supperless and sad to his bed, the father sat restless und uneasy while supper was being prepared, and at the tea-table ate but little. His wife saw the real cause of his emotion, and remarked: "1 think, my dear, you ought, at least, to have heard what Henry bad to say. My heart ached for him when he turned away with his eyes full of tears., Henry is a good boy after nil, if he does sometimes do wrong. He is a kind-hearted, affectionate boy. He always was." And therewith the water stood in the eyes of that tender mother, even as it siood in the eyes of Mercy, in the house of the Interpreter, as recorded by Bunyan. After tea, the evening paper was taken up; but there was no news for that father that evening, lie sat for sometime in an evidently painful reverie, and then arose and repaired to his bed-chamber. As he passed the bed-room where his little boy slept, he thought he wouid look in upon him before retiring to rest. He weut to his low cot and bent over him. A big tear bad stolen down tbe boy's check, and rested upon it; but he was sleeping calmly and sweetly. The father deeply re gretted his harshness, us he gazed upon his son; he felt, also, the sense of duty; yet in the night, talking over the matter with the lad's mother, he resolved and promised, instead of punishing, us he had threatened, to make amends to the boy's aggrieved spirit, in the morning, for the manner in which he repelled all explanation of his offense. But that morning never came to the poor child in health. He awoke next morning with a raging fever ou his brain and wild with delirium. Iu forty-eight hours he was in his shroud, lie knew neither his father nor his mother, when they first called to his bedside, nor at any time afterwards. Waiting, watching for one token of recognition, hour alter hour in speechless agony did that father bend over the cone of his dvins; son. Once' indeed he thought he saw a smile of recognition light up from his dying eye, and he would have given worlds to have whispered one kind word in his ear, and been answered; but that gleam of apparent intelligence passed quickly away, and was succeeded by the cold, unmeaning glare, and the wild tossing of the fevered limbs, which lasted until -death came to his relief. Two days afterwards the undertaker came with the little coffin, and his son, a playmate of the deceased ' boy, bringing the low stools on which it was to stand in the entry hall. . : "I was with Henry," said the lad, "when he got into the water. We were playing down at the Long Wharf, Ilenry, Frank Mumford and 1, and the tide was out very low; and there was a beam run out from the wharf, and Charles got out on it to get a fish line and hook that hung over where the water was deep, and the first thing he saw, he had slipped off and was struggling in the water. Ilenry then threw off his cap, and jumped clear from the wharf into the water, and after a great

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WHOLE NO. 422. deal of hard work, got Charles out, and they waded up through the mud to where the wharf was so wet and slippery, and I helped them climb up the side. Charles told Henry to say anything; about it, for if be did, bis father would never let him go near the water "gai--i Henry, was sorry, aud all the way bome.be kept saying "What will father say when he sees me to-night?" ' " ' - ' " 1 j ' "Dear, brave boyt" exclaimed the father; ''and this was the explanation I so cruelly refused to heai!" . And the bot and bitter tears rolled. down his cheeks. Yes! that stern parent now learned, and for- the first lime, that what he treated with unwonted severity as a fault was but an impulse of generous nature, wbicli foigetful of self, had hazarded his life for auoiht r It was but the quick promptiog of that manly spirit which fire"' himself had always endeavored to graft upon his ' susceptible mind, and which young as be was, had already manifested itself on more than one occasion. Let me close this story in the wrords of that father, and let the lessou be engraved on the hearts of those who read this ske-tch: "Everything I now see that belonged to him reminds me of my lost boy. Yesterday I found some rude pencil sketches which it was his delight to make for the amusement of his younger brother. Today, in rumaging an old closet I came across his boots, still covered with dock mud, as when he last wore them. (You may think it strange, but that which is usually so unsightly an object, is now most precious to me.) Aud every morning and evening 1 pass the ground where my sou's voice rang merriest among his playmates. All these things speak lo me vividly ol his active life, but I cannot though - I have often tried I can not recall any other expression of the dear boy'n face thau-that mute, mournful one with which he turned from me on the night I so harshly repulsed him. Then my heart bleeds afresh. "Oh! how careful should we all be our in daily conduct toward those little beings sent us by Providence, that we are not laving up for ourselves the sources of many a bitter tear! How cautious that by neither inconsiderate nor cruel word or look, we unjustly grieve, their generous feelings! And how guardedly ought we to weigh every action against its motives, lest iu a moment of exciteuieut we be led to mete out to the venial errors heart the punishment due only to of the wilful crime! "Alas! perhaps bow few parents, think how ofteu the tierce rebuke, the suddeu blow is answered in their children by the tears, not of passion, not of physical or mental pain, but of a loving, yet grieved and outraged nature!" i win uu no o, , refusions s0 true, no corroborative incident to an experience so touching. An Auspicious Omen. When Piesidtiut (irant took the oath of office, at his inauguration, he held the open Uible in his baud, and at the moment he was sworo he touched his lips to the 121st Psalm. The Bible was presented to Mrs.' Grant on the following day by Chief Justice Chase, accompanied by the following letter: . . - , Washington, March 5, 1SG3. Dear Madam: My friend, Colonel Parsons, the marshal of thcSupreme Court, will place in your bands the Bible on which your honored husband took the oath of otlice yesterday. His lips toucLed the 121st Psalm. The book, will, 1 am sure, be to you a precious memorial ofau auspicious day; destined, 1 hope, to be ever associated in American remembrance with the pcrlected restoration of peace and with the renewal and increase of prosperity throughout tbe country. Willi earnest desires that the aspirations of the Psalmist may be fulfilled to yon, to him, and to our whole peopie, I icmain, very faithfully yours, S. P. CitASE. Mrs. Puksidknt Grant. The following is the text of the Psalm: A SONU OF DKUREES. 1. I will lift mine eyes uuto the bills, from whence cometh my help. 2. My help cometh from the Lord which made heaven and earth. 3. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; lie that ktcpeth thee will uot siuinber. -1. Behold, He that kecpeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5. The Lord is thy keeper; tbe Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. 0. 'l he sun shail uot smite thec by day nor the union by night. 7. Tha Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; he thall preserve thy soul. S. lhe Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time font), and even lorevermorc. A Massachusetts Advertisement. Friends and ' EitiiiuoKS Having just, opened a licensed shop for the sale of Ibjuors in this place, I embrace this opportunity of informing you that on Saturday next 1 will coujiueuce the business of making drunkards; paupers, aud beggars, for the industrious aud respectable of the community to support. I shall deal iu familiar spirits, which will iuvite men to riot, robbery, and bloodshed, and by so doin diminish the comforts, increase the expense, and endanger the welfare of the community. 1 will for a small sum undertake, upon short notice, and with the greatest expedition, to prepare victims lor the poorhouse,' asylum, prisons, and the gallows, 1 will furuis-h an article Milled to the taste, which will increase the number ol fatal accidents, --multiplying ditrein diseases, and rendering those comparatively liai m loss incurable. 1 will deal iu drugs which will deprive soiue of life, many of reason, mo.-t of prop ert'y, aud all ot peace; which will cau.-e fathers to become tieuds, wives to become widows, and children to become orphans, and all to become great sufferers. 1 will cause the using -eucratiou to

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0 inn aqaare,1 (it luU.Jyt,,. ln,iMUl.r Ona nun. two One anara, tbraa lnrtioir A" aabaaqnaat tnaartia, par aqi .... I..... TIARLY. Ona columa, obaogeaMa qaartarbT-i T Threa-qaartars of a ItHnit...,,. ........... One-half of a eolnma :rI5 ft One-qaartar of a .i.U...-.iJX t M Ona-KBta f vtaai UJf Traaaiet.dmUaaaifttc aM U MI paid for In adTapca. r . . Unlesa a parUcnlar tima la apoifed wbaa kaaaV ad in, advarlUftinabta wilt b publih4 anlU dered oat a dob ar! nxKidimglj f ?)r, - .- . . I .-J, LJ. . J L ,!lg grow up-rin gbotanceVasd prove' a nui sance to the nation. I will cause mothers to forget their, .helpless, .children , aiuj priceless virtue no louger lo remember its value. , w'"' I will endeavor tV corrupt the minister! of the Gospel, defile' the purity loft fh4 churches, and eauae -RUaI ..ItUHperajj and eternal death , . It any should be so Impertinent as to ask why I have tbe audacity tobriag neK accumulated m is ery u f o n a com pa r a t i vety happy people, my hoBetTejly ia 1 Grceul backs." -,J !. In nct l.f !o i live in a land of. liberty. I have purchased the right to demolish the character, destroy the health, shorten the lives, anl ruin tbe souls of all those wb enooae to honor me with their - patronage. G'm ,1 pledge in) self to all 1 , have herein promised. Those who wish any of the' evils above specified brought upon" them selves and their 1 dearest friends arelrequested to meet at my "bar," where I wilj lor a few ceuts, furnish them with, the certuiu meaus of.doing u. ,' " An ttoxics fiiAtii. I ' ' , ' " " . ' na i,.-f GOVERNMENT AID TO MEXICO. Letter from General Rosecrana. , . NEw'YoRk, March ifT' It is clear 1o u5y mind that our country has much to gain in -ere way,' botb im Mexico and throughout Cbristcudom, by av manifestation of good will, independent of subsequent beneficial results which may' arise from the employment of capita! thus encouraged to open the reecources of that immense storehouse of weulih. t ,-fs' Mexico ought to develop and to prosper She can not do so without aid. .That aid ought to, and as things are I might almost say must, tome from us. ! The sooner it comes the better. It can not coma from tew, nor without organized effort. tr i .The great tax paying interest of .our, country loudly demaud it, because, unless' speedily develuped under our own goieto-1 meut, we shall be forced -to expenditures the nature and amount of which we can not calculate, but the sure effect "of which will be to increase our burden of taxation. The boudhotdiug interests are, equally liound to, favor it otherwise conscquepcea. will follow depreciating to Our public securities. The shippiug, commercial and; manufacturing interests of our own conn try and of the world must favor the dvel op me n t which will make Mexico an increased aud paying , consumer and custo incr. ' !" 'i " 5 ;" " Many important eensequeneea - of thepolicy urged in the memorial arefor brevity, left uudcvelopeued. Its effects wH uui Firt-t. To establish our primacy in the Western Continent, in the hearts of the Mexicans aud of all the Spanish American Governments, On the solid basis pt juticer good will, aud practical fraternity. . . f Second. It will add to the dignity and stength of our party itt the eyes of all nations, aud give' a noble aud beneficent interpretation to our Monroe doctiioe. - , Third. It will open , the doors of the New World to the capital, enterprise and commerce of the United States, and make it the commercial center of the Westernworld, as England now is of the Kail. Fourth: It will consolidate public opinion at home in favor of a uw policy worthy of our future,; . . rf-. f liut to enlist organized capital to aid ia this wotk demands a nation's voice of sanetiou and encouragement. ' 1 T' B;H u'te ' ": .Should you reach; these coiiclusiona.-mayi 1 beg you, for the take of patriotism, hu-' mauiiy aud civilization, promptly to exert jour influence to secure the favorable action of Congress on this subject? 1,1 : - ; W. S.'RosecraKs.1 Chicken ori the Brain. ,t; L Nenf Ktie there lives a colored person by tbe name of James Stewart, whom the community by common consent have dabbed Commodore Stewart, lie is a talented but eccentric individual, and hftB a weakness for chickens. On one occasion, being found uear a poultry-yard uuder suspicious circumstances, hu, was interrogated rather sharply by the owner" of the premi scs as follows: , ", . "Well, Jim, what are you doing here?", ' Oh, uuffiii,' nuilin; jess walkiti roun'. "What dp you want with' my chicken?" "puffin at all. I was only ' lookin' at cm, dey looks so nice." '1 his answer was both conciliatory and conclusive, and would have been sati-factory had it uot been for Jim's bat. This was a rather worn soft felt, a good deal too large for its wearer's head; and it seemed to have a motion entirely unusual in hat,' aud manifestly due lo some remarkable cause. It scemt-d to contract and ex paint and move of i I cell, and clearly without Jim's voiiuou. bo the next inquiry via.-: "What is the matter wiib your hat?" '-My hai? Dat a au ole hat. 1 'so fond of Out hat." , .. ,., , Weil, take it off and let's look' at it." 'Take off dis hai .No, ah. I'd ketch, cold iu iu) head, sartau. Always keep my hail on when I'm out o doors." 1 A iiti with that J im was about beating a haniy rcireat, when, at his first step, a low -kink, kluk, kiuk," war. beard coming ouly Uo c-carly from the region ol Lis beaagear. Mills was fatal; and Jim was Mopped and forced to remove his. hat, when a p.uu.p, l. ail growu chicken jumped out and' lun hastily away. The air wuti which I ha culprit gazed -alter it was a study for painter; expressed In a pel lection wonuir ana perplexity blended, but uot a traca.vf guilt. Slowly he spoke, as though explaining lhe matter lo himself, and accounting torso rcmai able an incident. Well, il uai ain'l de funniest' ling I ebber did sec. U hj. dat iiar' chtefcer mu.-t have clutu up Ob leg ol u) pauia loulia. ? '. .

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