Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 31 December 1868 — Page 1

RAT VOLUME XIV PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3L 1868, NUMBER 17.

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THE SILENT CITY AT GREENWOOD. UY J. D. SllERVOOU. Thkre's a rity v.i-t yat vote -les, sro-vlng ever rivet on tr;et. WhitbtT frieiKl with frifnil- o'er raeotlnp. ever mwuinij never erect ; ' : " " r'' t J v-ile ftrce a?; 1 vengeful calmtnl mIüct rnntely meet : Never greeting ever meet. There nrc trader without traffic, merchants wih at hook or ciin TenüVr M4ea in hew-mrde chamber, where the trickliag water staias ; WeM th ? forget to come, and Crange, liMeninp SteSM relirn? : UstMttUf ilence ever reign. Ship past this ilent city, but their owner quiet lie. And ut tjroal fly from top-tree 'gainst the plow-L'U-T, MBM Telfli'i; the m Ctt owner that.hi well -built Argosy For the Fleece i siiline by. II to th9 belle forgets the fission, mindle of her now-white flrep : A'i aahasdat now her toilet, iVee, unfathered lock and tre : None ten tetter face or figure, none come fondly O care : Tree flow, and none cares. oSasi are ill thee many manton. barred and bolted door and rate; Narrow all the wall and earthy, and the rooftrer (Ceep and ftraiyht ; Room for all! the hiirh and hnviy. R'ch and oor hete equal m ite : Kqual dwell ai.. I einal mate. Klower ire blooming near thee mansions, kissed by loving dew at niht. Breathing softly ronrid their porches, flowing through the cooling lipht : FeaHag trom their beils sweet music, pealing odors pure and white: Pealing only to the night. Here each keep his well-ceiled d'.vcllin?, fearing nauiit of quarrer-day : Ban no l indlont dun tne tenant, and no tenant move away: DwUta ever nnevicted, dwelling on from May to May; 1' tying never quarter-day. BccJcotib ever this mute city to it comrade living gay; To it-." comrade laughing loudly, sitting on the pulinr bay : Drawiag from it masqneraders pale, white spectrcj d::y by day : Spectres now. men yesterday. Thus two cities grow forever, parted by a narrow tide. This the hndow. that the substance, growing by each other's side : (i'dintr one into the other, and for eve-more shall glide : Growing ever side by side. Harixr' -toqaz'w. jh Jrctea guia0sg THE (.0011-N VTl RED PENDULUM. from the Atlantic for January. An old clock, which stood in the corner of Parson Whipple's school room, suddenly began to tick twice as fast as usual. It did so for two or four hour3, according as you counted time by ill beat! or by an hour-glass. Then it ticked for the remainder of its life at apparently the same rate as usual. This was never a disconitu'ed r enuuium ; and on thatday, Singleton an' I, who were the only boys in its counsels, thought it was very goodnatured. But T do not pretend it was right. Have I said it was right for the pendulum to tick SO? I have not laid it I have only I that it was good-ratured in the pendulum to tick twice as fast as usual, when rt simply knew that I wished it to d so. Although I was then responsible for what the pendulum did, I asert that lam nit now responsible for it. I was then fourteen, and am now hard on fifty-six, S" I must have changed atomijcally six tirne3 since then. I reject responsibility for all my acts at Parsoa Whipple's I do not justify the pendulum, I do not justify myself, far less do I justify Singleton. I only say it was a good-natured pendulum. It happened thus: We were all to go after chestnuts, and we had made immense preparation, the old dominie not unwilling. We had sewed up into many bags some old bedtick, dear, kind Miss Tryphosa bad given Of ; wc had coaxed C lappa cousin Perkins son of Matthew Perkins third, of the old black Perkins blood we had coaxed him into getting the black mare for us tnm his father. (Jlapp was to harness him, and we were to have the school wagon to bring aur spoils home. We had laid in with the Varnum boys to meet us at the cross roads in the hollow ; and, in short, we were to give the trees such a belaboring as chestnut-irees had not known in many years. For all this we had the grant of a half holiday; we had by great luck a capital sharp frost on Tuesday, we bad everything but time. Hed Jacket would have told us we bad all the time there was, and, if Mr. Kinerson liL.d come along, he might have enforced the lesson. But he was Sewhere just then, and the trouble with us was, that, having all the time there was, wejwantcd more. And no hard be3tead c .nductor on a single track road, eager to " make the time ' which he must have to reach the predestined switch in season, ever questioned and entreated his engineer more volubly than we assailed each other as to how we could make the short afternoon answer for the gigantic purposes of this expedition. You see there is a com pen tti n in all things If you have ever gone after chestnuts, you have found out that the sun sets mighty near five o'clock when'you come to the 20th of October ; and if you don't get through school tiil one, and then must all have dinner, I ted I you it is very hard to start fourteen boys after dinner, and drive the wagon, and walk the boys down to the Hollow, and then meet the Varnums and drive tip that rough road to Clapp'a grandmother's, and then take down the bars and lead the horse in through the pasture to where we meant to tie him is the edge of the hemlock second growth, aud then to carry the bags across the stream, and so work up on the bill where the best trees are ; I say it is very hard to do all that and come out on the road again and on tue way home before dark. And if yon think it is easy to d it in three hours and a half, I wish you would try. All is, I will not give sixteen cent-? for all the rhestnuts you get in that way. So, a I said, we wanted to make the time. Well, dear Miss Tryphosa said that she would put dinner at twelve, if we liked, and if we could coax the dominie to let U3 out of scho 1 then. So we asked Hackmatack to ask him, and Hackmatack aid abt dare to, but he coaxed Sarah Clavers to ask him. The old man loved Sarah leaver- as everybody did. one was a H Wffl TlLtl.' thillfr anil olio ,!irl l,.r tiDut 1 O - - -. . v. i.i . v. A l 1 n v . . ' I T 11 V : . rv . . m )kx mn, t can uun : mat wa9 the way we ti;.iva. Lei me see, he graduated in 111, I MM M m in Everett's class and Frothing-iam ?. ine "old man," as we called fcsm, oinct hare beu thirty

uy&u year OKI tnen, -nineteen year

younger than I am to-day. Old man indeed ! Well, little Sarah did her pre ttiest. But the rdel man there it is agin kis: d her, and stroked her face, and said he had given the scheiol a half-holiday, anel he thought his duties to the pare nts forbade his giving; any more. And when litt le Sarah tried again, all he would say was, that, it we would get up early and be dressed when the first bell nag, we migh " go in " to school at eight instead of nine. Then school could be done at twelve, Miss Tryphosa micht elo as she chose about dinner, but, if she chose, we migh' be off before one. This was something and we tnade the most of it. Still we wished we could make a little more time. And as it was ordered, wisely, I have no eioubt, though, as I sai I, I do n "t pretend to justify the use we made ef the oreler, as it was ordered, that very Tuesday afternoon, when we were all at work in the school-rot m, Brerct m that S mtht-rn boy, you know was reciting in " Scientific Dialogues " to the Parson. I think it must have been "Scientific Dialogues," but I am not sure. He was reciiin about the pendulum. The old man told him about Galileo's chandelier, I remember. Well, then and there I saw the whole thing in my mind. as I see it now. Singleton saw it too. He was bearing MMWtie boys in Liber Primus, but he turned round cravely, and looked me full in the face. I looked at him and nod led Not from that day to this have I ever had it discuss the dotails of the matter with bint Only he and I did three things in ooBSeqnence ofthat stare and that nod, he did twu and I did one. What he did was to go into the dominie's bedroom, wh n he went up stairs after tea, take his watch-key from the pin it hung on, and put it into h'ts second bureau drawer under his woolen socks. Then he went across into Miss Trvphosa's room, and hung her watcli key on a tack behind her loouBg-glasa. He thought she woulel not look there, and, as it happened, she never did. Those Wtfe in the early days. School-boys had no watches then. I do not think they eveu wrote home for them. If they did, the watches did not come. I do not recollect that George then tol l me he did this; but I knew he eiu , because I knew he could. I had no fear whatever, when I went to bed lhat nitfht, that the doctor would wind up his watch, or Miss Tryphosa hers. As it happened, neither of them did. Each asked the other for a key, the master tried the old gold key which hung at his fob, which nad been worn out, by the grandfather when he was before Quebec with Amherst. Both of them said it was very careless in Chloe, and both ol them went to bed. We all got up early the next day, as we hid promised. But before breakfast I did not go near the clock you need not charge that on me. I hurried the others got them to breakfast and ate my own speedily. Then I did go into tl i schoolroom ten minutes before the crowd. I locked both doors and drew down the paper-hanging curtain. I took a brad-awl out of my pocket, and unscrewed the pendulum from the bottom of the rod. 1 left it in the bottom of the box. I took a horseshoe from my pocket and lashed it tight with packthread about a quarter way down the rod perhaps two inches above the quarter. I put in a nail after it wn tied, twisteel the string round it twice and rammed the point into the knot. Then I started the pendulum again found to my delight that it was very good-natured, and ticked twice as fast as I ever heard it I shut and locked the clock door, roiled up the papt r-hanging curtain, and unlocked the school doors. I suppose I was engaged three minutes in these affairs. I cannot tell, because the clock had stopped, and, when we are pleasantly employed, time flies. I was not interrupted. Nobody came into that school-room before it was time. In the Boston schools now they hire the scholars to be unpunctual, giving them extra credits if they arrive five minutes too

early. If they knew, as well as I do, what nuisances people are who come before the time fixed for their arrival, they would not bribe the children in that direction. Cer taaily dear old Parson Whipple did not. We went in when the clock struck, and we went out when il struck. He had no idea of improving on what was exactly right. fco when the clock struck eight ve rushed in. Reverent silence at prayers I suppose my conscience pricked me, I have very little doubt it did but I don't re member it at all. Little boys called up in Latin grammar. Luckily they were all well up, and gabbled off their 1 mob in fine style : " Amussis, a mason s rule. " Barle, the beam of a plough," kc., S:c. The lesson went down one exception to each boy without one halt ; the master nodded pleasure, and passeel up to the first boy again ; down it went again, and down aeain. These were bricht little fellows; not one mistake perfect credits all. " It is a very good lesson," said the dear old soul. M It's a pleasure to hear bovs when they recite so well. This will give us a little time for me to show vou n What he was going to show them I do not know. He turned remnd as he said time," and saw to his amazement that the clock pointed, to iM). He put his hand to his watch unconsciously, and half smileel when he saw that it had run down. "No matter," said he, " wc are later than I thought. Seats algebra boys." So we took our places, and very much the same thing followed. Singleton and I were sent to the blackboards, for the dear old man was in advance of the age in those matters and we did our very quickest. But Hackmatack had nat our motive. and perhaps did not understand the algebra so well, so that he stumbled and made a long business of it, and so did the boy who was next to him. That boy was still on the rack, too much puzzled to see what Singleton meant by holding up three fingers of one hand and one of the other, when the Parson sai ', " I cannot spend all the morning on you ; sit down, sir," sent another boy to the board to ex plain my work, looked at the clock, and was this time fairly surprised to see that it was already half past nine. He neized the opportunity fof a Parthian leeson to Brereton and Hackmatack. Half an hour each on one of the simplest problems in the book. And I must put off the oter boy till to-morrow." The other boys were a little amazed at their respite, but took the goods the gods provided without comment. We went to our seats, and io a very few minutes it was quarter of ten, and we were sent out to recess. Kecess, you know, was quarter of hour; it generally began at quarter of eleven, but to day we bad it at quarter of ten, because school was an hour earlier. I aay gjttltcf of f'n because the clock tald to The nr w

overcast with a heavy Indian summer mist, so we could not compare the clock with the sundial. The little boys carried out their lunch as BeoaJ, going through the store-closet on the way. But there was nof much enthusiasm on the subject of lunch, and a EOoddetlof generosity was observed in

the offer from one to another of apples anil doughnuts which, however, were not often accepted. 1 1000 stopped this by ! I . J ing that nobody wanted lunch, because we were to dine so early, and proposed that we should all save our provision for , tbe afternoon picnic. Meanwhile, I conferred with Clapp about the black mare. He said she was in the upper pasture, which was the next field to our sugar-lot; tad he thought he would run across now and drive her elown into the lower pas- , ture, In which case she would be standing by he bars as soon as school was over, and he could take her at once, and give her some grain while we were eating our din- 1 ner. Clapp, you see, was a day scholar. I asked him if he should have time, and he said of coarse he should. But, in fact, he was not out of sight of the h use before ; the master rang the beH out of the window, auel recess was over. Even the little , boys saiel it was the shortest recess they ; had ever known. So far as I felt any anxiety that day, it was in the next exercise. This was the regular writing of copies by the whole school. Now the writing of copies is a pretty mechanical business, and the master WM a pretty methodical man, and when he assigned to as ten lines of the copybook to be written in twenty-five n inutes, giving him five for "inspection," he meant ery nearly what he said, as he generally ' did. I ventured to say to Hatmatack and Clapp, as we sat down at our form, " Let's all write like hokey." But I did not dare explain to them, and far less to the others why the writing should be rapid. Earlier than lhat, my uncle had taught me one of the great lessons of life, " If you want your secret kept, keep it." Bo v. e all fell to on Timt trip ftff trifl&r, but fir for the fuitfifiil, which was the copy for the big boys or the eiay. The little boys were still mum-mum-mumming in very large let- 1 ters. Singleton and I put in our fastest and Uiapp and Hackmatack caught (he contagion. The master sat correcting Latin exercises, and the school was very still, as always when we were writing. How lucky that you never could hear the old clock tick when the case was shut and I fastened ! I should not be much worried now by the stint we had then, but In those ' days these fingers were more fit for bats and balls than for pens, and the up strokes had to be very fine and the down-strokes very heavy. Still, we had always thought it a bore to be kept twenty-five minutes on those ten lines, and so we had some margm to draw upon. And as that rapid, good-natured minute-hand neared the V ' on the clock I finished the u in the last "faithful" having unfortunately no, room left on the line for the I. Hackmatack was but a worel behind me, and Clapp and Singleton had but a few " faithfuls " to finish. Why do boys think it easier to write their words in columns than in lines? Is it simply because this is the wrong way O shade of Calvin ! or that the primeval civilization still lingers in their blood, and the Fathers wrote so, 0 j Burlingame and shade of Confucius? We sat up straight, and held our long quill pens erect, as was our duty when we had finished. The little boys from their bide of the room looked up surprised ; and reeloubled the vicious speed by which already their mums had been debasing themselves into uiuiui with the dots to ' the Va omitted. Faithful Brereton and Harris and Wells I can see them now plodded on unconscious ; I could see that none of them had advanced more than a quarter down his page. For a few minutes the dominie did not observe our erected pen-leathers, so engaged was he in altering a " sense line " of Singleton's or someboely's. The "sense" of this line was, that " the virtuous father 1 of Minerva always rewardeel green conquerors," such epithets and expletrees having suggested themselves ; from Browne's Viridarium. But the last syllable of " Palladis " had got snagged behind a consonant, and the j amiable dominie was relieving it from the over pressure. So we sat like Roman senators, with our quill sceptres poised not coughing nor moving, nor in any way calling his attention, that the others might have the more time. And the little boys Gailiy galloped with their mums, But our ' sedate fellows on the other form plodded painfully on and had only finished seven lines when Mr. Whipple looked up, saw the senators and the sceptres, and said, reproachfully: "You cannot all have hurried through that copy! The chestnuts turn your heads. With the moment he turned his, to sec that the minute-hand hail passeel a full half-circle. " Is it halfpast?" he said, innocently. "I beg y our pardon ; but among the Muses, you know, we are unconscious of time. Well, well, let us see. Rather shabby, George rather shabby ; not near so good as yesterday ; ' &me ttnrin tire .short, mul ome are shorter; ' and you too, Singleton. I do not know when you have been so careless you both of you are in such haste. See, Wells and Harris hAve not yet finished their lines." Wells and Harris I think were as much astonished in their way; for it was not their wont to come in sixth and seventh fairly distanced, indeed on any such race course. But there was little time for criticism. That good-natureel pendulum was rushing on. The little boys escapeel without comment on those vicions w's, and, it there were anything in the system, e ich one of them ought to write " commonwealth" now, sm thai it should pass the proof-reader as " courrlwig-house." But there is is not much in the system, and I dare say they are all bank presidents, editors, professors of penmanship, or other men of letters. The clock actually pointed at quarter of eleven I Now at 10:30 we should have been out at recitation, translating Camilla well over the plain. We had thrown her across the river on a lance the day before. We shuffled out, and I, still in a hurry, had to be corrected for speed by the master. I then assumed a more decorous tone, his grated nerves were soothed as he heard the soothing cadences of the Latin, and then, of course, just the same thing happened is before. The lesson was ninety lines, but we had not read half of them when Miss Tryphosa put in her bead to look at the clock. " Beg pardon, brother, my watch has run down. Bless me, it is half nast Äeven 1" And she receded as suddenly as h cAiro As n wnt thf was brard

" Where can the morning have gone ? and observing to vacant space in the hall, that "the potatoes were not yet on the fire." As for the dominie, he ascribed all this to our beginning the Virgil too late ; said we might stay on the beuches and finish it now, and gave the little boys another "take" in their arithmetics, while we stayed till the welcome clock struck twelve. " Certainly a short morning, boys. So much for being quiet and good. Good day, now, and a pleasant afternoon to you." It is at this point, so far as I know, that my conscience, for the first time, tingled a little. A little, but, alas, not long !, We rushed in for dinner. Poor Miss Tryphosa had to apologize for the first and last time in her life ! Somehow we had caught her, she said. She was sure she had no idea how, but the morning had seemed very short to her, and so our potatoes were not done. But they would be done before long, and of course we had not expected much from a picked-up dinner, an hour early. "We all thanked an 1 praised. I cut the colel corned beef, and we fll to, our appetites, unlunched, beginning to come into condition. My only trouble was to keep the rest back till Miss Tryphosa's potatoes the largest a little hard at heart appeared. For, in truth, the boys were all wild to be away. And as rsoon as the potatoes were well freed from their own jackets and iraprisoneel under ours, I cut the final slices of the beef. Hackmatack cut the corresponding bread ; the little boys took galore of apples and of doughnuts ; we packed all in the lunch-basket, took the hard eggs beside, and the salt, and were away. As the boys went down the hill, I stopped in the school-room, locked the doors, drew the curtain, opened the clock, cut the packthread, pocketed the horseshoe, screwed on the bob, and started the pendulum again, A very good-D-atured pendulum indeed ! It had eione the work of four hours in two. How much better that than sulking, discontented, for a whole hour in the corner of a farmer's kitchen ! Miss Tryphosa and her brother had the feeling, I suppose, which sensible people have about half the days of their lives, " that it is extraordinary the time should go so fast!" So much for being infinite beings, clad for only a few hours in time and clay, nor wholly at h me in those surroundings. Did I say I would write the history of that chestnutting ? I did not say so. I did not enfim this story "The Good hestnutr. " but " The Good-natured Pendulum." I will only say to the little girls that all went well. We waited at the foot of the hill for a few minutes till Clapp and Perkins came up with mare and wagon. They said it was hardly half an hour since school, but even the little boys knew better, because the clock had struck one as we left the school-house. It was a little oeld, however, thatv as the boys said this, the doctor passed in his gig, ans when Clapp asked him what time it was, he lookeel at his watch, and said, "Half past ten." But the doctor always was so queer ! Well, we had a capital time ; just that pleasant haze hung over the whole. Into the pasture, by the second-growth, over the stream, into the trees, and under them, fingers well pricked, bag? all the time growing fuller and fuller. Then the afternoon lunch, which well compensated the abstemiousness of the morning's, then a sharp game at. ball with the chestnut burs and even the smallest boys were made to ctch them bravely and, ts the spines ran into their plump little hands, to cry, "Pain is no evil!" A first-rate frolic every minute a success. The sun would steal down, but for once, though we had not too much time, we seemed to have enough to get through without a hurry. We big boys were responsible for the youngsters, and we had them safely up on the Holderness road, bv Clapp's grandmother's, Tom Lynch driving and the little ones piled in Sarah Clavers in front with the chesnut-bags, when the sun went down. By the time it was pitch dark we were at home, and were warmly welcomed by the master and Miss Tryphosa. Good soul, she even made dip-toast for our suppers, and had hot apples waiting for us between the andirons. The boys rushed in shouting, scattered to wash their hands, and to get her to pick out the thorns, and some of our fellows to put on some of the chestnuts to boil. For me, I stepped into the school-room, and, in the dark, moved the minute-hand of the clock back two hours. Before long wc all gathered at tea the master with us, as was his custom in the evening. After we had told our times, as we big boys sat picking over chestnuts, after the little ones bad been excused, Mies Tryphosa said, " Well, boys, I am sure I am much indebted to you for one nice long afternoon." My cheeks tingled a little, and when the master said, " Yes, the afternoon fairly made up the short-comings i of the morning," I did not dare to look him in the face. Singleton slipped off from table, and I think he then went and replaced the watch-keys. The next day, as we sat in algebra, the clock struck twelve instead of ten. , The master went and stopped the striking part. Did he look at me when he j did so? He is now Bishop of New Archangel. Will he perhaps write me aline to tell me? And that afternoon, when Brereton was on his " Scientific . Dialogues," actually the master said to ! him, " I will go back to the last lesson, Brereton. What is the length of a i second's pendulum?" And Brereton told him. " What should you think the beat of our pendulum here ?" said the doctor, opening tae case. Brereton could not ! tell ; and the master explained ; that this pendulum was five feet leng. That the time of the oscillations of two pendulums was as the square root of the lengths, Brereton had already said ; so he was set to calculate on the board tne square raot of sixty inches, and the square root of the second's pendulum, 39,139. I hve remembered that to this day. Bo he found out the beat of our pendulum, and then we verified it by the master's watch, which was going that afternoon. Then with perfect colel blood the master said, u Ana if you wanted to make the pendulum go twice as fast, Brereton, what would you do?" And Brereton, innocent as Psyche, but eager as Pallas Athene, said, of course that he would take the square root of five, divide it by two, and fquare the quotient. " The square is 1,225, said he, rapidly. " I would cut the rod at erne foot two and a quarter inches from the pivot, and hanir on the bob there." " Very gooel, said th master, "or, more simoly vou move the bob up tnree quart ers of the wav." 80 savins: he gave us i the next lesson. Did h know, or did hr

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not know f Singleton and I looked calmly on, but showed neither guilt nor curiosity. Dear Master, if there is ink and paper in New Archaneel, write me, and say, did you know, or did you not know ? Accept this as my confession, and grant absolution to me, being penitent. Dear rraster and dear reader, am not so penitent but I will own, that, iu a thousand public meetings since, I have wished some spirited boy had privately run the pendulum bob up to the very pivot of the rod. Yes, and there have been a thousand nice afternoons at home, or at George's, or with Haliburton, or with Liston, or with you, when I have wished I could stretch the rod the rest of you unconscious till it was ten times as long. Dear master, I am your affectionate Fkeo. Ihohajl A Strange Meeting. Some twenty or twenty-five years ago there lived in Hamilton, Canada, a tamily named De Clair, consisting of the parents and several children. They subsequently removed to an interior town, and one of the daughters married a British army i fticcr, who died after several years' time. A brother, nameel Sylvester, left heme and went to London, where he learned the art of painting. He grew to manhood and wandered about the country, and finally brought up hi this State, in the vicinity of Saginaw, but it does not appear that his roving disposition forsook him ; on the contrary he seems to have moved about, probably in search of a fortune. His sister married again and came to Michigan, where she and her husband resided upon a farm. To better their condition they came to Detroit, and have since been keeping a hotel and boarding bouse on the corner of Woodrbidge and Wayne streets. On Saturday evening last, Sylvester De Clair, the brother referred to, was garrotted and robbed in Franklin street. He was detained at-' the Central Station as a witness, and yesterday a woman having read this, called to see him. He had no strawberry mark on his left arm, but he had half a foot (the other half having been removed in his youth by a threshing machine), and the woman at once recogni.eel him a? her long lost brother. He recognized her, not by her loot or strawberry mark, but by the family likeness that pervaded her entire countenance, and a brother and sister that had supposed each dead met for the first time in twenty years. Detroit Tribune. POLITICAL ITEJflS.

The Radical candidate for Governor of New Jersey, by way of electioneer ing, bought twenty-tive tickets to a liremen's ball, and, by way of economy, neglected to pay for them. Nashville shopkeepers exhibit a statue in plaster, of B. F. Butler, " which is an elegant, satire upon the weakness of that worthy for spoons." It represents Ben. with a bag of gold strapped across one shemlder, a mammoth spoon across the other, and a bale or two of confiscated a tton at his feet. The Radical Governor of South Carolina, in his annual message to the Legislature, takes occasion to speak in commendatory terms of the fidelity anel loyalty of Wade Hampton. This is the same Wade Hampton who so fearfully frightened the Radical old maids during the Presedential campaign. It is asserted that a very " loyal " and very pious editor in Troy, New York, whose sympathies have always been deeply moved in behalf of the suitering negro, has suffered his own father to die in an Iowa poor-house, without sending him the aid he was amply able to furnish. The poor old man h id the misfortune to be white. The Louisville Co urter-Journal is informed from an authentic source, that, within a few weeks, the Director of the Bureau of Statistics will exhibit, fully, the Federal, State, couuty, township, and corporation taxes of the United States, and that the sum total will be more than seven hundred thousand millions ! If the whole human race, all the inhabitants of this earth, civilized and savage, men, women, children, and babies, were to contribute a dollar apiece, the amount contributed would only be just about sufficient to pay our monstrous elebt, run up to its present amount by the most horrid extravagance ever known In history. The following is suggested as a good loyal Cabinet forJGen. Grant : Secretary of State K. B. Wanhbuinc of Illinois. Secretary of War-il. I). Waehhnrne of Indiana. Secretary of the Navy W. B. Washburne of Mtawfismthi Secretary of the Treasury -C. C. WssbbanM of Wisconsin. Secretary of the Interior e A. Wa-hburne of Paraguay. Attorney (K-neral I-rael WaihbarM of Maine. Foreign Ministers and Consuls-Some more Washhurnes. Revenue officer The rest of the Washhurnes. All the other offlci-r The relative of ttM M of the Washburnes. A few years ago the Radical party re-organized the Supreme Court by increasing the number of Judges. They vanted the chance to appoint some Radical Judges, in the hope ofiving a partisan color to its decisions. The experiment did not result in accomplishing the object, whereupon the Radicals re-organized the Court by providing for a gradual diminution of the number of Judges. The experiment did not work any better in that direction ; so, now, we have a third Radical scheme to re-organi.e the Court, by once more increasing the number of Judges. A bill for thin purpose has been brought forward in the Senate by Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts. He proposes to increase the number of Judges to fifteen. If, with the Radical Judges they have at present, the party cannot get control of the Supreme Court by making seven or eight new ones, the experiment may, peasibly, be abandoned. ChicujoTime. It is singular how clearly the R?uü cal presn can see errors and crimes in others, while it is blind to the same errors and crimes in its own party. It comments with Just severity on election riots in England, and says that, in fact, the elections are not free there ; but says nothing about the military despotism which has control led elections in our Southern States, and the tyrannous decree of Congress that in three of the States there should be no election last fall. There can now hardly be found a Radical newspaper in the country which does not denounce Louis Napoleon for his censorship of the press, i What more has he done than General Ord did in Mississippi with McArdle. Whan the latter sought redress In the highest t court of the Nation, Congress patted a bill ' to deprive the court of jurisdiction in the I case and thereupon the Radical prcsa rejoiced. " 0 for a forly-pareon power, to chant thy praise, hypocrisy " Exchange

After an Office. Yesterday a Fable representative nf the "best government iu the world," surmounting the elevated seat of dilapidated carryall, drove up to the central station in this city, and inquired for the "boss."' The unique vehicle contained his aucient dame and two diminutive scions of the "house." A emadrup ": which a very polite man, with a due regard to the sensibilities of the aiiim .1. might dignify with the distinctive appellation of mule, had the honor of pulling the conveyance and its loyal freight. Word being conveyed to Captain ( sin that a visitor wished to see him on business of importance, that gentleman goon made his appearance. " What tio you want?" 41 Git to stop with you, bo-s ' " Want to stop With me!" Inqaired the astonished officer. " Yes, boss ; jis for all night.' "Oh ! you want to stavat the station to night?" " Yes, sar." " But where are you goiDg with all that plunder?" " Goin' to Washington, sar ! ' " Where P" " Goin' to Washington, sar " " What Washington not to Washington City r " Yes. sar, dat's de place, wbar de President is !" "What in the name of Heaven arc you going there fof f " Well, you see, boas, Masse Grant's got de place now, anel dey s tv we colored folks gwine to git all de offices when he gets in; so Vs gwine to kcc ii he won't make dis chile gub'ner !" It is needless to say that the colored " gemman " was hospitably entertained, and sent on his way rejoicing. JV n Oran e Choice of Colors. Koranra contributes in a more part k snlar manner to heighten the beauty of the skin than the choice of colors. For example : Females of light complexion ought to wear the purest white; they should choose light and brilliant colors, such as rose, azure, li;;ht yellow, etc Women of a dark complexion, who dress in such colors as we have often seen hem do, cause their skin to appear black, dull and tanned. They night, therefore, to avoid white robes, and rose color, an I light blue ribbons. These, in particular, are best suited to them: Green, violet, purple; and then that darknrrs, which was only the effect of too harsh a contra-, will suddenly disappear, as if by enchant ment ; their complexion will become lively and animated, and will exhibi' charms as wiil dispute and even bear away the fairest of the fair. In a word, the fair cannot be too careful to correct, by light colors, the paleness of their complexions ; and darker women by stronger colors, the somewhat yellow tint of their carnation. We must not omit a very important observation respecting the change of colors by light. Thus, crimm n is extremely handsome at night, when it may be substituted for rose color, which loses its charms by candle-üeht ; but I crimson, seen by day, spoils the most beautiful complexion; no color whatever so comple'tely strips it of all ib attract ioi a Pale yellow, on the contrary, oft D very handsome by day, and is perfectly suited to persons who have a tine carnation ; but at night it appears dirty, and tarnishes tinluster of the complexion, to which it i-5 designed to give brilliancy. Exc&angt .

Poisons and Antidot . The following list gives tome of the more common poisons and the remedies most likeiy to be at hand in eise of need The directions may be old, but in case yon happen to get a good Btrong dose of p ui 1 down, you w ill not object to t cure on account of its nge: Acids; these cause great heat and lem 1 tion of burning pain from the month down to the stomach. Remedies; magnesia, soda, pearlash, or soap, dissolved in watei ; then use the stomach-pump or emetic. Alkalies ; best remedy is vinegar. Ammonia : remedy : lemon juice or vinegar. Alcohol: first cleanse out the stomach by an emetic, then dash cold wat r on 'he head, and give ammonia ( spirits of hartshorn). Arsenic: remedies: in the first place, evacuate the stomach, then give the white of eggs, lime wate r, or chalk and water, charcoal and the preparation ol iron, particularly hydrate. Lead, white lead and Wgnr of lead ; remedies: alum, cathartic, such as cat r oil and epsom salts, especi ill . Charcoal; in poisons by carbonic gas, remove the patient to open air, d Ith cold water on the head and body, and stimulate nostrils and lungs by hartshorn, at the name time rubbing the chest briskly. Corrosive Sublimate ; give white of eggs freshly mixed with water, or give wheal dour and water, or soap and water freely. Creosote ; white of eggs and the eine tics. Belladonna, Night Henbane ; give emetics, and then plenty of vinegar and water, or lemonade. Mushrooms, when poisonous; give emetics, and then plenty of vinegar and water, with eloses of ether, if handy. Nitrate of Silver (lunar caustic ) ; give a strong solution of common salt and then emetics. Opium; first give a strong emetic of mustard and wati-r, theW strong c riTee and acid drinks; dash cold water on the hi rd. Laudanum ; same as opium. Nux Vomica ; rirsl emetics, then brandy. Oxalic Acid (frequently mistaken for Epsom salts); remedies: chalk, magnesia, or sop and water, and other soothing drinks. Prussic Acid ; when there Is timt', ad minister chlorine in the shape of soda or lime. Hot brandy snd water, baltthorn and turpentine are also nsefttL Snake Hues, etc, apply iinrneili . strong hartshorn, and take it interna! Ij . also, give sweet oil and stimulants freely ; anply a ligature tight above the part bit ten, anel men appiy a cupping glass. Tartaric Emetic ; give large doses ol lea made of galls, Peruvian barks, or white oak bark. Verdigris; plenty of white of eggs and water. White Vitriol ; give the patient penv f milk and water. The celebrated Sanitary Fair ax, weighing upwards of 4,000 pounds, now on exhibition in Boston, was tendered t General Grant by Major W. W. Leland, and is to be served at the Inauguration dinner In March, in Washington, under the supervision of toe Republican Central Commit tee

USCLLAXE0OB ITEMS. BfOHHl rrr:M- The little folks. Time never sits heavily ipoa us but when it is badly 1 mployed. AocoKDOKi to the A& M The Wonasti QuestionIs he rich?" A vrnv unpopular officer for indoh nt ladies Gt-nentl housework. If 5'ou would not have nfl icUoa to visit fem twice listen at once to what it teaches. Barni m Wants to exhibit, as a curiosity, the man who perused all the rece nt annual official documents. The last wort's of Helen Western, " this is becoming serious," were uttered a few moments before she died. Bonn Kit says that so long a Dexter remains the firs horse in the eoontrjr, there is n.t money enough in Wall Street to buy h;m. An ardent antiquary wants to knowwhere you can find any modern buildings which have 'asteel as long as the ancient ones. RaBBRt arc to numerous in Aust-alia tiia. thej are killed as vermin. One farmer calculates that it will cost him 10,000 to expel f "era from his pr. unds. Tun other day a gentleman while pas?ing on the sidewalk, on Franklin SfrwL Cfarahuid, had his lef m grabbed and severely bitten by a vicious home hitched to a post. A YouNo lady who saw a Henna fireeasjfne in Boston for the first time, iunocently i: quin d why they boiled the water before they threw it on the fire. A Touonto paper say the members of the Legislature wish to go home for the holidays, and kindly adds : "It is a pity the holidays don't last all year." Two mutet were married in Lansingburgh, X. Y.. a few days since. The bride was quite pretty. The Ecrvh-c was read and the noestioat to the parties were written on slips of paper. Tnt'MAN Smith, of Connecticut, has pro-

posed t new way to pa' off the public ilebt. " Put a tax on words," he says. "and the Xew York Court of Appeals will pay it in less than four years." A UER out "Wc?t was invited to take a game at poker, but he refused, saving : "Nc, thankee; I played poker all one rammer and had to wear nankeen pants all next winter ; I have no taste for that amucmrtit since." A Sen niF.MN lady resident in New York, wio is to become a bride shortly; lias received a very handsome bridal rol, ander linen, etc., worth several bandfod dollars the gilt and workmanship of " Mam Betsey," a firmer flare at the family. Tng f-ame old lady who recently inquired how they turned the oil inhi "tbcm 'ere irn things stickin down from the plastrrin" (the cas-pip'S). drew up to an iron ?afe the other day and remark ed t at she "never did like them awful cold air t:ght stoves." A man of Andover, Maine, hitched his horse to a board fence, and fed him v. iih hay in a big box There was a e rack in one of the boards large enough for his cow to Hck her tongue throurh at the hay. The horse bit her tongue off so that he had to kiU her. " Maky, do you ?ay your prayers mornin? and evening?" " No, Miss, I don't." " Why, Mary are you not afraiel to go to sleep in the dark without asking God to take care of you and watch over you until the morning ? " No, Miss, I ain't afraid, 'e'ansc I sleep in the raiddle." In Ne.v York, a few days ago. a lunatic j imped on a locomotive engine at the rludtOB Uiver Railroad depot, put on full steam and dashed up town at full speed. Many narrow escapes were made before the madman was overl auJcd, and a man snd his wife were seriously injured. M.vi. CiiAr.MAN, Sheriff of Cumberland county, Kentucky, had a tax bill asmtntt a mau w ' o re used to pay v; 1 seemed to have no available property to answer the rlafan. ui.til one day he found the delinquent with his set nf false teeth out for tne cleansing process, and seized upon the pearhk The delinquent is now gumming it. It is said Frank Ueno alone knew of the place where was deposited 990,000, the proceed- of one of his many robberies. si ter visited him some days before he aras murdered and tried to induce him to tell where this hoard was concealed, but he refused, ti lling her that if he could not live to enjoy it. no one else should. The secret dii d with him. A Ltn Judge, whose personal IBMnf tti.ee. was as unprepossessing a; Iiis legal knowledge was profound and his intellect keen, interrupted a female wihMhV M Humbugged yon! my gud w nitr, what do you mean by thatV' said he, sternly. " Well, my lord,' replied the Woman, "I don't know how to explain exactly; but if a girl nailed your lordship a" handsome man, now ahc would be humbugging you." A fkw nights ago, a watchman in Columbus, O , discovered a lady in her night clothes crouching behind a fence. She explained that she had been w dking in her sleep; had wakened suddenly, ana was to bewildered that she could not tell which direction to go to reach home. Thofficer aked her to name some locality near her residence, which she did He Walked toward the place named, she followed at some distance. As they reached a well known grocery tlttblishttent, she said, "I know my wav now, sir, thank you. ami good night," and ran quickly up a cross gtrce't to her home. It tm she hail trav. lcd some dhrtannt in her sleep, and before waking had arrived bt a part of the city entirely strange to her. Curious Phenomena. A mnntirmins t of a Rochester paper writi s 41 On entering a Third avenue street car, in New York, one morning last winter, at the Sixty sixth street depot. 1 was pleased to find the floor strewn with rye straw. This car had sood upon the track during the latter part of the night, while the straw was in it. The frost upon the windeiws gave a perfect photograph of the straw, and every tftSH-ngcr lookeel with wonder and admiration nrton the beautiful frost pointings M A few evenings since, in passing a Water trough which ttood under a young elm, I noticed the moon being fullthat the shadow of the tree was thrown upon the water. The next morning the trough was slightly froren over, but behold there was a perfect photograph ef the drooping branches of the beautiful elm. Can vou tell me how Ihi wadone? lias the moon gone i r. the photogrnph bus'.cets, tnd has it been engaged" ia that bufctneM fur a loug tluv past