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5.—No.

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

MUYStm FOH THK iX) UBTH.

LittW» Jack Ifornor H»t In a corner,

The lock oThl* pistol to tery: Down the hammer f.11^ And ltW»w»ar btei! iub Which account* Cur bis inoiU*r'a"Ob, my

The"fco ~l* blaxtag w#H,

Krwro the i-rarkw* Johnny threw upon tbe. ItKlfj And ft"

The tl*- .) -. •••:•'..

CouUl *1** of Johnny* playfulness the |M»»

syu* wore u®

therenuod hi*

Tom, Tim, awl Bobby were gentle *«, They hild ia their bed* till the clou truck mUN?0 Tbfti out of doors with itinlbi powder,

And t|L .-.cic neighbor died at the rise of the

Duiimjr hiul ft DorriH Its black 1 the Dc Vest «ff» And ... _.

IHd ft^u-my* h—,0,

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LMtle hM los* M* Hinct iiunpowrtlerqmHt oi t- ml' blm:

ftcekfctbuy Baby, tor th* house-top, l*olat»**•*«'Me,-«M tbm 'Mfopi' WlWJ kitii-' W.-t wlU(Sli-T Up btwu i»c Ort«l^#4T7|

Say, Re^t*«ee»llle4ait, whwssw jroo foThat frame cottage ao dose yon 11:::•tif? sf nm# nr. say* Roman-esritt»-ball,

Itttbl ..ppn, fhlrrf-*tor ict-rooay. »to^At«mgo/ ia*p»nw, Ike Pwarth day of

.^ of rttp«lioe«, wlth oufi to hit your

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toiwde of grwti.

Town-Talk.

"The Amwlccn God dean tof liberty celebrates her nlnetjr-?!glitJ» WrthtUjr. Nenrly a hundred j-asn old—«nd yet (the l» tmxeon and ebmely n» a midden in her teom. Krery year she spreads the starry fold* of her drapery, gather* log in new awawmUkw of men, and reecuing dkwntrodkkn iwsn firom all the !wpotism« of the world. Every year finds her passing onward, gathering fresh strength with every stride, adding trmh laurels to her wreaths «f victory at every turn, feveiy yow on this me» oraU* day the skies blue with enthn slaatte rsmladers of her jdortoon hirth, and thft air Is foil of the Win?., snd ^putter, *nd ftale of pyrofcscituate patrioUsm.

And yet T. T. mosi testify that in trotii the public pal*e beats more sedately jrear by year on this great anal vciaaryv' ^The time will eome doubtless whesgan powitr nn.i oratory will not enter Into f?) Fourth 01 Jt»ly programme. The ^Mer -kienta in this oomcuunity teaa iea' wlion the Fcmrth wsaan event looked forward to Iter weeks, when the town mAetiogsw r^ held, hr offle«nk of the day aelec*1" Uie oraU* aooght oat, themoslo Qraod Mar« ah»l and his aids arranged la long line

A lua wwai ftSua -MtiLi

jjwv UP iWM umpi. wv •on bsagtd, and Yo«ng Amerk* added 101 the uotoethat seemed lafidng,

A» T. T. wOm has befcro fcin* soma 4ildfUesofthe Weekly ikE|nwas, be*x« Ml*. II

1 r*rjwrr-Bm*rT*x»« A«o piwAi aooaiding totbe regard, "the day mm r«y gamndly «id «n^KWe}| m** wm*& «vai3T cttiae«i.w «Aad t%a Aay axais to h«|t bmt jtoP^eeapteia, En tlw morning a g. pi mad®

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4&9®H hnwlwdRatKlay rnM m\4II. :Ui:- dvrwh»eli«b«y W d'-Hur^ .. 4 1 a a «WftS»h!tKnta.

At th-st7v:i\. Church Mr. Orso* r.«i 5 a

Slid J***.

And tu Um say tlukt :!•. .rti: #wed«ife'ii:-n.»n. it Si^-Mi Ctowing witli then ha|v, i, ,.j \|r, ik St w«wi 1* i.: k~v-i «Bd 1 aau. ui ooonaM' 1 Hob

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II' J.'-'ir«ta, Tl»v rv :'V Am SilJ brinM'oxfv, HSttI U' Hon tirsalistK had uio r.v.t

?o »vn •II to

Alter "I" i» of Mr. S( •-.?!, th

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pared, and wh*-^ they sw addreaaod by Col. Thoanp », at a minnteHi warning, in hla usual Mkitous style. He waa the saoie Dick The \*oa t1 at m, ready to on any time, aui it's alwsjs |n "his o* felidUmn style,"

Th«» MaKer John Crocs made peed, to the little bo?**f life ag* ia Jrarrington'8 Orove,

Nor was this all. I» the aJUrnoon about three dosen carriage#, the a ouat goes on to say, "smarted on a T.i- to the |P uwood, wh-T-- Mr. Chniwii Craft de».%tH«d an ©i-uioa wluJt haa spoken of as very chaste, appro riate and altogether commendable. The ^remarkaof Mr. Samuel S. Early l»av( *^n mi oor r'lmented 1-r hb tar-n'

M.^rev^ielooes w-iii the suument that the hand and military ooinjsany were out, which gave interest to the occasion, ami the old cannon ««dter ManHoe Meade, bellowed atiftt^rvals during the day—and spoiled a co ui4e of kegs of powder. '---t

Hie year previews the prrgmmme was much tlie same. 3). S. panaldson was editor of the Express, and to saya:

An oration was delivered by It. N Hudson, Esq.. yo*"~ gentleman of this and late mm the Asbuiy l?niv) ty. In thiM effort, which um it'io, imaginative, ametlng, in msnv places, the young gen tleman has added much to himself as possessing genius, pathos, and eloquence in no ordinary d«free} and we prophesy that President »mps(Hi, will one day, be proud of his pupil, and the Institution will reap no small profit by sending abroad such students as he. We were witness to the unbidden tears on many a sunburnt cheek, that were drawn from their recess as if by magic, which showed that the young orator had touehed a responsive chord in almost every hosom. An original speech upon this subject, that has been spoken upon for the time, and written upon many thousand times, should elicit no meagre praise, and we venture to say thai, that day none left his seat dissatisfied, or felt that any thing was left unsaid, or any thingeould have been much hotter «Aid.

On that day Col. Thompson spoke in the morning for the Sunday School oelebratiou, |ndt-in the afternoon the people enmltife* went out to the Sasseen form, four miles north of town to listen to an oration by "Win. K. Edwards, Eeq., a warm hearted young Kentuck (an, just from that generous soil." A celebration in Otter Creek township was addressed by Joseph O. Jenesand closed a sham Indian fight, by a part of tbo' company dressed in character and the militia assembled on the occasion. Truly, in those days

THK rafHTH WAS AS EVBST. But those good old days havo passed never, never to return again. The change grieves T. T. It is to him a matter of profound regret that our gTeat national anniversary should have been abandoned to all sorts of excesses, until the mention of it hi almost palnfol to fiends of Order, lovers of quiet, and poeiKMKH* of nerves. He cannot see why It is necessary that the national holklay with all its stirring memories, should be celebrated, by many of our people as though they were lunatics, and the day made full of dangers of all kind*. More property Is destroyed by Oip. fuul mace persons aro killed and wotmded in this country every year on the Fourth of July than in iome of the important battles of the Itevolution. Let's have done with this racket and noise. Ifthe good old time celebrations are of the past, let the families and friends and neighbors combine to make khe day one of pure aedal ertfoymont, and give it a character In accordance with the grandeur of tb* Idea It stands for and the historic fact it represents.

FOIWTB OF JULY.

Speaking on the Centennial »|neml Uawley said recently: I believe In the Fcnrth ot J~*T' hi the popular aceepution that t. 1 believe in the Fourth of July all over, fkem the crown of my head to the sole of my feet, Aa a boy and yonng man I fired my gum and had my good time. I like to see the bovs do the name now, Yoo may betang to a city council, and may pans volumes of ordinance* against gum and *re crackew you ma send platoons of policemen to arrw^ the boys who violate ymr ordinances, but you still havo within y«n a secret a^mnUlhy with the yaong rascals, and you like to tie awakened on the morning of the Fourth by great l*lls and von*, even If ywidoawesraUttletftKmt R. I believe in the Vtoorth I believe in "sentiment 1 believe ia the flag and I honor the memory of Daniol Webe«er when I remember how he ted up through yoodetf rotnwlas*

''gorgeous ensign

of the repeblle,' nd trampled wfth ifiMmlfiMnt soorn upon the poor, pnny, uSnaMbli apirit that dared to adt, "How mndi to all thla worth r»- Clod TOess Daniel Webster

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that para

cranh! was grieved, no tngrfat my v«nr aoa when I ii«ard floor, of w«aith lixnor saeerlag

what altai

L" and laughing at "tears,**

and hesiri a MasasehiMHrtta man

Bwkshlre

ridtrol-

•tmi till that "fhesp elan

Go tt that tho day may

sjurd int vb what wecalt "Fourth 4J1 talk" out of l«tlt

a he fcs It. ,r n, -m Of "iwjfS i* Ujh«1itfrom the cradle tuad wh fMnrhapa, intldeis to free gor* eminent sneered aft I trtd lieuled ih* "itMit nmh taHti: of .1 an«l '-llif IsKwi la it ess to belief. Om I i, rhose mmkf UMI fta*,

JPOVttTH OF JVLY-TBM*

Tuts day we oeiebrate, Anything bwt torpid—Torpedoes. Thla will be a quiet holiday in TVpnre Haute.

Hew to ohaerve the day—Keep y«mr •Tea open.

Throw the banner of beauty and glory tithe breeae. The canons of the churrh will not be let off to-day.

An old folks picnic nine miles below thacity, near l^airietoa to-da.i.

Ob, toy nervea!" will be the cry- of the affirvoaa people to-day.

Come down town to-night and aa® Baker's display of fire-works, The principal bar to public etgoyment to-day will be the drinking bar.

Advice to young belles—don't powder your hair to-day—it might explode. Two years from to-day the Fourth *1 July will be one hundred yean old.

Mow many of our young folks will live to-day exclusively on flre-erackera. Business men complain that on the Fourth nothing goes off except fire-arms and fireworks.

The Glorious Fourth Is the time to think of our forefathers and foromotUere—if we have so many.

So many people get killed or wound ed on tho "Glorious Fourth" that it might be called the "Goreous Fourth.

Look out for rain on the Fourth, and don't go out without an umbrella, If you have to bo mean enough to borrow one,

Those old fogy chaps at Philadelphia made a great mistake in not locating the Fourth of July In a cooler season of the year.

An intoxicated man bought a pound of soda crackers for his boys to celebrate with. They wouldn't plioot, byt.they probably went off.

The melancholy side of our National Holiday Is that it brings so much afflic tion to the sick but then everything has its melancholy side.

This is the anniversary of the day "when, in the course of human events all men were created free and equal," or words to that effect.

Let's put our heads together and talk up a grand old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration, two years hence, when the Nation is one hundred years old.

A Fourth of July, once a year, is a grand luxury to the people of this great and glorious country. A Fourth of July Is a good thing—if you don't get too much of it.

Our Nation's Holiday will bo rendered memorable this year, by most of the young men having two consecutive hoi idays. Foor fellows! We wonder how many of them will be consecut|yo them selves next Monday.

Our people on this day aro probably more scattered than on any previous National Anniversary in the history of the city. Some aro in Chicago, seme in St. Louis, Oroendyke's Grove has drawn heavily, the adjacent woods will ring with dozens of happy gatherings, and many are off to the pleasant watering placca...^

THE AMERICAN IlKVOL VTIOX,

ITS ORIGIN AND PROGRESK.

On this, the ninety-eighth anniversary of American Independence, the readers of The Mall, old and young, will be interested in a brief sketch of tho origin and progress of tho American Rovolu tlOn. --V"" i'.

E%land's vast aeeesslon of power and tenr||pry in the Old French War (other* r. ise called tho "Seven Years' War*'—A. I). 1756-1763,) had been gained at an en^Wnous expense of blood and trea sure. Her public debt had rapidly accumulated and the only way English statesmen saw out of tho evil was in taxation. How to impose new taxes Is the first lesson learned by English Ministry. At the dose of the French war, this tax question proved a puolo to England whose finances were at a low ebb. At thla critical juncture the Min istryosat a greedy eyest the growing wealth of tho American colonies so, on motion of Lord Greenville, the tattoos Stamp Act was passed (A. I). 1765)—the measure being Intended to replenish the exhausted Treasury st homo by levying upon the abundance of the Colonies abroad.

The Americans were seriously alarmed at this encroachment upon their rights for while tacitly permitting the Parllattto make Wade regulations, they awtnly denied ita right to impost direct revenue taxes on them without their iWHt eo(went. ^Pettttotw and rem«n-

drawn tip in energetic lan-

i^isge, ware lustantly sent to England, ihe Cotenlsta meantime ateadily refUsIna to tNuretwae any Imjported article to that obnoxlocsi rtamp acas attached. those Y%onw protoste immediately

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1874.

Yorktown,

England waa iAin greedy asa hungry vulture, and

devised anew Imposition

Of lie haled taxes. A d»ty was Imposnadl tea, glass, papa*, paints, Ac., *ut|nMrted

Ea^land* The OuJonisift

repeated their ptotests, and by oommon agmnnont refnaed to import theae taxable artk^ea. A curgo of tea lay In Boston harbor ready for delhre|y but a party of dtisena, having diagnted themaelvea as Indiana, made a very emphatic argument against landing titfsiea, by throwing it all overboard into the sea!

This daring set formed a momentous crisis In the relations between America and England. Vessels were immediately dispatched against Beaten, wad a party of soldier* were sent to destroy some military stores collected at Concord by the provincial*.

These troops were attacked on their return near Lexington. Two hundred and seventy-three of their number never reaohed Boston—while tho losa of the Colonists was only ninety-three. This was the first blood spilled in battle during the American revolution.

Two months later, June 17,1773, a Ktlll more memorable action took place at Bunker 11111.

Immediately after, tho tint Congress of tho United Colonics met id Phlladel phitt, and voted to raise an army of 20, 000 men.

George Washington was chosen Com mander-ln-Chlef and advancing upou Boston, he compelled the red-coats to evacuate it on St. Patrick's da}', 1776, Quebec was then laid seige to yet during all this time America bad not renounced her allegianco. Patrick Henry first demanded their total separation from England and after long and ani mated debate, a Declaration of Inde pendence, drawn up by Thomas Jefferson, was unanimously approved on the Fourth of July, 1776.

The colonies now had fairly put their foot down. The British forces amounted to 35,000 men, composed of English and Hessians. Hie Patriot army was inferior in numbers, in discipline, and ill provided with food, clothing, arms, and ammunition, Yet, under no circumstanccs of defeat or failure did they ever despair. Able officers soon joined them from France and Poland, and Spain aided the cause in Europe by compelling tho northern nations to ixaistain their neutrality.

The armies of the young republic soon experienced some gloomy, disheartening defeats but these as sudden ly gave place to many important and hopeful victories, under the Skilftil leadership of Washington. Tho battlegrounds gradually began to change Southwards, and us they did the prospects again looked cheerless for the destitute army of patriots. The English won a long succession of victories, and the indomitable spirit of Washington and his companions was almost crushed when—vive la France!—the heart and arms and sympathies of France sprung to aid the freedom-seekers. Lnfiiyette maneuvered his little army with such consummate skill astobaflleCornwallls, who finally In disgust retired with his Hessians to Yorktown. By a aeries of rapid marchcs, the forces of Washington Lafoyctto and Rochambeau united in front of

while at the same

a French fleet appeared In the Chesapeake! Cornwallis and tho Hessians were fairly trapped beyond a chance of escapo. They made some determined efforts to cut their wnyout—but

vain.

"Unconditional Surrender'' were the only terms offered and on these terms did the English army yield itself up on October 10, 1781. Stores, arms, ships, everything—fell into the hands of the victorious allies. The Surrender at Yorktown virtually closed the war. On November 25th, 1781, the last English soldier evacuated American soil, and tho patriot army marched into New York in triumph.

SIOXINO THE DECLARATION. Mr. Jefferson used to relate with much merriment that the final signing of the Declaration of Independence was has toned by an absurdly trivial cause. Near tbc hall in which debates were then held was a livery stable, from which swarms of files came into the windows and assailed tho silk-stockinged leas of honorable members. Handkerchiefs in hand they lashed the file* with such vigor as tbey could command on a July afternoon but the annoyanoe bocame at length so extreme as to render them impatient at delay they made haste to trlng the momentous business to a conclusion, After such a long and severe strain upon their minds, members seem to have indulged in many a tocular observation as they stood around the table. Tradition says that when John Hanoock Vsd affixed his magnificent signature to the paper he said: "There, John Bull may read my name, without the aid of spectacles 1" Tradition, Also, will never relinquish the pleasure of repeating that, when Mr. Hancock spoke of the duty of hanging together, Br. Franklin was ready with tits, "Yes, we must hang together, or else, most assuredly, we shall hang senaiataly* And this may have suggested to tho portly Harrison—'a luxurious, heavy gentleman,' as John Adams describednim— his remark to slender Elbridge Gerry, that when hanging came he would havo the advantage,Ibr poor Gerry would be kicking in the sir long after it was over with himself. Freibch critic* censure Sbakspeare for mixing bnffeonery with scenes of the deepest interest. JBut here we find one of the most important assemblies ever convened, at the supreme moment of its existence, while performing the act which gives It its real rank among deliberating bodies, cracking lokcs and hurrying opto the table to sign, In order to get away from the flies. It»prectaelvso thatShakspearewould have imsgined the scene.

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LIBERTY XI) INDKP^Xp^tCK.

R* JULY*,MA,

Wten tlws Declaration of Iadspeodsnes wa*aiiried by Ooofran, the event wss an noonced by ringing th« old State-Hoose bell, which borethe IwHptlon, "Proclaim liberty throughout the la ad, to all (Jt« In habitants tit. rv- *1 Th. old beltman stationed his lltUt j^ujuhr ,n :it the door of the hail, to await the tx-mu-tlon of the doorkeeper 1 to ring. At the word, the little young pa rnahe«i out, and, clapping his haads,sh- !-i lUxu11UNOP There was

tumult tn the city,®

In the quaint old Quaker's lown, And the streets were rife with people Pacing restless up and down— People gathering at cornets,

Where they whispered ead And the sweat stood on their tempi ex

Will they do itt" "Dare tbey do It?" Whoissprakingr' "What* the uewsV What of Adams? "What of Hlwruiau "Oli, Wort grant they wont reftisel" Make *m« way there I" "Let me nearer

I am suiting i" "Htlfle, then When a natiou life's at haxanl, We've no time to think of men 2*

Ho they beat agalmtt the portal. Man and woman, maid und child And the July sun in heaven

On the scene looked down and stniledThe sitme sun that aaw I lie Spartan Hheit Ills patriot blood In vain, Now l»ebeUt the soul of freedom.

All troconquertpd, rise again. Tho deuse crowd nuivera line,

Soi? 1 Through all its lengthened As the boy beside the portal

Looks forth to give the nigni With hi* little hnnds uplifted, llreeses dallying with his hair, Bark! with deep, clear intonation,

Breaks his young voice 00 the air:

Hushed the people's swelling murmur, nteryl

List the boy* exultant cry Ring!" he WKHits "lUi jUraudpa, ual .. a hand, Forth be sends! lie good ndws, making irou-muslc through the land. How they shouted! WhatVjolelngV.

How the old !eH rfhook the ftfr. Ttll the clang of freedom ruined The calmly gliding Delaware I How the bonfires and the torches

Lighted up the night's reuose. And, from the flames, llkq fabled Phcenlx, Our glorious Liberty arose!

Hint old Htate-Houscbell Is silent. Hushed is now Its clamorous tongue But tlie spirit it awakoned

Still 1* flvlnj?—ever young And when we greet-tbe nmillng sunlight On the fourth of cach July, We will ne'er forget tbe bellman T- A

Who, betwixt the earth and sky, Rung out, loudly. "IxnttHKsnKiecKr

Wlilch, please Ood, slinil never die! ^Philadelphia. ym

EACH anniversary ot the nation's Independence is, as it is readied, a milestone to mark tho national progress.

Hundreds of young orators, up and down tbe country, mostly in the rural regions, will.to-day plant the American Eaglo with one foot on the White Moun tains and tho other upon the eloud-cap-ped summits of tho Sierra Nevada, its beak in the Oulf of Mexico and tail dipped in the Northern Lakes. Hie strain must bo torriblo to tho bird, but tbe young orator Is merciless:

FKWKU and fewer, and dimmer and dimmer, grow the shadows of tbe veterans of 1812. The "last survivor" of the revolution has not yet been certainly ascertained. It Is believed that "he still lives." Whether ho does or not somebody every now and then claims to live for him, and very likely the matter will never bo quite definitely settled until nature steps in and, -under tho statute limitation of longevity, forbids the possibility. So It Is coming to pass presently that the heroes of tho "second war for independence" will be all which we can point to as illustrative ot the primitivo valor and patriotism of the republic.

THE SIGNERS OT THE DECLARw-,'» J.TIOX. JTT'' Not one Is rltten, with ft trembling hand except Stephen Hopkins'. It was not fear that made him tremble, for he was as true patriot,as any of them,but he was afflicted with palsy.

But one of tho residences of the signers ia attached to his name, and that ia Charles Carroll. It is Mid that one lookingover his shoulder when bo wrote his name, and said to him, "There are several of your name, and if we are unsuccessful they will not know whom to arrest." He immediately wrote, "of Carrol ton," as much as to say, if there is reproach connected with this, I wish to bear my share if any danger, I am ready to ihee it. Thaw was genuine patriotism.

It was rather amusing, after thevhad had signed their names, to hear Benjamin Franklin say to Samuel Adams: "Now. I think we will ail hang together." "Yes," said Mr. Adams, "or we shall hang -separately." Many have supposed that all the names were signed on tfte th of July, 1771k Not so. It was signed on that day only by the President, John Hancock, and with his signature started it forth to the world. On the second day of August it was signed by all but one of tM fifty-six signers whose names are appended to It. The other attached his name in November. The pen used by the sJgners ls preserved in the Massachusetts Historical Society at Boston. Whs* talesthat pen could tell if it could speak. What a itetory there is connected with It.

The signero of tbe Declaration ans all dead. The bands that held the pen, and tbe fingers that moved it what tbey wrote tirir nameson that original document, aow Ue cold scrass their bosoms. They all lived to a good old ag«. The avenge of fifty Uww at the time of their decease was over sixty-eight years. The last survivor was Charles Oarroll of Csrrolton, being over ninety when be died. Fourteen lived to be eighty years old, and four past ninety. Tbey

tn bouored graves.

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each to each, h*ir temp' ot •peecit.

A» the black Atlantic currents Lash the wild Newfoundland shore, 80 they beat against the Htate-House, 80 they surged against the door And the mingling of their voice*

Matte a harmony profound, Till the quiet st rwet of Chestnut Was all turbulent with sound.

all

sleep

^•JL Price Five Cents*

Husks and Nubbins,

No.11*.

WANTED, A FANATIC.

In the July number of the Atlantic Robert Dale Owen gives a brief history of the efforts of his young days, when, as publisher of the Free Inquirer, he was engaged in the rather herculean task of reforming the world. The Free Inquirer was a weekly paper which he and Fanny Wright were publishing in New York and which was devoted to bsttsring down whatever appeared wrong to the young enthusiasts, in social and religious aflkira and the bulleling up of something better In ttsstesd. As might be supposed, there was a considerable infusion of ardor and hot-head-edness In the columns of the Free Inquirer and many were the letters of condemnation which the snail-paced malls ot that day carried to the office and which served but as fhel to fire the editorial brain of the reformers to new outbursts against the established order of things.

Mr. Owen is compelled to extenuate the high pressure system on which tho Free Inquirer was conducted on the ground of youthfbl enthusiasm, and remarks more than onoe that lie would not feel and think and write so now. There is something half pathetic in tho apology. Of course Mr. Owen is a riper, inaturer man at sixty than he was at twenty-seven, of course h© is much wiser, more cultured and evenly balanced, and yet does Mr. Owen flmcy that he can write anything to-day, with all these superior qualifications, that .would stir and interest people as his fiery and earnest, though crude and illdigested editorials in the Free Inquirer did Not by sny means. The aged are always looking back on the chtvalric deeds of their young days, the deeds which brought them their first and most precious laurels, with an apologetic and regretful flue. Jean Paul lived to wonder how ho could have written the Post-

Dog Days,Donald G.Mitchell must needs apologise in a graceful manner for the crudity of the Reveries, Washington Irving would have suppressed the productions of his youthful pen,, John Buskin would be glad to elminato half the host and fervor from the Modern Painters, and so through the whole list. Yet we may well ask whether tbe works of their riper years would have brought these authors so much fame as those did of which thoy lived to be aahamod.

Say what we will of the young being rash, precipitate, hot-brained, of their immaturity of Judgment, lack of ballast, Imprudence and intemperate zeal, say what we will of their defects which are neither few nor inconsiderable, yet they have a mesmerism of some sort which wins our admiration in spite of ourselves and binds tho popular heart to them with ties infinitely stronger than the sober thought and mature judgment of age can weave.

Are not many of us, as we go through tho papers day by day, and scan the periodicals of the weekly and monthly press dissatisfied with their neverchanging tamoness, their careful correctness, their everlasting saying of prudent and unobjectionable things? Do we not long for a little fire, a spark of passion, a plunge over the even hodge of propriety at break-neck speed Would we not bo glsd to exchange some of the grace and polish and culture of our overgraceful and polished literature for a taste of the wild tang and half-ripe pungency of the first fruit of youth How the ardor of the youthftil Greeley set tho nation on fire! Does anyone suppose the later years of Mrs. Stowe could produce another Uncle Tom's Cabin? "Ah,'g it will be replied, "but the atmosphere of Inspiration ia wanting." Nonsense the atmosphere does not make Inspiration but inspiration, tho atmosphere. What was there in tbe passionless subject of art to fire to such enthusiasm the soul of tho young "Graduate of Oxford t" How many people lived all their life among the slaves, dumb and without a protest, before Greeley and Garrisons time? And Is there nothing now to combat, nothing to advocate, that is worthy to call out a spark of enthusiasm, that ia wrong enough or right enough to kindle the soul of some opponent or champion?

Say rather that there is no opponent or no champion worthy to nnsheath his stecL No young Greeley, no young Owen, no Fanny Wright. Tbe harvest stands white and ready but there is no harvester to thrust in his sharp scythe. Wo must go on reading columns of dullness and pages of insipidity because there Is no bright, keen mind, no earnest, heroic soul to fling Itself into this breach of oommon-placeness.

O, for a fhoatic! a real down-right, bot-beadod, half-crazy fanatic to break, like a mad bull, through this plateglassed and china-gilded propriety, and stir us to some sort of feeling iJf only by! slivers of gl«s in our feet!

The lt\fured Kentuckian husband, Mr, Ellet, combined business with pleasure in first doing the destroyer of his peace to death with a shot gun and then rifling h|9cgs£*fe.:

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