POETRY. LABOR. Behold a gorgeous chamber nxmg trith gold. A king lies panting through a restiess night; Look ! by his side a crown of priceless mould , And, near, a spectre speaks of power and might. But wild that eye and death-like pale the cheek ; While worn and wearied is that fevcr'd brow ; Had revelry has ceased?and ill and weak, He seeks for silence and r slumber now. Vain man! rest comes not at thy hasty call, Though woo'd by all the arts of wealth and ease ; Pesce dwells not always in the monarch's hail, ?or solitude those blessings can mercase, Earth has no shelter for the guilty mind, No lasting form whence to secrete a sin, The slightest fault committed by mankind Remains a stain to taunt the soul through time. See thon those jewels witch adorn thy breast, See thou the Injuries of thy festive board ; Behold the grandeur of thy palace dressM And the great cities bending to thy sword? Why look, then, in disdain uron the arm, h Thepeasant arm that raised them as thy lot* Say,, if yon sun displays a brighter charm On thy gilt dome, than?on the shwe'a low r distribution a million copies of Gov. Sey mour's Albany speech on Finances, and in opposition to Pendlctonianism. Hon. Wm. M. Converse, of Connecti cut a member of the National Democrat ic Committee, has announced his pur pose to vote for Grant for President. John M. Higgings, a leading Demo crat of Portsmouth, 0., lias been tried for stuffing the ballot box last fall. The jury were out twenty minutes and re turned a verdict of guilty. He will go to the penitentiary. Some charges have been preferred against Gen. Sehofield, stating that he is inclined to aid the rebels at Richmond, but Gen. Grant has deemed them un worthy of being entertained. Chief Justice Chase is indignant at the rumors circulated which affect his integrity as a man and politician. He pronounces as false any statement that he has abandoned one of his principles. The Democrats, after much caucusing and consulting^ have finally organ ized a Congressional Campaign Committee, It consists of Senators Buekalew, and Doo~ little and Representatives Randall,. Humphry, Ross, Barnum and Trimble. Mr. Doolittle is chairman, and Connec ticut is to be looked after vigorously. The Dansville Express states that the whole impeachment question in a few words, thus : a3Ir. Johnson has assumed the re sponsibility of violating a law because he believed it unconstitutional, and he eannot expect to escape the penalties involved in the act." Richard S. Brown, (negro) of Bostony has been appointed Justice of the Peace. Arkansas returns come in slowly, both parties claimiug the victory. Official returns will be required to decide it. Grant and Fenton have been inscrib ed on the banner of the Mississippi Journal, the organ of the Constitutional Convention of that State, The contest for the Republican Gu bernatorial nomination in Illinois is nar rowed down to Hon. Franklin Corwin and Hon. Anson Miller. Michigan, at the next election, (April 6), will vote upon the ratification of the new Constitution, which contains an im partial suffrage clause. WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY ? % What people will say?i? these words there lies the tyranny of the wrorld, the whole destruction of our natural disposi tion, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words bear sway everywhere. Man has the single and prime duty of preserving the repose of his mind. All that is esternal to him, that terrible a What will people say ?" has no busiuess to concern Sim. This question makes the mind homeless. Da right and fear no. one ; thou, niay'st be sure that with all thy consideration for the world, thou wilt never satisfy the world. But if thou goest forwar? straight on thy way, not concerning thyself with the friendly and unfriendly glances of men, then thou hast coiiquereckthe world, and it is sub ject to thee. By the question, tcWhat will people say V thou becomest subject to the r?oxld.? On the Heights. A telegram from Chicago says that a large number of delegates to the Repub lican National Convention, have already secured aeeommodations at the different hotels.. The headquarters of the New York, Pennsylvania^ Massachusetts, Connecticut, Arkansas, and Wisconsin delegations will he at the Sherman House ; the headquarter o?* the Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,. Kansas, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan^ Minnesota, and the National Committee, will be at the Tremont House. The Convention prom ises to call forth the largest gatherifc? : ever assemblei in that city. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL NOMINATING CONVENTION. The undersigned, constituting the Na tional Committee designated by the Con vention held at Baltimore on the 7th. of June. ?S'H, do appoint that a National Convention of the Union Republican party be held at the City of Chicago, TIL, on Wednesday, the 20th day of May uext, at 12 o*clock, m., for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States. Each State in the Unit ed States is authorized to be represent ed in said Convention by the number of ; delegates equal to twice the number of ! Senators and Representatives to which each State is entitled in the National Congress. We invite the co-operation of all citizens who rejoice that our great civil war has happily terminated in the discomfiture of the rebellion ; who would hold fast the unity and integrity of the Republic, aud maintain its para mount ri?ht to defend te the utmost its own existence-, whether imperiled by se cret conspiracy or armed force ; of all friends of an economical administration : of the public expenditure, of the com ! plete extirpation of the principles and ' policy of slavery, and of the speedy re organization of those States whose Gov ernments were destroyed by the Rebel lion, and their permanent restoration to their proper practical relations with the United States in accordance with the true principles of republican government, i Morcus L. Ward, of New Jersey, Ch'n John 1). Defrees, of Indiana, Secreta ry. A LUCKY WOMAN. The following snake story we find in an exchange: In speaking of snakes, I am remind ed of an anecdote I once heard of the wife of an Indian railway official, who was trimming with a large knife some plants which formed a border to a flower bed. She was cutting the tops oft", aud, while so en^aired, she?was scared bv see ing the coils of one ot the most deadly serpents of the country among the leaves. With a lend shriek she dropped the knife and the plants, and a man employ ed in the carden ran to her assistance. On hearing the cause of her alarm, he sought to kill the snake with his hoe ; the creature was plainly to be seen writhing about, but, although struck, it make no effort to escape or turn on its assailant. At last it lav motionless, and the gardener ventured to pick it up, when he found it was headless. To the horror of the lady, the head was discov ered among the leaves which she had I thrown down on seeing the snake ; she had grasped it unconsciously among the I tops of the plants, and with her garden knife had severed it from the body. The bite of that species of snake was usually fatal in six hours. Facts.?A contemporary wisely sug gests that our campaign should be con ! ducted on the basis o?' facts. Our po litical orators should bear this in mind in their efforts. They are not only stub born things, but they are the food which the Republican party best relishes. The copperhead party can live and thrive on exaggeration, abuse, slang, and black guardism ; but with the intelligent masses such thing's neither convince or encourage. Republican tastes are above such things. They look for something tint will serve to instruct, something: they can carry home in their minds and think upon with pleasure and profit. Facts at this time constitute the Io?t?c of events. If conviction is desired, let this logic be brought into play. It will be found efficacious. What a fund of argument we sha.ll have. The history of our whole party for the last six years has been a succession of golden tacts, every one of which will bear repetition by any orator.. Lead the people to think of them and weigh them, and de duce from them honest convictions, and our Republican triumph is achieved. Benevolence. ? Hers is a calm, sweet realm?hers arc the green pastures and the still waters?hers the ways of pleasantness and paths of peace. The garden which she tills is the human heart, and the seed which she scatters will hear their fruits in Heaven. Hers arc the pomp of science, the splendor of genius, the glitter of wealth, the might of armies. With lier pale fingers she points to the annals of the past, and they all become but as chaif before the wind. Yet she stops not here. Speaks she now in tones as solemn as the midnight bell, of the nothingness of human irreat ncss. Listens again! and ye hear her clarion voice proclaiming aloud that hu man virtue never dies ! Appears she now with the shadow of death upon one hand, and the history of the world upon j the other, to teach how pitiful is indi vidual ambition, and how senseless the love of self! Look, and ye shall behold her descending upos her angel pinions of "love and charity " to gather the en tire human family beneath its ample folds. Comes she now in the shape of a hoart philosopher, worn and bent with the weight of years?lo I she comes in the shape of a ministering angel, with smiles of sympathy, and tears of pity, to the abode of want and t]ig home of death. Business Centres.?The total ag oresrafee business of the United States, for the year ending June 30, 1867, ex clusive of sales of gofcf, stoeks, securi ties, etc., was 612?86,?46,974 The aggregate business traffic of New York" was ?3,313,618,000; of Bos ton $928,173, 0.0ft; of Philadelphia, S?fi&O^O?O; of New Orleans, $526. 705.000 ; of Chicago. ?342,182,000 ; of Cincinnati, S213?5?000. ' MARCHING ON. In the earlier stages of the war the nation would have consented to, perpet nate even slavery to save the Union. But an over-ruling Providence compel led us to fight on until the whole nation had been educated to a higher duty, and then slavery itself was cut down. Then came the question of reconstruc tion. Mild and magnanimous proposi tions were made to the South and promptly rejected, as though the same Providence which permitted Pharaoh to harden his heart that God might work out for his people a more wonder ful deliverance, was leading us in the same way to that higher position in which all men are to be invested with equal rights,?put on terms of equality before the law. To this end the South treated our proposition with abuse, our magnanimity was charged as an evidence of vacillation and timidity. Until the nation at first disposed to concession and compromise found that they must hum bly submit to such terms of restoration as conquered rebels might please to dictate, or make impartial justice its rule. Suck is the end to which the processes of the Almighty are leading us. Theso.called "firmness" of Johnson has stimulated such a sentiment at the South as makes it essentially necessary to the settlement of the question of re construction, that the government of the Union should call to its aid the suflrage of all loyal citizens without re gard to color or race. The power of the nation must be felt on the side of justice and humanity? this is the way of peace. Whenever we yield to expediency, or temporize the old element of treason and rebellion, it becomes correspondingly bold and defi ant, and violence is threatened and in voked against the Union and its consti tuted authorities.? Union. - ?? ? m The Use of Newspapers.?The newspaper can be used to advantage in schools. A teacher who has been using the newspaper as a portion of his material ! for the education of children, writes that the "results," so far as have been reached, are of a very satisfactory kind. The scholars manifest an interest in preparing for the exercise that is not likely to flag and die out. All the pass ing events and interests of the day, from the most trivial to tho most pro found, in our land and in all lands, are brought before the pupils' minds. And since the press, the newspaper, is the world's teacher, and is destined to re mo in such for all coming time, it is well, it seems to us, that children should be habituated to look at it and to learn how to regard and use it. Familiarity, therefore, with the newspaper, may be properly regarded as an important branch of every one's practical education. Certainly, the habit of observing what is in the papers from day to day, besides adding to the general intelligence, must aid, almost insensibly, perhaps, in the formation and strengthening of that most important habit of retention. A Neat Rebuke.?The Providence Press tells the following good story, which should convey its own moral :? "A member of the General Assembly from a 'rural district/ who is something of a wag, came to one of Ihc officers of , the House, and with a very serious-look ing countenance and subdued voice, stated that he was, both as a Represent ative and a man, in a serious difficulty. The Official gravely inquired the cause. The troubled member replied that he was under the necessity of being absent for three days. "?0. well/ replied the official, ?that's nothing, is's a common occurrence/ "'But/ said the disconsolate one. cthat aint exactly what's the matter. Ye. see, I've heard that member speak every day, and a great many times a day, and I've kinder got used to it. It's as natural as hash for breakfast. I shall miss it if I go, and see here/ (taking the official by the buttonhole,) 'do you think he'll have wind enough to hold out till I come back, for I do want to hear him once more.'" Dr. Bancroft was a Federalist of the first water, and is said to have been ter ribly down on the Democrats of his day, as the following story, if true, will show : When news came of the death of President Washington the Doctor took it very hard, and seemed almost incon solable. His friends went to comfort him, and asked what need of such grief, if the good and great man had gone to heaven?as no doubt he had?and was so much better oit than to have lived longer in this troublesome world. "Oh I it isn't the death of Washing ton that troubles me so/' said the Doc tor. "Wfiat is it, then ?" aeked one of his friends. "Oh ! it is the fear that he has left the doer of Paradise so wide open that some of these Democrats may get in."? Boston Com. Bulletin. The old form of criminal indictment in Virginia ended with the words, "to the displeasure of Almighty God, and against the peace and dignity of this Commonwealth. "In 1851, a woman was indicted, tried, ahd sentenced to two years imprisonment for teaching a slave to read. The indictment read as follows : "And the said?, not having the fear of God before her eyes, but moved and instigated thereto by the Devil, did teach a certain negro woman to read the Bibi e, to the great displeasure- of Almighty God," &e. Such are the ac tions which are regarded as crimes un der Democratic laws, in Democratic States, and by all good Democrats. e.?It is hope that controls the whole action of man. When we embark upon the rough sea of life it is hope that encourages us to battle manfully against disappointments, for we have an em?* tional hope of one day reaching the smooth water of life, and gliding calmly and quietly over its placid surface, and anchor "at last" safely in the harbor of blissful contentment. It is hope that urges the Christian on his weary journey towards the pearly gates and golden streets of the "Celestial .City," for well he knows that when its summit has been reached he will be re warded for all the trials and troubles he has experienced in his pilgrimage. None are so young but that hope is implanted in their bosom at the earliest dawn of life, and as they grow older their hopes enlarge, and they look forward to the fulfillment of their ambitious desires. What would become of the world if its inhabitants were deprived of hope ? there would settle over the horizon of their lives a dark and impenetrable cloud of gloom and despondency, and they would die, as they lived, with no hope or pros pect of a better world.? Waverly Maga zine. The Dansville Express states the whole impeachment question in a few words, thus : "Mr. Johnson ^has assumed the res ponsibility of violating a law because he believed it unconstitutional, and he can not expect to escape the penalties in volved in the act," Richard S. Brown, (negro) of Boston has been appointed Justice of the Peace. Arkansas returns come in slowly, both parties claiming the victory. Of ficial returns will be required to decide it. Grant and Fenton have been in scribed on the banner of the Mississippi /State Journal, the organ of the Consti tutional Convention ofthat State. The contest for the Republican Gub ernatorial nomination in Illinois is nar rowed down to Hon. Franklin Corwin and Hon. Anson Miller. Michigan, at the next election, (April 6th). will vote upon the ratification of the new Constitution, which contains an impartial suiFrage clause: The original draft of the Declaration of Independence contained a strong con demnation of Slavery, from the pen of Thomas Jefferson. Franklin and Adams endorsed it. The Congress, however, struck it out. Jefferson believed in ne gro voting ) voted with negroes, and ne groes voted for him. Jefferson was the father of radicalism. Franklin and Adams were embued with its spirit. But even Copperhead Democracy dare not assail them. It is afraid to show how wide is its departure from the prin cipies of the fathers. A Western editor remarks that he is glad to receive marriage notices, but re quests that they be sent soon after the ceremony, and before the divorce is ap plied for. He has had several notices spoiled in this way. Another Western editor says that the editor of its rival sheet was skating recently and broke through the ice. He went in up to his ears, but the hole was not large enough to let them through. While he was waiting for some one to take him out his ears froze, aud they have since been amputated, and are used for door mats. 71)e Daily Opinion, a Republican paper published at Atlanta, Ga., says of the new Constitution just framed by the Convention of that State: "That Constitution is now submitted to the voters of Georgia, for their ratifi cation, and they will as certainly ratify it as that the election will be held ; not that that instrument is without defects, but that its- ratification is the only means left us of restoring Georgia, to civil government, nnd to tlie rights and privi leges of tite Union. A GloPvIOus Record.?Mr. Tueker, an English missionary in Tinnivelly, in Southern India, in twenty-one years was instrumental in rescuing 3,100 persons from heathenism and Romanism. He established sixty schools, built sixty-six church edifices, and witnessed the vol untary destruction of forty heathen temples with their idols. The New York Herald says : "Against all drawbacks, the Republicans of" New Hampshire held their ground. They triumphed in the late election over all these obstructions in rallying under the flag of General Grant as their candidate for the next Presidency. This was, in fact, the initial fight for testing the popularity of General Grant as a Presidential candidate, and the result shows that he cannot be beaten." Making Up the Loss ?Official reports state that, from I860 to 1867 inclusive, the number of emigrants to this country was 1,549,000, and of pas sengers not immigrants 251,256 ; show ing an increase to our population dur ing the last eight years of three times the loss by the casualties of the war. 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