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Vol. VI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1870. No. 23. THE HERALD IPUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MOIRNING, At Newberry C. Hg By Thos, F. & R. H. Greneker, Editors and Proprietors. Invariably in Advarce. -Ttk paper is stopped at the expiration of ime for which it is paid. E7 The y, mark denotes expiration of sub cription. GENERAL CONNER'S AD DRESS.. The following beautiful and classic address was delivered by Gen. Conner, at Magnolia Ceme terv,- Charleston, on Memorial Day, before the Masonic Fraterni ty and a large concourse of citi zens: As we stand here to-day, be neath these quiet skies, in this sad, silent city of the dead, all is so calm and peaceful, that it is hard to realize that but a short while ago and he who stood upon this spot could. almost touch the tamparts, which, stretching from 3iver to river, gaurded from as sault a beleagured city,. while far as the eye could reach, scanning the horizon on land and sea, were the camps and fleet of the host that surrounded her. From where we stand, on a day as bright and beautiful as this, could be seen a powerful and stately fleet advan cing in battle order through the gates of yonder harbor, while within, behind the long line of works that crested each shore, stood in grim silence at their guns the defendcrs of the soil, conscious that upon them rested that day the fate of the city. Slowly and steadily the fleet advances, scarce l replying to the few first batteries that opened, as though assured of success, and across it were sweep ing proudly on to triumph. Near er and nearer it comes, until the anxious throng watching its ip proach from the city paintully al ternate between hope and despair. A moment. and from the grassy slopes of Monltrie, the battle. scarred walis of Sumter and the deep emb'rasures of Johnson, burst the iron storm. The fury of man rivals in grandeur the war of the elements. Thick clouds envelope assailant and assailed, and only the qniek lightningr fla;shes of the gune qift ing the smoke, tell of the fight. But slowly the smoke floats away and shows the fleet departed and shattered, miaking for the Outer harbor. The victory was onrs, and joy filled all hearts as thev realized thatt the city is still their own. But the conflict ceased not then. The eflorts. of assailant and a-~ sailed were renlewedl, while the' paSsions and the pr-ide of either section swelled the contest into gra ndest prop>'rtions. Here the first thought of r-esistance had been coneived and matured. From yonder forts had sounded the bridal dawn of tflunder peals; proclaiming that thought had wed ded feet.cos The very eff'orts to loethe ports had e.tited the liveliest in terest in its fate, and the atten lion of the world once attracted, the world rang with the achieve ments of its dlefeuders. The glory which hadl cr-owned the old~ Pal metto walls of Moultrie was r niewed in the grander events of the second struggle for indepen dence, while beside and around it arose new forts, which, diniding with it the guardianship of the -city, divided with it the glory of the defence, until the eye can scarcely rest up)on a spot which is not memorable by the events which it witnessed. Br-illiant as werec the achieve mnents of the war, there is har-dly one which holds a mnor-e promi nent place in its muilitary- history than the siegre of Charleston. This is due to many causes, but particulary to the union of the hiighest qualities of manhood with1 the rarec skill which so signally 1 adapted thc, means of resistance to the attack. The- exrIiment which won for the distir'nguished Ruissian engineer of Sebastopool the highest rank in mnilitaryx cir eles, wvas repeated on a mor~e ex tended scale and under more try ing circumstanc s. The compar~a tive power-s of ir.on-clads and land forces, which he left as a patter-n, still perplexed and divided the en gineer-s of the most advanced na-1 S tions, until the genius and courage of Carolinians solved the problem1 at S-umter, and left its shattered wvalls the grandest monument of1 I their fame. fi Or, turning from Sumter, we look upon the ruined parapets of Wagner and recall its glorious de fence. Thbe recklessness of the as-t sault, equa!lcd only by the stub bornncss of the defence, and ac comp)anied by a carnage whichf 4uhoci-d us even in those days of bliood-shocked us by its eniormi ty and the long siege, wxhichr iasked the nerves, the patiece I and the fortitude of the boldest Day after day' and night -a'eri night Cf sIeep)less vigilance and unriemitting labor under a cea-te less tire--demianding and deserv ing that highest of all couage, passive e.ndurance-ailli'-e dangerc anda none of the excitement of1 b'at tle, until at last, when the (e- t ience had been protracted to the latest moment. , tey aba'ndoned I i he work- to the c:2emy, empty of t But time will not suffice glaice even at the many poi: which are historic. The vT names, familiar to us as hou hold words,are parts of an inh itance from the dead. Enou that during all the long strugb they stood the sure defenders the city. They faithfully ke watch and ward over the tr committed to them. But the e drew near-the city which tli had so long and so ably defend fell at last without a struggle The war-drums throbbed no longer, And the battle flags were furled. Exhaustion closed the conte The war was ov-. and tender a loving hands gat'.ered the de and laid them to rest here, ne the spots made memorable their actions-where the shad< of their deeds recorded rest up their grav es, and the grand oce ocean .itself hymns their eteri requiem. We know them only by th deeds; only as the soldiers~who bravely stood between the foe a our homes. Who can tell of t homes, which, without them, a forever desolate-of the hop which lie buried in these grave of the living, whose one life-lo remembrance clings to this sp( There are unseen thousands whc you will never know united wi you in the offices of to-day, who stricken hearts are fillec wi gratitude for the tender ca which watches over the gras of the loved and lost. To the duty of this day we ha added the solemnity of laying t first stone of a monument whi we trust will stand for all tin the memorial of our admiration the deeds and our full sympatl with the dead. It is not sini: the homage of the living to t] dead, but the enduring record the judgment of the present, th those who lie here died for acau in which was laid up the heai and hopes of a whole people. It is natural to invest with h roic grandeur the events of a f< mer age. "Nothing is truth ; n thing is sublime in human thirn so long as they are before o eyes," and we stand too near the grand contest fully to reali significance or appreciate i events; and yet familiar as are us the scenes through which the passed, we cannot even now ree: them without emotion. Who c. do justice to the spirit of '61; the patriotism, which animatit all, was grandest in the most te der, as they hushed the vei promptings of nature, and arm( for the fight those whom th< would have shielded from har with their lives? Who can < justice to the noble men of the lan Not I-In I. 1 dare not tou( the theme, I ca.i but feebly t< of the zeal with which the vout and hope, and strength ~of ti ladd enlisted for its protectio and of the fidelity with whi< they served. IIow ill clad, h: fed, ill shod, day after day th< toiled and fought, until the lot years were weary of the stril and the land was desolate wil the carnage of the battle field. IIow undaunted by defeat th< supplied diminished numbers wil increased zeal, resisting all tI temptations of home, all the lurements of pleasurc-making d votion to the cause, the p)olar st: >f their lives, and finally gave Ii, tself. Recalling these thing well may we stand astounded: Lhe moral grandeur of the spect -!e and bow in reverence over tI raves of those who realized in a ~ion the highest ideal of hero nanhood. Theirs was an unselfis icroism-no alloy debased its pl -ity. Their triumnphs and tria wecre alike unsung. No bulleti >fvctr reserved their nami 'or the admiration of posterity. ['hey were sustained simply -b he earnest conviction of right mnd let it never be forgotten tha hey were the citizens, as well hie soldiers of the Confederac, ?heir votes called into existene he Government which their arr ~ustained. They had but to wi hat the war should cease and vas at an end. But they endure 'aithfully unto the end, and Ie: o the world the finest example < he sacrifice of self to ,principli hieh history records. I would not pluck a leaf froi he.laurels,so worthily won an orin by those whom we all hot ir. I would not detract one titti rom the admiration due to th ~enius which conceives and tb vill which executes the gran novements of the battle. A onor to those gifted ones. A whole people crowned ther ith its loving praise. But whe: think of all that wvas in silene ndured and conquered, 1 feel tha hese soldiers, in their simple jack~ ts of grey,- were the true heroe fthe war. They and the pas 'eep to-gretner, and standing b hir graves we look with strail og~ ey es into the dim and shor< es future, and there is none t ell us the form and bo,dy of th to "All is vague in vapor, bard to mark, its And the days darken round us, and the years." re Among new men, strange faces, er other minds, the old order -h changeth, yielding place to new. I le But God fulfills himself in many of ways, :nd a humble reliance on pt that Providence which shapes the st fate of men and nations, is all that nd is left to us. But whatever be that future whether it restore a more than pristine glory to the prostrate and discrowned State, or deepens yet farther the sorrow which her true sons feel-so long as human st. nature remains the same, so long id as the story of noble actions ad quickens the pulse and flushes.the ar cheek, these men have n.ot died in by I vain. They have left the world >w richer by their noble example, on richer in the impressive teaching in that the path of duty is the way tal to glory ; and when we shall have passed away and our recollections air have become the tradition of so those who stand in dur places, the ad youth of that day will gather he around this monument and learn re from these graves a lesson of he es roism, unmatched in Greek or s; Roman story; will learn from ig these how for the State to live, )t. and if need be, how for the State in to die. th CLOSING SERVICES. se At the conclusion of the Ad th dress, the following Ode was re es Advance! Each buried brave Is now a glorious king, Ce Who, prondly leaning on his glaive, he Awaits the meed ye bring ; No tributary tear Your deathless heroes crave ; te, With incense of the blooming year Of Let fair hands crown the brave. ly ly 'Twas Fate, rot Valor, failed be To lay the Northman low : For never Raven-pennon sailed of To meet a nobler foe: at Ther, like triumphal palms, se Your chaplets o'er them wave, tS And to the solemn joy of psalms, Let fair hands crown the brave. ,e- They did not bleed in vain ; r- That father, brother, son 0- Who made grey shore and pine-clad plain An altar and a throne: ;, Fame lifts the crimson sign ir They once to battle gave, to Anew they form their gallant line! Let fair hands crown the brave. ts The surging tide is spent ; to The mi.hty march is o'er; se A mist of morn, the soldier's tent l Has fled for evermore : But home and State remain ! t Whate'er they did to save to Will quench the fire and burst the chain t et fair hands crown the brave. y. By Faith that decks the earth And love that woos the eye, 0 sunny land that gave them birth, -y Thy heroes shall not die! . m Their life within us rolls, j, Their blood redeems the grave; p Their glory quickens in our souls! Let fair hands crown the brave. 11 Henry Glay's Idiotic Son. le The Cincinnati Enquirer fur n, nishes sonme particulars respecting hl the oldest son of Henry Clay, .lf whose recent death in a lunatic ] y asylum has been elsewhere alludedi gto. At the age of thirty, Theodore e, Clay, the image and'hope of his h illustrions fathcr, was himself ris - ing in fame as a member of the 1 y legal profession. His youth, it bwas reported, had been somewhat I he wild; but it was not until after his] .1- pursuit of a young lady in Lexing-( e- ton, Kentucy, began to pass the< tr bounds of reason, that his friends] -e suspected that b is intellect, perhaps s, because of the enfeebling effect of 2 Lt early excesses, was giving way. 1- The lady persistently refused his C e addresses ; he followed her by day t >- and wandered near her residence t c by night, and at length brought I hi his owvn condition to the notice of t 1- others by threatening her father [ s with a pistol. In 1832 he was t n confined in the Lexington Lunatic S Asylum. He said to visitors that t - it was "a good boarding house, 1 y' but had some of the biggest fools I - he ever saw as boarders." He was c t Igraceful and elegant in person and i s dress, and was noted for appearingi .at the asylum balls in exact and I e fashion able costume. He believed e s himself to be Gen. Washington, f .1 and called himself the Father of il t his Country. Untii 1860 he was Ip d restless, and required continual e '.t watching; after that period he n f gradually sank into mere idiocy, C 6, in which state lie remained until 8 death. Two sons of Henry Clay t n arc living-T. H. Clay, ex-Minis- t d ter to Honduras, and John 3M. t -Clay, celebrated for raising~ valua- ni e ble horses and in the annais of the g e turf. Both reside in Kentucky. Ch Those cultivating flowers may a not know that the sprouting of all t seeds will be facilitated by the action of ammonia and oxalicacid. TE MEMP VsLA:':cIE.-Mr. M. a. Gallaway,. the originator of the Memphisg A\valanche, and an editor and proprietor a - 1of the paper, publishes a card in the is- 6 ' sue of the 30th ult., in which he states g t that a disagreement between himself and I the other proprietor (Colonel Kellar) t] necessitates his withdrawal from any ja further connection with tbat journal- b He adds that there is no interruption of personal friendship, arnd the difficulty is a entirely in relation to the political course;, t4 Senator Sawyer's Views on ! Universal Amnesty. The Congressional Globe brings us the full verbatim report of the hot debate in the United States Senate, on Tuesday last, on the subject of universat amnesty. We ' take the following passages from the able speech delivered on that occasion by Sawyer: After alluding to Senator Mor ton's denunciation of those who favored amnesty as unsound Re publicans, Senator Sawyer said: For one, I recognize no man's right to read me out of the Re publican party until he shows that I stand on ground which is not Republican. Mere denunciation, mere assertion that -I am acting in the interest of rebels or rebel lion, has no effect upon me. Ifeel no particular anxiety to avoid pleasing the rebel if I do right and act as a Republican. I think it' might be more wise and statesman like if some senators should re member that their chief mission is not to make the rebels hate them. But there are some sena tors here who seem to conceive that consistency requires them so to act that the rebels shall enter tain toward them now precisely the same opinion that they enter tained when the war was flagrant. sir, that is not my position. When the war was flagrant I hated re bellion; when the war was flag rant, to tho extent of my power I resisted rebellion ; but let me say, !fr. President, when the war was 3agrant I did not hate rebels, and [ do not hate rebels nor anybody else now. It is not the mission of ,he Republican party to hate the men who created and who carried n the rebellion. It was the mis 3ion of the Republican party to suppress the rebellion ; and it has been and is yet the mission of the Republican party to reorganize his government on a more solid nd enduring basis than that upon which it has ever stood before. But, sir, let me tell the senator rom Indiana that the foundation ipon which he would reorganize bis government, the foundation ipon which he would reconstruct .he States lately in rebellion, is a oundation as unstable as water. I;he rebellion took into its vortex he whole Southern population, with exceptions absolutely insig Zificant in number. All classes were bound up in sympathy with t. Every man, woman and child, vith, as I said, insignificant ex eptionz, had but one aspiration so ar as the political situation was onccrned ; and that was that the southern Confederacy and the ause of the rebellion might tri imph. Here and there a man of ,enerally very slight political or ocial significance among his fel ows was, or professed to be, a oyal man; but the number was o small that to carry on the gov-1 >rnment in those States by their id, and by their aid alone, is a1 yroposition perfectly absurd to any nan who knows the people. I can understand, too, that those vho would govern these States as ubject provinces, who would con inue to keep over them the strong Lrm of power, who would destroy I he vital principle of the Americant lepublican Republic, which is Jo- I al self government,administration if local interests by local agents-C say I can understand how those I v'ho would upset all this princip)le I ud theory of government, who I rould destroy this chief element a f strength in the American sys. cm, should advocate the contin-| ance of that system which should r Old the grip upon the throats of r he great majority of the white opulation. That is the 'only I heory on which I can understand r t ; but if our purpose is to forget C he war, if our purpose is to estab sh in the breasts of the Southern eople a love for the institutions f the United States, if our purpose to strengthen the government ~ 'i those States, and to have a real ~ Inion, we must'take the people ~ f those States with all their in rmities upon them; we must acorporate them into the body e olitic of the United States, as gjual constituent members. We e iust recollect that a man in South 3 arolina, a citizen of the United s tates, must be placed on precisely t be same platform, and covered by t be same protection, en dowed with s de same political privileges, as a o ian in Massachusetts or Michi- It. an. d When you shut out any one Lrge section of the country fromo LI aspirations for particip)ation in 1e public offces, when you tell ft iat large class of men that they Io inst have no part or lot in the !C fministration of the affairs of the e overnment you bid themto obey " ad love, I say you cut off from C ie Republican party one of its 1 reas elements of strength. When, reflect that in addition to the t ird clause of the Fou'rtcenth a mnendment imposing these disa-. li lities thiere still rests on the atute book the act known as the a st oath, passed on the 2d of July, ! P offices practically, as my friend from Connecticut said, eight hun dred thousand men, or all but fifty thousand of them, but a million men at least in the States lately in rebellion and in the States that did not nominally go into rebel lion ; when I reflect that all these boys and young. men who never had held an office and who had no political opinions save those that they had absorbed from the at mosphere which they had breathed all their lives, are cut off from all aspirations for Federal preferment and Federal office, I say the folly of man cannot conceive a more blundering and stupid scheme than the scheme of keeping that test oath on the statute book. We are now, in many localities in the South, reduced to the ne cessity, in order to get Federal ap pointments filled, of selecting them from ignoramuses or raseals; and yet the senator from Indiana tells us that we can select where we will-that the fifty thousand loyal men are amply sufficient to guide the counsels of the nation in those States. Now, I wish to do all credit to the men who were loyal to the flag in the Southern States -I wish to give them all the praise which belongs to men who resisted a current that my friend from In liana never had to resist-I wish to give them all the laurels that belong to them. Far be it from me, who saw their sufferings and their sacrifices through that ter.ri ble contest, to take one single leaf from the chaplet which should bind their brows. But, Mr. Presi lent, they 4;re few in numbers ; s a rule they were insignificant in political and social consequence; nd if you attempt to carry on the business of government in those States by their agency and that of the race lately enfranchised alone, you will certainly fail. And when any senator charges that the political course on this oor of another senator would be 3ontrolled by the consideration of the question of his re-election, it s an aspersion upon his integrity is a senator, and an implication hat he will violate his oath as such. When a senator allows his )fficial senatorial conduct here to be governed by such motives as 'hose, it is better that his place bould be filled by another man; mnd let me say that I do not hold he seat I occupy here bccau.ec I would have sought the place which [ do hold, nor would I have held t or have been a candidate for it. >ut for the fact that I desired to eep out others who were even ess fit to be here than myself, and :hat I could select in my State nany men at that time who, if it iad not been for these very disa ilities imposed by the Fourteenth tmendment, would have stood on his floor much abler advocates of hie principles of the Republican )arty, much .stronger men for the state of South. Carolina, and for he iUnited States, than I can ever iope to be. But, Mr. President, I did not -ise to speak at any length on this >ill. I believe, as I said when I >egan, that the speech of the sena or from Connecticnt but re-echoes .be sentiments of the vast majori y of the people of the Republican >arty ; and I believe that the~ scuteness of the senator from In liana has in this instance failed uim, and that he has not sufficient y studied the sentiment of the >arty of which he is so distin ~uished an ornament. I think hat when the people speak on his subject, he will find that he epresents not that majority which night have the right to read a ainority out of its ranks, but that eo stands in a minority which may ather ask to be admitted to the rthodox platform of the party. The Last of Lopez. The N. Y. Tribune gives somec articulars of the close of the long ud sanguinary conflict between 'araguay on the one side, and ~razil and the Argentine Confeid ration on the other : The Tribune's letter says that arny on the morning of the 1st of [arch, Lopez, with 1000 men, was arprised by a Brazilian force of be same size while encamped on ie left bank of the Aquidaran bream, twenty miles to the south f Apa, and like the latter a tribu m.y of the Paraguay. The Aqui-1 aran River is the same a.s thei .lquid:;vanigee traced on the map C the north part of Paraguay. orth of' the position where Lopez i >ught his last battle is the towni C San Salvador, and south that of ] onccpcion. The attacking force, >mmande3d by General Camara, as the same wvhich set out from oncepcion on or about February I )th to overtake Lopez upon the: .ceipt of the news that the dicta-j >r had already crossed the Apa < aid was hurrying his flight to Ba- I via. So sudden and impetuous was the 1 ~tack of the Brazilians that the araguayans who guarded the ar-i illr and no m tii to~ive the least warning. Lopez, with those officers who happened to be about him, tried frantically to form his troops into line to repel the as sault, but before this could be done to any extent the Rio Grande horse were upon him, and his lit-i tle party routed and driven to the nearest woods, where but few es- : caped. Lopez himself was killed in sight< of General Camara, who in vain t called upon him to surrender. The < ex-dictator, a 1 r e a d y severely j wounded, obstiuately refused to < yield, and meanwhile tried to es cape. The thrust of'a lance brought him to the ground. Caminos, minister of Lopez, met a similar fate. Vice-President Sanchez wvas killed before being recognized. i Colonel Aquiar, .Majors Vargas, E Ascurra, Estigarribia, Cardoso, 1 Insfante, Solis and several others f also perished in the conflict. Col onel Lopez, son of the dictator, was killed as he was trying to es- 1 cape with Mrs. Lynch's party. < Many chiefs were taken prisoners, I including Generals Resquin and ' Delgrado, and various other supe- < rior officers. Four priests were I also taken, one of whom was the r celebrated Maiz. General Cabarello, with some < forty men and almost all the offi cers, had the day before gone out from Cerro Cora to gather up cat- t tie. They were attacked and r beaten by Colonel Benito Martins. T The general, however, succeeded < in escaping, after abandoning eve rything he had, even to his sword. Valla and Souzo who were in charge of a baggage train at Chi-!r raquel,managed to escape,although their force was routed. Rocha, i who was in the advance with eight I pieces of artillery, was also prompt- 1 ly beaten. Averis took advantage ] of the general confusion and made t good his escape. A few hours after the fight Mrs. Lynch, who could not at first be r found, was overtaken on the road as she was endeavoring to escape with a small party, and was made f a prisoner with her four sons and the mother and two sisters of Lo pez. The three last, Minister Parahos says in his dihpatch, had 1 been condemned to death by the i dictator, and the mother of Lopez r was to be executed on the very day on which the Brazilians made 1 their attack. The families of Ca- I ballo Carninhoz and Gil were also taken prisoners, and all were to return with the Brazilian forces to Concepcion. Seventeen pieces of r artillery, it is reported, have also I been captured. I t Up to a very short time ago it s was believed that Lopez would s escape to Bolivia, and this was a without doubt his intention when c he was overtaken by the Brazilian t forces. He saved the allies from t a grave responsibility by not sur render-ing himself and preferring t to die sword in hand.r *The letter says: At Rio Janeiro, e the news was received with the 1: greatest enthusiasm. Some per- t sons read aloud extracts from the , River Platte journal to e.onstant 'J interruptions by the cheers of i those around. As. the Emperor was returning from the city p)al- e ace to San Christovas, and was u passing through Rua Dy Seita, the e people who filled the space in - front of the exchange surrounded 'i the imper-ial coach and shouted en- b thusiastic "vivas" to his majesty, a the Emperor, to Count De Eu and a General Camar-a. His majesty ex- r pressed his gratitude for these de- ft monstrations, and added, "bYou may be certain that the war isle now ended." fi Crowds of people, headed by a miusical bands and bearing the1g colors of the three allied nations,Iv paraded through the strecets, shout-ce ing vivas and discharging rockets. b A.ll the public buildings werec at o once decorated with flags, and joy o was upon every face. At night si the city wa.s splendidly illumiina- y bed. The Emnper-orgiving his arm a to the Empress, and with the im- o: perial princes at his side, went, on a: Coot through some of the principal ft streets, mingling freely with the a people. Don Pedro was every- s, wvhere received with the highest tl Danifestations of esteem and re- t, spect- t All the newspapers of Rio exult ti >ver the event. One says: "IThe b Paraguayan people are reduced to ti mn eighth of their original number. w L'be wealth of the country has tz een dissipated, and there arc not rr neans sufficient to sustain the few hi hat survive. T'-e prediction of~ d< bop)ez has been verified, which he 'T nade to General Mitre during v heir interview at Jatay Cora, that or ?araguay would be 'a mountain of Jn< -uinis' before it should fall into the 0r lands of the allies. The Para- 0 ;uayans who died in combat, gave p ip their lives with a valor and ia abnegation seldom rivalled. Others ia Lied from sickness and want;! T >thers wasted away in prison; and ti inally others perished on the gal- o ows, sacrificed without, pity by |d< be order of Lopez himself. The iki istory of the sufferings of this I m >eople is the history of a martyr., te !om withot examnie." i m Labor a Source of Pleasure. Our every day labor should be L source of pleasure as well "as a neans" of support and profit. science lights her torch to show is how to make hard work easy. rho elements have been caught md tamed, and taught, how to do nach of the work which used to xhaust our vital energy and unfit is for enjoyment. The poor who lepend upon their -daily toil for beir daily bread, have here a ahnce to choose their occupations, Lnd are not generally forced into abor unsuited to their taste The rery tools with which they worl seem to be endowed with intelli cnce, as though the sense of the nventor had impregnated their in. ;truments of industry. Some of he machinery recently exhibited tt the Fair of the American In titute, seemed to know more than ome of the persons tvho voted at he late election. We have ma hinery for turning cranks, lifting )urdens, spinning silk and yarn Lnd cotton, weaving fabrics and arrying freight. The lever of la >or resting on the fulcrum of com. non sense, is lifting the world to higher plane of civilization and ulture. The wind which shook the sailor oy from the mast, and then rat led at the blinds to wake the naiden from her dreams, that he night shriek in her ears the story f her sweet-heart's death, is now ubject to the command of man, ot only in blowing clouds of can ass from sea to sea, but as a do ncstic servant. The water-fall not the one approved by faahion) s useful as an aid to labor. since it iammers iron, planes wood, wea res carpets, and grinds the corn. 3ut these elementi were harnessed o machinery long ago. They are onsidered a slow team at the )resent time. Now the lightning nust obey the orders of man, and ,n or fly of errands like Mercury v inged heels. It hastens with eet of fire over the narrow bridge, n and under the sea, and flies from 'pole to pole." Electricity and team are shortening the hours of or, and affording lesiure for rec 'eation and intellectual improve net t. Man is a progressive being Lnd he needs time for thought and nental rest, that he may r'se to a oftier round on the ladder of im rovement. The more progress 9e make, the greater will be our apacity for enjoyment, and the nore abundant our resources of iappiness. The microscope and he telescope are new eyes which cience has auvdd to the sense of ight. The time may come when .11 the senses will be assisted in a reateror less degree. The higher he calling of a man, the more bought it requires to execute it, *nd the greater will be his oppor unities for int'ellectual dev'elop tent and growth. The man who arries the hod, if he keeps the ricks out of his hat, may rise in he world as well as on the ladder 'hich lifts him to the scaffolding. he farmer who follows the plow. I' he has a philosophic turn of' -iind, will be a local king over his state, and the flocks and herds nder his sway will come at the all of his voice, and there sportive apers will add to his happiness. ~he great Daniel Webster when at is farm in Marsh field, used to rise t break of .lay, and filling his rms with corn, go out into the ieadows to meet his oxen and red them, a nd it was a sourco of appiness t.o him to look into their aIm eyes and witness their play xl antics. The farmer who thinks t his task, will in a double sense o to the roots of things. Sature till delight him w.ith out-door con arts. The song of birds, the low uzz of the bees, the soft whispers f the leaves, the liquid touche~s f the rain, the lofty notes of the ;oirm, the pathos of the wailing indl, the crashing thunder winnred ith lightning, the starry flaicos f'the snow falling in silence, the 'tists of the air engraving beauti il designs on the white sheef -hich covers vale and hill, all are >urces of exquisite delight to the ioughtful man of. culture, and' .icre are many such wh~o follow e plow. Men who read andt iink, especially those who organ e and instruct .cociety, find some iing higher and better than mere ork ini the performance of their ~sk. They do not consider it a isfortune that man should earnj s bread before he eats it. They j > not regard labor as a curse.( hey know that health ofbody and gor of mind, depends vastly up physical exertion. Active men, yt indolent ones, make their mark t ithe age in which they live. g ur leading editors-our "crack" 1 'eachers, oiur famous artists and c thors, do not go to their tasks conviets go to the tread mill. J hey have a feeling of pleasure at eir toil. They are in the sphere 'delight when they are honestly >ing their duties. Such men aow that t}ey shaped society,J oulding ignorant men into in. Iligent citizens. They help to nke the wrMd betr. It set ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements inserted atthe rate of $I per square-one inch-forfrst Insertion, and $1 for each subsequent insertion. -Doubl column advertisements ten per cent on above. Notiees of meetings, obituaries and tributes of respect, same rates per square as ordinary advertisements. Special notices in local column 20 cents per line. Advertisements not marked with the num ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver tisers, with liberal deductions on above rates esr'?A PL 6zr"JV Done with Nestness and Dispatch. Terms Cash. ter because they live in it and ed ucate it. Horace Greeley says he hopes the time will come when he can leave the "Tribune" and go into the woods and among the hills hunting- and fishing. He would soon tire of such amusement, -and sigh to return to his sanctum, where be touches chords which vibrate to every civilized land,. Vanderbilt is nearly eigty years of age, and has enough to support him comfortably ($50,000,000 at least) the remainder, of his life, but he takes great pleasure in his work of managing. railroads and steamboats. Bonaer has an in come of about $200,000 a year but he works as hard as any poor man in his service, because he likes to work. There is the reward of pleasure in. the taste, and I do not refer to the mere gross and Vulgar pleasure of making iony. Such men as William E. Dodge, whose income approximates $1,000 aday, do not work merely for the aceum ulation of money, they work be cause they get the eompetsiatlon of good appetite, good digestion, sound sleep,. vigorous health, and a knowledge of the fact that they are doing right. 'Those who havv worked are entitled to rest. Those who make like a long holiday, lead a dreary life. Their blood flows thick and sluggishly as the water of Jordan.- Their hearts are stag nant as the Dead Sea. They can easily die, for they are not much alive. When they-die their work will not follow them. for they did no useful things. Blessed are the workers, they shall live long in the land. When they die, no one can say their life was a failure.- Wood's Hottsehold Maga:ine. A Bridal Episode. Although the first feeotded miracle in the New Testament was the converting of water ifrto . wine at amarriage c'eiemony.itis, nevertheless, not always safe to imbibe, even at a wedding, unless4 you know something of-the vintaege. Mistakes will happen,. as was- the case not long since with the Rev. 4 Dr. , of NeTiwyport, who was called down from a chaiiiber to marry a couple. The hour was late, and the minister's.wife,. wvjro had retired for the night, did got rise to witness, the ceremony,. but gave her husband particular' di rections for the entertainment of the weeding guests. "Don't forget to pass the cake and wine, dottor," said she. "The cake is up in the corner .eizpbor'd1 and you'll -find the *ide on 'the third righit hand shelf in the side~ board."~ The doctor promised oibee&wiee, and putting on his garients frot to perform the ceremony.. When he returned to thre cham ber, half an hour later, fro found his wife sit.ting-upin bed, eith an anxious expressione'n herfahce. "Doctor," she cried, "did you give them any win.e ?" "Certainly, my deitr ; Just 2s you told me." "Not from the decanter on the third shelf of the. sidebohird ?" "That is exac'tiy where you di reeted me to= find it ille." "Dear! 4 ear! did they cirink inuch of it?" "Why, yes, thef' emptied theii glasses ?" "What shall we do ? Doctor, I made a mistak&-it was i'e i'fecae wine you gave them. Oh, how 5ick they must be ! Do, dear, put on your clostk and go right Lfter them ;. they can't have gong ar." The minister found .his br.idatl ~arty at thC daruer of the Isext - 5treet.. "What ninds. foii din the line ?" he as~ked. "Couldn't you ecll by the taiste that there was oecmething wrong itboirt it ?" The bridegvroon. answere,- be ween his qualdms "She whis~pered td. nmY', (lbat it asted dretful que f i I told her twas beeause we xva getth/r mar. ied." ~A young ,lAdy ersmiraing her 'i~s at SabbatCaoo asked. What is the pornmy and vanity <(f his world?". A httle girl looking p into her facel vIerv incnl aid. "The ffowors in your lion A da' ibistered his name at a )etroitfoter, and added; "Tho nan who is the word and spirit otf 3hrist' Tbo' landlord made him may in adiance. .An affected singer at a DublMmi heatre was told by a wag in the ~alery to 'come out from behind is nose and sing his song like tnier people.' A. man named Death lost $50, 00 by the burning of his distillery t Warsaw Ill. It was the first~ ime that Death ever lost any. hing by the whiskey business. It takes seventeen secoaids for packa is to be conveyed through the pneu. atic tube-400 miles 'ong--between, nnonn andl Glanow~