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POETRY.
a Grand Old Poem.
Who HII?III judge a mun from milliners?
Who HIIUII know liiiii by Iiis il rend !
Paupers may bo fit for princes
Princes lil for noiliing lena.
Crumpled wliirl and dirty jacket
May heclotho Ibo golden ore
Of the deepest thought, and fooling
Salin Tents uoulil du uo moro.
There aro springs of crystal neclar
liver welling out of stone ;
There nro purple h ii ds, mid golden,
Hidden, crushed, (ind overgrown.
God, who cunnii by souls, not dresses,
Loves und prospers you ii nil me,
'While ho values (broncs. I Itu highest,
Hut ns pebbles in the .sea.
M?n. Upraised above his fellow.*,
Oft for gol 8 bis fellows ? hon ;
Musters, rulers, lords, remember
That your meanest hinds are men
Men by labor, men by feeling,
Mei? by thought, and men by Inuit"
Claiming etpuil rights lo Ktinshilie
lu a man's etuivbliug miine.
There ?ire foam-embroidered oceans,
There are lillie weed elad rills:
There ar? feeble, inoll high saplings.
There are cedars ott the hills.
Ood, who counts hy sutil*, not sinuous,
Loves and pro?pi'rs ?ou and rn,,
Furto him all vain distinctions
Are us pebbles Ul '.ho sea.
Toiling hands alone are builders
Of a nation's wealth or fame ;
Tilted laziness is pensioned.
Ked and fa 11 eu ed on the same ;
)5y the sweat of other's foreheads,
Living only to rejoice,
While (he poor Ulan's outraged freedom
Vidal,, lilied up his voice.
Truth ninl justice ar? el cr uni
Bora willi loveliness and lighf ;
Secret wrongs will never prosper,
While there is a sunny ri ii ht ;
Ood. whose world-beard voice is singing
Boundless love lo you and me,
Sinks oppression with its titles,
As tho pebbles in the sea.
MISCELLANY.
The True Relations Between tho Races.
Hop. A. 0. Rrown. fonnt'Hy United. Sjuus
^frct^dudoie u iul^o Hums meeting of Whiles
.mid blacks. The main features of his address I
.are pretty much the saino as those of O?y', I
.Orr und others who have addressed similar !
meetings within tho pu.st few mouths. Of1
the relations that should exist between the .
two races, Gov. Rrown said :
'* Men make men equal before tho law- ?
that is, they confer on them equal e vii and I
politioa] right?-but they cannot make them
of equal stature, of equal wisdom, or of tho
same color. No more can they make them
socially equal. Social equality depends on
agreement. The laws cannot. enforce it. 1
alii no muirs equal, socially, unless he agrees
to the equality. No mau has li riirht to de
mand against my consent ; and this rule is
Universal and all-pervading among men.
Your race is no exception to the rule. Tho
liouest, industrious and frugal among you do
not admit to social equality the dishonest, idle
jind wasteful of your own color, nor dp white
people. Sticiul equality is simply u mutter of
private agreement, and is not to be controlled
by any public law. Whonovcr thoblack pco
|)lo desire social equality, itu.) the white peo
ple agree to yield it, vie shall have it, and not
before. It takes two to make ti bargain, and
I risk nothingdn saying that neither whites
nor blacks in thc South want to make this
bargnin now. I hove but ono idea to add.
lt is this : There'will be social equality in
?.the South between the raoes quite as soon as
tho ?ame thing occurs at Ihe North ; for 1
happen to know that the Southern people
bavo a niue h higher appreciation of the black
man's honor arid character than tho Northern
people hilve."
Military Order.
OiiARbK.STON, Sept. 10.-Con. Cunby has
issued thc following order :
HKADQ'RS 2D MILITARY DISTRICT, )
Charleston, S. C., Sopt. 7, 1807. {
[Genera! Orders No. 80.]
It being known that many persons subject
to parolo under the terms of tho surrender of
thc insurgent armies have, since the Otb day
of April, 1805, voluntarily exiled themselves
from tho States lafei, in rebellion, thereby
evading obligations manfully assumed and
faithfully observed by all others subject there
to, and havo since returned to tho United
States, it is ordered : That all such persons
now resident or domiciled in. or who may
hereafter become residents or domiciled with
in the limits of tho Second Military District
?-the States of North and South Carolina
bo required to give, within thirty days after
tho receipt of this order, at tho headquarters
of thc post or District in which they may be
80 resident or domioiled, tho parolo prescribed
on tho 0th day of April, 1806. Tho parolo
will be given in duplicate-ono tobo retained
by tho person who gives it, and tho other to
bo forwarded to Diatriot Headquarters for ro
p?n', ?nd transmittal.
The Provost) Marshal Ooncral of the Dis
trict is charged with the execution of this or?
der.
By command of Brevet Ma',, Gen. Oanby.
JA)tJIS V. CASIA?IC, A.A.O.
,?}qp WtyMiftTHKSS (pointing to the. first let
ter of i the alphabot ;) *< Come, now, what is
that/ft- j Scholar : . M.shan't toll you.".-,
HopoopRi?B,trcS8 : h ypu won't ! bpt you must.
Como, now,! what is it ?", Scholar i "T shan't
tell yon'. I didn't oom? here io' fo'aoh you,
but for you to teach mo."
Defectivo Labor--Thc Remedy.
Reluctant, unreliable und imcompetent la
bor is now thc prevalent complaint, not only
in the agricultural but in almost every other
department of Southern industry. Wc all |
know the cause of this unfortunate condition
of affairs in theso States, but thus f*r, we
fear, the Southern people have been too in
ert and slothful in seeking out and applying
tho only remedy for the evil that can be suc
cessful. There ia an old saying, verified by
the experience of ages, that competition is
the life of trade, th" Muth of which has nev
er been denied, and has become an axil.ru in
political economy, lt applies now with pe
culiar force to the condition of the labor sys
tem of the Smith. We may fold our hands
and murmur and grumble about thc dive re
sults of the emancipation of the late slaves of
tho South ; but, if we should sit to ibo crack
of doom, grumbling and complaining, tho
sluiplo result would oe that the evil would go
on increasing, until remedy would como too
late ; the fields and the plantations of tile
South, uncultivated and almost worthless, and
au idle, insubordinate and untaught race, on
which we had placed our dependence exclu
sively, increase and multiply, until expira
tion on thc part of those, who had any ener
gy loft would become absolutely necessary, to
escape Vation or death in some other form.
There is a preventive to this gloomy state
of the future, if the Southern people will act
promptly, judiciously and earnestly in the mat
ter ; and that is, to afluid every aid and fa
cility in tho introduction of foreign labor.
The freedmen, bewildered by their new posi
tion, deceived and deluded Ly party hacks,
and tatmht to believe that, all political power
is in their hands, have enough intelligence to
perceive that, thc land owners and employers
of the South are entirely dependent upon
them to carry on all industrial operations.
T?nt lut European immigration on any exten
ded sonic once be inaugurated, und the seve
ral departments of industry promise to become
filled with competent and skilled operatives,
and the black mau will .soon foresee til? end of
such a movement, and gladly forsake the wild
theories of the knavish politician, who hus
lcd him from tho path o'" duty, fidelity mid
self-interest, lt u>"/. ,h,M>. be too late for
' mnn?<of the.v'."m,s ?f party and its hireling
& l}'uy pfc W"E fi oui riSipincr
tho reward of their folly, and make them bet
ter and more useful members of society. The
first half dozen arrivals of foreign laborers and
mechanics will open the eyes of the more iu
tolligeiit freedmen to their true position in tho
Soot beru communities.
This, then, would be our remedy-the
menus to obtain and apply it must remain with
the people themselves, (jetterai Wagoner,
the State Commissioner of immigration, hus
just addressed a note to the mechanics of
Charleston, stating that lie is receiving nu
merous application's from mechanics abroad,
asking for information respecting their pros
pects in South Carolina. Mo, therefore, re
quests the co operation of the home mechan
ics to advise him as to all matters in relut ion
to this important subject.
As to the introduction of agricultural labo
rers, the Charleston Mercury" very proper
ly says, " that which the mechanics can do
for those who immigrate in tho expectation
of {hiding profitable mechanic employment,
our planters and fannel.s eau do for those who
immigrate with thc desire of becoming small
farmers: or agricultural laborers. They should
continue to, meet at their different court lions
es, and forward statements from each district
showing the quality and description of lands
for sale-tho price at which land will be sold,
and in what quantities-the vates at which
farms can be leased and their average yield
per acre-the wage? paid io laborer?, with and
without rations -the wages paid mechanics
. nd the number that can be employed-tho
healthfulness of their section aud it? ad van -
inges to,the farmer, the laborer, the mechan
ic, or the manufacturer."
Wo hope thc people of South Carolina will
j promptly como to the rescue, from un impon
j ding doom, which will Purely overtake them
i if they fail to do so.- Columbia JVuinix.
WASHINGTON, September ll.-Tho heavy
radical loss in Maine creates intense excite
ment here. The Lower House, which, last
session, had but thirteen Democrats, is now
claimed by that party. Tho great central
States of Now York, 1'onnsylvnnia and Ohio
aro claimed ns certain, und the defeat of negro
suffrage in Ohio seems conceded.
The records at tho Attorney-General's office
show 18,000 pardons previous to thc recent
aijtnesty. A question has ?risen whothor
brevet rank nbovo brigadior-gcneral excludes
from thc amnesty, and whether the term
" ngonts " includes those who went nbroad to
sell bonds ami cotton.
There is no immediate prospect of Cabinet
changes, though tho pressure continues.
Internal revenue receipts 8272,000
A dospatch from Ranger, Mnino, soys tho
result of thc election in that State lins aston
ished all parties. Tho itnmenso Republican
majorities of lust year have been ultnast over
come.
TnF.nr. aro two mon in prison, in England,
whose fate it has boen to illustrate tho nature
of lawyers' bills on a magnificent scalo. P.
Foster, a furnior, now lies in Taunton jail for
non-payment of a church rate amounting to
tho sum of l?s. 7}d. Rut tho cost of tho
law proceedings by whiah ho was condom ned
amount to ?147 10s. Old. ?T. B. Grant ls
immured in Whit?oros? Street Prison for non
payment of ?1 IBs. ohuroh rate, ouupled
with JE25? eos?a:
. M?V? SNOOKS says the.reuson : he does not
marry is, that his house ia not large enough
to contuin the cons?quences. ,
What tho Leaders Say.
Jenkins is abroad, nnd th is time in th?
form of a correspondent of tho "Boston Ad
vertiser." lie lias held conversation with
sonic of the prominent leaders of ?ho .Repub
lican party. According to this chronicler,
Senator Sumner, in speakiug of Gen. G rant
as SecreUry of War, said, there could bc uo
military obligation on a General to assumo n
civil office. Grant might have rcfusod, and
thrilled tho country, to the confusion of the
Pi csidcut and the rebels." In regard to Gen.
Grant aiming fur the Presidency, Mr. Sum
ner said, " he did not know. Things looked
that way. His friend, Mr. Washburne, who
has just returned from Europe, speaVsof him
as a candidate." But Mr. S. had been in
sist! ug on irreversible gu?ranteos. Our next
President must be in himself an " irreversible
guarantee." Grabt was uncertain. In rc
yard to Mr. Jo!,to on, Sumner said : " With
a person of ordinary seuse. and with a heart,
reconstruction would bc easy. Tho President
is perverse. His talent, such ai it '.s, comes
from pugnacity. The wonder is that Con
gress did not net accordingly long ago. Con
gress has hesitated in its duty towards the
President, as it lias in everything else I
have never doubted that the President would
be impeached."
Senator Wilson said : " '''he great mass of
the Republican party believe that tho Presi
dent will be impeached, and that ho deserves
impeachment." In regard to Grant, Wilson
stated his opiuion that he had taken the office
of Secretary of War for the sole purpose of
trying to do what good ho can to the country.
About the President, he said bc " would go
by fits and {-tarts in carrying out tiny policy.
In my idea, he is a foolish noni, governed by
gusts of passion and temper ; and he is a dis
appointed man, bceau.se he really believed he
was going to buccecd. This has mado him
\ indictivc."
Gen. lintier said Johnson lacks Courage
and capacity, and that impeachment is sure to
come.-Phuiuix.
Extract from the Letter of Senator Trumbull,
of Illinois
The legislation of Congress regulating suf
frage in tho rebel States doc;* not militate
against the foregoing views That legislation
ls babcil on th' authority of Congress w?Sttt?
P?hrJ S*iCDc iij ?mU{u&(?4 . J* urey
bo admitted that those States were never out
of tho Union, and so far as tho Constitution
and laws of tho United States aro concerned,
were as completely subject to both during the
whole period of thc war and since, as thoy
were before tho war. Thc postollice, reve
nue, judicial and all other laws of the Uni
ted States of a general character ina legal
seuse, extended as completely over them as
States during the rebellion as before. Thc
United States lost nono of its legal authority
over them as States by thc rebellion, but the
States themselves iostall their rights a? .States,
during the rebellion as before. The Uuitod
States lost none of its le<ial authority over
them ns States by the rebellion, but the i-tutes
themselves Iostall their rights as States, which
could only bc wielded through tho machinery
of a State government 1 louee they lest their
representation in both Houses of Congress,
because they had neither a State Legislatur )
to choose Senators, nor State laws under which
Representatives could be elected. The State
governments were destroyed by the rebellion,
but the loyal authority of the United States
over tho States was never destroyed. The
Hostile State governments which were inau
gurated in lieu of the State governments which
they destroyed, were, in turn overthrown and
conquered by the United States. This left
those States without State governments of any
kind, and without the ability to exercise any
of the functions belouging to them as States
in tho Union, which could only bo exercised
through the agency of State governments.
The United States did not, by thc conquest
of the rebel States, destroy its own authority
over them ns StntT ; that continued just the
samo as before the war; but it did destroy
the hostile Slate governments which had been
established, und, thereupon, in thc absence of
any legitimate Stale governments, became in
fested as conqueror with tho powers belong
ing to the State governments, till such govern
ments could bore-established; and it is under
this powor as conqueror that Congress us
8UUICS, during the process of reconstruction,
to control, by military power, tho local affairs
of such States, and to regulate suffrage therein.
No one would pretend that Congress could
subject the people of Illinois or New York to
tho military rule which hus been established
in thc rebel States ; and Ibero is as little war
rant for saying that it could regulate suffrago
in Illinois or New York becauso it has done
so in tho rebel States.
SAVK A MOTH KU'S TBAK.-Not long ago,
two friends were sitting together engaged in
letter-writing. One was a young mun from
India. Tho other, n female friend, part of
whoso family resides in the fnV.off laud. Tho
former was writing to his mot hw in India.
When his lot tor was finished, his friend of
ferod to inclose it in hors, to save postage,
"If sont separately it will roaoh'hor ?oozier
than if sent through a friend, and perhaps it
nutt/ ?ta vc her a Uar." His friend \VH8 touched
with his tender regard for his mother's feel
ing, and felt with him that it was worihoay-.
ing tho postago to Shvo his, mother a toarki
Would that every boy and girl, cvory young
mon and every young woman, woro equably
saving of a mother's teat.
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A HUOOKT.INITK tells a queer story obout;
the lovely wife and daughtor of a milkman,
Who took daily baths in .tho lacteal Hu id io
improve their complexion. Tho milk wad
t hou wat ered and sold at fifteen omits a quart,
It didn't need any doctoring to give it "body,"
aftor that,
: , Gen- Sickles and His Clerk.
Wo recall a historical fact. On thc 7th
NoVV ?her, 1800, thc District Court of the
(Jun -d .'tites for South'Carolina was in ses
sion}*-. Tho prest ding jud^o, sworn to fealty
to tl?* Fedora I Constitution, and'to adminis
ter justice iu a court croatcd by Federal en
actment, and sustained by tho Federal Treas
ury/iose iu his place, and iu thc presence of
a crowded audience anuounccd that the elec
tion Of a sectional President by a sectional
inajcrity was a sufficient cause for thc freemen
ofjj?Utn Carolina to assert the inalienable
rights of self-government, and for the State
to rVsuuie her unquestionable sovereignty,
and snap thc bands which bound her to a ha
tcd,Uniou. lie, therefore, divested himself
of his robes of office, threw aside the gown
in which ho was arrayed, and declared thc
Federal Court for that District stood adjourn
ed ajrcS'cr ! That speech inflamed au exci
ted'populace, lt roused a frenzied people to
madness, nud led to a violent publice meeting
thal night, at which a transparency was ex
hibijed which represented a Federal judge in
tho/sot of firing a gun which was to shiver
the "?Federal Union into fragments. This
same judge made ono of tho most violent
speeches delivered at that meeting, and took
tho wad in tho mad crowd that, hurrying to
tho >t?to Capitol, threatened and coaxed thc
Log nature into authorizing the election of
delegates on the 0th of December to a con
vention which was to meet <. the 17th, and
on the Dit h bc was made the Secretary of
tho sovereign State of South Carolina ; so
tlmtf/orcmo.stanion<r the secessionists of South
Carolina was Judge A. G. Magruth.
'iV-day, as we learn from an article in the
** New York Weekly," that ex-Judge is the
chief, clerk of Major-General Sickles, auto
orat;'of tho Carolinas. To-day be has the ear
of tjlint Commanding General, and is found to
be one of tho readiest and most fulsome of
his ?ofend?is, lt is a spectacle sufliciont to
rouse the indignation of every honest Union
martrthrougliGut tho country to lind that this
man, who thus led in the mad movement
ugatyist thc Government of tho United States
is Ui\V only more potent than he ever was when
a-Federal Judge, but is the right-hand man
of who, in the name of tho United State*,
etu^qi* .codes, sets asido Legislatures, and
i?iUSS^^N?'pou tho authority of Fodolal courts.
i-? ?tWrom Jud^o Magrath tbnt JVlujnr Gener
al Sickles has learned to dispise the authority
of a Federal Judge?-National IntelUytnccr,
Poisonous Drinks-How They are Made.
Ou Wednesday night, last week, a man in
a state of intoxication wus arrested in Phila
delphia, and taken to tho station. There he
was searched, and among other things, was
found a blauk book, part of the contents of
which wo print below. Ho asserted that the
receipts were worth ?500 to him, and that all
tho Uquors to which they referred werc.aetu
ally mado in that way. A oonso o? >}\\\y to
the public induces u^s to publish them, tu..*
drinkers may see what vile stuff they aro con
euming. Thc niau waa and is an attache of a
distillery :
Brandy-Forty gallons of whiskey, one
drachm of oil of cognac, ono gallou of syrup,
ono gallon of tincture of catechu, etc., etc.
Bourbou Whiskey-Forty ?pillons of whis
key, five gallons of rye whiskey, two ounces
of spirits of nitre, half a drachm of oil ol
cognac.
Old Nectar Whiskey-Forty gallons ol
whiskey, forty drops of JOril, three and u halt
pinta of cherry wine, one pint of alcohol.
Blackberry Brandy-Twenty gallons of
whiskey, one ounce of oil of cloves, oue ounce
of oil of ginger, one ounce of oil of antimno,
one quart of alcohol, etc, etc. ; color willi
brandy coloring.
Best l ort Wine.-Four gallons of cider
five gallons of white whiskey, ten quarts ol
oil of cloves ; one pound of catawba root, om
gullen of syrup, quarter of an ounce of arroM
root, etc., etc.
Scotch Whiskey-Sixty drops of kreosoto
two ounces oil of smoko, one quart of alcohol
etc., etc.
Peach Brandy-Ono ounce oil of bitter al
monds, one quart of peaches, bruised, ono gal
lon of pure whiskey, half a gallou of syrup
ono pint of alcohol, in forty gallons of whia
key.
Lavender Brandy-Ono ounce of bittor al
monds, ono ounoe oil of cinamon. ono ounc
oil of lavender, and forty gallons of whiskey
color with cochineal.
Sherry Wino-Forty gallons of whiskej
two gallons Jamaica rum, ono ounce of tine
turo of reno ; two ounces of putrio acid, on
gullen of syrup; color with ooohineal.
Claret Wino-Forty gallons cider, five gal
lons of syrup, three gallons of water, on
quarter pound of cream of tartar; color t
suit, etc.
Holland Gin-Forty gallons, first prool
tn roo ou noes of spirits of nitre, half gallo
of syrup, ono gallon of alcohol, earrowaj
quantum *uff.% etc, cte
Bitters-Twenty galtons of whiskey, twci
ty pounds pf sugar in twenty gallon? of watci
various flavor?, and tho " brandy coloring."
Jamaica Rum.-Forty gallons of whiskey
two gallons of Jamaica rum, two ounces c
tincturo of reno, two ounce? of putrio a?it
ono gallon of syrup, otc. j color with cooli
neal.
And this is tho way all tho fa noy dr?nl
that sleep in glittering bottles in a thousan
bar rooms aro made Whoso Btomaoh, whoi
brain could stand such villainous concoctions
[PilUburg Commercial,
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Tate contractor for watering the streets ir
New Hampshire oity wos busy athis duty wo
recontly during a heavy shower. "Why dor
you sjop sprinkling?" asked a citizen, "dor
you s4e that it rains ?" . ft I do,i' was tho i
pdy, mit I arri ?lwavs willing to xvotk wi*
Uh?: Ijjbyd helps t?o."
A THRILLING ADVENTURE.
Tlic followiug thrilling sketch is from au
English M?gd*i?o :
" Father will have done the prent chimney
to night, won't lie mother ?" said little Tom
tnie Howard, as he stood waiting for his fath
er's breakfast, which he curried to him ot his
work every morning.
" Lie said that he hoped nil the scaffolding
would be down to-night," answered the moth
er, " and that will be a fine sight; for i nev
er like the endintr of those great chimneys ;
it is so riskey for father to be the Inst up."
JOh, then, but I'll go and seek him, nnd
help 'em to ??ive a shout afore he comes down,"
said Tom.
" And then," continued the mother, " if
all goes on right we are to hnve a frolic to
morrow ; and go in the country, and take our
dinners, and spend all the day in tho woods."
" Hurrah !" cried Tom, ns he ran off to
his father's place of work, with a can of milk
in one hand and some bread tn thc other.
His mother stood in tho door, watching him as
he went merrily whistling down thc street, and
she thought of the dear father he was going
to, nnd the dangerous wuk he was engaged
in ; and then her heart sought its sure refuge,
and she prayed to God to protect und bless her
treasures.
Tom, with a light heart, pursued his woy
to his father, and leaving him his bveakfast,
went to his work, which was at ?orne distance.
In tho cveniug, on his way home, he went
around to sec how his father Was getting on.
James Howard, thc father, and a number
of other gentlemen, had been building one of
those lofty chimneys, which in our great man
ufacturing towns, almost supply thc place of
other architectural beauty. The chimney
was one of the highest and most tapering that
had ever been cree' d, andas Tom Was shading
his eyes from the ?lauting rays of tho setting
sun, looked in search of his father, his heart
almost sank within him at the uppalling
heighth. Tlu; scaffold was almost down ; thc
men at the bottom were moving the lust beams
und poles. Tom's father stood alone ut the
top.
He then look around to see that everything
was right, and then waving his hat in thc air,
tho men below, answering him with a loud
cheer, little Tom shouting as loud aa any of
them. As their voices died atyaj, however t
they heard a different sound, a ?ry ?T otarra'
and horror from above. " The rope, the
rope !" The men looked o round and coiled
upou the ground, lay thc rope, which before
thc scaffolding was removed, should have been
fastened to the ohimncy for Tom's father to
come down by ? The scaffolding had been
taken down without remembering to take the
rope up. They all knew it was impossible to
throw the rope up high enough, or skillfully
enough, to reach the top of thc chimney, or
if it could, it would hardly be safe. They
stood in silent dismay, unable to give a Oy help
or think of any means -?f safety.
And Tom's father. Ile walked round and
roum\o10 i?tt|0 cjrcje an(] tllc c{?z,/?c |iCi"ht
seemed more . A mQTQ fam: ^ ^ fa
earth further from m.. In thc sndden pan
io, he lost his presence of nw., a his senses
failed him. lie shut his eyes fltiu*,,f jg
tho next moment he must bedashed to pV-.1
ou the ground below.
The day passed ns industriously ns usual
with Tom's mother nt home. She was always
busily employed for her husband in rome Stay
or other, and to-day, she had- been at work
harder than usual getting ready for the holi
day to-morrow. She had finished her arrange
ments, mid her thoughts were silently thank
ing God for the happy home, and all these
blessings of life, when Tom ran in.
His face was as white as ashes, and he could
hardly get his words out : " Mother ! moth
er 1 he cannot get down."
"Who lad? thy father," asked the moth
er.
" They have forgotten to leave tho ropo,"
answered Tom, still scarcely able to speak.
Tho motlier started up, horror struck, and
stood for a moment as if paralyzed, then pres
sing her hands over her face, as if to shut out
! tho terrible picturo and breathing a prayer to
God for help, ?he rushed out of the houso.
.When sho reached the place where her hus
band wns nt work, a crowd gathered around
thc foot of the chimney, aud stood quite help
less, and gazing up with faces full of sor
row.
" Ho says he'll throw himsolf down."
" Thee munna do that, lad," cried thc wife
with clear hopeful voioe; " theo munna do
that. Wait u bit. Tuke off thy stooking,
Ind, nnd unruvol it, nnd let down thc thread
with n bit of mortar. /Jost thou hear mo,
Jem ?"
The man made a sign of assent ; for it
scorned ns if ho could not speak-and tnking
off his stooking unrnvoled tho worsted yarn,
row after row. The peoplo stood ?round in
breathless silence and suspenso, wondering
what Tom's mother could be thinking of ; mid
why she sent him such hnsto for the carpcti
tor's ball of twino.
. " Lot down ono end of thc thread with n
stone, nnd koop f?.st hold of thc other," cried
she to her husband. Thc little thread came
waving down the tall chimney, blown hither
nnd thither by tho wind, but it reached the
outstretched hands that wcro waiting for it.
Tom held tho hall of twine, whilo his mother
tied the end of it to tho worsted thread.
" Now pull it slowly," cried sho to lier
husband, and she gradually unwound thc
string until in roach of her. husband.
Now hold the string fast, ?nd pull it up,"
oried she, and thc string grew heavy and hard
to pull, for Tom and Iiis mother hos fastened i
thiok rope to it. They watched it gradutllj
and slowly uncoil from the ground, as thc
string tras drawn tighter.
There wes but one coil left. It had reach
?d tho top. v TfcanV Qod 1 than* God I" eat
claimed the wife. She hid her face lu her
hands, in silent prayer, and tremblingly re
joiced. Tho iron to which it should be fas
tened was there all right-but would her hus
bnnd bc able to make use of it? Would not
the terror of the past hour so has 3 unnerved
him as to prevent him from taking the neces
sary measures for his safety ? Siic did not
know thc magical influence whioh her few
words had exercised over him. She did
not know thc strength that thc sound of her
voice, so calm and steadfast, bad lilied him
with the hope of life once more, nudconveyed
tohimsomc portion of that faith iu God whioh
nothing ever destroyed or shook in her pure
heart. She did not know that as she waited
there thc words came over him, " Why art
thou cast down, O my soul, why art thou dis
quieted within mc ? hope thou in God/' Sho
lifted her heart to God for hope and strength,
but could do nothing more for ber husband,
and her heart turned to God and rested ou
Him as on a rock.
There was a great shout, " He's safe; moth
or. he's safe !" cried little Tom.
" Thou hast saved my life, my Mary," said
her husband, folding her iu his arms. " But
what ails thee ? thou secmcth moro sorry thau
glad about it." But Mary could not <?penk.
and if the strong arm of her husband had not
held her up, she would havo fallen to th<>
ground-thc sudden joy after such great fear
had overcome her. " Tom, let thy mother
lean on thy shoulder," said the father, M and
wc will take her home." And in their hap
py home they poured forth thanks to God for
his great goodness, and their happy lifo togeth
er felt dourer and holier for thc peril it had
been in, and the nearness of the danger had
brought them unto God. And tho holiday
next day-was it not indeed a thanksgiving
day.
A NOT J iKK CONVULSION.-The u New York
Times" says ;
" It is a pity that our English cousins uru
so exercised in our behalf, as to feel it necessa
ry to deprecate a renewal of tho bloody scones
of the rebel ?uni. But SO it is, or appears to.
bc. A writer in tho Eondou " Morning
Post " says : " While it can scarely be be
lieved that another war is on the point of
breaking out in thc United States, tho'obser
ver of ev?nts is strougly impressed with tho
fact Wiui tile?fl^e^tripT?ar?Of tfi?vjohtcnt, flin
ger and hatred,whioh foretold the convulsion
of 18G1 aro prcsonting themselves in 18G7 /
aud tho editorial artiolo on American affairs
in the same jourual speaks of the possibility
of 'a simul&arteous change for the worse iu tho
Generals Who rule' ot the South, resulting in 'a
desperate renewal of the civil war.' This is
puerile. Whatever may be tho state of tho
Southern morale under thc unfortunate alter
nations and vascillations of policy whioh havo
becii imposed upon thom, they are as unequal
as they arc unwilling to take part in a renewed
revolt of arms. While, therefore, wo set
asido all snch foreboding, we turn with pleas*
ure to thc remark of thc writer first quoted,
Who, keenly observing, but somewhat too bq
lievingly trusting, thc ^MMM^W^
still exist, sa va.? ? XT,' ... ,"?futtx?iht?
I do not despair of tho republic. Undoubt
edly, wc have much yet to do before wo aro
from disturbance. Patience, and justice,
and cou.M<)" 80nsc have a hard road and u
long one yet o^re them, but thc rcpublio has
weathered too great u wtln to founder in tho
after swell."
. MORA*' INIT.UKNCE OF FARMING.-Thor?
is a decided moral tendency in the direct and
closo dealing, if we may so speak, between,
tho faruior and his God. They work togeth
er. God has ground this realm (so geologists
tells us) i uto a somewhat bard and thin sci!.
" Ho liassent tho springs into valleys,- whioh
run among thc hilts, aud caused the grass to
grow for the cattle, and herb for the Bery ico
of mau." These gifts aro in thorough. The
condition of their true enjoyment is useful
and health-giving labor. The gold must bo
gathered or mined, tho diamond polished;
so tho soil must bo patiently wrought and du
ly enriched ; the treo, tho clay, the stono con
verted into (Bellings, the air and sunshine
into corn and wine-tho annual covering of
the sheep, and the life garment of the kjttc,V
into blankets and sandals. In short labor re
wards aro inscribed on every gift of God, and
none so gonorolly fccclve thorn ri cht. from tho
giver as those who;till tho ground. ! There ?s?^?.
less intervention of vorioloid scrip and pois
onous nickles. Tho vine holds out hin elua-:
tors, tho rioh purple undisturbed. Tho ?p
plo, tho pear, tho peach bond their branches
to the gathering, as only God can make them.
The harvest Gelds nod to tho reaper that it may
become sheaves in his bosom und brcid tothor
hungry. Thc broad bosom of tho meadow
undulates and throbs with ovo.ry breeze urjtil?
shorn of its trophies.. Even, the forest? tipas)
thoir giant brunches fojf shades, ls there.u?ft.^
sense of great nearness to God amidst th eso
blessings ? A feeling of satisfftotiQq and ?ottK?
fort closely allied to thanksgiving, praiso ttiSn,
love.-Farm and Ffvesfiif.
T?K Sccrotary of tho Treasury will h^?V^v
in hiR ncxtroport, thatlover $120,000,000of
our public debt was paiel during tho fiscal year
ending June 30. In thf recoil moutbly State
ment of the debt, .the'Ap* -we* un erroty foiv
once on tho right side-thc entire o?tsmudinj^
debt, less cash in tho Treasury, is. $$,40:!' -
783,366.05, or ?12,072,730.less thau stated.
A GOOD MORT is told1 pf ?Amftin??tMK
John Allen ? V a ?pelhl ^atW't?g of mm.
istore of different denomination*,'.* :^?j^f??4)
brother/ Wadera display of objeci?n/t?T^S?
Methodist polity, because, as bo sitid, i\?vtrf\
waft "too much machinery lodt.'* "
responded Wt?tnor Allen, W'ft'?SwV
deal of ui%eMto?y, hut it ??fl tali* sa
tfa?ct tun it a* the Baptist's do**:*'