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It neelled in a maiden's hair, ? ;
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That it should sanctify U)q plaoo, ? .
In memory brightened by thegraoo
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And kindle in ihy heart n glow
Tharypjvrs to oome1 should seldom know,
?A't memory of tho long ago 1. . '
Hut dreamed not thai a future year.
Simula'see another rosebud near
: The ono thut long had slumbered licro;
Yel now iTpTdco theiu side by aide;
One with the stain of yearn is dyed ;
From ono the dew ie scarcely dried.
bite wore one in her childhbod'a mirth ;
And one to-day, when from her hearth
. They'boro h?r to (ho-silent earth.
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? -From 'DMiow'tt Review.
Human IVogrcss/Ancient and Slodern.
That society*, ht/' least throughout Christen
dom,'is progressing more rapidly than at any
past historical period, seems sufficiently evident
from the single fact, that population is increas
ing faster thau at any forrhor tiuic. I>y Hu
to Iiis'early wants nnd poverty for tiisTmo'cbcst
Pie has Bdccec'dcd because bo waB'born or
came to active' Hfo hs a debtor. ? "Whilst1 hiakr
ing a fortune for himself, he haft helped to
ninkc"forthc's for his criiployorfe,'for rill employ
ers in sonic way tax the labor which' they cth
'ploy. This is no subject of rtgrct to him, for
>hnvirtg!hmas8ed capital,^ho in turn can leave. of?
l?b'?riog/nnd livo aud increase hie moan^y
uiiogliifl capital to* tax' l?b?r.
The taxing or exploiting of labor by capital,
can never become a general or serious evil in a
country like ours, where an almost illimitable
extent of fertile unsettled hind invite:-, iinmi
gration, aud enables laborers at all times to es
cape from any unreasonable terms that capital
ist's would - impose. But before we proceed
further, if will he best to illustrate and expound
more fully the doctriuo that capital commands,
but does not pay laborany thing ; except in the
?few instances where in employing laborers,
capitalists trench upon their capital and are
not 'repaid by'" the results df the Work of the
laborers.
Capitalists build houses or ships or railroads,
and pay their laborers pay two dollars a dfty.
If these improvement* after erection are worth
.what they cost.-.the ri they h;rvo p;tid their hi-.
. borer?: nothing,- for they rot aim their e.ipital in
stead. "They Und their laborers; have only cx
.changed equal values ;?. for ' capit.il is but ac
cumulated labor, human labor ahme possessing
:vtduc; ? . .-wit v*V '?
I f tho improvements be worth.athird more
than they cost, then will the laborers have paiUj
for the privilege of being employed, on,; third
of the results of their labor to their employers.
All the profit made by o^upjdying labor, i* L'p
much tax levied or exploited frpni the laborer.'
Tjjfow it is .n'reciaely tlr.s profit wlych capital
'commands and exacts from labor, without pay
ing any value therefor, that creates all wealth ;
that build up cities, and towns', aud canals, and
railroads, and steamships,"and palatial private
residences, and theatre.} aud churches, and, in
fine, all visible tangible wealth?and thus
speeds the carol' human 'progress.
The heavfeV the tax th:?t capital levies or ex
ploits from labor, the larger will be the fund
arvumulnlod- to be experme? in wnYkiWu*'
and utility, and in the many luxuries df lilc
ilui beget refinement and high civilization.
Hence- the most progressive and prosperous
oountricsrare those where paupers most abound
thho ] tujterj being tho laborers whom cttpitril
has taxed so heavily as to deprive them of tho
'moans if subsistence; It laborers were per
mitted to consttmo all that they produce, ther
would bo inching to tic cumulate, nothing to <_?>:
pond iu the luxuries and refinements ; famines
would he frequent, human progress would
cease, und human retrogression would begin.
Indeed; very soon all men would relapse into
tho savage state ; live in caves'or cabins, und
wear 'skins for clothing. Artificial and ac
quired wants would cch e, ho Goon u& ca< !> mail
had hy- his own labor to supply his own want*. |
Society can neither bo civilized nor secure
against frequent famines; unices ail property lie!
owned by the few, add thv> masse.. l>e po desti- j
t?te that tho property holders or capitalists can j
compel them to labor as they please', not only
for their'own plain Ruppnrf, and for" the luxu
rious support of the capitalist* and tho support
of government, but also to create un enormous
annual surplus fund to be oxpeuded iu great
and costly public and private works, and thus
to speed the ear of human progress.
The ear of Human Progress iH a Juggernaut
car. that often crushes under its wheels the vo
taries that propel it.- Pauper laborers, as a
class, have thus been squeezed, and afterwards
thrown aside like'squeezed lemons; bid the
harder they are squeezed, und ihn move of i fini
that are vqu?v/.ed, tho more v.val'V.,. cnliulii
encd. civilized, progr..-.-.;,^ and 'diftiitguislted
d.^Ca sbelcly become!
Sibfnf( the apparent iniquity yhVit'cd by capi-;
tal upon labor, Ucnthani c'x'claim.' Prosperity
is theft,'' and American socialists rti-crho tin
charge! Put it is ah utterly false imputation,
men only'work in general from naeelVtty, add
work only to supply ncc'issifics Thus labor
ing each man for hlnisclfj they v. uld j dnce
none of the eonit'orts '6r luxuries of life, nhtl
he ?kp'oscd to frequent famine -. The paupers
in eiviifzcd society. Have in (lie course ->i' life
chjHycil ten time- as tuttcli of the fbtHfJrts and
luxuries of-lite as th--' i.e.--: c ttditioncd t ? ??
in ihe world, who arc Hot guilty ftho iniquity
of holding j)riv.it 4 property. Inden!. Ilt6 in
liiiilc" of our prison^ and rioor housofc, arc in all
respects belf?r provided lhatt savages.
According to our socialists, to acquire \> ivn
niary independence, and live on the in tune :
property. Is to live by theft ; becati e property
docd not breed, and in living on it income, we
are us!tig it as a mere insfrttiuent t" exploit,
tax, fir rub with, just as burglars use !'.ibo hoys.
I'ut property does' make ample compensa
tion to the masses by compelling ihent to work,
and (ho doctrino is as old as Ilie tiinri (if Meri
iWtiius Agripp.t; whilst the practice liegitn
With tfie dawn of divllizatinii'.
Nur, we repeal, do wo Itod hi iV skill an<l
L'apital can' iax or exploit l:tb??r ie< hcavih in
a country like ours, whcro lands iro overy
Avkqro cheap and abundant, and can be obtain
ed iu ibe far West as a inero gratuity, and
then, too, lauds as fertile a.s any in the world.
No doubt in those portions of Europe where
popblrition ' h dense, and cbWcqucntty rents
voryhigh, capital docs oxeroise a most cruel
l?iKpcxaeting dominion over labor, ten time.:
.nmr$ oruol and exacting tbau tbat of any po
litical govorninont. For nil governments do
.much to protect the poor, whilst capitalists on
ly tr.x them. 'Yet, oven in Europe, well or
ganised and cheap node of emigration are
doing much to relieve the laboring classes from
cxccf.dvo exploitation by ihe property-holding
classes. Throughout Christendom cheap modes
of transportation are everywhere liberalising
institutions, by andrding means of relief to lite
laborer against the undue extortions of the
employer. Many arc too poor to emigrate, but
the ^migration of a'.part oi' the working men
relict3S these who remain at home by lowering
rent;!' ipd increasing wage:*.
Vot "human progress: whether ancient or'
m?.-*.r i), when miuntely dissected and analysed
is au .agreeable subject to contemplate.
I We cinnbt but deplore the net essity (hat eiv
sMZc'cLsociety lias ever been and must ever be 1
8b*.lui'st'ed. thai the laborin*' classes must bo
-ib.vr-V "f?r exploited of inu'eh of the proceeds
of lii^ir- tabor, by the governing mid wohlthj
olar-M.v that do m i labor, and that those socie
ties ;np mosjb prosperous raid progressive when
capitaltax es M jorums' cxnc|jngly; Tin m.'!i
Uinenfe of ancient art and industry iu Egypt.
G'reeep "Italy, and Western Asi?j prove ihco'i
testabi;,* ib.at unrequited Ihbor propelled tb<>
car of; human pro?*rc**s in olden times. Yet
thousoiids of yoai'ii elapsed during which those
nionuvtcnts were erected. England and
Amenta have expended more in imiat works
of utljity and luxury in the hist fifty years,
than too Ancients ever did in a thousand years.
Private tfhpitiil now taxes labor far limre se
verely 'ban did ancient der polisms.
And.hence we live in the most progressive
nge oftthc world, and among the most pro
gresst'V'^'pcple. No where else arc there so
u\ in\*gi^je'r'> and criminals, no where e tec'so
1 ,i^.V "'VAfc'-'i?""' jyj"'r so many ?bd
^iieS^555?utv.i.- ? ii ion.-of labor, art and me
I ehunie skill, erected withiii so short a period as
j iu England and America. Man is a gambling
animal, and life a lottery iu these con it trios',
j Men who engage in trade, manufactures, eom
[ moreo. ??r speculative cm* luyn: ntsof any kind,
ki ijw from the experience of others that the
i h iue< of failure a.re lot) times as groat as the
j chance of success. Indeed, it requires just
one thousand laborers to mak< and sustain one
millionaire, it' Mr. Gi'oeley's calculation be coin
reel i:i estimating emigrants as worth a thuu
s ind dollars a head. M .n cannot justly com
plain when they buy tickets in the lottery of
life tb.it they draw blanks. Decaying and
stationary societies: are those where men arc in
least danger of pecuniary failure. Licnco
ftaly u:id the South id* Franco are the favorite
resorts of those who would husband their
means.
With all their defects and short comings,
English and American institutions are the best
in the world, and hence they are at the head of
modern progress and civilization.
And nobly are they performing their tusk,
by opening up all the waste places of the earth
as a refugo aud a home to the poor and op
pressed of every nation.
liutour progress has one ugly aud alarming
aspect. It is accompanied, and us long as it
continues will bo attended with a r ipid ami
hitherto unexampled, increase of P*j'.,u'it\'tion.
At the pr.csent ratio of immense lour centuries j
iieiue ib.e \\h,lC earth could not contain and I
..ustuiu tue Aiiiorioau and English populations, j
How, wheo; and svhero is this itisrcuso to be
checke': iSlc.ll wc first couVjuer, aud by l'ree
competition ctturmiitatu all ravage iaces, then
the other varieties of the white race, and fin
ally make war upon and-dovour eaoh other '
We think not. Out" progress and multiplica
tion will be arrested; by what mean's1 it is im
possiblu to foresee, and useless to impure. Our
societies become Ktationary?iun<: remain
si), and then liogiu to decay. Let us not dread
tiie coming of such times. Individual con
tentment will be promoted by national decay.
hall iiavc tower Ulliiin:is and no paupers.
Mm will become more cautious, provident and
contented. Less anxious to acquire wealth
bui inbro firmly resi IVcd to pre.-ervo indepen
dence. lt:\Vil! be the great object ?f lifo to
' live happily and uotitoutedi) in such condition
I of life us hc aio born, rather tbau iu struggle
1 to change I hat condition. Americans are now
j t he iimst di: bunted people in the world. VV.e
j are all trying to make fortunes or to iu
oreuse mem, never Slopping to enjoy ihuiu.
I i\oousyiously, wo are living for posterity
rather than for ourselves. No people in
lhe world know so veil bow to make money,
and none know so lit tie bow to use and enjoy
it. Our contentment and refinement of mind
and morals will begin just where our progress
atld prosperity cease. When \V0 have lost ihe
art ?f m iiioy making, weslmli I carp, the Art qf
'l/iving.
Depreciation of Southern Lands.
iiy tho report of tho Commissioner rd'
Agriculture for Fobruury wo find an estimate
of the present value of Southern lands compared
with that of lSUO:
Iu Virginia tho dcoroaso i? 27 per cent.
In North Carolina tho decrease is 50 per
cent.. ........
In South Carolina tho docronso is 60 per
cent.
In Georgia tho decrease is 05 per cent.
In Alabama the decrease is GO por cent.
In Louisiana the decrease is 33 per cent.
Iu Arkansas the decrease is 30 per cent..
The causes of this decrease are stated to be
various, among which arc enumerated general
indebtedness, scarcity of money, pauperism,
loss of copital in skives, tho unsettled condition
of tho country, the fear of confiscation aud tho
dread of upgro domination.
These causes are numerous cuough aud
powerful cuough to cause any country to wither
away, 'flic wonder is not that the whole
South is blighted, but that there is auy vitality
hit iu it at all. That such is the case is the
beet .proof, in the world of the, fortitude of the
Southern people in bearing up against a load
of adversity such as has never been the lot of J
any .other people under the sun., Had it not
been for such a spirit of energy even under
persecution, they must have long since sunk;
for nu other people in the world could have
stood the trials to which the South has been
s thjocti'd.?Norfolk ( Vn.) Journal.
The K. K.'.s AUAIN.?-These awe-inspiring
aud ghostly visitants made their appearance at
Iv'orl Fisher a few nights since. Their appear
ance, we learn, was made in this wise: Several
thousand coffins, wc give the statement of the
sentinel on duty, drifted with uunatural regu
larity upon the beach, and as many occupants
ranted their ileshlcss bones from the interiors
thereof, and formed themselves into ghostly
columns and at the biddiug of a sepulchral
voice, the Dread JJvigadc of Death, marchwd
with noiseless step on the fort.
As the fort was immediately evacuated, it is
not known what cDdeti'auy opposition to their
movement would have hud, although it is pro
bable something terrible would have occurred
for we are told,
??They cht up whole leagues;
Nut leaving a man,
And 11> away 1 un rry.
The Kit Kin : Khm."
? ?mm H? ? * wm??'
Homantic Sl'OHVi?The Oxford t^Ohio)
Citizen gives the details of.a tragedy which
rect utly occurred near Mquut Cartnel,
Franklin county. Indiana. A young girl, the
daughter ol wealthy parent:^ who \va.i educated
at one of the seminaries in 0"iford fell in lovo
with a farmer who was quite poor. The parent,
forbade her to have anything to say to him,
but they managed to exchange letters through
the assistance of a young minister. Finally
they proposed lb elope, but the go-between,
became enamored of the lady, and prevailed
on her to run off with him instead of the
fariscr. Thoy eloped and were married. Tho
grief of the farmer knew no bounds. Deter
mined upon revenge, he armed himself with a
revolver, and vowed that the young divine
should die for Ins treachery. A couplo ej
weeks' ago tho rivals met, nod Vuo farmer
openly tbo't down the ?i^troyor of his happi
ness, bid . *. y'.li ..' o ?
HUMO ROUS.
ICasii.y Suited.?This morning, a young
gentleman from the country stepped into a store
On Hast Wafer street, and informed the pro
prietor that his occupation was that of a car
penter and he desired to get a bosom pin cm
blcmutie of tlmt profession. The obliging jew
eller looked over his stock, and finding nothing
else, showed him a very fine Masonic pin
The Voting man looked at it carefully.
'Yes)' said he, 'there's the compass nnd
square. 1 u?o both of them?but why did't
they put. a saw in it? It's first rate as far as
it goes. Hullo! there's <i there?what, does
that Maud forT._
The jeweller didn't know.
Tho n an studied it carefully for a moment,
and a bright idea struck him. His face flush
'?1 h if it hud undo a discovery. '
?I have i?,' he si hi; it's all right, G stands
for gimlet. Compass, squaro uud gimlet.
That will do?I will take it.'
Tlioro was a little touch of sadness in his
voice as he pinned the ciublon on his coat and
went away muttering:
'Compass, squaro and gimlet. T dp wish
there was i saw, though.'
_ m in I f i . ?'? <m&mmmmi -
.JtTsT So.?Five of tho sweetest words in
the English language begin with H, wjiich'is
only a breath?Heart, Hope, Homo, Happiness
and lleaveu.,^jJiy^ js.t^WpUJjhj.ee, and home
is a heart plao.; and that man is sadly; ntis
' taken, who (would exchange tho happiness of
li nto for anything loiffi than heaven.
Sceno in a Court House
) ill -J < lit j<? Yt''>"l" baa** 1
In the good olci times in Kinttigyjf/^^on
substantial justice" was administered in'a^log
cabin, after a Very free and easy maonoirf a
suit was brought ' to fecovor* c&ft?i% jffonfya
which it was alleged plaintifl had been'rdofrntid
od out of by the ingenious ?pcrnil?ti kf?^rf?8
"tbiroblo rigging.". In Ihe co-.irsb of XKo^'rmU,
plalntifFs CounBol,''w1?n hij'?pcn.cupJ^oJH^x*
pert," nndortook' to brilighton1 'the ca^OT??f to
tho vibihu ?pcrdnil} of the- jVerfoVm'ancc'.' ,
letting himself into positlo'n!, he produced
three oups and "the little joker," and proceed
ed, suiting tho action to the word:
?'Then'may'it please the court, the defen
dant placing the cups on his knee (hns, began
shifting t)icm so, offering to J>ot that my cliant
could not tell under which cup was. 'ftho little
joker" mcanmg?l.thcreby, may it please tne
court, this ball, with the intention' ?l "de
frauding my clicut of the sum thus wagered.
For instance, when I raise the cup so, your
honor supposes that you see the ball."
?'Suppose I see !" interrupted the judge,
who had closely watched tho performance, and
was sure that he detected tho ball, ,03 ope','of
the cups was accidentally raided. "Why.Jahy
fool can sec where it is, aud bet on it, aud be
sure to wiu.. There aiu t no dcfrii?din' thar."
"Perhaps your "honor would like to go ixf\r
on it?" insinuated the counsel.
"Go a V I aud double it too "and here's (lie
, , . ,,,, TiOai; J. yfti
rhino. It's.under the middle cap. .
"I'll go a V on that,' said the forman'of the
jury" on wn*
"Aud T, and I, joined the, ^uronybhe af\er
the other, until each one had invested his pile.
"Up?" said his honor. .' ' ' ' . *
"Up" it was, but "die joker" had"1 myste
riously disappeared. Judge and .jury were
enlightened, aud found no difficulty'*iu bring
ing in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff on iho
ground that it was the "^crudest kind o' de
fraudiu." m* ' ;
John "Randolph.-?Raiid?lph1 *w&?a
tavern, lying on a sofa in'W^aVlo?,?4a^ti?g
for the stage to come to the door!* 'A daudi
fidd chap stepped into the room
in his hand, just cbmc from a drive, arid,stand
ing before a mirror, arranged his hair'arld
collar; quite unconscious of the presence of the
gentleman on the sofa. After attitudinizing
for a while, he turned to go out,' whbri'Mr.
Randolph asked him:
"lias the stage come?"
"Stage, sir, stage?" cried the fop) "I've
nothing to do with it, sir H
"Oh, beg your pardon," said -Ranpolph,
abruptly; "I thought thatyoii were the driver!"
Coleridge was descanting, in the pr?schc?'df
Charles Lamb, upon tho repulsive ftppcarSheo
of the oyster. "It isn't handsome, Coleridge","'
said Lamb; "but it has the advantage dfybtt'la
one thing. "What is that?" queried'Cole
ridge, who, as every one knows, wns'ntf ex
hnustless ' talker: "It knows when to shut its
mounth," was tho reply. '
"Can I induce-you to'?invest**-in - a- lock ?"
smilingly inqnirod' aHravclImg-'ngcnt for an
improved door fastening, of a plain lookiug
old maid,-, whom he. encountered sweeping off
her fro-; sreps. ; i'X.oW luightjsir," sho replied,
with a ghastly smile^ycing him carcfuly fox
a moment from head to 'foot, "in areiMock.'*
"Is there any pereou'you would particularly
wish mo ld marry?' said a.widow expectant to
her dying spouse who bad beon'somewhat of &
tyrant iu his day.?- Marry 'the devil; if yVro.
Hko !" was tho grnff'reply. ?iOh no} my deai
you know it is not lawful to mwh/ two
brothers. 1 ''>?''?
When yourigiincn have nothing toilivo upon
but love, they commonly tall in love and get
larriod, just as if hugging and kissing were a
substitute l'or mutton. chops, or as if terms of
endearment would supply the place of mushed
taters and boiled mackeral.
Tho individual who tried td cleardiis ?con
soieiiee with an egg is howendenvoripg to rhlso
his spirits with yeast. If ho fails in this, it is bis
deliberate in tout ion to blow ont his brains with
a hollows and sink eahniy in^o'thn-arms df^?
young lady. riT .rtifttl
Proutice says that ?.the uii.^tbcratic. negroes
arc in great, rage at the, preachers,, "who tajl
them they must bo born again. . Thoy-ere
afraid , that tho next lime I hey might be born
whito men.
--m^rt ; -' I . . 1
A ci.KUOYM.VN coming out of tho'oatcr with
a ,v;oman. ho bad baptised, asked her.how sho.
felt iu her uiimL ?. He was not a little suprisod
to hear hor answer "Uullj.'.'c. , ; ', tg .| p4i
mm .-??*-???? tin -i1
A gentlumail wrom : ' There's not a glob
ule of blood-in-my heart- tMat-Soca^iioi beat
your photograph." .' Ho hud it very bad.'
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