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V TOT.. XX XII t AMOK.N. s. p., U GI CT H. 1873 NO. BO * THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. . ? ' " x AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER PUBLISHED BY JOHN KERSHAW. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, jn advance $2 50 Six months 1 50 Three months 75 Transient Advertisements must he paid ?t% oilronnn Clomency in the Wrong Place. We are not. in general, impressed with the correctness of Dickens's satire. But we must make houorable exception for the in iuiitable prison scene in which Uriah Ilecp and Litinier figure. The point which struck US niostu forcibly, waa.nut that the two culprits appeared a^they might be expected to, after their kind, but that the visiting board were so strongly impressed by their acting. Tt was precisely the way in whioh a visiting board would surely feel, and it only shows the great misfortune when these are entrus ted with any authority to interfere. Henry Kingley, who had some experience of Australian life. aud of the transported convict, says one rule i.fi invariable. The convict is alwa)3 innocent of the crime for which he ' ' is sentenced. It is not tlu\t he may stand better in the hearer's opinion?for he will 1 confess to many more and worse crimes, and be proud of the same?and rather than fail ' to impress one, will invent atrocities undreamt of, or borrow the rascalities of which he has heard. * But it is part of the inevitable antagonism he feels towards judge, jury and the law they represent, that should always declare them in the wrong. Murder in the abstract he has no objection to. Concrete homicide he will fyrag of; but the particular manslaughter, burglary, or counter- x feiting charged against him, he always de- j clinea to ackdowledge. ( We think we can fathom the philonopby ( of this; but it is aside from our purpose. ^ which is to protest against taking the j ywritrs UI lUW UIOli ao aujr giuuuu IUI ?/! I- j ous action. What is that action ? A corn- 1 mittee of a legislature visit a prison. It is ^ an unpleasant place to them. Neither the 1 fare, the privileges of debate, or the oppor- } tanitics of free communication with the out- , side world, are such as commend themselves t to the legislative mind. Confinement?without pay or pickings?seems a hard thing.? ^ The legislative mind, too, has just arrived at ^ that normal state of reasoning where it has discovered that mnch may be said on both sides of any question. It has been found ( also that it has the power to relieve a distress to contemplate which is uncomfortable. ' It is powerfully appealed to. It is, in fact, J Ml the average jury, after having only heard *' one side of a case. and. therefore, profound- ? * ly unfit to judgo oi' tbo^natter. It is yehe- 1 mently attacked by interacted friends out- c side, ftfddc, the criminal, made respecta- e bio and decent looking by prison discipline I and diot^ajpd traimjj^o consummate skill of J nioro than a modest remonstrance. The con- " sequence is thnt a jail bird is started again yl tr> renew the swindling robbery murder, or a ' arson which had once earned tbojust due of J imprisonment. We have been impressed with the fro- . quency of these facts by reading the accounts \ of the criminal trials which have lately taken place. The judges are confronted by the c familiar features of the rascals whom they ^ themselves "sent up''lor yet unexpired terms ' of years, and have to renew their Sisyphean u labors. No sooner than, with immense effort, ! the stone?ridelicit Bill Sykes or Jack 11 Shepard?is rolled up the hill of justice to c sr.. nr Wethersfi.dd or Charlostown. I 0 than it comes jumping back along the ersy v puth of crime into the courts at the foot of c the hill, fresh and lively as ever. Now, 11 that thw is all wrong, need hardly he paid. 0 Tf is a truism which it provokes one to a utter. * * e Wo contend* that the pardoning power c should he rigorously limited. I'untshment, to mean anything, should mean just wliat it gays. There ought to he no discretion whatsoever to forgive or remit any part of a just penalty, for this very simple reason, that in oil eases any remission weakens the force of the law. The legislature would shrink from enacting that the penalty of any crime ** should be diminished ten. twenty, or fifty per . cent, lint this they virtually do wherever , then pardon a criminal. Kvery rogue considers the danger he runs diminished to that v extent, lie is sentenced to so many years of imprisonment, less the possiblo pardon. I The imlv cases in which there should be anv interference, should be those of ucwly-dis- 1 covered evidence, clearly indicating mistake. ^ I'or, under all ordinary cases of criminal y jurisprudcncence,guilt is all but certain. In j . the tirsl place, ?r;iud jnriu* do not lind true , ' bills, ?.r Mate attorneys draw indictments, a without very strong grounds to go upon. \ !' Any one conversant with the business of a j ^ prosecuting Ofheor, will know that most district * attorneys satisfy themselves of the guilt of R< the accused before they ever stir, and then, but her more, require to he reasonably butc ? that they can prove it. before they risk the . odium of persecuting the innocent. The Rl maxim of the law id literally carried nut oftentiuics. and ten guilty esi ape in order to afford the the <?ne innocent Jus every chance J\ of fair play. And for this rca on tho judg- j, merit of the newly-discovered evidence ought (| |o ho committed to qualified hands. Hi: (| who grants a pardon should have the benefit I: oi the hest judgment of those conversant with criminals, and matters of crime. No pardon should ever Le given till the possibility and, furthermore, the probability of mistake is affirmatively shown. It isaprivi- / lege granted for the sake of remedying oo- [ ( uiii?dtv tiiimni f'lllihililv W'n do not 9 think it should Ik? given even to the cxccu- t 11v* without the advice and consent of the h jinl/en themselves. They arc (or should he) e iilntvo political influence, ami their consont t S. i'iM !?< itidi pensahle t<? the <riviu<t of par- a ilous. Hut a legislature, hy committee or li mtherwise, are the most utterly unfit of all |i (>os?ihlc I?odioh to care fur this. Kvery i ijiiality which til- them for their office stands ; in tlx way ??f their adaptation to this work ) They uro exposed to all softs of subtle and i indirectinflucnccs, which unfit them for cool judicial inquiry, and they are composed of men who, if qualified in one way to judge of the criminal,are by so much disqnaified to' judge of the moral harm of his crime. The reader may say, "What business is this of the writers in a religious newspaper ?" It is a very grave business. Crime must be checked, because the sufferers from crime are the innocent. They are the ones disregarded in these legislative jail desliveries, the victims of the future arsons, assassinations, robberies, murdors, and burglaries which, are thns prepared for the commanity. Pity for the criminal is an excellent thing, no rl/vnlit nn<) w%a mamKnfa nf iVn PKnr^li W UUUL/b J MUU ao uiguiuvio VI Vll? VUUIVU nuivn bos a prayer and office for the Condemned, we can say this; but we think some pity is due those who suffer criminality, and certainly whenit is caused by lettiug loose upon society , the hardened and reckless.?Churchman. Prom the Washington Sunday Morning G&xette. The Lady of th? Lake. BY PROP. J. J. OIERS. Harp of the South ! wake once again, Let echoes sound a glad refrain; For silent thou hast hung?and long A stranger been to mirth and song. Three o'clock last Sunday afternoon found is embarking on the steamer Lady of the fiake to participate in an excursion down he silvery Potomac. As is customary in he old country, we had attended divine seri ice in the morning in a temple built by the lands of man, and we coula but feel sorry or the eloquent preacher on account of the vant of attention shown him by his listners. SVe thought, thcreforo, that in the evening wo had a perfect right to go where wo could worship in a temple built by Gdd himself, md listen to a sermon delivered by old Naur e, that preaches so eloquently : riirough the voice of the rivers lhat glide Their waters forever from land to sea; rhrough woods and dells, where flow'rets hide And tench their lessons with wild-bird and bee. But wo must here tell you that we set our bot on board of that d>oat with fear and rcmbling, as Jenkins had told us that there wasn't a single lavender kid glove on board, >ut an abundance of rowdies, real Modocs; iho didn't care two pins to piteh us overioard, and transform oar terrestrial tnberna le into food for .slimy catfish. He also hintid to us that the Pharisees would certainly K>ur their anathema maraoatha upon our de* oted head for daring to listen to a sermon by i"> Bfrip S^aoqaauftanco forever. This was cruel, >ut iu spite of all these warnings we did go, ] nd never wero we more agreeably disap-. lointed. There must have been about si* lundred passengers on board, all strangers ( o us, who, including ourselves, evidently ( iclonged to the middle classes of society.? , ^bout half of this number were ladies and ] hildren, with quite a large proportion of ( oung mothers, all taking care and nursing j heir own children, not leaving them to the j itireliable attentions Of mere hirelings. And , his must have been the reason of their look- ] ng so much better and healthier than the f hildren of uppertendom who are alas ! so . (ten deprived of a mother's tender care just , rhen the poor things most need it, by tho . rucl dictates of that tyrant, Fashion. The j nost lovely, plump, and best behaved baby n board was surely little Ada Steward, bout two years old, who sat in our lap and j ntortuincd us most pleasantly with her hildish ways for an hour or so. She is a radiant little creature Sent to earth in love, beautiful in form and feature, From the realms abore. What with little Ada smiling Sweetly on her knee, 4 11 L. .... I. *i:_ _ .hi ucr uiwiuvr n iirr iirguiiiug, How happy nhe must be. Wc only wish our boys, Joe, Krnest and , fori, could be with us; but where are those ? trended rowdies? I can't find them any- ( rherc. There are on board a forge number j f young men brim-full of life and animation, ( mving been cooped up in the hot city all 1 lie week long at their various avocations: . I is true they are not so sedate and quiet ( crhaps as tWb blue-laws of Connecticut f rould have required of them long, long ago. ( Vo take courage and follow them on the ' iwer deck, and there wc find that they arc , ctually guilty of drinking that irrepressible, j ngodly lager beer, also lemonade, and send- . ig up iee-crenm to their lady triends above, j lov, if there is any sin committed, our con- j ;ienee must be too hardened to perceive it, >r all are sober, polite, orderly, and happy, j nd the state of the temperaturo must surely , e somewhat of anjexeusejfor thirsty propen- j ties. Hut here is Mount Vernon in sight: ( Toll ilie bell?for hero ."loops Washington | The nohlest man the sua o or shone upon. j o 1 , iim see, yonucr are me luniuruuoiis nanu-u > i his honor. Wc fervently hope, though, * liat they may never l?o needed, and that v lie war-iieml may never agaiu desolate our { in*]: 1 Iteaiitiful river! honiilit'nl river! !l Itiver uf I'riicf li'oiu source lo luouth; \i thy flow each heart ahull quiver, I l'.:irh patriot'*heart from North toftouth. | I ml now we arc making a lauding at Shady t ilyinont, where quite a nutnher oi" onr pas- I engers leave us for an evening rauible ? hrough the woods, until t he return of the ^ iuat. We remain on hoard, though, and t njoy the beautiful river scenery for uhout I i-n miles further down, when the boat makes s graceful turn and commences* her journey lomeward. 'J lie sun at last bids us a re- I uctant good-eye and the stars couie nut. It i s getting rather eonl, and we retreat into f. lie cabin as an ancient mariner ought to do. Vchild a large crowd round the piano listen- r ng to the performance of our youthful friend, 1 Franky , who is quite a little maaioJtl genius. - We were soon asked to take a sca? at the instrument and accompany some voctfBJ music. And who is that little maiden thaOT comes forth so timidly to make her calledST for debut? It is Maggie Hickey. Her voiom is touchingly sweet and plaintive, and. imSj; only wonder how it can dwell in so fraif jMj body, ^he more we listen and look at hear sweet, genial face, at her golden hair antM; sad blue eyes, the more we are pleased witjfl I the little Anglo-Saxon Edith. Somebody*) has given her flowers, but wo have none toH ] give, and as she has suug for ns we will turol< Troubadour and sing for her : * _Ml Wouldst tbou know toy mission, maiucu ; i? Let me tell thy fortune true, JM Be it thine with blessings laden Jr Life's stern path to wander through: Jh Scattering round these flowers immortal, Which to man by angels given, Rj Carry him to God's own portal, L Give him here a taste of heaven. 1 Those precious flowers that never die, ? But always keep their sweet perfume? [J Faith, Hope, and God-like Charity? m That cheer us midst earth's tears and gloom. But Maggie, take our advice and sing no J more until you get stronger, unless you ff waut tobe an qpgel before your time comes, i. But here is Alexandria, and the outlines of lj the Capitol loom up in the distance. The 9 piano interludes again, and this time it is ? accompanied by a full chorus of male and V female voices, singing "Nearer, my God, to m Thee," "Soon we'll Reach the Shining Rir- i s.r% o ? rm a a .? TTT 1 tl iL. 51 er," "Hateiy xnrougn Anotner wecx, me u whole conclading with that grand old tune, |j "Praise God, from whom all Blessings Flow. 1 Amen! Amen!" 1 Farewell! farewell 1 fair Lady of the Lake! j| We part! Thy mighty arms are now at reel, tj And sleeps thy iron heart within thy breast; <m Nor does thy throat of steel the echoes wake. ^ Yet sweetest thoughts will ever round thee cling, : If cooling breete, of stars and rippling waters, Of greenwood bower, happy sons and daughters, Fair mothers and their babes, whost sleeping song I sing: Lullably ! Oh, babies, dear i Let yonr drooping eyelida close, ' *4 With your loving mothers near, Float ye sweet ones te repose. On your dreamy pinions fly, ? Lullaby* sweet lullaby, Fly to yoor angel friends on hjak h While I sing your lullaby.{HT n And thnsended the sinners' aad|rtiblicans' Sunday evening excursion. *| ' v* Qj Bill Aro on the fritnfdWMncJcai ndffl Wfl I' ol the was a right smart fool._ T can look u back and see that I jttti t a proffet.? w Proffbsy aint my fort. Mo and preechers h< was both mistaken. Wethot wo would whip w Lhc whole of the fite, hut we only whiped two-thirds of it. Wo whiped it at the fust fc md in the middle, but they whiped us at yi last. We never counted on bavin to file all a creashuui in front and Ellik Brown and Joe at Stephens k Co. in thj rear. It was a un- te fair contest. If I was a Yank I wouldn't g< never mcashun this war as long I liv'd. I'd of be ashamed to. Old Xerxes, with his big y< irmy, whiped a few Spartans, but histry je lin't got no respect for him. Now I don't hi want to hurt feelins. After a man has done ri i men thing and bin cotch at it, I aiu't the cc individual to keep a throwin it up to him. fij [fthe Yanks are ashamed of their knnduct, J( I'm willin to drap it and make friends. The n< pure breed of y&nkee never was a favorite is stock ;vith me. When it's jewdishously n< irossed it does very well, but even theu the br jld Yank will orop out ever and anon und go show the skrub. There is as much differ- T1 snco in peeple as there is in horses. The tij pure (Southerner is blooded stock. With liim honor and fair dealin and family pride ar ire bigger things than money. The pure ^ Vank is a philthy laker skurb. Money is j|| ihe big thing. Their chief end of man is ^ ;o keep all yon git, ahd git all you can. je Fhey like what othor peepul have got better te ban their own, and they go for it, and coll jjj it speculatin. If they can't get it fast cnuff hat way, they pass laws in Congress that will get it by degrees Through the tariffs V ind bounties and appropriashuus they got p| icarly all wc had before the war, and have itolo all the ballins since. They look upou is as foemen M'orthy of the steal. When a l i'ank gits rich and-don't want any moro, ho ^ rits sorter honest, and gives away sum to ihurches and colleges. Then ho lays down md dies, and haa a white sepulkcr tilt over liui, and goes about huntin for Abraham's JUZZUU). V1 A pure Southerner don't keer for a thrip, 1111 )ut a Yunk will git rich off of coppers. He ?r vill buy nails at four dollars and DO eents a Sr ieg and retail cu? out 5 cents a pound. Ten cuts and keg is considered a fair profit in Konnctikut Ho will spckulutoon anything n the world. 1 knowed one to buy his 'j'1 vile's dower for two hundred dollars and 'lf ?dl it to his dady-in-law for a thousin. That '''' vxsa cute way of makin tho stingy old cuss ?P live him sutnthiu before he died A reglnr fank is aneranibulatinman. Ileouttravcls 0,1 ill crca-shun when Ininten rutin for money. ?v lie don't mind goin from Maine i?> Mississippi 's' to more than wo mind goin to the postoffis. ('r; Ie insinuates himself into every land that's '"j1 mt any thing lie can git. Ile'.s smart, and ic's never left by t|/e train. Tlieao is good jualitits, and 1 wish our |>oe|?ul had em. iV hen a clever Yank emus down South and |,^ nixes with our foaks, ho improves rapidly y contakf, ami if ho comos in his youth and lays Ion" cnuff and marries in a respectable iimily he is apt to make a pood citizen. *n Co lclps hiui and helps the family, especially IT hai ts poor and proud. This kind of a cross up generally does well and brings pood froot. a I'lic off spring is apt to he lively and shifty on ind have the lovo of money and the love of I'll ~ -"~ f MIX tother frum which. Tho only danger is that the Yank may crop out occasionally and produce sum mortificahun. A cross between Massachusetts and South Carolina does very well now a days. One is chuck foil of money, the other of* honor. The money keep the honor from perishin, which is a good thing, for if it ain't kept cumfortable its inklined to degenerate, and tfce stock runs into skrub in two generashuns. Honor nor nnthin else, ain't bomb proof agin thedebasin influence of an empty stomak. If a race boss adh't well kep his off spring will lay 3ut; and so when a fast family gits poor, the the children bekun a second family, and so )n and so forth, ontil you can't tell em from common stock. y Now my opinyun * is that a State or a flnvavmnnti tn Itaam tin its Knmarf ^UTVIUICUV VUgUD W 1^3 UUIUBU feck. When ft man looms up above the prinra as a great man, he ought to be penfetned and supported so that he wouldn't MRV to think about munny. He ort to be toqurred to marry into another penshnned paily, and in this way keep up a family nlns to draw from for our Presidents and Suveners and law makers, They ought to b paid enuff to keep em ont of temtashun, md then we wouldn't hav no carpet bakers, Mr Mobilliars, Nor Oleweses, nor pig mm Galleys^ por lobbyin bills through the house brpay. I like to see a family of brains ceepin up the family reputashun for genrashuns to cum. 1 like the Adamses, and bekenridges, and Lamars, and Bayards, fed Prestons, and all sicb, and I'm glad ky was born rich. I want all great men to Erich as long as they on good. Their mBtaoe spreads all over the country, and we jW pint our children to em and say, "there's mnr mark, now shoot at it.' As it is now, n struggle seems to be who can git the Sheet, and don't matter bow thoy git munV so tbey git it, and ain't cotch a stealin of jr Sometimes you see the wont.sort skrub mk blessed with an uncommon quantity of wins, and then you may look out. You ||| as weH surrender, for they are goih to R-h slice of yeur property. If they can'ff Kit no other way they will run down an ^or a railroad or a Miohel estate, or a st, or erit a Guverment eontrak, or g?M film in, that paye without work. A smart Bj^ isa dangerems'aaimul. A oow that 1 Ss down thefehpo, or a hog that roots gw gate, or shoes that lets down the ' Cm, is a nusStee and * cues. They Sjfjtib-b. A pure Durham, or a Berkshire 1 ^^^^^won 't do ^ SE^nood. they have big ideas and big < ays, and look like foaks ort to look. They old their heads upaud look .at you strait 1 hen they talk to yon. They don't ride nor walk like common uUts. I can tell one of orn" a hundred irds. It takes all sorts of foaks to make up world, and I'ui glad that kind is in it. I n as poor as Lazzyrus, but I aint fool enuf i hate rich foaks; I like em. If they are ' iod stock I can pick up & rite good livin F what they throw away. But if you think m can make anything off a rich skrub, ' st try it. He dont waste enuf to keep a oun dog from starvashun. Poor foaks are a te good thing in the country. In fakt, a 1 >un try is obledged to have em to keep rich akp in uiunuy. That's what I've been ' )in all my life, aod if I don't grumble, at it 1 ibodv needent. Bein Door and kceDin so uiy forte, but -I hav had a rite good time, ; ivertheless notwithstandln, for munny, ; iogs a heap of truble, and the children get orful tired a waitin for the old man to die. hree score years and ten must be a long me to foaks that's waitin. And thore's that needle's eye ^business, id the long diyishun, and the qnarrels of e lawyers over the estates. Bnt after all I ce munny. I've got nnthin agin it is so r as I am concerned. If ennyboddy should avc me enny, T should ezsept it and shed a ar to his memory. The fakt is I would re to feel the feeling of a rich man for a tic while. May be it would stretch me up little. Mrs. Arp says I'm gettin hump ouldered. I would like to bo an elder in a lurch and give COO dollars a year to the eacher and shake hands with the brethren d sisters at the vestybule. That would elegant. I'm obliged to think I'd like at Well, after all, it don't matter much ictheramanis poor or rich. One man about as happy as another if his hart is in s buzxutn aud not in his pocket. If he i't, we can't help it, and its no uso to uuihle about what yo can't help. A umblin man is a nusance. He is a skrub. Bill A bp. ~ I A recently-married man, coming home ra- r er lute the other night, took an umbrella t >m the rnck in tho hull and procoeded to * mom. The grieved aud indignant wife ened her eyes, and seeing her husband ; pporting himself hy tho foot-board with t o hand, and holding an umbrella spread K or his head with the other, cried in aston- f uncut: "What aro you doing ? Are you [ i/y?" "Xo," said he in an unsteady voice. fi ut -hie ?T sunnosod there'd be a storm? T ?? and ho I've couio prepared for it." J A gentleman who observed a farmer-like f iking person attentively scanning the signs * State street, Boston, proffored his assist- R re, and was'a-ked as to the locality of the ' rhituate Bank. He told the man that the f nk had failed a dozen years niro, where- I on he cried out: ' Failed ? .Why, I've got <( check for $25 in it, that a man gave me ly last week for money I loaned him."? o Jcheok was shown, and was sigued "A. n lilanthropist A Co." a A new and novel method of forecasting storms is being discussed in the foreign journals, the system in question being due to the investigation of Mr. Wenly, a well-known meterologiat. The plan adopted by him for. learning the form of the aerial wave which is passing over any given place is to take a sheet of paper ruled with perpendicular lines, and across the middle of such a sheet a strong black line is drawn to represent the average or mean line of the barometer, and fifteen finer lines above and below, at inters vals of about one4enth of an ineh rise and fall. The lines being dated at the top to so as to correspond with the days of the months, the observer begins by noticing how many tenths of inch the mercury may stand, say at eight in the morning, above or below the average, or twenty-nine and a half inches; a dot is made in the line corresponding to the date at the required height, and the same thing is done the next day at the same hoar, drawing a pen across from dot to dot; continuing this daily rives the ware form.? adnapiwotioe it is found far better to mark it twioe a day, namely, at eight in the evening ?that is, half way between the daily lines. A sailor might mark it every watch. According to this theory, the serial ware follows the same law as the watery one?that if 'a- great height be suddenly reached it will be as suddenly left; if slowly reached, as slowly quitted. Dr. I^oytok-Piirck.?Of this venerable "Father of Israel," the Coluabu* Sun says: This vonerable and wonderful man is very near ninety years of asp. In a short talk that he made in St. Luke's Church, last Son-. day, he stated he had been preaching sixtyeight years, and if he lived until the 15th of.August next, he will have been a member . of the church seventy years, and on th?ft4th i of the same month, he will have attained < his eighty-ninth birth-day. His only regret, in this connection, is that he did not sooner ; embrace a religion. Sunday before hurt he preached a forcible sermon, of nearly an , hotrandahalf duration, and jet did not ' bnow any sign or exhaustion. His voice retains all its strength and volume. Tobacco and Liquor.?Out ounttymen rid more money for the luxuries than for neoessaries of life. It is jwrwonder that many people are poor'when their hard earnings are wasted on indofeeneien whioh do barm instead of good. Bread in the mat and child. This is bad enough, bat the cost of intoxicating liquors consumed in 187#, was $600,000,000, averaging nearlv twenty dollars to every man, woman and child. A very large amount of this is used in poor families, and reduces them to want and wretchedness. { If the young people of the land would refuse to touch liquor or tobacco, this fearful extravagance would soon cease and the wealth of the country increase with marvellous rapidity.?Farmers' and Mechanics' Journal. The success of flying machines is truly astonishing. A Mr. Folger, hp in Michigan, recently constructed one, went to the top of the barn, lit out, and went with snch rah id ibhat he lost his oonsciousnoss for hair an \ hour, when he found himsef but a 'few feet ' from the barn. He thinks he could not hnve been entirely unconscious, otherwise he would; not have returned to the barn, where he picked himself up. Success in Lira.?You should constantly bear in mind that nine-tenths of us are, fitom the very nature and necessities of the world, born to gain our lirelehood by the sweat of the brow. What reason, then, have we to presume that our children are not to do the iame ? The path upwards is steep and long. Industry, care, skill excellence in the parent, lay the foundation of a rise under more fovorible circumstances for the children. The children of these take another rise, and by ind by descendants of the present laborers l>ecome gentlemen. This is the natural progress. It is by attempting to reach the top it a single leap that so much misery is proluced in the world. Tho ed uoation which is ecommended consists in bringing children un a labor with steadiness, with care, and witfi ikill?to show tnem how to do as many use- r 1 tliinoo ae nAaaikliS a fnaoti # vi a rr? law tn ? UA llliu^o AO uvaoiuiu y IV WAVU VUVUI MWW W B lo all in the beat manner; to aet them an ix&mple of indue try, sobriety, cleanliness ind neatness; to make all these habitual to b hem, so that they shall never be liable to t all in the contrary; to let them always see a 0 rood living proceding from labor, and thna cmovc from thorn the temptation to get the 1 foods of others by violent and fraudulent 6 neans. fi Right Siuk Up With Care.?Wc saw * fake nailing up a box the other day, con- * aining some articles which he intended to ' hip by express. From tho nature of the ( ontonts we knew it was essential that the e >ox should not be inverted on tho passage, (] o we ventured tho suggestion to Juke to 0 ilaco the much-abusod "This side up," &c., ^ enspieuously on the cover. A few. days af- n or this wo saw Jake. "Have you heard y rona your goods, Jako? Did they get there y afuly*?" "Kvery one broke !" replied Jake 0 ullenly. "Lost Iho hull lot. llang the 0 xpress company !" "Did you puf on "This ide up, as we told you?" "Yes, I did ; an' 1 ur fear they shouldn,t seo it on the knivcr, o put it 011 tho bottom tew?confound * em!" n n An English jury assessed tho value of a a loathful taken out of a man's leg by a dog I t $250. i *ti ?"^ptwa ADVERTISING RATES. v Sfaob. 1 1L 2 M. 8 M. IT. i ,* ! 1 square 8 00 6 00 8 06 12 00 lg 00 2 squares 6 00 9 00 1*00 18 00 2600 3 squares 9 00 18 00 16 00 24 00 8500 4 squares 12 10 16 00 20 00 80 00 48 00 I column 15 to 19 00 24 00 84 00 60 00 column 2000800040006500 8000 column 80 00 50 00 60 OOj 90 00|150 00 All Transient Advertisements will 5s charged 0ns Doll as per Square for the irst and Situ* tt-five Csnjb per Square for eaek subsequent insertion Single insertion, $1 60 per square. OUR CHIP-BASKET. The child who cried for an hoar didn't get it. ? Reform in politics^-Demoerats rote fcr a Republican and yice versa. Wifely kindness Playing the pieno to soothe the husband's aching heed. What is that which mo one wishes to here end mo one wishes to lose ? bald head. Distance sometimes endecn ftinddipi1 nd oheemee sweeteneth it. What a man meeds in a garden is m eastiron book with ahinge in it. A preacher shonld endeavor to draw not the heart of his text, and pat it Into the hearts of his hearers. One hnndred end forty degrees ed heat are abeorbed in the eomveraiom of iee into water. A cheap way to gd em let etotmia to prick a pretty girl's am sad hnvm a alee scream at onee. ffiaisg her OMiM will j. .. ?11 ?V ? WWb Great talent renders a man ftnium; gsmi merit procures respect ; great learning; esteem ; W good breeding alone ensires reapeot and esteem. Why is a eandle-maker the worst and'most hopeless of men f Beotaee all hie wort? are wickwd, and all lis wicked series an hnttht to light. . v The defense of agstttfamas thohad deprired hie neighbor of hie toyIon and' Mated ii^was'thithefbuAdit on hJsltnae,and seised it in payment of rent of the ftnee. ' Life fa Hke a roH of wetls material paaflng ' swiftly through our hands, add .we mWst embroider onr pattern on it as it gon. We ean not wait to piek np a fhha stfaah, er pause too long before we set siirdhn, \ "I always knew that John's faff nSsTln^ ' * remitting, said a gentleman Meedde-n lady who <**wp?p]K?nid tnal bee husband had sol sent her-any money sinee hfaabmnae Asm a run a maw ow-jpw^.eoepwm^MpmEwi^n>fa correspondent who signs himself "Medcal student," we may safely say that Sal Volatile is no connection of Anne O'Dyne's. it the same time, Sticking Plaster may be he next of-Gold-Beater's-kin. A noble Chicagoan's first thought when lis house took fire last week was fnrhis?thor in-law, whom he saved from the peril of a I ? i ! ? ' * ' Darning staircase oy promptly throwing her jut of the third ftory window. Sweet Willhun?t'Oh, Angelina, would that my breast was made of gum, that yoa night read my heart." Angelina's youngest brother Boh?"Say, Billy, wouldn't a pane somewhere eke do is well?" A gentleman, who come to America to * :arry mortar up a ladder, falling in with n artfe, reportd to his companions that he hall teen a wonderfal animal, which carried his muse on his bask, and swallowed hie heed rhenever he met a stranger. The lady principal of a school, ia her adrertisement, mentioned her female assistant rnd the "reputation for teaching whieh she mars," bat the printer left out toe "whieh," 0 the advertisement went forth commending he lady's "reputation for tmehmg she MOTS." "I wish your reverence," and Oman one 1 WW .f /MT ii.S - ~ lay to natner u mmj, "uu yon van St. Peter, and bad the keys of heaven then yon'd w able to let me in. "By my honor and sonscience," replied 0*Leary, it wonld be letter for yoa thmt I bad the keys of the ther place, for then I ootid let yot ?it." "Sambo, whar yoa git dat watch yoa wearid to meetin' last Sinday V "How yoa ;now I had a watch V' "kaaa I seed do chain tang out de pocket in front." Go'way niggar! S'poee voa sec a baker ound my neck, you tink dar is a horse i* ide ob me?" Beautttul.?To marry a faithleaa woman o have the privilege of supporting her, with ne knowledge tnat sue married you for no ther purpose. To join a church for the sake of catching , beau, and find that nobody will ptopoee xeept an old deacon with eleven children. To prophecy the end of the world and ind when the time cornea that the rocks ron't melt, the stars won't fall and the dead ron't come out of their grafts. An impulsive young man in Waterbury, ]onn., seut his girl the piece of sheet unaie ntitlod "I will meet you at the Beattfjful late." Her father saw the piece when she pened the package, and aher daubing a ucketful of tar over his gate, quietly re* larked to his daughter, "He can wait for ou if he wants to, but you won't either of ou swing on that gate ?f tar will keep yon ff." That young man now sings "No little ne to meet me." 'he latent method of spending the honey* loon is reported from Italy. An American otcntly met an old schoolfellow, who he had ot seen for years. "You here?" "Yea, ay dear fellow, I have just been mahried, nd am come to pass the honeymoon in Ita* ft" "And your wife?" "My wife? Oh I left her in New York."