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The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20
EDITORS.

An exchange draws the following vivid pic
ture ofan edltor:--
An editors qualifications are various. 1t
is to work harder, mprt hours in the day. with
less recreation, on less sleep and poorer pay
than any ory your fellow mortas. 1t is to be
busy when your neighbors are idlc buster
when they sleep, and busiest when they are
enjoying good time. 1t is to be always in q
hurry, always under press of business, al
ways ''settlng up" when others are lying down
and always charitably distributing" the re-
suits Of daily labor. 1t is to have your opin-
i0ns always put to ''proof," and Sc dom into
practice. 1t is to advertise other peoples
wants, wishes and wares to announce facilities
for pleasure; to herald the approach of diseas-
es and the inventions of cures for them; to
make known who has been robbed, how much
where, who is the robbcr, his personal history,
his trial, sentence, and its execution. 1t is to
receive nice fruit and notice it, to be shown
natural curiosities and describe them, to be
everywhere az all times. and to be able to an
swer all questions on all subjects. 1t is to
publish too much sentiment for one, too much
politics for another, and to little news for all.
1t is to make a dozen enemies 10 one friend
and to be pitched into by anybody who choos-
es to consider himself oggrieyed. 1t is to take
complimentary tickets to everything and pay
for them in complimentary notes. 1t is
to be bored by friends suggesting how You
should carry on your business, and bullied by
those whom you have hit in vulnerable spots.
1t is a life of mingled good and i'll, trial and
triumph, never ending toll and never begin
ing felicity, wherein you work out your alot-
lotted time with the ''devil" always at your ell
bow calling for the sole end in this liic-a little
more copy.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20
G. "A, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1867.
Aaron Burr.

When Aaron 1Ilyrr returned to
New York city to practice law after
his voluntary exile in Europe, he
found the late Rev. Jedidiah Burch-
ard, then a celebrated revivalist, hold
ing serious Of protracted meetings in
his family church. He attended fiom
habit, always vent late, and disturbed
the services by attracting to himself
the attention ofthe audience on account
of his infamous notoriety rs the man
who shot Alexander Hamilton, and
who had been tried fer treason. Mr..
Buchsrd resolved to rebuke him OPEN
ly. The rcNt Sabbath he came in and
got about half way up the aisle, the
Clergyman paused in his dicourse, and
pointing at Colonel Burr, said in the
most scathing manner. "You hoary-
headed old sinner, I'll appear against
you ut the day Of fjUdgment~ "
The proud, dofan, old man standing
erect as ever with that perfect COM
posure which never deserted him, and
fixing his fine gray eyes on the occu-
pant of the pulpit, replied, "Mr,
Bulchard, | have observed through u
long course of professional experience
that the very neauest class of criminals
are those who turn Sto,teS eUiclencc."
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20
s,EETCIV OF JAY Co0HE.

Mr.. Jay Cooke, about whose personal his
tory and circumstances prior TO the war so
much has been said, and who is again before
tie public in his recently published defence Of
the national banking system, was born in 1929,
in Sandusky, Ohio. His father was Mr. Eleu-
therys Cooke, an eminent lawyer and promi-
nent citizen, one of the earliest settlers of that
section OF the State, who, for a. time, represent
ed his district IN Congress. Jay Cooke, a self
reliant and energetic boy, commenced his
business life at the age OF thirteen, and from
that time succeeded. For four years he was
employed in mercantile houses, first in San
dusky and then in st. Louis.
At seventeen he entered the banking house
Of T. W, Clark & Co., Philadelphia, as a
clerk, and at twenty-one became a partner in
that firm and its Connections, Clark. Dodge
t0 Co., New York; Clark Brothers tS Co.,
St, Louis; and J. ". Clark q Co., Boston,
and soon after he became managing partner of
the Philadelphia firm. His connection with
these houses resulting in g competency, aud
about 1858 he retired from business. In 1860,
in connection with Mr.. William G. Moorhecd,
wealthy capitalist, Mr.. Cooke established the
banking house of JAY Cooke & Co, Philadel-
phia, and in 1861 after the breaking out Of
.he war the negotiation Of the original seven
thirty loan was the occasion Of the first con-
nection oil lIr. Jay Cooke and his house with
the finances Of the government.
The Washington house Of Jay Cooke & Co,
was opened in 1869, and co-operated with
the Philadelphia house in popularizing tho
first iiye-twenty loan and the three series of
seven Ihrties The New Yorl. house of tho
same name was opened after the war, in March,
1867. IL all his government negotiations Mr..
Cooke has appealed directly TO the people,
and, after Lis own remarkable energy and
enthusiasm in all his pur1uits, his great success
in these matters has lain in his unwa7ering
faith in the good sense and patriotism OF the
masses.
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4 GCOti lave Story.

In Ohio paper tells the following
novel story: "a young couple plan
ned IN clopoment, the girl descended
from her room on the traditional lad
der, but al the gate they were met by
the father of the girl and q minister,
by whom the young couple were es-
cortcd to the parlor, where, 10 their
surprise, they found all their relatives
collected for the marriage ceremonies,
which took place at once. 1t was a
neat paicrnal freak, but not near Il:
neat as that Of q "iond parient" We
know of. He heard his daughter and
her fellow plan an elopement. The
next day the old man wpitcd upon Tic
young ono, and addressed him thus:
"You're n fuo, brave youth, and |
don't object to you as I, son-in-law.
Here's hundred dollars to aid in the
olopemcnt. May you live happily in
the same house, and may no accident
occur 10 throw the least shade on the
sunshine Of your life. All I request
is, that you elope with my daughter
she's mighty nice gill, you know,
but somehow her mother and ] could
never travel smoothly with her, we
don't know her good points-elopc
with her to such distance that she
won't return to her loving father and
mother any more. Good bye, sonny,
and may you be happy"
There Vas an clopcment that even
ing Of one. The young mani was un-
accompanied. He thought everything
couldn't be right, when the old cocl,
was so anxious to get rid Of the girl.
The father looks upon this act 4
very neat bit Of strategy for one who
had never been on M'Clcllan's staff.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20
The Right OF CoIored People 10 Ride iIa
Cars.

Judge Agnew has just delivered an
opinion which settles vexed ques-
ton, and, in our judgment, takes the
right ground on subject involving
nothing more than "A social right. The
appeal before the Court was made as
to the right of colored people to use
the street and railroad cars of the
Commonwealth, on which Judge Ag-
new reversed the decision of the lower
court on the subject of the rights of
colored passengers. He says that if a
railroad company provide seats equal
in convenience, comfort and safety for
the colored passengers, there is no law
which will enable them to refuse those
seats and demand others. This is Re-
publican doctrine enunoiOted by q Re-
publican Judge ard sustained by q
Republican colleague. It involves 4
principal which affects the legal rights
of all men, and We can favor this
right without necessarily insisting that
the black man is entitled to equal 80
cial rights. When a man paws his
money for u public accommodation he
has right to its full enjoyment.
That's the germ of Judge Agnew's
decision. When n company set apart
seats in u car for the use Of the color
ed people, which seats are equal in all
respects to others in the same mode OF
conveyance used by white people, thc
negro has no legal right to question
the regulation of the railroad compa-
ny making the arrangement. On the
same principle, railroad companies
have right to setapart cars for ladies.
The accommodations in such cars are
not superior to other cars in the same
train. But gentlemen unaccompauied
by ladies are not admitted. There arc
seats for men in other cars equally al
soft and as clean as those in the ladies'
car. So with the black man. Seats
can be set apart for him, equal in ell
respects to those used by the white
man. The negro must occupy such
seats. II a white man or woman
choose to occupy those seats, it is
their choice. So il u lady desires to
entora gcntlcman's ear, it is her choice.
But the company reserves the right to
say where men unaccompapicd by Ia
dies, and colored people, shall ride,
and there is no law TO dcbar corpora
tions from these actions. We are sat-
isfed with The dccision.-HdyriSbwg
Telegraph.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20
7=7777=-'-@ass 5'.-FF1s- 2 -
GOOD BysENESS HEN.

To me, one Of the most admirable
things in the world IS business pune,
tilio. I think it il rare 10 ind very
bad men among thorough business
Mcn. / do not say thata good bust
ness man ID necessarily religious, OF
even necessarily without yices, mean
that it Is simply difficult 10 be strictly
honest in business, and sensitive in
all matters pertaining to business en-
gagcmcnta and thoroughly punctual
in the fcIhIlmcnt of all business obli-
cations, and at the same time to be
loose in morals and dissipatcd in per-
sonal habits. have great respect for
those rigid laws of the counting room
which regulate dealings between man
and man, and which make the coun-
ting room as exact in all matters of
time and exchange as a banking house
which ignore friendship, affection,
and all personal considerations what
soever-which place neighbors and
brothers on the same platform with
enemies and aliens, and which make
an autocrat of an accountant, who is,
at the same time, strictly an obedicnt
subject of his own laws.
| say it is hard for man to enter rs
a perfectly harmonious element into
this grand system of business, and sub
NIT himself to its rigid rules, and to
maintain his position with perfect
integrity, and, at the same time, be a
very bad man. To Il certain extent,
he bows to and obeys a high standard
of life. He maynot always recognize
themoral element which it cmbodies.
He may take selfish view of the
whole matter, but he cannot be entire
ly insensible to the principle of per-
sonal honor which it involves, or fail
to be influenced by the personal habits
which it cnforccs.
Some of the best business men I
have ever known. Men who have
acquired wealth by rigid adherence to
business integrity, who havesomctimes
been deemed harsh, and hard by those
with whom they have had business re-
lations, have shown a liberality and
generosity towards objects of charity
which have placed them among the
worlds beneiactors. Men who have
exacted the last fraction ola cent with
one hand, in the way of business, have
disbursed thousands of dollars with the
other in the way of charity.-Dr. Hol-
land.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

DO il Well.

What everyou do, do it well. A iot
Sighted, because it isapparcntly unim-
portant, leads to habtual neglect, so
that men degenerate, insensible, into
bad workmen.
"That is good rough job" said a
foreman in our hearing, and he meant
that it was apiece of work, notelegant
in itself, but strongly made, and well
put together.
Training the hand and eye to do
work well, leads individuals to form
correct habits in other respects, and q
good workman is, in most cases,a good
citizen. No one need hope to rise
above his present situation, who suf-
fers small things to pass by unimprov-
ed, or who neglects metaphorically
speaking, to pick up cent because it
is not a dollar.
Some Of the wisest law makers, the
best statesmen, the most gifted artists
the most merciful judges, the most in
genius mechanics rose from the great
mass.
A rival to a cetain lawyer sought to
humiliatc him publicly, by saying
"You blacked my fathers boots once. y
eyes," replied the lawyer unabashed
"and L did it WELL" And by his
habit of doing even mean things well,
he rose to greater.
Take heart, all who toll all youths
in humble situations, all in adverse
circumstances. Fit be but to drive
the plow, strive to do it well; if only
to cut bolts, make good ones; or to
blow the below, keep the iron hot
1t is attention to business that lifts the
feet high up on the ladder.
Says the good book-"seest thou a
man diligent in his business I? he shall
stand before kings he shall not stand
before mean men," >
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

TIE HoPE OF MAN.-Final sue
cess-thc joy of life's ripe harvest, is
the goal of our hopes. No wise OIL
thoughtful man will live merely fol
to-day. The pilgrim who seeks a
home is not content to lingcr and loitel
for the mere flowers beside his way
The sowcr looks onward to fields white
and ready for the sickle. Wisdom
has regard to the grand issue. The
triumph or pleasures of to-day is
transitory. We want a hope that
does not sink with the setting sun.
The true success Of life is that which
does not fail the evening of our days
and leave them to blight or barrenness.
We want the shout Of "harvest home"
that will not die into silence with the
falling breath, but makes the passage
to the grave a whispering gallery
where heaven and earth talk together.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

A VIRGINIA letter writer says Of
Mosby: 'IIe looks the lawyer even
less than the warrior. Dressed in care
less, easy, Virginia style, with white
slouch hat, a dust-stained, bob-tail
coat, milk and molasses colored pants
and vest, (the latter minus two or
three buttons,) a badly adjusted false
front tooth, figure of medium size,
close shaven, sinburnt, youthful face,
slouched shoulders, quiet, taciturn, un-
demonstrative in manner, it was not
quite easy to believe that he was the
Individual whose name and daredevil
achievements figured in the papers al
most daily during the war.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

Shakespere is now credited with the discov-
cry of the laws of gravitation, about which
there das been some late dispute with refer
ence to Newton and Pascal. The following
lires in "Trous and Cressida" are the basis OF
the assertion:
"But the strong base and building of my love
Is as the very center Of the earth,
Drawing oil things to it,"
And in the same play we find the express
ion, "True as the earth to its center. So
that it would really seem as if Shakespeare had
anticipated Newton by hundred years or so
in the discovery Of one Of the great st of nat
ural truths.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

THERE is dignity about that going
away alone, we call dying-that wrap
ping the mantle of Immortality about
us; that putting aside with pale hand
azure curtains that are drawn around
this cradle of a world; that venturing
away from home for the first time in
our lives, for we are not dead-thcre is
nothing dead to speak of, and we only
go off seeking foreign countries not
laid down on the map we know about
There must be lovely lands somew here
starward, for none ever return that gc
thither, and we very much doubt il
any would fthey could.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

Jox says that if a man feels much
like getting married, yet imagine5 he
ought not to, the best remedy heknows
is to help one Of his neighborsto to move
a house full of furniture-borrow
about nine OF his children and hear
them cry. Ifthat fails, buildup fire
of damp wood, when the smoke in the
room is thiclest, hire a woman to scold
him about four hours. If he can
stand all these, he had better get mar
ried the next day-give his wife the
pants and be the "silentpartner" in the
great firm of matrimony. The rene
dy is severe, but as every man is la
BILE to these things after he yokes him
self, it would do no harm to try it be-
fore.
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NO, ~.
2r0lJen Vows.


Promises are lightly spoken
Vows on which we blindly build
UTTERED only to be broken)
Go forever unfulhlled
OF betrayed but still believing
Duped again and yet again
AL our hoping, oil our grievlng
Werns US, but it warns in vain.
From the cradle to the coral
From the sunny days ofyouth--
We are taught tie simple moral,
Still we doubt the morals truth.
When boy they found me rather
10th to do as was bid.
II shall buy birch" said father.
Broken yowsl He never did.
Grown extravngant, when youthful,
In my tailor's debt ran;
He appeared abOu. as truthful
In his talk as any man.
Let me tell how he sold me;
Look you, Mr, Whats Your Name
! shall summon you, he told me-
But the summons never camG
Through the meadows, daisy laden,
Once /. was my lot to stray,
Talking to q lovely maiden
In very spoony way;
And l stole a kiss--auother--
Then another-then q lot.
"Fiel" she said, 'I'il tell my mother"
Idle words she told her not.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20
PREDICTION OF SENATOR WILso.

PREDICTION OF SENATOR WILSON.
In his letter to the great meeting at
the Cooper Institute in New York, on
the 18th ult., the Hon. Henry Wilson,
Senator from Massachusetts,, said:
"At the present moment, when the
echoes of the Rebel cheers over victo-
ries more heeting than their own, fill
our ears, l say to my Republican COM
rades of New York, the Republican
party will give their Presidential can
didate the electoral votes of thirty Of
the thirty-seven States, more than
100000 of the popular votes, and
more than 100000 popular majority,
and Congress with two-thirds
majority in both Houses.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

SEVERAL of the newspapers having perpe-
tratod jokes on the travels and exploits Isl,
Transit" whom 'mMift, aud "aocies" head
of, the Yale Comam retoits as follows; Oh,
"unam" .sculls! '.Sic Transit" drove "h
pone tandem temo Yer" from the eastward, liz
is visiting his ''mte Mrs. Die Terra, )" in thi
city, and will stay till 'Oriem' DR.. Dignos
the "7erris' (rerry's) likewise "et super" will
us last evening. lie "eta Je,api." The pug
alists also SCUM" with them and "hlmbia" man
badly in the street; he "cuiis nos" off ant
'noct,m .jiat urna' founder.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

70 60 SDaCiSs,

1t was formerly the custom in En-
land to appoint certain persons to ex-
anime the bodies of the dead, in order
to ascertain and report the cause of
death. Such persons were termed
"body-scarchers." In the time of "the
great plague" in 1865, which swept
off upwards of one hundred and thirty
thousand people this important and
dangerous office was performed by the
"chirurgcons," or surgeons, who were
allowed for each service twelve pence,
to be paid out of the estate of the de-
ceased person, or by the parislf in case
he left no property 1t is said that
one Of these "scarchcrs," VINO rcjoiced
in the name of Snacks, found his bust
ness increase so much that he could not
attend to it alone. He agreed to
share the profits equally with any one
who would take an equal share in the
laborandthe danger. Those who.join-
ed him were said to ego with Snacks," "
or, more briefly, "to go Snacks;" and
hence the phrase came to mean, "to di-
vide tie spoils in equal proportion, " or
"to go shares" in which sense it has
become proverbial.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

WEsr MDDLEsEx, MERCER Co, PESNA ,
November l3, 1867.
The workmen employed by Colonel James
Hemphill, in sinking shaft for ore or coal
struck vein ofroek, strongly Rtermlxed will
u substance at first supposed TO be sulphe'
Upou the examination of the rock by Coonc
Hcmphill and his superintendent, Mr.. Mills
and after severe tests, they pronounce it to bt
gold of superior quality, and capable fyeald
ne five thousand dollars to the ton. The rock
isobout the same as that in which the Greene
county gold is said to have been found, ant
lies about one hundred feet below the COZ
.eyel in this basin.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20
AFTER.

After the shower, the tranquil sun;
After the snow, the cmarald leaves;
Silver stars when the day is done;
After the harvest, the the gollcn'shcave
After the clouds, the violet sky,
After the tempest the lull Of waves;
Quiet woods when the winds go by;
After the battle, peaceful graves,
After the kncll, the wedding bells;
After the bud, the radiant rose;
Joyful greetings from sad f,rowclls;
Afar our weeping, sweet rcp0se,
Alter the burden, the blssrul need;
At,cr the flight, the downy rest.
After the furrow, the walking seed;
After the slAGowy riyer-rest
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

THE Italians of San Francisco held
a meeting and passed resolutions con-
demning the action Of Victor Eman-
ueland Louis Napoleon. A subscrip-
ton for the benft of Garibaldi was
opened and some two thousand dollars
collected to be forwarded to Italy to
the United States Minister Marsh, to-
gether with letter thanking him in
in the name of the Italian population
there, forthe sympathy shown Garibal-
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3,oetrN.
THEN AND NOW.

When l was little maid,
| waited on myself
l washed my mothers teacups,
And set them on the shelf.
l had little garden
Most beautiful to see;
/ wished that had somebody
To play in it with me.
Nurse was in mammals room,
| KNEW her by her cap;
D She held lovely baby boy
Asleep upon her lap,
AS soon as he could learn to walk,
| led him by my side
My brother and my play fellow
Until the day he died.
Now am an old maid,
| wait upon myself Z;
l nlywipe one teacup,
And set it on 'Ae shelf.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

PAN HANDLE RAIL ROAD SOLD.
The Pan Handle Railroad was sold
on Wednesday of week before last, in
Pittsburg, to the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad Company, for the sum Of one
million nine hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars. The chief competitor
was a Mr.. Ellis, who, it is said, was
an agent of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

The Illinois Statesman (Democratic). pub
lished at Lacon, ILL.,, has placed at the head
ofits columns 'For President Of 1868 Gle
ment L. Vallandigham, of Ohio" He is our
iayorite candidate--for the Democratic nom
nation.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

wouLp you make men trustworthy3 Trust
them. Would you make them true. Believe
them.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin observes
that many politicians who itched for Office were
scratched last week.
Why isa loaler In printing Office like a
shade tree Because We are glad when he leares
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

A STATE fair is queen an agricultural fair
is farmers daughter, church fair is par
sons wife soldiers fair Is the best looking
girl he can get q hold of; "a charity fair is q
female pauper; and the most unpopular fair
is car fare and the most unpopular
in the universe is boarding house fare.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

KIND words are the brightest flowers
ofearth'sexistance; they make very
paradise ofthe humblest home that the
world can show. Use them and espec-
tally around the fireside circle. They
arejewels beyond price, and more prec--
ious to heal the wounded heart, and
make the weighed down spirit glad
than all the other blessings the world
can give.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

The Reading Dispatei says: Reading has
fifty-th:ec physicians, fifty males and three
females Number ofpersons lying dangerous
ly i'll with the typhoid fever estimated at two
hundred and fifty. Deaths from same disease
last week tceuiy.