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THE Devil IN B0sT On.
,, lie Accompanies a Young Lady TO
u Ralf,and Gives Her n Pcnknile
-.Nhat She Did With IL. r

The Statements in the following are
worthy of a Partisan inventions, but
stranger things have happened. in this
Icity. A young girl living at the South
End expressed wish to, attend, . ball
under tile escort OF gentleman residing
at the time rs a boardef in the house.
Her request being refused she flew into
a passion aud said that if she was not
allowed to 60 with her lover she would
go with the devil himself, if he would
take her. On the evening of the ball
she slipped out of the house alone and
unobserved, and to her surprise met her
lover in the street. He accompanied
her to the ball, danced the first dance
with her, took her down to supper, and
ended by escorting her to her own door.
As he bade her goodnight, he gave her
a very beautiful pearl handle pen knife,
and told her whenever she used it to
think of him. With these words he
vanished, and the unhappy girl on EN-
tering her home, was told to her dismay
that her lover, instead of having, as she
had supposed, accompanied her to the
ball, had been in the house all the even
ing, and he was at that moment sound
~ asleep in his bed. Terrified at this
announcement, which she seems to have
implicitly believed, she retired to her
own room, and, in the course of the
night, committed suicide by opening her
veins with the fatal knife given, to her
by the mysterious stranger. The girl
must have mistaken another man for her
lover, or the latter had d double, who
took this means TO test the girls SINGER
ity, and terrified her into suicide by a
wicked practical Joke The detectives
have had the pcar-handled knife in their
possession ever sincs the tragic affair,
but no clue has been obtained of the
man who presented it to the girl who
was bound to 60 to the ball. The girls
lover pretended to be entirely ignorant
of the conspiracy, and exhibited great
grief at what had happened. or course
this affair created great excitement in
the immediate circle where it occurred,
and the authorities succeeded well IN
keeping the particulars of the suicide
from the public. Boston Correspondence
Chicago Jontia5.
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,COnundrunls.

What is the greatest instance onreoord
of the power of the magnet A young
lady who drew gentleman thirteen
miles and a half every Sunday. =
Why are pipes all humbug? Because
the best Of them are nicer -shams.
How long does widow mourn for her
husband? She monms for second.
What flower would furnish d drawing
room best? Rose would,
Why is a stupid school boy like s
town in Scotland Because he is a Ounce
(Dunse.
What plant is always entreating and
persuading2 Lettuce Let us.
Where does young lady give herself
away? Wherever she presents herself
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/
The great American interferer between
man aud wife-Mrs. Lu. Calhoun Sisy
phea in waiting to the Duke of Greeley.
--Couaer Journal. So - - - {.
The Courier-J Journal proposes to pro
wide for reduction of present taxation
by requiring Yates and Chandler to put
a one-cent stamp on every glass of wins
ky they drink - as.I e.5g
There is likely to be change in the
Cabinet soon. President Grant is nego.
tiating for fne farm in Maryland, Ia.
ken in connection with the rumors of
Robeson's retiracy, this is suggestive
Cincinnati Times. a
The recently expelled carpet-bagger
Sypher,is to be appointed special treas
Jury agent to GO to New Orleans to make
raids on the Custom House there, which
is presided over by Grants brother-in-
law.
The Savannah Republican says that
the action of Congress in putting Georgia
again under military rule is "a comics
sion that their policy for preparing the
Southern States for restoration has been
miserable quackery, if nothing worse
After Eve years ,of pillage under the
Radicals, the latter, by this legislation,
conccde that tkey have blundered.
Mr.. Parton is said to be engaged in
preparing three articles for the Atlantic
Monthly, the first to be entitled, s'Will
the Coming President do Anything but
Smoke? r the second, "Will the Coming
Secretary of the Navy know Anything
about Ships p the third, will the Com
ing Secretary of State know Anything
about Anything?' Three pretty serious
conundrums. Y. Sun.
A LARGE DosE-An apothecary's boy
was lately sent to leave at one house a
box of pills; and at another six live
fowls Confused on the way he left the
pills where the fowls should have gone,
and the fowls at the pill place. The
folks who received the fowls were aston
ished at reading the accompanying di-
rection: "Swallow one every two hours
"My dear boy" said a lady to pre-
cocious youth of sixteen, "does your
father design you to tread the intricate
and thorny paths of profession-the
straight and narrow, paths of the minis
try, OF revel in the fowery fields of lite
rature ?" "No, marin; dad says he's
going to set me TO work in the tater
field"
Baron de Lesseps has just presented a
most fattering account to the sharehol-
ders of the Suez Canal. He states that
about f320,000 will be required this
year to complete the works, but that pen,
contra, the receipts are extraordinary.
From the day Of opening the canal to
the 18th of March, 200 steamers and 8
sailing vessels, representing tonnage
of 1861 TONS, had effected the passage
and brought credit to the company of
f23,225.
/ There is kihd of grim humor in the
address of deyout deacon to his new
ly-settled pastor as he gave him the usu
al welcome 1.-The Lord keep you hum
! bic and we will keep you poor
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How the People are Taxed.

Marshall, of Illinois,one of the ablest
men in the House of Representatives,
and one to whom the country owes OBJ
legations for the persistent manner in
WHICH he has fought all the schemes of
the monopolists and other privileged
classes, thus forcibly illustrates the
workings of the tariff machinery by
which the millions are cunningly and
noiselessly robbed of their substance for
the benefit of the few:
The farmer starting to his work has a
shoe put on his horse with nails taxed
67 per cent. /; driven by hammer taxed
"a per cent. ;rcuts stick with a knife
taxed so per cent. bitches his horse to
plough taxed so per cca.t with chains
taxed 81 per cent; he returns to- his
home at night and lays his weary limbs
on sheet taxed IS pei. cent ); and coy
ers himself with blanket that has paid
2S0 per cent he rises in the morning,
puts on his humble flannel shirt taxed
80 per cent. his coat taxed so per cent !;
shoes taxed 81 per cent and hat 10 per
cent; opens family worship by a chap
ter from his Bible taxed % per cent.
and kneels to his God on a humble car
pet taxed 150 per cent. He sits down
to his humble meal from a plate taxed
40 per cent. with knife and fork S5 per
cent. drinks his cup of coffee taxed Al
per cent, or tea Is per cent. with sugar
10 per cent. seasons his food with sat-
taxed 100 per cent ,pepper 297 per cent
or spice 379 per cent. lie looks around
upon his wife and children, all taxed in
the same way takes chew of tobacco
:.aaacd one hundred per cent, or lights a
cigar taxed 120pe cent, ,and then thanks
his stars that he lives in the freest and
best goternnient under heaven. If on
the Fourth of July he wants to have the
star spangled banner on real bunting he
must pay the American Bunting Compa-
ny of Massachusetts 100 per cent. for
this glorious privilege No wonder, sir,
that Western farmer is struggling with
poverty and conscious ofa wrong some
where, although he knows not wlietiee
the blow comes that is chaining him to
a, life of endless toll and reducing his
wife and children to beggary." ws
For all of which we are indebted to
the Radical tax masters who have sccu-
red control Of the Government and the
peoples purses. 49, - ia
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Not Much Use In Ruins.

An American on his travels says 81
asked fellow-tourist his opinion of the
Rhine. "Wal, sill" said he, '.it's not SC
grand as our North River. We haint
got them old castles, toe lie sure, bui
our waters as broad, and our rocks air
perpendicular" remarked that the
Rhine ruins were extremely picturesque
and certainly enhanced the beauty OF
the river. ''Wal," said he, II shouldn't
wonder if our builders could put us up
a few if se offered them the contract,
but our people don't deal much in ruins,
that's fact; and when you come to
think of it you can't say there's much
use in 'em. '''
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THE SLAVE OF THE DISMAL
adj jei3 q SCAMP. ~ Hc5x

3 -. 2
The intelligent reader is familiar will
LQngfsllow's poem Of s'The Slave of The
Dismal Swamp" In that picture, Long
fellow has. set a runaway negro in Thu
South, who has sought liberty by 'crouch
ing in the rank and tangled grass, like :
wild beast in his lair" "where hardly ;
human foot could pass etc. 1t was I
gush Of sympathetic pain from the burst
ing heart Of New England, which bleed,
fqr tie hesro IS naturally as. it closes
against oil other sufferers Below, how
eyer, We, have parody on the above,
which is a bitter sarcasm on New En-
gland white slayery-tlle slavery Of the
white. women in New England's cottor
mills, It is by Dr.. Ticknor,of Georgia
and was first published in The Columbia
(Ga. J Sun. It is entitled! @ I , 3.
THE SLAVE OF THE DISMAL SCAMP.
UHuer Tue rdJtuHS WulrliplS.
(which q Yankee had ,taughtto spin 81 ess
A maiden sat, with bosom fat,
And fingers long and thin;
And she was tic slave Of d dismal scamp
pnsh man with soul Of TN Iaa Il saI
And hers was a chest like coffin lid,
Ard cheeks like the church-yard clay,
And pulses that fellliko the click Of steel, ;
Picking life away;
Daily dying and rtoiliug still fe#i .I,81
For. the dismal scamp in his dismal mill
Under the shadow of Bunker Hill
What does she sing or say?
Y1GFrgE3 ~ H5af8 es; SD sets
"oh. why are my eyes so large and bright,
And my fingers SO long and thin"
The better. my dear, for tie stindles flight,
Tie faster, my love, to spin
Spoke the maiden whose lungs weEeiint, gGi
And the man with tho soul of tin -
Would God that my skin were not 50 white,
~ And my brain of a lesser size i
And would that my hair was kinked so tight
That couldn't shut my eyes,. ~
And OH for an hour in the s,srny felds
Where the snow-white cotton grows
For the heaviest, hardest task that yields
Free breath and sweet repose!
For night thatncrer knew lamp
And day that has q closcl
Sung to the rattle and roar and tramp
In the heart of mercilcss mill,
Under the light of dismal lamp,
And the shadow Of Bunker HILL sS4a
Poets Of doodlcdom, true and sweet,
What sensitive plants we are.
Ready to faint at cry from Crete,
Or Booriobooloh--G6a, sala
You have rhymd the slave from his happy
cave @
And bloodhound in the swamp;
Give US stsvo for the maiden slave.
With the black. VOLTS bite, and her living
grave
In the den of the dismal scamp.
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FA;sTTrtsz 4
RobeFs .Bbnssrl OF ~

BostonsJ Jonfbal sr;fs6:a S5fas 4
on the ROAD fhs S3t Jsess5 ~ - = - ore 81
the sigAts-o .New-YYork.,-i II is ii;tersst,,
ing.ta watch Die sensation ia nrod,,os..
thouuh lie appcars e,,ery sddavl IN SolSes
late on the road but his coumpis.spu1eir
ed ft,, with the greatest "a oer sess h,s al
classes He is 'vrry,svster,., tie; ...,I con
usuallt he seen tnrsipg into AIN .rae
| from Elri,tl, avenue; aseut t;ye o:elNck
His ,,icSs.re ,,exe. L.,s;..
ness his dan S w,gl, i s'.,ns; d. -, :
before he leaves for his stables. & liz has
rio which he p,rts e:i w.,cna he are ,,renaros
for thc lusiness OF I'd road s.. peytrr NJ e 3
the fayorite with the eublics au,l,.ihex
are usually gratiiie,l especially ON s., ,,e1 -
ant aftesneoss Q.her horses haze Lssa
their brush aid have beeil letI cff E,an,.
ino tt; fitoshah 'ta.p nm,n,a;T op.sa.ss;
|hjlds fiEtlIISis tItIIrodI IlllJ5 !croalI{d
with Ilorscmcu. and The windows w;ti1
lady friends Sneetatars will, tha;r ta.r,.
draw n, on the side of tl,c road - S,..,;t aw.;t
the cre5t eSant on the Ila,sz g,nino tI,c
meeting of the two conferences of the
MethbdiSt En;ss.onatT Csura, rtnsrS.
York last week II was y astypL1c,H,, IN L1c,H,,4,at
two thirds Of the clerrymcn went ont ,,n
Hatten, f.ene an sft,,nf r. gncf s;ABis,b3ss .xtor
and his lannon's 0wncr Ronnor malns
his appearance at 4 slow pare annare,t
" indifferent to the impression nr,,dnced
He Witches "a .ssoa tis,t al. ala Dr.
By common consent., when Bonner an.
nears ,bo.rood-;s cloarod A D,lot.h
Indian mioht take lessons ~ Ran
his wells As Deyte- starts on his co,;rss
his driver car be heasI Gah = uiiile. goff
The excited tbrovg. sh.nt .f,i,f.s Rs,s
ncr.,' and all co,ne lfI ljEe;tS "a etSsf5K
team rusbcs bv with Tho aeotnoss ,f ths
wind. and Is ont oe ;al. n m ;ns,,ns
There arc some things ,ba c,nnnt 10
describe,la-a panic IN W,ai,g sss..ssxsS - -
inside Of Sc. PstsasgaA,hg shaasi;sm al
an Italian ersa qi3sAtBe eljsofIuaaof tie
great masters IN ~. PIT; palaeo ths
frottino nf n,v..r II. ,,,.tsa. as
other horse ,novss hs i FIN naesrv 81
motio,, Ho a,ns,n,tss,,.a s,l .tlsro..s,.,,,,s
feet oiit or flinv ,be,,s. ranaiI ,tn,.,s. -
to Side ont Of him scllS . sgiyinsi M is,sessssss
that any amount 81. sspeed tsI5 q,c MIN.
ed. lie is never exliadsfeIis YISsfe 81 M
exertion, there IS rcsei We 81 s,sed S6t f,at
Is peculiar. Go as fast ~ he. E;;iil fsss.
houfs can be as distinctly, accp srI -. asnmSens
he Is on a slow trot Horsemen ssss 49,
his speed has never been kuovuzs.IrSl
without controversy the palm iso r<x1a
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Brigham Young Preparing for
~ War.

SALT LAKE, April 30.-As circular or
dering the Brethren to. convene at the
Ward school house for drill was pri-
vately circulated through the city yes
terday. The, drilling and arming con
tinues throughout the Territorya., Fifty
Danites are said to have been enrolled
since Brgham's return, Meanwhile
Brigham insists that Mormonism is
peace
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French Politeness.

Do our readers know what is the
French idea of "a well-brvd man 7" Ac-
cording to a writer in La National
whose authority may not be unimreach
able-the idea is exemplitied in the fol.
lowing incident: A French nobleman
visiting an English nobleman in London
was offered BY tie latter glass of tex,
cellent port wine." The English noble
mans butler made mistake, however
and somehow filled the visitors glass
with cod liver oil. He drank up the
whole, we are told, without shudder
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ES-"The friendly separation case
Between the eS-Queen Isabella of Spaiil
and her husband" says the Paris cor.
respondent of the London Telegraph
sis settled, Don Francois gets fSOO Q
year, tied Up tight, but the ex queen re-
tains the rest AS they always appear
ed ON the best possible terms, and were
more polite than the average of wives
and husbands. it is hard to say why they
wished for separation; but SO it was. "
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EFlIere is 4 dispatch said to have
been sent from President Lincoln t6
General Hooker: "Jf the head of Lees
army is at Martlnsburg and the tail oi
it on the plank road between Freder
icksburg aud Chaucellorsvillef file am.
NAL must be pretty slim somewhere
Couldn't you break him?
, 4 LINCOLN -
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GETHSEMANE.


Like Him, whilst friends and lovers slept,
Have we not all heart-broken crept ed.
Into thy shadows once and wept,
Gethsemane?
We knew not how the day had run,
We only knew that hope was gene,
And fain no more would greet the sun,
,e.is Gethselnanc!
Our mothers slumbered IN the tomb,
Love, though immortal, could not come
To cheer their children in thy gloom,
Gethsemane.
Not with us was our true helprneet,
Who bore us sons and made life sweet,
And loved us with love complete,
go Gethsemane!
Net with us might the friend abide, ,e,
Who, ever trusty, ever tried, ..
Fought our Truths battle by our side!
Gethsemane!
We were alonc. The world was still,
The breath of heaven seemed cold and chill,
We beat our breasts and wept our fill,
Gethsemane!
Prone on the groGnd our limbs we spread,
We wished it were our dying bed,
Since hope and JOY and faith had fed,
Gethsemane'
But late. there broke little light,
Into the darkness of the night, -
And We were taught to pray Alright,
Gethsemanel
Then Christ himself said, standing near,
20 fellow -mourners! have no fear,
Iweep with thee. and God is here"
Gethsemane.
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Loyal Onice-h0lders in louisiana
--EnOrmOus SleaIins,

"A correspondent of the Buffalo Cour-
ier says .a Is. i-s,....
Il Not SIX Republican, members of the
Louisiana Legislature are taxpayers at
the present time, and not one of them
paid tax previous to their elections ]
believe four of them have, with salary
of IS per diem, two months ID the year,
purchased plantations ranging from
$50, 900 to $4,000. Of course, 1t is to
be credited that they received their mon
ley honestly, for dishonesty among such
men could not be expected, you know.
The party itself is too honest to enter
tain for moment the thought that cor
ruption could exist in its ranks. There
is the Governor of that State, II. c.
Yarmouth, a young chap abou. twenty
seven years of age, who reminds one OF
IaBilly Boys wife, "tall as any pine,'
&C..
He came to the State of Louisiana
without a dollar of capital save brass
and he is now with salary of eight
thousand dollars year, worth at least
over half a million. Now, how did he
get ~ and who did he receive it from !?
The tas.payers What for? For sign
ing bills. and vetoing bills; or, in other
woids, for doing his llnty. s5For instan-
ce: At the last session, a bill called the
"Ship Island Canal Bilr' was passed,
|levying an enormous tax to construct a
canal of no maiiner Of use to any one
save the. contractors. The taxpayers
are said to have paid him $4,000 to ve-
to it. The incorporators then paid him
S1O,0 to secure his aid in the Legisla
ture to pass it over his veto, and thus
he received pay twice on one bill. 4 !
could extend this to an indefinite length,
but will merely instance this as prelim
mary to more complete history of the
condition of the South, which ] will
hereafter endeavor to lay before your
readers.
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4 ieafhcd second Wifs.

An honest farmer in the State of Pehn-
sylvania married miss from q fashion
able boarding-school, for his second wife
He was struck dumb withh efodnente,
and gaped with wonder at his rNife' :
learning. "You' may" said lie, .hore u
hole through the solid airth, and chuck
in milestone, and Sell tell you to a
Shawn how long the stone will he g0ihs
clean through! She has learnt kemistry
and cockneyology, and talks q heap
about oxhides and comical aflinities.. I
used to think it was the. air I.soeged in
every time that l expired howso oinenev-
er, she telled me that had been s1ck
ing IN two kinds of gin-ox gin and
high gin. Deaf mel LIN a tumble,l
down teetotal man. and yet have been
drinking OK gin aud high gin all my
life!w efH s5ieis ssp !.
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Prone on the groGnd our limbs we spread,
We wished it were our dying bed,
Since hope and JOY and faith had fed,
Gethsemane
The Republican journal., 1870-11-24
THE LONG AGO."

lh' 4 wonderful stream is the river Time
A. It rams through the realms of tears,
" tia 1autless rhythm and IA musical rhyme.
And broader sweep, and 4 song sublime
And blends with the ocean of wears
How the winters are drifting like flakes of snow,
And the summers like buds between,
And the year IN the sheaf-so they come and they
60,
On The rivers breast, with its ebb and flow
A. it gIideS in the shadow and sheen
There i a magical Isle up the river Time,
Where the sottest of airs are playing;
There Il cloudless sky and tropical cline,
ANA song rs sweet a yesper chime
Aht The james with the roses are staying
And the name of this isle is the Long Ago,
And we bury our treasures there:
There are brOWs of beauty and bosoms of snoW-
lhtre are heaps OF dust, but we loved them so.
There Are trinkets and tresses of hair
There are fragments OF song that nobody sings,
And part of an infants prayer;
there's lute unsWcpt, and a harp without strings
There are broken vows, and pieces of rings,
\nd the garments that She used to Wear.
There are hands that are waved when the fair,
shore,
ny the mirage is lifted in air;
amt we sometimes hear, through the turbulen
roar,
sweet Voices we heard in the DAYS gone before
" hen the wind down the river is fair.
on remembered for aye be the blessed ,le.
All the day Of life till night
hen the evening comes with its beautiful smile
And our eyes are closing to slumber awhile,
May that greenwood of soul be IN sight.