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the founder of the republic Of his dreams,
establish the idolized principles Of his
Rousseau, be the creator of a new order
of things, the great philanthropist of all
ages. He had been brought into collis-
ion with every phase of greatness
greatness of soul, Of intellect, and OF
station; conscious inferiority humiliated
him, and in such mind envy grew in
proportion to humiliation.
The growth Of egotism was 4 natural
sequence to that Of the other passions.
Although still believer in the princi-
pie of the abolition of capital punish
mentor this strange being never
forsOok a principle once fOrmed-that
principle was dwarfed into insignifi-
canoe beside the mightier ones that now
burned within his mind, filling him
with wild fanaticism, fixing his eye
afar of upon the future, binding him to
the present, hurrying him on with the
resistless fury of a demoniac. Sweep
away King, sweep away Queen, mobiles,
every enemy, every rival of Maximilian
Robespierre? Let every stone Of Paris
stream with blood; pile up cOrpses until
they crimson the face of heaven; deci-
mate the world, so that the great Ego
may triumph. Then for the millen-
mum, the reign ofpeace, equality, lib
erty, fraternity, eternal love and good
fellOwship-no more hunger, no more
crime, no more blood-spilling!
But this gigantic programme grew in
his mind only by degrees. The coward
ice of his nature would have shrunk
appalled,, even on the very eve of Its
realization, ut the vision of the Reign
of Terror. With the short:sightedness
of all great criminals, lie thought he
could stay his hand at any moment.
The King removed, the mobiles swept
away, and the bloody work was done.
How small sacrifice for SO grand an
end But it was the old fable of the
Hydra, IN this case multiplied humid
red fold; for, for every head cut of, two
sprang up in its place, which doubled
and quadrupled until the victims had to
be condemned i'm patches of fifty and
sixty at a time, until canals CT blood ran
through the streets-untl he was heard
to cry in his solitude, "Nothing but
blood-how much more, when will it
end ?n
But it was not the cry of humanity
Of that he possessed not a particle; hu-
man suffering touched him not at all
to that he was utterly callous. Amid
all the frightful butchery he lived
through, he never once raised his voice
to save one human life. There is an
anecdote told of him which will better
exemplify his nature than pages of
description.
A friend with whom he was most in
innate, and who was sincerely attached
to him, begged him to save the life of a
certain prisoner who was ordered for
execution. "At what hour is he to suf-
fer? ?" asked Bobespierre. "At eight, !"
was the reply. 'Twould most willingly
oblige you, but never rise till nine.
1t is impossible" answered the despOt.
The man was Temple Bar
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The P,rttail Of Poe.

Slowly raised the purple folds conceaIing
That face, magnetic as the mornings beam;
While slumberlug memory thrilled atits reveal
ing,
Like MeInuuu waking from his marble dream.
Again I saw the brow's translucent pallor,
The dark hair floating Ger 1t like plume;
The sweet, imperious mouth, whose naughty
valor
Dehed all portents OF ofImpeudins doom.
Eyes planet calm, with something il their vision
That seemed not OF earth's mortal mixture
born;
Strange nythic faiths and fantasies Elsyian,
And fair, sweet dreams Of fairy lands forlorn.
Unfathomahle eyes that held the sorrow
or vanished ages in their shadowy deeps,
Lit by that prescience Of a heavenly morrow
Which in high hearts the immortal spirit
keeps.
on has that pale poetic presence haunted
Ny lonely musings at the twilight hour,
Transforming the duh esrtil-life il enchanted
With marvel, and with mystery, aud with
power.
OFT have heard the suuen sea.Hiud moaning
Its dirge-like reqaiems on the lonely shore,
Or listened to the autumn woods intonlng
The wild, sweet legend OF the lost Lanore.
on in somo ashen evening in october,
Have stood entrancod beside 8 InculdeTing
tomb
Hard by that visionary Lake OF Auber,
Where sleeps the ehrouded form Of Ululume.
OFT in stir, starlight nights have heard the
Ginning
Offar-oF mellow bells on the keen air,
And felt their molten-g golden music timing
To the hearts pulses answering unaware.
Sweet, mournful eyes, long closed upon corth's
sorrows,
sleep restfuIIy after lies fevered dream!
Sleep, wayward beartI tlll on some cool, bright
morrow,
Thy soul, refreshed, shall hathe in morning:
beam.
Though cloud and sorrow Test upon thy story,
And rude hands lift the drapery OF thy pail,
Time rs a birthright, shall restore thy glory.
And Heaven rekindle all the stars that fall.
Sarah H. 1I7,j traG',.
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WHOLE NUMBER i79.

Horace Greeley says that there is less
crime in Texas than there is in New
York City, though the population Of the
two places is about the same.
The marriage of Arthur 4. Maginnis'
merchant of New Orleans, and Mary
A., daughter of William NJ. Tweed, of
New York, took place on the 3Ist inst,
and was largely attended by the friends
of the parties. The presents amounted
to five hundred thousand dollars.
The population of London, according
to the census just taken, is nearly three
and a half millions-which is an in
crease ofneaPly half million in ten
years. In the United States there are
eight cities Of over two hundred thous-
and inhabitants each, namely, New
York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, st Louis
Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, and Gin
cinnati.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Sun alleges that on Monday Of last week,
General Sickles was instructed by tel
egraph to notify the Spanish Govern
ment that the estates belonging to
American citizens in Cuba, which have
been sequestered, must be immediately
returned to their owners, aud the dam
ages Of their sequestration must be paid,
or that warIike measures will be at
once set on foot by the American Gov
ernment. The order of General 6ickles
was to give the Spanish Government
one week in which to make its answer.
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Hair

Straight, lank, stringy-loolling hair
indicates weakness and cowardice.
Curly hair denotes quick temper.
Frizzly hair, set in ones head as If
each individual hair was ready to fight
its neighbof, denotes cOarseness.
Light auburn denotes intelligence,
industry, and peaeeable disposition.
Coarse, straight, black hair denotes u
sluggish disposition, with but little am
bition, and n love of case, with dispo-
sition to find fault and borrow trouble.
Black hair, very little inclined to
curl, indicates personal courage, espec-
tally when one is cOrnered, with won
derful degree of pertinacity, and a dis
position to hang ON until whatever is
undertaken be accomplished.
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The Imp Of the Perre,se.
BY EDGAR A. roe.

BY EDGAR a, FOE,
In the consideration Of the faculties
and impulses-of the prinla n,oJilia
of the human soul, the phrenologists
have failed to make room for propen-
sity which, although obviously existing
as a radical, primitive, irreducible senti-
ment, has been equally overlooked by
the moralists who have preceded them.
In the pure arrogance of the reason we
have all overlooked it. We have suf-
fered its existence to escape our senses
solely through want of beHef-of faith
whether it be faith in Revelation or
faith in the inner teachings Of the spirit.
Its idea has not occurred to US, simply
because of its seeming supererogation.
We saw no need for the propensity in
question. We could not perceive its
necessity. We could not understand
that is to say, we could not have under
stood, had the notion of this prtnlu'1i
mobile ever obtruded itself-what man
nnr it might be made TO further the oh.
iects of humanity, either temporal or
eternal. It cannot be denied that all
metaphysicianism has been coneOcted
a prioYf. The intellectual or logical
man, rather than the understanding or
observant man, set himself to imagine
designs-to dictate purposes to God.
Having thus fathomed to his satisfac-
ton the intentions Of Jehova, out of
these intentions he reared his innumer-
able systems of Mind. In the matter Of
PhrenolOgy, for example, we first deter
mined, naturally enough, that 1t was
the design of Deity that man should eat.
We then assigned to man an organ Of
Alimentiveness, and this organ is the
scOurge by which Deity conpels man to
his food. Again, having settled it to be
Gods will that man should continue his
species, we discovered an auof Am
ativeness forthwith. And go with Com
batveness, with Ideality, with Casual
ity, with Constructiveness!-s in short
with every organ, whether representing
propensity, moral sentiment, or a
faculty of the pure intellect And in
these arrangements Of the priacipia of
human action, the Spurzheimites.
whether right or wrong, in part, or upon
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Red hair, il straight, denotes ugliness,
and O naughty. dOmineering dispOsi-
tiOn.
Lightish red hair, somewhat given to
curl, If It be fine rather than coarse, in
dicates ambition, but deceit, treachery,
and q willingness to osacrifee old friends
for new ones, or for personal advance
ment.
What Is called sandy hair Indicates
joyial disposition, without much energy
or powers Of calculation for bargains.
Such persons are generally good fellows,
content TO work for others moro than
/ themselves.
Brown hair denotes fondness for life,
a friendly disposition, ambition, ear
i fnestness of purpose, capacity for bust
ness, and reliability in friendship, IN
proportion as the hair is fine.
Light brown hair, with clear skin,
/ is a very certain indication or courage,
ambition, reliability, and determination
to overcome obstacles. Nearly all the
| best business men of the country have
this kind of hair. The finer and more
silken the texture, the finer the orgGni-
cation, and the more touchy and in
fammabIe the disposition. If such hair
be straight and fine, 1t indicates an even
disposition, a readiness to forgive, With
a desire to add to the happiness of 9TH
ers.
Persons with fine light-browR or au-
burn hair, inclined to curl or friz, are
quick tempered, and given to resent
ment and revenge.
Llght-brown hair, inclined to red
ness, with freckled skin, is certain
indication of deceit, treachery, and
disposition to do something mean by
friend when that friend cannot be long
er used TO advantage.
Straight black hair, crisp and glossy,
indicates great powers Of endurance, in
difference to danger, and strong pre-
disposition to revenge wrongs or insults
real or fancied. The coarser such hair,
the longer will the person having it
nurture his revenge, TIL comes q safe
chance for its qualification.
Hair that is inclined to change lis sp-
pearanee with the weather, with a SORT
of reeklessness as to It's style, indicates
a corresponding recklessness, or rather,
independence as to the speech Of .peo'
ple.-BricE P0meroy.
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Compiled for The LT5ana Union.
The Week.

! Tad Lincoln is Ill.
The postal service in Frau ce Is res
tored.
Horace Greely has returned from
Texas,
Horace Greeley is a candidate for the
presidency.
Gen. Vinoy has been appointed gov
ernor of Paris.
FOrtresses are being erected in the
interior of Paris.
Gen. Sherman says he is not candi-
date for President.
Gen. Rodman, inventor of the gun
bearing his name, is dead.
1t is thought that the Pope will be re-
instated in the Papal Chair.
Decoration day was not 50 generally
observed this year As heretofore
Commercial relations between France
aud Germany have beer restored.
The President announces that he will
pass the entire summer season at Long
Branch.
George Bancroft has been commits
stoned Minister TO the new German
Empire.
The New Hampshire Legislature has
organized by electing Democratic
Officers.
General CIuseret the leader of the
Communists, has been executed by the
Versaillists.
Delesclusc, Delegate Minister OF War
under the Commune, has been shot by
the Versaillists.
Csrpet-bag Governor Scott, of South
Carolina, admits that there are no IIu-
Klux in his State.
Six hundred coolies were burned to
death on ship-board recently, while on
their way to Callao.
Judge Lewis Dent, brother of Mrs.
President Grant, has been arrested for
misapprOpriating money.
The Columbus Crisis edited by
Willoughby w. Webb and DR.. VIM.
Trevitt, has been merged into the Ohio
iStatesmqIi.
Hon. Abraham B. Vanderpool, the
Oldest surviving member of the Tam
many Society, is dead, at the age of
Babcock aud Dent will have control of
the Executive Department of the Gov
ernment during the absence of the
President at Long Branch.
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Fashion.


Berlin wool furniture covers have
been resuscitated.
Skirt supporters should not be worn
under the overskirt
Mandarin lawn is the fashionable
material for morning dresses.
The French young ladies in society
now refuse to dance the German
The newest watch charm is in the
form Of a compass, and about the size Of
a cent.
Thelatest sleeve button Of the week is
made like locket, and opens to re-
ceiye n likeness.
Lace shawls are worn belted at the
back and front, thus forming stylish
large loose sleeve.
Black cashmere sacks, tiimmed with
gold braid or with blue and silver, are
much affected for riding.
The most fashionable dresses are
made without belt or sash, the upper
skirt and waist being cut in one piece.
A bride nowadays starting ON we'd
ding tour wears the oldest black silk
dress she owns and an old bonnet and
shawl The practice Of starting of
with gray bonnet, dress, gloves and
vail, was equivalent to having q pla-
card round the neck, announcing to all
the world, ~ am bride,n
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Poetry.
Ncs To Tell.

Seighbor. lsBd me your arm, for am not well
THIS wound you So IS scarcely a fortnight
Al for sorry message hod 10 tell,
I've Travelled many a mile in vet and cold,
You is the old gray chateau above the trees,
He bade nc seek Il, my comrade brave aud
gay;
stately forest and river 50 brown and broad,
BE showed me the scene as hea dying lay,
Ihave been there, and, ueislbor. I am not
well;
Ibore his sTord and some Of his curling hair
Knocked at the gate and said had news to
tell,
Entered a chamber and saw has mother there.
Tall and straight, with the SHOWS Of age on her
head,
Brave aud stern as soldiers mother might
be,
Deep in her eyes a living look OF the dead,
she grasped her staf and silently gszod at me.
Thought I'd better be dead than meet her eye;
She guessed it ali, I'd never word 10 tel
Taking the sword in her arms she heaved a
Sigh,
ClasIdng she curl iu her hand she sobbed and
fell.
raised Icr up, Sue sat in stately chair,
Her face ike death. but not q tear in her eye
We heard a step, and tender voice 90 the stair
1lurnuriug soft 10 an iufaut- cooling CRY.
Ny lady she sat erect. aud s;rrucr grew
Finger on mouth she nouoncd me not to
stay;
a girl came in, the wife Of the dead, knew
She held his babe, aud ucishbor, I fed away
tried to run, but heard the widows cry.
Nelshbor. l have been hurt, and aIn not
Welt
nray 20 God that never until die
Nay again have such sorry news 20 tell
-iV The HszrEosnd.
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Our Scrap Book.

My heart was heavy, for its trust had
been abused; its kindness answered
with foul wrong. So, turning gloomlIy
from my felloW-men, one Sunday,
strolled among the green mounds Of the
village burial place. There pondered,
where all human love and hate find
one sad level. thought how, sooner
or later, wronged and wrong-doer, each
with meek face and cold hands folded
over still heart, should pass the green
threshold Of our common grave, Whith-
er our footsteps tend, whence none de-
part. Awed for myself and pitying
my race, our common sorrow like a
mighty wave swept all my pride away,
and, trembling forgaye.
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Romance.

The original Ms. of the following re-
markable romance is in our possession,
and can be seen 10y calling at the Office
of the URBANA UNION:
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Tomorrow :!

What is it and where?
An island out of reach; Il WiIl-n'-the-
wisp that shines and flashes through the
darkness of to-day, forever unattainable,
n painted boat, rocking gaily upon the
wave that beats against the hoadland-
where our feet are firmly planted, WOO
ing US out upon the sea of sad delays,
as the wrecker's beacon to rocks that
shipwreck; an archer, with drawn bow,
and arrow dipped in the mandragda of
sorrow; q rainbow, for whose radiance
our lives are reaching ever, as children
for the stars; q romance gliding with a
tender glory the verities of to-day: a
bird, whose singing in the night gives
sweetness to our dreams; a something
that is to eOme-aud comes not, that
has delight, and gives not; is throned,
yet dethroned; sceptred yet seepterless;
crowned, yet crownless; that is and is
not forever and ever, till time shall
cease and eternity dawn.
The following burst of eloqueliee from
ChrysOstom, when he was sentenced to
banishment, is a good specimen Of the
style of the golden mouthed orator Of
God:'
What can fear? viii it be death?
Bat you know not that Christ is my life,
and that shall gain by death. VIII it
be exile? But the earth and all its full
ness is the Lords. VIII it be loss Of
wealth2 But we brought nothing into
this world, aud can carry nothing out.
Thus all the terroTs of the world are
contemplate in my eyes, and I smile at
all its good things. Poverty I do not
fear. Riches DO not sigh for. Death
I do not shrink from, and life I do not
desire, save only for the progress. of
your souls. But you know, my friends,
the true cause of my fall. It is that I
have not lined my house with rich
tapestry. IT is that have not fattered
the efeminacy and sensuality Of GER
tain men, nor laid gold and silver at
their feet. But why should say more?
Jezebel is raising her persecution, and
Elias must fly. Herodius is taking her
pleasure, and John must be thrust into
chains. The Egyptian wife tells her
lie, and Joseph must be thrust into
prison. And so if they Danish me, /
shall be like Elias; if they throw me in
to the mire, like jeremiah; il they
plunge me into the pit, like Daniel; if
they stone me, it is Stephen that 1 shall |
John, the fOrerunner if they |
cut Oft my head; Paul, if they beat me
with stripes; it is Isaiah, if they saw me
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Science.

! The welI-known electrician, Mr. c. T.
Varley, has suggested the novel theory
that earthquakes may be due to subteF-
ranean lightning. In connection with
this suggestion, he states that just be-
fore the earthquake which was felt il
England on the 18th of March last,
powerful positive currents of electricity
were rushing toward England through
the two Atlantic cables which are bro
ken near the Newfoundland coast. Har-
per's Weekly.
The 5criptural Injunction, Man shall
not live by bread alone Is probably
true in physical, no less than in q re-
Iigious sense. A series of experiments
by Gustave Meyer, of Oldenburg, con-
firms the view hitherto entertained, that
a great waste of material results from
feeding either animals OF man on bread
alone. To prevent the body from losing
flesh, an enormous amount Of bread
must be given, while there can be little
doubt that the use of meat is not only
more economical, but more wholesome
also.-Hdrper's Weekly.
If we bury thermometer fifty feet
below the surface Of the earth, the mer-
curry viii remain at the same point the
year round, in winter and summer,
showing that the influence of the sun
does not reach below that depth. If we
carry the thermometer fifty feet lower,
the mercury will rise one degree, and
will rise in the same ratio FOR every fif-
ty feet we go down. It can easily be
calculated at what depths all known
substances will melt. This would not
exceed fifty miles.
1t will thus be seeu that the crust or
solid part Of the earth is exceedingly
thin, in proportion to the diameter; not
30 thick as an egg-shell in proportion to
the size Of the egg. With crust so
thin, constantly cooling and producing
a pressure upon the internal masses, IL
is not strange that the bed of oceans
should be elevated in a single day, and
whole cities have been sunk in the
same space Of time. The side Of a vol
eanie mountain once broke away, and
livid masses flowed out forming a river
twelve miles wide, which in its course
melted down six hills six hundred feet
high, and spreading over a surface Of
eleven hundred square miles.-Dr.
Bog1tt0n.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-09-28
MISCELLANEOUS
save the Corn Fodder.

We are of the opinion, says the Ger
mautown Telegraph, that there is not the
attention paid to the curing and saving of
corn fodder, that its value demands
Every good farmer must know that cattle
eatitgfeedily through the winter and if
cut and steamed it is as good for them as
the best hay, and really more milk-pro-
ducing. "a.
Where is the necessity of allowing 1t to
remain in shocks until the middle or end
of November? Corn should not be cut
down until the stalks are dying, and the
grain is pretty hard, and then it should
remain no longer in the field than is abso-
1utely necessary for the prying of the
grain. 1t should be husked as early as
possible. and the fodder tied up in bun
dies, and either carefully stacked near
the cattle stables or put under shelter in
sheds.
1t is we'll known, too, that horses prefer
it to the best hay; also that the blades
are especially sotght for to feed racing
animals, strengthening their wind and
bottom beyond any other food. 1t is be.
sides wholesome provender, and help:
benefcially in making the winters
supply of hay hold put till late in the
spring, with the addition of roots, which
every fafmer who ~shrewdly looks to the
main chance, ought to cultivate for feed
ing in the early part.
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Feeding Fowls.

Don't keep food always by your poul-
try, because, if laying fowls, they are
made too fat. and if fattening ones, not
{. fat enough. To fatten poultry, feed three
times in twenty-four hours all they will
a eat. and remove all they leave, and they
will eat more than when cloyed and dis
gusted by the constant presence of food.
To keep layers in proper condition, feed
twice or thrice daily a regular ration, but
not as much as they will eat. Some say
feed as long as they will run for what you
throw to them and eat greedily, but that
is not right; for they get too fat, unless
they are laying freely. They will show
eagerness about as long as they can swal-
low, and will scramble for what you give
them until in their rivalry they stuff and
cram themselves week after week, and be-
come a mass of fat, and yet they will still
act at feeding time as if they were half
starved. Feed your regular laying stock
moderately and be governedby their state
q of flesh rather than by their greed. Take
a few fowls from the perch at night oc-
c~asionally to test their weight, and a lit
tie practice will enable you to quickly de-
eide on the condition Of the flock. In
crease the ration as the yield of eggs in
crease, and so long as the laying keeps
pace with the diet you may give rich and
stimulating food in any quantity. Feed
the select breeding stock more sparingly
than the rest of the layers, SO as to give
only a moderate yield of eggs for hatch
ing purposes, for if you promote great
proli6cness in the parents the result will
be weakness in the progeny. Chickens,
during the period oftheir growth, should
be fed very often, with a variety, and all
thcy will eat. While they are growing,
there is no danger of overlooking if they
are fed frequently and allowed perfect
freedom, so that they may take the exer-
else that is indispensable to their thrift
Hearth and Home.