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a Clock 10 Swear BY.

About twenty years ago, when Frank
lin Pierce and the present Senator Clark
stood at the head of the Hillsborough
bar, in New Hampshire, there was upon
the docket celebrated suit called the
"Horse Case" The action was brought
by Smith & Jones, livery stable keepers,
against one White, to recover the value
OF pair of horses, alleged to have been
killed by the defendant while conveying
an insane man to the asylum at Con-
cord There was plenty of proof that
the horses died soon after their arrival
there; but the defendant took the ground
that they died of disease and not from
being overheated, and that sufficient
time bad been allowed them to travel
that distance with ease. Then it became
necessary to show the jury the time of
starting and the time of arrival Many
citizens were brought forward, among
them tall, bony, slab-sided, lanky,
sleepy-looking fellow who officiated as
hostle- at the stable. L give you the
substance of the concluding portion of
the examination:
"What time, sir, did I understand you
to say it was when the horses were driv,
en- up to the stable p
"Just as was goin' to dinner"
"What time was it when you went to
dinner that day-by the clock p
"Just twelve ?"
"To minute?"
Yes, sir.'
''Now, sir, will you be 'gooL enough
to tell the jury what time you went to
dinner three months before the last date
by the clock?''
cat twelve?"
"To a minute, sir?
'Yes, sir
THAT is all, sir" replied the counsel,
with CLEAN of satisfaction on his face
and a glance at the jury, as much as to
say,
"That man has settled the question,
gentlemen"
And so we all thought, till, just as he
was leaving the stand, he turned to his
questioner with a curious comical ex-
preston on his face, and drawled out,
''That ere clock was out o'kilter, and
has stopped at twelve for the last six
months"
There was d general roar in the gale
ry where sat. Mr.. Clark sat down, and
l noticed that the Judge had to use his
handkerchief just then.
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Roasting am Actor.
from Don Piatt's CAPITAL.


Lord, how I did laugh at old Dean, IA
ther of Julia Dean, one night. He was
playing that funny old King TO Booths
Richard one infernel cold night in Buffa-
ilo. When Booth stabbed him the awk-
ward old duffer fell fiat on the register
of the stage. Some devil of an actor
seeing this, ran down and told the wild
Irishman at the furnace that everybody
was freezing on the stage-to rush up
the fires, We who were in the secret
watched the result First the dead king
broke iuto profuse perspiration, while
Richard was delivering his long solilo-
guy. How the dead King did sweat -
But, as the fire increased, lie began to
wriggle and squirn. The audience was
startled to see the body quiver and the
legs give little post mortem kicks not in
accordance with the text. We could
hear him mutter to Richard:
"Hurry up, cuss it, hurry up! I'm
roasting herer"
But Richard continued rolling out his
heavy thunder as slow and deliberate as
if his royal highness were resting on q
bed of roses. At last when he groaned
out, ''Down, down to hell, and say I sent
thee thither!' his departing majesty rose
up and walked off the stage, rubbing his
back as if he felt ridiculous, to the utter
amazenent of the audience. But Booth
was equal to the occasion. Striking an
attitude, he roared out:
Can such things be.
And overcome us like summers cloud,
Without our special wonder?
Dean got a black eye and broken
nose while attempting to kick the Irish
man.
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TEgE PASSION PAAY.
Scenes at this Years O1er-Ans.
lNsrgnu SpeceHc.n

Correspondence of the London Daily News
1t is impossible to give an adequate
idea of the contrast between the grand
eur of the surrounding mountains and
the quaint simplicity of the theater in
which the Passion Play" is performed
As l sit writing, just after tie termina
ton of the play, the mountains dre al.
most hidden by dark masses of cloud,
and the theatre is deserted, and a thun.
der storm is rolling along the valley
with splendid effect. These constant
flashes of lightning come strangely
across the glow Of sunset from the #es-
tern horizon. and the tremendous voice
Which is heard booming overhead forms
4 fit sequel to the tragedy which has but
now been enacted The simple wooden
theatre at Ober- Ammetgau has served
fersas wonderful and as stirring per
formance as it is possible to imagine
To many who lave watched it with
breathless interest, the performance may
have seemed mistake in point Of the
length to which its grim reality is car
ried But all must agree that the actors
60 through their parts with an earnest
devotion worthy of their theme. The
central figure, the Christ of the Ammer-
gau Play, is singularly gifted by nature
for the part which has been allotted him.
He is tall, handsome man, with long
hair and crisp, curly beard. His move
meuts are very slow and graceful, and
his voice is strong without being at all
harsh. After watching him for little
while the audience begins to realize the
majesty of the part which he playa
part which no other actor can take in
modern times. The story so familiar
to US all, so grand and touching, how
ever it may be told, is we'll brought. out
by the Ammergau performer They
have seized the Oriental aspect of the
life around Christ with great skill, but
have rigidly adhered to their traditional
outline of the play. No effects founded
on recent discoveries, no scientific
grouping according to the rules of the
stage, will do for them. Such as their
acting is, it is to be quite their own
They entef into the spirit of the char
acters they represent, and rather live
the characters-as far as they can real
ize them-for the moment than act them
Peter and Caiphas, John and Judas are
as intensely themselves as the noble i'm
personation round which they appear.
How strong the impression of it all is
Why, men are talking close about me
of the crucifxion as if it had been real
The deep afectionate interest which
centres in the Christiis, and grows
stronger as his death approaches, has
been reused to almost fever point by
that awfully vivid scene when the living
actor is fixed on the cross in presence
of the whole assembly, and is raised
aloft where all can see him. He must
be some fifteen Or twenty minutes thus
raised, and must be very resolute and
well prepared to go through his part so
well. Of course he is not nailed; but
he looks as though he were, and the
blood which flows from his side, little
later on, is terribly well contrived. Well
contrived? We have been seeing an
actual event, not mere play.
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home, deceived by sham marriage, and
then abandoned her to die of broken
heart. My son, and only remaining
child. in rash attempt to avenge his
sisters wrongs, fell a victim to your ac-
cursed skill. You even robbed him of
the ordinary chances of combat, une
quail as they would have been; by encas-
ing your eowardly body in concealed
armor. The loss OF both our children
unsettled my wife's reason, and she died
in madshouse Could l have found
you then, | would have given you no
chance for your life; but valiant as you
have always protessed to be, and cow
ard as you are. You feared and evaded
me. Yet / knew we should one dav
meet; and l registered VOW, that when
we did | would offer you sacrifice to
your own Internal art To this end
studied to become an adept in it, and
succeeded And when, at length, blind
ness cast its shadow upon me, and SEEM
ed to render hopeless the fulfillment of
my VOW, instead of abandoning it, be-
took myself to new species Of prac-
tice. | sought to make hearing take
the place Of sight. Again succeeded
| learned to take aim with ear instead
of The eye. When l heard your answer
ready to-day. knew the exact di-
rection in which to point my pistol, as
well as if had seen you. Besides,
could hear you breathing where you
stood. You lost your chance in delay
ing your fire. You wished to make sure
work, and over reached yourself.
More than once the Major looked ap-
pealingly at the speakers face; but in
those remorseless, sightless eyes, there
was no sympathy. And as the labored
breathing grew fainter and fainter, the
old man resumed his listening attitude
At last all was still.
"He is dead,' he said and his wonted
expression Of sober melancholy settled
on the old mans face, as, taking his
companions arm, he turned and walked
leisurely away.
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NUMBER "a
From the Washington Patriot, July %. :,
The EAU Kiux anyesligaii0n,

Mr.. H. W. Guion, q Leading lawyer at
Charlotte, N c., was examined by the
Ku Klux Committee yesterday. In the
course of his examination he said that
the election under General Candy in that
State was an entirely enforced afiair,and
that tickets were prepared for candida-;
tes for office containing the nai,tes qf
men whom the people did not kIipWv He
referred to the administration Of Gov
ernor Holden and the course of the.
Radical majority in the Legislature at
that time, saving that the State delt ha,l
been increased from $4,000, 900 to $40
000;000, thus occasioning much distress
to the people, and causing much embar-.
rassment in the financial condition Of
the State
The witness said that he was an Off
Ger of railroad company, and bonds
to any extent that he desired in behalf
of the company had been rendered ti
ltim .fof The use of. the company;sif they
would, as a consideration for the tender
thus made, submit to shave of 10 per
cent.
He Stated further, that it was aim ost
impossible to procure conviction Of
offenders belonging to the Radical par
ty under Holden's administration, and
in cases of conviction the Governor
wonld immediately pardon the convict.
ed party, no matter what crime he had
committed. Under these circumstances
the people had no protection except id
themselves. and therefore they often un.
dertook to punish the guilty whom the
authorities excused.
He was asked of what politics tlfoss
bands of regulators were. To which
question he replied: "Some were Re,
publcans, but the larger humber were
Democrats" And then, addressing
himself to Senator Pool, the witness
said: "BUT YOU AND ] HAD BETLER NOT
TALK ABOUT POLITICS, AS Roth oF, Us WERE
ELECTORS FOR JEFFERSON DAVIS IN THE
CANVASS OF 1862
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The Dead Democracy.

1t is amusing to hear the Republican
papers predicting the early death of the
Democratic party. Of course they know
But Horace Greeley, and the hte1lfgeh,
Republican organs, all seerh to have 8
different opinion. Read the following
The Democratic party to-day. Is stron
ger than 1t ecer UaS in its hiStora II
means now to win, ,and l do not say that
it cannot win.-Horace Greeley, at Vicks.
burg.
You may make light of the Democra-
cy, but to day,in the State of New York,
there is clear Democratic majority OF
ninety thousand. We never did have
the Irish, and no,o ace are losing all the
Germans, N. Y. Times, Radical.
Grant, with his Ku Klux bill, thinks
he can kill the Democracy. 1t will take
more men by a million, than he had at
Appomattox.-N. Y Sun, Radical.
A great deal has heen said about the
dead Democracy. Those who think it is
dead surely never read the story of the
resurrection There will be signs in the
heavens and on the earth in 1872 when
this Democratic party gets its soldiers in
the field.-Sprtnafeld Mass.) Repu5lt-
can, RadicoI
He is fool or traitor who expects
to win an easy victory over the Demo
cratic party in 1872. Grant can ne0er do
it Haoith his bayonets.-N. Y. EUe. Post,
Radical.
They may say what they please, but
those who are the most confident do not
know these Democrats. They are the
most dangerous ,ohen they seem the most
,chipped. Do not put any faith in them
and do not trust them. In retreat they
are treacherous and often fatal.-Louis
riUe Commercial, Radical
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colonel McCOOk and the Repnb.
liCan Presses,

1t is very evident from the tone Of the
Republican presses, in referring to Col:
McCook's opening campaign speech;
that he has treated their party with q
moderation altogether unexpected-so
moderate as TO make them regard the
speech as no stronger than weak herb
tea. Now, Colonel. give. their thick
hides no cause for complaint hereafter.
Instead of the cold end of the poker,
give them the red-hot end. Show up.
in burning language, their corruption,
rascality and profigacy; expose their
hypocrisy, their contempt for popular
intelligence, and their reaching aftef
monarchy; and don't forget the shame
less nepotism Of Grant; nor his devotion
to his stables in preference to the Exec,
utive Department The field Is d wide
and generous one, full of material for d
general confagration in and about the
Radical party, and, therefore, pitch in
with robustness that will discard poll
ished sentences and smooth phrases, as
being altogether too nice for the ugly
subject to be dealt with-Ctn End.
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Eiopement Extraordinary.

Under the above head, the Kentucky
Sentinel of the 9th ult., says: "Ou
Wednesday of last week, Miss Saliie
Mckee, of this county, eloped with her
young nephew, Thomas Mckee, and
was married to him at Aberdeen, Ohio
by Squire Massie Beasley, on the sue,
ceeding day, Thursday, the goth instant
The woman is sister of the Hon Sam
Mckee, now of Louisville, and her hus
band is the son of her brother w William.' y
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Vallandigham.

"The stigma of his tt tleachery to free
dom will always cling to his memory
-Hayper's Weekly, a Journal of Bar.
barism.
Was he false to liberty because he op
posed the suspension of the writ Of ha
beas corpus9
Was he false to liberty because he in.
sisted upon freedom Of speech and Of
the press
Was he false to liberty because he de.
Tended the rights of the people to be Sc
cure in their persons, houses, ,papers and
effects, against unreasonable searches
and seizures?
Was he false to liberty because he de-
manded that no person should be held
to answer for capital or otherwise in.
famous crime unless on presentment
or indictment of grand jury; nor be
deprived of life, liberty or property
without due process of law?
Was he false to liberty because he
urged that in all criminal prosecutions
the accused should enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial by an impartial
jury of the State and District wherein
the crime had been committed, and to be
informed of the nature and cause of the
accusation
Was he false to liberty because he op-
posed the subiugation Of the free people
of the South !?
Was he false to liberty because he
scorned to support the law that sent sol
diers with bayonets to surround the
polls and prevent the people from vot-
ing?
If so, then all the patriots who have
lived and died for the rights of man
have been false to liberty UrJana Un.
ion
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Happy Relatives.

The New Orleans Times, grown
wretched under the double influence oil
oppressive heat and annoying gnats and
mosquitoes, discloses his envy of more
fortunate persons by saying: "Nothing
in the way of plants fourishes as luxu.
riantly in this country as the relatives
and personal friends General Grant
plants in office. Seedy enough at the
outset, it is never very long before, one
by one, maturely ripened with riches
they drop from off the parent stock,
whose roots are planted in the Treas
ury"
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ODiuiOn Abroad.

The Buffalo Courier, the leading Dem,
ocratic paper of Western New York, in
an article on Colonel McCook's opening
speech at Ashtabula, refers as follows,
to his acceptance of the three constitu3
tional amendments as accomplished
facts: r. >;
'.This is the practical view of the sub
ject,. The three latest amendments. are
a part Of the Constitution, no matter
how they became so, and there is. NO
method known TO the Democratic party,
except the adoption of new amend:
ment, by which they can, be exercised =
Moreover, tile freedom and enfranchise-
rhent of the negro, which are secured
by the debated amendments, are doubly
entrenched in the Constitution and laws
Of the several States. Over this latter
barrier Democratic general Govern
ment could not assail these accomplish
ments if it would, and it certainly would
not if it could. In short, to question
the fidelity Of the present status of the
negro can mean only revolution, and
that most wanton, gratutitous and hope
less. Never, in point Of fact, was there
a stranger misnomer than this term, the
"new departure" for in reality it is an
arrival at conclusion which the logic
of events has made inevitable, and
which can be new only to those who
have succeeded in standing still while
the world went round. In conceiving
that the Democracy could be induced to
meet their oppoiiehts before the country
on any other ground than that Of an
acceptance Of things as they are, Sehsl
tor Morton and his like calculated on
stupidity that is impossible. The "new
departure excitement will die out and
pass away, but the Democratic party
without further ado will simply remain
in occupation of the practical, the ine-
vitable position SO quietly taken by Gen.
eral McCook. 1t cannot do otherwise.
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CNnuRGrliillS.

Why is blush like little girl? Be
cause it becomes a woman.
In what key should lover write q
proposal of marriage? B-minor Che
mine, all
Why cannot two slender persons ever
become friends? Because they will al
ways be slight acquaintances.
What lad is first mutilated and then
eaten? Salad
What chaps are allowed to perch qui,
etly on ladies' heads? Chaplets.
When is a cabbage like a Look
When it's red.
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A gentleman one day indiscreetly ask
ed lady how old she was. "Let me
see. l was eighteen when was mar
ried, and my husband was thirty; now
he is twice thirty, and that is sixty; so
of course, l am twice eighteen, that is
thirty six"
VERY UNKIND.-(Scene-A Volunteer
Review Infuriated Commanding Off
cer-'Hi, theer, get away you mailman
get away from the target?" Easy.
minded lunatic-"Hold on, Guv'nor; !
air t as mad as look. ! was here all
day yesterday, and found it much the
safest place in the field"
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SMART BoY.-For specimen of logi.
cal consecution of ideas we venture to
commend this from a school boys com
position Tobacco was invented by q
man named Walter Raleigh. When the
people first saw him they thought he was
a steamboat, and as they had never seen
q steamboat, they we're frightened"
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GgA young lady of Louisville hay
ing received very urgent proposal o
marriage from an old gentleman sent th'
following answer by mail:
Why thus urge me to compliance?
Why compel me to refuse?
Yet though l court not your alliance,
Perchance younger may choose.
For 'tis state I'll ne'er disparage,
Nor will war against it wage;
1 do not, sir, object to marriage,
! but dislike to marriage.
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il Z { t I D
from the poems of Joaquin Miller, the Cali
fornia poet.
WKTEE WALKER I'M NICARAGUA

WALKER
"He was brick and brave as bear,
As brave as Nevada's grizzlies are,
A Texan tigress in her lair,
Or any lion of anywhere;
Yet gentle as panther is,
Mouthing her young in her first fierce kiss,
And true of soul as the North Pole star;
Tall, courtly, as grand as any king,
Yet, simple as child at play;
In camp and court the same Away,
And never moved at anything;
A dash of sadness in his air,
Born, may be, of his over care,
And, may be, born of despair
In early love-I never knew;
questioned not, as many do,
Of things as sacred as this is;
l only know that he to me
Was all father, friend. should be;
I sought to know no more than this
Of history of him or his"
HIS DEATH.
Speak i'll who will of him, he died
In all disgrace; say of the dead
His heart was bleak, his hands were red;
Say this much and be satisfied;
Gloat over it all undenied;
l only say that he to me.
Whatever he to others was,
Was truer far than any one!
That l have known beneath the sun,
Man. maid, or saint, or Saducee,
AS boy or man from any cause
1 simply say he was my friend
When strong of hand and fair of fame;
Dead and disgraced, 1 stand the same
To him, and so shall to the end
HIS GRAVE.
He lies low in the leveled sand,
Unsheltered from the tropic sun,
And now, of all he knew, not one
Will speak him fair in that far land.
Perhaps twas this that made him seek,
Disguised, his grave one winter-tide;
A weakness for the weaker side,
A siding with the helpless weak.
A palm not far held out hand;
Hard by long green bamboo swung,
And bent like some great bow unstrung,
And quiver'd like willow wand;
Beneath broad banana leaf
Perch'd on its fruit that crooked hung
A bird in rainbow splendor sung
A low, sad song of temper'd grief
No, sod, no sign, no cross or stone,
But at his side cactus green
Upheld its lances long and keen;
1t stood in hot red sands alone;
Flat-palmed and fierce with lifted spear;
One bloom of crimson crowned its head,
A drop of blood, SO bright, so red,
Yet redolent as roses tears
In my left hand I held shell,
All rosy lpp'd and pearly red;
I laid it by his lowly bed,
For he did love so passing well
The grand songs of the solemn sea-
Oh, shell, sing well, wild, with a will,
When storms blow loud and birds be still,
The widest sea-song known to thee.
l said some things, with folded hands,
Soft WHISPERED in the dim, sea sound,
And eyes held hulnbly to the ground,
And frail knees knit in the warm sands;
He had done more than this for me,
And vet I could not well do more!
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