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HAsKELL's LAsF PoEa.


PART !.
I'm adrift on LIES ocean, and wildly I sweep
Aimless and helmle,-, its fathOInlpss deep.
The Wild winds assail me. il threateningly
storlns,
Tho clouds roll around me in hideous forms.
drift 10 a lee-shore, strike, am aground;
The mad waters whelm me; ! drown, oh
drown.
Mercy! Oh, mercy , o Lord. set me- free,
And take me, Oh. take me 10 heas IN and Thee
wander lies desert, lone, desoIate and sad.
Faint, Keeling and weary; I'm mad. Oh! I'm
mad
No glad waters greet, no streams flowing free,
perish perish . God, set me free.
All hopeless pray thee It's idle and vain.
perish perish l.Faln give me rain
Let the stream OF deliyeranee now gently to
And DRIFT me, OH drift me to heaven and Thee.
'Mid the wrangIings Of men, and their con-
Hair mad and despairing. my lips spit a curse,
Instead Of implorIng a refuge and peace
From LIES maddening battle, for hope and
I bear on dehantly, proud, reckless, IN
At the dangers that hem me, the curses 7
At earth and at heaven. Lord, mercy for me,
Receive me, receive me TO heaven and Thee.
PART II.
But the storm howls no longer the desert is
The battles fierce strife no more hurries me
on;
The tempests no more lash the oceans calm
breast,
And the clouds float in beauty afar to the
west.
1 move through LIES bowers, fun Of bliss and
OF love,
Looking fondIy to earth and transports above.
And an angel soft whispers, "The Lord set you
free
To come to me, come to me; dwell here with
thank Thee, 0 Lord, that my raying career
Was checked by the hand Of Omnipotence
That struck from its Jared equilibrium the
Whose balance my madness and folly com
bined
Had periIed forever my earthly career,
While nights thick ming darkness cncom-
passed me here:
And my sad soul Is ransomed, Imprisoned and
free.
am coming, o &C.. bow gently to Thee.
Toyt joy ! oh sorrow and anguish no more
Shall lead me its victim on LIES crumbing
shore.
The winds wait me gently; I perish no more.
thirst not: the war Of life's struggle is DER.
fOpe beckOns me on, with its whispering tale, /
70 walk through, all hopefully, LIES pleasant
vale,
And come 10 Thee, Lord, imprisoned and free, I
and bless Thee, oh bless Thee for mercy 10
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JOHN" IN VIRGINIA.

The last time l saw Ben. McCulloch,
the great Texas Ranger, was in Virginia.
We were on the road that runs from
Aqua Creek to Richmond. 1t was in
March, 1850. He was in company with
DR.. Carter, who was to deliver a seces-
sion speech that night in the African
church at Richmond. Doctor Carter
had lady with him, and heard him
tell her that he had many a time killed
deer in the morning, and worn its
hide for a dress the same day. Ben.
was shot at the battle of Pea Ridge.
The first time | ever saw Roger A.
Pryor was one saturday in March, 1851,
when he addressed secession meeting
at Danville, Virginia. All | heard him
say was, - l am for secession, immediate
and eternal Just then there was
row, and l left. | went down to the
tavern, and had sat there but a few
moments when a friend, who represent
ed big scale house on Broadway, New
\ FORK, came rushing up to me, and we
went under the railroad bridge that
crosses the Dan river, and that fellow
laughed so long and loud that was
afraid We d get mobbed. Says /, "What
in thunder ails yOuT'
Then he told me. They had colOred
band up at the meeting of about four
instruments, and just as Pryor got a go
ing, that cusS went up and gave the
leader of the band dollar to play
Yankee Doodle. They commenced
to play it, hence the row. Only think
Of Yankee Doodle at a Secesh meet
ing. If these darkies had ever gone
back on Us, the mildest treatment we
could have expected would have been q
present of two waterproof overcOats.
l got into another episode last week.
l was sitting subdued and quiet in a
hOrse-car. | wasn't aware that I was
occupying more space than was desira-
bic. The conductor came along. He
had tin plate, stolen off some dog
collar, hitched to his hat, and says he,
F" Make little room, sir"
Says l, "You want me tomake little
room, do you?"
Says be, Eyes, do.''
Says 1, "What kind of a room do you
want, bathroom or a billiard-room?
Says he, Sir, there is room for eleven
on this seat"
Says /, "Sir, there isn't"
Says be, "There is eleven on the other
side'
Says 1; 81 see it, and there is ten on
this side now, and you tell me there is /
room for eleven more.n
says he, ~ mean there is room for |
one mOre.n
Says 1, "Well, whyi in thunder didn't |
you say so? one isn't eleven"
He smiled with such an expression of |
entire woe that the driver shouted /
whoa to his horses.
l had just one more controversy in
that car. 1t was with man who looked |
as if he had swallowed an entire Sunday
school class, and the straw hat of the
asst scholar had stuck in his mouth.
His cheeks pulled out so that if a pin
rad been stuck through them the hole
would have Whistled. This man insists
hat there was always three feet to a
fard. l told him 81 had seen yard
With over hundred feet to it,
Says he, "What kind of a yard?"
Says I, "A cattle-yard."
Says he, HOh %
Says /, "What?'
Says he, al owe you one.n
Says /, sob %
This is the time of year to dig UNI
'rellas, plant parasols, and milk cocoa
luts.- Correspondent Nel0 York Sur.
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~rHE AMERICAN CONFLICT"

The American Conflict, written by
Horace Greeley, was published by o. ID.
| Case & Co., who were compelled, after
the first volumewas in type, to keep press
! es running night and day to supply the
demand Of agents. No book previously
| published had met with such q rapid
| sale, excepting, perhaps, Mrs. Stoves
famous novel. Nearly, if not quite, two
hundred and fifty thousand copies of the
first volume We're disposed of, and the
sale was still going on successfully when
the second volume appeared. The pub
fishers were justified IN suppOsing that
the second would have as extensive a
sale as the first volume, as every one
who had purchased the book for its his
tOrieal value would surely get the COM
plete thing. When the sale of the sec
Ond volume had reached some sixty or
seventy thousand copies, and lightning
presses were rushing it off by hundreds
every day to meet the urgent call of
agents in the field, Mr.. Greeley signed
the bail-bond Of JEFF. Davis, and nom
that time the sale virtually ceased.
That stroke Of his pen cut of thousands
of dollars from the profits OF the publish
ers, who had depended on the sale of the
first volume to cover expenses, and ex-
pected their reward out Of the sale OF the
second, and took also q good deal of
money out of Mr. Greeley's pocket. In
letter Of Mr.. Greeley's, made public
since his death, he alluded to two nota-
bic things in his life, first, that he threw
away the United States SenatOrship
when Unpublished an article in the TTi-
bls1ae, following close upon the end of
the war, in favor Of universal amnesty,
and, second, threw away fortune when
he signed the bond for the release of
Jefferson Davis. U8doubtedly, the last
statement has reference to the sale of
The american Conflict. And that he
did sacrifice q fortune, or q good part of
one, is evident from the fact that, so far
as the sale extended, he was paid BY the
publishers fifty thousand dollars. Out
Of this, probably, it did not cost him I
over five Thousand dollars for the work /
Of assistants, so that he cleared a hand /
some sum, but it is supposed that he
saved only very little Ofit, as be was
giving, giving, giving-snd |,
very many times to people who imposed |
upon his eredulity. The book now is 4
sold to some extent, netting to Mr. Gree
ley before he died only about one hum /
dred and seventy-tive dollars a year, I
however. 1T never recovered the fatal 4
blow it got when the autograph OF the
great philosopher helped to release the I
sutocrat Of the great rebellion.
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FLASHES OF FUN.

The yellow fever is abating in Dam
bury. There are only two brass bands
there.
With gentle footsteps the beautiful
snow stole down from heaven yesterday,
and the dark-eyed mud reached up and
licked it in.
OF four men pitching pennies for beer,
back of the Excelsior saloon, Saturday
afternoon, three We're opposed 20 Nam
sard roofs.
California cannot raise the tea plant.
Neither can Danbury. This is what 10
called a coincidence.
The "last" words of men are often
quoted, but no one says anything about
the g last words" OF women. Probably
no one ever heard them.
An umbrella member Is in town. One
OF the ribs Ia our umbrella Il broken.
Will the person who has got 1t please
see that it is fixed9 80
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panies at these rates had no margin for
their percentages. The stockholders Of
the great company were previously
wounded as we'll as its agents, even
though il was very clearly demonstrated
con paper that there were profits
enough at the reduced rates But the
pressure against the change became ir-
resistible; compromise was effected,
old rates We're re-established, and every
thing moves along swimmingly.
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IT SEEMS that Secretary Browning
sold the Cherokee lands, settlers on
which now seek relief, to the railroad
man, Joy, two days 5etors the President
signed the treaty authorizing the sale.
swift witnesses must have been required
even to attest transactions which GER
tainly were redolent Of blessed Joyful
ness, if a plethOrie land-grabber can
ever reach state Of satisfactory pleni-
fuda
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The law passed in the New York Leg
islature a year or two ago against the
DETACHMENT of natural scenery has
worked much good in that State, and
tourists are now enabled to enjoy the
grandeur of the Catskills and Adiron-
dacs without being perpetuslly reminded
of physio. But on the New Jersey side
Of the Hudson river ''the pill people are
painting pufis Of their pills upon the
Palisades and the aesthetic New York
ers are disguised.
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SOME time ago great Life Insurance
Company reduced It's rates about one
third, and there was fearful commotlon
everywhere. The smaller companies
couldn't stand it, and the agents ofeOm-
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PLANTATION BITTERS
S. T.--1S8O--X.

This wonderful vegetable restorative
is the sheet-aReher OF the feeble and
debilitated. As 3 tonic and e0rdial fer
the aged and Isngaid, it has a0 equal
among stOmschies. As q remedy for the
HeFToHs weakness to which W0mas s-s
subject, Il d superseding
every other stimulaat. In al climates,
tropical, temperate or frigid. Il acts as q
specific IN every species CT disordsr
which URdsrmines the bodily strength,
and bresks doWu the animal spirits.
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The Hartford Times tells OF a gentle
man in that city who, on getting q glass
Of soda, was retiring from the store
without the usual little ceremony which
follows that operation. 'sRecoIIect,'
said the polite proprietor, III you lose
your pOekstbe0k, you didn't pull 1t cut
hsre.N
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london is in a dispute over the adul-
teTatioh Of coffee, as well as the perni-
cious effects of tea-drinking. On the one
side, certain newspapers have charged
that it is next to impossible to obtain
pure coffee from any dealer, and that
the articles used in adulterating it are
hateful. On the other side, the dealers
claim that they are not responsible for
the adulteratiOn, such as it is; that peO-
pie, as a rule, do not like pure coffee and
cannot afford to use il; aud, finally, that
nothing is used to NIX with coffee except
chiekOry, because there are 10 articles
cheap enough to take its plsce. 1t is
maintained that chickory Is not even so
hurtful as coffee, and that the practice
of mixing it with coffee is a decided inn
provement upon poor article Of the
latter.
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A three-year-cld child Of Mr.. John
Reed, Of Vernon, Illinois, bled to death
recently from wound Ia one OF Its
gums no larger than the head Of pin.
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Said AIr. Freude to a reporter IN search
Of knowledge: al pronounce the on my
name Ike 90 In fool" The reporter
fears that there Il a smack OF personality
about that answer, though he can't tell
just where il comes in.
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THERE is some talk in Washington of
having Kansas Pomeroy elected from
the Senate, because Of that shameful
letter Of bis proposing to swindls the
Government and Indians. Willis Gay
lord was TO have one-fourth Of the prof
its on the PottswattOmis Indian mis-
sion. H s~
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And 70 speak the truth OF Cesar,
have known when his affections swayd
More than his reason. But 'us common
THAT 1owiiness is young ambitions ladder,
Whereto the climber upward turns his face;
fsut when ne once attains the upward round,
he then unto the ladder turns his back,
lsUoiIs In the clouds scurning The base designs
BY which he did ascend; 20 Cesar may
But We will never believe it Of General
Grant. Seriously, We would like to ask
this simple question: What does it mat
Ter to the people who are oppressed,
ground down, robbed, insuIted, and
tyrannized over by a scoundrel horde,
who are cOuntenanced by the Govern
ment, whether that Government wear
the slouched hat Of the republican or
the diadem Of the monarch? Surely
the people Of the South have no reason
TO be in love with the republicanism Of
which General Grants Government is a
type; nor could they find 1t in their
warm and grateful hearts to curse the
imperial scepter whose waving brought
them peace, local self-government, and
competent rulers Blessed would be
that day which would restore to the
South the Government of her own COM
petent and honest sons, or the Govern
ment Of an imperial aristOcracy, If you
please, but still Of men cultured in juris- I
prudence, high in honor and honesty, I
and in sympathy with that high stand
ard Of courteous ethecs which has ever
been portion Of the political and social
creed Of the Southern States. There
never was a people more loyal to the
true principles Of repubiicanism than
jhe people Of the South. II was a South
-rn man who led the rebeIlious colonies
70 victory against England. 1t was a
Southern man who wrote the Declaration
# Independence. twas aSouthern man
who fought and won the battles Of the
people against the United States Bank,
and the corrupt monopolies Ofthe money
cd menOfthe North, in the grand old days
VI Andrew jackson. The South has IL I
ustrsted her devotion to republican /
but If in the name Of re- /
she Is to guench her thirst /
With the Marah waters Of despOtism, she /
nay hail relief at last, though it come I
lying the imperial purple Of an Empire
whose shadow is merged in its substance. 7
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MEXICAN MUSTANG LIEIMEEP
FOR MAN AND BEAST.

Probably few artlcles have ever has 50 ez-
tenslye a sale, while none have been more uni-
verselly beneficial than the iebrated NFsEF-
CAN MUSTANG LINIMENT. Children
adults, horses and domestic animals are a.
ways liable to accident, and Sc is safe % say
that no family can pas q single season with
OUT some kind Of emollIent being necessary
II becomes a matter Of importance. then, TO
secure the best.
over three hundred livery stables in the city
OF New lurk alone are usiuz the Mexican
Mustang Eminent, IN an Of wlichit gives M
usual satisfaction.
CAU1ION.-Ihe genuine n wrapped i'm
me sleel-plate engraving. with &c. 81. ~ est
brook, Chemist and -.lrade Marx. Mexican
y uSlang Llnlmeut." engraved across the face
OF each wrapper. The whole bears The urr----
e1ors private United states Revenue STAMP.
old not common stamp, as used by drug
Eists-
Lyon Manufacturing Company,
50 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK.
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POSTMASTER-G GENERAL CREsswELL
appealed eloquently yesterday to Con-
gress in speech before COM
mittee, in reply to President
Orion Of the telegraph ring, in
advocacy Of the purchase by Congress
Of the telegraph lines of the whole cOun-
try. The Presidents of the other tele-
graph companies are in favor of a sale to
the Government Orion alone opposingit.
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sALPH wORNELET. VII. D. wESDEL
RALPH WORkELEY & co,
COTTON FACTORS

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No. . UNION STREET, MEHPFEs
I'VE shall continue the commission bust
W a. - At the above stand, where we vii Be
happy 70 see ali Of our friends, many Of whom
We have served for twenty years without
ehangei and now again place our services az
their command, earnestly soliciting c1nsign-
linued Efforts a. heretofore 20 serve them
Ialthfuuy, and TO guard, with Jealous care.
their Interests. 60 Supplies furnished. and
liberal advances made on cCnsi gnments or
Cotton. Al Cotton insured, unless otherwise
Oc3s dST RALPH woRME1.EY & 60
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sHe would be crowu'd:-
How that might change his nature, there's
the question.
10 is the bright day that brings forth the adder; ;
Ana that Graves wary walking
HIS IMPERIAL HIGHNESs, ULYSSES
THE First, EMPEROR oFTHE AMERICAN
STATES OF THE NORTH Il hath a no.
ble sound, and would look magnificent
ly, over the broad seal Of the Empire,
spread upon the face of a commission Of
our Ministers Plelpote71tidry to foreign
courts. Then there would be the Prince
Imperial Fred, and the Princess Nellie
though from all we can learn, Miss
Nellie, TO DO her justice, is a princess by
= right higher than any which could
spring from her papa's elevation 70 the
American thrOne-her letter to the
Queen Of England, If her own, showing
her to be a sensible, high-minded, re-
publican girl. The Emperor par erce5- I
ieHce, Napoleon the First, was once
rad hot rerublipan
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ToUcHING LAsT wORps.

When old Mrs. Maxwell died, her
family and friends gathered at her bed
side in terrible anguish, weeping and
moaning. Her niece stood by her and
held her hand, and as the lamp Of life
fiickered before it was finally extinguish-
ed, she said to her: as there anything
that we can do 10 make your dying
moments happier? Have you any IN
fulfilled wish, any cherished design,
which we ean carry out? Shall we do
anything for you when you are gomez"
Mrs. Maxwell turned her facs toward
her niece, and with a faltering voice,
said; "Mariar, don't give none of them
preserved plums to William Henry.
They always disregreed with his stOm-
ach.n Then her freed spirit took its eter-
nal flight.
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MEMPHIS APPEAL
soyDAY MORNING. DEC. %, is7s.
TIE InPossIuLE EMPERE.

It is the yeriest bosh to talk Of al En-
pire in the United States; and the idea
Of Grant, the ex-tanner, eX-wood hauler,
ex-Democrat, ex-soldier, who destroyed
the "imperial head of the rebellion Of
Southern aristoersts - the idea Of "the
man on horseback who led the DEM
ocratic bows OF the North and West,
against the Oligarchy of the SOuth-an
Emperor! Fiddlesticks! Why, we new
er had a more thoroughly Democratic
President than General Grant. Witness
his respect for the constitution and the
laws in his treatment Of the PROSTATE,
the beautiful South. Witness his desire
for st. Domingo. Read his last message,
and say ifa more Democratic scheme
could be suggested to Congress than that
of his continuous land-locked naviga-
ton from Maine TO the Gulf Of Mexico"
Why, the immortal General Jackson
himself would have been taken a little
aback by this modest proposition, OF our
worthy President, to inter-"lock" the
States with this stupendons work OF in
ternal external improvement. Of
course the States have no right TO open
their lips in the objective mood. Why,
but the other day a learned counsellor
IN New Orleans, arguing in behalf of
the United States in the case Of War
moth as Pinchback, declared that the title
Of citizen Of one of the States was
a "mere local distinction" the United
States citizenship being the suHamuha
jas! And why not? Have we not out /
grown the swaddling clothes Of a mere
Republic Of States, Emporium IN inlperio9
Is not an act of Congress of greater ju- /
dicial dignity than the provision of a /
State Constitution? Is not the win Of 1
the President potential in deciding 1
which is or which is not State Govern
ment? Suppose, in the case Of Arkansas,
for instance, that the President should
see fit to recognize the Baxter govern
ment as the legal State authority, what
does it signify that large majority Of
the people of that State declared at the
bauNA-AlA AA4dA lA4Cl WeANCA 4S-Ne-Ao a.
the Executive head Of the State? Then
have we not become a powerful and
wealthy people with a record only lack
ing three years Of being covered with
the moss Of a ceEtIry7 Are we not rich,
and is it meet for people whose nose
has been lifted from the grindstene TO
brook the plebeian insolenee Of the De
mOcrscy: Democracy. Why, the very
name has a vulgar sound, and smells of !
leather. We beg ten thousand pardons.
We forgot the lanyard in Galena, Hi
nois; but our honest indignation at the !,
Of people who carp at our
destiny, betrayed US into this
allusion.
Shadow Of the Empire, foTsoothi No,
sir; General Grant don't work that way,
he simply wants another term; just !
to make it three, and then !
who knows? He is a Democrat now; :
how would the imperial purple change :
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The young African brought to this
country by Mr.. Stanley Is said to have
an excellent ear for music. He spends
much Of his time singing a tender song
which calls up Tecolleetions Ofhis home.
The refrain is:
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This is the time of year to dig um
brellas, plant parasols, and milk cocoa
nuts Correspondent Nel0 York Sur.