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but few will say aught against Mr.. Blaine's
cndeayor TO make him a "man without a
country"
The Democrats talk of running Jeremiah
| Black for the Presidency. All right. The
Republicans had just as soon beat jeremiah as
| any other man, so long as they have got to do
the beating.
An investigation into the culpable and bare
faced frauds of the Mississippi election may
| possibly place Mr.. Lamar in bad odor before
the Senate, and endanger his seat in that dis
tinguished body.
Il is leap year, and the man who goes around
with low neck and short sleeves, iirts with a
fan, drors his handkerchief continually and
faints now and then is doing legitimate busi-
ness and ought to be supported.
DR.. Talmadge insists that men should swear
| under no circumstances but let him strike an
orange peel when he is running to catch q
street-car, and sit down on his elbows, aud he
will find that circumstances alter cusses.
A man who will deliberately set himself to
work and save ono hundred human beings
from drowning Y hen -four is So per sack and
contraction of the currency contemplated,
ought to have a medal-in a Horn. John
Horn, of Detroit did it.
The voice of the New York Sua is for war.
War with Spain, war with Mexico, war here
and war there, anything and any place for war.
If it would only GO out into some quiet and Sc
cluded spot, away from the din and busy hum
OF men, and give itself good sound beating il.
might make decided improvement in its
general appearance and help to tune its Gu'e
for peace.
The code of honor was again practiccd in
Virginia the other day, in which an English
man and native Virginian participated. The
weapons were swords, and the combatants
sliced and mangied each other until the sec
onds intcrGcred and closed the steel debate.
If it were not trespassing upon humanity tco
much 20 say it, when two men come SO near to
ridding the world of two dangerous lunatics as
was the case in this affair. it should be crime
to preycn. them.
Members from the Southern States recently
in rebellion say positively that they will defeat
the Centennial bill If resolutions compliment
tGry of UEion soldiers are continued to be in
trcduced in the House. They seem to have as
little love for the boys in blue now as they
harbored fer them in 1863; but, after all, the
best thing they can do is to resignedly swallow
the results of the war, dispel their prejudice to
Union men ard vote for the bill.
Tie Cincinnati Commercial notifies the Re-
publican parry tLat it cannot support Gen.
Grant II he is renominated. How sad, how
incomparaLly sad is this. Why could not that
journal have troken this mournful intelligence
to tkc party in a softer and more gentle way
Oh, for the fickleness OF the fancy of faithless
friends But, then, there were seventy -four
deaths from small -pox in Cincinnati last week,
and that is enough to make q lamp-post
act up.
The Philadelphia HcD. says: "When o, 900
women Of Utah petition for repeal Of the
anti-polygamy law,we begin to doubt whether
the Mormon wife is so distressed with her con-
dition as the tourists customarily relate. May
it not be on the principle that half loaf is
better than no hread-that one fourth, fifth,
tenth, thirtieth, or other fractional part of
man and husband is preferred by the average
woman to the chance of whole life of single
blessedness?" Well, now, We never thought
Of that before.
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania has young lady
by the name Of Emma Britton, who in her way
is a very remarkable girl. She weighs 40
pounds, can turn q back handspring with q
glass of water in her teeth without spilling
drop, jump half way across pond on skates,
no matter what pond. She is a dead shot,
can throw a ball four hundred yards, jump
over q chair backwards, swim like duck and
is open for marriage without any takers.
Men will never appreciate talents in women
for some mysterious reason.
Tie Binghamton Times, in commenting on
the amnesty bill debate, says: ''The purpose
of the sixty odd Southern members of Con-
gress who have been admitted as lawmakers
OF the nation, through the generosity of the
defenders of the same Union which they Wig
orously attempted to destroy, is now plainly
before the people. With the help of their old
time allies-the dough-faces of the North
they evidently expect to dictate the legislation
of the present Congress, whether it relates to
the Centennial appropriation, Jefferson Davis,
the Confederate debt or the specie resumption
act"
The debate on the amnesty bill has pro-
duced novel spectacle for the American peo-
pie. 1t has been a sight of which they little
dreamed, and at which they have no desire to
look. 1t is a picture drawn by the marvellous
and fcklc hand Of time, sketch not in keep
ing with the precedents of history. A Demo-
cratic House Of Representatives, composed
principally Of ex-Confederate generals by the
irresistible force of majority, is attempting
to compel the powerful Government of the
United States to go down on its political knees
and, creeping humbly and Iamb-like to where
the unrepentant, unreconstructed and naughty
arch traitor is standing, meekly and pleadingly
ask him to Condescend TO take the oath of al
legiarce to the United States. And after
they have heen forced to do this; after
they have humblcd themselves in the
dust before this destroyer OF our nations
peace, this man, who tells the people of the
South TO day that the principles for which
they fought will yet be reasserted; after they
have eXhorted him to come back into the fold,
to forcswear his adherence to the principles of
the lost cause; after they have whiningly,
meekly and lamb like done this, the probabili-
ties are that the indignant and naughty traitor
will spurn the poor petition and laugh with
contemptuous scorn at the American people
for humbling themselves at his feet. He
would say: 81 have not asked you for this, I
have not said that l desired to come back into
your Union, into that government of States
which absolutely abhor, into that combina-
tion which 1 have spent my life in trying to
destroy. Why do you come to me with your
cringing and pleading request to support
Constitution have struggled to ruini Why
do you humble yourselves in this childish way
and appear so anxious to forgive me when
feel that have done nothing which requires
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