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Year: 1869

The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed Mr.. VanDgke, Assistant
Treasurer at New York, to make his
purchase of bonds for the last
week in this month on Tues
day, the 29th, instead of Wed
nesday, that the account may
be returned before July 1st. He has
also instructed the Assistant Treasurer
to purchase bonds to the amount Of
100000 at either of the next two
weekly purchases, in addition to the
regular purchase of a million a week,
in order to increase the sinking fund
by the close Of the fiscal year to the
proportionate amount for the four
months of the present administration,
the law requiring one per cent. of the
entire debt to be purchased during
each fiscal year fer that fund.
Year: 1869

Some little spot OF happy ground,


Where village pleasures might 60 round,


Without the village tattling.


How doubly blest that spot would be,
Where all might dwell in liberty,


Free from the bitter misery


Of gossip's endless prattling'"


Every community is cursed by the
presence of class of people who make
it their business to attend to every bo'
dy's business but their own. Such peo.
pie are the meanest specimens of de.
PRAYED humanity which an all-wise Pro.
vidence permits to exist on this cursed
earth. 1t is well known that almost
every person is sometimes disposed to
speak evil of others; and tattling is a
sin from which very few can claim to
be entirely exempt. But the object OF
our present article is to speak of that
distinct class of tattlers who make tale
bearing the constant business of their
lives. They pry into the private affairs
of every family in the neigheorhood'
they know the exact state of one neigh
boris feelings toward another; they un-
derstand every body's faults, and no
little blunder or misdemeanor ever es-
capes their vigilant watchfulness. They
are particularly we'll posted up on every
thing connected with courtship and
matrimony, know who are going to mar
ry whom, and can guess the exact time
when it will take place. They watch
every movement of parties suspected of
matrimonial intentions, and if there is
the slightest chance to create distur-
bance, excite jealousy or "break up" a
match, they take immediate advantage
of it, and do all in their power to keep
people iu constant state of vexation.
They glide quietly from gentleman to
lady, from mother to daughter, from ia
.her to son, and in the ears of all they
pour their dark, bitter whispers of SLAM
der and abuse and at the same time
pretend to be the most sincere friend
of those they talk to. Their black and
nauseous pills of malicious SANDER are
sugar coated with smiles and honeyed
words of friendship.


Tattlers are confined TO no particular
class of society. They belong to all
classes, and operate in all. We find
them rich and poor-"uppcr ten" and
the GLOVER million," in the church and
out of it. They are people who have
no higher ambition than to be we'll in
formed in regard to other peoples pri-
vate business, to retail scandal to their
neighbors, and exult in fendish triumph
over the wounded feelings and bruised
hearts of their innocent victims. Beau
less old maids and childish matrons
make the most accomplished scandal
mongers in the world. They seem to
take to tattling from the promptings of
a natural instinct, and they prosecute
it with an energy that would do infer
nal honor to their great leader-the
prince of darkness himself. Our con-
tempt for such graceless creatures
knows no bounds and we can find no
words in which to express its infamy.
What punishment they deserve we can
not know but God knows, and as sure
as his eternal justice reigns, they will
receive retribution proportioned to
the magnitude of their offences against
the laws of God and the interests of hu.
manity.
Year: 1869

Considering the damage done to the
crop this year by bad seasons, We must
come to the conclusion that it will be
small one. We think the same result
may be expected every year. Our pres
ent supply of labor it is we'll known and
conceded, will house only a certain
| amount of cotton-something over two
million bales, and this years crop will
probably reach tha figure. five make
more it cannot be gathered, and this well
known fact has kept, and will keep,
cotton up, at near its present figure, pro-
vided we are wise, and retain the con-
troll of the speculator and the market,
which we now enjoy.


Todo this, and always be indepen-
dent, it is necessary that the agricul-
turalists should turn his strictest atten-
tion to the resources of his land; aud
particularly to the discovery, and utillza-
tion of the wealth of fertility which it
contains. To depend less on labor and
more on manure-one is very uncertain |;
the other, is certain as any human event
can be. Search the land intelligently,
AMI perseveringly, and it will yield its
treasures. Mari beds, and the most
valuable vegetable deposits, Ere to be
found scattered over the country in all
directions. Our creeks, marshes, bays,
and swamps, contain large quantities of
a more fertile manure than Guano.-
Bring these deposits to light; make use Of
them, and you have alreadytaSen long
step in the direction of independent.


Our planters are gradually embracing
the idea of farming which obtains at
the North and in Europe. 1t is the
idea of less labor, more manures, and an
intelligent rotation Of crops. If We will
make our own manures, our own corn in
sufficient quantity, raise our own meat,
and if possible develope our stock rails
ing facilities, the sceptre of "king cot
ton" can never pass from our grasp, and
we will always be in position to con-
troll its price.


Our social and labor systems will for
atime operate againstthis Development.
Idleness and crime must be put down
with strong hand; and to do this the
honest, and industrious of both race
must band together; their interest are
identical-they. are in the same boat,
and their duty to themselves, and to
society, imperatively demands that no
means be left untried, to punish the
midnight providers who will soon de-
scend on our field like a swarm of locusts;
unless we have the energy, and honest
manhood, to meet them with swift and
sure punishment.


We have our destiny in our own
hands Let the lights of science and
experience direct our labor, and the
Development of the hidden wealth
which our land contains. Do not stick
to old notions simply because they are
old nots;cns! Move forward with the age t!
and this cotton country will soon be the
Gel Dorado" of America.
Year: 1869

M want the spirit that will look
Temptation in the face and say 'Be
gone p" said boy to his sister.


"Aud one thing more-you want Bl-
Bile spectacles to know Temptation when
he comes, answered his sister, "for he
does not always show his colors."
Year: 1869

COMMON ABsURDITIEs.-To say af-
ter anything that happens, 81 knew it
was going to take place."


To ask a merchant if the articles he
sells you is of the first quality.


To carry s!brioks" in your hat and
fatter yourself you can keep them hid
den from the world.


To think you must win lawsuit be-
cause you have the law and evidence on
your side.


To put salt in your soup before you
have tested it.


To tell a person of whom you would
borrow money that you urgently need
it.


To think that the great difficulty in
life is to find opportunity for the talent,
and not talent for the opportunity.


To make foolish "match" and then
ask a friends opinion of it.


To say that you have "no LEISURE"
instead of that you have no disposition
to improve your mind or to do good.
Year: 1869

The many who have to take the world
rough and tumble are prone TO envy the few


who roll through it uniolted in cushioned
vehicles on patent springs The toiler, as
he stumbles through its thorny thickets and
climbs over its foot blistering gravel, is apt
to curse the i'll luck that placed him on such
hard road. and to sigh for seat in one Of
the splendid equipages that glide so smooth
ly over fortunes macadamized turnpike


Born with pewter spoon in his moutl., be
coyets the silver one which was the birth
right of his well to do neighbor. Occupa


ton is the immediate jewel" of life. 1t is
true that riches are 10 bar to exertion.
Quite the reverse, when their uses are prop
erly understood. But the discontented work
er who pines for wealth, without being vii
ling to labor for it, regards the idleness in
which it would enable him to live as the
acme of temporal happiness He has no
idea Of money as great motive power, to
be applied in enterprises that give healthful
employment to mind and body All to loaf
luxuriously We have no sympathy with
such sensuous lougiDgs. People who in
dulge in them never acquire wealth. They
lack the energy to break their way to the
worldly independence for which they yearn
and whine They don't know how much
more glorious it is to tear affiuence from op
posing fate by main strength Of will and in
fexibility of purpose, than to receive it as a
windfall. There is infinitely more satisfac-
ton IN conquering fortune than was ever
experienced by lucky heir in obtaining
the golden store which some thrifty hand
had accumulated. Your accidental Cresus
knows nothing of the pride of success-of
honest exultation with which the self made
man looks back upon the impediments he
has overcome, and forward into the far flu
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Year: 1869

dence to the latter for The laws ofthe Leg
islature itself, which the Governor can only
enforce, the Supreme Court can annul and
set aside. Life, liberty, and property, each
and all, at times depend upon the decision
OF this tribunal Of last resort fwhat vast
concern, is it then, that at this time, right
choice should be made by the people be-
tween the two candidates now before them
as candidates for that exalted position. a
great responsibility will rest upon them, and
a great evil viii be inflicted should they
make an unwise selection Although the
respective candidates we're nominated by
party conventions, this is not openly party
questlon-it rises above party-embracing
the greatest and dearest interests of all, il is
a question by itself, solitary in its grandeur,
paramount to all others, in which nothing is
to be considered but the merits of the res


pectiye candidates. And now is the time
for reflection. There is ample time to ar
rive at just conclusion, between this and
tue elevtion, aud IL az ,AIivl euuauc UiOiez
should then be made, it will be chargeable
to the Indifference Of the people and not to
lack Of time for thorough investigation.
Year: 1869

Itmust be gratifying TO the friends OF
Judge Williams and the party whose noml-
nee he is, to find him so highly spoken ofin
all sections of the State, as well BY the OPP
position as by the Republican press. His
great ability as a jurist and sterling worth as
a man are admitted even by those who OPP
pose him, and with such strong feeling in
his favor our friends may rest confident
of his election And our readers can
not attach too much weight to the impor-
tance Of securing this result. As the Har-
risburg Telegraph remarks, in country
governed by law there is nothing so neces


sary to the security of justice and liberty as
an independent, enlightened judiciary and
especially is it necessary that the highest tri-
buual in the State should be composed of
men possessing the best legal attainments,
the most spotless integrity, and lofty indie
pendence Of mind. If this be so,-and we
think it will not be disputcd-the contest
for Judge of the Supreme Court now pend
ing is not second in importance to that Of
Governor indeed, while both are Of great
consequence, we are inclined to give prece-
Year: 1869

Who, looking backward from his manhood prime
Sees not the spectre Of his misspent timer


And, through the shade
Of funeral cypress planted thick behind,
Hears no reproaehful whisper Of the wind


From his loved dead
Who bears 40 trace Of passions evil force,
Who shuns thy sting, Q terrible remorse2


Who does not cast
On the thronged pages Of his memory's book,
AT times, sad and half reluctant look,


Regretful of the past2
Alas the evil which we fain would shun
We do, and leave the wished for good undone.


Our strength to-day
Is but to-morrows weakness prone to fali
Poor, blind, Improbable servants all


Are We Away.
Yet who, thus looking backward o'er his ears
Feels not bis eyeIids wet with grateful tears


If he hath been
Permitted, weak and sinful as he was,
To cheer aud aid in someeunobling cause,


His fell w men?
If he hath hidden the outcast, or let in
a ray Of sunshine to tho cell Of sin


If be hath lent
Strength to the weak, and, in an hour Of need,
over the suffering, mindless of his creed


Or home, hath bent
He has not lived in vain. And while he gives
The praise to Him, in whom he moves and lives,


With thankful heart;
He gazes backward, and with hope before,
Knowing that from his works he nevermore,


Can henoeforth part.
Year: 1869

In 1868, when Chambersburg was smok-
ing and the decisive lines were drawing
around Gettysburg, the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania were in council at Harrisburg.
Many of the very men in session last month
were there, and under the very bayonets Of
the Confederate army, they remembered the
Union soldier by advising compromise
compromise when the colors of rebellion
we're profaning the soil of the State.


In 1864 the Democracy met in National
Convention at Chicago. The fate Of the
nation was in the balance. Sherman was
gone on his brilliant but desperate march to
the sea. Thomas was battling in front of
Nashville Grant was struggling in the
Wilderness amid the graves and defeats of
successive campaigns. The Democracy met
and remembered the soldiers-How They
explicitly declared the war, after three years
of trial, to be "a failure, and demanded
that immediate effort be made for a cessa-
ton of hostilities. Every plank, too, of
this infamous platform, with one exception
was stab at the Administration which was
keeping the soldiers in the field Is it any
wonder that this shameful assemblage has
passed into infamy and history as the Sur
render Convention p


In 1865, when the war was just over, and
the soldiers of Pennsylvania were coming
home, tired aud wounded, with their dead
behind them, their business and occupations
gone, to commence, perhaps, yet more
desperate struggle for livelihood, how were
they welcomed by the Democracy of Penn
sylvauia? In convention assembled, under
the leadership of Judge Black, still an hon
ored name in his party, the Democracy of
the State deliberately and officially declared
the history of the war to have been debt,
slaughter and disgrace " That was only
the Democratic remembrance of our strug-
gle and sacrifice


These platforms and resolutions, which
make the blood of soldies to leap and his
cheek to tiugle, are all yet in full force and
vigor They are part of the creed of
Democrat. They have never been reseind-
ed, repealed, or apologized for. A vote for
Packer and Pershing is specific endorse
ment of their every word.


This is what Democratic remembrance
means.
Year: 1869

One man complains of wants and def
ciencies from which his neighbor is exempt
while the latter sighs for advantages which
the other is supposed to possess. The poor
man eats his corn bread and fat bacon with
a relish caused by hunger, which the rich
man signs for at table covered by dainties.


A banker, one day, was approaching his
door at dinner time, when he was aceosted
by beggar, who cried out that he was hun
cry. "What happy rogue, replied the
banker, to have hunger" A more famil-
lar anecdote is that of an English nobleman,
who, in the midst of a violent attack Of
asthma, hearing chimney sweep in the
street, uttering his usual cries to attract no
tice, exclaimed, 'What an extravagant ras
cal that is He wastes more breath in five
minutes than would last me for the day"


when I was young man, said an en-
inent English surgeon of the last century,
81 had good teeth but wanted meat for them
to chew; now / am old and have abundance
to eat, but not the teeth to enable me to
chew it. This is a somewhat iguratiye
way of expressing the fact that in early life
man has keen sense of enjoyments, with
out the desired means for their full gratif-
cation; and that in old age this sense is
bunted, while the incentives to pleasure
abound. The helpless paralytic finds large
compensation in the tender care and unceas-
ing attentions of family or friends, whose
kindlier feelings and affections have been
brought out by the occasion, to an extent
alike grateful and unexpected to him and to
themselves.
Year: 1869

THE GRAVE OF HAWTHORNE, He lies
buried close to Thoreau, on the highest
point of the Sleepy Hollow cemetery. Two
small, oval stones bear the simple name
Hawthorne, without date or anything
else. The grave is covered with thick
growing myrtle, and in one corner of the
evergreen hedge which surrounds the lot is
a hawthorn tree. 1t is poets grave. and
nothing in the surroundings of his home can
compare with 1T Concord Letter.
Year: 1869

EVERY man is happy no matter what his
circumstances, who is contented Happi-
ness does not depend so much on the art
of getting much, as the art of being content
ed With what we have
Year: 1869

You viii never convince a man of ordina-
ry sense by overbearing his understanding.
If you dispute with him in such manner
as to show due Difference for his judgment,
your complaisance may win him, though
your saucy argument could not.
Year: 1869

LABOR. There is much truth in the
statement that none SO little enjoy life, and
are such burdens to themselves, as those
who have nothing to do The active only
have the true relish of life. He who knows
not what it is to labor, knows not what it is
to enjoy. Recreation is only enjoyable as it
unbends US The idle know nothing of it.


1t is exertion that renders rest delightful,
and sleep sweet and undisturbed. That the
happiness of life depends on the regular
prosecution of some landahlA .nurnasa. nr
lawful calling, which engages, helps and en-


ivens all our powers, let those bear witness
who, after spending years in active useful
ness, retire to enjoy themselves; they then
find leisure burden rather than pleasure
Year: 1869

MODEL JOURNALISTS. 'It is surpris-
ing what a vast number ofpeople there are
lying around loose, who are lin their own
estimation) so admirably adapted to the
work of making model newspapers. Gen
orally, newspaper editors see the imperfec-
tions Of their work more plainly than any
one else, and labor assiduously to correct
them; and if those who are constantly find
ing fault with their work, were for short
time given that work to Dc, it would make
them great deal more charitable.
Year: 1869


I've sweetheart who S hind and attentive,
Butwho gives me deal Of concern;
For this youth is SO timid and bashful,
His intentions have yet to learn.
Not word has be whispered of marriage,
Though be calls every day in the week.
What on earth is The cause Of his silenee2
Good gracious! why doesn't he speak
One would think me an ogre or griffin,
Since frighten the man in this way;
Yet I treat him wish all condeseensiou,
And study each word that I say.
All my pains are bestowed to small purposes
Upon one who's SO mild and so meek.
How he bushes, audstammers, and trembles
How be signs Bat why doesn't he speak
Six months have pass by in such corrtShip
And fnd that he's ever the same;
His conduct is most aggravatiug,


For he's only a sweetheart in name.
don't doubt but he loves me most truly
Then what comes he hither to seek ?
If a wife, why m ready to wed him
Good gracious why doesn't be speak?
Year: 1869

We long for the day when this custom
shall be obsolete 1t is unbecoming the
truly afflicted one. The wearer says BY the
black garments 81 have lost dear friend
l am in deep sorrow" But true grief does
not wish to parade itself before the eye of
the stranger; much less does it assert its ex-
tent. The stricken one naturally goes apart
from the world to pour out the tears. Real
affection seeks privacy. 1t is no respect to
the departed friend to say we are in sorrow.
If we have real grief, it will be discovered.
When God has entered a household in the
lawful chastisement of death, it is time for
religious meditation and communion with
God on the part of the survivors. How
sadly out of place, then, are the milliner,
and the dressmaker, the trying on of dress
es and the trimming of bonnets. There is
something profane in exciting the vanity of
young girl by fitting on waist or tying on
a hat, when the corpse of a father is lying
in an adjoining room. 1t is a sacrilege to
drag the widow forth from her grief to be
fitted for gown, or to select veil 1t is
often very oppressive to the poor. The wild
ow, left desolate, with half @ dozen little
children, the family means already reduced
by the long sickness of the father, must
draw on her scanty purse to pay for new
wardrobe for herself and children, throEing
away the goodly stock of garments already
prepared, when she most likely knows not
where she is to get bread for those little
ones. Truly may fashion be called tyrant,
when it robs a widow of her last dollar.
Surely your sorrow will not be questioned,
even if you should not call in the milliner 10
help display it. Do not, in your affliction,
help uphold custom which will turn the
affections of poorer neighbors to deeper pow
erty, as weIl as sorrow.--He Central Bap-
fjSf
Year: 1869

RICHES do not consist in having more
gold and silver, but in having more in pro-
portion than our neighbors whereby we
are enabled to procure to ourselves great
er plenty of the conveniences Of life than
comes within their reach, who, sharing the
gold and silver Of the world in a less proper
tion, want the means of plenty and power,
and 50 are poorer.
Year: 1869

THAT was a beautiful idea in the mind Of
a little girl, who, on beholding rose-bush,
on the topmost stem Of which rose was ia
ding, while below and around it three beau
tiful crimson buds were just unfolding their
charms, at once and earnestly exclaimed to
her brother: See, Willie, these little buds
have awakened in time to kiss their mother
before she dies.
Year: 1869




On tue shores of both the Atlantic and Pa
cific Ocean the tide OF immigration is increas-
ing every year. And the prospect now is that
Asia will send to us ere long quite as many
immigrants as Europe. II any man had
prophesied twenty years ago that the Chinese
would have come to this continent in such
large numbers as they have for a few years
past he would have been considered either a
maniac or fool. A few years ago there were
but two Chinese persons in this country, and
they were great euriosities; but now they are
counted by tens of thousands. In view of the
immense number of people who come to this
country it is great relief 10 know that our
territorial limits are only bound by two oceans.
As yet We have ample room and verge enough.


During the month of last May there arrived
at New York from Europe over fifty thousand;
in the preceding month Of April there were
over twenty-seyen thousand, and for the Eve
months from January 1st to May 31st the num-
Der was upwards of one hundred and two
thousand. But the arrivals for the first week
of the present month are still more astsnish-
ing In that week there arrived ten thousand
nine hundred and seventy eight About elev-
en- thousand in a single weekl The largest
number of these immigrants sailed from Liver
pool, whittier the Germans are brought in
large numbers to take passage ior this country.
But during the sans period there arrived from
the two ports Of Bremen and Hamburg over
thirty7two thousand. The others are from
Glasgow, London, Copenhagen and Antwerp
This is largo increase over last year. Our
country is fast becoming the grand asylu n of
the whole world. What we shall be doth not
yet fully appear; but that we are destined to
be the great leading nation of the world there
can be no doubt. ff st.l..f -