Year: 1869

Free from the bitter misery,


Of gossip's endless prattng!"


Every community is cursed by the presence Of
a class of people who make it their business to
attend to every bodys but their own. Such
people are the meanest specimens of deprayed
humanity which All-wise Providence permits to
exist on this cursed earth. 1t is well known
that almost every person is sometimes disposed
to speak evil of others; ard tattling is sin
from which very few claim to be entirely ex-
empt. 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 neighborhood, and know the exact state
of one neighbor's feelings toward another they
understand every body's faults, and no little
blunder or misdemeanor ever escapes their Will
gent watchfulness. They particularly well
posted upon everything connected with court
ship and matrmony, know who are going to
marry 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 a single chance to create dis
turbance, excite jealousy, or Il break up a
match, they take immediate advantage Of it, and
and do all in their power to keep people in a con-
slant state of vexation. They glide quietly from
gentleman to lady, from mother to daughter, from
father to son, and in the ears of all they pour
their dark, bitter whispers of SANDER and abuse,





cere friends of those they talk TO. Their black
and nauseous pills of malicious SANDER are
sugar-coated with smiles and honeyed words of
friendship. Tattlers confined to no partcu-
lar class Of society. They belong to ali classes
and operate in all We find them among the rich
and the poor-"upper tens" and the lower mil
lions, F" in the church and out of it, They are peo-
PIE wto have no higher ambition than to be we'll
informed in regard to other peoples private bus
nosc and IN retail scandal IN their neicbbn-r
and exult in fendish triumph over the
wounded feelings and bruised hearts of their
innocent victims. Beauless Old maids and
childless matrons make the most accomplished
sea adalmongers in the world. They seem to
take to tattling fl ON the promptings of a natural
instinct, and they prosecute it with an energy
that would DO Internal honor to their great
eader-the prince of darkness himself. Our
contempt for such graceless creatures know no
bounds and we can fnd'no words in which to
express its inlamy. What punishment they de-
serve we cannot know; but God knows, and as
sure as his internal justice reigns, they will re-
ceive a retrbution proportioned to the magni-
tudc of their offenses against the laws of God
and the interests Of humanity.


PAc1rIc RAILROAD. = The Ellenvile, N. W
Journol seems disposed to doubt the benefits to
be derived from the railroad and explodes after
this fashion:


The Pacific railroad is completed Long live
the Pacific read


Great is pluck Great is brass G.eajer still
is the almighty dollar


The greatest achievement of the age is exc
cuted-lhe greatest imposition ever practiced
upon credulous people is now set up. The
dear people have furnished the funds for build
ing the road, ald besides that have given the
owners of it a strip of land 500 miles long and
ten broad through the very heart OF the nation
And now the dear people may pay ten cent per
mile in gold for the privilege of riding across it.
good many people suppose that General Grant
is President of the United States; but they are
mistaken. The President of the United States
is the Pacific railroad. We are naticn of
bond-siaves, and railroads are our masters
We have been swearing at the folly Of New Jer-
sey IL consenting to wear the yoke of Camden
and Amboy, and all the while have ourselves
been getting lower and lower down on our knees
to Erie and the New York Central. And now to
complete our degradation and make it national,
the Pacific railroad is completed. Mark the
prophecy the celebration the other dav of the
completion Of that road was the celebration of
the establishment over US of the most unricht-
eous monopoly that ever cursed nation. That
road the other day completed, is the last Pacific
railroad wEick we shall see for the next quarter
OF 4 century ; or, if another is built, it will be
merely tender to this. Possibly, the manage
ment of this Pacific road may find it necessary
to second track below the snow-line but
that is all the road which this monopoly will al
low to exist. We are in chains and we hug cur
chains.


and Jim Flske! Long live the Pacific railroad