Year: 1870

| know tnal misery anu uedtu Can cohP"es eh
chanted abodes, and they bring light hearts
to the court of Momus; and so we have the
ever recurring circus,


| with its smell Of tan and plank,
| And girl poised high in air


| Upon a cord in spangled dress


OF faded loveliness,


And weary look of care"


And vet the chiefest delight of the circus is
to see the people They are unlike any other
congregation. Nowhere can be found such
democracy. Canvas covers a multitude OF
whims, and turns them all into solid flow of
humor, oily and unctuous. Ragged gamins
sit in lordly state beside the rubcund exquis-
ite upon whom fortune has smiled, till it has
set his very face aglow. Thankful let us be
that in one temple of the land where men do
| congregate there are no reserved seats, no
CASTE And then the sentimentalism Where is
| such simplicity? Inever miss my rural Are
thusa and her lover, and when the crash of
the entree comes with what tremor of de-
light she nestles down closer to his manly
form. Oh, never daisy came to the May with
sweeter trust, or tender vine clung more conf
dinghy to its support when chilly winds blow
have case now in my mind. 1t was over
cast and even raining just little and the cur
tains and the banners tapped heavily. But
they came in good season, and were on the
corner when the procession was ready to
move. don't think they were inclined by
nature for the same plane of existence. He
was plain and solid and ponderous, and


,ls,, tal
under a glass. He was no exotic; but his
frame had been beaten upon by the storm.
He had little sweetness of speech, but he was
sober and sound and straight. / could war
rant him all wool. She was petite and ten
der and ETHEREAL, and


"She had little bonnet with flower garden on it,
And her father kept meatshop in Stroudwater."


Still she was not proud, but looked up at
him as though never in this poor world had
rural swain to struggle with female pride;
and thought of the old homily which Whit
tier has dressed out so charmingly:


40, rank is good and gold is fair,


And high ami low mate i'll;


But love has never known law


Except its own sweet will"


But cannot follow them. They are going
to stay to witness the supplemental perform
ance, "under this tent, gentlemen, first
class minstrel troupe; tickets only twenty
five cents" They will also see the boneless
man, the living snakes, and the wild men of
Borneo, and she will try the spirometer to
make sure her lungs are sound, and then he
will try the lifting machine and they will go
hor,o no unto this houSq


A sudden and, en- the whole, rather ridicu-
lous spurge has been made against the consol-
idation between the p. & X. & NJ. c. Railroads.
The meetings were in charge of gentlemen
who have had quite as selfish railway inter-
ests in their day as the parties they assailed,
and little valuable discussion really came
of them. Stripped of all verbiage and put in
the light of strict fact the argument OF Mr.
Poor and others is simply that there should
be a broad guage of all roads leading into
Portland from the east, and narrow, or diff
ferent guage leading west out of Portland. If
the guage be uniform say these gentlemen,
then everything will go through and we be
way station. I" Portland will become a
Portsmouth said one of the speakers. do
not care to take your space to argue against
so absurd conclusion. The fact is that
Portland has greatly prospered on account OF
every avenue of trade, no matter what the
guage, or whether it be steamer route instead
of railroad. She has got the trade of the east
Just so far as it was deserved or could be ex-
pected, and she can increase it just as fast as
bot str ibnt n o.
point for eastern products, the lime, lumber,
wood and fish; and until she can buy these
she can not entirely control that trade. No
troublesome change of guage can seriously
disturb the laws of trade. 1t may add to the
expense of shippers of goods, but it cannot
stop the current. 1t can only vex. If an
eastern man has car load of potatoes to sell
in the market, he would be glad to sell them
in Portland, and if he can find purchaser,
all right. If not he must send to Boston or
further west Is difference of guage, SIM
ply, able to force him to sell them in Port
land? Certainly not. He would take them
across the city in a wheelbarrow before he
would be put in such position. And Port
: land does not desire any such illogical and
absurd policy declared to the world, and l
know these gentlemen are putting her in a
false position. The greatest gain in any d-
rection, to Portland, the last five years, has
been from the new steamer routes. Surely
railroad guage has nothing to do with this.
The Portland trade through the st. John and
Portland line has increased in greater proper
ton than the Boston trade has This does
not lock as though the whole east were SIM
ply striving for a chance to rush through to