Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1863-01-29

              .ft'. , t mil, POL. IX. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1863. NO 13 lit pfanttfi. wmm m THE MOUNT VERNON REPUBLICAN. TERM Si For one year (Invariably in advanee)?2,00 For uix moutliM, 1)00 TERMS OF ADVERTISING. One sqtmro, 3 weeks, 1 ,00 ( ue H4imrc, 3 months, 5S.00 One sciiiiire. ( months, 4.50 One square, 1 yrur, 0,00 One sijuaro (changeable monthly) 10,00 Changeable weekly, 15.00 Two squares, i weeks, l.iU Two squares, G weeks, 8.25 Two squares, iJ months, 6.25 Two squares, 0 months, 0.7 .r Two squares, 1 year, 8,00 Three squares, 3 weeks, 2.50 Three squares, 0 weeks, 4,50 l'lirec squares, 3 months, 0,00 Three squares, 0 months, 8,00 Three squares, 1 year, 10,00 One-fourth column, chnn. quarterly. 15.00 One-third " " " 22.00 One-half " " ,: 28,00 One column, changeable quarterly, 50,00 All local notices of advertisements, or Vailing attention to any enterprise intended to benefit individuals or corporations, will hie charged at the rate often cents per line. Select )ottx). YOUXe MEN OF THE PRESENT DAY. Tdio young men of the prcseut day, Arc fast young men indeed: They smoke cigars, when throe feet high, And chew the bitter weed. They drive fast horses, go to balls, And on the ladies wait; And long before the're tweuty-ono They're looking for a mate. With dangling chains and bamboo canes, They walk along the street: And make low bows to all tho maids With whom they chance to meet. A moustache en his upper lip, And rings upon his haw?; Give chase, fair maids, I'm very sure He is your model man! Y01XG LADIES OF THE PRESENT DAY. The fair young girls of modern days, Are waxen dolls indood; They cannot stand tho sun's warm rays Or kneed a loaf of bread. They cannot scrub the kitchen floor, Or make tho chamber bed; Or take a step beyond the door, But they arc almost dead. But, if there's a party or a ball, Within some miles around: They'll dress in all their finery, And go off with a bound. They'll lay in bed tho whole next day, Or, stupidly sit down, To read the last new novel which Has found its way in town. MY WIFE. "Charley, your wifo is tho best . woman in tho world '." It was my friend Barnes. Now if my friend Barnes, under ordinary circumstances, had uttered in my presence such an tsxelauiation, I might have replied: "My dear friend, why don't you tell me something I don't know already?" But the circumstances were extraordinary ns I will tell you. The day before, Barnes had buried his oldest boy a fine fellow, five years old. Being neighbors and a close intimacy existing between our respective families, I ran over early next morning to speak a word of sympathy. His countenance wore a look of deep distress. "It's very hard I know," said I. "Oh! I could bear it, for myself but Mary my wife she winds her hcart-etrings so tightly around tho object she loves, the shock of (separation ia terrible. She has not slept, she has not shed a tear but passes from ono paroxism to another, pronouncing tho most terrible imprecations on things human and divine. Nothing tends to soothe her. Tho baby she takes no notice of seems to have forgotten that Bho has a child left; I fear for her life, and if that is spared, that her reason will givo way." I could not detain him longer from the care of his wifo, but sadly returned home. My wife listened to tho story of her friend's desperate condition, and scarcely appeared to know when I had finished telling it, but itill sat as if listening. Five minutes later, however, when I passed through the hall, to depart fcr my placo of business, I saw her in her dressing room, putting on her cloak and bonnet. It was night when I returned homo nf-tcr a buy day at my office; and, just as I passed Barnes' door, ho came out, and surprised mo with tho exclamation I havo already repeated. Tho look of distress was gone from his face, but there was moisture in his eye ami dcopemotion in the tone of his voice. Re inerabering tho interview o' the next morning, you can well understand hat it was not in my thought to reply lightly, when he said: 'Your wifo in tho beHt womau in the world the most considerate, tho most thoughtful.'' 'She eamo down to see Mary?" I said. "No the didn't; she did what was still better she sent another." 'The Reverend?" "No. What could he prescribe for such a case? You know Mrs. Pardee. "Yes; she buried her husband lust week, "And her throe children within a twelvemonth. Well, about noon, to-day, just after Mary had experienced one of hcrwildest paroxysms, during which she made violent efforts to throw herself from the window, and had sunk at last upon tho sofa, overtaken by complete physical exhaustoii. the bell rang, and, when I opened the door, there was Mrs. Pardee. Sho whs accompanied by your wife, who was in the act or taking Iuavo of her." "You will go in?" said Mrs. Pardee." "No, I'd better not; you go alone. 7c not lost a husband; and my girls they arc at homo, rosy with health." "Iwidtrttund." "She entered without another word, but paused on seeing Mary apparently aslocp. Then catching sight of tho cradle, she went straight to it, and, sinking upon the floor, bent her face over the baby, and burst into tears. "That was a moment not to be lost; ulso understood." "Mary!" I cried, in a voice, intended, if possible, to rouse her. "Mary look up! look!" "Both women raised their eyes at the same instant, and looked tho one upou the other. That scene will live fcrever in my moinory the picture of those two women looking into each other's eyes the expression of one full of the bitterest agony-thcoth cr calm though unspeakably sad. For a full minuto neither spoke. Gradually the full conception of the circumstances seemed to form itself in Mary'smind. Thcjrarnicnts of deep mourning, the child in the cradle, the husband near her all she saw them all, though her eyes were still looking deep down into the bereaved heart before her. Then, with a cry, tihe sprang from the sofa, and threw herself upon tho neck of her friend. The fountain of tears were unsealed, and long, long they wept together over that sleeping infant. At last Mary slowly spoke. " You believe there is a God and that he is good?" "Yes." " How can you when he has killed all your dear -ones?" "The light of divine truth beamed in the woman's face, as she answered in deep, firm tones: "When my children were taken fromnic I thought the Lord wanted part of my love. But when he took my husband also, then I knew tho Lord was determined to have my whole heart." "Like lightning the words went to Mary's soul. "Oh! how wickedly I have sinned." "Sho clasped herbabc to her breast, and ,then, clinging her arms around both husband and child, she said: "I will not dare complain again," "From that moment sho wa9 calm, resigned and, yielding to our persuasion to partake of some refreshment, in half an hour I had the happiness of seeing her sink into a gentle sleep, with a smile upon her lips. "Then Mm. Pardee explained how your wife had come to her and begged in the name of sweet Mercy, that she would visit Mary. She was loth to comply at first, being a comparative stranger; but lmr visitor insisting that sho alone could rouse Mary from her dispair, and perhaps save her life, she at last consented. "And I am very thankful," sho added "that my visit appears to Lave produced such favorable results." "And so am I," Barnesaddcd, pressing my hand; "I hardly hoped to see her smile again." I wrung his hand and left him, without saying a word. Something rose up in my throat that wouldn't admit of speech. But in my mind I repented' ail went home: "Sho is the best woman in tho world tho most considerate the most thoughtful. Xcw York Methodist. Husband and Wife. Addison has left on record the following sontence: "Two persons who hare chosen each other out of all tho species, with design to bo ench other's mutual comfort and entertainment, have in that rcry action, hound themselves to be good humored, affable, joyful, forgiving and patient, with respect to each other's frailties and iuipcrfcctioni". to the end of their lives." GEN. BUTLER'S WELCOME HOME. A NOBLH SPKKCII. General Butler had a significant welcoii o at Lowell, Mass., his nntive city, on the 12 inst. In responds to the welcoming speech made by the Postmaster of the city. Hon. John A. Goodwin, General Butler replied in the following truly admirable remarks:Mr. Chairman, Friends and Xeiylibors: I have many times met you in this hall, but never under circumstances of greater embarressinent. My heart is full. My voice is choked with the emotions that well Up to the eyes as I listen to your kind word of greeting and approval. My friends, if there is a reward to be sought on earth by a faithful discharge of duty, by a loyal devotion to country, it is the approval of one's friends and neighbors. Applause. You, sir, have flatteringly alluded to my services, but you have tiot alluded to the great clement of my success. I have never been in battle without a Massachusetts regiment, and havo never been engaged in a battle where success crowned my efforts without a Lowell regiment, Applause. The 2Gth once your old Gth was at New-Orleans; it was at Baltimore; and if I could do nothing for you at Fortress Monroe, it was' because the Government kept back from mo the Gth and 0th Massachusetts regiments. At New Orleans, at Fort St. Philip, your regiment waded up to the arm-pits in mud to attack that fortress, and it Was owing to their gallantry that the fortress surrendered. It is to Lowell perseverance not alone in the fervor of the General in command, but in tho brave and gallant comrades with him that the country owes the glory of that victory, Let us pause here a moment to drop one tear and breathe ono sigh for tho gal hint dead who have offered up their lives ou the altar of thcircountry. I need notname them to you. Every heart cherishes their memory. But there occurs to my thought the name of the gallant Crowd!, who lies now with his kindred here at homo. These noble men have given their lives for the sacred causo of liberty, and they can never be forgotten. Now, friends, cherishing their memories, lot us pass on to tho scenes of the present and the duties of tho living. I have heard, but cannot believe it, that some aro faltering in this hour of their country's peril, that the faith of some in the nation's triumph in this unhappy war has for a moment given way. Do you be licvo that there is a just God? Whoever believes in Him, must believe that the cause of right and justice and truth must necessarily triumph. Upon that subject never permit yourselves to doubt. We may have to peril moro treasure, to lose more sons and brothers in the causo of the country, but ultimate success is sure. To doubt this is, in my judgment, atheism of tho worst sort. I have heard it said, my friends, that I havo changed in some of my ideas and thoughts on political questions since I loft you. I have changed in some of my ideas, I grant you, becanso I havo learned something, great applause, but that I have changed in a single principle, I deny. I stand before you tho same Domocrat who for so many years battled for the rights of tho people at tho North, and now battle for tho same rights in the South. I have found that this rebellion is a rebellion against tho working classes, without distinction of color; and I have stood upon that question whero I have ever stood, and where I shall ask you to stand as I know you will. The rebellion was begun and is carried on for tho purpose of creating a landed aristocracy, which shall givo to four hundred thousand the government ot eight millions ot whites and four millions of blacks. It is for that that Jeff Davis and his confederates have undertaken a rebellion which they claim is to secure the rights of tho people. Do you think, if it was a rebellion of tho people, it would be necessary to resort to cooscrip tion to raise their armies? Did our fathers have to conscript men? At this time I may say that moro than one-half the army of tho South is composed of men driven into it at the point of the bayonet. Did any thing of this kind ever succeed before, and will it succeed now? No; unless the laws of nature are entirely reversed. Now lot us look directly at your interests and your duties; for I am speaking now, having just come from tho cotton regions, whero interests and duties for once go band in hand. Would you wish to be at the command of those masters at the South who oould make you do as they said by cutting off the supply of cotton? It is for your freedom from thoso masters that we aro fighting to day; that the people of tho South may not claim to bo our masters but our brothers; that wo may place ourselves where the will feel us to bo, as wo know we aro their equals, not their inferiors. It is to correct this idea that tho Northern man, with rod blood, bluo eyes, light hair and all that God give to thi imago of himself, is nut equal to the slave driver" with their thin lips and pallid brows it is to correct this idea, I say, that we are proposes to give up our fair claim to Mex-o imaged in this momentous struggle. Thai I icn, if it comes to that? No ono p'opoes 18 the question beloro in; un id he do 'a not side with us question says that he desires on that to kiss the foot of these masters. I went lo Louisiana desiring to do everything to restore it as it was; to see if by any possibility I might bring the principles, the laws and the institutions which govern that State itito harmony with the Union; but I found there no disposition to have that done, I found that the aristocracy looked upon Us ns their enemies; and I found that the working and middling classes looked upon us us friends. Within the first mouth 1-1,000 of those who compose the bone and sinew of New Orleans had takon the oath of allegiance, not by lip service only, but from their hearts; and from that day I found no man owning slaves who would take the oath of allegiance, except for the purpose of saving his property. This Was the rule. There were some exceptions. I found the working men true to the tnion. I dealt kindly with tho working men, ami I dealt harshly with the slaveholders. Loud applau.se. I recognized my friends and my cneiiiics.aiid I made as wide a difference between the one and the other as between Dives and Lazarus. Applause I understand that you have sent forth your sous and brothers, not for the purpssc of making peace, but war. wherever they found enemies, I bclicvo that you sent out your sons and brothers for the purpose of insisting that the flag of the United States should wave ovcrywherc in sympathy with tho powers of the United States, and upon that thesis I have acted-I encouraged the laboring men. A thousand were employed every day by the United States; thirty-four thousand were fed every day by the United States; ami over seventeen thousand of these were foreigners, whoso Consuls assumed to represent them, but who did not represent them truly, because the Consuls represent commerce and property, not men. Thirty-four thousand, as I have said, were fed every day, and precisely the same action was taken toward men who needed this assistance as would be taken here. But those men had no voice in the newspapers abroad or at home, and the consequence was, their thanks and their applause wore never heard, whilo the complaints of tho property men, who felt that when they were struck, Slavery was struck, flowed all over Kuropc and the North, and every misrer j roscntation that the malice of enemies am iraiiors couiu cievise, was rcsortcu to in order to embarrass, and if possible, defeat my plans. But there is one thing I have a right to say and that is, that from the first week when our soldiers entered New Orleans until I left there, it was as safe, as quiet, and as convenient to attend to one's busiues, by day or by night as ever it was in the best governed cities of tho North even our own. Loud applause. v Now, my friends, I havo delaiued you upon these topics quite too long. I have only come here to meet you and hear from i. ,i iii. ... you those kind manifestions which you have beeu pleased to bestow upon me, and to return to you the heartfelt gratitude which I feel. I assure you, that to yotir efforts, to the efforts of Massachusetts, and to the ideas of Massachusetts and New England, tho country iB indebted lot that measure of safety which has been secured, and for thoso great efforts which are now being put forth. Bo not deceived! Be not weary! Remember this, that while we may feel this war is hard for us, it is the effort of desperation for them. I have seen the conscript law of the South taking the boy of sixteen and tho old man of six ty the schoolmaster not excepted and force them into the ranks. Whilo ii costs us effort, it costs them desperation. While it costs us labor, it costs them life-blood. I wish that they might ho won back without this; but so they have not chosen. As long as life boasts, as long as any power remains, wo must stand by the Union, one and indivisible. Applause. Every traitor, every man, every stream, every lake, every river, every mountain that ever belonged to the flag of the United States, must still remain under the flag of the United States, cost what it will, cost what it may. Enthusiastic applnU30. If, as yon flatteringly observed, I shall go back to another field of duty, I shall go back with the determination never to give up, never to compromise renewed applause never to have anything but that flag of ours as the symbol of our nationality. Whoever differs from that, let him go south of Mason and Dixon 'a line he has no business here. Applause. We may havo no means of dealing with him hero, but there aro plenty at tho South who will receive him with open arms, for tho reason that ho is their friend, not tho Cjicrtd of the country. Who proposed to give up thotombof Washington? Who Yorktown? Who the h'BOTi wjii by J.ickwu at New Oilcans? Who proposes to have anything Wthan that which belongs to us? Who wh;'u b'iv,? "p the rights of this Union. ! T5"t let me repeat because I hear that ! there arc some who falter cuue what may. whether weal or Woe, there is one thing which we will not lese, and that is, the supremacy of this Government over every inch of our boundry. I desire a single word on tho question of emancipation. On that question, you know, I have held certain opinions. Tho-c opinions have received, in some degree, correction. 1 have view? to offer which I think will commend themselves to the judgment of every one of ymi. If there is a man bore win) doubts that some time or other, in the providence of God, tho negro is to be free and that some day the protection of the laws will become free. No lnnn doubts that; and all d;sire to guard against the evils that may arise from. that cliRiige, aud which cannot bo made without disorganizing our political system. It ts my opinion that all this has been sent upon the nation for some grest object; and it is my opinion that it will be easier at this time to settle this question than to leave it to be settled hereafter. It is not evident to every miud, that the day and hour havo conic when all men, so far as this country is concerned and it is the last refuge of Slavery on the globe shall bo in political rights free and equal, as they were declared by the Declaration of Independence? Applause. Lot no man be concerned about the question of social equality. Thry will be just so far equal as God has made them equal, and no more and no less. Take care lest wo be found fighting against God. If Ho has not made them our equeals, they will not be our eqitnls. But He has made them free. God willed them frco God will have them free. And let His will be done! TI:e Black Heroes. The X. Y. Herald publishes aletterfrom its correspondent at Hilton Head, giving an account of the expedition in which a part of the negro regiment, tho South Carolina Volunteers, were hotly engaged in a skirmish with tho rebels. We extract the following! "While the greater portion of the negroes were loading tip the Darlington, Colonel Beard took thirty-four men of the negro regiment and, as it was just possible that his gleaners might be interrupted before the conclusion of their harvest proceeded to examine the adjacent country, To do this, it was necessary to cross a sawdust passing which they encountered a piece of heavy woods, with thick, fangled undergrowth. Beyond these obstacles they emerged into a circular open plain slightly rising towards the opposite timber. Upon reaching the crest of this ttnwooded space, a galling Dre was opened upon Colonel Beard and his parly froin every fide, except that by which they had come. A momentary panic ensued; half the negroes stood firm; two or throe ran some twenty i yards. Cid. Beard is a fighting man, and, what is more, has a persuasive nay, which, at a pinch, makes others remarkably combative. The contrabands rallied, n&d after tho first shiver, fought like t Umps; standing shoulder to shoulder, they poured no less than fifteen volleys into the wood that sheltered their foes; for the enemy's riflemen were so concealed that tiot a man of them was visiblo. Infuctasthey warmed to their work, the darkeys seemed rather to enjoy tho thing, than otherwise. Bang goes a Minnie ball through a negro's arm; it falls shattered at his side; his gun is loaded; hut the arm which should have carried it to tho shoulder will never be raised again. "Take dat gun," says the poor fellow, handing it to a Cotn-paninn,"and shoot, dat at seccsh for mc." Another ball finds a lodge in a man's arm and penetrates his side passing out and making four wounds. He is ordered to tho rest, where Dr. Hnwkea, acting aeist-ant surgeon, United States Army, (who did his duty under fire, like a man,) is attending to the Beldiers first wounded. But the darkey is a fighting fellow, and, with the blood epurting from his wounds, stops enrnyie and takes another crack at the foe. That chap ought to have tie Order of the Black Eagle. He't a tnitnp. if he is caet in ebony. On reaohing the doctor, the following conversation ensues: "I'spee, doctor, Tee woundod." "Well, I csn't jftend to yon jast so; yoa see I'm ba?y." "Berry well, doctor; dat man is worse wounded dan I is yon' tend to him first," Another candidate for the Black Kagle, that. Two others were wounded ono having a buttonhole worked by a Minnie, clear though bis ftaiik: nnd tho other in the right hand; but both remained, and nw it oi!. Finding that the enemy would not break cover. Colmiel Beard then ordered his men , to fall back, l'lmy accordingly retreated 1 in irood order, evehamrmg shuts with s--' , i-esh as th'v wiiil. until lh'y reached the i ....i .i. ....... .,.i...... i i.. .. . : island, and held it until night, wheu the! 1 Darlington having completed her loading, they re-embaiked. The force opposed to us on this and the I former occasion (the Sapello river raid, of which I furnished an account) as aseer- I i'. I.. .CI',.;..,, ....... Kntu.Ai ' . , , ... , , oil, were two communes of tho Lightln Georgia Mounted BiHes, commanded by I Captains Hopkins and Brailsfoid. These men aro well armed with pistols and Min-i wie rifles. They say the red-ltyged negro devils fight like all possessed; and, to use the words of one of our captains. Ihcy think it jti't the meanest, thing the Yun - kees have done yet, to oblige them to shoot their own property, aud thus suffer a loss a cool thousand 'a head for every da-key they kill in defending themselves. While this fight was goinj; on the no- grocs not in it. were uusy loaning meir plunder, which they continued to do without any attention to the balls that occasionally wh'stlcd over them. Arm) Brcnd. A correspondent of the Springfield Republican says that the bread dealt out to oui army on the Rappahannock, was packed in May, 1S32, but must be much older: "During the peninsula campaign' the bread becomo -inhabited by a very lively species of insect of a brown color and amia ble disposition. Various stories are told of these crackers in camp, sonic of which I think are malicious fabrications. One was that the insects were purposely put iu the bread to ?ftVe mule transportation, and that when the Couilniusiiry wishes to transport the bread, he simply weistled and it came itself. Another was that four of these crackers were seen on buttallion drill one evening, going through the evolutions with great precision. One of the boys had a lot of bread so thickly settled as to be uneatable, and brought it down to the Commissary to be exchanged. lie was told to lay it down and take others, when he vei'y hones tly askod,"(i7n' Ibvtter hitrh'em?" Send XCWsWflpcrs to the Soldiers. The following excellent suggestion from the Mansfield Herald, is well worthy of i most special otteutiou: This should be done mofe generally than it is. No ono can imagine the comfort a newspaper from home gives to a soldier. It is next to a letter and far moro easily prepared and costs two-thirds less. The newspapers you have done with, would be pleasure to a soldier. What is of little importance to you, who have a surfeit of news, would be eagerly devoured by the lonely dweller in the camp. In many cases the movements of different parts of the army aro first conveyed to the soldier through the public prints. He has not lost his interest, though for a time not an actor, in the events which pa at home, the political, religious, and other movements of his own little world. It is a little thing to do, nnd we trust it will not be forjrotten, among other efforts for the comfort of the soldier, to fund them the papers. The celebrated divine Robert Hall and Rev. Matthew Wilkes were on one occasion guests in the same house; nnd, after the services, Were seated in the parlor, surrounded, bf course, by numerous friends, Mr; Hall, full of wit and pleasantry, as cheerful as the painful disease from which he suffered would permit him to be, entertained the ladies, and was tho life of the party. Presently np spoke old Wilkes, "I am surprised, Mr. Hall, after the very serious discourse you gave ns this afternoon to sec you display po mnch levi'y as you do this evening." "My desr sir," wid Robert Hall, "there is jttst tnisfliflrrence between you atid me, yon have your nonsense in the pulpit, and 1 have mine in the parlor." Matthew was quiet the rest of tho evening. A country girWhose sisters hi'l amrierl badly, was about to take the noose. "How dare yott got married?" aflced a eouiid of her'a "after having before you the unfortunate example of year Bisters?" The young girl replied with tpirit : "I choose to make a trial my?e!f. Did yon ever fee a parcel of pigs tunning to a trough of ill? Tb first one stiais in his boss, gete it irsldcl, and thsn dma it back and Equeals. Tha Mnd bursa his o9 aa-1 aland squealing in the fame manner. The third follows n!t, and he q;iel too. Bu still! it makes no diffcrcnen with . ' ..ii... aiivj rt-.r ,,"r if.v nuiitj,, of those before; but nil in turn thr-jut in thfir tic.; ju.t ss ifllicy had not have got burned or rpioakd at all. So it is with girls in rogsird tn mtr tiu.iiv. .in ', uo .! ri mu -wfiMrd. yHY DON'T VOt TAKE TflE PAPERS. j j by h. wu.us Why d'"i'i yon take1 the papers? They're tin: life of my delight; Hxcept about election time, ', , , , , And then I Tend for spite. Subscribe, you cannot lose n cent-Why should you be afraid? j Tor cash thus paid is motioy lent Oa interest fourfold paid; I Go, then, and take the paport, . , . , , , And pay to-day, nor pay delay, And my word it is inferred. You'll live till you arc grav. ' n 01, ilcwspaper friend of niiuei j While dying of a cough, J Desired to read the latest new, j While he wai dyiug off. j I t'"k the paper, and I read Of some new pills in force; He bought a box and is ho dead? j No hearty as a hor.se, , , , , i, Racked with a scorching feVor, Who swore to pay her debt next dayj If her distress would leave her. Next morning she was at her work, Divested of her pain, But did forget to pay her debt, Till taken down again. "Here Jessie tite thc;e silver wheell And pay the printef no!'' She slept, and slept, and then awoke, With health upon her brow. I knew two men, as much alike As ever you saw two stumps; And no phrenologist could find A difference iu their bumps. Onu takes the papers, and his life Is happier than a king'e; His childreu all can read uud wriUl And talk of men aud things. The other took no paper, and While strolling through the wood, A tiee fell down and broke his crowa) And killed him "very good;' Had he been reading of tho nc, At home, like neighbor Jim, I'll bet a cent that accident Would not have happened him. V"hy don't you take the papers? Nor from the printer sneak, Because you borrowed of his boy A paper every week. For ho wiio takes the papers, And pays his bills when due, Can live in peace with God and manj And with the printer too; A Very Prftty Sentiment (Fof which we expectnoendof pretty presents.) Between a man's love and a woman's love there is all the difference between lending aud giving. With woman love is a gift with man it is only a loan. The loan is for the moment, or for that particular evening, or it may be for six months, or perhaps as long as six years; but with woman the gift ii one that lasts all hor life. Pn'h. State or Matrimony. The State of matrimony has at last bpetl described by somo Oxford student, who1 Bays: "It is bounded by hugging and kissing oa one side, and cradles and babies on the other side. Its chief productions are population, broom-rtick and staying out late o' nights. The climate is tultry till you pass the tropics of housekeeping, when squally weather seta in with such power as to keep all hinds cool as cucumbers. For the principal roads leading t this interesting state, rtwik the firs pair of blue eyes you meet.'' Dnriug tho examiuitioij of a witue.'s, to the locality of the rtiirs in a houin, tha eona?el a:kod him "Which iray did tta stairs run?" Th witnwj, who, hythehy, ia note ! ig, replied "IbV, ens vay ran up etaira, bat the other w.iy ran don sir " Tb leirne-d counsel wvaiJ r.tfb eyes, awl then took a r at the eiling- Mr?. Pjrt!ngon wys taat "Bsfhing dpiKS hsr m much aa to people who p rofei to te?peot aalvjuon go to churH-withtnt V;r rji whoa i collection i to be Uken." Hcaills? tfic Minister. Knmo Wioxs hailed a elcrnraari. ll other dav. with a reqnwt that he wonld settle a disputa amongst th"m. "What about?" said h. "Tell us how old the devil if?" fhy answered. "Keep yot f wn family record, Rcnttcncnt lecjyour "rn rrr!.,' "id he. - j .