Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1863-09-22

              wra fit XV wmm mm OL IX. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1863. NO 4 4"' THE JIOINT VEK.MON KEPUliLICAN. TERMS: For one year (iuvariably ia advancc)S2.00 For nix months, i,uo TKRMS Ot ADVEUTISI.NO. One square, 3 weeks, 1,00 Ouc square, 3 months, 3,00 One square, 0 months, 4.50 Ouo s(iii:irc, 1 year, 0,00 "nc square (changeable monthly) 10,00 Changeable weekly, 15.00 r wo squares, 3 weeks, 1,7 a Two squares, C weeks, 3,25 (Two squares, 3 months, 5.25 Two squares, G months, C.75 Two squares, 1 year, 8,00 Three squares, 3 weeks, 2,50 Three squares, G weeks, 4,50 Three squares, 3 months, 0,00 Three squares, G months, 8,00 f hree squares, 1 year, 10,00 One-fourth column, chan. quarterly, 15,00 One-third " " " 22,00 One-half " " " 28,00 One column, changeable quarterly, 50,00 Select poetvj) &31EBS0.YS SEW ENGLAND HIM. Printed ia the Atlantic Monthly wider the title ('"lioston JJjmn. Tlio word of the Lord by night Tu the watching Pilgriiu'a cauie, As they sat by the sea-side, And lilieJ their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them uo more, Up to my ears the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think ye I made this ball A field uf havoc and war, Where tyrauts great and tyrants small Might harry the weak aud poor? My nngcl, his name is Freedom, Chyo.se him to be your king, lie shall cut pathways east and we?t, And feud you with his wing. Lo ! I uncover the land Which I hid of old time in the West, As the s.ulptor uncovers the statute When he has wrought his best. 1 show Columbia, of the rocks Which dip their loot iu the sous Aiid soar to theair'iorne flocks Of clouds, aud the bore-1 fleece. ' I will divide my goods, .Call iu the wretch and slave; None shall rule but till humble, And uiuj Luc Toil thai. have. V I will have nevor a noble, No line ige counted great, Ushers and choppers and ploughmen Shall constitute u State. Go, cut down trees in the forest, And tr;m the straighte-st boughs; Cut down trees iu the forest, Aud build in" a wooden house. t. Call the people together, The young men and the sires, The digger iu the harvest field, Hireling, aud him that hires. And here in a pine state-house They shall chooso men to rule In every needful faculty, In church, aud state, aud (chool. Lo, now! if these poor men Can govern tin laud and sea, And make just laws before the sun, As planets faithful be. And ye shall succer men; 'Tis uobleness to serve; Help them who caunot help again; Uewarc from right to swerve. I break your bonds and masterships, . And I unchain the slave; Free be his hear; and hand henceforth, Aa wiud and wandering wave. I cause from every creature His proper gool to flow; As much as he is and doeth, So much he shall bestow. i ut laying hands on another Vo eoiu his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For eterual years in debt. To-day unbind the captive, So only ate ye uubouud; Lift up a people from the dust, Tramp of their rescue, sound 1 Fay random to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim, Who is tho owner? The slave is owner, And evor was. Pay him. O North! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South! fur his shame; Nevada! coin thy goldeu crags With Freedom's image and name. Up! and the dusky race Lhat sat in darkue long, Be twift their feet as antelopes, An dna Behemoth strong. Oonw, Esst and West, and North, By rv3, tnanowfhkes, 'And oarry my purpos forth, Vuich noither halts nor shakos. 1j will fulGllod oall be, 'For, in daylight or in dark, 'fly thunderbolt has Cycs to see His way home to the mark. sS"0cn Bui uside occupies Cumberland 'Gap, where betook 2.000 prisoners aud '1i guns without firing a shot. lorrcsjioiKlcnt'e Ix'lwocu President Liucolu mm Fernando wood. Mil. WOOD TO l'tlKSIDENT LINCOLN. New York, Dec. 8, 18G2. Hun. Abraham Lincoln, President of the LiitM States: Dear S:n: On tho 25th of November last 1 was advised by an authority which I deemed likely to be well informed, as well as trustworthy and truthful, that the Southern States would send representatives to the next Congress, provided that a full and general amnesty should permit them to do so. No guarantees or terms were asked for other than the amnesty referred to. Peeming this iuformatiou of great value, if well fouuded, I commuuicated il in substance to the lion. Georgo Opilyke the Mayor of this city, waoui I kuow to hold confidential relations to members of your administration, and proposing through him, that if the Government would permit the correspondence, under its inspection, I would undertake to procure some thing defiuite aud positive, from persons connected with tho so-culled Confederate authorities- Mr. Opdykc stated in reply that several Senators from New England States were then in this city on their way to Washington, to whom he would at once coumiuuieate the proposition, and advise me of the answer. Knowing that these gentlemen were your friends, and supposing that they would immediately confer with you on their arrival at the capital, aud supposing that I should be speedily informed of the result, I have delayed until now making a communication direct to you. I now learn, however, from Mr.Opdyke, this day, that he failed to sc these Senators when iu New York, und that he had not made the proposition, and that therefore you are not in possession of it as coming fiom ny elf. As tu liUmbie but loyal citizen, deeply impressed with the great necessity of restoring the Union of these States. I ask your immediate attention to this subject. The magnitude of the iuterests at stake warrant some executive action predicated upon ibis intormation, if it be ouly to as certain if it be grounded upon probable foun lation. If it sh ill prove groundliS! n liarni shall have been done, r.roviued the inqury bo made, as it can be, without tho comprising of the Government or iu jury to tie cause iu which it is now en gaged. If, however, it shall prove well founded, there is no estimate too high to place upon its national value. Now, therefore, Mr. President, I suggest that gentlemen whoso former political aud social relations with the leaders of the Southern revolt may be allowed to hold unofficial correspondence with them on this subject the correspondence to be submitted lo you. It may be thus ascertained what credence, if any, may be given to these statements, and also whether a peaco-ful solution of the present struggle may not be attainable. I am sure nothing tha' I can say can adl to your well-known desire to produce this result. Your exalted position, the embarrasMncnts aud responsibilities which surround yon upou all sides, the bleading condition of the country, becoming exhausted not only in the impoverishment of its best life-blood of industrial production, but in tho deterora-tien and consequent destruction of our political institutions all call upon you as our ehief ruler, to take one step upon the road of peaceful effort, by which to ascertain whethorthetime has not arrived when olh :r methods than brute fighting may not ac complish what military force has failed to do. In the origin of this struggle, you foresaw that such a time would come.- lour Inaugural Address, delivered near two years ago, pointed out with prophetic vision the certaiu results of tho impending conflict of arms. Your language then was, "Suppose you go to war; you cannot fight always; and when after much loss on both sides, and no gain on cither, you cease fighting, the identical questions as totornii of intercourse are ago. n upou you." Ycu saw that after a bloody and terriblo strug gle "the still small voice of reason" would mierveue ana rcuie ine controversy, x ,u know that since the establishment of Christirn civilization, negotiation and compromise have sooner or later determined every military contest. It cannot be otherwise here. Has not the time arrived when, to quote your own language, we should "cease fighting," at least long enough to ascertain whcther"the identical questions" about which we began the fight may not be amicably and honorably adjusted, and the "terir.s of inercourse" be once more peacefully established? It is to this end that I now address you with confidence in your patriotism, and with no desire to interfere with your legitimate constitutional prerogatives. I am, with high respect, Yours very truly, Fi:nKANPo Wood. 1-KfcsiDfcNT Lincoln to Jill. wool). j to reudcr it void iu case of nun compliance Exkcut'js Mansion, Washington, ) within a limited period. You have es-December 12, 1G2. ) ftablislieil a precedent for this mode of Hon. Fernando Wood My Dear Sir: g )e (kiub, 0 ,hote l t0(i,fl youl. enwnci. Your letter of the 8th, with accompany-- pati(m proclamation t..ld of pimibhuicut. ingnoteof same date, was received yes-j Let 110ther be.issued speaking tho Inn tetany. Iguana of mercy and breathing the piiit The most important paragraph n tbe ' of conciliation. letter, as I consider, is iu these words: "On the 25th November lust I was advised1 by an authority which I deemed likely to be well iuformod as well as reliable and truthful, that the Southern Stutes would send representatives to the next Congress, provided that a full and general amnesty should permit them to do. No guarantees or terms were asked for other than the amnesty referred to." I strongly suspect your information will provo to be groundless; nevertheless, 1 thank you for communicating it to me. Uuderstand the phrase in the paragraph above ciuoted "the Southern States would send representatives to the next Congress" to be substantially the same as that "the people of the Southern States would cease resistance, and would re-rnauguratc, sub in it to, and maintain the national authori ty within the limits of such States, under the Constitution of the United States," I say that in such case the war would ciase on the prrt of the United States; and that if within u reasonable time "a full and gen eral amnesty" were necessary to such end, it would not be withheld. I do not think it would bo proper now ti communicate this, formerly or informally, to the people of the Southern States. My belief is that they already know it, aud when they choose, if ever, they can com-municato with me unequivocally. Nor do I think it proper now to suspend military operations to try any experiment of negoti ation. I should nevertheless receive, with great pleasure, the exact information you now have, and also such other as you may in any way oDtaiu. cl: iufesjation nib'ht be more valuable before the 1st of January than afterward. While there is nothing in this letter which I shall dread to see in history. It is, perhaps, better for the present that its existence should not became public. I therefore have to request that you will regard it as confidential. Your obedient servant, A. Lincoln. Mil. WOOD TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN. His Excellency Abraham Lincoln My Dear Sir: Your letter of the 12th inst., was handed to uie on tho 15th in -t., by Mr. Wakeman,thc Postmaster of this ci;y. Pardon mo, Mr. President, when I say that your reply has filled me with profound regret. It declines what I had conceived to be an innocent effort to ascertain the foundation for in formation in my posses sion of a desire in the South to return to the Uuion. It thus appears to be au in dication on your part to continuo a policy which in my judgment is not only uuwiie, but iu tho opinion of inauy is iu conflict with the constitutional authority vesetd in the Federal Government. I thiuk, however, that my proposition is in keeping with your own expressed conditions upon which tho war shall cease You say that "when the people of the Southern States would cease resistance, and would rc-inaugurate, submit to, aud maintain tho national authority within the limits of such States, undei the Constitution of the United States, thatiusueh case this war would cease on the part of the United States." Admitting this position as correct, you W 11 see, that as a condition precedent to a ich submission tho opportunity to do so must be afforded It cannot be expected that the Southern people will cease resistance so long as wo proclaim our intention to destroy their local instiutions, their property aud their lives, and accompany the declaration with corresponding legislative, executive, social and political action. Tliej cannot cease resistance andre-inaugurate, submit to, and maintain the Federal authority, if we will not let them alone Lng enough to do so. If they really desire acqviesence, and are willing to tend delegates to the next Congress, as I am advised, ho-v can they do so without the opportunity, and without some imitations or guarantees as to the reception of their representatives at Washington? The act of sending representatives to Congress is within itself a full compliance with your own conditions. If thus represented by their own selected agents, chosen under the forms and in pursuance of their own local State laws governing suoh elections, they will compose an integral portion of he Government, and thus give the assurance of an "acquiescence and submission" of the very highest and most satisfactory character. My respectful suggestion was that you should put it in their power to take ttU course It would require a e:n:r'.e proclamation of general amnesty to te quili-ficd, if yon please, by such conditions as The painful eveuls which have occurred 8;nce ,uy communication of tho fth iust.cretttim.8 n t w;t!i the ,)Ucre but emboldcu me to renew its suanestions. 1 1 i nope you win now no longer riuse "to suspend military operations to try an experiment nf negotiation." I feel that military operations, so bloody and exhausting as ours, must sooner or laterbc suspended The day of suspeusion must come. The only question is whether it shall be before the whole African people, Njrthand South, shall be involved in general ruin, or whether it shall be while there is remaining suf- ficiel,t of the iccupcratbe clement of life by which to restoro our once happy, pros perous and peaceful American Union. In compliance with your request that your letter shall not for the present become public, I will withhold its publication at this time. With high regard, yours, &c, Fernando wood. Rebel Accounts uf Operations at Charleston Morris Island Evacuated.Fortress Monroe, Sept. 9. The Richmond Enquirer of the 8th coutains the following : Charleston, Sept. 7. Morris Island was evacuated yesterday afternoon. The enemy had advanced their sappers up to the mi a' of Wagner, and it being impossible to bold it, Beauregard or dered evacuation, which took place at noon. The enemy holds Cummin's Point iu full view of the city. Heavy firing is now 2oin;r on between our batteries on Sulli-van's Island and Fort Moultrie aud the .!. ... The following is from tho Richmond Whig of the 8th : Charleston, Sept. 7. The bombardment was kept up without intermission all day yesterday and far into uight. About 150 of our men were killed and wounded at batteries and Gregg. The attempt to assault Battery Gregg was repulsed before the enemy had com pelled their laudiug. Great havoc is sup" posed to,Iiave been made in the enemy's 'boats by our grape and cannister. At dark on Wednesday, the enemy having advanced their sappers up to the very moat of Wagner, and it being impossible to hold the Islaud longer, Gen. Beaure. garl ordered its evacuation, which was d )"no between 8 P. M. aud 1 A. SI., with 'I i . . 11T success, wo spiKCJ me guns oi ivagncr and Gregg and withdrew noiselessly in 40 barges. Only one barge, contaiding 12 men, was captured. All quiet this morning. From Charleston. New York, &!pt. 0. Thetransport city of Baltimore, from Charleston liar on the 6th, lias arrived. She reports the 8eigo of Warner and Sumter yet goinc; on. Tho iron clacU and land batteries weio bombarding Wagner, which had not icplied lor two days. Tho casualties were very few. 12,332 Men to bfl Drafted In Ohio. New York, Sept. 10. A dispatch to the Tribune reports that the Provost Marshal General has notified Gov. Tod of Ohio, that the Assistant ProTost Marshal General of that State has been ordered to prepare for a draft. The quota will be 12'532. Chattanooga Ours -Reus died. skedad Cincinnati, Sept. 9. Crittenden divission. of Iiosecrans army, took pos3essBon of Chattanooga to-day The enemy evacuated yesterday, re treating South. Life's Happiest period- Hingsley givea pis evidonce on this disputed point. Ho thus de clares: There is no plcesure that I have ex perienced like a child's mid-summer holli-da the time, I mean, when two or three of us used so go away up the brook, and take our dinners with us, and come home at night tired, dirty, happy, scratched be yond recognition, with a greasy nosegay, three li tie trout, and one shoe, tho other having been used for a boat, till it had pone down with all hands out of soundings, llowpoor our Derby days; our Green-which dinners, our evening parties, whnro there are plenty of nise girls, after that! Depend upon it, a man never experiences su:h pleasure or grief after fourteen as before, unless in some cases, in his first love-making, when the sensation is now to him. A Vitiban Farmer, The"Marysville Press says there is a farmer living near Irwin's Sation in Union county, by the cane of Miller, wto, al&cugi uitwardu of a iuudrcd yeira old, toss i jcss'i work daily in the fields. "Mill (illlLS." I and daughters to the slave-pen to be lhere. nothing half so iw:rt in jBllI(1 t0 th(. WMvr , im. lito, half fo beautiful, or delightful, or0 wh ,,,1, ..,. Vs. lovea'de ns a nice girl. Not ft pretty or a (lushing, or nn elegant till, but u nice girl. One of those lovely, lively, good tempered, good hearted, sweet ! t'aoi.d. mninl.U. m.nt nnttv fliim.,jtii hearth the influence of her goodness, like the essence of sweet floweis. A nice girl is not tho languishing beauty, d waddling on a sola and discussing the last novel; nor the irirall'u liko creature sweeping majestically through a drawing room. 'Jhe nice girl may uot even dance or play well; and knows nothing about "using her eyes," or coquettiur with a fan. bin; ucvor languishes,' she's too active- She'1 not given to sensation novels; she's too busy. At tho concert she is not in front showing her bare shoulders, but Bits quiet and unobtrusive at the back of the box most likely. In fact, it is not often in such scenes that we discover her. Home is her place. Who rises by timet and superintends the morning meals? Who makes the toast and t.'ie tea, and button's tho boy'a shirts, aud waters tho flowers, and I cuds the chickens, aud brightens jip the parlor and the sitting room? Is it the languisher, tliegirall'o, or the dlegantc f Nut a bit of it; it's the nice girl. Her unaided toilet in the shortest possible time, yet how charmingly it it is done, and how elegant her neat dress and plain collar. What hearty kisses she distributes among the family ! no presenting of cheek or brow, like the' fine girl, butanaud.blo smack which says plainly. I lo7e you ever so much. If I ever coveted anything it was one of the nice girl's kisses. Breakfast over, down into the kitch en to see about dinner; aud all day long she is up and down, always do ing, and always cheerful and light hearted. She never ceases to be active and useful until the day isgone, when she will polka with the boys, and sing old song3, and play old tunes to her father, for hours together. She is a perfect treasure, is the nice girl- When illness conies, it is bIic that at tends with unwearying patience the sick chamber' There is no risk, no tutigue that she will not undergo; n0 sacrifice that she will not make. She is all love, all d ;votion, I have often thought that it would be happiness to be ill, to bo watched by such loving eyes and tended by such fair bands. One of the most strongly character istics of a nice cirl, is tidiness and simplicity of dress. She is invariably associated in my mind with a high dress, a plain collar and tho neatcrt of neck ribbons, bound with the most modest little brooch ij the world. I never knew a nice girl yet who dis played a profusion of rings and brace lets, or who wore low dresses or a splendid bonnet. I say again, there is nothing in the world half sc beautiful, halt bo intrinsically good, as a nice girl. She is the sweetest flower in the path of life-There ara others far moro stately, far more gorgous; but these we merely admire as wo jjo by. It is where the daisy grows that wo lie down to rest. From the Citholio Telegraph. The Two AntUSlaTcry Organs In the Last aud West. The Independent of New York, edited by Rev Henry Ward Ceecher, and tho Catholic Telegraph of Cincinnati, edited by Very Kev. Mr. I'urccll, V. G. The association is a rather singular one, but in the strange times very extraordinary things occur." The above is from the Metropolitan, ono of the organs of tho New York rioters. Thers is this difference be-twetn the editors of tho Independent and Telegraph that wo never wrote a line to disturb the quiet of the land, and never raised our voice ngain&t vested rights. When Slavery was overthrown by its friends, we refused to have it restored, and we will ever resist its restoration. These is to heavier calamity than Slavery. It corrupts heart aud Botil, and wo hare no respect for the Christianity of any person who, now that the evil is dying out, would wish to see it rostored. Shan:e oa tha man who would tpho!d a system whlcl. mocks at matrimony, oppresses tho poor, deprives the .la- borer of his wages mul sends tho wife tern. Let the Pagan or tins Turk in-aist on tho preservation of Slavery-it will becoino tin li s of tin. uinvgi n crated but in the nautj of di cuiey let Mie Christian bo silent linw can a Catholic kneel before :he Iledi-niiei of all and env ''Our Father who art iu Heaven," whilst he is .nsraired in supporting an institution which crushes to the uirth the bodies an 1 souls cf millions of that Father's children ! Yes, Mr. Metropolian, 'i-iy i-.v traordiuary things ocuur." The above is one of them. There uim gevi-ral others. It is, for instance, u riy strange thing to see thoiiiun who wu" oppressed at home, the very iou lisl ou tho sido of oppression here ! It is a strange thing to see tho man , who was compelled to labor at home lor so small a pittance thut his lamily was on tho verge of starvation, crying out lustily in this country to make men work, under the lash, for which they received no pay at a!!. We will tell you auother extraordinary thing. To see newspapers cir diluting amongst the people, whose editors claim to be Catholics, in which Ihe uioit utrocious appeals aro made to the passions of the depraved, in which ''the Powers that be" are misrepresented, calutnuinted and disobeyed! Does the editor of tho Metropolitan suppose that tho blood of the murdered during tho New York riots, will only be demanded ot those who strack the brutal blow by which life was ta ksu? Were there no accessories before the fact?. . were there no apologists after it! Yes there are 6onie very extraordinary things taking place ft present, and we advise tho editor of the Metropolitan to examine his own j conscience and he may discover a co- partneiship a great deal worse than that of the Independent and Telegraph. From F. T. EvvniKg Post. Juu 11. The Alternative. There is but one alternative in the case; either the North and South must scperafe, or the single cause of all their past and present calamities must bo removed. But a peaceful separation is utterly impracticable. A thousand causes, geographical, ethnological, commercial, and moral,deteruiin and devote this continent to political unity. If the people of it have not been uble to live it: peaco under the sacred and intimate bonds of constitutional obligation, will 1 bey live in peace the same eausrs of diviBiou remaining) under tlielooaer ties ol mere treaty obligations? If with a common hngu'ige.; common traditions, common institutions, aud universal interchange of social intercourse and of trade, v e have fallen out; how shall, we ngrt when other national lememberances and nim3, other institutions, social laws, social exclusions and comnier cial restrictions shall prevail? Europe, V,roken into distinct nationalities, hnb scarcely seen for eighteen centuries a single half century of peace. Shall we fare better? No, disunion, ifit were possible, would be ceaseless, endless war. Whatthpnof tho other branch of tho alternative the removal of the cause of our trouble, the extinction'ol slavery? Should it not be tried? The slave states, by revoltiug against the authority of tho national government, by organizing hostile armies, by fighting battles aud by inviting the aid oi foreign monarches to destroy the re public, havo assumed a bolligorent at titudo which places them in the osi- tion or pnunc enemies. nicy are amendable to all ti.e rules aud penalties of tho international law oflx-lli-gerents. Under that codo wo hi.ve u right to confiscate their slaves is prop erty, as rapidly as ourarmios occupy their territory, or" to accept of the ser vices of.their slaves as al ios. Without doing voilence to the constitution of tho country, without infringing an ioiu or uiuc oi us provisions ur a state of peace, we may exert tho transcendent prerogative of war. It would seem as if the Divinu Providence, in very pity of our political disibilities, had cast upon ns this military potency We aro asked and commanded fo ful fil our native destiny by making real that gloriotis ideal of human freedom with which we boiran. . Otir JitUTig iopnblie. Iieretolorelike Lilt.m's tawny lion, "prnwd to j,,.t free i,:8 hinder.' parts." iimy yet '-break hiflbojide, nd rumpanit shake h iw brinded inanu." Then, ilihcnthialle.!. lit(iiiof.-eiie..us, iiniti'd, instinct with a new jife and energy und gun Ini-ss. she would become in Imi.'I. wliitr she oneewHs, and still is in aspiration, t lit- home of truly ('eim-cratie iiintiiiitioiis; the inirso of overy ju-t n ml ei erous policy, domestic and iiikiiiationai; the asylum of the earth's oppressed: thehopo aud iiKxkl ot mankind, lo which the heroes of the old win hi, in their stern struggle ior larger ligb ami liberty, would turn for holaee, atnl statesmen, iu theiy lol ii-fl seh'-i.jfs of human grandeur look for guidance. "Ihe South." 'The South, " if we iie thatphraso in its trim sense, as including the en tire population otthe Southern State?; hud m interest in slavery- Ou the contrary, an nverwhi'lmiiig majority of its people have a vital interest iu the destruction of a system which, ac-cording to the open and repeated ex-presaii.ns of the leading rebels, is the sole cause of the present war, which has brought such terrible distress up- "ii tlunioii-slavclioldeii of the So.tth-orn States, ami which, during times of profound peace, denied tu that part of the white p pulntion al; the rights of free speech, free press, remunerative ai:d honoiable labor, free schools, and comfortable homes. When men sptak of the -rights of tho South'' lot them remember that these are rights of which four hundred thousand slave holders long deprived four and a half millions of white working men, and1 let us not forget that the wishes of thetic fourand a half millions of white working men, so far as they havo fun ad oxpressiou, are for the total audi immediate extinction of slavery, as a necessary guaranty for tii protection; of their rich's against tiro tyranny of four hundred thousand slaveholders -iVfu' Ti'ik Evening Pott. Kit 1: OS. "Oh! if I had the (..iwo'r - if I wer rich I would do po much '.:ood, 1 would be so charita'de!"- is a phnse, if not ex actly I'ipri's-id, very ofteu implied, in th couver-diinti uf well Uifl.miug pec pie; and, unuoubtiiUh , wraith it a po;;soi-aion lor the ue of which w,- iiit accountable in exact proportion to tho etcn-led mngo of action it affi.-rK Siill. few individuals are so happily placed us not to have in some dt-greo the power of benefitting thoir fellow creature"; aud ns a ku g list of insignificant itt-n.s will mul ' up a largo sum, it is as-tuiiinhiijt; how !un--e un imiouot ofhappi-ne- arises item the small charities md ti ifliti j kindness of life. The sphere may U liuiiied, but to those who really take pli'iipure in Ao'Vi a "fc.iod turn" to a fel-li creature, the opportunities arc innuoi erabh'; it ml despite the dark colors in w'.iii1'-. same writers love to paiut human natute, ft believe ihe preportion who do take such pleasure to be a very largo one. - Vie pronouuee thv following to be "Abraham's best:" nplo" WlIISKV Poll THE Oi mkai.s-. A"Coni niittee," just previoui tit the full of Vicls-burp; h"lii'itoux for ihe morals of our ar- nireH, uo u upou llu-ui.-ctveg lo vii-.lt the ru-siJent. and ui:e tho removal of Gcli. Grant. "What for?" said Jlr. Lincoln. "Why," replied the busy-bodies, "he drink too much whieky " "Ah!" rejoined Mr. Lincoln: "l'un you inform rue, guilcmen. where den- O rant procures his whiKkvf Tho "committee" confessed they could not. "Became," added "Old Abe," with a merry twinkle in his eyes, ' If 1 ran find out, 1 U tend every (ieveral n the field Kith a barrel of it The delegation retired ill reasonably good order. A g' ntiemati riding through Sydenham law aboard with "This Cottage "for Sail,, paiutcd ou it. As he was always ready for a pleasant joke, and seeing a women in front of the hiuse, ho stopped and asked her, very politely, "when ihe Cottage wu to Sail?,, "Just as soon a the man comes who can raise the wind" was the quiet reply. Good. A local in una of i-ur exchanges in view of tho druft that was to bo, but now p'wtponod, tn's off the followin(; Why khf'uld we mourn, i n.'.seripted fnen1e, Or khnke at Lr.ifiV uhinns ! 'Tis but ths vi'.iee ihat Ab'ram nenda To malt u "h-'ilder firms ! A i.ir.m-:T mi .i piiitinjS oiBre a;kcd the y Uijest upptciii ce what his rulo ot puiiciiiji.! )'. wjb. "1 mc up u long as I eau hold n.v I rsaih. then 1 put in a comma; when I f:'p, I insert a teuai co'.oa; und when I want a ckcwcftobscco, I make a paragraph." , Max h liV a nnll, lis nira ly ing ia idlems, apa-nt-t thH mmny faceinf prosperity, scdnll the. pi 'bt if in htm melts tway; hut sii jt-fT.c'Jt tj -nvk.ua persecute him, n'l i f j'hi rs sttfiitb at cvr.ry revolution, ttlr it prr.wv idn avtlanolie.