Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1863-06-25

              , ii wflistf a m mmm M v .j lb ' VOL. IX. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO THURSDAY, JUNE 25, ISC. NO 34 THE MO I NT VERNON ltKI'l liMCAN T E U M 8 : For imo yuur (invariably iu advance For six mouths, T Kit MS OF ADVKUTISINO. Ono square, 3 weeks, One square, 3 months, Ono square, 6 mouths, One square, 1 year, )nc square (changeable monthly) Changeable weekly, Two squares, a weeks, Two squares, (i weeks, 'J'wo squares, 3 months, J' wo squares, (i moutlis, Two so'viros, 1 year, Three squares, 3 weeks, Three squares, 6 weeks, J'hrce squares, 3 moutlis), Thruo squares, 0 months, Thrco squares, 1 year, Onc-fourlli column, ehan. quarterly, One-third " " " Ono-lialf " " " One column, changeable quarterly. 1,00 1,00 3,00 4,50 0,00 10,00 15,00 1.7ft b25 5,25 0,76 8.00 2.50 J.fiO 0,00 8,00 10,00 15,00 22,00 28,00 50,00 Select Jpottrg Fur tho Rupublicaa. A SOLDIER. There's a stalely cold gray Btouo, Tlaccd o'er a dismal deep grave, Where was Iain with grief and iuoaus, ' A soldier" who was blithe and brave. BaBnor and plume were proudly waving In the air, clouded with battle smoke, And fiercely was the battle raging, When cauio his death wound stroke. He was borno oil that ghastly field, By his fos'd soldier comrades, Ilastily tho spade and shovel they did wield, And soon a roughly tomb was mado. With feelings grievously marred With flowingtears,audquick'ingbrcath, Tho deceased soldier they interred, Ho who has slept tho sleep of death. They could not pray, they could not hymn, Lif'ti sceniod but stormy blast, On their colorless features was lined Sad memorials of the past. When at their paths third autumnal slope That shadow entered hated by man, As they marched on the battle field followed by Hope, Aud thus grief and separation began. This shadow broke tho companionship, Spread her mantle white and cold, For the loved oue, and dulled the murmur of his' lips, And wrapped him iu tho fold. No more he'll hear the cannon's boom, Nor tho whistling ball o'er his head, For now he sleeps in his tomb, Yea, he's numbered with tho dead. But no fond parent left to weep, For they too to heaveu have gono, In that blissful land they'll meet Their ouly beloved and anxious son. His mouldering body is in the bank of the Yazoo, Where tho hemlocks sobered sigh, And the rippling waters bid asolemn adieu, To tho dismal tomb as they pass by. While his soul rests yonder alono, Where that soldier soul shall evermore abide, In that laud of purity and love, Where mild tho storm and smooth tho tide. Sleep bravo soldier, sleep in pcaco, I would not disturb thee at all, Sleep whilo the stars shino, and tho moon's increase, And tho great ages onward roll. I. Barker. General IIeadq'bs, State or Ohio, f Ohio,"! tick, y 5, 1863.) Adjutant General's Office Columbus, June 15, OENEHAL ORDERS NO. 16, The exigencies of the times and tho good of the service require, and is therefore ordered: 1st That tho following military districts bo formed in this State, with each of which, for the present year, there will bo one, and only one officers' muster and encampment, oach to continue for and during the period of eight days, and from ten o'clock A. M. of the first day, until three o'clock P. M. of tho aigthth cay. Tke Firtt District will include the counties of Moigs, Athens, Washington, Morgan, Noblo, Monroe and Vinton, and tho camp will be held at tho country fair grounds in Mariotta,. Washington county. The Second Distinct will include the counties of Scioto, Brown, Adams, I'iko, Jackson, Lawrence and Gallia, and tho camp will be held at the county fair grounds in Portsmouth, Scioto county. The Third Dutrict will include tho counties of Jefferson, Hocking, Tuscarawas, Fairfield, Perry, Franklin, Harrison, Licking, Muskingum, Guernsey, Belmont and. Coshocton. Tlir Fourth Districts will include th? counties of Hamilton, Butler and l'reble. The Fifth District will include the counties ol'Kuox, Morrow, Wyaudot. Crawford, Richland, Ashland, Wayne, Holmes, Stark, Carroll and Columbiana. The Si.rth District will iiwludo the counties of Clermont, Warren, Highland, Clinton, Ross, Fayette, Pickaway, Greene, Clark uud Madiisou. Tiic Urn-nth District will ilielude the counties of Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina, Lake, Geauga, Ashtabula, TrumbuH, Portage aud Mahoning. The Eijhth District will include the counties of Montgomery, Miutui, Drake, Champaigno, Union, Delaware, Logan, Shelby, Mercer, Auglaize aud Hardin. Thu Ninth District will iuelude the couuties of Lucas, Erie, Fulton, Huron, Williams, Defiance, Paulding;, Heury, Ot- towa, Wood, Sandusky, Seneca, Hancock, Van Wert, Allen and Putnam. 2d. The camps for tho third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eijyiW aud ninth dis tricts not having been selected, will re main to bo announced by general orders hereafter to bo issued. 3d. All officers of the militia and vol-uncers and also all nou-commissioned officers of militia and volunteers of the rank of Sorgcant, will attend tho camp in their proper district, aud participate in their drill and institutions throughout tho period of its duration. 4th. Tho Volunteer organizations in each of tho Military Districts, respectively, and each and every member thereof will attend the camp of their proper district from ten o'clock a. m., of the seventh day until 3 o'clock p. m. of tho cigth day of the encampment, and then diligently participate in the prescribed drill and instructions.5th. Tho time of holding tho encampments for the current year in tho several districts will bo as follows, respectively, inclusive of both dates in each caso: In the 1st District from Wednesday, July 29th, to Wednesday, August 5. In the 2d District from Friday, thu 7th, to Friday, August 14th. In the 3d District from Wednesday, the 1 2th, to Wednesday, the lllth of August. In tho 4th District from Wednesday, th l'Jth, to Wednesday, the 2Gth of August.In the 5th District from Saturday, the 22d to Saturday,' August 29th. In tho Gth District from Saturday, the 2Uth to of August Saturday, tho 5th of September. In tho 7th District from Wednesday, the 2d to Wednesday, the 9th of September.In the 8th District from Wednesday, tho 9th to Wednesday, the 15th o: September.In the 9th District from Wednesday, the lGth to Wednesday, the 23d ofSeptember- 0th. Tho Quartermaster General will lllllllOllin f lAf t'tL'ft Dtnna tit nwM.wln nnl.il musters with arms, equipmonts, ammunition and camp and garrison equipage, transporting tho samo from namp to camp, and when not iu uso to prescrvo the same in tho Stato Arsonal, to bo ready for service (should tho Stato troops bo called out to defend tho border. ITo will olso advertise and contract for subsistenco for said camps, as required by law, aud will provide transportation for said troops. 7th. Officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians hud privates who are required to attend said camps, will Jurnish their own blankets and clothing, ' and the volunteers will bring with them and use the t.rms and accoutrements received by them from the Stato. 8th. Tho publishers of newspapers throughout tho Stato will greatly aid tho service and thoii readers by giving this order a prominent and early insertion. By order. CHAS. W. HILL, Adjt. General of Ohio. The IIandv Look at the hand! A little organ, but how curiously wrought! How manifold and necessary are its functional What an agent h as ft been for the want and desigas of man! What would the mind be without it? How has it moulded and made palpable tho conccptious of that mind? It wrought tho statue of MeninonJ and hung the brazen gates of Thebes; it fixed the trembling necdlo upon its axis, it heaved tho bar of the first printing press; it arranged tho tubes of Galileo; it reefed tho topsails of Columbus; it htdd tho sword with which freedom fought her battles; peisod tho axo of tho dauntless woodman; opened the path of civilization It turned tho mystic leaves upon which Million and Shakesparc inscribed their bur ning thoughts, and it signed tho charter ofj England's liberty. Who would uot render houor to tho baud? T!iii worfclnr-MwiV interest in the Has England any oii'mimi with regard to this I'reat Amci'icau iiuostioii? Has Eng land anv sympathy on the one side or the other, that is, with either party engaged in this great struggle? Put to come nearer, I would iif-k whether this meeting has any opinion upon it, and whether our sympathies, or your sympathies have been stirred iu relation to hi1 It is true that to this iueeting"uot many uolbus, not many rich" have been called. (Hear, hear.) It is a meeting compiled el' artisans Working men of London men whoso labor, iu combination with capital and di recting skill, havoliuill this groat city and have made England great. (Cheers.) 1 address myself to these men. I ask them I ask you hitve you any special inter est iu this contest? Privilege thinks it has a great interest in it, and every morn ing, with blatant voice, it comes into the street and curses thu American republic. (Cheers.) Privilege privilege has be hold au affeotiug Hpoctacio for many years past. It has beheld thirty millions of men happy and prosperous, without emperor, without kiug (chcors) without the sur- rouudiugs of a court cheers without nobles, exept Buch as are mado by eiuin-euco in intellect and virtue (loud cheers) without state bishrps and Btate priests (renewod cheers) solo venders of the loro which works salvation: without great armies and great navies, without great debt and without great taxes (cheers) privilege has shuddered at what might happen to old Europe if this graud experiment should succeed. ("Hear, hoar," and cheers.) But you, the workers; you, striving after a better time; you, striving upward toward tho light, without slow and painful steps, you havo no cause to look with jealous upon a country which, among all the great nations of tho globe, is that ono where labor has met with the highest honor, and whero it has reaped its greatest reward. (Cheers.) Are you aware of tho great fact that in fifteen years, which is but as yesterday when it is past, two millions and a half of your countrymen have found a home in tho United States? (cheers) that a population equal nearly, if not quite, to the population of this great city itself equal to no mean kingdom have emigrated from these shores? In the United States there has been, as you know, an open door for every man (hear, hear) two millions have entered it and have found rest. (Question.) Now take tho two sections of the country which are now engaged iu this fearful struggle. In tho one labor is honored moro than clsew here in the world. There more than iu any other country men rise to competence aud to iupendcuce, and the career which is open for tho pursuit of happiness at least is uot thwarted by the law. (Hear, hear.) In the other section of that country labor uot only is not houored, but it is degraded. (Hear, hear.) The laborer is made u chattel; he is no more his own than tho horse that drags an oniiu-bus through the next street. Nor is his wife, nor is his child, nor is anything that is his, his own. (Hear, hear ) And if you have uot heard tho astounding statement, it may bo well for a moment to refer to it, that it is not black men only who should be slaves. (Loud cries of "Hear.") Ouly to-day I read in ono of the Southern papers a statement that slavery in the Jewish times was not tho slavery of negroes, and therefore, that if you cocfiue shivery to negroes, you loose your sheet-anchor, which is tho Bible argument in favor of slavery. (Laughter.) The Game of Chess. "Peace or War between England and America lios now very much with the Press of tho two aountries." So writes a distinguished American now in London. Tho feet is not new, but it never was to true as now. Everybody knows the Print of the Young Man playing Chosi with the Devil. "The gaime of Lit." Tho young man going into the snaro of the evil one has laid, about to make the false move intended for him. Ilia Guardian Angel despairs-, while Satan smiles to the roots of his hair. Sueh is tho game we are engaged in, and tho Father of Evil has too great a stake in tho result to leave any chance fur us, if, at the critical point, wo allow our passion, to master our reason, The great move o the- board now is to pet us. in a war with Eugland, and thereby ensure tho separation of tho Sooth, tho dismemberment of this country, the permanent establishment of a Slave Empire, a Slave Aristocracy on this emit incut fast leagued with tho aristocracy of tho old world; for one object at least, to put a safe lock on tho future greatness of tho United States. Perhaps His Majesty counts too fast if he relies on these results, but how foolish it would be, iu a moment of irritation, to u.nko ju-it tho move he is waiting fn-' t U certain that our diffi-eulties would be enormously increased, and success indefinitely po.-tpond, and perhaps lalally circumscribed. There is a powerful party iu England who.se whole mind is turned to find au occasion which shall enlist sympathies of the Nation in a war against the United States. This they know can bo only effected by some false move on our part. Hence the eagerness with which every .weapon i,s sought and forged that can sting us into some act of impatience or retaliation . Hence the transcendental ingenuity of the sarcasms of the Times. Ileneu tho .-,-v mad dog raised upon every pretence. We llMV,.l, .,.,. ii.... 1 .... 1 .. . """""i "'"i- iiMiier.'ianu tliatirame. bultlio great weapon to be r n.ibycd for this purpose, the dangcruua weapon in sueh fckiltul hands, is the privateer question. As to tho destruction of our ships, the rebels know that helps them little; but it is the most famous recipe in tho world to sting us into measures that would render a war with Groat Britain inevitable. So they ply it with might and main. Had we yielded to tho prcssuro to issue letters of marquo, what rejoicing it would bavo created at Richmond ! Thoy would havo counted tho months till war should bo declared. It i, their only hnpd Let them play this last card in vain, destroy this hope then, and wo may securely count tho mouths it will cost to put down the rebellion. Let us not play into the hands of theso clever jockies. Let us always ask ourselves "what do tho rebels wLh us to ! do?" and do the opposite Had w fol-1 lowed this rulo Binco tho war ben where would the rebellion have been to-day? The clever and unprincipled portion of tuo upper classes in Euglaud, who are thus playing into the bauds of tho Rebels, are not the nation. They aro tho Toomb' sos, the Jeff Davises, the Slidells of England, moro polished, but tho samo at neart. inoir object is tho game in England as that of these clover gentlemen at tho South; viz. to precipitate tho nation iuto a war on a popular cry which shall bo a war atraiust all denincrat ii institu tions throughout tho world, nnd especially in England; a great functionary war to keep to keep the power iu tho hands of the ruling classes. They know that a war which they could inoko popular by any indiscretion of ours would make enemies of our friends in England, for such, at heart, arc tho great middle and lower class, and many of al.' classes. It is in our power to keep them our friends, and woe to England if she makes war upou us against the conscience of the English people and tho public opiuiou ef tho world. "Tho Proclamation saved to us tho people of Euglaud, and will save us from a war." Did the Rebel leaders rejoice over the Proclamation? Did their frieuds in Eugland rejoice at it? That is the true test of our wisdom and success. Letter from Mr. Chase. The following is n correct copy of the letter of Mr. Chase to tho Loyal National Ltaguo, in response to their invitation to atteud the Sumtor meeting: Washington, April 9, 18C3. "Gentlemen: Impcrativo demands on my timo compel mo to deny myself the gratification of attending tho meeting to which you kindly invite mo. "You will meet to send words of cheer to our brave generals and soldiers in the field; to rebuke treason in our midst, giving, in the garb of peaco, aid and comfort to treason in the panoploy of war; to maintain inviolate tho integrity of the national territory aud the supremacy of ihe nation al constitution and laws; to strengthen the hands and nerve tho heart of tho Presi dent for tho great work to which God and the peoplo havo called him. For what worthier purposes can American citizons now assemble? "It is my fixed faith, gentlemen, that God does not mean that this American republic shall perish. Wo are tried as by fire, but our country will live. Notwithstanding all tho violence, and all the machinations of traitors and their sympathiiors, on this or the other sido of tho Atlantic, oaa country will live. "And whilo our country lives, slavery, the- chief sourco, and cause, soil agent of our ills, will die. Tho friends of tho Union iu the South,, beforo rebellion, predicted tho destruction of slavery as a consequence of secession, If that madness should prevail. Nothing, in my judgmout, is moro certain than the fulfilment of theso predictions. Safe iu tho states, before rebellion, from all federal iuterfereucc, slavery has come out from its shelter, under stato constitutions aud. laws, to assail tho national life. It will surely die, pierced by4its own fangs and stiugs. "What matter now how it dies? Whether as a consequence or object of tho war what matter? Is this a time to split hairs of loer;:! To mo it seems that Providence indicated clearly enough Imw the i ml o!' Ills position wgs enviml. hU mine slavery must collie. It eoine-i in rebelled. iiave .-.lies oy mrmay opu-i, ueeret r proclamation; not to he ui: -.regarded or set aside in any event as a nullity, but maintained and executed wilh perfect good faith to all the enfranchised; audit will come in loyal slave .-laics by the unconstrained act ion of the peoplo and their legislatures, aided freely aud generously by their brelheru of the free states 1 may be mistaken iu this, but if 1 am, another better way will bo revealed. ".Meantime it seems to ine very necessa ry to i ly ilistiiictly what many yet .-: linul. from i-ayiir-. Tho American blacks niu.4 be called iuto this eolillict, not as cattle, not now, even, and contrabands, but as men. In the free stales, and, by thu proclamation, in the rebel states, they are free meu. Tho Attorney-General, iu an opinion which uencs refutation, lias pro nounced these freemen citizens of thu United Stutes. Let, then, the example of Audrew Jackssu, who did uot hesitate to opposo colored regiments to British inva sion, bo now fearlessly followed. Lettheto blacks, acclimated, familiar with the country, capable of great endurance, receive suitablo military urgauiaation, uud do their part. Wo need their good will, and must make them our friends, by showing them ourselves their friouds.Wo-mnst have them for guides, for scouts, for all military service in camp or field for which they aro qualified. Thus ciiiloyud, from a bna- den they will becowo a support, p-vl thi hazards, privations, uud labors of (Lut, lute soldiers will be proportionally diminish ed. "Some will objeot, of oourso. There are always objectors to everything pneticlo Let eiperietvjti dispsl honest fears aud ru futo captious or disloyal cavil. "Abovo all, gentleman, let no doubt rest on our resolution to sustain, with all our hearts and with all our means, the soldiers now in arms for tho rcpublio. Let their ranks be filled up; let their snpplics bo sufficient and regular; let their pay be sure. J.et notliing tie wanting to them whioh can insure activity and efficiency. Let each bravo officer aud man realtze that his country's lovo attends him nud that his country's hopes hang upon him; and, inspired by this thought, let him dare aud do all that is possible to be dared and lone. "So, gentlemen, with tho blcssin of God, will wo make a glorious futuro sure. I see it rising beforo ine how beautiful md grand! There is not time to speak of it now; but all quarters of the land comes the voice of the sovereign people, rebuk ing taction, denouncing treason, aim proclaiming tho indivisible unity of tho republic; aud In thislleavcu-iiispired union t thoo people, for the sake of tho Union, is the suro promiso of that splendid here, after. "With greatrespect, Yours very truly, S. P. Chabk. "Hon. George Opdykk,GcorgoGriswold, Esq., aud others, Committee of the Loyal Uuioij League, New York." General Lee and Ills Slaves. the tender mercies of the wicked. The following extract from a private letter written by a young man eonnccted with tho Army of tho Potomao to his father in Massachusetts, and published in tho Boston Journal, gives some faots con cerning tho rebel General Leo and his treatment of his slav s, which forcibly il lustrate tho brutalizing effects of slavery, Tho letter is dated Fort Albany, Virginia) April 16: "Some time ago I called on ono of Gen- oral Lee's old slaves, to find out what I could of that highly praised man. I am-going to see him again when an opportu nity prcseuts itself. You know General Lee is considered an unadulterated "F. F. V." Ho wna tho superlative of tho ""ppcr tendoai of aristooney ind pjesumpt'.ious Virginia. This slam, no v a in, and a Christian uian too, is vorry old and unabla to uo much, eonsoqucnMy ho was l ift -jU the estate. Of courso'hs ia exfvemely Ij-uorant, eat nevertheless he id quite intel ligcut, and can tell a straight forward stor as clearly as any one. "General Lee was moro drcidcd hy his slaves than were any of !.is ovclseere. His cstato was immense At Arlif.;,iOQ ho owned (through his wile) seven huudrtd acres in one lot, cloven hundred acres iu another, and other large trade iu tuo state. He had four hundred slaves right here; how many more clsowhcro I dou't Inor,-. Thus you see his pokcssious vero vci-y great, and being so near Washington, Georgetown and Alexandria, vory valuable. ITo had carriages, plate, aud all tho equipage of a proud Virginian aristocrat. He was almost worshipped by the gay, the haughty, the renoiined and tho gifly. ""'"I P'MUC 01 SOUS M I' It -laughleis. One by cmo tliev wum tor,, I - j from biiu, until now, iu his hnlple ol, ai;o, but one son and two daughters remain. ( .Inn daughter mid the son were too young to l e carried away; tLx other daughter was oo smart to he entrapped. It w.is really allectiug to hear this old mat: (ell his wrongs and his anguish at parting willi his loved ones, lie knew they would have to be sold sometime, ho said, but they were my children and 1 couldn't hi ll, lovine. ihein. j Sein-j were . eiued iu bis proMmeo, and .sold below his face; others were meanly stolen at night aud hurried oil' without a ood-bye blessinir. ' Oue day the .slafes had ken worked unusually hard. It hail rained furiously all day (and 1 know what a Virginia rain is,) at evening they returned totheirhuis, wet, weary aud hungry. This family had nothiug to eat, they had beeu at work all day, aud eould't prepare anything, uud two of tho boys went to the brook to catch a few fish. It was dark, but they were seen aud reported. Tho aristocratic Gou Lee ordered them to bo whipped at a certain hour the uexi day. All the slaves wero assombUd to sec the flogging. Four boys and a girl were to bo flogged. It was douo iu that bam, uud ho pointed out tho desecrated buildiug. " Tho overseer lashed away at tho boys till their backs wero raw and bleediug. Next came the girl; her back was stripped aud her hands tied so that her feet could just touch the floor. Tho overseer gazed at her tortured form and hesitated. Lee ordered him to flog hr. "t can't do it," wad tho reply. Again lie ordered, and again tho overseer replied, "Master, I eau't whip u woman." Leo snatched tho whip aud with his own hands flogged a helpless woman, which Liis overseer had tho manliness uot to do. As I heard tliii black man tell these stories I felt whut I cannot express. My heart throbbed with passion. Oh, how 1 wanted tho power to avenge this man's foul wrongsl Because he was black he suffered cruelties which ho would uot allow a dog to suffer. 1 thought, of" our own loved family. What if I were cruelly whipped for getting food for a half-starved mother? What if my sisters wero dudely snatched away and sold to brutul men! "What if my father were trampled under foot as a chattel aud uot u word ef inter cession permuted? And I thought, too, of a righteous God beholding ull these things atid wondered how long Ho would allow this wickedness. I prayed as uoVer beforo for tho slave, and, trusting my faith to Him whoso ways arc so mysterious, T con secrated myself to His aud my country's sacred cause of liberty and righteousness. My dependence is iu Him, aud I cannot, I will not, believe Ho will allow thu oppressor to triumph. Some tell us, at home, even, slavery is a Divine institution, uud blame us for speaking aught against it. I thank God that I never thought so, and that I havo seen enough never to think so. How a Being cau say tliat nagraut in justice, brutality aud inhuman barbarity arc divino, I caunot see. Uo is a being but not a mau. As for mo, my anti-slavery is stronger than ever, and immovably fixe.d We are being taught that we must let my children go; aud I were unworthy a nioh er's kiss, a father's bles.dn, a sitter's tear or a brother's affection, did I not u,s.. every exertion feeble or powerful to enforce the lesson. "Alter Leo had lacerated tho girl's body he bathed tho yet bleeding wounds in brine. Now that baud is raised against his country." Affability. Bo good naturo if you can, for there is no charm so great, no attraction so admirable A face that is always full of the expression of amiability, is always beautiful. Tt neods no paint and no powder. Cos- mot'xs ire superfluous for it lug cannot 'ipvoTjto ohecks, nor li!lt-whitn nn-nd ! i i .0Ti-,r '-mnn. Ui IotIiucm lies beyond :.U this. It h not tho gase into the faeo vf noblo man or Uotnan, i is not the shape Ibo ibaturos that yoj reuily tie, no: Jit tho tiut of th. oheek, the hue of tho lip, tho brilliancy of iho eye? you fc-i tho nauiclesj something iThieh atiima'.a ill tliaso, aud leaves for your instinct a snniu of grcatful faSuibatiou; you see au indescribable embodiment of heartfelt goodness wilhii, which vrins your .regard! iU ppito of external appcaanee, atul defies all-the crilicul rules of the nthcti. ,'Are ym there?" said an Orangeman to a Ribbotiiutm in "grafe," boing about to ho hanged. "1 always said' you would como to bo hanged' "You'ro a liar," said Pat, "if it was the last words I bad to speak. 1 did not come I was brought.' howfuiiiiyaliuelookswithouLspueea tClnl&KtTs Column. F.- hcR. .-j.VUltor. The Hofitfst 3futfMJj. There w.-.s a peor widow who bad aeon' mimed ft.rry. Now iiairyw-isn vory u-.od hoy. mid when he mw bis mother working hard for him," and also perceived that she was growing r;.cr anj rucr ev. cry day, he duterminud to do something to support himself, f0 that his mother would not have to work , huid. Ho eouM uot think of aii-,thin ; he ..o.) ,1, but dwler mined lo look Jin- work tho i.-ext mor.diig So after Mivini; bin nravers li Inv.L.u,.. ... t p. Neil liny Harry Was unsuccessful iu hi. endeavors to obtain work, uud wiu returning home feeliug very wl, when ho met a' boy selling matches. This mado ""Tarry think that ho, loo, might make se Uv uioucy iu the same way. Wheu he reached home, he told his mother of his design, and persuaded her to leud him a little money to begiu with. She kissed him good uight, and promised to do so, aud Harry weut to bed happier than ho bad been fur many day. Next morning Harry went with a bask- et ou his arm for the matoh-factory, ond having bought as many matches as ho oould procure with his limited funds, bo set off to sell thorn. Soveral weeks went by, iu which Harry had been quite successful. Ono wiuter day whun it was hitter cold, Harry, shivering with oold, for ho was very thiuly clothed, was walkiag up' tho street offering his matches for saLu to' tho passes by, whou a gentleman came out of a very fine locking bouso. Harry offered him his matches. Tho gcntluruan seeing that ho was very thinly olad, ond wishing to help him; bought a pouoy'a Worth aud passed ou, giving Harry what ho supposed to bo a cent, but was really a; twenty-five oeut pioco Harry po'rocivod the mistake, and stood undecided whether to run after the gcutloman or" keep-' the coin. The evil spirit whispered that tho-' gentleman bad plenty of money. But-Harry knew it would not bo right to keep' it, so he ran uftor tho gentleman aud gavo4 him back tho twenty-five tvnis. Next day the gentleman went to ece' Harry's mother, and offered to gerld Uar ry to school. The offer was gladly accepted , and Harry ent to eehool: Wheu he was sixteen years old tho gentleman took him iuto his gtoro, where, by his honest and upright behavior, t$" gained tho eoirfidcBea of his employer-v and afterwards bocamo a partner ia tho firm, no is iiowTa V-x'i ehaut aud g'.ves-liberally to the poor. Boys! be houest. When you aro tempted to do n dishonest thing, remember that God sees you, and that his'favour and blessing are worth far moro than anything you could possibly gain by ouy dishonest act. AuaxD' Kindness. "What! crying, Katie?" And George" Blake came up to tho side of tho bok where Katie Morris was standing. "I never saw you crying beforo. What is tho matter?" She emiled through her toarff wheu sbo saw who it was, aud told him all her trouble. She was on lmr way to BpcuJ the day with hor cousibs, but when the camo to tho brcok she found that ths stepping stones, on which any odb might tafe-ly pass, had been taken utfby, uud the could not get across. There un no one passiug by, aud she was afriid uho would haw to give up her visit. "Ii that all 7 " And George laughed when shelw'i finished her story. "That 's soon sioudcd. Fur in a groat hurry, but I'd bo sorry if I couldn't take timo to help you across. Como, jump on my baek." His dog Leo' looked rq approvingly iu his face. In two or three minutes Kntio was safety . landed ou tho opposite side. She put np her rosy lips for a kiss. A moment morffaoil George was bni'k rgain; Ratio watohci bim till ho was cH of ej;ht; and then weuf on-her way eminij merrily. IIow onh happioetf thai oo3 act ofkindnesB had Oatistd! Ikd Goorfcr been selfish, he uiiglit Lav.: exensod "aim soli' by saying that Its v an L: a hurry, and it was none of his businosa what littlo children cried about. But ho was not, and to ha had caused sun shine to spring up in Katie's heart and io lii owu too. . "Littlo deeds-of kindness,. Littlo words of love, Make our earth au Edon, Liko the henveu above."" A. IS. T. A person mooting i friend who bud-lately labored under au attack of tHo gout, iuquird after his health, and waa sworod: "Soon." "I am scarry you are'ao' better," replied tho gentleman' "for hoped you wero recovered in 'to-to.'" ... J; , Pleas, don't read this lino