The Selinsgrove Times-Tribune from Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania • 1

That Country is the most Prosperous where Labor commands the greatest Reward euchanan. EDITOR ASTD PROPRIETOR. VOL. IX. SELINSGROVE, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1865.

30. FRANKLIN WEIRICK, adopted him as its own. More than this, POETB "ST- Among the recent cases that were brought befuia a Court Martial in this State, was that of one Miller. The charges against Miller were a3 follows 1 In that the said Miller declared that "Aba Lincoln was a fool and had no sense." 2. In that the said Miller wished that "Iitrhtninsr Wit aad Puritanism.

The London Saturday Review discusses American wit, and declares the irrcvorenco of too much of it to be simply a perversion of Puritanism "Puritanism, in one shape or another, is Vice President Johnson. From the Pittsburg Gazette, Hcpublican. We have hitherto refrained from commenting upon the fact that the Vice President disgraced himself and the nation by appearing in a state of intoxication at the time of his induction into office and inflioting upon his hearers a maudlin drooSr speech, not because wo hoped thereby to 'hide the un declared publiely and repeatedly, "If you hear a man talking about his constitutional ryhts, spot him, he is a traitor." Did the delegates who placed this man in nomination, and the editorial host which applauded their work fancy that be could take a solemn oath to support that Constitution, of which he spok habitually with sucB contempt, without stead ying his nerves for the work 'with spirits and washing the abhorred pledge down with strong drink Did not Mr. Garrison, that Abolition Gamaliel at whose feet the scan dalized Beecher and his brethern are content to sit, teach for a quarter of a century the doctrine that the Constitution of the United States is a covenant with death and an agree ment with hell, and can a gentleman when he comes to seal a bargain with death and hell under the solemnity af an oath, be blam ed tor seeKing in the bottle the courage which he cannot find in his heart 1 We trow not. It ill behooves the people who have taught the sin of perjury against the Uonstitutioo, to insist on the virtue of tern perance in those of their brethren who must needs swear to support it.

False oaths are hard to swallow and lie heavy when they are down. The wretch who takes them needs some stronger stimulus before the feast and some more potent digestive after than plain cold water. While we have no wish to excuse or palli ate the nigh offense in the sight of morals and decency of which Mr. Johnson was guil ty, we enter our final and solemn protest against any criticism on his behavior from the Abolition side of the house. He has dis graced himself, it is true, by this last act, but it is Honorable compared with tne deeds tor which they nave given him tne second office in the nation.

They have as little right to oriticise the comparatively trifling immor ality ot tne fourth or March, as had James the second to rebuke Jeffreys for red eyes and night drinking, alter rewarding him tor the murder of innocent men and the whip. pine; of delicate women, with the gift of tne Ureat Seal. TtieAoe. Pharoah and Jeff. Davis.

Mr. Cox made the following admirable point in the debate on the amendment to the Constitution respecting slavery. it. then, as it is said by the gentleman from Vermont fMr. Morrill, slavery is dead.

what is the object of this amendment? That distinguished gentleman told us the other day that like Pharoah and his hosts, the South had rushed with slavery into the Bed sea ot war, and that slavery was destroyed. Well, if that be the case, if slavery is dead. where is the necessity for invoking this ex traordinary power ot amendment My friend from New York Mr. Odell, who al so spoke so well in defence ot his views, said that although it was dead he wished to give it a constitutional burial: I am not much of a biblical scholar, but I believe that we have no autheotio record' of the fact that after Pharoah and his hosts were destroyed in the Bed sea the children of Israel, after the destruction, met together upon its shores in grand convocation and, after listening lo Aaron and other orators, passed resolutions somewhat like this amendment, to wit Resolved, That neither Pharoah nor his hosts, except as a punishment for crime, whereof they shall have been duly convicted, shall hereafter exist within the jurisdiction of jthe children of Israel. Laughter.

What would the people have thought of the children of Israel for passing such a res olution after the decease of Pharoah My friend from N. Mr. Odell, belongs to the new dispensation, and would give the deceased slavery a constitutional burial. What would have been thought of the children of Israel, after they had fished out Pha- roab's dead body, if they had proceeded solemnly to give to it a constitutional burial liaughter. Don't Forget Your Girls.

When I live-? amoog the Choctaw Indians, (says a traveler,) held a consultation with one ot their chiefs respctiog the stages of their progress in the arts of eivilized life, and anioug other things be lnlormed me that at their start they made a great mistake, they only sent their boys tosschool. These boya came home intelligent men, but they married uneducated and uncivilized wives and the uniform result was the children were like their mothers. The father soon lost all his interest both in wife and children. And now, said he, if we would educate but one class of our children we should choose the girls, for when they become mothers, they educate their sons. This is the point, and it isirue.

No nation can become fully enlightened when mothers are not qualified to discharge the duties of home work of education. Parents give your daughters, as well as your sons, the best education that is in your power. of The Wood Maiden. There dwells a.maiden, wondrous fair, Within a wood With all that blooms in beauty there, To her subdued. fc And ateps she early from her door, Upon light feet.

Bright singing birds fly her before, With music sweet. The spotted roc for her stands still, To be caressed The tamed wolf obeys her will, Kor dares molest. She, singing, treads the dewy mosa And flowerjg wold, The sun her shoulders throws serosa A rob of gold. Oli, were I bnt the placid stream She makes her glass, Eetlecting the angelic gleam Of her sweet face She looks within, and laughs and sings 'My heart is free, lly wishes fly on pleasure's wings, That serve for me. "My maiden heart is like a Bhine, Or cloister cell Where lies the key That secret's mine, No one can tell." MISCELLANEOUS.

The Vice President's Critics. The Reverend Henry Ward Beeqher and other critical gentlemen of his pattern affect to be highly scandalized at the exhibition of drunkenness by Andrew Johnson on the fourth of March. Mr. Beecher, it seems, was present, and witnessed the wonderful gpectacfa with his own eyes. He saw the Bible whirled by the in-coming V.

P. about bis head, like a cap when a man gives three cheers, and heard the maudlin appeal to Messrs. Chase, Stanton, and Welles, to be informed if they "didn't get their power from the fnfjpJe H(uL Keren mil yWtww." Mr. tiqueers was in the habit of calling his semi-Bury for youth "a shop for morals," and the office of the New York Independent is a ware-rooaa of that description, in which the most devout sentiments and pious suggestions are nlwajs to be had at a very low figure. Mr.

Beecher is chief salesman, and the Johnsonian orgies of march the 4th afforded him a chsDce of running off a vast amount of old stock which had been slumbering on the shelves fur many years. The spectacle of inebriated ice President hiccoughing oat his oath of office furnished such a text for discourse on temperance as hardly turns up once in an age. The staff of the Independent rolled up the whites of thefr eves nud the sleeves of their coats, and entered vigorously upon the work of demolishing the criuublini; ruins of Mr. Johnson reputation They were piously resolved that not a spfck of moral mortar or a single virtuous brick should indicate the spot where the unfortu nate geutleman character bad once stood 1 hey demanded "an apology or a resigna tion a most cruel alternative, for an apology wovld be a confession of shame, which would degrade the offender without concilia ting the public, and a resignation would cast him back among that very lowest class of plebeians, from which be boasted with such untimely and indecorous glee, he had risen. Mr.

J. has neither pat on his penitential sackcloth, nor laid aside bis official robes, nor will he do either The Independent and Mr. Beecher have clamored in vain, and we are heartily glad of it, for good we are going to tell. We believe that wo felt as keenly as any tody the disgrace which Andrew Johnson's indecent display brought upon this country. Hut we utterly deny that any Abolitionist has a right to complain of his behavior on inauguration duy to be surprised at it or to make nioaa over it.

On the contrary, sorry as was the spectacle which he presented as he totterei on his feet, in the Senate house over which be was to preside, and stammered out his official oath.nhia was a highly reputable and extremely decent performance compared with a thousand transactions of which he was guilty before be was put in nomination for Vice Presidency, and which Brother Beecher Co. not only recorded without a blush, but urged as arguments, for placing lnui on the ticket. His reign in Tennessee nover saw a day ss creditable to liiui as that memorable fourth: of March on which the snuffling partisans of Abolition declare "he full." It is a bad thing to get drunk, we admit, and an extremely unlucky thing to do so publicly and oo a great occasion. But it is a thousand times worse to Oppress the weak, to overturn law, subvert justice, disfranchise the honest citizens of i great Commonwealth, and set alien scoundrels upon their necks. As Military Governor of Tennessee, Mr.

Johnson did all these tilings long before the Baltimore Convention might strike the cabinet and knock them into alongvith Horace Grt'elr." 3. In that the eaid Sillier is a sympathizer with the South and had declared that he would rather fight for Jeff Davis than Abe Liucoln. 4. In that the said Miller had "spoken disrespectfully of the Administration." Oo such nonsensical trash this man was dragged from family, imprisoned for weeks, put to great expense, and in the end sent home with the "assurance that the grave charges were not sustained." Wonder, if he bad said that Andy Johnson was drunk at the inauguration, whether that would have been a good subject for another charge IIow French Ladies Bathe. At the trades exhibition in Paris, the pretty things are plentiful, and the collection includes one or two amusing inventions.

Foremost among these is a superb car, drawn by silver, swans of gigantic proportions. The car is intend ed for bathers. In its fairy network thev may recline at their ease, and float upon the waters, and in the waters, buoyed up by the four gallant silver swans, who will bear them safely upon the gentle swell of summer seas. At the fair bather's elbow is a handle that works a screw and by this screw she may drive her car and her swans at herownsTeet will. This is luxury enough, one would itn- agine, tor even a Parisian countess, at Biar-riz or Trouville.

But the inventor is not satisfied. He knows the ladies for whom he caters and in the backs of the noble birds he has contrived a liquor-case, too. Sensible. The Cleveland Herald con demns the Miohigan Legislature hit overriding the decision of the Supreme Court of that State, which pronounces the soldier-vot ing law of Michigan unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of that State is composed of men who are Republicans, The Herald ys "The doings of the legislature are discred itable to that body, and there is but one way to save the party in Michigan that is, by the party disavowing the act of the Legisla.

ture, and at next election returning not a man, who ignored the deoision, to the Legislature. Any other course will be ruinous, for the act of the Legislative majority cannot be sustained, and any party that attempts it will go under." Reading and Conversation. Our read- ing WjiSJ be of little use without conversation. Conversation will be apt to run low reading. Readiug trims the lamp, and conversation lights it; reading is the food of the mind.

and conversation the exercise. And as all things are strengthened by exercise, so is the mind by conversation. There we shake off the dust and stiffness of a recluse, scho lastic life ouropinions areoonfirmed and cor. rected by the good opinions of others: points are urged, doubts are solved, difficulties cleared, directions given, and frequently hints started, which if pursued, would lead to the most useful truths, like a vein of sil. ver or gold whiolrdirects to a mine.

AGRICULTURAL. Feeding Poultry. It has been asoer. taiued that, if you mix with your food a-suf ficient quantity of egg-shells or chalk, which they eat greedily, they will lay twice as many eggs as A well-fed fowl is disposed to lay 'a large number of eggs, bnt cannot do so without the materials of shells, however nourishing in other respects her food may be: indeed a fowl fed on food and water. free from carbonate of lime, and not finding oy in soil, or in the shape of mortar, which tbey often eat oo the walls, would lay no eggs at all, with the best possible will.

Breeding and Matching Horses. A correspondent of the Canada Farmer makes some good suggestions when he advises farm-ers to match their horses, when youns. When you raise a oolt, put your mare again to the same horse, and get a span out of the same mare and horse. Let them grow up and run together. If of the same color, so much the better; but there are other points to be looked at before this.

They are gen. erally of the same temper, size, gait, which are the best points in a span of match. ed horses for sale or for service." Value op Orchard Grass forPastcb. age. It is valued for pasturage beoaose it stands drouth better than any other, will bear heavier stocking, and comes forward in the spring very early.

"No grass grows so rapidly, or continues growing so long through. out the season, or allows to be pastured so early." It grows hotter than most grasses. under shelter. the dominant idea of tha North. To the founders of New England the historical characters of the Old Testament were not litera ry shadows, but men given as exemplars.

God was to them 'a present Deity; a special Providence' was ever at their side peculiar mercies were showered in their path, Ibis stamped their life, their literature, their acts, their words, with a religion actual, vivid, solid, full of fact. They speko of Jehovah and Christ, of heaven and hell, of death and judgment as they would of the serious fa miliar facts of daily life as they spoke "of their long barn, or fifteen acre field, or their new clearing. I he Devil was as real as the red Indian, and was spoken of in much the same way, as a real living enemy haunting INew England, to be met, and, it possible, overcome. Puritanism in its day, our own country, was much the same thing in its literatnre we find allusions which even Mr. Spurgeon Would think coarse, and pass ages wbicb, perhaps, the Kccord would hesitate to print.

"The American irreverence that translates the Bible into newspaper jokes is therefore descended, on one side, from the fearless Puritan handling of religious names, thoughts and facts but, on the other side, it is derived from the audacious, wild cat Yankee spirit evoked by New World facts. Men who had to encounter the hardships and perils of backwoods life must, above all things, have courage and the courage that habitu ally faces danger, discomfort, rough life, gouging, bowie-knives, and free hghts, soon beoomes recklessness. Take your Puritan, with his constant dragging in of religious words and ideas into daily life keep him for years far from "the means of grace," as pray er meetings are called give him, instead of imaginary wrestlings with the Satan, some tough hghts with grisly bears show him chances of cheating red Indians, of larrup ping niggers, of 'striking a trade' with a Yankee less keen than himself, and you have as the result, an odd mongrel one-third Fifth Monarchy, one-tbird red Indian, one third Joe Miller, with the 'Bible grave, lanternjawed, and lean, like the abor igines with the old English love of humor, but humor dried, cut into slips, and preserved English beef with a peculiar Tlnvnr nr if.a nwn A Provost Marshal in a Bad Fix, The Tuscarawas (Ohio) Advocate relates tha following incident "About two weeks ago, two deserters nam edDeLaney and Cunningham, made their ap pearance in Wayne township in this county. They openly admitted that they were deserters from the army, and defied the authorities to arrest them if they dared. The, Provost Marshal at Alliance, sent a deputy after them, who had orders to take them dead or He was well provided with handcuffs and hobbles to place upon the wrists and ankles of the deserters.

At the Falls of Sugar Creek, De Laney and Cunningham found the Deputy Marshal iu a room at the hotel some what intoxicated. They handouffed and hobbled him took his money, revolver and knife put him in a Vagon and exhibited him through the country as a horse thief. After keeping the Deputy Marshal. as a pris oner a day and night they finally brought mm to caoai uover, and showed bim iu the public "street. De Laney would sins a song.

and compel the Marshal to keep time with bis chains. After the deserters had all the fun they desired, they left the Deputy at the hotel and departed, much to the amusement of the crowd. In the course of the recent debate in the United states Senate, upon the estab lishment of civil government in Indian Territory. Mr. Lane (Kansas), said that amalgama tion between the Indians and the blacks pro duced the finest race of men on the face of tie lie had seen specimens, and the true antislavery men of the country ought to throw open this 84,000 miles of territory to the Indians and the negroes, and let them mix as much as they please.

Sentenced. A. L. W. Flannagan, the editor of the Mason Democrat, (a weekly paper published in Warren county,) who was tried before a Military Commission in Cin cinnati, for publishing "traitorous senti ments, hag been sentenced to six months of hard labor in Fort Delaware.

The sentence having been approved by General Hooker, Flannagan left last Saturday. Russia cannot beat that Canton (O.) Democrat. pleasant fact upon our readers, or shrink from condemning the grievous fault commit ted, but because we hoped that a little delay would bring as some mitigation ot tne re port, and render the transaction less disgrace ful than was at hrst stated. We have wait ed, however, in vain and now that the facts are beyond dispute, we join with the repub lican press ot the country in telling the Vice President that having utterly disgraced him self, subjected his party to the keenest mor tification, and made his country a laughing stock in the eyes ot the world, the least re paration he can makt is to resign. After this exhibition of himself, he cannot occupy that place any longer with honor or credit.

His good name is lost, and he cannot regain it by holding on to a place be has disgraced If he attempts to hold on to it he will thereby show himself insensible to shame, and therefore ail the more unfitted for that high position. Uut what it he does not resign 1 ben let him be impeached, or reached in some other way by the action of the Senate. Women in Paraguay. The author of "Sketches in Paraguay" gives us this fragrant morsel "Everybody smokes in Paraguay, and ev ery female above thirteen years of age chews. I am wrong.

They do not chew, but put to bacco in their mouths, keep it there constantly, except when eating, and, instead of chewing, roll it about with their tongue, and suck it. Only imagine yourself about to salute the rich red lips of a magnificent little Hebe, arrayed in satin ami flashing with di amonds she puts you back with one delicate hand, while with the fair, taper fingers of the other she draws from her mouth a brownish black roll of tobacoo, quite two inches long, looking like a monstrous grub, and depositing the savory morsel on the rim of your sombrero, puts up her face, and is ready for a salute. I have sometimes seen an overdelicate foreigner turn with a shudder of loathing under such circumstances, and get the epithet of el savaco (the savage) applied to him by the offended beauty, for this sensitive squeamishness. However, one soon gets used to this in Paraguay, where you are, perforce of custom, obliged to kiss every lady you are introduced to and one halt you meet are really, so tempting you would sip the dew of the proffered lips in the face of a tobacco eatery, even the double distilled 'honey dew ot old Virginia. J8" Horace Greely, Speaker Colfax and family, passed over our railroad to New York, last week, in one of the gaudy private cars, built for the "government" at an immense expense, the day was very inclement, and the train an immense one, filled largely with nvalid soldiers on their way home.

torn Harrisbwrg to Allestown the bumpers of the cars were hlled, notwithstanding wbicb Messrs. Greely and Colfax kept the doors of their car locked, refusing to admit anybody, although their car was occupied only by themselves. We noticed one sick gentleman on the' bumper of Mr. Greely's car, unable to Bit down in the rain on the wet bumper, who was supported by two soldiers, leaning against the car door, through the window of which tbey eould look in uron comfortable and "loyal Messrs. Greely and (Jolfax play ins cards.

The wife of ay member of Con gress from the west took sick on the road. Application was made to Messrs. Gree- and Colfax for ber admission into their car, and was refused. At xvew xorK we saw her carried from the cars to the Ferry Boat being unable to walk. Xhe conduct of these two men was a subject of general condemnation, and the question was general asked, particularly by the-soldiers, what business Greely and Colfax had with a "government private cur are, it is irue, of the "ldj'al" aristocracy, and have a great deal to say of their friendship for the soldiers and "brave defenders of the country," but they would see tbem die on the threshhold of their doors, before they would open to admit them.

Lebanon Advertiser. You see, these soldiers were not niggers. Had niggers applied, they might have obtained admittance. Greeley and Colfax prefer to associate and travel with their equals If, as the Abolitionists assert, the Administration is the Government, then it is equally a fact that on inauguration day part the Government was drunk 1.