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r ft ?7 A 4 svJ f : n " 7iy m attempts to haul down the. slmcrican Flog, shoot him on the spot." VOL. 3. PLATTSMOUTII, NUI3KASKA, TUUltDAY, .NOVEMBER 21, !07. AO. 33. THE HERALD 13 PUBLISHED W E E K L Y , BY II. Z. HATHAWAY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR tTOCee corner Ms!i str?et tad LeTeO, oco3d liny. Terms: $2.50 'per annum. It a tes of A d vcriis i O j?iiar(pace often line.) otie insertion, ! 00 Cc. snUc'iiont insertion Pn fes lmal cards not exceeciir six liacS O i quarter col am a or le., pr annum " in munths " tnr- e months 9ahal! colan tirelTa rnonth " s! x rjonths " " three muntfcs teeotuma twelve months 10 uo IJJI 15 00 Io.m six month. three month All transient alyt?rtl-eiaenu mji Bdrance. tVwlue":! n faction. WILLITT P0TTENGER- ATTORNEY AT LAW, PLATTSMOUTII - - NEBRASKA. T. n JI lRtl'ETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW .'.wr Solicitor in Chancery. PLATTSMOUTII, - - NEBRASKA C H. KING Carpenter ard Joiner CONTRACTOR and Bo "TDER, WUI d work in h.' line with n eatness an dt-patc, npun short nolle. Dr. J- S. McADOW, nAVIXO RETURN' KD TO ROCK BLUFFS TO practice Physic. onVm hi professional erir-es to bis old patrons and public generally. Farrrnlar Attention paid to .li--at- of tbw fcYK. A core pnar anteed in all carat. le cases. Charges mod-rate same as one yeat ko. j 12 iu6 H. R LIVINGSTON, LI. D. Physician and Surgeon, T 'de' hi profof -ional services to the citiiens of Cas county. t17 Resilience In Frank Wbite'a h use, eornernf Oak sa l .S;i!b .trt-eis: Office on Main stfect, oppo it' Court House, I'l ittsmouth, Nebraska. Platte Valley House Ed. B. MunrHY, Proprietor. Corner of JMiin and Fourth Streets, IIaftmonir, .eb. Thinus baring bro re flu.'.l and newly r rnht i fi r fiit class accimuiuditionr. Board ' y ia day or week. r.unZS BURNS & CO. Te 1 r fa DRYfiOODS,ItOCFKIKS A GRICVL TCltA L JilPLE XEX7S, And a general assortment ot s'-.o.Is usual J kept In a nrM-tiajs country stole. Atoca, Cas Co., - - Nkb. augt XiXWELL, SAM. M. CHAPMAN .Tlaxwell & Chapman, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, AND Solicitors in Chancery. flATTSXOCTU, - XEBRASKA. Office uer Eiack. BatUry k Co's Drug Store, prl CLARKE, PORTEIt & ERWIN, ATTOIiiNEYS AT LAW, And Solicitors in Chancery, fit A IX ST.. OPPOSITE THE COURT UOUiE PLATTSMOUTII, NEB. atlod t- cutis, p rOBlST PORTM. II W. BBWIN. YWr- REAL ESTATE AGEXCT ' JaB'.'t wtf JOSEPH jgSCnLATER, WATCY MAKER and JEWELER, ma l.i Street, PLATTSMOUTII, - - NEBRASKA A food aaortnunt ot Vatclies Clou- (.old Pen Jrwelry, Siler War", Fane -o- i Violir. and Vi lla T: iuimings always en hand. A!ark coin asiitedto his care w lit be warranted. April 10. li'ii. o. . iiu-tr. Lata S'-p't fJiM Af nira. Cll"l & ChlitTOV, lAUornrya at Law IRISH, CALHOUN &CR0XT0N. The anov r.tmfd Si-tlVmcti hare i.ciatK.i hemselT- in buinc tbe pnipose or ro.-u.ut-lo(T and c lleciinp all claims atainut ihe Onucral Government, or ai(.tini-t any tri!r cf Indi am, and re nreaare I to !! o e..-ut' such claims tithi-r bfore ConnreM.or any of th'i Departure its of liovcrnnient or before the Cou. t t.' C! Jims, Ma. IafH mil lieToU- his personal avuiiiicn to he hn:na!i st Washington. !TS" o:r.o at 'etiraci;i C.ty, corner of .Main aa.l Filiu s'-rrcla. At IBB, a A.PBtSKMaJt. S. AULCR & CO , 3R1:C TIF1 EE S .LVD DISTILLERS. DeaTers in ail kl:idi of Foroin and Dom tie WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. XO- Is, EA ST.SIOE SIARKET HQ VAIt E, ist. Joseph ec-23 ly National Claim Agency. WASHINGTON, D C F. M. DORR1NGTON, StU AGIST:; PLATTSMOUTII, - . NEBRASKA, Is prepared ti preset and prcccn;e clainis before Con?res. Court of riairns and the Dcps .ro-nts. pa tents, P-'nioDf, Boant es, and Bounty Lands se eared. ETSCharjfe modcrat-.-, and in pr.inortion to lee annum of the cufai. v. if. OOKUIXOTO V. April 10. '65 J. N. WISE. Gineral Life, Accident, Fire, Inland and j whites, of good standing in the commu--w-m... - - T,-,TmiD'lV' but of little parliamentary expe- lNSUHAi CB AGENT j riDC6i C0Cjlilule te raicori!y i E, "The negroes Lave possession of the ct-oat. ft. b,i, .,:,, ru fr;5bd7,-j Stale of Virginia. They wi!l give us TIIU KLtCTIO.V i. vuua.M i. The people of Virginia, with those of all ihe States lately in revolt, were authorized ty the last Congress to fenn j a Saie Constitution, organize a Gov j eminent, and thereupon apply for re- admission to Congress and restoration to all the privileges cf Self Govt rn intnt. Ihe details cf these important movements were committed to the di rection cf Major General Sthofield, commander of the Militarv Ui-tnci. j uuo was (ertaitily iu no sense inimical w l'j or disliked by the Whites of that Vlntn lit. O . I C. I 1 il w-re "I'P0'1. lgal voters regis- ".m! le,ed ln State districted, for the pro- - S5.oo j posed Convention, aud the day of elcc : be paid It in : I lion appointed. Congress his had - to Jo with the detail, cf the business. The registries, when coin- pieied, snowed a white majority ot 20,000 legal voters; so that the Whites ! had aba&Iute power to vote down a Convention had they seen fit. It has been objected that the districts in which the Biack voters were a majority were entitled 10 elect a majority ot Ihe Con vention; but this couid not well be helped, because a considerable number of counties have eiht or nine whiles to on biack, leaving two thirds of the State almost equally divided between whites aud black; so that the disfran chisement ot five or six thousand lead ing rebels left the blacks in a majority. The facts thai the whites might have defeated a Convention by 20,000 ma jority, aud may still de.eat the Consti tution wheu presented tor ratification, cannot be disputed. The election has been held. No registered white has been in any mau- ner prevented troni voting. .None has been bullied or browbeaten because tie saw fit to vote against the' biacks Iu a very few instances, the blacks have been irritated into violent demonstra ticns by the spectacle of a black coerc ed to vote his own and their disfrau chuemeul, but the only man killed at this election was a black Kadical; ami the two men wounded are also black lladicals. And, the eltctiou being carried by the Radicals a Convention ordered by at least 10,000 majority, and at least sixty Radicals (out of one hundred and rive in all) chosen there to, the victors have quietiy returned to their labors, and the State is at peace, Is'ow let us see how the vanquished receive their defeat, and how they pro pose to avenge it. The following is trom the Lynchburg JVeuj of the 2oih ultimo: "We hear of several persons in the country, and also in this city, who have ducuarged their negro employes on account of their Radicalism. This course cf conduct will be gtnerul on ihe pari of ihe Whites; aud the deluded negro will find, when forever too late, that Radicalism does not put meat into his pot, ncr does voting fill his meal tub. The lesson will be a severe one sharp and decisive; but we are confi dent will be attended with the must wholesome results in the future." The same paper sayt: "We are gratified to learn that 150 negroes, tmployed at the Wythe Iron Mines, ait of whom voted ihe straight out Ridical ticket, were di-charged on Tuesday ty the owner of the works. This is precisely the step which every ! employer should tuke wnh ihe B.acks w10 J.y votlDtl With 'HunniCUl Utld ills ' Set, Gt-c'are themselres opniy and abvVi board the enemies cf ihe White race. They are "enemies of the white race,r you tee, because they choose to be freemen, and to vote as freemen. They chose not to vote for those who sought to disfranchise tbetn and their posterity forever. So they are to be first deprived of employment, and then driven from the Stae. Says the Char lottesville Chronicle: "The election Tuesday settled the fact that the white race and the neero race in Virginia are enemies. The negroes have voted almost to a man the most Radical tickets. A large number of negroes have been elected to the Convention. Then come a body of mean whites and Northern adven turers. A number " of native born a Constitution the leading features of which will be negro officials and taxa tion of the whites. "This is reconstruction. This is pa cificaiiuu. This is good feelini?. This is universal amne?ty (17,000 white vo ters proscribed, and the Siate gerry mandered) nnd universal suffrage. This is peace on enrth, and good will "What must we do? We reply, be patient. The negro furor must exhaust itself. The Northern people, as soon as they recognize distinctly the fact at the South, will ask, is it possible ihe ne groes are iu possession of the South? Is the white race under the feet of a lot of negroes? Is this what the Radi cal Congress mean by their 'Recon struction bil!s? 'We shall lemporarily suffer. The reaction will re the more marked. By Tuesday's work.te negroes in Vir ginia have set thnr seal to their doom. There is no longer any peace. The question now is, who shall occupy and rule the territory between forty and thirty-two degress north latitude the blacks or ihe whites?" Sys The Richmond Enquirer Sf Ex aminer: A correspondent in Kioj William county informs us that lut one negro in that whole county voted ngatnst the Convention and in favor of the Const; vative candidate, Co!. Wm. R. Ayle:t. The name of this negro is Thomas II tiffin, and the citizens of King Wil liam have united in a subsciption to pur chase a piece of land and give it to this man for a home in the county as his .... - - it, nri own. nils is wen uons. e n&ve urged and still urge, every employei of negroes to turn adrift all who voted the Radical tick tt; and we are equally as earnes. in urging that all who showed iheir kind feelings toward the white people by voting on their side, shall be kindly and liberally rewarded fur their eood service and tonservati.-m." A negro you tee, shows "good sense" and '-kind feelings towards the white" l.y votit.'g that his race shah nevermore cniwv the r'ciit cf auflrairo - -.ball bo mere boot blacks and table waiters to whiles. IJji, if he votes that blacks have some rih s which white are buurid to respect, he must be thruit out of employment. So to vote is to sub ject himself to exi'e and his family to starvation. Such is white conservatism and loyalty, as expounded by the ex rebel organs in Virginia. We migh quote from a dozen more of them, all in the samo strain. The blacks have chosen to vote for candi dates who (they believe) will frame a Con-tituiion that gives them equal rights: thus they have sealed their d;iom they must be starved, be hunt- ed out, &c, &.C. They have doubtless much yet to brave aud to surfer; but we hope and trust that Virginia is henceforth a community of freemen. Honor to her faithful radicals! May those of other States imitate their ex ample, their courage, and their tri umph. JY. Y. Tribune. 3"" When General Sheridan stop ped at Salisbury, the other day, to shake hands with the people, an honest looking laborer stepped up first, aud saying, "1 would like to, if you will shake hands w.ih a teamster." "I used t; drive oxen myself ouce," repli ed little Phil, and he has never failed to drive everything which he has un dertaken since. if 'The cause upheld by JefTer son Davis," says a Democratic publica tion printed iu New York, is the cause of God, liberty and American civilization, while that led by Abra ham Liucoln is the most impious, accur sed and monstrous that ever insulted heaven or outraged earth since lime began." The Democrats would nomi nate Jeff Davis for President if ihey dared. Z-gT'A conductor of a uewspaper, in speaking of a cotemporary says: 'He was formerly a member of Con gress, but rapidly arose until he obtain ed a respectable position as an editor, a noble example of . preservation under depressing circumstances." $irA special dispatch from Mary land d..ted Nov. S.h, states that the Confederate flag was tlucg to the breeze in Frederick County when the rebels there received news from the New York election,. TIIU i'KOUitAMJIi; OF KLVO-LUTIGW When a President was last to Le chosen, the People were eshorted to vote the Democra io tcket, in order to end the war. "There will never be peace if Liocolu be re-elected said Seymour Si Co., "but debt will D-? piled on debt, tax on lax, un il every linn's farm or hou;e will b m or gnged for more than it is war h, whild conscrip tion after conscription will exhaust the life-blood of the country, and the end will be Disunion, Nation! Bankruptcy and Repudiatijn. To escape these, you must vote for McCIellan." A very large minority of the peop'e credited these as--eriiojs. and vol -d ac cordmgly; but the nnj"rny did not, and re-elected Lincoln. And scarcely had the I titor been re inaugurated when the whole fabric of Rebellion tumbled into hopelcsj) ruin, aud the land was at peace. The work cf reconstruction, which followed next in order, has been nearly completed. It was delayed a full year by the mistake of offering to the South a programme which would have allow ed the late rabels to resume the uudis puled control of their several States and trample the loyal blacks under their feet. This was happily rejected by the rebels; but the consequent delay is not fairly chargable to the Radicals. The trmh thai there was no true, just or safe reconstruction which did not put the voluntary Unionists ot the South at least on a par with the invol untary being now made plain, Con gress tried again; and now the process ot recousiru;ion is peacefully and vig orously going forward. Bifore Con gress can lake its ueii Summer vaca tion, every S;atewill have us own gov ernment, will be represented in both Houses, nnd be ready to vote for Pres ident ut-xt November. What does Conserva:ism propose to do about it'f The fVorld answers thi-s question as follows: 'By the recent elections, the people have declared that iht do not wani uc gro suffrage and do want res irtation; have decided th.it n-?gro suffrage is too great a price to pay even for immediate restoration. Tiny will be iuceosed if, after this decision, ih'3 Republicans coutinae to insist on a wholly impracti cable scheme. "The fact tht negro governments are in process of organization, and that Congress may admit ihf ir repre sentatives, does not vary the case, ex cept to reuler a degrading farce more contemptible. Certain it is that the Southern people will njver recognize these bastard government as having the slightest validity. Within four months att-T the Presidential election, a heavy b ittermg ram will tumble them into shapeh si rubbish. The Southern people will immediately reorganize, hold new elections, oust the negroes, send their own representatives to Washington, and the House will at once admit them. The Southern Sen ators. plus ihe Conservative Senators from the North, will form a mijority of that body, organize as such, and neither ihe House nor the President will rtcognize any other Senate. This course is entirely -ieasible, Al be perfectly constitutional, aud beyond ail question adapted, if ibe Radicals are insane or wayward enough to recognize the ne gro government after this great re buke. The only thing that could pre vent it would be acquiescence by the Southern whites in the Radical scheme Whoever expects that, i better emi tted to a straight jacket than a refuta tion. : The people will see that this is a programme of undisguised Revolution a new phase of the old Rebellion. The World does not say thai its party will repudiate the authority of the pres ent House of Representatives to couot the rotee for President and declare the result, and that it will refuse to recog nize any President chosen by the votes of the radically re-con? tructed State.-; but any oue can see that what it dots assert logically involves thase. In other words: Sham Democracy con templates a fresh rebellion whereby to recover what it lost by its last un lucky experiment wi:h fire-arms. It was thus that St. Domingo was whelm ed in bloody ashes. Emancipation was peacefully effected; bu: tha attempt to re-enslave the blacks resulted in un- spsakable horrurs. Tnis people, tore warned, will shun the abyss of anarchy and murder to which the World would hurry us. They will elect a Republi can President and Congress by ihe vote of bo h North and South, and thus pre elude tne execution of the sanguinary projrramm! of Rebellion A". Y. Trib. The to lowing letter trom a noted Democratic politician in Connecticut on the death of Mr. Horton, one of the editors of the Old Guard and the Day Booh, shows that tho infamous priuci pies of the publications are fully ac tvp ed by the standard bearers of the party: IlARTFfRD, Sept. 26, 1867. C. Ciiau.ncey Burr: My Dear Sir: I have heard with deep sorrow of the death of our esteemed friend, Mr. Horton, of the Day Book. It cam? upon me suddenly, and with a force, the ttTect of which will not soon be re moved. My opinion of the lameuted deceased you have no occasion to iu quire. Our departed friend was not a mete editor of a journal he was an Apastle of Truth. We found in his Day Book ihe very light that was need ed to guide us in ihe way of independ ence. He saw clearly from the begin ning that the war, as waged by the Radicals, was for the destruction of the white man's government, aud therefore battled against it. The military des potism that is now established over the South, the elevation of ihe African ihere, and almost probable danger ot making the South another St. Domingo, fully confirms the prophetic character of the editor of the Day Book, aud proves our loss, in Mr Horton, to be u general calamity. If he had been spared still later, his waruiogs mighj have taught us how to avert the dan gers that now threaten to utterly over throw everything that is worth preserv ing in the -once boasted American Re public. Being taken from us at this time we know not whether to look for "his liko again." T. H. Seymocr. The New York Tribune thinks that if the victims of -arbitrary" arrest du ring the war is held in that city it will be a "big thing''for the hotels. It says there were 13,000 of them made at Fort Donelson, 35,000 at Vicksburg, 2t3,000 at Chattanooga, at Appomattox and other closing arrests about 150,000, besides an aggregate on miscellaneous occasion.', of about 200.000. These make a total of 42-3,000 "Democrats" arbitrarily arrested without warrant or process of law during the "Lincoln reign.1' Ii thinks ii will bother even the great city of New York, to furnish sleeping accommodations for this vast number of the martyred "Democracy." And we think so too. It suggests that Booth ought to act as chairman, and that as all are plainly on the way to his present habitation, if they will only de fer the convention it may be hereafter nttld in a place where for the first time in the history of Democratic conven tions, cold water will be in demand, aud the supply limited. Kir"'Horace Greeley says: "I like popular amusements, especially those which develop aud strengthen the mus cles; but I do not like the mnJern match es made up between clubs hundreds of miles apart. According to my notion, the prize should be awarded in these matches to the side that makes the shorter. score. In awarding the palm for .uch a contest, count my vote always for the beaien party. They doubtless midd their proper business better, and perform their duties as fathers, hus bands, sons, clerks, journeymen, ap printices, &c, more thoroughly than do the victors. It n an honor, not to beat but to be beaien, in a match of this sort." gSTAs illustrative of Mr. George Francis T rain's intense patriotism, we may relate that he, on one occassion, sent his wife on a ninety days' voyage from Australia to New York, that their coming child might be born on Ameri can soil, as it would become a possible future President of the United Siaies. The journey was a most troublous one, and the lady came very near being shipwrecked, but at last reached this coun'.ry in safety. .The chiid'was bom, and if was a girl. f'ew York .Mail. A Splendid Pororaiiou. In Lis late eloquent speech at Thila delphia, Gen. Sickles surpassed even his brilliant effort at Washington. We yeild space for its closing parages: Comrades, "This Government is a Republic, where the will of the. people is the law of the land." This maxim so full of wisdom and truth, we have from Grant; the General in-chief of our srmies. No military authority has been exercised in the rebel States not authorized by Congress and eanctioned by the laws of the land. Under mili tary protection loyil cival Governments will be eslablished and maintained by ballot put into the hands of loyal men. That done ten years ago we would have had no rebellion. If we co it now we will not have another. Have no tears tnat tne colored race will uot kuow their friends from their foes. Their hearts, full of gratitude, will govern their conduct as citizens. Loy alty and order are almost as sacred to them as religion. Indeed, they believe iheir deliverance to be the work of Providence. Safe and trusted at home, they will contribute vastly to the re sources of the nation and take nothing away from the employments or the franchise of another race or class. Within the sound cf my voice is the pot where the sublime truth was pro claimed that "all men are created free and equal." Upon this rock our Re publican institutions are built. No power can prevail against it. A GOOD JOKE. We recently heard this good cne that has never been in print: Last winter Lute Tayior, of the Prescott Journal, was traveling in a stage with a party of gentlemen among whom was a noted Dtmociatic politician from Minnesota, now a condidate for a State office. The day wa3 intensely co!d and the company was obliged to stop occasionally to warm up. Halting at a littla inn by the road "side the demo crat iuvited Lute up to take a drink of whiskey to which he readily assented, and as Lute was both dry and cold, he turned out a pretty stiff "hom,'wal- lowed it instauter, and repaired ai once to the stove tj thaw out. Lute's free and easy style suited the democrat to a dot, and after imbibing himself he walk ed up to Lute and said : "I'll bet any man ten dollars that you are a good democrat." As Lute is an awful radical this touched his pride, and he replied in his usual stammering styie : "I a a advise you n n not to Let more m-m money on that than you wi.-h to lose. I acknowl edge I h-h-have all the symptoms with' ont the d-d-disease. A Democrat Widiout a Doubt. Hju. J. A. Creswell, to an eloquent address before tne Border State Con vention at Baltimore, narrates the fol lowing : "I kuow but one black in Maryland whose position is doubtful. Wrhose?3 The name is Abe Corts, in my county. Some one came to me some lime ago and said Abe Com was a copperhead. O, saidl.'I thinks that's very true.' The next time I saw him I told him they say you are a copperhead Abe ?' Oh yes, Massa John, I'm a copper head.' Says I, 'Abe you're a L.ol.' 'No, massa, says ho, 'I'm no fcol. Just hear what this nigger has to say. You know I am a pretty old man and can't read and write, and ain't got sense enough to learn, and besides I am mighty fond of whiskey. I never thought I .was fit for anything lut to be a Domocrat. Great applause and laughter." That sort of reasoning over came me, and I surrendered at discre tion." sIt is well to remember some of the formulas in which the Democratic party is now loudly declaring its creed. Here are a few we select from , our Copperhead exchanges: "Slavery is right; freedom is wrong." "The canse which Abraham Lincoln led was the most unatural, impious, and s.nful that 1ms ever afflicted the world." "The causae opheid by Jefferson Da vis is the cau?e of Go ', Liberty, and American civilisation:" "It is the President's 'duty to disperse Congress:" "We want none of your soldiers. We've had ensugh cf them."' .. - : "Grant and Sheridan must be ?nurT- ed out " ' '. LI.MOL.V A.D DAVIS. The following from the Old Guard, acknowledged as an orthodox Demo cratic publication shows the true Dem ocratic idea of Lincoln and Je.T Davis: "Abraham Lincoln n as without doubt the most fatal man ihatever lived upon this ear.h, and in four brief years did more evil to mankind than the worst man that Cv.r lived accomplished in u lifetime. The cause he led is the mot unnatural, impious and sinful that has ever afflicted the world, and ihe means of its accomplishment ihe vilest, most diihonesl and dtvelish that ever degrad ed our jape or stained the earth since time began. On iho contrary the real (though m.t assumed) cause led by Jefferson Davis is tho noblest, most beneficent, true and glorious cause that men ever battled for on this earth, aud the means employed were the grandest, most Christian and chivalrous ever witness'ed in the world's history.'. Cfif'The authorities at Washington City refuse to pay the teachers of the colored schools therein. The "chival ry" thereabouts think it their duty to rob the negroes whenever ihey can. fhey stole the negro himself as Jong as they could. Now, they can no longer do that, they indulge their natural pro pensity by ttealiog his property, and appropriating to their own use tho mouey which lawfully should go to him. t is a very honorable game they play all the time, and yet they profess to bo astonished that the black man cannot be convinced that the "chivalry" are his best friends ! The black man has the better share of sense, plainly. lQA Scotchman went to a lawyer for advice, and detailed the circum- tances of the case. "Have you to!J the facts just as they occurred ?"' said the lawyer. "Ay," was tho reply, thoot ye wad put the lies into it." &SA terrifilc hutricane occurred on ihe island of St. Thomas, in tho Wrest Indies on the 29. h u't. Many . ives were lost, and a cumber of vessel in the haibcr driven asacro. In town cf St. Thomas is in ruins. JAa auctioneer was selling a library at suction. He was not very weil read in books, but he scanned the titles trusted to luck, and went ahead. "Here you have," said be, "Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; how much'm I of ferred for it? How much do I hear for the Pilgrim's Progress, ty John Bunyan! Tis a firstrate bookr gentle men, with six superior illustrations; how much do I hear? All about the Pilgrims by John Bunyan! Tells where they came from, au' where they landed, an what they done after they lauded! Here's a picter of one of 'em goin" about Plymouth peddlin' with a pack on his back !' A Child Chabmid by a Snake. A woman named Somers, residing in Worchester, Pa., went into an orchard . to gather seme fruit, aai left her little babe, less than a year eld, sitting upon; the ground. She soon passed out of sight of the child, but hearing his voice cooing and laughing, she gave herself no uneasiness. Suddenly tne sounda . ceased, and she stepped around to him, supposing him asleep. But to her hor ror, she saw him sitting perfectly mo tionless, his lips parted and his eyes fix- . ed on an enormous rattlesnake, that was approaching him in almost irnpsreepti- . ble motions. She looked in vain for some ttick or stone to till the monstrous reptile, then quick as thought r'prang' . towards it, overturned the pan which she held in her hand so ri to effectual ly cover its body, got upon it and" screamed for help. The covering of tho snake broke the spell upon the child its little boby swayed "to and fro' and it quietly crept towards its heroic ; mother. In a few minutes friends came to her relief, and the cause of her terror was dispatched. . rjgyUnfortunate Mexico, it is said,, is again on the ere of a revolution. . The vote ca the Convocatoria showed ., a wide spread dissatisfaction with the . administration of Juarez, but we hoped bis opponents would be. willing to com , bat him by ballots, and not by bullets. EfA terrible accident has befal- -len the town of St. Thomas, in th West Indies, the ton being nearly destroyed by Uicg lo;t. a tornado, end 600 lives :4 . 1 ''i i t ii I. 0 ,h i:l l!; O