Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.