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CRANBERRIES TUST rearmed a limb lot of Cranberries andN'eve s Carnets. at No 71 Locum Street Oat. 1t& ISOO. S. P. ESEaL EIN Ipetug. .1 50 In leafy girths, die garden-walls Around the plats and limes were drawn— Hound many a myrtled inteNpace, And crisping breadth of summer lawn. ni g h on the wild-sculpt Tuscan urn, The pennon 6 drowsed; trod far LeMw Ranged many a terrace statue-dusted, And fringed with bulustrades of snow. "I love," I said, she silent turned 11cr thoughtfu; face nfront the south, While twenty shadows passion-winged, Run round the curving, of her mouth. FAA I stole one hand acro4s the sea!, And touched her daity, ehuung arm, Leant to her 'tech, and wh,peted through The tress that hid her small ear's charm. Tae hot wind stirred the plenehed grapes, And :Ailed halt' the fountain's froth; "And If I lore, or dream I love, Sweet cou-iu, mine, neetrst thou he wroth!" One moment trilling with her fan, Site pre...ed the margin to her brow.; ''Love," she replied, -und peace and rest llw•.11 in your Ileurt and hearth and house." "Wouhist see the picture I adore?" Through pen.ive lips she an.wcred. Then. slowly breathing, turtle,' to Inc 11cr sweet face white with pain's excess. I drew the mirror from my bieust, And placed it 111 her passive hand; 'l,ook, cousin, long at her I love, The brightest blossom in the land." A faint bbish bloomed u-lain her brows, Her low voice trembh 41 through and through, She drooped her hend,“Ali, cousin mine, God help her, for she loves you too." Then rising up, close-linked we paced Where the duo almonds dunked the swarth; Nor heard the bells of Time, unul The great stars - wheeled acro-e the nortlt— Till pilots lapsed black In shade, And half the poplar tops grew pale, Aid woke, amid the passioa-flowers, The mellow-throated nightingale. Rich pease was ours; from bird and plant, ihe faint Q,ileader in the blue, I fancy ml rind voices sighed: “Cod bless her, for site loves you too: , [Chambers' Journal gatttimu. [From All The Year Ban to A Tale of Ambition. Miss Amelia Martin was pale, tallish, thin, and two-and-thirty— what ill-natured people would call plain, and police reports interest ing. She was a milliner and dress-maker, living on her business and not above it. If you had been a young lady in service, and wanted Miss Martin, as a great many young ladies in service did, you would have just to step up, in the evening, to No. 47 Drummond street, George street, Euston Square, and af ter casting your eye on a brass door-plate, one foot ten by one and a half, ornamented with n great brass knob at each of the four corners, and bearing the inscription— "Miss Martin, millinery and dress-making in all its branches;" you'd just hare knocked two loud knocks at the street-door; and down would have come Miss Martin herself; in a merino gown of the newest fashion, black velvet bracelets on the genteelest principles, and other little elegancies of the most ap proved description. If Miss Martin knew the young lady who called, or if the young lady who called had been recommended by any other young lady whom Miss Martin knew, Miss Martin - would forthwith show her up stairs into a two-pair front, and chat she would—so kind, and so comfortable—it really was'nt like a matter of business, she was so friendly; and then Miss Martin, after contemplating the figure and gencrel appearance of the young lady in service with great apparent admiration, would say how well she would look, to be sure, in a low dress with short sleeves, made very full in the skirts, with four tucks in the bottom, to which the young lady in ser vice would reply in terms expressive of her entire concurrence in the notion, and the virtuous ir.dignation with which she reflected on the tyranny of "Missis," who wouldn't allow a young girl to wear a short sleeve of an afternoon—no, nor nothing Stuart, not oven a pair of ear-rings; let alone hiding people's heads of hair under them frightful caps; at the termination of which complaint Miss Amelia Martinwouid distantly suggest certain dark suspicions that some people were jealous. on account of their own daugh ters, and were obliged to keep their servants' charms under for fear they should get mar ried first, which was no uncomman circum stance—leastways she had known two or three young ladies in service who married a great deal better than their missesses, and they were not very good-looking either; and then the young lady would inform Miss Martin, in confidence, that how one of their young ladies was engaged to a young man, and was a-going to be married, and missis was so proud about it there was no bearing her; but she needn't hold her head quite so high neither, for, after all he was only a clerk. And, after expressing a due contempt for clerks in general, and the engaged clerk in particular, and the highest opinion possi ble of themselves and of each other, Miss Martin and the young lady in service would bid each other good night in a friendly but perfectly genteel manner; and the one went back to her "place," and the other to her room on the second floor front. There is no saying how long Miss Amelia Martin might have continued this course of life; how extensive a connection she might have established among young ladies in ser vice, or what amount her demands upon their quarterly receipts might have ulti mately attained, had not an unforeseen train of circumstances directal her thoughts to a Wooed. "NO ENTERTAINMENT'S SO CIIEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 9, 1861. sphere of action very different from dress making or millinery. • A friend of Miss Martin's who had long been keeping company with an ornamental Fainter and decorator's journeyman, at last consented, (on being at last asked to do so,) to name the day which would made the aforesaid journeyman a happy husband. It was a Monday that was appointed fur the celebration of the nuptials, and Miss Amelia Martin was invited, among others, to honor the wedding.dinner with her presence. It was a charming party; Somerstown the lo cality, and a front parlor the apartment.— The ornamental painter and decorator's journeyman had taken it house—no lodgings or vulgarity of that kind, but a house—four beautiful rooms, and a delightful little wash house at the end of the passage, which was the most convenient thing in the world, for the bridesmaids could nit in the front parlor and receive the company, and then run into the little wash-house and see how the pud ding and boiled pork were getting on iu the copper, and then pop back into the parlor again as snug and contfortable as possible. And such a parlor as it was„tool beautiful Kidderminster carpet—six bran-new cane bottomed stained chairs—three wine-glasses and a tumber on each sideboard—a farmer's girl and a farmer's hey on each mantle piece: one tumbling over a style, and the other spitting himself on the handle of a pitchfork—long white dimity curtains in the window—and, in short, everything on the most genteel scale imaginable. Then the dinner. There was baked leg of mutton at the top, a boiled leg of mutton at the bottom, a pair of fowls and leg, o f pork in the middle; porter-pots at the corners; pepper, mustard, and vinegar in the centre; vegetables on the floor, and plum-pudding and apple-pie and tartlets without number, to say nothing of cheese and celery, and water-crosses; and all that sort of thing. As to the company! Miss Amelia Martin her self declared, on a subsequent occasion, that much as she had heard of the ornamental painter's journeyman's connection, she never could have supposed it was half so genteel. There was his father, such a funny old gen tleman—and his mother, such a dear old la dy—and his sister, such a charming girl— and his,brother, such a manly-looking young man, with such an eye! But even all these were as nothing when compared with his musical friends Mr. and Mrs. Jennings Re. dolph, from White Conduit, with whom the ornamental painter's journeyman had been fortunate enough to cultivate an intimacy while engaged in decorating the concert room of that noble institution. To hear them sing separately was perfectly divine, but when they went through the tragic duet of "Red Ruffian, Retire!" it was, as Miss Martin afterward remarked, "thrilling."— And why, (as Mr. Jennings Rudolph ob served,) why were they not engaged at one of the patent theatres? If he was to be told that their voices were not powerful enough to fill the house, his only reply was that he would back himself fur any amount to fill Russell Square—a statement in which the company, after hearing the duet, ex- pressed their full belief; so they all said it, was shameful treatment; and both Mr. and Mrs. Jennings Rodolph said it was shame ful, too, and Mr. Jennings Rodolph looked very serious, and said he know who his ma lignant opponents were, but they had better take care how far they went, for if they irri tated hint too much be had not quite made up his mind whether he wouldn't bring the subject before Parliament; and they all I agreed that it " 'ud serve 'ern quite right, and it was very proper that such people should be made examples of." Su Mr. Jen nings Rudolph said he'd think of it. When the conversation resumed its for mer tone, Mr. Jennings Rodolph claimed his right to call upon a lady, and the right being conceded, trusted Miss Martin would favor the company—a proposal which met unanimous approbation; whereupon Miss Martin, after sundry hesitations and cough ing, with a preparatory choke or two, and an introductory declaration that she was frightened to death to attempt it before such great judges of the art, commenced a species of treble chirruping, containing constant al lusions to seine young gentleman of the name of llcu-c•ry, with an occasional refer ence to madness and damaged hearts. Mr. Jennings Rudolph frequently interrupting the progress of the song, by ejaculating "Beautiful!"—`'Charming!'—"Oh I splen did," etc.; and at its close the admiration of himself, and his lady, knew no bonnet.. "Did you ever hear so sweet a voice, my dear?" inquired Mr. Jennings Itodolph of Mrs. Jennings Rodolph. "Never; indeed I never did, love," replied Mrs. Jennings Rodolph. "Don't you think Miss Martin, with a lit tle cultivation, would be very like Signora Marro Buni, my dear?" asked Mr. Jennings Rudolph. "Just exactly the very thing that struck me, my love," answered Mrs. Jennings Ito dolph. And thus the time passed away; Mr. Jennings Rudolph played tunes on a w.tik ing-stiek, and then wont behind the parlor door and gave his celebrated imitations of actors, edge-tools, and animals; Miss Mar tin sang several other songs with increased admiration every time, and even the funny old gentleman began singing; his song had properly seven verses, but as he couldn't recollect more than the first one, he sang that over seven times, apparently very much to his own gratification. And thea all the ompany sang the national anthem with na tional independence—each for himself with out reference to the other—and finally sep arated, all declaring that they bad never spent so pleasant an evening, and Miss Martin inwardly resolving to adopt the ad vice of Mr. Jennings Rodolph, and to "come out" without delay. Now, "come out," either in acting or singing, or society, or facetiousness, or any thing else, is all very well, and remarkably pleasant to the individual principally con cerned, if ho or she can but manage to come out with a burst, and being out, to keep out, and not go in again; but it does unfortu nately happen that both consummations are extremely difficult to accomplish, and that the difficulties of getting out at all in the first instance, and if you surmount them, of keeping out in the second, aro pretty much ou a par, and no slight ones either—and so Miss Amelia Martin discovered. It is a singular fact, (there being ladies in the case,) that Miss Amelia Martin's principal foible was vanity, and the leading charac teristic of Mrs. Jennings Rodolph an attach ment to dress. Dismal wailings were heard to issue from the second floor front of No. 47 Drummond, George street, Euston Square; it was Miss Martin practising. nail% sup pressed murmurs disturbed the calm dignity of the White Conduit orchestra at the com mencement of the season. It was the ap pearance of Mrs. Jennings Rodolph, in full dress, that occasioned them. Miss Martin studied incessantly—the practising was the consequence. Mrs. Jennings Rodolph taught gratuitously now and then—the dresses were the result. Weeks passed away; the White Conduit season had begun, had progressed, and was more than half over. The dressmaking business had fallen off from neglect; and its profits had dwindled away almost impercep tibly. A benefit-night approached; Mr. Jennings Rudolph yielded to the earnest so licitations of Miss Amelia Martin, and in troduced her personally to the "comic gen tleman" whose benefit it was. The comic gentleman was all smiles and blandness— he had composed a duct expressly fur the occasion, and Miss Martin would sing it with him. The night arrived; there was an immense room—ninety-seven six penn'orths of gin-an -water, five-and twenty bottled ales, and forty-one neguses; and the orna mental painter's journeyman, with his wife and a select circle of acquaintance, were seated at ono of the side-tables near the or chestra. The concert began. Song—senti mental—by a light-haired y3ung, gentle man in a blue coat and bright basket but tons. [Applause.] Another song, doubt ful, by another gentleman in another blue coat, and more bright basket buttons. [ln creased applause.] Duet, Mr. Jennings Rudolph and Mrs. Jennings Rodolph "Red Ruffian, Retire!" [Great applause.] Solo, Miss Julia Montague, (positively on this occasion only)—"I am a Friar." [Enthu siasm.] Original duet, comic—Mr. 11. Tnplin, (the comic gentleman,) and Miss Martin—" The Time of Day."—"Bravo!— Bravo!" cried the ornamental painter's journeyman's party, as Miss Martin was gracefully led in by the comic gentleman.— "Go to work, Harry," cried the comic gen tleman's personal friends. "Tap—tap—tap," went the leader's bow on the music desk.— The symphony began, and was soon after ward followed by a faint kind of ventrilo quial chirping, proceeding apparently from the deepest recesses of the interior of Miss Amelia Martin—" Sing out," bbouted one gentleman in a white great-coat. "Don't be afraid to put the steam on, old gal," ex claimed another. "S—s—s—s—s—s—s—" —went the five-and-twenty bottled ales.— "Shame, shame!" remonstrated the orna mental painter's journeyman's party. "S— -s--s—s" went the bottled ales again, ac companied by all the gins, and a majority of the brandies. "Turn them geese out," cried the orna mental painter's journeyman's party, with great indignation. "Sing out," whispered Mr. Jeuningg Rudolph. "Su I do," responded Misz Amelia .Mar- "Sing louder," said Mrs. Jennings Re dolph. "I can't," replied Miss Amelia Martin. "Off, off, off," cried the rest of the angry audience. "Bravo!" shouted the painter's party. It wouldn't do—Miss Amelia Martin left the orchestra with much less ceremony than she had entered it; and as she couldn't sing out, never came out. The general good-humor was not restored until Mr. Jennings Rudolph had become purple in the face, by imitating divers quadrupeds for half an hour without being able to render himself audible; and to this day, neither has Miss Amelia Martin's good humor been restored, nor the dresses made for and presented to Mrs. Jennings Rodolntl, nor the vocal abilities which Mr. Jennings Rudolph once staked his profes sional reputation that Miss Martin possessed. First Love of an Ancient Mariner Sir John Ross, the well known navigator, who died a few years ago, lived to be nearly eighty years of age. An acquaintance of his heard him, a short time before his death, tell the following story of his first love.— Thus, be says, it came about: We were wont to meet him at the house of a mutual friend, where be was always a welcome guest; came and went as be listed, and had his hammock swung in a chamber where the temperature suited him best; for he loved a cold, clear atmosphere. In a word, he was the centre of as charming a household group as shall be seen any dny. Blooming faces shone upon him, merry songs greeted him as he took his place be side the cheery hearth in those cold even ings in spring. One bright-haired creature with rosy lips claimed him ever as her own, seated him beside her on the velvet couch, called him "her dear boy," which delighted the ancient mariner beyond all things, and at last drew from him the tale referred to. I had been reminding hi.n of a very rld friend now dead, and of whom we had beard nothing for many years; as I spoke, a tide of early recollections swept up and filled the old man's eyes with tears. "Ali!" said he, "he was a very kind friend to me; we had been schoolmates, and then we went to sea together. After a while we parted, and I entered the royal navy; when nest I saw 0., I was commander on board the Ile was on the quay at Greenock when 1 sailed in, and little thought that the vessel carrying a royal pennant was commanded by Johnnie Russ. I landed, and went up to him with a man who knew us both. "0.,!" said the hitter, "do you remember little Johnnie Ross?" answered 0.; "and a precious little scamp he wasl" "On this," observed Sir John, "we shook hands and renewed our acquaintance, and I had reason to be glad of it; for," he re peated, "0. was very kind to me." "Now about Margaret," said the bonny creature beside him. "Ah! she was a noble girl! When I first knew her she was ten, and I about twelve years old. We used to walk home together from the school, and at first were very hap py; but before long the children began to watch us, and we were obliged to make signs to one another about meeting. I mind well how shamefaced we were when the others caught us making signals before breaking up; and one day the master saw us, and it was on that occasion Margaret showed such spirit and courage ns made me never forget her. "I had got out of school," he continued, after a short pause, "and was waiting for her, never heeding the children laughing at me, as I stood watching for the sight of her bonny face, for she was very fair." I can by no means describe the pathos of the old man's tone as he said this. "When I be gan to think she was in trouble, and 'kept in,' I hid myself till the place was clear of idler folk, and then I ercepit round and keeked in at the window of a side-room where scholars in disgrace were put some times. Poor Margaret was indeed there, sitting upon a box, very forlorn, and crying bitterly. She brightened up when she saw my face in the window-pane, and smiled when I told her I had been waiting for her. Then I declared I would be revenged on our hard master, and went at once to the school room to carry out my plan; this was easy, for there was no one there. "Just over the master's desk was a shelf, on which stood a large ink-bottle, and near to this again was the hat with which the duminie always crowned himself when he assumed the seat of authority. 1 mount ed the desk, took a piece of strThg from my pocket, tied the ink-jar and hat together, then, descending from my perch, left the room, and ran round again to the side-win dow to prepare Margaret for the result of my device. Then I ran home to dinner, and returned to school iu the afternoon. "I was late. All the children were in the room; and at the master's desk stood Mar garet, with scarlet cheeks but triumphant eyes, just receiving the last blow of the leather strap on her open hand. The pun ishment of misehevious revenge had been visited upon her. Streams of iuk discolored the master's face; and books and desk, on which last lay the broken ink-jar, were satu rated with it. The master himself was furi ous, and the more so that Margaret had borne the infliction like a heroine, in perfect silence, resolutely refusing to give up the name of the delinquent, whose accomplice she was accused of being. She looked at me as she moved defiantly away, and the expression of her eye warned me not to speak. It was, indeed, too late. I hurried from the room before I was observed; Mar garet walked proudly after me; and fur the last time we took our way home together from the school." I cannot do justice to the story as told by the old navigator. Nearly seventy years had passed away, and yet the memory of his child•love was still the green spot in his heart. The pathos, too. was enhanced by the scottish accent, which dignified, so to speak, a little history, that finely illustrates the exquisite poem, Jeannie Morrison: •'l'vc wandered east, I've •vandcrrd west, I've move a weary lot.; But in my wamlerings Mr or near, Ye never were forgot. The fount that first burst free this heart Stall travels on il4 way; And channels deeper as it rills The Inv?. o Ides young day.' lie said all this nod much more than can du justice to. The whole picture of the two bairns—"twa bairns and but ae heart" —rose before me, ns, blushing frightened, and silent, they "cleekit thogither Name" after school. "'Tose. Own we loot each iTher creel, Tomas tben we twa did part; Sweet time, sad tune, twa bairns at getle ; Twa bairns and but ae beam" "I saw thir twa bairns with their heads bent o'er ae braid page," with one look be- $1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE tween them, the girl intent upon the lesson, the boy's lesson in that fair child's eyes: fhy look was on thy lesson, Put—my lesson was in Meer' Ire and Nlargaret met but twice after ward. He dwelt most on the first of these meetings. "I was traveling," he said, "in I Scotland, when the coach stopped to take up a passenger. The moment the door opened, I knew her al once, but—she didna remem ber me;" he sighed as he said this. "Then," he continued, "I told her who I was, and reminded her of old times, thirty years be fore, and of that story of the ink-bottle and the beating she had got for my sake. She had almost forgotten it, but I never had."— Margaret, the mother of a large family, is now an aged woman, and probably thought little ofJolmnie Ross after parting with him in childhood; while he, literally voyaging from pole to pole, and having but a passing glimpse of her from time to time, may be said to have carried the . memory of his child love to his grave. RETIRACY OP LIEUT. GENERAL SCOTT Action Of the Cabinet Thereon. Major General McClellan placed in corn fraud of the Armies of the Republic. Interesting Correspondence Between General Scott and the Presi dent and Cabinet. WASIIINGTON, November I.—The follow ing letter from Lieutenant General Scott was received by the President on Thursday mfternoon "HEADQUARTERS OF VIE ARMY, } WASHINGTON, October 31, 1301. "Vie Ilunorable S. Cameron, Secretary of 7Tar: "Sir—For more than three years I have Leen unable, from a hurt, to mount a horse, or to walk more than a few paces eta time, and that with much pain. Other and new infirmities—dropsy and vertigo—admonish me that repose of mind and body, with the appliance of surgery and medicine, are nec essary to add a little more to a life already protracted each beyond the usual span of man. It is under such circumstances, made doubly painful by the unnatural and unjust rebellion now raging in the SJuthern States of our so late prosperous and happy Union, that I am compelled to request that my name be placed on the list of army officers retired from active service. "As this request is founded on an abso lute right granted by a recent act of Con gress. I am etirely at liberty to say it is with deep regret that I withdraw myself in these momentous times from the orders of a President who has treated me with distin go6licd kindness and courtesy--whom I know, upon much personal intercourse, to be patriotic without sectional partialities or prej udices; to be highly conscientious in the performance ()revery duty, and of unrivalled activity and perseverance. "And to you, Mr. Secretary, whom I now officially address fur the last time, I beg to acknowledge ray many obligations fur the uniform high consideration I have received at your hands. "1 have the honor to remain, sir, "With high respect, your obedient servant, [Signed] "WI NFt ELI. SCOTT." A special Cabinet Council was convened on Friday morning, nt nine o'clock, to take the subject into consideration, It was de cided that General Scott's request, under the circumstances of his advanced age and ingrmities, could not be declined. Major-General McClellan was thereupon, with the unanimous agreement of the Cabi net, notified that the command of the army would be devolved upon him. At four o'clock in the afternoon the Cabi net again waited upon the President, and attended him to the residence of General Scott. tieing seated, the President read to the General the following order: "OancßEn—On the Ist day of November, A. D., ISGI, upon his own application to the President of United States, BREVET LIEU TENANT GENERAL WIN rier.n SCOTT is ordered to be placed, and hereby is placed, upon the list of retired officers of the Army of the United States, without reduction in his cur rent pay, subsistence or allowances. "The American people will hear with sadness and deep emotion that General Scott has withdrawn from the active control Of the army, while the President and a unani mous Cabinet express their own and the nation's sympathy in his personal affliction, and their profound sense of the important public service rendered by him to his coun try during his long and brilliant career, among which will ever be gratefully distin guished his faithful devotion to the Consti tution, the Union and the flag, when assail ed by parricidal rebellion. [Signed] "Amtanau Lrxeor.x." General Scott thereupon rose and address ed the President and Cabinet, who had also risen, as follows: "Mr. President—This honor overwhelms me. It over-pays all services I have at tempted to render to my country. If 1 had any claims, before they are all obliterated by this expression of approval by the Presi• dent, with the unanimous support of his Cabinet. I know that the country has placed its interests in this trying crisis in safe keeping. Their counsels are wise.— Their labors are outlying as they are loyal, and their course is the right one. [WHOLE NUMBER 1,629. "Mr. President, you must excuse me; I am unable to stand longer to give utterance to the feelings of gratitude which oppress me. In my retirement I shall offer np my prayers to God for this Administration and for my country. I shall pray for it with confi dence in its success over all enemies, and that speedily." The President then took leave of General Scott, giving him his hand and saying ho hoped soon to write him a private letter ex pressive of his gratitude and affection. The President added: "General you will naturally feel solicitude about thn gentlemen of your staff, who have rendered you and their country such faithful service. I have taken that subject into consideration . . I un derstand that they go with you to New York. I shall desire them, at their earliest convenience after their return, to melte their wishes known to me. I desire you now, however, to be satisfied that, except the un avoidable privations of your counsel and society, which they have so long enjoyed, the provision which will be made for thorn will be such as to render their situation as agreeable hereafter as it has been hereto fore." Each member of the administration then gave his hand to the veteran, and retired iu profound silence. The following is the response of the Sec retary of War to the letter of General Scott: "WAR. DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, "November 1, 1861. 1 "General—lt was my duty to lay before the President your letter of yesterday ask ing to be relieved under the recent act of Congress. In separating from you I cannot refrain from expressing my deep regret that your health, shattered by long service and repeated wounds received in your country's defence, should render it necessary for you to retire from your high position at this mo mentous period of our history. Although you aro not to remain in active service, I yet hope that while I continuo in charge of the Department over which I now preside I shall at times be permitted to avail myself of the benefits of your wise counsels and sage ex perience. It has been my good fortune to enjoy a personal acquaintance with you for over thirty years, and the pleasant relations of that long time have been greatly strength ened by your cordial and entire cooperation in all the great questions which have occu pied the Department and convulsed the country for the last six months. In par ting from you, I can only express the hope that a merciful Providence, which has pro tected you amidst so many trials, will im prove your health and continue your life long after the people of this country shall have been restored to their former happiness and prosperity. "I am, General, very sincerely, "Your friend and servant. [Signed] "SistoN CAMERON, Sec'y of War "LIEUT. GEN. WINDTIELD SCOTT." Order of Major General McClellan on Assuming Command of the Armies of the United States. WASHINGTON, November I.—Major Gen. McClellan tonight issued the following order: "HEADQUARTERS OF TUE Atom, "Wastwicaux, D. C., November 1,1861. "General Order No. 19.—1 n accordance with General Order No. 04, from the War Department, I hereby assume command of the Armies of the United States. "In the midst of the difficulties which en compass and divide the nation, hesitation and self-distrust may well accompany the assumption of so vast a responsibility, but, confiding as I do in the loyalty, divciplioe and courage of our troops, and believing as I do that Providence will favor ours as the just cause, I cannot doubt that success will crown our efforts and sacrifices. "The army hero unite with me in the feel ing of regret that tho weight of many years and the effect of increasing infirmities, con tracted and intensified in his country's ser vice, should just now remove from our head the Great Soldier of our Nation. The hero who in his youth raised high the reputation of his country on the fields of Canada, which ho sanctified with his blood; who in more mature years proved to tho world that American skill and valor could repeat, if not eclipse, the exploit of Cortez in the land of the Montezumas; whose whole life has been devoted to the service of his country; whose whole efforts have been directed to uphold our honor at the smallest sacrifice of life; a warrior who scorned the selfish glories of the battle-field when his great qualities as a statesman could be employed more profitably for his country; a citizen whose declining years have given to the world most shining instances of loyalty, in disregarding all ties of birth, and clinging still to the cause of truth and honor—such has been the career, each the character, of Winfield Scott, whom it has long been the delight of the nation to honor both as a man and a soldier. "While we regret his loss there h ono thing we cannot regret—the bright oiample he has left for our emulation. Let us all hope and pray that his declining years may be passed in peace and haPpiness, and•that they may be cheered by the success of the country and the cause he has fought fol. and loved so well. . . • "Beyond all this, let us do nothing 'that can cause him to blush for us, Let no de feat of the sunny ho has so long commanded embitter his last years, but let oar victories illuminate the close of a life so 'grand: • [Signed] "Gamma B. lificastaair; 'ldajor General Commanding * G. S.A."
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