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REPLY OF
M viieurs Agentrr tie Gasparin, Edonard
Laboulaye, Henri Martin, Augustin
Cochin, and other friends of America
in France
TO THE LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE OF N. V.
Concluded.
In short, the Rebellion is already re
duced to such narrow proportions that
should it ever become a distinct Confed
eration. accepted as such from weariness of
war, the Confederacy thus created will
not be born with the functions of life.—»
Neither European recognition nor your
own could give it a serious chance of du
ration. It would end in a return to you.
But .vc delight to believe the re-establish
ment of the Union less distant. And, -in
the presence of that prospect which thrills
our hearts with joy, permit us, as your
friends, to offor you some sincere advice
The dangers of victory, you are aware, are
not less than those of combat. We give
you, therefore, our loyal, frank opinion,
sure that in the main it will agree with
your own, and feeling, also, that these com
munications between us have an aim more
serious than a simple exchange of words
of sympathy.
We hold it to be of the first importance
that the cause of the war shall not survive
the war; that your real foe, Slavery, shall
not remain upon the field. We have of
ten asked ourselves these last three years,
why God permitted the prolongation of
this blrtody struggle. Was it not thai ■
the real issue might present itself with j
perfect clearness '! Conquering earlier,
the Federal Government would, perhaps,
have been led to make concessions, to enter
anew upon the fatal path of compromise. J
To-day all eyes, not willingly blind, sec j
clearly. The New York riot, breaking i
out at an appointed day to aid the invasion j
of Lee, and falling instantly upon thenc I
groin a way to show to every witness of j
its cowardly ferocity what kind of spirit i
•animated certain friends uf the South—
the New York riot was a supreme warn- j
ing to your country. Your line of action j
is clearly traced. Ho long as any trace of
Slavery remain, there will be a cause of i
antagonism in the bosom of the Union. |
There must be no longer any question of j
Slavery. It must be so ordered and set- j
tied as never to return. An amendment
to the■ Constitution to this end must be pro- j
posed and adopted before the return of
the States.
The condition of the free blacks must
also be secured against the iniquities which
they have so long endured. No more
plans of colonization abroad, no more dis
abling laws, no more inequality. Those
whom you have armed, who fought so
bravely before the walls of Port Hudson
and Fort Wagner, can never be other than
citizens. Leave the problem of the races
to its own solution—the most natural so
lutions arc always the best. Under the
rule of the common law, the free blacks of
the South and of the North will find their
legitimate place in your society, of which
' they will become useful members, honor
able and honored.
In thus ordering in a definitive manner |
all that relates to Slavery and the colored j
race, you will have done more than is gen
erally imagined for the lasting pacification
of the South. What remains for you to
do on this point may be stated in three
words — Moderation, Generosity, Liberty.
There can be no question, as you have
often said, of an occupation of the South,
of a conquest of the South, of reducing
the Southern States to the condition of
provinces where the conqueror will main
tain his pirrisons and the public life will
be suspended. Save in the districts yet
ravaged by guerrillas and in the heart of
which the Federal troops must finish their
work, victory will bring everywhere with
the re-establishment of the Union, there
. establishment as promptly as possible of
Constitutional rights. You hope, gentle
men, that those whom you conquer to-dav
will to-morrow meet you in debate, and
you will accept iu all their truth the strug
gle of the press, of the legislative hall,
and of the ballot, which will replace the
strife of the battle-field.
Wc all feel it is much better that you
should have to encounter difficulties fruit
ful of liberty, than that you should seek
for yourselves the deceitful advantages of
dictatorial regime. To apply to the South
an exceptional rule would be. alas, quite
easy. It would be easy also to pronounce
the death penalty, to outlaw, to exeeute
confiscation bills; but in treading this
path of vulgar tyranny you would sacrifice
_ PiTT7T?M
two things—your high renown in the pies
out, a lasting union with the South in the
future.
But if, on the other hand, you show the
world the novel B[>ectacle of victory with
out reprisal", of liberty Htronp enough to
survive civil war ; if your Constitution
remain, and Slavery alone fall in such a
.conflict; if on the morrow of the struggle
the law remain supreme, if elections for
the Senate and House of Representatives
he again open as in the old time, if the
representatives of the Southern States re
appear at Washington, if taking the oath
to be faithful to the Union and to support
the modified Constitution they find them
selves on a footing of perfect equality
with the representatives*of the North, if
it .be permitted to them to attack and to
embarrass the Government, you will have
won thsmost glorious of victories, and as
sured to your country the best chance of
prosperity and greatness.
Accept, gentlemen, in the advice which
wo tender to you, a proof of our esteem.
It is not of every Government, it is not of
every people that such things can be asked.
Protracted civil wars tend to arbitrary cus
toms, stir up passions and hates, anl at
last engender a development of military
power and irresponsible authority which
generally hinders a return to contrdl, to
free opinion and to the strict letter of the
law. We honor tlw United States enough
to believe that they will be capable of set
tling us this, too, after so many other ex
amples.
The moderation which we hope for from
you at home, Ave look for also from you
abroad. Assuredly on the morrow of the
submission of tha South thorewill not be
wanting a class of persons eager to recall •
to you wrongs, real or fancied, suffered at
the hands of this or that power. Tlfey
will point to your armies, disposable fleets.
They will prove to you that a foreign war
is perhaps the surest way to draw together
the two sections so lately hostile. They
will tell you that a common enmity, com
mon dangers, are the cement needed to
strengthen your shattered edifice.
You will not believe them, gentlemen. ■
You wiJl feel that after these jars, it is j
needful before all else to restore to Amcr-1
iea peace and liberty. You will not seek !
* I
now adventures and thus lengthen the '
temptation of dictatorships, the peril of
exceptional rule.
You will fear a return to the aggressive i
policy which with its invasions and turbn-1
lencc the influence of the South forced
upon you. the day, when, to assure (lie ex-1
tension of Slavery, it awakened in yoilT 1
hearts a wicked covetousness and pushed 1
you almost to the violation of the law of j
nations. Your glory will be to take' the
opposite of those violent declarations, of
these fillibustcring expeditions, of tho.-c
unscrupulous ambitions.
The temptations which a great army
excitcs-are of the class most difficult to re
press. May you. not hesitate to reduce
your force after pcaco ! Not only your
material prosperity but your very liberty j
is involved in disarming, in a reduction of
your expenses, and a return to the old idea
of small armies and L.rge budgets.
But wc do not deceive ourselves.—
Your small armies, do what you may, will
he large compared with those of three
years ago. Your military education is
completed ; you have replied but too well
to those who smiled at the recital of your
battles of 1861. You have learned but
too quickly to face death and to kill, and
what you have learned you will not un
learn. You will not return to your former
situation. #
But while we do not expect again to
see your effective force at ten thousand
men. wc do hope that effective forces which
arc now numbered at hundreds of thous
ands will not long be witnessed on Amer
ican soil.
•111. Courage! You have before you
one of the most noble works- the most
sublime which can be accomplished here
below—a work in the success of which
we are as interested as yourselves—a work
the success of which will be the honor
and the consolation of our time.
This generation will have seen nothing
more grand than the Abolition of Slavery
(in destroying it with you, you destroy it
everywhere), and the energetic uprising of
a people which in the midst of its grow
ing prosperity was visibly sinking under
the weight of the tyranny of the South,
the complicity Tif the North, odious laws
and compromises.
Now, at the cost of immense saeriticbs,
you have stood up-against the evil; you
have chosen rather to pour out your blood
and your dollars than to descend further
the slope of degradation, where rich, uni
ted, powerful, you were sure to lose that
which is far nobler than wealth, or union,
or power.
Well! Europe begins to understand,
willingly or unwillingly, what you have
done. In Fiance, in England, every
"Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do our duty as we understand it"— A - LINCOLN.
BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 27, 1864.
where your cause gains ground, and be it
said for the honor of the nineteenth cen
tury, the obstacle which our ill-will and
our evil passions could not overcome, the
obstacle which the intrigues of the South
could not surmount, is an idea, a princi
ple. Hatred of Slavery has been your
champion in the Old World. A _poor
champion seemingly. Laughed at, scorn
ed, it seems weak and lonely. But what
matters it,ere the account be closed, prin
ciples will stand for something, and con
science, in all humart affairs, will have the
last word.
This, gentlemen, is what we would say
l to you in the name of all who with us, and
better than ourselves, defend your cause
in Europe. Your worlshave cheered
us ; may ours in turn cheer you ! You
have yet to cross many a dark valley.—
More than once the impossibility of suc
cess will be demonstrated to you; more
than once, in the face of some military
check or political difficulty, the cry will
be raised that all is lost. What matters
it to you? Strengthen your cause 4 n ''y>
by daily making it more just, and fear
not: there is a God above.
We love to contemplate in hope the no
ble future which seems to stretch itself
before you. The day you emerge at last
j from the anguish of civil war, and you
j will surely come out freed from the odious
institution which corrupted your public
i manners, and degraded your domestic as
] well as your foreign policy, that day your
| whole country, South as well as North,
| will enter upon a wholly ficw prosperity.
! European cmigrat'on will hasteiT towards
| your ports, and will learn the road to
{ those whom until now it has feared to ap-
I proach. Cultivation, now abandoned, will
renew its yield. Liberty—for these are
her miracles—will revivify by her touch
the soil which Slavery had rendered bar
ren.
Then there will be born unto you <t
j greatness nobler and more stable than the
j "Id, fin - in this greatness there will be no
| sactifice of Justice.
AGENOR DM GASPARIN,
AUGUSTIN COCHIN,
EDOUARI) LABOULAYE,
Member of the Institute of France,
HENRI MARTIN.
Pan's, Oct. 81, 1803.
I TIIE SPIDER ANDTIIE TOAD. —The fob
j lowing singular relation is furnished by a |
correspondent of the Traveler nz having
i been witnessed by a person now living,
| though occurring more than forty years
' ago, about sixteen miles from this city:
i The narrator said, that while walking in
! the field he saw a large black field spider,
, considered of the most venomous species,
' contending with a common sized toad.—
j The spider, being very quick in its move
ments. would get upon the back of the toad
and bite it, when the toad, with its fore
paw. would drive off the spider. It would
then hop to a plaintain, which was growing
near by. and bite it.and then return to the
spider. After seeing this repeated sever
al times, and noticing that each time the
toad was bitten it went to the plaintain,
the spectator (bought hewould pull upthe
plaintain and watch the result. lie did
j so. Being again bitten,and the plaintain
not to be found, the toad soon began to I
swell and show other indications of being
| poisoned, and died in ashort time. If the
| plaintain, which grows so abundantly near
| almost every dwelling in (his vicinity, was
J such an immediate and enectual remedy
! to the toad for the bite of the spider, can
1 we not reasonably infer that it would be an
effectual cure for man for the bite of the
same insect ?
Reports from the army of the Potomac
represent the greatest discontent and hope
; lessness of the causo to exist in the rebel
lines. Our troops are in fine condit.on
and spirits, and the weather excellent.
One hundred and eleven rebel deserters,
picked up in one county in Tennessee, ar
rived in Nashville a few days since.
«■ - ■»'
North lowa Times, insinuates
that the old regiments which voted unani
mously for the Republican ticket, did so
because their long absence from home had
rendered"them hopelessly ignorant of po
litical issues discussed in lowa. That's a
splendid compliment bestowed on soldiers
who have been breasting the storm of bat
i tic ever since the*ommcncoment of the
war! Fine compliment truly ! Of course
(lie North lowa Time* trains with Copper
heads.
80a.. It is said that General Butler will
remove his Jheadquarters from Fortress
Monroe to Norfolk. He probably wishes
to have the secessionists of that city, who
have manifested a disposition to give trou
ble, more immediately under his eye.
The Amnesty Proclamation is officially
explained by the President as not extend
ing to prisoners of war, nor to persons un
derthe senteneeof courts martial, or under
charges of military offenses, in a letter to
M'Kec Dunn by Judge Holt.
BALTIMORE. Jan. 15.—Mr. Warficld, a
merchant of this city,has gone to Richmond
by authority of the War Department, to
endeavor to effect the exchange of Senator
White, of I'a., for Gov. Trimble, who is a
relative of Mr. Warfield.
The act extending the time of payment
of bounties to the first of March has been
signed by the President.
"HOE OUT VOUH ROW."
One laxy day, a fa> nier's boj
Was hoeing out the corn.
And mo«>ddv had listened long,
To hear the dinner-horn.
The welcome Mai' was heard at last,
And down hr«! , ped his hoe,
But the good man 4n his ear,
"My boy, he • joer rvtv." #
Although a " harri one*' was the row,
To u*e a plowman s phrase,
And the lud, is fiail.ir* have it,
Beginning well to"h;ize,''
" 1 can.'' Haid he, and munfullv
Hu ceized again his hoe,
And the g"»«d man '•mih'd to see,
The boy hoe out his ruw.
The !ad tho texi remembered,
Andprured the in oral well,
That pt-Mererauce to the end,
At la-it will n .bly tell.
Take courage, man ! resolve you can,
And ntrikt a vigorous blow;
In life't great fl-ld of vuried toll,
WIT IXI> tVISIMMI.
J 112 you want to bo a " swell'' of the first
water, get tho dropsy. *
" PRAY keep your scat," as the cock
ney coachman said to the wild rabbit.
IT is said to be misprison of treason to
ask a soldier to take dinner and dessert.
WINTER too often changes into stone
the water of heaven and the heart of man.
BF. not the fourth friend of him who
has had three before and lost them.
You cannot dream yourself into a char
acter ; you must hammor and forge your
self.
If a pretty woman asks you what you
will bet, answer her that you will lay your
head on hers.
LAO not behind the wheels of progress,
unless you would have your eyes blinded
by the dust.
SOME hypocritical prayers in church
are intended to cheat the congregation,
others the Lord.
MANY persons write articles and send
them to an editor to bo corrected, as if an
editor's office were a house of correction.
THE man who courted an investigation
says it isn't half as good as courting an
affectionate girl.
THE man who imagined himself wise
because he detected some typographical
error in a newspaper, has gone east to get
a perpendicular view of the rain bow.
A DEALER in ready-made linen adver
tises his shirts and chemises, under the
mellifluous appellation of " male and fe
male envelopes."
AN alderman lately list his appetite,
an 1 the unlucky finder, beiug a poor man
with a large family, was ruined in less
than a fortnight.
TIIE individual who attempted to raise
colts from horse chestnuts went into the
market the other day and inquired for a
mock-turtle, to make mock-turtle soup of.
Miss TUI.IP, in speaking of old bache
lors, says that they are frozen out old
gardners in the flower-bed of love. As
they are u#l.-ss they should be
served in the same manner—choked !
SAYS a beau to H lady, " pray name, if you can,
Of all y<>ur acquaintance the liandaomcist man."
The lady replied, "if you'd have me speak truo,
Ile'b the hundaomeid man's the most unlike you."
A KINDER hoggish conundrum, lately
out, runs thus:—Why is Mrs. Draggle
tail like a hog?" Guv that up. " Kaze
she cleans the streets wid her long dress!"
Perpetrator deserves a broomstick.
A DANDY in Broadway, New York,
wishing to be witty accosted a young bell
man as follows:—"You take all sorts of
trumpery in your cart don't you
" Yes. jump in. jump in."
A JOKER, on hearing that certain per
sons were mutilating tho copper cent by
cutting out the head and wearing it as a
breast-pin or badge, at once suggested the
following definition : Copperhead —One
who outrages the good sense (cents) of
the nation.
A YOL'THFT'I, member of a rifle corps
in a Scottish town, on his arrival at home
a few evenings ago, joyfully told his gov
ernor that he had just got his arms. ■
" Aiqgs !'" cjouth Ihe ancient drily, "I'm
thinking gin tho French come ye'll hac
mair need o' your legs."
"ISAAC," said Mrs. Partington to her
nephew, " when you enter the state of
alimony, choose a voracious and well un
informed young woman. Then, my dear,
your love will be*infernal and your pos
terity certain." Ike looked exceedingly
solemn, and proceeded to put molasses on
the door knobs.
Is the bullfight days,a blacksmith who
was roaring a bull pup, induced his old
father togo on all fours and imitate the
pup. The canine pupil pinned the old
man by the nose. The son, disregarding
the parental roaring, exclaimed, " Hold
him, Growler! boy, hold him! Hear it
father, bear it; it'll be the making of the
pup!"
THE following is a copy of a telegraph
ic message handed into the office at Utica,
to be forwarded:
To George
3d Epistle John, 13, 14 verses.
Signed Julia
Turn to your Bibles, lady readers, and
you will see that Julia saved money by
that operation.
GOV. ODRTIN'S INAUGURAL.
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House
P of Representatives :
Called by tha partiality of my fellow
citizens to the office of Governor of Penn
sylvania for another term. I appear before
you to solemnly renew the prescribed ob
ligation to support the Constitution of the
United States and the Constitution of the
Stale of Pennsylvania, and to discharge
the responsible trust confided to me with
fidelity.
When first summoned before you three
years ago to assume the sacred duties of
the Executive Office, the long gathering
clouds of civil war wore about to break
upon our devoted country. For years
treason had been gathering in might; it
had been appropriating to its fiendish lust
more and more bountifully of the nation's
honors; it had grown steadily bolder in
its assumption of power, until it had won
the tolerance, if not the sanction of a
formidable element of popular strength,
even in the confessedly loyal States. The
election of a President in 1860, in strict
conformity with the Constitution and the
Laws, though not the causo, was deemed
the fit occasion for an organized attempt
to overthrow the whole fabric of our free
institutions and plunge a nation of thirty
millions of people into hopeless anarchy.
The grave offense charged againtthe Pres
ident elect, seemed alone to exist in his
avowed fidelity to the Government, and
his determined purpose to fulfil his solemn
covenant to maintain inviolate the union
of the States. When inaugurated he
found States in open rebellion, disclaim
ing allegiance to the Government, fraudu
lently appropriating its property, insolent
ly contemuing its authority. Treason was
struggling for supremacy in every depart
ment of the administrative power. In
the Cabinet it feloniously disarmed us.—
Our arsenals were robbed to enable the
armios of crime to drench a continent in
fraternal blood. Our coasts were left
comparatively defenceless to fall au easy
prey to traitors. Our navy was scattered
upon distant seas, to render the Republic
helpless for its own protection. Officers
educated, commissioned and sworn to pro
tect the Government against any foe, be
came deserters. They defied Heaven in
shameletss perjury, and with fratrieidal
hands, drew their swords against the coun
try of their allegiance. Arid when treas
on had thus completed its preparations,
this wanton and wicked war was lorced
upon our loyal people. Never was str so
causeless. The North had sought no sec
tional triumph, invaded no rights, and in
flicted no wrongs upon the South. It aim
ed to preserve the Republic, not to des
troy it; and even when rebellion present
ed the sword as the arbiter, wc exhausted
every effort consistent with the existence
of our Government to avert the bloody
drama of the last three years. The inso
lent alternation presented by treasou of
fatal dsimemberment or internecine war
was met by generous efforts to avert the
storm of death which threatened to fall;
but the leaders of the shunned
peace, unless they could glut their infern
al ambition over the ruins of the.noblest
and freest government ever devised by
man.
Three years of bloody, wasting war,
and the horrible sacrifice of a quarter of
a million lives, attest the desperation of
their purpose to overthrow our liberties.
Mourning and sorrow spread over our en
tire nation, and defeat and desolation are
the terrible trophies won by the traitor's
hand. Our people have been sorely tried
by disasters, but in the midst of the deep
est gloom they have stood with unfalter
ing devotion to the great cause of our
common country, relying upon the ulti
mate triumph of the right. They have
proved equal to the stern duty, and wor
thy of their rich inheritance of freedom.
Their fidelity has been well rewarded.
In God'k own good time he has asserted
his avenging- power; and if this war is
persisted in, they, the leaders of the re
hellion, as has become evident, and shive
ry and treason, the.fijuntain and stream' of
discord and death, must soon share a com
mon gTave.
In this great struggle for our honored
nationality, Pennsylvania has won immor
tal fame. Despite the teaching of the
faithless and the hesitation of the timid,
she has promptly and generously met ev
ery demand made upon her, whether to
repel invasion or to fight the battles of the
Union whenever and wherever her people
were demand6d. Upon every field made
historic and sacred by the valor of our
troops, some martial youth of Pennsylvania
have fallen. There is scarcely a hospital
that has not been visited by our kind offi
ces to the sick and wounded. There is
not a Department in which brave men do
not answer with pride to the name of our
noble Stale, and while history endures,
loyal hearts will turn with fellings of na
tional pride to Gettysburg, where the com
mon delivereuec of Pennsylvania and the
Union will stand recorded in the unsur
passed glory of that bloody field.
I need hardly renew my pledge, that
during the term of office on which I am
about to enter, I will give my whole mor
al and official power to the prosecution of
this war, and in aiding the National Gov
ernment in every.effort to secure the ear
ly and complete success over our malig
nant foes. •• For the preservation of our
national life all things should bo subordi
nated. It is the first, highest, and noblest
duty of the citizen.' It is his protection
in person, property, and all civil and re
ligious privileges, and for its perpetuity
in form and power, he owes all his efforts,
his influence, his means and his life. To
compromise with treason would be but to
give it renewed existence, and enable it
again to plunge us into another causeless
war. In the destruction of the military
power of the rebellion is alone the hope
of peace ; for while armed rebels march
over the soil of any State no real freedom
can prevail, and no government authority
consistent with the genius of our •free in
stitutions, can properly operate.
The people of every State are entitled
undor the Constitution, to the protection
of,the Govern und to give that pro
tection fully and fairly the rebellion must
bo disarmed and trodden in the dust. By
these means, and these alone, can we have
an enduring Union, prosperity and peace.
As in the past, I will, in the future, in
faithful obedience to the oath I have ta
ken, spare no means, ajid withhold no
power which can strengthen the Govern
ment in this conflict. To the measures of
the citizens chosen to admftiister the na
tional Government adopted to promote our
great cause, I will give my coruial approv
al and earnest co-opcration. It is tho
cause of constitutional liberty and law.—
Powers which are essential to our common
safety, should now be wisely and fearlessly
administered ; and that executive would
be faithless and held guilty before the
world, who should fail to wield the might
of the Government for its own preservance
Tho details of my views on the measures
which I recommend are contained iu my
recent annual Message, and neod not here
be repeated.
I beg to return to the generous people
of my native State my hearty thanks for
their unfaltering support and continued
confidence. They have sustained me
amid many trying hours of official embar
rassment. Among all those people, to
none am I more indebted than to the sol
diers of Pennsylvania, and I have pledged
to these brave men toy untiring exertions
in their behalf, and my most anxious cf- j
forts for their future welfare, and 1 com
mi-rW here, as I have frequently done be
fore, those dependent upon them to the |
fostering care of the State.
I cannot close this address without an
earnest prayer to the Most High that he
will preserve, protect and guard over our
beloved country—guiding with divine
power and wisdom our Government, State
and National; I appeal to my fellow citi
zens here and elsewhere, in our existing
embarrassments, to lay aside all partizan
felling and unite in a hearty and earnest
effort to support the common cause which
involves the welfare ot us all. Gentlemen
of the Senate and House of Representa
tives, I piay you, in God's name, let us in
this era in the history of the world, set an
example of unity and concord in the sup
port of all measures for the preservation
of this great Republic.
A. G. CDRTJN, Gov.
VALUABLE "CHAW" OF TOBACCO.—
A short time since two men, respectively
named Lewis and Brown, robbed a fellew
lodger, in Albany, o'.' 8-00 in gold. On
Urown was found the sum of eighty dol
lars, but on finding Lewis, he denied all
knowledge of the matter. The officer no
ticed that his cheeks' protruded uncom
monly, and asked what he had got in his
mouth '! •' A chaw of tobacco," was the
response. Not believing this, the officer
dexterously grappled him by the throat
and made him " shell out" £7O in gold.
STONING A BEAR OUT OF THE
—I he Bangor \Th!y says that one night
last week, as the stage from Calais was
passing along beyond Aurora, a big bear
was discovered sitting very composedly in
the middle of the road ; audas he declined
to yield the right of way. the driver and
passengers turned to and stoned him ofi
the track. Bruiu growled his disappro
bation of that mode of proceeding, but fin
ally gave way to superior numbers-
Ss»~ Some few years ago a clergyman at
Newbury port, when abroad, be;ng asked
what Ins people thought of the Second
Advent, replied that he had never been
able to convince them of the First Ad
vent. and had therefore not thought on
the Second.
faf Jinkins is a man who takes mat
ters humorously. When his best friend
was blown into the air by a ''bustin' bi
ler." Jinkins cried after him, " there you
go, my es -steamed friend V'
t&p Locking a scolding woman in a
room is generally the only way to shut her
up.
NUMBER 7.
The Escape of Morgan,
The Richmond Dispatch, of the 12th,
announces the arrival of Gen. Morgan in
that city, and gives the report of cspeech
made by him. in which he detailed at
length the manner of his and his com
rade's escape from the Ohio Penitentiary;
,! Everything was now ready to begin
the work : so about the latter part of Oc
tober they began to bore. All were busy
—one making a rope ladder by tearingand
twisting upstrij* ofbedtiek, another mak
ing bowie-knives, and another twisting up
towels. They labored perseveringly for
several days, and after boringtlirongh nine
thicknesses of brick placed edgewise, they
began to wonder when they should reach
the soft earth. Suddenly a brick fell in.
j What could this mean? What infernal
chamber had they reached t It was im
mediately entered, and to their great as
tonishment and joy, it proved to lie an air
chamber extending the whole length of the
row of cells.
; After twenty throe days of unremitting
i labor, and getting through a granite wall
I of six feet in thickness, they reached the
sail. They tunneled up for some distance,
aud light began to shine. This was the
morning of the 26th day of November,
1803. The next night, at 12 o'clock, was
determined on as the hour at which they
i would attempt theii liberty. The evening
came, aud the clouds began to gather.—
I How they prayed for them to increase.—
If rain should only begin, their chances
j of detection would be. greatly lessened.—
.! W hilo these thoughts were passing thro'
; their minds the keeper entered with alct
i ter for Gen. Morgan. He opened it, and
I what was his surprise, and, I may say,
j wonder, to find it from a poor Irish wo
i man of his acquaintance in Kcnlncky.
i commencing," .My dear Ginral, I feel cer
tain you arc going to try to git out of pris
lon, but for your sake, don't you try it, my
j dear Ginral You will only be taken pris
; oner agin, and made to suffer more than
j you do now."
Six, eight, ton o'clock came. How each
pulse throbbed as they quietly awaited the
approach of twelve ! It came—the senti
nel passed his round—all well. After
waiting a few moments to see if he intend
ed to slip back, the signal was given—ail
quietly slipped down into the air cham
j ber. first stuffing their fl innel shirts and
j placing them in bed as they were accus
tomed to lie. As they movcdqiiietly alnng
i through the dark recess to the terminus
where they were to emerge from the earth,
the General prepared to light 4 match.—
| As the lurid glare fell upon thecountenan
j ces a scene was presented which can never
;be forgotten. There were
brava men, who had resolved to be free,
j They were armed with bowie-knives made
| out of case-knives. Life, iu their condi
! tion, was scarcely to be desired, and the
moment for the desperate chance had ar
rived. Suppose, as they emerged from the
ground, that the dogshouldgive the alarm
J —they could but die.
But a few moments were sper.t in this
kind of apprehension. The hour had ar
rived. and yet thcycame. "Fortunately—
i yes, providentially—the night had stid
! denly grown dark and rainy; the dogs bad
retired to their kennels, and the sentinels
i had taken refuge under shelter. The in
ner wall by the aid of the rope ladder, was
-wion scaled, and now the outer one had to
be attempted. Capt. Taylor ("who/by the
| by, is a nephew of old Zaek) being a
i very active man. by the assistance of his
j comrades reached the top of the gate, and
1 was enabled to get the rope Over the wall.
When the top was gained, they found a.
rope extend all around, which the Gener
al immediately cut, as he suspected that it
| might lead into the warden's room. ' This
turned out to be correct. They had en
tered the sentry box on the walland chang
ed their clothes, and let themselves down
the wall. In sliding down, the General
skinned his hand very baity. and all were
more or less bruised. Once down, they
then separated, Taylor and She 1 too go'in
one way, Ilcgersmith. Bennettand McGc
another, and General Morgan and Capt.
j Ilines i roceeded immediately toward the
: depot.
The General had, bypay'ngSlo in gold,
succeeded in obtaining a paper which in
-1 formed him of ,thc schedule time of the
different roads. The clock strtlck one.
j and he knew by hurrying he could reach
the down train for Cincinnati. He got
there just as the train was moving of. lie
1 at once lookod onto see if there were auv
soldiers on board, and, espied a Union o.Tr
| cer he boldly walked up and took a sea:
' beside tim. He remarked to him that.
| l: as the night was damp and chilly, per
haps he would join him in a drink." He
did so, and the party soon became very
agreeable to each other. The cars, in
crossing the Scioto, have to pass within a
short distance of the Penitentiary. As
they passed, the officer remarked, 'There's
•h'; hotel at which Morgan jiud hisylficc-ra