VOLUME 2. THE GHOST. One stormy night in the month of De cember two travellers entered the inn at Lucrete and desired lodgings for the night. " Sorry, gents," said the landlord, in reply to their interrogations, " but owing to the great trial which is to come off to morrow. every bed is engaged, and I have not a spare corner." " Trial of what ? " asked one them. " Can it be possible that you have not heard ofthe murder of Janette liochellc by young Fallow, whose case is to come up to-morrow T" " No; we've just arrived in town and .were ignorant of the fact. But cannot you give us a sofa or lounge in trie par lor. or any other convenient place ?" ' Impossible, gents; every inch is bar gained for." " Well, then, direct us to some private house where wo can stay for tho night. "There isn't a spare bed in the vil lage—except one, and that I don t think you would fancy much." " Anything is beticr than walking the streets ali night. hat s the objection to the one you name?" "Hush!" replied Boniface, seriously. " The house is haunted." " Bah !" sneered traveller number one. " I'm notafraid of any of your hob-goblins. ! Where is tho house?" " The one directly opposite with closed shutters." >' Well, give us !>.n armful of wood, a light,some food aud driuk.aud we 11 risk the consequences." With many dubious shakes of tho head and sundry shrugs of his broad shoulders, tlje landlord brought the desired articles, handed over a key, and wishing them a * pleasant time, remarked, in parting: " You'll find the house well furnished, and the bed-room directly over the par- j lor." 11 Good night," replied the travellers, #r j(ind out they went, crossed the street, i 2|jwscd through the creaking gate, un- ! front door, and entered the dwelling. a rum go." said number one. name was Wa'ker; " we start oft b atrip of pleasure, and get stuck Into a haunied house the very first night. Hut pever mind; we'll make ourselves as com fortable as possible, and if bus goastship pays us a visit, let him look out for him self." So they built a rousing five in the grate, drew a stand up before it.and while Walker concocted a hot punch, his com panion spread out the viands, and thev set to, eating as ouly hungry men can. Then after sipping their beverage and smoking their cheroots, they made a careful in spection of the whole house, found it splendidly furnished as the landlord had told them, but discovered nothing un usual. or signs of anything supernatural. Carefully closing all the doors after them, tljey then repaird to the bed-room, and they were a few moments after, neatly tucked in bed, where Walker soon tell into a sound sleep, and his companion, De Marr, was just follow ; ng suit, when tie imagined he heard the door open. He immediately jumps,l up, aijd going to it fonnd thnt it indeed was ajar. After carefully searching the hall, he closed the door, aud placing a table against it. went back to bed. Scarcely had Lis head touched the pil low, when noiselessly the table slid away, the door flew open, aud in stalked a huge wli'te figuro, with the usual ghostly ac companiments. aud of course approached the bed, Boiug a sensible young man, #ud uaturally endowed wnh strong w;rves, he was in no wise disconcerted. Ou the contrary, he concluded it was a sell, and sitting up in bed, quietly inquire I of tin spectre what it wanted. Retreating toward the door, it beckon ed him to follow. " Nijr. cum a rouse," said I)e Marr; •"you've got to speak before you get me out of this room. What do you want?'' " Follow me," said the vision. " Well," thought De Marr, " it hasn't got a voice to scare anybody; besides, I wonder what it will amount to. auyway Pm not a coward, so here goes," aud lie slipped into his pants aud boots and fol lowed, out into" the hall, down stairs; then down into the cellar, stopping in the middle of which the ghost rainud a large etone, disclosiug another pair of stairs,' down which he pointed Dc Marr iu des cend. " No you don't, old fellow," he answer ed. "Go down first yourself." " Down !" said Mr.Ghost, and down he vest, the ghost after, and the stone clos ing tightly behind them, lie now found in a long narrow passage, lit ouly by the sor£ of a phosphorescent light emitting from tije figyre, which, with long strides, was leading iiim—whither? A AMERICAN CITIZEN. strange suspicions suddenly crossed his mind«that tLcre might be something in this midnight adventure after all. Sup pose he was led into some snare where he was wanted to commit a horrid deed ! How could ho escape? Il£ ooked be hind, but all was dark; there was no backing out, and besides, it might turn out a hoax; so on he pressed. After going, as it seemed to him a mile, the pas sage turned abruptly to the right, they ascended a long flight of stone steps, and afterabout half an hour's walking, again descended by moans of a rope ladder. On, on went the ghost, and after him plodded De Marr. now beginning to got tired, and—it must be admitted—a little shaky. However he was bound to see the thing out, and so struggled on, now up stairs. now down, till it seemed as though they must have gone through the whole village. At last they came to « heavy i iron door, which swung open at a touch, | and admitted them to a long, narrow room, | liung with heavy damask drapery at the opposite end from which they entered.— j Two suiokv lamps depended from the ceil ing. throwing a gloomy ligh* through the apartment, which was entirely unfurnish ed. As De Marr entered, he cast a hasty glance around, and his eye falling on the ! curtains, lie was convinced that he saw ! them move as though some person was I concealed behind their folds. This im | mediately aroused his former suspicions, which wore nut all allayed by the figure pre (tinging a huge double-edged sword, which it placed in his hand, and motion ed him to thrust through the drapery. The horrid truth at once flashed thro' his niind. lie had been brought there to commit a cold blooded murder? To slay some innocent victim who had never wronged him—one wh 111 he had never seen ! llow could he commit suchahor rible deed? Impossible? With resolute determination he flung the weapon from him, and started for the door when the figure by his side quietly laid its hand on his shoulder. I t seemed as though ten thousand electric thocks had passed through his system from that slight touch, and he scroauied out in ag ony. Oncemore it handed him the sword and pointed to the drapery. The cold sweat poured off in a stream, and, trembling in every limb, poor Do Marr dropped on his knees and begged the demon to let him oft'. 15ut prayers and supplication were alike in vain ; it wa3 immovable; there was no getting out of the scrape except by doing as it directed him to. So, fold ing his hands, De Marr essayed to say his prayers, asked forgiveness (or the prime he was about to commit, etc., etc., and again grasping the sword, advanced with tottering feet towards towards the cur tain. But his heart once more failed him ; ho resolved to die rather than go through with theawful tragedy, and again flung down the weapon. Once more the spectre touched his shoulder, onccmoie the blood chilled in his veins, and he fell prostrate to the floor. On recovering he found the sword again in his and the figure still pointing jts long finger towards the dra pery. De Marr repeated his prayers, arose, feeling that such another shock would be worse than death, staggered forward, and with all his remaining strength thrust the sword through the curtain. Did a heart-rend'ng shriek arise ?No ? it was a gurgling, choking groan which fell on his ear. followed by an awful voice which exclaimed : "Thunder and lightuiug! what are you ramming your finger down my throat for ?" . And Walker kicked turnout of bed. PRINTERS AMI DOCTORS. —An East ern paper "ery justly comments on news paper and medical credits : '•lt is a notorious fact that doctor's bills and newspaper accounts in the sum of almost every man's indebtedness which he things of paying. Whatever may be his ability to pay, no difference if his cheat bt filled with old rusty dollars dollars, he thinks some indefinite time will do to set tle the aforesaid accounts. People some how have a traditionary notiou that the practice of a physician aud the publishing of newspapers are mere amctcur profes sions. followed for amusement's sake, and for cost of which is little or nothing is ex pected. Yet there is not in whole round of business, as far as we know, a more ex pensive employment than that of a news paper." .—if you sec a half a dozen faults in a woman, you may rest assured she has a half dozen to counterbalance them. We love your faulty worneu, and fear your faultless women. When you see what is "termed a faultless dread her as you would a beautiful snake. Tho bower of concealing the defects which eke must have, is, ol itself a serious vice "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 - BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA 4 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1865. PETERSBURG!! SUN DAY'S'BATTLE! ! GRAND SUOCESSOF OUR TROOPS Guns Turned on the Retreating Enemy Gallantry of the Veteran 6th Corps. The Occupation of Petersburg. IIEADQUARTEKS ARMY OF POTOMAC, ) April 2., | The most important victory the Army of the Potomac ha* ever gained in* Vir ginia was won to-day, and the outer line of works which we have been trying in vain for months to overcome, has at last yielded ro our victorious arms, and the greater portion of this army is to-night within a mile and a half of the city, on the southwest side. The struggle made by the enemy to retain these works has been of the most desperate character, and for the success obtained to-day wearc indebt ed, pot only to the strategy exercised by the commanders, but to the overwhelm ing numbers and bravery of the troops that did the work. The orders for an attack on the line east and south of Petersburg by the sixth and ninth corps wore carried out punctually at daylight, the artillery having been hammering away the greater part of the uight along the entire lino held by the above corps. Such a furious cannonade has very seldom been heard during the war, not even surpassed by that which was heard on the occasion of the mine ex plosion in front of Petersburg. The Ninth corps troops engaged in the action were the 2d and 3d divisions, and Col. Samuel Hani man's brigade of the Ist division. The charge was made in front of the forts Hell and Rice, on the Jerusa lem road, and was so successful that by 8 A. M. wo weie in possession of three fort ifications. Fort Wahone being tho ex tcntion of these works, contained fourteen guns, some of which were at once opened upon the enemy, by tho men belonging to our infantry regiments. Just out side and about ono hundred yards from Fort Wahone, was another work, to which tho rebels retreated, and from whence they threw a most destructive fire upon our men, causing them to retire from tho fort, when the rebels made a dash thinking to recover it entirely, but the guns in the right wing, as well as in the centre, had been manned a»d shotted, and the assail ants were driven back. From this tiuio till late in the afternoon the struggle continued, the enemy using every effort to recover the fort, while our men were as determined to retain possess ion of it. About noon it seemed that wo should lose, but soon after the provisional brigade, under (jen. Colliss, aud the en gineer brigade, under Geu. Benham, with Gen. Hamlin's brigade ofthe ninth corps, came on the ground, and by their timely arrival saved the gallant men in the fort from captme, and again caused the enemy to retire. The fire which rained on the ground around this fort was of the most i terrible and fearful character, and at dark the position of the contestants was tho same as during the day. Gen. Wilcox with part of his division made an attack iu front of Fort MeG ilvoy, near the Appomattox, and took part of the line, but was soon afterwards compell ed to retreat to his former position, owing to the lack of supports. 1 he loss of tho Ninth corps will reach from BUU to I,UUO in killed, wounded and prisoners, among whom are Gen. Potter, commanding the 2d division, who is baU ly wounded in the groin, but not fatally it is thought; Gol. Gctchell, of the 31st Maine, seriously; Maj. Bolton, of the 31st Maine, severely; Col. Gregg and Lieut. Col. Wiuskrw, 174 th New York, wouuded; Maj Morrow, 20olh Pennsylvania lost a leg; Lieut. Alexander, ofthe same r«gt. killed. I'll is corps has taken fourteen guns, about two hundred prisoners, a.,d two battle flags. The latter were taken by the 211 th Pennsylvania. The sixth eorpsstruek the enemy's liue in front of Fort Welsh, near the celebra ted Ijead Works, and curried them witji very slight loss. They pushed forth to the South Side Railroad, which they reached about uiue o'clock, and ip a short time after t)ieir arrival several miles of that railroad wore torn up and destroyed. They moved towr.rds Petersburg, driving the rebels before them across Town Run, yyd into their inner line close to the city. TJiey took a large force of prisoners, about two thousand in number, pnd some twenty guns. Special Diapatch to the Pittsburgh Commercial. WASHINGTON, April 4.") ILEAIHIIIABTTOS ARMY OF POTOMAC, [■ April 3, SA. M. ) Yesterday I Dent you account of tjhe operations of the first dayn of the fin- al grand movement upon tho rebel strong hold, by the armies ouerating against. Richmond. I wrote whirc Gen. Wright's charge was in progress and before its glo rious result could bo ascertained. On Saturday night the situation was as fol lows : Tho 9th corps held the right of our 11 no from the Appomattox river to Battery Lee. The (jth extended from the left of the 9th to a point opposite Ft. Fisher. The tight ofGeu. Ord's com mand, comprising Turner's and Fosters divisions, of the 24th, and Birney's color ed division of tile 25th corps, rested fur ther to tho left, near Fort Sampson, and its left joined the nirht of tho second corps, which reached the Boydton l'lank roail near Burgess Mills, Miles Division lying across it. Gen. Sheridan had the left wing, composed of the cavalry and the Fifth corps, and was thundering away on the rebel light and rear at Five Forks, 011 the White Oak road, without keeping up connection with the rest of the army. The fighting up to that time had been principally confined to the cavalry, and the Fifth and Second corps, the cavalry aud the Fifth having suffered the greatest loss. The rebels had made several frantic attacks upon our lines, seeming uiost fear of an advance oti tho Southsidc road.— From that direction the theatre of opera tions covered a front of almost unexam pled extent, the continuous line being nearly twenty miles in length. The ground occupied by the left wing beyond the winter encampments of the army is generally rolling, covered thickly with second growth pine, interspersed with oc casionally a hard field, and cut up with devious water courses running through swampy bottoms. In front, beyond Bur gess' M ills, stretching away toward Peters burg, along tho Bydton road, is an epen country, occupied by plantations. The roads were horrible, and the engineers' brigade was rapidly constructing corduroy, over which the long lines of ambulances moved slowly to Humphrey's Station, tho terminus ol the military railroad. During Saturday night the lines seemed very feverish, volleys of musketry being hcaid at frequent intervals, sometimes swelling into a continuous cracking roar, while the popping of skirmisliots rifles and theslowor discharges of artillery were increased. Between ten and eleven o'clock, Satur day night, Gen. Parke charged the rebel work iu front of the celebrated Fort Moll, with tho divisions of Fitter and Wilcox. Tho fortifications at this point aro of great streugth and the approaches are rendered difficult by a formidable liue of abbattis. The troops advanced very steadily until they reached the abattis, encountering a terrible fire of grape aud cannister, and musketry fire. They wavered for a mo ment, recoiled and fell back nearly to Ft. Hill, but at onco renewing their effort, they lushed forward, pulled again away the obstructions, swarmed over the para pet and rushed into the works with a dash worthy of the old guards of Napoleon.— They captured four forts, including fort k| al)ot)9, directly.in front of I-'ort Nell, turned the guns and poured cannister and grape into tho retreating enemy. Tho works taken here are the most for midable on the eastern front ofthe Peters burg defences. Brevet Maj. Gen. Pot ter, commauding the Second division, was dangerously wounded at this point. It was beleived that he could not live, but this morninghopes aro entertained of his recovery. The Ninth corps ho d the positiou thus gaiued until this morning. The rebels, yesterday, made .a number of desperate assaults to take Fort Mahoue in some of them even reached tho ditch, but they were each time repulsed with great slaughter. At four o'clock yesterday morning Gen. Wright massed the wlmle Sixth corps, and silently advanced it to within a hun dred yards of the rebel liues in front of Fort Fecher, where the men lay down to await the signal. Thetirst divisions Gen. Wheaton, had the right ; tho third divis ion Gen. Seymour, tho centre, and the second, Getfy,tho left. Each brigade and division hail it* own front and support. About half past four o'clock, everything being in readiness the order was given, and the battle veterans arose and advanced once more to their work of death. The rebels opened a tremendous firo of artillery and musketry, but nothing could stop the onslaught. The men rushed for ward with fury, forced the abattis and carried tho works. Wright moved for ward, and about nine u - ni- l> e struck the South Side Rrailroad four miles west of Petersburg. After having arriv ed there they continued their success by moving toward the city, assaultiug and oarrying several of the inner aud rear do fences, which here cross the Boydton road aud run at right angles to the liueof works whuJi we have held during the past win ter. This charge was one of the most mag nificent ever umde in this or any other war. Owing to the rapidity with which (Jiey have been executed, the loss ii this as well as in the assaults made by the other corps; arc comparatively light.— Some of tho fortifications were carried by the troops advancing in column with arms at a right shoulder shift, Brevet Ma jor General L. O. Grant, commanding the 2d Brigade, 2d Division, Otli Corps, was wounded in this charge. As the differ ent foils were taken, their guns were turned upon the enemy. The 2d Brig ade, 3d Division, in which arc the 110 th, 122 d, and 126 th Ohio, commanded by Col. J. W. Reefer, Colonel of tho 110 th, covered itself with glory. In one of the fortifications carried by them the lebel gunners fired a charge of shot and load ed with grape, but hofore tlifv had time to fire our men had takon the pieces and they were" once putin charge of the 7th New Artillery, of tho same brigade, who saluted the rctra ating reb els with their own shotted guns. The 110 th Ohio captured three rebel flags, and ona of the 123 d took tho battle-flags of the rebel Gen. Ord. Wright sent this man to the rear with the flag, telling him he had earned his thirty days furlough. While the gallant old sixth was thus engaged, the whole left of the line was in motion. Gen. Ord, with the divisions of Foster and Turner, attacked tho ene my's lines in his front at Hatcher's Bun, nearly at tho same time with the chargo of Gen. Wright, and carried them in fine stylo. The 123 d Ohio regiment was tho* first to enter the works. Cook's brigade, of Heath s division. Hill's corps, occupi ed one of the forts at this point. At tho same time also, Humphrey, with tho Second Corps, moved forward, sweep ing everything before them. Hayes, Motto and Miles' Divisions carried the works their front, swung to tho right and moved rapidly across the open coun try, which skirts the Boydton Road, to wards the left of the Sixth Corps, now considerably in advance. General Sheridnt) advanced from Five Forks, on the White Oak road, keeping to tho west of the Boydton road, and scat tering the enemy before him on his on ward course. Ho ajso struck tho South side Railroad at a point further westward, after some sharp fighting. Tho hospitals were all left far iu the rear at an early hour in the day.and wore quickly cleared out and sent to keep within reach of the irresistible advance. Tho country in the rear was wonderfully ba.e of skulkers, and none of the usual squads of strag glers were hanging about tho hospitals aud trains. Last night the enemy still held a coutractcd line of forts close to the city, from which they kept up a sullen cannonade upon our encircling troops.— The Ninth Corps had connected with the right of the Sixth, which had became temporarily isolated by its rapid advance, and General Ord had joined it on the left, the extreme left of the investing line resting upon the Appomattox River above Petersburg. Cavalry Sheridan with his command, was moving up on the Danville road to embarrass the retreat of the foe, and the 2d corps, with pontoon trains, had moved upon the Appomattox several miles above Petersburg. Should the enemy remain, they were to bo attacked at daybreak. Skirmishing was kept up all night, and at half past three o'clock this morning Wilcocx's division, preceded by the first Michigan, entcrod the city, driving the enemy's rear guard skirmishers before them. The rebels set the bridges on fire, blowing up that of tho Southside road. Petersburg is a finely built Southern city.-and contains many handsome resi dences. Frequent marks are visible of the unwelcome Yankee visitors, who have dropped.ui duriug the past four months, though fm damage Jouc by the cannon ading is cot very extensive. Several houses were burned yesterday by our shells. Before leaving the rebels des troyed a large quantity of tobacco. Three pontoon bridges had been laid across the river to facilitate their retreat. General Leo was in Petersburg yesterday, direct-_ ing in persou the operations of his army, Maj. Gen. Warren was relievod of the command of the i)t)i corps, and was suc ceeded by Gen. Crawford on Saturday night, owing, it is supposed, to some mis understanding with Gen. Sheridan, who has independent command of the left wing. lam informed that (jcu. Warren was on Saturday assigned to a command north of the Appomattox. Among the killed is Gen. Russell, of the 25th corps, and Lt. CoJ Crosby, of the 51st Pennsyl vania, aud amuug the wounded were Lt. Col. K. I). Holt, ofthe 59tb New York, moi tally, and Lt. Col. D. J. CttP, 77th New York, in the breast, severely. Gen. Qibbou is reported killed, but I cannot vouch for the statement. Maj. Gen ltansam, of Hill's eorgs, is mortally wound ed and a prisoner, and there is a report, which lacks continuation, that Gou. llill is killed. It has been generally remarked by surgeons that the proportion oikilled and severely wounded ainoug our meu, to the number of slight injuries, it unusually small. £ t New YORK. April 4. The World 1 1 account of Sheridan's bat tle of Five Forks, says: Sheridan's for ces on last Saturday morning were three divisionsof infantry,under Griffin, Ayer's and Crawford's two divisions of cavalry, formerly constituting the Army of the Shenandoah, now commanded by Mer ritt, under Devin and Custer; one divis ion of cavalry of the army of the Poto mac, under Gon. Crooks, and a brigade or more of cavalry from the Army of the James, under Mackenzie, in this com position, infantry was to tho cavalry in the proportion of two to one. Sheridan was absolute. lie visited ev ery part of his line, though it stretched from Dinwiddie Court House to Quaker road, and along the Boydton plank road and its adjuncts. At daybreak, on Sat urday, he fired four signal guns to admon ish Wnrren he was oft", and his cavalry, by diverging roads, struck their camps just south of Culpepper to certain Stony creek tributaries which wind northward, and control roads over Stony creek west, Crooks making the longest detour. Cus ter took the bottom, called the ambulance bed, and Devin advanced from Little Five Forks, the whole driving the rebels to ward the left of their works, on the White Oak Itoad. Our men far outnumbered the rebels. It was part of qijr scheme to push the rebels into their intrenchments. This work was delegated to cavalry en tirely. • Mounted carbineers were no match lor infantry, so when the horsemen were close •up to the rebels they were dismounted, and acted as infantry. A portion of thcni. under Gregg, and Mackenzie, still adher ed to the saddle, that, they might be put in rapid motion for flankingarid charging purposes, but fully five thousand indura ted men, who hadsoen service in the She nandoah and elsewhere were formed in line of battle on foot, and by a charge and deploy essayed the difficult work of press ing back the entire rebel column. This they were to do so very ingeniously that, the rebels should go no further than their works, cither to escape eastward or to dis cover the whereabouts of Warren's for ces, which were already forming. Sheri dan's object was to capture, as well as to rout, them, so all the afternoon the caval ry pushed them hard, and the strife went uninterruptedly and tcrrififically, with the horses within call. The cavalrymen in I'neof battle, stood together like walls of stone, and welling onwatd like gradually elevating ridges. Now and then a de tachment of rebels would charge down upon Ihc swaying lines, threatening to annihilate us. Through wood and brake, and swamp, across fie'd and trench, we ptisjjed after, fighling the defenders stead ily. Part of the time Sheridan himself fras there, short and broad, and active, wav ing his hat, giving orders, seldom out of fire but never stationary, and closo bj fell the long yellow looks of Custer, saber ex tended, though ho was worn with much work. Af four o'clock the rebels were wee behind thoir wooden wqdls at Five Forks, and still the cavalry pressed them hard in front, while tho battallion dis mounted and charged Bfjuaraly upon the face of their breastworks, which lay in the main on the northside of White Oak road. Then, while the eavalry worked round towards the rear of the infantry of Warren, though commanded by Sheridan prepared to take part in the battle. The left was the division of Ooneial Ayers; Crawford had tho ceutre, and Griffin the right. They advanced from the Boydton plankroad at ten o'clock, while Sheridan was thundering away with cavalry, mount ed and dismounted, and deluded the reb els with the idea that ho was tho sole at tacking party. They lay coneealed in the woods beyond Gravelly linn Meeting Iluuse, but their left was not half a mile distau* from the rebel works. Little by little Sheridan, extending his Hues, drove the wholo rebel force iDto their breastwork". Then he dismounted the mass of Ms cavalry, charged the works straight in front, still thundering on their flanks, last every rebel wu<> safe behind his Latrcnchmenta. Then the signal was given and the concealed infan try, many thousand strong, sprang up and advanced by echelon to tfcs right. Imag ine a groat barn doof shotting to, and you have the movement. If you can also im agine the door itself, hinges all moving forward also. .One man otft of every three engaged took a prisoner, \) r c cap- NUMBER 18, turcd four cannons, an ambulance train, baggage teams, 8 000 muskets, and 28 battle flags. The battle hagopened tons tho enemy s flank, so that we can sweep down upon the Appomato* and insido of his breast works, enabling us to shorten our lines of iutrenohmentfl one-half, and putting out of Lee's service fifteen thousand of h'u choicest troops; and ad this, Gen. Sheri dan tells me. has cost him personally no more than eight hundred iflen, and tho service of no moro than fifteen hundred men. CiiriiiK it up. Perhaps the' most significant of the numerous signs of the times portending tho enrly overthrow of tho rebellion, is tho fact that its sympathizers in '-he North gives up the contest. If anything, they havo been moro determined than the Southern people, and haTC had quito as many reasons for desiring the success of a cause to advocate which was both un natural and expensive. It is not tp bo prosumed, therefore they would give up as long as there was the slightest pros pect, and the white feather in this quar ter may be taken to indicate iu what light the rebel leaders, witl> whom thoy pia on moro or less intimate relations, view the prospect. We may readily supposa tho N. Y. World would hold on so long as tljo rebel lendors did, ivml it js this that gives to its declarations how that the Southern cause is utterly hopeless, insig nificance. The World, of Monday, un dertook to give "soino good advice to the South," and wo thing it was eminently successful. Wo quote: We do not want the Southern car /up the puj'poso of communicating these facts; ou this head the South needs no information. Nor is the proper inferonco from them so difficult to draw as to calj for much assistance. What we would like to impress upon the Southern peo ple is the importance to them—sccif.g that sucrcis must bo in their own eyes nearly hopcleis—of so acting in thin emergency that friends of the Constitu tion in the loyal States may co-opwto with them for the defense and protection of their and our common rights. In ad dressing them we would reason from their stand point; for we should expect, to con vince n ibody by reasoning from princi ples which they do not admit. * * * It should be evident to every reflect ing man iu the South, that the njost vi t.al stab that can be dealth to State rijli is a continuance of the war. nov; that tho contest lias become, OR their side, hop* less. The only practical quev'.ii-n tlia remains for their decision is, whether they will hereafter be equal members pt' the Cnion, or territorial dependencies.— The policy of the Democratic party would make them the former ; of the Republi can party, the latter. Uut the Depiucraf ic policy has little pljarjcjl of Success, so long as the South furnishes to the Fcder al Government sound and unanswerable reasons for keeping up larje armies ft holding them in subjection. The polilio thing for the South to do is to 4i.sbai.ii itj armies, peacefully insisting <m'its rigntsi under the Constitution, but not prejudi cing these rights by setting up uutonallu claims. When they evince a determina tion to perform their 'hitlex, they will 1.., in the strongest possible position for se curing their right*. The pretext of mil itary necessity by which the Constitution has been overriden, will then have IIQ color of plausibility. If the consolida tionists should then pursue their schc;;((, of centralization, their design will have no cloak to cover its hideous nakedness Had tip instead of aciiag a* the ally of the rebels in the North, by doing its utmost to alienate support from the Government, instead of encouraging the South to continue the contest till the Democratic party obtained possession of the Government, when Southern inde pendence would be recognized, used lan guage like the above, and had it been the language of the Democratic party, who can say the war would not lia'.'o ended many uooths ago, and thousands of lives and millions of money been savou ? Im partial history will hold the Democratiu party responsible for no small share of the blood and treasure spent in prosecuting the war. Tts course was solely in vvv/ of party interests; and the advice of the World now, it would seem, is for no high ov motive. " The Democratic policy ha little chance of success," it saysj so long as the South wages war against the Gov ernment—a self evident truth, we con clude ; for the ''Democratic pojicy" and the rebel policy have been so jioa? identi cal that it was impossib'e to support ono and uot the other. We will not under take to say they were not loyal hearted Democrats who stuck to their party ; but we undertake to say that there is not a man of them who has not felt hoy griev iouewus the burden imposed l>y the unpa triotic course of the party. Who will say that had the Democratic paTty continued to work up to th" lilie on which it Wood at the outset, it would not have been in power to-day ? The W'nbl coiirtisgea it, and to rcgaw* th? lost ground changes front. It is too late. Faithlessness in the past is a pour title to the confidence of thoso who have been betrayed. The llwA/and the Dem ocratic party myst stand on the reword of the past three years—of opjwsition to thy Government, efforts to divide the North, ! complicity with riots, and a policy that ha? afforded the rebelsin armsthoir almost sure ground of liopo. <l —A wag o,eing told that a;i clti acquaintance ,*as married, exclaimed, J am glad to hear it," But reflecting a moment he added, in a tone ot oojgpaasion and forgetfulness, " and yet I don't know why l should be—he never did me any harm."
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