VOLUME 57. NEW SERIES. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE IS PURMSHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY BV B. F. MEYERS, At the following terms, to witi $1 .50 per annum, CASH, in advance. $2.00 ** " if paid within the year. $2.50 " " il' not paid within the year. subscription taken lor less than six months. m"No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher, jt has Seen decided by the United States the stoppage of a newspaper without toe payment ot are rearages, is prima facie evidence ol fraud and is a criminal offence. UyThe courts have decided that persons are ac countable lor the subscription price of newspapers, t they take them from the post office,whether 'hey übscribe for them, or not. RATES OF CHARGES FOR AOVER TISING. Transient advertisements will be inserted at the rate of SI.OO per square of ten lines for three inser tions or less, but lor every subsequent insertion, 25cents per square will be charged in addition.— l'ab'e and figure work double pi ice. Auditor's notices ten lines and under, SI.OO ; upwards of ten lines and under fifteen SI.OO. Liberal reductions made to persons advertising by bhe year. "NO PARTY" "William vP'Bricn lias been removed from the position of marker in the Custom House at New Yoik, and Robert Vosburg, a negro, appointed in his place." We clip the above from the Pine and Palm, an abolition paper, published in Boston and New York simultaneously. Jt is put forth, in that sheet with a gusto, as showing the ad vance of "liberal principles" in the govern ment, when white men can be turned out of public employment to make room lor negroes. Inasmuch as the announcement comes from the other side, we suppose we may lake :t lor truth—it is not "a secession lie," as our op position frirnds are fond of dubbing everything that don't suit them, We think it would be well for white men and especially for laboiing men, to notice this appointment. With the cry of better times— of free farms for the farrnless—ot free homes for the homeless—of free speech, free labor ing men, hundreds of thousands ol votes were stolen by ill" Lincoln paaty last fall; and what do those men find now? They find the wages of labor reduced one-fourth or one-Ikird in many instances, and four days a week at that. They find collieries iron works, and othei great industrial and commercial enterprise, stopped, or on the tK>int of etonnirnr find, instead of plenty ol work at wages that would make their families comfortable, their families crving for bread —and all this they find as the Rast o< better times which was spread out for them to partake of last fall, i Free farms Ur the farrnless they now find to ; mean asp of ground about six feet by two; ; which rhev are at liberty to occupy from this to the da/ ot Judgment, in the shape of a soldier's grave; and for homes for the homeless, they ha ve found that in all future piospects Ihe tomes for their starving families will h etK fcforlh be the street or the poor house, and, 1 th'ir dependence the charities ol the world, i instead of free speech, they find they have the freedom to talk as certain tnen may dictate, and that if they complain or reiterate the crt ot their starving children for bread, they are cal led "secessionists" and the community warned against giving them employment; or il they happen to be in the army and complain bf cause the government is robbing them by their State to make them comfortable while fighting the battles of their country, like poor Balso at Harrisbnrg, the authorities arrest them for treason and throw them into a uungeon disgrac ed and dishonored. They find that instead of comfortable clothes, they are furnished with garments of "shoddy," that wear out and leave them naked in a week; and instead of shoes to keep their feet from the burning sand during their long and weary marches, they are furn ished with sandals soled with white pine sha vings. Instead of protection to home indus try as they w ere promised, they find an army ol ignorant and barbarous slaves let loose upon them to compete with their labor and disgrace their employment, and then every little while are regaled with news, like the above, that white men are turned out of the government employment to make room for a strapping son ol Ethiopia. And then white men find also that il, they meet to consult together to de vise a redress ot grievances, or how they shall piotect themselves against these things, the very newspapers that were so loud in prom ises but a few months ago, ridicule their el foitiand take part with lazy and barbarous ne irroes who are now fleeing from the southern States, and foisting themselves upon the sym pathies of the community lor support. This is the way things are now going on every day about us, and in all earnestness, how long shall it he submitted to? Under the cry of "no party," .democrats in the field—brave and experienced 'ldiers, ate almost every day being superseded by the appointment of old broker, down politi cal lacks, who nevr-r saw service and never were in the ranks in 'heir lives. With the cry of "no party," now, bi?t anything for the country, the national adminisfration is engag d daily in turning out democrats from civil positions although two-thirds of those in the field now upholding the national honor and the integiiiy of the Union are democrats, and put ting the most bilter and radical Republican partizans in their places, and even, in some instances supplanting them with negroes. Un der the cry of "r.o party," they organize Con gress by the election of a mere chattering ab olition free trader for Speaker of the House, snowing that they could give no greater insult 'o the conservative sense of the country es pecially of the border States—that sentiment upon which we must rely to save the Union in this extremity it it can be saved at all ! How can it be expected but that their professions should be regarded as a cheat and a humbug,and . Minimi .I i ,| in,! ,|j|jj that the}' regard a negro as a little better than a white man, especially if the white man be an Irishman !— Luzerne Union. brom the West Chester Jeffersoniati. PREDICTION IN THE COURSE OF FULFILMENT- In the campaign of 1856, the Democratic Executive Committee of this State issued an Address, from which the following is an ex tract : "We know very well how easy it is to sneer at any suggestion of danger to the Union. But we know also that the federal relations of this Government are so delicately constructed that they may be ruptured at any time by a serious error of the people in choosing a Chief Magis trate. The Stales of the Union are not held together by physical force, like tne dependen cies of a Kingdom, nor even by a political pow er, like different parts of the same State. They : are independent sovereignties, united by the gentler law of mutual attraction. This law, i operating on their own free will, made the U n 1011 : and when it ceases to operate, the Union will be unmade. Let a President of the Uni ted States be elected exclusively bv the voles of one section, and on a principle of.avowed hos tility to the men, the measures, the domestic relations, the feelings, and the interests, real or supposed, of the other section, and what must ,be the consequence? We do not say it would certainly or necessarily dissolve the Union.— Perhaps the good genius ol the Republic, which has brought us through so many perils, might save us again. But that man must be intellec tually blind who does not see that it would put us in fearful danger. For t his reason, the elec tion of a sectional candidate must be regarded as in itself a great public misfortune. The par ty that avows opposition and hatred towards a certain class of the States, as its motive and rule of action, is entitled to no aid or comfort from any man who loves his country or desires to be faithful to its government. The greatest, the wisest, and the best men this country ever pro duced have warned us that the Union could not last under the control of a geographical pai ty. ."Seed we refer you to Washington's Fare well Address? Need we remind you of the admonitions which Jefferson and Jackson have given ? If the solemn voices which come from the tomb at Mt. Vernon, from the sepulchre at JVlonticello, 3nd from the grave a' the Hermit age, have ceased to be regarded, then we are lost indeed." (Signed by) JOHN W FOrtvrv rms- Gideon G. Westcolt, James F. Johnson, George Plitt, Alfred Gilmore, Wm. Rice, IS. B. Browne, George Williams, Thomas S. Fernon, Emanuel Strpet, Wm. O. Klinp, Edward W. Power, W. V. McGrath, George Moore, T. J. Simmons,. Jesse Johnson, VV. T. Morrison, A. H. Tippin, Joseph Hemphill, S. C. Leiper, J. Lawrence Getz, Wm. Karnes, F. Vanzant, John Davis, R. C. Stambaugh, C. D. Gloninger, H. B Swarr, James H. McMahon, J. G. MrKinley, Andrew Hopkins, Wm. H. Miller, R. McAllister, O. Barrett, Samuel Bigier, Henry Omit, Wm. Lilly, Wilson Reilly, J. B. Danner, VV. H. Kurtz, G. H. Bucker, George Stroop, George White, J. Richter Jones, H. L. Dieffenbach, VV. G. Murray, R. VV. Weaver, Dr. B. H. Thropp, Asar Lathrop, VV. M. Piatt, Julius Sherwood, 11. H. Dent, VV. S. Garvin, R. P. Cochran, Joseph Douglass, B. F. Sloan, James M. Bredin, J. M. Kuster, Samuel B. Wilson, David Lynch, M. J. Stewart, Wm. Workman, Charles A. Black, F. W. Bowman, J. B. Sansom, S. S. Jamison, Charles Lamberton, A. S. Wilson, Thomas Bower, J. S. Miller. Such were the sentiments, such the opinion, such the prediction of the Democratic party of Pennsylvania in '56. The danger to the U nion,of which they then solemnly warned the people—the election ofa sectional candidate— has since taken place,and its fearful consequences are upon the country. Verily, is it not time for the people to awake to the magnitude of the dangers that surround them, and to plant them selves at once firmly and fearlessly upon the doctrines of conciliation, compromise, and peace between the two sections, as the only salvation of the country? COMPROMISE- To the Editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer: Can you inform me whether it is true that Jefferson Davis and Robert Toombs were ever willing to compromise orr national difficulties after Mr. Lincoln's election, upon the basis of Mr. Crittenden's proposition, and whether they ever expressed such an opinion in Con gress? I have heard it repeatedly asserted, but have seen no evidence in support of -t? CITIZEN. To which the Editor responds : In reply to our correspondent, we refer him to the following extract from a speech made by Senator Douglas in the United States Sen ate on the 2d of March last, which speech 'was duly published in the Congressional Globe. Mr. Douglas said : I can confirm the Senator's declaration, that Senator Davis } o\ Mississippi, himself, when on the Committee oJ Thirteen, was ready at all times to compromise on the Crittenden Proposition. I will go further, and say that Mr. Toombs was also. Senator present expressed any doubt of the accuracy of Mr. Douglas's slatement. Lieut. Col. J. W. Ripley, Ordnance De partment, has received the brevet of Brigadier General in the United States Army. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 26, ISGI. FAST AND LOOSE. At the commencement of the present extra session of Congress, the House resolved that it would only consider bills and resolutions con cerning military and naval appropriations feu Government, and the financial affairs connect ed therewith. The verv next dav after the adoption of this resolution, Mr. Lovejoy intro duced his resolution declaring that it is no par. of the duty of soldiers of the United States tc. capture or return fugitive slaves, and it was en tertained by the Speaker and passed by a ma jority rf the house right in the face of the rub adopted the previous day. The resolution o itself asseits a correct principle. There is n . doubt that the army was not sent into Virginia to execute the fugitive slave law. But its pas sage was wholly unnecessary, and calculated only to make mischief by conveying false im pressions as to the purposes' of the war. Its mover is notorious as an Abolition agitator, who intended to breed trouble, and who desired to go a step further by declaring slavery abolished' in all the seceded States. With the view, perhaps, of counteracting th : evii influences of Lovejoy's resolution, Mr. AI len, of Ohio, asked leave'lo offer the following to the house on" Monday [last : Resolved, That whenever the States now m rebellion against the General Government shall cease their rebellion and become loyal to the Union, it is the duty of the Govei nment to sus pend prosecuting the war. Resolved, That it is no part of the object of the present war against the rebellious States to interfere with the institu'ion of slavery. —Of course, the reader will exclaim, the Speaker did not venture to declare these reso lutions out of order after entertaining Lovejoy's resolution ! But he did do that very thing.— He gave the rule a very liberal construction when it was necessary to admit the resolution denying the obligation of the aruiy to return fugitive slaves, and a very strict and narrow construction when it w as necessary to exclude the resolution affirming that it is no part of the object of the present war to interfere with the institution of slavery. Why this discrimina tion ? If Lovejoy's resolution was in order, un der the rule adopted for the government of the House, so was this resolution offered by Mr. Allen. But the fact is, Mr. Speaker Grow al lowed his prejudices to warp his judgment.— He wanted the first resolution passed, and he did not want a vote taken on the 6econd, be cause ot. would have placed some ot t> ; - 11 r-" ! lican mends unun mc necessitv ot toeing the mark, and putting themselves on the recoid for or against interference with the in stitution of.slavery. We believe that Mr. Allen's resolution ex presses the determination of three-fourths of the people with reference to this war—that it is a war against rebellion, and not against slavery. Its passage would have put the contest in its true light, and disabused the minds ol manv loyally inclined Southern men with reference to the intentions of the Government. And particularly was it? adoption expedient and proper alter the indiscreet passage of Lovejov'a resoLition. The House*by its action, has pla ced itself be/ore the country in the attitude of discouiagmg the return of fugitive slaves, while by implication it is not prepared to say that the object of the present war shall not be inter ference with slavery. This is no time for equivocation. The object of the Government should be ss clearly and dis tinctly declared that loyal men can make no mistake, and the disloyal he afforded no eround for fomenting and spreading the spirit of rebel lion. Those who urge the liberation of slaves and the confiscation of properly not only mis take the tempei of the North, but are actually laboring to destroy the iast vest ige of loyalty in the South. Putriot <s* Union. CURIOUS'FREAKS OF AN ESCAPED LUNATIC.— The Philadelphia North .American says : " Roaming at large among the fastnesses of the banks of tlie Wissahickon is a white man, who eight days ago made his escape fiom the insane asylum at Roxborotigh. The unfortu nate lunatic was fearfully violent and unman ageable when in custody. He was seen yes terday seated on a cliff overhanging the stieam, in a state of entire nudity, indulging ; n uncouth gambols. He has been seen several limes since his escape, always naked, and always armed with a large club. He is said to make his way with ease through the underbush of the Wissa hickon hills, and to be able to run almost with ttie speed of the deer. To escape from a c iti zen who the other day chased him he leaped a five barred fence at a hand spring. He is a very powerful fellow, as well as a nimble one. Upon what he has subsisted for the past eight day Bis more than we can say. The police will endeavor to-day to capture him. The citizens generally in those parts aie impressed with the opinion that if captured he must first be disabled. The police hope otherwise, and will endeavor to accomplish it. The maniac when last seen, was bathing in the placid waters of the Schuyl kill, but a moment afterwards, perched upon the top of a high cliff, he bid defiance to all approach. The police now intend to try their hands. !YF*Tn the new Virginia Legislature, on Wednesday of last week, Mr. Nance, of Har rison county, offered the following resolution in the House: WHEREAS, One Owen Lovejoy, a member from Illinois, has offered a resolution in the House of Represetatives, having for its object theiepeal ofthe fugitive slave law; therefore, he it Resolved, That our Senators in Congress he instructed and our Representatives requested to vote against said resolution, or any other ol a like object. This is right. The movement of Lovejoy should be condemned by every patriot in the land. Freedom of Thought and Opinion. CIRTI.VS MAL-AI).M INISTRAT 10 N iiOVV A REPUBLICAN EDITOR TALKS- H. A. Purviance, one of the .Editors of the Revorler and Tribune, of Washington, Pa., in a letter to his paper, talks bitterly of Curtin's irt famous Administration, thus : The treatment of the Pennsylvania volun teers by I lie State government, has been the subject of general and deserved complaint. I notice the Reporter with characteristic forbear- I ance and good nature, has been disposed to apol ogise for the delinquencies of Gov. Curtin. I have been the Governor's political and personal friend, but I cannot and should not, overlook the gross mismanagement, not to use a harsh°r word, which is constantly being exhibited in the fitting out, quartering, provisioning, &c., of the volunteer forces of Pennsylvania. Since I have been here, I have seen whole legiments of Ohio, New York, Michigan and Rhode Island troops, and in every instance, the superiority of their uniforms and equipments over those of Pennsylvania, was so marked as to challenge T 'V attention even of the citizens here. Their ,ut ifoims were made of superior cloth; their l k ,apsacks of leather, neatly finished, their blan kets werp of superior size and quality, and ev eything about them betokened a wise, generous and active superintending care. They were all i noble looking fellows, proud of their elegant trappings, and grateful, doubtless, for the vigi lant and honest patriotism that watched over them in their career of glory, peril and duty. I turned from them v<-itfi humiliation to our own—equally worthy and deserving volun teers. I found them clad in coarse Kentucky jean blouses, and rotten cassinet pants, neither of which garments were lined or half sewed to gether. The whole suit might be bought in the country stores of Green county, for from $-!• to ST,SO. It cost the government $10! Who pocketed the enormous profits ? Our clumsy and unsightly knapsacks are made of the coarsest muslin water-proofed with offensive pitch or coal tar. Our haversacks are made of the same material, and a loaf of bread after being stored in one for an hour, smell? like a pine forest of i North Carolina. There has been a grand swin dle some place, and upon Governor Curtin the blame must fall. Il is possible that there is no complicity between him and the contractors, but it is his bounden duty to see that none but honest men are employed in the service of the ■ivernment, and sternly to punish rascality V 'henever and wherever it makes its appear- Yfec- in the public service. It is, above all tilings, m? nuiy to Keep important uniuary cou rt acls, upon tlie faithful execution of which de pend the comfort and efficiency ol thousands of patriotic and self-sacrificing citizens, clean from the corrupt fingers of political speculators. A few such men might worm themselves into the confidence of the most upright Governor ; but the dishonesty of which I complain is all perva ding. Every depaitment is be/oulded.' Our clothing and equipments are rude and wort h less; our provisions are scant and stale. Our quarters are comfortable or otherwise, just as it chances. Accident is the only agency that be | friends us. Even in the matter of trar.sporta : lion, we are neglected. The troops of other | States are carried in handsome passenger cars : j we are herded like cattle in freight trains. LIBEL SUIT.— Bill Found. —ln the case of Henry Black against Prizer and Darlington, publishers of the Rucks County Intelligencer, charging them with libel, in publishing in their | paper on the 23d of April last, that Black was a secessionist and had been roughly handled for defending secessionists, a true bill was found on Tuesday last. The trial will take place on Tuesday next, the 9th inst., in the Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia, before Thomp son. Thomas Ross and Lewis C. Cassidv are employed by the prosecution. The defence have retained Geo, Lear, Mahlon Yardley, Lewis B. Thompson and Edward M. Paxon.— Reoding Gazette. And a hue verdict was found against (he slanderers, too. Served them'right, and if a few moie Abolition scribblers were served the same way, the people would say amen. We have put up with their slanders and their impudence long enough, and it is time they should be se verely rebuked. This same Bucks County In~ telhgencer is one of the meanest, most impu dent and impertinent abolition papers published in Pennsylvania, and is edited by a couple of tory federalists, who are continually threaten ing their Democratic neighbors, charging them with "secessionism," &c. We have no great o pinion of libel suits, but shall rejoice if the pair of worthies are well punished for their inso lence.— Carlisle Volunteer. MORAL INFLUENCE. —Away up among the Alleghanies there is a spring so small that a single ox in a summer's day could drink it dry. It steals its unobtrusive way among the hills, till it spreads out into the beautiful Ohio.— Thence it stretches away a thousand miles, leaving on its bank more than a hundred vil lages and cities, and many thousand cultivated farms ; and bearing on its bosom more than a thousand steamboats. Then joining: the Missis sippi, it stretches away some twelve hnndred miles more till it falls into the great emblem of eternity. It was one of the tributaries of the ocean, which obedient only to God, shall roll and roar tili the angel with one foot on thp and the other on the land, shall lift up his hand to heaven and swear that time shall be no longer. So with moral influence. It is a rill—a riv ulet—a river—an ocean boundless and fathom less as eternity, and your sweetheart vote upon the marriage question, you for it, and she a gainst it, don't flatter yourself as to its being a lie. £I) c %£I)oo1 ma s 1 1 r 3br o a i). SCHOOL ETHICS FOR PARENT AND CHILD. No. 6. Parents should prepare their children for School. Correctly conducted Normal Schools and Colleges have their preparatory department. The common school also should have its prepar atory department, and this department should be wholly distinct from the institution itself and in the family circle. The first instructions should be from the lips of the mother. She pos sesses the strongest and most lasting affections of the child, and hence, is the one most likely to succeed in the attempt to instil correct princi ples. Did the mothers in our country under stand and appreciate the difficult} experienced by the teacher in conveying first instructions to the untrained child, we would hope to see them make the endeavor to impart those instructions themselves. Parents can do much toward im parting the first principles of an education to their children. There are numerous facts which the parent may present to the child, and which will be much more interesting to him than ail he can learn in a crowded school-room in months. It is necessary that the parents prepare their children for school, not only that the teacher may he relieved of many difficulties that oth erwise will be met with, but in order that the child may have justice done to it when it is sent to school. The teacher has not the amount of time necessary to be appiopriated to the cu riosity of a j'oung child's mind, and, consequent ly, the school duties soon become a burthen to it. Independent of the mental training that should Ibe given preparatory to the child's entering ! school, it must also bo trained morally. Too often children have contracted immoral habits from others, and it will be found exceedingly difficult to eradicate them. In many cases the parents are too indulgent. Scarcely any re : strictions are placed on their children. They are freouentiy alioweu 10 ramuie ai wirumwn < all the immoral society in the community.— The long winter evenings do not find them at a kind knee receiving from her lips moral and religious instruction. This is all a mistake. So long as parents do not thus have a care for their children, they cannot expect them to meet that state of perfection that is to jbe desired. It is to be hoped that parents will take a livelier interest in what so closely con cerns the welfare of their children. KAPPA. THE PRESIDENTS GRAMMAR (From the Albany Argus.) The State papers issuing from the officials of the Federal Government have been generally characterized by a style and diction correspon ding to the elevation of thought and purpose that characterized them, and worthy of the high sources from which they emanated. The Message of President Lincoln is so re markable an exception that it is worth while to point out the grosser errors of the composi tion, if only to warn the youth of the country against the corrupting influence of such an ex ample in such a place. If these errors were attributable to the im perfections of the telegraphic rendering, it would be unjust to dwell upon them. But this is not the rase, for the grossest of them arp to be found in the semi-official copy in the Na tional Intelligencer. Throughout, the document is characterized by the verbiage of an attorney's book of forms —"in and to," "in and about," "then and thereby," "as herein before stated," this incurn bent, See." This slang, like the "hold, occupy and possess" of the Inaugural, indicates the style of the attorney rather than of the states man. The first sentence furnishes an instance of faulty grammar, such as runs through the whole : Having been convened on an extraordinary occasion, as authorized by the Constitution, your attention is not called to any ordinary subject of legislation. Who has been convened? To use the lan guage of the schools; how parse "having been convened;" with what noun does the partici ple agree? Strictly it means "your attention having been convened," &.C., which is absurd. This same error runs through and deforms the whole paper. Foi example— Finding this condition of things and believing it to be a duly, a choice of means became in dispensable. So viewing the issue, no choice was left. Recurring to the ac'ion of the government it may be stated. These measures were ventured in trusting then as now, &c. In these cases the participle stands alone— secedes as it were, and rushes into unsupport ed revolution. What shall be said ot such sentences as WHOLE NT TIIIEIt, 3901. these?— A disproportionate share of the Federal muskets and rifles had somehow lound their way into these Stales, and had been seized to be used against the Government. Accumula tions of the public revenue, lying within them t had been seized tor the same object. Muskets somehow finding their way South* and public revenue lying within them! For Heaven's sake, withdraw the charge and pock et the proceeds. What does this mean?— Everything was forborne, without which it was believed possible to keep the Government on foot. And does not this sentence reverse the in tended meaning of the writer?— Their memoranda on the subject were madt indosures of Major Anderson's letter. Were not the memoranda inclosed in, instead of being made inclosures of, Major Anderson's letter? The mixing of singular and plural in the following stntences]is indfinable . The sophism itself is, that any State may withdraw, &c., * * * themsdves to be the judge. The message winds up with the declaration* that the Executive "had no moral right to shrink," without saying from what. A man six feet four has always the right to shrink ;. - and every well grown boy should shrink from such ai\|pxhibition of carelessness and ignorance a3 this message exhibits. The President says that there is hardly a regiment in the service ol the Union from which a President, or Cab inet might not be selected competent to ad minister the Government. Why did he not call upon one of these men to correct his com position. PETTY PARTIZIN DESPOTISM- The Philadelphia Sunday Transcript says that when the present Republican Postmaster of that city entered upon his duties, there was in the employ of that department an old man, whose three sons were in the service of their cuuiiu j. The /diiiities of these thiee chival rous spirits were placed under the care of the old man, who, from his meagre earnings, was to support them until their husbands or fathers came back from the good fight in behalf of our nationality and the works of our glorious ancestors. Since then the sons have done good service for the Union. Since then they have trod "the sacred soil" of the Old Dominion, and borne the flag of the republic in triumph over the foe. Since then, Democrats as they were and are—leaving their wives and little chil dren at home, without a father's or husband's care—tney have won a niche in every true man's memory and the title of heroic men. We will not dwell upon their deeds. At Hagerstown these three sons did a noble part At Falling Waters, weeks and weeks ago, they were foremost in the 6Coul, and led as many traitors back to the qua-ters of their General. At Williamsport they won a high renown. And, at Porterfield's* farm, only a day or so ago, these three sons of the old man of sixty here in Philadelphia, were foremost in the fight, and drove the rebel foe dismayed before them. And what is their reward? The old man of sixty years, who was lett to feed and care for thei: wives, who watched their going, and who await their coming, with tearlul and anx ious eyes, are without means of sustenance, and a paltry partizan, without the pluck, the patriotism, or the power to fight the battles of his country, now fills the old man's place. "There is no party, now," is a patent cry in times as perilous as these. "There is no party, now," is common to the herd who stay at home while true men fight their battles. But the tact, concerning the old men and his three sons, gives the lie to all this pretence, and stamps the authors of this deed with the brand of the hypocrite, the scoundrel and the liar. Of course, there can be no hope that the patriot , who fills the old man's place, will yield the position for one day in seven. There are men who skulk from their country's foe tq fill their country's offices, and with whom * mercenary gain overshadows every ennoblihg atribute. To such men it were vain to appeal.' But, lo use the expression of one of these gal lant sons, whose letter we yesterday received from Martinsburg, "It is bard that while we are fighting the battles of our country our families should starve!" And so we think. Does Abraham Lincoln think so, too ? THE LITTLE CORTOIUL.—The Prince Impe rial of France, five years old, has been promo ted to the rank of corporal of the eighth squad of the first bat ta I lion of the first regiment of Grenadiers. He is inscribed in the regimental list as Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon. The little piince, it seems, is allow**! to per form his regimental duties by deputy. The deputy, one Corporal Mugaritz, deserted a few days ago, with some of the regimental money in his possession, and has since been apprehend ed and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labor. [£p"A gentleman, while in church, inten ding to scratch his head, in a mental absence reached over into another pew and scratched the head of an old maid. He discovered his mistake when she sued him for a breach ' promise ol marriage. Q3P" Kind words will never die. VOL. 4. NO. 51.
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