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"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.
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