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There's a little mischief maker, That is stealing half our bliss, Sketching pictures in a dreamland, Which are never seen in this; Dashing from our lips the pleasure Of the present while we sigh— You may know this mischief maker, For his name is "By and By." lie is sitting by our hearth-stones, With his sly bewitching glance, Whispering of the coming morrow, As the social hours advance; Loitering 'mid our calm reflections, Hiding forms of beauty nigh, He's a smooth deceitful fellow, This enchanter, "By and By." You may know him by his mincing, By his careless, sportive air, By his sly obtrusive presence That is straying everywhere; By the trophies which he gathers, Where his cheated victims lie— For a bold, determined fellow, Is the conqueror, "By and By." When the calls of duty haunt us, And the present seems to be All of time that ever mortals Snatch from long eternity; Then a fairy hand seems painting Pictures on a distant sky, For a cunning little artist, Is this fairy, "By and By." "By and By," the wind is singing "By and By," the heart replies, But the phantom just before us, lire we grasp it, ever flies. List not to the idle channur, Scorn the very specious lie; Only in the fancy livetlx This deceiver, "Bv and By." iS I) e Sc I) oo I in a at c v SI bro ab . EDITED BY SIMON SYNTAX, ESQ. OyTeachers and friends of cducat ion are respect fully requested to send communications to the above, eaie o f •* Bei/futd Gazette." RECITATION, NO. 5. The simultaneous or concert variety is another well-known and popular form of the Interrogative method. Its name suggests ils peculiarities so fully that little needs be said in explanation. In this, as in the last two, the teacher asks the questions, but, instead of one pupil answering, all answer at once. To some, this might seem a very confused and unsatisfactory plan. Teachers unac customed to it would he likely to think they could not tell who recited well and who did not. And probably they would not at first, especially if the class had never practiced this plan. But they soon learn to speak so exactly in concert, as to seem like a single voice ; and the teacher is soon able to tell much more accurately than would be suppo sed, who recites well and who does not.— The method has some good features and some bad ones. It may be made an admi rable exercise for training the voice ; it holds back the rapid and hurries np the slow reci ter; it is apt to remedy the fault of too high or too low a tone: it encourages the diffident and bashful; it throws life into a recitation when it has become dull and listless; it en ables each pupil to recite many times as much as by any of the individual methods ; and it makes a recitation seem good even though quite a number in the class recite imperfectly or not at all. On the other hand, it will often prevent the teacher from knowing exactly how well each pupil has prepared his lesson; unless care is taken, it leads to a sing-song drawl ing tone; it lias a tendency to destroy that self-reliance, in the pupil, which it is so im portant to cultivate; and pupils knowing their mistakes arc less likely to be noticed will be less likely to make careful prepara tion. The method lias its uses, but care should be taken to avoid its abuses. It is not of general application: and is, of course, out of place in branches to which it is not adapted. It. is useless in the whole field of mathematics, except in the recitationof ta bles ; and in some of the most difficult sci ences it cannot be used at all. Its use is confined, mostly, to the recitation of Spelling, Reading, Geography .and definitions oi'Cl ram mar ; and even in these it must not be en tirely depended on to make thorough schol ars. The silent method is the last variety of the Interrogative method that we shall speak As in the last, so in this, all answer ,at once, but all answer silently. The an swer is thought, not spoken. The question is asked and all arc required to answer men tally. As soon as each pupil reaches a con elusion, he indicates it by raising the hand, or some other understood* signal. When all or nearly all thus signify their readiness to MtMorh (Bmtiie. VOLUME as. NEW SERIES. answer, the teacher may call on some one | to give his answer, requiring all who agree I to raise the hand, and, afterward, all who' disagree to do the same. He may thus learn ' who has the proper answer and who litis not. j Nor can a skilful teacher be easily deceived, j Some may at first give the signal of readi ness falsely-; but a few raking exposures will likely to cure the most dishonest. This kind of recitation lias peculiar mer its. In common with the Concert met/tod it enables each pupil to recite the w/tolc lesson. In most methods he recites but a small part; as for instance, in a class of' twenty, where only one recites at a time, I each pupil recites only one twentietli of the ! lesson. These considerations, it is proba- I ble, first led to the use of the silent and the j concert method. The gain is a great and! important one, and sufficient, if there were i not serious faults to balance it, to make: those methods the chief stand-by in every ' school-room. In some studies, and at a certain stage of every pupil's progress, the , silent method has in our opinion no substi-1 tute. A pupil must think well before he i can recite well. He must think closely and j connectedly. But every teacher knows ' that a beginner never has the power of; close consecutive thought. This is acquir- ! ed, if acquired at all, by slow degrees and ; patient effort; and until it is acquired, at 1 least in some degree, it will usually be bet ter to let the pupil think unembarrassed by any attempt to express his thoughts. This is especially true in oral and mental aritli-• metic. The Silent method tends to culti vate thought rather than expression, to have | ideas clearly defined in the pupil's mind be fore requesting him to express them. When lie can think with tolerable vigor, other: methods, better calculated to cultivate the i power of expression, may be adopted, but 1 before he can do this they arc for the most part, out of place. Every recitation must have a subjective , before it can have au objective existence. We have now briefly described four vari eties of the general Interrogative methods: the rotation or consecutive method ; the promiscuous method; the simultaneous or concert method; and the silent method. There are some others given by education al writers, but there are the most general used and most valuable. Of course there may be various modifications and combina tions of them; but they will still have all the characteristics of the general method from which they are derived. Hereafter answers to problems will be printed two weeks after the publication of the problems; and they need not, as a gen eral tiling, be looked for at any other time. SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. Solution to I'rob. s.—\Yc have the following: It' if of the time past noon—j of an hour c quals tour fifties of the time to midnight—four fifths of au hour, one-third of the time past I noon—one third of an hour, equals two-fifths of j the time to midnight—two-fifths ol' an hour; ] and three-thirds, or the whole time past noon, — ] 1 hour equals six-fifths of the time to midnight ] —six-fifths of an hour; then the whole time past noon equals six-fifths of the time to mid- J night—one-lifth of an hour; then six-fifths of the time to midnight—one-fifth of an hour (which equals the time past noon) plus Jive-fifths of the time to midnight equals eleven-fifths of the time to midnight—one-fifth of an hour, 1 which equals 12"hours; therefore eleven-fifths ofi the time to midnight equals 12 and one-fifth] hours, or sixty-one-fifths hours, and one-fifth ; of the time to midnight equals sixty-one-fifty- j fifths of an hour, and five-fifths of the time to j midnight equals sixty-one eleventh hours, or | 5 and six-elevenths hours to midnight, or 0 and I five-eleventh hours past noon, equal to 27 and, three-elevenths minutes past C o'clock. B. J Solution toprob. o.—lf four-fifths of the cost; of the horse equals $ df the cost of the carriage, of the cost of the carriage equals two-fifths of the cost of the horse, and three-thirds, or the cost of the carriage, equals six-fifths of the cost of the horse. On the horse he lost 20 per cent., equals 2ft-100ths, equals one-fifth; hence, ho sold hint for live-fifths, the cost, —one-fifth c quals four-fifths of the cost. On the carriage lie gained 2d per cent., equals 25-1 OOths equals j- of its cost. If its cost was six-lifths of the cost of the horse, he gained on it, I ol' six-fifths of the cost of the horse, equals three-tenths of the cost of the horse, which, added to six-fifths, 1 equals six-fifths plus three-tenths, equals fifteen tenths of the. cost of the iiorse, equals what lie sold the carriage for. The horse he sold for four-fifths of ils cost; and the two for four fifths plus fifteen-tenths equals twenty-three-j tenths of its cost, equals $230. If twenty- : three-tenths of the cost of the horse cqtinlg $21:10, ] i one-tenth equals $ lft, and ten-tenths, or the cost i of the horse, equals $lOO. One-fifth of $lOO equals $2O, .and three-fifths equals 0 times 20, which equals $l2O, the cost of the carriage, as ; its cost was six-fifths that of the horse. $lOO plus 120 equals $220,. Ileuec he gained $230 minus $220 equals $lO. G. Another Solution to prpb. C.—lf on the horse t he lost 20 per cent., or one-fifth of the cost, lie j ( he was sold for five-fifths of the cost —one-fifth 11 of the cost which equals four-fifths of the cost, i but 3 of the cost of the carriage oquals foul- 1 t fifths of the cost of the horse, hence ij of the t cost of the carriage equals what was received i for the horse. On the carriage he gained 25 j \ per cent., or j of tho cost, therefore lie sold it i i for five-fourths of the cost. 'I of the cost of I Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1862. carriage plus five-fourths of the cost of ihecar ! ringc, which equals twenty.throe-twelfths of the I cost of the carriage, equals £2:10. One-twelfth ; of the cost of the carriage equals £lO, and | twelve-twelfths, or the cost of the carriage, e j quals £l2O. Since Jof the cost of the car | riagc equals four-fifths of the cost of the horse, | the horse cost $lOO. £l2O plus $lOO, equals £220; hence lie gained £20(3 minus £220 equals §lO. It. PROBLEMS. A grocer purchased 25 pounds of butter of two women; one eighth of the nurnberof pounds | he took ot one, increased by the ditlercneo be ! tween the amounts purchased of both, equals | the number of pounds he took of the other; j how many pounds did each sell? J Find the ages of A, 15, and C, by knowing j that C's age at A's birth was 5A times It's and ; now is equal to the sum of A's and It's; also I that if A were now 3 years younger, or ]! 4. ; years older, A's age would be equal to | of It's. Startling Exposures of Corruption iu High Places, :o: : Extracts from the Speech of Mr. DAWKS (Republi ! can) of Massachusetts, delivered in reply to Thad. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Repre | sentatives, on Friday, April 20th, 1802. | In connection with this statement, I send up i to the Clerk (lie document, and ask him to read what I have marked. It is a document address ed to the Senate of the United States by the then Secretary of War. It bears date the loth of January last, two days after he had resigned, j while he was then acting Secretary of War, and ( while his nomination as Minister to Russia was : pending in the Senate, and where it encbunter .ed opposition because of certain statements ' which I happened to make here upon this floor upon the day lie resigned. The Clerk read as follows: "In the meantime I take occasion to state : that I have, myself, not made a single contract, for any purpose whatever, having always in terpreted the laws of Congress as contemplating t that the heads of bureaus, who aro experienced and able officers of the regular army, shall make all contracts for supplies for the branches of the service under their charge respectively. "So far, I have not found any occasion to in | terf'ere with tliem in the discharge of this por tion of their responsible duties. I have the lien or to be, very respectfully, your obedient serv't, SIMON CAMERON, "Secretary of War. "ITON. 11. lIAMI.IK, "President of (lie Senate of the U. S." Mr. Dawes—l have stated that in this sol emn declaration signed by the then Secretury ol War, .and addressed to the Senate when his nom ination was pending, and when the accusation was made against him that he had made oun tracts for the purchase of arms, as slated by ine upon this floor, to the amount of one million ninety-six thousand muskets, lie stated deliber ately that lie never made a contract, when the book 1 have before me, which is Executive Doc ument No. G7, containing all the contracts made for arms by the War Department, recapitulates and sums up the whole matter in these words: Muskets and liiflo. v . j Contracts by order of Kec'y. of War, 1,830,00(1 | Contracts by Chief of Ordnance, 04,40(1 ! ('ontraets by order of Maj. Gen. Fremont, 1,000 | Contracts by order of Maj. l'.Y. Hanger, 1,500 1,903,H0C i This document, in the faeo of the solemn dec larations of the then Secretary of War that la had never made one of these contracts, reveal contracts made bv him, and by bis order, to the amount of one million eight hundred and thirty -1 six thousand nine hundred musket,s, and thai ! upon flic very day lie made this statement—the | 15th day of January, two days after he had re ! signed, and while lie. was acting Secretary ol W nr. and while his nomination was pending in | the Somite—ho put his hand to a contract foi I swords and sabres to an unlimited amount—all that the parties, resident in Philadelphia, could j funiish in six months , and this, too, against the protest of the Chief of Ordnance, now before uic in print. It was a contract that had expir ed, or was about to expire, by its limitation, and the Chief of Ordnance refused to extend, and gave this reason for doing so, addressed to the Secretary of War: "As regards the extension, I have to state that an arrangement has already been made foi obtaining, on prospective deliveries, one hun dred and twenty-one thousand seven hundred and live swords and satires ; and the unlimited order to the Messrs. llortsmnn was given onlv because of their own manufacture. Ido not think an-cxtension of the order is necessary oi advisable. "Respectfully, &c., JAS. W. RIPLEY, "Brigadier General. "Hon. SI Mux Camkhon, Scc'y of War." Beneath this is the extension of that contract by order of the Secretary of War, for font months; and still beneath that, on the 15th dit) of Jannary, arc these words: Jr.r.-iary 13, 18(12. This order is extended for six months, froir the termination of the time mentioned nhuvc. SIMON C AMERON, Scc'y of War. Now, sir, it was this public statement of his upon his responsibility us an,officer of the Gov ernment, to which I have referred, that induced a distinguished Senator and colleague of mine noble and generous-hearted, who would do ni man wrong, and who bclicvPs that all men tel the truth, to urge, after having moved the unan imous confirmation of this man, wiioso name was then before the Senate, and to state, ir words us kind towards ine, his colleague in the House, as Ire was capable of using, that he had the authority of this man Simon Cameron, for stating tliat 1 was altogether mistaken when I said that these contracts had been made. Sir, the distinguished gentleman from Penn sylvania, the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, says pulsus in uno, falsus in omnibus. I wish to quote these two tilings to gether, and let my friend from Pennsylvania answer them in the light of the principle which he has laid down. HOUSE CONTUACT3 A HEALING SALVE —THE EF FECT OF AN* EXTENSIVE FEAST LEON OON "UKESBIONAL BRAINS. T submit then that the charge of expending the public money as a reason why this Commit too should lie discharged comes with ill grace from the quarter from whence it comes. Why, sir, who does not know, what all the papers slated, that political feuds were healed by horse contracts and that the healing of them was cel ebrated by a great feast? I have once alluded to it myself. lam able now to state more par ticularly the details of the affair. It took four horse contracts, each for one thousand horses, to settle these political feuds, ami every one of these contracts cost the Government £lOO,OO0 — §400,000 in four horse contracts; and let me tell you, Mr. Speaker, that some of them were in men's names who did not know of it. until the contracts were made. It does not need to be told to gentlemen who know so much about the way things are done as we do here in this 1 iouse, why it is and for whose benefit it is that large contracts arc made in men's names with out their knowing anything about it. My dis tinguished friend from Pennsylvania (Mr. Ste vens) who, in the discharge of what appeared to be a high duty, protested against such a man as Simon Cameron going into the Cabinet, the papers say, graced that feast with his presence, and that these persons were, over this enter tainment, celebrating the restoration of harmo ny among old |>oliticul antagonists, and some of them certainly knew the consideration. It seems to me that the $400,000 should be saved to the Treasury somehow or other. It is a poor ex penditure of the public money just at this time when it is used for no better purpose than to heal political feuds. These gentlemen enjoyed themselves, the papers told us. Mr. Stevens.—ln his remarks about the horse contracts, does the gentleman refer to anything contained in the report of the Committee.' Mr. Dawes.—No, sir; not to anything pub lished in the report. I sun speaking now of what is known to everybody. It did not take even the poor Van Wyek Committee to lind it out. (Laughter.) The parties fell out over one of these arrangements and told of it; and I have only to say that at that particular time there was, according to the newspapers, groftt harmony among these men. Ido not know whether the gentleman from Pennsylvania on my left, (Mr. Moorehead) was there or not. SIR. SIOOUEIIKA1) INDIGNANT. Mr. Moorehead. —1 would like to know why the gentleman refers to me. Ido not wish the gentleman from Massachusetts, and I will not permit him or any other gentleman, to put me iu a false position. I want to know why he. re fers to me. Mr. Dawes.—l did not know the gentleman was there, and therefore I would not say that he was there. Mr. Moorehead.—Then why refer to mc at u!lj| What reason have you to suppose that I was there ? Mr. Dawes.—Because the gentleman has a vowed himself at this moment, and under all the lights of the present day, an ardent advo cate and admirer of the man whose character, public ami olHciul, 1 have been commenting up on, and I thought that it was but natural he should be invited to such a feast. I hope he was not overlooked. (Laughter.) 1 have only to say that the papers describe it as being a de lightful occasion, but I remembered, and! think the country remembered, all about the antece dents of these parlies, and put the interrogato ries, "why," and "what for," and "what-has it cost?" I wonder that they did not sing as they closed, those lines of the poet appropriate to each of them— "l know not, I care not, if guilt's in my heart, 1 but know that 1 love thee, whatever thou art." Illegal Contracts the cause of the heavy Taxa tion—Opposition of the Phimteiers to the 'Committe on Contracts. Mr. Speaker, I have a word or two to say up on the suggestion of the gentleman from Penn sylvania (.Sir. Stevens) that lie would move to discharge the Committee if it were only iu or der. 'The gentleman's duties in this House and the duties of the Committee luive been of a dif ferent description. I have no disposition to criti cise this performance of bis. 1 know the abil ity villi which he discharges thein. I know very well what I encounter in attempting to re ply to his attack upon the Committee. I have only to say that his labors and the labors of the Committee are yet to be appreciated. When the thumb-screws of the tax bill,which the com mittee of which he is head originated and passed through the Jlousc from the necessity of the times, so nicely adjusted shall begin to reach the bones of the poor, industrious, intelligent men of the'country, and force from them so much of their hard earnings, to replenish the treasury of the country,beggared and depleted asit has been during this war, then, I fancy, if his oonstitnents are. as intelligent as mine are—and 1 have no doubt they arc—they will ask him the question, and he will be compelled to answer it, "where is all this money gone ?" They will want toknow what was the need of putting out such lavish and unjustifiable contracts—contracts at such c norinoiis and extravagant rates that the owners of them arc willing to discount what is estima ted at $ 1,1500,000 on a single conl ract, and then save two and a half per cent, commission. They will ask the question, and the committee of which I am an humble member, which has struggled all this time, while the gentleman from Pennsylvania, impelled by the necessities of the Government, has been racking bis ingenuity to contrive how to reach the l;ist farthing that can WHOf.GAUnBER, 3006. VOL. 5. NO. 43 be reached to replenish the Treasury—this Com mittee which has been placing its feeble efforts between the plunderers and Treasury—are will ing to abide that time. They arc willing to lei this book be read by the side of the tax bill al any time, and more especially at thnt particulai time when the clamps of the tux bill shall be brought around about the industry and resour ces ot the country, and when my friend from Pennsylvania will be turning the screw. II the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Stevens] bad made that motion, and if the house had a lopted it as I have no doubt they would have lone that day, the Committee then would have tailed it as a glorious deliverance from a most mpleasant duty, which no one member of it had >ught, but which 110 one felt himself at liberty o shrink from. AMOS KENDALL ON HUNTER'S ' PROCLAMATION. "OCCASIONAI-," (Forney) in his letters to the Philadelphia Press having misquoted ]>ortionsof \MOS KKNI> ALL'S letters to sustain General Hon or's abolition order, that gentleman publishes he following letter in the National IntcUiqcn xr. It wtis written before the author was a >v:ire ot the Presiden'st proclamation modifying Hunter's order: WASHINGTON, May 10, '<32. To the Editors of ths National Intcllig surer : My attention law been called to a Washing -011 letter in the Philadelphia P>ss, in which the writer, after quoting a passage front one of my letters published in your paper, says : "Tbus it will be seen that even tbe veteran Dem icrat, Amos Kendall, while objecting to tbe course (I the Abolitionists, is entitled to the credit of hav ng made the preposition which Gen. Hunter has bus practcally carried out." Now, I should consider myself a traitor to ny country if 1 were to approve the late order >f General Hunter purporting to set free all he slaves within his military district.—AVhile ixposing to Southern rebels "the gulf which is awning before them, the conception never cnter 'dmy brain that any military commander or the lie President himself could constitutionally, jy general order or proclamation, confiscate heir property and emancipate their slaves, or hat such an object could be effected otherwise ban by conviction for treason by due course of aw in the courts of justice. In the order of ureneral Hunter I see the essence of military lespotism, utterly subversive of the Constitu ioti we are fighting to maintain; and it is de plorable that the President docs not, by the cn 'orcemciU of a general line of poliey, repress these assumptions of power by his subordinates, livery such assumption unrebuked by him cx loses him and Congress itself to the charge of hypocrisy and perfidy in their announcements if the purposes for which the war is waged; t discourages the loyal infen in all the slave liolding States, and in an equal degree enrour iges the leading rebels: it will cost the North thousands of lives and millions of money; it a larms conservative iften everywhere and makes them begin to think their own liberties in dan ger; it strengthens disloyal men in loyal States iad enables them to embarrass the Government in its legitimate operations. In fine, there is but one sale course for the Government to pur sue, and that is to disregard all party affilia tions and adhere firmly to the programme orig inally announced, viz; The prosectMwn of the war for the sole object of preserving the Constitu tion and the Union and the rights of alt the Stated intact, to be followed In/ peace as soon as those ob •ccts can be obtained. If there is not firmness enough in the Administration to do this we are on a sea of revolution, with scarcely a hojie of ever again reaching the haven of unity and peace. AMOS KENDALL. FOREIGN SLANDERS OF SOUTHERN AMERICANISM. The Loudon Chronicle lias lately had an arti cle in relation to the social morality of the South, which we are sure, made the blood tingle in the veins of every man and woman who read it, ex cept such as those whose souls are steeped in the brutalizing dogmas of Abolitionism. And yet, whom shall we blame for these monstrous and disgusting falsehoods! Where do the English pa pers get tlicse calumniating caricatures of south ern life ? Where have they learned that the peo ple of one half of the American States tire sava. ges, moreiinbruted than the loathsome inhabi tants of Dahomey or the Foejee Islands? We must look to the Abolition or Republican press of our owu country, before we answer these questions. Here, in our own midst, are these nauseating lies invented. Men who have tran seendant genius for lying—who are believed to be able to beat the devil at his own business, can at all times command good wages on these news papers. And these have tilled thegullibleiniuds of the more shallow trans.Atlantic journalists with the material where-with to abuse the loyal people of our Southern States. Poor silly souls, lliey*actually believe their mad falsehoods to bo the truth ; whereas, in the great matter of nior ulity, there is not a city in Great Britain or in the Northern States that can justly claim the least- preeminence over the cities of the South. Compare the statisticsof physical suffering in the North and the South prior to tho war, and we (ball find that in New Vork we have tiartij-tieree av cent, against four per cent, in the South. Let the British and American Abolitionists ac :ount for this disparity before they proceed to condemn institutions of which tlicy have no just conception. The systems of what is called "slave" und'"free labor" are just as badly uu lerstood by these crazy "philanthropists." Them are more Englishmen, and more north ern Abolitionists who ill-treat their wives, than there are southern masters who abuse their "slaves." To talk of unkindness and severity as the general characteristic of t'.ie relation of the southern master to his servant, is either to talk ignorantly or to wilfully lie. The Eng lish journalists, who retail these shocking narra-, THE BEDFORD GAZETTE 1* PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNIHCI BY B. P. BEYERS, At the following terms, to wit : $1,150 per annum, CASH, in advance. $2.00 a if paid w i t hi n the year. $2.1)0 if not paid within the year; [jyiVo subscription taken tor less than six months K?"No paper discontinued until alt arrearages are paid, unless at the option or the }>oblisher. at has been decided by the United States Court* that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima facte evidence ot fraud and as a criminal offence. OyThe courts have decided that persons areac countable for the subscription price of newspa pers, if the) take them from the post office, wheth er hey subscribe for them, or not. tivcs, >ve may suppose, arc ignorant of what they are talking about; but, these American journalists, who invent all the horrid tales of "southern barbarism," know that they are the most ungodly and abominable liars tliatcumlier the space of mortal life. And it is they who ought to be held responsible for these pictures of American life—believed by the deluded and ig norant Englihs people—which are enough to make the cheek of humanity blush. £.B there is no law to reach these libellers of their coun try, there is the greater reason why the popu alr sense of justice, of self respect, and of in dignation, should overwhelm them with con tempt and scorn. Salmagundi. tJf To please everybydy—Mind your own bu siness. <js-lle who sets one great truth afloat in the world, serves his generation. CvrWhy is an apple-tree like a crooked wall? Because it isn't plumb. (®"Satan a subtle individual, but the army trader is a sutler. fry A parent's forgiveness of a daughter when her heart is broken, is pardon after execution. fry When is an Trish girl most disposed to tako compassion on her lover? When her heart goes pitty-pat. frySelf-drfense is the clearest of all laws ; and for this reason—the lawyers didn't make it. KT Our gunboats arc managed with judg ment, because they always go into battle with the head on. (NT The rebels may not have begun to dig their last ditch, but they have got into the pre liminary scrape. -?A great many tents accompany our ar ray, so that our soldiers will be able to canvas the whole country. fry General Canby has driven the rel>elsoiJt of New Mexico; so his army is doing as well as can be expected. fry 110 well Cobb has published a letter in which lie thrice says "I ween." He is old enough to lo so, one would think. fry We make sad mistakes, but there is good ness hived, like wild honey in strange nooks and corners of the world. fry An eminent physician has discovered that the nightmare, in nine cases out of ten, Is pro duced by owing a bill for a newspaper. fry The Mayor of Louisville has issued an jrder to confine all the dogs. Wouldn't R be is safe to administer the oath and let them go t fry General Pope's transports quietly remark ed to the rebeh, at Island No. 10, in passing a round the canal, "Sirs, wc arc going bayou." S3- Beauregard wants to change the plan of the rebels by bringing them to the scratch, but we expect it will prove to be the "old scratch." CT The frequent use of their legs, by tho rebels latterly, shows, w we have said before, that they are reduced to the "lowest extremi ties." fry The worst men in tln3 country are tho editors of the New York city dailies. Wo judge so from what each one says of all tho rest. fry The rebels threatened not to leave an ear of corn, or blade of grass, for our armies. We may expect, then, as wo advance, to find them crop-cared. <y The radicals are very much alarmed at the meeting of the conservatives at Washing ton. Tlicy needn't be seared. They will only be saved from themselves. fry Straw hail has been considered significant; but we think the rebels, in pledging their cot ton where it could not be of value, have super seded it with cotton bale. fry We wish Sumner would get a pass from Ilalleck ami Beauregard to go to Missisippi and emancipate (he slaves. There is no doubt both would willingly grant it. fry The licpublienns arc devoting themselves srreatly to reading lately. Blair, Browning, Diven and several other prominent Members liave been recently read out of their party. fryCommodorc Footc is a very religious man, is is well known. Some one says that the reli }ls, who are feeling his bombs, must think ho oelongs to tho "hard-shell Baptists." fry The rogues at Washington are bitter on lie investigating committee, denouncing it in inmcasurcd terms. '•No logiie e'er felt the halter draW, With good opinion of the law." KSTT'AIU HlT. —The editress of the Tjadici Rejmitory says "the nation wants a man and he Milford Journal asks if that lhdy has not 'confounded her own personal want with that if the nation."— Exchange. fry Love is a compound of honey and gall nixed in various proportions for customers. fryCongrcss has postponed the consideration' if the bankrupt law until December. It teas bund nut to hare a u nigyer" in it. Ctj-Tlie Southern Confederacy rrmy now he Kjundcd us follows; On the North by McClell iii and Ilallock, on the East by Burnsido and luiiter, on the South by Fort Pickens and tho ritlf Squadron, and on the West bv Com. Footc, Jen. Butler, Com. Farragut and Capt. Porter. fryLovejoy, the Abolitionist, lias introduced i bill to make liberty national and slavery sec ional. The truth is that the object of Lovejoy fc Co., is to make the negro national and the vhita man sectional. They expect to come in hcnisolves as honorary members of the African' ace.— Louisville Democrat.
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