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From the Logan County (Ohio) Gazette.
tetter from Alex. Marion Melhorn,
To MY FELLOW MEM
(OP BOTH SEX EH :)
Dear Sir: —The undersigned didn't have
no paper last week in consequence of calm
and dispassionate reflection relative to what
he should say which is not contraband of
treason; by which he should not thereby
subject himself to physical incarceration in
Ft. Lafayette, etc. It has always been a
fundamental principle with the undersigned
to endeavor to keep his corporeal person from
solitary confinement—he not being an abo
litionist which is a privileged character—
euch as Wendell Phillips, et. ah, which may
aay what he pleases, owing to the African.
But at the same time the tires of his intel
lect have been burning with their usual a
bility upon the altar of his once mighty conn
try, as the sequel shall tndy show.
And I would here state in behalf of suf
fering humanity, that whereas a few forts
won't hoijLll the democratspand when they
are once filled to their utmost capacity, the
freedom of speech will therefore become a
•'military necessity"'—consequently the ef
fulgent era shall soon be ushered "in, when
the voice of reason shall again be heard in
the land, with none to molest or make her
afraid. Then you will see the great demo
cratic party assert her generous empire—
when every body shall inind their own busi
ness, when the church will cease to be a po
litical party, and when ail the narrow-con
tracted, bigoted and fanatical isms, relative
to the nigger, etc., shall be driven into some
swine like so many devils, and the swine
drove into the briny element of the deep
blue sea, and ignominiously drownded in all
their various bearings, together with a few
people.
And so, the other evening, when Elmira
and me was talking about these things with
our usual ability, Gehaly got her guitar,
and with all (he artless simplicity of her
eex, [of which the undersigned is justly
proud] she sung the following canto in all
its various bearings, to wit:
"Roll on, roll on, sweet mo incuts roll on," etc.
After she was done, the undersigned lit
my pipe, and says I, "Elmira and the chil
dren, they may call the democrats 'butter
nuts,' 'moccasins' and 'copperheads,' as
much as they please at their earliest conve
nience, but when our once mighty country
was in democratic keeping, we didn't have
no use for any cannon, etc., except only on
the Fourth of July, which was then a great
day. Furthermore, so large a portion of
our population didn't use to have to camp
out on the Pamunkey and Chickahominy,
etc., keeping themselves alive on whiskey
and quinine, and frequently dying. No,
indeed, when the democrats manned the old
Ship of State, peace, harmony and prosper
ity went hand in hand, and the flug that
floated from the Capitol, Lore upon its blue
field a glittering star for every State of the
Union, which like the morning stars of an
tiquity, 'sang together for joy.' Says I,
'Elmira, and the children—
"These are not the same days, though they bear the
lame names,
As those that have gone on before."
To which Elmira responded with her usu
al ability, says she, 'what you have just
aaid is all very true, tor it is only since the
election of those persons which are infatua
ted in consequence of the African, that we
ever had any trouble. But when they got
hold of the country, it wilted right "down
like a herculean oak tree which had previ
ously been girdled. Since then, we have
heard a great deal appertaining to those
which were 'killed, wounded and missing,'
etc., and the newspapers are full of the lists
thereof, which is truly frightful. And now,
because the good old democracy don't enjoy
the great fundamental calamity in all its va
rious bearings, and ain't all the time vocif
erating 'hooray!' and 'good!' etc., they say
they are 'copperheads!' and frequently a
bout midnight a certain person is kidnap
ped and put into prison, without the benefit
of clergy, which used to be a violation of
law before so many things were suspended."
Audrew then spoke up, and says he, "I
ahould think the impartial pen of history
would say that the copperheads are those
which havo sunk their fangs into the heart
6f the country, poisoning its blood and mad
dening it into fronzy, until, like a great de-
Oiautea giant, it has risen up with gigantic
Tiarculean power, and i 3 now tearing its own
Tiair, and hacking its own limbs with a fiend
teh glee,"
Baya I, 'Andrew, not being an abolition
you must be careful relative to what
you remark on these and other topics with
your usual ability, or you may get waked
at night and started on a moonlight excur
sion to the sea-side. Says I, you must wait,
aa above stated, till the forts are all full,
and then you may vociferate whatever you
please, at your earliest convenience. In the
language of the poot, says I, 'there's a good
rime coining.'—Wendell Phillips can call
Oid Abe a turtle, and his cabinet murder- I
but lie, not belonging to the 'copper
ljeads,' can sleep all night in profound sc
uity-r—Abqb and Africans not bo-
BcMotb wmetm
VOLUME 88.
NEW SERIES.
ing 'pizen' like democrats. And L would
here say that I think Mr. Phillips is mista
ken in supposing Mr. Lincoln to be a turtle,
lie should recollect, as Mr. Lincoln said
down in New Jersey, that 'birds and ani
mals are seen at a disadvantage through a
fog.'—That's what's the matter—the honest
old person referred to is in one of the fun
damentalist fogs that ever spread her balmy
wings over the Presidential vision of this
once mighty republic in all her various bcav
ings."
"Things are getting most chimcrically
mixed up, tangled and confused, and also
spread out, elongated, and piled up, to such
a certain extent, that the fires of intellect,
although blazing with their usual ability, ;
can hardly discriminate whether our once 1
mighty country is wrong end up, or inside
out, but probably a little of both as the se
quel shall truly show.
Hoping, therefore, that the undersigned 1
has vociferated no "treasonable practices" j
herein, by which he should" therefore be ar
retted in his triumphant career, he would ,
also state that In; holds himself in readiness I
to apologise for any thing which me or El- j
mini or the children shall say detrimental to i
the great rebellion which is now walking in
the darkhess, clothed in the habilaments of
war, and lighting the" armies of the Union 1
with their usual ability.
Your most dutiful, most obliged,
most obedient, and devoted
humble servant,
ALEXANDER MARIOS MELHORN.
<3* Author of this paper, anil formerly j. p.
Horrible Negro Outrage.
[From the Uniontown Pa., Gi nius of Liberty.]
We have beard of several attempts by negroes !
to commit outrages upon white women in!
this county, but have said nothing about them,
because we were not furnished with particulars, ;
hut the one wo now relate is entirely reliable,
having received the information from Mr. John :
C. Crnft himself, who is a wealthy and respcc- j
ble citizen of Bedstone township, in this eouutv, j
On Friday last, after dinner, Ma-. Craft and his i
sons went out into the fields to work, and the '
hired girl went to a neighbor's house, leaving i
Mrs. Craft, a lady fifty-six years of age, alone ;
in the house. About two o'clock IVM.. a net;
gro man entered the room where Mrs. Craft,
was, and violently seized her, declaring his liel- |
li.sh purpose in the plainest and most vulgar j
language, and handling her in the most brutal j
and savage manner of which he was capable,
tearing her clothes nearly off, her cap off, and
the hair out of her head, choked her severely,
and bruised her neck and arms very much.
lie finally relaxed his hold with one hand
which gave her partial liberty, and she succed
in getting hold of a butcher knife and stabbing
him with it in the left hip, which caused him to
release her and she made her escape and ran to
the field to call her husband and sons, who in
company with their neighbors, hunted tho neigh
borhood for several days but could not suc
ceed in capturing the villain or hearing anything
of him. lie was rather a small negro, very
black, and had very large lips, and was dressed
in a gray roundabout and black hat. He swore
several times that this was their day, and they
intended to make good use of it, and also that
he had been told to go to that house and do just
as he pleased. Hopes are entertained that he
may be discovered by the wound in the left hip,
as the blood ran upon the floor before begot out i
of the house.
A reward of fifty dollars is offered by Mr.
Craft for the apprehension of the scoundrel.
The following is Mr. Craft's advertisement,
cut from the same paper:
soo Reward! —l will pay fifty dollars reward
for the body (dead or alive,) of the negro man
who committed the assault upon my wife in Red
stone township, on Friday, the 20th tilt, lie
was a small man, very black, and with very
thick lips, dressed in a grey round-about and
black hat. Has a wound in the leftside or hip,
inflicted with a butcher knife by my wife during
the fray. JOHN C. CKAIT.
This negro is probably one of the recent run
aways, or "freedmcn," from the South. They
have been taught by the Abolitionists to expect
the largest liberty in the North, and, according
ly, when they come, they proceed to exercise
their fancied rights in the manner above descri
bed. Within the last two years there have
been very frequent outrages of this kind com
mitted by negroes, owing to the fact hjit the
negro population of the North has been greatly
increased within that time. If the Abolition
ists succeed in their scheme of liberating and
letting loose upon us the whole four millions of
Southern slaves, these insufferable outrages will
become so frequent that we shall he compelled
to declare a war of extermination against the
brutal and beastly blacks, whom their friends,
the Republicans, desire to raise to an equality
with the white race. The white race must and
will defend itself, in whatever manner may he.
necessary, against these atrocious results of
Hlack Republicanism. If a war of races he
comes necessary, in order to protect our wives
and daughters from these hellish outrages, and
our laboring men from the ruinous competition
of the hordes of negroes coming among us, it will
bo resorted to, and then—good bye, black man,
and farewell negro equality advocates.
An old man aged one hundred and tivp, na
med Gallot, and residing in Paris, recently pre
sented himself at the Ministry of War to re
ceive an allowance from the State. He was
accompanied by his wife, aged one hundred and
thro?, botli enjoying excellent health and not
appearing to have any intention of dying. The
old man had served nine years tinder Louis
XVI, and in part of the wars of the Republic
aad Empire. lie loft the service in 181-5,
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1862.
MY MATTER OF-FACT COUSIN.
BY MARY E. CLARKE.
I had just been a hinted to the bar.
me lay my aunt Faunie's letter, urging ine to
pay a visiet to her, and uncle James and the
girls.
At dinner time I told my father my plans.
'Very good,' he said approvingly. 'You will
have the five air that tliu doctor recommends;
and if yo'u choose to fall in love with your
cousin Molly, I shall give you my consent to
the match.' t
'Siie's a ileal' good girl!' said nty itlotlici'.
I instantly resolved to hate Molly. Fail in
lova w'nh 'a dear good girl." I—a poet—a genius
—seeking, on this desert earth, for a kindredsoul
—a heart to beat in unison with mine—a bright
ethereal being formed to be worshiped, but of
course, willing to bow before my superior miudl
'Dear, good girl!' brought up a vision of a little
bread-and-butter Miss, always ready to wait on
mamma and courtesy to a strange gentleman.
I fall in love with her! Nothing could relievel
iny disgusted feelings but a canto to 'My ideal j
love,' which I finished before bed time.
i The next evening found me in the quiet home
i circle at Lee, already more than half in love
| with—not the recommended Molly, but her sis
: ter, the fair-haired, blue-eyed Leonio. I had
, found a kindred soul, I was sure, in Leonio.
Together we soared to the realms of thought;
I we quoted Byron—wo compared favorite passa
ges, and ecstaoy 1 she, too, confided her inmost
thoughts to paper—she, in short, wrote poetry;
She was unhappy, too, in want of syinyathy.
None of the family believed in her inspiration
or genius. Her father said 'Trash!' to her fi
nest effusions ; and her mother advised her to
spend her time in making cake, if bread was too
common place.
Molly had a small but neat figure, and her
dainty slippers and dress both fitte lexquisi tely ;
her hair was dark brown, and braided in heavy
loops; she had soft eyes, fair complexion and a
bright cheerful face.
Leonie, tall, slender and graceful, wore a
white dress, which might have paid a visit to
the wash-tub with advantage; but my eyes and
admiration rested on her face. The features
were Grecian, and the large languid blue eyes,
and long, loose curls, made a fair picture, which
to my blinded eyes was improved by a half-re
clining position and pensive expression.
'Leonio,' said her father, 'wiin.t are you iook
mng . ..utuwme f
A look of scornful impatience excited at
once my sympathy, and the laugh of the rest.
'Oil !* I see,' said uncle James ; you are com
posing an ode to a summer's night. Eh, Mol
ly V °
'lncluding mosquitoes,' said Molly, quietly.
'Of course! Come, let's have the first verse,'
said the poor girl's tormentor.
'Papa, spare mc! Torture not my calm
repose by dragging forth my sorrows to the
world.'
H dome, Lenny, sing for us,' said her mother,
'and no nonsense!'
So, 'Love not' and 'The Broken Hearted'
were sung, in an agonizing manner, and then,
at her father's request, Molly sang, in a blithe,
sweet voice, some Scottish ballads, after which
Lconie and I wandered out on the piazza—to
gaze on the moon.
The first evening will stand for a picture of
many more. The sentimental poetess was right
when she told me no one. sympathized with her;
for all tried, by ridicule, or more gentle warn
ing to bring her from her fancied heaven to the
neglected duties blocking up her path. I labor
ed in vain to win her a siatcr'sgentlo sympathy
—Molly was iinpcnctruTile. It was—
' Molly,' walk with us, on this lovely morn
ing to woo the gentle summer's air, and seek,
in tlie mazes of the wood, the murmuring brook
and whispering foliage.'
'Can't indeed, cousin Nod ; I must help mam
ma with the preserves.'
She was always busy. Lconie, who never
rose till ton o'clock, was ready for my proposed
stroll or reading at any late hour, and I forgot
her untidy dross, tumbled hair, and slip-shod
feet, in the melodious voice, the questioning
sympathy, and soft flatteries of my blue-eyed,
cousin. Yet, though I fancied I looked down
upon the common place Molly, it was a pleas
ant sight to meet her little graceful figure al
ways neat, whether in the tidy morning chintz
or the lighter evening dress —a pleasant sound
to bear her cheerful voice—a pleasant thing to
note her ever busy fingers always employed to !
lighten her mother's cares, to give father a pleas
ure or repair some negligence of her sister's.
She spent part of her time in her own room;
but the breakfast-table never waited for her, and
hers vv;is the lirst kiss to welcome her father's
return at night.
I had been at my uncle's two weeks, and had
already decided that Lconie was my second self,
and my life a paradise or a desert, according as
she willed to accept or reject my hand, when,
one day, waiting for Lconie to walk with mc,
Molly's voice called:
'Edwin! Edwin, come hero! Hurry, Lconie
has fallen!'
I rushed into the entry. My idol had caught
her foot in a rent of her dross, and taken a fly
ing leap down stairs; she lav insensible at the
foot. 1 knelt down and called upon her by ev- j
ery endearing name.
:Don't be silly !' said Molly, in a quick, anx-.
ions tone. 'You arc the only one here who can |
lilt her. Take'her to her own room, and then i
scud John for Dr. 'Wallace.'
I obeyed. Lifting the inanimate figure, I
followed Molly's light footsteps up the stairs to
Lconie's room. Even in my terror I could not
escape the impression of disgust the room gave
me. My aunt made a rule that the girls should
take care of their own rooms, and I had fondly
imagined Leonie's to be a bower of beauty—a
resting (dace haunted by the works, the pictures
ol great minds—a homo where genius could
rest secure of no jar from outer life. I saw, at
midday, an unmade lied—a dusty, greased, dir
ty carpet—open, disorderly drawers from which
straggled ends of dresses—brushes, soiled col
lars, and manuscripts in direful confusion—a
crushed bonnet on the table, with a volume of
Shelley in the crow—a writing desk open on a
window-sill.
My aunt came up In a moment.
'Hjiuc water, Molly, dear!' she said, taking
her post at once by Leonio. 'And cologne—
where's the cologne ?'
'Don't stop to look here, Ned. Ho to my
room—there is a bottle on the mantel-piece,*
said Molly.
I went hastily, found the bottle, and was then
unceremoniously requested to retire, and send
the doctor up as soon as he came. Where did I
go f Straight, on my word, straight back to the
room of my matter-of-fact cousin. I was fas
cinated by the glimpse 1 had of it, and I actu
ally had the impudence to go for another.
I knew that my cousins were allowed to fur
nish and decorate their rooms as they pleased,
and it was a revelation to look at Molly's. All
the furniture was of a cool gray (cottage) with
pretty flowers scattered over it. The dainty
white bud, neatly made, stood under curtains of
a soft rose-color-gauze ; the pretty carpet, gray
and flower-strewn like the furniture, looked as
if dust had never touched it. Every article stood
in its place, and there was a bewitching air of
finished neatness about the whole that repudia
ed the idea of a servant's fingers. The book
shelf held a choice selection of standard works
protected from dust by a curtain of the rose
colored gauze, and a few landscape pictures
hung on the walls. The work-baskets and
writing-desk were in loving companionship on
a table near the window, whoso white curtains
gave a shade to the whole room. A small vase
on the bureau held one rose, half blown with a
cluster of its own green leaves.
Lconie's injuries proved slight; but she kept
her room for a week, and Molly and I were
thrown much together. I cannot tell you how
she roused in me an ambition to be a nobler,
better man; how her earnest, useful life, her
gentle intelligence, and the glimpses I caught of
her well cultivated and well-trained mind, sham
ed me from my dreams to manly aspirations and
resolutions. I left Lee determined to deserve
my cousin Molly's regard.
One year later 1 renwed my visit. We had .
corresponded during my absence, and when I
Magazine.
The Democracy Aroused!
The Democracy of (lie country is moving—
rousing to the importance of tlie great crisis
now upon us. In .Maine, Oiiio, Indiana, Wis
consin, Pennsylvania, Now Jersey and Delaware,
the Democrats have already spoken through
thcii' respective State Conventions, in tones that
cannot lie mistaken, and other States will soon
follow in the same train. In every loyal State
they speak the same sentiment of devotion to
the Constitution and of determination to .con
quer all its enemies wherever found. They are
sworn by the glorious history of their party,
which is identical with the history and prosper
ity of the country—the white man's Eden, till
the serpent of abolition entered it—by the mem
ories of the past and their hopes of the future'—
by their reverence for their ancestors and con
cern for their own posterity—by their pride as
Americans and their self-respect as men—by
their love of truth and their hatred of treason
in all its forms—by their love of liberty and
scorn of oppression—that this country shall be
saved—that the Constitution shall be protected
and preserved from the hase and cowardly at
tacks of the Northern abolitionists, as well as
from the armed attacks of the Southern Seces
sionists.
Let onr people take courage. The old fash
ioned Constitutional Democracy is aroused, and
the doom of abolitionism and disunionisin is
written. There is hope ahead. Let us work
| like men, to send patriotic men to Congress, and
|to put patriotic men in ollice and all may yet
jbe well. Let ns do this, and then, and not till
then, can we hope for a preserved Constitution
and a restored Union.
Go to work, then, friends, throughout the
North, ahd let the result of the elections of Oc
tober and November proclaim to the world that,
the American people have determined that their
' country, their liberties, and their children's her
itage of constitutional privileges shall not bo
destroyed.
So far, the determination and earnestness
manifested by the loyal Democracy arc most
gratifying. The old lion of Democracy is a
roused, as when Jefferson was elected President, J
and the alien and sedition laws indignantly re
pudiated by the American people. Those eon- ]
detuned laws are again revived, not ns laws, hut |
in the form of restricts and despotic edicts, and j
the people are again aroused, as of old, and '
whoever lives to see and hour their venliel, this
fall, will learn that tyranny—Now England (rea
son against the rights of white men—is as hear
tily scorned and indignantly spurned as it was
when the American people rose up with their
majesty and put down grasping, centralizing
Federalism, and elevated the great champion
and founder of the true American Democracy
to the Presidency. "Like causes produce like
results," but, in this case, it will be "more so."
[iJciiwrtilic Leader.
LOOKINI! IN'TIIK WRONG BOX.—A .Mr. Thom
as Ogden, having arrived in New York from
England, went several successive mornings to the
p st office to ask for letters. Inquiring always
for letters addressed to Thomas Mogdcn, tho
postmaster invariably replied that there wore
none for lijin. Hut becoming at length quite
impatient at these frequent disappointments, he
thrust his head through tho delivery window,
, and soon discovered the cause. "You aro look
ing among the Jluitcfics , sir," ho said to tho of
. ficer within i you should look among the Iloet
WHOLE NUMBER, 3023
English Jealousy of the American Union,
The English press, and particularly the or'
gans of the British Ministry, have lost no op ;
port unity, from the commencement of the re
bellion, to disparage the efforts of the Federal
Government to preserve the Union, and at the
same time to advocate the claims of the South
to recognition. The recent rebel successes ir
irginia will afford these journals and the rebel
emissaries abroad still another opportunity t<
revive their clamor for recognition or interven
tion, and we may anticipate from them, foi
months to come, more than ordinary bitterne*
of criticism. The following, copied from tin
London Mnrniiuj Font, which is the organ ol
Lord I'altnerston, exhibits the favoritism ii
which the Southern Confederacy is held by the
British aristocFitey I
There can be but little doubt that, sooner ot
later, the Southern Confederacy will be admit
ted info the family of nations. After atc lious
ly protracted war of eighteen months, the Fed
eral Government have failed in making the
slightest impression on their resolute opponents.
It is not unreasonable to presume that even
should the war be proceeded with for another
year and a halt', the result at the end of that
time would not be different. We have now had
a fair opportunity of estimating the qualities and
the calibre of both belligerants. Those who
derive their ideas of strength from magnitude,
were not slow to conclude that the North must
of necessity prove victorious. And. in truth,
the advantages possessed by the established Gov*
eminent at the commencement of the contest
were to all appearance overpowering. The Fed
eral States entered upon the war entirely five
lrom debt, and with resources at their command
for the production of wealth which were really
stupendous. They possessed a powerful navy,
and though not having at their disposal a stand
ing ariny, had, at all events, in abundance the
materials out of which it could be speedilv cre
ated. They enjoyed the exclusive command of
the ocean, and saw not the slightest danger to
apprehend in the prosecution of their trade.—
With the whole world open to them, they found
themselves speedily supplied with every engine
of modern warfare which science has of late
called into existence. Besides all this, they em
barked in their enterprise with all that prestige
which invariably attaches itself to the establish
ed order of things. Such were the circumstan
ces under which the North addressed itself to
the task of crushing out the so-called rebellion ;
mating the
ful issue a war which in its present staged ex
hibits the combatants standing towards each
ether in relations so different from those which
they occupied when the war began.
It would have been impossible for any nation
lo be compelled to struggle for its independence
under circumstances more disadvantageous than
those under which the States which seceded from
the Union endeavored to establish their claim to
a separate form of government. Numerically,
the population of the South stood to that of the
North in the relation of one to live. Of the
materiel of war the Southerners were entirely
destitute. No sooner had the standard of inde
pendcnco been raised tiian every port in a large
seaboard was at once sealed. With such muni
tions of war as they then possessed, they found
themselves obliged not only to commence but to
sustain what they well knew would be a pro
tracted conflict. Of ships of war, with one or
two exceptions, they possessed none. Their
trade was entirely annihilated. Instead of the
prestige with which their Northern opponents
entered on the war. they found themselves held
up to the execration of the civilized world. To
foreign States they were represented by the Fed
aral Government as rebels, whilst fanaticism
stigmatized tlioin as slave-owners. Numbering
in all little more than eight millions, they found
themselves at the same time obliged to eope with
tlip Northern States, and to retain in subjection,
within their own territory, a population half as
numerous as their own. Under disadvantages
so great as these did the Southern Confederacy
light the battle of independence.
It is impossible to compare the, present posi
tion of the Federal States with that held by them
at the beginning of the war, without being irre
sistibly impressed with the utter hopelessness of
their attempt to subjugate tho South. The
South has suffered much; it has also contracted
a debt; but as nothing by it can be regarded as
worse than defeat, it will he enabled ultimately,
should it succeed in establishing its independ
ence, to regard with greater equanimity the bur
dens which this war may impose. To us it
seems impossible that the North, in its present
crippled state, can effect an object which it has
hitherto shown itself unable to accomplish.
The question when the South ought to be re
garded us having established a right to demand
recognition still remains open for consideration.
Until the close of the present, campaign it had
certainly failed to satisly the world of its abili
ty to maintain its independence. Had there
suit of the recent engagements in the vicinity of
Richmond proved different, tho Confederate cap
ital would, ill all probability, have fallen. Now,
however, when, to all appearances, the North
is compelled to desist from active operations for
some months, it would certainly seem that the
claims of the South to recognition deserve tho
serious consideration of foreign governments.
Another signal victory 011 the part of the Con
federates may possibly decide the Cabinets of
England and France on tho courtso they will a
iopt.
£J-()ur soldiers of(on lmvo a great difficul
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tho earth should be tired of our living presence.
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VOL. 6. NO. 7
l [ Fmn Vanity Fair.]
OUB WAR CORRESPONDENCEi
UTTERS EBOSI MORONI!.
[ _ Peninsula, July 24.
S Dear \ anitt : All is quiet along the lines.
Gen. llulleck is Commander-in-Chief and I
( am happy.
[ appointment was strenuously opposed,
( while I was in Washington, by a gentleman con
nected with the War Department, the first lottef
. of whose name is Stanton.
( 1 his gentleman wished Gen. i£acliary Taylor
appointed to the position.
P it was with difficulty that Abraham and t
could convince liiat that lie was a trifle behind
the times.
lie said that he was "no more behind tho
thin s than he always had Jjeen"—a statement
to which the President aitd myself felt bound
to subscribe,
llulleck was appointed, nevertheless.-
Don't you see. .Scott and I wished it.
Hut weren't the balls flying around merrily
this morning, though! Let not the remark
mislead you, sitiee I have stated that all was
quiet along the lines.—"Lis*true, the balls wcro
flying around—l have been playing billiards
tvitli Capf. Horace Cooley, of the twenly-sev*
euth Massachusetts volunteers, Oiiiecr and Gen-
J llcmnn.
I Nobody was hurt on either side.
I won three games out of five.-
I and the Captain took Newborn, you reraeffl
her, a short time ago.
It was not Newliern that we took this mor
ning; it was apple-jack and bitters.
However, let that pass.
I received a call from Jeff. Davis last night.
He came in disguise, and looked so scaly that I
hadn't the heart to arrest him; though I think
I should have been justified—even by the Brit
ish Government—in so doing.
"All! Mac," he groaned, "what will bo tho
upshot of all this 1"
"You will be shot up." I remarked.
"I mean how will it finish I
"It will finish yon."
"O dear! O dear! You and McClellan ara
too much for'ine—if Fremont was only Com
mander-in-Chief now, I might stand a chance."
"Col. Davis," said I, impressively; "don't
you indulge too much in speaking the truth.
You ain't used to it; and it mayn't agree with
you."
"Grcely and Bryant are my best friends."
"Yes, fricuds to you and your blasted nigger.
"Smiles arc not for Yne," wliimjVercd poor
Jetty ; "I wish to gracious I was well out of
this. If the Abolitionists, bless their kind dis
union hearts, will only keep 011 as they aro go
ing, maybe I can succeed yet."
"There's where youll get your eye shut up,"l
remarked ; "I tell you what Jctt'., we'll hang
'em all first. The Union is our First Cause,
and we Northmen sink everything else in that.
If you trust to the Abolitionists—good Lord, do
you know what you arc trusting to, man ?"
"Well, a fellow must use dirty means, you
know."
"Only for dirty work. Grcely and Bryant,
and such, are the only help you have North
for your dirty work, and I can inform you that
you might as well exjicet a yellow dog to whip
my black-and-tan, as to expect any sane figh
ting man to listen to those fellows. Why bless
you, it is the Democrats who do the fighting,
and what do you s'poso they—-I may ray we—
cure for your Nigger I"
"I feel bad," said Jeff, mournfully; "I
guess I'd better go."
lie went.
I missed my watch and sleeve-buttons this
morning. That conies from being kind-hearted.
1 only wish the good, misguided people who
believe the Tribune clear through and think that
Paradise is located in tho crown of Greeley's
old white hnt, might have heard the really warm #
expressions of friendship Jeff used concerning tho
Abolition press. He knows, artful dodger, how
much he owes to the eternal dissension bred by
the Negrophilists.
—Gen. Pope is getting along fairly with
Western Virginia—more than I could have
said for Fremont. But he is a little tonguey
in tho proclamation way, and seems inclined to
contrast himself with MeClellan. Idontknow
whether or not the Tribune has made a bargain,
with him, its it did with John Charles, but I ad
rise to show at least the amount of respect for 1
his superiors that good breeding directs. I
don't altogether like his slurs and ffings at
"Strategy," and if he ignores that branch of
military science, relying only on "catching" tho
enemy, ho may do as illy as John Charles did
when he "caught" Stonewall Jackson at Crosa
Keys 1
There is nothing liko modesty in this world—
I am the only modest General in the army—<
And I am MCAKONE.
Srornxo NiiwsiwrKiis. —-A certain man hit
his too agninst a pebble stone and fell headlong
to the ground. lie was vexed; under the io*
fluonce of anger and active self-sufficiency, he
kicked the old mother "arth right saucily. With
imperturbable gravity, he looked to seo the globe
itself dissolved, and only his poor too was injur
ed in the encounter. This is the way of mam
An article in tho newspaper touches him in a
weak place, and straightway ho sends word to
stop his papor. With great self-complacency
lie looks on to seo a crash, when the object of
his spleen shall cense to bo. Poor fool, bo hu
only hit his own toe against a world that does
not perceptibly feel tho shook, and injurcatono
extent any one but himself.
I tf-ylt might be difficult to say which would
contribute most to the peace of tho
the execution of tho law or lawyers.
WMrs. Partington says that a g®"*' o ®*®
laughed so hard that she feural hs wouM JiW*
'•bust bbJoa*tr TW"