THE BEDFORD GAZETTE rtlHt.l s HEI> E.VERT FKIDAV VORMNO ' 1 BY B.F.MEVEBS, At the following terms, to wit: $2 00 per annum, if paid within the year. $2.50 " ' if not paid within the year. Cr.No subscription taken lor less tban nix months . CCP-N" p per discontinued until all arrearages are \ paid, nnle-s .11 the option of tbe publishei. It has! been decided bt the United States Courts that the j e'opp ae of a newspaper Without the payment of j arrearage-, is p r haa facie evidence ot fraud and as a criminal offence. BUT he courts hnve decided that persons are ac •ountabie for tbe subscription price of newspapers, if they fake them from tbe post olhce, whether they k ubsciibe lor them, or not. itud Exjettdifittea Of the Poor awl Houtt of Employment oj Bedford County for the year ending Jan. Ist, 18GL GcOPiG: BLYMIRE, TREASURER, OR. To cash re'ed trorn Ba'ii'l Defibaugf, col lector lor 1861 $129 40 John Penned 44 2d 00 Hezekuh Barkman 44 2 6 00 John Aldstadt 44 22 40 Philip Hardnrian 1563 270 00 Vlartin S. Hetrick •' 238 32 Jonathan Hyde " 100 00 Samuel Steele ,4 152 20 Casper Stroup 44 195 58 William Cooit " 212 35 Daniel Stoler " 58 91 BaltzT Fletcher *' 110 00 John Wade ' 4 21j 00 D. A. T. Black ' " 175 00 John Riley 44 23 58 Samuel Corle 44 2/ 00 John Robinson of Tfcos " '27 91 John Feighter ' 4 150 00 Francis Baird ,4 155 00 Joseph R Durborrow 45 422 00 Samuel Working ,s 4 17 48 Peter Ewalt 1563 20 00 Samuel Bender 44 70 00 Daniel S,arks 14 45 00 1.. N'- Fyan , '* 80 00 i'hornas Fisher •• 200 0t) Nicholas Koontz 44 132 <7 H. Shoemaker 1563 $194 00 Jacob Carpenter 44 30 0o John C. Figart 44 55 00 Peter lUinegardnrr c( 160 00 Alfred Entricken •• 63 40 John Mo-se __ " V\ ill'.am M. Pearson . 44 400 00 John VV. Crismau tt 365 0L BaltzeT Fletcher •* 00 James ii. Kay 44 G. W'idel Stewart 44 150 00 John VV. Lingenfelter for E. Murray 59 00 John Mower, Esq.' 145 00 Amount $5375 20 TREASURER C <. By am'/ mini out on sundty c'i. NEW SERIES. F. Scbnably applebutter 20 4s j H. Hackly repairing mill iron* S 00 H. Beck i-y mid interest 7 99 T. K. G-tiys s.laiy U 23 Dr. John Compher salary 20 00 ! K. S. Blackburn beef 19 37 | J. D. Fetter beef 3 53 ; Wm aitiey hardware 4g 14 S. K. It i}t Salary 20 00 N. N. Kooritz overpaid on duplicate C 5 Eizab-th Drenniug keeping panper 9 00 Win. Kitei witness Mrs. Jonn G. Hartley applebutter 20 00 Gt-o Biyi.irt & Son tin and hardware 0.2 '8 S H. McCutheon part of checx 100 00 Do bolting cloth 58 00 Jacob Barn. A. T. Blai k E Providence 1861 199 04 j Hczekiah Ba.kman Southampton " 34 57 Riul.dph Hoover M VVooJberry " 52 22 Wm. Philips Bedford tp. 1862 108 53 j Philip herd man Cumberland Valley '* 254 73 ; J. Hide HairUon " 80 50 >a-;ier Stroup Juniata " 47 95 Ba tzer Fletcher Monroe " 22 13 liirni Vayde iVapier " lt>9 <2 D. A. T. Black EProvidence " 58 44 Francis Reari Union " 38 28 * J. R. Durbo'row M Woodberry " 89 33 * Henry Nidodcmus Bedford Jfor 1863 333 35 Jacob Filter Bedford tp. "- 506 42 litter Ewalf Schellsburg Bor. " 27 04 B.inuei Bender Bloody Run Bor. " 23 81 D vid Sparks W Providence tp. " 81 91 ilcz kiab May Harrison " 118 45 1.. N. Fyan Juniata " 120 12 Thoma- Fisher Cumberland Valley " 53 50 D. A. I'. Black E Providence " 08 89 Jacob Carpen'e Sr. Londonderry " 99 b3 Oeorgo Beegie Union ■* 255 62 John C. Pi-art Broad Top 'O3 104 89 Peter Winegarriner Napiet " 171 88 Aaron K. Ed S Woo'berry " 47# 80 * Alfred Eutrik -ii Liberty " 50.91 hp arson M Woodberry " 262 72 T. W. Cr>-man St Claii " 9G 14 B itzer Fletcher Monroe " 160 31 Jurnes E. Kay Hopewell " 72 76 Amount $1724 12 GEO. RLYMIRE, Treasurer. •Tcse marked with a • have since paid up tbe whole amount of their Duplicate. Slat, meat and Report of George Widel, S/c?.'l - d of the Poor unit House oj Employment of H' if uunfij, ftom Ist oj Jan. 1868 ti!! ..d tj J : ,l . IStii. DR. To wbs'r.t per J E Wills §0 75 •j iyuolie's of wheat 44 5 10 3 ' •' Cessna 3 .51 3 44 44 Wm. iVlilburs 3 00 5 " 41 A. Saupp 0 00 1 44 Rye 44 1 00 1 " " I 00 l.\ 44 Corn 4t 1 50 12 44 Wheat 44 14 10 5 4i 44 44 G 00 1 Shawl at Lippels b 00 5 bushels VV heat 6 00 2 44 Rye per Wm. Milburn 2 Ot) | 70 pound flour 2 10 5 bushels Rye psr J. W. Heeler 5 00 7 * 4 44 44 Shuck & Hro. 7 00 5 44 Wheat per Wm. Milburn 6 00 1 44 3uckwhoat 1 00 2 Rye per Wm. I 4 .Shell, Esq. * 200 1 41 HuCk wheat 1 00 10 *' Wheat 12 50 5 44 Rye 5 00 5 i 5 uO 4 44 Wheat 6 00 Cash for Sheep 10 00 j 40 bushels Wheat 48 00 33 pounds flour 1 00 I barrel flour J 6 00 1 " ' 600 5 bushels VV heat 6 00 5 " 44 6 00 1 barrel flour _ 6 25 j Cfuu from Mercer county Alma Housa 60 00 ! 1 barrel of flour 6 25 I Cash from Blair county Alms House 9 50 1 1 barrel flour 6 25 2 Rigs . 2 00 ! Buckwheat fleur - 50 $292 29 Balance 90 1G $382 45 Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1864. 1863 CR, By balance on settlement §GI 27 Cash paid for removing pauprr (S. Kitchoy) 1 19 Hauling Lumber ' 1 07 liernoviog l'aoper 1 20 i 07; Hauling Coal 1 SO ; Corn 75 j Coal 1 25 ! 1 20 i Hauling from Bloody Kuu 82 ! Kernoving l'auper I 32 ' Hauling coal v j 25 Four Hogs from Gardanor and Sparks 8 00 Wm. Herring for toll 50 S. NAUS butcaertng 0 00 Apples i 50 Wm. Herring toll 1 30 •Mill Shaft 5 18 IJemovciug pauper 3 00 ! 50 pounds veal * 2 50 Expenses in going after Mid Wright 1 35 Cash paip tor toll 80 iMuktiigOOO Rails 18 Oj Making 250 Stakes 3 75 Expenses t=i Hopewell, freighton Burrs 19 95 Cash paid Mrs. Diddle for Hops 25 Haulilig Lumber 00 Work at race ] 50 Lumber 4. og Hauling Lumber 8> Corn 1 00 1-t pounds Rice 1 12 G pounds Hutter 75 ! Work at Race 7 00 Harvesting 12 25 Toll 001 Expenses to Sehellburg 1 25 I Cash for Lumber 05 • '* " 1 10 u 44 Hauling coal 85 ! Expenses to lloliidaysburg 3 00 ' " in removing S. Kitchoy 2 20 I Cash paid for 101 l 200 > freight on bolting cloth 07 > Expenses to Hopewell and removing S. U. 2 80 j Cash fur toll, ink, &e. 2 75 for toll 75 S tor uggs , 93 K. Montgomery on account 2 25 Geo- Illy mire Trea. at different times 184 50 j Statement of the Poor House Mill from Ist of Jao. I 1563 till Ist of Jan. 4864. DR. VV R C I! ur A] Amount of Grain bought in as per monthly reports 698 Raised on Farm i\; Bought of S. Imler 6 Amount 704 304 36 44 221, S CI A Amount ot Drain used :n Poor House and told j Sundry persons fur cash, Iv. VV- R. C. B. VV. At. ! Use of Poor House 460J 20i Horse feed 157j Hog feed 5 * 15| ' For seed 81 Sold suudry persons 217 671 2 31 Amount. 6774 25 9 Produce of the Farm and Garden.—36 tone Hay, C loads Corn Fodder, 020 bushels ears of Corn, 62i bhshels Rye, 320 bushels Potatoes, 10 busbeLj • Beans, 10 bushels Large Onions 1 bushel Small On ion., 12 bushels Tomatoes, 12 busbels Beet-, 2 bushels Turnips, 10 bu=hels Parsnips. 2000 heads Cabbage, 5 barrels krau', 4 barrels Cucumber Pic kles, 21 barrels Soft Soap, 30 barrels Hsrd Soap, I 200 pounds Fallow, 032 paunds Lard. 6,359 pounds pork, 105 pounds Wool. 276 pounds Veal, 5 Calf biurrs, 301 pounds Butter, 6 barrels Vm-gar. liocKOn Farm—3' Head of Horses, 7 Cows, 1 Bull, 20 Hogs, 50 Sheep. * * Articles ruantrfttctured by matron—sl men's Shirts 39 Cbitnise, 35 women's Dresses, 16 women's A prons, 13 women's SSCKS, 10 children's Dresses, 12 children's Aprons, 5 pair men's Drawers, 14 chil dren's Ssirts, 2 pair Pillow Slips, 6 Pillows, 50 pair StocKings, 4 Comforts, 12 children's Shirts, 25 Sheels. 7 women's Caps, 30 pair men's Pants 4 men's CoaT, 7 Shroud , 17 Towels, *i Round Jaca ets, 8 Sun Bonnets, 9 women's Sairts. List of Paupers admitted, discharged died Ik., during each ' Oiith,und, the number lemaining at the end ot eaqb mon'h ; al-o the average number supported in the House during the year together with the number ol outdoor paupers supported by the Institntion. from the Ist of Jan, ISO 3, till the i Ist of Jan. 1864. >fIOCCO-W'*3to a. at -■ • Or q 2 S " c = Ebb -• rr 3 7 -• SI?S ? I I 2 P" as 2. * 2. ? = January 2 25 38 Februrry 3 2B 38 March 3 1 28 40 April 1 2 28 37 May 2 2 1 30 35 June 2 1 1 30 36 ! July 1 1 30 36 ; August 6 1 30 41 I September 2 1 30 42 j October 30 42 I November 2 6 % 27 37 | December 1 * 1 27 37 | Maxiiig an average cf 68 11-12 pet month, o | whom 2 are colored, I is blind, 19 are insane Also 116 waylaring persons were provide) with board , and lodging, there are also 2 outdoor paupers who ! are not included in the abave. \v the undersigned. Directors of the Poor and 1 House of Employment of Bedford county, do cer- ; tify Jbat we haveaxamined the above account state- ] ujen' and report of George Widel, Steward of tbe | Poor and House ol Employment of Bedford county : from the Ist day of Jan 1863, till the Isi day of Jan. 1864, and hnd the same to be correct. Witness out hi.nds and seals Jan. 1 1864. A. AKE, SOLOMON REIGIIARD, HENRY MOSES, Attest, . directors T. R. GETTYS, Clerk. A fresh supply of WOOLLEN HOODS and PLAID SHAWLS, just received and for sale at Jan. 99 CHEAP CORNER. DIVIDEND. The President and Managers cf the Bedford and i Stoys'own Turnpike Road Company have declared 1a dividend ot one half per cent on the capital stock of said Company. A.E.BCHELL, Treasurer. .Marchtl, 1864. From the Patriot fy Union. "LYRICS OF LOYALTY." * Ilura is a thorough Yankee book- The muse that inspired it, it is plain from every page, lurks about Plymouth Uock and feeds on cod fish balls. The "lyrics" are in every possible j metre and present ewrry shade of Abolition foliy i and devilishness. Ilere, a young 4, Yank" at 1 Harvard grows u tearful over the slow prog-! reffi of our armies as though he were weeding the family onion-patch in Wcatherstield. The venerable maideu who sounds this dirgo is as blue as the lights which her daddy hung out to thcHritish in tlia war of 1812. On this page we are invoked to Arm ! Arm 1 for Liberty"- by an opulent sutler who sounds hi 3 trumpet a frame palace in tiie suburbs of Hunker Hoi. purchased with the profits of bad whiskey and unmerchantable eggs. A wretched divine who, in peaceful times, wandered empty among i hL parental crags,.white at the elbows and shi- j ny and threadbare at the knees, now fattening I on his co'lections for the Christian Commission, and wild with the strange sensation of wearing ch. h with the nap on, shouts, in his glee, "Go forth to the battle, ye sons of the Lord " The touching lines 44 A brand is on thy brow, 44 A rnaik is on thy breast," carry us back to the times when the benevolent J p-"--engeri of the Mayflower and their children, propagated their faith by burning witches and t asting Quakers, thus, at otic felicitous stroke, reducing the number of heretics, and strking awe into those who were left, with rehearsals ' of* the agonies of Hell. . The bard who sings— "They have gone to the South, J Will they ever return?" leaves us in some doubt as to the meaning. It! i : probable, however, that he refers to the nig gers which hi.s grandfather sold into Virginia, when slavery ceased to pay in Massachusetts. Hurley Doolittles and Pcrkenpines, exempted by some friendly surgeon for weak eyes, confirm ed corns, or incipient colic, cry out in their ex uberant patriotism— -"Who stands aloof, when Freedom calls ?' 4 In a word, we hyye here a choir of decayed preachers, weak-legged young collegians, angu lar maidens and miscellaneous sneaks, bawling' out to their neighbors to 44 Rouse F "Strike /" } * 4 Am7" '■' March.'"' and perform other martial initio 4l , while these loyal warblers remain peace- ! "tflly perched at home, fattening on the plunder I ot a war in which they have shed nothing hut' ink, and spent nothing but breath. One of the most vociferous songsters in the ; book is Mr. Theodore Tiltou, editor of the Xew j - OI "k Independent , who it will he remembered, i .'. rote, last summer, a thrilling editorial upon the cowardice and absolute treason in.ui.„u tendering three hundred dollars to the govern ment when it "asks life.'' Scarcely was the ink dry upon Mr. Tilton's essay when an unluck y turn oi the wheel cast up his name, and he w.ts duly enrolled among the army of conscripts. Ol course he inarched—yes, he did—he march ed right up to the exemption olfice and paid his three hundred dollars, tmd got his papers, and hastened back to his snug sanctum, and compo sed the lines entitled 44 God sare the Xat/un— a War Hymn" —to be found on page 71 of this j book. One stanza of this valorous bard's Hymn 1 will suffice as a specimen: * 1 Slay thoc. oiir toe* or turn th?m to derision, 1 iu the blood-red Vuliev of decision Make the land green with peace, as in a vision. ''(J) We would suggest to Friend Tilton (of course ' he is a Quaker pro tern ) an additional vefSe, to I be inscribed to those of his fellow conscripts of whom the government "asks life" and who hadn't three hundred dollars to give in lieu tbere {;. ' ' "I igbt, you poor devils ! slay the traitors who brrp shun, WhiU t, ID the soft-cushioned S>'.t of Exemption; , Peacefully shout for the lugger's rede nptioa." 1 here is a string of verses on page ol), enti- 1 tied "IVolunteers Wife to her Husband" j which are eminently suggestive. She says: '•Don't stop i moment to think. John, Your country calls—then go, Don't think of me or the children, John, I*ll care lor them, you know. Leave the corn upon the staiks, John, Potatoes on the hill, And the pumpkin on the vines, John, I'll gather them with a will. But take your gun and go, John, Pake your gun and go, l 'or Ruth can drive the oxen, John, And 1 can vac the hoe." Cartoons are wanted fur the Capital, wc be lieve. ILnc is a subject for one. John can be | represented in the foreground, in a ragged uni t form, with his toes out, installing a richly dress-' ed laniily ot negioes in the mansion-house of their exiled master, while his wife and liuth . are sceu in the distant back-ground, llutb dri ; ving an ox-team ai:d Mrs. John vigorously ply | ing a hoe. John's children, of course, will he introduced, weeding the potatoes barefoot and 1 with prominent shirt-tails. We conceive that a picture such as thin would do more to cncour i age enlistments than even the present bounty ! system. The prospect of elevating millions of i enthralled blacks to luxury, laziness and good ■ clothes, would doubtless inspire the heart of ev ery Northern matron and make her willing to ; sacrifice her husband and go starved and rag ged with her little flock througli tho whole thou sand years of the Abolition millennium. The old maid who wrote these lines ought to have a pension. Korney is one of tbe bards of this ' book and Bets np a loyal and metrical yelp from | his well-appointed kennel. His poetry, as be | comes bis peculiar position, is of the rfoygerel | kind. Here is a specimen. The title of the piece is "The Mm who fell in Baltimore." "N<*xt came the Maiiaehusetts met, . Gathered from city, glade and glen— No hate for South, but love for all, They answered to their country'a call The path to tbem seemed broad and hright, They sou get no foeman and no fight, j 'LTHica or LOTALT* : Arranged and edited dy FKAXK MOORS, NIW Yobx. G. P. Putmas, 1864. WHOLE IfinilEß. 3162 VOL. 7, NO 33. A* on they marched, the flag before, New England's braves through Baltimore." The reflections on the Massachusetts troops contained in the line which we italicise is not the only noticeable tiling in the ditty of the "Dog."—There was another memorable transit through Baltimore which has certainly made as much noise as that of the New England sol diers, and having been performed by Forney's master should have elicited at loest a passing howl from the kernel. We venture to supply this omission, though we cannot, of course, ri val the canine melody of the original: Not sealed in special car As great men usually are, But hid among the tyunas away, Our Washington the Second lay. In Scotian cap and lengthy cloak, Too badly seated to try a joke, While Treason panted t'oi his go'..*, Our Abraham sneaked through Baltimore! These lines are not copy-righted and Forney is at liberty to append them to future editions of his song. The poem entitled "ACavalry Charge" (p. 2b) was evidently written by some harmless youth who has obtained his ideas of that branch of the service at an adjoining livery stable.— Hear him— j "And the grim-visaged Colonel, Wnh ear-rending shout Peals forth to thp squadrons The order ' Trot out!' " Aother verse would indicate that the author is in the medical line—probably wielding the pestle for some country practitioner. With true esprit da corps he makes moan over the ill-con sidered blows which cheat the profession of its fees: "The wounds that are dealt By thai murderous steel Will never yield case For the surgeon to heal." On page 3S a bereaved poet who, but for the 1 company in which we find him, might be sus- i peeled of disloyalty, cries out to bis Abolition 1 brethren, "Ye wise men who have made this war To set all mankind free Oh know >ou not this boy of mine Was all the world to me ?" And adds: "Yet they whose sons are safe at home, May tale far different views .And cry aloud *Mort blood—more blood' — Oa Gud I send me good news." We object to this poem, not on account of its literary shortcomings, but because of tiie mani fest comfort it oilers to the "Copperheads."— If bards of Unconditional loyalty sing thus, what is to be expected of thoso traitors in our midst who are clamoring lor the "Union as it was," and a disgraceful peace on tiie basis of the old Constitution ? From cover to cover this is an Abolition book No patriotism is recognized,save the kind which consists or finds its highest development in steal ing and landing negroes, i lie pages nm not devoted to praise of Massachusetts are bes pattered with false and fulsome smtf about Af rican >alor —the "bondman"—the "Lord's de liverance"—the "flag of Christ'' and like non sense and blasphemy. John Brown, horse thief, murderer and vagabond, who closed his career of blood and theft on the gallows—who, by the laws of every nation on the globe, civilized and uncivilized, had forfeited his life, is thus canonized by one of these codfish laureates: "A prophet's soul in fire came down To live in the voice of Old John Brown; The eye of God looked down and saw * A just life lost by an unjust law.'' The blasphemous freedom with which the Abolitionists use the sacred name of God, Lord | and Christ is not the least remarkable thing in ti.elrliterature Every devilish and fanatical; scheme, whether of blood or plunder, which i tuey propose, they coolly announce nstha'-Lo. d s J own," "God's great work," or "Christ s dvliv- j eranoe." The theology ot the most of them may j be briefly summed up in the language of the j "Liberator," their organ and oracle : "If God t Almighty has the power to abolish slavery and docs not do so immediately, lie is a very great scoundrelf They are intensely pious at present in view of the large bodies of negrties to whom | our armies have opened the gateway from slav ery to starvation. They are immensely patri ! otic in view of the money, which is being pour ed into their pockets by the government at the I expense of the rest of tiie land, for the product of their shop aud looms, l'iety and patriotism p will vanish together as fugitives and contracts i grow scarce, and New England will swarm af ; tor the war, as it did before, with blatant in ' fi'jels and howling traitors. t . There is a good deal of stuff scattered through this book which, in view of the peaceful and j retiring disposition of the authors, and their aversion to any personal contact with arms, is rather amusing. For instance: "With sword on thigh, to do or die, I march to meet the foe." And again, "Lock the shop and lock the store, Chalk this upon the door, 'We've enlisted for the war*— Still another minstrel, now doing picket duty on Boston Common, thus sternly reproaches Copperherds, and invokes the loyal to share his perils amid the frog-haunted puddles of that classic outpost: "Cowards slink away; But who scorns to see the foe Deal our land all shame and woe Must go forth to-day." We venture our word upon it tlrat the var lels who have ground out this and pages more of doggerel in the same strain, are attached, every one of them, either to Gov. Andrew's "sirarm" or to Horace Greeley's "Nine hun dred thousand." These gigantic armies are not ex pected to move until the approach of the reb els, when they will doubtless head towards Can ; ada at a pace wkich will shame M'Clellaa's tor {toise march on Kichmond. There ig a little ballad on page 55 in which a loyal infant is the speaker. It begins t "Willie stood at the window— Little Willie of five years old— Watching the rainbow colors As they fade in the Sungot's gold." | Willie then makes the precocious remark* ; that some of the cloudr are red and fomft of I them white, whereas the sky is blue, and coc | eludes with this logical and tuneful pices of rea soning .* '•And away up the sky Is such a bright little star : Why God is for the Union, - Isn't He, mamma 1" We suggest as a fit conclusion of the stanza My darling little patriot child I'll write that to your far. The death of a young soldier is thus feeling ly described on page 164 J '•Though he neither sighs nor groans "Death is busy with his bones." i Here is one of thse little rhyming tricks- fa ! ®Hiar to every poordevii who has over tried ■to cap versus, fbo author having writtin the first line. "Though he neither sighs nor groans," scratched his head for u rhyme. He thought of stones, lone#, /tones, tones, and at last hit on. Hones," and proceeded to eke out the line with feet enough to fill up. Had not accident or the muse suggested that lucky word ''bones" to bun, the lines would probaly have read, Though ha neither sighs nor groans lie is nursed by Airs. Jones. Rhyme is an exacting mistress and Jones is a bandy word. We conceive that in this case ho would have rivalled the melody of bones. Mr. Richard Storrs Willis, brother of tho | scented bard N. P., inquires in some rather | pooY verses. ~ "Standing yet are Sumter's tvalls— Why, Northmen, why? Slumbering yet thy avenging balls— WKy, Northmen, why ? Charleston left to scoff at ease, Richmond vaunting as it please, Traitor-taunts on every breeze— Why, Northmen, why?" To which we naturally reply, Because you poets won't turn out But are shy, Richard shy, You're inclined to face about And to fly, Richard, fly, You and Til ton and the rest — I'm afraid, Dick, that your vest Hides a chicken heart at best. Fie ! Richard, fie ? We venture, in this place, to intrude an hum ble lyric ot our own, expressive, as we con ceive, ot the style of patriotism in vogue among pur New England brethren, but which, proba bly from a feeling af delicacy for which that pcopie is remarkable, has found no interpreter among all the bards of the book. We have called our feeble attempt "The song of t/te loy al Abolitionists,'''' and we tremblingly inscribe the lines to that distinguished domestic patriot Mr. T. Tilton: Arm! Arm! why sit ye idle? It is no time for words. Through all the land the freemen Are'girding on their swords. The bondmen's chains are clanking—- They fester on his limbs. While you march forth to strip them off I'll stay here and write tiymfis. Strike! Strike! let every-patriot man t* Put on his armor now, For scars are on the Ethiop's back And a brand is on his brow. Shall men whom God made free as you Chafe neath their galling collars? Not while my neighbor has a sword, And /, three hundred dollars. Then up and rouse, forth to the field, \V here Freedom's banner flies, lie need not fear to face his God \V bo, for the. .ociiro dies- Ana wtien the ;>un of Liberty Dispels foul slavery's vapors, Why won't we patriots show our scars— And our exemption papers? In reviewing what we have written we find a most unpardonable omission—lloker—our own Bokcr—our native Bard—our dear George has cast his "eye of newt and toe of frog'' into this cauldron of melody, and is entitled to high credit f*r the flavor of the compound. We are unable for want of room to give any one of I his pieces entire, and we would not be guilty of the sacrilege of serving up a mutilated fragment of one of those rare and polished compositions | One word, however.—His "Dirge for a Soulier" , (p. 201) by some strange accident has erept into the blue and gold edition of Tennyson's poems, where it will be .ound on page 28. The words j are somewhat differently arranged in the- Ten- I nvc<>uian copy, but the changes are not sufficient i to disguise the theft, and we would advise our I hard to reclaim his property without delay and | warn the English Laureate against further ; peculations. I lie absence of an international copyright law has doubtless emboldened Tenny son in making this scandalous plagiarism. We close with a simple and truly beautiful poem from the hanff of a young Pennsylvanian —a mode.-t violet peering up among the Yankee hollyhocks, sunflowers, onions and cabbage heads which Frank Moore has gathered into his political parterre. It is called "A plaint from Savage's," and was written, we believe from tlie station of that name, in the summer of 1862. Its author is George Alfred Townsend, the For-' eign correspondent of this journal. I. Alas for the pleasant peace we knew In the liappy summers of long ago, VV hen the rivers were bright and the skies were By the home of Ilcnrioo. ► [blue. We dreamed of wars that were far away, And read, as in fable, of blood that ran, Where tiie James and Clnekaliominy stray Through the groves of Powhattan. IX. "lisa dream come true, for the afternoons Blow bugles oi war by our fields of grain, And the sabres sink as the dark dragoons Couie galloping up the lane; The pigeons have flown frotn'tho eaves and tiles, The oat-blades have grown to-blades of steel, And the Huns swarm down the leafy aisles Of the grand old Commonweal. . I hey have torn the Indian fisher's nets \\ here the gray Pamunky goes toward the sea, And blood runs red in the rivulets v That bubbled and brawled in gle4; The corpses are strewn in Fairy Oak glades, I ho hoarse guns thunder fropi Drury'e Ridge, The fishes that played in tlie cool.' decp shades, Are frightened from Bottom Bridge. IT. I would that the veer were blotted awajr, Aud the straw berries green in the hedgeag&iat; That the scythe might swing in the tangled haf. And the squirrels romp in the glen; The walnuts sprinkle the clover slopes, Where graze the sheep and the spotted etoar; And the winter restore the golden hope* That were trampled in a year " 9, YOEE. Feb. l\, 1864. .