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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<ckx viz :
Paid War. M. Cook tor Beef s4l 00
Do on above 50
VVm. Rock applebutter 4 s 72
A. B.cvser lumber 23 32
John A. Blackburn wheat S 00
Daniel Hetzell for coll on account 2 69
T. H. Gettys one quarter salaiy 6 25
Intere-t on above 18
Win. Herring toll 2 So
$, Dcfibaugh o ie bull 12 o0
T. R. Getty s one quarter salary 0 25
Interest on above 20
A.J. Burns a 20
Wm. iStaley beef li 50
J. C. Reamer salary and medicine 15 75
T. K. Gettya 44 11 25
Interest on above 11
A. Dib it beef 10 8u
Sa nuel Di-fioai.gk brsef 116 6'J
Dr. Win. li, Watson medical attendance 15 00
A. Mro<itis*i plank '• 87
J. Mock removing pauper 4 50
Jame Cessna Esq issuing orders 1 00
Burns lumber 4 68
T. R- Geitys extra services rendered i 0 00
Interest on above 22
J. R Zimmers beef 11 40
John Ha derbauur beef and bacon 18 65
D. Jamison len oving paupei 1 00
S. Reighart cow and calf IS 00
Catharine Over beef 5 06
lnteresl on above 25
Win. Leary interest on sundry eheek 54 61
Interest on above 25
R. C R-amer Drugs 6 "1
George Wiuel oats S 25
lnteiest on above 50
11. Gates boarding pauper 15 00
J. W. Touilioson beel and fruit 10 9.5
J. M. Shoemaker merchandise 78 08
Hiram Lentz beef S 65
C. O'Pbnner support for pauper 3 00
Wm. Herring toil 2 50
T. R. Gettysalary - 1125
S. S. Sh yck stationary 3 63
T. R. Gettvs making out and distributing du
plicates 33 00
O. Widel salary and Interest 92 70
Wm. M Cook beef 16 50
G. W idel salary and Int.-rest 9i 35
Dr. John Cornphet salary 2n 66
J. Crisman Esq issuing orders 2 50
P. A. Reed merchandise 66 6o
Hscry Taylor beef 1156
Wm. Rodgers supporting pauper 9f o0
C. Esbclman making coffins 5 00
Wm. Rodgers keeping pauper &c. 62 25
S. Reighart corn 20 00
Gilbert, Royal Co.
J. Semler black-mitbing 7 00
J. L. Prince removing pauper 5 30
Samuel Radebaugh collector on orders 5 25
E. Statler & Son goods for V m. Huflman *2 11
E. Statler if Son goods for John Hall 10 o''
jVti. Hartley applebutter 3 33 1
John Hafer Lime and Interest 217 93
Samuel Steele amount overpaid on duplicate 421
Daniel Shuse lime 3 25
A. Statler coal and Interest 17 10
S. Reighart salary anc Interest 20 45
Mrs E Drenn mg Keeping pauper 4 00 j
Jos Negley 44 " f
Samuel Defibaug beef 5 15
S. S. Fiuke freight and Interesj 6 10
Daniel Barley luneral expenses Mrs. Dicka 225
John Ake lumber and Interest 11 C 5
Daniel S. Defibaugh gears and Interest 2 41
Geo. Widei 10 bushel buckwheat and Interest 6 55
John Little hauling 1 00
George Widel 30 yards carpet and interest 12 50 •,
Levi Lluke attending slock I 40 i
Jos. A. Minnicb removing pauper 3 00
Jos. Negly keeping daughter and Interest 0 57 j
Wm Herring toll 4 10 :
V. Brengle cooperage 2 2.)
.4. Ake lumber and Interest 13 09
Jonathan Peunell applebutter 1 88
Daniel Crouse repairing oven 1 50
A Ake services anfi Interest . 10 45
Wm. Dnnkel molasses 3 00
Isaac Eipple goods and Interest 98 59
Jotiah Diibl beef 8 61'
Levi Fluke attending stock
Mary J. Johnston boardiug and attendance 600
Shires Ik Jordan foundry work 50 48
Dr. J. Compher salary and medicins 26 75
John Pennell amount overpaid on duplicate 5 43
John J- Cessna money refunded 28 00
D. Broad smut machine 20 00
A- B. Cramer goods 364 79
W. H Kepnei sett of burrs 150 00
J. W. Reeter and interest 13 75
,T. R. Farquhar herring 7 00
V. D. Bet gle lumber 13 00
E. Dretrning keeping paop.r 7 00
R. Fyan goods _ 30 00
P. A. Reed bacon 59 00
.1. B. Williams lumber U 47
Geo. Seibor support of Mrs. Stsyer 10 00
H. C. Reamer drugs 8 97
T. R. Gettys salary and Interest 11 66
Nicholas Diehl applebutter 4 50
. S, Davis interest on checks and Inteiest 89 40
• ----- # "
VCLISIE 51>.
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<loiiar,s estate money loaned 513 78
H.Geigerfc Sic., bill ol groceries 350 29
Miss Martha R?a Interest on cheek 8 00
Mrs. E. Dickens interest on chenc 6 00
Wm. Leary sundry checks a*d Interest 101 25
Win. Le arv salary and Interest 115 09
A. Ake bee 1 inn Interest 84 52
15 J. Bumhutn bolting c:oth 13 73
S. Dt tibcuigh rye 15 o0
R< ed i* Mmnicb goods and Interest 86 44
S. D. Broad work at mil and Interest CO 50
Shireo & lordan foundry work 48 73
B. F. Meyers printing ' 6 50
J. Uarcieroad dried apples, fee., 8 00
S. Reigbart beef and ctder 21 76
Mrs Mana Fiaber keeping pauper 5 00
Go Hiymire i.d J. Kemry money loaned 304 00 i
Interest on above % 53 go
Wm. Kodgei it.t on checit 7 years 42 54
Do •' " "5 years 16 43
Percentage allowed collectors 212 S3
Exonerations 44 J55 21
Stationery. See., 10 00
Treasurers salary 60 00
Auditors and clei k salary 20 00
Stance due last settlement 31 61|
, 5013 97i
Balance due county 331 22J
$5375 20
Wc the undersigned Auditors of Bedford county,
d) certify that we have examined the forgoing ac
count of George Ely mire, Treasurer of the Poor
and House of Employ urt-nI of Bedford county and
!ind 'ue same to be correct and true as above stated
and that there is a oalance in the hands of 6aid
treasurer of $B3l 22 J
VV itness our hands and seals this 7th day of Jjli.
A. D. 1804.
DANIEL L. DEFIIJALGII, )
JOHN* H. BARTON, [
DANIEL HAULEY, )
Attest —T: ii. Giirrvs, Clerk.
Amount die, from collectors.
James Smith St. Ciair tp. lor 1557 $93 87
Lemuel Evans .Broad Top tp. for ISSS 39 71
J. A. Nicodemus M Woodberry tp. " 9 61
Abraham Croyle Union tp. 1800 88 26
Radolph Hoovei \1 Woodberry " 4 54
Jacob S. Brumba gh S Woodberry " 34 yo
l>. 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. .