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NOW AND THEN.
Aik— "The Kingdom Coming."
Time was we had a nation,
And a staunch Democracy ;
Our fame was wide throughout creation,
And a proud young people, we;
Cut things have changed—the comet's risen
With a different tale to tell,
And no man now is safe Irom prison
At a touch ol Seward's bell!
Aias! for liberty,
Alas! for Uncic Sam ;
We've lived to ree the kingdom coming
In the days of Abraham !
Time was we bad our free discussion
With the press, the tongue, the pen,
Nor t ad we lened to ape the Ru siari
With ir spis and dungeons, then,
Put r.ow, unle-s one sir.g9 the praises
C u.-; Lincoln-Stanton crew,
f. • awns as quick as Hazes,
•*' * ■ poo. I s iosi 'o view!
Th c's m more liberty—
f . are all sham—
kingdom coming,
:t> ays ot Abraham!
Xti uaya gone past those days more palmy
Than another lend e'er saw—
Our statesmen needed rot au army
la the place ot civil law;
Each man his ballot ca9t unfearing,
Aui thought it strange to find
A blue-coat conscript guard appearing
With a loaded gun behind !
Is this your liberty ?
Poor sacrificial lamb !
Bow down and bless the kingdom coming
Iu the days of Abraham !
We love the War, and all are burning
For the cause we ho;J so dear,
Ihe canscript-w heels are kept a-turning
In the counti) far and near,
Our taxes and our debt are bigger
Than we are likely soon to pay;
But Abr'arn want- to free the nigger,
And we let him have his wsy.
Our chance for liberty
Is hardly worth a dram, ,
But there's a nigger kingdom coming, ,
And the king is Abraham !
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Military Resources of the South. 1
"Druid," the Edit imore correspondout r.r f
iho V v* -~-r
cuiiiAc acquaintance with trie state of affairs .
in the South, and has made many predictions 1
since the war began which have happened, some
liow or another, to lie better fulfilled than those
of Secretary Seward. The following is his es
timate of the available military resources of the
tfouth at the present time:
j'llKatiXT EFFECTIVE STRENGTH OF THE SOCTHEIIN I
ARMIES.
The armies of the South now in the field
are composed of the following bodies of troops: |
Longstreet's corps, A. K. llills's corps, and the
troops recently under Beauregard, ho.ding the
lines defending Richmond and Petersburg, 45,- '
000 infantry. 10,000 cavalry, and 300 guns,
in all 61,000 troops; Early's corps in the val
ley, 15,000 men , total of Lee's army proper,
76,000 men. Bre-kirtridge's force in South
western Virginia, 10,000 men; militia at
Lynchburg, s'ooo men ; Wilmington and Wel
don, S,ooomen : total under General Lee's im
mediate orders, 102,000 men. Troops under
Beauregard and Hood, in the
in Arkansas ami Missouri, under Sterling Price.
20,000 men ; at Charleston and Savannah, 15-
000 men; in Texas and Louisiana. 15,000
men: Mobile, 12,0)0 men, total, 112.000
men. Grand total of troips ot the Confeder
acy in the field, 215,000 troops.
AVAILABLE MILITARY STRENGTH OE THE FOl'TiL
The above is the present actual strength of
the confederate armies, but it is by no means
the extent of the available military power ol
the South. The South has had in arms, since
the "beginning of the war, eight hundred and fi r
ty thousand men (including the above two hun
dred and fourteen thousand, and fifty or sixty
thousand more, who are now prisoners in our
hands, and five hundred and seventy-six thous
and men who have been killed and disabled
during the progress of the wnr.) if the tables
in my letter of September 15 are correct, and
their accuracy has never been disputed, the
South still has, there'"' re. a reserve of nin •
hundred and fifty thvua:. white men oi
- ■ ••• military avre xfi experience ®f toyr i
•• -- . therefore shows that the South]
.. hie t . keep on foot armies equal i
:x t itiose now i:i the fieid for four]
at i ast. 1 nese facts will !*• brought
c>" derate congress at an early day,
r.ue and detailed shape, as ar-
J.J. ; the proposed measure of arm
ing tue as soldiers.
"Caesar," said a planter to a negro, "climb
up that tree and thin out the branches." The
negro showed no disposition to comply, and on
being pressed for a reason, answered: "Well,
look heah, massa, if I go up dar an' fall down
an' broke my neck, dat'll bo a thousand dollars
nut of your pocket. Now, why don't' yc j hire
an Irishman to go up, and den if he falls and
k'lls himself, dat won't be no loss to nobody.''
ifT-The woiamen employed or. : lie tunnel un
der Lake Michigan, al Chicago, receuilj- found
tuispstak&ble evidence of oil. Instead of wa
ter, the Chicegoians lid fair to obtain itiflxtna
ble material for city use.
Cat*A mar. who covers himself with costly ap
parel, and negiucts hia mind, is like one who
illuminates the outside of his house, and sits
within the dark;
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VOLIME GO.
NEW SERIES.
THE HAUNTED HOUSE
It was near the close of a sultry day in Au
gust that I drew up my tired horse before th
door of the Black Bear—where cutertainment
was to be obtained for man and beast as the la
boriously creaking sign voluntarily informed
the pas3er-by.
Having seen Pluto well cared for and in a
clean stall, I sauntered into the bar-room, and
having nothing betier to do, sat down to listen
to the conversation of the half dozen lounger
there congregated.
I looked over the books on the table, bat thov
were all dry essays on agriculture and cookery,
and I let them pass. I was young then—just
tw.inty-three—and was traveling solely to pass
away the time of iny summer vacation (I was
then a member of thcT Law School,) and
ifotn the love of adventure.
4s yet, however, very little in the way of
adventure bad befallen me. Life had gone on
rather monotonously ; and I had strayed away
here inlo the backwoods of Maine in the vain
hope that I might tind something strikingly uU t
ol the usual way.
Evidently, my entrance had interrupted the
conversation of the gentlemen; for there fol
lowed a pause broken at last by a tall military
looking man in rough coat and top boots.
"lire was a daughter, wasn't there, land
lord ?" he ask id.
"les," replied that individual so shortly that
I scrutinized him more closely than I had done
before. 'J he scrutiny threw little light on his
character. His physiognomy was perfectly un
readable. He might, or m'ight not, be a bad
man. He was short, thick-set, with a red face,
bushy eyebrows, and a coldly-ghtteriug sieel
blue eye
"\\ ell, it was a startling affair for this one
horse place," continued lie of the top boots, re
moving his cigar. --It happened four years ago,
you say, arid the daughter has not been heard
of since? Strange!"
''Yes, it will be four years come next Christ
mas," said a white-haired old man who Lad not
spoken before. "A terrible night, sir; freezintr
cold, and the snow falling so thick that it would
have biaided you. And that night old Roger
Hampton and his wife were murdered; and from
that day to this no human eye, so far as we
know lias ever looked on Margaret Hampton.
"What do you think became of her, Gran
ger?" asked one of the urea addressing the old
man.
"I? think? I know not what to think. It
was currently reported that she dealt the death
wounds, and then fled to save herself from sus
picion : but I behf-ve nothing"of tho kind. I
* •"**% a,q *1 Jl I IT ' •
una of that enfifuc lovely, m afvaD rae 4 *igfcfs
in heaven."
"Of what were you speak c, gentlemen, if j
I may inquire?" 1 asked dra ing up to the ta- '
hie where they were sitting.
The circle courteously widened to admit me;
people always like to tell what they know, if
properly requested to do so.
"We were talking over a tragedy that occur
red near here, some four years ago, in an old
mansion known as 'Hampton's Death,'" replied
he of the top boots. "Mr. Hampton and his
wife were murdered: and their only daughter,
Margaret, a girl of eighteen, or thereabouts,
has never been seen since."
"indeed," I said, "but. that is very singular !
Who resides at 'Hampton's Death' now ?"
"Bless you, young man," cried the landlord,
"you couldn't hire any body to enter the doors
on a sunshiny day; and as for living there
why the place is haunted; and one foolhardy
voung man who went there to pass the night,
on a wager, lost his reason before morning.—
lie's been wandering ever since, but no one
knows what he saw there."
"Humph! and so the place is a ruin?"
"Getting to be, sir. You can just see it from
the window there."
He pointed out, and I saw at the distance of
half a mile, perhaps, the chimney of a large
house, clearly defined a;, ain't the red sunset sky.
"Did Mr. Hampton posses- any property ?"
I .asked.
"If was generally supposed that lie Lad a
large sum of gold about him," said the landlord,
"but nothing was proved after the murder.—
There was some thousands of dollars worth of
real estate."
"And who was the heir of that?"
"My wife, sir," said the landlord. "She was
the next kin after Margaret—the niece of I\§r.
Hampton. But the old house and its immedi
ate grounds are a dead weight on our hands ;
we could not give them away.'
I made a few more inquiries and then the
conversation turned to other topics; and soon
afterwards supper was announced. At the sup
per table I saw ihe landlady—a tall, handsome
woman In the prime of life, and an arrogance
particularly insufferable in one by duty bound
to be respectfully entertaining.
I was shown to ray room soon after supper :
an airy apartmont directly over the bar-room.
My curiosity was aroused.
The story I had heard about "Hampton's
Death" was romantic enough to excite the in
terest of almost any young man of three and
twenty, and perhaps I had a full share of ro
mance in my composition.
I threw up the west window and looked out.
The evening was beautiful- I here was a slight
breeze blowing und the pale moon had ]ust risen
The gray old front ia "Hampton Death" was
! di-.'uetly visible, looming gloomily from a mass
t; ever f ->-e *ns. It'waa a singular feature in that
backwoods landscape, buiii in an uld though
not inelegant style of arehiteel ure I fell to
speculating about it. The man who had plan
j nod that building was superior to his neighbors.
I He hud both taste ind love of the beautiful.
| There was a pleasing- harmony between the
i stone gabk s of the house and the dark, pine
1 forest stretching away for miles behind it. But
I this distant view did not satisfy me. 1 wanted
i tp see the inside, to tread the long closed chaoa-
BEDFORD, FA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1864.
Bert, and stun* perhaps in the very spot where
!on that boisterous Christmas night, two souis
j had been <-o suddenly launched into Eternity.
But I did ..ot tare to let those below know
oi suy foolhardi.it js, as the landlord would prob
ably term it. 1 would "ait till they were all ir
bed. I sat there listening to the melancholy
voice of t'.e whip-poor-will, avay off in the
copse-wood ihe stillness growing around me,
and even the light breeze folding its wings and
sinking to sleep in the have. .
All was quiet; the house was wrapped in
sluEuoer I examined my pistols, put ou fresh
caps, and then softly iet myself down to the
ground by means of the strong tendrils of a
grape-vitlc thai, had climbed up to my window,
it was only a little walk to the old ruin—not
more than half u mile acro&s the fields, to the
—lapidated stone once that separate J thegrounds
truui 'he adjacent 10/s. I sprang over into the
lonesome garden, now choked with rank weeds
and grass, and stood in th shadow of the pile
of buildings.
Very massive and gloomy it looked, with its
weather stained walls and high, narrow win
dows gleaming in the moonlight. The quaint
I gables and carved dcriuar winder shed a black
I -hade over Ihe front; the path to the halt dour
j was obstruct.- i with wild \ ines and brambles,
' and a thorn bush had grown up upon the very
j threshold.
j Every thing about the pLce was dead and si
lent as the tomb. No wonder people said it.
was haunted, with that old tale of crime and
death hanging around it.
I Hied the door, but it was fast. So were
the windows. I went around to the back part,
but ail was closely secured. I pried off a cor-
I nice with my knife, after some difficulty, and
by that means removed a window -ash, leaving 1
the apcrtur free. Looking in, I saw a large .
apartment, evidently the kitchen. Everything
had been left just where it was before the earse
bad fallen; the tin pans still gleamed on the
dresser j and the kettle grip eat 01 , t i ie deserted
hearth.
I sprang in and passed to tlm interior of the
building, a dark corriJor. to what must have ■
been a parlor. Part of the furniture still re
mained : the green carpet was gray with du-t,
and the chairs and solas had put oil the sack
cloth of mould and moth.
A bat flapped against ihe window as I enter
ed, escaping through a broken pane ; and soine
w here not tar fh-'aat I heard the riiriit scream
of the night-uawk. A distant tfoor -slammed f
to in the draught of air I had admitted, strikr I
ing with startling uutinotnos? on the dead aft
of that unhappy placid- But l v..— VnvJ't- I
ened; it was ali vfirv uovej,.aJuJ,'VdVi^!.'. * "
snould have something to tell my grand children.
From thence I passed through two smaller
rooms to a large hall, in the middle of which
rose a broad staircase. 1 fits I ascended, the '
long unused stairs creaking wierdly beneath my
Head, as if astonished at their unwonted burden.
A door at the head of the landing Stood slight
ly ajar. I pushed it open an.l entered a long,
narrow chamber, dimly lit up by the moonlight
struggling through the dusky glass. One glance
showed me that "this was the ghostly chamber."
There were dark red stains on the counter
pane of the bed, and near the centre of the floor
j the d 'e carpet was discolored with what
once L. sen a pool of blood.
Here, then, the defld wa3 committed. If these
silent walls could speak, what a tale ot violence
they might reveal! While I stood there think
ing how once the death-shrieks of that old man ,
and his wife had resounded through the room,
wondering where the guilty murderer wn< hid
ing—wondering what tragic fate had overtaken
the fair Margaret, J heard the taint sound of a
human footstep. Convinced that 1 was not
mistaken, I listened intently. It wa6 repeated.
No; there was nt*mistake.
I looked at my pistols once more, to make'
sure that all was right. It 1 were to meet flesh !
and blood, those trusty weapons might prove
my best friend, if only gliosis, I might save my
self the trouble of trusting to gunpowder.
There was a door on the opposite side of the
chamber leading through several rooms to a t
second hall, smaller than the first, and from
this hall another ilight of ft aim ascended, lead
ing probably to the attics. I hurried through, I
rnd paused at the foot of these stairs. 1 could ,
hear evory step distinctly now; it seemed al
most over my head —soft, light and hurried, '
pacing back and forth.
I even thought 1 could distinguish the slight
rustling of garments; anda6l stood breathless,
a low moan stole to my ear—so thrillingly low
that I felt the rojy blood around my heart sink
and grow cold.
"Clinton Eerie! are you a coward?" I
said to myself, and the bare insinuation was e
nough to send me forward. I went up the
stairs, two at a bound, but. was stopped by a
strong oaken door. I tried to break it down,
but it resisted all my efforts. I went to oe of
the chambers below and wrenched ofl the great
post ot a mahogany bedstead, nnd returning,
used this as a sort of battering ram. No mere
weoden door could long withstand ouch an at
tack as T made oh that one, and ere long I had
the satisfaction of seeing it fall inwards. I
leaped over the ruins into the apartment tluis
opened before me, but it was bare and unfur
nished. Not a thing, animate or inanimate,
to disturb the ghostly devastation.
I glanced quickly over the wnlls in search of
some secret passage, and in the further corner
I perceived a slide, fastened with massive holts
on tne -mtside. 1 drew lack '-be bars, n.rd
' paused for a moment before I sought to pene
■ trate the mysteries that door concealed. Mj
1 heart boat so loud that I could hear but J
| laid my hand thereon and found.it boat cain:
! and strong.
A vague, nameless something thrilled through
my soul as I stood there. It seemed to me a;
if I were about to epter on a new and swectc
existence. 'lTie hand of Destiny itself wa
upon me
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
1 opened ac door slowly and stood on the
i threshold, w'hat did I seo ?
The moon was shining brightly into the
chamber, tl iding every remote corner with its
■ silvery brilliancy. I could distinguish every
thing with the greatest minuteness.
In the centre of tihe roo.u stood a slight spec
tral form in its slendernese, with a face white
as marble, masses of black hair flowing down
over lier sable garments. —The shadowy hands
j were locked together; the great, mild, dark eyes
were fixed upon iny face with an expression of I
torrur and wonder.
I advanced to the side of the phantom form.
Whether it was ghost or liviag woma I f new
not; but I was resolved to take no . .p back
wards.
The sweetest, saddest voice I ever beard, ad
: dressed inc.
e ! " Vho are you ? Why are yon here ?
9" { fWby lam here depends upon eircumstan
- 3: ces."
I paused, for I was uncertain whether I was
5 speaking to the flesh or the spirit.
"Oshe cried, springing toward mt J and
t taking my hand in both of hers so soft and
- • warm, "only say that you have corns to take I
■j me away from here! Only release me and 1 1
] will be your slave forever!"
' : The suspicion that had all along been form
ing itself in my mind, broke out in the abrupt
1 question :
] "Are you Margaret Hampton 1"
i j "Years ago I was called so."
j "Good God! and where have you been since
!; that Christmas night!"
"Here, always—Oh, sir, if you knew the
half I have suffered, you would take ma a
:
I replied by taking her in my arms and 'uear
j ing her down over the stniis to life and free
j dou once more. It was the happiest moment
of my existence when I stood with her on tbs
green sward in front of Hampton's Death, with
the silver rain of the obstructed moonlight fall
ing over us.
She shivered at tho touch of the night air.
How very lung it had been since she had felt
free, fresh air. 1 took off my coat and but
... 1 it around her, placing her in the shadow
a tall fir tree, that she might have the sup
p j t of its rugged trunk.
You will not be afraid to stay here while I
: get my horse!"' I asked.
"Where is it ?"
"At Carl Janscn'g hotel.
1 1 thought 6he shuddered at the name—my
suspicions were fast taking a tangible form.
"Yes, I will stay- —but, oh! you will not de-
Y'ltimfi ot it:" i exciaimvu, niw
the fields to the hostlery. I was young and en
thusiastic then. My plan was all formed. Fln
to was strong and willing, he could carry us
i both easily, and I got on his back, feeling for
the noble fellow an affection as strong as that
'of a man for his brother. He needed no ur
ging; he seemed wild to get away from the vi
cinity of the Black Bear ; and it was hardly
five minutes before I had Margaret Hauipton
up before rne. Willi one hand I guided the
horse, and the other arm held the slight form to
!my side —I was afraid I should lose her if 1
1 did not hold fast.
Half an hour"? brisk gallop brought us to
the little village of Lowridge, and soon after
I had the landlord of the Globe House out of
bed and very much at my service.
I took Margaret into the parlor, and made
her tell me her story in as few words as pos
sible. The landlord was a magistrate, and
took down her statement. Two hours after
ward I was on my way to the Black Be a,, with
four constables and a warrant for the arrest of
Carl Jansen on the chatge of murder.
Wo entered the tavern without ceremony,
aud took the guilty wretch in bed by the side
! of his equally guilty wife.
He was lodged in the county jail, and the
next afternoon a judicial examination took place. (
Margaret's testimony was amply sufficient to ,
I convict him, and he was taken to the place of t
his confinement to await his trial at a higher |
! court. . !
I Three days after wards he was found dead in
his cell. He had died from the effects of poi
' son brought him by his wife: and the same
I day she too was seized with a fatal illness that
in five hours ended her life. Justice was ue
' frauded of its dues.
Jansen left a written confession in full. He
j entered upon all the horrible details with fiend
! ish minuteness ; ar.d long and eloquently on
the skill with which lie avoided detection.
It was as I had expected.
Mrs. Jansen being the next ho*- after Mar
garet to the Hampton wealth the wretched
couple had formed the plan of murdering the
whoh family, "in order to secure the property.
• A night when all the servants were away at a
Christmas festival was ' selected, and the deed
was done ; only Jansen could not find it in hiß
: heart to sacrifice Margaret. There was a ten
.! der spot in the villain's nature after all.—Long
[ ! ago, in his early manhood, he had loved n wo
; i man of whose face Margaret's was the coun
i! terpart. This woman had died in her young
. innocence, in her lover's arms, and for the sake
' ef that tender memory, the girl, who resembled
' her was spared. But she had been kept a
f' close prisoner ; every one helieved her dead, and
r so she was, to all intents and purposes Jan
s sen had carried her food at stated intervals;
d and encouraged the prevailing belief that the
old house was haunted, to the best of his a
j ility. The yor.ng man who had gone to pass
I the night bad been frightened by sonpe diabol
u ical contrivance of Jansea's ; aud I only esca
ped a similar fato by keeping my intentions of
h going there a secret.
is I took Margaret at onec to my mother iu
;r Boston, aud then, as the associations of her ear
jr ly home were so painful to her, I sold out the
1 property; and placed the proceeds to her credit
WHOLE NUMBER, 3086
When I placed the certificate of styck into her
hands, I said:
"There, Margaret, the eld life is buried. Now
you can begin the new."
She did aot reply, but sat there in the mel
low sunshine, her beautiful face troilhled, her
beautiful eyes, cast down.
"You are an heiress, Miss Hampton; you
will go into society and be a great belle."
"No," she said softly ; "I do not wish to be
a belle, Clinton:"
"YY hat Would you bo, if you could, Mar
garet f"
Hhe lifted her sweat face to mine. I caught
her to ray breast, and held her prisoner there.
"Would you be my wife, Margaret ?"
And she answered, "Yes."
So she was—so she is now. ar.d bas been
these many happy years; God bless her! And
every day my heart is fail of eloqueut grati
tude to an inscrutable Providence, for finding
me, iu a fit of romantic curiosity; to spend a
night at "Hampton Death."
THE NEGP.O AND THE WHITE MAN.
Senator Richardson of Illinois, in a speech
at Peoria, drew this fcfe picture of the differ
ence between the negreand fhe white man un
der Abolition rule:
Now my friends, at all points we are feed
ing negroes and supporting fhem You ask
then who supports them and the answer is,
"liic United States." Ask then who furnish
es them bouses to Jive in, and they answer,
"iho Lniled .States." Ask them who pays
the doctor when the .are sick, and they reply,
"Fhe United Slates." Put the question to
tliern who sends t..eir children tc school, and
supports teachers for their education and the
answer is, "The United States." My friend
Ross, who is running fur Congress in the ad
joining district, informs me that he once inquir
ed with regard to their progress in the schools
and was informer! that they did not learn very
fast, but they sang elegantly! and it might have
been added that they danced well! [Laugh
ter.] And in many places they will tell you
that they are the relatives of soldiers in the
army.
B it ask if the white people arc so supporeu
and the answer is ;hat they are white and ca.
take '-are of themselves. [Laughter.] Thi:
wholesale support of negroes is notorious. VVi
have in the army of the United States less thai
80,000 men of the colored race; hut we an
to-day supporting 760,000 of those who elai::
to bo their relatives. The relatives of th" col
ored troops are very numerous. In the las
two years all the proclamations of Mr. Liu coir
last se-sion, and Lincoln approved it. giving tlx
colored widows advantages over the white wi_
ows in the matter of pensions. A white wo
man at the time of application for pension niu?
produce a marriage certificate: but a negrc
woman's affidavit is amply sufficient. A whiti
woman who is the widow of a soldier nav
make oath that she was legally married, bul
hat it is impossible to procure a marriage cer
ilk-ate. She may have been married in th<
Joutb, and now shut out from all means of pro
•tiring the required proof. Without it she can
Iraw no pension.
In the case of a white woman the marriage
;ertificate is indispensably necessary. But let
i negro woman who is the widow of a colored
soldier apply for a pension and make oath that
she was married to him, and her pension is
•eady for her without tlie certificate. But this
a not all. In the State of Illinois we did not
illow a negro or an Indian to testify upon the
itaud in court in laror or against a white m;-.n.
So it was in other States. The hist Congress,
owever, passed a law making the negro a com
petent witness and allowing him to testify. So
no, we did not permit a man to testify in court
tvho was an atheist and did not believe in the
•xistence of a God. If a man came in court
is a witness and was asked, '-Do you believe
n the existence of a God?" and he should re
>i, "no," the answer of tho law was, turn Lira
jut: he has no right to be a witness here. But
if von ask a negro the question now, the at
torney stands up and savs. "you have no right
to question him in regard to that; the law of
Congress has made him a competent witness
nd beyond it you cannot go."
When they first employed the negro in the
irmy as a soldier, they said his service were not
as valuable as the white man's and his par was
fixed at a less figure—l think at tea dollars
per month. But at the last session of Congress
\ law was passed making hiapay eqmtl to that
of a white soldier and dating that pay back to
the period of enlistment.
While I have served in the Senate of the U
nited States and in the House of Keprestnta
tives. when men were arrested in my -on State
of Illinois and incarcerated in bast ilea, I en
deavored to induce these bodies to have a com
mittee of investigation appmned upon their ca
ses; but they said no, and refused me. And
vet if a negro was incarcerated in the Wa h
ington jail, committees of investigation were
immediately appointed to know why the negro
had been plaoed there.
They have rail cars in the streets of Wash
ington, horse cars, I believe they call them, and
some are l ibeled "for colored peoplu." Those
are the cars for the negroes. But one day a nc
r*ro jumped aboard upon one side of a white
man's car, and the conductor very promptly
jumped him oti ths other side. And imme
diately resolution after resolution was introduc
ed in' Congress to know why that negro was
put off the cars. [Laughter].
Bat I was never able to get a resolution pass
ed listing why a white man was incarcerated in
i Government bastile. A senator happening
to remark that it was but a few days previous
to that lie was put off the cars, Mr. Sumner re
plied that it was of no consequence; tbat tt
was of less importance that the whole Senate
if tho United States should be put off the cars
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r lian Hint a single negro should he so treated
[Laughter.] Why in the clays of my ambition
f when T looked upon a Clay, a Webster, n Wright
und ft Calhoun ; VTlien 1 read the debates and
saw questions of national Import discussed with
. ability exceeding the legislative couueiis of
/ any nation —even that of the Koman Senate U
j self—l did tbink that if ever I reached if, I
j should amount to something; but when I found
j that the whole Senate amounted to Jess than
f the putting of one negro off from a street car.
I confess that my ideas of it were far less ex
alted than they were before. [Long continued
applause.]
THE COMING DRAFT.
Tha Washington correspondent of the Detroit
Free Press writes as follows, under date of
Oct. 20th:
I It is generally conceded that the next session
'°f Congress will, on the recommendation of
the War Department, materially amend the ex
isting conscription law by striking out the pro
vision allowing drafted men to furnish substi
tutes. It will he remembered that fiiU wa,s at
tempted at the last session of Congress, and
approved by the Military Committees of both
t.' Senate and House. It was adopted in the
Senate, hu failed in the House only ou account
of the app caching elections. It wag, however,
strongly urged by Schenck and other leading
Abolitionists, and on a test vote received tho
support of fifty members—all of the Ad:r.inif
f rati on party, including Beaman, Briggs, .Long
year and Kellogg, of Michigan. It was open
ly avowed then by leading Abolitionists, that
it the election this fall should result in their
favor, they would not hesitate at tho next ses
sion to vote in favor of abolishing the substi
tute clause of the present law. This ia un
doubtedly the intention. It was thoroughly
understood before the adjournment of the last
session. The Provost Marshal General, it is
said, will renew his recommendation for the ab
olition of tho dense, and that it will bo ap
proved by the War Department, and in all
probability will become a law beforo the first
of January next. How soon thereafter a call
tor several hundred thousand men (principals)
will bo made your readers can judge.
•It is also contemplated, I understand, to
strike out tha* provision in tho act of July last
requiring the President to give fifty days* no
tice before a draft can be made, BO that tho
conscription machine can be put in operation
at any ti.no without any notice whatever to
the people, who may then consider themselves
under sentence of death, to be executed at the
pleasure of lb doubt in "the world that
OJI.
SIASO FIRM. —The New Hampshire Patriot
is nut among those who believe that the work,
of Democrats ended with the closing ot the
polls on the 8?h of November. The doty of
ever.- Democrat —well says the Patriot —is as
plain to day in defeat, as it was before the e
lection. That u_;y is to sla ui firmly bv their
priaciples, their patriotic ronv.-tions, their .
honored orgar.izat : on.—From the manly and
steadfast performance of their duty they will
not be swerved either by the threats or tho per
suasions of their political enemies. Time will
prove the policy as w ill as the Justice of this
course. The policy of the Administration "is
jnat as obnoxious to them as heretofore, and it?
inevitable tendency ju-t as fatal to the welfare
of the country and the rights and interests of
its citizens. It is just as important to them,
and to the country, that this policy should l
abandoned ; ana for that end it is still the duty
and interest alike for us all to labor. The ver
dict of the ballot-box can be reversed in due
time ; the delusions under which thousands of
honest voters have acted will be removed by
the tide of events, and the course of the No
mocracy will yet be vindicated by the sober sec
ond thought of a suffering and outraged people
When this time come?, it is the Democratic
yartv that will be required to save from utter
ruin whatever is to be saved of personal or na
tional value. That old party lias ever proved
true to its mission, and it must and will not
now despair of the Republic. Its organization
must be preserved, its camp fires must be kept
burning, its sentinels must stand watchful at
their posts, and its gallant array must still pre
sent a bold and defiant face to the enemy. No
other course is consistent with honor patriotism
or self-interest; and this course we trust the
83,000 Democrats of New Hampshire will un
falteringly pursue.
3-110 who waits to do a great deal of good
at once will never do anything. Life is made
up of little things. It is very rarely, that an
occasion is offered for doing a gi aat deal at once.
True greatness consists in being great in little
things. Drops make the ocean, aud the great
est woiks are done by little®. If wc could do
mu"h good in the world, we must be willing to
do good in little things.
cy-Wink at small injuries rather than avenge
them. If, to destroy a singto beo, yoii ttnfcw
down the hive, instead of one euaaay you make
a thousand.
Gar An editor says ho has seen the contrivance
lawyers use when they •'warm up with the üb
ject." He says it was a glass concern, and held
about a pint.
HafThe issue of all the Ivondon daily,paper*
together, amount to 248,000 sheets daily; of
all the weeklies thgetber, 2,263,000 weekly
The issues of the monthlies are still larger.
(fcT"Yoa seetn to walk more efect'-than usual,
my friend." "Yee, I have been lately Straight
ened by circumstances.'*
wThe cigar and Ike cup are rery intimate
acquaintances.