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A LESSON OF THE WART [■Captain Stone, of a -Massachusetts company, be .iDg wounded in an engagement, lay for three days upon the battle Cnld, and was saved from starvation only by a wounded rebel, who shared his rations with him.j Fiercely raged the tide of battle, Fiercely rang the wild hurrah, Strains of martial music blending With the ciaiion sound of war. On the blood red fie*d of conquest Lay the hero spirit brave, While a comrade's ebbing life blood O'er him poured its crimson wave. Bay bail passed, and nig h t bad faded, Morning's sunlight dawneu again, Still amid the dead ana dying Lay the hero in bis pain. Ob, tbat long, long night ot anguish! Ah, what careless lips shall tell! Many a bleeding form around bun Gave to earth a last tarewelil Say what dreams of loved ones On New* England's rocky shore, Mingled with the wilder fancies Of the cannon's fearful roar. Who shall say what mother's kisses On Ins brow in fancy fell? Who shall speak the tender yearnings Lingering round some old farewell? Morning broke in glowing splendor O'er that field of carnage red, Fiercely poured the sunlight glory O'er the piles of mangled dead. Fiercer grew the feverish burnings, breathing low he lieth still, battling with the fiend starvation, Father, shall it be Thy will ? Paie and wan with fearful anguish, Breathing forth one earnest prayer, Drinking in the golden glory, Hovering over earth and air. Drinking in the low toned whispers Of his dear one's last farewell; Wildering fancies thronging o'er him, T hougbts no human tongue can tell! Hark! a sweet-toned voice of succor, bee ! a hand extends him food. Comrade! brotner! blissful music— Brother ! though of Southern blood! Hand clasps hand with gectie pressure Saved, oh Father! by Thy will! Yet a nation vainly yearneth For Thy blessed '-Peace ije still." Dying heroes, weeping mother, Breaking hearts, oh God ! how long F.re Thy voice shall calm the tempest, Ar.d the right replace the wrong ! God of mercy—light eternal— From the gracious Throne above, Smile upon our severed nation— Fold the North and South in lore. JERSEY BLUE. PRODUCE OF AN ACRE. The following product of a single acre of ground, the truth of which is vouched for, will give an idea of the capacity of land in the hands of one who thoroughly understands how to bring it forth. The acre here referred to is situated on I.ong Inland, where the soil is bv no means naturally affluent: "On one acre, within sight of Trinity Church steeple, New York, but in Jersey, lives a man I will call' John Smith.* John's neat cottage and acre cost him. eight years ago. $3,000, now worth SG,OOO. In the spring of 186 Ihe planted 12,000 Early Wakefield cabbage plan is which by the first week in July, were solu in New York market at $8 per 100, for £9OO. Between the rows of cabbages were planted, at the same time, 18,000 Silesia lettuce plants, which at $1 00 per 100 brought $l7O. Both crops were cltared otf by Juiy 12, the ground being thoroughly plowed, harrowed and plant ed 40,6l)0 celery plants, which were sold before. Christmas of the same year at $0 per ICO, for sl,2 r >o, m king the total receipts $2,430. "His expenses were : Manure, $l6O ; keep of horse, $300; interest on $6,000, ? 120; hired labor, $400; incidental outlay, $100; amoun ting in all to $1,370, which deducted from the receipts gave him the net profit of 1,050. John some might call a clod-hopper. lie has no par ticular skill, no great share of 'brains,' his only prominent quality being untiring industry; but it would be diificult for any one, no matter how endowed with skill or brums, to make uiore of an acre than he did." GENERAL JACKSON'S MOTTO. "Think before you act, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking." This is the true doctrine. Many men fail in life and go down to the grave with hopes blasted and pros pects of happiness unrealized, because they did not adopt and act upon this motto. Nothing >o prepares a man for action r.3 thought: but nothing so unfits a man for action in the course of action, lieitcr by far adopt some course and pursue it energetically, even though it m?y be not the best, than to keep continually thinking without action. "Go ahead'' ought to be print ed in every young man's hat, and read until it becomes a part of his nature, until he can act upon his judgment, and not be turned from his course by every wind of interested advice. In conclusion we would say: "Think before you act; but when the time for action comes, stop thinking." CSTA jockey furnishes some bints as bow to sell your horse : "I tell you it's all by compan ion—have the critter for sale long side of a scrub—ain't one in fifty but what'll get fooled. Thay look first at the scrub and then at the oth er; and they think its a'traordinary critter. That's the way I carae it on Jenkine, the livery man, with that gray colt" VOLIME 60. Freedom of Thought and Opinion. WHOLE MEMBER, 3114 NEW SERIES. FOILING A RIVAL. "The critter loves me ! I know she loves ine!" said Jonathan Doubikius, as he sat upon the cor.; field fence, meditating on the course of his true love, that wes running just as Shakspeare always 63 id it did —rather roughly. "If Sukey Peahody fins taken a siiine t< that gawky, long shanked, stamnierm' shy crifer Gusset, just 'cause he's a city li-Uur, she a t't the g.d 1 took her for—that's sartin. No ! it-> the old folks— darn their ugly pioturs. Old Miss Peab idy was allcrs a dreadful hifaiutin' critter, full of big notions, and the old man's a regular softhead, driven about by bi3 wire jest as our old one-eyed rooster is drove about by onr cantankerous five toed Dorkin lieu. But if I don't spile his fun tnv name aint Jonathan. I'ta goin' down to the eity by the railroad next week, and when I come back—wake snakes! that's all." The above soliloquy may serve to give Ihe reader some slight idea of the '-lay of the land" in the pleasant rustic village where the speaker resided Mr. Jonathan Doubikins was a young farm er, well to do in the world, and looking out for a wife and ha 1 Lota paying his addresses to Miss* Susan Peabody, ot that iik, with a fair prospect of success, when a city acquaintance of the Peabodys, one Mr. Cornelias Gusset, who kept a retail dry goods shop in llai over street, 80-ton, had suddenly made his appearance in the tield, and had commenced the "cutting out" game. Dazzled with the prospect of becoming a gentleman's wife, and pestered with the im portunities of her aspiring mama, the village beauty had begun to waver, when her old lover determined on a last and bold strike to foil his rival. He went to the city and returned. Of his business there he had said nothing, not even to a pumping maiden aunt who kept house for him. He went not near the Peabody's, but la bored in his cornfield, patiently awaiting the re sult of his machinations. The next day, Mr. Gusct was with the old folks and their daughter in the best room of the Peabody mansion, chatting as pleasantly as may be when the door opened and in rushed a very dirty and furious Irish woman. "Isit there ye are, Mister Cornelius!" she screamed, addressing the astonished Gusset.— "Come out of that before I fetch ye, ye spalpeen ! Is that what ye promised me afore the praste, ye hay then nagur? Runnin' away from me and the children, forsakin* yer lawful wedded wife, and runnin' after the Yankee gals, ye infidel!" "Woman, there must be some mistake here," stammered Gusset, taken all aback by this charge. "Divil a bit of a mistake, ye sarpint. 0, wirra ! wirra! was it for the likes of ye I sack ed little Dinnis McCarty, who lovecTthe ground I throd on, ap.i all bekase ye promised to make a lady of me, ye dirty thief of the worruld ! Will ye come along to the railroad station, where I left little Pnrtriek, because he was too sick wid ihe small pox to come any furder, or will ye wait till I drag ye?" "Go —go —along,' gasped Gusset; "go—and I'll follow you." lie thought it best to temporize. "I giv' ye tin mini's," said the virago. "If ye aim there, its my cuzzin, Mr. Thaddy Mul sruddcry, will be afther ye, ye thief." And awry went this "unbidden gii-M." Mr. Gu.-set was yet engaged in stammering out a denial ot all knowledge of the virago, when the parlor door opened agc.la, and a little black-eyed, hatchet faced woman, in a flashy silk gown, and a cap with many ribbons perch ed on the top of her head, invaded the sanctity of the parlor. "Is he here ?" she cried, in a decided French accent. Then she added with a scream. Ah ! i.ion Dieuf la voiUt. Z.we he is IYaitre, mon star'! Vat for you run away from mc ? dis two tree years I n: 1 voire see you, navaire, and my heart broke ver bad entirely." "Who are yon ? cried Gusset, his eyes start ing out of his head, and shivering from head to foot. "He asks who I an. O, ladies! O, you ver respectable old gest'oho-nme! hear vat he ask? Who I am, perfide / oh! I'm your vifel" "I never s,iw you 'fore —s' help mc Bob!" cried Gusset, energetically "Don'tyou swear!" said Deacon Peabody. "Et you ilc, I'll kick you into fits. by golly ! I won't I'ov no profane cr vulgar language in ray house." 'O, bless you ! bless you ! respectable old nan. Tell birr, he must come viz me. Te I h m I have spoke to ze constable. Tell him—sobs inter rupted her utterance, "It's a pesky bad business 1" said the dea con, chafing with unwonted ire. "Gusset, your'e a rascal." "Take care, Deacon Pea body, take care," said the unfortunate shopkeeper. •I remarked you was a rascal, Gusset. ouv'e gone and married two wives, and that ore's flat burglary, of I know eny thing 'beoat the Revised Statoots." "Two wives!" shrieked the French woman "Half dozen, for aught I know to the con trary 1" said the deacon. "Now you clear out of my house, go w3y to the station, and clear out into Boston. I won't hev nothing more to do with you." "But Deacon hear mo." "I don't want to hear ye, ye serpintl" cried the deacon,stopping his ears with his hand®. — "Marryin two wives, and comin' courtin' a third. G. iong! Clear out! Even Mrs. Peabody, who was inclined to put in a word for the culprit, was silenced. Susan turned from him in horror, and in utter despair he fled to the railway station, hotly pursued by the clamorous and indignant French woman. * That same afternoon, as Miss Susan peabody was walking toward the village, she was over taken by Mr. Jonathan Doubikins, dressed in his best, and driving his fast going horse before his Sunday-go-to-meeting chaise. He reined up and accosted her. "Hallo, Suke ! Get in and take a ride? "Don't keer if I do, Jonathan." replied the young lady, accepting the proffered seat BEDFORD, FA., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1865. * "I say—you," said Jonathan, grinning, "that ere city fellur's tamed out a pooty pup, HINT he?" "It's drcadfui, if it's true!" replied the young lady. "Ifou had a narrer escape, didn't ye?" pur sued the old lover. "liut lie warn't never of no account, any how. What do the old folks think about it ?" "They hain't said a word since be cleared out-"' "Forgot that night 1 rode you home from singing school?" asked Jonathan, suddenly branching off. "No I h-Jnt." replied the young lady, blush ing and smiling at the same time. "Remember them apples I gin you?" "O, yes." "Well they was good—wasn't they "First rate, Jonathan." "Got a hull orchard of them kinder fruit, Suke," said Jonathan, suggestively. Susan was silent. "Go long!" exclaimed Jonathan, putting the "braid" on the black horse. "Have you any idea where wer'e going, Suke?" going tc the village." "No, vou aint. jour'e goin' along er me." "Where to?" "I'roGdcnce. And y'ou dont come back till you're Mrs. Doubikius, no how you can fix it." "How you talk, Jonathan. What will the old folks say "Darn the old folks! cried Jonathan, put ting on the string again. "Ef I was to leave you with them much longer, they'd he tradin' you off to some city feller with half a dozen wives already." The next day, as Mr. and H'lrs. Doubikins were returning home in their chaise, Jonathan sai l, confidentially : "May as w ell tell you now, Suke, for I haint no secrets front you, that Gusset never seen them women afore the day they came stompin' into your house and blowed him up. I had, though. Cost me ten dollars, by thunder ! I teaehed 'em what to say, and I rather guess they done it well, Old Gusset may he a sharp shopkeeper, but ef he expects to get ahead of Jonathan Doubikius, he must get up a plaguy sight airlier o' morning Mobbing A Woman in lowa. For a iiew days, Indianola has been the scene of Amazonian warfare. A disgraceful mob, composed of women, has given the town a. notoriety which its well-disposed and orderly citizens must tx? fce&rttiy asuuuiou or. x* up pears that a Mrs. Patterson, a widow lady, who has been under the doctor's care for two weeks, was peculiarly offensive to the exclusive ly loyal female portion of that town, for some expressions of hostility to the Administration prior to 'lie unfortunate death of Mr. Linden. On the receipt of the news of his dibolical assassination, son? evil disposed pc-ison, prob ably a personal enemy, gave currency to tiie report that this unprotected and invalid wo man fohd expressed joy at the death of the President. giving the subject the least investigation and bidding defiance to the laws, a number of women among tbem the wife of the Presiding Elder of the Methodist Church, visited tie house of Mrs. Patterson, and compelled her, an invalid, to leave her house, and carry an emblem of mourning, which we understand, was a flag, and march around the town. She protested that she had not uttered a word of exultation at the death of the Presi dent. and implored to confront her with the witness; but Lcr protestations were answered by the insuiiiug reply that she was lying. She assured thera that she was unable to walk the distance required, ami if forced to perform the humiliating service they must entry her. Her protestation 0 ot innocence, her demand for the proof; her widowhood, and even the precarious condition of her health, had no power to move their pity. Go she must, and they forced her out of the house, and dragged her around the streets to be scoffed and jeered at, tearing her dress nearly off. Not content with inflicting these gross indignities upon the sick mother they attempted to compel her little daughter, thirteen years of age, to pe rfonn the same ser vice, and because she had spirit enough to re sist the outrage she was beaten and bruised until blond streamed from her nose and her arms were Mack and blue. The above, we are credibly inform "d. arc facts. What lower depth of degradation can we roach, than the existence and encouragement of a public sentiment which transforms fefaales, in the midst of schools and churches, and sur rounded by wiiat ought to be Christian influ ences, into the worst type of men. In God's name, what kind of an example is this to set before the youth of the country? Do these women desire that their sons and daughters should pattern after them, and trample under foot the laws cf society, humanity and God? Such an exhibition of heartlessne&s and con tempt for law, 1) urnanky and Christianity— disgraceful alike to the town and the parties engaged in it —we velure to say has not occur red since the mobs of Paris which originated the bloody and disgraceful French Revolution of 1708. . Have our people gone stark mad, and are the mother.-) and daughters of America to live in history as the most degenerate type of their class * As profoundly as we pity the poor invalid mother who was scourged in the public streets of Indianola, and who was pained by the out reges visited upon her little daughter, we would rather a thousand times occupy her position and have hcrfealings than enjoy the unenviable notoriety and torture of the soul of those who persecuto her. Since writing the above, we understand that Mrs.Patterson went to the postmaster of Indi anola, who was reported as the witness against her. and demanded the reason for reporting such a falshooti, and he denied utterly ever having heard or reported any such thing. I NEGRO SUFFRAGE AS A POLITICAL ISSUE. There i 3 a pronounced tendency toward the rc-orgaui/ation of parties on this issue. The negropbilism which has so long been in the as- 1 eendant has steadily gained strength during the war, and is still a sentiment of so much depth, i vigor, and diffusion as to constitute a political , force of great momentum, if there were any practical measure to which it could he directed. I The most powerful motives of personal ambition i are enlisted on the side of its conservation as a p'.'ideal force. Whenever the negro -question is' nken out of politics many distinguished pol iticians will pass into obscurity. Accordingly although slavery is abolished, and its abolition universally acquiesced in, a strenuous attempt is . making to nurse the pro-African sympathy into larger political life. Chief-Justice CIIASE, CIIARI.ES SITMNKK, HOR ; ACE GKKEJCEY, and men like these, who would j belong to a past generation if the question to | which they owe their reputations were taken out of politics, are declaring themselves in favor of ne:irty i will bo likely to depend upon his continuance in office. By Lis antecedents he is the foremost leader of the sentiment on which trio opposition seeks to stand ; but the negro party does not ore-lit him with much sincerity. !Slr. CHASE, , its present leader, i> his personal rival; and 1 considering tiro disappointment Mr. SEWARD has twice encountered when his prospects were , deemed flattering, he has doubtless learned that political!?- one bird in the hand is worth two j in the iiush. ff President Johnson Were a mere politician, and not, as we suppose him, a man of integrity i and principle, he could easily circumvent this new party by adroitly mounting their hobby. Had he proclaimed himself in favor of negro | suffrage as a basis of reconstruction, the partic ular opposition which is now developing against ! him would have not an inch of ground to stand upon. But Mr. Johnson acts under a sense of his official oath. In his North Carolina proc- i Lunation he has declared himself most nnequiv i occlly in favor of the constirutional mode of ! disposing of this question. lie has taken his j ground. Messrs. Chase, Sumner, Phillips, Gree ly, and their followers, have also taken their ground; and before the new President has been two months in office, one of the principal issues I is presented on which-iue next presidential con- I It is idle to discuss the skill with whbffi the new issue has been chosen by the opposition } leaders. There can be no skill where there is no 'choice. Men who have been lifted ipto prominence solely by their championship of the negro, and must be stranded whenev ortfcis tide ebbs, do not select their part by wisdom: the}' have it thrust on them by necessity. If they are to figure in politic;.* at all, it must be in connection with this Their advn- ■ tage consists in the strength of the sentiment j ' which twenty years of passionate controversy developed, and the war fanned into a opnsjum . ing blaze. Their drawbacks, however, are very considerable. The foremost of tbe j e drawbacks is in the ; Constitution. If there is any one thing in the Constitution not open to doubt, it is that the regulation of the sutlrage belongs to the slates, i The President lias planted himself firmly -upon thj principle; he can be dislodged from it only j by the subversion of the Constitution". | j Another disadvantage of this political issue ' \z the fact that although nearly all the state ; governments of the North arc under Ropubli- ; i can control, a great majority of them d not ' admit the negro to political equality, ft wai brazen and preposterous assumption which i?t tempts to force upon others, having equal rights , a measu; e which you reject yourselves. ;m| A third stumbling-block to this political is- ; sue, and one which will increase in the period j which intervences before tho presidential elcc-, tion, will be the conduct of the negroes them-1 ! selves, which will demonstrate their unfitness; for the suffrage without some preparatory train-; inz as freemen. It will be the misfortune of ! the opposition to Ijp advocating negro suffrage j at the precise period when the negro character will be exhibiting itself in the worst light— • when the negro will not have been long enough I a freeman to have cast off the degrading effects of slavery. During the ensuing throe years, it j v.ill be easy to fill newspapers with authentic 1 ; accounts of the abuses of freedom by the 1 groes: and although such abuses are the natu* : ral offspring of slavery, they will have none the ! legs force as arguments against the immediate extension of suffrage to the blacks. Still another drawback to this new issue is j the tact that President Johnson is understood • to be personally favorable to negro suffrage,j whenever the states having jurisdiction shall i see fit. to confer it. The negro Suffrage party j j will find themselves fighting against a man who , agrees with them on the main question and • | differs only as to means; who believes that the 3ame result at which they aim is sure to coma through a constitutional channel by the action of the southern whites. The difference is, that one method would confer the elective fran chise on the negroes before they are fit for it; • the other toftcn they are fit for it. If the President should be a candidate for j re-election, and MuChase run against him, : Johnson is morallyowtain, on such an. issue, of the solid vote of the reconstructed states, with at least an equal chance in every other state out of New England. paper is in circulation for signature a-! mong the business circulars of New York, all j the subscribers to which agree to give at least one disabled, honorably discharged soldier or j sailor employment as general messenger in sorao j light capacity, r !re the work La 3 heretofore • been performed by able-bodied men 1 YOL. 8, NO. 46. THE POLITICO-RELIGIOUS QUESTION The Negro Vote Against the Catholics. [From the Observer (Presbyterian).] "When the. fact stares us in the face, that the votes of a religious body arc controlled by its priests, and these votes are so used a3 to give to that religious body a preponderating influence in the political affairs of a city, State or coun try, it is the duty of patriotic citizens" to be on their guard against such encroachment. "And the more zealously must that body be watched, if its principles and practice are known to bo hostile to civil and religious liberty. Tlo mamsm u/ul Freedom are enemies always mid ev erywhere, and eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Even Italy is shaking off the domina tion tljat is now silently but steadily fastening itself on our backs. It is wise for us to be a wake to the danger." The Observer, likewise, gives prominence to a communication argujug in favor of negro suf frage, in order to counterbalance the growing power of the Human Catholics n the North. The writer says: "I will not stop to point out the fact that flic Papal Church has been persistently aiming at : political power. Tilt man that does not see and know it u; Mind. The man that does not recognize the danger with which it menaces our I institutions, is either ignorant or indiifercnt. Nor will I take space to show that the imported , Eomisii vote is l!:? element which gave it pow i er. Romanism is kept strong by immigration. This immigration promises to be larger in the future than even in the past. Already in our great cities it holds the balance of power, it ; may, whenever there comes a nearly equal di | vision of great parties, hold it all over the • country. ; "I have just asserted that the negro vote, i when it shall become a vote, will be Protestant. The religious history of the negro race has a deep meaning. Itcniaiiim hr.~ never been able to do anything with the negro race. Tk? ef forts of Rome to establish itself in Africa stand out as perhaps the most glaring and disastrous , failure, and that under the very best circumstan ces for success, that the history of religious ■ ' missions presents. God hag so ordered it that a like total failure should characterize her ~No deductions to advertisers ot Patent Medicines, or Advertising Agents. ! til"A wife's advice is like the ballast that j keeps the ship steady. C3"VVhen a belle is married, does she not re j ceivc a ring? ; erA brave man—one who isn't afraid to wear old clothes until he is able to pay for uevr. £3"As the good man saith, so may we ; but j as good women saith, so it must be. CrAR are good lntses ; but where comes the ill wives frae? C;rSome fellows deposit all their money instils the! l " vests in the form of victuals and drink, j . * ; and call that westing p.