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BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1861.
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THE IDIOT'S REQUEST. {
BY *‘GAY.” |
Oh, lay me down deep, where the outstretched
boughs,
Are, moss-covered, bending with years,
Where no mo.tal ever lay stretched before,
Nor trace of & grave appears—
Where the deep dark forest, in echoes low,
Sends forth no hum to the ear—
Forever gilent—silent—and dark,
Throughout the livelong year.
Ob, let rae rest where sweetest of flowers
Bloora, blossom, and fads away,
And leave no traces of what they've been,
Or how they could ever decay.
Where wild birds warble their requiems free,
‘Tua rite, and, falling again
On balmy zephyrs, are rolling along,
In Aurora's bright sweeping train.
Ob, let me lay deep, where stars smile down
Through many a long still night, .
O’er solemn grandeur—Dboth woods and waste—
With twinkling faces bright. :
Then as those faces peep from the sky, 1
My spirit shall often beseen, =.
O'ertripping the tops of the tallest trees,
_ Or hiding in foliage green. .
I'll smile at the moon—she'll smile at mo,
As she peers up over a cloud, .
Dispelled by Aeolees—exhumed from his cave,
And bellowing in thunders loud.
I'll laugh, and I'll dance o'er the tallest trees,
111 pluck them up from the earth, .
And my spectre shall visit the peasant’s howe,
Yo frighten him at his hearth.
As the fallen tree in a lonely place,
My flesh shall be wasting away,
Shall be crumbling to dust in it loneliness,
For with it I never shall stay. J
I'll stray with the Elves, I'll chase them about,
And, sometimes, I'll wrestle them down,
And, when twilight appears, I'll hie to my home,
To my mystical cave in the ground.
ell
[For the Warcmy AN.
LINES. ON THE DEATH OF MATTIE BULLOCK.
BY MOLLIE MURRAY.
Farewell, dear Mattie, a long farewell,
Not like the farewell uttered oft’ before,
We hoped to see thee oft again, and well,
This is the last, till time shall be no more.
We little thought, when we were with thee,
And heard the sing and play fo sweet,
That ere the summer would return,
Thou wouldst be lying in the winding sheet.
But Heaven thus will'd, and Heaven supreme
command, :
Thon hast obeyed, and passing quick away,
Hast reaced that happy, that delightful land,
Where night gives place to ever lasting day
I well remember all thy looks, thy emile,
Thy buoyant step, thine artless winning grace,
Thy cheerful voice and friendly, pleasant smile,
But now no longer can that smile we drace.
There linger hore loved oues, who feel an aching
void, :
Which naught but thy companionship caa fill,
W hase future hopes in thee are here destroyed ;
May they submit, for t'was God’s holy will.
A little while, and those who much did prize
Thy many virtues, now thy loss deplore,
Released from earth, will join them in theskies,
And feel the pang, the parting pang no more.
Parewell dear Mattie, calin be thy rest,
May flowers around thee shed their sweot per-
fume, . oo
And the green turf lio mouldering on thy breast,
‘While friends and loved ones weep around thy
tomb. wt
MiLesBurG, Pa.
WMisgellangons,
‘WHO GAINS BY THE WAR?
‘We alluded in our last issue to the miser-
able financial condition of the South, as
chronicled by the journalists of the North,
and endeavored to lay before our readers a
slight sketch of the skill and ability by which
the Confederate Treasury nas thus far been
provided for, in order that they might more | PY
clearly understand the real resources and
springs of wealth which the South has at
;its command. We also spoke of the deplor-
:able picture which the North gives of the
commerce and trade of the South, now that
its ports are sealed, its imports are excluded
and its means for obtaining shoes, clothing
and other necessaries, even for its army, are
entirely cut off. We propose to take a
Southern view of this question also ; and
we think it of easy demonstration that the
effect of the sagacious policy adopted by the
North is, though it may prove of great tem-
porary inconvenience, only calculated, event-
ually to enrich the South at the expense of
the North. ¢ : .
The closing of the Southern ports, may it
i8 true, cut off, for a time, the importation of
all foreign goods, but it at the same time
effectually excludes all Northern manufac-
tures : and while it deprives the South of
gpthing really necessary, it in reality pre-
ts it from impoverishing itself, by the
{ perity of the South,
sure, established this branch of industry on
a firm basis in those States, but there are no
other locations which offer inducements
equally great, and the disect effect of the
continued interruption of intercourse be-
tween the producers and the consumers must
inevitably be to force the consumers to pro-
duce for themseives. The history of our
own country Surely affords us a sufficiently
recent example of this fact. [It has become
a trite saying that America declared her in-
dependence in 1776, but that she achieved
it in 1813. Up to the latter period, deed,
she was a mere colony of Great Britain, and
dependant upon England for manufactures
of all kinds. But the war of 1812 [reed her
from this thralldom. It gave a direct but
only a temporary blow to commerce, while
on the other hand it gave an impetus to man-
ufacturies which could have been effected in
no other way ; and at the expiration of the
war, convinced of the elements of wealth
and prosperity which they possessed. the
New England States €id not fail to profit by
their experience. Manufactures were fos-
tered and encouraged by legislation, and the
mother country was forced to seek other
markets for mans fabrics for which America
bad previously furnished her with the larg-
est markets. What that war then did for
the North, this one is now: doing for the
South. The very opportunity for which the
South has been yearning and striving for
years, the North has now furnished it with.
| Every day that this. war continies, serves
but to give an additional impetus to the
manufacturing enterprise of the South. Cot-
tong. clothing, machinery, castings, guns,
percussion caps and agricultural implements
are all being successfully manufactured in
Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama. Estab.
lished factories are extended, new ones are
being built. Population and capital inevita-
bly flow to thriving districts. and with the
necessary means once invested, the machin-
ery erected and - the factories in operation,
the North will find that even if a peace be
established which secures an untrammelled
communication between the two sections,
the result of her insane policy will have been
to build up a competing * production in the
districts where she looked for the largest
consumption. Unfortunately for the North-
ern States, those manufactures which they
produce most successfully, (hats, shoes,
machinery castings. agricultural implements
and other Amerinan wares). are precisely
those which are required for the Slave States.
When it is cut off from the South itis ent
oft from the largest consumers. It is a death
blow to its own prosperity. It may. to be
sure. find a market for a certain class of
cottons in the East India and South Ameri-
can markets #®but for all the finer qualities,
and all American wares. unless the cost of
production be reduced, it can only, for the
future, manufacture a quantity sufficient for
the consumption of the Northern and West-
ern States. »
A similar effect ‘must he produced on the
commerce of the States. * No peace can now
be concluded, on any terms, which will re-
store trade to the old channels. The South
will spare no effort and leave no means un-
tried which will enable 1t to retain for itself
some of the vast advantages of its own com-
merce. It is estimated that the South sends
the North, yearly, products valued at over
$500,000,000, upon which the commercial
men and bankers of the North, and princi-
pally of New York, reap harvests of golden
profit. Through New York the large finan-
cial operations of which Southern produce is
the basis, are now made, and Southern ma-
terials forms in fact the capital upon which
are drawn millions of exchange which regu-
late operations in all quarters of the globe.
But this is not all. A large portion of the
wealth of the North is derived from the
shipping interest. The large tonnage of the
United States is built and owned principal
ly in the North, and the North does at least
three fourths of the foreign’ carrying trade,
The value of export freights alone—we take
our estimates from a work to which we have
more than once before alluded, ** Southern
Wealth and Northern Profits” —amounts to
about $28,000,000 per annum, about six
sevenths of which is derived [rom the trans.
‘portation of Southern produce. The value
of return frieghts on merchandize paid for
by Southern cotton, tobacco and naval stores
is probably even greater than this. The
prosperity of the shipping interest of the
North is actually dependant upon the pros-
Statistics show that
with the increasing agricultural wealth of
the South the tonnage of the North has in-
creased ; and the increase of American ton~
nage has been calcglated to be exactly in
proportion to the iffereased operation of cot-
ton—every additional bale of cotton requir-
ing one ton additional of shipping to trans-
rt it. Every day of the continuation of
of this blockade is a loss to this interest ; —
and not only a temporary, but a permanent
one. The Slave States have already en
deavored to turn to advantage their vast
timber fields, and from year to year they
have gradually been extending their ship
building. In 1855 they built about ene
: tenth as much tonnage as was built in ‘the
North, but in 1858 shey built one fouctn as
much, showing clearly that they have both
the will and the ability to extend the opera~
tions of their ship yards. Every day that
this war continues” does the North run a
greater risk of diverting this great carrying
trade from her own ports and her own ves-
sels. Every day serves but the more firmly
to convince England of the necessity of un-
| trammeliled Southern communication for her
| manufactures ; and as from day to day she
| becomes more thoroughly acquainted with
' the trae strength of the South, so will her
desire become greater fora more intunate
alliance. This .the Southern Jonfederacy
purchase of a large amount of foreign goods;
at a time when every economy should neces-
sarily be practised at home. ~The establish
ment of
resent, to the importation of fabrics from
Europe and the North, but at the same time
it forces the South to establish its own man-
ufacturies:and to furnish itself, at least, with
those articles ot prime necessity for which
it is now principally dependant on the North,
New Jersey, New York, and the New Eng
and States, possess no natural or pre emi-
went advantages that give them the control of
the manufactures of the American Continent.
Qapital, enterprise, population, have, to be
e blockade has put an end, for the |
will not be slow to grant. It will use, for
| the present, the capital and shipping of Eng-
| land in place of the capital and shipping of
the North, and avail itself of foreign aid un-
| til it is able to provide for the transporta-
{ tion of its own pruduce. What will New
| York be, deprived of the carrying trade of
the South, and without the profits of that
trade, and the benefit of the exchanges aris-
| ing fromher Southern business connections ?
| The effect upon the agricultural products of
the great West will also be disastrous. The
{ Gulf States are being forced for self protec
f1on to diminish considerably the cultivation
of cotton, and to devote a portion of their
j labor to the growth of an increased crop of
- mins
cereals. The'consequence of this will be to
ecable the South to - support, without im
poverishing itself.
arising from diminished production, will, in
all probibility, tend to enhance the price, so
as to make the profit quite as greatason a
larger supply. The effect upon the West
will be directly the contrary. The enlarged
culture of cereals in the Slave states must
create an over protection in the whole coun-
try, and the crops of Kentucky, Western
Virginia, and Maryland, will necessarily be
thrown upon those-markets which are now
mainly supplied from the West. Not only
will prices be reduced in this way, but as
the manufacturing districts of the Eastern
States become impoverished, they will have
less maverial to exchange, and be less able
to pay remunerating rates for the products
of the West. So it will be with England. —
The policy of the Republican party, in de-
priving Ler of raw material, diminishes her
production. It excludes from American
warkets, by a high tariff, fabrics which might
otherwise be shipped to this country . it
bankrupts the New York importer, and the
inevitably effect must be to lessen the de-
wand for grain. It cats from South Ameri.
ca the great coffee markets of the Slave
States, and necessarily incapaciates her, to
some extent, to take the breadstuffs she oth-
erwise would have taken in exchange.
Which ever way we regard it, the conse-
quences are the same—partially injurious to
the Sonth, but disastrous to the North. The
South loses little ; it spends comparatively
little, and is piling its wealth up. The
North loses everything, spends enormously
and stores scarcely anything. . Every day
adds, in fact, to the strength of the South
and diminishes that of the North. ~The war
tells alike onthe Western farmer, the Fast.
ern farmer, thé Eastern manufacturer, and
the New York banker. The effect upon the
former, however, 15 only temporary ; upon
the two latter it must be more permanent.—
‘The eventual result of ‘the war will safely
be to unite the Slave ‘States in one grand
Republic, and the North will then find that
its suicidal policy has only been to estab~
lish a nation, which possesses not only vast
resources in the growth of <taples peculiar
to itself, but which ‘has, in addition, every
element of wealth possessed’ by the Free
States. The North will, at the- §e me time,
discover that it has separated itself from a
country upon the production of which it
was actually dependent for the prosperity of
its largest interests, and for the meaus of
affording employment to its operatives and
occupation (o its mariners.— Fox change.
THE PAY OF OUR VOLUNTEERS.
The fo'lowing recapitulation affords useful
information to voluntecrs and their families :
I. After being mustered into the service
of the United States, volunteers are entitled
to the same pay as the regular troops.
2. If disabled by wounds received in ser.
vice. or disease contracted m service, they
are entitled to an invalid pension during
life, or so Jong as the disability continues.
3 If any are killed, or die m the service
of the United States, leaving a widow, she
is entitled to what pay was dae her husband
and a pension. IH there is no widow, the
child or children of such volunteer is enti-
tled to the pay and a pension, till they are
sixteen years of age. :
4. If there is no. widow, or child under
sixteen years of age, the other heirs of the
decedent are entitled to the pay due the vol-
unteer at the time of his death—no pension.
At this time neither the volunteer nor any
heir is entitled to any land warrants, but
there is no doubt an act of Congress will be
passed early this month, granting one hun-
dred and sixty acres of land to every volun
teer who shall serve fourteen days, and en-
gage in battle and be honorably discharged —
first fb the widow, second to the children,
third to the mother, fourth to the father:
and if all the foregoing heirs be dead, fifth,
the brothers and sisters of those who serve
and die without receiving a warrant, in like
manner as, the volunteers who served'in
Mexieo, are now rewarded. Seamen and
others who take prizes, and those perform-
ing meritorious feats, will undoubtedly be
rewared with the fruits of their valor.—
Those patriotic men and women who suffer
from roblery in the Slave States, under the
nate of confiscation, will almost certainly
be rewarded, according to the scripture rule,
four fold from the property of the rebels—
all State conflscations being wholly illegal —
and mere organized piracy will be punished
and Congress will undoubtedly pass a prop-
er and effectual act whereby the United
States Courts will take from the unfaithful
and unjust stewards what property they
may have, and give it to the faithful and
true servants.
5. Tu addition to what the volunteers and
heirs are entitled to and may become enti-
tled to from the United States; the several
States have passed and will pass acts grant-
ing pay from the State treasury.
se ntl DA.
Tne Fravp CodyissioNers.—When the
public indignation against the State Admin-
istration, for the shameful manner in which
our volunteers were treated, became so great
that something had to be done to appease it,
the telegraph inforined us that the Governor
had appointed three honest and reliable men
to investigate the frauds, and find who were
the guilty parties. We never saw any offi-
cial notice of the appointment of these gen-
tlemen, but presume such was the case. —
Sinee this appointment weeks have elapsed,
and nothing has been heard from the com.
missioners. Are they doing anything in the
matter? The responsibility, has, 1m a
measure, been put upon their shoulders, and
the people will look to them to have: the
guilty parties brought to light, It is to their
advantage, as well as to the advantage of
the people of the State, that they should be
heard from before long. = At all events,
whether they be heard from or not, all par-
ties interested may as well take notice that
the matter will never be suffered to rest
where it now is, It is no excuse for the
Administration to say that the second lot of
uniforms was passible, and therefore the
miserable quality of the first should be
overlooked. Such a plea would never be
entertained in a court of justice. There has
been gross injustice somewhere, and it must
be ferveted out.— Chambersburg Times.
The scarcity of cotton’
GEN. SCOTT'S TACTICS.
“If you want to catch a rat, you must first
close the holes*’’—Gen. ScorT.
In the art of war there are at present two
methods. By the first the hostile armies
meet 1n regular battle array and the slaugh-
ter begins. Such armies are to be compared
to two prize fighters, who are measuring
their physical strength in order to see who
will deal the last blow. It is not possible to
decide in advance who will be the successful
one because it will depend on many acciden-
tal circumstances ; but one thing is certain,
after the fight dock will be Lealen black and
blue.
Unfortunately this method is predominant
and furnishes the sad truth that in the mili
tary world the intellect is poorly represen-
ted. Even the last [tallian war, this method
was employed by the French as well as by
the Austrian. Generals. What was the re-
sult of this barbarous method? A terrible
loss ef human lives on both sides, and for
the victorious Commander in-cheif, the mor-
tifying confession.“ One more such a vic
tory, and I am lost !”’. * Fortunately for Na-
poleon, that against the counsel of Lieut.
General Hess, the Emperer of Austria made
the notorious peace of Villa Franca.
The aim of the other method is to put the
opponent, by degrees, in sucha pesition
that, when 1t comes to a decissive co ‘est,
his defeat must be an absolute certainty. —
Commanders in-chief, who are operating in
this manner, are to be compared to two chess
players. The one whose talent of combina-
tin is greater, whose logic is stronger, will
undoubtedly be fully victorious ; for when
the last stroke is to be played, the opponent
is checkmaled. .
At the head of the United States Army is
placed General Winfield Scott. His past
career and wisely calculated measures
egainst the rebel forces of the South prove
that he belongs to the small number of com-
manders who, by thieir high intelligence,
conduct war aceording to the last reethod. —
He the veteran of seventy-five years, paral-
yzed on one side, and therefore incapable of
mounting the war steed, defeats his enemies
without being present on the battle field. —
He, the Hero of Chippewa; Cerro Gordo,
Contreas, and Cherubusco, in the present &li-
important struggle in which the destiny of
his country will be decided, will carn a lau-
rel wieath which will immortalize him to
the farthest posterity.
+ At the time of the breach between the Na-
tional Government and the South. Gen. Scott
had to solve two difficult problems. The
one was to blindfold the rebels in regard to
the real momentary weakness of the Govern-
| ment, and to direct at the same tithd theat.
tention and the activity of the hostile! army
to one, in fact, unimportant. object. How
much depended on the solution of the prob-
lem, these facts will show. The ‘“traitor-
04s” functionaries of Buchanan's adminis-
tration not only had sent nearly all the war
material to the South, but had plundered
also the treasury. In the solution of the
first part of this problem, Lincoln and Sew-
ard showed consumate ability. A more
peacefull feeling was shown to the South.——
The Commissioners of the seceded States
came to Washington, although they were
not received officially nor acklowledwe’;: but,
nevertheless, they were keptin suspense
week after week in the hope of a peaceful
seperation between the North and South. —
The solution of the second part of this préb-
lem was the task only of General Scott, and
is really a mastet=picge of ‘stratagem. Fort
Sumter was the object which Scott selected
to divert the attention of the enemies, In a
masterly manner, he produced theimpression
that he attached the highest importance to
this little fort with a garrison of eighty-five
men ; and the immediate consequence was
that the little fort was invested hy ‘degrees
by an army of 8 000 men, who busied them-
selves in putting up earthworks, in order to
protect éblossal batteries. The.commander
of the fort, the patriotic Major “Anderson,
looksicalmly from thethight of his for.ress
into the camp of his enemies, and leaves
them undisturbed” ‘So month atter month
passes, up to the moment in which General
Scott is ready to act against the South. A
fleet composed of men of-war and vessels
of supplies, leaves New York. It was the
policy of the Government to make the South
believe that this fleet was destined to rein
force Fort Sumter. ‘The Southern Commis-
sioners leave Washington in haste ; the reb-
el army at Fort Sumter prepare for the fight,
and the whole country looks with anxious
eyes to that little fort at the entry of the
harbor of Charlestown, in which a little band
of eighty-five determined men upholds the
glorious stars and stripes against a wnole
army of enemies. @
The expected fleetis not in sight yet,
when the *“rebels’ open their fire from
Fort Moultrie. The besieged answer prompt-
ly the attack. All the batries are at work,
and send destructive missiles into the little
fort. The mutual bombardment lasts thir-
ty-three hours, and then Fort Sumter sur-
renders ; Maj. Anderson capitalates, and ob-
tains a retreat with the honors of war.
‘A cry of triumph runs through the whole
South ; m the North the word Treason!”
is whispered. Yet the more the mist of de-
lusion disperses, the clearer appears the wise
combinations of our great General Scott, and
the events are assuming another light. As
soon as the thick smoke after the bombard-
ment, had passed away, only a few peaceful
steamers and a vessel of supphes were to be
seen instead of the expected fleet. The
steamer took the brave Major, Anderson and
tus gallant little band on board and return-
ed to New York: What had become of the
war steamers ¢ They quietly and silently
had passed tHe bar to re-inforce with provi-
sions and men the {ar more highly important
Fort Pickens. a
Gen, Scott had solved his problem. The
object was gained ; that is, the Goverment
had obtained a stronger-organization by em-
ploying trustworthy officers 5 it was enabled
to make the necessary loans and effectuated
the vast armamants, and the still greater
advantage, to turn the public opinion after
the fall of Fort Sumtar, in favor of coercive
measures. How ridiculous are on the con-
trary the results of Gen Beauregard, of ** re-
bellious ” glory. His army is kept in check
five months by 85 men, and its only heroi-
cal deed consists in the destruction of a fort
which was erceted by the whole country for
the protection of a Southern harbor agamst
foreign enemies. :
The second problem of Gen. Scott, in the
solution of which he is at present engaged,
consists in disabling the enemies from con-
ducting the war in a way which would be,
under the circumstances the only one to of-
fer to the ‘rebels’ the posibility of obtaining
favorable results, and besides would open
to the country the sure prospect of all the
calamities of a long war. Ina word it is
the method which Gen. Washington employ-
ed against the English army. Taking ad-
vantage of the vast ‘territory, he fatigued
his enemies, avoided battles as much as pos-
sible, cut off corps from the main army, and
so defeated them.
When, #ifter the laps of twenty days gfv
en by the President the rebels did not = dis-
perse, Gen. Seott had to set to work. It
was neccessary to induce the enemy to con-
centrate his forces, not only on one point
but also to bring them on a certain ground
which offered the possbility of cutting them
off from all comnuunications. Gen Scott se-
lected for that purpose the State of Virginia.
He commenced the operations. Prudently
the United States troops retired from. Har-
per's Ferry and burned up the Arsenal. —
In great haste Commodore Pendergrast gives
up Gosport Navy Yard, and sinks the fleet
that is exceedingly tempting to Jeff. Davis
and Beauregard, and the rebel army begins
to swarm into Virginia, which may be com-
pared to a blind alley. Gen Scott keeps
quict. From all parts large and small bod-
ies of rebel troeps arrived, to reinforce their
main army. Gen. Scott keeps quiet. « All
at once, on the night of the 23 —24th of May,
15,000 men are marshelled in the streets of
Washington. Gen. Scott and Prsident Lin
coln appear. Shortly after midnight the
troops commence to move, marching past
their Commander-in-Chief and the President
of the Republic, are devided in two columns
and take the way to Virginia. At sunrise
the Hights of Arlington are occupied by U.
S. troops, and the people of Alexandria are
startled to see them also in their midst.—
The,troops carrying with them the necessa-
ry materials to erect fortifications, and set
to work immediately, the communications
between Virginia and Washington are cut
off; 3,000 men follow. The day after, Gen.
MeoClellan advances with Ohio troops into
Western Virginia.
The State of Virginia is bordered by the
States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and
by the Potomac river and the Chesapeake
bay. which cuts offa very swall part of
Virginia. In the States ot Ohio and Penn-
sylvania there are 40,000 men ; in the Dis~
trict of Columbia the same number. Mar-
yland. being’ doubtfull in its patriotic feel
mgs, is kept in check hy Pennsylvania and
Deleware, and its chiet city, Baltimore, is
overawed by Fort MeHenry. Kentucky,
also en uncertain State, is kept in check by
Ohio, Indiana, and Iilinois. Up the Missis-
sippi, through Kentucky, no support can be
sent to the rebel army, because at Cairo, a
highly important strategical point at the con-
finence of the Ohio and Mississippi, there are
concentrated some 20,000 men. From the
seaside all communication is cut off by Ber-
wress Monroe, which commands Chesapeake
bay, and,by cruising vessels. At Fort Mon-
roe, (ieneral Butler is posted with 15,000
men. It is clearly to be geen that Gen. Scott
needs only to cut off the communication from
Virginia to Tennessee and to North Carolina
and the ‘ rebels’’ are isolated.- -Central
Press.
I
A Suaxe.—One of the most disgraceful of
the acts which have characterized the pres-
ent Administration in its brief, but unexam-
pled career, is the appointment of Jim Lane
to a Brigadier Generalship, and “Captain”
Montgomery to a Coloneley in the army—
‘two as deep dyed scoundrels as ever went
unhung. The murders and robberies com-
mitted by those fellows during the troubles
in Kansas are known to the whole country,
and have linked their names in appropriate
connection with the hoary villain but less
fortunate John Brown. These men did all
in their power to keep alive the bloody strife
in Kansas, and are personally responsible
for a large share of its atrocities. Lane
murdered a Free State man named Jen-
nings ! He was arrested, but contrived to
get clear by hismnfluence over men as guilty
as himself. His seat in the Senate wes ses
cared by corruption unexampled in the nis~
tory of legislation —the vaotey of members be-
ing openly bought and sold on the floor of
the House.
What adds to the enormity of the case,
was the well authenticated fact that the nuon-
ay used for this purpose was stolen from the
contributions sent out by charitable people
at the Bast to relieve the sufferings of Kan -
sas. Since the election of Pomeroy and Lane
to the Senate, pothing has been heard of
suffering iA Kansas. Montgomery is a des-
perado of the most abandoned character, and
Las for years kept around him a band of
lawless men, who made themselves the ter-
ror of the colntry round about. ‘Lheir rob-
beries and murders are fresh in the minds of
the public. This band is still in active ser-
vice, and the effect of giving a commission
to Montgomery i# to place them in the pay
of the government and make the whole coun-
try responsible for their acts. These men
proclaim that they are determined to *‘ sus-
tain the Union” and “protect the honor of
the flag !” The elevatton of men of such
character to a par with the volunteers who
have disinterestly shouldered their muskets
for the support of the government in good
faith, and with honorable purpose, a burn
wg disgrace to the country.—New Haven
Register.
Otome
A liar.—Among many anecdotes of Ben-
na Vista, this one beats all others. An Ar-
kansas soldier being wounded; asked an
Irishman to take him off the field: The lat-
ter did so by enabling him to mount, and
strapping him on the horse, himself riding
before. During the ride the poor Arkansaian
had his head cut off by a cannon ball, ur-
known to his companion. Arriving at the
doctor's quarters, the Irishman was asked
what he wanted. I brought this man here
to have his leg dressed.” “Why,” replied
the doctor, ‘his head is shot off.” “The
bloody lian,” exclaimed Mike, looking be-
him. “he told me he was only shot in the
leg.’
Is Turis Treason ?—When the resolution
was before the Senate, on Wednesnay last,
Mr. King, of New York, (Republican) offer-
ed an amendment providing that in six
montks after the re-establishment of the an-
thority of the United States the standing
army be reduced again to the footing of the
act of July, 1861. Mr. Hale, of New Hump-
shire, (Republican) moved to reduce the na-
vy in the same manner. lt was. quite evi-
dent to him that the strength of the country
was in the voluuteer militia. ‘ He also
‘« wanted to make war on the harpies, who
‘are busy around the departments, and
«« wanted to save the treasure of the Govern-
‘ment as well as from being stolen by the
rebels as filched by false friends.” This
smacks of treason. Won't some of nur Re-
publican friends who have “cen conspicuous
in denouncing as treasonable and calculated
to destroy public confidence in the Adminis-
tration of the Government every complaint
emanating from Democrats of the manner
in which public affairs are cenducted, be
good enough to turn their batterings against
Mr. Hale ? Look at the audacity of the
man! Standingup in the United States
Senate and slandermng the patriotic men
about the departments by soggesting that
they make a practice of#filching the treasure
of the Government—while they are laboring
day and night for the welfare of the nation !
This sort of thing ought to be stopped at
once, and Mr. Hale notified that although he
may have had the privilege of uttering what
| slanders he pleased against the * infamous
{ Buchanan Administration.” there is now a
new order of things, and freedom of speech
{ is not to be tolerated. Let Mr. Hale beware
how he indulges his loquacious propensities,
or he may get himself into trouble !
! —— em
| Tue Rieuror Permox.—The Journal of
| Commerce, of July 1st, in a leader, says: —
1 . .
| ** Av extraordinary proceeding was chron.
(icled in the city news department of the
| New York papers on Saturday morning, in
which copies of a petition numerously sign-
ed by the aitizens of New York, and address-
ed to the President of the United States.
were seized, taken from the possession of
those to whom they had been confided, and
conveyed to the, headquarters of the police,
where they were detained for public exhibi-
tion. lt is not'€hown that any proceedings
have been had to authorize the police to in-
terfere with the sacred petition, a right as
dear to every American citizen at the pres-
ent day as it was to the people ot the Colo-
nies, when they complained that the British
Government spurned their prayers for relief,
and denied the right that the humblest citi-
zen has, to approach the rulling pawers with
requests, touching the Administration ©f
the Government. [It is difficult, as one after
another of the dearest rights of frecinen are
violated, and article after article of the Con-
stitution trampled under foot, by those who
have solemnly sworn to support it, to realize
that we live under a frec government, or
that we lay claim to any privileges which
are not liable to be invaded by official pre-
tension and assumed power. * » *
«We doubt whether any considerable
number of signers will be frightened into
withdrawing théir names, but think it more
likely thatit will receive large accessions
from the independent men of the city, who
dare exercise their constitutional rights un-
der threated intimidation. There is no pow-
er short of absolute tyranny which can in-
terfere withjthe right of petition, especially
when the right is exercised in a mode so
void of offensive of treasonable language as
in the present case.”
—————— PO
Prams Truni=-An Irishman writing fiom
Philadelphia to the Bosion Pilot, says :
-« The very great majority of our late fa-
mous ** Wide Awakes 7 now belong to the
Home Guards. Every one of these fellaws
voted for Lincoln, and they ought certainly
to have been the first to' volundeer for actual
service. If they possessed the least spark of
manhood or shame, they would not now be
seen parading our streets—they would re
rain from playing soldier. The Home
Guards (alias the Preserre Korps) are com-
posed almost to a. man of Americans—rich
men and their sons, and fancy clerks, who
are firmly convinced that none but poor men
should go to war, Last fall an individual
that belongs to the Guards gave $5000 to-
wards the election of Liricoln ; this man has
two sous —stout, hearty fellows —yet he has
discretion enough not to send either of them
to do battle for their native land. |
¢ Most of those Republicans who, last Oc-
tober, bellowed forth their defiance to the
South, and who, when the Crittenden Com-
promise measures were introduced, opposed
them with all their might, now, like cow-
ards, shrink from the quarrel which they
themselves, to a certein extent, provoked.
«In this city, at least, party differences
are asrife as ever. Every Democrat, both
great and small, is being ousted from the
Navy Yard, Post Office, and other places —
The Democrats may enlist, for the Republi-
cans are fond of peace; of gold, and ofthe
peace.” { :
Ei a
Texyessee Mans Cur Orr.— The follow-
ing order, from the Post Office Department
has been issued :
Post Ovrics DEPARTMENT. |}
Appointment Office; July 10, 1861. §
By order of the Post Master General, the
entire postal service. embracing the post
offices, post routes, and route agencies in
Middle and West 'Tenneasee, is discontinued
from and after this date.
No mails will hereafter be made up for
any office in those districts until such ser-
vice shall be restored and. notice given : nor
will prepaid postuge thence be recognized.
Joy A. Kassox,
First Assistant Postmaster General.
ese LL werent
A Southerfgentleman writes to a friend
in Boston as follows:
«I would not in the least monrn your loss,
but wonld remember you in my prayers as
T remember John Brown, beseeching for him
and you alike the hottest corner of the hot~
test department of hell, and the closest and
most unremitting attentions of the devil.
Bl
1¥ you waste time do not grumble if time
should waste you.
approving of certain*acts of the Presideng*