ne git 1 * BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY mda hh MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1861. asi NO, 29 MIL JIA AX YAMIN TUR 70 THE RIGHT. From eyery moment present. the fruits of virtue 1 (A Poem from, the Arabic.) o 10 p¥ Rv! EDWARD ©. 3088, As M. Turn to {he right, Ben Hassan, the path of love “and truth, For swiftly will be passing the sosd time of thy 1iyouth, Thy moon is in its oresent, and ere it reach the full, ue ull * Though pleasure be a charmer; can she the brave i, delude ?, +: air When conscience is the armor to still defend the Bloc * ‘meadows Te,’ ’ Abd geritle ‘streams are’ passing Earth's Lo poedy. | als Tarn to ‘the right, Ben Hassan, where golden lighid trrth Not with tho bright blads that gleameth, though “chased withHigh design, With half the Tstré’ beameth, as one pure heart Y divineyrisf nom To exch’ all earth is given, and quieting their «fears, { They pass to Allah's of temrs. Tur to the right, Ben Hagan, no serpent gliding by, } Tito Shall hide the fearful poison, while luring with hig eve ; : But through enamelled meadows, thy foot unsan- fredied go,’ No’ addersbrood to ating it; till crimson torrents flowy: Foie : sa vastly bit ! gia) Sereno and Joyous, shalt thou to better r egions pross, Bteoped With thy loving nature, in Allan's pure \ 1 ¢aressl; i lu Calm in thy hope of glory and quieting thy fears, Death, to thy. tranguil spirit, shall be no gate of rere Leaven, but through no vale ‘the sunken cheek, the hollow and despairing’ eye of the ‘starving wife, whose head has been pillowed for many a‘year upon the poor man’s loving breast; and to hear loved.chil- dren cry in vain for bread. These ane some of ‘the physical effects of poverty, most mn- adequately described, for not even “Hogarth could paint that squalid; misery which ever sits in tattered and filthy rags, at the poor man’s hearth; but those ofa moral character ave far more fearful to contemplate: | To behold all. that. gorgeous light which’ once beamed aud sparkled in the eye of a loving wife now darkened and dimmed thro’; suffering, and hear only ‘words of suffering and repinning issue from those’ lips ‘which used, in former times when the world was brighter, to express the language ‘of encour ‘agement and hope, is hard, very hard, to bear ; but how*much harder to Witness the growth of children whose ‘lives must be passed amid the same scenes of destitution and misery which their fathers were com- pelled to tread : for the Jour untolds no ‘rainbow of promise to the pocr man’s child, when poverty is the! nation’s curse ; ot else to see them driven by. suffering and brutal ignorance combined, into habits of immoral ity and crime which will ultimately conduct ‘the gous to a felon’s grave and the daughters to the brothel. - This is no-exagerated pic- ture of the moral evils attendant upon pov- erty ; that poverty under which the laboring classes of England have groancd, and wil groan for many agds to come, in consequence of those foreign wars which’ have invested | the English. nation with so inuch martial glory. I have drawn my idegs of the" con- dition of the iaboring class in England, from reports which have been made from time to time to the British Parliament, by committ- ees from that body, and which would not, of course, contain exaggerations—ZEnglish and Scotch reviews—the books of travelers—and lastly, from such writers as Dickens, Doug- las, Jerrold. Hood, &c., who, being English. men themselves, and ardent lovers of their native land, would seek rather to soften than to add to the gloomy. colors, which prevail throughout this most painful pictwe. That all this poverty and wretchedness| has been caused by that war bebt, which; ever since it has been contracted, has eaten like a cancer ‘into the heart of English labor THE EXPENSE OF WAR. { RT THR WAR DEBT QF ENGLAND—ITS EFFECT. UP: ON THR LABORING CLASS—WIIAT WILL IT BE IN THIS COUNTRY—ITS PROBABLE EFFECTS rly The national debtof ‘England is said to amoent td¥thie criormous sum of eight hun dred and nine’ millions of pounds sterling. The war of the ‘Spanish “succession, which commenced in 1707, and terminated eleven years thereafter, dost “England twenty-two millions three hundred ‘and seventy thousand two hundred and two pounds. The wars of the right of search, and Austrian succession, which continued eight years, cost twenty- nine millions ‘three’ hundred and fourteen twenty-two The seven years’ war cost sixty millions seven hundred and eighty-two thou- thousand six ‘hundred ‘and pounds. sands three hundred and sixty-eight pounds The American ‘war of ‘eight years, cost one hundred and: fifteen ‘millions nine hundred and oné ‘thousand seven hundred and thirty- two pounds. ‘Phe French war, (interrupted by the ‘treaty of Amiktis) which continued twenty-two years, cost! four hundred and twenty-one millions three ‘hundred and sev- onty-five thousand six‘hundred and twenty- | eight pounds. TheWRussian war, which st thirty nine millions twenty-six thousand one “hundred and sev- continued two years! {ye painds. Making 8 grand (ol. spent in severity th five p proven thefmrse b ple, prampi. fie resent ve and gallant peo = the natic and, at the sa; rather thar avo like! must all sleep in the grave, and perhaps, a last, the oor dah is better, happier and more to be’ desiréd than’ that of those ‘who are:compelledito draw ‘out a miserable existence im which eaeh succeeding hour is’ the tomb of disappointed. and ruined; hopes, while waiting for nature to call them away from edrth and its ‘sorrows. I allude to that vast expefiditure of human sufféring amounting to agony which had been/ brought pon the living by, these. cruel wars; and he, een] 'concludg a series of papers upon this'subject but which will be protracted throug erationg’of their ~ déscendants. caused by the untimely ‘death of husbands, fathers and song, time: will: heal sand ‘even ng and maidens by a : Tor the Jqliution 9omatey ngland, in seven wars, extending through fifty;eight years, of six hundred and eighty-eight millions Seven hundred and ousand ‘seven hundred and thirty- pounds. “The national glory of England has been, perhaps, greatly enhanced by. these | 8 long an desolsting wars ; her people have a injuries and to main- ih Hopal donor against all assailants ime, always ready to seek causes of offense. But at what an eriofitious expense has all this war- reputation: been obtained? Ido not mean of; life alone, for, sooner. of later. we no thoughtful man, who is acquainted with the ‘energy, intilligence, and national resour- ces of that great mation has ever doubted: In view then of the foregoing facts, and the conclusions I have drawn from them, I would now inquire of any friend of human- ity, whether he deems’the martial glory of England an cquivalent for the physical and moral sufferings of her children which I have attempted to depict 2 I pray God that my own country may heed that fearful warning, which has been written not only on the pages of English hist =v. but on those of other nations. and avoiu a great national war debt. On the 4th ot March, 1861, our national debt was small, not more, I believe, than one hnndred millions of déllars. a debt which could easily have been paid without distres- sing the. people. ago we determined, or Mr. Lincoln for us, “to play the royal. game of Kings,” the game of war—of international war ! and in oceder that it might be right lawfully played the restraints imposed by the Constitution have been thrown off, and the President has assumed absolute power. Editors of papers, politicians, ministers of the gospel, stump speakers, and aspirants for military and po- litical notoriety say that the game which’ has been commenced upon so grand a scale; must be played out, even if it costs: the country thousands of millions ofdollars ; for what are mountains of woney to these gentlemen, Who will tali«“vity good care that the crushing ' loadisha ++i upon the shoul. ders of the laboring « ..i ho can; thus; and only thus, be con. 1 io take their place at the base of the © 1] pyramid upon + whose apex sits a’ crowned King? Why | was this war cowumenced, and what igto be gained by continuing it ? , These are surely: important questions, and yet no two news, papers, no two men agree in the answers iven. : Tt is said by some that its design is to restore the Union; by others, to pnt an’ end to slavery in the South ; by a third that the Union is forever . destroyed, and the ob: ject of the war 1§'to conquor 2 peace; and by & fourth, that national glory demands it. These are some: of ithe “auswers given.-~ Which is rig] t ? In the meantime one thing 18 certain, that. the commencement ofthe war lost to the old Union four great States, ¢ and that before it is terminated, in all htman probability, ‘three 'more “will have ‘gone; while it is equally certain that if the war's long continued, a national debt will be creat- ed which will grind our pesple to powder for centuries, perhaps forever. Jn a private letter ‘which I received from an honored friend, some’ weeks since, and one of the wisest and best citizens. of Ohio, alluding’ t6' certain articles which he had published Upon © the national crisis,’” he’ says =I had hoped to have been able to ’ by congratulating the. people. upon: the mn trinsic value of our institutions in restoring haritiony to 'a'distracted country ; but now, di alas; all is enveloped in darkness an 3 Irie Tac Aen nt ak Wa year, the teil of # natiéni*is ‘éxpended in How great, Mr. Editor, prenld have been paying, a. riational debt; the! ‘prireipal 'o aan never. be reduced; but will «con inua the homcs of the tojling mi comes fasténdd like a ieprosy will. inevitably do w. eat bi fron 0 when a great nationa out of thé hard ing man; “then & terly vein and insignificant.are all these tro phies of Victory, brought from blood stained fields by conquering heroes, to gratify the vaility of a nation. This word povérty has a wonderful depth of méamng which few people understand, . beenuse, in this, until recently, happy land, few, have ever met it face to fice, and realized its horrible defor- fnity. It weans hunger; and nakedness and want of shelter from the burning suns’of summer, and {he freezing blasts of winter to sweat and toil for a little bread until ex inusted hte sinks down, through weak- fogs; iin despair 5 €8 watch from by to day y grow larger ; when. poverty enters, 1 iff, and be- 0 §y upon them and their descendbnts for all coming time, agit _be paid, as it.can alone be paid i ht earnings of the So not till then are the Lor- rors df war traly” realized ; then, und not before, are we madeito understand how ut- the ‘triumph of modern civilization, and;of | Christitity ‘and its hg if after having tried /n'vain to restore the broken Union by cable separation had been effected. 'But it 18 now too late for regrets, although net too 1 bis to retrieve our errors, —Columbus (0.) isis. y Bt fr i hg fl A ne an account of the “De lust Word ‘dat he' was heard to say, de last word he was known to ttter, de last syllable he ebber heaved, dé last idea he ejoculated ; yes, my brederen, de berry last word he eber was known to , breave forth, ‘sound or articulate, was Glory }” Such am. plified perorations are sometimes to be heard from orators of renown. es thi errs: A husband advertises. thus tt. My wife 3'Whoever returns her will get his head broke. “| As to trusting her, any body can do so if they tee fit; for as I never pay my own debts, it’s not likely I'll pay bern.” But about two months | honorable compromise, a peaceful and ami- | ~ Ax-eloquent negro orator ‘thus concludes Neath of a colored brother : B ‘Annie Marie, has strayed or. been stolen. "WHE WAR FEVER IN BALDING: Fl ym TY BY ARTEMUS WARD. "As soon as I'd recooperated my physikil 'gystern, I went over into the village. The peasantry was glad to sec me. "The school master sed it was cheering’ to sce that gi- gantic intelleck among 'em onct more:— Trat's what he called me. [I like schoolmaster, and allers send him tobacker when I'm off ona traveling campane. = Be- sides, he is a very sensible man. Such men must be encouraged. i _ They. don’t gat news very fast in Baldins: ville, as nothing but a plank road runs in there twice 4 week, and that’s very much out of repair. So my naburs wasn’t much posted up in regard to the wars. ‘Squire Baxter sed that he’d voted the dimicratic ticket for goin on forty year, and the war was a dam black’ republican lie. Jo. Stack- pole, who kills hogs for the squire, and has ot a powerful muscle into his arms,’ sed e'd bet $5 he could lick the Crisis in a fain stand up fight, if he wouldn’tdraw a knife ‘on him. So it'went—some was for war, and some was for peace. The schoolmas- ter, however, sed the Slave Oligarky must cower at the feet of the North ere one year had flowed by, or pass over his dead corpse. '«« Fsto perpetta ! ” «“'And sine qua non also!” sed I, sternly. wishing to niake an impression on the villagers. ‘Requiescat in pave !” sed the schoolmaster. ‘Too trdo, too troo,”’ 1 ansered, *‘its a scandalous ifapt 172: 104! : : : The newspapers got * along at’ last chock full of war, nd the patriotic fever fairly bust out in Baldinsville. . Squire Baxter sed he didn’t believe in Coercion, not one of ‘em, and <otld prove by a file of Eagles of Liberty in his garrit that it was all a Whi lie, got up to raisé the price of whiskey an: destroy our other liberties. Buti the old squire got putty riley when he heard: how the rebels was cuttin up, and he sed he reckoned he shotild skour up his old muskit and do a little square fitin for the Old Flag, which bad allers been on ithe ticket he'd Ivoted, and he was too old to Bolt now. The Squire ig all right at heart, but it takes longer for him to fill his venerable Biler with steam than it used to ' when he was young and frisky, As I previously informed you, I ‘am ‘Captin of the Baldmsville Company .— T'ri% gradooally. but majestically from drum. mers Secretary to my present position, — But 1 found the ranks wasn’t full by Ho means, and commenced for to recroot. ‘Hav. in notist a gineral desire, on the part ‘of “se young men, who are into the Crisis, to wear, eppyletts, T determined to haye my compa, ny composed excloosively of dffissers, every- body to rank as high as Brigadier General. The follerin was among the varis questions which I put to recroots : Do you know a masked battery from a hunk of gingerbread ? = Do you know a eppylette froma piece of chalk 2 Tf I trust you with a real gun, how many ahen of your own company do you speck you can manage to kill durin the war ¢ "Have yon ever had the measles, and if 80, how many ? "a { w air you now ? Show me your tongue, &ec., &c. Sum of the questions was sarcusstical, The company iilled up rapid, and last Sunday we went to the meetin house inifull uniform. 1 had a seris time gettin on my military harness, as’ it was built for me many years ago ; but'T finally got inside of it, though it fitted we putty clost. Howso- ever, onct into it 1 looked fine—in fact, aw inspirin. ‘ allt 1 “Do you know me, Mrs. Ward ?’ ged I, walkir into the kitchin, 3 +*Know you, you ‘old fool # Of course I 0, rhs T saw at onct that she did. ilov ‘94 I started foi the meetin house, apd I'm «afraid tried to walk too strate, for I cum Yery near fallin over backwards ; ‘and in ‘attempting to recover myself, my sword got was standing near "the church door, a seein the sojor boys’. come up. * My’ cockt hat fell off, and somohow my coat tails got twisted’ ‘hankerchiefs to their mouths and remarked, Sarah Peasley, bust out into a loud larf. — She exercised her mouth so violently that her new false teeth fell out onto: the dirty ground. : i Miss Peasley.” sed I, gittin up and dus: tin myself, “you must be more careful with them store teeth of your, or you'll have to gum it agin !”’ ne Methinks I had her. 4 ' I'd bin to work hard all the week; and 1 felt rather snoozy. “I'm afraid I did git half asleep, for on hearin the ministerask, “Why ‘was man made to mourn ?”’ I sed, «I giv.it. up,” havin a vague, idea that it was a cons numdram. ‘It was a _onfortinit remark, for the whole meetin house lookt ‘at’ me with mingled surprise and andignation. T'was about risin to a pint of order, when.it sud- denly occurred 10, me, whare; I. was, and I kept my seat, blushin like the red, red rose so to Spéake. 01H ht The next morning I rose with the’ lark! (N, B.—I don’t slcep with the lark; though.’ A goak.) Tonto vila sag th My little Suter was execootin ballids, ac- companyiii'herself withthe hand orgin, and she wisht me to linger and hear Her sing :— «Hark [ hear an angel singin, an angel now is onto the wing.” .: a i # Let him fly, my child P? sed I a buck- lin on ny armer,” “I must go forth to my ig?’ ! Wo are progressin pretty ‘well with our drill. Ag all air commandin offissers; there ain't no jelusy ; and as we air all exceedin smart, 18 Cain't worth while to try.to out- strip each other. "The idee of a company composed ekcloosively. of Commanders in Chiefs orrigginerated, I. spose I skurcely need say, id these Brane. = Considered as a idee, I flatter myselfit is putty hefty.— We've got all the 'tackticks at our tongs’ ends, but what we partiely excel in is restin muskits. . We can rest muskits with any body. 5 i : Qur corpse will do its dooty, We ga to the aid of old Columby —we fight for the stars aud stripes ! the mixed ap with my legs, and I fell in among |} choice collection of young ladies, who |: round my neck. = The young ladies put their |/ “Te He,” while ray ancient single friend, | “Well be chopt into sassige meat before we'll exhibit our. coat tales to the foe. WEN fight till, there's nothin left of us but our little foes, and even they shall defi | Fantly wiggle. © op al / . Under no cirkumstances whatever, will T secede, and let the Palmetter flags, flote thicker nor the shirts ‘on, a close line, and still ‘thar 1'll stand '¥ stick onto the good old flag of the Star§ ond stripes. i ! ‘My country may go. to the. deyil bat I won't. And next summer when I start out on my campane with my show, wherever I pitch my listle tent you shall see a floatin roudiy from the senter pole thar the Amer- ican flag with nary a star wired out, nary a stripe lesser, but the same old flag that, has allers flotid there, and the price of admission will be the same it allers wus—15 cents: |- one eyed men and women: and children half price. ; “Ever of thee!” { A. WagDn. ep AAA Apert Every true-hearted, patriotic man should actively engage in the peace movement which 2s been inaugurated in. varigus.. Northern States and cities, The people are begining to look this terrible: war of sections square in the face—to think of it dispassioniately and calmly, and to study out its:;probable results. , Their sober seeond | thought: has alieady accomplished mnch in favor of peace and the continued, efforte of conservative men of ali parties might;soon place our na~ tional difficultics in train; of settlementi— The improbability of ever finishing this'con- test by arms is a forcable argument against the continuance.of the war. ! Is their a sane American who believes that any amount of physical force will ever pre- vajl to make Union men out of ;/ Americans who don’t choose to be. such? Can you starve them into it ? Is their the remotest hope that a long war will make friends out of enemies ? So long as the North: stands where it stood six months ago, and says to the South, *¢ you must yield, back down from all this and give it up, we will not give you any excuse, any plea, any argument; by which to move your doubting friends, you must give up at once,’ so long a8 the North maintains this ground, just so long ‘the war will continne. We do not. believe, if the South were successful and overran the North with their armies, that a Northern min would lay down his arms so Jong as there ‘vemained 8 rock to hidé behind while he fired or, a mountain side from which to hurl dowd stones on his foes, Tess of Southern men. 1 Tre’ GATHERING TROUHLES.—Apprehien sive of a collision with ‘England, the Phila: of that city, says: ‘ade ns far as possible. .+ A prommnent English over this war as she did in 1312, when cot- ship lately ran the blockade at New Orleans and landed twenty thousand stand of arms end a hundredi tons of powder. With this disposition on the part. of. England; even capture of English hips endeavoring to break the blockade ?, The English will have a be constantly arising, difficult to be decided impossible in the state of feeling which will of the most serious importance, to see to ‘that our own city will not be neglected,” LL a IRR LA BY . WOMAN'S” ADVANTAGES. —Some of the ad- vantages of women over men.are as fol- ows : > A woman can say what she chooses with- out'being knocked down for it. = She can take a snooze after .dinner while her husband goes to work. e can go into the street asked to treat at every saloon. She ‘can 'paint her face if it's too pale, and powder it if 1t is too red. 35% She can stay at home in tinte'of war and a got married again if her husband gets illed. fixins if teo thin.: « She ean eat; drink and be merry without costing her a cent. whever she sees one she likes better. She can get her husband mm debt all over, ‘until he warns the public by advertisements not to trust her on his account. the State of Massachusetts, and therefore in the pie. He makes one little ommission, however. | niore than ¢ Government, Administrations. but in“every Northern State. cow ¥? tromsers towrn. from the clothes, line. just as they were getting troublesome. Joya Nor do we believe: any delphia + Enquirer, referring to the defences « What complications this war gas bring upon us it is difficult to forsee, ‘but it js clear that English ships will disregard the block- journal obseryes that England will ¢ tide: ton, though at a higher price, was always | to Be had.”> It i8 stated that ‘an’ English’ now, what may we expect, when the English’ operatives are suffering, with. famine, and when fhe Enghsh shall haye been irritated with the constantly , recurring news. of ithe strong fleef in the Gulf, and questions, will even by the calmest tempers, and perhaps then exist. . It therefore becomes a matter the protection of the Atlantic cities. Oper- ations on {he largest scale are in progress in New York, and we should. be glad to know: without. being Shc can wear corsets if too thick—other She can get divorced from her husband Tre Tron Ludkine Our I‘—'Government is getting swindled most scandously durring the war,” kays the Boston Atlas and Bee.— That paper. is doubtles well: « posted’ on the subject, as its chief is Adjutant General of a positign not only to know what is. going on in his line, but also to ¢¢ have a finger in Lis the people—the. tax-payers : ¢ by who are being. 7 {swindled by a corrupt set of scouneréls who have obtained contracts and been placed in official positions by the National and State ) But a day . reckoning 1s 'rappidly approaching, when the ballot-box will reflect public sentiment in a way not to be misunderstood, not only in Pennsylvania, ‘ Pappy, can’t I go to the zoological rooms to see the camomile fight the rhinosorous ‘¢ Sartin, my son—but don't get your Strange, my, dear, what a taste that boy has got for natural history, ish’ it?" No longer than yesterday he had eight pair of tom cats hanging by their tails rei Orr mtr IN the new territory of Nevada a snow storm in May killed all the grasshoppers CONFISCATING THE PROPERTY OF 7% BECESSIONISTS. Congress has nomore right to confiscate the property,of a traitor, than of the most citizen. ‘Not only is no authority given to Congress in the Constitution to do it, but it is expressly forbidden ; and the reason is that it would be visiting the sins of the guilty father,upon his mnocent = wife: and children, ard to generations yet unborn. It is manifestly unjust. The third article; third section; of the Constitution thus con- cludes : 184s The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attaindenof treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, ex- cept during the life of the porson attained. According to this section the taint of trea- son cannot descend to the children of the person gttained, and they do not forfeit their tho mor en 3 This is the case under the mong “shies and despotisms of Hurope, but the frumers of the Constitution estaba lished a new doctrine for the American, Re- public. The Constitution says . ‘except during the life of the person attained,” which implies that Congress has the power to deprive him of his property during lift.— But as Congress has made the penalty of treason, (eth, then the exception practicaly, does not amount to anything if the penalty of death is carried out. Were the punish: ment imprisonment, then the case would he different, ; . { “But in no case can Corgress. make new, laws to punish offences already. committed, in this rebebellion.. The Constitution is | clear and decided on this point. Section] nine of the first article runs : ** No bill of} attainder or ex pot fucto law shall. be pass- ed,” And ds if even this were not strong enough to satisfy “the people” who ordain- cd the Constitution, they added in a subse quent amendgpent, “Xo pirson shall be de- prived of property. without due process of law ; nor shall’private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” A bill “confiscating property in the rebel States’ is, therefore, clearly. a flagrant yio- lation of the plain; provisions of the Consti- tution. If there ig any one thing the Con, stitution guards with spore jealouscare than another, itis the, rights of property. |. There can be no Cromwellian confiscation? here, such as were. resorted to. in the case of the subjugation of Ireland —measures which, after All were not. very, successful ; though the whole soil was confiscated three times over. the loyalty of the Irish is very doubtful even at this day. Before the adop- tion of the Constitution in the time of the Revolutionary War, the, States, confiscated the property of any. persons who were loyal to the British Govermnent, as: they les gal right todo, and we. find in the treaty. of peace that provision is made for restitution and against future confiscations. The Constitution ever, and Justice Story, whose authority as a constitutional expositor no Northern man will venture to dispute, observes in his Com- mentary ; ~The powcr to pass bilis of at tainder and ex postr facto laws is quite as unfit to be entrusted to the States as to the general government. It was exercised by the States during the Revolutionary War, ip the shape of confiscation laws, to an extent which, upon ¢ool reflection, every. sincere patriot must .yegret. *; * * By the common law, one of the regular incidents to an attainder for treason-rthat is, to a con: viction and judgment in. court against the oftender—is that'he forfeits all his cstate, real and personal. is blood is also cor- rupted — that is; it Joses all inheritable gual- ities, so that he can neither inhent any real estate himself trom any ancestor ar relation by blood, nor gan’ his neirs inherit any real estate from him or through him from any "ancestor or relation by blood, * * ¥ * i The Constitution has abolished this corrup tion of blood and general forfedure, and ‘confined the punishment exclusively to the offenders, thus adopting a rule founded in ‘sound policy, and as humane as it 1s just.— N.Y. Herald THE HORRORS OF WAR. A corrédponident of the Daily Times has ‘the following description of the horrors of Wari, 5 Blin WisminézoN, Monday, July 21, 1861.—To read of a battle, with 1ts poetry of heroism, is a very fine thing, All men applaid the bold fellow, and all women throw laurels on the gallant soldier who is ready to throw down hislife for his country’s Hag. If one sees it, the thing is far different. was at the, defeat of our forces yesterday near Centre- ville, and'as T witnessed the hot shot and 1 saw the horrible grape and shrapnel doing jts too certain work all’ around ; as I saw my frend storming heroically masked batter. ries, which the terrible incompetence of toeir leaders did not allow them ta silence, owing to insufficient reinforcements being sent in roper time's when'I' saw these heroes at 11 a nionth losing heads, legs.and arms, in thick profusion around me i when T witness. ed the hor.ible rout brought sbout. by a thasterly flank movement, of their picked cavalry and sharpshosters, and when [' saw our artilery-men unlimber their guns, cut loose the traces of their horses and flee, leav- ing their peices behind ; when 1 saw, too, our boasted cavalry flying in thd same mad haste. with regiment after regiment pushing after them like so many sheep, throwing for, three miles gins, bayonets, carttidge-hoxes, and ‘provisions of ever; kind away—dra- goons riding over infantry in their flight and the ground absalitely covered for three miles with bodies, then I realized as only those can who sce it, the actual horrors of war. hr ——— epee Ar a party recently given in Bucks coun. ty, five young ladies were weighed, and the aggregate weight was seven hundred Li seventy-two pounds—average, une hundre and - fiftystwo' pounds each. 7 heavy crops in Bucks. : rrr hl A rere. Tag, herring fisheries of Norway have produced the Jast! year 700,000 tons. The Norwegian’ codfishery is on a large scale also. It employs 24,266 men, and produces annually 18,900 tous. Thousands of tons of oil are extracted from them, und large quantities of them are dried and salted for exportation for | settles the matter for |! ‘ernment ; the terrble shell Searing through the air: as |, hey raise | SUCCESS AND FAILURE. Nothing is more common than {3 hear the remark that a revolution is right if suc- cessful, otherwise not. This is such an ig- noring of the essential prineiples of Right sud Wrong, Justice anda Injustige,’ that we are often surprised to see’1t expressed in ‘quarters where a nore correct view of such matters is dooked for. If our forefathers had failed in their, effort “to vindicate the right of self-government in the Revolution of 1776, it would by no means have follow- ed that the principle for which they conten- ded was wrong. The instinct of self-gov- ernment common to the white race, is a vi- tal element of its very being, It ‘has ever ‘struggled for recognition, but until witness- ed on this continent, had never achieved aiything like success It was not success however, that made it right, for principles are selfexisting. Trith and Frror have heen in battle array Since’ the world began —ne to-day trampling over the other, ‘and the victor of yesterday the vanquished of to- day. On the whole, however, Truth, hac been steadily gaining the vantage ground and though sometimes obscured even for centuries, yet a few faithfull and devoted champions have rescued it from entire over- throw, aud rallied the people once more to its defence. Such grand and noble spirits have often been compelled to’ seek shelter from the fury of their enemies in the caves and among the mountain fastresses of their native lands, but scme sublime cpiz. has handed down their virtues and heroism to posterity, to nerve new generations to deeds of noble daring. tis net to be denied, however that the mass of men, living in the light of the pres. ent, regard success a3 the criterion of right. Hence the result of the present unfortunate contest will be measured by this ‘standard during the present’ generation. A future one will do justice to the principles at issue and sum uy the actual results accomplished, not by the number of battles fouzht on each side, or the number of men killed ; bat the results attained—-by the progress in the true ‘theory of goverment, and the advance made in human happiness. Le eee Tai TAtrory’ CdNveNTION, —Many of | the présent generation have heard something of ‘this. celebrated assemblagy. But com- paratively few are fannliar with its complete history. My recollgction is that = 1. This Conventicn® was, dn substance; a Uongress of the New England States, corre- sponding with the Congress of the Southern States at Montgomery. And its proceedings were equally revolutionary, rebellions and treasonable. 9. Tt was called together when our eoura ‘try wag at war 3 and with the most power~ ful nation on the globe. 3. Tis object was to embarrass the Goy- to incite rebellion against its ‘conduct of the war 3 to force it to treat for peace ; and, in the last resort, to secede, and form a separate Confederacy. 4. Tt sought'to, and did, give *‘aid and comfort’ to the enemy. It took sides with that enemy, and ‘apologized for Biitish ‘in- sults to our Flag., ! 5 It resolved that. jt was ¢¢ unbecoming a moral and religious peopla to rejoice” at the vintories of our arms ! And instituted a re- ligiohs erusade agaibst that war. 6. Itdistmetly and emphatically avowed the doctrine of SECESSION, is a legal right and threatencd to resort to it, unless the General Government would succumb. 7. 1% influenced capitalists to refuse aid to sur Government ; most of whom according y did refuse to loan their money : and tra- duced, abused, and insalted those patriotic men who nevertheless furnished their money to carry on the war. 8. It fluenced the ministers of the Gos- ‘pel to enter the political arena and trample upon that Flag of which they now ostenta- tiously claim to be. the chosen champions. [Tt would be more correct to say that the Hartford Convention was ‘the fruit of the misdirected labors of the clergy : and soit was to a large extente—Hds. J. of C.] New England activity;ingoauity and thrift will bear praising. Not so her fickleness and readiness to adopt all the wsms and fan- tasies of “the ‘age. Her “unwillingness to abide by the Constitution as framed by out’ fathers, and expoanded ;by the only appro= priate tribunal, has driven another portion of our countrymen to assert the same right to withdraw ~ from the Union whieh this same New England claimed for herself, in the Hartford -Canvention.-- Correspondence N.Y. Journal of Commerce. . Ay IRISHMAN $ ACQUAINTANCE. —A west- ern physician was riding in gn omnibus when an Irishmen stepped in, and recognizing the doctor, said: ’ i ¢ Qch, an’ sure, ik persave.,’ a : 2 , «That's my nang, sir, but Thoven't the pleasure of knowing you,” responded the polite doctor. i r : _«qndade! but I'm the felly ‘what made yer last boots, and which yer honor forgot to get a resate for fhe § yument ov!” The ladies tittered, the doctors memory was refreshed, and Paddy got his money and gave thei! resate!’ when the doctor got to hig destination. ; an’ its Doctor J —— Rar Stony.--We are assured that once. in Scotland, a thrifty laird, finding his store of eggs diminish, watched to sec how the thieves could carry them, away. - He saw three rats go together to the pile of the eggs, when, one turning ont his back, the others rolled an egg upon him, which he clasped safely to his: bosom; und his: companions taking his tail im their mouths, started ofl’ like a team drawing a sledge, and disappear- ed behind some barrals ; which, were the outer fortifications of their castle. A young lady has been heard to declare that £he couldn’t go to fight for the country bat she was willing to allow. the young men to go dnd die an old maid, which she thought was as great a sacrifice ns anybody could be called upon to make. TTT Faxyy-FerN says that it is just as sens sible a move to undertake to get married without courting, as to attempt to succeed in business without advertising. ‘
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