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BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY
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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.
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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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