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NO. 40.
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Selurt Posty,
see that I was interested in the Bonypart
family. ¥ : yt
“It’s a grate family,” sed I. “But they
ped the old man in.”
THE BRAVE AT HOME,
st 1. BUCHANAN BEAD. :
The maid whe inds the warriors sash,
With smile that well her pain’ dissembles,
The while beneath her, droopinglash
One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles,
Tho’ heaven alone records the tear,
And fame shall never know her story,
Her heart has shed a drop ss dear
As ever dewed the field of glory.
The wife who girds her husband’s sword,
' "Mid little ones who weep and wonder,
And bravely speaks the cheering word,
‘What tho’ her heart be rent assunder—
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts of war around him rattle,
Hath shed as sacred blood as e’er
‘Was poured upon the plain of battle.
“Ne ‘mother who conceals her grief,
‘While to her breast her son she presses,
Then breathes a few brave words and brief,
Kissing the patriot brow ske blesses,
With no one but her secret God,
To know the pain that weighs upon her,
Sheds hoiy blood as e’er the sod
Received on Freedom's field of honor !
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WWisellaneous.
ARTEMAS WARD SEES NAPOLEON.
Notwithstandin I haint writ much for the
papers of late, nobody needn’t flatter their
selves that the undersigned is ded. On the
eontry, “[ still live,” which words was
spoken by Panyil Webster, who was a able
man. Even the old-line whigs of Boston
will admit that. Webst ris ded now, how-
sever, and hiy mantle has probly fallen into
the hands of sum dealec in 2nd hand
close whocan’t sell it. Teastways nobody
pears to be Loin round wearin it to any par-
ticler extenf, now days.., The rigiment of
rliom T war kurnal finerly concladed they
ws better adapted as Iiome Gards, which
accounts for your not hearin of me, ear this,
where the bauls is the thickest and where
the cannon doth roar. But as a American
citizen I shall never cease to admire the
the masterly advance our troops made on
Washington from Bull Run, a short time
ago. It was well dun. I spoke to my wife
bout it at the time. My wife sed it was
well dun.
It havin there4 bin wetarmined to pertect
Baldinsville at all hazzuds, and as there
was no apprehensions of any immejit dang
ar, I thought I would go orf onto a pleasure
>wer. According I put on a clean Biled
Bhirt and started for Washington. 1 went
there to see the Prints Nupoleon, and not to
see the place, which I will here take oc-
casion £6 observe is about as uninterestin.a
locality as there is this side of J. Davis's
fater home, if he ever does die, and where
T reckon they’ll make it 80 warm for him
that he will si for his summer close. It is
easy enuff to ste why a man goes to the
poor house or the penitentiary. It's be-
‘eaws he can’t help it. But why he should
voluntary goandlive in Washington is en-
tirely beyond my comprehension, and 1 can’t
say no fairer nor that.
1 put up to a leadin hotel. Isaw the
Jandlord and sed, “Howd’ye do, Squire ?”
“Fifty cents, sir,” was his reply.
“Sir?”
*Half-a-dollar. We charge twenty five
cents for lookin at the landlord and fifty
«egnts for speakin to him. If you want sup-
per, a boy will show to the dinin room
for twenty five cents. Your room bein in
tenth story, it will cost you a dollar to be
shown up there.”
“How much do you ax a man for
breathin in this equinomikol tavurn?”
ped I. a
Ten cents 4 Breth.” was the reply.
Washington hotels is very resonable in
their eharges. [N. B.—This is Sarkas:
sum. a vl ma
I sent up my keerd to the Prints, and was
immejitly ushered before him. He re-
eeived me kindly and axed me to sit down.
“I hav cam to pay my respecks to you,
Mister Napoleon, hopin I see you hale and
harty.” ; §
“I am quite well,” he sed. "Air you
well,” sir.” or
“Sound gs a cuss 7” I answered.
He seemed to be pleased with my ways,
and we entered in conversation to once.
“How's Lewis ?” 1 axed, and he sed the
Emperor was well. Eugeny was likewise
well, he sed. Then I axed him was Lewis
a good p wider? did he cum home arly
nites ? did he perfoom her bed room ata
unseasonable hour with gin and tanzy?
Did he go to “the lodge” on nites when
there wasn’t any Lodge? did he often hav
%o go down to meet a friend ? did he hav a
extensiv acquaintance among poor young
widders whose husbands was in Caloforny ?
to all of which questions tha Prints perlitely
replied, givin me to understand that the
Emperor was behavin well, A
‘1 ax these questions, my royal duke and
most noble higness and imperial, becaws.
¥’m anxiogs to know how he stands as a man
I know, b's smart. He is cunnin, heis
Iongheaded, he is deep—he is grate. But
onless he is good he’ll come down with a
erash Jug of these days and the Bonyparts
will be Bustid up agin. Bet yer life 4 :
. “Air you a preacher, sir?” he inquired,
Vitel sarkasticul. Si
. “No, sir. But I beleeye, in morality.
1 likewise beleeve in Meetin Houses. , Show
me a place where there isp’t any Meeting
Houses and where preachers is never seen,
#nd I'll show you a place where old hats air
stuffed into broken winders, where the
chijg en air dirty and ragged, where gates
have: no hinges, where the wimin air slip
shod, where maps of the deyil’s “wild land”
air painted upon men’s shirt-bosoms with
tobacco jooce ! That's what I'll show you.
Let us consider what the preachers do for
us before. we aboose em.” brie
He sed he didn’t mean to. aboose the cler-
gy. Not at all, and he was happy to
“How, sir?’ . Belt
“Napoleon the Grand. The Britishers
scooped him at Waterloo. He wanted to
do too much and he didit! They scooped
{bim in at Waterloo, and he subsekently
died at St. Heleny! There’s where the
greatest millitary man this world ever pro-
juced pegged out. It was rather hard to
consine such a man as hum to St. Heleny
to spend his last days in catchin mackeril
and walkin up and down the dreary beach
in a military cloak drawn titely round him,
(see picter-books), but so it was. ‘Hed of,
the Army I” Them was his last words. So
he had bin. He was grate! Don’t I wish
we had a'pair of his old boots to command
sum of our Brigades !””
This, pleased Jerome and he took me
warm by the hand.
“Alixander the Grate was punkins,” 1
continnered, but Napoleon was punkinser!
Alic wept becaws there was no more worlds
to s2o0p, and then took to drinkin. Ie
drowndid his sorrers in the flowin bole, and
the flowin bole wes to much, for him. It
ginerly is. He untertook to giv a snake ex-
hibition in his boots, but it killed him.
That was a bad joke for Alicl,’ +
“Since you airso solicitions about France,
and the Emperor, may I ask you how your
own country is getting along ?” sed Jerome,
in a pleasant voice. : ’
“It's mixed,” I sed. “But I think we
shall cum all right.”
“Columbus, when he diskivered this mag-
nigeent continent could hav had no idee of
the grandeur it would one day assoom,” sed
the Prints. ‘
“It cst Columbus twenty-thousand dol-
lars to fit out bis explorin expidition,” sed
I. “If he had been a sensible man he'd hav
put the money in hoss railroad or a gas
company, and left this magnifisent conti-
nent to tle iatelligent savages, who when
they got hold of a good thing knew enuff to
keep it, and w'io wouldn't hav seceeded, nor
rebelled, nor knockt Liberty on the head
with a slungshot, Columbus wasn’t much
of a feller, after. Tc would have bin money
in my pocket if he'd staid at home. Chris.
ment well, but he put his foot in it when
he saled for America.”
We talked sum more about matters and
things, and at last I riz to go. “I will now
say good bye to you, noble sir and good
luck to you. Likewise the same to Clotildy.
Also to the gorgeous persons which com-
pose your soot. If the Emperor's boy don’t
like livin at tha Tooleries, when he gits old-
er, and would lik to embark in the show
bisnegs, let him come with me and I'll make
a an of him. You find us sumwhat mix-
ed, as I before obsarved, but come agin
next year and you’ll find us clearer nor
ever., The American Eagle has lived too
sumptuously of late—his stommick becum
foul, he’s and now takin a slite emetic.
That's all. Were gettin ready to strike a
big blow and a sure one. When we di,
strike the fur will fiy and secession will be
in the hands of the undertaker, sheeted for
so deep a grave that nothing short of Gab-
riel’s trombone will ever awaken it!
Mind what I say. You've heard the show-
maa!”
Then advisin him to keep away from the
Peter Funk auctions of the East, and the
propriétors of corner lots in the West, I bid
him farewell, and went gway. . .
There was a levees at Senator What’s-his
name, and I thought I'd jine in the festivities
for a spell. Who should I see but she
that was Sarah Walkins, now the wife of
our Congresser, trippin in the dances, dres-
sed up to kill in her store close. Sarah’s
father used keép a little grosery store in our
town, and she used to clerk it for him in
bisy times. I was rashin up to shake
hands with her when she turned on her
heel, and tossin her hed in a contemptuitous
manuer, walked away from me very rapid.
“Hallo, Sal,” I hollored, “can’t you meas-
ure me a quart of them best melasses ? I
guess this reminded her of the little red
store, and ‘the deys of her happy child-
hoed.” :
But I fell in with a nice little gal. after
that, who was much sweeter than Sally’s
father’s melasses, and I axed her if wo
shouldn’t glide in the messy dance. She
sed we should, and we Glode.
I intended to make this letter very seris.
but a few goaks may hav accidentally crept
in. Never mind. Besides, I think it im-
proves a komick paper to publish a goak
once in 2 while.
Yours Muchly.
WARD, (aRTEMAS.)
Tite Youne SoLpier DYING.—* Bring me
my knapsack,’ said a young soldier who
lay sick in one of the hospitals at Washing-
ton. * Bring me my knapsack.”
+t What do you want of your knapsack 2”
inquired the head lady of the band of nur-
ses. :
[ want my knapsack,” again said the
dying young man.
His knapsack was brought to him, and as
he took it his eye gleamed with pleasure and
his face was covered all over with a smile
as he brought out from it his hidden treas-
ures. :
“ There,” said he, * that is a Bible from
my mother. And this — Washington's fare-
well address —is the gift of my father. And
this ’'—his voice failed.
The nurse then looked down to see what
it was, and there was the face of a beautiful
maiden. as
“ Now,” said the'dying young soldier,
*T want you to put all these under my
pillow.”
She did as ske was requested, and the
poor young man laid him down on them to
die, requesting that they should be sent to
his parents when he was gone. Calm and
joyful was he in dying. :
Lt was only going from night to endless
day—from death to eternal glory. Bo the
young soldier died.
BROWNSON'S REVIEW ON THE RE
BELLION.
This important organs of Roman Catholic
opinion, which has been distinguished in all
its history, both by its ability and conserva-
tism, discusses, in the number for the pres:
ent month, the question of ** Slavery and the
War.” The discussion is marked by great
conclusions. We shall do our readers a
service by placing before them some striking
passages. »intiiny le
** The Effect of a Peaceful Division.”
“ Now, euppose wa adopt the policy urged
upon us by the peace-makers, traitors, and
cowards of the loyal States, consent to a
peaceful division of the United States,
and recognize the Southern Confederacy
as a seperate and independent pation,
what would be the result? Two compara-
tively equal independent Republics, existing
side by side? Not at all. Spread out the
map of the United States before you, and see
which Republic would have the advantage in
territory, soil, climate, productions, and all
the sources of national wealth, strength, and
material greatness. You would give to the
Southern Republic full three fourths of the
whole territory of the Union; for the South
would consent to no division now, that did
not igelude the States of Deleware, Mary-
land, Kentucky. Missouri, and all the terri-
tory South of the line running due west from
the north-west angle of Missouri to the Paci-
fie. You would give up 10 the South to what
would then be a foreign power, the whole
Guif coast, and the whole Atlantic coast,
except the narrow strip from the Penobscoi
to the Deleware. You would leave the North
a majority of the present populatipn of the
country, and nominally the superiority in
wealth of the North depend chiefly on our
superiority in commerce and manufactures,
their superiority could not be long maintain-
ed. The Southern Republic, producing raw
materials consumed chiefly in Europe, would
be a great exporting republic, and would
naturally in its policy favor exports to Euro-
pean markets, From those markets where
it disposes of its raw materials, it could, by
means of a lower tariff on imports thau the
Northern Republic could afford to adopt,
more ersily and cheaply supply its own des
wand for imports than it could from our
Northern markets. [+t would thus drive our
manufastures from its markets, and by im-
sorting {rom abroad for itself, greatly dimin-
ish our manufacturers, and at the same time
both our foreign and domestic trade. In
addition, we should not only lose our South~
ern market for our imports and manufac-
tures, but should hardly be able to keep our
own. Imports should seek Southern ports,
and, in spite of any possible cordon of cus-
tom-houses and custom-house officers, would
find their way into all the border States of
the Northern Republic, and up the Mississs
ippi and Ohio intu the great States of the
West and the North-west, to the most seri:
ous detriment of our own trade and manu-
factures, and consequently to the retention
of our relative superiority in wealth and
population. In spite of our industry and
our enterprise, we should soon find ourselves
a state far inferior in wealth and numbers to
our Southern neighbor.”
Th» Union Sacred to Liberty
After criticising gently and with due affection
the mistake of the Government in trying. to con-
duet “ the war on peace principles,” and insist:
ing that the “administration should strike quick
and strike hard,” the reviewer boldly annouuces
that the Union must be held as sacred to liber-
ty ;—, : :
* Would yeu rally them [the people] and
render them invincible against the foe ? You
must give them another battle-cry than that
of * Law and Order,” or you will not stir
their heart, that mighty American heart
which conquered this country from the sav-
age and the forest, proclaimed and won its
independence, constituted the Union, and
made the American nation one of tho great
nations of the earth. It is not for us,
even if we were able, to give the battleicry ;
it must be given by genius in authority, and
fall either from the lips of the President, or
the Commarder-in-Chief of our armies. —
Neither may as yet be prepared to utter it;
but, if this nation has a future, if its destiny
is, a8 we have hitherto boasted, to prove
what man may be when and where ho has
the liberty to be himself, uttered by one or
the other it ere long will be, and in tones
that will ring out through the whole Union,
and through the whole civilized world now
aoxiously listening to hear it. The Union is
and must be sacred to liberty. Here man
must be man, nothing more, and nothing
less. Slaves must not breathe our atmos-
phere ; and we must be able to adopt the
proud boast of our Mother Country: “The
slave that touches our soil is free.” This is
the destiny of this New World, if destiny it
have—the destiny our fathers toiled for, and
to this we their children must swear to be
faithful, or die to the last man.”
reer Al A Pee een.
pe “ Father, I think you told a lie in
the pulpit this morning,” said the little son
of a clergymen. ‘Why, what do you
mean?’ * Sir, you said, “one word more
and I have done.”” Then you went on, and
said a great many more words. The people
expected you'd leave off, cause you promised
them: But yon didn’t, and kept on preach-
ing o long while after the time was up.”
.
vigor and fearlesssness in the statement of
by his side.
THE AGE OF GUANO BIRDS.
M. Boussingault has presented to the
Academy of Sciences an interesting paper on
this valuable manure, from which we learn
that deposits of guaro extend from the sec-
ond to the twenty-first degree of south Iati-
tude along the coast of Peru. - Those which
lie beyond these limits are much poorer ban
the former, and are . therefore:less valuable
as manure. Glano is generally found de-
posited on small promontories or eliffs. . It
fills up esevices, and is to be found wherever
birds seek shelter. The rocks of this part
of the coast consists of granite, gneiss, sie-
nite, ard pyric sienite. .
The guano deposits ere generally covsred
with an agglomation of sand and ssline sub-
stances, called caliehe, which the laborers
remove before beginning their attack on the
guano. In some places, as at Pabbellonde
Pica and Punta Grande, the deposits lie un-
der a mass of sand descended from the
neighboring mountains, on which subject de
Rivero makes an extremely carious obser-
vation, viz: that atithe places above men-
tioned. the lowest guano deposits are covers
ed with a stratum of old alluvial soil ; then
comes atother layer of guano, and then a
stratum of modern alluvial soil.
To understrnd the importance of this faet,
it must be borne in mind that the age of
modern alluvions does not extend beyond
historic times, whereas old alluvions date
from the period immediately preceding that
at which man first began to inbabit the
earth ; so that the guanges or cormorants,
and other allied birds, which deposit guano,
must have existed thousands of years before
man. seeing that the lower layer of guano is
sometimes fifteen or twenty yardsin depth,
while the old alluvial . crust” above 1t has a
thickness of upwards of three yards,
To explain the immense accumulation of
guano in those regions, M. Boussingault ¢b-
serves that tuere has been a combination of
circumstances highly favorable to its pro-
duction and preservation, among which are |
to be reckoned a dry climate, & ground pre:
senting a vast number of chinks, fissures
and caverns, where the birds can rest, lay
their eggs and hatch them, without being
disturbed by the strong breezes from the
south, and, lastly, abundance of food suited
to them.
Nowhere else are fish go abundant as on
this coast, where whole shoals are often cast
upon the shore, even in fine weather. An-
tonic de Ulloa states that anchovies esje-
cially are in such abundance here as to dely
description, and’ gives a graphic account of
the matter iu which their numbers are di-
minished by the myriads of guanos which
are sometimes seen flying in countless flocks
intercepting the sun’s rays like clouds, and
darting into the sea to catch their prey.—
According to M. Boussingault’s, calculation,
one hundred kilogrammes (the killog is
equal to twoand a half pounds) of guano
contains the nitrogen of six hundred kilo-
gramues of sea fish, and as the guano de-
posits, before they began to be worked, con-
tained three hundreed and seventy eight
millions of metrical qualtals (the guantals
motrique is 1 cwt., 3 grs,, 24 1bs., 8 0z.,) of
guano. the birds must have consumed 2,-
268,000,000 of quintals of fish.
rel AAP Ap ert.
«Lepr Us Die FrieNps.”—One of the
Georgia Regiment lay with a fearful shot
wound in his side, which tore out several of
his ribs. -
_ The life blood was fast oozing out, when
one of our troops dashed forward from out
the melee and fell dreadfully wounded close
The Georgian recognized his
uniform, although he was fatally hurt, and
feebly held out his hand. * We came into
this battle” he said, ‘‘ ag enemies; let us
die as friends. Farewell.” He spoke no
more, but his companion in disaster took the
extended hand, and escaped to relate this
touching fact.
etl A
Ax Ohio stumper, while making a speech
recently, paused in the midst of it and ex-
claimed : '
+ Now, gentlemen, what do you think ¥”’
Instantly a man rose in the assembly, and
with one eye party closed, modestly, with
Scotch brogue, replied : :
“1 toink, sir, T dg, indeed, sir—I think if
you and I would stump in the country to-
gether, we could tell more lies than any two
men in the country, sir, and I'd not say a
word myself, during thie whole time, sir.”
peel A
Hox. Danes S. DICKINLON, in a recent
speech, said : “My friend tells me there is
something to be said about taxes. Who
objects to taxes ? An individual here and
there, who, not being well informed, thinks.
if he can have peace it will raise the price of
butter. But he who rebels at taxes to sup»
port such a war, you may believe that Judas
Iscariot is laughing in his sleeve to think he
was not living in this day, for he would have
been surely underbid.”’
eet lA Piet.
t No body ever lost anything by love,”
said a certain person. ¢ That’s not true,’’
said a lady who heard the remark, “forT
once lost three nights’ sleep.”
ts teen ll APA
‘KNOWLEDGE is the parent of love ; wis.
dom, love itself.
ROBBING AN APPLE ORCHARD.
Farmer D—— was one of the stingiest men
that the county of R—— could. boast of. ~
Possessing one of the best apple orchards
within a circle of ten miles, it was.no won-
der that frequent incursions, by parties of
evil disposed boys were made to it, in order
to obtain some of the lucious fruit for which
it was celebrated far and wide. It was
about the time of ‘* gathering in ;” barrels
had been placed beneath the trees, and ev
erything preparatoty to gathering the fruit,
One Sabbath afternoon, ahout the time it
was thought the old gentleman took his
usual nap, a tuo of students, from the acad-
emy near hy, stole into the orchard, and
made directly for the best tree— the pride of
the orchard. No sooner had they arrived
there, and before they had touched any of
the fruit, they espied the old man making a
tour of inspection—looking in every girec-
tion to se if any trespassers were about.—
There was no time to be lost ; springing into
the tree,.one of them, Joe N., safely escons-
ed himself in the branches; another, Char-
ley G., seating himself upon, the ground,
laid hold of a.barrel, and placing it over
him, completely hid himself from view.—
While the other, Will B., was looking about
for some place of concealment, farmer D.
happened to espy him. The old gent looked
fairly bewildered for a time at this piece of
audacity, but quickly recovering himself he
gave one loud yell of anger, and then start-
ed for Will, who had now determined to
make a bold stand and make the best of it.
¢* What are you doing here, you rascal—
you thief—you—you--"’ exclaimed the old
fellow, fairly beside himself with rage, cap-
ering about and foaming at the mouth like a
madman.
‘* As to my being a thief,” retorted Will,
‘allow me to insinuate, my old torpedo,
that I have not, as yet, touched one of your
apples. The one above knows that I have
not.” .
Now, 1t must be remembered that Joe,
from his position, hedrd everything that was
going on, and thinking himself the individ-~
ual alluded to as being ““ above,” cried out
in a sarcastic manner, and with a view of
criminating the others : :
‘Yes, and the one under that barrel
knows as much about it as 1 do!”
Maybe there wasn’t a noise kicked up in
that barrel ; and maybe a shower of apples
didn’t precede the fall of Joe to the ground.
Whew ! you should have witnessed the old
man. Whether the look of mingled astons
ishment and rage was caused by the auda-
city of the proceedings, or by the contem-
plation of the 240 speed at which the boys
made tracks for the fence is not known;
but certain it is, however, the boys thought
there was a great misunderstanding among
themselves. :
GROWING COTTON IN THR NORTH.
We have recently had an interview with
Capt. Richard Kendall, who was former]
connected with the United States Coast Sure
vey, in reference to the feasibility of introdu-
cing into the Middle or Northern States, a
cotton producing tree which grows in similar
lautndes in Svath America. The Captain
is quite enthusiastic in the opinion that the
tree will flourish wherever corn will grow, —
He exhibits specimens of the tree and cotton
oroduced by him in Baltimore cpunty, Mary-
land. The seetion of the tree examined is a
hard wood, two inches in diameter, having
five anoual rings, The cotton fiber is leng,
fiae apd silky, resembling and apparently
equaling the best Sea Island cotton.
Of the tree in its native habitant, in vari-
ous proportions of the Western Coastof Souil
America from the Equater to the Northern
part of Patagonia, Capt. Kendall says it
flourishes best in Soutbern Chili, in about
40° South latitude. .. Ile found in growing at
an elevation of 7000 feet above the ocean, al-
most in the regions of perpetual snow. The
tree resembles the white mulberry in gener-
al appearance of the branches, bark, and
leaves, the average size and height being
about that of our. common peach trees. It
begins to produce halls the third year from
the seed, and continues healthy and viger-
ous —according to, the aceounts of natives
—from thirty to fifty years. It attsins its
full size about the eighth year. . It is pro-
pagated by seeds and by cuttings, Near
the tropics it is evergraen, and. begins to pro-
duce seed the first year after sowing, but
there it is only a shrub, growing five or six
feet high, Ng TOR
PT e———A ese
WasniNgron, Oct. 5.—At the Tequoest of
the Hon. Augustus Frank, member of Con.
gress of New York, the Superintendent of the
Census Bureau has prepared a statement of
the white male population of the several
counties of that State, between the ages of
18 and 45, and the proportion required from
each county to furnish the quota of cne hun-
dred thousand men.
The Superintendent says the State pre-
sents an effective arm-bearing population of
766,344—about one-half of that of all’ the
States South of Masons and Dixons Line,
equalling the combined military strength. of
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Lou~
isiana, Mississippi, North and South Crroli-
na, and Tennessee.
————, ee
PoRriry is the feminine, truth the maseu-
! lime, of honer.
|| from their sweethearts.
CALEB CUSHING ON THE WAR.
.- Hon. Caleb Cushing, of Newburyport,
made the following elequent and forcible re-
marks at the annual gathering on Salisbury
Beach, Mass,, a short time ago :
‘There is no man er woman who does not
deplore civil war, but whatever may bave
been our antecedent, there is mo uncertainty
as to the duty of every citizen of the Uani-
ted States © We are in formal war—war de-
clared by insurgents— war declared and ae-
cepted “by the:Goverament of the United
Statés. In the eye of the law the duty whiah
devolves upon the citizen is clear and unmis!
takakle. It ia to accept the consitutional
fact of the war. Iknow it as well as any
other man, and from the secession of the
Southern States, I have abstaingd from sym-
pathy, countenance and intercourse with
them. ; !
Tue second daty is an active duty. Ia
time of war each subjeat owus to the govern-
ment (who has a righgto demand it of him)
his body, his wealth and his though: : his
body to defend the government, his means
to sustain the government, hie moral allegi-
ance to support the Government andthe Cen-
stitution, I do not state these things mora
deeply than: I feel them. - Would to God
that all would feel it their duty to'support
tbe Administration in this hour of trial, 1
opposed the President in the last election,
and others of us did the same, honestly, open
ly, but from the part of us who would he
supposed his political enemies came no such
vituperation against the administration as {
have seen in sore of the leading journals of
the party which elected him. Now, much
as I resisted the present administration as it
was coming into power, I here declare, that
whatsnever has been said of me, ar thought
of me ro the contrary, I have from the 4th
of March, 1861, sunk all opposition. And
lat me teli vou on this 17th day of Septem*
ber, that tut one thing remains tothe United
States, and that is to conquer victory. :
In such a time.as this t> talk of political
parties is not the thing. Party now is hus
the dust in the balance, the foam in the wave
in comparison with Union and victory.—
When peace shall again revisit us, then and
not till then, will I criticize. When two
hundred and’ fifty thoueand of my fellow
ccuntrymen are in arms for the defence of
the government, I will not doit. We muss
have victory to insure respect from the South,
to dictate proper torms of pace, and to
stand up in the face of the world friendly or
nofriendly, to hive their profound regard
I bave been cal'ed disunionist, 88 :essionist.
traitor ; hat I believe I can truly say that no
man io Massachusetts has lost more and sao
rificed more than I have in friends, certainly
in political -power. Are any so absurd, so
malicious, as to suppose that I would have
made these sacrifices for nothing? I forgive
them. I have for thirty’ years, from the
time when I perceived the clouds of
the coming ’torm gathering’ in the North
and in the South, done all I eould in more
than one party to avoid it to¥' my country,
And let'us now in this great temple of na-
ture, by the music of this sounding ocean;
swear to be faithful to the government of the
United States, and to restore the constitution
of our country. , ‘
TL APA .
A PLEASANT INTERVIEW,
A Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune says: pi
I have just learned the particulars of two
interviews which took place om Sunday last
between some members of Col. Hayes’s
Eighth Penosylvania Regiment and the Vire
ginia Forty ‘Third (rebel), stationed on the
opposite bunks of the Potomac at Great Falls.
The river is here not more than a hundred
yarns wide, and the pickets ‘on both sides
have: occasionally bailed each other. On
Sunday the rebels invited some of dur men
across, stating that if they would leave theif
arms behind them they would receive hospie
table treatment, and be allowed to return.
One of. the Pennsylvania bnys stripped,
plunged in, and swam over, He was halped
up the rocks by a Virginia Captain, who
gave him his overcoat to wear, and proposed
that he should take a drink of whiskey. If
Idrink,” said the soldier, ** it must be to
Our Country.” ** Very good,” said the rebe
el officer, ** I will join you: Here's to our
country!” And the men on both sides ef
the river joined in a hearty. .. The man
remained an bour or two, and: then swam
peck, a little nubulous: from the many
healths he had been obliged to drink.
In the afternoon several of the rebels res
turned the visi. ‘I'hey were corteously
entertained, and exchanged buttons with
sur men, as souvenirs cf tha interview.—
“Wa don’t care’ anything about the war)”
said they, ‘“ and'don’t want to fight, but we
can’s help it. You Pennsylvanians are like
friends aud brothers, and we wish we hod
those d d South Carolinians against us
ingtead of yoa,!
Qoe of the Virginia officers took off his
gold sleeve buttons, having uo ‘other dispo~
sable gift at hand, and received a quarter
eagle in return. ** Good Lord,” said be, “it's
been a lozg time since I’ve seen such a piece
of money.” They were all anxious to
knew the popular sentiment of Pennsylvania
and the other Border Siates in relation to
the war, and seemed a good deal depressed
at learning the truth, They appeared to he
talerably well clothed and fed, and did not
complain of their condition.
+ Two of the soldiers exchanged: letters
Various exchanges
of newspapers, &e., were also made, and in
the act our men received a letter from a sise
ter of one of the rebels, without the owner's
knowledge. I had an opportunity of reading
the letter this morning, and give you an ine
teresting extract therefrom : ~* Take care of
your clotbes [the writer says] for I don’s
believe there 18 a yard of stuff for shirts or
clothing in the whole county. There 1s not
in the whole county a pound of coffee or &
pound of sugar. - Mrs, ——uses honey in
her tea. Send some of your money bome
when you get it.” *
It appears, from other parts of the letter,
that the country has been entirely stripped
of cloth, shoes; coffee, and sugar, in erder
that the army may be supplied. With the
present enormous prices of all those articles
in the 3onth, it is difficult td seo how those
upplies ean be kept up much longer.