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VOL. 7.
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Mhisellanegus.
Written for the Watchman.)
A Midnight Visitor
BY ‘‘GAY.”
‘Well do I remember our fishing excursion
~-how that we travelled all day in the burn-
«ing sun—partly in a conveyance, and partly
on foot ; and, night coming on, found usin a
deep, dark, dismal looking hollow, miles
and miles from any habitation, away out in
«——-=; but no matter whera. Tired and
sore, we lay down at the trunk of a great
tree, with bushes and vines about us, leaves
and brush under us, and the sky over our
heads—the sky ! yes, but we could see
very little of it, and that only occasionally,
as the wind bent the limbs of those great
‘old trees, and made interstices in the heavy
foliage. Now the faint twinkling of a dis-
tant star is visible—now the promiscuous
swaying of the agitated branches conceal it
it for an instant ; but now again a confused
rustling of the leaves is heard, and like a
swelling sail the foliage scems to expand —
then ag the whispering wind gently dies
away, we see the merry twinkle of that star
again.
A bright fire near onr feet, roared and
cracked as if striving, in vain, to lap its ma-
ny tongues round just a8 many roots of a
dry pine, long since fallen across the little
stream.
I cannot tell how long I lay—Joe had
been sleeping at least an hour, and |
striving to do the same—but my mind won'd |
conjure up something that long
been forgotten. One event after
kept racing through my mind in rn
cession, till finally the chain was!
the quick breaking of adry twig. 1
‘instant the leaves on the ground app:
be compressed by the stealthy tread
something moving slowly, wery slow'y,
through the bushes.
ually turned my head until T conld see the
dreaded spot, or place from which the noise
came. I could almost feel the hair rising
on my head, when I saw two bright, flery
eyes fixed on me from beneath the brush
and vines. I thought it might be imagina-
tion. 1 rubbed my eyes, but no! no!
‘there were those infermal jooking eyes glar-
ing on me plainly as before. I shook as
with the ague, yet feared to move. The
arm of my companion lay near me, and with
my eyes still riveted on the beast, (as it
proved) I caught it (the arm) with a firm
grasp, and twisted the flesh until I thought
it certainly must be wrenched from the
bone-~would yon believe it ? this only caus-
ed him to moan in his sleep.
Like a tiger about to spring, I could see
‘hit, crouched on the ground, with body
poised ; the dull leaden sound caused by
‘the lashing of his tail on the damp. leafy
-earth, was heard above the beating of my
‘heart. With a last great effort, unatil my
nails turned up and the blood oozed from my
finger ends, I again twisted the fleshy part
of my companion’s arm, hoping that this
would certainly wake him. The next in-
stant, with a sudden start, Joe was on his
feet, just in time to see the monster leap.—
‘With a bound that cleared a space of twen-
‘ty feet, his claws struck my breast. Quick
= fe the bony hands of Joe (who saw
‘at a glance how matters stood) clutched the
loose neck of the panther with a vice like
‘grasp, and then releasing one hand, with
his huge fist dealt him a blow on the head,
then another, and another, and another, but
it was like striking on a well filled mailbag,
and had about the same effect —no, not the
- same effect, for it served to arouse the sav~
age nature of the beast, which now tlirned
on Joe, and a hand to paw encounter be~
tween a man and wild beast was the result.
In the hurry and confusion they roiled down
‘the bank. ' I could hear the brush crack —
the twigs break, as their weight passed oy er
‘them. I hastily seized a heavy stick and
hurried to the conflict. 1 had just made a
‘step ; I heard a sound as if striking a mossy
Tock with a large stone, then another stroke,
this time as if some hard substance like
bone was placed between the bodies coming
together, then a savage growl, a fierce yell,
‘and all again was still save a shght rustling
of the leaves. All this occurred in an in
‘stant, just while I was hastening to Joe, for
‘on reaching him I discovered that the life of
Mr. Panther had taken its exit. There he
lay, his great sleek side still rising and fall
ing, like a wave of the sea, his gaping jaws,
his head fast between two rocks that held
‘him like a vice, the blood running down his
mashed skull and dropping off his ears,
Isaw Joe standing over his prostrate foe,
with a huge stone, in the aet of dashing it
on his head. TI cannot tell whether Joe was
pnjured or not, for at this time I awoke, or
rather was awakened by him. I sat up,
rubbed my eyes, looked around for the pau-
ther, but could see nothing but the cheerful
looking blazo shooting up through the roots
of the old tree, could hear nothing but the
murmuring of the stream, as it rippled over
the rocks in ite dismal wanderings down the
dark hollow. .
I grew uneasy —grad-
tice.
The Rebel Buckner and Geo. D. Pren | While it is passing down his throat, he will |
| perhaps almost forget the disagreeable sen- |
sation, that, in his moments of reflection, he
The following letter, with the, appended | |
editorial remarks, appears in the Louisville | 2° doubt feels about the neck. He begs us |
Jutirnalot Savirday : i1f the liquor is good. that we will not ven. |
«To the Editors of the Louisville Journal :
Fort WARREN, Mass., March 4, 1862.
¢¢ (AENTLEMEN :— Amongst other luxuries
of which I have been deprived since my im-
prisonment. is the pleasnre of perusing those
chaste and refreshing notices, with which
for some time past, your paper has honored
mo : and although, in my progress through
the North, I have met with many attempts
on the part of the press at an imitation of
your peculiarly felicitous style of misrepre
sentation, | have found none to equal the or-
iginal. I am therefore under the necessity
of applying at the fountain head. I enclose
two dollars, for which please send me your
country daily, to the following address:
»Gen S. B. Boerner
“Care of Col. J. Dimick.
+‘Fort Warren. Mass.
“P. S.—Since writing the above, our
friend, Col. R. W. Hanson, has reached this
celebrated resort. and desires me to add that
the present of a demijohn of whiskey which
he learns you have promised him would nev-
er be more acceptable than at this time—the
locality aud the latitude as well as the senti-
ments of our neizhbors up the harbor holding
out most tempting inducements to cultivate
a taste for that delightful beverage. As a
matter of caution. however, he urges me to
add that ne hopes, if the liquor be of good
quality, you will not venture to taste it, as
he might thereby incur much risk in losing
it altogether ; —a privation which, however
agreeable to yourself, would be attended
wich serious inconvenience to himself during
the prevalence of the prevailing ‘nor east-
| ers. “8S. B.B.”
ad the bazged rebel is in such
He evileatly feels a great
than he has
v months. and hence, from being
comfortable now
0, he actually undertakes
I mo
and j
lief on account of being quarter «
g
Perhaps he experiences
1 a safe retreat where hostile bayonets
1 not nor host
le ballets sing and whis
{
lo, and yet how he can manage to employ
his time without weariness where there are
no bridges or locks and dams to blow up,
no ra‘troads to destroy, no wagons to Seiz
and confisc le, sheep and
hogs to steal, is really more than we can
We hope he will enlighten ug oh
By the way,
x, no horses, eatt
conceive.
this point in his next epistle.
we are not surprised at his having carefully |
cat out the figure of the American eagle that
corner of the shest
we have received from him, No doubt he
regards that terrible bird with dread and
horror, almost fearing that even a paper ea-
was stamped upon the
gle may pick his rebel eyes out.
We are glad that the big rebel, in sub.
scribing for the Journa/, has had judgment
enough to send us good Union money, in-
stead of the rebel shinplasters he has so of-
ten forced vpon as good Union men as our-
selves. It seems that he avowedly sub-
scribes for our paper because he thinks it
surpasses all others in misrepresentation, —
Now if he has such delightin merely read-
nk falsehoods, how deep and keen must be
his rapture in telling them. Beyond all
doubt, his life must have been one of exqui.
site enjoyment. But we cannot, because he
is cooped up and ean no longer exercise his
vandalism upon other noble and useful pub
lic works, permit him, unrebuked, to at-
tempt to demolish that great bridge of na-
tional safety, that noble lock and dam in the
stream of political intelligence, that double
track railroad for the promotion of the great
interests of the country—the Louisville
Journal. Accustomed to rob and steal with
impunity. he yet must not be allowed to
steai the Journal's character, although; un
like his own, it may be well worth stealing,
If he repeats the flagitous attempt we shall,
in defiance of all flags of truce, “propose to
move immediately upon nis works.” We
suppose he will pronounce our course “‘un-
generous” and “unchivalrous,” but we
can’t help that.
If our distinguished correspondent, as the
end and upshot of all his reasonable deeds,
shall undergo, on his emerging from Fort
Warren; the fate of those that 1t 1s said,
** can’t be drowned,”” we hope he will send
us a ticket of invitation to the interesting
little entertainment. If heshall think prop.
er to make a charge for it, we will cheerfu!
ly pay him back the two dollars he now
sends us. Ah, if he had come to Louisville
last fall, as he intended, and caught as, we
should have been a dangling spectacle for
his eyes instead of living to anticipate his
becoming one for ours. But we hope he is
well, and, that the dinners he eats in Fort
Warren lie more lightly upon his stomach
that the famous one he didn’t eat here, We
would kindly suggest to him that if he has
any time to spare from the reading of the
Louisville Journal and from repenting of his
sins, he might devote it to carrying on and
cunsummating the negotiations, which at
the time he occupied Bowling Green, he pro
posed to Mr. Guthrie or the runaing. of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
As for Roger Hanson's message to us, it
shall, of course, be attended to. We did
Promise ger some fine whisky, and it is
on hand. Itis already jugged—Ilike Roger
himself. And traly we can recommend je,
ture to taste it ourselves, as in that case he |
| might loose it altogether. Well, he seems |
I entirely ‘aware that there is no danger of our |
[drinking any bur + good” liquor. If his|
taste had been equally unexceptionable, if]
{ be hadn’t burned up sne half of his senses |
{and two halves of his patriotism with mean |
| whisky, he never would have turned rebel, |
| never would have challenged us to mortal |
{ combat, never would have been an inmate
lof Fort Warren, cursing the fag of his;
| country almost within the awful shadow of |
| Banker {ill and its mighty shaft, never
would have felt choked for the want of a
drop to drink or looked forward with appre
hensions of being still worse choked one of
the¥e days by ** a drop too much.”
We are not without hopes that one demi
| john of good whisky, or at most two or
three, will make Roger a Union man again.
We don’t look for him, however, to be, what
he declared himself a short time before his
apostacy, “a Union man without ifs or
buts;’* he may be a Union maa without an
if, but certainly not without a most ponder -
ons butt. Wedon’t wonder at his and Buck-
ners disposition to take to drink ¢ during
the prevalence of the nor’ easters,” for, in
those winds, the glorious old flag that]
streams from the liberty-stafTof Fort Warren
poirts directly toward Fort Donelson.
Et a ~
The Cruise of the Merrimac.
There can be no doubt whatever that the
cruise of the Merrimac was one of the most
| destructive in the history of naval warfare. —
| For some years past the suhject of iron-clad
vessels has been discussed in the old world,
and England and France have adopted the
plan and experimented on it with more or
But neither of these nations
hus found the opportunity for testing the
real value of the plans in actual war, and ic
| less success.
jwas left for the belligerents in America,
| where a few months ago iron elad vessels
only known by newspaper accounts,
I were
| to give the first instance of a vessel so
ded engaging
the ordinary old fashion:d
of
the game
oden eraft, and also the first instance
of
Monitor
tle between two vessels
t N.
Merrimac can be said to imitate any Eu-
On the con
trary, each is purely American, and novel
The Merrimac is an old
vessel covered with a peaked roof of railroal
iron. To penetrate this, with a missle of
however great weight, it would seem desir.
able to adopt the plan of the Normans in
the battle in which Harold fell, namely, to
shoot into the air ani let the bolts fall from
Heaven. A cannon ball striking the roof
horizontally glances off ; and a ball from the
Monitor's guns, thrown so as to fall on the
roof at right arzles to its slope would be al
most the only hope of penctrating the mail.
The Monitor is a thoroughly umque vessel.
We shall not be surprised now to hear of
her in the harbor of Norfolk, enlarging the
hole which, it is stated, she made in” the
side of the Merrimac. On the other hand,
if the Merrimac is not seriously damaged,
there is no appirent reason why she shoald
not escape to sea at any moment, and
ceed on a similar errand of destrastion along
the Southern coast among our blockading
vessels. The accounts are not,
very favorable to her sea-going qualities.
The occurrence is one from which we are
again to learn wisdom. The water battery
in Charleston harbor was ridiculed, and it
tarned out most efficient. The iron batter-
ies on Morris Island were much laughed at
but they proved impregnable. The Mern
mac has been pronounced a failure, and
ter.
or the nor the
ropean plan of mailing vessels.
in construction,
pro.
however,
suddenly makes a voyage that bacomes one
of the most terrible raids perhaps the most
terrible which history has related of any
single vessel. Aad the Monitor, the only
mail clad vessel on salt water that we pos
sess; suddenly becomes the protector of the
whole navy!
——————e |
727 In a wealthy family of Vienna, Aus |
tria, the husband made his wife a new years
gift of a dozen pairs of gloves. Indignant at
such stinginess, the lady, as soon as her
husband’s back was turned, flung the gloves |
into the fire. Explanations ensued at ta
ble, and what was the irascible lady’s as
tonishment on learning that each pair of
gloves was wrapt up ina bank note for one !
hundred florins. |
—— GAP pre. |
I= Here are our lives and our estates ; |
use them freely, but use them successfully,
for looking apon the graves of our fathers,
and upon the cradles of our children, we.
have sworn, though all things else perish,
this Country and this Union shall stand.—
Josep Horr.
|
coe
17~ Advertising for a wife is as absard
as getting measured for an umbrella. Talk
up to the dear creatures, if you'd marry
them. One hall the world was born to mar-
tha other half. )
f
Siu Pony.
From the Lewistown True Democrat |
"The 0Id Oak.
BY A G. GIBBONY.
A thousand years have passed away,
Since that bright. sunny morn of May,
When from the forest mounid upsprung
Two tiny twin leaves, fresh and young.
The genial dews of Spring were shed
Upon their tender lobes outspread,
And nursed by summer sun and shower,
They grew a wand amid the bower.
A wand =o lithe, the gentle breeze,
That scarcely stirred the aspen’s leaves,
Might lightly sway it to and fro—
That oak, a thousand years ago.
But ero those Spanish shallops came
From Palos o'er the Eastern main,
And ere Columbus had achieved
The. project his bold mind conceived,
The tawny Indian children played
Beneath the great oak’s spreading shade,
And th’ mountain Eagle stooped us flight
To perch upon its leaf-crowned beight
Sines that May morn so fair and bright,
When first the oak-germ saw the light,
Nations have lived and passed away ;
Their tomb s with eld and moss are gray,
The cenotaphs o f haughty kings
Have moulded with forgotten things;
But still that old oak proudly stands,
Monarch of all the forest bands.
— a
France vs. England.
The London correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Inguirer, under date of March 1st,
writes as follows :
¢ An extraordinary debate took place in
the French Senate on Monday last. I will
only give you two quotations, the great im
portance of which you will readily perceive.
The Marquis de Boissy, one of the old reg-
ime, and a constitutional hater of England.
but an able and powerful man, after indu!g-
ing in severe invectives against the policy of
any alliance with England, used this re-
markable langaage :
“If you do not give the English time to
form a new coalition you will easily conquer
then. For this you have only to maintain
neutraiity witQ America. You will then see
England offering to the word the spectacle
of a people efduring everything for the sake
of money, and hauchty only with the weak.
Yon know Low wwmble she has always been
with the United States. Lf she now wis
to inyolve you in the American struggle, 1t
1s to we a Power of which she is afurid.
1 hope never to see France involved in a
war with the United States, for the humili-
ation of that Power would give England the
supremacy of the seas.’
es
¢ In response to this portion of the Mar
quis de Boissy’s speech. M. Billault, a
member of the Freach Ministry, used the
fol owing even more signiticant language :
oe
As to America, France will never for-
get the bonds of kindness which unite her to
the United States. [Iistory points out to
her that war with them is impossible. The
Government has recommended and practiced
neutrality. It would not allow events to
compromise the principles which it defended
and wade prevailin 1856 in the Congress of
Paris, but it feels the strongest friendship
toward the United States, and cannot com
prehend how any one could wish to impel it
to a combinationivhich would have for its
object to force an entrance into the Southern
ports in order to load cotton. On the part
of France such conduct would be madness
and England, whose interests are more deep-
ly engaged in the question, and who 1
now on good terms with the United States,
would not venture on a line of policy which
ts not that of France, and to which the Em-
Tr would not lend himself.) (Approba-
‘10n.
©»
“1 trust you will notice how completely
the language of these two extracts confirms
the view T hive hitherto ventured to present
on this subject in advance. You may read
ily imagine how bitter a pill was this decla-
ration of M. Billanlt, who then spoke for the
Government of France, and with ghat wry
faces the war party in England, and the ed-
itors who have so lately been flattering the
i Emperor and his ministers, swallowed it.—
There has been nothing so alarming said to
England, by France, for many years.
“If the emphatic assurance in the Em-
peror’s address had not been sufficient to
destroy all hope of an alliance in the pro-
posed crusade against the blockade, this
elaboration of it by his Minister must have
completed that task. 1tis impossible after
this for England or America to mistake the
position of France, and it cuts the last rope
to which the Southern Commissioners in
Paris have been clinging.”
pn
Kremext or Success, —He who is open,
without levity ; generous, without waste ;
secret, without craft ; humble, without
meanness ; bold, without insolence ; cau-
tious, without anxiety ; regular, yet not
formal ; mild, yet not timid ; firm. yet not
tyrannical —is made to pass the ordeal of
honor, friendship and virtue.
EE —
[ZF A case 1s on trial before the Supreme |:
Judicial Court at Manchester, N. H, in
which the plaintiff claims $7,20 and the de-
fendant tenders $7. This lawsuit about twen-
ty ecnts shows a terrible want of sense.
Jim Lane, the petof the Chicago Aboli-
a ; + we |
tionists, who solicited and received a milita- |
Gen. M'Clellan’s Command.
The enemies of this meritorious officer are
still after him with the ferocity of a blood-
ry command from the President is back i
the Senate looking after his $3,000 per yea
Ui hound. Whenever a success crowned our
I. arms the credit of it was given to some ouc
The New York upress, referring to the
proclivity of the Abolition Generals to gab |
and take precious good care at the same time |
-of their skins, says:
“Lane's way to girdle’ the rebellion, it
seems then, is $3,000 per annum, in the
Senate, with mileage and other such extras —
and not 1a the field, to carry *¢ the girdle
on his musket !
** The Alolition (renerals—all except
Phelps —turn out pretty much as Lane does
—mighty in wind and words on the couches
and sofas of Senates, but good for nothing
in the field. Phelps fights, even if he is a
little eracked on the negro and religion.—
While Grant, McClernand, Smith Thomas and
Schepf lead columns in the field —and while
a Logan, who resisted, in Congress, the war
to the very last, ofters up his life on the
bloody battle field to end it—Lane ever res
fuses to fight un'ess he can be some (General
in Chief in some high command ! What com.
mentary upon Abolitionis !7’
“wooo
The Samaritans.
This ancient race will probably ere long
have ceased to exist, as it has long been
gradually but surely diminishing. At the
more than one hundred and fifty persons,
and as their laws torbid them to marry ex-
cept among their own people, there are now
They dwell at Shechem, and every Easter zo
up with their tents to Mount Ge 1, where
they keep the Passover with precisely the
5s cel
the
with
it
same ceremonies which accompanied it
ebration two thousand years azo. Like
ws, they slay the paseal lamb, and
s girded and staff in hand they
with bitter herbs, Unlike the my dern Jews,
(with whom they have no dealings whatev
er,) they have their high pr
ice has descended in the same family. The
present venerable old man will be succeeded
eat
by his nephew, who is now a rabbi ; besides
these two officiating priests there are six
slayers, whose duty it 1s to kill the sacrifi-
cial lambs. Not only is the Passover cele-
brated as of old, but every rite mentioned in
the Bible is adhered to with the greatest ex
actitude and minuteness.
lab
Mrs PARTINGTON oN TE MiLrrary Crop.
—A shadow passed our window, the door
{opened and looking up we aw the form of
| Mrs. Partington before us. « I,ve just drop
ped in,” she said. Dropped in! and she
weighs one hundred and fifey if she does an
ounce. She held out her snuff box, as she
said © Good morning,” filled with Rhodes’
Delectable. Ike was by her side, and before
we had time to prevent it, he had both arms
stuck to the fly paper on the desk before us.
«I've just dropped in to ask,’’ she said, as
we looked up inquiringly, « what sort of a
crop the cessationsts will be likely to get by
planting cannon, that [ see something aboat
in the papers. [don’t believe it will come np.
Perhaps it may, we said. favoring the idea,
as we sce wany sprouts about in uniform
that are evidently sons of guns, and if, after
Mr. Fields has said, a soldiers sire and grand-
sire may be a worl, why not agan have
its descendants 2 ¢ May be so,” said she
brightening up, “may be so; it isn’t the
most unlikely thing that never come fo pass,
and that may be why guns wear breeches.
Tdeclare I never thought of that before.
ir Ag
A CerraN CORE FOR SCROFULA. —Nicho
las Longworth, the famous millionaire and
wine grower of Cincinati, publishes a cure
for scrofula. The directions he gives are the
following.
Pat two ounces of aquafortis on a plate on
which you have two copper cents. Let them
remain from eight to twenty four hours.—
Then add four ounces of clear strong vin-
égar. Put cents and all in a large mouthed
bottle, and keep it well corked. Begin by
pouring four drops ina tea spoonful of rain
water, and apply it to the sore. Make the ap-
plication three times a day, with a soft hair
pencil, or made of soft rags. If very painful
add a drop or two of water. As the the sore
‘heals apply it wealer.
L request editors in all parts of the Union,
and abroad to copy this and to ve-publish
it quarterly ; it may save many lives,
N. Longworth.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
rd
077 Marriages are very often called mat- |
ches; yet, of those who are married; few ev-
er matched ! Temper, tastes and disposi=
|
present time the whole tribe consists of not |
twelve young men who cannot find wives. |
and this oft: |
i Carisoglus, of great beauty, and
> D ”
cise, but when disaster or defeat overtook
ug theo he was held responsible. Tn the
late order of the President these slanderers
of a gallant soldier and an accomplished
| General, find more cause to disparage him:
| but the following account of the manner in
| which he was received by the army of the
| Potomac, which we copy from the New
| York Times. does not look as if his defamers
had succeeded in doing him much damage,
| at least in the army’s estimation.
| The Department having formally announ-
| ced that General McClellan has taken the
fous in person, itis not mmproper to state
that he lett Washmgton last Monday, and
is leading bis great Potomac army upon the
{flying rebels in Virginia, lis reception
| 2mong the troops, as he passed to their
[ head was one of the grandest ever witnessed
{in the country. The largest body of men
| ever put in motion at once since the battle
{of Solferino moved from the banks of the
| Potomac on that day, For many miles on
| diverse roads, the embattled ranks pressed
i forward, and the cheers that hailed the Gen-
eral at one point of the lines was taken up
| by regiment after regiment, and division af.
| ter division, until the whole vast army ren
{ the Heavens with shouts of welcome.
|“ Gen. MeClelian rode through the ranks
lin motion, his cap ever in his hand, returns
ing the salutes of the enthusiastic soldiers.
his that the
| country will patiently give him half the time
friends
i It is only hoped by
| that was accorded to the Western General
| who pursued his foe from Lexington, Mo., t?
| Arkansas
«The relief of Gen. McClellan from the
{ command of the Western Department is on-
{Iv just to him. It would be wrong to keep
{ hitn responsible for campaigus which, while
{he is in the field, he cannot personally su-
{ pervise. While his enemies see in this
| change his humiliation, his friends sce his
| justification and safety.’
Blom eee
Fremont Laid Up ia tho Mountains at
Last.
. The abolitionists ought to get up a public
procession. Their two principle idols, John
C. Fremont and Horace Greely, are appoint.
ed to important commands in very active
service. The President who is evidently a
great master of humor, has ordered Fremont
to the mountains of Virginia where the reb~
els have all left and taken to their, heels. In
this Mr. Lincoln has displayed his sagacity
and sound judgment. He has appointed the
| right man in the right place. Fremont has
‘had no military education or training and
no experience in fighting, Bathe is great
in finding paths over mountains and terra in,
i cognite. His exploration in the Rocky
| Mountains and in the passes of the Sierra
| Navada are well known. With the aid of
| Kit Carson he showed the way to California
| and made other wonderful discoveries The
| President, therefore, knowing that the Path-
finder understands all about mouztains, has
very properly-seat him to trace the intrica-
cies of the Blue Ridge and the Alleghanies.
His genius iies in regions near the clouds. —
{ There will be no contracts there, and no.niz-
gers to emancipate by proclamation. Bat
there will be plenty of black bears, upon
which the General of the Mountains can ex-
ercise his civilizing sway. In this benevo-
lent mission he will be ably assisted by Mas.
sa Goeely, General of the nigger brigade, al-
so assigned to the Department of the Moun-
tain. They can establish all sorts of insti-
tations, there, including Fourrite phalanxes
and free love establishments, at the same
time that they reform the bears, panthers
and wolves. As for Major Gen. Fremont's
personnel, he will now be at liberty to drive
his magnificent coach and six splendidly
caparisoned mules up the mountains, attend-
ed by a jet black body guard from Greeley’s
brigade. Every few hours we shall have
the most glorious despatches of brilliant
achievments by the Man of the Mountains.
—Hollidaysburg Standard.
Br
MeN axp Wonex DevourRep By WOLVES
IN Warracnia. —The English papers contain
a letter dated Bucharest, Wallachia. Janua-
ry 20, which state that in consequence of
the extreme severity of the whether. the
wolves have been more than usually daring
in their attacks. A woman named Madam
belonging
to a leading family, was returning to Buch-
arest in hor sledge, when the horse became
frightened, overthrew the vehicle, and the
tion should be well studied before mar-
riage. . {
RE a
177 The question in regard to a man’s |
political position used to be, ** is he sound |
on the goose ¢'' Now, Prentice says, it
should be, *¢ Is he soand on the eagle
LE hes ir ee
Major Herbert, of one of the Louisia; a
Regiments, who was taken prisoner, says
that Gen. Frost, of Carap Jackson notordety,
in the battle of Pea Ridge
i was kiljed
unfortunate lady was cast on the ground,
and soon devoured by the wolves. - A pedlar
was attacked by a pack of these ferocious
animals, but before he was killed two mount.
ed gendarms arrived and set on them. They
were [rightened away for the tmomgnt, but
{ notwithstanding the appeal of the poor man,
| the gendarms loft him wounded on the road
i aud shortly after the wolweg yeturned and
| finished his safteriugs®, Teo or twely, other
Case
5 Baye begd "reported