@he Democratic
VOL. 7.
BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1862.
ES
SAE
Miscellaneous.
ADDRESS
OF
MOCRATIC MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
14 THE DEMOCRACY [ OF THE UNITED
STATES.
ae nme:
FerLow Crmizens :— The perilous condi
sion of the country demands that we should
reason together, Party organization, re-
stricted within proper limits, is a positive
good, and indeed essential to the preserva.
tion of public liberty. Without it the best
Government would soon degenerate into the
we st of tyrannies In despotisms the chief
use of power is in crushing out party oppo-
sition. In our own country the experience
of the last twelve months proves, more than
any lesson in history, the necessity of pars
ty organization, The present Adminstra-
tion was chosen by a party, and in all civil
acts and appointments has recognized. and
still does, its fealty and obligations to that
party. There must and will be an opposi-
tion. The public safety and good demand
it. Shall it be a new organization or an old
one ? The Democratic party was founded
more than sixty years ago. It has never
bean disbanded. To-day it numbers one
million five thousand electors in the States
still loyal to the Union. Its recent numer«
ous victories in municipal elections in the
Western and Middle States prove its vitality.
Within the last ten months it has held State
Conventions and nommated full Democratic
tickets in every Free State in the Union. —
Of no other party opposed to the depubli
cans can the same be said.
SeALL THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BE NOW
DissaNDED 2—-Why should it 2 Are 1ts an
cient PRINCIPLES wrong ¢ What are they ?
Let is platforms for thirty years speak :
i Resolved, That the American Democra-
cy place their trust in the intelligence, the
patriotism, and the discriminaung justice of
the American people.
* That we regard this as a distinctive fea-
ture in ous political creed, which we are
proud to maintain before the world, as the
great moral element in a form of government
springing from and upheld by the POPULAR
WILL ; and we contrast it with tie crevd and
practice of Federa ism, under whatever name
or form, which seeks to palsy the will of the
constituent, and which conceives no im
posuire'ioo monstrous for the popular cred”
ubty.
+t That the Federal Government is one of
Vmited power, derived solely from the Cox
STITUTION ; and the grants of power made
therein ought to be strictly construed by all
departments and agents of the Government ;
and that it ig inexpedient and dangerous to
exercise doubtful constitutional powers.”
And as explanatory of these the following
from Mr. Jefferson's first snaugural :
‘ The support of the STAYE GOVERNMENTS
in all their rights as the most competent ad-
ministration of our domestic concerns and
the surest bulwarks against rnti-repubhican
tendencies,
‘The preservation of the GENERAL Gov.
RRNMENT in its whole constitutional vigor as
the sheet anchor of our peace at home and
safety abroad.
+¢ A jealous care of the right of election by
the people.
“THE SUPREMACY OF THE CIVIL OVER THE
MILITARY AUTHORITY.
¢ Economy in the public expense, that la-
bor may be lightly burdened. ;
¢t The honest payment of our debts and
sacred preservation of the public faith.”
Freedom of religion, freedom of the Press,
and freedom of person under protection of
the habeas corpus, and tris! by juries 1m
partially selected.”
Such, Democrats, are the principles of
your party, essential to public liberty and
to the stability and wise administration of
the Government, alike in peace and war.—
They aro the principles upon which the Con
stitution and the Union were founded ; and
urder the control of a party which adheres
to them, the Constitution would be main
tained and the Union could not be dissolv-
ed.
Is the poLioy of the Democratic party
wrong that it should be disbanded ?
Its policy ig consistent with its principles,
and may be summed up, from the begins
ning, as follows : The support of liberty
a8 against power ; of the people as against
their agents and servants ; and of State
rights as against consolidation and central-
ized despotism ; a simple government ; no
public debt ; low taxes ; no high protective
tariff’; no general system of internal im
provements by Federal authority ; no Na
tional Bank ; hard money for the Federal
public dues ; no assu:ption of State debts ; |
expansion of territory ; self government for |
territories, subject enly to the Constitution ;
1c absolute compatibility of a union of!
‘tates, “part slave and part free ; the ad. |
mission of new States, with or without sla- |
very, as they may elect ; non-interference |
by the Federal Government with slavery 11
State and Territory, or in the District of!
Columbia ; and, finally, as set forth in the |
Oincinnati Platform, 10 1856, and reaffirmed |
in 1860, absolute and «ternal ‘repudiation |
of ALL SECTIONAL PARTIES AND PLATFORMS
concerning domestic slavery which seek to
embroil the State and incite to treason and '
armed resistance to law nthe Territories,
and whose avowed purposes, if consummated,
must end tn CIVIL WAR AND DISUNION.'’
Such was the ancient and the recent pol
icy of the Democratic party running rhrough
a period of sixty years—a policy consistent
with the principles of the Constitution, and
absolutely essential to the preservaiion of
the Union.
Does the RisTORY of the Democratic party
prove that it ought to be abandoned ¢ *'By
their fruits shall ye know them,” Sectional
parties do not gchieve Union triumph. For
sixty years from the inauguration of Thomas
Jefferson on the 4th of March, 1801, the
Democratic party, with short intervals, con-
trolled the power and the policy of the Fed:
eral Government. For forty €ight years out
of these sixty. Democratic men ruled the
country : for fifty four years and eight
months the Democratic policy prevailed. —
During this period Louisiana, Florida, Tex
as, New Mexico and Calfornia, were succes-
sive'y annexed to our territory with an area
of more than twice as large as all the original
| efforts have an inevitable tendency to di-
: Union, and ought not to be countenanced by
From the beginning of the anti-slavery agi
tation to the period of the last Democratic
National Convention it has held but one lan-
guage 1n regard to it, Let its record speak:
« Resolved. That Congress has no power
under the Constitution to inter ere with or
control the domestic institutions of the sev
eral States, and that such Siates are the sole
and proper judges of everything anpertain~
mg tc their own affairs not prohibited by the
Constitution ; that all efforts of the Aboli-
tionists or others made to induce Cougress
to interfere with questions of slavery, or to
take incipient steps in relation thereto, are
calculated to lead to the most alarming and
dangerous consequences, and that all such
minish the happiness of the people and ena
gender the stability and permanency of the
any friend of our political institutions
Upon these principles alone, so far as re-
Thirteen States together. Eight new Sates
were admitted under strictly Democratic Ad-
ministrations—one under the Administration
of Fillmore. From tive millions, the popu
lation increased to thirty-one millions. [I'he
Revolutionary debt was extinguished. Two
foreign wars were successively prosecuted:
with a moderate ou'lay and a small army
and navy, and without suspension of the ha
beas corpus ; without one infraction of the
Constitution ; without one usurpation of
power ; without suppréssing a single news-
paper ; without imprisoning a single editor ;
without limit to the freedom of the press, or
of speech in or out of Congress, but in the
midst of the grosses: abuse of both ; and
without the arrest of a single ¢ traitor, ”’
though the Hartford Convention sat dunng
one of the wars, and in the other Senators
invited the enemy to ‘greet our volunteers
with bloody hands and welcome them to
hospitable graves.”
Daring all this time wealth increased bu
siness of all kinds multiplied, prosperity
smiled on every side, taxes were low, wageS
were high, the North and South furnished a
arket for each o‘her’s products at good
prices ; public liberty was secure. private
rights undisturbed ; every man’s house was
his castle ; the courts were open to all ; no
vassports for travel, no secret police, no
spies, no inform:rs. no bastiles ; the night
to assemble peaceably, the right to peti
tion ; freedom of religion, freedom of speech
a free ballot, and a free press ; and ll this
time the Constitution maintained, and the
Union of the States preserved.
Such were the choice fruits of Demorratic
principles and policy, carried out through
the whole period during which the Demo
cratic party held the power and administers
ed the Federal Government. Sach has been
the history of that party. Tt is a Union
party, for it preserved the Uiion by wis |
dom, peace and compromse, for more than
half a century.
Then neither the ancient principles, the
policy, nor the past history of the Democrat -
16 party require nor would justify its dis
bandment,
Is there anything in the present crisis
which demands it ? The more immediate
issue 1s, to maintain the Constitution as it
is, and to restore the Union as it was.
To maintain the Constitation is to respect
the rights of the States and the hiherties of
thecitizen. It is to adhere faithtullv to the
very principles and policy which the Demo-
cratic party has professed for nore than half
a century, Let its history and the results
from the beginning, prove whether it. has
practiced them. We appeal proudly to the
record.
The first step towards a restoration of the
Union as it was is to maintain the Constitu
tion as itis. So long as it was maintained
| ernment in its principles
i always sustained, and will now sustain, the
lates to slavery can the Union as it was be
‘restored : and no other Union. cxcept the
1 UNITY OF DE-POTI8M, can be maintained in
i this covn ry ; and this last we will resist,
i a8 out fathers did, with our lives, our for:
tunes, and our sacred honor.
by the Administration of the party in power.
in all its acts. Above all it is demanded of
you that you yield at least a silent support
to their whole policy, and to withhold all
scrutiny into their public conduct of every
kind, lest you should embarrass the Admin
istration. You are thus asked to renounce
one of the first principles and the chief se-
curity of a Democratic Government—he
right to hold public servants responsible to
their master the people ; to render the rep
resentative accountable to the coustitutent ;
the ancient and undoubled prerogative of
Americans to canvass public measures and
public men. 1tis this high constitutional
priviledge which Daniel Webs er declared
he would defend and exercise within the
House and out of the House, and in all pla-
ces. in time of war, in time of peace, and at
all'times! Tt is a right secured by the con-
stitution—a right 1nestimable to the people
anc formidable to tyrants only.
If ever there was a time when the exia-
tence and consolidation of the Democratic
party upon its principles and policy was a
vial necessity to public and private liberty
it is now.
Unguestionab'y the Congtirati n gives am-
But it is said that you must disband the
Democratic party “to support the Govern |
ment.”” We answer that the Dewocratic |
party has alwavs supported the Govern- |
ment ; and while it was in power preserved
the Government in all itg vigor and integri- |
ty. not by force of arms but by wisdom. |
sound policy and peace. But it never did |
admit. and never will that this Administra |
tion, or any Administration, is ‘the Gov
ernm nt.” It holds and ev r has held, that
the Federal Government 18 the agent of the
people in the several States composing the
Union ; that it consists of thre dist nei de |
partments—the Legislative, the Ex cutive,
and the Judicial—each equally a part of the |
Government. and equally entitled to the
confidence and support ot the States and the
people ; and that it 's the duty of every pa |
triot to sustain the several departments of
Government in the exercise of all Constitu |
tronal powers of each which may be necessary |
and proper for the preservation of the Gov |
and in its vigor
and wntegrity, and to stand by and defend to |
to the utmost ‘he flag which represents the |
Government. the Union and the country. |
In this sense the Democratic party has
QGovernm nt against all foes. at home or
abroad in the North or the South, open or
concealed, in office or out of office. in peace
or in war.
If this is what the Republican party mean
by supporting the Government, it is an idle
thing to abandon the old and tried D wmo-
cratic party which for so many years and
through so many (rials supjoricd, preserved
and maistained the Government of the Union
But if their real purjose be to aid the an
cient enemies of the Democracy in subver.
ting our present Constitution and form of
government, and « nder pretence of saving
the Union, to erect a strong centralized des-
potism on its ruins, the Democratic party
will resist them as the worst enemy to the
Constution and the Union, and to free
government every where
We do not propose to consider now the
causes which led to the pecsent guhappy war.
A fitter time will come her after for such
discussion. But we remind you now that
compromise while your Union. and com
promise fiftcen months ago would have sa
ved it Repeated efforts were made at the
last session of the Thirty sixth Congress to
this «nd. At every stage, the great mass of
the South. with the whole Democratic party
and the whole Constitutional Union party
in fact, and not threatened with infraction |
in spirit and in letter, actual or imminent,
the Union was unbroken,
To restore the Union, it is essential, first,
to give assurance to every State and to the |
people of every section that their rights and
liberties and property will be secure within
the Union under the Constitution. What |
assurance so doubly sure as the restoration |!
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to power of that ancient, organized. consol- |
idated Democratic party which for sixty |
years did secure the property, rights and
liberties of the States and of the people; |
and thus did maintain the Constitution and
preserve the Union, and with them (he mal.
tiplied blessings which distinguisned us|
above all other nations ?
To restore the Union is to crush out sec |
{ tionalism North and South, To begin the
great work of restoration through the ballot !
box is to kill abolition. The bitter waters |
of secession flowed first and are fed still |
from the unclean fountain of abolitionism — |
That fountain must be dried up. Armies
| may break down the power of the Confed~'
erate Government in the South; but the
work of restoration can only be carried on
through political organization and the bal |
lot in the North and West. In this great
work we cordially invite the co operation of
all men of every party who are opposed to
the fell spirit of abolition. and who, in sin-
cerity, desire the Constitution as it is and
the Union as it was. Let the dead past bury
its dead. Rally, lovers of the Union, the
Constitution and of Liverty. to the stands
ard of the Democratic party, aiready in the
field and confident of victory ~~ That party
is the natural and persistent enemy of abo- |
lition. Upon this question its, record as a
national organization, however it may have
been at times with particular men or in par-
| ticular States, is clear and unquestionable. | your policy, and your pa. ty, and to stand
of the North and West, united in favor of
ceriain amendments to the Constitution —
and chief among them the well known CRIT
TENDuN PROPOSITIONS,” which would have
averted civil war a «1 mamtained the U ion.
At every stage. all proposed amendments
inconsistent witn the sectional doctrines of
the Chicago Piatform were strenously and
unanimously resisted and defeated by the
Republican party. The Crittenden Propo
sitions,” never received a single Republican
vote in either House. For the proof we ap
peal to the Journals of Congress and the
Congressio nal Globe.
We scorn to reply to the charge that the
Democrat: party is opposed to granting aid
and support to the Federal Government in
maintaining its safety, integrity, and
supremacy. and in favor of disbanding our
armies and succumbing to the South. The
charge is libellous and false. No man has
advocated any such proposition. Demo
crats recognize it as their duty as patriots
to support the Government in all constitu-
tional necessary and proper efforts to main-
tain its safety . integrity and cons itutionai
authonty ; but a the same ume they are
inflexibly opposed to waging war against
any of the Siates or people of this Union in
any spirit of oppression. or for any pur~
pose of conqu-si or suijugation. or of overs
throwing or 1tterferring with the rights or
es ablish d mstituiions of any State. Above
all. the Democratic party will not support
the Administration in anything wh ch looks
or tends to the loss of our political or perso
nal rights and liberties, or a change of our
present demucratical form of government.
But no, D-mocrats, it is aot the supoort
of the Governm ut in restoring the Union
which the party in power require of you.—
You are asked to give up your principles,
ple power to the several Do parim nis of the
Government to carry on war, strictly sub |
ject to its provisions. and, in case of civil
war, with perfect security to citizens of the
loyal! States. Every act necessary for the
safety «nd efficiency of the Governm-ut. and
for a complete and most vigorous tial of its
gtrengih, is yet wholly consistent with the
observance of every provision of that instra
ment. and of the laws in pursuance of 1t, if
the sole motives of those in power was the
suppression of the * rebellion.” and no more.
And yet the history of the Administration
for the twelve months rast has been and
continues to be a history of repeated usur
pations of power and violations of the Con
stitution. and of the public and orivate rights
of the citizen. For the proof we appeal to
facts too recent to need recital here, and ton
flagrant and heinous for the calm narrative
which we propose. Similar acts were done
and a hike policy pursued in the’ threarened
war with [‘rance in the time of John Adams,
and with the same ultimate purpose. But
in two or three years the people forced them
mio an honorable peace with Frarce, re
buked the excesses anid abuses of power,
vindicated the Constitution, and tarned over
the Federal Government to the principles
and policy of the Democratic party, ‘i'o
the ¢* sober second thought of the people,”
therefore. ad to the hallot box, we now ap
peal when again in hike peril wita our fath
Crs.
Bat if every Democrat conzurred in the
policy of prosecuting the war to the utter
subjugation of the S«uth and for the subver~
sion of her State Governwents with her in
| stitutions, without a Convention of the States
and withont an overture of peace, we should
just as resolutely resist the disbanding of the
Democratic party. It is the only party ca-
pable of carrying on a war; it is the only
party which has ever conducted a war to a
successful issue, and the only party which
Las done 1t without abuse of power, without
molestation to the rights of any class of cili-
zens, and with dae regard to economy. All
this it has done ; all this, if need be, it is
able to do again. If success, then in a mil
itary point of view be required, the Demo-
cratic party alone can command it.
To conclude : Inviting all men, without
distinetion of State, section or party, who
are for tha Constitution as it is and the Un-
ion as it was. to unite with us in this great
work upon terms of perfect equality, we in-
sist that—
The restoration of the Unim, whether
through peace or by war, demands the con
tinned organization and sucess of the Dem
ocratic party ;
The preservation of the Constitution de
mands it ;
The maintenance of liberty and free deme
ocratical government d-manids it ;
The restoration of a sound system of in-
ternal policy demands it ;
Economy ard honesty in the public ex
penditures. now at the rae of four millions
of dollars a day demand it;
The rapid accumulation of an esormous
and permanent public debt demand it—a
publie debt already one thousand millions
of dollars, ani equal at tae pres nt rate, in
three years, to Erglind’s debt of a century
and a half in gr wih;
The heavy taxation. direct and indirect,
State and Federal, already more than two
hui dred millions of dollars a year, cating
out the substance of the people, augmenting
every vear, démand- it ;
Reduced wages, low prices depresgion of
trade. decay of business, scarcity of work
and impendiig ruin on cvery side, demand
it;
And. fina'ly the resoration of the con-
cord. good feeling, «nd prosperity of former
vears, demands that the Democratic party
sh ll be maintain d and made victorious,
W. A RICHARDSON. of Illinois.
A. L. KNAPP. of illinois.
J. C, ROUINSON, of Illinois.
JOHN LAW, of Indiana.
D W. VOORHEES, of Indiana.
W. ALLEN of Ohio.
C. A WHITE of Ohio.
WARREN P NUBLE of Ohio.
GEO H. PENDLETON of Olio.
JAS R. MORRIS. ot Ohio.
C I. VALLANDIGH AM, of Ohio.
PHILIP JONSON, of Penn.
8 E. ANCONA of Penn.
GEO K. SHIEL, of Oregon.
Nore, ~The names of absent members
concurring in the above wll be affixed to the
pamphlet edition of this Address.
Origiual Poetry,
At Last.
BY THE MAN IN GREY.
At last the weary chain is broken—broken,
And streams of gladness o’er my spirit roll ;
A presence givrifies the earth—a token
Cf the rew life that breaks upon my soul.
Now blessed faith shines like « crystal clear
From every star that burns; a horoso pe
Of beauty bathes my soul’s anbounded sphere
And croyns me with a diadem of hope.
I marvel al the vows, dead dreams falfill,—
Glad confirmation of my earlier faith,
Sweet souvenirs—persuasions sweeter still,
Which draw me from ambitious, dazzling wraith.
Darkness hath fled! upon the brow of morning
Bursts the warm radiance of « vision bright,
The hearts unfathomed deens with love adorning,
Aud filling all my soul with strange delight.
And would yo know the power that comes dispeling
The ravless clouds tha! gathered o'er me fast,
Whose nugic touch (like rainbow bright foretelling
Lhe peace which follows when the whirlwind’s
past?)
Her's is tne baud, my ‘rembliog footsteps guiding,
That up from darkness leads we on to light—
Her teaching is the faith of my confiding—
ner deeds the origin of my delight.
Lo ! where she comes, the sunligh® with her bring-
ing!
_All things rejoicing where her footsteps press,
Une ous musio from her lips outringing,
__Uneouscious blessings born in her caress.
O’er my existence on life’s stagnant ocean,
Her spirit breathed ! Ah, what a change was
this!
All joy and mute, nnd all life and motion,—
A charm—a spell of beauty—0, brizht dream
of bhss ! :
At last the weary chain ie broken,
The waves are flashing fast, the wind ig free ;
A presence coweths and a voice uath spoken,
Aud the glad world doth sound a jubilce!
-
Select Posty,
A Hundred Years to Come.
Where where will be the birds tha: sing
A hundred years to come ?
The flowers that now in beauty spring,
A hundred years io come ?
The rosy lip.
The lofty brow.
The hearts that beat
So gayly new ?
Oh where will be love's beawing eye,
Joy's pleasant smile and Sorrow 's sigh,
A hundred years to come ?
Who'll press for gold the crowded street,
: A hundred years to ¢ome ?
Who tread tho church with willing feet,
A hundred years to come ?
Pale trembling age,
And fiery youth,
And childhood with
Its brow of trath—
The riclrthe poor—on land and sea—
Where will the mighty millions be,
A bundred years to come ?
We all within our graves shall sleep,
A hundred years to come.
No livingsoul forus will weep,
A hundred years to come.
But others then
Our!auda will tii],
And others then
; Our strests will fill—
Whilo other birds will smg as gay,
As bright the sunbeam as to day,
A hundred years to come
oo o—
My Country.
I love my country—every breczo
That sweeps across her heaving s as*-
Her azure skies—her mountain he ights —
And all her fair and glorions sights.
I love my country ! Let the Greek
In raptures of his sun ciime speak ;
Of snow-~clad nll may boast the Swiss,
No land can be compared to this.
I love wy country !—but *dis not
Breause “tis nature's favorite spot ;
But us because it is the lad
Where freeman may in safety stand.
I love my country !—may it be
The home of all the noble free ;
But never lazing house of those
Who are at home their country’s foes.
I love my country ! —cver grave,
Mos grown of her immor:al brave,
By weeping Freedom ard to rest,
Whose memories are forever blest.
1 love my country !—ali the host
Of noble men whom she may boast ;
Her cver tried and faithtul son,
From Jackson up to Wasungton.
I love my country! in my heart ;
While yet the crimson blood doth sta rt,
In her defence its tide shall flow,
Wien Freedom points to me her foe.
Oh, Thou.. who didst our Fathers guide,
Still o'er our lovely land preside ;
Direct their sons, and may they love
Their country, nex! to that above.
evens
CHANGE OF TuNs —A gentleman whose
slave accompanied a young Confederate of-
| fier on the Wildcat expedition, asked the
I darkey on hue return to Nashviile, how long
the army was on the warch from its encamp-
ment to the battle field.
‘ About four days,” was the reply.
| ¢ Well, how long were they marching
back 27
¢ About two days, massa,’
“ Why, how is thai. Joe 2 Could the men
travel any faster back when they were worn
down with four days’ march and severe fight
than they traveled forward, afier a good rest
in camp ?7’
** Oh, I'll tell you what made the diffira
ence, massa,” said old Joe ; it was the mu-
sic. They marched forward to Wildcat to
the tune of * Dixie,” When they marched
back. the tune was Fire in the mountains
—rud boys ran ’”’
[T= Ignorance is & much more quiet,
manageable and contented thing than half |
knowledge.
|
Discouraging Children.
It is somewhere related that a poor gol.
dier, having had his skull fractured, wa$
told by the co tor thai his brains were visi~
ble. Do write and tell father of it, for he
alwnys said that T had no brains,” he revlied.
How many fathers and mothers tell their
children this and how often does such a re-
mark contribute not a little to prevent any
developraent of the brain ?
tells 2 child he is brainless, fuolish, or
blockhead, or that he is deficient in somes
mental or moral faculty, and in nine cases
out of ten, the statement iz believed; the
thought that it may be partially so, acts
like an incubus to repress the confidence
and energies of that child Let any person
look to childhood’s days. and he can doubts
less recall many words and expressions
«hich exerted such a discouraging or en-
couraging influence over him, as to tell upon
his whole future course of life. We knew
an ambitious boy who, at the age of ten
years, had become so depressed with fault
finding and reproof, not duly mingled with
encouraging words, that at an early age he
longed for death to take him out of the
world, io which he conceived he had no abil
ity to rise. But while all thus appeared so
dark around him, and he had been so often
told of his faults and deficiencies that he
seemed the dullest and worst of boys, and
while none of his good qualities and CADA-
bilities had been mentioned, and he believ
ed he hal none, a single word of praise and
‘ lessly dropped in his hear-
ing changed his whole course of thought. —
We have often heard him say that word
saved ham
A grown person
a
The moment he thought he could do well,
he resolved that he wor -and he has dene
well. Parents, these u. - important consid-
erations. «
= es
A Fararve Dog oN mie Barrie Fenn. —
Lieutenant Pticfl, killed at the battle of Shi-
bh wus buried at Chicago a few days a0.
In speaking of the funeral, the of
that city, remarks:
Bel
2mes,
A beautiful and toushing incident 1s con-
‘| nected with the mann-r in which Mes. Phcff
was enabled to discover the place where
her husband had teen buried upon the bat
tle field. She visited the field armed with
la pass from Gen. Halleck, but no ene em'd
poss bly inform her of the place where he
had been buried. as such a large number of
both friend and foe had been interred upon
the same grou: She remained about half
8 day. and was about giving up in despair,
when she espied, at the distance of nearly
half a mile, a larze dog coming rapid'y tow
ards her, which she immediately ed
asthe same which had accompanied her
{husband to the war. He appreached lier
with the most intense manifestations of joy,
and immediately indicated to her, as well as
he was able, is desire that she should fl
low him. She did so. aad he led the way ©
a distant part of the field. and stopped te-
to
{ Ler
1d,
fore a single grave. She caused it
opened, and thero found
dead husband, [Tt appears from the staie-
ment of some of the soldiers that ut the
time Lieut. Pficff fell, this dog was by his
side, and there remained, lic lis wounds
until he was taken from the field and buried.
I¥e then took his statien by the grave, and
nothing could mduce Him to abandon it but
for a suffizicnt length of time each day to
satisfy his hunger, notil. by some means he
was made aware of the presence of his mis-
Thus bad he watched for twelve
days by the grave of his slain master. This
is certainly one of the most wonderful in
stanoes of canine sagacity on record. When
the body was being conveyed to this city
this wonderful animal took up his position
by the box containing the remains, and no
persuasions could indice him to leave it tn-
til its arrival here.
the ody
tress.
- 40s eum
777A young man who wouid not be guil-
ty of an indelicate word to a lady, says the
Cincinnati Gazette, was yesterday passing
along Lake street. When in front of a dry
gonds establishment, having an eye for dry
goods, he stepped to admire a cloak of the
latest basquet style, which was displayed,
as he thought, upon a dummy or wire frame
rather neatly bonnetted and fitted up in
front of a show window. Seeing a friend ad-
vance, the young man called his attention to
the article of dress, and playfully gave the
dummy a nudge, remarking, ©I wonder
how shat machine feels with all that finery
on it!” *Poancy hs ph elinks”’ as he saw
the supposed dummy turn suddently around
and face him, with an expression of aston
ishment and indignation resting upon the
unmistakable lineaments of a very good and
handsome face. The machine was alive.—
Our friend blushed, s'ammered and explain-
ed. The young lady forgave and stepped
into the carriage.
aba
A Goop Ose. —Pat was helping Mr.
Blank to get a safe in his office, one day,
and not being acquainted with the article
inquired what it was for.
*To prevent papers and other articles
which are placed mit from being burntin
case of a fire,” said Mr. B.
“An’ sure, will nothing ever burn that
you putin thst thing,
“Na.”
“Well thin, your honor, ye'd better be
after getting iuto that same thing when ye
die."
Mr. Blank ''mitied
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Southern Ports to be Opened.
WasniNGTON, April 13.
The President has issued his proclamation
declaring the blockade of the ports of Beau
fort, Port Royal and New Orleans shsll so
far cease and determine from and after the
Ist day of June next, that commercial inter-
cours with those ports, except as to persons
and things, and information contraband of
war may from that time be cairied on, sub-
ject to the laws of the United States, aud to
the limitation, and in pursuance of the rez-
ulations which are prescribed by the
tary of the Treasury.
The text of the prociamation 1s as follows
By the President of the United States of
America.
A PROCLAMATION.
Waereas, By my proclamation of the
nineteenth of April, one thousand eight hun.
dred and sixty~cne, it was declared that the
ports of certain States of North Carolina,
Port Royal, in the State of South Caroling,
and New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana
were, for reasons therein get forth, intended
to be placed under blockade ; and whereas.
the saul ports of Beaufort, Port Royal and
New Orleans have since been blockaded ;
but as the blockade of the same ports may
now be safely relaxed with advantage to the
Interests of commerce.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abra-
ham Lincoln, President of the United States
pursuant to the authority in mz vested by
the fifth section of the act of Congress, ap-
proved on the 13 h of July last, entitled ‘An
act further to provide for the cclection of
duties on imports, and for other purposes,”
{ do hereby declare that the blockade of the
said ports of Beaufort, Port Royal and New
Orleans, shall so far cease
Seer
and determine,
from and after the first day of June next.
that commercial intercourse with these poris
except as to persons and things and infor
mation contrabsud of ar, may from that
time, be carried on, subject to the laws of
the United States, and to the limitations and
in pursuarce of the regulations which are
prescribed by the Sceretary of the Treasury
in his order of this date, which is appended
to this proclamation.
In witness whereof 1 have hero unto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to. be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this twelfth
day of May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight handred - and sixty-two,
and of the independence of the United
States the eighty sixth,
Ls} ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WiLLiax H. Sewarp, See'y of State.
REGULATIONS RELATING TO TRADE WITH PORTS
OPENED BY PROCLAMATION.
Treasvry DepArTyexT, )
WasniNGToN, May 12, 1862. §
First. To vessels clearng from foreign
ports and destined to ports opened hy tho
proclamation of the President of the United
States of this date viz: Beaufort, in North
taro'ina ; Hilton Head. in South Carolinia,
and New Orleans, in Louisiana.
Licenses will he granted by the consuls of
the United States upon satisfactory evidence
that the vessels so licensed will convey no
persons, property or information contraband
of war either to or from the sag forts; which
license shall be exhibited to the collectors of
| the port to which s1id vessels may be res.
pectively bound limwediatelr on arrival
and if required, to any officer in charge of
the blockade 5 and on leaving of the sid
ports every vessel will be required to have a
clearance fiom the collectors of the customs.
according to law, showing no vi lation of
the conditions of the license, Any viola.
tion of such conditions will involve the for
feiture and condemnation of the vessel and
cargo, aud the exclusion of all parties
concerned from any future privilege of enter-
ing the United States during the war, for
any purpose whatsoever. :
Second, To vesscls of the Waited States
clearing coastwise for the ports aforesaid, l1«
censes can only be obtained from the Treas.
ary Depar'ment.
Third, In ali other respects the blockade
remains in full force and effect, as hitherto
established and maintained, nor is 1t relax-
ed by the proclamation, except in regard to
the ports to the relaxation is by that instra-
ment expressly applied.
(Signed) S. P. Cass,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Rules for the Ladies.
1 Marry nota profane man because the
depravity of the heart will corrupt your
children and cmbitter your existence.
2 Marry not a gambler, a tippler or
haunter of taverns. because he who has na
regard for himself will never have any for
his wife.
2 Marry not a man who makes protuises
which he never performs, beeduse you can
never trust him. :
4. Many not a man whose actions do
not correspond with his sentiments, because
the passions have dethroned reason, and he
is prepared to commit every crime to which
an evil nature, unrestrained can instigate
hiw ; the state of that man who regards not
his own idea's of right and wrong, is deplo«
rable, and the less you have to do with him
the better.
5 Marry not a msn whois in the habit
of running after the girls in the
country, because his affections are contin.
ually wandering, and therefore can vever bes
permanent. : }
6. Marry not a wad who veglects hig bu-
siness ; if he dees when single, he will ba
wores when married