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The Watchman,
C. T. ALEXANDER, |
JOE W. FUREY,
BELLEFONTE, Pa.
pm mem
Thursday Morning, May 29, 1862,
Democratic State Conventicr.
In accordance with a resolution of the
Democratic State Executive Committee, THe
Dexocracy will meet in STATE CONVEN
TION, at HARRISBURG, no Frivay, the
“4th day of July, 1862. at 10. olock, A, M-,
to nominate candidates ler AUDITOR (FENERAT
and SorVEYOR GENERAL, and to adopt such
‘micasures as may le deemed necessary for
the welfare of the Democratic party aud the
country.
WILLIAM H. WELSJ,
Chaiiman of the Democratic State Ex. Com.
ev De
77 The rebel leaders told the Southern
people at the commencement of this war,
that the ohject and intention of the Lincoln
Government was ‘0 abolish the insti ution
of slavery, and fearing the consequence of
«cman ipatien among them of four willivns
ofmegrocs, they folowed their leaders 1m
ttheir wholly work of destroying the govera
sment. 3 hem we commenced the war in de
tence of the government, ve denied most
emphatically having any intention of inter.
fering with the local ins itations of any of
the States as will appear by the following
resolution, passed at the extra session of
Congress :
That this wards not waged on (er
part in any spirit of oppression, or for any
purpose of conouest or su’ jugation or pur.
pose of overthrowing or wterfering with the
righ's or established stitutions of those
States, bu! to defend and maintamn the su.
premacy of the Constitution, and to preserve
the Union, with all the dignity, cquality
and rights of the several States animp:
and that as soon as these objects are accom.
plished the war ought to case.”
Under this resolution, six hundred thous-
wad Union volunteers rushed to the rescue
wf our capital, and are stiil in the ficld haz-
aarding their lives in defence of the Govera-
ment. Is the object of the war on our part
still the sam: that it was, and are the rebel
Headers sti | deluding their followers with
aleclarations that we do intend ovirihrowing
their local institutions ? The abolition of
slavery in the District of Columbia looks
wery much as though it was being slightly
interfered with even in the face of the reso-
lution of the extra Session.
{f any man will take the Congressional
«;lobe, and read the column efier column of
Abolition speeches that are daily being
#nade, and look at the votes that have been
taken as indicating how the majority will
‘vote on the emancipation bills now up, he
will certainly come to the conclusion that
the ohject of the war on our part is not now
. what it was at the beginning, and that Cen
gress, when it pa sed the above quoted res
olution, ‘lid not mean what it said, and in
tended only to decieve the people, or that
the present Congress is recreant to its past
pledges, and is misrepresenting the will of
the people composing this Government,
This Congress is doing just what the reb-
el leaders want them to do, and just what
they told the mass of the people (who, oth-
erw'se, would have been for the Union) they
would do. Tt gives thems aid and comfort
by firing up the flarzing sprits of the
masses who, at the beginning, were dispos.
«d to doult the represcntations of their lead
«Is,
When will this war ended, if these
men who ave dikunjonists at heart, are per-
mitted to go and feed the flume of rebellion
#n this manner. Old Ale has imprisoned
unore thas one Democrat without even a
mock shadow of a trial for ics eznse than
this. If he is honest, he will {reat these
zuen the same.
red ;
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deneral Order No. 23,
EleApQUARTERS PeNNsyLyvansa Minera, §
Harumspure, May 26, 1862.
On the pressing requisition of the Presis
dent of the United States in the present em
ergency it is ordered,
That the several Major Generals, Driga-
der Generals, and Cclonels of regimen's,
throughout the Commonwealth muster with-
out delay all the military organizations with-
in their respective divisions, or under their
control, together with all persons willing to
, join their commands and proceed forthwith
to the eity of Washington, er to such other
points as way be indicated by fuwre or
«ers,
By order of A. G. CURTIN,
Governor and Commander in Chief.
A. L. Russe, Adj. Gen.
TO ARMS! TO ARMS!
We have barely time to call attention to
the proclamation of the Governor received
at a late hour last evening, and published
in our paper this morning.
The appeal is an urgent one, and not
made without the most pressing cause. —
Laat it will be patriotically responded to
iby the people of Pennsylvania, there can be
#0 doubt whatever.
{Banks has been defeated by a large force
of the enemy, and driven north of the Poto-
aac. We are without particulars, but fu~
gitive soldiers who have arrived at Hagerss
tawn report the rebel foree at 100,000 men.
This is doubtless an exaggeration, but em-
boldeved by their success the enemy may
push on to Washington or Baltimore. in
any cvent there is no time to lose
in raising men to check them. There is no
cause for unnecessary alarm, but if ever
there was time for prompt action that time
has now arrived. - Patriot & Union.
hey ?
Upon glancing at the head of this article,
many readurs will silently say how simple,
man that will ask such a question ? Does
not everybody in this free government know
what Yberty is ¢ Don’t we sce it? Don't
we fel it, don’t we know it, and while in
the very enjoyment of the thing itself, how
igno aut must be the man who wilt ask the
question— what is liberty ¢
know what that is ? Now, reader, stop —
be not too hasty to pronounce judgment
Are you quite sure that you can give a cor-
If you can, and
e with yourself
rect and definite answer ?
all men had cqual know!
were qually honest, that blessed government
which protects you in the enjoyment of lib.
erty, woull not be imperilicd and its vory
foundations shaken to their centre by the
shock of civil fat ws demonstrate
this fact.
Natural liberty, says Blackstone, (than
war.
whom better anthority cannot be given),
consists properly in A powet of acting as
one thinks tic, without any
1 unless by the law of nature ; being
a right inherent in us by birth, and one of
the gifts of Giod (0 man at his creation, when
constraint or
he endowed him with the facalty of fice
will,
Thi
test cxensive signi
, then, is liberty in its broadest and
that a man
has the right to do and to act just as he
pleases, subject only to the laws of his own
ut this liberty no man who is a
ation
nature.
member of society, or who lives uuder this
what is called a free government, can or does
enjoy to this extent.
that men would do that they do not, were it
i rot ur the mumcipal law.
|
There are many things
To
quote from our able jurist again, law is “a
Now what is the municipal law ?
i rule of action prescribed Ly the supreme
| power in a State commanding what is right
and prohibiting what is wrong. The law,
therefore, is a brrricr to the enjoyment of a
man’s nataral liverty. Ile is not permitted
to act as he pleases, but must conform ‘his
actions to the laws of the iand.
No man, therefore, who lives under this
or any other well regulated government,
docs or can enjoy his natural Liberty. Tt is
always curtailed by the municipal law. But
why put a restriction upon that freedom “of
action which the Almighty gave to cvery
human being at bis creation 2 Simply be-
cause mankind are so wicked, vicious, and
depraved that without such restraint no so-
ciety or order could be maintained in any
com.nunity Riot and disorder woull run
wild ; the stronger would overpower the
weaker; and thus a general tumult would be
kept up all the time, that would render any
man’s life a curse to him.
Mankind are not yet sufliciently civilized to
enjoy this-liberty without abusing it. Even
we, white American freemen, who boast so
much of our intelligence and civilization,
cannot do it, and, therefore, we have created
the municipal law, and set it over us to keep
us from doing evil ; in other words, to restrain
our natural liberty which we acknowledge we
are not sufliziently civilized to enjoy, What
so loud and so much ? Simply the right to
do as we please, provided we do not violate
the law of the “nd.
The only difference between this govern
ment and others as respects the liberties of
the subject is, that we do, or at least should
enact our laws upon the hypothesis that the
subject should be perritted to enjoy just as
much of his natural liberty as his intellect
and state of civilization fit him to enjoy,
without infrir ging upon the rights of others,
or, as is compatible with the promotion of
the good of society. While other govern
ments— the kingdoms and despotisms of Eua-
rope govern their subjects upon the assump-
tion that what is good for those who govern
their kings, prinees, nobles, &c., is also good
terests of the people, while they strive only
to promote the interests of the rulers.
The best human government is that which
gives to the subject the privilege to enjoy
the greatest possible amount of his natural
liberty that his inteidect and degree of civil-
ization fit him to enjoy without abusing it.
Such a government is ours, and such is the
extent and meaning of our liberty.
With this understanding, then, of our
own, or what we call white men’s hberty,
let us understand what the term’slavery im-
ports, and then we can determine whether or
not slavery exists ugder this government,
aud to what extent. Slavery, properly
speaking, can only exist when a man boids
another man of the same race, endowed by
his ercator with the same gift of natural
freedom, at all times subject to his will.
very, is the right which the Constitution of
our country has guaranteed to the citizens
of certain States in the Unien, te hold sub.
ject to their will certain human beings who
are not recognized as citizens under our
government and who, it is admitted, belong
to an inferior race of humanity.
According to our first definition of what
the term slavery properly means, it will be
readily admitted that real slavery does not
anywhere exist in the United States. It re-
mains only therefore, for us to examine sla-
very as it is said and thought te exist, ac-
cerding to the understanding of the people,
We have seen in our discussion of the term
liberty, that our own liberty is restrained
within certain limits by the municipal law.
That the best governments, of which ours
is the very best, grants unto its subject the
enjoyment cf the greatest possible amount
of their natural liberty which their intellect
and degree of civilization fit them to enjoy,
without abuse to themselves and others.
The African race being much inferior to
us, both mn intellect and civilization, how
much more necessary to restrain his natura]
jiberty. The less the degree of civilization
the grerter must be the restraint. Now,
what are the facts as they really exist, strip-
But what most men understand by sla- |
RB SN RE SPE TE ye
Liberty and Slavery— What are | ped of ail the
T
|
how foolish or how ignorant must be the |
le
| ate him for this
And ns for slavery, why, is it not the the procecds of his labor after providing for
very opposite of liberty —3oes not every man |
| master is bound to provide for him while in
upon him who asks the above tnestions.— | ness his wants are many, and his value
{ : on
nothing ; and in his old age, when his fee:
then, is our boasted liberty of which we talk |
for the subject, we strive to promote the in- |
| port him comfortably as long as he lives.
honor painted robes in which
the abolitionists have clothed them. In the {
first place we have only restrained his liber-
ty by the same wholesome laws that we
have restrained oar own.
This not being of itself sufficient, owi g
te bis ignorance and lack of civilization, we
to placel over
him. whose duty it 1s to see th t he obeys
the law. #Ihe master is responsible to a
ain extent for the violations of the law
by those ‘under his control, and to remaner
have allowed a master be
<, he is allowed to enjoy
his necessities and wants. And while the
bis infaney, when by reason of his helpless.
bleness renders him valueless, the Constita-
| tion of our country has given him a proper-
| ty in his labor during those yeare of man.
| hood when his ser s are valuable. which
| enables him to reclaitn him when he runs
| away. and to dispose of his labor to others
| for a valuable consideration.
There is no such thiug as property in the
man himself, claimed, we beheve, by the
adherents of slavery, nor is it necessary, to
support the institution, There is, theretore,
no such thing as a traffic in human flesh
and blood. as is asserted by ‘the alolition-
ists —the traffic being only in the labor of
the individual.
The relation existing between master and
slave, is the same as that existing in Penn
sylvania and other Northern States between
master and apprentice 3 the only difference
being that the slave is black and an inferior
being {o his master, while the apprentice is
generally white and the equal of his master.
The one an apprenticeship for life, the oth.
er for a {crim of years.
Such then is the institution of slavery-— |
an apprentice ship for life with the right of |
transfer by the master of the propery he |
has in the labor of the apprentice, coupled
with the stipulation that when the appren-
tice becomes old and feeble thot he will sup-
Now, we have said that if everybody un-
derstood the meaning of liberty and slavery
in this their true light, and then have striv-
en only to promote the true interest of the |
whole people 201 the government, our coun- |
try would nob now be racked to its centre
by the shock of civil war.
The abelitionists, as Phillips says, have |
striven for the last thirty years to overthrow
fhis government, because the Constitution
rocognized and protected this system of aps
prenticesbip. They have misrepresented
the nature of civil liberty and slavery to the
people, and aroused to hostility the North |
to the latter institution, who resolved upon |
its overthrow. This gave the South the |
pretext, for rebellion—the result is the press |
ent civil war, the end of which is not yet |
visible. ! wlan
i iyo :
The Decision of the Supreme Court.
The decision of the Supreme Court of
| Pennsylvania as delivered by Judge Wood
ward, declaring the army vote unconstito-
tional, is so exhaustive and conclusive that
1t cannot fail to receive the concurrence ot
the public, However much the Court
have regretted the necessity of this decision
it obviously could not have determined oth-
erwise consistently with its duty to ex-
| pound, and not to make, the fundamental
| law.
The rejection of the army vote will have
the effect of displacing Mr. Ewing from the
office of Sheriff in Philadelphia, and Mr.
| Stevenson from that of Clerk of the Or-
| phan’s Court, and also give the Republicans
a majority in the common council of Phila-
delphia.
At least five Republican members of the
Tast House of Representatives were elected
over ther Democratic opponents by the ar
my vote, viz : Messrs. Hall and Russell, of
Luzerne, Busby, of Adams, Crane, of
Wayne, and Daugherty, of Schuylkill. —
These men sat and vo‘ed as members of the
House, and gave the Republicans their ma~
jority in that body. By their votes John
| Rowe was clected Speaker. and the most
iniquitous Congressional gerrymander that
ever disgraced the statute books of the Com-
monwealth was passed. Had this decision
been rendered before or durirg the session
of the Legislature, it would have changed
the political complexion of the House.
Whether the decision will oust persons
who now hold county offices in different
parts of the State by virtue of the army
vote in cases where a contest was not coms
menced within the time proscribed by law
for filing petitions in cases of this deserip-
tion, is a point upon which we do not feel
competent to venture an opinion.— Patriot
and Union.
may
eeaeb
The Secretary of War, in his statement
to congress at the commencement of the
present session, represented that we had
then jo the field some six hundred and
ninety thousand men. Since the last re-
quisition hss been made, it is stated by Re-
publican Jouruals that we never had more
than five hundred thousand men.
There is evidently a lie here somewhere.
This fact, however, is certain, that the
government has been paying and furnishing
provisions for six hundred and ninety thons-
and men. If weonly have 500,000 men,
who got the pay for the (90,000 men that
we ne,er had in the field? Lid Simon or
sowme other Republican Patriot.
veer =
177" When the bill to provide for the pro-
tection of the Bald Eagle, commonly called
the American Eagle, came up in the Iouse
of Representatives on its third reading, Mr.
Severance the author of the bill, arose in its
defence, and addressed the House as fol-
lows:
*¢ Mr, Speaker—I have only to say that
any man who will in any way injure or take
the life of our national bird is mean enough
to carry rotten sardines in the same pocket
with musty fine cut tobacco, and pass the
same around on the ace of spades at the
communion table ; or would empty the can-
teen of a rebel prisoner and sit upon it and
whistle a confederate air through the keya
hole of Washington's tomb,”
The bill of course passed unanimously. —
St. Paul Pioneer.
Democratic Patriotism,
OF all ucts of partisan baseness which the
history « f the country affords, says a cotem-
. . ‘
porary, there is no single act which is so
| shameful and dishonorable as the attewpt of
of the Republican press to impugn the loy
alty of the Democracy of the country. There
never has been a parallel in the history
of free governments of a surrender of paris
sun feeling 0 great and so generous, as that
of the Democracy of the country, upoa
the breaking out of the present rebellion. — |
Feeling, aye knowing, to a moral certainty
that had their advice been followed, the Un- |
ion would have been preserved with Louor, |
and without war ; yet, when war ‘came,
with a patriotism and devotion to country
unparalleled, all party feeling and strife
were comparatively suspended, and those
who had been, in part, friends, pronounced
enemies, means and supplies unlimited in
amount were given to the government, and
with cheerful alacrity they rushed to arms
by the bundred thousands side by side with
their political opponents whom they believ~
ed to be in part responsible for the war.
Democrats are in every companmy, and
| Democratic officers have led on every battle
field of the war. Indeed. whole companies
and regiments contain none other but Demo- |
crats, and without 2emocratic soldiers the
old Capitol would to-day be the headquar- |
ters of Jeff Davis, and the United States of |
| relief of the starving population.
America would be only known in history.
This is the glovious Democratic record ;
and, while We point with pride to the histo~
ry of the patty, from the days of Thomas
Jefferson to the present time, we believe |
there is no one period of its history which
will present so bright a page to the admir-
ing patriot, us that on which is recorded the |
self sacrificing patriotism of the Democrat- |
ic party in this hour of the country’s pesil.
Aud how has this been requted on bes
half of their political opponents 2 They
have neither received nor asked political [a-
vor. Bat they have asked for justice, and
have been repaid by base ingratitude. Their
loyalty is impugued, their patriotism im-
peached, and insult heaped upon insult, even
while the government, under their oppo-
nent’s administering has been given over |
to the rapacity of plunderers and specula
tors.
When the history of the civil revolution
now going ou 1s written, posterity will not
know which wost to wonder at, the mag
nanimity of the Democracy thus devotedly
sustaining thew politi ol : ;
staining thew political opponents, or the i indignation meeting when they
' sce Gov. Johnson established his military |
sordidness of the hordes of speculators in
their trains, who saw, in the moment of na-
tional penl and confusion, only the opportu- |
nity to pillage the Treasury.
eco
How Mortars are Loaded and Fired.
The following description of the mortar
practice is by a correspondent of the Cinein-
i nati Commercial :
‘+ 1 took a position on shore near the point
and alongside the mortars, to witness
practice.
weighing from cighteen to twenty pounds is
The derrick drops the shell in; the angle is
calculated ; a long cord is attached to the
primer ; the gunner steps out upon the plat- |
nce of the crew upon the |
and |
form, and the ba
shore. The captain gives the word,
the gunner gives the cord a sudden jerk, a
crash like a thousand thunders follows, a
tongue of flame leaps from the mouth of the
mortar, and a cloud of smoke rolls up in
beautiful fleeey spirals, dropping into vings
of exquisite proportions,
One can see the shell as it leaves the mor-
tar flying through the air, and apparently
no larger than a marble. The next you sce
of the shell, a beautiful cloud of smoke
bursts into sight caused by explosion. Im-
agine ten of these monsters thundering at
once, the air filled with smoke clouds, the
gunboals belching out destruction and com
pletely hidden from sight in whirls of smoke
the shel screaming through the air with an
uncarthly sound and the distant guns of
the enemy sending their solid shot and shell |
above and around us, dashing the water up |
in ghstening columns and jects of spray, and
you have the sublime poetry of war. An
incident however, will show how completely
the battle may loose its poetry and develop
into a stern and suggestive reality.
Impatient of being at a distance, and
wishing to witness the effect of our shells
which were playing upon the head of the
Island; in company with one or two others,
1 strolled around the point, until we came
m full view of the enemy’s lower forts. We
kept along the bank until we passed our
pickets, and then took to the cornfields and
behind fences, until we reached an old de-
serted mill, where we emerged in plain sight
of the floating battery. No sooner had our
parity come in sight, than a flash of light
shot from its sides, and a shell came scream-
ing like a fiend over our heads, bursting a |
short distance behind us. The poetry of
shells suddenly changed with a double~quick
retrograde prose.
Stanton AND MoUrnerLan.—The following
paragraphs from two of the most loyal and
respectable New York papers contain mats
ter for grave consideration. The New York
World says :
But why were Lhe rebels permitted to es
cape from Yorktown at all ? The answer is
at hand. and the time has come when it
should be made public. The rebel army
has escaped only because General McClel-
lan’s plans were interfered with, and in an
essential particular upset by the Secretary
of War, General McClellan proceeded down
the Potomac with the understanding that
Gen. McDowell was to follow him with his
corps d'armee. It was tended that the
operations against Yorktown should be pre-
ceded by the taking of Gloucester Point by
McDowell. Had this plan been adhered to
retreat would have been impossible. It is
the Secretary of War who is answerable for
the escape of Johnston's army—a blunder
which has defrauded our brave soldiers of-
the glory of that valiant and vigorous fight~
ing for which Mr. Stanton professes so much
admiration.
Upon the above, the Commercial Adverti- |
ser remarks as follows :
So says the World, and sooner or later
official statements and revelations will prove
that it speaks only the truth. In fact, the
'I'ribune, once so bold and marked mn its
laudations of Seerctary Stanton, at length
admits that the Secretary of War *¢ once op- |
posed a request” of Gen. McClellans, ** but |
the President granted it on the ground that |
he had promised to do so.” The truth is
gradually coming out, and the charges of |
interference by the Secretary, first opeuly |
charged and condemned by the Commercial
Advertiser, will eventually be more than
proved.
i
I have taken from the rebels not less than five
| gard.
| ments of the orld, they have shown
| more elearly that it nceds none.—Prens |
| tice. |
their |
The firing of a mortar is the!
very poetry of a battle. A bag of powder |
as happy as a polly woggle.
dropped into the bore of the huge monster. — |
| tremely ludicrous.
| ing it pretty good, thought he would make
| the reply, and if that's too crowded, one of
FEN, PASTE, & SCISSORS.
17 Beautiful. — The weather.
07 Skeedaddled— Gen. Bank's army
T7Good —Mrs. Sourbeck’s Ice cream.
1 Look well —The grain fields.
TZ~Svon to be here—The
Fourth,
J 7 Excited—Our citizens over the news
Of Bank's retreat on Menday.
{7Slimly attended —The Lecture on Mon-
day night.
[7"He wht asks do questionsis queer, Lut
who asks many is the querist.
[Never turn n blessing round to sce
whether it has a dark side to it.
171f Richmond’s doom isn’t staring her
in the fhce it is close after behind her back.
— Prentice.
177 Within the last eight days our armies
immortal
hundred pieces of heavy artil'ery.
077 There are Southern rebels, and there
are Northern rebels— the former are the
more respectable by far.— Prentice.
07+ What stingy fellows they must be |
in New York ?” exclaimed a fine country
t+ Our Sallie says she never could get
a buss without paying five eents for it”
77 The rebels are the oppesite of = Achil-
les. His danger was in his heels. Their
whole safety is in theirs.— Prentice.
[It seems that Jeft Davis’s coachman
has run away from him. Well, Gen. M’-
Clellan can drive him.— Prentice.
177A large quantity of provisions is to be
taken immediately to New Orleans for the
We were
ready to give them a bellyfull of fight, but
as they politely declined that, we will give
them a belly full of victuals. — Prentice.
J27 There are thousands of people calling
themselves patriots, who are extremely anx-
ous (o have Gen. M’Clellan put down.—
Well the country will gladly pat him down
—as one of the greatest Generals of any age.
--Prentice.
077A Southern paper advises that Gen. |
Floyd be nominated for a Major Generalship.
le way be nominated and confirmed, but,
if s0, he will be just what he is now—acon- |
firmed scoundrel.
177 The rebels have got to ranning so |
fist, that, try as they may, it will take
them six months to stop.— Prentice.
T7Itis said that the beggars of the
Southern Confederacy positively decline
Confederate notes. — Prentice.
I~ Type metal is composed of 100, by
weight of lead, 23 of antimony, and 4of tin. |
About five per cent is usually entailed by
forming the alloy.
17 The rebel Congress 1s taunted by its
organs with having adjourned for the sole!
purpose of enab’ing its members to secure
the r personal safety by flight.
107 We suppose the retels will hold an
lemin that
{
authority at Nashville, several ladies of that |
city have been confined. — Prentice.
J71If the events of this war have shown!
that the U. S. Government has no friends to |
rely upon among the monarchical govern- |
still |
057 Sal,” said lisping Sam Snooks, «af |
you don’t love me, thay tho ; and if you love |
me, thay tho; and if you love me, and don’t |
like to thay tho, theethe my hand.” Sal!
put her hand upon her buzzum, Sam felt a
gentle pressure of her tother paw and was
(Z7>The Charleston Mercury says that
the wholeSouth «boils with natural indigna-
ton.” There will soon be an explosion or
collapse of her boiler. — Prentive.
07 It is said that old John Bell has be-
come terrible bitter againse tae world: He
thinks of nobo y now but himself and the |
devil.— Prentice.
(7~The Richmond papers recently pro
claimed that, if Yorktown - should fall the
Confederacy would full. Yorktown has
fallen.— Prentice.
77 Among the excuses offered for exemp-
tion in the drafiing in Georgia some are ex
In Smyth county. one
man in enrolling himself, wrote opposite his |
name, ‘one leg too short.”” The next man |
that came in noticing his excuse and deem-
his better, wrote opposite his name. « dot/
leas too short’
—7"When a poor woman steals to keep
her from starving they call the act a theft
and pumsh it as a crime. When a rich wo-
man steals to gratify her longing for finery
they call it cleptomania, and give her sym.
pathy and a fashionable doctor. On the
whole, says the Boston Post, it is an advan-
tage to be rich, It promotes pleasant lan
guage and charitable opinions. —Erchange. |
7A farmer's daughter was visited by a |
young rastic, who finding it difficult to |
keep up the conversation, asked the girl, |
after an embarrassing silence had prevailed |
some time, if she knew of anybody that wan- |
ted to buy a shirt, :
=No, I don’t,” she 1eplied, + have you got
one to sell 2”
«0, no,” said the rustic, <I only axed to
make talk.”
IT7"A country mgistrate. noted for his
love of the pleasures of the tible, speaking
one day toarriend, said, ‘We have just |
been eating a superb turkey, it was excells
ent, stuffed truffles to the neck, so tender,
delicate and of high flavor; we left only the
bones.” ‘How many of you were there?’
said his friend. “Two !’ replied the magis+
trate. ‘Two!’ ‘Yes, the tarkey ard my-
self,’
177Whenever you hear a fellow particu
larly vociferous in denouncing Democrats as
traitors because they adhere to the Constitu-
tion, ten to one that he has received a share
of the sixry MrLLIONs which according to
Mr. Dawes, Republican member of Con
gress from Massachusetts, has been unlaw-
fully extracted from the Treasury during
the past year.
1-1t isastonishing how ‘toddy’ promotes
independence. An old Philadelphia ‘brick,’
lying, a day or two since in a spiritual
manner was advised in a friendly way to
economise, as flour was going up. Let it
go,” said old bottle nose, ‘I kin git as high,
as flonr kin any day.’
[7 “Mammy wheres the man going to
sleep ?"? asked a girl of fifteen of her moth
er, who had just promised a traveler a
night’s lodging in their out of the way hut.
I'll have to put him in with you and Jack
and Kate and Sue and Bet, I suppose, was
you must turn in with me and dad and Dick
and Jim and Bob and the twins,”
J70One of our smallest business men, a
little bit of a fellow—at the dinner table of
the Baird House at this place, a few days
ago, was jokingly proposing marriage to ‘a
big fat women about six times his size.—
‘No,’ indignantly replied the big woman,
when I marry [don’t want to marry a man
so small that I shall always have to
shake the vedelothes in the morning to tind
him.”' Pretty sharp retort, that. An ac-
| according to the telegraphic des
| to do him honor.
| siezed the distinction of movi
| a resolution of thanks to the gr
| but little sacritiee of human li
| nounced Gen. Mc
"and that conspired to
| fore the formal censure of Congress,
| joy-
| him before leaving Annapolis, and thus far |
| in future be able to carry >ut in detail the
tual occurence, too,——Mount Carrol Mir-
ror.
General McClellan.
The Washington correspondent of the
N, XY. Journa! of Commerce, a Republican
journal that has stecod nobly by
Clellan from the beginning, said in a letter
written nearly a fortuight azo :
I am glad to assure those of your read
who have relatives and {riends in the
before Yorktowr, that everything there
going on in the most sat:
McClellan stock has risen rapicly since
the General commenced his operations be.
fore Yorktown. Men who up to that time
seemed unable to grasp fully his grand de
sign and to understand the steps toward its
consummation, now unequivocally and in
public avow themselves anong the warmest
admirers of the man whom at one time they
were afraid fully to trust.
1 have it on the highest authority —one
that admits of no error or misrepresentation
—that whatever may have been the bearing
of certain members of the Cabinet hitherto
toward General McClellan, they are now
unanimous in giving to him an implicit con-
fidence.
I may go farther and say thai the highest
military authority in this city openly des
clares that Gen. McClellan’s demcnstrations
before Yorktown, whieh he has professional
ly visited and inspected, are those of a mas.
ter in military strategy.
y General Me
15 bk
I hurriedly write these few lines, good
fortune having pat in my way the informa-
tion they contain, because 1 think the knowl
edge of these facts, which you know are as
authentic as I have represented them to be,
ought to be diffused through a city and
State that have so many sons before York-
town, whose fate hangs upon Gen. Mclel-
lan’s generalship. Such may rest assured
that the army will be handled with con-
summate skiil and not a life b: needlessly |
sacrificed.”
We need not remind the public how faith- |
fully and brilliantly Gen. McClellan has ful. |
filled these assurances in the operations that |
have since taken place. So grandly and vic- |
torivusly has he borne himself, indeed, that |
not ouly is the Cabinet now *‘wranimous in |
givicg to him an implicit confi tence,’
even the abolitionists 11 Congress, u
pressure of his glorfous conduct, ar
Un Friday last, Mr. Love:
with characteristic modesty ‘and consist
& tn the House
at chieftain
“for the display of those high military qual.
ities which secure important results with
2h few
weeks ago, this same Lovejoy was amongst |
the hottest of the abolition cligne who de
lellan for permitting the |
without a battle, |
visit upon him there- |
The |
controversy,” said the New York Times of |
that date, still rages in Washington as to |
whether the evacuation of Manassas by the
rebels is a matter for rejoicing or 1egret. —
There was some talk of a movement in Con-
gress to censure McClellan for thrashing the
enemy without spilling blood.” The con
trast presented by the action of these zealots
on IMiiday shows that their zeal however
flaming is still largely tempered by discre-
tion. Notwithstanding their wildness, they
are cool enough to see that Gen. McClellan's
success over the cnemy in front has at
length made him invincible to the encmy in
the rear, and that, as calumny is no longer
safe and praise unavoidable, the quicker
praise is given the less awkward the revolu..
tion will appear, and the less hollow the vir-
tue they would make of necessity. There is
manifestly a wonderful deal of method in
their madness.
Very difterent are the feelings with which
the true friends of the country look upon
Gen. McClellan's success. The praise they
render him 1s a virtue indeed and a thrilling
Nay, they share even his personal tri
umph, for itis but the fulfilment of their
own generous pledges in bis behalf, from
which through good and through evil repert |
they have never swerved. They cherished |
a proud faith in him, aud proudly has he |
rewarded it. Yet even now the full gran- |
deur of his success is not generally compre-
hended. The public has but caught glimps-
es of his wighty achievements as a strate.
gist, though the glimpses caught have been
most significant, as well as most honorable
to the gallant officers who have furnished the |
revelation. I beg to say to the General |
commanding the armies,’’ said General Burn |
side in his official report of the battle of |
Newbern, +‘that Lhave endeavored to carry
out the minute instruclions given me by |
Joy .
evacuation of Ma
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|
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events have been singularly coincident with
his anticipations. I only hope that we may
remaining plans of the campaign. The only
thing 1 have to regret is the delay caused by
the elements.”” “How far,” said a trust- |
worthy and accomplished correspondent of |
the Wheeling Intelligencer, writing [rom |
Washington in the early part of April, ‘Gen.
McClellan is the aathor of the general plan
of the campaizn—how far he may be ered-
ited with what has been done at the South
and West—is another matter of hot dispute.
Some deny him any right of authorship —
others grant the fullest credit, and will nov
allow that a singlespcint has been gained
which was not in his programme. Iere,
however, I have a bit of interesting testimo
ny. The subject was under discussisn at a
dinner table where Gen. Banks was present,
and he, who by the way, stands by General
McClellan most loyally, quietly remarked
that while in consultation with Gen. Me.
Clellan Jast November or December, the lat-
‘er ncidentally took down & map, and
pointed out to him upon it every movement
that has since been made by our armies ;
and, as to Manassas, said that we should
either drive the rebels from it in a success
ful battle, or they would evacuate it of their
own accord.”
«We have good authority,” said the New
York Journal of Commerce, not long ago,
‘for saying that a letter has been written
by Gen. Halleck to a membot of his family
in this city’ in which, with a soldier’s anx-
iety for the giving of honor to whom honor
is due, he ascribes the credit of the entire
plan of movements at the West, and the
successful combinations which have result-
ed in the repossession, by the Union. of Mis
souri, Kentucky, and Tennessee, to Major
General McClellan.”
It is plain that the whole story of the
young chieftain’s triumph is yet to be told.
But enough is already known to redeem the
bright hopes that centred upon him,—
Enough is known to wreathe his name with
unfading renown. For our own part, when
we think of what he has done and of what
he has suffered, of the enlightened energy
with which he has wrought and of the,
Christian patience with which he has en-
dured, and finally, of the crowning splendor
of his conduct on the field, we can but deem
him in many respects one of the loftiest and
brightest characters of the age. Weeks ago
a New England poet addressed McClellan in
these vigorous stanzas :
Through the paths of toil and danger
Manfully thy soul endures ;
For the pulse of a great nation
Throbs in unison with yours,
Although slander go before thee,
Scorn each foul, mahgnant word :
While the Eagle hovers o'er thee,
And thy country claims thy sword !
* * * * * *
Answer not your vile agsaile 5 ;
- - Abolition’s coward clique—
Ww ilson’s cobblers, Sumner’s railers,
Phiilip’s scanted Corps d" Afrique.”
Heavenward look for inspiration ;
For thy mission i3 divine, 3
forty millions wait Salvation
Thro this ministry ef thine
: not zow thy heavy burden,
Fhe Old Umon”’ nobly guard ;
Immortality thy gurdeon
Kecp thou constant watch and ward.
Steady, Patriot soldier, steady !
ard thy destiny sublime,
watchful, ever ready,
Waiting on the bridge of Time.
In the spint of this stirring invocation
has he acted. Let hus example be cherished.
It is worth more to humanity than the
whole series of his brilliant material victo-
ries, inestimable as their value is. — Louise
ville Journal,
Ea
Cotton, Flax and Wool,
BY TIlii AUTHOR OF ‘*THERE IS NoBODY HURF.’’
You may talk of monarchies rotten,
And princes of noble birth,
But of all the kings, King Uotton
Is King of the Kings of carth,
"Neath the sunny skies of the tropics
IIe sits on a snow white throne,
And his kingdom is universal
Wherever the arts are known.
Ie moves a million of spindles
By a wave of his delicate hand
And furnishes work and raiment
For the poor of every lami,
{Ie is King of the toiling million
Who live by the sweat of the brow,
Uf those who ply the shuttle
Of those who guide the plow,
From the Gulf to the polar regions,
From the East to the distant West,
In every humble dwelling
Ile 1s always a welcome guest,
| He is a friend of the poor and nzedy,
As well as to the rich and brave,
| ile clings to us white living,
And follows ns to the grave.
: ladies are all ms courtiers
v of all their charms divine,
e half are composed of cotton
And the other of crinoline.
They talk of flaxen kingdom,
Of the tlax that is yat to grow
Of the age when the ladies breastworks
Are all to be made of tow.
jut.hiow could the delicate creatures
Forsake their cotillions and reels
And de their mothers before then,
Sit down te their hatchels and wheels,
Without the aid of King Cotten
They would all be moved to tears,
And the wheels of civilization
Roll bick a score of years.
Yet croakers say he is haughty,
That with gold his coffers are fall,
And instead of being blessed with cotton
We are cursed with a reign of wool,
y is wool in the daily papers,
is wool npon every page,
ure generations
1 this the wooly age,
Puere is wool in the eyes of thy people,
And many are frantic and blind,
And instead of the fleecy cotton
Choose wool of the blackest kind.
There is plenty of wool inthe palpi,
There 15 wool tu the chair of S.ate.
Cur foreign relarions are woolly
As the wool on a negro’s pate, =
There is wool in our national contitils,
It 1s twisted and piled across :
Our Congress and Senate are woolly
As Fremout’s woolly horse.
Our national credit is woolly —
We have little at home, none abroad ;
Bink paper is all suspended,
By a sleader woolen cord,
’Iis said that on Abraham's bosom
The wool refuses to grow,
And cannot be breught to the surface
By Greeley, Beecher & Co ;
But he stands between Samuel and Sambo,
Keeping the latter at bay,
Acting much like the donkey that perished
Between the two bundles of hay,
Wher this reign of corruption is over,
Its measure of infamy full
There will be found in our national coffers
A very large bundle of wool.
Bryan, Oho, Jan. 6, 1862.
————— Dre
17 If what the telegraph said yesterday
of Gen. Hunter is true, which we are not
disposed to believe on the present authority
Ie should be promptly recalled by the Pres-
ident, .
‘he conduct imputed to Gen. Uanter is
an outrage, not only upou humanity and the
constitution, but upon the dictates of sense
both common and military. It 1s a reckless
and guilty violation of poli y as well as of
principle. Such conduct, if unchecked,
would euatralize, and more than neutralize,
the brightest victories we have achieved on
the Gulf. An officer capable of conduct at
once so criminal and so stupid, merits the
disgrace he would bring upon the cause he
betrays. We cannot as yet believe that
Gen. Uuuter is such an officer. If he is,
let him be instantly recalled ; for, in the
very hour of triumph, he throws open the
doors of our stronghold to the enemy, turn-
ing victory to ashes in our grasp. In this
case, whatewger Gen. Hunter may be in mo-
tive, he is, ee his exemplars in Congress.
a traitor in eflecct, But we sincerely
hope that this case may turn out to be not
the true one. If it should, we are confident
that the President, as in the less heinous
case of Fremont, will discharge his impera-
tive duty with promptitude and decision.—
Louisville Journal.
ew rw
AsorrrioNesy IN ConGRress,—Mr. Vor
hees, on the floor of the House in Congress
a few days since said, in regard to Abolis
tionism :
«- Why comes it here now # It never was
a friend to the Union, and it is not so to day.
It never wanted a Union with Slave States,
or a fellowship with slave owners, and does
not now. Itis at war with the Constitu-
tion ; itis an cnemy to the Government ; it
is the twin monster to the doctrine of Seces -
sion, and like the withered and hateful
hags on the blasted heath of Scotland, the
tao together coucocted the present civil war.
Let the spirit of the Union, born of the Con-
stitution, rise up between them like a bright
angel and banish them forever. Then wil
the nation renew its mighty youth and g
on again 1 its swift flight of prosperity and
renown. Then will ¢* kindred and country -
men ’’ once more assembly under the same
flag, and obeying the commard of the Prince
of Peace, * love one another.”
Asa al
AN INCIDENT OF THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. —
The following incident of Shiloh is related
by an eye and ear witness : — Two Kentucky
regiments met face to face, and fought cach
other with terrible resolution, and it happen-
ed that one of the Federal soldiers wounded
and capoured his brother, and after handing
him back, began firing at a man near a tree
when the captured brother called to him and
said, «don’t shoot there any more—that'’s
father.”
ano.
177" Who would make the bast soldiers ?
Dry gouds men ; they have the wost dril-
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