Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, February 20, 1863, Image 1
§ i * ~ @he Democratic ra = —— VOL. 8. #4 & BELLEFONTE, Original Pactry, [For the Democratic Watchman. LINES TO MISS 8S. J. F. (Originally Intended for Her Album.) UY CAPTAIN JANES H. LARRIMER. The following beautiful lines, written by Capt ain LaArriver, of the 5th Peonsylvania Re. werves, were originally intended for the Album of a young lady of this place, (Bellefonte) in whose family he formerly boarded for several years. — The reader will observe that the Captain makes allusion to the changes which have taken place since then, and speaks feelingly of days long gone by. These lines are the production of an agcom- lished gentleman and gallant soldier, and are ull of the spirit of true poetry.—Ep. WATCRMAN. Though small may seem the boon you ask— A line to deck your Albun’s page, To me, it were a lighter task To lead the van where battles rage, Than, by the camp-fire’s flick’ring rays, To wield a soldier’s clumsy pen, And bind each thought that, listless, plays Among the chambers of the brain; Or, be the battle lost or won, Perform another still more trying, After the fearful strife is done, View, unmoved, the dead and dying. A soldier true—and well "tis known, Whose duty all his thoughts engago, A brave and loyal heart may own, Aud yet be neither bard nor sago ; But since I feebly thus essay, And with your Fight request comply, To find a theme tw suit my lay, I muston days lung gone rely; Aud there from memory’s gathered stores, Beneath a heap of gloomy sorolis, That many a hapless grief deplores, A sweot domestic scene unrolls; Aud on the cheerful faces there, Where naught but pleasant smiles are scon, Nove doth a happier aspect woar [For the Democratic Watchman. “THE HORRORS OF SOUTHERN 80- CIETY.” Upon my word its true-- What will you lay its a lie?’ Mr. Epiror : In the Central Press of the 6th inst., my attention was directed to an extract suspended under the caption of «The Horrors of Southern Institutions,” taken, as said, from a le‘ter written by a “Mary F. Clark to the Troy Times,” in support of the statement of (ten. Butler as to the horrors of Southern Society. 1 read it as given by this Charlataness-Itinerant School-Marm, who out-Herods Mrs. Harriet Beccher Stowe, and with great gusto relates the lacivious conduct and incestuoas practi- ces of Cel. Richardson, of South Carolina, with his own daughters, and for a period of six years, all of which time this veritable Mary F. Clark says she * was Governess in Col, Richardson's family, having the educa tion of his daughters in charge, And from her position she says, ¢ | wish to state that it is the custom of the South Carolina Aris- tocracy for fathers to have criminal inter course with their own daughters.” All must admit that Mary F. Clark, as Govern- ess, must have winked at these © Southern customs” f r six vears, while she was in- structing Col. Richardson's daughters, and that for herself she came out of this lewd ord-al pure and undefiled. But hear her again: «Some may say that they cannot see how Slavery is responsible for these family evils, of which Gen. Batler speaks and of which [ affirm. The secret is just here: From very infancy the plauters sons arc gratified in everything they desire. 1 could tell you some startling fucts of the boyhood of these Than lively. romping, bonny Je.x. | A few, brief years Red thoughtices past, And then, alas! that scene —how changed! |! Decp sorrow had those smiles o'ercast— | Relontless Death its bliss deranged. Father, moter, taken away, Three tender orphans left to mourn, Who ne'er had known a joyless day, Nor seen a banished care return’ A few, brief yeirs! Two livee had clesed, planters’ sons I" Ah! why cil she not tell us? Was jt that slie wou d have proved that ther: are Josephs in the Sth as well as there wae in Potiphar’s time ¢ Tlomer tells of a cer taia lady of the name of Stenoboea, a dangh- ter of Jobates, King of Lycia, wlo became enamored of Belloropkon, and when he re- fused to gratify her criminal passion, she To parents’ noblest duties given ; To their dear babes the path disclosed, accused him before Pie ns And why should vot this very Paragon of chastity, Then wing'd their way from Earth to Heaven. | after six years experience, accuse the Sou th- Jbeir offspring they had guarded well ern Fathers before Fred. $ouglass and Thad- In life, fw every chro td diL; ! deus Stevens 2 1 regret that the Press gave And when the bolt, unlovked for, foll, They bowed submissive to His will | publicity to such a base, vulgar and nfam- Cronitiing to is guardian care, {ous article. lt eould &) no possible good The etricken loved ones left behind, LT carried its own falsity with it, ast ix a Trusting the see l might flourish thers, | notorious fact and well known to al who [planted in ewch infant mind read the religious periadicals, that the Church South is as pure ard orthodox in its teach ngs as i» the North, and that the Southern planters are as religion 3, virtu us, humane, and as parental wnd fraternal in their domestic relations as any people in the world and are noted for their kindness and affection to anl for their children ; and it was with pleasore that I saw the good la dy of the house. when this article in the ress was read, tako it, declaring it was a slander and a fals. hood, untit to be read in Life's direst ills must all be borne, Lhe fairest flowers must fade and dio, The 1. ed ones from our side be torn, In deatn the warmest heart must lie; Yet orphans’ tears may soon be dried, The cares of lite be boldly met, The feet tread firm the path untried — The heart its grief may not forget. “Tis thus, my JEAN, with youand I, Tho’ you have trod a peaceful path. While I have sought a stormy sky, Amid contending foemen’s wrath , As hangs dark melancholy o'er us, When fled are pleasures, vain and brick, Htill eomes ever up before us, Our early loves, our early” grief, Adieu! Adieu !—My tedious muse, Who now would fain her lay prolong, Will a 1.ne or couplet oft refuse. And yet spin out a tuneless song. These lines, too long for Albums leaves, May etill a pleasant thought invoke— “Tis more than every pen achieves, And few have tend'rer echoes woke. Brie Prans. Va, Junuary 16th 1863. | SY... Miscellaneous, Nr ALL FOR LOVE A FED:RAL OFFICER SEDUCED. From the Lincoln (Ill) Herald. Many of our readers will doubtless recol- lect a Mr. J. J Searight, wuo, some time nince, was engaged in the grocery and pro- vision business in this place in partnership with Mr. Willaimn B. Barlow. It will also be vemembered that, at the commencement of hostilities. he eulisted in a company forming in this county for the 23d Regiment [llinois | Volunteers; and received a Lieutenant's commission. Ile was generally esteemed as an cxceilent officer, and did his whole duty in several of the sanguinary engagements in the Southwest. in an unlucky hour he met a young lady of a rebel proclivities but extrevely beautiful, at her home, near vie Tennessee, Suffice to say that they 1 the time that the Lieu- re fiom his duties was spent mn the society of the charming secesh siren, ad she as eagerly returned his bur- ving Mssion. Licuteaant Scaright time and again offered his resignation—he wished to leave the tented field and dwell in the rosy bowers of love--but, unlike his love it was poi accepted. Love at length con quered ali bis seruples--he deserted and succeeded in escaping beyond the Federal lines with the young lady, The southern belle, who thus seduced the L eutenant, is enormously wealthy being the possessor of ap ample fortune in sterling gold. They also succeeded in runmng the blockade at Charleston and arrived at Havana last christ mas day, whon they were married, and are now hving, it is said, in happiness and cle- gance. ee ———— [J™ Secretary Chase gave a dinner on Citatitl Ct} in a brothel, and cast it into the fire. hat i8 the effect it had in our neighborhood. Hanws Twe., 10:h Feb. 1863 Berra. sven eth tl ere ea A CONFLICT IMMINENT. It seems impossible. says the New Hamp- shire Putriot for the National Goiernment to avoid a serious conflict with the State an thorities of various States, except by y:eld- ing obedience to the Constitution, which it is 50 grossly outraging in these arbitrary ar- ‘Irests In Wisconsin, the Supreme Count, composed entirely of Republicans, has deci- ded that the President has no power to sus- pend the writ of habeas corpus, and has or- dered the release of fifteen persons arbitra- rily arrested by order of the Government. The same decision will doubtless be made in nearly every State when the issue is mado and if the Government persists in arres'ing and imprisoning persons without warrant and in oficn violation of the Constitution, it will find itself forcibly resisted by authority of State Goveraments in the hands of its own rolitical friends. The question of per- sonal f eedom and constitutional rights is too vitally important to every citizen to ad- wit of its being given up without a strug- gle. Tt overrides all mere party questions and feelings. and brings home to every ore the momentuous issue of liberty or despo- tism for himsell or his posterity. It is im- posible that intelligent and patriotic men can be so blinded by party prejudice and so swayed by poli.icsl feeling as to justify or submit to such palpable and repeated viola- tions of personal hiberty as demonstrate the determination of the Government to eweep away all safegnards of the Constitution and al. guarantees of the common law, and our own institutions, end establish itself a des- potisin ag arbitrary and unfeeling as ever existed in the world’s history. sl 17 For some weeks past there has been quite an excitement among nervous (emales in Philadelohia, over a report that there is an organized band who go about ihe streets at night with sticking plasters in their hands and India rubber shoes on their feet, the first to put over the mouths of their victims and the last to deaden the sound of their approach till they come close encagh to gag the women. The cect has been to terrify timid women and girls, so that many of them are afraid to appear in the atreets at night, and are ready tw runif a men comes Saturday. Among the guests prescut were Gen. Cameron. within a dozen rods of them in any place iuot well frequented. G00D FOR ILLINOIY, There is a time when ‘forbearance cea- ses to be a virtue,” and tame submission craven cowardice. tient endurance of the Northern Democrats, while abolitionism has been rolbing them of their political and religious rights— plun- dering them of their property, and murder- ing their own in in an unholy crusade against the institutions of the South, one would be led to believe they were either all cowards or all slaves. It was for the sake of peace that they suffered so Jong in silence, and that peace being denied thew, like men they are now ready to offer up their lives, if it need be, in order that their privileges shall be protected. Read the following Res- olutions passed by the house of tepregenta- tives in lll. They are ‘true grit.” [Iuodi- ana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York will sustain them. Then Wo! to Abram and h.s New England friends if they attempt to car- ry out their infamous usurpations any far- ther. Niggers won't save them.—Ep Watchman. Mr. Walker offered the following pream- ble and resolutions, and moved their refer- ence to committee on federal relations. ¢- Whereas, Abraham Lincoln, at the com- mencement of the present unhappy war, de clared in every official paper that came from his handa, that the sole object of the prose. cution of the war, was, and should be, for the restoration of the Uniofs and the laws ds our fathers made them ; And, * Whereas, By his subsequent acts he has proven to every unbiased mind, that such now is not the intention in the further pros- ecution of the war, aal that he has wiltally deccived the soldiers, by inducing them to take up arms in (as they supposed) an hon- orable and just cause, which he has turned into a dishonorable and disgraceful crusade against the established rights of the States: **Ile has dcclared martial law over every loyal State in the Union : *‘1le has without authority of law or righ. imprisoned our ci izens in loathsome dun- geons, and refused them the right of speedy trial : “He has sanctioned he taking of the lives of innocent. peaceable, and respected citizens of these States, to atone for the acts others: ‘le has, by his proclamation of January 1st, 1863, disregarded “the reserved rights’ of the States, and attempted by that procla- mation to equal z+: the whit» and black ra- ces; to excite servile insarrcetion in the southern States, thereby involving the in- nocent with the guilty, without riference to 226 OF SeX : “llc has p rsisted in listening to and car rying out the couns:ls of men. whose avow- ed doctrines are initm'cal 10 free govern- ment : “He has divided a State without the con- sent of her legislature ; ‘Ile has degraded the Union army by re- ceiving negroes into the service of the Uni- ted States : + He has forced negioes upon us sgainst our often expressed wishes, and the Con- stitution and laws of our State : “Ile has squandered the nations wealth, and made us a bankrupt people : “Ile has suppressed the liberty of the press, and free speech —a liberty feared only by tyrants : ¢ He has closed the doors of chur hes and deprived citizens of these States the right to serve God according to the dictates of their own sonscience : *‘le proposes to involve us in a system of ruinous taxation for the nurpose of pur- chasing negroes against our will and the in- terest of the people : * He has pandered to Naw England cap- italists in not using the means at his dispo- posal for opening the Mississippi river : “He his given sanction to a measure known as the Morrill tariff, under which the East is rapidly enriching herself at the expense of the West : ‘Against all of which we do enter our solemn protest ;” and declare it to be our firm and fixed 1n- tention: to submit to these wrongs and usur- pations no longer ; that we will, as we have heretofore, sustain the Adwinistration in al) its Constitutional acts, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein, Thatin our opiuion the time has come when, in accord- ance with the Constitution, it becomes ne- cesgary to call a national convention of all the States for the purpose of cons dering our national difficulties and adjusting the same. We would, therefore, recommend to all the States, that the Legislatures there- of appoint commissioners to meet in na ion- al cenvention, to be held in the city of Lou- 1sville, in the State of Kentucky, on the first Tuesaay in the month of April, A. D, 1863 ; and we would memorshze the Con- gress of the United States 10 obtain an ar- mistice and cessation of hostilities now ex- isting between different sections of our com- mon country, for the purpose aforesaid. ¢* Resolved, That the Speaker of this louse be requested to transmit a copy of foregoing preamble and resolutions to each of the Gov- ernors of the States, and request thai they be laid before the Legislature of the same: Also, to furnish each of our senators and representatives in Congress from this State with a copy hereof, and request their con- currence hereiu. New “War Powes."’—Gaev, Saxton, mil- itary commander at Port Royal, 8. C., has giwsn authority to s Rev. Mr, French, from Boston, to grant divarses to negro contra- bands ander his epritual charge! What is the next ‘military necessity 1" FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. 20, 1863. NEW ENGLAND THE GEEAT OB STACLE. The two things that are the objects of the Judging from the pa-| gypreme desire and that evoke the best ef- forts for their attainment, of all good men and patriots at the present time, are peace and Union, How are these to be achieved ? is the question that presses upon the heart of every true American. The tnost direct way of getting at an answer to this question we believe to lie in the answer to auother question : —What is it that prevents peace and Ustion ? Tf we were to be called on to answer this question, we would sum 1t all up in this—the great obstacle that stands in the way of a restora.ion of the former relations of amity and union between the two sections of the country, is New Eng- land. New England fanaticism and cupidi- ty gave cause for the war, have kept it up, and are now standing in the way to prevent its tetthination. We have read with giedt carefulaess the articles recently published, upon the ques- tions of peace and reunion, in the Richmond Enguirer— a paper that is not only the or- gan of Jeflerson Davis, but a much better representative of Southern popular senti- ment than any paper in the North can be of Northetn poptiar sentiment. Taking the Enquirer st what we have stated; we be- lieve the feeling of the South to be about this : —Under no mentionable circumstances will they agree to go back into a Union of which New England shall form a member, — They have so completely last confidence in the honor and justice of the Pwitan char- acter that they can trust New England no longer—not with the most solemn pledges or the most humiliating concessions that can be made. On the contrary, the South, we understand, would be willing to lay down her arms and return into a Union with the remaimng Middle and Western States, if fair and just terms of peace and union are offered her. The result of the elections in the latter mentioned States indicate two things. First, that peace and reunion are desired ; second, that they would be willing to dv all that is fa'r and just in order to secure those ob- jects. They would be willing to secure to | the South an equal share in the control of ! the Government and her fiir share of the | benefits derivable therefrom -—with a resto- | ration of all those rights and privileges thag | have been wrenched from her through the | ir.fluence and management of New England. | For instance, a strict and faithful execution | of the Fugitive Slave Law would be guaran- tied : the right of the Southern man to go | into the common territories of the Union, upon an cxact (quality with the non-slave- { holder, would be restored; and the right ! (which was unjustly withheld from them at | the very formation of the Constitution, thro’ | the same ivfluence) of a full representation | for their negroes; might Le conceded to i them, We would infinitely prefer seeing + the { Union a8 it was’ restored, with New Eng land still a member ; but if the choice 18 to be made, we could not hesitate about how we would make it. Our selfish and merce- nary intercsts, alike with those nobler in- stincts that look to social as well as political happiress. would dictate a preference in fa- vor of the Southern States. The commwmer- cial interests of the Middle and Western States are ind issolubly connected with thoge of the South, and those interests are recip- rocal ; whilst with New England they ar, not so. New England is vastly interested in still maintaining her nativoal relation with us ; fcr by that means she gains the wealth. The interest, however, is not mu- tual; for whilst she becomes rich (hrough her connection with us (and the Sou:h) we | derive no special benefit in return, except {the bensfit of buying manufactures at a higher price than they could be purchased from foreign countries. So far as social in- tores:s are concerned, the South is very much to be preferred. There is more con- geniality of character between us and the Southerners than between us and the grip- ing. penurious, selfish, bigoted and fanatical Puritans of New England. We repeat it, therefore, that if a choice must “be made, and tbat choice lies between New England and the Southern States, we say, give us tht South !"—WasmnGron (Pa.) EXAMINER. ———— A ee 077 MicniGaN is three thousand behind on her quota under the two last calls of the President, and an immediate draft has been ordered to supply the deficiency. Massa- chusetts is nineteen thousand behind on her quota. and a draft has not been ordered to supply the deficiency. However, Michigar has been an apt pupil of Massachusetts in policies which provoked the war, and she has recently renewed her devotion to those policies, —it is therefore fit that three thous- and of ber people should be diagged from their homes to fight in a war exclusively for the benefit of Massachusetts ideas and Mas: sachusetts shoddy manufacturers, but to fight in which Massachusetts has no more white people to spare—only niggers. gan. It wiil bring a good many thousand of her people to their senses.—Chicago Times, 127° Once give your mind up to suspicion and fear, and there will be sure to be found food enough forit. In the stillest night the air is filled with sounds for the "ear that is resolved to listen. advantage of using us to huild up ber| The draft will do infinite good in Michi- NEGRO REGIMENTS, Let us Jook at this matter of negro soldiers with calm and serious attention.— It is a much more important subject than our Washington legislators appear to imag- ine. 1. What is the object of the proposition ? Do we need the negro help? The total avai able military force of the free negroes in the North, if every man were called out by a draft, is less than twenty thousand men’ Is the hope of the count?y so forlorn that it restson this stoall contingent ? 1t is of course itnpossible that out legislators have any such idea. They will never succeed in enlisting ten of the thirty thousand. 2. Is the protnise of nine hundred thous. and volunteers, which the Tribune school of politicians made us, 80 complete a fail ure that this paltry contingent is necessary to supply it? We fancy nd one imagines that the blacks will fulfil the abandoned promise. 3. Ia the Southern siuve to be tsed for military purposes, and is it expected that an army will be made up of negroes {tesh from the plantation? Thus far the coutrabands have fot furnished four thousand men capable for military duty, andif the war lasts two years longer tho number vill not be eight thousand, : What practical good then, is anticipated from the bill now before the Senate? None whatever. There is no man in congress who has any common szchse who expects any material aid from the blacks. It must be, then, that they anticipate a moral effect That must be of a twofold character. It must operate at the South, and aleo at the North: At the South it may possibly be expec ed that the propo al to enlist and arn negroes will produce apprehensions of insurrection among the negroes, or perhaps will prodace actual insurrections. The idea is illusory, if indulged ut all. We have an ample proof within two years of the entire failure of such hopes. — terrible as they are, disgraceful to our very civilization as the idea is, it remairs true that insted of finding the slave popula- tion of the South a powder magazine which, would explode, as some of the ardent wish- ers for the horrors of servile war promised- ! we find that it is a harmless element, un | serviceable for such purposes, and we ! have recently heard the President's procla- mation urged by the same men on the groud hat very slave population is a source of- strergth instead of an elsment of dan- ger. L But what of the moral effect at the North? We include in the North the border States. They are with us, heart and soul, noble and faithfully. Is the negro regiment bill like- . ly to encourage enlistments at the North ?— We think not. Isit likely to strengthen the stout hearts of loyal border State men ? We chink not. Is it hikely to cheer the sol- diers in our gallant armies now in the feld. We think not. What is it likely todo ? There is no wis dom in attempting to conceal the strong fee- ling of disapprobation which this proposal meets with in the entire north. The Baltimore American. which has been 80 stout an administration paper that it has been called radical in some quarter, shrinks —nay, more than shrinks from this propo- sal, and warns the Administration of the danger incurred in no doubtful phrases.— | T. e entiref voice of the loyal men in the | border States is precisely he same. There is danger in the bill. [It shakes ‘he loyal- ty of the border States to its very founda- tion. Tt produces in the entire North a feeling of repugnance to the administration which proposes the measure. The times are not Lkely to change men’s views of the negroe. The sentiment that this is a white man’s government, made for white men, is a prev- alent sentiment with nine-tenths of the in- habitants of the country. Suppose the sen, timent is wrong, it cannot be caanged just now. The war itself has deepened it.— The antipathy to negro equality is too deep. ly seated to be eradicated by such an act — States like Illinois are not prepared to admit the colored man into their soil cven as a laborer, much less are they willing to receive bim as fellow-citizens or a fellow- soldier: The simple truth is, that the events of | the past year have intens.fied the feeling of dislike to the Negro and have sett'ed more firmly than ever the determination to keep him in a position of inferiority. However, many people may be desirous to free the southerners, the population of the North by immense majority, is more than ever preju- diced against the negro, and the theory of negro equality has lost inetead of gained supporters. The fact is to-day beyond a doubt that the North is nearer than it has been within half a century to a williLgness to reduce the black race at the Nortk to a state of fix- el, irrevocable inferority, if not of “absolute servitude. Say itis wrong, say it is sinful say what you please of it, but the fact re- mains that the negro has lost sympathy, i lost consideration in the Northern mind { within two years, and whenever any vote is taken which can be regarded as a test | vote, the result will astonish those who think | otherwise. The effect of this negro soldier, bill there- fore, will be wholly and entirely injurious | to the administraiion, and the cause of the {Union which the admigistration professis to have at heart. It will weaken and es- trange the loyal border States. It will weaken the feelitig of the North for the war. It will discourage cnlistments of white soldiers. [It will exasperate the soldiers al- ready in the ranks, and lead them to dis- content, and dislike for their profession. It will add nothing to the force of the army from the North, and will take away from the present support which the war is re- ceiving. So plain is all this that we cannot doubt the administration party thoroughly under- stand it and we look in vain for an expla- nation of their desire to press the measure through Congress consistent with a sincere desiro 10 prosccute the war to a favorable result.— Journal of Commerce ASMART WOMAN. A nice respectable lady, not a thousand wiles away, had long noticed, to her dismay that her ‘worser half’ was growing foolish- ly suspicious and jealous of her. She re. ol- ved to teach him # lessoit, Sone evening siuce, as he was leaving she told him he need not hurry back —she would not be lonely—she wished her ducky to enjoy limself, etc. Benedict smelt a vertitle mice, under that hypocrisy, and re- solved to be avenged. Abiut 8 o'clock, an individual,’ about his size, might hae been seen creeping cautiously along to the der, and noiselessly Benedict peeped in. Just u8 he expected, there they were—a pair of boots—a coat on the back of a chair, and a hat on the table. Benedict shivered like an aspen leafe, as he stooped, pulled off his boots, and drew a pistcl frow Lis side pock- et. With ‘resolution flashing from his eye,’ he made tracks for the bedroom, — There he was kneeling at the bed- side, ‘coat and vest oft,’ and his head on the pillow. Miserable villan—his time had come. ‘Say your prayers villasin—your time is short,— and a flash and a report told that the bullet bad sped on its fatal mission. ‘Help ! murder ! watch! Oh, is that you? and Madame popped her little head up from the {uot of the bed. Benedict seized the body, and it was—a miscellaneous collection of old coats, vests, pillows, handkerchiefs, and the 1 ke, made up for the occasion. Tsay, my dear, what does all this mean 1 exclaimed the husband, with a bland sheep- ish look. ‘Well dear,’ replied the wife, I did get lonely after all, and just amused myself by dressing up the puppet, and n aking believe )® were at home. I'm sure, I didn't think you'd suspect.’ ‘There, there,’ said the chagrined hus- band, say no more about it ; I thought it was a robber ; dear creature, I'm so glad it didnt hit you. Beredict repeated, ‘Now I lay me., etc and went to bed, resolved not to watch any more at present. The Republican idea of making us take Abraham Lincoln, and swear fealty to him right or wrong, instead of the guide our predecessors gave us, wise, great, good men —the constitution and laws, is so utterly absurd and ridiculous, that no sane man could do otherwise than smile at theineffible impudence of the silly, proposition, and so it will be viewed by all ere many mouths or yea.s pass away. As a free people —the rightful sovereign — we owe allegiance to no man.—Men in office arc our servants, slavssil you please and ‘we the people,’ the masters. We do the voting, we do the fizhting, we do the tax- paying, and we sit as the Judzes of our scrvants’ labors, As nonest Judges, and the true sovereigns, we express our assent or dissent, and he who sets himself up as a Dictator of how we shall think and how we shall speak, or what we shall pu'lish, and where and by whom our papers shall be read, is simply making a1 ass of himself for the time being to be hated, despised and punished in after time. The very absurdi- ty of the thing destroys itself without the trouble or necessary of argument. When the reaction fairly comes, the veriest num- skull will startle at his own impndence and folly, —Criss. ———— OA ee DAETH OF AN AUTHORRSS.—Mrs. Csatha- tiie Thompson, the anthoiess «of many works of biography and fiction, died at Do- ver, Eag., on the 19th of D.cember.— Among the mast extepsively known of her early productions are “Constance,” *‘The Life of Raleigh,” ¢Memoirs of the Court of Henry the Eighth,” and the ¢ White Mark.” Her late works, writtn conjointly with her son, and published under the nom de plume of Grace and Philip Wharton, were; “The Queens of Society,” and **Wits and Beaux.” The “Li erature of Society,” only Just given to the world, was Mrs. Thompson's last work, Tis Case or Coronel Cross.—The Pittsburg Chronicle thus notices the termi- nation of the Col. Cross case : Some days ago we noticed the fact that ap- plication had been made before the Supreme Court for the discharge of Colonel J. Buch- anan Cross, the forger, from the penitentia- ry, on the ground that he had been pardon- ed by the Governor, and ought not, there- fore, to be restrained of his liberty. Our {readers will doubtless recollect the cireum- I stances of the case, SIGNS OF THE TIMES. The following ¢xiracts are but a {air sara- ple of the feeling of the whole army. Ma- ny a poor fellow was deluded in‘o this wick ed butchery by the false ery of “support the Government,’ +: save the Union.” and fearful will be the accoant the at olitionis & and others who howled Wan! Wag! will have to render up when these deseivind ani wronged men are permitted to return home. — Ed. Watchman. “Dear C— : Tam sick of ibis war so sick that Id) not care upon whit terns it is settled. 1 have seen thousands of men lying mangled on fitteen or sixteen different battle fields--all for nothing. Wives, sis- ters, mothers and children, losing their hus- bands, brothers. sons and fathers—sll for nothing! Fur hero we have besn sighting over a yearsnd a half, amd we have nog gained one prin. We have lived und are now living un nine of ter crackers, a piers of raw pork, and sume miserable copperas- water called coffe, per day, all 0 fill the pockets of a lot of thieves, who are trying to make all they can out of the peo- ple and the Government. Te soldsers are all discouraged, and will not fight as they would once on the Peninsula. All we hear from Washington is the nigger. the nigger, the — back, filthy rigger. One nigger is thought more of than twenty white men who have left home and all that is worth liv * ing for to come and lay down their lives, if need be, to save their country, while tle leaders are doing their best to ruin it. It 13 not because we cat beat the rebels that the war is not over by this time; for we can beat them But it is because the gov- ernment is too busy thinking of the nigger to sec that the men are where they dught to be when they are wanted. You mast not set me down a3 8 growler. i have good reason for my growling. Almost every man in the army thinks as I do. 17 Jub had ser- ved in the arn y of the Potomie, he would have sinned, and most fearfully, too.” The following extract is from a latter written on the 231 of December, near Fal- mouth, by a member of one of the regi- ments raised 1862. The writer has been known for scveral years in the village of Woonsocket 8s an active Republican politi cian, and was a vote distributor at the polls at the last town meeting which he atiendeds ‘Had I known as much of the wanage- went of things six months ago as 1 knew now, fifty yoke of oxen could not have drawn me out here. Itigallad—-d politi cal humbug, and got up to make offices for lazy offie seekers, [ wish the leaders were as far the other side of purgatory as they are this side. Jt has turned out 10 be au Abolition war, and ninety-nine wldiers out are guing to carry on the war, they will have to get a new army. They say they cave out here to fight for the Union and not for a pack of d--d niggers. These nig- gers arc luzy and dirty ; they will lic ana steal, and they are swusy when they dare to be, If a soldier touches an offier's nig. ger he will get courtmartialed snd loose a month's pay. A nigger is thought m re of by the government than the soldiers are. - They get as much or more to eat, get ag wuch pay and don't Lave to fight sny. a curse on such things! [I hope someihing will turn up before to-morrow night that will settle this war. We got whipped at Fredericksburg, exdwe sAdl get whippe { every time we fight in Virginia! 1 don't think he North is right, any more than the: South I”! A Snort METRE PRAYER. — We have heard of an old Deacon, who. on being asked by is pastor to close a meeting with a shop prayer, repliel. ** [ ain very willing to pray.. but dont like to bestinied.” The minister mentioned below must have belonged to the sam family, for he hal the same aver- sion to being straightened in his commun- cation with Gud. The story haa a good moral : The Rev. Mr. Derwell. a pious and curi- ous old Method:st minister, went (rom Teu- nessce to Kentucky, 1m 1312, to visit his rel- ative. the ton. Wm. Bolton. The man was not a religions wau, but he was a gentles man, and invited the mimister to have fam'- ly worship every cvenine. While he was visiting there, Judge Cone and his wife, from Na hrille, arrived here to pass the night. and Mr. Bolton. being a little embar- rassed, said to the old minister, as he bro't out the bible, that he had better be short, as the Judge wags, probably, not accugtom- ed to such things. © Very well, very well. ’ «aid he, and read- ing a ginglo verse, he kuclt down and pray- ed: *OLord, we are very peor and needy creatures, and we knw that thon art sble to supply allour wants, but Cousin Wal- liam says that Judge Cone ard his wife, from Nashville sre bere, 1nd are not used to fawily worship, ana however needy we are, there is no time to spare iu telling Thee our wants. Amen.” . The Judge wi: s taken all aback, and so was Cousin William. They both pressed the old gentleman to conduct the service mn his own way, which be did, to thor great edification, C7 Gov, Parker of New Jersey. was ioe auguraled ou the 20.h inst. The largest crowd ever assembled at . renton was pres” ent. and the greatest enthusiasm was wane ifested, His inaugural o.k strong against the admins ration and i1 favor of the righ of the people. of one hundred say that if the Abilitionists