IMiseellaneons.
For the Watchman.
- THE LOOP.
While reflecting upon the scenes of ter-
tor and bloodshed, the tumult and strife,
and the horrors of civii war, the injustice ot
almost a mutety of the human femily, and
in addition to ell these meditations, the fact
THE DRAFT.
sion:
Mr. Powell spoke until half past three in
the morning, when he moved that the Sen-
ate adjourn.
We give the
that the minority of the citizens of this once :
excelsior continent would grasp the reins of
the Government to firmly and sway the
sceptre of abolitionism so universally that
the majority should bow in humble submis"
sion to the assumed dignity of “Father
Abraham,” and “Brother Horace,” we are
at once prompted to pause, and return with
our imaginations from those distant scenes
0
a
ed the floor to Mr Powell who again moved
that the.Senate adjourn.
The motion was rejected by yeas 4, nays
32.
The question then recurred on agreeing to
the report of the Conference Committee.
The motion was rejected by yeas 4, iidys
Mr, Bayard commenced speaking against
the bill until half past four, when he yield-
CR i. 1c Si oi i
_ Dizon's line, while others attribute all to
~ sent disastroas strife, a number are in the
" others? These are all questions that must
to consider the condition of our civil affairs
at home. There are those that are menial
sufficient to ascribe all to the combined in-
strumentality of Buchanan and Floyd, and
the Democratic party south of Mason and
the course of (vents--being prompted by
predestinarian doctrine. True, Fort Sumtep
witnessed the first act of the principal
drama, yet the opponents of democracy
will not extend the hand of friendship to us
and walk with us for a short time to the
memorable events of Harper's Ferry, trans-
acted vy John Brown with hig handful of |
men, and which the Republican party cvea
sanctioned, under the vain impression that
his spirit would feturn to avenge his death
--2 punishment that was legally inflicted
urder a Democratic administration, This
was the dawn of the rebellion,
Portions of this State responded to the
President's call more rapidly than others,
and this is what leads me to select the
above caption, The Loop did not send as
many men as some other districts, but this
does not prove that she 15 “‘sesesh.”” Men
of the opposite party, no difference when or
where they talk, remarks, such as “the
d--d Loop,” “That Secesh Hole, &e.,” may
be heard,’
Now to prove that the Loop is true to the
old Constitution. may be considered by some
to be a very diffieult task, yet it is as sim-
ple as it will be to defeat the abolition party
at the polls. One of the best evidences is
the fact that no one has ever contributed a
mite in order to sustaia the rebellion, none
to my knowledge has discouraged enlist-
meats, and ask their sentiments you will
invariably receive the answer, “the Consti-
tution and the Union.” Notwithstanding
all the sneers and gibes with which she has
been persecuted six:ce the advent of the pre-
service of their coun.ry. But let me ask
the question, could any one reasonably cen-
sare the Loop if she would not send a man ?
They are termed traitors. copperheads, and
are accused with being sympathizers with
rebels, and some prominent Republicans
have even insinuated that if they could
command a regiment of men they would
«clean the Loop out some of these days.” I
may be wrong, but 1 am under the impres-
sion there will nothing to clean bus the
pavements, (which embrace somewhat less
than one hundred square miles.) but per
haps they mean treason ; and if the latter
is the case, they will find none of it here.
Again, the erroncous idea has entered
the minds of some that the reason of so
many being Democrats here is because they
only read one side of the question, that
scarcely any news at all is received in this
section, that they are benighted, obscure
and forsaken, and that the only paper read
ig the WArcnMaN. But al! knew that this
is incorrect, for if it were so, the Republi-
cans would have taken the advantage long
ago and would have gent documents to this
vicinity to secure the suffrages of those that
do not read. It gives me pleasure to record
the fact, that in a8 proportional pomt of
view, more news is received in the Loop,
than in any other part of the comntry in
this State, and not only the Wazcmuay, bu
prominent among them is the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
As the columns of your paper are crowd.
ed every week, I will briefly conclude with
a few questions, Are not the people of the
Loop American citzens 2 Are they not
white citizens, and have they not souls that
will either bask in the radient beams of
God’s wverlasting smile, or be consigned to
the excruciating torments of pandemonium ?
Have they not a legal right to their opin-
ions ? Are not their services as valuable as
be answered in the affirmative by every
considerate being, and if so, why will some
indulge and glory in the imprecations that-
are heaped upon the Loop. There is a day
not far hence, when retributive justice will
disperse the gloom that now veils the son- |
shine of liberty and independence, and |
none dare intrude upon the liberties of the
domestic circle. Let every one sweep his
own door-sill first, and by doing thus, and
carefully examining the pentatench and the |
writipgs of the prophets all will perhaps
Some to the conclusion that Providence has
selected this struggle as a spectacle for men
and angels to gaze upon to sce to what ex.
tent his creatures may indulge in sin and
misery, and that the termination will and
must be in accordance with Lis inexorable
will. More avon. nae
TUSSEY MOUNTAIN ROY.
agreed to.
Mr. Pow
floor.
Mr. Grime
Delaware (2
s—-Tha
rell— Oh
Mr. Ba
The vote was called, and the Chairman,
Mr. Pomeroy, declared that the report was
Mr. Trumbull moved to take up the act
relative to the validity of the deeds of pub-
lic squares to the city of Washington,
Motion was agreed to.
Mr. Powell—I hope the Senate will pro-
ceed with the consideration of the report of
Committee of Conference.
t bill 1¢ passed.
Mr. Trumlull—I call the Senator from
Kentucky, Mr. Powcll, to order. 1 am on
,
bill, and that motion has been earried.
Mr. Bayard—Neither the manner nor the
language of the Senator from 1llinois,Trum
bull, will cause me yield my right of the
floor, to which 1 am entitled,
Mr. Powell—Do 1 understand the chair-
ed?
The Chair—The bili is passed.
Mr, Powcll—By what kind of jockeying 2
tucky to order.
Mr, Bayard—Does the chair decide the
been adopted Ly any vole of the Senate?
has been adopted.
yielded the floor to a motion to adjourn.
from Kentucky say that the Senator from
Delaware yielded the floor for any particu-
lar purpose.
Mr. Trumbull--1 believe that I am enti-
tied to the floor,
The Chair-—~The Senator from Illinois is
entitled to the floor unless he yields it.
Mr. Powell—I desire to ask the floor
tions.
Mr. Trumbull--1 do not yield to the Sen-
ator from Kentrcky to ask any more ques- Washington.
decision of the Chair. I desire to ascertain
maining here ?
Journ,
Mr. Richardson moved to reconsider the
molion by which the bill was claimed to be
passed by the Senate. ’
nois vote with the majority 2 If he did not
he could not move for a reconsideration.
At a quarter to five, A. M,, the Senate ad-
Jjourned.
Pending the d scussion on the Conserip-
tion bill in the Senate, Senator Ira Harris,
of the State of New York, wisely said:
«England, with her many wars and often
scarcity of men, never resorted to this des-
potic measure. It was a mode of raising
armies only used by despots, but never by
Republican Governments, and the princivle,
if adopted, would provide large standing
armies, which almost invariakty lead to des:
potism. In a Government of delegated
power, and which rested on the governed, it
was inexpedient and unnecessary,
¢Congress had noi the power, under the
Constitution, thus te destroy the militia of
the States, which the Constitution provided
for as a reserved force of the Union. Ii
this measure were adopted there would be
centralized power.”
Even Thad. Stevens said it would never
do to attempt theenforcement of a conserip-
tion in this country, Our people were ha-
bituated to do everything by voluntary ac-
tion, but instimctively rebelled at the exhi-
ion of force. Will the Administration be
wise in time ?
A p nr
077 1s this an abolition administration?
Let facts decide: Joshua R. Giddings, one
of the earliest and noisest abolitionists, is
our Consul in Canada. The author of Hel
per’s ‘Impending Crisis,” one of the most
dangerous abolition hooks ever published
in the comntry, 18 our Consul to Buenos
Ayres. Bayard Taylor, one of the editors
and owners of the New York Tribune. was
acting Minister to Russia. A brother of
John Brown's has been appointed to a
clerkship under Sceretary Chase, The
principal advisers of the President are Wm.
H. Neward and Salmon P. Chase, early ab-
olitionists. The politicians who have most
influence with the administration are Sum-
Loop, July 30 1863.
not.
ba Ls
ner, Wade, Stevens, Bingham, Chandler,
and Greeley. Every act almost that the
abolitionis's have demanded they have ob-
tained, and will continue to obtain. We
leave the reader to judge for himself
whether the administration is abolition or
It is well enough at this time to recall to
mind the unparliamentary trick by which
the Abolition Senators rushed the Conscrip-
tion act through the Senate.
report of the closing debate upon that occa-
HOW WE ARE FEVERCING SUMP-
~ The following are the reported casual.
ties of this war from its beginning to the 1st
of January, 1863.
THE GOSPEL OF PEACE.
If any man has watched closely the
courfe of some of the clergymen in this city
he must have been astounded at the wing
of knowledge of the world they display,
and the little regard they have for the char-
acter of their profession. Some wag once
said, ‘that candidates for holy orders are
250.000 | often times persons claiming authority to
68,218 [show their fellow.ereatures the way to Hea-
“er
“et
“
Total
Federals killed, 43.874
£ wounded 97,029
" died of disease and
“ wounds
* made prisoners.
Total
Confederates killed
died of disease and
They have killed twenty two thousand
men than we have of theirs.
Mr. Bayard-—1I desire to appeal from the | Lels but they are punishing us.
We pretend that we are restoring the Un-
whether the minority have any rights re-|ion, but we are destroying it.
We pretend that we are cnforcing the
Mr. Howard moved that the Senate ad |laws, but we are only catching negroes.
That is the way we are “‘revenging Sum-
our men have died of disease and wounds |
This is the way we have *‘revenged Fort p
than of theirs. the feelings of the South,
Our total casualdes are two hundred and the insane appeals that have been made
thirty seven thousand,twohundred and nine- from many pulpits in the North, where tie
ty seven more than theirs, that is our casu- ministers of the meek and lowly one of Na-
no; the Senator from |8lt.es have been fourteen thousand more zereth,
ard) is entitled to the | than as much again as theirs. with the preparation of the
——————| ven, because they have been unable to make
their own way on earth.” Mere cloister
men, with very little knowledge of the
world or the world’s ways, they no sooner
mount a pulpit, than they conceive they ave
then to instruct men in politics as well as
religion. [Lheir intemperate meddling with
the former, aided very materially in bring-
ing on this present fearful war. Who can
ever forget the scathing rebuke that Mr.
eight hundred and seventy-four more of our | Douglas administered to the threo thousand
clergymen who desired to instruct him in
They ha”e wounded, not mortally, thirty |g political course 2
nine thousand, four-hundred and fourteen intemperate language and the vile abuse
more men than we have of theirs. that have characterized the debates in reli.
One hundred and fifty thousand more of | ious conventions upon the subject of sla-
Who can forget the
ery ¢ All serving to intensify and embitter
Who will forget
should be shod
gospel of
eace,” come nto the sacred desk with the
“whose feet
Sumter,”
have spent.
fatherless,
man, Pomeroy, to say that the bill is pags-| ©ur ‘country. ;
We have brought the ferocious savagery
of war in to every corner of scciety.
We have demoralized our pulpits, so that
Mr. Pomeroy—I call the Senator from |©Ur very religion is a cource of immorality
and blood.
houses.
door.
But tbisis rot all. We spent almost two
the floor, and I moved to take up another | thousand mitlion more of money than they
We bave made two hundred thousand of
our women widows.
We have made one million of children
We have destroyed the Constitution of
Instead of being servants of Christ, our
report of the Conference Committee to have | Ministers are servants of Satan.
The land is full of contractors,
The Caawr—I understand that the report [Provost marshals, and a thousand other
tools of illegal and despotic power, as
Mr, Powell--Did 1 not most distinctiy | E8¥pt was of verminin the days of the
state that the Senator from Delaware-only | Pharaohs.
We are rapidly degenerating in every
The Chair—~1 did not hear the Senator | thing that exalts a nation.
Our civilization is perishing,
We are swiftly drifting into inevitable civ-
il war here in the Noth,
We are turning our homes into charnel
There is a corpse in every family.
The angel of death sits 1 every person’s
We pretend that we are punishing the re-
battle light upon their countenancez, and
garments rolled in blood. Such men as
Lyng, Cheever, Beecher, and many others
who might be named, have clearly mistaken
their calling, and upon their souls must rest
the fearful responsibility, both here and
hereafter, of doing what Pilate did: ming-
ling blood with their sacrifices. They have
heen foremost among those who ‘have made
haste to shed blood.” They have used ev-
ery effort to excite the minds of their con-
gregation to hatred, revenge and bitterness,
instead of to love, peace and good will. If
they minded their true mission they would
discover that they had nothing to do with
the sword of steel that pierces the body
but only with the sword of the spirit which
is the word of God. It they must elevatea
shield, let it only be tthe shield of faith,
wherewith they shall be able to quench the
fiery darts of the wicked.” These men
seem to be ashamed of the gospel of Peace,
of Him who is Kicg of Salem ; that is King
of Peace. They appear to love the testi-
mony of men rather than the testinzony of
the Lord. The effect of their conduct kas
been to drive many well-meaning men from
the sanctuary, shocked at the glaring incon-
sistencies and contradictions in the lives and
examples of those who minister therein. —
Never was infidelity and irreligion so rife in
the land as now, and the cause of it is to be
The devil has removed from Tartaras to found in the mad inconsistencies of the
2 clergy.
A Goop Toasr.—Our Nation! Begotten
ter,”
0!ld Guard,
live.
Selling our souls to the devil and taking
Lincoln & Co’s promise to pay. We have it
Mr. Grimes—Did the Senator from Illi [in greenbacks and biood.
That is the way we are revenging Sumter,
ANCIENT COPPERHEADS.
In times of the ancients, Moses raised a
copperhead brazen serpent in the wilderness,
as fypical of safely to life, and that all who
looked upon it in faith might live.
¢ And the Lord said unto Moses (typical
of the Democrats), make thee a fiery serpent
and set it upon a pole, and it shall come to
pass that every one that is bitten (typical of
being bitten by false pledges and army
swindlere), when he looketh upon it he shall
« And Mcses made a serpent of brass
(Copperhead.) and put it upon a pole, and
it came to pass that if a serpent (any con-
tractor) had bitten any men, when he he-
he'd the serpent of brass (Copperhead) he
lived,” —Numbers xxi, 8, 9.
Thus it will be seen that they had copper-
heads at a very remote period, and that they
were the only safety tu the people who had
Just so now the people
have been bitten—badly bitten—by the
thousands of ‘swindling serpents who are
for war so long as it pays, and as in the
days of the good old Moses, their only safe-
been poisoned.
ty is in looking to the Democratic copper-
heads. Demrerats are copperheads because
they wont follow the lead of the abolition-
ists. Paul, then, was a first class copper-
amid the storms of the 16th Century, its in-
fantile movements were dim and indistinct-
1y seen on board the Mayflower, on the rocks
of Plymouth, at Jamestown and on the
rocks of Plymouth, at Jamestown, and or
the heights of Aoraham. The capricious
squalls of its infancy were heard in the tea
party in Boston, in Fanaeil Hall, on the
plains of Concord, Lexington and Bunker
Hill, Tn his boyhood he ran barefooted and
bareheaded over the plains of Saratoga,
Trenton, Princoton, Monmouth and York-
town, whipped his mother and turned he,
out of doors. 1n his youth he strode over
the prairies of the boundless West and call-
ed them all his own; paid tmbute to the
despots of Barbary in powder and balls:
spit in bis father’s face from behind the cot-
ton bales at New Orleans; whipped the
mistress of the ocean ; straddled the Rocky
Mountains, and with one foot upon the gol-
den sand and the other on codfish and luh-
ber, defied the world. In manhood, cloth"
ed in purple and fine linen, he rides over
the continent in cushioned cars ; rides over
the ocean in palace steamers; sends his
thoughts on wings of lightning to the
world around, thunders at the door of the
Celestial Empire and at the portais of dis
tant Japan, slaps his old de-repit father in
the face aud tells him to be careful how he
pecks into any of his picaroons, and threa-
tens to make a sheep pasture of all that
joins hi, and plunges headlong into a lor-
rid civil war, and what lie will do when he
gets old, God only knows. May he live a
thousand years, and his shadow never be
less,
—————
Nor Disposep To Go.—The draft is but
the merest farce in some of the New Eng
land districts.
For example, in the Fourth
head, and if on earth to-day, he should do
in Lomsville what he did in Rome, when he
found O.esimus, a runaway slave belonging
to Philen.on, and instead of advising him
to take the underground railroad to Canada.
he converted bim to Christianity, and then
sent him back to his master, to serve him
both in the flesh and in the Lord,” Henry
Warc Beecher and his ilk would call St.
Paul a copperhead of the rankest kind.
God had chosen the brazen serpent (and
no brazen serpent can be made without cop-
per—therefore copperhead) ss a means of |S
safety from poisonous things 1451 years be-|a
fore the Christian era, and the only safaty
for the people is, as in the days of old, to
look for the copperheads for safety from the
people. —Jewish Record.
(Boston) district the whole number exam.
ined'last week was 1145 of whom 9370f them
were exempted, 70 paid 300 dollars, which
makes 1.007 that got clear, 108 offered
substitutes, and 10 were passed as fic for
duty. Thus, less than one in a hundred of
the original conseripts go into the army ;
and this, too, in a section of country that
only required the recognition of the negro
to ‘‘cause every road leading to the Nation-
al Capital to swarm with recrnits.” At this
rate it will require ninety millions of con-
cripts 0 obtain the “nine hundred thous-
nd men’’ so enthusiastically promised Fath-
er Abraham by the radicals.
ne
= From the tone of Old Abe's letter to
poisonous corruptions that now afflict the | Gov. Seymour, he is still 1m doubt as to the
WHATIS LOYALTY.
The question is one of the greatest puz
zles of the day. Tis true we have a defini
tion ef the word “loyalty” in all the English
dictionaries, but the object of our anxious
solicitude is to knowswhat Greely, Forney,
and some other political philosophers of our
times, understand by that term. The word
is extremely well handled, it is used to an
almost unlimited extent by the Admimis-
tration men in their public speeches, private |
corversations and newspaper paragraphs,
and yet the meening of the word, 23 hinted
above, continues to be a profound myste- |
ry. It is pretty certain, however, that ‘loy-
alty’ does not mean patrictism, and it does
not appear from any indications that we
can see, that ‘a loyal citizen” must nec-
essarily be a good unionist, or a suppor-
ter of the Constitution,
friend of the Federal Government. or cven |
a steadfast adherent of the present Adminis- |
tration. All this will appear, plainly enough |
it is hoped, as we proceed with onr present
inquiry.
The meaning of the word “loyalty” —ir |
or a consistent |
can freeman ought to love and oflmire-
must have changed considerably within the
last eighty years. Ia the times of our
Revolutionary fathers, the term “lovalisis’
was synonymous with fory or traitor and
to boast of loyaltv then was to acknowl- |
edge a preference for arbitrary power, und |
a coutempt for frea institutions and tha
rights of the people. On referring to a
dictionary which now happens to be at
our elbow, we find that loyalty, in its gen.
eral acceptation, signifies *‘adherénce to a
prince or potentate constant faithfulness,
submission.” From the same authority we
learn that a loyalist is one who adheres
to his king—one who professes great loy-
alty. !
The legitimate definition of loyalty there-
fore, is, in the first place, adherencetoa
prince or potenate, All who adhered to
that royal scoundrel Charles 11—the trai-
tor king who endevored to deprive the
Enghsh people of all their chartered rights
gave proof of their loyalty. All who were
faithful and obedient to that capricious,
bloodthirsty monster, Henry V111.,, were
loyal, All who assisted George 111 to
harrass, persccute and slaughter the
American patriots of '76, were “loyal citi-
zens,” according to the genuine signification
of the phrase.
But what application has this precious
word “loyalty” in the United States, at the
present time? We know of no princes or
potenantes in what are called the “loyal
States,” unless Abraham Lincoln ig the rep-
resentative of royal authority. We, for our
part, do not wish to institute any compari-
son between “honest Abe’ and King John,
Henry VI11., Chatles 1., or George 111,
though a certain Philadelphia paper lately
attempted to prove that the only difference
between an American President and an
Englisn monarch is that the latter is elected
to office, while the former obtains his office
while the former obtains his official position
by birthright. This, indeed, is one differ-
ence, and a very great one, but it is not by
any means the only difference between Chief
Magistrate of this Republic and the soverign
of England. An American President is di-
rectly responsible to the people, he is not
only elected by them, bnt holds his office
under their supervision, and, if he does not
fulfill his obligations to the people, the Con-
stitution provides for his ejectment from of-
fice without any resort to revolutionary
measures. The President, being accounta-
ble tothe people,and subjuct to their authority
is truly the ‘people’s servaut,” and not their
master, With a monarch the case is essen-
tially different, whatever may be his mal-
feasance in cffice, he carnot be ejected from
his position except by a revolutionary move
ment.
If there is nothing like regality in these
States, there can be no loyalty. for there can
be no adherence to a prince or potentate if
there is no prince or potenate to adhere to.
Some of our “loyal fellaw-citizens’ are so
anxious to be and remain loyal, that they
are willing to make a regular potdnate of
Mr. Abraham Lincoln, or somebody else, in
order to have a proper foundation of their
loyalty,
We have said above that the loyalty of our
day is not always patriotism, We have loy-
al citizens in abundance who are engaged, as
hard as they can drive, in sucking the life
blood of the sick Republic, exhausting by
their embezzlements and their robberies, all
the res urces on which the welfare and the
very cxistence of the nation depend. Some
of the most zealous loyalists | editorial ones
among others] have amassed mincely® for-
tunes, since the commencement of the war,
by speculating in Government contracts,and
other nefarious transactiods, which as the
Hon. John P. Hale [a Republican Senator)
acknowledged, are more damaging to the
cause of the Union than the operations of all
ts eneroies in the field. These contract-
mongers, and speculators in the blood,
and] tears of their countrymen, may be
loyalists, perhaps, but they certainly are not
pa‘riots.
And, finally, to cap the climax of deceit
and false pretention, the chief loyaists are
not even faithful and obedient to the Lincoln
Administration. Instead of obeying their
liege lord, they compel him to obey therm, —
They often treat him as unceremoniously
constitutionality of the draft.
| peat that the]
| comprchensible thing.
the term expresses anything that an {meri i:
their woopen sovereign. They Lave him | AI INFANT PHENOMENON” —
bound m the chains of party allegiance, and
will not allow him to have any will of his
They have studied his amiable weak-
own.
A CHILD TWO YEARS OLD
WITH A GIANT'S HEAD,
We find the following in the Cincinnati
Ha
nesses, his most vulnerable point in order | Zaqrirer:
feo muke him work well in harness, aud to
| gall him effectually when be refuses to obey
Like the prectorian guards, they
male use of the power of their ‘corps to
tyranmize over the man ahom they have
| clothed with their imperial purpe. And
| the rein.
| yet, part of the definition of loyalty is
| faithfulness, submission. Therefore. we re-
oyalty of our day, is an in- 9 Ty
With respect to that | the Serahrtun to 21 Shotmone size, giving
| subject we are still left sticking, up to the | Wonderful capacity and breadth to the an:
very neck, as 1t were, in a quagmire of doubt | terior, while the posterior region, especially
and perplexity.
of this article remaning unanswered, We
have told what loyalty is not. Let For
i ney, Greely, McMichael, or some other of
The question at the head
our acute opponente,tell us, if they can, what
its. ENquirg r.
OFFICE SEEKER'S CATECHISM.
Class
1 up.
Who m-de yon?’
re ham 1,
inistration
of Adm office seeker:
“
“\Whatis the noblect work of Gog
“A negro,”
“Whois the meanest man in the world
“Gen. Geo. B, Mct
“Who are the traito
“Alwho are
Han.”
g
is friends,’
“What is the object of the war 72”
*‘Negro.”
What is the duty of the army 7
“To arrest all who believe in the Constie
tution,”
“Who is this war benefitting 27
“Army contractors, rich meu, B« publican
generals, money shavers, cotton stealng
generals, and negroes.”
“At what expense 2
“The people’s,”
“What is the test of palriotism 2"
“Abuse the Democrats.”
“Why is the negro equal to the white
man 27
“Because God created them both.”’
“On what principle is a jackass the equal
of a Brigadier General,
“On course.”
“How shall the policy of this _Adminis-
tration be manifested 2’
“By the suppression of speech, mobbing
printing offices, and imprisonment, of all
Democrats there is not rope enough to
hang.” :
“Is a union of sentiment a feeling of
any importance in the prosecution of the
war
¢Noil?
“In your neighborhood are you consider-
ed a man of sound sense 2?
“Hardly.”
‘*Are you capable of supporting yourself
by honest labor 27
“Don’t know—Never tried it.”
“Do you hate a Demeerat mors than you
do the devil 2?
*Yes—yes—yes —"
‘Allright if there is no office vacant,
a new one shall be created fur you at ounce.”
ACCESSIONS TO THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
Judge Raukin, of Columbus, Ohio, who two
years ago, was on the Tod ticket for the Leg-
islature, is now out for Vallandigham and
Pugh. So is R. A. Dague, of Marrow coun-
ty, heretofore a strong Republican— The
Mount Gilead Union Register stales that
he is a talented youngman aod a good spea-
ker,
Hon, George 8. Hillard, of Boston, a co-
temporary of Webster and Choate, and an
old Whiz when that great old national con-
servative organization existed, in a letter to
the New York Academy of Music meeting,
on the 4th of July, remarked,
“I have never been a member of the Dem,
ocratic party, but I am convinced that there
is now no hope of ending this deplorable
war and restoring the Union but by and
t rough that party.”
And the Hon Joel Parker, now occupying
the chair of Chief Justice Story, and never
before a Démocrat, speaking to the mass
meeting ficdd on the 4:h at Concord N. II.,
remarked.
“Most assuredly, I do at this time deeply
aad cordially sympathize with the Demoo-
racy in their efforts to maintain the Consti-
tution, preserve the rights of free speech, the
liberty of the press, personal freedom from |
arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, and the
supremacy of the civil law in all places not
occupied by the forces of the Union for the
prosecution of the war. Legitimate martial
law can not exist in places where there is
not only no war, but no troops for the pros-
ecution of the war. What is so called, ana
is attempted to be enforced as ‘martial law
in such places is merely the exercise of ar:
bitrary power. without any warrant of law
whatever.” :
et
A young gentleman, who at one time was
very much smitten with a very pretty little
“Friend,” said that in his travels through
the West Indies he often felt some very se-
vere shocks Trom earthquakes, but they
were nob a circumstance when compared
with those which he experienced, from this
and disrespectfully as Alsop’s frogs treated
little earth- Quaker,
* Killen Btizes, a child two years old, born
in Hamilton county, aloud eizht miles from
Cincinnati, presents one of the most curious
developments in the natural world that has
ever {allen under our observation. This
child is observant and intelligent, notwith-
stand'ng the extraordinary phenomenon
which she presents in the miraculous growth
of her head-—a growth which has distended
in its “upper register,” is by no means ne-
glected,
" “The head measures fully thro and a
half fect in eircumference—the forehead is
at least seven and a half inches in height,
and remo fourteen to sixteen inches in
breadth. The Lair, which is very fine and
of flaxen hue, is not luxuriantly spread over
wo, but quite as much so 2s in ost
uf the same ge. The skin is very
air, and wears a healthy appearance, and
ace i no means nogainly in ex-
es below the forehead
& are somewhat ex-
tely” penciled brow
wears a hard ex-
ion, through the expansion of the fore-
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head, which here comme
ular, only tl
ded, and the de
ces.
“From the crown of the bead to the ear
is about eighteen inches. The head is not
regularly shaped, but is broader on the fore-
head, save that the region behind the ears
is enormously enlarged. The history of the
child and the singular growth of its head
are striking, At its birth nothing remark-
able was presented. About two weeks af-
ter, without any apparent or known cause,
the head began to grow, and continues to
increase in size, presenting one those phenc-
mena which assures us that what we deem-
ed impossible may be realized.
“This child presents a most interesting
subject of inquiry and investigation to the
scientific, and is worthy their attention.
It is a curious spectacle, but by no means
revolting ; and can only be appreciated
when seen, because description cannot con-
vey a fair impression of the animate eurios-
ity. There has been a large reward offered
for any natural curiosity that can exceed
this, but no one hes tendered com petion.
It is understood that in a short time it is
the intention to exhibit this phenomenon to
the curious in the larger towns of Southern
Ohio, and it is well worth the inquiries and
investigation of the naturalist and scientific.
The chiid is eesily moved about by its
mother, and rarely expresses discontent.
It is generally kept in a recumbent state,
and soothed Ly gently rocking. It receives
its food readily, and is affected like other
children, presenting no other unnatural
appearance than its eaormous and constant-
ly cularging head.
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A FORGETFUL MAN,
A man named Favor was before the Police
Court, a few days since, on the charge of
being a vagabond, He had forgotten his
age and everything clse of importance.
*“ Are you sure that your name is Favor 1
asked the judge.
“Well, I thought it was, but maybe it
ain't?”
“ Are you confident that you wero born
in Vermont ?” >
* Well, I ollers supposed 1 was, but I
should not wonder if it was somewhere
else.”
“ Where does your fomily live at pres
ent?”
“I don’t know ; I’ve forgotton.”
“Can you remember ever having seen
your father or mother?”
I can’t recollect, to save mysell; some-
times I think I have, and then again, 1
think I have not.”
* What trade do you follow §”
“Well, I am either a tailor or a cooper,
and for the live of me I can’t tell which 3 ad
any rate I'm either one or the other.”
+ Have you ever been in prison 7”
“I don’t much think I have; If I had, is
seems to me I should recollect it.” '
Mr. Pavor was accordingly sent there,
and during n period of six monthe retire.
ment, he will have sapericr advantages for
refreshing a memory, jaded, donbtless, by
too great a stock of useful knowledge, so-
quired by long-faterconrse with vicissitude
and miafortune,
Helge aD orga
IN WITH RED HAIR,
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ad
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A lady correspondent complaing that men
with red hair aro afliicted with defective
vision, and supports her argumeant in the
tollowing manner:
“Why aro gentlemen with red beards
generally afilioted with defective vision ?
I cannot account in soy other way for the
rade stares one receives from gentlemen
‘in > I counted no loss than thirty of
those nnfortanate cases on common the
other day: and T assure un the way al-
moet all of them was suchas to make
ono qaite uncomfortable. A dark or fair
man will walk on not pretending he has ob-
served you; or, if he does raize his eves to
look nt you, he will do so in a qniat, unob-
trusive way 1 Lut a man with red hair will
invariably give a hold stare, half stop, as if
going to spoak, and stand looking after you
when you have passed on. Now, I cannot
attribute this to anything but soma peouli-
arity in the eyesight. If quadrupeds with
blue eyes are frequently deaf, why should
not bipeds with red beards be troubled with
a near-sightedness which renders. them
seemingly impertinent ? Perbaps seme’ of
gr physiological readers can acconat fur
his.
Perhaps the lady is handsome and the
red-haired gentlemen know it, while she
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foment creaturs!) is not aware of the
act.