B ry pe VOL. 8. @he Fuse. ; or the WW akdhman, T0 A FRIEND. BY MAC. ’ Thy proffer’d hand, dear friend, I take, And bid a kind adieu; Thy absent smiles will always make "Me feel and care for you. Thy merry laugh—oh, how it thrills My heart thie very hour ; My many sorrows, too, it stills, With more than magic pcwer. Thy sparkling eyes, how oft they spoke In language firm, but mild; And oft my waywardness they broke, Controlling actions wild. “But since fell fate will have us part, And rend the ties so strong, * {t cannot reach the hidden heart ‘Where love has been go long. It cannot blot from mem 'ry’s book The many happy hours We've spent by rill and shady nook, Or aramanthine bowers. Then fare thee well—may’st thou enjoy Much happiness and rest ; True happiness without alloy, Known only to the blest. And when thy pilgrimage is o'er, Life and its trials past, May angels guide thee to that shore’ Where Heaven's bright glories lass. Cray Hiry, Oct. 17th, 1863. ~ Jliscellangous. (From the Sopa Gazette.) A DREAM THAT WAS NOT ADREAM —THE WAR AND PEACE. A WONDERFUL VISION, What I here relate is true. That which I have seen, I have seen, and th:t which I know, I know. Let all the people read what is here written, and ponder the won derful things which I bave witnessed in a vision. Formuch of that which I have seen in a vision, will be seen in the reality by all, in the fulness of the evil time which ja coming, and which now is. Fora voice hath said; “that which thou seest write I’ My son—our first born—the object of our dearest love and most afectionate care— whom we had reared in the ways of virtue and educated with the view to an honored life, was among the dead at Gettysburg.— We brought him home to that dear hearth by which he had grown from infancy to ‘yoting manhood ; to the home which he had left but a few months ago in the glow ef ‘health and the enthusiasm of hope. We had brought him back, a mangled corpse, ‘with the ghastly wound on his fair brow —~hardly te be recognized, not even by the loving mother who had borre him, and who bewailed him with unceasing lamenta- tion. Dead And my hoase was filled with the sad faces of neighbors and friends, who ‘had known ‘and loved our boy and who came now to condole with us in the hour of over- whelming sorrow. Ie was buried. And I returned “to a home which was saddened forever, to that familiar room, where, in the years that were passed, my boy had so often, from infancy to manhood, sat on my knee, of by my side. How dark it seemed! Ilow do- iorous, But sleep had fled from me My eyes. which had refused to weep, seemed as if they were sered, and blessed slumber came not. All through the dreary hours—hours which seemed ages—ot that awful might I waited, and watched, and knew not repose. That long night wore away at last, and a day of fasting succeeded. and the dolorous right came again. As I looked out of the window to the north, a great light, neither of the sun, nor moon, nor stars, but brighter and clearer than mid-day; illuminated what seemed a vast plain, upon which the minutest ohject might ve discerced with a clearness which was wonderful. And as I looked I beheld the coming of a great host, marching to the sorrowful sound of a muffled drum. As they came nearer, and glided past, I remarked that there was no sound of footsteps where they trod.— Then I knew they were speeters, the shad- ows of the countless dead, fallen in battle. their garments were soiled and torn. And I observed, with a shudder which thrilled horribly through me, that the death wound was upon every form, and that each ghast- ly face was the face of a corpse, Great God! Here was an arm shot away. and there is a gash upon the forehead, again an eyeball burst with the slot, and yet again % a temple crushed as by a blow of a gun- “barrel, And as the specter host glided by,I heard ® voice, saying: ‘Weary, indeed, wilt thou be gazing; for days and days must elapse, maiching at this forced march which thou beholdest, ere this vast army of the dead can pass.” I turned away in horror, and prayed that I might be spared a spec- tacle which seemed to freeze the very blood in my veins. But now [ knew, as I had not known before, what a multitude had fallen in battle. - When I looked again, the vision bad shadows, I beheld a great pool of blood. It was 50 large that ships might. ride on its crimson billows. And congregated, by the hundred thousand all around the wide cir- cumference of its margin, were women, pallid and tearful, cach cl2d in robes of somber blackness, and having little children by the hands, who wept incesantly, and gazing into their mothers faces, calling upon those whe would make no response,for their blocd was in the pool at their feet, And far beyond this horrible pool, my gaze ex- tended to houses made desolate and fami- lies impoverished. I beheld these wilows in their struggle for bread. I could ses them, chilled and shivering, and crouching in secant clothing, over wretched embers, which imparted no warmth, but which were all that they could procure. Aud I beheld those orphan chil dren, eqalhd and wretched, uncared tor. and uneducated, going down into the haunt of vice, swept into the vortex of crime, for the want of the father’s guiding and res- training band. And I cried out in the bit terness of my heart, “How long, oh ! Lord, how long? And what shall we oltsin which will repay us for all these horrible sacrifices,” And the voice answered, ¢ Look to the left of the pool which is before thee. and sce what thou beholdest.” And I looked and beheld a vast grove of trees, which were leafless and dead, and on branches of the trees were huddled myi- ads of unclean birds, lazily flapping their wings and wiping what seemed to be bl that which thon sceth on the right, begging for Union, for Peace. for Compromise . for Constitut.on, Bat look yet again, and thou will see the terrible judgements which are 1 store for a people who violate the com commands of the Almighty.” I looked again and beheld another carse, for the green fields were smi-ten with frost in the summer time, and yielded not the harvest ; and the cattle were dying by the wayside ; and faces of mothers were wan and bony; and the children cryingfor bread ; and there was famine in the land. And beheld yet another carse, For it grew dark, and IT heard the rushiug of hea- vy wings and lo! the Angel of the Pestilence passed crying “wo! wo! wo! to the peop.e ac- cursed.” Aud strong men fell down and died on the wayside, and plagae spots came upon every cheek and breast, and there were none to minister to the dying, none to bury the dead,and this vultures grew fat and usurped the land, And I heard a loud voice saying © Ven- gence is mine : aith the Lord.” And that which I here relate is truth in its very essence. And [ have written it be- caus it is truth, And let all the people receive it as (rath. And I beg and implore all who shall read it to be mstructed in the things which it te: ches, and to consider well that which they do. Study the di- vine book. And let thoss who have been lured by false leaders and ungodly priests in‘o that infernal convocation over which the demon spirit of Joh: Brown bears rule flee in the name of God, as they would avoid the just curse of heaven, resting nei. ther night nor day, until they have set their feet ou the hallowed ground. w hereon they stood when tie blessings of Christ rested upon us all. Amen, davaleiil OxE of our priveipal recruiting offices was recently the scene of quite an amusing inci- dent : “So, sir, I see you have clapped your dirty sojer trappings on my husband, jhave you ¢’ “Who is your husband 2” asked the of. ficer, *‘Billy McCartee, and a bold boy he is so please ye. But its a dirty thing of you, my pretty man, to take him from his wife and children,” Can’ be helped, said the officer, its tco late now. ‘Then take the baby tco. cried she as she forced the hittle'one into the arms of Lieut- emant Adams. Take em all, I'l send you four more to-day. Off sheran at a rapid pace,leaving the un- fortanate officer with the new recruit squal- ling in his arms. Doubtful of its value to the service of uncle Sam, he sect it home by its father, a 4 A Eine 77 An Irishman once said to another : — “And ve have taken the tectotal pledge, haye ye ¢” “Indade I have, and am not ashamed of it, aither.” “And did not Paul ‘ell Nmothy to take a litle wine for his stomach’s sake 2? “So he did. but wy name is not Timothy, and there is nothing the matter with my stomach,’ 07 A woman in Washington whos hus- band is worth $40,000, was recently detect. ed for the second time, in purloining eggs from the market, were |, WOMEN OR WINE. An epistle to the person who recommend- ed the introduction of women instead of wine at entertainments. . I have tried botl#-so those who would a part take, May choose between the headache and the heart- ache. Byron. Oh! weak and foolhardy reformer, To substitute women for wine, The glow of whose presence is warmer Than the sunniest juice of the vine. Believe me, less fatal are juleps Than women in witchéry skilled ; For there oozes wore vena from two lips Than ever from gram was distilled. Who barters for beauty lus whisky, ‘The change will be certain to rue ; For her eyes shed a spirit more frisky Than lurks in the best “mountain dew,” Ah! those eyes at each mecting so merry, You'll find to oulsparkis champagne ; And ringlets wore goiden than sherry, Will fuddle as well the poor brain. More taperimg necks than bottles’, With mouths more bewitehingly crowned, Wilt pour from their ravishing throttles A stream that a sage would confound. If wine makes us brutes, love is able To turn us to fools with like ease— If one lays us under the table, "Tother brings us at least to our, knees. After dinner,when warmed with good eating, "lis women, not wine we should flee ; “Perfect Loves” a chasse-cafe more heating Than even abused ‘eau de vie.” Still at table some mischief she’s brewing — Oft feet scrape acquaintance below — Ah. no heel taps so pregnant with rain As those hidden taps of the toe. And hands, between courses, at leisure, Make fricr ds when there's no one to mark. Ab! Jess poison yield grapes under pressure Than fingers thus pressed io the dark. As home reels the toper of beanty, How crimson his image, poor elf ! How fevered he sleeps | how his daty Is left to take care of itself, Wher thwarted. how palsicd his powers, Till he sinks in despair at death’s door; Oh! if women her victim thus lowers, Say, what can the bottle do more 2 No spirit so ardent as women's-~ So sure to intoxicate man— Her touch is deleriutn tremens, That meddens him more than the can. The glance of her eye is “blue rain,” Ler blush 1s the blood of the vine, Uer pout 1s a punch. in whose brewing Tart, spirit und sugar combine, So sparkling, so heating, to heady, No hope for her victim appears; Should her smiles only render him giddy, He'd be surely made drunk with her tears. Not the grape-juice of Eden made Adam So stupidly forfeit his ali ; But the lure of his volatile Madam Led him tipsily on to his fall. Cleopatra made Anthony reel, When ihe hero chose her for a toy — And for Helen large hosts took the field, Till down fell the stout Walls of Troy. Not the winds of fair Cypress, the rover, So sure as its women begnile : Better ress where be is. “half scas over.” Than steer for so fatal an isle, Oh then shun such a tempter as this is, Nor commence 80 hazardous court, Who embarks on the waves of her tresses, Wiil grieve that he ventured from port. Gr GP rena How A MAN FekLs Aap Acts During AN EanraQuake. ihe Boston Traveler pub- lishes the 10llowing extract of a private let- ter from Manila, giving the writer's per. on- al experience and sensations during the late ter ific earihquake which visited that city. It would be impossible to give you an idea of the late earthquake. for, though I bave read the accounts of many seycre ones I never could reahze the position enti I had felt one, and | never knew what dread- ful destraction it could make until the 3d ot this month. 1 have beard nothing talked ‘about but earthquakes for the past ten days everybody telling their experience and giv- ing their idea 01 the causes and effects of earthquakes in general. My experience was that 1 had finished wy soup and was help- ing myself to fish, w en three or tour tre- menduous up and down bumps came, I ran for the Azotea (piazza covered with iron roofing.) Then came the fearful swinging motion from North to south. I clung to the post (wooden, which supports the iron roof) to keep myself from falling, expecting every mement that the stone walls which support the Azotea would give way and that 1 should be thrown in o the river wth the house on top ot me, Tne whole shock did not last over half a minute, but it was an eternity to me, The falling of stone hous- es and tile roofs was terrific; part of our roof (weighiug seyenty tons) fell in. About three hundred feet from where { was the tower of Binondi Church {eli through ihe ro f of the church. This tower was from one hundred acd fifty to two hundred feet high, bili of solid stone, for'r to six fect thick. Yetthe din from falling churches and houses was so great that | did not dis- tinguish when 1t fell. When the shock was over, the »ir was so filled with dust of lime that I could scarcely breathe, and thete was scarcely a breath of air. Everybody was mn the streets, prayivg or fleeing with what they ha i saved 10 the country. For days after. the people walked the streets without speaging ; and there was no noise of car- tages, and no bells in the city where there were thousands moving before at all cours.’ 177 The patriots of the Revolution are all passing away, and soon the last will be surna- m ned fo his final resting place. The youngest of them is about ninety-four years of age. On July 1, 1862, there were but sixty-two of them hving, since which over one-third of the number have died. | FARMERS AFFECTED BY THE WAR. Every thing which farmers have occasion lo huy for use, costs them from fifty to one ! hundred percent above the prices which [they paid before the war. {lave the pri. | ces of their products been increased in a corresponding ratio? Is grain cr bay high ler ¢ Is not butter lower, take the season through ? Whatever they may have suffered from: this cause during the war, they must expert to sufier in a still greater degree as it progress- es. will also be steadily increased with every regiment raised by volunteering or conserip- tion. THR WOKENIN THE FIELDS. In Conscription countries, where the men are thinned ff, or being exhausted, the women are drivin into the fields, to raise bread to supyly the army, and to éarn mon- ey to pay taxes to feed soldiers. Hence, in France, Germany, &c., women are seen at the plow. at the spade, hoe and shovel, dig- ging and doing the work of men. Here, in New York, we see, with the German dog carts, specimens of that early traning which exchanges off men for women to do men’s Work. And now’ this country, if the civil war goes on, year after yesr, purposcless as it now is. and :esultless as it is, with a Con- scription Act acting upon 4 000,000 of men as 8 ldiers, to be drafted off, as tattle or Conscription countries, take the place of We shall then see women here, a8 on the Continent of Eu. rope. plowing, hoeing, digging. fishing, wood Women will, of ne- men in their out-door work. chopping, mining, &e, cessity, be dragged from her lofty level of noble housewile, into digger, spader, plower &e. The great question for Republican math- ers wives, sisiers, daughters, not deluded by abolition favaticism, 1s: “Will this pay only to free negroes South © Is it worth the while, as a mere matter of mer- cantile and social reckoning, to say ni thing of uther considerations, thus to send off fa- thers, brothers and sens, as conscripts, in order to t-ke their places in the out door work of the fields. If so, well, very well. To carry on snh a system, women here will soon drop to the level of European peasant women, and be not so well off as negroes themselves, ens 0 the carver if you can Always set next at dinner. Ask no woman her age. Be civil to all your rich uncles and aunts, : Never joke with a policemen. Take no notes or gold with you to a fan- cy bazaar—nothing bat silver. Your uldest hat, of course, fcr an evening party. Don’t play at chesse with a widow. Never contradict a man who stutters. Pull down the blind before you put on your wig. . Make friends with the steward on board the steamer, thers 1s no knowing how soon you may be placed in lis power. —————— AP ee See here, Gumbo, why am you like a biack guard 2” “Neber guess dat in the worl, coz I an’t you black fool. You iz honey. coz you watches Master Jim's store—and you’s not a berry white guard, dat’s sartin. Yah, ha. Now Pete dat am very surprisin’, and comblustitiacating to calculate, but. nigger, why isyoulikeagentle’m ¢ Dah, dat stump him, Bress my soul, Gumbo, I neber tink of dat, gives her up Yah, yah so does I, sensible as I 15— been tinkin’ of it free days, and am fuder oft dan I was at the start. A certain’green customer, who was astran- ger to mirriors.and who stepped into the ca- { bin of one of cur ocean steamers stopping in | front of a large pier glass, which he took for a door he said: “1 say mister start 2’ Getting no reply from the dumb reflection before hiro he again repeated — Incensed at the silent figure he broke out. ‘I say mister, when does this here boat start #" : Go to thunder, you darn sassafrac-col- ered. shood head d. bull calf you don't look as if you knew mucn any how. nae when does this boat JZ7 A stranger in a printing office asked the youngest spyrentice what his rute of puncination was? ‘‘I set up as long as I can hola my breath. then I put in a com- ma ; whan I gape linsert a semi-colon; and when I want a chaw of tobacco, I make a paragraph 7’ IZ A student, in the course of examina- tion was arked, ‘Pray, Mr. C.. how would you discover a fool?” «By the quesiions, he would ask,” said Mir, C. 17 One day last week aver half a tun of gold went “‘up” from New York to roy. — The Trojans speculate. pay During the last six weeks nineteen tans of butchers’ meat have been condemn- ed in London as food unfit to be eaten. The cost and difficulty of hiring labor | disease thins out the ranks in the field. wo- | men of course, must here, 2s here in other | I | HOW THE SUSPENSION OF HATEAS CORPUS WURKS- ANOTHER QUT- RAGEOUS CASE OF KIDNAPPING. | Weare made acquainted with the partic- ulars of ancther outrageous case of kidnap- | ping, which serves to illustrate the utterly | defenceless condition to which the citizen is | left by the su pension of the habeas corpus | i privilege. Charles Wippert, the victim of | | the outrage, is a young German who, for the greater part of a year pact, has been em- ployed, as a clerk, we believe, in the store of M. L. Comstock & Co. [lis family have resided here for many years anc are well | known. One brother, Charles William Wip pert, is also in Comstock & Co.'s employ. A week ago last Satarday, young Wip- pert was arrested by order of Provost Mar- shal Scroggs, on the charge that he was a deserter from the 3d Onio Cavalry. He was taken to the county juil and there kept in one of the poorest cells in that institution till Thu sday morning, when he was sent to Elmira. The a rest, which was accomplish- ed, we under-tand, by Lieut. Col. Austin, an attache of the Marshal's office, was said to be made on the sirength of an order from Toledo. Immediately after the sudden and myste- rious takivg oft of his brother, Mr. C. W. Wippert made every effort first to find ont the reasons for his arrest, and second to ob- tain his release, The information at the Marshal's office was not at all satis- factory. and application to the legal author- ities speedily elicited the fact that for this {outrage there was nctually noremedy in the law of the land. A prowinent republican lawyer who was consulted advised personal application to the President as presenting a a possible chance for justice It dues nut appear that there is the slight- est proof that Wippert is the alleged deser- ter whose description was forwarded from Toledo. That descripton, Col. Austin is suid to have admitted, represented the deser- ter as an Englishwan and amecha ic. Wip- p-1t is nether. Moreover, Mr. Wippert stoutly maintains that he has never been received the army at all, nor have his brothers ever had reason to think that he had eulisted.— On the stiength simply ef some shadowy resemblance between Wippert and the real deserter, the former has been hurried by force into military confinement, his friends being powerless to help him, We are told that after the prisoner hel been sent to Ei- mira, Col. Austin h'mself expressed grave doubts as to his being the proper man. These tacts need no comment. They are almost incredible. They mean, reader, that you, or we, or &ny man, is liable at any moment to be arrested, dungeoned and spir- ited away, and that too, in spite of all law and justice, aud entreaties or influence of friends, A premiom of thirty dollars is pad to the Federal official whe may make such an arrest, and if he has the desire to make mouey in tkis way, he has unhnited power to gratify that desire by invading the sanc- tity of our homes and trampliag upon the dearest rights which freemen can possess. Of course, it is not likely that weil known or influential citizens will be thus pounced upon; bat is the atrocity less atrocious be- cause perpetrated, perhaps. upon some poor citizen who is friendless, moneyless and un. known ? Such cases are actually transpi- ring in our midst almost every day, Every elfo't is being wade to keep them secret, but the facts are leaking out, and we shall be able to male still other exposures. thing more required to make the people pause and chink whither we, American cit- izens, are drifting ? re ete rt Tne CeLesTiaL State, — Old Bicke's was a man of labor 2nd had little or no time to devote to specu'ation as to the fiture. Ile was, witha!, rather uncouth in the use of language, 2 One day, while engaged in stopping up hog-holes about his place, he was approach- ed by a colporteur and presented with a tract. What's all this about?’ demanded Rick- ets. “That, sir, is a book describing the celes- tial state,” was the reply. +Cele~lial State,” said Rickets, “where the deuce is that 2” “My worthy friend, I fear that you have not’ — “Weil, never mind,” interrupted Rickets, “I don’t want to hear about any better State than old Pennsylvania. I intend to live and die right here if [ can only keep them darned hogs out.” cig By oa 17 Mrs. Greenhow, who has arrived in England, is about publishing an account of Is any- ¢ HOW MRS. BONAPARTE DRESSES. A Paris correspondent gossips as follows about the dicsses of Eugene, ile says: It is universally conceded that she is the best dressed lady in Europe, She sets the female fa-hion for the world, and empldys not enly wodisis but artists to invent thew, Her deparment of ready-made clothing ‘is something immense. To say that she has a new dress fur every day in the year would not begin to convey an idea of the. cytent and vs In the front centre «f the o iling of her of her wardrohe, Majesty's private dressing-room there is a trap-door opening into a spacivus hall above, filled with © presses’ each containing a dress exhibited on a frame—looking like an effigy of the Empress herscif. In a part of these ‘presses’ there is a little railway leading W the aforesaid trap-door, through which the dress is “*descended’’ into the Presence of the Empress. If it pleases her Majesty, the dress is lifted from thie frame and placed upon the imperial percon; if nt it ig whipped up anl ancther comes down in ita place, and not unirequently another and an- other—so fastidious is the Sart which gives the law to the world of fashion, In public the Empress never looks over- dressed. A severe simplicity always chare acterizes her toilette, while every thing, fu material, fit and color, is as comyicte in harmony as a sonata of Beethoven. This is the great secret of the “art of dress." — A woman who wears discordant ribbons, breaks that sense of vii ual melody, com. monly called “good taste,” without which vot even the duc css of Golconda can dress well. Cerinin ~olors are as incongruous and inharmonious as certain notes in musie, and the a: tists who comjose diess fur Bugeni: study thes n tural laws of huiinony ns careful'y as the paitor the hues of the pals ette. Just now .t his beon diccovered thats the varasol, the dress, the gloves and the guiters must all be of the same color to produce the most unique and pleasing effect. And thus a completely dressed lay no longer o. fends the eye with a confused contradiction of colors of ali shades and without the cr- der of the rainbow, tut presents a perfect picture, as melodiously charming to the ey» as the air of * Home, swect Home?’ is to the ear, i [= It some people wiil cut ont the fi} lowing and stick it in their hats, it way ef- fect a considerable ref rm, We give below a few iinpolite things in which young people often render themselves disagreeable Ha Reading when others are talking, Reading aloud iu compary without being asked. Talking when thers are reading. Cutting finger-nails in com, any. Leaving Church before public w orship is closed. Whispericg or laughing in ilic Louse of God. Gazing rudely at strangers. Leaving a stranger without a seat. A want of reverence and respect for sens iors. Correcting older persons than yourself-- especially parents. : Commencing to tilk before others have finished speaking. Answering questions that have Leen put to others. Commencing fo eat 8s soon ay you get to the table; and In not listemne to what one is saying in company, unless you desire to show open contempt for the speaker. A well-bred per- son will not make an observation while an- other of the company is aldressing himsel{ to at. Am ge Democracy has been besten in two great States this fall, Lut the day will come ere long, when phenix like, it will rise from its ashes, and be walted over all the land. peed I= Never were so Wwany diamonds mror- ted as during the present war. A single stone worth $15.000 has just paid duty in New York. rs > It was ascertained by a traveler in the Grisons, Switzerland. that an eagle flew =" ns sight, five mils in fiye minutes. B&S™ A young ludy on being asked what calling she wished Ler sweetheart to follow, blushingly replied, “a husbandman’s.” [Z= A young gentleman says he thinks that young ladies who refuse good off rs of marriage are t00 *Vo-ing by half." her imprisonment in Washington, in bok form, in London, Bently is to be her puh- lisher. HS reine! 77 At a hotel table one boarder remark ed to another : “This must be a healthy place for chickens.” «Why 2” asked the other. {Because I never sce any dead ones hereabouts. el Ciera ge M. Theirs’s coachman has commit- ted suicide by hanging himself. This is the second that has chosen this method for quit- ting is service. Punch says women first resorted to tight lacing to prove to men how well they could bear squeezing. 8&5 Secretary Stan'on says the story of a new draft is a mslicivus invention, That’s a rub on the New York Post, « re SH 7> Most of the Bishoy s in France, ful. lowing ‘he example of Howe, have ordered public prayers fur Poland. {It may sannd like a paradox, yet the breaking of both wings of an army is a pretty sure way to make it fly. 07 There are fifteen thousand lawyers in fogland. Forty-five hundred of the num- ber are barristers. [T= George Sumner, brother of the Segn- tor, died in Boston a few days ago, after g long and painful illness. re im Pata g&@y Democrats, do not be discouraged— the darkest hour is just before the break of day. [2 Why is a sympathy like a blind buff? tis a fellow feeling for a creature, mans follow — Ni