0 ANTHEM• OF PEACE rum? cnonos or six Toiceil IVe have watched through the weariest midnights That curtained onr hope of Peace; We have waded the deepest waters Thgt :vs between,p4ped Peace; We have climbed o'er roughest mountains That Ton between us.anil Bra . It hith cost rts woes unnumbered; This promise wo have of Pesos; Labors and tatter privations Because their was no Pence: And the bones of our bravest bleaching Upon Acids that were not of Peace! szcwiri client's or six vomit. Famine and red-extat tcraffltii Are leashed In th• Mick of war ; Wells that Mb blackened and tootles' Lie in the *eke of wars The worm and the flapping buzzards Oh, those are the kings of *sr! E=!E!M= The we'll hid the scourge of war; I'Vringing their pitilul fingers, . AnAwailing the woes of war; As their children wither Wound them Beneath the wan blight of wart TWILVZ YOMCII 0, wires, with husbands in battle, Think, think of the day of„peacei 0, mothers, Stith your eons in battle, Cling Giese te the holm of peace! 0, little ones, needing your fathers, Vray, pray for the hope of peace! Olpry to God In the highest! Ho gMeth us promise of peace! lie will not,ho wrathful 'forever, Ho yet will restore us to peace! V. see frog i the Wings of His Healing Down flutters the White Dove of 'Puce! SURRENDER OF LEE. 'The following le the correspondence in re lation to the surrender of aeon's,' tee I WAR DITARTRIENT,, April 7,,104. m W.jor General Dix theistrat 9bert:l.n . -rfurtsd ...Lseiariat4OLotting_annerala_Emell,..Ker., 'haw, Batton orse, Curtis Leo, and many other general it) 4475, several thousand prisoners, and a large, number of cannon, and expects to force LeeNt surrender all that is left of his army. Tte N details will be `girtn as speZdily .as possible. -but the telegraph is working badly. * • E. At% STANTON. Secretary of War. CLIFTON HOODS, V. 1., 1806. Bon. E. 3t. Stanton, Srerrtarif of War : r -The following correspondence has taken plane between General Leo and thyself. There bas been no relaxation In this pursuit during its pendency, (Signed) U. S. attAwr, 14eatenant General Apnl 7, 1805 Central R. B. Lee, commanding C. S. A. Uzaisaat: The result of the last week Must convince you of the hopelessness of .the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. .1 feel that it ie 'so, and re gard it as my duty to shift fro& myself the reaponeibility of any further, effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate'btatea army known as the Army of Southern Virginia. Very respectfully your obedient nt, U. 8. GRANT, Lim!. Gm. Comrk'd'y Armies U. S. r I have 'received your note of this date. Though not entirely of the opin ion you express of the hopelessness of fur ther resistance on the part of the Army of northern y.irginia, I reciprocate your de -tire to avkid useless effusion of brood, and therefore, before considering your proposi tion, ask the terms you will-offer on condi tion of its surrender. (Signed) R. E. Lex, General Lieut. OM U. S. GRAM; Commanding Arniiet of U. S. ro General R. B. Lee: OaNaiLax.: Your 6Ole of last evening, in, peply to mine of same date, asking condi •• • • • . ••ch I will accept the su ender , of the Army of Northern Virginia, is bus received. In reply, I would say that peace being my I first desire, there is but one condition I in sist upon, viz i That the men surrendered shall be disqualified from taking up Anne again against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged. I will. meet you, or designate officers to meet any *Seers you may name, for the 5681111Wlig, at any point agreeable to you, for the pur pose of arranging definitely the terms upon I which the surrender of the Army of Nor thern Virginia will be received. Very respectfully your obedient servant, U. SAWN; Liaise. Gun. Commanding Armies IA April 8, 1868; 0111111RAL : I received, at a late hour, your bete of to-day, in answer to mille of yester day. fad nut intend to propose the sur render of Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. re be frank, I do not think the emergency ban arisen to call for the surrender of' this army, but as the restoration of peace eliould be the sole object of all, I desire to know whodher your proposal, would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to surrender the Army of- Northern Virginia, but so tar as your proposit!on may affect the Confederate fitatce forces under my command, and tend to the restoration of pea* I should be pleased to meet you at ten a. m. to-morrow, on the old stage road to Richmond, between the picket lines of the two armies. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. B. Lss, Gen. C. SA. Meld. Gin. GRANT, Commanding U. S. A. :: April 9, 1865. 6~01 R. Jr. Lee, Commanding C. S. A. Gswinde: YOUlf note of yesterday Is re- Calved. As I have no authority to treat on the subject of peace l the meeting proposed for ten a. zo. to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am • equally desiroup fot peace with yourself, -end the, whole North entdttain the sop e tidies. The terms upon which peaoo din 'be had ire Understood by tits South. By Irving down their arms they will hasten that nlset gestroible event, nave thousands ,of human livee and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed,• Sincerely ho ping that. all our pleulLies may be settled tatcr4lii .-,-11!..ii4ititm4it Vol. 10. without tb• lope of another life, t subscribe mystilf, very respectfully, your obedient servant, . tr. S. CELAN; Lieutenant General C. 5..4 e • A PPOICAVIVX C. It., April 9. &wed. R. E. Lee, Commanding C. B. A. In accordance with the substanCe of my letter to you of the Bth instant, I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, on the ,following terms, vie: Rolle of all the officers and men to be made In duplicate, onehiopy to be given to tvitofficer assigned by me, tile others to be retained by such allioera as you may desig nate. The officers to . give their inda , idual paroles not td take up armalgainst the Gov ernment of the United Btites until properly exchanged, and.each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands. The arms, artillery, and public property to be stacked, and turn ed over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This wilt not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private. horses or bnggage. do.te, tack anima be allowed taietumluilielehtfm,v,LL _h e disturbed by the United States nothority so lung as they observe their parole and the Taws in force where they may reside. Very respectfully, (Signed.) 111 Hp/100M ARMY or NORTRERY Vi., Apri4, 1865 Lteulenani General Ordrit : OiletoAt : I have received yout letter of this date, containing the terms of surrender of the Army ' of., , iortherttairginia, as pro posed by you. Aii`Abey are substantially the same nellThose expressed its your letter of the Ath instant, they dve„, accepted. I will proceed to designate the pr .or officers to carry dhe stipulations into effect. Your obedient servant, - It. E. Let,, General. IT4ADQ . 43 ARIIIP:II I YITRU STATIM April 9, 1865-4.30 p. m. //um. A M. Stanton, Secretary of War: - General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia this afternoon upon terms proposed by myself. The accompanying additional correspondendo will show the conditions fully. U. S. GRANT, Linarnant (is . murat. .Apra 9, 1865. Genenst.: I receivedyour note this morn ing on the picket line, whither I had come to meet you, and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your propositions of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army. I now request an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday, for thit purpose. Very respectfully, It. E. Lee, General. April 7, 18G5, To Lieut. Gen. 9itenr, "contatandmy U. S. Armin April 9, .103. Gen. 1?..L'..1,ee, Cmmandotg C. S. A.: GZNaOAL; Your note of this date is but this morning 01.50 a. m.) received, in con sequence of my having passed from the Richmond and Lynchburg road to the Fair molleville and Lynchburg road. I am, at this time of writing, about four miles west of Walter's Church, and will pelt forward to the front for the purpose of meeting you. r;1 8, 1868 . • • s wish the interview to take place, will meet me. Very respectfully, Your obedient eeivant, , 11. S. GRANT, Lieutenant general. IVashingion, April S—Sp,,m. Ts. Iron Jame. Lowry, jr., Mayor of Pituborg : This Deiertment has just received en offi cial report of the eurronder, this day, of General Lee and his army to Lieut. General Grant, on the terms proposed by General Grant. Details will be given speedily Jnnows : in one of his sermons, gave rehuke to the women of hie day which has seemed to be so appropor - to our own, that it . is eirculated just now in Pula quite tinirer sally Ah ! I shall tell you who are the women that scandalise Christians. They are those who daub their cheeks with red, and their eyes with black—those whose plastered fa ces, too white to be human, remind us of idols—those who cannot shed a tear without its tracing a furrow on the painted surface of their faces—those whom ripe years fail to teach that they are growing old—those whose head-dresses aro made up of other people's hair--those who chalk wrinkles into the counterfeit presentment of youth, and those who affeet the demeanor of bashful maidens in the presence of troops of grand children. • --rA, Texas paper publishes the state ment of a returned prisoner from Johnson's Island. It quite equals (be Libby prison stories. lie says they "are forced to latch and eat rats to sustain life ; that a system.of glaryWon has been persistently pursued for the last ten months, of a character that would die : vise a savage, and that our officers there would cheerfully work in any way to get,os good as some Yankee piisoners hd bus seen on this side the lines throw away." As-n natnral consequence, they are .43ct: lig,rebels than when they entered the pen." Frond' Embassy at Washington hate reocited intelligence of tha dangerodc illness of the Emperor, Louis Napoleon. ' On the tomb of a gallant soldier of former. days, it is recorded in his honor that, when made a prisoner of war he chotto to share the fortune of his men', and, remain log with • • them, pant Nl the forfeit of his life, a victim to disease. Let us , in our moment of triumph', remember that this , Is General "Robert E: Lee's distinction, and that by remaining with the gallant men who had fought under him, a voluntary prisoner, he secured, at the handl; of an enemy as _ magn auimous ne himself, not merely mercy but generosity. No on can read the correspondence pub lished yesterday, between Grant and Lee, without being struck, not merely with the agreeable revelations ittriakes of the indi vidual characters of the men, but with the truth that, after all, the generous instincts of our nature have more„rendy development in the hearts oflrue edldiers than of others who bear and encounter less .suffering and danger. There is no .word of harshness. There is no tone of assumption, no sign of humiliation. On the sword which is cur. xistior,y_tepascain__itaar.altbardAndia .2tot brandished or flourished over a fallen foe inlact, the foe neither falls nor kneels; he yields with grace and dignity.. And what a_ comment is there in General Grant's dicta tion or exaction of easy terms—his permit ting) nay, offeringlo his captives, rank and file, the privilege of going home and remain ing quiet till exchanged. What a comment on the truculent civilian tone of certain newspapers less (hap a week ago. It will be vain, said the North American "to seek to discourage future rebellions if we deal thus leniently with the chiefs of this one. With the leaders who created and wielded the machinery of the rebellion, we can make no terms. Especially with such ben , as Lee, perjured o ffi cers of the United StatettArroy, who have waged war against the republic hey had sworn to serve, can we have 1115th do. Such a crime is unpardonable. ' bricked the Press, "away, then, that tills wretched ingrate he consideration of the U. S. GRANT, Liesdonfunt !Pen° at, "Away, anti the l pr , has any claims American Governor flow summarily di 'rush away such, vindicti. iladly and generously, will.. tt or reproach, did he meet, on terms of per(zet equality, his fellow-soldier, a victory eve) , whom, after many a bloody geld and frustra ted manceuver, is the highest glory he had won. Mr. Stanlon's congratulatory de spatch to General Grant proves that the Administration approves all that he has done, and said, and written—and even if it did not, the soldier's word of honor was pledged, and to power on earth could affect its violation. No one better then General Grant knows how precious is a bloodless victory. It was made matter of reproach to him by such a man as Butler that'll° was regardless of human lifer and cared not how many a friend or foo Le immolated, The answer of this is in the first words he addressed to General Lee, in which he stiggested surrender "as a means of 'saving bloodshed." lie had fought too often and too long his antagonist to wish, without necessity, to fieht him again in desgei t r. Such a man as Butler, filled vtith Mit& resentment and a consciousness of ingrati tude, would, with the poor remnant of Lee's •• lama in by multitudes have rejoiced in a bloody sacrifice, and the more rejoiced in it because it iniolves no personal peril to himself. Not so, we are happy to say, the successful soldier who now leads the great armies of the North. Of General Tice, the victorious North, still hie countrymen, can afford, in his moment, of disaster, to vealrgentit.and generously, and to do him at least the' 'poor justice to concede that ho shared the dark fortunes of his soldiers with the same chivalry with which ho had 39 often led them to victory. —Age. Wan DZIURTVICNT E. M. STANTON —The correspondent of the ..loyal" Cincinnatti Cant lf has been looking over the books at Washington, from foVcb, he gathered some interesting items. For stance, Senator Sherman, who lives at Mans field, Ohio, has drawn from tide Treasury $530,40 to pay his fare to Washi>on, when an ordinary traveler—who pays his stay—could get there for about $25. Wil liam Johnston, a member of the House, who lives in the same town, managed...to get there for s44o!—ninety dollars and forty cents lees than„the fare of honest Sherman: • Secretary of War. ITLlcyturanculate Jim Lane, lives at Law renn, Kansa?—if he can be said to live any; where. Ile comes to Washington py the nearest traveled route, and swears it cost him $2.100 to make the trip! The Repre sentative from the same town has only cheek though to swear to $l, 273,60 so that Jim outlith him $886,49. Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas; lives at Atohison, about fifty miles nearer Washing tot than Jim Lane, but it costa him precisely $2,160 to get to tlie capitol. The Repre sentative who lives at Lawrence got over those fifty miles and makes the whole die lexica for a little more than half that sum. Racine, Wisconsin, is only about siztj' mles from Chicago, and, the whole distaath t'clVtteihingtos can be traversed by a travel er for about fifty or sixty dollars, "refresh ments and bibiblell, of the beet Blass thrown in. It seems, however, that Senator Doo little requires as much as Jim Lane. viz: '.1G0.1 If swearing twenty one hundred dollars into one's pocket is not stealing— what le it t But this is only one of the ways in which the Republican party is robbing the gov ernment. .e 444. Tmr:rim77z737.llo; BPLLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1865. GRANT AND LEE, dIftARD'S WILL. A late number of the ,Arorth American At view contains an interesting article on Sti phen Girard and Isis College, in which the following graphio account is given of what took place when his - will was read. The people of Philaderphis will be amused to leorn how his "affeclioriete relatives" re ceived the intelligence that`he:had given his estate to the orphans and poor, rather than to them : • "Death having dissolved the Powerful spell et a prosen . ce which few men bad Pow er ki resist, it was Lobe seen how far hie Will would be obeyed, now that ho was no longer able, pcfsdnally, to enforce it. The old mar lay dead in his house, in Water "street. While the public, out of doors, were curious enough to learn what ho had done with his iiioneY, there wan a smaller number within the hoime, the kindred of the deceased, in ivhont this curiosity raged like a mania. They invaded the cellars of the house by bringing up bottles of the old man's choice wine, and kept up a etuunitial l a d b een 41 res.exiL. nL M Girard:lL..Death, and remained te .direct his funeral, they demanded to knot If there was a Will. To silence' their indecent clamor ho told them that there was, and that he was one of the executors. On hearing this, their desire to learn its ; contents rose to fury. In vain the executors reminded them - that decency required that 'the Will should not be opened until aftey the funeral. They even threatened legal proceedings if the Will was not immediately produced; and at length, to avoid a public scandal, the exe cutors consented to Lave it rend. These affectionate relatives being assembled iu a parlor e the nouse in which the body of the benefactor !ay, the Wilt was taken from the iron safe by one of the executors. "When lie opened it, and was about to begin to read, he chanced to - look over the tor>efthe document at the company seated, before him. No artist that ever held a brush coutd"depiet the passion of curiosity, the frenzy of expectatiom- expressed in the group of pallid fitced„ Every individual among them expected. to leave the apart ment the conscious possessor of millions; for no one bad dreamed of the probability of his leaving the bulk of his estate to .the. public. If they had titer hoard of his sip> , that no one should be n gentleman upon hie m..ey, they had forgotten or disbeliev ed it. T . opening paragraphs of the Will all tended'to e.. firm their hopes, since the bequests to existing institutions were of small amount. Itut tfie reader soon reached tire part .of the Will which assigned to ladies and gentlemen present Snell trilling sums as five thousand dollars, ten thousand, twenty duntoand, and he arrived ere long at the sections which disposed of mil lions for the benefit of great cities and poor children. sothe of them made got the slightest attempt to conceal their disap pointment and disgust. Men were Nero who had married with a view to Blare the wealth of Girnrd, and had been waiting years for his death. Women were there who had looked to that event as the begin ning of their enjoyment of life. The hnag ination of the reader must supply the de- Mils of a scene which we might think dis honored' human nature, if we could believe that numan nature was meant to be subject I wneli o such a strain7"-- Two WATB Or LOOKING AT IT.—A corres pondent of, the Boston Journal, writing from Alabamit,givipg an account of tie plunder of a plantation 4n which the negroee, left to themselves by the owner, bad raised ikerop and were living comfortably, says I was hardly ever more taken by any tinsWer than by the ono made by anold no gross on this place. "Well, granny," I said, "you never ex pected to live to see limes like these, did you?" , I referred of course ='to the day of Jubi lee." But the old negreae was not at all seali mental. "No mama" oho said, taking a black corn cob pipe from her Mouth and spitting qtate deliberately into the wood fire on the hearth, "NoMassa, I never did expect to nee Yen keen Cum and rob we nigger, dis•a-way ! A Boy's COMPOIIITION ON MOONLIant:— The following composition is said to have been read in one of our city schools; "It was a calm still night ; the moon's pale light shone soft o'er hill awl, dale. .Notorbreese stirred ; not a leaf stirred ; not a dog stirred; not a horse stirred ; not a man stirred ; not an owl stirred ; not a hog stirred; not a cow stirred; not a sheep stirred ; not' a oat stirred ; not a motile stirred); not + hen stirred ; not even a goons stirred." 'Here the leather interrupted with the observation that the composition appeared to him to relate more to agriculture than moonlight! A YANKEE auctioneer lately indulged In the following little bit of the pathetio. . 4 aentletnen, If my father and mother etsod where you do, and didn,t bay these bode, therm elegant boots, when thty were goinktor one dollar, I should' tiTel It my duty atelon, to tell both of theln that they'Were false to themselves and false to their country!" Ir - 010M1113 QouNig.--Franoe hais had .sixty-seyeit Queens. giserable ,lives they ted. Eleien ward' divorced. Two execut ed. • Nine died young. Three'oruelly treat ed. Thies exiled, The rest were either poimilled or died broken-hearted. A Clever 'Case of Cut-Out. It is many years since I fell in love 'with Jane Jerusha Slings, the handsomest coun try girl, by fur, that titer went oft legs. By meadow, creek . , and wood, and dell, so often we dad walk, and the moonlight smiled on her Melting lips, and the„Dight-winds learn-, cal mar talk. Jane Jerusha was all 'tektite, for thy heart was young and true, and I lov ed with a trouble and twisted love, and a love that was honest, too. I roamed all over the neighbor's farms, and I ?ebbed the Wildwood bowers, and I tore my trousers and scratch ed my hands, in snatch of theatolcest Dolt ore, In nay joyous love• I brought all these to my darling Jerusha Jane; but I would not be so foolisliwnow; if I were a boy again. A city alitp,then came along all dressed up in skit.° clothes, with a shiny hat and shiny vest, and a moustache under his nose. Ile talked to her of \ einging schools, (for her father boned a flimi)--and she left me, the country love, and kink the new chap's atm All that night I never slept, !tor t could I eat next day, for I loped that git 1 with a fer tn u ht a Id drive awl I .alsamlcotialit.t.back_uk me, but 31 -luta in vain; the oity chap, with the hairy lip, married Jorunba Jane. And my poor heart was sick and sore until the thought struck -me, hat just as good fish remained as ever was aught in the sea. So I went to the Methedist Church one night, and saw a dark brown curl, peeping from under a gypsy hat, and I married that very girl. And many years have passed since then, and I think my lose my gain i. and„l.,often bless that hairy chap that stole Jerusha Jane. 1 3 4 EVICTIONS.—These predic Lions are Bummed up as follows : 1901—A few brief months will Wing the rebellion to a close. 18&1—A few brief months will bring this rebellion to a close. 1863-1 few brief months will brig thin rebellion to a close. 1864—A ♦;ew brief months will being this rebellion to a close.—X. F. Exprus. To this should be added : • 1. This is the last draft. 2. This is the last draft. 8. This is positively the last draft. 4. T%s certainly the ,last draft —Pacific Echo. Further additions : After New Orleans, in 1861--The back bone'this Wicked rebellion is broker. 2. After-Fort Doneleon, in 1862—tho back bone of this illft:ous rebellion is broke in Iwo. 3. After Vicksburg;ita 1863,---The back bone of this damnable rehelliOu is brokeh all to pieces. 4. After 'Atlanta, itr 1864-bie backbone of this bell-bore tenellion is Emasbod all to smithereens. t , • 11}63--"Voto fur CurtinAi t t'airold the draft." How are tots 000,000: 1804—'•1te-elect Abe and the war is Etter.' Don't you see it?--in little 300,000 deft ciency—swelled to a million. I'M la Lager - vr A POLITICAL JOKE.—In a neighboring county, one of the political parties had over twenty years been in the habit of hold ing (heir county nominating conventions at the house of Mr. C. Ile happened on a recent occasion, for the first time, to be they Thalami dick business, and heard' a little delegate from li. move that "this Convention now adjourn sing die". "Sine die" said G. to a person standing near, "where is that'!" "Why it's way up in the linrthern parb of the county," edict his neighbor, "Hold on, if you please ' theorman, said G. with great earnestness and empha sis, "hold on, sir, I'd likc to be Leered on that question. I have kept public house twenty years. I'm a poor man. I've alway s belonged to the party, and never split my ticket in •my life. This is the most central location in the county, an' It ' s where we've alters held our caucuses. I've never had or asked for any office, at, have worked night and day for the party and now I &ink, sir, it's contemptible to go to adjourn this convention away up to eine die." ASlttliFilD Or 7111EIR PET.—The abolition ists'of the country L AIN heartily ashamed of their drunken pet, Vice Dxesident Andhw Johnson, and try to excuse him on the grodud that be_ watiltdd a demoenft.— That may be so, perhaps, but one thing we know very certainly, and that is that the democrats never made him Vice President, neither was he such a poor miscegble lrun ken- bloat, until. l lo,,,,larned abolitionist. Hie guilty °conscience could not rest upon the shook it received in changing) from houestprinciplesto villainy and corruption, and ha forthwith sought to conceal the upraidings of his treachery, and he embracbd the god Bacchus for relief. When a weak minded man, .'a plebian," for position, or any other cause degenerates from a dem ocrat to an abolitionist, good-by decency with hied lie is then prepared for any meanness that may be allotted to him. COMING Dows.—Cons wi ll be glad to know on iihe author N ew York itA 7r e i Comutepial Advgrtiser, that there has boon • very heavy fall in the prioe of cotton goods in-that market. 'Standard sheefiogs whioh two weeks ago were held at sixty omits, were sold last week for forty (mats: Let Item tumble. • —An artist invited a gentleman to crit icise a portrait be bad painted of .Lr. Jenks, who was given to drink. Putting his hand towards it, the artist exclaimed: "Don't touch it, it is not dry." •. Then:" ,said be,. '"lt isneot be and friend %Jenks." • No. 15. THE FRUITS OF WAR Bring bottle, bring home the darling ton and brother. From his firs( fell of glory vainly won Ah! what are fame and honor to the mother In the deep anguish o'er her first barb Non. • Is it,190 brags and heatitifial rettirning - Thlit friends add neighbors hurry forth to grout? Oh! like a death-chill to lore's tender yearning Comes tho durk thought of what they go to - moot! • Not the young footsteps that went out so bound, ing; . Not the glttil toiee that told of hope and fame; (Still do the fair younit Alters hear it sounding The prOtuinealetzfrshall gladly' read his name.) fleer skill thu dark eyes lift liteirlk et, lashes • Neer the bright snipe a pions welcome tell , Bring home, bring bonus the sad and silent ashes The al/ now left of him they lured so *ell! In the urowl pages of his country's story, What If his slaws the wished for laurel gs An e%il Itsllti, a and awl bitter glory ' Sends back but, dust to loving hearts again! THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER __Light infantry inaretnents—agitating a cradle villa a-baby in it. --The speculations of one generation are the history of the next following. —Men stip on water when it is—frozen, and on whisky when it isn't. —There a-re three faithful w Pik an old dog, and ready money --Fifteen thousand men marched in the procession in New. York on St. Patrick's day. -- It is said that _the losses by the late flood will amount to 1$11),000 i 000 in PAM sylvania alone. --We are lektpeculetors and painters. and our thatelial is our own flesh hug brood and bones. —Tb tt is nt once the greatest abuse when men destroy what is vast in order to prevent abuse. —Richmond is already full of specula- Joni, trying to make money in every con ceivable itay. —Lawyers and soiling-vesanis go by wind; drinking wen and propellers by steam. —A man named Peck, in Rt. Lenin. raises children by the bushel. lle has ten Packs now—two bushels and a half. —Cardinal Wiseman's dying words were: "Well, here I ant at last, like a child from school, going home for the holidays." --ne $60,000 worth of U. B. securi ties stolen recently from the National Cen tral Bank of New York Lave been recovered. -—A button-bole sewing msebine is one of the latest layentions, the work being turned out at the rate of 100 button-holes per hour. —The recent fall in cotton goods is said to have brought the nutnufactureis to a stand-still. Buts few histories are iu oper ation. wag seeing a lady at a party with a very -low -necked 'dress and bare arms, ex pressed fibs at:, 1 1 44 Z-ntiott by saying that she t oustrippeyy d Whole party. --D I et.—Thei t ree-cent frac! ional CUT , rency, it seems, has t in lie infancy, and three-cent coin is to take lace. Who is three cents out? —" I suppose," said the qundk„," you think then fool." " Yes," sail the pa nf, but I did not think you °Auld ascertain to thoughts by reeling my pulse." Seven or eight thousand hognlieads of tobseetr, owned by the French government, were destrezed .by the conflagration in Itichmone Somebody will have to "smoke" —"James, give itin baby some latla num, and put it to sleep, and bring me my parasol. I urn going to a meeting for the arncporation of the condition of the human race." —With four melanin qtaillidationd man may be pretty sure of earthly autumn hee° arc, gold In hie pocket, silver on his longite - , brass iH bii fnad, an 4 iron in hie heart. —Tho govermez of San Salvadot4lhas set at liberty John dabaw and Thomas Reynolds, who ware or acted on their way to take part with othe in capturing one of the Californity stellate . _Diamonds- bay discovered in California ; in , the mountain streams Mid placer diggings. Tho largest yet found is of the value of ono hundred ttud sovetily 4. - ate dollars, —A lawyer named Aikens , has recovere a verdict of $2O in the New York Supreme Court, from another named Burr, for calling the plaintiff a traitor. The •• loyal" fellows should umke a note of this. —The Carlisle borough election, wtich was held on the 17th, resulted in an increas ed majority of 126! Democracy seems to bo looking up all over the Staleffhis spring. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again!" —ln describing the 'difference between aristocracy and democracy, it is Wittily said in Cincinnati: The demoilracy are those whir kill Mtge for a living ; 'the aristocracy those 'whose fatherehpve killed hogs. —Th e isa - eii - t/ooks bATTheir annual ball recently. 'The rule at their gatherings is that every cook contributes one dish; all the masters of the art aro relifesenteriia their dishes. It is the best "tabled" party,of the season. —A than was expelled 6om the Senate of Maine, latety,because he was "disloyal." Theproofs adduced would make him out a Democrat, and a very moderate one, too. Ills opponent, who lout been distanced six hundred votes, last Siptember, and who made no pretense of a contest. was admitted to the seat so muistpd. This befits at) Wain case 811768' —There seems to be the deuce to pay' with our shinplastet ourrency. No more three dentstamps are' to be issued—tbose out to be redeemed when presented in cer tain sums, not ono-half of which Will• ever be so returned--4 olear gain to the Doter& went. or somebody, a t the expense of the people. The new tiDig 'melt stamps aftet only two hundred donate' worth-wire issued —*ere caked in, as counterfeiters were getting ahead of the department in ?supply ing tnem. What a commentary this, upon the currently of this "great and glorious country."—E,r. • THE FALL Or HICHRIONO. Richmond has fallen, The strotip hold of - flee South bee at hat shocridtboa before. the giant. combinatioris *Ltd overwhelming army of General Grata, and now in ashes laments its desolation. Throughtltie the North a tthivetsill affelkini has riveted this announce ment ; throughout the Rotath lewtll be heralded with bloody tests and aching brats. Fur four years has the great strug gle for,ltkdi mend been continuously mein -v tained; for four years has its voseanitse been made the prise of-tbe *Acta.; for four ' years have contending amides battled et her gates, till Virginia tali been jgraven withs.-heiT!tr of desolation whose furrows ages Will nbt state td tfilliterate. Oyer roads pared with human graves; through fields dreuthed • withofidettan gore ; over mounds of dead end dying mch, and through rivulets of bitter Leers, the 'Confederate cilpital has beep reached nod the Union deg, hoisted on her spires. tier mother State, once the home of petite and plenty, is now a great charnel -house, where repose the N., bones of the Erst-boru -of both sections. Sittli the fearful tort, such the terrible - penalty of war. k , With Richmond, perhaps, has perished the hope. , and aspirationvof a short lived netiouiiiilyc An irtm hi.nd has wrenched the centrojeoin the Air,cle of Stales, end the fabric ouovulscil ACXIIIII crumbling to a wrecf:. bisaster has n311011'61 the Track of her armies and calamity withered the tau r.ula of her salesmen. Uer territory is a sifent wilderness where ruin broods, and .I,+pair iv written on %very scattered house hold. Such is the dreary picture ti;al. •012- eludes the panorama• of war. , A few more convul.ove efforts and history Will grasp her pen to record the sequel of one of the most stuPendona struggles that ever marked the . - The fall of itichtnond, how'ever, was dot unforeseen. la a kilo rnesue‘to the Con-. federate Congress, Mr. Davis foreshadowed the possibility, hot to say probability, of.- such an event. On the 27th et rehrtiary, Mr Daniels "the great Virginian," in an editorial in the Richmond Examiner, For , 1 rayed with prophetic inn the conseqUenetia of such a step. An itinerant government without the semblance of authority; a demoralized army without it commissariat a people otetrUn Without protection, and a blooming laud made a solitary waste, is - the picture he described and the tableau to be vietred. Driven from the Lid comarmwealth which has stood the heaviest brunt of bat- Ile, coutinuous retreat Is all tint is loft, through gtates seared by the bread of war where defeat. is written on etery bill. The full of Richmond seems the crowning disas ter to the Southern cause. A 'nind resort to gUerilla warfare may lengthen the tale of sorrow and spread wider and limber the ivesom's track. A feudal league may andefl- " nicely preletig from hatred A struggle withoutri purpose, and pride and passion steel the Heart that reason would fain dia -1 arm. Such was the prophecy which remains I to be flailed. Whether t he fall of Richmond necessitates the abandonment of all hope in the &nth is yet to bottemi. its immense advantage. to the captors, will give them a prestige as well as position to inflict infinite in3uey. The moral effect abroad will detract mach from the little encouragement hitherto ex tended to the Senthdtti guretntnetit. An invading army placed in the centre of their country, with with water communication and every appliance le facilitate expedition. is a blow to their cause and a detmdtion from their territory which Mast. materially_ discourage while it weakens resiatoneo. A resort to guerilla warfare will plUngb both sections deeper in blood and enure,' and sweep the land with a bleaker desolation. _ To prevent this 60're-reign and litteie remedy must be speedily applied. Let gerrous terms of peace be offered—terms worthy of brave people's acceptanoe, for they are i'ortitothers, and lament he *b Will their ideluarbo we cannot but admire their barn lam. In exultation of nathituil success.. lit us not fel-get the duties of Christain Mlterg e .a+.• • , • iron :14:7rffi .- tempered with manly Charity, and the mag nanimity of a great. people only equalled by the achievements of patrle . Let us offer kindness to the prodigal See r and rejoice more at his penitett return'than , Qver the spoilt of conquest. It will be it- IlOblgtr, loftier and _prouder deed to rebut , a fallen brother than to rejoice over a prof trate 'foe. to view, then, of the factthat we bodst a cominon , ancestry and inherit a common patrimony;det temperate counsels rule our cabinet, and .'Oderation-wield the hand of authority. We arc to re-establish the nation, not with the chains'ef„servility, but with the old chords of affection and bpitherly love. Let us quench Milted with that tenderness and coneettainwhech lends dignltyL to the hand of the giver. lift rd remarked, a few daputga„_thaL "the hour'of victory was the hour of magnanimi ty." Let this sentiment be the motto - or our statesmen, and long years will be rescued frMti tleaultery strife, a great pea ple be added to a nation's strength, and a land bloom fruitful over a Million graved. Let the preset of the country desist fratnjeer and taunt, and dibousaltlg With manly lib erality the subject of Conciliation, win for the nation the honored Lille of heroism for ftirobearanee as well as bravery for endurance. • It is an attribute Of the God head not to "break the bruised reed mar . !ranch the sMoking flax." Let let set en OXllTlV l to,trulititte and kindness. Mad, let att Vital *HMI dscend to•ilar that that God, who traces the destinies of nations; ' MilL spread Ms healing hand over tlfs etetions,llitt"liitltoty'a Outing papa shall record the fall of ltichniond as OM proivning,blow in Auterisa's etame gle.—Beltinurra Sunday ,reiestPan. Butler has SOW been, banging around Washington so long ilium he Wall arderad "to report at Lettelllgi• nothing., ills eyes have been squinting 'al efoilbinti else, lie lass been Ttibiging for. insbjukTi governorship of Boath'tarolleal "Der, Oa thirdthe President -t hee any doubt ; Rout soy ntness ter the'plabt" enlotthe wale to Governor Amboy: ollt•tkpieelnitinsnern of the latter from • Wstebingten, i.l4Perber, not. General, ea long eeithiniato!nent•Wll toile tak, reef. AAgar-Mr-mmow4.l-mer--M•&------
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