Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, June 02, 1865, Image 1

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Pete itottointnains down Cite a gallant so bold,
dina ow* was sparkling with diamonds
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lathe wink. of his Apo was a something Zhat
Meant - •I
iliitrongh ooatempt for tits lagal per cont.
tore's aplendid old "bull" on a raid 'Wang the
"bear',"
lie awaggorod 40 Wall Street and put on high
sirs !
Like the Wares ok the forest . when Autuihn has
LIOV/11,
The -bears," punk. thicken, before hits- :
grown. a
Vor the flame from hie nostrils made death of
the blast,
Which broithodln tho fade of lho "boars" as ho
lutesed
And the ayes of old Shoddy looked fishy and
Wore
At he board the Oil King give his terrible 'roar
And there lay the ,Locks, u never to rise.
Though.the'''hulls" strove t. toss them airhigh
as the skies
While tko howl of thestrange! made 'leo of the,
Id.od,
That leaped In their veins like a, turbulent
good.
And there •struts Pete Roleem as Vend as a
. • king.,
streabenehth him, a trifle—a thing,
A thing fur hippastlens—a bauble—a ton,
Which he plays with as if hi his innocent Joy.
VI.
And the biokers of Wall Street are loud in their
-4 wail.
And the Mole of Shoddy, aro sickened and pale,
For Petq Roleuns has knocked them all clean
into "pi,"
With the awing of his fist and the cock of his
eye.
LETTER FROM JACOB THOMPSON
To the Zbior of the V. Tribune :
SIR: When hostilities between the North
.._tr.u.„utuL Binulaat SW— breke.ena,
especially prior to that time: I entertained,
1 coufeee, deep and.. strung prejudices
against you and your paper, ou account of
your violent attacks upon Southetn interests
end ivatitutions. But since that time, I
have really sought the Trtbutie to learn the
truth. There is a frank and manly direct
ness in your eultunns which I admire, and
therefore .1 now wake an appetri to your
generosity to admit this communication in
to. the columns of the 7'ctlttine. Surely,
there eau be no Mager any rettsen why
Northern papers 6 huuld desire to stain and
stab the reputation of 'Southern then ; and I
suppotto the press will be muzzled no longer
and a difference of opinion uo lonier be
regarded :so Irctmou.
The search of a good ma is for truth.
To set (but before the people of the United
Stated is the work in ehich I ask your as
eistonce and that of ail who hate unjust
persecution,
1 laved 'been attacked often in Northern
Jeuruais within the list 4 years, but here
tofore have attempted no reply. Tu defer
longer, however, if the avenues to the public)
ear aro opened to me, would argue a don
tembt fur public sentiment on my part
whiatl do not feel, and silence might be
construed into an admission of the justness
of the attacks.
fm.tt semnicr, when my nom, woo unne
cessarily draw into a correspnnuence ho
tween yourself and some of my friends at
Niagara Falls, the New V.oli Times began a
regular charge upon toe fur “thieving" while
Secretary of the Interior, using the epithet
•'Mr. Buchanan's thieving Secretary," and
others of the same purport. The Herald
afterward indulged in 'he saino kind of
expressions. Mint was the transaction ly
which these expretiehum are sought to be
justified!
A Mr. Busse!, a large government con
tractor, holding certain oidetices of cltht
from the War Department induced a clerk
of tho Interior Department, who teal the
custodiau of the bonds held by the govern
unnt In trust for the Indians, to exchange
the bonds fur those securities, with the
promise ondhe part of Russell to return the
bonds witoin a given time, and thus avoid
all exposure. The transaction became
known to me, as the head of the tlepaitnieut,
by the voluntary confession of the clerk.
Immediately, I deuouuoed and exposed the
whole arrangement, disinisS'ed the clerk,
had him delivered into the custody of the.
officers of the law, and wrote to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives a message
uskiug fur at investigatien into the whole
affair. This was ordered. 1 I - made the stig
geStloll that the committee should consist
entirely oi• my political opponent', /41141
adopted, with only one exception. Before
the committee reported Mississippi had
seceded from the Union; I had resigned
my neat in the Cabinet ; the prejudices
against 'Southern men were growing over
whelmingly strong; and there was„,an evi.
dent. willingness on the pare-of the com
mittee to God out and show any complicity
of mine in the transaction complained
Yet they npanimonsly reported ' there watt
evidence of no such thing. You dill me the
}Vice, in reply to the article of the Times,
to as there was no proof of corruption or
complicity on my part, and foi this simple
act of fair dealing, I thank you. I refer
Mr. Raymond to Mr. Stanton, at present
Secretary of War, then Attorney General,
for full and accurate information about this
whole affair. And, as a gentleman, I call
upon him to do me the simplest act of jus
tice, to right the wrong so far as a true
semi can, b e y withdrawing the unjust epi-_
'Abets through the columns of the Mum
An editorial appeared In the New York
Herald, evido4y suggested by General Dix
in which the impression is sought to bo
made that I was in some way connc,Wed
with the hotel-burning in New York. This
seems to bo au Inference from the fact
that a Mr. Illcllouaki was arrested, and held
in dread of hie life for some time, because
of hie supposed participation lu this attempt
at Incendiatlem. The detectives find out
that this lib:Monett' 'has a brother in Toron
to, t. W., who is greatly devoted to him,
to whom they make an appeal to save hi s
brother'slifie, and point out to him how it
may be done, and that Vas to appeal to the
genextealty.and magnanimity of those who
were engaßO in it to exonerate the prisoner
as they hati . jao",denbt it was true he bad
taken no part in the , affair. The brother,
under the guidande of his feeling., bit at ,
the halt, hu;ked up and induced the
)01111x men with whew hH brother was
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charged to nave been associated to state his
entire innocence Pf all . anitnantion with
Item! This young men, fearing the strength
of W. L. McDonald's feelings might induce
him to:act unwisely with their Stiitament,
and having full confidence in my discretion
'and friendliness, directed him to place it In
my hand, to be used•when I might deem it
necessary to save the prisoner's life. I did
not !ib the young men on ihe subject. Af
terward, the detectives induced the differ
entfemido members of the family to make
the meat pi gnus appeals to me for the pa
par. , I never believed its production neoes
nary to save the prisoner's life,, because
each messenger reverted that general Dix
did not. belio-7e the -priliener-gteittyv--bnt
refused to release him initilhe could obtain
this negative testimony, thus playing upon
the feelings of thie most: estimable family.
When I saw:the game that was played, I
'wrote a letter to Mr. McDonald In prison,
saying I was willing to certify that I had a
paper signed by tome of the parties clip
,ged in the burning, in which he was entire
ly. exonerated from all participation in it.
AiLi Wl_ slii_nni, aadisf,yAlLe_aui I .r• 1 h. s ,
Finding they could not LUOVO me, they turn
ed upon poor Captain Keuedy; thee under
sentence of death, und induced him (under
what circumstances I know - not, bill I pre
sume when.he was ittioxicatml? to certify to
a statement us a trite copy, and which con
tained\ what I have since asce ained do be
absolute falschood•le They sti elated and
excited Captain Kennedy a go ist- me in
every possible way, but they could not in
his most desperate moments get bier to
implicate me iu the plan for the burning,
because Le knew it was false. But you ee
the extent of my connection. It assumes
this proportion, no more.
But of all the astonishing things which
have happhned daring his war beta edit the
States, the late proclamation of the Presi
dent is the most unreasonable and - unjust.
It seems there has been ;rented a new
bureau called "the Bureau of Military Jus
tice." In that, it seems there is evidence
that the assassinatiott uf the late President
was "incited, concerted and procured liy
and between Jefferson Davis, at Richmond,
Va.," find myself Mid others in Canada, and
that myself and others are rebels and trai
tors "hittbdred in Canada." When this
proclamation readied nie, I was in New
Brunswick on my way home. This is a
novel mode of banishment. Now, Sir, mark
how a direct statement will meet every
point made by the evidence in "the Bureau
of Military Justice" and put Co open shame
so solemn an act its a proclamation: I aver
upon honor that I have never known, or
conversed,' or held communication, either
directly or indirectly, with Booth, the
assassin of the Prnitleut, el. With any one
of his assoctales, 80 far ELS I have Scott them
named. I know nothing of their planq. I
defy the evidence in the Bureau of Military
Jurtice. - The proof, whatever it is, is a
tissue of falsehoods,and its publication can
not be made without exposing its utter rot•
fellness.
I kuory there is not half the ground to
suspect mu thutthere to to suspect President.
Johnson himself.
First. There was an absence of all motive
on toy part. To have removed Lincoln al
the time it was done, was nmst iinfortunate
both for me and for Ilreßeople of the South.
This I have believed. and have often so ex
pressed myself. Preaident Johnson was to
acquire a thizsling power in the event of
Lincoln's death.
Second. A paper is found in President
Johnson's' room, alter the assassination,
signed by the assassin himself, to the effect
that be (Booth) does not wish to trouble Lim
(Johnson), bra wants to know it lie
son) II in. Now, consider, thirnote is from
aNrivate citit.en to a high oflicial,Auil it is
certain anti if it had been bent by any oth
er matt, at any other time, to any other offi
cial eseep► The one most deeply interested
in the event !theta to happen, it would-Lave
implied previous intimacy and intercourse,
and a wish to have au interview without
witnesses, which the writer expectedcif
cumst RIICCB admitted of.
. .
Third. President Jettison goes to bed on
the night of the assassination, at the Unu
sual hour for Washington of uitro o'clock,
and is asleep, of course, when an anxious
gentleman leaves the side of tho dying Pres
ident to inform the new incumbent of his
great good fortune, which filled him with
unutterable distress. ;
. . . . .
Now, mark me, 1 do not say that all this
creates a suspicion in my mind of thiicom
plicity of President Johnson in the foul
work upon President Lincoln. But this I
do say, Ott if such circumstances could .be
so well taken against the lion. B. O. Harris
of Maryland, Ben. Wood of New York, or
Mr. Vallandighant of Ohio, they would have
been received in the Bureau of Military
JUSHOO as testimony as strong 'as proofs
from Holy Writ. These forts may possibly
suggest to President Johnson and. those
Who owe their official position and personal
consequence to tho breath of his mishits, a
good and sufficient season why the excited
publia mind of the people of the United
States, which has bean lashed into fury by
well concerted manipulations, and now de
mands a victim, should believe that there
was evidence in the "Bureau of Military
Justice" to convict Southern m6b—"rebels
and traitors"—of having " incited, concert
ed and procured" the assitssination of Pres
ident Lincoln. But, at all events, these
facts ought to teach President Johnson a
lesson of moiloration and charily ta all
those suspected. feel eonfidint that tie:
fact, suseeptible - or - buing tortuted , by the
'bre is des t ingennity i1214/.21. coloring to un-,
Piimifrat* :{ll.4.lilitiotti+
BELLEFONTE, PA., FRltalr, JUNE 2, 186516
favorable, can be shown in trill h.ag,ainst
President Davis or myself, ncr, do I believe,
against any one of fete gentlemen named in
the proclamation.
Again, lam denotim das a traitor and
rebel in Ibis proclamation. Let the world
judge 'between President Johnson and my
self, not according Lo the law of gy/t, but
at:aiding to the rules of right.
For four yenta prior to (be secession of
Mississippi, I was absent front the State,
ffigngpd in the servite of the United States.
I had no control a n d could exert no influ
ence over (be political action of , the State.
.President Johnson, on the• control', hid
been' in the meantime in . tho'servioe of 'tliV
Stet. of TOunessje, a while herettlet ntaglo
trate, and then the representative of her
sovereignty in the Senate of . the United
States, a body in which all the States are
sovereign and equal, irrespective of strength
and population. Prior to the war between
the States, wo both had been d2mocrat 19, and
belonged to the sante party...:tu our creed,
the Virginia and Ket itchy resolutions of 'tIS
and •'JD set forth the doctrine of State
LLB .11tc _liertmoratir.-+nr-ty- fu
years, Willa only temporary depurturea, had
held to their cardinal principles as initiated
by Jefferson and Madison, who had become
the great apoStles of the rirty. uy them,
tee learn that the Comfit uition of the United
States is acompact between sovereign States,
each State acting for itself, and as an, inte
gral party. The powers,granted were mere
ly delegated powers, to be exercised by a
common- agency for the common welfare.
To avoid future misunderstanding, threat'
the Staten, iu their oracles of ratification,
expressly reserved the right to resume the
powers delegated whenever they be4eved
they were not used fur their advantage. On
the subject of treason, the Coiled States
could deelare no not treason except the ma
king war upott - the (Jutted States, and the
giving (Lid and comfort to the enemy. Each
State, however, being sovereign and having
a larger scope of - powers, could declare al-
Most any act treason; a refusal to bear
arms in her defense, to return home whets
required to do so, to bring into the common
treasury any proportion of the property re
quired by each citizen. We were both
North Carolinians. When she refused to
ratify the 'Federal Constitution, we remain
eeNorth Carolinians, owed oar allegiance
to the State, and were bound to obey her
orders. By her act of ratification after
ward she made us citizens of the United
States. In consequence of her act and in
obedience to her order, we both were bound
to obey the constitutional laws nod regula
tions of the United States, and if either of
us had been guilty of resisting the law with
an armed force, we would have been guilty
of treason, because we acted as individuals
on our own responsibility and by our own
inert) motion, and the laws of the Ended
States operated directly on individuals and
individuals only, But, on the coatfary,til
North Carolina, acting its her sovereign ca
pacity, resumed het delegated powers for
any cause, awl then ordered us to take up
arms in her defense, obedience to her ofder
might be construed possibly as war upon
the United Staten, but we would not be guil
ty of treason ffs individualslmeause we .
would have had no volition. Our net would
be the act of the Eitel° ; and if there was
any guilt, the State would be guilty of trea
son, and that is a manifest absurdity, as
there IS no legal mode of punishing "R
State.
And have our institutions been so miserably
constructed as to place the citizen to a post-
Clot which forties hint to be guilty of the
highest. cr.ree known to the law, without
any volition of his own, when obedience to
the orders of one_government_makes him
of reanon to another?
When Mississippi seceded, I felt it to be
my duty to leave the sorvlco of Elio United
States, return home, and subject myself to
Eho orilas of my Stale ; for •the sacred
cause of State Rights and State Sovereign
ty, the doctrine of my fathers, Lwas willing
to stake my life,.my fortune, and all my
my Lopes, Mr. Johnson thought it his
duty when Tennessee seceded, to hold on fo
his pines, to set at naught the action of his
State, which had so often honored him, and
to place biaiself under the protection of the
United States. Ho took sides with power;
I look sides with the weakness. Our mo
tives are known only to the living God ; but
I olaim to have been honest, sOlf- i savilicing,
and patriotic in tho course I purstia, and I
leave to posterity to decide whether power
has been given on earth to !Ake wrong
right. The fortune of war cannot change a
principle, although' it may revolutionize a
government.
I cannot but think this proclamation was
not intended for me, but it was to furnish
an excuse to deal •harshly' with President
Jefferson Davis, if arrested. A purer pa
triot, a more conscientious Qhrkstian, and a
more honorable gentleman than be never
lived in any ago or country. All ho has
done has been in obedience to the behest of
tbd Sovereign States composing the Confed
eracy. He leaves, if the power and cruelty
of his enemies make it necessary for
him to leave, with the proud consciousness
of having nobly done his whole duty—`
Moro true joy Mareellue exiled feels,
Than Cai9ar with a Senate at his heels.
rho States wore once considered sover
eignties, and as such challenged dur respect
and obedienoo. Now, after a war of (our
years of unexampled Buffeting ,
ed by feats of gallantry thtt reflect the
highest honor upon the parties engaged,
aileablfwo parties have teen . recognisid
by theineedree and by all the civilised world
as.holigarente r -titeonclude the war by aim%
ply regarding the armies of the United
i
States as a huge posse comicatels, and the•
opposingputies seem many felons resist jog
arrest, ifs most lame and impotent conclu
sion, whioh Will shuck the civilisation of
the two , , and tender this mighty war a trag
ieal farce.
Thera was ao n*red of offering $25,000
reward for my arrest. If I felt the least
assurance of being tried according to the
recognised priaciplbs of law., without o r pre
judgmenl, without the arbitrariness of a
Court acting butler the instrutions of this
"Bureau of :Wit/dry ' Justice," and without
contumely, ['would go in' person deliver
, and
"myself by to properjudicial authorities.
Until I hare suet+, an assurance, I think I
awry keep 'out, of ilte wuy, nLiclt uo
.deabt will gratify my enentica. -
1 1 14 respect,• ' Trtum'Paps
Shy 14, 1865: • '
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THE SHORTEST WAY.
Sonic twelve years ago, Napoleon, Indi
ana, nes celehaated for two things. One
for the carousing propensities of its inhabi
tants, anti the other furthe
_great number
7.1 - fcretsS: - r - OaTtiiUTts vicinity. It appears
that ass Eastern colleefor had slopped at
Dayton to spend the night, anti get some
informativ,Aespecting his future course.
During the evening he became acquainted
with an old drover, who appeared well post
ed AA to the geography of the country, and
the collector thought he might as well in
quire in regard to different points to which
be was destined.
'1 WiB . ii to go to Greenfield," said the col
lector; which is Chi! shortest w4y
"Well, air," said the drover, "you had
better go to Napoleon and take the road
leaning nearly north."
The t ra% eler noted it down
"Well. sir, it I widuto go 'to Edinburg?"
"Then go to Napoleon and take the road
west."
"Well, if I wish to vt to Vernon T"
"Fie to Napoleon and tuke ci road south
nest."
"Or to Indianapolis ." added the collec
tor, eyeing the drover closely, and thinking
he was being impgsed upon and beginning
to feel his mettle rise, ho turned once. more
to the drover with—
"Suppose, oir, 1. wanted to go to the
devil
The drover never smiled, but scratched
his head, and after a moment's hesitation
said :
"Well, my dear sir, I d o n 't know of any
shorter rood you could take than to go to
Tun PUNCTU V, MAN.—Mr. Higgins Was
a very punctual man in all his transactions
through life. He amassed a largo fortune
by untiring industry and:punctuality, and
and at the advanced ago .of ninety years
was resting quietly on his bed, and calmly
waiting to be culled away lie bad debt).
ertitely mado - almost every arrangement for
his decease and burial:
llis pulse grew fainter, and the light 01
lifo seolned just Ilicket'ing in its sockets
when ono of Ills sons ob,ettvetl—
"Father, .)ou will probably live but a day
or [WO j is IL not well for you to name your
bearers 7"
..To be sure. my son,' said the dying
man ; " it is well thuught or, and I will do
it now."
Ile gave tho name nnmey of six; (ho usual
number, and sunk.back exhausted upon his
pillow.
'A gleam of thought passed over his with
ered features like a ray of light, and ho
rallied once more. "My son read the list.
Is the name of Mr. WiggiuS there ?" •
-
"Then strile it off!" said he, emphatical
ly, 'lor he was,never peuel eel —was never
anywhere in season, end he might hindp;
the procession,a whole hour !":—Rx.
There is a juke—though possibly n.
wick
ed one —on a certain chaplain, which ()ugh)
not to be lost to the world. It is the chap
lain's business to look after the regimental
vigil. The chaplain had been annoyed ex
ceedingly by Ihe great number of warriors
who were running (.9 hint and enquiring
about the arrival' mil departure of the
mails. To save 64 and patience he posted a
notice outside of hih tout. which read: "The
chaplain does not knob( v4lten the mail will
go," • and, imagined his troubles at an end.
lie was absent frees camp that day, and on
returning and glaittiing at the notice was
horrified to see there upon his own door
read by multitudes during the day, in a
hand exacily 'counterfeiting his own, the
Sollowing words: "The chaplain does not
know when the mail will go," and this ad
dition by some wretch, "neither does he care
a damn." It was a Case of depravity that
he was unprephred for.
--That was a good joke on a young and
gallant Hitosier officer. who, on receiving a
note from a lady "requesting the . ploasurq
of higicompany" at a party to be given at .
her hofise, on the evening designated, took
his volunteers and marched them to the
young lady's residence. When it was ex
plained to him that it was himselfalone who
had been invited, ho said: "By golly, the
letter saiti company, awl I thought do lady
wanted to see all my boyti."—Ex.
negro mtnlitter once observed to
hisitearers at the close of his sermon, as
follows: "Mr very obstinsoious brethren,
I find it's no more use to preach to you Chan
it is for a grasshopper to trgiac knee-buck-,
—A railway is To be built 111Paleatino.
It grill connect Jaffa Jernlialeni, will be
_ahout, forty.aniht long, and,.oalth &harbor
at:Jalra, will Oast half a million pounda ater-
PIRATES AND PRIVATEERS
7 'baffle 9th Of May, Preardent Johan& is•
sued a torgelllThili.oll, stating that oar ci ail
war is at, an. end, that the insurgents
tree either fugitives or captives. In coupe
queues of 'the termination of tire war, he
declares that the cruisers fitted out under .
commissions from -the Confederate govern•
ment are not e,ptitled to belligerent rights,
and that, after his proclamation has become
known• to ne'utral•natiOll9 if thoiio nations
continue to entertain, the Confederate yes
rely in their ports, the Government of the
United ' States will refuse hospitality to the
public vessels of such nations it our ports,
and will moreover, adopt such measures as
may bs deemed advisable for the vindica
tion of our National Sovereignty. •
In all the obolit tun and republican news
papers of the North, its the official dispatch
es of consuls, and even in the official doc
ument's of William, 11. Seward, the ships,
sailing under a commission from the Confect
emit, Government, were called pirates,
But this proclamation of Johnson is en
regular commissioned vesSels of
_a govern
ment :that claimed independent sovereignty,
and as such were justly entitled to all
belligerent rights so long as war was waged,
and a de facto government existed in the
Southern Slates. If the ships-of the Con
federates we?e really, pirates, as Seward
said, why did not the goxernineut have tho
crews that were occasionally captured,
brought to trial anti hung as pirates? When
the colonies - revolted against the mother
country, the first acts of hostility of some
of the States was to grant letters of marque
repriJa/ to priville - vessels. -The State
of Massachusette; fitted out privateers,'
to prey en British commerce, more titan a
year before the Declaration of independence.
John Paul Jonne, a Seotchninn, hoisted the
American flag on a French vessel, and cap
tured, plundered, burnt end sunk British
vessels. The English called him a scoundrel
and a pirate, but the Americans praised hint
ae a hero and a patriot: Wherein consists
the great difference bet wean John Paul
Jones and Captain 1{111)11w -I Semmes? Will
any flatulent loyalist please answer this
plain question.—tirecnsbury Republican and
Denioccul.
Oun VIEWS.—The Lanea t raer inielligenter
thus discourses ou:political parsons. For
the true minister of the Gospels of our
Lord Jesus Christ: 'for him who is pure in
his life, and without guile ou his lips: for
him, who following his Divine Master,
preaches peace on earth and good will to
men, we have the hiohest reverence and tliC
most profound respect and regard. When
sliZlNta one stands d‘fin-the house of God
id roiriukea no for our sins, we feel that we
lire rebuked indeed. But for the canting
hypocrite, who comes down from his high
and lofty position, to bedraggle Ins robes,
',at should be sacred, in tho filth and
miro of partisan politics, and condescends
to honeyfugle round with pothouse politic
jaw+, to see who shall be elected fo oflice—
for such a man we fool that we can never
sufficiently express our count or contempt.
But, when, besides being willing tools in
the hands of designing politicians, profes
sing ministers of the Gospel of the (lot of
Peace become more bloody in though t and
expression ,than were the priests of any
barbaric faith this world ever saw wo can
not help wishing for a whip of Scorpions
with which to lash the hypocritical scoun
drels naked through a Beefing world, until
piloried at least they should stand as a fit
object for the slow, unmoving lingers of
scorn to be forever pointed at.
plot to assassinate Washington awl
Putnam•ln June, 1770, says an exchange,
was - discovered In Ned Yorkitutt In title to
prevent it. Mathews, the Mayor of the
city, a ginimmith.and a private in Washing
ton's body guard, were arrested, and the
latter was hung. The blowing up of the
powder house and King's - bridge, to prevent
reinforcements from New England, was
.clutletl in the plot. Peter T. Curtinius,
who writes of the matter, hopes .the
Hans may receltve a punishment equal to
perpetual itching without the benefit of
scratching," which is worse than consign
ing thew to the Old Scratch, certainly.
--Everybody seems glad that • the war
is over. Even the fiercest of the abolition
stay at-homo war men, feel relieved at the'
prospeot of peace. It is a relief to be . •
of the presence of the drafts—of the demand
for money to get us out•by hiring substitu
tes. Let our men iu power now shape mat
ters by following the behests ofjustice and
legal right so as to avoid all trouble in the
future, and give us a peaceable and restor
ed Union.
raxtroxism—Orpheus C. Kerr says :-
I .Patriotism, my boy, is a very beautiful
thing. The surgeon of a West Indian reg
iment has analyzed a very nice case of it,
and says it is peculiar to the hemisphere. Ile
says that it first breaks out iu the mouth,
and from thence extends to the heart„osus
lug the heart to swell. lie says it goes on
raging until it reaches the pocket, when it
suddenly disappears, leaving the patient
very constitutional and.oonservative.'i
ROPIIIIBIINTATIVII.—Wo notioe there is no
aunottnoement for Representative.-11 sp.
Pqartt however to be generally understood
that W.W.Berr,Esq, having faithfully and
ably , ecve4 one term in the Legislature is
entitled to a re-olootion.—Je ff ersOn county
has gracefully conceded the Regliesentative
to Clarion for a term oft we'tesirsand-there
fore this county baa full power to name the
oandidato this year.--.ol6riOn Derlteertli.
No. 21. ,
OUTSIDE THE ALEHOUSE.
don't' go Ap to-night, JAn--
Now, huebspid, don't in •
To spoil(' our only ehillwg, Ju'un,
Would be A cruel ein.
There's not o loaf at home, John—
There's not. a mil. you know—
Though with hunger I am feint, John,
en 4 eold,oomes down the snow.
Then don't go In to-night,
Alt, John, Sou must remeraher---
And, John, I can't forget, - "k. •
When 'lover a rootrof yours, John,
' Was in the alehouse set.
Ah, those were happy timer, John,
• IN.to quarrels then we knew,
And none were happier In our lane
Than I, dear John, and you. / -
Then don't go in tu,night,
Yell will net got—John, Jehn, I mind,
Wins we wero courting. few
Had arm.aa strong, or stop at fal.o,
Or cheek u red a. you ;
But drink has stoles your strength, Sohn,
And paled you cheek to white, '
Has tottering made your young, arm 'mad,
And bowed your manly height.
You'll not go in to-night? •
Yon'll not go in? Think on the day
That made me, John, your wilo;
'hat pleamint talk that day we had
--- - -Of - M1 our-Muir°
Of how your steady comings, John,
No wasting Moult! consume,
But weekly s, UM now comfort bring
To deck our happy Finkle;
Then don't go in to-night!
To see no, John, as then m. dresstd,
So tidy, clean, and neat,
Brought out all eyes to follow uur
As wo went down the street.
Ah, little thought our neighbors then,
And we as lattlo thought
That ever, John, to rags like thew,
By drink we should be hrohght;
You won't go in to-night?.
Ant will you go/ If not for mo,
Yet for your baby stay ;
You know, John, not a tdido of food
Hon passed my lips to-day ;
Andtoll your father, little one,
Tis wino your life hangs on ; •
You will not -peed the shiiing, Julie ?
You'll giro it him?' Soule MOT,
Come Isedes to•night I
THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER
—You are iosponsiblo for otily'ono tongue,
oven if you aro a married man.,
—Mr. A. B. Latta, Invdnior of the steam
aro engine, died in Cincinnati lately.
—OIEI Sterling Price, of Missouri, and
Ilse. Hindman, of Arkansas, are said -to be
alive, and in Wexas.
---
ve rv ic
tiovernot Brown of Choral as arrested
on tho 9th ult., and passed th I; arrisbarg
on his way to Washington. ~ ......i
—A man, on being told that a certain kind
of stove would "save half tho coal," said, "I'll
take two of them and save it all."
—A paragraph states that the Vospross Ea
gerne wore $3,600,000 worth of dhuaotols at the
last caul ball.
Ifayne Deane, the renowned artlit,
proceeds to Iduho shortly to fulfil a professional
engagement.
—A EeriCS of defensive works for the pro
tection of Alontrest and othea Canadian cams
is to be constructed.
—Judge Richardson once said that "seep:.
thing was foreknown by the Ahnighty except
what irould be the verdict of a petit-jury."
—Tho Government has now 800,001) mos
bets which arc entirely new, having never been
—"Popo, why do they plant guns ; do they
grow and get lent es?" “No, wy riNaut like
plants they shoot, and then others do the leav
ing."
—A lamb giving way to its feelings in a
plaintive cry would be a good :abject ler a bus-
- A Buffalo paper states that Edwin Booth
in a private latter to a friend in Washington,
announces his intention to quit the stage forever.
—The Pictorials publish a portrait of Bos
ton_covlit stt,the_pinusman vr.119 abotilwah
correct, the very sight of such au ugly mug was
sufficient to have killed him.
—A Danish writer speaks of a hut so mis
orablo that it a id nokknow which way to fall,
and so kept standing. This is liko the nun
,that had such a complication of diseases that
ho did nut know what to din of, and so kept on
living.
—Peaeo makes plenty, plenty makes pride,
pride breeds quarrel, and quarrel briar wart
war brings spoil, and spoil poverty; poverty
brings potion% eLailliatience pesos.
----The doer...plate -of-mtbaxander H. Lie,
pbeee's recideltee ie Bowe di played the ichli=
dow of an oyster-houee in ,Bosten. Trophies of
more ' , valuable character are abundant in the
same city, but aropot no publicly exhibited.
—Tho trial of bilso Barrio, who shot the
Waebington clerk Burroughs, hos boon post
poned until mixt term, for wantieis moteriol
UMW. Her health to seriously eilifetod.
----Tho Atlantic eablo is extooted to he fin
ished in Juno, and the Great. Eastern to leave
during the came month.
lion. 8.8. Cox, tho dietingniahod Ohio ora
tor and politician, to about to remove his-resi
dance to Now York city.
—The representatives of the Christian
Commission who paid Weir respects to Ueneral
Lee, have been dismissed from any further con
nection with that very "loyal" end over-righte•
.1
one organisation.
—The Central Pacific, Railroad Company
recared from the United States Treasury on
Saturday the sum of 8400,000 dollars, being
the instalment due them on the oompletion Of
the Ant thirty miles of their track.
—A serious riot was apprehended In Phila.
dolphin last week. It seems that the negayes
made persiatcut efforts to forte their way into
the city passenger railroad oars, which was re- ,
sisted by the conductors and white passengers,
and the negtooll were ejected. ,It is feared that
$OllOlll trouble will grow out-of - the matter.
—Ben Butleils to hale • military
with a view; We are tat, «tohaVe Justice done
him." .We sbould thjdk he'd be like the Bleb,-
who, when told bj a learned judge that
they would do him jostles, exclaimed, " Do /s
-lurs, and tbat'a what rpt afraid of I"
OUR COIINTRY Raw ; ' itriat the`
ine rir
oltisens of every Oeustr, `•the
working men—. th e real
towns—would feel a proper In tLeis •
local pspora, and litre 1114 ,m I Pit tag ilb•A
il support. There ate sear wars in which
the citizens of all classes ein g : h t th eir
town-county journals, and do ' a good
1 lot•epu ~ to stdminee their
- wet Interests. There are three Tara !thick
oe to our mind In which citizens Min aid
'thane gaper, of their own collates, and
these plan they should ho Mire end carry
out. Ity--,lay *int& SalmOrikatlxal Pat
for the paper volunargy and ebeerklll7, as
a means, to advance- Lill terstaof/their
.community. 2d—They she sagalcati
oft'en with the editor, and be r make
known to him all the important fa stk , the
publication of which will atiosnee the treat-.
good of , that county._ Give him Informs
lion of the trucetuts of every production . et
th?.aarth, and eepecially new - product% and
of al4 inventions or illsooVerles, the know! -
edge of wllleh will do.good to somebott; all.
information • about schools, roads, hilagett.
markets, etc. By a manifestation of such
an interest for their own paper, men ad
ranee their own, interelts,elind take the
very means- for protperily to themselves
3d—They should not only lkrapphassillog
of what has been done, but slow him what
can be done by the exhibition of the,pro
duct thus grown or menufactured. abet
°Mao of the, county newspaper should be
tire bulletin board—the barometer that shows
the preeperity of the county*, By snob a .
course there never would be a complaint
that the newspaper -is not worth taking, for
it would be a paper made by themselves list&
full of interest to them,
Live Wurttis Teta Maass.,— 'e don't
Ti cro st in gin emir
wizen it comes down to raga anti starvation.
We have no sympathy with the notion that
a poor man sho Id hitch himself to a post
and stand still, while the rest of the world
moves forward. It is no man's duty to de
ny himself every recreation,. every amuse
ment, every comfort, that he may get doh.,
It is no man's duty to make an iceber n i
himself, to shut his eyes and oars to th
sufferings of his fellows, and to deny him
self. the enJoyme'ht that resultsirom gener
ous actions, merely thnt be may hoard
wealth for his heirs to quarrtli about. But
there in en coma) , which is every man's
duty, which is especially oommendsble in
the man who struggle's with poverty—an
,economy which •is consisteut with- happi
ness, and which must. be praziticed if the
poor man would bemire independence. It ls
almost every mans privilege, and it be•
comes his duty to live within hie means;
not te, hut within them. Wealth does not
make the man, we admit, and should never
be taken into the oceenut in pur Judgment
of men ; but competence should always ho
secured, when it can be, by the prudoe of
economy and self denial only to a tolerable
extent. It should be secured, not so Sleuth
for ethers to look upon, or to raise us in the
estimation of others, as to secure the con
sciousness of independence, and the con
stant satisfaction which is derived from Its
acquirement and possessfon.. •
RATH RR an amusing incident 'occurred in
a neighboring county a few days since du
ring tht march of a column of United States
troops, The negroes collected on every
farm to witness-the passage of tbe soldiers,
and in nttny instances greeted them with
evident marks of pleasoteli • 'Sitting upon n
gate post, upon one of these farms, we, a
sharp little darkey just entering hi . s teens,
who, vi hen told of his freedom, clapped his
bands and shouted for jpy. " Ice free,
l'ise free I" he exclaitned in wittily to lus_—
mammy, " I ain't ovine to routiN l de cradle
no more, 'case l'se free I"
attuning to a younger sister, he imparted
his newly obtained intelligence, uyattg :
You is free—don't pick no more chips:'•
And spying a cat lasily stretching her
limbs in the suncitiue s he reached the climax
by scresming,uut : "And yoti:a free, pussy;
don't ietchtnir more rats !" Whether' tho de
lighted fellow went, on addressing the foods,
tho cattle, the Levi — and dogs, We do not
know, hut the above is related as an actual
occurrence. Such freedom as he would
have the cat enjoy would cost her her life.
Wee of this life
AN OLD rOSTACM SrAup.—A pod story.'
is to Jeff Devil!. Some lime ago the
rebel authorities ordered all the horned
that could be found lu the neighboring:
country to be impressed. a. squad of oat•.
airy engaged in the execution of this order,•
met Jeff riding in his carriage, and ordered
hint to "get out" and give up the animals. ,
Jeff refused. The corporal insisted. Finally
to cut short the parley, Jeff inquired: "Do ,
you know who I ant l" "No," replied thd
sfflttior. 4 .1 am President Dpv,V" said Jeff.
"Drive os," eats tin; clorpond, theuglaf,"
you' looked like an old postage stamp."
---A frightful and fatal disease has
made its appearance in the ttrwnsblps rof •
Hoy, Hibbert, and Usbenti,"in the .eounty
of Perth, Canada. Several deaths - base atr
reedy occurred. It generally eolumenoes
with a pain in the back of the head or week ;
the body gets spotted in a feeitenrs; dclir• ,1 / 4
luta then means; then * detail. •
—A chaplain in Arkansas kayilhal.
man, buying - furs, 'aias e?aversant with a
woman at whose 1101/10) hirealleJ, end asked
of her it There were any Presbyterians
around there. She hesitated a moment, *ea
eeftt she guessed not—•' her husbasultada't
killed any since they'd lived there,l" •
—Tho Grand Jury of Canol ootinty,, .
Md., hare Indicted Messrs. Usury U.
pier, William H. Bell, Jain
_Bilker, Jame, ,
Murrny, and Peter IL llont:y,of.Woa i tain-,,
star, for ilia klifing cf.:0814 toe*, t
16 . 1 ;
and proprietor of the Weatmlnla .11mioir411.
They have all given boil 10:141,dettlilt.'
—lrapero Plailmisliihis. thidinthitte ?far
that. laaut Into da•P 11191fradidarThossiteik , rj
OnLtion of Presidealt 1 4 1 101hlialleittillettroll
the late attempt to akesisti**o 4 4lo o 4l- t ,. s
geseollet snd snow the aulplllloHoMPOiltv... ,
, • •
Over—The War k pa4 the !log! 'ttetiolood.
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