lira* in its Halhifoata w,st c houp
MY HEART Mop THE WILD WOOD:
G=
My heart is in the forest now,
In the Wild wood4enp and eld,
When autumn paints the swbiging bodgh
With osiers bright as gold.
My heart is In the old, old wood,
When sadly kilt the leafs
For in the solemn eulitudd
I strengthen Icy belief.
• dod speak's withld the ford bowers,
And oh! how sweat to hear
.
jiffs
accents %Isaac withered flowers,
•"' Fall through dying yetir.
DSy heart in in the forest old
IVhen every blade id dead,
And eery leufje , lying cold
Upon Its Icy 1214.
belirt Is in the forest old,
Beneath November's sky,
{Whet] wild winds whistle throughilie wold,
And ell the living dia.
Tlmos. PA.
GOING TO SLEEP.
Thu light is fading dews' , the eky, ,
Thu shadows grow and multiply,
1 hoar the thrush's evening song :
But I havahurne with toiLand wrong
So long, so 16g!
I)hu , dreanis ury drowsy senses drown ;
co darling, kiss my eyelids down !
My life's brief spring went wasted by ;
annmer ended fruddeosly;
I learned to tillages, *trite and lenit ;
1 wand you, laver--4).k:lltappy
So late' / So late!
.N,,w all my fields are taming broWn ;
darling, kiss my eyelids down !
Oh. Wormed Bleep! oh, perfect rent
'l hue ',Mowed N u your Wilful breast;
Nor life uur.deeth Is wholly dreur,
o tender home, filmic you aro here,
No dear, so dearl.
, %trest lore, toy soul's sufficient Crown !
:WW, darling. kiss my oyolids clown !
turre.pqndente of the Dk.MOCIt
LETTERS FROM THE WEST.
ME=
COUNCIL 81L1771 , 1, lOW'.
""`"- Nur. at.„, J, 11345,.
Dem IVATCLO.I.I2I: Many persons who
emigrate westward harbor the idea tkilt.tut
less they can oi - tain similar lands in the i
we•t to those they vacated east, there can
h , no real value in them. Hence, (hi mun
aho ',rocs his limestone hills in SUMO fer
, le Ne.cy of the '4)1,1 Keystone Siam," ex•
, _cts to find a like location in tot i nte•valley
at pl.on h .— Ft — Meld wesleru States ; and, if
to find such in his short run of ob-
servntiA:, his too hastily formed opinions
render anything but a flattering verdict in
tavor of our western lands. _Now, we con
tend that a change of location roust. neces
n *ate a change of climate, soil and culture.
la this change, titn, experience and appli
cation must be hut' to guarantee success in
the vocation seleMed. Thus it is we find
ri new centers" in this western coun
try greatly dissatisfied with their present
tondition, had we frequently hear them
c.noplain of the non-productivenees of their
lon Is when compnred with the mob harvests
Okey Were/EMU *tOnatd to gather front their
eastern farm's'. They scout to forget the all
important fact.that. west is not mot, and
that western tbfl is altogether different front
etatrtil'aoil; and, being different in forma•
tun., it acquires a ditereat—inuda of culture
an I at (umlaut:le. •
There is, probably, no State in the west,
certainly none that we ever passed over,
that contains as great a variety of farming
/ands as this "Ilawkeye State." We have
here the limestone lands of the Des Moines
valley; the slate stone lands near the :Ilia-,
souri border, and the sandy soil of the
Missouri river slopes. Take Leo, Van Bic- .
ten, Davis, Appenoose, Ringgold, Taylor
upd Page counties, along the southern bor
der of the State, and yrs. have lands similar
to those found is parts of Blair, Hunting
don, Mille. sad Juniata counties of your
state. lu all these - first named' counties
coal, timber, sand and freestone abound in
team kable profusion. These counties aro
principally settled by Kentuckians, Indian
tans and a beggarly tew from Ohio. A good
quality of winter wheat is raised success
fully in all these comities, yet a majority of
tke farmers plant and cultivate tints,' lauds
iu the same manner as was their custom to
do In the States from which they originally
hailed. And many of them simply sow the
aced, anddeave all the remaining labor to
be perfor . rged by Providence or some other
Supernatural agency, and the result very
frequently is that the harvests are slim, mud
those sleepy farmers wake up to find them
selves minus an abundance.
There are gibed lands in all the counties
in the southern tier of this State. There
is plenty of titaber and coal, excellent fruit
tut:herds, and fißely itn{troved• Teruo, but
they lack ono very important requisite,
nautely—water.
There are many small creeks in all those
counties, but they invariably run dry in
the summer season. While we were tray
ellng through that liar last summer we
found great diMculty obtainiug_yater
onougllioin the summits orfills to.supply
our horses. Cistern water used almost
exclusively during the summer and winter
months, and should and should a drouth
prevail in the summer season—wkioh fre
quently happens there—even the water in
the cisterns gives out, and the people are
compelled to resort to the sloughs of go
on short allowance. The creeks and Inlets
ure called "Draws" in that -amnion. N'lfy
properly netped:l 'think, as the sun
. drauls
all the mar out a them every ' summer.
scud improired farmo can be bought in any
of those old settled counties for Atom $lB is
$BO per aorii.
In. my opinion—and it Is the opinion.,of
every travell‘g^ana in: lowa, who has us
hen observailon of the linds--tlat the best
oonnties in iikolittete for agricultural pur
pose* awrlCeokuk, Wappello, Mabitske, Ma
rlon, Jasper, Madison, Polk, cetei,'llenry,
Harrison and Poitawattomic. It. is wo ex
aggeration to say that I do not believe that
thereure any counties east or west Iliat eu
°MPIre with them for richness of soil,
abundanoe of running water and growing
timber, coal and limestone and well °Wave/.
•ted ferme.• The otops have never thiled‘ii
any of those conplieti. , The climate is mild,
and the people are the, most enierprieing
and induletiodei or nuy in the Lett. Go
all through these,counties and you will fine
every mss well satisfied with his location.'
he. piittitto.itit Vti!..Wditiiort+
Vol. 10;
.
You hear no complaints , no 'murmurings,
and what is better you will find the county
eeats of all these couniies rapidly filling up
with merchants atid mechanics, and where
five yisars ago some of these tewns•contain
ed only ono thousand inhabitants they now
number front fivete seven thousand. Me
bask& is considered thebest county in the
State—l conqede the palm to her. Her Mt
'As all speak of her, and, in fact, she is
known throughout the State by the title of
a.Proud nzhitska." Oskaloosa is the county
beat, and is the prettiest town in Town. Its
stroels are all shaded with oak, cottonwood
and maple trehs. ,Poptilation about 5,000,
and rapidly increasing.' There are thirteen
churcget there, and about as many schools,
besides a good college, which is under the
direction of 'the Christian church. The
Quakers are numereus, and have there the
largest church building - in the State, in
which they hol their regular and yearly
meetings. Theis are only three beer atztoons
in the city, and they scarcely pay expenses.
I only nee but one objection to Oskaloosa,
and that Is, the citizens lack public 'spirit
and railroad enterprise. Their minds have
become so absorbed in religious matters
that many of them expectto imitate ":I;tjtli
of old" and ascend to lieaven without the
trouble of "shutting off their wind.. l Con
sehtzeatlyr-modezaz--izaprovemeuta -have.-no
charms for them. Newton, in Jasper
county, Dee Moines city, in. Polk county
and Mt. Pleasant, in Henry county, are the
next best towns in the interior. Thomean
est town in the State is tititlyvtlle. It con
tains a imputation of one thousand, and
every third man is a drunkazal, and every
fifth house a Whisky saloon. It is situated
on-the Des_Moinett river, In, tiro corners of
Monroe, Mahuska and Wapello oodnties,
and. was formerly the terminus of the Dos
Moines Valley railroad. It is now the
"jumping off place" in creation, and, asibe ,
Irish say, the "hind quarters of bad luck."
But our space is occupied. We close this
portion of our letter by simply stating that
we do nut consider it necmsary to describe
Minutely the land in the coualies last
named. To appreciate this country it must
be seen. Suffice it to say the Dee Moines
valley and the Miesouri slopes stand with
out an equdl in point of good lands, good
farina, and good people.
I cannot otoso fhin without a remark or
two which are sotaewhat foreign to my sub
ject, but Lhave been "so tickled" that I
can'trest rain my, feelings. It is in relation
to the fifth resolution passed by the Centre
County Teachers' Association, held et
iu your State, last month. I
glean from the WATCHMAN. Speaking of
"robes of impartiality," "crowns of virtue,'
&c., &c., with respect to your able superin
tendent. reminds me of the poetio flights
our young,_ spread-eagle western lawyers
frequently take. One of them was once
holding forth to a jury •in grandiloquent
style about the purity of his client, who
wax charged with stealing a sheep, and get
ling animated, he exclaimed : "Gentlemen
of the Jury the divine illumination of
yon majestic sun, whose brilliant corrusca-
Ling rays bespangle the ;oriel dome of the
blue-arched heaven, rover—never— , .Stop!"
cried the judge." "I say, young man,
just take the feathers out of the wings of
your imagination and stick them into - the
tail of your judgment, and your cause will
be more prosperous."
111.ty not tlf6so teachers profit by the old
edge's advice?
My nea letter will be on the “manners
and slang phrases" of the west.
"HAWKEVE."
- A RICH LOVE STORY.
llaxa SIVItET-0 : my love of loves, clar
ified honey of oil of citron, white ionf
sugar of my hope, and molasses of uiy ex
pectation, you have boon absent from me
for a whole day. The sun is dark at mid
day-,--the moon and stars are black when
you are abastit.
Thing, Is the rattails of the sphere, and The
wind of your gown when you pass by is a
sophyr from thq garden of paradise, in the
time ot early flowers.
I kissed you when we last met and sty
whole frame was filled with sweetness.—
One of your curls touched tile on the gimelc
and that organ was transmitted into loaf
sugar.
•
U spice of spices-A , gaiden of ,delights,
send me a lookof hair I. Send me anything
your blessed fingers have toadied, and I
will go raving mad with eostaoy. •
One look from thy bright eyes would
transmute me incontinently in to the third
heaven ! Your words are made of pearl
uropping from your mouth.
My brain is everlasting fire. The blood
runs and scorches my . veins and vitals as
it presses through them. 0 ! come t most
delightful of delight, add with y our seraphic
breath breathe upon see!
When you do come be sure and fetob that
shilling you borrowed of me as I want to
bny some tobacco.
—An orator, in appealing to the "bone
and sinew,'" saidd !'My friends, I am proud
to see ar‘und foe to night the hardy yeo
manry of the land, for I love the agricultu
ral interests of my country and well may I,
fellow-oitisens, for I was born a farmer'
- 41.1ae happiest days of my youth were spent.
In e peaceable avocations of a son of the
soil may be allowed to use a figura
tive expression, my friends, I may sal I
was raised between two hills of corn."
pumpkin,. by. theinder l" exclaimed an ine-,
torhitdd -what just - in front of the stage ,
.Spaker suddenly disappeared •
BELLEFONTE, PA.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1,1865.
(From Me Rom Cburiet.)
BILL ARP ON THE STATE OF THE
COUNTRY.
"Bill Arp," who lately made a very hap
py hit, iu a letter to Artemus Ward, has
written the following iu the same strain on
the state of the country :
"Sweet land of Liberty Of thee I sing."
Not much I don't, not at this time. If
there's anything sweet about liberty in this
pom of the vineyard, I enn't see it. The•
land's good onuf and 1 would'nt mind hearin
a hyme or two about the dirt I live on 1311 j
as for me flndin sugar and liberty in Georgy
soil, its all a mistake. Howsumever,
hopeful. I'm much ealmer and aereenel•
than I was a few months ago,. I begin to
feel kindly towards all people, einept•some.
I'm now endeaverin to be a great national
man. I've taken up a mottoe of no North,
no Soilth, no East, no {Vest; but lot die tell
yuu, u y friend, I'll bet on Dixie, no long as
I got a dollar. Its no harm to run both
skedules. In fakt its highly harmonious to
do so. I'm afood Union rdb, and my bat
tle cry aro Dixie and the Union.
But you see, my friend, we are gettin
restless about some things. ti the war L'all
.begun mil heavy on us, and after the big
collapse, we though it woo over ,for good.
We had killed folks awl killed folks until
151415T1 rormiruirlig a - Weft - 4; Cif
we were;mity nigh played out all over.
- Minted Wire Tiforeasin auk diinin- -
ish in. BY , a close calculashun ft was per
ceeved that we did'nt kill our enemies as
fast as they was imported, and about those
times I thought it was a pity that some
mlrakle of grace had'nt cut, of' the breed of
furriners some 18 or 20 years ago. Teen
you wouldhava aeacLa fax _fight. General
Sherman wouldn't have walked over the
track, and Ulyse's Would have killed more
teen than he did ---of lice own aide. I hay
always they that a General ought to be per
tikler which side ha t ivas eacrifisin.
Well, if the VPar is over, wllats the use of
fillin up our towns and cities with soldiers
any longer. Where's your rfokotistruction
that the papers say is ruin on so rapidly?
Where's the liberty and freedom? The
fakt is, General Bberman , and s hili, caterpil
lars made such a Olean ewecpilfivcrything
I dont see much to reconairilkt. Thgy Cook
so many liberties around hero that there's
nary liberty left. I could have reconstruc
ted a thousand sicb States before this.
Any body could. There watent nuthiu to
do but lost 'to go off and let us alone.
We've etto plenty of Stateamr— , plenty of
men for Governor.
Joe Town 'flint dead—he's a waitin—
standin t the (nth. 'with his hat off. Then
what's the soldier here for—what good are
they doin—'Who wants to see 'em any lon
ger. Everybody is tired of the war and we
dont want to see any more signs of it. The
Diggers don't want 'em Anil the white men
dont want 'emu, and as for the wimen—
whoopee ! I golly ! Well, there's no use
Lipkin—when the stars fall agin may be the
wimeu will be harmonized. That male bu
siness—that oath about vain letters!
Gee, tiger! They always was jealous about
males anyhow, and that order jest, broke
the orm,Luel's back. Well, I must confess
that it was powerful small concern. I would
try to softer smooth it over if I knowd what
to-say, but I don't. if they was afeored of
the wimen why tlid'ut they say so. If they
wasn't what do they make 'cm swear for.
Jest to aggrevate 'etam? Didn't they know
that the best way to harmonize a man, was
to harmonize his wife ,fiist ? 'What harm
caruthe whim' do byreeeiviu their letters
oath free? They can't vote, nor they can't
preach, nor hold offis, nor play soldier, nor
monster, nor wear breeches,' nor ride strad
dle, nor Cll4ll, nor chow terbacker, nor do'
nuthin hardly but talk add iffiltb letters. I
hoar that a valant kernel in wimen put
up her fan because it had a pi ter of Dory
gard 'pon 11.—Well, she's harmouized, I
reckon. Now the trouble of all siolm is that
after these bayonets leave here and go
home, these pettycoat ty'rante dau't
conic back any more. Some Georgy fool
will mash the juce out of 'em Berlin, and
Witt would'ut be neither harmonious or
healthy. Better let the wimen alone.
Then, there is another thing rin waitin
for.' Why don't they rekonstrukt the nig
-gera- if they are' over goin to I' They've
give 'em a powerful site of freedom, and
very little else. Here's the big freedmen's
buro, and the little bores all over the coun
try, and the papers aro full of grand orders
and special orders, and paragrafs, but I'll
bet a possum some of 'Om steals my wood
this winter or freezes to death. Freedthen's
buro ! freedmen's humbug, I say. Jest
when the corn needed plowin the worst,
the buro rung the bell and tolled all the
nigger* to Town, and the farmers Vet the
crops ; and now the freedmen is getn 614
and hungry, and wants to go back, and
at: e aint nuthin for 'ens to go to. But freed
men is big thing. Hurraw for freedmen's
buro ! Sweet land of liberty, of thee I don't
sing i But all is right. I'm for freedmen
myself. NobOdurantseaer -mere slavery.
If the abolitiodists had•let - us alone we
would have fixed it up right- along time
ago, and we ran fix It up now. The buro
aint fixed it, bud aint a goin to. It don't
know any thing abouk it. Our people have
got a heap more feelin for. the poor nigger
than any abolitionists. We are as poor as
Job, but I'll bet a dollar we can raise more
' Money in Route to build a nigger church
than they'did in Bos town. The papers say
that after pin roan for 8 weeks, the Bps ,
town oltriitians raised thirty-seven dollars
to build a nigger church in Savannah. They
pre powerful on theory but mighty rime in
'
practice.
,MMr!r7M
Dint no use talkie. Everybody will know
by wailin.who's been foold. Mr. Johnßoti
says he he's gwino to, experiment, that's all
he can do now—its all anybody can do. Mr.
, Jobirton'i head's luvel. I'm fur Lim, and
everybody ought , to be fur hitn--mtly he's
powerful slow about' somethings. I ain't a
worshippin him, lie, never made .me. I
hear folks hollerin hurraw for Andy John
son, and the papers say, Oh ! he's, fur Us,
lte:e ha's our friend., Well,spose
he is, hadn't he ought to be? Did yod ex
pect him to be aalog ? Bekase he aint
hangin of l iwt, is it neoessary to be , phayin
hipocrit around the foOtstool Of power, and .
makin out like he wits the greatest man in
the world, and we was the greatest sinner ?
Who's sorry? Who's repenting Whe
ain't proud of our people? Who loves our
enemies? Nobody biAt a darned sneak. I
say let 'em hang, and be hanged to 'cm, be
fore I'd beg 'eat for race. Whore Sokra
tes, whir's Cato ? Dot if Andy hold's his
own. the country's safe, provided these lieu
oral assetublys and sine& and Bishops con
ventions will keep the devil and Bronlow
tied. Here's a passel of slink-hearted fel
lers who played tory jest to dodge Whitt
on save property now howlin about for offis
—want everything bekuse they was for the
Union. They was for themselves, that's all
- they-watler-,--mt& - the-y-a-init-st--going4o-get
the °lrises 'within% Mr. Johnson ain't got
- 1;to morer - respek for 'em than I have. We
want to trade 'em off. By pokey, we'll give
two of 'em faene copperhead, and ax noth
ing to boot. Lot 'em shinny on their own
side, and git over among the folks who don't
want us reconstrukted. There's,t hem news
paper seribblers who slide down to the edge
of Dixie every 24 hours, 'l4ll peep over
at us on tip toe. Then they, run batik a
puffin and blowin with a strait coat tail, and
holler out: •'lle ain't dead—he ain't dead
—look out everybody ! jest from char
-"aced his too move—hoard him grunt; be's.
goin to rise agin. Don't withdraw the so ,
jors, but Bend down more troops immege
ately." And here's your Harpers Weekly a
headin all sieh—gassin lies and slanders in
every isaue—inakiu insult= pikterain every
sheet—breedin everlastin discord and ehaw
in bigger than ever since ho got licked*
Wish old Stonewall had cotch these Harpers
at the Ferry, and we boys had knowd they
was goin to keep up this devilment so long.
IYe'd made Baptists of them Martin, payroll
or no payroll. Ilurraw for a brave soldier,
I say, reb or no rob, yank or no yank; hur
-1 'raw for a manly foe and a t enerotte victor
—harrow for our side, too ; I golly ! excuse
me, i but Bich expressions will work their
way l out sometimes, brakes or no brakes.
But I'm fur Mr. Johnson. I'm for all the
Johnsons—its a bully name There's our
Governor, who ain't goin at a discount;'
and there's Andy, who is powerful well con
siderin, and there's the hero of Shiloh—
peace to his noble ashes.
And there's Joe—toy bully Joe—wouldn't
I walk ten miles of a rainy night to see
them hazel eyes, and feel the grip of hie I
soldier hand T Didn't my rooster always
clap his wings and crow whenever ho passed
our quarters ? ' Institsot told hint that he '
was the true prince," and it would make
anybody brave to be nigh him. I like all
the Johnson's, even to Sant—L. C. Ile nev
er levied Of me if lie could . git around it.
For 10 yeass me and bum has been workin
together in the justice court. I was ap
everlastin defe'ndant, and Safi the Consta ,
blo, but he never sold my property
,• nor
skeorot Mrs. Arlo Ilurraw for the Jul:n
eon&
Well, on the whole, there's a heepkrof
things to be thankful fur. I'm thankful,
war is over—that's the big thing.'
I'm thankful I aint a black republican.
thankful that Thad Stevens and Sumner and
Phillips, nor n'hne of their kin mint no kin,
to me. I'm thankful_for the high privilege;
of brain all snob. I'm,thankful I live he
Dixie, in the State of °corgi'', anti our
Cleverly's name mint Bronlow. ,Poor
Tennessee! I golly didn't she catch it!
Andy Johnson's pardons won't do robs
much gold there. They better get one
from the devil if they...expekt it to pass.
Wonder what, made Providence aftlikt 'em
veal etch a cuss.
But I can't dwell on etch a subJekt. Its
highly &moralist!' and onprofltable.
"Sweet land or Liberty, 91 thee
I could npt sing in Tennessee?'
But then we've had a circus once more,
and seen the clown play round, and that
makes up for a heap of trouble. In Not,
its the beet sign of reconstruction I have
yit,observed. Yourn, hopin,
P. 8.--A.nd they hawled Grant's cabin•
thousand miles. Well ! Sherman's war
horse stayed in my stable one nigh , ,,t
want-to sell the stall to some Yankasifatate
fair. AS our people mint the sort that runs
after big folk's things, the stall mint no
more theta any other stall to -me. State
Fairs, its for sale. I suppose Harper's
Weekly or Frank Leely will paint • pikter
of it soon, drawin on their imagination.
--A bachelor of some wealth died re
cently in Doylestown, without known re.,
liaise. lie left his estate to the ..dundly
BOOM - . Union," but as there are no sub
scribing witnesses to will, the document
le informal and void. xt cfrions aboll
timilst,j4entore Will 40-
qualated with the &eta, list lately in.
formed the , Auditor Generalf , *ar LUIS he
will receive one third of thi pgssonal and
one fifth of real estate after deduiting costs:
The Sunday Schools will get nothing.,
ST. TA.IVIANY.—Although the press have
at present,a good deal to say 'in relation to
the order of St t Tathmany,. yet it may not
be so generally known who Tammany wag,
or ho'w lid become popularly canonized as a
saint and, adopted as tutelary genius of one
branch of the Democratic party. By some
be is supposed to have been a Jesuit priest;
others, ttiOtAgli attributing t 9 him an Indian
origin, have no distinct idea. in tho matter ;
while again there are those who regard him
gs entirely p myth:
Tammany, or Tamminund, inwever, was
a veritable personage---g chief of the Dete
nte nation—liviiteprobably in Middle of
Hid seventeenth century. He resided in the
country which is now Delaware until he was
of age, when he moved beyond the All.eglia
nies, and settled on the banks of the Ohio.
He became a chief sachem of his tribi, and
tering always a fast friend of the whites, of
ten restrained his warriors from deeds of
violence. His rule was always disoreet, and
he endeavored to induce his followers to
cultivate agriculture grid the arts of peace
rather than these of war—When he became
old ho called a. council with a view to have
a successor appointed; after which the res
idue of his life vise spent in retirement ; and
tradition relates that. "young and old repair
ed to his ;iiwamio - 17eaiSbitii discon - rse iii.
dom." His great risotto was, `qlnited in
peace for happiness, in war for defence."
When and by whom lie was first styled saint
or by what chance he was chosen to be the
patron of the Democracy does not appear.
RICHUIRABLIC VIEWS OP MR. SEWARD.--
Mr. Seward is a power in the Government.
What dose ho say on the gabled of hanging_
Jrtferson Davis 1 Let us see. The -Now
York correspondent, of the Jacon EGO.)
Telegraph, writing on the 16th of October,
says :
"Since I have introduced Mr. Seward's
name, I will refer to a convereatoin he had
a few days since with Thurlow Weed—
Jefferson •Ihvis being the subject. Weed
said, Mr. Davis should be hanged, and ex
pressed himself quite warmly on the subject.
Mr. Sewtird then propounded the query:
'Why should you hang him ?' to whioh Weed
replied: 'I would hang• him for treason.'
Mr. Seward responded in his energetic
way ;'Ws cannot hang Davis without first
convicting him, and I think no impartial
jury would do that.' Weed said : 'His guilt is
already established, and his conviction
should not:be difficult.' But Mr. Howard'
maintained that no jury could be formed to
convict, him, and added in a -significant way:
And even if we should hang bun, it,
would hello great moral lesson to the world.'
Gentlemen who were 'present during the
conversation infer from it that Mr. Davies
life is safo, at least.
WIIAT CAN TOE MATTER BE ?-A procla
mation for a National Thanksgiving has
been issued from the White Llouse, tattA the
rvyro kft out. What can bo the reason of
this singular otnivion ? we had for
gotten that Andrew Johnson is President.
But *bat will thy leadtcals poi . . to this ?
According to their doctrine, the ',result of
the war for which we ought CO thank God
most devoutly, is the - freedom of the South -
ern nogroes. Yet, the President does not
say "freed-men" mum ! On the other hand,
he styles the -glorious" crusade, a cud war.
Ner does he utter a word about "a causeless
rebellion," nor even mention , that term so
dear to every clerical Abolition lick-spittle,
Loyalty! Nay, he even specifics our "an•
larged civil liberty" (which means the abol
ishment of Lincoln's hostiles, the revocation
of martial law and pardon of political offen
ders) as something for which we sought to
thank Providence. Why, what copper
headish pranks have got Into the man's
head! "Loyalty" will never survive stifle
ut an outrage of Its ideas of propriety.—
ford (Merits.
—That, ogre gtdm—old Parson Brown -
low—has succeeded in ttliming Tennessee
into a sort of secondary helL A corre
spondent says "it scorned by all honest men,
detested by angels, and cursed by God."
Another says, "business is dwindling down
to nothing and property sinking in Talus."
A third says, otravelers shun east Tennessee
as thcy would tr country, ttinsi l lA with the
plague."
—•-Young mon in Lawrence, Kansas,
have •to marry to get shelter frrm the wea
ther—the landladies there take none but
married people. Timi4infortunale youlhe
say it is a.oonspirway between the yonng
ladies and the boarding house keepers.
, BILL ARP
The property of Ex-Cioyernin Wise,
of Virginia, has been labeled for 'bonuses
tion. It. seeMs that. the banging of phi John
Brown still sticks in the or'aws of various
people. It. seems to have been. a great
orimerftwahim to hang the ql4 murderer.
—A clergyman onoe posted the follow
log notice on the gate of his church: .
"Found, two hate in my strawberry bed.
The owners can have them by proving
property." We don't beliers the °wants
will call for them.
B. A
Louisville Ur** Trigs a radical
paper establiebed and sop,SirtAid ,
button trout Now 34410tid, has been con
victed of libel and damages to tie amount
pt $B,OOO awarded. A chance for 'sympa
thiser' to invest.
—Tbere it some afore:ice between.
striking ile atiestriking • jurea*/
—Getting Wintry—The weather
St. Tammany.
Nos. 45-6.
WORK ANDiTHINK
Hammer, tongs and anvtls ringing,
Waking echoes all daylong
In a deep-toned voice are fringing
Thrifty Labor's iron song,
From a thoosand llylvhcols bounding,
From•aithoasand hum Ming
Night and day the notes are emending
Throngh the nasty lact'ry rooms.
Listen ! workmen, tivtheir playing—
Theto's advice in every clinic
Still they're singing, still they're saying,
"While you labor, learn to think :"
7MA whatpower lies withinjon,
For what triumphs ye are formed,
If, in aid of bone and sintisr,
Hearts by emulation warmed,
Mighty thoughts ye woo and.oherish.
What shall hold Your spirits down
What shall mike ;Our high 'hopes peril*
Why shall ye mind Fortune's frown?
Do ye wish for profit, pleasure?,
Thirst at Learning's fount to drink
Crave ye honor; fame or treasure
Ye the germs 1100-Work and think ?
Think ! but not alone of living.
Like the horse frowtylay to day ;
Think! but not alone yr giving
Health; for pelf, , cur soul for pay I
Think! Oh, be inuaines no longer-- .
Engines made of flesh and bleed '
Think! 'twill intik., you fresher, Atrouger;
Link you to the groat and good !
Thought exalts and lightens labor,
Thought forbids the soul ti sink !
Self respect and love fur neighbor
Mark the men who work—and think !
Think ! andttet the thoughts now nerve•you,'
Think of en bho'vo_goue before
reriving u nous names to serve you ;
Yours Um-path they've_ plodded o!erl
Freedom fights and wine her charter
With the cooed of thought—the pen!
Tyranny can find no quarter
to the ranks of thinking men,
Think? for thought's a wand of p)wer--
Power to make oppression shrink;
Grasp ye, then, the precioud dower !
Pulse it—wield it—learn to think!
Hold your beads up toiling brothers;
gn<uo_bcit ne.'er fmro4._
rator, for ourselyes and ethers,
le for man a noble lot ;
Nobler far and holier, higher,
Than vain luxury can claim,
If but seal and worth inspire,
And true greatness be our aim,
If we gain that boon,.ihe leaven,
Power, that forms the strongest link
'Twist an upright soul and Heaven;
That noblest power—the power to thick!
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
—On a strikt 7 -ahe belief girls in New
York.
—Contradicted—The reports of the Fenian
exotternent in Canada.
—agreeable—Fooling the gist of a
pretty girl, so says the Darn.
—Died—A Tiger of Cholera in the Zoolog
Leal Dardon in Madrid.
•
—The Choctaw 'Wahine are bushy taut.-
daring the negroes. C
—Tout Thuwb has 1 sued for so iuootue
tax iu England.
—The'P:himi State Con4ention will be call
od together In December.
—The leader,of the insurrectionists in Ja
maica, is Paul Boyle, a negro preacher..
—Opened—The tomb of Daniel Webster,
and the remains found in peciect4Leserration. ,
—The Ne w' York World myna le not true
that General McClellan is on hie way home from.
=
—Fulso.—Ono-third of thb reports and
two thirds of We bosowe you run against now
a-d uye.
—ln the next New Jersey Legislature the
Republicans will have a majority eLfrom 12 to
lU ou joint ballot.
Arp, so called," is Charles H. Smith
Of Romo, tloorgla. Ilu is a candidate fur the
aotgia Senate.
—Dear—Tho Re:mblican triumphs fur the
last four years, ochisl coat a million of men and
$3,000,000,Q00.
' --A critic malignant enough to tell the
truth, sari that the most awkward thing in na
ture is a woman trying to ran, •
• —Tho Grand Jury of the Dietrict of Colum
bia have found hills of indictment against Gen
oral Buoy, oftlio Government data:Kivu mimic°,
fo4 rubbery and fable imprisonment.
London merchant advertised For a
clerk who could bear ooldizienient.,, Ile receiv
ed aq answartrout one who had been upwards
of ten xsars iu jail. Of course be wee eligible.
driver of a coach in t ow, stopliing
to get some water for the young ladies in the
carriage, being asked what he stopped for, re
plied, "I am watering , my dowers." A delicate
compliment.
—"A man wboll maliciously set fircito
barn," said !dr. Slow, ':and burn up twenty cows,
ought to be kicked te-ileatb by -I-j . . •
I'd like to do it." Simi , is very 'revere some,
times. gw-
—A little boy in Wisootftln eras being put
to bed the other night about dark when he ob
jected to going so early. TUN mother told him
the oblekene went to bed 'early and he must do
co too.' The little fellow said he Would info
mother would do as the old hens did—go to bed
first thou ooai therettickensto come !
—Sorry for it.—A miller had his neighbor
arrested under the charge of stealing wheat from
his mill, but being unable to substantiate the
charge by proof, the eourt adjudged that the
miller should make an apology to the &caused.
"Well," says he.—"l hays had }ou arrested for
steeling my wheat—l can't mare It—and am
sorry for It." I -
—Catching the Idar.—A 'Waster yepeat
i3tg the first line or so of a °baser in the Big
ble, the clerk by eopse mistake or other read it
alter dim. The olargrann read it se follows :
"Moses Was ICS 11418i11111 man and wade atone
oletibibr the sibs of the, pitople."--.The dark
who, could not catietly witch thw Osidenotoo4-
pasted thus r--ntalues wasopitinoutitutade
ointaentlbt tbsehlwirekthe people." • .
—The Gate Up_ Deal A ago* brit
id Newark, N. J., baring griOrend some peed!:
ar einbarrawnsailos, remetty dosed business, and
the solocutember sue to Om public •thio Col
ludes °netts :"—•"Ziedlshohation of emeenaMs
Iteretotate resisting vets me and Mess SIMS 1p
ds bitiber pert p, out keretafbr• resolve&
P4OlOlll who ale meat psi to de weber. Dip
what do arm ese must sail ea Jonah udo brut
inoobred."
"01.11 HICKORY."
All Americans are familiar With tide Both
briquet of thwarts& Andrew Jackson ; yet
veri few kbo* hod it, was earned by the
old hdto. l• happen ha' be able to inform
your readers.
1n1836 I was Intimately itequaintell with
Col. John Allen. United tlnites agent of the
Chickasaw Indian*, residing in Pontotoc;
and whir- his brotheri - Captittw - liithatt 41-
len, then lantern - beat in that town. I learned
'from Captain William Allen that hta father
wee a.-near neighbor and ieveted-friciwksf-
General Jackson, and that ire and broth
er John served as soldiers in his contort, in
all his campaigns, and damped at the saute
fire, and messed with him during the Creek
war. They were certainly great faiorttes
with him; and ho :rew`ardod them Tar their
friendship by giving theta lucrative appoint- ,
ciente in the Chickasaw nation while he was
President. Iti conversation with Captain
Allen shout General Jackson, an one neer:,
Ilion, I :irked him huir ire acquired the,clatud
,of "Old Hickory." I give his rep)y, as
near as I can remember, in his own words :
“Puting Ike eatopaigti, whidh, included
the battle of )muokfe.w Creek, the army
was moving rapidly to srurprise the Indiana,
and we were without tents. In the month
of Marnh,,,l cold equiudetiel gale fell on !Pr,
mingled with sleet, which lasted several
days. The General wan exposed to the
weather, and was suffering severly with a
bail coil and sore throat. * At night we
bivouacked in a muddy bottom s while is
was enuring down rain, which froze as it
fell. My brotier John and I, finding that
he was unwell, boosmo uneasy about Lim,
though he dui not 'complain, and laid down
upon the blanket by the camp fire with his
soldiers. Seeing him, wet to the skin,
atretchid in the mud and water in his suf•
feting condition, we determined to try and
make him more comfoiable.
"We cut down .a stout hickory tree, in
whit& the sap was rising, and peeled.the
bark from it in large flakes ; cut tiro
TOrkii 111 - d - db illeirr — or
and dead loaves, and roofed it, and olosed
one side, or rather one end of the structure,
against the wind, with bark, and left the
othOr open. We then dried our blankets,
ind made him a pallet in the tent we'lleAl
constructed. ' We woke up the old General,
and with some difficulty persuaded him to
crawl in. With his saddle for a pillow,
wrapped in -oar--dry- blankets, - and his feet
to the fire, he slept snuggly and soundly
all night, well cased in hickory bark.
"The next morning, an old man from-the
neighborhood camp came , with whiskY,
with which, after imbibing quite - freely
himself, he gave us all 'a treat,' as-far as
the liquor ;rould g', . He seemed to be a
kind-hearted, Jovial, and patriotic old fel
low—a sort of 'privileged charaetertin this
ookintry. While staggering about among
the camp-fires, full of fun and whisky, he
blundered upon our little, hickory bark tent,
which immediately arrested hie attention.
Alit eying it. fora moment he exclaimed,
'*hat sort of an outlandish Indian fun' is
-this 1' and gave it a kink, which tumbled
down the queer looking structure, and com
pletely buried, the old hero in bark. As he
bruggled out of the ruins, and looked
-tend" around for the anther of the mis
chief; tbe. old toper recognised him, anti
exolainfed, %olio: Old Hickory! come out
of your bark, and join us le a drink r'
..There wits something so ludicrous in
the whole scene, that respect for his Fres.
once and rank could not restrain cur mer•
riment. He very good humertally joitSCd
us in laughing at the mishap. As he rose
up, and shook In bark from him, we all
gave hins • viva .Hurrah for Old Hickory I"
- This Was the Bret time he ever heard these
words, whioh were afterwards shouted by
the millions of his oeuntrymen whenever he
appeard among them."
I will only add that Captain William
Allen, of Day, idsoa. county, Tenneesee, who
died in Pontotioc in 1837 was distinguished
for courage, integrity; awl striol veracity ;
and the above may be regarded as a -
count of the origin of the nick-name.of.Gen.
eral Audrew Jacksoli.--Jack4o (Misr.)
THE following story is told by one who
says he was an eye witness to the affair:
Just before the 'capture of Savannah
Ueneral Logar Witt) two or three of hly
etelf, entered the depot at Chicago, one
tine me ruing, to tato 'the can net, on hts
way to rejoin his commend. nut Geppral,
being a short djstanees to *denim of tv
others, stepped upon the platfbrm ea oar,
about to entle,it, but was stopped by an
Irishman with : '
"Ven'll not be goin' ip there."
•Why not, sir?" make 4. the 'general
"Boogie Llama a ledahts oar, and net
,gintleutait 'U be gain' in their widen* a
teddy. There's wan sate In that peer over
there, cc yeea want it," at the same tine
pointing to it.
ee, ' ;spit ..• Y e t eneral, *".l see there
Is ant seat, but what shall Ido with way
-etetr. -
"Qh !-Aboeher your staff l" was the pet
ulant reply. "Go you and take the 'sate.
and etiok yer staff out the windy."
As Errnorivx dream—During toe
Revolutionary war, Geu. Lafayette,leing
at Baltimore, was inviqid to a ball. He
was rettusste4 to danoa,'►ut4iuttead afjohl
tog iu thp amusement, as taught have been
expected of a Frenchman of twenty-two. he
addressed the ladies thus :
oLedies, yon ere very handsome; you
dunce very prettily ; your ball is ter,
my soldiers hare no shirts!"
This was irreeiselble. The bstreseied
the ladles went heats tad 'went to work
and the next day e large autntter4thsidrts .
were FireCaftef bj the - Aired bin&tt!' - W: —
tiumre for the gallant defenders or their
country.
—A married treatMlaelt itrol4l4 1 14 s •.f
tapping circle, betortnforwpkgliv they
Ewer depe9ded wifoll m i op the , atitAaidi •
at trio w' • might tr y it; mifivei`
seen slush .• g • * M. ••'"' • "
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la a capital Torras win it,:fik,ikkiliVlA 4 ,
'kart of capital Oata
imair4lll,—;l
li paint always canal in invest 4
meats. . ' P
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