THE 41RHOIFIXION City of God I Jerusalem I why- rushes out thy living strewn? The tethered pried, the holy mem, The Itomaa In his pride are Mare! Aged thousands, tees of thousands, !till 'Cluster 'round Calvary'. wild hilL Still onward rollache Heins tide, Thire rash the bridegroom and the bride; Priam, beggar, soldier, Pharisee. The old, thelyoung, the bond, the Tree ; The nation's (Orient multitude, All maddening *lib the cry of blood. 'Tis glorious morn—grow height to height Shoot the keen snows of the light, Arid, glorious ip their coetral shower, ?sleeve( holiness end power, The Temple on Jgosildi'm brow hookas mowlrisea sue below. But wo to hill and wo to rale! Against them sha/J eosin forth • wail; And led!! to bridegroom =id to bride! ,_kor death shall on the whirlwind rids ; Andewo to thee, respiundent shrine, The .word le out for thee and thine' Hide, h de thee India betteena, thou sun Before Medea,' of blond be done Upon that Tetoply's hpuyhty deep Jeruaateme last angels weep; They see dertrurtion's funeral pall Illack'ning o'er Zion's sacred wall. Like lemposia gathering on the shore They hear the coining armlet , ' mar; They see In Zion. hall, lir elate The Sign thatardiiketh deeolate— The Nol standard—Paean !pear, The teeth, tile hate, the inaeserre. They see the vengeance fall ; the chain. The long, long age of guilt and pain The exile's thous. d Jesporsie years, The more than groans, the more than tears; Jerusalem, a vanished na Ire tribes, earth's:warning, scoff and shame • Still pour, siting the multitude, Still rends the heavens the shoot of blood But in the murderers' furious s on Who totlen on ? A wesry man . A cross upon hie shoulders hound, Iwo*, his frame, one guehing W And now he treads on Cali ary What slava upoptbat hill Faust die n What band, what heart, to guilt imbrued Meet be the mountain rulttken food There stand two t lethal., gnunt and bare, Two eulpritn, emblem. of despair Yet who the thirtl? The yell of Aetna In frenzied at the siffereert name Hands eleneheil,leells gnanhing,a eiders torn, The curse, the taunt, the laugh or acorn. All that the bitter hour re al clung, (King Are 'round TI ee note, T 1,,... thorn crowned Set, curled and tortured, taunted, aptfrned, No wrath Ie for the wrath returned , No a enateanee littaher from the eye, The 'offerer calmly waits to die, The weptre-rood, the thorny rrowo, Make on that pallid brow no frown Al I. the word or olenth Ix gh en The form is bound, the mill. urn driven Now triumph, Scribe and Pharisee' Now, Norman, bend the mm king knee! The Cross is reared. The deed Is done. There stands Messiah's earthly throne' This 1111U1 the earth's consummate hour , For this had biased the prophet's power; For thin had swept the conqueror's sword Had ravaged, raised, east down, restored; Persepolis, not., Babylon. Fur this ye sink, for this ye shone Yet things to who It earth*. broglite.t beam ` — Were darkness--earth Itself a dream, Forehead• on wltieW shall erowne be bild Sublime, when *On cud aUMAIriI (. 01 .; Worlds upon worlds, eternal th Inge, Hong on thy anguish—Ping of Kluge Still !rout bin lip m mane btu gene, Ilia lofty eye hes looked no scorn No earthquake buret, no angel brand Crushes 'the black, blaspheming band; What may those lips by anguish riven ? " Geri, be my murderers forgiven'" Ile dial In whose high victory ' The slayer, Death himself, shall die. Ile dies t by whose nil conquering tread Shall yet be ...bed the serpent's head ; From his proud throne to darkness hurled The god and tempter of this world. lie dies Creition't awful Lord, Jehovah, anti, EteiMel Word' Tv mum in thunder front the eklee ; To bid the buried world grime; The earth His loutetool ; Heiven'isthmus ; Redeemer, may Thy will be doge 811:EC II 0 F GEN. GEORGE W. MORGAN, Delivered at the Democratic Conventton, at Columbus, Ohio,-June 26,1866. FeLLow CITIZIN. .—ln times of less im portance than the present, I should not at an hour so late a. thia.on an evetung so to element as this, dentin you But, this in no ordinary occasion We are living in times of peril to our institutions, sod I do not apologise to you for appearing Wore you, though it Is toward the midnight. hour And I propose to address you a, my coun trymen, an American ciiisens, upon the grave son momentous, questions witch are to decide (or weal or for woe the destiny of our touch-loved lend SIX %KASS AO Pardon me, my frtemit, for one brief mo ment for recurring to nit erne but the other day Six years ego the United States—aye, the ('sited Statez—istentling (ruin ocean to ocean, were In the enjo)ment of uttrimilled prosperity Our cnnuurrce,ul point of ton tinge,was the largest in the arm Id our non ufacluros competed with those of France, England and Germany, nod tine great grain growing region of the West tea ocuatieere millions in other dimes. Our country was free front debt ; the rights of every citizen were secure under the protection 4-14 e law; tour flag was respected throughout the world; and pence and. happiness with their holy in- Iluences dwelt in every household 94 settled upon our land lhohr - j OUR AILT,VAI. 1:07MI1ION RVlen the Republican party note into Totrwer, In had only a nominal debt, and yet to-day, measured by the mount of interest, ours is the largest debt knowu among the nations. Instead of being free from dobt,at the ohms of Mr Lititolteendetinietration, the nation's indebtedness amounted to the appalling sum of three thousand million Jol lore. And the present usurpation at Wash 'ildgton, which arrogates to Itself the titlebf .the Congress of the United States,will have unotimmed that Jebt morn than fire hundred million dollars. And' why has the debt been decreased! Raven° revenues beet collected Tram the people ? flat taxation been re duced! Taxation reduced! Why,citixens, at this moment we ore more heavily taxed than are the people in the despotisms of Austria, France or Russia, and yet we live in n Republic Yes, in a single yeer, more than tiro hundred million dollars is taxes WOO befh wrung from theent erprine,t he in dustry, and the sweat of the people by di root and indirdbi taxation And yet not one •doller or that emir:mut 'amount hoe been applied upon thipayment °tale public debt; .but on the contrary, the debt has been ling ;monied more than half a billion of dol- Jan. The Ezell.° Inspector end Assompr come )prowling around likd thieves lu the nigot,to pry into your affairs, and you cannot Mau a reoeipt,exeoute a deed or a Dole without 1111, iteehing a stamp as a hedge of your threat. sued serfdom: TOO 1111nIAMIX Ooacea ontrnit 111.0110108. And what like prodneed thls dread °alma,. ity T Who is responsible for this fearful .change! In 18W) there were four candidates for the Presidency—Dell, Douglas,Breokln• ride and Lincoln. Hod Bell, Douglas or Breakinridge been elected there would have beea..4l war. Why ? Beeause they stood on national plattovma—beoauss they were all pledged to stand by the Coestilutioa.— But there won o fourth perty,wids Mr. Lie. .coin as its candidata A sectional parry, organised in dellansa of the warning of Ifashington—orgsnizod in avowed boatilaty to the South: And what Rlll the object of i * • qTal k t) ,i t ,t I L " 44 -I 1° E VOL. XI hitt Stational party' lit Ilia inugliage of hot eoeittetatly bail to In, Thothlem Stevens, to objdet woe to break up the futuattions four Government in order that another and different dtivernment. might he built Ilion s ruins Well, , a gigantic war WOO the result, and II its dread calamities—with its half mil on graven dried with the beet and bravest of the °illicit en of the North and West—three hundred thousand orphanv of our auldiere, lied the two hundred thousand maimed men and boys, whcettre left as end monument of the war,sre all chargeable agittn.ta the lead ers of the sectional Republican party, and it few leaders of the South. lint the latter Imrc been terribly punishetrby the scourge of war Their lands have been laid waste, their loonies bare been reduced to rislies,anil the grave. of tlteir children exist as sad me mentoes of a fallen cause But while the people of the 4,4; have been thus terribly punished, t guilt heigu• agi tators of ilia North, grown rich from plum der and audacious from impunity, are still euthroned in powin,autl they have the inso lence to declare that the minority shall gov ern the majority, and that our free slstem Timm give way to a consolidated despotism For be ic ft ton Ille, eitilefls, to wish to arouse your passions or esette your preyed, cos Ruh. out the Contrary, I appeal to you as my count ...yet., as Americans. to not WO becomes good otisenrottul to reecue our in stitutions from the rum which threatens thelti.' I do not alt. 11.1 here to-night to plead the cause oh site people of the South They were overthrown upon their own field eqsal.- tie . but muumuu manhood compels me to de elate thirst their capit Outwit to 011 r arum— the ethuirable manner its which they accept the situation, abut ask again to be taken, back into the brotherhood of Ilte,Uninn, lb as noble as their bearing wee heroic dm•tig the our—still nor Own heroic soldiers are the first to yield ho theta this mend of lice Now, eilitenx, dint seebs4ion in the `Soot It ne been overthrown, to It not both wsso and not that the J 1.411111011 usurper?, pt the North, ho, ntoon7 oNter nettrpattonchavo arroga- tad to themselves the control of the Union should be driven from power; and that the people themselves,in their sovereign capacity, should again take charge of the I Administration of the Government ' In ell free canntrien pnLhoul portion will and should exist: hut' he is a mistaken, if not a imilman, who stoke to create a great er love for party than for our country An yet,it us Only ibis word party—Way:tart lean tyranny which makes machines °fine°, and forces them to mental bondage, more igno ble and more corrupting then wan ever negro shivery—it is only, I say, the malign iodic coos of this word party which has prevented the usurpers who droy—not lead—the Re. publicene, from being driven from power. My friends, you say dint you are in favor of the resdornt ton of tile Union—how, that., ciit you net with men whose avowed purpose is its destruction' You say that you ore opposed to negro suffrage—how, then, eon you support the usurpers who propose to nip ne upon Ohio the penalty of partlaplis fra loch isement —I o reduce the representn t ion of Ohio, lit Congress—unless you will con sent to make negenes your social and petit mat equals Alt, yo.l nay that your party loin not declared fur negro suffrage in tie platform. Very true, but dui your platform of lust yent declare in favor of negro suf frage So; and yet the election once car ried, every Republican member of Congress from Ohio, and ilid iteptiblicen members from l wenty-foui States, by n two-thirds vole, carried bills through. the so-called Mouse of Itepresentetives,to confer suffrage on the negroeu of the District of Columbia, and the negroes of tlie territories And now my counirytnen,beliering ne I dojo the pa triotism mid intelligence of the greet body of the American people, irrespective of par ty:l appeal to you to follow the pet:sloth, lend of the patriotic °nisei.; of Wnshington and Ot egos and Nehmska,to rise above par ty, slit.' and in B.lllg our institutions, by hurling the usurpers front power And why, Ohioans, will you not exclaim, 411 hail Washington! All bail Oregon ' All hail Nebraska! All hail to the young but glorious trio—our frontier sisters of the mighty {Pest' [Cheers ] But you say you don't like lo act with Ole Democratic party—you don't like the name of Democrat Then for your country's sake, for your ehildren's sake, for your own sake, call yourself what you will, but rote and not a illi those who seek to save our country from bankruptcy—our institutions from lots/ rum,• • But why not, without evasion, not with the Democratic par .! During its admit, istrutton oft a ire of our Government, during a per f more than sixty yean, ours was the happiest and most prosperous land on earth. We were triumphant in two foreign ware, and the treason of Burr, the attempted insurrection of filmy, and the threatened nullification of Mx. Calhoun, wen all conquered by simply adhering to the Constitution, without shedding one drop of blood. Ido niql say this boastfully,lbut in the vindication of history ; forlin Dem ocratic party require. no elndieekon ; its record is our country's history. Look around you—hon few are those in this Vag assem blage who wore not represented during the late terrible conflict by father, brother or son And yet Franklin county gives more than two thousand Democratic majority; and as it was with this, so was it with every other county In Ohio. But you say, it might be better to organise a new party.— But why a new party I In point of num bers, the Democracy were sever so strong as at the present moment, nor so well orgeni -Our names describes the character of oar free institution/I,mnd while other parties have risen, &Perished for a brie/space, and then died and passed away, the Democratic petty has eoutinued,_to live, beam:re-di principles are Woee of eternal justice; be cause its life is theJife of the Constitution, and while It exists the Democratic party cannot die. And yet Ido not claim Infalli bility for the Democratic party, for Demo orate are only men, and all mortal men gre liable to err. But in its principles, 1 Jdo claim that the,Dentooratio party is infalli ble, and it site principle which constitutes the difference between parties. Then, bon pennant I:likens—ion who truly love the Union, as we agree in principle, let us act together. = Once upon Vitae, I read of a gallant ship which put to sea amid Vie perils Op fearful worm. A hurricane madly swept across the waste of water ; the angry thunder burst with convulsive shocks and"the lightning's red erre painted hell on the sky." The brave ship wee soon dirnantled , her hut weeks were swept away ; coning., and bin ken must, formed a tangled nuts. upon the decks, and the survivor. of the crew had abandoned the deck, but the lightning's flash revealed a solitary unit. stnniling by the shattered helm, with chart in It and.try iug to keep the ship above the wares, but determined that if she\ perished, be would not enrsive Sit now, too, in 'lilt terrible storm which threatens lo engulph our IMO i tuitions, with the Union chard in his hands, 4ndrear Johnson stands by the holm, de termined that while he tires the good ship Constitution shall in safety surmount the storm [Good, good 1 We of the Democratic party stand by this national pilot, not because lie belongs to our * party , not because we elated him , but lie -04115,1 he is right; and will not you who did elect him, stand by Jll/111.1011 and the Union for the same reason need 1101 003 to you. that our 00•10 01011 10 compu+ed 01 three branches—the executi VI, legislaijjc and judicial, and that no act dim besonfe 'law °oleos It receives the approval of the President, or II passed over his head by a two thirds vote by both Volt.. of Congress Yon also k now kite the (4.1,011111t0n explicitly dpec,lares, thavrin resolution or rote which requires, the cam otirrence of both 1100508 0701 1110 veto And yet the junto at Washington, composed of Repretteniatice• front twenty fiN 0 Staten, who hive usurped the rights anti powers of thirty six State., who have panned resolu tions, the object of which is to change the fundamental law of the land, and have sent 'them In ihe States, without the approval of the Preablent, and in flagrant •iolation of the letter and spirit of the Consittutton Then, Republican citizen., it ia-for you to determine whether you prefer to stand by Aldrew-Johneon, the President of your own °home, or whether you will take side, with the conspirators, who aim at the subversion of your liberties, by the destruction of the Coast itutton LEM= Now, my countrymen, let toe ask you, whether it is from desire that this Constitu tion and Uuinn of Mrs shall continue to exist as formed by our fathers ; or is it your wish that our country shall be reduc ed to Ills anarchy of Mexico, or the despot ism of Russia, or .Austria? It is laid down as a maxim by all great political writers, that there is but one of two methods of dealing withea rebellion The first may be called, the Plutonic, and, the second the Christiin plan liy theflrst pol- icy tali entire race of people who rebelled— incluaing men, women and children—would be totally exterminated, thereby forever preventing that people front again giving trouble The other policy in heeled upon the idea that a great eonr4leion never taken place without a eorretoponding cause, and that when the canna in removed, thin' quiet and older, and individual and public rights should be restored And by this moans make friends of those who before were ene mies. All writere.agree that there is no noddle ground—you toast be either as cruel and relent less as the moot ferocious savage; or be as forgiving and generous its a ehristian • nod any at i letnpt Of a middle policy to cer tain to lend to dinastrov consequences After a war of thirty years between Sam ciao and Rome, we are told by lavy, that the Roman Senate resolved to combine both consular armies and put no end to the war. But by an ingenious straiagem of Pontius the Samnite General, the Ramat armies were Induced to pass the I'nnadine Follett; and became inextricably involved between two defiles, while the army of the enemy surrounded them 'the Romans defied the Sainnitem to battle, but the Wier knowing that their enemy most surrender or perhili from otnrro , ion declined the combat Pon= hos called n council of war, which was un able to agree as to the true policy' to be pur sued By common consent, the elder Pon this, father of the commanding general alike distinguiehed for wisdom an for valor, was written to for his advice—lie being thought too old to visit the camp. The old atateentan replied: •.Make , the Romans your lciends. This can only be done by n generous policy: for they are as brave and haughty as ourselves. Then, instead of en emies, make them our friends, and Sam nium will become doubly strong—for we will then not only have our own strength, but also the streoffh t of Renne s " Ilut,,,the Sammie' were unequal lo an not of magna nimity—they must, at least, have the pleas ure of muttony the Romans Old Harem nine l'ontius was again consulted, and thin time he was hauled to the Samnite camp.— When told that the council had rejected his. advise, be said : "SlllOO, thee, you do, know how to be generous, you must Barn to be oruel, The Romans must either be injule our friends, or die. If too die. eitqt for you to be great, braping generous, then be wise, by destroying the enemy whom you refuse to make your friends, and although you will reader the name of Sam alum infamhus yet you will'aecure peace for several geperations, for Rome will be left without But the Brannites, incapable of a great and generous sotion, and shrinking from the in famy of • barbarous one, with the instinct of mall natures. resorted to a middle, and consequently, to au erroneous policy. The Roman army was not only deprived of its itices,,,,But, even to the consuls,their soldiers were stripped of all their olothing, save a shirt, and thus degraded were compelled to pass under the conqueror's yoke. With shame upon their brows, bit vengeance in their hearts,the Consular armies, naked and .1 rmed, returned to Rome. What was the result? All Rome—the very women. and the little children, yet in theiemothers' arms, all cried aloudfor death or vengeance• And instead of Rome becoming the friend of Remittal, as generous treatment would have made her—instead of Roman and Ram olio embracing with the embrace of broth ers, the war again burst forth with a more direful fltry, and only ceased after twenty five yearn of carnage, upon the total des truction of every Bainnite lowa and city, and the total eatirpstliou of the Remelts FT7.r;TN,T , T77"Fr''‘'"'!=rv BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, JULY -27, 1866. I will I,ot, citizen*. insult your pninotism or your intelligenoe, by ni.tliing cation of the moral of this'lrgend ol history Hut, let me ask. whether in the event of, tir becoming iii•olsed in wnr itgniti4 Fr and Englaitil—,vtl, their sisteeo lutteired 'seeds of war-4111..1,er, In such an event, we would 1,1 arty st.ronger by ti tying °levet; of (as r own :410104—our cintntryinen, who n o w extend to us the lintel of reconcilillloll —nrrat t ..,l gigs. lust us n 3 0110111 um • W hat would knee boon the result of the hue war brad Enginoll anti Frunze born untied with the Confederntos Is it not wise tv tie gen...mi. are WI. an menu Ihnt we are afraid in he jllBl 7112 CONNTIttiTION MUtur ASI. MIA!, 'lc PKIVIKUVRio ThIS M4lllllO Spirit of 11101111 , 111 . ;r1.1 emu i: meta of Indrem JSck+on, tor without the ZOlll4lllllllOl there C:1111 ho no Union. Then, ettisens, the only unention which we have In Izsk ourselves 111, ore we' wmally of being free' For if we ore no worthy,we will all rise . aho•e inure parttime consi.lin tie.. and think, and net, and vole for our country alone For Illy owe p tri.eitur.,rtsy heart in full of hope' 'through the gloom of the night, I are light bre tking,not from the east, lout frotirthe far off, I u yMing. the glorious neat (tor eolleirymen from the hunks of the Nlinnianippi nod the %11.sollrl. frorn the pooko of the Itacky Ilutuitaina and the dis tant shores of the Pectlie,lty the light ntog'o final) they Seed &lad tudioga of gre.ti joy nod-burl on hope' Who, then, man hour, dares In despair' Let Ito place (1011fideltee 111 (7011 . 11g0011110P8,1111.1 the patriotism of our people, and nil will yet he well' AWFUL SCENES IN THE SOUTH-- Women and C1.'111'471 Limy from Sairrati. —Amine ur Neoryou and .Ifaharna 06.er rat lons am( Experirners of •••• Eye Wane. In this femme stricken region—the Vonsa Valley—l passed n II tnb, of cabin., iiroott'r which were half a do,m nearly naked chil dren, but did not stop .at any of them till I hail reunited a point about three miles from the edge of the valley Several children, ranging in ago froth four to twelve years, and clothed only in what is wt cocoon for an, under garment, wore sitting around., while two, females were, with - etneelated, countenances, picking some wild vegetables in the vicinity, from watch to make a meal for themselves and suffering children I could not mistake their oorttlinion of desti tution, even at a glance. But I determined to hear their story from their own lips, and I accorlingly, halted my horse, and asked one of the families: ••Mititam, could you accommodate me with a dinner to-day I" She paused a moment, and I repeated the quest ion "God knows," said Nils, and tours began to trickle down her cheeks, I would not turn a stranger and a traveler away, but there Lee not been an ounce of meal in the house for five days; we and our chil dren linen lived entirely during that period upon boiled green' with neither salt nor pepper " !low many obtldren hate you • " I asked Three, suit this lady two • small, as you nee We have no way Is live: we cannot eren get need la plant nor gar• dean. how we 111 C 10 lire, (loch only known " ••Are your husbands dead " "Yes, boils were killed in the arm) " 'Do you never go into the valley plants lion for it'd ' I enquired ••les,Wlllii is the use rood with empLn lie She repented, ••tehtit is the tese .• They can du nothing for us ; they hate se.trcely anything left, with which to help them. eelyes With families to look after, how earn we mien n livelihood! • "But," I suggested "t lie !maple of Ten nessee, Kentucky, and the other Stales bare contributed liberally to aid you " "Yea ,- she responded, but we live .1 rat away. flue nearest point ill which we can get anyibing,ialluniere•ille, n kink is Iwen ly I will have to carry it on Ay back, and I am scarcely able to walk alone , tried to borrow a horse dow''n m ihe valley, but the man told me that the last home he bail, hail been taken by a negro, and that the agent,. of the Freedmen's Bureau, bad decided iLal the negro 'should keep it, and I woos compelled to abandon all hope " I hod taken the advice of the gentleman who told me to provide myself for the jour ney, and had in a sack a peek of meal for my horse, and in my saddlebags corn bread and bacoh for two days lat once gave all I bid to the family, knowing that I could reach Ounters•ille the following tlay,or even that night, by fast riding end my horse sub met on gross, of which, all along the way, there was an abundant growth. I had in tended to travel but a few miles each day, but now I determined• to go direct to Gun tersville, and make daily trips in the coun try, returning at night I have seen expressions of gratitude un der almost every circumstance. A hundred times have I seen the dying soldier on the battle-field breathe out bin last breath in gratitude for a drop of water to cool his parched lips ; but neverlid I see' no much fervency as On thin occasion; never heard I more eloquent prayer than al that moment fell from the lips Of that suffering woman At this point I left the scene. I could endure it no longer. I had heard of the suffering of the fatine striaken people, but raver never dida for • rampant picture to myself a tithe of the horrOrt spfead out be- Imme. I= was the next pereon I addressed. I bad passed all the buts for three miles, not de siring to give my nerves a seoond shook, that day ; but on the road I met an old, de. °Tepid female, clothed to a worn wrapper,of °oarse domestic, oarrying on her back • sack, in which was halls bushel of meal. "Madam," sold I, "you are voided, are you not you are 100 old to oarry ouob o load ~ 1 have toted it eighteen mile ; clear from Guntersville," said she. ....low kr do, you live from here," I aired. ••Nall • mile." "And you have carried this •11 the way from Guntersville: hod you no one to send P air," said the, '4 bad two sons wflo lived with me, end two more who bed fami lies living neer. 'They were all killed in the war,and, the wife ut one of them isdeall, 'and I hail to take care of hip four children, Ike °ldeal of whom 'weight years of age:- I had to carry tine clear trim rbintc.r.miir.or Warr: " linutened by tut ropolly 00 poestble to 01101,r•Vtlie, ttntil renehttl the town annul 'Ditto Ight. I Intl expected to rind the country over to *linens i4e ttethol cotoltilun' of the people . but I Intl no need of that I Intl Oct. eely re.tebod the Siert in the morning. before I 10111 representMlT, from eVOty section within circuit or thirty stoles, fro n iehioli I ctlulti obtain - as true it Omni.° of the prev.illorg destitution Its Witt poesilile frum an extended tour through the mytn lomi PIM! woy Palle 1 wax otanaing in Ant of the ho tel, I was approached by a 'piddle aged tb male, who inquired of Igo where was the place al winch rations were denli sill latakhe poor I prattled to Ille hOnae, hot before She departed I naked, ❑ow for Jo you live frourigiere • Thirteen miles." mall she • Is there touch suffering t here I in quireil Yes. err, you hare no Oen. of 114 en U. you go ...lough here tiinlte•e you' • le!, etrmettongh to keen tet from dying —that IS 1114101 of ..• ; .get a little meal— ow blew eke; oleo we tlonot expect , we are glad-lo get enough [twat to Loep us from dying "Where does this relief woe from • ' I sAced ••Bome from Tettnesser, and some fr Kentuck y " •'llow du you get It out home •" tiarry it on our books; we huts no litirses. They were token from us •luring the war by Fedeini soldiers who passed through out country Cr any were left du) , hate been 1111.01 out la the uegroes by the agents of the littreau. who uronose to pay for them but net••r do it " ••lluoe not the FrOC4/0/01/ a Bnrenu bey you a well no the negroes , " ..No: we get nothing bitt what the people of cool ions 01111. sintered less than ours be 4(OW upon .14 '. "Do you ever come litre gild hull nothing to.give nut! ' "Yes, sornoi intr., I !Now' a woman who Come sixteen tittles, otter having lived three days witheut anything, as site . gtive the small mitt she hod to her childreq,and then gut nothing. and had in walk all the way home She has since died "Are there ninny oases of starvation among you ?" t next inqqired .yes; the other day a woman walked 17 miles here for some food for her ' Befriend four children, and she rot a peek of meal ; but she was so exhausted that she died before she got home She was found kg the road-side and buried, and the neigh hors went to her house and found ono of her children dead." 'Why don'. the men come after the pro yhdons 1" I asked. -Why, there is not one man in ten fami lies." Wire the response: ••they were all killed, or died in the war " NO MEAT "TOUST I mel a boy about tblrteen years of age Carrying a peek of meal, and I asked .• !low far do you lure from the city" Five midea " "Are the people bad off there V "lee, we Ists•e lin.ll to live on Ilse corn until given us; we hive had no meat in our horse since Itagust List, and the Lord kilo we when we shall linve any more " "Do you get corn meal enough s ' • "Nu, tor ~we thou I average mare than a perk II week,and Ihere lore four of Its in the Gaudy ' .•Where is your fol her was killed al Nll4llOll Ridge —Aro iloe people armtiol y ou as bad oil 1118 you ore Vey, air, some are worse otf ; and only a few are better oti ' —Boo did you get along before the wy ' ••%'ery wall , we 11.11 k good house, bur II WWI burial by ihe Northern soldiere,ond ov• eryibing we had was .rr.ed off by then, " ••What did you do '" "We had, a little farm, but our horsed were token slang will. everything else, and we are now too poor to buy others or get implements to work with In plane of the ones destroyed when the soldiers went through our country " I could fill columns with particulars as heart-rending as these. I conversed, with at least no hundred persons during my may. which lasted until the morning of the 4th of June, and all of them trace aimounts as doleful its those narrazeil I mode inquiries of different-parties well informed on the condition of affairs. and :hey estimated that in five counties south of the Tennessee river there smile at least twenty thousand perso n a bordering on a state of starvation! —Correspondant phtcaga Trabeme, (A twill tow) LLTTNR OF PILKIIIOUNT JOHNSON tis TUN TAMMANT lista. Dareessur:—The Fallow ing is the letter of President Johnson decli ning nu invitation to be preseni'st the cell'. bration of the Democricy at Yeoman, Hall, New York, on the 411. of July Execurivs Mckstoy, W•stnittrrow, D. C , ✓ltfy 2, 1866. Ellt—l thank you for the cordial invita tion of the time-honored Society of Tamma ny, to participate with them in the celebra tion of 'be approaching anniversary of our National Independence. The national tone and patriotic spirit of the invitation inert my hearty approval. They aro indioationeof growing sentiment which, now that the bitterstrlfe of civil war has ceased, requires • renewal of the pur suits of peace, a return to the Constitution of our fathers, rigid adherence to Its prin ciples,oincrcasid. revirence for its sacred obligalinqs, a restored,-invigorated and per manent liaipa, and a fraternity of feeling that shall make us, as a people, one and in dissoluble. There ass be, for the pairiot, no higher ditty, no nobler work, than the obliteration of the passions and priljudieslf which, resulting from our late sanguinary conflict, have retarded reeonelllatlon and prevented that complete restoration of all the States to their oonatitutional relations with the federal government, which is es sential to the peace, unity, strength and prosperity of the nation. Regretting that my public duties will not permit me to be present at your celebra tion, I am, very respectfully yours. Assam Josses:l. To the Hon. John T. Hoffman, Sc. —Swimming is one of the regular bran: ohee of a Honolulu female boarding school. A profemorablp In ope of those institutions would be a very desirable ”posiab.' NEW ENGLAND THE BIRTH-PLACE OF NULLIFICATION AND SECESSION. From it pungent opnech recently delivered uy Wit II W Hanna, of Indinnn nt Lou isville, Kentucky. lit' Innke the ronowing MEM • N 111116.111011 was horn on the. very 'Sap of the same Now England States whose pill: pus are now so prolific of austhemosagoinet secs++muiet e, and whose men end women doily sopphieate Atonality fiod for the sweet privilege of washing their hands in the blood of Jefferson Davis [Voiees—••That to so, that's so," and cheers I The history of the eynorry bears meow in this slate merit, and no man eon oiteeessfully deny it Lel us nerd over a few pages and see how ii I hold in my hood the adarese published by the famous convention held at Hartford, thimiectient, on the 15111 day or January, ISIS Masiiachipietts, Now Ilanipithire, Conneetteoh Rhode Island and Vermont were nll represented it. that convention Among the names of those who represented Masmchuselts, I see the name of Samuel Sumner, who, mom likely at the some lime, transmitted his. name and hi. treason to Charles Sumner, the prevent Senator from !hilt State [l.aligliter and applause ] But that wan ilonlifilens before the•Stithncr ftimi ly had %`/wised to make. , treason callow; [Great laughter ] If you ,will indulge nte. sir. I will remd a single extract from that address: • Event. may prove that the douses of oar ealnmittee are deep and permanent. They nist, be found to proceed not merely front she blooluese of prejudice, pride of opin ion, violence of party spirit, or the entifit Ilion of the times, but they may be traced to implacable combinations of indi•idnale, or of glatbs, to monopolize power and office and to trample without remorse npon the rights and intetevts of commercial rest in," of the Union Whenever it shatl tippetnr that these causes one rntlical and permit nest, a Reparation by equttable arrangement will be preferable to nn alliance by con straint. among nominal friend, but real en cones, inflamed by nwtord hatred and jeal ousy, and inviting. M intestine ilivintons, contempt and egressions froniabroad ' Ilere, •ir, the right of a State to secede from the Federal Union was promulgated ttt New England as ninny as fifty years ago A GOOD HIT. The following racy examtnntion of a. can didate for adinmion to the bar is taken from the Western Law Journal, and in decidedly a good hit : '•Do you awoke, air 7" ••lime you a awe cigar 7" "Yea. air," [Extending a ehott eta ] , •Now, mr, what is the first duty Vs law yer ?" "To collect fees " "Right. What is the second ?" "To motase•the number of his olients." "When does your position towards your client change*" "When making n bill of coots " "Explam "We then occupy the antagonistic post. lion I ansurnit the character of plaintiff, and he becomes the defendant." "A suit decided, how do you stand with the lawyer conducting the other side Cheek by jowl " ••Enotigli, sir, you promise to become an ornament to your profession, and 1 wish you success Now,are you aware of the du ty yon owe me*" "Perfectly " ••De‘cribe it" wit is lo ash you to drink " "BO suppose I decline*" Cniulidate scratches his head —There Is no instance of the kind on re cord in the booke cannot answer that questlon " •lou tire right, and the' c infidenee with which you make the Orsertiou shown yo have rend the law attentively Let's talc. the drink, out I will sign your certificate' SHORT OF MEMORY The abolitiontat a, in addition to their me ny oilier- fauna art of late acquiring one which 10411tilea rather convenient: Th ey arr ' fuswy ()MI tnrrn . Some of the must. ,portant thins in the history albs world —to ings that transpired almost within a year, they are either losing recollection of, or getting en confused on the subject, as to get them completely reversed For instance many of them are wow fully of the notion that the' Copperheads succeeded in the late presidential election, and that Johnson was elected by the Copperheads,that hie admin• istration is a Copperhead miritinidffation, and that all the officers [mar him are Cop perheads They forget that they elected Johuttou , that the Copperheads had no hands in the matter; that hundreds and thousands of Copperheads were maltreated, denounced, mobbed, and some even mur doted for refuting to vote for Johuson.— These same abolitionists who only one year ago shouted so loud for Johnson--rod voted as they shouted—are now filling their lot peroapd running their legs off to find op portunttie• to abuse Jffithion, tbe name as if he had been our candidate and were now our . President. We tell them in seriousness and,good faith that tAry voted! for Johnson and elected him. Don't they recollect when be was on Mitr ticket with Old Abe ; that they burnt ile and organized Lincoln and Johnson Loyal League'? How very short their memory is.—Br. —The following purports to be a medloal puff: "Dear Doctor—l .ball be one hundred and seventy-fire years old next October. For over eighty-four years I have been an invalid, unable to step, except when moved with a lever. But a year ago I heard of the tiranionlar Syrup. I bought a bottle, smelt the cork, and found myself a man. I can now run twelve miles and a half varitiouf." —!}lope hey' been taken In Louisville towards the election of delegates so the Ph iladelph la. Coavention. —A robber's care 'ban been discovered in Cornwall, New York,fitted up with beds, cookiog utensils, 31 --The wire worm isiii7troging Virgin ia °out, and the potatoe bug la eating the Virginia potatoes: ? —Th Worm. or Greene oouttly, Po..havo n ' isd General Grout for Pros Went lo I . ss-• • --Brownlow it o rattle-snake, with the retitle at the wroth' end of him. NO. 29. GOOD TEMPER There's not a (longer thing on earth, Nor yet one half v., dear; Tie worth more than disiinguish , d birth Or thousands gained a year It lend. the day a nesoilelight,• "fie Virtue's firmest shield , • And adds more beauty to the night Than arle•liti eters ran yield. % /It uinketL pot ert3 umteu t, To norroar, whispers yens.. It is a gift from h !Cut • For mortals to increase It meets) 1111 with a Mile at inurn, it telbe you to repose. , A Mower for peer and peasant torn, an everlasting rose. A charts, to banish grief away, To snatch from brow the rare, Turns tears to smiles, makes dullness gay Spread. gladness everywhere. And yet 'lig cheap AM summer dew That gems the lily's breast; A talisman fur love, as true An et er msf) . pufsresed. As PlUitAbei 1.11161/W. through the cloud, When threarning storm begins-- Al music 'mid the tempest loud, That still 1m sweet way won.— As spans at, arch across the tide Where w v., conflicting, foam,' Sit come, this seraVh to our sole. This angel to our home. What may this Wondrous spirit be, With power unhiant before-- ~ T his charm, this bright divinity Good Temper—nothing more. Good 'Temper—'tis the china est girt That woman homeward brings. And can the poorest peasant lilt Tin bliss unknown to kings. _ . THIS, THAT AHO THE OTHER —Et cry bird pidaiirit ail with ita lay, astie Ily tha ben —A nicer chain around allog's neck will M 1 keep him from barking or h tmg. —lt is understood that Clement! Sick!es will cept the inismion to the Hogue —Kirby Smith is in Lexington, Kentucky, o gum.' of General ham Preston. Arnoutn• —lt to not the arntsb upon rriage that gives it motion to strength. —lt i• stntal that the Confederate tleneral Early is preponng.► Itedwry of hot campaign, —Sidney Everett, son of Edward Everett, him married bliss Kitty Fay, a Volition Wrens —Neither Wee curb, taletteieth, (aloe calves or ei en false eyes are se lieAe false trgues —Ueneral Lee thinks he 1.11 hare three hundred students at Washington College next session. -.-4-17 , 1te JOUrtleyllloEl pluton:Ml of hleosphte , Tennessee, demand et: dollars • day after the 10th of July, - —The wheat crop of -North Carolina it said be an averageone. Corn and potatoer prom . alarge yield. —Senator reseenden lost half him property, aFluding his •doable papers and library, by he Portland are. —The Cosmopolitan say. that Hon. Milliard Fillmore and lady have just left Part. on' their way borne to America. —An old lady being asked to subscribe for a newspaper declined on the ground that when she wanted news she m►nulactured it. ---Tkp Republican Convention of the State Blaine on Thursday passed strung resolutions favor of negro suffrage. Stick a pin *era —A nosegay is assily 'obtained. Four brandy toddies • day will soon put you in the way of one that will astonish all your friends, --Senator Lane died at Leavenworth, Kan sae, on the 11th instaht, front the streets of the pistol shot be inflicted on himself the week be. —A car tinier in New Ork•ns killed • man by striking him on the lead with • loaded whip, for tutting on his car Ath • cigar in his hand. —President Johnson has handed to Bishop otter, of ti.itith Carolina, his cheek for SUMO n aid of the Theological, Institute in that I= —The negro troops on the Red river to Texas are enjo)ing a carnival of robbery and murder. They have become a terror to friend and foe. —Hon. J. 11. Kea t on, late Confederate Postmaster ileueral, was married on the 31st ult., to Mien Mollie F. Taylor, of Anderson county, Texas. —Kossuth has, it to mid; ieveard a great number of Inritations front Hungarian. to put himself at the head of a revolution in Hungary now that the war has broken out. —The " National Johtmon Club," Iron Montgomery Blair, President, and the "Nation 1 al Union Club," W. Randall, President, jtav been oonsolidated at Washington City. —A man In Philadelphia has been sentenced to four years Impiisoninent and die payment or $lOO fine for biting off • policeman's none. Ile will hare a long time in which to chew his Lite. boy at Or!mum. Massachusetts, lately coughed up the leg of • porcelain dull. It had been in his lungs foE seven Jean, and all that time he was thought to be ill of consumption. —Robert Carrol, of Vliinnamac, Indiana, has • natural curiosity— a singing mouse. It is small., and almost jet black. It sings like • Canary bird, and is the wonder of every be bolder. —The tears we shed for those we lose are the streams which water the garden of the heart. Without them it would be dry and bar ren, end the gentle flowers of affection would perish• —The Nair Orleans Picayune aneouncee the arrival there of the Moans Able, from 81. Louie, laden with provisions for the suffering poor of Alabama, to whom, it says, they will be god-send. —The receints of lumber daring the lilt week at Chicago were 18,329,000. The demand from the weei,►ad retuthweet .1111 contineee ai eeedtngly active, and the market thew. no eigrui of abaternenL honored—A Vienna eorreepood• eat of the New York Mersa save that Gemmel McClellan is the only foreign military other of say note who Is allowed (memos. at the Aus trian military headquarters. --If we would have powerful minds, we meet think ; if we would have faithful hearts, we must love; if we would bare ionsOlee, we must labor ; and them three—thought, love and labor—ineludeall that Is valuable In 116. —By alb- gaallllaa may a fool be knows— sager without owe. opewat without yeah, amp without ototive,hequtry without ea af loat, putting Bust to u amigo?, mud treat Or hopseity to dioethemato betwees u Mead sad ftw. —Often se it has lass, ehtuged that Gamy la in favor of neva andrage and neve equality he bu yet dulled It. Let every voter re member that. Should Osnry be skated Goveraor, tha ad. figre l a biL 'ansayirsais wi ll vote for hi. snow 9. —The post mottos. szassissation of . nal girl, steel seven Olin, who died la EstitieholiN Conn., renroslod oho fast• that her death was mums' by particles which had boos Netts from her liner nails. Thsy were resliewod, sad etlekint into the Ades of bar stomach, sassed nieorstion, mad dead sausol. CLYNIA AND THE Sokimps. The Disunionist', ever sine. Mr. Clymer'' nomination, have been heralding far and wide the charge that his record in the State Senate, daring the war, a it *games the sol diers. That !hie was a •iliainous dander, without the least foundation in fact, was well kuown'to every person wbo had kept himself posted in legislative ploceedlngs ; Hut the messes of the people, and especially the soldiers thmesselves, (who, while ka the army. had but Wilt tipporturally to 'once closely the doings o$ each mend: of the isegielatore,) were not posies!: tad as a consequence a great many accepted this hue mad cry as truth. The editor of the Bedford 0 rattle, himself a member of the Legisisturejuswever, takes the eland down in the following pungent and conclu sive style: •'\ nice little dodge. gentlemen, cromlech yott nt, hut it Would be more creditable to you, though steno eerefeierble, if you would icsore . n little higher regard for the truth ! Ili° record of Mr. Clymer which you ore eirsulming, Meteors. pro variention (Twit beginning to yid Your object is to prejudice the soldiers mad their friend, opine, Clymer, by rnierepreeeming hie noun while! . In the Senate Mr Cly mer in no instrooe Toted ngninet the inter- est, of the soldier. Ile ruled fur Mt amend- went to permit *olden• to rose an lA. army We will bind ourself to pay to the chairman of the Disunion Hiate rommiliee one hun dred dollars on gold, if we cannot %how Mr Clymer's name reeorded in favor of that amendment The record which you prii iinee in that of 181:1, when the Denioerale used to vole for Mr vormderatoon of any measure rotlttoe.l 'in the Senate; beeeume ibefpeaiter or the" lam Senate Jtad usurped the clair, and those rho voted to proteret rah legislation recognized his usurpation as a ngh- got act, which 11.0 Denmorals could not Ind would not do. Dui otter the election of lew Speaker, the very same measures 411 eh the Democrats refused to consoler so tg as the chair was occupied by a usurp were voted for by Mr. Clymer and his associates Let it be undefatood, now and henceforth, that the record of Vr Clymer, published,Sty t.be Disunion State Committee, nod OWN being scattered over the country, is a mere garbling of the proreedatge of the Senile, and fails. In any fostance to inform the reader that it was only during the usur potion of the choir by the Speaker of the former Senate, that Mr Clymer refused to vote for the consideration (mark you, not on the nwrili, but simply for the considera iron) of any matter introduced in the Sen ate. and that after the usurpation was at an end, he (Mr. Clymer) did vote for the interests of the soldiers throughout, and en celled some of the .•Itepublican" Atm aloes to account for not doing tie some. Gentleinen, we wantoand will have fair dea ling in this matter Yon are trying to play an unfair game, and you trust to popular prejudices to bear you out in the trick. But we appeal from your false and garbled state ments to the record Welt We say that we will pay one hundred dolls,n to gold, to coy man who asks us, it we cannot show by the record,' that Mester Clymer seta] far the smendatantia give the soldiers a right to vote in the army, and that he also voted to Inmate the pay.of soldiers in the se rvice. Here is a standing offer that will not be withdrawn during the camilaign." MAIITI/01. 81111TIIMIT.--001. Galloway, of the Memphis Agaland., whose Wore la as gentle as It Is brave, thus alludes to a reoent tribute paid by Southern women-to the memory of their gallant dead: "It woe d touching and beautiful thought that prompted our Southern wirnee to IRK— sport the anniversary of the surrender for wreathing with flowers the graves of our noble dead. Mother Nature appreciates the holy motive, and each returning Spring, with noiseless footsteps, will acme with bar (direst flowers to the shrine of sacred mem orise. Yes, upon that . day the sunlight will linger more lovingly near the lowly mounds—the twilight deco will fall more gently upon their turfy beds—thelsoft night winds will murmue more musically around their mossy pillows—am pale-Awed moon will throw her silvery beams, like s t balo of glory, on the still, solemq earth; and the silent stare, like calm, angel watchers, wilt keep their sad, holy vigils above the peace ful and. Then, while Southern women live and Southern flowers bloom. the names of A4llO/1 and] Focuser cannot fade from the earth.. Weep on, ye tender night 'ows ; the ead that wrnps their clay le wor thy of your holiest tears,•O, heavenly night! Let thy song be softer, bird of the wild: I wood. for It Is meet. that thy glad notes should melt to sadness over the g departed worth." A NATIONAL PECTElas.Thei Richmond Tomei mikes the following suggestion 'here ie, w• believe. Will a PAR' in tha rotunda of lb. Capital at Waah logien, -which patiently serails its inevita ble tale in the form of some hideous daub of • national painting. It is lb. panel next to that. fantods "shin piece," where the talent of the artist nes exhausted in paint• tog the well•dereloped legs 6t the signer's of the Dehbtration of ludependenee. As the Jacobins areijdubtless..proud of the late.. triumph of American valor "over a feeble, old and helpless prisoner, let Congress ap propriate $llO,OOO for a gigantic painting of the 'Placing Elitacits upon Jeffarspo Davis." ' It is a magnificent subject for . an:sectim. • plished artist. The cold, damp, cheerless cell, the small Iron bedstead, the fragment of mouldy bread; the overturned tin imp of dirty water, the bold menu& of a dozen stalwart, armed soldiers upon a beide old Paleper, the heavy manacles and the up- UMW illadka•batataar of theltereulesn black smith, Ire splendid materials for a great national ploinra. As a certain pootio li-• cense is allowed to artists, Head-turnkey Mileenhould be Introduced, looking at this noble and inspiriting exhibition of Ameri eau valor end kumenlly, through a double. barred window." Tama or IT —Via Preoduam's Bureau wblob was passed by the radical Geary party in Navel% but fortuastely vetoed by the Troaldwoh, proposed to spend about one hundred million dollars annually for the bone& of tit. Masks. ThM would have bees at the rata of- about IN per howl for ea* whits maw wow end o►lid la dm °matt, or gloat >6 for wish voter sans ally. Alf the sapport of tin et peen. Jehs W. (Mary is is favor of 'mahlhdi OW bill a am,--iterithror. , _ Charlotte Oustetra gill abortly eel. *brats the 110th aselvereary of her birth. nosy tomato Is to hif '4oth :rest. Kole B►tewa is 24. .795, Doss Isll6. MM. too Celeste IA 61. Mrs. Jame bilged is 66. Salts Deodet Barrow big:. filith eau Mosbeek ) 27 Areal* hisei2lB Reirsole Iffre Mrs. Versos Is ties* TO,. Mn. J. 12. Allen is 22. itiiddismilksSiipiss Is 22—sud Is rousgem ..14411110081r en the stage. Puss is M. , Mato gaNiot 26. Maggie Mitchell 80. ' -414At0 Awl ord4 hi 0 " the pottosro right w getoolk