THE CHARGE BY THE FORD
Eighty and rano, with their y,aptain, -
Rode in the enemy's track,
Rode in the grey of the morning—
Nine of the ninety came back.
Slow roes the mist from the river,
Lighter each moment the way;
Carole.. and trade.. and (earl...,
Galloped llt f e,y en to the fray.
Singing in tune how the scabbards
Loud on the stirrup irons rang,
Clicked as the rnen_gpee in eaddlecei,
Fell, is they sank, with n clang.
What is it mores by the river,
Jaded and merry end week 7
Orey-hocks—a CroPl on their banner—
Yonder the tpe whom they seek.
Silence' (hey coo not, they bear not,
Tarrywg there by the merge;
Forward' draw *adore Trot! (lollop!
Charge! like a hurricane, charge'
Ah! 'awns a man-trap Infernal!
Fire like the deep pit of hell,
Volley on volley to meet them.
Mined with the grey rebel's yell
Ninety hell ridden to battle,
Tracing the eneiniee
Ninety bed ridden to Loath,;
Nine of the ninety enine hack
Uonnr the nine of the ninety,
Honor the heroes who Caine
Heathless hone 11,e hundred muskets,
.Safe from the lend-bearing Ilene.
Eighty end one of . tho troopers
Lie on the fleld of tho slain—
Lie on the red field of honor—
Honor the nine who remain
Cold are the dead there and gory,
There where their life-blood was split
Beek come the nine with each sabre
,Red from the point tolls hilt
Out watt three cheers and it tiger'
Let the flap wave av they come '
Oive them the blare of the trumpet'.
Give them the roll of the drum!
Guard
- SXLEIVVWfTCHCRAFT
In the present dab any very ill-looking
or deformed person has only the mconvi
cave or pain of hie misfortune to bear. In
the present day, also, old women are re
spected for their age, and are accounted a
worthy class of the community People,
to day, are as likely As ever to have moles,
warts or squints, but having them, are
rather happier than they would have been
in the seventeenth century, inasmuch as
they then were in danger of peio g pro
nounced witches. To haves wart or a mole,
or to squint, was, in the neighborhood a
Salem, Massachusetts, at that time, to be
marked by the Evil One as his property.
To be an old woman tuns to be almost posi
tively% witch
Al. having been decided upon by all
highly respectable people, an individual
who not only was unhappy enough to bean
old woman, but who also had n mole on her
left cheek. wits peculiarly liable to suspi
cion, and such a person resided not far
from Salem, in a JiPle house with one room
and a loft, a long, toppling chimney, and
no particular window.
She wen by no means an ilthorent women,
and cams of a respectable family, and al
though, she hod, since an early disappoint
ment in love, been rather peculiar, and had
not forgiven the part her brothers took in
the Mir, nor lived on the best terms with
them, each had loft her a small legacy ;
which, hoarded for years, now insured her
an humble independence for the remainder
of her days She had bought the queer
little 'louse and lived in it alone, ease for
the companionship of a cat. Iler furniture
consirted of a table, two chairs, something
which, at that date, was a bedstead, a feath•
er bed, a three legged stool, a Bible, a big
iron pot, a frying pan, sundry cups and
platters, and a broom
The neighborhood felt certain that, line
stormy night, old Dante Wimple and her
cat, mounted astride on this broom, rode
about the village, seek whom 'she might
injure, and that the form in flannel cap end
gown, tucked up between blankets in her
bed, was Bel:chub, WA assumed her like
num for the purpose of deceiving inquiring
mon lab As yet nobody had caught Dame
Wimple at her tricks, but people geheVrally
expected she would be detected soon, and
Squire Garret, of the Stone house on the
lull, was constantly on the watch for her
The little girlit ran when Dame Wimple
,in_her red cloak and queer little black hood
appeared. The boys bid behind wells and
hedges and threw stones at her Maids and
matrons ducked her propitiatory courtesies,
as ono might to tine devil, hoping therefore
to escape her clutches ; and fat, be wigged,
be spectacled old gentlemen looked at her
gravely, as who should say ,
that slow-going, old womanish pox.
ing over the read is ammined to deceive WI
Mistress Wimple. You were, as you well
know, astride a broomstick at twelve o'cloc . k
last night, and we shall catch you soon
You can't deceive its. We arc birds much
to old to be calight i by ,chaff Mistress
Wimple "
Perhaps Dame Whimple guessed some
thing of this. Perhaps now and then, when
they threw an old woman into the water,
on the principle that if she were a witch
she would float, and they might, with safe
consciences, burn her, end if she were no
witch she would drown then and there, re.
oeiving no aid from Satan, it entered her
mind that it might be her turn next, but
she never said anything on that subject or
any other That fact. and her seldom en
tering one's door, saved her ono i But
there was one threshold Dome Wimple of
ten crossed—that of Madame Hull, who
lived with her young daughter Gerturde,on
the estate left her by her husband.
She , was an elderly lady, who had once
been a besitity,and who mentally, was made
of wax, tole molded to any fofm by one of
stronger mind. Igor Puritan husband had
made a Puritan of her ; if he had been a
hlobommedan she would have been as easi
ly convinced of his faith, did U l ises lucky,
for her that, on the whole, ehmhad fallen
into good hands, and bad beim kindly,
-though firmly, patted Into an exemplary
matron, an excellent housekeeper and reg
ular attendant at her place of worship.
Since •her widowhood she continued the
old routine, and held upon every subject
the precise opinion which the'late Ebene
zer Hull had told her she must have.
Now, Ebenezer Hull had never spoken
about Dame Wimple,never having seen her,
and 'having some peculiar doubts on the•
subject of witches in general. Consequent.
ly, when young Mistress Gertrude chose to
take a palvonzing fancy to Dame Wimple,
Madade Hull accepted the decree, and said
of course not.
So it came lo pass that as the ladies sat
at work In their little private room, Dame
Wimple sometimes came to sit with them.
In her way she had beet about the world
more than was the wont of woman at that
time, and could tell them strange things,
to which they ,listened curiously. Then
there were storks of wooing and winding,
and of adventure, 'which, to those who nev
er read a morning newspaper or a novel,
were interesting beyond our conception,anci
she had recipes for heallpg, balms and
ioulticea, and physics yalnable and rare.
In return she received gift• of food, deli
mits and garments, and gindly words,
which were even more vsluithle to her, and
the three were, in • measiA, triads. One
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VOL. XII
liter sometime■ eat amongst them-a young
man—fourth or flftd consin to Mies Gert
rude, by name Joyce Colwell.
This relittionship admitted him to inti
macy, and he improved his opportunity by
falling in Jose with Gertrude. Ile had his
way to make in the world, and .was but
young, yet Madame Hull never thought of
disapproving of the match How could she
tell what Ebenezer would have her to do!
Mistress Gertrude liked him, and Mistress
Gertrude had her *ay, and would hove had
it untirthe wedding day crowned the low
ers' hopes, but for the" fat, wheezing, hyp
ocritical Squire Garret.
One Monday he lode lover to Madame
Hulls and, dismounting,' requested to see
that lady alone Meeting her, he opened
his business at wpm The fact of the mat-
to was that Le bad seen Mistress Gertrude
on sundry occasions, and admired her love
ly face and buxom form Ile said that he
bad taken the matter of a second marriage
into prayerful colealtleratton, aid bad in
the night been visited by a vision of the
late El cower, who had said
'•Squire Garret, I desire thee to take my
daughter to wife."
This news startled Madame Hull
"I think Ebenezer should hare told me,
No," said she, half doubtfully.
"It was in the providence of things the
he vtvien should be 'revealed to me rather
ban unto thee," said the Squire.
Mrs. Hull put her handkerchief to her
4.th.
It will bas sore blow unto them."
she
"Unto whom," asked the Squire
"Unto Gertrude and Joyce, who are
pledged to each other, and who do love
elicit other well," said Aladame Hull
"The ways of the young are folly," said
the Squire "
"host thou think Ebenezer knew?" ask
ed llnlame Hu • • • •
"Doubtless," said the Squire, "for in
my visson I did hear him aeyr.Tliou art
better for her than the wordly youth she
Lath chosen.'"
"Ile must have known," said Mad
er. II "And yet thou art eight and fifty
years old, and Gertrude in but seventeen.
But I could never quite understand Ebene-
"Thee wi!l not dimbey thy husband
Dahl the Squire
"I have never been an ill wife," said
Mrs Hull, with dignity "1 will tell Gell
trude of her father's will," and she retir
ed, sobbing
The Squire, content, rode airay”on his
gray bor..
Madam... Hull rushed lo:Oertrude's cham-
Illiit`where dolt damsel was plaiting a ruff
for a throat too white to be no covered, and
flung hervelf upon her bosom
'•Gh, Gertrude," she said, "thy father
has. revealed it in a vision to Squire Gar
ret that lie is to take thee to wife. My
heart bleeds for thee, poor child, and for
my dear Joyce, but we must obey."
Gertrude dropped the ruff and asked pity-
I millers.
'lle did ride thither on his gray more to
tell nie of the vision with Ina own lips,"
said Madame Hull
Thereupon Miss Gertrude laughed
Ile linth had no vision," said she
Now, bethink thee, mother It is but a,
falsehood I will have no Squire, but only
Joyce, my trite lover, and that I tell thee "
But Madame 11011, for once in her life,
was obstinate
'Thou shalt not disobey thy fittliq, es
pecially when he hoilt bikes the trouble
to ripper, in a •ision," she said "Say
farewell to Joyce and welcome Squire Gac.
rot, though it will be hard, I know "
And thereupon mother and daughter hod
a quarrel—their first one In its middle
entered Dame Wimple She was a brave
old wentau„ and sided with poor Gertrude
"Love is love the world over," said she.
"It is not to be expected that the young
lady woull take kindly to no old n man,
with a young and handsome one belonging
to her Ile both bad no •teion, that wick
ed old man,only that of Mistiess Gertrude "
.•fiat at the vision were true," sajd Mad
rime Hull. "Oh, Dame, I should be afraid
to go to heaven, which I have heretofore
hoped to win, if for once I did as Ebenezer
desired not, and, alas! how wroth he was.
No, thou must wed the Squire, Oertrude "
And with these words she folded her
bends and sat silent
Dame Wimple sat with them awhile long
er, and even concocted a soothing draught
to cure the nerveous headache both ladies
had by this time Wept themselves into, and
when she departed she turned to Madame
linll and said solemnly :
'Lady, TieDein - one who has seen many
villinne in her day Squire Garret has but
lied unto thee. Ile is a bad, bad man-,-an
will one,' indeed, to ... try to win thee to his
will by such a falsehood "
And Madame Hull wept all the more,and
pulled both ways—believed Dame Wimple
for nn hour, and then turned back to her
old faith, and believed Squire Garret.
/ That night Mistress Gertrude knelt to her
mother.
"Thou wilt never bid me wed the Squire,
she plead„ 'knowing how I love Joyce.;,'
And her mother answered
"I will melee thee obey thy father if both
thou and I and poor Joyce do die for it."
"Blame thyself, then, and not me," said
Gertrude, as she went to her own chamber.
That night the wind blew, and the rain
11, and the shutters of the Louse flapped
• d creaked,and the trees without groaned.
was • night such as we seldom see—a
ght, those said who wore alive then, for
itches to be &brood In the morning Ger-
trude was gone Her bed ~bad not been
slept upon. Her window was wide open,
and the rain had beaten in at it all night.
No one had heard or seen her since she
left her mother with the words we have re
corded. The news abroad, and first at the
door to hear the truth was fat Squire Gar
ret. The mother, weeping, told him that
her child had fled.
'lCl:lowest thou why It" asked be
Then knowing already, and sogry at the
knowledge, he asked, quickly :
"Whom saw she last ?"
'.Only Dame Wimple," said Madame
Hull, Innocently, 'who mad* us a draught
ind talked with us."
"That old witch I" said lho43qUire.
“Nay, she II no witch," laid Madame
••We will prove that," said the Squire
What said she I"
"That thy •isioa was all a lie," said the
Maiiame.
"Said she that 1 ' cried the Squire.=
"Well, I know the truth, Madame ;
that witch bath calla spell over thy child,
and born her away In the storm last night
that she might serve Satan rather than such
in holy man as I She shall confess it."
IND shrieked, partly with dies
for peer Dame. Wimple, partly at the sug
gestion Garret stalked away.
That day more than a derep witnesses
were found to swear that Dame Wimple had
been seen Eying through the storm with
Gertrude before her upon her broomstick.
To be sure they had not been positive as to
witch or victim, but they knew now who
they must have been Se flint night a
troop of wiseacres besieged Madame Wim
ple's cottage, and bade her come out. She
came, terrified by their savage look♦.
"What want you with me gentlemen!"
said she.
Squire Garret answered :
"Thou art accused of boring borne Mis
tress Gertrude Hull away from her Cour
last night in the storm. There are man,
worehy cuisens who new thee, no deny it
not, but come quietly to await thy trial,
thou evil witch "
Old Dame Wimple wrung her hands
•"Mack a day t" enid elle, “I cannot ride on
any borne, let alone a broomstick in
, and wherefore should I fly away with
a maiden who han done me no harm, were
I ever no vile a witch "
-“That Satan, who is thy master, alone
can answer,” said the Squire ; and they
dragged the poor woman away to jail to be
tried.by those who were so mire of her con
viction that they had already prepared the
stake for her burning.
Madame !full wept and wrung her hands.
Nothinecould make her believe that Dame
Wimple was ate evil creature. That, said
the Judges, !was because site bad also tasted
the witch draught brewed for the vanished
girl, arid they treated her as a temporary
insane person when she knelt to them, de
claring it to be her belief that Gertrude had
flown of her own freewill, and not because
of any spell onet upon her
They made their mockery of a trial in the
court room. Dame Wimple confessed to
brewing the draught, but avowed that it
was harmless! She declared that al night
she had slept in ber own bed. Did. any
4 ,witeb would have made such decitirti . tions.
They put her to torture to wring a confes
sion from her, audio discover the where
, abotill of Mistress Gertrude; nad, finding
this useless, conveyed her to the stake,and
there proceed to lipht the fire about her
Good people came to see the sight, and
stocil about in their sad colored clothes
and i peaked hate, hoping to benefit their
souls by their presence at the burning of
a witch ; and Squire Garret felt glad at the
chance to punish somebody A pious elder
thus address the victim •
"Accursed witch, dont thou now cunfess
thy evil deeds V
"I have nothing to confess save the sins
wo ore all heir to," , _
"Nay, thy hardihood cannot help
now," said ilia man,honestly believing that
be spoke to an evil creature with fiendish
powers. In mercy to thine Own soul tell us
where we shall find Mistress Ge . itrude "-
"That I inow nut," saill the old woman;
"I bad no hand in her flight."
The elder groaned The flames began
to. play about the faggots.
"Thou has not many moments, witch,"
he said. "Again I say, in mercy to thy
self, take the spell from the niniden, and
restore her home, and confess thy crime
and thy dealing with Satan.
Then the old woman, clasping her with
ered linnils, said .olemnly
"I have not many inomentsthbu host
spoken truly . let them be spent with the
Ood whom thoiceendest me to meet before
His time, for it is thou and the fellows who
aro doing the fiend's work, n04,,14'
And she began to pray.
` The blue flame was mixed with red blase
and dun smoke now The heat scorched
the old woman's bent head She felt it
neater and nearer She heard cries of tri
umph from some who had been warped in
to strange ideas of duly, and her soul
shrunk within her. Suddenly a shout arose
on the air—another and another—a voice
cried out:
'The spell is broken !"
And she looked up In the midst of the
circle stood two who had just dismounted
from their hard ridden steeds—a man and
woman—Mistreed Gertrude and Joyce Col
well. The youth held the girl's band, 1 4
when ho caught the eye of home Wimple,
dropped it, and drawing his sword, dashed
e faggots aside, trampled out the flames,
nd with estroke or two severed the oprds
withal bound the old woman, and *load
with his arm about her, protecting her
from the multitude. 4 ,
"Dolt thou rescue a witch'?" cried
Squire Garret.
Joyce laughed in his face.
"Of what was she accused I" snit be
..VerilY, If the news which brought us
here be true, of flying away on a broom
stick with - good Mistress Gertrude yonder,
new my dear wife—whereas it was I who
rode off with her on my good horse and no
broomstick, as I think thou didst guess,
thou lying villion."
Squire Garret turned pale.
"Nay, she did not bear her away, may
hap," said he; "but the potion she con
cocted put it in her heart to leave a goodly
man like me and become the spouse of such
as thou,and she deserveth burning."
Then Gle'rtrude spoke :
"Nay," said she, "love put it in my
heart, and fear of thee; and the potion did
me good and no harm. This I declare to
be true, and let every maiden tell me if it
needed witches' spell to chose this from
that."
And she pointed first te t her Joyce, gal
lant and brave, beside her, and then to
Squire Garret. And there arose from un
der hoods awl wimples, e solemn, decisive,
...Nay, verily."
The tide was turned. Master Job, the
farrier, vowed that although he bad surely
se tiii a witc h bearing a maiden upon a
brookoslick, yet It being dark he could not
see faces, and was convinced that It was
not Demo Wimple and Mistress Gertrude.
Master Hiram the butoher, was also sha
ken Tit the belief that the witches' song be
had beard sung was in Dame Wimple's
voice ; and a man who had sworn to a note!'
In the broom handle which bad been bro't
"STAMM RIGHTS AND XEDDBAL UNION."
BELLIEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1861:
to court. declared. rather late in the day,
that ••many brooms had notches like unto
that."
So, by common .consent, Dome Whipple
was set free. She bad been almost fright+
coed to death, however, and Ins Only nurs
ed beck to lite by the best efforts of Mad
ame (lull and her daughter—the former
lady forgiving the later without hesitation
in her joy at her return A few months
afterwards ehe cold her property, and the
three, taking Dame Witnple with them, left
Salem forever
And this, as far as we know, is the only
renteidas atoount of any op 'woman who,
m those dolefuPdays, was saved from death
by burning, fter being accused, tried and
convicted o itobcraft.
PFtOCRE S dF THE GREEK INSUREC-
TION
The intelligence received by telegram
and printed by us yesterday slows that af
fairs in the East are gradually tending to
ward the only conclusion which can be fin
or satieractory The Candisne claim an
other decisive victory, and the Turkish
troops have been compelled to evacuate the
only forts which for years they have held
in the principality of Servia The "Sick
Man," is rapidly sinking pisintegratin
is going nn at a rate which is perhaps enf
ficiently rapid, and if the'neighboring Pow
ers will but stand aloof and content them
selves with being mere on-lookers, the time
is not, perhaps,so very far distant when
Turkey in Europe will be numl _red with
the things that were On the European
edie of the Bosphorus the Mussulmane are
but one to four of the Christians. It is
manifest, therefore, that it requires but
spirit and determination on the Christian
populations to,throw off the hated yoke
The spirit seems at last to have been arous
ed 'Roumania acknowledges but the shad
ow of an allegiance, abhors even that.—
Theenaly is arming her population and re
fusing to be pacified. Montenegro to
equally defiant with Servia. The contin
ued success of the Cretans and this fresh
concession to the Servians cannot fail to Lm
the flame which is already rapidly spread
ing The rule of the Sultan'in Europe has
been maintained hitherto by an unwise
system of interference , What is 'required
now is that he be left alone. Let that be
done, and unless we grievouslymistike, the
triumph of the cross over the crescent, of
civilization over barbarism, will ult. be
long delayed —N Herald .
—"Bread and butter" are still prime
commodities with radical "statesmen " The
other day, in explaining one of his bills,
Radical Lane, of Indiana, said that "ono of
his objects was to vacate the offices of men
appointed during the past summer to take
the places of those whom the Presidont had
removed for supporting the Union party "
Such is legislation now a days Everything
•that is performed has a party bearing, and
is done through partisan motives. It is
party, party, party—in every hill, and front
the commencenimit to the end of every ses
sion. It is no longer thought necessary for
Radical Representatives and Senators to
disguise their selfish, their ambitious, their
partisan, or their plundering motives
Crime has seared their consciences and
steeled their fronts against the blush and
consciences of shame. These sad and shame.
ful foots are patent to every good citizen,
but there seems to be no immediate remedy
The only hope seems to be that fraud, cor
ruption and crime may rapidly increase and
Culminate in something so flagrantly viola
tiie of law and our republican system an to
justify the total overthrow of the dema
gogues and conspirators who , now ruin the
country through usurped authority —Pot
riot it Union
Ir's PORK —The following beautiful sen
timent is (tom Meister Karl's Sketch Book,
entitled ' , The Night of Ileavens,",tt is fall
of touching tenderness:
" It le dark when the honest and honora
ble man sees the results of long years swept
oruellyaway by the kna•ish,heartlessad•ersa
ry It is dark when he feels the clouds of sor
rows gather round, and knows that the
hopes and happiness of others are fading
with his own. But in that hour the mem
ory of past integrity will be a true consola
tion, and assure him even here on earth of
glems of light in heaven It is dark whets
the dear voice of that sweet child, once so
fondly loved, is no more heard around its
moaners. Dark when the light, pattering
feet no more resound without the threshold,
or Remind step by step-up the stairs. Dark
•when some well-known air re calls the
straits once attuned by childish voice now
hushed in death Darkness , but only the
gloom which now heralds the day-spring
of insmpr,lality, and the .infinite light of
Heaven "
Ton FILLKUNAPCS BURICAII —Tfiis inetilu
ion was passed over the President's veto,
and the unanewerable arguments that he
presontaed against it. The meauree was
brought forwatd by the fanatics who control
Congress, and the Repuplican party, with
out regard to its legality or its cost,embrac
ed it-as one of their pets.
The late dedision of the Supreme Court of
of the United States reaches the Military
tribunals established in that bill, and de
clares them illegal Deprived of the aid of
these bayonet courts, the Freedmana's Bu
reau is weak, except in the matter of ex
pending money, and in this it is very strong.
—lt harbors an army of tatty office-holders,
and its managers are calling upon Congress
to appropriate to them four totthons of dol
lars for this year's use. This would give
one thousand office holders just Tour thous
and dollars ($4,000) each for the year.—
They are stinkers, and will not content with
anythipg short of that sum.—Es.
Sn■ WAS AND sn■ WAsn't —lllbo, las
year,- went to Washington as a Senator from
the State of LOUIiSiDLIDS: now he is there to
prove that Louistanna is not a State; of
course, then, he was an impostor as a pre
tended Senator. When Gen. Ruttier was
in Louisiana, "it was intimated to him from
Washington that it would be desirable to
select two members of Congress from New
Orle”Liiiirthe contiguous parishes•" to
carry out this cuggestion he sent Gen
Weitzel with an army through the Latour
che country, to clear the country of rebels,'
and thus make-li' "loyal" enough to vote
for • republican Congressman. Prod . all
of which It appears that • State ht • State
only whin radicals want It to be a State.—
Bodon Post.
For the Watchman
ABOUT GOVERNMENT
Tha order that exists among mankind is
not the effect of government It had its
origin in the natural constitution of man,
consequently existed prior to government
The mutual dependence. and reciprocal in
terests which man has in man created that
chain of connection which causes order to
reign in society, and would still exist if the
formality of government was abolished
Every oceupotioh provers by the aid whisk
each receives from the other and from the
whole In part, society performs for it
self almost everything which it usually as.
scribed to government.
By clearly examining into the compesi•
lion of man, the diversity 4, his warrtskud,
talonAs, his propensity to society, his reci
procity for accommodating tho wants. of
each other, and the advantages resulting
therefrom, we are obliged to come - to the
conclusion that a large portion of what is
commonly called government is mere im
posture.
Government is only necessary to supply
the few cases to which society is not c;n
rentently c?copetenl6 and anything that
government can add thereto has already
been performed by the common consent of
sniely, without government
For more than two years from the oom
meacement of our Itevelution, and a longer
period in several of the States, there was
no established form of government. Yet,
during this interval order and harmony was
preserved as inviolate as in any country at
that time, and-ftnuch more so than it has
been in this country for the last six years
1' is not true, as it hes been asserted by
a Jacobin writer in the Pre a, ..that the ab
olition of formal government is the dissolu
tion of society," it wont.' act by a contrary
ifnpulse and bring society closer together
.111 Clint part of its organisation which had
delegated to its government, would devolve
again upon itself and nets through its me
thorn
Formal government makes but a small
part of civilised life; it 111 a thing more in
name and idea than in fact. It is on the
great fundamental principles of society, it,
reciprocal Interests, mutually mainiOned,
More than anything which the best institut
ed government can perfoim, that the safety,
happiness and prosperity of the individual
and of the whole depend.
What n misfortune it is, that for the last
few years society in this country has been
destroyed by the operations of government
Government assumed to exist for itself and
acted by partiality of favor and oppression,
and became the cause of.the miechief it
aught to Lave prevented Hence the wails
of orphans and widows that con now be
beard all over the onuntry for fathers and
husbands murdered by government.
If we thoughtfully and carefully examine
into the causes of our late bloody revolu
tion, we will find that it did not originate
from the want of a government, but that
government, was itself the generating cause•
instead of uniting society it divided it,
hencearose dissentious and discords through
'out the notion, which otherwise would not
•nd not linen existed
A constitution is not the act of a govern
ment, but of a people constituting • goo
ernment
All power over a ration mutt he either
delegated or assumed Delegated power
le a trust Assumed power is.% usurpa
tion Evidence the usurpations of the pre.-
ant Congress
After the declnration of independence,
each State acted independently of
the rest in forming its government When
life seitii - el Stele governments were formed
they proceeded to form the Federal govern
ment to act over the whole in all matters
which concerned the interests of the whole.
Tne Federal government wee the creature
of the governments of sovereign Slates who
delegated to it certain portions of their
rights, in trust, for the general benefit of
the whole, those rights to be ninny', re
umeable whenever the trust was dishonor
ed The Constitution of the Federal gov
ernment was not the act of Congress because
it is in opposition to the principles of Rep
resentative government that a legislative
body should give power to itself There is
no such an idea in the Constitution as a
compact between the people on one side and
the government on the other The com
pact war that of the people with each other
to constitute a government. To suppose
any other case is to suppose it to have an
existence before it bas a right to exist.—
The only compact that can exist between
the people and those who exercise the gov
ernment, is that the people shall pay them
while they cheese to employ them.
Government is a trust in right to those
by whom the trust is delegated and is al
ways resumable It has of itself no rights,
they are altogether duties. When a person
says that he is loyal to the government he
pronounces his disloyalty to-the o:institu
tion, society and himself Government is
the creature of the Constitutioa ■nd meet
be subordinate to it. The Constitution is
the creature of sovereign States. Sover
eign States are the creaturas of the people
from whom all authority must proceed the
source of all legal power.
For the Watchman
LET THE PEOPLE PREPARE.
The Constitution of the United States is
the supreme law of the land.- Tho absolute
truth of this pfoposition can be denied only
by him who will explain by what other rule
of conduct the President. members of Con
gress, and of the Judiciary,fill their offices;
by whet authority the aVday and navy are
employed: methods of holding elections
and qualtftesmons'of Federal officers deter
mined; and whence the right of imposing
t , imposts, &e. It is only under and
in the manner prescribed bt the Constitu
tion that these acts of goes bent are per
formed.
The peeple.,•of , , the thirteen_ sovereign
States that had in 1776 banded together in
a common cause, between 1787-90, "ordain ;
ed and established a Constitution for the
United States of Ametice.." Upon this
Constitution they bul a government; it
was the foundation crab Ithielf they erica
ed a temple of liberty ; it made a govern
ment where-they kid hitherto been none ;
and the duration of the government's life
wee to be measured only by the smistenoe
of that which made it. The fathers, of free
;l4m, than whom titers have since been none
lir
possessed of pure patriotism In such an un
exampled degree, and none so wise, fixed
the limits of each of the three departments
of, government, which emootbly and bar
moniouely working, lost none of its power
or,hecame in the least degree clogged prior
to 1800. AConetitutionil Republic wee
thus formed 'lt was a government intend
-1810 "form a more perfect Union" of the
free and independent States, joining the
league to "establish justice, insure domes
tic tranquility, provitto'for the common de
fence, promote the general welfare, and
secure the blessings of liberty'lo ourselves
and posterity " For these. purposes, were
the rights and duties of each and every
person etrictly defined; only by a rigid Ind
herence to the spiriLand letter eIW.-46 Con
stitution could the government created on
der it stand.
The purposes for which the Constitution
was adopted have all failed ; a Union has
not been preserved,—ten States are to-day
(deluded from participation in the govern.
merit Justice once established, then
overthrown, again reinstated, is about ts be
cast aside in the remodeling of the Supreme
Court Domestic tranquility has not been
preserved The common defence hue not
been provided for The general lei - Ware
has not been promoted, and the blessings
of liberty are secured to the negroes as they
are lost to the whites
~.....f..4,1411110
There is no legislative branch of govern
ment, that body conetstwp of Representa
tives "chosen by the people of the several
States, and a Senate 'composed of two Sen
ators from each State." X faction that
through the most stupendous intrigues the
world ever saw has seized the national leg
islative halls and arrogated to itself the
name of Congress. This body bakteclared
itself perpetual ; tt seeks the impeachment
and life of the Executive whose crime is
love for the Constitation; at is about abol
ishing the Judicial branch of Government.
One cocelusion alone can be had from a
consideration of these facts, and that is, we
have no government. The people composing
what was once the United State. ere ab
solved from their allegiance to it; it Las
fallen, but if the people desire the re-estab
lishment of a Conslitutional Republic they
have the power to4o so. Andrew Johnson
is the man around whom flea the losers of
liberty ; be is attached to the govegnent
of our fathers, and he asks our assistance
to restore it. We, the Democracy of the
country, did not elect him to the high office.
he fills; we do not applaud all his actions ,
there are stains on his escutcheon that will
requirgAlghty deeds to efface; we will not
assist him in any selfish schemes for his
omit •ggrandliement if perchance he should
have any ; but as he is lb. standard-bearer
of Constitutional liberty ■nd the person
whose duty and privilege it is to restore
our liberties, to that end we will Resist him.
The time draws near when the Democratic
love for the old Constitution will be tested,
and let us col be found wanting
ATTEMPT TO STEAL A CORPS
An exciting snit occurred at a certain
cemetry on the Western Reserve, on Mon
day night last We have been permitted
to publish the particulars of the case, pro
•ttled we suppress names and locality. A
wealthy resident in the •icinity lost a
lo•ely and only daxAltler last week under
peculiar circumatanTh. She was a young
lady 'flout sixteen years of •ge, and had
always presented the terry picture of ro•
bust health. One day she returned home
trims School, and otter chatting pleasantly
about the house for a few moments, sad
denly complained of dtesiness and lap,
guor, in an instant later sinking down upon
the sofa and exptrlng
Shortly after the young lady had b.. a
interred, vaguo rumors reactistl the father's
ear that some medicel'illnento, whose cu.
riosity had been greatly excited by the
circumstances attending her death, and
who were anxious to learn, through a post
mortem examination, the cause thereof,
were intending to resurrect the body on a
certain night Both horrified and en
raged at the bare idea, though scarcely
crediting the truth of the retort, the fath
er armed himself with a double barreled
fowling piece and stationed himself nea r
hie daughters grave, on the night in ques
tion,lo guard itagainst the threatened viola
tion
A monument, over which drooped the
weeping !Mows, hid him from view, while,
from his place of congealment,. he could
see any object that might approach the
grave, owing to the bright moon that sailed
overhead. Nine, ten, eleven, twelve o'clock
came, and no resurrectionists. fie began
to think that his Credulity hattlitot the bet
ter of him, and that after all, his daughter
would / 1p allowed to reUP' her grave, when
toetsrep'S wire suddenly heard approaching
Crouching down close beside the monument
and peering cautiously out he was horrified
at seeing three men approach, and halt by
the grave of bin loved one. They were pro
vided with pialis,ehovels,s rope and a large
oilcloth each. Their horrid object could
not §e mistaken, when two of them commen
ced to 'dig in the grave.
The father's bldhd almost froze in his
veins at the sight, but he woe firm in hie
determination to wreak vengeance on
the would-bebody.anatchers. Cooking both
barrels of his gun, be discharged both of
them at the men who were digging, at the
instant both their bodies were close togeth
er. One of 111 men fell to the grouud, but
was quickly raised up by the others, who
hurried him from the cemetery as quickly
as they could—one of them limping as though
badly hurt. The three men then rode slay
in • wagon. The father did not give
abase, thinking that he had punished them
enough foi their conduct. The affair has
caused gvat excitement in the vicinity.—
Cleveland Plamdealer.
EEE!
—There is not a Republican paper in
the State, that has had a word of condem
nation for the plugs by Congress of the
ftegro Suffrage *ill in the District of Col
umbia, although nearly every one of them
before the election pretended that theiwerte
opposed to negro suffrage. •
=The Boston Coonsoutorafth says that
■uoh.'men as Philips and et eeeee are toe
?ream of the countr7: If they are the
looter the country is skimmed the bolter
for it.
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NO. 5
DieDS;NOT WORDS
y i etzt l e ? ! . .ordl.ord, end do not the
Not forever on thy knees, '
Would Jehovah have thee round
There are hardens thou canal ease
There are grief. Jehovah sees ;
Look around
Work is.t.ra.ter, if done for God,
Prayer which God delighted hears,
See bend. yon upturned sod
One bowed 'neath ►®leliuns rod ;
Dry her tears.
Tot PrayeliMit earnest seal,
This is what i• wanted more,
Put thy ehoulder to the wheel ,
Bread into the famished deal
From thy store.
Not high sounding words of praise_
Doer God wanf,'neath mow grand ne - e
But that thou the fallen raise
Bring the pom from life's highways.
To thy home.
Worehip God by doing good ;
Work, not words ; kind acts, not creed
Ile who loves God as be should,
Makes t is heart's lore uuderstoOd
By kind deeds.
Deeds are powerful, mere words weak
Bateringeit high heaven's door..
Let thy lore by actions speak,
Wipe the tear from sorrows cheek
Clothe the pone
Be it thine kites rare to smother,
A ad to brighten eyes now dim •
Kind deeds done to one another,
God aceepte al done, my brother,
Unto him
—Exanng
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
—Forty-five Pope. have been exiled fro
13=!
—The Gettysburg Cemetery Mouument wi
be completed by July let, MIS.
—Not all of our C - omplaht ing croakers a
in the frog ponds—but they ought to be.
—Clinton said that gold was tried with th
touchstone, and men with gold.
—The internal revenue receipt.. from July
lot to date are nearly $192,000,000.
—The Ph iladelphila mint is producing about
2 OOD 000 piece.. of the new Over per mouth.
—Senator Cowan wilt not be confirmed aa
!Violater to A notria.
—AI I I% man it Narbeille was lined 950
for thrusting bitneelf into a negro ball
—America bar 90,000 miles of telegraph
liner ; Europe 60,000.
be round that way in • minute, as tb
Second hand said to the pendulum.
--ilnaorial old Snarl aays thrtWore la •
comblfiation of diseases—an affection of the
heart, and an inflawnation of the brain.
—Wayne M'Vesgh, Esq., of West Chests
was married a fortnight sines to Miss Jenni
&seeder of Gen Simon Cameron.
—Sir Fredrick Bruce had all his spoon.
stolen on Saturday night. Ben Butler left
Wash ington eery early the next morning.
—A gentleman in Elisabeth, New Jersey, la
the po sssss nr of the pistol with which Col Burr
killed Hamilton.
—The country in being flooded with strict
ly private and confidential letters from lottery
ewindlers Look out for them.
—Mrs. Francis Harper, a colored rical of
the fairer Dickinson, is lecturing in Cincinnati.
Iler smiles are unique; the last is a comparison
of Mr. JOhnson to a mustard plaster.
—Sumner says that the President cannot be
suffered to keep hie seat. Prentice say.: If
Jo slice were done, Sumner wouldn't keep his.—
It would be kicket off.
—lna fit ofjealously the wife of a business
man in Cincinnati, on Monday, killed with ■
.poker ► girl by the name of Mary J. Thomp-
MID
—Will Congreas again outrage the popula
voice , asks an exchange. Certainly it will
whenever it imagines it is to its advantage to d
—A fellow named Robert Wilson shot and
how his emprojrrral R Grant, at Columbus,
Nebraska. The cities's' hung Wilson on a cot
tonwood tree.
—A lire Woodworth hoe ;hes dim& mad
from the Coogregatiooal thumb le Wielded,
Coon, for obtaining a chrome from her hatband
without Bible coma
—At Pittebeld,Massachusetts, one day lut
week, a funeral party were compelled to abed
on the corpse in a mew storm, and It remained
for I hours in a huge snow drift.
—Bane, who lea judge of morale as well
money, say. that being dender to anotherman'e
wife Is not a legal dender, no more as bickled
beets Is sour-kraut.
—A number of oitiseris of Trenton, New
Jersey, have been swindled out of two or three
bundred thousand dollars by a fictitious oil oom-
—Lucy Stone, in • lecture In Bangor, re
neatly sald We here of hen-pecked hnsband
but nothing at all about rooster-pecked wie
simply because, having po votes, the wives d
not belong to the peep
—A good dui of the consolation afore] in
this world, Without no solacing as the moronce
of the ms to his wife when she fell into the riv
er : '•You will and ground at the bottom, my
dear.
—General Butler says that President John
non does not like to show his hand. Mr Pren
lice adds: If ha,wene I. Apr both his bands
all his pockets. and the inside of his hat, hi
cock-eyed assault would see no stolen spoon
In them.
—ln England people are largely in theism
Jority over pigs--live people to one porker. I.
the United States, though we talk of lba searel
ty of hogs, if all the shoats were equally divid
ed,,ws should snd ourselvjas,every man, W4lllllll
boy, girl sad baby of us, irith i four pigs apiece.
—A rawly-mei ried lady in Pittsburg has
been surprised by the receipt of • letter from •
former husband in California, whom she bad
supposed dead, statang that he is coming home
with • lot of money.
—ln a New York police report of • difficul
ty at • low boarding hooks, one of the boarders
identified a particolat blanket because it was
new and clean, and was the only one of the kind
Ile landlady had."
—lloractCoreeley had an later, law with the
Prasident on Wednesday, of about as hour, le
which be urged upon Mr. Johnson theadoptios
of his (Greeley s) peculiar political haws, eta
pedal], his amnesty sad suffrage propoal..
lions.
—The iaipoooten attempted to seise an il
lieit whiskey distillery in Brooklyn, Thursiay,
but were badly beaten), barely escaping with
their lives. A posse oC pollee were nailed, but
when they reached the spot the still and whis
key had all been carried off. The still was own
ed by Thomas Beaten.
—ma r e are to have terrible times. Rebels
'Arc 11. be. sdraithid both the Supreme Court of
the Mittel Brates, and prischers are going to
pvnaeb the secession, treanon and rebellion in
Missouri, now that VA Supreme Court bas de
e Wed the test oath unhonstitutkonal, so far
lawyers and preschool an ;Tetrad, at least.—
So says leaders of opinion in the Repolillean
party.
THE TEST OATHS DECLARED UN.
CONSTITUTIONAL
Justice Fleld, a few days , ego, delivered
the opinion of the Swore Court of the
United States in the lawyer,' and Missouri
test-oath eases. Both 'lbw oaths are, de-
Amid unconstitutional, and consequently
void and of no *geld This decision re
moves another of thiChindranees placed in
the pstit-of constitutional liberty by
usurping Cowes*, and vindicates the wis
dops and patriotism of the Democratic party.
These test oaths, like the military commis
sions which tried and sentenced oitieens to
death, were deibunced and opposed by the
Democracy For thus daring to iiphold the
true principles of the government they were
stigmairilei as ..traitors and "sympathiz
ers with the ..issbele," and men oprosed to
the Union of the States. But the Supreme
Court of the United States has made clear
and consistent the mend of the Democrat.
is party upon both these questions, and
demonstrated the fact that the Radicals by
their legislation violated the Constitution
of the nation, and trampled upon the rights
of the States and the liberties of the people•
Jt is a circumstance worthy of note, that
thus far none of the test acts of the Radical
party have met the approval of the supreme
judicial tribunal of the laud They are all
so Bat in the teeth of the Constitution as to
be indefensible. Nor can it be alleged that
the .. sympailites of, the Court are with the
Democratic party and its construction of
the organic law, for a majority of the
Judges were appointed by • !resident dif
fering in political opinion with that party.
The truth is, the Constitution is now rec
ognised as the law in war as well as in
peace, and that principle covert the cases
of the test oaths, and also that of military
tribunals. There As much enoouragemeot
fozihe real friends of the Union of the
States under the Constitution in these de
mons They chow that the judicial and
Executive Deparements of the Government
are in unison to their efforts to bring back
peace, hermnny`and constitutional 'liberty
to the nation, and thus united, Congress
will be barmier for permanent mischief
Age
Ora etaae's Bair We have bad • clerk
who got married. Now, there Is nothing
funny in that His wife had a baby—and
there's where the funny part comes in.—
He was in the office yesterday, and wished
us to publish, for the benefit of mourners
and enquiring friends, the following biog.
of the chap. Sappho: We have had so many
kind friends asking about the baby, that
we thought it neceuary to biograph the
chap briefly, and some what after the current
style of the dq•
It's a boy.
Ile's • 'buster.
Weighs nine pounds and a quarter, and
wife tells us it will grow heeler as his
weight increases.
Iles the first baby of which we have ever
been Proprietor, and of course is the *lily
Auby in town.
The old woman gefore meat ir lilt:tared
him "the very image of his pa
"A little copy oihh faithful sire,
In face and vesture."
. Ilut in Justice to the youth we must say
we think him an improvement on the arigi
nal—a world of progress, you know.
This Young America as Gould be expected
considering the time be wee born, and will
doubtless be too old for his father in a few
years, it he bas good lack.
He in quite reticent on politico, and wats
to be let alone. ,
We think be favors Hrs. Window' ot.
icy.
We h►r't named Mm yes. We won't to
give him a distinguished eoggomen,bu t the
fame of our great men is at present no pro•
various that we don't like lila risk.
It is perhaps unnecessary to say, as all
biographers do of distinguished personages
that 'the sudjeat of this sketch" was born
at a very early age of poor but respectable
A WORD FOR WIVES
Little wives ! if ever • half suppreaed
sigh finds place with you or • half unloving
word escapes you to the husband whom yoit
love, let your heart go bask to some tender
word in those first love days; remember how
you loved him then, how tenderly he wooed
you, bow timidly you responded; and if you
oan feel that you have not grown unwOrthT,
trust him for the some good love now. If
you do feel that you become less loveable
and attractive than you then were, turn—
by all that you love on earth or hope for in
b —turn back and be the pattern of
loveliness that won him; be the i•dear one"
your attraction. made you then. Bs the
gentle, loving, wining maiden @till ; and
doubt not, the lover you admired will live
r in your husband. Nestle by his
side, cling to his love, and let his confidendes
n you never fail ; and my word for it, the
husband will be dearer than the }over ever
was. Above all things, do not forget the
the love he gave you first. Do not seek to
"emancipate" yourself—do not strive to un.
sex yourself , and become a Lucy Stone, or
a Rev. Miss Brown; but love the higher
honor ordained by our Saviour of old—that
of • loving wife. A happy wife, • blessed
mother, can have no higher station —needs
no greater honor —The Lade. Home.
Crvtuz•noa to COLORDO —A Denver
letter says : Very many of the first emi
grants to this couotry oh►nged their names
some tete rid of old debts, some to free
themselves from a bad name, some intend
ing to assume their own names in case of
success, but prefering that if they failed
it should be some other man, and many to
get rid of their wives, though they de not
hesitate to again thrust their heads into the
marital yoke, which they consider them
selves at liberty to do, as it was some other
man that married the first wife, while she
being a widow Is at liberty to go and do
likewise. Such things are now becoming
rare, and most of our people are willing to
spbmit to the Ills of life without trying the
things they know nor of. It will be hut •
few years before the wild life and habits of
the frontiers-men will be known only in the
stories told around the evening fire, when
the old trapper and Indian fighter amid the
comforts of a civilized hots, mourns for the
"good old days" whose hardship is forgot
ten: for history makes no record of his life
or brave deeds.-6s.
—A young msa once ;picked op a sov
ereign lying on the road. Ever afterward,
as he walked along, he kept kis eyes stead
fastly Axed on the ground, in, hopes of And
lug another. And in the coires of a long
life he did pick up;at different times,a good
amount of gold sod silver, But all these
day., as he was looking for them, he saw
not that heaven was bright above them, and
nature beautifhl around. He never once
allowed his eyes to look up from the mod
and Aftirltiverhich he sought the treasure,
and when he died, a rich old IN an,•ite only
knew this fair earth of 011111 as a dirty road
to pick ap money as you walk along.