\-- .
[A Todenten Pose.na followng, bean I
fni and home Miele poem le Intended for the
faln .., It le founded upon an incidert
wh h neighbor direKel to niche • poor
o la b
remit telb hatable, and p•ovido for the child, if
one 4 coven were given him Rome one who
has felt the - pangs of poverty. end yet been a
%titer, with all the deep and holy feeling. of •
b parent, has elotimil it in poetical attire, and
breathed into it iiipirit of love, devotion and
fpitif,thot Will find a holy reeponee in the breast
of mory father and mother who ore blest with
little pledges of affection, he they one or seven.]
/ WHICH ?
'Which shall It be I which shall it be /'
I limited et John—John looked et me,
(Door patient John who lore. me yet,
A. well as tho' my loci. wore jet.)
And when I found that I most .perk,
My voice seemed strangely low o. J weak ;
'Toll me Again whet Robert cold—
And then I listening bent my bend. ,
'This le the letter •
'1 will pine
A house and lend while 'lin Ihri,
If, in return, from out your •oven
One chit to me for eyo Is given.'
I looked at John's old garments worn ;
I thought of all that John had leornu
Of poverty and work and care,
Which I,rtbough willing, could no tshare,
I thought ulcerate mouths to feed,
Of seven little children's need,
Ant then of this—
'Come John' sal.'
'We'll chonee among them on they lie
Asleep.' So, walking hand in hand,
Dear John And I surveyed our bond.
First to the cradle lightly etoppod
Wh•ro Wien the habyvlopt;
A glory 'g►inet the pillow white.
Softly her father stooped to ley
We rough hand down in living way,'
When dream or whimper rondo liar stir,
And itualtily ho e►ol—'Not ber—not her
We stooped beside the trundje-bed,
And ono long ray of lamplight eked
Athwart the boyish fares there
In sleep so pitiful and fair,
I saw on famie's sough red cheek
A tenr ondried. Flre John could speak,
'fle's but a baby tou,' said I,
And biased him as we hurried by.
Pale, patient Rohbie's angel faro
Still In his slesp bore suffering trace,
'No, for a thousand crowns not him,'
Ile wtortygged while our eyes were (Mtn.
Poor Dirk - 1 bet Dick' our wayward son,
Turbulent, reckless, hile.one—
Could he he spared if 'Nay, lie who gave,
Bids us befriend him to the grave,
Only a mother's heart can be
Patient enough for such as be ;
'And so,' said John, 'I would not dare
To send him from her bedside prayer.'
Thep Artie we softly up above
And , knolt by Mary, ohltd of love
'Perhaps for her 'twould better be,'
I said to John. Quite ellentJy
Ile lifted up R curl thsli
Across her cheek in wilful way,
And shook bighted. 'Nay, love not thee,'
The while my heart bent audibly.
Only one spore our oldest lad,
Trusty .M 8 truthful, good nod glad—
No like his father,' •No, John, na—
-1 cannot, will not, let thee go'
And so wo wrote in courteous way
We could not drive one child away ,
Ahd afterward toll lighter seemed,
Thinking of that of which we dreamed
Happy, in truth, that not one fare
We missed from its accustomed plueiitn
Thankful to work for all the seven,
'rusting tho rest to ova in Heaven I
_ - -
THE SHERIDAN CASE
Correspondence between the President
and General Crant—Crant Protests and
Ma Johnson Insists on the Change.
sassineer JOHNSON TO lIIENRAL GRANT.
EXECUTIVE SIAMPION,
WARIIINOTOM, I) C Aug 17, 14467.
DEAR Sin ,—Refore you issue inetrua
tip to carry into effect theenclosed order,
I Gould be pleased 4o hiletr any: suggestions
you may doem necessary respecting the MB
signorkeute to which the order refers.'
Yours truly. Annetta JOHNSON.
General If 1; Grunt, Secretary of War ed
ttiterum.
VK MANNIIIN,
WABIIINOTON, D C, Aug. 17, 11367.
Major-Getter .1 Oeolge II Thom 04 is
hereby eesigoed le the o minium' of (Ito
Fifth 111iii,ory lhstrtet, oreate.l by tho met.
of Congress passed oil the second (lay of
March, 1867.
Major General P. II Sheridan is hereby
assigned to the command of the Department
of tile Missouri
Major Gei.ertl Winfield S Ibuicook is
hereby assigned to the command of the De
part meutrolthe Cumberland
The Secretary of War ad intermm will
gnu the necessary instrootionl to carry
this order into effect,
Dltllw .10111180 N
IIIMMIllt!
V Tu■ U. 8 , 1
17, 1867 I
HKADQUARTNIO
Wouthingtott,
//a E.reelleney
ull.on, l'r es dela
lof the (hailed
Stu : I am in rectipt of your order of
this date, direoting the assignment of Gen
eral 0 II Thomas to the command of the
Fifth Military District ; tleueral Sheridan
to the Department of the Missouri and Gen
eral Ilancook to the Department of the
Cumberland ; then your note of this
(enclosing diode instructions), sayl , "Be
fore you Issue instructions to o ry Into
effoot the enclosed order I would ',teased
lo hear any suggestions you may d eon 000 -
emery respecting the assignments to which
the order refers "
I am pleased to avail mysel; ?f Gile invi
tation to urge, narnestly urgi;—urgli in the
name of a patriotic people who have semi
teed hundreds of thousands of loyal lives
and thousands of millions of treasure to
preserve the integrity and union of this
country—that this order be not insisted on.
It ie unmistakably the expressed wish of
.the country that General Gherkinan ehould
snot be removed from hie present botiittland.
',This is a Republic where the well of the
*people is the law of the land I beg that
thew voice, map be heard.
Umtata Sheridan has performed his oir
ll faithfully and intelligently. Ille
removal will only be regarded ac an effort
to defeat the laws of Ociogreas. It will be
Interpreted by the nurecionstrueted elemint
In the South—those who did all they mould
to break up this government by arms, and
now wish to be the only.element oonsulted
as to the method of restoring order—as •
triumph. It will embolden them to renew•
eel oppoeition to the will of the loyal mass
es. believing that they have the Exeo utile
with them.
The aervioes ortlonaral Tilolll.ol in bal
ling for the Union entitles him to some eon
sideration. Ile has repeatedly entered his
Protests against being assign f ed tollilfer of .
Ile five military dialriets, said espeeielly
tit beteg essigned to relieve General Sheet
den.
General Haneook ought not lobe remov
ed from where he Is. Ibis deportment la •
eompllosted One, willeb will take 111. new OM
wonder some time to beoome aoquainted
withi„
Arbor* •re military reasons, peounlary
reasons, and above all patriotic reason'.
why this order should not be Insisted on,
I beg to refer to q Liter, marked privitte
which I Wrote to the Preeideut when first
ooneulted on the eubfeet of the change in
the War Department. It bears upon the
eubjeot of thin Toulon!. sod I had hoped
world bate prevented it.
I have the honor to be, wiib greet respect,
your aaaaa
U 8. GRANT,
OtMeta( Udfted.Blalos Army, and Secretary
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VOL. XII
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..PRESIONAT JOHNSON TO OXMAN ‘L GRANT
EACCIITIVA MANSION, 1
, Witubtoglon, I) C., Aug. 19,1807 f
titmice/cu.: I have resolved your oommu
nication of the 17th instant, and thank you
for the promptness with which you have
stubmittea'your views respecting the ari
-1 eignnietut; thrected in my order of distaste.
When I stated, in my official note of the
Fith, that I would berleased to hear any
suggeetume you might deem necessary upon
the subject, a was not my intention to ask
from you a formal report, but rather to in
vite a verbal statement of any reasons af
fecting (ho public jutereate which, in your
opinion, would render the order Inexpedi
ent. Inasmuch, however, as you have em
bglied your suggestions in a written eons
municatton, it is proper that I should make
some reply
You earnestly urge that the order be not
insisted on, remarking that •Gt is unmie
takably the expressed wish of the country
that General Sheridan should not be re
moved from his present command " While
I am cognizant of the efforts that have been
made to retain General Sheridan in com
mand of the Fifth Military District, lam
not awate that the question lens ever been
submitted to the people. themselves for de
termination. It certainly would be unjust
to the army to assume that, in the opinion
of the nation,, he alone is capable of com
manding the States of Louisiana satinraas,
sot that, he for any cause removed, no
other general in the military service of the
United States would be competent to fill his
place. General Thomas, whom I have de
signated as his successor, is well known to
the country. Having won high and honor
able distinction in the field, Uri has since,
in the execution of the responsible duties
of a department ootoniander,exhibited great
ability; sound discretion, and sterling pat
riotism. Ile has not failed, under the most
trying circumstances, to enforce the laws,
p reserve peace and order, to encourage the
restoration of civil authority and to promote
as far as possible, a 'pint of reconcilia
tion. Hie administration of the Depart
ment of the Cumberfand will certainly mini
pare most favorably with that of General
Sheridan to the Fifth Military Distrito.
There affairs appear to be in a disturbed
condition, and a better spirit of antagonism
seems to have resulted from General Sher
idan's-Management. Ile has rendered him
self exceedingly obnolloue by the manner
in which be has exercised even the powers
conferred by Congress, and still more so by
a resort to authority not granted by law
nor necessary to its faithful and effi
cient execution Ills rule has, in fant,been
one of absolute tyranny, without reference
to thetprioctplee of our government or the
nature of our free institutions The state
of affairs which hay resulted from the
course ho has pursued has seriously inter
fered with a harmonious, satisfactory and
epeey execution of the acts of Congress,
and liCalone eufficteut to justify a change.
His removal, therefore, cannot "be regad
ed na an effort to defeat the „laws of Con
gress ;" for the object is to facilitate their
execution, through an olltoer who has never
failed to obey the statutes of the land, and
to exact, within his jurisdiction, a like obe
dience front others. It cannot "be inter
preted by the unreconstructed element in
the South—those who did all they 'could to
break up this government by arms and now
Mlllll to be the only element ommulted as to
the method of resortng order—as a tri
umph ;" for, as intelligent men, they moat
know that mere change of military conitnan
dere cannot alter the law, and that General
Thomas will be as much bound by its re
quirements as General Sheridan. It can
not "embolden them to renewed opposition
to the will of the loyal masses, belVVing
that they have the Executive with them ;"
for they are perfectly familar with the an
tecedents of the President, and know that
he has not °helmeted tlie faithful execution
of any sat of Congress
No one, as you are aware, has a higher
appreciation thou myself of the serialise of
Genoral Thomas, and no one would be less
ned to assign him -to a command nor.
entrrefile-Itts wishes. Knowing him as I
do, I cannot hunk that ha will hesitate for
a moment to obey any order having in view
complete and speedy restoration of the
Union, In the preservation of which he bah
rendered such important and valuable, era
vioes.
General Hancock, known to the whole
country as • gallant, able, and patriotic
soldier, will, I hare no doubt, sustain his
high re putation , in any position to which
he may be assigned. If, as you observe,
the department wb lob he will bare is a
complicated one, I feel confident that under
the guidance and inst.-widens of General
Sherman, General Sberidtri will soon be
come familiar with its necessities, will
avail himself of the opportunity afforded by
the Indian troubles (or the display of the
energy, enterprise and daring which gave
him so enviable a reputation during our
recent civil struggle.
In assuming that it is the expressed wish
of the people that General Sheridan should
not be rimoved from his present command,
you remark that "this is ; republic where'
the will tithe people is the law of the land,"
end "beg that their rolos may be heard•'.
This Is indeeda repuMia, based, however,
upon a written Colin halloo. That Consti
tution to the combined and express will of
the people, and their voice is law when re
flected in the manner whloh that instrument
prescribes. While one of its provisions
makes the Preident Commander -in-Chief
cO4 the Army and Navy, another requires
that "he shall take ears that the laws be
faithfully 'taunted." Believing - that
change in the command of te. Fifth Milita
ry District is absolutely necessary for •
faithful execution of the laws, I have issu
ed the order which Is the enkleet of this
oorrespondenoe, and to thus exercising •
power thaiieberits In the Exmouth', under
the Constitution, as Commander-In-Chief of
the military and naval foram, T am discharg
ing a duly required of me by the will of the
nation, as formally deelared in the supreme
law of the land.. By his oath, the Execu
tive is solemnly bound, "to the best of his
ability, to preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution," and although - in iimis of
great excitement, it may be lost to public
view, It is his duly, without regard to the
consequences to himself, to hold sacred and
to enforce any and all of t provisions. Aoy
other course would lead to the destruotiou
of the republic; for, the Constitution once
abolished, there would be no Congress for
the exercise of legislative powers, no Ex
ecutive to see that tho laws are faithfully
executed, no judiciary to afford tq the citi
zens protection fur life, limb and property
Usurpation would inevitably follow, and
despotism be fixed rpm the people in vio
lation of their combined and expressed
will
In conclusion, I fail to perceive any
"military,•' "pecuniary," or- "patriotic
retails" why this order should not be car
ried into effect You will remember that
indite flint instance I did not eonaider Gen
eral Sheridan the most emitabla officer for
Coe command of the Fifth Military District
Time has strengthened my conviction!
up
on this point, and has led •me to the con
clusion that patriotic considerationa demand
that he should be superseded by an officer
whc;,Awbile he will faithfully execute the
law, will at the same time give more gener
al satisfaction to the whole people, while
and black, North and South
I am,Oeneral, nry reepeoffully yours
Anima,' Jammer
General U S. Grant, Seoretrry of War ad
1111ZI
PROTECTJON
Aeldrea• of the Amerieno. Fre, Trade Leap° •
The following address to too Americoo
people has been issued by the American
Free-Trade League, from its headquarters
In New York Cliy
To the Amer.'s People
Our country occupies an advanced posi
tion on tho question of personal rights
Yet in some instances other nations go
farther than we do in permitting, to the in
dividual, liberty of action. The most valu
able right. of roan is ihe right of man is
the right to cojoy the fruits of his own la
bor. This right is essential to his best de
velopment, physically and morally. It is
not enough that the former should be free
to raise all the grain he can grow, nor the
mechanic bo free to exert his skillin handi
work ; they should be free to procure, in
rehange for wheat they nave produced,the
utmost of all other things that they want.
In defense of this right the Atnerican Free-
Trade League is working.
If there were no porteetive tariffa,Nia
great Crop of the West. so much of t it no is
not consumed at home, would proeure4pr'
the men and women whp have produced i t
personal comforts of double Meitsure
pared with those they now get from-ff. So
'i s m, of the crops of cotton and tobacco. If
the whole surplus crop of the West in grain
and pork and beef, so much as is exported,
could be put Into the hands of ono agent
and ho be authorised to carry it abroad and
there Bell it and bring hack the proceeds in
the shape of goods free of duty at our Cus
tom House, we would got for the surplus
crop, twicej - Ifte many blankets, twice as
many clothe, and twice as much railroad
iron as we now get The great want of the
country, increased railroad transportation,
would be mock more cheaply and therefore
much more rapidly supplied.
On the other hand,protective tariff's can,
in no way and in DO degree, increase the
prices of our grain, pork, beef, cotton, to
bacon or other articlen which we export ,
for the prices of these Iroad are regulated
by the general specie proms of the world,
and the price, lucre at home of our exports
must necessarily be governed by the prices
of those things abroad
Nor do protective tariffs do good in the
main towards developing manufactures
among us The occupations which are of
themselves profitable at this period in this
country, will be undertaken without any
stimulus from government. The interfer
ence of government with natural laws in
this resieot simply waste labor.
The League asks that Cower
House duties.shell be Ind simply for reve
nue and shall cease to be laid for the pur
pose of keeping cheap goods out of reach of
our people The Farmer and the laborer
would then be free to buy foreign clothes,
oftleniestio clothes, foreign blankete or do
mestic blankets, or foreign Iron or domes
tic iron, whichever he might find cheapest.
Until he is allowed Ibis free choihe. he is
not a free man in the use and disposal of
his labor.
The Free Trade League hold that no gov
ernment ever was wise enough or ever will
be wise enough to regulate the private be
'loess of the people, so as to preeertbe to
them what they shall buy and what they
shall not buy or to what market or to what
shop they shall go to buy what they need.
We oppose a tariff framed with a view of
legislating money out of the pockets of The
many Into the pockets of the few.
The experience of England and France
under the commercial treaty promoted by
Cobden, is that with a reduction of one
third in the rate of duties, the revenue of
both government. has Increased and the
condition of the people in 11oth countries
has been greatly improved by spreading
mere widely among them the comforts of
living.
We have the most skillful ship, builders
and the best ship titimpepters of any in the
world, and yet we are unable to build ships.
Our shlp•bullders are Idle. Why 1 Be•
oause the oast= hdose duties on the mate
rials out of which to construct ship,. are
prohibitory to our mechanics and protect
live to the foreign workmen, Of the vast
fleet of steamers running between Europe
and America, not one now carries 'the
American flag. A nation which, like Dore,
has its borders upon two oceans, can riot
Rarely permit itself to be driven from the
seas by Its own bad legislation.
We ask your support, In behalf of your
own interests, to the principle. we advance,
to wit : that every man should ibd left free
to boy with tile labor whet he may need
wherever he cen.buy it cheapest ;Abet the
prosperity of the oommuulty is best promo
ted by government lc ling private butanes.
alone ; that ell men are entitled to equal
promotion from government and "thti — Ter
government to give specini . protection io
some interests is to rob all others ; that
to tax labor for the special benefit of the
owners of coal-mines and iron-mines, of
foundries and feetories, is to make all oth
er classes of the community work for these
few, to make all others,-In feel, so far elev
en to the avarice of these few.
The Chicago Times says: "When ► repe
nter reseal graduates anywhere he naturally
c omegjp Chicago."
"STA= BIGHTS AND rzanmat; UNION." . :1'
BELLEFONTE,' PA., FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 1867.
For the Virtue.",
THY WORD, 0 GOb, IS TRUE
It was said in my first article that scien
tific criticism denied this declaration. I
will now endeavor to chow on what grounds
this denial is based, and then ex
amine whether these grounds are ten-
able. The book commonly designa
ted by way of emineoe; the Bible, to distin
guish it from all otherhooks, seems to have
moored the enmity of a certain class of crit
ics, who, from time to time, have treated it
neither with common courtesy nor fairness.
Against the Mosaic account of creation they
have an especial grudge. Moses is held tip
as a most ignorant writer, by some Ills
very existence is ignored by others. Ily
801110 his cosmogony is a senseless jargon,
by others, that it is a Hebrew form of the
original x:hich obtained among the
nations, respecting the trabitional origin of
the universe, somewhat superior to the tra
dition tie true, because of its simplicity,
dignity nod sublimity, but still unhistoric
to its relation and inconsistent with the re
sults 'of modern criticism and science
As we tale up the Bible to read of and
admire the work of Clod, in the ommpoienco
of his act of preparing our world for the
habitation offkistn, we aro met, on the very
threshold of iii airy, arab the objection that
the staternev of Moses respecting that act
e incorrect and not to be relied on The
Astronomer with the wiedom of a sago and
the confidence a% victor declares the age
of the heaven. is not to be reckoned by thou
sands but by millions of years. Tim Oeolo
gist with no less wisdom and confidence Is
a■ positive of the age of the earth And
here they both join issue with Moses Mo
Nes, say they, makes the earth a mere hobo
in years, while *a can demonstrate without
fear of contradiction, that the Ilwtvens and
the earth are not o•tly a man, but an old
man, as to years
I believe it is a principle in law, not to
admit as evidence, what the witness thinks
the accused Las said or done, but only the
fact, what he has actually said or done If
this be law, then the Orel—indeed the only
hanky in order to clear un the difficultly
bets/in Moses and his accusers, iv to ex
stain rathfully, what be linsactually said .
Not at others, whether friendeorenennes,
iin Let b* be condemned or ac
quilled by Lie own words. Now what has
Moses Paid ? Ilyding the Hebrew Bible
ItNOM* first word he utters
is "ll'ltegi t h" which in our English trui
elation Csi:entletWtl' , "ln:the beginning " It
is to be observed Of that it is used
is the original without tne definite article
The Ilehrew article, originally a demon
strative pronoun, and still retaining the
force of the demonstrative, is employed with
a noun to limit its application under the rot
lowing circumstances , when the subject of
discourse is a definite object, when it is
previously spoken of, when it it, already
known, or when it is the only one of the
kind It is evident then that the non use
of the article leaves 13'lleshith indefinite
and that it cannot he so construed as to re
fer to iiny definite present lime. In the
First chapter of Clenisee third and fourth
•erses we find an illustration of the farce of
the arttote, that will help to explain the
above In the 3d verse ' , And God said, let
there be light, and light was." here Aor.,
(light) in both 11181611Ces is without the ar
ticle, because Moses did not think it neces
sary, to his preempt purpose, to stale po
sitively whether light did, or did not exist
in any form, previous to the now fiat of God
in its phenomenal appearance. In the
Fourth verse "And (hod saw light " Here t
Hour (the light) Las the article, because i t
the object is definite and pr eviously moll-
t honed.
When tbertforo Moses uses ll'lteshith.
"In the beginning" without the article, be
uses it in Ella n form as to imply not ihe
then present time, but an Indifinite tune, it
might be millions and .pillions of years
away hack In the eternity, of God's being.
To the allegation, conning either cram As
tronomer or geologist, that makes „Moses
say, the heavens and the earth are but yes
terday, and hence, Ilint his PO ientificAly
untrue, we have only to answer, Museassyn
no such thing lle neither says they are of
one or of a fluffiest yearn duration It was
not essential to the purpose of hinearration
that he should make such a statement Ilis
statement, "•In the beginning" m indefinite
and may, for all we shall ever know, em
brace a period of time so vast se to exceed,
even the powers of Aund of men or angels
to comprehend Thus from the construc
tion of the first word in * ear Bibles, the
etatement of Moses can be shown to be in
no sense iuconnetent with the moat recent
discoveries of science, and criticism fails to
sustain tie allegation The statement of
Moses has withstood, and over will with,
stand this class of criticism,
But there is another way, by which the
statement of Moses can be shown consistent
with known truth. I now refer to the mean
ing of the words he uses. In general, words
eompose sentences To understand a sou
tanes, or what is the same thing, to under
stand an author. it Is neoessary to under
stand the force and meaning of 4611 word
in the sentence. U. Name method and
principle of interpretation Is 0010M0111 both
to the sacred and profane writer, and the
meaning of words In Holy Soripture is to
be aought . Jor, prialsely in the same way, In
which ki s sought for In any other writings'
Bible words are no more arbitrary than
other words, and they are no less an. the
words of Holy Scripture are regulated by
certain Jaws, drawn from the nature of lan
guage, precisely as the words of any other
book• The Holy Scripture, as a whole , , or
considered in its several elements, ens have
bat one meaning ; and that cos true weaning
is to be sought offer, in the same manner
that the meaning of Homer or Aeneas or
Milton Is sought after. To Investigate the
sorlplare houe.lij , mkt° give a true is.
terpretatlon of the rata, It Is neoeuary to
Moires aerials rules, whfich rules are as
applloable to looks In general. as (hey are
to the Holy Boriptura Thee. rules aralanot
new. In presenting them I make no elaim
fat myself, of originali%. I offer them be
mute they have the consent of our best
pluielgieta Willi a few verbal ohasgcs
and omissions, they are — lkeeented as fol
lows:
Ist. It le a moat imporiant rule to asoqr-
MID the uotionafilied In words by ^per
son in general, by whom the language eith
er is now, or formerly was 'Token, and es
peolally in the ,partioular connection to
bleb snob non" Is affixed. The nom lo-
quad. is an important element in striving
at the meaning of an author For, in gm,
oral, kb itnetipi,lng of n word used by nn au
thor is LW - locating affixed to it by those to
or for whom he immediately wrote.
dad The received signification of a word
is to be retained, uniess Wrong nig neces
sary reason, require such meaning to be
abandoned
:hi, Where a word tins several signifies
lions in common use - that must he selected
which hest suits the passage in question.
4th, Of any particular passage, the most
simple sense—or that which most readily
suggests itself to an attentive and intent
gent reader, professing competent knowl
edge—is in all probability the genuine
sense
sth As it is the design of interpretation
to render in our own language the same
disconnse which the tittered. authors, origi
nally wrote in Hebrew or Oreek, it is evi
dent that our interpretation, to be correct,
ought not to affirm or deny more than the
inspired penmen affirmed or denied at the
time they wrote Consequently we should
be more willing to take n sense front scrip
ture than'to bring one to it
6th, Before we conclude upon a tense of
a tent, so as to prove anything from it, we
must be sure that such sense is not repug
nant to natural reason These rules will
be a safe guide in directing our investiga
tion of what Moses means by, "In the be
ginning "
DOBBS AND HIS DIFFICULTIES
I am no novelist, anal have never aspired
to be, but I claim to be something of a poi-
MEI
If 'bele Is a loyal man I believe I ant One
I Made great sacrifiess during the. war for
my country. I Jul not go to the war be
cause I could not My private ilium would
not permit but if one person to the United
States of America kept up a tutors galling
fire m the rent than toy other oils I ant the
man I lute° been the mark alit° Copper•
heads And beeides it has cue' me much
domestic trouble.
George Washington Harrison Socrates
Clay Dobbs, (that's toe) tinforlonalely mar
ried one Amy Amanda Maria LotimaScraggs
and as old Screggs arse a Demecritlony Amy
has been a follower of the old ,rebel sympa
thising Copperhead Miller:lot, and at limes
the climate at "Dobbs' Collage" became
somewhat troikal bare borne it all
like a 'Thrislion
Old Scraggy has always been tuo fast for
tno in argument, but when he came •isiting
and I held fancily prayer and got the old
reprobate upon hm knees, I had all the say,
and you better belie•e I poured grape and
noisier into Fort Sumter Amy was a
beautiful girl, and I married her because I
loved her Sony said I married her for
"Dobbs' Coltago,''but that is a copperhead
Ile It is true, her lather made us a pros
sot of the farm and cottage, but what of
that? It was his daughter: and she had a
right to it I was master of the situation
until recently This suffrage question in
•o1•eil me in n •ery serious difficulty. I
had taken special pains to tantalize Amy
about copperheads, butternutis and sympa
thizers, but when this suffrage question
came up she gave me hark upon the negro
equably ipteattun
I defended the best I could, but found. the
position was getting untenable, and so I
deolared straight for aqua lily and went at
it upon general equality principle.
I went my whole length and deolarml for
outright equality
Our people had got patriotic and had ad
mitted the Negroes Into the public schools .
and I had the honor of n:u•tng Grid in th•tt
important step
Ono e•enmg a (ow weektisgb,l mune home
end Arty and I had a sel.to on tha equality
quest tun Ills children had been at school
that day, and each hail a mgr., next to
them I saw Amy was working her wits.
the result of which was all ennouneenient
that if the children had to associate with
negroes, I should, 1 00
I regarded the threat as an idlo boast,and
thought no more of it
A few dii ‘ js after Ibis I notified her that
and his wife would dine with
us Iler eyes sparkled. I knew there wax
mischief brewing, bui 1 could not foresee
I ad•teed her that the General, his wife
and I would be at the cottage at one. And
sure enough we were
And Amy was prepared for us She had
I prepared on excellent dinner, and met.-us
at the door to welcome us, announcing at
the same time Mat dinner was ready
So soon is we were prepared she led the
way to the dining room, and to my surprise
had spread a large table, and had a saucy
old negro by the name of crow, with hie
wife and two ehildren that were scaled next
to our children at school, alreadihit the ta
ble She apologised (or her basic in neat
ing her first guesjs, assiluilog that elle had
concluded we were not coming, nail then
proceeded to formally introduce nl4 Crow
and the Crow family generally to CI Gen
eral and wife an brother Crow, dat e Crow.
master Crow, and little rules Crow„
, I felt a little like mowing some myself.
My legs began to show unnalstakable'llgon
of slastially. I felt as if I could helm out
any six negro.' In the neighborhood. But
fully oomprehended the natureof the situa
tion The General, although an earnest
Radical, could not raturpress his olfactory
from becoming slightly elevated My Amy
was extremely polite,and oliterjed-away ap
parently in one of her hiiipiest moods. Old
Crow sat batik with hie thumbs in the atm
holes of his dilapidated old vest, whilst his
wife, with folded amid, was aesuming an
air of maiden Innocence.
Amy banded the General a seat by the
wenoh, wOioh filled up that aide of the ta
ble, and hurriedly seated the General's wife
by old rums and !softy. Then gathering
up the children seated them beside their
Ilebool.fillowe. after which she took her
e•ft, the head of the table , and requested
to be seated at the further end to wait
upon the gnette.
•
Up to this time I bed managed well. lint
the General's wife arose and remarked that
she did not Intend to bear the Insult fur
Cher. At this the general flow into a pan
elon, sod itemised me of purposely arrang
ing an insult. I protested and accused Amy
and as I dad so old Boraggs stepped in. The
General remaiked, ..you old butternut, you
're at the bottom oflthis." lily Amy re
minded him that it was her home, and no
on e should insult her lather there, and or-
ll' '.
Jere) him to leave
The General milled her a dirty hotly for
insulting his wife, and at this old Scraggy
bit him with the knot end of a butternut
limb I stilling between them to protect my
guest, when old ('row placed the General
and I upon An equality. In I)he melee the
wench assailed the General's wife nnethe
fight became general, Amy in the meantime
expostulating perse.
Finally' we all aueoheded in resuming our
perpendicular position, but Crow, who was
Joel then the special eibject of n charge from
the General
Amy was playing Pocahontas, by leaning
over the old carcaes,and succeeded in caus•
the General to retreat
She then placed her arms around him
and attempted to raise him I blew up
Making a charge upon old Manhood, II ruin
ed a calf skin
Mrs Crow patted ;no on tho back with
choir; whiled the young Crowe met up a reg
nine down South jubilee.
Ilut I cleaned them out. I did Indeed.
The lest words I heard from old crow were
You're no genlmen
Scregge enjoyed ii Amy was exceeding
ly sorry, and could not comprehend wile,
lied canoed ibe row The Gener%l and hi.
wife were off in n Burry.
And I—l was the nindoot and mutest Rad
!cal in the Slate
I pursued after the General to apologize
and explain,and run into old Crow: Ile gave
me an exhibition of his ..manhood," and
acting I was flauVed, I wheeled to retreat.
In my haste I encountered the wench, and
OA er we went
I partially recovered and Marled on all
foure.wben old Crow came to my assistance
and by an attack upon tbo rear enabled me
to make the faelest !idle on record.
As I came down the pavement I discov
ered a waving handkerchief It was
Amy's
Screggn hod mistimed o belligerent posi
tion, and an I panned him, set crow to trot
ting in the opposite direction Ile made
good time, but nothing in comparison to
what I had done.
Since which time I hove been dubbed
•'Dexter" by Amy end her father, and at
the least intimation flint I intend to vote
the Radical ticket, Amy insists upon re
hearsing her story of the race between man
hood and Radical I hare partially suc
ceeded iu reconciling the Calera) ma hie
wile, but my suggestion to play the same
joke on Soraggs and Amy, at their house,
brought to the General's mind such a vivid
recollection of oldelow 'a muscular posters
that be concluded that Negroequality would
answer for electioneering purposes, but wax
decidedly dangerous experiment by way
of practical jokes I thought so too
TO THE PRISONERS OF WAR AND
OF ARBITRARY ARRESTS TN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
At the 1.4 e session of the Congress of the
United Stales, that body passed a resolu
tion, on July 10, 1867, appointing certain
parties as a committee to investigate "The,
Treatment of Prisoners of War and Union°
Citizens held by the Confederate Authori
ties during the late Rebellion," at the
sonic tiine refusing extend the meetings.
tion to the prisoners of war, vietenis of ar
bitrary power, and military usurpation by
the nut hority of the Federal administration•
The piirtial, vindictive and wicked purpose,
of the Congres to pervert, distort, and su
born the truth of liistory, bits made it the
duty of everyanicrioan citizen to look to
the honor of his country and the preserva
tion of the truth of history.
We all might well imitate the egateple of
the better son of Noah, and walk beck
wards, sod throw the mantle of oblivion
upon the tinkedness of our drunken par eat
and forget all or the past ; but slime a par
tial eel false representat ion of our public •f
-fairs in to be made by members of Congress
for the unholy and fiendish purpose o( per
petuating sectional bitterness, and prolong
ing the unchristian and unnatural strife
of a ruined people; that Juetice nosy yen s
to every man and the truth of history% may
be •indioated, I hereby cppn reagricillullY
request that all persona in posseassion of
important information in regard to any of
these subjects, na well as the city burning.,
plantation devaetatia, the murders, repos
and robberies perpetrated under official
sanction, either civil er military, of the Fed
eral authority, are earnestly requested to
address the undersigned, giving, in precise
simple and unexaggerated terms, a full
statement oral' the facts known to the wri
ter touching his own Imprieonment, or
frealment of others, either soldiers or oili
zeds, giving, as far ne possible, names,
places and dates, with names of Federal of
ficers In oharge, and those instigating these
crimes
The great body of the officers and soldiers
of both armies were manifestly honest In
purpose in the protteoutiop of their terrible
work of detail). The history of wars de
monstrates that the vilest men here charge
of prisons A history of the smelly to
priemsers on both sides In the ism war, Is
tois *Math 'gill "make hell aldmotad sod
turn the cheek of darkness pile," and
for our own history's joke, forgotten, bait
It told, it must be truly tottt - thatassh par
ty maybe abutted !Into silence by the
orime Not hiking the people's money to
•aete in pottage to kindle the Arai of re"
veoge, I will Inlet to the kindness of the
sufferer. to treounnit to me, by Tit, all
communication. upon thin subject at their
earliest convenience. I stn, Very rt.p.ot
)our obedient
limet•Nav DEMI.
t . Mount Pletasot, town.
All newrpoliero :in the northern and
eoutheru States are rmlnitated to Copy this'
How to 0B? All EDOOktlem.—Boya at?
often, "we mac an education ; but we are
poor, and can't get It ; as we are going to
learn a Mle, or go Into a store or do Bolas•
thing aka." Here 110 me say, *Wary bay
that Tulle an education, If he will band his
force to it, oss get Just as good • one as he
wants. The way la open. Education does
not come through aoadernlealand colleges
and sominariee ; these are helps, 1 7 1 ' it
comes by study, by reading and comps ing.
All the schools, colleges and luminaries in
the world will not melte a scholar of a man
without these; end with them a man will
be one If he never sees a college.
What is true of boys ie true of girle, and
what is trim of this purspit To true of any
other. rile forte must be from yourself,
and you must develop it It is that Indom
itable "I coo," that sets a men nefrlde the
world.
,*W
NO. 3(S.
THE MORNING WATCH
The 'coon ie bleached as while as wool,
Awl just dropping lender
And tier,' stag is gone hot three,
An I they hang for asunder
There's ayes-ghost all in gray.
A tall shape of wonder.
I lannot nntinfied with elecri—
The night in Lion Anded
lint look haw tVelint ghost rinnos
With wan Mt irla a:landed.
Steeling up In thee lamed hour.
Whoa :tglit and dark aro blended
A serge! I To the Id pier end
Ifer happy course eha's keeping
I heared them name her yesterday
Some were pale with weeping
Vino with their heart hung eigheil
Shea m--and they are Sleeping.
Oh ! nuw with funded greetings 'dolt
They coutfurithoir lung nehing ;
The on of sleep hath horns to them
What would nut nom with waking,
And the drums ;Alin oink be true
In their b
The PUSS are gone, the roan-bloom comes—
No blush of maid is sweeter.
The red sun. half . 0 7 nut of bed,
Shall he the Bret to greet her:
Nona toll the news, Net eleepere wake,
And roe, and run to meet h• r.
Their lost they here, they hold t from pain
A keener blies they borrow :
lion natural m joy, my heart"!
lion easy after sorrow .
For once, the beat l• come that hope
Pl0111i•Od them to morrow
-
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
—Tho heated term—" You're a liar!"
—Declaration of Independence—"/ 11 be
free and °m op still 1"
—Phypicians have recommended all kind.
of hark. ne %%Imitable, otzcept thell i ark of a dbig.
—Why Is • conceited font yea •/11111,11e.
onees he hai a vacant apace wafer the cap.
—There were thirty Interments at New Or
leam on the lon, resulting from yellow fever
—What pnper hoc the largeet circulation I
Counterfeit fifty-cent currency.
—A fine coat will cover a foul, but will net
hide him•
--I tun on the trail of a dear, as a gentle
man said when he trod on a lady's 'drew
linewb Sury boo sismistesi that to be
called a liar, • thief, and • scoundrel, entitles •
g e ntiern a d damates• -
—Queen Victoria popped the question to
Prince Albert., Ladles go and do likewise.
—Colored detectives are now employed In
Richmond ~by appointment of the military, to
nil the police.
—An agent for n newspaper out West was
recentl prosecuted for assault, for raining a
club.
—The white police in Mobile aro resigning,
es they aro unwilling to serve under the negro
chief. 1
—A Treasury warrant has been Issued roe
the sum or $1.317,905,90. In coin, to pay the in
terest on 10-40's up to Sept Ist.
-An exchange says that the Black Repub
lican platform hu been whittled down to three
planks: Rmrv.ps, us.rothei, rind negro ..ffrar.
—Before the ezeoutio6 of hlexituillatt. Me
jot and Miratoon, hfejta's wife ran 4lstraoted
through the etreett,Uarrying a now Inirn• babe•
—A Radical paper in Ohio adviser its par
ty to "coma to the scratch." "Let Liam acratch
nod Ire happy," retorts a Democratic neighbor
—Brigham Young malignantly said of the
wife of Joe Smith the prophet, that ishe was the
"d—doet liar he know." Thia was part of a
Sunday afternoon Formo upon the Smith fami
ly.
—A Ainseachueotts youth recently missed
a counterfeit note upon the juetice who married
him, and afterwarde etolo the minieteee um
brella.
—An Orleans editor say. ho counted, one
hundred and seventy three alligators In • sail
of six tildes along a bayou. Whore is "Honest"
John COVOIiO
—ApArttfCarbelor after haring been laugh
ed at by a party of pretty girls said to them .
•Yon are small potatoes.'
IWo may be small potatoes,' sald one of them,
Ittit We are meet ones !'
—We ere Informed that tier. Geary attend -
tended the colored camp meeting near Middle
town, on Sunday lout, wad, on his returni joined
the New School Presbyterian church,
--Out of the twenty-six oaken in the Claistose
House at Oalvoston, Texan only dime arf left
for duty—tho rest being either sick with yeildw
fever °nigh&
-f
—To be • Democrat I. to too a lower •
supporter of good government, an enemy of ad
arcby, and a rot of despotism. Democrat.
stand by the rights of all seen and recognise
the distinction of ranee, as made by the Creator
of all.
—The reeding Gastric says that Mon. John
W. Maynard, Prekident Judge of the North
ampton district, Announces him intention of re
tiring from the beech at the end of presentywar
and removing to Williamsport.
—There Is enough "Constitution etieking
in the kidneys" of the "stolid Dutch of Penn
sylvania"—thet "school-hating, rum-lowing
breed of Dutch" (See Greeley's rribeme)to elect
Judge Shemwood by al least twenty thousand
mato; ity, this fan.
prlrate tdagr•m to • gentleman of
this oily stater that Ramon Itristt, •t pretreat
or formerly editorially eon-meted Alb Ow PRA
burg Gasdtt, was yeaterday nominated by Me
Radicals of Alleshany scanty, on lint ballot,
for the Stale Satiate, In plat* of Senator Hl•g.
bam.
—The emigration from Its Mad I. mutually
felt by the BogHA farmers at Ale memo/ of
the year, Heretofore lerge numbers of farm
hande have been aoeualomed to arose the Irish
obanmil to reap the Englleh harvest ; bet this
year lb, number le very smell.
—"Bare you ground all the t.•ols right • .
I told you flu morning when I went away
said • carpenter to a tither green lad whom ha
had taken for an •pprentloe. oA II bat Ike
handset , . An," replied the lad promptly l ' 4 l
osoulda't get all tbe gaps out of that."
—The following Wes were .1a harmony
with the political sentiments" of chair thaw:
Pontiac Pilate, /edge Jeireye. Lord Blienbor
mei end Beiciptier Tleville, Ma these is. the
131111 kind of Jedges the Stadia & went to we
dep. Do the people agree with thews
very asnalhlo womb, who lo going to
Surope,desirow that wise' her busabassi's maw
and her own are published among the ll.t Of
passeogers, It anal be M. and wife, not
ladytfor lie goes 'aboard with biz uww lawful
wife, and wohody
—La editor wet. a loading article an the
fair me; la the donna of "Moil ha Mid, Olds
of oerontoon of •Ilbtaea are food of beam..
When the paper ilia loaneddio was rather s4mok
d to dianoverod that an nufortnnate typograpb•
foal errcr had wader Ini sty, "011ie of erreatoon
or olghteen are food of hens. B * He luoi' bettor
nos the Yrettoh plural (bean.) hereafter.
PROCVIIISTNiN SY THE" MiNS:IENT
WASHINGTON, Seplowa. 2.—The follow
ing pm:demotion Mil issued Ibis enornist
by the President:
I=
Wit the Constitution of the
United State., the Executive power is vest
ed in • President of the United 81ctee of
Ameriee, who is boned by • solemn oath,
faithfully to execute the ofliee of President,
and to tee but of hie ability, to preserve,
protect and defend the Constitution of tM
United States, and is, by the canoe instru
ment, used* Counnatidar-in-Chter of the
Army and navy of the United Ewes, is re-
g t uired laJake care that the lows be fattb•
hilly executed and, whereas, by the same
~lJonediuuoo, it in provided that she Win
etitution and the lawn of the Untied
&atm. whteb shall be made in pursuance
thereof,all•ll be the supreme la■ of the land
and the Judges in every State shall be
. I.:Asit.
;hereby, and
- 141n - EAS, In and by the seine COOSIIIU
lion the judicial power of the United States
is vested in one Supreme Courtotod in such
inferior courts us Congress may from time
to lime onlain and establish; and theaforo
raid judicial power is declared to extend to
all eases in thy mid equity arising under
the Coustituilon, the laws of the Coiled
Slates, and the treaties which - "ehall be ramie
under their authority ; and whereas,all offi
cers, 1:11/1i and military, are bound Uy oath
at they will support mid defend the Con
titutiou unmet ell enemuse, foreign sad
domestic, and will bear true faith and alle
giance to the mane; slid wh officers
of the army and navy of the United Staten
ID accepting their commissions under the
law, of Congress, and the rulee and articles
of war near ■n obligation to serve and
obey and follow such directions** they ohs I
from time to time receive from the President
or the General, or other superior isakereset
over them, according to the ruin., and die
eipline of ear ; and whereas, it a provided
by law, that whenever by reason of unlaw
ful obstruotione,oombinetions or aesemblage
ef person., or rebellion against the author
ity of the United Staten's it shall become im
practicable in the judgment of the Presi.
dent to enforce by the ordinary course of
judicial proceedings of the laws of the
United States within any State or Terri tors,
the Executive in t h at ease is the authorized
agent measure theirfaithfulexeouilon by the
employment of the land and naval force. ;
and, Whereas,lmpediments and obstructions
serious in their °Miramar, have recently
been interposed In the States of North Car
olina and 'South Carolina, hindering and
preventing, fora time,a proper enforcement
there of the laws of the Visited Slates, and
of the judgments and decrees of a lawful
Court thereof, in disregard of the command
of the President of the ;I/died Elates , and,
whereas, reasonable and well founded ap
prehenatus exist, that suoh ill advised
and uulowful proecedingalltay bantlompted
there or elswhere; now,
Therefore, I, Andrew Johnson, President
of the United States, do hereby warn all
persons against obstructing or hindering in
say manner whatsoever, the faithful execu
tion of the Constitution and Lowe, and I do
solemnly enjoin and command all oOloorn
of the government, civil or military, to rea
der due enbmission and obedient% to aid
laws, and the judgments and decrees of the
courts of the United States, and to give all
the 'Sid In their poker necessary to the
prompt enforcement and ass:salon of said
laws,deerees, judgments and prooesesiould,
I do herby enjoin upon the °Flown of the
army and navy, to assist and ,sustain the
courts and other civil eatharillem of the
United States, in a faithful admialstretion
of the laws thereof and in the judgments de
crees, mandates and paocesses of the Courts
of the United States, and I call open all
good and well disposed Wilsons oft the
United States to remember that Orton (Ks
said Constitution sad laws, and ,upon the
judgments, decrees, and pressures of the
courts, made in swordsmee with the same
depend the proMistion of the Uses, liberty,
property, and happiness of the people; and
I exhort them everywhere to testify their
devotion to their country, their pride in the
prosperity and grestness,and their digerati
nal iotuo uphold
, its free institutions, by a
heartfao-operation in the effort of theger•
ernmCnt to sustain the authority of the
law, to maintain the supremacy of the Fed
eral Constitution,and to premiere unimpair
ed, the integrity of the National Union.
to testimony whereof, I have caused the
311111 of the United elate lobo &Said to the,
p bend sign the lama with my hand.
Done at the ph) 6f Washington,the third
day of September, in the year of our Lord
lone thousand eight hundred and aisty-eav
o.
AIIDILIW JonSIKIN
Beal by tbe President.
Wm. H. fiarrApo, Secretary of State.
RADICAL LOTALTT...--010W PAILINCII are
aware beat the Radical &spaWinans bane
•eeumed to 14 1 11Tikh only /opal people In the
country. Loyalty MOM faitital adhesion
to the laws of the lied. Tbili
of the United States is sorrow lee of
the land." Ileum, fidelity to that, el lbs
highest style of loyalty. Ye. Thaddeus
Stevens, the leader of the Radical party in
Oangtess, has Just delayed, In • letter to
Samuel Schack, that ••the whole Work at
reconstruation," done by hint aid las con_
federates in the Senate and !louse ofßepre
sentativerolta the 119th and 40th Congresses
wits done ••ootetde or' and in •trepudls
tee" of shtooestitultoe ! 'Now, then, we
a■k the peoplgkes.say whotber• the party
which undertakes, by • Wimple saaJerlty I•
Cosines, to abolish lb. flgedianeental law
alba Ratites! Covoresone, to am guilty
of the meet gluing dlskeysky—viif tN Sett
atresiesse tresses T dflase theol'weAle
lutes/ the owing of Oka home •
,
lirarJ men is tam**, of lip. 09
booineuiti but oottoepoly abut As sathls, to
hip owl oltieloo oemearatg rattler •46: ,
ordlear7 Joi;dia g AIM*"
Robert Boomer Ur the Mir 64 44ArteAR4
Me borne. Thal 'aolleasa bee I'4l OUt.y
the tintoot sod amities' ittah‘e of Mat. , " I• 1
lb* *bold, but he ewer the Wheat WAIN"
bone. so htt so taws. ara'Proilaled *Pal
thin planet—the imam, Dater. 'The tob
lowing la • Get at rir owls* 'lrDb OW PR.
sal he bee paid tor that I Aosta, NOM
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the moon, normitrii'lesill,o ol, the
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