BY DAVID OVER. |5 0 1111]. THE AMERICAN FLAG. BY J. R. DRAKE. When Freedom from her mountain height, Unfnriea her standard to tbe air She tore the robe of azure night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky bald rick of the skies, And stripped its pure, celestial whit: With streakings of the morning light- Then from its mansion in the snn, She called ber eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty band, The symbol of her cl osen land. Majestic monarch of tbe cloud, "Who rearest aloft thy regal form To hear the tempes<-trampings loud, When strive the warriors of the storm. And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven, — Child of the sun ! to thee -'tis given Ik) guard the banner of tbe free, To hove in the sulphur smoke, To ward away the battle stroke. And bid it bleedings shine afar, Like rainbows en the cloud of war, Tbe harbingers of victory ! Flag of our country ! thy folds shall fly, The sign of hope and triumph high When speaks the signal trumpet tone. And the long line comes gleaming on, Ere yet the lite-blood, warm and wet Has dimmed -he glittering bayonet; Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn ; And as his springing steps advance Caich war and vengeance from the gluice, And when the cannon mounting loud, Heave in wiM wreaths tbe battle-shroud. And gory sabres ri*e scd fall Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall, Then shall thy meteor glances glow, And cowering toes shall sink Iteneatb Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the Seas on ocean wave. Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave : When death, careering on tbe gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frightened waves rush v . - back Be-fore tbe broadside's retlia, r;< k, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee , And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er bis closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valor given, Thy stars hare lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven— Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes tbe foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er as ! Virginia on Secession in 1811. The following article on tbe right of a State to secede, we copy from the Richmond Enquirer of Nov. 1, 1814: "THE UNION IS IN DANGER. —Turn to the Con vention of Hartford, and learn to tremble at ttie madness of ita authors. How far will such mad men advance? Thousb they may conceal from you tbe project of disunion, though a few of them may have concealed it from themselves, yet who will pretend to set bounds to the range of disaf fection ? One false step after another may lead them to resistance to the laws, to a treasonable neutrality, to a war against the Government of tbe United States. In truth, the fir3t act of resistance to tbe law is treason to the United States. Art yon ready for this state of things? Will you support the men who would plunge you into this ruin ? ty permit it to be done. Every bushel of j corn raised will be wanted. No one knows ! but half a million of men miy yet be needed to | finish up th;s rebellion iu away to mike the j peace as lasting as we intend it shH bs. The j country has resolved that it will no longer have its industry blasted every few years, either by compromise or rebellion. Remember, friends, we are fighting to preserve the Government itself. Compromise >s dead, but mbeltMS is | alive and rampant. We intend to crush it iand preserve tbe Union, cost what it may.— But in the mean time, while one army looks to it* asuskets, let the army of farmers look to its I cornfields. The South cannot plant either corn or cotton as aforetime. Thousands who culti vate corn are already flying from their plaota ions. E;ry ship that reaches our harbors, every train that enters our depots is crowded 1 with fugitives abandoning tvery thing to save I their lives We have full evidence that tbe slaves in many places already hesitate to work as usual, and cannot be lashed into it with the old impunity. How many fields of grain that any be already planted will be trampled ua i der foot of Northern armies, which a continu i atiou of this unparallciled rebellion mastcoru i pel us to march over in crushing it out ? j Bear in mind that more than forty forts, and | mints, and arsenals, and custom houses must I be captured from tbe rebels, or surrendered at ! discretion. There is no mistaking the taagni i tu le of the work to be done, but were it thrice as heavy it would be done nevertheless. All this will require men—Northern men— men from the plow as well as as from the workshop and the mine. Never have farmers been so imperatively called on to plant every possible acre a ithin their power. The borne market alone trill pay them. The South must be fed by the North another year, and if the political troubles in Kurooe should eud in a general war, a demand umsl follow which will make our farmers rich Be active, friends, wbjie she reason is before you ! Double the size of your cornfiel is—somebody wilt want ail your crop. DEATH IN CHILDHOOD. How true anA exquisitely beautiful is tbe fol lowing, which is taken from an article in the Dub lin University Magazine :—"To me, few things ap pear so beautiful as a very young child In its hroud. Tbe littk, innocent face looks so sum l.mely simple and confiding amongst tbe cold ter rors of death Crimeless and fearless, that little mortal hat passed alone under the shadow, and ex plored the mystery of dissolution. There is death in its snblimest and purest image; no hatred, no bypocracy, no suspicion, no care for the morrow ever darkened that little face; death has come lovingly upon it; there is nothing cruel or harsh in its victory. The yearning of love, indeed, can not be stifled ; for the prattle and the smile, al! the little world of thoughts that were so delightful, are goae forever. Awe, too wiil overcast us in its presence, for we are looking on death ; but we do not fesr for the lonely voyaget; for the child has gone, simple and trusting, into the presence of its all-wise Father; and of such, We know, is the kingdom of Heaven." Everywhere there is death. In it not a remarkable fact that there is nothing that you can plant, or build, or lay aside, that death in some of his formulas does not instantly set upon? Build wall of granite, and they de cay? the breath of death will instantly begin to act upon them. Build your Houses of Parliament of stoue selected by the best judges, and death with its fangs is already gnawing into dust the fabric that Qost millions of the nation's wealth. Tbe sweetest flowers that boret into bloom will no sooner reach their * full bloom and beauty thau death wui breathe upon them, and tbey will wither and be re solved into earth again. All that man builds, all that nature throws up from her bosom, all that is beautiful in the heights, all that is | fragrant in the depths, all are under the ' regime of decay, disease, and death. BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1861. COI'STRI AMD PARTY. The uprising of a great people is * sublime spectacle, and all the more sablime because all partj differences are forgotten. The wiping ont of party lines in the Free States is the first grand benefit resulting from the war for the Union on which we have entered. It is, we trust, an angury of continued good re sults, succeeding one another rapidly, until we are once more a harmonious as well as a uoited people. With the exception of a few professional party leaders of the Democratic school, who fret under the loss of 'heir ocnpations, there are DO people in the Free Stotes that ever talk now of Democracy or Republicanism. The masses of the Democrats are with the masses of the Republicans. The people are true to the nation, and tbev do not ask ihe party leaders how they shall act, but, with tUe true instinct of patriotism, they rush to the de fence of the national standard, ready to fol low that hallowed emblem of freedom and Uniou wherever it may go, in any part of the land. The Southern people are amazed at this j unanimity: for they had been led to believe by j the Secession leaders that a large portion of the Demociats at tbe North would refuse to fight against them, if tbey did not actually j rise to assist them. Here is what the New j Orleans /fee says on this subject: "There is no doubt whatever that an opin ion prevailed among us that if Lincoln should attempt, to make war upon tbe South, the j conservative element in the North would j overwhelm his administration, and by timely j divisions would extend aid and succor to us- ! It was thought that the thirty thousand; anti-Lincoln majority in New fork city would act substantially with the South, or at all events would exhibit its genuine sympathy j with that section by declining to take up arms | in behalf of tbe Federal Government. There were not wanting amouog us, too, numbers of j shrewd and experienced citizens who caleula- j ted largely on tbe commercial ties and identity j of interests between the South and West, and j who believed that ultimatly Ohio, Indiana I and other States io that quirler would be glad | to unite their destinies with those of a Southern j Confederacy. How the first blast of tbe' Northern bugle has blown away these bobbies, of tbe imagination!" The hallucination under which the South but hluudeied into its atrocious rebelliia . plainly confessed in this extract. It is bit terly dispelled by "the first blast of the North ern bugle." Tbe great city of New fork, with its thirty thousand majority against Lincoln's election, is as enthusiastic and patrioite as any other city tn the land. Old Tammany Hill rings with ttie sbcuts of exulting Demo crats who are ready to fight, aloog side of their old enemies at the polls, for the preser vation of the Union and the avenging of the outrage done to the National flag. Leading Democrats are commanding regiments, aad fraternizing with leading Republicans. Dem ocratic Governors are giving aid to the Federal Government from their private fortunes. In deed there is no question of party politics in this contest; but there is a generous rivalry among all classes of citizens in tbe noble j work of preserving tbe nation. But not only in the Free States does the feeling ptevail in behalf of the Union. The Democratic Governor of Delaware has called tor volunteers to answer tbe demand of the President, and the people have come foiward gallantly at the call. Many parts of Mary land are ablaze with aothudasm for tbe Union, and thousands of volunter are ready to fight for it there. The counties of Northwestern Virginia, are as eager to maintain tbe cause of tbe country as those of I'ennsylvanai.— Volunteers ore organizing in Kentucky, who will be placed under tbe command of Ken tucky's noble and loyal son, tbe gallant Anderson, of Fort Sampler. Missouri has already five thousand of her brave sons en- : rolled for service under the star# and stripes. ] There is not a doubt that, if necessary, fully fifty thousand soilders can be obtained from ' tbe Slave States alone, to aid the Federal , Government in putting down this atrocious rebellion. But not one company for the service of the : rebels could be mustered in tbe Free States, if tbey were raked for traitors from one end; to the other. The North is a unit for the Union; it will have thousands of active allies in the Slave States, and many more thousands will show themselves tbera as soon as they are assured of tbe protection of the Federal Government from the violence of mobs and the cruelty of rebel leaders. There is no question of party DOW. The people are for the country and the„Governme*rt, and the strong arm of the people must prevail. Philadelphia Bulletin. FAIT H. —A little fellow eight years old, who was without a relative in the whole world, was asked by a lady if he did not have fears as to wnethsr he would get along in life. The child looked up, with a perplexed and inquiring eye, as if uncertain of her meaning and troubled with a new doubt. "Why," said he, "don't you think God will take care of a feller, if be puts bis trust iu him, and does tbe best ho can V' ID your discourse take heed what you speak, and to whom you speak, how you speak, and when you speak; when you speak, speak wisely ; a fool's heart is iu his tongue, but a wise man's tongue is in his heart. [ An irishman meeting a countryman, inquir ed his name. •Walsh,' said the man. 'Walsh,' responded Paddy, "are ye from Doubiiu ? I knew two eld maids there of that name ; was either of 'em yer mother V f OUR FOREIGN RELITIONS. The Secretary of State, "William H. Seward, ip ( hi* instructions to the Minister to the French Court, William L. Dayton, is very explicit on tbe sub ject of the relations of this government towards the rebels of the south. We give the concluding portion of his letter. The path of executive duty has thus far been too plainly marked out by stern necessities to be mis taken, while the solemnity of the great emergency, and the responsibility it devolves, have extinguish ed in the public councils every emotion but those of loyalty and patriotism. It is not in the hands | of this administration that this government is to come to an end at all, much less for tbe want of harmony or in devotion to the country. M. j Thouvenel s declaration that the United States may rest welt"assured that no hasty or precipitate action will be taken on the subject of the appre hended application of the insurrectionists for a recognition of the independence of the so-called confederate states, is entirely satisfactorily, altho' it was attended by a reservation of views concern- : ing general principles applicable to a cause that need not now be discussed. In the unofficial con venation, Mr. Faulkner says that he himself ex- ; pressed the opinion that fore-; would not be re- • sorted to, to coerce the so-caliei seceding states icto submission to the federal authority, and th*t the only solution of tbe difficulties would be found in such modifications of the constitutional com- j pact a? would invite the seceding states back into tbe Union, or a peaceable acquiescence in tbe as sertion of their claim to a separate sovereignty.— The time when these questions had pertinency or plausibility has passed away. The United States waited patiently, while their authority was defied in turbulent assemblies and iu seditious prepara tions, willing to hope that the mediation offered on all sides would conciliate and induce tbe dia- ' affected parties to return to a better mind. But ; the case is now altogether changed. The insur gents have instituted a revolution, with open, j flizraut, and deadly war, to compel the United j States t acquiesce the dismemberment of the Union. The Unite! States have accepted this civil war as an inevitable necessity. The constL ; tnticnal remedies for all thecompiaints of the in surgents are still open to them, and will remain so : hot on tbe other band, tbe land and naval forces of the Union have been put into activity to restore j the federal authority, and to save the Union from danger. You cannot bo too decided or too explicit in making known to tbe French tovernment tbat there is not now, nor has there been, nor will there be, any or the least idea existing in this govern ment of suffering a dissolution of this Union to ! take place in any way whatever. There will be here only one nation and one government, and there will be tbe same republic and the same Con stitution that has already survived a dozen national j changes, and changes of government in almost every other country, and these will stand hereafter, as tbey are now, objects of human wouder and htei-a Yon have seer, on the eve of yonr departure the elasticity of the national spirit, the vigor of the national government, and tbe lavish devotion ot tbe national treasury to the great cause. Tell M- Thouvenel, then, with the highest consideration and good feeling, tbat a thought of tbe dissolution of this Union, peace ably or by force, has never entered into the mind of any candid statesman here; and it is high time that it be dismissed by statesmen in Europe. From the Huntingdon Globe, (Douglas.) The Twenty Days Ended. The twenty days given by the President, for the Secessionists to disband and return to their bomes as peaceful and law-abiding citizens, ex pired on Sunday, and from tbe determined stand heretofore taken by the President we prerume he will proceed at once to march our troops to the Sooth and compel the rebels to recognize his power and ihe power of our government. We may therefore expect, un less there is some beautiful backing down on tbe part of the South, to hear of a desperate conflict between the contending pities before the week is ended. Lincoln has done nobly thus far, and we hope he may not falter for an instant, until eecessioDlsm is buried so deep that it will newr be heard of again. Our soldiers are "spiling for a fight," and the South has carried tbe joke so far, tbat she must either "eome to time" or "take to the water," which we opine she will ere the second engagement, 1 at farthest. Had the South known what she does now, six months ago, we believe sbe would never have allowed it to go as far as it has. We will meed them the praise of being chi valrous, but in this instance tbey missed their mark. They made their calculations for a united South and a divided North, but in this tbey were sadly (for them) mistaken, for they find it just the reverse—a divided Bouth and a united North. Tbeir papers sneering!? remirk that our soldiers are all poor house paupers, and that tbey can whip five to one. Well, from the way the wind blows from tbat direc tion just now, tbey will have a chanee of try ing it on, aud they will find that our paupers know bow to fight, more especially since thf j sre all volunteers, and have not been pressed into service. We want to see the government carry the war to the bitter end. The time for compromises have passed. The time for trea ties ended long ago, and tbey must now be brought to see their madness at the poiut of the bayonet. Their leaders must he given up to the authorities, a fair and impartial trial si- j lowed them, and a Regiment ef their own sol diers should be made to shoot then*. The oountry will never be safe as long as theae re bellious scoundrels, who have become so aris tocrario that they sneer at a poor laboring man, and call him the mud-sill of society, &e., are permitted to roam at large over tbis glorious land. Things hava come to a pretty pass, in deed, when the bone and sinew of our oountry are despised by tho very men ibty feed, when the Stars and Stripes are scoffed at and tram pied beneath tbeir feet, and when the Consti tution and laws ire set at iefianoe, and the Unian declared nail aDd void. The retribu tion of a just and holy God, will surely over take theui. A dancer ouco said to a Spartan, -'you can not stand on one leg as 1 can.' 'Perhaps not/ said the Spartan, "bat any goose can., A henpecked husband writes* —'Before mar riage I fancied wedded life would be all sun shine ; but afterward I feund out it was all moonshine.' I CAIRO, at the junction of the Ohio and j Mississippi rivers, is fhe most southerly point of ; free territory, and extends as it were into the j very bosom of the slavcbolding States. It is true that the States o? Missouri and Kentucky, so far, have not placed themselves in an atti tude of hostility toward* the General Govern i ment. but we may readily presume tbat where there is any doubt of loyality of a War Department will act upon that doubt as if it were a certainty, and take saeh measures a* will resist any demonstration which such States miy hereafter make. The rail roads of Illinois and adjoining States offer such facili ties for transportation as will make it an easy matter to concentrate a large force and any amount of supplies which may be needed, at Cairo; and undoubtedly this point will be made thd b*se of whatever operations may be under taken down the river. It is said that the secessionists havt been well aware of the importance of this place, and at the last ac counts from that locality, it was believed that they ioteuded to fend an expedition to take if. If they had such an intention, tbey have delayed it too long, for tbe force now collected there is soffirisnl to defend it against any attack. Cairo is|undoubtedly destined to gain a histories! reputation,and iD a few days we may fiud the newspapers embellished with wood-cut maps and views of this "scon to be famous" city aud its vicinity. In a ccmmetcial poiut of view, Cairo is a place of much importance, but 'be unfavorable nature of tbe land has prevented the building of a large city. It j requires a war to make its vaiua to tbe Union j known to tbe people. A REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT.—? time lo Preaoh and a time to Fight —One of tbe most tbriiliug reminiscences of the American Revolution is related of General Peter Muh lenberg, whose asfets repose in tbe burying grouud of "The Old Trappe Church," in Montgomery oounty, this State. When tbe war broke out, Gen. Mublenbarg was rector of a Protestant Episcopal Church, Dunuiore county, Virginia. On Sunday morning, he adminis tered the Lord's Supper to his charge, stating tht in the afternoon of that day he would {.reacts a sermoo on "Tbe duties tusn owe to tbeir country." At the appointed time the building was crowded with anxi -us listeners. Tbe discourse, if we remember correctly, was founded on a text from, Solomon—"There is a time for every purpoae and for every work." Tk MHfialySlHM.d with patriotic fire; every sentence and intonation told tbe speaker's deep earoestuess in what be wat saving. Pausing a moment at the close of his discourse be repeated the words of bis text, and then, iu tones of thunder, exclaimed; "T/i time to preach is past; THE TIME TO FIAAI HAS COME!"' and suiting the action t tbe word, tie threw from bis shoulders his clerical robes and stood before bis congregation in military uniform. Drumming for recruits was com menced on tbe spot, and it is said that almost every male of suitable age in tbe congregation enlisted forthwith. TRAITORS EXECUTED. Two Men Shot—Two More llanged. A letter from a member of the 7th Regi ment to his father, dated Washington, 28th April, states that the regiment 02 that morning received an addition of 175 men from New lork, all in good health and spirits. The writer says: "Six Secessioni:s were caught yesterday in treasonable acts, and two were shot this morning at tbe Navy-Yard. One is to be shot to-morrow morning. He was in the employ of the Urdenance Department, and bad been set to work filling bombs: but in stead of charging them witb powder, he put sand in them. Several men have been arrest* ed for tearing up the track of tho railroad, and they will be summarily dealt with.' J A private letter frotn Anuapolis, April 28, says: "And now to givo you an example of the punishment traitors receive, we can see from where 1 am writing, about two miles from shote, on the yard-arm of the United States brig Caledonia, two men hanging— one for smuggling provisions and powder to tbe Re bels at Charleston; the other for piloting the 7th Regiment on the Chesapeake bar—with tho inteßtion that the Baltimoreans might get possesion of Annapolis before the seventh could land. He was not quite sharp enough for the boys. Tbey su.-peeted his intentions, put hiti) in irons, aud cuuveyea him on board the brig, and now he is hanging for his crime." BROWNLOW, the famous figbting parson, is pouriDg the most effective batteries of hot shot into the ranks of tbe secessionists, a specimen of which we give in the following. THE FIRST SECEDER.—The Devil was the first secessionist ever known, and he seceded from a better government than the leaders of our cotton states did, but from the same mo tives. "Rule or ruia," was tba platform of both. Here, for the most part, the people have been fifed and drummed out of tho Union, aud denied a voice upon a subject. The sataa spir it actuate secessionists wherever they may be found. Had Bell or Douglas been elected tbe satue state of things wouid now be upon us. These southern conspirators intended all this mischief, and they have brought it about.— The southern Democracy are to blame for all this thing. THE STARS AND STRIPBS.—It is related in Baltimore, that one of the wounded setts men—a mere ycutb—after the fight with the mob, crept into a abep and was kindly i sheltered by the owner, and on being question- J ed why so young a man as be came so far j with arm?, he murmured faintly, bnt "witb a | simple affection," the account says, witb dying breath, "Trie Stars and the Stripes." VOL. 34, NO. 20. THK Richmond (Va.) Examiner is taking 4 curious turn. £t either ia or affects to be alarmed lest the State should, after all, back oat from secession. It admits that there ia n strong and dangerous Union element even ia Virginia, and thinks Jeff. Davis "cannot stove on too soon," to save the State from leaving the "Confederacy." These double dealing scouodrela are not to be trusted in any case— the Government will make a sure thing of it,' of course, by supporting the Union men and recapturing Norfolk Navy Yard, Harper's Fer ry, &c., but it is not improbable that the 8e ; cession leaders in Virginia begin to feel a lit' tie uncomfortable about their necks; for if the Union men themselves in all the States which have been brought to tbc verge of ruin by the Traitor erew do not yet bang thftn by scores or hundred*, we are deceived. Tfce day must come wleu the Southern marscs will learn that all the mischief, villainy and crime was wholly unprovoked and unjustifiable. MILITARY FORCE? OP PENNSYLVANIA.—- Under this head the Adjutant General of this State issues from Lis office at Harrisburg, M*y 3, 1861, an official list of the names and number of companies of this State, sworn into service of the United States, and also of these tendered and declined. The number sworn in to service exclusive of Phil adelphia, i# one hun dred and sisty-cnc companies, Philadelphia fur nishes an addition of eight regiments—making eighty additional companies—or a total of two hundred and forty-one companies accepted. Ahe trtill number of companies offered and reje.t?d, or declined for the present, is iwo hundred and eighty-three! And this does not, by aQj means, include all or nearly all the companies organised in tac State, and ready for service whenever wanted ; nor one of the numerous "Home Guards" of the State What a people we are when wa half trvl A SOLDIER'S* RATIONS. For breakfast, 7 A. M., there will be furnished for each man provisions in the fol lowing quantities: Oae quart of goad coffee. Eight ounces of bread. Three eighths of a pound of be