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Hon. JOHN ROWE, President.
J. SIMPSON AFRICA, Secretary and Treasurer.
DIRECTORS:
W. S. FLETCHER, McConnellsburg, Pa.
Jons ROW E. G reeneastle, Pa.
F. BENEDICT, Bedford. Pa.
J. H. SEYMOUR, Hagerstown, Md.
J. C. EVERHART, Martinsburg, Pa.
JOBS J. SCHELL. Somerset, Pa. ,
C. P. RAMSDELL, Oil City, Pa. j
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o-henv river, a short distance above 'lie mouth of Scrub ;
tirass Creek, in Scrub Grass Township, Venango county,
Pa Tt has a frontage along the river of one mile, wilh
good boring surface for the whole distance. Two good
oil wells are now in operation on the east side of the river,
immediately opposite the property of the Co.
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from an editorial in the Philadelphia Price Current, ot
December 17:
"The gealegifial relation of this property to Oil Creek.
! is such that the oil-bearing strata, which supply the wells
on the Middle Section of Oil Creek (from the Waefaingtou
McClintock Farm on the north to the Buchanan on the
; South) must pass under this property; the range of the
! strata certainly bringing the two localities'iato this mutu
al relation. Other data, obtained from an investigation
of the conformation of the ground, and the underlying
rocks, lead to the same conclusion, vis: that the mam
belt of oil, which extends down from the north-northos t
and supplies the wells on the Washington, ..lc(.lintock,
Egbert, Stone. Tar, and Buchanan Farms, sweeps down
still farther on the same south southwest direction, cor
responding with and controlled by the inclination of the
strata, and underlies this property. It is well ascertain
ed by the testimony of aged and respectable residents that
the Indians, years ago, gathered oil from the surface of
the ravines on this property and used it for rheumatic at
feetions.
In later times the teamsters of Bullion Iron Furnace,
gathered aud used the oil for the propose of applying it to
galls and bruises on their horses. Oils for years was seen
to exude t a number of places: among o.bers, at the root
of an old stump on the bank of the Allegheny river, and
in the ravine alluded to.
A lew yeafs ago, the then owr.ers of the tract, with one
or two of their neighbors, bored a well, a few feet, above
the old stump. The first vein of oil was struck at ibe
depth of 28 feet, and the second at 40 feet: an experien
ced man from Oil Creek was employed to tube the well,
which produced a stream of oil three quarters of an Inch
in diameter. The owners of the well, not satisfied wit h
its production, pulled out the chamber, and drilled
some feet deeper, when they struck alt water in large
quantities and of great strength. Believing that the man
ufacture of salt would, at the time, yield them a bot.ei
profit, they arranged their seed bags in the well, so as t<-
en aide them to exclude the oil and pump the salt water.
Still oil was pumped along wiih the water, in such quan
tities as to ga.bcr upon the top of the water-tanks, from
whence it was collected, barreled and sold.''
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perty of the Company is rich in. its supplies of oil. The
inclination of the Strata proves, conclusively, that those
supplies or oil on Oil Creek have n higher lerel than the
oil-bearing rock.- on this and that, consequently,
the supply will be more permanent than that of Oil Creek
itself. The large extent ofboring territory, equal to that
of half a dr.en companies on Oil Creek, a boat-landing on
the Farm, with the advantage of a navigable stream for
the transportation of oil, and the certainty of the exis
tence of large quantities of coal upon the tract, makes .he
property of incalculable value.
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paying quantities.
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shares strictly to their par value.
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Jaeob Reed.
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James Lowthe.r, Altooua, Blair County, Pa.
S. S. Barr, Hollidaysburg, Pa.
C. W. Ashe am, Hopewell, Pa.
I. H. Kausler, Hagerstown, Md.
S. 11. Prathcr 4 Co., Greencastic, Pa-
J. llostetter 4 Co., " "
J. J. Phillips, Waynesboro. "
John 3. Miller, Huntingdon,
Samuel Henry, " *"
W. D. McKinstry. Mereersburg, "
Aud at tne Office af the Company, No. 436 Walnut St.,
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dec.23,'64.
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THE COXSTITiTIOJLIL AMENDMENT.
SPKECH or HK> A. li. .Icdl HE.
We reprint with pleasure the pith of the speed
of Hon. A. K. MeClure, in our State House of Hep
resentatives, on the. motion to adopt the amend
inent to the Constitution. We have rarely read :
more thorough, statesmanlike, and unanswerable
argument on this great question.
•'I do not err ou this vitai issue How, >vr dL
guised by professions of loyalty, the teachings of tin
gentleman from Northumberland (Mr. Pardy am
his political associates are aimed to paralyze tie
power of the.Government, and to strengthen tin
hands of its deadly enemies. We were told the win
was fruitless: that it could not be successful; ami
faithful men were staggered by the earnest, tireless,
mighty current of poison that flowed from the Dem
ocratic leaders to make the people their own am!
their country's foes. 1 except; as 1 have alwajs
done, the masses of ail parties from the terrible im
putation of disloyalty to the Government. They
have shown it in every stage of this conflict. They
have defied their political leaders in the darkest
hour ot the nation s cause, and rushed to its rescue;
but they left behind them the quibbling, cravau
traitors who were too base to defend their nationals
ty, and too cowardly to assail it manfully.
Need 1 inquire to whom we are indebted for the
turbulance that has blotted our history iu the vari
ous stages of this struggle for the national existence?
Whence came disorder, contempt of law, arid riots
in our own free North? Who taught the deluded
victims of Democratic leaders to inaugurate anarchy
in the chief city of the Union? Who taught them
that conscription was but remorseless tyranny, and
prepared them by persistent, malignant hostility to
the Government for the appalling scenes which were
witnessed there in 1863? And when they had
but obeyed the inevitable conviction of Democratic
teachings, and ran riot in arson, murder, and
anarchy for days, who greeted them as''friends"
and begged for peace, not to vindicate the violated
laws, or to save an imperilled Government, but to
save themselves from the swift retribution they saw
in the bitter cup they had prepared for others. The
leaders had not the manhood to declare in favor of
slavery and treason, but, like the gentleman from
Northumberland (Mr. Purely), they poured a sternly
current of treason, the more deadly because it went
forth in the thin guise of devotion to the Union.
Well did they obey the behests of slavery, and they
gave rich fruits wherewith to gladden despairing
traitors.
And who in our own State have taught lawless
ness to defeat the strengthening of our armies and
protract the for fresh sacrifices of blood and
treasure? Whence has come disorder here? Not
from Allegheny, or Chester, or Lancaster, or Phila
delphia, but from the sections where Democracy
could boast of its greatest supremacy. Whence
came this treason? It was not inherent with the
people. They are as loyal now as they were in
real. Who, then, by tireless arts and persuasion,
n-iorto't-- •>;, "VT he*t inbowjf - j
and foes to the government and law.' f saw brave
men, clad in their country's blue, inarch from the
border when the cannon of Larly thundered ou the
Potomac—not to make the victory of Sheridan more
decisive, but to enforce the laws and preserve order
in our own then threatened Commonwealth. While
treason flaunted its bloody banner on the very bor
der of our State, Democracy, its faithful ally, wa,
attempting revolution in the strongholds of its lead
ers, to cheer the hearts and strengthen the arms of
those who came to thrust the torch of the barbarian,
and ply the trade of the free-booter in our happy
homes, and make our golden fields desolate by their
brutal tread. These are but the currents which flow
from the deadly fountain of treason, and where rises
its pestiferoes head to course its way to every ham
let in the land. :-'<d leave its fatal impress upon man
kind! Who gave this fountain of treason life and
power to threaten a nation's noblest struggle with
disaster? Behold the men who, at every stage of
the war, have resisted every measure essential to
success. They declared treason to mighty for the
Government to suppress. They appealed to the
sordid to arrest staggering taxes and debt by de
manding peace, when well they knew that peace in
volved dismemberment and death. I bey plead
their unholy cause to the fears of the cowardly, and
implored them to avoid the perils of the field bj re
sisting conscription, and impair the power of the
Government by lawlessness. Hiey aroused the
prejudices of the humb'e by pointing to the degrada
tion of negro equality, and even men plumed as
popular leaders seemed to fear that thev w ere so
poorly endowed that the benighted African might
outstrip them in the race of ambition. 1 bey appeal
ed to every prejudice of the feeble, the venal, the
faithless, to array them against the free institutions
whose beneficence gave them every social, civil, and
religious right. liut the people, although at times
faltering as the dark shadows of disaster enveloped
the nation, were still faithful to their government.
Like the disturbed and oscillating needle that .ever
settles to the pole, they would rise from the cloud
of perfidy that beset them and give their hearts and
sacrifices to preserve the Hepublic of our fathers.
One hope remained for Democracy and slavery.
They turned to the court of last resort of Pennsyl
vania, and. in the name of Democracy, demanded
that the only means by which our armies could be
filled and enabled to triumph should be set aside as
an infraction of the sovereignty of the State, and
therefore void. They hoped that the people would
be glad to grasp this pretext to turn upon themselves,
their country, their children, and their God. 1
was the task of despair, but it was performed, and
the right of this Government to defend its life when
treason was fastened upon it with deadly strive, as
with hooks of triple steel, was gravely denied by the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Then did treason,
the twin-born of slavery, triumph in our midst, and
compassed the judiciary —the last refuge of the peo
ple—in its slimy embrace. But it aroused the peo
ple to a mighty struggle. Impelled by the despot
ism of treason—which mocked tlieui in their perils
—to the moral heroism which ever strengthen ,
right in its midnight of gioom, they reversed their
court by the decision of the ballot-box, from which
there is no appeal, and I thank a just and merciful
God that the court, the State, aud the nation, lived,
and lived loyally. [Applause.]
This record of uniningled wrong and treachery is
the history of the party whose representatives to
day will cast their votes against the ratification of
the proposed amendment to the Constitution. I
is their work —they were so bidden by slavery, and
they obeyed. Am I not right, sir, in sayingthat tin y
are consistent? So far from being surprised that
they so vote, I should think it strange indeed did
they not maintain the shade of virtue thai, consis
tency and fidelity may give them- Slavery, con-
■ ceived in crime, and faithful to its cresbon ir more
than three-quarters of a century, is about to t'mi. li
its ta*k, and when it turns f r the last time to be
hold its friends in the exercise of power, it would
be cruel, most cruel, indeed, for them to spurn it.
and leave it to die uhtnourned and dishonored.
They owe it to the power which they worsbippf d
when it was mighty. They followed its black plum
of. tie-elation until it made bondage national and
freed .-m sectional; until it subverted the g--nin:- id
the (b vernmeut and its fundamental law; until it
plunged us into caaseless war and brought bereave
ment td every circle; and now, when lie who rulea
overall, in the lulness of His time, has• declared
that "vengeance is mine, I will repay." and when
His last relentless stroke is about to fall upon it, it
is fittiag in this hour, in this death-struggle- thai
they should be faithfnl to the institution that in
other days made them great. [Great applause.J
A LETTER FROM JTxER.IL 511 MM AX.
II in Views r the CanscH of the "War and oi
Its Inevitable Resit I tw.
The h)Howing letter from General Sherman ha.
just been pnblished:
HTAIICAKTKKS MILITARY Dmsiox or THE MIS
stsstiTi. if THE Fi ELD, near Marietta, Georgia,
June Stxh, 1804.—Mrs. Anna Oilman Bowen, Bal
timore, Maryland—Dear Madam: Your welcome
letter of June 18 came to Die here amid the sound
of battle, and, as you say, little did I dream when 1
knew you playing as a school-girl on Sullivan";
island beach, that I should coutroll a vast army,
pointing, like the swarm of Alaric, towards tie
plains of the Sonth. Wbyi oh why is this? If 1
know my own heart, it beais as warmly as ever to
wards those kind and generous families that greeted
us with such warm hospitality in days long past but
still present in memory, and to-day, were Frank am
Mrs. Poreher, Eliza Gilman. Mary Lamb, and Mar
garet Blake, the Barksdales the Quashis, the Pry
ors, indeed any and all of our cherished circle, then
children, or even their children's children, to come
to me as of old, the stern feelings of duty and con
viction would melt as snow before the genial sun.
and I believe I could strip my own children that they
might be sheltered: and yet tttc-y call me barbarian,
vandal, and monster, and all the epithet, that !au
guage can invent that, are significant of malignity
and bate. All I pretend to say, on earth as in hea
ven, man must submit to so tie arbiter. He must
not threw off his allegiance tfi his Government OJ
his God without just reason ajxl cause. The Sout'
had m> cause—not even a pretext. Indeed bv hei
unjustifiable course, she has thrown away the prom
liistoiy of the past, and laid open her fair'country t<
the tread of devastating war. She bantered and bul
lied us to the conflict. Had we declined battle.
America would have sunk back, coward and cravan
meriting the contempt of Ml mankind. As a nation
we were forced to accept tattle, and that once be
jun, it has gone, cn till thb war has assumed pro
jor.ions at which even we,tin the hurly-burly, some
lines stand aghast. I w.uld not subjugate tin
•kiuth in the sense so offensively assumed, but
could make every citizen of the land obey the corn
non Inswj submit to the same- hat we do—no worse
.now. and you know, that yoSnfmeh ii
me day, now no longer young, but who contro
heir fellows, who assumed to the gentlemen of th
>onth a superiority of courage and manhood, an
ioastiugly defied us of Northern birth to areas.
Ged knows how reluctantly we accepted the is
me; but once the issue joined, like in other ages
be Northern race though slow to anger, once arous
ml, ire more terrible than the more*inflamtriable o;
he louth. Even yet my heart bleeds when I se<
he jam age of battle, the dessolatlon of homes, the
jitiff anguish of families; but the very moment th<
neiof the South say that instead of appealing to
wad they should have appealed to reason, to ou;
Suitress, to our courts, to religion, and to the ex
net ittce of history, then I will" say peace—peace:
?o nek to your point of error, and rc-ome your
Mass as American citizens, with all their proud
rerlages. Whether I shall live to see this period
s fobleniutical: but you may. and may tell your
nofer and sisters that I never forgot one bind look
>r gee tin g. or ever wished to efface its remembrance:
ruui putting on the armor of war 1 did it that, our
coupon country should not perish in infamy and
lisjrnor.
L\n married, have a wife and six children living
in hut-aster, Ohio. My cou-se has been an event
ful he, b?t I hone when the. clouds of anger and
wi:>on are di-persed and truth emerges bright and
clel, you and all who knew me in early years will
nojblusk that we were ouee dear frieuds. Tell
Ela for fie th.it I hope she may live to realize ihai
fhaoctrijie of "secession" is as monstrous in our
fivlcode as disobedience was in the Divine law.
Anshou|d the fortunes of war ever bring you or
yoe sisters, or any of our old cliques, under Fie
shfer of ray authority, I do not believe they will
ha| causi to regrei it. Give my love to your chil
dri and the assurance of my respects to yonrhon
o: ehusbind. Truly, W. T. SHERWAX.
THE BLACK LI ITS.
iinoisluts repealed her black laws, and indeed
shtolud hardly help wiping the stain from iter
faovhou her neighbor Missouri was lifting hr
wfe boijy out of the slough. The black laws -A
llfu's taough Illinois is a free State, were as
mti a pirt of the code of slavery as any slave
laff Arkansas or Mississippi, for I bey were the
wd of what was called the Detnocratie party,
aiihat party was the minister of slavery, in
IHi s, for instance, all colored persons were pre
sold to be slaves unless they could prove theiu
sck to be free; in other words, were held to be
gty until they proved their iunoeen.-e ; thus di
re# reversing the first human maxim of the com
in (law. By another net. if any negro or mulatto
cat into ihe. Slate and staid ten days, be was to
beied fifty dollars, and sold indefinitely to pay
thine.
b read such things incredulously, in the fight
oft-day, The wicked folly of -Jeering for out
ran special class ot the population, and tba
c'athe most innocent and defenceless, isso likeu
cape of AsWntee .-ociety. or a measure of Patu
gdii-tatemansliip, that it isofjite inpossible to
we that it wa- tolerated it the great, prospei -
mtuid enlightened State of Illinois. It expuuu.-.
riimously inhuman and heartless tone of Mr.
Djlas, in -peaking of the colored race. Me lived
in - tuidit of thk ueueeless and fierce prejudice,
U ro c by pandering to it.
b black laws of Illinois were another proof of
thjearful demoraiizatioi - which slavery bad
wtrht- in this country, and upon wh.eh it couut
e<f ea.-y success in its reb- .lion. w ben slav* r y
saltat Pierce and Buchanan, two successive
Pflents, were its must abject tools-; wheu it,
sa very Northern city ready to Like by the thr oat
aitian who fiercely denounced it; when it saw
o%|n Boston a rich merchant and noted citizen
n;td Fay, with the mayor of the city, turning a
tiling for th.; condemnation of slavery into the
stl; wbefl it read such law- as these of Illinois;
wj it saw the city of New York cringing be
nd its frown and fawning upoints eontemptu
ottnile, how could it help believing thai Frank
lijeree wrote the truth to Jefferson Davis when
hid tliat blood would flow this side of Mason
anfixon's line rather than the other, and suit
ed with Robert Toombs that aay man could
dj all the blood that would be shed in the war.
THE CAPTIBS Of WILMLYGTQJT.
HOW OI K ARMY CELEBRATED WASHISi-
TVS RIKTiIRAV. TOO RCBEIA ARI
.10 lAPTI'RED.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. !
ihe following official report of the capture of
Wilmington has been forwarded by this Depart
ment to to Gen. Grant. j
E. M STANTON.
Secretary of War. !
FORTRESS MONROE, Feb. 24. j
J fifa. I. S. Grunt. City Point:
Our troops entered Wilmington on the morning ]
:of the 22d ins > . After the evacuation of Fort An- |
; dor,son Genii Stdtofield directed Cox to follow its |
trarri<on to warn Wilmington, while Terry followed '
: Hoke on the east side of the river. j
The latter took up a new line, foi/r miles from j
! Wilmington, but was so closely pressed by Terry j
j that he could a ad no troops to the west side. —
i < )n that side the rebels made a stand behind Town
j Creek, hut on the 20 th Cox crossed his troops be
i low them, on a hat br at, attacked them in the rear
i and routed their, taking two guns and 300 prison-
I ers. On the 21 u? Cox pushed to the Brunswick
river, opposite Wilmington.'where the bridges
| were on fi re. and on his arrival the rebels began
i bun; :ng cotton and rosin in theeity, and left it that
j night.
Our capture: including Fort Anderson, amount
! so about TOO prisoners, and 30 guns.
Citizens state that the rebels burned over 1,000
! hah sol cotton, and 15,000 barrells of rosin.
The Union feeling showed itself quite strong in
the city.
Terry followed Hoke northward.
C. B. COM STOCK.
Lt, Col., A. D. C., andßt. Brig. Gen. i
REPORT OF ADMIRAL PORTER.
CAPE FEAR RIVER, \ I
U. 8. FLAG-SHIP. MALVERN, FEB. 24. j
SIR ; 1 have the honor to inform you that Wil- i
mington has been evacuated and is now in posses- 1
sion of our troops.
After the evacuation of Fort Anderson I pushed
the gunboats as tar as the water would permit,
the army pushing up at the same time on the right
and left banks of the river.
After sounding and buoying out the middle
ground at Big Island, I succeeded in getting the
gunboaAs over and opened tire on Fort Strong, the
work commanding the principal obstructions where j
the reheflhad also sank one of their large steam- '
i rs. tie North Eastern. Our fire soon drove the !
rebel. -■ away from the fort, but now and then they
would fire a shot, one of which struck the Sas
sacus below the water mark, and set her to leaking
b .dly. She was struck once or twice more but
with no loss of men.
That night, the 20th, the rebels sent down 200
floating torpedoes, but I had a strong force of pick
et boats nut and the Torpedoes were sunk with
musketry.
One cot in the wheel of the Osceola, blew her
wheel-house to pieces, and knocked down her bulk
head in board, but did no damage to her hull. —
Some of the vesselfe picked up the torpedoes with
their torpedo nets.
The next morning I spread two fishing nets
across the river.
Yesterday evening General Ames with his divi
i n, moved within a short distance of the fort and
had a -harp encounter with the rebels. On hear
i _ in musketry, and -eeing where our troops
were. I opened fire on the fort, and along the ene
my > line. The fori responded with three or four
shots but was soon silenced.
' heard that Gen, Terry was
BTULAN th.* UORLV J .1. .UAU WAS CLE&X . WA
mington. The Montauk could not get across the
diouN without lighting, whic-h was a work of some
labor ' j
f hud the pleasure of placing the flag on Fort
•N rong. and at 12 o'clock to day shall ire a salutj
of thirty-five guns, this beiug B ashington's birth- ;
day.
. I am, sir. very respectfully yours. Ac., !
D. i). PORTER, Rear Admiral. !
HON. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy, I
AMERICAN CHIVALRY
Under this caption, a correspondent of the
Euinlurg > Scotland) Daily Review of the 25th ult.
says:
' If all the statements we hear of Southern
chivalry, and truth, and honor, and honesty, and
piety be ttue, if the half of it be true, what a pity
that all the people of the world were not made
slave propagators, slave drivers and slave hunters!
Tht virtue of "the peculiar institution" of the
Southern States, to retiue and elevate, and sancti- j
tiy human character must be absolutely marvelous, i
As I have only that old fashioned book, the Bible,
to guide me on moral and religious subjects, and
iiud nothing therein of the humanizing, ennobling
puiilying influence of slavery on either the ensla
or 11]t enslaved. I prosecute not the inquiry
further at present. lam a plain and humble man
not exercising myself on things either too high
or too deep for me, but content to take the Bible
a my guide ; and finding that human slavery is a
sin aauinst God. and a crime against man of a pe
culiarly aggravated character, 1 would expect it if
persisted in, to be sooner or later visited by a God
oi'ju tice and of mercy, with judgments in propor
tion to the enormity of the offence, and protracted
.in ii th- nt>' ai andoned or the sinners destroyed.
Wlsu God's words warrants me to expect I see at
thi- a it in the Southern States of America.
In tii history of our race God interposed by
judgment I To deliver the oppressed from the iron
g:aq. of relentless oppressors, He has done so in
ibis American war. Their "sins has found them
air. He that being often reproved and har
deneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed and
that without remedy."
y.oir correspondent s signature "Humanitas,"
. v t- to me a very solemn view of the subject.
I iuiuanity ! Inhumanity is utterly inapplicable to
the Federal Government iu using all its power and
re-onre -. to put down an unjustifiable and, if we
( nsider its object an iniquitous revolt of a portion
cfits own subjects. Hussia' s 'subjugation of Po
land is utterly irrewslant to this whole discussion.
Humanity! The greatest inhumanity of the war
has been British sympathy with the South. But
ibr the expectation of this, the war had probably
m ver begun ; and but for this, it had not lasted a
jar. Britain has blown the coal of this continent
wide conflagration. '.I he hounding on the South
< y a portion of the British press and people, and
the hope of being recognized as a nation, have sus
tain I the spirit of the Southern slaveholders.—
No -uiaH .-hare of the responsibility of that lamen
tably war rests on the shoulders, nay on the souls
Briurii sympathizers. Had the honest testi
mony beetiupl it'ted from t'ue beginning that the re
ni u in itself was unjustifiable, and in its object
mo t ißif&mous, what -in and sorrow had been sa
v Ito "our brethren in America." And even yet
win u shadow of hope remains not lor the succor
oft!; South, the hounding on by an inconsiderate
pre-* is as brutal and boisterous as ever.
But why do I indulge in censures such as these?
Perhaps I should say "thus it must be." The
hurt mormons crime of which any known nation
on earth is guilty, was about, to be perpetrated by
i ; '(.'on federate States of America.'' They had
averred it as their intention to lay for the founda
tion of their now Re public the divine right of hu
man -iuvery. Let u.s not wonder if God should in
terpose to p; event so atrocious a crime, by judg
ments so terrible that the ears of all that hear
should angle. Humanity ! Let humanity dictate
couii -<•! to that deluded, even possibly doomed
people, even uow. tte worse befall them. My soul
th .iils with horror whon I contemplate the possi
bility of the slave- of the South being armed. If
armed, and brought to,the front, who can tell but
when the truth flashes upou them that they are
culled to tight against their own freedom, they may
turn their faces where their backs had been. And
then. What then.
In the name of humanity I plead for other coun
sel to the South. In doing so lam the real sym
i patbizer and friend.
I am, &c.,
J. G.
THE .YEW TELESCOPIC FOE THE CHICAGO OB
SERVATORY.
, The great Clarke telescope is shortly to be set up
in the Dearborn Tower at the University of Chi-
I eago._
This instrument was manufactured by Mr. Alvin
| Clarke, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was or
[ dered for the Mississippi College by Dr. Barnard,
who was then at the head of that institution, but
is now President of Columbia College. The ob
ject glass was uearly completed in 1 sfil. but the
instrument ronld not. of course, reach its destina
tion. The friends of Harvard College immediately
begin a'rabscription to secure ii to that institution
designing to put it up in place of their own fa
mous Fraunhofer. but tbe subscription lagged for
a while, and tbe Uniuersity of Chicago stepped in
i and carried off the prize.
Mr. Clarke reeeived $11,187 for the object-glass
! and was engaged to mount it for S7OOO. This lat
| ter work is already completed, and the telescope
| will be sbioped and put up early in the coming
i spring. Ihe tower which is to receive it was built
by the munificence of Mr. J. Y. Scammon at an
expense of $25,000, and i.- named be him the Dear
bora Tower, in memory of his wife, who died while
abroad some years since.
The Clarke telescope is a with an ob
jective eighteen and three-quarter inches in the
! dear apeture, and a foeal length of twenty-three
I feet. "'Compared with the Harvard instrument,
the largest of the kind in existence," wrote the
late Captain Gillis, Superintendant jof the Nation
al Observatory at Washington, '"it is as thirty-four
to twenty-one, being thus more than one-half lar
ger than any now in use. The eyes of the whole
J scientific world are turned to Chicago awaiting the
result. When the instrument is properly moun
ted and manned no one can predict its future.
When first completed the object glass was in
serted in a rude board tube, and drawn up by
me ins of a tackle for trial. In thus sweeping but
a small belt of the heavens, it caused at once a dis
coverj- for which it reeeived the most favorable no
! rice of foreign scientific associations, and also took
I the largest astronomical reward of Paris—The
i Leland prize of five-hundred francs. It is a mat
ter of just pride and congratulation that this in
strument was manufactured by one of our country
men.
Professor Mixer who has managed this enter
prise from the beginning, is now in this city com
pleting the equipment of' the Observatory. As
the most recent result of his efforts in this direc
tion a meridian circle is ordered, of the largest size
which has ever been manufactured, and similar to
the Olcott circle of the Dudley Observatory at Al
bany. It is to t>e made by Messrs Pistor & Mar
tins, of Beriin, Prussia and will cost about SSOOO.
The sum necessary for the puacbasehas been gen
eiously given by Walter S. Gurnee, late a resident
of Chicago. It is to be called the Gurnee Meridi
an circle.
THE LAST "iTCH ITEB.
What has become of tho e valiant South Caroli
na heroes who have been proclaiming their deter
mination to die in the last ditch, anu never, nev
er, never, surrender to the Yankee invaders? We
don't hear a sylable of one of them. None of our
offif hl) Vm\\etir>s make any mention of'the dlSCoV
ery of their remains. The chivalry of Charleston
seem to have shown quite as much alacrity in ran-
I ning away as any of the more ordinary and coin
| mou-place specimens of the human race. They
began to "evacuate" we are told, about three
weeks before our amy approached. This was dis
cretion—decidedly the better part of their valor.
There is a great deal of human nature in South
• Carolina after all.
i One noble exploit alone seems to have signalized
| the fall of Charleston. Finding that they roust
j run away themselves, the chivalry blew ap their
j powder magazine and killed abont one hundred of
j their own people. Ail that were left in the town
j say the reports, were of the lower order—people
1 who could not run away, and were, therefore, com
pelled to stay by the last ditch, if not in it. In
no single instance, as yet, in any town taken by
our troops, have the chivalric defenders of South
ern independence have been one whit more deter
mined to die than other people. So long as dan
ger has kept at a distance, they have shown them
selves insolent braggarts; the moment it has come
near them they have proved themselves selfish and
cowardly sneaks. Among the many lesso stanght
by this war, that of the real character of the South
ern chivalry is the most useful. — New York Times.
CRINOLINE ABANDONED BY THE EMPRESS.—
According to a Parisian expositor of the fashions*
of the day, crinoline has received notice of its final
banishment from aristocratic circles. It particu
larly draws the attention of the followers ot high
ton to the fact that at the ball at the Tuiieries, on
Wednesday evening, her Imperial Majesty, dress
ed with her usual exquisite taste, exhibited
grande sobriete dans I amph'nr des erUovrnures ,'' a
delicate way of expressing the absence of that de
testable cage which adds so much to female dimen
sions. The Empress' example, it appears, has
been imitated by all those who have pretensions
to mingle in the circles of fashionable life. The
consequence is, that the impediment to the free
circulation of the guests is now in some measure
removed, and the grand staircase of the Tuiieries,
which has lately been almost impracticable at a
certain hour of the evening, when the early party
departs and the later visiters present themselves,
is now ascended without the usual difficulty. At
one of the representations at the Theatre* Com
peign the crinoline was voted an absurd and enor
mous nuisance. The ladies only found seats. —
The cavaliers were compelled to stand the whole
of tbe evening. At the ball, on Wednesday even
ing, the Dutchess de Persigny and Madame Say
were the theme of general admiration. Their
toilet was announced irreproachable. TLey. too,
had renounced the repudiated crinoline. A strag
gle has commenced between the pro and the anti
crinolinists, the former being still in the majority.
The dressmakers will not let the fashion of exag
gerated wide-circling robes and over-crowded dec
orations go out of fashion if they can help it.—
Morning Post ■
MAN'S DUTY TO WOMAN. —Let him learn to be
gratei"l to woman tor this undoubted achievement
of her sex, that it is she far more than he, and
she. too, in spite of him, who has kept Christen
dom from lapsing into barbarism—kept mercy and
truth from being utterly overborne by those two
needy monsters, money and war. Let him be
.Hateful for this, that almost every jreat sou! that
:ias led forward or lifted up the race, has been tur
n-bed for each noble deed and inspired with each
l-atriorie and holy aspiration by the retiring
fortitude of some Spartan or more than Spar
tan—some Christian mother.
Moses, the deliverer of his people, drawn out of
the Nile by the King's dauditer, some one has
hinted, is only a symbol of the way that woman s
setter instinct always outwits the tyrannical diplo
naey of mau. Let him cheerfully remember that
hough the sinewv sex achieves enterprises on
mhlie theatres, it'is the nerve and sensibility of
he other that arm the mind arid inflame the soul
n secret. "A man discovered America, but a wo
nan equipped thevoyage." So everywhere; man
ixeeutes the jierfbnnauce, but woman trains the
nan. Every effectual person. leaving his mark in
he world, is but another Columbus, for whose fur
nishing. some Isabella, in the form of his mother,
ays down her jewelry, her vanities, her comfort
-Rev. F. D. Hwitington
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