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VOL 48.
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I WISH 1 WAS A PRINTER.
BY NANNIE A. SUTTON.
I wish I was a printer,
X really do indeed, .. •
It seems to mo that printers
Get every thing they need',
(Except money I^ — Ed.
They got the largest and tho best.
Of everything that grows, *
And got free into circusseS,
, And other kind of shows.
' . giving an equivalent
The biggest bug will speak to them,-'*'
No matter how they dress,
A shabby coat is nothing
If you own a printing press.
Af ladies fairVthey are almost hugged
By pretty girls’who-know, •
That they will cracksup everything
Tho ladies have to show. •
And thus they get a “blow-out free,
. At every party feed.
Tho reasou is because they write
And other people road.
THIS DYING SOLDIER.
BY OLIVER PEtm UANLOYE,
Jt was an hour when the wind was sweepintj •
Wildly over the bsittlb plain, • -
And the lightning from the cloud was.leaping,'
And thunder had broken the vaults of rain,
That a .wounded.man at night was lying '
,Jn pain'upon the cold, wet ground.
With no loved one to see him dying,
Or hand to bind up his bleeding wound.
His country’s flag ho had uindc his pillow
And hjs heart was tilled with its'treasured stars
And from the tide of his bosom’s billow •
His blood had poured on its glowing bars. * .
lie had borne it in the time of battle,
rr , tlio.strength of a patriot’s pride;
, hadJjeariV thC-lund-Unil through .it rattle,
jvhon’Wißrados-werb falling on oVory side.
A W'M 8 m° Illy ‘, n tbat bol,r ' l ,al ° and gory.
With the pealing thunder hip dying dirge.
Anil tho lightning flaming around in glory.
Showing tho sky like d burning surge,
lie tbonght.of home anti a loving mother*
' Who proudly told him to'battle for right '
And how had fallen a noble *
. And the river of Ucath grew lovely and bright
No'more would ho hoar the roaring banrion,
Nor brayol,) rush on tho focraan’s steel;
No more.would he wiivo aloft-his pennon/
For his heart had almost censed to feel;
*But a low, swoet prayer it still was breathing,
Pure as the dearest love for the dead;
.And a joyous. dream ho. bad been wreathing
Of the, golden streets Where the angels tread.
■J&uttllmms:
WIFE, OF BDNM IN THE SWAN CHAMBER
The name of Bunyan is immortal. Ills
.character and writings will travel down
through all coming ages, and bo read till the
end of time. The historic scenes and events
of his life are' ever memorable. They arc
.stamped with the impress* of an abidinn* in
terest. His twelve years’ unjust imprison
ment, and the efforts for his release by his
devoted and heroic .with, will bo held in per
pectin! remembrance. , -
One of the plates, beautifully, engraved, in
the January Number of the Eclectic Maga
zine, illustrates a touching scene in the fife
ot JJunyan. Ho was in prison. His family,
were in want, and needed a father’s care, pro
teetion and sympathy. As a means of ob
taining his release from prison, Bunvan wrote
several petitions. His wife had, by his di
rections, earned one petition to tho House of
.Lords, and failed of her object. She was Ji-1
reeted to apply to the Assize Court. She had
applied twipe to the judges of that high tri
bunal, and was denied her petition and ro
pidsed. Lord Chief-Justice Hale, an emi
nently kind-hearted and Christian man, pitied
her case and seemed strongly inclined togrant
her request. But the other judges, linpiting
v’ and cruel, objected and overruled the de
cision against her petition each time. .
The scene in tho plate is intended to show
r)i e - r^ o i- Wlfe i. 0 / as she appeared
the tAjJ time before the Assize Court. The
audience chamber is filled to overflowing
Judge Hale, mhm robes magesterial sits in
silent dignity to receive ji ln
the pleadings of the petitioners. The Swan
Chamber is crowded-judge, justices and gen
try are present. There is a pause
business of the assizes. A woman clad in a
coarse black dress,with a white cap shading
her paJe, sad face, rises from tho crowd at the
back of the room, and passes up the aisle
and modest step. Hnfalter
she walked the crowded court until she
she 1 ™ for ° tl >V- udgo nnd the justices, as
she is lopresented in the plate in tho attitude
Lord Ph- °/ T Sp 5 ak Direc ting herself to
um” f J " Bt,ce Hale, she said:
ju d ’ 1 ? ak ® bold to oomo again to
know wb at may be dono with
ivnd l i° yeS wer ® filcod upon her as she spoke,
of Ihni g r ea '' a hcut forward from evorypar
There «i o rg f a . UdiODCO t 0 oatoh her words.-
ino. hofl h *u°° d ’ a P° or - frcil woman, plead
fw the f life of | a3B ?’ bl , ed di B nit 7 of tho realm
more ...w- f hBr husband. Was ever sight
more sublime—was ever a scene more touch-
turr l e . d upon her. He hesita
no g L° man T vL to ' d th - hofore I could dothoo
whaUhVt,„ k 7 'j ave taken fora conviction
nnlets and Sp °. k - e nk the Sessions, and,
done 40 «*. that -
Hear her as she roplion:
never asked him whether he was guilty or no
Neither did he confess tho indictment."
“Hewas lawfully convicted, woman," in
terfered one of the judges, chafing at her
words;
She turned a look upon him. He was ono
whom she did not know. Addressing Judge
Halo, she replied, with the true courage of a
npblo.soul;
“My lord, it is false 1 For when they said
to him, ‘do you confess tho indictment ? ' ho
said only this, that ho had been at several
meetings, both where, there was preaching
the Word and prayer, and that they had God’s
presence among them."
“ What, woman, do you think wo can do
as wo list," interfered Judge Twisdon, in a
loud, angry tone, looking upon her with all
tho vengeance of his mean nature. “Your
-husband is a breaker of the peace, and is con
victed by tho law." :
“Bring tho statute-book,'"ifewunded Judge
Hale, “ and wo will see for ourselves."
“ He was not lawfully convicted, ray lord,”
said the brave woman as she looked upon
— 1 Judge Twisdon.
. . :| ■ 11 He wns lawfiilbt-cai
, ' - " | Judge" 1 '
judge Chester, raving with madness that his
not (his was one of. the five red letter names
that sent Bunyan. to prison) and his word
should he called in question,.
‘tit is false,” she said calmly ; “ it was but
a word of discourse that they took for a con
viction.'”
“ It is recorded, woman ; it is recorded, I
tell you,” vociferated, Chester, as if ho would
silence her by. the power of his-voice, if he
could not by argument.;, .'
“ It isfiilae if it is;” and she looked him un
flinchingly in the face.
“Ho is convicted and it js recorded,” re
peated,Chester. “-What more doyou want?”
“ My lord,” said the fearless wife to Judge
Halo, “ I was a little while since at London
to see if I could get my husband’s liberty,
and thete I sppke with my Lord Barkwood,
one of the House of Lords, to whom I deliv
ered a petition, who took it of hie and pre
sented it to sonie of the rest of the House of
Lords, for my husband’s relcaaeracnt, who,
when they had seen it, they said that Mai
could, not release him, bat committed his re
loasemcnt to the judges at the next Assizes.—
This /«> told mo, and now I am come to you-to
sec if anything can bo done in this business,
and you give neither releasCment nor relief.”
The Judge made ho answer.
“• He is convicted arid it is recorded,” reit
erated the infuriated Chester,
“ If it be, it is false," repeated the heroic I
woman.. .. . I
, “Heis n pestilent fellow, my lord. .There'
is not such a follow in'the country," exclaims
Chester,-turning to Judge Halo.
“Will your husband'leave off preaching,
woman? If ho will do so, send for'him,'apt!
lot him answer hero for himself,” spake out
Judge Twisdun, almost ns much exasperated
as was Chester.
“My .lord,” the Christian -woman said,
“ my-husband.dares• not. leave preaching as
bmg as he can speak.” J
—See here, see here,” vociferates Twisdun,
rising from his seat, and striking the bench
with his clenched fist, "why should we talk
any about such a- fellow ? Must ho do
what he lists? -. He is a breaker of fhe peace.”
'. The brave woman noticed him hot. Keep-'
ing lisreyos steadily fixed Upon judge Hale,
she said: ,
■** ho-'band desires to live peaceablyand
to follow his calling, that his family may bo
-maintained,’ Jloreover, ray lord, I have four
small children that cannot help themselves,
and one of them is blind, and wo have noth
ing, to live upon hut the charity of good peo
ple.”
The eyes of the Judge bent in pity upon
her. '
“ Hast thou four children ?” he said kindly'
“ Thou art but a young woman to have four
children.”
“lam but mother-in-law to thorn, my lord,
not having been married to him yet two full
years.”
“■Aids! poor woman," said the kind Judge,
as she finished her-touching story, - - - ’■
“You make poverty your cloak, woman,”
broke in Twisd.on, “ and I bear your husband
is bettor maintained by running up and down
ft-preaching than by'following bis calling.”
■' “ What, is bis calling?” asked'Judge,Hide
of her, ■ . '
, “ A linker, -my lord, a iiulccr,” answered
some one standing by,
“ Yes, my lord, and because he is a tinker
and a poor man, ho is despised and cannot
have justice, ■ .
I “Since it is thus, my poor woman,, said
the Judge, mildly, “that they have taken
what thy husband spake for conviction, thou
must either npply thyself to the King, or sue
out his pardon, or get a writ of error.”
At the motion of a writ of error, Chester
chafed, aud was highly offended, and ex
claimed: '
(Policy!
(A slander.
“ This man v ill preach, my lord, and do
whafc he pleases.”
“ lie preaches nothing but tho Word of
God,” fearlessly apoko out tho true wife.
“ lie preach the word of God ! ” repeated
Twisdon, with a sneer, turning toward her as
if he would have struck her ; “ho runs up
.and down the country and does harm.” r
Do not mind her, Judge, send heraway,”
exclaimed Twisdon, seeing that he could not
intimidate her.
“I am-sorry, my poor woman, that I can
do thee no good,” said Judge Hale, compas
sionately. “ Thou must doonepf these three
tilings aforesaid, namely apply thyself to the
Kmg, or sue out his pardon, or get a writ of
error; but a writ of error will bo the cheap
est. 1
So, when I deported from them, the book
of statutes was brought, but what they said
Of, it I know nothing at all, neither did Ihear
any further from them.
OGf To undertake to reason a girl out of
love is as absurd os would be the attempt to
extinguish Vesuvius /with a syringe. The
only thing that will break a love fit is hard
work and mutton chops. Good advice and in
dolence only make things worse.
frSo here lam between two tailors,” said
a fellow at a public table, where two young
tailors were seated, who bad just commenced
business for themselves. “ True,” was the
reply, “ we are beginners, and can only afford
to keep one goose between us.”
Jt®“Eoal virtue is most loved, whore it is
most nearly seen, and no respect which 't
commands from strangers, can never equal
the never-ceasing admiration it excites in the
daily intercourse of domestic life.
Literature opens a baok-doorout of the
bustle of the busy world, into a garden of
moral and intellectual fruits and flowers, the
key of which is denied to the best of manS
kind. Therein our happiness no longer lives
on chanty, nor is in danger of a fall when
leaning on another’s pleasure for our own re
pose.
AN INCIDENT OF THE REVOI.TION.
The strip of ground from Broadway to
Centre street, along Chambers, commencing
at the now store of Stewart, in Broadway,
seventy years ago was a burial place. The
part nearest Broadway was devoted to the
negroes for the last resting spot of their dead,
and the moiety extonding-to Centro street was
a kind of Potter’s Field, and during the revo
lution the spot where most of the private
soldiers of the British army who died in the
city were interred. Gallows Hill (the spot)
where the Manhattan reservoir is now placed)
was decorated with a gallows, where all de
serters and prisoners, suffered death, who
came under the control of the infamous pro T
vest marshal, Cunningham.
It was customary'ip execute the most ofthe
deserters who were native-born, at night.
There was a policy in this.. Public execu
tions of the Americans by the Royalists would
have been noised abroad, and tiie injury creat
ed thereby, through the manner in which the
I themselves would have made use
, • . , , ini
kings cause.' These executions generally
took place after midnight. The prisoners
condemned to death wore always confined in
the old jail, within 'musket-shot of the place
of execution, and a sergeant’s guard of eight
men, accompanied by the provost marshal
and his deputy, generally conducted the pris
oner to the gallows.
It was near, twelve o’clock of a night in
October, in*tho year 1780, that a young man
was reclining among the recent graves that
raised their mounds in. the vicinity, of the,
gibbet ph Gallows Hill. 'The hour'and the
place were singular for a lone , individual
like tho man in question to bo reposing. I
say lone, yet he was not exactly so, if human
bodies divested of their immortality can' bo
considered companions; for,nearly above his
head, swaying to and fro in the night breeze,
hung the remains of two soldiers of tho fifth
regiment, who had been executed that morn
ing for desertion.
Tho sky who obscured with dark murky
clouds, and tho moaning of the wind, ns it
swept around the gallows and through, the
tress, that hero and there reared their branch
es'amid the darkness of -the night, giivo a
desolate and disagreeable sound well befitting
tho place itself. ■ The man scarcely moved,
with tho exception now and then of raising
his head,.and peering cautiously above' tho
mouiid of earth behind.which.he lav, towards
the jail, dimly visible with its high massy
walls ip thp fields beyond. "
At length a light glimmer’d, the treed of
men was faintly heard, and tho young man,
raising himself from the spot where he lay,
glided along the rude fence which skirted the
burial ground,'until he stood within a few
loct of.the execution place. Hero he paused,
and looked in-the direction of the approach
ing light.. Faintly. through .the haze appear
ed IhfSb or four files of soldiers, proceeded
by a black man, who' carried a lantern—tlio
only light which seemed tu be in the party;
Then walked a prisoner, with Ills arms tight
ly bound behind him, and directly after
Cunningham, the provost marshal, and five
or six soldiers with muskets on thoir should
ere.■ -
“ One, two, three,”repeated tho young.niau
to himself, as if counting the number of the
men approaching; ‘‘twelve in all. ’Tis a
desperate undertaking; but mv - comrade
shall not.die it I can. save him, r ow for
wkill mid courage. Be cool, Dick -Martin!
You. have been on still more perilous occa
sions, if your commanding officers speak the
truth,” '
He glided back again to his old resting
place, when ho stumbled into a now dug
grave that ho had not noticed before, just in
the rear of tho gallows. Ills ■ first’ impulse
was to leap out, tor tho depth of-the grave
did not, exceed three, feet', but a second
thought altered his determination, and lie
murmured—. • ’
“ This.is the best place forme: they cer
tainly will not think 7 of. looking for a living
man in tho grave!”—and- he stretched him
self at full length in the “ narrow house”
that ho know one day or another he should
have to fill, ■ They entered the burial ground
and proceeded directly to the gallows, under
which they halted. Forming a circle, the
black follow with tho lantern,,Cunningham,
and the prisoner 5n tho centre, preparations
were made to go through with the awful cere
mony—that ot depriving a fellow being of
life,
Ihe black fellow looked up at the gallows,
from which the two-bodies werehauging, and
then proceeded very deliberately to cut them
down, observing— '
‘‘ Dcso chaps nab hug long a’miff 1 . I. guess
dey nn’t much bettor dau dead niggers
now,” bS
Ulie prisoner looked on with, n glance of
no common interest, foHie felt that his soul
was fluttering on the confines of eternity.
It m useless to talk of the bravery when a
man in the full vigor of health beholds prepa
rations making to deprive him of existence.
True; ho may meet death with manliness
and fortitude, and display to no human eye
any of the physical slirinkings by which wo
are apt to measure the outward courage of
man ; but within there is a feeling that the
great Creator alone perceives, and Ho judges
or no the man is prepared to die.
The negro had passed a rope through the
beam where but a few moments before hung
the inanimate clods that now encumbered as
it were the ground beneath the gallows. This
done, ho said—
“ i)ar, Massa Cuningham, is a rope dat
will hold do prisoner long a’nuff, I reckon.
Guinea Sambo no stop a board a man o’ war
for nullin', I guess, I larri.to reeve dat knot
wid a hitch dat do debbil couldn’t break.”
As ho finished this classical speech he very
deliberately kicked the body of one of the
dead soldiers aside, and rolled the other very
oooly into the grave where, lay the young
man: and the dead rested upon the living!
A shudder ran through the frame of ’the
youth as he felt pressing above him the cold
form of one who but the day before had been
as full oflife as ho now was, but not a sound
escaped him, for he knew that silence was
his only preservation,
” Well, rascal, you see what you are com
ing to for deserting from his majesty’s ser
vice. A halter, I suppose, is more agreeable
than good treatment and a soldier's pay.”
Thus spoke Cunningham to the prisoner.
”1 entered into the refugee oorps for my
own reasons. They have proved satisfacto
ry," the.prisoner said, looking at Cunning
ham with a bold countenance, —--
“ Yes, infernally satisfactory, you rebel
spawn'of damnation I A spy, I’spose? Do
Lanooy’s refugees would be a pretty set if
they wore all like you, rogue. No, no; I
had my eye on ye when you ’listed, a month
ago, and I told Colonel De Lancoy what I
believed ye was. Not a royal refugee, but
a rebel scoundrel. I was right, rogue, oh ?”
, “Yes, you was right Us to my enlisting.
As to being a rebel scoundrel, why there is
an offset— you are a royal knave and a blood-
'• OUR COUNTRY MAY II ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BtTT, RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY*
4 MIDNIGHT ESCAPE FROM GALLOWS HILL,
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1863.
| thirsty villain. All the information I-want
ed to send to tlio great Washington ho has
«ot before this—so hang away! But I should
like jive minutes communion with my God
first, if you have the manliness to grant it."
~ Astonished as Cunningham was by the
boldness of the man’s speech, ho knew full
well that he himself.was detested by the Eng
lish soldiery for his tyranny, and that a refu
sal of such request to man on the point of
execution would only mako him still more
odious among them. With an ill grace ho
said— ’
“Pray, rascal, pray I I .don’t wonder that
a knave like you fears death. A man that
betrays his king betrays his God ; and it is
full time that you try to make peace with
him. Three minutes,rascal—three minutes!
That’s all the time you have from me. Go
on your knees at once, then Sambo, have the
halter ready. Three minufes.only."
, The negro had lantern on the
ground directly under the gallows. Its faint
light gleamed upward, showing in dim out
line the gallows frame, and partially light
ing the faces and forms -of theanldTcra.
~ nupcarwitn their muskets to mi order, in a
semicirclo around the scone of execution.
The prisoner bent down, Resting his knees
upon the earth .thrown.lipjaround the new
deg grave. II? had no horio of escape; and
ns he looked, upwards towjvrds the heavens,
although all. was black with night, yet his
eye pierced through.the gloom, and he saw
in the _ future redemption for the past! The
quivering of his lips showed his sincerity :
he was prepared to die. Of a sudden hb
bent his head. Ah 1 hia prayer was hoard
—rescue was at hand. His life—oh I glori
ous thought—was not to set in blood throunh
the hands of man 1 i , D
“ Harry I" said a voice, in a whisper, pro
ceeding from the grave where'.the prisoner
had seen a dead body tossed but a few
moments before; “ make no alarm. ’Tis I,
your comrade, Dick Martin of Washington’s
Life Guard, come to save you. Make seine
excuse to turn your back towards the hole
where I have bidden I willl cut
the rope by whiehypur hands are tied. When
this is done, and you bear me groan, kick
over the lantern and mako for the east corn
er of tho gravo-yard 1,1 will- follow. Things'
are ready for our escape. Remember, make
no alarm I”
The prisoner felt as if lie had won em
pires upon empires. His life then was safe!
“ Como: rogue, your throb, minutes are up.
Sambo, the ropdthere I you pattern of Guinea
beauty.’’
The prisoner, without rising from his knees,
turned round so that ho faced the lantern,
his back towards the grave. The negro ad
vanced with the halter, to place it around
his nook. The scene was striking. In the
foreground stood the soldiers, gazing with
no very pleasant emotions, but the dim light,
upon the poor prisoner. Cunningham was
in the centre, bis brutal arid harsh features
lighted up with the expression almost of a
devil, preparatory to seizing his. victim.
banindrel, you had no victim that time. Just
ns the negro got of .thii
.prisoner, the latter foit the thongs cut which
hound his arms; He was-free!
Hot why. starts the black, his eyes pro
truding from yhoir sockets as if death wips bb
fovo him? The halter drops from his hands:
ho is paralyzed with fear. Slowly from the
grave rises the dead, body of the soldier he
had himself rolled into it?
“Gor a’ mighty, the dead, lab riz!” said
the negro, solemnly.’
Cunningham beheld the sight, and so did
the soldiers. ■ The vision was so awful—so
apparently con (racy to human reason—that
uith one accord all fled, excepting the negro
and the prisoner. The former rolled on the
ground, exclaiming—
Spar _me, massa ghost!—spar’rae dis
l m j nebbor hang anoder sojor and lie
I, rolled over the graves, shivering as if struck
with an. ague fit.
In the meantime prisoner and his comrade,
who had so opportunely rescued him from an
ignominious death, hurried from the scene,
and, springing .from .the, grave-yard, made
or Lispenard s woods, which' then skirted
tho Worth river near about where Canal
street now ends,
rhero ibey fomuJn boat, in which Dick
I Martin baa crossed alone from, the Jersey
shore, six hours before, to save his comrade:
Ueaching the Jersey side, just below Bull’s
i'orry. in an hour, they struck into the woods
and reached the camp of Washington, near
West Point, about night the next .day.
the morning after, in general orders, two
new nontenants ware commissioned! in \Vali
mgton s ..Into Quani, ami tbe reader can im
agine they wore.
Abrieiea^aHC(£fonperhapsis neecsaay. Itnl
ways surprised the English commander how
U nshington knewsn well the movements made
m their lines. Washington, in many cases,
made desertion a duty, lie knew who among
ms private soldiers to ask this from, aud nev
er in a single instance, was his confidence be
trayed;’ Death ‘upon the gn.Uowa followed
the poor private often, but ho never compro
mised his commander. How could Britain
expect to conquer a countrg that contained suclb
Burning Potato ViNES.-r-Aocording totho
Massachusetts Ploughman t potato vines should
be thrown into heaps and burned, for the most
plausible theory in regard to the potato rot is,
that it is caused by a very minute insect, not
visible to the naked eye, -By burning the
vines therefore, we may catch millions of
them, and send them where they came from—
for the vines nro of but very little vplue as
manure, and their ashes are bettor than their
stems buried in the soil; A voryfeasonablo
supposition in regard to the rot is, that it is
causedby a poisonous little insect, too min
ute to bo readily discerned, yet numerous
enough to cause destruction to that root which
is almost the solo food of millions of our race.
If, as wo conjecture, a small poisonous insect
is the cause, wo can outflank and subdue him
by fire and water. Let the vines have the
fire; and let the tubers, at the time of plant
ing bo dipped into potash water, to kill the
little nits that adhere to them.
Satdhdat NiGUT.-r-Saturduy night! ' An
nothor week has gone, lost in the ocean of the
past, gone never to' be recalled. Gone to bear
witness for good or evil before the groat White
Throne. Will it boar on its pages the records
qf gqod deeds and kiqd words ? Qr will it bo
blotted with sins of omissions and commision.
Will the recording angols write a blessing
over oqr name or not?
Saturday qight? The merchant closes his
ledger with a sigh of relief. The mechanic's
brows grows light ns ho puts away his imple
ments of labor, conscious of the fact that to
morrow will bo a day of rest indeed to him.
A smile crosses the mother’s face as eho folds
away her sowing ready for Monday—all feel
ing glad that the week is oyer.
Sentiment. —" Wholesome sentiment is rain t
which makes the fields of daily life fresh and
odorous.
From the Patriot £ Union.
ARMY CORRESPONDENCE.
Camp Andt Johnson, Ind., 1
December 21, 1861, J .
Messrs. Bditors : After a tolerably pleas
ant but tedious trip by rail and river the Lo
chiel Cavalry arrived at Louisville on Satur
day evening, Nov. 30th. There we learn that
our destination had been changed, and that,
instead of going into camp near Louisville,
as wo expected, wo wore to encamp on the
Indiana sido. We jay at the Louisville wharf
aver, night, Ka\dy on Sunday morning tho
boats steamed over to the Joffersonvilldland
ing,, where we got ourselves and the liorses
ashore, and immediately Went into camp bn
lion. Josso D, Bright’s farm, just above Jeff
ersonville.
You may be sure that we fully enjoyed tho
opportunity presented us for making a-dis
play, in this horse-breeding country, of the
admirable Jot of horses which, we brought
with us, and thereby glorifiying the Old Key
=stsDl,"Smte;~’ r iu Kouere'Srnest,' vvb’were'Texed
and diauppointed,, and a further knowledge
of our riding stock has increased our vexa
tion and disappointment. Between twenty,
and thirty horse's have died on the way and
since our arrival, and of the remainder more
than four hundred have been rejected by the
inspector, besides, quite a largo number are
under tho care of tho farmer. Many had ob
vious diseases and defects :of long standings
some ktono blind, some wind-broken, mares
with* foal,-some not. throe and others sixteen,
to twenty-five years old, some too clumsy for
any thing hut cart horses, and others ringboned,
spavined, splintered, jammed, stovo, string
halt, galled, and generally crippled in every
kind and degree of lameness. -Tho result is
that wo aro loft with less than, six hundred
horses fit for servicoj that the regiment is in
definitely delayed ip its preparation for active
duty, its efficiency impaired, and tiro pride
and spirit of the corps humbled in the midst
of strangers.* And for these horses, good,
bad and indifferent— there- are some good
ones—the Government has paid §l2O apiece,
arid §l6npieoe for their transportation. The
rejected horses will hardly sell for enough, or
malt enough, to'pay the cost of bringing "{hem
here, to say nothing iif the useless expendi
ture for their subsistence from tho time they
were purchased until they shall bo finally,
disposed of. The, Government is literally
swindled out of tho' full price and.keepinn- of
fe y rejected horse, and a little more, wfibso
fault is it? Boforo the war there was abun
dance of good horses in Pennsylvania • there
is reason to believe that they are nearly all
there yet. A7o should haveboenfurnisned with
some of the best of them. By whose neglect,
or fraud, or fraudulent connivance, does it
happen that we are not so furnished ? There
is more than one party to bear the blame,
but, nevertheless,-it should fall'distinctly and
fully upon every intermediate agont between
the Government and the original owners.
-These of course sold to tho-contractors such
horses as they could sell, at such prices as
they'Couid got. The contractors, with whom
the .first blame rests, iu order to enhance their
profits, and perhaps relying on the connivance
ot the.inspectors, bought cheap horses, with
out regard to fitness, scarcely deeming it nee
essay to make snob selections ns would leave
even a plausible excuse to the inspector for
passing them. The inspector surely has not
robed upon any excuses whatever, but has
cither through ignorance or neglect of duty
in his case being-equally culpable,—passed,
wholesale, good, bad and iitdifferedt, rag, tag)
and bobtail—everything in the .shtipo of a
horse that was submitted.to his inspection.—
If ho rejected any. Heaven only knows what
newly'discovered-and hitherto unheard of
faults, defects or infirmatios ho found in them
to render_ them less eligible than sonic pf
these which ho approved as sound and ser
viceable. It is unfortunate that the field offi
cers of the regiment were not allowed to in
spect and* make selections, as I believe was
originally intended, Tho inspector, whoever
ho was, was appointed by Capt. Wilson, Quar
termaster 11. S, A, The lean and scraggy con
dition of ovon the best of tho horses when
they first came into our hands fully establish
es tho fact that the person or persons who
had the contract for subsisting them wilfully
neglected their duty, and deliberately swip
died the Government. Lot them bear their
Share of tho biamp, and their share is not a
little. The man who, for the sake of gain,
or tnotnatod by any other selfish motive, or
wiihnut any motive whatever, will knowing
ly allow a brute to suffer, when it is in his
power to oaro for him, is only restrained by
fear oi tho law from 'manifesting tho '.same
criminal disregard for the rights of his fel
lowman,
’ after nil tho neglect and dishonesty of
contractors aiid .inspectors, and sub-contrac
tors and sub-inspectors, yvo mightand should
have had a bettor lot of horses. Capt. Has
tings, commanding Carlisle Barracks, and
an experienced dragoon officer, was ordered by
tho War Department to furnish our comple
ment. He had nbout2.soo to select from. Ho
was, or ought to have boon, fully competent to
make tho selection. Ho knew, or ought to
have known, that by furnishing us hap-haz
nrd, just as they came, ho was entailing un
necessary expense on tho Government for
transportation, and he was hindering the effi
ciency and usefulness ot tho regiment. And
ho knew very well, or should have knowri,
that it would have boon boat, in ovory wav,
most prudent and economical to send us away
with serviceable horses only, even if but five
hundred such could bo found among tho twen
ty-five Tho plea of ignorance on
"i“ ,P art - or °1 inability to make a bettor se
lection, would bo a virtual acknowledgement
ot his unfitness for the position which he oc
cupies, and negligence or inattention to tho
discharge of the duty assigned him, would be
almost, if not quite, equivalent to criminal
connivance. Taking either horn of the di
lemma, he places himself in a position dan
6er°d®* Id b's reputation as a gentleman and'
a soldier. By what excuse or subterfuge ho
may be able to escape bis sharo of blame or
extenuate bis .fault, I am unable to conjec
ture.
W° have hoard strong intimations that this
affair of horse-flesh is to be made the subject
J of special investigation. Perhaps it is not
' proper, under the oirouipstanoos, that I should
1 say anything about it, but complaints have
1 been so loud and frequent throughout the ro
-1 giment, that they must have reached the pub
lic through some channel or other. About a
week ago there was a review and inspection
of the entire regiment by Major Buford, Inf
specter General of the United States army,
with special roferoneo to this subjoot. A few
days a (forwards Gen. Buell himself reviewed '
us, and seemed to be very well satisfied with
the general appearance of the regiment,
though the want of horses loft us woefully
deficient as to the number upon the field. 1
A shoemaker has one great advantage
over most kinds of mechanics—-his goods,
whenever finished, are always sol’d,
Supposed Cancer Speedily- Cured. —The
Dental Cosmos contains an account of a case
by J. L. Suessorot, M. D., relating to an aged
lady who had suffered for ' such a length of
time from a large ulcer dh the inside of the
; lower lip that it was at last held to be ma- i
. lignant cancer. The exciting cause of this
. was the protruding apices of the roots of the
. central lower incissor which had,escaped the
t notice of the attending physician (n gentle
man of acknowledged ability in his profession),
because of the coating of tartar, which ren
dered their appearance,very similar to that
• of the ulcer. I)r. Suessorot says respecting
it—" Prompted by a desire to benefit the pa-,
tient, and at the same time demonstrate the
advantage of a dental eduoatio'n, I was in
duced to commit the unprofessional act of op
erating before the invitation was extended.—.
No regular instrument being at hand, I called
for a table fork, and, in' a much shorter time
than the writing of this has consumed, I re
lieved the greatly distressed patient of a dis
ease which she expected would very mop ter
minate her existence. Nearly all of the'alvei
olai maigiii Having oeon absorbed, by a pla
otng a prong of the fork under the, protruding
lower oijd of the root, the operation of evul
sion was readily performed ; and by the remo
val of that which had become a foreign sub
stance, the diseased condition of the lip, as
well, as all the surrounding parts, was speedi
ly removed,. As this is hot an isolated case,
it would bo well for the causoiof humanity
were the dentist more frequently called in
consultation; the diseases of the teeth and
their surroundings being his special province,
many morbid 'changes which too' often escape
the notice of the physician, or are considered
by him of minor importance, might be, detec
ted, and disastrous results prevented."
. An old Scotchman's Idea of Happiness.
Some people have singular ideas of th 3 per
fection of worldly happiness. A Scotchman
’who has resided in this’State for nearly thir
ty years, and who has accumulated a very
handsome property, recently sent for his fath
er, with the view- that the old. gentleman
should share tho property, and slip away from
the long lease of life as smoothly as possible.
Qnc day a short tline ago a friend of the fam
ily paid a visit to the, mansion where the old
gentleman.was living with his son, and took
occasion to'compliment the'proprietor of the
estate on. its surpassing loveliness and oiisy
conifort, .The owner,, full of love for his homo,
said ho looked upon it and its surroundings
as “a perfect heaven on earth," “Heaven
on earth I', —growled the old 111 i'in- ’ Mica von
on earth, no’a thimblofu’o’ uhiskyin thohaill
house?" . • ’
Hadn’t tub Heart to Do jt.— The other
day Col. Hubbard was coming over from
Camp’Carlisle, when ho mot a soldier who
lud escaped from the camp, add who was, to
use his own expression, “pretty tolerably
drunk.” The soldier had a canteen full of
whisky, which ho handed to tho Colonel
upon being requested to do so. The Colonei
dreW'tho stopper; turned up tho canteen and
poured the whisky into the gutter. The
soldier watched tlio fluid gurgling from the
neck of the canteen, until tho last drop had
fallen, when regretfully observed, “ I suppose
that s all right, Colonel, but X never, oould
o’ had tho heart to a done it."
®S5“On one of tho railroads the conductors
have come down on the dead beau system,
and wry much curtailed tho free list. An
individual who has boon in the habit of trav
elling to and fro without any charge, recently
applied to the superintendent for a pass, and
was much offended when it was refused. As
he was leaving the room, he angrily exclaimed -
“I’ll pay, my faro this time, hut tho road
shan tbe any the richer for it— Til pan the
conductor , w ' •
John Jones has no objection to the
boh bar law when applied to Jane. Jane
Jones contends stonily for the liquor law, as
applicable to John. Jane's argument is sim
ple and conclusive, When John does liquor,
ho does lick her. When John don’t liquor
her, he don’t lick her Therefore, if John can’t
liquor, ho won't lick her—tho conclusion
she wishes to reach.
In the' town of T there was a shoe
maker who at times officiated as a preacher,
lie always wrote tho notices himself, in order
to save the expenses of printing. Here is
one of,them: “There will ho preaching in the
pines this Sunday afternoon on the subject,
“All who do not believe will bo damned at
three o’clock.”
fi@“A Scotch paper speaks of w fox hav
ing been soon trying to spring a steel trap by
means of a stick which he carried in .his
mouth. We know a fox that took a well polo
from tho well and pushed a turkey off from
the lower limb of a tree with-it, and put tho
polo back in its place, At least ho got tho
turkey, and tho polo was fouud all right in
the morning.
JBtSy* Georgo 1., bn a journey to Hanover,
stopped at a village in Holland ; and while
the horses, were getting ready; ho asked for
two or three eggs, which.wore brought him,
aud charged two hundred florins. “ How is
this? said his-Majesty. “Eggs- must bo
very scarce in this placed’ “ Pardon mo,”
said tho host; “eggs are plentiful enough/
but kings scarce." The King smiled, and or
dered tho money to be paid.
O“0f all subjects which are presented to
the mind of mau, there is none so interesting
or so worthy of attention as religion, It is
religion that opens our understanding to the
knowledge of the Author of our existence,
reveals to us the dispensations of Ilis provi
dence, and unfolds tlio awful destinies of man.
Enlightened by its precepts and instructions,
the soul is drawn to a lovo of virtue, and
taught to look hopefully forward for recom
pense in the world to come.
OCT” A clergyman meeting with one of his
congregation who had recently come in pos
session of quite a handsome property by the
death of his brother, inquired how ho was
getting along in the settlement of the estate,
“Qh," said he, “I am having a dreadful
time I What with getting out letters of ad
ministration, and attending Probate Court
and settling claims, I sometimes almost wise’
he hadn’t died."
O" Ah edito.r says when ho wqs ip prison
for libeling a justice of tho paaco, ho was re
quested by tho jailor "to give tho prison a
puff.’’
JG©*To a lover, his sweetheart's right hand
and cheek and eye and ear are equaled by'
nothing on earth but her loft.
o*What la the difference between a milk
maid and a swallow ? One skims the milk
tnd the other the water.
anb dnhfl.
DO - The Soldier's Fare—half price.
| O' To stop potatoes from rotting—eat ’em
!C7” Great Rebellion Stimulant—the Cotton
Gin.
O' A Knookulqr Demonstration—a blow
jn the eye.
■;,.0” Why is a wooden post like a flower
seed?—Because it will prop-a-gate.
BSf.Why is a muff like n fool? Because it
lolda a lady’s hand without squeezing it. •
0“ Losing h cow for the sake of a rat.
This is the Chinese interpretation of going to
law.
Those who praise you at the begin
ing, will ask favors in the end.
O*Money is nothing in itself; It is useful
only when, it departs from us.
K7* It is easier for tho. generous to forgive
than for tho offender to ask jt. • ’
ICT’.No man can leave a better legacy to-,
the world than a well-educated family.
■ BSiy* Bo calm while your adversary fVefs
and rages and you can warm yourself at hia .
fire.' - ■ .-■¥
O* Wanted a life-boat that will float on a
“ sea of troubles.”
■. O” Pride is tho first weed to grow in the.
human heart, and the lost to be’eradicated. ;
O”, All persons know when they are
knaves, few when they are fools.
0“ Women shonld seta good example, fop
the men are always following after the wo
men. ' ,
O” What throat is tho best for a singer to
reach high notes with? A sohr throat, ;
Touug woman are never in more dan.
gor of being made slaves than when the mon
are at their feet. .
U P a brood of evil passions In
your, bosom ; like” enraged serpents, - they
will bite their cage. -
-.p- Worldly happiness is said to he a glit,
tenng false diamond, placed.upon the top of
a smooth greased polo, wiiioh all try to climb
and secure. *■ .
. JSS?* To all men the best, friend is virtue;'
the best companion are high endeavors and
honorable sentiments.
JSS?* Be diligent in the performance of the
. I ® J . hfo, then I fs, like a du iful ma ter,
will reward your diligence with success.
OMVhon children die, they only. attain
maturity in a readier way than by the tedious
route of this mortal living. .
Gentlemen wl\o smoke allege that it
makes them calm and complacent. They tell
us the more they fume the loss they fret.
Op* Libejty ls the soul's right to breathe ;
and, wlied it cannot take a long breath, laws
are girdled too tight. 1
!C7” Grapple over with opportunity. And
as you don’t know when opportunity will
happen,along keep, your grappling irons al
ways ready.
JIo who thinks hecan do without others,
is mistaken ; he who thinks others cai/not do
without him is still more mistaken.
la <ty>t Niagara was heard to
exclaim JVfiat elegant trimming thai rain
bow would make for a white lace overdress,
, A, young exquisite being asked why
bo did not enlist said, ho always thought war
beSt wilon ’ taken, in liomo-pathio
a®* If every word' men utter fell to .the
ground and grow up a blndo of grass, most
public speeches would be worth ton times as
much as they now are. ,
• s®“” Marriage," said an unfortunate hus
band, “is the churchyard of love." “And
you mon,” replied this not loss unhappy wife.
“are the grave diggers." .
SSPAn experienced old stager says, if yon
make Jove to a widow who-has a daughter
twenty years younger than herself, begin by
declaring that you Moity/.? ihoy were sisters.
O* Mourn notthatyou aro weak and hum
ble, The gentlo breeze is bettor than tho hur
ricane, tho cheerful fire of the hearth-stone
than tho conflagration
Wink at email ii\juriesi R\thpr thtu*
avenge them. to destroy a single boo, you
throw down the hive, instead of one enemy
you make a thousand,
. 110 who profits by his own experience
ja wise indeed; yet wiser far is ho who profc
its by that of another, for ho thereby has all
tho honefit,but none of tho pain,
8®“ The ordinary employment of artifice
is the work-of a petty mind, and it almost
always happens that he who uses it to cover
lumsolf in one place, .uncovers himself in
another.
C7*Judge Jeffries when on the bench, told
.an old fellow with a long beard, that he sup
posed ho had a conscience as long os his
board. “ Does your lordship," replied the
old man, “measure consciences bv heard?-*
If so, your lordship has none at all.”
. C?“As man is an imperfect being, his dig
nity cannot bo perfect; yet it may lie so near
so ns to give delight, and power, and honor,
and true happiness to tho possessor, and ena
ble him to lead where others seek to follow.
U~ There is a man in tho West who has
moved so often, that whenever a covered wa
gon comes near Ids house, his chickens all
march up and fail on their hacks and cross
tlioir legs, ready to be tied and carried to the
next stopping place. , ,
S&-" What shall I help you to” inquired
a lady of a modest youth at the dinner-table.
“A wife,” was the meek reply. , The young
lady blushed, perhaps indignantly ; and it S
said that the kind offices of a neighboring
clergyman wore requisite to reconcile the
parties.
3Z7~ Physical troubles have their oompen-i
aations. A, war correspondent of a Western
paper writes thus; “ Did you over have the
'y oiler jaundors?’ I’ve got a few and could
snare an assorted stock to a small dealer.-n
Bettor get some, for a dime looks like squat
ter eagle, which is a pleasant delusion."
O* Wo have a hoy at hflme, about three
years old, who is a regular “ shaver.” One
day \ve were trying to teach him his alpha
bet, and asked him what “ B" stood for?—
“ George” was his prompt answer. “No,"
we replied, “it stands for boy." “ We’ll,
ain’t George a boy ?” he nskeih'triumphautlyl
Word and Deed. — Words iff sympathy lift
not up the needy; only full sacks pap gland
on snd,
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NO. 31.