VOL. 50. AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. pCBUsnsD EVEnr tuuusdat uorktMq bt JOHN B. BRATTON. lEIIIS Subscription. —Two Dollars if paid within the • jmr; and Two Dollars and Fifty'Copts, if not paid ‘ j»itbin tho year. Theso-tonna will b'o rigidly ad hered to in every instance. No subscription dis continued until ail nrropragos are paid unless at tbo option of tho Editor. Aavp.nTisKMßNTS—Accompanied by thocASH, and fuot exceeding one “aquriro, will..bo inserted throe •‘ffihea for Ono Dollar, and twenty-five conta for each . additiohal iifecrtldn. Thdao.of a grcttW'r length iii proportion. . i Job-Printing—Such lisfTand-bills, Postihg-bills -Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, Ac. Ac., executed with . ccuracy and at tlio sbortost notice. |Wiral. skill: NOT WANT! The parson satin his house one,day, u'hilo wintVy storm did rago; High rapt, ho drank in.lofty thought IVimi Hookers classic page. .. . But ns lie sat, and holy breath Into his breast did steal, His sweet wife opened the door and said “My dear, .vvo'lmvo no meal." With a deep groan and saddened brow .He laid aside his book, And .in duapair. upon the hearth With troubled uir did-look. “My people think that I riiugt Uifehk * To.' them- the bread .of heaven, But they’ll not give me broad enough Three whole days out of seven.'* (v. “ But hunger Is.a serious thing, And it is end to hear Sweet children's mournful cry for bread Loud ringing in yuiir ear.”- So straight he mounted his’old •horse, With meek’ ami humble will, Amt on his mcnl-bag, patched ahd course, lie journeyed,to tliu mill. The miller bowed to him and said - : *• riir, by your church steeple, X vow I give you praise lor this, But uouo to your church people.” The parson"mounted hia old horse— lie had no time to lag—- Ami rode, like hero, to liU home, Ilightun Ills old meal-bug. But as ho rode, ho ovortoblc A proud and rich layman, Who, with a close, astonished g&zo. The paroou'ti bag did scan. ” My reverend sir, the truth to tell, It uirilt.a me,feel quite wroth, To sue you compromise this way- Tlio honor ofyuur ulo.th,” 'MVhj’ t«M you not. my rovoVoml friend, '* ••Vonr Mionl WiiJ* running low? Wh;it will ilie tiinglilmrs tUiuk of ua, If to tin* mill you go?” u Mv wealthy fpond,” tho parson'said, ■ ** Vou nui.'t n »t reason so; For In- jiFSurod,-as a.soUled thing,- My raoali^uhtiiyslow.” "If my dear people w o ’tsh to know How 1,0 promote my bliss, I'll simply say, a hag of meal Will never come amiss. Just keep tho storo-room well supplied. And I will keep right still,; But if the meal runs out again, I must go to thodUlll." MORAL. Laymen ! it needs no. miraolo. No hard, laborious toil, ' To make the parson's meal-bag like Tho widow’s cruise of oil. Pour, forth into his wife’s store room Tour gifts-right plentiful; Tho miracle is simply this— . To keep it always full! HiwllaiiEoui Whai Came of on Omorbus Ride, and One'Fall to the Right. Some time ago, (no .matter when, little , folks .shouldn't be curious,) I was riding in an omnibus with some half dozen well dress ed ladies and white-kidded gentlemen. , a s 'Knn! from siunebody on tho side walk, the driver reined op his horses, a very old man, with tremulous limbs and silvery docks, presented himself at tho door for ad ■ tmesnm. . The driver shouted through, the skylight “Riinm for one. more,ithere, insidej" . but. the gentlemen looked at the Old man and I row ned, and the ladies spread out their ruf • e bkn-to. for liia hat was shabby, and his oa very threadbare. He saw how it was, ~ wl >y there was “no rqom,” and meekly rned about to go down the stops, when a young man, who sat next to me, praug to the door, and seizing him by tho rm, said; “Take my .place, sir; you are ;? welcome to it. I am -young and hear- JnH 1 - 1 ' V °? t me to walk; 1 and kindly rmtn to the vacant seat, ho . .i^ 6 , rom th® B teps and walked briskly anwn the street, while I looked adrtiiting'ly ■ftinn l h "l' ,yln ß t 0 f.vself. ‘ That young h «s had a good moflrer.’” . old m , 0v V )n ’ ftr, d the mor* I looked at the Dio B . Bl l^ e . 1 ’ hairs. and fine, honest face, ■'been * felt at the way ho had, in tnv Whether huV£ftAV6y thcttglrts Hfter^n C0 * ln^. er ’h ,lc e, nr not, I can't shy ’; hit, moved 108t . ,,f the had got 6ut, lie W 2-“ P .A o ''o 8a , nd st'" l . ‘Good boy—gnod tsun'k in™ l^e y dear (and here his voice l m zl f ‘'"'‘h'ienlia! whisper) 1 hiive got I ; Tjl e n (fia t n ', '" inyout all the Upstartpeo iever hut ?!* twenty times Mh ’nV' utl i llko tllls o,d ooat and hat. They ; uut tlinT' 118 a ennoble—help me to find 'Thnnif tnio P ,eta '- Good morning my dear. I ne Jj y,, “ for y\"' v P.ihy. just as much as if needed the old man pulled'the ‘aff.r g0t , l)llt of the omlli hua, and hobbled Jtt 'lmvn the street. ' ■ Scnio time-after, 'I advertised for lodgings, ||,p ''" s ans ' veled by a widow lady. I liked air of the house, it was so neat and qui . and the flowering plants in the window col l'| 1 ' ett(Jr of recommendation to me; Your flmi lra V° d ’ ' <l ' c * e People never core for of ' : ( y ". u m " y " Tite that in the fly-leaf nle„.!, U i r l lr ' l!, er.) But what particularly "l h r me at Harris’ was the,devotion 1 e , lli : <l niolher. I expected no’less. ' that Ip'., '. n "I 1111110 '! opened the door, I saw un I>:1 '"I s . 1 , enou: young man wlip gave man. “ 1 111 tbe omnibus to the old gintle as wcfln.ilm ,110 ma ’ ' [ eting and providing teen rip " 7'"’ ofneve-. the HU,,,* lcccd bis ninthor’s arm chair to stool IUI ,I, ust u '''.‘CV ; I Hinted tier the foot ’ u newspaper, and spectacles; off,red »• .7*'f T / - i / V'** - her his arm up stairs and down, and spent his evenings by her aide, -instead of joining oth er young men in racing over the city, to fiflil ways to kill time. . , ft was a beautiful sight in these days, when beardless boys coihe stamping and whistling into their mother’s presence, with their hbfs bn, and call her the 1 old woman.’ 'I spen t a pleasant autumn under Mrs. Har ris’s quiet roof. And now, winter had set jn, with its nice long 'openings. John came ifito tea tine night with his bright face over clouded. His mother was at his side in an instant. John’s master had failed, and John whs thrown but ofediployiiiedt. , Then I learned, that it whs ohly bv the strictest economy, and hoarding of-every 'dent of John’s small salary, that the house rent was paid, and the table provided. . And .now, so the widow said,, the house must be given up, for John might be a long while getting another place, clerkships Were '9O difficult to obtain; and tbey ihust iibt think of running in debt. It was such n pity. We wore all So com fortable and happy there, in that cosy little parlor, with its sunny bow window full of ■flowers, and its bright Lehigh fire and cosy dhshioried chairs; that 'cosy parlor, where the little round table, with its snowy cloth, had been so often spread ; anil 'the fragrant coffee, and delicate tea-biscuit, and racy had'been- so often diSciiss.eil ;. -where-John, in his slippers and dressing gown, with’ his dark’ hair brushed off his broad forehead, read tb us page after page of some' favorite author, while the wind was Velcome to Whistle itself dumb outside the 'threshold, and old AVinterto pile up the so otv at the dour till he got tired of it. It was hardl. . . John walked up and‘t|owu the "floor, with 'hit! hands crossed behind, and Mrs. Harris went round the room, hunting after her spec tacles,‘when they .Were comfortably reposing an the bridge of her fine Roman nose. A knock-air the,doer! A note fur John ! “Enclosed find $5()0, to pay Mr. John Har ds’. hduae rent for the coming-year.. John rubbed his arid Jkmked at his ‘pother; his mother looked’at tlic, and ‘1 look ed at both of them - ; and then we laughed and cried till wo nearly had regular hyster ics.-' But who was the 41 Friend ?" That was the question,' • We were all born Yankees, .and aid our best at 'guessing 1 ; but it didn't ’Help us. Well at any rate, it was very nice, ’all round; I hadn’t to bo routed. No, nor John, not* his dear ojd mother. And pussy purred round us ns if she had as much reas on, to be glad as,any one of us.; : and the ca nary trilled so, sharp a strain that we Were oblged to muffle his cage and his enthusiasm with John's red silk pocket handkerchief. Mrs. Harris and I hail ndt.got pur feminine tongues sjill t v the next dtiy, ‘when John came back, in the middle of the forenoon, with another riddle to drive our womanly curiosi ty still mole distracted. 5 He was requested to call iimnedmfely—so a note he had just received, read—at & ‘Co's, and accept tho head clerkship, at d salary of $1,400 a year ;■ being highly recommended by a person,, •wuhose name his new employe© declined giv- mg. ' . ' , That was a greater puzzle still. John and his mother had rich relations to be sure; but, .though they had always been interfering in ■all their 'plans for making a living, they Jiefver had been known to give them anything 'except —advice, or to call on them by day light; and it wasn't at all likely that ‘ the leopard would change his spots', at that late day. No, it couldn’t be johnVrich relatives who were in such a panic lest the upper tendqm should discover that ,their cousins, the Harrises, lived in an .unfashion able part of ,the town, dined at one o'clodk, and noticed-tradespeople and mechanics. We were too, sensible to believe, in fairies, ■ and who the mischief was emptying the horn of .plenty in that way at our feel, ivas‘ the question. When we awoke. the next morning, wo found in the back yard a barrel of apples, a barrel of flour, a keg of-butter, and a bag of buckwheat flour, labelled, '.For Mr. John Harris, —^— street.' John declared pipdhlng himself, to see if he really was John) that he fastened the gate inside, the.very last thing.before-im put his night-cap on. Mrs. Harris, said somebody must' have climbed over and un fastened it; and 1 jumped right up and down, for a bright thought hadjust struck mo, and I was determined to hold on to it, fgr'l didn’t have a bright thought every day. • ‘What now?' said John, as 1. ohpered round the room. * Oh 1 nothing/ said I, ‘ only it takes a wo man, after-all, to*find oat a secret: —and to keep it too/1 added, snapping my fingers at him, , That day I it would do me good to ride about in an omnibus. 1 tried several. It didn'-t make much difference to me whether they went up street or down, or where they finally stopped, d was looking more at the passengers. By and “by T saw'the person I wanted. Said *1; in a whisper, fitting down beside him, ’House rent—clerkship—flour—butter, —crackers and buckwheat, all for gi.ving.you a seat in an omnibus I' '.Didn't I know’ that‘the fairy ' whs the nice old man with silver looks? Didn't he bribe me to hold my mo that ho might get a peep at Jofip and his mother ? Didn't he come ? and didn't I look as much astonished when he sailed as if it hadn't been •all settled two days previous? But how was I to know that Mrs. Harris would turn out to be Un old flove Of 'How was I to know, when he felt such an irresistible impulse to be kind to the old man. that his «hair had grown white loving his mother? How was. the old man to know why he loved John so well, and thought him one of the finest young men he had ever seen ? How was Ito know that I was to turn out to be what I always so mortally hated, u feminine matchmaker ? —Fanny Fenu How Soon we Forget. —A leaf .is torn from the tree by the rude gale, and borne away to some desert spot to perish ! Who misses it‘from amongst its fellows? Who is sad that it has gone? Thus-it is with hu man life. There-are dsar friends, .perhaps, who are stricken with grief when a‘loved one is takefl; and .for many .days the grave is with tears of anguish. But by and by the crystal founh&n Is drawn dry”; the last drnfp oofcea out; the stern gates of for getfulnoaa fold back upon the exhausted spring ; and Time, the blessed healer of sor rows, walks over the closed sepulchre with out waking a single echo by her footsteps. V Useful Qualitf.—A wag purchased a very tine horse. Returning from a .ride n few days afterwards, ho said he had discov ered a quality in his animal which added a few pounds loins value—he shied atalawyer f t-r y j C?/<% A Friend." / “ OUU COUAXiIY-JIAY IX ALWAYS kiaHX-I!UX .liillHX .Oil WEQ.XO * Dow Jimitfy Imparted q Fjaror to Wc'fioifce. I The wit® of our friend being in delicate health, it was resolved that a girt should be to do the housework, thht the lady 'blight have an opportunity to recover health ‘and spirits. After visiting the intelligcface ; 'office for two or three.ihornings, a fine, bux om lass of about twenty years of age, but six 'months from 1 the owld sod,” was selected. ? and instructed as to the duties that would ‘be expected of her. 1 Now then/ says the lady, ‘pour thegrdlind coffee into the pot, then pour in the hot water, and, aftotf a few minutes'boiling, put in one half of an egg, so/ and the lady elucidated such demonstration hy illuatratiop.. ‘You don't you V says the lady. 4 Indeed I do, mum 4 ' was the response.— •Bile the coffee, grind in the Water, and put in the half of an egg. tyn't that/t, mum ?' -/ All right,' replied the lady. 4 Now then, 'to-morrow morning wo'il see how well you remember/- / morning came and the coffee was ha good as could be exacted. The'third morning came,.and. to the.astonishment of our friend and wife, the coffee. Was undrink able and nauseating; even the odor of it was sickening. Bridget :was called, and ques tioned as* follows: " ‘ Bridget, did you first put the ground cof •fee-.inthe puff' ~ ' ‘lndade L I did, mum/ " . ‘Did yon.then put in the hot water?' ' . ‘ Sure I did/ * How Jong did you lot it boil?' r ‘Five minutes, mum/ ‘ ‘Did you put in the egg?' .* I did, mum/' ‘ ‘Just as I showed you the other ibornihg?' ‘ Well, to tell'the ihrtith, mum/.says Brid get. giving her -ghfhient a twitch with her brawny hand. ‘ fo toil the thruth, I would not p,ut in the half of the egg, as yo towid pie, hut the egg was a bad-one,-and 1 thought ye wouldn't mind kapibg the hVllf of it, bo 1 put 'iii the cratheras it'was'l' Aromatic euffeo, that. , \Ve should call it infantile chicken soup. The richest like the'most fertile soil when-Uiicultivated, shonts up in the rank ,‘est weeds ; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces tb its slothful owner, the moat abundant crop of poisons. The Shadow of Death. met with ' anything iqnre beautiful than the following which we find in an exchange paper; , “ All that Uyo must dio, Pass'ng through Nature to Eternity.” - Men seldom think ofj .the great event of rdeath ‘until the dark shadow falls across their own putli, Wding'forever fpoifa tbpir eyes’tlie faces (if tile drived ones whoso Hying smile was-tlie sunlight of their existence. Death is the great antagonism of life, snd the cold thought of the tomb, is the skeleton at all our feasts.'- Wo do not want to get through the dark valley, although its passage may lend to paradise.; and with Charles Lamb, Mvo.do nul'wish to Tie "flown ’the- ’ttnUrltty giavc; even with for our bed.fellows. But the fiat'of na ure'is inex orable.. There is no appeal or reprieve from | the great lav/ that dooms us all to dust. We flourish mid .fud.e’lilse’tjtolGaWes of the forest; and the fairest flower that blooms and.with •ei‘a io a day. has not a frailer hold on life !thau the mightiest monarch that has ever shook the earth by his footsteps. Genera tions of men appear,and vanish like the grliss, and the.cpuntlces multitude that world toiday will to-morrow disappear‘like the;fodt‘pi’iirts on ’the Bljore % Th the beautiful drama of I Xoii t ttie instinct of immortality, so eloquently uttered by the death-devoted Greek, finds a deep response in 'eVefy-’thoughtf-ul "Bduj. . When about do yield his, young existence as a sacrifice .to’his -betrothed, Oiemnnthe asks if they shall not meet again,, to which he replies: *1 have asked that dreadful question of the hills tlmt look eternal; of the flowing streams, that flow .forever ; 6f the stqrs among whose fields of azure my pairifcfi spirit hath walked in glory. Alt were dunib, But while X gaze upon their living face, I felt there's some thing in .the love which mantles through its beauty that, ifannot wholly perish, We shall •meet again, Ulemanthe.' Magna CliahtA.— Tho fundamental portions •of the great charter- of English liberty vi'ere, derived from Edward tho Cuufessor, and con tinued by Henry I. and his successors; It was granted by King John,'ami signed at’ Kunnymede, dune 15th, 1215. js-a narrow slip of meadow on the bank of the .Thames, in the north West part of tho couty of Surrey, near windsOri England. Magns Charta was .a restoration of some portions of the Anglo-Skxon constitution which had been suspended by the Norman Kings. It was many .times confirmed, and as'frequently vi olated by Henry 111., and assured by Edward I. When Henry Til. granted it lie swore on the faith of a King and a Knight to observe it! yet Sir Edward Coke says that even in his days it had been confirmed above thirty times. The famous section 45, which had beon.styled the css&nce and glory of Magna Charta begins thus; “No freeman'shall be taken, or imprisoned, ordissoized, or outlaw ed, or banished, or anyways injured, no’r will wfe pass upon him, nor Send upon him- ( nec su'pevatinWiiih'Ua, nec super ihiUimiis], unless -by the leglil judgment of his pdfera, or by the law of the land. A Mixed Currency. —Tho editor of the Washington Democrat in his distress and an guish of soul, published the following: Wanted. —Hoop coles, shoe pegs, old boots, oat fish, saur krout. corn husks, saw dust, porcupine quills, buckwheat cakes, knife blades, marbles, watch keys, matches, -fire crackers, pea nuts, turtles, old straps, pig ears, tooth picks, cigar stamps, walnuts,- old gam shoes, mowing scythes. Wa gon wheels, drums,.fifes, jewsharps, old shoe airings, horsa shoes, bees in the hive, old pocket honks, (full of money,) postage stamps, bank checks, shinplnsfccrs, good .bank biUs, ?and all others at this office in payment of ■subscription, etc., at the highest market ue. / * ■ A Man has ,-a* shrewd suspicion that age diRR overtaken him, when he keeps assuring you that ho feels ns young as ever—and ho doesn’t.know but-—younger. Poor follow, hp whistles to keep his courage up; hut, alas !' he cannot recall youth as he calls his pointer—with a whistle. ‘ The poljop r-p.p after tho- perpetrator of tho following copprsv*aiin': .* is a love /y young lady like a hinge?’- ’* Becaqso she ;s QopijQthin# tp sk-Jo^r.’ IC7* There is a .town .down east, where the people are ho oppoaed to .committing an assault that it is witli difficulty £hoy can he persuaded strike a,- . />’" ■■ A — x Hi; Thursday, McMBERi*; ises. CARL Influence Over Men, ; Judge O'Neal, ia. the Yorkville Jngutrek tells the following of Judge \Vm. -Smith, of South Carolina: f He had the rare blessing to win the love lof one of the purest,-mildest, and best women, whose character has over been present, to the writer. He married Margaret Duff. In fits worst days she never upbraided him by look or gesture, but always met him aa. ifhe df'the kimlest'and-heot cJf Husbands. This course on her ;part humbled him,-and made him weep like a child.. This sentence, it is hoped will be remembered, was the lan guage of Judge Smith to the friend 'already named, and to those who knew the stern,, un bending character of the Judge* it will teach lesson of How much a patient woman's love and.ddvqtibn’can db, as he himself told it*: ‘The evening beforeth& lloturh ftayofthe Ooiirfcof Common Plena for York district a client called with fifty notes to be put in suit. Mr. Smith was not. in his office—he was on what is now fashionably called a spree—then ’a frolic.' Mrs. Smith received the notes and eat down in the office to the work of isshing the writs and processes. She spent the night at work—Mr. Smith in riotous living. At daylight, on his way home from Ins carou sals, he saw a light in. his office, and Stepped in. .anc[ td.iiis.greitt Surprise saw his anuhule wife, who had just completed' what oUgh'fto. have been his work, with her. heiill bh the table and asleep, 'His entry awoke her.*-*- She told him what she had done, and showed him her night's worker-fifty writs and pr<? cesses. This bowed the strong man, he tell on Ins- knees, implored pardon, and then promised Her never to drink another drop while, he lived. ‘Tins proihise/ says niy j Irifend Col, Williams,, '.Ho' faithfully ktjpt/ and said the judge to him, ( IVoih that day everything I touched turned to gold.’ * ilia entire success in liTc,' says Col. Williams, be set-down-to Ula faithful observance of this noble." promise.' .... “■ tfrinld be pronounced on Mrs; Smith than has just been given in the words of her distinguished husband. The reformation (if such a man as William Smith is a chaplet of glory which few women -have been permitted to’wear,; : To 'the peoplo of South CarolUm,''and especially of York Dis trict,’certajnly no stronger argument in fa vor of temperance, total abstinence, need bo given/ - / A‘Brief bul'&venlfhl Hislofy The history of a Federal soldier named Kobert Limes, who enterod tho service as a private in 'Loomis’. Michigan Battery, has many features which characterizes it as one of extraordinary (jualicies.- Briefly, summed •Up it is ns ‘follows: After being In that com pany nearly a',year ho was discharged for • phyelcaf disability. He * then returned to Detroit, . His stay here was limited, and the next heard of him ho was in Naslivillp, con nected with some sutler. Shortly after this, he was chief‘clown in a circus—swallowed' the sword and other gastronomic feats of more or less wonderful nature, fie then, according to reports, encored a Kentucky regiment of cavalry, but ao.(m closed discon nection with this troop, whefhbr-b'y discharge or desertion is not generally known. When next heard from ho was a sergeant in an’ln diana regiment of .infantry, from which he deserted to-enriat la .auathar in .which great er bdUntieß_werc .pftiji. Another regiment, offering a still-larger bonus, induced him to risk the chances again. He did so, and the next heard of him Avas-if prisoner in the In diana penitentiary., awaiting a court martial ’for his mim-onUm enlistments, Tho trial re sulted in conviction', and ho was sentenced to be shot. The extreme penalty, however, was commuted by the President to one year ‘at,hard labor/ with chain and ball. Now, there is a petition, signed by the commis sioned- officers of *n‘Kentucky company of artillery, sent to tho bead of Executive.clem ency, praying for a full parduti for the de serter, that bo may receive a. l Lieutenancy in that tonipdny. Yerily •bb‘is a lucky mah, and tho officers of that battery are ‘ a fun ny people/ - ’ . * <Lea 1 d Atfb /Water. — 'By taking ft strip of clean lead, and placing it in ,a tumbler of pure water (say ruin or soft water,) ip loss tl\an an hour, by dropping in the tfamblcr ai little sulphide of arniiionium, a black preoip-; itate will be thrown down, consisting of the Sulphide of load— e. <7., lead must have been dissolved and held in solution in the water, and as the salt of lead happens to be classed amongst some of the most dangerous poisons, we are necessarily led to the conclusion that lead pipes convoying water, if the latter is pure, must be somewhat dangerous. Wa ter standing in a lead pipe for some hours decomposes the and when it is run off the poison is earned .with it, Water drawn in the morning through a lead pipe should never bo used lor domestic purposes, such as cooking or drinking, and servants in cities should no instructed respecting this particu lar subject, because .they hro usually ignor ant of the nature of lead, and the effects of water upon it. Several metals taken in food or drink accumulate slowly in the human system and ultimately produce disease; but it approaches so stealthily that t)he is not usually apprehended. Some of the salts erf lead hre poisonous, and the sulphide is of this class. The interior of lend pipes may be converted into an insoluble sulphide of lead by subjecting them for some time to the action of a hot sulphate of Soda in solu tion, according to the recnntrdiaoovery of Dr. Schwarz, of Breslau. Those who prepare lead pipe for conveying water for domestio purposes, should test the .alleged discovery;’ as it is of the utmost importance that all the safeguards to health should be enforced and multiplied. Remarkable Lovgevite. — Wa am indeb ed to a friend in Missouri, for the following statement in reference to an inhabitant of franklin county, recently deceased : • - Michael Slionkman, who died September 3d> 1803. at his farm in Boouf township, ITranklin'6obnty.,'Mo., was born in Loudon county. Vn., in 1759, making him 104 years old. Ho was 16 or 17, July 4th, JL7.76-, when' ■the declaration of Independence ‘fras ad'bpt ed. "He married there and had several chil dren. He then removed to Tennessee. 'Ho came to Missouri about 1830, pnd has re mained here over since. a Ho has ever been an industiious, good cit izen and has raised a large He died, leaving £2 children, 82 grand children and 30 great gran 1 children. If is oldest child is over 80 and the young est’B years old. Ho had doubtless mere grand children, but the family are so scattered that many of them have not been hoard from for years.— SI. Zouis Republican. O' Happiness is like a pig with agreassd tail which every one runs after, but no one pun hold- Rebel Women. B. F. T., army correspondent of the Caica yo Jo\tnial\ in one ofhis letters from Tennes see says: ‘ .-•• . * I shall never be done ; admiring the patri otic faith* und.undyiivg devotion of the-loyal women of the land, butT must tell you that the Rebel women of the South.-arc'worthy in -everything hat the sucrcd cause of their Northern-sisters. There is nothing they will notsurrender with a smile; the gemmed ring, the diamond braoelet.'the rich wardrobe.’— They* cut ud the rich carpet for, soldier's blankets without-- a-sigh j-fhey fake-the tine froth their- peraon'sJor the batuiages. > When 400 of Longatreei'o men came* up to Nashville;‘prisoners of-war,-about the-stron gest, dirtiest, wildest fellows the sun ever shown on, and a flight-of flairs in the build ’•ifrfcthey occupied fell, killing -and wounding a large number of’them, you siioiild have seen the fair young- traitoresses ccime forth froth thb old-aristocratic-mansions, bearing' | reatdrjrfiveH and delicncies in their hands,, miuglinir in the dingy ‘Crowd, wiping away •tlih- vlood with their white handkerchief!*, 'ami ■u'rtkrriig'.words of* clieer : should have |. seen them doingthis, with hundreds -of Un | ion soldiers all unuiml, and smiling hack | ‘tfpdhTba rough blacckgmmis of rebels as tlie-y left, Tjoi lu 'ivV} there-was a defiant air, ’pride* in .tlipir-hmuanity strange to see.— 'Of-iitmth tlioy carried it oft* grandly, < ..And alums; all ihcsegirls were in mourn •lng-for dead Rebels, brothers, lovers and friends;, whom- the.>e -.sHk?e girls bail l sneered into -trensoir* end driven'into reheJlion, and billowed all the &>m’h with tlioir graves, nml - thedeast they-eouhl do-was to. wear black for j them and Haunt black from the window blinds. 'Cloihed beihair snuls-in sackcloth I i 'I sard -fheyWdrn tviwthy of their’elsters nt the Nortli, i?f ail lint a righteous cause,’but I said wrong. Therein p 1 bitterness,, there arc glimpses of the Pythoness, that makes you shrink from them. But they.are fear fully.in earnest; they avq almost grand in' self4»acrince. Ohv that -they w‘ero true iuul loving daughters of the old ting I StoKewau. Jackson's Guave.— ‘ Bury at Lexington, in t!ie valley of Virginia/ These words are said- to hayo. been -uttered by that great, good lamented man,-General T. J. Jackson, just before his death ; and in accordance with -his sacred ■ command, all •fhuf is mortal of thoanost-renowned and suc cessful military genius that the’war, oV-p-ndy-- ably modern ages have produced, now lies intorred in tho walls of-tho Presbyterian cemetery, located in tho south' weste'rn 'su burbs of. this delightful village. -Nothing marks the spot where h*s mortal remains lie tp .distinguish.iiis grave from that of others, save a diminutive Confederate flag, not larger • than a lady’s [landkurchiuf. Tin's tiny-emblem is fastened to a staff not I more than two feet long, and placed at the head of the grave, and there waves, as if to dllustrab* tin* modest pretensions of the great heru nf'the valley of Virginia.. Clo.so by his aide a sriiall grave is -to lie seen which omin tains the remains of bis child, who died a few years ago, and not far distant is the grave of his first wife, ‘ Elinor, tho daugh ter of George Uml Julia Junkin/ with a plain m'arhlo slab at the head, ths late res idence is situated near the end of tho town, and like everything else planned by him, -is modest ami unpretending. —Rebel Paper. A Beautiful Figure. — Life is bcautifirHy compared to a fountain fed by ii thousand storams, that perish if one bo dried. ‘ It is a a silver cord, twined with a thousand strings,, that part asunder if one bo broken. Frail and‘thoughtless mortals are surrounded ..by innumerable dUugera, which aiakcit inlich more strange that they escape so long that they almost parish suddenly at last. We are encompassed with accidents every dav to druab the mouldering tenements woTfilitibit. /The seeds of disease are -planted in our con stitutions by nature. The earth and atmos phere, ‘frli’encc we.draw the breath of Ufa are impregnated d’caiji. Hca. r :!i ’& tirade to operate itr Wh ‘destruction,. t'ho food that nourishes cc>matning-tho elements of decay ; the soul that afibbHtes it, by vivifying first, tends to wciiv itgout by Its own action; death lurks in,am bush along the paths. Notwith standing this is the' truth, so palpably con firmed by tho daily exam) p, las. before our eyes, how little’ do w 6 lay it kt heart! We see our friends and neighbors die among us ; but bow seldom does it ©ocur to our thoughts that our knell shall, perhaps, give (he next fruit less warning'to the world. Cats.—ln August, 1861, a Gorman, whoso name we forbear mentioning at tho request of pur informant, left this city as a volunteer, leaving behind him hi wife and a house-cat ? h‘e thought much of. He made his wife promise that whenever his favorite cab had kittens she would not kill them, but keep them, and their increase, until his return. Faithfully the woman has kept.lser.Word, and,this forenoon, as w© skw ourselves, has about her house in. the Third Ward, in which* she lives, in a shed adjoinin’g, and racing about, the prem ises, the old cut and herchUdren, grand chil dten, great grand children, etc., etc., to the number hftwo hundred and nine cats, cutlets, and kittens. —£a Crowe Democrat, 0“ A few days since a gentleman, being beyond the limits of,his neighborhood, asked a negro if the r. ad be was traveling led to a certain place. 'Cuffee gave the required in’ formation, hut seemed curious to know who the stranger was, as well as his occupation. For the fun of the thing the traveler oonclu ded to humor Ebony a little, and the follow ih£ dialogue ensued : ‘My name is . -, and as to the business I follow, if you are at all smart you can guess that from my appearance. Can’t you-see thatf-ama timber cutter V ‘.No, bps's, you nd timber cutter.’ ‘ An overseer, then ?’ * No, sir, you no look like one.’ ‘ What say you do my being a doctor ?’ ‘Don’t think so, bess—dey don’t ride iu a sulkey.’ , • ‘Well how do you think J would do for a preacher;?' ‘ I sorter- specs yon is dat sir.' ‘Pshaw, Cuffee, you are a groaVetfodl than I took you for. don’t I look more like a law yer than anything else ?’ ‘ Noeireo, Boh, you don’t dat.’ ‘ Why^Guffee?’ -now yon see boss, T’s been ridin’ Whl you .Tov more'u ii mile, mi’ you haiu't cussed an’,a lawyer always cusses.* C7-Why ,‘s Syihpatiiy like Mind man’s buff? Is'it a follow fcollhgfur a fellow creature. = . !C7* Th 6 strongest words are generally the oflonedt broken'. those persons who are always in search of nows would only toad the Bible !hey would fiud the very laycst news trflhem. paliffraf. The President’s Proclaiaalioil. His Infamous and Itcvoluticjian/dcsiqns Ex posed- 'and Condemned — Ws- Impeachment ' Demanded—His so-called “ Pldri?, •an Vn* principled Scheme (o'Conlinucdiimseif and other lievolutib'nists'in Power, dec. Ffqiu the Washington Intclligoucor, the old Whig organ. To understand the principles embraced in this plan we'ihUst compare them with those on.which our Constitutiun.ie founded. • . . The basis of our general-government 5e States, having constitutions’ and laws estab lished by the people ol.those States." , . : / Tile righ.c. yl suffrage in those States' is regulated by their own..constitutions and laws. Stale voters, thus qualified, mid they only, cun vote for members of Congress.— (I'oo Art. Ist, 2d section of theConstiiutijm) But the'BresidenfUndertakoa to prescribe the qualification. of Statu voters, excluding all from the right of.suffrage in governing tuemselvps who Tviß not take an oulh dicta ted hy him. ~ ’ , This oath i* not- merely an. path-of alle giance to the Constitution and laws of the , United States, hut goes further,.and-requires I the affiant to swear , that he will support, all acts of Congress .and ■proclanm'tious of the President touching a certain-kind of-proper ty until they be annulled byCongress orHiie. Supreme Court, 1 - • . ... 1 > The proclamations of the President In re lation to sluVelpruperfy'dedare uMWlives free in certain States, whetlierThibir owners be loyal or-disloyal.. Every, legal voter within those States, therefore, must swear to give*, up that species-of property before lie can 1 have a voice in the government of his own ( State, ■’■ ' ■ . . > . ! Where the. President finds the power, mil- ; it\vry or otherwise,.,To establish civil prtvern | .meats or regulate tlic right of suffrage in the ] , Slates, we are not.informed. j If Slate governments, constitute.d by one 1 tenth of the voters, shall he established, what is to protect them against, the other nine tenth's? The President promises such .gov ernments the protection of the United States,'- meaning by its military hffee. I'h that event we should .sec the-armies of the United States , , employed to-.enable onc-tenih.of the voters of-a S'tafo to govern nine tenths. ,But suppose that after the governments.of one-tenth have.been established, the nine ten,tbs, should , rosuino thbir allegiance and proceed to elect State officers and members t of Congress under their own constitutions I and laws and the Constitution and laws of j the United States, without taking the oath 1 prescribed by tlui'Presidont, on what ground j could the ‘military power of the glinted Stales | bo used to suppress the government of nine- tenths and support 'the' government of one-, tenth. /This plan,as far as it- goes, appears to be borrowed fnJih the polities.of continental Eu rope, where kings give constitutions. Why should the fundamental prino iples of our in stitutions be pnbveitei for no other purges;* than to hasten PrO.vidence fp the deduction of an institution which is fast dying under, the blows brought upon it by tlio'crmies of its arlvoeates ? Why not let it perish in the house of its friends? Why not, instead of breaking up the foundation of oUr govern ment, take and maintain military possession -of .the States now controlled «hy the rebels, 'uhul'fche .people of thfeir own accord resume • their allegiance'? That they frifld »-flo when j the .military arm of the rebellion shall be i broken wo have every reason to believe. If they do not, it will bo because they prefer a military governmegt -to governing them selves. t ’ . . { Thiit the leader's fee' ffebllion should be punished,'especially the original conspirators on whom rests the guilt of half a'million of ■ , murders, feriv men w\U deny. Thh ‘principles of this'plan would' not be changed if it were approved by Oongreasaod LhV&upi‘erUo.‘Court, an incredible result. Th’e fcinuisville Jun'rhaf published by 'George t). Pronfico, another leading Whig paper, and which Ims'ably sustained all the | war measures and the gemu’al policy (except j their Abolition absurdities) of the Adminis-j trillion, dissents from the plan | for. ‘TTconstructing” the Union,and express- I es its opinions in very plain language. It ; says: ,-j “ The vest of the message is demoted to tl 'e exhibition of a plan of reconstruction .pro posed by the President to jfh’e people in re bellion and to the country at largo. The word recount ntcliyi is not ours, but the Prc s-. ident’s; and we,confess the'vjrord is very well ■suited to the tiling. The plan proposed is, that, whenever in a revolting State, a num ber oTper6on9,not less than one-tenth oftho number ofvotqs, cast therein at the last Pres idential election shall take a solemn oath of obedience and of support not only to the Con stitution, but to the proclamation of emanci pation and other Executive proclamations, and .all acts of Congress respecting slavery ‘find shall 'establish a j Slate government in liarmo'ny with These acts'end \ reclamations, «übh* State shall be', recognised as having re-, turned to its place fn the Union, and shall be entitled to the benefits arising Imm the posi tion. In short, tbo yihin ie that e, revolting State shall bo porhiittod to return £0 its rela tions as a member of the Union whenever the Sthre 'adopts .feflfl&Vbipatioti, And not be fore. Such is the plan ‘expressed & plain English. This is certainly reconstruction with a vengeance that will find afc exulting echo in every radical bteatt in the land. It is, to employ the President’s own .figure, building up IV m the ground. It is not:mcrc iy constructing the State governments anew, but constructing them anew according to the will of the national Ex entire; not according to the will of the peop/e of tin; States. The President requiiWtho people i f die revolting States to trample their own; constitution*.in to the dust as a condition of their recognition as loyal States of the Union. word, ho requires them to commit a secPnd net ot rev- j ‘olutioD nk an atonement for tbo commission i of the first. I ‘•Tho telegraph announced several days iif'n that the plan t'ia President was about to pn b 1 nr in his message would bo altogether origins'. Wm know not. if the plan of the mo -sage, dues not in some measure redeem t‘ b promise) ofth'e, telegraph; but certainly Hie ent v essential difference between this plan and the plan developed by Mr. Sutaner, in the Atlantic' MoniJily is that the , latter pro poses to do through Congress what; tho for merproposes to do through the Executive.— Mr. Sumner would have Congt-oss govern the revolted States -until they are trilling to adopt emancipation; Mr. Lincoln would have the Executive govern theajsgjjti’ iba same period. 'Wo leave our readero to-determin* which of theytwo plampistbe leaa orbitrary and unconstitutional, if indeed degress of comparison may be allowed to pertain to übe date a pitch of lawlessness. For our own part, we,think the difference qpite unessenr tial. And so do Mr. Sumuorand bin friends, if wo may credit the di«pafcheB:frumlWash'i « ing. ‘lt does not endorse Sumner's views on 1 reconstruction,’ aa/ the dispatches, referring to the message, ‘ yet the friends of the latter | claim that it substantially .includes and eatr bodies them.* In our opinion; there is no room for doubt on-this point... Unquestiona bly' the two plans.are substantially one. “ If our- renders would Contrast with this plan in all its, forms .the simplq plan .of the Constitution, let them turn to the inaugural uddressof Governor Bramletfe, in which they will tind the following passage: Ko reconstruction's necessary. The gov* 'ermriehfc is, complete—not broken—not de stroyed ; but, by .the blessing of God, shall endure forever. * A revolted State hes noth ingy to.tlo bur to cense resistance tojaw-iind duty, and to return to its fealty,* organize under Up constitution, as it wits helore, and would he now but for.the revolt „aml thus plnco itself in-harmony with, the 'Rtdoriil government Thus, all that wap suspended by revolt will x bo restored .to dc /tion. But will hot the-.doininivnt powers re quire terms other than these? AVill they hot require the revolted States, as condition pre cedent to a. restoration of their'relations, to adopt either immediate Of gradual emanci pation ?’ These arc grave questions,.and sug« | geslive of a dangerous and wicked experi- I ment. Wo trust to pbgbted word and con i Htitutional faith as guaranty against such an ; issue.- .Nothing but disregard of honor and the principles .drhumnnit’v cun force such an issue, and we will not invite an o-vil by bat tling it into being. ‘ “ bittle tiid our Chief Magistrate! dream when he expressed this generous trust, that, ere the sands, of a year already waning, should run out, this issue 'would he forced deliberately W the President., Yet juich iji •the fact. The fact ahoiild awaken the loyal people of the Union. . , “ It must now be apparent to the true friends'of the government everywhere that ; they have nothing to expect- ‘from-the phrty in power or from* any member of it. ’ The r . last,ground of hope, qr rather the last shad Ow of ground, has , vanished. ■ The rugged issue is-jlefdre ns. There is, . under Prov idence, but one dependence f..»r the conserva tive • Unionists*rff <he tvhich is thorough co-operation, on ihe-bimis of single minded devotion to the country, for the throw and expulsion of the party at the hallor-b >x. Never surely ,in thq world!« history were wisdom and patriotism invoked by considerations mure glorious or more mu ifccnlOUa." , , Frpm the Kiiston Argus. Official Utprmily. If ever a man prostituted hia position for personal and political aggrandizement. Pres ident Lincoln has. Ills so-called “ plairto restore'(fie -Union,”, is nothing inoro uor.dosa than a cunning, unprincipled schcnVe.td con-' tinuo himself and his party ip ;po\vcr four years lunger. Even if ho had.ihe authority, (which he has not.) to prescribe ap oath, to the people of the. South as a condition of their return-to the Union, he knows verv well,.if he knows anything, that they wifi uever swcor .to support- h w.piiconntitutional abolition, ne.gro proclamations. He must be tbo greatest fool outside of a Lunatic Asyiuuj .If ho supposes one-tenth yl the people ul the South will over’take nn oath to become 'Abo litionists—because that is wjmt it-amounts to. ILo has no right to -ask it 'iijid they won’t agree -tb it. W'hiU' 1 his object?— Why, simply to get up: bogus governments in the -seceded States, in.order that he may continue himself in office. With the aid of military officers, army sutlers, cainp-tolUnvers-and ud-venlurevs.ot qvery de scription. a number equal. : tn one-tenth of the .Presidential vote of 18(10, will be secured to'take, the oatlr and a bogus government thus each State, which will he recognized.as the 'ifogfijar-'government of the people. ■ A couple ol yunkoe adventurers will then he chosen hogu» United States Senators from each. State and admitted, fa 1804 an abolition: electoral ticket will *Se framed id daoh of the States thus organized and we may live to fkie-Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee voting to continue Abraham Lincoln an President of the United States] The whole plot is despicable, mean nnaveyr olutionary. It is unworthy the Chief Mag istrate of a great nation, tf the country needed any additional evidence that Abraham Lincoln has neither the honesty of a patriot nor the ability of a Statesman, it has kin this last message. j Artemus 'Ward.—l was fixin’ myself up 10 abend (ho great war raeotin,’, jvhan hry ! d tuglner entered with a young man, t who I was evidently from the oily,' and who wore ' lon/V'hair, and had a (wild expression in his . eye In one hand he carried a portfolio,-und in his.other paw clasped a hunch .of brashes. My daughter introduced, him rr Mr. Sweib er. the extinguished landscape painter from , Philsidelnhy. . V . . • no is nn artist.-papa. : Here ts ono of his | mnstorpiecesi-hi young woman gazin’ sdmi i rably upiftj. Tier lst,bdrn, and my daughter i showed pro a, rcaly nice picture, dun in i 1 c. I ■ls it not beautiful, papa? He throws so i in noli soul into his work ’ j ' 1 ■ * Doe** be! does he?' anid I. ‘Well. J ‘ Well, j reckon I’d better hire him to white wash our fence; itneeda.lt., WU'ftt Willyou charge, sir,’ I continued, ‘ to throw some soul.into my fence?* My daughter went out of the room in a very short meeter, takin* the artist with her*, and from the very emphatic . itj. which the door slammed I concluded the wiaa sumwhut disgusted at my _ • She closed the door, I must say in iid* ic.t f I wont into the 1 , closet, |(iriod all alone |, v myself for over half nn hour!! . 'Was yo.ur son engaged before -ho went to the war?' asked Mrs. Uiiggof a neighbor. ' ‘ No, but he has had several engagements since/ she replied. ‘Why don’t yonr father take, a now's-baper?’ said a gentleman Vo a little urchin, whom ho caught in the not of pilfering one frpm his ’doorstep', i," - ‘ Cause he sends me to take it'/ ptffi— Always fight till you die—after doing it five or six times it is just as sasy as any thing else. • t£r Death and tho sun hnyc this inborn. mou few.gnse at them steadily. •. 53c How we printers lie, as onr devil raid when he got up to late for breakfast. [C7' Kindness is a language that even the dumb brutes o»u understand; • NO. 28:
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