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Advebtirkmhnts— Accompanied by tho cash, and Bot cxcccding one square, will ho inserted three 'limes for One Dollar, and twcnty-flyo conts for each ’additional insertion. Those of a greater length in proportion. ' •> Joc-Pat? ,TI^o ~'^ ftS Hand-Mils, Posting-hills pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, «tc*Ac., executed with Acuraoy and at tho shortest notice. t |Mml SOM. BY EDWARD J. XIOWE. Como, doaroal, tho moonbeams arc playing O’er valley, and mountain, and plain ; Come, dearest, my sorrow allaying, IVc’ll wander together again.. 0, cun you still doubt my aJToction, Still refuse to tlkqiel my annoy; T> rupliUM' my heart's deepest dejection With bliss and indwelling joy ? I think of fhoo, dear, when awaking, Tin! Rim's silver sheen doth illume; ■WIicM storms around me arc breaking, And the heavens are darkened with gloom. 11nvo ()ioo, dour angel, more fondly Than cherub or seraph cun love ; I lovl* time, dear Annie, thee only— ■My angel, my duniug, my .dove. 0, scorn not my heart’s true affect ion ; I Lou—how charming that lino I Ky soihicc in every dejection— U, that your love were but mine ! .STATE COUNT'S COURTSHIP, I once called on my friend, Ftcve Conant, mul while there the conversation turned on •courtship; at my request, the old gentleman tuld me im incident-in his own love affairs, which I give in his own words: ‘Wall, seeing its you, I don’t mind tolling about a scrape that happened to mo when 1 whs courting Nancy boro, That i*s something that I never tell anybody. But ye shall hear it!’ ‘ No, don’t stove/ broke in (ho old woman ; ‘I should think you- would be ashamed ,of yourself, telling your love scrapes to every- Wiv.’ 1 f you cant boar to hear it, you may go out doo 1*8 —so hero poos ! When I was nigh uljuut twenty-uno 1 came up hero nil alone, and built mo n cabin. I hadn't a nahor near tr than live miles, ho ye see, I didn’t quarrel much ; hut np-it grew to bo near winter I pot kinder lonesome, and begun to think that 1 ought t<) haver a woman to keep mo compa ny; so one morning 1 started down to Len- Wa .V. to lake a look at the gals, to see if(l tomM Undone to suit me. "When I got down tu the Retrletnonllaskod.il; little chap if be knew of a girl that wanted to got married, and he told mo ho guesfod that Nancy Knox did. and if [ wanted a wife, I had hotter try ami hitch on frith her - ; and ho said that if it uas agreeable, be would go U> Deacon Knox mid iiiiike me acquainted with Nancy, and he good as his word, and twasidt an hour ufore Nancy ami I was on the best of terms. Afore rsigift I hired out « r ith the Deacon for . l, ‘ n dollars a month, and I was to work all Vr liter. 'Wall, for about twn months I felt an neat M a mouse in new cheese. I courted Nancy every Sunday night, and I was determined Mure another week to pop the'question, and Hadn’t a bit of doubt but what Nancy would Uoverjoyed at becoming my bosom compan- Jmi. Wall, about this time there came a fcl luw from one of the lower towns to keep sdioul, and he hadn’t been there moro’n a wuok. wtuve..l lotind he had a natural hanker ing after Nancy ; an'd worst of all, tiio old A'acn, who seemed inighty pleased at the thoughts of my courting his gal, begun to kinder kool off, as if he would like the rrchord- Jnastct* better for a.aori inlaw, and it'made hit* feel kinder down in the lip, t can tell you. n all oa one Sunday night, BUI Smith, for . ‘kit was the pesky critter’s name, came in just at dusk, and when the clock struck nine no didn’t seem to go. Old Mrs. Knox and tiioyaung uns all went to bed, and there none loft b.ut the old Deacon, Bill, Nan -y and I, and I kop spectrng every minute that ho would allow Bill to bod, but ho did no jucha tiling; but jest as the clock struck ten he ria up. and bob ho: J . tGVG » let’s go td bed, for wo must bo up W'f and airly to have them ere logs to thb hvcV ' ** • Wasn’t that a hint, oh ? 7. looked at 6 * lo tUrnc| 3 away her Head, and ■tins lup the ladder to bod. I was hoil- D E °yer mad with all creation —Bill, Nancy the deacon in partioular. I got in to bed 4 ™ yivored myself up, but.l folt so bad that ■ Co 'J!du’t- go to sloop. Like as not,, the “ooltiiißtfr was hugging and kissing Nan- JJoown in the kitchen, and I couldn’t shot :“J eyes for the life of mo. Wall; all at onco occurred to mo that there wore some big Mas in the floor over tho kitchen, and 1 I i watch and soo all that was going on .. "W; so oiit of bed 1 got, and crawled iJ'I'.S °t°Be .to the chimney on all fours, and mil ln K a tig crack, I looked down through, birtn N(,n .°y wore setting about two foot hLif',,| 10u gK every now and then Bill would r chair a little nearer to her. How a * ? bavo choked that man !' I watched that t a ' JOU ' a quarter of an hour, and by in n J Wtt 3 near about froze, as it was Wrimt Co * ( ' n ‘gbt, and. I hadn’t a rag on t e j y m / two shirts. But I would not go' to (tuii i° r * " nB bound to know if Naney was tliiu° and by Bill hitched his chair fcnj * c ™ or i and I could soo that he had li or >P am mind and was just going to kiss Mo h r " ec i old But I was bound to l, 6tt ‘."rough, so I moved a little to get a and at that moment the plank Cu„ “ P , “ nd down I went kerchunk'and for a *'7 00n Bill and Nancy. Bill tho’t ■lrcaknJj .tbat tho old Niok had oomo, and 'g aTo a tt out doors and as for Nancy, she ivith i, 0 lo °k, and then covered up her face as u P ron - I started out of tho kitchen goino- 1, a ? y° u could say scoot, and.ns I.was holloa 'adder, I heard old Mrs. Knox Wlr N " nc, y’ oooofc the oat down, or she’ll • 'pi o, y dish on tho dresser 1’ hiilkina r morning when she went out to eliu ort.f the question to Nancy, and Caro a bavo mo, for she didn’t ftttrriod r l Smith; and we have boon 10,1 f °rty years cum next Juno.” ABOLITION TREASON. * EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF SENATOR POWELL, of Ky. Delivered in the V. S. Senate , April 8, 18G4, on the Bill to amend the tyiited States Constitution, so as to destroy Slave Property. Mr. POWELL. Mr. President, it was not my purpose a day or two ngo to make any re marks upon the main question but* - ! beg leave now to trespass on tho Senate for a short time while I reply very briefly to Homo of tho remarks that have fallen from three honorable Senators from Now England, two from Now Hampshire and one from Massa chusetts, who has just taken his scat. • I do nob believe it was over designed hy the founders of our Government that tho Constitution.,of United States should bo so amended r.a to destroy property. Ido not believe it is the province of the Federal Gov ernment to say what is or whafi is not prop erty. Its province is to guard, protect, and secure, rather than to destroy. If you ns - tho principle contended for by tho gen tlemen who urge this amendment, logic would load thorn to tho conclusion that tho General Government could, by an amend ment to its Constitution, every do mestic matter in the States. If it, by con stitutional amendment, can regulate the re lation of master and servant it certainly can, on the. same principle, make regulations con cerning tho relation of parent and child, husband find wife, and guardian and ward. Tf it has tho right* to strike down property in slaves, it certainly would have a right to strike down property in horses, to make a partition of the land, and to say that none shall hold land in any State in the Union in fee simple. It is not my purpose, however, to discuss the question in that light, lor it hn« boon elaborate!v dDobssed before', Ido not think, Mr. President, that those who aro now urging this f constitutional amendment have acted in good faith toward the adhering slave States: U you v.ill trace their history from the very beginning in cop neolion with this whole subject; of shivery in the Stales, I think you will find that they have not acted with that directness and can dor that should characterize bold, honest, and fearless men. Why, sir. do you auppoMJ that fucl) propositions would have been proposed heretofore? Not at all. Wo were told by the Government in every form in which it eould speak, at the beginning of this revolu tion. that whatever might ho tho result, tho institutions of the States would remain as they were. Tho President, in his inaugural address, announce.il that ho had no constitu tional power to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States. Tho Secretary of State announced it in a communication which ho sent abroad. Congress, by a res olution. announced virtually the same thing when they declared that the object of the war was to restore the Union as it was and to maintain the Constitution as it is. A ll these measures and promises have been utterly repudiated by the party in power. It seems as if their solo object was to deceive in order to obtain power, and the moment they obtain'power they exercise it. Wo aro surrounded hy circumstances thatcanso these valiant knights to think they ban do this with impurity, and at, once they go to work.— Heretofore they havcvsaid that not only they had not the power, but whatever might be tho result of the present contest, tho status of this institution would remain as it was. I do not mean to say that they said they had no power to pass a constitutional amendment, but this portion of my remarks is directed to .other policies that have been advocated and other laws that have been passed or are now proposed in this Chamber. I think it must ho admitted hy all candid men that the bor der States have been dealt with in bad faith. The Government has not kept faith with them. All candid, all truthful, all honest men must know it and must admit it. But. sir, they tell us that slavery is tho cause of all our difficulties ; and tho honora ble Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. Clark] rend an awful indictment against sla very. lie said it was tho cause of all our woes; that there was no ill in the land but must bo attributed to slavery; and hence, he said, it must die. With great deference to the learned Senator, I do not think slave ry lias been the cause of*-all our difficulties. In my judgment the want'of faith that has been exhibited toward the border and adher ing slave states and tho bad faith in not ex ecuting and carrying nut the laws of tho country is the source o.f our ills. _ If those who act with that Senator had carried out in good faith' the Constitution and the laws •made in pursuance thereof on this subject, wo never should have been engaged in this most unfortunate and Cruel and disastrous civil war. The bad faith of tho abolitionists has dene moro to .bring tllisw&r about than all the efforts'of the fire-eaters of the South. I admit that those men inth.o South acted unwisely and foolishly j bub I do not think the one could well have produced such re sults without other. * There wore funat is at both ‘extremes, and those miserable factions have brought this once groat and glorious country to its present unfortunate condition. .Historians, in after times- will give that as the cause, of our troubles. - It'wa.s the eternal intermeddling with this institu tion that aroused tbo spirits of tho southern men, and they in turn committed the great est indiscretions and follies, tlad there been no abolitionists frorth there never would have been a fire-eater South., But it issa'id slavery is the cause of the war, and because it is tbo cause of the war it must die. If that is the kind of logic on which honorable Senators act they would de stroy almost everything that is pure, good, and holy in the world. The blessed religion of our Saviour has been the pretext of more wars perhaps than any other subject. _ Why not strike down the Christian religion be cause it has been the subject-matter about which throats have been out, cities sacked, and empires overthrown ? There have been furious wars about territory and territorial boundaries, and there will continue to be such wars as long as the cupidity of man prompts him to make conquests. not destroy all tenure in land ? Ferocious wars have been waged about women. In Homer ic verse wo have the historic record of a ten years’ contest for frail Helen. Why not de stroy the loveliest of God’s handiwork '• Why, sir, the proposition of the Senator to destroy slavery because it is tbo cause of the war (which I utterly deny) if carried out log i oally, would destroy everything that is grand, beautiful, lovely, and groat in the world. — It is so illogical, so irrational, that I do not think it can influence the judgment of any sane man. . • I opsone IhOipropofdtion now ponding be fore the Senate, in the first place, because I do not think we should enter into any such legislation (tt this time for the reasons that I “OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.’* have briefly stated. In tho second place, I oppose U because I desire* tho Union to bo restored, restored as it was with tho‘‘'Consti tution t>s it is ; and I verily believe that.if you pass this amendment to the Constitution it will be the most effective disunion measure that could bo passed by Congress. As a lover of tho Union I oppose it. Adopt this amendment, say to tho people of tho South ern States that they are to bo deprived of their property and the earnings of their la bor, that their whole domestic policy is to bo overthrown, and four million of miserable blacks turned loose among them, if you please, and do you think that they will yield while they have arms to strike ? Never, sir, andMn my honest judgment (f always speak plainly what I think) those fanatical gentle men on tho other side of the House wiio de sire tho passage of this measure, intend to do one of two'things—cither to destroy the in stitution of slavery or to destroy tho Union. If they can make tho preservation of this Union a pretext by which they can be ena bled to strike down slavery, they will do so. If they find that they cannot, in my judg ment they will bo willing to recognize {ho South. Their whole policy indicates that to my mind. Pass this amendment and you make an impassable chasm, as if you were to put a lake of burning fire between the ad hering States and those who aro out. You will then have to make it a wav of conquest and extermination before you can ever bring them hack under tho flag of the government. There is no doubt about that, proposition. AV hy, sir, suppose you were to propose and pass an amendment to tho Constitution lay mg your hand upon the property interest in New England, I will not say equal but half equal to the property interests of tho south ern States which you r.qjv propose to strike down; does any man believe that all New England would not be iu revolution to-uipr row ? Yes, sir, one half of the violation et their property rights hy anattcnnptc 1 amend ment of the Constitution of the United .States inflicted upon them would put all New Eng land in revolt to-morrow. J do not stand here to denounce our Yankee hrothern of the North, but everybody knows that, cupidity ami love of gain is their strongest character istic. That is known over the whole world and acknowledged by themselves, V nowing that this will, l e Hie best disunion measure tli.it was ever ii iopted, and desiring us I do a restoration of the Union us it was with the Constitution as it is, I oppose, it. and shall oppose it here aud everywhere, with all the power that I have. Those who favor it do not v Ish the Union to bo restored as it was. They are willing, [suppose, to let the southern States come in us conquered prov inces, bereft of all their properly aad all their rights, social and political. The honorable Senator from New Hamp shire [Mr. Clark] has left us no doubt upon that point. In the very eloquent speech that ho made the other day ho scouted the idea of the Union as it was and the Constitution as it Is. He" did not want that Union, and ho had the manhood to tell us so place in, the Senate. Would the .:Sedrftfly "have ‘sat'd-' that three year-ago? I very much doubt it. I do want the Union as it \>as a|nd the Con stitution as it is, and in that I diller from the honorable Senator. lie wants the Union,lie says, without slavery, I want the Inion with all the institutions that our fathers or dained ; and I desire to leave each State the control of its own domestic policy, ami tiie choice and management of itsdomes.ic in stitutions ;'and that was, until very recently at least, the dnetrino of the party to. which the iionorablo'Sonator belongs. That .van in their Chicago platform ; but platforms with everything else are overturned now. That platform in very many particulars was very offensive to mo; but such as it was, (lie par ty in power used it merely as a scaffold by which to mount to power, and when they had attained the summit they it to the ground and trampled upon it. It is in peep ing with the bad faith ,they have exhibited to the border States dhring this controversy. The Senator from New Ilampshiio is now zealous fur a 'constitutional amendment. — The time was when the Senator was fired with no such holy zeal. When the proposi tions offered by my then venerable colleague, Mr, Crittenden, wore before the Senate, the Senator from Now Hampshire .thought no amendment of the Constitution necessary,— All that was wanted, in Ids opinion, was the execution of tho Constitution wo had. That Senator was then the most active agent in preventing constitutional amendments, when tho whole world knew that if those eonsbitu-, tional amendments were carried out, it would* have avoided this miserable war and saved tho country as a whole. But it did not suit the ideas of the Senator to favor constitution al amendments then, and hence ho proposed ' his celebrated resolution as a substitute tor the Crittenden amendment. Then, sir when those amendments of tho Constitution, which it was avowed on all hands, even by Davis and Toombs and tho whole of the southern leaders, would save tho Union, were under consideration, no Republican "Senator came forward and voted tor them. Then* whoa patriotic men throughout tho whole land de sired to avert the- impending storm that has resulted so disastrously to the country, mor ally, religiously, politically, and in every oth er respect, tho gentlemen who are now such hot zealots for constitutional amendments wore opposed tp .them. They withheld amendments, and the mad people of the South went off; but now, when this war is upon iia and has well-nigh ruined the^co en try, constitutional amendment? are their last- Specific. • Would it not be better that those in pow er should execute tho Constitution as it is be fore they seek to amend it? Every vital provision of the Constitution as it is violated, and you complain not; and now you propose to amend it solely for the miserable negro, after rejecting every amendment.proposed that was calculated to secure the liberties of tho white man. When I proposed an amendment to confine the office of the President to one term, and thus to terminate the in famous spoils system, it was voted dmvn. When another amond wns proposed to prevent the kicking out of office at the incoming of every administration of the suh-olfioials in the Executive Depart ments; no one said it was not a good amend ment; ■ and Senators voted it down. Every other amendment that is calculated to give perpetuity.and virtue to the Government you discard. You seem to care for nothing but the negro. That seems to bo your solo de sire. You seem to bo inspired by no other wish than to elevate the negro to equality, ■ and give him liberty. I have offered vari ous amendments to this proposition, but they have all been rejected. I have offered them because I thought that while wo wore at this work wo might do something for th’o white man, for I believe this Government was made by white men and for white men ; and if it is ever preserved it must bo preserved by white men. I have never mase a speech in this body on the subject of the negro ; I have CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 5, alluded to him incidentally only ;.butl would i ask Senators who are so zealous for the n'egro to point mo to a place on the earth where he has boon so civilized, so humanized, so chris i tianized, so well cared for as ho is in a state i of slavery in the United States of- America. . He lias existed, I suppose, as long as the otli i er peoples of the earth; but if-you were to • day to strike from existence everything that ■ the wouly-headed negro has given to art, to • science, to the mechanic arts, to literature, or to any of Hie industrial pursuits, the world would, notiniss it. lie is an inferior man in his Capacity, and no fanaticism cau raise him.to the level of the Caucasian race. The white man is his superior, and will bo so whether you call him a slave or an equal. It has over been so, and I can see no reason why the history of all the past should bo re versed. .But'the negro absorbs your every thought. For him you will destroy the country; for him you will allow the liberties of the white man to bo stricken down, and every sacred guarantee of liberty in the Constitution put under foot without a whimper or a censure. That is a lamentable fact has exhibit ed itself during this war. Not contented with proposing legislation to equalize and to elevate the negro, and with failing to oensuro oven in the mildest and most diluted form those who overthrow the liberties of the white man, you step out of the way to assault in every conceivable manner the slaveholding States, The border slave States are kicked and cuffed here with as.lit tlo ceremony as if they were disloyal crimi nals or outcasts. Tim Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. Clark] undertook the other day to run a parallel between the State I have the honor in part to represent here and one of the New England States, in which he doubted the patriotism of Kentuckians and elevated that of the Green Mountain- State of Vermont. Sir, I will not so far degrade Kentucky as to contrast her in miltary achievements with any of the New England Scales. Wo have had wars before this. Wo had a war with a mighty Power across the .water in 1812, when Kentucky was a young and comparatively a feeble State but did she over refuse when the country called to give the blood of her sons to carry that flair in the midst of the enemy ? No, sir. In that war of 1812 she furnished-more men than were demanded, no draft was over executed in that proud old Commonwealth; she nev er went abroad with money-bags to hire men to fill her quota. After the battle of the River Raisin, when the heroic Governor of Kentucky, her first Governor Governor Shelby, the hero of King’s Mountain, called for volunteers, more flocked to his standard than ho could take, and the young nmu wont back homo weeping because they could not be allowed to go in the army against Proctor, Tecumsch, and their cruel hosts. Slio protected all the Northwest from the tomakawk and the scalp ing-knife of tho ferocious savage, and’the equally ferocious Briton, when our soil Was invaded. ■ wd have had a war with Mex ico. What was tho condition of Kentucky then? Sho sent more men to Rio Mexican war than all New England put logeUmr: more of tho gallant sons of ih.it proud old Commonwealth of Kentml.v went, to that ' war than of all New England ; and yet the Senator twits Kentucky about h<• r patriotism . and her devotion to tho country! Allow me to Loll tho Senator that in war, with Mox- ■ ico no draft was ever.executed in Kentucky, '< and the rolls in tho adjutant general’s ollico 1 at her capital now show that over fifty regi- • ments volunteered more than were wanted ' and they were not allowed to go; and but for ( that nows getting out among the people. 1 twice fifty regiments would have been ready 1 to strike for their country in a foreign war. < The Senator has glorified the patriotism of Now England during tho present contest. I 1 admit that New England has been rampant 1 in tho Senate Chamber for this war; but I I deny, and I deny most emphatically and ] most truthfully, that sho lias exhibited that spirit at home. No draft has hecn executed in Kentucky to day; she lias heretofore fur nished her quota ; she hag filled it under eve ry call, and I believe that will be made mani fest in a few days, Wo have the misfortune to bo divided in the strife,; wo have perhaps thirty thousand of our young men in the reb el army; but notwithstanding that wo have promptly filled our quota so far, and wo have to-day one half of tho fighting population of our State under the Union flag; and if is a matter of gratulatkm to every son of Ken tucky, though ho may regret that her peo ple have gone South, that no regiment from that proud old State on any field, whether in the rebel or tho Union service, has ever shown tho “ white feather.” They fight like true sons of a proud mother, and that they will . ever do, for Kentucky is not the land that breeds recreants and cowards. How is it with New England in this war ? They some times call it a New England war. It is the 1 first war since th i war of the Revolution that * has had the ci»r