. • • ;fp . • r , \N‘ _• 1 41 ! . 4 74 , , „ . :111`<i 4mFRn --1./.•:"7:kr<Z4r- , '• Wig ?, A 'N •VV.I( !.& a • • • 7 , j , ^4 VC • r: e s 4 •P; ~%> I 4 < Nt, 4 / f 2A4 ' • ^ • = • , s'AiT r.t :t . 4 4 it • g • 'ft; VOL. 51. AM'EMCAF VOLUNTEER. ‘KWisncD *v*rt tiiursrat uorniso bt JOHN B. BRAXTON. TERMS gWiciUPTioK. —Two Dollars if paid within tho jur; and Two Dollars nnd Fifty Cents, if not paid iltliin the year. Theso terms will bo rigidly ad hered to in every instance. No subscription dia wntinuod until all arrearages are paid unless at the option of tho Editor. Advertisements —Accompanied by thocAsn, and iol exceeding ono square,, will bo inserted throe limes for $1.50, and twenty-fivo cents for each idditional insertion. Those of a greater length in proportion. JoD-l’RiNTf^G —Such as Hand-bills, Posting-bills Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, (tc.‘«fcc., executed with siuracy’and at tho shortest notice. portiraL WHAT I LIVE FOR. I live for Iboeo who lovo mo. For those, I know uro truo, For tho heaven that smiles above me, And wails my spirit, too! For tho human tics that bind me, For tho task my God assigned mo, For tho bright hopes left behind mo, And tho good that I can do. 1 livo to loam tho story Who bavo suffered for my sako, To emulate their glory, And follow in thoir wako, Bards, Martyrs, Patriots, Sages, The noblo of all ages, Whoso deeds, crown history’s pages, And Time's groat volume raako. I live to hail the season, By gifted ujinds foretold, When Man shall rule by reason, And not alono by gold,. When man to man united, And every wrong thing righted, Tho whole world shall bo lighted, AS>Edon was of old. I livo to hold communion With all that is divino, • To feel there is a union, 'Twixt nature’s heart and mine; To profit by affliction, Heap truths from fields of fiction, Grow wiser from conviction, ■And fulfill each grand design. T live for those who lovo mo, For those who know mo true, Fur tho heaven that smiles above mo. And awaits my spirit too. For the wrong that needs resistance, For tho cause that hicks assistance, For thu future in tho distance, And the good that I can do. 3Himlkni-em LITTLE WAIF. The lighthouse stood on a strip of land tta'.ran out into the sea, Di you know what '&lighthouse is ior? Did you ever so o one? N'|. it may ho not. It is a tall stcno -tower liuilt near the sou. In tho tun of it a light hbjjt, which njsiy be aeon afar off. In the fork night, when tho storm is out o‘u tho sea, 3H'l there is no light to show tho land, the Steal ships that sail on thenoa might be civu fj u bhoro and broken to pieces. Dub when % see this light they know where they are, M’l so they try to keep oil tho shore. Many ships have been saved by the lights that were kept iArthis lighthouse built on the hug strip that ran out into the sea. Sand bars lay all along the shore on both sides.— h was a bad place for ships to curuo near, ud if no light luUl bdeh there many a ship *««ld have gone to pieces on tho sand banks. An old man and his wile lived in tho light house, and kept tho light with great cafe. — Jj.diiy they would put in ft new wick and 311 it with oil, and all the Jong night when ho cluck struck the lumra they Would take hum and go up the iron steps to trim tho hnip and keep itsdight from going out— uuro they lived for a long time. i'sVo or three little‘huts on tho shorer near by wore the houses that were anywheio in sight, y ,'vas a lone place, but tho old folks loved their work, and so they lived hero quite eon* iliero was no child in the libaefi. tong, l)n n ugo, they had laid away in tho cold oground tlio dead body of their only child a Mac hoy, and since that they had lived alone. j'°' llljt ever since that. Abbut six years More iny story begins there was a great Mnu is that part of tho sea, and a fine ship * o,lt to pieces. Many, dead bodies canio p'lre, but of all that sailed in that nobio El,l pnuly one was left alive and that one was *wdd not more than two or three years old. “he was (bund in the arms of a dead wo* ? n > who was tiT-d to a plank and washed s wo. It was thought this woman must hech her mother, but there was no name i lcr ulotlios, and they only kept a tress of ij '"n hair, and tor dead body was laid in under the willows.*- 1,., j l !was very like tho mother. She aL/ 1,10 °yes and fair hair, hut there was no ilim° • er save on her white dress b t/ °,J lue was wrought in tho shape of tho iiorr ** ut tho child could not tell thorn tjf an( J that was all they could loam p P ! j ,4t her life—that letter W". l 0Ca n | ° n S time they could not think what lcr * The child seemed to forget its il ffa ai) d that was strange, too, but so Mi • would have it begin with W. Tii ev I ' UQ n amo did, but what should it bo ? Ujw 1 a thijak of nothing to suit them, till &nv 10 ? laa sa it should bo Waif, sff Der a '^ iaa thing for which there is no And in } !ln S that has boon - cast away.— BUC^I a thing was this little chid, to claim u on *° to them, and there was no one ter* an d the old man said that it was tfte r t . lat booalled Waif. And quaint n 8 10 wds known by th is sweet and ttifiir fri am ® the old man, his wife rind all kind cur 8 * ?ke .grew up under ttieip freab°* an ? old hearts grew voung Mtli ho* W ,n for haying hoc to ohoor them V 8 h 6 ,ul la ugh. coiif^i' V7 . B^. e fuund many ways in which Jask old folks, and when her j B wav Clones BCaa horo, and pick up pret full ftp*! 0 S^e^B until her little apron B gain BhftL tho i 1 bri .S ll t i things. And then B *fc tho wives of the 1 etn tnand food by fishing,* and their nets andlisten to the stories of tho wild, wild aea, tho great storms that had come over it. But the lamp in the tower was a great won der to her, and when she knew tho purpose for which it was kept she looked at it witli u j™- . 'J-’ho first time they lot her clean and fill it, it seemed to her she could never do it well enough ; but she soon saw that she did it even better than the old folks, and then it became a great pleasure to her. Still they would not let her take her turn to watch it ■fcy She often asked them to let her do it p but they said she was quite too young for that'. She often wished fhr thetittio when she would be large enough, and at last she did watch it one night all by herself, just one night and no more. The old man and his wife wore called away to visit a sick friend. When they went they said they would try to come back that night, but lost they should not, they would get a good man whom Waif loved, and whom she called Uncle Jay, to come and stay with her all night. A woman and a little girl •from ono of tho houses near by came to stay with her through tho day, and at night Un cle Jay would come. After one o’clock, a storm began to blow up. They could see tho black clouds away across the sea, and thoy knewThift there would be a great storm that night. 'When it came near live, it look ed all tho while as if it would rain soon, and Waif saw that thofroman wanted to go homo to see to her house, and ,so she said she need not wait that Uncle Jay would soon bo there, and sho'had better go bofuro the rain, and then she would not get wet. Waif was a bravo little girl, and so tho woman and little girl went away. Waif went-upto trim and light the lamp on tho tower, and then she came down and Spread tho table for tea, and put more wood on tho tiro and looked at the clock ; it was half past five. Then she took* a Jong look down the road for Undo Jay, but ho was no where to lie seen, and U was growing quite dark. She took up : a book to read, and then die Indeed at the'cluck again l ; it was six o’clock. Tho next hour she looked at tho clock a groat many times, and when tho hour hand had pointed to seven she began to fear 'that Undo Jay would not come. She went out tho door and called to ono of tho huts but the noise of tho.wind, and tho rain, an 1 tho lioreo waves drowned her yoice, lind'she went back into the tower. Eight o’clock camo and then she tried to make her little heart very brave. She put tho bars up to the door, and went np into tho lonely tower to watch tho light ail night. And it was a long night. The wind rohr ed, and the waves boat so madly against tho tower till it seemed as if they would wash it down. Waif coulk not help thinking of tho «torios she had heard of lighthouses that had been beaten down by the fierce waves, and she began to fear that such a fate might come upon her, for the; towerdiook with the fury of the storm. Her little hands shook as she put fresh nil into tho lamps, and wiped the damp from tho glass ; bitt while she stood thus by tlie aide of the great lenrthero came aa it were a to her oar that said : “ fn thy nood call to the Lord, Pray to him in faith and trust.” It seamed as if,she had hoard these words often before, but when she could nu’c tell. She did as they told her, and she knelt down and asked God to keep close by her. Just then there came a great wave ever the tower. It broke tho glass on one side, and tho water came in, and if the poor child had not prayed she would have gone olf in a swoon with fright. As it was she stood linn, for she was not alone. Soon she heard the boom of a gun. She knew now that some ship was nigh, and oh ho.v she hoped that her light might keep them off the shore. She trimmed it anew, and there she stood by tt ‘amid tho rain and spray that came in through the broken glass all night long. She .tried to look out once, but she could see nothing but tho white caps dancing madly about as if trying to reach her, and she wjent back -to her post and waited till morning. At last fho gray dawn came, and Waif strained her weary eyes till she saw a largo ship safe at anchor a little way off, and then she leaned her tired little bead upon a bench and dropped asleep. Half an horn* later a boat came through the waves. Tho captain wanted to toll the people in the light-house that they saved his ship. Tho door was fust, and he got in at the window; but as he found no ono-below ho wont up into tho tower, and there, lying on tho wet floor anvd tho broken glass, ho found tho little girl asleep. Ho took her up gently, bore her down stairs to her little bed, and then called tho men that came with him to look at tho child that had saved them.— Tears stood in tho eyes of all; but when she softly said in her sleep, “ In thy need call to the Lord," one of the men caught her to his heart and wept aloud. That verse, ho said was what his long lost wife used to. sing to her little child in her cradle.’ Poor Waif wr.s too tired to wake jit once, and she slept on while they stood fcosido her, till thq oi l folks came homo and wept.dyer her and told herdtofy to thfcmqb. She slept even after this strange man had claimed her for bis child Whom he had long thought dead. Tho long hair was brought out and shown him. It was just like that of Ins lost wife, and tho little white dress with tho vino wrought W was Winnie’s. Oil, ho\v glad Was little Waif, now tVaif no longer, to find when she awoke that she had saved the life of her own father. How close she clung to him with her arms around his nock; and how glad ho wits*to take her away to his nice homo beyond the sea. And tho old folks who had cared fur her wont and lived -with him till they died, and Winnie was their sunshine and tho joy of her fath er’s heart. Great Beain ik Small Bodies. —lt is cu rious to remark how unwilling people gener ally are to believe that a person by much too short, lor a grenadier may yet ‘be a groat nlan; It is at least equally curious to note tho delight which naluro seems to take hi it erating and reiterating the fact that a very largo -proportion of the intellect of the ago just passed away was lodged with men who fell short of middle size. Napoleon was scarcely five foot sis inches in height, and so very slim in early life as to bo well nigh lost in his boots and his Uniform. Byron was no taller. Lord Jeffry was not so tall. Camp bell and Moore wore still etibrthr than Jeffry, and Wilborfaroo was a loss man, than any of them. The same remarks Ims boon made of the great minds of England who flotfrishod about the middle of the seventeenth century. John Milton, the author of Paradise lost, was a prominent illustration of this truth. Ho was probably only flyo feet five, and rather Blonder. , - jflgy- “ Why ia a peach like a girl of oigh :een?" “ Because the more you squeeze ifc die bettor it gets." . “OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY." Itolffitni. THE SLAVE MARKET OUTDONE. A While Han Selling; Ills own Sons. Sumner and hia followers may prate as loudly as thoy please about “tho barbarism 1 of slavery,” and Mrs. Stowe may rack imag ination to create a monster like tho brutal Legro, but, wo had 'an exhibition in this town during the ‘examination of those re cently conscripted, which for inhuman ftLd’ brutal barbarism; we defy any slave mart in the world to match, A father, who had al ready sold ono minor son as a substitute to tho human shambles, where he fell a victim, appeared in our town on last Monday, drag ging at his heels two half-grown, ill-shaped boys. They were all tho sons ho had, and he had contracted to sell them both as sub stitutes. They had been bargained for by “ loyal” men. Tho smaller one, almost a mire, child, was prospectively the proporty’of a loud-mouthed and pestilent Abolitionist— a huge beast of a man, who stood six feet two in his stockings and weighed over 200 pounds, This intensely “loyal” and “patriotic” fellow, when his own son, a sturdy, well grown yonng'man, enlisted, followed him to Chambcrsburg, and brought him back home on tho plea that ho was a minor, and had en listed without bis father’s consent. Yet ho is always full of war, and eager for lighting so long as it is at tho expense of tho blood of some one else than himself or hia own fami ly. ’Being drafted, however, and wishing to lesson tho probability of such a misfortune befalling him again speedily, and impelled at tho same time to save a little money, ha had bargained with a brutal father to pay a less sum than ihree hundred dollars for the body, the bones, tho blood, nay, more, tho life of a child. Wo defy tho whole Smtli to furnish an instance of such a disgusting “ dicker” in liftman flesh, or, from among all the professional slave traders who have dis graced its soil, such a pair of monsters as these. There was no veil of pretended hy alty or stimulated patriotism to conceal tno naked hideousuoss of ■ this transaction. Tho father was actuated solely by a sordid desire for gain ; tho purchaser wa3 moved by tho sneaking white-livered cowardice that for bade his risking his own-worthless carcass in a war for the prosecution of which he howls daily, and by tho mean selfishness of his na ture Which prompted him to make a cheap bid When bartering for a human victim. A plot had been made np by the parties to this disgusting transaction by which they hoped to deceive the board. The boys wero made to lie us to their ages,‘find represented’ them selves as older than they really wore.—So immature and youthful, however, was the appearance of the little wretches, that tho Board refused to believe the statements made to them, even though the father bimsell tied as to their ages in order that he might kupon o,tled to client a sale of his off-spring. They were both-rejected fur this reason, as entire ly too young for the service. The overgrown human brute, who had expected to save him-' self in this way, sorrowfully and reluctantly paid over bis money fo save his cowardly carcass for a time, and tho wretched lather, after reeling about our streets fur a day or so in drunkenness, went home much di.sippoiut od, no doubt, in being balked in the sale of his sons. There is no coloring about this story, no ficticious glossing. _ It is true, just as wo toll it, and know to bo so to the very letter by many who will read this statement. Wo need make no comment. Human lan guage would fail to characterize the transac- tion as it deserves to be. The concentrated curses of all the devils in hell would scarcely bo sufficient to vent the fierce indignation which ought to move any man on witnessing such a scene. We have seen negroes sold on tho block in the South to the highest bidder, but that only involved a change of service.— Hero was a white man, with one son whom ho had sold dead already, endeavoring to sell two mure buys to what was almost certain death. . Ho found loyal abolitionists ready and eager to become the purchasers of cheap substitutes. Lot us hear no more about the butbariam of slavery, when tho barbarism of this war can exhibit such a revoking specta cle in the light of heaven on tho free soil of Pcu nsylvania. —Fulion Dcm . GENERAL JIcCLELLAS’S FORESIGHT-. Tho last rebel invasion of Maryland fur nishes another instance of tho perils which have come upon the country by the refloat on the part of the administration of tho warn ings given by General McClellan in tho very first year of the war. Had the plans of that officer been faithfully carried out, not one of the four invasions of Maryland would have occurred. After ho arrived on the peninsula with his army, and while he supposed Gen eral Banks was still tinder his command, it will ho remembered that h’e issricif an order to that officer for his guidance in pro acting Maryland and Washington from any attempt of tho rebels by way dl tho Shenandoah val ley. Ho had previously sent Colonel A lex auder pith directions-to see if fortifications coltld riot be thrown Up in such of tho gaps of tho Blue mountains its would help detain a rebel army marching into Maryland from that direction;- General Banks was directed to post his troops at certain points. Ho waS also ordered to keep his cavalry constantly in motion down tho valley of tho Shenando ah, so as to be warned of any approach of tho rebels. This order was dated March 18, 1802; before, in fact, the actual opening of the second campaign of tho war. When tho administration relieved General McClellan of control over General Bank’s army, they en tirely overlooked the wise precautions which he toot in guarding tho back-door to Wash ington. In fact, this Shenandoah valley is the true gate for au invasion of the-North, as the rebels subsequently discovered, and us General McClellan's wise prescience hud foreseen. When Mr, Lincoln himself took the control of the armies out of the hands of General McClelian, in addition to ordering the latter officer to approach Richmond from the North, ho also detached troops from the Army of the which were sorOlj* heeded— rthopo under General McDowell—to protect, as ho said, Washington. But where did ho place these troops? In the Bhon£.n -doah valley? No; they were located at Fredericksburg, at which point they wore of about as much use as they would have been in Portland, Maine. The forty thousand men under General McDowell wero utterly thrown away,as wasdiscovered when “ Stone wall" Jackson made his first famous raid np the valley, driving back Banks to tlip Poto mac river. The troop’s of General McDowell were utterly useless, .“.General" - Lincoln had ingeniously managed to deplete our ar ray by just forty thousand men. They were doPied to General McClellan, and put in a position where they were, of not the slightest use in defending Washington. CARLISLE,-PA, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1861. Tho curious reader who will peruse Gener al McClellan’s official report will know bow clearly ho foresaw, beloro the campaign opened, that the Shenandoah valley was the truo linouf approach upon Washington, Ho will also remark how far-seeing were the preparations he made to prevent the rebels over getting beyond Chester or Aldie gaps. If the reader will follow still further tho course of the campaign in Virginia, be will find that what General McClellan foresaw be fore tho ■ campaign opened, the administra tion has not been able to sen to this day. They have not only failed to heed the positive warnings of General McClellan, but thoy have also failed to profit bv the bitter expe riences of the three years of war. Time and -again have armies surged up the SbenrtndjrtfiJaffiey, carrying desolation to the homes oPtlie people ul Maryland and Pennsylvania, rtfid striking terror through out tho whole North because of tho menace ; to the capitol ; yet to this day even tho slightest precautions have not been taken to gu-.rd against tliis disaster. Every time tho rebels bavo advanced upon tho valley they have not only not been impeded, but, through tho most profound stupidity, the admini-stra tfion has (*0)1601011 stores of all kinds at Mnr tinsburg for thoir special accommodation.- Wo believe it can be proved that in thoir va rious raids op tho valley the rebels have been able to procure stores to tho amount of ten .millions of duUars at tlvftt one point. The northern gate of tho valley Ims never had a sufficient force to guard it,.,or a competent general to retard the progress of tho rebel armies. There is probably nut in all milita ry history so marked an instance of presci ence as that <which General McClellan dis played before the campaign opened, or so conspicuous an example of downright stupid ity us has been shown by the administration in not guarding the Shenandoah valley so as to prevent an invasion of the Northern States. Tins quality of foresight as to the conduct of tho war marked all of General MoGlcllan’s military acts. If tho reader will peruse his instructions to B.utlyr, ho will find that the latter was directed, immediately upon tho capture of Now Orleans, to put his army in motion, and take possession of Jackson, the capitol of Mississippi, and fortify it. If But ler hud obeyed General McClellan's orders, and hud then taken Jackson and fortified ir, the country can understand whafe fearful los ses would have been saved in the subsequent campaigns against Port Hudson and Vicks burg. . fn the very first year of the war, the trans-Mississippi region would have been ert oft’from the confederacy, and all tho cattle and stores of Texas would have been lost to the rebel armies. But Butler preferred to stay in New Orleans, and quarrel with wom en and foreign consuls ; and to him is to he credited tho- dreadful waste of blood and treasure frhich tho capture of Vicksburg and Pol*t Hudson subsequently entailed. In the orders tu General Buell it will also bo noticed that General McClellan pointel out to him the importance of seizing as sum as he could Eastern Tennessee,-and that the capture of Knoxville and Nashville fra a of the first mo ment. The orders to General Sherman foneh'ng whatdio was expected to do at Port iloyal roads like a prophesy. AVhat General McClellan said should bo done was done, simply because ho foresaw that it was the only thing that could be done, We mil attention to these facts because wo realize how keenly the country Ims suf fered since that soldier-statesman has been withdrawn from the military .service of the country. Every rebel victory in Maryland and the waste of treasure and life it coats to drive the enemy from that state, is an indict ment tilled with the most damning specifica tions against the present military adminis tration at Washington. MR. FESSENDEN’S VISIT-TIIE FINANCES Secretary Fessenden, who has been in the city since Sunday morning, hud a long inter view yesterday with a number of our leading bankers ami capitalists. This interview seemed, on his side, a more reconnaissance; as he listened to the views of others wit hour very clearly disclosing his own. There is to* bo another interview to-day, when the secre tary is expected to make a proposal which will show his hand. It is natural that his visit should excite a good deal of interest aud solicitude. Tlic condition of the treasury'justly occa sions more solicitude among thinking men than even the operations of the army. If men will not volunteer the government can draft tie.ib but it has u> stub ro-muree for recruiting the exchequer when capitalists re fuse to lend. It can indeed, issue more treasury notes, which are .a forced loan, as people tiro compelled to receive thorn in pay ment o( their duos ; but this is like a vigor ous application of the whip to a horse that needs Oats. Of sucß money, the more issued the loss its purchasing power ; a consequence which the government can no more arrest than it can the law ofgravilation. The whip will bring on the little remnant of your star ving horse’s strength, hut. it hastens the in evitable hour when ho will tumble bown on the pavement spe: t with fatigue. The horse Finance which draws the overhauled chariot. War, needs oat*, oats, good Mr. Fessenden; you cannot drive him uu oh further by the more stimulus of the whip. More n ipor money will cary prices still higher, and all pur chases lor rho ai my will have to he made at a corresnumling advance. One of our paper dollars is now worth only about thirty live cents, and if the currency is further expan ded, it will soon come to bo wCrrb only twen ty-live or twenty cents, and alter that it will sink with a constantly accelerated velocity. Wo should be sorry to see Mr- Fessenden begin Ida administration with, u make-shift; but the suddenqsa with which his office was devolved on him, and the disorder bequeath ed him by bis predecessor, may create that neceu-Uy. To manage the nuances of a great nation, conducting a gigantic war requires foresight; ns a long interval separates seed time from harvast. It is Mr, Fessenden's misfortune, to bo called to put in his sickle whore his predecessor sowed more coble than wheat.; nil thojeountry can reasonably requro of him is that ho shall develop aome oteady and comprehensive plan for the future ;• but fur-dlio moment ho must get on ns ho best can with the squeezed orange .left him by Mr. Chase. If ho dips it in water he can press out what has'some flavor ot juice, but the more ho dilutes it tho worse for his future success. Tho country will pardon the pres ent to overmastering circumstances, but it reasonably expects a well digested plan for the future. The bad feature in our financial prospect is not tho exhaustion of our resources, but tho disordered condition of our currency. If wo were reduced to this alarming -state in spite of good management, tho case would bo well nigh hopeless. But tho chief difficulty, as yet lies in tho enormous inflation of tho cur rency, which ruakos all inoonies inadequate and none more so than that of tho govern-, ment,. To seek relief in further expansion is like attempting to quench a burning thirst with sca-watcr; every fresh draught will intensify tho torment. It seems to many a parado.t that with a redundant Currency we are suffering from the apparently contrary evil of a stringent money market. But it is no more a paradox than is the fact that dis tondingone'sstomach with sea-water inflames thirst. When a paper dollar is worth only thirty-three cents, it requires three times ns much money to transact tho same amount of business. Tho expansion, of tho currency rqjses prices ; arising market induces 1 laVgc speculative purclnses ; and money may ho ; as scarce with arebiindant as with a sound currency. With high nominal wages and no scarcity of provisions, tho laboring classes never found it so hard to make both ends meet as they do now. The resonrefts of tho country are sufficient for tho prosecution of tho war for a long pe riod yet, if we could cnly so reform our mon etary System as to supply tho country with a sound and stable' standard of value. Wo can after a while, return to the specie basis; but it will, of course, be much more difficult than ‘ never to have departed from it. Far better hr.'l it boon, from the beginning, to have sold tho bonds of tho government (or what they would fetch than to have debased the curren cy to its present condition. The government is selling its bonds fur thirty-five cents on a dollar, which is as hard a money bargain as it could have been compelled to make at this* stage of tho war, if it hud honestly kept to the specie standard. The government could have been no worse ofF and the people would have been saved from the curse of a depreci ated currency. A mechanic who, three years ago, deposited money in a savings bank lias scon two-thirds of it silently melt away' by depreciation ; and if bo withdraws it to pur chase goods for his family at tho present ex orbitant prices, ho finds how vain it is to practice prudence nnd foresight when the government compels him to receive depreci ated legal tenders in return fur deposits made in gold or its equivalent. Mr. Fessenden will undoubtedly have to print more legal tenders (of sums of the va rious sorts) to tide him over his present diffi culties; but die character of his administra tion will ultimately bo judged by his success in reducing the volume of our bloated curscu cy.—-V. Y. World. GENERALS GRANT AN-fl JH'CLELLAY'S VIRGIN. " ' CA3IIM-IMS CIOUMKEI). ■ TJio invasion of Maryland by the rebels and tho withdrawal of a portion of General Grant's army to contest the occupation of that State with the enemy's,forces, settle-the question that ’ General (Jrant’s movement ugaihst lliclnnond has failed, so far as this campaign is concerned. As a matter of course, tiiis state of affairs provoked commoiU ami criticism, and all over the country men are comparing; the conduct and fate of the two groat campaigns against llichmoml— that led by General McClellan, and the one commanded by General Grant. In the first place, it is known that General -McClellan commanded a raw, green army.— There was not a soldier in hid ranks that had been nine months in tho service, and a ma jority ul them were enlisted only four or live months previous to the opening of tho cam paign. Not only was that the condition of his soldiers, but all of lisa ofllccrs were raw, from the Generals down. General Grunt's army, on tho other hand, is a veteran army ; all of the men have been trained to lighting, by years of steady, bloody work, and no bit ter officers can bo found in tho world, for they have been trained in actual battle. The con ditions, therefore, so far as tho armies were concerned, wore entirely in favor of General Grant. • Then as to numbers. It is undoubtedly true that General Grant, from the time he crossed the Rapidan to his arrival at the Ap pomattox, has constantly been in command of an army much larger than uny General McClellan controlled alter the capture of Yorktown. It is safe to say that Geu. Grant had one-third to ono-half more troops than hud General McClellan at any time during the Peninsular campaign. In this respset. therefore’, (he advantage was altogether with General Grant. In the next place. General McClellan was harassed in his movements. Ho waSirdered by the President of the United States to do certain things against his own judgment, and ho was compelled to obey. lie was com manded to keep his army between Washing ton and .Richmond, which placed him at a sore disadvantage in fighting the enemy.— He was denounced for the diseases generated by the swamps of the Chickahominy ; yet it was Mr. Lincoln who was to blame tor that location of the army. On the other hand, General Grant has been allowed full liberty to move liis troops when ho pleased, where he pleased, and how lie pleased. He, there fore, hud no drawbacks from the Administra tion. Then again, it is notorious that General McClellan was denied reinforcements, which were within roach, while a tremendous cla mor was raised against him because ho did nut rush against the works of Richmond with his comparatively sm.il.l army, and fear was attributed to him ; whereas it is now obvious that lie understood the military problem to be solved belter than any of his military su periors and'oritics. But General Grant, in stead of having soldiers withdrawn from him when about commencing an engagement, had troops scut to tiiiii in profusion. He has re peatedly said that lie had all the soldiers ho wanted. With those advantages on the side of General Grant, the country will nob fail to notice that ho has not won a Ding b battle from the Rapidan down to the Appomattox. % Thero have been various fights, but every at tempt he has made to carry the rebel lino of intrcnclunents by main force has ed. Our men have fought gallantly, and no real disaster has happened to any considera ble portion of our army but, at the same time, our military annals have iiufc been en riched- by a solitary victory through the wl ole of this bloody aud terrible campaign. On the other hand it must not bo forgotten that sev eral very important victories were gained by General McClellan, in spite of the odds against which he contended, aud the restraints which were put upon him by the Adminis tration. Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oal fl. Seven Pines, Hanover Court House, and all of the seven days’ battles, save one, that of Gaines’s Mills, were clearly and umnistdkoa bly Union victories.- That is to say, the re bels attacking our army were every time de feated and driven back, and at Malvern Hill with groat 'and bloody lueses. -In spite of the du-udvantages under which ho .labored, General McClellan managed to get much nearer Richmond than has. General Grant. Thera is much more thafc could be said to the same effect; but wo do not wish to be understood as disparaging the hero of Vicks burg and Chattanooga. Wo think it, bow- ever, duo to General McClellan that in' this great contest his superior abilities should not bo overlooked. So lung as Goficral Grant was winning victories in tho West many peo ple supposed he could win them in tho East; but Leo is not Pemberton or Bragg, and tho rebel army ot Virginia is composed of sterner stuff than those armies he overcame so easily in tho West. We do not desire to underrate Gen. Grant. Ho lias proved himself to bo a tenacious and skillful officer, though, to bo frank, altogether too lavish of human life. If ho had been as careful of his men as Ge.icral McClellan was of tho army under his command, tho country would not to-day bo called upon for militia to defend Washington and Baltimore and the borders of Pennsylvania. There is no dis guising it, there has been an unnecessary and fearful waste of human life daring tho recent campaign, which lias produced no result com mensurate with our terrible losses.— World, JERUSALE.II.—From I. G. Bliss. Mount of Olives, ■ ] Mutch 15, 18G4. | My Dear Sir : —My heart prompts a few lines to you from this snored spot, to, which I have come, at this qarly morning hour, to take a last view of Jerusalem and the moun tains about here. * I came up by the path which King David must have taken when ho fled from Absalom, weeping as he went up barefoot by the ascents of Olivet. My rest ing p ace is one of the oldest of the olive trees upon the top of the mount. The sun has just come up over the mountains of Moah, and is spreading its warm, pure light over iho city. The tower of Xlippicus and Mount Zion are already bathed in glory; and now the Mosque of Omar is catching, one bv one, the beams “ that make glad the city of our God.” The scene is beautiful beyond de scription, and yet it is mournful; for as I gnze.my imagination brings the past into! contrast with the present, and the words of j the prophet, so singularly pathetic and true 1 are in my mind—“ How bath the Lord cov ered the daughter of Z'k n with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth tho beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his aiver I" I rise from my rest, walk a Jew paces oist, and the mountains ul Mmib, the Dead fcica, tbo hanks of the Jordan, and the desolations that intervene, arc in view. Just below un der a.bill, bid from view, is Dethanv. At a littlo .distance .only from whore I now am, must have been the sp>fc whore Christ held his last interview with his disciples; where ho gave hia parting counsels, and committed to them tho work Ire bad commenced, and, blessing them, was parted from them and wont up heavenward to his homo and friends above. I return to my resting place under tho old olive tree. There is no spot on earth where so many holy memories throne the mind as here. The in'orest is deepened hy the feeling that the sacredncss of Olivet In's not been destroyed by the vandal band of su perstition. There is Ueep satisfaction in Pie thought, that all around me are the unalter ed, abiding memorials of Christ’s suffering, conquest and glory. While to most minds'll certain interest attaches to the so-called “ho ly places,” from the fact that for centuries they have been regarded by millions as tbo identical spots where the incidents alleged of them occui red, yet tho heart sickens "at the disgusting inventisns with which fana :c!sm has'clothed so many of them. Superstirimj runs riot at tho “ holy sepulchre/' and thin more and more from year to year, (uni the ceremonies enacted there are most offensive and disgusting. But while bigotry, lashed into frenzy by doubt and controversy, bears sway over those places, here, on Olivet , all is calm—all is true. Wc know that to Olivet our Saviour often repaired for prayer. On this mount fie wept over Jerusalem. In the vale below is Gcthsemanc—not whore the Latins and Greeks have their ornamented in closures, but further up the valley, amid the quiet of a garden, distant from tho busy, thronged thoroughfare. Within sight of this place our Lord was crucified ; ami after his resurrection Ho met Ins on this mount, anil bade them, and through them us also, to enter upon tho great, work of tho world's evangelization, adding; “ Lo, I am with you nlway,” From this mount, as He ascended, Ho was welcomed hy the ten thou sand angels that waited behind tho cloud ft) bear Him, Hie mighty Conqueror over death and bell, above to the upper tom pic, and place Him in the midst of tho throne, where, as tbo “Lamb slain,” He shall reign forever and for evermore. It id good to to licro on Olivet, to linger in sweet, refreshing fellowship with the dear Saviour. Yet, blessed u» are such interviews, recognising the presence and wished of the Divine Lord, I may not lunger tarry. \ must away to the work He ha* given into my hands, stronger, I trust, in faith ami hope for the precious boon given of God on this sacred fjjoC, iu tins early morning hour. •Lying Wirn tee IJkad too IJicir. — lt is often a uestion amongst people who are unacquainted with the anatomy and physiol ogy of man whether lying wbh (he head .ex alted or even with the hmiy i.s most whole some. Most, consulting their own on this point, argue in favor of that which they prefer. Now, although many delight in bolstering up their heaps at night and deep soundly without injiry yet we declare it to bo a dangerous habit. Tho -vessels through which bio ul passes from tho heart to tho head, aio ahvrys lessoned in tho cav ities when tho head is resting in bed higher than tho body, therefore, in all diseases at tended with fever, tho. head should be pretty near on a level with tho body ; and people ought to accustom themselves to sloop thus to avoid danger. At a tablo where tho Emperor of Austria, then only heir to the throne, was a guest, a question arose as to which was Iho strongest part of tho human frame. One said the legs, because they carried tho whole body; another spoke of tho arms, because of the labor tli y were capable of performing, another said it was the head, because it directed tho whole. \y hon tho Pri noo was appealed to, bo said, for his part ho gave video in favor of tho nose. When a laugh at tho odd Hca of tho Prince had oea<ed, his highness was asked for an expla nation when he pithily.replied : “Why the Prince of Metorniuh has led my father by tho noso for tile lust twenty years, iud it is as good a noso as ever, not a bit tho'yvorse for the exercise. ” “My dear, come ini ’ and go to bed,” said the wife of a jolly son of Erin, who had ja*t returned from the fair, in a decidedly ** how came you so” state. “You must b 6 dieadful tired, shurc, with your long walk of six miles.” “ Arrah, got awny wid ycr nonainco,” said Pat, “ it wasn’t tho length of the way at all that fatigued uio» 'twas tho breadth of it.”, ‘ Tem Friends.#-" IM wish that I’d gooP friends to help mo on in life I" cried lazy Dennis with a yarn. “Good friends, why you'vo ten/'replied his master. - “ I’m sure. l’ve not (mlf so many, and thosi that I have are too poor to help me.” “ Count your lingers, my boy," said his master. Dennis looked down on bis big, strong hands. " Count thumbs’and all," added the mai- “ I have—there arc ton," said the lad. /‘Then never say that yon have md ton friends able to help you on in life. Try what those true friends can do, before 3-00 go grumbling and fretting because you do not get help from others. It Jakes a Yankee to get out of a scrape with flying colors, as the following conversation shows: ‘ Shan’t I see hou bum from kingin' school to night, Jerushy 4 No you shan’t do no such thing. I don’t want you nor your company, Reuben.' ‘Perhaps you didn’t hear what I said/ continued Reuben. 4 Yes I 'did—you asked if .you might seo me hum.' ‘ Why, no I didn’t. I only asked you how your inarm was.' 017* An emigrant train, consisting of elev en curs went over Beloit Bridge near Mon treal, Canada Bast, on Wednesday morning, with Jo-t German emigrants on board. Thir ty or forty were taken nut more or less badly in jured. The engineer went down with h’s en gine, but escaped with slight injuries. Tho depth of tho water where tho accident hap pened is about ten feet. Js©** A lad of ton years of age ran away from homo, and went to a tavern, where bo was found by a friend with a cigar in hia mouth. “What made you leave home?” inquired tho friend. . “Oh,” said he, “father and mother word so saucy that I couldn’t stand it : so 1 quit them I” ' 017* The following letter was received by ft gentleman of Poughkeepsie through tl>6 Sanitary Post Office; Dcro Sur—EuklosoJ pleze find Ten doll&is if you kan. Vgry respectably yurofl, . ’ Josh Billing. Tho ton dollars had not been found at tha last accounts. , 017“ ,4< May T leave a few tracts ?*' asked o pious missionary of an elderly lady who rei t-ponded to his knock. “ Leave some tracks T certainly you may,” said she, looking at him most benignly aver her specs ; 44 leave them with tho heels towards tho dour if you please ” gSor” A Northern English rector used to think it poll lo not to begin service before the arrival of the squire. A little while ago ho forgot his manners, and began, 44 when the wicked man” “ Stop, sir,” called out tho clerk, “ he ain't come yet.” iksT* Old Mrs. Lawson was galled as a Wit ness. She was sharp and wide awake. At last tho cross-examining lawyer, out of all patience’, -exclaimed. 4 Mrs. Lawson, yod have Iwass enough in your face to make A twelve quart pail.' 4 Yes,’ she replied ; 4 ami you've got sap enough in your heud.to fill it!' IQT* “ 11‘ko you,”, said a girl to her suitor, “ but I cannot leave homo, I am a widow’s only darling: no husband can equal my pa rent in kindness." 44 She may bo kind,”, replied tho wooer, “ but bo my wife—wo will all live together, and see if 1 don’t heat your mother.” 017“ A vain man’s motto is ‘ Win gold and wear it;’ a generous man's, 4 .Win gold and share it ;’ a miser’s, ‘ Win gold and save it;' a broker’s ‘ Win gold and lend it;’ a gamb ler’s ‘ Win gold and lose it;’ a wise niau’dj 4 Win gold and use it.’ 317* ‘ Surgeon,’ said a western soldier with a bullet in hia leg ami another in his arm. ‘ the rebels came very near hitting me,’— ‘ And, surgeon,’ said another, whose nose was slut off, 4 they came very near miss in <j me.' “ Has your son Timuthwfailed?” in. quirt-d Oubl 0 is of Stubbens, tFro other day "Oh, not at all ; lie has only assigned over his property, and fallen back to take a bolter position,” was-the reply. (£7" Sensitive lady from the country, look ing for a coach. —* l J ray, sir, arc you en gaged <" Cabman,-—‘ Och, ’bless y'or, ‘party soul, mi'am, 1 have been married this seven years, and have nine children.' \CT Girls sometimes piU their lips out. poutf ingly because they are angry, and sometimes because Lhcir lipa arc disposed to mectyoura halt wav. OT7* ‘ How arc you John ?’ ‘ W« II ns ‘Come and have a drink ; it ain’t often wo meet, John.’ ‘ That’s so, Charley, but when \vc do it is meet drink /’ - “ Sweethearts at a distance will please ae < o ( t this intimation,” was appended to a re cent marriage announcement in England, in stead of the conventional “ no cards.” Jv" “I don’t think you need trouble your self to visit me any longer, Doctor.” “ D'.it.j lay friend, I had better visityoti ns long as you are in danger.” “ Oh, sir, I tear then I never ba out of danger.” DTT'TJiat nn 6 have been a very tough rooster, that crowed, after being boiled two hours, and then being put in a pot with pota toes, kicked them all out. • (£7"ono of Gen. Kilpatrick's sergeants was asked if they released any of the Union prisoners in Richmond, ‘O/ ho replied, 1 but we re-infofccd thsiii.’ s2?*’-“ Bob, how is your sweetheart getting along.” “ Pretty well, I guess, she says I neodu’t call any more;” BCa* When is a lover like a tailor? When ho presses his suit. B3r* What mechanic may beoxpeoted to out live all others ? Tho boot and shoemaker for he is over-lasting. CSgy* Every railroad has a smoking car.— b might save tho feelings of l adios and gan leraeci if every one had also a swearing oar. NO. 0 ,
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