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VOL. 51.
AM'EMCAF VOLUNTEER.
‘KWisncD *v*rt tiiursrat uorniso bt
JOHN B. BRAXTON.
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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.
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