VOL. 51. AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY - HORKIKO BT JTOUN B. BRATTON. , TERMS: Dollars If paid within ths »«*Wi Two Bollara and Conts, if not paid S-ithm the year. These terms will be rigidly ad ierod to in every instance. No Subscription dis 'oontlnuod until all arrearages are paid unloaa at -option of the Editor. / ADVriP^ISISuENTa-i-Acooliipaniea , bythecABH,and Ijpt-exceeding one square, will bo inserted three Sues for $2.00, and twenty-five cents for oadh additional insertion. Tho«,pf a greater length In proportion. * JoD-PniNTiNa—Such as Hand-bills, Posting-bills iomphlots, Blanks, Labels, Ac, *c s t -executed with Aoouraoy-and &t tbo shortest fcottco. im&AUwIfTOEATBN. The Wuy tokeaven by Christ was made, tPy Heavenly strength the flails were laid Earth to Heaven the line extends To joys eternal, there it ends. - The Bible is the Engineer That, shows the way,to Heaven clear, The ./ire and titans, God's Holy Word, Which to,His people joys afford. Tlopontanoo is'the station, then, Whore passengers are taken in, And all that would to Glory ride Must oomp to Christ—in Himconfide. Then come poor sinners, now in time, To any station on the lino. Tf you repent and turn from sin Tlri tfain will stop and tajce you in. And if the train should shortly call We’ll enter in, there’s-room for all. Oh ! why should wo Yjant to-delay ? WhonJesue us obey. We have kind friends who went before, Who landed safe on C/anaanVahoro. No sorrow there can them annoy, Where all is Love and Peace and Joy. chorus. We’re going Home, We’re going Homo, We’re going Home, To die no more. SOMEBODY’S DARIO G. Into a ward of the whitewashed halls, Whore the dead and dying lay, Wounded by bayonets, shells and balls, Somebody’s Darling was borne one day-- Somebody’s Darling, so young,and so brave, Wearing yet on his palo, sweet face, .Soon to he bid bj the dust of th 6 gravo, 'Tho lingering light of his boyhood's grace* Matted and damp am the curls of gold, Kissing tho snow of that fiir young brow, •Palo are the liptf of delicate mould— Somebody’s Darling is dying now. Back from his beautiful bluo-voined brow Brush oil the wandering waves of gold, 'Cross Ills hands oh his bosom now, Somebody’s Darling is still and cold. Kiss him onco somebody's sake, . Murmur p prayfib soft and low } -One bright curl from its fair mates take, They were somebody*s prido, you know j' •Somebody’s hand hath rested there, Was it a mother’s, soft and white? And have the lips of a sister fair Boon baptized in tho waves of light? God knows best! Ho has somebody’s loto j ■Somebody's hearl enshrined him there j Somebody wafted has flame above Night and morn os the-wings of prayer. .Somebody wept when he marched away* Looking so handsome, brave and grand j Somebody’s kissbn his forehead lay, Somebody clung to his parting hand. Somebody’s waiting and. watching for him— Yearning to hold him again to their heart; And there holies with his blue eyes<Ura, And the smiling childlike lips apa*t. Tenderly bury the fair young dead,. Pausing to. drop on his grave a tear ; tlarve on the wooden slab at his head, . « Somebody’s Darling algmbers here." lEimllanedp. THE G-fIOP AJU3EIS. 1 Come, Ady and Jane, it’s time you were in bed/ said Mrs. Freeman to her little girls, about Dins o'clock _one eyoning. Ady was nine years, old, and Jane was B ’yeur and a half younger. The two children hod been Bitting at the work-table with their mother, one of them studying her lesson, and the oth er engaged in. a piece of „fancy needle work. *• Papa boQu’t come yet/ answered Ady. • dear. But it is getting late, an J us ' iimo you were in bed. He may‘.not be home for an hour. * • Ady laid aside her work and left the ta ble, and June closed her books and put them hway in her school satchel. 4 You can light the little lamp od the man tle-piece/ said Mrft. Freeman, after a few moments looking around as she spoke ; when site-saw that the children bad both put on Iheir. bomiets and were tying their warm baps about their nooks. She rfnderstood. ve» iy.wcll the meaning of this, and therefore did not Ask a Question, although the tears tame to her eyes and-her voice sunk almost iuaudibly as she said t / ' , . * It is very cold out to-night, children. 4 But we won’t feel it mother,’ replied Ady* * wo will run along very quick/ ’ And the two little ones went out before their mother, whose feelings were choking her so she could not say another word. As they closed the door after them, she raised her, eyes upwards, and murmured. • * Clod bless and reward the dear children. . it was a bleak winter night; and as the Jittle adventurers stepped into the street, the. wind swept-fiercely along, and almost drove them back against the door. But they caught each other by .the hands and bending their little forms to meet the pressure ot the cold rushing air, hurried on the way they were going as faat as their feet could move. " The streets were dark and deserted ; but tin children werj no: afraid.’ Love filled their hearts, and loft no room for fear. They did not speak a word to e\oh other as they h at t«wd along. After going* distance of several blocks, thaj stopped Uciure a house over the dwr ribiQb wm * handsome or namoutal gas lamp, bearing the words, • Oysters and refreshments/ - * It was a strange place, for two little girls to enter, and at such an hour; but alter 'standing a moment, they pushed against the green door, which turned, lightly.upon its hinges, and stopped into a laPge" and bril liantly lighted bar-toom, . * Bless us ?' 'exclaimed a man who sat reading, 1 Here are these babes again/ Ady and Jane stood near the door and looked all around the room. But they did not see the object of their search, and going up to the bar, they said timidly, to a man who stood behind it pouring liquor into glasses: ' ‘ Has papa bsen hero to night? 1 The man leaned over the bar until his face was close v to the children, when ho said in an angry way. , ( * Tdpn’t know «ny.thing about .your fath er/ And see here 1. dua’tyoucome any more. If you do, I'll call oall my big dog out.of the yard and mako him bite you/ Ady and Jane felt frightened, as well by the harsh manner os the angry words of the man, and they started back Irom him, and were towards the door.with sad faces, when the person who had first marked their en trance, called out loud enough for them to hear him; 1 Come here, my little girls.' Tne children stopped and looked at him, when he beckoned them to approach, and they did so. ■■ ‘Are yon looking for your father?’ ho in quired. • ‘ Tea, sir,’ replied Ady. 1 And what did that man at the bar say to you ?’ ‘ He said that papa wasn’t here ; and that if we came here any more, he would set bis tig doe nn us.’ •He did?’ • f ‘ Yes sir.’ TBe man knit bis brow for an instant and said: 1 Wlio pontyou here? ‘ Nobody,’ answered Ady. , 1 Don't your mother know you have come?’ ‘Yes, sir. She told us to go to bed, but we couldn’t .go untirpapa was home. And so wo edme for him first.’ ■* He Ts here.’ .‘,ls he ?’ and the children’s faces bright ened, - . ‘Yes, he’s at the other side of the room psloep— I’ll wake him for you.’ Half intoxicated; and sound asleep, it was with some difficulty that Mr. Freeman could ,be aroused. And soon, however,,os hie eyes.were fairly opened and he found that Ady and Jane had each grasped one of his hands, he arose up, and yielding passively to their direction, suf fered them to lead him away. ‘Oh dearl’ exclaimed a man who had looked on with wonder and interest. ‘ That’s a temperance lecture that I can't stand.— God bless the little ones,’ he added with emotioni * and give them a sober father.’. ‘ I guess you never saw them before? said one.of the bar-keepers, lightly. ‘ No, and I never wish to again ; at least in this place. Who is their father ?’ ‘ Freeman, the lawyer.’ ‘ Nut the one who a-few years ago conduc ted with so much ability the case against the Marino Insurance Company?’ ‘The some.’ . \ ‘ Is it possible!’ A group was formed about the man, and a good deal was said about Freeman’s fall from sobriety. Ooe bad several times seen Ady and Jane come in and load him home, as they had just done, spoke of them with much feeling; all agreed that it was a most touching case. ■To see,’ said one, • how passively he yields himself to the little things whea they come after him. I feel sometimes when I see them, almost weak enough to shed tears.’ * They are his good angels/ remarked an-‘ other. ‘ But I’m afraid they are not strong enough to.lead him baok to the path which he has forsaken,/ * You can think what you please about it, gentleman, said the landlord, ‘ but I can toll you my opinion upon the subject: I wouldn’t rive much for the mother who would let two Tittle things, like them, go wandering about the streets, alone, at this time of night/ ■ _ . One”of those .who'had exproesod Interest jn l the children,-felt angry at this remark, and retorted with some bitterness. . 1 And I would give, less for the man who would make their father drunk/ ' • Ditto to that/ responded one of the com pany. • • And here’s my hand for that/ said an- Theland lord finding that themajority'of the the.company were likely to be against him, smothered his angry feelings and kept ’Si lent. A few - 'minutes 1 afterwards; two or three of the inmates of this bar-room went .away. , , About ten o’clock on the next morning, while Freeman, who was generally sober in the fore part of the day, was in his office, a stranger entered, and after ■ sitting down, , 'I- mast crave, year pardon before hand for what lam going to say. Will you promise not to be. pffended ?’ . ‘ If you offer an insult, I shall resent it, said the lawyer. - ‘ So far from (hat, I come with the desire to do you a great service/ ‘ Very well, say on.’ ; • *... -. ,f , ‘I was at .Lawsons’. liofeotQiyJast night. * Well/ ■ . ■ . . ‘And I saw-something there that touched my heart. If I slant at all, it was only to dream of it lam a father, sir I I have two little girls, and I love them tenderly. Uh l sir, the thought of their coming outin search of me, such a bold winter night, in such a polluted place, makes the blood run odd j/b my veins/ , . Words, so unexpected coming upon Mr. Freeman, when ho was comparatively sobei, disturbed him deeply. - In -spito of his en-. deavors to remain calni,Lie trembled all over. He made an effort to say sometlfing iu reply, but he could not utter a. word. - •, My.dearsir/ pursued the stranger, ‘ you have fallen into .the hand of the monster in temperance, and J f6el that you are m great peril. You have not, however, fallen hope lessly. You may yet rise if you will. Let me thqa in the name of the sweet babes who have sbown.in so wonderful manner, their iove to you, conjure you to raise superior to this deadly foe. Reward those dear children with the highest blessings their hearts can desire. Come with me and sign the pledge of freedom. Let us, though strangers to each other, unite in this one good not— Gomel’ That evening, unexpectedly* and to the joy of his family, Mr; Freeman was perfect ly sober when he came while Ady and Jane wor e standing On either sid'o of him, and he sat near their 'mother -with an arm*around each-of them; he said, in a low whisper, as ho bent his head down and drew bloser; “OUR COUNTRY—MAY XT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR-COUNTRY." ‘ You will never have to.come there for me again/ . . ' yhe children lifted their eyes to his face, but half understanding what he meant. .‘I will never go there .again' be added, I will always stay at home with you/ Ady and Jane now. comprehending what, their father meant, overcome-with'jriy,’liid their faces in his lap, and wept for joy. Low as this had been said, every word reached the mother's ear,, and while her heart stood trembling between Hope and fear, Mr. Freeman drew a paper from his pocket and* throw it on the table by<whioh she was sitting. She opened it hastily. It was the pledge, with the well known signature at the bottom. , With a cry of joy she sprang to his side, and his wile, as woll as little ones, in a fon der embrace than they had known fur years. The children's love had saved their fath er. .They were- indeed, his Guardian Angela. “Buar Me in-the Garden.” —There was sorrow, theref and tears were in every eye, and therOwore low half-suppressed sobbings heard from every corner of the room, but the little sufferer was still; its young spirit was just on the verge of departure. -The mother was bending over it. in all the speechless yearnings of maternal love with one arm un der its pillow, and with the other uncon sciously drawing the little girl closer and closer to her bosom. PJior thing ! in tho bright and dewy morning it had followed out behind its father into the field, and.yvhile, he was there engaged in his.labor, it had patted round among the meadow .flowers arid had stuck its bosom full, and nil its burnished tresses, with carmine and lilly-tinted things; and returning tired ta its father’s side, he had lifted it upon the loaded cart; but a stoae on the road had shaken it from its sent and,tho ponderous, iron-rimmed wheels had ground it down into the very cart-path—and the little crushed oreaturb.,was „dybig. _ We had nil gathered up closely to its bed side, hud were.hanging oyer |he young one, to see if it yet breathed, when a slight move ment came liver its lips, and its eyes- partly opened. There was no voice, but there was something beneath its eyelids which* moth er alone could interpret. Its lips trembled again, and we'all'held our breath—its eyes opened a little farther, and then we hoard the departing spirit whisper in that car which touched those.ashy lips: “ Mother! mother I don’t let them carry mo away dpwn to the dark, cold grayo-yard, hut bury me in the garden—in the gayden, mother.” A little sister, whoso eyes, wore raining down with the melting of. her heart, had crept up to the bedside, and taking up the band of the dying girl, sobbed aloud in its ear: ‘‘Julia! Julia I can’t you speak to An toinette ?” The last fluttering pulsation of expiring nature struggled hard to enable.that little spirit to utter one more wish and a wo>-d, of affection; its soul was on its lips when it whispered again, “ Bury mo in tho garden, mother—bury me irtHhe”—and a quivering came over its limbs—and a feeble struggle, and all was still.— Burritl. . The Origin of Soap.— Tho application of soap as a detergent is not of high antiquity, bike other useful things—electric communi cation, for instance—it seems to have been known as a fact for a considerable time be fore it was turned to its most serviceable ao-, count. - Soap at first was merely a cosmetic for smoothing the hair and brightening the complexion. When once its valuable and detersive powers were" discovered—doubtless by accident—its employment spread rapidly. Numerous soap manufactories sprang up in Italy, notable in the little se-port town of 'Savona, near-’Genoa, whence-the French name of soap/“Savon.” The manufacture snread in Spain and France. Marsilles be came famous for its garbled snaps. Our word “soap” may come from the Latin word “ sapo,” which is mentioned by Pliny as an invention of the Gauls. ■ As woolen garments preceded linen, so the fuller’s art— fop clean sing, scouring, and pressing cloths and stuffs —is older than the washerwoman’s, being duo, it appears, to one Nicias, the son of Her mias. His grand discovery would be the em ployment of an earth, since named after the persons who use it, The’Roihan fullers,.who washed dirty togas, were persons of no little importance. Their trade, and the mannerof carrying it onj were regulated by laws such as the Lex Maletla de fullonibua. .At one time fuller’s eartlw-found of a very superior quality in Staffordshire, Bedfordshire, and other English counties—was considered so indisoensahle for the dressing of cloth; that to prevent foreigners from rivaling English fabrics, it was miffle a contraband commodity, and its exportation made equally criminal with the heinous and wicked export of wool 1 How completely public l opinion is changed. No weathercock could make a more perfect gyration from north to south, from oast to west. What is it criminal to export now ? Convicts and contraband of war, perhaps, but certainly not harmless earth and wool. Vermont Anecdote. —The late Rev. Zeh. Twitoholl was the most noted Methodist min ister in Vermnpt for shrewd and laughable sayings. In the pulpits ho maintained a suitable gravity of:tnanner and expression, but out of the pulpit he overflowed with fun. Occasionally he would, if.emsrgoney seem ed to require, introduce something queer in to a sermon for the sake of arousing the flag ging attention of his hoards. It was he who originated the story of the great mosquitoes. Seeing that his audience was getting slee py, he paused in his discourse and digressed, as follows; ■ .’ - “ Brethren, you haven’t any idea of the suffering of our missionaries in the new set Ulements, on account of- the mosquitoes. The mosquitoes in some of those regions are enor mens. A great many of them will weigh a pound and they will get on the logs aid bark when the missionaries are going along.” By this time all the ears and eyes were open, and he proceeded to finish his dis course. . ..- The next,day onsof-his bearers called turn to account for his telling lies in the pulpit. “ There never was a mosquito that weigh ed a pound.” said ho. . “ But I didn’t anyone of them would-weign a pound : I said a great many of them would weigh a pound, andljthink a million of them would.” . ' * Bat you said thoy barbed at the mission aries.” “ No, no, brother. I said they would gel on the logs and bark.” . (C7* Josh Billings aays of friends: “ X got mine a d manage to keep them by not asking them for , anything but advice. You can’t ask anything of a,man that he loves to give more, apd' that costs him less than advice.” (£7* Don’t kick the usurer till after you aye got your loan. CARLISLE, PA.. THURSDAY, JUNG S, 1865. A SEW POET -LAUREATE. Thackeray’s Magazine, in London, paid Tennyson, the Poet Laureate, of England, sixteen hundred dollars for a poem, and the following tvft stanzas are just oho half of it, or eight hundred dollars worth : What does little birdie say, - In her nest at peep of day ? Let mo fly, says little birdie— . Mother, let me,fly away. Birdie rest a little longer. Till thy tiny wings lira stronger; So she rests a little longer, Then she flies away. What does little say, In her bed at peep of day ? Baby says, like little birdie, Let me rise and haste away. Baby, sleep a little longer,. ■Until her littlo legs grow stronger! r' rAnd after waiting like the birdie, Baby, too, shall fly away. ' Isn't that grand 7—isn't that the quintes sence of poetry f Here's sixteen lines of our 'own,‘says an exchange, same style, same and embodying about as much sen timent, lor which we wjll willingly take a quarter: ; What does little froggie say, In his poiidat peep of day? Let me swim, says little froggie— Bullfrog, lot mo swim away. wait a little longer, Till your little legs arc stronger; *So he mounts upon a chunk, And then into the pond ker-ch-u-n-k! .What dues little piggie say, In his sty at peep of day? Piggie says, like little froggie, Lot me go and root to-day, ' Plggift, wait a little longer, Till your snout grows hard and stronger; If you suck a little longer, Piggie then may root away. Not bo Green. —An amusing incident took place at a music store on Main street, the other day, which is .worth relating*. A fast, young woman, who was dressed more like one of our young Mississippi country lasses than a city belle, entered the store in ques tion, and asked the salesman to show her the latest musical publications. The young clerk, mistaking her for a “ green 'un". han ded down for her inspection. “ Ban Bolt," “Annie Laurie," “ The last Rose of Sum mer,the “.Old Arm Chair." “Are these the latest publications you have?" inquired the female. f‘Yes, madam, these are the latest publi cations issued," .responded the salesman* • * “Du you know what I wish you would do with them?" roolied the woman. “Wrap them up for you, madam?" an swered the clerk. “ No, she said, I haven't time to take them D'.W." ' “I will do what yoo wish with them mad am," politely replied the young man. , “ Well, then," she responded, “you may place this “ Old Arm Chair" aside, seat “ Annie Laurie" in it,‘givq- her “' The Last Rose of Summer," to use as she pleases, and put old “Ben Bolt” to kitsing her, and let them kiss away until I return. —Cairo News• That Rascally Private. — A correspon dent writes from Hilton Head:- On day a soldier went into a store at Hil ton Head \»ith two bottles. One was filled with sweetened water, . and the other he wished to get filled with whiskey.' He got his whiskey, and placing it in bis pooket, said: • Mr. R., you can charge this to me till I come around again.’ • Can’t see it,’ said the shop keeper.— * Give me back that whiskey.’ The soldier produced the bottle of water, and after getting the empty bottle, made tracks for the camp with his quart of whis key safely stowed away in bis pocket. Soon, an officer visited the store, and called for a. quart of whiskey. The storekeeper gave him the soldier’s quart; but the officer tasted the stuff, and said it was devilish weak for whiskey, whereupon the merchant’s face grew long and aftor investigating-..the case, found he had been sold byl‘ thaTrasoally pri vate.’ An old trick; but it worked successfully in this instance. A SqtnnitEi, Hunt.— At the—- Hotel, in Cairo, they are not noted for dispatch in filling orders for meals. If a,warm dinner is ordered some time is taken to cook’ it— Not long since I stopped there, and sat down at a table with an elderly gentleman,.who ordered squirrel- .1 waited some time for my dinner, but wits almost through, and the old gentleman, was still waiting for his squirrel. Biit-his patieneo was at length exhausted, and he beckoned the steward to him, and said: . ' Has the man got a good gun?’ ‘ What man ?’ asked the steward. *•‘■■l ‘ the man that’s gone to shoot the squir rel I ordered,’ said the old gentlemen, with groat gravity. _ 1 Just then ! choked and dld_ not hoar the steward’s unswer, but-Isaw him disappear, and in a few seconds the old gentleman was devouring bis squirrel with apparent rel ish. Cornered. — Covetous people often seek to shelter themselves behind the widows mite, and to, give a paltry sum to benevolent ob jects under cover of her contribution. The following incident ha? a moral for all such : . A gentleman oalled'upon a wealthy friend for a contribution. , , • “ Yes, I must give you niy mite, said the rich -man. . “ You mean the widow’smite, .1 suppose, replied the other. “To be sure I do.” .’ ■ , The gentleman continued- I will be sat is6ed with half ns much asshe gave." JJow much are you worth;?” . . “Seventy thousand ,dollars,” ha answor -o<3“t}ive me then a check for thirty-flvo thousand, that will bo just , half as ipuoh as the widow gave; for she gave all she had. ■Jt was a new idea to the wealthy mer chant. • . An Irish commodore being confined to his bed by a severe fit of the gout; some sweeps were employed to sweep, the ohira nies of the house next door to him, and one of the boys, by mistake, came down in tho commodore’s apartment. The boy confused nt his mistake, seeing the commodore in bed, said; • Sir, my master will come for you pres 6n-^Will he,’ said the commodore,. leaping out of bed ; • I hog to be excused etnyipg hero any longer then,’ and immediately ran down .stairs.' FORMER ASSASSINATIONS. ‘ Tno murder of President Lincoln has occa sioned the hunting tip of presidents. The following are , some of them ; Irene, Empress consort of Greece, lost her power by the death of her husband and the consequent succession of his son, Constantine VI. To displace him, she caused his eyes tube put out, and afterwards bad him killed by strangulation. . .William Rufus, of England, confiscated all the neighboring estates- to make a grand hantinoupark for his own amusement. Sir Walter xyrrel, one of the sufferers, shot him with an arrow and then fled to France. Rienzi, the first Roman Tribune, was kill ed by a mob. , „ Maosaaiello,' .the popular Viceroy of Na ples. was drugged by an artful enemy, and killed by his own people for acts-committed in bis unnatural condition'; -- Janies I, of Scotland, waa killed by his no? hies, in the presence of the Queen and ladies of her court,, after a fierce struggle. Richmd Ooeur do Lion was killed by the Viscount de Limoges in France, while par leying under a flag of truce, Henry IV of France, though very worthy and popular, had twenty eight attempts made upon liis life. Ravaillac killed him with a a dagger, for which the assassin was broken upon the wheel. Kuuli Khan, one of the wisest of Persian monarohs, was. killed in his own tent by a nephew, withfjhe Connivance of his own body guard. . • Guatavus, of Sweden, was killed by a mus ket* ball, firod-by Capt. Ankerstroem, former ly an officer in bis army. Ho was hung for the crime. ■ ’ •Several attenipta were made to take the life of England. Onewasbyawo man who approached him, presenting a peti tion. While the king was reading it, she at tempted to stab him. She was adjudged in sane* , ■ , Pb.ul I, of Russia, was strangled with a sil ken scarf by his nobles, even his own wife and children being privy to the plot—one of* them, Alexander, succeeded to the throne. — This was in 1801. ' Five' futile attempts have been made to murder Queen Victoria, without any appa rent motive. Four of the persons were ar rested; two of them were bent to the mad house, and two transported. The fifth fired a pistol shot from a crowd while the Queen was riding with her'husband, missed, and e/ciped. The plots against the life of Napoleon I were numberless,.and some of his escapes very narrow ; and the present Emperor has been similarly threatened and imperilled. Anecdote of*the Hero of tug Carolina*. —The following circumstances, related to me yesterday, goes far to .show that Gen. Sherman is no respecter of persons, and shows very little favoritism in the adminis tration of affairs in his military command.— While Senator Sherman was here on a visit, about a week ago,he was presented by Frank Blair with n very fine horse, captured du ring the South Carolina campaign. Ho was •WliHhat'he'raust-gofc-a-pass from his-brother, tliFOeueral, before fie could ship the animal to the North, but thought this would be a vesy small matter. ..So he went to “ Cump's" headquarters to tell .him of his luck apd get the necessary document. . -.“lt's,a splendid horse. Cump." -said the Honorable Senator, “ and if you’ll just sign a permit, I’ll take him up in she boat with ine." Cump replied, adjusting his shirt collar with both hands; "I’m. very glad he’s a good horse. We are very much in need of good horses in the array. I have some or derlies around headquarters that are d—d badly mounted.” The grave and reverend Senator was ta ken aback by this, and again remind ed the General that the horse had been presented to him and was not g ivorrTment property. “ Can't lot you have him John. All the horses belong to Uncle Sam. -Individual ti tles aint worth a-cant,” said Camp, and so the Senator was cheated oat of his present. Let brotherly love continue.—Cincinnati Gommerctal Secrets of Mason rv. —Not .many . years ago, at an Inn in the west of England, sever al persons were sitting around a fire in a large kitchen, through which there wiu; a passage to the other apartments of the house, and amongstvwhom was a female traveller and a tailor. At this Inn a Lodge of Free and Ac-, oepted Masons was held, it being lodge night, several of their members passed the company in the way to the meeting room. This cir cumstance introduced observations on the oc cult signs by which Masons could be known to each other; when the female observed that there was not so muph mystery in Masonry as people imagined, and that she herself could show.any person a Mason’s sign. “ What?” said the tailor, " that.of.a Free and Accepted Mason ?” , she replied, “and I’ll bet a half crown bowl of punch', to be decided by any one of the mem beta vr.u may plea-e to ap point. that I may perform my promise.” " Why,”- pays the tailor, “a woman, was never admitted, then bow is it possible that you can procure the secret ?” “ No matter for that,” .says she. “ I will readily forfeit tljo money I lay if Ido not prove the fact.” The opropany urged the tailor to accept the challenge, and the amount of the bet was de posited. The women immediately started np and took the tailor by the collar. “Come,” says she, “follow ine,” which he did, trembling as ho went along, fearing he was to-undergo some part of the discipline in making a Mason, of which he had heard snob a dreadful report. She led ’ him into the street, and pointing to the sign df the Li on and jjanjb, .asked him whose sign tbit was. : . “ Mr. .Lodge’s," answered the tailor, as the name of the Innkeeper. “ “Is he a Free Mason? / “ Yes." seal'd the tailor. . “ Then I have shown yon, the sign of a Free and accepted Mason,’’ said the lady. The laugh was so much' against the tailor, that it was with much difficulty he could be prevailed upon to take some of the liquor which was forthwith produced at his expense. A very considerable hotel keeper, ad vertising his “ Burton" XXXX,” concludes the advertisement: —Pai ties drinking more than four glasses of this potent beverage at one, sitting, carefully sent home on a'whoelbarrow, if re quired." / , Why is a married roan like a candle ? Because he goes cut at night when,he ought not.to. jJ@r.,Bojrs are. like, vinegar—the more “ mother” there is in them, the sharper they become;' , THE SRERMAN-STANTON WA& > Senator John Sherman 1 * Review, of'fhe Diffi culty-Very Curious Facts Brought to Light—Stanton*s Treachery and Halteek’a Malignity—Halleck as the Reviltr of Qen• eralsf&c <fcc. [From Communication in Washington Chronicle, the Court Journal, May 26 ] . A quarrel between two high officers of the Ohverament is always unfortunate, unseem , Iy K and usually injurious to each. This is especially so when they are working in the biune great cause—and that cause brilliantly successful, crowned with a glorious peace.— It is idle to conceal evidences of. passion ea gerly promulgated by Che telegram and press, and it is well fur kindly lookers-on to take a dispassionate view to see if ill this heat is necessary. The writer of this knows both parties, and is certainly-friendly Jo each. The commencement of ..any difference was with the Shorman-Johnston, convention.— 1 This, if approved by ..the President, would, have made peace between the Potomac and the Rio. Grande.. The objections made to this aid included in three propositions: Ist. That Sherman "had no power to make such a treaty. answer is obvious, that ho nev er claimed or attempted to conclude raugement. . All lie did “conclude" was a •truce for a few days, and he then submitted, for the approval or rejection of the President, this important offer of a general peace.— Even in arranging the truce he had it all on his side. .Wilson was still moving and hold ing the outer coils of the net, while Sherman was building railroads and repairing roads and bridges, ready for the final spring if the arrangement was. disapproved. He gained everything by the truce and lost nothing. Johnston was “ corraled," and .was kept so by'this very truce, while Sherman was never more active in preparing for future move ments if necessary. It is said generals have no business to make truces, or deal with ,po litical questions, and that GfcfCntVas reprov ed lor this; but Shorma.n bad-made truces before, and fur a year-has been distinguished, for his treatment of political questions with out a word of cautiou or his su periors. The telegram to Grant, now pub lished as an official order of an old (date,, was withheld from Sherman, had beeti instructed to open communications, with rebel civil authorities. The second objection is that the arrange ment recognized the rebel State governments and officials. This is the-most serious jection, and amply justified the government in rejecting or modifying the arrangement; but the official papers show clearly that Sher man refused to grant this in.any .shape or form, until the order of Wei.tzel, issued while Mr. Lincoln was present in Richmond, con vened the rebel Legislature of Virginia and recognized the rebel Governor Smith.- With this order, before him, without a word of the contrary tenor, Sherman informed Johnston of the order, end waived his previous dbjection. >to recognizing'the'rebel State authorities.-^ Why should Sherman be denounced Tor sub mitting to the new President a proposition based mon this order of the revocation of which no had not the ..notice ? How unjust to arralgn him for this, and then con ceal tbe fact that he was acting in pursuance of the policy of the former Administration. The third objection is, that be; recognized slavery, and, restored th.e old- relations bo betnecn master and slave. This is simply absurd. .Sherman has repeatedly acted upon the validity of the pioclamation of emancipa tion and the laws of Congress abolishing sla very, and the idea of. repealing Or strength ening them by a military arrangement be tween the generals never entered his head. The official papers show that he urged John ston to announce as a," feet” the extinction of slavery—a “ fact” that Sherman not only regarded as fixed, but ns unalterable. The result was, that slavery was not mentioned, but was left precisely where,it ought to bo loft. The nervous fear that this question could not be left to the law and the Supreme Court did not disturb a purely military mjpd. This was the arrangement about which so much has been said. It disbanded the rebel armies, placed all their arms within our power, made peace universal; and it was purely conditional, having no life wihout the approval of the President. Now it is plain that the duty of the Government was simply to approve or reject it, ana give no reasons, but issue its orders; and this is precisely what was done by the President, and he did no more. Gen, Grant was sent to convoy this did his duly nobly and well, with generous consideration for his subordi nate and follow-soldier. Sherman did not hesitate a moment, proniptly terminated the truce; made a new arrangement with John ston, and at dude started for Charleston and Savannah, to send supplies to General Wil son, then far in Georgia, and to close up the scattered links of bis great command. His official report shows an amount of zeal, ao tivity, patriotism, and wonderful ability not surpassed by any portion of his previous life. Ail this whs going on while he was in utter ignorance of the wild storm of denunciation that was sweeping over the whole country. While he was supplying Wilson, arranging to aatob Davis, detaching armies irom his command, and preparing fur peace and home, the press and telegraph, tbe pulpit and the rostrum, were ringing with A letter of a rebsf to the London Times wa's universally quoted as tbe revelation of a plot* to overthrow the Government. Cromwell and Arnold, and all that was desperate aid violent, were suddenly brought to public no tioe. To defend Sherman, and even to beg people to “ wait —lotus hear.from him," was to invite quarrel and insult. Timid people, were pitying him and all connected with him- People who had slept sound in their beds at night, and made money every day during the war, thought General Sher man bad joined the" copperheads,” and was no hotter.than Jeff. Davis, and oven hinted that he got eon:e,of Jeff. Davis’s gold. General Sherman first nmt this "chilling wind” as he was coming northward around Cape Henry to meet his army and surrender this command. . He was then writing hie of ficial report. He-firmly bejievel that all the fierce and most unreasonable calumny was organised by, Stanton and General Halleolc with’ the deliberate purposr to in sult, humiliate, and ruin him. He then first saw.Sfanton’s reasons and Halleck’s insult-, ing order. He mixed all the falsehoods and malignity with these two official ants. No wonder that this gave tone to-his official re port, and tinder this shadow it would be read. It will soon be made public, and the writer of this ventures to predict that every fair-minded naan who contributed to tbe clamor will, on rending it. regret bis part. The rejection ot the don volition and the rea sons of. Stanton were, giyeri-tb-the puhlioat the same moment. They had the appearance of contemporaneous acts j but they wore en tirely distinct arid.sbparute. The fact df dis approval wail sprit by Grant, and was entirely legitimate, nod 1 resulted well. Grant .even' did not know those “ reasons." Wot a shade of discontent could have arisen.- ./Why, theft, publish these reasons ? -The answer of .Mr,. Stanton is, that Gen. Sherman's orderonnoan oing the truce to bis army made ifc'nscessary.j* that be coulajsot disappoint the hopes of army, based uoon this order, without, giving 1 the reasons; that ho got a copy of the order after Grant lofcapd then penned' these rca* 9 ins. The gloom of the public.mind, and bis own escape from assassination no doubt col* ored his statement, and suspicion, aroasod by a desperate crime, lit upon the most coQspio-, nous person, who, at the moment, seemedto' thwart the national ory.for vengeance. Sher man’s arrangement breathed the spirit of the, dead President; but it came one week' too. lato, or one month too early; ini,either Con-, tingejicy Stanton’s ro&sonA would never have been issued. They were his alone',and are ; plainly with passion, bat may hare been published without malice. M > -But, it is said, why did Sherman issuethis orderto his troops ? Why did he assume that peace was to exist from the Potomac to the • .Rio Grande ? Why, pot wait, until the arrangement was approved? The* answer is, that it was necessary., .to announce the truce to the tinny to prevent collision and loss of life- -The order, the army only, and expressly stated that the trace* pended upon the approval of the President. Without a knowledge of the truce Tiovf could officers or men perform their no.w duties,. in what bettor terms could a conditional truce bs expressed? Sherman talked* to his army alone, merely fur/thoir temporary.action.—■ loan read the order now without ap- . provingit? - Then followed .the advice of llalleck to ig nore Grant, to insult Sherman, and to arrest the. movements of the subordinate officers, nob only without the knowledge but in defence of both of them,- And this, was accompanted-by the military offense of Halleck’s disregarding* a truce and actually invading another milita ry . department to assault ap cuemy under terms of surrender. It was fortunate that this order, was countermanded, ip time or an actual collision might have occurred in viola tion ofa-trace between two armies of our no ble heroes. For this, General Hatleok alone ought to bo held responsible. * If he was qf any service at all other than .an. expapsjye luxury, tied and labeled away where it Was supposed he was harmless, he should, as a writer ou military law, have, been the last man to the.breach of a truce—the apl diers’ higher law.” He knew that John ston had .surrendered,was awaitipg' the ac tion of the President ..upon- that - surrec-' der, and that Grant, his superior, officer, was convoying that notion to Shannon; and yet he advised a course that could oniybojua tified by the clearly ascertained smt that both Grant and Sherman Wore traitors to their country. And then, why publish this order-? What motive could possibly induce this? If some grave exigency justified the order, it should have, boon kept secret as the grave. If they found Sherman was playing the traitor, their precautions should have .been concealed.— In any aspect of the publication of this pa-, per. eeems;the greatest folly or the meanest malice. If justifie.d-by Events, it was a blun der to publish their planar but when viewed by the light of events it was a most gross public insult heaped upon a soldier while in the successful discharge of the highest duties. The writer of this does not" know that-either Stanton or Halleck authorized its publication, but he does know tbe withering effect it had, upon Sherman’s reputation, tide for what was alleged in.it, but from, what was fairly Im plied from it. Why is, not..this explained ? Who published it ? .Where was the .public censor then. Why not now announce in an -equally specific order that the fears upon which it wn»based proved utterly groundless I If Mr. Stanton published this order, and will not now openly acknowledge that it Was foun ded in error! he continues an insalt and evin ces malice. Then be must expeot open defi ance and insult, and neither bis person nor rank can shield him,. It cannot bo denied, that after this order waft issued, while the telegraph was under a strict military censorship, the public mind We* poi soned against Gen. Sherman by telegrams since shown to be false, as that he refused to obey the summons of the Congressional Com mittee, and that, facts relieving bin* from blame were not staled, as that the order of Gen. Wnitzcl.was approved by Mr. Lincoln, but nftenyards. withdrawn. And this, too, * While General Shorman was beyond the reach of letter or telegram; actively engaged in hie official duties. ~ It is trrio .that .Mr. Slantoa neither can nor ought Hi control the press, and is often roughly handled by it. Yet had , not an officer in Gen.* Sherman’s position the right to expeot some effort, on the part of his depirtment, to stay the tide of calumny, the .very moment the retrirn.of Geh. Grant with the unconditional surrender df Johnston prov -1 cd how groundless arid foolish had been the fears at Washington. Now, it is plain that the true course i»'lo publish the official report; to respect the nat ural resentopent of a-soldier, on ac count of a palpable wrong • to avoid Singling personal feelings with the general joy over great triumphs; to neither fonts nor oppose publio judgement upon the merits of a con troversy no longer important nation, and leave to the country and history to eat* tie the credit due to the prominent,actors in the war. The writer of this is not disposed to beittle either the services of General Sher mari or the energy of Mr. Stanton, and would rather see both expended on the common en emy. Quit-ties. — No doubt a lady maybipet pooled to make a great noise ip the world When her dress is covered with imsi-t*-.. Books are the best friends, because When th iv bore you you can ftbut thpin up without offense. - The bottle is the devil’s oruoibje.-to which everything is melted.- , . , . ; The buyer peeds a hundred eyes, the,seller .not one. : -t, ' A sniatterar in everything ie generally goid for nothing. at ■: ; . V Great talkers are like oraoked pitcher#; everything runs out of them. t . At a fashionable dinner eat, slowly—-an 1 a matter,of course.;., -i.j'l i. “Time works woapers.” as the .lady Bald when she gat married after an eight years* courtship. ' C?" Forty years Israel wandered in the wilderness, before they' entered upon the promised land, and fbrty years transfers ev ery fortune in our land to new owners. And if any man is grieved bedause of-the bigness of HU income tax. Jet hitp wipe, KiS oySft,— Ten ' obanoos to one his children won t s&Tft any income to be taxed upon;.- . p. . ipy Loto i» often changed to hatX64,lml) hatred ie rarely converted to lore.- 1 I NO.
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