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E. E BE LTZIIOOYER,
[ATTOKA'tiY AND COUNSE LLOR AT ’LAW,
[ CARLISLE, PKNN'A.
OFFICE on South Hanover street, oppo
sito Bontz’s store.
Bj special arrangement with tho Patent Office,
[attends to securing Patent Eights.
I Sept. 22, 1864-iy
SMJEUS E. SaiAVLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CARLISLE, PA.
A TTENDS to securing and collecting*
Enldicr'a Pay, Pension*, Bounties, ttc.
Ofilco on South Huaovor -street opposite
loutr’a store. Fob. 13. 1862,
J. 31. WEAKI/Ef,
ATIO RN E V' A T LAW,
OFFICE on South Hanover street, in the
room formerly occupied A. B. Sharpe.
Feb. 27, 1852—Ora.
SAHISJEIL-HEPJBUBW, Ji-.,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
"OFFICE with judge. Hepburn, on Eaa)
J .Main Street, Curiislo.
Aug. 0, '63—ly.
II . NEWSHAM,.
ATTORNEY AT t A IF. .
"VFFIGE with Wm. H. Miller, Esq., south
-/ west corner of Hanover and Pomfrot streets.
Carlisle, Dec. 22, 1862—-tf
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I ATI’ORKE Y-AT-L AW.
&T\FFICE in InhofFs building, just opposite
lip—. tl.o Murkct House.
3 Carlisle March 13, 1802—ly.
11 J. W. FOULK, Attorney at Law.
kLR-1. Office with James U. Smith, Esq;, Rhecn. s
ralull. Ail business outrusted to him will ho prompt
ly attended to, Feb. 6. 1853.
'j| Dr.
[•;/A -Fuom the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery
"■’U Office at the residence of hia mother, Bast Louth
’-•*)sr street, three doors below Bedford; ~
, bjj Carlisle, Doc. 22, 1852.
M. C-i MERMAN*
AT T OHN-EY AT LA W,
~TV'’FICE in Khoem’n Hall Building, in
3 the .rear of the Cohrt House, next door to the
bilio’e, Carlisle. [Fob
; C JAMES A. DUNBAR,
>£| AT TORNEY AT LAW.
CAULISLE, PA.
:>4 Office next door to the American Printing office
, few doors west of Hannon’s hotel;
April 1-1, 18<U—ly
98. i .C. ILOOltiiS, DEM-
removed from South Hanover street to West
. street, opposite tho Feiiinlo High School,
[April 28, 1*864.’
Richmond has fallen!.
: :ijs AND SO HAVE DRV GOODS !
FAC'D that is proven to every person
jL calling at tho
Store of Leitlicli & Miller,
they are just receiving a largo supply of
‘ n»d Summer OooiU, purchased sinbo tho
Jmat DECLINE IN GOLD!
y£|FTbo stock embraces iu part
Ladies’ ]>i*ess Goods,
•'•-'Mch as Black and Fancy Silks .of Jill colors and
Y ffialitiofi, new styles Poplins, Mohairs, LuStrop,
. . fipacoas, all colors, Mozambiqucs, Lauloriqucs,
Aftiloncias, Do Laincs, ChalHes, Ac., Ac.
t| SPRING CIRCULARS,
Sacqiics, Slitiwla, &i.
|MOURNINO.GOODS
,v,bl every kind, consisting of Mourning l 'Silks, Al
.’wiccas, Bombazines, Mohairs, Ponline, single and
•Spublo Width .Do Xan\ise Cloths, Crapo
Collars, Handkerchiefs, Balmoral Skirts, a
pmw stylo, black and white Ginghams, Ac., Ac.
J DOMESTIC GOODS.
BloadhoH and unbleached Muslins from 12$ ots.
lar S° assortment hf Calicoes, from 12$ eta.
25. 10-4 bleached and unbleached Shooting,
Case Mu ling, Tickings, Cottonades, Ging-
Nankeens, Table land a great many
Mother goods not mentioned bift always on hand.—
Notion Department is complete,- embracing
Hosiery of every quality for ladles, gentle
misses, boj's and children.;' Gloves of every
’■Wflcriptipn,,Silk, Linen, and Qingham Handker*
French Ccrsetts, llo’op. Skirt:}, all sizes,
Skirts, Neck Tics, Suspenders, Trim
*nd Mantua llilbons, Hoad Nets, Sun Urn
-1 . : ,S7 C^UB » Farusols, &c.
.g Men aiui Boys’ Wcari
,’?il Always atfull assortment of every description at
•;|t 0 v ery lowest market prices. Clothing made at
short notice by a first class tailor.
CARPETS! CARPETS!!
no °f every description and quality.—
,;;® a^in gi Floor Oil Cloth, Looking Classes, Oil
'£lSt* )cr Window Llinde, Table Oil Cloths,
ftir Cloths, ami many other house furnishing
or season.
Reeling very thankful to tho generous commu
for their kind and liberal patronage so far
vjjfflptendod to tho firm, wo earnestly and sincerely
ffigyk a continuance of tho same, as customers know
* 3 nlwa >’ B a S rea t plousuro to .us to exhibit
« o olt, besides proving that wo olWUys study
Q interest of our customers, as we are determined
'Ja ' J ° Un^ ail y mcr °h au tin tho ooun-
LEIDICII A MILLER.
Ploaso roraorabor tho well-known stand
'Ulb-cnst oorner Market Square, directly oppo
se Irvine's Boot nud Shoe Store
Carlisle; May 4, 18fio.
TRUNKS! TRUNKS!!
y \ LISES, Trunks, Carpet Bags, Urabe
-5 Tn “ ns <tc, French solo leather Tnmke, La
rit r^ Vo^>D 6 Trunks of large sizes, brass bound
Q boat makes, in largo variety at ___
ISAAC LININGSTON'S,
Korth'UMOTOC StTOO&
to, ’**.
THE STRANGER UPON THE SILL.
nr THOMAS BUCHANAN READ.
[Mr. Read, who discourses so sweetly upon “tho
lonely homo where ho was born,’* is a native of
Uwchlan toymship, Chester county. Ho is tru
ly an artist-poot, and poetry flours from his pen
in all tho glowing tints and roseate hues that
the picture emanating from tho easel receives
from the poncil'of this gifted and talofttod artist.
Every one who boars an attachment to the
“ lonely home where ho was born’* will read,
this poem with emotions of pleasure.]
Between broad fulda of wheat and com,
la tho lonely hotUe who o I was born ;
Tho poach tree loans against tho wall.
And the woodbine wanders ovor all;
Thoro is tho shaded door way still.
But a stranger's foot has crossed cho sill.
Thoro ia tho barn—and aa of yoro
I can smell the hay from tho open door,
And soo tho busy swallows throng,
And hoar tho poowoo’s mournful song ;
But tho stranger comes—oh ! painful proof—.
His sheaves are piled to tho Iteatod roof.
Thoro i s tho orchard—the very trees
Where my* childhood know long hours of
case.
And watched tho shadowy moments run,
Till ray life has imbibed more shade than atm,
The swing from tho bough fetill swoops tho
air,
-But tho stranger’s children are swinging
thofb.
There bubbles tho shady spring below,
With its bulrush brook whore the hazels grow;
'Twas there I found the calanlus rodt.
And watched tho minnows poise and shoot,
And hoard tho robin lave his wing—
But tho stranger’s bucket is at the spring.
Oh, ye who daily cross tho sill.
Steal lightly, for I love it still^
And when you crowd tho old barn leaves,
Then think what countless harvest shoaVei
ilavii passed within tho scouted door
To gladden eyes that ard no moro.
Deal kindly with those orchard trees ;
And when your children ordwd their knees,
Their sweetest fruit they shall impart,
As if old memories stirred tho heart.
To yodtbl’til sports still leave the swing,
And in sweet reverse hold tho spring.
The barn, tho trees, tho brook, tho birds,
Tho meadows with their lowing herds.
The woodbine on tile cottago wall—
My heart still Ungers by them alii
Ye strangers on my, native sill,
Step lightly, for I love it still.
3Eisft(lnnmia.
USEFUL LESSONS. '
Hints to Pedestrians.— The following use
ful hints to pedestrians we find in an English
medical work recently issued in London.—
The directions are eminently practical, and,
if followed, may save tduoli trouble and in
convenience on a journey:
1. Clothes should bo loosely fitting through
out; no stiff or tight nijokclothar no ligatures
tied more .or. Laas—tightiy .round .the limbs.—
Woolen materials are" far the best for the
outer garments; flarinel for these worn next
the akjn.
2. I’he color of the odter dross, if choice
can bo allowed, should bo light, white, or
some shade of gray—especially must this
rule bo followed where the sun has much
power. A black dress is of all the most un
pleasant for a long walk.
3. The head should be sheltered By a cap
or felt hat—soft, flexible, and perforated with
holes, so that the air has ready access to the
surface of the horid. Apeak for the ward
ing "off sun-rays front the eyes, arid a hood
to protect the back of the head and the neck,
will both be of some advantage. In tropical
climates a white cover ofror all would be very
advantageous.
4. The feet should be clothed with light
worsted socks, and dimes or Boots should be
worn which are not too tight for the foot, and
which are. so made by having the inside edge
of the front part of each boot poralell to that
of its. follow, that the toes are not cramped
together in h cone or wedge-shaped front.—
The form of each sole ought to correspond
exactly with the natural form of the foot-sole.
Above all, let the fleels be no longer than
the rest of the sole. A more abominable
phrase than the term “ military heels” was
never introduced. The height is increased
to the d.etrimet t pf the soldier lb eyefy oth
er particular. Blisters and sore foot.may
well happen after a long march ; the former
are best treated by ' oasaing a single thread
of worsted ftoiti side to side thfoijgh each
blister, and leaving it for a day undisturbed.
Sore feet are much relieved by tepid bathing,
having first dissolved in this water a small
quantity of common salt nr alum:
5. If weight must he carried. the bundle
should bp so placed between the shoulders
that it feists there without muscular exertion,
and the frame work of the knapsack should
take its support by light iron' rods upon the
bony framework of the pelvis, rind not be
hung hy straps-whioh pass across the chest.
A clean shirt, soap, a pair pf clean socks,
and a light waterproof overcoat will form
the greater part of the package necessary for
a pedestrian tourist. . .
6. If the nfrangnmerit ho at all feasible,
omo daily practice should he had in walk
ing distances preparatory to a long journey,
each day increasing the ground passed over,
so that the pedestrian may not enter on his
task quite unused to the exorcise.
7. The time occupied in walking should
bq, if possible, so divided that some rest may
be obtained.m.„tbo middle of the day, and
so while the beat is greatest! Food should
bo plain, nutritious, and not too bulky ; the
pommiriari* or. prepared meat of the North
American Indian is probably the, best typo
of portable food for a pedestrian.
OCT* They have a nice Select Council in the
“loyal” city of Philadelphia. On '.Thursday
they had a lively “ discussion,” in which
street slang and the lowest blackguardism
was displayed, the finale being a knock-down
between a couple of the members. This is
the to offer a
reward for the arrest of the outlaws who
mobbed the iDgersolls. —Harrisburg Fatriot.
“OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGI^T—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY."
CEDARS.
Tho grovo of cedars on Mount
non still subsists, disposed in nlho groups
corresponding with as many hummocka of
moraines, but of tho Very old patri
archs probably not a, single specimen sur
vives. 'ln 1574 RaUWoVf counted twenty-six.
Iff 1653 Ohovenot Counted Jwonty-threo. La
roquo in 1688 found only twenty; in IG9G
Madudrel oAw only sixteen, although plenty
of y»un£ ones. Labillardlcro found them re
duced to seven in 1787, M. TchUmtchoff
speaks of thlfii loosely as ten or twelve, and
Hunker in 1860 found no young ones at all,
but about four hundred trees, of which only
fifteen exceeded fi'teen feet in girth, and two
others exceeded twelve feet in girth* If the
trees countod-.hv llauwolfrChcyenotvaivd the’
others above mentioned, were to remarkable
fur age and .size us to bo easily distinguished
*in their days, which was no doubt tho case,
these must have all disappeared, and are re
placed by a new race or patriarchs which
were young when tho others were viewed by
these travelers. 1
Until of late years it bad been supposed
that the cedar was.confined to Mount Leba
non ; it is now known that it occurs between
Bshorre and Bshinqato in Syria, and that
there are vast forreats on Mount Taurus in
-Asia Minor, M. P. de Tchihatcheff, a Rus
sian Fnturalist who had been explorxbg Asia
MinOr, thu* describes them:
“ In following the southern slope of the
Boulgardagh I was struck by the fine forests
of cedars Which mount oven to the upper re
gions of this majestic rampart. I had at
first supposed that it was only a local al
though very interesting, phenomenon, but
on ascending the Zamantau-Sau from Sal
houn where it debauches, I had the happi
ness to traverse for several successive days
the finest cedar which are perhaps
known at the present day, so that the band
winch, on my botanical map of Asia Minor,
marks the dpnfhin of tho cedar may extend
from 3ne hundred and forty to one hundred
and sixty miles from the southwest to the
northeast. Until flow, botanists have been
wont to make pious pilgrimages to tho cele
brated cedars of Mount Lebanon, and I my
self had also been fifteen years ago to con
teittplate with profound emotion the ten or
twelve centenarian trunks which raised
themsehes in isolation on that classic ground;
'but now they appear to me very trifling be
fore the fine forests which I have just tra
versed, and along side of which they figure
only like our hot-houses palm-trdos when
compared to the palm-trees of the forests bf
tho tropics.” (Ann. de V Acad, des Sciences,
vol. xxviii. p. 759.) ,
Tho cedar is chiefly prized for its bcailty
and raajeUty, and for the interest attached to
it in connection with Biblical history. Bor
economic or practical purposes it is of little
dr no value ; the ancients esteemed it for its
durability, but even this is now disputed,
although, wo think, unjustly; biit whether
durable or not, thoro is no doubt that it is
wholly wanting in strength and tenacity, and
is consequently lightly esteemed by the arti
san, and little planted by the landowner.—
This inferiority of its timber has given unu
sual importance tp a Scientific question which
-hafl-oHiito-ycars beon'muoh“dobated~amwg~
botanists, namely, whether there is more
than ohe species of cedar, or whether the ce
dar of Lebanon, tne cedar of the Himalayas,
and the cedar of Mount Atlas are Hot dll
(tnee one and tho same.
Equal to ti!e Emeuce.ncv. —Not many
years ago, two Frenchmen—one wealthy and
in the possession of ready onsb, and the oth
er poof and penniless—occupied hy chance
the same roam in a suburban hotel. In the
morning the “ seedy” one arose first; took
from his pocket a pistol, and bolding it to
bis own forehead, and backing against the
door, exclaimed to his horrified companion :
“Itis my last desperate resort; lam pour
niless and tired of life ; give me five,hundred
francs, or I will instantly blow out my brains,
and you will.bo arrested as a murderer?”
The other lodger found himself the hero of
an unpleasant dominion, but tbs cogency of
bis companion’s argument struck him “cold”
He quietly crept to this pantaloons, handed
over the amount, and the other vamoosed,
after lucking the door on the outside.
Hearing of this another Fretiehnirin, of
very savage aspect, one night tried to room
with a tall, raw-boned man from Arkansas,
who had been rather free with his mobey
during the day, and evidently had plenty
more behind. Next morning " Pike” awak
ening, discovered his room-mate standing
over him, with a pistol leveled at his own
head, rind evidently quaking with agita
tion. •
“ What the deuce are you standing thar
for in the cold 1" said Pike, propping him
self on hia elbow, and oooly surveying the
Gaul.
lam desperate I” was the reply. ” You
give mo one hundred dollar, or I will blow
out my brain 1”
“ Well then blow and be darried 1” repli
ed Pike, tutriingover.
“ Bute you will be arrested for zo aur
daire 1” persisted the Gaul, earnestly.
“ Eh, what’s that V said Pike ; “oh I I
see” and suddenly drawing a revolver and a
five-pound bowie knife from under’ his pil
low ho sat upright.
11 A man may as well be hung for a sheep
ns a lamb,” he coolly rerii'arked ; arid, lit the
word bo started for the Gaul; but the lat
ter was too nimble , the “-boss-pistol,” inno
cent of lead, exploded in the air, and with
one frantic leap our little Frenchman was
standing in his night robe at the foot of the
staircase—a proof that what may suit one
latitude will not answer for anotllbf.
A Cat Killed bv Robins.—A moat re
markable instance of the belligerent qualities
of the Robin has just come to our notice. It
appears that a half-grcw.n cat, belonging to a
citizen of tho town, ,lmd a fancy for killing
yoUng chickens and birds, She spent much
of her time in climbing trees, to tho great an
noyance,, doubtless,- of sump robins which had
built their neats there. A, few days since,
tvhen puss was engaged in her favorite
amusement, some six or eight robins seem to
have combined to close her career. They at
tacked her in a* body, pouncing upon her
with groat fury and planting their beaks in
to her head with a severity which caused the
cat. to..!indulgo,.,ia.. frightful screams.•-••Upon
tho inmates of the house coming to her as
sistance the robins retired from the conflict,
and tho cat escaped under an adjoining
kitchen.' Sot coming out,.and a rather disa
greeable smell beginning to issue therefrom
in a few days afterwards, the floor was taken
up, and the cat found dead, with her eyes
pl'cked out, and other evidences about her
head of having been severely dealt with.—
We have never known of a more striking
proof of tho devotion of the “ Red Breasts”
for their young. . JWo^sy.rcfpathizo— Iwith—our
neighbor in the loss of his “ Cat,”, but wo
know our readers will exclaim —" ouTly for
the birds.” — Somerset Democrat .
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 43, 1865.
... _ .... . L..--j.,-.
[Prom tbo Old Guard for July.]
HISTORY OF' JOHN BROWN.
BY SENATOR MOW PRESU)ENT ANDREW JOHNSON.
. Tho pulpits generally, and a majority of
Republican papers, now boastingly rejoice
that “ the North has vindicated lha cause of
John Brown, and wiped out slavery . Nor is
this auy foolish or (inconsiderate boast; it is
Strictly true. The policy of the Republican
party, since it_oama into power, has boon a
faithful carrying out of tho work begun by
old John Brown. Tho administration of
Abraham Lincoln was a John Brown raid on
ThTgranilest scale; and it was ho more.—
That is the place it will occupy in history.—
The bloody business is done, and we do not
write for tho'Vurpose of amending the great
crime. Wo do not seek to raise the dead.—
Wo accept as we find them ; but it
is our business to toll the truth about those
facts. It is our business to atrip off all those
bandages of shame, hypocrisies, and lies, and
lay bare to the bone this monstrous carcass
of frauds and despotism. Tho record of this
party is in revolution and blood; in tho rev
olution and blood inaugurated by John
Brown. It has finished the raid which that
prince of assassins and thieves, John Brown,
began. As a part of the history of these
times, which we wish to leave in the columns
of Tue Oi,d Guard, ifvo copy below part of a
speech delivered by President Johnson, in
tho Senate ttf tho United States, December
12, 1859. It is a fair and truthful history of
the most important period in tho history of
Br6wn, who was one of the chief founders of
the Republican parly, the inaugurator of its
policy. Mr. Johnson was speaking in reply
to Senator Doolittle, who had offered, in the
Senate, an apology for Brown, by declaring
that his son had been murdered in KansA*,
and that he acted in revenge far tho wroncs
he had suffered. In apswor to this excuse,
S ebator Johnson, tho President of the United
States, made tho following speech :
14 It sceriig that we have some now born
Christians, wlio aro making John Brown
Uloir leader, who nro trying to canonize him
and make him a great apostle and martyr. —
Wore these the elements of a Christian and
a Christian martyr? How do the facts Stand
in this case? Wheii was fclic old man
Brown’d sun killed, and when did ho commit
these atrocities? Even admitting the truth
of the statement of the Senator from Wiscon
sin, they are not justifiable,. but t when wo
show 1 1 ab the facts are different, they aro
less so. Tho circumstances are stated in the
exidouce of Mr. Harris, which will bo foiind
in a report made by a committee of Congress,
and republished in the Herald of Freedom .
of Kansas—a paper that has at its head for
President the name_Qf_a_Jßopablicani v-
Uhasa, of Ohio, and Mr. Banka, of Massachu
setts, for Vice-President i
“ The circumstances attending Win. Sher
rpan’a assassination are testified to by James
IXarria, of Pranklin. county, Kansas. Mr.
Sherman was staying over night at the house
•of Harris, when, dn the 24th of May, at
about two o’clock. Captain John Brown and
party came there, and after taking some
property, and questioning Ilirrisand others.
Sherman was a«ked to wMk. out. Mr. liar
!is, in His affidavit says: ‘Old Brown hskel
Mr. Sherman to go out with him, and Sher
man then went cut with Brown. I heard
nothing more for about fifteen minutes.—
Two of the * northern army/ as they styled
themselves, stayed with us until they heard
il cap burst, and then tlieso two men left.—
Next morning, about ten o'clock, I found
William Sherman deadjn the creek near my
house." I was looking for him ; as he had
not come hack I thought ho had been mur
dered. I took Mr. William Sherman (bocty)
out of the creek and examined it. Mrs,*
Whiteman was with me. Sherman's skull
was split dfibfl in two places, and some of
his brains were washed out by the water; a
large hole was cut in his breast, and his left
cut off, except a little piece of skin
on one side.'’
“ This was the 24th of May, I will read
from the same paper another extract;
“ When the news of. the tbrealonod fliego
of Lawrence reached John Brown, Jr,, who
iras a member of the Tupoka Legislature, ho
organized a company of about sixty men and
marched towards Lawrence. Arriving at
Palmyra, he learned of the sacking, of the
town, and tlje position of the people. lie
reconnoiterod for a time in the vicinity, but
finally marched back towards Ossnwatomio.
The night before reaching that place, when
only a few miles away, they criaiped for the
night. Old John Brown, who, wo believe,
was with the plirty, (tingled out, with him
self, seven men. These he marched to a
poin* eight miles above the mouth* of Pottaw
atomie creek, and called from their beds, at
their several residences, at the hour of mid
night, on the 24th of May, Allen Wilkinson.
William Sherman, William P. Doyle, Wil
liam Doyle, and Drury Doyle. All wore
found the next morning, by the road side,
■or in the highway, some with a gash in their
heads and sides, and their throats cut; oth
ers with their skulls split open in two places,
with holes in their breasts, and hands cut
off."
“ 110 seems to have had a great passion
for cutting off hands.
“ No man in Kansas has pretended to deny
that old John Brown lod that murderous for
ay which massacred those men. Bp to that
period not a hair of John Brown’s head, or
that of his sons, had been injured by the pro
slavery party. ,
“ It was not until the 30th of August,
three months after the Pottawatomie massa
cre, that tho attack was made on Ossawate
mio by the pro-slavery forces, and Frederick
Brown, a son of old John, was killed.
“ To show all the facta in regard to the
massacre of the 24th of May, I will read to
tho Senate the affidavits of sonu of the eye
witnesses of the transaction. Allen Wilkin
•son-was-a-member-of-the- Kansas- Legisla
ture—a quiet, inoffensive man. Ilia widow,
Louisa Jane Wilkinson, testified that on the
night of tho 24th of May, ISSG, between tho
hours of, midnight and day-break, she thinks,
a party of men camo to the -house whore
they wore residing, and forcibly carried her
husband away; and they took him in the
name of tho 1 northern army.’ and that next
morning ho was found, about one hundred
and fifty yards from the house, dead. Mrs.
Wilkinson was very ill at tho time, of mea
sles. She snys-further-!
‘ " I bogged them to let Mr. Wilkinson stay
with mo, saying that I was sick and help
less, arid could not stay by myself. My
husband also asked them to, let him stay with
me until he could get somo one to wait on
mo ; told then! that ho wuuld not run off, but
he would be there tho next day, or whenever
called for’; tho old man, who seemed to be in
command, looked at me, and then around at
tbo children, and replied, ‘you have neigh
bors/ I said ‘so I have, but they are not
hero, and I cannot go for them/ The old
man replied, lit matters not/ and told him
to get ready. My husband wanted to put on
his hoofs, and get ready, so as to bo protected
from the damp and night air, but .they would
not lot him. TP hoy then took ihy husband
away. * * * * * *
“ After they were gene, I thought I heard
my husband’s voice.in complaint. * *
V-Noxt^norning-Mr.-WilkinsonVbody was
found about ono hundred and fifty yards
from tho house, in somo dead brush. A la
dy who saw my husband’s body oaid that
there was u gash in his head and side. Oth
orb said that ho’was cut in tho throat twice/ 1
44 Mr. Doyl'e and his sons were murdered
on tho same night with Sherman and Wilk
inron; and Mrs. Boyle’s deposition gives
this account of it:
(Here follows several depositions.)
“ wrote a letter to John Brown
during his imprisonment, showing that she
still regarded him as the murderer of her
husband and children :
44 Chattanooga, Tgnn., )
'• Nov. 29, 1859. ]
14 John Brown —Sir: Although vengeance
is not mine, I confess that I do fool gratified
to hear tlmtynu were stopped in your fiend
ish career at Harper’s Ferry, with the loss of
your two sons. You can now appreciate my
distress in Kansas, when y ? ou then and there
entered my houseat midnight, and arrested
my husband and two boys and took them out
of the yard, and in cold bloodshot them dead
in my hearing. You cannot say you did it
to free our slaves—we had none, and never
expected to own one; but it has only made
mo a | our, discwfrolate widow, with helpless
children. While I feel for your folly, Ido
hope and trust you will moot with just re
ward. o.', how it pained my heait to hear
the dying groans of my husband and chil
dren I If this scrawl gives you any consola
tion you are welcome to it.
44 Mahala Doyle.
44 N. B.—My son, John Doyle, whooe life
I beggedfof you, is now grown up, and is very
desirous to be at Charleston on the day of
your execution ; he would certainly bo there
if his mo,.ns would permit it, that ho might
adjust tho rope around your neck, if Gover
nor Wise would permit. M. D.”
44 Three months after Wm. Doyle and hia
two sons were murdered, three .months rjtcr
Sherman wds murdered, his skull cut open
in two places, and tho stream had washed
the blood out of hia cranium—three months
after that, John Brown’s son ’was killed at
Osaawatomio. Then, what becomes of this
excuse? Why this apology for a man like
tbis? : Three months after ho had committed
this fiendish act, his son lost bis life at tho
battle of Ossawatomio, It was on that night
about 11 o’clock, as testified by Mrs. Doyle,
as testified by her son, as testified by Mr.
Harris—theses men, innocent, unoffending
-men—wero-takcn^ut^nrid^n^tho'midiTrgirt
hour, mid in the forest, and on tho road side,
foil victims to tho insatiate thirst of John ■
Brown for blood. Then it was that those
murders were committed, that hell entered
his heart, not tho iron his soul. Then it was
•that lie shrank from the dimensions of a hu
man being,.into those of a reptile. Then it
was, if nub before, that ho changed his char
acter to a demon who had lost al] the 'virtues
of a man. • And you talk about sympathy
lor John Brown !
‘‘John Brown Stands before the country a
murderer. The enormity, the extraordinary
ferociousness of the father set the son mad.
like that of sacrificed Abel—cried even from
the tongueles* caverns of the earth to him fur
pity, and to Heaven for justice; but his iron
heart, not soul, refused to yield ; but Heaven,
in the process of time, has meted out to him
justice on the gallows. Justice divine to
punish sin moves slow—Lhe slower its pace,
the surer is its blow. It will overtake us if
living—it will overtake iis if dead. Justice
has overtaken its victim, and he has gone to
eternity with crimsoned hands, with blood
upon his head.
“ But the Senator talks about the qchool in
which John Brown was taught. Why, sir,
Juhn Brown, according to his own confession,
had entertained these ideas for twenty years.
John Brown did not go to Kansas to go to
school, lie went there as a teacher on the
24th of May. At the midhour of nighf, from
the wife and the mother, ho dragged the hus
band and two son?, and imbrued his hands
in their blood. Those were the doctrines
that lie went there to teach. lie did not go
there to be taught; but ho went there as a
teacher. These were his teachings. Imag
ine the cries and lamentations on the one
hand, and the shrieks of the dying and the
mutilated on the other. I think sometimes
that I hear shrieks, so loud, so wdd, so clear,
that even listening arigels stoop from Heaven
to hear. This is the man for whom an apo
logy is offered. I did the Senator the justice
to say that ho disclaimed rill sympathy with
Brown, and yet I read what, in fact, was an
apology. What furthermore did the Senator
say? Wo have shown, and the fact is not
controverted, that ho rnurdered five human
beings on May 2-ldi. They have shown, in
trying to answer this, that his son did not re
receive this ill-treatmopt from Captain Pate
until the Irtst day of* May. Wo-have shown
that his other son was not killed until Au
gust 30th. Let us remember these facts, and
come to the old man as a thief and a
murderer. I wrint all those modern fanatics
who have adopted John Brown and his gal
lows as their Christ and their ptoss, to see
who their Christ is. The Senator says again :
“ I regret that gentlemen,.in speaking of
this man Brown, should be pleased to speak
of him as a robber, or a thief, or a vagabond,
in’tho ordinary sense of the term. Sir, it is
of the essence of robbery and theft, that tho
rubber or thief who robs or steals should act
from the desire of gain. Certainly no such
charge can be made against this man, as that
he was actuated with the lust of gain, lie
acted from far different motives. ,lfo sought
to give liberty to the enslaved, and laid down
his life for that purpose—freely and bravely
did he do it.”
“ That is, you may steal and commit theft
if you do-it to aid in tho cause of tho aboli
tion of slavery. Have wo any proof that this’
is bo?. What does Mrs. Wilkinson say in
her affidavit? When John Brown and his
comrades were there on the 24th, when they
took Wilkinson oat and murdered him, just
before they, left they took his property arid
Ins only hofso. I suppose they needed the
horse to aid in the emancipation of slaves!.
Horse stealing is carried on to agreat extent
sometimes in a frontier country. Mrs. Doyle
states that they inquired where their horse
was, and wore told it was out on thc’praiiie.
What took place at Harper’s Ferry ? They
took Col. Washington’s silver and his watch.
What does he admit in his own confession?
Timt ho, during tho last winter, had stolen,
had kidnapped, and run off eleven slaves
from the State ot Missouri to Kansas. That
is not stealing, though ; I suppose that is not
theft, that is not robbery; and wo ought not
to talk about this old mnu as stealing in the
common acceptation of the term ? What is
it. I ask tho country, I ask tho Senate, if it
is not stealing, robbery, highway robbery ?
And yet these things arc thrown out, poihaps
•not intended, but they do operate as an apo*
excuse in tho minds of many, for
the infamy, the murders, the thieving, tho
treacherous conduct of this old man Brown,
who was nothing mure than a murderer, a
robherra'thief mid iTtraltrir.
. I chink,, Mr. President, that so far ks John
Brown is concerned, the facts which I have
presented stand uncontroverted. The Sena
tor has failed to touch them, lie has n-/t re
moved them, but has added strength and ad
ditional proof to what I said in ircfernco to
them. It was not ui3 r intention to consume
this lengsh of time, and I should not have
said a single word on the subject if the reso
,lotions could have been adopted without dis
cussion, and especially so if a reference had
not been made to John Brown not being a
murderer and a /thief, involving the reputa
tion and character of some of the citizens of
my own State;
“ There does seem to bo a providential in
terposition in this affair. Brown murdered
Doyle and bis two sons. Doyle left a widow
and four helpless children. Justice seemed
to be a little tardy ; but it kept constantly in
pursuit of its victim, and but a short time
since the man who murdered Doyle and his
two sons, fell a victim, with his two sonsi at
Harper's Ferry. Ido not say that this was
a stroke of Providence ; bat it was a singe-?
lar coincidence. Ho whoso, hands wore red,
crimson with the blood of a father and two
sons, fell a victim at Harper’s Ferry with his
own two sons. It seems that Divine Provi
dence intended it as a rebuke, an illustration
that justice will not only overtake its-victim,
but will mete out justice in a similar manner.
“ I think, Mr. President, that I have shown
the tendency of the policy to which I have
.called Whether it has been de
signed at all times by those who preached it
or not, I shall not. undertake-to say, but I
will say that the effect of that kind of teach
ing has been the result which is so evident;
and I want to say now in po iipiiit ,of-boast
ing, to my friends East and Woss, North and
South, that the time has arrived when en
croachments on the institutions of the South
should cease ; the time has arrived, when wo
Ijavo well nigh done niaking appeals to you
on the subject; but all we ask of you is. that,
as brothers of the same great Confederacy,
you will understand and carry oat the Con
stitution as it is, and lot us cease this bick
ering. Let us cease this agitation, and stand
upon the Constitution as the comman altar,
and maintain all its guarantees, arp^.swear
bv our fathers and the God who made us that
tiio Constitution and its guarantees shall bo
preserved ; and, in doing so, wo shall pre
serve the Union ; and, in preserving the
Union, we shall have peace and harmony, and
irh.o^TTQ^TTi7ile?i — which has visited
our country will continue to go on."
It is fortunate for the cause of tnith and
.justice, and for the future historian of this
terrible civil war, that tile correct history of
old John Brown’s inauguration of the policy
of flio Republican^or Abolition party, was
made by so eminent an authority as Presi
dent Johnson ; and it is especially fortunate
that this record was made in the Senate ot
the United States. It is a part of the dehates
of that body, Where it stands unoontradicted
and unrelated-. -It-was an endorsement of
the policy of this rnidor.and murderer, by tbo
North, tlir.t started ond aroused the South,
and finally drove it into secession ; for John
Brown’s raid was endorsed by tlio North.—
From almost every church and school-house,
the voice of prayer and lamentation wont up
to Almighty God, canonizing his name and
endorsing his infamy. - The whole Republi
can press lent its support to this abomination;
and with entire consistency, when the Now
England soldiers marched through this city,
they made it hideous as hell by singing and
shouting “John Brown's sflul is inarching
on." So it is, wo have little doubt, marching
o>i, through seas of fire, in company with
fiends, thieves'and asssassins, such as. wore
bis companions and abettors in this lifo,--
So it is, generally speaking, marching
on to the music of despotism, ignorance, re
venge rind lust, that swells-up like a gorgon
from the bottomless pit, out of the brazen
throats of the negro-worshipping mobs 1—
Marching on, as a pestilence or contagion, or
a thing of horror and death marches on 1 —
Behind its march are the wails of widows,
the screams of children, the vain implora
tions of defenceless old men, and the l/umill
ation of manhood. Before it, the insane gib
berish and fantastic dance of negroes, of both
the white and. black complexion, making
night and day hideous with infernal delight.
Marching on ! —alas, poor country 1 alas, hu
man nature 1 Wliy do wo write those things
now? Because wo love, and would save our
country. Because wo would bring our coun
trymen of the, North to their Senses, by hold
ing up the John Brown raid ns a glass fur
them to see tlieir faces in.—Wo -would re
mind them that there is both a Ood and 7u's
iory, and that justice arid truth, sooner or la
tor, will whip all the shams and lies out of
the records of human events. If the South
has fellies to repent of, wo have crimes,
crimes which will rollout of their ('raves and
hunt us like demons through the world.—
Vainly do wo seek to assure ourselvop, by
shutting our oyes and saying, verily, what d
good people are wet There is an oyo that wo
oaryiot shut. There is an arm that-we can
not stay. Time is an inexorable avenger of
all" mens’ wrongs; and time will strip us
bare to the bone, and show what a carcass of
frauds and shams wo are. Wo repeat again,
the last four years of Republican rule have
been a stupendous John Brown raid. Logi
cally, constitutionally, they have been just
that, and nothing more. What we dare to
say-is -this,-that-Jolin-Brown-hn'4~asTuuch
Constitution and law for what he did, as the
Republican administration had for what it
has done. This U what wo say, and no load-
ing Republican dare attempt tq debate thr
merits of the question with us before the* peo
ple. ( They dare coll names; but they dare
not debate., ( Wo love truth and respect jus
tice above all things. L , We hold no opinion
which wo will not gladly submit to the test
of fair argument and debate ; but these irai*
tors of the John Brown school dare not ar
gue. They carry'all points by singing,
shouting, upd mobbing. Their throats are
trumpets, and their brains gongs and sound*
ing-boards.
.. M’Donald Clark.— Everybody remembers -
M’Uunald Clark, who was so well known in
Now York a few years since as the “ mad
poet.” Every one know Clark by sight, and
.one day, while, quietly taking his dinner al
the Astor Ilonso, two young sprigs of fashion,
seating themselves opposite, commenced a
conversation intended for the oars of Clark*
One said s
“ Well I bare been in New York two
months and have seen all I wish to.see, with
one exception.”
“ Ah,” said the other, *' what is that?”
“ M'Donald Clark, the great poet,” respon
ded No. 1, with groat emphasis.
. Clark raised his eyes slowly from Ms plate,
and, seeing.the attention of the table was on
him, stood up, placed his hand over his heart,
and, bowing with gravity to the young men,
said ;
“ I am M’Donald Clark, the greijt poet.”
The poung gents started in mock surprise,
gazed at him in silence for a few moments,
and then, amid an audible titter of the com
pany, one of them drew from his pocket a,
quarter of a dollar, and laid it |}cforo Clark
still looking at him. without a.smile. Clark
raised the quarter in silence and dignity,
placed it in his,pocket, and drew thence a
chilling which ho deposited before the young
gent with these words :
“Children half price 1”
Tlio titter changed to a roar, and the ex
quisites were missing instantly.
Peril op a Revivalist.^—An anecdote is
told of Fenny, the ‘ revivalist,’ and a canal
or, to the following effect:
He was “ holding forth” ,in Rochester, and
in walking along the canal one day, carao
across a boatman who was swearing furious
ly. Marching up, ho confronted him and
abruptly asked:
“Sir, do you know where you are going?"
The unsuspecting man innocently replied
that ho was going up the canal on the boat
Johnny Sands.
“ No, sir, you are not,” continued Fenny ;
“ you .arc going to hell faster than a canal
boat will convey yon.”
The boatman looked at him in astonish*,
ment for a. minute, and then returned tho
same .nustion :
“ Sir, do you know where you aro going ?"
“ I expect to go to heaven.”
“ No, air, you are going into the canal”
And suiting tho action to tho word ho took
Fenny into his arms and tossed him into tho
murky waters, whore ho would have drownefl
out.
Genuine Eloquence.—Them are no peo
ple in the world with whom eloquence is so
universal as with the Irish, when Leigh
Ritchie was traveling in',lreland, be passed
a man who was a painful spectacle of pallor,
squalor, and x'aggedness. Ilis heart smote
him, and ho turned back.
“ If you are in want,” said Ritchie, “ why
don’t you beg ?”
‘‘Surely, it’s begging I am, yer honor."
“ You did’nt say a word."
“ Of course not, yer honor, but see how the
skin is spakin’ through the trowsers! and the
bones cryin’ out through me skin 1 Look’ at
nio sunken cheeks, and the famine that's
starin’ in me eyes J Man alive, isn’t it hog
gin’ X am with a thousand tongues ?”
X©* A retired cheesemonger, who.hated
any allusion to the business that had enrich-,
ed him, said to Charles Lamb in the course
of a discussion on the power of laws :
‘‘ You must boar in mind, sir, that I have
got rid of t(iat sort of stuff which you poets
call the ‘ milk of human kindness.’ ”
, Lamb looked at him steadily and gave ac
quiescence in these pithy words: “ Yes, lam
aware of that; you turned it into choose se
veral years ago.”
K 7 “; A pd3l-o,fllce clerk tolls the following:
“ A man called at our one
day," when I happened for the moment to bo
engaged elsewhere in the office. lie whis
tled loudly. I stepped to the window and
savagely inquired: .“Whoso dog are you
whistling far.?” “One of Uncle Sam’s bull
pups,” taiafhb, quite composedly. I had
nothing to stly. lie evidently ciir-tailcd his
answer.
KT'. ’ .Why.d'd ypu leave your last place?’
inquired a young housekeeper about to en
gage a now servant. ‘ Why, you see, ma’am,’
replied the applicant, ‘I was toe good-look;
ing, and when I opened the door folks took’
mo for the missus.’’
At Rheims a will has been set aside
for “ ingratitUdo’V-a cause known to the
Code Napoleon. The ingratitude was of a
very decided character, for it consisted in
murdering the testator.
O” As people usually sprinkle the floors
before they sweep them, says an old bache
lor, so some ladies sprinkle their husbands
with’ tears in order that they may sweep the
cash out of their pockets.
TO* One of the Western editors speaking
of a largo *ahd fat oo'tempprary, remarked
th it if all flesh was grass, ho must be a load
of hay. “ I expect I am,” said the fat mam
“ from the way the asses are nibbling at me.”
O' “ Now mind you,” whispered a sort
vant girl to her neighbor, “ I don’t say
how missus drinks; but, between you and
mo, the decanter dont’t keep full all day.”
SSflf a lady is asked bow many rings she
has, can say with truth there is no end to
them.
O” A Tall young man. if ho is rich, is a
Maypole for the girls to danoo around.
O'At a pic nio at Albany, on Wedneday,
two wooden-logged men ran a rood for $25.
BO" The hotel-keepers nt Boston have,
agreed to reduce their rates of charges fifty
lay--:
O” A silver cradle has been presented to
the Lord Mayoress of Liverpool for h#r i»*
font.
HO. k.