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ANDREW 11. BLAIR,
-Just received and fo
rs pricbs, a largo assort
" poetical.
“S 0 M E DAY.”
[“ Somo day” is the burden of many a
song that’s never done into rythm. Florence
Percy has thus given one of them :]
You smooth the tangles from my hair
With gentle tone 1 ! and tenderest care,
And count the years ere you shall mark,
Bright silver threads among the dark—
Smiling the while to hear me say -
- 1 You’ll think of this again some day,”
- Some day 1
I do not snore the power of Time,
Nor count on years of fadeless prime, •
But no white gleams will ever shine
Among these heavy looks of mine ;
Ay, laugh as gaily as you moy,
You’ll think of this again, some day,
Some day 1
Some day I I shall not feel as now,
Your soft hands move about my brow—
I shall not slight your light commands,
And draw the long braids thro* my hands
I shall be silent and obey—
And you—you will not laugh that day
Some day I
I know how long your loving hands
"Will finger with these glossy bands,
When you shall weave my last crown
Of these thick braidings, long and brown
But you will see no touch of gray
Aduwn their shining length that day—
Some day I
And while your tears are falling hot
Upon the lips which answer not,
You'll take from those one treasured tress.
And leave the rest to silcntness—
Remembering that I used to say,
” You’ll think of this again', some day
Some day I
Rlimllnneous.
THE BURGLARS CAUGHT.
A Hnslimnn ns a Thief Taber.
Wo lived in a terrace at the time in which
nur tulo is laid, in what we may term a sub
district of London, for we were within five
miles of Charing Crfiss, and the dark month
of December was upon us. Robberies had
been qnitc frequent in the neighborhood, and
no less than three houses out of the ten in
the terrace had been entered by burglars and
robbed, and yet no discovery of the thieves,
had taken place. So had the work
of entry been accomplished, that, in no case,
iiad the inmates been alarmed; and it was
not until the servants' descended in the morn
ing that the discovery of a robbery was made.
In two of these cases an entry had been ef
fected through a pantry window, by remnv--
jng a pane of glass, and cutting a sriiaH hole
in the shutter. This wjndow was on the
"grounil floTr, and coliTc] easily*~bo reached,
• therefore, from outside. In the third rob
bery, an upper window was entered by means
of a knife, which forced back the fastening,
and, of course,"allowed the sash to be raised.
So rapi ily had the robberies occurred that
the whole neighborhood was alarmed. The
police shook their heads and looked knowing
ly, but did nothing/and what was much to
be lamented, failed to find any clue to the
robbers, who, they at the time asserted, were
evidently not regular cracksmen.
Affairs had reached such a stage, that we
us6d to sleep with a revolver close to our
heads, when we happened to have a friend
who caiUe to stay with us a few days. Tina*
friend was an old jungle-hunter, and was an
jait at eveiy artifice by which the animal
creation might be captured. He was delight
ed with the idea df having an adVenture with
burglars, acd scorned' the belief that-they
were more than a match in cunning for even
the.averago bush hunter. It-was in vain that
wo assured him it was an axiom that an ac
complished robber could effeefan entrance
into any house; *and instruments wore
used of such a nature as to cut boles in doors
without noise, and, in facti" that through
roofs and skylights, down fchirimeys and .up
water spouts, an accomplished burglar' could
easily enter the beet defended house in the
kingdom.
Our friend’s argument was that a burglar
was a man on watch, who took advantage of
the residents.being asleep and unsuspecting ;
■“ but,” said ho, lot my suspicions be raised,
and I will defy any burglar to enter my
house without my having dub warning; be
cause, although I may be asleep, still I hear
his approach, and can then rtiakemy arrange*
ments to welcome him.”
Although wo were not desirous of having
our house-robbed, yet we wished much that
our friend’s confidence should be taken out
of him.
A few days after this conversation the po
lice informed us that several suspicious char
acters had been seen about; and recommend
ed us to be on the alert. Here, then, was a
good opportunity to test my friend’s skill and
wakefulness ; so having informed him of the
policeman’s warning I asked him if he felt,
confident to undertake the defense of the
house.
“ Certainly,” he replied ; “ I only demand
a dark lantern, and stipulate that you. have
tl pair of goJoshegT beside yo'up bed. I also
must go to bad last, and no servant is to go
down stairs before me in the morning; nor
is any one to walk about during the night;
then I will defy the burglars.”
Thus it was agreed that my friend was to
act the part of guardian; and was to com-,
mence his charge on the ensuing night.
, Three nights had passed and no alarms had
occurred, and no robberies takf.n place, we
began to think our alarms had bpen. ground
less; but our friend said that now was the
time he most guarded, for that no wise
burglar would rob them when ho was expec*
ted ; besides, he said, that wo have not had
a windy night yet; it is when doorsaud win
dows rumbled that robberies are best effect
ed, thus, lie said, he did not give up hopes of
yet having something to say to; the robbers
before his visit terminated.
I usually sleep very lightly, and therefore
awoke readily on hearing a tap at my bed
room door. during the fourth' night of our
watch.' It was my friend's’ Voice that an
swered mo, and we were requested to come
out at once.
“ As soon as I strike a lucifer match,” I
replied.
*■ Nonsense, man; a light will spoil tho
whole thing. Come,in the dark; .slip on ;a
dressing gown; and your goloshes and come
at once^”
I was soon provided ns -ho- wished, and
ready to descend the stairs in the dark.
“ Now remember,” said friend, 11 there
"OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT.RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.”
are seven steps to tjie first landing, twelve
others afterwards, so be careful to descend
without noise.” ,
The night was boisterous, and many a win
dow and door shook and rattled, so that the
slight noise we made in descending the stairs
was not sufficient to have alarmed even the
most keen-eared listener. We descended th
the ground floor, entered the pantry,, and
then standing perfectly still, devoted our
selves to listening.
In a very fow seconds wo heard a’ grating
noise on the shutter, then an interval of qui
et, and again a noise ; presently the window
was lightly raised and again all was quiet.—
The noise of a heavy vehicle passing the
house seemed to afford.an opportunity for a
more decided effort, for while the rattle uf I ho
wheels was loudest, a crack sounded from the
shutter, and we could hear that the holt was
forced, (or the shutter was gently moved. -
“ Don't stir till I do, and hold your breath
if possible,’* whispered my. friend in my ear.
1 found the latter a difficult request to com
ply with, for my heart was beating with ra
pidity, and thumping against my ribs in the
most excited way ; stilhl—etoed quiet and
trusted to my friend.
Nothing could bo more cautious than the
proceedings of the robbers. The shutter was
pushed back in the most slow and steady
manner. Had there been even h bell fasten
ed to it, I doubt whether it would have been
made to ring. At intervals there was a rest
from work, evidently for the purpose of lis
tening, and then one of the robbers placed
his leg across the window sill, and lightly
descended into the pantrv.
The night, even out of doors, was very dark
and in the corner where wo stood it was
as Erebus. Our forms, therefore, were
quite undistinguishable, and the only chance
of discovering us was by touching or bearing
ns.
The first burglar was soon followed by a
sccon 1, while wo could hear that a third, who
was outside, was to lenmin there on watch.
“ Now, let’s light up,” said number two.
“ Not yet, till you push the shutter to,” re
plied the othpr, “or the glim’ll he seen.—
Then 5011 come and hold the box.”
The.-'shuttcr was quietly pushed to and
both robbers moved auvay a few paces from
the window by which they entered. By the
quiet way in which they walked, it was evi
dent they were either without shoes, or had
india rubber coverings. Of their size and
weapons we could see nothing, and I began
to doubt whether our position was an agree
able one, as I was armed only with a sword ;
a weapon, however, I know how to use, while
ol my friend’s means of defence I knew no
thing.
1 had not long to wait, for a .lucifer was
struck by one of the men immediately, and
the room consequently lighted up; at the
same instant my friend drew up the side of
his dark lantern and flashed the light in the
faces of the two men, at the same time show
ing the muzzle of a revolver pointed toward
them.
‘ If either of you move I’ll put a couple of
bullets in him,’ said my friend, as he placed
his buck against the window by which Iho
‘men had entered.
‘ Now, drop that crow-bar,’ ho continued
in a voice of nuthorit'
you,’ he said to me, ‘ pull open the shutter
and shout for the police.’
The idea usually entertained of a burg
lar is that he is a man of great size, strength
and daring, and that he would, in an encoun
ter, annihilate any moderate man. When,
then, the light revealed the faces and the
forms, of the then wo had captured, our hum
ble self, although no great pugilist, yet felt
able to defeat either of them if it came fb a
matter of flats ; and I must own that the paio
and astonished faces of the men wore not in
dicative of any very great courage.
Our shout for police was shortly answered ;
and the burglars, having been subdued by
the sight of the revolver, the muzzle of which
pointed first at one and then at the other,
were captured by the police, three of whom
were speedily on the spot, and conveyed to
the lock-up, whilst wo and a detective who
had been brought down from London some
days previously, examined the details by
which the burglars had effected dn "entrance.
‘ You were very, lucky to hear them, espe
cially on such a night,’ said the detective;
I when onc6 they’re in, they move like mice.
Wo know, them, and I expect they’ll get sev
en years.’
Thb man was about correct, for one. the
older offender, was sentenced to six, the oth
er to five years’ penal servitude.
* It will, I suppose, be of no use trying to
ele'ep again to night, for it’s three o’clock,’
said my friend.
' • * I cannot sleep/ was my reply, ‘and lam
dying to hear how you found out . that these
men were approaching the house/
Being then of one mind, we partly robed
ourselves, lighted a fire iu the kitcherT, and
soon, being provided with segars and grog,
got very coihfortable, and satisfied with our
work. My friend then began his account,
which he gave much in the following words :
* The burglar, as I told you, has usually
the advantage of surprise ; he can select the 1
time at-which bo makes his attack, and if
his proceedings are carried on cautiously, he
enters a house before he is heard. Few men
would, however, venture to do so, unless they
previously had good information ns to the in
terior arrangements of the house ; this they
obtain cither, from the ' servants, tradesmen,
or some one who visits the locality, or they
come themselves as tramps, or with some tri
fle to sell. Thus if there are bells attached
to the doors or windows, they find it out;
and they know tolerably well the domestic
arrangements of the locality, they propose
trying their skill upon. There are, too, con
ventional methods of protecting a house, such
as bolts, bars, chains, locks, &c., all of which
require merely time and proper instruments
overcome. It therefore occurred to me
that novelty and simplicity combined would
be more than a match for the coarse Intellect
of the burglar, and thus I made my plans,
which, you see, answered very well/
‘No doubt about that/ wo replied.
‘Well now, come up to my room/ he con
tinued, ‘and seo the nparntue/
We entered his room, and there, close be
side his pillow was a tin box, in tho bottom
of-which was a key. .
‘This is nearly all the aparatus/ ho said;
1 but you notice some thread fastened to the
key. Trace that thread, and you will find it
passes through that small hole-in-the sash.
From there it goes down to' the back yard,
and now you will comprehend ray plan. L
knew that no man could-approach the back
part of the house without walking up the
backyard', which is only four yards wide. I
! therefore tied across tho backyard, and about
two feet from tho ground, some fine,black
thread. This was aiade fast on tho one side
but slipped through a loop, and Ud up to my
window on tho other. The thread then-pass
ed the hplo Thud bore\J in the window-.sash ;
and.it was then made fast to this key. Un
der tho sash.l placed the 1 tin box you see;
and over tho key was a bar to prevent its bo-
CARLISLE, PA.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1865.
ing dragged up more than six inohesl Each
night, before I went to bed, I just drew the
String tight) and fastened it in the yard, ta
king care to free it before morning, so is to
keep the plan a secret. If then, a mni, or
anything above two feet high, walked npl the
yard, the string was pressed against, thelkey
was drawn up sharply against the bar, and
the string broken when the key of ooirso
fell into the tin box, making quite noise
enough to wake mo, Immediately after
the string or , thread broke, it would fall
to the ground and the person who hud
done this would not have felt anything,
the resistance being so slight. I must iwn
I shculd have preferred horse-hair to thread,
but as it was the latter.answered very yvoll.
I was fast asleep when the key fell, but im
mediately awoke, and taking my lantern out
side ray door, lighted it, and came to yours ;
for I knew that a man only in the back yard,
ceuld“lmve dropped my key;' So now you
see how the burglars were trapped, for you
know all the rest.”
“ Certainly, succeeded, and so wc
ought not to be"critical” we replied.' '* But
suppose they had Entered by the front-win
dow, instead of by the back, howthen ?”
‘‘You see this thread,” lie said, grasping
one that was near the door; pull it.”
I did so, am} immediately a tin cup drop
ped into the hand basin.
“ That thread goes down stairs, and is fas
tened across the front window ; but I broke
that off as I went out of my room, so that it
should not impede my journey down stairs.
Thus I could at once know whether a man
was approaching the back door or had enter
ed by the front window, and. in either case,
I think 1 could have captured him.”
Simplicity lin'd certainly been adopted in
the present case, but the means had shown
themselves to be efficient.
“ People nre usually very silly,” continu
ed our friend, “whenthey hear,-or think they
hear, suspicions noises of a night. The first
thing they usually do is to light a candle,
which proclaims to the robber that ho has
been hoard and must escape; then thov go
about the house with this candle, and make
a great noise, so,that a man may have plen
ty of time to get away, or to hide himself.—
Instead of this, if a person were to listen in
tently, ho would ho able" to hear any suspi
cious noises distinctly, and decide upon their
cause ; then, ns he must know his own house
better than a robber he is the best off of the
two in the dark, and when, after arming him
self, he has quietly opened his door, ho may
wait and listen until t‘io robbers are heard
moving around, when he may take such
steps as may seem necessary. If every per
son were merely to plan what was to be done
in case of robbers entering the house, and
then were to carry out this if the occasion
required it, burglary would bo too danger
ous and unsuccessful a proceeding to be pop
ular or profitable, and thus might be given
up for more honest moans of obtaining a live
lihood ; so that really we may consider our
selves to.havs done the community at large
a benefit when wo captured one of these gen
try ; whilst those who allow their houses.to
be robbed with impunity, jeopardize their
neighbor’s property.
with it: and
—-EACECLE_==l£aiij)dJslm_fallpAv.mf;-g;Qiii"j:liG
rounds of tho country press. Wo wonder if
the story has any connection with a scene
which was related.some months ago ns hap
pening in the parlor of a banker on Broad
way :
Last summer a bank clerk in New York
stole $lOO,OOO. Ho lost the money, by * fight
ing the tiger/ lie then called upon a law
yer and informed him that he was a ruined
man and thought of suicide. This led to the
following dialogue :
“ How much does your defalcation amouni
to ?”
“ One hundred thousand dollars.”
” Got any of it lef(: ?”
“ Not a cent.”
“That’s had; you'have left nothing to
work with.”
“ What must be done?”
“You must return to your desk and ab
stract another hundred thousand.”
“ What must I do that, (or ?”
“ To preserve your character and save you
from going to the State prison. With*the
hundred thousand dollars yoii are to steal to
morrow I intend to compromise with the
bank. Your stealings after to-morrow will
amount to $200,000. f will call at the bank
arid confess your offence; I will represent
myself ns your heart-broken uncle, * honest,
but poor/ I will offer, the bank $50,000 to
hush up tho matter. ..The lank will accept.
This will leave $50,000 to divide between me
and you—that is $25,000 a piece. With this'
sum you can retire from business.”
The, young man listened and took on’wis
dom. lie doubled his defalcation and com
promised as the lawyer said be should. He
is now worth $250,000, and is counted “ one
of the most respectable gentlemen in the city
of New York.”
OUT* John Bowers was smitten nt Old La
tham's—a jolly old fellow, blessed with two
very John was as regular
in his visits ns Sunday itself, but one memo
rable Sunday, when the house was filled with
beaux and belles, old Latham issued forth to
his work. John followed him from the house
and began.
‘ Nice lot of Mr. Latham,’ said John
by way of introduction.
‘ Yes—pretty pood pork, John, if I only
have luck,’ said old Latham, who really liked
him, and often scolded his daughters for the
fun they made of him,
John was silent for a. few minutes, but nt
length, with n terrible unconcerned look at
some wheat stacks a mile distant, ho said,
gaspingly;
‘ Mr. Latham, I—l—come courtin’, air.’
. ‘ Well, John,’ said the old man, amused,
‘ young men will do that now-a-days. I hope
you are getting on all right?’
1 Yes, sir,’ said John, taking courage; ‘ and
I come to tax yon for one 6’ your daughters.’
‘Oh!’ said old Latham, biting his lips,
‘ you’ve come to that,. already, have you,
John? Well, which one is it, John?’
‘ Oh, sir, as to that’—said poor John, with
a ludicrous air of serene sheepishness— 1 as
to that, sir, it don’t make any difference; ei
ther nlie’ll do , sir !’
Old Latham used to toll the ; story after
ward, much to his pretty daughter’s discom
fiture.
fi©" - Three years ago, says the Boston Post,
a young lady in Nashua knitted a pair of
drawers for. a soldiers’ fair and in them en
closed her address. The soldier .who drew
the drawers corresponded with her, and now
the loving hearts are one. Pretty, isn’t it,
and romantic ?
O’ Artemns Ward says that ns a ,Son of
Temperance ho believes in temperance hutelp
though, asa.general thing,, they soli poorer
liquors than the other sort!
THE CIIfILBBA AT CONSTANTINOPLE,
Thrilling Scenes , as Described hyaft Eye Wit
ness—2,ooo Dying at btamboul in a 'Single
Day~To(al Mortality at -Constantinople Esti
mated at from 60,000 to 80,000,
To the Editor of the London Times :
Sir: Thointoroat-with which the progress
of the cholera in the East has been watched,
and the very meagre, and even incorrect, in
formation which has been transmitted by
telegrams, leads me- to think that further ex
tracts from the letters of a resident? of 'Con
stantinople may not bo unacceptable to some
of your readers.
The writer of them escaped an attack of.
the more prevalent malady; bub not that of
a more insiduous disease, the floating seeds
of which he must have boon conscious he was
absorbing. The,hiatus in his sketchoj indi
cates when this took place. The ardent ad
mirers of the picturesque ought- nor to-reflect
with any feeling of regret that the many
reeking dons of contagion which constituted
so glorious a panorama, when viewed from
afar, are now smouldering.heaps of ‘rubbish-.
“ August s.—llffro is an opinion of an un
dertaker about cholera : * My own opinion is,
that the poison of the cholera'is in every
man’s Mood ; if anything is eaten which has
an affinity with the poison the disease is pro
duced.’
“August 6, Sunday.—What a change in
the gayest and moat dissipated of European
cities ! The shop-keepers in their gay dres
ses, the mounted swells miking their horses
prance and looking round for a little admir
ation, the groups of idlers waiting outside tho
churches, self-constituted critics on the points
of female beauty-as the'congregation breaks
up, the singing in the cafes, the boats deqp
rated with flags and crowded with laughing
holiday-makers, have disappeared from the
scene, and gloom and misery have taken tho
place. Xam unable to say how many died
yesterday. The number is stated variously;
from 1.000 to 2,500. Tho newspapers still
continue to lie.
“August 7,—For the first time today I
begin to feel a little alarmed. The weather
continues intensely close. lam almost pros
trate with debility, biliousness and indiges
gostion. A stink from tho imperfectly bur
ied corpses, in the adjoining cemetery blows
through every room in the- house. There is
a rumor that the plague has broken out in
Egypt. Dead and dyings inen pass every
half hour. ‘Nothing butfoongs of death;’
nothing but funerals, priests', sisters of char
ity, processions and news of fresh losses
among our English community.
“ August B.—l have learned more details
about last Friday. By the testimony of eve
ry one it must have been an awful day. A
doctor who practices on the other side of
Stamboul says that 1 500 to 2.000 died at
Stamboul alone on that day. For days past,
indeed, Stamhoul has presented a frightful
spectacle. The streets, ho says, stink with
decaying bodies. Whole families are carried
off at once, ami many are abandoned by tho
selfish terror of their relatives, when a.little
timely assistance might have saved them, s A
sort of attempt Ims, it is true, been made for
the relief of the sufferers! A hospital has
been rudely constructed at Stamboul of raised
--boardsr-(m-whlch-the-poor-pat;ienls~a'ro~hTV3tT="
ly thrown and left to die, without doctors,
without medicine, without even a friendly
hand to assist them. The houses of some of
these poor wretches at Stamboul are even
worse than might have been expected. Dens
m ire foul could scarcely have been found in
St Giles’ 15 years ago. Imagine a room half
tho size of one in an ordinary cottage, light
ed by a door only, and ventilated by a oruok
which lots in air poisoned by an'open sewer,
running without exit in front of tho house.—
Imagine from five to fifteen people huddled
together in this room, the walls of which are
decaying with damp, and their cracks stopp
ed up with mouldy rags, and then fancy that
the same linen and the same bod which two
months ago supported a patient affected with
typhus is now used for a sufferer with chole
ra. Add to this the stench which proceeds
from people who are not over cleanly at the
best of times, and whoso dirty habits are
now aggravated by disease and exhaustion,
and you will have a - picture of tlfo inside of
a Turkish House of tho poorer class. Can
you wonder at tho disease haying spread so
'frightfully ?
“ August 9!—Gurracino, the vice-consul,
has been visiting tho sick at Thorapia. He
found fifty of the houses descried tcilh dead
bodies inside. There >s little doubt that the
malady is aggravated to a fearful extent by
ignorance and imprudence. I will give you
an example which occurred under my own
eyes. The day before yesterday a consular
canvass had a longing for some raw toma
toes. Ilemonatranees % were ineffectual. —
‘Nonsertse,’ said he, *if the soul longs for
anything, it is not a sin to gratify/ He ate
them and was attacked with cholera. 1 Prompt
attendance cured him, and I think, also, it
will have cured him' for the future of his re
ligious scruples. A gentleman who had been
hunting up tho sick at Stamboul tells mo
that he Went to a kahn arid asked tho porter
if there were any sick inside. ‘No/ ‘You
are not tolling the truth nio in to* see/ —
He went in, and the first thing ho sa v was a
man in the last extremity who had not re
ceived the least attention. He went to an
other house, when the master informed him
that his son had just died. ‘ What did you
do?’ said the gentleman. ‘Well/said tho
father, ‘ ho ouly had a slight diarrhoea at
first. lie was only seized with 20 attacks in
the day, so I gave him a glass of cold water
after each time/ An Armenian, in English
employment, had a slight attack of cholera,
from which he recovered ; the next day he
bought two pounds and a-half of unripe pears,
and sat with his feet in cold water an hour
while ho jute them, * * * * * * *
I have been very ill indeed, so a young friend
of mine has kindly copied my notes to send
you. I fell down in a fainting fit, and af
terwards had typhoid fever. Too doctor rec
ommends my instant return. The cholera is
going away; 50,000 to 80,000 have died.—
Not a soul less.”
A story is told of two Vermont cap
tains in the wari between whom was a gener
ous rivalry, relating to their own gallantry
and that of tboir companies. Both were dan
gerously wounded nt the Wilderness. Capt.
8., was insensible for two days, but on the
third opened his eyes and inquired if Capt.
W. was alive, and on being told he was do
ing well, said, energetically, “well, if W.
can live, I’ll bo d—d if I’ll die,” and ho
didn’t.
O’ A robust countryman, meeting a phy
sician, ran to hide behind a wall ; being
asked the cause, ho replied : “ It is so long
since I have been sick, that I am ashamed to
look a physician in the face.” '
SSiy Mrs. Dowdy says that one of her boys
don’t know nothing and the other doep. The
question is, which knows the most?
Col. W. W, 11. Davis Crashes tite Slanderers.
“Djvlestows, Penna., 1
Sept. 16, 1805. [
Editors of The -Age
My attention has been called to tho follow
ing-article, published in- the Press, of your
city, of the 15 th inst., viz :
The Harrisburg Telegraph says: Colonel
*'• W* 11. Davis, the Copperhead candidate
for Auditor General, has now resumed full
charge of "the Doylestown Democrat, a news
paper which he lias owned for many years,
and which heretofore and now sympathizes
with the rebels. The peculiar forte of the
Democrat, since Colonel Davis has returned
to preside over its columns, consists in as
serting that the rebels have not been whip
ped ; that they should be received back to tho
Union with all their rights restored ; that sla
very is not and can never bo abolished, and
that, in justice to tho rebels, the debt which
they incurred in struggling for their “ rights”
is as legal as the debt which was piled on tho
people by tho national authorities while wa
ging a crusade on the people of tho South ;
and if the national debt is to bo-j aid, so al
so must the debts of tho Southern States bo
liquidated.
Mendacity cannot go beyond this.- All
that is printed above is a stupendous me,
from beginning to end. I never thought, ut
tered, or advocated such sentiments, nor
were they over published in the Democrat-
In a late issue of tho Harrisburg Telegraph
that paper also charges me with opposing tho
amendment to tho Constitution giving sol
diers tho right to vote. This is as base a
i.iE as the other. At tho time of tho election
I was at Danville, suffering from a severe
wound, but made it my business to go to
Doylestown to vote, and voted for the amend
ment. Tho Bucks County hitclligcacer of
tho 9th of August, ISGI, said':
.“Gen. John Davis, of Southampton, and
his son, Cul. \V. IV.-11. Davis, both voted
openly for the amendment.”
The Doylestown Democrat did not oppose
tho amendment. Tho Bucks' County I.vteL
mgencer, the Republican organ of this coun
ty, is tho only newspaper in Bucks, to- my
knowledge, that over opposed tho right of
soldiers to vote. The following article is
from that paper of November 12; 1891, Viz':
Tho State law of Pennsylvania, providing
for tho holding of elections in military en
campments, though .doubtless enacted with
good motives, has been productive of groat
evil and contention. Until the October elec
tion, there had never been an opportunity of
testing its operations'. Voting was then car
ried on in most of the Pennsylvania' regi
ments at the seat of war, or encamped else
where at a distance front homo. In manv
oases tho votes, were honestly received• and
counted, and the result properly certified and
returned to tho legal authorities. In TSthers,
particularly in the regiments partly or w'hoU
conducted in a most shameful and rascally
manner. Some of the. regimental returns
show hundreds of votes for candidates on one
ticket, while those of opposite politics receive
few or none. As tho result in tho city itself
was doubtful, and tho candidates wore like
ly to be elected or defeated by the army vote,
there were strong inducements' offered for
corrupt politicians to practice their villain
ous arts. It now seems probable that the
difficulties thus raised will have tu be settled
by the courts, at the cost of great labor and
much time. IVo hope the Legislature will
prevent such EVIL in future by the TOTAL
ABOLITION OP ELECTIONS IN CAMP.
I cannot,account for tho malignant hostil
ity of tho editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph
toward mo, except because my grandfather
was one of the soldiers that captured the
Hessians at Trenton in 1770. Mr. Bcrgnor
is very loth to forget old grievances.
W. W. 11. DAVIS
A Dissolving Partv. —Tlie “Republican”
party, now tlint slavery is abolished and the
war the abolitionists made for that object, is
ended, is rapidly going to pieces, as was long
ago predicted. The “radicals,” under' the
load of Stevens and Sumner, are directly op
posed to the moderates, and both arc in an
tagonism to the President. Mr. Johnson’s
recent off hand nnd manly speech to a num
ber of Southern gentlemen, shows that he is
for “the Union as it was, (excepting slavery,)
ami the constitution as it is.” and as no con
siderable portion,of the “Republicans” are
for either, the result must ho a conflict, in
which the' executive, backed by the conser
vative democracy of the whole country, will
certainly triumph'. All true patriots will re
joice to see the wholesome and judicious nol
icy of Mr. Johnson carried out to perfect con
summation, in spite even of the efforts of
those who once held opposition to Presiden
tial views nnd measures to be rank treason
to the government, though they now prac
tise the very same sort of disloyalty which
they but recently denounced.
3T” Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, has
announced that his first motion in the Senate
will be the introduction of* a bill to confer
the right of suffrage upon the negroes in the
District of Columbia. This is to he the en
tering wedge. The District of Columbia is
not a State. Congress is its only Legisla
ture. It has no representation there, but is
under the Control of Congress. It is the in
tention' of the radicals to force Mr. Johnson
to sign nr veto a bill to allow negroes to vote
in the District of Colombia.
IT" One nf our city urchins ‘hearing Ills
father read an article in the paper in rela-
tion to a new invention of bricks of glass, ex
eltvmed;
"Gins'* bricks?’ ‘I know.what them is’—
Wnat are they?’ 1 inquired one of the family.
Tumblers“of liquor,’ shouted the juvonillo.
KT - The “ radical” temperance people are
circulating a petition to Congress, demanding
that all civil and military officers of the Uni
ted States shall be required to fake an oath
of total abstinence before being permitted to
qualify.
BSf Tlie Chicago Tribune recently said
about the negroes : “ They have taken our
time, our first-born, and our money freely.”
Thereupon the Louisville Journal remarks :
“ Maybe they had some claim to your first
born I What color was it ?”
DT” “My dear Nicholas,” said Ijnrd
Strnngford, “ I am very stupid this morning;
my brains are all gone to the dogs.”. “Poor
dogs 1” replied his friend..
you WON’T) BDT YOU MOST.
, Mr- Republican/ this way, if you please,
sir. Wo do not mean tho candid, independ
ent man, but ho who is under the party
lash, J
Ton years ago, you cried out. for retrench
raont and reform. You declared you would
never support men ao extravagant as tho
Democrats., , , . .
lime passed. Your party obtained pow
er. Its corruption and extravagance surpas
sed all precedent. , r
Your political masters cracked their lash
over you, and you jusliliod oxtruvagancß,-and
apologized for corruption: " v
You declared the'. South was ,a bill, of ex
pense, and you would be bettor without her,
and paraded your faith by carrying sixteen
star flags in-honor-of 'the sixteen Northern
.(States.
Your masters cried Union, and you shout
ed “it must bo preserved."
Your niastors now say the Union shall not
be restored until the South embraces the sen
timents of Now England. :
. You embrace the doctrine, and declare
theijo is no hui-ry about restoring tho Union.
Your masters called the Democrats “ Un
ion savers^’
You caught up tho sound' and hissed it
from your throats.
Your-masters called tho Democrats “ t rai
tors.”
You halloed it from hill-top and valley.
Your masters declared that slavery should
not be interfered with.
You became ns strong pro-slavery men ns
tho Democrats.
Your masters said slavery should remain
unmolested where it, existed,’ but should not
bo carried into tho Territories.
You applauded the doctrine and declared
it just and right.
Your masters said slavery must be abolish
ed.
You'cried aloud against the “ accursed in
stitution.” - „
Your masters said the negroes were an in
ferior race, and should not bo placed on an
equality with the whites.
<yuu adduced strong arguments to prove
that negroes should never have tho right to'
vqte or hold office.
Your masters declare the blacks equal to'
tho whites.
- You curse all who daro to insinuate that
•God created one race inferior to another.
Your masters protested friendship for the'
poor man.’
You were eloquent against tho oppressions'
of the rich.
Your masters’exempted the bonds held by’
rich men from taxation.
Y r ou swallowed their opinion and pronoun
ced-it good.
Your masters told you that you belonged
to tho decency party.
You strutted in stylo and sobered at tW
hard-listed son of t0i1.,-
Yotir masters now say you aro no better’
than negroes.
You bow in humble submission to thojr
decree, wallow in tho African mire and de
clare it good.
You are tho slave of corru
, , An in
strument used by knaves to pronioto selfish
1 ends. You have no principle. No stability.
No minds of your own. Liko the Weath
ercock, yoii turn ns the winds of your blas
ters blow upon you.
Wo respect a' political opponent who dares
to act independent and sacks to do right.
The man who', like an old fiddle, "can ba
made to play any tune, we despise.'
If you are in favor of the burden's of Gov
ernment being equally distributed as its Mea
ning, say so, and act accordingly.
If you consider yourself bettor thah'a nig
ger, speak out and act for the interest of the
white man.
Don’t wait for tho whip to oraok over your
back to drive you into tho party traces.
Act tho man. Act independently. It will
beget respect. —Holmes Co. Farm'd•
Trifling Evidence. —A well-known law
yer of an Eastern city being sent for to coun
cil some men accused of horse-stealing,, and
then lying in jail, was also sent for by an
Irishman who occupied another coif of the
same building.
‘ Well, Pat,’ asked the lawyer, ‘ what do
yon want with mo ?’
‘ Yer honor,’ returned Pat, ‘ I jist bored
there was a lawyer in the jail, and sure I
wanted to sec.him.’
‘ Well, what do you want with mo ?’
‘ An’ who t should I want wid you but t 0
get me out of this ?’
‘ Well,' what are you hero for ?’
‘ Jist for burglary, I beloavo they call it.-
‘ And what is the testimony against you ?’
1 Oeh ! nivor a bit at all. (July I tould the
justice of the peace mosolf that I did it.’
‘ Well, if you confessed it, I don’t see but
what you’ll have to stay here.’
‘ An’is it that you say? Sure, now, and
in the country I came from, nivor a bit would
they kape a body in jail on suchthrijling ivi
ddncc as ihal!’
Crowding a Bachelor. —‘ What did you
come hero after?’ inquired Miss Susan Dra
per of a bachelor friend, who made her a call
when the rest of the family had gone out.
‘ I came to burrow some matches,’ ha
meekly replied.
‘ Matches I That’s a likely story. Why
don’t you make a match ? I know what you
came for,’ exclaimed the delighted miss, ns
she crowded the old bachelor into a corner;
you came to kiss me and hug mo to death,
hut you shan’t unless you are the sirongest,
and the lord knows you are.’
BSaf ‘Well Tom, does your girl continue
to love poo ?’
‘ Yes, more than ever. She. makes mo'
presents.’
‘ What has she given you lately ?
‘ Oh, she made me a present of my
picture, which £ paid five dollars for before I
gave it to her.
HSf Some time since, in a trial which toot
place'down South, the counsel asked a negro*
aS to his future punishment, &a. Among
other questions asked, was—
‘ Do you over uso your Bible V
‘ Yes, sometimes.’
‘ now ?’
‘ I ’trap my razor on him sometimes.’
IT" A young lady composed some vqraes
for the Herkimer Gazelle headed “Daw Drops 1
from Freshly Blown Rosea.” The printer’#
devil printed “Freshly Blown Noses.”
O* The blood-hounds of Zion hdve again
ceased to pray for President Johnson. Reas
on—ho wants the Union restored.
JJSy* The Philadelphia working men aw
holding meetings in favor of. making eight
hours a day’s work-
NO. 16,
t men.