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NEW S H A M , ] >^mlM' ATToJl * lEr at la w. with Wm. H. Miller, Esq., south- corner of Hanover and Pomfrot streets. 1862— tf IH. €. HERMAN, TORNBY AT LAW. IB in Rhoom’a Hall Building, in iar of th» Court House, next door to the Offioo, Carlisle. [Fob JAMES A. DUNBAR, TOBNB Y AT LAW. CARLISLE) FA. 3 it door to the American Printing offio \roit of Hannon’s hotel. 1864—1 y F. E. BELTZHOOVER, EY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, CARLISLE, PENN’A. JE on South Hanover street, oppo Rente's store. sial arrangement with the Patent OlQco, > securing Patent Rights. >,, 1864-lv . E. MAfiLAIIGIIU^, TTORNE Y-AT-L A W. 3E in InhofFfl building, just opposite lurkot House. March 13, 1862—1 y. SSt *;v4 Act. t ■' "•I W« n i'j »r. GEO. S. SEARIGHT, [p( | V tie Baltimore College of Dental Surgery I x stvVjjoo oe & t tho residence of bis mother, East Louth' throe doors bolow Bedford, rc: ,*■ f fiTCfilisle, Deo. 22,1662. oulh A V S>R. 1 .C. Loomis, OEK ■ TIST< from South Hanovor street to TTost ie n . stroot, opposite tho Eomolo High Sohool, ™f{ L [April 28, 1864. S j. W. FOULK, Attorney at Law. M Office with James B. Smith, Esq., Bhoon. b It i.ll business culms' ed to him will be prompt- to. Feb. 6.1863. "Aj fiOAL AND LUMBER YARD. rjriffE subscriber having leased the Yard Jjr | , JU’ fonnorly occupied by Armstrong & Hotfor, mi 1 ilpF"*"** tho Btook of AL AND LUUBER < Yard, together with tin immense new stock, constantly on hand and furnish to order ‘'r- V: ’ ‘and quality of seasoned •CRlll" - BOAKDS, 1 SCANTLING, h: •.FRAM'B STUTIf, L6B, 1 • Paling? Plastering, Lath, Shingling Lath, worked i Siriii .. Weathorboarding, Posts and Kails, " ■ ■ 1 article that belongs to a Lumber Yard. kinds of Shingle’s, to wit: Whitopino, Hem '—’ v Oak, of different qualities. Having cars mil H fj|tty own I can furnish bills to order of any ' ' ujflc|ph and size at the shortest notice and on the IKW- , :. reasonable terms. My worked boards will bo under cover so they can bo furnished dry at sfl| constantly on hand all kinds of PAMI ifWI - . under cover, which I will deliver clean P ar *< °f *^oborough. To wit: LykonsVal- Egg, Stoic and Nut, Luko Fiddler, m Li^^^^jjPrßyerton, Locust Mountain, Lobbory, which I , - i l M£pi’iledgo myself to sell at the lowest prices. ? e?t aality ° f % Zimtburnera > and Blacksmiths’ oal , ' Plife always on hand which I will sell at the lowest fig ’ 1 w ® B * Bld * of Grammar School, Main CcJ t :he xhorougii-ered horse ARLES S ARR IS. Agricultural Saciety of Cumberland maty has directed ub to dispose of u Charles who is a thorough-bred horse, purchased Society In 1860, la Kentucky. His pedi perfect and will bo exhibited by any mem— the committee to any one disposed to pur the horse. His getnow hero gives evidence value of tho horse for his oolta are all sa- He will be ten years old next April, end iy aonnd. Ho would he a desirable pur ler any county Society, and is now sold only a his colts require another horse. Applt may bo made to either of the committee. ELIAS BRENNEMAN, JOHN W. CRAIGHEAD, GEORGE CLARK. , 4, 1806—it A Great National Work'. Buchanan’s History of the Ad ministration on the EVE OP THE EEBELLION, •y Democrat, Should Have It inscription Price, $8.50, All orders Trill recoivo prompt attention. Address 7.180& , ANDREW H. BLAIR. A; T. GOODMAN, Patriot and Uni on OJjUse, HABKIS»OBO, FA. T n E SNOW. [Since the publication of the ‘'Bridge of Sighs," by Hood, wo have soon nothing equal to the following poem in point of smooth ver sification, flowing rhythm and touching pa thos. Tho plaintive wail of a woman's lost honor will bring tears to every sensitive broast:] Oh 1 the snow, tho beautiful Snow ! Filling tho sky and oartli below ; Over tho housetops, over tho street, Over tho bonds of the people you moot. Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along; Beautiful snow ! it can do no wrong 1 Flying to kiss a fair lady’s cheek, Clinging to lips in a frolicsome freak ; Beautiful snow from tho heaven above, Pure as an angel, gentle as love ! Oh 1 the snow, tho beautiful snow 1 How the flakes gather and laugh as they go Whirling about in tho maddening fun ! It plays in its glee with every one, Chasing, Laughing, Hurrying by, It lights on the face and it sparkles tho oye ; And tho dogs, with a bark and a bound, Snap at the crystals that eddy around. The town is alive, and its heart iu a glow To welcome tho coming of beautiful snow ! How wild the crowd "ocs swaying along, Hailing oaeh other with humor and song I How the gay sledges, Uko meteors, flash by, Bright for the moment, then lost to tho eye I Hinging, Swinging, Dashing they go, Over the crust of tho beautiful snow— Snow so pure when it falls from tho sky, To bo trampled in mud by tho. crowd rush mg by— To bo trampled and tracked by the thou- sands of foot, Q.ill it blonds with the filth in tho horrible street. Onoo I was pure as tho snow —but I fell 1 Pell, like the snowllakea, from heaven to hell, Pell, to bo trampled ds tilth in tho street; Poll, to bo scoffed, to bo spit on and beat; Pleading, ■ Cursing, Drending to die, Selling my soul to whoever would buy ; Dealing in shame fet a morsel of bread, Hating the living and fearing tho dead. Merciful God I have I fallen so low ? And yot I was once like tho beautiful snow. Once I was fair as tho beautiful snow. With an eye Uko tho crystal, a heart like its glow; Onoe I was loved for my innocent grace— Flattered and sought for the charms of my face 1 Father, Mother, Sisters, all, God and myself Iv’o lost by my fall; The veriest wretch that gooa shivering by Will make a wide swoop lost I wander too nigh ; For all that is on or above me, I know, There’s nothing that’s pure as the beautiful snow. How strange it should be that this beautiful snow Should fall on a sinner with nowhere tu go ! How strange it should be, when the night comes again, If the snow and the ice struck my desperate brain 1 Fainting, Freezing, Dying alone, Too wicked for prayer, too weak for a moan, To be heard in the streets of the crazy town, Gone mad in the joy of tho snow coming down To mo, and so die in my terriblo woo, With a bed and a shroud of tho beautiful snow. Mmllmmß. A MONOMANIAC. I have an intimate friend who, alas, is a monomanias I As tho word implies, her mania is confined to one subject—she is extra sensible other wise—but that ‘ one subject’ is the all im portant one of dress and fashion. She don’t regard the subject ns of primary importance, but labors under tho hallucination that the cultaro of the mind and heart should take tho precedence. She acts as if decency and comfort actually were tho main purposes of dross, and as if, those ends being accomplish ed, all were right. She has a lucid interval now and then, to bo sure, wherein she devotes herself with great zeal to her wardrobe, and has dresses, &0., made, very much liko other folks ; but it is soon over, and she again relapses, giv ing her first care to something else, and just wearing tho new garments on and on, re gardless of tho changing fashion, till, some times, they actually begin to wear out 1 Is is just so in regard to her children; she is forever attending to their studios, or work, or play, while she makes warm flannels, and knits lambs’ wool stockings for them ; but as to a real stylish rig-out, they never have it. It actually gives me tho heart-aoho to see them so wronged by their mother, and they sueb dear, bright, good, pretty children, too. Tho fact is, she gives no more time or thought to tho momentous matter of dress, than is really necessary. You would not boliovo how oblivious she is to now fashions. ‘ How do you like waterfalls V said I to her last spring. ' X like them very much,’ she replied. ‘ Do you ?’ said I, surprised, ‘ which kind ? ’ " ‘ Oh, every kind,’ she replied ; I never saw one I did not like.' ‘Why in the world, then, don’t you wear onot' cried I; ‘you’ve just the head and hair for it; and I will show you— ’ I was out short by her look of utter be wilderment, and, remembering her mania, realized she didn’t even know what a water fall is, but actually thought I was talking of —of (what shall I call them,) water tumbles —Niagara, and such 1 When, as sometimes does happen, thanks to the dress maker, she gets a real, down right fashionable dress, and you go to meet ing all agog to see it, she’s about sure to come slipping in very quietly, in some plain, decent thing, she’s worn at least a dozen times before. “ CUE. COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.” ‘ Why, in tho natho of common sense, didn’t you wear your now silk yesterday?’ asked I, one Monday. ‘ Oh, I never thought of it,’ sho replied ? ‘ but, now that you remind mo of it, I don’t think I shill over wear it to ohuroh ; it’s un comfortably long, and is made to require much time and thought in dt;oss. A church is no place for finery.’ 1 What do you want of the dross, then ?’ cried I, quite vexed. ‘ Oh, to wear to some places where I should bo singular without something of, tho kind,’ sho replied. ‘ Just as if you weren’t always singular in your dross,’ cried I, my patience quite gone. Sho blushed, with tears in her eyes, as sho said, ‘ I don’t want to bo singular, but neat and comfortable, and enough in style not to attract attention to mysolf; but the fashions change so often, and time flies so swiftly on tho wings of duty, I. suppose I do often got too far behind the times in dross.’ Poor dear 1 how I did pity her 1 You see tho very heart of her mania is, that the don’t earo for dross per se, and so don’t make it her chief end. There might be a gleam of reason in it, if she wore old-fashioned things from necessi ty ; but it’s no snob thing. She has plenty of money; her husband ,is rioh, and so devo ted ho would leave no stone unturned to got the moon down for her, if she asked him for it. Tho insanity of it is that sho might, and yet does not, dress fashionably ! Furthermore, it's ‘ a cross’ to her that sho is obliged to dress at all. One evening she said to me, with a sigh, ‘ I have a dressma ker coming to-morrow ; isn’t it a trial?’ Now, (though I wouldn’t for tho world have anybody know it) I am pinched for moans; so I answered, with an inward groan, ‘ I shouldn’t think it a trial, if I had all those nice goods to bo made up.’ 4 Shouldn't you !' answered she, in inno cent surprise, ‘but I do. I have just boon seeking patience by reading the third chap ter of Genesis, and reflecting that it is for our sins wo have to redress at all. lam sure I repent of Adam’s sin’ every time I have to get up a new dress.’ Did you over 1 Ono cold, snowy Sabbath in December sho wore a hood to o’-.uroh 1 I thought myself prepared for any development, but it was too much to see her sit there, listening to every word of the sermon, just as uncon scious of her hood, as if the proverb ‘ out of sight, out of mind’ were true to ladies’ head gear. • See if I dent’ give her a shaking up for this,’ thought !. So I seized upon her, going home, and whispered in her oar, ‘ What upon earth pos sessed you to wear that thing to meeting f’ Sho glanced down, in a dazed way, at her cloak, dress, over shoes, then up into my face with an innocent ‘ What is amiss?’ ‘That hood!’ hissed I. ‘Oh yes, I forgot I had it on,’ said sho with a quiet smile; ‘I was threatened with tho toothache, and couldn’t go out without it.’ ‘ Then stay at homo ;’ growled ! ; ‘ you wouldn’t catch me out such a day, spoiling my new hat and feathers, if I wasn’t obliged to bo there to sing.’ ‘ There is a divine law against our forsa king tho worshipping assembly ;’ replied my friend, solemnly : ‘ but is there any law, hu man or divine, against wearing a hood inside a church ?’ ‘ Yos,’ snapt I, ‘ the law of fashion, whioh you break at your peril,’ She only smiled, and asked mo very coolly if I had boon instructed by Dr. B ’a ex cellent sermon, just ns if I had been attend ing to that I I have about given up arguing with hor ; (it is only folly, you know, to arguo with a maniac;) but I thought her husband must feel dreadfully; so, one day I went to condole with him about it; and what do you think ho up and said ? ■ ■‘When I wanted a wile,’ said he, ‘I searched tho city through for a young lady whO'had not a monomania for dress and fashion, and she was tho only one I hit upon, so I married her, and she suits me first rate.’ Only think of it I A Bull on ibe lee. About nine o’clock yesterday morning, a largo hull, which had become separated from a herd on the other side of the river, stepp ed forth on the ice and made for the city of St. Louis, walking straight forward with a dignified mien, and a look very much like that of a Nuraidiau lion. His neck was about a yard wido and a foot in thickness, and the firmness with whioh he tread the brittle highway on whioh he had embarked, clearly indicated to tho beholder that bo was a bull with a will. At the same time that the hull sot out for this side of tho river, a serious-looking lioovy-set gentleman from Illi nois, set out from this side for tho Illinois shore. Ho saw tho bull approaching at a short distance, and liked his looks ; thought he was a bull that behaved himself on the ice, molesting no one, and showing by the sober expression of his countenance that ho bad sense and pluck. He calculated that the animal would turn aside a little when they met; but on approaoning very closely he found that the monster was lowering his head for an attack. Being thick-set and short-legged, ho was not naturally a goad runner, but tho flaming wrath ho saw in tho bull’s oye, the uplifting of his long, straight tail, and tho shaking of his terrible nook, sickened his heart and he turned to flee. As the Bull turned to give chase, tho per ilous situation of the fugutive produced a feeling of intense anxiety and excitement on the part of the spectators at a safe distance. The wild beast was upon him in a second, and the manner in whioh ho was lifted from his heels and hurled aloft some ten foot into tho air, presented itself as a ludicrous and amusing spectacle to the crowd, though tho unfortunate victim, no doubt, had his eyes closed, and was uttering a prayer for his own salvation while undergoing tho lofty tumbling.—Taking tho seatofjthe man’s pantaloons squarely between his horns, the mad animal tossed him helplessly high over head, to tho distance, as statod by soma, of throe or four times the man’s perbendieular height. Alighting in about the samo postnro in which ho went up, he sat for awhile a pic ture of utter dismay. Ho soon recovered his wits however, and, strangely enough was found to bo only slightly bruised. The bull rushed madly on, and presently encountered another man, whose name, wo ore informed, is J. B. Miller, who received serious injuries. Instead of runniug, ho tried to take tho bull by tho horns and give battle. One of the horns of the infuriated beast was thrust directly into his oye, tearing It from its sock ed. The animal finally reached the levee, and, instead of being shot, was driven out Elm 'street and thenoo out Clark avenue to soma stock yard. Miller was picked up in a partially insensible condition, and was taken to a room ou the levee, where ho was atten ded by Dr. Yanzader.—• St. Louis Republican CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY,. JANUARY 25,1866- A SECOND ROBINSON CRUSOE. General Seott, in his interesting autobiog raphy, gives an account of a Robinson Cru soe, a Mr. Pain, who lived a solitary life of many years bn the Island of Cap# Breton.— Ho says : Mr. Pain sailed from Boston in a smack for tho banks of Newfoundland and other fishing grounds, in 1774, before the outbreak of tho Revolution. Having made up the car go in the Gut of Canso, Pam begged his com panions to let him remain till the return of the party the following season. They assis ted in building him a hut, and left him with a good supply of personal and bed-olothts, some axes and other tools, a gun, with am munition, Ashing, tackle, and such other stores as eould bo spared, together with a Bi ble, ‘ Paradise Lost,’ and tho ‘ Pilgrim’s Progress.’ Prayers wore said at parting, and tho smack sailed for home. This was the last that oar adventurer saw of ‘ tho human face divine’ for nine or ten years. The Revoiutiunary war supervened,. There was no more fishing and curing of fish by Americans on those shores—the Gut of Oouso not being navigated at that period except by vessels driven into it by stress of weather. There was no road ana no trail across the mountains to any settlement what ever. ' . ..... ■ Tor the first year, and indeed, till his sup plies began to fail him, Mr. Pain, then young, aid not lament his condition. Bat when the second and third seasons came, and again and again there was no return of his friends, it seemed evident that they had abandoned him ; his spirits drooped and he was in dan ger of being lost in despair. Butman is the most flexible and pliable of all animals.— According to bis own account, Mr. Pain be gan soon to relish food without salt; the deer and floooe goat were abundant, furnishing him with both food and raiment, and which ho contrived to entrap after his powder and shot were exhausted. So, too. in respect to worn-out hooks and linos; these wore re placed by bones and slips of skin, so that there was no want of the ‘ finny prey.’ By the fifth your ho began to like the new life ns well as at first. His books were more than a solace to him, and the autobiographer can testify that he could accurately recite from memory entire chapters of the Bible, and many of the books of ‘ Paradise Lost.’ Finally, when at the end of the war, his old master in a smack came in search of him or his remains, he had became so attached to this mode of existence that he refused to re turn to his native soil. A good supply of necessaries was loft with him. His littls property at home was invested in cattle, with materials for a small bouse, some fur niture, &0., all of which were sent out to him with an old sister, a farm laborer and a lad —a relative. . Before the war 1812 some new connections and laborers bad joined him, and be had become a thrifty farmer. Didn’t Suit. —Many years ago, there resi ded in a town in one of the Western States, twelve jovial old citizens, who mot on the first of every January, for social and conviv ial intercourse. Wine, wit, good will towards themselves and “ the rest at mankind,” reign ed around their ample board. At one of these re-unions, a proposition was offered and unanimously concurred in, that each member should state the character and qnalitiea of his wifo, without conceal ment, be the same good or otherwise. The disclosures commenced, and each one pictur ed in glowing terms the amiable belongings of his hotter half. One, however, member S , remained ailout and absorbed appa rently in deep reflection He was urged to respond to the common pledge, but still re mained obstinately reticent. At last, on be ing assured and reassured, that Wliat he, dis closed would never he mentioned outside of the precincts of the olab, he said, “ Gentle men, you have given flattering, even angolio descriptions of your wives, and I have no doubt each one of you have told the truth.— Mrs. and myself have lived together har moniously for forty years. She is an exem plary wife, a kind mother, a good Christian and charitable to the poor; her hand and heart is ever open to the afflicted; her neigh bors, and all who know her, say she possess es every lovely attribute that should adorn female character ; but confound my eyes if she suits me." Stealings in thb Indian Bureau. —A few days before the adjournment of Congress, writes “Mack” to the Cincinnati Commer cial. a resolution was pushed through both Houses, appropriating half a million of dol lars for destitute Indians. Half of this amount, bo thinks* will stick to the hands through which it is intended to pass to the Indians. It occurs to him as somewhat sin gular that everybody who has anything to do with this business gats rich, and he alleges that there are instances where agents and employees have been known to save $50,000 a year out of a salary of $3,0001 It must bo a source of satisfaction to the people who pay the excessive taxation of the present day to know that the public money is Globed so shamelessly. A Western correspondent says: In a dis trict in the far weat_ we bad a gentleman teacher who thought it advisable to give some lessons ia politeness. Among other things he told the boys in addressing a gentleman they should always say Sir, and gave them examples, and made quite a lesson of it.— One boy was particularly delighted; and took occasion to speak to his teacher often, to show be profited by his teachings. When ho went.. homo to dinner bis father said : “Tom, have some meat?’’ “ Yes, Sir, I thank you.” The next thing the child knew his father’s band came whack on his ear, and his fath er’s voice thundered forth, " I’ll teach you to snss your dad I” Tom gave up being po lite. The following story la told of tho Rov. Dr. Horao; At an association dinner a debate arose ns to the use of the red in bringing up children. The doctor took the' affirmative, and the chief opponent was a young minister, whose reputation for veracity was not high, lie maintained that parents often do harm to their children by unjust punishment, from not knowing tho facts of the case. “ Why,” said ho, “ tho only time my father whipped mo was for tolling tho truth.” “Well, re torted the doctor, “ it cured you of it, didn’t it?” “ Nononv over lost ayything by love,” said a sago-looking person. That is not true,” said a young lady who hoard tho remark,; “for I once lost three night’s sloop.” ’ (C7* A man in Indiana, while preparing a hog for scalding, recently, foil into the hot water ami was scalded to death. SPEECH SENATOR COWAN, OF PENNSYLVANIA, In Reply to Senator Sumner, in Defence of President Johnson. [From tho Congressional Qloho, Doc. 21.] Mr. Cowaw— Mr. President, I am not die* posed to allow the speech of the honorable Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Sumner) to go to the country without a very brief re ply. If that speech be true, and if it be a correct picture of the South; then Gad help us; than this Sepublio, this Union is at an end; then the groat-war which we waged for the Union-was a folly; then all the blood and treasure which we bays ■ expended in that war in'order .to restore ourselves to com panionship with the people of the South have been equally follies. But, Mr. President, is it true? Or is not this a series of ex parte statements made up by anonymous letter writers, people who are down there more than likely stealing cotton, people, who are down there in the enjoyment of piaos and power, people who are interested that the disturbed condition of things which exist there now shall always continue because they make profit of it? Is there any man who has had any experience in the trial of causes, any man who knows anything about the nature of evidence, who does not know that the honorable Senator could have sent his emissaries into any one country in the lately rebellious States, and gather the ex pressions of knaves and fools and discon tented, single-idead people, far more than he has given us in his speeoh 7 We are told bore of the exceptional in stances of bad conduct on the part of the people of the South. Why, what a large volume it would take to hold all that! If a man were to go about anywhere in the loyal States and hunt up what be might suppose to be treasonable expressions, heretical ex pressions, how many could he find? And yet we are treated to all this here as if it was the whole of the evidence in the case? One man out of ten thousand is brutal to a negro, and this is paraded here as a type of the whole people of the South, whereas nothing, is said of the other nine thousand nine hun dred and nineiy-nine men who treat the ne gro well. One man expresses a great deal of dissatisfaotion at the present state of affairs, and that is paraded here, while nothing is said of the other ten thousand who are con tented to accept it and make the most of it. . What, then, are we to do f We are to sup pose that the people of the Southern States lately in rebellion have common sense; and when their utterances are in accordance with what is common sense and the dictate of their own interest, we have a right to pre sume it to be true. But according to what; wo have just heard, ever; thing that has come from the people of these Stales, and from their public bodies, from the represen tatives of these people, is to be taken as false, and why T Because some cotton agent, some correspondent of a radical newspaper in the North, some office-holder who has been mak ing a profit of ths state of things there,; chooses to say it is false! The heresy of States rights is not destroyed there, the hon orable Senator says. Have we not beard from almost all the public men of the South that that question was put to the arbitra ment of the sword; that they have lost, and that they submit T Have they not acquiesced in the abolition of slavery—that thing of all' others which was the last, in the opinion of many, that they weald submit to? Bat still farther guarantees are wanted; we are not told what they are. What are they 7 What is wanted 7 Every body admits that the ne gro ought to have his natural rights secured to him. I believe all the moderate, conser vative men of this Chamber are fully agreed that every man should have his natural rights secured—the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; the protection of property, limbs and reputation; that be should have the right to sue and be sued, and' to testify in courts of justice, and why 7 Be cause ho was a slave, and if I bad been a citi zen of Southern States when slavery prevailed there, I would have resisted bis right to tes tify in courts. A witness, like a voter, ought to be a free man; ho should not belong to another man. What chance would a litigant have against the master of slaves, if tho slave could tes tify 7 It seems to me that the slaves ought not to testify fur the same reasen that the wife ought not to testify either for or against the husband. Would you ask a negro to tes tify against his master, to go back. to that master and be subjected <o his ill-will because of his testimony 7 Would you allow him to testify for tho master as against a patty on the other aide? Certainly not. But now this state of things has passed away. Now the people of the Southern States themselves, so far as I understand them, are in favor of opening the courts to all these classes of peo ple. And, sir, they must open them for their own security. I am willing to leave that to themselves; their own interest will compel them to allow all people to testify, unless they are excluded by those disabilities that have heretofore excluded witnesses from tes tifying. If the honorable Senator from Mas sachusetts, and those who think with him, desire that these people should have the right of suffrage, why not say so broadly 7 ■ ' Mr. Sounib. Ido say so. Mr. Cowan. Very well; that is so much that is clear; make it broadly; we may differ ' from him, but the people will decide. lam perfectly willing to acquiesce ia their deci sion; Ido not ears which way it is; but the people will decide that question, and they; will decide it promptly. If tbs honorable' Senator from Massachusetts wants to hold the doctrine that these States are no States,' that they are no constituent members of this Union, let him say so; there is a tribunal to which that' can bo referred.. If he wishes to teko issue with the President on these paints, let the issue be made fairly and squarely, and it will be met. Thank God, ia this Gov ernment, not like that of Russia; which be has eulogized, there is a power above us all; there is a power to whose arbitrament and award we can appeal, and who will settle this thing conclusively. Now, Mr President, I am for reconstruc tion. I want to have this Union restored; and a Union means a Union by consent, not by force. I would like to make friends of all tho people with whom wo have been at enmi ty hertolore. Ido not want the contest to go oh any longer. But are we to make friends with them, and are they to bo reconciled to us, and are they to behave better by such speeches as have been made by the honorable Senator here to-day 7 I very much doubt it. I do not think that be will improve the con dition of the southern heart or the Southern mind, by thus parading these exceptional oases to the people of this country, and stim ulating and exciting their angry passions more than they are new against this unfortu nate people—unfortunate in every respect; unfortunate on account of their errors; un fortunate on account of the penalty which has followed those errors, and which they have suffered. Mr. President, let us look at this tosttimo ny. The honorable Senator, as I said before, reads from anonymous letter writers, from cotton agents, and people of that kind. Now, it does so happen that we have same testimo ny upon this subject; wo have tho testimony of the President of the United States, not a summer soldier or sunshine patriots. Mr. Scuner. . I have, not read anonymous letters. Mr. CowAff. They are anonymous so far as we are gonoerned; and I commend the Senator's prudence in keeping the names of their writers from public, because I have no doubt that if their names were shown they would not be considered of much importance. I eery much doubt whether there is a single man among them who has ever wielded any thing more than a pan during the rebellion. But I say that we have the testimony of'men of unexceptionable voracity; wo have the tes timony of the Prsident of the United States, who was a Union man, and who was in favor of the Union.at u time and in a place where there was some merit in it- 1 do not suppose that there was any groat merit in being a Union man in Massachusetts. I suspect a man would have been very likely to got a lamp post if ho had been anything else there; but the President of the United States was a Union man in the very thick and storm of the battle. He was waylaied while coming hither in order to attend to his official duties in this body. He has stood by the constitu tion, by the Union, all the way through, steadily and firmly ; and, as a compliment to him, the great party to which 1 belong, and to which be did not belong, and never proten ded to belong, conferred upon him the office which, in the Providence of God, has made him President of the United States* Now, sir, you aro told hero that this man, in his official communication to the Sonato of the United States, white washes the condi tion of things down below. Yes, Sir, "white wash" is the word. Tho honorable Senator soys ho will not accept the definition of “white wash" given by the Senator from Connecticut or tho Senator from Wisconsin, but ho has not told us what he means by - tho word “whitewash.” It is not necessary that ho should say what ho means by that word. Everybody understands it. I suppose oven his colored friends, in whom ha takes so much interest, would know what the mean ing of tho word “whitewash” was [Laughter.] Ho says that this man, who stood firm when everybody else faltered—this man, who stood almost alone in the midstof an enraged popula tion, and in the very storm and strife of tho worst oivil war perhaps the world has over seen—comes here to "whitewash.” What does he mean except that the President of the United States, in an official communication to this body, comes hero to lie ; that is tho plain English of it; comes hero either to sup press the tho truth or to suggest a falsehood. What does the President say 1 I will read what he says as a sufficient answer to what all these people down South report of tho state of affairs there, and 1 do not find it necessary to deny thousands of instances of exceedingly heretical talk that may have ta ken place, and of treasonable talk if you please ; and 1 have no doubt that in a state of things unparalleled in the history.of tho world, heretofore, wrongs and outrages in numerable happen there; but that is not tho question. The question is, what is the con dition of tho mass of tho people in the South; what is their disposition and tendency ; not to love the North, not to love tho honorable Senator from Massachusetts—because I very maab fear that that will'not be brought about ■eon unless there is a change in tho temper of both parties—not to have hearts overflowing with love and gratitude to those who they think persecute and hunt them in thoir sub mission ; 'who kick and strike at them after they are down ; after they have cried “enough” —but the question is, what is their disposi tion to obey the laws ? What do wo. oaro about tbeir hearts or their dispositions if they are obedient to tho laws, and submit to the laws I Now they have submitted to laws which impose the heaviest penalty, for if they are traitors tho law imposes the penalty of death and confiscation of estates by means of fiao. 1 will read what the President says now of the condition of that peopla from tho information ho has received; “ lu that por tion of tho Union lately in rebellion, the as pect of affairs is more promising than, in view of all tho circumstances, could well have been expected.” I think there is no candid; man who will not indorse this sentiment.— “ The people throughout the entire South evince a laudable desire to renew their alle giance to the Government, and to repair the devastations of war by a prompt aud cheer ful return to peaceful pursuits.”' Why should-they not f To suppose any thing else is to suppose that they are dement ed : that they have no kind of common sense left; (hat four years of the most terrible pun ishment ever inflicted upon a people, have been without tbeir lessons. It oannot bo, Mr. President; it is not in tho nature of things that it should be. “An abiding faith” on tho part of this man who suffered from those people; who suffered from this war and tho doctrine of secession, and tho attempt to break the Un ion. Ho says: “An abiding faith is enter tained that their actions will conform to their professions, and that in acknowledging the supremacy of the Constitution and tho laws of tho United States, their loyalty will bo un reservedly given to the Government, whoso leniency they cannot fail to appreciate, and whose fostering care will soon restore them to a condition of prosperity.” And here, Mr. President allow mo to ask when in the history of this world or of tho human family, has it happened that severity, cruelty, persecution, refusal to recognize com mon rights, has reconciled a people and pac ified a distracted country; and when has it happened that clemency, leniency, ns tho President expresses it, has failed to produce beneficial results T It is not necessary to go very far back for instances to show this.— Look at the'treatment of England toward Ireland. What has been tho rosult of bold ing tho people in a spocios of vas jingo ? A Fenian insurrection upon her hands now, aftor hundreds of years of attempt to domi nate over that people. Look at Poland; look everywhere.. And if it be necessary to sea what clemency, what lanieuoy and justice and trust and confidence can da to restore a people once ia revolution, take the conduct of Ho.slie.in La Vendee. There, by the ge nius of one man, high enough to bo above vulgar passion, statesman enough to look to the future, La Vendee was restored to Franco, and is there now, part and parcel of it, with every reocolleotion of the revolution effaced. Says the President; “ It is true that in some of tho States tho demoralizing effects of war arc to bo soon in occasional disorders”—these effects are to bo seen in the North as well as in the South— “ but these are local in character, not fre quent ia occurrence, and are rapidly disap pearing as the authority of civil law is.oston- ded and sustained. Perplexing questions wore naturally to bo expected from the groat and sudden change in the relations between the two laces, but systems are gradually do voloping themselves under which the (reed man wifi receive the protection to which ho is justly entitled, and by no means of his la bor make himself a useful p,nd independent member of tho community in which ho has bis home. From all the information in my possession, and from that which I have re cently derived from tho most reliable author ity, 1 am induced to cherish tho belief that sectional animosity is surely and rapidly merging itself into a spirit of nationality, and that representation, connected with a prop erly adjusted system of taxation, will result in a harmonious restoration of the relations of tho States to tho National Union.” , There is a little more testimony yet, Mr. President, and it is worth while to consider, while wo are hero to take council and to know what wo ought to do in the extraordinary situation in which wo find ourselves, from whom will wo take that counsel. Aro wo to take it from men, tho purposif of whoso lifo seems to bo to wage war upon, these pooplo and their institutions? Shall we take it from men whom they bate personally and byname, and to whom it is almost impossible to sup pose they over will bo reconciled, or in the nature of things, can bo reconciled? Or aro wo to take it from tho mon who have not made this a personal war; who have treated it as a national war, and who, in thoir con duct of it, have won tho applause of both sections ? The President says that part of his information has beon received from Gen eral Grant. Who is General Grant ? Who is to bo put in the scale with that scarred soldier, and whoso testimony is to weigh down his ? Is he “ whitewashing” hero too ? lias ho forgotten tho position ho occupies be fore the American people? With tho high est military character ol any man to day up on tho earth, has ho condescended to come hero to deceive tho Senate of his country, and to lie about tho condition,of affairs in tho South, which ho has recently visited ? Lot ns hoar what ho says, and listen with patient reverence to tho utterance of a man of sense, a patriot, and a prudent man, who desires not to embroil, not to embitter, not to widen tho gap that already exists botwoon the two people, who ought to bo fraternally united, hut a man who desires to heal and to pacify ; a man irabuod with tho spirit of Ileoho when ho wont to La Yondoo, and where ho succeeded when others had failed. What does ho say? It is not tho tone or manner of tho letter writer, but it is in tho manner of a man and a soldier. “ I am satisfied”— says ho; and when ho is satisfied who dares say ho is not satisfied upon (ho score of hon osty and good intent toward this republic? “I am satisfied that tho mass of thinking men iu tho South accept the present situation of affairs iu good faith.” That is what General Grant says. Is (hat " whitewashing ?” ■ “ Tho.questions which have heretofore di vided tho sentiments of people of the two sec tions—slavery and State rigbta, or tho right to secedo from tho Union—they regard as having boon settled forevor by tho highest tribunals—arms—that man can resort to." It is now said that they do not think so; that thoy are only pretending,- and have a covert purpose of doing something hereafter about this thing, noboby can tell exactly what. Perhaps we will be told that thoy will not abide the result. “ I was pleased to learn from tho leadiug men whom I met, that thoy not only accept ed tho decision arrived at as final, but that now, when tho smoko of battlo has cleared away and time bus boon given for reflection, this decision has been a fortunate ono for the whole country, thoy receiving like benefits from it with those who opposed them in tho field and in council.” Why, Sir. President, the common senso of that last utterance is worth moro as testimo ny than that of a thousand seribiors who merely look at dotaohod points of this great field. They have resolved to accept tho de cision ns final; and, what wo ought all to ho glad to know, they have found that it is for their benefit. They have found, too, after tho smoke lias cleared aw ay, that they are really in a better condition than they wore before; that they hnvo been relieved.from tho incubus which oppressed them for so long a time, and they aro ready now to tako thoir places in tho Union, and along-sido of the Northern States who havo made liberty thoir great principle rather than slavery.— Why should they not? If any man can give a reason why thoy should dosiro to koop up this strife longer, with their devastated fields, with thoir treasuries empty, with thoir soci ety disorgdnizod, I should like to hear it. I therefore hope, Mr. President, that wo may meet them iu a different spirit; that wo may show to thorn that We mado this war, not to mako them eternal enemies of ours, not to humiliate thorn, but to rescue them; that wo mado this war to go and get thorn out of tho clutches of tho bad men who had misled them into tho gloomy realm of seoes-* sion and disunion ; and that wo intend, af ter the great military victory which wo have achieved, to achieve another by magnanimi ty and clemency in our conduct towards thorn; that wo will win them book to boas they wore before, our friends and our broth ers, of tho eamo race and tho same lineage. I hope, too, that this angry, irritating and oxciting mode of treating this subject, which is calculated to mako us anything clso than friends, will ho discarded hereafter, and that wo shall oooly and calmly, and in the spirit of tho nation, (because that is tho spirit of tho nation,) examine this question, and do with it that which will bo calculated to re store tho old harmony and poaoo, and tho old Union again. A Chicago bootblack accosted a returned soldier with ,tho usual salutation—“black your boots, sir? make ’em shine I” Looking at his unpolished “gunboats” in a contemp lative way, tho war-worn veteran replied:— “ Well, I don’t caro if you do—fall in prompt ly, though." Tho urchin gazed a moment at tho soldier, surveying him from his “ leath ers” upwards, and then, turning to a com rade near by, s!ioutod;out: “ I say, Bill, lend us a hand, won’t yor ? I’vo got an army con tract.” Hot Rou.s for Breakfast.— At night take one pint of e -root milk, lukowarm ; two eggs; butter the size of a walnut; throe tablospoona ful of yeast; flour enough to make it tho consistence of biscuit. Lot it stand until morning: mako them in rolls, and bake in a quick oven I'ho Louisiana freedmen are.still in disposed to work, and matters nro at a stand still in consequence. Some of the Attakapaa planters have emigrated to Central America. (D“ Negro criminals are now made to clean the streets in Savannah. NO. 31.
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