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D. W. MOORE, I ...
8. B. O00DIANDER, J uton.
VOL. XXXIV. WHOLE NO. 1777.
Select oeirn.
XO IIUKII MXKt APPLY."
Tbs other day as I walked out
L'pon a wild goose chase,
t law an adververtiseiaeut
About a decent place,
I knew well that the plaoe would suit,
Hut I ran't toll you why,
The lady tald, did you not read, '
'No Iriib need apply I"
C aoBtrs. If 'tie my country you dislike,
I really can't tell why,
JJut you lose your ieoios
When you soy, no Iriab need apply !
Tou talk about your soldiers
Hut tall me if you can, .
If the bravest of Uiem all
Are not true frishnen ?
When this Uobellion first broke out,
"We want men," waa the ory,
But thy never made an exception by
"No lriah need apply !"
If 'tie my eouutry you diilike, its.
Of Oenerali and of Statesmen, too,
Old Ireland can bcaat;
The l'nets, too, well known to you,
Are Universal Hoata :
There's Campbell, Moore and Conner,
And Ooldsmith, by the by I
Where will you Gnd their equals f
"No Irish need apply !"
If 'tis my country you dislike, Ac.
Just take a trip to Ireland,
They'll treat you like a man :
The whiskey they'll pour into you
As long as you can stalid.
With heart and hand they'll welcome you,
Then tell me the reason why
Our ears offend with that dirty cry,
"No Irish need apply I"
If 'tis my country you dislike, 4c.
And when you leave this world of care,
They'll put you in the earth,
For they serve us all alike when dead,
No matter wbat'i our birth ;
They'll make no such exceptions then
Hot ween either yon or I;
But I hope Old Nick has on his door
"No Irish need apply 1"
If 'tis my country you dislike, &c.
I STARTLING CONTRAST.
I Personal matters, and tho argumcn-
turn ad hominem, have raroly much
I weiirht in the proper decision ofirrave
: public questions. Nor, indeed, should
' they. Vet, thcro are incidents of this
? description which are devolved from
A a
tivc by tlieir parallelism or antithesis, 1
uuiu iu iimo bu ui'iwm w union a- ,
or so demonstrative of motive, char-j is told to dress immediately and consider
latter, object, or purposed results himself prisoner. Mr. Bright dresses
I that it were unwise atiJ illogical to '''""elf, bu t objects to go to prison. The
overlook them. The following start- Kpncrou Wx true-hearted English-
ling contrast strikes us as falling with- !.T" lm I J'-- df-"
,' :, i . ii- i" . , that he will rather die defending h a life
in the above category. W o clip from ,h, yi(.ld t0 Li, lawesg dd J""
I an exchange papcrTlns' paragraph : ) tors. His words are vain. He is violent-
; "EA'TJIAVAGAXCX. Mist Kate, 'y wized and hurried through the streets
: daughter of&Yrrtary Chase, has recent- lh. failft.v slatirm, whero a special
hj imported a shawl worth 83,000." ! u'" T""6 10 c,Ty . Li,a,i0 B!r
J r ' iniingham. On arrival be is locked up in
From a city paper issued a few days a military prison. Mext morning he is
nine, vc learn that tho most shock- brought before a court martial, composed
? inir cases of destitution have been dis-
; covered by our street missionaries a
; monr the families of tho soldiers in
Bcdlitrd and other small streets.
Ono woman was sick and almost
; naked, bcr last dress having been ta
i ift'ti ov a no irnuor io use wniio iroini?
I l II. . - I I . ,
out lor a necessary purpose, and cloth-
( .i ... .i .i: 'j. .' i' i .j
ing other than this dress she had none
I e 1 rri
1 for a cnL' timo. Tho missionary was
rah hirml In tU-A hia nrnssiniT imwn In
.ii: 1 t.;- j
e, ft""- .
,ru;i umt.;
iv luiuviiiii: t
proper place.
Another was
.tii:,,u ..!;..,-.
' dying on the pavement whero sho lay. .
utswiuic, nwinut I
unwept, uncarcd lor and unknown. .1
1 . . '
; iiiis one was sent, 10 uio ainiHonso
; and her life savcr. From tlit) public
itsylum she was afterward withdrawn
and restored to her husband, who sub
sequently ''returr.i;d from the war."
Tliesn are twn mens nnK- Xnt 1 l.r.
Jro types, accurate too accurate
types of a myriad of similar ones.
: r. . .. J . ...
. ?,y,i UT ,,U' ,a"d UC0 1
i Vri- V . , , !?, orusl8 '"K with denunciation ot
This Starthug contrast shows "what, the act! And, if these bodies were not in
tho policy of tho present ndministra-8e!mion' wouli. not every city and town in
tion does lor the two classes of our
lrtsople tho sboddv lords who tilan I
Und dmvt llin r.nn;Cn nf" M,,vi
.f,rim ,i 4i 4,a, l
masses
who only suffer. Age.
A Tlkaskd IIusbaxd. In a quiet
.town in Maine, a few Sabbaths since,
juiero owuroa an incident in Iho Meth
Odist Church which it will perhaps do I
BO liarni to rJate. A friend of tie
-eettled minister having officiated dur-1
rinrrthn mnrnimr na "
-eomeofiba momhera
- - v,,ion
After lb diflcourso to exhort the b reth
rcn or say a word of cncourag'!Tn,.nt
-Amosg others n as the pasW g wife
wbo fttated snbstantiallv iK-. .i. i '
iliovftd her daj-8 were nrun'oorod that'f"k'ng H10" lhBt they 'liave neither
ihefihonld soon be '"bme" and atlia?n';..,,ncUnVion lo- attml lo such
ffet with thoRO xehn Vi- a i ' T 1 . "MUar- A ,Qing of Democrats
erttitlitDO60 Tlio h'Adgono belore, held to protest against th? matter is but
Jlioni sho should BOr.n meet, Ac. Her I tb.nl, attended. Several clergvmen rub-
fcusband. who ocV'jnied tho rmlnit da- l,cl7 from rnlpit approve the ionr "
Ting these rem nvks. sat rubbiD? his
nands,
appnra.itlv with trreat aatia
la
Action and sbj0Uting "Amen!" "Glory
ii i 'a broad smile wab seen
vu uie "" of that congregation.
i .f?"Pi8noP Hopkins, of Vermont,
P'jbhshed a scathing reply to the
PV0 of Bishop Totter md other
)li,tion flergymon', of Philadebhiu.
shall tndeavor to find room for it
n our next issue. '
Correspondence of the London Times.
THE ARREST OF CIVILIANS.
Wlmt, would the pooplo of England
have thought, aid, or dona under the fol
lowing circumstance, supposing it to have
been possible they could have occurred ?
John bright, an able, clear-headod, logical
speaker, and an earnestadvooate of peace,
addressed the people of Kochdale, in the
year 1854, on the subject of tlm war in i K a
Crimea. So high ii his repulution for el
Ouiience. at well as for courage and patri
otism, that not only his immediate neigh
bors and friends, but multitndA nf nonr.in
from all the contiguous district?, gathered
to listen to bis voice and cheer the
manly expression of Lis sentiments. lie
denounces the war as wrong in principle,
tjnui.cuuB m policy, unjust ana iniquitous
in itself, and more dangerous in its con
tinuance to the liberty and orosneritv nf
the British people thau to the stability of
me Jtussian empire. lie declares that
Lord Aberdeon is little hotter than an
old woman ; that Lord Punmure thinks
too much of Dowb " and too little of his
duty to the country to be a safe or an ef-
ticient Minister in a lime of national dan
ger; that speculation and peculation, job
bery and robbery, pervade every depart
ment of the public service ; and that war,
always deplorable and wicked, is particu
larly horrible and unchristiun when waged
in defence of such a rotten and effote in
stitution as the Turkish empire, which
maintains slavery, and is therefore no Jit
member of the comity of nations, lie is
not aware, while speaking, that two ofli
cers of the Grenadier Guards, disguised in
citizen's attire, have been sont to the mee
ting by the War office to take notes of his
speech, and, having ended his oration,
amid the enthusiastic applause of his au
dience, goes home to supper. A few
night afterwards, thinking no evil, and
believing himself to be a oitizen of a free
country, he retires quietly to bed as usual.
Hut hit sleep is not permitted to be of
long duration. Shortly after midnight he
is aroused by violent knocking at the
outer door. He snrines to his font ihinV.
ing the home is on fire, and rings the fire
irm accordingly, n is wile, children
and household gather in great alarm, in
their night clotiies on the stairs and n.
"fc'e- The outer door is battered in, and
I ft ?'nriy of soldiers enter, the captain
1 "0J ,n h," "d ch man
lfre,.enM 'bayonet at the breaatoftne
hewi Irtornrl u u itn.
children scream or faint, while Ikfr Krii.t
,?.1 one "f'gan'er general, one colonel, one
lieutenant colonel, three majors and two
captains, and put on trial on a charge of
sedition and treason. He declines to .
knowledge the jurisdiction of the court,
miU U0IUHI1UK MB Iiril Ml HUniHPt in h '
as a
! tried before a civil judge and a jury of hu ;
AM.H II . .1 1 .
andu,,"n,arirI,y ejected, and the ;riai VTl
ceeds. ihe othcera ami "nnr-i' .. ' .
i un-u. ma ueniana is naui'.i:i.
CT' .ine,0,mce fno SV.emon " who
condescend to act the p.r rf .!. r,-11 1
. ... .. K '1" 01 spies for the,
11 ; , .
vwnmeni,ueiau Rr.'i MniM.t vwrV.rt !
" cil'ressions vr irh lia Hon.! ;n Vi.,
'.r . 1.- --ten ne usea in denun
wl .
i;iaiiuu vl lilt V
lor ami fliA ( si..
tion j .. . . fc.
an InDaalina.
corcmitted to prison until the judges acree
i"H m uays, ir. crigllt IS
"i""" ,"""r ana ueciae whether ho
ill.,! .A . n .. I I'll ,
ouimi m luaiuurniyu mi iue war is over.
banished to Hussia to live for the futuie
among the friends with whom tie sympa-1
"mariiy :iot or hune.
Woulo the British neonU ...i.ii
to such a wrone lnfl-ntn ... .
much humbler nersr.n n..n it. n.;i..
ould nt the newspapers of all shades
ulcVi'ndiVTn r" ,unite in expreMin8
,,icir lniJlRnant dlSTilnaanrAT And
?' ih Ilous of dmmon. and the House
1 ru,Kin6u " noia immense public meet
Lns l. a " "P0" tbe Queen to dUiniss
""pm ner councils the unworthy Ministry
STftaed their function and so
.grievously imperilled the public peace!
livery honest Englishman who values the
inestimable rirhtof free discission nrl
, the su premacy of law will reply in the af-
uriu'jtivs. Substitute the name of Clem
ent Lftird VaUnilit'liam frit that nf .T nhn
r,fibt, and the war against the South for
' he war against Russia: lay the scene in
0hio' in lnBtett ot in England in
1854, and the imacirary story becomes
true; and every incident related is a liter-
mui. na what, it may be asKed in
England, Lava Americans dona under the
circumstances f They have done nothing.
The leading newspaper! are silent. The
lead I UK People tmn lilimln nnanA in
1 a- a a a.. a
dl,1P'Ked b? 'be Government, and Fabid
displayed by the
.... . , " " . , W..VB I,
Tift ihnmna in &t I . i .. . ...
, ........ I'n.wuuau rx press tneir un
femininejoy at the arrest of so distinguish
ed a " Copperhead," and hope he will be
hanged or shot, as a warning to other evil
doers who dare tospeak of peace. It may
be objected to the comparison between the
imaginary case of Mr. Bright and tho ac
tual case of Mr. Vellandighain that in the
one it i. a foreign war which is in quastioa,
and. in the other a civil war. .. The djU no
tion mai.be admitted without .dimus u
theinference. If arjiaa:be4he9 oitt-J
rvu v m vvurillUklvUMI VVICI UliiVUI UCUH
PRINCIPLES,
CLEARFIELD, PA. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1863.
the same right to criticise the acts of the
people in power, and the the policy of
Administration, whether tho criticism ap
ply to domestic or to foreign affairs. It
is only an arbitrary despotism that will
tieny such rinht or punish iu nxpreinn
It is as certain as that all men must die
that if tho forms of American liberty last
as long as Mr. Lincoln's term of ofttco, the
agency of the ballot-box will consign that
" "uf luncuonary io private life, and
eiuvi some otner rresulent in his stead
ana why, in the meantime, Mr. Lincolu
should be greutcr than l'ope or Kaiser,
mm wuy it hiouiu ue consuitreU treasona-
ble to say of so comparatively small n tier
son what no one ever thought it treason
able to say of so emit a hero and patriot as
; i. i ... ...... . , .,'
" aii'nigion is ono ot ino many
mysteries and anomalies that will perhaps
puzzle the futuro historiau us much as
they puzzle all disinterested spectators of
current events. Although, Mr. Vnllun
digham's sj)eech, as rcportod by the mili
tary authorities who guve evidence uguinst
mm, was nov or.iy piitnotio in purpose
ana logical in argument, but singularly
iree irom ony violence, or even impropri
eiy oi expression on which a mine rnnn
could found a charge either of treason or
sedition : ana iran American, who claims
to be a sovereign, not a subject, and who
isjustihea in maintaining by the princi
ples of the Constitution that the President
is his servant and creature, to be made or
unmade by his breath, cannot criticise his
servant s pwlicy or conduct, his wisdom or
foolishness, as the case mav te. Amerienn
iiueny is a nung oi the past, ana the com
ing despot has but to appear and make an
euu or its name as ael; as its substance.
FIVE YEARS A WIFE,
AND KIETi:i:. YEARS A WHmiw.
A WAJtOERKB RBTrilMID.
Romantic stories occasionally find tboir
way inio newspapers, in the orm of oca
items. They are not alwavs to bo reliod
upon. The state of the local market is
somotimes the key to their credibility,
and when a dearth or items prevails, that
fact should receivo a fair degree of allow
ance.
But it is not always the most improba
ble story that has the least foundation in
facts. Truth is stranger than fiction
Our infoimant prefixed that remark to
his own revelation, which is about as fol
lowsand we are not suffering under an
item-famine.we must bespeak the reader's
credulity for the case in hand :
Twenty-four years ago this blessed Octo
ber, a young gentleman and lady, who
shall bo nameless, living then in Old Eng
laud, met like Harhel and Jacob, at a well-
curb, and exchanged healths and vows.
it was love at hrst sight ; at second eight
they were mavried. They moved to
America, and begat sons and daughters.
Five years of wedded life clansd. nI nn
fiee morning the aflectionate and unvoted
huibaod, who navar hofore kn- n l0
forego the slightest conjugal or paternal
obligations, was missing.
Nineteen years yiiv.cd by, in which tb
absen t husband WM n)0urnea n,,,,
noitsly decked, and quite forgotten by
widow a;lCi children. They bad moved
irOUt ihair original rAaidnmvi in mirsiiil nf
A Attnm frM-laiA i.l l s U U
ester, whert they have for some time resi
ded. Last woek, while the widow whs
sighing in loneliness at the protracted
absence of her eldest son, somebody
knocked At the door, which was opened,
and In. IIia hn.hand .um.I t
rl.,
The renegade took a chair, and said he
had come back to take care of his family
lie had been like Sinbad, the sailor, waa
during over the earth and sea, sometimes
throwing beefsteaks into the diamond
yalley and making heavy profits on recov
ering them from the cormorants that
and Brobdignug, engineering huge cara
picked em up ; he had been to Lilliput
vans across Sahara, tiaced the sources of
the Nile, slept in the grottoes of Monte
Cristo, made a phrenological chart of the
Sphynx, revelled in the halls of the
Astecs, eaten mud pies with the Hotten
tots, and turned the cold shoulder on the
Esquimaux.
In short, he was narrating bis expe
rience at length, when his eldtst daughter
moved thai he adjourn sine die, as they all
supposed that he bad, long ego. A vote
was taken on the proposition by the fam
ily ciiole, and although the wife and
mother only sustained ihe negative, she
maintained that she s;ain tho majority;
that the erring husband should remain ;
that poverty was his best recommenda
tion, and if he oould not take care of his
family, she would take oare of him, accor
ding to the original tenor of their agree
ment, " till death do them part." Com
ment is superfluous. Rochester Jkmoerat.
A Deserter KtrRiEVEn at the
Last 3Iom.nt. An execution was to
have taken place on the !th inst, in
tho second division, army of the Poto
mac. The grave was dug, the cofliui
paraded, the victim had closod his
eyes upon tho world all preparations1
for the execution had been made,
when an order arrived from the Pres
ident to suspend it. Tho effect of tho
prisoner was electric Though a few
moments before certain death stared
him in tho face, now life, with all its
hope9 and enjoyments, cheered bis
future. The prisoner, Williams F.
AViltks, belonged to the Fifty-ninth
New York Volunteers. He deserted
on the 12th of December last, as the
regiment was going into action, and,
was lately arrested at New Castle,
vrei
.Chester county. X. 7. Herald.
i
tbA a Tan.i.1. .1 '. I. il ' V
feet that, be vho u not bred to a trada,
w cniBu provero as iq uio ei-, uitrui vv iiuu cry inir ox your Daov.
l tkil Iia .k. . V..j;...-.j:",,ii-.ii Tj ' j?-L.T- , J.
it bred to the paLlowa
not MEN.
JUDICIAL SUBSERVIENCY.
Ifthere is any one thing more than
another onlcnlated to excite meluncholy
in tho present alarming condition of our
country, it is tho base, truckling subser
viency of tli judiciary, with hero and
there honorable exceptions, to the despot
ism that rulos us. . The sagacity which can
not be misled by sophistry ; the integrity
which nothing can shake or bribe j the
courage that ran wither despotic authority
at a glance, that are all looked lor in an
American Judiciary, seems gone; anil in
their steud have com 9, cringing cowutdioe,
presumptuous ignorunoe, ana time-serving
corruption. As we road the judicial de
cisions sinoe the issuing of Mr. Linoolu's
l'roclamation, one is reminded of those
corrupt Judges who gave judgment for the
crown in the mutter of ship money, iu the
reign of the first Charles. They vied with
each olh,er, who could be the most servile.
Said Justice C'rawlev. of the Common
l'leas: " The law knows no king-yoking
policy. The law itself is an old and trusty
follower of the kind's; it is his instru
ments by which he governs the people,
1 never heard that lex was rex; but it is
common and most true that rex is lex."
Vernon, another discraco to the ermine
that covered his shoulders, gave his opin
ion in these degrading words : " The King
may, pro bono publico, charge his subjects
for the safety and defense of the kinnddta.
notwithstanding auv act of Parliament:.
and tho King may dispense with laws in
case of necessity." Nothing is more cer
tain than this fnct, that a nation, where
any spirit is left, soon becomes revolution
ary, where the Judicial power is subser
vient to the Government, to carrv out its
decrees. When the streams of iustice arn
troubled at the fountain head, the waters 1
that flow from them over the land soon I
become a curso instead of a blessing. Tho
peoplo becomo armed, and if there be anv !
virtue left, it will not be ioniz before thev
assort their inalienable rights, and, amid
the throes of revolution, liberty will le
born again, or else perish in the travail,
The servility of a venal judiciary upon
this question of ship money was eoon fol
lowed by the infamous outrages of the
Star Chambor, which soon stirred up the
(lames of a civil war, in which the King
and his corrupt judges quickly perished.
Hitherto, since the formation of our Gov
ernment the political horizdn hss been
comparatively calm. There have been
some threatening clouds now and then,
tpi no destroying tempests.
In the main.
the fundamental nubia of men have been
ScrunulnilRlv rpunnlAil n.l iKa ln,... J.,n. I
, .j . , n..v w.o .oo uuit
....ooi ,ou my uumimsicrou. a learned
bench and an upright bar quietly preser
ved the arder of the system. But a re
verse has come. Two years of civil war
have upturned the old foundations. Pow
er, tending to augmentation, as in all such
convulsions, has gone on step by step in
its usurpation, until it has assumed the
form of a despotism. Instead of resisting
its encroachments, wo find the judiciary
almost everywhere encouraging and coun
tenancing them. The decision of Judge
Leavitt, and the recent ones of Judge
Belts and Cadwnlader, make manifest
how basely these men are bowing to the
storm. They are but imitators of the ser
vile judges oi the first Charles; in fact
they are worso, because the case before
the twelve judges involved simply a ques
tion in reference to the regularities of the
King the questious now to be decided
involve not only the persoual liberty of
the subject, but the lile of the nation. If,
amid all the arbitrary principles and arbi
trary measures of the Executive, he is to
find hi. most devoted and unquestioning I
hKlnrrihllVlUdf,l!elftn,J' Bri R1 acknowledges it to Lave re
rd W i i w th,S l,00VHd laalrou. defeat of the Union
pie ho e essly gone. V e suppose soon LrD,y. UepilVtf.
'Vei 6U10f.raier,,r0alLin- week .go, no prouder, mightier.
Si i.hJUMgTl l0th,e?nC,ep,iV " '"tir ko,t than the Army of the Cuo '
lltlii an,esl'ieI: MY"elhe berland was marhalled under the Hag
J ,ieL7, pr7iUma 10 TV"'"81 , of the Union. Alas for the uncertainties of
1 1m o Popular lawyers 7Wuv it is more than decimated
have ever been the men, sirfce mv acces- ..;; ..,... .....-.; . t
SlOn. trim lmvo in nil na. inmnnl. I . An
, uv ... .... n,i .iuiiiiil, hllA4UUI
ii unuer iodi. itememuer the law oan
never be respected unless the Kicg is
reverenced." When the monarch uttered
these word, the twelve judges fell upon
theirknees and acknowledged their grie
vious error. These men prostituted their
ntegn y and iheir f.uue, tnrough lear of llulerioal strength of the enemy, and emergencies often occurs which rciuim
losing iheir oit ocs and of incurring the . partlv to the deficient formation of battle. and cannot await tho slow
unmerciful and ruinous penalties ot the That of the second is justly ascribed to assembling and deliberations of Parli-i-.sur
Chamber. Irom the specimens we imj.mpor tactics on the bulla field, and ment. For these icasotis the
vr i.,B juuiciHi inuepennence in
A11 e rl it f a il ah 1 . a I. .1 1. u 1 L ... 1 J 1
u.i , " niii-uuT I. ley wouiu .
we doubt
1 t . . .... . - t
king, wnicn tney ucnomir.a'ed his abso-
lute power, inci.lent," as they say. "to;
uo . ' i hey seem to have as ex- ca by the Uommander-in-Chiel at Stone
alted. an opinion of Mr. Lincoln'. jTerog- Kiver ,Tero wanting h having be en com
alive as the servile judges under James, tilled to leave the field and return to
for they actually Leld, " That there was Chatunooga before the action was over.1'
a kind of paramount sovereignty iu tbe ( Ur Josses are great. That in killed
the abstract nature or aoveivignty, and filty pieces, mosllv lust on Sundav. ill! 0" f the principal obientions to
erising out er its primary office of saving waous. loaded with ammunition and sup-, Hche's great historv is hi, well-known
the State Irom destruction. ' If this is rii0i gmbulanches, etc., we have also lost 'sympathy with the kingly prrorgntlve
cot Mr. Ivinoohw- war - power, and tho H great number. They were abandoned-, yet even ho regarded the giving of the
power under which all hw act are justi. j the retreat on Sunday. kind's proclamation the power o a statue
bed. we fhall be hapj-y toleurn wherein it , We have purposely refrained, thin ran, 1 enacted by Parliament as a fatal blow to
d'"m j from making any allusion, editoi killy, to 'all civil liberty, snd a subversion of a free
GESKKAL8IN IHE NEXT Co.noresh l'he defeat of lio-ecrans. The hnpes of entiiulion. Yet tMJay a largi partv in
The followinir-named ofRwr will! t,,1 rp' r !w enough, and we hop.-d i Jbis c,,untry believe that a pronUiuntion
I 4l. ,' ,1 . 1 a ,r t .. !' iuc "isasier usiciii noi 1.0 fcocomiiete '
cave the army on the lat of Dece.n-Lld overwhelming m it at first seemid to
bcr to tako their scats in the Linted!ha. Hut ,i,.,,n ail ih ..n-n,. .. .,..
States LIouso ol I?cprc3cntativoi : Gen.
Iiobert C. Schenk, third district, Ohio;
Gen. John A. Garfield, nineteenth din
trict, Ohio; Gen. Ebenezcr Durnoiit,
sixth district, Indiana; Gen. Green
Clay Smith, ttixth dintrict, Kentucky;
Gen. Ben. F. Loan, seventh district,
llioun; Gea. Francis P. Blair, lirst
district, Missouri.
jr"Madttmf a good many penona
were disturbed at tho concert. Inst
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"Well, I do wonder that such pconlo
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will go
to concerts."
TERMS
NEW
THE GOSPEL OF PEACE.
If any man has watched closely
the
nr m net a a k a a 1 1
""" numu vi me clergy 111 tbis city
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ho muBt have been astoundnd at the want
of knowledgo of the world Hipv disnlnv.
end tho little rogard thy have for tlie
cuuiucier or meir prolemiou. Some wn.H
once said,
it . . . ,. . . . . 0
Hrnfln (!,.,. i: . :" . . .7 . T.
unit, cunuiuateb lor hoiv orders
to show their fell ow-oreatu res the wVy to
oTaltT
I ,1 1 t 11 "'""""'B auiuui ny
cloister mon, with very little knowleduo of
-. v- 7 vij rnt 11. luf ru
n.uKtmu ur iuo world s ways, they no
sooner mount a pulpit, than they conceive
they are then to inslruot men in politics
as well as religion. Their inlpmnprntn
meddling with tho former, aided very ma
terially in brincincon this nresent ful fill
civil war. Who can ever forirot the scath
ing rebuke that Air. Donglus administered
to tho three thousand clerL'viunn whn do.
sired to instruct him in his politicul course?
Who can forget the intemperate language
mm iuo vue auuse that have characterized
tho debates in religious conventions upon
thesubjpct ofslavory ? All serving to in
tensify and embitter the feelings of the
South T Who will ever forget the insane
ajiper Is that have ben made from many
pulpits in the North, where the ministers
of the meek and lowly one of Nazareth,
" whose foot should be shod with the
preparation of the gospel of peace," come
into the sacred desk with tho battle-light
upon their countenances, and garments
rolled in blood, such men in Tyng, Chee
vcr, Beccher, and ninny others who might
bo naiuod, havo clearly niinaken their
culling, and upon their souls must rest the
fearful responsibility, both here and here
after, of doing what Pilate did: "ming
lirg blood with their sacrifices." They
have been foremost among those who
" have made hasto lo shed blood." They
hive used every effort to excilo the minds
of their congregations lo hatred, revenge
hum uiuerncss, instead oi to love, peuce
and good will. 1 f they minded their true
mission they wouid discover that they had
nothing to do with the sword of steel that
pierces the body, but only with "the
sword of the spirit a hich is the word of
God." If they must elevate a shield, let
it only be " the shield of faith, wherewith
they shnll be able lo quench all the fiery
darts of the wicked." These men seem
to bo ashamed of the cospil of Peace, of
Him who is Kiugof Salem, that is King of
reace. 1 hey appear to love the testimony
of men rather than the testimony of the
i . , .
l.oru. the etleet of their conduct has
t)Pen io arive manv
well-mcanini! men
from the sanctuary, shocked at tho glar
ing inconsistencies and contradictions in
the lives and examples of those who min
ister therein. Never was infidelity and
irreligion so rife in the land as now, and
the cause of it is to be found in the mad
iaconsisUncies of the clergy. Let our
clerey remember what Chaucer says, in
his Canterbury Tains, of the IVrson ;
"His preaching much, but more his practice
wrought
A living sermon of the truths ie taught,
For this, by rules severe his life he squared,
That all might see the ilootrines which thoy
heard,
The gold of heaven, who bear the God impressed :
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But whon the precious eoln is kept cnolean,
The sovereign image Is no longer soen.
If they be foul, on whom the people trust,
Well may the baser brass contract aruit."
V, y. I)ji!y Xcws.
DEFEAT OF ROSECRANS.
A correspondent of the New York Tri
1 , 1 ,- .i. .
r ,v. i,..- 7 S." L,
. . .. . J .
And, after describing the tilan of the
battie and the operations resulting iu our
defeat, he concludes as follows:
" While the strugglo of Saturday ended
in a drawn battle, that of Sunday resulted
in a disastrous defeat. The failure of the
nrsl any whs partly due to the greutcr
above all h tU uhsem-e J command. The j
. - v . . . '
msmiim, oxamnln lcI. .:f ,.miw a
wounded and mUwg, ill probably reach
itj.OOO. Our artillery, wn are less .omo
j be. Hut despite all the attempts ot tho
telegranh and pres to break the sd news
gradually and to keip baok the wor.t, the
truth has come out at last. It would have
been far better to have let the people
know the real condition of aflairs from the
first, but it seems as if tho powers that
be will never lenm lo trust this mnes
Valley Spirit and T-mes.
KiT Why is a man that baa been
knocked down like a newly finished
house?
Because he haa been floored
jt-A white crav.it ; r m
cative of brains than a blu..
n.
$1 25 per Annum, if paid in advnnre.
SERIES VOL. IV.-NO. I I,
COTTON PLANTING EXPERIMENT'
The following extract from a letter iu
the Chicago Tribune disrloses that tho cot
ton planting exriKrininnt. in .Cini
1 Illinois Las proved a failure t
The faiUirn rf lh .niinn
t ! V ' " '''"'. lUOUgll resilUllli:
noriiiiArW i.t 1 : . .1 1 T .
iruin a irosi, wnich
..uo-epeoplo3,':,
itiiiiiiULiiiii in rnnkn ci.uii,..
exnnnnien lh
in the future. A very favorable snason
would have Iui-po thorn into most expuu
sive enterprises, in fulnre years, which
could not be otherwise than disastrous.
His surprising that intelli
hove encouraged the farmers of Jlliooia,
Missouri aud Kansas, to attempt eoltou
planting, when the fact is notorious that
the plant is never cultivated, except on a
very small acule, in North Carolina and
Tennessee, north of the 'Mi'u pamlM of
latitude. Not one of the northern coun
ties in these .States raises cotton to auy
considerable extent. Iletweon the ZMi
and 30th degrees cotton is cultivated, of
ten successfully, but is subject lo be blight
ed by fruet. The most northern couuty
in North Carolina whero cotten is culu
vnted extensively and successfully i Kdae
comb, which is situated in the lowlands,
and by thesoa breeze.. Tho upland coun
ties iu the same latitude cultivate cotton
on a small scale, but oftou huve their
crops cut off by frost. But in the ivestoru
part of the State that is to shv, west of
Kaleigb, the Stale capitol cotion is not
successfully planted, except in the coun
ties bordering or near to the lino of South
Carolina.
I11 Tennessee, in the same latitudes, the
results aro the same. Maury, of wlach
Columbia is the county seat, is ono of the
finest counties in the Mississippi valley.
It is southwest of Nashville, with a Urge
county between, and yet the cotton cul
ture is most uncertain. When successful
it is very fiue, but the planters oount upon
not mre than two crops in tliio. The
census of 1850 fully sustains the'te state
ments, and it is surprising that thero was
a dotermined purpose tr overlook them.
One or two of the northern' counties of
North Carolina produce about as much
cotton as a lirst class plantutitm on the
Kod Uivor, but those are situated in the
lowlands of the east. Theootton latilicw
of Tennessee show that even in the low
lands, between the Tennessee and the
Mississippi liiver. nocottoo is produced in
counties on the Kontucky border in Obi
on, Weakly, Ac. ; while tho southern
counties between the same liver rival the
be6t ootton districts of Mississippi in pro
ductiveness. In Arkansas tho same ktvv
of climate prevails. Tho southern coun
ties constitute the very liwrt nnd centre
of the cotion region of the United States,
while the northern counties produce very
little, and some of (hem none at all, al
though the soil is highly futile. If peo
ple will attempt to produce Ironical or
semi-tropical plants in the ooldor regions
of tho north, they have no alternative but
to pm ttiein in hothouses."
. A Scrap of HiBtory.
If Hens, the historhn, lived now-a-days
the radicals would pronounce him a Cop
perhead, because of the- following pass.vo
in his history of England. Speakiug of u
certain passr.ge in the reign of IlE.viir
VII I, -hHAayslJIume; vol. iij, chap, xxxii):
'The Purlimeut havinir thus resigned
all their religious liberties, proceeded to
an entire surrender cf tluir cieil ; and, without
scruple or deliberation, they nnje by c.nc
ar( a fatal subversion oftlic English (Jonsthution.
They gave to the Kinc's vroclimation lha
idinefurcetlo us statue enacted by Pariitnont
and to render the matter worse, if nossi-
ble, they framed this law as if it ivos only
declaratory, and wero intended to explain
the natural extent of royal authority.
"The preamble contains that tho King
had formerly set forth several proclama
tions which froward persons had willfulv
contemned, not considering what a king
by his royal power may do; that this li
cense might encourage offenders not only
to disobpy the laws of Almighty God, but
also to dishonor the June's most rovel ma
jesty, who uiiy full ill bear ,
...11..
' lament, that they might
-
remove nil
occasion of (ion
)t. aieoruined hv staiutn
this promotive of tho crown, und en
able his majesty, with the advhv of hia
council, to set forth proclamrtions, enjoin
ing oleditnee under whatever jiain.i ami penal
ties tl.ej should think jirver : and lh:'.- n,--
1 hmouons were to hae the force nf w
'
i.hA
UT '"B i remer.i oi iuo uniieu oisies us
all lb- binding fo'ceoflavr. .Uho.igl.it
-,-.- .n.inini,.,,! statu, ami mnn,-,.,..
ignores
ionl enactments time an'J a;m rec'g
ni7.ed, and rendered sacred by judicial d.
oisi'ina Mr. Lincoln himself, in hii.--c"nt
lottor, FSenn lo take it fr Bn:r-.'l
t hat bis proc'ii'ostion h im ? ,.; ,n :
ai psased bv (' t'J v, ! 'i .
with h- ni ii ! . . ' 1 '
It iieies " nd !' ; I ' '.'.i -..i. i
d v re.n-'i '
time ol II--'"
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