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The Conquered Banner.
The following beau - if :1 and touching poeti
cal effusion is from the New York Freeman's
Journal:
Fite that Banner, for 'tis . weary,
Round its staff 'tis drooping dreary ;
Furl ft, II(' it, It is best;
For ti ore's not a man to wave it,
And there's no a soul to save it,
And the e's not one left to lave it;
In the blood woich heroes gave it
And its foes now scorn and brave it
Furl it, hide it—let it rest.
Take that Banner down, 'tis tattered !
Bro..eu is it stafTand shattered!
And the valiant hosts are scattered,
Over whom it floated high.
Oh! 'Us hard for us to fold it!
Hard to think theirs 110'.e to hold it;
Hard that those who once unrolled it
Now must furl it with a sigh.
Furl that Banner—furl it sadly—
One. ten thousands hailed It gladly,
And the t ousands wildly, madly ;
Swore it should forever wave
Swore that foeman's sword should never
Hearts like theirs ent A cued dissever,
Till that ft , g should float forever
O'er their freedom, or their graves.
Furl it, fur the hand th t grasped It,
And toe eearts that fondly damped it,
C Id and d ad are lying now ;
And that Banner, it is trailing,
While around it sound the wailing
Of its people in their woe.
For, though conquered, they adore it!
Lo•w the cold deal han s the bore it,
V. e p for those who fell tore it.
Pardon tho-e %vin traiied and tore it.
Bu.,,ph! wildly they deplore it,
Nom/ who iurl and fold It so.
Full that Banner, tr e 't is gory.
Yet 'Ls or ed around with glory,
And 'twill live in sung and story,
Though its folds are in the dust ;
For Its fame on brig test pages,
Penned by poets and by sages,
Sind, go sounding down he ages—
Furl its folds though may we must
Furl that Banner, softly, slowly,
Treat i gently—lt is lady—
For it. droops above tile dead.
Touch it not—un'old It never,
Let U dr op there farted forever.
For its people,' hopes are dead.
literarm.
Short Tales for Infant Corterles
There was a good little boy, and his
name was Johnny. He was a poor boy,
but once he saw a dollar lying in his
mother's work-box, and he picked it up
and put it in his pocket, as he was
afraid she might lose it or waste it in
buying something to eat, and went off
and set himself up in the bootblacking
business. He was a very hardworking
boy, and went on in the good principle
of never stealing arything he could not
carry off: He saved his money, as good
little boys ought to do, and when lie was
sent to the penitentiary for taking a
coat, he had a great deal of money laid
away safe. All little boys should imi
tate the example of Johnny, so that
when they come out of the penitentiary
they can have something logo on with.
THERE was another little boy named
Harry, who lived in Cincinnati. Cin
cinnati is a large city, and the streeb
are very Slippery, because there is so
much live lard running over them. Har
ry always had a great and good idea of
doing well in the world, and becoming
rich and consequently respectable. So,
when he was six years old, he borrowed
a dollar, and commenced business, at a
fair ground, with a jug of whisky and a
tin cup. 'When this was sold out he
bought some more, and so went on in
creasing his stock and money, until he
was able to buy out a corner grocery.
He is now a very rich loan, and owns
several large distilleries, which are
manufacturing a great quantity of bald
face whisky, and bringing happiues and
comfort, and wealth to a great many
poor families that are fond of whisky.
When the man who bad loanedhiro the
dollar asked him to pay it back, because
the man was poor, Harry very properly
told him to do as he had done, to bor
row a dollar of some other man, and
commence business like Harry had ;
but as for paying him the dollar, he
should do no such thing, as he made it
a rule to save all he got. The man
thanked Harry for this advice, and is
now one of the most promising inmates
of the Ohio penitentiary.
THERE was a little girl, named Sarah
Ann, who was a poor girl when she
commenced business, and had nothing
except what she could cabbage from the
women for whom she worked. But she
was very industrious, and saved all she
got, and now owns a large millinery
establishment in New York city, where
She employs a great many girls, and she
has made a fortune by the vast amount
of work she has got out of them. She
is very good to the girls, for she remem
bers that she herself once was poor ; so
she lets them work sixteen hours a day,
and sometimes gives them something
to eat. When tney die, she buries them
cheaply, but decently.
THERE was an honest German lad,
named Heinrich, who came to this
country very poor, and worked in a
brewery for five dollars a month and
find himself. Think of the lowly situa
tion of the lad, especially if he had
tumbled into a beer-vat ! But Heinrich
studied hard, and soon invented a way
of making beer very cheap, without
using hops or malt, which was a great
blessing to the country, as a little cheap
poison saved a peat deal of valuable
property. He now owns a brewery of
his own, and has a splendid lager beer
saloon, with a number of pretty waiter
girls, who are very faesinating, and who
bring him iu a great deal of money
He also thinks of starting a graveyari
of his own
THERE was alittle boy named Thomas,
who had a brother Jeremiah, and the
delightful beverage, called Tom and
Jerry, was named after them by their
grateful fellow-citizens—which shows
that they must have been respectable.
Thomas saved up his pennies and
bought oranges. When he had eaten
the oranges he was wont to scatter the
peel before the door of surgeons, and
the good surgeons kindly allowed him
e5 ... 4 3
a commission for the pie who slip
ped on the peel an roke their arms or
legs. He saved the mone 'which the
worthy surgeons paid him, and became
rich, and attained the age of thirty-five
years before he was hung.
THERE was a little boy named Samuel,
who had been told that virtue was its
own reward. He supported himself
and his aged mother by picking up little
things that other people seemed to have
no use for. Once he found a fine gold
watch. A foolish boy would have taken
it to the owner to get a reward, and
therefore rewarded himself by his vir
tue by keeping the watch. The owner
might not have given him more than
half the, value of it. Samuel is still
making money, and can go to jail when
ever he chooses, and have an easy time.
THERE was a little boy named—but I
need not tell you his name—who com
menced life as an humble member of
Congress and Brigadier General. Of
course he was entirely uneducated, but
by making good use of his leisure hours
and reading Poor Richard's Almanac
and the Brooklyn papers he had ob
tained a remarkable celebrity as a poor
but honest. author, and has written these
.pleasing narratives. for good little child
ren..
VOLUME 66
Daniel Bryan's Oath.,
Daniel Bryan had been a lawyer of
eminence, but had fallen, through in
toxication, to beggary and a dying con
dition. Bryan had married in his bet
ter days the sister of Moses Felton. At
length all hopes were given up. Week
afterweek would the fallen man lie drunk
on:the floor, and nota day of real sobriety
marked his course. I doubt if such
another case was known. He was too
low for conviviality; for those with
whom he would have associated would
not drink with him. All alone in office
and chamber, he still continued to drink,
and even his very life seemed the off
spring of the jug.
In early Spring Moses Felton had a
call to go to Ohio. Before he set out he
visited his sister. He offered to take
her with him, but she would not go.
"But why stay here ?" urged the
brother. " You are fading away and
disease is upon you. Why should you
live with such a brute ?"
" Hush, Moses, speak not," answered
the wife, keeping back her tears. "I
will not leave him now, but he will
soon leave me—he cannot live much
longer.
At that 'moment Daniel entered the
apartment. He looked like a wanderer
from the tomb. He had his hat on and
his jug in his hand. " All, Moses, how
are ye?" he gasped, for he could not
speak plainly.
The visitor looked at him for a few
moments in silence. Then as his fea
tures assumed a cold, stern expression,
lie said in a strongly emphasized tone:
" Daniel Bryan, I havebeen your best
friend but one. My sis er is an angel,
though matched with a demon. Ihave
loved you, Daniel, as I never loved man
before ; you are generous, noble, and
kind ; but I hate you now, for you are
a perfect devil incarnate. Look at that
woman. She ismy sister—shemight now
live with me in comfort, ouly she will
not do it while you are alive; when you
die she will come to me. Thus do I
pray that God will soon give her joys to
my keeping. Now, Daniel, I do sin
cerely hope that the first intelligence
that reaches me from my native place
after 1 have reached my new home, may
be that you are dead."
" Stop Moses, I can reform yet."
" You cannot. It is beyond yourpow
er. You have had inducements enough
to have reformed half the sinners of
creation, and you are lower now than
ever before. Go and die, sir, as soon as
you can, for the moment that sees you
thus, shall not find me among the mourn-
ers. '
Bryan's eyes flashed, and he drew
himself proudly up. "loo," he said in
a tone of the old sarcasm. " Go to Ohio,
and I'll send you news. Go, sir, and
watch the post. I will yet make you
take back your words."
" Never, Daniel Bryan, never."
" You shall ! I swear it'?"
With these words Daniel Bryan hurl
ed the jug into the fire place, and while
yet a thousand fragments were flying
over the floor, he strode from the house.
Mary sank fainting on the floor.—
Moses bore her to a bed, and having
called in a neighbor, he hurried away,
for the stage was waiting.
For a month Daniel hovered over the
brink of the grave, but he did not die.
" One gill of brandy will save you,"
said the doctor, who saw that the ab-
- upt removal of stimulants from a sys
,em that for long years had almost sub
sisted on nothing else, was nearly sure
to prove fatal. " You can surely take a
gill and not take any more."
" Aye," gasped the poor man, " take
a gill and break my oath? Moses Fel
ton shall never hear that brandy and
rum ever killed me! If the want of it
can kill me, then let me die. But I
won't die ; I'll live till Moses Felton
shall eat his words."
He did live. An iron will conquered
the messenger death sent—Daniel Bryan
lived. For one month he could not walk
without help. But he had help—joyful
help. Mary helped him.
A year passed away, and Moses Felton
returned to Vermont. He entered the
court house at Burlington, and Daniel
Bryan was on the floor, pleading for a
young man who had been indicted for
perjury. Felton started with surprise.
Never before had such torrents of elo
quence poured from his lips. The case
was given to the jury, and the youth
was acquitted. The successful counsel
turned from the court room and met
Moses Felton. They shook hands, but
did not speak. When they reached a
spot where none others could hear them
Bryan stopped.
" Moses," he said, " do you remember
the words you spoke to me a year ago?"
" I do, Daniel."
"Will you now take them back—un
say them now and forever?"
" Yes, with all my heart."
" Then I am in part repaid."
" And what must be the remainder
of the payment?" asked Moses.
"I must die an honest, unperjured
man ! The oath that has bound me thus
far was made for life."
That evening Mary Bryan was among
the happiest of the happy.
d
I Call Ion."
Not long since an eminent divine in
the State of Illinois, (it won't do to men-
tion dates, place or names,) visited a
distant town for the purpose of preach
ing the dedicatory sermon in a new
church. Court was in session, and on
Saturday evening the Judge and lawyers
congregated together in room, and
amused themselves by card playing and
story telling. The divine, at the request
of F., a lawyer, visited the room. Coming
upon the group so suddenly, they were
unable to hide their cards and whisky.
The divine looked on awhile, and then,
raising his hat invited the gentlemen
present to attend church the net day
and hear him preach. This they agreed
to do, and Sunday found Judge and
lawyers seated in the " amen corner."
The sermon over, the minister an
nounced, " Friends, the citizens of this
town have built a fine church, there is
still $1,500 due. We propose to raise
the money by subscription to day, (and
eying the Judge,) I go one hundred dol
lars, who goes better !" The Judge
glancing at the lawyers slowly respond
ed " I see your hundred." "Thank you,
brother," says the divine, " will any
'one raise it?" looking at the same time
at lawyer No. 1. The lawyer saw he
was in for it, and quietly responded, "I
go a hundred blind," and so on through
the list. The divine raked down both
the bar and their mercy, until_ the scenes
closed by a sharp, shrill voice announ
cing, " I sec the last hundred and 'call'
you!„
Our readers can imagine the astonish
ment of the congregation. We venture,
however, that those lawyers will not soon
invite the divine to witness a " social
game of whist," where men "see" each
other, "go it blind," and "call" the
hand.
Wonderful Log Rolling at the West.
An Englishman who was lately trav
eling on the Mississippi river told some
rather tough stories about the London
thieves. A Cincinnati chap, named
Chase, heard these narratives with a
silent but expressive humph! and then
remarked that he thought the Western
thieves beat the London operatives all
hollow.
" How so?" inquired the Englishman,
with surprise. " Pray, sir, have you
lived much in the west?"
" Not a great deal. I undertook to
set up a business at the Desmoines
Rapids awhile ago, but the rascally peo
ple stole nearly everything I had, and,
finally, a Welsh miner ran off with my
wife."
"Good God!" said the Englishman.
" And you never found her ?"
" Never to this day. But that was
not the worst of it."
" Worst !" " Why, what could be
worse than stealing a man's wife?"
" Stealing his children, I would say,"
said the implacable Chase.
" Children !"
" Yes ; a nigger woman who hadn't
any of her own, abducted my youngest
daughter, and sloped and joined the In
gins."
" Great heaven ! Did you see her do
it?"
" See her? Yes, and she hadn't ten
yards start of me ; but she plunged into
the lake and swam off like a duck, and
there wan't a canoe to follow her with."
The Englishman laid back in his
chair and called for another mug of aff
an aff, while chase smoked his cigar and
credulous friend at the same time, most
remorsely.
" I shant go any further west—l
think," at length observed the excited
John Bull.
I should not advise any one to go,"
said Chase quickly.—" My brother once
lived there, but he had to leave, al
though his business was the best in the
country."
"What business was he in, pray?"
" Lumbering—had a saw mill."
"They stole his lumber ?"
" Yes, and his saw logs too."
"Yes. Whole dozens of fine black
walnut logs were carried off' in a single
night!"
" Is it possible?"
" True, upon my honor, sir. He tried
every way to prevent it ; had men hired
to watch his logs, but it was allof no use.
They would whipe them away as easily
as if there had been no body there.—
They would steal them out of the river,
out of the cove, and even out of the
mill ways."
"Good gracious !"
"Just to give you an idea how they
can steal out there," continued Chase
sending a sly wink at the listening com
pany, "just to give you an idea—did
you ever work in a saw-mill?"
"Never."
" Well, my brother, one day, brought
an all-fired fine lot walnut log—four feet
three at the butt, and not a knot in it. He
was determined to keep that log, any
how, and hired two Scotchmen to watch
it all night. Well, they took A small
demi john of whiskey with them, snaked
the log up the sidehill above the mill,
and built a fire, and then sot down on
the log to play keerds, just to keep awake
you see. " T was a monstrous big log—
bark two inches thick. Well, as I was
sayin,' they played keerds and drank
whiskey all right, and as it began to
grow light, went to sleep, a straddle of
the log. About a minute after daylight
George went over to the mill to see how
they got along, and the log was gone !"
"And they setting on it?"
"Setting on the bark. The thieves
had drove au iron wedge into the butt
end, which pinted down the hill, and
hitched a yoke of oxen on and pulled it
right out, leaving the shell and the
Scotchers sitting a-straddle of it fast
asleep!"
The Englishman here rose,. dropped
his cigar stump into the spitton, and
looking at his watch, said he thought
he would go on deck and see how far
we'd be down the river before morning.
llow Jones Popped the Question.
"'Poo bashful to " pop the question'
n the usual way, Major Jones persuad
ed his sweet heart to put up a stocking,
which will hold a couple of bushels, on
the night that Santa Claus pays his visit,
receiving her promise to keep forever
what he gave her. In this the gallant
and love lure Major contrives to intro
duce himself at the " witching hour o
night." But we will let the Major speak
for himself:
" I remained up till midnight, and
when they were all gone to bed I softly
went into the back gate and went up to
the porch, and thar, shore enuff, was a
great big meal bag hanging to the jice.
It was monstrous unhandy to git to i
but I was determined not to give up.
So I sot some chairs on top ov the bench
and got hold ov the rope and let myself
down in the bag ; but just as I was get-
ting in the bag swung against the chairs
and down they went with a terrible
racket. But nobody didn't wake up
but Miss Stalliuess' grate big dog, and
here he cum ripin and tarin through
the yard like rath, and round and round
he went tryin to find out wiiat was the
'Matter. I sot down in the bag and
didn't breath louder than a kitten, for
fear he'd find me out. The wind began
to blow 'bominably cold, and the old
bag went swingin round, so as to make
me sick as the mischief. I was afeard
to move for fear the rope would break
and let me fall, an there I sot with my
teeth clatterin like I had the ager.
It seemed it would never come dalite,
and I do believe if I didn't love Miss
Mary so powerful, I would have froze to
death ; for my heart was the only spot
that felt warm, and it didn't beat more'
an two licks a minit, only when I thot'
how she would be surprised in the morn
in and then it went on a canter. Bimeby
the cussed old dog came on the porch
began to smell about the bag, and
then he barked like he thought he
traced somethin'. " Bow, wow, wow !"
sez he. Begone you abominable fool,"
sez I, and I felt all over in one spot, for
I 'spected he'd nip me; and what made
it worse, I didn't know where he'd take
hold of me. "Bow, wow wow!' Then
I tried coaxing. " Come here, good fel
low," sez I, and I whistled a little to
him but it was no use. There he stood
and kept up his eternal winnin and
karkin all the night. I couldn't tell
when dalite was breaking, only by the
chickens Crowin, and I was monstrous
glad to hear em, for if I'd had to stay
one hour more, I don't believe I'd ever
got out of that bag alive."
They got him in the morning all cov
ered with: meal and almost frozen. But
Miss Masy does not refuse his present.
And he says, " I tell you what it was
worth hanging in abag from one Christ
inaa to another to feel as happy as I hev
ever since."
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1865
An Awkward Mistake
A farmer who had bought a calf from
a butcher, desired him to drive it to his
farm and place it in his stable, which
he accordingly did. Now it happened
that very day that a man with a grind
ing organ and dancing bear, passing by
that way, began their antics in front of
the farm. After amusing the farmer's
family for some time, the organ-man
entered the farm-house, and asked the
farmer if he could give him a night's
lodging. The farmer replied that he
could give him a night's lodging. The
farmer replied that he could give the
mau lodging, but he wasat a loss where
to put the bear. After musing a little
he determined to bring the calf inside
the house for that night, and place the
bear in the stable, which he did. Now,
the butcher, expecting the calf would
remain in the stable all night, resolved
to steal it ere morning ; and the farmer
and his guest were in the night
awakened by a fearful yelling from the
out-building.
Both got up, and, taking a lantern,
entered the stable; when the farmer
found, to his surprise, the butcher of
whom he had bought the calf in the
grasp of the bear, which was hugging
him tremendously, for he could not bite,
being muzzled. The farmer instantly
understood the state of the case, and
briefly mentioned the circumstances to
the owner of Bruin, who to punish the
butcher for his intended theft, called
out to the bear : "Hug him, Tommy ;"
widen the bear did iu real earnest, the
butcher roaring most hideously the
whole time. After they thought he
had suffered enough, they set him free,
and the butcher slunk off, glad to escape
with his life; while the farmer and his
guest returned to their beds.
Origin of 'the English Party Names
Whig" and "Tory."
Those who took the King's side were
An ti-Birmi nghams, Abhorrers and Tan
tivies. These appellations soon became
obsolete; but at this time were first
heard two nicknames which, though
originally given in insult, were soon as
sumed with pride, which are still in
daily use, which have spread as widely
as the English race, and which will
last as long as the English literature.—
It is a curious circumstance that
one of these nicknames was of
Scotch and other Irish origin.—
Both in Scotland and in Ireland mis
government had called into existence
bands of desperate men, whose ferocity
was hightened by religious enthusiasm.
In Scotland, some of the persecuted
Covenants, driven mad by oppression,
had lately murdered the Primate, had
taken arms against the Government,
had obtained some advantages against
the King's forces, and had not been put.
down till Monmoth, at the head of some
troops from England, had routed them
at Bothwell Bridge. These zealots were
most numerous among the rustics of the
western lowlands, who were vulgarly
called Whigs. 'Thus the appellation of
Whig was fastened on the Presbyterian
zealots of Scotland, and was transferred
to those English politicians who showed
a diiiposition to Oppose the Court, and
to treat Protestant Nonconformists with
indulgence. The bogs of Ireland, at
the same time, afforded a refuge to
Popish outlaws, much resembling those
who were afterwards known as White
boys. These men were called tories.
The name of tory was therefore given
to Englishmen who refused to concur
in excluding a Roman Catholic prince
from the throne.
A highwayman undertook to rob Mr.
Jones. He met Jones in a wood over
iu Jersey. He asked Jones for his pock
et book. Jones refused to yield. High
wayman took Jones by the neck and
undertook to choke him. Jones made
fight and kept it up for half an hour.
At the expiration of that time Jones
caved in, and the highwayman commen
ced raffling his pockets. The contents
amounted to eighteen cents. "Is that
all you've got? Every cent. What
made you fight so long ?"
"Didn't want to be exposed. Bad
enough to have only eighteen cents ;
a great deal worse to have the whole
world know it."
A Good Irish Anecdote
Some years since, when the beautiful
painting of Adam and was Eve exhibited
in Ireland, it became the chief topic of
conversation. Finally a poor, ragged,
illiterate peasant went to see it. The
light was so arranged as to reflect on the
picture, and leave the spectator in com
parative darkness. The peasant, as he
entered the room to see his first parents,
was struck with so much astonishment
that he remained speechless for some
moments. He stood like a statue, as
though his feet were incorporated with
the oaken floor of the room. At last,
with an effort, he turned to an acquain
tance and said :
"Barney, I'll niver say another word
agin Adam in all my life, for had I been
in the garden, I would have ate every
apple in it for the sake of such a lovely
creature as Eve."
It is needless to add that this was re
ceived with roars of laughter.
Women may talk of their inherent
rights as much as they please, but they
can't overcome nature. Men and oaks
were made to be twined, and women
and ivy were made to twine about them.
Though an equality were established
between calico and cassimere to-mor
row, it would not be a week before all
the officers would be men, and the
soldiers women. Females are per
fectly willing to go ahead, provided
the men go first. Set fire to a steam
boat, and not a yard of dimity will
budge till corduroy sets the example. So
long as the men cling to the vessel the
women will cling to the men. But
if the men plunge overboard, feminines
plunge too. As we said before, reform
ers may prate about equal rights, but
they can't alter the regulations of God.
It is as impossible for women to cut
themselves loose from men, as it is for
steel dust to free itself from its attach
ment to a magnet.
ONE of Uncle Sam's free nigger agents
in Virginia, the other day, tried about
a thousand of them in the art of voting.
He told them they should be allowed to
elect a Commissioner of their own choice
to see after their affairs, and directed all
of them in favor of a Mr. W. to say
" aye." One long earthly black yell
went up " aye," every particular nigger
" voting" with all his might. Then he
told all opposed to Mr. W. to vote "no,"
and every darkey " woted no " ten
times harder than ever. Thereupon
the free nigger agent looked puzzled and
glum, and finally swore that niggers
were d—d fools, and ought to be in—a
very warm place. It is evident ye
negro "beam. the palm," Rot only in
fighting but" wuting."
Poor but Proud
Women and Men.
Truth In the Bight Quarter.
"Mr. Beecher alluded to the pre
vailing opinion in the North, that it
was the South that originated the doc
trine of State rights, but the fact was,
he said, that the States rights doctrine
emanated originally from New England
men; and the South was in favor of
power in the National Government."
So said the Rev. Henry Ward Beech
er, at a large meeting held on Monday
evening in New York. Never were
truer words spoken. The New England
men were the most conspicuous in the
convention which formed the Constitu
tion, and Connecticut among the fore
most of them, in favor of State rights.
It was the State rights principle that
secured to the six New England States,
with an aggregate population not great
er than Pennsylvania, twelve represen
tatives in the Senate of the United
States, while Pennsylvania has but
two ; and with that quick New England
sagacity, which never sleeps, when
compromises or bargains are made, it
was further provided, whatever might
be the future amendments of the Con
stitution, that " No State, without its
consent, shall be deprived of its equal
suffrage in the Senate."
It was also the State rights principle,
in the convention, which made the
most obnoxious feature in the Constitu
tion, the continuance or the African
slave trade for twenty years ; under
which, the Southern States were filled
with the ancestors of the very negroes,
that by a constitutional amendment,
wehave now made free. And that
slave trade, State rights principle, as it
was called, which made a part of the
Constitution, was carried in the conven
tion, by the unanimous votes of all the
New England States, uniting with those
from the extreme South, against the
votes and voice of Virginia, 'and the
more central States. No members were
more strenuous for it, than the able
statesmen Ellsworth and Sherman, who
represented Connecticut. That feature
of the Constitution, however, was not
like the unequal representation in the
Senate, made unalterable. New Eng
land was as strenuous for State rights
after the Constitution was made, as
while making it; and in less than
twenty-live years, Connecticut, fearing
that State rights were not well enough
understood, placed on record the follow
inw declaration of principles:
"It must not be forgotten that the
State of Connecticut is a free, sovereign
and independent State; that the Uni
ted States are a confederacy of States;
that we are a confederated, and not a
consolidated Republic."
The capitals and italics are in the orig
inal as published by the federal press of
those days. Even as late as 1858, before
Mr. Lincoln was thought of for the
Presidency he wrote " Massachusetts is
a sovereign and independent State, and
it is no privilege of mine to scold her
for what she does." If the South is to
be blamed now, for holding to the sov
ereignty and independence of the South
ern States, it is well, as Mr. Beecher
says, to see how far back the censures is
to reach.—New Haven Register.
Letter from Captain Waddell, of It,
Shenandoah.
The following is a copy of Captain
Waddell's letter to Earl Russel :
STEAMI , It SHENASDOAH, November 3.
To th, ght limn. tart Russell, Her Critannic
Majesty's Minister for Foraign Affairs :
MY LORD: I have the honor to an
nounce to your lordship my arrival in the
waters of the Mersey, with this vessel,
lately a ship-of-war in my command be
longing to the Confederate States of
America.
The singular position in which I find
myself placed, and the absence of all
precedents on the subject. will, I trust,
induce your lordship to pardon a hasty
reference to a feed facts connected with
the cruise lately made by this ship. I
commissioned the ship in October, 1864,
under orders from the Naval Depart
ment of the Confederate States; and, in
pursuance of the same, commenced ac
tively cruising against the enemy's
commerce. My orders directed me •to
visit certain seas in preference to others.
In obedience thereto, I found myself in
May, June and July of this year in the
Ochotsk sea and Arctic ocean. Both
places, if not quite isolated, are still so
far removed from the ordinary chan
nels of commerce that months would
elapse before any news could reach there
as to the progress or termination of the
American war.
In consequence of this awkward cir
cumstance I was engaged in the Arctic
ocean in acts of war so late as the 28th
day of June, in ignorance of the series
of reverses sustained by our arms in the
field, and the obliteration of the Gov
ernment under whose authority I bad
been acting. This intelligence I re-.
ceived for the first time on communica
ting at sea on the :2d of August with the
British bark Barracouts, of Liverpool,
fourteen days from San Francisco.—
Your lordshfp can imagine my surprise
at the receipt of such intelligence, and
I would have given to it little consider
ation if an Englishman's opinion did
not confirm the war news, though from
an enemy's port.
I desisted immediately from further
acts of war; and determined to suspend
further action until I had communica
tedwithaEuropean port, when I would
learn if that intelligence was true. It
would not have been intelligent in me
to convey this vessel to an American
port simply because the master of the
Barracouta had said the war was ended.
I was in an embarrassing position. I
diligently examined all the law writers
at my command, searching a precedent
for my guidance in the future control,
management, and final disposal of the
vessel. I could find none. History is,
I believe, without a parallel. Finding
the authoority questionable under which
I'considered the vessel a ship of war, I
immediately discontinued cruising, and
shaped my course for the Atlantic ocean.
1 , As to the ship's disposal, Ido not con
sider that I have any right to destroy
her,orany further right to,command her.
On the contrary, I think that all the
property of the Confederate Goverment
has reverted by the fortune of war to the
Governomint of the United States of
-North America, that therefore this ves
sel, inasmuch as it was the property of
the Confederate States, should accom
pany the other property already revert
ed. I have, therefore, sought this port
as a suitable one " to learn the news,"
and, if I am without a government, to
surrender the ship, with her batter,
small arms, machinery, stores, tackle,
and apparel complete, to her Majesty's
Government, for such dispsition as in
its wisdom should be deemed proper.
I have the honor to be, very respect
fully, your lordship's obedient servant,
JAS. J. WADDELL,
Commander.
Highly Important Military Records and
Statistics.
The military authorities of this p,
have been ordered to prepare, and have
now nearly.completed, a classified re
port of all the casualties which occurred
in Pennsylvania regiments since the be
ginning of the war. This report includes,
besides a list of those killed in action,
died of wounds, and died of disease, all
desertions, honorable and dishonorable
discharges, resignations, dismissals and
cashierings of officers, &R., in each regi
ment previous to its final muster-out.
The data for the report is obtained from
the muster-out-rolls in the hands of the
Adjutant-General of the State, and those
still filed with the military records at
Pittsburg and Philadelphia. It has been
already ascertained that the number
who died of disease compare with the
number killed in action and died of
wounds as about eight to one.
The same labor is of course being
performed in all the States, and it is
conjectured that the result of this ser
vice will be embodied in a. report of
Lieut. Gen. Grant, and thus he put in
a shape to constitute a most valuable
portion of the history of the war.—:Har
risburg Telegraph. .
Threatened Revolt of Negroes
CAIRO, Nov. 25.—The excitement in
regard to a revolt of the negroes in Lou
imams. and Mississippi is becoming seri
ous, as the following order indicates:
General Orders No. 27, Natchez.—By di
rection of Colonel Samuel Thomas, Assist
ant commissioner Freedman's Bureau for
the State of Mississippi, the officers of the
Freedmen's Bureau in his district will at
once take the most stringent measures to
prevent an insurrection among freedmen.
[Signed] GEO. D. REYNOLDS,
Major and A. A. Commanding.
Colonel Bush, of Lafourche, Louisi
ana, makes the following appeal to the
Governor of Louisiana:
I deem it my duty to call the atten
tion of your Excellency to the fact that
the white populotion have no arms,
their guns having been taken by the
Federal authorities, and I would urge
upon your to protect themselves. The
blacks are all well armed. I am in
formed there are large quantities of shot
guns in New Orleans, under the control
of General Canby, being principally
guns taken from the people. I would
ask you to prevail upon the General to
furnish the people here about one thou
sand of these guns to be used in self
defence by militia. The people must
be promptly armed, or they will be
mercilessly slaughtered, as the negroes
boldly avow their intention to take the
lands that have been promised them by
Chrisinatis. The instigators of these
devilish plots are white men. Tocoun
tervail the bad influence of these bad
men, I ask your Excellency to issue a
special order of the following effect : Ist,
authorizing me to order out patrols
throughout the parish till the holidays
to maintain order and quiet; 2d, to call
the militia to their beats, to organize
and drill, with monthly paroles; 3d, to
organize volunteer companies.
[SECOND DESPATCH.]
A well-known citizen of Mississippi,
iu whose statement we.place the utmost
confidence, informs us that some time
since the citizens of Ripley, Miss., were
led to believe from certain movements
of the negroes in that vicinity, that
something unusual was going on. Ne
groes were discovered making myster
ious visits to La Grange, going and re
turning frequently.
This aroused suspicion, and the citi
zens determined to ferret out the designs
of the negroes. They accordingly hld
a meeting and appointed two of the
number detectives. The citizens to
whom the duty of discovering the plans
of the negroes had been intrusted, per
'brined their duty well, and obtained
the information they desired. They
dressed themselves in Federal uniforms,
ingratiated themselves into the confi
dence of the negroes who appeared to
be the leaders in the mysterious move
ment, ascertained that a conspiracy had
been organized among the blacks, ex
tending from the Mississippi River to
South Carolina, and that an insurrec
tion was con tem plated about Christmas.
The plans of the negroes were being
rapidly consummated, and had they not
been discovered would undoubtedly
have resulted in the horrors of San Do
mingo and Jamaica in the Southern
States. Four of the ringleaders have
been arrested, two of whom have made
confession, and divulged information
which led to the capture of the arms and
ammunition of the conspirators. Great
excitement prevailed for a time. A feel
ing of security has been created by the
fact that prompt_ measures have been
taken to nip in the bud any future at
tempts of the insurrectionists.
Whisky Smuggling Over the Canadian
Borders—Capacious Babies.
The Commissioner of Customs, who
has recently been making every effort
to suppress the extensive smuggling
operations which for a long time have
been going on along the Canada fron
tier, has received intelligence from the,
revenue detectives stationed there that
they have just detected an ingenious
scheme for conveying whisky from
Canada to the United States.
The attention of the officers was first
attracted by the extraordinary number
of women and babies on a railroad train
bound to the United States, and their
suspicions were aroused from the tact
that out of 32 ' blessed babies" but two
gave evidence of the irrepressible ani
mation peculiar to juveniles. The
"mothers," likewise, seemed especially
anxious to screen their little innocents'
heads from prying curiosity, folding
them closely to their breasts, and per
mitting only the neat little feet and
legs, encased in tiny shoes and stock
ings, to be exposed to the gaze of the
passengers.
The detectives were on the alert, and
at the first station this side of the river
where several of the possessors of the
passive juveniles left the train, one of
the officers politely requested permis
sion of a lady to hold her " baby" while
she alighted. Struck with the unusual
weight of the infant, and the excessive
solicitude of the mother,•theofficer com
menced an investigation, and on re
moving the wrappings discovered that
the interior was a tin case, fashioned
after the similitude of a veritable baby,
filled with from three to five gallons of
whisky.
A general descent was at once made on
Ithe bogus mammas, resulting in the ar
rest of about thirty and the securing of
over one hundred gallons of old rye.
Louisiana
Message of Governor Wells to the Legis
lot ore.
ORLEANS, Nov. 29.-Gov. Wells'
message was read in the Legislature to
day. He says Louisiana's loyalty is re
newed without reservation, and she
adopts with sincerity and frankness the
new order of things determined by the
arbitration of the sword. He urges the
speedy election of United States Sena
tors. He recommends that an appro
priation be made for the immediate con
struction of levees on the Mississippi ;
that means be devised to pay all the ac
crued indebtedness without severe tax
ation, and the enactment of laws regu
lating the labor system, leaving it, to the
parties interested to make their own
terms.
He asks that all impediments to free
immigration be removed. He invokes
needful legislation to suppress sectional
political associations, whisdi are un
doubtedly being revived in the State.
He says provisions have been made to
rebuild the State penitentiary and erect
a State-house. He urges an immediate
and perfect organization of the State
militia. He recommends that all taxes
levied upon colored people for educa
tional purposes be applied to the edu
catiOn of colored people exclusively. He
says the President lays great stress on
the course of Louisiana, and is anxious
that she should take her place in the
Union. The Governor invites the Leg
islature to unite with the Executive au
. thority of the State in fresh evidence
that Louisiana is determined to stand
or fall with President Johnson in his
reconstruction policy. The other parts
of the message are of a purely local na-.
ture.
st
Cure for Weak Eyes
An elderly gentleman accustomed to
"indulge," entered the room of a certain
inn, where sat a grave friend by the fire.
Lifting a pair of green spectacles upon
his forehead; rubbing his inflamed eyes,
and calling for hot brandy and water,
he complained that his eyes were get
ting weaker and weaker, and that even
the spectacles did not seem to do them
any good.
" I'll tell thee, friend," replied the
Quaker, "what I think, if thee was to
wear thy, spectacles over thy mouth for
0. few moptha t thy eyes would get sound
,
again.'!,, , tt .1
At 'ere there was a call
for iimiw*ritirsi*ilidates appeared
.wkipsfiAarrio were,.*tam and Low.--
The latter xireached an elegant discourse
from thC4iitr-7"Airtihiviihere art thou?"
In - the afteinooki, - ,Adan preached from
these words, " Lo, lido am I."
MMMES
NUMBER 48
Meeting of the Supreme Council of Free
Masons in Charleston.
The Charleston Courier, of the 20th
inst., says:
The Supreme Council of Sovereign
Grand Inspectors General of the Thirty
third and last degree of Masonry, An
cient and Accepted Rite, assembled in
the city of Charleston during the last
week. Illustrious Brother General Al
bert Pike, of Arkansas, presided as Sov
ereign Grand Commander; Illustrious
Brother A. T. C. Pierson, of Minnesota,
as Lieutenant Grand Commander, and
Ilustrious Brother Hon. A. G. Mackey,
of South Carolina as Secretary General,
with a considerable number of distin
guished Masons from every part of the
United States. Among them were Il
lustrious Brothers Col. Wm. S Rock well,
of Georgia; H. Shaw, of California;
Henry Buist, H. W. Schroder, and B.
Rush Campbell, of South Carolina ;
Col.•Tal. P. Shaffner, of Kentucky,
Charles T. McClenachan, of New York,
and Lucius R. Paige, of Massachusetts.
This high body of distinguished Ma
sons did much work, their meeting hav
ing been suspended during the war.
Among other things of interest to the
craft we may notice that they appoint
ed 111., Bro. Col. Tal. P. Shaffner, Spe
cial Deputy for Europe, and elected the
following persons honorary members of
their Council:
His Majesty Charles XV., King of
Sweden and Norway.
His Royal Highness Oscar, Crown
Prince of Sweden and Norway.
His Majesty Christian IX., King of
Denmark.
His Royal Highness Constantine
Nicolavich, Grand Duke of Russia.
Illustrious Brother Henry Buist was
elected Treasurer General in place of
Achille Le Prince, deceased.
The Supreme Council adjourned late
Saturday night, after being in session
several days, to continue theirsession on
the third Monday of March next, 1866,
at the City of Washington, D. C.
The profane world, as Masons call
them, are perhaps not aware that this is
the Mother Council of all the Supreme
Councils of the world. It comprises
among its members some of the most
distinguished' men of this country and
Europe.
General Pike occupies the position of
the Supreme Grand Commander of the
Council, and upon its convocation.de
livered a most erudite and eloquent ad
dress, reviewing the condition of the
Masonic Order throughout the United-
States and in Europe.
We make the following extract from
the opening of the address :
" illustrious Brethren and Sovereign Grand Com
manders :
" At the close of the great harvest of that
pitiless reaper, Death, and, while having
paused through mere weariness he rests,
we assemble, from States widely distant
from each other, and not long since mao
with all the direful passions of civil war, tn
kneel together once more around the un
of Scottish Masonry, to lament the dead
and to labor for the benefits of society, our
country, and humanity.
"During four terrible years our Temples
have been for the most part deserted, the
ashes of the fires upon our altars have been
cold, and the brethren have met each tithe,
as enemies or ceased to commune with each
other. Isolated in most of our States from the
outer world, we have had no correspondene ,
with foreign bodies. No attempt has been
made to enlarge the borderg of the Ancient
Accepted Scottish Rite. Our subordinate
bodies ceased to meet. The Veil of the
Temple has indeed been rent in twain, our
working tools were broken, and our columns
lay overthrown and prostrate.
"In war, when hell legislates for human
ity, and all the horrible influences that can
debase and demoralize men are busily at
work, Masonry can do little even to sot
ten the horrors and temper the hatreds of
strife that is powerless to avert. In some
quarters, indeed, her laws were sought to
be trampled under foot and Masonic privi
leges to be denied to those whom their
brethren thought it Masonic piety to brand
as rebels.
" They forgot that when States were array
ed against States in an open war of gigantic
proportions, Masonic charity required them
to believe that their brethren who fought
for political independence, however much
they might be in error, were sincerely and
honestly obeying their convictions of duty,
without any of the moral guilt of treason ;
and they forget that in holding them to have
forfeited their rights as Masons they, them
selves. were led by their passions to violate
their Masonic obligations.
" But these were not permitted to make
Masonry, and least of all, Scottish Masonry,
a party to the civil war waged between States.
They compromitted themselves alone, am
the fire and smoke of the battle scorcheu
not her garments. They earned the con
demnation and contempt of the world 01
Masonry ; but Masonry itself so acted as a
be entitled to honor and admiration.
" With peace the opportunity for usefu
labor returns to the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite. We shall soon he prepared to
extend it throughout our jurisdiction; and
I trust that before three more years elapse
it will number its initiates by thousands,
and its lodges and higher bodies be found
in every State."
White Slavery in Massachusetts
There is a general movement to secure
a reduction of the legal day for labor to
eight hours, and the Massachusetts Le
gislature has appointed a committee to
investigate the subject. Reading a re
port of the doings of this commission in
a Boston paper, we find a curious pas
sage:
A discussion here arose among the col
missioners as to whether the testimony o
the parties from Fall River should be heard,
since they had desired that they should be
heard.
The witnesses were two men from Fall
River, operatives in a factory. Before giv
ing their testimony, they asked the report
ers to suppress theft names, as their em
ployers would throw them out of employ
ment, if they knew -_they had been before
the commission. One of them said: "We
work eleven hours a day ; have worked
twenty years in the old country and eight
years here; had worked harder in the last
eight years than in the other twenty; he
has to walk from twenty to twenty-seven
miles a day attending the spinning jack.
Till within three months he had to work all
the noon hard, cleaning up, and had to get
bites at intervals from his dinner kettle,
now, this cleaning work was only done on
Saturday. The operatives have to work
harder here than in England. If a reduction
of the hours of labor implied a reduction of
wages, he would still go for it heart and
soul. The machinery had to be oiled before
starting up, in addition to the eleven hours.
In some of the mills in Fall River, little
children were worked eleven hours a day,
and the law which prohibits it was not en
forced; persons have gone to parents to get
children from schools to work in the mill ;
old Mr. Robeson, now dead, would not al.
low such a thing in his mill."
The other gentleman then said: "I am a
spinner; have no education, and am sorry
for it; he had two little boys, one seven
years and the other nine, who work in the
mill, getting $2.30 a week, working seventy
hours; wanted the hours of labor shortened,
so that he could send his boys to school ; his
condition as a factory operative was harder
here than in England."
The last two witnesses stated that men
who had been prominent in movements for
fair wages had been discharged when the
other operatives had been re-employed, and
traveling from place to place could get no
work; when they did get it, it was only for
a few days, when they were discharged,
without any apparent cause, unless from
some secret understanding among the
owners of the mills.
This is Massachusetts—",glorious, free,
Republican Massachusetts," where they
" shriek for freedom" from January to
December! And these are Massachu-
Setts freemen—citizens of the Common
wealth. where Phillips lives and lectures,
where Garrison continually bewails the
wrongs of the poor African—where
Whittier sings sweetly of Liberty—
where orators and poets and preachers
have- for a quarter of a century dwelt
eloquently upon the "terrors of slavery."
Why has it never occurred to them to
say a - word for the poor people who toil
in their factories, and are so nearly
slaves that they dare not allow their em
ployers to know that they have said a
word or made an effort for the allevia
. tion of their own condition? The negro
. • is free, now ; - their standard subject - for
declamation has been abolished—the
' ‘f plantation-lords" are prostrate—now
-let them giv.e.theirattention_to_thelords
L of the ciatton. raills.—New Haven Reg
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An Inside View of Utah
The tourist visits few places where
more unrefined impressions and emo
tions rush upon him than- in Utah, as
he feels that his feet stand on modern
Zion, in the valley of the Great Salt
Lake—the land of the Latter Day Saints
—the land of many wives and children
—the land where Republicanism and
Democracy are unknown—the land of
of the one man power. There are three
governments in Utah, viz: the Territo
rial, the Church, and Brigham Young's
Government. The great Mormon pro
phet is at the head of the two last men
tioned. The first•is established by Con
gress, but it is a fiction, for none are
elected to the Legislature except Mor
mons. If the Governor vetoes laws
. -
passed, the Legislature of the State of
Deseret can pass them, and Gov. Young
gives them hissauction,and they are laws
for the State, when they failed to be so
For the Territory. The laws of the State
ofDeseretare not published, but are kept
action , ° the secret archives. The Mor
monsrill nearly every office, and every
thing is under their control. The Dis
trict Attorney has six wives; the
Collector of Internal Revenue is a most
belligerent :Mormon, and besides the
office, holds also the following: Sheriff
of Salt lake county, Assessor and Col
lector of the County and Territory,
Member of the City Council and Adju
tant General of all the forces of the
Church and State of Deseret. All of
these offices are of great importance, and
comprise more powers than our room
will allow for explanation. He has six
offices • he has six wives. The Asses
sor of Internal Revenue and his assis
tants have three wives each. The
postmaster of Salt Lake City is an
Englishman, and has two wives and
nine children. The population of Utah
is estimated at one hundred thousand.
One of its leading merchants last year
cleared nearly a halt million of dollars,
and all the energetic business men
are correspondingly prosperous. The
amount assessed for the whole terri
tory is about $380,000, which is $82,-
000 less than the assessment of
Colorado, that contains only two
liTnclred thousand souls. This people,
under the advance of their leaders, are
preparing for resistance, even to war,
against'any interference with what they
call their religious faith. They antic
ipate no interference, except from the
United' States. The burden of their
,peecites and sermons everywhere is to
arm for the coming contest. They are
.a.rining. Brigham Young has just re
turned after a tour of four weeks with
. .
ids military staff .
and speech-makers.
Their faith as appears from all they say,
and all they act, is reduced to but one
item—polygamy. This is -the only
thing they talk of fighting for, and it is
the only item the leaders care a rush
for.
wife and Squaws
I heard an anecdote of Kaffirland to
day, which though irrevelant to our ad
ventures here is so amusing that I must
record it, particularly as my informant
vouched for its truth. At an outpost far
up the country resided an officer and his
wife. The latter was warned by her
ousband not to venture alone far from
the house ; but one day imprudently
2;oing beyond her usual limits, she en
countered a wild looking Kaffir, who
took her by the hand, and would be
moved by no entreaties to suffer her to
depart. He made her sit down, and un
tying her bonnet, let down her long
oair, at which he expressed rapturous
admiration. He next took off her gloves,
and appeared enchanted with her
white hands ; and then proceeded to
divest her of her shoes. and stockings,
and wondered at her little white feet.
the next morning the lady and her
husband were awakened at an early
hour by a chattering under their win
dow ; and on-enquiring the cause of the
disturbance, the gentleman was accosted
by the hero of the previous day, who
had been so impressed by the charms of
our fair country woman,:that,he had come
with twelve squaws to make the liberal
offer of exchanging them for the gentle
man's wife, and was not a little surpris
ed when his generous terms were refus
ed.—Major Paget's Camp and Canton
ment.
Two Oratoricti Specimens.
Speaking e,xtempuraneously is rather
di Moult until you get used to it. A young
lawyer in New Hampshire, who had
never yet had a casein court was invi
ted todeliver and oration on the occasion
of the dedication of a new bridge. It
was a fine opportunity of establishing
his reputation. He did not prepare
himself, for he had an idea that was
unlawyer-like, and that a lawyer must
be able to speak any number of hours
in a style of thrilling eloquence at an
moment's notice, He stood upon th
platform, and amid the profound atten
tion of his hearers, commenced as fol-
FELLOW CITIZENS: Five-and-forty
years ago, this bridge, built by your en
terprise, was part and parcel of the
howling wilderness." He paused for a
moment. " Yes, fellow-citizens, only
Live-and-forty years ago this bridgs,
where we now stand, was part and par
cel of the howling wildeluess." Again
he paused. [Cries of "Good, go on."]
Here was the "rub." " I hardly feel it
necessary to repeat that this bridge, fel
low-citizens, only five-and-forty years
ago, was part and parcel of the howling
wilderness; and I will conclude by say
ing that I wish it was part and parcel of
it now!"
Another orator we have heard tell of
in appealing to the "bone and sinew,'!
said :
"My friends—l am proud to see
around me to night the hardy yeomonry
of the land, for I love the agricultural
interests of the country ! and well may
I love them, fellow citizens, for I was
born a farmer—the happiest days of my
youth were spent in the peaceful avoca
tions of the son of the soil. If I may be
allowed to use affgurative expression,
my friends. I may say. I was raised
between two rows of corn."
" Asumkin, ny thunder," exclaimed
an inebriate chap just in front of the
stage.
Instincts of Immortality.
The Indian buries the hunting im
plements of his friend with him, that
he may not want for the means of pur
suing the chase in the unknown land
to which he has taken his flight.—
The ancient Egyptians embalmed their
dead under the notion that the soul
would return after a cycle of ages, and
that it would be an infinite misfortune
to find its organic existence dissolved.—
The burying ground was situated be
yond a beautiful sheet of water, called
Acherusia, or last state of water, called
Acherusia. or last state of man, over
which the dead were ferried from
which the Grecian myth of Charon and
his boat was no doubt derived. , Beyond
this lake grounds were laid out to re
ceive the dead. They were planted with
trees and intersected by canals, to render
them as their name imported, a literal
Elysium. Indeed, a provision for the
dead occupied more of - their attention
than that for the living, and while no
vestige of their abodes in life remain
the mausolmums, catacombs and pyra
mids still survive, in grandeur, the
wrecksof forty-nine centuries. The ex-
quisite touch of Grecian art converted
the Parian and Pentelican marble
into the forms of men and
gods - , in obedience to the' instinct
within, by which the mortal is associ
ated with the immortal, and the earthly
destiny of man with the beings Land
scenes of another world. How much of
genius, induStry, and wealth *of the
world is Controlled by :this mysterious
instinct! Man can no morebe divested
of it than a fish of his instinct to swim,
or the bird to fly... Attieist9Y_befOgt
but cannot exttnsuisk tile tendeiny of
lit4nOtenty.
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