Volume 27,
Cjje Cxntre gonacrat.
IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
J. J. BRISBIN.
OJjflcc in Reynolds' Iron Front, Second Floor.
TERMS.—SI,SO if paid in advance or within six-
Qionths after subscribing,otherwise $2 will invari
ably be charged. No subscriptions received for
a shorter period than six months and none dis
continued, unless at the option of the editor, until
all arrearages are paid.
Great Work on the Horse.
THE HORSE &HIS DISEASES:
BY ROBERT JENNINGS. V. S-,
PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGY AND OPERATIVE SCR
GFCR Y IK IBE CVLLLCE OF PHILADELPHIA, ETC.
WILL TELL Yon of the Origin, History and dis
tinctive traits of the various breeds of
European, Asiatic, African and Amer
ican Horses, with the physical forma
tion and peculiarities of tbeanmal,
and how to ascertain his age by the
number and condition of bis teeth ;
illustrated with numerous explanato
ry engravings.
THE HORSE AND HIS DISEASES
WILL TELL YOU of Breeding, Breaking, Stabling,
Feedii g. Grooming, fchoeing, and
the general management of the horsv.
will the best modes of administering
medicine, also, how to treat Biting
Kicking, Bearing. SbyiDg, Stumbling,
Crib Biting, Restlessness, and other
vices to nhieh he is subject ; with nu
merous explanatory engravings.
THE HORSE AND HIS DISEASES
WILL TELL YOU of the causes, symptoms, and
Treatment of Strangles. Sore Throat,
11 is tern per, Catarrh, Influenza, Bron
chitis. Pneumonia, Pleurisy, Broken
Wind, Chronic Cough, Roaring and
Whistling, La-mpas, Sore Mouth and
Ulcers, and Decayed Teetb, with oth
er diseases of the Mouth and Respio
ratory Organs.
THE HORSE AND HIS DISEASES
WILL TELL YOU of the causes, symptoms, and
Treatment of Worms, Hots, Colic,
Strangulation, Stony Concretions,
Kupturos, Palsy, Diarrhoea Jaundice,
Hepaiirrhoea, Bloody Urine, Stones
ia tne Kidney 3 and Bladder. Icflama
tion, and other diseases of the Stom
ach, Bowels, Liver and Urinary Or
gans.
THE HORSE AND HIS DISEASE
WILL TELL You of the onuses, symptoms, and
Treatment of Bone, Blood and Beg.
fpavin, Rug bone, Hweenie. Strains,
Broken Knees, Wind Gails, Founder.
Sole Bruise and Gravel, Cracked
Hoofs, Scratches, Canker, Thrush and'
Corns; also, of Megrims, Vertigo,
Epilepsy. Staggers, and other diseas
es of the Feet, Logs, and Head
THE HORSE AND lIIS DISEASES
WILL TKLL YOU of ltarey's Method ot taming
Horses; how to Approach, Halter, or
Stable a Coit; bow to accustom a
horse to strange sounds and sights,
ond how to Bit, Haddle, Ride, and
Break him to Harness ; also, the form
and 'aw of WARHANIY. The whole
being the result of more than fifteen
years' careful study of the habits, pe
culiarities, wantsand weakness ot this
noble and useful animal.
The book contains 384 pages, appropriately il
lustrated by nearly One Hundred Engravings. It
is printed in a clear and open type, and will be
forwarded to any address, postage paid, on receipt
of price, ba'.f bound, $1 00, or in cloth, extra,s 1,25
SiOOOAYEAItr™
priting men everywhere, in sel ing ttie above, and
other popular works of ours. Our inducements
to all sucn are exceeding'y liberal.
For single copies of the Book, or for terms to
•gents, with other information, apply to or address j
JOHN E. POTTER, Publisher, j
No. 617 Susow St., Philadelphia, Pa. I
Nov. 8, 1860, 6ui.
The People's Cook Book.
MODERNIOOKERY
IN AIiL ITS BRANCHES,
BY
MISS ELIZA ACTON.
CAREFULLY REVISED BY Mrs. S.J. IIALE.
It Telia Ycu how to choose all kinds of Meats,
Poultry, and Game, with all the various
and most approved modes of dressing
and cooking Beef and Pork; also the
best and simplest way of Ealiing, pick
ling and curing the same.
It Tells Yon All the various and most approved
modes of dressing, cooking, and boning
M utton, Lamb, Veal, Poultry, and
Game of all kinds, with the different
Dressings, Gravies, and Stuffiiugs ap
propriate to each.
It Tolls You how to choose, clean, and preserve
Fish tf all kinds, and how to sweeten it
when tainted: also the various and
most adproved modes of cooking, with
the different Dressings, Sauces, and Fla
vorings appropriate to each.
It Telle You all the various and most approved
modes of preparing over fifty different
kinds of Meat, Fish, Fowl, Game, and
Vegetable Soups, Broths, and Stews,
with the Relishes and Seasonings ap
propriate to each.
It Teils You all the various and most approved
modes of cooking Vegetables of every
description, also how to prepare Pickles,
Catsups and Curries of all kiDds, Potted
Meats, Fish, Game, Mushroons. Ac.
Tells You all the varrious and most approved
modes of preparing and cooking all
kinds af Plain and Fancy Pastry, Pud
dings, Omeletts, Fritters, Cakes, Con
fectionery, Preserves. Jellies, and sweet
Dishes of every description.
It Tells You all the various and most approved
modes of making Bread, Rusks, Muf
fins, and Biscuit, the best method of
preparing Coffee, Chocolate, and Tea,
and how to make Syrups, Cordials and
Wines of various kinds.
It Tell You how to set out and ornament a Table,
hew to Carve all kinds of Fish, Flesh
or Fowl, and in short, how to simplify
the whole Art of Cooking as to bring the
choisest luxuries of the table within ev
erybody's reach
The book contains 41<s pages, and upwards of
twelve hundred Receips, all of which are the re
sults of actual experience, haying been fully and
oarefally tested under the personal superinten
dence of the writers. It is printed in a clear and
open type, is illustrated with appropriate engra
ving, and will be forwarded to any address, neat
ly bound, and postage paid, on receipt of the
price SI.OO, or in clott, extra, $1.25.
81000 A YEAR p"ing
in Belling the above work, our inducemese nents to
•II such being very liberal.
For single copies of the Book, or for terms to
•gluts, with other information, apply to or ad
dress JOHN E. POTTER, Publisher. {
* No. 617 Ransom St.-, Philadelphia, Pa.
Nov. 8 1860.—6 m.
% Jfanulg -s3Utospaj!tr —$cbottb to politics, Cemptranre, literature, Science, Sjie ||Jecj)aitics, Agriculture, Markets, (Sftucation, jUtuscatcnt, ® Intelligence, flc.,
AFTER THE BATTLE.
j The drums are muffled; the bugles are still;
I There's a pause in the valley—a halt on the hill,
; And bearers of stand ards swerve back with a
thrill;
Where the sheaves of the dead bar the way;
For a great field is reaped, Heaven's gamer 3 to
fill,
And stern death holds his harvest to-day.
; There's a voice in the winds like a spirit's low
cry—
„'Tis the muster roll sounding and who shall re
ply?
Not those whose wan faces glare white to the sky,
: With eyes fixed so steadfast and dimly,
i As they wait that last trump which they may not
defy,
Whose hands the sword hilt so grimly.
The brave heads, late lifted, are solemnly bowed,
And the riderless chargers stand quivering and
cowed,
| As the burial requiem is chanted aloud,
| The groans of the death-stricken drowning;
While victory looks on, like a queen, pale and
proud,
j Who awaits till to-morrow her crowning.
I
i Tuere is no mocking blazon, as clay sinks to clay,
j The vain pomps of the peace time are all swept
away
I In the terrible face of the dread battle day ,
| Nor coffins cor shroudings are here;
I Only lelics that lay where thickest the fray
i A rent casque and a headless spear.
Far away, tramp on tramp, peals tho march of
the foe,
Like a storm wave's retreating—spent, fitful and
slow,
R ith sonnds like their spirits that faint as they
go
; By yon red glowing river, whose waters
I Shall drink with sorrow the land where they flow
j To the eves of her desolate daughters
I They are fied—they are gone ; but oh! not as they
came,
In the pride of those numbers they staked on the
game;
NoJOore shall they stand on the vanguard of fame,
J ever lift the stained sword which they drew ,
Never more shall they boast of a glorious name,
Never march with the leal and the true.
Where the wreekof our legions lay stranded and
torn,
i They stole on our ranks in the mists of the morn ;
Like the Giant of Gaza, their strength it was shorn
Ere those mists rolled up to the sky ;
From the flash of .our steel a new day-break seem
ed born,
As we rung up—to conquer or die.
The tumult is silenced, the death lots are cast,
And the heroes of battle are slumbeiing at last,
Do you dream of yon pale form that rode on the
blast?
Would yo free it once more, O ye brave?
Yes! tho broad road to honoris red where ye
passed,
And of g'ory ye asked—but a grave.
Jefferson Davis.
A FEW INTERESTING, UNPUBLISHED FACTS, EX
EMPLIFYING HIS COWARDICE AND TREASON.
[From the FT. Y. Sunday Mercury ~\
There are some important facts in the his
tory of this very conspicuous and very des
i pieable person which iorve not been made
I kuown to the America-i public at large, and
j which seem, to tr>e, t > be worth communica
ting to the world through the newspaper
press. They are interesting and instructive,
especially at the present time, as illustrating
and demonstrating bis character, ar.d oonse"
quently, to some exteDt, the char.-.cters of
those who, well knowing him selected h m
as the Kena Sahib of the Southern Sepoy
muai'y.
I do n"t think it worth while to go into the
details of his threatened duel with Cel. Ed
ward Bissell, of Illinois (since deceased in
■ the Governorship of that State.) though a
gen al reference to it is proper to show the
undisputed faet that—having appeared in
pubiic to provoke aod seek a mortal ccmbat
—in private correspondence he was availing
himself of every paltry quibble to evade the
impending consequences of his rash repeti
tion of the very stale trick of a Southerner
bullying a Northerner in Congress, OD the
presumption that a man in the North will
not fight a duel, knowing that a duelist' is
more infamous here that a coward is in the
South.
I have never I eon able to suppress my !
contempt in reading a correspondence tend- j
ing, or relating to. a proposed or supposed
possible duel. The cast is invariably sa be. !
fogged with technicalities, and pettifogged
with rascalities, which would make an attoi- j
ney in the Marine Court or. Tombs blush on I
suggesting, that no honest man of average I
courage can feel a particle of respect for ;
either party—principle or seconds—after the j
perusal. I have been friendly and intimate
with maiy men who have done these silly
tb:'n 'B, but have never been able to esteem
or honor one of them after such a perfor
mance.
I only refer to Davis's affair with Bissell
to remind the public that he " backed down"
and backed out of a fight which he himself;
first proposed ; and that he requested Col.
Bissell to allow him to do so, on a pretext
suggested and furnished by himself.
It has been repeatedly announced that
Jefferson Davis will command the Southern
Sepoys in person in the campaign now com
mencing. I hope he will lead their army
on the first battle field, for I mean to be there ;
myself. But I very much doubt whether Mr. ;
Davis has the eourage to expose himself to I
the peculiar risk—not of immediate death, j
but of capture—which he would incur in that
" WE STAND UPON THE IMMUTABLE PRINCHO.ES OF JUSTCE-NO EARTHLY POWER SHALL DRIVE US FROM OUR POSITION."
Bellefonte, Centre County, Penna., Thursday Morning, June 27 1861.
position. Some of" our bovs" are " bound"
! to " have bis carcass" ulire, if it costs a
i thousand of their lives.
By Ihe way, if Jefferson Davis should lead
the secession army in person, it is to be
h >ped that his memory (or courage) won't
I fail bim, as it did at the battle of Buena
j Yista. when he omitted to give the third and
essential command to throw his regiment
into solid squad ; By the right and left of
flank battalions! To the color— march t"—
The consequences of this hiatus valde dejlen•
| dus teas, that his regiment was left spread
; in the form of a Y, to ieceive tho ehargc of
4000 Mexican cavalry, coining down upon
J them in full career, on the slopes of Buena
: Vista. The survivors of that regiment know
; that nothing saved them from annihilation
i hut their practiced, deadly marksmanship
S with rifles.
Perhaps it Was well for Jefferson Davis
! that Zieharv Tay'or was his father-in-law,
| though unwillingly so. A sterner and more
j Brutus-iike commander might have ordered
a court martial on the spot, that would have
j condemned him to be shot for cowardice, or
: other moral incompetency.
• In my opinion, Jefferson Davis should
j have been court-martialed for his disgraceful
| misconduct at that battle, as soon as it was
deified. Perhaps he would have been, but
for his peculiar relations to Major General
Zachary Taylor, whose daughter he had
married by stealth, in opposition to the ex
pressed wishes and positive commands of
the father. General (then Colonel) Taylor
said to bis daughter: "If you marry Lieu
tenant Davis, I will never see your face
again, dead or alive !" The infatuated gill
nevertheless, eloped with Davis, who had
taken advantage of U e fridndly patronage
of his commanding officer, and vio'ated the
law- of hospitality by secretly gaining the i
affections of his danghtcr. In such abhor
rence did Zachary Taylor hold Dayis, that
he kept his word with a firmness that may
be deemeil pitiless cruelty. When in the
course of time, his disobedient daughter lay
on her death bed. and sent to him a penitent
message, entreating him to visit her, that
she might die in peace, with her father's
blessing, or, at least, his forgiveness, the
stern reply of the inexorable old man was:
" I warned you that if you married that
man. I would never see you again, living oi
dead, and I never And so the unfor
tunate lady died, unblest and unfurgiven by
him.
When Davis came under the immediate
command of his father-in-law in the Mexican
war, General Taylor refused to recognize
him in any way, except officially, as in giv
ng orders, and in other maUers of purely
military form and duty.
There was a two-Lid obstacle to Taylor's
performance of his duty in the Buena Yista
matter. Davis was his son-in-law, and was
at the same time, known to be tho object of
his barred and nbhorance. lie could not
well have escaped suspicions of bad motives
or persooal feeling, in either view,
A friend, to whom I read the foregoing a
short time since, gave me the following
sketch of Davis relations to an old Missisipi
an, renowned for [desperate and reckless
courage: Alexander McClung often proved
himself,on the battlefield and on the dueling
ground, a man of dauntless and unsurpassed
valor, showing an absolutely suicidal con
tempt uf death on every occasion that
presented. lie kil'ed many men with his
own band, and finaly shot Limself in th®
head.
I happened to be in constant communica
tion with Colonel A. R. McClung of Mississ
ippi in 1843 and 1850, and had almost daily
conversations with him in relation to promi
nent Mississippians, As a matter of course,
Jeff Davis was frequently named, and for
him McClung entertained the most supreme
contempt. He said Jeff, was not a man of
true courage —that he wished to be regarded
as a duelist; but, in giving a chalenge, would
always cast about for a non-combatant, and
would exercise enough prudence to creep
out of accepting one from ac antagonist
over whom he had not a great advantage.—
MoClung said on one occasion :
'• lam sorry I ever fought a duel. It is
not a pleasant business, and yet I would like
to fight one more, with one man, and that
man is Jefferson Davis, because I think the
Umted States would be better off without
him. But he will not fight me ; he is too
great a coward. In fact, he is not now,,
never was, and never will be, a brave man.
in the true sense of the word. Ho is a dan.
gerous aDd wily politician, loaded down with
vanity and self-conceit, wishing oniy for his
own aggrandizement, and he cares not at
what expense or over how many desolate
households. He thinks of himself, and him
self only; and I should not be surprised to
find him, one of these days, taking such step
in public as will place his neck iD a baiter;
for he is a bad man and a scoundrel, and I
have frequently denounced him as such be
fore the people of Mississippi, eßd the dirty
poltroon and artful villian never had a cour
age to resent it."
These conversations occurred on board
ship Levire, B. Gardiner, master, on our
passage from New York to Valporaiso. Mo-
Clung was on his way to Bolivia, as Charge
d' Affairs from the United States.
In introducing to the notice of the Sunday
Mercury's readers these facts in the history
of the arch-traitor, I nin not violating any
rule of propriety which protects the "strictly
private" moral delinquencies of public men.
By common consent of all gentlemen engaged
iD the business of writing for publication,
and of all publishers, the sins and errors of
personal and domestic life are not to be bla
zoned to the world, as a means of injury the
general reputation of any politician, htwev
er deserving his political course may be of
condemnation and moral reprobation.
As I said in my article printed in the In
dependent, a few months ago, exposing the
systematic thefts of a Yale College 6tudent,
committed thirty-three years since : " Had
not that little thief (now a Senator in Con
grLS>) reproduced in public life the morality
of his early private life, the secret of the sins
of his you k would have remained hidden in
the bosoms of those who then knew, and now
remember them "-
Tne Tribune, Times aud ether papers sny
that my " little thief" was Judah P. Benja
min, now Attorney .General of the Southern
Confederacy of traitors and pirates. I did
not publish the name of the person described,
but will promptly furnisn it whenever the
right mam calls upon me for it
! When Bet.edict Arnold (a man of furhigh
| tr character as to courage, truth and hon
j esty, than any of his present imitators at the
' South) committed his bold treason it was
| consilered justifiable to search through h : s
j whole previous life, to his very childho d,
| for evidences of his innate total depravity :
: and incidents constitute an interesting and
j instructive portion of his published biogra
phy. I am doing no more or less than a sim
| Die duty in contributing to the history of our
time and country these " characteristics of
Jefferson Davis and his co-adjutators in trea
son, theft, assassination and piracy." Among
them may be specially mentioned David L.
' Youle, ex-Senator from Florida, of whose
early life I will give some familiar sketches
at my earliest leisure and convenience.
1 affix my name to these statements, not
merely on the general principle that annony
mous charges are entitled to no respect or
belief, but because I am particularly desi
rous to furnish my proofs and authorities to
the immediate " parties in interest," when
ever they dare apply to me for them Of no
other person will I take any no'tce in this
connection. To those whom I accuse, I alone
am responsible, F
D FRANCIS BACON, M. D.
A Richmond Editor's Ravings
About the " Yankees."
To be conquered in open and manly fight
by a nation of gentlemen, aud subjected to
their sway, might drive us raving distracted
with rage and s'tame ; but for Yankees—the
most contemptible and detestable of God's
creation—the vile wretches, whose daily BUS
tenance consists in the refuse of all other
people—for they eat nothing that anybody
else will buy —for tbom to lord over us—the
English language must be enlarged, new
words must be invented to express the ex
tent and depth of oir feeliDg of mortification
and shame. No, it is not possible that we
can be reduced to a state to which there is
no words to describe.
Instead of tnis, we must bring these en
franchised slaves back to their true condi
tion. They have long looked upon them
selves as our social inferiors—as our serfs—
theirmean Diggatd'y lives— their low, vulgar
and sordid occupations have ground this con
viction into them. Bui of a sudden, they
have come to imagine that their numerical
strength gives them power—and they heve
burst the bonds of servitude, and are run
ning riot with more than the brutal passions i
of a liberated wild beast. Their uprising has
all the characteristics of a ferocious, servile
insurrection. The first aim is demolition
the destruction of everything which has the
least appearance of superior virtue, which
excites their envy and hate, and which, by
contrast, exposes the shameful deformity of
thpir own lives.
Thep bave suggested to us the invasion of
their territory and tbe robbery of their banks
and jewelry stores. We may profit by the
suggestion so far as the invasion goes—for
that will enable us to restore them to their
normal condition of vassalage,and teach them
that cap-in-hand is the proper attitude of the
servant before his master. A cock for a sail
or, a goose for a poldmr—a yankee for a gen
tleman— images incongruous and unuatural,
—Richmond Whig.
MURDER OF THE INNOCENTS.— The Chicago
Post, says : "By the hands of a private in
dividual, who has just escaped from a Seces
sion mob in Knoxville, Tenn., we have re
ceived a note from a well informed and cred
itable person in that city. In this note is
an account of the most wicked and wanton
■outrage that has yet been perpetrated in this
war. An avowed Union man in Knoxville
had refused to submit to the dictation of the
mob, and to make his refusal the more poin
ted he sent word to the ringleader of the
mob that he would never take down a Union
flag that floated over his house, and would
never allow any one else to do it The mob
immediately set up a barborous yell, and
started off for the offender against the mor.
tals of the traitors. At the gate of the house
a little girl, three years of age, was seen at
at play, and one sf the gang, on being told
that she was the daughter of the object of
their murderous mission, picked a stone
from the ground and threw it at the child's
head, killing it instantly. In the annals of
even the Sepoy insurrection, no deed more
wantonly cruel than this can be found.—
Can it be that the people of Tennessee will
not themselves avenge this little girl's
death ?"
Office and the Union.
We have urged, says the N. Y. Tiibune,
and understand it to be agreed that, in pros
ecuting the War for the Union, no party and
no political distinction shall be known but
that of Unionists and Secessionits. He who
is for the Union—frankly, heartily, uncon
ditionally—is enti'led to any appointment or
position in the Miliary service of the coun
try that his abilities and character will com
mand, and the fact that he supported for
President, Lincoln, Bell, Douglas, or Breck
inridge. is not to be considered in assigning
that position. Gen. Butler, Gen. Dix, and
hundreds more such, obtain coveted com
mands and commissions in the service,
whether regular or volunteer, not by favor of
the Pres dent, not as implying or involving
any change in their political convictions or
rala'ion 7 , but as a simple, nak'd right. Tho
fact—if it be a faet that they would vote to
oust the Administration to-morrow, does not
mil.tate in the smallest degree against their
right to be treated by that Administration
quite as well as they treat Messrs. Banks,
Fremont, and other eminent Republicans.—
In preparing and providing for the defence
of the Union, party politics are not allowed
to be considered.
Should this rule bp extended to civil offices
as weil ? Anti-Republicans say it should,
and clutch at now and then a careless sen
tence in the Tribune as favoring tbeir posi
tion. We think differently ; and here are
our reasons :
The modern Democratic party, baeed on
the comb nation of Crawford, Calhoun, and
Jackson mm to oust Messrs. Adams and
j Clay, succeeded in pjwer an Administration
which never removed a man from office be
cause of fcis politics. The new dynasty de
; liberately changed all this, substituting for
| the broadest toleration a systematic pro
scription. We are not arguing that this was
right or Wrong : we simply state historical,
undeniable facts.
| The late Administration claimed to be a
| lir eal successor of Gen. Jackson's, and acted
i on the principle established by him of " re
warding friends and punishing enemies."—
! No Reppb'ican was placed by it in any civil
j station that a Democrat wanted, nor left in
one unless in the very rare instance where a
Republican was d'emed peculiarly if not ex
clusively qualified. We doubt thaty?ee Re
publicans in all were in office under tbe Fed
eral Government in this city on the day of
the late Presidential election. Mr. Lincoln
was eho<en ia defiance of desperate exer
tions and heavy contributions from this army
of officeholders. These who, for eight y°ars
; at least, had been vigorously proscribed,
now came into power. Would it be just, or
wise, or human, to keep in office all or the
bulk of these defeated proscriptionists ? Are
they to obtain office by the narrowest pro
scription and hold it by tbe broadest toler
tion ?
We say No—emphatically No—that would
be monstrously wrong. Whenever the Dem
cratic party shall be willing to divide the of
fices fairly between tbe parties, and estab
iish irrevocably the rule that no man shall
be turned out of a Government place whereof
the emoluments fall short of £2,000 per an
| num, tave upon ptoof and impartial judg
ment of incompetency or unfaithfulness on
his part, we shall be most happy to unite with
them ir establishing ihat rule. But, so loog
as they uphold and enforce the systematic
proscription uf their opponents, we cannot
consent that they shall be exempted from
the less agreeable application of their own
rule.
' But the War for th# Union—what of
that ?" Let us see:
The Republicans hating olee'ed a Presi-
I dent, a portion of tbe Democrats fermeDted
a rebellion with a view to dissolving the 1
UuioD. The residue of tbe Democrats unite
with the Republicans simply and only in
maintaining and dtfinding the Union. This
is right and patriotic. But nobody would
tave denied that, had there been no rebel
lion, tbe offices would have enured to the Re
publicans. They claim them now. Does
the fact that half the Democrats have rebelled
against the Union invalidate this claim ? We
think not. We hold it simple, natural, un
deniable justice that those who have, during
the last eight years, so vigorously proscribed •
the Republicans, should now give place to
them. If the long established Democratic
rule with regard to victors and spoils be the
true one, then there is no more to be said.—
If it be—as we hold it—unsound, then pro
scription should be rebutted by displacing
those who established, enforced, and have
profited by it.
Five-sixths of tbe persons now in the Rev
enue service at this port are Democrats who
supplanted men at least as good as them
selves on purely political grounds. They
have had a good time by virtue of that
chaoge : it is now time for another. We in
sist ttiat that other be made systematically
and soon.
S&" A great many Southerners are send
ing their families North for protection, yet
they talk about th" horrible and barbarous
war of extermination the North is waging
against them. Will any gentleman of seces
sion proclivities, tell us whether this isn't the
first instance on record where a party at war
bave sent their women and children to tbeir
enemies from protection ?
How the People of the Sou th have
been Deceived.
Somebody is responsible for a great deal o c
tho difficulty now troubling us as a nation,
and among them are the parties who'have
deceived the South re-pecting the feelings of
the Northern people. On the one hand they
| have been made to believe that the Republi
can party was an abolition party, and on the
other that the Democracy of the North would
stand by tbent in any and all emergencies.
Whan the present rebrllion was planned, it
was in view of aid from the North. But
when they found that Senator D> uglas bid
pledged his support to President Lincoln,
; ai.d in quick succession it was followed up
with the news that Ex-President Buchanan
participates in the genera! determination to
sustain the government at Washington ; that
General Cass had contributed lioerally to a
large subscription for the equipment of the
Michigan quota of volunteers called cut by
President Lincoln ; that Ex President Fill
more presided, nt Buffalo, over a meeting
called to aid the Government in th j enforce
ment of the laws: that Gov. Sorsgue, of
Rhode Isiand, just re-elected by a large ma
jority over a Republican cempetitor, had
tendered a regiment of troops to aid Lincoln,
and offered to command it himself—they
were struck with amazement and charge cer
tain parties and certian public journals with
having deceived them.
But this is net all. Northern men in the
pas f have misled Southern leaders, but these
leaders have carried it still further and mis
led their people. For instance such men as
Gon. Wise and others, to induce Virginia
and the border States to seceie, have know
ingly and intentionally misrepresented the
feelings of the Northern leaders. A short
time ago, Gov. Wise, in a speech announced
that he knew " Gen. Scott had reeighed in
consequence of the secession of Virginia, and
that he was only detained in Washington by j
the personal entreaties of President Lincoln ; •
that Lincoln was drunk when he had con
s-med to issue the proclamation calling for
i 5,000 men, and had been made so by the
extreme Republicans before he had consent
ed to sign it. Wise further s iid that there
was no doubt that Lincoln was badly scared,
and that he would scon yield the capital
The \ irginians had but to hold out firmly,
and the independence of the Confederate
States would be accomplished with Lt;le or
no bloodshed."— Columbia Republican.
To End in Compromise.
When the Government made its first effort
to check the rebellion, that has become such
a terror in the South, the allies of sedition in
the North denounced the legitimate means
of the Administration to viudicate its author
ity and enforce the law, as coercion, and de
clared that the d fficulty could only be adjus
ted by compromise. Compromising right,
while the wrong doer was secretly engaged
in consolidating bis power to u-urp the au
thority of the Govern ment, was one of the
plans adopted by the leaders of the present
secession movement to achieve success, and
now that these plans are about to fail, they
are also about io try their old game of com
promise, to escape the penalty of the laws
they have violated, and get rid of the res
ponsibility they have assumed in arraying
; themselves against the government, in tram-
I pling on its laws, and arming themselves to
j destroy its political, civil and religious eziat
j ence. We are now gravely informed that
John J. Crittenden is preparing another
compromise, to be submitted in the approach
ing session of Congress, but the public so far
are in the dark as t3 the terms on which Mr.
Crittenden will propose tu restore the coun
try to peace, business to prosperity and, and
still preserve the dignity of our forms of gov
ernment. We are at a loss, too, to under
stand how the two principles of government
the one adopted by the patriots of the rev
olution, amid prayer confidence and frienl
ship, and the ott.e; proclaimed by the par
t asites of this rebellion, amid the destruction
of private property and the desecration of
public law and order—we are at a loss to
understand how a compromise is to restore
peace and perpetuity between sueh opposite
und beligerant principles, without effecting
the staoiii y of a pure Government unless the
evil is utterly and forever crushed out. We
are at a loss how a compromise can be effect
ed, by which the assassin, the plunderer and
the usurper can be set free, and the consti
tution and laws maintain their prestige and
their power. If Bucb a compromise can be
effected, —if the deliberations of the approach
ing session of Congress are to result in no
greater benefit to this country than a compro
mise, we will forever be compelled to mourn
the policy that convened it, aud deplore the
diplomacy and statesmanship that dictated
such an adjustment of our difficulties. Com
promise now will only entail confusion here
after. Compromise with traitors will infuse
it to treason the concious power of influence
and ability, to rise in arms again, when am
bition becomes dissatisfied with the Constitu
tional preferences of the people. Gouipro
mise with an armed rebellion, that has pol
luted its path with crimes, and stained its
banner with the blood of free and innocent
men, would not only forever destroy the abil
ity of man for self government, but it would
affect tte power of all government, and ren
der the safety of communities, life and pro-
perty the mere toys of violence, asuassiaa.
j tion and incendiarism.
j Theie is DO reason why this rebellion sho'd
| be treated any other than a common mob,
and left to the suppression of the proper offi
! cars who are empowered to enforce the law.
There is no reason why those who are enga
ged in it should not suffer the punishment
! they have invoked. There is no complioa*
tion in the trouble—it needs no mnthemati..
cal or philosophical solution—andi: is bound
to disappear before the force of the jaw, pro"
vided there is no attempt at compromise
made. But if Congress legislates to exouse
: crime, instead of exterminate criminals, our
■ position will not only become doubly preca
j rious at home, but before the nations <>f the
! world cur claim to fairness and justice will
be in danger of invalidation. The laws which
: we propose to uphold will no longer corn
j mand respect abroad. The authority that
| we boast ot as wielding at home, will ba
: trampled under foot when it suits the pur
! poses of any set of men banded together,
I either for rebellion or self-aggrandi-ement.
j To offer to compromise HOW, is to cast aside
i the glories of the past, the bleslings of the
l present, and the hopes of the future. Notb
i ing but a stern adherence to the law, and a
i determined punishment of those who have
i violated its sanctity, can 6ave the American
Union, and tbse who attempt a compromise
with traitors who have armed to abrogate
such laws, are doing the people a more vital
injury than are those who have their daggers
to their throats. Let us, then, have a com*
plete and entire dissolution, betore we broacb
! the thought of a compromise by whiob our
; enemies can caD escape the just wrath of our
i brave defenders.— Harrisburg Telegraph.
THE LION IN HIS LAIR.
The correspondent of a Chicago paper gives
the following picture of the General that
tr made a retreat, as ht appears in his office
at Washington :
" Enfeebled in body, but clear minded and
vigorous intellect as ever. General Scott is
now cheerfully undergoing labors that would
overtax the strength of many far his juniors
in life and in service. An early hour of the
day fiuds him surrounded by aids and advi.
sers, and not until a late hour of the night
does the work cease. The bustle and din of
the city and camp are hushed at nightfall,
but not for many hours later does the head
quarters of the Lieutenant General lose its
features of activity.
" The scene on the day in question was
one on which the pencil of a Leutz would
dwell lovingly to the production of a painting
that should be vivid history. General Scott,
suffering more than usual by an attack of
gout, lay half reclining upon a lounge drawn
into the centre of the large apartment, his
feet resting upon pillows (not the pillows
of Tennessee, upon whom, if the fellow does
not retreat to a ditch, he will set his foot
presently.)
'• On the wall opposite the lounge occupied
by Gen.Scott were suspended two large mil
itary maps of Virginia and Maryland, with
all their careful details, closely represent
ing the country, its features, accesses, fast
nesses, and approaches. It was noticeable
that about Harper's Ferry, Richmond, and
Norfolk were drawn large circles, within
which the details became more minute, with
symbols and signs abundant, of significance
to the military men, to which belongs to the
War office.
" By General Scott's side lay a long l'ght
reed, which he made use of in pointing to
different localities on these maps. Aids,
amamienses, advisers were all busy, quietly
and all without stir or confusion.
In and on such scenes and consultations,
rest safely the fate of this war and the
speedy and condign punishment of traitors.
Probably no one but the hungrier of the
Washington correspondents, will regreat or
fail to applaud the wisdom of the War De
partment, or indeed, of the Government, as
a whole, in only sparingly admitting to con
fidence the newspers and the general publio.
It is enough to know that the Government
is thorougly at work in all its departments
for the crushing out of treason, and that
General Scott, is. indeed 4 a close and volun
tary 'prisoner' to duties, whose execution
will make the setting sun of the old hero il
lustrious in all time."
TUB OTIIRR SIDE.—We take the following
from the Richmond Whig, to show how Se
cessionists justify their treason :
" Surely if there be such a thing as the
right of self government, for which the sev
en years' war was fought, these people, thus
unanimous in asserting it, are priviledged to
enjoy it. But our Yankee brethren tell us,
this is a great mistake ; it is rebellion and
treason ; —that the only genuine sort of self
government is that which they may choose
to dic'ate to us ! They are the gentry, who,
in virtue of their brute force, are alone in
vested with the pattent right for issueing
models of self-government! They raise
great armies and threaten us with an over
whelmong invasion to coerce us to enjoy
this right of self government, according to
their understanding of it! True, they cov
er their designs under the pretext, that there
is a Union party at the South overawed and
oppressed by a tyranical minority ; and they
are coming for their deliverence, But this
is pure pretence—for they cannot be ignor
ant of the fact, that the very men, whom
they insult with a tender of their sympathy
! and protection, will be among the foremost
to meet them with musket and bayonet.
The contest, stnpt of all disguise, is on®
for freedom on the one hand a despotism on
the other. The men of North Carolina and
Virginia—whose ancestors did as much as
any equal number on this Continent to es
tablish our Independence, are too well vers
ed in constitutional government and practi
cal liberty to be deluded by words. They
know the difference between a government
resting on their own consent and a govern
ment resting on Yankee consent. The fiirst
is liberty, the last is despotism. With a
voice as firm and united as was ever uttered
by a free people, they have declared their
determination to maintain the first, or die
resisting the last. Around their standaid
will rally as many brave men—their kindred
from the States West and South, as ever
graced a battle-fiield."
Number 22