®hc ifcntrc |KjK Democrat. V olunm 27, (Mre §cmocrat. IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY J. J. BRISBIN. Office in Reynolds' Iron Front, Second Flo>- TERMS.—SI,SO if paid in advance or within six months after subscribing,otherwise $2 will invari ably be charged. No subscriptions received for i shorter period than six months and none dis continued, unless at the option of the editor, until all arrearages are Daid. * From the Waverly Magazine. An Incident. BY J. B. MUFFLY. It was one of thote cold, cloudy, rainy days in the ear'y part of the season, just the kind of weather that ha's a tendency to make one feel gloomy and down-cast, that I left my office after my usual daily routine of duties had ended ; and, buttoning up vhj coat, I hastened on with chattering teeth, anxious to get in out of the rain. As I was hurrying on through a beautilul park which adorns the Capital city of the " Old Keystone State," I noticed a group consisting of man, woman and child, seated under the outspreading branohes of on 6 ot the numerous trees, as if to shelter themselves from the Btorm. The man seemed sad and weary ; his el bows were placed on his knees, and his head rested in his hands ; his eyes were fixed on the ground with a vacant stare, while his frame quivered as it by some deep inward emotion. By his side sat one of the most ab ject and forlorn specimens of human nature I ever beheld. She was thinly clad, evident ly suffering from th 6 cold. The tears were falling thick and fast on the little brown bead of the child ; a little gifl of about eleven summers, who was nestliug close to ber mother's bosom, 's if to soek some protection from the cold and driving rain. But I pass ed on, an idle spectator of their sorrow ! Af ter going a short distance I was prompted by that inward feeling o'f the heart with which the beneficent Creator has seen fit to si gra ciously endOw mortal man—sympaty for each other—to retrace my steps and ascertain, if possible, the cause of their seeming sorrow.- 1 accordingly approached them and inquired the cause of their grief. The wumuu raised btr pale face, which still bore traces of form er beauty ; fhS tears roiling down ber Cheeoks, and with quivering lips tried to tell rne, but sobs choked her utterance. The husband then raued his head, and, af ter a painful effort, related to tue his story, lit said he had been liting on the banks of a beatitul little stream in the State of Vir ginia, where he and his family had lived— un to the time that this most iamentable and fearful scourge, civil war, had bf.ken in upon aur hitherto peaceful and happy coautry— a life of uninterrupted peace and happiness.— But, like a thousand of others, was forced to abandon his Southern home and flee away, choosing rather to leave the enemies of his Country —all that he had been enabled to ac cumulate by years of honest toil, than be compelled to fight against the glorious ship of State,with its ensigns Streaming, its stars and Stripes so redolent of hope; carrying joy and g!adnBs wherever seen by the true-hearted end brave, and which he had been taught, from childhood, to heil as the noblest emblem cf earth. One night, taking his wife and two little ones, together with a few articles ot furni ture and wearing apparel, on a wheelbarrow, lie turned his face northward to seek friends Who can picture the angish of that desolate family, when thus forced to leave tbeir pleas ant home where they had spent so many happy years, and around which clustered the cherished associations of early youth, recol lections which are very dear to every heart ? Need I tell you of the maDy weary day's journeying beneath tbe schorching rays of the sun ; or of the many nights they epent with no covering but tbe blue canopy of heaven, exposed to the pitiless rain—or of the innumerable hardships and sufferings trbich they endured on tbeir long journey through a wild and thinly settled region of country ? or, of th 6 fond mother whose arms ofttimes dropped labgnidly at her side, and her weary body and aching limbs often sank exhausted by the roadside ? Still she bent over ber precious burden with the deep, fond love whioh a mother's heart alone can feel for ber effspring; but all of ber most tender care, and tbe hours of anxious watchfulness availed sot; its soft and rosy cheek grew paler day after day, its eyes of heavenly blue grew more dim and sunken; its pittying moans, which awakened all the sympathies of a fond mother's heart, grew fainter, and, with her tearful eyes raised heavenward, she would implore God to spare its life. Tbe ravings and fearful struggles became less 'violont, until its pitying wails were bashed in death. No stately bearse, with its gay cortege, was there; no man of God with his solemn voice waß there to perform tbe laet sad rites; no friendly hands were there to aid them, and no eye, save God's, to behold their tears, as they scooped out a lit tle grave by wayside, and plaoed their treas ure in the oold ground. No winding sheet or coffin shielded its silent breast from the clods of tbe valley, which those iond parents placed on its lonely grave. Gentle readers, fond mothers, that little babe had starved to death! They were starv ing 1 Already many days had passed since they had tasted load. The husband and father had become too weak to propel the % Jkmilg fletospper to Unifies, Kmpante, literature, Seiente, ij?e |>rts, gtecjjauics, Markets, (gbucatioit, Amusement, net ftt. L wheelbarrow, and was compelled to abandon it. The little girl had traveled many weary miles on foot, bat now her little feet refused to carry her farther. The mother, almost broken hearted, and suffering from the grip ings of hunger, bad sunk exhausted, unable to proceed farther on her journey. Itwaß the dreadful thought that be must starve that caused the father's frame to quiv er ; often had he tried to obtain employment te enable him to procure food f„r his fam ishing family, who were dearer than life itself, but in vain. llow sad they feel, among strangers, no home, no friendly hands out* Stretched to minister te their wants, or re lieve them in their hour of bereavement, and of pressing necessities. It seemed to them as if every glimmer of hope had been blotted out. A feeling of utter hopelessness perva ded that mother's mind, and caused her tears to flow. Iler cup of sorrow had been filled to the brim, and she felt that she had drank it off to the very dregs. Despondency bad taken the place of hope ; she now longed for death to relieve her from her sufferings, which seemed to her almost beyond human endurance. But their day of deliverance came. God watched over them and rai ed up for them kind friends, who, after supplying them with food, placed in their bands a puree, and a through ticket *o a western State, where a brother dwelt. They departed on their jour ney with happy and grateful hearts, feeling tbn t those Who put their trust in God will not be forsaken in the day of trouble. And now, kind reader, let us leave them in their new home, silua'ed on some beauti ful prairie of the west, believing that their minds will often revert to that sacred spot, the lone grave by the roadside, where tbeir cherub child sleeps its last lng sleep, un mindful of earth's cares and sorrows ; and chat tbe glory which shines through its si lent tomb may be tbeir guide to that better land, where they sba'i behold it a brighed cherubim, its lips no longer parched, its cheeks no longer pale, or its eyes dim and sunken, but filled with a heavenly radiance, where its pitying moans and beart-reuding wails are no longer heard, but its infant voice singing anthems of praise to Ilim who bath said, " Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heav en." And, although tbe day and age of miracles has passed away, yet in their place .9 laid a law of God, Do unto others as je would that they should do unto you," beal tbe broken hearted, comfort those who mourn, ar.d minister to tbe necessities of the needy and unfortunate in your midst. 19" " Occasional" ot the Press makes tbe following allusion to the peculiar traits of the man at the head of the Government: President Lincoln has made very few speech es, which is a wonder, considering tbat he w as famous on the hustings in his own State- He rather avoids oratorical display. His forte seems to be that of quiet, quaiat hu mor. For instance, the other day, when Mr. McMichael and the Philadelphia dele gation were presented to the President by Secretaiy Cameron, one of the Pbiladelphi ansjexprcssed a hope that Mr. Lincoln would soon send his iro ps b> 1 >w Richmond ; that those who had subscribed the money, &c., had a right to look for some suoh demoustra* stration. " Father Abraham" io"ked at Liin quietly for a second, and then said, " Will you tell us the route to take to Rich mond 7 We tried at Manassas, and found it like Jordan but be did not add, as he might have added, " a somewtiat hard road to travel." It was on the same occasion that.be colloquially said, that, in this crisis, we ought all to bear and forbear ; to trust in each other, to believe that our public ser vants are honest until the reverse is proved. If we could not employ our capital belter, to distribute it by giviDg e&ploymen; to the unemployed ; t" eocourage the troops before they leave for the wars j to inepire enlist ments, and above all, to insist that tbe news papers should cease complaining, in order tbat tbe honest public sentiment may be consolidated around tbe constituted author ities. Ellsworth's Dexterity. He practiced tbe manual of arms in bis own room until his dexterous precision was something akin to tbe sleight of a juggler, — He investigated the theory of every move ment in an anatomical view, and made sever al most valuable improvements on Hardee. He re-arranged the manual so tbat every movement formed tbe logical groundwork of the succeding one. He studied the science of fence, so that ha could hold a rapier with De Villsrs, the most dashing of the Algerioe swordsmen. He always had a hand as true as steel, and an eye like a ger-falcon. He used to amuse himself oy sboeting ventila tion holes throvgh his window panes. Stand ing ten paces frum the window, be could fire the seven shots from bis revolver and not shiver the glass beyound tbe circumfeece of a half dollar. GETTING A WEDDING COAT —Among tbe annecdotes related by Dr Bushnell, in his sermon at Liiohfield, illustrative ot the Age of Homespun, was this:— One of the aged divines of that county, still living, was mar ried during the Revolution, but under singu lar difficulties. There was an obstacle to tbe wedding which seemed insurmountable. He had no wedding-coat, nor was wool to be had to make one, and it was in tbe dead of winter. Yet all parties were ready, and be was anxious to be married without delay.— At last tbe mother of the intended bride discovered tbe difficulty, and prumptly bad some of her sheep shorn and sewed up in blankets to keep them warm, while of tbe wool she spun and wove a coat for ber in tended son-in-law. 19* Seandal is fed by as many streams as the Nile, and there is often as difficulty in tracing it to its source. stand Upon the immutable principles of justice-no earthly tower shall drive us from our position." Bellefonte, Centre County, Penna., Thursday Morning, Oct., 17, 1861. Brownson's Review on the Re bellion. This important organs of Roman Catholio opinion, which has been distinguished in all its history, both by its ability and conserva- 1 tism, discusses, in the number for the pres ent month, the question of " Slavery and the War." The discussion is marked by great vigor and fearlesssness in the statement of conclusions. We shall do our readers a service by placing before them some striking passages. "The Effect of a Peaceful Division." " Now, suppose we adopt the policy urged upon us by the peace-makers, traitors, and cowards of the loyal States, consent to a peaceful division of the United States, j and recognize the Southern Confederacy j as a separate and independent nation, what would be the result? Two compara tively equal independent Republics, existing side by side ? Not at all. Spread out the map of the United States before you, and see which Republic would have the advantage in territory, soil, climate, productions, and all the sources of national wealib, strength, and ■ material greatness. Yuu would give to the i Southern Republic full three fourths of the whole territory of the Union; for the South j would consent to no division now, that did not inelude the Slates of Deleware, Mary land, Kentucky Missouri, and all (he terri tory South of the line runoing due west from north-west angle of Missouri to the Paci fic. You would give up to the South to what would then be a foreign power, the whole Gulf coast, and the whole Atlantic coist, except the narrow strip from the Penobscot to thv Deleware. You would leave the North a majority of the present population of the couotty, and nominally the superiority in wealth of the North depend chiefly on our superiority in commerce and manufactures, their superiority could not be long maintain ed The Southern Republic, producing raw materials consumed chiefly in Earope, would bo a great exporting republic, and would naturally in its policy favor exports to Euro pean markets. From those markets where it disposes of its raw materials, it could, by means of a lower tariff on imports than the Northern Republic could afford to adopt, more easily and cheaply supply its own de mand for imports than it could from our Northern markets. It. would thus drive our manufactures from its markets, and by im porting fr.im abroad for itself, greatly dimin ish our manufacturers, and at the 6ame time both our foreign and domestic trade. In addition, we should not only lose our South ern market for our imports and manufac tures, but should hardly be able to keep our own. Imports should seek Southern ports, and, in spite of any possible cordon of cus tom-houses and custom-house officers, would find their way into ail the border States of the Northern Republic, and up the Mississ 'ippi and Ohio intu the great States of the West and the North west, to the most seri ous detriment of our BWTI trade and manu factures, and consequentlv to the retention of our relative superiority in wealth and population. In spite of our industry and our enterprise, we should soon find ourselves a Btate far inferior in wealth and numbers to our Southern neighbor." Thv Union Sacred to Libert? After criticising gently and with due affection the mistake of tliß Government in trying to con did " the war on peace principles," and insiat ing that the " administration should strike quick and strike hard," the reviewer boldly announces that the Union must be held as sacred to liber ty J— " Would you rally them [the people] and render them inviueible against the foe ? You must give them another battle-cry than that of " Law and Order," or you will not stir their heart, that mighty American heart which conquered this country from the sav age and the forest, proclaimed and won its independence, constituted the Union, and made the American nation one of the great nations of the earth. It is not for us, even if we were able, to give the battle-cry ; it must be given by genius in authority, and fall either from the lips of the President, or the Commander-in-Chief of our armies.— Neither may as yet be prepared to utter it; but, if this nation has a future, it its destiny is, as we have hitherto boasted, to prove what man may be when and where be has the liberty to be himself, uttered by one or the other it ere long will be, and in tones that will ring out through the whole Union, and through the whole civilized world now anxiously listening to hear it. The Union is and must he sacred to liberty. Here man must be man, nothing more, and nothing less. Slaves must not breathe our atmos phere ; and we must be able to adopt the proud boast of our Mother Country : " The slave that touches our soil is free." This is the destiny of this New World, if destiny it have—the destiny our fathers toiled for, and to this we their children must swear to be faithful, or die to the last man." Powder and Balls. Let anoient or modern history be produced they will not find a more heroic display than i the reply of Yankee Stonington to the lirit isb commanders. The people were piling the balls whith the enemy had wasted, when the foe applied to them : " We want balls; will you sell them?" Yankee Stonington replied: "We want powder; send oe pewder, and w*Tl retain year balls." From the Methodist. Management of Large Armies. The New York Staats Zeilung, which is now loyally devoting its unquestionable abil ity to the services of the Union, compares in a recent number, the size of our army of the Potomac with the largest armies heretofore aggregated in Europe. The article contains so many striking facts that we have transla ted it for our readers. As to the specula tions of the Staats Zeilung we have on y to say that we have every confidence in the ca pacity of Gen. McClellau "to handle" hia thousands of men. But to the article:— "It is not generally known, that there is now concentrated on the shores of the Poto mac a larger bodv of troops, than has ever been congregated in modern times, except in the battle of Leipsic. Neither Gustavus Adolpbus, nor Frederick the Great, nor Washington Wellington, nor Scott, had ever under bis immediate command anything like the number, which is now under the com mand of General McClellan. Frederick the Great never led into the field more than 80,- 000 men at a time, but all his great bat tles were fought and won with bodies of troops, ranging between 30,000 and 60,000. Napoleon, at Austerlitz, vanquished with 80, 000 men, the united Rusian and Austrian armies counting about 100.000. At Jena and Auerstadt, there were 130,000 mon under the c immand of the Emperor of the French. — The bloody battle of Wsgram was fought with 150,000 men against the Austrians, and in the equally eelebrated battle at Borodino about 120,000 Frenchmen were opposed to the Russians. The decisive battle at Water loo was tought with only 80,000 Frenchmen against Blucher and Wellington. But the battle of Leipsic set in motion a gigantic army of about 500,000 men, Napoleon having under his command about 200,000, and the united forces of Russia, Austria and Prussia, about 190,000. It will appear from this comparison that the armies which are confronting each other on the Potomac, were exceeded in number only by those vast ar mies, which, on the plains of Lsipsio, deci ded the fate of Europe. "On the continent of America no battle has ever been fought before that of Bull Run, in which as many as 60,000 men were arrayed against each other. Washington never had more than 30,000 meo at a time under his c inamand ; Jackson never more than 15,000 men, and Scoct never more than 20,000 The issue of the gVeat battle between the forces of McClellan and Beauregard has therefore a greater importance than has at tached to any previous battle fought on the soil of America. " It requires, doubtless, a military talent of tbe very highest order, to set in motion ao army of 150,000 or more men, to watch and d rect with unremitting presence of mind tbe movements of every division, to throw rein forcements, at the right moment, upon every threatened point, to espy every weak point of tbe enemy and t reach it without delay,and to obtain the minutest acquaintance with all the details of the territory, over which the movements of so large an army extend.— Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, ih his corre spondence with Archbishop Hughes, ascribes to the first Napoleon tbe opinion, that none of his Marshals was able to lead into battle a corps of 50,000 Whether this be true or not, the history of the battle at Bull Run un doubtedly proves, tnat the chief generals of the two opposing armies were unequal to the great task devolved upon them. Beauregard had an entire army stationed only a few miles from the battle field, of which no use was made, neither during nor after the bat tle, and the seasonable arrival of a part of the troops of Johnston was needed, to save him from a signal defeat. Gen. McDowell had a strong reserve, which if employed at the right time, would have been able to re pulse the troops of Johnson, and thus to bring on a different decision of tnat fatal day. It is generally agreed, that neither of the two generals on that occasion proved his ability to direct an army ol 30,000 according to the rules of strategy. " Tbe country now looks confidingly to a young general of only thirty-two years, for exploits, which, if he socoeeds, wiir at once place his name by the side of tbe most re nowned military chieftains of modern times. The above Statements wnl leave no doubt, that tbe work which he has been called upon to perform is much greater and mnch more difficult, thau appears at the first glance.— May a kind Providence give him strength lor the proper discharge of his duties, and lead him to a glorious and decisive viotory." 19* The muscles of the human jaw pro duce a power equal to four hundred aDd thirty-four pounds. Thiß is only what soi ence tells us ; but we koow the jaw of some of our lawyers is fequal to a good many thou sand dollars a year tevthem. 19* Generosity consists not in the sum given, but in the mauner and the occasion of its being bestowed. 19" Charity would lose its name were it influenced by so mean a motive as human praise, I®* When modesty iB once extinguished, it never returns, 19* What most half a obeese ? Tbe other half. * Hon. Caleb Cushing on the War. lion. Caleb Cushing, of Newburyport, made the following eloquent and forcible re marks at the annual gathering on Salisbury Beach, Mass., a short time ago : There is no man cr woman who does not deplore civil war, but whatever may have been our antecedent there is no uncertainty as to the duty of every citizen of the Uni ted States We are in formal war—war de clared by insurgents—war declared and ac cepted by the Government of the United States. In the eye of the law the duty which devolves upon the citizen is clear and unmis takakle. It is to accept the constitutional fact of the war. I know it as well as any other man, and from the secession of the Southern States, I have abstainel from sym pathy, countenance and intercourse with them. .Tue second duty is an active duty. In time of war each subject owes to the govern ment (who has a right to demand it of him) his body, his wealth and his thought his body to defend the government, bis means to sustain the government, his moral allegi ance to support ibe Government and the Con stitution. Ido not state these things more deeD'y than I feel them. Would to God that all would feel it tbeir duty to support the Administration in this houi of trial. I opposed the President in the last election, and others of us did the same, honestly, open ly, but from tue part of us who would be supposed bis political enemies oame no such vituperation against the administration as I have seen in some of the leading joomals of the party which elected him. Now, much as I resisted the present administration as it was conrng into power, I heie declare, that i whatsoever has been said of me, or thought [ of me to the contrary, I have from the 4fh j of March, 1861, sunk all opposition. And . let me teli you on this 171 h day of Septem- j ber, lh it hut one thing remains to the United Stutis, and that is to conquer vietirv. Iu such a time as this to talk of political parties is not the thing. Party now is but the dust in the balance, the foam in the wave in comparison with Union and victory.— When peace shall again revisit us, then and not till then, will 1 criticize. When two hundred and fifty thousand of my fellow countrymen are in arms for the defence of the government, I wll not d" it. We must have victory to insure respect from the South, to dictate proper terms of peace, and to stand up in the face of the world friendly or unfriendly, to have their profound regard -1 have been called disuuionist, secessionist, traitor ; but I believe I can truly say tbat no man in Massachusetts has lost more and sac rificed more than I have in friends, certainly in political power. Are anv so absurd, so malicious, as to suppose that I would have made these sacrifices for nothing ? I forgive them. I have for thirty years, from the time when I perceived the clouds of the coming storm ga'hering in the North and in the S mth, done all I could in more than one party to avoid it for my country. And let us now in this great temple of na ture, by the mu-ic of this sounding ocean, swear to fe faithful to the government of the Uoited S.ates, and to restore the constitution of our couutry. Cotton Growing in the Colder States. We have recently had an interview with Capt. Richard Kendall, who was formerly connected with the United States Coast Sur vey, in reference to the feasibility of introdu cing into the Middle or Northern States, a cotton producing tree which grows in siila r latitude.- in South America. The Captain is quite enthusiastic in the opinion tbat the tree will flourish wherever corn will grow. - He exhibits specimens of the tree and cotton produced by him in Baltimore county, Mary land. The section of the tree examined is & bard wood, two inobes in diameter, having five annual rings, The cotton fiber is leng, fine and silky, resembling and apparently equaling the best Sea Island cotton. Of the tree in its native habitant, in vari ous proportions of the Western Coastof South America from the Equater to the Northern part of Patagooia. Capt. Kendall says it flourishes best in Southern Chili, in about 40° South latitude. He found in growing at an elevation of 7000 feet above the ocean, al most in the regions of perpetual snow. Tbe tree resembles tbe white mulberry in gener al appearance of tbe branches, bark, and leaves, tbe average size and height being about tbat ot our common peach trees. It begins to produce balls tbe thiid year from tbe seed, and oontinues healthy and viger ous— aocording to tbe aceonnts of natives —from thirty to fifty years. It attains its full size about the eighth year. It is pro pagated by seeds and by cuttings. Near tbe tropics it is evergreen, and begins to pro duoe seed the first year after sowing, bu® there it is only a shrub, growing fiye or six feet high. 19* " Father, I think you told a lie in the pulpit this morning," said the little son ol a clergyman. " Why, what do you meaD ?" "Sir, you said, "one word more and I have done." Then you went on, and said a great many more words. The people expected you'd leave ofl, 'cause you promised them. But yon didn't, and kept on preaoh* log a long while after tbe time was up." A Friendly Interview. A Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune says: I have juit learned the paiticulars of two interviews which tick place on bunday last between some meinhers ol Col. Ilay-s's E ghth Pennsylvania Regiment and the d ir ginia Forty -Third (rebel), stationed on jftef opposite banks of the Potomac at Great I alls. The river is here not more than a hundred yarns wide, and the pickets on both sidps have occasionally hailed each other. On Sunday the rebels invited some of our men across, stating that if they would ieave their arms behind them they would receive hospi table trea'ment. and be allowed to return. One of the Pennsylvania boys stripped, plunged in, and swam over, lie was helped up the rocks by a \irginia Oap'ain, who gave him his overcoat to wear, and proposed that he should take a drink of whiskey. '• If I drink," said the soldier, "it must be to Our Country." " Very g >od," said the reb el officer. "I will join you: Here's to our country!" And the men on both sides of the rivtr joined in a hearty cheer. The man remained an hour or two, and then swam back, a little nubulous from the many healths he bad been obliged to drink. In the afternoon several of the rebels re turned the visit. '1 bey were corteously entertained, and exchanged buttons with cur men, as souvenirs of the interview.— " We don't care anytiing about the war," said they, " and don't want to tight, but we can't help it. You Pennsylvanians are like friends and brothers, and we wish we had those d d South Carolinians against us instead of you. One of the Virginia officers took off his gold sleeve buttons, having no other dispo sable gift at band, and received a quarter eagle in return. " Good Lord," said he, "it's been a long time since I've seen such a piece of money." They were all anxious to know the popular sentiment of Pennsylvania and the other Border S a es in relation to the war, and seemed a good deal depressed at learning the truth. They appeared ti he tolerably well clothed and fed, and did not complain of their condition. Two of the soldiers exchanged letters from their sweethearts. Various exchanges of newspapers, &0., were also made, and in the act our men received a letter from a sis ter o' one of the rebels, without the owner's knwwledge. I had an opportunity of readng the letter this morning, and give you an in teresting extract therefrom : " Take care of your ciothes ['he writer says] for I dou't believe there is a yard of stufi for ehirts or clothing in the whole county. There is not in the whole county a pound of coffee or a pound of sugar. Mrs. uses honey in her tea. Send some cf your money borne when you get it." It appears, from other parts of the letter, that the country hss been entirely stripped of cloth, shoes, coffee, and sugar, in order that the army may be supplied. With the present enormous prices of all those articles in the South, it is difficult to see how those supplies can be kept up much longer. 19* How admirably Daniel S. Dickinson rebukes those who profess to support the war for the Union and yet oppose all the measu.. res which the Adminiscration adopt to carry it on 1 And how well he exposes those who cry out for peace between treason and loyal ty. In his Bpeech at the Cooper Institute he says : " You, gentlemen, who are quivenng in your shoes whoever you are—you, peace men. fly from the Sod .m and Gomorrah of treason whiie you have a chance. Fiv?-- The storm of popular indignation is a good deal nearer than you imagine, and the fire and brimstone that will be sent upon you are D t far in the distance. They are almost up with you. Don't Btand there faltering. The days of peace propositions are over. It is treason now. You are marked out as an object of scorn. You can no longer be in favor of prosecuting the war and throwing querulous ohjec'i n.s in the face of the Ad ministration, besieged with every difficulty. If you mean to aid the Government, along with you, and shoulder your musket. If you don't, shoulder your muskets and go into the opposite ranks. Start off; we will give you good riddanoe and play you cut to the rogue's march. You ean no longer be upon both sides, in favor of your country and against it, in favor of the Union and against it, in favor of prosecuting this war and against the administration in every demon stration thnt they can make. No; the great pall is opened ; choose your partner and take yonr position on the floor, and we will see whether you can keep step to the music of tbe Union or not." McClellan and his Generals. Bayard Taylor, in describing a recent re view of tbe Union troops, says : " I had an opportunity of contrasting Mc- Clellan with a score of Generals nd princes. There were McDowell, Porter, Keyes, Blea ker, Smith and Marcy, all manly, gallant faces, and figures of true military bearing ; Cols. De Trobriand and Solm-Solm, with tbeir dashiDg chivalresque air; the Prince de Joinville, twisted and stooping, lounging on his horse; tbe Orleans Princes, with their mild, amiable faces, and aspect of languid interest—in all, a most remarkable group of figures. A horse's length in advance sat the smallest man in the party, broad-shoul dered, stroDg-chested, strong-necked, strong jawed, one band upon his hip, while the oth er by an oocasional rapid motion, flung some communication to the passing squadron of cavalry. The visor of bis cap was well pul led down over his eyes, yet not a man in the lines escaped bis observation. Ilis glance seemed to take in at once tbe whole specta cle, yet without loosing any ot its smallest details. "He is a commander," said my Austrian friend. Something in his figure reminded me strikiugly of Field Marshall Radesky. I scanned the lines of his face in vain for seme marks of weaknes, indecision, oe timidity. All was cdol, firm, prompt, de termined, and self reliant. If be does not justify the expectations of the nation, physi ognomy is of no value. 19* The philosopher Frazer says that, " though a man without money is poor, a man with nothißs; but money is still poor er." Arrest Extraordinary. We learn that Wtn. 11. Russell, L. L. D., the correspondent of the London Tintes, who is spending a few days in Illinois shooting prairie game, vras yesterday arrested near W.ilmiogton, in Will county, at the instance of'residents in the vicinity, for shooting on the Sabbath. We are not fn possession of the particulars of the arrest, but learn that bo was to have an examination at Wilmington to day. The legal authority for this arrest is contained io section 146 of the Criminal Code of this State, as follows: " Whoever shall be guilty of any noise, rout or amusement on the first day of the week, called Sun lay, whereby tbe peace of any private family may be disturbed, such person, so offending, khall be deemed guilty ola misdemeanor, and up in conviction thereof, shall be fiaed, in any sum not ex ceeding twenty five dollars." By any section of tbe Criminal Code it is ptovided that such fiue shall go " to tha ed ucation of any poor orphan child or children of the proper county."— Chicago Journal, Sij>!. 30. Census of New York. WASHINGTON. Out. s. —At the request of the Hon. Augustus Frank, member of Con gress of New York, the Supeiintendent of the Census Bureau has prepared a statement of the white mab population of tbe several counties of that State, between the ages of 18 and 45, and the proportion required from each county to furnish the quota of cq,e hun dred thousand men. The Superintendent says tbe State pre sents ar, effective arm-bearing population of 760,344—ab0ut one-half of that of all tbe States South of Masons and Dixons Line, equalling the combined military strength of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Lou-, isiana. Mississippi, North and South Crroli na, and Tennessee. MORE TAMPERING WITH RAILROAD BRIDGET A gentleman of Zaoesville. who was on tbe first train which passed over it on Monday morning, reports to the Zanesviile Couriei that a railroad bridge, seven miles west of Xenia, and in the direction of UaytoD, was damaged so as to make it unsafe for trains to pass over it- It was found on examination that braces of other timber had been remo ved, and if a train had ventured OD the bridge it would have given way. The bridge was repaired in short order. It bad been arranged to send a large body of troops over it that Dight, bat by some cause or other rbey were sent by a different route, acd therefore DO harm was done. B©* Private information has recently been received from the rebel army which renders it probable that their strongest posi* tion is about a mile and a quarter in the rear of Manassas Junction, where the entire available reserves of the South are being collected. This information comes from a person who has reoently, in the interest of the Government;, visited all the principal points from Richmond to Leesburg. lie ful ly confirms previous reports of the dissatis faction and demoralization which exiet in the rebel army, increased in a great extent by tbe recent national victory at Ilatteras. and by the ill-success of Fioyd, Wise and Lee in Western Virginia. B©* A large Rifled Steel Gun, manufac tured at Pittsburg, was tried there recently. Three rounds were fired with very satisfac tory effect, but a fourth round with a double charge, burst tbe breech plug bauds, disa bling the gun. The ball, however, was dri ven completely through an eighteen inch tree traversed some distance beyond, and was buried four feet in a bank. Tbe projective is elongated in form, with a band of lead countersunk near tbe base, and turned in cylindrical grooves on tbe surface. This band af;er firing, was shown to have been perfectly rifled by tbe grooves in the barrl. 8©" Lutheran Emigration to tbe West by tbe Micb. Central Railroad, is said to be very large now. More than twenty-five hundred Norwegians, passing through Liverpool and Quebec, to the Northwest, traveled over tbo road named during the last tws weeks. DANGEROUS PETS.—A monkey owned by an Edinborough shopkeeper, lately soatched from its mother's arms a baby, 12 months old, and with its teeth and nails neatly tore the child to pieces before it could be res cued, B©° The State of Ohio has in store, within sixty miles of Cineinnatti over eighteen tons of musket and cannon powder, of tbe very best quality that can be manufactured.— Tnis is being held for any emergency that may occur. B©* J. Knox Walker, of Tennessee, who was tbe Private Secretary of President Polk, is dead. He was Colonel of the Second reg iment of Tennessee. His disease was con gestion of the brain. B©* The work of mounting guns on the fortifications around Cineinnatti has com menced. One twenty-four pounder and two thirty-two pounders were put in position on the Ist., on Price's Ilill. B©* A Locomotive exploded its boiler at tbejuoction station of the Renssalerand Sar atoga Railroad on Friday morning, injuring tbe engineer, the firemen, and breakesman, but none of them fatally. B©* The citizens of Westmoreland coun ty, Va., have invited John C. Breckinridge ti make his home among them. They prom ise that be shall there be properly apprecia ted and cherished. 8©" The printers in Richmond, Va., in consequence of the high prices of every arti cle of consumption, have raised their prices from thirty to thirty-five cents. B©* There is often but a slight separation between a woman's love and her hate. Her keen teeth are very near to her sweet lipe. B©* The buildings of the Taunton (Mase.) Oil-olot i company were destroyed by fire on tbe Ist inst. Loss $12,000. B©* The Union Hotel at Concord. N. n., and other pioperty, valued at $15,000, had been destroyed by fire. B©* Nineteen, thousand dollars' worth of old postage stamps were consigned to the flames in Cineinnatti on the Ist inst. I©" Gen. Henry A. Wise is by this time in Richmond. He was to report to tbe re bel War Department in person. Number 36.
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