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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
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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.