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Mrs. Lofty and I.
Mrs. Lofty koeps a carriage,
So do I;
She Ins dapple grays to draw it,
None, have I;
She's LO prouder with her coachman
Than am I
With my blue-eyed, laughing baby,
Trundling by.
I hide his face lest she should see
The cherub boy, and envy me.
Her fine husband has white fingers
Mine has not;
He could give his bride a palace-r-
Mine, a cot;
Hers comes home beneath the starlight,
Ne'er cares she;
Mine comes home in the purple twilight,
Kisses me,
And prays that he who turns life's sands
Will hold his loved one in His hands.
Mrs. Lefty has bar jewels,
So have I;
She wears hers upon bosom,
Insids I.
She will loave hers at death's portal
By and by ;
I shall bear my treasures with me
When I die;
For I have love and she has gold-
She counts her wealth—iuiue can't he told.
She has those who love her station,
None have I ;
But I've one true heart beside me
Glad am I;
I'd not change it for a kingdom—
No, not I.
God will weigh it in his balance
By and by,
And then the differenc define
'Twixt Mrs. Lofty's wealth aed mine.
Brownlow's Last.
The following is merely an extract from
the farewell address of Parson Brownlow,
editor of the Knoxville Whig, published in
Tennessee. lie has been indicted by a Con
federate grand jury, as being guilty of trea
son, because he still remained true to the
Government of the United States, and sen
tenced to imprisonment. The following are
his brave and patriotic sentiments :
" This issue of the Whig must necessarily
be the last for some time to come—l am un
able to say how long. The Confederate au
thorities have determined upon our arrest,
aDd I am to be indicted before the grand
jury of the Confederate Court, which com
menced its session in Nashville, on Monday,
last. I would have awaited the indictment
and arrest, before announcing the remarka
ble event to the world, but, as I only publish
a weekly paper my hurried removal to Nash
ville would deprive me of the privilege of
saying to my subscribers what is alike due
to myself and them. I have the fact of my
indictment and consequent arrest having been
agreed upon, for this week, from distinguish
ed citizens, legislators, and lawyers at Nash
ville, of both parties. Gentlemen of high
positions, and members of the Secession
party, say that the indictment will be made
because of "some treasonable articles ia the
late numbers of the Whig " I have repro
duced those two "treasonable articles," on
the first page of this issue, that the unbiass
ed people of the country may "read, mark,
learn, and inwardly digest" the treason.—
They relate to the culpable remissness of
these Knoxville leaders in failing to volun
teer in the cause of the Confederacy.
According to the usages of the court, as
heretofore established, I presume I could go
frae, by taking the oath these authorities are
administering to other Union men, but my
settled purpose is not to do any such thing.
I can doubtless be allowed my personal lib
erty ,by entering into bonds to keep the
peace and to demean myself toward the
leaders of Secession in Knoxville, who have
been seeking to have me assassinated all
summer and fall, as they deaire me to do,
for this is really the import of the thing, and
one of the leading objects to be attained.—
Although I could give a bond for my good
behavior, for one thousand dollars, signed by
fifty as good men as the country affords, I
shall obstinately refuse to do even that ;
others, I will render it null and void by reo
fusing to sign it. In default of both, I ex
pect to go to jail, and I ready to start upon
one moment's warning. Not only so, but
there lam prepared to be, in solitary con
finement, or die from old age. Stimulated
by a consciousness of innocent uprightness,
I will submit to imprisonment for life, or die
at the end of a rope, before I will make any
humilitating concession to any power on
earth !
I shall in no decree feel humbled by being
cast into prison, whenever it is the will and
pleasure of this august Government to put
me there ; but, oa the contrary, I shall feel
proud of ray confinement. I shall go to jail
as John Rodger's went to the stake—for my
principles. I shall go, because I have failed
to recognize the band of God in the work of
breaking up the American Government, and
the inauguration of the most wicked, cruel,
unnatural and uncalled for war, ever record
ed in history. I go, because. I have refused
to laud to the skies the acts of tyranny,
usurpation, and oppression, inflicted upon
the people of East Tennessee, because of
their devotion to the Constitution and laws
of the Government, handed down to them
by their fathers, and the liberties secured to
them by a war of seven long years of gloom,
poverty, and trial ! I repeat, lam proud of
my position, and of my principles, and shaD
leave them to my children as a legacy, far
more valuable tnan a princely fortune, had I
the latter to bestow !
With me life has lost some of its energy ;
having passed six annual posts on the west
ern slope of half a century, something of the
fire of youth is exhausted, but I stand forth
with the eloquence and energy of r : ght to
sustain and stimulate me in the maintenance
of my principles. lam encouraged to firm
ness when I look back to the fate of Ilitn
"whose power was righteousness," while
the infuriated mob cried out, "Crucify him !
crucify him !
I owe to my numerous list of subscribers
the filling out of the respective terms, for
which they have made advance payments,
and, if circumstances ever place it in my
power to discharge these obligations, I
will do it most certainly. But, if lam de
nied the liberty of doing so, they must re
gard their small losses as so many contribu
tions to the cause in which I have fallen. I
feel that I can, with confidence, rely upon
the magnanimity and forbearance of my pa
trons under this state of things. They will
bear me witness that I have held out as lon
as lam allowed to, and that I could not
avert the horrors of or successfully oppose.
I will only say in conclusion —for I am
not allowed the privilege to write—that the
people of this Country have been finaccus
tomed to such wrongs ; they can yet scarce
ly realize them. They are astounded for the
time being with the quick succession of out
rages that have come upon them, and they
stand horror stricken, like men expecting
ruin and annihilation. I. may not live to £ce
the day, but thousands of my readers will,
when the people of this once prosperous
country will see that they are marching by
'double quick time" from freedom to bond
age. They will then look these wanton out
rages upon right and liberty full in the lace,
and my prediction is that they will "stir the
stones of Rome to rise and mutiny."—
Wrongs less wanton and outrageous precipig
tated the Freneh revolution. Citizens cast
into dungeons without charges of crime
against them, and withont the formalities of
a trial by jury ; private property confisca
ted at the beck of those we have in pewer ;
the press humbled, muzzled, suppressed, or
prostituted to serve the ends of tyranny !
The crimes of Louis XVI fell short of all
this, and yet he lost his head ! The people
of this country, down trodden and oppress
ed, still have the resolutions of their illus
trious forefathers, who asserted their rights
at Lexington and Bunker Hid !
WILLIAM G. BROWNLOW,
Editor of the Kuoxville Whig.
October 24, 1861.
The Romance of War.
Captain Wilkes, the bold and responsibil
ity assuming Commander of the San Jacinto,
who caused a gun to be fired across the bows
of British steamer Trent, brought her to and
relieved her of Messrs. Mason and Slidell,
and their Secretaries, is now about fifty-six
years of age. Consequently, as " Jack
Bunsby" would say, be was ouce younger
than he is now. Though 6very inch a sailor,
and not olten given to the melting mood, the
blind god once succeeded in sending one of
his shafts clear through his rough sou-waster
which found a lodging in his honest heart.—
The bow from whi- h the shaft was speed
hung in the eyes of a fair girl, and straight
way the jolly tar fell head over beels in love,
lie prosecuted bis suit with vigor. The girl
was " a lass who loved a sailor"—and so
smiled upon him, and consented to become
his wife. But the young sailor had a rival in
the son of a respectable tallow-chandler, well
to do, called Slidell, and young Slidell feting
considerably cut up by being cut out, refu
sed w accept '' the mitten," but not having
spunfc enough to throw down the glove to bis
sailor rival, contended himself with •' poisen
iug" tbe mind of the " stern parient" of the
fair one, until be refused his consent to his
daughter's marriage with the bold Cbarlie
Wilke6, and insisted upon her giving ber
hand to young Slidell, which after many
protestations and the customary amount of
tears and hysterics, she did, and became
" Mrs, John Slidell."
The bold Charlie Wilkes did net peak and
pine, or let melancholly feed OD his weath
er beaten cheeks, but went to sea and smoth
ered his greif in attending to duty and sus
taining honor of bis nation's flag, never
seeing "lady lass" again, nor meeting his
successful rival for her hand and heart, until
he saw him standing a prisoner on board his
ship, a traitor to bis country and a rebel
against the Flag the honest tar bad spent his
life in defending. Sucb is the romance of
war. We congratulate the bold Charles upon
having at last " got mors than even."
" WE STAND UPON THE IMMUTABLE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE-NO EARTHLY POWER SHALL DRIVE US FROM OUR POSITION,"
Bellefonte, Centre County, Penna., Thursday Morning, Dec. 5, 1861.
The End of Cotton.
If this rebellion may be attributed to the
existence of any interest, -or the development
of any branch of industry or agriculture,
surely it has been the cultivation of cotton.
Cotton has been the staple of the South.
It has been the source of all its revenue, and,
from the fact that it renders necessary an
objectionable system of labor, the basis of
its political power in the Confederacy. The
most troublesome States of the Union were
the Cotton States. The most ambitious and
treacherous of the Secession politicians are
those who came from the districts where
cotton is cultivated. The legislation neces
sary to the protection of cotton was, in
many cases, antagonistic and injurious to
the other .great, and far more material, in
terests of this country, Cotton has been
frivolous, exacting, and arrogant. Claim
ing to be "king" (in the pet phrase of South
ern rhetoric), it exacted and exercised all
the prerogatives of the most imperial raon
archs. When it wanted a protective tariff
it demanded a protective tariff; when it de
sired free trade, its leaders clamored for
free trade, or threatened to dissolve the Un
ion. Cotton sowed the seed of treason in
1833 ; it ripened into the full fruit of infa
my in 1861. Cotton has been the servant
of the Southern leaders, and master of the
Northern public men. Its sway has been
one dark, unrelenting, and grasping tyr
anny ; and, it was only when it attempted
to stifle constitutional liberty in this coun
try, and to desolate the rich and extensive
Territories of the West, by establishing per
petual slavery, that the loyal heart of the
nation rebelled against its usurpations, and
the loyal arm of the nation drew the sword
to resist its progress.
It is, therefore, with a feeling of satisfac
tion, which we trust will not be mistaken
for a selfish thought, that we look forward
to the speedy downfall of this fatal power.
We do not wish to see the cultivation of
cotton terminated upon this continent, any
more than we wish to see the end of the
wheat crop in Pennsylvania, or the hay
crop in Illinois. So long as cotton was a
simple agricultural interest, restrained by
judicious legislation, and recognized by the
Government as other interests are recogniz
ed, we looked upon its growth as a kind
dispensation of Providence, and the com
merce it fostered a gratifying element of na
tional prosperity; but when the interests
of cotton seek to advance at the expense of
national honor , and of national existence,
then we greet their overthrow with pleas
ure.
And that overthrow seems to be at hand.
We have heretofore given our own humble
opinion on this question, and rapidly-occur
ing events now justify what seemed then to
be a mere newspaper speculation. The
Prime Minister of England is a far-seeing,
sagacious man, and his opinions are before
us. In a recent speech ho said to his audi
tors, "that although circumstances may for
a time threaten to interfere with the supply
of cotton, the temporary evil will be product
ive of permanent good. England shall find
in various quarters of the globe a sure and
ample supply, which will render it no more
dependant."
Lord Palmerston evidently speaks by the
card. He knows the resources of the Brit
ish empire—its agricultural and commercial
capacities. He knows that upon the culti
vation of the cotton crop, and its supply to
English factors at fair prices, depends the
happiness of a large class of her Majesty's
subjects. Lancashire needs cotton; its
people must be employed, or the peace of
the empire will give way to anarchy, riot,
and probably revolution. Accordingly,
with the monej of the Crown, he has been
developing the cotton crop in other quarters
of the globe, and stimulating English en
terprise to bring it to market. His agents
have been in India, Australia, Turkey, the
West Indies, and other countries beyond
the seas, and they report a favorable pros
pect for the establishment of a cotton trade
independant of America.
Considering all these facts, and especially
the assertion of the Prime Minister, we
may look upon the cotton tyranny as at an
end. No matter what the result of this war
may be, the cotton interest has received a
fatal blow. If peace came to-morrow, the
cotton capitalist of the South would find
that the interest which they cherished and
supported until it became a political mon
ster, had been crushed forever. England
will never more be at the mercy of factious
rebels, who plot treason and plant cotton.
And we have no doubt that the peace of
the country, its real greatness, its prosperity,
its agricultural and commercial strength,
will be benefitted by the success of English
enterprise.— Phil. Press.
Kay We learn that the son of a distiguish
ed citizen of Baltimore, in the French army,
writes to his father that the French Minis
ters at a recent meeting voted unanimously
net to recognize the independence of the
southern confederaey He also stated that
he knew of private individuals in France
who would lend the United States Govern
ment $50,000,000 if it was needed. The
feeling was general in favor of standing by
the old Union and give her funds to its sup
port. France was always true to the United
States and always will be;
Words spoken at a Momentous
Time.
Shortly after Abraham Lincoln assumed
the duties of President of the United States,
while traitors infested the National Capital,
and the gloom of rebellion was fast thicken
ing over the face of the country, he was vis
ited by several Governors of as many States,
among whom was the chosen son of Penn
sylvania, Andrew G. Curtin. The Presi
dent was contemplating how to act. lie
seemed to be self-willed, and had the nerve,
but something like a doubt lingered in his
mind. lie paced the floor in a meditative
mood some time, and said but little. There
was a solemnity in the crowd of intelligent
men and statesmen around him, that indi
cated deep, thoughtful contemplation.
Each of the limited party present had
already expressed his views upon the im
portance of the occasion. The whole ma
chinery of the Government was in bad or
der, and in the several departments there
wero traitors still clogging the wheels.
An unbidden tear started down the cheek
of the patriot President, but be nerved him
self for the work before him. The Temple
of Liberty was tottering indeed; column
after column was falling. His mission
was the arduous one of rebuilding it. The
President seated himself in a chair, once
adorned by Washington, the Father of hi 6
Country, when all at ance he sprang to his
feet, and exclaimed: "Gentlomen, the Un
ion and the Constitution must be saved. I
have been contemplating whether the States
will respond to my proclamation, if I issue
it now. Governor Curtin, what will Penn
sylvania do V'
Gov. Curtin, who was standing looking
out of a window, turned and confronted the
President, and replied, "What will Penn
sylvania do? Why sir, she'll furnish a
hundred thousand men in a week, if it he ne
cessary." This noble aud prompt reply of
the favored ;on of the blue mountains of the
Keystone State clinched the nail. They
were the right words spoken at a moment
ous time. The eye of the Sringfield states
man grew brighter, his tall manly form
stood more erect, and shaking hands with
the Governor, said, "those words encourage
me, tbey take all doubt from my mind,
they ease my heart of a heavy weight, my
proclamation shall issue to-morrow."
Joy beamed as brightly in that congrega
tion of intelligent men, as the sun ever did,
after a gloomy day.
The proclamation was issued, and when
the unseen electric spark sped the announce
ment to all parts of the country, a couple of
companies from the interior of the State of
Pennsylvania responded, and forthwith
they arrived at the Capital of the Nation.
Pennsylvania was first in the field, almost
before the ink was dry in the proclamation ;
and the glorious old State has now more
men, good, solid, noble, true-hearted, patri
otic men in the American Army than any
other State in the Union, and has a few
more of the same sort left.^
But for the reply of Gov. Curtin, or had
he hesitated for a single moment, the issu
ing of the proclamation would have been
delayed at a time when weeks were months
and months were years. Pennsylvania had
her hundred thousand men ready by the
timethe National Government wanted them,
and thus the words of our own active, pa
triotic, and prophetic Governor have been
well fulfilled to the very letter. He may be
truly considered the ''hero of the war." Im
partial history will give praise to Gov. Cur
tin. His name will be as familiar as house
hold words among all patriotic, Union-lov
ing people, long after the names of the few
miserable wretches who are so lost to all
feelings of virtue, respect, and manliness as
to calumniate him, shall have rotted with
their carcasses in the grave of deep and
blank oblivion.
His name is a tower of strength, and will
increase in power as time progresses. Sel
fishness is not in his vocabularly. lie
stands this day in the wild sea of public
opinion, like a proud, defiant rock in mid
ocean, around and against which the waves
are expected to lash, but to go back into
calm water again, without doing any harm.
His noble reply to President Lincoln, when
men of iron nerve were wanted, is a stamp
of the true character of the man. It was
the musical ring of the true metal, the joy
ous tone of victory at the beginning, and
the death-knell of thieving usurpation and
foal rebellion.— Weekly News.
The Louisville/ourna? says : We hear
of more reports from the Confederate States
than the booming of our victorious cannon.
The secession press is alarmed, and lets out
wholesome truths. The Raleigh (N. C.)
Standard declares that " unless the move
ment (of our naval expeditions) is stopped at
once by the strong arm ot the confederate
States, more than half the counties of this
State will be attached to the Blaok Republi
can government betore the Union Congress
meets." It seems too that the public officers
in North Carolina are as ready to secede
from seoession as the people, for the same pa
per says: "It is very evident that the State
authorities will never make a move in that
direction, owing to the reason that they are
in the same with the Unionists." This is
cheering.
North Carolinia Wheeling into
Union Line.
SCEESSON FROM SECESSIA.
A Provisional State . Government.
Forty-five Counties Rrpresented.
THE -STATE OFFICES DECLARED VACANT.
Marble Nash Taylor Declared Governor
with Power to Appoint State Officers-
THE OLD NORTH STATE REPUDI
ATES THE REBELS.
Correap oodence of the N. Y. Tribune.
IIATTEARS INLET, N. C. NOV. IS.
The provisional State government for
North Carolina, the establishment of which
has been in contemplation for months past,
was formally instituted to-day by a conven
tion of delegates and proxies representing
forty five counties of the State.
The following ordinances were unanimous
ly adopted:
" By the People of the State of North Caro
lina, as represented in Convention, at I lat
ter as, Monday, Nov. 18, 1861.
" Be it ordained by this Convention, and
it is hereby ordained and published by au
thority of the same:
" I. That this Convention, on behalf of the
people of North Carolina, and acknowledg
ing the Constitution of the United States of
America as the supreme iaw of the land,
hereby declares vacant ail State offices, the
incumbents of which have disqualified them
selves to bold them by violating their oaths
to support the Federal Constitution.
" 11. That the office of Governor of this
Commonwealth having been vacated by the
death oi John W, Ellis, and by the active
treason to the Nnion of bis Constitutional
successor, Acting Governor Clark, therefore
Marble Nash Taylor be hereby appointed
and declared Provisional Governor ot North
Carolina.
" 111. That the Constitution of this State
and its amendments, together with the stat
ues and laws thereof, as contained in the Re
vised Code put iu operatian January 1,1856,
be declared coniined in full force; also such
subsequent octs of the General Asrembly as
were not adopted in contravention of the Na
tional Constitutiod, or in derogation of its
authority.
" IV, That the ordinance of the Convent
ion which assembled at Raleigh on the 20th
of May last, proclaiming the secession of this
Commonwealth from the Federal Union,such
Secession being legally impossible, is of no
force or effect; and said ordinance, together
with all other ordinances and acts of said
Convection, or the General Assembly, made
and done in pursuance of the treasonable
purposes of the conspirators against the
Union, is hereby declared ab initio null and
void.
" V. That whereas it is desirable that this
State shall be represented in the Federal
Congress, ana maintain her due weight in
ihe councils of the Union, therefore the Pro
visonal Governor be directed hereby to order
special elections, in accordance with chapter
69 of the Revised Code, as soon as practical
ly and expedient, in any district or districts
now unrepresented. And, in view of preva
lence of armed rebellion and disorder in
many portions of this Commonwealth, the
Governor Is hereby directed to issue his cer
tificates of election upon presentation of such
evidence as shall satisfy him ot the fact of
an election.
" VI. That the Governor be authorized
and empowered t< fill such official vacancies
by temporary appointments, and to do such
acts as, in the exercise of a sound discretion,
he may deem expedeient for the safety and
good order of the State."
The Convention has adjourned, subject to
be reassembled upon the call of the Presi
dent.
Governor Taylor has issued his proclama
tion ordering an alection fur the Second Con
gressional District, to be held on Wednesnay
27th inst.
The great sael of the State in possession of
the Rev. Mr. Taylor, is a beautiful and very
appropriate device. The Goddess cf Liberty,
representing the UnioD, bears in hear hand
a scroll containing the Federal Constitution,
to the benefits of which North Carolina, typ*
ified by the Goddess Ceres, is suing to be ad
mitted. In the distance is a ship emblemat
ic of the commerce of the State.
Thus has another ol the seceded States forj
maliy returned to her allegiance. May God
speed the work now inaugurated in this good
old Commonwealth, until her whole people
shall be redeemed from rebel tyranny and
usurpation.
THJ TRAITOR BRECKINRIDGE —The Louis
ville Journal thus closes a scathing. article
upon John C. Breckinride.
His fate will be that of a traitor.
In the last of the battle
Borne down by the flying,
Where mingles war's rattle
With groans of the dying,
There shall he be lying.
Monster of perfidy, ingrate and fiend, his
name will be eternally linked with those of
Judas and Arnold, and when history seeks to
recount the damning deeds of those who have
entitled themselves to the execrations of man
kind, that name will be foremost in the
soroll, which was borne by one, who, in the
very spirit of the arch-demon, thought it
" better to reign in hell than serve in heav
en."
flgy The full returns of the Maryland
elections show that but one rebel Senator,
and six Delegates are elected. The House
of Delegates stands thirteen Union and eight
rebels. Seven of the latter are of the num
ber who hold over, and six of them' represent
strong Union counties. Bradford's majority
for Governor is about thirty thousand. A
special session of the Legislature is to be
called by Governor Hicks, to undo the rebel
legislation.
WRITE OFTEN.
•
Write to me very often,
Write to me very soon-
Letters to me are dearer
Tfaanloviiest flowers in June;
They are affection's torohes,
Lighted at friendship's lamp
Flirting around the heart-string 3,
Like Are-flies is the damp.
Write to rae very often,
Write in the joyous morn,
Or at the close of evening,
When all the day is gono,
Then while the stars are beaming
Bright on the azure sky ;
When thro' the fading forest
Cold the wild winds sigh,
Draw up thy little table
CLOSE TO THE FIRE, and write,
Write to me in the mcrning,
Or write to me late at night.
Write to me very often;
Letters are links that bind
Truthful hearts to each other,
Fettering mind to mind,
Giving to kindly spirits
Lasting and true delight,
If you would strengthen friendship,
Never forget to write:
Mason and Slidell.
Whatever complications may arise from
the arrest on board a British ship of the Lord
High Commissioners of Secession to the
Great Powers of Western Europe, it is certain
that the faces of loyal Americans broadened
into a universal grin at the intelligence of
t beir capture. It was the fit conclusion of a
week of good news—the best we have bad
since Treason broke out into Rebellion. Of
all the arch-traitors, there are not two—not
even Floyd and Jeff Davis—whose appear
ances among us as prisoners would have dif
fused more general and bearty satisfaction.
If there be one man who, more than any
other, has schemed and plotted for years to
bring the country to its present condition,
that man is John Slidell of Louisiana. He
was one of the most prenicious advisers ol
Gen. Pierce and the very evil genius of Bu
chanan's Administration, causing him to
break faith with Gov, R. J. Walker of Kan
sas, and very nearly bringing the country
then into the desolating civil war which he
has at last fomented. He meant to have had
Slavery in the contest; he missed the mark,
and, having set out to figure in the grand sa
loons of Europe as the leading Plenipotenti
ary of Cottondom, he finds himself landed in
loyal States unarrested and strictly-guarded
traitor.
Ilis colleague, Mason, is not so bad a man,
though be is as bad as he knows how to be.
Had he half as much sense as pride and pomn
posity, he would have been twice tbe traitor
he is. He has done his worst, however, to
plunge the country into an abiss of blood an,j
crime, and will worthily grace the cell in
which bis career has reached his fitting con
sumation.
But what will Great Britain say to the
takiDg of these two would-be Envoys by force
from one of her merchant vessels ? We do
not know and we do not care. We shall en
deavor to say nothing on the law of the case
that may even seem calculated to forestall
or emberaßs the action of the Government.—
If Great Britain demands the liberation of
these gentlemen, reparation for their capture
we propose to sustain eucb response as our
Government shall see fit to make. For it is
not possible to make such demand without
in substance confessing that the Right to
Search American vessels for British seameD,
and to take away those who aro adjudged
such—which wa, the principal cause of the
War of 1812—has no foundation in public
law. If, then, the Bri.ish Government sees
fit to confess that it was utterly wrong in the
collisions which engendered our last War—
was wrong in every instance wherein she
searched our merchant ships for those claim
ed as native-borne subjects cf tbe British
Crown—we trust our Government will stand
ready to deal wisely and generously with the
venerable penitent. She need not admit
that she was wrong in particularly flagrant
instances, such as the attack of the Leopard
on the Cheapeak in 1808, and the burning of
the Caroline at Schlosser (one of our docks)
in the Niagara River, in 1838. If Bhe is
ready now to establish and abide by any doc
trine on the general subject, we trust her
proffers will be received with distinguished
consideration. But if she chooses to be sat
isfied with British precedents for the case
immediately in hand, she can be supplied
with them to ber heart's content. ID either
case, the energy and decision of Com. Wilkes
has secured a eubstantial triumph to our
country.— Y. Tribune.
MEMBERS or CONGRESS IN THE ARMY.—
Among the members of the present Congress
now in the active service of the United States
against the rebels, are Hon. John 11. Mc-
Clearnand and Hon. Owen Lovejoy, of Illi
nois ; Kellogg, of Michigan ; Senator Wilson
of Massachusetts; Senator Sherman, of Ohio;
Hun John S. Phelps of Missonri; Hon. J.
S. Jackson, of Kentucky; Hon. McKee
Dunn, of Indiana ; Senator Lane, of Kansas,
and Edward McPherson, of Pennsylvania,—
Col Curtis, of lowa, resigned bis seat to ac
ccpt the appointment of .Brigadier General,
WISCONSIN ELECTION. —The election in
Wisconsin resetted in a Republican triumph.
We are proud to know* that in no State,
which gave its full electoral vote to Lincoln
and Hamlin, has a Democratic state ticket
been successful sinoe is aoy general election.
Ireland and the United States.
Again WO bear of famine in Ireland. ID
6ome distriots the destitution and suffering
is represented to be terriblo. Heretofore
when the ptoole of Ireland were starving,
the first and most abundant relief came from
this great Republic. Now while Ireland is
suffering, the United States is in distress.—
The hand of treason is uplifted. Great Bri
toin—lrelands persecutor—nerves the treach
erous hand. But with all sorrow and suffer
ing, a kind Providence has blessed ua with
abondant harvests ; provisions of all kinds
are abundant. We have to spare, and if wa
choose, can relieve the perishing people of
Ireland. Why not do it?
It is no fault of Irishmen if British gold
sustains this rebellion. It is no fault of Ire
land if the rebels receive their supplies of
ammunition from Great Britain in British
vessels. It is no fault of the Green Isle, if
British steamers seek to shelter and convey
rebel leaders under the British flag. The
sympathies of Ireland and Irishmen, are
with the Union, in this greatest, grandest
strugle for existence. Why should we not
return this good will ? While the govern
ment of Great Britain is doing all it can to
aid in the destruction of the Republic, let us
from the abundance which God has given us
relieve the perishing subjects of Great Brit
ain from starvation.
If wewaDtto rebuke British intolerance
and at the same time perform a mission of
mercy, we could not perform it more grand
lv and effectiually than by shipping a few
cargoes of bread stuffs and provisions to ne*
glected Ireland, under the protection of the
undimmed stars and unuulled stripes of the
still proud American flag. Telegraph.
" A Caution to Privateers."
In the Liverpool Daily Post of October 31s*
is a paragraph, as follows, under the above
head : "We have reason to believe thac
ships belonging to the United States, nsw
leaving this port, are all being putin a con
dition to repel aoy attack that may be made
upon them while on the voyage to New Fork
or other Northnrn posts, by the southern
privateers. The merchant vessels'here are
strengthened in the uper decks and bulwarks
and are pierced in order to carry guns, all of
which are uf the most improved construction.
Experienced gunners have been engaged to
work the casnon on board, and initiate the
crew of each vessel into the art of gunnery
so that, should the vessels bs attacked by pri
vateers, they would not be surrendered without
a struggle. The equipments of those vessels,
many of which are now on their way across
the Atlantic, while others are ready to sail,
are such that privateers will catch tarters
should they come near any of these quiet
looking merchantmen the cargoes of which
(so we are told) replenish many exhausted
war depots. One ship now on her way is
said to carry 18 32's, which, if well used,
would settle the accounts of any southern
privater afloat." It was full tinae for Eng
lish merchantmen to be put in proper trim
for repelling the southern piratea.
MR. BENJAMIN, the Secretary of war under
the rebel government, is a member of a prom
inent social club in New York city. Since
he joined the enemies of the country, repeat
ed attempts have been mvde, by loyal mem
bers of the club to have him expelled; but
as yet the resolution hes been laid upon the
table by the vote of the society. It was fi
nally proposed to let the matter rest, in the
expectation that his next dues would not be
paid, and that he would, by that fact, ease
to have any connection with the club. But
when the time came round the dues were
paid, and be still preserves his rights of
membership. Mr. Slidell, who belonged to
the same club, was not so fortunate. Ne
friend advanced his annual fees to the asso
ciation, and his name was accordinly drop
ped from the roll. Slidell, however, was now
joined the select junto who now hold a pro
tected meeting at Fort Warren, and he may
find that assemblage quite sufficient to oocu
py his whole time and thoughts.
A Bloodless War.
It was evidently the design of the admin
istration that this should be a bloodless war,
if it were possible. It was never the wish of
the true friends of this Government to imbrue
their hands in their brother's blood, nor ta
run off their negroes ! Causes arose beyond
the control of the Commander-in Chief, and
lives have beeD the penalty, but were offered
no lives have been taken. Look, for exam
ple, at Port Royal and the Eastern Shere of
Virginia, and this is evidently the course to
be persued. If the rebels will lay down
their arms, they will be protected in tbeir
persons and property by the Government, but
if not, they must take the consequences.
It is very apparent that they are not all
traitors who are found in Secessia— they are
net all South who are of the South, and as
one section after another Bhall receive the
protection they long for, the Confederacy will
find itself growing " small by degrees and
beautifully less" so fast that BOOQ none will
be left to do them reverence.
MAL APROPOS. —It is reported tbat the
South Carolina rebels have hoisted the black
flag along their ooast, sinoe their " sacred
soil" has been invaded by the Federal troops;
and this is understood to be an intimation
that tbey will give no quarters to invaders
but inasmuch as rebeldom has more to lose
by proclaiming a "war to the knife," than
the Government has, it is probable that there
is some mistake in the matter. They proba
bly put up a black flag to signify " war for
our darkays," It would have been much
more appropriate to have hoisted a yellow
one. That is a signal of punithment, to
which South Carolina is now subjected ; and
it would also indicate the oolor of an impor
tant part of the Palmetto population.
Number 42.