THE BRADFORD REPORTER,
OS£ DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
:
Thursday Morning, May 2, 1861.
lMrn.
THE STRIPES AND THE STARS.
BT BPS* DSIN rOCTOR.
(Air—'" The Star Spangled Banner.")
OSTi* Stasmu® IUNSK" 1 L''e Ra S of our P rid * !
Though trampled by traitors and basely defied,
y3J to the glad winds your Bed. White, aud Blue,
for the heart of the North land is beating for you !
And her strong arm is nerving to strike with a wi.t
r.jl ihf foe and his boastings are humbled and still!
Here's welcome to wounding and combat and s>-ars
And the glory of death-for the Stripes ar.d the Sura!
Pram the prairie. O ph.wman speed boldly awiy
There's seed to be sown in God's furrows to-day
Rr landward, lone fisher! stout woodman come horue!
Let smith leave his anvil and weaver his loom,
And hamlet and city ring loud with the cry,
for God and our counlry we'll fight till we die !
Here's welcome to wounding and combat and scars
Atd the glory Of death—for the Stripes and the Stars !"
Invincible Banner! tlie Flag of ihe Free !
u where treads the loot that would falter for thee ?
,i-the hands to be folded til! triumph is won
And the eagle looks proud, as of old. to the sun T
I Ci >< tears for the parting— a murmur of prayer—
I Then Forward ! the fame of our standard to share!
M ;h welcome to wounding and combat and scars
A-d the glory of death—for the Stripes and the Start.
0 dod / our Fathers ! this Banner must ahino
irNnrebaiUe is hottest, in warfare divine !
The .aanon !m thundered, the bugle has blown,—
V* .'nor not the summons—w tight not alone !
0 lead ns.t wide from the Gulf to the Sea
The !nd shall be sacred to Freedom and Thee !
w:h >*e. L'r oppression ; with blessing, tor scars— *
On Country one Banner—the Stripe- and the Stars !
Blisnlhnr oiis.
Wanted—A Leader !
' In everv crisis, the tinman heart demands a
eaticr that incarnates its ideas, its emotions
and' it* aim*. Till such a leader appears,
ercrvthing is disorder, disaster and defeat
The moment be takes the helm, order, promp
titude and confidence follow as the necessary
result When we see such results, we know
that a hero leads. No sucii hero at present
directs tffair*. The experience of our Govern
ment for mouths past has been a series of de
leats. It has been one continued retreat Its
ptih is marked by the wrecks of properly de
i C.roycd. It has thus far only urged war upon
I c' It confidingty enters into compacts
t;h traitors who seek them merely to gain
* better to strike a fatal blow. Stung to
ck by the disgraces we bare suffered.by
sster* sustained, by the treachery which
i.'Tsien* the annihilation of all order, law,
ir-i property, and by the insults heaped upon
"National banner, the people have sprung
1 eras, and demand satisfaction for wounded
;J fur violation of laws, which ui
ber.ndicatrd, or we may at once bid farewell
: icoiety, to government, and to property,and
:•* "o barbarism.
Tne spirit evoked within the last fortnight
k i r.o parallel since the day of IVtrr the
Hermit In the iit ten days, 100.000 men
•# sprung to their feet, and. arming and
:rovisionine themselves, are rushing to a con
test which can never be quelled til! they have
triumphed. A holy zeal inspires every loyal
heart T> sacrifice comfort, property aud life
even, is nothing, because it we fail, we inut
jive up these for our children, for humanity,
inj for ourselves Where is the leader of
it ? sublime passion ? Can the Administration
iirnish him. We do nut question the entire
i atnotism of every member of ii.nor their zm!
'v the public welfare. The President, in the
Tto'ion of his Cabinet, very properly regard
K the long and efficient services of men in the
K'ocaey of the principles that triumphed in
utieotioo, l'o him the future was seen in
Stast. But in the few weeks of his official
• 'all past political distinctions have been
" fjpiy effaced From a dream of profound
*e awake with our enemy at our throat
I*so shall grapple with this foe? Meu that
rt match his activity, quick instincts and
'• '(.a. force. A warrior—no: a philosopher:
")®we!i—not a Bacon or a Locke.
Mirr of the Cabinet, having outlived the
fix kfrxi of youth, are vainly attempting to
w tli this foe A well might they op
feather to a whirlwind. JFFFERS V
- "* has ftirroauded himself with >pirits
hnired ; 0 his own. Think of offering the
♦' VE-branch to such men as TOOMBS and WIG
,l - These men arc seeking to put a chain
• Ml* our necks, to secure our humiliation by
' ' Qrstructioo of all our national interests,
*' *cac. or cur lift, or boikT
Wbat are we called upon to defend. The
••fore of 19,000.000 of freemen, with everr-
L "C that render life desirable. Were the se
of the Cabinet to be made to-day,would
1 • 'fie past be entirely forgotten in the pre
• Wontt cot all oartv tics be com pic te
'f'faced? ' *
'* not the Cabinet the representative of the
'.*!' :asle °f the present ? Is it not exactly
-t frame of mind it was in the day of its
From the first its policy has
purely negative, and cooped upia Wa<h
sarrccnded on ail aides by a hostile
on. it still thinks only of selfdefer.se,
• j ekls to to tbe demands of those seeking
'n the measured periods of dip
"*}• intercourse.
a., *- T f reat heart of the North turn
- V ,l Mch a spectacle. Is this a
_ 4 e to the ardor of youth that
rs .o th e contest regardless of every con
at the risk of severing everv tie
to £ l C% * J riTe or charm to life? The
pr ; de, ud strength of tbe coantry
; w*ea .about plan or forethought for the
£ "J. 0 an 'hie, treacherous mad relentless
to evt tbe news of the first
" a know how England sway
Ed to and fro under the loss of l.er best blood
in the reckless charge of the light Brigade
How could our more mercurial natures bear
up under a similar disaster to the gallant
Seventh ? It is the duty of the members of
the Cabinet to look the thing squarely in the
| face and conscientiously ask themselves this
question : " Are we disqualified from age,
from inexperience in Executive action, from
constitutional timidity,or from iuate reluctance
i to face the horrors of war, to represent this
peop'e and country in this hour of travail ?"
Ifi.ot let them earn the gratitude of the peo
ple by giving way courteously to the exigencies
of the hour, and laying their ambition on
the altar of their country. By a timely act
j of self sacrifice they may give relief to the
anxious heart of this mighty host of earnest,
patriotic men who are unselfishly exposing
their lives and fortunes without any other
object or motive than their countiy's honor
and welfare, the relief that follows the know
ledge thai they are directed by bold, strong
and competent men, fitted by sterner uatures
for this revolutionary epoch of their country's
history.—_Y. V. Times.
Highly Important Letter from Secretary
Seward.
The following letter w as addressed, on Mon
day, to Governor lIICKS, ot Mary laud, by the
Secretary of State :
DEPARTMENT OK STATK, April 22, 1801
Ihs Excellency Tkornat 11. Hicks, Governor of
J [dryland :
Sin : I have had the honor to receive your
communication of tins morning, in which you
informed me that you have felt it to he your
i duty to advise the President of the United
States to order elsewhere the troops eff An
napolis, and also that no more be sent through
Maryland; and that you have further suggest
ed that Lord Lyons be requested to act as
mediator between the contending parties iu
our country to prevent the effusion of blood.
The President directs me to acknowledge
the receipt of that communication, and to as
sure you that he has weighed the counsels
which it contains with the respect wfich he
habitually cherishes for the Chief Magistrates
of the several States, and especially for your
self. He regrtts, as deeply as any magistrate
or citizen of the country cau, that demonstra
tions against the safety of the United States,
with very extensive preparations for the effu
sion of blood, have made it has duty to cull
out the force to which you allude.
The force now sought to be brought through
Maryland is intended for nothing but the de
fence of this capital. The President has nec
' essarily confided the choice of the nasional
j highway which the force shall take iu coiniug
to this city to the Lieutenant General com
manding the army of tlie United State®, who,
| like his only predecessor, is not less distin
guished for his humanity than for his loyalty,
patriotism, and distinguished public service,
j The President instructs mc to add that the
' national highway thus selected !>y the Lienten
! ant General has beeu chosen by him, upon
. consultation with prominent magisliales and
' ci'izens of Maryland, as the otic which, while
a route is absolutely necessary, is further re
moved from the populous cites of the State,
and with tlie expectation that it would there
fore be the least objectionable one.
The President cannot but remember that
there has been a time in the history of our
country when a General of the American
Union, with forces designed for the defence of
its capital, was not unwelcome anywhere in the
State of Maryland, and certainly not at An
' napo! then, as now, the capital of that pat
riotic >te. ar.d then, also, one of the capitals
i of the Union.
If eighty tears could have obliterated all
the other noble s eiit;iaents of that age in Mary
ianJ, the President would Ire hopeful, never
'.hclcNS, that there is one that would forever
remain there at. 1 everywhere. That sentiment
is that no domestic contention whatever, that
may ar.se among the parties of this Republic,
ought iu any ca e to be referred to auy foreign
arbitrament, least of all to tue arbitrament of
an European monarchy.
I have the honor to b°. with distinguished
consideration, your Excellency's mo-t obedient
servant, WILLIAM 11. SEWARD.
AMERICAN PATRIOTISM. —The graphic writer
Bayard Taylor. who visited Washiugtoa last
week, *i,ds a letter from there to the New-
York Tribute of Tuesday last, from which we
make the following extract :
" From Capitol Hill we overlooked the
beautiful city, the Potomac shining in the soft
afternoon light, and the far purple slope of the
Yirgiuia shore. It was a graud, peaceful
picture, tinted with warm hoes and breathed
upon by a baimy air. Yet in a few days it>
streets be dyed with carnage, atd the
smoke of its ruin blot the sky. God 1 Was
ever wickedness hke to that which would at
tempt this deed ! Is there in ail history so
cwQelesa a rebellion, so reckless an invocation
of the las: desperate argument of battle ?
For war, or, at least, a prompt acceptance of
the challenge to war. is the only coarse left
u. If tiie nation is to be preserved —if the
Republic under wbi.h we have prospered for
eighty-five yeais is not to be a wretched fail
ure at bust—we must stand ready to defend it
with treasure and blood, as in '76. Tnereare
no longer any political parties ; there are aim
piy Unionists and Anarchists.
Puriug the past Winter, having scoured the
country from .Maine to Missouri.l have been at
times almost ready to despair, noting the
opp.~. renl want of disinterested patriotism,
among men of all parties. I have avowed
myself thsappo.nied in the American people,
believing that a long season of uninterrupted
peace and prosperity had reilly eaten away,
like a canker, tbe subunce of their nobie
qualities. I here retract every word I have
uttered, every thought, to that effect. I bow
my head before that sublime outburst of pare
patriotic fire, which Lis burned our party hoes,
and united us ail as loyal children of tbe Arne
, rican Republic.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY R. W. STURROCK.
The Treason Bill.
The following is a copy of the Treason bill
passed at the last session of the Legislature.
It will be seen that its provisions are well di
gested and that it ought to be carried out to
the very letter. Let traitors read it and pause
over its provisotis, viz :
SECTION 1. Be it enacted, Sfc., That if nnv
person or persoas belonging to or residing
iu this State, aud under the protection of its
laws, shall take a commission or commissions
from any person, State or States, or other the
enemies of this State or of the L'nited States
of America, or who shall levy against this
State or government thereof, or knowingly or
willingly shall aid or assist any enemies in op
en war against this State or the United States,
by joiuiug their armies, or by enlisting or pro
curing or persuading others to eulist for that
purpose, or by furnishing such enemies with
arms or ammunition or any other articles for
their aid and comfort, or by earryiug on a
traitorous correspondence with them, or shall
form, or lie in anywise concerned iu forming
any combination or plot or conspiracy for be
traying this State or the United States of
America into the bands or power of any for
eign enemy, or any organized or pretended
government engaged in resisting the laws of
the United States or shall give or send auy in
telligence to the enemies of this State or of
the United States of America, or shall with
the intent to oppose, preveut or subvert the
government of tins State, or of the United
States, endeavor to persuade any persons
from entering the service of the State or of
the United States,or from joining any volunteer,
company or association of the State about be
ing mustered into service, or shall use any
threats or persuasion or offer any bribe or bold
out any hope of reward, with like inteut to
induce any person or persons to abandon said
service, or withdraw from any volunteer com
pany or association already organized under
the laws of the Commonwealth for that pur
pose ; every person so offending, aud being le
gally convicted thereof, shall be guilty of a
hiffh misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced to
undergo solitary imprisonment in the peniten
tiary at hard labor for a term not exceeding
ten years, and be fined in a sum not exceeding
five thousand dollars or both, at the discretion
of the court : Provided, That this Act shall
not prohibit any citizen from taking or receiv
ing civil commissions fur the acknowledgment
of deeds and other instruments of writiug.
SKC 2. That if any person or persons with
in this Commonwealth shall sell, build, furnish,
construct, alter, or fit out, or shall aid or as
sist in selling, building, constructing, altering
or fitting out any vessel or vessels for the pur
pose of making war or privateering or other
purpose, to be used in the service of any per
son or parties whatever, to make war on the
United States of America, or to resist, by
force or otherwise, the execution of the laws of
the United States, such person or persons shall
lie guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction
thereof, shall be sentenced to uuderjo solitary
imprisonment iu the Penitentiary at hard labor
not exceeding ten years, and be fi.,ed in a sum
not exceeding ten thousand dollars, or both,
at the discretion of the court.
SEC 3 Teat every person holding a corn
inissioo as an officer in the volunteer or militia
forces of lids Commonwealth, shall, with
in thirty d-iys after the passage of this
Act, be required to take the oath of allegiance
to tliis State and to the United States, and if
any person holding such commission shall re
fuse to take such oath, the Governor shall
have the nuthoriiy to revoke and annul the
commbsiou of suHi person, and supoly bis
place by appointment, until the vacancy thus
created shall be supplied as provided for va
cancies in other cases by existing laws of this
Commonwealth ; the sa d oath of allegiance
shall be administered by the Adjutant Geue
ral or any Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, and may be transmitted to the several
brigade inspectors of this Commonwealth, who
shall in turn admininistcr the same to the offi
cers embraced within the bounds of their re
spective brigade
Src. 4 No civil process shall issue or be
enforced against any person mustered into the
service of this State or of the United States,
during the term for which he shall be engaged
in such service, r.or until thirty days after he
shall be discharged therefrom. Provided,
That the operations of all statutes of liui.ta
lions shall be suspended upon ail claims against
such person during such term.
Business Aspects of the Crisis,
The pending difficulties and state of war,
present issues in themselves so imposing as to
dwarf everything else, in comparison with
their ovetshadowtug importance Rut consid
erations of the immediate effects and conse
quence at home, while the war is waged in
the southeru country, cannot be left out of
sight.
To be relieved from dreadfi! suspense is
much—the work to be done is understood :
and with the proper leaders it will be done
promptly and well, an enduring peace con
quered, and liberty established on a perma
nent basis.
The Troy Tmes reviews the subject in its
business a>pecls, in the foiiowiug encouraging
manner :
" By the Fourth of July, we shall have a
quarter of a million of men in the field, easily
and atnpiy supported from our boundless re
sources. The withdrawal of this class of men
of the productive classes, from industrial per
suits. aid transforming then to consumers,
must give employment at good if not high
rates of wages to tLose who remain at home.
The suHiroe and graud patriotic impulse of
tbe loyal States, rising equal to and above the
actual necessities of the occasion, is drawing
out by hundreds of Enuiions the immense cap
ital, which paralyzing doubts and distrust of
the future has remained dormant, and as use
less at the moment as if it sever bad an actu
al existence.
This immense capital is now to be pat io
lirculttion at tbe rate of tec ajillioos a moutb.
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER."
it must go to the people aud be distributed
among the people. It will permeate every
where, immediately or ultimately—revivifying
all branches of business, with few if any ex
ceptions. This is not merely an inference—it
is certainty. An armament surpassing in
magnitude anything of the kind ever seen on
this hemisphere—larger, almost, than we had
regarded as possible, is, in a few weeks, to be
se-n and put in motion. The expenses of its
equipment and support come to the North.—
Not a cent is to go elsewhere.
We have not, like the traitor States, to
send onr money abroad to purchase cannon,
clothing, shot, brogans, shells, bread aDd mus
kets. Our own fouuderies are to cast the
camion, our tailors are to make the clothing,
our own mechanics are to make the rifles, our
own shoemakers are to supply the brogans, our
own prodacers are to supply the ratious—and
they are all to get gold or current funds for
every thing tbey do or furnish. We have no
thing to do with a double government, credit
or currency that is not gold or redeemable in
gold. With traitors it is very different."
From The Press.
Appeal to American Women.
BY ONE OF TnEMSEI.VES.
Yes, it is un appeal that we make—an ap
peal that rises from the deepest recesses of our
heart, and struggles to fiud vent in words,
which are weak and impotent to express what
we feel. Wc of the present day have been
laughed at and stigmatized as weak and fool
ish slaves to fashion, and better and higher
aims forgotten, utterly ignored, until America
can no longer boast of Women like those who
lived in the time of the Revolution.
This is not so. In this hour, when our Na
tion is stirred and shaken from border to bor
der with the dread contest of opposing will,
the spirit of patriotism is stirring and throb
bing in Woman's heart, aud when the proper
hour comes, we feel that she will rise up firm
and strong, with a power of nerve and will of
which she has as yet been deemed incapable.
Is not this so, my sisters ? Come out to the
world and show it of what mettle you are
composed. Show that lips accustomed alone
to soft and gentle words of love, and, per
haps, light and senseless prattle, can utter the
strong, bold words which shall nerve and
strengthen the arm and heart of a father,
brother, husband, son, or friend, and that,
though tears may start when the last kiss is
imparted, and sobs may swell up from the
founts of affection at the last pressure of lov
ing hands, you are still capable of smiling
through those tears and chokiug back sobs
with words of comfort and cheer.
This is the time, if ever, in which to prove
your real worth. You can feel how deep will
be the struggle which Jwill wring the hearts
of those who ore about to tear themselves
from home aud friends to face the privation,
toil, and dangers of the battle field. Will
you add to the bitterness of that struggle with
one word ot regret ? Ri'.hcr, let your busy
fingers do ail tbey may for their comfort, and
your lips, after havi: g breathed to God the
prayers that are in your hearts, may grow el
oquent with cheerful eneouragment. 15id them
so, strong iu heart and limb, and fight for the
I*nion !
There is work for us to do. While th>y are
facing the blaze aud roar of artillery in
defence of oar country, ire can do our part at
home. It is just here that we are needed, and
the work before ns is plain. There are hun
dreds of strong men devoted to our country's
came, whose care aad protection will betaken
from their families ; and it rests with us to
watch over and help those who may be left
destitute. Hundreds of you have been rear
ed in ease and luxury, with nothing to do but
to minister to the caprices of your own fascy;
but now you have other work before yon.
which, as true daughters of America, you
should prefer beyond all others. Curtail, if
necessary, all your superfluous expenses, and
bring back the roses to your pale cheeks, and
the giad light ot happiness to your eyes, from
a conscious knowledge of good, by seeking out
and caring for those who are left in poverty
while their sturdy husbands and brothers are
away.
The right spirit has already shown itself iu
varioas ways. Ladies are working upon gar
ments for the soldiers, and getting up sub
scriptions for the benefit of those who are
poor, but strong and willing Young girls
have aroused front listless inaction, and. pot
ting on the badge of Freedom and the Union,
have set actively at work to do all they can.
We know that our women of th> present day
wiil not prove unworthy of their ancestors ia
this emergency.
Follow the patriot citizen soldier with prat
ers, but do not sit down and w?ep impoteutlv
when their forms are lost to sight, tnough
with some it may be forcTer. Prepare your
selves even for the worst, and leave no hour
idle in which to pine. Remember what the re is
to do. No weakness now Yoo know what
you should do—go forward and perform it. and
God protect the right. B Z. M.
THE PUBLIC SAFETY —We feel satisfied that
every patriot will cueerfuliy support all neces
sary measures for the pu'ol.c defence, and ap
plaud all steps which are designed to iucrease
the efficacy and vigor of the military attitude
which the natiou has been imperatively com
pelled to assame. The power of a great,free,
united, determined, intelligent, and brave p®o
is almost unlimited,butjxbey must be thorough
ly disciplined, obedient to the duly constitu
ted authorities, and devoted, heart aod soul,
to a common purpose. Then their movements
become as invincible as the resistless march of
destiny, their will as supreme as the decrees
of fete, and their victory as certain as the re
volution of the globe. We have long been
uuaccostonied to the restraints which form an
inevitable feature of warlike operations, but
we must now prepare to cheerfully submit to
them All earthly considerations must sink
into comparative indifference when weighed in
the balance against the triumph of the national
cause If any incentive were needed to re
double our exertions, in addition to the fact
that the national capita! is threatened with
an attack, which we trust will be triumphant
ly repelled, it should be found in the fact that
it is reported the invasion of onr own State
is contemplated by the Virginia troops. While
we do net doubt the full power of our Com
monwealth to send any foes who may desecrate
its soil with a hostile tread howling back to
their homes, we must all unite as a band of
brothers in reudering it impregnable. Upon
us many fall the first.brunt of the mighty strug
gle which is impending, and we must summon
up all our energies to enable us to discharge
the full duty which devolves upon us.
• •> , *
What is to be Done.
A vigorous policy against treason is now
the ouly practical one which remains. The
comparative inactivity which has heretofore
prevailed, must at once be abandoued for a
more decided course. While it may have
beeu for the best to refrain from striking the
first blow, and throw the responsibility of in
augurating the war upon the rebels, it is no
longer necessary to hesitate to act whenever
we can do so efficiently. We have gamed all
that is possible to gain from moderation, and
any further inaction caa ouly be betrayal of
weakness.
The loyal North is suffering from its want
of preparation for the conflict. It is only du
ring the past few days that our people have
become aroused, while those of the South
have been making preparations for weeks and
months, and hence, they have at first the ad
vantage in any conflict.
Prompt and decisive measures must now at
once be inangurated. It must be an aggress
ive warfare, as that is the only one which we
can pursue with safety. We must carry the
war into their conntry and not allow them to
bring it into oars. If, as is now pretty cer
tain, Washiugton is at present safe from at
tack. we ought at once send an expedit on to
the South, as the best means of diverting their
attention aud preserving the Capitol. We
must keep t'nein busy at home, if we would
not be molested ourselves. They must be kepi
entirely in the dark with regard to our inten
tions, and hence be compelled to prepare at all
points. It must be a word and a blow and
the blow first. We can thus throw them on
the defence, and thus compel them to sustain
an army that will speedily exhaust their treas
ury. They have begun the war, and let it
be waged around their own hearthstone.
The policy of trying to conciliate the bor
der States by this inaction, is, we imagine,
pretty much " played out.*' If the so-called un
ionists of these States ebject to the assertion
of the rightful authority of the Union, then so
much the worse for them. We have already
seen enough to convince us of the futility of
a'templing to ®ave *nrh unionists. If they
will uot stand by their country at such a time
as this, they arejnot worth saving, bat had
better go over to the rebels at ouce. We do
not want allies to tie our hands wbiie we are
supportiug them. Let us know who our
friends are, and iu whom we can rely.
FIRE or THE FLINT.—The Philadelphia Tn
quirtr says that stories, wel' verified, of the
patriots of the interior, compare favorably
with the times of the Revolution. An old
tottering man came into the Capitol, bringing
his fifteen SODS and sons-in-law, the props of
his age, to enlist, and stated that if one of
them had refused, he would, with his parental
curse, have shot him down as a traitor. A
feeble widow also headed her six stalwart bovs
and on'y regretted that she had uo more to
offer up to her country By every train and
conveyance crowds arrive, swelling up the
same glorious enthusiasm which rr.uch conquer
iu the sacred war of right and self defence.
The Albany Journal gives these examples :
A poor man—a native of England, who was
lame and could cot march to the wars—?ub
srribed $2, in a neighboring city, Monday, for
the support of the families of volunteers, re
marking as he did so, that it was all the :
money he had in the world, but he hoped to
earn more soon, which should be devoted to
the same patriotic purpose A distinguished
jurist in the interior of the State subscribed
$lOO and gave his only son to his country;
while another gentleman, we!! known in poli
tic al ercles, has made aa offering of his three
son?.
MANIFACTTRINO ARMS SPRING Ft CTJ> AR
MORT.—The greatest activity prevails at the
gpringQeld, Mas, Armory. Three hundred
and fifty men are constat!'ly employed in ma
king sraail arms. The Springfield Rrpnbli-in
says that the average production is abont
1.500 per month, but with more mechanics,
and new machinery, about 2,500 can be man
ufactured ; and by working night and day,
and having double sets of workman, about
four thousand can be turned oat.
The Armory is not, however, destitute of
arms. The Massachusetts volunteers oeing
first in the field, are mostly a r mei with the
new r.ile mu>ket ; but there are still ninety
thousand muskets of the old model, bat entire
ly new, and fine servicable arms, in the ar
mory ; besides twenty five thousand of the
same pattern already seat ca to New
York.
The armory establishment is now under a
strong guard night and day, to prevent any
mischief which treason may attempt to exe
cute by firing tbe'buiiding or otherwise. No
person is admitted to tire grounds except on
known business or those connected with the
establishment.
There can be DO doubt that there is io Mis
sissippi a lack of food for the population,
which threatens to amount to a famioe The
Yicksburg WAig of the 30th nit, notices the
return cf Major Hawkins, who rcentlT made
a visit to Illinois for the purpose of procuring
supplies He states that he has found it im
possible to obtain as much as will be needed
for present necessities, and that there is great
danger they not be able to plant and raise a ,
crop this year 1
VOL. XXI—SO. 48
Counsel to Volunteers.
[The following hints to our volanteen are
timely and should be heeded.— EDS. J
1. Remember that in a campaign more man
die from sickness than by the bullet.
2. Line your blanket with one thickness of
brown drilling. This adds but four ounces in
weight and doubles the warmth.
3. Buy a small India rubber blanket (only
$1 50) to lay on the gronnd or to throw otsr
your shoulders when on guard dutv during a
rain storm Most of the eastern troops are
provided with these. Straw to lie upoa is
not always to be had.
4. The best military hat in use is the light
colored soft felt ; the crown being sufficiently
high to allow space for air over the brain.—
You can fasten it up as a continental in fair
weatber, or lurn it down when it is wet or
very sunny.
5. Let your beard grow, so as to protect
the throat and lungs.
6. Keep your entire person clean ; this pre
vents fevers and bowel complaints in warm
climates. Wnsh your body each day if possi
ble. Avoid strong coffee and oily meat.—
General Scott said that the too free use of
these (together with neglect in keeping the
skin clean) cost rnauy u soldier his life iu
Mexico.
7. A sadden check of perspiration by chilly
or night air ofttn cau 3 es fever and death.—
W hen thus exposed do uot forget your blaa
ket.
" Ax OLD SOLDIER.*'
IHE LOAFER. —Here is an accurate descrip
tion of a class of men who infest every com
munity : —The most miserable, hopeless scrap
of humanity is an idle man—a man whose
chief aim of life is to "loaf—to waste in
listless lounging and mental and physical in
action the years of his short life. There are
scores of such beings in every town and city—
miserable loafers whose sole occupation is to
avoid employment of any kind—whose lives
can scarcely be called lives—who die one af
ter another, and leave behind them—what ?
A vacancy to be mourned ? No, for thev are
in themselves raeaucies, not men. To these
atoms society ows nothing. The history of
the world's progress ignores their names and
their existence ; and betng dead, the grave
contains no mora inert, worthless earth than it
did before. Ihey become chronic nuisances •
they have have no local habitation or name ia
so far as regards their worth or value, and
from day to day, iu the haunts of busy men,
they pass s uucurrent funds—at so much of a
discount that they cannot even bay them
selves. Such are loafers—miserable, worth
less beings, who die only when they get too
lazy and indolent to use their respiratory or
gaus.
TUT FIRST AMERICAN* POETRY— There ara
a few girls or boys iu this country who have
not heard the nursery rhyme sang by their mo
thers wile rocking the cradle,
'• Lul-a-br baby upon the tree top :
W aen Ibe w Li, ws the cradle wiil rock ;
W ben Ihe b>..?h breaks the cradle will fail ;
And duwn il! come baby aad cradle and all."j
But how many of you know the origin of
the simple lines ? We have the following ac
count from the Boston Historical Society.—
Shortly after our forefathers landed at Plym
outh. Mass., a party were out in the field
where the ludian women were picking straw
berries. Several of these women or squaws,
as they are called, had pappocsrt, that is ba
bies, and having no cradic-s. they had them
tied np in Indian fashion, and hung from the
i.tubs of the surrounding trees. Sure enough,
"when the wind blew, these cradles would
rock" A young man of the party observing
this, peeled eff a piece of bark, and wrote the
above lines, which were, it is believed, the first
poetry writtcu iu America.—Arterial* Agri
culturist.
REPOSE OIT OF TKF UNION. —To the LUG
geslion that the slave States can Dever reach
" repose," until tbey desert the old Union ami
join the Southern Confederacy, the Memphis
(Term.) BuiUtin makes the followiug reply ;
" If making the South one vast camp, wheru
thousands of citinetrs are diverted from their
peaceful pursuits into the occupaiiou of the
soldier; if to inaugurate a state of thiugs in
which ' wars and rumors of wars" continually
keep the puulic mind up to lever beat of ei
citemei t ; if to derange and interrupt the nat
ural flow of trade and commerce, and live con
tinually iu the apprehension that it may bt
destroyed by the precipitation of a bloody
civil war ; if to make an unnecessary reovlu
tion, in the prosecution of which the bold,
reckless, and seifish, are likely to bear more
sway than the peaceful and patriotic, in which
the tribunals of reasou and justice may be
overthrown, to give place to toe arbitrament
of the sword—if these things be " rrpest*
then Lave the seceded State# found it. It is,
however, such repose as may be foaod upoa
the tuiu crust of a Numbering volcano, with
the heaving* of its unrest mattering audibly
beoe-th it. God iorotd that Tennessee at.d
the other border States should ever seek su<A
" repose.'"
A QCAKEK'S OPINION OF THE WAR — A
Quaker merchant in this city yesterday said to
one of his clerk*:
" Weil, friend . is thee willing to en
list r
" I have thought of it." replied the clerk,
" but hesitated, because I feared that I would
iose my situation "
"If thee will enlist," replied thu Quaker,
" Dot only shall thee have thy eitnatioo, but
thy salary shall go on while theeis absent
But if thee will not serve thy country,theu can
not stay in this store."— Eve. Post.
OCT or ORDER —The chairman of a politi
cal meeting, seeing a rowdy who was raising
his arm to throw a stale egg at h:a, bawled
out —" Sir, your aaot.oa is oat of order f