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VOLUME it
Jitoisteoo ghettos
Dn. E. L. GARDNER,
nRYSIOIA.N AND BURGEON, Montrose, Pa. Mee one
r Webb's Store. Bolan:hat t3essies note.
liontroce, Awe 8, ma
GROVES & REYNOLDS,
LNASITIONARLE TAILORS. Shop ova Mouldbut
r Stare, Pahlir. Avenue. I V
Montrose, June 12, 1£43.
Du. CHARLES DECKER,
11111MICIAN AmD BllftelLmN, Laving located hhonalf at
r Ihrehardvellq Susquehanna empty. F. Ell attend to all the
a!). est istdch be may be famed with promptuemand Mention.u
se hie redden°, mar menage Motes, Sas
Alecharddlle, Slug. Co.. Da- Mal ihrA.—tt
Dn. JOHN W. COBB,
PtittlICHAN and 81THGEOH, respectfully tender,. his service.
to the cid:envoi EntsciashanmOcturity. He mill eh* especial
..Lam to the estnelcol and medical treatment of diseases of the
eye uld and s.av be consulted relative to attest operation*
bee of chorea at hie aeon over W.J. R B.H. Mnlford'sBtent.
Residence o. Maple street. oar of J.B. Torben% Hotel.
Montrose, bap. County, Pb, June 22.1863.-tf
JOHN BEAUMONT,
STOOL WINER, Cloth Dresser, and Maned::term C the old
std k 1101•11 ss Smi th 's Carding Machine. Terms made
moan . . - hen the work is brought,
J amp, Mart O. 1863.
Dn. G. Z. DIMOCK,
pHYSICIAN =ld BIJRGEON, MONTROSE, Pa. 0111ce on
osc,ro Amt. oppoedta Bannuaata ow e. Board. al
t,ale's HOWL
ii.trou, February 61141.863.-Irp
Q M. CRANDALL,
mt.NUFA CT VILE R of Iluen-wbeeta, Wool•arbeela, Wheel.
noon. Clock-reels, do., do. WoodAurainit dorm to ardor. and
IL lb, nnlest nuner, lotroing littop and Wheel netory Sayre.'
r. Bokboit. oP Man.
llontnmse, January 80tb, 1863.41
B. S. BENTLEY, JR, NOTARY PUBLIC,
MO NT ROBE. PA..
TK ES Acknowledgment at Deeds, Mortgages, /km, for arty
same In the United States. Pension Vouchers and Pay C.
tricnowledged before him do not ' , Kobe the certificate of the
C., a of ue Coact. Montrcee, Jan. 2, 1865 .—tl,
CHARLES HOLES,
n SALER IN CLOCKS, WATCHES, AND JEWELRY
17 Re pal ring done as omA on short notice and masonabla toms
ram side Public Avenue In F. B. Chandler's
11w:tiro., P.. NOV. 7.19%.
Da. E. L. HANDRICK.,
FTSICIAIcr and BUB.61:0B, reldurtfully tenders bit Mao
emal Pervices to the Citizens al.Triardadlla aad TS: Catty. Of.
.dire of Dr. loses. Boards at J. Hcaford's.
Yileadvallt, July 27.1814-41
E. W. SMITH,
nn tui & 00177/13.1ELLAMI AT LAW and Lbxosed Claim
a Art. olee over Leer Dreg !lore.
ru.aoclsans Depot JULUIT, 15. Mi.
H. BIIRRITT,
n FALL% In livez h.o 3o Fancy EITy giarehrara.
lm], Stoves. Oa. and PalnVtonta th' Vßboea. Hata
1. , : Ca,. Para, Ennio bay Gmeedes, Proviliam
n,...ltlllErd, Pa, A;ril 13, 1811.-U
S. EL SAYRE 85 BROTHERS,
If &Nrr AMU - REELS or MID thortn,o, Ceasing., of all Mu.
art Sur, Tin and &met Iron ware. Agricultural Lupien:tufa
DP161,11113 Dry Gooda,Grozerica, Croetery,
d.truet. Pa. February 1.1,1884.
BILLINGS STROUD,
FVIRE LAD LUIS 12481111.A.ACE AGSM?. OM= In Lath
east and of Brick Block la hie alleisone. bud
ta. at the ofEce will be transacted by C. L. Brown.
M c.strove, February 1. 1864.—tf
J. D. VAIL, 31. a,
in" Q trit i lo i n c PRIZ°Ve• h b ettrAt i t•R il t ; T stlenn
It Us profell.
Co sehteh he may be rhymed. MEDI
Itee tc
deetee Wen of the Cowl a Dyne. hear Bentley at.ritch%.
oet rove, Feb0ary1.1.464.-Oci.* 1661.
A. 0. WARREN,
TTOEINEY AT LAW, BOUNTY. BACK PAT and PEN
A
MOB CLAIM AGENT. All Pension Claims careftd_yl pre
r e nt form:lz
a m:Wed by Dr. Yall. be W. H
Montrose. Pa. Feb. 1, 186L-feblYyl IBM
S. S. ROBERTSON,
VILNUFACTURLII of raocvrsasHouskik.
Eltrat, licnaroso, Pl.
if oo from, Jaranzy LS, 16f4.-tf
LEWIS KIRBY & E. BACON,
BESP conettatly on Inandes Ta ll imply of every Tetley al
GROCICSISS and GONTECTIONERIM By Strict attar
tom to bnatnearrand Mirnenin deal they hope to merit the liberal
•pt-maTe of the public. 6o OITTZE and EAITNO 811LOOT1li
ttteclied to th e Grocery. where hiva.lree, n eesson.ase accredit et.
Cl r. le that the tastes of th e publicdernand. liamenther th e place.
ttt o ld Mott Gracerystand. on Main Street, below the Pastonice.
IL a vote. N0v.17, la4..—mr_til7,eB.-tf
DR. CALVIN C. HALSEY,
Errsicrucir LED RQROEON LNP EXASUBING SUR
GE, for PENSIONERS. °Mee over the store of J. LT..
rSon.
Sven.. Rowels it M. Etborkirene.
oetroat. Octobee. BMA!
• D. A. BALDWIN,
TIORSIT AT LAW, and Pe on. Bounty, and Beet Pq
Arm% Great Bend, Susquehanna Ootmts. Pa.
Oren 5.1 d, August le. 1263.4 y
BOYD WEBS
riiiLETS In Stoves, Stogie Pipe, iTtn, Copper., end Sham
11 Iron Ware; a/ao, Window haat, Panel Door; Minton
Binh, Lath, Pine Lunkber,_
_and all kind. of BoMina Mater%
Snon natal of Searle's Hotel, and Otrpar ter ahoy near the
llntodLst Churst.
l'a.. Jammu 1, 11364.-tf
Dn. WILLIAM W. SMITH,
SURGEON DENTIST. Office over the II
tithe of Coo
_per Co.. All Dents lot
.111 be per. fatal/ In hie goOd lOyle
warro...e. Emeolor, office formerly of E. Eolith & &nu
Ifontroee, Joounr, 1, 18e4,.—tf
E. S. ROGERS,
‘TA , WACTITECEII of all descroas
v i aLtaps, SMUG S. In the M4
ti ko ' owo sta nd VI! H. IVOE% - ..ren. *oda e'
/jute! la Montrose, when he will be happy to ret
cals of all Trho want anything to Ms Mu.
En 0..., June 1,18C21.-U.
BALDWIN & ALLEN,
TALALEIt..S m FLOITE,B•II., Pork.Plabir l . o rqr.e
Candles Clovetr sad p=otay Seed. 0/tOO6
Sul 4 br4lllll, 1i0113111,11. &Fps Tea and Cam We Lib a
ArtOUP, 0. door below 7. Etheri4CB.
January 1. 11164.-11
Dn. G. W. BEACH,
DHISIcIA_N AND BURGEON. hartryr permanently located
/ tanzae.o at Brooklyn ()enter. PL. tenders Ms weft- rlft- o•al era
toe ur dtlaene of Susquehanna ConntY. en terms mamma , '
r:r.wr Tames.. Orreptft the office of the late Dr. B. Richard
.ards B.lehaohgon's.
too. yr center. Pa.. June 11.1864.-11
F. B. WEEKS,
EACTICILL BOOT &ND BEOE IdAlCril; also Dealer tn
t, Sham Leather, and Shoe Mag,
n. itepallidaris
rtt
fit. 'Sham
and dispatch. Two door.above Searle'. Ho ld.
km:rmt. Jmmry 1. 1854—t1
JOBREIi RICE,
frurACTITHER sad DECAL= In 4311111Ett,
tstdost Wass Ehop four Eau cast of Nevltlllol
Fn Milfsod.oL4oberl.lB63.-tf
WK. & WIL H. JESSUP,
A ITon„PrTB AT LAW, Um Aram Pa. Prentice In Basque
Lazus, Braard., Wayne, Wyomlnglund Luang Cantles.
1 1 , ,05e, Ps, Jammu lit. MIL
ALBERT CHAIIIIIERLIN,
IsTRICT ATTORNEY AND ATTORNEY AT LAW
13 'Mee OM the Slam formerly occupied by Pool Brothers.
V..t.n.e., Pa. January 1. ISGO.
J. LYONS & SON,
DEALERS Itr DIST GOODS. Groceries. Crockery. Hardware.
D f ., , tr = t t sod All kinds of Mot-
Sq ii bsinese In all iu isOeet
rancifes. MS°
car"
as
lbo ;
1. 5 :11 11 1.. EW
antrum. JasmorY 1 . /6". T. a.. LTO2II.
ABEL TIIIIRELIA,'
DELLEE. IN DRUGS, 111EDICTINSli. CEEEMICALV
Palm OIL. Dye-Btralla. Varsdatie. Window Glo
lirouries, Crockery, Glekevire Mall-Paper, Je..
Fancy Goode, Perinmay, Surgical Instrument. Time-
Etragihea, Agent tar all of the thud PoPil
e, Yuen% Medicine. Monkrode, January 1.1851.
C. 0. FORDHA.III,
.677171 , ACTITECIEB, of BO M & BROM
31 t.1.0p over DeWitt Slave. All kinds of er a l=el:
ore., .41 ,epalAcg done neatly. Work
I.ed. hiontrome. Aloft 11361_41 .
mom.
CHARLES N. STODDARD,
Ure LC/1 le BOOTS a SHOES. Leather awl Ilyeit.
once. on Vein
it. third door below timule's Hotel, Lai,
Work maee to order. and nepolting done bestir.
. 11,, mrcee. Ps. December U. 11360.
L H. BURNS,
rro aRtY AT LAW. Ortlce with TiTlllum .1. Turret!. Zed.
oPerwite Searles Bowl. Pone= and Bounty Clatznimt=
4 I 'NA-wed. Collections PreledOlY made.licoreme.
B. R. LYONS & CO.,
ThEALERS InDRY Gonna. OSOCERIES. 8017111,,5H01A
LI s-11r
Gallen, Carpet.. Oti Olottu4 Wall god WlndOw
c.J. 0114 ac. &ors on the au% aide of Public Menne.
•
Montrose. Jan nary 1. 1854Af
READ, WATROUB, it FOSTER,
DaAuras IN DB7 400D8, Dnws. lleflttinea. PAWL, Ot
Irrift• aszt*Ate. Orockeel. Iron . Clocks. Watches, je.,
ter limns. Pertamety. Its. Thick Bloat,. Moans'.
4 . 4!“LITNOUS c. sorra
January 1, 12134.
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The dark) was abroad in the land;
Ins strength and his fierceness what foe could with
stand ? ,
The breath of his anger was hot on the air,
And the white lamb of Peace he had dragged to his
lair.
Then up rose the Farmer; he summoned his seas ;
" Now saddle your horses, now look to your guns I"
And he called to his hound, as be sprang from the
ground
To the back of his black pawing steed with a boned.
Oh, their hearts, at the word, how they tingled and
stirred
They followed, all belted and booted and spurred.
"Buckle tight, boys!" said he, "for who gallops
with me,
Bach a hunt as was never before he shall see I"
"The traitor, we know him! for when he was
We dart= e lfitn., patted him, fed his delve hunger ;
But now far too long ye have borne with the wrong,
For each morsel we tossed makes him savage and
strong." •
Then said one, "Be must die!" And they took up
" For
the
e is cr rest crime of his he must die I he must
•
die!"
But the slow eldest:born sauntered and and forlorn,
For hie heart wea at home on that fair hunting
morn.
"I remember," he aid, " how this flan cub we track
Haa carried me many a time nu his back I"
And he called to his brothers. "Fight gently be
kind!"
And ho kept the dread hound,'Retribution, behind.
The dark Jaguar on a bough In the brake
Crouched, silent and dtly, and lithe as a make;
They spied not their game, but tut onward they aime,
Through the dense leafage gleamed two eyeballs o f
name.
Black-spotted, and mottled, and whiskered, and
White-Med and yellow, he lay on the limb,
All so still that you saw Just one tawny paw
Lightly reach through the leaves and ea softly with
draw.
Then shrilled his fierce my, u the riders drew nig h, _
And he shot from the bough like a bolt from the
sky;
In the to r' he fastened his fangs as he fell,
While all the black jungle re-echoed his yell.
Oh, then there was carnage by field and by flood !
The green sod was crimsoned, the rivers ran blood,
The cornfields were trampled, and all in their track
The beautiful valley lay blasted anti black.
Now the din of the conflict swells downy and loud,
And the dust of the tumult roils up like a cloud
Then afar down the slope of the Sou th land recedes
The wild rapid clatter of galloping steeds.
With wide nostrils smoking, and flanks dripping
Voiret
The buck stallion bore his bold rider before.
As onward they thundered through forest and glen,
A-hunting the dark Jaguar to his den.
In April, sweet April, the ehase was begun ;
It was April again, when the hunting was done ;
The snows of four winters and four summers' green
Lay red-streaked and trodden and blighted between.
Then the monster stretched all his grim length on
the
His life-blood wasground;
wasting from many a wound;
Ferocious and gory and snarling he lay,
Amid heaps of the whitening bones of his prey.
Then up spoke the slow eldest son, and he said,
"An he needs now is just to he fostered and fed !
Give over the strife! Brothers, put up the knife!
We will tame him, reclaim him, but not take his
QIN
Bur the farmer flung hack the false words In his face ;
•' He Is none of my race, who gives counsel so base!
Now let loose the hound I" And the bound was nn.
bound
And Mtn lightning the heart of the bolter be hutuel.
"Bo rapine and treason forever shall cease I"
And they wash the stained fleece of the pale lamb of
Peace;
When lo! a strong angel stands winged and white
In a wonderful raiment of ravishing light
Peace Is raised from the dead I In the radiance shed
By the halo of glory that ebbe' round her head,
Fair =dens shall bloom where the black jungle
grew,
And all the glad valley shell bloraom anew!
[Atlantic Alonthist.
FAST DAY SERMON.
Preachy' in Monts.,, Jun. Ist, 1865, by Rev. Z. 0
Itistor Val Presbyterian Church.
MONTROSB, June sth 1855.
Bev. 1. G. /Mr:
.. . . .. . . .
Damn Sin:—Believing your sermon
delivered at the Union Meeting here on Fast Day.
June Ist, was of such general interest and ability as
to be worthy of publication, we respectfully so li cit a
copy thereof from you for that purpose.
Truly yours, &c..,
L F. Fitch, B. B. Bentley, jr.,
F. B. Streeter, George V. Bentley,
A. Chamberlin, F. B. Chandler,
G. B. Eldred, J. B. Dewitt,
E. M. Turner, W. H. Jessup,
W. J. Mulford, B. R. Lyons,
J. Lyons, ,
Calvin C. Halsey, B. Langdon,
Joel D. Lyons,
C. F. Read, J. P. W. Riley.
Mormon, June 6,1865.
Messrs. Fitch, Streeter, Chamberlin and others:
Your request for the publication of my sermon
preached Fast Day, the lit lust., is before me. If in
a printed form it can promote any good, It Is at your
disputed. Yours reipmtfa,
J. y G. MILLgR.
We are inclined on this day to /select as exclusive
themes the life and tragic death of our late Chief
Magistrate. But so fay has his character been al
ready exhibited, and so amply the lessons drawn
from his aasaaslnatbsn been set forth, that I think I
can now most profitably address you concerning the
sanctity of our government ; the perils through which
we have passed; the rebellion we have s ubdued;
and the duties of the hour. Accordingly I select for
my text these wools :
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For
there is no per but of God :_thefiowers that be are nr
dvinedqf God. Whosoever thaVOre mit:Seth the ,
rearteth the ordinance of Gcd, and they that*ha
tredve to Chemed= daornation.—ltme. 1341,2.
The term powers in the text is synonymous with
civil government. In the day of Paul, no less than at
this day, civil government Involved important ques
tions. Enactments favoring idolatry. were then Inter
woven with the civil institutions of the empire. And
turning from idolatry the church might be disposed
to ignore all the laws of the Mahn. Paul noticed
the attitude which Jew and Gentile christalms were
In dmiger of taking toWards , their government.
Therefore as en inspired maree-as a man divinely
commtraloncd—he enjoined upon them the duty of
obedience to "the powers that be." True, U a re
quisition from the civil powers were plainly In eon
diet with a mandate from heaven, the latter alone
must be herded. But these conflicts were to be
considered of rare occurrence, while the civil gov
ernment was to be respected as a general rule with
entire loyalty. The tut was thus uttered as a com
prehensive and imperative command: a, command
designed not only for those to whom it was first ad
dressed, but for all men in all a,ges. And so regard
ing it we notice that it Involves this proposition :
lst Mra Goverwasentim adivine This
truth cannot be too freqiumtly Considered, nor be
settoo profoundly among our conviction&
This proposition is sustained by the Inspired word,
and by the constitution of man. The proof derived
from either is conclusive; but'wben deduced from
both it la Irresistible. in the scriptures we mark
this emphatic declaration: "Foy there Is no power
but of God." The teaching' of this passage to not
that God designates, this or that man to be a ruler,
or a magistrate ; or that he approves of all the deeds
of civil of:Seers; but that civil government, Ind the
civil magiatmey, as geners3 institutions, are of his
anisining. The process whercky .tic brings these
Institutions Into existence,-He does note
the text with our ey e npret the words " There
Ls .o power bat or God," Ire are Inevitably com
pelled to the belief that He is as really the founder
of the State and Its coda as of the tamely and the
church. But this doctrine does not rest upon one
scriptural :support merely. It receives emiflonatlon
from various parts (4 the sacred volume. Are
.. laws
enacted the the control at ety ? osseous
must be chosen Natick K a to =em u,
their unctions. And those persons are termed the
ministers of God, because they have the care otthat
which emanates from .his ordhwnce. Again, are
men commanded to', cern , what axe termed human
laws? It is because;these Uri are to be viewed as
coming form the MOstlilait; as ' stamped with di
vine authority, and ids arab& with divine approba
tion. " Vilutorwer:reOtetti.,the power, reslateth
the ordinance of 0210 d."; .The , script= evidence, of
which much more might Urinated, is then gan
&Liand Hot t o divine In
bation.
Su oft= tad* spda tirooloptentiq
THE JAGUAR HUNT.
"Freedom and Right against Slavery and Wrong."
MONTROSE, SUSQ. CO., PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1865.
be gathered from the constitution of man. Man was
made for society. His nature as obviously reveals
this as the structure of the hand evinces Its design.
The fanaticism, the delusion, the gloom of the re
cluse are witnesses of hie antagonism to the native
Impulses of his being. AU men have,vital forces With
in the soul that tend as naturally to bind them Into
organised society, as the affinities In a rock to unite
its elements in a solid mass. But ta really as man's
nature compels him to be social, so really does it
compel him to enact laws. Each person has choice.,
and is disposed to gain the ends of his choice.. No
one however can secure all he desires without en
croaching upon the rights of others. if there be no
just restraints there must be fierce clashing of wills
and acts. Society must be the sphere of warring ele
ments. Hence the need of definite laws for regu
lating and harmonizing social action. A. the rail
way is indispensable for the safe progress of the
train, aci is established law for the concordant and
right movement of associated humanity. But these
laws are the essence of civil government Civil
government Is therefore the inevitable outgrowth
of the social state; and as this state was as evidently
ordained by the Creator for man as the earth was,
the conclusion Is obvious from human nature that
civil government is a divine institution.
Under the general proposition before us, we may
legitimately claim a sacredness for our government.
Nay, more, its sanctity proven It id fit that we here
glance at its grandeur and benignity. Prior to the
rebellion how few justly estimated the value of our
Institutions. True, we often uttered patriotic words ;
often extolled our laws, our freedom, our blessings,
our greatness, and our eagle. But was not this
speech as heartless as It was landing ? Passages that
once came from an orator's tongue dense with
meaning and glowing with fevor, are often declaim
ed at school with only a vague perception of their
sense. Thus has much of our speech in behalf of
country and national privileges been mere declama
tion. But we have reached a;I: l y when everything
relating to our nation has ael deface ; a day de
manding patriotism, nerve, • ucerity ; a day bidding
us .anises the worth of a heritage bequeathed by
a noble and heroic ancestry.
The common law Is our special inheritance. A
recognition of the personality and dignity of man ;
an acknowledgment of his rights as an individual,
and as a member of society; a restraint over the few
that they assume no powers to the detrhnent of the
many, are among the vital elements of the " coru•
mon law." This law exists in all nations that have
any rational development. True, among one people
It is as gold mingled with dross, while among an
other people it is as gold well refined. Where this
law had its birth none can tell ; history recognizes
it,bnt does not tlx upon the date of its origin. It has
come down the ages amid conflicts and revolutions,
grovin more and more exte mire and definite as ages
and conflicts have passed. In the history of Britain
It appears first as a germ which has forced itself up
through the encroachments of kings until It has be
come as a goodly tree. Transplanted to this country
It has struck its roots down deeper and reared it
self In far more ample proportions than in the mother
country. Its principles are wrought Into the whole
texture of our Declaration of Independence; its
spirit pervade' , our national constitution as life a
robust body. Thus it is that our form of govern
ment for as intelligent and virtuous people Is the
best on the globe. Inspired by our bentemsnt gov
ernment we had attained when the rebellion struck
us an unparalleled prosperity. Thriving agriculture
had made rigorous New England smile, and was
tnrning the West and the South into the likeness of
Eden. Our sacceasful manufactories were humming
in many a valley, and our numerous ships traversing
every sea. Oar cities were throbbing with bug•
ness, like great hearts, and sending influences of en•
terprise to the remotest extremities of the land.
schools, and churches were gleaming like
gems on every hand. Intelligence and comfort
were blessings as common as the lite-sustaining air.
Indeed such privileges as this nation enjoyed prior
to our civil war, myralds of Great Britain would re
joice to share. For such privileges France has
struggled and Germany been rocked. Such privi
leges given to-day to the nations of Europe would
constitute for them &glorious epoch. Taking a sur
ver of our unprecedented prosperity, we could
have justly given utterance to our Impressions In the
elevated and antmoed strain of the Psalmist, " Hap
py 15 EMU pcupls that b lu such a case."
Such a government as ours—a government which
we are confident was erected according to the will
of God—malignant rebels assailed with alt their
power to demolish it. This fact leads as to notice
the 2d point involved in the text, viz., Rzsistanre to
civil government is Ireasonabk, rulpaide, and sin against
God.
" Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resist
eth the ordinance of God." This Is the biblical de
claration and doctrine. A violation of the family
relation is wrong, because the Lord founded it.
But the family Is no more His institution than civil
government. Hence to rebel against the latter
must be as criminal as to encroach noon the former.
Rebellion is an assault upon an ordinance of God,
and therefore sin.
There may be occasions, we admit, when oppo
sition to government, and revolt are Justifiable It
is thus when the demands of kings or legislation are
In conflict with the will of God. Had Nero bidden
his el:AM:boa subjects worship idols, their attitude
toward the mandate would have been right In retail
ing obedience. The memorable words of Peter
when standing before the fierce Jewish council were
right "We ought to obey God rather than man."
Martyr fires have often been witnesses for Justice,
while the throne and the parliament have stood con
demned before Heaven. Again, there may be un
constitutional legislation from which flagrant evils
may spring, and from which by resistance there
may be an escape. if there he no constitutional re
dress then revolt is legitimate_ Other exceptions
might be enumerated. Bat these exceptions In civ
ilized lands are-rare. They are only as spots nn the
sun. In our own land they have never occurred.
There has sometimes, we allow, been loerpedlent
legislation; and sometimes comfit hands have got
ten a little too deep into the treasury. These are
evils; however, which can be remedied by votes
rather than by wrecking oar civil fabric.
But without just provocation, the Vice-President
of the defunct confederacy being witness, a portion
of the people of this land attempted four years ago
to cast off their true allegiance, and Inaugurated a
nefarious project for the destruction of the nation.
To consummate that project they marshaled vast
armies to strike a sudden and stunning blow; they
sent pirates upon the seas to destroy our commerce;
they instigated miscreants to lire our cities, and to
let loose upon us a malignant plague; they violated
the dead bodies of our soldiers, and systematically
starved the living to death. And had they succeeded,
oh, how dark this bond The death-knell of our
government with all its hallowed Immunities, would
now be doleful In all the land. The citadel in which
we have ever felt secure; in which we have rejoiced
together with a sense of sacred freedom; and which
we have Crowned with the star-spangled banner,
would now be leveled to the ground. Hardly one
stone now be left upon another. Some may have
entertained the idea that two independent nations
could co-exist where one had flourished. But such
an idea is delusive. Across the Niagara River is
thrown the suspension bridge. It is a grand and
substantial structure. Though thousands of tons
pass over it daily, It is as unyielding as the rocks
from which it Is hung. But sever that structure !
Will the parts retain their places ? Will either half
hold Its original position ? The moment cf the rup
ture the whole is precipitated a wreck in the chasm
b e l ow . From this as a type let us learn the fate of
this !nubilc had the contest Just ended sundered
the bonds of our government. But the mere over
throw of our government would not have been the
consummation of the terrific result had rebels tri
umphed. Anarchy must have followed. Anarchy
simply denotes a community having no law. But
as a fact in history It has a much broader meaning.
As a fact in history It has a dread significance. It
Indicates a state of society where authority is
subverted, and passion Is rampant and dominant
over the reason. There tempest meets tempest.
There men as demons rush upon one another with
drawn swords. Property, We, all things held dear
and sacred there become profane and stained with
blood. Peaceful nerightorhoods are changed into
habitations of cruelty. When the States General of
France assembled, May 7th, 1789, they did not fore
see the Issue of their turbulent beginning. The
better part designed to make only a few reforms.
But the end of their ominous beginning was the tarn
bag of Paris into a perdition, the transforming of
men Into Sends , and the sacrificing of human life In
hecatombs. The Reign of Terror would have been
re-enacted throughout all this land, had rebellion
rent this Union.
Verily, though the rebellion has passed away, yet
we tremble at a thought of what an Infinite damage
It might have wrought. And understanding the
aim of the plata and deeds of rebels—that It was to
subvert the best government under the sun; a gov
ernment which God had erected by choice Instru
mentalities; how shall we characterize their dire
work? Its birth place was the pit ; its inspirations
satanic; it was treason the blackest; It was sin
against God.
girt there is a 111 point fnuriaed in the tar, it la that
oppork ton to civil sarearnmeat dames punishment.
- ulind they that resist shall receive to themselves
damnation," Is the last clause of the text; and the
exposition b not difficult. If any law be violated It is
the duty of magistrates within whose jurisdiction the
violation occurs to Inflict the penalty due thecrime.
And If revolt or treason breakout in the fitate,it is the
duty of the State, to the extent of its power to crush
the • rebellion , and to lay the weight of its strong
Arm upon the scions. Punishment must be meted
out to traitors it has been meted out In part to the
rebels of this land. -God has frowned upon them.
and their retribution ban already been terrible. The
Loid.
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wrotos - vernment.
Vect4 nerved til laetei dru g
ago
ng , „indgments among those who "rase up against
us.
Prior to the outbreak of the rebellion, State gov
ernment at the South moved on as regularly as the
General Government Elections were held without
Interference ; chosen men assumed their offices with
out restraint; legislation proceeded without Idn
domes ; the whole social and civil fabric seemed
substantial; founded upon a rock. But that fabric
le now an utter ruin. It Is as If an earthquake had
given mighty throes in quick succession, and hurled
everything from its place. Shivered columns and
broken capitals strew the ground.
The people of the South bad also accepted,fostered,
and guarded as the "apple of the eye,"a peculiar
institution. This was deemed the ainspring of
their prosperity. Indeed when engaged in the pro
fane attempt to erect their confederacy, did they not
announce to the world that they were about to In
augurate the most wonderful thing underthe sun,—
a model government,—a government whose trans
cendent prosperity should be drawn from the toll of
bondmen and houdwomen ? But where now the pc
culler institution? Extinct! forever extinct I By
the flat of God, uttered by our slain President, and
axe/sated by stalwart battalions, slaves have be
come freedmen. They greet the day for which they
have long sighed and prayed:, the! , year of Jubilee
has come. Prior to the rebehlon there were thriv
ing and elegant citlea at the South. In them were
the abodes of opulent and proud men, who thought
themselves elevated degrees above the people of the
North. And, the confederacy established, each city
It was expected would become an emporium In
which the commerce of the world wredd pour un
told treasures of wealth. Gold would gleam from
every window, and the streets become tumultuous
with business, while in Northern cities windows
would be ahattered, and grass grow la the streets.
How megniticent the prospect depleted by the
Southern Imagination. But dnruter assailed, a shad
ow at length begun to rest upon the gorgeous pros
pect ; It proved the shadow of a wrathful storm.
Upon some of the rebellious cities shot and shell, as
destructive as boils from heaven, have been hurled ;
others have had the 'kart burned out ; others have
been unavoidably mutilated almost beyond repair
by the occupancy of soldiers. Alas I many of the
proud cities of the South have become as Tyre. If
northern energy and enterprise do not rebuild them,
they shall become, in part, homes for outcasts,—
places for the hooting of owls. And as the cities,
so have nearly all internal Improvements, so nearly
the whole land fared. They who have been as
princes, and said, " We deli never be moved," are
nowbeggars; Grey who were money-changers,
now resort to the depots where our Government
Krantz charitics that they may not starve. Ott, how
have the mighty fallen! And then where are those
fiery young men, the constituents of that chivalry,
who seemed expert horsemen by nature, and whom
the dexterous use of the howie-knife and pistol, of
the sword and title, fitted for soldiers rather than
for noble workmen? AU Ile In dishonored graves
to which their infatuation drove them. Indeed, In
all that region where rebels were once defiant and
sanguine, want and desolation, a dread brotherhood,
reign well nigh supreme. And all these disasters
constitute a terrific retribution brought on by trea
son. The sturdy and sacs.-salve blows of Union
soldiers have struck traitors to the earth ; and then,
maddened by their discomfiture, traitors themselves
have aggravated their own ruin. By their own hands
has the contharntion been sent on its revel through
their cities; by their own hands has their King
Cotton been turned to ashes ; by their own hands
have millions of property been scattered to the
whirlwind. Like a cornered rattlesnake, the cor
nered serpent of treason has again and again thrust
his poisonous fangs into his own vile body.
But at what a cost has rebellion been crushet, and
retribution thus far been inflicted. True, a marvel
mis prosperity has been maintained in the loyal
North during the peat four pears of conflict. But no
thanks to rebels tor. it. It has been vouchsafed
by the munificent hand of the Almighty. Ile has
showered it down from the skies, and caused It to
spring in abundance from the earth. It will ever
stand out in our history as andracle. For it, thanks
giving should leap from every heart and employ
every tongue. Ilad it not been for this prosperity,
our burdens of war would have crushed us; and it
Is the hope or Ito cootie eassee,tn.at excites the cheer
tug sapectstlon of liquidating our vast dObt before
the close of the century.
But our two hundred and forty thousand brave
men cut off by war ! naught can restore them to
their country and their homes. Wailing mingles
at this hour with songs of triumph. On a hundred
battle-fields, and around the Golgothas of Salisbury
and Andersonville, the graves of our heroes are
crowded.
And solemnly reflecting upon the infinite expen
diture of treasure and blood at which the rebellion
has been crushed, and also upon the aim of the Reb
el chiefs to grind us to powder betwixt the upper
and nether millstones of theirparrogariee and tyran
ny, the momentous question confronts us, shall ret
ribution toward the South now be arrested, or shall
it proceed? The response quite unanimous is, let
It proceed. The interest of the nation, and the
eternal principles of justice, demand that we yet
put our hand to a work that shall unite with the be
nignity of our government a rigor before which trea
son will never again dare so much as peep. To ar
rest retribution now, and proclaim a general =nas
ty would enervate the whole body politic. A vio
lent storm of thunder and lightning is often more
effective than sunshine in clearing the air of pesti
lence and the thunder and lightning of justice at
this time will more thoroughly than the sunshine of
sentimental philanthropy rid our political atmos
phere ot the miasma of treason.
A programme for the future penal dealltu;:vrith the
South is thus laid down by one of the ablest minds
of our land: "I would," writes he, "first extend a
generous and liberal amnesty to the masses of the
mceonntsciltiupoonntttet
basis
o -e a o t r zo n n iz te e
ge o g l lte wi g th or t e h rn e
loyalty, discarding traitors, and abandoning slavery.
Next I would divide the responsible leaders into
three classes The first and the smallest, and of
which Jefferson Davis la the conspicuous example,
I would hang; the second and larger class I would
expatriate ; the third and still larger class I would
totally disfranchise." This programme has evidently
the ring of severity. But Great Britain, France, or
flay other European nation would, In circumstances
like ours, adopt it to the letter. We imprison rob
, bers and hang murderers. Bat what are Jefferson
Davis and his infernal coadjutors but robbers and
murderers the vilest? Severe though this programme
be, the loyal people of fhb country are ready with
scarce an exception to catty It out, and the [tamest
nation of our late and beloved President has brought
us up to this grand hight of justice_
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln at first hor
rified us. Every eye wept, every heart was consci
ous of a pang. At first we could not be reconciled
to the astounding providence. But at length we he
gen to understand the mauling. Jubilant because
of the success of our arms ; jubilant because the sun
of peace had shot up fulhorbed in the heavens, we
were on the eve of overlooking the gigantic crime;
of even art Rebels, of assenting toe general pardon,
of forgetting the spirit that for four years had hurl
ed a war against us never surpassed in hate and atro
city. But the shot that slew our chief, revealed the
spirit ot rebellion to all its hideousness and viru
lence, aroused our subsiding sense of justice, and
vividly set before us our remaining duties respect
ing insurgents—respecting insurgent leaders espec
ially. Nay, more, to fulfill all our duties here, un
ion was requisite; and this union was wrought, was
compacted and solidified, by the profound, vehe
ment, and common sympathy excited by the murder
of the President. Yea, that murder was beyond
question permitted by him who ordaineth all things,
to arouse this nation to heed the greatest duty of
the hour—the meting out of just retribution to arch-
Rebels.
But other and intricate duties which the points we
have considered legitimately permit us to notice,
are now devolving upon this nation. Reconstruc
tion is to be undertaken in the States which were
lately arenas of insurrection. Loyal hearts are to be
separated from recreant souls; pore hands from
hands polluted. The tree men who have not bowed
the knee to the Baal of Secession, and who exult at
the ddwnfall of the monster, are to be defended and
aided In laying anew the foundations of order and
erecting States. The masses of the South, who,
though in the majority, have been the abject classes,
are to be elevated. he free school and the church
that shall join hands with genuine liberty, are to be
the chief instrumentalities, ender God, for exalting
the poor whites and freedmen, and qualifying them
to wield the, power that ofignrchs alone have swayed.
Let us then; as Patriots and Philanthropists, Intro
duce these initrumentalities in the South as soon as
possible, and clothe them with efficiency. Again,
shall neroes be entrusted with the ballot? This is
now a prime question squarely facing us. And
what is the reply from the nation f. Had it not been
for the vial& of the negmx.s, we should still be in
the ordeal afire. The aim of their rifles and the
thrust of their sabers have again and again sent car
nage and consternation Into the ranks of the rebels,
and, meanwhile, contribnted materially to the
achievements of our cram. In the light of these facts,
what response has the nation to give to the question.
Shall the vote be allowed men ot African blood!, In
my opinion 4t should be, that the elective franchble
should be granted to negroes upon the same condi
tions that It is granted to white men. Bald Butler,
" I would not ask a man to fight for my country to
whom I would not, on the fame grounds that I vote,
accord the privilege of voting." The saying is just.
Are the great questions 01 the hour euvlroned with
difficulty So are all great questions. It hathbeeu
so repeatedly, during oar civil war. It was thus In
the formation of onr constitution. But " irony man
lack wilder:O, let him ask of God, t.. RiVetb to an
men liberally and npbraideth not, seal t Ana be
CO= hlto.!1 .atnd how fit that tip Along on_lkta
OW, ail h•Mete.h. leek the guldaft- of et
High In our national affairs. Thus did Abraham
Lincoln. Ha feared God, and, daily bowing the
knee before him, invoked the light of His connte.
nano and the lead of Ms counML His last loan-
gnml evinced his wontto look upward for direction.
That document should be set in letters of diamond
upon a page of anent gold, should he given the moat
completions place In our national Capitol, sad be
preserved a sacred memorial to all our coming his
tory. Every word of that document Is a revelation
that its author bad borne great burdens, and been
sustained only because, like the Ancient Patriarch,
ho had wrestled with the Lord. Hence It was that
his policy was wise, that he drew all loyal hearts '
to him that he led ns triumphantly from the Red •
Bea to the verge of Canaan. Abraham Lincoln had
a mission ; he fulfiller:lit relying upon the Almighty
armor; and then was translated, as many of God's
beat men have been translated, with the honors of
martyrdom, to the glories of Heaven. Abraham
Lincoln, we say, is dead! But he is not dead! In
this Republic his spirit will ever live, and his name !
ever he uttered with etneration and love. Ills body
bas been entombed 'thi a broad prairie of the west, a
symbol of his expanded heart. Thither myriads
will henceforth resort, and confess,—Hero lies the
mortal part of a christian Patriot and President,
a peer ot the greatest and best men of time, a
chief savior of his nation In its darkest h ou r; when
he fell the whole civilized world mourned ; his fame
the civilized world will perpetuate
Lot us fear God as our departed President did,
and he will help us In every need. He will give us
wisdom to solve all intricate problems of state, will
elevate the valleys, or depress the hills, that all rough
plums may be smooth.
The hour of Nerve has come. Never before was It
so dear, never before so appreciated as a boon
from Heaven. As it thrills us with gildloo/14 almost
unutterable, let gratitude unite with our bumble
supplicatians. Lot us rejoice that our government
has not been found wanting in the day of trial, that
It has withstood the most stupendous of all civil wars
—the most dangerous of all ware. Let us be thank
ful that by the logic of bullet and bayonet, secession
bas received an eternal refutation, and that, although
In its dying agony It slays our civil bead, It cannot
vacate the presidential chair. Let ns be thankful
that God has raised ups man eminently fitted for
the place of the one smitten down ; and while our
hearts encircle the tomb of Lincoln, let them also
receive Johnson in their ample embrace. Let us
confide in him, support him, pray for him, and he
shall be qualified to meet all the vast responsibilites
devolved npon him by the nation.
It It my steadfast conviction that this nation is to
live, and occupy the entire domain which it claims.
Peace returned, we may become vain, and land our
selves rather than God. If so, then rigorous chas
tisement will he repeated until we learn that the
proverb of the viler man, " righteousness exalteth
nation," is to be supremely recognized in the elate.
Let us indiviiinally,collectively. work In the spirit of
this proverb, let righteousness mark our voting, our
political opinions, and our national affairs; then
shall chastisement be averted, and we be exalted.
When I contemplate oar future, I have pia- words
to express my conception of our approaching great
ness, if we be loyal to God. What Immeasurable re
sources are ours ,• what aritoundlag poesibilites Mr ;
fore M. The Almighty bath deposited almost le/
exhaustible beds of coal for us, and poured untold
treasures of gold and silver in ours mines; He has
rendered nearly our entire soil as fertile as a garden,
and reared nor granite mountains; Ho has con
structed basins for our lakes, and wrought courses
for nor rivers; He has given us the ocean for boun
daries on the cast and on the west ; in short, He hair
made our agricultural and mineral resources, and
facilities for commerce and manufacture well nigh
boundless. Let foreign States discard ns, we can
take care of ourselves; let them be in want, we can
supply their needs ; Let them meal' us, we can re
pel them with our right arms, and make their blows
resod upon themselves like shot rebounding from a
rampart of solid stmt. Nay, more, upon the ground
of valid data we may predict that this nation will
number 60,0130,000, within a score of yearn. In two
score years it will doubtless increase to 100,000,000.
Mark, within the lifetime of many who hear me to
day, if we be not shamefully, sinfully recreant to
our trust, and stone blind to our national interests,
100,000,000 of people will be banded together under
0111 L. au. 100,000,000,
cleansed from leprosy of slavery, rendered intelli
gent by our schools, virtuons by our pure
and aided by the help of science. develop the vast
resources of our land : and what dignity must crown
them, what strength nerve them, what prosperity
be their boon.
"In God we trust," is the new and sublime motto
enstamped upon our coin. Let our hearts accord
with this motto as we emulate the lives of Washing
ton and Lincoln, of all worthy men, and we shall in
due time discover that the Lord bath said concern
ing us : " This people have I formed for myself ;
they shall 'thew forth my praise."
HOW RICIIIMORD WAS TAxEri.
The following extract le from an article on Gen
eral Grant's last campaign In the Atlantic ilogsthly
for June:
The appointment of Gen. Grant to the command
of all the armies was not only the beginning of a new
regime, btit. the adoption of a new idea—that Lee's
army was the objective point,rather than the city of
Richmond,
" The power of the rebellion lies In the rebel ar
my" said General Grant to the writer one evening
inJune last. We had been conversing upon Fort
DoneLson and Pittsburg Landing. One by one his
staff officers dropped off to their own tents, and we
were alone. It was a quiet, starlit night. The
Lieutenant-General was enjoying his fragrant Ha
vana cigar, and was in a mood for conversation, not
upon what; he was going to do, but upon what had
been done, He Is always wisely reticent upon the
present and future, but agreeably communicative
upon what has passed into history.
'1 have loot a good many men since the army
loft the Rapidan, but there was no help for it. The
rebel army must be destroyed before we can put
down the rebellion," he continued.
There was a disposition at that time on the part
of the disloyal press of the North to bring Gen.
Grant into bad odor. He was called " The Butch.
or." Everi some Republican Congressmen were
ready to demand his removal. General Grant allud
ed to it and said :
"God knows I don't want to see men slaughter.
ed ; but we have appealed to arms, and we have got
to tight It out."
He had already given public utterance to the ex
pression :—" I Intend to fight it out on this line, it
it takes all, summer."
Referring to the successive flank movements
which ha d been made, from the Rapidan to the
Wilderness, to Spottaylvimia, to the North Anna, to
the Chlckshominy, to Petersburg, he said:
" My object has been to get between Lee and his
southern communications."
At the time the Weldon road wan in the hands of
the enemy, and Early was on a march down the
Valley, towards Washington. This movement was
designed to frighten Grant and send him back by
steamer to defend the capital ; but the Sixth Corp.
only was sent, while the troops remaining still kept
pruning on in a series of flank movements, which
resulted In the seizure of the Weldon road. That
was the most damaging blow which Lee had receiv
ed. He made desperate efforts to recover what bad
been lost but in vain. It was the beginning of the
end. Then the pahlic generally could see the
meaning of General Grant's strategy—that the
Wildnemess, f , loottsylvania, and all the terrible bat
tles which had been fought, were according to a
plan, which, if carried out, must end in victory.—
The Richmond newspapers, which had ridiculed the
campaign, and found echo In the disloyal pulse
of the North, began to discuss the question of sup
plies; and to keep their courage up, they indulged
le boastful declarations that the Bouthside railroad
could never be taken.
The march of Sherman from Atlanta to Savannah
and through South Carolin i k4oying railroads
and supplies, the taking of n, liheridan'a
movement from Winchester up t e Valley of the
Shenandoah, striking the James River Canal and the
Central Railroad„ and then the transfer of his whole
force from the white House to the left flank of the
Army of the Potomac, were parts of a well matured
design to weaken Lee's arm,y.
Everything was ready for the final blow. The for
ces of General Grant were disposed as follows:
The Army of the James,composed of the Twenty-
Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Corps, and commanded
by General Ord, was north of the James River, its
right
flank resting on the old battle- ma d
of GThe
dale, and and Ito left flank on the Appomattox.
d
Ninth Army Corps, the right wing of the Army of
the Potomac, was next in line, then the Sixth, and
then then the Second, its , rear of t
on Hatcheea
Run. Tho Filth was in rear of the Second. The
line thus held was nearly forty miles In length, de
fended on the front and rear by strong earthworks
and &batik
Gen. Grant's entire force could not have been
much less than a hundred and thirty thousand, in
cluding litheridan's cavalry, the force at city poin,
and the provisional brigade at Fort Powhistan.—
Lee's whole force was not far from seventy thou
and, or seventy•flve thousand, Including the militia
of Eftichtoond and Petersburg; but he was upon the
defence, and held an interior and shorter line.
The work which Gen. Grant had In hand was the
seizure of the Southeide Railroad by enure d of
hls left flank. Re had attempted i with the
Fifth Corps, at Datiney'a Mill, and had failed ; but
that, attem had been of vista);
_he had gained 4
knOwledge of the country. His engineers had map.
pod it, the roads,the streams, the houses. The tight
at Matins , a Mill was a random stroke, a "feeling of
On;'..te,tute kiroAcpmgiqs., lh t elintpa,
it lea ta Or= 'ffeß pelt -of
62.00 'per intnunn, in advance.
Lee's lines. To comprehend the movement. It
necessary to understand the geographical and tope
graphleal features of the country, which are soma;
what peculiar. Hatcher's run la a hnstich of thti
Nottossny River, which has Its rise In a 'swamp
about four miles from the Appomattox and twenty
southwest of Petershnrg. The Southside Railroad
rune southwest from Petersburg, along the ridge of
land between the Appomattox and the head-waters
of the Nottoway, protected by the swamp of Hatch
er's Run and by the swamp of Stony creek, another
tributary to the Nottoway.
The point aimed at by Gen. Grant is known as
the " Five Forks," a place where flea roads meet,on
the table-land between the bead-waters oil:Lachesis
Run and Stony Creek. It was the most accessible
gate-way leading to the railroad. If he could break
through at that point, be would turn Lee's flank.
deprive hint of the protection of the swamps, use
them for his own cover, and seize the railroad
To take the Five Forks was to take all; for the
long and terrible conflict had become so shorn of its
outside proportions, co reduced to simple elements,
that, it Lee lost that position, all was lost—Peterc
burg, Richmond, his army, and the Confederacy.
Surprise is expressed that the rebellion went
down so suddenly, in a night, at one blow, toppl
ing over like a child's house of cards, Imposing to
look upon, yet of very little substance; but the
calculations of Gen. first wore to give a finishing
itroke. •
If, by maiming the main body of his troops upon
the extreme left of his line, be succeeded in carry
ing the position of the Five Forks, it would compel
Lee to evacuate Richmond. Lee's line of retreat
mast necessarily be towards Danville; but Grant, at
the Five Forks, would be nearer Danville by sever
al miles than PN3 and he would thus, instead of
the exterior Übe, ' have the Interior, with the power
to push Lee at every step farther from his direct line
of retreat. That Grant saw all this, and executed
his plan, is evidence of great military ability. The
plan involved not merely the carrying of the Flee
Forks, but great activity afterwards. The capture
of Lee was a forethought, not an afterthought
" Commissaries will prepare twelve dayerrations,"
was his order, which meant a long march, and the
annihilation of Lee's army. An ordinary command
er might have been satisfied with merely breaking
down the door, and seizing the railroad, knowing
that it would be the beginning of dissolution to the
Rebel army; but Grant's part went farther, the
routing of the burglar from his house, and dis
patching him on the snot. Perhaps Lee saw what
the end would be, and he did the best he could with
his troops; but inasmuch as he did not issue the or.
der for the transfer of a division from Richmond to
the fiontbside till Saturday night, after the Five
Forks were lost,it may be presumed that he did not
fully comprehend the Importance of holding that
gateway. If he bad seen that Richmond must be
eventually evacuated, be might have saved his army
by a sudden withdrawal from both Richmond and
Petersburg on Friday night, pushing down the
Sontbside'Road, and throwing his whole force on
Sheridan and the Fifth Corps, which would enable
him to reach Danville. Not doing that, he lost all.
It is not Intended in this article to give the details
of the attack at the Five Forks and along the line,
but merely to show how the focres were wielded In
that last magnificent, annihilating blow.
On the 2.3 th of March the Twenty-Fourth Corps
was transferred from the north side of the James to
Hatcher's Run, taking the position of the Second
Corps.
The force designed for the attack upon the Five
Forks was composed of the Fifth Corps and Sheri
dan's cavalry, the whole under the command of
Sheridan. The Second Corps was massed across
Hatcher's Run, and kept in position to frustrate any
attempt that might be made to cut Sheridan off
from the support of the main army.
Sheridan found a large force in front of him along
Chamberlain's Creek, 3 miles west of Dinwiddir
Court House. He had hard fighting, and was re
pulsed. There was want of co-operation on the
Part of Warren, commanding the Fifth Corps, who
was relieved of his command the next morning,
Gen. Griffin succeeding hint. A heavy rain-storm
came on, wagons went hub-deep in the mud. The
swamps were overflowed. The army came to a
' The soldiers were without tents.—
Thousands bad thrown away their blankets. There
camp
pod dlsoonertt, -4Amarerghout tho
camp. Bat all the axes. and abovels were brought
into requisition, and the men went to work build
' log corduroy roads. It was much better for the
morale of the army than to sit by bivouac-fires wait
ing for sunny sides. The week passed away. The
Richmond papers were confident and boastful of fi
nal success.
" We are very hopeful of the campaign which is
opening, and trust we are to reap a large advantage
-from the operations evidently near at hand. *
* * We have only to resolve never to surrender,
and It will be impossible that we shall ever be ta
ken," said the Senti.el, In its issue of Saturday
morning, April Ist, the last paper ever lamed from
that office. The editor was not aware of the fact,
that on Friday evening, while he was penning this
ph, Sheridan was bursting open the door at
paragraph,
e7Porks and bad the rebellion by the throat.—
Lee attempted to retrieve the disaster on Saturday
by depleting his left and centre to reinforce his
right. Then came the order from Grant, " attack
vigorously all along the line." Flow splendidly it
was executed The Ninth, the Sixth, the Second.
and the Twenty-Fourth Corps all went ttuntning In
upon the enemy's works, like breakers upon the
beach, tearing away efteraux de frise, rushing into
the ditches, sweeping over the embankments, and
dashed through the embrasures of the forts. In an
hour the C. S. A.—the Confederate Slave Argosy—
the Ship of State launched but four years ago,wbich
went proudly sailing, with the death's head and
cross-bones at her truck, on a cruise against civill
ration and Christianity, hailed as a rightful belliger
ent, furnished with gnus, ammunition, provisions,
and all needful supplies by England and France,
was thrown a helpless wreck upon the shores of
Time-
[Front the Philadelphia Gazette.)
TIE FIRST PLOT TO ASSASSINATE P 13121-
DENT LIHOOLIL
The murder of Mr. Lincoln, more than four years
after his induction Into the office of President of the
United States, is not the fulfilment of a recent in
tention, nor is the guilt of it confined to the actual
murderer and present actiVe accomplices'. Soon af
ter the first election of M. Lincoln, a plot was ma
tured for his assaaaination,which was vaguely rumor
ed at the time of its intended execution, but which
was never exposed in any formal manner, and hence
never obtained general credence. As we are In pos
session of some of Its outlines, and the means by
which It was defeated, the mention of the circum
stances may now be received with a degree of inter
est which they could not heretofore have excited.—
It is proper to say that we state them substantially
as they were reported some time ago, by a gentle-
Man who was chiefly instrumental in defeating the
conspiracy. Ills communication was made in the
course of a private conversation, and, although with
out any injunction to secretly, yet as he is not at
present in this city, and his permission therefore
cannot at once bo obtained to use his own or other
names In this publication, we make it In such guard.
ed form as may involve no breach of presumed con
fidence.
In the month of January, IS% a gentleman hold
ing a position in this city, which made him a proper
agent to act on the information, was waited up
on by a lady, who stated to him her suspicions
or knowledge—whence derived A , A are not able to
say—of a plot to assassinate Mr. Lincoln when on
his way from his home in Illinois to Washington, to
be inaugurated as Preaident The active parties, or
some of them, in the business, ware understood to
be In Baltimore. At all events, the gentleman con
sidered the intelligence had sufficient foundation to
make it his duty to satisfy himself whether it might
be correct Ile accordingly employed a detective
officer a man who had in hts profession become no
table ?or his sagacity and 611(V245, to go to Baltimore
and adopt his own course to defeat the parties and
plan of the conspiracy.
The officer weer to Baltimore, and opened an of.
flee as some sort of a broker or agent under an as.
slimed name of coarse. Being supplied with need
ful fonds, he made occasions to become acquainted
with certain classes of secessionists,. and by degrees
was on free and easy terms with them. He took
each man in his humor, dined and suppvl with some,
gambled with others, "treated" and seconded Ms
stpaticms In more ways than may be expressly stat
ed, until be had secured enough of their confidence
to be familiar with the particulars of their scheme.
Meinwhile It had been ascertained on the line
of the Baltimore Railroad that there were men en
gaged in military drilling. Several other detectives
were employed by the chief to diseover the purpose
of those organizations ,• and, disguised as laborers or
farm hands, they got themselves mustered in. One
of the curopanles proved to be loyal in its purpose;
another, under pretence of Whist prepared to guard
one or more of the bridge. north-of , Salim ore, was
designed for quite an opposite purpose.
It will be remembered that some time before Mr.
Lincoln set out flrom his home for Washington, his
intended route thither waiiTmbliehed. A pert of the
programme was that he should visit Has' burg And
Philadelphia. We believe that Mr. Lincoln was not
adviacd especially of any personal danger until he
was about to go to Haritsbarg, and then, at the In.
stance of the gentleman reftrred to, he was urged to
without delay 'to Washington. He re r =d,
rov t4 gi d er, that he had promised the people of
burg to answer their Invitation and be would do so
if It cost him his life. He accordingly visited Hat
rbburg on the W..d of February, 1881. It Was Intend
ed he -
should rest- there thatevening, , Bus Haderr
. 0 ;t , ha maw' eg.
Lgaff i v r /cad
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NEOM:BER 25.
The night train from Philadelphia to : Baltimore
and Washington departs at half peat ten o'clock In
the eveaing. It was determined. that Mr. Lioatalu
should go secretly by that train on the evening of the
22d, and to enable him to do so, a special train was
provided to bring him secretly from Harrisburg to
Philadep After dark, In the former city, when
it was resumed be had retired to his hotel, he le
cording y took this special train, and came to Phila
delphia. Meanwhile, In anticipadon of his coming,
" the ceotleman" had ensured the detention of the
Philadelphia and Baltimore train, under the pre
tence that a parcel of Important d ocuments for one
of the Departments fn Washington must be dis
patched by it, but which might not, be ready Until
after the regular time of thestarting of that train.
By a similar repretentation, the connectingtrain
from Baltimore to Washington was also d eWued.
Owing to the late hour at which the special train left
Harrisburg with Mr. Lincoln It did not, as-wasan
tielpateti, reach this city unti l after the usual Phila
delphia and Baltimore time. Mr. Lincoln was 11s
companted by the officer who had been employed
in Baltimore.. A. formidable bundle of oldialinsad
reports had been made up in the Wilco of the Phila
delphia and Baltimore company, which the eager,
duly instructed, had charge of. On the wind. Of
the Harrisburg train, Mr. Lincoln took a carriage
in waiting, and with his escort was &leen to the
depot at. Broad and Prime streets. Theatres made
some ostentatious bustle, arriving with his parcel
for which the train was detained, and passing
through the depot, entered the cars, Mr. Lincoln In
hie company. As Mr. Lincoln passed through the
gate, the man attending It remerket—"Old - fellow,
It's well for you the train was detained tonight.
or ybu would not have gone In It." No one
the train but the agent of the company and the al
eer knew of Mr. Lincoln being in it. He arse cod.
dneted to a eleeping car, and thus was kept out of
the way of observation.
To guard against any possible communication by
telegraph at this time the circuit was broken, to
be united when it would be safe to do ao. The plan
of the conepimtors was to break or burn one of the
bridges north of Baltimore at the time of Mr. Lin
coln's anticipated approach on the following day;
and in the confusion incident to the stoppage of tft
train, to assassinate him in the cars. Hence the ex
tra precaution, above mentioned, regarding the tele
graph.
In sine time the train with Mr. Lincoln reached
Washington, abd be being safe there, the officer, as
previously instructed, sent a dispatch to the "gen
tlemen " that." the parcel of documents bad been
delivered." The public, and, above all, the con
spirators,swoke on the morning of the :Nth to be as
tonished with the Intelligence that Mr. Lincoln had
arrived In Washington. It may be well to mention
here that the story of his disguise in a "Scotch cap"
and cloak was untrue. He wore his ordinary trav
elling cap, and was in no BUM of the word dis
guitzed.
WA have given this narrative as wo received it,
assured that in no essential particular can it vary
from the circumstantial account of "the gentle.
man" to whose precautions, we, believe, may be
properly attributed the frustration of the plot to
assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
In confirmation of the view that this pint was
within the knowledge of certain eminent secession
idis in Waahington, It may bo stated that tintle
man, who was a member of the " Peace Conven
tioc," then In session, beard one of the southern
members exclaim, when Mr. Lincoln's arrival in
Washington was mentioned, "My God I how did
he get here?" The surprise was too significant to be
mistaken, when afterwards remembered and saso
cia ted with other circumstance&
pialni:poftiCl:SymlsvAl
We have published the statement that Meant/sin
Booth had often expressed himself's/ ambitions to
rival the youth who fired the Ephesian temple In
order to give Lis name immortality. The Chicago
papers say that when ailing an engagement in that
•itv a year or two ago, ho one day remarked to a
brother actor at rehearsal that the man who would
UM Abraham Lincoln would immortalize himself."
On being asked how such a deed would achieve Im
mortality, he responded by quoting the lines:
" Fame not more survives from good than evil deeds,
The ambitions youth who fired the Epheslan dome
Outlives in fame the Omni tool who reared it."
And the fact corresponds with the couplet, for
history has handed down the name of the destroyer,
bar not of the builder. As there would be a natural
cariosity to re-peruse the story of the Epheslan
temple from which Booth drew the Inspiration for
his font deed, we annex the account of it given by
&elite:
The day Alexander the Great vas born, t he cele
brated temple of Diana, at Ephesus was burned.—
It is well known that this temple was one of the sev
en wonders of the world. It bad been built In the
name and at the expense of all Asia Minor. • gond
number of years were employed In building It. Its
length was four hundred and twenty-five feet, and
its breadth two hundred and twenty. It was gap
ported by one hundred and twenty-seven columns,
three-score feet high, which as many kings bad can
ted to be wrought at a great expense, and by the
most excellent artiste, who endeavored to excel one
another on this occasion. The rest of the temple
corresponded in magnificence with these columns.
One Erostratna had set tire to the temple on pur
pose. Heine put to the torture in order to force
him to (unfree. his motive for committing so infa
mous an action, he owned that it was with the view
of making himself known to posterity, and to tin
mortaliza his name by destroying so noble a struc
ture. The antes general of Asia imagined they
should prevent the success of his view by publish
ing a decree prohibiting the mention of his name.—
However, their prohibiting only excited a greater
curiosity, for scarce one of the historians of that age
omitted to mention so monstrous an extravagance,
and at the name time tell us the name of the criminal
PIPE YEARS ON POST.
During nne of Napoleon's remarkable campaigns,
a detachment of a corps commanded by Darr
copied the Isle Rugen, which they were ordered to
evacuate. They embarked with such precipl4tion
that they foxtrot one of their sentinels post. In •
retired spot, and who was so.deeply absorbed In the
perusal of a newspaper crintaining an account of
one of the Emperors splendid victories, as to be to
tally unconscious of their departure. After pacing
to and fro for many hours on his post, be lost pi
tience, and returned to the guard-room, which - he
found empty. On inquiry, he learned with despair
what had happened, and cried:
" Alas! Leas t I shall be looked upon as a desert
er--dishonored, lost, unhappy wretch that I am I"
ills lamentation excited the compassion of a
worthy tradesman, who took him to his house, did
all in his power to console him,laught him to make
braid, for he was a baker, and, after some menthe,
give him his only daughter, Justine, in marriage.
Five peens afterwards, a strange gall was seen to
approach the Island. The Inhabitants flocked to
the beach, and soon discovered In the advancing
ship a number of soldiers wearing the uniform of
the French army.
" I am done for now," cried the dismayed husband
of Justine. "My bread is baked."
An Idea however, suddenly occurred f2t him, and
revived his courage. He nu to the house, allpp.
Into his uniform, and, seizing his faithful Areleolt„
returned to tho beach, and posted himself on sentry
at the moment the French were landing.
" Who goes there ?" he shouted in a voice Ms
thunder.
. .
•'Who goes there, yourself?" replied ens to s
boat. " Who aro you V'
"A aentineL"
"flow long have you been on guard?'
" Five years."
Davoust, for It vas he, laughed at the quaint rob ,
and gave a discharge In due form to btu Involuntary
deserter.
SCUDS AND MEN&
On the Instant of the imeldent r phimg. the part
under cold water. This relieves the pain in a sec
ond, and allows all hands to become composed. If
the part cannot be kept under water, cover It over
with dry flour, en Inch deep or more. In both Mel
pain ceases bemuse the air is excluded, In many
insfanses nothing more will be needed after the flour;
simply let it remain until it fails off, when s new
akin will be found under. In 'severer canes, while the
part injured is under water, simmer leeks in an
earthen vessel, with half their bulk of hog's lard,
until the lecke are soft, then strain through a mu
lie rag. This mattes a erecnishcolored ointment,
which, when cool, spread thickly on a linen cloth
and apply it to the ininred_part. If there are We
lenges ant the water. When the Tart beeriMml
feverish and uncomfortable MOW th e ointment,
an d a rapid, painless cure will be the result, If the
pa ti en t, in the meanwhile, Urea 'etclneiv joaßates.
amuse brmd, and other light, loosening food.
Il th e scald or burn is not.very severe—that Is, If
it is not deeper than the outer skin=en ointment
made of sulphur, with lard enough to make it spread
stiffly on • a linen' ram will be effectual. ' The leek
ointment Is. most • needed when there is ulceration
neglected burns, taehen the Injury Is
than the snace. Asointment .11 ray
and soothing in the troublesome extvriatior i
children, and also in foul, indolent ulcers, and Is
efficacious in modiqlng, or, preventing altotether
the pitting of small-par, 'it would answer a good
purpose . If SWIMs ware to- keep' it •On band for
emergencies—the sulphur ointmen=t 7
for. moderate
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